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Fish Pie
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- Remove from oven and sprinkle with the salsa. Garnish with baby cress.
Wholemeal bread dough
- Place warm water, olive oil, sugar and salt in a warm bowl and stir to dissolve sugar.
- Sprinkle yeast over the mixture and continue stirring to blend in the yeast.
- Stir in wholemeal flour and half the white flour, or sufficient to make a thick batter. Beat until smooth.
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- Cover with plastic film and leave to rise until double in bulk.
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- Remove fish and keep warm. Retain liquid.
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½ C canned Italian style chopped tomatoes, well drained
1 sweet or hot Italian sausage, grilled and cut into 1/8" thick slices
10 basil leaves, torn or cut into thin ribbons
½ lb sliced mozzarella cheese
olive oil
Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Place an empty broiler tray on the bottom shelf.
Dust surface of dough with flour. Quickly shape into a ball by stretching surface around the bottom on all four sides, rotating ball a quarter turn as you go.
Flatten dough with your hands and roll out on a lightly floured wooden board to produce a 1/8" thick large round, dusting lightly with flour as needed.
Cover half with tomato, sausage, basil and cheese leaving a 1 inch border at edge.
Wet border with water. Fold bare side over the cheese and seal border by pinching closed with your fingers. Do not slit or slash the dough; Stromboli is meant to puff.
Brush top brush with olive oil.
No resting or rising time needed.
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Pour 1 C hot tap water into a broiler pan and quickly close the oven door.
Bake about 25 minutes or until golden brown.
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PS I forgot to set the timer and burned mine a little too much to post a picture. It tasted really good though!
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October 06, 2013
Review - The Daylight Gate by Jeanette Winterson
This is a short but difficult book to come to grips with. Set in the 1600s in the height of the witch mania which has blighted our western history, Winterson evokes the hard conditions afflicting the poor and dispossessed. Scratching a living on the margins of society and with no-one to speak for them, the characters in this novel who find themselves locked up and awaiting trial for witchcraft live through dreadful travails. By the end of it though, I didn't find any character I could care about. Just about everyone was rather wretched. It feels historically accurate largely due to her sure usage of local dialect and sure hand with the living conditions but I'm not really sure why Winterson has told the story? What do you think? Wendy
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Hangover Helper: Pork n' Grits at Clover Club, Brooklyn
Just what the doctor ordered.
It's hard to go wrong with a big cheesy bowl of Anson Mills grits and a runny egg. But the Pork n' Grits at Clover Club ($12) does it one better with a rich pork broth and falling-apart threads of braised pork. "This is a particularly good batch," said our waitress, but I'm guessing it's always pretty good. A shower of savory fried shallots tops it off—a little bit of grease always helps a hangover—and the toasted sourdough adds a hint of smoke.
Since Clover Club is, after all, a cocktail spot, you shouldn't turn down a drink. Go with a Bloody Mary (with gin, vodka, or tequila) or the Barmen's variation that includes rye, basil, and Fernet. Or bridge the gap between savory and sweet with the Cherry Valence ($10) a sherry cobbler variation with Pedro Ximénez, Cherry Heering, muddled cherries, Luxardo Amaro Abano, lemon and orange. It's toasty and complex, laced with maple and molasses notes and brightened with tart citrus.
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When I first read that leading evolutionary thinkers Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett were trying to get the world to stop calling religious unbelievers "atheists" or "agnostics" and start calling them "brights," I had my doubts. Granted, I didn't dispute the basic premise of the Dawkins-Dennett media campaign — announced in Wired magazine, Free Inquiry, and on the New York Times op-ed page — namely, that atheists have to put up with a lot of flack in our heavily religious society and that their reputation could use a new shine. As Dawkins noted in Wired, a 1999 Gallup poll found that only 49 percent of Americans would vote for an atheist for president. That's a big problem. But it's not at all clear that this problem can be solved simply by coining a new name (the word "bright" was actually introduced by Paul Geisert and Mygna Futrell, but Dawkins and Dennett have been its most prominent publicists). Moreover, I wasn't convinced that the word "bright" would have the positive and uplifting effect that Dawkins and Dennett seemed to expect that it would.
Now, a recent attack on the "brights" movement in The Wall Street Journal by the conservative thinker Dinesh D'Souza confirms my worst fears. The article blithely ignores a key caveat that the "brights" defenders have explicitly laid out — namely, that the label isn't meant to suggest that religious doubters are smarter than everyone else. But I actually think this misrepresentation ought to be blamed more on Dennett, Dawkins, and the original "bright" movement founders than on D'Souza — for reasons I will explain.
In his original New York Times op-ed announcing the "brights" label, Dennett wrote, "Don't confuse the noun with the adjective: 'I'm a bright' is not a boast but a proud avowal of an inquisitive world view." That's certainly nice in principle. But who did Dennett think he was kidding? How could anyone hear the label "bright" and think anything but that atheists were claiming to be smarter than everyone else? As ABC News.com commentator John Allen Paulos remarked of the "brights" campaign, "I don't think a degree in public relations is needed to expect that many people will construe the term as smug, ridiculous, and arrogant."
From the start, the "brights" label reinforced a longstanding stereotype. Atheists already have a terrible rap for being cold-hearted rationalists who attend Mensa gatherings and dismiss religious believers as simple-minded fools. Remember the public outcry that resulted when Jesse Ventura told Playboy magazine that he considered organized religion to be "a sham and a crutch for weak minded people who need strength in numbers"? I actually don't think that most atheists look down on or sneer at their religious compatriots, but that's beside the point. Given this backdrop of strongly held negative preconceptions about atheists in our heavily religious society, how is renaming atheists "brights" supposed to burnish their image?
Sure enough, in his Wall Street Journal reaction to the "brights" campaign, D'Souza reverts to the standard anti-atheist stereotype. Dennett's "implication was clear," observes D'Souza. "Brights are the smart people who don't fall for silly superstitions." D'Souza then ventures into some questionable territory, arguing that atheists aren't really so "rational" after all. I disagree: While all people have their foibles, I do think there's at least one obvious sense in which atheists are more "rational" than religious believers. Atheists don't accept supernatural claims on the basis of faith — a practice that cannot, in my opinion, be defended by rational argument. In this sense, at least, atheists do have a leg up in the rationality department (though I'm not sure how much good it does them).
