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Continuing with Holding's review from last time...
This is just more of the same errors Viola makes throughout: Blaming the "institutions" instead of the people
People institute and maintain institutions.
ailing to credential this alleged "functioning headship" of Christ (Mormons and others say they have it too)
What is Holding's obsession with these comparisons to Mormonism? Of course they CLAIM those things. But those claims are empty. This is like doubting real US dollars exist because counterfeiters have gotten very good at their craft.
For Viola to describe himself and others as "daring" just because, e.g., they got bored with church and left,is offensive.
1) I don't recall any self-ascribing of martyrdom on Viola's part. So Holding is being unnecessarily shrill.
2) If it's not daring to follow one's convictions in the face of a great deal of traditions and peer pressure to the contrary, what word would Holding prefer? I'm not saying it's the best thing anyone could ever do, but why isn't it daring?
3) What is really offensive is Holding's strawman - "they got bored with church".
"With church and left" - but Viola specifically tells certain readers NOT to leave their institutional churches, and for the rest he recommends... church! He's not calling people to walk away from church, least of all b/c they're "bored". He is calling them to embrace a more biblical form of church.
House church for Viola's purpose is idividuals trying to satisfy THEMSELVES.
1) Not house church. Organic church.
2) What is Holding's evidence for this assertion? Shouldn't he have proof of this sinful attitude before making the accusation?
(Org)anic unity can be achieved anywhere by people willing to give up themselves as a priority. A house church may seem to succeed in this regard (as may a Sunday School class or church sub-group) because you're gathering together a group of people who disagree on the same issues; and so the illusion of being an "organic entity" can be perpetrated.
Viola makes this exact point in his book. Did Holding read it carefully enough to note it?
I sense a persecution complex when Barna says people cry out "heretic" when suggestions are made to change practices
Ironically, Holding contributes to the justification of a persecution complex with this accusation, which is based on nothing more or less than his "sense".
Also ironically, Holding has already several times poked fun in this review at what he thinks is Viola's centering on his emotions and sensations, whereas here he does the same thing. Maybe I could insert a comparison to Mormons to make it fair and square.
Viola needs to get over himself. His revelations do not warrant this sort of promotional commentary.
I agree that it was pretty melodramatic to say what Viola said, but at the same time, as noted before, Holding has apparently never been subjected to sinful treatment on the part of his church and pushed out the door for sinful reasons. Again, I'm glad to hear it, but he shouldn't minimise others' experiences.
So what stops them from "going through the motions" when they go to the house church Viola recommends instead?
Nothing, except that Viola isn't repping "house churches". Again, Holding read the book poorly.
Viola makes much over how people have used "church" to describe a building rather than the people in it. Yes, this is a common error
Yes, it is, but it's not a random error. It happens for a reason. People think that way for a reason and rarely stop for introspection and examination as to why they usually think of the church as a building.
He also makes much over people regarding a church building as a "sacred space." I understand how ritual purity works (http://www.tektonics.org/af/cleanman.html). How modern Americans regard church is nowhere near this.
It may not rise to the same quantity or intensity, but it is definitely the same class, the same category, of thinking about the church building.
In this the real problem is again individualism gone wild, which supports a view that allows compartmentalization of belief from action.
Finally Holding identifies, at least in part, what he means by "individualism" as he uses it in this review.
Compartmentalisation of belief from action - Viola would agree that this is a bad thing. In fact, that's what his book is assailing. So what is Holding's objection?
Viola says he's not promoting for house churches, but right here he starts doing so. He quotes and notes favorably points that the early church met in homes, IN CONTRAST TO meeting in a special building.
The second sentence does not substantiate the accusation found in the first.
He may say, "But I didn't say that you should go to a house church." He doesn't have to. The juxtaposition of "meeting in a house" favorably verses the negative connotation he assigns to meeting in a special building says all that is necessary.
OOORRRR Viola is repping something entirely different that Holding didn't catch.
That is in fact the reality.
he repeatedly criticizes the concept of a "sacred building." Well, if we don't have that, where do we meet?
We meet in a house, or in some other structure, or not.
The point is that it doesn't matter a whole lot where we meet, but modern American institutional church structure is pretty building-dependent.
He's arguing for house church. If he wasn't, we'd have other options discussed too, such as outdoors or in a rented movie theater.
Perhaps Holding should complain to the earliest Christians, who met almost exclusively in homes except for the occasional outlier such as renting Tyrannus' assembly hall for a time.
nothing stops people from turning their house into "sacred space" for short periods, or even an outdoor spot.
Of course not, but that misses the point.
He says also that the early church did not have a "special priestly caste that was set apart to serve God." This is a red herring
I suspect Holding's eyes are simply naively blinded to the special priestly caste that exists in the modern American institutional church. It's all over the place. But Holding has probably, like so many others, been conditioned to accept what he has seen for so long.
the reality is that we need specially trained individuals to handle specific functions in a fellowship
1) As long as we are careful to define "specially trained" biblically.
2) Yes, FUNCTIONS, not OFFICES.
There's also the question of whether Christians woukld be permitted (as a deviant group) to build a spoecial building.
That may be, although it's somewhat speculative.
But doesn't it still require an argument to make us think that it's better to go ahead and NOT do what the earliest church did in those cases?
If (Constantine) really did have his tomb set among monuments to the Apsotles, he did so not because he was an "egomaniac" but because he saw it as his responsibility to the corporate whole to be so recognized.
If he really did (I'm not saying one way or th'other), I don't see any way in which Holding's justification makes sense. It's your responsibility to the church to set yourself apart from them and act like a big shot, even in death? Huh? What does that mean?
he objects that Constantine did not close pagan temples or destroy them. This would not have been a live option: Christians were badly outnumbered; to have simply closed or destroyed pagan temples would have been an invitation to have Christians slaughtered wholesale.
But officially favoring Christianity was just fine, even though the Christians were badly outnumbered?
And who says that professing Christians were badly outnumbered AFTER he officially favored Christianity? Couldn't he have started closing pagan facilities then?
There was no concept of "intimacy" and no "open" participation; strict social controls governed participation.
1) Holding has still not proven this; he has merely asserted it.
2) That doesn't seem to be the case even in Paul's recommendations in 1 Corinthians.
3) What is Holding's alternative to fulfill all the "one another"s in the NT? Sunday School?
Do you think there might have been a sense of "mystery, transcendance, and awe" at Mt. Sinai, for example?
Does Holding mean where the Law was given?
Yes, I do think there was that, very much so.
Hebrews 12:18For you have not come to a mountain that can be touched and to a blazing fire, and to darkness and gloom and whirlwind, 19and to the blast of a trumpet and the sound of words which sound was such that those who heard begged that no further word be spoken to them. 20For they could not bear the command, "IF EVEN A BEAST TOUCHES THE MOUNTAIN, IT WILL BE STONED." 21And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, "I AM FULL OF FEAR and trembling." 22But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels, 23to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the Judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect, 24and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood, which speaks better than the blood of Abel.
No doubt there is SOME connection that can be made to heaven, but it hardly need be that "we're reaching for God".
