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It wasn't my most memorable Merle Haggard concert. That honor goes to the one in the late '60s where I heard him debut "Okie From Muskogee" to a crowd of 2000 well-groomed white people, and, having the only shoulder-length hair in view, felt it prudent to leave before the next song began.
But Monday night at Tramps was certainly my best Merle Haggard concert. The last time I saw him at Tramps, Merle appeared to be applying the ennui of Dean Martin to the subject matter of Woody Guthrie, and the Strangers subseuqently sounded, well, as strange as the crowd, a mismatched mix of defensive country boys and edgy hipsters. This time Hag himself was in fine form, tearing into a punched-up classic set. His voice was as controlled, expressive, and varied as his songs, and the Strangers were so tight and full of swing you wished they could jam all night.
But credit must also go to the crowd, who greeted Bonnie Owens and then Merle with a roar that never let up, even during selections from the three pillars of Haggard traditionJimmy Rodgers, Lefty Frizzell, and Bob Wills. Yes, the guys in big cowboy hats were there, mixed with Big Apple media middle-managers. But this time around they were both outnumbered by lots of good-timin', honky-tonkin' twentysomethings with no obvious identity-projection needs (including groups of dancing women friends out for a night on the town). And so we all grooved to the music of a great American andshades of Pete Seegereven did a hootenany-style singalong to "Okie From Muskogee." Clearly, a corner in our city's, if not our nation's, culture has been turned. But I'll be damned if I know which one. Tom Smucker
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Surely this had nothing to do with nostalgia. Never mind their status as punk survivors; Siouxsie and the Banshees' 20-year run ended only three years ago, not enough time off to warrant sappiness. So when Siouxsie Sioux and husband Budgie took to the Irving Plaza stage Thursday as their long-running side-project The Creatures, the event hardly reeked of rotten intentions à la a Sex Pistols reunion, or even of a full-scale resurrection, Bauhaus-style. Rather, it was DIY pride that they exuded, tinged with resentment at an unwelcoming record industry.
Legends without major-label sup port, they assumed total control on the Creatures' third album, Anima Animus, on which they are the only two players. For the tour, they added a guitarist and a bassist (who also fills in on keyboards and violin)though live, one could swear that Budgie grows additional limbs to cover the percussive responsibilities of two men, pounding out overpowering tribal polyrhythms over electronic samples and distorted guitar screams.
To look at Siouxsie, clad in jeans and a spaghetti-strapped top, thick eye makeup and lavish costumes long gone, you'd think the Ice Queen had thawed. But otherwise, the stuff of her former self remainedstalking stage sweeps, frenzied head-shaking trances, mesmerizing wails. Whether whispered spookiness ("Same lips same hair/the same stare/I'm not recognized or heard but I swear! I was me") or bellowed anarchy ("I'm sick of it/I want to fuck it up"), the sentiments were a return to previous battle cries, but without the desperation of regression. The Creatures are not so much building new fires as keeping the old one burning, softly shrieking, "Indeed, goth can age gracefully, fuck you very much." Robin A. Rothman
Overlords of Darkness
The curious thing about scenes that occupy the sonic extremities is the way they splinter into microgenres as they get further from the mainstream. Like thrash/speed /death/black metal, the sound purveyed by Manhattan's I-Sound rejoices in multiple monikers: "harshstep," "splatterbreaks," "broken beats," "shrillstep." Semantic excess aside, the style basically merges the jagged breakbeat dynamics of early jungle with the blaring distortion of hardcore gabba. At Abstrakt Future Lounge (the Soundlab night at Fahrenheit) last Tuesday, I-Sound's DJ set was like an unoffical soundtrack to Jacques Attali's Noise: The Political Economy of Music: all dive-bombing scree and low-end ordnance, leavened with deft scratching and electro-acoustic burbles. Understanding that relentless din ultimately dulls the senses, I-Sound varied the breakneck pace with midtempo excursions into underground rap and roots reggae, before climaxing with DJ Scud's "Total Destruction," a shrillstep classic that thrillingly combines ragga boasts with berserker beats.
Fresh from a recording session with Scud, German DJ Panacea was the populist ambassador for this jungle-meets-gabba frenzy. He drew a crowd evenly divided between drum'n'bassheads and gabba scenesters (like Lenny Dee, whose Industrial Strength label licensed Panacea's recent Twisted Designz). With his disconcerting blind-looking colored contact lens in one eye and alarming facial piercings, Panacea's image shtick is "Overlord of Darkness." You might recognize him from Modulations, or maybe nothe's recently shed a staggering 130 pounds. Panacea's music's gotten sleeker too, scaling down the Carmina Burana bombast of his two albums in favor of the streamlined, clinical sound of current drum'n'bass (labels like Renegade Hardware). By most standards, though, it's pretty fucking fierce180 bpm breaks, swarf-swarms of low-end turbulence, B-lines that ping like the elastic of your mind's snapped. As his own track "Motion Sickness" suggests, the effect is simultaneously kinetic and nauseous. Compared with I-Sound's shifting guerrilla tactics, Panacea's set was a war of attrition, a plateau of pleasurable punishment. Simon Reynolds
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Adam WeinsteinJan. 3, 2011 4:15 AM
And they say newspapers aren't doing good work anymore. The Norfolk, Va., Virginian-Pilot revealed Saturday that Captain Owen Honors, the commanding officer of the nuclear aircraft carrier USS Enterprise, made a series of tactless videos for the crew's entertainment a few years ago—videos whose coarse language and sexual frankness led his sailors to complain...and led the Navy to investigate. As everyone freaks out about Honors' poor judgment, it's worth noting where his generation of officers (including his commander) came from socially and culturally—and where we're all headed if they're in charge for much longer. More on that, as well as excerpts from the videos, below the jump.
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Kevin DrumJan. 3, 2011 2:14 AM
Republicans have been concerned about regulatory "uncertainty" holding back economic recovery, and the compromises reached during the lame duck session certainly helped to reduce uncertainty. However, the Wall Street Journal reports that at least one source remains:
The Republican gains in Congress in November's election added new questions to the outlook for health-insurance costs borne by companies. Since then, some party leaders have said they aim to reverse or at least starve the Obama health-care law; meantime, lawsuits challenge some aspects of it. "You don't know where it's going to go," said Robert J. Olson, CEO of Winnebago Industries Inc., a maker of motor homes.
So I guess the Republican caucus will listen to the business community and abandon its efforts to repeal little bits and pieces of the healthcare reform law. Right?
(Actually, it really is possible that both the healthcare sector and the business community in general, after they take a look at what kind of chaos might ensue from ad hoc partial defunding, will put some real pressure on Republicans to stand down on this. That would be an interesting turn of events, no?)
Kevin DrumJan. 3, 2011 1:02 AM
Andrew Samwick writes about the well-known problem that employers — both private and public — have been underfunding their pension plans for years:
There is nothing inherently wrong with a defined benefit pension plan, but its implementation has been a challenge in both the public and private sectors. It is a promise to pay compensation in the future. To honor that promise responsibly, the plan sponsor needs to fund it adequately in the time interval between when the promise is made and when it is kept. Simply put, that hasn't been happening in large private sector plans and in most public sector plans. The problems are worse in the public sector because voters don't pay as much attention to the financial bottom line as shareholders do and because the accounting standards are sharper for private sector plans than public sector plans. For many years, elected officials have been making promises that future (now, near-future) taxpayers are not going to want to keep.
