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Banzai: Who you calling upid-stay?!
Escribeday Igpay Atinlay erehay.
Pig Latin is an obfuscated form of English, which is translated into Pig Latin word by word. To translate an English word into Pig Latin, the beginning consonant or consonant cluster is shifted from the beginning of the word to the end of the word, and following it the vowel sound "ay" is added.
As the examples show, some of the rules of Pig Latin are not consistently defined:
- Words beginning in a vowel have no initial consonants to shift to the end of the word, but the affixed ending, in this case, may be "hay", "way" or just plain "ay".
- Articles, prepositions and other small words are often left as is, notably in the stock expression "ixnay on the (omethingsay)."
- Since Pig Latin is a spoken language trope rather than a written one, Pig Latin words may be spelled literally ("upidstay", Pig Latin for "stupid") or altered phonetically ("oopidstay"); hyphens may or may not be used to disambiguate.
- "Ix-nay" or "ixnay" is Pig Latin for "nix", an old slang term meaning "reject" or "cancel". As the examples below suggest, the Pig Latin word may be more common nowadays than its English original.
Other obfuscated languages exist, such as:
- Tutnese or Double-Dutch (English)
- Pig Greek or Ubbi-Dubbi (English)
- Iddiga or Gibberish (English)
- Javanese (French)
- Louchebem (French)
- Verlan (French)
- Rövarspråket (Swedish)
- Farfallino (Italian)
- Konttikieli, Venekieli and Vitikieli (Finnish)
- Jeringoso (Spanish)
Pig Latin is not related to dog Latin, except that they both tend to sound vaguely foreign.
- When Kellogg's Froot Loops was first marketed in 1966, the animated mascot Toucan Sam insisted on referring to it in pig latin— "Oot-fray Oops-lay." His two nephews would yank his chain by saying "Froot Loops," as it's clearly marked as such on the box.
- In the English dub of the 14th episode of the Pokémon anime, "Electric Shock Showdown", a disguised Team Rocket approaches Ash's group. Jessie and James begin reciting their motto, but Meowth interrupts them with a shout of "Ix-nay!" and a smack from a paper fan.note
- Once used by the very dorky supervillain in Empowered #1. "I can see her ipples-nay!"
- Knights of the Dinner Table #170, segment "Channeling Gary". When the protagonists use a Ouija board in an attempt to contact the spirit of Gary Jackson, the spirit they contact sends messages in this form.
- A Roger Rabbit comic had Roger's wolf friend framed for the disappearance of his partner Percy Pig. Another wolf leading a whole pack of them tells them to "amscray." Roger then realizes that no 'toon wolf would ever speak in Pig Latin, and reveals the other wolf to be Percy Pig in a wolf mask, framing Wolfe all along as a prank.
- Mixed with Cypher Language in a Tannarak's Parody Magic Spell in the New 52 Constantine #8.
Tannarak: Histay siay hetay agicmay! ewa astcay pellssay ikelay osay! Agicalmay Igpay Atinlay orksway estbay!
- Plasmo the Mystic, disguised as Claude Kane, whispers "Ixnay Audclay" to the title character in Radioactive Man when the latter quietly thanks him for showing up to protect his secret identity. This turns out to be a mystic love spell that causes Gloria to fall for him.
- In Make a Wish Luna sings the Hogwarts school song in Pig Latin while waiting for a government official to speak to her.
- In the Tokimeki PokéLive! and Twinbee story "Hilda's and Shizuku's Ice Cream Date!", Mutsuki tells Pastel to not kiss her in public in Pig Latin.
- "Ereway Inhay the Oneymay", as sung by Ginger Rogers, from Gold Diggers of 1933.
- The priest in Top Secret!: "Ooreyay oingay ootay etgay iedfray in the airchay."
- The Mask. Stanley Ipkiss is escaping a police station with an uncooperative Lt. Kellaway when they encounter Kellaway's partner, Doyle, who is otnay ootay ightbray:
Doyle: Hey, Lieutenant! Where you taking Ipkiss?
Kellaway: Ixnay! Ehay's otgay an ungay!
Ipkiss: (jabs Kellaway in the back with a hidden gun)
Kellaway: Ow!
Doyle: I get it! Pig Latin, right? Eesay ouyay aterlay!
- Blues Brothers 2000:
Cab Chamberlain: I thought you said she was old and ugly.
Elwood Blues: Ix-nay on the ugly-ay.
- A Dog's Breakfast:
Marilyn: Ix-nay on the Ookie-may.
Ryan: Okay-way.
Patrick: [sarcastically, feigning seriousness] I'm not sure your code is secure.
- Robin Hood: Men in Tights
The Abbot: I will conduct the prayer in the New Latin. Oh ord-lay, ive-us-gay ore-yay essings-blay, amen-hay.
- In Short Circuit 2, Oscar directs his thugs to sneak behind Johnny 5 with the command "Et-gay ehind-bay im-hey!" Johnny 5 doesn't know Pig Latin, so they are able to nearly kill him. When he's eventually brought back to life and is now attacking the people that beat him up, he starts taunting them in Pig Latin.
- When the younger Frankenstein shouts the monster has a rotten brain, Igor hisses, "Ixnay on the ottenray!"
- In Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Eddie Valiant and Roger are hiding in a Prohibition era secret room in the bar. When Judge Doom enters the bar, Dolores says "Ixnay! Ixnay" to herself as she pushes the button that sounds a warning buzzer inside the room.
- Earlier in the film, when leaving Eddie's apartment office, Smarty says to the other weasels "Come on boys, let's amscray."
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: "Why don't ou yay, and I-yay, o-gay and... et-gay the... uff-stay out of the ... unk-tray?" (points to Dr Gonzo, to himself and out the door)
- In Air Buddies 2006, apparently Pig Latin is the language pigs naturally speak.
- "Well well well, unkdray again", says the maid in The Blue Dahlia, except Helen isn't drunk, she's dead.
- Vivian and Rita in Slums of Beverly Hills communicate in Iddiga, with subtitles.
- Twilight's religion, Cullenism (it exists. Seriously.), has its main prayer in Pig Latin. As if the concept alone wasn't mind-boggling enough.
- Used as a code in Sixth Column by Robert A. Heinlein, under the theory that non-native speakers won't be able to understand it.
- American Gods (rather meta, by the way):
Message received on Planet Technical. Loud and clear. Ixnay on the Estionsquay.
- Dave Barry in Cyberspace tells of a top-secret cable, sent on December 3, 1941 from Tokyo to Washington, reading: "E-WAY ILL-WAY ATTACK-AY EARL-PAY ARBOR-HAY." The message was intercepted by U.S. agents, and the power of technology was demonstrated by the efforts to decode it by computer. The machine worked nonstop to decode it before giving up two and a half years later.
- Dave Barry Slept Here identifies Pig Latin as the code invented by and named after Samuel Morse. Discussion Question #2: "An-cay oo-yay eak-spay ig-pay atin-lay? Explain."
- Original Sin has the Doctor working with some military types to stop an alien starship that's leaking dangerous radiation. When he has to go and retrieve the TARDIS, knowing that the military probably wants to seize the ship for their own purposes, he gives their commander a message to pass on to Benny: "Ashtray the ipshay".
- In The Baby-Sitters Club story Mallory and the Trouble With Twins, the titular twins (Marilyn and Carolyn) annoy people with their own made-up twin language. Mallory gives them a taste of their own medicine by confusing them with Pig Latin, and they learn a lesson about what it feels like to be spoken to in a language you don't understand. Then she teaches them Pig Latin and starts being better friends with them. It's suggested, but not confirmed, that the twins were so eager to learn Pig Latin because their "twin language" was a sham.
- In Tim Powers' The Anubis Gates, the time-travelling protagonist writes himself a note across the centuries, using Pig Latin and 1970s slang to ensure nobody else who reads it in the meantime will understand it.
- In Holes, "X-Ray" is so nicknamed because it's Pig Latin for his real name, "Rex".
- The True Meaning of Smekday features a group of rebels who write messages in pig latin because the alien race invading Earth doesn't understand it.
- Bored of the Rings has a note written by Goodgulf, which includes a message to Frito in Pig Latin concerning Arrowroot's intelligence (or lack thereof).
- In the Time Warp Trio book "See You Later, Gladiator", when trying to talk a gladiator out of killing him and his friends, Joe tries talking to him in this language (the only Latin he knows). The results are predictable.
