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Once we've welcomed in the New Year, the Keys are the place to be! This week's happenings include everything from a Stone Crab and Seafood Festival in Islamorada to a production of Reds in Key West. See a sampling of this week's special activities below:
The Upper Keys:
In Key Largo and Islamorada, where KeysCaribbean Luxury Resorts and Marinas has two exclusive locations -Mariners Resort Villas & Marina and the Historic Tavernier Inn
3rd Annual Key Largo Stone Crab & Seafood Festival Key Largo / January 28 to January 29
A festival chock full of fresh stone crabs, conch, local seafood, music, entertainment and fun for the entire family, including a Conch Cook-Off, cooking demonstrations, a peel-and-eat shrimp eating contest, a "little mermaid" contest and a kids' play area with live fish aquarium & touch tank. Arts & craft vendors, Junkanoo band, magic shows, face painters, food, beverages and key lime pie.
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History of Diving Museum presents: FREE Seminar Series Islamorada / January 18
The History of Diving Museum continues its 2012 Immerse Yourself! series with a free special event: Henry Flagler: Florida's Patron of Progress and Technology, presented by Thomas Lockyear of the Shipwreck Treasures Museum. Step back in time and take journey through Florida Keys history to discover Henry Flagler's contributions to the development of Florida as both a tourist destination and as a desirable place to live and work. Lockyear will focus on the technology and techniques developed specifically for the creation of the Key West Extension of the Florida East Coast Railway – and the employment of hard hat divers in its construction. Starts at 7 p.m. at Diving Museum, mile marker 83 in Islamorada. Immerse yourself in the fun!
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Keys Community Concert Band presents: Get on Board! Islamorada / January 21
A free concert celebrating the Flagler Centennial. The Keys Community Concert Band will perform music about railroads and the people who built them, as well as selections composed during the early 1800s, including "Train Heading West" and "Take a Train." Located at Islamorada Founders Park, Bayside, MM 87, Plantation Key. Performances are outdoors; no chairs provided. Starts at 4:00 p.m. Admission free for all concerts.
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The Middle Keys:
In the Middle Keys, KeysCaribbean Luxury Resorts and Marinas has the Village at Hawks Cay Villas on Duck Key, Indigo Reef Resort Villas & Marina and the Coral Lagoon Resort Villas & Marina vacation rentals in Marathon
"Tropical Impressions" Group Art Show Marathon / January 05 to January 28
Eight local artists present their tropically-themed, original works for view and purchase in the main gallery of The Marathon Community Theater (MM 49.5, oceanside) during the production of "The Dixie Swim Club." Art can be viewed and purchased before curtain and during intermissions each show date, including before a 3 p.m. matinee on Sunday, Jan. 15. Open-gallery dates are also set between Jan. 19-28, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Thur, Fri, Sat & Sun, with an artist to welcome guests. The ever-popular art raffle tickets are also to be available. All artwork in the gallery is open to the public to view and purchase.
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Florida Keys Concert Association presents: Trio Solisti Marathon / January 23
Hailed "the most exciting piano trio in America," Trio Solisti is comprised of three brilliant instrumentalists – violinist Maria Bachmann, cellist Alexis Pia Gerlach and pianist Jon Klibonoff. Their soulful and passionate performances are marked by soloistic virtuosity, electric energy, seamless ensemble playing and thrilling abandon. Tickets $30, purchased at the door. Seasonal tickets available for $85 general admission and $150 preferred seating; visit website for details. Performance takes place at the San Pablo Catholic Church of Marathon, 550 122nd St. Doors open 7 p.m., showtime 7:30 p.m.
Contact: Lynda Berrigan 305-743-4687
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In the Lower Keys, KeysCaribbean Luxury Resorts and Marinas has the Coral Hammock Resort Villas and Kings Point Marina & Condominiums vacation rentals
Premier Racing presents: Key West Race Week 2012 Key West / January 15 to January 20
The 25th-anniversary challenge features world-class competition and yachting teams from more than 12 countries and 24 American states. More than 100 racing yachts compete for class championships in this international regatta. To view the action, fans can book seats on spectator boats ranging from excursion catamarans to historic tall ships or from land at Key West's Atlantic-front restaurants, resorts and beaches.
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Red Barn Theatre presents: Red Key West / January 18 to January 28
Red is a searing portrait of the master abstract expressionist Mark Rothko and his young assistant. Ambition and vulnerability go hand in hand as Rothko tries to create his crowing achievement that could also become his undoing. Visit website for show times and tickets.
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These are some of my favorite happenings this week and next in the Florida Keys. If you're coming down to visit and stay with us at the KeysCaribbean Luxury Resorts & Marinas in our vacation rentals, share some of your favorite happenings with us …
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Scotland has always been at the forefront of change and the world changing faster than ever before. We have had the Scottish Agricultural Revolution which began in the seventeenth century and around the same time we had the Industrial Revolution and the Scottish Enlightenment. The Wealth of Nations was published by Adam Smith, the effects of which spread far beyond Scotland, because its ideas and attitudes were carried across the Atlantic as part of the Scottish diaspora.
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The Last Shadow Puppets played a surprise gig at Glastonbury tonight (June 28) - and were joined by Jack White.
As rumours spread around the site, a large crowd gathered at the Park Stage to watch Alex Turner and Miles Kane play an acoustic set drawn from 'The Age Of The Understatement'.
Playing as a duo, the pair kicked off with 'My Mistakes Were Made For You' and 'Only The Truth'.
Joined by their keyboard player, they then played a stripped down version of 'Calm Like You' after which the pair swapped guitars to play 'Standing Next To Me'.
The trio played 'The Chamber' and 'The Meeting Place', after which Arctic Monkeys drummer Matt Helders stepped in to add drums for the title track from 'The Age Of The Understatement'.
After the drummer left the stage, Turner explained "we've only got the chance for one more", as the pair put down the guitars and started singing along to a keyboard-led cover of 'Wondrous Place'.
Then several bars in White, who had played on the Pyramid Stage with The Raconteurs earlier in the evening, took the stage unannounced, playing a guitar solo, before departing after his work was done - leaving the duo to finish the song.
Speaking to NME.COM, the pair explained they had simply bumped into White backstage. "We just asked him and he said yes," explained Kane "I had to play him the song on my iPod so he could learn it."
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The various factors common to forest management schemes are examined : sustained output, biodiversity conservation, and multiple uses. These factors are combined in different ways from case to case. Consideration of them in the management process includes specific kinds of financial impact for each factor. The diverse range of management situations must therefore lead to properly adapted financial set-ups. The planned generalization of the implementation of forest management schemes will involve introducing economies of scale and reducing unit management costs. This represents a tremendous challenge for research. Likewise, the generalization of management schemes will entail a basic redefinition of the duties of forest administration agents
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India's first lightest gun Nidar launched
India's first indigenously developed lightest revolver (gun) Nidar weighing merely 250 grams was successfully launched.
