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With her supple figure and confident attitude and overall beauty, Annie Borgard made a name for herself in Miami's modeling industry. The business smarts she acquired in that industry has led her to create Borgard Management, her own talent and artist management agency. Her modus operadi thus far is to fill her artist roster with talents based in Haiti, who are looking to market themselves to Haitian-Americans and other members of the Haitian community in the Diaspora. It's a niche very people have taken note of. But Annie's sense of awareness and her business acumen has led her to create one of the first agencies to cater to those artists.
Annie hustles and bustles to get her Haiti-based clients gigs in the United States and Canada, while advising them on their image and career moves.
Follow along as your girl Kreyolicious talks to this bold entrepreneur. She's got pikliz in her malèt (because, well, she's got too much pikliz to fit into a valiz).
Above: The businesswoman and former model keeping her sense of humor, while keeping her business intact.
Kreyolicious: When did you first realize that you wanted to go into management?
I'm still living a dream. Somewhat awake and sleep…I wonder if that's possible. I haven't come to that realization or the reality of it yet. It started [while hanging out] with a group of friends, brainstorming and we wanted to do something, be entrepreneurs. To make a long story short, out of the madness…Annie Borgard is a manager of people.
Kreyolicious: You previously worked as a professional model. What are some of the skills you learned as a model that you find especially helpful?
People. Isn't it that simple? No matter what you do…at the center of it all, you'll find and interact with people. Being a model is to convey a sense of confidence, a projection of the self and the surrounding… take any form or shape, a chameleon of some sort…
Kreyolicious: Did you go about making any preparations to help you in the transition from talent to manager?
On-the-job-training is the best way…it came to me out of nowhere. I had to learn, and learn fast. It was new to me. I needed to take the challenges head-on. Thank goodness for technology. This digital age has changed and [keeps] changing the world. It has helped me along the way.
Above: Posing with one of her clients, a singer-model based in Haiti, named Fatima. Photo Credit: Chokarella
Kreyolicious: What is it like managing the careers of artists?
I'm still learning. None of it would've been possible without the people around me for their support and time and especially the artists whom have trusted me. They made it easy. The challenges become less stressful because of them.
Above: The entrepreneur and go-getter in-between flights.
Kreyolicious: What sort of obstacles do you run into in the field?
Booking. Finding responsible people to keep and honor their words. Getting the artist from point A to point B and in between. No matter how hectic or chaotic this may sound I like the challenges. They allow me to grow and to let the artist witness the things I am willing to go through to promote their careers
Kreyolicious: You already have some talent on your roster. How did your work relationship with them begin?
Friendship is the starting point. It goes to show what friendship is truly about. How my artists—as talented as they are—were willing to entrust me with their lives and careers. I couldn't be more grateful to them—which is why I take this very seriously. I am engaged all the way and [am committed] to bringing them success. So far, we've experienced success, and a lot of fun. Our bonds have strengthen even more. It is remarkable.
Above: The entrepreneur during her modeling days. Photo Credit: Spex Photo.
Kreyolicious: What would you say to artists out there who would like Annie Borgard to represent them?
I am Annie Borgard…not just a name or a pretty face, but someone you want to meet and know. I have a vision, a defined plan. I work at my craft daily. I hone my skills and to quote Corneille in French: "Je suis jeune, il est vrai mais aux armes bien nées la valeur n'attend point le nombres des années", which means I'm young, it is true; but the worth of a soul does not depend on age.
Above: The official logo of the entrepreneur's management firm. The lady is in business, ya'll.
Kreyolicious: What advice would you give to someone who wants to manage artists?
For anyone who wishes to venture into this world…it's worth it. It's wonderful. It's fun, and it brings a lot of opportunities. But, it's tough, treacherous and very demanding. If it's your dream and passion, go for it. It's a lot of work, and it requires patience—lots of it.
Above: The entrepreneur poses with one of the Haiti-based talents that Borgard Management represents.
Annie Borgard in black photos credit: Elma's Flaco


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Sweet Roasted Cabbage
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Author Notes: So you're sick of serving your typical green salad with dinner, and want to add some new sides to your repertoire. I have one word: cabbage. This outstanding cruciferous veg, ranging from bright green to deep purple, offers a lot more than the boiled and mushy recipes of your past. For this recipe, any type of cabbage will do, and you probably have all of the other ingredients on hand. It's a simple way to see just how versatile this vegetable is. —Jill Haapaniemi
Serves: 6
cup olive oil
cloves garlic, minced
teaspoon soy sauce
tablespoon pure maple syrup
green cabbage, cored and cut into wedges
- Preheat oven to 375°F.
- In a small bowl, whisk oil, garlic, soy sauce, and maple syrup.
- Arrange cabbage on a baking sheet. Using a pastry brush, coat both sides of the cabbage with dressing.
- Roast until edges are crisp, about 1 hour, flipping halfway through. If cabbage starts to fall apart when you are flipping it, simply form it back into a wedge.
- Serve immediately or at room temperature.
- This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Recipes with 5 Ingredients or Fewer
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Lily Pad Number Sense
Here's a fun way to get in some number and counting practice. Can your child fill in the missing numbers to make the trip across the pond? He'll get three-digit counting practice as he fills in the lily pads with the missing numbers between 950 and 961.
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Allow Me to Tell You Why Giving Yourself Your First Brazilian Is a Terrible Idea
It's basically SAW: Beauty Edition.
I am a serious mutt. I have a Cuban mother and a French Canadian father. I was born in New York, hit puberty in Georgia, started a punk rock record label in Miami, destroyed my right knee in St. Louis, and became a professional chef in Seattle. Some days it's hard to pinpoint who I am or where I come from.
Some days I'm like, "Hey ya'll, I sure could use me some fried giblets and collards. Yeehaw!" While other days I'm like, "Ola! Yo queto carne frita. Viva Cuba!" Add to that the influences of my Italian Godfather (for reals) and the little bit of Chinese blood from generations back floating around in my veins and I'm like Disneyland's "It's A Small World" ride, minus the tourists and creepy singing.
Growing up, there was some serious diversity at the dinner table. The thing is, no matter what we had I'd eat it happily. I love picadillo, Italian wedding soup, and tuna noodle casserole.I think that perhaps this nightly identity crisis gave me a bigger appreciation for food in general. I've never been a food "snob," whatever that means. I can even see the positive side of a gas station chili cheeseburger cooked in a greasy microwave.
I have a serious soft spot for Americana post wartime food. You know, those June Cleaver condensed-soup casserole type meals filled with salty goodness. My mother had a particular knack for those kinds of dishes.
One of my favorites was called Mash, a baked casserole that consists of a layer of seasoned ground beef, a layer of mashed potatoes, and a layer of creamed corn. Sometimes it was topped with some American cheese. I know, it sounds like depressing prison food but it really is a deliciously simple and comforting dish (just make it from scratch and use cheddar cheese).
Speaking of comfort food, I would go absolutely mental when I heard that it was Sloppy Joe night. It was one of three things my father knew how to cook for us: hot dogs, hamburgers or Sloppy Joes.
He would cook up some ground beef, dump a can of sloppy sauce on it, plop it on some hamburger buns, and call it a day. I thought it was the best thing ever. Red grease dripping off my face and down my arms. I'm sure we looked like clan of blood soaked cannibals at the dinner table. That's probably what I liked so much about it.
Here's my version of a more classy style of Sloppy Joe. I give you:
The Sloppy Joan
(serves 4)
1 lb ground beef
1/2 lb ground Spanish chorizo sausage (or any spicy pork sausage)
1 white onion, small diced
1 green bell pepper, small diced
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 Tbsp chili powder
1 tsp cumin
1 tsp piméton (Spanish smoked paprika)
1 tsp oregano
1 Tbsp Dijon mustard
1 cup basic tomato sauce
2 tsp honey
kosher salt and fresh cracked black pepper
½ cup water
4 large burger buns
4 slices sharp cheddar cheese (I love Beecher's Flagship)
Add a little olive oil to a sauté pan over medium high heat. Saute the onions, green pepper and garlic until soft (about 3 minutes).
Add the ground beef and chorizo and sauté until browned (2-3 minutes)
Add the chili powder, cumin, piménton, and oregano. Stir in the tomato sauce, mustard, honey and water. Break up any lumps in the meat. Season with salt and pepper. Turn the heat to medium low. Simmer uncovered, stirring occasionally for 30 minutes or until the liquid is nearly evaporated. It should thick and saucy but not dry. Oh, and if you're like me, a few dashes of hot sauce somewhere in there would be lovely.
Towards the end of cooking toast the buns.
