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Bombay vs Mumbai
In 1995, Bombay became Mumbai but, sadly, with the name a lot more seems to have changed. Bombay was India's most avant-garde city. Karan Thapar elaborates.india Updated: Oct 25, 2008 22:00 IST
I clearly remember my excitement as I stepped off the plane. It was my first visit to Bombay, as the city was then called. I was 16 and thought of it as India's most cosmopolitan and glamorous. The trip was a present from Daddy after finishing my Senior Cambridge exams. It was also the first holiday on my own. Consequently, I felt grown-up and liberated.
Kidder jaane ka? The taxi-driver's Hindi sounded defiant but also inviting. It suggested an adventure. No one spoke like that in Delhi. There, conversations were more formal, the grammar more old-fashioned. "Peddar Road", I replied, and settled in to enjoy the ride.
As we drove to Malabar Hill I tried to imagine what Flora Fountain, Cuffe Parade, Kemp's Corner and Napean Sea Road would be like. These were names I had long wondered about. They had come to captivate me. Each seemed rich with the promise of money and chic, modernity and difference. Collectively, they were a world away from Hauz Khas, Karol Bagh and Dhaula Kuan. For me, Bombay was another country.
I first noticed little things. In Bombay, men wore shorts and women were often in skirts. The taxis were Fiat 1100s whilst the buses were clean, safe and on time. People waited in queues and minded their own business. And no matter where you eat —Bombellis, a bhelpuri stall or the Zodiac Grill — it was a thrilling experience.
But after a while I became aware of the city's atmosphere. You could literally feel it and it was compelling. Bombay was youthful, fun, busy. Everyone seemed to be dashing around. And, of course, Bombay kept awake at night. You could buy kebabs at Haji Ali well-after midnight, or sip coffee at the Shamiana even as the garbage collectors swept the city. In fact, you could have been forgiven if you thought Nancy Sinatra's hit 'The city never sleeps at night' was written with Bombay in mind!
That first visit lasted a week but there weren't enough hours in any one day for all the things I wanted to do. Everything was different, special, exciting or simply fun. Compared to Delhi, the cinema halls were bigger and brighter, the ice-cream colder and fresher, the colleges more exciting and youthful, indeed even the clubs seemed less staid. And where in the capital could a teenager drink chilled beer as the traffic honked by?
Alas, I fear the Bombay that won my heart has disappeared, possibly forever. I won't claim Delhi is better but the city that was a magnet, that attracted teenagers like iron-fillings, has ceased to be. Or else how do you explain the attacks on Biharis for being outsiders, on the Bachchans for speaking Hindi and on shopkeepers for not putting up Marathi signboards?
In fact, it seems the very identity of the city has fractured. Today, its residents have become Maharashtrians, Gujaratis, Goans, Punjabis or UPites. No longer are they Bombayites or even Mumbaikars. Bombay has become its many different parts.
It's shrunk. It's diminished.
I may be wrong but I'd say this process started when they forced a new name on the city. In 1995 Bombay became Mumbai but, sadly, with the name a lot more seems to have changed. Bombay was India's most avant-garde city. It's where Indians flocked to realise their dreams. They said the sky was the limit.
Mumbai is simply the capital of Maharashtra. The largest city in India's richest state but limited by its regional identity. It's insular and parochial.
However, this is not a requiem for Bombay. It is, instead, a plea to reverse history. Perhaps the old name cannot be resurrected — although in St. Petersburg and Volgograd that is precisely what happened —but can we not recapture and re-activate the lost spirit? Must the best lie buried with the past? Does the future have to be different to be better? Are there not a few old values we should preserve forever? Otherwise memories will be the only thing left.
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journal for friends and family of mustard seeds -- and beyond!! connecting people to people, sharing info, and supporting some valuable NGO projects in Kolkata...in the 'small is beautiful' fashion
Tuesday, December 20, 2005
Panchachuli Women Weavers
In 1997 funds were received to start a training program for about 150 women in the villages around Almora to teach them spinning and weaving wool and natural fibers available locally as a sustainable form of employment. In order to empower the women of this area, who were used to toiling in fields and raising cattle and being dominated by menfolk, it was necessary to chalk out a program encompassing basic and advanced training, along with infrastructure and facilities for common production centers where women could work.
Training was imparted by master weavers from the tribal communities on the Indo-Tibet border where weaving of fine wool was a tradiational occupation. Although the program was first opposed by the men of the area, eventually the women gained the support of their families and with substantial income gains brought home by the women, the whole socio-economic dynamics of families and the community turned around. The women are truly empowered. Panchaculi women and their families, moreover, have been able to swing th evotes in favor of particular elected candidates.
By the end of 2000 there were 400 women trained in various skills and the Danny Kaye and Sylvia Fine Kaye Foundation provided the funds for importing sophisticated pashmina processing machines from Scotland, for building a complex comprising seven large weaving halls, rooms for spinnng and processing of wool, stores for raw materials and finished products, administrative offices and four buses to transport women from their villages to the production center and back.
Between 2000 and 2003 another 300 women were trained and Panchaculi became a brand name in the local market, domestically and abroad.
Panchachuli procures the bulk of its wool, namely pasmina and lambswool, from the highlands of Tibet where founder Ms. Mukti Dutta and women employees go trekking over in 22,000 ft. high passes to buy wool from Tibetan nomads around Lake Manasarovar and Mt. Kailash. They are officially recognized traders by both the Indian and Chinese governments, who have allowed them access to these restricted areas.
Women also work with nettle fiber and oak silk procured locally through traditional methods of growing and processing, and have plans to work with hemp fiber.
I was particularly impressed with the beauty of the natural colors, the soft texture and the delicately intricate weaves. This photo is a display at Sasha where the Panchchuli Women Weavers are currently exhibiting their products til Dec. 24.
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Monday, December 19, 2005
Merry Christmustard!
But in the meantime, it's time to play Secret Santa gift exchange at Mustard Seeds Library!! While sipping hot cocoa, kids exchanged small gifts with their friends and sang Christmas songs. In the evening we took it out on the streets, doing two rounds of carols in the parks of our apartment complex -- It certainly was not a silent night.
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Saturday, December 10, 2005
Time to focus
Mustard Seeds is a conceptual project for community-based action on a small scale started by Maura Hurley and Gautam Basu in a suburb of Kolkata, India. The name comes from the mustard seed spice which is an important ingredient in regional Bengali cooking. Although it is a very tiny seed, it gives a potent and delicious flavor to dishes that just wouldn't taste the same without it. Mustard Seeds aims to do small-scale, peopel-to-people projects that connect those living inside and outside Kolkata.
Mustard Seeds began in 1997 with the help of friends and family outside of India who donated books and financial contributions. The very first project was setting up a children's library and activity space in one room of their flat for young people in the neighborhood. With school and study pressure being so high in Kolkata, children feel happy to come to the library and browse through the book collection, go wild with paints, write a poem, do a craft project, or have a story read to them. The library has organized coloring contests, poster contests with environmental themes, visits to local social welfare projects, and always has a big Earth Day celebration in April. Children help maintain a small garden space, Malancha, that used to be a garbage heap and raise funds for a children's rehabilitation center in south Kolkata, RCFC.
Besides the library, Mustard Seeds self-published a children's book entitled To the Local Bazaar with a simple story that uses illustrations by a traditional story scroll artist from the village of Medinipur. Sales of this book and the postcard set that was also printed give a little more support to this artist and her family. More books that use traditional artwork are set to be published too. Mustard Seed also creates outlets for some of the budding fair-trade producer groups in Kolkata to sell their products while at the same time spreading the story of women's and rural development issues in this region.
Among various projects, currently Mustard Seed members sell jams and pickles for Ankur Kala, a women's center in Kolkata that trains destitute women to become skilled and self-empowered. Greeting cards made by physically and mentally challenged individuals at Silence and Asha Niketan, two organizations that work to make people with disabilities lead more independent. lifestyles, are also available at the library as well as cards from SUCHANA, The Uttor Chandipur Early Learning Group located outside of Shantiniketan. Profits go right back to the groups that produce them to sustain their important work.
Through numerous small networkings, Mustard Seeds works to encourage others to get to know more about the many worthwhile NGO efforts going on in Kolkata through the sale of products, written commentaries, or visits to the actual sites. Mustard Seeds does not aim to become a huge organization with a central office, but instead to inspire other individuals and families to do something on a small-scale that makes a difference to another person. Why not become a Mustard Seed yourself? What blooms where you are planted is a creative and never-ending process!