It has been designed and manufactured by the state-run Rifle Factory Ishapore located in West Bengal giving boost to the 'Make in India' initiative in small manufacturing sector.
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- Nidar is much lighter than 'Nirbheek' (500 grams) revolver which was exclusively designed for women.
- Features: It is .22 caliber gun (revolver) with a 40-mm barrel and is only 140mm in length. It has a range 7 meters with precise accuracy.
- It has cylinder capacity of eight bullets and made up of DTD5124 alloy of aluminium which is very light in weight and has supreme metal strength.
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Will of Margaret Whelan
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In the name of God Amen this eighth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy six. I Margaret Whelan of Saint John's Newfoundland widow of the late Robert Whelan of St. John's aforesaid being through the blessing of God in a sound state of mind and memory but calling to mind the frail tenure of this life and that it is appointed for all once to die I do make and ordain this my last will and testament in the following manner that is I give and bequeath to James Croak of Saint John's aforesaid that piece of ground left to me by my husband Robt Whelan situate on the south side of Saint John's Riverhead containing about one acre and the two houses thereon and also half the house now occupied by James Power and separated from the two houses aforesaid by only five or six feet together with all my household goods and effects belonging to me and I do hereby utterly disallow annul and revoke all and every other former wills and testaments ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my last will & testament in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year above written
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Rapper and businessman, Sean 'Diddy' Combs together with Ciroc have donated $200,000 to the Unforgettable healthcare campaign, to expand and improve the Suubi "Hope" Health Center in Uganda.
The initiative was started by rapper French Montana in partnership with the non-profit Mama Hope and Global Citizen after he filmed the video for his hit song "Unforgettable" in Kampala.
"I've always said my purpose is to inspire and empower the next generation to become great leaders – and to honour their hustle along the way," Diddy tells Rolling Stone. "In addition to passing the torch to French, I'm showing my support for the work he is doing in Uganda. Not only will Ciroc be donating $100,000 to support the organisation Mama Hope, I am matching the donation so that our stories and successes can benefit as many people as possible."
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The Last Kingdom
by Bernard Cornwell
400pp, HarperCollins, £17.99
Our first sight of King Alfred in Bernard Cornwell's historical novel, The Last Kingdom, is of him crouched shamefully outside a tent, moaning in pain, vomiting, and grovelling for God's forgiveness: "It seemed Alfred had humped a servant girl and, immediately afterwards, had been overcome by physical pain and what he called spiritual torment." Hardly the introduction we might have expected to the only English sovereign ever awarded the epithet "the great", or to the monarch whose statue defiantly holds a sword erect in the centre of Winchester. But Cornwell's portrait of a sickly and sinful young Alfred is faithful to The Life of King Alfred, a history believed to have been written in or shortly after his reign, by a Welsh bishop called Asser.
The other early source for Alfred's life is the ninth-century Anglo-Saxon Chronicle . Cornwell's novel - the first part of a trilogy set in Alfred's reign - closely follows the battles, treaties and successions laid out in this history: beginning in 867, when Alfred's elder brother Æthelred was still king of Wessex and, according to the chronicle, there was "an immense slaughter of the Northumbrians" by Viking raiders at York; and ending in 877, one year before the young King Alfred infamously - though temporarily - lost control of the last English kingdom to the dreaded Danes.
For most of this first volume, however, it is not from the scriptoria of the Saxons, but from the camps and dragon-boats of the Northmen, that the struggle for England is viewed. Cornwell chooses for his narrator a Northumbrian boy who is captured and raised by pagan Danes, before granting his allegiance to Alfred's West Saxons. Sitting between cultures, he wrestles throughout with issues of identity: "Northumbrian or Dane? Which was I? What did I want to be?" Such a scenario is not unlikely - in the north-eastern areas of the country, at that time when "England" was still being forged, there was much cultural amalgamation between Dane and Saxon. And such questions cannot help but have resonance for a modern audience, living in a post-devolution Britain that is again struggling to find an identity: English? British? European? Which are we?
For Uhtred, Cornwell's young narrator, there can be little doubt that - although he finally swears his sword to the English Alfred - his heart tugs irresistibly towards the Danes. "To exchange Ragnar's freedom for Alfred's earnest piety seemed a miserable fate to me," he muses. And it is difficult for the reader not to share much the same sentiment. While Cornwell's Danes roar with delight on the battlefield, revel in the salt-spray soaking their flaxen locks, and feast with carnivorous joy, his Saxons are mostly rule-bound, pious leek-eaters. In the historical notes to the novel, Cornwell asserts that he wished to escape the "fanciful imagery" that has become attached to the horn-helmeted figure of the Viking -but some cultural stereotyping surely remains in his depiction of the two contesting peoples.
Cornwell's rather muted Saxons follow in a tradition of disregard for Anglo-Saxon history that has prevailed since the early 20th century. In the Victorian period, Alfred's life was "the favourite story in English nurseries" and the Saxons were hailed as the founders of just about every English institution. But two world wars against a Germanic nation made Saxon heroes distinctly less attractive to English writers and film-makers than Britons, Normans or Norsemen. How many Arthurian films stand beside the sole 1969 film Alfred the Great ? Alfred has waited many years for a novelist to update the Victorian image of him as an exemplar of the sort of moral, masculine boldness touted by 19th-century writers such as Thomas Carlyle; to give us instead the Alfred identified by recent historians - a politician who had the foresight to commission a Welsh bishop to write his biography.
Certainly, Cornwell's Saxon king is a leader cast in a 21st-century mould: a subtle, shrewd ruler, he secures the loyalty of his followers as strategically as any corporation and, above all, knows the value of spin. Uhtred learns that Alfred "had never been invested as the future king", but "to his dying day, insisted the Pope had conferred the succession on him, and so justified his usurpation of the throne that by rights should have gone to Aethelred's eldest son".
Myth-making is a subject that fascinates Cornwell, and which he has explored before. Here, the martyrdom of Edmund of East Anglia - tied to a tree and used for Viking target practice - and the self-mutilation of the nuns of St Abbs, who cut off their noses to avoid rape, are deconstructed. "The tale is still sold as evidence of Danish ferocity and untrustworthiness," Uhtred states of the latter story. "I remember one Easter listening to a sermon about the nuns, and it was all I could do not to interrupt and say that it had not happened as the priest described." Religious propaganda, in particular, receives short shrift in this novel, as in Cornwell's Arthurian trilogy. And its anatomy of how a Danish invasion in search of land and riches is conceptualised by English monks into a "holy war" surely has contemporary relevance.
