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With a sharp knife over a large mixing bowl, remove the corn kernels from the cobs saving all the juices. You should have about 1 1/2 cups of corn. Add the red pepper, sour cream, milk, cornmeal, baking powder, salt and cayenne pepper to the bowl and stir to mix.
Drain the husks thoroughly in a colander and pat dry with paper towels. Place approximately 1/4 cup of the filling onto 1 husk and spread it slightly lengthwise. Bring the top and bottom ends to the center, overlapping slightly. Wrap another husk around it lengthwise, forming a cylindrical shape. Use one more husk to seal and secure the shape by wrapping the opposite way. Using butchers twine, tie securely crosswise and make a knot.
Place the tamales in a steamer over simmering water and steam for 1 hour. Remove with a slotted spatula. Cut the strings and remove. Cool slightly, then serve with a dollop of sour cream and a drift of paprika.
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Volume 37, Issue 3, November 2009
EditorialAuthors: Willem Saayman, Genevieve James and Nico BothaSource: Missionalia : Southern African Journal of Mission Studies 37 (2009)More Less
An ad hoc SAMS committee under the leadership of Nico Botha (General Secretary) and Genevieve James (Editor, Missionalia) was formed earlier in 2009 with the aim to produce an issue of Missionalia dedicated to Prof JNJ (Klippies) Kritzinger in recognition and remembrance of his 60th birthday. We agreed that contributions should be focused on the two related concepts of education and encounter, as we are convinced that these concepts characterise Klippies' educational praxis.
This is why I chose to live my life with you : special appreciation and acknowledgementsAuthor Alta KritzingerSource: Missionalia : Southern African Journal of Mission Studies 37 (2009)More Less
Missionalia came into our lives through the kind and great Oom David (Bosch) as mentor and promotor of your doctoral studies, just a few weeks after you and I met in 1976. As the founding editor of Missionalia, Oom David had made the journal part of his wife, Annemie's life too. He brought the hard copy manuscripts of the latest pending issues on his annual family holidays at Nature's Valley, and worked on them for part of the day while his family went to the beach.
Minister of Correctional Services : special appreciation and acknowledgementsAuthor Marita KritzingerSource: Missionalia : Southern African Journal of Mission Studies 37, pp 6 –7 (2009)More Less
My father is not afraid to speak his mind. He's never been one to shy away from saying things out loud. Saying the things people don't want to hear. Not allowing comfortable silences. When I was growing up and learning to speak English, he regularly used to correct my grammar and critique my creative writing. I hated it! I referred to him as 'correctional services' because it felt to me like constant correction of anything that I said or wrote. He never intended to hurt my feelings, but also he never told me what I wanted to hear. He told me the (sometimes uncomfortable) truth.
Congratulations from the General Secretary : special appreciation and acknowledgementsAuthor Nico BothaSource: Missionalia : Southern African Journal of Mission Studies 37 (2009)More Less
This celebraton issue, in honour of Prof Klippies Kritzinger on his sixtieth birthday, is indeed a fitting way of paying tribute to a colleague who has contributed immensely in a number of diverse areas over the last three to four decades. In broad terms I would like to indicate the church, the academy and society at large as sites where those who have been blessed in encountering him, have benefitted greatly from his virtually encyclopaedic knowledge on issues, his sharpness and creativity of mind and perhaps most importantly his deep commitment to the Christian faith. I must also mention Kritzinger's honesty and integrity in dealing with others, even when such would spark controversy or cause him to be marginalised.
On Klippies Kritzinger : special appreciation and acknowledgementsAuthor Tinyiko MalulekeSource: Missionalia : Southern African Journal of Mission Studies 37 (2009)More Less
Professor Klippies Kritzinger is, in my opinion, one of the top five academics responsible for the considerable stature of the discipline of Missiology (mission studies) within the University of South Africa (Unisa), within South Africa and in the world at large.
Greetings from the UK : special appreciation and acknowledgementsAuthor Allan AndersonSource: Missionalia : Southern African Journal of Mission Studies 37 (2009)More Less
Klippies, I beat you to it by a few months, but well done. You must have been at Unisa for over half your life, because since my undergraduate days there in the late 1970s you seem to have been part of the furniture in the then Department of Missiology.
Greetings from India : special appreciation and acknowledgementsAuthor Siga ArlesSource: Missionalia : Southern African Journal of Mission Studies 37 (2009)More Less
I am delighted to learn of the sixtieth birthday of Klippies. I wish him God's best and pray that God will grant him many more years of fruitful service and joyful living. Congratulations Klippies! God bless you.
To Klippies Kritzinger : special appreciation and acknowledgementsAuthors: Inus Daneel and Dana RobertSource: Missionalia : Southern African Journal of Mission Studies 37 (2009)More Less
Dana and I wish to congratulate you on your 60th birthday. We trust that it is for you and your family a day of great joy as you look back on a rich life of mission teaching and church ministry. We treasure the experiences we shared with you as our colleague. We admire and feel inspired by your unselfish service to others and transparent quest for liberative justice in all that you do.
Personal reflections : Klippies Kritzinger as I know himAuthor Willem SaaymanSource: Missionalia : Southern African Journal of Mission Studies 37, pp 12 –23 (2009)More Less
This article seeks to explore the life, work and contribution of Klippies Kritzinger towards a relevant and contextual missiology and social and ecclesial justice.