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Tuesday, December 06, 2005
Jane Webb
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Rehabilitation Centres for Children was registered as a society on 24th April, 1973 in Calcutta, India. The aim of RCFC is the treatment and rehabilitation of orthopaedically handicapped children from underprivileged families, so that these children will be able to live a fuller life and take a normal place in the society instead of being neglected, dependent, emotionally disturbed and frustrated.
Jane was the Founder Secretary and Director of the Centre. Her vision and continuous struggle for helping the disabled children to stand on their own feet is slowly but surely realised. The seed she planted with love, care and dedication more than 25 years ago, is now a grown up tree blossoming with flowers and evergrowing branches. RCFC has taken a solid root and is now a pioneer institution in the service of orthopaedically handicapped children from deprived homes.
Jane was quoted as saying, "We bought a house with a large garden in Barisha, on the outskirts of Calcutta with money donated by the German philantropic organization Christustrager Waisendienst (Aid to orphans); we repaired the house, cleaned up the garden, and started slowly. At first there was one child named Gopal from Siliguri who had lost a foot and it continued steadily after that.
Initially, we had very little idea as to how we would go about our mission or of the existing need; it was a new kind of venture for all those involved and in those very turbulent times. We found gradually that it was not always feasible to arrange for children's treatment outside the Centre; we faced too many problems as more and more children were brought to us. So, we set up an operation theatre in 1981 with attached X-ray unit. We had already been running the immunisation clinic for prevention of polio and other diseases. In 1993 our mobility aid and applicances manufacturing workshop was established. RCFC has a well-equipped 90 bedded hospital, an operation theater, X-ray unit, a physiotherapy department, a well laid out mobility aid workshop for making orthotic and prosthetic aids and a child development department which provides basic education and craft training during the treatment.
In addition to the above, there other extra-curricular activities like dance, music, drama and drawing. The craft classes include cane work and basketry, clay modelling, pottery, terracotta, mat-making, sewing, knitting, embroidery, tie-dye and batik. The overall aim of these classes is to make children develop their natural abilities and confidence. Talented children may also find a avenue for earning from the vocational trades learned at our Centre. Our involvement in various fields has increased manifold.
Simultaneously, we are expanding our activities and services to remote areas . On 23rd January, 1998, our new centre in Bolpur was inaugurated by Shri Somnath Chatterjee, MP. It was at his suggestion and insistence that the Government of West Bengal donated us land at Kalikapur where our centre stands. The Centre has been named "Miblou Jyoti Mahal" and the fund was donated by Miblou, a Swiss voluntary organization.
RCFC can be contacted at:
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Andi Hazelwood: This is Andi Hazelwood for Global Public Media on the 28th of June, 2007. I'm speaking with Sonya Wallace, who is the group coordinator for "Creating a Sustainable Sunshine Coast - Nambour to Mooloolah" - part of the Relocalization Network here in Queensland, Australia. Sonya, thank you very much for taking the time today.
Sonya Wallace: Thank you.
AH: I was wondering if you could tell me a little bit about your latest project.
SW: Well, we've actually got a few things on the go at the moment, and one project seems to lead to another one. What we started doing was looking at some sort of course based around permaculture, that would apply permaculture principles to the problems of peak oil and climate change. And, of course, that led quite naturally to relocalization - they're very aligned to the relocalization movement and the permaculture movement. So, it became pretty evident that we needed a course where we could examine David Holmgren's textbooks, and apply those principles to social re-organization, as opposed to designing the landscape, as permaculture's most well known for. So, that was the first stage. And then it became pretty evident that we would need some sort of momentum to keep that going - we didn't want to get all our students excited about peak oil, and get all passionate and fired up and want to do something about it, and leave them with no structure to go on with. So, we thought a center would be a good idea, an actual physical building that was open regularly for students to come along and keep the momentum going, the energy going, for the relocalization projects. And, then, from that, it became pretty evident that, probably, the thing we needed was an Energy Descent Action Plan based on what they did in Ireland. So, these three projects have, sort of, evolved one after another, but I think it's a pretty rounded approach to relocalization here on the Sunshine Coast.
AH: So, give me a little bit of a background on how permaculture can deal with the issues of energy descent.
SW: Well, David Holmgren's really - his textbook, "Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability", I see that as a bit of a framework for how to go about relocalization because that addresses things like the built environment, education, culture, land stewardship, community government - all those things we need to address - the infrastructure problem - everything that needs to be addressed to prepare for the post carbon future. So, while permaculture is very well known as a gardening technique, I think it's about time we - sort of - stepped under the spotlight as a relocalization technique.
AH: And, as I understand it, Rob Hopkins, when he did the Kinsale Energy Descent Action Plan, it was actually part of a permaculture course as well.
SW: Yes, that's correct. He had students doing a two-year, full-time permaculture course, and they worked on looking within their local council shire on all the things that needed to be addressed, and that was a really successful document. The local council actually adopted that at the end of it, and they're implementing it. So, we hope to follow in that success. That's a really good blueprint for how local shires can really start to relocalize.
AH: Now, obviously the Kinsale Energy Descent Action Plan focused on the strengths and weaknesses of that particular area. What do you consider to be the things that will need to be taken into consideration for the Sunshine Coast?
SW: Here, in our area, we've got a lot of opportunity for food production. We are lucky, here - we've got good rainfall, good land. I think our major problems are just going to be transportation. We're suffering, I guess, like so many other places, with urban sprawl and the reliability people have to put on, and the reliance they have on our transport - there's just not the transportation infrastructure here. And the same with local economies. Our local economies are very vulnerable - they're based on tourism and retail, and both of those things are extremely vulnerable to peak oil.
AH: And have you any ideas on how an Energy Descent Action Plan would deal with those issues?
SW: It needs community awareness, I think is the first step, for the community to start to realise that we do need to relocalize. We have an option at the moment: we can plan and do things, or we can have those things thrust upon us. So, we do have that option, and I think an action plan - if we can actually explore the options, and we're looking at getting permaculture groups, the community and the local university - and the council, as well - involved, and really look at what can seriously happen, and can be put in place to address these issues. I think identifying the problems first up, and then looking for some real achievable ways that we can put things in place, and timelining it as well is going to be really important, that's it's not just left open ended.
AH: So, now, tell me about the Sunshine Coast Energy Action Center.
SW: Well, we're very lucky here. We've got a great community garden, here, on the Sunshine Coast, and they have a building as part of the gardens that we meet in regularly. But, on the weekend, it sits there locked up and empty. So, we thought that would be a great place to start to have this regular site where people can drop in and find out about peak oil and climate change. And I think it'll be a really great asset for the coast to have that open. People can call in, we're going to have video screenings, we'll show "End of Suburbia", and all those related DVDs - sort of - circulating round the community at the moment. We'll have guest speakers, and we'll have just lots of information on how people can get involved, and it'll range from free workshops right through to university courses, and everything in between.
AH: And have you had any conversation with your local councils about the idea of the Energy Descent Action Plan. What kind of response have you gotten?
SW: It's really supportive! A lot of support from the local council. They really understand the concept of it, and they feel very passionate about wanting to do something. And that's the other beauty of an Energy Descent Action Plan, it is actually a framework that you can show people, and they can immediately understand how it works. I think that's the biggest problem we face, I think a lot of people want to do something, but they really don't know what to do. And that's where I think being able to show them the Kinsale document - they can immediately relate to that, and it makes a lot of sense to them. So, we're really lucky. The council's really supportive, we're meeting with the town planning, the community development and the environmental planning areas of the council, to look at ways we can get this locked in and happening as a regional project.
AH: And you're actually doing this in conjunction with another relocalization group - is that right?
SW: Well, we're actually - we're all linked here on the coast. We doing it with the Sustainable Maleny Project, we've got the group at Eumundi, a bit further north from here. So, we're linked in with the other groups on the coast, and also the permaculture network, as well. So, we've got a really good support system out there of people who can teach others all the skills we need for the future.
AH: Now, for this project, what kind of difficulties are you experiencing at this point?
SW: Well, I think the biggest thing is just getting the community aware about the problem. It's really difficult. Like a lot of places in Australia, most people's focus at the moment is on economic issues. There's interest rates, price of housing, just the general keeping up with the lifestyle - I guess it's happening around the world - but people are just driven by debt, and there's a lot of loss of community, and that's been broken down over the past few years, here, in Australia. So, rebuilding that, and getting the community to understand that there is a problem, and that we need to act and do something about it urgently, and what we can do - it's a real challenge.
