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The Trading Coach Project: Cementing Gains
The key to these two steps is repetition: developing new patterns of thought and behavior. By making visualizations highly vivid and by mentally rehearsing desired trading patterns, the trader creates a kind of practice outside of actual trading hours. Moreover, by combining the focused relaxation with the positive trading patterns, the trader becomes more able to access these patterns simply by taking some deep breaths and getting focused during the trading session.
Our timing couldn't have been better, as we began work on this just as the market volatility began to pick up significantly. For the most part, Trader C has been able to grade himself well on the three criteria, and this has corresponded to an upward move in his equity curve to fresh yearly highs. The exceptions occurred when he was particularly fatigued with an illness or distracted by family health concerns. I encouraged him to gauge his readiness to trade at the start of each session and size positions smaller if he was not feeling 100%. I have found this "taking your emotional temperature" to be a simple, but helpful step in avoiding unnecessary bad trading due to poor concentration. Just as an athlete should not start a game if he is injured, a trader should not be putting capital at risk if his focus isn't there.
Recall that Trader C trades both intraday and a longer-term set of themes in which he is long stocks from particular market segments. With the market's recent decline, his longer-term portfolio has taken a hit. Nonetheless, he resized those positions per his grading criteria and he also instituted a hedge with SPY to reduce exposure to overall market weakness. The combination of these two steps prevented him from undergoing a crippling drawdown.
Moreover, Trader C has used the enhanced volatility to trade well intraday and play the short side of the market. Indeed, as of our last conversation, his combined equity curve--intraday and longer-term portfolio--was actually up modestly during the market meltdown.
The takeaway is two-fold:
1) Consistent following of rules produces consistency of trading and that yields emotional consistency. Despite the enhanced market volatility, Trader C was able to trade well intraday and stay grounded in what he does best;
2) Having a combination of uncorrelated strategies is among the best of all risk management tools. By holding his longs, hedging them, and trading around them intraday, he has managed to stay profitable during market turbulence and has positioned his portfolio for the next rebound.
I was pleased to learn that Trader C was granted an interview at a major trading firm. He'll certainly have a number of positives to present; it's rare to see someone with both short-term trading skills and a knack for portfolio management. The formal part of our coaching project is over, but we will stay in touch and work on things as they arise. The goal is not for me to be Trader C's coach, but for him to get to the point of coaching himself well.
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- timothy_aldous said...
This is useful as usual. I'm glad to hear you working with Trader C is bearing fruit. What types of traders do you see making money in this recent volatility? Scalpers, intraday swing traders, traders holding overnight? Just curious coz I read all over the place that people like volatility but then that this volatility is too wild and hard to trade. Maybe it would make for a good article.
- Brett Steenbarger, Ph.D. said...
Hi Timothy,
I think you're right: traders have to be careful what they ask for. The enhanced volatility can be difficult to trade. Very short term traders at prop firms skilled at reading order flow can do well in this environment; at the other end of the spectrum are long/short traders who aren't so dependent upon market directionality and thus can weather the declines.


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5 Mind Blowing Ways Your Memory Plays Tricks On You
Everybody will tell you that memory can't be trusted. When they say that, of course, what they mean is other people's memories can't be trusted. We don't like to think that everything we know about the world is based on a deeply flawed and illogical storage system.
We're not talking about being bad at matching faces with names here. Science has found that your memory is basically a pathological liar, just making it up as it goes along. For instance ...
#5. Other People Can Manipulate Your Memory With Repetition
There was quite a stir recently when it turned out that a growing number of people believe the President of the USA is a Muslim. Regardless of whether or not you intend to vote for the man, this is just an issue of fact, and the fact is that at various times we have all seen video clips of Mr. Obama drinking alcohol, eating pork, getting sworn in on a Christian Bible and sitting in a Christian church.
But according to the Pew Research Center, for almost 20% of the people they polled, those memories have been trumped by the mere act of hearing commentators assert that Obama is a Muslim, over and over and over.
Obama, posing with a statue of the famed Imam Ali bin Superman.
You can laugh at them all you want, but that technique works on all of us, to various degrees. Nobody likes to think of themselves as susceptible to advertisements, or propaganda, or liars. Too bad. It's just part of the mechanical workings of our brain: when we hear a statement enough, we'll start to believe it.
They call it the "Illusion of Truth" effect. We judge things to be true based on how often we hear them. We like familiarity, and repeating a lie often enough makes it familiar to us, the repetition making it fall right in with all of the things our memory tells us are true about the world. Every advertiser or propagandist knows this. Humans are social animals, and there is a primal part of us that still says, "If other members of the tribe who I feel close to believe this, there must be something to it."
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And no, simply showing us the correct information doesn't fix it. Quite the opposite: research shows that once we've seized on an incorrect piece of information, exposure to the facts either doesn't change what we think, or makes us even more likely to hold onto the false information. You can guess why this is: our self-image triumphs over all. It's more important that we continue to think of ourselves as infallible than admit we're wrong. This is how people continue to believe admitted hoaxes after they have been proven to be fake.
"Who would fake something like that?"
But wait, here's the best part:
Most of you will still think of this as something other people do, and that you of course are the unbiased observer who can clearly see their stupidity. There is a reason for this, too. They call it the Bias Blind Spot. The biases in your system cripple even your ability to examine your own biases. So just now, when you thought to yourself, "Ha, I've caught myself doing that! But at least I'm not as nutty as those 'Obama is a Muslim' nutjobs!", you just saw your own bias at work. You're trying to examine a broken mechanism with a broken mechanism. It's like trying to perform surgery on your own ass, with a scalpel that is itself clenched in your ass.
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#4. Your Brain is Half-Blind
Most people seem to think of the brain as an incredibly complex machine that can do amazing things, but, at least when it comes to processing visual information, your brain is actually quite lazy, filling in what you are seeing with generic information it figures is probably there. This half-assed method of construction is known, in technical terms, as the Teamster approach [citation needed]. The best and most ridiculous example of this comes from the Invisible Gorilla study:
In the study volunteers were asked to watch the above video of two basketball teams and count how many passes there were. Try it.
During the video a person in a gorilla costume walks across the court. Half the people who watch that video don't notice the gorilla. All of them saw it, but they didn't know they had seen it. When they watched the tape again after being told there was a gorilla they all saw it, but still had no recollection of seeing it before. Because we are told to focus on the ball, our brain immediately makes assumptions about everything else in the scene and lazily fills it in (in this case, it assumes an empty, gorilla-free room), whether it's accurate or not.