This seems like a problem that really could be solved via privatization: instead of allowing employers to self-fund their pensions, require them to use an outside fund (or funds). An outside fund would insist on contributions being adequate to fund projected payouts since they're the ones on the hook to make good. No gameplaying tolerated. And as long as there are enough funds out there, competition would keep them from going in the other direction and demanding contributions that are excessive.
What am I missing here? (Aside from the fact that employers wouldn't like the idea of not being allowed to play games, that is?) A whole swath of regulations would be required to make this work, but surely nothing more complicated than what we already have. Almost anything seems better than allowing employers to decide for themselves what's adequate and what isn't.
Kevin DrumJan. 2, 2011 5:51 PM
Matt Yglesias on requirements that businesses provide parking for their customers:
For the millionth time this isn't something that needs regulating. Land is a valuable commodity. And ability to park one's car is also valuable. Property owners in any given area are perfectly capable of evaluating what portion of land should be dedicated to parking based on the market demand for parking relative to the demand for other uses of land.
Requirements in cities and suburbs vary, but here in the burbs the general idea behind parking regulations is to make businesses pay for their own externalities instead of fobbing them off on other people. If I provide parking for my customers, and someone opens up next door and decides not to bother, then his customers will take up all my spots. If neither one of us provides enough parking because there's a neighborhood nearby, then our customers will take up street parking that owners of existing houses have paid for and are accustomed to using. In both cases, there are people who would like to regulate parking in order to make life more convenient and prevent free riding.
Now, if your goal is simply to reduce the amount of parking so that it's a pain in the ass and people will drive less, that's fine. It's a pretty roundabout way of doing it, but whatever. But if your goal is to match parking spaces to cars, then it's simply not true that property owners are the best judges of how much parking is needed. Like profit maximizers anywhere, they'll do their best to provide as little parking as possible and instead try to free ride on the parking that other people have already created and paid for.
If there were an efficient way to allow customers to park only in spaces specifically paid for by each business, then property owners could be left alone to determine their own parking requirements. But that's rarely the case. Thus, regulations.
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Well, here's a video I'd been planning to make for a while. In fact, meleechampion can attest to that, as I told him I was starting on this video in early September, and in fact didn't get to it until about a month ago. The video took about 15 hours to edit from there, and I'm pretty glad with the result. It's a change of style for me, but you should get used to it: Most of my videos are going to have a much more mature feel from here on out. That doesn't mean they're going to be as dark as this one; maturity is something I associate a lot more with realism, in the way you present your story and in your portrayal of the emotion of your characters.
Also worth mentioning is that I had great beta-testing on this video. I would have put most of the feedback I got to use, but in the past few days, most major changes I tried weren't turning out great, so I decided to pretty much stick with the current model. This may have something to do with the fact I edited this in a new way for me as well: I laid out the clips and cuts first, and saved most of the heavy effect-work (Which never came into being) for later. This helped me edit on instinct, which is usually when I do best, but it also meant when I came back to change things later, I had trouble making modifications without preferring the way it was before.
A word on the source: Gankutsuou is a GREAT show. The art direction is genius, the themes are mature, to the point where you might start wondering if you're watching anime. In addition, the show will totally play with your mind (More so in the first half, which is by far the stronger one), a la Serial Experiments Lain, if you've heard of that futuristic trip. So if you're thinking "bah, Count Of Monte Christo, I've heard that story a million times, I don't need to watch this.", think again. This show will take you in a direction you never would have imagined.
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The Tenth Fleet was one of several Federation Alliance Fleets involved in the Dominion War.
In late 2374, the Tenth Fleet was assigned to protect Betazed and its colonies. However, while the fleet was on a training exercise, the Dominion caught the fleet off guard and overtook the system's remaining planetary defense systems and the planet fell. (DS9: "In the Pale Moonlight")
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A recent episode of the History Channel's Monsterquest dealt with something I had never heard of - The Flatwoods Monster. Since grade school, I've tried to read as much about this kind of thing as I could, and I've never come across this weird tale.
Did a quick youtube search and found my favorite ufologist discussing the topic. Stanton Friedman is the man. I wish he were my uncle or something.
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Wednesday, March 17, 2010
The Flatwoods Monster
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5 comments:
- Pam Morris said...
well, that was interesting...never heard of it, either. you think its legit?
- March 17, 2010 at 9:15 PM
- Rot said...
After listening to the witnesses on Monsterquest, I tend to believe they saw something quite strange and terrifying.
Dunno if it was alien or some toxic govt project. - March 17, 2010 at 9:26 PM
- Steve said...
John Keel mentions them in The Mothman Prophecies.
- March 19, 2010 at 7:57 PM
- Rot said...
Really? Neat.
I had no idea. - March 19, 2010 at 7:58 PM
- Steve said...
Yeah, same general area. It seems like West Virginians were afflicted with some kind of mania for a couple years there. Or extreme boredom, maybe.
- March 19, 2010 at 9:11 PM
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5 Foods for Natural Detox
Maylin Rodriguez-Paez, RN
It's easy to be skeptical of the word, detox. Why? Well, for starters, the sheer amount of products on the market claiming to miraculously detox your body doesn't exactly do the term justice.However, the truth of the matter is this: your body actually detoxes every single day.
Your body's primary detoxifying organ, the liver, works around the clock to keep your system clean. It uses compounds from the foods you eat to turn toxins into less harmful substances that can be safely excreted.
These days, as a result of poor diets and environmental pollutants, many of us could benefit from a little help with this detoxification process. Fortunately, one way to easily accomplish this is by eating nutritious foods.
So, if you're serious about detoxing, make sure to include these foods into your diet regularly.
Artichokes are more than just a gourmet food. They actually contain compounds which are known to help stimulate bile flow.1Bile is a substance produced by your liver. It removes toxins and delivers them to your colon for removal. Bile also stimulates peristalsis, which is the movement of your gut. This is important because a sluggish intestine can accumulate harmful toxins.
What perfect irony! The smell that turns so many people off from onions is actually what gives them their detoxifying power.Onions contain sulfur compounds called allyl sulfides. These help your liver undergo Phase I reactions,2 the first step in your liver's detoxification of fat soluble toxins.
Betalains are red and yellow pigments found in beets. They help your liver go through Phase II reactions,3 which is a process in which toxins are modified for excretion in the liver.And if you're wondering, Phase II reactions follow Phase I reactions. Makes sense, right?
Chlorella are a type of fresh water green algae. In certain cultures, they are an extremely valuable food source.Rat studies show chlorella supports the removal of dioxin,4 a food toxin linked to reproductive problems and cancer.5 In fact, a study involving women showed chlorella decreased levels of dioxin in breast milk.6
Chlorella's detoxifying effects might have to do with its chlorophyll content,7 the pigment responsible for its green color.
We can't underestimate the value of fiber in the detoxification process, and flaxseeds are a great source of it. Just two tablespoons provide 6 grams,8 which is about 20% of your daily needs.Flaxseeds contain both soluble and insoluble fiber, which support regularity and toxin removal. In particular, soluble fiber attaches to bile and helps its elimination. Remember, bile is one of the main ways your body gets rid of toxins.
Flaxseeds also protect against toxic estrogens. Their lignans decrease blood levels of 17-beta estradiol and estrone9 — two estrogens implicated in hormone-related cancers.
