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T.B.L. stand for The Becklette Lessons. i would like to define becklette as a becky who is of the age of innocence (or lack thereof). anywhere between teen to early 20s. i want to impart knowledge to my brethren who are of the younger set. there are so many of them out there.
if you do not fall within this age range anymore, you have to admit, you were a becklette once. didn't we, at one point in our lives, say this: i wish i knew then what i know now? some of us grow older, but never grow up. maybe, just maybe, this could still help.
i havent done this in a while. people do grow uP eventually, and so i would like to re-write how this goes. i would like to make it a little bit more personal this time around. i don't want to preach, i just would like to voice out what i've been through. and so, for Season 2, i'm rebranding this. it should go like this:
T.B.L. stand for The Becks Lessons. i would like to define becks as a gay guy who is of the age of innocence (or lack thereof). anywhere between teen to mid 20s. young, beautiful, and most often, foolish.
i was, once upon a time, in that phase. you have to admit, you were too. didn't we, at one point in our lives, say this: i wish i knew then what i know now? some of us grow older, but never grow up. maybe, just maybe, this could help. these passages may or may not contain lessons, but they tell a story.
lesson#12: no other gay man
there is a strangE phenomenon going on and it probably has to do with the market being too saturated here in manila. often, you will scratch your head at the fact thaT a number of those "seeking" for potential partners are those that are in relationships.
it probably is one of the oldest sTories of infidelities in our world. you'd meet someone casually, sparks fly, you get to know each other, continue for a month, then boom! you find out he's in a relationship.
a lot of blog posts have been written about this, some rivalling the holiness of the pope, telling you off that what you are doing is immoral and that you would destroy lives (partially true) and you'd go to hell (well, maybe), while on the opposing side, it would be one-upping the indecency of the worst kontrabida slut you can think of, telling you that it's just having fun (partly true) and that you know when to stop (most often, not true).
i learned my own way. there is no right or wrong way to go about it. i say: go fuck each other sore, give him the best damn sex he's ever had but afterwhIch, go exorcist-crazy on him and slap him real hard for his partner. when you hear the door slam shut after he leaves, stand in front of the mirror, and slap yourself real hard for you to wake up. do it twice, if your dream is of the 2nd level inception type. then hug yourself.
plan it out. as soon as you find out he is in a relationship, apply lesson#1 of TBL (look it up), suck it up. then make sure you go out with a bang. this way, you get to have a "taste" of this man whom you've been spending/wasting a good month or so of your life with. you won't get any "what ifs" (what if he has a huge cock? what if he tastes really good? what if he has a mole on his left ball sack... you get the point). doing it oftentimes dispels the curiosity (no he doesn't have a 9-inch magnum more like a 5 incher on a good day; he tastes like lukewarm onion soup and smells like one too, and if that's a mole, then i would have to redefine brownish ball sacks)....my point is, finding out gives you the disappointing answers.
and he would also leave you feeling scared shit from your ghetto act. and maybe, just maybe, he will smell the coffee too and learn.
win-win. at least on your part.
lesson#13: sometimes you are Halle Berry for the Monster Ball winning an Oscar, and sometimes you are the Halle Berry for Catwoman getting a Razzi.
yes, you are Halle Berry. a strong and beautiFul black woman. your sex appeal can cut a man in half. yup. and then you wake up.
sometimes you win big and sometimes you appear to win, but in reality you are just making a fool of yourself. let's take for example: going out to the gay scene a while back. there are some nights where i felt i was not at my best form, and yet, i get to score with that hot guy i've been eyeing the whole night. win for me! but there are nights when i came out in my sexiest, come-fuck-me outfits. i dabbed on my manliest-yet-fruity-but-seductive eau de parfum. i had an after facial glow. and what happened? nothing. it's just me and my hand that night. hahaha.
but what matters is this: you accept the award no matter what it is, with unnerring grace and panache. don't take yourself too seriously. learn to laugh at yourself. the wOrld would then laugh with you, not at you. so simple, yet back then i wished i had this mindset that i have now. i guess youth is really wasted on the young.
lesson#14: you are not your possessions
who knows that i would find a nugget of wisdom in a Disney movie? remember the circle of life? always think of your place in life as part of a greater whole. cliche, i know. but wait.
people often visualize society as a pyramid. i would prefer to think of it as a circle. a circle doesnt have a summit. you don't have to strive to claw your way to the top because there is no top! it's one long roundabout shape. and it could go either clockwise or counter clockwise. and it would always go back to you.
there would always be beckys out there who would always be hotter than you, more popular than you, richer than you. but always remember, that you would always have that something that they do not have. try visualizing the circle and where you are placed in it. you might see them as somewhere ahead of you. but that one thing you have and they don't? well, they also see you the other way around.
there's nothing wrong with aspiring for gadgets that cost an arm and a leg. i know i've been drooling for the latest apple has to offer. i know the prices have been prohibitive because i have to set aside my money for other stuff i need for my new place. and then i see these trust fund gays who walk around waving their i-whatevers like they are trinkets. at least when i get one, every sinGle centavo was from my pocket. i can not place a value to that.
happy tuesday! good luck with the traffic caused the humongo-ginormous gathering of the INCs in Manila.


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Missouri Western softball doesn't believe in preseason rankings. The team just wants to play. After experiencing the aftermath of a high-forecast, coach Jen Bagley didn't necessarily care for what people thought about this year's squad. However, after winning its first regular season MIAA Championship, she does think this team can do more than just duplicate an exceptional 2011 campaign. "What... Read More


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"Inventive and increasingly hysterical"
'Best Shows of the Edinburgh Fringe 2017'
- The Skinny, ★★★★
'Best Shows of the Edinburgh Fringe 2017'
- The Skinny, ★★★★
The Delightful Sausage are the sketch comedy double-act that pulsating hernia of a mother warned you about.
Since inventing sketch comedy in 2015, Chris Cantrill and Amy Gledhill have been peddling their own brand of nonsense to anybody daft enough to get within spitting distance.
Expect surreal sketches, unsettling illustrations and heavily implied violence. Cult comedy for wayward juggalos.
— Ed Fest Mag, ★★★★
— The Skinny, 'Best Shows of the Fringe 2017' ★★★★
— ThreeWeeks, 'Three to See' ★★★★
— ShortCom, ★★★★
— Mumble Comedy, ★★★★
— Chuss Reviews, ★★★★★
The Delightful Sausage contains 40% Chris Cantrill (★★★★★, Ed Fest Magazine) and 40% Amy Gledhill ("Silly, vivacious and very funny" Richard Herring)*.
Chris is a former finalist of the Leicester Square New Comedian of the Year competition and has been heard on BBC Radio 4 Extra. He drives stick.
Amy is a runner-up of the Leicester Square New Comedian of the Year competition. She's also won the Red24 New Act of the Year competition. She does her own research.
In 2017 the duo have took their first show (Cold Hard Cache) to the Edinburgh Festival where them southern cucks lapped it up like blue-top-tit-milk.
* The remaining 20%? New York City husk. Best husk in the whole damn state.
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Demba Ba could hardly have put it better. When asked this week about the future for his former Chelsea team-mate, Fernando Torres, Ba replied: "I just want him to find happiness. I don't know where he will be happy, but I just want him to find happiness because he is a nice guy."
Now that Torres has agreed a two-year loan move to AC Milan, ending a miserable spell in his career, you would have to have a heart of stone not to agree with Ba.
Above all, the tale of Torres's long, drawn-out decline in England is a sad one. The schoolboy smile that once never left his face has been replaced by a perpetual grimace as the best years of his career have been eaten away by injuries and loss of form.
