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Health & Housing Flexibility: Prefabricated 'wet rooms'
Posted in Models, Research by Kate Archdeacon on October 6th, 2011
Source: Australian Design Review
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From Maitiú Ward's "Interview: Healthabitat's Paul Pholeros":
Since 1999, Healthabitat has completed 184 projects in remote and impoverished communities, improving the condition of 7308 houses for over 42,000 people. Formally established in 1994, the organisation has a history that stretches back to 1985, when its three directors Dr Paul Torzillo, Stephan Rainow and Paul Pholeros first met in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands, north-west South Australia, where they had been thrown together to work with a team of local Aboriginal people to help improve local health and housing conditions. Since that first meeting, the trio has gone on to orchestrate a slew of research programs, lauded not only for the wealth of hard data they have produced, but also for genuinely improving conditions.
For a number of years, Adrian Welke of Troppo Architects has been working with Healthabitat in the design and construction of health buildings in remote areas. It was with Welke that Healthabitat first starting exploring the potential of prefabrication as a means of delivering high quality buildings, efficiently.
Welke's most recent project with Healthabitat is a prefabricated wet room unit, designed to be 'clipped on' to the back of existing residential buildings. Containing shower, laundry and toilet, the unit addresses the top three of the nine healthy living practices – 'washing people', 'washing clothes' and 'waste removal'. As a prefabricated unit it is also a very efficient means of delivering what are traditionally the most expensive components of a residence (the laundry, toilet and bathing areas). In keeping with Healthabitat's modus operandi, then, the project focuses resources in areas where they are likely to have the most impact, and after a successful prototyping stage, units are now rapidly being deployed to indigenous communities across Australia.
Read the full interview by Maitiú Ward.
Healthabitat's Housing for Health program recently won the 2011 World Habitat Awards. Read more here.


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Gitano, tired of trying to compete with bigger names like Levi's, has decided to go for the ultimate niche market-scuba jeans. Tight, colorful and safe down to 100 meters! And you don't have to leave your car keys poolside. It's what the svelte bunch on Baywatch wear in their off hours.
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Oh. We thought all those crotch bulges were their car keys.
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So you're saying the Village People are serial killers, Barb? We were wondering what happened to them.
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Randy Lynn
Obviously, your underwear are on inside-out. You put on the jeans and shirt, jump into the pool and they turn into an obscene thong bikini. Duh!
OK, let's say you're an attractive woman at a swinging pool party, and you spy an equally attractive dude hovering in the deep end. He's looking up at you and you notice his hips are shaking. Now, you could wait patiently, hoping that this unique fellow surfaces and comes on to you. Or you could jump in yourself and hover with him. Better yet, why not grin like an outpatient and hold your hands over your tiny head?
Andy Conroy
His hips are shaking 'cause he's peeing in the pool. And if you think this girl's head is tiny, you've been watching too much Moesha.
What this ad says to us is, "if you are not wearing Gitano clothing, you will die underwater." Excellent use of the all-powerful subliminal, too, since we subconsciously ascertain that the earth is two-thirds water, and we suddenly feel the need to head to the nearest mall for some Gitano clothing.
Michael Laemmrich
Actually, we suddenly felt the need to head to the nearest urinal.
Nobody liked her clothes, so she was thrown into the pool. And if "outside the lines" refers to underwater, one has to wonder how long she can "live" there. She's not a fish. And since her legs are slightly spread, we can assume she's not a mermaid (like Darryl Hannah in Splash). Which means Gitano can be life-threatening, therefore appealing to those with adventurous spirits or death wishes.
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Marc, we can assume she's not a mermaid 'cause "her legs are slightly spread"? How about we can assume she's not a mermaid 'cause she hasn't got a friggin' fishtail! You just wanted to write "her legs are slightly spread" while you were thinking about Darryl Hannah, you mondo pervo!
This is one of those safe-sex ads aimed at deterring teen pregnancy. It simply states to teenage girls that if they "live outside the lines" they could wind up with a 5-ll fetus in their uterus (and you thought that was a swimming pool).
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So what's the problem, Chris? There are two women's basketball leagues now, and beach volleyball is in the Olympics.
Smells like jean spirit? Courtney Love is making a more fashionable name for herself, but most viewers of this ad will still make some kind of connection to the old Nirvana cover.
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We were just thinking about Darryl Hannah. You had to bring up Courtney Love?
This is after-hours dancing at an illegal rave party that encourages a rebirthing experience. The headline is a reference to the Coke Room, and it's telling us this room, the Amniotic Room, is a safe alternative. Also, they most likely add placenta to the water for those dancing in utero for a truer rebirthing (which is beneficial to one's hair).
