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We put some of the fruit in our CSA boxes and squeezed the rest (or at least Mark's bother and sister in law did as they happened to be visiting at the time). We went back the next week and picked just as many, put some in boxes and Des and Bernie squeezed the rest Thank goodness for the inlaws, it was a big job. We have about 20 litres of juice in the freezer...thank you Des and Bernie.
Now we're not big juice drinkers here, but have been using it to soak our freshly rolled oats. We add a little honey to the juice, pop in the oats while we do our early morning chores and then pop them on a tray under the griller for a few minutes til their nicely toasted.
To this we add some dried fruit and coconut...
We serve this with home made yoghurt and it's simply delicious.
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Affects Version/s: Release 1.2, Release 1.3, Release 1.4
Fix Version/s: Release 1.5
Component/s: None
Environment:At least Linux + IBM JDK 1.5, and Linux + IBM JDK 1.6
Patch:Code and Test
Same issue as
CLJ-886, but while the patch applied for that issue fixes the problem for many OS/JDK combos, there appear to be differences in how surrogate pair characters are handled in some OS/JDK combos. In particular, at least Linux + IBM JDK 1.5 and Linux + IBM JDK 1.6 still fail the tests checked in for do-copy.
clj-886-improved-fix-for-ibm-jdks-patch2.txt dated Apr 7 2012 makes the tests pass with Linux + IBM JDK 1.5, as well as these other combos tested:
Linux + Oracle JDK 1.7
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There are still failing tests for Linux + IBM JDK 1.6. This patch currently skips the failing tests whenever the java.vendor is "IBM Corporation" and java.version is "1.6.0", so that "ant" succeeds. It is easy enough to modify the patch so that the failing tests are kept as a bright shining reminder. Let me know if that would be preferred – it just involves removing the function ibm-jdk16, and simplifying where it is called after replacing it with false.
Not sure if we should be in the business of building JDK-specific workarounds into our IO library, but marking this as screened.
Option B is to leave the code as-is and only disable the tests. Rich?
Please disable the tests. We shouldn't be doing such workarounds.
clj-967-disable-failing-io-copy-tests-on-ibm-jdk-16-patch1.txt dated May 19, 2012 disables tests of clojure.java.io/copy that fail with IBM JDK 1.6.0. It makes minor changes to the clojure.java.io code file, but these are only to eliminate uses of reflection, and to make a few of the versions of do-copy share more of their implementation code.
Tested that all results are good on Mac OS X 10.6.8 + Oracle/Apple JDK 1.6.0 and Ubuntu 11.10 + Oracle JDK 1.7.0, including that the number of tests run are identical to before this patch. Only 2 tests are disabled on IBM JDK 1.6.0, and all of the rest pass before and after these changes.
Hoping that I'm not out of line changing approval from Incomplete to None after attaching a patch that should address the reason it was marked incomplete. The only other way to get a ticket out of Incomplete state is for a core team member to do it for me, which seems like busy-work.
Any comments from Rich or other screeners on the status of this one? Just curious, since it seemed to have been screened, and then quietly tossed back into the unscreened pile. Is it considered undesirable to disable selected tests for a particular JDK as the patch clj-967-disable-failing-io-copy-tests-on-ibm-jdk-16-patch1.txt does? My motivation was to selectively disable only the tests that fail, and only on the JDK where they fail, leaving all passing tests to continue to run wherever possible.

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'Family Guy' creator caused controversy at the awards ceremony
Seth MacFarlane has said that he will never host the Oscars again after presenting the 85th Academy Awards on Sunday (24 February).
The Family Guy creator hosted the awards which saw Ben Affleck's Argo and Jennifer Lawrence among the winners. When asked by a Twitter follower if he would ever consider hosting the Oscars again he tweeted: "No way. Lotta fun to have done it, though."
The Ted director was announced as the host for the 2013 Oscars in October last year with the awards show producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron saying: "His performing skills blend perfectly with our ideas for making the show entertaining and fresh".
MacFarlane himself described the opportunity as "an overwhelming privilege" and said: "I will do my utmost to live up to the high standards set forth by my predecessors".
MacFarlane's turn as host sparked mixed reviews from the public and the press with Deadline Hollywood's' Nikki Finke describing him as the worst Oscars host ever saying: "Even the Academy Awards audience is now embarrassed for Seth".
Traditionally award show hosts are known for being controversial and MacFarlane was no exception, making a number of questionable jokes about Chris Brown and Rihanna's relationship, the use of the n-word in Django Unchained and performed a song called 'We Saw Your Boobs' about various actresses in the audience.
Despite this the show received its high ratings yet with a three per cent increase from last year.
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The Belgian author published 'Meeting Architecture, a Manifesto' in May 2008. In it, he puts the case for new approaches to training event managers, including:
"Meeting architecture is the art of designing the content and format of a meeting so that participants behave in the desired manner. The meeting architect cannot start his work until the behavioural objectives have been clearly marked out. Consequently, one of his most important tasks is to help customers formulate specific goals for their event. He uses a broad range of skills and tools before, during and after the meeting to provide the participants with information. (…)
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The Globalisation of Feng Shui
"Practised in China for over 6,000 years, feng shui has played a significant role in shaping the country's architecture. Despite attempted suppression during the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s, feng shui has not only remained prominent in its country of origin, but has become well known across the Western world too."
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As the haunting notes of a prayer sung in Hebrew floated in the breeze outside the American Airpower Museum in East Farmingdale Wednesday, Thea Gottesmann Rumstein bowed her head in thought. Others fought back tears.
It was the mourner's kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead, interspersed with the names of Nazi concentration camps where millions died during the Holocaust.
"I was thinking of my father when they mentioned Auschwitz," Rumstein, whose father was gassed there by the Nazis in 1944, told Newsday. "My mother and I were young enough that they didn't kill us. The older ones went right into the gas."
Rumstein, 82, was at the museum to commemorate the opening of an exhibit marking the liberation of Nazi concentration camps in the waning months of World War II, including the Mauthausen slave camp from which she had been rescued exactly 65 years earlier.
The permanent exhibit includes an M8 "Greyhound," a fast armored personnel carrier that U.S. troops used to reach Mauthausen in time to liberate the surviving inmates.
During the ceremony, Rumstein faced the M8, which had been purchased for $75,000 from a seller in Texas. The museum plans to bring the M8 to area schools and colleges, as a teaching tool on the Holocaust.
"I've tried to forget about that time, but when I see that tank, it brings back memories," said Rumstein, who immigrated to the United States in 1955 and has lived in Levittown ever since. "That tank was the first thing I saw when the Americans came."
Another attendee was Hy Horowitz, 90, of East Meadow. A former tank driver who survived the D-Day invasion at Normandy and the Battle of the Bulge, Horowitz helped liberate a Mauthausen satellite camp the day before Rumstein was freed.
Horowitz, who is Jewish, said he found himself trying to help thousands of starving prisoners, whose skeletal bodies and sunken eyes haunt him to this day. Overwhelmed during the ceremony, he opened a Jewish prayer book he carried with him and recited the kaddish.
"The most horrible scene we saw were the people who were barely alive," he said. "It was the best illustration of man's inhumanity to man."