Cornwell's foregrounding of the constructed and politicised nature of histories gives him a licence to stir around his sources. The reader forgives slight deviations from them, or minor chronological rearrangements in the novel (an 878 battle in 877) because, after all, who knows how accurate Asser's account is? Some slips, though, might remain inexcusable to the avid Anglo-Saxonist: twice in this novel, Alfred's name mysteriously mutates to "Arthur" - the king who, throughout the 20th century, has so effectively supplanted the Saxon as the nation's favourite medieval monarch.
It is difficult not to view this as portentous. Alfred may blossom from sickly lecher to triumphant hero in the remaining two volumes of this series. But if even Cornwell cannot shake off the shadow of the Excalibur-wielding Celt, then it remains to be seen whether, for near-forgotten Alfred, The Last Kingdom will represent a renewed role as national icon - or just the last gasp.
· Joanne Parker is junior research fellow in the department of historical studies at Bristol University.


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2015-2016 Academic Year off to a Great Start!
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With a lively group of freshman and other fresh faces, the OCF at the University of Illinois U-C is moving full speed ahead! We started off the year great with a welcome day BBQ at the NIKA house (thank you Foti!), hosting about 40 people and having a first-time-ever live band play during the BBQ.
Tuesdays this semester have consisted of bible studies, discussion, and deep spiritual conversation, in addition to social hours and visits from Champaign volunteer groups. The group of students that we have attend both Three Hierarch's Greek Orthodox Church and St. Nicholas Antiochian Orthodox Church and continue to help out with service events at each church.
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Spring Semester Update!
Hello everyone!
We have had such a great spring semester. Our Tuesday night meetings are full of great discussions where we get to grow in our faith together. In addition, our OCF participated in Relay for Life, where raised $594 for the American Cancer Society! We thank all our members for their donations & the members of Three Hierarchs parish for donating to our Valentines Day fundraiser! We couldn't do it without everyone's help. Below is a picture from Relay For Life's pancake dinner! All proceeds from this dinner went straight to fundraising!
have had fun social events! During cheese fair week, our board member Maria hosted us for a "wine and cheese night". It was a great time!
Before we knew it, Great Lent began! We helped Three Hierarchs church at their annual family night, where we prepared "Lazarakia" Lazarus loaves, palm crosses, bay leaves, and much more! We also had record attendance at church for Palm Sunday! Some students stayed on campus for Pascha, and some went home. Either way, we hope everyone had a lovely Pascha. Christ is Risen!
We have recently elected the board members for 2015-2016 school year! We are so excited to see what great things the board will accomplish. As always, we are so thankful for everyone who ran, and everyone who makes up our OCF. Without our members, OCF wouldn't be as strong as it is today!
OCF at Illinois welcomes His Grace Bishop Demetrios!
We were so honored to have His Grace Bishop Demetrios of Chicago come to Champaign this past weekend! It was wonderful to see him in the church service, and he gave us a fantastic sermon at Three Hierarchs Church! After church, we went to the NIKA house on campus where the OCF students got to meet and talk with His Grace. We are so thankful to have the NIKA house and are even more thankful for all the people who have and continue to support it! Without the NIKA house, our OCF would not be where it is today!
Spring semester is off to a great start!
We had a wonderful first meeting of the semester with a very impressive amount of people gathering together! We are so thankful to have a lovely location on campus to meet each week–without the NIKA house, our OCF would not be where it is today. And we are always so thankful to everyone who donates food to our organization! Tony Pomonis donates food from Merry Anns diner nearly every week! Foti, the house manager also donates his time to cook for us. We cannot wait for the semester to continue. We are having more students to lead discussions for our each week; we cannot wait to grow in our faith together and learn from each other.
We also have plenty of social events coming up! Lots of sporting events, such as ice skating and volleyball games, as well as dinners/movie nights! Our Valentines day fundraiser is coming up shortly as well. In addition to that, we plan to have volunteering events at various locations on and off campus! Keep checking back here for more updates!
Winter Retreat 2015!!
This year, for the first time in a while, OCF held its annual winter retreat in Chicago. Our retreat began on Saturday night at one of the board member's house, where we enjoyed a yummy dinner as well as cutting a Vasilopita bread! Following dinner, OCF members got to catch up with one another. We also played many, many rounds of Mafia! (a card game!!). On Sunday morning, OCF members went to St. George Greek Orthodox Church, which is located in the Lincoln Park area. Following the liturgy, we headed to brunch at Wildberry Café in downtown Chicago! The food was delicious!! To end the day off great, we all headed over to Millennium Park for some ice skating! It was a great two days full of lots of fun, fellowship, and an overall great experience to hang out with everyone before school starts up again.
As for our upcoming spring semester, we have a lot of great ideas running through and can't wait for what is to come! From discussions, retreats, Pascha, and other fellowship events, we know it will be a great semester! Keep checking back here for updates!
A summary of fall 2014
We have had such a great fall semester, and it is so hard to believe it is over! This post is dedicated as a summary of what we have accomplished this semester. Also be sure to check out our photos! August 2014: We started the year off with Quad day, where we got many new members to sign up and attend our annual quad day BBQ. We had food catered from Black Dog BBQ and it was delicious!! Thank you to all who attended! September 2014 For our first meeting of the month, we played some "getting to know you" games and also did a blessing of the NIKA house. We all went to the quad after to enjoy some yummy insomnia cookies! We also celebrated college student Sunday at Three Hierarchs church. We had a lovely turn out! Thank you to the parish for providing the students with a free lunch after liturgy. We also had some lovely discussions in September. One of which was all about Iconography; we learned all about the meanings behind the colors and symbols in icons. OCF also spent a meeting at J. Gumbos restaurant, where we got to enjoy yummy cajun food and each others company! We closed September off with our annual trip to Curtis Apple Orchard! October 2014: Our October was full of wonderful events and discussions. We started the month with a discussion about our vocation as Orthodox Christians. Then, in the middle of October, we had our annual Fall retreat where we invited Fr. Elias Khouri, from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to talk more with us about Vocation. It was a great time spent growing our faith in Christ with friends at both the NIKA house and at the University of Illinois Arboretum. OCF also volunteered at Three Hierarchs annual food festival this month. It was great giving back to the church community that has given us so much! November 2014: In November we started a weekly event– "OCF lunch", where each Thursday afternoon, OCF students meet up for lunch at a restaurant on campus. It is a great way to catch up with our OCF friends during the week! November also brought some great discussions! In remembrance of Veterans Day, we talked about "self defense and the holy wars". We also talked about the patron saint of OCF–Saint Katherine! It was amazing to see how much us students can relate to such an amazing Saint! In the spirit of giving, OCF hosted a canned food drive to donate to families in need. We received a lot of support from the members of Three Hierarchs for this food drive, which we are very thankful for! December 2014: December was a short month for us! But we were sure to enjoy it before finals began. For our one meeting of the month, we talked about different Christmas prophecies. For our second meeting of the month, we celebrated by having our annual Christmas party! We enjoyed dinner with desserts, and then we played "white elephant" gift exchange. Before we left for break, our two board members, Lia & Kathy, held a reading day breakfast at their apartment. It was great way to spend some time with everyone before heading to the library to study for exams! It really has been a great semester, and we are planning for a great spring semester! Stay tuned to this site to see photos from our winter retreat, happening in January!


