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Name: Cory Holding, English Department.
Presentation Title: "Rhetorical Gesture in British Elocutionism: The Case of John Bulwer"
Date: April 29, 2010
The British Elocutionist is caricatured as a "poser." As such, you might glimpse a few in mainstream rhetorical histories, elaborated for the peculiar obsession with accoutrement to the real business of rhetoric—with facial expression, tone of voice, even foot position in delivery—but by and large the Elocutionist is glossed, or dismissed. Bulwer occasionally makes mention for his unusual attention to the hand in particular, and for his illustrations of gestures: the open palm upended, fingers out, for example, depicts rationes profert, invitation. My project explores what the marginalized work of British Elocutionists on the rhetoric of gesture yet offers current attempts to theorize the body's role in the production of argument. This talk presents Bulwer, a physician, as case study to show that the hand (also) far exceeds its reputation in rhetorical theory: ancillary, if "detached" mechanism for the emotional manipulation of audience.

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(KMOV) -- Lindbergh High School's Spirit of St. Louis Marching Band is on its way to Pasadena, California.
They've got a busy week in store culminating with a two-hour, five-and-a-half mile march in the Rose Parade New Year's Day.
Before that, they'll help with getting floats ready and even perform at Disneyland. It will be an unforgetable week.
It's been a tough six months getting ready, building endurance in extreme heat and extreme cold and getting their routines down.
The band also learned its band director, Bob Spiegelman has cancer. The kids are inspired by his dedication. He says he's inspired by the kids and being apart of getting ready for and going to the Rose Parade (for Bob, the second time with a Lindbergh High marching band) has been the perfect distraction from his cancer and cancer treatment.
I'm told HGTV will run the Rose Parade from start to finish without commercials starting at 10am St. Louis time if you want to check out our local kids representing our area.
If you want to keep up with the band in Pasadena, check out www.spiritstlband.org.
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This is a yearlong Mantra Sadhana and it should be commenced on any Monday, Mondays are considered to be most auspicious days for seeking Shiv Krupa [Blessings of Shiva]. The Shiv Murti, Shiv Lingam or a photo of Shiva should be worshipped and Seven Belpatra [Bael leaves] should be offered to Shiva.
After this, the Laxmi Mantra given here should be chanted 108 times using a Lotus Seed Mala [Kamal Gatte Ki Mala].
The same procedure is to be followed everyday for one year.
The practitioner can fast on Mondays if he desires, however, it is not mandatory. Nevertheless, it essential to refrain from consuming Non-Vegetarian Food and Alcohol on Mondays. If a woman is performing the Sadhana, she should discontinue during the Menstrual Cycle.
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I am a pharmacist. I was given a prescription for Actos for a seven year old obese child. The doctor said the child has taken it before, but I cannot find any information about its safe use by children. Can you provide me with information?
Pioglitazone (Actos) is not FDA-approved for use in pediatric patients. That said, a licensed physician can prescribe whatever legal substance, off label.
There is a small body of literature on the use of pioglitazone and other thiazolidinediones in pediatric patients with obesity and fatty-liver disease; pharmacokinetic studies; and others. As you know, just because a drug is "not FDA-approved" does not mean that is "disapproved" by the FDA.
Pharmaceutical companies have little interest in doing the clinical trials needed in children for a drug that likely will not have much of a pediatric market. Unfortunately, we are seeing more obesity and type 2 diabetes in children now.
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I was watching the Mr.Olympia prejudging the other day and my mind was racing. On stage, you have the ideal of physique development. Full, round and conditioned muscle with "barely" there body fat.
Sure, there's performance enhancing items involved. There's superior genetics, 24-7 dedication and various other factors involved in attaining that look. I'm also not naive enough to think that what's on the Olympia stage (male or female) is the ideal or attainable for most.
It isn't…
Look at the cover of Oxygen magazine or Men's Fitness and you'll see the ideal for 90% of individuals who read training and diet blogs like this as well as those who purchase supplements and even watch the Mr.Olympia. So I'm not basing what I'm going to say on a pro physique.
I sat there and wondered aloud on my facebook page "How much does leg training really contribute to overall muscle growth?"
Now I fully anticipated the usual responses that I got. I LOVE everyone that takes the time to post on my facebook page but the responses were traditional responses.
"You have to train your legs because you'll raise your growth hormone".
"Training your legs can add pounds of lean muscle onto your body"
"You need to train your legs".
Now again, please keep in mind that we're not talking about training your legs to compete in bodybuilding. You obviously have to. Bodybuilding shows are about the whole package.
But you know those guys on the cover of the magazines, the bodies that you personally desire to attain? They don't really train their legs. Nor do they have.
For fitness modeling purposes, leg training DOESN'T matter.
But back to the issue at hand. Will training your legs result in a significant increase in the "show" areas such as the chest, arms, back and shoulders? Are you doomed to be puny if you don't train your legs?
You'd certainly think it would, since it does so much for raising growth hormone and other anabolic hormones.
Not so fast…
In reality, when you have the physique development of a Jay Cutler or Phil Heath, you actually need to train your legs MORE then a Jimmy Smith, that's my beef.
Which is no shade on my physique, click around and look at the pictures on my site. Now maybe I'm not the best example since I'm 6'6 which severely limits how fast I can gain lean muscle (an issue for another day). I can get bigger then someone who's 5'9 but it'll take me a lot longer to reach that point.
When you're at a Jay Cutler level, the phrase "every little bit counts" really does matter since they look for every possible advantage in adding detail to their bodies. So let's look the three common responses from trainers, strength coaches and everyone else for why you MUST train your legs for overall growth.
Leg Training Adds Body Weight
It certainly does but that doesn't answer my question if it leads to more muscle growth overall. At 6'6, I could easily add close to 10 pounds on my frame in one year naturally with dedicated leg training. Will it make my arms significantly bigger then if you don't do one rep of squats all year? No.