Contemplative encounter and mission praxisAuthor Madge KareckiSource: Missionalia : Southern African Journal of Mission Studies 37, pp 24 –36 (2009)More Less
Encounter has been one of the key areas of study and research for Klippies Kritzinger. It has shaped much of his missiological thought. With this as inspiration I have taken the missiological concept of encounter and looked at its relationship to the encounter that takes place in the stages of contemplative prayer. I first explain the nature of contemplative encounter and then relate it to missional encounter using Miroslav Volf's metaphor of embrace. Finally, I make a case for the need for mysticism and missiology to be brought into dialogue so that missional encounters are informed by the Missio Dei rather than one's own plans and programmes.
Africa's understanding of time and history : the line over against the cycleAuthor Jan A.B. JongeneelSource: Missionalia : Southern African Journal of Mission Studies 37, pp 37 –50 (2009)More Less
The distinction between cyclical and linear views of time and history is used to describe and analyse the belief-systems of African traditional religions, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and secularism (humanism and communism) in past and present Africa. Asian theologians such as M.M. Thomas and Kosuke Koyama and African theologians such as John S. Mbiti and David J. Bosch have each in their own way contributed to the rethinking of the line over against the traditional cycle. This article stipulates that in the contemporary setting of Africa the cycle seems to be much more powerful than the leading publications of Mbiti and Bosch suggest.
"You will be known as the people who rebuilt the walls, who restored the ruined houses." Challenges and opportunities for the churches in South Africa and CanadaAuthor P.G.J. (Piet) MeiringSource: Missionalia : Southern African Journal of Mission Studies 37, pp 51 –68 (2009)More Less
In South Africa the Truth and Reconciliation process has come to an end. In Canada, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission has just begun to investigate the Indian Residential School system, a programme run over the course of 150 years by the Canadian government, with the co-operation of a number of churches which caused great harm and suffering to the Aboriginal communities. The article analyses the ways in which the South African churches and their Canadian counterparts can assist one another on the way to truth-finding, justice, forgiveness and healing.
The religious other as a threat : religious persecution as an expression of xenophobia - a global survey of Christian-Muslim convivienceAuthor Christof SauerSource: Missionalia : Southern African Journal of Mission Studies 37, pp 69 –89 (2009)More Less
This article examines xenophobia as a significant factor in religious persecution in contexts where Christians and Muslims live together, because "the religious other" is often perceived as a threat, resulting in restriction of religious freedom and social discrimination. The article explores a deeper understanding of the interplay between religion, xenophobia and religious persecution by examining the relevant data in the most extensive scholarly surveys on religious freedom / persecution in the world and draws on a new hermeneutical model of understanding the stranger.
Christianity in northern Ethiopia : missiological observations following a visitAuthor J.J. (Dons) KritzingerSource: Missionalia : Southern African Journal of Mission Studies 37, pp 90 –110 (2009)More Less
A visit to Ethiopia revealed that enlightenment derived from travel is worth while. This article illustrates this by introducing the reader to the people and ancient Christian tradition of the northern highlands of Ethiopia. There is much in the history of this area, and the monuments of this tradition, but also in the present church life that are thought provoking.
"Solidarity with victims" : an appraisal of JNJ (Klippies) Kritzinger's contribution to the praxis of Liberation TheologyAuthor Z.J. BandaSource: Missionalia : Southern African Journal of Mission Studies 37, pp 111 –124 (2009)More Less
Liberation Theology has always been perceived as a black man's privy especially that whites have often been found as the common denominator in most forms of colonial oppression. Whites who purported to speak or act in aid of the liberation of the oppressed, who are the black majority in South Africa have always been viewed with suspicion or mistrust. This article evaluates Kritzinger, a white man, a theologian, a church-mission practitioner and his transforming interchange between critical missiological reflection and the grassroots practical exercise of this theology.
Observations on the spirituality of Martin Luther King Jr, Desmond Mpiulio Tutu and Barack Hussein ObamaAuthor Gerrie LubbeSource: Missionalia : Southern African Journal of Mission Studies 37, pp 125 –137 (2009)More Less
The spiritualities of Dr Martin Luther King, Jr, Archbishop Desmond Mpiulio Tutu and President Barack Hussein Obama are characterised by a deep personal commitment to Jesus Christ. Flowing from this commitment, the understanding of all three men, of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, displays a holistic view of life. In terms of this understanding, God's care includes both the spiritual and social well-being of humanity. To all three, relations between religion and the state and between people of different faiths, appear to be natural extensions of their spiritual commitment and constitute issues that need attention.
'Finding a place under the African sun'
The search for new identities in post-colonial (Southern) Africa evidenced in students' writing in the Missiology course, Christian Action for Anti-Racism and Reconciliation at UnisaAuthor Reggie NelSource: Missionalia : Southern African Journal of Mission Studies 37, pp 138 –152 (2009)More Less
The Department of Missiology at the University of South Africa (Unisa) developed a course entitled Christian Action for Anti-Racism and Reconciliation in the late 1990s, under the leadership of Klippies Kritzinger. Initially the course was aimed at South African students, who had just emerged from the institutionalised racism of apartheid and colonialism. Recently students from other parts of Africa have enrolled for the course. They reflect on their struggles against racism and xenophobia. In this contribution I describe and reflect on the design of the course, I analyze a selection of portfolios submitted by students, and on that basis and critically evaluate the course in the context of 1) the current 'race discourse' in an emerging post-colonial Southern African society and economy and 2) a globally networked society in which the quest for social identity has become a primary missional imperative. I provide suggestions for the re-design of this course.
A tree-planting liturgy : creative spaceAuthor Klippies KritzingerSource: Missionalia : Southern African Journal of Mission Studies 37, pp 153 –156 (2009)More Less
The following liturgy was written for the occasion of a tree planting ceremony held at the closing of the annual congress of the Southern African Missiological Society (SAMS) on the 16th of January 2009. It was held on the Sunnyside campus of the University of South Africa (Unisa) with the theme "Planet in Peril".
