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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and Bad Boys 2
"...fate rarely calls upon us at a moment of our choosing." - Optimus <3
Trust me, I know what you mean. But we have to look at the big picture here - that scene was just a small part of a long and complicated action sequence, involving a lot of different characters scattered all over the harbor. And basically, it was the last bit of the entire attack sequence.
After nearly 30 minutes of American soldiers dying in a horrific way, you need to see something hopeful, something to make you feel better, you know. And that hopeful thing was the "chicken" scene. The Japansese were indeed men of honor, no doubt about that, but at the end of day this was a sudden and brutal attack, and you would expect the other side to fight back. Yes, I realize that this scene might rub (some) people the wrong way, but I just think that it was the best way to end something as bad as the Pearl Harbor bombing.
Also, look at "Black Hawk Down" - it was a serious movie with a lot of violence, but at the same time it contained a lot of "cheer" moments and comedy.
The bottom line is: you need these moments in every war movie, because without them everything will be too damn depressing.
"You know why the departures and the arrivals at LAX are on separate levels? So the 30,000 heartbreakers that come here each month don't notice the 30,000 that are leaving with their hearts broken."
Transformers and The Rock
1-The Rock:borat
4-Transformers 2
5-The Island
6-Bad Boys 2
7-Bad Boys
8-Pearl Habor
i forgot to say that Revenge of the fallen is my favorite bay movie.
(it beats tf1 for me)
but both transformers are my favorite bay films, or just
favorite movies in general out of any director :borat
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The Island, Armageddon, Pearl Harbor and both Transformers
Transformers 1 + 2, Armageddon, Bad Boys II, and Pearl Harbor are my most favorite!
1. Transformers
2. Transformers - Revenge of the Fallen (even if the story is zero and total crap, but this was not a bit of savings to Action ^ ^)
3. Transformers - Dark of the Moon (although running with me still in theaters, but regardless, I know that I find him cool now xD.)
4. Bad Boys
5. Bad Boys 2
As for Pearl Harbor, I was just too much of it schmaltzy love, just as Titanic, 2 hours and just talk of the disaster had been maybe min 30. >.<
And then there was Nightmare on Elm Street, actually a series of films that I absolutely love, but alone, the actor was a total flop and caves badly to the Freddy Krueger of the playing.
I would say transformers and Bad Boys 2
Just responding to someone above. Danny and Rafe were based on true characters. Two men during the attack were the only pilots to get up during the attack. They shot down, I think if memory serves me, 7 Japanese planes. How people think we did not do the most through research boggles my mind.
"You know why the departures and the arrivals at LAX are on separate levels? So the 30,000 heartbreakers that come here each month don't notice the 30,000 that are leaving with their hearts broken."
They where George Welch and Kenneth Taylor.
Prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Taylor spent the night before playing poker and dancing at the officers' club at Wheeler with fellow pilot George Welch, and did not go to sleep until 6:30 a.m. local time on the day of the attack.[6] Taylor and Welch awoke less than an hour and a half later at 7:55 a.m. to the sound of low-flying planes, machine-gun fire, and explosions.[4] Lt. Taylor quickly put on his tuxedo pants from the night before and called Haleiwa Auxiliary air field where eighteen P-40B fighters were located.[7] Without orders, he told the ground crews to get two P-40 fighters armed and ready for takeoff.[8] The new Buick was strafed by Japanese aircraft as the two pilots sped the 10 miles to Haleiwa; Taylor at times reached speeds of 100 mph (160 km/h).[4][9] At the airstrip, they climbed into their Curtiss P-40B Warhawk fighters, which were fueled but armed with only .30 cal Browning ammo.
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I've always defended Michael Bay against attacks that his films are full of stupid explosions, girls in underwear and mindless characters... but then he made Transformers 2 and I conceded...
Alright, I think we can agree on that: the scene itself was needed. Period. Whether the "tone" of the scene worked, that's clearly a matter of one's personal opinion. In my view, the scene worked, the tone worked, and it was something that I, as an audience member, wanted to see.
For you, it didn't work and there's nothing wrong with that...because at the end of the day we're all different. Sounds kinda corny, but that's the truth - when it comes to judging movies, music and art as a whole, we ( as human beings ) are indeed different.
And that's just the way it is.
"You know why the departures and the arrivals at LAX are on separate levels? So the 30,000 heartbreakers that come here each month don't notice the 30,000 that are leaving with their hearts broken."
Also I think it was great that Michael himself replied to this thread. I've only been on these forums for a month and have gotten a decent amount of feedback on most of my posts that I've made and that feels awesome and it feels even more great to have Michael reply to one of the threads that I originally started. Thanks to Michael and all that have replied and if anyone else wants to....keep the replies coming!
Gotta go with Transformers.
Pearl Harbor and Armageddon will always hold a soft spot in my heart. Pearl Harbor in particular is a cinematic masterpiece. It's clear Michael put a lot into that one. Anyone that mocks it clearly doesn't understand it or flat out never even saw it.
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My favorite movies by Bay are:
1. Transformers
2. The Rock
3. Bad Boys II
4. Pearl Harbor
5. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Can't pick one.... so i'm going to have to pick both Bad Boys and both Transformers & ROTF (And i have no doubt that DOTM will join that list later in the year).
Out of interest, has Mr Bay mentioned his favourite move from all the ones he's directed?
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I also have to agree that the scene in PH worked and the tone was perfect.
There's no minimizing the deaths and destruction that occurred at Pearl, but we also need to root for the small victories for ourselves and our morale. Ask any fighter pilot how they felt shooting down enemy aircraft after seeing friends die.
The dogfight scenes captured that perfectly, as of course did the scenes of the Doolittle raid.
Once again, for anyone who thinks Pearl is trite or stilted, I can only direct them to watch other films of the time, like the almost universally loved Thirty Seconds over Tokyo and compare the two; it's only when you're familiar with WWII films that you realize what a spectacular job Michael did.
