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After causing something of a sensation with his debut feature Tarnation, director Jonathan Caouette went and got himself all weirded up for his subsequent Chloe Sevigny starring short film All Flowers In Time. How weird? Well, here's the official synopsis:
Yep, this is essentially Caouette doing the sort of thing David Lynch hasn't done for quite some time now and doing it quite well. The short was fairly divisive amongst critics on its festival run - I quite like it, myself - and now you can judge for yourself with the full piece embedded below. - Todd Brown"I am not from this place" declares a French cowboy. An old toothless man asks, "Do you know why you're here?". These shape shifting personalities infect young children with an evil signal in the form of a Dutch TV show. The red eyed girls and boys believe they can now become other people and monsters much to their delight.
When Jonathan Caouette appeared on the film scene with Tarnation in 2003 response was sharply divided between those who felt Caouette was a genius and those who thought he was simply self indulgent. Expect the same response to his latest effort, All Flowers In Time.
Caouette has kept a surprisingly low profile since Tarnation, directing only a pair of documentary shorts and co-directing a documentary about music festival All Tomorrow's Parties in the years since. And given that Tarnation itself was a quasi-doc then All Flowers In Time represents something entirely new for the director in that the doc form is shed entirely in favor of a surreal, fractured narrative.
Borrowing liberally from the David Lynch playbook, AFIT is a sort of abstract riff on the red-eye phenomenon of flash photography and the obsessive idea that maybe we get red-eye not because of reflected light but because we've got demons living within us. There's no true narrative to speak of, the film structured instead as a sort of elliptical series of moments morphing from one to the next, the most significant portion of the film anchored by Chloe Sevigny.
Caouette mashes styles together throughout, at moments showcasing a sharp, absurd sense of humor, at others a legitimately unsettling sort of hyper-reality, at others jamming stuff in seemingly purely because he can. The rapidly shifting styles don't always mesh well together and Caouette could arguably stand to learn that sometimes less can be more and that a bit of self restraint can be the most effective play. That said the man's technical ability and creative vision is undeniable. Though flawed All Flowers In Time is an interesting progression for Caouette and an intriguing promise of things to come. - Todd Brown
Eksperimentalna naučno-fantastična horor-misterija All Flowers in Time, čiju žanrovsku odrednicu treba uzeti sa rezervom (i koja nema nikakve veze sa Buckleyjevom pesmom All Flowers in Time Bend Towards the Sun), zlokobno je otelotvorenje iščašenih i uskomešanih vizija, začetih u jednoj od najzapuštenijih odaja ljudske podsvesti. Iako se može okarakterisati kao mračna parabola o negativnom uticaju televizijskih medija na decu i mlade, zbunjenom i zaprepašćenom gledaocu ostavlja zamršeno klupko pitanja bez (jasnog) odgovora.
Nelinearna i nekoherentna "priča" usredsređuje se na (kobne?) posledice infekcije, izazvane konzumiranjem krajnje bizarnog holandskog (!) rijaliti šoua, u kojem se govori o crvenim očima na fotografijama, a koji odjavljuje nasmejani Francuski Kauboj, neljudskim baritonom poručujući da "nije sa ovih prostora". I dok (imaginarni?) razgovor sa bezubim starcem situaciju čini još čudnijom i apsurdnijom, vrhunac ove trinaestominutne minijature predstavlja igra pravljenja zastrašujućih grimasa, u kojoj po završetku omiljene emisije učestvuju dečak Chandler i njegova starija sestra (ili dadilja?) Holly.
Nakon psihodelično-relaksirajuće uvodne špice, u kojoj kroz raznobojne oblačke dima vidimo nasmejano, a potom ozbiljno lice Chloë Sevigny, reditelj nas odvodi u središte lavirinta izgrađenog od napuklih fragmenata iskrivljene stvarnosti i najgorih košmara. Krećući se krivudavom stazom koju je utabao David Lynch, on vešto sklapa uznemirujuć nadrealistički omaž-mozaik, koji poput psihološkog sklopa, ali i fizičkog izgleda dvoje protagonista neprestano menja svoj oblik. Uz kreativnu montažu digitalnih i super-8 snimaka, ne uvek ubedljive, ali svrsishodne kompjuterske efekte i zvučni sudar turobnih dronova, klasične i alternativne muzike, Caouette postiže dezorijentišuću, napetu i prilično jezivu atmosferu, na tragu one iz Bulevara zvezda (Mulholland Drive, 2001) ili Unutrašnjeg carstva (Inland Empire, 2006). - Nikola Gocić
Tarnation (2003)
That's the story of my life
Jonathan Caouette's extraordinary autobiographical documentary is artful and intense
In 1991, in Hearts of Darkness, a documentary on the making of Apocalypse Now, Francis Coppola predicted that in the near future a teenage black girl somewhere in America would make a masterpiece using only a home video camera. Something like this has come to pass with Tarnation, a 90-minute autobiographical documentary made by Jonathan Caouette, a 32-year-old gay Texan living in New York.
It's compiled from footage shot on various cameras, ranging from a Super 8 to mini-DVD, that he's owned or borrowed to record his life since the age of eight. This he's accompanied by family snapshots, clips from feature films and audio tapes, all edited on an iMac computer using accompanying Apple software. It was made for the suspiciously exact sum of $218.32, though infinitely more than this was spent on enhancing the soundtrack at George Lucas's Skywalker studio and blowing the picture up to 35mm for a wide distribution after its success at the Sundance Festival.
Thematically, the film is like a combination of two recent major documentaries - Andrew Jarecki's Capturing the Friedmans, a study of a dysfunctional American family obsessed with recording their own lives, and My Architect: A Son's Journey, Nathaniel Kahn's search for his late father's identity. But it differs from them in the personal intensity of its director and the deliberately ragged, underground way the material is assembled, as if to confront and overwhelm the viewer with raw truth. In fact, it is artfully composed, starting with the flashback form. It begins with Caouette getting news in New York in 2002 that his mother, the deeply disturbed Renée, has taken an overdose of lithium down in Houston, Texas. Returning to the home he'd left in 1997, he introduces us to his family and reviews his and their lives in overlapping chapters. Instead of a spoken narration, large titles give us a third of a sentence at a time.
