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Check Out Prep's FaithCP Site and App
Campus Ministry invites parents to submit a prayer request for their sons or for Creighton Prep as we start the new school year. Go to the FaithCP site to submit a prayer request and download Prep's daily prayer app to your Android or Apple device.
FaithCP is a prayer app that provides daily scripture, reflections and prayers grounded in the spirituality of St. Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Jesuits. All prayer requests will be remembered at our Monday, Wednesday and Friday morning Masses in the Skinner Chapel and at the Mass of the Holy Spirit on Tuesday, August 28.
Join the Junior Jaybacker Club
Now is the time to join the Junior Jaybacker Club for the 2018-2019 school year! By purchasing a membership to the Junior Jaybacker Club you will:
Your membership includes admission to all regular season home games (including non-varsity games) and admission to Junior Jaybacker events.
Download a Junior Jaybacker season pass order form.
Purchase a Junior Jaybacker season pass online.
Reminder on Prep Moms Committee Signups for 2018-2019
Helping out with Prep Moms committees throughout the 2018-2019 school year is a great way to get involved and meet other members of the Prep family, and, with school just underway, I would like to ask you to identify the committees in which you have an interest in serving by clicking HERE.
The Prep Moms committees will also be involved in other August events such as the Welcome Dance tonight and Curriculum Night on Tuesday, August 21, so please try to visit the website and sign up for committees as soon as possible.
When the committees in which you expressed interest need volunteers for particular events, you will receive an email directing you to a SignUpGenius page where you can volunteer for specific tasks.
Prep Moms also has periodic meetings throughout the school year, and anyone in the Prep family is welcome to attend. Our first meeting is on Tuesday, September 11 at 7 p.m. in the Carta Hall of Fame Room just inside the Heider Center entrance. Additional meeting dates are:
November 13
January 15
March 26
April 16
Many of these meetings will have a "featured Prep speaker" such as Head of School Jim Bopp and/or President Fr. Tom Neitzke, SJ, and they are a great way to learn what is going on at Prep!
I look forward to your participation in Prep Moms this year! And please feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
Judy Pritza
Prep Moms President, 2018-2019
Reminder to Donate Dress Code Items
The Dean's Office is still welcoming donations of dress code items to have on hand for student use. Items include shorts, polo shirts, dress pants, dress shoes, button-up dress shirts, and belts—all of any size and in good condition. Dress shoes of any size are especially needed.
Simply have the items dropped off at the Dean's Office during office hours. Thank you for your consideration!
Volunteers Needed for Preptoberfest on Saturday, September 22
Preptoberfest, a celebration of all things Prep including reunion weekend, 140 years of Jesuit education and the formal kickoff to the 2019 AMDG Annual Fund campaign, will take place on Saturday, September 22 from 4:30 to 10 p.m., and parent volunteers are needed before, during and after the event.
For more information and to volunteer for Preptoberfest, please email Director of Alumni Relations Max Huerter '09 at email@example.com. Thank you!
Blue-White Game – Friday, August 17
Get a preview of the varsity and junior varsity Junior Jay football teams as they play in the annual Blue-White Game tonight at 6 p.m. in Carmen & Don Leahy Stadium, located at the north end of the west parking lot. See you there!
Welcome Dance – Friday, August 17
The Creighton Prep Student Council invites all current Prep students as well as students from Duchesne, Marian and Mercy to attend the Welcome Dance tonight in the Henry L. Sullivan, S.J. Campus Center.
The price of admission is $5/student. Prep students must have their demerit card, and students from Duchesne, Marian and Mercy must have a student I.D. to enter. New students from the three all-girls' schools who have not yet received an I.D. are also welcome. We will have lists of students provided by their respective schools.
Doors will open immediately after the Blue-White Game ends, and the dance will end at 10:30 p.m. Prep students should arrange to be picked up in the west lot. In addition, they can bring only one female guest from other schools besides those listed above and must have had a formal Guest Pass obtained, completed and returned to the Dean's Office by noon today.
Curriculum Night (previously Mini School Night) – Tuesday, August 21
Please note that Curriculum Night for parents (formerly Mini School Night) is scheduled for this Tuesday, August 21. Students will have an early dismissal at 12:35 p.m. that day. We hope you attend! It is the most heavily attended parent event of the year, and we will run a shortened schedule for parents that night as follows:
College Information Meeting for Senior Parents Only (Mullen Gym)
6:00 - 6:50 p.m.
Ready Bell
6:50 p.m.
Period 1 (Prayer and Announcements)
7:00 p.m. - 7:15 p.m.
Period 2
7:20 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Period 3
7:35 p.m. - 7:45 p.m.
Period 4a/4b
7:50 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Period 5a/5b
8:05 p.m. - 8:15 p.m.
Period 6
8:20 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Period 7
8:35 p.m. - 8:45 p.m.
Visit the various tables and displays as well including those for:
Please also note:
See you there!
Tickets for Prep Football vs. Omaha North – Thursday, August 23
Please note that tickets for the Prep vs. Omaha North football game on Thursday, August 23 at 7 p.m. at Kinnick Stadium on the Omaha Northwest High School campus will be on sale at the Prep switchboard during school hours on Tuesday, August 21 and Wednesday, August 22 and until noon on Thursday, August 23. Adult tickets are $6 and student tickets are $4. Prep students will need to purchase a ticket.
The Prep switchboard is located just inside the school's Administration entrance, which is adjacent to the east parking lot.
A Night Without a Home Sleep Out and Refugee Simulation – Saturday, August 25
Creighton Prep's English, Theology, and Campus Ministry departments are working with Lutheran Family Services to host a refugee simulation on the evening of Saturday, August 25. At that time, Prep will be hosting a group of refugees from our Omaha community who have generously offered to share their stories and take the participants through a simulation of the five stages of being a refugee.
The student and faculty participants will then be setting up tents on Prep's upper field to continue the simulation through a variety of activities and by spending the night on the field. The experience will conclude with Mass on Sunday morning, August 26.
While a night outside cannot come close to simulating the experiences of refugees around the world, the goal of this experience is to promote awareness, advocacy, and compassion.
We are looking for students who would like to practice solidarity by participating in this experience. Those who are interested should pick up a signup form from their English or theology teacher, or from the Campus Ministry office. If you have questions, please contact Mr. Dave Lawler at email@example.com.
Mass of the Holy Spirit – Tuesday, August 28
Creighton Prep cordially invites you to join the students, faculty and staff, and Jesuit community in the Heider Center at 9:45 a.m. on Tuesday, August 28 for the Mass of the Holy Spirit.
At this special Mass that annually marks the beginning of a new academic year at the school, we will ask for the blessings of the Holy Spirit on our community. The Most Reverend George J. Lucas, Archbishop of Omaha, will preside and be assisted by, among others, Fr. Tom Neitzke, SJ, the president of Creighton Prep, and Fr. Brian Paulson, SJ, the provincial of the USA Midwest Province.
Since this is traditionally the school's largest Mass event of the year, you are encouraged to arrive early, park in the east lot and enter the Heider Center through the main entrance at the northwest corner of the lot.