But to my mind, to label Torres a flop is to do him an enormous disservice, for the simple reason that the legacy of his astonishing impact at Liverpool will far outweigh the memory of his later, frustrating years at Stamford Bridge.
The abiding memory of Torres in England will, for me, always be his goal against Arsenal in the quarter-final of the 2008 Champions League at Anfield.
With the second leg poised at 1-1, and 2-2 on aggregate, Peter Crouch flicked the ball into the Arsenal penalty area. What happened next took the breath away. Torres turned in a flash – almost on the spot – and hammered a shot of extraordinary velocity high past Manuel Almunia into the net.
His celebration was that of a player who knew he was at the peak of his powers, sauntering towards the corner flag, his finger wagging knowingly to the ecstatic fans in the Kop End. It was a goal that showcased the Spaniard's finest attributes: poise, power, speed of mind and movement, and an instinctive eye for goal.
The statistics of Torres's first season in England were staggering: 24 goals in 33 league appearances, 36 in all competitions. He was the first Liverpool player to score more than 20 league goals in a season since Robbie Fowler in 1995-96, and he was the most prolific foreign debutant in English football.
The goals kept coming too, 17 in Liverpool's title-challenging 2008-09 season, and 23 in the following campaign. To watch him felt like watching a child playing football in a playground, Torres played with a smile on his face and the Liverpool fans adored him for it.
Not just Liverpool supporters either; in 2008, a survey carried out for the Barclays Fan Report found that Torres was the Premier League's most popular player.
As well as being one of the best footballers on the planet, 'El Nino' also seemed a genuinely nice bloke. Certainly, the fans held an affection for Torres that they never did Luis Suarez, or, for that matter, Michael Owen. Not since the days of Fowler had a Liverpool striker achieved such adulation.
That certainly made it far harder for those fans to accept it when Torres forced through a move to Chelsea in early 2011. The transfer took many Liverpool fans by surprise, but the writing had been on the wall. Did Torres owe the club more time? Possibly. But Liverpool had been in regression since finishing second in the league to Manchester United in 2009, and Anfield was being torn apart by civil war between the club's then owners, George Gillett and Tom Hicks, and their manager Rafael Benítez.
World-class players like Xabi Alonso were leaving, mediocre replacements coming in. At 27, Torres was at a crossroads in his career and he chose Stamford Bridge. I found it hard then to blame him then, and I still do today. The club were heading for administration at the time and Torres chose to get out.
Nobody really benefited from Torres's £50 million transfer to Chelsea. Liverpool largely wasted their money on the likes of Charlie Adam and Andy Carroll, while Chelsea bought a player who had peaked a year prior to joining them.
No single factor is behind Torres's decline at Chelsea. In truth, it began in his final season at Liverpool, after a succession of hamstring and knee injuries gradually robbed him of the once trademark turn of pace, and self-doubt seemed suddenly to plague his game.
The goal compilation videos on YouTube have been replaced by collections of his finest misses, even if, paradoxically, his 'worst' years in England have yielded the Champions League, Europe League and FA Cup. Torres's work ethic has never slackened, but he was forced to adapt his style and watching him attempt in vein to rediscover the goal tough that has deserted him has been painful viewing.
With Chelsea having signed Diego Costa during the summer and in the market for at least one more striker, the club have moved on. Torres's escape to Milan is a relief all round, and it will be interesting to see how he fares, free of the pressures of the Premier League and the ghosts of his past achievements.
Maybe now, finally, the smile will return. Clearly, he will now never scale the heights he did during his prime at Liverpool. But just to see him enjoying his football again would be a start.
Torres's best years are a long way behind him, but such was his incredible impact on the English game that he has earned respect, not ridicule.


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In many waterfront cities throughout the world, a fun and unique way to go sightseeing is by taking a "Duck Tour." Not your normal tour, they are offered in several U.S. cities, including Boston, Branson, Hot Springs, Miami, Philadelphia, Seattle and even here in Portland, Maine. The Duck is actually a DUKW, an amphibious military vehicle designed by GMC during World War II.  DUKW is  not a military acronym, but rather a manufacturer acronym coined by GMC:  D – vehicle made in 1942, U – Utility, K – All-Wheel Drive, and W- two rear powered axles.
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The hotel barn at Aiden Lair Lodge, Minerva, owned by M.F. Cronin, was destroyed by fire Jan. 1, 1910. The building was the one from which Mr. Cronin selected a team of horses at the time he furnished the relay on Colonel Theodore Roosevelt's trip from Mt. Marcy when President McKinley was assassinated in 1901 and drove from Aiden Lair to North Creek the quickest on record. A special train was waiting for the new president to be at the North Creek station.
Mike Cronin had applications enough for horse shoes worn by his team as souvenirs to fill a bible. The origin of the fire is not known. Loss on buildings and contents was $1,000 and sadly there was no insurance.
(Note: Mike Cronin, 50, died June 10, 1914 in a mental hospital in Ogdensburgh. He left behind a widow, a son and eight daughters. He was a legend in his own time.)


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(Bloomberg) -- Barclays Plc, Credit Suisse Group AG and UBS AG will face questions this week about key banker departures, legal challenges and their efforts to boost profitability.
Barclays last week lost three top bankers in the U.S. and Asia before a May 8 strategy announcement that will probably include shrinking the London-based firms investment bank. Credit Suisse, which holds a shareholder meeting May 9, is facing potential U.S. criminal charges over its role in helping Americans avoid paying taxes, people familiar with the matter said last week. UBS AG, meeting investors tomorrow, is falling short of profit goals, according to analysts estimates.
Europes top banks are facing heightened scrutiny from shareholders, regulators and legal authorities after they lost market share in some investment banking businesses to U.S. competitors. Meanwhile key areas of Wall Street revenue are under pressure: JPMorgan Chase & Co., the biggest U.S. bank, said last week that it expects trading revenue to drop about 20 percent this quarter from a year ago.
When banks started thinking strategically about where they wanted to be, they were expecting fixed-income, currencies and commodities to be stronger than today, and that the goal posts on capital would be clearer than they are, said Eli Haroush, a fund manager at APG Asset Management in Amsterdam, which oversees 352 billion euros ($488 billion). At the moment banks have to run very fast in order to not move at all or fall back.
Barclays will now have to compete without some of the key dealmakers it acquired with its purchase of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.s North American operations. Hugh Skip McGee, the Lehman Brothers alumnus who received a stock bonus more than twice the size of Barclays Chief Executive Officer Antony Jenkins, left last week. That was followed by the departures of Ros Stephenson to Zurich-based UBS and Robert Morrice, the Asia- Pacific chairman and CEO, who is retiring after 17 years.
The Lehman Brothers acquisition helped Barclays in the U.S. The bank ranks higher among underwriters of U.S. stock sales than it does in Europe, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The bank is also more active on mergers involving U.S. companies than on European deals, the data show.
If people are departing, and you dont have continuity in your relationships, thats a disadvantage, said Charles Peabody, an analyst at Portales Partners LLC in New York.
Another Lehman Brothers alumnus -- mergers and acquisitions chief Paul Parker -- is planning to leave Barclays in a few weeks and doesnt have any immediate plans for what hell do next, according to a person familiar with Parkers thinking.
Investors are demanding that Jenkins, 52, outline a strategy for the investment bank, the biggest source of income for the firm, after falling behind on targets and boosting pay.
Return on average equity at Barclayss securities unit, a measure of profitability, fell to 8.2 percent last year from 13 percent in 2012, short of Jenkinss target of at least 11 percent in 2015.
