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Monday, June 30, 2008
Beauty and the Beast
Thursday, June 19, 2008
THE PIED PIPER Reviewed
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Tonight Let's Watch Franco Films in Paris
The Franco retrospective (which consists of 68 films by my count!) will run from today, June 18, through July 31. Here is a link to a complete alphabetical listing of the films being shown, their showtimes and locations, posted by Robert Monell at his website I'm In a Jess Franco State of Mind.
I certainly wish I could be there for this exciting event and send my best wishes to Jess and Lina for this long overdue celebration of their life of work.
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Sweden, Authorized and Unauthorized
"The Avanz DVD is most certainly a bootleg," he writes, "since it has burned-in subtitles and it looks like it's taped from TV." (Indeed, the Avanz disc transfer features a rotating TV station bug that reads "Ciao!" I cropped these out of the screen grabs in my previous posting.) "I have been in contact with Avanz," Andreas continues, "and the Italian company that hold the rights to the film, regarding an upload of the whole movie on Google Video that I found. The reply from Avanz confirmed my suspicions: 'We're not original licenser and almost public domain... a rights holder might have permitted it...' 'Almost public domain'... there is no such thing as 'almost' public domain. The worldwide rights holder is the Italian company that produced the film and they are still around, and it is with them Klubb Super 8 made a deal for our legitimate release. It would be great if you could somehow point this out in your blog. I have made an comparison of the two DVD's, check attached files."
Sunday, June 15, 2008
Cincinnati, Heaven and Hell
When you work in the business of film and video reviewing, there's a constant and sometimes oppressive pressure to cover only what is new. More and more often of late, I've been fighting this sense of regimentation by watching what I want to watch, what I'm most drawn to. The movies I find most enticing at any given time may not be new releases; they may not even be official releases -- indeed, they may not have been released at all. There is, and always will be, a tremendous allure about those unsanctioned titles which can only be seen through the efforts of a dedicated subterranean community. Fortunately, each issue of VIDEO WATCHDOG can support only so much of my own writing, which leaves me a certain amount of time each month in which to truffle out the kinds of movies that can only be found by those who are willing to dig. It is the pursuit and study of these random obsessions that keep me excited about what I do.
That love was just a game
A Swede maybe, frozen to death possibly.
I was recently able to realize a long-held dream of seeing Luigi Scattini's mondo film SWEDEN, HEAVEN AND HELL (1968) in English. Judging from the copy I obtained, it must have had an official DVD release in Japan, because it was in English with fixed Japanese subtitles. I looked around the internet in search of the actual disc, but couldn't find it at any of the usual outlets, so I can only surmise it has gone out-of-print.
Could it be really true
My love meant nothing too
And I was only just a passing affair?
Marie Liljedahl - A Swede in danger?
Supposedly a documentary about the peculiarities of Sweden and its people, SWEDEN, HEAVEN AND HELL is a patently false construction -- for example, a segment on a Swedish biker gang ends with the cyclists dismounting to chase a young woman through the woods, whom they catch and then proceed to gang-rape in a coyly filmed and very short sequence. Close-ups of the supposed victim reveal her to be actress Marie Liljedahl, a fact which, at the time, would have been apparent only to those few who had also seen INGA, EUGENIE... THE STORY OF HER JOURNEY INTO PERVERSION or GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES FOR ADULTS.
Trauma? Acting?
Edmond Purdom's narration of a later segment about a secret lesbian club (where we witness the congregation of what Mr. Purdom calls "human wreckage") mentions that the earlier segment's rape victim is among the women onscreen -- hinting that all lesbians share a history of traumatic contact with the male sex -- but Ms. Liljedahl is nowhere to be seen among their number. Other segments profile a kind of permissive barge cruise where teenagers can lose their virginity and gain sexual experience with multiple partners; a nightclub featuring a topless rock band; the birth of a baby destined for adoption; a home for unwanted children; Sweden's supposed epidemic tendencies to alcoholism and suicide; a tour of a Swedish atomic shelter (which looks rather like the dressing room area of a sports arena), and a group of teen girls who run semi-naked through the snow after opening their pores with a nice schvitz in a sauna.
Brother and sister, man and wife -- or are they?
Yes, it was true that
You never did care...
Da dee da dee-dee ( Mah-ná mah-ná), Deet dee-dee deet...
It's during the almost embarrassingly innocent sauna scene that Piero Umiliani's hit song "Mah-ná Mah-ná" is heard for the first and only time in the picture. To be sure, a large measure of this strange film's pull on my imagination stems from my purchase of the 45rpm single -- a song wholesome enough for Cincinnati's Larry Smith Puppets (and later, the Muppets) to pantomime on television -- when I was in my early teens. The Ariel Records label mentioned parenthetically that the song was from the movie SWEDEN, HEAVEN AND HELL, about which I knew nothing, but I can vividly recall the tingles of teenage complicity and transgression I felt when the film eventually opened at Cincinnati's Twin Drive-In Theater, carrying an X rating. I suppose I had already transgressed along similar lines when I bought Nilsson's "Everybody's Talkin'" from the MIDNIGHT COWBOY soundtrack, but there was nothing conspicuously adult about that song. There was something vaguely creepy about discovering "Mah-ná Mah-ná"'s ties to an X-rated movie; it was such an otherworldly novelty record, an instrumental from a film peopled with unprofessionals, my brain boggled as it pondered what racy spectacles the song might accompany onscreen. Easy Tempo's soundtrack CD contains a list of the musicians who performed Umiliani's score (including none other than Gato Barbieri) and reveals that the vocals were by Sandro Alessandroni ("Mah-ná Mah-ná") and Edda Dell'Orso ("Deet dee-dee-deet") -- both of whom contributed significantly to Ennio Morricone's unparalleled score for Sergio Leone's ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST the very same year. Indeed, there is a track on the album called "La Signora Cameriera" featuring a distinctive whistle by Alessandroni that evokes "Cheyenne's Theme" from the Leone masterpiece.
What do Swedish policewomen do when off-duty? Nude modelling, of course.
Umiliani's alternately spritely, mournful and longing lounge score (currently out of print, but downloadable from emusic.com here) lends a haunting ambiance to what otherwise would be a peculiarly arid sketch of European despair. Perhaps its most compelling cue is a bluesy torch song called "You Tried To Warn Me" (amusingly listed in the end titles as "You Tried To Worm Me"), sung by Lydia MacDonald. The song's melody is repeated serially throughout the picture, even instrumentally reprised within other cues, though its lyrics make no specific comment about anything in it. Other reprised melodies, like that of "Solitudine," have a greater bearing on the picture, their symphonic strains of overbearing sadness going some way towards describing in music the supposed Swedish sense of malaise -- that bizarre nullity of spirit that blooms only in the land of the midnight sun, compelling the natives to marry their siblings, drink antifreeze, jump off the roofs of buildings, and dance with members of the same sex.
Cavorting at the lesbian bar.
And, though you're gone,
I'll still keep on loving you.
Sweden's Love Boat. Or is it?
With its POV shots of boats meeting the horizon lines of glittering waterways, cars venturing along barren country roads, soulless architecture and a cast of (mostly) nameless people, some of whom are shown leaping to faked deaths from window ledges or sharing a bottle of Aquavit with strangers in a public pissoir -- all set to unexpectedly gripping music that counts, along with 5 DOLLS FOR AN AUGUST MOON, as Umiliani's masterpiece -- SWEDEN, HEAVEN AND HELL is one of those movies that best come alive when watched in solitude in the after-midnight hours. After watching the movie, I seriously considered giving it another spin right away, knowing that a second viewing would inevitably take me to even stranger corners of the night and my imagination. It struck me, unexpectedly, as a Ballardian picture, empathic but strangely clinical, the kind of movie that entices one (at least entices me) to think about exploring it further -- not in the form of a review, but in a work of experimental short fiction. It's not so much about Sweden, I gather, as it's about a place in the imagination called Sweden.
J.G. Ballard's Sweden. Or is it?