Nita Hughes
And In Utero is another Nirvana album! Have you met Alec? But never mind that, Nita, at the Coke Room at a rave they sell soda, that's it. Didn't you see the article in Prevention?
"Live outside the lines" refers to the lines that distinguish effective from idiotic advertising. Gitano is taking the fashionable just-hit-up-with-heroin chic to its logical conclusion: Floating-dead-in-the-pool-from-a-heroin-overdose chic.
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What is this girl thinking? She isn't going to find her man underwater, especially wearing red jeans. But I suppose she's just zanier than those of us who live inside the lines.
Tony Rizzuto
Sorry, Tony, but what the hell is so difficult about finding a man underwater when you're wearing red jeans? If you're wearing light blue jeans, we see where you might be difficult to spot, but red seems a good underwater color to us. Hey, we must be living outside the lines! Cool!
Do you think even the dumbest Gen Xers will actually buy the notion that having the right britches will finally let you breathe and simultaneously smile underwater without a visible oxygen line?
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You're onto something here, Val-those of us who live outside the lines can tell you that those four short parallel lines in the Gitano logo (and in the "Lines" of the headline) represent gills. This britchin' babe can indeed breathe underwater! But if you date her, Marc, you're gonna have some friggin' shrimp bill!
Sigmund Freud would have easily identified the subliminal sexual significance of this visual, which depicts a provocatively posed women, legs akimbo, blissfully submerged beneath anticipatory waves of passion. The essence of the message is, "If you can hold your breath long enough to remove these Gitano jeans from my wet and waiting body, I'm yours."
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Finally, we get some input from an academic. Thank you, Professor Segal. "Legs akimbo." You get that, Marc? Darryl Hannah with her legs akimbo.
Any guy can see that this is really a plea to the male audience to not regard women as sexual (but, perhaps, aquatic) objects. The model's legs form the lines that we're asked to live outside of. And there's more. Turn the ad upside down and a subliminal, existential question Y is asked.
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Glenn, why does Marc have to regard this babe as an "aquatic" object? So what if her head is maybe a little small? Moreover, when we turned the ad upside down, we saw a C, not a Y. C as in sea or see. But Y? Only U can answer that. 4 Christ's sake, we're starting to sound like that little futz everyone calls The Artist!
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Past events: 2006/2007
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June 2006
Okeanos Plus: New works for Western and Japanese Instruments - on tour throughout the UK
An exciting collaboration between the Asian Music Circuit and the Society for the Promotion of New Music (spnm) will create a new programme which brings together western and Japanese instruments. The ensemble will include leading contemporary and traditional musicians from the UK and Japan on cello, clarinet, harp, koto, oboe, oboe d'amore, shakuhachi, sho, and viola. A special selection of composers will work closely with the musicians to create new pieces that incorporate elements of traditional Japanese and contemporary western music.
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Ustad Nishat Khan (North Indian classical sitar) at Southbank Centre, London
Ustad Nishat Khan is one of the most exciting sitar players of India today, blending an incredible technique with beautiful lyricism. Nishat Khan is the eldest son of the distinguished sitar player Ustad Imrat Khan. His uncle the legendary late sitar maestro Ustad Vilayat Khan, achieved almost mythical status on the instrument. Nishat Khan is renowned and acclaimed throughout the world. His style and personality have been received with great enthusiasm among international audiences, bridging the gap between East and West, simply through the language of music.
"Sublime, erotic, flamboyant harmony, spiritual serenity, sensual passion ..." The Independent
Pictured above: Ustad Nishat Khan
May 2006
Wayang Golek: traditional Indonesian puppetry and gamelan
Enter a magical and enthralling world of Sundanese legend (West Java) brought to life through the masterful puppetry and music of West Java 's leading Wayang Golek troupe. Pak Asep Sunandar Sunarya is a captivating storyteller, skilfully manipulating his elaborately carved and decorated puppets through complex martial arts movements and the delicate and subtle expressions of traditional dance. Pak Asep is particularly loved for his humour, using trick mechanisms in the puppets and hilarious references to every day life to entertain audiences of all ages. The accompanying gamelan music is lively and varied, characterized by dynamic dance drumming contrasting with music of incredible subtlety and beauty.