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer has a monster that tends to appear and take form by listening in on their conversations. Anya suggests they start speaking in code, Xander immediately thinks pig Latin is the obvious choice. (Though he doesn't speak it particularly well.) "Ood-gay idea-yay, An-yay."
- Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode "Hobgoblins":
Daphne: Icks-nay on the ogus-nay, okay!
Tom Servo: What, bite me-ay!
- Rose on The Golden Girls claims to have studied Latin and been the top student in the class. When Dorothy is incredulous, Rose says it's true, "Orothy-day!"
- Muppets Tonight when John Goodman was the guest star, he was being bugged by some pigs. The following dialogue occurs:
John: The igpays are a little upidstay.
Pigs: He speaks the ancient tongue! Eway are not orthyway! Eway are not orthyway!
- On the show The Adventures of Pete & Pete in the episode "On Golden Pete", the inscription on the fishing rod Big Pete's dad has given him reads "Inay ankay ountkay onyay ooyay."
- In a season three episode of The Office, Jim tells Andy to woo Pam using Pig Latin because Jim knows she hates pig latin
- Hodges uses this in the season ten CSI episode Death and the Maiden when he tells Greg about his attempt to persuade Ecklie to allow Wendy to transfer to the field.
- A M*A*S*H episode has Frank and Hot Lips commissioning a local Korean artist to carve a wooden bust of Colonel Potter's head. He tells them it will cost six dollars and Frank is about to accept, but Hot Lips interrupts, whispering to him, "Frank, these people have no espect-ray unless you aggle-hay over the ice-pray." Frank has to spend a few moments doing the translation to himself before agreeing.
Frank: (to artist) Five dollars.Artist: $7.50.Frank: Sold.Hot Lips: (to Frank) UMB-day!
- Ubbi dubbi, also known as "Pig Greek", was popularized by the PBS children's program ZOOM.
- In Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show, Diane gets a curse that forces her to speak only Pig Latin.
- Charmed uses this briefly in the fourth-season-finale "Which Way Now", when the three sisters are worrying not only about demonic troubles, but also about being caught by the (entirely mundane) police.
Phoebe: Okay, Ix-nay on the angel-way talk.
- On the "Tassels in the Air" episode of The Three Stooges, Larry and Moe try to teach Curly how to speak Pig Latin. When Curly says that his Pig Latin name must be "Curly Q", Moe says "Boy, are you umday!" The Pig Latin later results in Moe being mistaken for a painter named Omay.
- In one episode of Lizzie McGuire where Gordo is teamed up with Kate, Kate tells Gordo, "Let's o-gay."
- The choristers at the beginning of Penn & Teller: Bullshit!'s "Vatican" episode are chanting "The Vatican is bullshit!" in Pig Latin.
- "Ap-ray" by Derwood Bowen is a rap song in pig Latin about rapping in pig Latin.
- "Grunt: Pigorian Chant (from Snouto Domoinko de Silo)" sung by the Ad Hog Camerata, with words by Sandra Boynton. A pricelessly hilarious parody of "Chant". It describes a day at the farm in Latin and Pig Latin. Allemooia. Gloria in egg shells each day-o.
- P.D.Q. Bach:
- "Missa Hilarious" has "Yriekay" for the first movement instead of "Kyrie."
- The piano score of "The Short-Tempered Clavier" advertises "performance notes in five languages," one of which is Pig Latin. At least the "Erformancepay Otesnay" are actually a faithful translation of the English notes, unlike the French "Remarques sur l'Exécution" (a recipe) or the German "Aufführungsnoten" (the text of Schiller's Ode to Joy).
- In Get Fuzzy (May 11, 2008), Robert tries to tell Satchel to "idehay the ingstray" before Bucky sees it. Neither animal understands, but the cat accuses Robert of sounding like a terrorist, or at least an annoyerist.
- In Calvin and Hobbes, Calvin sneaks a walkie-talkie into class during a test. When Miss Wormwood catches him, he's muttering "Ixsay inusmay ourfay! Urryhay!" into the speaker.
- In another strip he rejects Pig Latin as a secret code because everyone knows it.
- The Professor from the comic version of Little Nemo in Slumberland speaks only in Pig Latin.
- The term "Kayfabe" is thought to originate from a pig-latin version of "be fake".
- Magic: The Gathering has this card.
- In Toon's "Crawl of Catchoolu" setting, Pig Latin is mentioned as one of the mysterious languages a Tome of Eldritch Lore might be written in. It's suggested the characters could get it translated by a pig.
- In The Complete History Of America Abridged, one of the reactions to the Shot 'Heard Round The World is, "I ear-hay an ot-shay, orky-Pay!"
- The Musical of Musicals: The Musical!:
Jütter: Here at the Speakeasy, we speak many different languages. But the favorite is Pig-Latin. To fool the police, Jah? Sprechen zie Eutsche-Day? Parlez-vous Rancais-Fay? Et tu Brute? Ha, ha, ha, ha. That was real Latin!
- The final incantation in Sam and Max: The Tomb of Sammun-Mak is "Umkay Oninnay, the Otterway's Inefay" — "Come on in, the water's fine."
- When you subdue the Thraddash in Star Control II you can decide the rules of their new society, one option being that they have to talk in Pig Latin when greeting you.
- In The Secret of Monkey Island, one of the Cannibals, Sharptooth, tells Guybrush that he can't go through the Caverns of Meat to get the Voodoo Antiroot without something before Red Skull (another cannibal) interrupts and tells Sharptooth, "Ixnay on the Eadhay of the Avigatornay!", but Guybrush has no clue what they're talking about (they're talking, of course, about the Head of the Navigator). It is lampshaded, of course:
Guybrush: Why are you guys talking in Pig Latin?
Red Skull: [to the other Cannibals] I see he is baffled by our native dialect. Good.
- In The Curse of Monkey Island, while King André is discussing the evil plans to Guybrush, André's assistant Cruff interrupts and tells him, "Ix-nay on the evil an-play."
- Literally a common language in Rayman Origins as everyone in the game speaks Pig Latin[1].
- Okage: Shadow King had a ghost attack leave a curse on the main character's sister that made her unable to speak anything other than pig latin, trying to cure it kicks off the main plot.
- A boss does this in the Bug:
Ou-yay Ose-lay""at a-whay opperhead-slay!"
- In The Dig, Commander Low, trying to find a way to communicate with an alien, tries asking, "Oo-day oo-yay eek-spay ig-pay atin-lay?"
- Kingdom of Loathing's Quest for the Holy MacGuffin mostly uses Dog Latin, but there's some Pig Latin mixed in as well.
"OWTHRAY VESTI MANUS IN AER ET AVEWAY LEMMA IKELAY TU NON CAUTIO"(Throw your hands in the air and wave them like you just don't care.)
- Captain SNES: The Game Masta tried to use Pig Latin to get the Sailor Scouts to give him a clear shot a Dhaos. It didn't work.
- My Stupid Life: "Dude. Iksnay on the ittybar-tay"
- In El Goonish Shive, closeted lesbian Nanase hisses "Ixnay on the Ay-geth..way" at Justin because she's afraid discussing his Coming-Out Story will out her as well.
- This Darths & Droids strip. It was also used in This strip.
- Tales of the Questor: When Quentyn wins three boons from a Fae princeling, he states them in "Latin" because as a dead language, there's no worry that the meaning of his words will change over time and open up loopholes to abuse. But if you look at the actual text, it is in fact a modified form of Pig Latin, using random end syllables instead of "ay".
- Zazu in The Lion King: "Ix-nay on the oopid-stay."
- "Who're you calling 'oopid-stay'?"
- Disney's Hercules. "I got two words for you: am-scray!"
- Anastasia has Dimitri tell a terribly lovestruck Vlad this: "Ix-nay on the Ophie-say!"
- Monsters, Inc. has a scene where Sully tells Mike to "Ook-lay in the ag-bay." When Mike doesn't understand, Sully hisses: "Look in the bag!" Parodied in the 'outtakes'.
Mike: You know, maybe you should just take a minute and ead-ray your ipt-scray.
- In the Jumanji cartoon, Alan and the kids use Pig Latin to appear foreign into order to infiltrate a secret gathering of Jumanji's various factions.
- Used as an example of a code on Cyberchase. Matt is surprised that The Hacker knows it.
- Buzz Lightyear of Star Command episode "Revenge of the Raenoks":
Buzz: XR, is that you?
XR: Eek! Ix-nay on the X-R-ay, Uzz-bay. We're in enemy erritory-tay.