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The first step in ANY detox program should be to enhance your own "built-in" detox system — your liver.For this reason, including foods in your diet that support your liver's detoxifying abilities just makes a lot of sense.
Want to read more info on supporting your body's natural detox system? Here's a Life Extension protocol about supporting your liver with nutrients.
Have you tried detoxing with foods yourself? If so, has it helped? Please share your experiences with us in the comments!
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Good way to use fresh pink-eyed peas.
This was quite tasty but VERY salty! I could not find fresh black eyed peas and used some canned beans (low sodium) so that probably contributed to the overall sodium count a bit but if I make this again I will also use low sodium chicken broth and skip the salt on the onions. Also, I feel like this would be great over some rice or even some pasta and will probably make that with it next time as well.
I loooove this recipe! It's incredibly easy to make, as I've made some alterations to the ingredients based on what my supermarket has. I can only imagine how much better it would be with the correct sausages!! I've made it again and again and again. It's a fairly healthy alternative to boring dinners, as there is meat and veg (no carbs!) and the only fat is from the sausages.
This was really good. Great flavor! And it cooked in less than 30 minutes. I had fresh beans, tomatoes and thyme from our garden and found fresh black-eyes at the market. I thought I'd try this recipe and am so glad I did as I'll keep this one and make it again. Great!


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Interview with Marek Wysoczyński, inspirational initiator and director of Project Smile
Update: Project Smile goes to France – http://smilesprojectfrance.wordpress.com/#comment-16
All about Project Smile – the international goodwill outreach to children and their families.
Jennifer: Hi All! I am interviewing Marek Wysoczyński, Director of the Bureau for the Promotion of Culture, Gdansk, Poland. Marek, would you tell my readers something about yourself and your background, your experience with large scale exhibitions leading up to Project Smile?
I studied law at the University of Gdansk where I received my Master of Arts in History degree. I was an actor in the German language Theatre Logos and also a teacher of German. I was a history guide in the Central Maritime Museum, an archivist, teacher of history and a manager for special events. At that time, I created a series of concerts entitled "Music on Water" which have been presented by me on a regular basis since then. I was the director of the Baltic Centre of Culture. I organized the Millennial Concert for Emma Kirkby. I was awarded a Gdansk Millennial Medal. I created the Franciscan Centre of Culture in Gdansk and organized music festivals called "Musica Mariana".
As for now, I am director of the Culture Promotion Office and organize various concerts and novel exhibitions all over the World. I was a co-organizer of the Festival of Culture of Europe in Georgia and organized an Opera festival in Dubrovnik. Every year I organize special carol concerts in Palestine and Jerusalem and, last year, I organized one in a Turkish bath in Skopje. The Office, together with the Goethe Institute, organized a series of Polish song concerts sung in German in Paris and Alexandria. My artists performed Ave Maria concerts in various languages (including Arabic) in the Cathedral in Cairo and also in churches in Turkey, Portugal, Romania and Slovenia. They also sang for SFOR soldiers in Bosnia and NATO soldiers in Kosovo. There was also a concert for the Jordanian princess and a Russian song concert organized by the Russian Embassy and the Polish Embassy in Tunisia. The Office promotes musicians, actors and international co-operation in the field of culture.
I organized an exhibition of 1000 autographs as a part of the Millennial Anniversary of the City of Gdansk. That was the start of the idea to collect autographed smiles for Children's Hospitals and also for other Institutions.
The exhibition presented annually during the Polish Films Festival in Gdynia and in Perpignan, in the Institute of Polish Culture in Budapest and during the Festival of Good Mood in Gdansk. The exhibition was also presented in Chelmno in the Town Hall. In May, 2008 the exhibition was presented in Insurgentes Gallery in Mexico and in June in the Children's Hospital named after Maria Curie Sklodowska in Romania and in Children's Museums in Italy and in Poland.
Jennifer: In the midst of a very busy position, you have managed to inspire others with a 'brainwave', the simple but wonderful, empowering concept of an exhibition of 'smiles' from celebrities of all ilks from all over the world! What started it all? How did you come up with Project Smile?
When, in 1980, I received my first autograph, that of Kalina Jedrusik, I never thought I would have over 1000 of these footprints of human existence – small pieces of art, as I call autographs, because people often draw something near their signature.
Whilst collecting autographs, I was also thinking about sharing my joy of life with the community and comparing it with the transient keepsake that comes from contact with personalities. The first time I managed to show them was at the Millennial Anniversary of Gdansk, when they were shown at the exhibition entitled "1000 autographs for the Millennial Anniversary". I observed the people visiting the exhibition and saw their joy and surprise. Generations – grandparents, parents, children and grandchildren, all together, explaining to each other who was who. Young people did not know older actresses and the older generations had no idea about rock musicians.
After the Gdansk exhibition I began to dream about sharing my passion, about sharing my joy with others. Then I got the idea of collecting autographs accompanied by the picture of a smile. The first idea was to show "Project Smile' in children's hospitals, but it soon appeared that smiles drawn by the Jordanian Queen, Krzysztof Penderecki or Liza Minelli pleased adults too. What is more important, adding a smile also pleased the people whom I ask to draw them. A smile is possible to create in a moment, even in the most difficult times. When we look at a child's smile, even if we are in mourning, are ill or in trouble, we smile instinctively.
An autograph itself is calm and quite like a fresh painting, as it "reveals the mortal hand" not only in the poetical dimension but also in the dimension of common, fleeting life. At least it is the visible sign of our having passed by.
Smiles joined with autographs are something to introduce joy into our lives and into hospitals both for children and adults.
When I started collecting smiles I wrote:
A Smile, it is a drop of crystallized Joy
When a child smiles at us we smile, everyone, everywhere!
A child's smile is pure holiness, a gift of life
Not to be sullied by the evil of unhappiness
When giving sick children our warm smiles
We return their own smiles to them
And remind ourselves of the smiles of our own youth!
We received from archdiocese Honiara a smile from the Archbishop of the Solomon Islands and his poetic quote:
Smile and the World smiles with you,
Cry and you cry alone.
Jennifer: At a time when the world is in the grip of an economic crisis with all its hideous far reaching effects for individuals and families globally, we needed this project. It is inspiring! Would you share with us some of the reactions you have received to the project?
Marek: A Smile is good at all times, for any kind of situation, even the 'commercial' smile of the stewardess in a plane, a smile puts people at ease, it welcomes.
As for a drawing smile for the project , all kinds are good and sometime the drawing of the smile brings the person to remembering deep into their past, sometimes with tears as they remember the bad and good times of childhood.
Children in hospital react very, very well. In Macedonia, in a Rehabilitation centre, a girl who was very seriously ill, drew a smile with her legs and told me : "the miracle is that I can do this before I die soon, to help other children …"
In other city, in Poland, I prepared that smile-performance with children. The Mayor of that city and his co-workers thanked me because he …was smiling himself, for the first time in 20 years.
Crisis is bad, but it will seem shorter, be alleviated somewhat when we all start to smile – I tell this to children in hospital : "children should start every day with a smile and finish the day with a smile". Smile, and the trouble will do not have time to become a problem, the same can be done in the world of politics and economics. Smile and the future will be better – the trouble will be smaller. A smile is the best sort of help because it is financially very good to receive….its costs only 1 second of your time to make and of course its "cost" = a good tooth-brushing , LOL !
Jennifer: The collection is growing by the day. How many smiles have you received to date? On average, how many arrive daily?