Prof. Klippies Kritzinger presented three Bible studies and this liturgy during the congress. This piece not only displays Kritzinger's spirituality and interconnectivity with the earth and but also reveals his amazing capacity for originality, imagination, creativity, worship and contemplation.


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In anticipation of problems at the polls tomorrow, the New York Public Interest Research Group and Common Cause/NY created a non-partisan phone line to help voters who run into difficulties.
The hotline will be available from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. Voters are urged to call 212-822-0282 and report any issues, such as broken machines or voters' names missing from poll registration books.
The return to using lever machines was a move authorized by the state that goes against federal election policy. The city only switched from the lever machines to optical scanners in 2010, making New York the last state in the country to comply with the federal Help America Vote Act, which pushed for simpler voting systems in order to avoid issues like the 2000 Florida recount.
The return to levers wasdue to apparent concerns about making the quick turnaround betweenthe primary election and the anticipated citywide runoff election in the event that no candidate receives 40 percent or more of the vote. After the runoff, the city is expected to return to the optical scanners.
NYPIRG senior attorney Gene Russianoff said there is a great deal of anxiety regarding the return of the old lever machines, and blasted the notoriously dysfunctional Board of Elections for their handling of the situation.
The Board of Elections has a Facebook page titled "Vote the New Way," which Russianoff said is confusing, given the "new" way involves markedly old machines.
"You get the impression that the optical scan machines are still the ones being used, and that does not speak to a high level of educating the public," Russianoff said.
Russianoff said a high-level public official at the Board today said if voters are told their names are not in the poll registration books, they should grab the book and check for themselves.
The last time the lever systems were used, there were apparently many instances of "undervoting," when votes don't register. More than 100 people may have voted, Russianoff explained, but the poll site will only have record of 99 votes.
This happens because the lever system can be confusing and unwieldy: A voter can flick the lever down, but then pull it back up before moving the other handle.
In a way, it's almost better for machines to be broken than for voters to encounter other issues: If machines are broken, voters can request emergency ballots, which are paper ballots that are opened at the end of the day and counted the same as any other vote.
But voters who run into problems like not being accounted for in the poll books have to vote by affidavit, and affidavit ballots will not be counted Tuesday.
A mistake that voters often make, Russianoff said, is realizing they forgot to re-register when they moved, and just opting to vote at their old polling site. Russianoff said it's okay if you didn't re-register, but vote at your polling site: The Board of Elections will later send you a postcard to confirm your correct address and your vote will be counted.
Voters can look up their polling site here. The New York City Campaign Finance Board also has a website and smartphone app to provide voters with information on polling sites and candidates.
By the numbers, according to NYPIRG
- 700,000 enrolled Democrats
- 50,000-100,000 enrolled Republicans
- Each lever machine weighs 840 pounds and has more than 20,000 moving parts.
- In 1957, 91 percent of eligible voters turned out for the mayoral election.
- In 2009, that turnout was down to 29 percent.
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When a married couple who are both diviorced from the spouses to whom they had previously been sealed to at one time want to pay their tithing now on line together as a couple but are only able to see their ex-spouses when they attempt to pay together is there a way to work around this issue or are they just going to have to wait until they go to the temple and are sealed to each other?
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farmerj wrote:When a married couple . . . want to pay their tithing now on line together as a couple . . .
The Online Donation system does not determine a couple is married because of their sealing.
First, make sure their current marriage is correctly recorded on each of their membership records.
Next, as they go to Online Donations, they should only see their current spouse. It that is not the case, I would suggest that they both uncheck the box that allows their spouse to see their donations. After that change settles in, they should recheck the box, and then each give permission to their current spouse to see their donations. They should see their current spouse's donations once their current spouse allows them to see it.
If the steps of changing the viewing permissions in the previous paragraph do not work, I recommend they coordinate with the clerk and contact the Global Service Center to have them resolve the problem.
As a point of clarification, they will not actually "pay together". The donations will go to the record or one spouse or the other. They can check the box so that both names are on any reports, and as outlined above, they can allow each other to see the donations the other spouse has made.
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Our local organic grocery store has a pastry chef who has won all kinds of awards for her tasty treats. I am partial to her cookies. They're big. They're cakey. And they're organic, made with all-natural ingredients. I give her awards every time I eat one!
One winter a few years ago, I got hooked on these cookies. They became my drug of choice on winter nights when I was fighting the winter blues. One problem, though. Within about a month of practicing my nightly cookie ritual, I gained about 5 pounds!
During one of my regular acupuncture appointments, my acupuncturist felt my pulses and expressed concern over what she was noticing. I broke down. I told her about my cookie fetish.
She remarked that the excess sugar was apparently doing some wonky stuff to my spleen, as well as a few other unhealthy things.
[Note: I've since learned that eating carbs late at night drives up your insulin. Insulin blocks the all-important fat-burning "human growth hormone" – which is naturally released in large quantities about one hour after you fall asleep. When you eat carbs at night, the insulin boost interferes with your natural metabolism process, causing you to gain weight and messing with healthy sleep patterns. For more about this, read Jillian Michaels' most excellent book: Master Your Metabolism.]
My acupuncturist smiled at my tale of my sugar addiction, and she told me quite simply:
"It's just ritual. That's what we all crave, really. Create a new ritual!"
And on the spot, she prescribed a new ritual that I absolutely love. (It doesn't mean I no longer eat cookies. It's just that I'm not addicted anymore!)
The Apple and Cinnamon and Tea Ritual
Brew some boiling water for your favorite herbal tea. (I love Good Earth Decaf Tea in the winter.)