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"They fed us occasionally, not even every day," said Rumstein, who weighed 87 pounds when she was liberated.
Rumstein said she rarely talked about her wartime experience until two years ago, when she was invited by a school in Vienna to speak about the Holocaust.
She says she decided years ago not to be bitter.
"I don't forgive Hitler, I don't forget the Holocaust," she said. "But three generations have passed since then. Their grandchildren shouldn't be blamed."


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ICOC HotNews Episode: "Suffering for the Name (1): Nalini's Story"
When Nalini, a sister in Chennai, decided to start following Jesus she immediately faced serious persecution from her father. He kicked her out of the house, beat publicly in front of 300 people, handed her to the police, and continued to cause her distress for three years. By God's grace, she persevered and she shared her story with ICOC HotNews.
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Hello. My name is Nalini. I come from Chennai Church of Christ. I was invited to church in 1989. I was an 18-year-old college student then. Before, when I was studying the Bible, I was telling my parents, "I'm going to church." But my parents never believed because I was a part of an activist movement, a women's movement, where we used to get all the Hindus and we used to talk about how to protect our Hinduism. I used to go to three temples a week and I had read all the Hindu epics, but as I read the Bible more and more every word Jesus said was touching my heart. I felt it is truth and I cannot deny the truth. Within a period of one week I studied the Bible again and became a disciple.
Then my whole family was very shocked and my father started becoming very angry and very violent. So immediately after the baptism, the same night, my father threw me out of the house and it was raining. I was just sitting and praying. And in the middle of the night my father said, "Ok, come in, but I don't want to see your face in the morning."
And then the disciples comforted me and they prayed with me. And they said, "Ok, God will take care…" So after that I went to college in the morning. There my father was standing. Along with him a policeman was there. And as soon as my father saw me coming out of the college he held me by my hair and started beating me up. Almost around 300 people were gathered to watch me. More police came in and then they just dragged me to the police station. And in the police station they were questioning me: "Where are you going? Which church?" And they started shouting. And none of the policemen believed what I said. I said, "I'm going to church. I'm studying the Bible. That's all I'm doing. I'm not doing anything wrong." But the police warned me if they find me again going with the church disciples—he said, "I'm going to put you inside."
And my father was still very angry. The persecution I had for three years, every day: I go to church, come back, I get beaten up. I go to church, come back, I get beaten up. I was locked up. Even praying and reading the Bible—I can't do it outside. Quickly I have to read the Bible in the bathroom. One time he tore the Bible. Another time he burned the Bible. One Sunday he said, "Ok. I'm not going to give you any money. Then how will you go to church?" So I said, "Ok. I'll walk." So I walked for about three hours and I attended the church. So it was very hard, but the church was praying for me intensely and slowly, slowly, the persecution started coming down.
And God was so good. I love God and I feel compared to what Jesus did what I went through is just a fraction. It's like a mustard seed. I'm just grateful to Jesus because he went through so much for me. In India it's very hard for the girls to stand up against the family, but today I'm glad I made a decision to stand strong. I got married to a great brother in the church and we both work for HOPE. Of course, I'm grateful to have church disciples who are always there to encourage me and support me. I would like to encourage all the women in the world to stand up for truth. God bless.
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The best way to fully immerse yourself in a new country and culture is to learn the language of the land. Many of us simply don't have the time to intensively learn a new language so here are tips to learn a new language in record time.
Four months later, our Kickstarter campaign was successfully funded, and we're just now meeting our first full class of students here in Medellín. We learned a lot along the way in pushing to crush our goal, and although the amount we raised is modest compared to some of the Kickstarter juggernauts who've brought in over $1M, I was surprised to learn when checking out Kickstarter's stats that our project is somewhere in the top 2-3% of projects all time and top 6-8% of successfully funded projects. So, obviously we landed on a formula that works, and I thought it would be useful to share our experience for anyone thinking about running a Kickstarter campaign. Below are my top takeaways from a successfully funded Kickstarter campaign.
Software Development Bootcamps are a relatively new phenomenon that have presented an educational model radically different from what students will encounter in a typical university setting. These programs are generally shorter than university degree programs by an order of magnitude, lasting just a few months rather than up to four or five years. They are able to do this by focusing participants on a narrow range of highly specialized skills in programming, in contrast to the broad liberal arts education presented during a Bachelor's degree. To be fully transparent, I am running a web development bootcamp program of my own, geared towards digital nomads in Medellín, Colombia. I wrote this based on my honest opinions and experiences, not as a shameless plug, and I am working hard on Destination: Dev because I believe in this educational model for the reasons I'll describe below.
To be sure, this new approach to education has its trade-offs, and has garnered its fair share of criticism. However, I believe that the criticism being leveled at bootcamps is primarily caused by unrealistic expectations held by some applicants, students, and employers - not by inherent flaws in the educational model. In many cases, these unrealistic expectations are created by misleading marketing on the part of the bootcamps themselves, with some promoting job-placement rates over 90% that are in the most generous view selective massaging of the data, and in the worst complete fabrications. Any bootcamp program that promises students jobs or touts strong industry contacts should be viewed with a healthy amount of skepticism. Additionally, many bootcamps barely screen their applicants at all, and admit many students who are attracted to the idea of being a developer, which looks great on paper given the opportunities for six-figure salaries, awesome amenities, and great work-life balance. The problem is, spending thousands of dollars and upending your life to pursue a new skill you've spent next to no time validating you have an interest in and aptitude for is clearly a risky proposition.
My Experience
Despite these concerns, I am a firm believer in the value of the educational model offered by coding bootcamps, and I think that they have the potential to have a positive impact on the education provided in more traditional institutions like colleges. I attended Dev Bootcamp in 2013, and it was one of the best decisions I've ever made. I was went from zero coding ability to full-time employment and a six-figure salary in a number of months. I have since been able to use the skills that I first developed in Dev Bootcamp to become a freelance digital nomad web developer and live a life I'm passionate about, traveling while coding and having the freedom to work on my own entrepreneurial projects simultaneously. While I definitely consider myself a coding bootcamp success story, the process was by no means easy. I had to work incredibly hard and hustle to get myself to the point where I was employable, and then had to spend years working even harder on the job to become first productive and then a true professional. But, based on my experience, I believe that anyone who is able to prove to themselves that they both enjoy programming and have the ability to learn and solve coding problems on their own can be successful post-bootcamp given enough determination and hard work. At the end of the day, it is up to you - not the bootcamp you're attending - to make sure you have what it takes to succeed.
From what I've seen, coding bootcamps that have generated a formula that allows the right students to learn successfully in an incredibly short amount of time and transition into new high-paying jobs with a similarly short turn-around all seem to exploit the following properties and circumstances:
The first crucial ingredient that allows bootcamps to provide their students with substantially accelerated learning is immersion. Students will generally spend 40 hours a week in a structured classroom setting combined with, in the case of the most successful students, an equivalent time commitment outside of class studying, working on projects and problems, and discussing coding and technology with classmates. This means that after factoring in preparatory work, many students can expect to have put in close to 1000 hours of work learning programming in just a few months. For comparison's sake, let's take a look at the total amount of time spent learning and practicing during an undergraduate Computer Science program. Using UCLA's CS curriculum as a guide, students take around 20 quarter-long (10 week) CS courses to receive their degree. Let's be generous and say each class requires around 5 hours of lecture and 2 hours of homework/studying per week (my guess is this is a lot more than most students will actually do). This will add up to about 1400 hours over the course of 4 years - not all that much more than bootcamp students are getting in just 4 months or so. Additionally, not all hours are created equal, which brings me to my next point.