On the cost side of investment banks, restructuring will require drastic measures -- on top of the further headcount reductions which are likely, including reviewing the businesses to maintain to reduce risk-weighted assets, Philippe Morel, a London-based senior partner and managing director at The Boston Consulting Group, said by e-mail.
Barclays could eliminate 7,500 jobs at its investment bank, according to an April 22 report by Sanford C. Bernstein. The European fixed-income, currencies and commodities business may be the hardest hit, with about 5,000 job losses, analysts led by Chirantan Barua said in the note. Cuts of 6,500 to 7,500 equate to between 25 percent and 30 percent of the units employees, the report estimated.
In the strategy review this week, Barclays will say its naming Corporate and Investment Bank Co-Head Eric Bommensath to oversee a so-called bad bank of unwanted assets and units, leaving Tom King in charge of the investment bank, a person familiar with the plan said last week. The bad bank will include the commodities business and other units previously assigned to the banks exit quadrant, including some of the firms rates trading, derivatives and other fixed-income assets, the person said.
The challenge for Barclays is to continue the rebalancing of the group away from being a fixed-income dominated investment bank to being a more balanced investment bank, UBS analysts led by John-Paul Crutchley said in a May 1 research note. Investors would favor a restructuring that reduced the overall balance sheet and lowered capital intensity.
Credit Suisse CEO Brady Dougan, 54, will probably face questions at his companys May 9 annual meeting about the implications of possible U.S. charges against the firm, the largest of the 14 Swiss banks under criminal investigation in a crackdown on offshore tax evasion.
Clients -- including trustees, fiduciaries and pension funds -- could be forced to cut ties with a financial institution found guilty of criminal charges, some lawyers and bankers have said.
Credit Suisse shares fell as much as 3.4 percent, the biggest decline in more than two months, and were 2.7 percent lower at 27.30 Swiss francs at 4:06 p.m. in Zurich trading. Credit Suisse received demands in the past couple of weeks for a guilty plea and names of American tax evaders with Credit Suisse accounts, NZZ am Sonntag reported yesterday.
Unforeseen events can occur, Brad Hintz, an analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein in New York told Bloomberg Television last week. A criminal charge is going to cause the clients to pull away and you can set off that wildfire in confidence.
The uncertainty is already weighing on BNP Paribas SA. Frances biggest bank in on track for the biggest monthly fall in almost two years as analysts cut their ratings on the stock, citing concern over potential criminal charges for violations of U.S. sanctions barring business with prohibited countries. BNP Paribas said on April 30 it may need to pay far in excess of the $1.1 billion it has set aside for legal investigations by U.S. authorities.
At UBS, which has already retrenched in fixed income and settled a U.S. tax case, the challenge for CEO Sergio Ermotti is shedding unwanted assets fast enough and cutting costs. Ermotti, 53, will seek to reassure shareholders at a meeting in Zurich tomorrow that the firm wont need to review its objectives after the Swiss regulators demands that the bank hold more capital to cover legal risks delayed profitability targets last year.
UBS may post a return on equity of 12.9 percent in 2016, missing a target of 15 percent, according to the average estimate of 15 analysts surveyed by Bloomberg.
As of Dec. 31, UBS was about 1 billion Swiss francs ($1.14 billion) short of its cost-reduction target, leaving an additional 3.2 billion francs of targeted expense savings, Citigroup Inc. analysts led by Kinner Lakhani wrote in a May 2 research note. Costs and capital are two areas that will probably be the focus of the investor day, the analysts wrote.
European investment banks have done about two-thirds of the restructuring, Davide Serra, founder and managing partner of London-based fund Algebris Investments, said by e-mail. UBS has to execute the plan and focus on growing the core while Barclays is catching up.
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John Contratti's "Cooking With Mr. C." is one of the most entertaining blogs out there. I've been a fan ever since he did Martha Stewart's Mad Hungry. Glad to see he's venturing into television.
10 Best Food Blogs for Novice Cooks
While most of us want to make fancy dishes so as to impress our loved ones it is only a handful of us who actually manage to do so. Cooking is not everyone's cup of tea but to prove this myth wrong and to provide everyone a fair chance we conducted a survey and came up with the top ten food blogs for all the novice cooks out there who are having a hard time around in the kitchen. As for all those who are already well acquainted with the various food blogs out there and even have their favorites ranked, this will only enrich your knowledge and help to enhance your culinary creativity.
Following is an array of all the cooking blogs arranged in a decreasing order:
10. Herbivoracious-
It is often believed by many that vegetarian sums up to cuisines that are deemed as boring and flavorless. This blog is sure to challenge such mindsets. This particular blog offers a huge range of vegetarian dishes and recipes which are sure to tantalize the taste buds of the non-vegetarians alike. The variety of dishes offered by this blog ranges from total vegetarian Thanksgiving menus to Crepes to eggplant sandwiches to yogurt and honey. Such a wide display of menus serves to delight all bloggers and provides excellent learning opportunities for many.
9. Gluten Free Life-
Gluten seem to be present in a wide range of products, be it in bread, pasta or cupcakes. Bread owes its chewiness to gluten while the airy crumb in cupcakes is due to gluten. While it seems to be harmless there exist reasons for which one might need to eliminate gluten from their diet due to health issues. While many believe that life might stop after being diagnosed with gluten sensitivity, this blog is sure to prove that belief wrong. This particular recipe blog help people undergo a transition in their thinking as well as cooking style. This blog is sure to attract the cooks who are into gluten-free cooking for the long haul with its huge list of attractive and creative gluten-free recipes.
8. Civilized Caveman-
This is an award winning blog that offers a wide variety of recipes which enable people to maintain a healthy lifestyle. The fact which certainly makes this blog unique is that an entire section is dedicated to crock pot cooking. What mainly attracts novice cooks is the well organized layout of this blog. A whole section known as Paleo Pantry exists which lists all the kitchen tools that helps in preparing the dishes along with the supplies required for a particular preparation. Although this list might be huge for novice cooks, but slowly with time, they would have acquired most of the items on the list. This blog provides a huge list of- spices and canned items-which is the best place for a novice cook to start learning.
7. 101 Cookbooks-
This blog was started by San Francisco based Heidi Swanson nearly a decade ago with the intention to share various recipes from her huge cookbook collection and at present this blog is no less than a huge cookbook itself. This blog is arranged neatly in a chronological order which enables swift and easy navigation from one recipe to another. An added advantage of this blog is that it provides the bloggers with the facility to search for recipes based on the ingredients, that is, is covers all sorts of food from A-Z. This blog is a pleasure to explore for all those who are planning to try out or learn new recipes and even those who just visit blogs to ogle at pictures of delectable looking dishes.
6. Smitten Kitchen-
The recipes found in this blog often help people to go back in time and relish all those items that one would generally find in one's grand mom's cook book. This blog is excellent for novice cooks since it provides tutorials even about the basics of cooking, i.e. starting right from how to poach an egg. This blog provides excellent learning opportunities for one and all. This blog offers recipes from a wide range of cuisines namely Greek, Russian, Italian, Jewish etc. This blog appeals the most to all those who want to start cooking right from the scratch since it does not take recourse to any form of short cuts that might pose difficulty for the novice cooks.
5. Applemint-
This blog was started by Kajal Tejsinghani and the recipes on this blog reflect the tastes of her native place, India. Although few people might complain about some of the recipes being specified in grams, the wide range of recipes available on this site surely makes it a great learning experience for most people and encourages them to go about the required conversions.