Thank you and we look forward to seeing you on Tuesday, August 28!
Mom's Football 101 – Wednesday, September 5
Prep moms, please join your fellow gridiron fans on Wednesday, September 5 from 6:30-8:30 p.m. in the PE classroom for "Mom's Football 101." This is a fun tradition for moms and friends to hear more about the game from Varsity Head Coach Tim Johnk.
Coach Johnk will diagram some plays and outline the goals for the season, along with answering ALL of your football-related questions. Drinks and appetizers will be served, and admittance is $5 at the door. Please RSVP to Kim Hubner at firstname.lastname@example.com.
On that evening, please enter school building from the west parking lot, using the furthest north entrance. This is the same entrance that the boys use when going from the locker room to Carmen & Don Leahy Stadium. We will have balloons out to direct you to the correct door.
Coffee and Conversation for Senior Parents – September 6, 13 and 19
Senior parents, please note that the Counseling Office will be sponsoring Coffee and Conversation for Senior Parents in the Carta Hall of Fame Room on Thursday, September 6 from 10-11 a.m., Thursday, September 13 from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and 7-8 p.m., and Wednesday, September 19 from 1-2 p.m.
Counselors will be present to answer any questions you have about the college application process, college scholarships or paying for college.
CP Parents Praying with St. Ignatius – Monday, September 10
The CP Parents Praying with St. Ignatius retreat experience continues its 12th year starting Monday, September 10 from 6:45 to 8:30 p.m. in the Skinner Chapel, located on the first floor of Creighton Prep in the south hallway. Fr. Kevin Schneider, SJ will direct the meeting.
Would you like to learn more about your son's religious formation at Prep and support his spiritual growth, as well as hear members of the CP staff share how faith influences their work? Please join us once a month as we pray the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius and learn about Ignatian spirituality.
Uniquely designed with busy parents in mind, this spiritual journey takes the four-week Ignatian retreat and spreads it over nine months. Fr. Kevin will lead the group in prayer, teaching and discussion of the Spiritual Exercises. He will also suggest ways that participants can live the retreat each day.
If you would like to join the group for any or all of the monthly meetings, plan on the second Monday of each month from 6:45 to 8:30 p.m. through May.
Prep Moms Meeting – Tuesday, September 11
Please note that the next Prep Moms meeting will be held on Tuesday, September 11 at 7 p.m. in the Carta Hall of Fame Room just inside the Heider Center entrance. All Prep parents are welcome to attend, Head of School Jim Bopp will be there to provide an update on the school. These meetings are a great way to learn about Prep and to get involved with your time and talent at the school. See you there!
College Application Help Session for Seniors – Friday, September 21
Senior parents, please let your sons know that, if they would like some concentrated time to work on college applications and receive assistance, Director of College Counseling Christianne Clark will be holding an application help session on Friday, September 21 from 1-3 p.m. in the computer lab. Seniors may attend for part or all of that time and get their questions answered.
Preptoberfest – Saturday, September 22
Plan to join your Prep friends on Saturday, September 22 in the west parking lot and in the Sullivan Center at Prep from 4:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. for Preptoberfest, a celebration of all things Prep including reunion weekend, 140 years of Jesuit education and the formal kickoff to the 2019 AMDG Annual Fund campaign. The evening will include live music by Finest Hour as well as beer, wine and food trucks, and attendees must be 21 years of age or older.
At 4:30 p.m., be sure to join us for Mass in the Heider Center. The celebrant will be Creighton Prep President Fr. Tom Neitzke, SJ.
Please register for Preptoberfest today at www.creightonprep.org/preptoberfest.
Multicultural Family Night – Thursday, September 27
Director of Student Advocacy and Outreach Allen Burrell Jr. will be hosting Multicultural Family Night in the Sullivan Center at Creighton Prep on Thursday, September 27 from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m., and parents and students of underrepresented groups are encouraged to attend. At the event, attendees will learn about the academic programs, strategies for success, and the academic, personal and college counseling resources available at Prep.
To confirm your attendance or to get additional information on Multicultural Night, please contact Allen at 402-548-3847 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Men for Others Golf Classic – Monday, October 1
Register now for the annual Men for Others Golf Classic that will take place on Monday, October 1 at the Shadow Ridge Country Club. This is always a great occasion that helps raise money for need-based assistance to qualified Prep students.
The format will be two-player best ball. Check-in / driving range begins at 10:30 a.m. followed by a 12:30 p.m. shotgun start. The individual golfer fee is $400. Click HERE to register.
If you would like to help sponsor the event, please contact Director of Alumni Relations Max Huerter '09 at 402-548-3851 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Creighton Prep Sports Night Featuring Lou Holtz – Tuesday, October 2
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Save the date of Tuesday, October 2 when Creighton Prep welcomes former Notre Dame national championship football coach and College Football Hall of Fame member Lou Holtz as the featured speaker for the 27th Annual Creighton Prep Sports Night.
Click HERE to download the invitation, which contains a registration form you can complete and return with your payment.
Click HERE to register online.
Save the Date – Mother-Son Mass and Breakfast – Sunday, October 7
Prep mothers, please save the date of Sunday, October 7 for Creighton Prep's annual Mother-Son Mass and Breakfast. This special occasion is for mothers and sons of the Prep community, Catholic and non-Catholic alike. The Mass will be concelebrated by members of Creighton Prep's Jesuit community.
All Prep mothers and sons are encouraged to attend, especially the members of the Class of 2022. Of particular concern to us is the student who may not have a mother at home. We encourage him to come with a sister, aunt, grandmother or another student and his mother.
Sunday, October 7 at 10 a.m.
Embassy Suites Omaha-La Vista Hotel & Conference Center
The Windsor Ballroom
12520 Westport Parkway (conference center entrance)
Registration information will be communicated in a future Parent Pulse.
Creighton Prep Welcomes 296 Freshmen to Begin 141st Academic Year
Creighton Prep began its 141st academic year by welcoming 296 freshmen in the Class of 2022. The students were at Prep starting Friday, August 10 for orientation then they were welcomed along with their parents at the New Families Mass, Dinner and Orientation event on Sunday, August 12 that began with Mass at 5 p.m. in the Heider Center. Mass was followed by dinner in the Sullivan Center then an orientation for parents and recreational activities for the students.
Registration and the first day of classes for the freshmen took place on Monday, August 13. They arrived at Prep with their senior Big Brothers and went to the Mullen Gym for pictures then to the Heider Center to receive their schedules. After that, they proceeded through an abbreviated class schedule as well as a lunch period where they were led in Prep cheers by a group of upperclassmen.
Sophomores, juniors and seniors started classes on Tuesday, August 14.
Student Support Services Quick Reference Guide
Click HERE to download a quick reference guide on the expanded and comprehensive student support services program at Creighton Prep, including information on the team members involved, their responsibilities and their contact information. If you have any questions or need additional information about student support services at Prep, please contact the corresponding team member.
