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This is an interview with a friend who lives in Vermont, a state that was part of the forefront in allowing prescription use of Medical Marijuana. My friend recently began using Medical Marijuana, which sometimes will be referred to in this article as MMJ. As you read this personal account regarding the prescribed use of Medical Marijuana, my hope is to remove some of the stigmas still associated with it. The following is an interview with my friend and is a true and factual account. All answers presented in this interview are strictly from my friend and have not been edited.
Briefly detail the legal guidelines in Vermont for the use of MMJ
The qualifications to receive a prescription for MMJ, you need to have any of the following health conditions: Cancer, AIDS, Chronic Pain, debilitating weight loss condition, nausea Mental Health Conditions are not covered under the current guidelines. It's an effective treatment for Bipolar Moods [Mania, Hypomania & Depression], Anxiety, and Sleep disorder [Insomnia], PTSD. It's effective for Mental Clarity, Creativity, and Focus. Excellent site for further information is http://medicalmarijuana.com/ Next, your doctor needs to feel you quality and they need to have been treating you for over 6 months. There are forms to fill out by your doctor. You need to fill out forms, once your Doctor has started the process. My caregiver filled out my forms. Unable to myself, medical reasons. You need a photo for a photo ID. Application Form needs to be notarized. You need to choose a dispensary from the ones mentioned on the forms. Once forms are filled out, you need to collect everything they ask you to send with application, including the non-refundable $50.00 annual fee for your MMJ License. Took about two weeks to receive License, but just filling out the forms and submitting everything is not a guarantee you will receive a license. You can appeal within 7 days if denied. Rules on purchasing and possessing MMJ are fairly strict, so be careful. Rules for Possession of MMJ: You need a locked box to contain your MMJ whenever you are transporting it. But you may not take it out of the state of Vermont. You cannot smoke it in your car, at work, in public. You cannot drive while under the influence. You cannot share your MMJ meds with anyone else. You are allowed 2 ounces of marijuana per month. If you grow it, you can have 2 full grown plants and 7 immature plants. Note to remember, if you grow it in Vermont, you cannot purchase MMJ from the dispensary. When you go to the dispensary to purchase your monthly supply, if someone accompanies you and they are not a licensed caregiver or do not have a license, they will not be admitted. This is for legal purposes. Do not under any circumstances after purchasing your MMJ go out into the parking lot and light up.
Please discuss in whatever detail makes you comfortable, the routes that qualified you to be a user of MMJ It started with Cancer. I was unable to eat or keep liquids down and losing weight rapidly. The doctors put me on Marinol, a chemically produced THC, the potent part of the MMJ plant. That helped me be able to keep down the minimum of food sources. My appetite never recovered. Recently my doctor discovered there had been complications with my Cancer surgery. It caused side effects, which made me became seriously ill. Nausea. No appetite. An inability to taste food. Not wanting to eat or remember to eat. I have been in serious car crashes. I suffer from chronic pain from several broken legs and ankle bones from 2 of the accidents and a broken neck in a third. This was in one year. I have experienced other car crashes from the time I was a child. The culmination of all of the accidents have left me in constant pain, which at times reach level 10. I have received spinal epidurals, surgeries to correct the broken bones. I developed a limp and lost some mobility in one of my ankles. In a few weeks, I am due for a neck spinal epidural. I have had a disc removed from my neck. I have arthritis growing in my neck. It causes pain to travel across my right shoulder down my arm and into my right hand. I have Chronic Pain throw-out my entire body. I get extreme abdominal cramps, the pain brings tears to my eyes. It feels unbearable. I have extreme back pain. I have had spinal epidurals. I have had pain management injections in several areas of my back. I have an extreme pain that pierces my back at the level of the solar plexus and the pain travels straight through the front of my body as if a sword were being thrust through me. I am unable to walk up stairs. Need knee replacement surgery. I have untreatable macular degeneration. I have Bipolar. Technically, Vermont's Program of MMJ does not treat for Bipolar but it doesn't prevent you from using the MMJ as treatment. It is working on stabilizing my moods. I couldn't' sleep. Now with MMJ I can.
Once you were deemed eligible for Medical Marijuana, did you encounter obstacles in obtaining it from a dispensary?
When I received my MMJ License in the mail, I began investigating where I would have to travel and what kind of MMJ was available. How would I find out the location? I went online and became very frustrated. There wasn't a web page for the dispensary I ended up using. A new dispensary which is going to be closer, was in the process of going through the requirements to become the next dispensary to open its doors. I finally wrote an email to the person connected with the government end of things to get any information available. I heard right back the next day with a phone number. But before I received the number, I tried another number I eventually found online. I got a voicemail with no message, so I wasn't sure who I would be leaving a message for. I left one anyway. Next day with the new number, I called and talked to the person from our dispensary. We had the greatest and easiest conversation. I admitted I had self-medicated until 1990. It was in that year I stopped smoking regular pot. She told me it was actually a plus that I knew about MMJ. How to use it. To know what to expect. Except with MMJ it is all different. The strains have none of the poisons from the illegal marketplace. MMJ is all organic. Hybrid. Clean. Gives one a smooth, mellow feeling after the initial hit time. Once connected with our dispensary, I received instructions on where they were located. A long distance on the Super Highway. Some of the journey is through quaint small towns. It is a half day journey. It is just outside a wonderful town. I told my partner I would love to stop next time and look around. They have an Irish bar and restaurant. I thought we could check it out and maybe sit down and have a meal. This is a positive thing for me, to want to be around people. I had no problems at all obtaining the MMJ once the initial connection had been made. I received my license and less than 5 days later I had 1/3 of my month's supply of MMJ. My partner is applying to be my caretaker. This enables her to grow MMJ if so desired. It, also, allows her to enter into the purchasing area for all the products of MMJ. Most importantly, if I am unable to go to the dispensary myself, my partner will be able to acquire what I need without my presence needing to be there. I should note, Vermont only began selecting dispensaries and setting them up this past June 2013. They will only have 4 dispensaries in the whole state. I live next to a large town with a Cancer Center, so I am surprised they didn't choose to have a dispensary in this area, knowing the need would be in large numbers. My Herbalist told me a great many of her patients are from my area, which is why she wants to get permission to do deliveries. I am very delighted with the easy rapport I have with my MMJ Herbalist. She answered all my questions, clearly and in detail. Once the connection was made, everything has run smoothly. You need to make an appointment. My herbalist is very accessible and no problems arose.
In what ways did the dispensary help you to find the right MMJ for your needs?
My Herbalist is knowledgeable and helpful. We talked. I explained my needs specifically. No hiding symptoms or ailments. I felt relaxed and trusted her to help me. She did just that. We talked about what each strain was capable of doing. She recommended a startup group of different strains of MMJ. Sativa and Indica are the two groups. We went home with 3 types of both the Sativa and the Indica. She explained about MMJ in food. I wanted to buy a brownie, but my herbalist felt the content would be too potent for a beginner on using MMJ. I have a problem going to new locations and meeting new people. On the phone and in person she put us right at ease. My partner is applying to serve as my caregiver. She will take care of the financial aspects. My Herbalist was helpful coordinating what I needed in quantity, and to keep it within a budget. From what I have used already, we will need to make the long trip every 2 ½ months. My Herbalist is trying to work out with the state of Vermont, to be able to deliver to her patients. I would then put in my order and have it delivered within a reasonable time, right to my door. Great for the nerves. If you think about the reasons people are using MMJ, it makes good sense to have a delivery service. Eventually, there will be a sliding scale in the cost. But presently, it is not something my dispensary is able to do.
What is the cost factor and how did that impact you relative to your need?
At first the cost seemed like it would be enormous. It could be I am a frugal MMJ smoker but I feel what I thought would be a month's supply will actually last for 2 ½ months. So that divides the cost per month to a manageable amount financially. I am not certain but I think the cost per gram or for any of the food items is the same for most, if not all MMJ locations. If so, it cost before tax $12.50 per gram. There are 28 grams in an ounce. I purchased a variety of MMJ strains to check out what works the best for me. This sampling came to 6 different strains. 3.5 grams Sativa Afghan Kush 1 gram Sativa Train Wreck 1 gram Sativa Critical Jack. 3.5 grams Indica Double Blueberry 1 gram Indica Blueberry 1 gram Indica Sensi Star. Sativa is for energy, focus, appetite, depression, creativity, a daytime MMJ mostly. Indica is for calming, relieving pain, relaxing muscles, anxiety, panic, sleep. The two Sativa & Indica can have duel purposes. I only need one hit each time. A small amount lasts. I feel relaxed for hours. I haven't felt relaxed ever in my life except when I have smoked MMJ. The monetary impact was, I needed MMJ to keep me alive. It seemed to be the last resort to try and turn around my rapid decline in health. I was losing weight. I couldn't eat or sleep. The money could not be a reason for my not being able to get MMJ. The way I use it, it is affordable. My supply is abundant. When you need something to stay alive, you get that something. When I saw her, my Doctor, it slipped, but I called the MMJ, "Miracle Marijuana." My MMJ reminds me of the bottle of Sherry in the Cary Grant film Bishop's Wife, it keeps refilling itself.