I'll never forget reading about one reviewer belittling Michael for the scene about the friendship medals being attached to the bombs used in the Doolittle raid, being way too proud of himself about decrying the scene as made up to have done the research to find that it was in fact completely factual.
I'll have to say both Transformers films because I've been a fan since 1984 and have been so excited to see them in live action. That first viewing of TF1 was so magical.
Plus my wife and I chose music from ROTF, The Rock, Pearl Harbor and The Island to accompany our wedding video.. So I've got a soft spot for MB movies I guess. Either that or Zimmer and Jablonsky!
Ohh mann.. this is hard... ermm.. well at the time when i saw all these movies they were all number ones for me but ok...
1) Transformers, Pearl Harbor, Armageddon.
2) The Rock, The Island, Transformers 2.
3) Bad Boys (because its the oldest now, but still a fun and cool movie to watch and Téa Leoni ofcourse )
Havent seen Bad Boys II hope to do so soon on Bluray.
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A few things to keep in mind:
- When cutting the end of the onion, only cut the end with the stem off. The side with the roots will keep the onion from falling apart.
- The width of the cuts in the third photo will decide the size of your onion. Make them small for smaller cuts. Be careful not to cut through the root.
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The seven lost gems have been restored to the Belt of Deltora. Now Lief, Barda and Jasmine must find the heir to the kingdom's throne. But the heir has been in deepest hiding from birth, and only the Belt can reveal the hiding place. Shock follows shock as the fury and power of the Shadow Lord himself threatens to destroy the three heroes and everything they love.
Lief was looking at the Del road. Endon and Sharn had no doubt followed it from the city, the night they escaped. They would not have tried to go overland, with Sharn so close to giving birth to her child.
He tried to imagine how it would have been. The road would have been crowded. Many fled from Del that night. He remembered his father's sad voice, telling him about it. "Your mother and I stayed shut up in the forge all through the uproar. When at last we opened our gates, we found ourselves alone. Friends, neighbors, old customers all were gone. Killed, captured, or fled."
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Those who had fled.
Unrecognized in their humble working clothes, Endon and Sharn would have lost themselves in the panicking crowd. They would have hurried along with others moving west, suffering who knew what terrors. Then, when the black bird carrying Tora's message reached them, they would have realized that there was no point in continuing.
What would they have done then? Moved off the road. Found a place to hide. Endon knew the Belt would never again shine for him. Deltora's only hope lay with his child. He and Sharn had to find a place where the baby could be born in safety. Where?
Lief was roused by Jasmine's sharp voice. "Lief! We must go, so we can find a place to stop for the night."
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Sun + Oracle = new troubles in Enterprise 2.0 land
This morning Oracle announced its purchase of Sun Microsystems for $9.4 per share or $5.6 billion, net of cash and debt. The money quote by Oracle's president, Charles Phillips:
This could lead to, in effect, shrink-wrapped suites of hardware and software for specific sectors of the economy, from retailing to banking to communications. He called this delivering "a complete industry in a box."
The promise is that corporations will have what they've always said they wanted: one neck to choke.
There's plenty of commentary supporting the pros and cons of this deal. ZDnet writer, Dana Gardner says sees a positive side to this:
Among them is the fact that IBM now — for the first time, really — has a true, full and global counter weight to its role and influence. Oracle plus Sun aligned with Hewlett-Packard (which I fully expect) meets and begins to beat IBM at all the important full-service IT games.
Dennis Howlett's opinion with his "curmudgeon's curmudgeon hat on" is:
"I can't help but think this is a dark day for the enterprise computing business. Who worse to entrust your entire stack than Oracle, that voracious consolidator of application providers and now, it seems, guzzler of open source and hardware?"
You can read all about it here.
Looking at all this and its implications from an Enteprise 2.0 vector, a couple of things jump out at me.
System Integrators are doing the chicken dance right about now
The incremental revenue from selling stand alone applications now has a much higher opportunity cost for a System Integrator (SI). For pure play enterprise 2.0 vendors, this means that it just got order of magnitude harder to get an SI to pay attention to them, if they're want to sell to large organizations.
Yes, SaaS is all the rage right now, but the holy grail of application software sales still is and will remain getting on the radar of the large pure play and integrated SIs such as Deloitte, Accenture, and HP (EDS). To successfully go from a $100 million dollar company to a $1B+ company, social computing vendors are going to need the reach that Systems Integrators provide. You might argue that SaaS (if its a SaaS offering) has a different distribution dynamic but honestly, unless it's like Salesforce.com where thousands of individual buyers can put down a credit card and start using your product, it's going to need an expensive sales force or the air cover that an SI partner can provide.
If Sun + Oracle signals an industry trend, it means an entirely new opportunity for SIs. The prospects of a lucrative integration and a waning outsourcing business being displaced or complimented by mammoth enterprise wide and complete stack deployment engagements is entirely too juicy. This could be signal another round of large ERP sized engagements that we haven't seen since Y2K. Either way, it a massive enough opportunity for an SI to drive big ticket projects and they're likely not going to want to be distracted by point solutions that require managing a new bench, have unproven lead flow, and require extensive training. Enterprise 2.0 has all of these characteristics at this time.
The fate of MySQL
The joint press release by Jonathan Schwartz and Larry Ellison made no mention of MySQL. Zero. Nada. Andrew LaVallee poses a good question on Wall Street Journal's Digit Blog: "Wither MySQL?". He quotes Curt Monash as saying that "Oracle could evolve MySQL in a direction that makes it sensible to put a MySQL transparency front end onto the Oracle DBMS"
As a social computing vendor using MySQL, whether appliance, SaaS or installed, a significant component of it's architecture now faces an unknown future. In the immediate term I don't expect much to happen. In the short to long term, social computing vendors are going to have to be ready to potentially jump off MySQL, which means more costs. Another scenario is that long term Oracle begins to charge for supported stand alone versions not tied into Oracles DB, which means the cost of business (and in turn, customer pricing) needs to go somewhere north. Of course MySQLs fate is all speculation at this point. Om Malik on GigaOm, sees this acquisition as Oracle removing Sun, its number one threat in the database business.