Could it be really true
My love meant nothing too
And I was only just a passing affair?
Going to the drive-in. Or am I?
Now that I've finally seen SWEDEN, HEAVEN AND HELL via this DVD-R disc, I find myself wishing all the more ardently that I could have seen it in 35mm when it played at my local Twin Drive-In Theater in 1970. I wish I could find and interview the Ohioans and Northern Kentuckians who went in my stead, like one of those man-in-the-street interrogators from the SCHOOLGIRL REPORT films: What was the experience like for them? Was it what they expected? Why did they go? Because of the hit song? Because of the X rating? Did they curse to themselves when they realized that it wasn't going to be quite the sensational exposé they had been led to expect? Did they snicker or feel revulsion at the grinny brother and his shy-looking sister who (we're told) met belatedly in life, fell in love, and had to leave Stockholm for the anonymity of life in a smaller town? Did they see through the phony parts, which supposedly caused a public uproar when the film was finally televised, many years later, in Stockholm? Did they inadvertently learn something about Sweden, its progressive views on sex, its socialist society, despite Scattini's fictions and manipulations? Did they recognize themselves in it?
A Swedish girl broods in her room -- as I once did. Were they showing "Cincinnati, Heaven and Hell" only four blocks away and she couldn't go?
If I think hard enough, I am there... semi-reclined in the driver's seat of a 1967 Camaro at the Twin Drive-In on that lost evening -- which I actually spent approximately four blocks away, "in my room, in my room," even then grinding my teeth at the thought of the experience I was missing, so close yet so far away. As the film ends, cheap images of atomic devastation followed by splicy, jumpy footage of teenage girls sunning their naked bodies on a riverbank -- nubile representatives of a reborn Sweden -- the closing song ("Sleep Now, Little One") cuts out on my window speaker. It is abruptly replaced by the Twin's stock intermission/exit music, which always began with either The Box Tops' "Cry Like a Baby" or The Beatles' "Lady Madonna" joined in progress. The movie is over, I tell myself; it will never play here again. I sit patiently, savoring the moment, letting the cars around me ignite and jockey for positions in the exiting queues, all of their drivers somehow more eager than I to break away from this shared spell of mystification and return to their mundane lives.
Yes, it was true that
You never did care
And, though you're gone,
I'll still keep on loving you.
It occurs to me, as I watch their Mustangs and Thunderbirds and Ramblers inching away and suddenly bolting onto Tennessee Avenue like racehorses, that I will, in all likelihood, never know any of the people with whom I just shared this singular experience, which makes them indistinguishable from the people who appeared in SWEDEN, HEAVEN AND HELL, whom I will also never know. Sometimes, years later, a revelation may crop up in conversation at a party or around a watercooler -- "You were there too?" -- but it occurs so rarely that those other cars might as well be filing out of a theater somewhere in Stockholm.
Knowing that it will be some time before the exits are cleared, I decide to stretch my legs. I get out of my car, light a cigarette and look up at the stars -- the stars that Cincinnati shares with Stockholm and the little Swedish town where the incestuous lovers have hidden themselves away from worldly scrutiny, while consenting to celebrate their love openly in a motion picture that will be shown all around the world. I think about how a movie like SWEDEN, HEAVEN AND HELL is like a message in a bottle, sent from one culture to another... I've found it, I've seen it, but now what do I do with it? A train whistle blows in the distance and wonder where it is going at this hour. Will it cross the Erie Canal? Both Sweden and Cincinnati have an Erie Canal...
Suddenly, a car horn intrudes upon my reverie. The lot is now empty and a man is waving impatiently to me from the theater gate; he wants to close up. I drop my cigarette, replace the speaker on its stand and climb back into my Camaro; I start up the engine and enjoy the slow sensation of my tires rolling over the gravel and the condoms and the popcorn boxes on the way out, my headlights bouncing off the arrows leading to the exit. I take the right turn on to Tennessee Avenue slowly and gracefully. A left turn would take me home.
Cincinnati's Tennessee Avenue... or somewhere in Sweden? You tell me.
I drive past the Porter's Paint store ("Cover the Earth"), past the McDonalds, past Natorp's Garden Center -- looking for back roads at the outskirts of my neighborhood that might click with the torch song from the movie that is stuck on automatic replay in my head.
You tried to warn me...
I continue to avoid the roads that would take me home until well after 3:00 am, celebrating the fact that it is still the weekend, that it is still 1970, knowing that the sun must inevitably rise on Monday and the commencement of a new working week. I know that, as surely as Monday slips into Tuesday, Tuesday into Wednesday into Thursday, my memory of SWEDEN, HEAVEN AND HELL will slip into those fuzzy banks of the brain where we file those unexpectedly important moments we didn't share, the things we finally cannot be sure actually happened. I muse to myself: I'll never see that movie again. They never show X-rated films on television.
As long as I continue driving, holding my responsibilities at bay, my memory of this peculiar and strangely longing, lonely film will stay as fresh in my mind as it will ever be. And so I drive on, reflecting on the places I may never go, on broken hearts and lives half a world away, as I hum once again Umiliani's song about a love affair entered into with reckless abandon.
You tried to warn me.
POSTSCRIPT (6:16am): It must be serendipity... The first response I received to the above fever dream came from reader Lars Erik Holmquist at Stockholm University! Lars wrote to inform me of the happy news that SWEDEN, HEAVEN AND HELL has just been released on DVD in Sweden, where it never received a theatrical release! Here is a link to Klubb Super 8's sales page for the disc, which includes audio tracks in English, Italian and Spanish -- in which the narration is respectively read by Edmond Purdom, Enrico Maria Salerno and... I don't know who. Lars tells me that he contributed some of his paper collection on the title to this release, which features a stills and poster gallery as well as pictorial adornments on the packaging. Lars also sent me these links (here and here) to pages from his own blog, Terror in the Midnight Sun, where he blogged about SWEDEN, HEAVEN AND HELL himself.
POSTSCRIPT (9:42 pm): Reader Miles Wood informs me that SWEDEN, HEAVEN AND HELL was in fact released on DVD in Japan on the Avanz label, back in 2004. An Avanz sales page suggests it may still be available.
Saturday, June 14, 2008
HATCHET For the CD Player
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Happy Centenary, Jack Pollexfen!
Need more incentive? "Grungily photographed by John L. Russell (PSYCHO) with bottles of hooch in nearly every shot, INDESTRUCTIBLE MAN looks like a dive bar smells..." -- Tim Lucas, VIDEO WATCHDOG #116, page 10.
What are you waiting for? Call in sick.
Part 1.
Part 2.
Part 3.
Part 4.
Part 5.
Part 6.
Part 7.
Happy Centenary, Robert Cummings!
Monday, June 09, 2008
On the Road to 141
Donna and I are now starting to work on our next issue, which will include Justin Humphreys' wonderful tribute to the late AIP/New World screenwriter Charles B. Griffith, Bill Cooke's detailed review of the FOX HORROR CLASSICS box set (which a more informed world would have called "The John Brahm Collection"), Kim Newman's continuing inspection of Fox's CHARLIE CHAN sets (covering VOLUME 4, introducing Sidney Toler and Sen Yung and containing the wonderful CHARLIE CHAN AT TREASURE ISLAND), and my own epic-length review of Sony's SPIDER-MAN - THE HIGH DEFINITION TRILOGY, which in fact contains four different Spidey features in Blu-ray (the fourth being SPIDER-MAN 2.1). And that's all the teaser you get. For now.
Thursday, June 05, 2008
Respects to Alton Kelley
I look at this album cover, even now, and I thrill to how it manages to look at once traditional and frontier-shattering; how the design manages to accomodate woodwork, marble, ornate metalwork and decal-design; and, most especially, how Kelley so brilliantly revolutionized the art of typography. And the piece achieves all of this in service to the simple central image of a rose. In that way, I find it analogous to the eponymous suite in Vincente Minnelli's AN AMERICAN IN PARIS: both works traverse a history of art to arrive at the fundamental beauty of nature, despite all its thorns.
