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"I said what I meant, I meant what I said.."
Last year's Presidential election saw a surge in political comments, cartoons, and rants in social media. Any hopes we "common folks" harbored that this would all go away after inauguration have been dashed. The President is a magnet for criticism and over analyzation.
Listening to the news this morning I heard a phrase that I must have read several hundred times when our daughter was young. She loved elephants after our trip to California in 1986. First there was the Dumbo ride with her Aunt B. Then a departing gift, a stuffed Dumbo became the favorite "security/comfort" night time must have.
It was probably a few years later that she brought home the required school library check out. It was
At the time she was not an independent reader and had merely chosen the book because there was an elephant on the cover. That night I dutifully read through the book and rediscovered the joys of Dr. Seuss. Then I read it again the next night, and the next and so on. Library day came one week later and she wanted to renew her selection. The teacher said that wasn't the way this library worked and put the book in the return bin. She selected another book but left it at school in her locker. When I asked what we were reading at bedtime the darling little girl began to retell Horton in amazingly accurate recall. There was special emphasis on the phrase, "I said what I meant, and I meant what I said. An elephant is faithful one hundred percent!"
In the morning I told her to bring the library book home from school. After all I was a teacher! Well you guessed it no library book again that afternoon. I loaded her up in the car and said before we could go to the barn, (another whole book), we were going to the library to check out a book. She asked for Horton at the front desk and the librarian took her right to the shelf. checked the book out and off we went. We usually listened to the country station on the radio as we traveled to the barn but not today. There sat our little girl in the back of the car reading her book.
Eventually, I had to buy a personal copy. That was the long road to creating an independent book loving reader.
That is how the spokesperson's comment, "He said what he meant, and meant what he said", triggered a 25 year old memory for this Mom.
Dr. Seuss is alive and well in this technology crazed world.
I recently learned that two of the local newspapers had closed shop after trying to boost delivery and cut costs for several years. The papers had been around for close to 50 years but just couldn't compete with the news 24/7 of this new era. Yes, they served small communities with few local small town businesses but I know they are missed.
My relationship with newspapers dates back to my Grandparents. My Father's family lived off the news. His parents began a news distribution business in rural upstate New York. They met the trains each morning and then delivered papers throughout our largely rural county on the Canadian border. The business grew as they branched out to distribute paperback books, magazines, comic books and other periodicals. The four colleges and many high schools relied on them for all types of print materials.
I came to believe that my Father had the largest newspaper route in the world!
It was wonderful to have comic books and magazines at your finger tips. We all read the newspapers even if it was just the funnies. Remember, this was a very rural area in upstate New York and television was not our go to entertainment. I still read a major newspaper every day even though it often contains old news. I love doing the Sudoku, Jumble, Word Game, Lexigo, and the Daily Commuter Puzzle.
Trying to keep the ole brain sharp!!
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I have served this "special cake" at Christmas time for over twenty years. One modification I made for many years was using sugar free pudding mix for G. Often I made two cakes because so many people enjoy this cake. Our Grandson asks to take home the "left overs." It's my favorite winter treat.
Harvey Wallbanger Cake
1 pound cake mix 4 eggs
3.5 oz. vanilla instant pudding mix 1/4 cup Galliano liqueur
1/2 cup veg oil (canola) 3/4 cup orange juice
Grease & flour Crock-Pot Bread 'n Bake pan and cover. Turn Crock-Pot on high to pre heat. In large bowl blend cake mix & pudding mix. Mix last 4 ingredients in separate bowl. Combine mixes & liquid and mix on high for two minutes. Pour batter in cake pan, cover, and place in covered Crock-Pot. Bake on High 2 to 3 hours. Check center for doneness with toothpick after 2 hours, continue to check until toothpick comes out clean.
Remove cake and lightly dust with powdered sugar.
We finally have cold weather, no snow but cold.
My best guess puts this Crockpot at over thirty years old. I have searched through the little recipe booklet for a date but can't find one. This little old crockpot has provided us with many wonderful dishes. I took a photo of the booklet, maybe some knows the date it was printed.
Thursday's Thirteen – Irkers
I have been keeping a list of what I call "Pet Irkers" (PI) and decided to share 13 of them on this rainy Thursday. The PIs are not in any particular order, just thirteen PIs.
1. Ads in magazines. I have been reading Reader's Digest for a long time and first noticed that perforated ads where making the magazine hard to handle while reading in bed. For over a year I would tear out the ads when the new issue arrived in the mail. Then I began to notice that ads where on the pages just like the many excellent stories I enjoy. Well, now it is ridiculous, I just counted 32 (one was three pages long) in the June issue and I was only at page 72, that's two fifths of the pages! There is even an ad on the inside front cover.
2. I call this the magazine subscription PI. My lastest and best example of this is purchasing a kid's nature magazine as a Christmas present last December. Since February we have received no fewer than six letters or emails (I purchased online) to renew the magazine. Reader's Digest is no better. Whether it's our personal subscription or a gift subscription the company starts hounding us about eight months before renewal time. I have finally cataloged all subscriptions with pertinent information online, then I check when the notices start coming in. More hassel for me,irk
3. PI number 3 is telemarketers. I thought the no call list would stop all these calls but telemarketing has become very creative and found every loop hole in the regulations. Frequently nonprofits call between five and six (the dinner hour) with the message that you have contributed in the past and would you be willing to help by pestering your neighbors for us. Colleges and universities are always having a fund raising campaign and the law allows them to contact anyone who has ever visited the campus I guess. Another is "Jim" calling on behalf of police, state troopers, or the fire department and asking if would be willing to send a family of four to the circus, no! Telemarketers have even figured out that we can identify them when they mispronounce our last name so now they address us by our first names only. Looks like we will soon be getting rid of the land line. Our answering machine is frequently loaded with offers for credit ratings, security systems and senior citizen medical equipment.
4. TV Medicine commercials made the PI list a long time ago. Television commercials for medicines advise people to consult with their doctor before taking medicines, yet will send you samples through the mail. Tell your doctor if you have high blood pressure, a heart condition etc. is always part of these commercials, shouldn't your doctor know if you have these conditions? I also get dizzy when the announcer starts spouting out the list of adverse reactions, they put a lot into those thirty seconds.
5. This PI is self promotion. Many local television stations proudly flash "Rated Number 1" or "Most Watched" during commercial breaks in popular programs. I now refer to this as bragging breaks. The major networks are perhaps the worst offenders. How many time have you been watching a sports event, even golf, when the announcer will talk about a television program on their network being the top choice among viewers. I often doubt that they have even seen the programs. Even Reader's Digest is guilty of self promotion. Six of the above mentioned ads were for their products or telling readers how to read the magazine online.
6. Ads PI. While I'm on the subject of television, who is running the advertisement department? It never fails that during a commercial break especially in the evening there will be a series or 4 or 5 ads in which two and sometimes three are for very similar products or services. For example Ford trucks outperform in carrying heavy duty loads, then Toyota has a higher performance rating than all others, and the third might be a Chevy built tough. If I were head of the division that bought this air time I would complain about the placement of similar ads. Speaking of ads how irksome are those infomercials?
7. Reality TV is another PI. Get over it! It's not real! I get irked when I realize how many shows feature performers shouting, criticizing, and carrying on as if this is how we behave in real life. Visit a courtroom for a day even an hour. I feel safe in saying even the judge will not come up with one zinger. Try camping out in the woods for a week then check your reality. IRK
8. The eighth PI always gives me a heavy heart . It is the on scene interviews with friends and families of victims involved in accidents, natural disasters, fires or other horrible incidents. People are in no condition to answer reporters questions about the incident and I see no compelling reason to broadcast this live.
9. The cable service overload PI is actually two irkers. The first occurs during television broadcast as the announcer points out that all their stories plus more news/information can be found on "Our Website" – www. Channel X.com. What do they think we tuned into the broadcast for? From personal experience I know that it is hard to read and keep a sustainable thought after 10:30pm and medical professionals tell us we should turn off electronics at least one hour before retiring. The second is receiving offers to subscribe for cable tv or internet service through commercials or online. Irker alert, I'm already watching on a television and with present day regulations the only way I can be doing this is to be a cable or dish subscriber. The ultimate insult is that my service is usually being offered at a lower price and we are not elegible, the deal is only available for new subscribers. Irk irk. While we're on the topic of cable service another irker is offers for internet service on the internet. I thought I was being so smart watching my favorite network tv shows 24 hours after they had aired on the computer while doing something else. Now before you can watch the show you have to listen to a infomercial for a cable service. Once again irker alert – I'm already connected to the internet and don't want to pay for rewiring my house along with new holes in the walls or floor or exterior walls because you can't use the outlets available.