Notice that Holding merely waves his hand at Viola's proposal about the steeple reaching to the sky and what it implies, rather than interacting with it or giving us some reason to think Viola is mistaken.
Nobody is proposing that the architecture controls thoughts. The point is that it REFLECTS and INFLUENCES thoughts, and we ought to seek to glorify Jesus in ALL our lives, every single aspect. What does the steeple communicate? Why aren't we asking ourselves that question before we construct one?
Yes, too much is often spent on facilities, for unnecessary stuff; but facilities are often required for ministry.
But often that "ministry" of which Holding speaks is counterproductive and even sinful, focused on keeping the people of God hidden behind the walls of the building, thus effectively robbing them of their time to be salt and light in the culture, all the while comforting them and telling them that it's OK, it's God's will for them to spend tons of time in "God's house".
A house church can't run a food bank out of a house, for example...You also can't run something like a pregnancy crsis center from a home.
You also don't need a $million building to run one.
I could only wish that more churches would run CPCs out of their buildings. Most CPCs have their own building.
In an answer to an objection to how the NT church used facilities, mention of Paul's use of the lecture hall of Tyrannus seems notably absent.
It is mentioned elsewhere in the book.
Why is he explaining this if he isn't offering house churches as THE solution?
Viola explained this already in the book.
1) He thinks they are the best, not the only, solution.
2) House churches can be structured just like institutional churches, and thus not be organic. Organic and house are not equivalent.


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Fun with Distributed Hash Tables
May 13, 2009
The keen reader might have previously noticed my interest in distributed hash tables (DHTs). This interest is strong enough to motivate me to build a DHT library in Haskell, which I discuss here at an absurdly high level.
Distributed Hash Table Crash Course
(skip if you've read anything remotely good on DHTs)
A DHT is a sort of peer to peer network typically characterized with no central or "master" node, random node addresses, and uses a form of content addressable storage. Usually implemented as an overlay network and depicted as a ring, we say each node participating in the DHT "has an address on the ring".
To locate data first you need an address; addresses are generated in different ways for any given DHT but is commonly a hash of either the description ("Fedora ISO"), file location/name ("dht://news"), or even a hash of the file contents themselves. The lookup message is then sent to this address and in doing so will get routed to the node with the closest matching address. The routing is fish-eye: nodes have more knowledge about the nodes with closer addresses and sparse knowledge of further addresses. The result is that the average number of hops to locate a node is logarthmic to the size of the network but so are the size of any one nodes routing table, so the burden isn't too much.
To ensure correct operation, DHTs keep track of the closest addressed nodes (typically the closest 8 on each side). These nodes make up the 'leaf set' and are often used for special purposes such as redundantly storing data if the DHT is for file sharing/storage. It's "easy" to keep this correct because the final step when joining a ring is to contact the node who's currently closest to your desired address.
Functionallity of the Haskell DHT Library
Originally I worked toward Pastry like functionallity, but then I read a paper on churn and opted to implement Chord like policies on join, stabilize and key space management.
I've implemented the basic operations of routing, periodic leaf set matainence, join operations requiring an atomic operation on only a single (successor) node, and IPv4 support via network-data. This is built on Control-Engine, so you can instruct nodes to route or deliver using as many haskell threads as you want. Beyond that, adding hooks is what Control-Engine is built for, so its easily to plug in modules for load conditioning, authentication, statistics gathering, and arbitrary message mutation.
Using the DHT Library
The main job in starting a node is building the 'Application' definition. The application must provide actions to act on delivered messages and notifications about leaf set changes and forwarded messages (giving it the opportunity to alter forwarded messages). Additionally, the app is provided with a 'route' method to send messages of its own. I won't go in to depth on this right now as I'm not yet releasing the library.
Using the hook instructions (and a custom Application definition) I've instrumented the code to log when it deals with join requests (sending, forwarding, finishing) and to show the leafset when it changes. Using the resulting logs I produced graphical representations of the ring state for various simulations (graphical work was part of a Portland State course on Functional Languages).
My student site has several simulations, but the most instructive one is LeafSet50 (22MB OGG warning!). Joining nodes are shown in the top area, active nodes are displayed in the ring at the center, thick lines are join requests being forwarded around, and groups of thin lines show the latest leaf set. Aside from revealing corrupt states caused by a broken stabilize routine, you can see some interesting facts for such a crude rendering:
A) Some areas are completely void while others are so dense that four or five nodes are overlapping almost perfectly. This tells us that, at least for sparsly populated DHTs, random assignment is horrible and can result in nodes having many orders of mangnitude larger area of responsibility than their counterparts. If I had bothered to read papers about applications based on DHT libraries then I might have known exactly how bad the situation could be, but it's interesting to see this visually as well.
B) The simulated storm of joining nodes combined with periodic stabilization results in leaf sets being massively out of date. This concerns me less given the less-than realisic cause and the fact that everything eventually settles down (in ~120 seconds), but might bite me when I start thinking about join performance.
Other Ponderings
While I know that simulating 500 nodes takes 40% of my CPU time in the steady state (there is lots of sharing of leaf sets to make sure nothing has changed), this can be dramatically decreased by making the LeafSet data structure more efficient. Other than that, I'm just now considering the types of tests I desire to run. There are no serious benchmarks yet, but I hope to understand much more about the network performance such as:
1) Number of messages for joins
2) Number of bytes used for joins
3) Bandwidth needed for the steady state
4) Message rate in the steady state
Future Alterations:
Its not named! So job one is for me to figure out a name.
Code changes needed:
Remove nodes that don't respond to stabilize messages (they aren't deleted currently – they just persist).
Check the liveness of nodes appearing in the route table (only leaf set nodes are checked right now)
Generalize about the network – don't mandate IPv4!
Polymorphic 'Message a' type – don't assume H-DHT does the serialization to/from lazy bytestrings!
Stabilize is rudementary – check the sequence number to make sure responses are current!
Basic security/correctness mechanisms are still needed. When other nodes send route table rows and leaf sets we just add those entries into our own structure without any confirmation.
Protocol changes:
Implement Pastry proximity work – this will require the application to provide a function "proximity :: (NodeId, IPv4,Port) -> IO Int".
Don't always route to the optimal node, implement some jitter. Perhaps use the provably competative adaptive routing proposed by Awerbuch et al. for MANETs.
NAT Traversal?
Recommended Reading
May 25, 2008
I've been wanting to advance my education through a PhD program for a while now. As such, I've been reading a reasonable number of papers mostly in the field programming languages (strong bias toward SPJs work), but also in Ad-hoc networks (strong bias toward Baruch Awerbuch papers). I can't say I'm too selective on what I like, but here are some of my likes anyway. Enjoy and feel free to post your papers or any discussion of the ideas presented in these papers.