New Email Addresses at Prep
Please note that Prep has transitioned to creightonprep.org email addresses for all faculty and staff. To find the new email address for contacting a faculty or staff member, refer to the Faculty and Staff Directory on the Prep website.
Visit the Athletic Calendar for Fall Sports Schedules
Interested in attending one of the many fall sports events? Visit the Creighton Prep Athletic Calendar HERE to get the latest schedule information, including dates, times and locations!
When you visit the Athletic Calendar page, click on "View Schedules." In the dropdown menu that appears, select the sport and level you are interested in (such as "Football – Boys Varsity") then click "View."
Seeking Truth Catholic Bible Study Welcomes New Members
Seeking Truth Catholic Bible Study has met at Prep since its inception nine years ago. Many parents and alumni participate, and new attendees are most welcome.
During the 2018-2019 academic year, the group will meet on Thursday evenings at CP from 7:30-9:15 p.m., September through February, and will study the Gospel of Luke. It's a wonderful study of God's mercy.
To join Seeking Truth Catholic Bible Study, click HERE.
2019 WWII Battlefields of Europe Trip
If you or your family is interested in World War II history and like adventurous travel, we have a great opportunity to offer you. In honor of the 75th anniversary of D-Day, Mr. Tom Haindfield (history teacher) and Mrs. Barb Hake (English teacher) are offering a 14-day trip in 2019 to explore World War II battlefields, museums and war memorials throughout Western Europe. The group will see where our soldiers fought, where they died and where some still remain.
The tour begins in Amsterdam with visits to the Anne Frank House and the Jewish Historical Museum. From Amsterdam, you will travel to Bastogne, tour the Mardasson Memorial and visit the Ardennes American Cemetery and memorial. Normandy will be next with a tour of the American Cemetery, Pointe du Hoc and the D-Day beaches.
Then travel to Paris through Rouen, spending two days in both areas. From Paris, fly to Munich to explore there for three days. During that time, there will be several day trips to Dachau, Salzburg and the Eagle's Nest where you can still see the initials carved by the 101st Airborne Division when they captured the Kehlsteinhaus in May of 1945.
It will be a trip of a lifetime! To see a detailed itinerary, please visit www.explorica.com/Hake-8012, and email any questions to firstname.lastname@example.com. There will also be an informational meeting for interested parents and students on Monday, August 27 at 6 p.m. in the Criss Auditorium.
The trip will be limited to 30 people.
Thank you!
Travel to the Holy Land During the Summer of 2019
Travel to the Holy Land during the summer of 2019 with other Creighton Prep community members and their families and friends! Beginning Thursday, May 30, 2019, your trip to Israel will include visits to the Sea of Galilee, Nazareth, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, the Mount of Olives, King David's Tomb, the Wailing Wall, Tel Aviv and much more. With an option to take an excursion to the Dead Sea, the trip will span 10 days.
Travelers can manage their own reservations at www.explorica.com/Stickels-7317. Anyone who has been on an Explorica tour in the past will automatically receive a $100 repeat traveler discount when they sign up for another tour.
Space is limited, so sign up soon to join us on this memorable experience! Please email any questions to firstname.lastname@example.com or firstname.lastname@example.com. Thank you!
Gear Up For Fall At The Jay Mart!
We invite all Prep parents to check out Creighton Prep and visit the Jay Mart, our very own school spirit store where 100 percent of the proceeds benefit the faculty, staff and students of Creighton Prep.
The Jay Mart hours are 11 a.m.-1 p.m. every school day, and the store is located in the Smith Atrium, just outside the main entrance to the Heider Center. The store is also open for all special events such as Curriculum Night (Tuesday, August 21), fall and spring conferences (October 18-19 and March 12), Open House (Sunday, November 4) and all home varsity basketball games. (See the regular season schedule HERE.)
Students are welcome to shop the Jay Mart during their lunch period, and parents may visit the store by entering the building through the Administration entrance next to the east parking lot.
Please follow the Jay Mart on Instagram for the newest items and sales. You can also find us at www.creightonprep.org/jaymart. For questions or additional information regarding the Jay Mart, please contact Stacey Burke at email@example.com.
We look forward to helping you with all of your CP Jr. Jays needs!
Creighton Prep Football Booster Club
All football parents are encouraged to regularly visit the Creighton Prep football portal for key information and announcements on events, committees and apparel orders as well as volunteer links.
Your participation and support of Creighton Prep football will greatly benefit our athletes and help carry on the history and tradition of Creighton Prep athletics!
Keep up to date on Creighton Prep
To keep up to date on all the happenings at Creighton Prep, bookmark our home page, like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter!
Home page: www.creightonprep.org
Mobile home page: www.creightonprep.org/mobile
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Yukio Tsuda is a professor at the University of Tsukuba. He earned a doctorate in speech
communication at Southern Illinois University.
In his ESL Discussions, Tsuda argues:
"English has its dark side that represents ruthless power."
Tsuda doesn`t feel that having English skills is important for Japanese, (even though, he himself
went to a lot of trouble to get them.)
Though I am an English teacher, I have always felt that Esperanto the international language
designed to bridge the gap between peoples, was the fairest way to go. It hasn`t been widely
used, accepted, nor studied however.
What have people like Tsuda done to promote it?
I haven`t done a thing. I am happy to teach English and feel it is the best option under the present
circumstances. Unless every government in the world were to
start teaching Esperanto from kindergarten, things will not change.
Tsuda makes my point, that students who study English will have an advantage over everyone else
in the work force. I do not see this as a problem. However he does. He feels it will lead to a new
kind of social discrimination between English speakers and non-speakers. I agree.
It will lead to preferential treatment for English speakers he cries. What he calls "social
discrimination," I call opportunity. Japanese who can envision
the future will prosper, but it is best to act now and have your
children study English.
ESL Discussions - Japanese Companies & English Study
Nissan has insisted that all board meetings and important business meetings be
conducted in English. Nissan`s non-Japanese speaking COO insisted upon this.
The company increased support for English lessons and the ability to speak English became an important job qualification for managers.
Isuzu once owned its own English school (Crops Create), before ultimately
selling it off. They used it to brush up the skills of their
Fuji Photo Film and Mitsubishi Chemical where I have taught, makes English
very important for those who may travel abroad. Employees of these two companies,
must of course, attain a high degree of English skill before they can go on business trips or be transferred abroad.
At Johnson (Japan), being a subsidiary of the American giant, English of course
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The Office of Research and Development is restructuring its research programs for FY 2012 to better understand environmental problems and inform sustainable solutions to meet EPA's strategic goals. The restructured research program will be comprised of six program areas: Air, Climate, and Energy; Safe and Sustainable Water Resources; Sustainable and Healthy Communities; Chemical Safety for Sustainability; Human Health Risk Assessment; and Homeland Security.
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Signed in pencil, numbered 44/50, published by Galerie Louis Leiris, Paris, with full margins, the colors fresh, in very good condition, framed
Image: 20 7/8 x 25 ¼ in. (530 x 641 mm.)
Sheet: 24 ½ x 29 5/8 in. (622 x 752 mm.)