Kelley and his associate Stanley Mouse spearheaded San Francisco's psychedelic art movement in 1965, when Bay Area concert venues like the Fillmore Auditorium, The Family Dog and the Avalon Ballroom hired them and other artists to design promotional posters, flyers and postcards for their weekend shows.
"We were just having fun making posters," Mouse told Joel Selvin of THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE. "There was no time to think about what we were doing. It was a furious time, but I think most great art is created in a furious moment."


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By Terry Blum, MedShare Board of Trustees
Monday, February 20, 2012
I am Terry Blum and I have the privilege to serve on MedShare's board. This is my second trip with MedShare, and it is a wonderful journey in terms of learning and sense-making. Quite frankly, I am not sure I can construct meaning from all that I am sensing from my eyes, ears, mouth, fingers and nose. I am also sensing from my heart, making this whole experience so difficult to justly describe. As someone who is quite cerebral in everyday life, this adventure touches below my head into my heart and reaches into the region of feeling and intuition. The incredibly rich tapestry of the lenses of the people with whom I am touring, all of whom awesome in their own way, is coupled with the wisdom of those we visit. I know I will not be the same when I return as I was when I left Atlanta in that huge airplane.
After wonderful bonding and familiarizing ourselves with the agenda, we got into the reason for MedShare today by first visiting St. Mary's Nairobi and then Partners for Care. I will report on Partners for Care which is part of the mHealth alliance which engages in mobile health initiatives among other things.
The group transitioned from St. Mary's to Partners for Care with lunch at the incredible Safari Park Hotel, where Sam (communications director) and Samuel (director in Kenya) from Partners for Care joined us. The grounds of the Safari Park are quite elegant and could have been a movie scene from colonial times or an upscale suburb anywhere. The food and the group's camaraderie are awesome, but the contrast with the needs of so many is evident as one passes by the slums of Kibera (2nd largest in the world after Soweto with estimates of 1-2 million residents), near St. Mary's, or the living in Mararui (estimates of 26-30,000 people).
En route to the clinic, we rode on a really bumpy road that went on for quite a while. Somewhere in the middle of the road, we crossed a functional bridge, which may or may not be completed connecting segments of the bumpy road. We passed banana trees, construction sites, snakes, local markets and lots of scenery. We came to a stop outside a building that was the initial Partners for Care destination for most of us. The signage said, What if? Life Changing Center. "What if?" is a question of what it would be like if there were no AIDS in Kenya.
While most of us went into the clinic building, Lindsey Barber and Charlie Evans went into Mararui, lined with drainage system that empties into the river where the drinking and washing water come from, with Peter from Partners for Care. Peter took them to visit a friend's home as well as take some measurements to show how the mHealth android works. The device relays vital signs information and pictures to Dr. Vincent at the clinic. It is a triage device with Dr. Vincent gives instructions for caring for the patient or asks for more information. Each entry is a new record, but the patient's information gets integrated into a record stored on the server.
Partners for Care was founded by Atlanta nurse, Connie Scheren, who came to the MedShare store for supplies for her medical team mission trip. It has 8 programs in addition to the clinic. As we walk past the goat on the corner into the What if? building through the door with Clinic written on it, we found a world of hope and love. In the space that was opened 2 years ago, there is a one room clinic, class room for their Second Chance program that prepares 20 students for the national graduation exam with 2 years of education. There is also a computer room, with no internet access, that serves 20 adult students at a time. Forty-five or so have received or are receiving training and 20 have found jobs.
Going into the clinic run by Dr. Vincent we saw a PET, personal energy transport vehicle which was sent in a MedShare container. Other programs include sports programs for the kids, with volunteer coaches, including a policeman who was tired of just arresting them, a home for orphans run by Pastor John who also help widows, distribution of 500 treated malaria nets to households with kids under 5, the wonderful music group Temple of Worship that draws crowds for AIDS awareness and prevention. There is also an 8k race that is run at the same time as a 5K in Atlanta (the Kenyans finish the longer race quicker!).
The Marcibit program is really striking. Partners for Care serves one of the most impoverished sections of Kenya. 350 people with jiggers, a kind of parasitic flea that enters the skin and reproduces so the people, especially kids, can't walk. The inflammation is incredible and 350 have been treated with antibacterial soap and water after which the site is covered with Vaseline. 89 have been provided with shoes that can help prevent it.
The health programs are important as 473 Kenyan children under 5 die every day, 71 due to HIV/AIDS, 93 to malaria….90% of these deaths are due to preventable causes! So Partners for Care is there to help reduce child deaths.
Our visit was truly inspirational….we were sung to with a Jambo (welcome) song which included Hakuna Matada, reminding me of the Lion King and the Circle of Life! They also sang a song "Smile"…happy for you… will lift you up, hold your hands, loose your pain, so you smile again. They ended our visit by singing "That Little Light of Mine" in English and Swahili….We left on our bus singing "That little heart of mine, let it shine," knowing the love in the hearts of the Partners for Care. The passion and inspiration of the Kenyans who spend so much energy to do their work to serve their own people is a memory I will always cherish. They are rich in spirit, and thanks to them there is a little more light shining for many.
This post is part of a series we're doing over the coming days while MedShare staff and Board of Trustee members travel through Kenya from February 17 – 27. We invite you to share the experience with them by reading their stories; to access them, click on the "Africa Trip" icon in the right sidebar. Safe travels, team!


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Robicelli's Cookbook Video Shows True Love, Extreme Cupcake Violence
Yesterday we saw the polished and pretty promo video for Gramercy Tavern's upcoming cookbook. Today, in celebration of their own cookbook release later this month, cupcake bakers (and married couple) Allison and Matt Robicelli have released a promo video as well.
Unlike Gramercy Tavern's video, this one involves a lot of animated and physical cupcake-based violence, a scene in space with a farting rocket bunny, a jazzy soundtrack, and, well, just...take a look at some screenshots to see what I mean.
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Three things I really appreciate are live jazz, modern languages, and descent people. Toronto has all three in abundance.
On Friday, I was thrilled by the "Molly Johnson and Friends" jazz concert at Massey Hall, which is a splendid and venerable concert hall. Molly Johnson, who was delightful as always, is one of my favourite singers. One of her many fine guests was Denzal Sinclaire, whom I well knew would be worth the price of admission on his own. Her pianist for the evening was the outstanding Robi Botos. What a show!
On Saturday I met with a local international group a couple of blocks from home and spoke in Portuguese for two hours. On Sunday I went to a cafe a couple of blocks in the other direction and signed in ASL for two hours. On Wednesday I am going across the street to a Spanish/French evening where people from a dozen countries will switch from one language to the other every 30 minutes. Fun!
Today I heard a woman at the health food shop checkout say, "Last time I was here, the cashier undercharged me by two dollars. I hope it won't screw up your accounts if I pay that back now." Good!
What's not to like about Toronto? Maybe it is just this: Toronto is a place where you hear great musicians giving a dazzling performance at a terrific venue, and the audience conducts itself as if it is trying not to get noticed, as if everyone snuck in on a school night and they are afraid they'll get caught if they make too much noise. Decades ago, my mother saw the one and only Louis Armstrong play at [
Massey Hall] the O'Keefe Centre, (which later became the Hummingbird Centre) and she says that the audience was so reserved he rolled his eyes and grumbled, "What a swingin' crowd." Same thing when I saw Ray Charles at the venue formerly known as the Hummingbird Centre; I wanted to shout at the audience "Come on, everybody; it's Ray freaking Charles!" and I would have been heard without needing to shout.
Toronto has all kinds of good stuff, from the world's greatest public library system to North America's most comprehensive municipal recycling program, and of course endless opportunities to immerse yourself in food, music and languages from every corner of the globe. But somehow, Hogtown has no personality. Toronto is less than the sum of its parts.
It is said that Toronto looks down on the rest of Canada, and that the rest of Canada hates Toronto. From both sides, this is unfortunate and uncalled for. For better or worse, Canada and Toronto are not so different from one another. Both could and should be so much greater than they are. If only more parts of Canada had some of the stupendous resources Toronto has. If only Toronto had some of the personality that other parts of Canada have.