Within The World of Languages
Simon Peyton-Jones, "Call-pattern Specialisation for Haskell Programs" *
Simon Marlow et al "Faster Laziness Using Dynamic Pointer Tagging"
Simon Peyton-Jones et al, "Playing by the Rules: Rewriting as a practical optimisation technique in GHC" *
Tom Schrijvers et al "Type Checking with Open Type Functions" *
Duncan Coutts et al "Stream Fusion: From Lists to Streams to Nothing at All" *
Neil Mitchell and Colin Runciman "A Supercompiler for Core Haskell" * (Looks great, but I want to try it on my own programs to see if it will benefit me as much as I hope)
Peng Li et al "Lightweight Concurrency Primitives for GHC" * (A simpler to understand RTS would be great, but I fear for the performance)
Robert Ennals et al "Task Partitioning for Multi-Core Network Processors" *
Peng Li and Steve Zdancewic "Encoding Information Flow in Haskell" (perhaps not sound, but certainly useful)
Tim Harris and Simon Peyton Jones "Transactional Memory with Data Invariants" * (some functions aren't available in the standard GHC/STM load, but the paper is fun anyway)
Dana Xu et al "Static Contract Checking for Haskell" * (I don't know about you, but I almost can't wait to see the work embodied in a GHC release!)
Every name you know "Roadmap for Enhanced Languages and Methods to Aid Verification"
Ad hoc / Distributed Systems / Protocols
Baruch Awerbuch et al "Towards Scalable and Robust Overlay Networks" (See the entire line of papers, including "A Denial-of-Service Resistant DHT" and "Towards a Scalable and Robust DHT")
Rudolf Ahlswede et al "Network Information Flow"
Sachin Katti et al "Network Coding Made Practical" * (Now why isn't this an option when I click network manager -> ad hoc network in Fedora 9?)
Joshua Guttman "Authentication Tests and the Structure of Bundles" *
Baruch Awerbuch et al "Provably Competitive Adaptive Routing" *
Baruch Awerbuch et al "Medium Time Metric" (This one is just begging for someone to write a paper "The opportunity cost metric", don't you think?)
* Easy read (even if it isn't your field) / very enjoyable


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A baby boom thanks to Ike?
Doctors speculate as a number of women near due dates in June, 9 months after storm
Doctors who work in Houston's busiest maternity ward say they're expecting an especially bustling June, leading some to conclude that Hurricane Ike was the perfect storm for making babies.
It's been eight months since Ike knocked out the region's electricity, leaving many with no television, Internet access or other distractions for days, if not weeks. Now there's a curious bump in the number of women who are rounding out their third trimesters of pregnancy.
Several obstetrical practices associated with The Woman's Hospital of Texas are extra-busy these days with prenatal care.
"I looked, somewhat in shock, at my little book of deliveries for June, and it's 26," said Dr. John Irwin, president of Obstetrical and Gynecological Associates.
He routinely delivers 15 to 20 babies a month and called the Ike boomlet "a real phenomenon." His colleagues in the 35-physician practice have seen a similar increase in patients who probably conceived during the powerless days after Ike.
"There's about a 25 percent increase in the number of deliveries coming up in mid-June to mid-July," said Irwin, also chief of surgery service at Woman's Hospital.
At a hospital that ranks in the top five for births statewide, that means at least 100 more bundles of joy this summer. "We are well-prepared for it," said hospital CEO Linda Russell. "We have just opened up a new wing with 92 additional beds."
The hospital usually delivers around 8,000 babies annually. In 2008, the facility clocked more than 9,000 births and expects to break that record this year. And because August, September and October traditionally have the most deliveries, the hospital will require additional staff for five months this year, Russell said.
Storms and blackouts are routinely remembered with baby bounties. But this time, with the recession creeping in, folks had multiple reasons to stop going out and start snuggling in.
Dr. Ferdinand Plavidal, chief of obstetrics at Woman's, delivered nine babies last July. A year later, he has 20 scheduled. Most of those women conceived in October, said Carol Mello, a registered nurse in Plavidal's practice.
Mello can't explain the timing, "unless everybody got back to normal," she said.
Other Houston birthing centers, including The Methodist Hospital and the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston — which ranks among the top 10 hospitals in births statewide — aren't ready to predict an Ike baby boom. Other OB-GYNS say the same, but that might be because some far-along mothers have yet to tap into prenatal care.
Dr. Rakhi Dimino, an obstetrician/gynecologist with Houston Women's Care Associates, is sure there's something to this Ike baby boom.
She's due June 10.
She was on call at Woman's as the hurricane passed over, and and left around noon that Saturday. She was with her husband at home until her office reopened the following Tuesday.
So what was happening at the Dimino home those two and a half days?
"What everybody else in Houston was doing," said Dimino, 33, whose baby will be her first. "You can only do so much when there's no television, nothing open and there's nowhere to go."


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I took this picture of our alien-like, asparagus-looking plant while standing on our front stoop. Can you see the shoot that is "shooting" straight out of the agave? It's quite a sight actually. We can't decide whether to be proud of this once in a century occurrence or embarrassed. I'm sure we're the talk of the neighborhood. Just last week, the taller of the two shoots seen here was the size of the shorter one. Yes, it has grown that much in just one week. So how much taller is this asparagus looking being going to grow, you ask? According to my research into the wee hours of the morning, our special, once in a lifetime (sometimes called good luck charm) flowers from the Agave Americana can grow to a height of 40 feet each! Imagine our surprise when we discovered this wasn't some sort of anomaly that I wanted to take the hacksaw to, but a very rare and special flowering showpiece. I guess I'll have to put the hacksaw back in the garage.
I've posted more pictures below so you can get a better look at our special plants. Actually, now that I know what I do, they're starting to grown on me. We have gone from being embarrassed to be seen out front, to waving to our neighbors as they drive and walk by while pointing proudly to our beautiful flowering agave.
I found a great website at the link below that describes this beautiful plant. It's hard to believe that our plants in our small front yard, may look like the majestic flowering (it really looks like a tree) agave below.
Read more about the Agave Americana at the link above.
I'll try my best to keep you posted on the development of our majestic Agave Americanas. At the rate of five to six inches of growth per day, it won't be long 'til they reach the stars!
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Mt. Kailash claimed to be the apex of the Hindu religious axis is also one of the highest mountain in Tibet at 6,656m and the holy Lake Mansarovar at 4,700m lies closeby. Visitors can opt to make the trip by surface to Kailash either via Kodari on Nepal/Tibet border or on foot through remote west Nepal. The walk around Mt. Kailash takes around three days while two days are required for Lake Mansarovar. The best period to make this tour is May through October.
Day 01: Arrive Kathmandu & transfer to your hotel and evening Briefing about the Kailash Manasarovar tour. Over night at Kathmandu.
Day 02: Morning visit Pashupatinath temple and after noon transfer to airport for your flight to Nepalgunj. On arrival transfer to hotel and rest.
Day 03: Early morning transfer to airport and flight to simkot for immigration formalities then Proceed to Hilsa by chartered helicopter flight. After arrival at Hilsa, we set out for Purang, a short walk to cross river Karnali and get into Tibetan border where our land cruisers will be waiting. After brief introductions with our Tibetan guide, we will drive for Taklakot [known to Chinese as Purang] and on arrival transfer to guesthouse and rest.
Day 04: Full day free to acclimatize and relax at Taklakot.
Day 05: Drive from Taklakot to Manasarovar Lake (120 km - 3 Hrs). You will have fullday for holy bath and Puja or just relax at the edge of holy Manasarovar Lake. Overnight at camp or guesthouse.