Likewise, when you walk into an office, you will notice the hot receptionist, but you won't notice what her phone looks like, what color her chair is, or the fact that she has twenty glass cat figurines displayed on her desk. You saw all of that, in the sense that the light reflecting off all of those objects hit your eye, but without focusing on it you won't actually remember any of it. If pressed to remember it later, you'll just fill in generic images.
"...there was a pretty neat lamp in the corner?"
What is surprising about the above experiment was that even when those unnoticed details contained something unexpected, striking or even shocking (such as a rogue gorilla), your brain still just smoothed right over it. "Nothing to see here!"
So take a moment and wonder how many of your life's most striking or world-changing sights have fallen into this black hole of inattention.
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#3. Your Brain Just Makes Shit Up
If you're unfamiliar with the controversy over so-called repressed memories, hang on, because this is going to be the weirdest thing you read today:
This, however, will be the weirdest thing you see today.
There are two famous cases, involving Nadean Cool and Beth Rutherford. Cool, despite having a Fonzie worthy name, was convinced by her therapist during regular sessions that she had, among other things, been in a satanic cult, eaten babies, been regularly raped as a child, watched her friend get murdered, and that she had sex with animals. In reality none of that actually happened, yet she was completely convinced that it did. All it took was enough prodding from a therapist insisting that she had merely repressed the memory. The act of inventing the ludicrous scenario from whole cloth felt to her exactly the same as "uncovering" something she had forgotten.
Likewise Beth Rutherford, being treated in this case by a church counselor, was convinced that she had repressed memories of being regularly raped by her father (a clergyman) and was occasionally held down by her mother during the rapes. She even "remembered" having to self-abort on two separate occasions. Medical evidence later on proved that she was actually a virgin until she was 22 years old and that she had never been pregnant. Thus prompting what must have been the most awkward family reunion of all time.
"Let's all share a hearty laugh about the time you accused your mother and me of vicious rape!"
For a while a lot of weight was given to recovering these supposed repressed memories, and it was thought that with the right person guiding you, you could unlock secrets of your past that had been hidden away by years of repression and massive alcohol consumption. More recently people have begun to understand that most repressed memories are complete bullshit.
How is this even possible? Well, we've all experienced it to different degrees, whether we knew it or not. Have you ever vaguely remembered an interesting fact or story, but couldn't remember whether you saw it on the news, or in a movie, or in a fictional novel? Or sometimes you don't even question it, you might walk around for years citing a statistic to people, not remembering that you actually heard it in a dream, right before you fought a bear made of mashed potatoes. It's so common that the phenomenon has its own word: Confabulation. Essentially the brain confuses an imagined event with an actual memory.
Like the time you went skiing with that gorilla.
There are differing theories about exactly why it happens, both boiling down to "the brain kind of sucks." One theory is that we try to fill in gaps to make partial memories make sense (they did experiments where children were asked later to recall a story they had been read, and they found the children tended to alter the story in their memory so that it was more logical than the original). Others think it's just because we are terrible about remembering exactly where we heard something. So memories, particularly vague ones, seem equally valid regardless of whether we're remembering real events or imaginary ones, because the exact origin of a memory is often blurry.
Dream, acid trip or invented memory? There's really no way to know.
That's how you get weird-ass situations like the fake repressed memories; experiments show that if you run into someone who knew you as a child and they tell you about an event you don't personally remember, you'll construct a memory to match it--even if it didn't actually happen. It's like we have evolved to be able to lie, but still haven't gotten to the point where we can get our minds around the fact that other people do it. As with the first entry, we find our memories are putty in the hands of people who know how to manipulate them.
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The formula leaves a lot to be desired, though. It was uneven and streaky in one coat, and mildly gloopy to apply (nothing some thinner probably wouldn't fix, but it's a brand new bottle!). It evened out nicely in two coats; what you see in the pictures is two coats over Gelous base coat and under Seche Vite top coat. Here's the really sad part though: I did this manicure this morning, took the pictures about two hours later, and had three giant chips just a few hours after that. The manicure didn't even last through my work day before it was peeling off most of my nails. Huh?! I have never seen such bad wear from a nail polish, and I promise you I know all the tricks to help make it last (cleaning off nail beds with remover before application, using thinner coats, waiting long enough between coats, wrapping the tips, etc.).
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The controversial issue of Medicaid cuts is getting shuffled around in Frankfort.
The House-Senate Health and Welfare Committee was scheduled to discuss the cuts on Oct. 15, but legislative leaders recently voted to hand the issue over to the General Assembly's budget committee, upsetting many Medicaid patients, as well as some politicians in Frankfort.
If a hearing is not held within 30 days after the matter is referred to this second committee, the new regulations go into effect without a hearing.
Since the Budget Committee doesn't have any meetings scheduled for this month, some Medicaid patients and their caretakers worry this issue will get swept under the rug.
If you would like more information on how you can help voice your opinions in Frankfort, you can contact Marilyn Mitchell at Bowling Green's BEST Center for Independent Living. That number is (270) 796-5992.
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Domino's Pizza - 50% off Any Pizza at Menu Price
Use coupon code 9413 at checkout (online orders only). Valid until Dec 9, 2012
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This one's legit.
Why would anyone eat pizza from Domino's?
@kristamaz: Their dish is actually pretty good, and the quality has turned around, at least at the locations I've visited.
@kristamaz: Agreed. Their pizza's gross. And even if it was better, it's better to buy local.
I like Dominos... Does that make me a bad person?
I like their thin crust cheese pizza. Thanks for the post!
I haven't paid menu price in years - 50% off that number isn't a big savings, but you'll save $1-2 on a large pizza.
I'll definately use this.
Dominos has it on their own site in the coupon area. Very nice!
I get Dominoes because they still have banana peppers. Not of the other takeout places in my reasonable driving area offer Tuscan peperoncini peppers, banana peppers or Hungarian peppers for their pizza. But I recently tried the new handmade pizza (I don't know if it's included in this coupon) and it was really amazing. The crust was very flavorful.
Has anyone else had problems getting this to work? When I put the coupon code in at checkout it says "Sorry, invalid coupon/promotion code", also tried looking it up on their coupon page to no avail.
@hideouswhennaked: was the item full price? Also, nice name.