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According to Saxo, "Thor shattered all their shield-defenses with the terrific swings of his club ... there was no armour which could stand up to his strokes, nor anyone who could survive them" (Danmarks Kronike Bk. III 70). There is no mention of Þórr's club in The
This illustration was likely created by
The manuscript which contains this illustration was first owned by
The Danish manuscript collector Peter Frederik Suhm acquired the manuscript and after his death in 1798 it came into the possession of the Royal Library in Copenhagen along with the rest of his collection. The manuscript is now known by its shelf mark
The purpose of the project was to create a proto-type for a digital image repository and web page for illustrations of Old Norse gods and heroes from manuscripts and early print sources.
I used a Roma Schema with the modules:
All proper nouns for the metadata for the illustrations were marked up with TEI P5 by using: <gi>persName</gi> for beings such as gods, giants, humans, authors, illustrators etc. and <gi>name</gi> for animals, monsters, and artifacts. The <att>xml:id</att>s for proper nouns are always mixed case abbreviations that begin with a capital. The <gi>list</gi> elements always have <att>type</att> and usually have <att>subtype</att> as well. All other TEI tags such as: <placeName/> for places, <orgName/> for archives, and <person/> were used in the manner demonstrated by the TEI P5 guidelines. I used the <att>xml:lang</att> for all of these elements. The keyword items for all proper nouns were linked to further descriptive data in a Names directory (names.xml).
I created additional keyword items consisting of simple nouns, which were marked up as <gi>term</gi> to correspond to names of artifacts, animals, and monsters, e.g. Megingjörð = belt, Sleipnir = horse, Jörmungandr = serpent. The keyword items for all simple nouns were also entered in the names.xml file. The <att>xml:id</att>s for simple nouns are not abbreviated, always begin in lower case, are always in English, and are camel back when consisting of more than one word.
The critical approach for the selection of illustrations is focused through the theoretical lens of Material Philology which considers books and their material details, such as covers and illustrations, as cultural artifacts. This selection criteria results in a repository of images that is capable of revealing aspects of book history, culture, and production that the words of the texts alone cannot provide. Consequently, iterations of illustrations with minimal differences are not only included but valued for their research potential, e.g., illustrations from the first and second editions of
The web page prototype for the repository will incorporate Web 2.0 principles to facilitate scholarly research and knowledge dissemination and to enable participation from users at all levels of interest.
Old Norse orthography was the preferred representation for all names, e.g. Þōrr for Thor, and was used in a main title for each illustration with English orthography appearing in a subtitle. Keyword items were created for both Old Norse and English spelling and orthographies.
The spelling conventions for Old Norse conform to the practice established in
He who stood a rooted oak, Unshaken by the swordsman's stroke, Amidst the whiz of arrows slain, Has fallen upon Fjalar's plain. There, by the ocean's rocky shore, The waves are stained with the red gore Of stout Earl Hakon Grjotgard's son, And of brave warriors many a one.
What two have three eyes, ten legs, and one tail?The answer is:
The one-eyed god,However, the illustration does not adhere to the details of the riddle because it depicts
Óðinn, riding his eight-legged horse.
Gefion from Gylve drove away, To add new land to Denmark's sway -- Blythe Gefion ploughing in the smoke That steamed up from her oxen-yoke: Four heads, eight forehead stars had they, Bright gleaming, as she ploughed away; Dragging new lands from the deep main To join them to the sweet isle's plain.
To Asa's son Queen Skade bore Saeming, who dyed his shield in gore, -- The giant-queen of rock and snow, Who loves to dwell on earth below, The iron pine-tree's daughter, she Sprung from the rocks that rib the sea, To Odin bore full many a son, Heroes of many a battle won.
By Diurnir's elfin race, Who haunt the cliffs and shun day's face, The valiant Swegde was deceived, The elf's false words the king believed. The dauntless hero rushing on, Passed through the yawning mouth of stone: It yawned -- it shut -- the hero fell, In Saekmime's hall, where giants dwell.
And Vanlande, in a fatal hour, Was dragg'd by Grimhild's daughter's power, The witch-wife's, to the dwelling-place Where men meet Odin face to face. Trampled to death, to Skytaa's shore The corpse his faithful followers bore; And there they burnt, with heavy hearts, The good chief killed by witchcraft's arts.
Have the fire-dogs' fierce tongues yelling Lapt Visbur's blood on his own hearth? Have the flames consumed the dwelling Of the here's soul on earth? Madly ye acted, who set free The forest foe, red fire, night thief, Fell brother of the raging sea, Against your father and your chief
I have asked wise men to tell Where Domar rests, and they knew well. Domar, on Fyrie's wide-spread ground. Was burned, and laid on Yngve's mound.
Dygve the Brave, the mighty king, It is no hidden secret thing, Has gone to meet a royal mate, Riding upon the horse of Fate. For Loke's daughter in her house Of Yngve's race would have a spouse; Therefore the fell-one snatched away Brave Dygve from the light of day.
What news is this that the king's men, Flying eastward through the glen, Report? That Dag the Brave, whose name Is sounded far and wide by Fame -- That Dag, who knew so well to wield The battle-axe in bloody field, Where brave men meet, no more will head The brave -- that mighty Dag is dead! Varva was wasted with the sword, And vengeance taken for the bird -- The little bird that used to bring News to the ear of the great king. Varva was ravaged, and the strife Was ended, when the monarch's life Was ended too -- the great Dag fell By the hay-fork of a base thrall!
How do ye like the high-souled maid, Who, with the grim Fate-goddess' aid, Avenged her sire? -- made Swithiod's king Through air in golden halter swing? How do ye like her, Agne's men? Think ye that any chief again Will court the fate your chief befell, To ride on wooden horse to hell?
Alric fell, by Eric slain, Eric's life-blood dyed the plain, Brother fell by brother's hand; And they tell it in the land, That they worked the wicked deed With the sharp bits that guide the steed. Shall it be said of Frey's brave sons, The kingly race, the noble ones, That they have fought in deadly battle With the head-gear of their cattle?
I tell you of a horrid thing, A deed of dreadful note I sing -- How by false Bera, wicked queen, The murderous brother-hands were seen Each raised against a brother's life; How wretched Alf with bloody knife Gored Yngve's heart, and Yngve's blade Alf on the bloody threshold laid. Can men resist Fate's iron laws? They slew each other without cause.
By the fierce East-kings' cruel pride, Gudlog must on the wild horse ride -- The wildest horse you e'er did see: 'Tis Sigur's steed -- the gallows tree. At Stromones the tree did grow, Where Gudlog's corpse waves on the bough. A high stone stands on Stromo's heath, To tell the gallant hero's death.
Jorund has travelled far and wide, But the same horse he must bestride On which he made brave Gudlog ride. He too must for a necklace wear Hagbert's fell noose in middle air. The army leader thus must ride On Horva's horse, at Lymfjord's side.
In Upsal's town the cruel king Slaughtered his sons at Odin's shrine -- Slaughtered his sons with cruel knife, To get from Odin length of life. He lived until he had to turn His toothless mouth to the deer's horn; And he who shed his children's blood Sucked through the ox's horn his food. At length fell Death has tracked him down, Slowly, but sure, in Upsal's town.
The fair-haired son of Odin's race, Who fled before fierce Tunne's face, Has perished by the demon-beast Who roams the forests of the East. The hero's breast met the full brunt Of the wild bull's shaggy front; The hero's heart's asunder torn By the fell Jotun's spear-like horn.
Witch-demons, I have heard men say, Have taken Adils' life away. The son of kings of Frey's great race, First in the fray, the fight, the chase, Fell from his steed -- his clotted brains Lie mixed with mire on Upsal's plains. Such death (grim Fate has willed it so) Has struck down Ole's deadly foe.
