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Fortified Collaborations || 1st Sunday Supper || Fort Collins, Colorado
Delicious local food. Fantastic drinks. Amazing people. Awesome causes. Unique experience.
It is farm dinner season here in Fort Collins! We kicked it off with the 1st Sunday Supper presented by Fortified Collaborations with all of the proceeds going to Food Bank for Larimer County.
The dinners are somewhat of a locals' secret, and they all tend to sell out. If you are in town and you like local food paired with local beer and fabulous wines, you should totally experience one for yourself.
Location: Under the huge "Lolli-poppies" mural by Gale Whitman at FirstBank Downtown Fort Collins.
Chef: Five awesome courses from Chef Justin Kruger of Food Bank for Larimer County.
Beverage Pairings: New Belgium Brewing and Pringle's Fine Wine and Spirits
Cultivating Sponsors: The Green Team Real Estate, Motherlove Herbal Company
Collaborators: KUNC, The Colorado Sound, Renewablue, Visit Fort Collins, Rocky Mountain Publishing, The Pig and the Plow, Mugs Coffee Lounge, White Balcony, Front Range Event Rental, Poudre Valley Community Farms.
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Uneven Paving Stones
October 1-25, 2019 — An exhibition curated by Michelle Lynn Dyrness, Maria Fee, and Dea Jenkins — exploring the fleeting and irregular nature of memory as reflected in the creative impetus.
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The Earl & Virginia Green Art Gallery presents a program of rotating contemporary art exhibitions on the campus of Biola University -- see campus map. Located in the greater Los Angeles area on Biola's campus, the Green Art Gallery is well positioned to represent a vital Christian worldview within the critical dialogue of contemporary visual art and to produce engaging exhibitions that grapple with issues concerning the intersection of faith with art and culture. The Green Art Gallery also provides professional development opportunities for Biola art students through gallery exhibitions and internships.
In September 2013, The Earl & Virginia Green Art Gallery was renovated and dedicated. The gallery is named in memory of Earl and Virginia Green - the parents of Roberta Ahmanson - whose lives exemplified faith and commitment to their family, church, and community, and who inspired their daughter's love of the arts as a person of faith. Biola University expresses profound appreciation to Howard and Roberta Ahmanson for their continued generosity in supporting arts programming at Biola.
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Library Art Exhibit —"NEXT:2019"
Artwork by Local H.S. Students and Juried by the Biola Art Department
August 12 - December 20, 2019
Uneven Paving Stones
the fleeting and irregular nature of memory as reflected in the creative impetus
October 1-25, 2019
"NEXT:2019" — Artist's Reception & Awards
Artwork by Local H.S. Students and Juried by the Biola Art Department
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Before it melted, the snow was boot deep and crystalline. Now unseasonably warm rains have returned and the ground is slick with black ice at night. Above the bald mountains that rise up from the lake, the full moon was setting just as the sun was rising this morning, white and round like a plate against the pale tablecloth of pink and blue.
I'm busy again, but the past two days have been deeply satisfying. DH and I keep talking, and each time it's getting easier and richer. We're moving, not stagnant, and also we're starting to train for a half marathon. Five miles at the gym yesterday, and then dinner all together. Ice cream with cherries for dessert, and Bean licking his bowl. We're trying to be gentler with each other than before, and this is good.
I'm also back in the thick of creative work, which I love. Somehow I managed to forget I'm doing an art showing in a café and am supposed to hang my work this weekend, so now my studio is spread with frames and canvasses, as I scurry to prepare for the show. I like it this way, a patchwork of rectangles and brushstrokes.
A good way to start the new year.


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Politics & Government
'It's a great day' in new state offices
Meri Masters got her first look at her work space Monday morning in state government's newest building. Like many fellow workers, she was initially pleased but reserved a bit of judgment.
"So far, so good … I can sit down, and my computer is running," Masters, a Department of Personnel recruiting specialist, said cheerfully on the third floor of the 1500 Jefferson Building. Beyond that: "I'll let you know … It's a beautiful building.''
About 97 workers from the state Departments of Information Services and Personnel were in the first wave of employees to fill the $255 million office building and data-center complex. They had personal key cards to let them into secure sections of the building where they'll work, and most still had to empty the orange plastic crates filled with office doo-dads they brought from their old locations.
Because their new home is a high-tech energy efficient building with automated climate control and no-glare window shades, they sat through a 40-minute orientation to learn "how to live in the building," as Information Services spokeswoman Joanne Todd put it. That includes rules against having personal microwaves or coffee makers at desks.
The six-story, stone-clad structure has automated window blinds, as well as white-noise emitters that diminish the sound impact of conversations in worker cubicles. Low-energy lighting systems save energy and reduce the need for summer air conditioning.
"It's a great day," declared Cindy Edens, project manager for Seattle-based developer Wright Runstad, which oversaw the 22-month construction of the complex. The building is designed to qualify for the highest or platinum rating with the U.S. Green Building Code Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) standards.
Wright Runstad also is managing and maintaining the structure as part of a 30-year lease-to-own agreement between the state and a nonprofit, FYI Properties, that owns the structure.
Wright Runstad built the Department of Corrections building in Tumwater a few years ago, but the 1500 Jefferson Building is the first for Wright that might qualify for the platinum rating for sustainability. The firm's calculations show it should make the cut by one point, Edens said.
Among the building's features are low-flow toilets, high levels of natural lighting, including "solatube" sky lights in conference rooms, blinds to limit unwanted heat gain, energy efficient lighting, including motion-activated lights, recycled water for irrigating the landscaping, replanted trees surrounding the structure, and a program for recycling and composting waste materials. The building has eight exterior plug-ins for electric cars, and the project added a small triangular park nearby that links to a pedestrian and bicycle trail.
The project also is a second or third use for a seven-acre state-owned site a few blocks east of the Capitol. The landscape features oak trees that were dug up, then replanted – offering instant impact as they rise into view from third floor office windows.
Edens said some landscaping and a few features of the building, including furnishings, still need to be finished. Things still missing: software being developed for the blinds and large coffee machines that will be installed in kitchen areas.
A cafe in the south building side – which eventually will house the state data center and computer servers that are part of a new Consolidated Technology Services agency – is not expected to be in operation until early next year, according to Gail Powell, a Wright Runstad general manager and part of the building's property-management team.
A few workers had questions. One wanted to know how to get into the building if he came in before security officers were staffing the structure at 6 a.m. each day. Another had a new desk that didn't work quite right. Another wondered how to reserve space in a locker room equipped with showers for people who commute by bicycle.