But leaving philosophical points aside, the fact is that D'Souza, writing in the most prominent of conservative outlets, made precisely the attack on the "brights" movement that its proponents should have expected from the outset. (Indeed, quite a similar critical approach was taken by a non-conservative, Steve Waldman of Beliefnet, on NPR.) Given this tactical vulnerability, D'Souza could actually have made a far more devastating criticism of Dawkins and Dennett than the one he does make. After all, if atheists really are so smart, how could two leading atheists — and brilliant evolutionary thinkers — fail to see that the "brights" label would backfire?
My guess is that Dennett, Dawkins, and the original "brights" proponents simply didn't realize that in order to introduce a concept like this, one needs to do polling, message testing, focus groups, the works. You can't just go on ungrounded inspiration. Yet the idea of championing "brights" appears to have a very cerebral origin: It's closely tied to the Dawkins-Dennett theory of memetics. In his book The Selfish Gene, Dawkins coined the term "meme" to describe an infectious, self-replicating idea or concept. Dennett then jumped on the bandwagon with his book Darwin's Dangerous Idea. Now, by promoting the "brights" concept in the media, it appears that Dennett and Dawkins think they can start a memetic idea infection and watch it catch on. As one savvy communications expert observed to me by e-mail: "once you've coined a term like 'meme,' I guess you hanker for that big follow-up."
But though Dawkins and Dennett may know a lot about evolutionary biology, the packaging and marketing of ideas — what we might call the science of "framing" — might not be their strongest suit. A basic lesson of framing is that you have to avoid promulgating messages that reinforce negative stereotypes, because these stereotypes tend to be too deeply held to defeat head-on. I provided a good example of such well-intentioned stereotype reinforcement in an article about framing guru Susan Bales:
Some of the failures of well-intentioned groups to understand the power of frames would be comical if the stakes weren't so high. For instance, teenagers have a terrible reputation among the adult public because of the general perception of endemic teen violence, promiscuity, drug use and sloth. Thanks in part to the media, which frequently depicts teens in the context of crimes, accidents or frivolous pursuits, this stereotypical view of adolescents is deeply embedded….
Most young people are not, in fact, out trashing the neighborhood. But how to change public perceptions? In 1997 the National Crime Prevention Council and The Advertising Council ran an ad campaign that proved too clever by half. Titled "Prove Them Wrong By Doing Something Right," the ads sought to inspire teenagers to subvert anti-youth stereotypes by becoming active in opposing crime among their peers. But the advertisements used harsh stereotypes, such as an image of a young skateboarder with his hat on backward and the words "Vandal," "Heroin Addict" and "Purse Snatcher" superimposed over it. Only in smaller print could one read "… all kicked out with the help of kids like me." The problem, Bales and company say, is that once you conjure a powerful and negative stereotypical frame such as troubled teens, you can't just suppress it again.
I think this example runs closely parallel to the brights/atheists case, and clearly demonstrates the shortcomings of the "brights" frame. And note: It doesn't matter whether Dawkins or Dennett or anyone else actually is claiming to be super smart. Simply by announcing the label "brights," the damage has already been done. When people — most of whom are religious believers — hear that word, the vast majority will likely revert to the stereotypical atheists-as-arrogant frame, which has already been burned into their psyches. That means the "brights" label will have failed. In fact, it will have backfired, making the anti-atheist stereotype even harder for future atheists to defeat or dislodge in the future.
What would be a better way to polish the atheist image? I have no studies to point to, but there may be a lesson in the "brights" episode. I suspect that what atheists really need is for people to believe that they're likeable, and not so different from everybody else. So perhaps future atheist message crusaders should describe themselves and their brethren as humble, rather than angry or sneering or super smart. In addition, perhaps atheists should associate themselves more with universal human feelings of sympathy, joy, and even vulnerability, rather than cold rationality and relentless inquisitiveness. I'm not sure, but I do know one thing — something that we all learned in high school. The "bright" kids aren't always the ones with the most friends, and nobody — nobody — likes a smart ass.


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Maryland Catholic Conference Calls Decision Regrettable
Gov. Martin O'Malley said he will sponsor a same sex marriage bill during the next legislative session.
The measure in Maryland could mirror recent legislation in New York, according to I-Team reporter David Collins.
"In the 2012 legislative session, I will sponsor legislation that protects religious freedom and protects marital equality rights equally under the law," O'Malley said Friday.
The governor pledged to lead the charge on a bill that allows same sex couples to get married and provides them with the same legal rights as heterosexual couples. The governor's support this past session was limited to occasional private conversations with legislators. The measure was pulled back to committee in the House, but did pass in the Senate.
"I don't know how you can't look at this as a civil rights issue," said Montgomery County Sen. Rob Garagiola, D-District 15.
The governor will dispatch his top lobbyist, Joe Bryce, to move the bill. Supporters believe the full weight of the O'Malley administration will be a difference maker.
O'Malley said he hopes to learn from the New York effort and the religious protections offered in its new law.
Maryland's last same sex bill was built around religious protections, Collins reported. At one point, it was even called the Religious Freedom Civil Marriage Protection Act. It included a section saying that religious institutions would not be compelled to perform same-sex marriages and provided protections to church affiliates who chose not to rent a banquet hall, for example, to same-sex couples.
The governor did not say what changes he would make. A spokesperson said the new bill is a work in progress, Collins reported Friday.
The Maryland Catholic Conference called the governor's decision regrettable. In a written statement, it said, in part, "The moral and social impacts of redefining marriage would be pervasive and severe."


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DrendDragonspawn wrote:For the most part, if it has been labeled a 'classic' I've despised it. Frankenstein and Dracula were just plain awful.
hamlet wrote:The only thing Vampires should do in the sunlight, if they are not named Vlad Drakul, is combust.
Adenydd wrote:It was pure torture to have to read Jane Eyre. I despised her and wanted to chop her head off or something.
I fortunately remember nothing of Catcher in the Rye except that I literally threw it against the wall when I was very young.
There is this thing called Chinese Cindrella. It is really hard to believe it got published and I was made to read it, but there you are. I kept wondering why the whiny brat did not simply get her neck wringed for her.
I liked Dune immensely, until the laser guns and orgy-loving women in tights showed up.
Foucault's Pendulum was a book I really wanted to read, but it turned out to be impossible to do. I mean, yes, dear author, you certainly are impressively intelligent, but please put your scalp back on and be decent.
Eilowny wrote:Iris, it's not so much that there's lots of plot...that I can handle. The amount of focus on sex (and in many cases disturbed sex) is what turned me away ultimately. I also try to temper my reading of things that deal with the dark arts - sorcery, werewolves, etc. and I got that impression (although faintly) in the very beginning, which is what initially made me wary. I realize this is not the case for all people, but it is enough for me.