Pictured above: Wayang Golek
July 2006
Trilok Gurtu with Pandits Rajan and Sajan Misra: on tour around the UK
ward winning, master musician Trilok Gurtu presents a ground-breaking project tracing his musical influences back to his family roots in North Indian c lassical music. Trilok Gurtu was born into a highly musical family in Mumbai , India where his grandfather was a noted sitar player and his mother Shobha Gurtu, a classical singing star and constant influence. Trilok has since made a name as a pioneering percussionist and composer, fusing sounds from East and West. In this new project Trilok is joined by special guests including the inimitable North Indian c lassical vocalists Pandits Rajan and Sajan Misra.
Trilok Gurtu: "What made his playing so fascinating was its constant aura of surprise" LA Times
Pictured l-r: Trilok Gurtu, Rajan and Sajan Misra
Rajasthani Folk Music: Traditional Sufi Music and Dance - on tour throughout the UK
Fresh from the colourful deserts of Western Rajasthan, traditional folk musicians perform vocal compositions of the great Sufi poets (such as Buleshar and Shah Latif) accompanied on the beautiful sarangi and kamenche (bowed stringed instruments), a variety of vibrant percussion and also by stunning kalbelia dancers. Rajasthan, the "land of rulers", is considered one of the most romantic Indian states, and is also the home to some of the sub-continent's most beautiful music. Alongside the magical palaces of these princely rulers there developed a rich village tradition, with folk musicians performing for themselves, and also for their patrons, on all occasions. Their songs told of love and war, of longing and separation (such as Laila/Majnun & Heera Ranja), of victory and in praise of God, and of social issues such as the value of their animals (especially camels) to their way of life.
Pictured above: Rajasthani folk music
September 2006
Tabla Workshop with Pandit Suresh Talwalkar
In the Asian Music Centre, London.
Music from Iran with the Payvar Ensemble - on tour throughout the UK and Europe
The Payvar Ensemble has performed and represented Iranian music all over the world. The Ensemble was formed forty years ago in honour of the outstanding musician Ostad Payvar, a master of the santoor based on the tradition of dastgahs (Iranian scales). The group we are bringing includes a number of legendary Iranian musicians who will perform a compelling and richly diverse programme of entrancing Iranian music led by the tar, santoor and tombak (Iranian drum). Featuring Ostad Hooshang Zarif (tar: plucked stringed instrument), Ostad Mohammad Esmaieli (tombak: Iranian drum), Mohammad Moghadasi (kamancheh: bowed stringed instrument), Mohammad Delnavazi (oud: plucked lute), Saied Sabet (santoor: dulcimer), Davood Varzideh (ney: flute), Reza Abaee (gheichak: stringed instrument), Faridpoor (vocal).
Pictured above: the Payvar Ensemble of Iran
Contemporary World Collaboration: Juliet Roberts (UK), Babani Kone (Mali) and Swati Natekar (India) in 'Les Dangereuses' - on tour throughout the UK
The deep emotions of jazz, the alluring passions of Malian music and the intense spirituality of Indian classical music are united in this unique collaboration between three female vocalists: Juliet Roberts (UK), Babani Kone (Mali) and Swati Natekar (India). The three vocal traditions are linked through the theme of storytelling as each genre depicts tales of betrayal, love, and conflict. The vocalists are joined by accompanying musicians from each of the three traditions including kora, sarangi, tabla, bass, piano and drum kit.
Pictured l-r: Juliet Roberts, Swati Natekar, Babani Kone
October 2006
Remember Shakti: John McLaughlin, Zakir Hussain, U. Shrinivas and V. Selvaganesh
"Rapid fire virtuosity suggesting passion, heat, a sense of danger and promise ahead" - Daily Telegraph
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Pandit Ulhas Kashalkar on tour throughout the UK
Pandit Ulhas Kashalkar offers a breathtaking blend of three gayakis (vocal styles) from the Gwalior , Agra and Jaipur gharanas (musical traditions). His performances offer a unique glimpse into the integrity and beauty of North Indian classical music. Pt. Ulhas Kashalkar was born into a family of musicians and was initially trained by his father, Shri N. D. Kashalkar before being accepted as the disciple of great masters such as Pt. Ram Marathe and Pt. Gajanan bua Joshi.
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Is diabetes considered a disability? I was denied SSI because according to them, it is not a disability.
The definition of disability under Social Security is different than other programs. Social Security pays only for total disability. No benefits are payable for partial disability or for short-term disability.
Disability under Social Security is based on your inability to work. Social Security considers you disabled under Social Security rules if you cannot do work that you did before and they decide that you cannot adjust to other work because of your medical condition(s). Evidence of substantial income through work (as little as $800 a month) will result in a determination that you are not disabled. Your disability must also last or be expected to last for at least one year or to result in death.