Buzz: This is a restricted alliance comm channel, XR. You don't need code.
XR: Yeah, but it's un-fay.
- Disney's Aladdin.
Genie: And ixnay on the wishing for more wishes!
- One episode of The Simpsons features Bart and Lisa having a quick conversation that they didn't want Marge to hear. When Marge reminded them (in Pig Latin) that "I-ay as-way a-ay id-kay nce-oay oo-tay, ou-yay ow-knay", they chorus "Ap-cray."
- In an earlier episode: Krusty says "Ix-nay on the ew-jay" to a guest star when they remind him of his Jewish faith and says he doesn't "do the Jewish stuff on the air."
- In the latter day Looney Tunes short "The Duxorcist", Daffy's demonically-possessed love interest says "Ouyay upidstay erkjay", to which Daffy responds "And I thought French was the romantic language!"
- In the Golden Age short "The Impatient Patient," Daffy has the hiccups and seeks the help of Dr. Jerkyl. The doc's PA speaker intones "ix-fay up-hay uck-day with the iccups-hay."
- Hanna-Barbera's The Adventures of Gulliver episode "Gulliver's Challenge". When Flirtacia insults the Black Knight holding them captive, Bunko says "Ixnay on the insultsnay".
- In South Park, Kyle brings a cake as a gift to Cartman when visiting him in juvenile hall, mentioning that there's an "ailnay ilefay" baked inside of it, which will enable Cartman to "eakbray out of isonpray". When Cartman informs him that they're not allowed to accept gifts, Kyle goes into a lengthy rant while still speaking Pig Latin. Stan on the other hand just calls Cartman "umbassday".
Kyle: It took us ourfay ourshay to bake this oddamngay akecay, and now we're otallytay ewedscray!
- On the Arthur season one episode "Arthur's Family Vacation":
"Did you tie Arkeyshay on ightay?"
- In American Dad!, Francine is fed up of not having any freedom as a woman in Saudi Arabia, and she cuts to singing again.
Stan: Uh, seriously, Francine, ixnay on the inging-say.
- In one episode of Rugrats ("Superhero Chuckie"), after Angelica sees the actor playing Captain Blasto "fly" on a rope, she asks him if he can do it again without the rope, and the actor whispers to her, "Ix-nay on the ope-ray, kid."
- The entire episode of "Ferb Latin" in Phineas and Ferb parodies this, with the suffix as -erb instead of -ay.
Phineas: All the fun of Pig Latin, but it's safe for vegetarians to use.
- Pig Latin is present in "The Bully Code".
- In the Rocko's Modern Life episode "Unbalanced Load", Rocko notes that his bedroom looks like a pigsty... then he spots an actual pig squatting in his room, and tells the guy to "Amscray".
- The Teen Titans Go! episode "Obinray" sees the Titans save Robin resort to this when they tire of his eavesdropping. Turns out there's a secret pig alien conspiracy beneath it all.
- In the Mixels episode "Nixel, Nixel, Go Away", Booger and his friends, using boxes to disguise themselves, test their "Nixel abilities", which is really just saying "Nix", which is the only thing the Nixels say. Zabo screws up and says "Ix-nay" instead, causing Booger to decide only he should do the talking from now on.
- Some people speak Pig Latin around immigrants who speak poor English in order to hold a private conversation without the hassle of learning a new language. This tends to not end well.
- Interestingly, the Pig Latin word "ixnay" seems to be supplanting its untranslated source word in the English language. Certainly, a trope-page for "nix" wouldn't have as many examples as "ixnay" has on this one.
- When Kellogg's Froot Loops first came on the market in 1963, Toucan Sam insisted on calling it in pig latin, "Oot-fray Oops-lay." Redubbed "kid talk", it was a major part of the product's initial image. Like Toucan Sam himself, it was probably meant to connect the fruit flavors with the Hollywood Natives version of indigenous South American jungle tribes. You were supposed to do a Primal Chestpound and yell "Woo-woo-woo!" if you liked it.
Sparkling with ugar-shay
Ells-smay so elicious-day
Made with real fruit avor-flay
Uit-fray Oops-lay!


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I was at a game recently and heard something crack while tightening one of the twist locks. I took it apart and found that the ring on the bushing that holds it in place had cracked off. I contacted Induro about purchasing a replacement bushing. It turns out that my bushing was only used for a brief period and they did not have a replacement to send me.
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LONDON — Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch is suffering from "low grade" prostate cancer, a company spokesman said in a statement Sunday.
Word of Murdoch's condition contributed Monday to News Corp. stock falling sharply in early trading in Australia.
Murdoch, the 69-year-old chairman and CEO of media conglomerate News Corp., discovered the condition after a routine medical check in Los Angeles last week.
"His doctors have told Mr. Murdoch the prognosis is very good and that it is an extremely low grade form of cancer. He has no intention of changing his work schedule," a spokesman told the Sunday Times newspaper, which is owned by News Corp.
"He is to receive treatment. He will receive brief sessions of radiotherapy in a month's time. The treatment will last several weeks and his doctors are confident that it will eliminate the problem."
Australian-based News Corp. owns newspapers, broadcast and satellite TV networks and the 20th Century Fox film studio.
Australian-born Murdoch, now a U.S. citizen, is one of the world's richest men with Forbes magazine estimating last year he was worth $5.0 billion.
His marriage of 32 years to second wife Anna ended in divorce last year, and he wed former News Corp. executive Wendi Deng soon afterwards. He has four children from his first two marriages.


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Gay by the Bay: A Look Back at the SF International Lesbian
and Gay Film Fest
by Stephen Kent Jusick
After the oh-so-exclusive and crowded opening party for Lisa
Cholodenko's "High Art," the San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay
Film Festival continued like a juggernaut until it's rocket-hot close on
June 28. Festival Director Michael Lumpkin has always championed gay
features, as long ago as the 70's. This year's line-up included the
lugubrious premiere of the Greek biopic "Cavafy," the engaging dyke
sci-fi/noir "The Sticky Fingers of Time," Jeff Dupre's conventional gay
history doc "Out of the Past," and the dim and dull filmed play of
Chinese cottaging in "East Palace, West Palace."
Although programs like "Dragtime" and "Fun in Boys Shorts"/"Fun in Girls
Shorts" provided the sort of traditional whitebread gay ghetto tales, it
was also possible to chart several alternative courses at the fest, and
that variety is what makes the event such a draw. So if you wanted a
more slacker type of festival, see "Surrender Dorothy," "Totally
Confused," the "Cherry Bombs" program (punk grrl video), and "Skin to
Skin" (boy skinhead shorts in love and despair). For lesbian history,
look out for Barbara Hammer's excavation "The Female Closet," Jean
Carlomusto's affecting "To Catch A Glimpse," and "Love Story," Catrine
Clay's account of a dyke Nazi-Jewish romance. Trannyphiles could load
up on Hans Scheirl's wonderfully wacky and surreal transvestite tale
"Dandy Dust," Berlin's Teddy winner "The Brandon Teena Story," and
several shorts programs, including tranny porn!
In a reversal from recent years, AIDS was strongly represented, the
focus in at least eight programs, mostly features. "The Human Race," a
doc about an HIV+ sailing race sounded deadly, but was actually
well-done. Ioannis Mookas (who, sadly, couldn't afford to attend his
world premiere) garnered respectable audiences for his Sunday morning
screening of "Only Human: HIV Negative Gay Men in the AIDS Epidemic,"
which combines testimonials and a fictional narrative to look at this
often overlooked population. This tape was a natural for SF, since the
city was the cradle of HIV- negative activism/prevention, and not many
places could turn out a full house at that hour for a work less
concerned with buff bodies than vouchsafing seroconversion.
Other features of note were David Moreton's wildly popular "Edge of
Seventeen," a bland coming out narrative, set in the 80s, that received
a standing ovation for its pleasing trajectory and pop tunes, despite
the ill-defined characterizations. Lea Delaria as a maternal bar owner
made the medicine go down more easily for me. Despite pedestrian
visuals and script, the film copped the Audience Award for Best Feature.
Politics was more evident in another audience award-winner, Tim
Kirkman's "Dear Jesse," a semi-epistolary "POV"-type doc about the
filmmaker and his relationship to arch-homophobe Republican Senator
Jesse Helms. The film, looking rough in the way that means from the
heart, is best when we see a lesbian and her adopted bi-racial son, and
when Democratic Patsy and Republican Eloise recognize Helms as their
common enemy. Still, the great concept is lightweight in effect,
lacking the firebrand energy of forebears Arthur Bressan's "Gay USA" or
Rosa Von Praunheim's "Army of Lovers," to name just two 1970's classics.