What I'm personally hoping for is that Oracle realizes that MySQL is a super opportunity for them to tackle the SMB and Mid Market business, leaving its flagship database for larger buyers. That would be a great outcome for the majority of Enterprise 2.0 vendors, as well as buyers.
Oracle wants to be the "Apple of the Enterprise"
TechCrunch Co-Editor, Erick Schonfeld says "Oracle wants to be the Apple of the Enterprise…" If this is true, in the large scheme of things (in other words, when compared to the overall Stack), social computing is but a small piece at this time. If 99% of a given customers solution is being powered by an Oracle Stack + say HP services, Oracle stands a much better chance at rolling in its' own integrated social computing offerings, similar to how Microsoft distributed SharePoint along with Exchange. More importantly it buys Oracle time. If they power the entire stack at many of the large organizations, they have the luxury to see, first hand, when each customer is ready to tackle Enterprise 2.0 and strike when the iron is hot.
If this scenarios plays out, it will undoubtedly lead to some Enterprise 2.0 software acquisitions, however it adds uncertainly to second and third tier vendors that can't get on the radar of corporate development number crunchers, at large acquirers.
At the end of the day, there will always be a market for pure play vendors that haven't standardized on one platform or prefer best of breed software. It just got a little smaller. And if you sell to the mid market, this is less of an issue. But overall, as an enterprise social computing software vendor, integrator, or buyer, if you haven't stopped to consider what this acquisition and it potential to kick off a market trend means for you, it's time to huddle.
What other positive or negative impacts on the social computing landscape do you see?
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According to Steve Corkran of the Contra Costa Times, Raiders head coach Dennis Allen has indicated that they've "discussed" the possibility of using quarterback Terrelle Pryor is specific situations.
"He's working to get better and he's working to improve," Allen said. "I've seen improvement in Terrelle. He's gotten better as a quarterback. He's continued to work. I don't think any of us feel like he's the finished product, including himself, but he has worked to improve."
With the Raiders' season all but over, it wouldn't hurt to see what Pryor can do.


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My 7 principles to design the architecture for a software project.
Software architecture is quite a grey area. It involves taking decisions that you are not likely to revisit in the future. These decisions usually involve frameworks, programming languages, application servers, databases, e.t.c.
Software architecture is about coming up with the foundation from where developers are going to build up the application. This also includes: development environments: (source control, building tools, IDEs…), QA environments, Continuous integration environments, etc.
Bad architectural decisions can make the development of your project a complete failure, and are the most difficult decisions to revert.
Good architecture, in the other hand, for most projects, doesn't really bring any advantage, it only allows for its normal development. Good architecture usually remains hidden under normal circumstances.
When designing the architecture, is essential to avoid bad decisions that are going to tax your development in the future. What follows is a list of principles to help you come up with safe and scalable architectures.
1.- Start with the minimal necessary architecture.
Avoid unnecessary complexity like unnecessary new technologies or frameworks.
Any architectural element needs to have a very good reason to be used in the project. If the benefits or necessity of an architectural element can't be proved, then that architectural element should be removed.
2.- Consider the specifics of your project: Constraints and risks.
Defining the architecture is something that has to be adapted to the constraints and risks of your specific project.
You shouldn't aim for the same kind of architecture if it is a start-up or a project for a multi-national company. You should also consider the expertise of your team, if they are very experienced in a particular programming language/framework… you should probably use it even if it is not the one you prefer.
Risk areas, like a requirement to have some service with a high availability, are going to require additional considerations in the architecture that you need to keep in mind.
Constraints and risks are the element that are going to move you away from your comfort zone, but they need to be looked at, to make sure that if necessary, they get addressed from the architecture.
3.- Grow as you need.
Delay any architectural element as much as you can, especially if they are complex.
Sometimes requirements seems to call for complex integrations/frameworks… like rules frameworks, ESBs… for these cases, I find it better to ignore them at the beginning and try to complete the first end-to-end scenario as soon as possible. When this first scenario is completed, then grow from there, one step at a time, adding new functionality as requested by the user. This way, it will become obvious if that architectural element is really necessary, and if it is, it will also be obvious how you should integrate it with the rest of the architectural elements in your project.
4.- Deliver continuously.
Continuous delivery is the vehicle to allow you to refine your architecture as you go.
Continuous delivery is based in four principles:
Deliver soon: The purpose of delivering soon is to shorten the feedback cycles with the customer, allowing for changes in the requirements if necessary.
Deliver many times: Delivering many times guarantees that the feedback cycle is smooth.
Bug free: The code must be clean of critical bugs.
Production ready: It should be deployable at any time.
5.- Require a customer.
Having someone acting as a customer, making decisions about priorities and signing off releases is critical for the good development of your project.
Failure to have someone representing correctly the role of the customer causes misdirection in the development and consequently causes that the final product developed won't meet expectations.
6.- Avoid waste.
Architecture can lead to an excess production of artefacts, inexperienced architects may pretend to foresee the entire architecture of the application and have it specified in paper.
This is especially true in companies following waterfall like processes, and sometimes it cannot be avoid, forcing the architects to produce such and such document/diagram.
Excessive initial architecture/design, aka Big design upfront (BDUF), is not only bad because is wasteful, its main risk is to let the development team believe that they cannot deviate from the original specifications, making it very difficult to be adaptive to future changes.
7.- Maximise feedback and transparency
Feedback and transparency guarantees no surprises for the customer, which in turn helps building a more trustworthy and productive relationship.
Maximising the feedback and transparency are one of the ultimate goals of the development process for any project, this allows for early and informed reaction when change is necessary, whether something is going wrong, or whether the customer wants to introduce a change in the specifications.


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My solo spring writer's retreat comes to an end. Editing, writing, brainstorming and writing some more—a very productive trip!