Is there a support system available to you should you encounter any problems either using MMJ or obtaining it?
The answer to obtaining MMJ, I feel my Herbalist is easy to talk to and a good source when I have a question I can't find any other place. She's helpful in directing me to what I need to smoke to relieve my symptoms I have my psychotherapist, my partner, my PCP, my special friend and I write about everything I feel.. I'm always working on my blog which helps me through almost anything. I have many connections where I listen to others. I try to reach out to make all feel better. I have good people in my life. I feel better with MMJ. It helps make me physically, psychologically, emotionally and spiritually feel better. I feel more connected. More able to reach out to people I care about and love. It enables me to feel more comfortable because I am not feeling ill 100% of the time. It makes it easier for me to communicate. I feel more open and less fear. It relaxes me and is opening up my feelings. The way I feel makes me feel more able to turn to others for support and to give support. I am finally finding relief.
Can you describe how Medical Marijuana has helped you thus far and has it met your expectations?
The first night, I put a pinch of MMJ in a pipe and lit up. I forgot how to light it. It took two attempts and finally I received two lungs full of smoke. I was using Indica to help me to relax. My first experience with MMJ was a delightful surprise. My partner kept asking me how I felt. All I could say, "I don't feel any pain. I don't feel anxious, I don't feel nausea". I felt good. Couldn't remember the last time. My partner asked if I was hungry. I couldn't exactly answer that question. I had forgotten what it feels like to be hungry or to want food. I did start to say I could probably eat a turkey burger with cheese and maybe some French fries. That may sound simple to most people but for me to even want something to eat was amazing. My partner made me a turkey burger & fries. I took the plate and rested it on my lap. My Amazon Parrot loves what I was about to try to eat Saki took the first bite. She liked it. It was my turn. I took a bite and another bite and one French fry after another. I am neat when I eat. I couldn't consume the food fast enough. Tomato juice and ketchup was dripping on my face. No way do I eat that way. The turkey burger with cheese on toast no crust and French Fries tasted like the first meal I have ever eaten in my life. I enjoyed food. A miracle. This happened because my Primary Care Doctor and Psychotherapist helped me feel better. They both felt prescribing MMJ was the perfect solution to help turn my health around and to start helping me to heal. No other meds made me feel good. Over time they were making me feel sicker. I feel promise with MMJ. My life is on a path I never felt I would find. It is in a good place and heading into promising tomorrows I didn't think I was going to have.
What, if any, are the negative aspects of taking MMJ?
I haven't encountered any negative aspects of taking MMJ. Travel time is over 3 hour roundtrip. The only real negative aspects are the need to create the availability of dispensaries in closer proximity to the patients who receive MMJ. My insurance covers the cost of all my pharma medications, I have found in a vast majority of them, side effects were harmful to my health and still affect my health in a harmful way. These are covered by insurance. A negative aspect was taking Pharma's chemical psych medications, instead of having MMJ available to me. The Pharma psych meds caused me to have seizures, to pass out, to have brain fog, an inability to concentrate, balance problems, weight gain creating diabetes, loss of short term memory and many more side effects. With MMJ there are no negative side effects. There are positive effects. I get a good night's sleep. Slowly discovering food I can eat if I take a hit of MMJ. I do forget to eat. I am able to concentrate. My ability to think clearly and write has increased profoundly. The pain levels come down when I am in the middle of the effects of MMJ. The negative aspect here is, my insurance covers the cost of my Pharma meds but does not cover MMJ. MMJ is expensive but I do NEED MMJ, so the expense has to be afforded. Someday, the New Health Care System will cover MMJ .
Does your Primary Care Physician monitor your progress and is there a time limit on renewal of your MMJ prescription?
Yes, my PCP Doc is monitoring the effects. My psychotherapist is going to be helping me make the MMJ successful in treating all of my issues. MMJ has already effected my stress and health issues. Still figuring out which strains of MMJ works best I see my PCP once a month and my psychotherapist twice a week. I have tests regularly through the hospital and the Cancer Center. My oncologist will also be aware of my treatment with MMJ. I see him every 4 months, and receive B-12 shots every two months, along with blood work every 4 months through the Cancer Center. I cannot produce my own blood adequately since my chemotherapy and radiation treatment. I cannot walk into my kitchen without getting sick to my stomach. These are some things my PCP and Psychotherapist are monitoring.
Finally, how would you respond to those who believe that the use of Medical Marijuana will lead to addiction?
I am actually careful when I smoke MMJ. It's important to me to know my motives are to help me to feel physically better after using it. Its use for me is to release and relieve pain, nausea, to set off my non-existing appetite and a long list of other medical uses for which I need MMJ. I have never found any cravings or withdrawal from MMJ. It can be stopped without side effects, even if you are using it for recreational reasons. If your reasons for using MMJ are to treat chronic conditions, Pain, AIDS, Cancer, Panic Attacks, Anxiety, Insomnia, No Appetite, Anorexia, the list is extensive. Where does the addiction come in with MMJ? It helps give relief. Using it is necessary. There isn't a reason for it to become Addicting. Most importantly, Marijuana has never been a drug with addictive qualities. When you think in terms of using it as a medication, the reasons for using MMJ is related to ailments that in some cases are not going to go away. It makes you feel able to eat, if only for a moment. Always the physical reasons return and need further treatment. It does not inhibit any abilities. One is required not to drive while under the influence of MMJ but that is the only thing one is unable to do within their own capacities and limitations. In my experience, I have never felt any addictive qualities to MJ or MMJ. So, I would say to stop worrying about that rumor coming from those who have their reasons to prevent MJ or MMJ made available to those in need. It is selfish and financially related. The rumor that MJ or MMJ is addictive is false. It holds a means to comfort those who are ill. It gives one comfort when nothing else does. Everybody is dying but some know it will probably be sooner than they would like it to be. Why should someone still alive not be able to be made to feel comfortable before they die? And there is nothing wrong with wanting the feeling MMJ creates. It lifts you up and makes you feel good.


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Five years ago, three artists legally changed their name to Janez Janša and joined the conservative Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS.) So far, so almost normal. Except that Janez Janša is also he name of the leader of the party and Prime Minister of Slovenia. Suddenly there were more Janez Janšas acting together within the same physical and media space.
Their experience is being turned into the documentary My Name Is Janez Janša in which individuals, artists and academics ponder about the meaning and purpose of one's name from both private and public perspectives.
A debate arose in the media and art circles around the three Janez Janša's artistic gesture: What was its intent and significance? Was it a political critique? A work of activism? Pure provocation?
Followers of the politicians didn't leave much space for discussion and subtlety when they launched a defamatory campaign and declared that My Name Is Janez Jansa was little more than a work of pornography. The cover of a recent issue of the conservative magazine Reporter illustrates the manoeuvre (the still images published on the cover are actually from Bruce La Bruce and Rick Castro's movie Hustler White which has been quoted in My Name Is Janez Janša.)
The artists have now opened a crowdfunding call to ensure that they'll be able to finish the post-production of the film and distribute it widely.
I contacted the three Janez Janša, asked them to tell us more about the movie, the name change, the defamatory campaign and immediately realized that they haven't lost any of their sense of humour in the process:
It's been 5 years already since you decided to change your names (Davide Grassi, Emil Hrvatin, and Žiga Kariž) to Janez Janša, the same name as the Prime Minister of Slovenia. I'm sure you were expecting that it would have an impact on your everyday life but what were the effects of the new names on your work as an artist?
Janez Janša: Let me correct you first. My legal name is Janez Janša while the politician's legal name is IVAN Janša. He has been called Janez since his childhood, but he never changed his legal name into Janez Janša.
Janez Janša: Interestingly enough, when he appears in front of the court, as he is involved in many legal cases, he does it with his legal name Ivan Janša while in his political life, when he represents Slovenia, when he signs state documents, he uses a pseudonym, Janez Janša.
Janez Janša: I was expecting him to change his legal name in the same name we have, Janez Janša.
What has the experience brought you?
Janez Janša: My life didn't change because of the name changing. I still live the same kind of life and my artistic work is still my main profession.
Janez Janša: Shakespearean Juliet maintains that the name of the rose does not affect the sweetness of the rose itself. Yet, it is right my new name that makes now other people smell me different.
Janez Janša: The name is what you put forward when you introduce yourself to others. It streams your figure into public life. Other people use your name much more than you do. When you change your name, you don't change yourself. You change your "interface". That is why your name change affects other people more than it does affect you.
Janez Janša: ...as one's death. It affects more relatives and friends than the one who actually died.
How do you feed the discoveries and experiences of the past 5 years into your work as artists?
Janez Janša: They basically feed by themselves into our work as artists because the name change practically merged our art with our life.
I read this afternoon in El Pais that the documentary had faced censorship. Can you explain us what happened exactly?