Then slice an apple into thin even slices and lay them out on your favorite dish or appetizer tray. (Presentation is important. It makes the ritual a special occasion. Cookies, on the other hand, are easy to chomp down with little awareness.)
Sprinkle the apples with cinnamon.
Sit down and mindfully enjoy your tea and cinnamon-sprinkled apples. (Light a candle for added shininess.)
If you're anything like me, upon reading this your first reaction will be something like:
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The Memo
Kraft Singles dominated the dairy section for processed cheese slices, but the product wasn't keeping up with overall growth in the market. While category sales inched up 1.6 percent between 1988 and 1998, the brand's share declined 0.2 percent during the same time period. An ad that had been on the air since 1996 was losing its oomph. How could Kraft encourage more people to peel off that plastic wrapper and have a slice of cheese?
The Discovery
First, Kraft had to figure out what women, particularly mothers, felt about Kraft Singles. It sent out a group of ethnographers from Strategic Frameworking to talk to women aged 25 to 64 in their homes while they were making sandwiches (the ultimate cheese-slice moment). Moms told researchers that they were very aware of what their kids liked and what they thought was icky. They felt good giving Kraft Singles to their children because of its nutritional value. Mothers in focus groups repeated the same sentiments, but there was a hitch: While moms knew Kraft Singles were their kids' favorite, they could be persuaded to buy a competitive product if it were cheaper.
Kraft needed to dissuade moms from switching to a less-expensive brand, but how? A phone survey by Market Facts gave some clues. Among those polled who ate Kraft Singles, 78 percent considered the product a source of extra calcium. And 84 percent of women with kids under 12 said they would be motivated to buy the brand because of that added benefit. Synthesizing all of the research so far, Kraft researchers nailed down two key concepts that could stop mothers from defecting to competitors: show how much kids love the taste of Kraft Singles, and emphasize that the brand provides the calcium they need.
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The creative team at J. Walter Thompson produced two spots and showed them to women for feedback. Two problems emerged from the start. For one, the idea that kids love the taste of Kraft Singles didn't come across strongly enough. And simply stating the fact that Kraft Singles is a valuable source for calcium didn't work. Of course it has calcium - it's cheese! The campaign needed to have a newsier element to grab the attention of its target audience.
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I'm looking for a Royal Decree
At the Nationaal Archief you can find the Royal Decrees in the archives of the Secretary of State to King William I (1813-1840) and in the archives of the King's/Queen's Cabinet (1841-1988). These archives are what is known as the verbaal archives and are ordered chronologically according to the date of the decree. The records leading up to the decree are also filed according to the date of the decree. By each date you will find the decrees ordered by serial number. Records that did not lead to a decree being issued can either be found by the date and the number of receipt, known as the exhibit number, or, in cases where there was an official reply, together with the outgoing letter.
How do I proceed?
You can find the Royal Decrees from 1813 to 1840 in the archives of the State Secretary to King William I (1813-1840), catalogue reference 2.02.01. You can find the decrees from 1840 onwards in the archives of the King's/Queen's Cabinet. The table below gives the catalogue reference for each period.
Archives of the King's/Queen's Cabinet
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If you know the date and the serial number of the Royal Decree you are looking for, you can search the verbaal archives for the inventory number that includes this date. Under this inventory number, you can then use the serial number to find the relevant decree.
Date and serial number unknown
If you don't know the date or the serial number, there are a number of different aids available: the indexes of names, the indexes, the tables of contents, the headings lists and the calendars.
If you know the year in which the decree was issued, you can ask for the index for that year. If you do not know the exact year, you will have to go through the indexes from several years.
Use key words to look things up in the index. These could be the names of individuals, places or cases. There will be a number after the key word you have chosen. This is the page number of the index. On this page of the index you will find a description of the exchanged correspondence and of a Royal Decree which mentions the name, place or case you are looking for. In front of the decree you will see the date and serial number. You can then use this date and serial number to find the inventory number where you can find the decree.
The description in the index may contain references to other pages in the index or to indexes from other years. On these pages you will find the same decree listed under a different topic; but sometimes there will be other decrees relating to the same case.
Looking for classified decrees
The so-called classified decrees (geheime besluiten) are arranged in a separate series in each archive. These are records relating to cases considered at the time to be sensitive. Searching through the classified decrees works in the same way as in the regular verbaal archives. The decrees have no day number, however, but a yearly designation consisting of a letter and a numeral. Separate indexes have been compiled for the series of classified decrees.
You are looking for the Royal Decree from 1835 in which M. van der Ham was decorated for bravery for saving the crew of the ship The Tasmania.
The year 1835 indicates that you should look in the archive of the State Secretary to William I (catalogue reference 2.02.01). You then look for the index of names and the index for the year 1835. N.B.: These records are available on microfilm and can be viewed in the reading room.
In the index you look for the key word 'Ham' or 'Tasmania'. We recommend that you do not look for abstract terms such as 'shipping' or 'bravery'. You will see that the consent was entered under both 'Ham' and 'Tasmania' and refers to page 3254 of the index.
At the top of page 3254 of the index for the year 1835 you will see that Mr Van der Ham's act of rescue and his reward are listed under the following heading: Bravery and rewards. The registration itself has three entries. At the bottom, under 8 May number 37, is the Royal Decree. In the inventory you then look up the inventory number that contains the records for 8 May 1835. This is inventory number 4025. This record is not available on microfilm so you will have to do a computer request.
You request the relevant record, and under serial number 37 you will find the decree, the report from the Ministry of the Interior, and another report from the chancellor of the Order of the Netherlands Lion.