4. Spoon Fork Bacon-
The creators of this blog are Teri Lyn Fisher and Jenny Park. Both of them challenge the traditional styles of cooking and present an assortment of recipes with a contemporary and bold look and feel to it. This blog is all about invention and for all those who believe in innovation while cooking, this is the place for them because this site provides people with recipes that one could not have started thinking even in a hundred years. This different outlook towards cooking is what makes this particular blog unique among the rest. This blog teaches one all about recreating ordinary dishes by adding a twist to it. The posting rate on this site is three times on an average. The various dishes on this blog are sure to leave the viewers drooling.
3. Only Delicious Recipes-
This is one such recipe blog that manages to draw out exclamations from one and all. The biggest appeal of this blog is the excellent quality of photographs that forces the viewers to crave for dishes they were not even aware they liked. With its vast collection of scrumptious recipes it becomes difficult for people to decide which item they should try out first. Although a little daunting for novice cooks, this blog is sure to rank among the top few blogs on cooking for novice and proficient cooks alike owing to its grand collection of recipes.
2. Cooking With Mr. C-
The creator of this blog is John Contratti and this blog is well known for its wide range of easy to cook and quick recipes. The belief that one is an accomplished chef for making an attempt to make a meal for family or friends is turned into reality with the help of this blog. For all novice cooks out there, this site is sure to earn an extra brownie point owing to the fact that the simple recipes provided here appear scrumptious and at the same time is relatively easy to make. Another unique feature of this site is that along with recipes the creator provides a collection of celebrity photographs as well.
1. Blue Kitchen-
This blog revolves just around food- making food, eating it, serving it or talking about it. This site presents a compilation of recipes from all possible imaginable sources. But this blog is not just about fancy cooking that requires one to start preparing well in advance before serving it. On the contrary this blog is apt for all those who would like to try out something new at the end of a day's work without spending hours on it. Hence, for all novice cooks this site presents ideas that they would find relatively easy to tackle while enjoying the adoration of near and dear ones. Whereas for all the experienced cooks out there, once in while they would find themselves taken aback at the possibility of finding some unique and out of the box techniques that would help enhance their culinary skills.
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I love "Food For Bacon" and "Cooking With Mr. C.". I follow those two blogs every day. I'm a big fan of John Contratti. Thanks for all the suggestions.
Erin New Jersey
These blogs are very helpful. "Cooking With Mr. C." is my favorite. The recipes are wonderful and being a huge tv/movie buff, I love to see the latest people Mr. C. is hanging out with. It's very entertaining. I'm also going to check out Gluten Free Life for my daughter.
Cooking With Mr. C. is one of the most entertaining food blogs. My favorite part is the celebrity photo section along with the great food. This guy has certainly caught the attention of some pretty hot stars. Here it is:


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About Empire United Z1 "Futures" House League
Empire United is the only non-profit premier club in the area. We are also the only U.S. Development Academy Club under U.S. Soccer in Western New York.
Our age-appropriate curriculum is designed by U.S. Soccer. It is ideal for developing technical skills as well as agility, balance and coordination all of which are needed to learn the game of soccer.
Every child who trains in our Z1 House League will be taught by licensed, professional soccer coaches.
Our Z1 house league players will benefit from a structured training session once a week and small sided league games.
Who Can Join Empire United Z1 House League?
We welcome girls and boys ages 5-13 regardless of experience, current skill level or zip code.
Children who play house league soccer at local travel clubs are especially welcomed to our Fall and Winter indoor sessions to keep playing and improving while their club is on break.
As an Empire United Z1 House League player, your child has many paths from which to choose. Many will continue and make the move to our premier teams. Some will even continue on to the Development Academy and beyond.
For those who do not opt to play premier soccer, the Club will help you find a local travel club that has the same focus on the individual player and his or her development that you will find here at Empire United.


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I wrote this Friday Five a while back but was unable to post it. Just saying, so you know I am not ill! :-) Actually I am heading out of town and will not be able to read your posts till sometime early next week, but I'll do so then. Have fun, and don't think too hard about this one. I figured we were due for some fun after Lent and Good Friday and Easter and all that churchy stuff! Four days of being mostly in bed with a reallyhowever, has been cheated in my case and I am up and taking nourishment. In that vein of thought, do you have a "Bucket List"? In other words, from the movie of the same name, five things you want to see, do, accomplish, etc. before you kick the bucket?
This is a biiiig bucket. :-)
Get legally married, knowing that we'll have the same rights and protections as any other couple as we age in the state where we live. Things are starting to look promising as momentum builds across the country!
Go back to seminary: maybe chaplaincy, maybe full ordination. If ordination, focus on homiletics. Learn to read Biblical Greek & Hebrew.
See a sunrise over the Grand Canyon, leaf-peep in New England, sail through the Fjords of Norway, dogsled on the Alaskan Glaciers, go on a "culture spree" in NYC, see the ancient wonders of Rome, eat my way through Tuscany, hear great German music in person, and lie on the beaches of the Mediterranean. Hmmm... and maybe, once, Christmas in London--including Lessons & Carols at King's College, a pilgrimage to Aldeburgh and time at Iona, while I'm in the neighborhood.
Keep my choirs growing and healthy. Keep challenging myself as a conductor. Learn to play trombone & bassoon, and spend some time in a community orchestra (playing one of those or taking up cello again, with Lori as my stand partner), just for the fun of it. Maybe conduct one.
Suffer a near-miss with a big bag of money falling from the sky. Though it won't fall on my head and kill me, it WILL make possible all of the above, as well as a quiet spot on a lakeshore to call our own, with regular time:
- to be with Beloved and watch her create things
- to read
- to hang out with our pups
- to write music and poetry (maybe publish something?)
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In 1973, in response to a need in the community, a manse was purchased and the garage converted to serve as the church. By 1974, church services were held in the garage, Sunday school in the bedrooms, the crèche in the kitchen, and by the end of the year there were about 354 members and adherents! It was then known as the Birchleigh United Church.
In 1977 two stands were bought in Norkem Park and plans drawn up for a church building, and in 1978 the new church complex was opened. We then became known as Trinity United Church.
«Sing to the LORD a new song, for he has done marvelous things; his right hand and his holy arm have worked salvation for him.» Psalm 98:1
In 1986 work began on the extensions to the church, the plans calling for a youth room, a chapel, offices and a large foyer. This work was done largely by the members, working on Saturdays and doing so with money in hand – no loan was taken!
In 1988 the Sunday school now consolidated itself at Norkem Park Primary, with the branch at Birch Acres being incorporated there as well. The extensions to the church were completed in 1989 at a cost of R125,000 and no debt! An incredible effort and act of faith!
Various staff and ministers have come and gone during the years, and we are indebted to all of them. Our Sunday school is now held at Trinity and no longer at the local school, and in 1994 the final payment on the original building's loan was made, leaving the church debt free in terms of the church itself.


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Like ubiquitous sushi in Vancouver, there's lots of Thai food to be had in Toronto. Most are efficient, cheap places where you can grab a passable pad thai or green curry for less than $8. But most are ordinary.
Khao San Road takes Thai food to fun and cool. (Not that I know much about cool; I go to bed at 10 p.m. On a weekend.) Michelle and I arrived on night flights and made it there just in time for a late dinner. There was a velvet rope outside and a guy who looked like a bouncer on his cellphone. We were confused.
Turns out the staffer just happened to be outside talking on the phone, and I think the rope is to keep the lineups orderly during the dinner rush. Apparently, it's that crazy busy. They don't take reservations, so try to go at non-peak hours (right when they open for lunch or dinner, later in the night).