Thanks, Great find. Used code to buy 10 large pizzas for the office. Final price with tax $71.94 Total "savings" $58.50
Clearly the motto of deals.woot types: "I'll take cheap at all costs!"
@geekv2: If this was 5 years ago, then yes. I get their gluten free crust pizza, and I will say that it is the best gluten-free pizza I have ever had, from anywhere.
Note, like their own huge-a$$ warning says, they can't guarantee that there's no cross contamination, but for me whatever cross-contamination there is isn't a problem for me, but YMMV
I always order the Chicken & Spinach with the Garlic & Parmesan Sauce ("White Sauce") instead of Red Sauce. The people that I've introduced this combination to have taken to calling it "Crack Pizza". We can't get enough. When we don't have it, we're thinking about it. :-)
Dominos pizza USED to be very bad. But, since 2010, their hand-tossed is delicious. "In 2010, shortly after the company's 50th anniversary, Domino's changed its pizza recipe 'from the crust up', making significant changes in the dough, sauce and cheese used in their pizzas." (from Wikipedia)
I had their pan pizza yesterday, it was great.
Never ever pay menu price at Dominos, they always have a coupon for something you'll want. 50% off menu price is good, but you can usually get a similar deal on some item there every day if you check. So much cheaper than the pizza in NY, it's like 15 bucks for a large pie here at this point, without toppings. Sure, it's better than Dominos, but I don't go to Dominos for artisan dishes. I go for the grease...and Dominos is so much better now than in the past.
I must admit, Domino's is MUCH improved. I'm from Chicago (where we take our pizza seriously) and I like their new recipe, especially the pan pizza. When I don't feel like spending $25+ for my favorite local pizza, I go with Domino's.
It looks like some people forgot that this is DEALS.woot.com and not FANCYFEASTFORHUMANS.woot.com
Who's Roy?
@boekjar: Thanks for the tip. We tried your chicken-and-spinach-with-white-sauce on a hand-tossed crust tonight. You're right. It's to die for!
I'll never understand why there are pizza snobs in every pizza related deal to poo poo all over it. Okay, you don't like chain pizza, that's great. It doesn't change the fact that 50% off menu price is a great deal and most of us do like it!
Domino's new pan pizzas are my fave chain pizzas, no question, and the prices are solid. Good deal.
This coupon is not great if you want one pie... you select the pizza, toppings, then the site deducts the 50%, it then tells you your order is not enough (min $10.50) for an online order, so you must add more items, so effectively you must order close to twice what you wanted to get 50% off... yeah, math rules eh?
This works for the gluten free crust, which rarely has any coupons and costs like $3 extra.
This was dinner tonight. Like an easy button.
@prey: That or add a soda or get off the couch! XD Just pick it up after work tis what I'm doing. Figured this is a good chance to try their new "hand made" pan pizza. I expect to be disappointed but we will see!
Do agree the min order for delivery is just silly. They should just say convince fee of $2 or whatever for orders under $12. I'm aware ordering more pizza would be smarter but I know people who would pay the $2 -.- don't ask lol.
@editorkid: I feel like you shouldn't talk until you tried there new and improved menu
I worked at domino's until last week. The new crust is called handmade pan or butter pan. It is called butter pan because before it is cooked you can see little bits of butter in the crust. This dough is gravity stretched, which mean that you hold it at the top then slowing spin it in a circle to stretch it. Then it is put into a pan and you stretch it the rest of the way to the edges. The old deep dish was a premade crust and this new stuff is much better. It kinda sucks that we only have medium, but they couldn't get the large to cook right without increasing the temp or cooking time to much. The ovens cook time and temp were increased a little so regular pizzas come out a bit well done, so if you think your pizzas have been a bit burnt just ask for them to be a little under done.
Aauurrgghhh!!! I'm trying to lose weight for the holidays and you post this?
@infernox: I agree with you about pizza snobs. I will admit that any well made artisan pizza will almost always outclass anything by the major chains, but it doesn't mean that the chain pizza's are bad. I think this is a concept that pizza snobs seem to overlook with their noses held high to prove how "sophisticated" they are (which of course proves only how annoyingly pretentious they are).
I like Domino's Pizza's thin crust pizza. It is very good and local shops generally don't make anything quite like it. The thin is crunchy and doesn't overwhelm the flavors of the pizza toppings like thicker crusts sometimes can.
@thejke: Thanks for the info. It's nice to know these things about the places you order from.
Used this last night in the Dominoe's Android app. Didn't even have to put it in, it was right at the top of the coupon list. Got a medium ham and pineapple plus 8 mild wings for $12.
The chocolate lava cakes are awesome!
I love this special. I always order a couple of small pepperoni pizzas (hand crust) and they come out to $2.99 each. Their small pizzas are larger than a personal pan from Pizza Hut, and two people can eat off one easily. I agree with others, I use to really hate Domino's, but since they revamped their pizzas they have become one of my favorites.
@prey: Since my online order was $8, well under the $10.50 minimum you mentioned, maybe your minimum was because you specified delivery (mine was carryout). Or, perhaps each store sets its own minimum.
Wow. Pizza snobs.
I live in an Upstate New York community that has LOTS of Italian Americans. I grew up around NYC. The upstaters think their pizza is great... and I've tried the local stuff... it's inconsistent. Depending on who makes the sauce on what day and etc... they make passable to horrible pizza. ...The local pizza is so bad, the local newspaper had a "blind" taste test of local sauces vs Ragu (as a joke, or so they thought)... and Ragu came out #2 in a line up of 8. And this is with the local Italians judging their own sauces.
If you ever visit, DON'T buy local pizza in Upstate NY. It's always disappointing and expensive ( because they have to truck their ingredients from all over NY... NYC gets the ingredients the freshest from their docks). At least with Domino's you know what you're getting... Really good stuff, especially with their "recipe turnaround" a few years back. And it's consistent because there's a nationwide process for making their pizzas.
yay! food for tonight and i didn't have to call!
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We will attend this year FOSDEM in Brussels, and Benjamin will be presenting a one hour talk about OpenBricks in the Embedded devroom. The talk is entitled Introduction to OpenBricks, an Embedded Linux Framework and we hope it will give you a good introduction of what OpenBricks is and how is can be useful. Barring last minute changes, it is scheduled for Sunday, 6th February 2011, 13:00 CET in the Lameere room. See you there!
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Dear OncoLink "Ask The Experts,"
Do I have to tell my employer I have cancer?