Janez Janša: This issue around our documentary is far from being over so I wouldn't use the pass tense here. It is rather difficult to summarize the whole story. Maybe the best is if you can point your readers to the on-line document that contains the chronology of facts. Then they can make up their minds about the issue. I'm not even sure I will call this a case of censorship. It's more a case of "preventive media pillorying", an attempt to disqualify the work in front of the public opinion before it even get released...
Janez Janša: ...this way creating conditions for the public opinion to easily accept the censorship that might follow. The rhetoric used for achieving this goal is of a very populist kind. All the media close to the conservative government agree to define the movie as a "merely pornographic" and "highly offensive" product. A kind of "art" that shouldn't be allowed any further to be supported and produced with taxpayers money.
Janez Janša: The funny thing is that all the discrediting arguments are based on "something" that "somebody heard" that "someone else has seen". No one of the journalists attacking us has actually seen the work as the movie is not even finished yet.
But were you not expecting to be challenged and criticized when you decided that the 3 of you would adopt the name of the PM of Slovenia and join his own party? Surely that gesture must have been interpreted as a political position? And probably not as one that pays homage to his person and politics? How did he react to it?
Janez Janša: The first reaction by the Prime Minister was silence, and his silence was a very clear reaction. There was a lot of speculation in the media whether our name change is to be understood as a gesture of support or criticism to the politician.
Janez Janša: It is only in February 2011 that Janša, at the time the leader of the opposition, commented on our gesture. In an interview he gave for the 1st channel of the National Radio he said that he was receiving invitations to appear in front of the court and invoices for fines related to crimes we've done.
Janez Janša: After Janša made his public statement also conservative media and intellectuals started to comment on our name change especially highlighting the way public money were spent and for which kind of "politicized art". Some of the progressive critic instead maintained that by changing our names we helped the politician to himself to the public under a better light. Other accused us of doing a mere marketing operation to gain more visibility and therefore get more money.
Janez Janša: But all of them basically agreed on the fact that this name change would be a short exploit in our careers and that soon we will all change our names back, or further.
Janez Janša: Well, they were right, at least in my case. I've changed back my name to Žiga Kariž in January 2009 and now I'm still using Janez Janša as a pseudonym especially when I do some work with these two guys, Janez Janeša and Janez Janša...
Thank you Janez Janša!
The documentary My Name Is Janez Janša is in its post-production phase, and it needs financial strengthening. Help the artists finish the film and reach worldwide audience.
A belated review of the exhibition Jeremy Deller - Joy in People...
It's always daunting to write about an exhibition that so many articles have commented on already. We've all read that Jeremy Deller won the Turner Prize in 2004. That he has never been a good drawer nor a talented painter. In fact, his teacher strongly advised against art school (a suggestion i fully understand if Deller is to blame for the mural painted behind the screen that shows the documentary So Many Ways to Hurt You, the Life and Times of Adrian Street, see photo below.)
Jeremy Deller does art outside galleries. It thrives in 'low culture' and it is usually ambitious, socially-engaged and unexpected. Indeed, most of his career is built on looking for art in the most unpredictable places, working with the public or with people who have particular knowledge or skill but who wouldn't otherwise be associated with the contemporary art world. They include unemployed miners, brass bands, a campaign banner maker, fans of Depeche Mode, a glam rock wrestler, experts in battle re-enactments, etc. He even collaborated on an art project with nightclub owner and trendsetter Peter Stringfellow.
In late February, a retrospective of Jeremy Deller's work opened at the Hayward gallery. It is called Joy in People and joy is precisely what it brings.
It should be tricky to exhibit the work of Jeremy Deller, an artist who doesn't produce artefacts but experiences, happenings and interventions. Out there. In the streets. Neither you nor i were there. Consequently, the show includes many videos and video documentation of some of his works. But there's also a reconstruction of Valerie's snack bar in Bury market, Lancashire. You can sit down and get a free cup of tea. There are people hired to read texts to make you melancholic, people on hand to discuss their experience of war in Iraq, t-shirts, photos of his 'failed' artworks, an introduction the world of re-enactment aficionados, music videos, magazines, a replica of Deller's teenage bedroom where he organized a solo show while his parents were on holiday, etc. Many art critics wrote that it was all a bit 'second hand'. But if it was, it was good enough for me. I spent a whole afternoon visiting Joy in People. I'll probably go back before the show closes.
Most of the works on show are very well documented already but i'm going to highlight two that i found most irresistible.
The show had a whole section, titled My Failures, that documents the projects Deller never realized.
One of them is a proposal for Trafalgar Square's Fourth Plinth. Deller wanted to place on top of the plinth a life-size model of Dr David Kelly, the biological warfare expert who committed suicide in 2003 following the media frenzy provoked by his comments on the British government's dossier on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
'I had two ideas for the Fourth Plinth that I suggested to the committee, the first was for a destroyed car from Baghdad - a victim of the Iraq occupation - called "Spoils of War (Memorial for an Unknown Civilian)". The other was going to be a mannequin of Dr David Kelly [who committed suicide in 2003 following the controversy his comments on the British government's dossier on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq] just sitting on the edge of the plinth, facing Whitehall, because some people may have forgotten who he was. They were both ways of deflating the meaning or effect of public sculpture, basically to act as an antidote to the sculpted men who had done things in battle.'
I wish So Many Ways to Hurt You, the Life and Times of Adrian Street was available online somewhere (there's only a short extract of the film.) So Many Ways to Hurt You documents the life of glam rock wrestler Adrian Street Street was born into a coal mining family in Wales in 1940. He was sent down the mine at a very young age, fled to London at 16 to pursue a career as a model for bodybuilding magazines and professional wrestler. One day he realized that the way to stardom was through a glam rock persona that would tap into the homophobia of the macho wrestling world. And so he started designing and cutting his own costumes, wearing garish make-up and extravagant platinum hair-dos. He'd blow kisses to his opponents or make silly dances to further provoke them.
Street now lives in Florida, he's still wrestling but I haven't got a clue about what happened to his singing career:
Also in the exhibition:
His 2001 film The Battle of Orgreave reconstructed the famous and violent clash between police and striking miners in 1984 with the help of historical re-enactment societies and former miners.
For 1997's Acid Brass, Deller invited a brass band to play acid house tunes. The video at the Hayward shows the actual performance but just the soundtrack makes my day.
The History of the World demonstrates the intertwined histories of traditional brass band music and the acid house scene of the late 1980s.
It Is What It Is or how to get people to sit and discuss about the war in Iraq using a car wreck.
Don't miss The Posters Came from the Walls, a brilliant, witty and charming film about fans of Depeche Mode around the world. It's in the gallery upstairs, by the entrance. And it's free.
Jeremy Deller - Joy in People remains open until 13 May 2012 at the Hayward Gallery in London.
More in the I Love Jeremy Deller series: Adrian Street, Queen Bitch of pro wrestling, Baghdad, 5 March 2007, Ed Hall, the art of protest banners and The Steam Powered Internet Machine.
There's only one week left to head to Newcastle, Sunderland, Gateshead and Middlesbrough and visit AV Festival, a biennial of contemporary art, music and film which main theme this year is As Slow As Possible.
One of the works on show is the extremely long-term project that sees Agnes Meyer-Brandis training a flock of young geese to fly to the moon. The whole training started last Spring and according to her schedule, the birds will go on their first unmanned flight to the satellite in 2024. However, the artist plans to accompany them on a later flight, most probably in 2027.
Meyer-Brandis' scientific experiment is inspired by The Man in the Moone, a story written in the early 17th century by English bishop Francis Godwin, a believer in the Copernican heliocentric system and of the latest theories in magnetism and astronomy. The book tells how Domingo Gonsales flies to the moon and gets to meet an advanced lunar civilization. The adventurer managed to escape the 'magnetic attraction of the earth' by harnessing a flock of birds called gansas, specifically trained for the purpose. Some critics regard the story as the first work of science fiction in English.
Since it has become so difficult to locate moon geese, Meyer-Brandis breeds her own moon geese. She acquired the eggs last April, named each of them after an astronaut, placed them in an incubator, watched over them, witnessed the hatching and imprinted herself on to them as their stand-in mother, just like Konrad Lorenz did with greylag geese.
The surrogate mother had to spend the weeks following the hatching in close contact with the eleven geese. The astronaut training started almost immediately, the young birds were encouraged to walk in a V-shape --the formation used to tow Godwin's chariot-- taken on expeditions into the mountains for high altitude training, taught how to use morse code devices for improved interspecies communication, and given lectures about astronomy and navigation.
The birds are currently continuing their training at Pollinaria (Italy), in an analogue that simulates the conditions of the Moon. Visitors of the show The Moon Goose Analogue: Lunar Migration Bird Facility in Newcastle can see a scaled model of the remote analogue site, admire the portraits of the astronauts, watch a documentary of the experiment and follow the birds daily life through the screens in the control room at the back of the gallery.