10. The Instructions PI. For a long time I thought my eyes were going bad when I couldn't read the instructions on the box of cake mix. So I'd go hunt up my reading glasses and realize the space now held two sets of instructions, one in English and the other in Spanish. Like many of my contemporaries I carried on and the cakes were delicious. Now I view the grocery store as a chance to review my long ago college Spanish lessons. Then I began to notice that every new appliance (new range), toy (Grandchildren), and gadgets too numerous came with multi page books on how to assemble or maintain. The raised garden boxes we recently purchased contained a small 12 page how to leaflet. In the kitchen we now have an entire shelf for instruction booklets we need to consult.
11. The Tag PI. Is it just me or does your muffin top roll frequently become irritated by those stiff tags attached on the side seam of the garment? Thank goodness undergarments now come with all the necessary information stamped on the inside, I was tired of cutting off tags. Have you every noticed the tag sticking out on your throw rugs or bed linens. Once again I make good use of those super sharp scissors, I have a pair just for tag removal. The most irksome are the towel and wash cloth tags. I have actually scratched my cheeks!
12. Folding PI. This irker arises when I try to fold bed sheets and towels. Fitted sheets are the worst, my arms just aren't long enough to neatly contain the seam corners which seem to be rounded and the sides of our queen size linens. Towels are impossible to fold flat once the decorative edges shrink. I have towels that shrank almost two inches and when folded the shrinkage seems to bunch and bulge. Irk
13. The last PI is the Renaming PI. I get irked when stadiums, arenas, and even games/tournaments are renamed for a national brand or corporation. What happened to traditions? Whoever heard of Charming Stadium or The Ty-D Bol Bowl? Charming didn't build that stadium taxpayer dollars did and a university's location as well as reputation established many tournament/bowl titles. The ultimate blow came while watching football last fall. I realized that the Heisman Trophy was now sponsored by Nissan and AFLAC among others. IRK!
I have concluded after reading this list that I may be having a gloomy Gus day, am watching way too much television or just have way too much free time.
Hope your day is IRK free
It's been too long between posts. However, I found a fun filled weekend has given me inspiration to post.
After several years of following blogs on cooking, gardening, quilting, education and creative bloggers I just found interesting I thought I was ready to jump in, well easier said than done. As our SIL helped set up the page and get me started I thought my writings would center around what I have done in retirement. Many of my peers expressed feelings of doubt, thinking I would be bored or even lonely if my husband didn't retire at the same time. Oh, how wrong they were….
As I stated above I had a refreshing weekend – going out to dinner with good friends, golfing, cooking, watching a movie on television, and attending a demonstration luncheon with several other ladies at a new condiments shop in our town. These activities reminded me about why I had this blog. It was also an invigorating three day weekend and what I love about retirement.
Here's a short list of what I've been up to:
Enjoying breakfast and completing my "puzzles" before ten in the morning
Playing golf, even made a hole-in-one last summer
Attending movies, dinner theater, and cultural performances during the week
Visiting family and friends on our time schedule
Week night dining out, thanks Groupon
Picking grapes at local wineries
Touring/tasting breweries, wineries
Trying new recipes
Having time with the Grands
Joining a Writer's group
Participating in charity walk/runs
Wine strolls
Just relaxing
That's it for today going to bind a quilt.
SUNday Morning
This morning as I tuned into CBS Sunday Morning I realized that I was developing a new ritual. Over fifty years ago I had a Sunday paper route and I have made it a habit to read at least one Sunday newspaper since that time. Today I sensed the change in my ritual that has come about in the past three years. My husband may say the change is due to my inability to have our dog retrieve the paper for me.
Newspapers have been in decline with the emerging electronic advances. First television news programs and commentators slowly replaced the print media and now the internet dominates with its speed and many sites. However, we still subscribe to a Sunday paper and I make it a habit to read most of it.
This Sunday morning I tuned in for the full ninety minutes. In the central time zone "Sunday Morning" begins at 8 AM. I find myself multi-tasking during the show, eating breakfast (blueberry muffins), emptying or loading the dishwasher, dressing, planning tonights dinner, and going over my weekly calendar. These activities would not be possible if I were reading the newspaper.
Charles Osgood has become my favorite anchor. He opens every show with the traditional teases. Today's main theme was the Presidential Inauguration. Along with the cover story there are several features which I enjoy – Almanac, Television, Passage, Profile, Opinion, By The Numbers, and Nature. I always manage to gleam some interesting facts/trivia, knowledge, and reaffirm some of my educator/life philosophies.
Almanac was presented by Mr. Osgood and reviewed the life of Audrey Hepburn on the anniversary of her death in 1993. She is a favorite of our daughter so I sent her the link on this story.
Television featured Highclere Castle otherwise known as "The Real Downton Abbey." I texted a good friend to tune in because like so many others we watch the series on PBS.
You can't have an Inauguration without the President so several stories, including the Cover Story, pertained to past Presidents, and as a student of American history I sat down and paid close attention. Two Presidential biographers outlined what they believe were the essential qualities in a good President. A President must be wise and honest, (taken from John Adams letter to his wife Abigail), he must have courage, patience, determination, and integrity. D. McCullough stressed that the good Presidents, "Lead not only with actions but with words." I especially liked D. Gergen's addition to the list – persuasion. He cited Thomas Jefferson as the first President to use inside the beltway persuasion to achieve political success. I also felt that both men wanted a President to be friendly, especially with his political adversaries. Citing J. Meacham in "Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power" Gergen said, "He believed, I think rightly, that it is harder to say 'no' to someone when you know them."
Passage was another Osgood piece and covered the passing of Dear Abby. I grew of reading Pauline Phillips "Dear Abby" advice column in the newspaper. She died of Alzheimer's disease this past week at the age of 94.
By The Numbers Nine was the number today. This is the number of Presidents who were not sworn into office on January 20th before noon. I learned that Calvin Coolidge was staying at his home in Vermont. The house had neither telephone nor electricity so the news was delivered to him in the middle of the night by his father who later sworn him in by the light of an oil lamp.
Profile talked with Warren Buffet on life and investing in stocks. He is very interesting.
Nature took us to the USA's first national park, Yellowstone. This segment is always wordless and is about a minute long video that the show closes with. Today I watched the geysers in the snow, beautiful.
SUNday Morning always features numerous suns. Today mt favorite was a snow covered sun.
Check out the show next SUNday Morning on CBS
2013 Beginnings
The title of this first post is not exactly right, but I've procrastinated far too long. Perhaps a better heading would have been, "What To Do?"
That is a question I've asked myself many times over the last eighteen months. It was two years ago that I started the retirement process and at a recent holiday gathering a good friend and fellow educator contemplated her upcoming retirement. She wondered what she would do all day. I reassured her that there was plenty to do. She laughed and said, "I know, just look at you and your partner in retirement, Dee. It seems we hear of a new adventure or activity every week!"
I have been thinking of that exchange for three weeks now. The questions that arose over and over were: What have I learned about myself, my family, our neighborhood, Kansas, and the world? What life lessons have I applied to retirement? What activities have I found fun and fulfilling? And finally what did my lifelong friend, Nancy, mean when she told me there would be no regrets?
Now, I have come to the conclusion that this blog will be about what I've been doing with myself since retiring from the education field. There will be posts about family, learning, senior moments and frogs. One of my 2013 resolutions is to post at least once a week.
Hoppy New Year!


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Hoxhaj meets ambassador Daviet, an ambassador who continuously supported Kosovo
Hoxhaj meets ambassador Daviet, an ambassador who continuously supported Kosovo
Prishtina, 14 September 2016 – Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kosovo, Enver Hoxhaj, hosted in a farewell meeting the French ambassador to Kosovo, Maryse Daviet.
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Wow! That looks amazing. And how awesome that your technique on the switchbacks clicked!