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Eva Longoria has landed another major accolade just two days after she picked up a Masters degree in Chicano Studies at California State University, Northridge - she'll be honored with the Dorothy I. Height Award at the upcoming YWCA USA Women of Distinction Awards Gala in Washington, D.C.
The actress and activist dashed back from the Cannes Film Festival, donned a cap and gown and picked up her diploma at a graduation ceremony on Wednesday (22May13).
And now she's preparing for another major honor after being selected as the recipient of this year's Height prize for her work in the field of racial justice and her commitment to peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all.
Longoria will be handed the award at a ceremony on 7 June (13).


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There's no reason the documentary "Marley" shouldn't be the definitive portrait of the late reggae superstar.
The film assembles virtually everyone integral to Marley's life, from his widow and children to the musicians who spent years traveling along with the revolutionary-minded singer.
So why does one emerge from seeing the film, available Aug. 7 on Blu-ray and DVD, with the feeling there's still so much more to learn?
"Marley" eschews standard narration, letting an array of sources tell the story of a mixed raced Jamaican child's ascent to music immortality – and virtually every dorm room wall for the past 30-plus years.
We learn of Marley's humble roots, the fleeting nature of his father's impact on his life and the cultural influences later reflected in classic tracks like "No Woman, No Cry" and "Stir It Up."
Director Kevin Macdonald, teaming with producer Ziggy Marley (one of the singer's 11 children) create a warts and all documentary that simply doesn't ask enough probing questions. Instead, the film lets the various members of Marley's entourage share their tales, adding embellishments that leave crucial information unspoken despite a bloated two-plus hour running time.
Those unfamiliar with Marley's specific political positions won't learn much here, nor will they gain a broader understanding of the singer's Rastafarian philosophy or whether he embraced some of the faith's uglier tenets.
Marley's life is still too fascinating, too abbreviated by a tragic diagnosis, to prevent "Marley" from being anything but a compelling experience.
His rise wasn't radically different from other music superstars – building slowly but surely thanks to sheer talent and the power of his stage persona.
Marley could be maddening in Q&A settings, offering generalities that left the interviewer hungry for more. On stage, he was electric, twirling his body with a confidence that let everyone know he was destined for the biggest stages across the globe.
The singer was far from a perfect person, and the film doesn't brush past those sins.
Marley embraced peace but wasn't above using his fists in a dispute. And his penchant for bed hopping is casually dismissed here while daughter Cedella Marley suggests the toll that his behavior took on time spent with her father.
All his talk of peace and love wasn't simply rhetoric. We watch Marley personally power a peace concert which brought political rivals Michael Manley (PNP) and Edward Seaga (JLP) together on stage to shake hands.
Suddenly, Marley's meandering talk of coming together seems like much more than boiler plate lyrical content.
It would be blasphemy to leave out some of Marley's best known songs, but the inclusion of deeper cuts reveals a singer with a broader range — and influence — than some might attest.
The documentary's focus sharpens considerably in its waning moments. The singer's initial brush with cancer seemed an improbably health scare, but the disease was spreading through his body just as his international fame reached a fever pitch.
Hearing a nurse who tended to the dying singer in his final weeks is to hear a side of the legend that deserves telling.
The Blu-ray extras include an extended chat with the colorful Bunny Wailer, a charter member of Marley's reggae band, plus a commentary track with Macdonald and Ziggy Marley. The most touching extra finds some of Marley's children sharing quieter reflections on their father, including two different versions of how Ziggy Marley earned his curious moniker and how the singer helped son Stephen learn to ride a bicycle.
The "Around the World" segment stands as the Blu-ray disk's most potent featurette, showing the legacy Marley's music maintains across several nations.
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flower constructions by Anne ten Donkelaar
This one's for all of you mixed-media lovers out there. Behold the impressive flower constructions that I spotted over at Trendland today, made with pressed paper cutouts, dried plants and leaves by Netherlands-dwelling artist Anne ten Donkelaar. They're a fusion of two of my favorite things: paper (relaunching in September) and nature.
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Lola Álvarez Bravo took advantage of a wind of artistic freedom to unfold after the revolution in 1910 to -20 in Mexico.
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"There's a parallel, disturbing trend of scepticism in the established Jewish community toward pro-peace, anti-occupation activism," wrote the new leader. "Just in the past year, the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish American Organizations rejected J Street's membership bid and Jewish institutions, from JCCs to Hillels, banned speakers and artists critical of Israeli policy on numerous occasions."
J Street was rejected due to its anti-Israel views and inability to function alongside other organizations but Cannon peddles the lie that J Street was rejected due to its "pro-peace, anti-occupation" activism. Meanwhile, every organization in the Conference of Presidents is "pro-peace" and the majority are "anti-occupation" as well.
Absent from Cannon's diatribe is the fact that the incident in the JCC centered around the speaker's support of the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement and the Israel-bashing group, Breaking the Silence, was in fact welcomed in Hillel in March,
Cannon then retreats to his radical leftist (J Street) echo chamber and claims that "[o]ftentimes, the bans and responses to them where criticized as restrictions on free speech and expression."
"Institutions claimed that certain ideas were 'beyond the pale' while progressive Jews called for deeper civil discourse and richer communication," he wrote implicitly attacking the Jewish community for refusing to engage with anti-Semites and individuals who hate Israel.
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After a lot of research into the living conditions of our Rural Communities, a group of concerned person led by Mr. Nelson Edward Obella Sought to find durable solutions to pervasive poverty in rural households.
With Compassion and utmost Commitments and depending on the little funds we had raised through promotions and together with other limited resources Mobilized, we planned and founded VOLUNTARY EFFORTS for RURAL DEVELOPMENTS (VERDE-Uganda) in 2003 devotedly to improve Rural Livelihood.