From the Catalogue: Whenever I have something to say, I have said it in a manner in which it ought to be said. Different motives require different methods of expression. This does not imply either evolution or progress, but an adaptation of the idea one wants to express, and the means to express that idea. (Pablo Picasso, The Arts, New York, 1923)
A peculiar mixture of geographic necessity and artistic curiosity led Picasso, at the age of 78, to turn away from etching and lithography, hitherto his favorite means of graphic expression, and take up linocutting, a technique he had all but ignored. Although linocuts were to form a relatively small part of Picasso's output as a printmaker (approximately 150 images from a total exceeding 2000), he was to produce some of his most outstanding compositions by this method, in a short burst of activity from 1958 to 1963.
Together with Jacqueline Rocque, Picasso left Paris in 1958 and moved permanently to the South of France, dividing his time between 'La Californie' at Cannes, and the newly acquired Chteau de Vauvenargues, near Aix-en-Provence. In spite of the natural benefits of his new environment, a major practical drawback of this move was the delay in communicating with the ateliers in Paris. There plates could be proofed and returned within hours. Now it took days, and robbed Picasso of direct contact with his printers.
Up to this point, Picasso's involvement with linocutting had been rather casual. He produced a series of simple posters for the village of Vallauris above Cannes, starting with La Chèvre (Bloch 1257) in 1952. Six years later, he engaged with it more intensely. Working with a young printer from Vallauris named Arnénra, he attacked an interpretation of Lucas Cranach the Younger's Portrait of a Young Girl. The result was astonishing, given Picasso's relative inexperience, but he found the exercise deeply frustrating, because of difficulties in registering six different blocks precisely, one on top of the other.
The present work is a direct result of Picasso's attempts to overcome these frustrations, and embody his response to the possibilities the new medium displayed. In the process, Picasso re-invented the technique of linocutting. Rather than use separate blocks, he printed from just one; the so-called 'reduction' method. The uncarved block was printed in one flat color, and then cut and printed in each successive color, until in many cases there was little left of the original block. Whilst making the task of registration much simpler, it required tremendous foresight to know how each change in the block would affect the composition as a whole, and provided very little margin for error. After experimenting with five small Corridas (Baer 1219-1223), his first major excursion with this new technique was Déjeuner sur l'Herbe (Baer 1287), the largest and most elaborate of five treatments of Manet's masterpiece, followed shortly thereafter by the present work, Nature morte sous au Verre la Lampe (Baer 1312). In both compositions we see Picasso reveling in the new medium. He relished particularly the physical act of cutting and slicing the linoleum, a matrix which encourages fluid, dynamic strokes. Evident also is the enthusiasm with which he employed the broad areas of opaque color peculiar to this technique.
In 1964, the Crommelynck brothers settled in nearby Mougins, and established a fully equipped printmaking workshop. After compressing a lifetime's innovation into a few short years, Picasso returned to his etching press.
"Formerly it had been thought that lithography and etching were more noble than the linoleum cut. But just as he had expanded these processes he now enriched - no, created - a medium earlier considered a poor relation of graphic art." (Daniel Henry Kahnweiler, Sixty Years of Graphic Works, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1966). —Courtesy of Christie's
Bloch 1101; Baer 1312
A prolific and tireless innovator of art forms, Pablo Picasso impacted the course of 20th-century art with unparalleled magnitude. Inspired by African and Iberian art and developments in the world around him, Picasso contributed significantly to a number of artistic movements, notably Cubism, Surrealism, Neoclassicism, and Expressionism. Along with Georges Braque, Picasso is best known for pioneering Cubism in an attempt to reconcile three-dimensional space with the two-dimensional picture plane, once asking, "Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?" Responding to the Spanish Civil War, he painted his most famous work, Guernica (1937), whose violent images of anguished figures rendered in grisaille made it a definitive work of anti-war art. "Painting is not made to decorate apartments," he said. "It's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy." Picasso's sizable oeuvre includes over 20,000 paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures, ceramics, theater sets, and costume designs.
Spanish, 1881-1973, Malaga, Spain, based in Paris and Mougins, France
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What makes a successful collaboration
Successful collaborations are amazing. You can create something that neither of you could have created alone. You can learn a great deal about music, each other and yourself. You can build a close friendship that's unlike any other.
But successful collaborations don't just happen. You have to do them. You have to create them deliberately.
Successful collaborations almost always share the following characteristics:
This is the big one. If you're going to work with someone, you must communicate. Probably more than you think you should. You both need to be open and honest about expectations, creative goals and working processes (workflow). You need to be open about personal preferences for everything from your favourite tea to your favourite reverb.
This also means being unafraid to offend or upset. If you're holding back an opinion because you think it won't be accepted, you'll develop a dissatisfaction which can easily grow into resentment and disengagement. If you think your opinion won't be accepted, you MUST talk about it. Being unafraid to offend, however, isn't an excuse to be disrespectful. It's possible to voice an unpopular opinion while being respectful and constructive. Sometimes it's not easy, but it's an essential skill for building strong relationships.
If your collaborator has a habit of overruling you or dismissing your contributions you need to address it and turn that attitude around. It might sound weird or feel uncomfortable, but opening such a conversation should start with something like "I feel uncomfortable when you ___. If this is going to work, we need to ___". It'll feel awkward (it always does) and it's hard to strike the right balance between being assertive and being respectful. But you have to do it. If you don't, Bad Things will happen. Trust me.
Shared creative direction
You both have to be rowing in the same direction. You have to agree on where you're going and how you'll get there. You'll run into all sorts of problems if you have disagreements about what end result you're both working toward. You're in for a nasty surprise if – for example – you think you're recording an album and your collaborator thinks you're recording an EP. Or if you want to make dance songs and your collaborator wants to go more experimental. You'll get caught up in numerous minor disagreements before you realise that there's a fundamental difference in what each of you are trying to achieve.
Having a shared creative direction, however, means you'll both need to compromise. To achieve something together, you both need to believe in the outcome. And that means giving each other enough creative space. As a simple rule of thumb: you'll need to compromise just as much as you'd expect your collaborator to compromise for you.
Complimentary skills
For a collaboration to be effective, each person should have complimentary skills – or at least make complimentary contributions. For example:
- You might be a great producer and mixer, and your collaborator might be a great singer and songwriter
- You might be a great songwriter, and your collaborator might be a great singer or instrumentalist
- You might be great at coming up with new ideas and sounds, and your collaborator might be great at refining and organising them
- You both might be great at post-production, so you agree for one person to mix and the other to master.
Having done this, it should be quite clear who is responsible for what. There should be very little ambiguity about when each person needs to make a contribution (and what that contribution is). Just as importantly, there should be very little ambiguity about when each person needs to cede. For example, you might be a great songwriter in your own right but working on a collaboration where the other person is writing the songs. You need to accept that you can (respectfully!) make suggestions, but the final songwriting decisions are ultimately made by your collaborator. Don't get precious about it – let the other person flex their musical muscles and express themselves.