Hands-On Learning
All of the most successful coding bootcamps heavily stress hands-on learning, with students solving problems and building projects during the bulk of their time. In contrast, university CS students spend a lot more time in lecture. It's more-or-less common knowledge that people learn things by doing them - not by reading about them, listening to lectures about them, or watching other people do them. For a little external evidence on this, check here, or here. In the classical bootcamp model, students spend the vast majority of their time coding. Lectures are given as supplements to the actual work of coding, not as the main factor in the educational experience. Additionally, students spend time near the end of most bootcamps working on tangible, real-world software products - not just solving abstract algorithms. This brings me to the next important factor in the success of the bootcamp model:
Employable Skills
Bootcamps teach concepts, technologies, and skills that are directly applicable to the job market. When going over basic algorithm optimization or concepts in object-oriented programming, languages that are used in the job market like Ruby, JavaScript, or Python are leveraged in place of the C++ or Java that are more common in traditional programs. Furthermore, all of the best bootcamp programs have their students build multiple fully-functional web applications (or mobile apps in some cases). The barometer for success is having a tangible piece of software that works and is hosted on the internet for all to see - not solving problem sets or passing tests. Students are also exposed to supplementary technologies that are vital to success as a professional developer like Git, the Unix command line, and databases popular in industry like Postgres.
Approachable Technologies
I can already hear the cries from devotees of traditional CS education - "But you're training an entire generation of developers who don't know the fundamentals of programming!". "Languages like Ruby make things too easy, and you can't be a real developer without understanding low-level concepts like memory management and garbage collection". I agree that mastery of low-level concepts and the ability to program in a typed language are both pre-requisites for any serious senior engineer. However, I'd argue that they aren't that important for a junior engineer. I feel that traditional CS education has things backwards and can learn a few things from the progression of education in some of the other sciences.
Take Physics, for example. The first things taught in most physics classes are traditional Newtonian Mechanics and Kinematics. As students progress, they discover that the concepts they learned are not true representations of reality, but are actually approximations. Students then learn about how things really work with more advanced concepts like Quantum Mechanics and Relativity. I don't hear professional physicists complaining that their field is being overtaken by posers because high school students aren't learning these topics first. I feel the same thing should be true of Computer Science, and just because students start with approachable programming languages that abstract away low-level concepts doesn't mean that they can't go back and learn these things later. Starting with languages like Ruby and JavaScript makes junior developers more immediately productive on the job, makes learning more approachable, and makes the process more fun.
The Job Market
Of course, all of the educational innovations leveraged by bootcamps that I've discussed above would mean nothing without a thriving and growing job market for junior developers. Bootcamps really work because there is such a major shortage of software developers in the most important tech hubs like San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York. Companies are willing to take on incredibly green bootcamp graduates with minimal skill-sets and train them up themselves because they have nowhere else to look for talent. Sure, if there is another bubble like the one that crashed the tech industry in the early 2000s, there will be no place for these bootcamp graduates to go. While I'm no economist, and even if I were you should probably take any prediction I might make about impending macroeconomic events with a massive grain of salt, I can speak to the current job market and say that things in the present don't look to be slowing down at all. There is massive demand for developers, and companies are still willing to take chances on motivated junior devs with the demonstrated ability to learn quickly. According to the 2016 Stack Overflow Developer Survey, bootcamp grads might actually be making more than their peers with traditional CS B.S. degrees. Also, even if you are incredibly unlucky and happen to take your bootcamp just before an economic downturn in the tech industry, the contraction in the job market that would follow would almost certainly be temporary. Software Engineering is one of the few fields that can be relied on to continue to experience substantial growth over the coming decades, as the software automation that this field propels will cause many other professions to shrink or disappear.
Participating in a coding bootcamp certainly requires a significant financial investment and is a major life decision. With an average tuition of $11,451, these programs are not cheap. However, compared to a college degree, graduate school, or many other professional training programs, the ROI here really is incredible. In case I didn't make myself clear enough earlier, let me reiterate: attending a coding bootcamp does not guarantee you a job as a developer, no matter what anyone tells you. That being said, if you have the ability and determination to learn the material and are willing to hustle, you will find a job within a few months of completing a program. With salaries for high-level bootcamp grads in San Francisco starting at over $100k, this investment can be recouped in very short order. Again, here there is no comparison to undergraduate or graduate degrees when it comes to cost. Many people come out of college or grad school in debt hundreds of thousands of dollars. This is not only from higher tuition costs, but also from living expenses incurred during school. If you reasonably set aside $5000 to support yourself while you attend a bootcamp and look for a job afterward, you probably have to multiply that by 10 for a 4-year degree. Also, this is not even taking into account the opportunity cost of the time you could spend working and earning while you are in school. Bootcamps present a fairly low opportunity cost compared to college given the disparity in time commitment.
So, given the educational model presented by bootcamps, the thriving job market, and the relatively low investment required, I am bullish on this new form of education, and expect it to continue to expand and influence other disciplines. And finally, here is the shameless plug! Interested in learning to code while traveling and creating a lifestyle you're truly passionate about? Check out Destination: Dev, our software development training academy for digital nomads in Medellín, Colombia.
When I set my sights on learning to code and becoming a professional software developer five years ago, there was one thing that I was seeking from the job above all else - freedom. When I graduated from college with a B.S. in Neuroscience, I knew next to nothing about software and had never written a line of code. I took a job working in a Neuroscience lab at UCSF hoping to prepare myself for a career in science or medicine. After a little more than a year of work down this path, I realized it wasn't for me. While I had tremendous respect for my colleagues and the work we were doing, I was being driven insane by the monotony of the daily work and, more importantly, my entire daily routine. I knew that I needed to find a job that would provide me with more intellectual engagement on a daily basis, and the flexibility and freedom to work for myself and work remotely.
Living in San Francisco, a career in software became appealing to me as it seemed to coincide perfectly with what I was looking for. I met a ton of recent coding bootcamp graduates around the city and saw that they were able to bring their own software creations to life all on their own and command impressive salaries after only a few short months of intense training. After trying my hand at coding and discovering that I actually enjoyed it, I dedicated the next few months to following this process and managed to land a job at a tech company in SF as a full-stack web developer. The job was great for awhile, as I was learning so many new things and working in a brand-new environment. But, after the pace of my learning began to slow and I got used to the new working environment, the same thirst for freedom that I felt before crept right back. I decided to hit the road and find work freelancing. For more than a year now I've been traveling the world while simultaneously freelancing and working on my own entrepreneurial projects, and I've never been happier. Here's why:
When I quit my job at the beginning of 2016 to hit the road and spend the next year living abroad, I wasn't sure what qualities were most important to look for in a semi-permanent location. I'd spent a fair amount of time abroad, but prior to venturing out at the beginning of last year my travel experiences were limited to vacations, a college study abroad program, and a few months spent working in Romania. I didn't have any experience living abroad full-time, and what I soon came to realize is that the qualities that make for a great tourist destination don't always intersect with those that make for an ideal place to set up shop long-term. I've spent time across North America, Europe, South America, and Asia, but when I landed in Medellín it didn't take me long to see that this city is uniquely well-suited for a digital nomad lifestyle. I haven't been everywhere, but I've yet to find a better city for a freelancing foreigner to live, work, and play anywhere in the world - and here's why:


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So many times we make prayer a rote part of our gatherings. "Let's open with a word of prayer" or "Let's close our time in prayer" or "Before we eat, let's offer thanks." While it's certainly not wrong to pray at set times, the fact that talking to God becomes another part of our "routine" can make prayer feel less important.