A few people had trouble with their new phones and computers, including Personnel spokeswoman Jenn Reynolds.
"There are little glitches here and there but nothing major,'' Reynolds said, noting the isolated connectivity problem she had and extra trips that professional movers made to retrieve crates of belongings for some staffers.
"I think it's really nice. It's clean," said Carol Skinner, a computer and information consultant for Information Services, who was still adjusting to the 8-foot-by-8-foot work cubicle that she and others were assigned to. "I don't like the lack of space, but I understand we all have to be crammed (in). I'm looking forward to the journey."
By late afternoon Todd said she was surprised by how uneventful the day had been. "For all the hubbub we had the last few weeks it's pretty quiet right now," she said. "I'm surprised. I thought we would have a lot more."
Monday's move-in was the first of about nine waves of employee relocations that are part of a major shuffling of Thurston County real-estate space leased or owned by the state. The new office building ultimately will house 1,000 employees from four agencies that are merging there Oct. 1 to become a new Department of Enterprise Services.
That will combine many of the functions of Personnel, General Administration, Printing and Information Services into one central agency that provides what Gov. Chris Gregoire is calling "shared services.'' Those services include real estate leasing, purchasing and supplies, data services, payroll and human resources.
The structure took 22 months to construct and is designed to last 75 to 100 years, like the state Capitol. Seismic engineering that included columns driven deep into the soft soils of the area should help the structure weather earthquakes.
Brad Shannon: 360-753-1688 email@example.com www.theolympian.com/politicsblog


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OFFICE TRAMPS: I have a theory that there are two types of well dressed professional women. The first kind dresses sharp and professional and perhaps a little bit sexy but doesn't go over the edge, so to speak. The other, and, ah, visually more interesting, is just slightly over the top. You know what I'm talking about. The skirt is just a little to short; the neckline plunges just a little to far; perhaps a frilly flourish that says "Hey look at me!" Of course the open toe mules highlighting the pedicure and perhaps the toe ring caps the effect. So I'm thinking this latter category of office female is perhaps a little too vested in office life. The gossip; the shenanigans; etc. Am I way off base? Sound off on me here.
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We will cut national debt to normal levels, says Noonan
Finance Minister Michael Noonan says good progress will be made on reducing Ireland's long-term debt this year.
Signalling ambitious targets on cutting the so-called debt-to-output ratio, the Finance Minister also insisted that decisions on selling off taxpayer-owned shares in the banks will not be linked to the general election campaign.
He said any move on selling a chunk of the entirely state-owned AIB was not likely until mid-2016 and after the election.
Mr Noonan said the aim of next October's Budget is to cut long-term debt to 100pc of GDP or less by next year.
The debt ratio peaked at 123pc of GDP after the economic crash but was cut to 110pc by the end of 2014.
"At the end of this year it will be at 105pc. In the Budget in October I'm going to be budgeting to bring it to 100pc or to break through 100," Mr Noonan told reporters.
The minister said Ireland was approaching the eurozone average of 95pc debt-GDP and this would not have been predicted two years ago. He also said events in Greece had not really affected Ireland.
"We're no longer rated with the Mediterranean countries which were involved in programmes. We're seen increasingly as an economy more like the small northern countries in Europe," Mr Noonan said.
Turning to the Government decisions on its stakes in the banks ahead of the general election, Mr Noonan was asked if there would be a share sale of AIB before polling day. Mr Noonan explained an AIB share sale - or IPO - was unlikely this year.
"They [AIB] have their half year report out in August. In terms of the IPO there's only one window now, if you take that in September we will be preoccupied with the Budget," the minister said.
"So the only window for an IPO left is November and I have said the IPO will not be influenced in any way by the political calendar so while there is a window there, the likelihood is the IPO will go into 2016."
The EU single currency rules on debt say that it must be below 60pc, and this is Ireland's target.
The National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA), which manages Irish debt, had replaced €18bn of International Monetary Fund borrowings with loans at lower rates, saving taxpayers €1.5bn.
Conor O'Kelly, CEO of the NTMA, said the Greek crisis had not badly impacted on Ireland despite market volatility.
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ANDRE MARRERO - Executive Chef @ 54 Below
I have known Andre for about 15 years. We met at Theatre of NOTE back in the days when I was kicking around figuring out what I was doing with my life. Andre on the other hand was an actor. A real actor. The kind that just walks out on stage and owns it. He also had a great time doing it. I have never seen anyone enjoy acting as much as Andre. Hard to tell sometimes if he was even taking things seriously. He went on to do some pretty impressive work at the Shakespeare Theatre Company in D.C. too. Years later, he decided that he wanted to become a chef. We love to eat and drink together. He trained, worked himself to death practically, and got better and better. He was a winner on the show Chopped …showing off his skill and CHARM. $10,000 onions, baby. He has worked in the top kitchens in NYC and has cooked New Year's dinner for the James Beard Foundation. He is now considered one of the most sought after chefs in New York. I could not be more proud of him. While doing all of this he got married and now has two beautiful children. His wife is fantastic and the kids are really something. He has done it all and now he is living the dream of having his own kitchen at 54 Below in NYC. Congrats Andre. I hope we remain friends forever and we get a chance to eat together soon. June! I am in NYC in JUNE! Sharpen your knives!


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With over 100 acres of private farm land provides an idilic setting for Fern Farm Canine Country Club and Cattery. On the edge of the Cotswolds, dogs enjoy rooms with a view, safe and varied exercise in private Wiltshire countryside, whilst cats lounge in the comfort of their three tiered chalet with hand made four poster beds. Every dog and cat receives the quality care which they deserve.
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Plenty of exercise is provided and tailored to your animals needs, dogs have varied walks around the farm and enjoy play time every day, making friends with other guests
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Born in San Jose, California (1982) and currently living in Harlem (New York City), J'han is an emerging contemporary artist who works within sculpture, painting, and installation art, with a recognizably unique style best described as experimental and experiential, infused with expressionist, surrealist, and abstract elements.
J'han is a graduate of the MFA Studio Art program at American University (2019). She also holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Illustration summa cum laude from Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design (2017).
J'han was awarded a full scholarship in 2018 to the School of Art summer residency at the Chautauqua Institution in New York. She continues to show her work in various exhibits across the United States.
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Directed By Rian Johnson
Country: USA
The stylish episode VIII of the Star Wars franchise, the second of a trilogy that began in 2015 with "Star Wars: The Force Awakens", was given the title of "The Last Jedi" and keeps dividing audiences worldwide. While its visual impact is undeniable, old and new characters work together to infuse zest and grittiness in an impetuous inspiration by Rian Johnson ("Brick", "Looper"), who penned and directed with equal doses of passion and fascination. The director actually captured the tonal spirit of the preceding episodes and elevated it through bold and fresh ideas. However, this spacial opus could have run shorter than the two hours and a half without major loss.