Despite the first impression of a snobby club, Khao San Road is anything but. Servers were extremely friendly, and groups of diners were obviously enjoying themselves, giving it a warm, "stay all night" vibe.
We split two dishes: the chef's special pad thai ($15) with pork and the green curry ($13) with beef. I noticed prices are a tad higher than normal Toronto Thai places, but the price difference was made up in fresh ingredients, non-surly service and funky atmosphere.
(The restaurant's owner was sitting next to us with his friends and we started chatting. He told us some people complain about the "high prices," pointing out that they could make pad thai for $1 in Thailand. Ummm… I don't envy being a restaurant owner, that's for sure. I'd be kicking annoying people out left and right.)
I liked the special pad thai — advertised as "sweet, sour, savoury" — but to be honest, I could not distinguish it from a standard pad thai. I think next time, I would just order their street-style version for $2 less.
Fresh green chiles, bamboo shoots, green peppers, Thai basil definitely came through in the green curry. At first, I thought the bowl looked small, but it turned out to be those bottomless servings that satisfy.
Michelle and I had fun eating and catching up, but it is loud and hopping, so don't expect a quiet, romantic spot. Vegans and vegetarians are well-served here with lots of selection.
Khao San Road, 326 Adelaide West, Toronto, (647) 352-5773. Open Monday to Saturday lunch 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m., dinner 5-10 p.m. Closed Sundays.
KID-FRIENDLY NOTES – It's loud so pre-schoolers and up would be OK.
High chairs or boosters: No.
Access: A few steps at the front door and a tight dining room. Not conducive for strollers or car seats.


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Table of Contents: CFP: The Life of Mobile Data Conference Sean Smith <s.a.smith {AT} surrey.ac.uk> 24/7 project in vilnius "raimundas m" <raimay {AT} hotmail.com> DoP Bangalore: Local knowledge: design & innovation John Thackara <john {AT} doorsofperception.com> (by way of Andreas Broeckmann) window installation "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?terror=2Egov=22?= in Los Angeles Oliver Ressler <oliver.ressler {AT} chello.at> PRESS - [R]-[R]-[F] Festival "[R]-[R]-[F]- Festival" <agricola-w {AT} netcologne.de> ATC Monday 7:30pm: Mark Hansen Ken Goldberg <goldberg {AT} ieor.berkeley.edu> "WE INTERRUPT THIS EMPIRE..." (video screenings) "geert lovink" <geert {AT} xs4all.nl> For Nettime, if you feel it is appropriate Douglas Rushkoff <rushkoff {AT} well.com> bootlab berlin > attachment 1 "kobe matthys" <kobe.matthys {AT} agency-computer.com> (by way of pit schultz <pit {AT} ic ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 23:14:01 +0100 From: Sean Smith <s.a.smith {AT} surrey.ac.uk> Subject: CFP: The Life of Mobile Data Conference - --=====================_652014==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed [apologies for cross-posting. please forward to interested parties as appropriate] The Life of Mobile Data: Technology, Mobility and Data Subjectivity April 15 16, 2004 University of Surrey, England The rapid adoption and diffusion of mobile devices over the past decade has transformed the way information is generated, organized and communicated about individuals and their lives. The construction of new mobile data profiles and of mobile, informatic selves, hold the potential to transform what is organizationally and interpersonally meant by privacy, individuality, community, risk, trust, and reciprocity in a mobilizing, and globalizing world. In order to examine these transformations, the RIS:OME project at the University of Surrey is hosting an international, interdisciplinary conference to address emerging social and cultural relations of mobility, privacy, identity, information and communication. This conference will bring together academic, industry and policy researchers and practitioners to critically address how mobile information and communications technologies structure relations of privacy, security, trust, power, identity and difference. There are a number of questions that inform the themes of the conference. In what ways, for example, do mobiles reconfigure the relations of trust, risk, privacy and reciprocity embedded in organizational and interpersonal data sharing? In what ways do mobiles contribute to the construction of identity and of the 'information self'? What is the relationship between mobile data and the individual? Who owns and controls the emerging, individualized mobile data image? What roles do consumption and consumerism play in the social relations of privacy, trust and security? Is the development of mobile technologies associated with emerging relations of risk, uncertainty and privatisation? What social, cultural and regulatory factors have influenced the generation of mobile data in different countries? How do these factors influence culturally specific understandings and practices of globalized and transnational privacy, risk and trust? Are regimes of information sharing and data protection patterned along axes of development and underdevelopment? What roles do national differences and political economies play in the construction of emerging mobile data relations? How are politics reconfigured within and between countries via mobile data technologies and changing mobilities? What critical approaches can be brought to bear on our understanding of diversity, difference and resistance in the generation of mobile data? How can we account for the rapid uptake of mobile devices, and the development of mobile data sharing, both now and in the future? We seek to bring critical perspectives to bear on the development and widespread uptake of mobile technologies and developments in information sharing and data profiling over the last decade. The conference organizers thus invite papers presenting empirically grounded and theoretically informed analyses of the social changes that mobile technologies and their data relations have brought about. Suggested themes could include, but are by no means limited to: - - risk, trust and power in mobile information ownership, control, access and management - - culturally specific patterns of informational trust and privacy - - organizational structuring of mobile information paradigms - - data subjectivity and the construction of identity through mobile technologies - - mobile communications and emerging regulatory environments - - privacy enhancing technologies, their problems, paradoxes and possibilities - - privacy advocacy in the mobile environment - - organizational and interpersonal information sharing - - the lifecycle of mobile personal data: its generation, integration, profiling and mining - - mobile surveillance, security and globalization - - mobile data protection, data subjectivity and knowledge - - information gathering and social memory Papers and panels are invited that address the conference themes. Submission of Abstracts: 500 to 700 words, 31st Oct 2003 Notification of acceptance of papers: 15th Dec 2003 Registration Deadline: 30th Jan 2004 For further information, please contact the conference organizers: Dr Nicola Green <n.green {AT} surrey.ac.uk>, Sean Smith <s.a.smith {AT} surrey.ac.uk>. With the support of Intel Corporation, and the Department of Sociology at the University of Surrey. Paper length: 20 minutes. Panel presentations encouraged. _________________________________ Dr. Sean Smith Research Fellow, Mobile Technologies, Department of Sociology, University of Surrey. ph: +44 (0)1483 686 966 m: +44 (0)7786 511 042 - --=====================_652014==_.ALT ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 01:28:38 +0200 From: "raimundas m" <raimay {AT} hotmail.com> Subject: 24/7 project in vilnius 24/7: Wilno - Nueva York Project dates: September 12 - November 2, 2003 Venue: Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius www.cac.lt A journey through shortcuts and detours of translocal living via creative resistance : individual survival techniques : sustainable communities : transcultural drifts : intergalactic links : synchronicities : street: unreal time : speed of light : remote collaborations : floating places : self-publishing : identities in flux : LIST OF PARTICIPANTS (as for 22 08 03): Live: situations, performances, transmissions, seminars by 16 Beaver Street Group, Kate Armstrong, Otto Berchem, Bik Van der Pol, Daniel Bozhkov, Bureau of Inverse Technology, Phil Collins, Jose Cruz, Rainer Ganahl, Hope Ginsburg, Natalie Jeremijenko, Matthew Keegan, Jouke Kleerebezem, Will Kwan, Matthieu Laurette, M&M Proyectos, Darius Miksys, Jesus Cruz