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Just Another Misfit:
Cam Knight gets back on the horse
Saturday, July 07, 2012
If you were a comedy lover digging the local scene around five years ago, give-or-take, you know Cam Knight very well – and, in addition, virtually every other Aussie stand-up gigging during that period – because of the time Cam spent fronting Stand Up Australia for the Comedy Channel. "That's where just about everyone in Australia got a good show reel!" Cam insists, because there were 120-odd hour-long episodes, each featuring four comedians. But stand-up is not all that Cam's known for: he's also an actor. Which is why, on the eve of the taping of his first comedy DVD at Sydney's original Comedy Store, it's worth asking Cam which came first – the acting or the comedy?
"I was always the smart-arse in class," Cam says, "but I guess you could say the acting came first because I was studying acting before I got into comedy." Yeah, but only just, it turns out. Still, the comedy was kind of inevitable, since the young Cam was "always drawn to it" – his parents buying him a copy of Monty Python's Life of Brian on video when he was 12. "They were pretty much setting me up for comedy," he reckons. They must have had a sense of humour; they gave their 12-year-old the most Christianity-lambasting of absurdist satires – before going on to send Cam to a Lutheran boarding school for his high school education. But more of that later…
Cam went straight into acting classes after school, and that's when the comedy bug bit. One of his classmates, Dave Williams, was already doing comedy, and Dave's 'boss', Dave Flanagan – from Adelaide's Comix Comedy Cellar – went to see a first year play both Dave and Cam were in, after which, Cam says, "he offered us all jobs". Although it was mostly 'pre-show entertainment' – "while people were eating their meals, you do some sort of cabaret bullshit; I played a chef who thought he was Elvis and sang Elvis songs!" – Cam and Dave were soon doing improv. But it wasn't until they'd relocated to Melbourne that Cam did actual stand-up comedy. "Dave booked a gig behind my back and said, 'You've got to go do some stand-up now'. We walked to the gig that night and I did it, and that was it: it just sort of stuck."
Stand-Up Australia
You wouldn't guess, from so casual start to his career, that Cam would host such a seminal show as Stand-Up Australia. But he did. And it was seminal – people you wouldn't expect to have any knowledge of bona fide gigging comedians got to see them in action. How it all happened was, Cam auditioned for the hosting role of a Fox 8 show called Chain Reaction, and got it. "After I shot that, I went home and didn't think anything of it," he says.
But three months later Cam was offered another hosting gig, this time for a Comedy Channel 'gong show' called We'll Call You. "Of course: I'm young and I'm broke, so I say yes. It's a 'gong show', so it's not an amazing piece of work… but it's work! So I went and did that."
And then Cam was offered fulltime employment at the Comedy Channel, "because apparently they liked what I did". This led to further hosting duties, including taking over from Adam Spencer for the second season of Hit & Run, in which comedians were inserted into 'fish-out-of-water' situations and made to write material about it.
"Then," says Cam, "I just got told, 'we want to do a stand-up show, it's gonna be called Stand-Up Australia, it'll be on five nights a week and you'll front it'. I was like, 'Okay' and that was it. That's how it came about."
Suddenly comics had an ideal opportunity to showcase their work, and while it was "a good platform for a lot of people", it was hard work for Cam: he was a relatively new comic still finding his voice, having to come up a heap of new material on a regular basis. "I got Dave to help write for me most of the time," Cam says. "There were a couple of other helpers: Michael Chamberlin and Sam Bowring helped me, and I think Fox Klein submitted some stuff. But we had to write 8 to 10 minutes of material a week and we weren't getting to test it out anywhere. So if it failed, it really failed cos it went to air."
Most comics take a few years to 'find their voice', but get to do it more-or-less anonymously, on the open mic stand-up circuit. You only start seeing them on the telly when they're good enough to be considered worthy of that opportunity. (And, let's face it, Cam's employers knew Cam was worthy – even if his peers and detractors felt otherwise.) However, rather than his lesser gigs being seen by a mere handful of people in the back room of a pub, Cam had to do it in front of a dedicated viewership. This baptism of fire was, for Cam, as stressful as it was exciting: "I was very young. I'm still cutting my teeth and finding out what I want to do, which way I want to go, what I want to say, and we were just sitting down and going, 'right… what's funny?' By the end of it, you don't know anymore."
Having to create so much material produced "a good work ethic", but, Cam reckons, it didn't necessarily make him a better comedian. "It made me self-conscious for a long time. I felt like I had more to prove," he says. "What made me a better comedian was when I left the Comedy Channel and forced myself to work and gig my arse off."
Although, I reckon a well-paying gig early on makes having to fail publicly a better proposition. Doesn't it?
"It's kind of nice to have that security – but it's still humiliating when you're out there," Cam says. "You do kind of cop it. You go out and people come up to you and go, 'you suck!' You don't want to suck. You want to go out and you want to get better. And just because I've made a lot of money doesn't make that go away. It doesn't make anybody's opinion change; it might actually make it worse."
Indeed, Cam argues, the money doesn't make you good; if anything, it probably makes you worse. "You need to actually need it. You need to crave it and you need to want to get better and challenge yourself. Money can sometimes make you complacent."
If complacency was ever a threat, it was a while ago: Cam's challenged himself. Constantly. As well you'd know, if you've seen him live over the last five years. He's just kept getting better and better. All the hard work has paid off. So much so that it's hard to believe that, save for Just Another Misfit – the hilarious show he did at Sydney this year – it's been so long since Cam's taken a show to any of the country's comedy festivals. But it's all down to timing, he says.
"It just didn't work out this year. I was all set to go to Melbourne and Adelaide but I just had a bad feeling; my wife and I were trying to have a kid, I'd travelled so much last year… I probably should have hit Melbourne and smashed that out, but it just didn't sit right. I felt like I should stay here with my wife and respect what she wanted".
It's hard to fault a relatively new husband – who's had a successful career thus far – choosing to put his family first. But at this point, I've got to – sheepishly – ask an obvious question or two. And here are the answers: no, they didn't have a baby. But it's not a 'touchy' subject, or a sad story.
"It's fine," Cam says. "It's just annoying. I wish I could say 'yes'."
Oh, but, Cam, here's the perfect scheme: you want a kid? I can guarantee you'll have one. Here's how: start planning next year's festival circuit. Once you've locked in firm seasons in Melbourne, Adelaide and Sydney, you and your missus will almost certainly be expecting. And it's July now – the baby will be due just in time for you to have to cancel all those festival seasons again.
"Yeah, you're absolutely right," Cam laughs. "I will. I'll do that. I need to do it again. But the timing has to be right."
Truth is, Cam's pretty much ready to go:
"I've just been working really hard, even with the old stuff, making those routines stretch out into bigger pieces. I don't just do 'joke' jokes; I'm quite physical, I move around a lot. There's going to be a lot more improvisation that's gonna make them bigger…"
Yes, that's all part of what marks Cam Knight as being at the top of his game. And again, it reminds me of some of the cr*p he would have had to face early on. Along with the 'successful too early' resentments of a seemingly less proficient comic landing an awesome gig, there's the intolerance of the 'actor doing comedy' that seems to divide open mic-ers in particular. Which is a cute irony that – should the comic persevere as Cam has – results in a nice poetic justice: the acting that appears to be a handicap to a comic early on makes them so much better down the track when they are so adept at 'showing us' rather than merely 'telling us' the joke.
"I find that taboo so hypocritical," Cam agrees. "You're not allowed to be an actor going into being a comedian, but you can be any other profession, and it doesn't matter. You can be a lawyer, right – a f*cking lawyer! – and turn into a comedian. But an actor? No way!"
The taboo seems virtually non-existent in the United States, Cam rightfully points out. All the good comics head towards sitcom and feature film, remember? "They want you to be a triple threat. They want you to be good. They want you to be talented. They wanna work with you. They want to find someone who can do all those things…"
Knight Rider
Rest assured, Cam Knight does other things apart from comedy and acting. You may be aware that he pedaled 1600km from Brisbane to Cairns in 10 days, a little while back, with Tour de Cure, helping raise a million dollars for cancer research in the process.
"I did that very close to leaving the Comedy Channel," Cam says. "I wanted to do something that made me feel good. I wanted to put my money into something else that wasn't for me. My mum had breast cancer and I just felt like that was something that I needed to do and get out of my system."
Again, I ask the delicate question. Cam's mum's fine. "She's a survivor!" he says. She beat breast cancer back when he was in high school. Boarding. At a strict Lutheran school. And again, more of that later; back to the bike ride…
"I had very little training before we went into it," Cam says. "I guess I was trying to train; I gave up smoking about four months before I started training, so I wasn't very good at it…"
Although the Tour de Cure continues to take place annually, Cam has not been involved in subsequent rides. "I just wised up after the first one and went, 'I don't think I could do it ever, ever again'," he says. He kept his bike, but has ridden it all of twice since then. "I jog. I just can't get on the bike anymore. I've put it in the shed now, cos it just kept looking at me, making me feel guilty." One day he'll do something "of a similar ilk" in terms of the personal challenge, for charity, he says. But it's not likely to involve cycling!
So back to Cam's mum: she was diagnosed with breast cancer when Cam was 14 and away at boarding school. "I thought my mum was gonna die and I just wanted to go home," Cam says. "So I got expelled from boarding school. On her birthday. While she was going through chemo…"
That's quite noble, acting up to get expelled in order to be home with his mum during her illness. But Cam corrects me: he didn't actually decide, "right, I've got to get booted out of here'; rather, it happened subconsciously. "When I look back on it now, I think 'you misbehaved a lot, mate!' I think I was just worried that my mum was gonna die."
There was a lot of misbehaviour and Cam used to get into a lot of fights, but the 'straw that broke the camel's back', Cam explains, isn't actually that bad. Well, not nearly as bad as the stories that made it back from the school to his home town fast than he did.
"The rumour was, I threw a chair at a teacher and it went through a second storey window, crashing through the windshield of another teachers' car below. Which sounds awesome, and Breakfast Clubesque, right?"
What really happened was, after dinner one evening, all the boarders had to return to the school block to do homework and study, as they did every evening. "There was a guy giving me a whole bunch of sh*t, and I just screamed at him to f*ck off, and went ape sh*t at him. But I didn't realise there was a Parents & Friends meeting going on in the AV Room and I was pretty much right outside it. So the principal was there and all the Lutheran mums and dads were there and they were like, 'that's not very good Lutheran behaviour' and blah blah blah."
Though not officially 'expelled' as such, Cam's dad was called and recommended that he pull Cam out of the school. They won't have to put 'expulsion' down on his official school record, but he still got kicked out.
"Doesn't sound too hardcore. I wish I threw a chair at the teacher. It would have been so much cooler!"
True. You know what would also be cool? Cam Knight doing a festival show around Australia next year. Does he reckon it'll happen?
"I don't know mate. I'd love to say yes, but I just don't know. I don't know what I'm going to be doing. I need to make a decision about it really soon."
Certified Male
One of the deciding factors is the current season of the stage play Certified Male, which Cam's about to be appearing in. Glynn Nicholas, who created the show, did it years ago with Pete Rowsthorn. This time round, Cam's in it with Mike McLeish, Dave Callan (the beardless, Sydney-living Dave Callan who excels at improv, as opposed to 'hairy' Dave Callan, from Melbourne) and, in some cities, Glynn Nicholas himself. In other cities, Glynn will be replaced by Barry Crocker. So next year's festivals won't even be a consideration until Certified Male is over.
Meanwhile, Cam's set to record his current show, Just Another Misfit – which he describes as his "favourite" – at the Comedy Store. "I feel it's the tightest. I feel like it's a good, solid hour, and this is the one I want to record." Cam's taken time developing the material, and been very careful about ensuring nothing from it is already up on youtube. "I've made a conscious decision not to put any clips up," he says. "I wanted to wait. I'm a big guy about biding my time for some reason."
For some reason? I'll tell you the reason you've made a point of not having stand-up footage out there, Cam Knight: because you got some big breaks before you were quite ready for them; you jumped in a little fresh, copped more criticism than you deserved, and you are cautious never to be in that position ever again.
"You're absolutely right, I jumped in fresh and I'm very conscious about what's out there. But I feel very good about this show, and we're gonna shoot it. Hopefully we'll have a full house on Saturday night and it'll look great."