The spectacular battles between the dominant First Order, an evil military junta commanded by the Supreme Leader Snoke (Andy Serkis), and the Resistance, led by General Leia Organa (Carrie Fisher), are in the center of the attention. However, and because this is far from being a tacky tale, one can find a decent emotional side attached to it, as well as a winning humor, which associated to speedy action scenes, regales with an inviting diversion.
In this episode, Rey (Daisy Ridley) travels to the secluded planetary island of Ahch-To, where Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), a Jedi master turned hermit, decided to hide six years before. She wants to convince him to join the Resistance. After the initial stubbornness and refusal, Luke ends up accepting the challenge and even teaches her the ways of the Jedi as he sees a lot of courage, righteousness, and skills in her that are so characteristic from The Force. However, Rey communicates telepathically with the venomous Kylo Ren (Adam Driver), son of Leia and Han Solo, whose ambiguous behavior and sly intentions will drag her to Snoke's den.
On another front, we have the former stormtrooper Finn (John Boyega) teaming up with Rose Tico (Kelly Marie Tran), a maintenance worker for the Resistance that appears for the first time in the series. I don't see her as a super strong character, though. Also, the often funny X-wing fighter pilot Poe Dameron (Oscar Isaac), does what he has to do for the sake of the Light with fearless bravura, even if he needs to confront his inflexible, stern superior, the Vice Admiral Amilyn Holdo (Laura Dern).
As a bold director, Johnson didn't turn his face to risk or experience and his efforts become successful. The stunning tete-a-tete between Skywalker and Kylo Ren was the most exciting moment of the film, culminating in a sophisticated artifice of teleportation. It felt like I was in a video game without being able to control it.
"Star Wars: The Last Jedi" was dedicated to Carrie Fisher, who died of cardiac arrest on December 15. The last installment of the trilogy will be released in 2019, having J.J. Abrams once again in the director's chair.


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This beautiful state park about an hour south-east of Columbus, OH was my detestation for the August Long Weekend, meeting up with my buddy Mat who's photos inspired me to visit the spot were up at the crack of stupid to make it there for 6:30am when the light was right. There are miles of trails so we only managed to get to two, the first being Old Man's Cave and Ash Cave. A return trip is certainly in order.
A return trip is certainly in order, maybe this December when I'm back in the area, weather depending of course.
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Thursday, October 17, 2019
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Message from George Patton, Lay Leader of First UMC
Well, it's official...the Prayer Shawl Ministry is international. It's gone to Ukraine and now to Central America.
I had the honor of presenting "mini shawls" (aka Security Blankets) to 14 Nicaraguan orphans. It was one of the most memorable moments I've had in my four trips to Nicaragua. The children were so proud of their gift.
Each of the kids have a touching and tragic story and it is so amazing to be part of their transition to their new futures. So many stories to tell about the trip but I'll let the smiles on the picture speak for this part of the trip.
Pictured is a woman in Kharkiv, Ukraine who suffers with cancer and recently received one of our prayer shawls made by Rhonda Patton, one of our faithful Prayer Shawl Ministry members. The shawl was given to her by Russell Lindsey, the FUMC Russia Initiative Advocate.
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There's No 'Fake It Till You Make It'
Losing a child means never being the same again
Crow's feet outline my eyes. My forehead is wrinkled and my skin is somewhat pale. I'm out of shape and tired a lot. More than I should be at 33. I wear my heart on my sleeve, in both a good and bad way, and there is this ever-present, mostly low-lying aura of anxiety on autopilot that surrounds me – like remembering to breathe or beat my heart.
I am a bereaved mother.
I try to recall what I was like before my daughter Peyton died of cancer. I can barely remember, even though those memories should still be fairly fresh because her death came just months before my 29th birthday.
I tell myself I was happier then, but maybe that's just what I've taught myself to think. Maybe my "before" image in my mind has become this sort of idealized image of my former self – like when someone dies, and despite the fact that they (like all of us) were severely flawed, their family can only recall the good parts of their personalities at their funeral:
"Oh, Bob was always such a charmer" or "Oh, Bob sure knew how to make everyone laugh" and "Never met a person who could grill a meaner steak than Bob."
Only I remember it like:
Before Peyton I would smile and laugh all the time. Before Peyton I was fit and active, healthy and full of energy. Before Peyton I was successful. Before Peyton I had patience. Before Peyton I was a newlywed with a perfect marriage. I was happy. The world was my oyster.
The problem with both of these scenarios is that no matter how you want to remember the person, there is no bringing them back. My former self might as well lie down next to good ol' Bob and his mean steaks.
Ricki Lake once did a show about child loss with an "expert" guest who told a bereaved mother, who had lost her child just five months prior, that it was time to move on to the fifth stage of grief – acceptance. His advice for getting there? "Fake it till you make it."
Really? The best way to get over the loss of your child is to "fake it till you make it?" Does that platitudinous line of crap make you want to puke? Yeah, me too.
I, like many of you I imagine, was floored by these comments because not only were they callous, guilt-inducing, and simply untrue, but because they also gave the bereaved parents on the panel a false sense of hope that grief is something that can be rushed through or gotten over. It can't. Grieving is a process. It is hard work. It takes time.
Look, I'm no therapist or doctor. The fanciest degree I have is a bachelor's from a small liberal arts college, and I certainly don't have my own TV show. But I can promise you that whether you lost your child last week, or 60 years ago, you will never get over it.
Got that?
You will never get over losing your child.
You will move forward. You will find joy again. You will learn to love life and to laugh, but you will never be who you were before your loss, and you will never un-lose your child. That is a reality worth grieving over. There simply is no faking it until you make it.
I've spent more than four years living with the loss of my daughter. I'm happy most days. My life, for the most part, is joyous. But my reality also is that all of the joys and pains and ups and downs of these last four years have been experienced with a sort of undercurrent of grief pushing me along for the ride. Sometimes the grief is like a tidal wave, unforgiving and knocking me down out of nowhere. Most days, it just sort of ripples beneath the surface, keeping me from ever feeling completely balanced. Every decision, big or small, is somehow colored by the experience of losing my first child to cancer.
I fear more because of her. I love more because of her.
Everything from how I parent my rainbow babies (those born after you've experienced child loss) to the choices my husband and I make in our careers is influenced by having lost Peyton. In this way, she will always very much be a part of our family.
Why am I telling you this?