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This shouldn't be a topic of discussion during an interview. The employer can ask if you can perform the essential functions of the job, with or without reasonable accommodation. If you ask for a leave under ADA or FMLA, you'd have to disclose why. That medical information should be kept separate from your personnel file. An employer can also ask that you take an independent medical exam prior to starting a job (if all job candidates have to do the same) and you'd have to answer questions honestly. If your job performance takes a drastic turn for the worse, and employer can inquire to see if it's health related. See: Don't Ask, Don't Tell for more information.
A great resource for work related issues is Cancer and Careers.
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Geraldine Wade from the Cleartype Advanced Reading Technologies team walked us through a look at what makes Gabriola different from other fonts in Windows, how it lights up in Blend, and to talk about what this means for font designers going forward. Jeff Bell from the Office team showed us how the upcoming Publisher 2010 puts the stylistic sets of Gabriola into users' hands.
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And it's named after Gabriola Island, B.C.
Spent 5 days there this August, we have a cabin on the island. Nice place to relax, even to retire to(hopefully one day myself). And a tidbit, Bob Hope used to have a yacht in Silva Bay, he liked it here too
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The following fines were issued in Follansbee Municipal Court, Municipal Judge Michael Fuscardo presiding, on Jan. 14:
Nicole M. Johnston, 49 Woodcrest Road, Follansbee, no insurance, $222; Nathan W. Howe, 218 Lee Road, Follansbee, underage consumption, $170; Angela L. Mozingo, RR 1, Wheeling, failure to maintain control and driving while suspended, $370; Miranda A. Marino, 27 Highwview Circle, Weirton, reckless driving and stop sign violation, $620; Richard T. Taylor, 1046 Virginia Ave., Follansbee, stop sign violation, $120; Paul R. Mohney, 249 Mahan Lane, Follansbee, expired inspection, $72; and Andrew R. Goddard of New Martinsville, W.Va., striking a highway fixture, reckless driving, failure to produce an operator's license and no proof of insurance, $870.
Fined for reckless driving were: Barry L. Dillie III, 2227 1/2 Charles St., Wellsburg; Gary T. Harless, 319 Winters Drive, Wintersville; and Kimberly E. Eames, 124 Minor Ave., Weirton, all $570; and Alexis A. Russell, 1426 Walker Road, reckless driving, $170.
Fined $120 for speeding were: Connie A. Booker, 3733 West St., Weirton; Theresa A. Glover, 430 Helen St., Weirton; Corey J. Gray, 392 Cedar Lane, Follansbee; and Emily E. Stinner of Pittsburgh.
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Kick it off!
We begin our World Cup coverage with a two-parter.
Ten offenders to watch come Cup-calling time this upcoming June.
Mind you, this is not a comprehensive or exclusive list, nor is it a list of the top scorers or the top point-getters. It's merely a list of ten guys who dazzle with the ball on and coming off their foot.
Some are well known and some are under the radar; but all should play a part in at least one highlight in South Africa 2010.
Part I.
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10. Danny (Portugal)
Everyone, but everyone will be focused on Danny's slickster Portugese counterpart, Cristiano "The Greasy One" Ronaldo. That would be a mistake. We already know that Ronaldo will make his presence felt.
The 26-year old Venezuelen-born striker had his coming out party in August 2008, notching two goals in his debut for current club Zenit as they knocked off Manchester United 2008 UEFA Super Cup. If you watched Danny's display that day, it was, in one word, spectacular. After that day, I've always looked for highlights or updates on his form.
If Danny's current form is any indication (5 goals in 10 club appearances this year as we write this), we think he's due in World Cup 2010.
09. Giuseppe Rossi (Italy)
We'll spare the Benedict Arnold tirade.
The slightly mercurial Italian national, by way of New Jersey, United States, has been coming into his own in 2009. After shrugging of country pitch time issues–those who played in Serie A are favored–the Villarreal striker has been on target for his club, notching 8 goals in 17 appearances to go along with handful of assists.
With the expected absence of Cassano in the Italian squad, the 22-year-old Rossi will be a focus of the Italian attack and, in our opinion, he'll deliver.
08. Diego Forlan (Uruguay)
Diego Forlan likely needs zero introduction on this publication.
One of the elder statesmen of this group, the 30-year old Forlan is Uruguay.
Forlan had a topsy-turvy ride earlier on in his career at Manchester United, but has long-since bloomed in La Liga with Atletico Madrid. A continual target of various EPL clubs now, Forlan has bagged 6 in 12 outside the Champions' League this year for Madrid.
While were in the minority in stating that Uruguay does not get out of Group A, there will at least be one massive highlight from the blond-locked striker in the group stage. Mark our words.
07. Gonzalo Higuain (Argentina)
"Well it's about time" was the TSG statement when Higuain finally factored for the Argentinian Maradonas. Rumor has it Maradona as an alumnus of Boca Juniors didn't want to trot out a big-time striker who played for arch rival River Plate.
Higuain is lights out for Real Madrid this season. El Pipita (or The Nose as Higuain is known) has made summer acquisition of Karim Benzema redundant and spurred transfer rumors for the Frenchman Benzema just a half season after arriving at the Bernabeu.
06. Alexis Sanchez (Chile)
Watching Chile attempt to beat Spain using a 3-5-2 isn't the only reason to tune into the Chilean World Cup squad.
Before Sir Alex heisted Antonio Valencia as Ronaldo's replacement, rumor was Ferguson was sniffing around Udinese's Sanchez. Dubbed both the Wonder Boy and the Explosive Boy for his on-the-ball moves, Sanchez has yet to reach world acclaim. Look for him to improve on his 8 goals in 26 appearances for his national team….and make himself known….globally.
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I'm a tax dodger. I have not been as successful or as smart at avoiding tax as Jimmy Carr, but I'm learning a little more every day and am quite pleased with how I have honed my skills in recent months.
My determination to avoid tax is a fairly new phenomenon. In my twenties and thirties I was really only earning enough to make ends meet and felt that old age was so far away that I could live for today rather than save for tomorrow.
Having now just entered my forties – and given that I also have a pretty decent income - I've started to take a much greater interest in how I organise my finances to the maximum benefit of myself and my family.
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From Emmy Award-winning executive producer Jerry Bruckheimer ("CSI" franchise, "The Amazing Race," "Pirates of the Caribbean") and executive producer Jennifer Johnson ("Cold Case," "Reunion," "Lost"), "Chase" is a lightning-fast drama that drops viewers smack into the middle of a game of cat-and-mouse as a team of U.S. Marshals hunts down America's most dangerous fugitives.