Appropriate equipment
This should be pretty self-explanatory. Between the two (or more!) of you, you need the equipment to actually do what you want to do. It'll be hard for a laptop composer to collaborate with a pianist if there's nowhere to record a good piano sound. You'll run into trouble trying to put together a great rock mix if you don't have a good monitoring environment. Good luck recording an intimate vocal performance if you live next to a freeway or airport.
If you're reading this blog, it should be pretty obvious to you. Most ideas are achievable – especially with modern technology. Be aware, however, that acquiring capabilities that you don't already have can take time and money. Look out for unrealistic expectations in your collaborators. They might have great ideas – and if they're passionate and charismatic, they can drag you along with them. If you're not careful, though, you could end up halfway through a project before you realise you've committed to much more than you initially thought. The extra time and expense to acquire capabilities that you don't already have can be painful. It can put you in a difficult position if you've both already invested your time and money into the project.
By conscientiously addressing each of those four factors at the start of a potential collaboration, you should be able to create some interesting music with a minimum of bruised egos or black eyes. Of course, there will always be disagreements and misunderstandings (we're human after all!), but they can be managed and worked though if you put in the groundwork ahead of time.


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Dollar Point Lake Tahoe
This was taken from the lookout spot just above Chinquapin Condos
Tahoe Rim Trail
This portion of the Tahoe Rim Trail above Tahoe City overlooks the Truckee River. The Tahoe Rim Trail are fantastic hikes throughout the basin. Check out their website
Garwood Pier
Located in Carnelian Bay, this pier is public and if you want to boat to a place to eat, then Garwoods Bar and Grill would be it. A fantastic setting right on the water.
In Tahoe City and Hungry? Try The Dam Cafe at the "Y"
The Dam Cafe in Tahoe City, North Lake Tahoe, California is a fun place to stop by for breakfast, lunch or just a dam cup of coffee. <Some mornings on my way to work I stop by The Dam Cafe for a cup of drip coffee or an illy espresso. I normally see several friends as I walk in the door, this is a true locals place to gather. I have a favorite table back in a corner that has a view of the dam. From here I can watch the early morning tourists walking by.
The Dam Cafe menu includes a variety of dam sandwiches, burritos, smoothies and more. My favorite item on the menu by far, is the Bacon Burley Burrito, it is a flour tortilla stuffed with bacon, cheese, rice, beans, pico de gallo, sour cream and avocado.


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MAKING HISTORY: Ellen DeGeneres Portrays First-Ever Gay Lead Character On Television
Mar 18, 2013
In honor of Women's History Month, we are celebrating with 31 days of women's history! Every day in March, we will highlight an historic moment, as told through the personal stories of our MAKERS.
Today we highlight Ellen DeGeneres who portrayed the first-ever gay lead character on a television show nearly 16 years ago. In 1997, DeGeneres made the decision for her character on the the popular sitcom Ellen to come out, a high stakes decision at the time. As she recalls "everybody was scared to death" for the repercussions of the episode. And it was highly emotional for her personally, as not only did her character come out, she also came out publicly.
For DeGeneres, the episode was about finally being free to be her true self without the burden of trying to please everybody else first:
"I'm still so proud of that show...It was not just a sitcom...It was the greatest thing that ever happened to me."


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Ties That Bind
Pnina Bechor was only 14 when she disappeared from her home in Yavniel. Almost seventy years later, her great niece, filmmaker Noa Ben Hagai, discovered traces of Bechor's life and members of her family in a Palestinian refugee camp near Nablus.
Newspapers in Palestine from the early 1940s carried hardly any mention of the disappearance of a 14-year-old girl from the moshava of Yavniel near Lake Kinneret. The girl's impoverished family - her parents and their seven other children - did not turn the world upside down to find her, and suspected she'd become pregnant by a young man from the community (who was killed a few years later in the War of Independence ). Nor did other Yavniel residents go to any lengths to search for her, perhaps because they chose not to expose the disgrace of the Ashkenazi youth who'd stumbled into the bosom of a Mizrahi family, living in a ramshackle hut at the edge of the moshava.
But Pnina Bechor hadn't died: She only disappeared, and would one day reappear and cause great upheaval in her family. Her story, which began as a family melodrama is now a documentary film, too: "Kirvat Dam" ("Blood Relation" ), directed by Noa Ben Hagai, Bechor's great-niece.
The movie opens with Ben Hagai's astounding discovery which echoes the shock experienced by her family 40 years earlier: At the home of her grandmother Rachel, Pnina's sister, the filmmaker found heartbreaking letters written after the Six-Day War, from a female relative she'd never heard of before. "I'm not dead," said the writer, who pleaded with the family to come visit her at her home in a refugee camp in Nablus.
Ben Hagai had uncovered a secret that her family would have preferred to keep quiet: She had Palestinian relatives.
"I wanted to make a mysterious film about Pnina's disappearance - a Rashomon of family history in which there were only bits and pieces of evidence - but I didn't know that I had family in a refugee camp," says Ben Hagai. "When I found out, it was a turning point for the movie, which became something very real and alive and dramatic."
The stunning discovery added another ingredient to Ben Hagai's melting pot of Israeli identities. Her paternal grandparents were among the founders of Kibbutz Deganya Bet, socialist pioneers from Russia who arrived in this country with the Second Aliyah; her maternal grandmother Rachel came to Yavniel from the old Yishuv (Jewish community ) in Tiberias.
"They were like Jewish Arabs who lived with Arabs for hundreds of years, spoke Arabic and were nursed by Arab women," says Ben Hagai, discussing her Galilean family background at her home in Tel Aviv.
"My grandmother's family were the poor outcasts of the moshava - the only one of 16 families in Yavniel who were not Ashkenazim from Europe," she continues. "The pioneers looked down on my great-grandfather, Matzliah Bechor, because he looked like an Arab. The only reason they let him settle there at all was that his father conducted the negotiations with the Arabs for Baron Rothschild's purchase of the lands."
Bechor brought his wife Simha from Tiberias to Yavniel and all his children were born there, including Rachel and Pnina. The children tried to escape what Ben Hagai calls "the Yavniel curse." Her grandmother married Yitzhak Ettinger, a Russian-born army man, well known in the intelligence community. Their children Shmuel and Ofra (Ben Hagai's mother ) were born in Nahariya, "and I grew up with the Ashkenazi identity of a kibbutznik," says Ben Hagai, who spent most of her childhood on Kibbutz Afik in the Golan Heights.
The crazy history of this land led Pnina Bechor to find an entirely different type of escape from the same curse. Not until she renewed contact with her family did most of them learn for the first time that when she left Yavniel, she met an Arab vegetable salesman from Jaffa, who took her in. She converted to Islam for him, changed her name and had eight children with him. During the War of Independence, she fled with her new family and became a Palestinian refugee.
When Ben Hagai began researching the family history, she discovered another dimension to the drama: Several years after Pnina disappeared, Rachel had found her in Tul Karm and tried to convince her to return to her family, but Pnina refused to abandon her children. After that, Rachel declared Pnina dead and even sat shivah for her. When the family received Pnina's letters, it was if they had come from beyond the grave, from the next world.