The Turkish "Hammam" (about bathhouses) seemed like a coup for the
festival, since this film was almost nominated for an Academy Award
before homeland officials withdrew it because of its gay content. And
while the film was more visually interesting than many American cheapie
features, it doesn't capitalize on its subject matter. There was little
steam in the film (literal or metaphorical). Director Ferzan Ozpetek
could have spent more time shooting the beautiful architecture of the
bathhouse and refining the film's schematic plot.
For the first time, video was projected in the cavernous and palatial
1,500-seat Castro theater. While this was welcome, it wasn't without
hitches. Mohamad Camara's "Dakan," the first West African gay film, was
screening on high quality video (which actually looked quite good), but
the tape was defective, and a disappointed full house was sent home, to
await replacement screenings at the smaller Roxie, and on far inferior
video equipment.
One revelation of the festival was the rare screening of Ulrike
Ottinger's 1979 German feature "Ticket of No Return." Most famous for
"Joanna D'arc of Mongolia" and "Madame X," Ottinger is spellbinding here
as well. Dispensing, as usual, with traditional narrative, Ottinger
gives us a protagonist, the unnamed Madame, who is stunningly outfitted
at every possible moment. Throughout her entire alcoholic tour of
Berlin, she never speaks, yet she befriends (and bathes with) bag-lady
Lutze, while being observed by a trio of chorines, representing
Rationality, Conscience, and Common Sense
Shorts programs made up a large chunk of the festival, and rightly so.
Most of the work in 35mm wass forgettable calling card material. For
truer vision, look to the smaller formats, though some video, like "Gay
Black Female," can be pretty atrocious too. The "Bi Boys and Bi Girls"
show (curated by SF Bi Film Festival founder Jeff Ross), was one of the
most consistent and satisfying in the entire festival. Ranging from
slick Channel 4 docs like Erin Cotter's "Greed," filled with well-spoken
bi-Brits, to the super low budget campus comedy "Out on Holiday" to the
"Charlie's Angels" parody "The Kinsey Three" — the program kept one's
attention. The only misstep was Ross's inclusion of the 35mm New Zealand
short "Peach," plucked from 1993 to boost sales with the presence of a
pre-"Xena" Lucy Lawless.
Michael Burke's "Fish Belly White" rose to the top of the boys shorts,
for its strong performances, and its brave depiction of queerness in a
rural setting. "Close to Home," by Rodney Evans, is an ambitious work
about coming out to his Jamaican family, and coming to terms with his
hyphenated identity. It also featured one of the 2 startling cumshots
in the festival (the other is courtesy former Madonna boytoy Tony Ward
in Jochen Hick's prurient and shallow "Sex/Life in LA"). Also included
was videomaker Hoang Tan Nguyen's "These Are a Few of My Favorite
Things" which melds Julie Andrews with some deliciously light S&M.
Todd Downing's pixelated doll animation "Dirty Baby Does Fire Island"
(which won the $1,000 Absolut Animation audience award) was a clear
favorite each time it screened. More exquisite but less well-received
was Lewis Klahr's meditative cut-out cartoon "Pony Glass." A slightly
longer piece in the animation show, it was unwisely placed last, when
audience members were restless, and too pumped from Dirty Baby's antics
to engage the subtle presentation of Jimmy Olsen's latent lust for his
pal Superman.
Two other shorts from the past were landmarks then and now. The sold out
screening of Jean Genet's 1950 silent classic "Un Chant D'Amour" remains
a cinematic treasure (take that AFI!) Anyone-queer or not-who hasn't
seen it should, and almost 50 years later, it still stuns, as does the
questionable inclusion of Maya Deren's "Meshes of the Afternoon," from
1943. Warren Sonbert's 1967 "Amphetamine" reminds us, even more than
the Genet, of the counterculture and how gay lib emerged along with
other social struggle. Looser than his later, more rigorous work, the
film depicts its simple depiction of fags shooting up, and only briefly
in each other's arms. This new print is a result of work by Jim Hubbard
and Jon Gartenberg for the Estate Project for Artists With AIDS, and is
only a brief taste of what will be a full feast when the
Guggenheim mounts a Sonbert retro in 1999.
P.J. Castellaneta returns with "Relax…It's Just Sex" after his debut
feature (1991's "Together Alone," reprised this year), this time with
color, multiple sets, a showy cast, and far less earnestness. Although
the auteur is supposed to be king (of the world?), this night the crowd
was panting for Jennifer Tilly, who skipped the fest when "Bound" was
in town 2 years ago. This time the diva was rewarded. Not only did she
cut off her director's acknowledgements, she stole the stage, winning
over the few who weren't already swooning over her. The pro-promiscuous
film hit many of the right notes for a SF closer: beginning with the
never-mentioned issue of swallowing during oral sex, heading into AIDS
territory, and making fun of devout Christian gay boys. Sort of a
"Friends" for the big screen, Castellaneta tripped up egregiously at the
end where things get a bit treackly. After the show, La Tilly, along
with co-stars Lori Petty and Mitchell Anderson posed and chatted in the
pavilion with all the other guests. How else to repay the thunderous
clapping and stomping that greeted them?
Although it would seem appropriate to close with the closing night, some
of the festivities that make SFILGFF more than film deserve mention.
While the parties have always been a crucial, and some times
frustrating-part of the festival (determinedly tight quarters promote
exclusion rather than collegiality), this year the festival really
topped itself. Even though many of the regulars lamented the loss of
the well-catered Canadian Consulate party, and the traditional "best
party of the festival" thrown by filmmaker David Weissman and friends, a
new party eclipsed all those. This was a hot tub party near Half Moon
Bay, about 35 minutes outside the city. How to get there? Why by
stretch limo from the Castro Theater! Generously hosted by Paul
Percovic and Eric Trefelner at their country home overlooking the water,
guests were treated to sumptuous food and flowing drinks. Birthday
suits were the de rigueur fashion at the hot tubs, which were
delightfully co-ed at times, and only mildly gropey. (Sponsor take note:
Festival director Michael Lumpkin remained the epitome of rectitude the
entire evening.) Easily the most decadent festival party I've ever been
to, it sets the hospitality standard for all to emulate. Now if only
it had been a little warmer….
[Stephen Kent Jusick is a writer, curator, administrator and filmmaker
and installation artist. He founded the Baltimore Lesbian and Gay Film
Festival, is an advisor to the Turin Lesbian and Gay Film Festival in
Italy, while remaining assoicated with MIX: The New York Lesbian and Gay
Experimental Film/Video Festival. Next project: Better screening
facilities in Manhattan.]
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War of words for euro summit
The Italian Prime Minister says he's not going to this week's leaders' summit to "rubber stamp" pre-agreed proposals.
He says he'll stay in Brussels all weekend, if that's what needed to make serious progress.
Perhaps. But listening to the pre-summit rhetoric from the German side, you wonder whether two more days talking would make much difference.
According to press reports, Chancellor Merkel said yesterday there would be no collective guarantees of euro area member country debt "as long as I live".
As denials go, that sounds pretty emphatic.
Prime Minister Monti will not be happy to hear that. But what made him really cross was the Bundesbank President, Jens Weidmann, last week dismissing Monti's proposals to use the two rescue funds, the EFSF and the ESM, to buy the sovereign bonds of countries like Italy or Spain to keep their borrowing costs at reasonable levels.
As I said in my Monday post, most people are deeply sceptical about this proposal if it simply means the EFSF or the ESM running down their funds buying Italian debt.
If they are to have any traction in the financial markets, those bond purchases cannot have a 100bn-euro or 200bn-euro price tag attached to them. So, for this to be a realistic proposal, Germany needs to be willing to allow the ESM to obtain a banking licence, so it can borrow much larger amounts from the ECB.
This is what Chancellor Merkel rejected at last year's July summit. At the time, President Sarkozy boasted that the leaders had nonetheless paved the way for a "European Monetary Fund' by agreeing to let the rescue funds participate directly in the market.
However, as many noted that boast was not very credible as long as the funds had such limited resources - and there was no true "lender of last resort".
Since then, the rescue funds have grown considerably, but so has the crisis.
A year ago, when the leaders were preparing for that July summit, the gap between the interest rate on Spanish and German 10-year government debt was around 2.8 percentage points. Today the gap has risen to more than 5.3 percentage points. The gap for Italy has risen from just over 2 percentage points to over 4.5 points.