Day 06: Drive to Tarchen then Austpath & perform puja at Astapath before starting Parikrama. Start Kailash Parikrama, trek to Dira Puk [12 Kms 4-5 Hrs.]. Overnight at camp.
Day 07: Continue Parikrama over Dromala pass to Zuthul Puk [22 kms 7-8 Hrs.]. Overnight at camp.
Day 08: End Parikrama near Darchen [9 kms 3-4 hrs]. Drive to Taklakot. Overnight at guesthouse or camp.
Day 09: Early morning drive to Hilsa via Khojarnath Temple [an ancient Temple of Lord Ram, Laxman and Sita]. From Hilsa helipad flight back to Simkot. After immigration, proceed for Nepalgunj by chartered helicopter or aircraft [fixed wing]. Arrive Nepalgunj & further proceed to Kathmandu by flight [fixed wing]. Overnight at Kathmandu.
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Tuesday, November 7th, 2006
Categorized as: Savings Bonds and competitive investments
The Sun's Financial Diary is a blog of unknown parentage, but it's one of the few financial blogs I've found with good information.
Yesterday's post, T-Bill Investment Rate: Is it APR or APY? And What Is Your Taxable Equivalent Yield? is a careful comparison of the rates offered by T-Bills and a high-yield online savings account.
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FYI – Jonathan of mymoneyblog.com posted a nifty calculator for this function back in May:
Thanks for venturing into posting marketable Treasuries info, Tom!
The 4, 13, and 26 week T-bills are usually posted and equivalent APYs calculated in this Fatwallet thread every week:
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Thursday, August 27, 2009
Lugosi in his most famous role: Dracula
It seems fitting, therefore, that the first post on this blog reviews Lugosi's Dracula films.
Dracula (1931)
Starring: Bela Lugosi, Dwight Frye, Helen Chandler, Edward Van Sloan, Herbert Bunston, David Manners, and Charles K. Gerrard
Director: Tod Browning
Rating: Seven of Ten Stars
Count Dracula (Lugosi) travels to England where he sates his bloodlust on young women, including the lovely Mina (Chandler).
Universal's 1931 "Dracula" was the first horror talkie and is one of the three most influential horror films ever made. It's a film that's truly a significant milestone not only in film history, but in pop culture as well, and, even though its age is showing, it's a genuiine classic.
I don't think anything quite as subtly creepy and startling as Dracula passing through a mass of cobwebs without breaking them has ever been put on film. It's a perfect film moment, because the feeling of "waitaminnit... did that just happen?" that Renfield (Frye) has is shared by the audience, and we're sitting there with a chill that goes right down to our very bones.
Because this film is such a classic milestone, I feel a bit awkward about not liking it more than I do. Like "Frankenstein" (also made by Universal in 1931), this movie has nearly as many flaws as it has elements of perfection.
The biggest problem with "Dracula" is the haphazard way the film unfolds, particuarly in its second half. The vampiric Lucy and her preying on little children is dealt with a throw-away fashion, and the climactic encounter at Carfax Abby, which is so weakly and disjointedly handled that it is barely a climax at all. (It's particuarly dissapointing that Dracula's death happens entirely off-screen, except for a very effective reaction from the psychically bonded Mina.)
In fact, in many ways, it's almost as if someone forgot the movie needed a script, and it was made up as the crew went along. The film is worth seeing for spectacular performances from Bela Lugosi (it's easy to see why he solidified vampires as suave, sharp-dresserrs as opposed to fugly scarecrows like the one featured in "Nosferatu"), Dwight Frye (who, as Renfield, is as much a star of the film as Lugosi, and who does some great acting when he vascilates from raving madman to apparently sane and back again), and Helen Chandler (who, as Mina, conveys more with her eyes, body language, and facial expressions than one would thinks possible, and who has the only decent moment during the film's climax as she shares in Dracula's pain as Van Helsin stakes him). The film's impressive sets and creative camera work also bring about some genuinely creepy moments, such as when Dracula and his vampire brides emerge from their coffins under his Transylvanian castle, and then when they later close on an unconcious Renfield; the discovery of Renfield in the hold of the death ship after it runs aground; Dracula's feeding upon the flower girl in London; Renfield crawling across the floor toward an unconcious maid with a look of madness and bloodlust on his face; Mina's transformation as she urges John Harker to get rid of Van Helsing and his cruxifixes; and Dracula and Mina's arrival at Carfax Abby.
But, for every great moment or spectacular performance, there's a boring one, or one where opportunities that should have been obvious to filmmakes even in 1931 are completely missed. Edward Van Sloan (as Van Helsing) and David Manners (as a particularly milquetoasty Harker) are completely dead spots in the film, giving weak performances that almost manage to drag down those excellent ones from Chandler, Frye, and Lugosi. (In fact, Van Sloan and Manners are so weak here that it's surprising to me that they;'re the same actors who do so well in "The Mummy" just one years later. (Perhaps the better script and a different director made all the difference for them.)
By the way, the new score that Phillip Glass composed for the restored version of the film included in the "Dracula Legacy Collection" (and which can be toggled on and off) is actually a fine reflection of the movie itself: Glass has some good moments and some supremely weak moments in his score. For the most part, it is just muazak that doesn't seem to have a whole lot to do with enhancing the mood on the scrreen, but every so often, it is spot-on and it makes the film that much more impressive. (Glass's music ALMOST gives the film's climax some impact, for example.)
Although far from perfect, the 1931 "Dracula" is a must-see for anyone with an interest in examining the origins of horror as a seperate and unique genre. While I'll take "White Zombie" or "The Mummy" over this film any day, I think the 75 minutes it takes to watch this film, is time well spent.
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
Starring: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Lon Chaney Jr., Lenore Aubert, and Bela Lugosi
Director: Charles Barton
Rating: Eight of Ten Stars
The reluctant Wolfman, Larry Talbot (Chaney) learns that Dracula (Lugosi) intends to revive Frankenstein's Monster and use it as his personal super-soldier. He pursues the evil vampire lord to the United States where he finds his only allies to be Wilbur and Chick (Costello and Abbott), a couple of less-than-bright shipping clerks. Unfortunately, Dracula as an ally of his own--mad scientist femme fatale Dr. Sandra Mornay (Aubert), and she has Wilbur wrapped around her little finger. Little does Wilbur know that his girlfriend doesn't love him for his mind but rather his brain... she intends to do Dracula's bidding and transplant into the rejuvinated monster!
"Abott and Costello Meet Frankenstein" is a wild screwball comedy with the two master comedians doing their usual routines within the framework of a solid script and a story that's actually pretty logical in its own crazy way. I think it's the first fusion of comedy and monsters, and one reason it works so well is that the monsters are played straight. Even when they are involved in funny schtick (Dracula and the Wolf Man are both part of several routines), they remain as they were featured in the serious monster movies they were in.
Too often, I hear this film written off as Universal's last and crassest attempt to wring some dollars out of their tired monster franchise. While that may be all the studio bosses had in mind, the creators involved with "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein" managed to make a great movie that is still worth watching today. It's even superior to many of Universal's "straight" movies with Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster, and the Wolf Man (or, for that matter, countless recent so-called horror films). Much of its strength grows from the fact that has a plot that with some tweaking could be a straight horror movie.