A great number of our target populations are people who were displaced from their original homes by the long running Civil strife and conflict in Northern Uganda (22 year old war) now living in appalling poverty. Most of them are total illiterates who have never seen inside of a classroom in their lifetimes. They need support to recovery.
HIV/AIDS is a present and an on going threat and reality to life and suffering, giving rise to over 2000 orphan children in our working area in Tororo and over 2300 orphan children in Jinja area. Most of these are left to suffer without proper guidance and care.
Because of the pathetic conditions including Lack of Infrastructure, people in these Communities have very little or no access to Education, Health facilities, Water and Sanitation, Training for productive Skills.
Many Children living in conditions of appalling poverty will not receive Education to change their lives. Many others will always suffer and die in conditions of poor water and Sanitation. Hunger and poverty will persist while HIV/AIDS prevalence will continue rising and so will domestic Violence, Brutality and abuse.
By providing Interventions, our Communities benefit from all the advantages that the programs bestow, enabling the people to go on and take their opportunities to improve their personal lives, to contribute to development of their Communities, Country and Worldwide.
Our programs targets the Tororo District, which has 14,118 people, out of which 900 households, or 5400 people, will benefit directly. In the Jinja District there are 20,782 people or 1200 households, of which over 6000 people are to benefit directly from VERDE-Uganda's work.
VERDE-Uganda's utmost purpose for existence is to realize a Community free of injustices in life. A Community where abject poverty and vulnerability, health burdens, illiteracy, oppression and contempt are minimized or become history.
"Improving Rural Lives by mobilizing the people, Educating and Equipping them with the available resources to equal them, participate directly in activities which bring positive Changes to their Livelihoods or Sustainable development and reducing Vulnerability."
Our resolutions are to intervene and cause positive changes.
For example: Our community has lived extremely poor unbroken poverty life cycles generation after generation; persistent hunger from season to season of the year; a great number of children having no access to school and ending as village casual laborers; village after village, people suffering without clean water because the people cannot afford costs required for protected water well construction or the cost of repairing or drilling a new borehole well in order to minimize water bone diseases like diarrhea, cholera, typhoid, and skin complications especially in children because of bad water.
These kind of situations, require our commitments, attention and subsequent interventions in order to cause positive changes in our rural Communities.
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So, have you checked out the kit, and the lovely "counterfeits" that have been made? Are you feeling inspired? We have some extra motivation for you all to get busy making and using your kits this month! One of our Master Forgers, Margie, had so much fun with the inspiration kit, that she made a second kit to give away! Here is the Counterfeit Kit that is up for grabs:
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*Please note-this will be open to international participants as well, as long as they are willing to contribute any shipping costs that surpass $10.00. If an international winner is drawn and does not wish to cover additional shipping costs, a new winner will be drawn.
Have fun! We hope to see lots of participation this month!
Friday, October 3, 2014
Prize Surprise!
7 comments:
- AnonymousOctober 3, 2014 at 2:43 PM
That's a great prize and I think it's nicer than the original kit.ReplyDelete
Wow that is a cool prize! Thank you Margie :)ReplyDelete
Wow! Such a great prize. Thanks for the opportunity to win!ReplyDelete
Lovely idea...I'm having surgery on my shoulder this month so not much scrapping will be done but I may manage a mini kitReplyDelete
How fabulous is that... totally agree, very nice indeed!ReplyDelete
Hope we get lots of entries.I will spread the word.ReplyDelete
ooh, how exciting. That is a gorgeous kit Margie :)ReplyDelete
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Take Better Vacation and Travel Photos in Every Situation
Whether you're heading to West Lafayette or West Xylophone, the travel gurus at Fodor's have some travel photography tips for you before you embark on your summer adventures.
Pick up nearly 100 pointers, from how to shoot churches, castles, and canyons, to the nitty-gritty of shooting on mountaintops, in city streets, or at the aquarium. Their guide is written with film cameras in mind, but the basics hold true for digital.
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- For clear campfire shots, let your camera take its exposure readings from a well-lit face. Fire in the frame will throw off your camera's calculations.
- Research your destination and plan a "shooting itinerary" so you don't miss any great shots. (But remember that some of the best photographs are made when you stray from the beaten path.)
- In wild caves, put your camera shutter in the B position and fire your flash multiple times to paint the room with light.
- Underwater, colors will photograph naturally to a depth of about 10 feet but fade away quickly beyond that. Use flash.
Before you hit the road kick it on over to Fodor's for the full list.
And hey, while you're out there, take Yogi Berra's advice: "If you come to a fork in the road, take it."
p.s. Some fun city names we came across while researching this piece that we couldn't help but share: Sandwich, IL, Romance, AK, Batman, Turkey, Hot Coffee, MS, and Rough and Ready, CA. (Okay, OK enough already.)
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Eight people were killed and 11 injured when the driver of the truck hit people on a cycle path in Lower Manhattan.
A 29-year-old man, reported to be an Uzbek immigrant, was shot and injured by police as he left the vehicle.
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Giants | Evan Engram limited Thursday
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New York Giants TE Evan Engram (concussion) was limited in practice Thursday, Sept. 21.
Engram should be good to go as long as he passes the concussion protocol. Assuming he does, he makes for a low-end TE1 to high-end TE2 and would be a nice replacement if Tyler Eifert and or Jimmy Graham can't play.
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A private consortium has expressed interest in financing the entire 62-mile Cotton Belt Corridor project, a long-discussed commuter rail line from Plano to Fort Worth, officials said Friday.