Your Body Wants To Maintain Structural Balance And Won't Let You Add Muscle Size Elsewhere If Your Legs Aren't Big Enough
I haven't seen any research stating at my legs have to be 60% (or any random number) as strong as my arms or shoulders for them to grow. Any ratio of leg growth to other body part development is as phantom as the assumption that you can only digest 30 grams of protein at at time.
The theory sounds good but it doesn't hold water. People assume that the human body will limit growth in other places of the body if there are weak links in the chain. While the human body is extremely complex, there's zero evidence that we have this rate-limiting factor that halts the development of the other areas.
Might it? Sure but when will it? When you're trying to get defined and vascular 24 inch pythons(Hogan never was defined, Rick Rude had better arms) or when you're trying to hit 18,19 or 20 inch arms? The latter more attainable by natural athletes then the former. What's harder on your body? Having 24 inch arms or 19 inch arms?
People will state that your body is trying to protect you from injury because your joints won't be able to handle massive shoulders or big pecs with pencil legs. In reality, your upper back structure is substantially more important then your leg strength for maintaining structural integrity at your joints for your pecs, shoulders and arms.
Weak back strength and your curl will be limited (you'll hit a sticking point in the curl), your chest growth will be affected as you won't be able to stabilize under a heavy load and your ability to press overhead will be compromised. We all like to say that "no one trains back" but most people actually do. They might not do chin-ups but they train their back just enough.
This entire argument goes out the window if you deadlift regularly…
Now onto the money argument….
Leg training increases your growth hormone levels and other anabolic hormones that lead to muscle growth everywhere.
Wilkinson, et al, did possibly the most progressive study on anabolic hormones, muscle growth and exercise. They took young men with a average age of 20-21 (you know the age that your suppose to be "flooded" with hormones). They looked at their training response of testosterone, growth hormone and IGF-1 and how it impacts Muscle Protein Synthesis ,MPS, (the ability to to actually add new muscle tissue).
Here's what the head researcher stated…
"We report here that, despite being exposed to substantial differences in purportedly anabolic hormones such as testosterone, GH, and IGF-1, the rate of MPS in identically exercised muscles was not different."
"Furthermore, our results indicate that increases in MPS are able to occur without increases in systemic anabolic hormone concentrations and are not enhanced by the acute elevation that can follow resistance exercise; this finding is in agreement with previous work from our lab showing that increases in circulating hormones are not necessary for hypertrophy"
West, et al, took 12 males with the average age of 21 and wanted to find out if higher levels of GH, test and IGF-1 would make the arm being trained on that day bigger.
They had 2 workouts. An arm day and a arm and leg day. They trained a different arm on each day.
After 15 weeks there was NO different in the size or strength of the arm trained with legs and the arm trained alone.
Might leg training actually lead to more growth hormone output? Sure, since it's just a larger muscle area trained. When you train arms or shoulder or any muscle, you still have a growth hormone output, it's just localized to that area.
Wrapping it up…..
I usually write smaller articles then this so thank you for reading this far. Based on the two studies and my sound theories presented above, we can see that an acute and short term increases in growth hormone has very little effect on overall growth. Long term, heavy use, that's a different story.
Now if you progressively train to get stronger and move more weight and have a sound nutritional plan, that might lead to some growth….anywhere you want.
Please comment below, I encourage all kinds and I look forward to hearing your thoughts. Please have an open mind when you comment though and don't get all funky and nasty just because I smacked tradition.
West DW, Kujbida GW, Moore D, Atherton PJ, Burd NA, Padzik JP, Delisio M, Tang JE, Parise G, Rennie MJ, Baker SK, Phillips SM. Resistance exercise-induced increases in putative anabolic hormones do not enhance muscle protein synthesis or intracellular signalling in young men. J Physiol 587: 5239–5247, 2009
Elevations in ostensibly anabolic hormones with resistance exercise enhance neither training-induced muscle hypertrophy nor strength of the elbow flexors.
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The oldest occupation in the world is not what you might think, it is (as far as I am concerned), composting! Before humans fashioned forks, moulded plastic composters, or constructed wooden, brick or straw compost containers, Nature has recruited myriads of micro-organisms to turn un-used food, fallen leaves, seaweed etc in to friable soil-like compost. Worms then mix this with the existing soil, returning nutrients to the roots of new plants, which later die, get composted, and the cycle goes on.
In my garden, I allow one year for converting vegetable waste in to friable soil-like compost. During the first 6 months the vegetable waste is collected from the kitchen and stored and partially composted in a plastic compost tumbler. Turning the tumbler helps aerate the mixture preventing any bad odours. Before the next 6 months, that tumbler mixture is transferred to the brick compost maker, a 1 cubic metre box. This mixture is interlayered with hedge clippings and coarser garden waste. This compost box is closed off and opened in 6 months time, when the mixture will have become proper compost, ready for digging in around the garden
I hope you enjoy this short video which Lorcan and I made the other day. The benefits of composting are many but include, (1). tidying the garden, (2). getting some good exercise (3). improving soil structure and (4). making food for healthy plants. Two things I forgot to mention in the video (a) place on old piece of carpet or even cardboard on top of the compost mix before replacing the lid to keep off rain. This ensures the composting making bugs are happier in this dry, dark and warmer environment. (b) Some people (discreetly) add a high nitrogen activator to the compost mix in liquid or in powdered form. The composting bugs tend to like it as it speeds up their work. They won 't really mind if you buy it in powdered form in the garden centre or otherwise!


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Jon Vermilyea screenprint. BIG. Tomorrow night. Beasts!
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Files from the Beasts! book by Jacob Covey, et al.
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super stylish! the colours scheme is awesome
Anyone who appreciates Vermilyea's work should buy one of these ASAP. I think he only made ten and a few artist's proofs (one is here with me). They're big and striking and you will never get to admire such a thing for under the $75 price tag once people figure out he exists.