To serve, place a slice of cheese on the toasted bun and pile the sloppy mixture on as high as you dare. Wear a bib and eat your sloppy Joan with a side of tater tots or a side salad or perhaps a salad made of tater tots. Enjoy. xoxo


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Crackhead Motor Inn
In the spring of 2005, Nicky Dumps and Brian McLaughlin met while working at a hat factory located in Maspeth Queens NY. The two of them would soon discover that they were both working class kids from the neighborhood trying to make ends meat and they shared similar taste in music. The two started jamming in the basement of Nicky Dumps' home. These early jam sessions formed the skeletal structure of what Dump Body has now become. Scrounging up whatever neighborhood musicians they could to join the band, Dump Body started playing local basement shows around the Maspeth area. These shows are what opened the floodgates to a never-ending battle to fulfill the Dump Body legacy. In and out of members, the two decided to book a real show at a local club known as The Redzone. Two days before the show the drummer at the time had quit. High school delinquent and long-time friend of Nicks, Jesse Carfagno, agreed to learn the songs and play the show on drums. Acquaintance at the time and known neighborhood rapper, E-BIZ, was eager to work with Dump Body after catching them at one of the basement parties. He agreed to take the opportunity to rock out for the two days and perform the show as Dump Body'S front man. The four of them found local musician Kiris who fell in love with the grungy sound of Dump Body; and what she would add to it was her colorful melodies and thunder bass to help and complete the project. They played the show in 2 days of time and never looked back. The lineup and the product were finally together! Without hesitation Dump Body played shows constantly. Meeting and networking with various bands and people. They found Charles Cudd of Dead Emotion and recorded "The Basement Demo 06." Over the last 3 years Dump Body has worked tirelessly at molding and defining the gritty, working class sound that provides intimate glimpses into the lives of the band. Now stronger than ever, the band has played shows all over the NYC area including the Knitting Factory, Ace of Clubs, The Continental, Don Hills, Crash Mansion, and many more. Their electrifying live shows combine the passion of rock, the fury of punk and the flow of hip-hop. In the fall of 2007, Billy Graziadie (Biohazard/ Suicide City) was impressed by Dump Body'S sound, he noticed a sparkle within the group and agreed to produce and engineer their E.P entitled "The Crackhead Motor Inn." Dump Body recorded the 6 song album with Billy from December 07 to March 08, to be released on September 6, 2008. Dump Body, a once incomplete basement band of Queens NY, has never looked back and continues to bring their undying passion to every performance; Dump Body is the perfect example of dreams coming true...
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YPFP operates several focused series designed to provide a platform for more nuanced discussion of key foreign policy issues. Read More
YPFP Events
YPFP DC: Croatia Joins the EU! Conversation with His Excellency Joško Paro, Ambassador of the Republic of Croatia to the United States
On July 1, 2013, Croatia became the 28th member state of the European Union. Entry negotiations began back in mid-2004 when Croatia was granted candidate country status by the European Council. What exactly does it take for a candidate country to officially become a member of the EU? What were some of the challenges faced by Croatia during this process?
Young Professionals in Foreign Policy is delighted to join the celebration and take a closer look at what it really means for Croatia to be a member of the European Union.
This event will feature Ambassador Paro and other key diplomats of the Croatian Embassy. It will also highlight the Ambassador's experiences as a diplomat and the current state of Croatian economics and politics as the brand-new EU member country.
Guests will learn firsthand about Croatia's position in Europe and the long journey of accession into the EU. The Ambassador will also share his insights on the country's short term and long-term economic expectations. Guests will be invited to ask questions of the Ambassador and gain insight into his personal experience as an experienced negotiator. We are thankful to the Croatian Embassy for making this event possible.
Joško Paro, the Ambassador in Washington DC comes from the position of the President's foreign policy advisor, where he has served since February 2010. He joined the Croatian Foreign Service in January 1992 where he worked on bilateral relations with Western European countries. From 1993 to 1996 he served as deputy chief of mission at the Croatian Embassy in Madrid. In 1996 he was head of the Political Analysis Department and the foreign minister's speech writer. From 1997 to 2002, as Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs, he was responsible for relations with neighboring and European countries, the USA, Russia, Canada and Israel. An experienced negotiator, he played a prominent role in post-conflict normalization of relations with neighboring countries.
In 2003 he was appointed Ambassador to the United Kingdom, a position which he held until 2009 when he was transferred to The Hague where he served as Croatian Ambassador in the Kingdom of the Netherlands and Croatian permanent representative at OPCW. He is married to Jasna Paro, a journalist for HTV and is a father of two children.


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At the beginning of this year, the European Union's monetary system changed forever. The euro, which was introduced on January 1, replaced all currency for 11 participating countries-Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain. How will this affect American tourists? For starters, you won't have to calculate exchange rates as you travel from country to country. The euro exchange rate is set and fixed.
Although no euro coins or notes will be issued until 2002, most credit card transactions are now based on the euro value of the sale. This is also good news for U.S. travelers, since the increased efficiency in the European economy is expected to result in lower prices. And according to Mike Sherman, vice president of corporate relations for Visa International, travelers may actually save about 5 percent.
James Berrien, president of American Express Travelers Cheque Group, agrees. "Travelers save money because they won't incur currency exchange fees when visiting several European Union countries on the same trip," notes Berrien. "Changing from francs to lira to pesetas can eat up about 10 percent of a traveler's budget." American Express has already issued euro travelers checks in denominations of 50, 100 and 200 euro.
Remember francs, marks and the independent currencies for the 11 countries will eliminated by July 1, 2002.
Restricted holiday flying
The New Year 2000 holiday season may be the busiest in the history of travel, according to the American Society of Travel Agents. And to ensure travelers show up for their flights-keeping planes from taking off with empty seats-airlines have kicked in new restrictions. "The major carriers have made all classes of seats, including first-class and full-coach, nonrefundable and instant-purchase for some popular destinations," notes ASTA President and CEO Joe Galloway. On United Airlines, US Airways, American, Northwest and Delta, tickets that are normally refundable will be nonrefundable for travel between December 16 and January 10, 2000.
The restrictions are limited to select destinations, such as New York, New Orleans and Las Vegas. "They're mainly places with planned major millennium celebrations," notes US Airways spokesperson David Castelveter. American is also adding restrictions to the Caribbean and some South American and European cities. But, says American spokesperson John Hotard, it's not the first time airlines have set such restrictions; many did so during the Atlanta Olympic Games. If you're planning a millennium getaway, check to see if your ticket is refundable-before you book.


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Porakan eggs were a delicacy from planet Porakas IV. They appeared light brown with little spots in a darker shade of brown. Their size equaled that of Earth chicken eggs.
In 2373, Neelix prepared scrambled Porakan eggs with a little dill weed and a touch of rengazo for breakfast, which he called a "galactic favorite". He described them as being the most flavorful eggs in the sector.
Porakan eggs were not easy to prepare, and Neelix had to sterilize them in a cryostatic chamber for three days, after which each and every one had to be parboiled. (VOY: "Flashback")


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Art Week 2016 is a new compilation put together by Sam Ray, a follow-up a similar collection from 2012. It features original tracks from a huge swath of great musicians, including Owen Pallett, Teen Suicide, Ricky Eat Acid, Foxes In Fiction, Alex G (as Alan J), Katie Dey, Girlpool's Harmony Tividad, Balam Acab, Spencer Radcliffe (and Blithe Field), High Bloom, Lucas, and a whole bunch more, including some artists working under pseudonymous names.
Ray explained the impetus of the project over email as such: "An excuse for tons of talented people I know & admire to do anything they want — whether it's working under a fake name, writing in styles they love but don't normally work in, or just recording something to do it (and in some cases, giving a home to an old track that never fit an album, or never got properly recorded before, etc)."
After you get past the Katie Dey track, which I had to repeat like five times before moving on because it's pure genius, there's so much amazing stuff here that it's a little overwhelming! But it's well worth a deep dive into to use as a jumping off point into exploring the rest of these musician's respective outputs. You can listen to (and download) the whole compilation below.
Art Week 2016 is available as a free download on Bandcamp and Dropbox.


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Hello, my age is just 26 i had a sex with a stranger in 2003. there was intercourse alos. the penis has been in contact with vaginal fluid during the entire act. also her eyes use to glow and there was fresh wound on which she sprayed blood. what infection can be contracted in all the above 3 cases. i have the following symptoms since 2003 till date and there is no relief Redness and itching intermittent intermitent red spots all over the body BP 200/ 100 with medication tired ness and weakness dry mouth waters eyes 42 Specilist doc have been cousulted in allopathy, homeopathy, ayurveds. but there is no improvement Other details No Dandruff as all doctors have checked and Avoiding pollution and going out in Sun.
Test done Test name Date Result HIV 1 2 Elisa 2004 Negative Hep B 2004 Negative Hep C 2004 Negative Herpes 1 2005 Negative Herpes 2 2005 Negative VDRL 2007 Negative Diabetes 2004 In range T3 T4 TSH 2004 In range CBC 2006 AND 2007 In range Lipid profile 2004 In range Liver Function Test 2004 In range 2007
what further testing needs to be done to find out the disease.