Kelli Giddish ("Past Life") stars as U.S. Marshal Annie Frost, a cowboy boot-wearing deputy whose sharp mind and unique Texas upbringing help her track down violent criminals on the run. Starring as the members of Frost's elite team are Cole Hauser ("K-Ville") as Jimmy Godfrey, an East Texas kid who never grew up and is a true American cowboy; Amaury Nolasco ("Prison Break") who plays Marco Martinez, a good intelligence guy who loves to talk; and Rose Rollins ("The L Word"), who portrays Daisy Ogbaa, a weapons/tactical specialist and a woman of few words. Rounding out the cast is Jesse Metcalfe ("Desperate Housewives"), who stars as Luke Watson, the fresh-faced newcomer whose Washington, D.C. upbringing did little to prepare him for the Lone Star State.
"Chase" is produced by Bonanza Productions Inc. in association with Jerry Bruckheimer Television and Warner Bros. Television. Bruckheimer, Jonathan Littman ("CSI" franchise, "The Amazing Race," "Cold Case") and Johnson serve as executive producers, while KristieAnne Reed co-executive produces. David Nutter ("The Mentalist," "Without a Trace," "X-Files") directed and serves as an executive producer on the pilot, written by Johnson.
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Jerry Bruckheimer, Jennifer Johnson, Jonathan Littman, David Nutter
Jennifer Johnson
Co-Executive Producer
Kristie Anne Reed, Gary A. Brown, Erik Oleson
Consulting Producer
Greg Plageman
Scott Gimple
Jennifer Johnson, Erik Oleson, Scott Gimple, Greg Plageman, Tracy McMillan, Erica Anderson, Ryan Farley, Erik Mountain
Casting Director
Ronna Kress, Beth Sepko, Elizabeth Barnes, Corbin Bronson, Beth Sepko, Debi Michaelis
Debi Michaelis
Production Designer
Richard Berg, Carey Meyer
Director of Photography
Ramsey Nickell, Fernando Arguelles, Allan Westbrook
Paul Karasick, Ray Daniels, Scott Lerner
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From what I recall, a girl who is about twenty years old finds herself in a strange and gloomy stop-frame animated city. A very distinct scene, which should identify the film, involves the girl being captured by a creature described as follows. It was like the walking skeleton of a long four-legged creature about the size of a bus. Apparently the girl broke some rule and this creature clamped it's ribcage around her and trotted her off to jail.
If I had to guess a year, it would be between 1996 and 2006.


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Nothing Is Worth Falling Out Over
My mother and my grandmother didn't speak to each other for the last 15 years of their lives. Some families are like that; strained relationships all over the place, siblings who don't speak, cousins who everyone has lost track of and no one even has their address.
It runs in families. We learn by example, and if you grow up in a family where people have long-term feuds with relatives that tends to become the norm. That means that if you stop speaking to your own mother or father, one of your kids may spend 20 years not speaking to you. It's a childish form of behavior to demonstrate to our children, but some people do it.
It's such a shame, too. Not only is it a bit pathetic that we'd rather cut off diplomatic relations than sort out the problem, it's also sad that we end up without a parent/sibling/cousin who will be there for us when we need them.
Good family relationships are the strongest relationships there are. When things go wrong, your family should be there to get you through more reliably and longsufferingly than anyone else. It's not like that for everyone, but it can be like that at its best. Whether you're badly injured, divorcing, redundant, widowed, having your home repossessed, facing a court case, have a desperately ill child, have a problem with drugs or alcohol, or whatever might come along in your life, it's family who will stick by you even if they don't really approve. Family will continue to stick by you for months or years until you're back on your feet.
Frankly, that's worth a hell of a lot. It's worth forgiving and forgetting whatever it is that tempted you to stop speaking to them because that's the deal. If you want your family to be there for you, you've got to be there for them. That means letting go of the frustration and the angst they can sometimes cause, turning the other cheek, and realizing that the families who stop speaking to each other are the ones who will leave you in the lurch when you hit times of trouble.
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The Cornell study's methodology was simple. Researchers sent out nearly identical résumés to hundreds of employers. The résumés differed only in facts about the purported applicant's personal life: some were moms, and some were childless. What researchers found was shocking. Based solely on the information in the job applications, employers rated mothers as significantly less competent and committed than their childless counterparts, even though the accomplishments and experience on the résumé were exactly the same.
That's not all. The study also concluded that prospective employers offered starting salaries worth $11,000 less to moms than to childless women. Even without factoring in annual salary increases or promotions, the difference may equate to hundreds of thousands of dollars less over a mother's career. Citing the same study, the Boston Globe recently reported that "mothers earn 5 percent less per child than other comparable workers."
It can be harder for working moms to get back into the workforce, too. Less than half of mothers get callbacks for interviews, as compared to childless workers. And the Cornell study found a massive discrepancy between the hiring statistics for their hypothetical applicants: "...while participants recommend 84% of female nonmothers for hire, they recommend a significantly lower 47% of mothers."
Ironically, the Cornell study also found that working fathers benefit from the perception of their commitment and competence, as opposed to childless men. Employers were also more generous when it came to the work/life balance of working dads. "Fathers were allowed to be late to work significantly more times than nonfathers. Finally, they were offered significantly higher salaries than nonfathers."
So why do working moms make less? The Cornell study speculated that employers "may assume that women who have apparently forgone childbearing to enter the labor market are extraordinarily committed to work," yet concluded that "interruptions from work, working part-time, and decreased seniority/experience collectively explain no more than about one-third of the motherhood penalty." In other words, there is no good reason for the motherhood penalty. All we know for sure is that the penalty is real, and it is severe.
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In a regular bentching a child would say "ES AVI MORI BAL HABAYIS HAZEH" or in your own home "OSI V'ES ISHTI/BALI" what about a bachur in a Yeshiva dining room, or a person in a restaurant or a non Jewish college cafeteria?
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I've heard that this is a very flexible Nusaḥ.
Regarding what some others have mentioned about why we say it, I believe this is a (relatively) recent development in the Ashkenazi world. By that I mean that the Gemara and Shulḥan 'Aruch provide a text of a Yehi Ratzon to say as a guest at someone else's table, which is printed in a slightly different version in a "this is optional" gray box in the Artscroll Siddur, and which is becoming increasingly popular to say (at least in some circles). According to a rebbi I had in high school, it's not at all clear why the Yehi Ratzon fell into disuse, but it's perfectly acceptable to say it and/or the HaRaḥaman.