His grandparents, Adolph and Rosemary, married in the early 1950s, owned a moderately profitable grocery store until it was burnt down. They had a daughter, Renée, who, as a child, enjoyed considerable local success modelling and performing on TV. Then she fell off a roof and was paralysed for six months. Doctors recommended twice-weekly electric shock treatment for her subsequent depression. The long-term effect of this brutal therapy was that she suffered from severe bipolarism and schizo-affective disorder and spent years in and out of institutions. But in the early Seventies, she married Steve Caouette, a door-to-door salesman, who fled, never to return, before their son, Jonathan, was born. For the next 20 years, Jonathan was jolted around like the steel sphere in a pinball machine. Briefly in an orphanage and enduring a succession of abusive foster parents, he was eventually adopted by his grandparents, who were themselves in serious decline.
Throughout the narrative, Jonathan refers to himself in the third person, a way of dramatising the 'depersonalisation disorder' that was either caused or permanently enhanced by smoking marijuana spiked with the lethal hallucinogen, PCP. Drugs, gay bars, the cinema (both popular and underground) and making home movies were his ways of escape, his strategies for distancing himself from this terrible world.
We see examples of the way in which, at the age of 11, he adopted different personas to address the camera and gradually found a vocation as artist and performer amid the chaos of his life. Some of it is frightening, some extremely funny, as, for instance, the musical version of David Lynch's Blue Velvet he directed at his Texas high school, with the cast miming to Marianne Faithfull songs. Some of it is baffling and irritating in the manner of those 1960s psychedelic pictures that set out to tax the eyeballs and send the mind reeling.
The gay scene in Houston would seem to have been both extensive and guilt-free, quite different from what we know of the gay experience in middle America for previous generations. The 14-year-old Jonathan was able to dress up, often in drag, and get into bars restricted to patrons over 18. The schoolteacher he filmed while producing his Blue Velvet musical appears aware of what is afoot. His flight to New York was an escape from his family, but less a way of coming out than a professional move to advance his career as an artist.
Tarnation is without self-pity. Caouette is able to view his life with astonishing objectivity as a kind of comedy, and the film is more openly matter-of-fact than coyly confessional. Some searching questions enrage his grandparents and lead them to demand he switch off the camera. There are times when sustaining a shot (of, for instance, Renée babbling incoherently) seems cruel. Yet the movie expresses the love Jonathan feels for his mother and grandparents and he resists commenting on his callous, delinquent father, Steve, when he brings him to a reunion in New York.
Tarnation is produced by Gus Van Sant and John Cameron Mitchell, gay directors who have moved from the underground to independent film-making and towards the mainstream. One wonders what direction Jonathan Caouette's career will now take.
My life, the horror movie
Jonathan Caouette had a wretched childhood. His father vanished. His mother was in and out of mental hospitals. Foster parents abused him. Rather than shut his eyes to this car crash of a life, the boy began to film it. Gareth McLean meets the director of America's hottest documentary.
When Jonathan Caouette was 12, a drug dealer friend of his mother's gave him a joint laced with formaldehyde and PCP. After smoking it, he found himself in hospital, and then diagnosed with a dissociative disorder. He was left feeling separate from himself, as if he was living in a dream. Detached.That feeling coloured his teenage years. At 13, he began masquerading as an older goth girl to get into gay clubs. With a borrowed Super-8 camera, he starred in his own horror films, often pursued by a friend brandishing a butcher's knife. At high school, he staged a musical version of David Lynch's Blue Velvet in which his classmates lip-synched to Marianne Faithfull songs. Caouette's life was characterised by him not being him, by a sense of estrangement. All was pretence, performance.
This is terrible and weird, of course, but it's hard to say for sure whether Caouette's detachment from life began when he smoked a spiked spliff. Growing up gay in Houston, Texas, a ventricle of America's Republican heartland, he hardly felt at home. "Being young and gay, you're already detached from your surroundings because no one knows what you're really like. I don't recommend growing up gay, or being an artist, in Texas - certainly not back then." Still, Caouette wasn't coy. "I always told people I was gay, even when I wasn't sure. It was a way to see if the fabric of the universe would crumble around me if I said those words. Being around these southern Baptist people, I wanted to see what would happen."
So Caouette worked to appear "flamboyant" and "artistic", acquiring a boyfriend while still at school, and experimenting with female personas, something many men, gay and straight, will recognise from their own pursuit of identity.
When he was 11, his grandfather bought him a video camera from the local pawn shop. This would prove a pivotal moment in Caouette's life, the camera a shield and a weapon. The first thing he did was record a striking monologue in lipstick and a headscarf. Playing what in those days was called a battered wife, he sobbed and squealed for the camera, relating the abuse inflicted on his fictional housewife Hilary Chapman Laura-Lou Gourina by her no-good redneck husband, Jimmy. It was, he says, inspired by an episode of The Bionic Woman in which the heroine is committed to a psychiatric hospital by her evil doppelgänger. Cracking up in her melodramatic, primetime way, actor Lindsay Wagner reminded Caouette of his mother, Renee.
Like many of us, Caouette is proof of Philip Larkin's parenting theory. His tendency to dissociation may reasonably be judged the coping technique of a troubled child in a tormented family. When she was 12, Renee - a polished jewel of a girl, a juvenile model, a beauty queen - fell off the roof of her house, losing the use of her legs.
Six months later, her parents, Rosemary and Adolph, believed Renee's continuing incapacity was psychosomatic and, on the advice of a friend, submitted their daughter to electroshock therapy. Twice a week for two years. She emerged from her treatments with bipolar and schizo-affective disorders. Her legs were again in full working order, but it has since been acknowledged that she would probably have regained use of them anyway. Her disability had been the result of a trapped nerve. In the following 35 years, Renee was institutionalised more than 100 times. In 1977, during one of Renee's psychotic episodes, mother and son ended up on the streets of Chicago, where Renee was raped. Caouette, then five, witnessed his mother's assault.