Documentation of the project and installation The Moon Goose Analogue:
Agnes Meyer-Brandis: The Moon Goose Analogue: Lunar Migration Bird Facility is part of the AV Festival and you can see the film and installation at the Great North Museum: Hancock in Newcastle through 31 March, 2012.
The Lunar Migration Bird Facility was commissioned by The Arts Catalyst and FACT Liverpool. In partnership with: Pollinaria.
Also on view at the AV Festival: Slow Motion Car Crash.
You've got until the end of the month to 'run don't walk' and see 10 x 10, an absorbing video screened at the new Carroll/Fletcher gallery just off Oxford Circus. I've been twice already and i won't stop there.
The camera of 10 x10 slowly scrolls down a 100-storey building, going from one floor to the one below, looking through the windows, room after room. The result looks like a strip of film.
The rooms are often occupied by an ordinary office worker. It is always the same guy and he is wearing a suit. A pair of Dr Martens betray the fact that he might not want to be there, with a pie chart as his sole companion. He is very probably the most bored office worker you could come across. He kills the hours cycling within the confine of his office room, hiding behind furniture, crafting paper planes, launching paper planes, inflating a swimming pool mattress, dressing up as a cowboy, Spiderman or a knight Templar, etc.
He might also be the one who arranges plastic office chairs into sculptures or perfectly symmetrical installations.
Extract of the 15:37 min video
There is a tension i've never seen in a lift film since Elevator to the Gallows. You're kept on the edge of the seat wondering what will come next, why and how the man ended up in such situations, why he's recurrently portrayed battling with illuminated fluorescent tubes, what the meaning of the chair arrangement might be, what is going on with that pie chart: is it always the same or is it changing over time? Yet, 10 x 10 is not a drama. We might try and piece together fragments of narration but we never fully understand what is going on. Maybe that man is not even an office worker anyway. Besides, 10 x 10 is more akin to a comedy verging on slapstick than to a drama. I think that anyone with no interest in art whatsoever could enter the gallery, sit down in front of the video and spend 15 minutes smiling at the images on screen.
10 x 10 is part of John Wood and Paul Harrison: Things That Happen, an exhibition that generously proposes plenty of activities for the sick and tired man. Experimenting with the laws of physics using sheets of paper, fans or an electric sander is one suggestion...
Or recreating scenes from disaster movies using models...
And of course you could also invite a friend, pretend you've landed on the surface of a satellite and pose as 'Bored Astronauts on the Moon'.
Installation views:
John Wood and Paul Harrison: Things That Happen remains open at the Carroll / Fletcher gallery in London through March 30, 2012.
I discovered the work of Anri Sala only a few months ago but once i looked into it, i started seeing his work everywhere. Back in September 2011, i was invited to the Absolut Art Award in Stockholm to see some of his videos, attend a screening with popcorn of 1395 Days without Red and interview the artist. A few weeks later, Anri Sala had a solo show at the Serpentine Gallery in London. The show is now closed. I've waited far too long to write about Anri Sala's work.
Sala is a video artist but somehow, he outgrows the title. He makes films of course but each of them enters in a dialogue with local weather conditions, architecture, history, live performances, sound, language, public participation, etc. Even more interestingly, he seems to play his own works against each other.
Many of Sala's works are stuck inside my head, even months after having seen them. Let's start with the first video i saw:
On what looks like the outskirts of a city, a lonely man is slowly playing Should I Stay or Should I Go? on his music box. Somewhere nearby, a man and woman are pushing a music box on a cart that plays the same punk-rock tune.
But there's a third instrument playing the famous riff of the song: an abandoned concert hall where The Clash played in the early 1980s. Microphones were placed inside the building and the music reverberates with a melancholy that the original tune didn't have.
Le Clash is an homage to punk-rock song Should I Stay or Should I Go?. It is also almost a reenactment of the concert the group gave in that building in Bordeaux. But the once influential rock and punk venue is derelict, its future uncertain, just like the relationship the song is talking about.
The show at Serpentine added a further layer to the movie: a glass pane was fitted with a music box that visitors could play. The music was the same as the film's soundtrack. Sadly, it was broken when i visited the show.
In the site-specific installation, Score, the perforated score used in the barrel organ is part of the architecture of Serpentine gallery. The perforated pattern is carved through walls covering the windows in one of the exhibition spaces, translating sound into a different materiality and creating openings to the park, letting the natural light sneak into the gallery and intertwining the sounds of the park and the sounds of the gallery.
The lion of Why the Lion Roars is the Metro Goldwyn Mayer one. The lion usually roars to signal the start of a movie, the start of the viewer's disconnection from the outside world. In Sala's piece, the animal roars each time the temperature outside of the cinema room goes up or down. The installation is based on a temperature chart made up of several movies. Every degree Celsius represents one movie. A film like Jean-Luc Godard's Alphaville is associated with cool temperatures, a romantic drama will evoke the Summer. Whenever the temperature outside the exhibition building changes, the movie on display inside changes, too.
If you're lucky, the temperature outside won't bulge and you'll be able to watch Ninotchka till the end. Most of the time, however, only fragments of various length of the films are screened.
Why the Lion Roars is the temperature-cut version of a fiction based on a true story: the weather.
Answer Me was filmed in Berlin's listening station Teufelsberg, which means "Devil's Mountain" in German. It's actually just a hill but a hill made from the rubble of postwar Berlin and a military-technical college designed by Albert Speer (Adolf Hitler's chief architect), is buried under it. Later on, the NSA built a listening station on top of the hill to monitor Soviet and East German communications.
In the film, a woman attempts to end a relationship, but the man stubbornly plays the drum to silence her. Her appeal is lost in the spectacular space of the Buckminster Fuller-created geodesic dome and even after the man has stopped playing the drum, the whole drama is deafened by the long echos reverberated in the building structure. But the role of the building doesn't stop there, the frequencies of the man drumming are amplified by the dome, causing the skin of a drum abandoned next to the frustrated woman to vibrate and its drumsticks to bounce.
1395 Days Without Red, 1395 without being able to wear red or any other bright colour that might be easily spotted by one of the snipers positioned in the hills surrounding Sarajevo during the siege that lasted from May 1992 till February 1996. The film relives the trauma experienced day after day by people caught up in the siege.
The camera follow a woman crossing the city. Each crossing, each alley, each street commands a change of pace. She often has to pause when she feels that the next few meters will expose her to shootings. Then she holds her breath for a moment (i found myself doing the same) and runs till she has reached a safer street. The city's topography alternates exposure and protection, fear and relief.
As the woman moves through the deserted city, an orchestra rehearses Tchaikovsky's Symphony No 6, Pathétique elsewhere in the city. She seems to rehearse the music in her head too, using it as the soundtrack of her perilous journey through the city under siege.
The ABSOLUT ART AWARD was instituted in 2009 to celebrate the vodka company's 30 years of creative collaborations (which started by chance during a dinner attended by Andy Warhol i was told.) After giving the award to Keren Cytter in 2009 and Rirkrit Tiravanija in 2010, the third annual ABSOLUT ART AWARD went thus to Anri Sala. He clearly deserved the recognition.
The jury's citation reads: "Anri Sala's work offers a unique way of looking at the world that combines reflection on history, memories, and consciousness of the instant, with an absolute awareness of presence and disappearance. He possesses a special talent for precise and subtle displays, and a unique ability to conceive installations and architectural proposals including sound, image, sculpture, film and live performances."
Some researchers have observed that apes held in captivity watch tv programmes. Some of them are fond of the Teletubbies, others favour emergency room dramas or Disney cartoons. But is it possible to script, shoot and screen cinema just for primates? That's what Rachel Mayeri set out to discover with her work Primate Cinema: Apes as Family.
The artist worked with Stirling University comparative psychologist Dr Sarah-Jane Vick to identify which kind of action, narrative or images a group of chimpanzees from the Edinburgh Zoo were most receptive too. The scientist and the artist observed how monkeys reacted to documentaries, cartoons, dramas screened inside a research pod where the animals could pop in and out as they pleased. The monkeys would spend a few minutes in front of the images then go away, come back, sit down for a moment, get up and bang violently against the wall that protect the tv screen, etc. Unsurprisingly the monkeys reacted more strongly to scenes featuring sex, food, violence but they were also interested in drumming and seemed quite fascinated by humans dressed as monkeys and by humans removing their monkey masks.
The result of the artist's research is a 20 minute movie. The video installation juxtaposes two screens. The right screen shows the movie for apes, its stars are actors dressed as and acting like monkeys. The second half displays the reactions of the ape audience when the film was shown on a chimp-proof screen at Edinburgh Zoo last August.
The hero of the film for monkeys is an actress wearing an animatronic suit with motorized eyes that are controlled by a puppeteer. She enters a house, gets a soda from the fridge, goes upstairs and falls asleep in front of the tv. Soon, a group of chimpanzee intruders enter the house as well and start misbehaving: they help themselves to the bananas and carrots in the fridge and basically trash the house. The clatter wakes up our chimp heroine. She gets up and goes downstairs to see what's the tumult about. That's when the plot thickens. Because chimpanzees also appreciate to watch social and sexual dynamics on screen.