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Unidirectional Gene Flow: A Computer Model and a Population Genetic Survey of the Water-Dispersed Annual, Impatiens capensis
author: Benjamin Polacco
advisor: Keith Karoly
year: 1996
ABSTRACT: Few, if any, of the published gene flow models have examined the effects of unidirectional gene flow which may be typical for many plant species whose seeds or pollen are dispersed by flowing water or a predominant wind direction. To study the effects of unidirectional dispersal in a natural population, pattems of genetic variability were surveyed using isozyme and common garden techniques among six populations (five within a single watershed) of the likely hydrochorous annual plant, Impatiens capensis. Results at two polymorphic loci showed high divergence over all populations (FST=0.85), but low divergence between populations on the same tributary (FST=0.07 and 0.16). This divergence between streams provides evidence for predominant unidirectional dispersal by water. Genetic structure was also examined with morphological measurements of plants grown in a common garden experiment. Morphological genetic distances were difficult to interpret due to small sample size. However, morphological data did seem to agree with isozyme data. To examine the theoretical effects of unidirectional gene flow, a computer simulation of gene flow along a linear array of populations was created. The model incorporates both unidirectional gene flow equal between all populations, and bi-directional "stepping-stone" gene flow only between adjacent populations. Two models were simulated, one which includes only a single nonbranching linear array of populations, and another which includes populations arranged in a branched stream or "V". The simulations showed that unidirectional gene flow can lower the effective population size of a linear system by increasing the chance of allele fixations. In the V model, downstream gene flow can not decrease overall FST beyond a level determined by the rate of bi-directional gene flow, and FST is even increased in some cases depending on relative values of downstream and adjacent gene flow. In some cases, especially when a branch exists upstream, downstream populations will have higher allelic diversity compared to upstream populations. The results from the genetic survey of I. capensis agree well with results from the model simulation, though I. capensis appears to be recently introduced to northwestern Oregon. The effects of founder events and possible hybridization with I. ecalcarata are discussed in light of the genetic data.


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(This post is part of the 2014 TCG National Conference: Crossing Borders {Art| People} blog salon curated by Caridad Svich.)
If there is democracy in you, that is where it will be shown. this is the only way we is americans. this is the only truth that can be told. otherwise there is no future between us but war. and we is rather lovers and singers and dancers and poets and drummers and actors and runners and elegant heartbeats of the suns flame….but we is also to the end of our silence and sitdown.
—From "Why is We Americans," by Amiri Baraka
The checkpoints placed at border crossings function to create, sustain, and segregate "the other" from the dominant culture. By creating the cultural "other", these checkpoints prevent certain groups from entering and participating fully in the society and its culture. The dominant culture bearers hold up the standards toward which the entire culture is trained to look. As a performing and teaching artist (with a specialization in voice, speech and movement), I believe that sound, language, story, and physicality are among the most widely (yet subtly) used criterion at the border of American culture.
Fear collided with flesh during events in Ferguson, Missouri, where an unarmed African-American teenager was shot (again and again and again) by a white police officer. The New York Times reported that most police departments support "reasonable fear" as permission to shoot, to kill. Reasonable fear can be born of myth and misinformation. It's hard-wired into our society. And in many cases what is "reel"— the identifying markers of "the other" as represented by various commercial media—is mistaken for what is real. In the case of Ferguson, this is the myth of a monolith of African-American-ness as a culture of violence. Sound, language and physicality play a large part in acting as clues and puzzle pieces which, when put together, became quite literally a trigger point for all the events that marked this episode in our history.
A similar type of misinformation has marked my experiences as a performing and teaching artist in varied learning and performance communities in the United States and abroad. These experiences have steeled my resolve to transform the future by embracing a belief that voice and speech trainers can change the world.
At the border between U.S. dominant culture and its "others" sits a lack of knowledge and the subsequent misunderstanding of and resistance to the "other" that the dominant culture itself has created. I experienced this dearth of knowledge recently in a rehearsal of August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, for which I was working as a voice and dialect consultant. I was asked to address the vocal variety and choices among the actors, particularly for the younger performers. My approach was to work with the entire company, providing technical work based in Fitzmaurice Voicework and Knight-Thompson Speechwork, along with support materials and physical experiences related to the Great Migration. One of the themes of the play, the Great Migration was a period between, roughly, 1916 and 1970, during which more than 6 million African Americans moved from the rural Jim Crow South to the urban centers of the North, Midwest and West. My goal as voice and dialect consultant was to allow these actors the opportunity to explore how these events might influence their voice, body and breath, thereby expanding the choices for vocal dynamics.
I could have chosen faster, easier, purely technical fixes. I could have worked with each actor alone. However, I felt that providing a common experience would shrink the time, space and history that existed between all the artists and the text: cultural differences replaced by a common experience of humanity. This is the same type of experience that I seek to share with my audiences as a performer. The goal of my approach to voicework is to fire up my students and audiences, to transform students from being just creative technicians and to shift audiences from the role of removed spectators to fearless questioners with curious minds and hearts. Life and art live in fearless questions! Being in the questioning place makes room for informed discovery.