His father absent since before he was born, Caouette was mostly raised by his maternal grandparents, but, when he was taken into foster care between the ages of four and six, he was bound and beaten by those who were supposed to be looking after him. He says Rosemary and Adolph were more misguided than malicious in their treatment of Renee. "There was never a moment when I thought that they didn't love each other or me. Even with the shock treatments my grandparents inflicted on my mother, I never thought that was out of vindictiveness. I just thought they had their own idiosyncrasies, that they were prone to the power of suggestion. It's weird, but I still don't blame them. They were always very loving."
Nevertheless, a trailer park-full of country songs couldn't recount the crap hand dealt to Caouette - or, indeed, to Renee. His film Tarnation, by contrast, does. It's the documentary/diary Caouette made from the hours and hours of Super-8 film and home video he recorded over 20 years until two years ago, as well as family photographs, clips from TV shows and movies, bits of pop songs, even answering machine messages.
Caouette's fascination with film goes back as far as he can remember. The clubs that he sneaked into "would have these lock-ins and show us crazy movies while we drank strawberry virgin margaritas". He saw John Waters' cult shlockfest Pink Flamingos along with Andy Warhol movies and those of fellow Factory artist Paul Morrissey. He would also go to the movies with his grandfather, taking a tape machine to record the soundtrack. "And then we'd go to our local drugstore, he would buy me a big stack of drawing paper and markers, and I would draw out the movie."
Like many young boys, Caouette loved horror: Halloween, The Exorcist and the original Stepford Wives were among his favourite movies. But he was also interested in the mechanics of film - "the reel changes and sound pops". Before long he turned the camera on himself and his family.
This may or may not be connected with his dissociative condition: Caouette concedes that by filming events, he distanced himself from them, exercising control (imagined or otherwise) over them. "In a weird way, filming replaced the lack of control in my life; it gave my life structure."
An extraordinary, ethereal memoir, Tarnation chronicles Caouette's relationships with Renee and his grandparents Rosemary and Adolph, the mess of his chaotic childhood and his development from girlie boy into gay man in the deep south. It tells how he grew up with his mother and how in recent years he has tried to care for her and his ageing grandparents. Tender, tragic and sometimes weird, it is a confessional collage, a melding of pop culture references and fragments of other films. The implication is clear: this is all that any of us is.
And it's a hit, however improbable. Caouette decided to put together Tarnation for an experimental film festival in New York. In three weeks, and with his Apple computer's iMovie software, he did so - for $218, a figure now legendary in lo-tech film-making circles. An early cut of Tarnation caught the eyes of directors Gus Van Sant and John Cameron Mitchell, and, with their backing, it caught the imaginations of critics and audiences. Caouette found himself on the festival circuit, going from Sundance to Cannes (where the film got a 10-minute ovation) to London and Los Angeles. Weighed down with accolades and prizes, he's now a darling of style magazines and the gay press, as well as DIY film-makers. Before all this, he was an aspiring actor in New York. Which is to say, a doorman.
Caouette is still taken aback by this sudden fame. "I wake up in the middle of the night wondering what I've done. It's been a bit of a rollercoaster, you know? I'd be lying if I said that everything's fine, it's been a cathartic thing, and now I'm ready to move on."
Crumpled and squinting on this too-sunny London Sunday morning, Caouette slips into psychobabble. "It's a weird dichotomy of karma that's happening right now. Here I am going round the world when I have so many personal responsibilities that I have to get back to as soon as possible. My mother and my grandfather are in dire straits at the moment [Rosemary died in 1997]. They could both die if I don't get home very soon. My grandfather, because he's older, and my mother because she's still having repercussions from the lithium overdose she took."
It's with Renee's overdose in March 2002 that Tarnation's dreamy, non-linear narrative kicks off, an event that propels Caouette back to the messiness he left behind in Texas. Does he feel that with Tarnation he's exploiting his mother?
"No, because I didn't know I was making the movie; I've been making the movie for 20 years. There's the occasional journalist who has said I'm whoring out my mother for my own fame, but I think that's a crock of shit. I'll get accused of exploitation, of narcissism, of exhibitionism, but I don't care." He does admit, however, that there was definitely "some reluctance to put the film out there".
"Something would be wrong if I didn't question that notion. One of my biggest fears, as we were looking for distribution, was that it would be made into a freak show by whoever picked it up, that they would position it, and me, in a way that would see us ultimately buffooned. But I don't think that's happened."
Caouette says that Renee, aged beyond her 53 years by the horrors of her life, has seen the film several times and loves it. Indeed, he maintains that Tarnation is a taboo-busting film. "It shows a slice of life that's not talked about, stuff that's so brushed under the carpet. Mental illness has been whitewashed by Hollywood; I wanted to show what it's really like. I often think about what my mother could have been." He stubs out his cigarette, the latest in a long chain on the day he's supposed to quit, to emphasise what he says next. "I would never want another version of her, though. In spite of all the chaos - everything that I've been through, everything I've seen my mother go through - there's this air of love and forgiveness that you can see in the film. There's no anger in the film, certainly not any directed anger."
This is one of the odd things about Tarnation and Caouette - he doesn't seem to blame his grandparents for what happened to Renee, nor the authorities. This is perhaps the result of his unorthodox upbringing. "Outside my family, I didn't understand what the rest of the world was like. I knew my family wasn't normal - that was always very apparent when I went to my friends' houses and their mom was a soccer mom and they were serving melon balls. The older I got, the more I became aware. It was sort of like growing up in a religious cult, and I've had to deprogramme myself." He seems to have made a good job of it: Tarnation has been called "at once the record and the instrument of his survival".
Caouette, who is now 32, says he doesn't have his dissociative disorder any more - "or at least, if it does still exist, it's very subtle". He has also, mostly, stopped filming his life. "If I was to continue filming every aspect, I wouldn't be able to experience it emotionally." He is now happily settled with his boyfriend, David, who, naturally, stars in Tarnation. "We have an actual monogamous relationship, which is practically unheard of for a gay relationship in New York City. We've been together for seven years, with no bumps or bruises. I'd been looking for stability for a long time and I've found it with him." Finally attached.