Response from Dr. McGowan
I am sorry you are doing so poorly. The tests indicate that HIV is not the cause of your symptoms. It is not possible for me to diagnose you through the internet. You should find a good internist or GP that you trust, perhaps someone recommended by a friend or family member and let he/she examine you and help figure out what you need. Specialists like to order lot's of tests...what you need is a good thinking primary care physician to sort through everything with you.
Good luck, Joe
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Below is a selective listing of books owned by John F. Kennedy, alphabetical by author. (See also: Books, Favorites as President; Books, 122 Bowdoin Street; and Books, Favorites as a Child.) For more information please contact email@example.com or 617.514.1629.
Adams, Henry, John Randolph
Agar, Herbert, The Price of Union
Aldington, Richard, Poetry
Alsop, Joseph, The Reporter's Trade
Arabian Nights
Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, vol. 2
Beard, Charles, Economic Basis of Politics
Bemis, Samuel Flagg, John Quincy Adams an the Foundations of Foreign Policy
Blanshard, Paul, American Freedom and Catholic Power
Brewer, David, World's Great Orators
Buchan, John, Montrose
Buchan, John, Pilgrim's Way
Buchan, John, Oliver Cromwell
Burdick, Eugene, The Ninth Wave
Bush, Vannevar, The Endless Frontier
Cecil, David, Melbourne
Churchill, Sir Winston, Marlborough; His Life and Times
Churchill, Sir Winston, The World Crisis
Coit, Margaret, John C. Calhoun, American Portrait
Cooper, Duff, Talleyrand
Dos Passos, John, The Man Who Made The Nation
Finer, Herman, Mussolini's Italy
Fleming, Ian, From Russia with Love
Ford, Stanton, Dictatorship in the Modern World
Franklin, Benjamin, Autobiography
Frost, Robert, In the Clearing
Galbraith, John Kenneth, The Liberal Hour
Gibbon, Edward, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Hoover, Calvin, Germany Enters the Third Reich
James, Marquis, The Raven: A Biography of Sam Houston
Kennan, George, Russia, the Atom and the West
King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table
Kissinger, Henry, The Necessity for Choice; Prospects of American Foreign Policy
Lenin, Vladimir, State and Revolution
Link, Arthur, Wilson: The Road to the White House
Lippmann, Walter, The Communist World and Ours
Mailer, Norman, The Deer Park; A Play
Malraux, Andre
Marx, Karl, Communist Manifesto
Michener, James, Fires of Spring
Moody, Blair, Bloom or Bust
Morison, Elting, Turmoil and Tradition; a Study of the Life and Times of Henry L. Stimson
Morse, John T., John Q. Adams
Murphy, James B., L.Q.C. Lamar: Pragmatic Patriot
Nevins, Allan, The Emergence of Lincoln
Quennel, Peter, Byron in Italy
Ryan, Cornelius, The Longest Day
Schlesinger, Arthur, The Age of Roosevelt
Schurz, Carl, Henry Clay
Seldes, Gilbert, Sawdust Caesar: The Untold Story of Mussolini and Fascism
Shakespeare, William, Plays
Stendhal, Henri, The Red and the Black
Taylor, Maxwell, The Uncertain Trumpet
Tuchman, Barbara, The Guns of August
Von Holst, Herman, John C. Calhoun
Webster, Daniel, Writings and Speeches
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Pukekohe Prospectus Launch
Time: 5.30
Location: BNZ Partner Centre on Massey Ave Pukekohe
Cost: FREE
Pukekohe is an exceptional place to work, live and thrive. It's a place where you can walk down the main street and feel part of a vibrant and welcoming community.
The Auckland Plan identified Pukekohe as a priority satellite town for 50,000 people, creating over 9000 jobs by 2050.
New housing developments are underway at Wesley College and Belmont to provide up to 6,000 new dwellings in a staged development process, while a $15.4m investment in a new fully-integrated bus and train station, is scheduled to open late 2017.
With all this growth, now is the time to invest in Pukekohe. Come along and find out what this means for you. Hear from Deputy Mayor Bill Cashmore about plans for the area and Chair of the Franklin Local Board Angela Fulljames.
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A 25-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of throwing hot cooking oil on two people while they slept, Fontana police said Tuesday.
The victims were a 42-year-old man and 26-year-old woman, both of whom received second- and third- degree burns, according to the Fontana Police Department.
The woman was burned over 17% of her body, including her face and neck, police said. The man received burns to the upper right side of his body.
Police said the victims drove themselves to the Arrowhead Regional Medical Center in Colton early Monday. They told investigators that the oil was thrown on them while they were sleeping. Police did not release a motive for the attack.
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Brown Scholars
Our Scholars
The C. Sylvia and Eddie C. Brown Community Health Scholarship Program trains future public health leaders who are committed to eliminating health disparities in Baltimore.
Many chronic diseases and health conditions are overrepresented in minority communities. Brown Scholars are passionate public health students interested in working to improve the health and quality of life of underserved, vulnerable and low-income populations here in Baltimore and in other urban centers.
The program provides tuition, a stipend, research support and faculty mentorship to select doctoral candidates enrolled at the Bloomberg School.
Message from C. Sylvia and Eddie C. Brown
"Our major goal is to improve the health outcomes of low-income families in Baltimore," say Sylvia and Eddie.
The Browns, who have been active philanthropists in Baltimore for many years, want the scholars to use their academic knowledge and research in the community for an extended time and make a significant, transformative impact.


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Renowned cinematographer and Dada Saheb Phalke awardee V K Murthy, famous for his camera work in Guru Dutt's classics like 'Pyaasa' and 'Sahib, Bibi Aur Ghulam' passed away here today, his family said. He was 91.
"He passed away this morning at his Shankarapuram residence here; he had only age related issues," Murthy's niece Nalini Vasudev told PTI.
The ace cinematographer is survived by his daughter Chaya Murthy.
Murthy was the first technician to be honoured with Dada Saheb Phalke, Indian cinema's highest award, since its inception in 1969. He won the award for the year 2008.
Murthy, who shot India's first cinemascope movie 'Kagaz Ke Phool', is best remembered for his stunning camera work for all films of legendary Guru Dutt.
His picturisation of the song 'Chaudavin ka Chand' is still considered one of the best cinematographic works that Hindi cinema has seen and his work in classics like 'Kagaz Ke Phool' and 'Sahib, Bibi aur Ghulam' won him Filmfare Awards.
Murthy's work spans four long decades, from his early collaboration with Guru Dutt in the 50's to his work in Shyam Benegal's mega-serial 'Bharat Ek Khoj' and one of the most acclaimed Kannada movies titled 'Hoova Hannu' in 1993.
He was also a recipient of the International Indian Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award at Amsterdam in 2005.
Born in 1923 in Mysore, Murthy earned his Diploma in Cinematography from S J Polytechnic, Bangalore, in its very first batch 1943-46.
As a student, Murthy also took part in India's freedom struggle. He was jailed in 1943 and was a recipient of freedom fighter's pension.
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What was the HARDEST PART OF NURSING SCHOOL for you?
What was the HARDEST PART OF NURSING SCHOOL for you?
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Joined: Jun '13; Posts: 8; Likes: 2Jun 24, '13Mental health... the exams. so much gray area. I partly blame my teacher. I liked the clinical portion and I rocked out the ATI tests, but 97% of our final grade came from the exams. Only C I made in nursing school.Jun 24, '13OB!!!!! My teacher made it way worse than it had to be!!! I heard a lot of people say OB was their easiest but like I said my teacher just took it way over the top. Thank goodness i passed it with a B at the very end and now I will be graduating this December. Psych was blah too only because it just didn't click for meJun 24, '13Oncology...I HATED IT!!! Also didn't like Renal. I did love Cardio, endocrine and nervous. Psych was cool too.Jun 25, '13OB/peds. A whole nother new language. That I really had little to no interest in and that made it even harder. I do love working with kids in the ER tho'.Jun 25, '13Pharmacology. I thought I'd do so great at it, bcs i already had a bachelors with a minor in chemistry and I work as an editor in the pharmaceutical industry! But they gave it to my class as a summer course. Four weeks to cover all of pharm! It was awful and I basically had to teach it to myself every night. Ruined my GPA too by being my only C+.Jun 25, '13I actually don't start until August but I predict the grading scale is going to be the hardest part for me. It's going to kill me when I miss a couple of questions and it computes to a B instead of an A. That's a lot of pressure!Jun 25, '13ECG's!! My teacher made it harder than it happened to be, and confused the whole class. Most of us are just now recovering from the damage she caused and are starting to get it.Jun 25, '13For me was adjusting to the different teaching styles. We get different instructors for different areas in nursing like psych, GI, Cardio, etc so one day we could be covering psych with one instructor then the next day cover diabetes with another instructor o_O
Mind you that's was just one of the hardest things for me...we could be here all night if I list the rest...lol so not funny though!Jun 25, '13Getting used to the testing style. my pharm class was ridiculous, didn't learn anything (so it was so easy to get an A) but now it's biting me, I dont know ANYthing about drugs! I just finished Peds, it was tough too. The material is so different from adults, AND I just don't mesh well with kids, so clinicals were awkward for me too. Still got a B tho. Which brings me to my last point... the grading scale! Ughhh!!!! I've gotten a few B's, but they WOULD be A's if a 90% was an A!