Social Security works with an agency in each state, usually called a Disability Determination Service (DDS), to evaluate disability and SSI claims. At the DDS, a disability evaluation specialist and a doctor follow a step-by-step process that applies to all disability claims, thus assuring a consistent national approach to evaluating disability.
First, the DDS specialists decide whether your impairment is severe. This simply means the evidence must show that your disability interferes with your ability to work.
The next step in the process is deciding whether the disability is included in a list of impairments. This list describes, for each of the major body systems, impairments that are considered severe enough to prevent an adult from doing any substantial work, or in the case of children under the age of 18, impairments that result in marked and severe functional limitations.
A list of disabling diseases and impairments that have been judged to be an automatically disabling impairment has been developed to guide DDS evaluators. Diabetes is not an impairment that automatically qualifies as a disabling impairment.
Those denied disability or SSI by Social Security have substantial appeal rights. I recommend that you consult an attorney in your area who has experience in pursuing SSI disability appeals for advice and assistance.
Additional comments from Shirley Goodman, diabetes nurse specialist:In my experience, usually the children with diabetes that have qualified for SSI had another qualifying medical condition. Diabetes alone did not meet the level to receive financial support through SSI. If a child has asthma or a seizure problem, or if their diabetes had caused complications like kidney problems, then the child is more likely to meet the standards for receiving financial support. Sometimes, this means you need more than one doctor's office to complete the health forms, so that all the health problems your child has can be reported to the case worker for SSI.
Under the American Disability Act, diabetes does qualify as a disability. But my understanding is that, under SSI, a certain level of health problems needs to be proven before you can qualify for SSI support.
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WINCHESTER, Va. - Shenandoah University Director of Intercollegiate Athletics Doug Zipp and head men's basketball coach Rob Pryor announced Monday that Allen Corbin has been promoted to full-time assistant men's basketball coach.
Corbin, who joined the SU staff as Pryor's lead assistant prior to the 2011-12 campaign, becomes the 19th full-time coach in the department and the sixth full-time assistant.
"As part of our long-term plans, we are adding full-time assistant coaches in selected sports," Zipp said. "When we joined the ODAC, the university administration identified men's basketball as one of several programs that needed full-time assistants to help achieve a high level of competitiveness within the league.
"Today's addition is the first of what we hope are many additions to our staff.
"We are very happy to welcome Allen into this full-time role and look forward to working with him as he assists coach Pryor with the development of our men's basketball program."
Corbin played one year of basketball at Shenandoah before transferring to West Virginia University. He was a walk-on member of the Mountaineers basketball program during their run to the Elite Eight of the 2005 NCAA Tournament.
Following his 2006 graduation, Corbin was an assistant basketball coach at Musselman (W. Va.) and James Wood (Va.) high schools before serving on the staff at Shepherd (W. Va.) University for two seasons.
"I am very thankful to President Fitzsimmons and Doug to add this full-time position prior to the start of the playing season," Pryor said.
"Allen is a very good basketball coach with a passion for the game. Last year, as a part-time assistant, he was a tremendous help to me last year with recruiting and I know he will play an even bigger role now that he is full-time. This is an important step for us in the development of our program."
Pryor also announced that he has added Willie Lewis as a volunteer assistant. Lewis, a 2010 SU grad, previous was an assistant on the SU women's staff from 2010-12.
Shenandoah opens its 2012-13 men's hoops season with an exhibition game at West Virginia Wesleyan on November 9.


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If that were my only problem with Cheshire's review, I'd say we had different tastes and leave it at that. But a girl was raped in the movie, and everyone--the director, the script, the actors in their roles--completely ignored it. I mean completely. It happened, but it was of absolutely no consequence. The statement is clear, though subtle: sexual violence doesn't matter.
It was a minor scene. The filmmakers did not intend to make a statement about rape. They "just" used rape as a means of making a different statement. Within the story, the perpetrator did not wish any harm to the girl, neither did he have any desire for her. He "just" raped her to achieve a personal goal. In an unconscious reflection of Western society, the film considers sexual violence to be incidental, acceptable and unremarkable. That the rapist was an ignorant, confused boy makes this message even more insidious and reprehensible.
It also heightens the need for comment. Almost any comment would have done. Something, anything to show that sexual violence does matter and that portraying it otherwise is unacceptable. Sadly, Cheshire was silent.