Marek: Its depends , sometimes I get a whole package from various countries, sometimes one envelope but with 20 smiles from a school of design where the professor set an examination task for students to create a smile.
Sometimes there is a day without a smile in the postbox , but there is a smile on my face ….to make that "empty" day a better one!
My friends like to talk with me about the project. I sometimes think the exhibition idea is my wonderful life sentence. I have ambassadors of the smile-exhibition around the world.
I like also to collect smiles in person – as I organize cultural events. It provides me a good entrance to different meetings and, somehow, I can nearly always put myself behind the scenes.
What I try not to do is not to ask for a smile in restaurant venue…but then I eat slowly as does the 'star', the evening's special guest, and I hope to obtain a smile from them outside the venue when they finish…
Jennifer: You have not one but a number of 'smile' exhibitions planned. Tell us about them and what is involved in setting up such an exhibition in such far flung places?
Marek: The number of smiles is not limited; I think that it is already a part of my life. I hope very much to create a Smile Museum or Smile Gallery.
The idea is ongoing, one pilgrimage of smiles, because the plan has always involved the drawing of smiles by children in Poland for children in other countries and so on
The idea is to show this exhibition in children's centres of all kinds, not only hospitals but also as a temporary exhibition in various institutions.
Jennifer: I understand you are hoping to produce a special catalogue/book of the exhibition to help raise funds for children's hospitals in Poland. Can you tell us more about that?
Marek: That is good question, there are many organizations which help children in a financial way, our goal is "only" to make them smile ….
As the reports of doctors, psychologists and parents indicate, the exhibition is like a medicine, a tonic. It shows people all over the world care about sick children, children in pain. The children know they are not forgotten!
Also, what is very important, the exhibition of smiles helps "normal" people working in hospitals, not only doctors, but also cleaning teams and last but not least the parents visiting their children. It lifts their spirits!
The exhibition is also a good thing for festivals and for other events.
The idea of a catalogue is always there, and we produced one as a booklet for the Polish Festival of the Good Mood, and when we visited children in hospital with a leading actress, the children were given one each.
In collaboration with Children's Organisation, KIWANIS, we also produced a booklet in Polish and English. (You can see that catalogue on that website, where you can also find my smile.)
Jennifer: What is the most unusual 'smile' you have received so far? Are there limitations on the type, size or presentation of the smile and what happens to each submission to prepare it for exhibition?
Marek: The smiles have no limitations ever. We have made a smile
* in a children's garden in Lodz
* on paper on whole floor area,
* the sportsmen put their smile on t-shirts,
* but also on a boxer's hand,
* we got a sculpture of smile and
* a smile on glass –
Each and every smile is very unusual … very individual!
But maybe the most touching was a smile by a child in Macedonia …with her mother drawn without face because she was left by her mother
Very different smiles – maybe I would mention the autoportrait by regisseurs Jerzy Skolimowski and Roman Polanski or a Bishop's smile-picture which reminds of one of Picasso's works….
Jennifer: There must be all sorts of stories of how you met celebrities like Polanski and other AMAZING people! How did you persuade them to give you 'a smile'?
Marek: When I started the collection, I asked people in person for 'a smile'. I still do if the opportunity presents. The meetings with notable folk can sometimes be very funny but sometimes very short!
In the case of Jose Cura, I was at the opera in Berlin and, after the show, I got to the backstage door and knocked on the garderobe. He answered himself and told me "come in". He was under the shower. So I backed out and waited. After some minutes, he came out and, with a big smile on his face, he drew a 'Pagliacci' ….he had sung Pagliaci in the opera that night.
In Berlin I had also a "tragic" meeting….can you imagine, I was in the same restaurant as Lauren Bacall…but it was a very prestigious restaurant such that if I had asked for a smile/autograph they would have made a security photo of me and then I would have been blacklisted there and in other such places as well!
As for Roman Polanski – he was opening a sculpture in Sopot – he was on the redcarpet. Nobody was allowed to put a foot on that carpet, but I did! That is how I got a selfportrait of him!
At the same festival Faye Dunaway was also a special guest, but by then I was 1000 km away. However, my wonderful mother is also very supportive of the smile project. She asked, in her broken English, and, yes, I have the smile drawn by Faye Dunaway!
The security guards of First Lady of Poland, Maria Kaczynska, were very "unhappy" that I asked her to draw a smile. But she told the strong men, to stop and let me be, "it is for a good goal".
All the time the people, when I ask them to draw a smile, I get the answer, 'oops I am not good at drawing'. My answer is always, 'it's for children and children are not judging the art'.
The Polish MP, Iwona Guzowska, is a former boxer. She liked the smile project so much that she even created a parliamentary group in the Polish Sejm – Parliament "smile group". She collected smiles on sports items.
The smile project – the collection – it is growing into a very special collection – one of a kind in the world. It is also unique, because smiles are made using a variety of methods, and they are not only on paper, but also as pictures, on music programs, on film posters, on books, cd or on very curious paper types. Children from round the world send me smiles for the project. This is very special because of the very different types of smiles from children, for example, from India or Moldavia. Yet, amazingly, these same smiles sometimes match up, the same exactly, the same type of smile as if it was made by one and the same hand, even though it is a smile from a Polish child or from Mexico. As for Mexico, the smiles are made there by children with Downs Syndrome who are taught by Professors of Art Academy from Mexico City.
The collection is for children, especially sick children, to make them smile and so help them heal!
Jennifer : Marek, tell us what the Smile project is achieving and continues to achieve:
Marek: I hope very much to be involved in a number of a smile exchange exhibitions, a pilgrimage of smiles.
I think there is a good idea to connect smiles made by celebrities and those by children – the children are encouraged and inspired by the interest and support for the project by the celebrities.
For children in "western" countries creating smiles for a poorer part of world bring them closer to those with less advantages, fewer opportunities than they have and fosters a caring attitude and brings knowledge.
For poor children, it is maybe their first possibility to give somebody something – this brings dignity and feeling of being able to contribute; this is empowering.
And for children from harsh, very problematic parts of world this also provides a very interesting way to help others, help, in return, a part of world from where the help is coming to them; it brings a sense of reciprocity that might not come any other way. It brings a sense again of dignity and achievement.
I think such exhibitions – such exhibitions exchange is a very unusual project for helping and informing people about the plight of sick children worldwide, for bringing artists, writers, musician together with also opportunity for promotion of their work and for sponsors to bring their product before the public in a way that promotes them as a company that cares and is involved in more than just making money, but also in giving back to those in need – the use of a company logo could be connected with a 'smile' by being included in a special promotional logo.
Jennifer: Marek, what are you plans for the future, what is your next big project?
Marek: Dear Jennifer ….of course asking you to help me to show that exhibition in your city ….my very simple dream, which is an ever evolving, growing plan, ….to show the smile exhibition and to draw smiles around the world!
Jennifer: Finally, how can people get in touch with you to find out more about the project and give support?
Marek: I would like to be in touch with people, the more the merrier! They can talk to me and learn more about project smile at www.promocjakultury.pl
The best way to support project smile is to draw a smile and send us, to ask famous and /or interesting people to draw a smile and, last but not least, to invite our exhibition to their place – to the smallest children's school, to the farming community, or to a big children's hospital, to a film or other festival or to Sydney Opera House…..