I guess because I want to validate your experience. Despite the psychobabble you will hear on this show or that show, despite what your friends and experts whose children are all living tell you about how you should or should not feel after the death of your child – your grief, your feelings, and your timeline of healing are all completely normal responses to an abnormally horrific type of loss. If your therapist or grief counselor doesn't agree with this, find another one.
The sooner we (and society with all of its "experts") accept our loss as a permanent and ever-present fiber in the cloth of our being, the better we can adapt to our new normal and move toward healing.
True healing for a bereaved parent does not come from moving on, faking it till we make it, or leaving the pain and grief of losing our child in some dark, taboo place, never to be discussed again.
True healing for a bereaved parent comes in honoring and holding tight to the love we feel for the child we have lost, even though that love will always hurt to some degree, and allowing that love to light the way in our quest to find hope once again.
This article originally ran on Still Standing, and is reprinted here with permission.


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Law Minister Anisul Huq has signalled that the government will file an appeal seeking death penalty for three convicts, including Tarique Rahman who was jailed for life, in the 2004 grenade attack.
Huq made the remarks minutes after the verdict on the case on Wednesday, which sentenced 19 people, including former state minister for home Lutfozzaman Babar, to death.
The government will seek scaled-up punishments for two others — Harris Chowdhury and BNP leader Kazi Shah Mofazzal Hossain Kaikobad who along with Tarique have been sentenced to life in prison.
"The mastermind of the case is Tarique Rahman. He should have been given death penalty," said the law minister.
After receiving a copy of the verdict, the government will decide on an appeal for the death penalty to the three, Huq said.
Bangladesh Mohila Awami League President Ivy Rahman and 23 other leaders and activists were killed and over 500 injured in that attack in front of the Awami League headquarters on Aug 21, 2004.
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In reaction to the perpetual introductory question, 'Why did you become a porn star?' or, 'What is the main pro of being a porn star?' many adult actresses unhesitatingly try to familiarize the interviewer and the audience to how the adult industry provides its employees with an inimitable opportunity to gain empowerment through candidly expressing and enjoying their sexuality.
Take Jayden James' resolute response to AdultDVDTalk's Captain Jack in 2013 as an example, "The major pro [of porn] is women's empowerment. A majority of the population thinks that porn is degrading to women, but it's the complete opposite. We're independent women proving to ourselves and the world that we, too, can enjoy sex for what it is … exhilarating!"
She condenses, "We say who; we say when; and we say how much. We own every minute of it, even if we're tied up and acting like we don't want it."
Tremors of a feministic framework are there for all to see. Yet, it could still be inferred that the apparent therapeutic benefits of being a pornographic performer remain ambiguous. Consequently, for the welfare of context, the inclusion of ex porn-star and current artist, Satine Pheonix's recent affirmation to news.com.au is incumbent on me.
"My dad molested me for ten years, nine years, on and off. That specific style of sexual empowerment – being able to wield sexuality as power – I needed to do that in order to be able to turn into the woman I am now."
"I was in control. I was picking this guy and that guy to do."
Subsequently, is it patronisingly bigoted to equate the foundations of Jaymes' or Pheonix's occupational intentions to self-focused escapism while internalizing how, certainly in Pheonix's case, such escapist yearnings were driven by agonizingly nauseating circumstances?
Do or did they long to carve and claw out an impermanent escape-route just about big enough for themselves? Or are/were they sincerely inspired by the opportunity to generate portals which could teleport their female audience above a self-contradictory cultural scale that reveres disingenuous, sexually-hedonistic males with one hand while denigrating philandering women with the other?
In point of fact, Jaymes' concluding declaration, "I will never date someone who thinks they're with Jayden Jaymes. Jayden does not exist outside of the porn world. And it's very easy for me to distinguish between someone who is a fan of Jayden and someone who is interested in me" exposes the superficiality engrained within the aforementioned claims.
There is no such thing as: "the porn world". Porn is not a world; it is a $97 billion industry that propels a product into every demographic on the one, ubiquitous world we all inhabit. According to Jerry Ropelato of Internet Filter Review, that product is then viewed by approximately 28, 258 internet users every second. Frighteningly, this figure is outdated by almost 7 years and thus predates not only the smartphone-induced mobile porn epidemic, but also the launch of MindGeek. MindGeek is an uncontested oligarch which is, 'among the top three bandwidth consumption companies on earth'. It owns Pornhub, YouPorn, RedTube, Reality Kings, and Brazzers. The latter two collectively own approximately 68 pornographic websites alone.
Secondly, without trying to pontificate, one is not "proving" anything by being someone who conciliates their conscience in the workplace, and then slings any scintilla of their superego in the domestic/social sphere, or vice versa. One cannot voice sincere solidarity for sexually shackled women while failing to establish solidarity within themselves. As preposterously normalized as it is, dualism breeds inherent discontentedness, or more specifically – 'cognitive dissonance' – which in turn, is all-too-frequently the chief instigator of subsidiary mental illnesses.
Thirdly, if Jaymes truly, "owned every minute" of her employments in the porn industry, why would she long to disassociate herself from her work?
Notwithstanding marketable bravado, the truth is, irrespective of whether a performer has a net worth of $1.6m like Jayden Jaymes or something substantially smaller, the actresses' preferences or intentions are inexhaustibly marginalized by mostly male directors and editors. Male directors and editors who represent an outlook as unfeeling as owner of 21 Sexury Video, Carlo Scalisi's: "Amateurs come across better on screen. Our customers feel that. Especially by women you can see it. They still feel strong pain."
"No matter how many good intentions I had, the editor always made me look like a mindless slut. I've seen some of my own porn, and I was just like, 'I can't.' What you see of my porn is not me, it's this other image that's taken out of me and put into the universe." – Satine Pheonix.
Fundamentally, the vast majority of pornographic videos do not document intimacy or sensuality. More often than not, caressing, hugging, and kissing are forbidden. Instead, as gender studies scholar, Ran Gavrieli unveiled during his TED talk, Why I Stopped Watching Porn, "What porn cameras are into is the penetration. So normally the composition would be one man and one woman and the man is standing there with his hands behind his back to not block the camera. The only parts that are actually touching each other are the penis and the part being penetrated." Crucially, if a production does not adhere to this perverted principle, then touching usually comes in the form of choking or punching.
"Guys are punching you in the face. You get ripped. Your insides can come out of you. It's never ending." – Tanya Burleson, formerly known as Jersey Jaxin.