He's also spending more time with his 10-year-old son, Josh. Yes, Caouette is full of surprises, not all of which are documented in Tarnation. "I'd known Joan since we were both 16 and we got into this bizarre sexual relationship. I don't justify it, I don't question it, but Josh is the result of it, and he's beautiful. I saw him recently in Texas and he's such an eccentric prodigy of a child. We were doing a Q&A about the film at the Museum of Fine Art and he started doing this fake sign language - exactly the sort of thing I probably would have done."
Does he worry for Josh's wellbeing, given his ancestry? "He's hard-wired like me, but he'll never end up like me. He didn't have to deal with all the insanity. He's got an amazingly bright, well-adjusted mom and I can't wait to finally be his dad."
What sort of dad will that be? There's still a certain fluidity about Caouette's identity."There really isn't anyone of sound mind in my family for me to get information from," he says. "I literally don't know where we come from." He's still coming to terms with the mythology he built around his father, who makes only a brief appearance in Tarnation and is uncomfortable dealing with Renee and Caouette. "He abandoned me and I always thought would rescue me. But he wasn't the person I fantasised about; I think that's the case with a lot of kids and their parents who aren't around."
Now, though, he is keen to get back home, even if he's not looking forward to the flight. "I have to sedate myself, even on short trips. If I don't, I'm imagining the plane exploding. I can hear it, smell the fuel, feel my skin peeling off - the whole thing. I freak out if I see nuns or priests or hear babies crying, because I think they foreshadow something." He smiles, impishly. "That's being a victim of popular culture. It's seeing horror films too early. I'm scarred for life." - www.theguardian.com/
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Alaska Airlines Issues First Comprehensive Corporate Sustainability Report
Wed, 09/12/2012
Press release:
Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air inflight recycling programs diverted more than 800 tons of inflight waste from landfills last year, including some 230 tons of aluminum and 185 tons of paper.
That's enough aluminum to build three new airplanes and enough paper to replace 3,100 trees. In addition torecycling more inflight waste, the two airlines have also reduced their carbon emissions by 30 percent per passenger mile since 2004.
These are among several accomplishments highlighted in Alaska Air Group's newly released 2012 Sustainability Report, which summarizes the company's progress on environmental, economic and social goals.
"Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air strive to be good airlines for our customers, good places to work for our employees, a good business for our investors and environmental stewards of our planet," said Brad Tilden, Alaska Air Group's president and chief executive officer. "Our 2012 Sustainability Report comprehensively documents our corporate social responsibility efforts and provides a platform for collaboration and continued improvement as we seek to lead the airline industry in environmental stewardship."
Air Group's Sustainability Report analyzes the airlines' efforts in 2010 and
2011 and is the company's first comprehensive report to conform to the Global Reporting Initiative, an international standard for triple bottom line
reporting on performance, people and the planet.
Tilden said the airline chose a holistic approach to measuring and reporting
its sustainability efforts. "Our goal is that this report will help us to
manage our social responsibility performance with the same discipline we manage our financial performance, which will ultimately help us grow both airlines responsibly," he said.
Key highlights of the report include:
· Alaska and Horizon improved their fuel efficiency, resulting in 30 percent less carbon emissions in the environment (measured by flying one passenger one mile). These reductions were accomplished through a variety of measures—key among them migrating to exclusively flying the Boeing 737 and Bombardier Q400, the most fuel-efficient aircraft in their classes.
Alaska Airlines topped the domestic airline industry in fuel efficiency (measured by gallons of fuel burned flying one passenger or one ton of cargo one mile).
· Alaska installed the first airport wind-turbine solar panel in Nome, Alaska.
· The two airlines operated 75 passenger flights powered by a 20 percent biofuel blend in November 2011. These flights demonstrated the viability and need for an adequate, affordable and sustainable supply of alternative aviation fuel. The biofuel project grew out of Alaska Air Group's involvement in Sustainable Aviation Fuels Northwest, the first U.S. regional group of its kind to study alternative aviation fuels.
· Flight attendants recycled 91 percent of all paper, plastic, aluminum and glass generated onboard Horizon flights and diverted 49 percent of recyclable materials on Alaska flights.
Air Group achieved its financial goal of a 10 percent return on invested capital (ROIC) while earning record adjusted profits: $262 million, or 10.7 percent ROIC, in 2010 and $287 million, or 11.7 percent ROIC, in 2011. The company also met its target of growing 4 to 8 percent a year (measured by available seat miles) by expanding 4.7 percent in 2010 and 6.8 percent in 2011.
· Air Group paid its nearly 13,000 employees almost $1 billion annually in wages and benefits, and their success earned them $240 million in bonuses over the last three years (equal to an extra month's pay for most employees in 2010 and nearly that in 2011).
· FlightStats.com ranked Alaska Airlines No. 1 in on-time performance among major North American carriers in 2010 and 2011.
J.D. Power and Associates ranked Alaska highest in customer satisfaction among traditional network carriers in North America for five years in a row
· Alaska Air Group contributed nearly $12.8 million in cash and in-kind
contributions to charitable organizations in 2010 and 2011. This included
$427,000 in matching gifts to charitable donations made by Air Group
employees and money donated to nonprofit organizations recognizing employee volunteer efforts ($10 for every hour of service).
· Air Group spent $208 million with diversity-qualifying suppliers in 2010
and 2011.
Alaska Air Group's Sustainability Report also provides insights into the
company's strategic vision, which is founded on the company's "Five Focus Areas." A full copy of the report can be obtained at http://bit.ly/RQ2I7T . A graphic summarizing 10 ways Air Group has reduced its environmental impact can be viewed and downloaded at http://bit.ly/QKYVV7


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Well it is that time of year again. Fantasy football is here! Every year thousands upon thousands of hopeful contestant line up to take their crack at becoming the next great fantasy football player. The skill range of these contestants vary from first time player to seasoned veteran. Many fantasy football owners will spend countless hours doing their "pre draft rituals" in preparation for their upcoming draft. Some will draft a certain way(ex. always go RB,RB in the first two rds.), or draft players based on what their upcoming schedule may look like. Also I have seen players draft guys very high expecting the same production that they had the year before, when they final had their "brake out season". Their are definitely rules that players should follow in fantasy football, but experienced players know when it is time to go against the trends. This is really the reason why you usually see experienced players bringing home the crown of Fantasy Football Champion! Just the sound of it makes me want to do a little more research before finishing this article, but I digress.