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A blog for skiers and riders with a special focus for enjoying the mountain experience as a family. Primary author is Jay Palace, an Aspen/Snowmass ski pro (Fully Certified with L3 Alpine, Adaptive 1, Freestyle 1 and Childrens Specialist 2. Formerly with Vail Resorts at Northstar and Beavercreek.
Monday, November 10, 2014
It's not too late to get in shape for your ski season!
Beaver Creek is scheduled to open November 26th and my alma mater, Northstar California opens on November 21st.
Will you be ready to ski? Will your little ones ski circles around you? Will you be too tired to get in the hot tub? It's a bit late for a comprehensive, pre-season nutrition and exercise plan for us ski instructors, but if your first ski trip will be over the Christmas holidays, you've got time.
I've taken several approaches over the past few years, some more effective than others. Four seasons ago, I worked out with a personal trainer focusing on core strength and balance. That delivered some benefits, but my cardio fitness was lacking. Three seasons ago, I skipped the gym and only cycled and paddle boarded a bunch. That helped with balance and cardio-vascular fitness, but my skiing suffered from a lack of core strength. The last two seasons, I've focused on cardio, core exercises and leg specific training, specifically a daily regimen that strengthens my innermost quadriceps (the vastus medialis). This muscle is vital to keeping your knee tracking correctly, and building it up can help prevent as well as treat past injuries.
Get after it! I've got a feeling we have powder days ahead in both Colorado and California. Any advance workouts or in-season work outs will pay huge dividends.
Coach Jay
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Woman dies in Route 28 crash
Car hits City of Pittsburgh truck in Harrison Township
Police believe icy roads are to blame for a fatal crash that killed a woman Monday morning on Route 28.
The driver lost control in the northbound lanes in Harrison Township, between exits 15 and 16. Northbound traffic was detoured for much of the morning, but the road has since reopened.
SLIDESHOW: Route 28 crash photos
Police say the driver of a City of Pittsburgh truck stopped to help a young woman who slid on ice around 8 a.m.
As the truck driver was on the phone with police to report the accident, another driver lost control and started to spin, crashing into his truck.
"The witnesses say she lost control basically where we are standing," state police Trooper Christopher J. Robbins said. "She's already sideways when she entered the curb, and the roadway evidence supports that that she was already out of control prior to impact."
VIDEO: Watch Bob Hazen's report
The woman, identified as Roxanne Taylor, 38, of Arnold, was killed in the crash. The other drivers were not hurt.
Witnesses say the city truck driver was heading to Sarver, Butler County, to pick up materials to patch potholes when he saw the first crash.
Police say the bridge is a deicing bridge and tends to get slick. Just before the accident, there were other crashes in the area.
"Being in the valley, the conditions were cold from what we know. It was about 30 degrees right around freezing. That's still being looked into right now."


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Overheard: Facebook's CEO Hates Privacy
A New York Times writer heard Facebook's CEO doesn't believe in secrets; a Facebook flack disapproved of the writer's secrets; and Barry Diller's wife refused to give up her fur secrets. The Twitterati sought loose lips.
The New York Times' Nick Bilton helped Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg bring his policy on corporate disclosure in line with his view of privacy.
Facebook flack Brandee Barker wasn't happy with Bilton's privacy policy for sources, but did invite the reporter onto her social network, where she and her fellow executives will be sure to treat his secrets very carefully, scout's honor.
Bilton then clarified that he's not the sort to unilaterally revise his privacy policy. Unlike certain people.
Longtime professional gossip Ben Widdicombe, recently of TMZ, still feels uneasy in polite company.
We knew the American financial system was all smoke and mirrors; it took comedian Sara Benincasa to tell us exactly what type of smoke was involved.


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Singing of Conversion
Songwriter Audrey Assad speaks about her Catholic faith and musical journey.
Audrey Assad, a 27-year-old Phoenix-based singer-songwriter, isn't afraid to lay bare her soul in music and in her relationship with God. It's from that point of vulnerability that her success as a Catholic/Christian musician was born. Assad's love of literature, the works of Catholic intellectual writers and poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins and Francis Thompson, and feelings even today of "not quite fitting in" form the basis for her surprise hit CD, The House You're Building, released last July by Sparrow Records. The standout track "Restless" comes from St. Augustine's Confessions and addresses her own restlessness and that of a generation whose "relationships have increased in numbers and decreased in depth."
What was your experience of God and faith as a youth?
I grew up in a small town in New Jersey in a multicultural household. My father is from the Damascus area, and my mother is from the South. We were definitely devout evangelicals. All of my friends growing up were Catholic. Most of them didn't go to Mass very often. I remember as young as 7, asking them, "How do you think you're going to get to heaven?" They would tell me, "By being a good person," and I would say, "No, the answer is Jesus, and if you don't know him, you're not going to go there."
I went to a couple of confirmations, first Communions and things like that. I remember thinking it was so foreign, and I didn't understand what they were doing. I just figured the Catholic Church was for people who wanted some kind of good feeling about being religious.
I believe my love for God was real even at a young age, but I went through my different phases. When I was in high school, I was very outwardly committed to God, but my heart was just not right. I judged people. I was uptight. I had major problems. It got pretty crazy there for a while.
You had what you call a "second conversion," which sparked a deeper pursuit of God and your songwriting career. What happened at that time?
I have always been a musician since I can remember, but it was pretty much a hobby for me until I turned 19. I tried to write songs a few times, but it just didn't work for me. I had a second conversion in my bedroom one day, and it was as if I was hearing God's voice for the first time ever, so loud and clear, telling me what I was gifted to do. It was almost instantaneous. I started writing and singing, and from there, it snowballed slowly. That was almost nine years ago.
At the time it felt like God was breathing down my neck. I felt as if he was just pounding at my door: "I am the King of your life." Now, I look back and I think that it had been a slow process of him following me around, pursuing me. I had a very strong intellectual vision of God from the time I was 5, but I never understood that it was not just about believing in God, but belonging to God, so I had a lot of areas in my heart and mind where he was not welcome. For whatever reason, he chose that night to break through to me. I was in a place where I was looking for direction: What do you want me to do with my life? I never could figure it out. The reason I couldn't hear is because there were these major blocks in my life, and that night I gave them up.
Where did you go from there?
I had moved to Florida with my parents when I was 18. I lived there for six years. Then I went to Nashville because people kept telling me that's where I had to go if I wanted to write Christian music. I quit my job, packed my car and drove there to live with a friend. I worked different jobs and started connecting with people at EMI and Sparrow Records. After a year and a half, I signed a record deal (with Sparrow Records).
I toured with Matt Maher [who is also Catholic], and that led me to move to Phoenix, where I live now. I've also toured with Tenth Avenue North, Chris Tomlin and Jars of Clay.
You converted to Catholicism in 2007 and were inspired by the works of some deep thinkers, including C.S. Lewis and St. Augustine. What drew you to these writers?
When I was thinking about becoming Catholic, that's who I went to. Catholics usually didn't know too much about their Church, at least not those that I grew up with, so I thought, I'll just go above their heads. Of course, it humbled me. It showed me that Catholics had many gifts, not the least of which is a comfort level with the Church that I didn't understand. I read and read and read. Lewis isn't Catholic, but he still helped me become Catholic; [also] Chesterton, Brother Lawrence's The Practice of the Presence of God; Self-Abandonment to Divine Providence (by Jesuit Father J.P. de Caussade). When I was converting, I read all kinds of books by Protestants and Catholics, and the weight of the Catholic intellectual tradition tipped the scale in that area for me.
Where does this desire to dig deep into your spiritual self come from?
Necessity; it's the mother of invention. When you suffer you're looking for reasons why you're suffering. I don't think it's because I'm really holy. When you have pain in your life, you're always wondering why. Is this from God? It's kind of what your heart naturally does. I hope that God has changed my life to the point to convince me that he's good no matter what and in any trial. His goodness is apparent and clear to me, and I hope it'll always be there for me.
How does this transfer to your music?
My first CD — The House You're Building — came out in July 2010. I'm proud of that record, but I have been humbled and honored by the amount of attention it's received. The best I can tell is that it's reaching people, and that's because the songs are written from a place of vulnerability. It's not easy to be honest with people you've never met. The songs are more mature just in terms of skill. The suffering of my recent years with my parents' divorce brought out an element of depth that wasn't there in my relationship with God, and the songs reveal that; they're deeper. The more you live and the more you experience, if you're walking with God, you know yourself much better and you know him better, and that's very evident in this album.
Has your conversion to Catholicism changed how other Christian artists view you?
Not really. It's been surprisingly easy. The only times it's ever affected me with music is sometimes the fans get confused. I've tried my best to maintain my online presence with my fans. I do notice that a lot of my musical contemporaries tend to be questioning the form of the church, whether they're Protestant or whatever. They're looking for something older and deeper, so there's been a tidal wave of people turning to Anglicanism and Episcopalianism, which are closer to Catholicism. I'm the token Catholic that they can ask questions of, so they've been pretty open.
What is next on your agenda?
I'll be on nationwide tour with Jars of Clay in the spring and recording in June, so we'll hopefully have the second CD coming out in the fall of 2011.
Register correspondent Barb Ernster writes from Fridley, Minnesota.