Today, the last day, was the best one yet. I outlined my ideas from my big brainstorm on my drive home and added nearly 10 new, action-packed pages this afternoon.
I've left the characters in a precarious state. I look forward to guiding them through it on Monday, after enjoying the weekend. Or … maybe tomorrow. I might not be able to wait.


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Minnesota United FC will host an exhibition match against Swansea City of England's Premier League on July 19 at the National Sports Center in Blaine, the team announced Thursday.
The Premier League is often considered the top soccer league in the world, and the match will be the first time one of its teams will play against a Minnesota pro team as well as the first time against a team from United's North American Soccer League, said United president Nick Rogers.
Swansea City, a 102-year-old club that finished in the middle of the Premier League standings last season, will be in the U.S. to play preseason games before its 2014-15 season. It also will play Mexican club Chivas Guadalajara in Milwaukee.
Swansea City will pit its first team against the United Loons.
"Hosting friendlies against exciting opponents is just what good soccer clubs are supposed to do," Rogers said. "We are very excited that we are able to attract an opponent of this caliber."
The groundwork for the friendly was established during United's preseason trip to England. The Loons then played against Derby County, an English team in the league below the Premier League.
On Aug. 2, Manchester City will play Olympiacos in the International Champions Cup at TCF Bank Stadium. The International Champions Cup is a U.S.-based tournament with eight of the most well known clubs in the world. To make it a doubleheader, United and the Ottawa Fury will play a few hours later at the University of Minnesota football stadium.
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I've been thinking over my Volksgrenadier list - again! - and I'd like your opinions on a different approach.
So far, it's a 1780 points CV list (that seems to be the most widely used benchmark these days). Note: PF reads Panzerfaust.
Volksgrenadier Company HQ (CO, 2-in-C and two Schreck teams) (CV)
Major Siegfried Moldenhauer (German Warrior Higher Command SMG team, hits on 2+ in assaults and gives unpin re-rolls in the Assault phase)
Full Sturm Platoon (HQ, four Assault Rifle PF teams, two MG PF teams)
Full Schuetzen Platoon (HQ, six Rifle/MG PF teams)
Full Pionier Platoon (my auto-select platoon, SMG HQ, nine Rifle PF Pioneer teams)
Full Volkssturm Platoon (HQ, seven Rifle PF teams, one LMG team)
Pak40 Platoon (3 Pak40 plus trucks)
Light Artillery Battery (3 10,5 howitzers)
Volks Werfer Battery (six NW42 Nebs with Super-Heavy Rockets plus trucks)
Sturmpanzer Platoon (3 Sturmpanzer IV "Brummbar")
It's an unusual list in several respects.
First of all, this list is cannon-heavy. I'm putting Pak40s and 10,5s into one list for the first time. I've never used them before, actually I've never even included them in a single list before, only ever one or the other. But 10,5s bring smoke, are Breakthrough guns and can kill tanks in a pinch.
The Brummbars carry Bunker Busters, but lack the rate of fire of StuGs. They are something of a loose cannon - I managed not to kill jack with three of them throughout an entire game, but they WILL tear through infantry and guns in a hurry, given half a chance.
Also, it's the first time I'm including a German direct-action Warrior in any of my list.
The Volkssturm is out of place, but it's new, I'd like to use it, and there were Volksgrenadier division fighting in the Ruhr pocket, so it's historical.
I don't get enough points to include neither a HMG platoon nor a Scout platoon nor my light AA platoon in this list. Then again, my greatest worry is tanks, and neither helps against those, so the point is probably moot anyway. I'd pick HMGs on sheer sadism alone, and because I might have trouble stopping a Soviet human-wave attack with so many rifle teams.
Also, I'm thinking of swapping Moldenhauer for a sniper team and / or the Volkssturm for the light AA.
So, gentlemen, your thoughts, please.


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Farm Boy
This article was published in the Fall 2013 issue of AmSAT Journal.
by John A. Baron and Lyn Charlsen Klein
John Baron and Lyn Charlsen Klein were presenters at the Alexander Technique Convention in Dublin, Ireland March 22–29, 2013.
Day Two, Alexander Technique Convention, Dublin.
JOHN: On the second day of the conference, Lyn and I have breakfast with Erica Donnison, a British teacher. We talk about the challenges of presenting classes both at the Convention and elsewhere: general performance anxiety, choosing themes, over-preparing/under-preparing, and all the familiar dances we put ourselves through as we prepare for presentations.
LYN: Even though I've been teaching for a good many years, I am a bit anxious before making a presentation. Last night at dinner, part of the conversation was about what produces anxiety; how each of us deals with it, how we manage. John then tells us a story about a well-known somebody who began a talk with a story about himself––a story about the image he carries with him––an image that was different from the person the audience sees….
The Story
JOHN: While working as an Alexander Technique teacher in Rome, Italy over 25 years ago, I was connected to a Wellness Center that offered various services including acupuncture, psychological counseling, and Alexander Technique. We would occasionally have presentations, and one presentation was given by Dr. Carl Whitaker (1912–1995), an American psychiatrist recognized as the originator of Family Systems Therapy. Carl Whitaker lectured all over the world to large groups of professionals presenting this new model for psychotherapy that addressed the context of emotional disturbance within the family structure itself.
We met at the Center early one morning. The group was no larger than nine people, including the secretary, Carl, and his wife, Muriel. He took a little while to start, looking around the group with an occasional smile. He told us that he had been up since 3:00 AM. He said that before giving any kind of presentation, he was invariably up the night before worrying about it. This really bemused us. Here was an eminent professional with an international reputation invited to just chat to a very small and friendly group in Rome––and he was up the night before worrying about it?
Someone asked "Why?" He took a while to answer and then just said, "Because I'll always be a farm boy!" We were all puzzled by this. He went on to explain that he grew up on a farm and, although he had gone to medical school, become a psychiatrist, and was acknowledged as the pioneer of Family Systems Therapy, all that didn't really seem to matter, because he never really felt like Dr. Whitaker; instead he felt that he was just a farm boy. Carl the farm boy!