DrenDragonspawn wrote:Frankenstein and Dracula were just plain awful.
Ettinblue wrote:By far the book I hate the worst is Call of the Wild.
Siddharth wrote:What I actually think is that JKR got highly influenced by the films. So, she started writing what she thought would be best in the films.
hamlet wrote:The only thing Vampires should do in the sunlight, if they are not named Vlad Drakul, is combust.
portia wrote:Aside from "DUNE", which I have mentioned before, I also disliked "Catcher in the Rye" ....
solicitr wrote:Nobody actually likes Catcher in the Rye. It's just something the Amalgamated Sisterhood of High-School English Teachers and Related Trades has determined will be imposed on innocent students.
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BRADFORD COUNTY, Fla. – A Bradford County man is charged with making a terroristic threat toward children.
The Bradford County Sheriff's Office said it received information Tuesday from the executive office of Gov. Rick Scott related to a threat to shoot some neighborhood children.
Personnel in the governor's office notified the Sheriff's Office, and deputies were sent to the home of 57-year-old James Fields to investigate. While deputies questioned Fields, he repeated similar threats to shoot neighborhood children and was immediately taken into custody on charges of aggravated assault, according to the Sheriff's Office.
Fields was taken to the Bradford County jail. His bail was set at $250,000.
The governor's office said they had received phone messages Monday afternoon from Fields, who investigators said called 13 times throughout the night and threatened to shoot kids in his neighborhood. They said the messages became increasingly threatening, and the office notified investigators Tuesday morning.
Due to his threats being made in such a manner, the main charge of aggravated assault is being enhanced as a terroristic threat under Florida statute, investigators said.
"We've got to protect our children and we took best appropriate action we felt necessary because we take it serious ," said Sheriff Gordon Smith.
Smith said the county almost locked down the local schools because they did not initially know how serious the threat was.
"I was in contact with superintendent when all this was coming in. We were able to ascertain he was in house and said he was fed up with neighborhood and it was going to take killing them to get someone's attention," said Smith.
One of the calls Fields is accused of making made was transcribed for Channel 4. In the phone call, a man can be heard saying, "I guess because I am legally blind I need to get a gun and shoot one of them so their mothers can call police and say, 'My son has been shot.'"
The sheriff's office said they are familiar with Fields and believe he has severe mental health problems.
Neighbors who spoke with Channel 4 Tuesday night agreed that Fields has mental health problems, but not everyone agreed that Fields' threats were legitimate.
"I'm surprised they took him seriously because he's legally blind. He can't do anything," said neighbor, Mark Temes.
"He walks up and down the street talking to himself, hollering, screaming, all that kind of stuff," said neighbor Yvonne Norman.
Deputies said law enforcement has had contact with Fields in the past for various reasons, including arrests on charges of aggravated battery on a law enforcement officer and resisting arrest.


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Ok, so maybe I haven't been careless with a delicate man, but I certainly have been downright negligent with my blog. So, let me apologize for being two weeks into WIAW and already missing one. To my defense, I've been busier than I have been in ages. Anyway, allow me to update you on my recent successes.
I Completed my January Running Goal
Some of you may remember when I posted my New Year's Resolution 6 month goal set a few weeks back.
By the end of January…
- Be back to running 3-4 times per week (3 miles per run)
- Meditate at least 2 days per week for 10 minutes per session
Well, I can report that I have completed the first goal on my list. Unfortunately, my meditation has fallen by the wayside. Not to worry! I'll be tacking that on to February's goals and hope to have a better report soon.
I Reached My Monthly Mileage Goal
To keep me on track, I try to set up a mileage goal each month. Sometimes I give myself 5 weeks and other times I try to do it in less. This month, I wanted to have 160 miles logged by February 1st, 2012. I planned this goal really well and only had to do a quick 2.5 mile run yesterday to succeed.
My Back Doesn't Bother Me Anymore
My final success of the month is the fact that I am back pain-free now. With my weekly stretches and low back strength exercises, I can say that I have significantly reduced the pinching pain in my low back. Now that I know how to treat my pain, I can stay on top of it by keeping everything loosened up.
Ok, update complete. I'll leave you with a funny radio anecdote and a Healthy Tip of the Day.
While listening to the radio this morning, the country music song "What Hurts the Most" came on. Once the song was finished, the DJ came on air and said, "What hurts the most. Huh. Well I can top that. Try stepping on a Lego with your bare foot." So true…
Healthy Tip of the Day: Try not to look at skipping dessert as a sacrifice. Instead, view it as an accomplishment. I choose not to eat this dessert, because I choose to be healthier. Also, avoid stepping on a Lego.


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Latvian Society for Quality hosted a conference "Quality management and leadership in educational institution" on August 25th, 2016 in Riga aiming to promote an exchange of experience and co-operation among VET institutions.
Conference was opened with a welcome speech given by Dzintars Putnis - Chairman of the Board at Latvian Society for Quality. Different approaches and tools for quality assurance were discussed during the course of the conference. C.-Andreas Dalluege, licensed EFQM trainer and EFQM senior evaluator, presented the importance of leadership in quality assurance processes. He also introduced EFQM Excellence module that consists of 4 pillars – Plan, Take action, Evaluate and Improve.
Vanda Vascenkova, licensed EFQM trainer and evaluator, presented various approaches in quality assurance management. Audience was introduced with a study that has been carried out in Latvia and in Spain, and indicates the benefits and potential risks of implementing the Excellence module.
During her presentation, international speaker and trainer from the UK- Jozefa Fawcett, pointed out that none of the quality management frameworks are successful if people are not willing to participate and implement them. Jozefa shared valuable information regarding the importance of creativity and how a creative approach can promote a growth and development of an organization. She also explained what factors are challenging the creativity within an organization.
A special section of the conference was designated to the introduction of BEQUAL.net - Transfer of BEQUAL tool and development of a Community of Practice for Quality Assurance in VET- project co-funded by European Union Erasmus+ program. Audience was introduced to the project goals, transnational co-operation and the outcomes. Representatives of the project partnerships from Finland, Greece and Czech Republic were also present in the conference. Lila Anthopoulou from Greece, a member of the organization that originally developed the project idea 9 years ago, explained the origins of the idea and how it has carried across Europe throughout the years.