It's not all "good"
In Mr. Lady Music and Videos [Indies Arts Award Winners, June 27], Kat Parker reported that Kaia Wilson and Tammy Rae Carland "felt that there was a need for a women-run dyke label, one where the music and videos involved would reflect feminist ideals and good politics." Good politics? I doubt Wilson and Carland are inarticulate enough to describe their political views as "good." Is Parker making the statement that the politics in question are good? I find the ambiguity of this adjective disturbing. Parker does little to elaborate on what the politics actually are, offering no specific political views only vague terms such as "queer politics and feminism." I would like to caution Parker that such imprecise and destructive usage of the English language is distasteful to those who are wary of propaganda, and does a disservice to Wilson and Carland who may or may not have political views that individual readers would classify as "good."
Fair slice?
As I commend the in-depth reporting and soul-stirring accounts regarding the impact of the Latino influx on the African-American community [Black Culture Issue, July 11], I feel a critical point was missed pertaining to the anxieties of Black Folk: dehumanization. For 200-plus years, Black Folk have been estranged by European interests. Post diaspora, we have toiled psychologically with a two-ness described by W.E.B. DuBois; maintaining indigenous ties with Africa while adapting to the social mores of being American. Unequivocally, Black Folk lacked any choice in the matter of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, hence a common idiom, "African by Design/American by Trade."
Respecting the Latino's prerogative to migrate to America, theirs is based in choice. Ours is indicative of a science fiction movie. "We were extracted from our homelands, forced onto slave ships. Our travels took us through the forbidden zone by way of the middle passage. Forced into labor camps, a strange language and alien culture were imposed on us, leaving us shattered: a people ripped from their home, stripped of their humanity." Fanciful as that may read, that's our reality in this county. Paralleling the two migration patterns, humanity is lacking. The only people who have suffered greater indignities are the Native Americans.
Systematically, barriers have been erected in a myriad of services and agencies devaluing our presence in this country daily. The Latino presence may be more palatable to the American psyche whereas ours serves as a blemish on the face of America's history. A major concern we hold is with the coin of the realm: accessibility. African-American needs have been ignored. Watching another ethnic group arrive to be heirs to our labor understandably raises eyebrows. In short, we have yet to receive our fair share of the American pie. To see another customer get served as we have waited for 200-plus years makes a customer wonder.
Much in common
Mr. Jennings hit the nail on the head ["Black, Brown and Green," July 11] and I would like to add a bit to his insight.
1. Other People. Imagine if you and your fellow (insert your ethnic group here) found yourselves, in some cases, 5,000 miles away from the place you call home. To have a shred of a chance in an environment where you don't even speak the language, you have to cling together or else. Someone from a town or province near yours may have been an historical competitor but in this new context that's irrelevant because the stakes are so high. Those kinds of friendships in the face of alienation in a place like America argue for success. That's the case for some Latinos I know and also was the case for my African ancestors brought here starting in the 1400s. These people are not as "other" as some think they are because survival skills are one thing blacks and Hispanics definitely have in common.
2. Taking. Latinos may have never heard of Kwanzaa, the cultural holiday familiar to some black folks, but from all the tiendas popping up in the Tarheel State, they certainly manifest the principles of Kwanzaa. And they do it year round. Too many of us as African Americans observe Kwanzaa and everything else but have forgotten from whence we came--how our grands and great-grands dealt with the Great Depression, World War II, nationwide racism and Jim Crow specifically, but who still seized opportunity when they saw it, building a successful though segregated black economy similar to what today's immigrants are building now.
3. Our Jobs. "Our jobs" should be whatever we want them to be. Fifty-plus years ago they ranged from hotel maintenance to hotel ownership, from construction and landscaping to owning the buildings built and landscaped. Nowadays careers like clerical and retail appear to be our mainstays. For higher achievers, sports, music, acting, and smiling in various commercials, have resulted in an entertainment caste that's underpaid yet overvalued. And when we attempt to excel in other areas, certain whites and blacks cry foul, separatist, unrealistic, etc. Tengan cuidado. You will face similar problems in about 50 years because the alienation, apathy and politics as usual described above are just some of the down sides of success in a capitalist, free-market society.
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But, where are the snows of yesteryear? *
Boyd Clack (photo - Ben Hussain)
My mother was born, and spent her early life, in India. Her father worked for a British company that had interests there. They weren't millionaires but they were wealthy by local standards. Once, when she was 10 years old, she went to stay with an aunt who lived nearby. My mother slept on a couch in the living room. The night was hot and uncomfortable and she woke several times. On one such occasion she saw the bead curtain that led to the kitchen moving and the fridge door ajar. Then there was tinkle of the glass water jug being moved. There was a net over it to keep the flies away. The same thing happened the next night. She mentioned it to her Aunt who made no comment until my mother was about to leave when she told her that a previous owner of the house had died there and his body had been found dehydrated in the room in which my mother had slept.