From Story To Workshop
LYN: This story resonates with Erica and me. Immediately I have an image of my own––the one that I carry around, that frightens me because I think it runs my life and isn't who I truly am: "White Gloves." But this is personal and I don't say anything.
Erica suggests that John and Lyn give a workshop exploring the images we carry around within us.
LYN: A workshop? Confessing the images that are part of us, that we carry into the teaching and our daily lives, that interfere with everything? Are we ready for this?
Later that day, John and I pass in the hall and wonder if we have identified our own inner images. As it turns out, we have.
JOHN: We agree to just think it over a little more and to meet later for "I'll tell you mine if you'll tell me yours."
In the evening, John and Lyn meet to tell their stories.
JOHN: Before this Convention, Lyn and I have never been more than just acquaintances, but now we find ourselves alone in an empty room sharing our personal images and what they symbolize for us: what we hide, what holds us back, what memories are associated with our fears, anxieties, and performance tensions––especially when it comes to presenting our work to others. Not exactly an informal chat.
LYN: What an interesting experience it is to describe to someone I don't know well at all a personal dream about white gloves that I have been living with and affected by for years.
Lyn's White Gloves
The image is of a young girl's arms. She is sitting at a desk and all I see are her arms, ending in white gloves. Her body is barely discernable.
When I was in high school, I belonged to a social club, and at a tea we were all required to wear white gloves and to behave in a very particular, conventional, southern, polite, predictable way. Pouring punch was the epitome of appropriate social conduct. I flubbed it. I was lectured about it. I never forgot it.
This image of the good girl who (to paraphrase the dream) is wearing white gloves is a part of my psyche that I have been struggling with for years.
I talk to John about the history, the meaning, the significance of this image and how it seems part of my anxiety around teaching: being right, being good, being politically and socially correct.
John's Dustbinman
The image I have comes from a memory. I'm 11 years old. There are three people in a room in my family's home: my father, his cousin (who in my opinion was a bit of a jerk), and myself. I have been ceremoniously ordered to sit in a chair. For some reason, my Dad is in full flight lecturing me about the efforts I need to make in order to get on in the world. The cousin is nodding his head, making guttural noises of approval, which seem to be adding to the intensity of Dad's oration. Apparently I'm a big disappointment! (Whoops!) My Dad is getting carried away with all this, and it culminates with him pointing his finger at me and shouting, "You'll be a dustbinman! That's all you'll ever be!" And he turns his back in disgust!
Now for all of us, there have been many more earth- shattering moments to deal with than the above story. I can imagine that I could have shrugged it off after a few minutes like I shrugged off lots of other stuff, but somehow this moment stuck.
Lyn and I just listen to our respective stories and images without analyzing them. We understand that speaking about the image with each other is challenging. If we ask any questions, they are about a part of the image or a part of the story around the image. Just observing our "use" while telling the story or listening to it gives us the added perception of the emotional intensity behind this conversation.
LYN: Here we are revealing secret, deeply felt memories, ideas, thoughts, and emotions and it feels perfectly natural and right to do so. We talk about the physical manifestations of those remembered experiences. I realize, again, how powerful it is to put the body/mind experience together––how I am when I remember, rediscover, talk about these old experiences.
JOHN: What would happen if, instead of giving separate three-hour workshops tomorrow, we combine our classes and together present a workshop on this overall theme and see where it goes?
LYN: Suddenly we are talking about actually giving a workshop based on peoples' relationship to the images they carry, how those images are lived physically, and how they affect our work and the way we function and relate. I'm hesitant!
JOHN: We have a few reservations; people are expecting the scheduled classes on "Performance Tension" and "Applying Alexander Technique to Whatever Shows Up." We decide that if this isn't the basis of "Performance Tension" and about "Applying Alexander Technique to Whatever Shows Up," then nothing will be. The convention organizers have stressed the theme of "seizing present ideas," and as this idea stems from a conversation at the convention....
LYN: I'm still hesitant. I've put my white gloves on––John recognizes that and humorously points it out. We laugh. How embarrassing to be caught out––and what a relief.
JOHN: We decide to "just do it!"
Day Three, Alexander Technique Convention, Dublin.
JOHN: Approximately 80–90 attendees are gathered in the large meeting room to plan the day. At the end of the announcements, the presenters explain the day's workshops. Lyn and I explain that we will combine our classes and experiment with working on "the parts of ourselves that hold us back, both in general and in our teaching––in other words, the parts of our 'selves' we tend to hide and the images and memories that are associated with this: the fears, anxiety, and performance tensions." I recount the Farm Boy story, saying that we will be exploring our own versions of the Farm Boy image in class to see if and how the Alexander Technique helps us connect to our deep-seated personal images.
LYN: And, strangely, about 20 people show up!
JOHN: The class is held in the large exchange room. Sitting in a large circle, we begin by recounting how the class has come about and how Lyn and I have already discussed in detail our own respective images. Then Lyn describes her image "White Gloves."
LYN: We want to create a safe space. After all, we are all in this together. I would never ask anyone else to be this vulnerable if I'm not willing to be vulnerable myself.
Fay Putnam, USA: To have presenters bare their inner selves in such an honest manner was not expected and created a very safe environment. Because we felt safe, we were able to be open to the learning adventure that followed.
JOHN: My turn. OK––a dustbinman! Knowing that many in the class will not know about dustbins, I give a little background: Many years ago, one of my jobs in the family home was to light the coal fire in the morning. Part of that involved raking the ashes from the night before. I'd take a poker, scrape the grate so the ash fell underneath, and then with a small shovel I'd gather the ashes, take them outside, and put them in the dustbin. Every Monday the dustbinmen came to the house, picked up these heavy dustbins, and carried them on their backs to empty them into the cart. With the ashes that had accumulated for a week, plus additional rubbish the bins contained, these bins were quite heavy as well as dusty and dirty. I remember standing by the window, waiting for the dustbinmen, and knocking loudly, waving frantically, and shouting "hello" when they arrived. Apparently I used to boast they were "my friends." I was around three or four at this time. It was only later that I borrowed an attitude of social disdain toward them and their status. Then I recounted the story of listening to my father's tirade, the story that includes his head-nodding cousin and the punch line: "You'll be a dustbinman!"