Diana Vernera represented Latvian State Education Quality Service and shared information regarding EQAVET indicators and their implementation in the national quality assurance system. And finally Guntars Zvejnieks, director of Sigulda Arts School "Baltais Fligelis", shared an enthusiastic presentation about his own experience with implementing quality management tools in his organization and the insights that resulted from this process.
A workshop was held during the second part of the conference where all interested participants had an opportunity to utilize the tool that has been developed during the BEQUAL.net project. Workshop participants were guided through the registration and completion of the benchmarking tool. The developed tool is based on the 4 phases of EQAVET framework and provides data comparison with similar institutions in Latvia and with institutions in project partner countries Finland and Czech Republic. The evaluation provides an overview of the operations in an organization and encourages the implementation of further developments.
The conference organizing team would like to thank all of the people who came to conference for their attentive participation and for providing a positive and encouraging feedback. As one of the participants stated "It is extremely important for educational institutions to constantly learn and seek new information about quality assurance tools. Numerous presentations in the conference were very encouraging and motivating, especially the message of Jozefa Fawcett's presentation and the personal experience shared by Guntars Zvejnieks".
Vanda Vascenkova, the organizer of the conference, agrees that "The conference has been very successful. It is encouraging to see the growing interest in quality assurance in the field of education and the interest in the various tools for quality implementation, including the Benchmarking tool developed during project BEQUAL.net. In order to continue the motion started during this conference, all participants received the materials shared during the conference in their e-mails while the conference organizing team is evaluating feedback and identifying areas for improvement. Thank you to everyone who participated and good luck in all the future endeavors!"


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by Rune Christiansen
A sheet of paper lit up by memory
But still – the poem's patient independence, and the shallow depths near heaven, a phrase I have from Ekelöf ('As in the ballad' published 10 October 1964), perhaps simply to remind myself that the draught from the open kitchen window, and the thin, cold drizzle, snowflakes almost, set the scene for an awkward perspective that evening. The year was 2003. How would it go with us?
And on the grey respatex table, next to a black dice, lay the photograph of father, a picture that had once been stapled to a public document unknown to me. I noted that we did not resemble each other, but when I turned the face towards the twilight I found my way home all the same.
Lukas 9
A day of frozen lakes, in February the sun reigns only in shy glints, and the silence is on its way like space ships passing in the night. Soon it will snow, as in northern Japan, soon we shall be in the prime of sleep, and the universe will not weigh us down any longer. When I see you at a distance, on a white slope, I think: all that you take from me you will receive, and all that I borrow from you, you will inherit back.
Five allegorical sketches
The escalators down to the subway lead the shadows ambiguously home. In the absence of other gods, we eagerly greet the chill draught from the trains.
In Poems Around Zero Karl Vennberg wrote: "Someone, perhaps you, seems to be taking a rest, / though in great unrest," and then "Someone, perhaps myself, raises an arm / as against a delayed attack", and elsewhere: "For a moment to stand there outside / and avoid recognizing oneself!"
We played soccer on a little patch of land, used an empty water bottle and a jacket as goal. I thought of all the years that had gone. When darkness came, we continued for another hour.
The two boys shivering in the rain will soon themselves turn into rain.
One no longer sees oneself as a child in one's childhood.
The working class arrives in Paradise
1. It is 1975, I am twelve, I am travelling by train, I have planned to go to The Elysian Fields, or to Dalarö.
2. Oh, how I have missed surrendering myself to the warmth. Where are you from? a girl asks. It's so bright around you.
3. Everything was in motion even though there was no wind.
4. They say that peace came, and that it was not expected. How did that happen?
5. I never said "dad" after I turned ten, nor "father" either, I referred to him by name, or I addressed him directly with a "you".
6. What remains? Only vague images of things that happened all too fast.
7. "Longing" is reminiscent of "long ago".
Julien Gracq (July 27, 1910 - December 22, 2007)
A boy does not speak the same language as a rabbit or a deer. An airport does not cry for help as a girl can cry for help. "At the bottom of the garden" does not mean "she is shaking with fever," but is from the same linguistic source. The one who says "let's prune these branches" probably understands the one who talks about time as an exhausting preparation. The tablecloth is being stained while we discuss. Of course we agree about chestnuts, rain, farewells – for what we understand, what we grasp, is our leavings.
The lonely clouds blow across the sky
Fatigue at a window overlooking a rain-soaked park, you lean out panting after the night's labour, the notebook with its scribbles lies open in the frame, the little cactus has capsized, and the clouds – they are gliding all over the public sector.
St. Nobody
Down in the street two young girls are kicking a football against a container, and so they set reality in motion, just as you once set love in motion in a hotel room in a city without memory.
We don't live long, we are teenagers, and then it is winter. But if we are lucky we shall meet again in another life, preferably on the coast, preferably in November, the reunion is pure experience – we both stand still in the snow with our own understanding.
I have always been here before
One morning you move without understanding poetry, in the light there is no room, only thin dust, cold in the corners. Life arrives with its tulips, the scorch-marks of New Year's rockets in the snow make you nostalgic. But what serves you? What is in your best interest? In a photograph taken in Turku in 1947 a grey horse is crossing a bridge. But what if this poem were to end like this: a boy leaves a girl with a certain melancholy – everything was new to them that night, they were disappointed.
Loneliness mistaken for a clear day
The snow-covered mountains in the distance are reminiscent of distant, snow-covered mountains, or capitalism, capitalism engulfed by death (can it be said so simply?).
You wait in a white car, the sun floods over the front windscreen and makes the glass soft, in the glove compartment – a postcard:
VI. Winterkampfspiele, Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1941
No matter: from a great height the blue sky resembles any old desolate expanse.
Morton Feldman (12 January 1926 - 3 September 1987)
Why patterns? A distinct and compliant echo? Or is it rather a matter of a patiently extended waiting? Or drops that hesitate in the encounter with themselves? Of course it is drops, drops as we have forgotten them – slow and obvious, yes, obvious, for after all no one has ever said: I leave death to those who need it, but Basho mentions the cold rain.
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No big graduation banners, please.
No big graduation banners, please.
Leave the noisemakers at home, too.
Many principals in the mid-Hudson say they are keenly aware of the over-the-top graduation behavior in other parts of the country that landed students and parents in trouble.
In several cases, diplomas were withheld as punishment. One graduate's mother was even put behind bars.
So, local high school principals have found their own ways to head off problems.
Communication counts.
"I would go over the expectations at graduation with parents and students," said Eldred High School Principal Scott Krebs. He explained that it's important to include parents because some of them are just as capable of behaving badly at graduation as students are.