Four months ago, I returned "home" to Nassau, Bahamas for the funeral of my Aunt May. At the funeral, someone outside of the family asked what I did for a living in the U.S. I told him that I teach voice and speech and that I work as an actor. With a hopeful glint in his voice he asked, "Are you famous?" I wanted to say, "If you have to ask, clearly I am not in the least famous." But, instead, I silently shrugged a sorry to disappoint you shrug. He replied, "But that is how you make your living?" I could see him trying to puzzle it out, make sense of my "Yes" response. Helpless, he could only retort, "Only in America". He began to walk away and then paused and, as if acknowledging both my history and my present, tossed the word "Lucky" to me.
this is the only way we is americans. —Amiri Baraka
See, I am a product of the Black Arts Movement. My earliest exposure to creativity came from The Elma Lewis School in Roxbury, an African American neighborhood in Boston. When I dreamed then of working in the theatre I was, unbeknownst to me at the time, really dreaming of becoming an arts activist. In the spring of 2012, Black Arts Movement poet Amiri Baraka recounted his early years in a talk he gave at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. I recall him saying that, when he looks at what is projected in the media, he thinks "Where are the black people that I know?" He prodded his audience to "make your story heard". So that when folks come along 300 years from now they will see you, "…not someone's pre-digested story about you. They don't know…they think they know everything but they just know what is convenient. Make your story heard".
He reminded me that this work, for me, is a re-memory in process.
Re-membering is the process of, all at once, making whole both the new and old. My teaching artist and actor's body and voice make up a type of hard drive that is constantly connecting past, present and future cultural crossings. Here, in this body, memory mutates, suffers and withstands seismic shifts. Here is what I have learned: the value of the work/memory in process rests on its ability to survive. I/it survives through constant conversation. This is where all the sounds of human voice, all the sounds of language and all the stories step in. What I bring to my students in voice and speech is an opportunity to walk across cultural borders with a respectful and questioning heart.
My students are generally of European ethnic origins, yet I am as likely to have them explore rhythm, imagery, and heightened language by mining the work of August Wilson as they might the plays of Tennessee Williams. Occasionally there is shock and pushback, accompanied by an "I'm not black" statement. However, by the end of intense body, text, and language investigations those students have not merely taken a walk in someone else's shoes, someone else has taken a walk inside of their very flesh. I have witnessed the "other" melt into humanity—and border checkpoints melt into passageways.
Two years ago, at the invitation of The University of Cape Town and The Mother Tongue Theatre, I traveled to South Africa as a guest artist. While there, I had the opportunity to facilitate a two-month-long voicework and storytelling workshop with girls ages 13-16 who lived in the Italian Catholic Mission, a charitable organization doing wonderful work with very limited resources for displaced or abandoned children. Most of the girls were refugees from war-ravaged Rwanda. The Missionaries cautioned me to encourage the girls to speak English, not to get too serious, and not to excavate the girls' pasts.
In these directives I could see a parallel between South Africa and the United States. I was reminded of Native American children who were put through American schools to erase their culture. In much the same way, the Catholic Mission influenced the girls to disassociate from their language, stories, and culture heritage with the goal of helping them to blend into South African culture. The directives around language did not stop with the girls. I took the public taxi (aka, the scariest jitney ride ever) to the Mission. On the jitney you could hear nearly every dialect that exists in South Africa. However, I never heard Afrikaans, the Dutch-influenced dialect associated with White South Africans. I also never heard an American accent. In fact, I had been warned by my South African hosts never to speak on the bus. They explained that my personal safety rested in my ability to slip across the South African cultural border, which my looks could allow me to do, without being stopped at a cultural checkpoint, which my American sound would surely have flagged. When I pushed for details, I was told that I sounded privileged and, perhaps worse, white. Further, this privilege, and its racial connotations, would be a perceived threat. In this way the various brown South Africans on the taxi gagged me in the same way the Missionaries gagged the girls. I was very disappointed by these warnings. Part of me wanted to press my luck, but instead I chose silence and made my way to the Mission safely.
Once at the Mission, the girls and I engaged in various theatre exercises, played games, and participated in activities that I hoped would provide them with some distance from their daily reality and personal histories. I hoped that, through this process, the girls would be able look at their own lives from a broader perspective. Still, I always felt the girls were not entirely present or invested in the process. Looking back on this now, I wonder if it had something to do with my "privileged" sound.
Toward the end of my stay, the girls attended my solo performance "Confluence…" (formerly titled "A Negro Speaks of Rivers"). My performance is a narrative of my childhood memories of my family's neighborhood in Roxbury sliding from stability to chaos as rage and violence gripped Boston during the early days of public school desegregation. There is one particularly violent passage where I hide under a parked car as a riot erupts around me. I knew this would be hard for the girls to witness.
When we reconvened at the Mission later in the week, these normally talkative girls were silent. I was afraid that I and/or my performance had scared them. Finally, one girl spoke up, asking if the story was true. I said yes. Another asked if my mother taught me the songs I sang in the show. I said yes. This is what got us back in the flow."The songs remind me of home" dove-tailed on the voice of another girl who began to sing, putting together the Spanish sounds "Existeeeeee un rioooo" from a refrain she remembered. Another asked, "Will you teach us your songs"?"Yes."In that moment, the distance from the girls that I'd felt in past sessions shrank. In that moment, we crossed each other's borders. This landscape view of my life opened a place for a deeper dialogue. A deeper place than we had ever shared. Can you picture us sitting on the floor in our little room, singing in Spanish, a language I barely know and one they didn't know at all? The picture is a little funny; still, this sharing moved us, empowered us to embrace in its entirety our past, present and future selves in the broadest manner possible at the time. Who knows what the future holds? But in this moment, they and I became one humanity.
Several months ago, I noticed the book of plays Adrienne Kennedy in One Act on a teaching colleague's book-shelf. I remarked that I really love those plays. I exuberantly chattered on about the plays' challenging language and complex imagery until I was cut off by her response. "Oh you can have it…we don't really go into that stuff anymore. "It's a post-racial society. It's old Black Theatre…" Her voice trailed off.
I was blindsided. "Old?" I thought. Well, if we no longer value these stories because they are old, let's trash Shakespeare and Edward Albee while we are cleaning the shelves. "It's a post-racial society," she repeated. "Let the past rest," she continued. Are we really in a post-racial society? Perhaps we should ask Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner, and Michael Brown about our "post-racial" society. Oh, wait, we can't ask them: they're dead. They died from the affliction of "walking while black" and, I'll offer, talking and gesturing while black. Their deaths were caused by cues that inspired "reasonable fear". This fear was born of the misunderstanding of their gestures, voices, and use of language.