Many Sepharadim say some version of the Yehi Ratzon.
In accordance with the above, again, according to what I've heard, the exact text of the HaRaḥaman can be altered to fit the situation. You can bless your hosts, your colleagues, your parents (even if you're not dependent on them or living in their home), your spouse, your children, or anyone you like. Having said that, again in accordance with the above, you should bless whoever is sponsoring your meal, whether it is the host or someone who brought the meal or paid for it in some capacity (you could say "Ba'al(ath) HaSe'udah HaZoth", for example). I know of at least one version of Bentching that supposedly follows the custom of R' Sa'adyah Gaon, which has a series of blessings for virtually everyone in attendance at the meal, their spouses, their parents, their children, their future children, etc.
I asked a rabbi this question once. (related to a slightly different part of bentching, where we say "al hashulchan hazeh, val h bayit hazeh" about benching on a Tiyul outdoors as well as other places like shuls and school. He told me not to change the nusach. And then told me in addition, that the 'Baal habayit' in each place still exists, even if the place is not exactly a "house", or you are not sitting at a literal "table".
On a tiyul, it is the person who funded the paths to be constructed. At a yeshiva it is the owner of the yeshiva, at a public place, it is the owner of the building. You still need to be thankful to the people who made the place where you are eating possible. Or possibly the person who bought the food for you to eat.
In my Yeshiva we said "את כל מסובין כאן" in place of "את בעל הבית הזה."
Maybe just say "ES AVI MORI v'IMI MORASI" since they're supporting you.


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"Smoking is an idiotic decision that imposes costs on the smoker and on society. But its consequences pale in comparison to the removal of stigma from pre-marital (especially early pre-marital) sex and the ever-growing emancipation of children from parental control. The sexual revolution brought an explosion of out-of-wedlock births. ... That rise in illegitimacy has imposed far higher costs in crime, prison and welfare than smoking ever has. The demoralizing of juvenile sex has left us in the preposterous situation of viewing the decision to buy a pack of cigarettes as weightier, and more in need of an adult's full cognitive and moral capacities, than a teen's decision to have sexual intercourse."
— Manhattan Institute fellow Heather Mac Donald, New York Post, "The madness of liberal moralizing," May 7
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Trammell grows into leadership role with mighty Chargers
EAST HARTFORD — When Jh'mel Trammell got his first taste of Ansonia football in the spring of his sophomore year, it was as if he'd ordered a steak dinner and a 96-ouncer showed up on his plate.
"I was overwhelmed," said Trammell, now a 5-foot-9 senior lineman. "I saw how big they were and how fast they were and I was short."
Whatever he lacked in height, though, he made up for with hard work. That helped Trammell pull off a rare feat and start for the Chargers in his first year with the program.
"I knew it was going to be hard, especially after watching them play," he said. "I had to show them I had talent and could work hard, and they accepted me."
Trammell, originally from Danbury, grew up in Georgia and moved to Ansonia midway through his sophomore year. He joined the football team immediately and started all 14 games on the defensive line for last year's state championship squad.
He probably didn't even know how uncommon starting as a newcomer really was.
"I didn't know much about Ansonia," Trammell said. "I knew they had a good program, a good coaching staff and good football players."
Entering the 2012 season was a totally different story for Trammell. Ansonia graduated its entire offensive line and most of its defensive front. That left the rising senior to take on the leadership role previously assumed by the linemen before him.
"They pushed me to become better," Trammell said. "Now I've become better for this team. I just had to be a leader for all the people on the line."
Trammell didn't want to take a rah-rah approach to motivating the slew of first-year starters that have joined him on both lines.
"I'm not a leader that has to rile people up and talk about doing something," he said. "I had to be a leader that leads by example. I didn't really talk but I showed them. I hoped they would learn from how I play."
Ansonia coach Tom Brockett said Trammell's leadership shows especially in practice, when the Chargers' veteran staff can be at its harshest.
"We're hard on our kids, but he has a way of telling the kids not to worry about it," Brockett said. "Watching how hard he works every day, they understand that's what's expected out of them. He instilled a lot of confidence in the kids."
That's evident in watching the Chargers' potent-as-ever offense, which includes record-setting running back Arkeel Newsome and standout wide receiver Andrew Matos.
"Ansonia runs the ball a lot and he's probably our best lineman," Matos said. "We know we can run behind him. He brings a lot of intensity. He plays hard, he plays fast. He's not a selfish player. He wants to win and that's most important."
Newsome said he likes running behind the veteran lineman.
"We have a connection every time," Newsome said. "If we need the extra yardage, we run behind him. He lead blocks for me."
For all the numbers, records and subsequent attention Newsome gets, though, Trammell thinks he has just as much fun — if not more — than the superstar.
"It's fun blocking for Arkeel," Trammell said. "Me and him communicate all the time. I tell Arkeel to push me in the back if I'm running too slow so I know he's behind me and I can go faster."
Just an undeniable as Trammell's splendid performance on the line is the pure enjoyment evident on his face before, during and after every game. It's an emotion he attributes to living with an athletic family.
"I was raised by football and basketball players," said Trammell, whose father Jamal played football and mother Pamela Moffett played basketball. "Whatever I do, I have so much fun doing it. They always taught me that you have to stay hungry, you need determination and you need heart."
"He absolutely loves playing the game," Brockett said. "For me personally, you love being around great kids and he's one of the great kids. He's awesome."
With a victory Saturday over North Branford in the Class S state championship, Trammell will complete a 28-0 career with the Chargers. It's a career he never knew he'd even have.
"It's been a blessing," Trammell said. "I feel like I was meant to play for Ansonia. It's hard to explain but I know my coaches and teammates love me. This is where I'm meant to be."
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another recruit wrote on Dec 5, 2012 11:58 AM:
" Everyone prasises Ansonia but lets be real. They recruit bigtime. Trammell played for Crosby his Sophmore year. Why doesnt anyone talk about it. He did not come straight from Danbury. Too funny...Amazing how the paper left that out. Goes to show you that you cant beleive everything you read... "
Shut up wrote on Dec 5, 2012 4:24 PM:
" If pick Ansonia over Waterbury every time as a place to raise a family! There a parts of Waterbury I wouldn't drive a tank through, I can't say that about Any place in the lower valley. Ansonia has a new high school and Crosby has a new metal detector, give me a break and get a clue, its about alot more then football. "
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"Art Bounce" and "Spring Fever" run simultaneously 5:30-8:30 p.m. Friday in downtown Sturgis. Artists and musicians are featured at some 17 businesses. Here's a roundup.