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Cinema has been an accepted part of or lives for so long that it's easy to not question the affect that it can have on us. And when it comes to violence in films, that may actually be a momentous oversight – our over-consumption may have led to a certain desensitization, a blasé acceptance of what is socially unacceptable.
The recent spate of "torture porn" films – Saw, Hostel et al – have raised questions about screen violence, but ultimately, these are just a grotesque and extreme end of a massive wedge – from Star Wars, Westerns and Home Alone up to Rambo and Donkey Punch, violence in one form or other is Hollywood's bread and butter.
Michael Haneke's Funny Games, a shot-for-shot English-language remake of his 1997 Austrian shocker, is a brutal wake-up call on that state of affairs, one part ctrl-alt-delete reboot, one part icy bucket of water tipped over our heads.
It's quite hard to review this in the traditional sense, as it's more of an experience than a film. There's little to say about it in terms of plot – Ann (Naomi Watts) and George (Tim Roth) take their son to their holiday house in the Hamptons for a break. While there, two presentable preppy lads Paul (Michael Pitt) and Peter (Brady Corbet) genteelly invite themselves in before holding them hostage and slowly, coldly and systematically destroying them, both physically and emotionally, even betting them that they won't be alive in 12 hours' time. It's truly shocking stuff – the tension is unbearable, the horror palpable.
Like the "torture porn" films, the film's reliance on brutality could open it to accusations of exploitation, and it does share certain traits with such grindhouse exploitationers as I Spit On Your Grave, Fight For Your Life and Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer – the crude and sparse simplicity and the measured cruelty.
But unlike them, here such tactics are used to make a point. By stripping away the niceties of modern cinema and focusing purely on the abusive acts, we are forced to question that which we have for so long passively consumed.
Make no mistake about it, we're given no place to hide from the horror. All throughout, there is an adopted blandness to the set and scenery that heightens the brutal moments. Traditionally, soundtrack has the ability to subconsciously guide you through a film or provide comfort, here there is none; likewise, characterisation can drag you by the nose – take the case of Dexter which portrays a serial killer in a sympathetic light – but all of the characters in Funny Games are models of neutrality.
You aren't encouraged to root for George and Ann, while the abusers are well-mannered middle-class kids who give no clue to their actions. All this leaves you with is your own, uninfluenced gut reaction to the torture – and that's the painful spot Haneke is trying to hit.
Actually, there is very little in the way of on-screen violence, but don't worry, that doesn't make it any easier, such is the psychological trauma, for both the characters and us.
Despite drawing strength from its vérité approach, Haneke frequently uses tricks to remind us that we're watching a film, damning us for contributing to the atrocity. We're guilty for choosing to watch it. It's our bloodlust that keeps the industry going. Sheesh.
The further the film progresses, the more you realise that you aren't in Kansas anymore and the traditional Hollywood payback payoff – the pat justification for violence – isn't on the cards. Really, it doesn't get any easier or prettier.
Let's not be under any illusion about this, Funny Games is a truly horrible, gut-wrenching, torturous film to watch – there is almost no context in which it is ideal viewing (don't follow this dumb schmuck's lead and watch it last thing at night, that's my tip).
But that's the whoooooole point. As our country struggles with knife crime, this challenges the way in which cinema has helped desensitize us to the brutality head-on.
We're so used to cinema being a medium for entertainment, that we've lost sight of the fact that it is still an art form and as such it is under no obligation to paint pretty pictures; art's responsibility is to challenge held views and shape our view of our world. Sorry if this is a bit pompous, but the closest thing I can compare it to is Picasso's Guernica, a sprawling, ugly work that sought to convey the horror of the Spanish civil war – Funny Games seeks to attempt the same thing with today's society.
Aaaaand relax.
Having seen it, I really badly need something fluffy, like Wall-E, just so I can feel human again. Seriously, Funny Games does that to you.
It's painfully full-on and if you it's not something I feel happy to advise anyone to watch, but if you have an open mind there's a searing experience to be had.
Rating: 18
Starring: Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Michael Pitt, Brady Corbet
Directed by: Michael Haneke
Extras: Trailer, director interview, Q&A
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Investors in Russia and Saudi Arabia cut their combined holdings of US securities by more than $50bn between the middle of 2014 and 2015, as the commodity price rout reverberated through global markets.
Russian and Saudi Arabian investors sold US stocks and corporate bonds as the price of oil fell and many emerging market currencies — including the rouble — tumbled against the dollar. An annual US Treasury survey released on Tuesday showed that the Gulf country reduced its holdings of US stocks by $26bn to $52.4bn over the year.
Earlier this month the Treasury revealed for the first time the scale of Saudi purchases of US government debt — including by central banks, sovereign wealth funds and residents — which slipped by $3bn to $116.8bn from February to March this year.
Brent, the international crude benchmark, has fallen 57 per cent from its 2014 high, and the decline has prompted finance ministers in both countries to seek new funding sources to plug widening budget gaps.
Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil producer, has lined up banks ahead of an expected $15bn bond sale later this year. Meanwhile, Russia sold $1.75bn worth of debt last week in its first euro deal since sanctions were imposed.
Investors in Russia have steadily shed US assets since the financial crisis, with holdings more than halved from a 2008 peak to roughly $73bn by the end of last June.
While the report underlined the difficulties facing the two governments, it also underscored the appetite foreign buyers have had for US assets as yields on European and Japanese sovereign debt slid into negative territory.
Foreign ownership of US securities reached a record $17.1tn by June 2015, up 4 per cent from a year earlier as investors in the UK, Luxembourg, the Cayman Islands and Ireland added to their holdings.
Financial institutions, brokers and custodians responding to the survey reported a $159bn jump in holdings of US assets by UK portfolios, the largest increase last year.
Residents of several emerging markets also reported a rise in US security ownership, including Mexico, Brazil, Turkey and India, the Treasury report showed.
The Treasury has sought to improve the annual survey, which it characterised as "imperfect" on Tuesday. Ownership can be masked by the purchase of stocks or bonds through a financial intermediary, a point investors note elevates countries such as Belgium in the analysis.
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More than any time in recent decades, American politics are deeply divided. Compromise is a dirty word.
"The way that we're running the country is that we're not running the country," says our guest Mark Gerzon, author of the new book, "The Reunited States of America."
As President of Mediators Foundation, the group he founded 25 years ago, Mark has brought people together in conflict zones around the world Concerned about increasing polarization in the U.S., Mark is working on the ideological frontier between left and right.