Beyond that, little else was released about the potential development for a project that would cost about $2 billion to build.
Officials with the North Central Texas Council of Governments, which has led efforts to get the Cotton Belt project funded, would not say who is behind the consortium or how any work would be funded.
Council of Governments transportation director Michael Morris said in a letter to leaders of the region's three transit authorities that the consortium signaled its interest in a confidential Aug. 10 letter.
"This letter confirms the keen level of interest within the private sector towards this project," Morris wrote.
The consortium members requested confidentiality, but Tom Shelton, a senior program manager with the Council of Governments, said Friday that members are well-known in the area.
How the massive project would be funded has been a mystery for years because local transit agencies can't afford it. Morris and the Council of Governments have led an "innovative finance initiative" to explore nontraditional funding options.
The initiative focused on private partnerships, reasoning that private investors could earn profits through myriad sources: from advertising and naming rights to municipal tax subsidies and development along the line.
To some following the project, it has always seemed a distant possibility, while Morris and others remained optimistic for a public-private solution unlike any ever tried.
"Professionals out there that do this for a living, so to speak, have validated that, yes, our analysis seems to be correct," Shelton said.
At this point, Shelton said, the potential investors are evaluating the project's viability, but extensive research preceded their letter of intent. The consortium's next step is to submit an unsolicited proposal, which officials expect to receive by the end of the year.
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How the consortium would govern and subsidize the project "is where the rubber meets the road," DART board member Mark Enoch said Friday at a briefing for Cotton Belt stakeholders.
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Drive-By Truckers will celebrate New Year's Eve at New York's Terminal 5. Last night, the group warmed-up for the show with a more intimate appearance at Brooklyn, NY's Brooklyn Bowl. During the Truckers' set, Patterson Hood's father—noted studio musician David Hood—played bass on "Dancing Ricky," The Staples Singers'
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Excerpt from "It Came Upon the Midnight Clear. Christmas Stories"by Dr. Jeffrey Lant
Available at: http://www.drjeffreylant.com/store/p76/Christmas-stories-2016
Chapter 5
"I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day…" Christmas Eve 2015. God is not dead,
nor doth He sleep. Cambridge, 1:17 a.m. 69 degrees Fahrenheit, 9 mph,
humidity 94%.
By Dr. Jeffrey Lant
Author's Program Note.
I am sitting at my desk in one of the most beautiful rooms on Earth, the Blue
Room. Here on my well laden shelves reside the thoughts of generations of
my peers and colleagues through all the lands and ages, each one necessary
for the value and impact of the whole. We gather here, all of us, to refresh
ourselves in the peace and serenity of this place, for I insist that here peace
and serenity, diversity and tolerance shall reign supreme.
On this day, Christmas Eve in the morning, we are thinking of our dear friend
and Cambridge neighbor, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882). I can tell you a
great deal about this great lyric poet of the Great Republic. A thousand miles from
where his swiftly moving pen enlivened each page, in prairie Illinois, he brought me,
through the magic in my young mother's voice to "the shores of Gitche Gumee, by the
shining Big-Sea-Water," thence to "the wigwam of Nokomis, daughter of the Moon,
She and Longfellow, reader and author, are so intertwined in my mind, that
remembering the one necessarily reminds me of the other. They are irresistible together.
They took me on Paul Revere's epic ride of '75 into eternity… a determined
patriot with freedom enough for all a world distressed in his saddlebags… and
they made me feel the glistening muscles and smell the acrid sweat of the village
blacksmith whose shop I can walk to, though the chestnut tree is sadly gone in
fact; gladly to exist forever thanks to the poet who saw a story in the bellows
constantly at work at the forge, creating a nation more strong and notable
every single day.
Longfellow was the joyous poet of this blacksmith… this forge… this great nation
abuilding from sea to shining sea, never ceasing, never tiring, never flagging,
never quitting, never quavering, the whole chronicled by Longfellow, derided as
the poet of the masses by certain envious literati, a criticism he wore with panache
and festivity… and the respect of every Yankee, as his "squibs" fetched by mid century
as much as $3,000; an astonishing amount for a "mere" poet. If there had ever been a
poet so well heeled, able to live so well before, no one could instantly name him.
In 1860, this paragon of heart-touching poets was living a life anyone might
envy. He resided in the grandest mansion in Cambridge, once the great domicile
of Tory John Vasall, a merchant whose loyalty to King and Crown cost him beyond
dear. George and Martha Washington made it their headquarters while George
created an army of farmers, so powerful at the end that the greatest nation
on Earth, bowed low before their majesty, the world indeed turned upside
Next, in 1843, Brattle Street and the imposing mansion given as a wedding
present by the bride's affluent father, welcomed the prolific poet, his gracious
wife Fannie, and his soon to be numerous progeny, two sons and four daughters.
It was one of the young nation's greatest romances. It became, and all too soon,
one of its greatest tragedies.
When joy ceases… and can no longer be even imagined. This is where tragedy
It began in an instant and was relived every day, every minute of his remaining
life; the death in 1861of loving Fannie by burns sustained in a freak accident.
One minute the highest bliss known, the next unspeakable pain that destroyed
every happy thought and made a mockery of all the joy that went before and
could never be again.
Death abides in the hymeneal chamber of love and life.
I have on divers occasions visited what is today preserved as the Longfellow –
Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site, the sumptuous edifice
that began its life in 1759 as Craigie House. Here I have attended concerts
in the gardens, gathered the first lilacs and drunk wildly of their exuberant scent,
and peered over the white picket fence, wondering at the exalted beings who
had in their time claimed all this as their earthly paradise.
Would I, I wondered, write such verses to beguile a great nation? And would I,
for all that the words might come, yet also face eternal grief beyond reckoning,
no antidote to be had?