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3 Ways to Get Creative with Gluten-Free Blondies
No wheat, no problem—dessert is served! We partnered with Simple Mills to share three variations on one of our favorite gluten-free treats you'll want to bake all summer long.
Gluten-free baking often requires a pantry. I'm not talking about the cramped shelf in my New York City kitchen where I squish the bags of flour up against the dried beans—I'm talking about a full-fledged, very prepared pantry, where a gamut of flours (but only the ones kept at room temperature!) are stored in neat little containers clearly labeled with their "best by" dates.
The type of pantry Alice Medrich has.
If you're a fully-committed gluten-free baker, you might have a line-up of hard flours (like brown rice, almond, buckwheat, or teff) and medium flours (like chickpea, oat, millet, or sorghum) and all sorts of other friends (potato starch, xanthan gum, tapioca flour, cassava flour, tigernut flour? coffee flour? ...the list goes on). And if you're really organized, you keep your own favorite gluten-free flour blend on hand.
But for those of us who fly more frequently by the seat of our pants, it's easier to find a few trust-worthy gluten-free recipes you know you love, and then play with them until you have options. So gluten-free chocolate-chocolate cookies get white chocolate chips and 1/2 teaspoon cardamom; clafoutis gets roasted peaches in August (then apples in October); and banana cake mix becomes cinnamon-swirled, crumble-topped muffins.
One of my go-to gluten-free recipes—one of my go-to blondie recipes, period—was featured on this site back in 2011, back before gluten-free baking or eating was as widespread as it is today. Besides the two easy-to-find flours (almond and coconut), you need only five other run-of-the-mill ingredients (butter, sugar, eggs, vanilla, salt) for a gooey, caramely treat.
Even Amanda and Merrill, the original recipe testers, were "skeptical of traditional favorites reworked so that they're gluten-free" but realized that "nishis's blondies [broke] new ground in the world of bar cookies."
So I took the success of this recipe and ran with it. Why mess with a formula that works?
First, I altered the add-ins in the original, swapping out the dried cherries and toasted hazelnuts for chunks of candied ginger and pineapple (I left in the dark chocolate, obviously).
Gluten-Free Strawberry Tart Bars
- 2 cups (scant) brown sugar, plus 2 tablespoons for the strawberries
- 2 sticks (16 tablespoons) butter, melted and cooled
- 2 eggs, at room temperature
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon almond extract
- 1 1/2 cups almond flour
- 1/2 cup coconut flour
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 cup rolled oats
- 1/4 cup chopped almonds (it's fine to substitute slivered or sliced!)
- 4 cups hulled and sliced ripe strawberries (about 1 1/4 pounds)
- 2 tablespoons cornstarch
Then, I turned the blondies into strawberry tart bars: I reserved some of the base and mixed it with almonds and oats for a crumble topping, then chilled both components until they firmed up. By pressing the dough into the pan and baking it like a tart crust—until it browned and crisped—it could handle the weight (and water) of the strawberries and the oat-and-almond nuggets when the whole thing went back into the oven for a shorter stint. The result is a crisp, cookie-like bottom topped by just-cooked berries and a soft nutty dough.
Finally, the "lemonies"—lemon poppy seed bars that are more snack cake than fudge. Mascarpone gives them levity and lemon juice cuts some of the brown sugar sweetness (but add the optional glaze if you want some of that back).
Gluten-Free Lemon Poppy Seed Bars (Lemonies!)
For the bars:
- 8 tablespoons (1 stick) butter, melted (preferably on the stove so that it gets a bit browned) and cooled slightly
- 2 cups light brown sugar
- 2 eggs, at room temperature
- 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- 1 tablespoon lemon zest
- 4 ounces mascarpone or softened cream cheese
- 1 1/2 cups almond flour
- 1/2 cup coconut flour
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 cup poppy seeds
For the optional glaze:
- 1 1/2 cups confectioners' sugar
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon lemon zest
- 2 tablespoons poppy seeds
From one recipe, three distinctively different gluten-free baked goods—a solution for making a whole spread of treats for a barbecue, bake sale, or basketball game out of one family of ingredients. And all it takes is two types of flours to do it!
This is all to say that there is room for creativity in gluten-free baking—and it doesn't even require a closet-sized pantry.
Almond flour baking mixes and crackers from Simple Mills aren't just gluten-free—they're artificial ingredient-free, too. So they're great for when you're getting people together or just throwing a party for one. See all their products here—plus their own riff on our blondie recipe.


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FRONTLINE reports from Iraq on the miscalculations and mistakes behind the brutal rise of ISIS.
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Dear FRONTLINE,
While your program provided valuable insight into certain aspects of the war, I was appalled by the omissions throughout the documentary. How can you claim to present a program that intends to explain why the U.S. is in Iraq without focusing on oil and the Bush administration's deep connections to the oil industry?
Why was there no mention of Dick Cheney's long term connections to Halliburton (he's still on their payroll) and the enormous contracts Halliburton has received to rebuild the oil industry in Iraq without competitive bids?
How could you present statements of concern by the Bush administration about Saddam and WDM without providing the information that previous U.S. governments (including the first Bush administration)helped Saddam come to power and supported him for years while supplying him with conventional weapons and materials for producing WMD?
Why was there no mention of the Project for a New American Century? Several prominent members of the current Bush administration belong to this conservative think tank including Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Wolfowitz...all primary architects of the war on Iraq. In September 2000 (before the current war) the Project for a New American Century issued a Statement of Principals calling for the military conquest of Iraq regardless of whether Saddam was in power. This Statement of Principals also called for the military conquest of Afghanistan and the Middle East to secure oil and gas reserves for U.S. corporations, and for the establishment of an American empire throughout the world...by military force if necessary.
Watching Truth, War, and Consequences one was left with the impression the Bush administration may have been mislead into the war on Iraq, when in fact they intentionally created this war with a unjustified attack on a sovereign nation to overthrow a tyrant they had previously supported for the sole purpose of securing Iraq's oil reserves for American corporations.
That none of these significant factors were presented in Truth, War, and Consequences leaves me deeply troubled that all sources of information in America are controlled by corporate interests to the point that the American people have no hope of learning the truth about what their government is doing in this age of corporate military fascism.
For those interested in an excellent essay on these issues published outside the U.S. please read This War on Terrorism is Bogus by Michael Meacher (a previous British minister) published in the Guardian last month.
Kevin RochatSeattle, Wa
There were a couple of disturbing things I found with this show.The young soldier who shot up and then rolled over and up a car because the driver was "stealing" wood, did nothing to endear the Iraqi people to our way of life. How do we convince people in the Middle East that American Democracy is the way to go whenour soldiers treat ordinary citizens in such an atrocious manner? Granted, our soldiers are in harms way right now, but that action only further endangers them.
Secondly, I wish your show would have referred back to and tied in the two hour Frontline you did on the History of Iraq and Saddam Hussain, and how the Bush Advisors came up with a plan to restructure the Middle East after the first Gulf War. That would have explained why the Bush Administration was so intent on selling this war. It's not a separate issue, but an ongoing costly saga we are involved in. Iraq is just the first in the series of takeovers. Sad to say, its far from over and its only going to get uglier as time goes on.
Antonia BetrusSeneca Falls, New York
I enjoyed the show,though I thought it should have been named War,Consequences,and Truth.I was disappointed that no mention was made of the number of Iraqi civilians were killed.
Once again,Americans have been bamboozled into "agreeing" with a war.Many Americans are apparently in denial.If I told the world that I had something,and it was revealed that I didn't have it,would that be "misleading"? "erroneous"? No,I would be called a liar.
Bush & Co.can spin it any way they want,but put very simply,America lied to the world about going to War,and we're now facing the Consequences(soldiers dying,Iraqis dying,almost no help from other countries).And that's the Truth.
Mark Walker
I always enjoy the discussions after the show more than the show itself. In these discussions I get to learn about the scary number of people out there still living in denial, and their empty justifications.
I believe these people calling themselves "patriotic" need to go read carefully what Mr. Weldon of Athens, AL, a retired US Navy officer, wrote here. A large number of those like Mr. Weldon, and Wesley Clark, who have seen the ugliness of war first hand, know well that the ugliness is 1000 times greater when there is doubt to the motive.