First a small disclaimer about myself, I have been playing fantasy football for about 8 years and have won my high stakes league 6 out of the last 8 years! Over that time period I have had the pleasure to play with both the inexperienced, and the experienced. I have played both for Fun and high stakes, and the one constant that seems to not change is that fantasy football owners are becoming more and more knowledgeable every year. This is mainly contributed to the internet and the ability for even new players to quickly get the same info that the seasoned vet will usually have. Think back to your first fantasy football live draft (if you have never done a live draft you are missing out). Remember the guy who drafted the wide receiver in the second round, but you knew that the wide receiver was on injured reserve for the year?? The fact is that fewer and fewer bone head decisions are being made every year, and the players who consistently win are the players willing to take chances. Generally speaking you can almost call out who will be drafted in the top 3 rounds. You should expect these players to produce.If your unsure about a players possible production in the first three rounds LEAVE HIM ALONE!! Let the next player take that chance.Your looking for solid contributors in rounds 1-3. Rounds 4-8 is generally where you start to see who has done their home work and who has not. It seems like every year I will find at least one top 5 player at his position in these rounds. Last year I grabbed both Jamaal Charles, and Hakeem Nicks in rounds 6,and 7 respectively.The tail end of the draft is where gold can be found!! I always find it ironic when a player will grab a injury prone player such as a running back in rounds 1 or 2, yet not grab their backup towards the end of the draft.You always need to be thinking about protecting your investment in rounds 1 – 3. Late round pickups should always be players with either massive upside, or who play in a scheme suited to their strengths.I have seen so many times players use round 11, 10 or even 9 picks and grab guys who ceilings have already been met or who are not in a great position to excel. A good rule of thumb for newer players, is if a athlete has been in the league for five years or more and is not selected by round 7 don't draft him unless his situation has changed. The reason you ask? If a veteran athlete were worthy of being selected he would more than likely be selected in the first 6 rounds. Veteran athletes have already established what they are capable of on the field and a huge spike in production is highly unlikely unless their playing situation has changed. The only positions that this rule does not apply to is TE, and K. Usually TE and K are drafted later than other fantasy football positions.
I have spent the better part of the last two months trying(although this is a year around study) to compile the best and most accurate information for you the readers here at Sport City Chefs.I do have a few more rules I want to put out there before I go to my rankings. #1 I am a firm believer that playing match ups work! For those of you who do not know what this means it is simple playing the guy who has the best statistically match up. This rule should not apply to guys selected in the first three rounds, as these players should always start regardless of their match up. #2 Do not get sucked into following a developing trend at a position. To often I see a few players at a position chosen (like TE) and suddenly the mad dash to grab players at that position is on.#3 Do not over draft a player regardless of how bad the rest of the talent at that position is.#4 you can never have enough running backs! This is a rule you learn early on in fantasy football circles. Running backs usually produce the highest amount of points outside of the QB position and you can start three RB is your league, if they use the flex option.#5 Have a great time and have fun!! Remember that fantasy football is a game, and although none of us like losing, it only comes once a year and you should enjoy the experience.Now on to the rankings!!
1) Aaron Rodgers – Coming off a incredible season in which he captured a super title, and won the MVP Rodgers is young and just getting better. He has a talented core of wide receivers and one of the better tight ends in the game. His Head Coach Mike McCarthy is a former offensive coordinator, so don't expect this offense to slow down anytime soon.
2) Peyton Manning - The Sheriff as he is appropriately named, is primed for a great year. Many will undervalue Manning coming of minor surgery, and one of his worst statistical seasons as a pro. Manning will have the good fortune of playing one of the easiest schedules of any QB in the league in 2011. The front office in Indianapolis made it a point to address the offensive line in this years draft. Something that really limited Manning's effectiveness last year. With a healthy Pierre Garcon, Austin Collie, and oh yeah Dallas Clark, Manning is ready to reassert himself as one of the best fantasy QB in the game.
3) Drew Brees - Many people will look at Drew and wonder what to expect from him. Is Brees the QB of last year who had the second highest total of interceptions with 22, and who has had 19 fumbles over the last two seasons? The highest fumble total of his career over any two year period. Or is Drew Brees the Passer from 2008 who threw for over 5000 yards and nearly broke Dan Marino's record? I say the latter. Over the last three years Drew Brees in the only QB in the NFL to throw for 30 touchdowns and at least 4300 yards. Not Tom Brady, nor Peyton Manning, or even Phillip Rivers. Drew Brees has been the most consistent QB in fantasy football period.
4) Phillip Rivers – Rivers has been a top 5 fantasy QB for each of the last three seasons. Last year Rivers was missing his number one wide receiver for eleven games. His number one target in TE Antonio Gates for 6 games, and first round RB Ryan Mathews 4 games. That's not even mention the fact that Marcus McNeil River blindside protector at left tackle also missed five games. Despite all of these hurdles Rivers went on to post career best in both completion percentage and yards. With many of the key pieces back and healthy for the San Diego Chargers offense, I see no reason why Rivers will not be a top five QB this year in fantasy football.
5) Michael Vick - Vick has been some what of an enigma since his return to the NFL. Many fantasy football players will ask me where should Michael Vick be drafted? Is he a top five QB? My simple answer is yes. Despite missing 4 games last season he still finished the season in the top five among fantasy QB's in 2010. In addition, Vick in 12 games ranked 35th in total rushing yards and tied for fifth in rushing touchdowns. That coupled with 21 passing touchdowns, and over 3000 yard passing is why Vick should go no Lower than round three in a ten team league.There is definitely upside, and potential with Vick which could easily vault him to number one in 2011, but on the flip side Vick always seems to be just one hit away from missing significant time. If your a gambler, this bet could pay big dividends or leave you wondering why you made the selection in the first place.