It makes sense to consider fresh approaches to talking with God. It doesn't always have to be a formula. Instead, we can breathe new life into our conversations with the Most Holy One. These ideas are easy to use—and can help you, your leadership team, and the women in your ministry find new depth and meaning during times of prayer.
- Pray for what's in the news. Use newspapers or news reports on cell phones and other devices during your prayer time. Encourage women to pray for the pressing needs in your city, the nation, and the world.
- Pray from the Bible. Psalms is packed with prayers of praise, frustration, and pleas for help. Pray the words of the psalms aloud to connect with God in a different way.
- Go outside. A different physical perspective can change our spiritual perspective. Whether it's hot, cold, day, night, raining, snowing, or hailing, being outside lets us literally breathe, see, hear, and smell something that is different from being inside. Let that help guide your conversation with God.
- Color your conversation. Provide blank paper and bowls of crayons. Use drawings or splashes of color to express your emotions to God. He knows what your doodles mean without any explanation.
- Go there. If someone needs prayer, go to her. If you're praying for the children of your church, walk through the Sunday school rooms as you pray. If you're praying for a business, walk around it as you pray. Go to the people and places you want to pray for. See the needs right in front of you so you can get specific in your conversations with the Lord.


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Perhaps not quite as slick as you are describing or quite as non-linear but isn't this what Church worship presentation software already does? For example: http://www.zionworx.org.uk/features.htm (not a personal recommendation)
The operator can see a sub-set of the slides and select the next one to be displayed ~ very useful if the worship leader decides to sing the chorus again or jump back to an early verse!
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Perhaps not quite as slick as you are describing or quite as non-linear but isn't this what Church worship presentation software already does? For example: http://www.zionworx.org.uk/features.htm (not a personal recommendation)
It seems to me that much of the idea behind this, is offered in the PowerPoint addon pptPlex from Office Labs. http://www.officelabs.com/projects/pptPlex/Pages/default.aspx
I've seen it used in a lecture, where the speaker went non-linearly between slide-groups and individual slides.
It's a pretty cool concept - check out the videos on that page.
Actually, take a look at this video: http://www.officelabs.com/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=78 where you can see pptPlex in action on a tablet PC connected to a projector. Isn't this pretty much what Seth has in mind?
Yes, good point about the pptPlex, but it doesn't look like it will run on an iPhone/iPad device. Correct me if I'm wrong bout that btw.
I also don't believe anyone is somehow saying that non-linear or zoom-in/zoom-out presentations are original ideas. It's just a different twist. When I use to work in the multimedia presentation industry, that stuff was very common.
I remember back in the day, my own presentations were non-linear and zoom-in/zoom-out features consisted of me walking over to the audience and handing them an illustration of what I was talking about.
It uses flash, but this looks like what the core ideas is:
here's one on school:
I've used XMind for presentations - free download, open source
Cross platform - Windows, Mac, Linux and a portable version. Nothing for iPad or Android yet though.
XMind says they are working on an iPad version. I use xmind all the time on multiple platforms. Love it. Great when someone wants a copy and you can get them started for free. All they need to do is set up an account. If they want the paid premium version it is $40. Great value.
I look forward to the xmind version for iPad. That could be my "killer app" reason for an ipad. So far no killer app reason exists for me.


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March 7, 2014 - IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk participated in the Sprint Beyond the Book, a two-day writing sprint about the future of the book that brought together a wide range of thinkers at Arizona State University's Center for Science and the Imagination. Included in the project are a short interview and a series of short chapters written in dialogue with two faculty members from the university. She also presented her work at Georgia Tech through an invitation by the Brittain Fellows and read poems at Ciné for the Vox reading series. She hosted an evening of dance/text collaboration with K.J. Holmes and Julie Carr for From the Convergence Zone, the reading series of the MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics. She exhibited her work in London as part of "Threads of Light: Al Mutanabbi Street Starts Here" at The Mosaic Rooms and "Displaced" at the Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide. In her spare time, she wrote a libretto on the birth of spiritualism for a collaboration with composer Isaac Schankler that appeared in Witness.


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Traffic—We hate it and we don't believe there are many people that enjoy a nice bumper-to-bumper car ride into the office. We believe that there are two ways for traffic to build up: an accident (including roadwork here as well) and just congestion. We completely understand how an accident/roadwork can lead to traffic, but the routine congestion is what tends to make our heads spin a little more.
Yes, we understand that a lot of cars on the road at one time will cause traffic because there are only so many lanes and that each car takes up "x" amount of space on the road. But what gets us (and try to follow us here) is when you are driving at a great pace then are forced to slow down due to the buildup, which then leads to bumper-to-bumper traffic; and throughout this period, the number of lanes is the exact same.
So, we continue to inch forward in the bumper-to-bumper traffic at a snail's pace and not many cars are exiting the highway. But 20-30 minutes later (two-three miles traveled if we are lucky in Atlanta) and the traffic starts breaking up a bit. Our speed goes from 10-20 miles per hour to 35-45 miles per hour and then back to the speeds that are needed to allow for the wind to blow through our hair. Through all of this congestion, nothing really changed from beginning to end. No new lanes were added, an exiting of cars didn't exist and surely new drivers didn't just pop into the driver's seat. That's what boggles our minds.
Now markets can boggle investors' minds as well, but there is a relation between markets and traffic. We can classify (to make things simple) pullbacks in the markets into two categories: global events (terrorist attacks, company defaults, etc.) and then orderly breathers. Global events causing market to decline is understandable. These events make people second-guess views/theories on the world along with questioning their personal safety and also the safety of their monies. But market pullbacks not spurred by big events are sometimes less understandable. Yes, the media may try to tie in one event here or there as the cause of the market pullback, but at times they are far-reaching.
We tend to not know the exact cause for such a pullback until it's over and we can look back on it. But these market pullbacks tend to work themselves out. Investors build new information into their expectations and markets adjust to a price that again attracts buyers, thus leading to another market rise. And speaking of markets moving higher, there are times that these run-ups are similar to traffic because they too can be tough to explain until later on when news is released.
From what we know, we have never seen a traffic jam on I-10 extend from Jacksonville all the way to Los Angeles; rather, the traffic ultimately lightens up and we look back to determine what was the root cause. We think that investing is very similar. We have yet to see that market pullback that never ended. Weathering the markets' ups and downs has proven to be the best to get us to our longer term goals. Being able to psychologically endure the traffic that we encounter along the way will allow for us to look back at those traffic jams years from now and smile rather than pout.