Your program presented the facts that seemingly most people don't want to hear so they attack you as a liberal channel. It is unfortunately becoming a common defense mechanisms fueled by the mass media channels and the likes of Boortz and Limbaugh. Well, I would much rather be labeled a "liberal" if that means subscribing to the truth.
B RustomAlpharetta, GA
Thank you so much for exposing the truth about our war on Iraq. Years from now, we will look back at this period in our history and wonder how the American people could so easily have been "duped." I lived through the Vietnam era, and I thought we'd learned a lesson about foreign adventures disguised as crusades in the name of freedom. We hadn't.
Every American who dies in the Iraq conflict is giving his/her life in order that we may once again learn that lesson.
Would that more Americans would watch shows like Frontline. We might not then need to acquire wisdom at the cost of our children's lives.
Leonard XavierWinthrop Harbor, Illinois
For me, the iminent threat from Saddam Hussein, the so called WMDs and Al Quida connection was never a deciding factor in my continued support for the liberation of Iraq. As with most Iraqis, my reasons have to do with the toppling of a brutal dictaor who may or may not have been a real threat to us.
President Bush and the administration may have been entirely right in their assumption of threat. It is simply too early to really tell. It does seem though that a certain amount of hype and hysteria entered the arguement at the expense that of relieving those most immenenly effected of their oppressor and the establishment of a free society.
It is arguable however whether the same could have been accomplished that was so magnificently done by other means. But to state or imply that its alright for 'those people' to live under a dictatorship, simply because there are so many, so long as we don't have to be bothered, is deplorable.
John McDonnellAlbuquerque, NM
Normally frontline does a decent job of being non-biased. But you seriously crossed the line on this one. its unfortunate as it tends to make you irrelevant in the future.
since 9/11 the US has been at war, we lost 3000 people, we must have a physical presence in the middle east in order to counter the Islamist. If you haven't noticed they are surely at war with us, we must return the favor. All you did was critize US policy, you addressed nothing regarding what we must do to prevent futher attacks on the US. BTW if you think sending the Peace Corps to these places will stop the attacks, you have already reached the point of irrelevance.
david joneshouston, tx
I supported the war. I supported our policy. I supported the troops.
That was until I saw the film clip of the soldiers destroying the poor Iraqi's car. All for stealing some wood.
No More !
Yes, while your program might have been biased, the reprehensible act cannot be ignored by any morally conscious human being. Made me feel ashamed to be an american.
Max MenonColumbia, SC
Frontline reporting has given us a snapshot of the war that occured in Iraq, and its consequences today. The United States waged war on Iraq for hundreds of reasons, many of which Americans turn a blind eye. There are consequences in everything we do in our lives, and one of them is waging war.
We were attacked on Septmeber 11th, 2001, and became a frightened and revengeful nation, and remain so to this day. When people are frightened, they tend to take extra precautions to secure there future. The United States took those precautions by eliminating a leader of a large nation in the Middle East, namely Iraq. The reasons why we eliminated the Iraqi Government are plenty, but out of those hundreds of reasons, one definite reson was that Iraq was a threat to a frightened United States. Saddam Hussein violently instructed all his citizens to rise up against Western Civilization and kill Americans anywhere in the world.
I feel as an American a lot more comfortable living my daily life, knowing that Saddam Hussein is not ruling Iraq. I will equally feel more comfortable once the United States furthers its quest of a more peaceful Middle East, by knocking on the doors of Syria and Iran, reforming their friendships with Jordan and Saudi Arabia, and assisting Palestinians and Israelis to live as peaceful neighbors. Thank you.
Alec YannoulisChicago, Illinois
Why not have the program be more from an independent view? Why focus 100% on the intelligence that raised questions? Why not mention the many pieces of intelligence that did not raise questions but was solid evidence? Why not state the fact that the public does not know everything the president and his administration do (for good reason at that)? Why show civilians being killed and act like it is all America's fault? What did that have anything to do with your point? How about blame the extremists for civilians still being killed who won't allow the peace to happen and who have hate living in them? We have dedicated people over there fixing bridges, buildings, oil wells, hospitals, etc... and people with hate in them are making it very difficult for them.
Why paint the picture that Bush and Rumsfield are these cold-hearted guys that tried to justify the war at any cost? As if they just want to kill people for no reason.
President Bush wants freedom for all people - he is a caring man. Of course he and his administration are going to make mistakes - THEY ARE HUMAN. However, THEY ARE GOOD PEOPLE WHO HAVE EXTREMELY DIFFICULT JOBS AND WE SHOULD BE THANKFUL FOR THE HONEST LEADERS WE HAVE AND NOT CONTINUALLY BASH THEM. They are trying to protect us all. They are good people. They are not the enemies!
Thumbs down for your show - you say you are independent. Are you kidding me?
Al LeeAberdeen, SD
I found the program rather weak in its presumed effort to expose the lies of the Bush junta leading up to invasion and beyond.
Where were any critics of the war, especially anyone from the liberal left who never get a hearing on PBS or anywhere else? Now that Bush's popularity rating is falling a bit, due to the glacial slowness of Americans to finally know liars when they see and hear them, some of those censored voices of months ago should have been a given a chance to be heard.
V. ForemanArkansaw, WI
Kanan Makiya made one egregious misstatement in his first comments, during the drive north from Kuwait City.He claimed Saddam Hussein made the entire region into a desert. A cursory glance at a map of the Middle East will show anyone that, as the crow would fly from Kuwait City to Baghdad, the first 200 miles is desert until one reaches the Euphrates -- and has been desert for centuries.I agree that Hussein was one of the worst dictators of the 20th century. But why oversell the obvious, when it involves doing so in such a blatant misstatement?
Other than that, I thought the program was wonderfully informative. As a newspaper editor myself, I knew all the basic story lines; however, for the portion of Americans that use television as their primary news source, I hope this program was eye-opening.
Steve SnyderLancaster, Texas
As a now retired officer of the US Navy, a Vietnam volunteer (yes, I was not too smart when I was young!), and one who was heavily involved in Grenada and in Lebanon, I am amazed at the outright lies, distortions, half-truths, and arrogance used by the Bush administration to sell this war to the US population.
People in this country MUST learn who lead us into this, the worst foreign policy mistake in 30 years. Citizens should learn about people like Wolfowitz, Perle, Abrams, Feith, and the American Enterprise Institute. It is clear to me that the US government has been hijacked by a bunch of right wing thugs who care not for the truth. Glad PBS took the effort.....you should run it again on TV, not just online. I am a conservative; not a Republican.
W. WeldonAthens, Al
I was spellbound by your report. Access to those close to the actual events made the story real. What gripped me was the clarity of the report. The straight questions and (mostly) straight answers. The editing that connected the facts to the deceptive statements made by the Bush Administration officials added a lot to the show.
I was disappointed that there was almost no discussion or acceptance of the results and where we go from here. Clearly, the administration should be evaluating the performance of some of the key players in this tragedy. But also, now that we are in this mess nobody seemed willing to discuss how do we get out of it except by spending $100 billion on reconstruction and $4 billion a month for military security. surely there are intelligent people with good ideas on how to cut the cost and reduce the pain on the American and world economies.
There needs to be open discussion about America forging a new compromise and equal relationship with the international community. We may have the strongest ecomony and military in the world but that still does not give us the ability or the right to act independently and insist everyone 'be with us or against us'.
Thomas BlakeGreenwood, Indiana
I'm amazed by the people who complain that the media is not presenting a balanced view of Iraq by only focusing on the terrible problems there. If they were passengers in an airplane whose captain announced that all the engines were on fire, these people would be complaining that he hadn't mentioned that the air conditioning was OK!
As for the rest of us who are not in denial: we recognize the disaster which is our foreign policy in Iraq and understand that it has made us more unpopular in the world in general, and Muslim nations in particular. We realize that it foreshadows even worse trouble for the US, and we are responsible enough to decry it, focus on it, and try to change it.
Kudos to Frontline for its role in exposing the outrageous behavior of the officials who have contributed to this horrifying foreign policy disaster.
Dan Marks
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Now 24, I have had type 1 for over 20 years with decent management and few periods of poor control. I am fit, healthy and quite active as I am a personal trainer. I have avoided complications so far but have recently developed a significantly large varicose vein on my pelvic bone that is causing quite a bit of pain alongside a number of unexplainable high and low blood sugars. I went to my general practitioner who mentioned that this is more than likely due to a complication from my diabetes. Is this possible? I have never heard of this. I am set to see my endocrinologist at the end of September but this has me a bit worried. I cannot seem to get any information on pelvic varicose veins as a complication of diabetes.
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LGBTS 183: Queer Film will be offered during UCLA Summer Sessions A. This course will explore the construction of LGBTQIA subjectivities through film, specifically, the films screened during the annual OutFest Queer Film Festival that takes place in Los Angeles within the 6-week period of summer session A; this year, from July 7-17, 2016. We will read about queer cinema, attend film screenings at OutFest, blog about our experiences, and create a final original 3-minute video poem about how sexuality constructs our own subjectivity. As an option, the course will offer a service-learning component to those students who wish to volunteer for OutFest.