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|"[Sozin] started the tradition of hunting dragons for glory. They were the ultimate firebenders. And if you could conquer one, your firebending talents would become legendary and you'd earn the honorary title, Dragon. The last great dragon was conquered long before I was born, by my uncle."
|— Zuko to Aang.[1]
The dragon is the original practitioner of firebending, capable of breathing fire. The species demonstrated the true way of firebending to the Sun Warriors' civilization, a precursor to the modern day Fire Nation[1] and to Wan, the first Avatar.[2] As such, dragons are highly respected by both the Sun Warriors and the Fire Nation.
After Wan was banished from his village atop a fire lion turtle around 9,832 BG but having been allowed to keep the power over fire from the creature, he began his life among the spirits in the Spirit Wilds. There, he came across a white dragon, who performed intricate movements while flying through the sky. Wan mimicked these movements and became the first known human to perform the Dancing Dragon.[2]
Millennia after Wan's encounter with a dragon, Aang and Kuzon searched Fire Nation mountaintops in the hopes of finding the elusive dragons a hundred years before Aang was frozen in the iceberg. They ended up saving a dragon egg from poachers and giving the egg back to its mother.[3]
During his time as Fire Lord, Sozin began the tradition throughout the Fire Nation of hunting dragons as the ultimate sport. Anyone who managed to slay a dragon earned the honorary title of "Dragon" and their talents as firebenders would become legendary. Near the end of the Hundred Year War, dragons were thought to be extinct due to General Iroh's claim that he had killed the final one. However, Aang and Zuko discovered that two dragons, Ran and Shaw, were still alive, deducing that Iroh had lied to protect the species.[1]
By 171 AG, a new dragon, Druk, had been born and came to be used by Zuko as a means of transportation.[4] However, dragons were still an extremely rare sight and very few people were still aware of their existence, as the average person was shocked to view one.[5]
The dragon is a large, horned reptile with a long, scaly body that ends in a thin tail. Its head is large compared to the rest of its body, and its bearded face is dominated by a wide, flat nose and golden, cat-like eyes. There also seem to be several subspecies of dragons, as Ran and Shaw were much larger and had several physical features not present in the dragons owned by Roku and Fire Lord Sozin.[6]
The dragon has four short legs and two large wings that enable it to fly quickly over great distances. There is also an instance of a green dragon which had an extra, smaller set of wings beneath its other wings.[3]
Dragons are intelligent creatures, capable of communicating with humans.[2] Although generally living in solitude, a dragon can form a tight bond with a human, even to the point where it will protect its human partner to the death.[6] Dragons are known to show affection by licking people.[3]
Notable dragons
- Druk
- Fang
- Green dragon
- Ran and Shaw
- Sozin's dragon
- White dragon
Red and blue dragons
The symbolism of the red and blue dragons has appeared several times throughout Team Avatar's adventures. Commonly, the red dragon represents honor and goodness, while the blue dragon represents seduction and evil.
While living in Ba Sing Se, Zuko dreamed that he was the Fire Lord and lacked his scar.[7] Two dragons, one red and one blue, gave him advice. The blue dragon spoke with the voice of Azula, while the red dragon spoke with the voice of Iroh.[8]> The blue dragon sought to harm Zuko, encouraging him to "sleep forever", whereas the red dragon told him to "escape". This dream was eventually brought to life, when Azula and Iroh gave Zuko different advice in the Crystal Catacombs of Ba Sing Se.[9] Zuko decided to fight by Azula's side, later regretting his decision.
The red and blue dragons represented the conflict between Avatar Roku and Fire Lord Sozin, with Roku's dragon being red and Sozin's being blue. Roku and Sozin were initially friends, but they grew distant over time. Both dragons were present on Roku's island when Sozin betrayed Roku and left his old friend to die in the volcanic eruption - Sozin escaped on his blue dragon, while Fang swooped in so he could die with Roku.[6]
Of the original firebending masters, Ran and Shaw, one is a red dragon and one is a blue dragon. Though no distinction of personality or name was made between them, the red one paired with Zuko and the blue one with Aang as they do the "Dancing Dragon" form. However, when Aang and Zuko finished displaying the "Dancing Dragon" form and prepared to face the dragons' judgment, Aang faced the red dragon, and Zuko the blue one. The dragons deemed them worthy and showed Aang and Zuko the original meaning of firebending.[1]
Dragons in the World of Avatar draw inspiration from several different cultures. Aesthetically, they are heavily influenced by traditional Chinese depictions of dragons: long serpentine body, whiskers, fin-like ears, wild looking eyes, canine snout, and the position and proportions of the horns and legs; one of the nine different types of Chinese dragon also possess wings. Influences from other Asian cultures are also present, such as the dragons having four toes, which is a typically Korean trait.
In Chinese and other East Asian mythologies, dragons are traditionally portrayed as a chimerical mix of lizards, camels, goats, and bats, among other animals; however, their image seems to have been refined in adaptation for animation and for the Western audience. The ability to breathe fire and the presence of wings are characteristics more common in European dragons, but they are included in the dragons of the Avatar world as they are typical aspects of the western idea of dragons. These features were also included to enhance the dragons' connection to firebending,[1] as Asian dragons are more closely associated to water than any other element.
- In Chinese culture, different colored dragons are associated with different locations, as blue dragons reside in bodies of water while red dragons are associated with the south.
- Ran and Shaw encircle each other in a similar way to Tui and La. This symbolizes the taijitu, commonly known as the yin and yang symbol, which is usually black and white.
- There was a golden dragon statue in the Fire Nation's throne room during Sozin's reign.
- While the dragons of the Avatar World are depicted with wings, the white dragon with which Wan trained during the Era of Raava did not possess any,[2] and neither did the red and blue dragon from Zuko's dream.[7]
- In the non-canon comic "New Recruits", Hiroshi has a pet rock-dragon named Genji that complements his earthbending.


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Large, Medium-Speed Roll-on/Roll-off
Part of the Sealift Program, these ships serve as dry cargo surge sealift carriers. Transport containerized cargo and rolling stock between developed ports.
Length: 906-954 ft
Beam: 106 ft
Displacement: 59,460-61,680 tons
Speed: 24 knots
Civilian: 30
USNS Shughart (T-AKR 295)
USNS Gordon (T-AKR 296)
USNS Yano (T-AKR 297)
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The Spread of Electronic Monitoring: No Quick Fix for Mass Incarceration
From Prison Legal News/ By James Kilgore
In a troubled criminal justice system desperately looking for alternatives to incarceration, electronic monitoring is trending. North Carolina has tripled the use of electronic monitors since 2011. California has placed 7,500 people on GPS ankle bracelets as part of a realignment program aimed to reduce prison populations. SuperCom, an Israeli-based Smart ID and electronic monitor producer, announced in early July 2014 that they were jumping full force into the U.S. market, predicting this will be a $6 billion-a-year global industry by 2018.
The praise singers of electronic monitoring are also re-surfacing. In late June 2014, high-profile blogger Dylan Matthews posted a story on Vox Media, headlined "Prisons are terrible and there's finally a way to get rid of them." He enthusiastically argued that the most "promising" alternative "fits on an ankle." Joshua Earnest, press secretary for the Obama White House, even suggested ankle bracelets as a solution to getting the 52,000 unaccompanied immigrant children out of border detention centers and military bases in the U.S. Southwest.
The reasons behind this popular surge of electronic monitoring are obvious: Prisons and jails (along with immigrant detention facilities) are overflowing from decades of mass incarceration. State, local and even federal authorities are looking for budget-cutting quick fixes. In the era of the smart phone, smart watch and smart textiles, nothing reads solution like technology. (more…)