AH: Earlier today you sent out an e-mail to your group about transportation poverty, and a lot of people may be looking at those immediate issues and not realizing that there are larger ways that they can deal with the problem as a whole.
SW: Yes, I think so. I don't know that people are connecting increase in fuel and food, and all those things, with issues like peak oil. It keeps getting related back to the drought, whereas I don't know how fuel prices can be related to the drought at all. And people don't seem to ever question these connections that are being made. So, I think, slowly but surely, it's going to come out. But it is a huge challenge because peak oil is tied up in such complex, political and economic structures that for the truth to come out about it - it's a real challenge.
AH: So, to find out more information about the Sunshine Coast Energy Descent Action Plan, you can go to "Creating a Sustainable Sunshine Coast"'s Web site, which is cassc.relocalize.net, and also tell us the Web address for these Sunshine Coast Energy Action Center.
SW: Yup, that's www.seac.net.au
AH: Excellent. Sonya Wallace, thank you very much for your time.
SW: Thank you.
AH: Now that Sonya has told us about starting an Energy Descent Action Plan, let's talk to someone who has successfully completed an EDAP, and had it adopted. Rob Hopkins, thanks very much for being on Global Public Media.
Rob Hopkins: It's a pleasure.
AH: I wonder if you can tell me, how does a community determine what its individual strengths and weaknesses are, and how do you develop responses to the weaknesses while capitalizing on the strengths?
RH: Well, I think - I don't think a descent plan emerges from a process - it's not something that you can just - sort of - sit down and draft. So, really, it's a process that we - maybe to give you some of the background to it, I suppose, would be useful. The first one that I was involved with was the one in Kinsale, in Ireland, which was the first one, and that really came around because I was teaching at a further education college in Kinsale, in Ireland, and we had the first two-year, full-time permaculture course in the world, and that was when I found out about peak oil, and looked around - all over the place - to try to see if there was a solution somewhere that somebody had done, or communities that had started thinking about it. At that point I couldn't find anything at all. So, we really made it up as we went along, and based on the principle that the future with less oil could be preferable to the present, if we used sufficient creativity and imagination and adaptability, and so that was the idea, really. It was underpinned with an optimistic kind of a premise - we used Open Space a lot. And I think one of the main things - in terms of overcoming the - sort of - pessimism, or whatever - they're couple of things, I think, that are really strong principles. One of them is that you have to avoid any sense of "them and us" from the outset. So, you're really trying to avoid polarizing and trying to avoid the sort of environmentalist often-used habit of looking around for somebody to blame all the time, and there's nobody to blame in this. If you're trying to create a coalition of different groups and organizations that has never really happened before - directly - then I think you also need to create a sense that something historic is happening. This needs to generate a sense in the town that what's happening is something really historic, that's never happened before, and that people really would like to be a part of. And I think you also need to have a process which retains its flexibility, which is always able to change and adapt and move around, really. That's my sense, is that if you want to avoid pessimism, you really need to make it a process which is exhilarating, and which is about inviting people on a journey, really.
AH: Now, would you say that there is anything particularly unusual about Kinsale that made it possible for an Energy Descent Action Plan to be adopted, or is this something that can be done in any town given the right circumstances?
RH: Well, I think the important thing to note with the Energy Descent Plan in Kinsale was that it was really done as a student project, and nowadays with the transition initiative that are popping up all over the country - transition town Totnes is the first transition town project in the UK, but there are now another 16 or 17 that are official transition towns, and then about another 90 who are starting the process. The interest in it is just taking off exponentially, really. And, actually, I think that in many ways - although we haven't produced an Energy Descent Plan here, yet - Totnes is now further advanced than Kinsale because what we produced in Kinsale was a student project, so it didn't have - it had a certain amount of roots in really deep community work, but it didn't have as much as we have here already. But I think the main reason that Kinsale was a place where it embedded itself was that it was the town where this course was happening really. So, it was the only town in Ireland where there was an established, extremely popular, dynamic, very well regarded in the town, full-time permaculture course, really, and that acted as the catalyst for it. But I think what we're seeing here, now, in the UK, as these initiatives take off, is that the first wave was the - sort of - places you would think of - Totnes, Stroud, Lewes - towns that have a history of being - sort of - laboratories for alternative thinking, free thinking kind of places, whereas the second wave are much more surprising, and so this is really starting to engage the mainstream in quite an exciting way.
AH: Sonya has an unusual situation. Whereas most of us are having to really get our councils to understand what's going on - and it's the community that's behind it - her situation is actually reversed. Her council is very much looking forward to hearing what she has to say, but her community is a bit disengaged. How do you deal with people who are looking at their immediate problems instead of looking at the grander picture?
RH: Well, I think - it's something that's very interesting that's happening in the UK with transition initiatives at the moment is that, increasingly, we're finding that the first point of contact comes from councilors and people in local government, and, actually, it creates a very interesting dynamic, which we're just exploring at the moment because, really, the idea is with this process that it comes from the community - it can't be imposed from the top by local authorities. And, really, the role of local authorities in this process is to support this process - not to steer it, not to drive it - and, actually, increasingly, they're really delighted with that, as a concept. So, actually, if somebody has a local authority who is supportive of it, that's a useful thing to have - it's such a fantastic and valuable thing that a lot of communities are really working very hard to try and generate. So, in that regard, she's one up really. But, in terms of engaging the community, I think you have to be very creative and imaginative in how you present this, and I think there is a particular knack to - very easy to present peak oil and climate change in such a way that actually - they're almost universally presented as incredibly depressing issues. I think one of the things that we've been working on really hard with the transition towns process is actually that people go to a talk about peak oil and come away feeling quite exhilarated, at the potential of it. And, I think, one of the things you have to do is to really weave the possibilities into the present, and I'm a great believer that the same adaptability, creativity, and imagination that got us up to the top of the peak in the first place can be harnessed to come back down the other side. I don't think it's a given that once we start coming down the other side, we all resort to savages, and everything collapses instantly. But I think one of the things that she should really be looking at doing is an awareness raising process, which, I mean - I think certainly showing - we found that showing a film - "End of Suburbia", "The Power of Community" - these kinds of things - that designing those film screenings can be much more than just film screenings, but that there're also networking possibilities - people come together, they offer space designed in them for people to chew over what they've heard, and also to see what are the issues that are concerning the community at the moment. I gave a talk here in Devon a while ago to the Women's Institute, and their big concerns were about the local hospital being under threat of being closed, and the rising price of milk, what's happening to milk (local milk producers, basically, are being driven out of the market). So I started my talk to them by, basically, putting both of those in the context of cheap energy, and that, actually, the same forces that are threatening both of those things, and then weaving it back to oil. So, it's really good to try and approach people where they're at. Because, although it may very often seem like a community isn't remotely interested in these issues (and isn't interested in relocalization and the practicalities of relocalization), actually, when you start looking around, you find a huge amount of people who are interested in aspects of that - they just don't call it that! We have people who have a very strong interest in local food, in local community work, in different aspects of local culture, and, actually, those people can become your staunchest ally - it just depends how you present it to them.
AH: Is there any more advice that you would like to give to people who are interested in starting an Energy Descent Action Plan for their community?
RH: Yes, certainly. I think it's something that you're not going to create overnight. It's something that is very, very useful if you can do it with some kind of overlap with local authorities, so that it's written in such a way that - I have this mental picture: I'm about three or four years in the future when we've had a year when peak oil has really made itself very, very apparent - in terms of high prices, possibly intermittency of supply - and that our councilors are sat in their council chamber with two documents in front of them, one of which is the Energy Descent Plan produced by the community, which actually addresses the issue and the challenges that are being presented to them, and the other one is the one that they've done, which is just based on a business-as-usual model, and trying to decide which one to adopt. I think an Energy Descent Plan should be something which also is really entertaining to read, and one of the things that we're doing here in Totnes is we have a project called "Transition Tale" which is about gathering through a series of events where we ask people to imagine themselves in the kind of future that we're talking about, and then to write stories about it, and newspaper articles from the future. So, we're starting to collect these kinds of stories, which allow people to really imagine themselves in that future. I think we have to really paint it in such a way that you can almost smell it, a tangible possibility. And so, with the Energy Descent Plan here, we want to weave those stories through the process, as well. And, the thing that I would point people to is something which is called "The 12 Steps of Transition", which has really emerged from the work we've been doing here in Totnes, and which are the twelve steps towards starting a project like this to producing an Energy Descent Plan. And the transition network which is just forming here in the UK - which is a national charity designed to support, inspire, train, and nurture all the different transition initiatives emerging around the UK - is they're producing a booklet which contains all of those, and they'll also be in a book that I'm writing at the moment, which will be out in the spring which is going to be called, "Small Is Inevitable".