Negron, Parlour Projects, Arturas Raila, Martha Rosler, Beatriz Santiago, Tino Sehgal, Chemi Rosado Seijo, Hanno Soans, Temporary Services, Valie Export Society Screens and projections by Sonia Abian, Derrick Adams, Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla, Sven Augustijnen, Anita Di Bianco, Pierre Bismuth, Michael Blum, Francois Bucher, Karin Campbell, Forcefield with Happy Banana, Johan Grimonprez, Leon Grodski, Arunas Gudaitis, Tehching Hsieh, Emily Jacir, Paul Ramirez Jonas, Isaac Julien, Jesal Kapadia, M&M Proyectos, Gintaras Makarevicius, Dave McKenzie, Jonas Mekas, John Menick, Aleksandra Mir, Muntadas, Laurel Nakadate, Hayley Newman, Jeanine Oleson, Laura Parnes, Jenny Perlin, Cesare Pietroiusti, Adrian Piper, Radical Software Group, Reverend Billy, Emily Roysdon, Eran Schaerf & Eva Meyer, Wael Shawky, Sean Snyder, Javier Tellez, Tepeyac, Valerie Tevere, Alex Villar, Andy Warhol Documents, installations, databases by Rich Aldrich, Brian Bellot, Melissa Brown, Yane Calovski, Mariana Deball, Stephanie Diamond, Gardar Eide Einarsson, Patrick Killoran, Jeroen Kooijmans, Dainius Liskevicius, Jonathan Monk, Nomads & Residents, Michael Rakowitz, Lisi Raskin, Karin Sander, Igor Savchenko, Trebor Scholz, Alma Skersyte, Sandra Straukaite, Mario Garcia Torres, Oscar Tuazon, Roger Welch, Judi Werthein, Inga Zimprich, Carey Young, etc. Curators: Kestutis Kuizinas and Raimundas Malasauskas SOME NOTES FOR THE DRIFTING CONCEPT: The program (or vision) of the project is under a constant upgrade which is open. There is a hope that it will remain as such after the actual 24/7 exhibition at the CAC Vilnius is technically over. The following bits and pieces from the flow ideas are just multiple arrival/departure points to start or keep the conversation going. The project is conceived as an interface for different orders, rules and frameworks to interact together, drifting across the subjects with no central theme or principle attached. Yet all the concerns involved in the project are life-minded. There is never enough of diversity. Your comments or remixes of the concept are more than welcome. 24 / 7 Twenty hours seven days a week: this is the way the grocery store or the surveillance camera on the corner of the street works, this is how life sustaining (-ed) art practice functions in order to keep the survival. This is how the 24/7 project is intended to develop: to interact with myriads of flows and actions happening simultaneously, a continuous inventions of new ways of living and difference-friendly environments, rapid merge of identities and constant struggle which introduces new mutations in the urban evolution ( things that happen all the time, but are noticed occasionally.) 24/7: Vilnius is intended to immerse into reality and leave traces which could perhaps be identified only later. Or to put it into other words this is where the linking effort focused: Individual and collective techniques and strategies of living / survival / resistance to the power structures; Art as a tool of: learning, communicating, experiencing, living; Communal activities and ways of living / creating together via hi-tech technologies as well as low-key actions; Chance and programmed encounters / confrontations; Artist as a self-media outside of academic and institutional legitimations; Mapping the invisible flows of exchanges and objects; Simultaneities, synchronicities and complexities; Customised strategies and devices to inhabit public space; 25th HOUR The notion of hours and days in a loop implies the 25th hour: as an escape, fold, TAZ and break up from the loop www.nqpaofu.com/2003/nqpaofu71.html. AMSTERDAM łThe tourist industry is changing the real and imagined city and forms of urban life to fit it needs. Even if you go to real places, there are people who are reproducing packaged experiences for the visitor. Do the real Amsterdam experience! All in one place! And it doesnąt even have to be in Amsterdam!˛ (Edward Soja) Exactly, these slips have taken place even in books already: the title of the new book by Adam Phillips is Prague, yet its plot develops in Budapest. 24/7: Vilnius takes place in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania. "Wilno" is the way of referring to the city in Polish and Jiddish language, as well as "Nueva York" is New York for Spanish speaking community. Thus the loop of 24/7 is broken again, mixing up asynchronic temporalities together with the perspectives of ethnic minorities. NEW YORK CITY This was the starting point of the project to show the contemporary art scene of New York City in Vilnius. However following Edvar Sojaąs example of Amsterdam with a global migration in mind makes us to think that one can be a part of NYC art scene even without ever encountering USA immigration office. On the other hand being a part of New York art scene does not mean that one is a part of the local art market. But letąs consider these are nuances. Besides 200 languages being spoken here and the extremes of life NYC is still the main meeting point, media capital and the most loaded networking tool in the world. Thatąs how we decided to approach it. Drifting across NYC, traveling via customized channels of communication, entering various networks and communities here, and exiting hem somewhere else, maybe another part of the world. It is as if you take E train which runs on the D track and takes a route of F train in NYC underground. There are many points of transfer and entering another story or a zone. To put it in other words this is where the linking effort is focused: Street life; Remote collaborations; connecting as an artistic practice; łCommunicative and informational drift˛ (Jouke Klereebezem); hijacking the media, alternative and parallel ways of communication; Self-publishing: weblog culture; Transcultural slips and rides; Fluid identities and transpersonal realities, Recycling and remixing culture; VILNIUS City on the slip or city in sleep? Vilnius is going to accommodate the 24/7 project in September November 2003. The name of the city in Lithuanian language refers to notion of the wave, yet Neris river didnąt reach the scale of Pearl River, so it could feed the mega urban zones. The capital of one of the former Soviet Union republics Vilnius is an open field for the liberal democracy to interact with the heritage of Communist planning. Yet before the major investments of global capital has reached the city, a bronze monument for anarchomposer Frank Zappa stood up in one of the squares as a homage for anarchy which never sleeps. 24/7 is intended to intensify and densify the diversity of information in Vilnius, however it is not about Vilnius New York exchange: the two cities are just two points of transfer. The project as a linking and networking field 24/7: Vilnius is inspired by a field logic of sharing and self-regulating: some of artists groups and initiatives are invited to develop their own program in the project thus creating interzones where transparent neighborhoods coexist without borders. KEYWORDS that could have been above (to be continued): WAR, excess of information, open source, creative life, drifting concept, counterculture, nomadism, stock exchange, night shift, subculture, illegal aliens, terrorism, hip-hop, transexuals, surveillance systems, utopia, homeless, unemployed, etc. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 14:37:20 +0200 From: John Thackara <john {AT} doorsofperception.com> (by way of Andreas Broeckmann) Subject: DoP Bangalore: Local knowledge: design & innovation 26 August 2003 For immediate release: Doors of Perception in Bangalore Doors of Perception announces a "working party" in Bangalore, India, on 11 and 12 December, to celebrate its tenth birthday. DoorsEast 2003 is a cluster of events on the theme: "Local knowledge: design and innovation of tomorrow's services". The main event is a two-day international encounter - part conference, part open space workshop - on 11 and 12 December. It will address the question: "how do we design new services, enabled by ICT, that are based on local knowledge, and use local content?" DoorsEast features case studiesof location based information (GIS / GPS), WiFi networks, tools and methodologies for mapping local knowledge, and other new ways to design for mobility, geography, and access. Doors' partners in the event are the Centre for Knowledge Societies (CKS) and the National Institute of Design, in India; and Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, and Nokia, in Europe. Presenters and participants include: grassroots innovators from India and South Asia; designers of future service scenarios from MediaLab, Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, and others; Jussi Angesleva, the winner of Open Doors in 2002; Webby Award winner Marcel van der Drift; Derrick de Kerckhove, McCluhan Program director; Darlie O Koshy, Director, National Institute of Design in India; Open Doors peoples' choice Live|Work, from London; Ezio Manzini, Milan Polytechnic University; philosopher Patricia de Maertelare; e-democracy expert Bert Mulder; future services designers from Nokia; Jogi Panghaal, DoorsEast; Aditya Dev Sood, Center for Knowledge Societies, Bangalore; Marco Susani, Motorola; and symposiarch John Thackara, Doors of Perception. John Thackara commented: "The first major industry, textiles, owed a great deal to the transfer of knowledge from India. Our focus in design is now shifting its focus from things, to systems, and there are many new ways we can learn from South Asian thought". http://www.doorseast.org/ http://www.doorsofperception.