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After Obama 3.0, What Will 4.0 Look Like? TheAction.org Isn't Waiting for the Answer
BY Micah L. Sifry | Wednesday, November 21 2012
What next for the millions of people, tens of thousands of volunteers and several thousand staff who came together to propel Barack Obama to re-election? Will there be a real "outside" Washington strategy to put pressure on recalcitrant Members of Congress? Will they use the massive lists and online presence that were built around the campaign? Organizers of TheAction.org say they aren't waiting for answers to these big questions, but they are mobilizing to tap Obama's post-election, online and off, to try to keep him from compromising on repealing the Bush tax cuts on the wealthiest Americans. Read More


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Global Fatty Amines Market is anticipated to reach USD 2.9 billion by 2025, according to a new report by Grand View Research, Inc. Increasing demand for high-quality surfactants and emulsifiers due to increased usage of personal and household care products in emerging economies such as Asia Pacific is excepted to steer the market growth in the near future.
Fatty amines market growth is mainly depended on the end-use industries. The U.S. fatty amines market in water treatment chemicals application was valued over USD 52 million in 2016. Growing awareness regarding recycling and reusing polluted water due to water scarcity is anticipated to steer product demand in the region.
Multinational companies such as Kao Corporation, Ecogreen Oleochemicals, Huntsman International, and Dow Chemical Company are integrated across the value chain, from raw material processing and fatty amine production to distribution of end products. These companies have the advantage of captive consumption of raw materials to produce fatty amide and further obtain primary, secondary, and tertiary derivatives. These companies are also involved in the production of other products for industrial applications.
Full Research Report On Global Fatty Amines Market Analysis:
U.S. fatty amines market revenue by carbon-chain length, 2016 (USD Million)
Further key findings from the report suggest:
- Tertiary amines dominated the product segment and are anticipated to grow at an estimated CAGR of 4.6% from 2017 to 2025.
- Asphalt additives are projected to grow at an estimated CAGR of 6.3% over the next eight years, due to its potential to promote adhesion between the asphalt and mineral aggregate in mixtures for road paving, surfacing, and patching.
- Fatty amines derivatives demand in chemical synthesis segment is anticipated to grow at a CAGR of over 6.0% from 2017 to 2025
- Water treatments products consumed over 22% of global market volume share in 2016. This application accounted for the maximum share in the overall market owing to popularity in corrosion inhibitors, biocides and disinfectants industries.
- Asia Pacific is expected to witness the fastest regional market growth and is expected to grow at an estimated CAGR of 5.1% from 2017 to 2025. Increasing production capacities by key regional players such as China, Japan, and India to support the escalating customer demand is projected to spur the market growth during the forecast period.
- The global fatty amines market is consolidated with major companies accounting for highest share in 2016. Key global players include Kao Corporation, Dow Chemical Company, Ecogreen Oleochemicals GmbH, Huntsman International LLC, Akzo Nobel NV, Solvay SA, Indo Amines Ltd, Evonik Industries, KLK Oleo, and Volant-Chem Group.
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Grand View Research has segmented the Global Fatty Amines Market on the basis of carbon chain length, product, application and region:
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Eagle River girls end long hoops losing streak
Eagle River's girls basketball team has insisted all season that they're an improving bunch. On Saturday, Jan. 21, the Wolves proved it with a 45-30 non conference win over Skyview in Soldotna.
The Wolves improved to 1-7 overall after picking up the program's first victory since beating Service on Feb. 11, 2009.
The Wolves clamped down on Skyview from the outset, allowing just two first-half points and leading 27-13 at the half. Eagle River knocked down six 3-pointers in the game, including three by Dana Panfil, two from Lauren Frost and one by Mikayla Douglas.
Panfil led the Wolves with 15 points, Sam Coy had 12, Frost added nine, Sabrina Radliff had 6 and Douglas added three.
Cook Inlet 60, Eagle River 29
Eagle River dropped to 0-7 on the season with a 60-29 loss to Cook Inlet Academy on Jan. 20 in Soldotna.
The game was close after one quarter, but a 23-1 CIA run in the second proved to be the undoing for Eagle River, which scored just three points in the second and third quarters combined.
Lauren Frost had 10 points to lead Eagle River, which also got seven from Sam Coy and six from Dana Panfil.
West 54, Eagle River 29
Eagle River fell to 0-5 in the Cook Inlet Conference with a 54-29 loss at West on Jan. 25.
Panfil scored 12 points to lead the Eagle River attack.
Chanelle Zamora and Cece Cockerham each scored 10 points for the Eagles.
Mustangs corral Wolves
Eight different players scored for Chugiak as the Mustangs cruised to a 64-25 Cook Inlet Conference win over Eagle River on Wednesday, Jan. 18.
With the win, the Mustangs improved to 5-2 overall and 3-1 in the CIC. The loss dropped Eagle River to 0-6 overall and 0-4 in the conference.
Madison McAleavey paced Chugiak with 16 points followed by Erinn Scotland with 13 and Jessi McMullen with 10.
Dana Panfil led the Wolves with 11 points. Lauren Frost chipped in seven.
Chugiak 71, South 39
Chugiak improved to 4-1 in the CIC with a 71-39 win over South on Jan. 24
Jessica Tramp scored 24 points and Erinn Scotland had 13 to lead the way for Chugiak, which got scoring from every player on the roster.


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Google and Apple have a history of launching their new services only in the United States first, and then slowly expanding it to other regions of the world. Sadly, some of the most brilliant services from these companies like the free turn-by-turn map navigation from Google and iTunes Match from Apple are not available in most of the third world countries.
Google, thankfully, has showed some love to third world countries, and recently enabled free turn-by-turn navigation and live traffic information in India. Today, Google has shown some of its navigation love to Android users in Lebanon, Egypt, Qatar, Algeria, Kuwait, Bahrain, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.
The bad news? The free service will only be available to Android devices running Android 4.0 ICS or higher.
Hopefully, Google will expand its free navigation services to more countries in the world, and will also work on bringing Play Books, Play Music and Play Movies to some third world countries.


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"But isn't [being subversive] dishonest? Not exactly, for I'm not misrepresenting myself. I'm simply taking my words and acts at a level of seriousness that would throw [the congregation] into a state of catatonic disbelief if they ever knew."
How can the pastor be subversive and sustain his vocation?
Eugene Peterson wrestles with who is living in the real world. Is it the business man who thinks church is a nice diversion from the real world of money-making, bottom lines and profit margins or the faithful pastor who announces,
"The kingdom of God is at hand"? In my view, when business or any other cultural metaphors replace the old, but ever new kingdom-of-God realities for describing the vocation of ministry, any pastor will lose his or her footing and begin sinking in the quicksand of artificial relevancy.
Wanting to be seen or known as important is a giant step away from Christlikeness. "It's hard to maintain a self-concept as a revolutionary when everyone treats us with the same affability they give the grocer." Without a deep, enduring commitment to the realities of
both the truth and the way(s) of the kingdom of God, a pastor will settle for becoming "a chaplain to the culture," rather than a discerning challenger of it.
I like EHP's description of the pastor as subversive because it points to the way of God in Jesus Christ. "Jesus was the master at subversion. … Jesus' favorite speech form, the parable, was subversive. …
But under the surface of conventionality and behind the scenes of probability, each was effectively inaugurating the kingdom: illegitimate (as was supposed) conception, barnyard birth, Nazareth silence, Galilee secularity, Sabbath healings, Gethsemane prayers, criminal death, baptismal water, eucharistic bread and wine. Subversion
." These quotes are from The Contemplative Pastor, a book we're using to grasp EHP's taxonomy of pastor.
Emily Dickinson wrote, "Tell the truth, but tell it slant." EHP writes, "Hitting sin head-on is like hitting a nail with a hammer; it only drives it in deeper."
The kingdom of self is a highly fortified kingdom and direct assault on it almost always fails. A lot of Bible expositional hammering has been going on in the USAmerican evangelical church and, yet, George Barna and company report that the sin index of the church is just like that of the culture around it.
So much for the supposed magic in "Preach the Word." The "still small voice" of God's Spirit has been replaced by the loud, Bible-verse spouting voice of the preacher.
Have you ever noticed how many church announcements feel like TV commercials for God? We don't like the kingdom of God being like a teensy, weensy mustard seed or hidden yeast; we want it to be like an ear-splitting, action-packed movie trailer for God's blockbuster hit in Jesus.
EHP notes that there are three things implicit in subversion: One, the status quo is wrong and must be overthrown. (You can get fired for this one). Two, there is another in-breaking world; a God-oriented and Jesus-saturated world.
Three, the usual means by which one kingdom is thrown out and another put in its place—military coup or democratic election—are not available. The tools available for the subversive pastor are two: prayer and parable. "Words are the real work of the world—prayer words with God, parable words with men and women. The behind the scenes work of creativity by word and sacrament, by parable and prayer, subverts the seduced world."
A man or woman who wants the job of pastor will sooner or later become disillusioned. Getting to traffic in holy things: holy Bible and Eikons of God; getting to study and communicate the Word of God; getting the accolades of well-meaning people—all these things will turn to sand in the mouth. There has to be a heart-gripping mission. A pastor is patient, seeking to observe grace-evidence in the parched lives of human beings. She is a subversive spy in very dangerous territory wisely, faithfully, subversively alerting people who are so susceptible to the blinding schemes of a fierce enemy and the foolish values of a godless culture. The spy knows a hard, yet breath-taking way out of this mess we're all in.