So, in light of all of this, what is Scalisi really saying? The moment a woman can no longer condition her throat to mutter mechanical moans in a monotonous attempt to persuade the viewer she is painfully-enjoying being bent, caged, choked, fisted, punched, pushed, thrown, spat on and then spunked on – and the crow's feet which strenuously stretch above her forced, subservient smile fall into absolute apathy – she becomes an insentient, obsolete asset.
Enter untested cog who can, "still feel strong pain."
This is not about empowering women; this is about subordinating them.
Meanwhile, the omnipresent deliberation over whether porn should be perceived and received as "instructional material" or "fantasy" conveniently remains haphazard. It conveniently remains futile. As deceived deliberators struggle to decide on which island to swim to, the fog increases and any chance of recognizing that pornography is neither instructional nor fantastical, decreases. By implication, the waves of passivity come crashing down.
In essence, one is not required to utilize the cords of their imagination to witness that hyper-assertive, patriarchal boss get sexually rewarded after unscrupulously unzipping his pants and beginning to masturbate at his powerless, apparently-enchanted female employee. Ultimately, they have sex. The performance may be a performance, but the message is physical, not fictional.
Sigmund Freud's The Uncanny concedes: "For the realm of phantasy depends for its effect on the fact that its content is not submitted to reality-testing."
At a time when the demand for these depictions is at an all-time high, is it a coincidence that women – and even girls aged as young as 11 – seem to be more likely to fall victim to being masturbated at in public now than ever? At a time when the practice of viewing mainstream porn sites – which all indifferently advertise 'abused', 'crying', 'humiliation', and 'rape' categories – has infiltrated the realm of social normativity, is it a coincidence that the word, 'raped' is used as if it is an innocuous synonym for 'defeated' or 'humbled'?Is it a coincidence that certain lad-cultured members of university sports teams unify to sing necrophilic songs about penetrating the corpses of dead prostitutes before chanting: "We rape, steal, and pillage."?
No. It is not a coincidence. Have we learned nothing from Bandura's Social Learning Theory? Yet, it is not an excuse either. For the sake of irony, the phrase, "absolutely fucking not" suffices. I am not writing in defense of misogynistic, pseudo-populist crypto-oppressors who go to lamentable lengths to peer pressure others into believing the prioritization of lust before love pertains to masculinity.
Contrarily, the aforesaid questions are pitched to exemplify how watching pornography – which derives from the Greek words, pornē ('prostitution') and graphein ('to document') – is just as emotionally mutilating as being the mutilated subject one is observing.
Having said that, we must apprehend that the activation of internet censorship programs or a legal inhibition of pornography will not help to demythologize a contemporary consensus that affirms, "A man is solely valued in sex by having a large penis and an eternal erection" - rather than being, "sensual, passionate, attentive, generous, well-coordinated" - and a woman can only become, "worthy of love" through synchronously silencing her intellect and amplifying her body.
At a time when so many have become reliant on having instant access to observe fettered figures try to fake love, such legislation would thicken the already-toxic fumes our militant drug laws frivolously inhale and exhale – incubate and then aggravate
How many inadvertent or intentional terminal overdoses is it going to take for us to recognize that illegalizing leads to demonizing; demonizing leads to ostracizing; and ostracizing only elongates addictive behaviour?
To speak critically, if endorsed, Mitt Romney and David Cameron's, 'War on Pornography' will merely transfuse with the War on Drugs' conspicuous international failings.
For my part, I am a 21 year old son of a mother who has been hospitalized for a large part of my life as she has – and is – fighting to overcome a life-threatening eating disorder which was exacerbated by a man who decided to rape her in Paris – the proclaimed City of Love – many years before I was born. Note the pernicious correlation between anorexia and rape is anything but a rarity in our oh so civilized civilization. For this reason and due to the existence of the porn-rape relationship – a relationship I hope I have analogized adequately – perhaps it is even more deplorable that I discovered porn when I was 11 years old?
Since then, I have been endeavouring in vain and labouring with lethargy to put a personal embargo on it in the hopes that I will protect a reserve of spiritual yet humanistic romanticism that lives within me. Whilst I, live within the confines of a desensitized, colonized farrago of clichéd, hollow, hollywoodized romances overridden with supposedly-inculpable, dehumanized filmed prostitution that has inferiorized real romance for so long that it – and we – have become inured to its inferiority.
Only recently – only for the last two months in fact – have I managed to stop watching porn. And even though this may not exactly be a convincing or inspirational length of time, it has been enough to awaken my mind to the fact that this excrementitious engine of hegemonic masculinity runs out of fuel the moment one stops being surreptitious about their innate opposition to the most savage enforcement of inequality imaginable. As a result of venturing through the magic doors of communication, I am now aware that many who I hold dear are tussling to starve the same issue. This is "empowering." So, at length, conversation ispower. Withthis realization etched in our minds, we swim against this commodified cyber-current. Forlorn, but not for long.
"'Cause we represent a truth son/ That changes by the hour/ And when you open to it/ Vulnerability is power." – Saul Williams, Talk to Strangers.


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I have the actual printed proof of the cookbook in my hands! I'm so excited! I am giving it one last look to make sure there aren't any glaring mistakes and then it will be back to the publisher for the final printing. It's so fun to actually see how the pages are going to look. There are lots of GREAT recipes in it. I will of course let everyone know when the cookbooks are here and ready to be shipped out. Remember that they will be $12 ($6 for shipping for those of you out of town).
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Does your dog love to swim? Does he or she plunge into the pool at every opportunity? Some dogs, like Labradors, are genetically drawn to water whereas others are either afraid of it or find swimming very difficult, like Pugs and Corgis.
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If you're taking your dog to a holiday spot with water, make sure he can swim. Bulldogs, Pugs, Corgis and Greyhounds find swimming very difficult and breeds like Maltese are susceptible to arthritis and chills. It's a good idea to consult your vet too, as they will have useful advice specific for your pet.
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If your holiday spot is by a river, lake, ocean or swimming pool, there are a number of safety aspects to consider. Rivers and lakes often look safe because the water is calm, however stagnant water can carry serious diseases or be susceptible to blue-green algae. Lakes and pools are often chemically treated to a level that's safe for humans, but unsafe for pets. The most important thing is that you know the area and its dangers. Vets in the local area should be able to advise of any danger zones. And watch out for blue bottles, jellyfish and snakes.
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There are some great smelling items that wash up on or are left on the beach that can be harmful to our pets if eaten, especially blowfish. Ideally prevent your dog from eating anything unusual and train the 'leave it' command before you go. However, if they do eat something you are not sure of, monitor them closely and phone your vet to see if there is anything more you need to do.