I recommend this underappreciated film to any lover of the classic monster films, as well as lovers of slapstick comedy.
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To me, this film really suffers in comparison to Frankenstein. For some reason, Tod Browning presented it as a filmed stage play. He certainly knew better, he'd made dozens of films already (the most successful with Lon Chaney). There is speculation that Browning was uncomfortable with sound technology (this was his first talkie), or depressed by the recent death of Chaney. (I've heard that Lugosi only received the role when Chaney died, so Browning might have only conceived the story the way Chaney would have played it. For a vision of that, see the 1927 version of London After Midnight.)
For an interesting comparison, see George Melford's Spanish-language version, filmed on the same sets but with a different cast.
I wasn't awarey that the 1927 version of "London After Midnight" was available. Cool! I thought it was one of those lost movies. Good to hear it's been found again.
As for Browning's "Dracula," it also pales in comparison to the Spanish language version you point to. If only Lugosi hadn't needed to sleep and could have starred in both versions. (I'm sure he'd have been just as capable as butchering Spanish as he was at English. :) )
From what I understand, the last known print of "London After Midnight" was lost in a fire at MGM in 1967. However, TCM commissioned a reconstruction from the shooting script that they showed in 2002. They include the reconstruction on the Lon Chaney Collection DVD.ReplyDelete
Do you know when Bela Lugosi went from learning his English phonetically to actually speaking it? I see in a search that "Lugosi: His Life in Films, on Stage, and in the hearts of horror lovers (Gary Don Rhodes and F. Richard Sheffield/McFarland & Co. 2006) cites Rosalind Shaffer's article in the 28 July 1929 San Francisco Chronicle about the difficulty he had learning English. Too bad http://www.lugosi.com/biography.html doesn't mention it.


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We live in a waterfront condo built in 1972. My rather poreous second floor homes peace and quiet is at the mercy of my third floor neighbor. Their wall to wall carpet was replaced with
bamboo on top of sound barrier padding (which seems useless)which is over concrete covered wood. We hear every footstep.
What is the best material for blown in insulation? What are the concerns I should have in regards to this. Will this be a problem in such a humid area? Will it work or will it be as bad as the sound barrier padding? Thanks, Krueger
We live in a waterfront condo built in 1972. My rather poreous second floor homes peace and quiet is at the mercy of my third floor neighbor. Their wall to wall carpet was replaced with
You can hear footsteps through a sound barrier and concrete, I'm not sure there is any cavity insulation that will help you. If you want to try it, just about any insulation should do and since there are conditioned spaces on both sides, moisture should not be a problem.
My suggestion would be to remove the drywall from the ceiling, exposing the joist bays. Insulate the cavities with standard fiberglass insulation -- not so much as a sound barrier (even though it will help), but as thermal insulation. That way you're not paying to heat your upstairs neighbor's condo. :eek:
Then, before installing new drywall, use sound isolating furring strips running perpendicular to the joists or isolation clips attached directly to the joists. The drywall attaches to this.
There is a considerable amount of sound telegraphed through the joists. By isolating the drywall from the joists you can eliminate most of this telegraphed sound.
I recommend that you remove your ceiling drywall, then add some denim insulation. You can easily find it ******, it comes in all different thicknesses and is nontoxic, fire resistant, great for sound proofing on a budget. I insulated a home theater with this stuff. I have the soundtrack cranked and the next room is quiet, not a peep. I then used two layers of 1/2" drywall with no matching seems. I think the code requires 5/8ths on the ceiling.
My home theater has the denim in every wall and ceiling. It was a bit tricky putting it on the ceiling, I had to use a roll of chicken wire to hold it in place, but once I figured out an easy way to unroll it while installing the denim insulation it worked well.
In the end it cost less than a third of what it would have cost me had I used sound board.


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Freezing cold night, throngs of people. Did they show interest in the strange screen at the end the road? Some did, some were bemused. Is there a place for science on show at this type of event? I would say yes, but perhaps a better screen would be required and more interactivity. We gave out heaps of pencils, pens, furry little lapel bugs (you know – the ones that you find everywhere advertising everything from kitchen sinks to funeral parlour services). Then again on a cold night in November who actually wants to be interacting with a bunch of scientists when they could be guzzling mulled wine and eating oversized wurst. Maybe WE missed the point and should have offered SOUP n SCIENCE. Genius. You heard it hear first folks.
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Book a Bed and Breakfast - Ireland B&B
2 Bed & Breakfasts in Roscommon, Ireland
Run by Rita Morgan, Armcashel is a comfortable, spacious B&B guaranteeing a peaceful night\'s sleep. Many of our guests returning on a regular basis. Pleasant green view from every window - from home to home. Armcashel has become a very popular base for golfing, fishing and an excellent location for touring the west of Ireland. Friendly atmosphere and warm welcome assured. Varied late or early breakfast. Free WiFi Internet throughout house. Private parking. Packed lunches on request. Convenient for a visit to the spectacular Lough Key, the Arigna Mining Experience and Strokestown Park House. Location - Situated just 1km from the town centre of Castlerea, on the Westport/Castlebar road (N60) A daily train service to and from Dublin is available, we can collect guests from train station on request. Galway 60 mins Ireland West Airport Knock 35 mins Sligo 60 mins
Reeside is situated beside Lough Ree in scenic country surroundings. 1 mile from Athlone Golf Club and Hodson Bay Hotel. Cruising boat for tours & hire also available with this lakeside accommodation. Beautifully maintained house with 4 bedrooms. All bedrooms are tastefully decorated with TV & en-suite bathroom. There is a choice of full Irish breakfast or Continental style.


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Much though Cybercinema would love to be outside, kicking through the crisp autumn leaves and mistaking dog turds for conkers, she's been busy compiling a seasonal web playlist, which is appropriately full of mellow fruitfulness. They don't come any mellower than Bill Murray, deadpan comic genius and golf-cart getaway merchant, who apparently drinks, yes, warm milk, before bedtime. Or does he? To find out, New York comedy duo Pete and Brian unleash their ass-kicking alter-egos, Dictum Magazine's intrepid fact-checkers Dylan and Russell. No question is off-limits ("Do you have proof that your genitals look like the Virgin Mary?"), no assignment too tough for this Wikipedia-scorning pair. So there's nothing for it but to break into Murray's loft apartment and find out if he's lactose (and lunkhead) tolerant. Nine minutes of CSI-spoofing juvenile joy, filled with milky goodness.
Do Armed Robbers Have Affairs? (www.bbc.co.uk/filmnetwork)
It's not just Northern Rock customers who sit patiently outside banks, in the pale light of dawn. In this disarmingly melancholy, yet gripping Northern Ireland heist drama, seasoned armed-robbers Mimms and Price mull over fallen friends, late-blooming love, and last chances while they wait to get their hands on their ill-gotten gains. Director Brian Kirk opens up this two-hander wonderfully, weaving in flashback plots that leave the drama sticky with fear and regret. Sean McGinley and Sorcha Cusack give particularly fine, fond performances, as the middle-aged lovers torn between desire and despair.