"I talked with parents about those cases that happened in other parts of the country," he said. Among the ground rules, parents are asked to leave banners and noisemakers at home. "If you let parents bring a banner that reads 'Congrats Johnny. We love you,' then the 20 or 30 people sitting behind them won't be able to see a thing," said Krebs.
Port Jervis Principal Tom Bonjovi recalls one case involving parents who actually pranked a graduation. The incident occurred while he was an assistant principal. "Some families had pizzas delivered from the stands out to the kids," said Bonjovi. "We've cracked down on all of that."
He turned to holding regular discussions with the senior class. There are about 200 seniors. "It doesn't happen overnight," he said. "When you establish a rapport with students, they respond."
Bonjovi's key strategy kicks in just a couple of hours before graduation. He calls it "a search," but the students are not subjected to patdowns. "They report in at 5:30 p.m. in the gym., and at 6 p.m. they all get searched," said Bonjovi. "We ask, 'Do you have anything on you?' We have a last-minute box and a garbage can for them to throw out their silly string and (uninflated) beach balls. They are told if they are caught with anything, they will be pulled out of the line. We are a very serious about that."
According to Saugerties High School Principal Tom Averill, other than an occasional beach ball, there are few disruptions during graduation. Saugerties hold its graduation in the morning, and that may reduce the likelihood of rowdy behavior.
Local principals said there are limits to how they respond to excessive displays.
"When I read about all of those graduation incidents in the newspaper, I said, 'Wow,' " Averill recalled. "They earned their diplomas and deserve to have them."
Krebs agreed. "Why would you want to do that?" he said.


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Telemedicine via satellite – the way forward
ESA is one step nearer to establishing a Telemedicine via Satellite Programme thanks to a constructive meeting with telemedicine experts that took place at ESRIN early last week.
Last Monday the European Space Research Institute (ESRIN) hosted a one-day Road Map Symposium to report on the work that had been done since the last meeting a year ago and to decide on the way forward.
At the meeting were representatives of WHO, industry, and doctors and administrators directly involved in the health sector. This is in line with ESA's policy to involve end users and associated stakeholders from the very beginning. As Claudio Mastracci, Special Advisor to ESA's Director General reminded the Symposium, "ESA is in listening mode".
ESA's emphasis on end-users is also visible in the make-up of the working group, nearly all of whom are directly involved in health care. For a year now they have been working to lay the foundations for a future ESA Programme on Telemedicine via satellite. Discussions took place between participants and members of the working group who reported on the eight areas of telemedicine under study. These are:
- interconnectivity for health care services
- services for citizens
- healthcare at home
- mobility
- management of trauma, emergencies and disasters
- early warning of environmental health risks
- eHealth education
- vision for eHealth and telemedicine via satellite
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A number of telemedicine projects are already up and working in a number of countries. During the day, two pilot projects that receive ESA funding and benefit from satellite telecommunications were on show. One of these was a Canadian project for home telehealth visits. Through the use of the home television and a wireless health monitoring kit, nurses are able to check the health of their patients from their office or even from their home.
Results so far show that nurses are able to 'visit' 16 to 20 patients a day instead of the 6 to 8 home visits they carried out previously. There are also financial savings as they have no travelling, and they have less paperwork as data is transferred electronically from patient to nurse.
Patients also benefit, particularly those living in remote areas, as they no longer have to leave their homes to receive health care. Increased monitoring has also led to fewer hospital referrals.
The other demonstration on view was a fully equipped ambulance for use in emergencies. This pilot project, called NESA for Next Generation Emergency Satellite Assistance, is about to begin in the Italian town of Vicenza. It will enable ambulance staff called to the scene of an accident to send via satellite information, including Xrays, to a central medical centre.
With this information the centre can carry out an initial diagnosis and send the information on to the most suitable medical centre for that particular patient. This saves time – vital in an emergency - as the ambulance goes directly to the correct medical centre which is ready and waiting for its arrival.
Progress and difficulties
Telemedicine is an area where the technology is ahead of the ability or the will to put it into practice. The goal to work for is a global telemedicine service so that all citizens, wherever they may be, can be assured of receiving the best quality treatment available.
Satellite telecommunications have much to offer as in remote areas, in emergencies and on planes and ships, they are the best, if not the only, means of ensuring the transmission of data in real time. Telemedicine can also help to remove the digital divide by providing access to good medical services and training to doctors and health-care workers in all areas of the globe resulting in equality of service for all.
Before this can be accomplished, however, there are a number of legal, financial, social, technical and security aspects that need to be worked on. Even before a European-wide system can be put into operation questions of interoperability need to be resolved so that the systems used in different countries are compatible. Last but not least, the political will to iron out these problems is needed.
Taking into account the opinions voiced at the symposium, the working group is now finalising its report in order to present an ESA Programme on Telemed via Satellite to the ESA Council next year.
As Prof. Lareng, Director of the European Institute for Telemedicine said in his closing remarks, "If the project is accepted then we can press ahead and eventually also cover other areas such as Africa. In certain situations satellites can be the only way of reducing the digitial divide in telemedicine. This is our mission for the future."


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Address to Council by Dr. Fred Bass, Former Vancouver City Councillor, MD, DSc, Consultant in Preventive Medicine. Among his other distinctions Dr. Bass holds a graduate degree from the Harvard School of Public Health.
Mr Mayor and Council,
Thank you for the opportunity to speak.
My trade is that of epidemiologist and tobacco addiction specialist. Epidemiology is the study of the determinants of health and illness in populations. My training in this area was at Harvard and Johns Hopkins.
I am wearing an Alligator Hat today that was given to me by smokers who appreciated learning that what controls their smoking behavior was not their thinking brain but their primitive—amphibian, Alligator Brain—the same part of the brain that controls problem gambling.
One of you asked the first evening, "What proportion of gambling money is spent by problem gamblers?"
That was a brilliant question. As the movie said, "Follow the money!" The lottery folks pleaded ignorance in their response.
The central issue here is not:
"What proportion of people are problem gamblers?"
"What proportion of dollars gambled are problem dollars?"
I will use a Solicitor General's report of March 2003 to answer that question.
In response to "How much do you spend on gambling in an average month?", the survey respondents told us that
20% spend less than $1 a month
45% spend $1-$10 a month
22% spend $11-$49 a month
6% spend $50-$99 a month
3% spend $100 to $199 a month and another
3% spend $200 or more
With the modest assumption that the $200 or more group spend $300 per month, we can answer the question what proportion of $ gambled comes from what proportion of the population.