Jennifer: Charles George Walker wrote a poem inspired by that famous old proverb, quoted by the Archbishop of the Solomon Islands, and used it for the title. I think it reflects your belief in the joyous spreadability of a Smile:
Smile and the World smiles with you, Cry and you cry alone.
Smiling is infectious, you catch it like the flu.
When someone smiled at me today, I started smiling too.
I passed around the corner, and someone saw my grin.
When he smiled I realised, I'd passed it on to him.
I thought about that smile, then I realised its worth.
A single smile just like mine, could travel round the earth.
So, if you feel a smile begin, don't leave it undetected.
Let's start an epidemic quick, and get the world infected!
May your smile project spread like the sunshine it brings into others' lives!
You can find my own smile in the exhibition and here on Sharing Books for free download.
Jennifer :))
16 responses to "Interview with Marek Wysoczyński, inspirational initiator and director of Project Smile"
Thirty Days May 6, 2009 at 9:36 am
Hi, cool post – thanks for blogging. I'll probably be subscribing to your blog. Keep up the good posts
K. Michael Crawford February 1, 2011 at 4:59 pm
Hi Jennifer,
Loved the interview. I stumbled upon it looking up Marek.
Happy writing!
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marek April 7, 2011 at 3:54 pm
Jennifer thanks so much 🙂
this is so nice and I am happy to find such Good People Like you and Sylvia:)) Marek
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Currently midway through their third season as title sponsor, the Magners renewal comes at an exciting time for the league with Celtic Rugby confirming at the start of the season that a play-off structure will be introduced from 2009/10 onwards.
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Women's Basketball Awards Release
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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - Fort Wayne's Amanda Hyde was named The Summit League Player of the Year in a vote of the league's nine head coaches, sports information directors and select media members as announced on Thursday.
Western Illinois' Ashley Luke was named the Newcomer of the Year and South Dakota State's Katie Lingle was voted as the Sixth Woman of the Year. IUPUI's Dee-Dee Bellamy earned Defensive Player of the Year while her squad's head coach Austin Parkinson was named Coach of the Year.
Hyde captures the first Player of the Year award in Fort Wayne history. Entering tournament play, the junior guard/forward leads the league scoring 18.7 points per game and is second in the league at 87 percent from the free throw line. She also leads her team by averaging 3.1 assists per game. On Nov. 29, she scored an NCAA Division I season-high with 43 points in a win at Southern Illinois, a total that now ranks third in the nation. That scoring output also tied the Mastodon school record and is tied for second in league history. Hyde is tied for the league-lead with two 30-point games and ranks second with 12 20-point contests. Nationally, the Findlay, Ohio, ranks 18th in free throw percentage (.872) and 34th in scoring (18.7 ppg). Hyde earned two league Player of the Week awards and was recently named to the Capital One Academic All-America Second Team.
Luke becomes the third consecutive Western Illinois player to win the Newcomer of the Year (Sadie Webb, 2011; Saule Kontautaite, 2012). In league games, the freshman ranks second in rebounding (8.0 rpg), fourth in field goal percentage (.497) and blocked shots (1.1 bpg) and 10th in scoring (12.9 ppg). Luke also leads her Leatherneck squad with five double-doubles and was twice named The Summit League's Player of the Week.
Bellamy earns Defensive Player of the Year honors after leading an IUPUI team that ranks first in scoring defense (54.6 ppg), three-point field goal percentage defense (.215) and steals (9.1 spg) in league games. The junior guard averages 1.2 steals per contest and becomes the first Jaguar player to win the award since Jernisha Cann collected three-straight from 2007-09.
Lingle was named the league's Sixth Woman of the Year after averaging 9.1 points in league games and helping the Jackrabbits to its second-straight regular season league title. The senior center is also third in field goal percentage (.512) and blocked shots (1.3 bpg) in league contests.
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The Summit League Tournament begins Saturday, March 9 at the Sioux Falls Arena in Sioux Falls, S.D., and will be televised on Midco Sports Network and Fox College Sports. Eight teams will vie for the NCAA automatic bid, which goes to the winner of the championship game on Tuesday, March 12 on ESPNU at 2:30 p.m. (CT).
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Name, School | Pos. | Yr. |
Ashley Eide, South Dakota State | G | Sr. |
Paige Frauendorfer, Omaha | G | Sr. |
Amanda Hyde, Fort Wayne | G/F | Jr. |
Kerah Nelson, IUPUI | F | Sr. |
Eilise O'Connor, Kansas City | G | Jr. |
Megan Waytashek, South Dakota State | G/F | So. |
Second Team | ||
Katie Birkel, North Dakota State | G | Sr. |
Dani DeGagne, North Dakota State | G | Sr. |
DeAirra Goss, IUPUI | F | Jr. |
Ashley Luke, Western Illinois | F | Fr. |
Tempestt Wilson, South Dakota | G | Sr. |
Honorable Mention | ||
Carolyn Blair-Mobley, Omaha | G | Sr. |
Erin Murphy, Fort Wayne | G | Jr. |
Jamie Nash, Omaha | G | Sr. |
Elena Popkey, Oakland | G | Fr. |
Nicole Seekamp, South Dakota | G | So. |
All-Newcomer | ||
Carolyn Blair-Mobley, Omaha | G | Sr. |
DeAirra Goss, IUPUI | F | Jr. |
Ashley Luke, Western Illinois | F | Fr. |
Elena Popkey, Oakland | G | Fr. |
Nicole Seekamp, South Dakota | G | So. |
Player of the Year | ||
Amanda Hyde, Fort Wayne | ||
Newcomer of the Year | ||
Ashley Luke, Western Illinois | ||
Defensive Player of the Year | ||
Dee-Dee Bellamy, IUPUI | ||
Sixth Woman of the Year | ||
Katie Lingle, South Dakota State | ||
Coach of the Year | ||
Austin Parkinson, IUPUI |


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Luck sees bright future after playoff loss
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Andrew Luck watched the game tape one more time
Monday morning.
While it didn't change anything that happened in Saturday night's
frustrating playoff loss at New England, it did help Luck head into the
offseason with a bit of optimism.
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"It's good motivation and it's a learning tool. I've got to look at it
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four interceptions last weekend and seven in the playoffs. "I think
offensively we got better. I think with guys coming back (from
injuries), hopefully we can keep taking steps forward. I think we
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In two NFL seasons, Luck has presided over some historic feats. After
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return to the playoffs in 2012, he faced the challenge of a tougher
schedule. Luck made it look easy.
Indy won 11 regular-season games and this time captured its first AFC
South crown since the Peyton Manning era. Luck became only the third
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joining Manning and Jim Harbaugh.
It wasn't just that Luck and the Colts (12-6) went deeper into the
playoffs and pulled off the second-greatest comeback in postseason
history, rallying from a 28-point second-half deficit to beat Kansas
City 45-44. Indy beat also three teams — Denver, San Francisco and
Seattle — that are still playing.
The Colts did all that despite making a major change, going from a
vertical passing game to a power-running offense.
Luck threw fewer times for fewer yards, but his completion percentage
went up, his touchdown total remained steady (23) and the number of
sacks and interceptions each dropped by nine. He worked without having
his favorite target, Reggie Wayne, for the second half of the season;
and without his top two running backs, Vick Ballard and Ahmad Bradshaw,
his top tight end, Dwayne Allen, or left guard Donald Thomas since
Wayne, Allen, Ballard and Thomas all expected to be healthy for
training camp. Coach Chuck Pagano said Wayne is even ahead of schedule
on his recovery from a torn ACL in his right knee. The Colts are also
expecting more from running back Trent Richardson, the No. 3 pick in
2012 who was acquired in a September trade.