After Lyn and I explain these personal images to the class we suggest that everyone find a space in the room by themselves and, without speaking, simply give some thought to their own inner "Farm Boy/White Gloves/Dustbinman." What might be the image that hides behind the presented image?
Jackie Beim UK: Lyn and John share their stories, those stories carried since childhood, myths (lies?), and blueprints about what we should and shouldn't be, could and couldn't do—about our very selves.
We are in a room equipped with several Alexander Technique teaching tables, numerous chairs, and a few flip charts. This group of Alexander Technique teachers, originally seated in a well-organized circle, now arrange themselves all over the place––sitting on window ledges, at 90 degree angles, facing walls, on tables with knees to chins, even on all fours in the corner underneath a table––all thinking of an image that symbolizes a part of themselves that has been internalized over time.
LYN: John has brought paper, crayons, felt tip pens. We ask people to take time to "be with" the images that come to them.
JOHN: After several minutes, and not wanting to get off track by immediately going into words, we ask people to take some sketching paper, crayons, and colored pencils and quietly start to draw, while keeping in mind the image they've just been focusing on.
Niall Kelly, EIRE: My picture starts as a series of vertical slashing strokes through the center of the page without any real idea of what my picture is going to be. As I continue to draw I begin recalling my experience at the age of 9 or 10, choking at the beginning of a recital of "The Lake Isle of Innisfree." I start drawing myself as a child and return to the vertical strokes, softening them into a clown-like figure standing behind me.
Jackie Beim, UK: My picture features two pairs of red shoes. One is comfortable, flat, foot-shaped, and beautiful––locked and chained up in a box labeled "DANGER," which is hidden under a pile of scribbles. The other is a pair of pointy high heels––uncomfortable, my mother's kind of shoes, shoes I am supposed to like but don't––in the center of the page surrounded by the words: "Nice," "Good," "Small." There is an element of Cinderella in the picture; I want to go to the ball but I don't want to wear glass slippers.
Theta Michele Drivon, USA: I draw a picture of books, report cards, and the glasses I wore for all of elementary school, thinking of my "bookworm" persona that hid me from the world. I also draw pictures of stuffed animals.
JOHN: Lyn and I pick out crayons and paper and start to draw also. Glancing around the room, we can see some people go hard at it, transforming frenetic energy into firm, colorful strokes. Others remain motionless, while some make shy, hesitant gestures with their crayons. One or two, who seemed hesitant at first, suddenly start drawing quickly on flip charts, perhaps because they offer a larger canvas. The drawing continues until it feels time to bring the group back together. We form a circle, drawings mainly facing inwards, and look around at the group.
LYN: We invite people to present their drawings to the group, but only if they wish to do so.
JOHN: As people have come to the convention from different countries, many in this group do not know each other. It is challenging to open up to strangers, especially when they are also peers and colleagues. We sit there a little while, until Lyn and I simply place our own drawings face outward so the group can see. And they just look. They remember our stories as they look at our drawings. Slowly, some of the others begin to turn their own drawings for others to see.
Obviously there are no budding Picassos in the group. Perspective, design, chiaroscuro don't even come into it; but, strangely, the scribbles, block colors, faint shapes, size, lack of color, bold heavy strokes of crayon seem more than just that. We sit in a quiet circle, some individuals holding a drawing facing themselves, others with a drawing facing forwards, some participants looking very intense, others not looking intense, a few not wanting to look up.
"Do you want to say something or just show your drawing or do both?"
Jackie Beim, UK: We shared our pictures with the group and said as much or as little as we wanted. As I spoke to the circle, out of the confusion and feeling of being in two fairy tales, and a couple of films as well, came a clear voice: "How dare I be 5 foot 10!? I'm supposed to be small."
Theta Michele Drivon, USA: As a small child, I made a rule that I had to love my stuffed animals equally, deliberately playing with ones I didn't care for and refraining from doting on the ones I did, so none would feel left out. This admission leaves me wondering how much I accustom myself to shutting down, keeping myself from feeling and expressing the depth to which I love the people in my life.
Niall Kelly, EIRE: My "carry-on" is the child in fear of choking at any public speaking, or recital event. This has always caused me to over-prepare. An exhausting effort!
There is much detail in the pictures and the explanations. Everyone pays full attention, silently connecting with each speaker. No one interrupts, no one tries to analyze, no one gives advice. We just listen. Although the class is three hours long, it seems that it could last all day.
LYN: Everyone shows a drawing and tells a story (even if they feel the need to apologize for it). We listen, we accept, we observe––and I think, in a very simple way, we give support for the recognition, acceptance, and change that is, for me, a major part of the Alexander Technique. How can I make a choice if I cannot see––experience––my patterns: of thought, of movement, of physical reality? The stories are powerful, moving, thought-provoking, heartbreaking, honest.
JOHN: After hearing from everyone, we decide to divide into pairs, encouraging people to avoid using words. The idea is for one partner to apply Alexander Technique by quietly working "hands-on" with the other partner. But now there is a huge difference in the context of our work, because the person being worked on keeps the image from his/her own drawing in mind, knowing the person working "hands-on" fully knows that image and what it represents.
LYN: What will happen when we become conscious of these personal images and intentionally hold them in awareness while letting someone help us let go of the pattern, if letting go is what is needed? What will happen if we experience the pattern in a different way? We don't know what will happen; we're going into the unknown. Isn't that another aspect of Alexander Technique: letting ourselves experience what we do not yet know?