Quetzalcoatl (www.atomfilms.com)
We plough the fields and scatter this year, but with a difference. Replete with sprinkled bones and blood, and rendered in fiery pre-Columbian images, Nick Kozis's opulent animation of the Aztec myth of creation and crops will put some Mexican spice into your harvest festival. As plumed serpent god Quetzalcoatl coaxes corn for man from the jealous rain deity Tlaloc, Kozis's vivid, fluid 2D animation shapeshifts from charnel house to anthill, like a stone temple relief come to life. Opt for the Atom "big screen" option (it's free, people), and bask in Kozis's sizzling colour palate and seamless narrative skill.
The Burg: Episode One - Cred
"Do you guys want to see a dead body?" There are ups and downs to being a cool urban twentysomething in Brooklyn's rapidly gentrifying Williamsburg. In this sweet and sharp indie web series, hipsters Jed and Xander face some terrible dilemmas: What will evicting Early the Buddhist slacker do to their karma? Should their new flatmate be Ryan the preppy Wall Street broker, or Stanislav, the Russian meth dealer? And will Courtney the flakey actor ever find an audition T shirt that makes her look hot yet politically aware, all at once? Nicely ironic and nichey, this could be Friends for the MySpace generation. Except that MySpace is so, like, last year.
Recall (www.atomfilms.com)
Stop licking the lead paint off that cheaply-imported toy, and pay attention. Or you'll miss out on Michael Noonan's hilariously brash and blackly comic farce, in which a panicky product recall alert sends Graeme, of Graeme's Electrical Goods, haring across the Australian outback to save customer Martha Trollop from a potentially fatal product. Not so much a who-dunnit as a what's gonna do it, as Martha juggles hairdryer, microwave, blender and electric carving knife, any one of which could be the mysterious death-dealing item Omega GT 238. Be sure and wait for the very last shot, since this energetic little movie has more twists than a Curly Wurly.
Obeying Godard's maxim that "cinema is a girl and a gun", this punchy, high-octane web series has lashings of both, as it romps through LA's lesbian gangster underworld in the wake of comely robbers Daisy and Tyler, who can't keep their hands off other people's wives, or other people's money, but keep falling for skanky Southern belle LouAnne's "horizontal hustles". Director/writer Angela Robinson (The 'L' Word) slices and dices her plots at lightning speed - this may be the only crime drama whose episodes regularly clock in at just over a minute. A trashy, splashy, delight of a show that lives down to its motto: "So wrong, it's right".


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Houstonia, the new monthly magazine that first arrived on news racks last month, is continuing to build its army of reporters and editors.
It's most recent catch is Katharine Shilcutt, who for the past three years has been the restaurant critic for the alt-mag Houston Press.
Shilcutt announced her new position as Features Editor at Houstonia via her personal blog, She Eats. In a blog post titles "Episode IV," Shilcutt writes:
As sad as I am to leave my home here at the Press behind, I'm excited to cultivate a new readership at a publication I respect equally. I think Houstoniawill prove to be every bit as vital as our daily and our alt-weekly, filling a monthly niche that's been wanting for passionate, discerning, thoughtful coverage — some of which I hope I'll be able to provide as well.
At Houstonia, Shilcutt will be reunited with former Press folks such as her former editor Cathy Matusow and her "mentor" Robb Walsh.


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i've got a serious travel bug!
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I want to go to London…even more so now because of that amazing photo! I love that city!
Me to (on everything)!! LOL. I would love to go to Scotland if I could go anywhere. There are lots of places I would love to see including, Ireland, Italy, Greece, Austria, and Spain (just to name a few!). LOL!! Thanks for the lovely pic.
Greece, but thankfully I get to visit Jordan, Jerusalem and Egypt this spring! :-)
Oh there are many places I would like to go. Jerusalem like Krisiti but I also want to to go Australia, England and Ireland. Oh I really would like to go to Alaska.
I want to go so many many places….Russia, Italy, France and England are atop my list.
I'd be happy to spend a week or two in Hong Kong with family…Boston to visit with Kirsten…France to see Toulouse, and Perpignon where a friend died…central Sydney to me is fascinating with the architecture…& I love my own country of course!
I've been dying to go to Bora Bora, NYC, Chicago, & Africa.
there are so many places in the world I want to visit: Italy, Ireland, and all 50 states…
This summer we're going out West on vacation with friends and we are planning a trip to Alaska in 2013.
ANYWHERE!!!! Acutally, I would love to be in London for the wedding of William and Kate
Dying to go to Indonesia. I have tons of family there and some in New Zealand. But anything within the next 6 months is probably either Amsterdam to visit a friend or Brazil for volunteer work.
Ohhhh, you just had to go and mention Amsterdam! LOVE that place and didn't get to spend near enough time and so need to go back. In fact, last night on the reruns of America's Next Top Model they were there and I just had to spend a couple hours soaking in the scenery. We were in Egmond aan Zee for a scrapbook weekend and it was gorgeous!
New Zealand and Australia are at the top of my list of 'somedays' too! Soooo want to go there.
And my son wants to go to Africa when he comes home from his mission. He's never been, but after teaching the W.African people in D.C. for almost two years, he knows more about that country than he ever learned in school. So he really wants to go.
Too many places, so little money. :)
LOVE seeing where you guys all want to go!
I would so love to come back to the States! I think California is my spiritual home. I adore the coastal towns around Oceanside, and the beautiful old quarter of San Diego. I love the flower fields of Carlsbad and most of all, I just so miss not being able to wander around Marina del Ray, Culver City, and Venice in good old LA. Fingers crossed for this year! Guess until then, I'll have to just appreciate my beautiful scenic valley here. love from Scotland
I want to go back to Ireland too! So much more to see there that we missed. Had an Irish family come to the states to visit us last summer…said we can stay with them. Do you wanna come? Would love to visit the Seychelles Islands off the coast of Africa, Petra in Jordan, Tahiti and go back to Italy. Hey…you know what, I want to see it all!!!!
I would like to visit the US, Canada and Australia. I visited New Zealand 3 years ago and would go back in a heart beat.
More love from a grey and damp Scotland!
Love that photo. It has such a dreamy quality to it. I'd love to know more about his photography.
My family loves to travel. We would also love to travel to Scotland, Ireland, Germany, Italy, and Greece.
Going to Ireland, with my sister, in Sept. It will be our first time to visit. Can't wait.
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Having tried different hair colors from natural-looking blondes, browns and reds to eccentric lavender, pink and blue tones, at some point we come to understanding that the hair color, given to us by nature isn't all that bad at all. Certainly, there's always something to improve – to add intensity to your hair color, to introduce some warmer notes or go a shade darker/lighter… These goals can be achieved without exposure to aggressive chemical ingredients, containing in commercial hair color products. Natural hair dyes don't make a drastic hair color change, but they ennoble your natural hair color, add shine and strength to your locks.