Pagano can't wait to see what the Colts will look like with all of
those guys on the field.
"If we go back to work and everybody gets 1-2 percent better at their
craft and what they do, and you combine all that ..." Pagano said,
pausing.. "Again, we didn't reach our ultimate goal. We're going to
keep chasing it. We always will. That will never change."
Plenty could change between now and September.
Seven players who started at New England are slated to become free
agents. That list includes running back Donald Brown, safety Antoine Bethea, cornerback Vontae Davis, punter Pat McAfee and kicker Adam Vinatieri. The Colts are expected to have roughly $31 million under the
salary cap, enough room to re-sign some of those key players and still
fill the defensive holes that allowed the Chiefs and Patriots to score
87 total points in the playoffs.
Offensively, they're likely to continue seeking help along the
offensive line to protect their franchise quarterback, and perhaps add
another receiver.
But if the Colts are going to attain their biggest goal — hoisting the
Lombardi Trophy — the most important piece may be Luck himself.
"I tried to start thinking about the season and all I can think about
is this past game against the Patriots and turning the ball over," he
said. "But I'm proud to be a part of this team. Proud to get to the
playoffs. But that wasn't our goal. We wanted to win a Super Bowl, just
like every other team out there. We'll work to do that this offseason."
Note: Pagano said four players who were injured Saturday — fullback
Stanley Havili, cornerbacks Darius Butler and Josh Gordy and offensive
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– WWE Champion CM Punk spoke with The Chicago Tribune to promote WrestleMania 28. Here are some highlights:
His relationship with Vince McMahon:
"(We) have a lot more one-on-one conversations. I wont say he takes the time to talk to me now, because he always did, but I think he views me differently now. He used to view me as maybe talking to a boy. Now he thinks he's talking to a man after I stood up and did everything I did over the summer. I always thought I was a main event player. The difference is now he knows I'm a main event player."
Having no relationship with The Rock:
"I don't think I have a realtionship with The Rock. Over the past few weeks, it's been better. Probably because I've been outspoken (about him) in the media. Of course, everything gets sensationalized and twisted. I don't hate The Rock or fault him for coming back. I just think heaping credit on The Rock for ratings, buyrates – that's where I get offended. It's a team effort 365 days a year. Me and the entire locker room bust our (butts) and all our super stoked. Give credit where credit is due. Wrestlemania had a huge buyrate last year, not because of one guy. The numbers out there prove he hasn't done much else, like the Survivor Series buyrate."
Wrestling websites:
"I think you have to (read them). Anybody who dismisses it — that's (crap). You have to have your fingers on the pulse of everything. You have to read it."
A possible movie career:
"(WWE) offered me a movie when I first told them I wasn't re-signing. I immediately turned it down. They probably figured I would jump at a movie because I'm not a movie star. That's not to say that if the right thing doesn't come along, I won't do it. That's not my priority. … I think WWE films signed on three new movies. I'm sure one of them is probably slated to be a CM Punk vehicle. I haven't heard anything yet. Nothing is set in stone. Take that for what it's worth. I think I would love to do a movie if it's the right project. I'm not going to be in 'The Marine 3' just because they offered it to me. If it's something good, I'll do it. I'd love to do it – as long as it doesn't interfere with my wrestling schedule."


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BOSTON (AP) — With the way Philadelphia starter Tyler Cloyd pitched, Phillies closer Jonathan Papelbon had no chance to get into the game during his return visit to Fenway Park.
Cloyd (1-1) gave up six runs and nine hits in 2 1-3 innings on Monday night, helping the Red Sox jump to a seven-run lead as Boston beat Philadelphia 9-3 and sent the Phillies to their 12th loss this season by five runs or more.
"The ball was up. I couldn't get it down in the zone," Cloyd said. "The ball was up, it had good movement, but it's hard when it's up a lot."
BOX SCORE: Red Sox 9, Phillies 3
Philadelphia Manager Charlie Manuel wasn't bothered by the type of loss, just concerned that his team is ready to bounce back Tuesday.
"When you really think about it, a loss is a loss," he said. "We'll come back out tomorrow and it's still 0-0."
Phillies center fielder Ben Revere made one of the few highlights in the loss, making an over the shoulder grab of David Ortiz's deep fly in the fourth before banging into the unpadded part of the wall.
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"He's all right. He hurt his elbow," Manuel said. "I don't know if he's getting an X-ray. He probably will."
Papelbon returned to Fenway on Monday but his alter-ego, "Cinco Ocho," didn't make an appearance.
"He's probably going to love it," the former Red Sox reliever said of the nickname he gave himself because of his uniform No. 58. "He's probably going to be pretty hyped."
The colorful closer, who saved the last three games of Boston's 2007 World Series sweep of the Colorado Rockies, said his only goal in signing with Philadelphia after the 2011 season was to win.
"Hopefully I'll be received well, but I'll understand if I'm not," he told reporters in the visitor's dugout before the game. "Hopefully, the fans will understand that I just wanted to win, and that's all I wanted to do when I was here."
Papelbon had 219 saves in 248 opportunities with a 2.33 ERA for Boston from 2005-11. He left as a free agent as soon as he was eligible, signing a four year deal for $50,000,058.
That meant he missed last year's last-place finish, when the Red Sox went 69-93 under Bobby Valentine in his only year as the Boston manager.
"I've moved on," Papelbon said. "Boston was a great city for me. I had a great time here, but I've moved on. I really didn't play much attention to the Red Sox."
The Red Sox welcomed Papelbon back with a scoreboard tribute that showed many of his highlights in Boston, including his celebration after getting the last out in the '07 Series. Other shots showed Papelbon spraying champagne and dancing in a kilt at the victory parade.
The crowd gave him a big cheer, and Papelbon saluted from the dugout.
"It's an absolute thrill to be here at this park again and hopefully get on the mound and pitch," he said. "I think this is one of my all-time favorite mounds to pitch off."
Dustin Pedroia and Mike Napoli homered in the first inning, and Alfredo Aceves (2-1) held the Phillies to one run over six innings in his best outing of the year.
"He took tonight as an opportunity to make an impression," Red Sox manager John Farrell said. "He made a solid one. It's a night-and-day difference."
Jacoby Ellsbury had hits in each of the first three innings to help the Red Sox earn their fourth consecutive victory and their 10th in the past 13 games. Ellsbury also chased down Freddy Galvis' line drive to deep center field with the bases loaded in the sixth to end the inning and protect an 8-1 lead
"In this ballpark, when you're down four, maybe five runs, there's still a chance. But when it's 8-1, it's in another zone," Manuel said. "The ball Freddy hit when it was 8-1 might have gotten us close, but the guy made a pretty nice play on it."
Jimmy Rollins, Ryan Howard, John Mayberry and Revere each had two hits for the Phillies. Erik Kratz's solo homer in the third and Domonic Brown's two-run shot in the eighth both curled around the Pesky Pole.
NOTES: Revere crashed into an unpadded part of the wall while catching Ortiz's deep drive to end the fourth. He stayed down and the trainer ran out to help him, but he remained in the game and singled in the top of the fifth. ... Ellsbury, who hit a double to end Sunday's game, singled in the first and doubled in the second and third, giving him hits in four consecutive innings.... Cloyd had allowed three runs or fewer in six of his eight career starts, including all five on the road, before Monday. ... Daniel Nava was the only player in the Red Sox starting lineup who did not get a hit. ... The teams wore special camouflage uniforms and caps in honor of Memorial Day.