Perhaps the denials from Angela Merkel, Jens Weidmann et al will leave room for a compromise on Friday.
Perhaps Mario Draghi will once again bring the ECB to the rescue, after the central bank's regular meeting next week, by agreeing to give the ESM a banking licence after all.
Or maybe Germany will sign up, after all, to some variation of the "Redemption Fund" proposal from Germany's own "wise men", which would involve guaranteeing only a proportion of each government's debt, for a finite period of time.
But, when I interviewed Secretary of State Kampeter in Berlin, he was very explicit in rejecting that idea as well.
There is always a war of words in the lead up to these "make-or-break" summits. But so far this one doesn't seem to leave much room for a truce that could lift the gloom hanging over eurozone markets.


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AP Photo/Brendan McDermid, Pool — AP photo Hasan Rouhani, President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, addresses the 68th United Nations.
President Obama's recent phone conversation with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani was not only historic, it was a major step forward in defense of religious liberty against ever-increasing persecution.
A couple of weeks ago we wrote about the plight of a U.S. citizen, Pastor Saeed Abedini, imprisoned in Iran for his Christian faith. Abedini has done nothing wrong. He has not even violated Iranian law, which recognizes Christianity as a minority religion. Yet, he has been imprisoned, beaten, and tormented for his religious beliefs.
September 26th was the one-year mark of his wrongful imprisonment by the Iranian regime one year separated from his wife and children who are waiting for their father to be returned home to the U.S.
On that day, thousands of people gathered in dozens of cities around the world to pray for Pastor Saeed. We participated in a prayer vigil for Pastor Saeed in front of the White House. Joined by Members of Congress, including Senator Ted Cruz and Representatives Trent Franks and Robert Pittenger, and concerned Americans, we knelt for prayer exercising our greatest right as Americans in front of the White House.
The very next day, President Obama spoke with President Rouhani about Pastor Saeed. It was the first time in 35 years that a U.S. President had spoken with the President of Iran.
It was also the first time that President Obama had personally called for Pastor Saeed's release.
In that short phone call, Pastor Saeed, and thus the issue of religious liberty, was elevated to a top priority for the U.S. with Iran.
President Rouhani must show the world that his nation can respect the religious liberty of its own people if we are to trust that his nation is changing.
President Obama echoed this call. In one phone call, he raised the case of this imprisoned U.S. citizen and the issue of religious liberty in Iran to new diplomatic heights.
All those of us who are fighting to defend religious liberty and human rights globally are grateful.
It is a tremendous step forward, and we are already seeing an impact.
Pastor Saeed, in his short weekly visitation behind glass walls with his Iranian family, said that he had already heard that President Obama had raised his case with the Iranian President. He heard news of it in his jail cell listening to Iranian media.
Not only does Iran's leadership know that religious liberty is a priority for the U.S. in any diplomatic relations, Iran's people know. The same people that voted to elect President Rouhani because he claimed to be a moderate now know. They know President Rouhani now has an opportunity to make good on that claim to show the world and the Iranian people that a new age has begun in Iran.
In just the last few weeks, we have seen renewed efforts by our nation's leaders to put religious liberty and human rights front and center of future diplomatic talks with Iran and to see that this U.S. citizen is returned to his family in the U.S.
Senator Ted Cruz introduced a resolution calling for Pastor Saeed's release, Pastor Saeed's Senator, James Risch (ID), has been continually outspoken, Congressman Pittenger and Senator Lindsey Graham each wrote Congressional letters on Pastor Saeed's behalf joined by dozens of Members of Congress, Senator Marco Rubio wrote an Op-Ed highlighting Pastor Saeed and the plight of Christians in Iran, and now President Obama has spoken out.
Each of these statements, resolutions, phone calls, and the indispensible behind the scenes work accompanying them sends a clear signal to Iran: Religious liberty is a national priority for the United States.
As Pastor Saeed's wife, Naghmeh, asked when she testified before Congress earlier this year:
That question is being answered in a meaningful and impactful way. We are thankful and encouraged by President Obama's willingness to speak out and make religious liberty a top priority, and we urge him to continue to do so. It could be a game changer, not just for Pastor Saeed but for thousands more persecuted like him.
Pastor Saeed was once again able to see his Iranian family this week. He is ready to come home, anxious to see his wife and children once again.
Iran is on notice. The world is watching. Iran must release this imprisoned American Pastor.
Jordan Sekulow is executive director of the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ). Matthew Clark is an attorney at the ACLJ. Follow them on Twitter: @JordanSekulow and @_MatthewClark.


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I have a firm belief that in five to ten years time, we'll no longer refer to media as 'social'. That's because everything we do will be social by its very nature.
We're already seeing social functionality dominate much of what we do online, from shopping, consuming news to listening to music. But how equipped are brands to cope with this uber social future?
Not very! That's if the results of a recent study we have conducted are correct. For the second year in a row, we've taken the fastest growing technology companies in the UK and benchmarked how they are using social media.
We found that, despite an increase in the number of social channels that are being used (and, in particular, a substantial take-up of Facebook amongst B2B companies), the vast majority of the companies we looked at are failing to use these channels to actually be social.
Only 31% of those with a Facebook account used it to engage with users. And of companies that had a blog, only 20% received comments and only one company replied to comments received.
Twitter saw the highest levels of engagement overall. Of the 41 companies with a Twitter account, 68% used it to build relationships with followers. However, on average, only 14% of tweets were replies and 14% were retweets.
Stuck in the one-way push marketing techniques of the past, it seems brands are still largely ignoring the opportunity to use social media for the explicit function that sets it apart.
So what is the answer?
Going back to basics with your social strategy
Anyone tasked with managing social media will be familiar with the feeling when a client or CEO comes and says, 'I think we need to be doing more on social networks'. The easy answer to this quandary is to set up an account and just start sending out the odd message every now and again. And it seems as though that is exactly what many companies have done.
But, I'd suggest a more strategic approach is needed.
Here are the key questions to ask:
1. What's the objective?
From customer service and customer engagement to driving sales and media outreach, social media can be used for a vast array of different business tasks. So it's important to think about which one/s are important to you.
2. How will you build a community?
Having an objective is one thing, but if no one is listening to you, you'll never achieve it. Building or tapping into a community is therefore an important first step. So find where your audience is, listen to what they are saying and begin to reach out to them.
3. What are you going to say?
Content is key. You could have the best community in the world, but if you've got nothing to say, you won't be able to engage in conversation.
4. Who's going to manage it?
Deciding who will run and manage your social media activity will again depend on what you are trying to achieve and who your audience is. Invest in training and find the right people – internally and/or externally - for the job.
5. How will you measure success?
As with all types of marketing and PR, if you can't measure outputs, outcomes and impact, you'll never know whether it is working. Agreeing metrics in advance and review them on a regular basis to help you work out whether it's working.
There's no silver bullet when it comes to social media. It takes a carefully thought through strategy and equally considered execution. Get this right and you'll be well on your way to capitalise on the social future that is just around the corner.
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I'm surprised that LinkedIn doesn't come higher, especially for B2B marketers. That would seem a much more fertile market than either Facebook or Twitter.
Ah, apologies, I skipped the infographic (infographic fatigue) so missed that. Good to see though.
A great article and some basic business planning tips in there.
I was particularly interested after reading the opening line and the suggestion that in 5-10 years we'll no longer be referring to it as 'social' media.
I don't think it is truly 'social' media at the moment and not because everything being done is 'social' in nature at the moment. I think these conduits are often used as a platform for 'me' to tell 'you'.
The findings back that up - 14% of tweets are responses everything else is 1 way traffic (even the RT's). That's not a good conversation!
It's just media with the option of 'social' available if you so choose it making the user 'social' and the media remaining media?
Yes you are exactly right Colin. Social media isn't being used in a social way at the moment by many brands. However, I do think this will change (there has been an increase in the last 12 months already). It will get to the stage where 'social' functionality becomes a part of the entire fabric of what we do online. Take Facebook's automated sharing features rolled out recently.
It always amazes me when I'm speaking with a client about their social media objectives and they can't really define what they are! What other marketing tactic do you use where you don't know what your end game is? Social media marketing needs a solid plan, just like anything else.
Nice post. Here's a sixth question: What's your time frame for results? Too many people see social media as a silver bullet, and think that having a company FB page will solve their problems. Like so much in marketing (especially in B2B marketing with long sales cycles), social media takes time to research, plan, implement and evaluate.