"We can work together to solve the problems we all face in a country we all love," Gerzon tells us on this episode of "How Do We Fix It?" But what we have now is a permanent campaign by both parties. "And after election day they start the next campaign."
"We can't solve any of the problems we face if we're tearing each other down the whole time."
Mark's fixes include urging individual citizens to engage in discussions with people we don't agree with, asking questions about what they think, rather than stating fixed opinions.
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Sunday, November 6, 2011
clippings from Erik Davis on Phil Dick's Gnosticism/Information
In its obsession with simulacra and coded messages, as well as its almost libertarian resistance to orthodox authority and a corresponding emphasis on spiritual autonomy, Gnosticism anticipates cyberculture.
no one has plunged into information Gnosticism with the such abandon as the brilliant SF writer Philip K. Dick.
In the essay "Man, Android and Machine," Dick suggests that Gnostic information is both a space and a being.
In The Divine Invasion, Dick creates an even richer theological image of living information space: a three-dimensional color-coded Biblical hologram.
In this image of hypertext heaven, Dick shows how a space of information density achieves an animate quality through the structure of an open-ended dialogue.
But "living information" was no mere metaphor within Dick's brilliant though decidedly unstable mind, for in 1974, sitting at home in Orange County, he apparently experienced such a force directly.
In our culture, we call individuals like Dick schizophrenic, but in the confines of his literary worlds, his schizophrenia achieves an unparalleled oracular glow.
In VALIS, the greatest and strangest of these late works, he fleshes out his information mysticism in the "Tractates Cryptica Scriptura," a twelve-page excerpt of his "Exegesis."
Just as the nameless hero of the "Hymn of the Pearl" found the Logos lying by the side of the road, VALIS penetrates the simulated world through the margins. The True God must mimic "sticks and trees and beer cans in gutters—he presumes to be trash discarded, debris no longer needed." Dick says at the end of VALIS that "the symbols of the divine show up in our world initially at the trash stratum."
from Magic, Memory, and the Angels of Information by Erik Davis
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- AnonymousDecember 14, 2011 at 5:17 PM
Great post. There was a time when humans en mass sought the wisdom of the Logos, before we steam rolled this planet into an industrial wasteland of meaningless entertainment, consumerism and the need for profit. Philip K Dick saw the truth and went right over Hunter S Thompson's edge to retrieve it.ReplyDelete
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Hello 2013.
To state the obvious - i've not posted in a while. And to be honest its taking me a lot of effort to muster the energy and enthusiasm to post now despite wanting to for a while.
Those of you who know me personally and some of you who don't but would have already seen via my Facebook page, will be aware of the reasons why I haven't posted in a long time.
I 'm trying to get to the point but its quite hard to write about something thats so personal in a public domain. Okay lets get this over - i've been away for a while because my mum, who was diagnosed with cancer in August, had an operation in December and following a complication passed away on Boxing day.
So there it is. My world has changed and things won't ever be the same.
Everyday things get a little easier, and they say time is a great healer, but adapting is difficult, so i'm taking things one day at a time. I now feel it is time to try & get back into things but must confess i've felt a little uninspired since it happened, but perhaps thats to be expected.
Because of the events of the past month, my outlook on life has altered. My priorities have changed and a lot of things have been put into perspective. The main thing being that i've come to the stark realisation that spent far too much of my life caught up in the obsession of trying to make a career of being an illustrator. This has meant i've often neglected people close to me because i've put my work first........... no more.
Losing my mum has taught me that although I love drawing and desperately want to carve myself out a niche in the illustration industry I need to stop putting it at the forefront of my life.
So thanks mum for that valuable lesson and i'm sorry that i didn't spend more time with you in life.
But no regrets, I know she would not have wanted that.
I will still work at being an illustrator and continue drawing but from now on i'm not going to let it take over.
On a happier note I have a wedding to organise (my own). We decided as family that going ahead with it is what mum would want so this will be taking up a big part of my time. I'll try to post as often as possible but i'm no longer going to stress about posting regularly, so forgive me if from now on theres only a new post once a week.
Wedding plans here we come, and 'mum I know you'll be there in spirit'.
Welcome to the my blog. My name is Lucy Farfort i'm a freelance illustrator & designer maker. This is where you can find out what i've been up to of late, read my attempts at a decent post & the rantings of a visual addict. Hope you like it. You can contact me to say 'hi' by email on email@example.com
If you would like to take a look at my work (& i would very much like you to) please visit my site: lucyshappyplace.com
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Friday, 25 January 2013
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Area families, fans pass the Olympic torch
Millions of people around the world are watching the 2012 London Olympics on television -- some of them more avidly than others. People who have a personal relationship with an Olympic athlete -- or who might have been athletes themselves -- are more possessed.
If the Olympics are in the bloodline, the passion is even more intense.
We recently asked readers to send us stories of their Olympic family connections, and responses came in droves.
The Donahoo family in North Richland Hills plans to be up at 4 a.m. four times over the course of a week for the dressage equestrian events. The horse-and-rider skills will not be aired on prime time, or even during the day, so to see Lauren Donahoo, a laptop has to be connected to the TV set for live streaming on a larger scale.
Even then, seeing 23-year-old Lauren is only a maybe. Her parents, sister and grandmother might get a glimpse of her as Calecto V leaves the show ring under U.S. rider Tina Konyot.
Lauren is not a rider on the American equestrian team; she's a groom. She will be awaiting Calecto's exit so she can tend to his every need. Still, she is in her first Olympics, and her family is watching as if she were the gold-medal favorite.
Lauren promised her mother, Pam Donahoo, that she wouldn't always be toting the horse's backpack, running the equine spa, mucking out stalls, braiding manes and massaging Calecto V's achy back. This is only the beginning of her Olympic career. Someday, she swears, she will be the rider.
NBC wasn't even around to broadcast the 1912 Olympics; the company was formed in 1926. Had it been in Stockholm, it surely would have had its cameras trained on Bill Thorpe's father, the famous gold medalist in the decathlon and pentathlon, Jim Thorpe.
This year marks the 100th anniversary of Jim's Olympic showing in Sweden. The American Indian athlete was awarded his gold medals by King Gustav V of Sweden, who said, "You, sir, are the greatest athlete in the world." Jim's modest response, "Thanks, King," would surely have guaranteed him a seat next to Bob Costas that night. But Costas, who seems like an Olympic institution, wasn't there, either.
Bill Thorpe, 84, lives in Arlington, and he'll be watching the athletes in the decathlon and pentathlon.
Track-and-field events are his favorite, he says. Swimming is on his mind, though, as those events recently dominated the broadcast.
Even though he's the son of the man deemed the greatest athlete of the 20th century by ABC's Wide World of Sports, Bill still marvels at the ability athletes have to find another gear in the last seconds of their races. "I watch and I appreciate what they go through. I see these guys get up and for some reason, they gain strength at the end. It's amazing."