The Aunt had a son the same age as my mother and on one occasion, when he was five years old, as his mother was leaving the house to play bridge with some friends, the boy asked her if she was going to the theatre. It was a strange question. The child was a child and no theatre was in the area where they lived and there had never been mention of theatres in the family. It seemed to come from nowhere. When she asked him what he meant he told her that he had been to the theatre many times in his other life. He described riding there in a carriage at night, the clip clop of the horses hooves on the cobblestones, the faint, golden glow of streetlights being masked by low lying smog. He said that he often took his lady friends along. He was clearly describing London - a city, in a country, to which he had never been. This was the early twentieth century; there was no television, no cinema, no discernible way that he could have acquired such knowledge. He described his clothing, evening wear, and the dresses of his lady friends. Inside the theatre he and his companions sat in a box and watched a man with a long pole turning down the gas lamps high up on the walls in preparation for the commencement of the performance. He not only described the practical details of the visit, but spoke of the pleasant company, the joy and the excitement he felt, the great pleasure that he got. He described the texture of the velvet seats, the gentle hubbub of the audience, the tastes and smells, the laughter. His mother was concerned by this outpouring of unknowable information and took the child to a local Indian doctor who examined him and concluded that such incidents would dissipate with the passage of time. He would grow out of it. He said that, as a Hindu, he believed in reincarnation and was in no doubt that the boy was describing something from a previous life. The boy on reaching the age of six or seven never mentioned anything of the type again and the incident was forgotten.
I was alone in the house, my mother and father had gone to London, to my Cousin Edna's wedding. She didn't want me there, we never got along. I was in bed. It must have been midnight, or thereabouts. Anyway, I was lying there in semi-sleep when I heard a floorboard creek on the landing. I opened my eyes. There was another creek, the muffled, scraping sound of footsteps approaching my door. Then they stopped. I turned my head and looked at the door handle, there was an ice cold, terrible stillness … then the handle began to turn. Slow, but … strong and deliberate. I felt the blood trickling down my veins. I was unable to move … and, when the handle was fully turned, there was a dreadful pause and I knew that whoever, whatever it was standing there on the landing outside my door was … thinking. That was the most horrible thing … it was deliberating its next action. A heartless, dead logic was at work. Then the handle was loosened and … and the thing shuffled away … back to where it had come from.
I knew what it was you see. Mister Pitt, the previous owner of the house, had lived on there by himself for many years after his wife's death. He had nursed her as she suffered the agonies and madness brought on by cancer of the brain. He held her hand throughout the final twilight. He became a recluse after she'd gone and his body wasn't discovered for many months after his own death. They say he died of starvation; deliberate starvation. It was him. It was his unsleeping tormented soul lingering on there in the house, in the attic with the trunks full of his wife's clothes and possessions where they found him. That was who it was paused in inhuman thought outside my door that night. That was when I realised that I was right to fear the darkness. I don't fear it now; I'd welcome the company now. At least his desires were plain, his motives uncomplicated. I'm not afraid of anything any more. Let them do their damnedest …
Boyd Clack, 1 September 2013
* Mais, où sont les neiges d'antan? (But, where are the snows of yesteryear?) taken from Ballade des dames du temps jadis (Ballad of the Ladies of Times Past), a poem by François Villon (c. 1431–1463)
Also from Boyd Clack: Requiem; June 2013
Mother to her son; March 2013 (with Kirsten Jones)
The snows of yesteryear; December 2012
The snows of yesteryear; September 2012
The snows of yesteryear; June 2012
Interview with Boyd Clack; September 2011
Boyd's new website is www.boydclack.com
Boyd Clack's latest album, Labourer of Love is available in Tesco and ASDA stores now, or online from Amazon - as a CD at £8.99, or mp3 at £5.99.
Boyd Clack's latest album, Labourer of Love
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BOOKED: "American Idol" vets Kelly Clarkson, 21, and Clay Aiken, 25, will kick off a 30-date arena tour on Feb. 24 at North Carolina's Charlotte Coliseum, reports Billboard. Tickets go on sale Jan. 24. The other "Idol" presence, Ruben Studdard, is expected to launch his own tour this spring, likely in March or April, according to Jeff Frasco, the responsible agent for "Idol"-related tours at Creative Artists Agency.
BUSTED: Veteran actor ("The Larry Sanders Show") Rip Torn, 72, was arrested on drunken-driving charges after rear-ending a taxi in Greenwich Village early Tuesday morning, police tell New York's Daily News. Witnesses tell the paper that Torn was handcuffed and refused to take a breath test. His car, a 1990 Volvo, was reportedly seized. There has been no comment from the Torn camp.