The surprising, renewed connection between descendants of the Bechor family, Jews and Arabs, blossomed for a time in wake of the Israeli euphoria after the 1967 war. Some of Pnina's siblings came to the refugee camp for visits, and she also visited Israel with her children. However, from the letters it is clear that Pnina was the one who had the strongest need for this connection: In a childish hand, in a mishmash of Hebrew and Arabic, she repeatedly urges her family to remember that she is their sister. She implores them to visit her, to send her bananas, eggs and avocados, to bring her medicine, to arrange work permits in Israel for her family members. But after Pnina's death in 1971, the connection between the families was cut off completely - until Ben Hagai came along and awakened the family ghosts.
"Blood Relation," produced by Edna and Elinor Kowarsky, has been screened at various festivals around the world and won a prize in Shanghai, and is being screened as part of the International Women's Film Festival in Rehovot that began this week, ahead of further showings at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque. Through this unusual family story, the complexity of relations between Palestinians and Israelis over the past 43 years is unveiled. What began with mutual curiosity, quickly turned to uneasiness and primarily to the dependence of the weak upon the strong - a dependence that is not pleasant for either side, even if they are part of one family, even if they believe in peace.
After discovering the letters four years ago, Ben Hagai persuaded her uncle, Shmulik Ettinger - who, in the kind of coincidence that can only happen in Israel, served as the military governor of Ramallah from 1988-1991 - to try to renew the relationship that had been cut off nearly 40 years earlier. In the movie, Ettinger is seen calling his cousin Salma, Pnina's youngest daughter, now 50, and inviting her to visit him at his home in Jerusalem: a beautiful Arab house in the Baka neighborhood.
"In this phone conversation, after 40 years of Shmulik avoiding her family for fear it would harm his army career, he finds out that Salma still lives in her mother's house and that she also inherited from her the expectation that her Jewish relatives would one day call and save her," says Ben Hagai. "As a documentary filmmaker, I thought this conversation would be the most dramatic thing you could imagine. I anticipated it with much excitement. But it was so far from what I imagined. It was a simple, unemotional conversation. When I asked Salma about this later on, she said to me, 'What did you expect? Somebody calls me and says he's an officer in the Israeli army, speaking the Arabic of an army officer. Right away I thought that it was the Shin Bet and that they wanted to recruit my son, so I kept my cool.'"
The planned visit stirs up mixed emotions. Ettinger's wife, Sara, did not feel comfortable about having her husband's poor relations exposed to her affluent lifestyle. While her comments seem at the beginning of the film to be an attempt to spoil the party, they turn out to be a very accurate prediction. After the first encounter, things get complicated: Despite the left-wing Jewish family's good intentions and desire to welcome the Palestinian relatives, they come to realize that what is involved is a commitment that goes beyond open-mindedness and good will.
The first crisis occurs when Salma's husband, Sami, is apprehended in Tel Aviv without a permit to be in Israel. Shmulik has to use his connections to keep him from being deported to Gaza, which his Palestinian ID lists as his place of residence, but from which his family fled when Hamas came to power there. With the help of his own connections, Uncle Shmulik gets the family's address changed to Nablus, so the threat of deportation to Gaza is lifted.
But this is just the beginning. The Jewish side of the family soon comes to learn that assisting a poor refugee family living under the occupation requires more than a little effort: getting Sami and his son released on bail, giving financial support and helping to obtain work permits for Israel. Before long, the thrilling family reunion becomes oppressive, with the Jewish side constantly feeling that something is expected of it that it can't necessarily provide, and the Palestinian side feeling that the warmth of the reception becomes cold when the need for real help arises. After the extended Jewish family pays a visit to Salma's home, where they dine on lamb and look through old photo albums, Salma tells about how she had waited in vain for a phone call from the visitors to thank her and to invite her over. In the end, she breaks down and calls them herself.
Before the painful encounter with reality, Ben Hagai was brimming with idealism. Her lovely final film project for the Sam Spiegel School of Film and Television in Jerusalem, "Brave Land," was filmed in Cuba, and concerned her encounter with what she calls "the place where my dream (a socialist lifestyle ) was fulfilled."
Ben Hagai was born in 1971 on Kibbutz Deganya Bet, and at age 5 moved with her family to Kibbutz Afik: "We came to the Golan Heights nine years after it was conquered and I spent my childhood on the site of the ruins of the Syrian village of Fik, with cows that I imagined were left over from the Syrians, with the figs and sabras from their orchards, swimming in their spring. I grew up in this bizarre and wild place."
In the army, she worked on the Bamahane newspaper. During that time, her parents divorced, and in another classic variation on Israeliness, her father Ehud, the proud kibbutznik, moved to Santa Monica.
"My father is a physicist, and you could say that his leaving also had something to do with politics. He understood that his research would be used for military purposes here, and that upset him," says Ben Hagai. "The man who is so connected to his roots and was always so nostalgic for the landscapes of his childhood now lives on the beach in California, and is married to an American woman."
When Ben Hagai got out of the army, she studied economics, philosophy and political science at Tel Aviv University.
"As a socialist, I had a passion to know the enemy, to understand the economic discourse," she explains. "As a theory it's very interesting, but to work in the field is something completely different. I worked in a bank for two days and I knew it wasn't for me."
Her next stop was the Sam Spiegel school, where two of her classmates were Rima Essa and Yael Hersonski, who both recently completed acclaimed full-length films. Since completing her studies seven years ago, Ben Hagai married Rani Einav and they have three children - Yonatan, 6; Ruti, 4; and Gila, 2.
While searching for a subject for a new film, Ben Hagai began looking into the story of Pnina's disappearance. The bleak past in Yavniel, and the bleak present of the Palestinian relatives, seemed to form a continuous thread running through the family history.
"My identity had always seemed very clear to me - kibbutz, socialism, Ashkenazi-ness, and then suddenly I discovered an 'ancient' origin," she says. "With my political orientation, I was attracted to the Arab-Jews who lived here as good neighbors with the Arabs 100 years ago and more. I found out that they were the poorest of the poor, but there was also a heroic and touching dimension to their stubborn attempt to hide their weakness. This was expressed in the way they went about preserving their honor. The elders of Yavniel said that it was to our credit that we were a modest and quiet family and that the girls were always clean and well-groomed. Amid all the chaos of Pnina's disappearance, what was important to them was not to have this shame exposed. What I discovered wasn't their Mizrahi-ness, but their weakness. But Zionism made mobility possible. They did everything possible to reach the heart of society and to reinvent themselves as far away as possible from being an outsider."
The extended family did not react very sympathetically to Ben Hagai's attempts to remind them of where they came from. Her uncle Shmulik and her mother Ofra at first were loyal to the stance adopted by their mother Rachel, who refused to meet with Pnina after Pnina made contact with the family.