To me this infographic backups my thinking - majority of brands still don't get social media.
I can see people unfollowing or unlinking brands in the near future. I know I have. I want dialog and I want a response to my questions. If you can't provide these services I don't see the point of creating a social profile.
An example: I sent @Ted_Baker several tweets yesterday commenting on my customer experience (a bad one). I have yet to receive any acknowledgement.


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Do you need to quickly find a real estate agent to help you sell a property that you have in Weymouth? You may need to sell your property as fast as possible. It is very common for people to do a little bit of research on the real estate agents that are out there. You will likely find several that can help you in Weymouth. Sometimes you are able to sell a house very quickly because it is in high demand. But if you want to sell your property at higher value then it is necessary that your property is well managed and here you need Auckland property management who can help in well management of your property. These are typically single-family homes. If that's what you have, let's look at how you can find the best Weymouth real estate agent to help you get this done.
How To Begin Your Search
Realtors on this area are easy to find in phone directories, and also on the Internet. Your comparison of the different ones that are available can begin there. To learn a little bit more about them, try to find a company that evaluates different businesses. You will likely see many comments made about these different companies and the realtors that they employ. Some of them will have exceptional track records, capable of selling multiple properties every month, and this is the type of individual that you will want to work with. Your comparison will be as simple as looking at who sells the most, and trying to get them to represent you. It is very easy to get this information.
How Quickly Can They Sell Your House?
The speed at which a realtor is able to sell your house is dependent upon many factors. It is possible that, if you are flexible, you can undercut all similar properties to yours and sell yours very quickly. People are always looking for bargains, even if it's only saving a few thousand dollars. This will give you an advantage, especially if your realtor has several people lined up. Additionally, if your realtor is savvy at their job, they will be able to find other ways to market your home. This could be anything from placing ads in local classifieds that people can see to showcasing your house on their website in the MLS listings. It is likely that they will be able to sell your home in the next few weeks, especially if it is appropriately priced.
How Can You Get One Particular Realtor To Work For You?
You will want to sit down with the realtor that seems to have the best track record for selling properties quickly. You can call them up, set an appointment to work with them, and see when they can start. If you haven't listed your property with any other real estate office, they can likely get you started right away. It's a great way to get your home out there so that the multitudes can find it, contact your realtor, allowing them to close the deal.
These simple tips for finding a Weymouth real estate agent will help you sell your home as quickly as possible. There are many competent realtors in the area, willing to help anyone out. If you do need to sell quickly, and you can be flexible on the amount that you receive, it will be very easy to sell your house to people that are interested. It will be a combination of the price point, the location, and how good your realtor is at selling that will inevitably lead to the sale of your home. These simple tips should help you get the money that you need from the sale of your house using one of the many reputable Weymouth real estate agents in Auckland.
Just to have an idea of what a good real estate agent in Weymouth might be able to do for your property, check out this video. This is an example of the type of marketing that these professionals do.


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Five secrets to making your mix louder
Don't dismiss this post yet! Even if you're in the 'more dynamics' brigade, these tips will give you clearer mixes that suffer less in mastering. That means better-preserved dynamics and higher fidelity!
For those of you who really do want your mixs SUPER LOUD, this tips will let you push more volume without your sound turning to mush.
- Go easy on the bass. That includes sub bass, kick and melodic bass. It always tempting to turn them up, but the low frequencies really use up a lot of headroom (high peak level for the same perceived volume). The more headroom your audio needs, the less you can push it in mastering and the worse it will sound when it's pushed hard. First try to compare your bass levels with commercial reference songs. Listen carefully to the level of the low frequencies in comparison to the rest of the spectrum – you might find there's less than you initially thought! Also consider saturating the kick or the bass.
- Saturate those peaks. Take a look at your mix bus peak meter to see if any tracks are 'poking out' of the mix – often it will be the kick or the bass. Used carefully, you can use saturation to reduce the peak level of your kick or snare tracks without reducing the perceived volume. Often peak level reductions of 6-9dB are easily attainable without adversely affecting the audio quality. Limiters are usually not so useful here because they'll tend to change the sound too much.
- Embrace the background. Push some instruments further to the background. If you try to put too many sounds in the foreground you'll end up with an indistinct mush. This indistinct mush will quickly become even worse when you apply heavy limiting in mastering. Instead, try to identify the three or four most important elements of the mix (typically the snare, kick, bass and lead synth/vocal). Be bold and push everything else to the background! You'll get a mix that's more focussed and more powerful.
- Leave your stereo widener at home. Stereo widening tricks might be fun to play with, but they'll rob your mix of punch and power. If you want those foreground sounds (snare, kick, bass, lead) to hit as hard as possible, stay clear of any stereo width manipulation. Some subtle widening is sometimes useful for special background effects, but remember – if you do it, do it in moderation.
- Be careful of the lower mids. The region between 100Hz and 1000Hz is the cause of many troubles. It's very easy to put a mix together that has a lot of mud build-up in that area. To get the ultimate clear mix, get brutal with an EQ! Make some big dips in the lower mids for all background instruments, and make sure you don't have any excess lower mids in your foreground instruments. You need to keep some lower mids, because that's where your body and thickness comes from. Here's a secret though – a mix with body and thickness only needs a few foreground instruments to have that body and thickness. To put it another way, a few fat foreground instruments makes for a fat mix. A lot of fat instruments makes for a flabby mix.
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Tools for bringing green schools to communities everywhere
Green schools initiatives provide a clear avenue to reach new audiences outside of the green building profession, generating both interest and tangible results. USGBC's chapter network works creatively through Green School s programs, including Green Schools Challenges, to raise awareness about high-performing buildings , expanding the reach of USGBC's mission and vision. Check out some Green Schools Challenge resources developed by the chapter network with support of the 2013 USGBC Chapter Grants Program, and then find your local chapter to learn how you can help create more green schools in your community!
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Student-led "Green Teams" organized sustainability awareness campaigns and tracked their energy reduction progress through scorecards as part of the Minnesota Green Schools Challenge, reaching 497 students and 8 teachers across the state. Their handy toolkit includes sample scorecards, actitives, and marketing materials.
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The Missouri Gateway Chapter's Green Schools Quest helped area schools pursue sustainability initiatives, simultaneously offering hands-on community engagement opportunities for chapter members and improving local learning environments. School green teams and mentors at nearly 40 participating schools completed projects highlighted in the guide, including educating fellow students on sustainable practices, creating butterfly gardens with native plants, and developing plans to reduce school waste.
The Iowa Green Scales initiative used this sample scorecard for measuring a school's sustainable practices to award five K12 schools/school districts in the state with a $500 grant for the implementation of a strategic green project or educational program. The chapter's Green Schools Committee has worked closely on the implementation of the programs, providing an opportunity for members to develop meaningful relationships with schools all over Iowa.
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Sun represents our central focus and consciousness. In astrology, the Sun is the most dominant consideration - it influences our will to live, our creative life force, and it reflects the present or the "here and now".
With Sun in your 12th House - you might naturally retreat a little and take more private time for yourself now. This is not an ideal time for pushing forward with new personal projects and plans, and during this cycle, you are likely to listen to your intuition, to take a break from the hectic pace of your life, and to reflect on what you have learned in the past - until around 22nd November. From then, Sun enters your own sign, your 1st House of individual personality and projected self - when you will experience a renewal of energy and vitality, and it is a strong time for increased personal confidence. You are likely to be more decisive and forward-looking during this cycle, and you tend to put more faith in your own abilities. Physically, you are likely feeling strong. This is an excellent cycle for making personal changes in your manner or appearance, and for any self-improvement endeavours.
- All predictions are based on the assumption that you are born with Sun in Sagittarius. Since, the positions of the other planets in your Natal Chart are not considered, we expect the predictions above to be 70%-80% accurate. Based on the other planets, there may be some minor variations, suppression or even elevation of certain trends. More accurate predictions may be interpreted only with personalized Natal Charts.
- Please also remember that many trends of one week tend to slip into another (next week) like "dye, that bleeds" - especially for those born later, in 2nd and 3rd decans. This is because the planets stay in the same combination of positions for a period of time, and thus, so does the emotions at play.
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Freedom Summer 50th Anniversary Calendar
Spring/Summer 2014 Commemorative Events
February-May (first Tuesdays) / HATTIESBURG, MS: Freedom Summer Dialogues, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Hattiesburg Cultural Center, 723 Main Street. For more information, visit their website.