For a long time none could tell How Eystein died -- but now I know That at Lofond the hero fell; The branch of Odin was laid low, Was burnt by Solve's Jutland men. The raging tree-devourer fire Rushed on the monarch in its ire; First fell the castle timbers, then The roof-beams -- Eystein's funeral pyre.
Certain it is the Estland foe The fair-haired Swedish king laid low. On Estland's strand, o'er Swedish graves, The East Sea sings her song of waves; King Yngvar's dirge is ocean's roar Resounding on the rock-ribbed shore.
We all have heard how Jonkur's sons, Whom weapons could not touch, with stones Were stoned to death in open day, King Onund died in the same way. Or else perhaps the wood-grown land, Which long had felt his conquering hand, Uprose at length in deadly strife, And pressed out Onund's hated life.
With fiery feet devouring flame Has hunted down a royal game At Raening, where King Ingjald gave To all his men one glowing grave. On his own hearth the fire he raised, A deed his foemen even praised; By his own hand he perished so, And life for freedom did forego.
The temple wolf, by the lake shores, The corpse of Olaf now devours. The clearer of the forests died At Odin's shrine by the lake side. The glowing flames stripped to the skin The royal robes from the Swedes' king. Thus Olaf, famed in days of yore, Vanished from earth at Venner's shore.
Halfdan, esteemed by friends and foes, Receives at last life's deep repose: The aged man at last, though late, Yielded in Toten to stern fate. At Skiringsale hangs o'er his grave A rock, that seems to mourn the brave Halfdan, to chiefs and people dear, Received from all a silent tear.
King Eystein sat upon the poop Of his good ship: with sudden swoop The swinging boom dashed him to hell, And fathoms deep the hero fell Beneath the brine. The fury whirl Of Loke, Tempest's brother's girl, Grim Hel, clutched his soul away; And now where Vodle's ocean bay Receives the ice-cold stream, the grave Of Eystein stands -- the good, the brave!
By Hel's summons, a great king Was called away to Odin's Thing: King Halfdan, he who dwelt of late At Holtar, must obey grim Fate. At Borre, in the royal mound, They laid the hero in the ground.
By Danish arms the hero bold, Ottar the Brave, lies stiff and cold. To Vendel's plain the corpse was borne; By eagles' claws the corpse is torn, Spattered by ravens' bloody feet, The wild bird's prey, the wild wolf's meat. The Swedes have vowed revenge to take On Frode's earls, for Ottar's sake; Like dogs to kill them in their land, In their own homes, by Swedish hand.
Gudrod is gone to his long rest, Despite of all his haughty pride -- A traitor's spear has pierced his side: For Aasa cherished in her breast Revenge; and as, by wine opprest, The hero staggered from his ship, The cruel queen her thrall let slip To do the deed of which I sing: And now the far-descended king, At Stiflesund, in the old bed Of the old Gudrod race, lies dead.
What two have three eyes, ten legs, and one tail?The answer is:
The one-eyed god,However, the illustration does not adhere to the details of the riddle because it depicts
Óðinn, riding his eight-legged horse.
What two have three eyes, ten legs, and one tail?The answer is:
The one-eyed god,However, the illustration does not adhere to the details of the riddle because it depicts
Óðinn, riding his eight-legged horse.


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bear a grudge (against someone)
To remain angry with someone about past slights or misdeeds. Although our disagreement happened months ago, Lily still won't talk to me—clearly, she's bearing a grudge. My sister-in-law bore a grudge against me for years after she found out that I said her wedding dress was ugly.
bear a grudge (against someone)and have a grudge (against someone); hold a grudge (against someone)
to continue feeling an old resentment for someone; to harbor continual anger for someone. She bears a grudge against the judge who sentenced her. I have a grudge against my landlord for not fixing the leaky faucet.
bear a grudge
Also, have or hold a grudge . Maintain resentment or anger against someone for a past offense. For example, They held up my claim for months, but I won't bear a grudge against them, or His grandfather was always one to hold a grudge. [c. 1600]


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MUSCATINE, IA – The HON Company recently announced that more than 60 of its products in five categories have received level™ certification from Scientific Certification Systems (SCS). This significant milestone indicates that 80 percent of HON's product volume is now level certified.
"As a leader in the office furniture industry, HON takes its responsibility to serve as a steward of resources very seriously. We're thrilled to be honored for our efforts—especially from such important industry icons as SCS and BIFMA," says Mark Roumfort, vice president of product development and management for The HON Company. "We will continue to strive to reduce the environmental impact of our products, while continuing to deliver the high level of performance, style and reliability that's synonymous with the HON brand."
level is a multi-attribute, sustainability standard and third-party certification program for the furniture industry. Created by BIFMA, it has been developed to deliver the most open and transparent means of evaluating and communicating the environmental and social impacts of furniture products in the built environment. The level certification mark identifies that a product has been evaluated by an independent third-party certifier. HON chose SCS, which HON has long recognized as a provider of quality certifications.
In the level certification process, a product, and the organization and facilities that produced it, are scored according to sustainability attributes across four areas: Materials, Energy and Atmosphere, Human and Ecosystem Health, and Social Responsibility. The numeric marking 1, 2 or 3 (from 1 being the lowest level; to 3 being the highest) indicates what threshold of certification the product has achieved.
HON's products received both level 1 and 2 certifications, with the majority being level 2 certified, and represent the following categories: seating, laminate casegoods, steel desks, steel storage and workstations.
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Inspired by practicality and invested in understanding the needs of its customers, The HON Company strives to establish meaningful connections resulting in product solutions and customer support that exceed market demands. As a leading designer and manufacturer of workplace furniture, including chairs, storage, panel systems, tables and desks, HON's commitment to serving its customers is rooted in reliable performance and a member culture that is approachable, confident, smart and ready to serve.
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Wisconsin detective featured on 'Extreme Weight Loss'
Bob Brenner sheds more than 200 pounds
A local detective was on national TV Tuesday evening, featured in the ABC show "Extreme Weight Loss."
Bob Brenner began his weight loss journey more than a year ago and the cameras of the TV show were rolling the entire time.
"I think really where things got out of control was in the last 10 years was I started working undercover narcotics and I worked between 500 and 700 hours of overtime," said Brenner.
With those extra hours came the extra pounds. At 450 pounds, he needed a special scale to get weighed.
Brenner's journey didn't really start with the show's inspiration, Chris Powell, instead it began with personal trainer John Pietenpol. Six months before the show, Brenner reached out to Revolution Fitness in Pewaukee, didn't commit and then returned for filming to try again.
"I'll never forget. He walked into my door and he weighed 450 pounds. He went from 350 to 450 in six months," said Pietenpol.
Pietenpol helped push Brenner, who had serious knee problems, during filming. But there was a lot of support from Bob's son, and especially his wife.
"When I was working out three hours a day and working full time someone had to pick up the slack," said Brenner.
"So we got rid of the pizza oven, all of our alcohol. We got rid of, you know, all of our processed food," said his wife Kelly.
Kelly Brenner had to get in shape too because she donated a kidney to her sister. She lost 50 pounds, but Bob's transformation was extreme.
"So I was down to 195 pounds. And so for me, was that realistic for me for the rest of my life? Absolutely not," Brenner said.
Three months after the show wrapped, Brenner weighed 215 pounds. He still works out but now 45 minutes a day, five days a week. He's also no longer an undercover detective with crazy hours.
"So I'm still doing the same program. I eat five times a day. I feel great. I have had a couple of desserts. I'm not going to lie," he said.
"I think it revitalized our marriage for sure," said Kelly Brenner.
You can watch "Extreme Weight Loss" at 7 p.m. on Tuesdays.


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What could there possibly be to write about how to make and fly kites? After all, making and flying a kite are quite simple operations! One has only to tie together two sticks at right angles, cover them with paper or cloth, and add a tail! Of course, one must not forget a long piece of string, called the kite line. Having done these things, one has only to throw the kite up into the air on a suitably windy day and away it flies! Ordoes it?