- B&D Travel, music by 2XX Deluxe.
- Blue Skies, music by Adrienne Frailey.
- Boost Mobile will serve refreshments.
- Boundary Waters, music by Bill Johnson.
- Camburn's, wood carvings by Mike Sanford.
- Cellar & Market, music by Matt Schwartz and Double-Strung.
- Central Florist, music by Helmsmen Quartet.
- Designs by Vogt's, music by Nick Connor.
- Fiebig Jewelers, Cynthia Buchanan's reverse glass painting "Wall Jewelry" and music by Tim Peterson.
- From Moments to Milestones, Michaelene Glowacz's metal and clay sculptures.
- Headlines Hair Designs, music by The Blues Shed.
- Infinity Ink, artwork by Ben Lyons, poster pop on mixed media.
- Jimi Jo's Ice Cream, Derrick Freske, photography.
- Laura Jean's Boutique, music by Tom Hamilton.
- Lowry's Books and More, music by Greg Rokicak.
- Open Door Gallery, "ARTrageous Window" and children's animal paintings; music by Dylan and Dan.
- Willer's Shoes, music by Rhonda Harper.
Those who attend the events may enter to win one of three $50 gift certificates: Laura Jean's, provided by Citizens Bank; Boundary Waters, provided by W.E. English Insurance; any Downtown Business Association member's shop.
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Immigration bill a backup, White House says
Spanish declines, English on the rise among U.S. Latinos April 20, 2016
Border checkpoint scans eyes, faces of departing foreigners February 19, 2016
High court to rule on Obama use of executive authority February 8, 2016
WASHINGTON — Republicans and Democrats alike on Sunday predicted President Barack Obama would fail if he pushed forward with his own effort to overhaul the nation's immigration system and urged the administration to hold off while lawmakers work on a bipartisan measure.Republican Sen. John McCain predicted the administration's efforts would come up short if the White House went forward with a proposal to put the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. on a long pathway to citizenship. Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer, who met with Obama on Wednesday at the White House to discuss progress, urged his allies in the administration to give a bipartisan group of eight lawmakers the time to hammer out a deal on their own.Obama's newly appointed top aide, chief of staff Denis McDonough, said the White House would only send its plan to Congress if the lawmakers stumble in their efforts and cast its efforts as a backup plan."Well, let's make sure that it doesn't have to be proposed," McDonough said of the president's pitch, first reported on USA Today's website late Saturday."We will be prepared with our own plan if these ongoing talks between Republicans and Democrats up on Capitol Hill break down," McDonough said in a second interview, adding he's optimistic they would not crumble.The administration's proposal would create a visa for those in the country illegally and allow them to become legal permanent residents within eight years. The proposal also requires businesses to know the immigration status of their workers and adds more funding for border security.It drew immediate criticism from Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla."If actually proposed, the president's bill would be dead on arrival in Congress, leaving us with unsecured borders and a broken legal immigration system for years to come," said Rubio, who is among the eight lawmakers searching for a comprehensive plan.Many of the details in the administration's draft proposal follow the broad principles that Obama previously outlined. But the fact the administration is writing its own alternative signaled Obama wants to address immigration sooner rather than later and perhaps was looking to nudge lawmakers to move more quickly.The tactic potentially complicates the administration's work with Congress.Republican Rep. Paul Ryan, the Wisconsin lawmaker who was his party's vice presidential nominee last year, said the timing of the leak suggested the White House was looking for "a partisan advantage and not a bipartisan solution.""Leaking this out does set things in the wrong direction," said Ryan, who could be a serious contender for his party's presidential nomination in 2016. "There are groups in the House and the Senate working together to get this done and when he does things like this, it makes that much more difficult to do that."Freshman Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-Texas, called the leaked plan "incomplete" and said both parties in Congress and the White House need to work together on a solution."It hasn't happened yet. It will happen before something is acted upon and certainly before something is passed," he said.McCain, the Arizona senator whose previous efforts at an immigration overhaul ended in failure in 2007, predicted the White House proposal's demise if it were sent to Congress. He strongly urged the president to pocket the drafted measures and give senators a chance to finish their work."I believe we are making progress in a bipartisan basis," McCain, who is among the Senate group working on legislation, said.Schumer, a New York Democrat and a close ally to the White House, said he has not seen the draft proposals but, along with the Democrats working on a compromise, met with Obama this week to talk about progress being made on Capitol Hill. Schumer acknowledged that a single-party proposal would have a much more difficult time becoming law and urged the bipartisan group of senators to keep meeting to find common ground."I am very hopeful that in March we will have a bipartisan bill," Schumer said. "And, you know, it's obvious if a Democrat — the president or anyone else — puts out what they want on their own, (it) is going to be different than when you have a bipartisan agreement. But the only way we're going to get something done is with a bipartisan agreement."Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., suggested Obama's proposed plan was going nowhere but added that his party was evaluating its relationship with Hispanic voters, who supported Obama in November with 71 percent of their votes."I think people want a little different face on immigration, frankly," said Paul, who is also considered among the 2016 presidential hopefuls. "They don't want somebody who wants to round people up, put them in camps and send them back to Mexico."The Associated Press, relying on a CQ Roll Call transcript that was distributed after "Fox News Sunday" and omitted the word "don't" in that quote, initially reported that Paul saw his party as in favor of such efforts to deport immigrants. The AP's subsequent review of an audio recording of the broadcast confirmed the missing word.McDonough appeared on ABC's "This Week," NBC's "Meet the Press" and CBS' "Face the Nation." 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Let $X=Spec(A)$ be an affine scheme and $U=Spec(R)$ be an affine open subset of $X$. Is it true that $R$ is an localization of $A$, i.e. $R=S^{-1}A$ for some closed multiplication subset $S\subset A$ ?