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I designed a website to tech aspiring UX designers at CMU
how to create and test their own paper prototypes.
4 weeks
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Paper prototyping
xperience Design
Brand new to the world of HCI, I was apprehensive as I stepped onto the Carnegie Mellon campus. Paper prototyping was the first skill I learned in Pittsburgh, and it was the skill that raised my confidence to the point of knowing I belonged. I know that each year, many MHCI students each year feel a similar insecurity, so I decided to build a website that introduces a really fun skill, using the very skills I'd learned in the program that first semester. The idea is that incoming MHCI students could make a paper prototype over the summer before arriving in Pittsburgh as a fast and fun way of building confidence while learning a critical UX skill.
Paper Prototyping
Learning is a form of progressive disclosure - as a student proceeds through any sort of education, they are presented with more material. Given that the final product was to be a crash course incoming students could quickly complete, I wanted to balance the relationship between displaying enough material on each page but ending with a total number of pages that didn't feel overwhelming.
My major focus for the first digital prototype was to focus on finding a scrolling method that would both make sense. I stuck to a left-right navigation style, with a separate page for each step of the process.
Experience Design Clickthrough
Building the site
As I started to play around with left-right navigation styles, I stumbled across parallax scrolling as a way of showing progressive disclosure. Taking each "page" of the tutorial as a "div" of the main page, I instead coded the site using parallax. In doing so, I was able to use this progressive disclosure as a way of telling the story of paper prototyping, as opposed to providing a tutorial.
I tested this new design with MHCI students, and both the visual design and disclosure of information was much more well received for a a couple of reasons:
using pictures to separate text segments removes the competition of user attention between text and pictures, while also creating natural break points for the user
having all information on one large page stresses recognition over recall - if a user forgets a term, it's much quicker to scroll up and down a segment or two than to have to navigate between pages
Although the coded prototype is functional, it is still lacking navigation. My next step would be to add in a navigation bar to help users jump around the site more easily. I'd also like to create a progress bar so that users can keep track of where they are in the process.


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"Everyone was blown away by the energy and sound from Eric Nicolas and One Love. There really are no words to truly explain how amazing they were. The dance floor was never empty and our guests have not stopped talking about how incredible our band was. We could not be happier with our choice to have Eric and his band play at our wedding. They went above and beyond to make sure that our night was perfect!!! They are talented and professional and they helped make our wedding a night we will never forget."
Ryan & Samantha, 7/16/16 Legg Mason Building, Baltimore MD
Eric and his band played at our wedding and absolutely knocked it out of the park! Not only did my husband and I love the band, but we received SO many raving reviews about the band from our guests (so we knew we weren't being biased!). The band had guests up on the dance floor before salad was even served and it stayed that way the whole night! They played an awesome combination of music for both young adult and older crowds. The band even learned our favorite song which was not originally in their repertoire and totally rocked it. In addition to their stellar performance at the wedding, Eric and his team were super easy to reach and engaged leading up to the wedding - which totally put us at ease during the planning stage. If you are thinking about this band, LOOK NO FURTHER!
Liza & Jason, 6/3/17 Hunt Club, Westport CT
Eric Nicolas here, writing to tell you some basics about us, and to share excerpts from a few of the many rave reviews we're lucky to have collected from our grateful clients. You can see more reviews on our page at weddingwire.com, which gets updated regularly with the latest outpourings of gratitude.
I started One Love in the mid-'90s, playing a few Fridays a month to crazy-happy dancing crowds at Manhattan's legendary Le Bar Bat and at other clubs around New York. We didn't call ourselves an "event band" or a "party band" or a "wedding band." But we soon found that our way with a crowd did lend itself to those kinds of shindigs.
Through hundreds of shows and private events on three continents, we've secured our reputation as one of the reliably, truly great party bands of the East Coast. We love playing together!!
"This band is composed of real professionals who know what they are doing and clearly enjoy it, and that is a mood that extends to their audience. As an Executive Vice-President of Atlantic Records and the manager of several major international music artists, I feel qualified to tell you that this is simply the best wedding band out there."
Phil Carson, former Sr. VP at Atlantic Records (signed Yes, AC/DC, Led Zeppelin…)
Ertegun Family Wedding 10/24/15 Private Home, Southampton NY
NYC has the deepest talent pool on earth. I've always been blessed with the greatest, most versatile and positive-minded players. Our members have performed and recorded with The Rolling Stones, Bon Jovi, Prince, Cyndi Lauper, Ray Charles, Britney Spears, and many others -- click here for a much longer list of our credits.
Despite the star power of our band members' resumés, One Love's main lineup has remained stable year after year, and band members make a point of maintaining their positions. When, as occasionally happens, a player must take leave for a tour, s/he is seamlessly covered by a One Love colleague. One former long-term member is currently (as of this writing) touring with Sting, another with Bruce Springsteen. That's show biz...
"If you want an incredibly professional, tight, funky, accommodative, perfect band for your wedding, then One Love is the band for you. Since the wedding we've had numerous guests tell us it was the best band they ever saw at a wedding, and I even had one guest accidentally refer to our wedding as "a show" because the band was so good."
Billy & Megan, 5/14/16 Ekwanok Country Club, Manchester VT
One Love's secret weapon is our vast and very diverse repertoire.
People ask me what style I "really" play; what do I like best?
Truth: while we each may be "more" funk, or rock, or jazz (etc.) fans in our private moments, as a band we really love playing every genre-- as long as our audience is having fun, so are we.
We customize every event to our clients' tastes, requests and desires. I've honed an ability to read a crowd and call the right song at the perfect time that's pretty well-known by now: this keeps every dance floor full and the crowd going nuts until the very last song (and, not unusually, the encore song after that). Everybody -- our audience and us -- goes home wrung out and happy.
Through our brief meetings and conversations, they truly captured the musical vibe we were looking for and then clearly read the energy of the crowd. From bringing down the house at a restaurant on Friday night, to the intimate and beautiful meadow wedding ceremony, to rocking the tent at our home during the reception, they had our friends and family both captivated and moved by their extraordinary talent.
Kate & Sean, 9/24/16 Private Home, Nantucket MA
Every single event is important to us, and when we play for you, you are our top priority. When you want to connect, you have our full attention.
If you're thinking about booking us, we'll make time for a preliminary meeting or phone call right away, so we can start to get to know you and learn about the kind of event you are planning. Once you engage One Love you have full access to both me and managing director/bandmember Melissa Rodnon, and we welcome you to email, call or text us at any time, with any kind of question.