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A collection of scholarly works about individual liberty and free markets. A project of Liberty Fund, Inc.
In a letter to John Jay written on August 15, 1786, George Washington worries that, because the states will not grant the central government sufficient "coercive power", they will swing to the other extreme of seeking a new monarch to solve their problems:
What astonishing changes a few years are capable of producing! I am told that even respectable characters speak of a monarchical form of government without horror. From thinking proceeds speaking, thence to acting is often but a single step. But how irrevocable and tremendous! What a triumph for the advocates of despotism to find that we are incapable of governing ourselves, and that systems founded on the basis of equal liberty are merely ideal and fallacious! Would to God that wise measures may be taken in time to avert the consequences we have but too much reason to apprehend.
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In a letter to John Jay in 1786 George Washington expresses dismay that the people are all too ready to call for the return of a "new monarch" (i.e. a "leader") when difficult times arrive. It seems they clamor for an individual with "coercive powers" to solve their problems and that all the talk of equal liberty is "merely ideal and fallacious".


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Five Democratic convention speeches to remember
Clint Eastwood gave the Republicans some offbeat remarks to remember this year. Will the Democrats come up with any memorable lines? Here are some past Democratic convention speeches that live on:
1896: William Jennings Bryan snares the nomination with his plea to help indebted farmers by abandoning the gold standard: "You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold!"
1976: Barbara Jordan becomes the first black and first woman to deliver the party's keynote address: "My presence here is one additional bit of evidence that the American Dream need not be forever deferred."
1984: How to choose? Geraldine Ferraro is the first woman on a major party's ticket, but her speech is eclipsed in this Year of Orators. Mario Cuomo declares that President Ronald Reagan's "city on a hill" is more "A Tale of Two Cities" -- one wealthy and one struggling. In another stem-winder, Jesse Jackson says "our nation is a rainbow" and insists, "Our time has come." Nominee Walter Mondale admits he'd raise taxes, words he rides down to defeat.
1988: Texan Ann Richards' skewering of Vice President George H.W. Bush causes a sensation: "Poor George. He can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth."
2008: Many rank Barack Obama's 2004 keynote address as his finest speech ever; it made him a political star. But in 2008 he made history -- a black man accepting the nomination for president on the 45th anniversary of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech. Obama tells a football stadium of supporters: "This election has never been about me. It's been about you. ... At defining moments like this one, the change we need doesn't come from Washington. Change comes to Washington."


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Warner Bros. Pictures Inc. and IMAX Corporation today announced that Jim Carrey will narrate "Under the Sea 3D", the third IMAX 3D co-production between the two companies. Scheduled to be released to IMAX theatres beginning on February 13, 2009, "Under the Sea 3D" will offer an entertaining and uniquely inspirational way to explore the beauty and natural wonder of the oceans.
Moviegoers will be able to experience face-to-face encounters with some of the most mysterious and stunning creatures of the sea. In IMAX 3D, the images appear to leap off the screen and float around the theatre, putting the audience IN the movie.
"Jim Carrey is a favorite of film audiences everywhere and of every generation, so he is the perfect choice to narrate this undersea adventure for moviegoers of all ages. We are also very proud to be working with IMAX to bring audiences this visually stunning film that reminds us all of the beauty and magic of our oceans, and the importance of preserving them for future generations," said Dan Fellman, President, domestic distribution, Warner Bros. Pictures.
"With his roots in Toronto, home of the world's first permanent IMAX theatre, Jim is very familiar with The IMAX Experience and we're very excited to collaborate with him on this meaningful project," said Greg Foster, Chairman and President, IMAX Filmed Entertainment. "His voice will draw people into this world of mysterious creatures and dazzling colors featured in "Under the Sea 3D" and we welcome him into the IMAX family."