That's what we all watch for -- the superhuman effort; if we are lucky, we see a familiar face.
And for a rare few, the Olympics are an opportunity to relive old glories.
From sprinter to stuntman
Olympian: Finis Dean Smith; ran in the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland
Where he is watching the 2012 Olympics: Home, on a ranch west of Mineral Wells
The Smith family -- Finis Dean Sr., Finis Dean Jr. and Debby, wife and mom -- won't be doing a marathon watch of the Olympics, much as they might like to do so.
For Finis Jr., 13, football practice at Graham Middle School has begun, and he also was competing in a team penning event during the first week of the Olympics. There isn't much time for riding the couch.
Like his father, he rides horses and runs. Unlike his father, he also plays a musical instrument. This should give him a variety of usable skills. His dad parlayed his abilities into a lucrative stunt career after winning a gold medal in the 400-meter relay and finishing fourth in the 100-meter race in Helsinki.
"I could ride, I could run, and I could jump," says Dean Sr., 80, and he was in the right place at the right time.
He took his skills to Hollywood, where he worked with all the greats, including James Garner and Dale Robertson, and doubled for many of them, too, including Roy Rogers. (He never stunted for John Wayne, he said, as he was shorter and lighter than the Big Gun.)
His living room is filled with large poster boards covered in publicity shots for the films and TV shows in which he appeared. There is so much memorabilia, it looks like an exhibition hall on set-up day.
Finis Jr. is surrounded by a constant reminder of what his father was able to do beyond the city limits of Breckenridge, with a solid schooling in riding, running and jumping. Someday he might get away, too.
Proud aunt and uncle
Olympian: Laura Wilkinson, gold medalist in Sydney's 2000 platform diving event, and color commentator for NBC in London
Olympic connection: Her aunt and uncle, Sharon and Tom Wilkinson
Where they are watching the 2012 Olympics: A rehab center in Hurst
The Wilkinsons have always planned their life around the Olympic schedule. They would intentionally take vacations during the Olympics so they could sightsee during the day and have the Olympics to watch at night.
Then, in 2000, they had edge-of-the-seat reservations to watch their niece Laura compete in platform diving. Sharon says it is surprising that Laura became such a brave young woman; as a child she was afraid of almost everything. By 16, Laura had no fear, and she competed in Sydney with a broken foot. She was tall, elegant and had masses of long, curly blonde hair. She became a poster girl (make that a Wheaties box girl) for the Sydney Games.
This year, Laura is on the other side of the camera, holding an NBC microphone. Her aunt and uncle are watching the Games from Tom's room in a rehab center, where he moved a year-and-a-half ago after a series of heart attacks and strokes left him too debilitated for Sharon to care for alone.
They are watching the Olympics like they always have -- together. They like the gymnastics, basketball and track-and-field events, and they are listening attentively for Laura's voice during the diving coverage.
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Olympic official: Richard "Dick" Stinson, umpire for track-and-field events in the 1984 and 1996 Olympics
Where he is watching the 2012 Olympics: His home in Fort Worth
A week before it started, Stinson already was excited about the track-and-field portion of the London Games. As an official track-and-field umpire of the 1984 Los Angeles Games and the 1996 Atlanta Games, he got to see some of the greats -- Michael Johnson, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Florence Griffith Joyner -- and he was trackside when barefoot runner Zola Budd crashed with Mary Decker at the L.A. Olympics.
More recently he has had his eyes on Australian hurdler Michelle Jenneke, who didn't make it to the London Games. If you haven't heard of her, just wait or Google her now and add to her hundreds of thousands of page counts.
As an official at the Games, Stinson was formally dressed for the occasion, and he marched in with the other officials. "The electricity in the air of the Olympic Stadium is phenomenal," he says. The officials are chosen from a huge field of candidates. More than 800 applied to work the Atlanta track-and-field venue, and 100 were chosen. After the Games, the officials receive official rings to wear.
To qualify, Stinson says, he had to work "a gazillion local meets." He was the track coach at Country Day School in Fort Worth until 1980 and then began the arduous task of officiating those gazillion track meets, from Texarkana to Abilene.
He is the referee for TCU's home meets. As an umpire, he looks for lane violations, relay exchanges and bad sportsmanship like pushing and shoving. He will be watching in the next week as the "athletics" program unfolds.
"Track and field is the term used in the United States; it's called 'athletics' elsewhere," he says.
Speedy wheels
Olympian: Greg Speed, competed in the 1992 Barcelona Paralympics
Where he is watching the 2012 Olympics: His home in Mansfield
Entering the 1992 Games in Spain, Speed held the record for the 100-meter race: 15.9 seconds. He had broken the 16-second mark.
Speed wasn't an athlete before the accident that put him in a wheelchair. At age 14, he was riding his bicycle to a friend's house and was hit by a car. He almost died from the injuries. He lost the use of his legs but found he had an unusual amount of fast-twitch muscle fiber that allowed him to propel a wheel chair with great speed.
His athletic ability took him to the University of Texas at Arlington, where he played on the wheelchair-basketball team. The university was one of the first in the nation to incorporate universal design elements in its buildings and campus planning so that disabled students could navigate with ease, Speed says. It actively sought students whose mobility depended on a wheelchair. Speed, who was intent on studying aerospace engineering, was one of them.
Even though he was favored to win the 100 at the '92 Games, the results of his races in Barcelona were disappointing; he had torn a rotator cuff and was not in top form. He didn't know he had an injury until his coach noticed he was favoring his right arm. The experience was golden, though, and he talks of his time at the Olympics with absolute pride.
Speed's parents, Ken and Linda, went with him. "Our son was in the Olympics. How could we not go?" says Linda. The Paralympics are rarely televised, so it was the only way to see their son. They were amazed at the number of athletes and sports they saw.
There is little awareness of the range of mobility among athletes, or the number of sports in the Paralympics, Speed says. "Most people think its all amputees," but it's not.
His moment was in 1992; after his shoulder healed, he never got his game back. He watches, though. He is quite fond of the sprints and other Olympic track events.
"I'm not as interested in field," he says, as if track and field were the entire Olympic ticket.
He is about to get his horizons broadened. His 5-year-old daughter, Ashlyn, seems immune to the forces of gravity, and she has been pleading for gymnastics lessons, so maybe, in 12 years, there will be another Olympic Speed event.
Painting a legacy
Near-Olympian: Henrietta Milan, 1959 national gymnastics champion
Olympic connection: Her two sons, Rome and Tal
Where they are watching the 2012 Olympics: Olympic Park stands in London
There might be someone who has more enthusiasm for going to the Olympics than brothers Rome and Tal Milan, but it's doubtful. They have been to 11 Olympics. Rome is named for the 1960 host city and the Games that his gymnast-champion mother, Henrietta, had to miss because she had just given birth to him. To see the next Olympics in Japan, Henrietta needed some money, so she began painting. That led to the Milan Gallery in downtown Fort Worth and sales of more than 8,000 paintings. Tal now runs the gallery.