You kicked off the night with two of our absolute favorites and Tupelo Honey was perfect. Night Moves sounded like the motor city king himself and you truly made it next to impossible to leave the dance floor. Our friends and family are continuing to rave about your performance and I only hope we can find another opportunity to work with you again. We cannot appreciate your work enough and are so happy that you were part of our special day. Thank you again for an unforgettable night.
Rebecca & James, 9/19/15 Private Home, New Canaan CT
We come to every party as if it were the most important event we've ever done-- because right then, it is. Whether a wedding or any other kind of celebration, we know that your party is the most important night of the year for you, and we will give it the respect and attention it deserves.
A year ago, when we began our planning, we were resolute in finding a great band. Securing One Love, was perhaps the wisest decision we made. From start to finish it was a pleasure, and we are truly grateful for all that they did to make our dreams come true. Thank you!
Mother of the Bride, 9/24/16, Private Home, Nantucket
How big is the band?
One Love can rock a party at any size, from Eric's popular solo acoustic guitar & vocal set to our full-strength 15-piece band. Our most popular band size is the 10-piece, including three lead singers and our crushing three-piece horn section.
See below for more details about band configurations and options for all kinds of celebrations.
Will you learn new songs?
YES. We customize the repertoire for every party, based on your requests and tastes.
While our song list is extensive across every genre, there may be a special song – or two, or five – that you want to hear that is not already on our list.
We'll gladly learn your special requests.
Do you travel?
YES. While New York City is our home base, One Love has flown all over the US, and to Mexico, the Caribbean, Brazil and Europe to perform at private events. We regularly travel up and down the east coast, and our "local" area includes most of NY, NJ, CT & RI.
Do you carry insurance?
YES. We have a comprehensive $2M General Liability Policy.
Do you come with a sound system?
YES. We travel with a top-of-the-line sound system and our own professional engineer, who makes sure that the music sounds great – and is never too loud – all night long.
What if there's a hurricane?
Many of you will be planning beautiful outdoor summertime weddings, and while we can manage every detail of the music for your party, no one controls the weather. In the event that your event cannot take place due to an extreme weather event or other civic crisis, we will work with you to reschedule, at no extra charge.
Eric, Melissa, and One Love are unbelievable. We received nothing but amazement, awe, and adulation for One Love's performance at our wedding. They absolutely killed and every single guest, old and young, told us specifically how much the band rocked. They played classical guitar and flute for our ceremony; bass, piano, and sax for our cocktail hour; and the full 10-piece band for the reception. Amazing, worth every penny!
Levi & Kristen 12/17/16 Central Park Boathouse
From solo guitar to our full 15-piece band (or bigger), One Love can be as big or as small as your party calls for, based on your budget, your desired repertoire, and the size of your party. Below are our most popular configurations for a full dinner-and-dancing celebration.
One Love 10pc - best for parties over 150 guests *most popular*
Guitar/lead vocal, bass, drums, keys, 1 lead male vocalist, 2 lead female vocalists, sax, trumpet, trombone
One Love 8pc - best for parties under 120 guests
Guitar/lead vocal, bass, drums, keys, 1 lead male vocalist, 2 lead female vocalists, sax
One Love 7pc - best for parties under 100 guests
Guitar/lead vocal, bass, drums, keys, 1 lead male vocalist, 1 lead female vocalist, sax
Popular additions:
Violin (rock, country, classical for ceremony)
Percussion (Latin, rock, acoustic sets for dinner)
2nd sax (for a full horn section)
Ceremony ensembles
While the traditional classical string quartet will always be a favorite, One Love offers some fun and unique options for your ceremony. In addition to classical music, all of our ceremony ensembles can play classical-sounding arrangements of your favorite songs, from Beatles to Top 40.
Ceremony pricing includes custom arrangements of any songs you request for your Processional, Bride's Processional, and Recessional.
Classical guitar
Classical guitar with flute *most popular*
Classical guitar with violin or flugelhorn (classical trumpet)
Piano with violin, flute or flugelhorn
Classical string trio
Classical string quartet
Full chamber ensembles also available (5 pcs or more)
Talking to Eric and Melissa on the phone prior to our big day allowed us to get to know them and to share details with them about our wedding. They made sure that they knew what kind of music we wanted and they were excited to hear that our guests were definitely ready to spend the entire night dancing! They even made sure that we did some Greek dancing at our reception!
Ryan & Samantha Sullivan, 7/16/16 Legg Mason Building, Baltimore MD
Cocktail Ensembles
Most of our clients opt for a classic jazz trio for their cocktail hour. Piano, bass and sax offers elegant and lively background music while your guests are greeting each other and mingling, before or after your ceremony.
As with the rest of your party, we customize… we'll talk about exactly what you want, advise as needed, and create a small ensemble for your cocktail hour to reflect any tastes. Some popular cocktail options include:
Brazilian jazz and bossa nova
American folk / country / roots blues / bluegrass
Singer-songwriter (piano or guitar)
Classical chamber music
Classical and chamber ensembles
Traditional string trios or quartets lend elegance to ceremonies and cocktail parties. Our top-level players have an enormous classical repertoire and can also play classical-esque arrangements of your favorite songs.
One Love partners with a roof-raising gospel choir that can be an unforgettable addition to any ceremony or party. Their repertoire includes traditional gospel as well as their own arrangements of R&B classics and any Top 40 that may be called for. Typical choir size is 8-12 singers, but can it be as big as fifty.
Big Band
The timeless sound of a Big Band orchestra is a perennial favorite, especially for retro/classy New York-themed parties. Orchestras can be as big as space allows.
Whether your family's roots are in the Scottish Highlands or you just like the sound, we have an authentic Pipe Major in a complete traditional uniform to welcome your guests for the Gathering before your ceremony, lead them to your cocktail hour afterwards, or perform at any part of your event.
Hora / Freilach / Jewish
One Love has done hundreds of Jewish weddings, from assimilated Reform to the strictest Orthodox celebrations minus female singers. Our horn section is led by our sax player who also plays authentic Klezmer on clarinet, and our hora sets can go as long as your families and friends can keep dancing.
Brazilian samba
Eric and Melissa's long involvement with the music of Brazil has connected One Love with the best Brazilian musicians in New York, including Samba drum corps, Samba dancers, Maracatu drum corps, Brazilian jazz ensembles, Brazilian vocalists and more.
Traditional Greek music
One of our lead female vocalists is Greek-American, and though raised in Queens, NY, has lived in Greece where she had a successful career as a Greek pop star. She's devoted to the authenticity of her culture's music, and if you would like the Kalamatianos, Zebekiko, Sorti or Tsifteteli danced at your wedding, One Love can do it!