March 7–August 15 / JACKSON, MS, Mississippi Museum of Art: This Light of Ours: Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement. For more information, visit their website.
March 7-May 18 / JACKSON, MS, Mississippi Museum of Art: The Slave Series: Quilts by Gwendolyn A. Magee. For more information, visit their website.
March – November / TRAVELING EXHIBIT, Wisconsin Historical Society: "Risking Everything: A Freedom Summer Exhibit for Students," scheduled for 19 locations around the country this year. Click here for an article about the exhibit. For more information on dates and locations, visit their website.
May 30-31 / MCCOMB, MS: McComb, MS 50th anniversary commemoration. For more information, contact Brenda Travis at email@example.com.
June 2 / JACKSON, MS: 12 noon–1 p.m. at the Old Capitol Museum, Medger Wiley Evers Lecture Series. Director of the Freedom Summer Project and Algebra Project founder Dr. Robert Moses will open the exhibit "Stand Up!": Mississippi Freedom Summer of 1964 with a discussion of this pivotal time in the Civil Rights Movement. This program was partially underwritten by the Mississippi Humanities Council with an award from the Cora Norman Lecture Fund. For more information call 601-576-6850.
June 2 – October 31 / JACKSON, MS: "Stand Up!": Mississippi Freedom Summer of 1964 exhibit, Monday–Friday, 8 a.m.–5 p.m., Saturday 8 a.m.–1 p.m. at the William F. Winter Archives and History Building. Drawing on photographs, artifacts, documents, and film footage from the Mississippi Department of Archives and History (MDAH) collection, the exhibit will examine the people, places, and events of the Mississippi Summer Project, its challenges and its successes. For more information, call 601-576-6850.
June 8-28 / JACKSON, MS: The 2014 Institute for College and University Teachers, hosted by the Fannie Lou Hamer Institute at Jackson State University and the National Endowment for the Humanities. For more information, visit their website.
June 9 – August 28 / MISSISSIPPI PUBLIC BROADCASTING: MPB commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Mississippi Freedom Summer with a series of 53 public service announcements (PSAs) airing June 9 through August 28 on MPB TV. The PSAs will air daily on MPB TV through August 28 and posted online at mpbonline.org/1964. See this document for more information.
June 10-12 / WALTHAM, MA: "Blacks, Jew, and Social Justice in America" AMST Conference 2014 hosted by the American Studies Program at Brandeis University. For more information, visit www.amstconference2014.com.
June 14 / MCCOMB, MS: Bobby Talbert 10th Annual Reunion Picnic. For the past 10 years Bobby Talbert has opened up his manor on the 2nd Saturday in June to freedom riders, SNCC workers, and locals. His Annual Reunion Picnic is always filled with inspiring stories, good songs & music, great food, games, and priceless memorabilia from the civil rights area. This year's reunion picnic promises to be filled with more stories of our past to inspire our future. Don't miss this year's picnic on June 14th beginning at 12p.m. 1075 Oakdale Rd. McComb, MS
June 14-August 31 / JACKSON, MS, Mississippi Museum of Art: Norman Rockwell: Murder in Mississippi .
On June 21, 1964, civil rights activists Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney were brutally murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi. Several months later, LOOK Magazine commissioned an investigative article about the incident entitled "Southern Justice," and painter Norman Rockwell was asked to provide an illustration for the magazine's cover. Over the course of five weeks, Rockwell intensively studied the circumstances of the murders, made many preliminary drawings, photographs, a preparatory oil sketch, and the finished painting entitled Murder in Mississippi. This exhibition presents the iconic masterpiece in the context of many related works and thus illuminates the artist's creative process. Admission: $10 adults, $8 seniors, $5 students (includes admission to This Light of Ours: Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement). FREE Children 5 and under. FREE Museum members.
June 15 / MT. ZION UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, Philadelphia, MS: Sunday, June 15, at 3:00 p.m., the historic church will hold a special service to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the murders of civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner. In June 1964, a tragic chain of events visited Mississippi; Mt. Zion, which was burned down, was in many ways the epicenter of it all. Click here for a press release with details of the event. A live stream of the service, viewable from computers, smart TVs (via YouTube), and mobile devices, will be available at this URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci45-kBAnls
June 15-21 / NESHOBA COUNTY, MS: A week of commemorative events including civil rights tours, a Youth Day, a film screening, a program honoring local heroes, oral histories, and a unity program. For more information, visit their website.
June 16-25 / MCCOMB, MS: Freedom School at Higgins Middle School Building, 1000 Elmwood Street, McComb, MS.
June 17-28 / MERIDIAN, MS: Events include a Civil Rights Trail unveiling, commemoration, photography exhibit, worship service, "Freedom Summer" film screening, book discussions, and library events. On June 25, the "Freedom Summer: Honoring the Legacy & Pursuing Greatness" event features speaker Marion Wright Edelman and Freedom Summer workers. For more information, see this website.
June 19-21 / HATTIESBURG, MS: Freedom Summer 1964 50th Anniversary Conference and other commemorative events. For more information, visit this site.
June 20 / JACKSON, MS: University of Mississippi Medical Center's Marston Symposium on race and health care
June 21 / MCCOMB, MS: Juneteenth/Freedom Summer Commemoration. For over a decade Ms. Casin's Black History Gallery has held its annual Juneteenth celebration on the 3rd Saturday in June. This year the Black History Gallery has teamed with YPP of McComb Youth Organizers to honor and share the historical lessons of Juneteenth and Freedom Summer. The program will consist of speakers, spoken word, songs, workshops, and end with a potluck lunch of the best southern dishes. Locals, be sure to bring your favorite dish. 11 a.m. at McComb Black History Gallery 819 Wall St., McComb, MS.
June 21-23 / NEW ORLEANS, LA: Freedom Summer and Beyond: A Commemoration, organized by the Louisiana CORE Legacy Committee. Click here for more information.
June 22 / JACKSON, MS: Mississippi Art Museum. Deborah Solomon, New-York based art critic and author of American Mirror: The Life and Art of Norman Rockwell, speaks on the subject of "Freedom in Mississippi, as Norman Rockwell Saw It." Visit the website for more information.
June 22-24 / PANOLA COUNTY, MS: Reunion of Panola County Freedom Summer veterans, including Readers Theatre community theater in Sardis, documentary films, events at the Como Library, and tours.
June 25-29 / JACKSON, MS: The Mississippi Freedom Summer 50th Anniversary Conference hosted by the Veterans of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement and the Mississippi State Conference of NAACP. For more information, visit www.msfreedomsummer50th.com
June 25-29 / JACKSON, MS: The Veterans of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement are also hosting a Youth and Young Adult Congress, training and gaining resources in three track areas: Youth Organizing, Community Organizing, and Building Political Power. More info is at their website.
June 26-28 / JACKSON, MS: Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life (ISJL) is organizing a special program for Jewish activists who played a role in the Movement and contemporary Jewish activists who want to make a difference in the ongoing work of civil rights. This program is planned to complement the main workshops at the Mississippi Freedom Summer 50th Anniversary Conference. For a detailed schedule, see this PDF document or visit their website.
June 26-28 / SUNFLOWER COUNTY, MS: Sunflower County 50th anniversary commemoration
June 28-29 / MERIDIAN, MS: Meridian, MS 50th anniversary commemoration
June 29-30 / MCCOMB, MS: 50th Anniversary Freedom Summer Memorial Service & Celebration and Intergenerational Dialogue. The Brenda Travis Historical Education Foundation celebrates its 1st year in McComb by hosting Freedom Summer 50th Anniversary Memorial Service and Intergenerational Dialogue. The Service & Dialogue will feature speeches from Civil Rights Veterans and host families while focusing on the current and future generations of Freedom Workers. The Memorial Service will be held on Sunday, June 29th @ 2p.m. Society Hill Missionary Baptist Church 4098 Hwy 51, McComb, MS and the Intergenerational Dialogue will be held on Monday, June 30th 10a.m. 415 McComb St, McComb, MS.
June / ALCORN STATE UNIVERSITY, MS: Freedom School
June / MCCOMB, MS: Teaching for Change summer institute
July 14-18 / CLARKSDALE, MS: Coahoma County Higher Education Center offers classes on the history of Freedom Summer. CEU's are available to teachers. Click here for more information.
August 21 / MISSISSIPPI PUBLIC BROADCASTING: MPB will culminate its Freedom Summer commemoration with the original documentary "1964: The Fight for a Right," airing at 7 p.m. on MPB TV. See this PDF for more information.