AH: Would you mind if we call you back in a couple of weeks to talk more in depth about transition towns?
RH: No, I'd love to. No, that'll be absolutely fine.
AH: In the meantime can you give us a Web site where people can find your work.
RH: Yes, www.transitionculture.org. And there you can also download the Kinsale Energy Descent Plan, and you'll find all kinds of goodies on the subject. You'll find there two short films of me doing talks explaining the twelve steps which people might find useful.
AH: Fantastic! Rob Hopkins, thank you so much.
RH: Pleasure.
AH: This is Andi Hazelwood for Global Public Media.
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update 7/22/2005 8:20 a.m. edt: according to more recent news reports, best buy, circuit city, target, and wal-mart have all announced that copies of grand theft auto: san andreas will be pulled from store shelves. rockstar games has offered to replace ratings labels for those stores willing to continue stocking gta: san andreas, but, as you can see, most major retailers appear to be saying, "thanks, but no thanks." read more in the associated press article.
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|pulled the game? (12:45pm est thu jul 21 2005)
seems a little overboard for me. we're all messed in the head already. – by poon
|more commentary (12:56pm est thu jul 21 2005)
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exactly like we called it.
– by the nerd
|it's gone … (1:00pm est thu jul 21 2005)
try going to walmart,target,circuit shitty,eb or gamestop…you can't even order it online. – by bob the builder
|american values (1:47pm est thu jul 21 2005)
this is ridiculous. it gets rated 17 when i can run around shooting people, blowing them up, chainsawing them, running them over, burying them alive, beheading them, entirely gratuitously. but if the character should be seen to be engaged in the act which is the reason why we're all here…oh nooo…that just aint right, the public must be protected. it's janet jackson's nipple all over again. i'm soooooooo glad all the puritans left england to go to america, i certainly don't miss 'em. humourless repressed idiots. – by gta fan (uk)
|should they? (1:47pm est thu jul 21 2005)
even if the company put the scenes in there, they were blocked. a person has to actively try and get them with a mod/hack. should a company be held responsible for something like that?
– by tom
|this is why (1:56pm est thu jul 21 2005)
the country is in the shape its in now. a bunch of hypocrits running around trying to censor everything and tell everyone that they are doing the wrong thing and the way that they should live their lives, meanwhile their cheating on their husbands/wives involved in numerous other scandles. you can chop people up into pieces and get away with it, but god forbid you make sex publically available as if its not already, and your going to hang for it. give me a break!!!!! – by your daddy
|righteous indignation (2:17pm est thu jul 21 2005)
i love it when nitwits get all bent out of shape about this stuff. it's not hard to understand, but you'll have to pay attention:
most teens in most cities are much more likely to engage in sex than they are in killing people. parents and other grownups do not like the idea of games – even crap like gta – encouraging sex. stds, unwanted pregnancies, date rape, and sexual exploitation are actually bad things. they may not be as bad as killing people or getting killed, but it's not a zero-sum game. why glorify either?
a lollipop to the first genius who brings up the first amendment. – by dinosaur
|good old usa (2:18pm est thu jul 21 2005)
another example of american society going down the drain – by glad to be canadian
|buy gta for kids! (2:32pm est thu jul 21 2005)
it's illegal to sell gta to 17 kids, but not so to give it to them. i give gta games as presents to kids and also donate it to youth centers.
culture war can kiss my ass! – by gta santa
|typo (2:33pm est thu jul 21 2005)
illegal to sell to under 17 year old kids… – by gta santa
|i'm the first (2:34pm est thu jul 21 2005)
first amendment!
now where's my damn lollipop? – by firstgenius
|firstgenius (3:00pm est thu jul 21 2005)
ok, i lied no lollipop. but thanks for bringing it up. – by dinosaur
|gee, what brilliance! (3:04pm est thu jul 21 2005)
bump the rating from "mature 17" to "adults only". that's a whole 1 year! wow!!
fucking retards. – by censors teh sux0rs!
|yes (3:09pm est thu jul 21 2005)
even if the scenes where hidden, a responsible company should have simply pulled the content, period, or never produced them in the first place. in this day and age of internet and software hackers it was pretty brain dead of rockstar to think that someone wasn't going to eventually stumble upon the hidden content. i am almost positive now that rockstar wanted this content to be found as this has generated more publicity they they could ever afford.
asside from what is right or wrong, sex is more easily doable then killing people or taking drugs. the bottom line is a couple horny kids having sex and making a baby can lead to the kind of unloved, abused, under-educated and ignored child that eventually grows up to perform the horrific crimes that bored, fat, over-protected, white collar suburban kids are pretending at in the video games. – by topher
|just one year? (3:13pm est thu jul 21 2005)
the whole point of rating the game ao is so that major distibuters won't sell the game, its not just to raise the age one year. – by all you missimformed
|. . . (3:20pm est thu jul 21 2005)
no, you�re missing the point. the game will still sell, it will have even more appeal to youth because they are told they can't have it and this has opened up a flood gate because now other developers can make there games that much worse because rockstar raised the bar. – by showswhatuknow
|re: (3:52pm est thu jul 21 2005)
rockstar has also offered game patches for current pc versions to make the game "hot coffee" mod-resistant."
i guess that won't help those who don't have an internet connection… or are already hooked on the 'minigame'
and they finally admitted that they did it to boot! you can't add anything to a dvd-rom… just unlock stuff with gameshark etc..
|gta? (3:53pm est thu jul 21 2005)
look at my name
says enough – by gta sux
|nerdblurb.com (3:55pm est thu jul 21 2005)
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|18/21 (3:55pm est thu jul 21 2005)
actually, a "legal" adult is really 21, but, i'm sure no one cares anyway. especially the kind of people who play this horrid game. – by pineconn
|i was a hacker once… (3:55pm est thu jul 21 2005)
should a company be held responsible for something like that?
yes, even if it was 'locked' or hidden… you'd be surprised at who's doing what when you hack into a server -or the like. the goodies always (or baddies in this case) get revealed somehow… weather by hacker, or by a simple code-cracking hardware piece. – by rad
|riight! (3:59pm est thu jul 21 2005)
''…give gta games as presents to kids and also donate it to youth centers…''
who will the parents sue, you – or the youth center? kids have to grow in a healthy environment, and that's got nothing to do with 'religion'… it's been scientifically proven (except the fact remains that simulators help aid certain functions) – by noone special
|war games (4:00pm est thu jul 21 2005)
the game is to violent it should be stopped.your teaching people its alright to kill.oh sorry thats the iraq war i was talking about. – by the x
|why? (4:02pm est thu jul 21 2005)
can't they release two versions? a kiddy friendly version with no sex games, and an adult version where i can use all the content without messing about with codes and cracks? i think the paddle game with the dominatrix sounds like fun.
they've already got the adults only rating. why not go for broke?
– by –hajila
|sex games (4:09pm est thu jul 21 2005)
theres too much sex.and degrading acts done with women.oh sorry thats my bedroom i was talking about. – by the x
|all sex is ok? (4:36pm est thu jul 21 2005)
tell that to any parent with a 15 year old girl.
then try breathing through your now-broken nose.
*responsible* parents will not only look at the esrb ratings of games (or mpaa ratings of moves), but actually pay attention to the content. they will also educate their children in the facts of life instead of letting tv, movies and video games do it for them. for me, being a responsible parent, this is really a non-issue since none of my kids play these games anyway.
how many of you complainers here have contacted the esrb or one of your (many) government representatives about changing the esrb criteria to give violent content more restricted ratings?
hmmm. about zero, i think. – by jrink
|boycot gamestop (4:44pm est thu jul 21 2005)
boycot gamestop!
that is the only way to fight back.