Not quite. Here, then, is a hobby which provides pleasure, entertainment, and education all the year round. The long winter evenings present an opportunity for artistic minds and busy hands to make the kites which can be flown during the bright summer evenings and at many other times during the year. These are the main things, but, as we shall discover, they are accompanied by many other enjoyable activities. In particular, as one looks round in an attempt to forecast flying conditions, one is reminded of the wonder and the beauty of the world in which we live.
"My heart leaps up when I behold a rainbow in the sky"
So wrote the poet, Wordsworth, and something of that same feeling will come over us as we see our kitesthose kites which we have made with our own handsflying so proudly in the sky above.
19 Great Kites to Make
A word in generalIn the first section of the website instructions and diagrams are given for making 19 different kites. It will be found that some are easy to make; others require more time and skill. Again, there are several sizes which range, for example, from the 'Small Fish' kite to the large Box kite. This selection is offered for certain reasons. One is to help the beginner to progress from the simpler to the more complex forms. In this way he will gain skill in making and handling many different kites, and at the same time he may build up a collection of which he can be justly proud. Another and related reason is that many people do not know how large the scope is in kite design.
These chapters will reveal something of that scope, and so may serve to correct the idea that kites are limited to the Box and Pegtop styles. Literally speaking, dozens of different styles could be made, and they would fly, if certain rules were kept. From the large number available, a selection has been made in which the reader may find much that is of interest and satisfaction to him. The rest of the website is concerned with a number of important things, each of which forms a part of kite-craft. They may serve to prove that this hobby opens a door to a variety of interesting activities and studies. The writer's intention has been to present in as simple a way as is possible the obvious and less obvious factors in kite making and flying. It is earnestly hoped that the website may succeed in attracting many new friends to a hobby which can be of absorbing interest to all who take it up.


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I stayed up late a week ago to watch the British election results, broadcast live on BBC World's television channel. It soon became clear that Theresa May's ruling Conservatives were not doing well. Mrs. May had called an early election to strengthen her position prior to the start of Brexit talks with the European Union. Her gamble failed – she now finds herself leading a party that does not control over 50% of parliament. To stay in office, she has had to enter a coalition with the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), the pro-British faction from Northern Ireland.
This is already being misinterpreted by Sinn Fein, the anti-British, pro-republican faction from Northern Ireland; it could easily lead to further violence in the province.
There's another threat to the coalition. Mrs. May also relies on the Scottish Conservatives, who did extremely well in the election, increasing their parliamentary representation from one to thirteen seats. Their leader, Ruth Davidson, who is married to her female partner, is a fervent supporter of same-sex marriage; while the Northern Irish conservatives are socially very traditional.
It's going to be interesting to see how this all works out.
At the very least, it has weakened the government at a crucial time, as negotiations begin on Monday, with the most efficient and uncompromising bureaucracy on the face of the earth – the European Union.
An additional threat comes from the opposition Labour Party. A prominent voice in the party is calling for one million people to take to the streets to bring down Mrs. May. Sound familiar?
"A house divided against itself cannot stand." (Mark 3:25.)
Talking of Europe, note the following, sent by a friend in New Zealand:
• Emmanuel Macron, the newly elected French president, has no children.
• German chancellor Angela Merkel has no children.
• British prime minister Theresa May has no children.
• Italian prime minister Paolo Gentiloni has no children.
• Holland's Mark Rutte, has no children.
• Sweden's Stefan Löfven, has no children.
• Luxembourg's Xavier Bettel, has no children.
• Scotland's Nicola Sturgeon has no children.
• Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the European Commission, has no children.
So a grossly disproportionate number of the people making decisions about Europe's future have no direct personal stake in that future.
Additionally, in the last few days, the Irish Republic has a new prime minister. He also has no children. The press has been full of the fact that he is the youngest prime minister ever. He is also half-Indian and gay, neither of which is an issue. (Serbia's new prime minister is also gay, as is Luxembourg's PM.)
At the very least, all the above are thinking short-term, wanting to win the next election. When Europe was dominated by kings, at the very least the leaders wanted to preserve their thrones for their descendants; this also meant ensuring the continuation of the nation-state. Both of these factors no longer apply.
Talking of kings, King Henry II got a mention in the US Congress a week ago. Henry died long before the United States ever existed as a nation – even before America was "discovered" by Christopher Columbus. He reigned from 1154-1189.
Note the following from Vanity Fair:
"The James Comey hearing has officially gone medieval. A little less than two hours into the former FBI director's highly watched testimony, Comey dropped a reference to Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury who was killed at the casual request of King Henry II in the year 1170. The reference popped up when Senator Angus King was questioning Comey, asking him about Donald Trump's seemingly casual but firm request to have Comey drop the FBI's Michael Flynn investigation. Though Trump did not demand outright that Comey drop the investigation, even his slightest requests come with an air of seriousness, King suggested.
"Do you take that as a directive?" King asked Comey of Trump's question.
"Yes, yes," Comey replied. "It rings in my ears as kind of 'Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?'"
Henry II was a very significant monarch. James Comey learned a lesson from his reign. Today's British people, who have experienced three terrorist attacks in less than three months, could learn something else. Note the following:
"Henry II, who is considered the father of the common law, promulgated the Assize of Arms in 1181. This required all (male) British citizens between 15 and 40 to purchase and keep arms. The type of arms required varied with wealth; the wealthiest had to provide themselves with full armor, sword, dagger, and war horse, while even the poorest citizens, "the whole community of freemen," must have leather armor, helmet and a lance. Twice a year all citizens were to be inspected by the king's officials to insure that they possessed the necessary arms. Conversely, the English made it quite clear that the king was to be expected to depend exclusively upon his armed freemen. When rebellious barons forced John I to sign the Magna Carta in 1215, they inserted in its prohibitions a requirement that he "expel from the kingdom all foreign knights, crossbowmen, sergeants, and mercenaries, who have come with horses and weapons to the harm of the realm." (Historical Basis of the Right to keep and bear arms, by David P. Hardy, 1982)
During the recent terror attacks in England, on each occasion, one armed citizen could have made a significant difference and saved lives. Medieval monarchs were very concerned that the people should be able to defend themselves against the French; today, the threat is Islamic extremists, but the principle remains the same.
Also note, in the quote above, that Henry's second son, John, one of the worst monarchs in English history, was required by the people to "expel from the kingdom all foreign knights, crossbowmen, sergeants and mercenaries, who have come with horses and weapons to the harm of the realm."
No prizes for guessing who should be expelled today!
It should be noted that King Henry did not introduce the right to bear arms; he simply restored an ancient right that went back to at least the reign of Alfred the Great, in the 9th century. The Vikings were one of the problems at that time. The threat changes, but a threat is always there.
With this in mind, I found the following interesting while studying this morning: "The story of David and Goliath is helpful since "five smooth stones" and a "sling" are the closest equivalent to a handgun we can find in the Bible. David seems to have been armed with his sling at all times. There was no way he could run home to get his sling when a lion or a bear was about to attack his flock. (1 Sam. 17:31-37, 41-54)
It's possible that Jesus had the Old Testament case law in mind when He offered this injunction to His disciples: "But be sure of this, if the head of the house had known at what time of the night the thief was coming, he would have been on the alert and would not have allowed his house to be broken into." (Matt 24:43) ("Jesus, Guns and Self-defence – what does the Bible say?")
Christians should, of course, strive to live peaceably with all men. (Romans 12:18) Jesus Christ said: "Blessed are the peacemakers." (Matt 5:9) He also told us to "turn the other cheek." (vs. 38-39)
With terrorism, we are dealing with a totally different mind-set from Jesus Christ, a religious belief system that encourages and celebrates killing en masse. People have to be able to defend themselves. King Henry understood this. Today's leaders in countries like the United Kingdom, Australia and Canada need to address the issue, enabling people to defend themselves from acts of barbarism. In contrast, Australia has just announced an amnesty calling on citizens to hand over illegal weapons.
The tragic apartment block fire in London dominated the news on Wednesday. 30 deaths have been confirmed, but scores of people are still missing. There were also over sixty injured. What started the fire is not known at this time, but a material used in construction appears to have helped the fire to quickly spread. The Daily Express said Thursday that EU environmental directives could be the cause.