Best Value : Ben Roethlisberger - Big Ben has always been a solid QB in the NFL, but many fantasy football players have avoided drafting him based on the fact that the Steelers have been known as a run first team. In 2010 despite missing the first four games of the season Roethlisberger still managed to finish at a top 10 fantasy football QB. The 2011 outlook for Ben Roethlisberger is very bright. Why you ask? Well for starters Ben has the easiest schedule of any passer in 2011, and all of the skill position players are expected to return on offense for the Steelers. Right now Big Ben is being drafted on average in round five of a standard 10 team league draft, and is ranked as the #10 QB this year. Grabbing Ben in round 4 or 5 will definately net you a solid QB who will not disappoint.
I will continue to roll out this series I hope you enjoy the read, and Thank You for your time!!


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You'll find Dinsho in Ethiopia and if you're heading to the area, you can expect a variety of great things to do and adventures to experience... you may even spot the rare Ethiopian Wolf if you hop on a safari. Dinsho can offer you walking tours, Bale Mountains National Park, the Simbirro 4x4 Track and an extremely enjoyable cultural experience.
It's just another day in Dinsho.
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If you're wondering what Dinsho landscape looks like - here you are. Green-greens, brown-browns and cows somewhere in the picture.
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Dinsho locals! Don't forget to wave.
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Dinsho land at its finest...
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Here a bird is parking off for a bit for Dinsho sun on just another day in Ethiopia.
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If Dinsho is in your itinerary, make sure you decide which attractions you'd like to enjoy beforehand so that you don't waste time in starting your day's adventures.
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The highlight of my trip had to be Gweru in Zimbabwe, it was my idea of paradise. So much to do there with the animals and the location of it was just beautiful!
— Anne B (27) from Ireland
The trip was great! A very relaxed ride in a mokoro, followed by camping in the Okavango Delta and watching the animals on the islands was awesome!
— Michael & Silke from Germany
I loved every millisecond of the entire trip... Guess what I did in Swakopmund? I skydived out of a plane - woohoo was that AWESOME :-)
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Finally home and had a great time…. I loved the shark diving, Sossusvlei and Himba people. Saw Lions, a Leopard, Elephants, Giraffes, everything really! Thanks for…
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The GHS & St Hilda's Old Scholars Association (OSA) is proud of its membership of over 10 000 women and men.
Third and fourth generation families attend St Hilda's and the School values these connections. Our networks extend nationally and internationally as graduates expand their horizons and pursue world-leading opportunities. Locally our members remain close to the School and actively engage in a vibrant Old Scholar community.
Established under the stewardship of Miss Melina Parnell in 1913, when St Hilda's was known as the Girls' High School (GHS), the Association has provided over 100 years of service. Throughout this period, the Association has maintained an important link between the School and Old Scholars, providing a place of belonging for our members and continuity for graduates upon leaving St Hilda's.
To mark the Centenary of the GHS & St Hilda's OSA a steel ammonite sculpture, carrying the symbol of the School crest, was presented to St Hilda's in 2013.
The OSA is proud of the support extended to the School. It is at the heart of our endeavours as we offer scholarships and awards to future and current students, extend mentoring opportunities and support School building projects. The objects of the Association, revised in 2015 are:
- to advance education through the welfare and interests of the School and the Association;
- the promotion of a friendly spirit between present scholars of the School and old scholars;
- to keep old scholars connected with the School and with another for the above purposes; and
- to establish and provide scholarships, exhibitions, bursaries and rewards for education, the arts and sport.
Those who have attended this School have been blessed with an excellent education from which lifelong friendships have been built. Enjoy your Association and please give back generously so others may benefit.
Treffina Dowland (Lidbury, '83)
Treffina is supported by a committee working alongside the Communication and Engagement Office, extending services to the Old Scholar community. Tasks undertaken by the committee include event management, budgeting, communication and co-ordination of special projects such as Mentoring and Scholarship selection. The current Committee includes:
Fiona Johnston, Principal
Treffina Dowland (Lidbury, '83)
Immediate Past President
Anu van Hattem (Palmoja, '75)
Vice President
Jane Barker ('86)
Vice President
Julie Hasson ('87)
Sheena Storm (Richmond, '83)
Acting Secretary
Anu van Hattem (Palmoja '75)
Jill Binning (Mansel, '60)
Angela Heaton (Mitchell, '75)
Eliza Honey ('15)
Rosey Longmire (House '82)
Amanda Burt (Coad, '89)
Emma Hannaford (Ashby '87)
Carla Love (McGill '87)
Janie Jones (Oliver '83)
Kate Johnston (Henson, '79)
Kate Parker ('05)
Co-opted members
Jody Hardcastle (Vincent, '73)
Sue Marshall (Love, '74)
Claire Moody (Stokes, '79)
Katrina Chalmers (Black, '85)
Rosalind Bell (Williams, '75)
Jane O'Dea (Deykin, '78)
Libby Hocking ('71)
Jay Barker ('99)
Bronwyn Rose (Sutherland, '87)
Jane Leaversuch (Trott, '88)
Hannah Oliver ('12)
Year Representatives are an important link between members of their cohort, the School and the OSA. Typically one or two Old Scholars represent their year group and are a central point of contact for the exchange of information. Year Representatives assist the Communication and Engagement Office by updating alumni data, encouraging colleagues to attend special events, initiating reunions and supporting the activities of the Old Scholars' Association.
The committee is represented by Old Scholars of different ages, who share a variety of skills and enjoy working in a social environment. Old Scholars are encouraged to attend the OSA monthly meetings and contribute to general business. Please refer to the Events Calendar for the 2015 OSA committee meetings.
The Old Scholars Association welcomes new members to the Committee; please contact the President email@example.com for further information.
To volunteer as a Year Representative or receive contact details regarding your Year Representatives please contact the Alumni Coordinator at firstname.lastname@example.com.
View the GHS and St Hilda's Old Scholars Association Constitution
Year 12 graduates are invited to become Financial Life Members in their final year of school and correspondence is sent to each family in respect to this process. At the conclusion of the academic year we warmly welcome the incoming cohort and extend a special gift from the OSA to new members.
Any person who attended St Hilda's for a minimum of 12 months is entitled to become a Financial Life Member of the GHS & St Hilda's Old Scholars Association upon application.