No. This question is pretty closely related to this other question, but let me give an answer nonetheless:
Consider an elliptic curve $E$ in $\mathbb{P}^2(\mathbb{C})$, choose coordinates $[x:y:z]$ of $\mathbb{P}^2(\mathbb{C})$ in a way that the line $z = 0$ intersects $E$ at an inflection point $O$. Let $X := E \setminus \lbrace z = 0 \rbrace$. Choose a point $P \in E$ such that $P$ is not a torsion point with respect to the group structure on $E$ for which $O$ is the origin. Let $U := X \setminus \lbrace P \rbrace$. Then $U$ is an open affine subset of $X$, but there is no $f \in A:=\mathbb{C}[X]$ that vanishes only at $P$. So $\mathbb{C}[U]$ cannot contain $A_f$ for any non-constant $f \in A$.
Concerning characterization of an affine open subset U in an affine scheme Spec(A) , with complementary Y, I got the following answer. One uses Serre's affinity criterion. This gives conditions on cohomology whith supports in Y (cohomological dimension). If the ring A is regular, then the characterization is : codim(Y) = 1 purely (Cartier divisor) !.


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We are making a delicious pasta that is great for you to make at home for Fat Tuesday.
Iron Gate Cafe
Located in the Donald W Reynolds Community Center and Library
1515 West Main Street Durant, OK
Open 9am-5pm
Mardi Gras Pasta
1 lb cooked pasta 1lb Cajun Sausage, sliced
1 jar cheese sauce 1lb Crawfish tails
(I like Ragu Double Cheddar) 1lb Shrimp
1 can of Rotel, drained Cajun Seasoning, black pepper, garlic powder to taste
Cook all the meat for a few minutes then add drained tomatoes and cheese and seasonings. Add cooked pasta and serve.
Chicken and Cajun Sausage Gumbo
First you make a Roux:
2 cups plain flour
1 cup vegetable oil
In a medium skillet over high heat add the flour and oil. Cook and stir constantly for 10 minutes or until the color of peanut butter. This can be done in the microwave in a glass dish, stirring every few minutes until dark enough.
4 lbs. boneless skinless chicken breast
2 lbs. sliced Cajun sausage
Chopped green onion, celery and bell pepper
{as much or as little as you want}
Cajun Seasoning, black pepper, garlic powder to taste
3-4 quarts of hot water
After the roux is as dark as you want it, add all other ingredients and let it cook uncovered until chicken is cooked. If the gumbo is not dark enough, Kitchen Bouquet can be added for color.
Makes 7 cups
Any seafood or meat can be added. Cooked okra can be added.
Serve over hot white rice with a scoop of potato salad and crackers or french bread and enjoy!


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Bennington College faculty member Daniel Michaelson is a scholar of two very dissimilar fields—mediation and design. In 2005, his dual expertise perfectly complemented a momentous yet sensitive project that took two years to complete, Benedictus. A highly collaborative play, in nature and content, Benedictus explores US, Israeli, and Iranian relationships by imagining two men—childhood friends, born in the same town in Iran, one an Israeli arms dealer, the other an Iranian cleric—estranged but agreeable to a secret meeting at a Benedictine monastery in an attempt to prevent an imminent US invasion of Iran.
The eerily relevant but fictional plot wasn't the only piece of the project that had the potential for controversy: in fact, even before former Bennington faculty member and dramaturge Roberta Levitow arranged for the culturally diverse, five-person creative team to discuss the possibility of artistic collaboration, there were anxieties. Levitow worried aloud to Michaelson and Golden Thread Artistic Director Torange Yeghiazarian that bringing these artists together "may be a sticky-wicket." Israeli playwright Motti Lerner, expressed fears regarding collaborating with an Iranian because "each of us would come to the meeting loaded with our own narrative of the crisis." The Iranian-American poet and director, Dr. Mahmood Karimi-Hakak, confessed he was "afraid to talk with an Israeli, never mind work with one." With all of this trepidation, Michaelson's mediation training came in handy during the first residency in 2005 when the group didn't just meet, but lived and cooked together for an entire week.
"Each day was organized as we would in mediation, each person was allotted a day of uninterrupted time," Michaelson explains. "Each would talk about their work, their life, their art, their country, their family. In the afternoon we would talk collectively about the possibility of a collaborative project." The week ended and the once ambivalent team, now familial, voted to continue to work together. Giving a shape to this collaboration, the team decided to begin a theatre project. There was the occasional squabble concerning the cultural origins of a cucumber salad, but Michaelson was most surprised to find that artistic, rather than cultural differences created moments of friction. "Going into the project I thought I would need to do a lot of mediation work but as it turned out Roberta, as the dramaturge, was in the natural position to mediate the artistic differences."
In April 2007—two years, countless dinners, emails, phone calls, visits, designs, and redesigns later—the play opened at Siena College. Michaelson a member of the creative team recalls his first Benedictus set design. "I created a circular platform covered in sand with war-like objects around it. A parachute that looked both like a flower and a mushroom cloud hung over the disk and surrounding the central platform were sandbags, an old observatory dome I made to look like a missile silo, camouflage netting, cyclone fencing, destroyed objects, and crushed dead toys."
The first iteration of the play was followed by a talk-back with Middle East experts, including former United Nations ambassador to Iran and Bennington College faculty member Mansour Farhang. The response, as artistic director Yeghiazarian puts it, was "Where is the hope in this piece, where is an element that is more about life than death?"
Thoughtful about that feedback, the writers began redrafting the script and Michaelson, a new design. Until, "I arrived one Saturday morning and half the script was thrown out, along with my design." With less than a week before the play was scheduled to go into rehearsal at San Francisco's Thick House, produced by Golden Thread, Michaelson remarks "I had to stay fluid. We were all living together in Berkley. I would ask the writer for hints of the new script. I showed the creative team my rough ideas and rough models. Finally, I arrived at a film noir look—an all black set with sharp angles and Venetian blinds…It was much darker then the earlier sets, more paranoid and trapped."
The week after the show premiered in California, Brandeis University used Benedictus in workshop at a conference about healing and reconciliation through the Arts. A hopeful concept not lost on Michaelson, who has for nearly a decade taught at-risk students in public schools through a program he and faculty member Susan Sgorbati founded called Quantum Leap. "I use theater, especially when I work with at-risk kids because it's a collaborative process. It's a way of developing peace building skills. It is a way to have their voices heard, or to have their voices heard with artistic distance. In art there is a distance which has the potential to open people to another viewpoint."
Working on matters of war and peace may seem out of place in art but not to Michaelson. "Artists create something new. We invent a world that doesn't exist. We create another possibility."