About OutFest: Founded by UCLA students in 1982, Outfest is the world's leading organization that promotes equality by creating, sharing, and protecting LGBT stories on the screen. Outfest builds community by connecting diverse populations to discover, discuss, and celebrate stories of LGBT lives. Over the past three decades, Outfest has showcased thousands of films from around the world, educated and mentored hundreds of emerging filmmakers, and protected more than 36,000 LGBT films and videos. The Outfest UCLA Legacy Project is only program in the world exclusively dedicated to protecting LGBT films for future generations. --From the Outfest website, http://www.outfest.org


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Age may be catching up with veteran guard Manu Ginobili as he will be forced to miss around two games due to hip tightness.
The Spurs, who currently has an 8-2 record made the announcement before their home game on Wednesday against the Denver Nuggets. The other game that he will miss is their road game against the Pelicans. He will then be observed before a decision will be made if he will be given the green light to suit up against the Memphis Grizzlies on Saturday.
The 38-year-old Argentinian guard has been averaging 11.7 points, 3.3 rebounds, 3.7 assists and 1.3 steals in their first nine game this season.
Ginobili was a vital cog when he helped the franchise win four NBA titles in 2003, 2005, 2007, and 2014. He was also a spark for Argentina back in the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens where they snatched the gold medal.
The Spurs are on top of the Southwest division with their second-best record just behind the still spotless Golden State Warriors led by the strikingly hot hands of Steph Curry.
This recent injury of Ginobili is his fourth this year. He was under the weather last March 10 that forced him to miss a game. Then, he sprained his right ankle that resulted to him being sidelined anew. Just last week, he had an adductor strain that forced him to miss a game against the Philadelphia Sixers.
Though this recent injury of the 13-year veteran is not considered that serious, his age and other injuries he has acquired through the years should be the issue that is why Spurs Management decided to give enough time to recover.
Tim Duncan, Tony Parker, and LaMarcus Aldridge are expected to lead the way for the Spurs in the absence of Ginobili. Leonard, who just got back from an injury as well is expected to contribute.
Patty Mills and Danny Green are also expected to fill in the shoes of Manu in his two-game absence.


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Deputy Treasury Secretary Wolin: 'The IRS Did Not Act With Integrity'
The absence of testimony from Lois Lerner will shift focus to Deputy Treasury Secretary Neal Wolin at today's House Committee on Oversight and Government hearing on the IRS scandal.
A lawyer for Lerner, the head of the IRS tax-exempt section who first revealed the agency had targeted conservative groups for closer scrutiny, told lawmakers on Tuesday that Lerner intends to invoke her Fifth Amendment right. In statements made prior to the hearing, Lerner said that low-level employees at the IRS' Cincinnati office had flagged groups applying for tax-exempt status if they had the words "tea party" or "patriot" in their name. She has been subpoenaed by committee Chairman Darrell Issa to appear before the committee.
In the meantime, Wolin has called the IRS' mistreatment of specific groups "absolutely unacceptable and inexcusable."
"The IRS must operate without bias or even the perception of bias," he wrote in a written testimony to lawmakers. "It must act in an utterly nonpartisan manner. It must act with the utmost integrity. The IRS did not do that here."
He reiterated to lawmakers what many IRS officials and an inspector general report already found: that there is no indication his department was involved in the scandal.


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My son has an imagination. At 20 months, he spent an hour playing a game in which his stuffed boxer (as in the dog) played with his plastic spider. The spider would ride the dog. The dog would sniff the spider. And all the time my son was split with laughter. (more in the extended entry below)
I don't know whether he was supposed to have this sort of imagination before 20 months, or after. I don't care. It's the weird thing about watching a kid grow up that each new capacity is celebrated as if it had been in doubt. Of course, I had no doubt my kid would laugh at his dreams, as I had no doubt he would walk, or learn to say "daddy." But the absence of doubt doesn't make the experience any less extraordinary. Watching it happen is the amazing part. And hearing about it happening is pretty amazing as well.
Hearing about it, of course, is how I experienced it. My wife described it to me last week — me in Bulgaria, she about to go to bed in San Francisco, us talking as we increasingly do, on iChat. I didn't see my kid enact his play with dog and spider because I'm on the road again, this time for just about a month — a month in which I will yearn for fast broadband in Australia, Germany, Bulgaria, Norway, and South Africa. A year ago I would have said I had no hobbies. Now my single hobby is making iSight movies — stringing together clips of images captured what iChatting, sometimes funny, sometimes beautiful just because of the pixilation.
I can't adequately describe the depression of this sort of travel. I won't pollute this blog by trying. Suffice it that I am away — as no doubt many are — way too much. In the last year and a half, I have spent 170 nights in a hotel; 300 thousand miles in the air. This year promises even more. Most of the travel is Creative Commons related, though a good deal is just me asked to speak to some conference, convention, or collection of souls.
This trip is fairly representative. I went to Australia to deliver an Alfred Deakin Lecture on Innovation. While there, I also spoke at a "Future Summit," and met with some Creative Commons activists. In Berlin, I gave a public lecture at the German Bundeszentrale f�r politische Bildung. I was also able to meet with some young German academics, and academics wanna-bes, as well as with the iCommons staff (which lives in Berlin). Bulgaria was the launch of Creative Commons-Bulgaria — three lectures in one day, a day of meetings with the lawyers who had ported the licenses, and with the press that was trying to understand them. Norway is a lecture which I will comment on in another post, and then a few days in South Africa to launch CC-SA, at what promises to be an extraordinary conference ("Commons Sense" which is the title I wanted for the book that became "The Future of Ideas"). I was meant to go to India but the logistics of the trip became too difficult and expensive, so I'll return on Memorial Day, after almost 29 days on the road straight.
I enjoy these lectures; I believe in the cause. If you've seen me talk, you know I've developed a particular style. I'm a teacher: it is a style designed to explain. I am just beginning to feel like it works; just beginning to feel that I'm explaining my ideas in a way any intelligent sort could understand. It has taken a very long time, and my mind is filled with memories of the worst examples of me trying to explain. They haunt me like broken promises. They push me to make myself understandable. Each speech builds on the last. Each is changed by what happened in the last.
I'm not great at this. My ideas are still too confused; my arguments are still incomplete; I recognize every time I speak where I've not been understood; there is literally one time in the last 5 years when I went to bed feeling that I had done really well.
Yet though I'm not great, as I get better , there are interesting, sometimes frustrating, effects. First, people can't really believe I've prepared the lecture they hear just for them. This, for example, happened in Melbourne. I am wildly too thin-skinned, so I make it a rule never to Technorat what people say about my lectures. But someone who worried that I didn't doubt myself enough sent me this link to a comment about my "rhetoric" and "stump speeches." The writer, decently, and with balance and perspective, criticized my failure to prepare a special talk for the Deakin lectures.
It was in fact a liberating criticism. First, in fact, I always change my talks. I am obsessed with the fear of repeating a talk. I therefore spend an unbelievable amount of time reworking what I have done to make it make more sense, or more sense of an audience. That was true in Melbourne, as it has been true everywhere. Of course, there are chunks I remix — usually the parts that work best. But if you followed me around for months at a time, you'd be less bored than if you followed, say, John Edwards, and not because I'm a better speaker than John Edwards (I certainly am not).
But second, the criticism made me realize how absurd it is for me to feel this obligation to say something new or different at each event. My life has been filled with absurd rules I've imposed upon myself, which later I can't begin to understand. This now strikes me as another example of such an absurd rule. It's not as if I speak to crowds of 10,000 at a time. I don't give lectures on national television. It's not as if the message I'm trying to convey is the subject of national advertising campaigns, or political movements. And so I don't know why my talks have to be more original each time than, say, a candidate for political office. I have a set of views I'm trying to persuade people of. Why must I do that in different words?
(The best example of this stupidity is the first talk I did that got translated to Flash!. This was a keynote I gave at OSCON in 2002. I had prepared it for OSCON. When Leonard Lin prepared this version of it, I told myself I could never give the talk again. And so I haven't. Not because this presentation of this message was particularly good. Not because I couldn't improve it. But just because I was haunted by this rule — don't repeat a talk — the origin of which I can't now fathom.)
Berlin also produced its own interesting criticism. One of the questioners — a friendly, and supportive questioner — criticized me for the "strength" of my rhetoric. While he appreciated how "understandable" I had made the arguments, and he regretted that professors in his own country seemed focused exclusively on making their points incomprehensible, he worried that I presented the argument too strongly. "Too persuasively." It was "rhetoric" he suggested. A woman sitting next to a friend called it "propaganda."