But since we can't ask them, ask me; like many African-Americans, I have tales to tell from "post-racial" America. In May 2014, a police officer pulled up next to me at a Red Box vending machine and asked what I was doing. Fear raced up my throat. "Going to rent a movie," I said. He stopped and got out of his police car, then stood next to me with his hand on his gun while I chose my DVD. On this street corner, a Red Box machine transformed into the border between going to jail, being shot, or going free. I know why the police officer stopped me at the checkpoint: my sweatshirt and raised hood, my dreadlocks, my dark skin are all visual cues that struck "reasonable fear" and suspicion in him. As I got in my car and drove away, he was still standing and glaring his fear in my direction, just to make sure, I suppose, that I wouldn't make off with the gigantic, extremely heavy Red Box machine. I am lucky that he put the clues together properly. The idea of a "post-racial" society is, itself, fundamentally racist.
Later in the day, I reflected on the discussion around Adrienne Kennedy's plays. Humiliation, shame, and anger sat with me. They started punching, slapping and kicking my flesh. They seeped inside me and commenced to battle. In my colleague's office, I wanted to speak up, but then, and even now, I felt/feel like Anita Hill who, wide-eyed, floated into a toxic Senatorial soup and told her story of harassment, only to be met with indifference, cynicism, and resistance. But in this case, it was this professor, this teacher, who was the gatekeeper of language, story, and myth: the parable police. I don't fault the individual, but she, perhaps in an effort to follow directives to streamline the curriculum, had become the colonizer and the missionary, simply doing what she thought was best for the students.
I listen and observe our students and young audiences. In them, outside of the classroom, I observe the revolutionary theatre that Growtoski talked about. Their bodies, voices, and language(s) are a blur of cross-cultural influences. Even the once-clear border of skin color is softening to shades and shades of brown.There is even a new casting category, ''racially indefinable," to describe our "post-racial" actors. Yet students have told me that the revolution has not reached their training: "Black students work on the black stuff and Asian students work on Asian stuff and everyone works on the European texts," they say. I see that the old borders are unchanged; they may be more subtle, but they are still just as effective at relegating, ostracizing and, finally, creating while simultaneously banishing "the other." This border is quieting dialogue, sending students back in time.
African-American culture is integral with the history of the United States. Segregating it to be creatively explored by black students alone is ridiculous. The same can be said for Asian and Latino culture. Most institutions argue that they are only responding to the need to prioritize learning in order to squeeze "the important stuff" into the allotted time. If that means writers of color are left out of the picture, then the teaching is as out of touch with the lives and realities of all our students and the young audiences we hope to attract, as the good hearted missionaries in South Africa were out of touch with the Rwandan girls.
These checkpoints jeopardize future creative artists and theatre, leaving them and their work to die in a faded past. Some might say that these works get their due in the Black Theatre class or the Asian Theatre class, but when these works are approached from the strange place of "other," they are left out of the conversation that makes them live. They will always be viewed as strangers from another country when, in fact, they are not.
That weekend I read all of Adrienne Kennedy's plays. They nourished me, re-membered me, gave peace a chance in the war inside of me. I didn't even know that I was starved for these plays, which I had not read since high school. The experience of these plays gave me comfort. With them, despite being by myself, I was not alone. I contemplated the experiences that young artists of all races are missing if they are not being exposed to Ms. Kennedy's work. To discover the sounds, language, and physicality that were a part of her experience and are the genesis of experiences that are playing out in our world today.
otherwise there is no future between us but war. this is the only truth that can be told.
My goal as a performing and teaching theatre artist is to season my students in class by teaching traditional voice and speech work and by giving them experiences with texts and movement work that run the full range of humanity and human communication.
and we is rather lovers and singers and dancers and poets and drummers and actors and runners and elegant heartbeats of the suns flame.
The way to change is in the doing. Communities of learning are a place to sow the seed for transformation. I am smart enough to know that the checkpoints will not come down. I am naive enough, however, to hope that this type of training will be the tunnels that can at least bore beneath societal and cultural checkpoints. If this training can light passageways that empower young artists to create informed and nuanced performances, it will lead to a deeper understanding of humanity—and, as a result, help undo the damage done by "reel" images.
we is also to the end of our silence and sitdown
Margaret Kemp continues to tour the United States with her solo performance Confluence (…previously entitled A Negro Speaks of Rivers). She will present a work in progress viewing of her newest work, A Memory in Progress , at Loyola University in New Orleans in spring 2015. She has appeared on regional and international stages including Arena Stage, South Coast Rep, Mark Taper Forum, Ensemble Theatre Company, Yale Rep, Will and Company, Shakespeare Theatre, Steppenwolf, Theatre of Changes (Athens, Greece), Pear Theatre (Antibes, France), and The Magnet Theatre (Cape Town South Africa). She recently wrapped a lead role in the feature film Bloodline and won world-wide praise for her starring role in Children of God (2011 release) She has also appeared in television on such programs as Commander in Chief, In Justice, Orlando Jones Show, and Chicago Hope. Additional film credits include Shangri-La Café and Fraud. She will star in The Postwoman (film) which begins shooting spring 2014. She holds memberships in One Union (SAG-AFTRA) and Actors Equity Association (AEA). As a visiting artist and guest lecturer she has been on staff at California State University, Northridge, University of Southern California, University of California, Los Angeles, California State University, Fullerton, and Louisiana State University. She currently teaches at Pomona College. She holds an MFA from the Shakespeare Theatre at The George Washington University in Washington, DC.


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Perry brought her California Dreams Tour to the Schottenstein Center in Columbus, Ohio, and sparked a Twitter craze as fans logged onto the social networking site to show their support for the recovering pop star.