The OSA committee is proud of the long established tradition of extending special educational opportunities to current students.
Daughters of Financial Life Members are eligible for two OSA funded scholarships each year :
- The Academic Scholarship is awarded for six years from Year 7.
- The 'Ammonite Scholarship' is awarded for two years from Year 11, for an exceptional all rounder
Scholarships are funded by annual life membership to the OSA, fundraising events and donations.
Hannah Clements has won the OSA Academic Scholarship for Year 7 – her mother is Cristie Clements (Phillips 1987) and granddaughter of Kathy Kavanagh (Draper 1967).
Introduced in 2013 as a Centenary initiative, the annual OSA Career Development Award, (previously OSA Travel Award) supports a financial member of the OSA in their pursuit of travel and learning, from which others will benefit. Valued at $3000 the Career Development Award recognises the value of women who are independently making their mark on the world by observing, learning from and contributing to different cultures and communities.
To make a valued contribution to the Scholarship Fund please contact the President of the GHS & St Hilda's OSA, Anu van Hattem email@example.com
For further information regarding Old Scholar scholarships and the Career Development Award please contact the Alumni Officer on firstname.lastname@example.com
Special events provide an opportunity for Old Scholars to meet up with friends, share interests and reconnect with the School. Often these occasions extend to the wider public, encouraging a strong community spirit.
To mark the decades since leaving school, six reunions take place each year. There is also an annual morning tea for members aged over 70. Please refer to the School calendar for the 2016 Old Scholar reunions.
2019 Old Scholar Events
10 Year Reunion - Class of 2009
20 Year Reunion - Class of 1999
30 Year Reunion - Class of 1989
40 Year Reunion - Class of 1979
50 Year Reunion - Class of 1969
60 Year Reunion - Class of 1959
International Reunions
Special Events
Meet the Principal Sundowner
Bridge & Mahjong Day
IGSSA Tennis
Career Networking Series - Business Professionals
OSA Bazaar
70+ Morning Tea
CIGS Old Girls Golf Day
Special fundraising efforts contribute to the OSA Scholarship Fund and donations and ongoing support are greatly appreciated.
Please send photos from your reunion or informal St Hilda's friendship gathering to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Old Scholars, working in a diverse range of industries, give back to the School through the OSA Mentoring program.
The OSA facilitates the Mentoring program, in which Old Scholars return to School and share their career journey with current students from Years 10 to 12. The mentoring session, held mid-year, provides an opportunity for girls to explore career options with practitioners and discuss the path to preferred jobs.
Old Scholars who have pursued interesting and diverse careers are encouraged to volunteer by emailing firstname.lastname@example.com.
Social events, reunions, sporting competitions and fundraising efforts provide numerous opportunities for Old Scholars to connect. Regular publications and social media platforms provide avenues to share achievements and special announcements, keeping friends in touch and up to date with news.
The Alumni Officer gratefully receives news from Old Scholars for inclusion in each publication. Contact email@example.com to share your achievements and family announcements.
Old Scholars are encouraged to join our LinkedIn Alumni by adding St Hilda's to the Education section of your LinkedIn profile.


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Hello from the middle of the school summer holidays! This is a flying visit because free time is currently in short supply for me here but things are generally going well. Toby is being kept busy and the weather has been glorious, though a little hotter than we are used to. The reason I'm popping in today is to mention the two new patterns that I've released this morning. It has taken me so very long to finish these off - I've been working on them off and on for over 18 months. Originally I had designed the dungarees to go into the boy sheep pattern, but for various reasons decided against that. Then I was planning to dress the upcoming badgers in the dungarees and pinafore with T-shirts but decided against that too. It seems better that these clothes are stand alone patterns, as they will fit any of my animals. I had planned to launch them before the summer holidays started, but before they were completely finished life got in the way, as it is often apt to. Anyway, they are done at last, so here they are.
The first pattern includes a pair of dungarees (overalls), a pinafore dress and a little toy which fits perfectly into the pocket (bunny or bear). The garments are knitted flat in 5ply or 4ply yarn on 2.75mm (US 2) needles and the little toy is knitted flat in 4ply yarn on 2.25mm (US 1) needles.
The second pattern is a set of 3 sweaters. All are knitted top down with raglan sleeves and follow the same basic pattern with tweaks. The T shirt has narrow stripes, the long sleeve sweater has wider stripes and the cardigan is flared and knitted in one colour but you can switch those around if you prefer. There are instructions included for knitting them all flat with seams or in the round if preferred.
Each of the new patterns can be bought separately (via my blog shop or Ravelry) or they can be bought together for a £0.75 discount - you'll need to add both to your basket in order for the discount to be applied, which should happen automatically but please check your basket before proceeding to payment (it will show applied discount at the bottom of the pop up window). Here are links to the patterns on Ravelry:
Ravelry dungarees pattern, Ravelry trio of sweaters pattern
I've also listed them on Etsy (or at least I will have by the end of the day). On Etsy both patterns will be included in a single listing at the already discounted price (as Etsy is not as sophisticated as Ravelry when it comes to setting up discounts) so if you only want one of the patterns you'll need to buy via Ravelry. Please note that over on Etsy you may be charged EU VAT on top of the price if it applies (EU member countries only).
If you do give any of the patterns a go and use Ravelry please upload your pictures to the little cotton rabbits group so we can all admire them. It's so exciting to see what others make from my patterns and I do hope you enjoy knitting them.
I hope to pop back soon with news of other knitting stuff and some pictures of what we've been up to here but in truth it might be another few weeks before I get the chance to, I look forward to catching up with you then.


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For a game based on a film based on another film about rampant commercialism gone wrong, you have to admire RoboCop's commitment to its source material. After all, no game that shares a name with Paul Verhoeven's classic could really ask players to pay well over £100 in real money for a digital gun, right? It's all big joke, right?
Wrong. Yes, that particular gun is, in terms of price, an outlier. But other upgrades to your arsenal, their abilities, or your suit aren't exactly cheap, either. The F2P nature also negatively affects what little gameplay is there, too. It reduces the stages into a constant grind to earn more in-game cash so you don't have the shell out in the real world.