This is a fascinating criticism, because it wasn't motivated by disagreement as much as by a difference in cultural style. Peter Baldwin, from UCLA, gave a talk responding to mine. His was perfect from the perspective of this style — advancing a point, but then insisting he didn't necessarily believe the point he was advancing; never quite committing, yet conveying a great deal of truth on the way. I regretted not getting a chance directly to discuss this point in the question session that followed. No doubt the reaction was partly a function of me, and partly a function of the audience. I was extremely keen to understand the latter. One person I asked afterwards said, "We've been seduced by rhetoric once. We don't trust it anymore." That was an astonishing thought, but again, I can't quite resolve whether it reflected well the reasons for the reaction. There is much more to learn here than I had time to reckon.
But my purpose in writing this particular missive is not to report on my travels. Nor is it to respond to critics. It is instead to resolve, here, in public, something important about commitments and value.
I want to do this less. I need to do it less. I want to know my boy through his hugs, and tears, not through the smiles he gives me on an iSight camera. I want to relieve my extraordinary wife from the burden of single-parent parenting. I want a week when I don't remove my shoes for kindly folks called the TSA. I want more nights when I don't struggle to decide whether to spend $5 to drink a bottle of water.
And so I am resolving to do this less. Less. Not never again, but less — if I just add up my commitments already made, my life will still be insanely busy. (In my OSCON speech, I said I was giving up giving lectures. That was a misstatement. What I meant was I was giving them up while I prepared for the argument in the Eldred case. I hadn't at that point resolved to retire).
But now I have resolved that I need energy elsewhere. This movement is important and critical. And you can't begin to imagine the reward in watching it flourish around the world — especially in places like Bulgaria. A wide range of extraordinary souls are succeeding in getting others to understand. That is something I never would have predicted five years ago, and it is reason for this to go on.
Yet it needs to go own with others. Or with less of me. Or at least, less of me in person. I'm happy to help that change occur. I am severely restricting the invitations I will accept, and I am in the process of wrapping every presentation I have made in a form that can be shared. I hope to put them all at the site, OurMedia, in a context in which anyone can do with it what he or she wants. Remix it. Replay it. Criticize it. Synchronize the slides with the audio (where I've been able to locate the audio.) Port it to Flash! Or to some free software equivalent. Copy the message; ridicule the message. Whatever. I'm quite sure people could do better with this than I have. I am asking that they do. Take it and make it better. Or take it and twist it to make it worse. Free culture needs both. And it needs me less.
This is exhaustion, no doubt. I responded to that at first by resolving to be stronger. Then it was homesickness, plain and simple. Something I've not known for 30 years. But whatever it is, or will become, we each must draw lines that respects those things most important. And I want more time to explore with my kid the many possible toys for a boxer.


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Getting to Know Woody Guthrie
Keene State dance major Anna Canoni '00 immerses herself in her family's musical heritage, applying skills from business and dance to help keep an icon of American history alive.
by David McKay Wilson – photos by David McGlynn
Anna Canoni '00 is director of events and programs for the archives devoted to the work of her grandfather, Woody Guthrie, in Mount Kisco, New York.
Anna Canoni '00 never met her grandfather, Woody Guthrie, the legendary folk singer who died 11 years before she was born. But more than four decades after his death, Canoni gets to know him better each day as she keeps Guthrie's songs alive in the 21st century.
As director of events and programs for Woody Guthrie Publications, it's all Woody, all the time. One day she's planning a benefit concert featuring Pete Seeger, the next day she's working on a book about Guthrie's 27 years in New York, or meeting with a filmmaker who wants to do a documentary about those years.
"I'm constantly learning about his truths," says Canoni, 32, in her office, where Guthrie's framed handwritten lyrics and drawings hang from the wall. "I'm living a very real relationship with my grandfather."
Canoni, whose mother, Nora, is among Guthrie's eight children, grew up in a home filled with her grandfather's music. As a child, she'd drift off to sleep as her parents sang Hobo's Lullaby or Deportee.
Canoni, whose mother, Nora, is among Guthrie's eight children, grew up in a home filled with her grandfather's music. As a child, she'd drift off to sleep as her parents sang Hobo's Lullaby or Deportee.
Her family would venture up the Hudson Valley for get-togethers with the family of folksinger Pete Seeger, who helped popularize Guthrie's songs in the 1960s.
Each November, Canoni would gather backstage with her cousins at Carnegie Hall as her uncle, Arlo, played his annual concert.
"Music was the backdrop of our lives," says Canoni, who lives in Ossining, New York, with her husband, Scott, and daughters, Kaylee and Alexis.
The Guthrie men sang; the Guthrie women dance. Canoni's grandmother, Marjorie, trained with modern-dance pioneer Martha Graham. Her mother, Nora, led her own modern dance company in Manhattan. Canoni, who performed modern dance at Steffi Nossen School of Dance in White Plains, New York, during high school, majored in dance and theatre at Keene State. She choreographed many of her own pieces, with one performed at the American College Dance Festival.
Upon graduation, she turned to the business world, unwilling, she says, to become a starving artist. For three years, she was executive assistant to the senior vice president of advertising sales at TV Guide.
"I first needed to find my own legs," she says. "But then I was ready and had some knowledge to bring to the table."
So she joined the family business, where her mother heads up an enterprise that includes Woody Guthrie Publications, the Woody Guthrie Archives, and the nonprofit Woody Guthrie Foundation. Canoni serves as the foundation's secretary and treasurer. More information.
Today, Canoni says she's like "a sponge" in the office with her mother, who has made connections with contemporary artists such as Billy Bragg and the Klezmatics. Projects now underway include CDs of Guthrie songs performed by Lou Reed, Ani DiFranco, and Michael Franti, and another CD with rocker Jay Farrar, formerly of Wilco.
Tom Morello, of Rage Against the Machine, recently performed a punk version of Guthrie's classic, Deportee, at a protest against Arizona's controversial immigration law. Guthrie's songs about caring for the poor and the plight of the downtrodden still resonate.
Toshi Seeger, Pete Seeger's wife, says Canoni's work will help ensure that Guthrie's music lives on. "It's wonderful Anna is carrying on the tradition," Seeger says. "Pete is 91 and I'm 88. We need some propping up."
Canoni is one of four employees at the office suite in downtown Mount Kisco, New York. On a recent visit, two researchers poured over Guthrie documents while the archivist answered questions from a historian about a summer camp in New Hampshire that Guthrie directed in 1948. The archives include the lyrics of 2,998 songs, 754 pieces of artwork, and 10 boxes of correspondence, manuscripts, taped interviews, photographs, and recordings, including one made at a concert in 1949 with a process that embedded sound on a spool of thin steel wire.
Audio technicians were able to retrieve the music, which was subsequently digitized and released in the CD Live Wire: Woody Guthrie in Performance. It won the 2008 Grammy for best historical album.
While at Keene State, Canoni found her movement voice through contact improvisation, the dance form based on the communication between two or more dancers who are in physical contact as they explore the forces of gravity, momentum, and inertia. In contact improv, dancers always keep a point of physical contact between themselves.
While Canoni is no longer dancing, those concepts have taken on new meaning.
"It's still all choreography as I make all these connections and bring the projects to fruition," she says. "And through it all, I'm keeping my connection to Woody. It's like I'm doing contact improvisation with him every day."


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Energy is the new boom industry in Cyprus, attracting worldwide attention and serious international investment in both hydrocarbons and renewables – cementing the island's status as a key player in the Eastern Mediterranean
Energy is the new boom industry in Cyprus, attracting worldwide attention and serious international investment in both hydrocarbons and renewables – cementing the island's status as key player in the Eastern Mediterranean.
Cyprus' energy profile has evolved significantly following the discovery of vast natural gas reserves in both its Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) and in its immediate neighbourhood. These developments have established the country's budding oil and gas sector as one of the biggest opportunities for foreign investment. Another area gaining momentum in the energy sphere is renewable energy, with international companies flocking to the island's shores to harness its wind and 340 days of sunshine.
Hydrocarbon Hype
In 2011, US firm Noble Energy, who is developing Israel's giant Tamar and Leviathan gas fields in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, announced a world-class discovery of natural gas in Cyprus' offshore EEZ block 12 – known as Aphrodite. Two years later, Noble carried out appraisal drillings in block 12 and the results confirmed natural gas reserves of 4.54 trillion cubic feet (tcf) – enough to meet Cyprus' domestic gas demand for over 100 years. Noble Energy's success story in block 12 rapidly caught the attention of energy companies worldwide and created a surge of interest, with more players entering the market hoping to make further significant discoveries.