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 18:08:06 +0200 From: Oliver Ressler <oliver.ressler {AT} chello.at> Subject: window installation "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?terror=2Egov=22?= in Los Angeles This is a multi-part message in MIME format. - --------------090503020906020801030105 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit BOOM! window installation "terror.gov" by Oliver Ressler & David Thorne at Gallery 825/LAAA, Los Angeles 825 N. La Cienega Blvd. September 2 - 26, 2003 "Boom!" is a collaborative project of Oliver Ressler (Vienna, Austria) and David Thorne (Los Angeles, USA). The project consists of photo-text works in various media designed for flexible production and application in a range of display contexts. The project began as a series of banners for use in counter-globalization protests, and has also been displayed in art institutions and as "public art." The works in the series to date inject full-length statements into the traditionally short linguistic structure of the "url" to generate dysfunctional web addresses which examine the central contradictions of globalized capitalism. These urls evoke the recent economic boom as a persistent and spectral manifestation of the deepening crises of globalized capitalism, and suggest that "boom" should be understood not only as "expansion" (capital in search of return) but also as potential collapse or implosion. The piece "terror.gov" was realized as an issue-specific intervention for a window installation at Gallery 825 in Los Angeles within the ongoing project "Boom!". "terror.gov" focuses on a present moment in the USA that could be called a "state of exception," a moment in which a discourse of terror seeks to foreclose - or suspend - certain kinds of political articulation, space and thought. Materially, this state of exception takes the form of directives, policies, and legislation which grant broad powers to the executive and the judiciary, and to intelligence, law enforcement, and other security apparatuses. In another sense, the state of exception has the effect of making contestatory modes of political engagement extremely difficult, since the discourse of terror relies on a rhetoric of potentiality or possibility (the potential of the unknown or the unpredictable, the possibility of future terrorist acts) in order to justify repressive measures and reciprocal acts of terror. In the name of security, "anything goes," and opposition to such measures is considered a kind of treachery. "terror.gov" suggests thinking toward a space of potentiality, or possibility, that is not always only the possibility of terror, from whatever source. The url text of the piece reads (without spaces): www. if only people would stay locked into the threat matrix and never stop to consider the fact that the scenario in which terror is met with terror on every front is dangerously and some might say deliriously circular then they would be immediately forthcoming with every penny necessary to sustain the burn rate for ongoing military and economic operations which secure a comfortable living for a select few and condemn everyone else to oblivion while still managing to convince them of the promise that such a comfortable life could one day be theirs even though they should simply be happy that at least there is more than enough terror to go around .gov Another new work of "Boom!" will be realized in 2003 within the upcoming exhibition "Reassessing urban space: Conventions, regulations, and counter-movements in social urban space", Dunkers Kulturhus, Helsingborg, Sweden Further information: http://www.ressler.at ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 13:03:50 +0200 From: "[R]-[R]-[F]- Festival" <agricola-w {AT} netcologne.de> Subject: PRESS - [R]-[R]-[F] Festival [R]-[R]-[F] Festival - Version 1.0 www.newmediafest.org/rrf/ 1. review from 20 August 2003 on NEURAL.it www.neural.it http://www.neural.it/nnews/rrf.htm 2. Feature on Blogwork of ASAC of 50th Venice Biennale http://www.labiennale.org/blogwork ***************************************** [R]-[R]-[F] Festival - Version 1.0 is currently participating in InteractivA '03 - Biennale for New Media Art www.cartodigital.org/interactiva at Museum of Contemporary Art Merida (Yucatan/Mexico) www.macay.org 11 July - 28 September 2003 >>>>>> Short introduction >>>>>> >From its structures, [R] - [R] - [F] - Festival is an experimental New Media art project in form of an online festival created, programmed and realized by Agricola de Cologne. Its central subject, abbreviated in the capital letters of the title, is "Remembering, Repressing, Forgetting". A new way of art working is practiced: networking as artworking. Experimental fields of memory are developed by inviting curators from different countries around the globe, eg directors of media festivals or curators specialized in New Media, who have to select a number of artists of their choice according the terms of the project. The dynamic of this ongoing and continously changing project, as it is set up for being presented in festivals and media exhibitions, manifests itself not only in the artistic online environment, especially created for [R] - [R] - [F] - Festival, but also progressing when for each new presentation a new project version is created, including new subject related aspects, new curators and new artists and new visualizations of the connected memory fields. Continuously expanding, these memory fields containing curators and artists of the previous project versions will be always present in the background while slowly a networking universe of collective memory comes up. The project uses the Internet not only as an artistic environment, but primarily also as a communicating medium and a data base which is closely connected to memory and loss of memory. ************************* [R]-[R]-[F] Festival - Version 1.0 www.newmediafest.org/rrf/ is the festival environment of A Virtual Memorial - Memorial project against the Forgetting and for Humanity www.a-virtual-memorial.org and corporate member of [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork] :||cologne ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 10:08:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Ken Goldberg <goldberg {AT} ieor.berkeley.edu> Subject: ATC Monday 7:30pm: Mark Hansen ATC {AT} UCB: Listening Post: Rendering the evolving landscape of online public discourse (or, a statistician, an artist and 200,000 complete strangers) Mark Hansen UCLA, Dept of Statistics The Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium Mon, 25 August, 7:30-9:30pm: UC Berkeley, Location: 160 Kroeber Hall All ATC Lectures are free and open to the public. Listening Post, a collaboration between Hansen and NY artist Ben Rubin, is an award winning multimedia art installation designed to convey the magnitude and diversity of online communication. Exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, December 2002 through March 2003, Listening Post provides a meaningful rendering of a massive data stream consisting of thousands of simultaneous Internet-based conversations. The visual centerpiece of Listening Post is a suspended, curved grid of more than two hundred small screens. These screens display fragments of text that are continuously gathered in real time from unrestricted Internet chat rooms, bulletin boards and other forums. The work is structured as a sequence of "scenes," each of which organizes incoming communications according to different statistical criteria. Mirroring the fluidity and dynamism of the Internet itself, topics emerge and change from day to day, hour to hour. A coordinated audio component underscores the content presented on the screens, layering algorithmically generated musical compositions with the vocalization of captured messages, spoken by a