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Matt Quinlan was the first casualty from the mens' tribe on "Survivor: One World." He tells Zap2it that he wasn't blindsided, and while he was disappointed to go home, he's really glad he did "Survivor."
Are you glad you did "Survivor"? Was it everything you hoped or expected it to be?
"Yeah, for sure. I'm very fortunate to have done it. It was what I thought it was. The outcome was not what I hoped for, or what I anticipated for me personally, of coruse, but I'm so happy that I did it. What an unbelievable experience, so I had no regrets."
How did you feel about the twists?
"The same beach didn't both me, but the gender divide really did. It really changed everything for my position. It made me very expendable from the very first day. I was preparing mentally to play the game mixed-gender so that when we competed, my tribe valued me as an asset to the team. So when we went to men vs. women, I think they realized pretty quickly that in order for the challenges to be fair, they wouldn't be physical challenges. They would be about balance and puzzle-making. Those are things that you can compete on regardless of how athletic you are. So it gave every single guy on the tribe the feeling that we don't need Matt the way that we normally would. I was viewed as a threat and that made me vulnerable from day one."
Did you realize your alliance of four needed more people to have the numbers?
"Of course. When we first got there, everyone was a little hesitant to commit. It didn't happy fast, it was more of a feel-it-out situation. On day one, Leif told me I was being roundtabled as the first out, so I knew I had to protect myself. I thought the best thing I could do was sell fear to the other guys who might be viewed the way I was – Mike and Jay and Bill. Me forming a relationship with people who would buy into the argument that we're all really vulnerable and they're coming for us.
In the beginning of the game, I felt like I had my four, I had Colton, I might even have Leif. But when Colton got the Idol, he broke away. He wanted to be courted, he wanted someone to woo him and that started to change things. I think by day five, the misfit alliance had come together and in that moment, I was in the minority. And when I realized that, I tried to realign to get the numbers back to me."
Were you surprised to be voted off?
"I wasn't blindsided. When I went to Tribal, I knew it was either going to be my plan to get out Colton, with Mike, Jay, Troy and Jonas, or I was probably going home. So I went to Tribal optimistic. I had made some agreements with Troy and Jonas and Mike and Jay that I believed and that I was hopeful would come together. But once we got to Tribal, it became obvious to me that it wasn't going to happen. It seemed obvious to me that they were ready to pull the plug on me."
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Ron Paul vs. Mitt Romney
Ron Paul vs. Mitt RomneyRepublican voters looking for a candidate to back would do well to compare Mitt Romney to Ron Paul: From Paul4Prez
The refreshing memory of unity is something we have lived without for too long. We are constantly reminded of our differences that separate us: sex, age, race, religion, sexuality, political party! Slowly forgetting the unity of our pursuit of Liberty! That is what drives the supporters of Ron Paul so passionately. Ron Paul for Stands for Liberty! Ron Paul is AMERICAS BRAVEHEART! Ron Paul for President in 2008!
Ron Paul vs. Mitt RomneyRepublican voters looking for a candidate to back would do well to compare Mitt Romney to Ron Paul: From Paul4Prez
Posted by Brent Cole Sr. at 7:59 AM 2 comments
Posted June 7th, 2007 by FairTaxGuy
Please vote in this poll. We have to even the playing field with all of the Giuliani "spammers" who have voted.
Who won the third GOP presidential debate?
Rudy Giuliani 43%
Mitt Romney 14%
Ron Paul 14%
John McCain 13%
Tommy Thompson 5%
Mike Huckabee 3%
Tom Tancredo 3%
Duncan Hunter 2%
Sam Brownback 2%
Jim Gilmore 1%
Total Votes: 69,355
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The original American patriots were those individuals brave enough to resist with force the oppressive power of King George. I accept the definition of patriotism as that effort to resist oppressive state power. The true patriot is motivated by a sense of responsibility, and out of self interest -- for himself, his family, and the future of his country -- to resist government abuse of power. He rejects the notion that patriotism means obedience to the state.
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After the Republican debate on june 5th, CNN.com had a blog entitled "Who Won?". The overwhelming majority of comments left on that blog said that Congressman Ron Paul had won the debate.Well it appears that CNN did not like all the comments that were left by the Ron Paul supporters because somewhere around 11:05 Central time they took down that blog and started redirecting to a blog of the same name that was posted on June 3rd for the Democrats debate. Here is the link for the Republican debate blog posting http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2007/06/05/who-won-the-debate/ and here is the link to the democratic debate blog http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2007/06/03/who-won-the-debate/ .Is CNN trying to silence Ron Paul supporters. You be the judge.
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....Ron Paul is not a politician...he is a statesman. This is my new handle for Ron Paul. He's a statesman, not a politician. Democrat or Republican...we can expect the same from either. Conservative or liberal...doesn't mean much anymore. "Politician"...bad connotation nowdays.But statesman? Ron Paul is the only candidate who can be described in that way.
web definition of statesman from wordnet.princeton.edu is:a man who is a respected leader in national or international affairs
webnet definition of politician from same source:# a leader engaged in civil administration# a person active in party politics# a schemer who tries to gain advantage in an organization in sly or underhanded ways. read More from dailypaul.com
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It was an outing that let me utterly forget about what insanity does to us every day.
They cannot win. Not at all. Even if they destroy this world... the universe is far too big to destroy for them. They are alien to life and they are the bringers of doom; they are prey to the grey god, and, while evil, they are to be pitied.
The woods are alien, strange to mankind, and the animals shun those who are legion. When you rediscover the wilderness within your soul, you will be alien to man; but the forest will slowly, and silently embrace you.


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About Scott Berry
I graduated from Albertville (Alabama) High School in 1988 and obtained my Bachelor of Science Degree in instrumental music education from Jacksonville State University in 1991. Thereafter, I obtained my Master's Degree in instrumental music education from Auburn University in 1993.
I was an Alabama public school teacher (middle and high school band director) for more than a decade in various Alabama city and county public school systems from 1992 and beyond, in addition to often performing as a professional musician before I completed law school and changed careers into the private practice of law in May 2006.
In December 2005 I graduated
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and 3rd in my class of 102 graduating students from the Birmingham School of Law in Birmingham, Alabama. After taking and successfully passing the February 2006 administration of the Alabama State Bar Examination, I ultimately "changed careers" from public education and entered into the practice of law in May 2006 with the law firm of Berry and Associates, LLC, located in Albertville, Alabama.
In 2009 I established and formed my own general-practice private law firm, SCOTT BERRY, P.C., located in Scottsboro, Alabama, where I reside with my wife, Lisa, and our three sons.
From 2009-2014 I served on and was a charter member of the Commercial Development Authority Board for the City of Scottsboro, Alabama, where I presided as Board Chairman from 2012-2014. Since 2012 I have served as legal counsel for the Housing Authority of the City of Scottsboro, Alabama and also as legal counsel for the Bridgeport, Alabama Housing Authority since 2016. Also in 2016 I was appointed as the (part-time) Municipal Judge for the City of Stevenson, Alabama. I am the immediate past-president of the Jackson County (Alabama) Bar Association (2016-2017) and I currently serve as the Municipal Judge for the CIty of Scottsboro, Alabama (September 2018-present).