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Cyber Fashion
Posted by Chic Aeon in freebies on Saturday, April 30, 2011
A super quick late night post because I just can't resist. This is another gift that I picked up at Alpha Point the other day. I mean wow, is this creative or what? Now I can't imagine wearing this all the time, but it is definitely IMPRESSIVE. I zipped over to Aeon Flux which is now a metered role play combat sim, tried to find the rules to no avail and took my chances for a quick snapshot. I did run into someone, but she was friendly and I told her my story in IM so I think I am good with the powers that be.
You just never know when you might really need an outfit like this! *wink*
Ms. Art Deco silver by jin Acacia
Poses by: Amacci
The Month That Was April
Posted by Chic Aeon in comment
I had so many great photos to choose from this month, it was difficult to decide which to include. In the end practicality often won-- what fit best in the collage program's rectangles :D.
Onwards to May!
Weekend Plans
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If you love being one of the first to see new releases, you might want to petition for a spot in the Liberty City Fashion show that happens at 1 pm SLT. This is my audience outfit. Zero scripts and under 1000 ARC. I could have done better but I do like hair and eyelashes :D. I am excited about seeing the new releases and the build -- and how well my new computer does in the visually complex and most likely laggy environment.
From the notecard:
IMA Inc and Liberty City are holding an exclusive event where we take you through the beautiful creations of the designers on this beautiful sim made by the talented Mo Miasma.
IMA Inc and Liberty City would be honored to have your presence at this futuristic spring extravaganza where all 18 designers on sim have galvanized. The end product is a show like no other.
This is an exclusive event and numbers will be restricted, therefore it will be necessary to submit your RSVP to Ananya Mai direct.
To rsvp, please send Ananya Mai a nc titled "Liberty City Futuristic Spring Extravaganza - you name". You will be added to the Liberty City Official group.
I must also point out that the incredibly talented builders Frasha Boa and Oggy Bonetto from Abiss have made a custom build for this landmark show which rumour has it... maybe available soon on the market so please watch this space!
Hair: Maitreya Piper II - Copper
Skin: [:T:] Zoe / tan :: 02 Purity
Clothing: Blue Blood Valeria white
Shoes: BAX Prestige Boots White Leather (scripts removed)
Poses by:LAP
Sizzling Tangerine
Posted by Chic Aeon in color challenge, new releases on Friday, April 29, 2011
Let's hear it for TANGERINE - our color of the week. Newness mixes with some old favorites in this hot and sexy post. I really don't need to say more.
Hair: Dura Group Gift (04/2011)(Strawberry) (new release) (free)
Skin: [:T:] Zoe / sunkissed :: 05 Vogue; KOSH- FLOCK OF BIRDS TATTOO -med- (new release)
Clothing: PARADISIS Satine : pants orange (new release)
Shoes: A-BOMB Phoxxe Shoes
Accessories: zeery Cube Cloth Earrings [] Dragons Breath; halloween rainbowa by caLLie cLine
Poses by: BehaviorBody, Nigotine (NLA)
Walk With Me
Posted by Chic Aeon in freebies, new releases on Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Warm nights, gentle ocean breezes, and if we are lucky -- a partner by our side. This sophisticated yet saucy dress is the current VIP group gift from Indie Rose. The stitching on the bodice accents the pattern in the sheer tiered skirt -- both ladylike and a tiny bit naughty.
Happily, it coordinates perfectly with this new collar and earring set from Aluinn. The 237 prim neck piece is finely detailed and manual mod (yeah) so no script guilt is required when wearing. Both chest and spine attachment versions are included for easy styling. The double pierced earrings balance the design very well, not overpowering the showcase piece of the set.
Hair: Dura Group Gift (04/2011)(Strawberry)
Skin: [:T:] Zoe / sunkissed :: 01 Bare
Clothing: ~*INDIE ROSE*~ Rhinestone Ruffled Dress
Shoes: #OC# Melanie- Khaki
Accessories: Aluinn's Briar Jewelry Set
Poses by :EverGlow, Juxtapose
Spring Choices
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Hair: *SHOP SEU* GIFT --kurukuru hair Long [brown:pattun]--
Skin: [:T:] Zoe / sunkissed :: 05 Vogue
Clothing: Elemiah Design - Dimanche
Shoes: #OC# Mercy-White
Poses by: Helamiyo
Of Places Lost
I spent a good portion of yesterday afternoon going through my photo op landmarks. I am not sure how many I have, but I deleted close to fifty -- places no longer in our world. Some I will very much miss. I wasn't ready to say goodbye. But life moves on, whether corporeal or virtual and we each have to find our own paths and sometimes make new ones.
In my journeys I found two new environments, one a complete redo of a sim, one a new shopping district in a fantasy theme. And, I found this very pretty and free dress when I materialized at Alpha Point. It is on the bridge to Omega Point. Sadly perhaps, Omega Point was gone yesterday afternoon and still only blue sea at this early morning hour. I don't know the story, but if you haven't visited this impressive spot, you definitely might want to.
My photo locale of the wee hours of the morning is Empyreal Dreams; Barbee is alas no more.
Hair: Posh Spice (NLA)
Skin: [:T:] Zoe / sunkissed :: 05 Vogue
Clothing: KWZ Orient Corset Dress (free)
Shoes: #OC# Melanie- Black Leather
Accessories: :: Exodi :: The Monarchy necklace and earrings
Poses by: BehaviorBody
Not Always a Rock Star
One of my readers mentioned to me not long ago that you never really know what Chic will be up to. That is true; I am glad. I believe in diversity. And while I like to think that Chic and I, the typist, have quite a bit in common, sometimes I wonder. She is definitely braver than I. She wears things I never would -- even if I could travel to times and places unknown AND look as good as she does. Still it is fun to follow her explorations. I enjoy with the rest of you.
This morning I decided to make a look that was definitely NOT Chic, to break away from both of our comfort zones. The theme was a little geeky, a little lost waif, a little retro. I had planned to take a photo at a well known bakery but in my explorations of the eve, one place lead to another as they often do in our virtual world and I ended up at MMGraffiti's. I had been to the shop before, but it was in another location then or at least looked immensely different than it does now. I remember stalking the lucky board for a long while in order to claim a chalk board easel *wink*.
This evening I found the shop once again by inspecting a fence I admired. It lead me here and I must say the choices of fencing are very nice and extremely inexpensive. Should I get my plot in the bayou sometime soon, I will definitely be back for some yard decor. Just before leaving I spotted this little house, peaked inside and knew that I had to take my photo here. The details are a dream, lovingly made and very much like a richly textured doll house.
You can buy the house and the furnishings separately and while they are not low prim, they are perhaps what you might call "smart prim" in that you get a lot of design for your prim "bucks". The toilet plunger is in theory $1L and of course I was going to buy it (one never knows) but the vendor wasn't vending. Perhaps it will be when I return for fencing. Update: I received a note from the designer and you touch each color of plunger you want to purchase. Well, I bet YOU could have figured that out. LOL.
But while I was over inspecting the housing posters I spotted a set of color change plates as a gift. Yeah! We all like those.
I haven't opened them yet, but I am sure they are both lovely and useful as the whole shop is very quality oriented.
So if any of this looks like you, drop by and do a little shopping. Support our content creators!
Hair: = Hal*Hina = [sepia mesh] Hair -Kate- /size M
Skin: [:T:] Zoe / sunkissed :: 05 Vogue
Clothing: *GF* Ruffle Bolero -pumpkin; ;Mmk Vintage Floral;;Sunflower - DP; The Secret Store - Pumpkin Tights
Accessories: (epoque) Catlady Frames - Perennial (seasons hunt)
Poses by: Vain and the tub
Of Dark Nights and Ladybugs
Posted by Chic Aeon in new releases on Monday, April 25, 2011
I could have entitled this post "Treatise on Inventory", but that might have scared you away. True I do have a couple of thoughts on the stuff we accumulate in our virtual lives. Even though they are merely pixels, they take up room somewhere in cyberspace.
The main point of this post, however, is to show you the newest release from Blue Blood, or at least part of the set. There are always so many choices with Ghanima's designs that getting dressed becomes an adventure. In this case I was compelled to journey over to Viewer 2 territory (Kirstens as I had major issues as well as dislikes with the official viewer) in order to get all the attachments and layering that I needed for this styling. I mean who wants to wear just ONE ladybug pastie? :D.
One of the things I like about Blue Blood designs -- aside from the handmade aspect -- is that they seem to bridge many genres. To me, this looked a bit sci-fi and so I ventured over to Insilico for this photo shoot, somewhere I hadn't visited in a long while.
And that leads to my pondering of the eve. Stuff. Most of us have quite a bit of it. It is difficult not to collect stuff if -- a. you like to shop or hunt, b. you are a content creator, c. you are a blogger. My ladybug pasties are from long, long ago for example and I wasn't sure I would even have the occasion to wear them again, but they were so cute -- I surely didn't want to toss them. And see? A perfect, if quirky pairing.
And here is my inventory question:
I have been housecleaning once again lately although I admit I have become delayed in my building of a swamp shack and the textures I have been creating for it. Still, I was at 26,456 on my last log in -- much less than many of you out there *wink*.
When I logged into Kirsten's viewer, I had an inventory of 25,000 even. I did a search to see if I could get that number up, but no. So, dear readers, I am asking you in the know -- did inventory controls actually go into effect? And if so, why wasn't it all over the feeds? When I logged back in on my old style viewer my items appeared again in total. A mystery.
Hair: Calico Ingmann Creations - Tracy blood
Skin: [:T:] Zoe / sunkissed :: 05 Vogue
Clothing: +++BB+++ Karina RED
Shoes: PixelDolls (Aphelion) . Graphite . Bootie
Accessories: i love 13: Ladybug
Poses by: EverGlow
Town and Country
Posted by Chic Aeon in design, freebies, new releases
Opposites do attract. My outfit is very much Who's That Girl city; my new (and free) country cottage is very Thomas Kinkade. Put them together and you have a great Town and Country magazine look.
Here's the scoop from top to bottom.
These je suis divine sunglasses are just out. They come with a color change hud for the metal filigree. Glow, positioning, script removal and more can be accessed through the same hud.
No doubt about it, these are Rich Girl glasses *wink*.
Click the photo for a closer look!
Also new are these *Boho* Boots from *LpD*. The boots come in all sorts of luscious neutral mixes with grays and taupes being my favorites.
With ten choices to pick from I am a little embarrassed that I am showing you the plain black version -- but a stylist needs to go with the theme. Never fear, you will see other colors on these pages soon!
The boots are all one piece, worn on lower leg, manual mod (my favorite) and come with both Viewer 2 alphas and invisiprims.
I can picture these with leggings and an over-sized slouchy tunic; ah the comfort.
My personal find of last eve is this great house and garden from LuxiStyle. This My Refuge unfurnished home comes complete with all you see here, plus a fireplace with burning logs.
It fits exactly on a 512 lot and comes with rezzer and a pad to lay out and get your rezzer positioned just right (a great idea).
You get lawn, garden, trees, grass and roses as well as a cute cottage with loft. The house and garden weigh in at 73 prims so you still have some for decor if you live on a 512.
Since the front garden is completely enclosed, you could place this in the sky as floating.
A very nice gift, you can rez the for sale version (with furniture) HERE. The free version is nearby in a box.
Hair: Dura Group Gift (04/2011)(Dark Brown)
Skin: [:T:] Zoe / sunkissed :: 05 Vogue
Clothing: KiiToS /*Ladies*/ Pea Coat *Tweed* Closed ver; [Miseria] Delirium Jeans - Coal
Shoes: *LpD* - *Boho* Boots Black
Accessories: ::je::suis::divine sunglasses; [Baubles] Oversized Hoop Earring - copper (NLA)
Poses by: Amacci
Slow Sexy Number
Posted by Chic Aeon in freebies, new releases on Sunday, April 24, 2011
Fantasy. It's a good thing -- at least in my estimation. It let's us explore and learn; it let's us create.
What's a gal to do in an empty 1930s night club, but put on a slow sexy number and sing. There are of course TWO "slow sexy numbers" in this scenario; we have the song your mind is playing in the background as you read this and we have the new Sarah Jane Bustier Bodysuit from Sn@tch. A feminine print with great detailing, it bridges the gap between naughty and nice and does it in style. Lots of colors come in the fatpack.
My backdrop is the great Piano Bar Dream Scene from Garden of Dreams, an amazing hunt gift from sometime back, happily revisited. My microphone prop which comes complete with animations not shown here is from the lucky board at Libber's Guitar Products. A modern prop is a slight incongruity, but after all -- it is merely a dream.
Hair: Amacci Hair Emilia ~ Ebony
Skin: [:T:] Zoe / sunkissed :: 05 Vogue
Clothing: :::Sn@tch Sarah Jane Bustier Bodysuit::: purple (new release); **Firefall** Scarlett Fishnets
Shoes: BAX Prestige Boots Black Leather
Accessories: ::: Libber's JAMMING MC :: v.2; [fairy tail] androgynous Necklace
Poses by:Juxtapose, Helamiyo, Everglow
Of Spring, Bunnies and Eggs
It is the bunny and egg weekend, and beyond that the shopping is great! With a host of sale groups in force over the next two days, there is pretty much something for everyone. Two bound to be favorites are this great top and dress set from .: Acid & Mala Creations, specially priced for group members. And even better -- well for those of us that usually live in pants -- you can get a huge fatpack of the tops for a very, very low price on Super Bargain Saturday. I was over there this morning and a line for the vendor was evident *wink*. All layers are included so you can actually wear this without the main prim piece and tuck into a peasant skirt or whatever. I like multipurpose designs!
Another great find with a holiday flare is this cute Easter basket with brown eggs (my favorite) and carrot chewing bunny. It is a gift from Baffle. And in case you have last Fall's group gift sandals from G Field, they go perfectly with the top or dress.
Hair: Amacci Hair Shyla ~ Natural Copper
Skin: [:T:] Zoe / sunkissed :: 05 Vogue
Clothing: .:A&M:. Multi-layered Top ; PARADISIS Flirty Jeans : White
Shoes: *GF* Knot Wedge Sanal - purple
Accessories: Baffle! Easter Basket
Poses by: the basket; LAP
Pretty in Periwinkle
Posted by Chic Aeon in color challenge on Friday, April 22, 2011
This was an easy week for me primarily because my closet doesn't overflow with periwinkle choices. Happily one of the few items available was a Victorian day dress that I still wear fairly often. I found a perfect, ladylike pose and here you have the results.
Photo taken at Noctis - New Toulouse Algiers .
As a side note and for those of you who read this blog daily rather than weekly, I completed this post on Monday, several days before I spent so much time in New Toulouse. I actually don't remember why I journeyed over there for this photo. I do know that I found Noctis by accident. It is SO interesting how the world works.
Hair: Amacci Hair Jessica ~ Brown Auburn
Skin: [:T:] Zoe / sunkissed :: 06 Brass
Clothing: Rag Dollz Beatrice Teagarden - Blue; Laughing Academy Victorian Quilted Velvet Short Cape
Accessories: (Frippery) ET~Crushed Roses Earring
Poses by: flowery
Night Magic
This dual purpose post of the morn is mostly to update you on the New Toulouse Egg Scramble hunt which I posted about last eve. But first up -- and especially for the fashion feeds -- is this fantastic new gift hair from DURA. Many thanks to I AM RICH for posting on this and to the feeds for letting us keep up with the news by scrolling *wink*. Simply great hair and free to group in a three color pack. I have also been working on my night and dim lighting photo skills trying to get rid of that nasty facelight glare that I see on so many photos (mine included). Getting there.
And here is a bit of an update on the egg hunt. I returned this morning and of course found many more eggs. These are only a few of the many items you can find in the hunt. There are also hats, rugs, a full avatar, a fun little boat -- and the list goes on. Special thanks (and a plug in the photo) to Pocket Gardens who I am pretty sure sent me the info on the hunt. I found a few of the gifts from there and love the spiky plant! I am indeed also in lust with New Toulouse Algiers and Bayou and have been doing my best to keep myself by buying a lot in the bayou *wink*. So far my resolve has held. I will be returning for more photos. There is a humorous story that goes along with all of this, but that is for the PERIWINKLE post late this eve.
If you are going hunting and know how to change your Windlight settings, I suggest using "foggy" as it make for a very magical journey.
On the Bayou
Just a very quick (sometimes things just flow) post to let you know that there is an egg hunt going on in New Toulouse. I think I have done about half of the hunt. It is VERY easy, lots of fun and the exploring is simply great. I have no idea about the prizes; they may be great, they may be silly -- but I am having an EXCELLENT time. So I quickly changed into my voodoo gown (what else would you wear in the bayou?) and took this lovely shot. Honestly, I am not sure how I missed this part of the area -- OR it may have changed since I last explored. Either way, come on down and grab some GIANT eggs!
From the notecard:
Explore rural New Toulouse. Stroll through romantic Algiers. Roll up your pants and slog the lush bayou. There are beautiful eggs hidden throughout. If you see one, grab it and enjoy not only the lovely unique eggs but many fabulous freebies therein.
****** Starting Locations ******
Head North from the train station into pastoral Algiers, where many beautiful eggs await.
Hair: Dura Group Gift (04/2011)(Black) (new gift) more tomorrow with a better photo
Skin: [:T:] Zoe / sunkissed :: 05 Vogue
Clothing: hO wEAr Voodoo
Accessories: WRONG - Beaded Cross Necklace
Poses by: Amacci
City Streets 2
Posted by Chic Aeon in hunts
Along with the extremely cute Ronsem gift featured in my last post, there is also a fun set of sculpty unisex baggies. If this is your style, they would be a great addition to your wardrobe. Find the sculpty paw print (in this case pinkish) at the store to garner this nice hunt prize.
This is definitely a more tomboyish look than I was wearing before, so some new accessories came into play. I also may have found a way to add shadows to my photos. This was a quick try at the process I thought about when glaring at the street with absolutely NO footprints. Now and then I still really want those shadows. So more experimenting is in order. :D
Hair: beer+eggs :: jane chestnut
Skin: [:T:] Zoe / pale :: TTH exclusive
Clothing: RONSEM* Jersey Half / red (hunt) ;!O: Basics Boyfriend Racerback [Blank]; shiny things white nubby sock
Shoes: MK Super Sneaks Wedge V1.2
Accessories: < Yabusaka > Alphabet Changer Pendant
Poses by: EverGlow
City Streets
Posted by Chic Aeon in freebies, new releases, places
I have been a fan of Ronsem for a long while -- almost a year being as they are celebrating a first anniversary. And with that anniversary comes a new gift, this great unisex tunic-sweatshirt. This is definitely something I would wear in real life! OK, no shoes; I am a barefoot gal. Find the vendor on the wall near other past freebies. While you are there, you might want to also pick up this cute blond hair (gift bag on a table) and the current hunt item (coming up in the next post).
To finish off my very cool new look, I added some comfy sweats from Paradisis, jewelry from KOSH and I even switched to a pale version of Tuli's ZOE skin. Maybe blonds do have more fun! The tribal tattoo is a new release from J.E.M.
I found my photo shoot spot of the morn in the deep recesses of my landmarks folder. Not in "photo ops" where it should have been, but jumbled up with stores and sandboxes and the like. I cannot remember finding the City of Concord, but it is a great backdrop. A two sim complex, it is light role play with visitors welcome. Residents can drive the streets so watching out for cars and those in Drivers Training is a good plan *wink*. Other than that, it seems very safe.
Hair: RONSEM* MAI / Blonde
Skin: [:T:] Zoe / pale :: TTH exclusive; J.E.M -Sorry.Asia- Tribal 2 (BLACK) (new release)
Clothing:RONSEM* 1st Anniversary Te(s) (new gift); PARADISIS Streets : Pants Grey
Shoes: MK Super Sneaks Wedge V1.2
Accessories: KOSH- GINKGO EARRLING; KOSH- FOR AGAINST BRACELET
Poses by: EverGlow
Electric Fireflies
Posted by Chic Aeon in new releases on Wednesday, April 20, 2011
When offered a choice of an evening featuring outdoor seating or one confined by walls, I will almost always opt for the open air venue. Fresh breezes, salty vapors and twinkling lights combine well with philosophy, laughter and wine. This new summery release by Kazoo features an asymmetrical off the shoulder look. It comes with a small puff sleeve which I chose to omit. Wear it with one sleeve, both or neither; the tiered skirt flows nicely in the breeze.
It is offered in a variety of colors including pastels and neutrals.
Photo taken at Greed.
Hair: Calico Ingmann Creations!! Tracy Pecan
Skin: [:T:] Zoe / sunkissed :: 02 Purity
Clothing: Kazuo - Off-shoulder Dress (Choco) (new release); *Sheer* Tights Zebra Black (old)
Shoes: *GF* Platform Shoes "Rosette" -brown
Accessories: Eclectica_Tortoiseshell_bracelets; MIEL TOR BRACELET and necklace
Poses by: HelaMiyo
About Your Stash
A new hunt starts today. I am guessing you can tell the theme from this photo *wink*. Mudhoney's is the starting point; 4:20 is the kickoff time. This is the *Stash Bash* and you are looking for baggies full of -- ah, "oregano". The bags are very easy to find, the prizes very nice. Sure to be a favorite is the Hookah Skybox, one of the prizes from The Sea Hole.
The skybox is roomy and weighs in at 67 prims with all the furnishings. The textures are luscious and the hookah is big --- really, really big! LOL.
My personal favorite part of the abode is the garden window with dancing particles. So pretty, and it gives you a view even when the skies might be less than picturesque.
Another housing option from the hunt and one with fewer prims is this Love Shack from Mia Snow. A beach house with an open airy feel, it comes complete with accessories including ash trays with "cigarettes". The decor items are included in the prize pack separately so you can add some retro memorabilia to your current house if you wish.
There are clothes too of course. My outfit is from Sn@tch and comes with long peasant skirt. I opted for just the pants; much better for the hookah and those pillow poses. (Sash is by MALT and not part of this hunt.) This nicely detailed necklace is from Ducknipple. You can join the group to get hints if you need them. Just click on the hunt sign.
So get your groove on and start hunting for those baggies!
Poses by Pffiou, Amacci, LAP, LOTTA