– by cguac
|legal age (4:47pm est thu jul 21 2005)
a legal adult is 18.
jackass. – by amole
|we do suck (5:03pm est thu jul 21 2005)
"this is ridiculous. it gets rated 17 when i can run around shooting people, blowing them up, chainsawing them, running them over, burying them alive, beheading them, entirely gratuitously. but if the character should be seen to be engaged in the act which is the reason why we're all here…"
i agree 100%. it's the same problem with film. death, killing, murder. hell let's denzel take on the mexican mafia, kill people and celebrate…but god help us if janet's tit shows up on tv for 3 seconds. – by lol
|thank hillary (5:07pm est thu jul 21 2005)
you lib snob worshipers, she's the one who gave the big outrage speech on tv last week. she lended her political clout to help get this recalled. tipper gore (responsible for the warning labels on music cd's) has now been upsurped as the censorship queen.
i guess it her "it takes a village" world running people over w/ cars and blowing their brains out is o.k. as long as there isn't any sex involved.
given that she forgave w/ bill, monica, and their peculiar cigar sex habit you'd think she'd be o.k. with this sort of thing. – by have a cigar
|you are correct jrink (5:12pm est thu jul 21 2005)
but how many parents are already letting their 13 year old children play crap like this? changing the rating from mature to adult isn't going to make much difference to those people.
most parents abandoned their responsibilities long ago. it is much easier to give into the demands of their spawn rather than actually take the time and effort to be a good parent.
– by lazy parent
|idiots… (6:25pm est thu jul 21 2005)
saving the world one badly simulated sex act at a time. – by 2cent
|okay, (6:36pm est thu jul 21 2005)
this pisses me off to no end
first, this so-called mod, to unlock blocked content, is likely against the eula. which makes it illegal, which makes hotcoffee criminals? the riaa is fast to sue 13 year old girls for downloading music but this happens to the game industry and the software company is raped on both ends. (careful kids explicit material)
second, this issue has been thrown out of proportion by: senators (esp.klin-ton) for their own public image, as if taking a stand against games makes them look like a moral champion (insert laughs and "yeah rights" here) and the media who will report anything if it might get them the pulitzer or more ratings. both of which know nothing about these games not to mention the hypocrisy of their actions. i seem to remember the movie "eyes wide shut" and how it was praised as a cinimogrophy masterpiece and a piece of art by much of the media (or some of them anyways) and i�m sure that klin-ton and other politicians didn't make much fuss over them (they enjoy these movies… they don't play games) the point is they will push this issue because they think it will make them look good!
third, come on now an "m" rating means a store can't sell it to people under 17 years old and it�s suggested to parents that kids under 17 shouldn't play it, an "a" rating is for 18 years old. wow what a jump. now if you actually paid any attention to the ratings then your 12 year old wouldn't be playing the game (if you really cared about the content that is) and if s/he is, its your fault for letting them play it and its your fault if s/he sees any naked people doing the naughty (that should please the censors).
finally, government oversight!? investigations!? more policing!? are you nuts!? first off, what about the first amendment? oh wait it doesn�t apply to games (or lawmakers don�t want it to) since games can have events and actions that some people don�t like. second it�s not take two's responsibility this hack was made and released. take two is not responsible for spreading the knowledge about this issue either. why is take two taking all the blame? why is it that the reactions the politicians are taking are going to cost us more money? these games are expensive enough without the extra cost of these so-called (unnecessary) reforms. $50 bucks a game… try $70-90!
i am glad there are organizations out there that are fighting for the rights of gamers and game companies. i hope that the public outcry of our gamers shows these politicians how much they are overreacting on this issue. if not then it will just get worse. – by think about that
|that game suxs (7:29pm est thu jul 21 2005)
your playing a morons game with cartoon sex and you want to defend it.lol how freaking hard up are you geeks. kids shouldn t be playing these kind of crap games.and retarted adults over 18 shouldn't either.take that crap off the market.if your a kid and want to play these kind of games you need help.if your a adult defending this crap your beyond help. – by thex
|defending what exactly (7:41pm est thu jul 21 2005)
defending the game? hah, i don't even have the game! typical of the kind of thinking we can expect from your side. let me break this down for you. whether you like it or not, whether you play it or not, whether you think it should be played or not, it is protected (how hard is this to understand?). to bring up these so called actions to police them just causes problems across the board. in other words games you (mr. thex) would want to play would also be effected. if you don't want your kids (or yourself) playing them then don't let them. if you don't want anyone else playing them (or just plain making them) too bad, you have no right to stop them. your moral values aside (mr. thex) the actions and proposed actions made about this issue are still blown out of proportion and just plain wrong. – by think about that
|to dinosaur (7:45pm est thu jul 21 2005)
same old right wing asshole that i love to hate. – by lick um
|lmfao (8:24pm est thu jul 21 2005)
real rating: adult wannabe, 18-21 years only. – by lmfao
|to everyone (8:50pm est thu jul 21 2005)
wow all this excesive reading makes me tired. whats the point?what a waste of time.good thing our goverment is not helping our people with real issues like americas ghetto's and the mindless killing that happens eveyday on the street were i grew up.ahh!! a video game you say?run for your lives!whats the point of arguing? conservatives are greedy and only want to make themselves look good.the more you make these things an issue the more time it takes away from real issues that effect people everyday well being.what a beatiful world. – by untitled
|re:think about that (11:28pm est thu jul 21 2005)
haha!! shut up slut. i'll hump your 16 year old daughter if i want to.
balls deep baby!!!!!!!!!!!!!! – by dr. delicious
|to everyone! (11:48pm est thu jul 21 2005)
gta was rated "m" for a reason. if these stupid parents want to go out and buy this game for their kids it's their own fault! look at it this way, parents want to spoil their kids so they buy them what they want! well they should take a little time to think about the game. it's rated "m" i really don't want you to have it! that's all they had to do. but no they had to file something against rockstar games when it's their own damn fault!!!! if they have a problem with the game then they can take it and shove it up their ass!!!!!!!!!!! – by ~lindsey~
|18 = adult (12:38am est fri jul 22 2005)
fucking retards! 18 year old can go fight and die for their country or idiot president, so they are obviously considered adults. jackass!
you are basing an adult on being able to buy alcohol — you should be asking why your stupid country lets 18 year olds carry guns and drive tanks in warfare, but can't have a beer?
stupid fucks! – by us policy teh sux0r
|fyi (2:31am est fri jul 22 2005)
boy reach puberty at 8, fyi only. – by fyi only
|nerdblurb podcast (6:11am est fri jul 22 2005)
good stuff guys… glad you introduced me to podcasting. youre offically the first podcast i subscribed to.
(refer to the second post for info)!!! – by a podcast convert
|re: dr. delicious (12:57pm est fri jul 22 2005)
how infantile….. – by drole…
|sheltered life (1:49pm est fri jul 22 2005)
"they will also educate their children in the facts of life instead of letting tv, movies and video games do it for them" – jrink
the facts of life hu? the facts of life is that there is sex out there. have you ever had it? the fact that there are people who have bizzar tasts out tehre when it comes to sex. hiding everything isn't the best way to solve your problems. if our society weren't so scared of every little thing in the world kids won't feel the need to go on drinking binges when they get to college. kids won't feel like they have been sheltered and suddenly discover some forbidden activity.
the facts of life is that everything is out there. let people see it and chose what they want to watch, play, read, and write. it doesn't effect everyone else directly so give it a rest.
if you notice how liberal europe is with sex it is hard to understand why everyone isn't a crack baby born out of horny teenage angst, accoridng to these values we have at least. – by hybob
|all messed up (4:15pm est fri jul 22 2005)
what the hell i dont get why it even matters what the rating is. sure there is killing and shit but its not like there are eight year olds playing the game and then going out and killing people…. – by mullenpower13
|nudity…. (4:48pm est fri jul 22 2005)
i found my dad's porn stash at 12… to the average teenager, 1 quick titty isn't gonna cut it nowadays – by overboard
|re: us policy teh sux0r (5:30pm est sat jul 23 2005)
you should talk about things you know like draft dodging and bush bashing.
first of all people 18 and up in the military can drink. most bases allow 18 and up at their on base clubs and command functions. second, you have to be 21 as a civilian because it's been shown most 18-20 year olds don't have the discipline to drink responsibly, hence the law.
however while in the military your are constantly being supervised by older more experienced individuals and being told what to do. that's not the case for most 19 year olds at a kegger.
there's no comparison between the two whatsoever.
|complete bs (1:42am est sun jul 24 2005)
if what i've been told is correct, and i think it is, then you have to download a certian mod or hack just to play the mini game. if hillary is going to be so anal about the matter, then why doesn't she try to stop the sites that provide this download. that would be a helluva lot easier than trying to force people not to buy the game because that is what she is trying to do. she can't stand other people having fun because billy boy is giving her anything. people want what they can't have. by making this game ao then people will want it even more. then more games will push the limits and be even worse than gta and it will turn into a downward spiral just getting worse and worse. i can't wait to hear hillary bitch and bitch when that happens. – by give me a break
|appealing to voting parents (1:58am est sun jul 24 2005)
i believe that hillary is only trying to improve he public image for office. think about it, she believes that it is people 17 and younger that play video games including gta. now, by increasing the rating so that one has to wait for one whole fucking year, then parents will by all happy because then their kids are still "innocent" (ha yeah right). the parents will then like her more and more and they will vote for her. now the people who really get it in the ass is the consumer under eighteen who cannot vote. so by doing this more people like her and everyone under eighteen can't vote for her opposition. i'm still going to be able to buy the next one and i'm not even 16.