I am a member of the Alabama State Bar Association and the Jackson County (Alabama) Bar Association. While I like to specialize in the area of wealth accumulation/preservation & estate management, I also routinely appear in courts of law throughout and across north and central Alabama litigating cases in the legal areas of: (1.) creditors' rights, debt collection and the collection of disputed accounts; (2.) general civil litigation; (3.) personal injury law; (4.) criminal defense law; (5.) probate practice and elder law; (6.) family, divorce and juvenile court law; (7.) real estate & property law; (8.) Alabama public school law; and (9.) general business law.
I am a two (2) time cancer survivor, a Christian, an American Patriot, a classically-trained professional musician, a band arranger and a musical composer. I enjoy fishing, financial investing & studying finance, economics and financial markets; reading, writing, spending time with my family and friends and traveling with family and friends, whenever possible, when not playing music or practicing law. I often appear as a "motivational speaker" about issues related to the survival of cancer and what it takes to be successful in different professional careers. I'm always happy & eager to speak to any group, and most especially to student groups, church groups and young people!
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Ohhh how we love this family! Thank you, thank you, thank you Marcy Glink at Great Events, Event Planner extraordinaire, for introducing us to Leslie Kind. We had a blast working with you on her son, Michael's wedding to Fran and we're so excited about Allison and Scott's wedding in November!
Allison and Scott met through mutual friends and they hit it off that night but it wasn't until months later did they meet up again at a Single's Valentine's Day dinner and instantly connected again spending the entire night talking as if no one else was there. The rest is history!
We can't wait for our wedding day you two lovies!!!!
~ Dawn and Bob
Their story is super cute... and not love at first sight says Ashley, far from it as Greg was pursuing one of her friends. They met at a local Chicago bar, and she hit it off with his roommate. It wasn't until a few years later when she was studying abroad in Spain, did their relationship started to blossom... and her phone bill. When she returned home to Chicago that summer, it was like they had been dating for years. And can you guess where they spent a lot of their time? If you said the Cubs stadium you'd be absolutely right. Since her dad has been a season ticket holder forever, he pulled some strings and their name is in lights! Love it!
When Bob and I met with Ashley and Greg, and her mom, Terrie, I had my fingers crossed when we left the building they live in. We really loved meeting them all. When we got the call saying they wanted us to photograph their wedding, we couldn't have been happier!!! Every thing about Ashley is amazing. She is truly beautiful inside and out... and Greg adores her, which makes him so adorable! They make the sweetest couple... and just wait until you see their wedding photos! I'm posting them next!
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Drugs, cash seized in Sidney
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Sidney/North Saanich RCMP seized marijuana worth almost $7,000, a small amount of mushrooms and $1,900 in cash from an apartment.
Mounties were called to an apartment in the 9800 block of Fifth Street in Sidney on Tuesday afternoon for a complaint and discovered drugs in the suite.
Officers applied for a search warrant and returned to the suite that night, said RCMP spokeswoman Cpl. Erin Fraser.
No one was home at the time. Fraser said investigators are waiting for the Crown to approve a summons to compel the suspects to face the charges in court.
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The 68,000 sq. foot Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum is the nations largest Latino cultural establishment and the only Latino museum accredited by the American Association of Museums. Located on the ground floor of the museum is the Ryerson & Burnham Libraries The Libraries' collections cover all intervals of art, however is most identified for its in depth collection of 18th to twentieth century architecture. If you are lucky enough to be at the Museum of Mexican Art when a Day of the Dead present is up, you'll be awed by the macabre and joyful ways artists interpret the connections between this world and the one populated by spirits, skeletons and devils.
Different positions require different abilities and skills, and for a lot of positions, a serious in art historical past or wonderful artwork is just not required. The Art Institute didn't formally establish a pictures assortment till 1949, when Georgia 'Keeffe donated a good portion of the Alfred Stieglitz collection to the museum. Get a head start on spreading vacation cheer with the Museum Shop's vacation playing cards. Her quite a few awards include grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Getty Foundation and four honorary doctorates. It serves the museum workers, faculty and university students, and can also be open to most people. Located within the coronary heart of Houston's Museum District, the MFAH comprises two gallery buildings, a sculpture garden, library, theater, and two art faculties, with two home museums, for American and European ornamental arts, close by.
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Gariwerd (Aboriginal name for Grampians) is pivotal to many ancient stories by Aboriginal communities in South-Western Victoria.
The region has the largest number of rock art sites in Southern Australia and over 80% of Victoria's rock art sites, six of these are open to the public.
You can learn about our region's unique Aboriginal culture and history at Brambuk – The National Park & Cultural Centre in Halls Gap.
See some of the riches Aboriginal rock art sites in Victoria. The region has over 80% of Victoria's rock art sites, some dating back more than 20,000 years.
Learn more about how the traditional owners of the Grampians believe there are six distinct weather periods recognised in the Gariwerd (Grampians) seasonal cycle.


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Kellie Pickler to Co-Host and Perform on 'The View' on June 18
It's never a dull moment in the life of 'Dancing With the Stars' champ Kellie Pickler. The full of personality singer and hotfooted dancer will pull double duty on the gabfest 'The View' on Tuesday, June 18.
Pickler will not only co-host, but she will provide the episode's entertainment by performing. TV is obviously one of her favorite promotional platforms after a long season on 'DWTS,' which has served her well.
Pickler will pull up a chair alongside Barbara Walters, Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sherri Shepherd and Elisabeth Hasselbeck, discussing a variety of hot topics. Given Pickler's bubbly and outspoken personality, this will be one episode of 'The View' that country fans don't want to miss. She is bound to have loads of chemistry with the assembled panel.
As for her performance, Pickler is slated to debut her new single 'Someone Somewhere Tonight' for the first time on TV, further upping this appearance to "must see" status."
The singer, who is now signed to Black River Entertainment after a stint with Sony, will release a new album later this year. 'Someone Somewhere Tonight' will be featured on the record.
Make yourself a calendar reminder now to watch Kellie Pickler's takeover of ABC's 'The View.'


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While re-reading a few portions of Vincent Bugliosi's book "Reclaiming History" today, I came across something that I don't remember having seen before. This happens to me frequently when revisiting parts of Bugliosi's immense JFK book---I'll find something that seems brand-new, even though I read the book in its entirety years ago.
But this habit of "revisiting" Vincent's book from time to time is usually a worthwhile exercise, because since the book is so large, some stuff in it is bound to be forgotten or overlooked after going through it just once (or even twice).
Here's the interesting segment from today's "re-reading" of page 790 of Bugliosi's tome:
"In a search pursuant to a search warrant by Dallas Police Department detectives of Oswald's belongings in Ruth Paine's garage on November 23, 1963, portions of two Klein's magazine ads for the rifle were found inside a box." -- Vincent Bugliosi; Page 790 of "Reclaiming History"
Sources used by Bugliosi for the above quote:
CD 578, March 7, 1964, FBI Exhibit D-85; and
7 H 195, WCT Richard S. Stovall.
In addition to the sources shown above, one other source concerning this subject that Bugliosi didn't mention is Commission Document No. 7, Page 388.