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January 10, 2013
Staff Report
Yussuf J. Simmonds, managing editor of the Los Angeles Sentinel and co-managing editor of the L.A. Watts Times Weekender newspaper, returned home from the hospital after suffering a stroke while in Washington DC. Simmonds is recuperating well although he will need a lengthy rehabilitation and will be on an extended medical leave. People who want to support Simmond's convalescence can send contributions to the Los Angeles Sentinel, 3800 Crenshaw Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90008.
Checks and money orders should be sent in the name of Yussuf J. Simmonds (Joseph Simmonds), in care of Los Angeles Sentinel/L.A. Watts Times. Please address to Yussuf Simmonds and mark correspondence personal and confidential.
Danny J. Bakewell, Sr., executive publisher of the Sentinel and Watts Times said, "I had lunch with Yussuf this past week and am pleased to report that he is doing well and is very happy to be home with his wife, Tina, and his children. Yussuf was comforted to hear about the numerous calls from our readers asking about him, wishing him well and praying for his complete recovery. His Sentinel family also wishes him a full recovery."


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Our 'Caps had a bad night at the office in a 1-0 loss to Real Salt Lake.
So what did we learn?
Tough lesson
There is no doubt that this was one of our poorest performances at home. Coming off two good road outings, including a 3-0 victory in Montreal, there were great expectations for this team returning home in front of a sell-out crowd and with three valuable points at stake.
What we got was a very disjointed showing that left everybody scratching their heads. We could not retain possession of the ball well enough, we did not create enough turnovers when we tried to pressure their defence, and we lacked quality in the last third. The team was very flat and even the early substitutions in the second half had minimal effect as we went close to scoring and then petered out once again.
There will be a lot of soul searching going on. It's a tough lesson we have to learn, and it must be learned fast in order to get it right next week against Portland.
Jason Kreis
The visiting head coach has to be given a lot of credit for the team he picked to play in this game. They have a very important game on Tuesday as they host D.C. United in the U.S. Open Cup final, and he must have known that most of his first team players would have one eye on that game. Every player wants to play in Cup finals and win trophies, and he probably knew it was going to be hard to focus on this game three days beforehand.
Putting his so-called second team out meant they would be hungry to prove a point to their coach and they would give everything in this game. The team he put out would give him a better chance in this game and, judging by his reaction at the final whistle, he got more than he thought he would get. You have to give credit to the coach for picking this team, and credit to the RSL players for the way they played. As disappointing as we were, they were resilient in defence and very commanding in possession of the ball and Kreis can take a lot of credit for setting his team up for a win.
Learn from this painful loss
As much as this result is going to sting all week, we have to learn from this game and find out why we went from being a battling team that grounded out two positives results on the road to a team that could not raise their level of play enough at home to get a win, all in one week. They will have to look at themselves in this game and analyze what they could have done more. It's gone now and all they can do is look to win their last four games and hope that is enough. But they cannot have another game like this one or it will be lights out. The team has no choice but to learn and use this game as a vehicle to put out four strong performances and see where the chips fall.