The answer is that a bit over 50% ($1350 of $2695) of the money gambled came from 6% of those who gambled, which is 4.5% of the total population.
Coincidentally, the prevalence of problem gambling that year (2002) was estimated to be 4.6% of the total population.
This study also found that casino gamblers had a significantly higher proportion of problem gamblers 8.8% instead of 4.6% overall average. That's almost twice the average prevalence.
Casinos appear to attract and/or produce problem gamblers.
In this room 25 years ago, when I was advocating for smoke-free pubs and restaurants, many union employees in the hospitality industry appeared as delegations to argue that smoke-free by-laws would ruin their jobs and their lives. You have heard similar statements from many casino employees.
Some strong words now: Like the tobacco industry, the casino industry is a parasitic industry. Gambling is not sustainable: witness their return, asking for gambling expansion just five years after their previous injection of a casino.
I believe the public, for the most part, has intuitively recognized that expanding slots from 600 to 1500 and gaming tables from 75 to 150 would not be good for this city.
My advice for those seeking re-election this fall is to reject expansion of the casino.
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I had only been a few months since the last time I saw Double Indemnity but today's watch of the noir inflected The Lost Weekend made me want to step back a year earlier to revisit Billy Wilder at the height of the genre. Double Indemnity could be described as the archetypical film noir. Although the genre stretches back further than the film's 1944 release, it was Double Indemnity which provided the blue prints from which later titles took their queues. Famous today for its voice-over, use of venetian blind lighting and provocative femme fatale, at the 17th Academy Awards the picture was nominated for seven Oscars. Although it ultimately left that ceremony empty handed, the movie's reputation has gone from strength to strength and it currently sits inside the top thirty on the AFI's poll of 20th Century movies.
The film is told in flashback and voiceover by Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray). Neff is a talented insurance salesman who becomes an active participant in a murder plot following a chance meeting with the seductive Phyllis Dietrichson (Barbara Stanwyck). Neff is at the Dietrichson household with the hope of persuading Mr. Dietrichson to renew his motor insurance when he's presented with the beguiling temptress that is the lady of the house. Blinded by love or at the very least passion, Neff agrees to help the lady to murder her husband and share in the insurance pay out. Having constructed an elaborate murder plot, Neff's firm and in particular the capable Barton Keys (Edward G. Robinson) are charged with working out how the supposed accidental death of Mr. Dietrichson occurred.


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"And in those simple beautiful movements I remembered what was really important in training; that consistency trumps intensity; all the time. That intensity is born from consistency. That one cannot force it, one has to lay in wait for it, patiently, instinctively, calmly and be ready to grab it when Grace lays it down in front of you."
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Kelly Clarkson may seem like the girl next door, but she's ready to become a diva.
The American Idol winner is joining this year's VH1's Divas Live, airing December 16, which pays tribute to the music of Whitney Houston and Donna Summer. The night will feature some of the biggest dance hits from the two artists, who both died earlier this year.
Kelly will join newly added acts like R&B singer Melanie Fiona, Canadian indie-rock band Metric, and Australian singer Havana Brown, who will play DJ for the night. Pitbull, who will be representing for the fellas, was also added to the lineup.
This year's event, hosted by Adam Lambert, will also feature performances from Miley Cyrus, Demi Lovato, Kelly Rowland, Jordin Sparks and R&B singer Ciara.
Ticket proceeds from Divas Live will raise money for the VH1 Save The Music Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to keeping music education in public schools.
Since 1998, when Divas premiered, the star-studded concert has provided nearly $50 million dollars in new musical instruments to 1,850 public schools throughout the country.
It's a good bet that Kelly will leave her country sound at home for this special event–so don't tune in expecting to hear the sort of material she might sing with Jason Aldean or Vince Gill.
Watch Kelly and the rest of the ladies live from the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on Sunday, December 16 at 9pm EST on VH1.
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Knight Cat.
Braided on Ravelry. For you! Knit away! You'll surely find a zillion occasions to wear this rad ear-warmer/headband when things get chilly in your neck of the woods.
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love it!!! I've been knitting cable head bands this summer and am going to have to try to give your pattern a try.ReplyDelete
i heart your knitting...i can't wait to try your pattern!ReplyDelete
YES!!! Love this!!!ReplyDelete
Thank you Jen!! LOVE, love, this! I thought the same thing when I saw it in the catalog, but I'm not nearly as creative! Thanks for sharing your pattern!ReplyDelete
love it, and I love how you whipped one out.ReplyDelete
I just stumbled onto your blog and it's sooo funny- I literally just made this about a week ago! Fell in love with it on Anthropologie's site. Mine turned out too stretchy though, so I'm going to have to shrink it in the wash I think.ReplyDelete
so glad I found this! I was just posting about the wrap and trying to "wrap" my head around how to make it. Putting this on my to-do list now!!ReplyDelete
Cable pattern is to repeated 4 times. Is that Row 1, repeated 4 times or do Rows 1-12, then repeat them 4 times?ReplyDelete
I'm a new knitter, still learning. Thanks.
Love the pattern.
hi there, mlenamon - the whole cable pattern (rows 1-12) should be repeated four times. thanks!ReplyDelete
I love this headband! Unfortunately, when I clicked the link to the pattern I kept getting an error. If you could re-post the pattern I would really appreciate it!ReplyDelete
I love this headband! Unfortunately, when I clicked the link to the pattern I kept getting an error. If you could re-post the pattern I would really appreciate it!ReplyDelete
Weird! So sorry – this was from last year and the link must have gotten messed up. It should be fixed now.ReplyDelete
I recently saw a photo in a fashion magazine for something almost exactly like this so I set out to make my own up. And now I have stumbled upon your pattern so I don't have to! Thanks so much for sharing:) Love your blog. Following!ReplyDelete
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Hi there! I'm loving this head wrap, but I have major issues with knitting the old fashioned way. Do you have any suggestions on converting this pattern to a loom? I'm sure thats considered cheating, but I'm just horrible with trying to handle 2 needles!ReplyDelete
hi Beth! so sorry, but I have very limited experience with loom knitting, and I have no idea how to do cables on a loom. wish I could help!!ReplyDelete
That's ok, thanks for your response tho! I bet I can do some research online to figure it out. Thanks!ReplyDelete
Can't wait to try this. I made one similar last year. Going yarn shopping tomorrow!ReplyDelete
Beth, go to youtube, search cable stitch loom and u should be ok. That or wait till i upload my lokm-knit cable headband like this LOLReplyDelete
- B. CairnsSeptember 30, 2013 11:21 PM
Tried to get the pattern for the cable headband but it keeps taking me to a site where I have to buy it.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 21, 2013 12:02 AM
The same thing happened to me - I keep being sent to a site that charges for the pattern. I know this is from a couple years ago but I would love it if you could post the pattern again. Want to make it for Christmas.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 05, 2014 5:44 PM
No link to pattern,?ReplyDelete
Hi there! I have made many of these headbands as gifts using your pattern, just wondering if it's okay that I sell them at a local craft sale? I will have a sign posted of where to find your pattern at. Please let me know! Thanks :)ReplyDelete


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LOGAN, Utah (AP) Preston Medlin scored 23 points, including four 3-pointers, and Utah State earned a 73-61 victory over UC Davis on Friday night in the World Vision Basketball Challenge.