October 12-14 / OXFORD, OHIO: 50 Years After Freedom Summer: Understanding the Past, Building the Future national conference, Miami University. For more information, visit their website.
October 19-21 / STARKVILLE, MS: Remembering Freedom Summer conference, Mississippi State University. For more information, visit their website.
Additional information will be added as we receive it. Please email us if you'd like to add an event to this calendar.


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Hurley, JM 2011, 'What education and training needs to offer MHNs assuming new roles: findings from a qualitative study on MHNs delivering talk based therapies', paper presented to Australian College of Mental Health Nursing 37th International Conference: mental health nursing: swimming between the flags?, Gold Coast, Qld., 4-7 October.
Mental health nurses (MHN) in the United Kingdom, as in Australia, are increasingly expanding their practice to move beyond traditional understandings of what interventions nurses offer to help service users. These traditional understandings can be arguably understood as MHNs offering predominantly passive interventions through observing and reporting for other professions to decide upon clinical interventions, or through placing absolute emphasis upon the therapeutic relationship as the 'curative be all and end all' of what MHNs do; seemingly oblivious that other disciplines share and hence also partially 'own' this vital aspect of care provision. This paper offers qualitative fi ndings from 24 MHNs engaged in delivering talk based therapies. These fi ndings suggest that preparatory education and training needs to refl ect a complex cluster of considerations, particularly with pre-registration mental health nursing becoming increasingly marginalised within curriculum; and in cognizance that new MHN roles are increasing autonomous. An emergent truth from this study is that a highly inclusive approach to education and training is required, one that commences with enabling the individual's emotional intelligence capabilities, yet that also incorporates the structure and direction of a variety of talk based therapy approaches. It also emerged that this education and training should be conducted across both formal education and work based training sites, with a powerful and stable pool of effective MHN role models being in place. However, MHNs who undertake such training appeared more likely to 'escape' nursing for the perceived comparative higher worth of other disciplines. Attendees will be invited to critically explore and debate these issues which while focused upon talk based therapies, also pertain to other emergent MHN roles and hence identities of our profession.
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Abstract published in International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, vol. 20, supp. s1. p. 9.


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Barks, Birds & Billabongs: Exploring the Legacy of the 1948 American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land. 16-20 November 2009.
Friday 20 November, 9.30am – 5.30pm
The final day of the symposium was devoted to workshops targeted at relevant special interest groups in the natural and social sciences. These workshops brought together experts from around Australia and the United States of America in fields such as bark painting research and conservation, film archiving, digital repatriation and the natural sciences.
This day was organised in collaboration with the Research School of Humanities and the Institute for Professional Practice in Heritage and the Arts, The Australian National University.
Workshop 1: Contemporary issues in the natural sciences: Progress since 1948?
Chair: Associate Professor Alison Specht, Southern Cross University
Coordinator: Dr Lynne McCarthy, National Museum of Australia
Contributors include:
- Professor Raymond Louis Specht, University of Queensland
- Alison Martin, Greenloaning Biostudies Pty Ltd
- Stefanie Pidcock, Soon to be at University of Adelaide
- Dr Emilie-Jane Ens, Australian National University
- Gillian Towler, National Herbarium of NSW
- Emmanuel Namarnyilk, Warddeken Ranger
This workshop will explore the role of data collection in modern-day science. The use of data, records and scientific inventories as a basis for decision making on issues such as biodiversity, conservation science and policy will be discussed. The vast amount of scientific data generated on the 1948 Arnhem Land Expedition will be used as a vehicle to discuss these contemporary issues facing the natural sciences today.
Time: 9.30am – 12.30pm
Location: The Studio, National Museum of Australia
Workshop 2: Paintings from the 1948 Arnhem Land Expedition
Convenors: Professor Howard Morphy and Dr Sally K May, Research School of Humanities, Australian National University
Contributors include:
- Margo Neale, National Museum of Australia
- Eric Archer, National Museum of Australia
- Nicki Smith, National Museum of Australia
- Sarah Bunn, Art Gallery of New South Wales
- Professor Deb Kane, Macquarie University
- Samantha Shellard, Queensland Art Gallery
- Wukun Wanambi, Mulka Project, Yirrkala
- Naminapu Maymuru-White, Artist and Creative Fellow, Australian National University
- Wilfred Nawirridj, Injalak Arts and Crafts Centre, Gunbalanya
- Sabine Hoeng, Australian National University
- Professor Paul Tacon, Griffith University
This workshop aims to bring together individuals and organisations working with bark paintings or paintings on paper collected during the 1948 Arnhem Land Expedition. It will include discussion of the future of the collections (management and new conservation techniques) as well as past and ongoing research relating to the painting collections.
Time: 9.30am – 12.30pm
Location: Bunyip/Biami Room, National Museum of Australia
Workshop 3: Archaeology collections and museums: Inaugural meeting of Museums Australia's National Network
Chair: Dr Keryn Walshe, Aboriginal and Archaeology Collections, South Australia Museum and President of the Archaeology of Collections in Museums National Network
This workshop will constitute the inaugural meeting of Museums Australia's National Network on archaeology collections in museums. The aim of this meeting is to develop an active network to raise the profile of archaeology collections in Australia, to lobby for consistent and adequate resourcing and to consider how research into the collections can increase public knowledge.
Time: 11am – 12.30pm
Location: Council Room, National Museum of Australia
Workshop 4: Recovering Voices: Reconnecting communities with collections
- Dr Joshua A Bell, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
- Sabine Hoeng, Australian National University
Contributors include:
- Wukun Wanambi, Mulka Project, Yirrkala
- Wilfred Nawirridj, Injalak Arts and Crafts Centre, Gunbalanya
- Anthony Murphy, Injalak Arts and Crafts Centre, Gunbalanya
- Donna Nadjamerrek, Kunwinjku Language Project
- Thomas Amagula, Groote Eylandt
- Adrienne L Kaeppler, Smithsonian Institution
- Lindy Allen, Museum of Victoria
- Andrew Blake, Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Centre, Yirrkala
This workshop will focus on ongoing and future projects designed to reconnect Indigenous communities with collections in institutions such as the Smithsonian Institution in Washington. Collections from the 1948 Arnhem Land Expedition will be a particular focus of discussions, along with the use of new digital technologies in enabling and facilitating knowledge repatriation initiatives. Possible future collaboration between institutions such as the Smithsonian and the National Museum of Australia will also form part of the discussion.
Time: 1.30–3.30pm
Location: Visions Theatre, National Museum of Australia
Workshop 5: Working with archival film
Chair: Dr Darryl McIntyre, CEO, National Film and Sound Archive
Convenor: Liz McNiven, National Film and Sound Archive
Contributors include:
- Ian Dunlop, Ethnographic filmmaker
- Ray Edmondson OAM, Director, Archive Associates Pty Ltd
- Tom Eccles, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
- David MacDougall, Australian National University (TBC)
- Kim McKenzie, Australian National University
This workshop will explore issues surrounding the contemporary use and preservation of archival film. Contributors, who include film archivists and contemporary ethnographic filmmakers, will discuss these issues from diverse perspectives.
Time: 3.30–5.30pm
Location: The Studio, National Museum of Australia
Workshop 6: Yirrkala string figures
Coordinator: Robyn McKenzie, Australian National University
Facilitator: Julie Djarpirr Mununggurr
This hands-on workshop is designed to explore the significance and meaning of string figures through the practice of making. Participants will be introduced to handling the string, using characteristic openings and manipulations to make a sequence of figures from the 1948 collection which remain in the contemporary Yirrkala repertoire.
Time: 3.30–5.30pm
Location: Friends Lounge, National Museum of Australia


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Foo Fighter frontman Dave Grohl will return to his drum kit in Them Crooked Vultures, a new project with Led Zeppelin bassist/keyboardist John Paul Jones. The group, which is rounded out by Queens of the Stone Age's Josh Homme, has been in the works since at least 2005, when Grohl mentioned the idea in an interview. The band will make its public debut at the intimate Chicago club Metro this Sunday as part of a Lollapalooza late night show. Grohl, a Led Zeppelin fanatic, worked with Jones on the 2005 Foo Fighters album In Your Honor. Jones and Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page also sat in with Foo Fighters at Londons Wembley Stadium in June 2008 for the Led Zeppelin classics 'Rock 'n' Roll' and 'Ramble On.'


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