So, we can see HERE that there were two separate clipped portions of two different Klein's magazine advertisements found among Lee Oswald's possessions in Ruth Paine's garage on November 23, 1963, both of which are nearly identical to the order form that Oswald used to order his rifle from Klein's in March of 1963 [seen in CE773 and Waldman Exhibit No. 8].
This particular topic of two nearly identical Klein's order forms being found among Oswald's belongings the day after President Kennedy was assassinated is something I don't recall being discussed too much (if at all) among JFK researchers.
I wonder how the conspiracy theorists who think Lee Oswald never ordered the rifle from Klein's are able to combat this additional "Klein's" evidence that was found in Ruth Paine's garage the day after the assassination?
Do those theorists want to believe that those blank Klein's order forms were planted in Paine's garage in order to help frame Oswald for Kennedy's murder? Or do the CTers who know about this "Klein's" evidence found in Commission Document No. 578 simply shrug it off as being irrelevant and immaterial entirely?
But it is rather revealing to have in evidence those two other "Klein's" order forms, seeing as how Klein's in Chicago is the exact same mail-order company that sent a rifle with the serial number C2766 on it to a post office box in Dallas that was being used at the time by a certain Mr. Lee H. Oswald.
The clippings seen in CD578 provide further physical evidence tying Lee Harvey Oswald to Klein's Sporting Goods.
Vincent Bugliosi's verbiage in the quote I cited above isn't quite 100% accurate. Vince says that "portions of two Klein's magazine ads for the rifle were found" in Ruth Paine's garage. (Emphasis added by DVP.)
The words "for the rifle", however, do not apply in that quote, because as we can see in the links I provided earlier, the Klein's clippings are not ads "for the rifle" that Oswald ultimately ended up receiving from Klein's in late March of 1963. The clippings only show two blank Klein's order forms.
So, Mr. Bugliosi has overstated the facts just a little bit in that quote I cited. The proper way for Vince to have said it in his book would have been this way (IMO)....
"In a search pursuant to a search warrant by Dallas Police Department detectives of Oswald's belongings in Ruth Paine's garage on November 23, 1963, portions of two Klein's magazine ads were found inside a box."
I'm sure the discovery of another small error in Vince Bugliosi's book will make some conspiracy theorists jump for joy, because they can now claim once again that Vince deliberately "lied" to his readers on page 790 of "Reclaiming History", with a determined and calculated effort being made by Bugliosi to deceive them.
I, of course, will choose to categorize Vincent's "for the rifle" mistake in a different manner, as I have done when confronted with the "Bugliosi Is A Liar" brigade in the past as well.
David Von Pein
November 28, 2014


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Ricardo Gamboa is a trip. The kind of guy you always ended up squirtting milk out your nose in grammar school because of. Guess what boys and girls, your favorite crazy yet socially conscious, theater-activist, Chicago-born miscreant is at it again. With the recent release of his second comedy-spoof in the The Border Jump-Off Short Film Series, our WTTW morning TV star, Mr. Roberts takes on the invasion of the Aliens. Having worked with a reported million-trillion youth in Chicago and now New York his new, super trendy home base, Gamboa's dedication to community based theater and art as politics stems from his childhood days of playing make believe. In this Gozamos exclusive, Gamboa strips down and bares all about his education, his avid addiction to Chihuahua cheese, his ardent love of the Obama administration's ruthless support of the Latino community, and of course, his mad love for The Chi.
Gozamos: Thanks for the interview Gamboa. So tell us a little about this new video. Where did the idea come from?
I spent my last two years in Chicago running a theater company dedicated to exploring issues of the city's Mexican immigrant community and diaspora. I'm still passionate about these issues in NYC–I'm Mexican(-American) and it's a really dangerous time to be Mexican in the U.S. There's so much nuanced injustice around the immigration "problem" it makes me want to cry. I can't just make "art." That's not how I'm built. It's important to me to make work that is trying to do something. I want to be useful and these films are one of my attempts at achieving utility.
When I moved to New York City, I was a participant in NYU's Hemispheric Institute's EmergeNYC program to explore the intersection of arts and activism–"artivism." There was a workshop with the Latina performance collective FULANA on parody that culminated in creating in groups an ad-hoc parody performance. I got with my group and was like, "We're doing children's television and immigration: How about Mister Rogers in Arizona?" Everyone was down.
After we performed, we got great feedback and I was like, "Let's do this f'real guys." Heather Morowitz and Giovanni Vargas, my writing partners for this film and The Border Jump-Off Short Film Series, were part of that original group. Mister Rogers SB1070 Neighborhood is our second film together. We wrote in New York City and shot in Chicago. We worked with my film-making collaborator Ben Kolak, close friend Sadie Woods, and… my uncles. (They play the majority of the film's immigrants.) The whole film was a cool grass-roots effort which is always part of the point with my work.
How's New York? Why'd you leave Chicago?
May Anuntarungsun, a friend and artist, told me New York is an Aquarian city. Uranus, the ruling planet of Aquarius, is all about intensity, speed, surprise–in short, a damn craze. That's New York to me. It's intense. And it's been hard. Essentially, I uprooted myself from Chicago where I'm deeply integrated as an artist and person. I lived in Chicago my entire life. I never thought I'd be there as long as I was. But I felt so committed to my communities, youth, and my work that there was this whole "just one more year"-thing going on. Finally, I felt there were things that I needed to do for myself and wanted to grow as an artist.
New York City certainly forced me "to grow." People always say that they "want to grow." I had this romanticized notion of "growth" that didn't imagine the hardships I encountered here. I was like a kid from the rancho. I came to New York naive and really feeling myself and this place yanked me from under me and humbled the hell out of me. It's been tough. But, it is mos def the best decision I've made in my life.
I feel settled here. (Maybe it's because I'm an Aquarian too.) It's crazy here but there's a palpable sense of possibility, you feel it just walking down the streets. It works for me: I like chaos and I like potentiality.
What does New York have to offer that Chicago doesn't and vice verca?
This is hard. Especially for me, I'm ciento-por-ciento Chicaguino. I have a t-shirt that I made years ago, it reads: I Am Chicago. My Chi-city pride is thicker than blood at an Aztec sacrifice. And it was really hard to move beyond that when I got to New York, particularly because queso Chihuahua does not exist in NYC! I have travelled through all five boroughs looking for it like a crystal skull to no avail. (Como haces la quesadilla sin queso chihuahua?) I digress…
Chicago made me. The people, they're so real and honest there. And, you know, I have over 80 family members and friends of for over 15 years there. It's my memories. It's the home and life that was given to me and that I definitely made the most of. But, New York City represents something else: It is the home and life that I chose for myself and building on my own. There is so much going on and you're so close to everything. In a year, I've worked alongside Hollywood directors, Skyped with my performance heroes, and been on the streets where A Bronx Tale was shot and Biggie grew up. I mean, c'mon…
What's this theater of the oppressed business I've been hearing about?