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With so many recipe web sits online, why should you pay for recipes? The Internet really gives you a great resource of many different web sites. There is a great variety of web sites out there. Some sites are run by food companies such as Kraft foods, Barilla Pasta, and Land O'Lakes. Other sites are run by magazines like Martha Steward, Women's Day, Family Circle, and many others. There are other websites that are simply collections of recipes.
Many companies such as Kraft foods build websites so you will use their ingredients in the food that you make. On Kraft's website you can find so many recipes for things made with cheese: casseroles, appetizers, breads, pizzas, and so much more. Other sites such as Barilla Pasta feature recipes that are specialize in pasta. Land of Lakes features recipes that contain butter: cookies, sauces, breads, a variety of desserts, and so much more. If you buy a particular brand of food, chances are that there is a web site to compliment what you just bought.
Many magazines offer free recipes online. Bon Appetit, Gourmet Magazine offers tons of recipes from current magazines as well as the past. Other magazines such as Woman's Day, and Family Circle offer so many free recipes. So if you can think of a magazine you enjoy, chances are there is a web site to match.
Another terrific type of recipe web site are simply ones that are collections of recipes. Allrecipes.com features many recipes from its viewers, people just like you. SOAR recipe archive has been around since around 1995 and is a non profit web site that features thousands of recipes from many different categories. Be sure to use your favorite search engine to find recipe collections based upon pies, cakes, Jewish, French, and just about any other sorts of recipes you can think of.
You can easily see that there are many different free recipes available online. There is really no need in purchasing recipes when there is a great variety that is available for you. There are literally thousands of recipes and cooking web sites that are waiting for you to explore them.
Web Sites Mentioned
Major food companies
Magazines with recipes
http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/ – Features recipes from Gourmet and Bon Apetit Magazines
Other Recipe Websites


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In Praise of Introverts and Depressives
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I was recently at Dr. Johnson's House in London's Gough Square, a small museum sitting in twisted alleyways off of Fleet Street. Samuel Johnson of course famously invented the modern dictionary in the 18 century, his life chronicled by James Boswell's seminal biography. What I didn't know is Johnson remains the second most quoted English-language writer after Shakespeare.
In some ways it's a mystery. Johnson, a big and burly fellow, wore a wig too small for his massive head, singed to the weave from his habit of holding a candle close to his face while reading at night. He suffered from scrofula, which meant his neck and face were covered in ugly red pustules, and he twitched and jerked about so much while talking, latter-day doctors and psychiatrists think he might have suffered from a mild form of Tourette Syndrom. He was usually broke, frequently sent to debtor's prison, and, most importantly, suffered deep bouts of depression.
And yet Samuel Johnson was also one of the most revered men of 18 century England, famously remarking, among many clever quips, "Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess." He had a big heart ("Allow children to be happy in their way, for what better way will they find?"), a riotous wit ("A man who has not been in Italy is always conscious of an inferiority",) and a fine moral center ("Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.")
For these reasons Johnson was hugely in demand at every dinner table in London. More than that, he was greatly loved. Every time he was sent to debtors prison, his friends—the likes of writer Oliver Goldsmith, the painter Sir Joshua Reynolds, and the actor David Garrick— quietly paid off his debts and bailed him out of prison. When Johnson fell into one of his deep depressions, his friends sent their wives or servants to live with him and nurse him back to health.
I find that very touching. Dr. Johnson's life once again reminds me how depression, however painful, often serves a greater purpose, like a rainy season builds a garden. It is during periods of depression, both on a personal and a societal level, that we really do the hard work and soul searching that needs to be done. We are, at such times, forced to dig into ourselves, made to search for value and meaning and insights, while learning the nature of our mettle and what true courage is. Depression also teaches us compassion for others and reacquaints us with humility. It gives us character, in short.
I have no intention of dismissing those poor souls who suffer from clinical depression and what they go through. I am talking instead about the garden variety blues, the kind that comes when a teenager breaks off from his girlfriend and finds himself prescribed an antidepressant. One of the weaknesses we Americans have at the moment is that we are terrified by depression – both on a personal and economic level – which makes us desperately search for shortcuts through nature's "fallow" period, either through antidepressants or through some overbearing government stimulant. We never seem to see the virtue of just quietly working through our problems in such difficult periods.
So I can't help thinking we do ourselves no favors aborting the lessons and stamina that are the painfully-earned byproducts of depression. It is probably no coincidence that the greatest political leaders of the last two centuries – Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill – both suffered from depression. They were possibly able to withstand the pain of their times, able to fight their way through to victory against the odds, precisely because they had built spines of steel during their personal battles with depression.
There are, sadly, other aspects of the human condition we have come to denigrate – at our loss. One, I believe, is the imagination. I wrote about this when Steve Jobs died. The "inefficient" dreamers of our corporate culture have been jettisoned in this last decade of restructuring, all in the name of "productivity", but, fact is, not even the most hyper-efficient company sitting on tons of cash can move into the future without having dreamers in-house who can first imagine that future (or, in corporate speak, imagine the products of the future.) That's my view, however misguided.
But here's the good news. Just when I think I am alone thinking these perverse thoughts, up springs a genuine intellectual talent able to give such offbeat ideas credence. The latest is Susan Cain, a consultant who currently is a Web sensation through her eighteen minute lecture in praise of introverts at the recent TED Conference. No other TED clip has surpassed one million views so quickly.
The basis for that TED speech is Cain's excellent book, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking. I am riveted by it. Cain tells the fascinating story of how our agrarian 19 century economy valued the Culture of Character, "where the ideal self was serious, disciplined and honorable." Makes sense that character was king in small towns where everyone knew each other. Abraham Lincoln's authority, true to his age, derived not just from his communication skills but from his modesty and principled character.
As folk migrated to the anonymous cities and the nation industrialized at the dawn of the 20 century, our ideal switched from sterling characters to the Culture of Personality, those alpha folk who were bold and entertaining and could "perform" in public and be heard above the din. Super salesmen, in short, and the popularizing voice of this new ideal belonged to Dale Carnegie and his 1913 publishing sensation, Public Speaking and Influencing Men in Business. It indirectly led to the exquisite line found in T.S. Eliot's The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock– "to prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet."
And so, at the dawn of the 21 century, we arrive at that perverse point where the pressures to perform publicly are so extreme that the psychiatric bible, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, "considers the fear of public speaking to be a pathology—not an annoyance, not a disadvantage but a disease—if it interferes with the sufferer's job performance." Mind boggling; the DSM makes me want to take an anti-anxiety pill. With such pressure for us all to become "charismatics," no wonder the number of Americans who considered themselves shy jumped from 40% in the 1970s to 50% in the 1990s.
I won't ruin Cain's superb book by recounting how she steadily builds a case for introverts, not least because, unlike extroverts who don't mind making the bold move or statement even if it is dead wrong, introverts tend to do the homework that leads to big creative breakthroughs, from the Theory of Relativity (Albert Einstein) to the Harry Potter books (J.K. Rowling.) Please. Treat yourself. Cain's story of the painfully introverted lawyer, who found herself pitted against a table of Masters of The Universe bankers and lawyers during a forced bond restructuring, is priceless.


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One of theSBL sessions in November was entitled "Biblical Studies and Study Bibles" and looked at the issues surrounding study Bibles. You know, the printed Bibles that include study notes next to the biblical text and are often marketed to a particular audience, e.g., men, women, students, skaters, etc.
One of the professors involved in the session—Carol Newsom from the Candler School of Theology—wrote an article about study Bibles for the SBL Forum in advance of the society's annual conference.
Newsom, who haswritten for and edited study Bibles,believes there's a place for them:
The biblical text is not self interpreting, and there are all kinds of things that readers need help with. Who or what is "Hepzibah?" or "Mene, mene, tekel, u-parsin"?
But she worries about the trend toward niche marketing and the lack of varying perspectives in a highly targeted study Bible. Her solution?
If I were to envision the "best practices" that might evolve from the phenomenon of diverse study bibles, it would be something that our new internet technologies might make possible-a kind of high tech, inter-religious "miqra'ot gedalot." I would love to assemble for my students a biblical text surrounded by (at least) four kinds of commentary — mainline protestant, evangelical protestant, Catholic, and Jewish. Or one could construct a similar dialogical volume constructed around North American, Eastern Orthodox, Latin American, African, and Asian Christian perspectives. A Jewish seminary might construct a quite different assemblage of traditional and contemporary Jewish annotations. As one can imagine, the possibilities are truly endless.
I read this and thought to myself, "She's describing the Libronix DLS!"A few minutes later, I'd slapped together a workspace all set up to study the "Mene, mene, tekel, u-parsin" passage in Daniel 5.
If you click the thumbnail image above, you'll see a "dialogical studydesk" that I've created using only books that are available today. Starting at the top left…the Bible version is Tanakh (it's the one Newsom has her students use), with the NRSV on a tab as an alternate. Surrounding that are commentaries in the categories Newsom suggests: mainline protestant (Hermeneia), evangelical protestant (New American), and Catholic (Collegeville). Our "JPS Bible and Torah Commentary Collection" is still under development but I'd expect it to be released sometime in 2007.
At the far right side of the screen, I've got open a few select referencevolumes:the IVP Bible Background Commentary and Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary, with A Dictionary of Biblical Tradition in English Literature and Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament on tabs.
Various other titles could be substituted for the ones I chose here. (See, for example,our commentary guideand list of Bible dictionaries.)
And, of course, a workspace like this includes all the little conveniences you've come to expect from Logos Bible Software: resources that scroll together, dynamic linking to instantly and effortlessly look up an unfamiliarword in any language, Bible reference expansion upon hover, automatic footnoting, and so on.
But I think you get the point…
"Professor Newsom, the futureis now!"