Homemade Hair Dyes
Nature is prolific, it has a substitute for most commercial colorants. Herbal rinses, for instance, refresh your basic hair color and give it lovely luster. Lemon, honey and cinnamon can make your hair 2-3 shades lighter. Hibiscus flowers, calendula, henna are great natural red pigments for redheads and brunettes who want to enhance a reddish hue. Dark brown hair colors can be improved with coffee or black tea brews, oak bark or walnut leaves. So, if your goal is not to change your hair color dramatically, you may try the following simple, cheap and safe natural hair color recipes.
The most of ingredients you'll need can be found in your kitchen – herbs, fruit peels, honey, coffee, black tea, wine, etc. The rest can be picked up during a walk. You'll also need a bowl and plastic wrap. Your hair color may not change exponentially after the first procedure, but your locks will instantly become shinier and stronger. If your hair is greasy, herbs will help with this issue too. If you want to achieve the best results, it's recommended to apply hair infusions or rinses with every hair wash.
Natural Hair Color Recipes For Blonde Hair
No secret that staying in the sun makes your hair lighter, however, you can enhance this effect and enrich your blonde hair hue with herbal rinses. Chamomile flowers, calendula flowers and lemon are standard coloring ingredients for blondes.
Mix 3 tablespoons of chamomile flowers, 3 tablespoons of calendula flowers and the same amount of finely ground lemon peel. Pour the mix with 2 glasses of water and bring the infusion to the boil. Leave for 3 hours to cool down and infuse properly. Then strain and add 2 tea spoons of apple vinegar. Apply the rinse on wet freshly washed hair.
A simpler recipe suggests adding 2 tablespoons of lemon juice to the previously prepared chamomile infusion.
Natural Hair Color Recipes For Red Hair
Hibiscus flowers are sometimes referred to as "red gold". Use hibiscus and calendula flowers to prepare a rinse that intensifies red hair color. Steep 2 table spoons of hibiscus flowers and the same amount of calendula flowers in 2 cups of boiling water. Strain the infusion when it's warm and add one glass of red wine. Mix and massage the solution into your hair. Leave for 30 minutes. Use plastic wrap for better activation of the solution.
Infusion of onion skins is another popular rinse for red hair that is quick and easy to make. Pour a handful of onion skins with 5 cups of water and boil for 15-20 minutes. Let it cool down, and then strain.
One more very easy rinse for red hair is prepared with cinnamon. Pour 2 table spoons of cinnamon with 2 cups of hot water. Let it cool down, strain and rinse your hair after wash.
Natural Hair Color Recipes For Brown Hair
Put a handful of oak bark and the same amount of walnut leaves into a bowl, add a few tablespoons of black tea. Pour the mixture with boiling water and simmer for 20 minutes. Drain and use as a hair rinse. Oak tree is also a potent remedy against dandruff. Black tea may used alone as a darkening rinse, whenever you are short on time to prepare the 3-component rinse.
One question often asked by brunettes is "How to dye your hair with coffee?" You can really achieve a beautiful nutty brown hue if you regularly use finely ground strong espresso brew as a hair rinse. The ratio is 1 ½ cups of coffee to 3 cups of water. Use the rinse once it cools down. Let the coffee rinse stay on your hair for 20-30 minute. Use plastic wrap.
Note that herbal hair dyes may need repeated applications to build up the color. Anyway, you are using much safer ingredients than those containing in the boxes with hair dyes from a store. So, it's only your desire and time to prepare a natural dyeing solution. Good luck!
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Types of Fills
Polyester batting - This is an ideal material for accent forms that aren't required to do much more than look pretty. Polyester batting makes a firm form that will hold it's shape well. These are the least expensive forms that we manufacture. The ticking is a soft non-woven accord (it looks alot like a paper towel). If you would like a pillow that you can squish, fluff or will hold a karate chop, you might consider either the Cluster Fiber or a down and feather fill.
Cluster Fiber - (formerly known as Comforel) These small clusters of polyester are fluffable like down, hypo-allergenic, and washable. Cluster fiber pillows are fuller than batting forms and they are firmer than down and feather forms. Cluster Fiber pillows are lined in a 100% cotton down proof ticking, which allows air to pass easily from the outside to inside the form when fluffing.
Cluster Fiber
Down and Feather - Pillows filled with down and feather blends are softer and squishier than any polyester fill. You can mash them, flatten them and they will always fluff back up. They hold a karate chop and are shapable, fluff them up to make a full form, or squeeze the air out to make a flat form. Down and feather blends are referred to by the percentage of down to the percentage of feathers, for instance, 10% down and 90% feathers (10/90), or 25% down and 75% feathers (25/75), etc. The species of bird from which the blend is derrived is abbreviated as GD for Grey Duck, GG for Grey Goose and WGD for White Goose Down. All down and feather pillows are lined in a 100% cotton down proof ticking, which allows air to pass easily from the outside to inside the form when fluffing.
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SparkFun Wireless Joystick Kit
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Description: The SparkFun Wireless Joystick Kit provides an easy way to control your next XBee project. Before the wireless joystick, radio-controlled projects used hobby RC transmitters, the same ones used for RC cars, boats and planes. The problem with these transmitters is that many aren't customizable, and the ones that are tend to be too expensive for many of us. The Wireless Joystick Kit offers a custom wireless solution for those who want to control their project their own way.
Equipped with the increasingly popular SAMD21 onboard, all you need is to assemble the SparkFun Wireless Joystick into the configuration you want and add your own XBee and lithium ion battery into the provided sockets. The Wireless Joystick Kit can be assembled into a configuration that utilizes dual joysticks for better RC steering robots (like tanks) or a single joystick configuration with four 12mm momentary pushbuttons (a setup similar to what older game consoles used). We have provided a full Hookup Guide that gives assembly instructions, as well as a tank-steering motor controller tutorial to help get you started!
Note: This kit will need to be assembled before use, so a beginner's knowledge of soldering will be required. Additionally, in an effort to keep shipping rates down and make this kit available to people throughout the world without delay, there is no XBee or lithium ion battery included.
Kit Includes:
- 1x Wireless Joystick Board
- 2x Right Angle Tactile Button
- 2x Thumb Joysticks
- 4x Momentary Pushbutton Switch - 12mm
- Schematic
- Eagle Files
- Hookup Guide
- Datasheet (ATSAMD21G18)
- GitHub
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Theatrical Alchemy
Theatrical Alchemy is a workshop that redefines performance making. We begin with working with the most basic elements of the theatre to discover their potency, properties, and poetry. Next we create a story by transforming these elements into coherent phrases with a discrete beginning, middle, and end. Through imagination, transformation, and experimentation we arrive with a story composed with, and driven by, a theatrical language. This is playMAKING not playWRITING.
Workshop includes:
- Introduction and exploration of Theatrical Composition
- Investigation of theatrical elements to find their individual poetry (lights, costumes, props, sound, text/script, movement, et cetra)
- Create small compositions, or moments, as solos and small ensembles
- Give and receive critical feedback in a format focusing on Structural Analysis as well as additional feedback models
- Learn how to editing and clarify compositions
- Explore sequencing compositions to explore narrative structures
Learning Outcomes:
- Participants will develop a sophisticated yet fun language for talking about what is happening on the stage
- Awareness training to take what is in front of you and make a magical moment
- Re-discover play within a play by unlocking their imaginations through clear and direct theatrical expression
- Create theatrical work to share with an audience!