Last week, i went to listen to the artist at Cinema as Primatology, a symposium organized by The Arts Catalyst.
Rachel Mayeri told us a few thought-provoking facts during her presentation:
- chimps might like to watch tv but that only happens when they are in captivity. Left in the wild, they have far more interesting things to do than watch tv.
- even the zoo is not the most suitable place to study the reaction of monkeys to moving images as the chimps' backgrounds may vary dramatically: some were rescued from poachers, others used to be mascots, some were born in captivity, etc.
- it's not correct to say that we descend from chimps as they haven't stayed exactly the same while we were evolving, our closest cousins have evolved too.
- chimps don't focus solely on the images appearing on the TV, they regularly check the changing social situation around them. They monitor each other ("who around me is sexually available?" for example) just like we do on facebook. Two of the most 'avid' tv watchers were a mother and daughter. During the research, the females were the ones who spent most time watching the tv screen. On the day of the screening of the finished movie for chimps at the Edinburgh Zoo, they were in rut, distracted and the center of male attentions.
- The artist is conscious that she made a film that reflects her own, very human prejudices and ideas of what a film should be like. She therefore asked herself "If a chimp director had to do a film for humans, would it have done the same mistakes and made a film for chimps rather than one for humans?"
Rachel also showed an extract of her first Primate Cinema video experiments, Baboons as Friends. In the two channel video installation, field footage of baboons are shown next to a reenactment by human actors, shot in film noir style.
The work was inspired by primatologist Deborah Forster who, unlike most people, can watch babboons for hours as if they were actors in a soap opera. The artist attempted to translate the plot of lust, jealousy, sex, and violence into the human world.
Primate Cinema: Apes as Family is at The Arts Catalyst in London until 13 November 2011.


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ST. PAUL, Minn. (KTTC) -- Legislators warn that nothing is a certainty at the state Capitol until everything is signed, and that is proving to be the case this year. Thursday night, key legislators came to an agreement on the tax bill that includes Destination Medical Center.
Legislators are pulling all-nighters to finish up their work, and the Tax Conference Committee continues to comb through the details of a bill they plan to vote on by the end of the weekend.
By midnight Friday, the committee is expected to sign off on a tax bill to be voted on, and that bill will include key provisions for Destination Medical Center.
"The items that you'll see in the Conference Committee Report were items that the House and Senate spent many, many hours talking about as they went through the committee process," said Rep. Kim Norton, DFL-Rochester.
Those items include the funding for DMC. $400 million will come from the state, $128 million from the city, and funding will come from Mayo Clinic as well. The authority overseeing the project will be split; four members from Rochester and four others appointed by the governor. Yet, those were not the most controversial parts of the overall tax bill agreed upon Thursday night.
"The top tier is a little higher than I'm comfortable with, as is Sen. Senjem," Norton said, speaking about the new taxes for the top percentage of income earners in the state. "So those are things that we can share our personal concerns over, but the fact is those were agreed to by the three that made that global agreement."
It is a sacrifice Rep. Norton and Sen. Dave Senjem are willing to make.
"We have a provision in there that is vitally important not only to the city of Rochester and Mayo Clinic, but to the entire State of Minnesota," Norton said. "So, it is a little bittersweet that we listen to these discussions knowing we are going to sign a document that, personally, causes us some discomfort."
Mayo Clinic administrator Lisa Clarke has been at the Capitol awaiting the final decision from the Conference Committee, and she still remains optimistic that the weekend will provide good news.
"Well, people tell me not to consider victory until all of the things have been signed," says Clarke, "but I do believe that we are very confident that we put together something that is so solid and so thoughtful and so deliberate that it will return benefits to the State of Minnesota to the county and to the city of Rochester."
The clock may be ticking away, but the questions about whether DMC will happen seem to be disappearing.
Rep. Norton believes that the committee will sign the tax agreement before midnight Friday, leading to a vote this weekend. She believes the tax bill will be one of the final pieces of legislation discussed on the floor, but it should be done before the session ends on Monday.
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Recipe: Chickpea and Chorizo Soup
This rich, spicy stew really hits the spot on cold winter nights. Chorizo, the Spanish pork sausage flavored with smoked paprika and chilies, has a spicy, robust flavor that just permeates this soup. Onions, garlic, thyme, and a little wine round out a broth that gets soaked up by the beans as they simmer. It was easy, quick, and incredibly satisfying on a cold night.
Chickpea and Chorizo Soup
12 ounces chorizo sausage
1 large white onion, chopped and thinly sliced
4 stalks of celery, chopped
6 cloves garlic, minced
2 tablespons fresh thyme, minced
1 can chickpeas, drained and rinsed
1 can Great Northern beans, drained and rinsed
4 cups chicken broth
1/2 cup white wine
1/4 cup Italian parsley, chopped
1 tablespoon olive oil
Salt and pepper
Chop or crumble the chorizo into bite-size pieces. Film a heavy pan lightly with olive oil and put over medium-high heat. Cook the chorizo for about five minutes or until it starts browning and and smoking. Lift out and drain on a plate lined with paper towels.
Pour a little more olive oil into the pan and turn the heat to medium. Add the onions and celery and cook for about ten minutes, or until soft. Add the garlic and thyme and cook for another couple minutes, or until golden and fragrant. Add the chorizo back in, along with the chickpeas and beans. Cook all together for a minute, stirring, until the beans are well coated with the onions and oil.
Add the broth and white wine and bring to a boil. Lower to a simmer and add the parsley and olive oil. Simmer for about half an hour, or until slightly reduced. Season to taste with salt and pepper before serving.
(Image: Faith Durand)
Re-edited from post originally published on March 6, 2007
Per serving, based on 8 servings. (% daily value)
23 Comments
That looks like my cup of soup! Anything with chorizo has a place in my heart, or should I say stomach. I so can't wait to try this. Thanks! :)
good timing! i just picked up some chicken chorizo out of curiosity today and was wondering what to do with it.
Some of you might hate this, but as a strict vegetarian, I was thinking that I might try this with soyrizo. Could work.
I actually did make this last night with fake meat (can't remember what it was made of); it was a little bland, but that was my fault. Otherwise it was great. I'll try it another time the real way, but my son (a vegetarian) is home from school and my daughter doesn't like sausage.
A friend brought me a package of soyrizo this summer and I was amazed/stunned by how good it is! And I'm no where close to being vegetarian. If you're going to use it in this recipe, you might need to make mini "meatballs" out of it to brown it.
This soup really leans on the chorizo - the spices bleed out and flavor everything. It's better after a night in the fridge, too!
So if you use something not as powerful I would up the garlic and add some red pepper flakes and paprika. Maybe that smoked paprika they're talking about in the Sahadi thread up top...
Had this last night with some substitutions and it came out great. Used hot Italian sausage instead of chorizo, beef stock instead of chx stock and added some crimini shrooms for a little extra flavor.
Mos def making this again.
I made this last night and it was delicious! I wish I'd doubled the recipe-- my husband and I nearly finished it off.
I only had 1/2 a pound of chorizo, and I kept snacking on it, so next time I'll get extra. I also used dry beans that had to be boiled beforehand, so that made increased the time for the recipe.
But yum!! Thanks for the recipe! It'll definitely be something I make again and again!
this soup is definitely better the next day (not that it isn't really good the first night you make it)
Just wanted to say that this has become my go to soup. My husband and I love it and have made it, seriously, like at least a dozen times since I found it. (using Italian Sausages...couldn't find chorizo the first time but love it anyway!)
Thank you for this! I just bought a pound of chorizo to make Mark Bittman's brown rice paella (from his new book, Food Matters, which is terrific!) -- I only need a little bit for Bittman's recipe, and now I know what to do with all the extra.
Margaret K,
Chorizo is so wonderfully versatile, which is a great item to keep in the pantry. Recently, I made chorizo & potato Spanish tortilla bites for a potluck party, which turned out to be a great success! If you have a little more leftover chorizo after making the soup, you should try this out! Easy but tasty!
that looks delicious! I have not tried Chorizo yet, so now I have a great excuse. Thanks.
Wow, J-Dubz, that looks awesome. Thanks!!
Yum! This soup looks so delicious and hearty - I think I may try it out tonight. Another one of my favorite chorizo soup recipes is this Goan Caldo Verde - it puts an Indian twist on the traditional Portuguese potato and kale soup - delicious!
One note just to make sure no one makes the same mistake I've made: be sure to use Spanish chorizo (hard) and not Mexican chorizo (soft). I mixed them up and ruined a ATK pasta recipe.
You can find soyrizo at Whole Foods at Columbus Circle or Fairway.
From the instructions to crumble it up and brown it, it sounded to me like this recipe was talking about Mexican Chorizo, the spanish Chorizo i buy wouldn't take 5 min to brown, and it also doesn't crumble. i'm sure it would be good either way in this soup, hard to go wrong wiht any sausage from the looks of it.