Rome is married to Pauline, an Olympic gymnast, and they run Sokol Fort Worth, a gymnastics center where Tal and Pauline coach.
The boys' first Olympics were in Munich, in 1972, and they've been to every Summer Games since, except for the U.S.-boycotted 1980 Moscow Games. They went to the 2006 Winter Games in Torino, too. They have carried the torch and collected thousands of pins. They are the ultimate fans; each time, they take a clean-and-jerk photo of Tal holding Rome over his head in the Olympic Stadium.
These two know how to work the system. They make reservations at a hotel for maybe two days and then look for more affordable housing. One time they bunked with gymnastics coaches; another time, Rome rented an entire floor of a house and sublet rooms to cover his cost. They find their way backstage, they get in with the athletes (they are security's worst nightmare) -- all because they are so eager to see everything and everyone up close. Should they ever offer their services as tour guides, they have the credentials for a semi-larcenous but exciting view of the event.
This year, the Milan brothers took to the London Games all of their children -- Tal's two daughters and Rome's three children, who are all named for Olympic cities: Paris, Sydney and Athens. Training the third generation of Milan Olympians has begun.
Gaile Robinson is the Star-Telegram art and design critic, 817-390-7113
Twitter: @gailerobinson


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Yoga of Sound Immersion weekend.
We have designed a complete weekend experience to take you into the depths greater consciousness through music and sound.
Starting with a Friday night "Classical Indian Ragas concert"
This concert will be performed on the ancient bansuri flute from North India, playing sacred Hindustani North Indian classical ragas that John learned from his over 4 decades of study of this art form. John is one of the leading western exponents of the bansuri tradition learned from his bansuri guru, the great maestro Hariprasad Chaurasia. accompanying John is tabla wizard Samrat Kakkeri who began his studies at the age of two years old from his father Pundit Mohan Rao Kakkeri. This concert will transport you to a blissful, meditatvie and exhilerating place of joy.
Raga Yaman, John Wubbenhorst-bansuri Samrat Kakkeri-tabla
Saturday and Sunday day will include the workshop "Sacred Sound".
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Saturday night will be a kirtan occassion lead by John.
Sunday night will be a "Yoga Dance" event where world rhythms are integrated with ancient rhythms and there will be free form dancing to joyfully express bodily the bliss experienced during the weekend.


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Monday, September 06, 2010
Video of a New Priest
I met this new priest at the Sacred Music Colloquium in June. He's a good example of a newly ordained man on fire for the Christ, the Church, and her liturgy.
Posted by Matt at Monday, September 06, 2010
5 comments:
- Janlo said...
Thanks! And the music?
- Monday, September 06, 2010 7:48:00 PM
- Matt said...
The music in the video? If it was my video I would have chosen traditional music, but I don't doubt his commitment to real Catholic music, given that he was at the colloquium.
- Monday, September 06, 2010 8:36:00 PM
- Janlo said...
I liked the music.
BTW, belated "Happy Birthday" greetings. (I had problems trying to post before.) You certainly got a great gift!
- Monday, September 06, 2010 9:41:00 PM
- Robert said...
Actually the music wasn't bad at all. What contemporary Catholic music should sound like. With gregorian chant added in. Not the guitar stringing music we are used to hearing. Great video and God bless this priest!.
- Tuesday, September 07, 2010 3:52:00 PM
- Patrick said...
I saw this on several blogs yesterday Matt (probably the same ones you did). It's great to see Fr. Ciszek doing liturgy how he wants (and how it should be). Keep up the good work!
- Wednesday, September 08, 2010 10:18:00 AM
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Saturday, January 1
Op Shop Bingo & TVM
Opshopping, as it's known here, is something I rarely do. The shops in my area are terrible, and on the odd occasion they do have a vintage dress, it'll be priced from $40-$60, which is more than I sell them for (my average price is from $32-$39). So it ends up a big waste of time, and I end up quite annoyed at having wasted effort and time that could have been directed elsewhere.
Having said that, I will look around an op shop if I'm dropping off a donation or have time to kill, both of which has happened recently.
I found these beauteous egg cups the other day, in a Lifeline shop, of all places. This may be the first thing of note I've ever found in a Lifeline.
I think these are 60s, I've had a couple of pairs before, which I've sold, but I've never yet seen a harlequin set of 4. These are going straight to the pool room!....as the saying goes.
I also found this fabulous 50s ashtray last week. Love it!
Pink probably wouldn't be my choice of colour, if I could choose, but it does match the 'wheelbarrow' one below, which I showed you not long ago.
I'm having quite a good run with 50s collectables lately, cross fingers it continues.
Tomorrow I'm off to TVM again, yay! It's the only outdoor market I'll do, even though I have to get up at stupid o'clock and drive over an hour to get there...so that tells you it must be pretty darned good.
Founded on 'frustration and a need for fashion' on the cultural wasteland that is the Gold Coast, the 2 young organisers have built TVM up to a massive 60 stalls, selling a variety of vintage, jumble & emerging designer fashion and retro/vintage homewares.
I'll be offering a FANTASTIC special on vintage costume rings, which is for TVMers only, a great vintage fashion sale table plus heaps of new stock, including some fabulous vintage hats just in from the USA, tons of sterling marcasite rings and a selection of 1970s tooled leather handbags.
Open 8am-1pm at Burleigh Heads State School Oval on the Pacific Highway, drop in and have a look if you're close by....because everyone finds something they love at TVM.
7 comments:
- Vintage Vixen said...
Happy New Year, Kitty! I love those egg cups, how fab to have a whole set. Loads of luck for the market. xxx
- January 1, 2011 at 10:43 PM
- Miss Emmi said...
Those are a really great find! Sometimes it gets disheartening to go to the same op-shops and see nothing special, but I have to keep reminding myself that I won't discover anything if I don't go!
- January 1, 2011 at 11:30 PM
- Zootsuitmama said...
Good luck in the new year! Zootsuitmama
- January 2, 2011 at 6:02 AM
- Helga! said...
As you know,I freakin' love opshops,but it can be a labour of love sometimes! Great scores,darl,hopefully they'll encourage you to go a little more often!
Nah,I didn't get too pissed on New Years,but not from lack of trying!!! A bit knackered from so many people and parties,though!Having a quietie tonihgt!
Happy New Year,blossom!XXXXXX
- January 2, 2011 at 4:17 PM
- Misfits Vintage said...
Ooh Kitty - I love all of those goodies! Those eggcups are super cute.
I hope your market was marvellously successful and Happy New Year to you and VB!
Sarah xxx
- January 2, 2011 at 7:54 PM
- Calamity Jem said...