Not that things get more exciting when you do get your hands on superior hardware. Levels mostly consist of alternating between bits of cover, then shooting bad guys as they arrive in waves. A degree of strategy is introduced by being able to call in drones, scan enemies for weak spots (critical hits give you more points, more points equals more cash) or marking and executing goons.
But it's all so boring. The game itself looks fairly nice, but the shooting itself feels lifeless and there's no discernible sense of threat from your enemies. Either you die, or they do, and either outcome feels the same.
Throw in an upgrade system that deliberately stifles play until you get your credit card out, and there's very little to recommend here. RoboCop is a free-to-play title, which means that it's got to make its money somewhere. In and of itself, that isn't automatically bad. But by attempting to generate its cash by making progression a slow grind, by repeating the same boring levels over and over again until you a) delete the whole thing, b) use real money, or c) die, Glu Games has made sure you'll likely choose the former and latter before you open your wallet.
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Ten Dead People I wish I'd known
- Edward VIII – Later the Duke of Windsor, Edward VIII abdicated the throne of England to "marry the woman I love". At Fort Belvedere, on December 10, Edward signed his abdication notices. From his abdication address, which was polished by Winston Churchill, "But you must believe me when I tell you that I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as King as I would wish to do without the help and support of the woman I love." It's a romantic tale and one that has been linked with Hitler and social ineptitude, but I still love him. He was only tall. I would have towered over him but I would love to have been Wallis Simpson
- Wallis Simpson – The American divorcee captivated a prince who would be king. I'd like to ask her how she did it and what it was like. The era was opulent, just before the First World War. She was Edward VIII's "the woman I love".
- "What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing." Oscar Wilde "The world was my oyster…but I used the wrong fork." I love his wit and even wisdom. His Ballad of Reading Gaol is poignant and deep. He was jailed (gaoled) for his affair with Lord Alfred Douglas. He is, of course, the author of The Picture of Dorian Gray.
- Charles II – His father was beheaded at the order of Oliver Cromwell (Cromwell was a murdering bastard—no Royalist sympathies here!). Charles spent years as a roaming prince never quite welcome at any court in Europe, but in 1660, he was restored to the throne of England without an ounce of bloodshed. He was invited home. He was a rake, yes. He had many mistresses and illegitimate children and never an heir to the throne. He was king during the Great Plague and the Fire of London. He is one of my favorite historical figures.
- Duke of Newcastle – was known for his horsemanship during the time of Charles II. I'm a great lover of the horse, and by all accounts he was a master horseman. In my book, Sinners' Opera, the hero Morgan D'Arcy who accompanied Charles II into exile studied with the Duke of Newcastle.
- Chopin – What can I say? I love his music, and his story of love with George Sand (a woman author) is quite beautiful.
- George V – Unprepared to be king, he was thrust upon the throne when Edward VIII abdicated. I'd love to get into his head at that moment.
- Lucy Walters – She bore Charles II's first illegitimate son, whom he later named the Duke of Monmouth. In years ahead, this first born son was involved in political intrigue.
- John Winston Lennon – I loved the Beatles, and though my favorite was Paul McCartney, John was a driving force and a revolutionary. The Ballad of John and Yoko! I'm telling you my age!
- Robin Williams – his wit and ability to make people laugh failed him in the end. I never saw one Robin Williams' movie, even What Dreams May Come, that didn't have a bit of humor in it. I know I'm not alone in missing him. My Favorite Martian.
This has been a serious post because to me writing about dead people is serious. But I love ghost stories, shiver, and have nightmares. After reading or watching something scary, I sleep with the sheet pulled tight beneath my chin. Hey, you don't know who, what, is under the bed, right?
Love For Sale
by Linda Nightingale
March Morgan still believes in true love, but her faith in finding her soul mate is slowly vanishing. She's been married but never in love. So, it is a miracle to find that fantasy exists on the last page of a glossy women's journal. Mayfair Electronics, Ltd., in black and white, offers Love for Sale. The London firm has engineered sentient androids indistinguishable from human. She flies to England and meets the man she has been searching for her entire life.
Christian requires no programming to love March at first sight. He's handsome, cultured…absolutely perfect…and a little different from the other androids. He has an unexpected independent streak.
March signs on the dotted line, buying her dream man. They return to Houston, but soon her past and his future threaten their Happily Ever After—indeed their lives.
"Inane? I find you with another woman in the bedroom, and this conversation is silly? Oh, no, Christian. Did you invite her here?" Why couldn't she stop hurting herself and let him go, lock the door and email Mayfair for a courier pickup?
Folding his arms across his chest, he leaned against the door. "She knocked. I answered and kept her outside until it started to rain. She was talking about the club and telling me, again, that I'd be a success as a male dancer. Being a success at something would be a bloody miracle. At any rate, half-jokingly, I asked her to teach me to dance. The End."
"Not quite. Why did you slip her out behind my back?"
"I wished to avoid a scene like this." His voice shaded deeper, darker. "And I didn't want to hurt you."
"There, it's said. You can come back in now and stop pretending you're leaving." She waved a hand, half-heartedly beckoning. "You've got nowhere to go."
He inhaled sharply as if she had punched him in the stomach. "I'm quite aware of that fact. I do not like seeing you this upset. Please call Mayfair tomorrow. I'll voluntarily deactivate. They will dispatch a FedEx pickup for me."
She raked a hand through her hair. "Oh, my God, what have you done and why? What have I done? Paradise Lost."
"Why can't you trust me?" His sad expression pierced her heart.
Nearly human. Though he didn't have a heart, his emotions could be damaged.
"Because I don't trust men." An angry sob caught in her throat. When she could again speak, she croaked, "In general. Well, almost. I learned that lesson at my mother's knee."
"I'm not even almost any man." He lifted his hands in a pleading gesture. "Return me to Mayfair for reprogramming. I don't care. I only want to stay with you."
"You have a funny way of showing it," she said in a lethal whisper, her voice then rising in outrage. "If I'd been earlier or later, would I have found you bucking in bed?"
Looking stricken, he stood silent and straight, a bare-chested god with ice blue eyes.
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