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For years, scientists have sought proof that carbon nanotubes were soluble, which would provide an efficient way to arrange them without losing their ultrastrong properties. It occurred to Streich that if he poured the microscopic nanotubes into solution of N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone and shot them with a laser spectrometer, he could measure the level at which they are soluble. Potential applications include lighter spacecraft. One of the top three winners at the international science fair, Philip walked away with $76,650 in prize money.


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Teilhard de Chardin's Metaphysics and UFOs
Copyright 2012, InterAmerica, Inc.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, as cognoscenti know, was a scientific theologian whose views are intricately metaphysical.
And in them lie a possible explanation for the UFO
phenomenon, as we've noted much earlier here and at our RRRGroup blog.
The complexity of Teilhard's thought is vast and presenting
a succinct or concise account of it here would be sacrilegious, not to mention
Teilhard, a Jesuit priest, imbued his "philosophy" with a
heavy, intrinsic infusion of the divinity of Jesus/Christ.
One has to set that aside and concentrate on the
macro-quantum aspects of Teihard's conceived reality.
Teihard proposed that the Universe we live in is actually
The Mystical Body of Christ; that is, the Universe is the "biological" body of
Frank Stalter, at his Facebook venue, recently provided a
link from Space.com which predicated the idea that the Universe operates like a
That idea is a shallow concept when placed alongside
Teilhard's extensive musings, in such books as The Divine Milieu, The
Phenomenon of Man, and popularized in "Let Me Explain."
Teilhard states that Jesus/Christ is not only the Omega
Point of the Universe, to which we strive (or should) to arrive, but is the
all-encompassing Universe itself.
The "elemental particles" of this Jesus/Christ Universe are
intrinsic to the living being that is Jesus/Christ.
When, for example, an evil outbreak of humanity occurs (a
Genghis Khan or an Adolf Hitler or even a lone murderer), this body of
Jesus/Christ is afflicted, as if a virus or cancer has attacked it.
The "soul" of the divine being that is the Universe suffers
the same pain, except immeasurably so, as a solitary human being suffers.
We, the Earth, and our Solar System are comparatively
quantum in nature but still inflict various vicissitudes, some good and some
bad, on the divine body – the Jesus/Christ Universe.
Let me propose that UFOs may be considered intrusions like
white corpuscles, which attack or support the health of the divine body, or
that portion of it that we make up.
In the transcendental arena of Teilhard's Universe the
living creatures, the atoms or sub-atomic particles (humans) may be likened to
skin cells or antibodies of a kind.
UFO may be likened to viral onslaughts that have been
benign, so far, but presage a possible infection. The nature of which has yet
to be determined or discerned.
In the Perennial Library paperback [Harper & Row, NY,
1957, Page 112 ff.] The Divine Milieu Teihard's Part Three, entitled as the
book itself…..
…is a dense compendium of mystical musings intermingled with
hard science and theological underpinnings.
God (in the nature of Jesus/Christ) is everywhere and a
concrete reality, composed of dense matter [Page 115].
In Section Two: The Nature of the Divine Milieu The
Universal Christ and The Great Communion, Teilhard asks [Page 122 ff.] "Under
what form…does the divine immensity manifest itself to, and become relevant to
"Under what form, and with what end in view, has the Creator
given us…the gift of participated being?
"The action by which god maintains us in the field of his
presence is a unitive transformation."
We are assimilated "into the omnipresence of
christification" [Page 123]
On Page 125 is this "At every moment the eucharistic Christ
controls….the whole movement of the
"Across the immensity of time and the disconcerting
multiplicity of individuals, one single operation is taking place: the
annexation to Christ of his chosen; one single thing is being made: the
mystical body of Christ…Hoc est corpus meum." [Page 143]
Christ-Omega is defined in Let Me Explain [Harper & Row,
NY, 1966]: Page 98 ff.
In The Phenomenon of Man [Harper Torchbooks, Harper &
Row, NY] Page 81, Chapter One, Section A, Micro-organisms and Mega-molecules
Teilhard's discussion(s) of cellular life leads to the advent of man and his
ultimate morphology.
The Psychogenesis of mankind is intrinsic to a validation,
philosophically, of our existence as part of the mystical (the physical) body
of Christ, as elaborated upon in The Divine Milieu.
I can't do justice to Teilhard's thought, so I suggest those
of you with a metaphysical bent immerse yourself in his writings.
That we, UFOs included, are part of a cohesive existence
that is tangible and real while transcendental in ways that boggle the mind
could be helpful in determining what UFOs are, even if they, in the context,
are only viral in nature.


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Sunday I came back from Sharm El Sheikh where I have spent a wonderful holiday and I have met new friends. Despite the fligth back was not so confortable (the final destination was cancelled and we have landed in Malpensa airport) I still have great feeling of the week.
I have visited two new dive site's in Sharm: Pinky Wall and The Temple. Pinky Wall is a dive site's full of pink alcyonarian corals, sometimes the drift can direct you in the opposite direction where another famouse Sharm's site is available (Amphoras). The Temple is in the bay between Ras Umm Sid and Ras Katy and I had dive there twice: one during the day and the other during the night. The day was great because we had a long dive (66 mins and 80 bars left on the tank!) thanks to the depth that is between 6 and 18 meters. The night was a surprise: full of lion fish which was attracted by our lamps, we also seen a lazy crocodilefish on the bottom. The Temple have offered us the possibility to see a big moray around 2 meters long.
Hope to come back soon, bye bye Sharm!
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The Washington United Methodist Church has been preparing for several special events for today.
Title: Noon Kiwanis Chili Supper
Description: The Washington Noon Kiwanis is holding a chili supper at the United Presbyterian Church from 4 to 7pm on Thursday, December 27th.
Date: 2012-12-27
Title: Noon Kiwanis Blood Drive
Description: The Washington Noon Kiwanis is holding a blood drive at the United Presbyterian Church from 1:30 to 6:30pm Thursday, December 20th.
Date: 2012-12-20
Title: Fall Risk Management Seminar
Description: An "I've Fallen and I Can't Get Up!" Fall Risk Management Seminar is being held at the Washington Y Senior Dining at 11:15am. There will be free balance tests and door prizes.
Date: 2012-12-12
Title: Parkview Caring Christmas Food Drive
Description: Parkview of Wellman is holding a KCII Caring Christmas Food Drive on Thursday from 4 to 6pm. There will be a wine and cheese bar, Christmas cookie and candy walk and a visit from Santa.
Date: 2012-12-13
Title: Geminid Meteor Shower Viewing
Description: Louisa County Conservation is holding a star gazing and Geminid meteor shower viewing on Thursday from 6 to 9pm at the Langwood Education Center. Bring a chair, a mug for hot chocolate and dress for the weather.
Date: 2012-12-13
Title: Christmas Eve Service
Description: Sigourney Christian Church is holding a Christmas Eve service at 9pm. The church is located at 308 South Jefferson.