– by give me a break
|ha ha (7:01pm est sun jul 24 2005)
i allredy have it and i'm 15 so why do i care? hahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!! – by smartass
|a laughing matter (9:16am est mon jul 25 2005)
when in doubt, have a chuckle about it… found this link mocking the whole debacle….
– by lol
|helllllll with esrb (5:41pm est mon jul 25 2005)
i hate that rating system!!!! – by jake
|fun stuff (10:37pm est mon jul 25 2005)
i am under 17 years old i own the game and i play cus its a game im not playing it to see a quick little sex scene that by the way is animated if i want to look at sex scenes i turn on the tv or the internet y doesnt hilary due something about that bitch – by tom green
|i have to admit (10:22am est tue jul 26 2005)
i didn't care to install hot coffee until i found out the game was being pulled. i'm glad i did because the stuff is pure comedy. i have to admit…the sex scenes are a little too explicit.
– by aag
|please (1:57am est tue aug 09 2005)
how can i use hot coffee on sa – by by jason
|ao (7:29am est tue aug 23 2005)
if everyone on this post is old enough to play the game then what is the big deal of changing the ratings??
if everyone under 18 is in such a hurry to play a game like this, and thinks a adults only rating is so unfair, then why not fight for your rights to sign up for your draft registration early and let your 8 year old sister drive your first car you got for your 16th birthday. its not like theres worse things on tv. have you seen the shows cbs puts out. – by gta sux


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Month: February 2017
Hear Singer Kelly Hansen Talk Foreigner 40th Anniversary Tour And More
- 11:57 am Tuesday, February 28th, 2017 by Joe Rock
Roger Waters Talks New Album, Tour And An Artists Responsibility To Politics
- 2:04 pm Thursday, February 23rd, 2017 by Joe Rock
Hear Kansas Singer Ronnie Platt Talk Latest Album, Tour And Upcoming Show At Plaza Live
- 1:27 am Wednesday, February 22nd, 2017 by Joe Rock
Hear Robert Randolph Talk new Album, Stevie Ray, Clapton And More
- 12:23 pm Monday, February 20th, 2017 by Joe Rock
GnR Gets Booed; Angus Young Joins
- 3:26 pm Tuesday, February 14th, 2017 by hildiwmmo
Guns N' Roses played Melbourne, Australia last night and there was a terrible traffic jam before the show. Many are saying that's why the band started late.
Sure, Axl has been known to start shows up to 3 hours late – but not on this reunion tour. He's been quite angelic, actually.
Then, when the band was introduced, the announcer called out SYDNEY instead of Melbourne, where they were playing. The crowd began to boo, as you might imagine.
It happens! And again, not Axl's fault. I just feel I should defend him since he's been so well-behaved on this tour and turning [More]
Southside Johnny Talks To Me About His Upcoming Area Shows And So Much More
- 2:21 am Monday, February 13th, 2017 by Joe Rock
Tom Petty's Speech Inspires as Rock World Honors Him
- 3:23 pm Sunday, February 12th, 2017 by hildiwmmo
Ahhhh, wish I was there.
Stevie Nicks gushed about her friend, Tom Petty, before dueting with him on Stop Dragging My Heart Around, "He is as sweet as he is talented."Foo Fighters and Gary Clark, Jr. covered Breakdown (clip below).
Kicking off Grammy weekend on Friday night, February 10, Stevie Nicks, the Foo Fighters, ELO and many more celebrated Tom Petty as the MusicCares Person of the Year.
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Skynyrd, Styx & ZZ Top at Sea World
- 1:15 pm Sunday, February 12th, 2017 by hildiwmmo
Denise spent her Saturday hangin' with our Jacksonville boys at Skynyrd who, as always, put on an amazing show!
Styx plays the Seven Seas Food Festival there on Saturday, March 4 and ZZ Top will be there Saturday, March 18!
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The traditional Snow Moon is set to appear tonight just after sunset. Be on the look out for it around 5:30 p.m and hang out, because around 7:43 p.m. you can witness the peak of the lunar eclipse. You can then expect various changes to the moon's color until 9:54 p.m. In addition to that, what is called Comet 45P will be visible tonight as well. However it is not visible to the naked eye, so if you want to see it make sure you're in a dark environment with binoculars. It'll be greenish in color so if you're looking for it you [More]
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(This post is part of the Audience (R)Evolution online salon curated by Caridad Svich for the TCG Audience (R)Evolution Convening in Kansas City, MO in 2015.)
When we were little, my mum used to try and get me and my brother to garden: to plant seeds and tend the plants as they grew. IT WAS SO BORING.
But now I'm nearly 40, I get it. I'm older. I understand time better. I understand the action and effect of time better. Suddenly (or, more likely, gradually) I want to train myself into the patience and dedication and practice of gardening.
Theatre is time, in a space, with other people. You can fill it with anything.
There's a lot of focus on the immediacy of the live moment. Too right. It's the sensitivity of that liveness which gives the form of theatre such potential. There's much more talk now of audience as participants in the experience, rather than viewers or receivers of the work. Many more of us think of our practice as making theatre with, rather than for, audiences. There's so much theatre now that asks its audience to interact physically as well as engage emotionally and intellectually. There's so much more attention drawn to the here-and-now presence of all of us – performers and audience – together in this moment. The intensity of the live moment is that we're in it together… And then… and then…
And then, it makes me wonder if the real power of that intensity doesn't more often make itself clear only much further down the line – days, months, years after the event?
I hate the word 'participation.' It's so utterly banal. I know why we use it – the sheer blankness of the word makes it a usefully grey heading that's never gonna colour the authentic amazingness of actually feeling connected with or part of something beyond yourself. But if we think about participation as the interaction of personal response with event, then I wonder whether we shouldn't talk more about what happens later? The aftermath of the immediate experience. What has changed, that stays changed? What remains?
The speed of modern information exchange; the now-ness of social media; the pressure to make your presence known through iteration and reiteration is immense. The ephemerality of theatre, the impossibility of its mass production – the very thing that gives it such potential power – is also what makes it hard to access. [There's an argument to be had over whether we tend to confuse the notion of rarity (because it can't be mass produced) with elitism, but that's a tangent… ] Our reliance on comment and critique as the way in which we memorialize theatre means that we're reliant on increasingly immediate reflections on the event.
But sometimes you just don't get the thing that's in front of you until much later. When I first heard PJ Harvey's Sheela-Na-Gig, I hated it. I didn't know what to do with it. I didn't know how to process it. It freaked me out. I hated it. Maybe a year later, I heard Legs on the radio and I couldn't tear my ears from it. It fascinated me like nothing else I'd ever heard. And now I have to make a leap of imagination to recall my initial aversion to that first PJ Harvey tune I encountered. I could say the same about Mukesh and Lata Mangeshkar. I could say the same about my first glimpse of Forced Entertainment.
Recently, a performance company invited me to write a reflection on a show of theirs from a few years back. The words that recurred, the sensations that remained were not at all what I thought most important at the time (I know this because it prompted me to look back at the notes I'd made around the show at the time it toured.)
This made me think of how, during our long process of making The Bullet And The Bass Trombone, one of the things that most informed our artistic decisions about what mattered most in the piece, came from conversations we had with people who had seen work-in-progress months before. Very often people would misremember the facts of the story, but there was real depth about what people found resonant over the long term. Some of those things were about voice; sometimes about duration; sometimes about how it played alongside the real world. Sometimes these were effects that we'd never recognised ourselves. We took note of what people found meaningful to help us anchor the production – like the base notes of a fragrance, or the key in which the story played.
I like the idea that the live event is not necessarily the end, but the beginning or the middle of a process that the audience can take away as their own. We do this more often with pop music, I think – take it and own it on our terms in relation to our own particular life experience. It's easier of course, when you can cheaply own and replay the thing itself; but that's not to say that even if you can't stick it on your ipod, you can't make the invitation to an audience, to feel their honest response and own their experience (even if they get a few facts wrong in the remembering.)