HIRED: CNBC has signed former tennis champion-turned-TV analyst John McEnroe, 44, for a nightly 10 p.m. talk show to begin in the spring, in the hopes of using his outspoken and acerbic personality to give the network visibility at night, says the Hollywood Reporter. Network executives described McEnroe's new show as "an unpredictable and spontaneous" look at the top stories of the day. Says McEnroe: "CNBC is trying to do something different."
BOUGHT: "Today" show news anchor Ann Curry, 47, and her husband, software developer Brian Wilson, have purchased a $2.9 million townhouse on a tree-lined block of Manhattan's Upper West Side, reports the New York Observer. The 6,000-sq.-ft. residence will require extensive renovations before the couple and their two children can move in, says the paper, adding that the brownstone (and its garden) dates back to 1894. The Wilsons' neighbors will include Jerry Seinfeld and his family and Rosie O'Donnell and hers.
SUED: Hip-hop mogul Damon Dash, 32, is being sued for $15 million by a former model who claims he raped her at a party in Brazil on New Year's Day 2003, the New York Post reports. In her civil suit, Kirstie Thompson, 32, alleges that Dash attacked her. Dash's spokeswoman Amanda Silverman called the allegations "ludicrous."
DIED: Norwegian billionaire Arne Naess, 66, the former husband of Diana Ross, has fallen to his death while mountaineering in South Africa, reports the BBC. Naess apparently died as he tried to climb down a cliff after turning back due to thick mist. Naess, who was married to Ross for 13 years (they had two children together before divorcing in 2000), was an experienced climber and had climbed Mount Everest in 1985.
CREDITED: She may have won the National Board of Review's award as breakthrough actress (for her role as a killer in "Monster") but at the awards dinner in New York this week, an obviously nervous Charlize Theron threw the spotlight on another actress, reports PEOPLE. After reading a list of thank-yous to people involved in her film, Theron, 28, ended her acceptance speech on a spontaneous note: "I've never done this before, but I don't know if I'll ever get the chance. There's a woman here tonight who's been extremely inspirational to me as an actress: Frances McDormand. Thank you for showing us women that it's okay to have balls. You are so incredible and when I grow up I want to be you."
REVIVED: The 1960s cartoon icon Astro Boy, a retro Japanese robot, will take to the airwaves anew on the WB network starting this Saturday morning, reports the Wall Street Journal. (The WB, like PEOPLE, is part of Time Warner.) The spiky-haired superhero, who in 1963 — and in black and white — was the first Japanese show imported to the U.S., has long battled for peace between humankind and machines, notes the Journal. A colorized — and kitschy — version of the original series surfaced in the '80s, only to die a quiet death. Now he's back with fresh adventures. Go, Astro Boy, go.


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Graphic novels are an interesting medium. They combine the written word with the visual component of storytelling used heavily by television, movies, and video games. What better way to demonstrate the true power of the image than combining it with the written word to tell a complex and captivating tale? And what better audience than faculty and students at a school with such a strong focus on the arts?
The Full Sail University Library has been expanding our collection of graphic novels recently. We have added some classic titles as well as some of the newest releases from leading authors and illustrators. From Art Spiegelman's timeless Maus (a holocaust survivor's story told from the viewpoint of illustrated mice) to Frank Miller's renown Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, our graphic novel section is slowly growing, both in volume and quality.
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Cat Power's new covers record includes tunes by Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, and Cat Power herself. The mood is hushed, and elegiac.
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Chan Marshall's cover of "New York, New York" isn't the best Manhattan tribute to spill out of the indie scene in the past 12 months – that honor belongs to LCD Soundsystem, which penned the supremely odd "New York, I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down." But it's certainly the loveliest. Marshall (a.k.a. Cat Power) drops the register, grinds the tempo down to a slippery vamp, and snarls out the famous couplet: "If I can make it there/ I'll make it anywhere." The rest of the album – comprised almost wholly of covers – follows suite. Joni Mitchell's "Blue" is awash in lazy reverb; "Woman Left Lonely" turns hushed. All in all, Marshall's most elegiac performance to date. Grade: B+ – Matthew Shaer


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For the past two weeks, Lydia Blalock has been waiting for the East Feliciana Parish Coroner's Office to release the remains of her father-in-law and niece after their deaths in a fiery car accident.
The Coroner's Office now says it will do so Friday, having confirmed the identities of the badly charred bodies.