Date: 2012-12-24
Title: Special Needs Support Group
Location: 1506 5th St., Washington
Description: A support group for parents with special-needs children is starting in Washington. There will be a celebration Monday, December 17 from 11am to 1pm at the old New Oaks Nazarene Church. Call Angie by Monday, December 10 to register: 319-591-8064
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The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity at the Geffen Playhouse
Zach Kaufer • New York City • Sep 26, 2011
It's midweek, classes are stifling, and I'm growing restless at the thought of spending another three days cooped up in a classroom listening to people talk about things I really don't care about. I'm learning about what I love and what gives me more pleasure than anything else in the world, so why am I so indifferent to all the new information?
In Kristoffer Diaz's The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, now playing at the Geffen Theatre in Westwood, I saw someone going through the same sort of ideological crisis I had been experiencing that very same day. The lead character Macedonio Guera grew up in a Puerto Rican household in Brooklyn with "my brother and my brother" who would watch wrestling every Saturday morning. His brothers were only interested in beating each other up, but Mace held a much deeper fascination with the art of wrestling: storytelling, teamwork, the idea of creating a situation in which two people work together to achieve a common goal. Mace watches as THE Wrestling (the biggest name in professional wrestling) is trivialized by a punk kid from the streets who comes in, makes a name for himself, and leaves without so much as a second thought. What looks to be a play about the business of wrestling quickly turns to a discourse about the ways in which we are able to stand up for what we love and protect ourselves against those who trivialize our passions. As a theater major whose art form is trivialized by those who take an acting class for an easy A, I was given a new sense of power and possession over that which I proudly call my own. It's easy for us to fake our way through this craft but, as many of my teachers have pointed out, it's when you put yourself on the line that you receive the greatest reward.
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What's wrong with playing no pills in the 1st and 2nd round in ELO or as the French like to call it - 'old' ? Some call it 'cheating' and wanted to know if any1 knew what was wrong with it.
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Regarding the original question. How many of those who complained were down by approx 6 pillz?
I've tried 0 pilling on round 1 and 2 but found I had much more success trying to out math my opponent on round 1.
Just don't be stupid with it. If you have Pussycats or Jungo, you can go ahead and try it. If you're facing FPC or Junta, DON'T do it. It's just one of many tactics, anyone who only uses one tactic is bad.
If you're not good enough to beat a "noob" who uses a "cheap-shot tactic" then clearly you aren't as good as you think you are. To be pro sometimes you have to think like a noob.
If relying on guesswork is noobish, isn't anyone who plays this game a noob? Even if you pill on the first round, you still try to guess how many pillz your opponent will use and beat them without overpilling. You actually need even more luck because the numbers are not solid.
It all depends on play style. Some people prefer to win as many rounds as possible for an easy win, while others build up an advantage and do the damage when it is harder to counter. There are different strategies, and just because you do not agree with this one does not mean it is not valid.
If you play 3 or more pills and your opponent plays none (which isnt that uncommon) then you are left in trouble anyway. This game is mostly about reading your opponent anyway so 50/50 or not, it makes no difference
Sometimes the opponent guesses the gambit correctly and plays with 1 pill eac in the frst 2 rounds, in which case, you're cooked!


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John Griffith-Jones, who was senior partner at KPMG until he walked through the revolving door towards his chance of a knighthood as chairman of our new regulator the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), has shown himself – both by his words and actions – to be the very worst example of what I am talking about.
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KPMG and nearly all the other "accounting" firms have been having a field day ever since the days of maggie thatcher and "privatisation". Meaning, taking from the public and giving it to private entities, usually mates or cronies. It's time to have a close look at all their dealing over the past 30yrs. Yes, that's a long time in which to do as you please. They got rich in the Eighties passing on stolen goods.


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Saturday July 3, 2010 / 9:30am
Take Me to the Vino
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This is a great idea for a tour. It isn't too far from New York, the wineries are stunning, the food is good and the day moves at a good pace. I had hoped for a 'little wine bus', but in fact there were two huge buses with dozens of people in each group. The few things that didn't work for me were the chaos at check-in (we spent a long time standing outside our bus waiting to board and left 20 minutes later than advertised) and the very high volume at which music, announcements and karaoke were broadcast. I was travelling with friends who were visiting New York for just a couple of days but it was impossible to chat to them or anyone else on the bus because of the noise level. For a while I felt that the only way to escape the noise would be to get off and hitchhike home on my own. The feeling of being trapped inescapably in the situation only made it all worse. One man suffered with a migraine for much of the day and his distress can only be imagined. Perhaps if there are two buses it would be worth designating one a 'party bus' and one a 'mellow bus' with lower noise levels and no karaoke. At the very least, it should be clear from the tour description that noise is part of the deal. The owner is good fun but sometimes it is nice just to chill and let the customers dictate the pace.


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"Disclosure of the aggregate data would not plausibly jeopardize the secrecy of any particular FISA or FAA directive that Microsoft may have received," Microsoft said in a court filing.
Google made a similar request last week. Federal authorities, with the approval of FISC, have the right to ask for use data from tech companies under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA. But the court has ruled that companies must keep silent about the requests.
Playing the First Amendment Card
Microsoft, Apple, Yahoo and Facebook all got permission from the FBI to reveal the number of requests for user data that all law enforcement agencies made between Dec. 1, 2012 and May 31, inclusive of criminal, inclusive of FISA and other requests. But the specific number and nature of FISA requests remains unknown.
Microsoft already tried its luck with the FBI and the Department of Justice but was denied permission to release the data. The company is now aggressively arguing that barring the publication of the data would constitute a content-based restriction on speech that fails to satisfy strict scrutiny, in violation of the First Amendment.
"The First Amendment does not permit the government to bar Microsoft from speaking about an issue of great importance to its customers, shareholders, and the public while, simultaneously, senior government officials are speaking publicly about the very same subject," Microsoft continued.
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"China is actually boycotting all Cisco hardware. These companies certainly don't want to be painted with the same broad brush so they can't sell in places like China," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "Microsoft wants to be able to point out that it is providing everything it can, and pare down this perception that everybody's data is at risk. Microsoft is trying to mitigate some of the damage that's been done."
Enderle believes Congress is on the side of the tech giants, preferring to disclose as much information as possible. He expects a major effort to limit government requests without due process. And he believes the FISC will ultimately rule to release the requested numbers because so much has already leaked.
"I don't see any more damage that would be done by talking about the information being disclosed. The government now is trying to contain the damage to U.S. corporations. The damage could be large and material. If nothing else that speaks to tax revenues," Enderle told us.
"I actually think it's likely that they are going to see these requests approved because it pares down the context of the volume of data being provided. The bigger issue is that the program was outed in the first place."


text: Better Than Chocolate is a lesbian love story. Walking home from an evening at the lesbian club 'Cat's Ass,' Maggie is confronted by a gang of skinheads. Suddenly a minibus comes to a screeching halt and out jumps Kim. The skins move on, and Maggie thanks Kim, who watches her go. This is their first meeting. Maggie has recently dropped out of law school and now works in a women's shop. To avoid a confrontation with her mother, she makes up a success story and tells her that she's living in a beautiful apartment. As her mother is having her difficulties with her second husband, she decides to take her young son and come to live with Maggie for a while. Meanwhile, Maggie is housesitting the apartment of a female performer on tour. As fate might have it, she runs across Kim again and they find themselves at the new apartment making love in the shower -- at which moment Maggie's mother and little brother step in. The film was screened as part of the Panorama section of the 49th International Berlin Film Festival, 1999. ~ Gönül Dönmez-Colin, Rovi