Italian, French, Spanish & more
Our love of world music and our fluency with Romance languages has delighted families with Italian, French or Spanish / Latin roots. Eric speaks and sings in fluent Italian, French and Portuguese, Melissa in French and Portuguese, and everyone can sing in Spanish. Eric has even sung in Japanese, which he learned syllable-by-syllable for a Japanese-American bride!
Huge THANKS to Eric Nicolas & One Love for making our wedding one that friends and family will remember as the best party ever. Eric and the band were phenomenal and their ability to play such an enormous range of songs kept the party going all night. Eric was also extremely accommodating in learning songs such as the tarantella which added a special touch.
Jason & Jessica Bortniak, 8/10/13 DeSeversky Mansion, Westbury NY


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Actors from Game of Thrones and Line of Duty are among the cast of a new Netflix drama about the origins of football that's being filmed in Yorkshire.
Scenes from The English Game - written by Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes - are being shot in the UNESCO World Heritage Site and model village of Saltaire, near Bradford, this week.
The Yorkshire locations that appear in new BBC period drama Gentleman Jack
The English Game - which will be shown on Netflix in 2020 - tells the story of the creation of the Football League and how the game crossed class divides to capture the imagination of the English public. The six-part series is set in the late 1800s, when the debate about whether to allow professionalism in football was dividing the country.
20 Yorkshire locations that appear in ITV's Victoria
Saltaire has been chosen as a location because several northern mill owners were instrumental in the founding of the Football League. Although filming is not taking place inside Salts Mill itself, the exterior of the mill will appear as a backdrop.
Kingsman's Edward Holcroft, Line of Duty's Craig Parkinson and Charlotte Hope, who played Ramsay Bolton's lover Myranda in Game of Thrones, are among the cast. Happy Valley's Tim Fywell is one of the directors.
Saltaire has become a popular filming locations in recent years - it's appeared in Peaky Blinders, Agatha Christie's The ABC Murders and An Inspector Calls. The cast of BBC's Gunpowder - including Game of Thrones star Kit Harington - stayed in the village during filming in 2017.


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Two Munich-based distributors Prokino Filmverleih and Movienet Film and Berlin distribution outfit Piffl Medien have each received the 2002 Distributor Award worth Euros 100,000.
The awards were presented to the three companies at a special ceremony on last week by Germany's new State Minister of Culture Christina Weiss in recognition of "special achievements in the circulation of artistically outstanding films'. The prize-money is to be spent on the release primarily of quality German and European titles.
While Prokino's lineup has included Amelie- with over 3m admissions -, Christopher Roth's Baader, Nanni Moretti's The Son's Room and Bowling For Columbine (currently on release), Piffl Medien has Hannes Stoehr's Berlin Is In Germany and the Austrian documentary Im Toten Winkel - Hitlers Sekretaerin, Eoin Moore's Pigs Will Fly and Kazushi Watanabe's 19 in its programme. Movienet's release schedule has featured Mika Kaurismaki's Moro No Brasil, Julio Medem's Lucia Y El Sexo, Chris Kraus' Scherbentanz and the omnibus film 11'09'01.
In addition, the minister allocated Euros 1.2m worth of prize-money to cinema-owners throughout Germany for outstanding film programming, with additional prizes for special programmes of short films, documentaries or films for young people.


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The man in the apartment adjacent to mine has a new girlfriend. Not that I'm listening, but I can hear them having sex. Well, to be accurate, I can hear her when they're having sex, and it's somewhat interesting to note that her orgasms sound like a (highly amplified) pitch-perfect blend of Meg Ryan's diner scene in When Harry Met Sally with those yappy-ass, shampoo-fetishizing women in the Clairol Herbal Essences commercials.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not necessarily attempting to cast any aspersions on the, er . . . authenticity of the next-door orgasms. Far be it from me to even care, and believe me, I'd just as soon not have been placed in the position of even having to speculate on this to start with. Is it just me, though, or does anyone else find it somewhat off-putting that an entire generation of women are possibly emulating and/or simulating their orgasms according to the industry standards of Meg Ryan movies and shampoo commercials?
Here's the thing, though. My cat Yuki is a bit of a prima donna and has a lot of complicated rules by which residents of the other apartments, people congregating outside the house and in the neighborhood at large, and well . . . the whole world, really, are pretty much expected to comply. These rules might include No D-O-G-s Allowed (in fact, the word "d-o-g" must always be spelled out at all times and never articulated out loud in her presence); That's My Chair; Don't Fuck With My Feet; I'll Poke You If I Want; and No Talking, Laughing, Shouting or Other Noises From the Neighboring Apartments. To name just a few.
So, needless to say, the loud sex thing from next door really chaps Yuki's ass. As soon as it starts up, she expresses her displeasure by going, "Grr!" When this doesn't put an end to the infraction, she gets louder, and goes, "Grrrrrr!!!" When this doesn't put a stop to things, and, in fact, it only begins to get louder next door, she becomes agitated, and starts noisily jumping and thumping around the house, and going, "GRRRRRRRRR!!!!"
This is the point where whatever resources of Emotional Maturity I might normally be able to at least pretend to possess completely abandon me. The girl next door's yippee-kayay-ing away, Yuki's thumping and jumping noisily and growling at a decibel I'm convinced is, in fact, audible to the next-door neighbors, and I just can't help myself . . . it starts out as a suppressed snicker, and then modulates into a stifled tee hee, working itself into a not-so-discreet giggle, then finally explodes into a full-blown guffaw.
So the neighbors may, in fact, think I sit in my apartment and laugh at them when they have sex. Hell, maybe they think I'm the one that's thumping around and growling too. Either way, it's chagrin-inducing, and I must somehow maneuver to never, ever, ever run into them. Ever.
I suppose it could be worse. I dated a Screamer, once. We're talking full-out, no-holds-barred screaming. Quite frankly, I found it quite . . . disconcerting. A little bit upsetting, actually. The first time it happened, it shocked the hell out of me. It was definitely a step-back, fall-off-the-bed, Jesus-H.-Christ-on-a-Raft-what-the-fuck-was-that kind of a moment. (Quick sidebar . . . does anyone ever wonder why the middle initial "H" and why on a raft?)
And from there, it just became more extreme and demented. It was so loud that it woke people up in neighboring houses. It was so loud that my friend M., who lived in the next block, thought someone was being murdered . . . and this was without his hearing aids in. It was so loud that all the dogs in town sustained damaged eardrums and the sonar of local bats was permanently fucked up. It was so loud that bands of coyotes began to assemble on the top of the bluffs overlooking the river valley, and they all began howling at the moon . . .