"It was a relief that led to tears on all of our parts," Blalock said Thursday. "We have been holding it all together for two weeks now, and to know that the ordeal is almost over — a weight has been lifted."
Blalock said the family can now prepare for a funeral set for Saturday in Liberty, Mississippi.
On July 24, William Blalock, 86, Lydia Blalock's father-in law, was killed with his 19-year-old granddaughter, Ariel Foster, when their sedan veered into oncoming traffic on La. 67 near the Mississippi border and smashed into an 18-wheeler.
Their 2010 Kia Optima caught fire, and leaking diesel from the 18-wheeler's storage tank fueled the flames. All forms of identification papers were incinerated, and authorities were unable to take fingerprint and teeth samples because the bodies were so badly burned. Instead it would take DNA analysis, a slow and difficult process, to confirm the victims' identities.
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1. Tech superstars step up to raise ALS awareness.
Mark Zuckerberg takes the #IceBucketChallenge, dares Bill Gates to do the same http://t.co/n4JIQKrTjZ
— Huffington Post (@HuffingtonPost) August 14, 2014
2. Startups in London launch an average of twelve new crowdfunding projects each day, more than both San Francisco and New York.
London has overtaken New York City and San Francisco to become the world capital of crowdfunding. http://t.co/FoHtYaT9HG
— Forbes Tech News (@ForbesTech) August 18, 2014
3. Should law enforcement officers be required to record themselves?
Why every police officer in America should wear a camera http://t.co/88G13AWIaJ — The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) August 16, 2014
4. Silicon Valley's favorite roadster is getting a battery upgrade.
Silicon Valley rich dudes rejoice: Tesla Roadsters getting replacement, 400-mile batteries http://t.co/lNKu4YcXV1 pic.twitter.com/o37Rus06sd — VentureBeat (@VentureBeat) August 17, 2014
5. Minecraft is a video game that will teach your kids how to code.
This new Minecraft mod teaches you to code as you play http://t.co/qjh8qTkANu — WIRED (@WIRED) August 18, 2014
6. After a slow winter the tech market is healthy for new public offerings.
The number of tech IPOs can double by 2016 http://t.co/t4Jk3CRmXD — TechCrunch (@TechCrunch) August 18, 2014
7. Uber announces moving service, plans to help Atlanta students move back in to school.
UberMovers will provide free and professional moving services for up to a half hour for students http://t.co/4sKYNglpMb
— TechCrunch (@TechCrunch) August 17, 2014
8. Smartphone enthusiasts eagerly anticipate Apple's next announcement.
Apple Loop: How much will the iPhone 6 cost, should you buy it, and will we see a Sapphire iWatch in September? http://t.co/xYnFvx3BqW
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Asperger syndrome is named after the Austrian pediatrician Hans Asperger. In 1944 he studied children who demonstrated limited empathy with their peers and were clumsy physically. It has been projected that the diagnosis of Asperger's be eliminated and replaced with a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder on a severity scale. Asperger's characteristics also include repetitive behaviors, lack of social interaction and communication. Autism is the most similar to Asperger Syndrome.
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Which female character shared a deeper connection w/ Bruce?
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Re: Which female character shared a deeper connection w/ Bruce?
If you ask me, I would say yes. It would be a different story though. She did rob him in Rises. She was a thief, and Bruce still liked her. She was lost, much the same he was in the past. I think it is safe to assume that Batman could see good in her. The fact that she was a survivor reminds me of the flashback in Begins where Bruce tells Ra's that the first time he stole:
Bruce Wayne: The first time I stole so that I wouldn't starve, yes. I lost many assumptions about the simple nature of right and wrong.
I still think that, even she appears for one movie, Selina Kyle's character and his interactions with Bruce Wayne conveys a lot of meaning and substance, and it is satisfactory for the characters themselves and for us as viewers. We really don't need to see more. At the end we know that Bruce overcame his pain, he made Gotham a better place, and is willing to have a better life.
We can't help but put ourselves in Alfred's shoes. We want Bruce to be happy, and at the end, faith was rewarded.
A hero can be anyone.
Even a man doing something as simple and reassuring as putting a coat around a young boy's shoulders
to let him know that the world hadn't ended.
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President Obama is preparing to escape wintry Washington and lob the finger at chilly Chicago, departing Dec. 18 for a Hawaii vacation lasting at least two weeks.
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The concern here is that the Republicans want not only to make Obama a one-term president, but also to screw up his 2010 vacation. They can do it by dragging out the Bush tax cut negotiations, which are the main thing that both Obama and the Republicans want to get done before Congress leaves town for the year.
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