Utah State (8-1) also got four 3-pointers from Spencer Butterfield, who finished with 14 points. TeNale Roland added 11 points for the Aggies.
Utah State was 12 of 22 from 3-point range for the game.
UC Davis (3-7) led by 7 points midway through the first half and 1 at the break, but Utah State got its act together in the second half.
Ryan Sipkens scored 12 points to lead UC Davis. Corey Hawkins and Clint Bozner each scored 11, and Ryan Howley grabbed 12 rebounds.


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So myself and my lovely fiancée decided to take a small trip again to Gothenburg since she had bought me tickets to see Nickleback live for my birthday and while we were there on our romantic get away we decided that we would do the dead finally....
So whilst there we did it! We finally got married!!!!! 7 years together and wonderful years I must say but we thought it was about time we got around to making our relationship a more concrete one.
It wasn't a big thing as the both of us wasn't that interested in anything super big, so it was just us two and nobody else, although it was a little sad not to be surrounded by our loved ones, and especially our children it was still a fantastic day that was just about us two which was strange since we are normally always with the kids in some way shape or form.
So to be away and to do without anyone else was strange but at the same time very romantic I thought. (Jesus I sound soppy)
So does that mean that I'm no longer angry anymore? Well that is still to be decided, right now I'm sitting on a train with my new wife on the way back home and I must admit I'm angry! Angry that our weekend went by so quickly and angry that I must go back to work tomorrow but at the same time I feel like one of the luckiest men on the planet.
Who would have thought that after 7 years in a foreign country that I would be where I am right now? I mean when I moved to Sweden, life was really tough and to be honest neither of us knew if we would last or what would happen but this year has been spectacular! I've got myself job, passed my driving license in another language and ended up getting married!
Life is pretty damn good right now! Let's just hope that it continues, right now all we have left to look forward to this year is my parents and sister to come over to Sweden to spend Christmas & New Year with us which is going to be absolutely amazing! We have so much to celebrate when they come over that I think I'm going to have to place the car in the garage and throw away the keys for a few weeks since my blood alcohol level is going to be too high to be able to operate a vehicle lol!
I would just like to finish this post by saying a big thank you to my lovely wife for turning my life around the way she did. You are truly amazing and every day that I wake up next to you and see you I get the feeling of completion.
You are more than my partner, more than my wife... Your my soulmate, the other half of my heart and my bestest friend in the whole world.
I look forward to spending the rest of my life with the most amazing and wonderful person in the whole world. <3


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We visited the White Mountains last week and had a good time. The kids weren't too imprssed by the bristlecones, but they had a good time for the most part.
The bristlecone pine only lives in scattered, arid mountain regions of six western states of America, but the oldest are found in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in the White Mountains of California. There the pines exist in an exposed, windswept, harsh environment, free of competition from other plants and the ravages of insects and disease. The oldest bristlecones usually grow at elevations of 10,000 to 11,000 feet.
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Despite the popularity of this title (Amazon.com reader reviews) and its positive critical reception this series is generally not included in public library collections.
Sumire Iwaya, the protagonist of Tramps Like Us by Yayoi Ogawa (licensed in North America by TokyoPop), is an ambitious and attractive journalist who has found herself isolated by her success. She returns home at the end of a particularly bad day to find a young man sleeping in a box near her doorstep. Exhausted and lonely she invites him to live in her apartment on the condition that he assumes the role of being her pet. Sumire even going so far as to "name" him Momo after the dog she had as a child. (The original Japanese title is Kimi wa Petto, literally, You Are My Pet.)
The premise seems potentially risqué and, indeed, much visual and textual tension is generated by the odd proximity this living arrangement creates but this manga is not particularly explicit and the adult themes are handled with a lot of nuance and humour.
Tramp Like Us has all of the narrative tropes that make josei so enjoyable and relatable. The complexities of office relationships and the tensions between personal expression and social expectation endlessly vex Sumire. Romantic relationships and her ability to negotiate them are far from idealized.
The manga-ka of the series, Yayoi Ogawa, is talented and prolific and her work continues to gain popularity in North America. Her art work is very distinctive. The line work in particular is an extraordinary balance of elegant fluidity, expression and simplicity and Ogawa's page designs are effective without being distractingly over-executed.
This manga is an illustration of how public libraries could expand their collections to include titles that would appeal to older female readers while also enhancing quality and diversity. When purchasing for public libraries a bit of extra time taken to read a few online reviews would clarify the quality and content of what might initially seem merely a lascivious amusement. There is a lot of bluntly pornographic manga available and public libraries have to act judiciously in selecting more adult material. Increased knowledge of josei and awareness that the genre has a lot of merit should help to insure that josei titles are not dismissed along with other more shallowly explicit titles. Tramps Like Us is a series for adult readers but, particularly when the quality of the story as art and entertainment are considered, it seems a good candidate for public library collections.
aside: Why was Tramps Like Us chosen as the title for the licensed translation in North America? It makes this series sound really questionable and is also, well, lame. Is it a reference to the Bruce Springsteen song that also comes up when Googling this manga? Double lame.
another aside: Ogawa does seem to have a unique ability for choosing subject matter that looks really incendiary at first glance. (The links in this section are all over the place…) Some of the plots of her josei titles are a bit eyebrow-raising; Baby Pop "cool and gorgeous Nagisa paired with her perverted and stupid step-father Ryunosuke"(!), Candy Life "39 year-old man or the hot 19 year-old guy which is the 39 year-old's sort of adopted son?"(!), Extra Heavy Syrup "Yuki and Emiri are staff at Syrup Cleaning Service, but they actually only have one true goal… and that is to find their long-lost boyfriend, Akira."(!?). (I'm really hoping that this is a gonzo-josei riff on Katsushiro Otomo's Akira.) Needless to say, it may be a while before Ogawa creates another series as amenable to public library collections as Tramps Like Us.