Such thoughts come easily and unbidden to poets who wander in the moonlight
on Brattle Street where the great house with its stately beauty yet fails to blot out
the tragedy that still reverberates within. I have known such unspeakable tragedy,
too, which words can never assuage. They return every day, but most of all at
Christmas. So do the blighted living feel the deep, abiding power of the dead, our
dead for the ones we most loved, hurt us the most deeply, and forever, simply by
leaving us. And we can do nothing about this final separation, this pain, nothing but
submit and bow our heads in profound resignation. But the pain abides forever.
This is the essential fact of the human condition, and it is bitter indeed.
On my last visit to this lordly residence, I made a special point of lingering in the
couple's bedroom where Fannie lingered for a handful of precious hours after
being severely burned while putting locks of her children's hair into an envelope
and attempting to seal it with hot sealing wax. Her dress caught fire, her shrieks
awakening Longfellow who was taking a nap just a few feet away. He rushed
to her assistance, throwing a rug over her, which proved too small to stop the
Fannie had died while saving hair from each child; instead just a day later, each
took a strand of her hair for remembrance and so she was buried on the 18th
anniversary of her marriage. There you will find her in the Mount Auburn Cemetery
where in due course she was joined by husband and where, in due course, I, too,
shall reside for the ages.
Thus the saddest event in the history of all the distinguished people who made
this celebrated house a home continued to burn. By the time Longfellow got
through to Fannie, both were badly burned, she dying the next morning of July 10,
1861; he disfigured for life, some of his deep scars covered by the patriarchal beard
he now adopted, giving him his trademark look.
The park service guide, whose objective is always moving the visitors through briskly
and maintaining a strict schedule tells the broad outline of this tale crisply and without
any emotion whatever. Their goal is management, not truth. To such guides I am
anathema, for I ask many questions, good questions and expect good answers, which
all too often I do not get. My presence irks them; their presence irks me. We each
understand the other perfectly,
Thus the guide told me to "come along" long before I was ready to do so. I am in
search of "Veritas" ("truth"), and this room, where so much happened, good and bad,
was there, the only eye-witness who saw it all. The hectoring guide didn't.
That's why I move slowly through this place of jumbled sensations, sensing the joys
therein but also, overwhelmingly, the terrible pain and grief; pain and grief so powerful
and destructive the great American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, the essence
of American optimism and determination almost succumbed, his indomitable spirit
crushed by a single word, "Why?", a question that all of us confront over and over again,
never finding a satisfying answer, but only the single word that perplexes, confuses,
and angers. So it is for you and me and our struggles; so it was with Longfellow and
His writing, the chronicle of a great nation, stopped, his thoughts bleak and pathetic.
He was not only convinced he would never write again but that the glorious,
lyric words and the works he had fashioned from them for so long were as superficial
and trivial as his critics said, just so much forgettable dross, not a glimmer of eternity
to be had. He decided to have his say on the matter before his more learned friends
and colleagues had theirs.
He dipped his pen into fresh ink as dark as the thoughts he would write from it.
"Hate is strong and mocks the song of peace on earth, good will to men." And as
these caustic, despairing words were recorded, his head was bowed, his grief
unfathomable, nothing left to live for.
But then he heard the bells of Christmas Day,1863, the joyous cacophony of
bells from Harvard and every steeple alerting the citizens that, yes, our Messiah
was born. Dour, dismayed, desolate Longfellow was so touched by their adamant
certainty, he changed the message of his poem altogether.
God is not dead, nor doth He sleep;
The Wrong shall fail,
The Right prevail,
With peace on earth, good-will to men.
He wrote quickly, bold scrawls across the page, determined not to mss this
rebirth, this reaffirmation. For the first time since his great tragedy, he felt, if
not yet peace and hope, then at least their possibility. The bells of Christmas Day
had done their work, as the tears cascaded down his scarred face, a remembrance'
of deep love, abiding through the ages to come. God had heard. God had not
forgotten. God was here.
The poem written on Christmas Day in 1863 was first published in February 1865
in "Our Young Folks," as "Christmas Bells". The heart of the nation went out to the
grieving author. After all, everyone, whatever their situation or station had asked
at one time or another, the momentous question — "Why?"
He had laid his trouble before the world. The world responded with kindness, humanity,
empathy, renewed admiration, and love. Despite his thoughts of suicide, he came
to see how selfish that would be given the universal plea that he heal, write, and live,
the great nation's great poet again.
However he was a man who had written but one love poem in his life. Of course it went
to Fannie… as did every thought and word, all dedicated to the great romance he
had won and lost.
Some years later, in 1872, English composer and organist John Baptiste Calkin
came to read Longfellow's poem. Like all discerning readers, he felt the power of
Longfellow's searing language, and he wrote the music which with the lyrics
touches us so. You can find the moving result in any search engine. I prefer the
version done expertly by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Listen to it when the
dawn comes up on Christmas Day, and be comforted.
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant
About the Author
2016 is fast approaching and with it Dr. Jeffrey Lant's 69th birthday. He is, he likes to
say, in the prime of his prime. Thus does the "scribbling" life he commenced at age
5 continue. Twenty books. Thousands of articles. Untold radio and television programs;
worldwide recognition and enthusiasm, all of which culminated in the publication of
his autobiography, "A Connoisseur's Journey, being the artful memoirs of a man of wit, discernment, pluck and joy". It was a book that screamed "classic!", and he has
delighted in the several awards that followed.
To get your copy go to www.writerssecrets.com. You will also want to join his writing
course and learn from this master communicator just how you can improve everything
you ever write.
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