Chorizo rocks my world! See my blog for my personal recipe. I'll have to try it in soup ASAP!
Let me know if you like it too.
This sounds and looks like Mexican chorizo, not Spanish chorizo.
I've used both kinds in a similar soup that starts with a ham hock base. The spanish is less greasy. The mexican is spicier.
awesome. i have some mexican chorizo i bought a while back and totally meant to buy spanish so i ended up cooking it and freezing it and haven't decided what to use it in! soup will do perfectly.
So I made it tonight for my inlaws and they were thrilled! It is the perfect recipe for a winter night here in Paris! Thanks!


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Pitching decisions and plain old bad pitching were the story as the Phils lost the last two games of their three-game series with the Marlins. The losses put the Phillies in a big hole — they have 16 games left to play and trail the Mets by 3 1/2 games.
In yesterday's game, Brett Myers hit for himself with two outs and nobody on in the seventh in a tie game with two lefties expected to hit in the top of the eighth for Florida. He had thrown 104 pitches. He got just one out in the eighth. Both of the lefties he faced got hits and one of them scored the run that would prove to be the game-winner.
The go-ahead run came on a big double off of Chad Durbin. Durbin continues to struggle miserably down the stretch after being outstanding for most of the year. After throwing to a 1.89 ERA in the first half of the season, Durbin been charged with six runs on seven hits and two walks in 3 2/3 innings over his last three appearances.
The only decision that the Phillies couldn't overcome on Tuesday was the one to start Kyle Kendrick. Kendrick was charged with seven runs in the game and got four outs. Despite being down 9-1 in the fourth, the Phils did mount a comeback. They fell short and dropped the game 10-8. The Phils are 1-5 in Kendrick's last six starts. In those outings he hasn't gone six innings once and has thrown to an 11.35 ERA.
The Phillies lost to the Florida Marlins yesterday afternoon, falling 7-3 to drop to 79-67 on the season. They trail the Mets by 3 1/2 games in the NL East.
Myers got the start for the Phillies and went 7 1/3 innings, allowing four runs on eight hits and a walk. Four of the hits went for extra-bases, three doubles and a walk. He struck out nine.
He allowed a pair of doubles in the first, but kept Florida off the board. Hanley Ramirez led off with a double but was thrown out when he tried to go to third on a ground ball to short. After Dan Uggla doubled, Myers struck out both Mike Jacobs and Josh Willingham to leave him stranded.
The threw a 1-2-3 second and the Phils gave him a 1-0 lead to start the third. Ramirez walked with one out before Luis Gonzalez blasted a 2-0 pitch out to right to put Florida up 2-1.
In the fourth the Marlins extended their lead to 3-1. Dallas McPherson led off with a double. Myers got the next two before the pitcher Ricky Nolasco drove him in with a single to left.
Myers didn't allow a base-runner in the fifth, sixth or seventh, which probably influenced Manuel's decision to let him come back and start the eighth having thrown 104 pitches to face a couple lefties. He faced three hitters in the eighth. Gonzalez led off with a single, Myers struck out Uggla and a single by Jacobs moved Gonzalez to third. Durbin came in to pitch to the righty Willingham. Willingham got ahead 3-0 and then chopped a 3-1 pitch down the third base line. The umpires called fan interference, although it appeared that the fan in question did not touch the ball. One run scored and Robert Andino, who ran for Jacobs, went to third. Durbin walked the left McPherson, loading the bases and setting up the double-play, which he got from Paul Lo Duca to end the frame.
Durbin returned for the ninth with the Phils down 4-3. He gave up a leadoff single to Alfredo Amezaga and Amezaga was bunted to second for the first out. He walked Hanley Ramirez intentionally to put men on first and second. Lefty Jeremy Hermida pinch-hit and Romero came in to pitch to him. Cody Ross hit for Hermida and Romero got him on a fly ball to right for the second out. With two down and men on first and second, Uggla delivered a two-run double that put Florida up 6-3. Condrey came in to pitch to Wes Helms and Helms singled into center, scoring Uggla and making it 7-3. Willingham flew to left for the third out.
Romero gives up the big double to Uggla an inning after two hits by lefties against Myers set up a run for Florida.
The pen went 1 2/3 innings, allowing three runs on four hits and two walks. All three relievers that appeared, Durbin, Romero and Condrey, gave up big hits. Durbin threw 17 pitches, Condrey and Romero each six or less. Durbin has thrown to a 6.10 ERA since the end of July. Romero a 4.76 ERA since the end of July. Condrey was pitching for the second straight day and hasn't been charged with an earned run this month.
The Phillies' lineup against righty Ricky Nolasco went (1) Rollins (2) Werth (3) Utley (4) Howard (5) Burrell (6) Victorino (7) Dobbs (8) Coste. Again Werth hits second against the righty with Victorino dropped to sixth. Dobbs at third with Feliz on the bench and Coste behind the plate.
Howard put the Phils up 1-0 with a home run to start the second.
Myers doubled over the head of Amezaga in center to start the third with the Phils down 2-1. He went to third on a ground out by Rollins, but was left stranded when Werth struck out and Utley lined to short.
Werth can't bring the runner in from third with one out.
Nolasco struck out Howard, Burrell and Victorino in a 1-2-3 fourth.
Down 3-1 in the fifth the Phils scored a pair of runs to tie the game at 3-3. Dobbs led off with a single and scored when Coste followed with a double. Myers bunted Coste to third for the first out before Rollins popped to short. Werth delivered a two-out single, scoring Coste to tie the game and picking up Rollins after Rollins failed to bring the runner in from third with less than two outs.
The Phillies only base-runner in the sixth, seventh, eighth or ninth was a one-out walk by Burrell in the sixth. Victorino hit into a double-play behind him.
With two outs and nobody on in the seventh, Myers hit for himself and struck out. With the righty Nolasco on the mound, Stairs would have been the likely choice to hit for Myers.
Rollins was 0-for-4 in the game and 5-for-13 with a walk in the series. 273/337/431 for the season. He's slugging .410 in September after slugging .398 in August.
Werth was 1-for-4 with an RBI. 3-for-13 with a home run in the series. 275/371/511. He's hitting .212 in September.
Utley 1-for-4. 3-for-11 with a walk in the series. 289/378/535 for the year. 219/316/281 so far this month.
Howard 1-for-4 with his 42nd home run. 5-for-13 with two doubles and two home runs in the series. 241/328/517. He has five home runs in his last 27 at-bats.
Burrell 1-for-3 with a walk. 2-for-7 with a triple and two walks in the series. 254/372/513 for the year. The triple is his only extra-base hits in his last 40 at-bats.
Victorino 0-for-4. 1-for-11 with a walk in the series. 276/339/417. Hitting .176 in September.
Dobbs 1-for-3 in the game. 2-for-10 with a double in the series. 295/327/473 for the year. No walks in his last 37 at-bats. Feliz was 1-for-2 in the series and is hitting 251/300/407 for the year.
Coste 1-for-3 with a double and an RBI in the game. 1-for-6 in the series. 267/322/435 for the year. He's 1-for-his-last-20. Ruiz was 2-for-6 with a double in the series. 230/320/304 for the year.
Stairs went 1-for-2 with a walk in the series. He's 3-for-7 with the Phillies.
On Tuesday the Phillies lost 10-8 to drop to 79-66 on the season.
Kendrick got the start for the Phillies and went 1 1/3 innings, allowing seven runs on six hits and two walks. Three of the hits went for extra-bases, two doubles and a home run. He struck out one. His ERA was 4.37 after he got the win against the Marlins on August 6 — it's 5.44 now, six starts later.
The Fish were all over Kendrick. They scored three times in the first, getting three singles, a walk and a sac fly. Uggla had the biggest hit, a two-run single to right with the bases loaded. Four more runs in the second put the Marlins up 7-1. They got a pair of doubles, a walk and a three-run homer from Jorge Cantu that chased Kendrick.
Happ followed Kendrick, getting the last two outs of the second. Happ kept them off the board in the third, but yielded two more runs in the fourth. Cantu singled with one out and Jacobs hit a two-run shot that put the Marlins up 9-1.
The Phils cut it to 9-4 in the bottom of the fourth, but Happ gave up another homer, this one a solo shot, to Cody Ross in the fifth. 10-4. He got the next two before Condrey came out to retire Ramirez and end the frame.
Condrey threw a scoreless sixth. Seanez and Eyre combined to keep the Marlins off the board in the seventh. Madson pitched a scoreless eighth and Lidge, with the Phils down 10-8, turned them away in the ninth.
Long day for the pen as they went 7 2/3 innings, allowing three runs on seven hits and one walk. All three of the runs were allowed by Happ, who saw his ERA rise to 5.71 by giving up three runs in 3 1/3 innings. Happ threw 66 pitches in the game, Lidge 17. Everyone else was 15 or less.