'ColumbusDreams' became a 'trending topic' as Perry racked up the most mentions on Twitter microblogs, while devotees at the gig also logged online to heap praise on the singer.
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We need a little Christmas
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Not only did you put up your trees early, but you have TWO of them! That's awesome!!!! I wish I could convince my boyfriend to let me do that! (He's German and until he met me, never put up the tree before December 23 at the earliest! Last year I convinced him to put it up at the end of November, as per my family's tradition. He ended up liking it anyway.)
Two Christmas trees - that's fun! Love the two different themes. I think I may get a mini tree and do colorful ornaments, while our bigger tree will be more traditional.
Merry early Christmas!
- Tuesday, November 8, 2011 at 4:57:00 AM MST
- Ms. Megan said...
Beautiful!!! I love all the pretty colors!!!
Happy (early!) Christmas!!
- Tuesday, November 8, 2011 at 8:02:00 AM MST
- Jenny @ Hank + Hunt said...
I officially LOVE you. We got out Christmas this weekend too! I'm happy to find another early bird! Let the tinseling begin!!!!
If the stores can do it, so can we!
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RALEIGH -- William Theodore Tucker, 89, died at home Friday.
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He was born in Duplin County March 14, 1924, to the late James P. Tucker and Henrietta Gaylor Tucker. He was married to Betty Tucker.
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Tottenham Hotspur (Spurs) Football Club is located in North London. The club is also known as Spurs. Tottenham's home ground is White Hart Lane. The club motto is Audere est Facere (To dare is to do).
Welcome back to White Hart Lane. It was great to see a full house here against Porto, an incredible turn-out in my experience for a pre-season friendly, but now the real business gets underway.
That victory over Porto, so soon after our Peace Cup win against Lyon, gave us a lot of confidence. We had played well against two very good teams and enjoyed an unbeaten build-up here and in Korea. But you never know how that will work once the serious business of the Premiership gets underway.
I wasn't sure what would be the best before the Porto game. Naturally I wanted us to win as I do in all our games but would we be better to get our feet back on the ground by possibly struggling and going back to square one or by maintaining our good run with all the self-belief that would bring ?
In other words, were there things that we needed to work on more, aspects hidden by our success, or were we playing well simply because we were on top of our game ?
In the end the victory set us up nicely for our opener at Portsmouth. Our preparations were disrupted by injuries to key players like Ledley King, Edgar Davids and Robbie Keane but we still went out at Fratton Park and did a professional job at a difficult venue and that showed the strength of our current squad.
Ironically we didn't play our football at the start but once we got into our stride we took control. We worked to give ourselves an extra body at crucial times in key areas and although not every player was on top of his game, our teamwork was the major factor in our success.
We needed to defend well and ensure that we were on the end of every Laurent Robert corner and free-kick. In conclusion we managed to win every individual battle and when you achieve that, you have the platform on which success must follow.
I was also so impressed by the solidarity of the Spurs fans. I have been told in the past that we have the best travelling fans in the country but, to my mind, we simply have the best fans in the land. You have the capacity to make the Lane a fortress and we achieved so much here together last season while your support on our travels is always a genuine boost.
But at Portsmouth it was hard to believe that you were seated in a stand with no roof in the pouring rain ! Yet you never stopped supporting and singing to such an extent that anyone looking on would have thought it was a sunny day. Anywhere else, less committed fans would have left or found shelter under the stand…but Spurs fans are indeed something special.
We need to maintain our good home form this season and improve on our travels if we are to succeed and, as I've often said before in this column, you all have a key role to play. Never underestimate that fact.
Now we face Middlesbrough, a team who will have ambitions to finish in the top six at least this season — and they certainly have the ability to do so. They pipped us for the last remaining UEFA Cup place last season and have some excellent players. They also have more experience than us, which is an important factor.
We were lucky in the corresponding game here last season when Franck Queudrue was sent off because that gave us the initiative to go on and win the game 2-0. As they showed at their place, they are a good side who can hit you on the break well and that's a danger that we will have to watch.
International week is always a worry for any manager and, as I write these notes, I am hoping that all our senior players return fit to play this afternoon. That's made it a disruptive week as far as training's been concerned at Spurs Lodge but that's a fact of life when you have quality players.
I am delighted that there is so much optimism about the place with record ticket sales illustrating your belief in what we are trying to do. The media has put on added pressure by tipping us to succeed in so many newspapers and that's always good to see. At least the forecasts did not read 'expected to be mediocre again' as so often in the past and that's encouraging !
But as I'll be saying to our players just before 3pm this afternoon, it's now down to them to back all that up - on the field where it matters.


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Turing machine to accept the language "A^n B^n C^n"
Give the transitions for a turing machine that accepts the language given below.
L = {AnBnCn : n>=1}
An denotes a raised to the power n (a^n)
Bn denotes b raised to the power n (b^n)
Cn denotes c raised to the power n (c^n)
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Notations used for denoting a turing machine transition are as follows.
(StartState, SymbolRead) --> (EndState, SymbolWritten, MovementDirection)
* Movement Directions are denoted by R (right) and L (left).
* E is used to denote NULL symbol (or absense of symbol in a tape cell).
* $ denotes a marker ...
Solution Summary
Apart from the transitions list for the turing machine, solution also provides stepwise guidance on how to construct a graphical representation for it.


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Normally, I have little patience with people who criticize the Academy Awards, taking the view that something as trivial and inconsequential as the handing-out of movie trophies simply isn't worth getting your knickers in a twist over. It's show biz. It's hype. It's glitz layered with more glitz. Don't take it so seriously. But this year's Oscars put me in such a rotten mood, I was forced to bring out the long knives.
Here are the three worst things about the 2014 Oscar show.