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Long Canyon is one of our local "epics". There's great riding in the N Idaho Panhandle but it is not in any guidebooks. I have heard about this ride, but always the 40+ mile death march-all day-epic version. It turns out that if you shuttle vehicles between the two trailheads, it turns the ride into a doable-for-mere-mortals backcountry ride of 19 miles
You leave a vehicle at the bottom and then drive back up to the upper trailhead at 5700'. Then it's a two mile hike-a-bike to the pass, up to about 6700. After that, the trail descends via over 40 switchbacks down to the valley. Long Canyon is roadless, so it is a premier wilderness destination with filled with old growth cedars. Once you are off the ridege, the trail rolls through the old growth for miles and miles and miles, with many creek crossings. The day is spend eating and riding punctuated with creek crossings. I had the best day in a very long time. :-)
Hike a bike, for real
top of the pass
lots of rocks at the top of the descent
I wasn't kidding about switchbacks. Something "clicked" for me on this ride and I did better than ever on them
Much of the trail looks like this
Always bring your water filter
There were about 5 crossings like this
The trail is well maintained. There were really nice boardwalks over the boggy areas.
DH took lots of photos of me. :-)
and more creek crossings ( note to self, bring sandals next time)
Almost done - view of the Kootenay River
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Wow! That looks amazing. And how awesome that your technique on the switchbacks clicked!
Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Continue to learn. Appreciate your friends. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is.
--Mary Anne Radmacher
That looks beautiful!
Discipline is remembering what you want.
Great photo's.
Idaho has some super riding ,I wish I would have taken up Mt. Biking way earlier, it's hard trying to make up lost time. LOL
So many trail and not enough time.


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Catalina's Fall Family Photos
Now these two little ones had me running around! This was such a fun family photo session. We took these photos at the Deepwood Estate in Salem, Oregon. The weather was amazing and we captured some fun memories for this family. Here's a peek of a handful of the memories captured.
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Fall Family Photos Lofton Family
I met with Rachel, Matt, their baby girl Sophia, along with their extended family, at Bauman Farms outside of Woodburn, Oregon in early October 2014 for this fun family photo shoot. While it was a busy day at the pumpkin patch, we were still able to get some great shots! Isn't their baby so cute. This was a fun place to take family photos.
Jeffrey's Senior Photo Session
Jeff was one of those Seniors who was NOT wanting his Senior Photos taken, but rather participated because his mom "made him." After a few poses and some goofing off with me, he was smiling, posing without any guidance, and DID have fun after all! We sure did get some good photos. Here are a handful of my favorites.
Teresita's Senior Photos
I had such a fun time taking Teresita's Senior Photos this Fall. We met in downtown Salem, Oregon and took photos in alley ways, at the River Front Park, and everywhere in between. Teresita was a bit shy at first as many Seniors are, but warmed up after a bit. We ended up capturing some really great portraits. Her boyfriend also joined in and we snapped a few photos with him as well!
Here are some of my favorites.
Angelica's Senior Photographs Salem Oregon
I met Angelica in downtown Salem, Oregon to take her Senior Photos in September. We had a fun time on this photo shoot. She was a fun Senior to photograph and the weather was wonderful.
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"Thrill Becomes Story"
Mark Cousins first sets forth his major theory in the introductory section of the initial episode entitled "1895-1918: The World Discovers a New Art Form; Thrill Becomes Story." His examples are taken from two films of the 1940s directed by noted veterans of the silent era. He shows a clip from Michael Curtiz'
In making his distinction between a "classical" cinema and a "romantic" one, Cousins consciously drew on a traditional aesthetic approach in which "classicism," as seen in ancient Greek and Roman models, was exalted for its balance and harmony, qualities he finds in many Japanese films, especially those of Ozu. He contrasts this with the "romantic" treatment he finds prevalent in most
There are inherent problems, however, with the type of aesthetic dualism that Cousins' interpretation proposes. Certainly, from the standpoint of seriousness, one could argue that the thematics of Casablanca are just as weighty, just as universally relevant as those in The Record of a Tenement Gentleman but that the different subject matter of the two films and the cultural context in which they were made is so distinct that his comparison is ultimately a forced one. Furthermore, Cousins, for all his citation of "classicism" as an ideal model based on historical precedent, seems oblivious to the negative consequences that have arisen in the past from the rigid imposition of such structuralism. Shakespeare, for example, was condemned by literary and dramatic critics of the neo-classical school for his intense emotionalism, mixture of comedy and tragedy, melodramatic effects, and violation of formal rules of time and place. Indeed, it was precisely this dominance of "classical" norms in the 18th century, producing a kind of aesthetic stasis, that provoked the rebellion of "romanticism" in the first place. Inevitably, the emphasis on order and restraint in artistic expression came to be associated with analogous efforts to impose limitations on societal and political organization, methods of control and authority that became casualties of the age of revolution that convulsed the West in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The ideals of balance and harmony, a seemingly neat and tidy way of defining existence in art, were swept away by a powerful movement that championed the natural and spontaneous, fully embracing the often disconcerting effects produced by the triumph of the unfettered imagination. Its relation to the larger political and social realm was underscored by Victor Hugo's dramatic declaration of romantic revolt against neo-classicism: "There exists today a literary ancien regime as there once existed a political ancien regime."
Cousins, however, fails to address the obvious disadvantages in elevating one style of filmmaking over another. Taking on the political coloration that permeates much of his series, his preference for a particular approach toward cinema developed in a non-Western country is evidently meant to challenge
Had he so chosen, Cousins could have presented an interpretation that allowed for genuine cultural differences while simultaneously depicting the symbiosis through which filmmaking around the world emerged. Rather than attempting to draw a forced contrast between
Ozu's productive engagement with Hollywood included even closer borrowings. Much like Shakespeare drawing on the rich store of Italian and French Renaissance literature as plot sources for many of his great plays, so Ozu, utilizing to the fullest his unique technique, transposed the narrative of an excellent American film, George Fitzmaurice's The Barker (1928), to a Japanese setting, creating one of his foremost masterpieces, the remarkably moving and expressive silent film, A Story of Floating Weeds (1934).
When Cousins turns to the actual emergence of cinema and the first films from the turn of the last century, his approach, while brimming with enthusiasm, is far from the radical rewriting he had implied would be his practice throughout. Here, then, is once again the familiar chronicle of Thomas Edison and his associate, W. K. L. Dickson, the Lumiere Brothers, Georges Melies, Edwin S. Porter, and G. A. Smith. Cinema in the 1890s and the first decade of the 20th century is depicted by Cousins exclusively as it developed in three countries, the United States, France, and Britain, with no indication that there was filmmaking elsewhere at that early time.
It might have been possible even at this primary stage to have departed from the conventional accounts of cinema's beginnings as related by Terry Ramsaye in A Million and One Nights in 1926 and repeated in the standard annals ever since. As an example, in this early period there was a remarkable pioneer in
Cousins' presentation with its historical elisions is rooted in a significant omission concerning the development of cinema as an expressive, autonomous art. In "Thrill Becomes Story," the section in which he documents the birth of the narrative film, he begins with an excellent discussion of the uniquely cinematic technique devised by Edwin S. Porter in his pioneering story film, The Life of an American Fireman (1903). He demonstrates how, in cutting from the outside of a burning building to the interior in which a mother and her child are menaced by the blaze, Porter was able to overcome time and space. This is followed by an excerpt from Buster Keaton's Sherlock, Jr. (1924) illustrating the great comic artist's advanced expansion of such editing techniques to create a special kind of magic on the screen. Cousins next shows an early example of parallel editing from a French Pathe comedy called The Horse That Bolted (1907). Whereas Porter had shown what happened next, Cousins notes that parallel editing was able to illustrate what was occurring simultaneously. From this, he switches to a clip from the famous French historical film by Charles le Bargy and Andre Calmettes, The Assassination of the Duc de Guise (1908). Pointing out its innovation in having the actors turn their backs to the camera, he goes on to include a scene from Jean-Luc Godard's Vivre sa vie (1962) as an example of the continuing influence of this technique. He then takes up the issue of the actors' relation to the public and the birth of the star system. With this transition to a new topic, he thus seems to imply that henceforward the progress of cinema art in terms of its basic grammar was unimpeded and the real struggle was to be in terms of content—the "classicism" vs. "romanticism" that he had discussed earlier.