"In 1967, I was a soldier in the Paratroops, and it didn't occur to me at all to meet with the Palestinian relatives," says Ettinger. "And even now, when Noa suggested it for the movie, I wasn't keen on it, because I knew what would happen. I knew that despite all the nice theories, nothing good would come out of it. My uncle warned me: They'll lie in wait at your doorstep and start leeching off you. I was a [military] governor and I know what the Palestinians' life is like and I know how important it is to them to form an attachment with someone in a position of power in order to improve their situation. But I told Noa that for her I was ready to do it."
Ben Hagai has another explanation for her family's reluctance to get back in touch: "After all the years when they made efforts to upgrade their lives from the impoverishment of Yavniel, suddenly our Arab relatives show up and they're a very clear reminder of what we tried to escape from. We're in another place now. It's terribly dramatic within one family - occupiers versus occupied, rich versus poor.
"Two generations earlier, we were in a similar situation: The sewage that flowed by the hut in Yavniel is no different than the sewage that flows in the refugee camp. It was a real shock for my mother and her siblings. I felt it was very hard for them. But maybe guilt feelings over the relationship that was cut off, about what their parents did, led them to sit in front of my camera, and to meet and talk with them. They also came into this because they wanted to help me. They were being very kind to me. They wouldn't let me feel like I put them in an unpleasant situation. Well, maybe a little."
A recurrent theme in the filmmaker's comments is the difficulty involved in wanting to help weaker people although you know you'll never be able to fix the situation.
"I brought everyone into a very complicated relationship that involves a lot of dependence, and not everyone wants it now," she notes. "I opened a wound that I can't heal. I wasn't aware of the fears and anxieties on my side of the family, or of the expectations on the Palestinian side of the family. In the end, it did not lead to a warm and close relationship. No wall between us really fell. On the other hand, there is something to be said about the fact that the secret came out and everyone had to deal with it."
Ben Hagai's brother and two sisters tried to warn her against opening up the family secrets, because of how they imagined the exposure of the story would affect the Palestinian side of the family. They told her she was being an opportunist and exploiting the family pain and misery for the purposes of her career. Ben Hagai rejected this criticism. She's prepared to be accused of naivete, she says, but won't apologize for that either.
"There's always the moment when you turn off the camera and the people return to the dark, and their loss from the film is usually a lot greater than their gain, while I, as a director, have gained experiences and interest, and my 15 minutes of fame. But it doesn't have to be that way," she insists. "I believed that I could change things, that I could really help them. I think that naivete is a political position that one should have today. Better to be optimistic, even if it's unrealistic.
"I believed that it was possible to fix things, to go back to the place where everything began in the past and to shift the tragic course of events, but as time goes by, I find that I'm no better than anyone else. In the film, the way the family abandoned Pnina 74 years ago gradually becomes Salma's fate, too. She is neglected by us again, and I bear full responsibility for this. Salma expects us to be her salvation, and we don't live up to that. If we'd been able to arrange work permits in Israel for her children then I would have felt we'd done a lot. But even Shmulik with his army connections wasn't able to accomplish this."
So you feel the family reunification failed?
Ben Hagai: "There are moments of hope or solace and closeness between the families, when they meet and the camera catches the physical resemblance and the longing for the 'good times,' after '67. I do believe that eventually, some day, something might come of this, that there will be a close relationship. They know we're here and that if they need us, if something really terrible happens, we will help them. And this reacquaintance did lead to some moments of closeness."
Ettinger is less optimistic. "I don't feel good about it now, they've become quite dependent on me financially," he says. "The movie taught me that the phrase 'blood ties' is just empty words. It is not a central component in the emergence of a renewed relationship, especially when there are cultural differences and socioeconomic differences, and then of course there are the political aspects. In Salma's family, too, there were people who objected to having any contact with us. The one who got hurt in the end is Salma because she had expectations. What good have we done for her? Just because I send her a little money here and there - it doesn't solve the problem. It's not a comfortable situation. You have to look people in the eye who don't have enough to eat."
Another thing that surprised Ettinger for the worse was the change he says that occurred in the military.
"The movie caused a crisis for me, because when I was a military governor I tried to help the people, to ease the burden of the occupation. I can't change political facts, but I helped them 'swallow' the bitter fate," he says. "The system has changed. Now there is a lot of indifference. We used to think that occupiers needed to be humane, too, that we needed to make it easier on the Palestinians and not humiliate them. I discovered that in today's system, the concept of 'humanitarian considerations' no longer exists."
Since Ben Hagai's film was completed, it has been making the rounds of international festivals. It was shown at the IDFA, the most important annual festival for documentary films, in Amsterdam; at the Shanghai Festival it won the prize for best documentary in Asia. Ben Hagai, who calls herself a "woman of the little world," particularly enjoyed attending all the festivals.
"For six years I've been changing diapers, and making the movie was a difficult experience," she explains. "And then suddenly I showed the film and I felt how people in China, who have no idea who is a Jew and who is an Arab, were relating to it and telling me that it was their story - that they are the wealthy of Shanghai and they have impoverished relatives in the countryside who ask them for support. When I showed the film in Europe, it took on a very political dimension. People said the film reflects our desperate situation, but in China what spoke to them was the 'melodrama' of the weak and the strong within one family, the relationship of dependence, and the need to help the black sheep."
After the film's success abroad, Ben Hagai was faced with the inevitable question of what would be her next project, or more precisely, her next project about the occupation.
"When I showed the film at the IDFA, I understood what kind of options could open up to me. International producers asked me what my next film was going to be, and hinted that they would be glad if it were about the occupation, but from an extreme direction, from a new angle showing how terrible the reality can be. It was clear that they wanted something very extreme and bloody about the Israeli reality, if possible something about apartheid, and to mix in the Holocaust, too, if possible. I understood that as a filmmaker in Israel, no one expects me to make a movie about tree-huggers and that if I want to succeed in the world, then I have to keep on dealing with political subjects."
Ben Hagai is also trying to contend with the criticism that Israeli documentary filmmakers are soothing their and viewers' consciences by making films about the occupation, as a substitute for actual political activism.
Film scholar Shmulik Duvdevani even wrote in his book, "First Person, Camera," that "The [filmmakers] often position themselves as victims, as if their mere readiness to acknowledge their responsibility makes them morally superior to others ..."
Ben Hagai: "I ask myself if I am part of this glorious tradition of Israeli documentary filmmaking, that makes a career out of the suffering of the Palestinians and its guilt feelings over that. I think that the reality here imposes upon you a political consciousness, and that if you live here then you're going to make movies about the burning issues, and what's burning here is the occupation. I didn't make a movie about the Palestinians, but about a well-intentioned left-wing family that discovers one day that it has to cope with poor Palestinian relatives. I made a movie about our point of view, about the condescension, not about their wretchedness. I asked about the responsibility of the occupiers toward the occupied. I exposed my dilemma, of the tormented occupier, the one who, as the saying goes, 'shoots and cries.'"
That sounds just like the problem that Duvdevani describes.
"I can say in my defense that in the movie, I let the arrows pierce me too. I take it on the chin in the movie like everybody else - even more so in some way, because I'm the one responsible for this whole fiasco. Viewers don't come out with a feeling of catharsis because they see the torment my family undergoes."