1. Ellen Degeneres. She ruined it. I positively LOVE Ellen, and yet she ruined the show by turning a glittering movie tribute -- an annual ceremony dedicated solely and exclusively to the motion picture industry -- into a version of a television show! Ellen did the one thing she knew how to do: namely, be a TV host. Incredibly, she treated this gathering of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science members as if they were a daytime studio audience, a TV game show audience.
She went out among them, she huddled with them, she mock-joked with them, she kept up a constant line of patter; she schmoozed with them, hugged them, kissed them. Ellen did what so many afternoon TV talk show hosts do: She resorted to props. She ordered pizzas as a gag. She took selfies. She asked audience members to go into their purses and wallets. She dressed up in funny costumes. In other words, she brought her television shtick to the movies. I'm surprised she didn't reach out with the mic and ask a couple, "So where are you folks from?"
2. Too long. The show ran half an hour late. Had it ended at its scheduled time, 8:30 PM, it still would have seemed interminably long, but at exactly 8:25 PM (PST), they still hadn't handed out Oscars in six important categories: Best Original Screenplay, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Actress, Best Actor, Best Director, and Best Movie. I looked at my watch and couldn't believe it. The show was supposed to over in five minutes, yet the best categories still hadn't been touched.
We can lay part of the blame for that on host Ellen Degeneres, for having spent so much cavorting with the audience, but the main reason the show ran long was due to all the commercials ABC chose to run. If you had deleted only those repetitive Cadillac ads and the tedious promos for the ABC show, "Resurrection," we might have finished with time to spare.
3. No surprises. Other than maybe, the song from "Frozen" beating out U-2's Nelson Mandela's tribute, there were no surprises, no upsets. None. The Vegas handicappers had this thing totally wired. And because there were no surprises, there was no drama. Blanchett won Best Actress, Nyong'o won Best Supporting, both heavy favorites. McConaughey won Best Actor, Leto won Best Supporting, both heavy favorites. Cuaron won Best Director for "Gravity," as predicted, and "12 Years a Slave" won Best Picture as every fifth-grader in America knew it would.
But you can't blame anyone just because we all knew who was going to win. Predicting the winners has become a science, and they're getting better at it every year. One problem is all the awards shows that precede the Oscars. By the time March rolls around, we already know which actors and movies have won all the major awards. Indeed, if "12 Years a Slave" hadn't won Best Picture, that would've been the Oscar's lead story. That's what it's come to. Our shock at who didn't win.
David Macaray is an LA playwright and author ("It's Never Been Easy: Essays on Modern Labor," 2nd edition).


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"Why do I write?"
Personally, I ask that question a lot. After all, I am no Pulitzer Award winning writer. I am just a pastor with something to say. But more importantly, I believe God has something to say through me. As Martin Luther would say, "If it were left up to me I would surely bring it all to ruin." So that's it…nothing fancy…just thoughts, ponderings and reflections all from the heart of a pastor and for the glory of God.
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My trip aboard the Intrepid turned out to be just fine, even though the bluefin we all hoped for were a no-show. By going south as far as 500 miles from Pt. Loma we put a nice catch into the RS holds, and returned with dorado, yellowtail, halibut and a smattering of tuna and wahoo. I took so many pictures I feel a need to post a few more, just to offer the anglers and the audience a fuller look at the good action and generally nice weather we experienced.
I thanked the crew in yesterdays posting, but it should be known that this group seemed to be the equal of any in the fleet, which is home to the most experienced and helpful bunch of crewmen anywhere. They were great in helping new anglers acclimate and learn the techniques of landing long range fish, and when the action on yellowtail and dorado really got hot and heavy, they kept their cool, untangling anglers in a jiffy and landing the fish quickly.
Then the deckhands got those fish down into the cold seawater holds within moments. That meant better fish quality at the trips end. Crewman Romo Ghio caught his first halibut, and celebrated with skipper Billy Santiago as we motored away from the spot around sunset.
We caught some bass while fishing for halibut at Cedros. This shot shows one that climbed onto a previously used Salas 7X jig. All calicos were released, of course. I got a couple of calicos on plastic swimbaits, while others were tricked by jigs and bait. We saw an osprey nearby, and pangas from the islands cooperative and a skiff from one of the resorts on the island.
Kelp Paddy Wahoo
Royal Polaris reported June 30:
Our weather today was even better than the day before. Flat calm seas with five knots of breeze and just enough sunshine to be comfortable in a t-shirt.
We covered a whole lot of ocean today. We scratched 17 Wahoo, (nice big ones) and 15 Dorado.
Tomorrow we will be back to fishing Yellowtail. Hopefully conditions will be better and we will have a great day.
Action Day
Searcher reported for June 30, We had a great day today with plenty of action, yellowtail on kelp paddies and sonar schools that didnt bite but gave us hope. To finish the day, we had good fishing for yellowfin tuna associated with common dolphin. Most of the fish are 15 to 20 pounds with a few smaller and a few bigger. We had plenty of troll fish and cedar plug was the hot lure. A few fish were caught on anchovies and some fish on artificial lures. If you are coming out in the near future make sure you have lures that are chrome and heavy. Megabait is the hot lure. Also a few fish were caught on plastics, so you might bring some. Dont forget hooks and small sinkers for anchovies. The weather was great and the fishing is great as well!
In The Lee
Shogun reported June 28:
Today started off with a bang: we slept well on the anchor in the lee of the island and sent the skiffs out by 0600. The current was flowing downhill and large bird schools of yellowtail were walking quickly up the island.
The current had the bass biting in a frenzy and the surface iron, leadheads, and weedless swimbait were catching bass on every cast. Each skiff had a handful of yellowtail this morning. The bird schools revealed spots of yellowtail eating microbait and red crabs and it was controlled chaos running full tilt at areas of breaking fish.
In the afternoon the current switched, and we had to work for our bass. Fishing on the big boat remained steady and a few more yellowtail were caught on sardines. At dark we loaded the skiffs and made the move back up the line to Geronimo where we hope the bass are still hungry.