Theta Michele Drivon, USA: I keep in mind the possibility that I can let myself be singularly focused on the person I am working with, without worrying that anyone else might feel left out. I find myself much less concerned than usual with "doing the right thing" and just follow with great interest what is opening up for the person I'm working with. When we change places, I let myself stay open—this time to receiving attention, as if I can really let myself have what I want. I feel wholly moved to feel so attended to, with sadness but also a great possibility welling up in me.
Niall Kelly, EIRE: I'm able to allow the clown from the picture to come closer and soothe the child, reminding him choking is not the end of the world and, in fact, can even be the start of a more exciting and entertaining presentation.
Jackie Beim, UK: I work with my partner on the table and the work seems to flow. I feel quietly and calmly confident, connected within myself, present, flexible. My habits of feeling too big, wanting to impress, feeling unconfident, pulling down, or losing contact with the floor have diminished or vanished. I don't feel I am just going through the motions, following a choreographed routine. Above all, I feel a huge sense of compassion: for myself, for my partner, for everyone in the room. And a sense of connection: I am not the only one!
JOHN: With barely fifteen minutes left before we are scheduled to finish, Lyn and I call everyone back to the circle. Many speak about sharing hands-on work in this context as being revealing. It is amazing to see how observant people have been, not only with their partners, but also with the group as a whole.
Each individual chooses how far to go in describing the image and the experience of revealing that image in the group, simply staying with the process, observing, accepting, and holding that expression in a safe personal space, perhaps similar to the safe space this class has created. Opening and closing, breathing and holding, collapsing and tightening, expressing or hiding ourselves, all can be welcomed into this work of ours.
Jackie Beim, UK: It occurs to me later, after the class is over, that I could see these self-limiting ideas/stories/lies as habits; there will be times, often, when I will feel too big, unconfident, not in contact with myself or the world; and I can remember that it is OK to be me, more than OK! Some wonderful Alexander teachers have suggested we love our habits––that at the heart of our work is self-acceptance; the work today enabled us to experience that as well as know it.
LYN: As the day continues into the evening and the next day and the next, I realize that something has shifted in me. I'm living with my image in a much more conscious way, as though the girl with the white gloves is beside me, inside me, and not behind me living in secret and that she is not in charge. I have choices. I am not as anxious about my classes, or about meeting people at dinner, in the hall, or during break time.
JOHN: I'm beginning to think that the words my father used that day "You'll be a dustbinman" had less impact than the deep-seated image has had! Ashes, after all, are what Phoenixes rise from. And though the ashes in the image are inside a dirty and tight dustbin carried around by a person who is considered to be the lowest of the low, the dustbins are emptied from time to time! Yes, at times I do feel I have crammed myself inside a very tight bin, making sure the lid is firmly on: "Hide, don't let them see what's in the dustbin, don't let them look under the lid!" So, of course, I suppose I had to be a dustbinman when I grew/grow up––who else is going to empty the bin?
LYN: If in this workshop we've created a place, space for the whole person to show up and be seen––to experience the possibilities that come with owning and experiencing all of ourselves––and to allow ourselves the opportunity to be, literally, touched while in contact with an aspect of ourselves that is challenging––then maybe we have done something worthwhile.
Jackie Beim, UK: There is such a wealth of information in my picture. I can look at it again; I can draw another one. As I do so, I can imagine myself back in that room in Dublin that day and draw on that well of compassion and creativity. Beautiful. Thank you.
John A. Baron is the Co-Director of the Alexander Educational Center in Berkeley, California, and he maintains a teaching practice in Marin, California. John currently works with the San Francisco Ballet and the San Francisco Opera and has worked for a diverse range of organizations including: Sundance Institute, California State University–Hayward, Esalen Institute, Fireman's Fund Insurance Co. (a division of Allianz), and Google Inc.
Lyn Charlsen-Klein is the Director of Training at the Alexander Training Institute–Los Angeles where she also has a private practice. Lyn has taught the Alexander Technique in the Theater Department at Pomona College, the Theater Department at the University of Southern California (14 years), and in the Music Department at California State University–Los Angeles (10 years).
© 2013 John A. Baron & Lyn Charlsen Klein. All rights reserved.
Photograph of John A. Baron by Max O'Neil.
Photograph of Lyn Charlsen-Klein by Cayce Callaway.


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The ambassadors of Israel and Egypt agreed here that there is an opportunity for peace in the Middle East, but differed over the role the United States should play in achieving it.
Israeli Ambassador Meir Rosenne, while stressing that the U.S. has and will continue to play an important role in the Mideast peace process, said that any attempt to impose a settlement from the outside cannot be successful.
"Any attempt to impose a settlement from the outside encourages the Arab countries that refuse to negotiate with Israel to keep on refusing," Rosenne said in a joint appearance with Egyptian ambassador Ashraf Ghorbal Friday at a luncheon of the Overseas Writers.
"What we lack has not been solutions but a partner to negotiations," the Israeli envoy declared, stressing that negotiations must be without preconditions. "If there is any Arab state ready to negotiate with Israel, Israel will be at the negotiating table in 24 hours or less. Unfortunately, we see no such partner for the time being."
Ghorbal, who retires this months after 10 years as the Egyptian envoy here, urged the newly-re-elected Reagan Administration to seize what he called a "window of opportunity" in the Mideast. He said the Administration had about a year to act in which to achieve progress in Lebanon, the Golan Heights and the West Bank and Gaza.
There is "movement of moderates on both sides of the fencebetween Israelis and Arabs," Ghorbal said. "It's high time to make excellent use of it on a priority basis."
Ghorbal said the U.S. has the trust of all parties in the Mideast and if it does not play a leading role it will leave it to others to do so. He predicted that if progress is made the "hardliners" will either have to join the peace effort or be left a minority in the "new Middle East."