Most of the people in the apartment block seemed to have been from other countries in Africa and Asia. Looking at the high-rise (24-storey) block of flats, as they are called in England, I wondered why people would leave their own countries to live in such an awful place.
My wife and I have spent many happy days in African villages. I can truthfully say that I would rather live in one of those than in a high-rise apartment block in London, or any other major city. Isaiah 5:8 warns against living too close to each other. "Woe unto them that join house to house."
What attracts people to move to the West varies for each individual. One of the established reasons in the UK is the generous welfare benefits. Perhaps some of that money could be diverted to African villages to bring water and electricity to communities to improve their quality of life. Together with the abolition of welfare for new arrivals, this would go some way to help solve the immigration crisis.
On BBC World this morning, interviews with survivors of the fire revealed a lot of understandable anger. It's also clear that many have an "entitlement mentality," demanding that the government re-house them immediately, claiming that hotels are not good enough; they also dismissed Theresa May's call for an independent inquiry – they want those responsible punished NOW.
Since writing the above, some residents and neighbors have stormed the local town hall, chanting their demands, blaming the fire on the Conservative government. There was no logic – just a mob mentality. Scary and a sign of things to come.
- At the moment, the bar for taking extremists out of circulation is set ridiculously high. People known for their own extremism that reaches pre-terrorist levels should not be walking the streets when they have expressed support for Islamic State (ISIS) or tried to head to Syria or called for the destruction of Britain and other democracies or allied themselves to people already in prison. Their demand for free speech or freedom of belief must never be elevated above the rights of citizens to live safely in their own towns and cities. It is essential for parliament to lower the bar.
- Is this to be the political landscape for the future, where groups of people demanding death and destruction are given the freedom of the streets whilst those wishing to hold a peaceful celebration are prevented from doing so?
- To see extremist Islam as a "perversion" of Islam misses an important point. The politically correct insistence that radical versions of Islam somehow pervert an essentially peaceful and tolerant faith forces policy-makers and legislators, church leaders, rabbis, interfaith workers and the public at large to leave to one side an important reality. Flatly, Islam in its original and classic forms has everything to do with today's radicals and the violence they commit. The Qur'an is explicit in its hatred for pagans, Jews and Christians. It calls for the fighting of holy war (jihad) to conquer the non-Muslim world, subdue it, and gradually bring it into the fold of Islam. Islam has been at war with Europe since the seventh century.
("No tolerance for extremism, " by Denis McMacEion, Gatestone Institute, 6/16).


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LORAINE, OHIO -- At a press conference here today, Obama claimed that Hillary Clinton had to take responsibility for the passage of NAFTA, because "she has essentially presented herself as co-president during the Clinton years."
Asked why Obama was attacking Clinton on NAFTA when neither candidate held an elected office to influence the passage of that legislation, Obama fired back saying that the "premise" of Clinton's candidacy "has been 35 years of experience, including eight years in the White House."
He argued that Clinton takes credit for "every good thing that happened" and said that it allowed her to be attacked on the bad as well.
"The notion that you can selectively pick what you take credit for and then run away from what isn't politically convenient that doesn't make sense. If she suggested she had nothing to do with economic policy in the Clinton White House, then it would not be fair for me to bring it up but as you know, that's not the claim that she is making," Obama said.
NAFTA has turned into a political hot potato as Clinton and Obama stump in Ohio, where the loss of manufacturing jobs has devastated the local economy. Obama has repeatedly attacked Clinton on NAFTA in recent days, as he tries to cut into her lead in the polls here.
At the National Gypsum Plant in Loraine, Obama held a small town hall where workers had a chance to ask questions. Over and over again, the issue of NAFTA was raised with one worker openly criticizing Clinton and President Clinton for the bill which he said "devastated" lives in this part of the country.
At a press conference yesterday, Clinton challenged Obama to "meet me in Ohio" at the MSNBC debate on Tuesday, after harshly criticizing him for sending out a mailer that misquoted her saying that NAFTA was a "boon" to the economy.
Obama claimed that he was "looking forward to the debate," but he said that he doubted that little new would come from the discussion. He reminded reporters and those present that this would be the 20th time the two candidates have debated each other.
"We have a difference on NAFTA. And that's what my mailer said, and I just read her words, her quotes about NAFTA. So the notion that somehow I was misleading on that issue is not factually accurate," Obama said about a possible issue that would be raised at the debate.
Obama, for the first time, clarified his wife's comments from several days ago, when she came under criticism for saying that this was the first time she was "proud" of her country.
"I think she already clarified this, she was very clear about it. She simply misspoke. Because what she was referring to is this was the first time she'd been proud of politics in America. And that's true for a lot of folks who had been cynical and disenchanted. She spoke about how she'd been cynical American politics, for a very long time but she's proud of how people are participating and involved in ways they haven't for a very long time," he said.
He argued that Republicans wouldn't be able to use an argument that he's not patriotic enough against him because people have already tried to do so, and it has not worked. He also dismissed Ralph Nader's entry into the race, and Nader's criticisms that Obama was too conciliatory to corporate interests.
Workers at the plant questioned Obama on whether NAFTA could be repealed, and he said that it could not though he wants to renegotiate parts of it to include better labor and environmental protections. He said that it when to came to trade, he believed in it deeply but that "the rules of the road have to be fair to everybody."
He argued that if trade agreements do not contain better worker and environmental and safety protections, the country would start seeing protectionist rhetoric not just from Democrats but also from Republicans.
"So what I'm trying to do is, you know, not strangling the goose that lays the golden egg. The benefits of trade apply to everybody and the burdens apply to everybody instead of just you know making some people very wealthy and a lot of people hurting," he said.


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I took a walk with the boy the other day, before the storms. I was a bit bleary eyed and I can blame only late nights and very good apple and pecan bread, oh and the cinnamon and raisin loaf. We stopped to look at the blooming snowdrops and daffodils and I smiled that spring is almost here. Lines of them fluttered for us and we had a little chat about the colour and how they need water and light to grow. My boy asked me, 'like mumma and me'. I chuckled and said sort of, yes and that people need love and food too. Some groups of pre-teens walked past, in categories of pretty and flamboyant, comical and loud, and simply cheeky. I, now feeling category-less, tried to reflect on what groupings I had grown through and what sort of company had influenced me, then decided that this was a pointless activity but you do become like the people you surround yourself with. We then stopped in the supermarket and a tot wanted to engage with me, I asked his mother how old he was, but she was tapping away at her phone and didn't answer. My phone buzzed away with messages about things that could have been more positive. My heart sank a few notches and I wondered why .
We talk about de-cluttering and detoxing in our family, quite a bit. Clear the things or undertakings that are draining distractions or energy suckers. For example; omitting energy-draining foods, clearing unwanted magazines, removing damaged toys, halting diverting activities like too much time on Facebook that waste precious time, deleting fuzzy pictures on the laptop, giving away unused Christmas bits and bobs…and closing our eyes to the people that want to walk in our minds with their dirty feet.
I drank a lot of dill water when I was nursing. I can't admit to ever liking it but as a first time mother my protective maternal instinct was at lioness levels and I knew that the dill water helped to stimulate precious milk production and would help keep my new-born baby's tummy clear and wind-free. That's what inspired my recipe but do believe that this recipe is boring. Oh no.
What excites me about this recipe is that both cauliflower and Halloumi absorb flavours superbly. They are mellow in themselves and the cauliflower is a giver and receiver of flavour. The Halloumi softens politely and accepts the juices of this dish graciously. No longer chewy, the cheese becomes pleasurably oozy. The fennel stock is distinctly there, but not loudly. The saffron is absolutely showy in the colour and the delicate flavour, but not overpoweringly. The thyme, the lemon, the onion… all accents this dish subtly. There is nothing overwhelming about this recipe. But it is heart-warming. Do it.