Dear Kitty,
Happy New Year to you & your loved ones, I hope that 2011 will bring you lot's of happiness....and lot's of fabulous vintage goodies too ;)
Thank you for being such a tremendously entertaining & inspirational blogger.
Lot's of love,
- January 3, 2011 at 9:54 AM
- delia hornbook said...
Fab finds i love the egg cups there super cute, i have never seen anything like those before. Dee x
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Friday, 12 April 2013
A Tale of Two Question Times: Part One, a long way from Rochdale
Mrs Angry received an interesting text from Miss Angry, on Tuesday. Guess what, she wrote: Question Time is coming to school ... Mrs Angry was taken aback. Not that BBCQT was coming to Finchley, so much as the fact that Miss Angry, who does not take a keen interest in current affairs, knew what BBCQT was ...
Miss Angry attends two schools, for sixth form, one a certain local Catholic Grammar school for girls, of which Mrs Angry is a former pupil, (and where her otherwise impeccably behaved daughter has recently been threatened, with a zeal for female modesty that puts the Taliban to shame, with exclusion, for the dreadful crime of wearing a coat that was one inch above her knee, and boy did they pick on the wrong mum, eh, Miss A?), the other being Finchley Catholic High School, an institution which has, at various times, attempted to educate Mrs Angry's son, brother, and most of the Catholic boys in Broken Barnet.
FCHS was invited, this week, to host BBC Question Time, in a sudden change to plans, following the death of Margaret Thatcher. Finchley Catholic High, it would seem, possibly because it is the only school that has Finchley in its name, was chosen to host what we were told would be a special edition. Aha: only fitting that the death of Margaret Thatcher should be debated in the place where she was MP for three decades - and, of course, where the neo Thatcherite council is at war with its own residents, a losing war, being won by an unprecedented localised rebellion: the Barnet Spring.
Many local residents immediately applied for tickets. This is a baffling process, a careful selection of probing questions which, if asked in the context of an application to join M15, might be considered appropriate, but for a ticket to sit in the audience of a televised debate, would seem to be rather excessive.
Are you a member of a political party?
Which one?
Do you always support the leader of this party- (shit, hope they don't pass the response on that one) ...
What are your views on Afhghanistan?
What r my views on afghanistan? texted Miss A, in panic, and a certain amount of dismay. It's like St Michael's, only more liberal, suggested her mother, helpfully.
And Europe? For or against? Ha: both, replied Mrs A, cleverly, trying to appear like the sort of open minded person who might listen to the informed views of other people.
Did no good. No response from the BBC for anyone local Mrs Angry knew, or didn't know.
Sitting down to watch the programme, we imagined we would be presented with the sight of FCHS teachers, head boy, and assorted pillars of the local establishment sitting triumphantly in the suitably Tory blue gym, waiting to ask polite questions regarding the legacy of our former MP.
But no: the audience was peopled entirely, as it transpired, by actors and extras from a BBC extras casting agency, playing the part of residents of Broken Barnet. You could tell they were actors because no one asked any really awkward questions, no one laughed, or heckled, or held a silent protest, or held up posters, or spat on the floor of Finchley Catholic High's school gym because someone mentioned the Thatcher legacy, or her only true heirs, our feckless, conniving Tory councillors.
Come on, this is Broken Barnet: probably the most politically dissident borough in Britain.
This is where a local council is at war with its own residents.
This is the home of the Barnet Spring.
This is Margaret Thatcher's worst nightmare: society in action.
This is what community looks like, remember?
Who were the members of this audience, and where did the BBC find them?
If the point of moving the programme to Finchley was to place it in the context of the Thatcher legacy, clearly this did not happen. There was no reference to the location, other than in thanks to the school for hosting the event, and no engagement with the local community, or any mention of the political situation in Barnet. The whole thing could have been filmed anywhere, or nowhere, and there would have been no difference in the feeling of the debate. Mrs Angry wondered, in a conspiracy theorist mode of speculation, if the whole business, like the moon landings, was a giant fraud, perpetrated in a studio somewhere.
Certainly the panel appeared to be genuine: up to a point. Polly Toynbee, rather downbeat, Menzies Campbell, playing the Libdem facilitator to perfection, David Blunkett, being David Blunkett, Ken Clarke trying to appear avuncular and not frighten anyone, and Thatcher biographer Charles Moore trying to sell his book.
Mrs Angry found Charles Moore to be most entertaining. His recollection of Margaret's amusing story about a load of cocks was particularly enlightening, and his rebranding of her as someone who stood side by side with the ANC, and opposed apartheid was deeply moving. Amandla, Maggie. He also took issue with the use of 'Ding Dong, the Witch is Dead' as a tribute to Mrs Thatcher on the basis that it referred to the wrong witch. Mr Moore would appear not to be a friend of Dorothy.
Glinda Jackson
The truth is, Mrs Angry suspects, that the BBC moved Question Time to Finchley not so much as to touch base with the heart of Thatcherism, as to find a sanctuary from what might have happened if the original choice for last night's programme had been used.
Last night's programme had been scheduled to be held in Rochdale - in fact we thought it was Rotherham, which provoked an even more intemperate post than this, but still ... Rochdale, a centre of nineteenth and twentieth century enterprise, the home of the cooperative movement - hardly a location conducive to the memory of someone who was so devoted to the emasculation of our industrial base, was it? Up North? Much safer to bring it all home to the safety of suburban London, and Finchley ... even safer if you plant the audience with suitably complaisant questioners.
Much of the media coverage of Margaret Thatcher's death - at least the printed press coverage - has taken the voice of middle England, Southern England, as the one to listen to. Our friends in the North, those who felt the impact of Thatcher's war of attrition on the unions, and our mining and manufacturing heartland most acutely, have been sidelined. Just as the present political climate has reinforced the gulf between those who have means and those who have needs, the distance between north and south has lengthened once more.
Instead of attending BBC QT last night, Mrs Angry went to a meeting, just across the other side of the High Road from FCHS, where real questions were asked and debated, by the residents of Broken Barnet, about something that sooner or later, will affect all of us: the privatisation of social care, an enterprise that Margaret's successors in Barnet were very keen to encourage.
And so, see Part Two, coming soon: another question time - 'Your Choice Barnet' - making profit from need.
Or rather - not making profit from need, and being rather embarrassed by the consequences.
Posted by Mrs Angry at Friday, April 12, 2013
3 comments:
Which part of LOSS-MAKING industry do you northerners not understand?
- 12 April 2013 at 22:34
- Mrs Angry said...
Erm ...?
- 12 April 2013 at 23:28
- Mrs Angry said...
Nice hyphenation - baarnett will be thrilled ...I imagine the part not understood might be agriculture, and the loss-making land owners subsidised by their chums in successive Tory governments?
- 12 April 2013 at 23:37
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