In Bob Dylan's 2015 MusiCares award speech, he talks about his songs as the inevitable fruits of seeds in shape of songs he's loved, by singers like Big Bill Broonzy and Robert Johnson; planted in his soul and grown into songs like Highway 61 Revisited and A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall. Is that influence an act of participation too?
I couldn't have predicted it on first encounter, but now, many years on, I can talk about the influence of Franko B's I Miss You or Ridley Scott's DVD commentaries on my work as a theatre director. As artists, we're attuned to our creative processes and the accessibility of digital publishing makes it much easier for us to share those stories. What I'd love to find are more places where audiences, critics, and others reflect on and review theatre from some time ago. If the liveness of theatre is its big deal, then what remains of the experience inside me is more than just an echo – it's part of the thing itself. It's under my skin. It's planted in me. What remains? What grows?
Tanuja Amarasuriya is a director and producer based in Bristol, UK. She is Co-Executive Producer of Theatre Bristol. She collaborates regularly with writer and composer Timothy X Atack under the name Sleepdogs, to make theatre, film, audio and whatever else it takes to share the story right. http://www.sleepdogs.org
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I've been thinking about getting a different camera. Thing is, I love my camera. It's a Sony Cybershot (also called a credit-card camera because it's about that big), and it takes great pictures. Videos, too. I can take it with me where I go--just stick it in my purse or a pocket. So why was I thinking about replacing it? Because I couldn't take closeups.
I love taking closeups! I love seeing minute details, the fine points of beauty and structure. But when it came to capturing that on film, I was an utter failure. I tried monkeying with the settings. Hit all the buttons I could find to hit. But no matter what I did--and I've been trying for a couple of years--here's what I got:
As you can imagine, I was, at first, disappointed. Then frustrated. Then determined to find a camera that worked, doggone it! So I've been looking at the new cameras coming out lately, exploring, but guess what? Every time I tested one, I got the same results. Blurry closeups.
Now, if you know digital cameras at all, you've probably already figured out what I was doing wrong. If not, let me clue you in. I finally, last week, talked with one of the sales guys at an electronics store. Told him what it was I wanted to do and what I'd tried. He responded without hesitation: "Oh, you need to find the macro setting."
I looked at him like he'd just sprouted an elephant's trunk in the middle of his forehead. (Which would have made a GREAT closeup, but even if I'd had my camera, it would've come out blurry...) "The what?"
"The macro setting. Here, let me show you."
Unfortunately, he wasn't a camera salesman, so he couldn't figure out where it was on the new Cybershot, but that didn't matter. I'd discovered the key: Find the macro setting.
So home I went, straight to my trusty computer. (Yes, I should have gone to the manual, but this camera is over a year old, and you think I know where I put that manual for "safe keeping?" Ha!) Happily, the manual was right there, online. Directing me to another document. Something called: READ THIS FIRST. So I did another computer search, found the PDF of my camera's READ THIS FIRST, and voila! There it was. The macro setting. Right in front of my face every time I used the camera! In fact, it was a little symbol that I'd always wondered what it was. But did I ever try to find out? Of course not. I was too busy trying to figure out how to take closeups! No time for distractions. Gotta figure this out!
So I press the handy-dandy macro button, ran outside, and took the most beautiful closeups you could want. No kidding. Just by pressing one suddenly obvious button.
As I was looking at the pictures I'd taken, delighting in the detail, it hit me. How often do we do this with God? We have something we can't quite figure out, but forge ahead with our strategies, doing every we can think of to solve the puzzle. When all we need to do is go to the manual. To His Word.
To Him.
Because He has the answers, we don't. Or at least I don't. And He knows what I need to understand. What's more, those times when I have finally turned to Him for guidance and help, He's shown me, as often as not, that the key was right there in front of me. But without His leading I didn't even what I was looking for.
All those years I wasted missing great shots just because I wanted to figure it out for myself. But I didn't even know the right language. Had no idea what I needed to know. So all that research I'd done before talking with folks in the know? Wasted time. And all those years I've tried to figure life out on my own? Worse than wasted.
Try downright foolish.
I set my camera down and bowed my head, asking God to imprint this moment on my heart. To remind me, next time I hit a puzzle, that I don't have to figure it out all by myself. Far better to go to the Creator, the One who wrote the Manual of Life. He knows the right language. And He's ready and waiting to teach it to me. And oh, if I'll listen, what beauty awaits! Beauty of understanding, and of peace because I'm resting in the One who has the answers. And the beauty of God's blessings. Like the things my self-focused, wasted efforts can never achieve.
Such as...
Peace to you today.
Monday, June 2, 2008
Finding the Answers
Posted by Karen B. at 10:22 AM
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Most excellent, Ms. Ball. :)
- June 2, 2008 at 10:50 AM
- Lori Benton said...
Lovely photos! Even more lovely is the application. And to think, all the nifty buttons and settings (promises and comforts and direction) that are in His Word. If we just sit down and read it. *s*
Good word!
- June 2, 2008 at 4:04 PM
- Richard Mabry said...
"If all else fails, read the instructions." Karen, I thought I was the only one who did stuff like that. Beautiful pictures. Glad you found the button.
- June 4, 2008 at 2:36 PM
- C.J. Darlington said...
The before pictures are like man's view of the world, the afters are like God's. Everything is clear. Beautiful!
- June 6, 2008 at 4:56 AM
- Karen B. said...
Ooo, C.J., I love that thought!
- June 6, 2008 at 10:34 AM
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DENVER (AP) — Jorge De La Rosa pitched six strong innings, Troy Tulowitzki and Drew Stubbs each hit two-run homers, and the Colorado Rockies beat the Minnesota Twins 6-2 on Friday night in the teams' first interleague meeting at Coors Field in six years.
De La Rosa (10-6) allowed one run and six hits in winning his fourth straight and reaching double-digit wins in a season for the fourth time in his career. He benefited from a power surge that has seen Tulowitzki hit three homers and Stubbs two in their last two games.
The Rockies also benefited from the return of star outfielder Carlos Gonzalez, who missed the previous 35 games because of a benign tumor on his left index finger that had to be excised surgically.
Kris Johnson (0-1), recalled from Triple A Rochester on Thursday, gave up five runs on eight hits in four innings.
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What has happened to our legal system? Where does Rep. Henry Hyde have the colossal nerve to ask for the impeachment of the president? How can a man who has had a five-year extramarital relationship, hs broken up a home and lied about this secret for 25 years, be permitted to head a board of judges? Has Congress gone mad? When will the Republicans stop this dirty witch hunt?
Every decent citizen is sick of the dirty mess that Congress is using to cover up their lack of attention to social problems confronting our country and for which work they have been elected. Get off this unconstitutional mess.
Tell Ken Starr, Hyde and all bigots to go home and get down to running the country as American men.


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Who do you think you are kidding, Mr Cullen?
It was revealed late last week that the Labour-led minority coalition Government is sitting on a massive operating surplus of $8.7 billion.
But still Finance Minister Michael Cullen continues to act like a spoilt child with too many toys, blatantly lying to uninformed journalists about the benefits of a huge tax package unveiled this week by Australian Treasurer Peter Costello.
Either he is seriously misinformed, or seriously mathematically challenged. For most low income workers in Australia, their first $20,000 of annual earnings would effectively be tax-free once the full package is implemented. (The tax-free income level for senior citizens is higher again).
David Farrar over at Kiwiblog has calculated that someone earning "$30,000 a year" (whether single or married, and with or without children) will pay just $1,500 in tax... which translates to an average tax rate of just 5%. (A NZ worker on $30,000 currently loses $5,730 in income tax each year!!)
A generous tax-free threshold is something New Zealand's next Government needs to address as a priority. Forget the arguments from the left that "tax cuts benefit the rich"... introducing a 0% tax rate on the first portion of income means every single workers start off on the same footing.
A 'Personal Tax Allowance' is common overseas... in the UK the tax free amount is currently £5,225 (~NZ $14,000). Even the Green Party (at the last election at least) are in favour of a 0% tax rate for all New Zealanders... for the first $5,000 of income at least.
On top of the tax-free allowances and lower tax rates, Australian workers also get an extra 9% of their gross salary (minimum) paid by their employer directly into their personal superannuation plan (by contrast, New Zealand workers enrolled in KiwiSaver can look forward to a whopping 1% contribution from next April, rising to 4% by April 2011).
Again, check out Kiwiblog where David Farrar has done a great breakdown and analysis of the relative potential tax bills between New Zealand and Australian workers, based on Costello's plan...