He thereby ignores at this point a fundamental contention that emerged in the years between 1908 and 1914. For despite its qualities in staging and acting, The Assassination of the Duc de Guise also had a negative effect, causing one of the rebels against its technique, Abel Gance, to later dismiss it as an example of "the first, simple films" retarding the advance of cinema art. As was once pointed out in many histories of cinema, the stagy approach adopted by le Bargy and Calmettes generated a taste among the cultured for similar films adhering to theatrical conventions. Thus was born the tradition of Film d'Art that reached a crescendo with the arrival of feature-length films and "Famous Players in Famous Plays" in 1912, exemplified by such works as Queen Elizabeth starring Sarah Bernhardt. Films of this kind were essentially silent photographed stage plays with little cutting and the actors placed at a considerable distance from the camera in a succession of long-shots. But precisely because they mimicked the established older art of the theatre and brought to the screen elevated historical and literary subjects, they gained for motion pictures, previously scorned by those in polite society, a prestige that had hitherto been lacking.
This regressive tendency in cinema was challenged in the early 1910s, not by the highbrow aesthetes of the day but by filmmakers resolutely appealing to a mass audience. Whether it was the Nordisk melodramas made in Denmark, the serials produced in America and France, the Westerns of Thomas H. Ince, the slapstick comedies of Mack Sennett's Keystone Company, or the many works directed by the as-yet unknown genius at the Biograph Company—all of these films, rejecting the proscenium arch limitations of photographed theatre, presented to their audiences real streets and landscapes on the screen wedded to exciting narratives. To the masses in both the sprawling new cities and the isolated small towns, these popular amusements provided a respite from their daily toil by giving them a chance to see the wider world while often demonstrating a populist sympathy for their struggles. It was thus the cinema as a mass entertainment that advanced the frontiers of cinema art in the years prior to the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, not the aesthetically reactionary photographed stage plays attracting the cultured.
While this salient development was long recognized by most historians of the medium, Cousins does not address this topic at this time in his presentation. As he revealed in his book, his revisionist approach to this key period was colored by the arcane and dubious theories propounded by Noel Burch in an effort to explain the delay in the Japanese cinema's adoption of film techniques devised in the West until just after World War I. Indeed, the interpretation advanced by Burch in his study of Japanese cinema played a major role in shaping Cousins' perspective of
Cousins marks the transition to the 1910s by discussing the invention of the star system at the start of this new decade. He does this by showing clips from two 1909 films, Those Awful Hats and The Mended Lute, in which the first American star, Florence Lawrence, appeared. After commenting on her later tragic fate, he deals with Afgrunden (The Abyss), the groundbreaking Danish film of 1910 which launched Asta Nielsen's spectacular career as a star. In his segment on Florence Lawrence, however, Cousins makes a telling and significant error when he states that she was known originally as the "IMP Girl" just before Carl Laemmle began the star system by revealing her name to the public. His commentary accompanying the clip from The Mended Lute says that this was one of the films in which she had been appearing for Laemmle. In truth, in the anonymous stardom she had earned before joining Laemmle and his IMP Company she was known as the "Biograph Girl." Both Those Awful Hats and The Mended Lute were among her many Biograph films directed by He Whose Name Shall Not Be Mentioned at this point in Cousins' documentary.
After the section on the establishment of the star system, Cousins takes up the silent cinema in the Scandinavian countries,
He begins by showing some remarkable, innovative footage from Benjamin Christensen's first film as a director, The Mysterious X, the production of which began in
In arranging the first episode in this manner, Cousins largely eliminated five crucial years of cinematic development from 1908 to the first half of 1913, the period preceding most of the first acknowledged masterworks of Scandinavian cinema. In addition, he takes the first episode out of the 1895-1918 time frame with which it was supposed to be concerned by emphasizing the later films of Christensen and Sjostrom. Throughout his series, Cousins repeatedly cuts between films made in different periods. While this technique is of varying effectiveness, it does often serve to illustrate valid points about the continuity of film history. The kind of chronological displacement in this section on Scandinavian cinema, however, is far more questionable because Cousins is, in effect, trying to demonstrate his thesis that the Danish and Swedish films of the 1910s were superior to all others made in the world at that time by utilizing as his primary evidence two remarkable films that were not made until the early 1920s.
Cousins then asserts that once Christensen and Sjostrom were lured to
From the cold northern clime of Scandinavia, Cousins then journeys to an edenic, sunlit garden thousands of miles away, a rural landscape near the town of
The contrast between a
Presumably, Cousins' statement that no one in Hollywood films was supposed to be "plain, old or sad" is not to be taken literally but is rather rhetorical intended as an argument that from the moment it became a major influence internationally in the early 1910s, the American cinema projected an escapist fantasy that denied reality. In setting forth his thesis, however, he indulges in a massive denial of his own, a refusal to so much as acknowledge the existence of the early American films that depicted social conflicts and injustices, often with a power that remains compelling to this day. So numerous were these works that Kevin Brownlow was able to document them in his Behind the Mask of Innocence, a monumental volume on the American films concerned with contemporary social problems that were produced in the 1910s. Similarly, in 2007 the National Film Preservation Foundation, as part of its Treasures from American Archives series of DVD releases highlighting early American cinema, brought out a major collection of social issue films, most of them dating from the silent era.
Had he not adopted a very different course, Cousins could have included examples in his series from any number of American films of the 1910s that stood outside the prism of escapism he assigned to the cinema of that period, whether it was a powerful short film about the plight of the elderly, What Shall We Do with Our Old? (1911), directed by that mysterious Biograph Man, or the equally powerful feature film about the sufferings of immigrants in modern America, The Italian (1915), produced by Thomas H. Ince and directed by Reginald Barker. There were the many strong films about the abuses of predatory capitalism such as Biograph's A Corner in Wheat (1909), the portrayal of the oppression of the Native American in another Biograph film, Ramona (1910), the depiction of prostitution in the big city in George Loane Tucker's Traffic in Souls (1913), the presentation of the harrowing conditions of slum life in Cecil B. DeMille's Kindling (1915), the dramatization of the controversial issues of birth control and abortion in Lois Weber's Where Are My Children? (1916).
In striking counterpoint to Cousins' view of a Hollywood cinema forever dominated by youth and glamour, there was nothing in the least prettified about DeMille's The Whispering Chorus (1918), a dark and brilliant psychological drama with a decidedly plain, unheroic-looking leading man caught up in an inexorable tragic fate. Also sharply breaking with a glamorous image were the starkly realistic Westerns of William S. Hart, vividly depicting the dusty, corrupt towns of the American frontier, including in his powerful, widely acclaimed masterpiece, Hell's Hinges (1916), yet another early cinematic landmark overlooked by Cousins.
From the standpoint of race and early
As for Cousins' view that there was no place for the "sexually different" in early American cinema, here filmmakers were subject to the same prevailing censorship that also curtailed presentation of such issues in literature and on the stage at that time. Nevertheless, even this forbidden topic could be portrayed in films in certain contexts. The Vitagraph comedy feature, A Florida Enchantment (1914), is one noteworthy example that has attracted considerable attention in recent years. It is still considered quite daring in the sexual ambiguity of its protagonists who assume different genders. Such works, however, were apparently too much at odds with Cousins' monochromatic conception of the emergence of American cinema to warrant mention in his analyses.