The Phillies' lineup against righty Chris Volstad went (1) Rollins (2) Werth (3) Utley (4) Howard (5) Burrell (6) Victorino (7) Dobbs (8) Ruiz. Werth hits second against the righty with Victorino sixth. Dobbs at third and Ruiz catching.
With one out in the first, Werth singled, stole second, stole third and scored on a ground out by Utley to cut the Marlins' lead to 3-1.
Down 7-1 in the second they went in order. Ruiz singled to start the third and Happ bunted him to second, but Rollins and Werth left him stranded.
Down 9-1 in the fourth, Utley singled and was driven in by a two-run homer by Howard. Burrell tripled and scored on a ground out by Victorino. The Phils ended the inning down 9-4.
It was 10-4 when they started the sixth. Victorino singled in Howard to make it 10-5 and a two-run double by Dobbs cut it to 10-7. With Dobbs on second and nobody out, Stairs hit for Condrey and singled Dobbs in. 10-8. Coste flew to right for the first out before Rollins moved Stairs to third and then stole second. It put men on second and third with one down, but Werth flew to right and the runners held and Utley popped to short, leaving the tying runs stranded.
They went in order in the ninth.
Rollins was 2-for-4 with a walk and a stolen base.
Werth 1-for-5 with a strikeout and left six men on base. With one out and a man on third in the eighth he couldn't bring the runner in.
Utley 1-for-5 with an RBI.
Howard 2-for-5 with a home run and two RBI.
Burrell 1-for-4 with a triple and a walk.
Victorino 1-for-4 with two RBI.
Dobbs 1-for-4 with a double and two RBI.
Ruiz 1-for-2.
Jamie Moyer (13-7, 3.64) faces righty Ben Sheets (13-7, 2.82) tonight. Sheets hasn't allowed a run in any of his last three starts, giving up 12 hits and four walks in 20 innings. On the year he's allowed just 14 home runs in 188 innings. The Phillies have won five of the last six games that Moyer has started. He's been much better away from Citizens Bank Park than at it this year — 9-3 with a 2.63 ERA and a 1.17 ratio away and 4-4 with a 4.84 ERA and a 1.54 ratio at home. Moyer will be throwing on short rest after pitching Sunday against the Mets.


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Kellie Pickler did it, she won the season 16 of Dancing with the Stars!
Kellie, 26, and her professional partner Derek Hough beat out fan favorite Disney star Zendaya, Baltimore Ravens wide receiver Jacoby Jones and Olympic gymnast Aly Raisman on last nights season finale on ABC.
It was so sweet to see Kellie's hubby Kyle Jacob overcome with happiness for her and shed a few tears, seriously touching! Kellie said, "I was like, 'Baby, were you crying?' And he was like, 'Oh, I had something in my eye. I got some confetti in my eye . . . ' He was so proud." She added, "The first thing he said tonight was, 'Baby, I love you and I'm so proud of you. You did it."
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As a Casey Anthony hearing broke for lunch Wednesday, Chief Judge Belvin Perry walked across his courtroom and up to a podium facing not the witness stand or the bench, but television cameras.
In minutes, Perry went from assessing arcane testimony about human decomposition to discussing statewide court finances to providing the press with measured answers about a fiscal crisis averted — his mind shifting, one gear to the next, like a high-performance clutch.
How does one man juggle the demands of a nationally observed murder case with a court budget crisis and a year of personal loss?
"Put it this way: I virtually have no life," Perry said. "Between this, between going to Tallahassee and my administrative responsibilities in running the third largest circuit in the state of Florida, I stay pretty busy."
When they wrote the job description for Chief Judge of the Ninth Judicial Circuit, Belvin Perry Jr. couldn't have anticipated all this:
The loss of two dear colleagues within a 15-month span. A leadership role with the Florida Innocence Commission. A seat on the state Trial Court Budget Commission trying to preserve court funding. An onslaught by courthouse activists looking to undermine one of his administrative orders.
Those are just some issues Perry deals with when he's not hearing the Casey Anthony murder case. Next month, when that trial begins, everyone will see how Perry presides over the high-profile case in an era of information and immediacy.
What they won't see is a man who rattles easily.
Same rules for everyone
Last month, when Anthony's defense team filed a motion accusing him of bias in a ruling, Perry showed no outward anger or resentment. The next day he addressed the motion — denying the request for a rehearing and ignoring the bias claim.
Perry cannot talk about the Anthony case now, but during an interview last week, he expounded on his life, his work ethic and his personal code as a jurist.
"As a lawyer, the only thing I ever wanted was a judge that was consistent, that followed the law and that made everyone play by the same rules," he said. "That has always been my philosophy."
Perry is known to be tough but fair and a stickler for details, legal procedure and timeliness. Some of this may be attributed to the demands of his parents.
"From washing dishes to doing household chores, everybody had things to do, and it was inspected," he said. "And if it did not meet the standards of my mom and dad, you had to do it over and over until it was nearly perfect."
Ask William J. Sheaffer, the prominent criminal defense attorney and local television analyst in the Anthony case, if Perry can handle so many jobs and the pressure inherent in a case like this. His answer is unequivocal: "Absolutely."
"Everything that's happened before in Judge Perry's career and personal life has led to the handling of this case," Sheaffer said. "Nothing's killed him yet and it has made him … a lot stronger."
From segregation to the bench
Belvin Perry's story arc is well documented. His father, Belvin Perry Sr., was one of Orlando's first black police officers, joining the force in 1951.
Perry graduated from Jones High School, where his sister is now the principal.
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Birthplace Of Rosie The Riveter: The Willow Run Bomber PlantAugust 30, 2013 8:02 am | by John Zajac, Randy Hotten, Julie Osborne, Mike Montgomery
The iconic Rosie the Riveter may seem to be simply a fiction from the past but she has a name – and an important history. She was part of that migration, part of the 40,000 employees at the Ford-run Willow Run B-24 bomber plant and part of the great Arsenal of Democracy that Detroit and the Southeastern Michigan region became, cranking out airplanes, tanks, trucks, and weapons.
A 'Made In America' Walmart: Truth Or Gimmick?August 30, 2013 8:01 am | by Joel Hans, Managing Editor, Manufacturing.net
Last week, Walmart Stores announced that they would be holding a summit on U.S. manufacturing, and there's a fair amount of skepticism over the company's motives, particularly considering its long history of sourcing a vast majority of products from overseas.
Optimizing Machines Using Programmable DrivesAugust 28, 2013 8:02 am | by Kollmorgen
Programmable drives are becoming more sophisticated and capable, enabling controls engineers to drastically reduce project costs. On a new design, some integrators and OEMs reach for an elaborate multi-axis PLC system to solve a relatively simple application. This happens as designers work under compressed schedules, and choosing a familiar solution seems like the right thing to do.
Deadly & Life-Saving: Printing Our 3D FutureAugust 27, 2013 8:02 am | by Richard Console
With the emergence of 3D printers into mainstream markets, what the devices actually do seems to matter less than what they will do, or could be made to do, in the future. Will they create a crisis of unregistered, undetectable firearms? Or will 3D printers become such a life-saving medical necessity that future consumers will regard the technology as unremarkable as the current practice of casting broken bones?
5 Quick Questions: Attracting & Retaining Quality Manufacturing WorkersAugust 27, 2013 8:01 am | by Jeff Reinke, Editorial Director
It's no secret that one of the most pressing issues facing U.S. manufacturing is a lack of qualified workers. In looking to fill this skills gap, Brian Binke, the President & CEO of The Birmingham Group, an affiliate of MRINetwork and one of the world's largest recruitment organizations, feels that organizations need to focus on several internal facets in attracting the best and most qualified people.
FEA Aids Deepwater Horizon Failure ForensicsAugust 26, 2013 8:02 am | by Det Norske Veritas
On the evening of April 20, 2010, Deepwater Horizon suffered a blowout while drilling in the Macondo Prospect, an area in the Gulf of Mexico 40 miles off the southeast coast of Louisiana. The platform caught fire; two days later, it sank.
How To Manage Machinery Lubrication (Part II): Sealing SystemsAugust 23, 2013 8:02 am | by Bryan A. Ogden, Business Development-Food & Beverage for SKF USA Inc.
Seals for processing equipment play vital roles in protecting bearings and lubricants. From the perspective of managing lubrication, a seal's primary purpose will be to retain lubricant and keep contaminants from degrading or harming the grease.
The Future Of Energy-Efficient Compressor TechnologyAugust 23, 2013 8:01 am | by Rachel Leisemann Immel, Associate Editor, IMPO
In the last twelve months, the compressor industry has seen the release of several innovative, patented air compressor technologies that significantly reduce energy consumption. These recent advancements derive from improvements throughout the compressor design and contribute to dramatic increases in energy efficiency.
How To Manage Machinery Lubrication (Part I): Eliminating Bearing RelubricationAugust 21, 2013 8:02 am | by Bryan A. Ogden, Business Development-Food & Beverage for SKF USA Inc.