Ha! Theater of the Oppressed is a form of theater developed by Augusto Boal to allow marginalized communities to utilize performance to address issues affecting them. It's great and I definitely draw from it, but I also draw from Viewpoints, Suzuki Method of Actor Training, and other artistic mediums in performance-making. For me, it's not just important what you do but also how you do it. All of my work is non-hierarchical, collaborative, involves direct community action, and developed over time, with research, and constantly improved upon. For me, making work this way becomes about seeing how society should be.
For example, when working with teens if they say violence over materialism is a problem they face then we might agree that no one can wear visible brand names or labels on their clothes to rehearsal. Or, I don't let my teens ask me questions, they have to figure things out on their own or together, learn to be their own leaders. In this way, performance-making gives us a chance to practice how we can be.
I say this and people just think I'm acting passionate-crazy, but it's real: I honestly believe performance, performance-making, and performance-audience interactions can change us and our world.
Where'd you study theater?
On the streets. I'm kidding, but kinda not. I'm self-taught in a lot of ways. I would say that education began when I would memorize Greek myths, comic books, and horror films and jump on my parents' bed for hours acting them out. They went through so many beds. I would direct kids on the block in plays. And I always wrote and did visual art. So these things that I do, I've been doing them since I was three–literally. I had some formal training at Piven Theater and also with Anne Bogart's SITI Company.
I mostly learned by doing. My work with Barrel of Monkeys was really informative. And I am indebted to Coya Paz who has a profound effect on my work. How she works is so admirable–She's not just about getting her name out there or her work is not confined to theater/performance worlds like most Chicago theater/performance. She's preoccupied the impact of her work. She's a great friend now and really changed my life.
How can regular folk and especially youth get involved in theater in Chicago?
Call me. Add me on facebook. And ask. It sounds like I'm kidding, but I'm not. I am really invested in not just putting real people's stories on stage, but putting real people bodies on stage. With Teatro Americano we always worked with a mix of community and professional actors.
There's that saying, "It's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog." A different fight that gets worked out when everyday individuals assume the stage. It's important to note that these people are not just "regular." I always say to my youth when directing, "I want gods or animals on stage." That's my way of being hard and asking them to be extra-ordinary. But the truth is when you think about everything we people from disenfranchised communities endure, we're already heroes. There are great places letting young people realize that in the Chi, like Albany Park Theater Project. Proyecto Latina and Biblioteca Popular's Open Mic give "regular folk" space to share stories.
Why theater, performance and now ultimately short comedy films?
As an artist, I use what I need. My best friend's dad is Rudy Lozano, the community activist assassinated fighting for immigrant rights. It's important to fight. But, I don't want to die doing it. I love life, people and vodka too much. But, I'm not going quietly–theater and performance allows me to work to effect change. It makes a vacuum, a place to protest, without fear of getting arrested or attacked.
As an artist, I don't just use what I need, sometimes I'm stuck using just what I have. In New York, I didn't have much in terms of resources and support. So I had to think of something else. I had Internet and I had collaborators and I had just won the Chicago Latino Film Festival for "Best Short" and knew I had the people and know-how to make short films.
I want all my work to be accessible to all people. Like television, comedy is ubiquitous–everyone gets it and can access it. The immigration problem is a national hot button–an everyone thing–and so parodying popular television programs with comedy in a way that's accessible but sophisticated was a way to bring all people into the conversation.
Tell us about this Fresh Prince spoof?
The Fresh Prince of D.C. is the first film in The Border Jump-Off Short Film Series. It parodies the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air theme song with Barack and a busboy rapping about Obama's lack of response to immigration reform.
Barack's presidency was so disappointing for Latinos. I saw Chicago's Mexican immigrant community get so excited about his progressive platform. However, his presidency has been disheartening for the many Mexican immigrant adults and youth that I work with. Actually, there's a great documentary, "Immigrant Nation" by Esau Melendez that highlights this. There is the notion that he cannot engage the issue at the time, part of politicking for the possibility of re-election.
The Fresh Prince of D.C. tries to address this reality, the flash and promise of Obama's candidacy, and (what I think) is a disappointing, compromising actuality with Republicans and a xenophic U.S. I am lucky Giovanni and Heather work with me, they're smarter than me and made me really look at all angles of the issue to provide fair critique. Really, none of these films could happen without them.
Couldn't agree with you more, seems like with the whole Bin-Laden thing, Obama's turned into a real cowboy. What's next in the Border Series?
Well, the next installment of The Border Jump-Off Short Film Series will use Dora The Explorer to further address immigrant realities and the conditions that cause immigration. We will be working with Chicago animator Jay Patton and Sadie Woods will be score the short. It will be a three minute cartoon and we're all excited to do voice-overs. After this film, I think we have one or two more in the series.
The Fresh Prince of D.C. incited a partnership with the National Museum of Mexican Art. This summer, I will be working with collaborator Ben Kolak to teach performance and film making to teens at their Yollocalli ArtsReach center allowing them to use grass-roots short film-making to address issues affecting their lives.
I'm excited to be back in Chicago for the summer. I'll also be working on writing my first feature film and workshopping a series of plays, "The Real Life Adventures of Jimmy de las Rosas," "Chicagones, Chicaguitos," and an untitled play, all three about Chicago's Mexican-American community. I might be doing some other performance work. Nothing is sure, but let's just say don't be surprised if you see me walking down 18th Street dressed like Charlie Chaplin with vaquero boots pushing a paleta cart.


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My name is David Nordahl Madsen (although some may know me as Zardilann or Bhaerau). I'm a librarian living in Denmark together with my lovely wife and our cat. This is my site where you can find my portfolio containing creations within the areas of writing and game design. If you want to read about the creation of my site, check out the zardilann.com post.
I got a Bachelor in Library and Information Science and a Master of Science in Information Technology. In 10th grade (before college) we were tasked with making a project outlining what we intended for the future. Some of the areas I touched upon was fiction and libraries. I decided to attend business college, and after that I went to the Royal School of Library and Information Science. After my bachelor was complete I pursued my master at the IT University, focusing on Media Technology and Games. After my studies I started a career as a librarian, keeping game design and writing on the side, and finally settling on customer service.
I spend my leisure time primarily writing poetry and gaming and am a big fan of fantasy, horror and science fiction. Some of the events that stand out as pawing my road towards gaming and fantasy as prime interests:
- Super Nintendo and Sega Master System, most prominently the game Alex the Kid
- Sword & Sorcery and similar "You choose your own adventure" books
- My brother's interest in miniatures, followed by my own ups and down as a Warhammer Bretonnia general and my undying love for Hero Quest
- Dungeons and Dragons, my time at the Herlev Youth School roleplaying once a week and later my Dungeons and Dragons adventures with my wife
- Live Action Role-Playing in the forest swinging swords and flinging flour, first with Ayaz and at the end with the members of the Atanea LARP'ing group
- Borrowing my brother's PC, until I met my wife and I got my own. Followed by an installation of the recently released Baldur's Gate and later an introduction to online gaming through City of Heroes and World of Warcraft
- Dragonlance novels, as well as others from TSR Wizards of the Coat
- And last and most importantly, meeting my wife, a fellow gamer, friend and soul mate
I bid you welcome to my site.
– David Nordahl Madsen / Zardilann, April 2010


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