The Egyptian envoy said that if Israel wants direct negotiations with the Arabs it should also include the Palestine Liberation Organization. "The PLO whether Israel likes it or not are so far the leader of the Palestinian nation," Ghorbal said. He added that no Arab elected Menachem Begin or Shimon Peres as Premier of Israel and "Israel has no right to choose for the Arabs their own representatives."
But Rosenne replied that "no Palestinian chose (Yasir) Arafat" and "certainly he does not represent the Palestinian Arabs." He said that while Palestinians living under Israeli rule want a "change in their situation" most of them don't want to destroy Israel as is called for by the PLO charter.
Rosenne said that the Palestinians in Judaea, Samaria and Gaza, can elect their own representatives as is called for in the autonomy plan proposed by the Camp David accords. In addition, he noted that the Palestinian people did not make war on Israel but that sovereign Arab states did and most Arabs on the West Bank are Jordanian citizens.
Israel is ready to negotiate with Jordan either on the basis of the Camp David process or with no preconditions, Rosenne said. Asked about Reagan's Sept. 1, 1982 peace initiative which the Likud government rejected, Rosenne said that the present unity government has taken no position on it.
Ghorbal said that Israeli moderation was demonstrated by an implied freeze on Jewish settlements in the West Bank and Gaza by the Peres government. Rosenne said that the issue of settlements has been "exaggerated" since he does not believe it has prevented peace. He noted that during the 19 years when Jordan ruled the West Bank there were no Jewish settlements and there was no peace.
"If the whole idea of the Middle East is to see Jews and Arabs living together, in the same way as you have in Israel proper 700,000 Israelis that are Arabs, we don't see why Jews and Arabs couldn't live together in an area like Judaea and Samaria," Rosenne declared.


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I am super excited about the Preteen Leaders' Conference coming up in April. The conference is put on by FourFiveSix, a group dedicated to helping your preteen ministry take the next step. You can get full details at PreteenLeadersConference.com.
We are pumped to have Stephen Hibdon, creative director at J12 ministries, lead a workshop at the conference. J12 is a fantastic organization, you should visit them at j12.com. I got a chance to do a Q & A session with Stephen and wanted to share it with you.
Tell us about your journey to reach preteens.
I attended a preteen event at our church called the J12 Encounter that was sponsored by our children's ministry because I had a preteen of my own. The speaker, Gregg Johnson began to pour out a vision to raise the bar of what we can see our tweens become. He shouted the prophetic phrase, "the prodigal son is not the only model – why not see our kids be like Jesus at 12?!"
As I listened, it wasn't long before I knew I needed to have a big conversation with our Senior Pastor. The reason being, I was the high school youth pastor and now my youth paradigm was rocked by this idea of "reaching them before they need to be rescued".
Before I knew it, we were launching a J12 Preteen ministry, and we started the most exciting and fulfilling ride I've ever been on.
Why do you think preteen ministry is important?
We live in a moment in history where there is no single segment of society with a larger target on their back than 8-12 year olds. Because of this, they are growing up faster than ever before. They need purpose, identity, and a role model who trump mainstream fashion, music, movies, and television. Effective preteen ministry can deliver that to their world and ensure their trajectory going forward to equal success.
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Tell us about your role on staff at J12.
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At stroke of midnight, as one year tick-tocks into the next, Italians throughout the world partake in a time-honored tradition to reign in good luck. They eat lentils. Sure, they get trollied and act like imbeciles like we do, but they still stop to ritualistically eat lentils, as opposed to the Great American Populace who will wantonly stuff ourselves with anything our rat-arsed shnockered eyes can see, except a frickin' lentil. With a round shape and golden hue each lentil looks like a micro-version of a Roman moneta, and, hence, has for centuries symbolized abundance. Basically on New Years, Italians eat to get rich.
Gotta love the Italians for their jubilant naivete.
It's not that the notion of eating lentils for good luck is, in and of itself, stupid. They are in fact incredibly healthy: high in fiber, iron and protein. However, in Italy, new years lentils are not eaten in a healthy way. Traditionally they are cooked with cotecchino, a fatty thick sausage that comes in long vacuum-packed wrapping so you can just squeeze the pork right out of it. No surprise to you, in the Meal and a Spiel vision for world perfection there is nothing lucky about squeezable pork. In fact, if anything, squeezable pork is capable of reversing any glimpse of good fortune that God had coming your way.
Please note, I do not keep kosher and I will eat pork in the form of good salami or thinly sliced prosciutto, but to eat fatty ground pig out of a bag represents no mazel to this madela of meal.
How could something that could give you an insta-tack (an instant heart attack) be lucky?
In my lifetime the Italian economy has never been good. If there was ever any luck to begin with in the lentil, year after year it is killed with heaps of cotecchino oozing its cholesterol and saturated fat all over the lucrative potential of this legume. But the Italians love their cotecchino and love to complain about being broke, so it seems useless for me to try to reform the entire long standing Italian economic crisis with this one recipe for soup. Though let me tell you, I'm not so sure Lucky Lentil Soup couldn't do the trick. It's that good.
I might be so bold to say that even if this soup doesn't resolve Italy's financial troubles and even if doesn't make you rich, and I'm not saying it won't, with every spoonful you will feel lucky that you came across this recipe. And if you do plan on playing the lottery soon, then make sure you don't skip the homemade chicken broth or the fennel seeds and be extra sure to love each ingredient of the soup with every stirring of the pot.
Love will unlock the luck of lentil. Try it and share a bowl with someone who could use a little extra mazel.
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- 1 onion, chopped
- 2 carrots, chopped
- 2 celery ribs with leaves, chopped
- ½ teaspoon herbs de provence
- 1 teaspoon fennel seeds
- 1 tablespoon chopped flat-leafed parsley
- 1 tablespoon chopped basil
- 1 ½ cups lentils (brown or green variety)
- ½ cup barley pearls
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- Add lentils and barley and saute another minute or so, stirring to make sure they don't burn or stick.
- Add stock and salt.
- Bring to a boil.
- Turn down to low flame and cover for a good hour.
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