Few industrial environments can match the diverse and difficult operating conditions encountered in the food and beverage processing industries. Equipment often will be exposed to contaminants, frequent washdowns can degrade machinery and may cause lubricant leakage, and other adverse influences can combine to impact an operation's lines and productivity.
Six Steps For Streamlining Manufacturing ProcessesAugust 21, 2013 8:01 am | by Bob Vormittag, President & CEO, VAI
Manufacturers are eager to streamline complex processes in an effort to produce significant cost and time savings while increasing overall productivity and profitability. However, streamlining long-established processes can be a daunting, time-consuming endeavor.
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Maker's Row, a free service that facilitates connections between designers and the small-batch American manufacturers that can help them turn a sketch into a real product, is on a roll. The startup has recently secured $1M in funding. The users are happy too — Tanya Menendez, COO and co-founder, was pleased to hear that an American manufacturer posted their company's profile and had a meeting in just two days.
Standards Boost BusinessAugust 20, 2013 8:01 am | by S. Joe Bhatia, President & CEO, American National Standards Institute
From the corner offices across America to the halls of Capitol Hill, leaders in the public and private sectors are sounding the call for economic reform and job creation. As the U.S. looks to forge a path for sustainable economic growth for the nation, there is a powerful business tool that can help U.S. industry to fuel business performance and drive growth.
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Over the past two months, Software Advice has surveyed maintenance professionals to identify how the industry uses software to get organized, improve efficiencies and tackle other industry challenges. 84 percent of those surveyed use some kind of software to manage maintenance. Commercial software products (i.e. CMMS, EAM/ERP or other business software tools) were used by 77 percent of those surveyed.
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According to recent figures from the South Carolina Department of Commerce, the state's GDP growth rate of 2.7 percent puts it just above the 2.5 percent national average, and is significantly out-pacing the 2.1 percent average of the southeastern region of the country. Much of this growth is attributed to manufacturing.
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Despite 15 months of quarter-to-quarter growth in U.S. real gross domestic product (GDP), the unemployment rate remains stubbornly high and well above other economic recoveries of the same maturity. While the official U3 employment measure has begun to show slight improvements, the broader U6 and U7 measures show much less improvement and remain essentially flat.
Explosion-Proof Vacuums: An Investment In SafetyAugust 12, 2013 4:40 pm | by Rachel Leisemann Immel, Associate Editor, IMPO
Recent plant explosions should serve as a reminder for industrial users to review their vacuums to ensure they are suitable in explosion-proof applications, such as those relating to combustible dust. In addition to satisfying OSHA requirements, manufacturers must also keep workers safe. As Frank Intrieri Jr., VP of sales with Goodway says, "explosion-proof vacuums are used in hazardous environments, so safety precautions are imperative."
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Most manufacturers strive to make their operations as eco-friendly as possible. Whether it's reducing energy use, recycling waste materials, or designing more energy-efficient products, "green" manufacturing is on everyone's minds. For the last five years the Trelleborg Sealing Solutions facility in Fort Wayne, IN, has taken a systematic approach toward continuous improvement.
Who Is Responsible?August 12, 2013 4:29 pm | by Anna Wells, Executive Editor, IMPO
Our fourth annual Energy Intelligence Report will again bring IMPO readers the latest industry trends as it relates to plant energy use and overall business efficiency. This report has been designed to spark some ideas for cost savings measures, as manufacturers continue to face tightening budgets and competitive pressures. We hope you can find something of value as you look at your own plant floor and try to determine where to start.
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New features in pallets and racking, including better material composition, more secure racks, and better accessibility are making today's industrial pallet and racking solutions safer and more cost effective than ever before. In this ever changing world of material handling, manufacturers are doing everything they can to choose wisely, stay efficient, and incorporate safety.


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Updated on Monday: Although a staffer said he didn't plan to show, U.S. Rep. John Lewis was present for President Barack Obama's visit to Atlanta, we're told.
President Barack Obama's second visit to Georgia this year may be one of those parties best remembered for the guests who failed to show.
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Many Democrats will flock to the downtown events. Michael Thurmond, the labor commissioner and U.S. Senate candidate, will be there. U.S. Rep. David Scott of Atlanta will greet Obama as he steps off Air Force One, as will Gov. Sonny Perdue — a Republican.
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The Texas Showdown Tattoo & Music Festival is back in the Sun City.
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It's hard to believe that İZNİK (ancient Nicaea), today a backwater among fruit orchards and olive groves at the east end of the eponymous lake, was once a seat of empire and scene of desperate battles. As you look around this fertile valley, however, you can understand its attraction for imperial powers needing a fortified base near the sea lanes of the Marmara. With its regular street plan, İznik's walled centre is easy to navigate on foot, and most people visit as a long day out of İstanbul or Bursa, staying a night at most. That's enough time to sample the monuments, and pick up souvenirs from the local ceramics workshops. During its sixteenth-century heyday, İznik produced Turkey's finest tiles, and the tradition has recently been revived.
Brief history
Founded by Alexander's general Antigonos in 316 BC, İznik was seized and enlarged fifteen years later by his rival Lysimakhos, who named it Nicaea after his late wife. He also gave Nicaea its first set of walls and the grid plan typical of Hellenistic towns; both are still evident. When the Bithynian kingdom succeeded Lysimakhos, Nicaea alternated with nearby Nicomedia as its capital until bequeathed to Rome in 74 BC. After prospering as capital of the Roman province, the city continued to flourish during the Byzantine era.
Nicaea played a pivotal role in early Christianity, hosting two important ecumenical councils. The first, convened by Constantine the Great in 325 AD, resulted in the condemnation of the Arian heresy – which maintained that Christ's nature was inferior to God the Father's – and the promulgation of the Nicene Creed, affirming Christ's divine nature, which remains central to Christian belief. Empress Irene presided over the second council to be held here (the seventh in all) in 787 AD, in which the Iconoclast controversy was settled by the pronouncement, widely misunderstood in the West, that icons had their proper place in the church so long as they were revered and not worshipped.
Nicaea's much-mended walls seldom repelled invaders. The Selçuks took the city in 1081, only to be evicted by a combined force of Byzantines and Crusaders sixteen years later. The fall of Constantinople to the Fourth Crusade in 1204 propelled Nicaea into the spotlight once more, for the Byzantine heir to the throne Theodore Laskaris retreated here, and made it the base of the improbably successful Nicaean Empire. The Laskarid dynasty added a second circuit of walls before returning to Constantinople in 1261, but these again failed to deter the besieging Ottomans, who, led by Orhan Gazi, the victor of Bursa, broke through in March 1331. Renamed İznik, the city embarked on a golden age of sorts, interrupted briefly by the pillaging of Tamerlane in 1402.
While virtually all the surviving monuments predate the Mongol sacking, the most enduring contribution to art and architecture – the celebrated İznik tiles and pottery – first appeared after Çelebi Mehmet I brought skilled potters from Persia to begin the local industry. This received another boost in 1514 when Selim the Grim took Tabriz and sent more craftsmen west as war booty. By the end of the sixteenth century, ceramic production was at its height, with more than three hundred functioning kilns. The flowering was brief; within a hundred years war and politics had scattered most of the artisans. By the mid-eighteenth century the local industry had packed up completely. İznik began a long, steady decline, hastened by near-total devastation during the 1920–22 war.
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To watch İznik tiles being made, visit the İznik Vafkı, or İznik Foundation, at Vakıf Sok 13, near Saray Kapisi (wiznik.com), which was established in 1993 to restart production using traditional methods. It sells tiles of extremely high quality, and correspondingly high price – around TL100 for a 20cm x 10cm border piece. However, numerous other local workshops (atölyes) offer bulk discounts, which bring the price down to a more affordable TL20 for a 10cm x 10cm tile. Be aware, however, that most workshops primarily take orders for domestic customers, and are likely to have only one or two items of each particular design – anyone showing up on spec hoping to decorate an entire kitchen or bathroom is apt to be disappointed.
The best, reasonably priced, one-stop shop is Adil Can Nursan Sanat Atölyesi, just inside the İstanbul Kapısı. Other quality (as opposed to kitsch) shops cluster along Demircan Sokağı and inside the Süleyman Paşa Medresesi, the oldest (1332) Ottoman medrese in Turkey and the first one with an open courtyard, surrounded by eleven chambers and nineteen domes.
The toughest, best, most waterproof – and most expensive – tiles are not ceramic-based but made primarily from locally quarried, finely ground quartz. Quartz-rich tiles are air-porous, have good acoustic qualities (hence their use in mosques), and make good insulators, as they contract slightly in winter and expand in summer.


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A state probation officer is accused of having sexual contact with a parolee in his office, according to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation.
Daryell Smith, 63, of Ashland City, TN, was arrested and charged with one count of sexual contact with a parolee/probationer, a felony.
On Jan. 15, the 23rd Judicial District Attorney General asked the TBI to investigate allegations that Smith was having sexual contact with a woman under his supervision.
The TBI received evidence that sex was occurring in Smith's Ashland City office.
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