Today, the contact with Salma and her family is mostly by telephone. The rare meetings take place in Jerusalem, at the Ettingers' home. Ben Hagai says she tried to arrange some happier events, like a trip with Salma and her granddaughters to the Tel Aviv beach, but Salma was not cooperative. The encounters usually take place when Salma comes to ask for something, and this creates a very difficult dynamic in the relationship, says Ben Hagai: "She mostly asks for help from Shmulik, because he has the means and the power and influence. He handles it with grace, but he's always asking himself how he'll get out of this. I give her money, but it's not enough. I wanted to create pleasant and close experiences together, like going to the beach, but that's a ridiculous fantasy. She should have to cross 700 checkpoints and spend two days getting permits just so I can feel better about myself?"
Ettinger isn't helping Ben Hagai feel better about things either nowadays. "Sometimes not knowing is the best solution," he explains. "When you really know about the problems, it puts you in distress. I think the reality slapped Noa in the face. To a certain degree, she feels guilty for having put us through such turmoil, which is also emotional. It wasn't easy. It brought up ghosts from the past, including relationships in our family."
At the end of one of the screenings at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque, a woman came up and told Ben Hagai that she loved the movie and identified with it from the point of view of a rich person who's constantly expected to give. She said: "That's the problem with these poor people: You have to give to them and then when you do they don't say thank you, they just ask for more, and they end up hating you too because it's never enough and it just perpetuates the feeling that you have everything and they have nothing and are always needy."
But Ben Hagai still refuses to accept this pessimistic view, that all her Palestinian relatives want is money. "Shmulik and I ask all the time: Why is [Salma] in contact with us? Is it just out of a desire to connect with the more powerful party, or with what could ensure her future? I want to say that there's something else - that we are the family of her mother, from whom she was orphaned at age eight. We are part of her happy childhood memories from the period after the '67 war. I truly think that there is something very deep and emotional here. Obviously, she wants financial help, but there's more to it than that.
"I feel like there is a wall between us and her, and there are a lot of gaps between what is said and what is unsaid. And I also understand all of a sudden that just as we ask what she wants from us, she must be asking herself: What do they want from me? Why did they really get in touch?" W
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January 2, 2012
Best 10 Out Of 11??!!
a "no-no"! they are "unsearchable" by those spider crawler bots that
make you queen of Bloglandia! but, you know...life is hard enough
without fun{read: crazy} post titles...right??! ;}
anyway~~~over at the DIY Showoff she is asking peeps to share their
top 10 projects of 2011...at first the mere thought of it made me sweat...
but then i remembered my "stats" feature...and there they were...graded by you,
according to page views! phew! what a load of my mind! ;}
number 1...by a landslide is the Butterfly Wreath .
8100 page views since august which has nothing to do with me!
i think it must have made it to the front page of
Pinterest one day since i had 1100 visits that day...
still get about 50 a day...
all i can say is THANK YOU PINTEREST! ;}
{don't laugh! i know those numbers are paltry to most of you!}
i have already yacked on and on way too much!
so, i'll spare you anymore and just let the pictures do the talking!
Novel Roses
Buckets & Clips
Fancy Flowerpots
Cooking With Jane Austen {forgive me, Jane!! ;}
Chalkboard Paint Trinkets
How NOT To Make A Wine Cork Initial !!!!!!!
Material Girl Pumpkin
Fun With Marie Osmond
Why Didn't Giada Think Of This
ok, so no rooms were gutted...no walls torn down, no furniture stripped...
yah, yah...that's just not the kind of gal i am! paper, paint, glue and a dash
of sarcasm...anymore than that...and i will need a nap...and some chocolate!
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Your dash of sarcasm is what I like best about you.ReplyDelete
Oh that's not to say I don't appreciate all your projects- cuz I do.
Happy new Year and keep up all the good work.
My dear, I'd like to wish you and your dear family a so Happy and Wonderful New Year full of so much blessings and love! Thanks so much, my dear, for all the beautiful inspirations you share with all of us! Love all of them so much! Kisses, Rachel :))))))ReplyDelete
I think the sarcasm and self-depreciating sense of humor is what draws me back again and again...to say nothing of your crafty ideas. Great top 10! Most of my very favorites were here- xo DianaReplyDelete
inspiration along with a good laugh...ALWYAS a pleasure visiting you!! bonne annee mon amie! ;)ReplyDelete
I like your paper, glue, and sarcasm! You go girl!ReplyDelete
Just beautiful!! I can't choose a favorite! Happy New Year!ReplyDelete
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Oh, so we (italics) have to choose? But I like them all. Maybe, if pressed, buckets and clips?ReplyDelete
Gorgeous projects! And your photography is stunning!ReplyDelete
I just love visiting here! It ALWAYS makes me smile! You might not sling a hammer, but you certainly know how to shake the glitter bottle! lolReplyDelete
Hope to see you at Time Travel Thursday this week.
Happy New Year!
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you know I am one of your siggest fans xoReplyDelete
You inspire me!ReplyDelete
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My gosh! I love all of these. I have to admit, I am a "crafter wannabe", and would love to start some projects this year. I am hoping some of your talent will rub off on me :)ReplyDelete
Thanks for stopping in to visit me!!
I love all your projects! One day when all the rooms, walls, and furniture are completed I'll have time to make all the pretties!ReplyDelete
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HOW-IN-THE-WORLD has it been FOREVER since I have been here? W.O.W. That wreath was AMAZING! I have to scoop my jaw up!!!!!!ReplyDelete
Thanks so much from the bottom of my heart for supporting my new adventure!
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I love your photos and all your projects are so inspiring , I wish I could create like youReplyDelete


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Time period: 2310s
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The refined ladies and gentlemen of Berne are piqued when they hear that Count Bondeli has succumbed to his daughter's wishes, allowing her to be tutored in mathematics and astronomy. But even as a child Julie has displayed an unquenchable curiosity and an indomitable sense of justice. This helps her survive the shock of seeing her teacher and mentor Samuel Henzi publicly executed by the corrupt Berne municipality. Julie makes his vision – democracy and greater freedom – her own. She corresponds with writers of the Enlightenment and engages in a dispute over moral principles and the state with Albrecht von Haller. Her literary salon becomes a celebrated meeting place for progressive thinkers and educated minds. Sensitively and powerfully, Eveline Hasler recalls the courage of this intriguing woman.
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The ban on sweat pants and come-hither high heels triggered minor grumbling among some San Bernardino County employees, but the decision to bar Levis, tattoos, and jewelry in facial piercings raised a ruckus that spilled into the Board of Supervisors' chambers Tuesday.
In a 4-0 vote, the board approved a dress and grooming policy for the county's nearly 17,000 employees, affecting occupations as different as animal control officer and reference librarian.
The dress code, which appears to be the most sweeping of any county in Southern California, outlaws a closet's worth of items now considered unseemly work wear, including overalls, sports team gear and shirts that bare bellybuttons. Tattoos that can't be covered by clothing must be covered by other means. Pierced ears and earrings for both sexes are allowed.
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