To drive home his thesis based on a presumptive chasm between
Despite these apparent constraints, Nordisk made major contributions to the development of cinema art in the early 1910s with its exploration of filmic techniques and fostering of acting styles in longer narrative films that impressed audiences and influenced filmmakers around the world. As an example, there was August Blom's landmark feature, Atlantis (1913), with a spectacular depiction of a sinking ocean liner, clearly capitalizing on the recent Titanic disaster, that remains exciting to this day. Less than three years later, Blom directed an even more remarkable film, The End of the World (1916), a compelling story of class conflict amidst impending doom. The dramatic climax depicts on an impressive scale and with innovative special effects the earth ravaged by collision with a comet. This Nordisk production proved a tremendous advance in the cinema's ability to present science fiction with a sense of realism unmatched by any other medium. With Atlantis and The End of the World, Blom played a central role in developing the "disaster" epic, a genre that would flourish in
A creative hothouse turning out many fine films with an impressive galaxy of stars and directors, Nordisk thus set a precedent for future studios like
In truth, the emergence of the Scandinavian art film was a later development than is stated in The Story of Film. It was in
Cousins' efforts to present the cinema of the 1910s as an aesthetic binary is further underscored by his almost single-minded concentration on Scandinavia vs. Hollywood in this part of the first episode. Apart from a fleeting clip of Giovanni Pastrone's spectacular and innovative Cabiria (1914), he does not comment on the other flourishing European cinemas of that period in
The American cinema of the 1910s is then subject to another form of reductionism as part of Cousins' polemical strategy. The impression the documentary conveys is that once the pioneers began setting up studios in
The omission of this background is significant inasmuch as Cousins places so much emphasis on the unique characteristics of the
Cousins continues his presentation of the birth of
His next segment is concerned with the pioneering women of the American cinema in the 1910s, filmmakers he says have long been overlooked in the standard histories. He notes the achievements of Alice Guy Blache, praising the poetic quality of Falling Leaves, the 1912 short he excerpts to represent her, and Lois Weber, whose career is illustrated by her technically daring chase film, Suspense (1913). This section includes an interview with Cari Beauchamp, the biographer of the outstanding screenwriter Frances Marion, who provides some informative and intelligent observations.
The inclusion of Frances Marion is something of a departure for Cousins as his main interest throughout the series is the director. (He does not discuss the three films she subsequently directed in the '20s.) His assessment of the feminine pioneers is positive, although considering his earlier indictment of
It is significant whom Cousins leaves out from his exposition. Incredibly, he makes no mention of Mary Pickford, an absolutely central figure who played a pivotal role in the production of her films, nor of Mabel Normand, a major creator of American screen comedy who directed a number of her own films. He also fails to take note of Pearl White and the serial queen phenomenon that helped foster the idea of feminine emancipation among audiences all over the world.
It is while excerpting Lois Weber's Suspense that Cousins makes his first reference to a figure he has up to then ignored—and as it happens his statement is inaccurate. He claims that for a number of years historians attributed Suspense to a male director, D. W. Griffith. But given that
He begins by stating, over footage of
But although up to then this has largely been positive, he next turns to what he calls "one of the great shocks of cinema," Griffith's epic of the Civil War and Reconstruction, The Birth of a Nation (1915). He shows footage from the battle scenes and the famous homecoming scene. While he pays tribute to its cinematic skill and the subtlety of the acting in the homecoming scene, he also says that this makes the film's "racism more dangerous." He then includes the clips of the black-dominated State House in
Cousins then turns his attention to Intolerance, noting the influence of the 1914 Italian epic, Cabiria, on Griffith's use of the moving camera and spectacular sets in his 1916 masterpiece. He describes the theme of the four parallel stories comprising the film's narrative as depicting the deadly effect of the forces of hatred and intolerance through the ages. However, in referring to the Modern Story as being simply about "gangsterism," implausibly describing characters as dressed in "jazz era costumes" when the Jazz Age traditionally means the 1920s, he misses an opportunity to discuss Griffith's social consciousness. He does comment on the film's remarkable technical advances and its influence on Eisenstein in the
He concludes this first episode of the series with the observation that in 1918 cinema seemed to have reached its peak with the triumph of
His selection of material from the 1910s in the main serves to reinforce his conception of the development of film art as a division between a classical style of cinema exemplified by Scandinavia and a romantic conception favored by
To be sure, there is nothing novel in Cousins' perception of Griffith as his emphasis on The Birth of a Nation has appeared ad infinitum in documentary after documentary over the last twenty-five years or so and has been a major factor in the steep decline of the director's reputation from its posthumous peak in the 1970s. Colored by the prevalent dogma of political correctness, they repeat the familiar narrative about the supposed responsibility of
Cousins' approach toward
In a further act of resistance against the encroachment of
Proving even less acceptable to the public, his swan song came in the early days of sound. The Struggle (1931) was another stark depiction of urban poverty made on the East Coast with scenes shot on the mean streets of the Bronx in sharp contrast to the studio-controlled realism preferred by
Anticipatory of Italian neo-realism in many respects, as analysts have observed, Isn't Life Wonderful? and The Struggle are, it would appear, too out of keeping with the director's supposed adherence to what Cousins calls
It is likely this same insistence on theoretical purity that explains his total exclusion of the great French master of serial films, Louis Feuillade. In a largely appreciative essay on Cousins' series, critic Jonathan Rosenbaum suggests Feuillade's absence as stemming from a possible "fit of absent-mindedness." Yet even in his far more expansive book, with which Rosenbaum acknowledged he was unfamiliar, Cousins made not the slightest reference to Feuillade. It would seem that Feuillade's serials, like the Nordisk productions, would have only complicated his theory based on the prioritization of "art" cinema paralleling advanced literature. Feuillade's creative vision was grounded in resolutely popular fiction and as such it was scorned by those of his contemporaries who thought of cinema in terms of high art. In sharp contrast to the prestigious Film d'Art productions, Feuillade's serials were dismissed by the "cultured" for catering to a mass public attracted by the picturization of sensational crime stories. Cousins appears to be reviving past aesthetic priorities with the privileged status he accords the "classical" art film and the secondary place he assigns to an "escapist" Hollywood dominated by popular genres presenting narratives in a superficially realistic manner.
While recognized by most film historians today as a complex artist with a unique vision of his own, Feuillade evidently posed a challenge to Cousins' attempt at systematization. As a filmmaker working in a popular genre, his affinities were clearly with those of his contemporaries in
Next: "The Triumph of American Film"


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Darwin was released at Mt Manaia as a mature adult in 2006. He quickly headed north, first to a scrub area at Kerr Road and then further north to a pine plantation at Campbell Road. After cruising around for a couple months he set up home at Lamb Road (the road behind the garage at Parua Bay Village).
He has stayed there ever since, for 5 years by himself, fat and happy but not breeding. In 2011 he teamed up with a local girl and had a successful nest. They have now successfully hatched 7 chicks. These chicks have been the catalyst for increased stoat trapping in the area through Lamb Road Landcare.
One of his chicks "James" travelled 4km westwards to Owhiwa Road where unfortunately he was found drowned in a buried cattle trough at 10 months old. James is an example of kiwi expanding out of Backyard kiwi area into the wider "Kiwi Coast" area.
Darwin's tracked history – by Todd Hamilton
At Lamb road, nesting in a hollow puriri tree in the bush just south of the quarry. His nightly activity was 3 hours per night at day 11 of nesting which is good.
At Lamb road, in the bush just south of the quarry. His nightly activity has dropped slightly to 10 hours.
At Lamb road, in the bush just south of the quarry. His nightly activity is 12 hours.
At Lamb road, quarry. I did his annual transmitter change and we took the opportunity to film him as part of the videoing that Heather has been coordinating to produce videos about BYK. Darwin was with his mate (Mrs D) – a wild girl only seen on trail cam before. She has a huge bill – 157mm which is the longest ever measured on a Northland brown kiwi.
As noted already this old man has moved from the quarry to the edge of Lamb road opposite to where Ross the released male had settled for a while – probably to exert his claim for the territory.
After finishing his second nest he has moved away from the quarry and up Lamb road towards the village. He will be one of the first kiwi calling to welcome the released kiwi next week.
At the Lamb road quarry. He has finished his second nest, a nest check showed that he had hatched one egg (shell and membrane present) but no sign of the chick, the second egg was rotten which is becoming a bit of a theme with the wet warm weather!
At the Lamb road quarry. He is well into his second nest- 27days down today, activity is less than 3 hours per night. Hatch is due late
At the Lamb road quarry. His recent chick was named "Boomer" by Parua Bay School. Darwin is nesting again already and was 5 days into his 80 day stint today.
At the Lamb road quarry. Has finished his nest there after a 85 day stint hatching two chicks. The older chick stayed in and around the nest for at least 26 days which is longer than usual.
At the Lamb road quarry nesting in pampas. 35 days nesting 25/8/17. His activity is around 2 hours per night but he had several nights of not leaving the nest at all.