Images: panel from Tramps Like Us, Extra Heavy Syrup (cover image) by Yayoi Ogawa,


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I have a piece on the DRC elections up at The Atlantic today - click on over to read.
"Africa is, indeed, coming into fashion." - Horace Walpole (1774)
I have a piece on the DRC elections up at The Atlantic today - click on over to read.
This blog post is part of a series done in conjunction with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum looking at the risks to civilians in the period surrounding Congo's national elections. The views expressed are my own. For more information, please visit: http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/congo/
Against all odds and amid pre-election violence that has killed several Kinois in the last two days and widespread reports that not all polling stations have ballots and other election materials, CENI (the Congolese electoral commission) has decided to go ahead with Monday's scheduled elections. Speaking in Kinshasa on Sunday evening, CENI head Daniel Ngoy Malunda (who also serves as President Joseph Kabila's personal pastor) said that his agency is 99% ready and that the elections will happen as scheduled. Never mind that the remaining 1% could mean that 600 or so polling stations lack the materials necessary to carry out an election.
I have a post up at the Peace Dividend Trust blog today. It's an interview with a Congolese leader who helps young adults start small businesses. Click on over and check it out.


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An Important Film for Our Time
"2016: Obama's America"
Last night my wife and I ventured out for a rare date - 2 for 1 burritos and the documentary 2016: Obama's America, which, surprisingly, is playing at two movie theaters near our central Minnesota home. To find it near a theater near you, look at this list. The film performed extremely well this weekend and has opened at additional theaters across the country.
Imagine my shock, first of all, to find the theater three-quarters full on a Monday night, with people of all ages. When I asked the theater staff person how the movie has been doing, he replied, "This movie has been doing very well here."
Dinesh D'Souza's cautionary documentary, based on his book "The Roots of Obama's Rage," is well crafted. It spans the globe, taking viewers to India, Indonesia, Hawaii, and Kenya - recreating scenes from Barack Obama's and D'Souza's life to share their history and how their environment shaped them both.
D'Souza points out that he and the president share many similarities. Both were born in the same year. Both attended Ivy League schools. Both graduated from college in the same year. Both were married in the same year, and both spent time in former colonial countries. It is this last element that D'Souza spends the most time examining.
Avoiding the rhetoric employed by many pundits who describe Obama as a socialist or a Marxist, D'Souza makes a convincing argument that the dream Obama inherited from his father, and which was effectively passed on through his mother, his mentor and many others whom he associated with, was an anti-colonialist dream.
The film effectively utilizes prominent commentators to shed light on Obama. Psychologist Paul Vitz talks about the impact of an absent father. The Hoover Institute's Shelby Steele talks about how Obama's ability to appeal to both African-Americans and whites helped him get elected the first time. Daniel Pipes speaks about the dangers in the Middle East and President Obama's inconsistent way of dealing with the Middle East. Former US comptroller David Walker sheds some light on our current unsustainable debt situation. Obama's Kenyan half-brother George doesn't share his brother's anti-colonial views. Paul Kengor talks about Obama's intimate connections with his mentor Hawaiian Communist Frank Marshall Davis.
Much of the material presented by the documentary isn't new, yet it's put together in a cohesive and convincing manner. It's a thinking man's Fahrenheit 9/11. The film does what the mainstream media has refused to do, taking an honest look at Obama's history, his problematic connections, and his desire for America. D'Souza notes that Obama's founding fathers are not Washington, Jefferson, and Franklin, but Communist Frank Marshall Davis, terrorist Bill Ayers, liberation theologian and pastor Reverend Jeremiah Wright, and pro-Palestinian professor Edward Said.
D'Souza uses his anti-colonial thesis to explain why the President has made many of the decisions he has, such as returning a bust of Winston Churchill to the U.K., siding with the Falkland Islands against the U.K., drastically reducing America's nuclear arsenal, preventing off-shore American oil drilling, while allowing it off shore of Brazil, Mexico and elsewhere, embracing universal healthcare, getting the government into private industry, and continuing to triple our national debt.
While the film's timing did not allow it to include the now infamous Obama quote, "You didn't build that," the film sheds a great deal of light on the philosophy behind the president's statement. Businesses, he believes, have been unfairly built on the backs of others.
The film is largely narrated by D'Souza, yet includes many Obama quotes, most in Obama's own voice, taken from his biography, "Dreams from My Father."
The film doesn't fear-monger. It's not extreme. It's a calm, scholarly, fascinating look at a man whom few really knew in 2008. At the film's end, based on the president's previous actions, D'Souza makes three predictions, all of which appear to be taking place.
Sadly, the film doesn't explore the president's attack on religious freedom, other than to note that Obama's views against capitalism, Christianity, and corporations were shaped by the radical anti-colonialist views of his father, mother and associates.
"I chose my friends carefully," we hear Obama say in the film. "The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist Professors and the structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets."
At the end of the film, the patrons in the theater errupted into spontaneous applause. As I left, I asked a fellow patron what he thought of the film.
"It told me a lot that I already knew," he said, "but it's an important film. Others should definitely see it."
I could not agree more. Whatever your politics, you should see this film.


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This may not be your daddy's Tron, if an interview with one actress who appears in the Disney sequel is to be believed.
Serinda Swan says that she, Beau Garrett (Fantastic Four: Rise Of The Silver Surfer) and two other actresses play "temptresses from inside the computer world." She explains:
We're sort of the main guy's go-to girls. There are lights actually sewn into our wardrobe, so it's like nothing you've seen before!
By the "main guy," does she mean Kevin Flynn's evil cyber-self, or someone else? And whom exactly are these "temptresses" trying to tempt? Sean Flynn, Kevin's son? This could get ooky pretty quick.
Meanwhile, Swan, who plays Zatanna in tonight's Smallville, says she actually played her spells backwards on her ipod so she could memorize those lines backwards — when you replay her dialogue backwards, it'll sound intelligible, she promises. And Clark's mysterious wish is one that "turns him upside down." Also, she wants to find the spell-book to bring back her father, Zatara, because he died protecting her. The episode leaves the door open for her to return.
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