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Set in the American South, Chicago, New York City, and Europe, What Solomon Saw includes eleven insightful stories, some lighthearted, some heartbreaking, that explore the lives of women young and old, some strong, others fragile, all befuddled by life's contradictions.
The title story takes its name from, Solomon, the wise old willow oak that cradles the tree house of young Martha, who finds herself reeling in the rapidly changing 1960s. In "A Whore for Thursdays," Gina investigates what is behind her angelic husband's shocking deathbed confession. "Girl Interrupted at Her Music" follows cellist Nora Steele into a spiral of depression after she loses her husband—and all hope for children—in the South Tower. And in "A Split in the Seam," Tess receives unexpected visits, proving that parents continue to watch over their children—even from the afterlife.
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Mary Dean's first story, read aloud while carpooling to St. Leo's Catholic Grammar School, was a sequel to Gone with the Wind. Cason's Rhett Butler meets another woman who adores him. Scarlett sets out to kill them both. "My story met with frowns," Cason says. "I was the only girl in North Carolina who didn't pull for Scarlett to get Rhett back."
Mary Dean had already blown through a series of careers before she settled down to study writing. "I was a flight attendant back in the days when we got pinched on a regular basis. I hung wallpaper at night while I was studying to be an occupational therapist. Eventually, I became a writer for pharmaceutical/healthcare ad agencies and somehow managed to raise two amazing children along the way."
Writing stories came late, but the seeds were planted early. Growing up on the front porches of North Carolina was where Cason listened, and in time, learned to be a storyteller. In 2000, she submitted "What Solomon Saw" to Chicago Public Radio's Stories on Stage. It ended up becoming one of six finalists and ultimately spurred her to enroll at the University of Chicago's Writers Studio where she won the 2008 prize for fiction. Since then, she has been a featured writer at Chicago's Story Club, cofounder of Indigan Storytellers, a workshop for oral storytelling, and creator of Wine, Women and Stories, an Indiana literary salon that raises money for a variety of arts-related causes. In addition to the Writers Studio prize, Mary Dean also won the University of Memphis Pinch Award and California's WestSide Story Contest. Mary Dean lives along Lake Michigan with her husband. Together they have six children. She is completing her first novel.
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How Did This Athlete Pass A Drug Test?
How did this athlete make all traces of marijuana disappear out of his system a mere 36 hours after smoking it and pass a drugs test?
Drug tests are part of sports. Indeed the bane of some athletes existence, forever trying to beat drug tests to gain a competitive edge on their competition. However, some athletes despise the drug tests for a very different reason and that's because some drugs being tested for are on the list of banned substances despite having no discernable performance enhancing qualities like steroids and will disqualify them from racing or playing in their particular sport of choice.
Yes, marijuana is on the banned substances list and every single athlete that uses it is unsure why; people like Michael Phelps, Nick Diaz, and Allan Iverson. Even the great Arnold Schwarzenegger was a user.
Enter Chris Barnicle
He is the self-proclaimed "world's fastest stoner". Chris is a distance runner and as such has or rather had (since he is no longer running competitively) the challenge of being known as a stoner but needing to be clean to pass drug testing.
Chris actually become famous amongst his group of friend for passing drug tests, tests that he shouldn't have passed given how little time had passed since he had last smoked and the drug testing. They liked to call them the "Great Escapes". No word on whether it has any relationship to the Boys like Girls song of 2006 fame.
His greatest Houdini moment was making all traces of marijuana disappear out of his system a mere 36 hours after smoking it and passing a drug test. But how did he do it?
How did he do it?
Barnicle admits passing a drug test within a 36-hour window was not fun nor was it healthy, but it can be done. He says he ran 24 miles in that time and was in the sauna the entire time between classes. He drank nearly unhealthy amounts of water and cartons of orange juice. On top of that, he started drinking coffee for the first time in his life for the purpose of its function as a diuretic. All his coffees had 3 espresso shots. That could not have tasted good.
Barnicle's marijuana use never stopped him from success on the track. In 2010, he recorded times of 13:43 in the 5,000-meter run and 28:11 in the 10,000, both personal bests.
Life after a stunted pro career
After graduating, Barnicle enjoyed a short-lived professional career that was derailed by injuries. In 2014, he launched an equally short-lived medical-marijuana business in California, called Zip Organics.
On Feb 19, 2016, Barnicle earned the dubious achievement of finishing last in the US Olympic marathon trials. His time of 3 hours, 45 minutes was 22 minutes worse than the slowest women's runner, and the slowest Olympic trials time by any American man or woman since at least 2000.
Barnicle was three years removed from the 2013 half-marathon time that qualified him for the trials. He said he decided to go through with Tuesday's race less than two months ago when he learned it was in his hometown of Los Angeles. When questioned about whether he had eaten any edibles before the race, he comically replied "No comment"
Whether it's healthy or not, you can't argue with his results!
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This week has also been so hot! And to be honest, 100 degrees doesn't entirely inspire me in fashion, as I automatically gravitate towards shorts and t-shirts! But I actually managed to change to get a little dressed up this week before I moved and I want to share my dress with you guys!
I got this dress really recently at Zara, and I absolutely love it because all of the white details are actually beads, and I think this dress is so pretty and perfect for summer! My only complaint is that since there are sooo many beads the dress was rather heavy! But I still think it is super nice for a sunny day! I'm currently unpacking boxes and trying to work on all of my midterms but I hope you all have a lovely day!


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A ping is perhaps the most commonly used tool when troubleshooting a network. Ping (Packet Internet Groper) tool is included with most operating systems. It is invoked using a ping command. Ping command uses ICMP (Internet Control Message Protocol). Ping works by sending an ICMP echo request message to the specified IP address. If the computer with the destination IP address is reachable, it responds with an ICMP echo reply message.
A ping command usually outputs some other information about a network performance, e.g. a round-trip time, a time to send an ICMP request packetand receive an ICMP reply packet.
Here is an output of the ping command from Windows 7:
In the example above we have pinged the ip address 10.10.100.1. By default, ping on Windows sends four ICMP request packets. As you can see from the output above, the host with the IP address of 10.10.100.1 is reachable and has replied with four ICMP reply packets. You can also see that the remote host has replied within 1 ms, which indicates that the network is not congested.


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Not sure why I'm feeling compelled to write this morning, but I do.
I had a frustrating situation this morning that left me super annoyed and on top of that I thought it was Wednesday so I frantically ripped all of the sheets off the beds and threw them in the wash to get ready for the cleaning ladies and was in rush to make sure everything was ready so they could clean… Glad I'm ready for them them now… a day early! haha As soon as I realized it was only Tuesday and started planning for my day, I took a minute to browse through facebook which I haven't made a lot of time for recently, and was overwhelmed by one friends life, in particular, and am in awe of what the Lord is doing in their life! I watched this family walk through utter heartbreak and then by the grace of God, there was redemption. It's so fun to watch people be completely obedient to the Lord, surrendering everything, no matter what, and continuing to have faith that their suffering has a reason and isn't in vain. Sometimes He's not done writing our story and it's so powerful. This family is such a witness and it's so beautiful to watch.
As for me this morning, I am thankful. My God is good. Whether life is good or bad right now, God lives in the peaks and the valleys with us and His grace is sufficient. My prayer is that I can live the way this family does, clinging to Jesus and praising Him even in the storms. There is a peace when we sit at the feet of Jesus, knowing we don't have to endure everything alone. He is good, He is faithful. Trust.
I have no idea if any of this made sense to anyone, but it does to me and a year down the road I can't wait to come back and re-read this reminder for myself!


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What is mathematics about? And if it is about some sort of mathematical reality, how can we have access to it? This is the problem raised by Plato, which still today is the subject of lively philosophical disputes. This book traces the history of the problem, from its origins to its contemporary treatment. It discusses the answers given by Aristotle, Proclus and Kant, through Frege's and Russell's versions of logicism, Hilbert's formalism, GApdel's platonism, up to the the current debate on Benacerraf's dilemma and the indispensability argument. Through the considerations of themes in the philosophy of language, ontology, and the philosophy of science, the book aims at offering an historically-informed introduction to the philosophy of mathematics, approached through the lenses of its most fundamental problem.Wewill discuss two versions ofit, Parsonsa#39; versionand Shapiroa#39;s (1997) ante rem structuralism. ... For the sake of brevity, we will saythat a structure is instantiated by a systemif the relations holding between theobjects forming this system accord anbsp;...
|Plato's Problem
|Marco Panza, Andrea Sereni
|Palgrave Macmillan - 2013-01-21
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