At the Lamb road quarry in pampas. 11 days nesting 1/8/17 and his activity is down to 4 hours per night.
At the Lamb road quarry. His activity is still 12 hours per night.
Has moved back to the quarry. Did his annual transmitter change. He was in good condition ready for breeding season at 2270g. His activity is still 12 hours per night.
Unfortunately one of his recent chicks turned up drowned in a pool. The chick was only 3.5 months old but had already grown to 910g – not far short of the magic 1000g where she could fight of a stoat. This is a very high growth rate, probably because of the wet autumn meaning she had plenty of food. We knew it was Darwin's chick because I had ID chipped it at the nest.
Has moved away from quarry to bush beside Lamb road. High activity -11.5 hours/night.
Usual area Lamb road quarry. High activity.
2nd check in January shows Darwin nesting in pampas bush 5m from Manaia Excavators truck yard. His transmitter data stream shows that he has hatched his first chick and I'm waiting to see if there is a second before going into the nest. Hatch is due late January,
Usual area Lamb road quarry. Renested in pampas bush 5m from Manaia Excavators truck yard. Hatch due late January.
Usual area Lamb road quarry. Activity is lowish at 7.5 hours a night so it looks like he is renesting.
Has finished nesting –he really put his back into it and was still in the same pampas bush over a month after hatching the first chick. I had a trial camera on the nest that took hundreds of 30 second videos of the activity there.
Heather Hunt and Mereana Wilkie have taken that footage and skilfully created a short video story of Darwin's nest- Have a look, it is pretty cool.
Nesting in pampas at Lamb Road quarry. After 78 days nesting he had hatched two chicks. I DNA sampled and ID chipped the chicks. Both are girls by their bill size: 310g and 47.7mm, 46.5mm and 290g. A trail camera set near the nest got some fantastic footage of the chicks feeding, dad coming and going for his nightly break and mum wandering past sometimes. Heather is planning to use the shots to make a video story for BYK. I took the opportunity to do Darwin's 6 monthly band change and he was healthy but has lost at bit of weight as is expected after nesting.
Nesting in pampas at Lamb Road quarry. Nightly activity is a good low 2.5 hours after 51 days nesting. Hatch is due mid-September.
In pampas at Lamb Road. Activity slowly dropping so may be starting to nest.
In pampas at Lamb Road. 12 hours activity per night.
In pampas at Lamb Road. Bernie and Ian gave me a hand to do his transmitter change – he was a healthy 2300g in weight.
His nest in the pampas at the Lamb road quarry failed after 60 days, which is unusual. Usually if a nest gets that close to hatching (at around 70 days) things are looking pretty good. I couldn't locate the nest in dense pampas so am unsure of what happened.
On his second nest of the season in the pampas at the Lamb road quarry. He had done 52 days on 26 Feb and had a good low nesting activity of 150 minutes per night.
In the pampas at Lamb road quarry. He has renested – up to 30 days nesting on 4/2/16 and 110 minutes activity per night – which is good and low for nesting.
Paura Bay School named his recently hatched chicks "Rocky" and "Rusty". Darwin is now feeding up in the pampas at Lamb Road quarry recovering from his nest efforts.
At Lamb Road quarry. He has hatched 2 chicks, his nest was in a pampas bush in an old dump area and had a sheet of corrugated iron for a roof keeping him super dry for the last 3 months. By the time I could safely go into his nest his first chick had moved on (it had hatched 35 days before) but I managed to catch up with Darwin and his second chick who Parua Bay School are going to name.
At Lamb Road quarry. He has hatched 2 chicks and has just about finished nesting. We have got some good video of mum, dad and the chicks, all separately, from a nearby trial camera – Heather is will edit this for a website video.
At Lamb Road quarry. As suspected he has started nesting with 2 hours nightly activity at day 34. Hatch is due late October.
At Lamb Road quarry. 8.5 hours nightly activity, down slightly so may be looking at nesting.
At Lamb Road quarry. 9 hours nightly activity, down from 11.5 hours so may be looking at nesting.
At Lamb Road quarry. 11.5 hours nightly activity.
At Lamb Road quarry. 12 hours activity.
At Lamb Road JR- Still no signal from this guy –looking more like transmitter failure all the time
At Lamb Road quarry. He has finished nesting. He hatched the 1st chick "Murdoch" after 64 days but his second egg was a dud. I did his annual transmitter change – he was 2050g in weight.
At Lamb Road quarry. Nesting in the pampas there, he hatched 1st chick after 64 days – it has been ID chipped and DNA sampled. At 11 days old he was 275g and has been named Murdoch by Lamb Road locals, in honour of Murdoch Ross. Darwin is still on a second egg which should be hatching any day now..
Nesting in the pampas at Lamb Road quarry. Hatch is due late February.
In pampas at Lamb Road quarry, feeding up after nesting. Activity 9 hours per night.
Finished nesting in the pampas at the Lamb Road quarry. He hatched 2 chicks named "Frank" and "Harold" after Frank Lamb who recently passed away. Both these chicks had feather samples taken for DNA records and ID chips inserted before going back into the nest with Darwin.
Nesting in pampas at Lamb Road quarry. He hatched his 1st chick after 69 days nesting on the 26 September. This chick is named "Frank" after Frank Lamb who recently passed away. I will monitor him to see if there is a second hatch.
In pampas at Lamb road quarry. Nesting 10 days on 29/7/14. Activity is good and low for 10 days nesting at 4 hours.
Usual area at Lamb Road, high activity.
He went for a wander but is back at the Lamb Road quarry. His activity is high – 12.5 hours per night.
In pampas at Lamb Road quarry – did his annual transmitter change change, now CT 78. He was a healthy pre-breeding weight of 2250g, and his activity is high at 12 hours per night.
Was nesting at Lamb Road quarry but the nest failed and his activity has increased again.
Nesting at Lamb Road quarry.
At Lamb Road quarry in the pampas – high activity.
Has moved back to the Lamb Road quarry in the pampas.
Was nesting at Lamb Road but the nest failed after approximately 60 days. Did his six monthly transmitter band change while there was Bittern booming away beside him in the wetland at Lamb Road.
He is nesting at Lamb Road. 3 hours nightly activity – nest will reach 65 days approx 27 October.
He has just started nesting at Lamb Road – 5 hours nightly activity. Nest will reach 65 days approx 27 October
In the Lamb Road quarry. His nightly activity is varying a bit but still high – 11 hours nightly.
In the Lamb Road quarry – activity of 11 hours per night.
In the Lamb Road quarry – false alarm on him starting to nest last month as his activity has increased.
Back in the pampas in the Lamb Road quarry – his activity has dropped a bit and he may be starting to nest.
After Darwin left his nest I DNA sampled and ID chipped his recently hatched chick – he was named "James" by the landowners at Lamb Road. No second egg in nest. After multiple unsuccessful visits to the pampas in the Lamb Road quarry I finally caught up with Darwin in the wetland beside the road for his annual transmitter change, he was in good condition and weighed 2005g.
Nesting in pampas at Lamb Road – 1st chick has hatched. Now waiting on his activity to increase before doing transmitter change on Dad.
Is in gorse at Lamb Road, and as suspected he started his second nest in mid December and it is due
to hatch in late Feb.
Is in gorse at Lamb Road. His activity is dropping, hopefully meaning that he is starting his second nest…
Is showing high activity – hopefully feeding up for a second nest at Lamb Road


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Wednesday, 2 March 2011
PA@A and Sparkles
Blogland friend Jackie is on the Sparkles DT and its good to support your friends. Besides a little bird whispered they would both like non cuties to join them.
So for http://pennyblackatallsorts.blogspot.com/ its Welcome Spring and for Sparkles it is Pink Blue and Brown.
Brown card stock Stamped with versamaek and clear embossed with a PB sunflower. Pink and Blue DI worked onto card and some WOW Pearlescent powder in blue and red lightly and roughly sprinked over it. The topper is some sheet music stuck to card and cut with a nestie, DI worked over the top which was then stamped with another PB image. the blossom and the birds lightly coloured with Whisper pens.
17 comments:
- Anonymous2 March 2011 at 08:17
Hi There,ReplyDelete
Glad you took Jackies advice, your card is adorable, love all the sparkle, great take on our challenge.