Ingredients to serve 4-6
One medium head of cauliflower, separated into large florets
One medium onion, sliced
1 ½ tbsp. fennel seeds
500ml boiling hot water
One can of chopped tomatoes
200g Halloumi cheese cut into thick fingers
A few springs of thyme
Half a lemon
A good pinch of saffron
Salt to taste
2 tbsp. mustard oil
- Put the fennel seeds into a jug and pour in the boiling water. Let it settle for an hour or so and when the stock looks like its infused with the seeds, begin cooking.
- In a deep pan heat the oil and add the onion with the salt and sauté for a minute. Add the cauliflower and Halloumi and coat them well with the oil. Allow them to catch a light golden colour, before pouring in the chopped tomatoes and mix it well. Pour in the fennel stock, but not the seeds. Bring the mixture to a simmer.
- Add 1 tsp. of the fennel seeds and a good pinch of saffron and let them fuse with the stock.
- Squeeze in the lemon juice and add a few (4 or so) springs of thyme and simmer until the cauliflower is cooked.
Serve with pasta or rice or mop it up with bread.


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Rapid Redux Ties A Modern U.S. Record With 19th Victory Of The Year
Rapid Redux Ties A Modern U.S. Record With 19th Victory Of The Year
LAUREL, MD. 12-13-11---Rapid Redux won for the 19th time in as many starts this year, winning today's sixth race at Laurel Park, after he out stepped five starter allowance runners. The victory, the 21st straight for the 5-year-old, ties the modern-day United States record for victories in a calendar year, which was previously shared by Triple Crown winner Citation (1948) and Hall of Famer Roseben (1905).
"I love the horse," owner Robert Cole said. "The trainer has done an incredible job. I feel very blessed. It's an incredible feat of luck and incredible skill by the horse. My dad talked about Citation all the time and it's amazing here we are at 19 with Citation. There is no way you could ever imagine claiming a horse for $6,000 that would be mentioned in the same breath as Citation. It is more than a million to one. I know that and do not take it for granted."
Rapid Redux, with jockey J.D. Acosta, was a little reluctant to load into the starting gate for the 1-1/16th mile test but was first away at the start and wouldn't let a horse get close enough to threaten until the very end of the race as he completed the distance in 1:45.08 and won by a half-length over Awesome Rhythm, with No Brakes finishing third.
"I have to give all the credit to J.D. Acosta," said trainer David Wells. "He just took it easy down the backstretch and he had plenty of horse left down the lane."
Cole, a Baltimore County native, claimed the son of Pleasantly Perfect at Penn National for $6,250 on October 13, 2010. The win-streak began December 2, 2010 at Penn National. Since then, the gelding has won 22 of 23 races with earnings of $256,384. Cole and Wells have sent their star to seven different tracks at seven distances from five-furlongs to 1-1/8 miles.
Acosta is one of seven jockeys to ride Rapid Redux during the streak. It was his seventh victory and the 30-year-old is proud to be part of history.
"He is an athlete. He is like Michael Phelps," Acosta said. "This horse is trained to run. As soon as we turned for home he just started running so hard. But he is slowing down some and might need a little break."
Rapid Redux earned his 19th straight victory at Laurel Park on October 27 to tie Zenyatta and Peppers Pride in the record book and has won three other races here (January 12, February 16 & March 3) during the streak.
"I would love to squeeze one more out before the end of the year but it is up to the horse," added Wells. "It is amazing he has stayed sound so long. He trains well every day. He is always at 80 plus percent. A lot of days he is at 100. The reason we kept him sound is we picked our spots really well-keeping him in the $5,000 starters. You run him in an allowance race or a stakes he is tore up. We have turned down $35,000 a couple of times but he is not going to win for more than that. Why not let him go out on top? That's what I want to do."
"David has been saying that for two months," joked Cole. "We really want to quit when he is on top. It is difficult to race 30 races consecutively. He was doing that 10 races before he started winning. It is tough to get it just right. You want to win as many as you can but you also don't want to blow one at the end. We would like to end on a good note and not see him get beat."
The race and post race interview are available at: of the race is available at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm6wT-Yh5mo (race)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_583yAT3F4 (post-race interviews)
Cole is no stranger to a successful claim. In 2003, he claimed Shake You Down from the Laurel barn of Luigi Gino and watched the horse blossom into one of the best sprinters in the country under the tutelage of trainer Scott Lake, winning three graded races and finishing in the money in a pair of Grade 1's (second in Breeders' Cup Sprint and third in De Francis Dash).
The 1981 graduate of Loch Raven High School topped the Maryland standings four consecutive years (2006-2009), led the nation in victories in 2008 with a career-best 234 and has ranked among the nation's leaders in wins and earnings seven times since 2001.


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How to Create a Valentine Heart Garland Craft With Your Kids
Looking for a way to brighten someone's heart or to celebrate the holiday of love with your family?
Want to show your kids that Valentine's Day is about caring for others—not about gifts and candy?
Spread the joy of Valentine's Day with a colorful heart garland to decorate a special celebration.
It's easy to make with your family, and is a great way to show your kids that you don't have to go on a spending spree to say, "I love you."
In this article I'll explain how to make a 3-D valentine heart garland to decorate for a special meal to show your kids how to express their love through some crafting fun.
Why Make a Heart Garland?
Valentine's Day is a wonderful opportunity to show appreciation for people you love—and I think as parents, celebrating Valentine's Day with your kids is as sweet as it gets.
These days, we're bombarded with commercial messages from dawn till dusk insisting that love is always a heart-shaped box of candy or an expensive night on the town. It's a tough message to escape. And school celebrations are all about the sugar…
An hour or two crafting with your kids followed by a shared family meal is a marvelous way to spend a few hours together and help your children put Valentine's Day in perspective.


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From 25 April 2018 to 25 May 2018
Group exhibition
Curated by: James Bridle
With: Raphael Fabre, Jeremy Hutchison, They Are Here, Julian Oliver, Daniela Ortiz, Jonas Staal, Studio Folder
Exhibition opening: WED, 25 April 2018 at 8:30 pm
In the framework of the conference Transnationalisms.
Aksioma Project Space
Komenskega 18, Ljubljana, Slovenia
From 24 to 25 April 2018
Curated by: James Bridle
With: James Bridle, Marco Ferrari, Denis Maksimov, Mojca Pajnik, Eleanor Saitta, Jean Peters (The Peng! Collective)
TUE, 24 April 2018
17:00–17:45 - James Bridle: The Real Name Game
17:45–18:15 - Mojca Pajnik: Reclaiming Humanity: The utopias of world citizenship
18:30–19:00 - Marco Ferrari: Italian Limes: Mapping the Shifting Border across Alpine Glaciers
20:30 - Italian Limes by Studio Folder, exhibition opening at MSUM
WED, 25 April 2018
17:00–17:45 - Eleanor Saitta:
Performing States
17:45–18:15 - Denis Maksimov: steɪt əv nəʊlænd [State of Noland]: on potent futures post- sovereignty, nationalism & imperialism
18:30–19:00 - Jean Peters (The Peng! Collective): Hacking politics with subversion, civil disobedience and law
20:30 - Transnationalisms, curated by James Bridle, exhibition opening at Aksioma | Project Space
Please fill in the registration form by 23 April 2018.
Center for Urban Culture Kino Šiška
Trg prekomorskih brigad 3, Ljubljana, Slovenia
From 24 April 2018 to 24 May 2018
Solo exhibition
Curated by: James Bridle
Exhibition opening: TUE, 24 April 2018 at 8:30 pm
In the framework of the conference and exhibition Transnationalisms.
Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova
Maistrova ulica 3, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Tuesday 17 April 2018 at 18:00
Lecture + presentation of the publication MoneyLab Reader 2: Overcoming the Hype
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Poligon Creative Center
Tobačna ulica 5, Ljubljana, Slovenia
See Crypto Design
From 21 March 2018 to 20 April 2018
Solo exhibition
Exhibition opening and artist talk: WED, 21 March 2018 at 7 pm
Aksioma Project Space
Komenskega 18, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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