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David Bowie will lend his voice to a character named Lord Royal Highness in an episode of SpongeBob SquarePants to air next year, the Associated Press reports. Noting that his 6-year-old daughter, Alexandria, is a huge SpongeBob fan, Bowie wrote in his online blog that he has "hit the Holy Grail of animation gigs," adding, "We, the family, are thrilled. Nothing else need happen this year. Well, this week, anyway."


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It's quite fitting – and extraordinary – that El Segundo-based Prodege raised $60 million in funding already this year, the same amount its loyalty and rewards site Swagbucks has awarded its more than 10 million users in gift cards. That amount is also quite close to what the up-until-now bootstrapped company earned in revenue for fiscal 2013, at $53 million.
Although the company says its been quietly growing by word of mouth and social media – with more than 10,000 interaction every day – the May investment is a loud testament to the industry's staying power. Even more evidence is recent activity among competitor sites: RetailMeNot went public in 2013, Coupons.com went public in March and eBates is reportedly planning an IPO this year.
Former executive chairman Chuck Davis, who was appointed CEO in May, attributes Swagbucks' and its competitors' success to their shared goal of giving back to the consumer. "When a company keeps its head down to focus on the consumer, everything works out," he says. "The compatriots in this category are all looking out for the consumer value proposition."
Despite the shared goal, Davis points to Swagbooks' breadth as a key differentiator. "While other successful companies are good at a particular vertical, our [approach] exposes different consumers to many different engagement opportunities," he explains. This model allows users to earn "swagbucks" by engaging in an array of online activities, from shopping to simply discovering offers to watching videos and playing games to reading articles and answering surveys.
Davis joined as executive chairman in January 2013 to help scale the expanding company. The May move to CEO that coincided with the $60 million investment from Technology Crossover Ventures was part of a strategic expansion in C-level executives. Former Shopzilla and BizRate CFO Brad Kates was appointed CFO and former Fandango and Synapse Group CTO Shane O'Neill was appointed CTO. Prior to Prodege, Davis was CEO at Fandango and Shopzilla, seeing both companies through significant exits.
"We have found remarkable talent to expand our executive leadership," says Prodege and Swagbooks founder Josef Gorowitz. "Utilizing the collective expertise and insight of these industry veterans, we foresee tremendous market opportunity for growth in 2014 and beyond."
Plans and forecasts for Swagbooks aside, Davis sees the strategy as something any startup can benefit from. "A startup can do really well when it mixes the entrepreneurial, early stage leaders with some later-stage leaders," he says. "Each has a different strength that makes the whole company stronger, and each learns from and builds on each other."
As part of the plan to scale, Swagbucks will focus the new funds and talent on mobile capabilities, product development and expanding internationally. The team plans to focus on ramping up partnerships and broadening the company's reach to "anywhere it makes sense to do so."
This anticipated "ramp up" is quite different than the more metered growth of Swagbucks' past. As mentioned, the $60 million investment is the startup's first round; until then it had been entirely bootstrapped. What's more, it became profitable after only two years, making it one of Los Angeles' most successful bootstrapped companies. "Only one in 50 million companies get to profitability without outside money," says Davis, who sees Los Angeles-area startups as more fiscally responsible than their Bay Area counterparts. "[Founder] Josef was evolutionary. He was investing as he made money and working with what means he had to become profitable."


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Gauteng is the smallest of South Africa's nine provinces, but also the most densely populated and the fastest growing – not too surprising, really, as Gauteng means 'place of gold' (gold has been intertwined with the province's history ever since its discovery in the Johannesburg area in 1886).
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For the crust: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F for 5 minutes. Turn the oven off.
In a large bowl, whisk together 1 cup warm water (105 to 115 degrees F), yeast and salt; let stand for 5 minutes. Stir in the flour, sugar, Italian seasoning and oil. Loosely cover, and let rise in a warm oven until the dough is doubled in size, about 1 hour. Remove the dough from the oven.
Sprinkle some cornmeal on a 14-inch pizza pan. Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface and knead 6 to 8 times. Pat the dough onto the prepared pizza pan to make a 14-inch pizza crust. Let rise in a warm place (about 85 degrees), free from drafts, for 20 minutes.
Meanwhile, preheat the oven to 450 degrees F.
Bake the pizza crust until no longer wet, about 8 minutes. Remove from the oven, and let cool for 10 minutes.
For the topping: In a large saucepan, heat the oil over medium heat. Add the onions, squash and zucchini and saute until lightly browned, about 10 minutes.
Combine the cream cheese, ranch dressing, sour cream and a pinch of salt and pepper. Spread the cheese mixture evenly over the pizza crust, leaving a 1-inch border. Arrange the vegetables and the tomatoes over the cheese, then top with basil leaves. Sprinkle with 1/4 teaspoon salt, 1/4 teaspoon pepper and garlic. Top with the mozzarella and Parmesan and bake directly on the oven rack until golden, about 8 minutes. Remove from the oven, and transfer to a cutting board. Cut into wedges.
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ADC Managing Director, Mr. Richard Aiyabei, hosted the Cabinet Secretary Agriculture Hon. Mwangi Kiunjuri on tour of ADC Semen Production Center the 7th of March 2018. He was accompanied by Principal Secretaries Agriculture; Dr. Andrew Tuimur and Mr. Richard Lesiyampe among other dignitaries.
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The ADC Managers workshop 2018 took place from 25th of February 2018 to 27th February 2018 at Jarika Country lodge Nakuru.The performance, evaluation and planning workshop was officially opened by ADC Managing Director Mr. Richard Aiyabei and the Managing Director New KCC Mr. Nixon Sigei as the guest speaker.
Agricultural Development Corporation (ADC), a leading Parastatal in the Agricultural Sector wishes to fill the following positions in its establishment.
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