Thanks for joining us at SFC, good luck.
Huggies Angel
oh love this hun,those birds are just gorouges,love it hugs cherylxxxxxReplyDelete
Love the birds over the music paper, really effective.ReplyDelete
Have a good day.
luv and hugs {brenda} xoxox
Hi Zoe,ReplyDelete
This is brilliant and a great take on our challenge Thanks for joining in this time at SFC
Hugs Jackie x
Lovely card Zoe, I like how you've stuck the sheet music to card and then die cut it. The birds look fantastic with the music background. Sue C xReplyDelete
Very sweet card, I too love the birds over the music paper!!ReplyDelete
This card is so wonderful that I might actually be looking forward to Spring (I'm a winter nerd)!ReplyDelete
Beautiful colors and images ... and are the top blue and pink heated embossing? Love the shiny, misty, shadowy thing you've got going on!
THis is beautiful Zoe! The birds and flower looks fabulous!ReplyDelete
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What a lovely creation, love the pretty colours, birdies, music...............
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Once the home of 30 native tribes South Carolina was explored by the Spanish and the French before finally being successfully colonized by the English. Wealthy from its slave plantations, South Carolina became the first colony to ratify the Articles of Confederation and then the first to secede during the American Civil War. Today, the Palmetto state is known for its Low Country culture, pristine beaches and its sports teams.
Haunted States: South Carolina
The wide range of people who have called South Carolina home are still leaving their mark on the state long after they passed on. The spirits of the mentally ill are said to still roam one of the earliest state-run hospitals in the nation. A teenage girl haunts her family's seaside home, searching for the token given to her by her lover. Strange lights hover across the Carolina highways. A cruel plantation master and his slaves are still said to roam a state park and one of the first female serial killers is seen roaming a historic jail.
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The 75-year-old Mahopac woman was killed last week by her daughter's father-in-law, 69-year-old Filippo Buffone of West Harrison over a financial disagreement, Carmel Police announced during a press conference Wednesday.
Buffone, who killed himself on Tuesday in a car near his West Harrison home at 106 Park Ave., shot Perla Gatchalian last Thursday in anger over family finances, said Carmel Police Chief Mike Cazzari.
Police recovered the suspected murder weapon off the Route 6 corridor in Yorktown on Tuesday, Cazzari said.
"Unfortunately, before Filippo Buffone could be arrested, he shot and killed himself in a parking lot off Park Avenue near his residence in Harrison," Cazzari said.
The investigation into Gatchalian's death, led by the Town of Carmel Police Department, resulted in the execution of several search warrants, the recovery of numerous items of evidence, and a determination Gatchalian was killed Buffone, Cazzari said.
Carmel police have been working non-stop since the homicide that rocked the hamlet of Mahopac, saying early on they believed the murder was not random.
Gatchalian, who lived with her daughter's family and helped care for her grandchildren, was found on Thursday by Carmel police after a neighbor went to check on the elderly woman.
The investigation into her death led police to a home in West Harrison that belonged to Buffone, where investigators removed numerous items and towed a vehicle.
The chief added, that while the investigation is still continuing, there is no indication at this time that anyone else was involved in Gatchalian's death.
The chief thanked the many agencies that assisted the department during the investigation, which spanned several towns and cities, including the New York State Police and their Major Crimes Unit, Putnam County Sheriff's Office, Putnam County District Attorney's Office and the Harrison and Yorktown police departments.
He also thanked the Town of Carmel Highway Department for assisting officers in searching for evidence.
"Most importantly, we would like to thank our community and business owners who came forward with information," Cazzari said.
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The premise of "The Memory of a Killer," a Belgian production, is one of existential heartbreak: An aging hit man suffering the onset of Alzheimer's disease has an urgent moral score to settle before a dark haze engulfs him forever.
Angelo Ledda (Jan Decleir) agrees to perform one last job, a double murder. He takes care of the first, a senior government official. But when he learns about the second -- an abused preteen girl, formerly part of a prostitution ring -- the old man turns into avenging Angelo. Already writing on his arm to remember things, reminiscent of Guy Pearce's desperation in "Memento," Angelo grapples with his dwindling recall while trying to find, and kill, those who ordered the girl's death. He also has to stay a step ahead of two Belgian detectives (Koen De Bouw and Werner De Smedt) determined to stop his vigilante agenda.
Erik Van Looy's movie, previously called "The Alzheimer Case" (adapted from writer Jef Geeraerts's novel of the same name), becomes convoluted and creaky in its final sections, but we always have Angelo to pull us through these straits: Belgian actor Decleir's tough-guy vulnerability, which brings to mind such classic screen heavies as Lee J. Cobb and Richard Widmark, gives an otherwise standard police procedural extraordinary grace and power. By the end of the movie, you'll come close to wanting this contract killer reading books to your children.
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A pair of Vendome Healthcare Media Group publications, Behavioral Healthcare and Addiction Professional, recently were recognized in multiple national journalism awards programs:
- The blog of Behavioral Healthcare Editor-in-Chief Julie Miller earned two distinctions: a Silver Award in the Best Blog category of the American Society of Healthcare Publication Editors (ASHPE) Awards, as well as a Bronze Award in the Regular Column category of the Tabbie Awards, which are presented by Trade Association Business Publications International (TABPI). With more than 14 years covering the healthcare sector, Miller regularly posts entries that provide essential details on emerging industry stories, helping behavioral healthcare executives quickly get up to speed on pressing topics.
- "How to Stretch $50K and Get Your Money's Worth", written for Behavioral Healthcare by former associate editor Julia Brown, received a Silver Award for Best How-To Article in the ASHPE Awards. Brown shared the advice of top design industry experts on making impactful facility upgrades on a limited budget.
- "A harsh reality: Some patients will die", the cover story in the Fall 2015 issue of Addiction Professional by contributing writer Alison Knopf, earned a pair of honors in the Azbee Awards, presented by the American Society of Business Publication Editors. The story won a Gold Award in the Heartland Region and Bronze National Award in the category of Print Feature Articles. Knopf illustrated, through gripping personal accounts from clinicians, that too few addiction treatment centers give staff members the opportunity to process the loss of a patient, often with damaging results to their career.
"The stories produced by our dedicated editors and writers drive conversations for a very engaged audience in the behavioral healthcare industry," says Douglas J. Edwards, vice president and managing director for Vendome's Behavioral Healthcare Division. "It's great to see the hard work of our teams recognized in these awards programs."
Now in their 15th year, the ASHPE Awards recognize excellence in healthcare publications. For 13 years, the Tabbie Awards have been presented to English-language B2B publications worldwide. The Azbee Awards honor excellence in the business, trade and specialty press.
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A person must be hungry for at least 3 months in order to die from hunger. Nonetheless every minute approximately 10 children close their eyes forever because of this reason. On the other hand, tons of bread goes to garbage every day. If we do some research, we'll come across a lot of statistics like this.
Even though a little bit reducing waste of food can save many people's lives, why we don't? Maybe we hear this news rarely or we don't really believe it will work. Both are partly true. Almost the whole world is indifferent to these events that happen every moment. In addition, there are enough food resources for everybody. So why are people dying of starvation?
It wouldn't be wrong to say that the only reason for this is inequality. Because the total wealth of the 85 wealthiest people alive now is equal to the almost total assets of 3.5 billion people on Earth!
1.4 million people in the world live on the poverty line and below. While the richest 20% have 41.1% of income, the poorest 20% can have only 6.6% of total income.
10% of the world's population earns less than two dollars a day. On the other hand, the wealth of the rich people is growing so fast that we can see the first trillionaire in the near future.
Yes, it is true that not everyone will have a rich life with luxury houses and cars. But is it acceptable to die of starvation? There is much to say about this issue. But let's ask this question: Is this really the best system that we can build?
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Over the next 5-7 years, ProCan is analysing 70,000 samples of all types of cancer from all over the world
ProCan is a new facility and international research project located at Children's Medical Research Institute (CMRI) in Sydney Australia. It was established with a $10 million grant from the Australian Cancer Research Foundation (ACRF). This world-first initiative was developed by Professors Phil Robinson and Roger Reddel at CMRI.