Exploration Race
Cyprus' licensing rounds have garnered strong interest from foreign investors, especially following Egypt's colossal find – branded 'Zohr' – located just 6.5km from its territorial waters. The Egyptian find, operated by Italian company Eni, holds an estimated 30 trillion cubic feet (tcf), equivalent to 5.5 billion barrels of oil, and closely resembles Cyprus' block 10, according to industry experts. Cyprus recently completed its third licensing round, awarding blocks to consortia including Eni, Total, ExxonMobil and Qatar Petroleum – and has signed contracts that are expected to yield faster drilling in a bid to explore the potential of exporting its gas to European and East-Asian markets.
Global energy giants such as French Total, a consortium of Eni and South Korean Kogas, and the UK-Dutch company Royal Dutch Shell, have already secured exploration rights in Cypriot waters and 2017 will be a pivotal year in a new wave of exploration activities. In preparation for the upcoming increase in offshore drilling, a new support base is also being set up in Limassol, in addition to support services based in Larnaca.
Cyprus has high hopes that the oil and gas sector could become a key driver of growth due to revenues from its natural gas – and the already-established involvement of major oil and gas companies has strengthened the country's efforts of becoming a key regional energy hub. Cyprus has plans to also set up a national investment fund to manage its potential hydrocarbons wealth. It is hoped that the country could receive an annual cash injection of several hundred million euros from gas revenues just from the exploitation of the Aphrodite field, should production start in 2023.
Subsea Connections
In 2016, Cyprus signed a deal in a bid to potentially transfer natural gas via subsea pipeline to Egypt once extraction from Aphrodite begins – a move welcomed by Noble Energy who said it would help boost projects in the region. The country is also in discussions with Greece, Italy and Israel about the potential of transporting gas from the Eastern Mediterranean to Europe, via Greece and Italy. This €5.5 billion project, if taken up and given the green light, would constitute the largest underwater pipeline in the world – stretching over 1,300 km. However, most industry professionals do not see the costly and challenging project as a viable way forward.
Another key connection is the EuroAsia Interconnector, which will link the power grids of Cyprus with Greece and Israel via an undersea cable. The 2,000 Megawatt interconnector, is one of the seven selected electricity projects that have received funding, and the only North-South electricity interconnection in the Central Eastern and South Eastern Europe Priority Corridor.
The EU has agreed to finance the final detailed studies ahead of the implementation of the project with €14.5 million, as it will contribute to achieving the Energy Union's goals of connecting European energy networks, increasing security of energy supply, and contributing to the sustainable development by integrating renewable energy sources across the EU. If it goes ahead, pre-construction works could commence as early as 2017.
An Expanding Fuel Hub
A strong momentum has also been seen in developing Cyprus into a significant regional fuel hub for Europe, Asia and Africa, thanks mainly to the successful operation of the sophisticated oil storage terminal in Cyprus by Netherlands-based global oil terminal company VTTI. In 2015, the company's Cyprus subsidiary VTTV announced expansion plans to also take advantage of the regional natural gas opportunities.
The €300 million project in Vasilikos was the biggest infrastructure project constructed in Cyprus in recent years, and has put the island on the global energy map, as well as considerably strengthened Cyprus' efforts to return to economic growth. Around €9 million go to state coffers from port fees and operating permits every year, and it has also resulted in around €2 million savings for Cyprus from lower storage costs for its strategic reserves. The Vasilikos area is also set to get another boost with the Cyprus Ports Authority, in cooperation with the EU, set to invest up to €50 million to develop the port area for the benefit of oil and gas companies.
The VTTV terminal has also given birth to a new export product for Cyprus in mineral fuels and oils, which jumped from zero in 2014 to €98 million in 2015. The company uses Cyprus as a terminal, blending its raw material and then exporting it to the rest of the world, but mainly to Lebanon (€28.8 million) and Israel (€16.6 million).
Cyprus' strategic location makes it the first terminal of its kind in the Eastern Mediterranean, connecting Europe and the Black Sea with markets in the Middle East and Asia. As a percentage of Cyprus GDP, petroleum is only worth 1%, but the industry has tremendous growth prospects with the country's determination to establish itself as a key energy hub and a stronghold of stability in the region.
The oil retail sector saw another coup after Greek company Motor Oil struck a €10 million deal to buy out all 31 Lukoil gas stations – constituting 10.8% of all gas stations in Cyprus – which will soon be branded with the Shell logo. These developments are expected to intensify competition and create a more competitive market in fuel retail.
Fossil Fuel Dependency
A key challenge for Cyprus is its high dependency on fossil fuels for energy – the biggest share within the EU in fact, which makes it crucial for the country to develop both its hydrocarbon and renewable energy sources. Cyprus is reliant on fossil fuel imports for its electricity needs, and spends over 8% of its GDP to cover the costs.
The island also saw the biggest increase in energy demand among the EU28, growing 41% since 1990 from 1.6 million tonnes of oil equivalent (Mtoe) to 2.3 Mtoe in 2015. These figures may be low when compared with its larger EU partners, but a more accurate comparison would be Malta where consumption was only 0.8 Mtoe in 2015. However, Cyprus is determined to find a cleaner solution until it can exploit its own reserves.
Rising Renewables
As Cyprus looks forward to a day when its power plants can be run on more cost-efficient natural gas, rather than expensive imported liquid fuels, it is undertaking other initiatives to achieve its national energy and climate targets. Due to its isolation from the trans-European electricity networks, Cyprus is targeting to have only 13% of its energy consumption coming from renewables (EU Target 20%) by 2020. This is set to be generated by wind farms, photovoltaic (PV) systems, solar thermal plants and biomass and biogas utilisation plants.
Latest data show that Renewable Energy Sources (RES) accounted for 9.8% of electricity production in 2015. RES power production rose 3.4% in 2016, compared to 2015, mainly on increased output generated by private photovoltaic systems. Wind farms generated almost two thirds of electricity from RES in 2016, increasing 2.2%, and the output of private-owned photovoltaic systems rose by 8.8%. However, the output of biomass power generators and photovoltaic units installed on public building, schools and at army barracks dropped 2.1% and 1.7% in 2016.
Cyprus' energy policy has created financial support for RES projects, and a special fund was created aiming to support RES and energy saving investments in Cyprus, with revenue derived from consumers paying a 'green tax' levied on electricity bills (currently at €1 per kWh).
The island also has three projects that have won significant funding from 'NER300' – a financing instrument managed jointly by the European Commission, European Investment Bank and Member States. The Helios Power Project, EOS Green Energy Project and the Green+ Smart-Grid Project have garnered a combined €117.8 million to develop innovative renewable ventures in Cyprus.
However, the country's national grid system has certain intrinsic and technical limitations affecting RES penetration and reliability of the energy system – such as the lack of interconnections to the trans-European electricity networks, a limitation to the amount of intermittent renewable energy that can be connected to the electricity system, and a lack of RES installations with storage capability.
To tackle these problems the country is exploring ways to introduce smart grids in the national network and is on the look-out for projects that could facilitate energy storage, and ventures that have production on a 24-hour basis. Also the EuroAsia Interconnector could bring more solutions in its wake.
The island is already one of the highest users per capita in the world of solar water heaters in households, with over 90% of households equipped with solar water heaters and over 50% of hotels using large systems of this kind. With almost year-round sunshine, Cyprus certainly has plenty of energy to harness, but competitive energy storing capabilities are crucial in order to fully tap into its solar potential and facilitate better RES penetration.
There continues to be much ground to cover in terms of renewable energy production, but international interest in developing the sector in Cyprus has been on the rise. In this respect, the production of renewable energy is expected to experience considerable growth in coming years, and significant investment is required in order for Cyprus to achieve its targets – opening the field for companies with expertise in renewables.
Liberalising the Market
The Cyprus Energy Regulatory Authority (CERA) has worked towards the full opening up of the energy market and granting consumers the right to choose their own supplier – with expectations of a full liberalisation by May 2019. CERA's proposition is a 'net pool' model, where the operations of the state power company, EAC, are unbundled and the production and supply operations separated. EAC production would then enter into bilateral agreements with suppliers for the sale of energy at regulated prices. However, these plans have experienced some resistance from unions, as they are seen as moves which could put pressure to privatise the state power company.
Exciting Future Prospects
Cyprus' energy developments have certainly placed the country centre stage with the unfolding discoveries in the Eastern Mediterranean. Offering a stable and secure base in an increasingly turbulent region, Cyprus is also a convenient location to set up operations for various auxiliary services to the energy industry and for company headquarters to support activities in the EMEA region.
Utilising its own resources, Cyprus could also have a unique opportunity to develop a specialised industry in petrochemicals, according to industry professionals, who have been calling for the national framework to include the formation of a comprehensive operational strategy for the sector.
Furthermore, the country's excellent infrastructure and business environment, coupled with an advantageous tax and legal framework, establishes it as a competitive and efficient location for multinationals. The developing oil and gas sector and the still relatively untapped potential in renewable energy offer expanding opportunities, and Cyprus will need investors and partners to fulfil its ambition to become a regional energy hub.
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