Workshop Details:
This is a multi-session workshop that requires a minimum on 10 contact hours between students and teachers.This can be an "open" workshop or be focused on a new piece you'd like to make with your students. This is always a great way to rediscover a wonderful classical play! A formal stage space is not needed, but we will need access to a space with controled lighting (on/off with very little additional lights), stereo, and a few other theatrical elements (props, costumes, etc). I can provide a "Theatrical Kit" for an additional fee wich will include: lighting sources, props, costumes, sound-making objects.
Student Feedback:
"Theatrical Alchemy was a wonderful experience for me because it opened the doors to new possibilities for me."
"Breaking down each component of theater allowed me to do more physical research that extends beyond the process of thinking… that was very important for me because my tendency is to think and not do."
"You found the best in each of us as artists, nurtured our strengths and encouraged our weaknesses."
Start the Conversation
Want to have a chat about Theatrical Alchemy? Reach out to me at firstname.lastname@example.com for a quick response! Our first conversation is on the house and you will not be under any financial obligation until we have agreed on all of the details.


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Retirement is a momentous occasion. It is a milestone that signifies the peak of a rewarding career and the beginning of a new chapter. Retirement does leave people with more time to pursue hobbies or unique interests, but that doesn't mean the retiree's career should just fade away. It is important to honor the hard work and time that went into it with fitting retirement recognition gifts.
The Pinnacle Retirement Recognition Plaque is the epitome of class. The optically clear crystal tower soars to an elegant peak and offers plenty of inscription space for a personalized message. The base is sleek and attractive and will help feature this gift as a long-term display piece. This example features design work up the side and career tenure is emblazoned in gold for extra recognition.
16 Years of Excellence
Presented to a Special Colleague
In sincere gratitude for the
compassion, guidance,
and outstanding leadership
you've provided to all of us
over the last 16 years.
"After climbing the Mountain,
You can finally Enjoy the View."
50 years of service
In grateful appreciation
we hereby honor
A true Friend and a special Colleague
for your five decades of exceptional work ethic,
loyalty and great humor.
You are part of what makes us great and
the company will not be the same without you.
You will be greatly missed!
Best wishes from all of us for
a long and happy retirement.
Best Wishes & Congratulations
In Honor of a special Co-worker
You have been not only a co-worker,
but a friend to many.
Through your hard work and dedication,
you will be remembered as one of the greats.
You will be missed, but we wish nothing but
the best for you on your new adventure.
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Hey everyone...Travis back with updates about where to stay in Tampa Bay, especially if you are coming in for the Gasparilla Film Festival. Here's the scoop -
The InterContinental Tampa is the official hotel sponsor of the fifth annual Gasparilla International Film Festival, which takes place March 24-28, 2011.
One of Florida's largest and fastest-growing film festivals, the Gasparilla International Film Festival takes place in downtown Tampa and South Tampa. Each year, the festival features an average of 100 films from around the world at a variety of venues, with an additional focus on local productions.
Categories for the 2011 festival include: horror, comedy, documentary, international, young filmmaker (under 25 years old), North American Drama, short film, Florida Focus and a sidebar celebrating Tampa's Cuban heritage.
The InterContinental Tampa is offering rates for filmgoers as low as $139 per night (double occupancy), including a complimentary breakfast buffet for two in Shula's Steak House for patrons attending the Gasparilla International Film Festival (March 24-28, 2011).
Gasparilla International Film Festival rate is available now through March 28, 2011. (Subject to availability). To reserve the special Gasparilla International Film Festival rate at InterContinental Tampa, please call (866) 402-0758 and mention rate code IPE10 or visit www.intercontampa.com.
I hope to see you in Tampa, and at the InterContinental Tampa. And as always, keep checking back here for moregreat things to do in Tampa Bay and other Tampa Bay area events.


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Last week I had the opportunity to read this book aloud to other parents of missing children. Their response was humbling...In honor of ALL parents who lost their son or daughter ~ whether it be to a kidnapping, illness, tragedy, or another situation, may you know your strength is an encouragement to those around you.
If you have a friend or family member who lost their son or daughter, will you share When the Waves Subside with them? I pray you will...it is a small way to encourage them as they realize how strong and amazing they are, and how much they mean to you too. A small book with a powerful message...there is always hope.
It is a busy week this week:
Tuesday: Oswego Reading Council's Annual Writing Contest Awards Ceremony at the Mexico High School's Auditorium (High School is located on Route 104)
Wednesday: 6:30 p.m. Mexico Public Library's Author Night - I will be sharing briefly, along with a couple other local authors and then selling and signing books. This event is OPEN TO THE PUBLIC - local Mexico High School student and newly published author Alyshia Hull will be there with her book One Thousand Miles, along with A. L. Daniels with her recent fiction release, Breaking the Silence.
Thursday: I will share with the Oswego County Retired Teachers
Friday: 10:00 a.m. I will be on Syracuse's own "Bridge Street" morning show!! Be sure to watch ~ and pray, my interview is going to be LIVE!!
Saturday: Book Signing in honor National Missing Children's Day, location and time to be announced later this week


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Here's another article I wrote a long time ago concerning the status of women in Pakistan's society. I think you may find this to be a good read.
No matter how much we brag about women's rights and atrocities committed against them, one thing remains certain with any doubt: We're confused about the approach that we must take in order to provide a counter to the status-quo. And why is that? Here's when sometimes sociology lessons are useful – it's not about the mindset anymore, it's not about the mythical conceptions about woman's weak physical nature and it's certainly not about her frail intellectual capacity (I don't believe this anyway) – it's more about how the money flows. Continue reading


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This is interesting: US, Mexico, Canada to hold talks on NAFTA.
From the story,
US Trade Representative Ron Kirk said in a statement Thursday that he will host Mexico's Secretary of the Economy Gerardo Ruiz Mateos and Canadian Trade Minister Stockwell Day for talks on "ways to ensure that the benefits of our trilateral trade and economic relationship are widely shared and sustainable."
. . . Obama hinted on the campaign trail last year that he might renegotiate NAFTA to include greater labor and environmental safeguards, but Canada and Mexico have expressed wariness at the prospect of reopening trade negotiations.
Seeing the words "shared" and "sustainable" in a statement on trade talks is certainly refreshing — and promising. Is it possible that they are going to talk about ways to think long term and conduct trade in ways that actually benefit the people and workers in the NAFTA countries, instead of just boosting the short term gain of a few large corporations at the expense of the rest of us?
Less promising is this statement in a Canadian paper, the Winnipeg Sun, Day to meet with U.S., Mexican counterparts,
Curbing protectionism and keeping borders secure but open for business will top the agenda when Trade Minister Stockwell Day meets with his U.S. and Mexican counterparts.
. . . "We need to work, among ourselves, to make sure the costs that we put on the backs of business are as low as possible — especially in light of this global downturn," he said.
Unfortunately, these days the word "costs" in the context of businesses too often means … well, us. When big business talks about shedding "costs" they mean pensions, wages, workers, laws against dumoing toxins into the air and water, laws against fleecing customers, laws against just stealing, etc.
So we'll see.