ProCan has developed a database of information to advance scientific discovery and enhance clinical treatment worldwide. This database will mean doctors can more precisely diagnose cancer and effectively narrow down the best type of currently available treatment to target a patient's individual cancer diagnosis. This is personalised, precision medicine.
"ProCan will not only advance basic research into new and better cancer treatments but soon it will also help doctors rapidly choose the best existing treatment for their patients." Professor Ian Brown, CEO of ACRF
If you would like to support this project, you can donate here.
The information generated by ProCan will help scientists all over the world studying cancer. What's more, the library of information created will be a point of reference that can be used now and in the future to aid rapid diagnosis and treatment planning.
The Centre acts in partnership with cancer researchers, clinicians, tumour banks, and technology experts, such as Professor Ruedi Aebersold in Zurich, whose 2015 Nature Medicine paper acted as the 'proof of concept' on which the much larger ProCan project is based.
The ProCan laboratory has now been built and its equipment is all operational, thanks to funding from ACRF and CMRI. Funding from the NSW Government has allowed the research project to commence, and further funding is required for the project to achieve its goals. This will require advanced computer analysis and bioinformatics techniques to compare the protein data with other information available, in order to predict the most effective cancer treatments for each individual.
Proteomics is the next step after genomics, and the newest frontier in medical research.
Most people have heard of the Genome – which is the sum total of all of our genes. The Human Genome Project analysed the entire human DNA code in order to gain insights into the changes that cause variation and diseases. The technology for "reading" the genome is now well established, and its application to cancer and other diseases has greatly increased our understanding of why they occur. However, understanding the genome is not enough.
The information in DNA is used by cells to produce proteins. Some proteins help form the structure of cells and others are the miniature machines inside cells that do the work required for maintaining life, such as converting sugar into energy, and for helping a cell to grow and divide to produce more cells. So proteins are vitally important.
The proteome of each type of cell consists of thousands of different types of proteins. Each type of protein behaves differently, working with other proteins in intricate networks.
Proteomics is the study of the proteome, and it depends on rapid analysis of the proteins in our cells and tissues on a large scale - thousands at a time. It uses mass spectrometry, a powerful analytical technique for identifying proteins and measuring the quantity of each type of protein that is present.
Most of the drugs used to treat diseases such as cancer interact with proteins, so cancer proteomics is an important new frontier in cancer research. Knowing what proteins are present in cancers is essential for developing new cancer treatments and for using existing treatments as effectively as possible.
New technology called PCT-SWATH mass spectrometry is being used to rapidly and simultaneously measure the precise levels of many thousands of proteins in very small cancer biopsies. Working with leading cancer researchers throughout Australia and around the world, the Centre is analysing about 70,000 samples of all types of cancer, starting with cancers of childhood.
Advanced computer analysis techniques are then used to compare the protein data with the information that is already available for each cancer, including clinical records such as pathology test results, genetic analyses, genome sequencing, and how that cancer responded to treatment.
This proteogenomics approach to understanding cancer is crucial to speeding up the search for cures, and towards this end, ProCan signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the United States' National Cancer Institute as part of Vice President Jo Biden's Cancer Moonshot Initiative.
Co-leader of ProCan - Professor Phillip Robinson
Prof Phil Robinson BSc (Hons) PhD NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellow, Professor of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney; Professor of Chemistry, The University of Newcastle.
Prof Robinson is also Head of the Cell Signalling Unit at Children's Medical Research Institute (CMRI) and an NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellow. Professor Robinson's career began after completing a PhD in Medical Biochemistry at The University of Newcastle.
After an NIH Fellowship and a postdoctoral position at the University of Cincinnati, USA, he returned to Australia as an Australian Postdoctoral Fellow and a QEII Fellow and then developed a research team in Newcastle's John Hunter Hospital. Professor Robinson joined CMRI as a result of the leadership and vision of Professor Rowe (CMRI Director 1980-2006) in building an exciting environment for conducting basic research with a focus on childhood problems and an environment providing the freedom to pursue large, long-term projects.
Professor Robinson has received a number of awards during his career including the AW Campbell Award for Excellence in Neuroscience from the Australian Neuroscience Society and the Amersham Pharmacia Biotechnology Medal from the Australian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
Professor Robinson was chair of the Fellowships Committee of the NHMRC for three years and is also a member of the Research Committee and the Training and Awards Committee. He is on the editorial board of a number of journals, including the Journal of Biological Chemistry.
Professor Robinson and his team have made major contributions to understanding aspects of regulating nerve cell communication, principally the process of endocytosis and the protein dynamin, which along with other nerve terminal proteins, remains the focus of the research.
In a partnership with Professor Adam McCluskey at the University of Newcastle (UoN), the teams have developed the first pharmacological approach to controlling endocytosis, which will be a useful experimental tool and may also prove clinically useful. In 2009, Professor McCluskey and Professor Robinson established Australia's first Centre for Kinomics, called the Australian Cancer Research Foundation Chemical Proteomics Centre for Kinomics, supported by Ramaciotti at CMRI and UoN.
Co-leader of ProCan - Professor Roger Reddel
Prof Roger Reddel BSc (Med) MBBS PhD FRACP FAA is Director of Children's Medical Research Institute (CMRI), and the Sir Lorimer Dods Professor, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney. He also heads CMRI's Cancer Research Unit, and directs CellBank Australia. He obtained his medical degrees from the University of Sydney, trained in medical oncology at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, and is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. Roger completed a PhD in cancer cell biology at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research in the University of Sydney's Department of Cancer Medicine, and received an NHMRC CJ Martin Fellowship and a Fulbright Fellowship to undertake postdoctoral research at the National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
He returned to Sydney to establish a laboratory at CMRI, attracted by the Institute's culture of fostering high quality basic research, and with the support of Cancer Council NSW's Bicentennial Fellowship. He has continued to receive major support from the Cancer Council, including being awarded the Carcinogenesis Fellowship for ten years, and Program Grants for five years. His team is also supported by Cancer Institute NSW, the Judith Hyam Memorial Trust Fund for Cancer Research, Rotary Club of Sydney, and the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia.
Professor Reddel's research is focused on the molecular genetics of immortalisation, the process that allows cancer cells to divide an unlimited number of times. He and his group are best known for their work on telomerase, the enzyme on which 85% of cancers depend for their unlimited growth, and for discovering Alternative Lengthening of Telomeres (ALT) upon which the remaining ~10% depend. The goal of this work is to understand the immortalisation process in sufficient detail to make it possible to design treatments that specifically limit cancer cell proliferation. The aim of this research is to develop new forms of cancer treatment that prevent cancer cell growth by blocking immortalisation. Professor Reddel was awarded the Ramaciotti Medal for Excellence in Biomedical Research in 2007, was elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 2010, and in 2011 received the NSW Premier's Award for Outstanding Cancer Researcher of the Year.
Professor Reddel is a director of Cure Cancer Australia Foundation. He serves on editorial boards of a number of international cancer research journals, and on national and international scientific advisory panels.
ProCan Technology Expert - Professor Ruedi Aebersold
Prof. Ruedi Aebersold is one of the pioneers in the field of proteomics. He is known for developing a series of methods that have found wide application in analytical protein chemistry and proteomics like a new class of reagents termed Isotope Coded Affinity Tag (ICAT) reagents used in quantitative mass spectrometry. Prof. Dr. Aebersold and his team of researchers use the protein profiles determined by this method to differentiate cells in different states, such as noncancerous versus cancerous cells, and to systematically study how cells respond to external stimuli. These "snapshot" profiles indicate which cells contain abnormal levels of certain proteins. This is expected to lead to new diagnostic markers for disease and to a more complete understanding of the biochemical processes that control and constitute cell physiology.
Prof. Aebersold serves on the Scientific Advisory Committees of numerous academic and private sector research organizations and is a member of several editorial boards in the fields of protein science, genomics, and proteomics.
Prof. Aebersold is a native of Switzerland and obtained his Ph.D. in Cellular Biology at the Biocenter of the University of Basel in 1983. Since that time, he is a faculty member of the Universities of Washington and British Columbia, until 2000, when he co-founded the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle. In 2004, he accepted a position as full professor at the Institute of Biotechnology at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich , where in January 2005, his research group became the first integral part of the newly founded Institute of Molecular Systems Biology.


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