text-to-speech system. The technical challenges implied here are considerable; from "frugal" monitoring agents that continually recognize and cull new content, to statistical natural language processing and dynamic clustering schemes that allow us to track topics and extract representative phrases. In this talk, I will describe how our work has evolved, starting with our early experiments with pure sonification of Web traffic. Hansen will emphasize the interplay between data analysis and design, between modeling and expression and end with their most recent project, a public art commission involving a live data feed from Google's news service. - -- Mark Hansen is currently Associate Professor of Statistics at UCLA, where he also has an appointment in the Design|Media Art Department. Previously he was a member of the Technical Staff in the Statistics and Data Mining Research Department of Bell Laboratories. Mark will give a related talk in the Neyman Seminar in Berkeley's Statistics Department on Wednesday August 27, 4-5pm, in 1011 Evans. http://www.stat.ucla.edu/~cocteau http://www.earstudio.com/projects/listeningpost.html ********************************************************************** The ATC Colloquium continues our partnership with the Berkeley Art Museum to present online video of ATC talks, available both in QuickTime (highlights) or MP3 audio. For links and the full 2003-2004 series schedule, please see: http://www.ieor.berkeley.edu/~goldberg/lecs/ ********************************************************************** ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 15:23:24 +1000 From: "geert lovink" <geert {AT} xs4all.nl> Subject: "WE INTERRUPT THIS EMPIRE..." (video screenings) From: "a. mark liiv" <mark {AT} whisperedmedia.org> The most talked about anti-war documentary returns to play 4 consecutive screenings in the Bay Area: "WE INTERRUPT THIS EMPIRE..." will be playing: Saturday, August 23rd at 7pm - Admission $5 AK Press 674-A 23rd St, Oakland Tuesday, August 26th at 9:15pm - Admission $5 The Parkway Theater 1934 Park Blvd, Oakland Thursday, August 28th at 6pm, 8pm, 9:45pm - Admission $8 The Roxie Cinema 3117 16th Street, San Francisco (6pm show possible benefit for Food First and the Campesino efforts in Cancun. ... and various speakers attending ... stay tuned to www.videoactivism.org for details) Saturday, Sept. 6th at 8:30pm with OtherCinema Artist's Television Access 992 Valencia Street (at 21st) www.othercinema.com ***************************************************** What happens when a trigger-happy cowboy with a pocket full of loot aims his guns on an oil-rich, people-poor nation? The San Francisco Video Activist Network presents the story you won't see on Fox News: an eye-popping, jaw-dropping look at the Bay Area's radical resisitance to an illegal war. "We Interrupt This Empire..." is a collaborative work by many of the Bay Area's independent video activists which documents the direct actions that shut down the financial district of San Francisco in the weeks following the United States' invasion of Iraq. With the audio backdrop including the live broadcasts of Enemy Combatant Radio from the SF Independent Media Center to SFPD's tactical communications that were picked up by police scanners, the documentary takes a look at the diverse show of resistance from the streets of San Francisco as well as providing a critique of the coporate media coverage of the war and exploring such issues as the Military Industrial Complex, attacks on civil liberties, and the United States' current imperialist drive. For more information: http://videoactivism.org/empire.html and stay tune for our soon to be announced European tour including presentations at N5M4 festival: www.n5m.org in the Netherlands. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 18:14:08 -0400 From: Douglas Rushkoff <rushkoff {AT} well.com> Subject: For Nettime, if you feel it is appropriate The 5th Anniversary of the Media Ecology Association A Celebration Guest of Honor: Neil Postman 7:30-10:00 PM on September 4th, 2003 at Fordham University's Lincoln Center Campus 113 West 60th Street, corner of Columbus Avenue Leo Lowenstein Hall, 12th Floor Open to the Public Moderated by Lance Strate, Fordham University I. In Memory of Walter J. Ong, SJ II. From God's Word to Holy War A Panel Discussion on Media and Religion Douglas Rushkoff, New York University Eric McLuhan, University of Toronto Paul Levinson, Fordham University Ray Smith, Iona College Cheryl Anne Casey, Sacred Heart University Read Mercer Schuchardt, Marymount Manhattan College III. "And Now This: A Media Ecology Video" by Margot Hardenbergh, Fordham University and Michael Grabowski, College of New Rochelle IV. Honoring Neil Postman: A Special Presentation V. Reception ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 18:11:59 +0200 From: "kobe matthys" <kobe.matthys {AT} agency-computer.com> (by way of pit schultz <pit {AT} icf.de>) Subject: bootlab berlin > attachment 1 Attachment xxxxxxxxxx Attachment 1 Sonntag, 31. August, ab 18.00 / Sunday, August 31, at 6PM Bootlab, Raum 3, Ziegelstr. 20, 10117 Berlin - -18h. La Borde: Nicolas Philibert 'La moindre des choses' 1996, 105 min (Französisch/french) - -19.30h. Kingsley Hall: Luke Fowler 'What You See Is Where You're At' 2001, 30min (Englisch/english) - - 20.00 SPK (Sozialistischen Patienten Kollektiv): SPK-Video 1997, 33 min, (English/english) - -21.00h Irren-Offensive, Berlin: "The Verdict of the Foucault Tribunal" von Hagai Aviel ,1998 (Deutsch/german). - -21.30h Weglaufhaus: 'Fluchtpunkt: Wirklichkeit' von Christina Mast, 1999 (Deutsch/german) organisiert von / organised by Ariane Beyn und Kobe Matthys ============================================================================== Attachment #D# "Attachment" (Anhang, Anfügung, Anlagerung, Anschluß, Bindung, Beschlagnahmung, Beiwerk...) ist der Titel einer Veranstaltungsreihe im Raum3, die der Dynamik und Qualität von selbst-organisierter Wissensaneignung nachspüren will. Geplant sind Treffen mit verschiedenen Initiativen und Selbst-Hilfe Gruppen, die jeweils eine alltägliche, praktische Fragestellung verfolgen. Durch ähnliche Fragen bewegt zu sein, kann Menschen zur gemeinsamen Lösungssuche stimulieren und dabei unterschiedliche Erfahrungen, Bedürfnisse und Blickpunkte zum Einsatz kommen lassen. So gelingt es Gruppen, die aus praktischer Problem-Lösungs-Hilfe heraus entstehen, ein auf ihren Erfahrungen basierendes Wissen zu begründen, das die Kapazitäten des "Nutzers" zur Selbst-Hilfe bestärkt. Aus den gewonnenen Kenntnissen ergeben sich breiter gefächerte, neue Handlungs-Möglichkeiten und unabhängige Kommunikationsprozesse. Die Veranstaltungsreihe "attachment" unternimmt den Versuch, über das Andocken an eine Fragestellung weitere Fragenfelder ins Blickfeld zu rücken. Gleichzeitig soll ein Austausch über die vielfältigen Strategien, Wissen zu konstituieren, eröffnet werden. Die geplanten Treffen möchten zu einer (Selbst-)Betrachtung der unterschiedlichen Weisen, einer Fragestellung "verbunden" zu sein, anregen. (So wie die Mitglieder des Bootlab beispielsweise die Nutzung von Computern betreffende Fragen verbinden.) Mit dem Begriff "attachment" soll die Entstehung von befähigendem Wissen im Verhältnis zu Anlaß und treibender Kraft der Aktivitäten einer Gruppe untersucht werden. #ENG# "Attachment" is a series of encounters with groups that are attached to a common practical question. Being attached to the same question triggers self-organizing processes of communication. People affected by a common problem are set into motion to solve this problem together, bringing into play their different backgrounds and points of view. Groups that emerge out of practical problem-solving support constitute empowering knowledges based on experiences. Those empowering knowledges strengthen the user's capacities for self-help, while their newly gained awareness opens up new opportunities for action. This series is an attempt to get attached through the act of "being attached". It is a way of exchanging experiences among various groups on the different possibilities of constituting empowering knowledges. The "attachment"-meetings encourage to (self-)reflect on the different types of attachments of singular groups. In Bootlab for example people are attached to questions related to the use of computers. By exploring 'attachments' we take a closer look at the articulation of empowering knowledge in relation to the source of a group's action. ============================================================================= Attachment 1 #D# Seit den 50er Jahre haben auf Selbst-Hilfe ausgerichtete Initiativen das öffentliche, institutionelle psychiatrische Hilfeangebot für sogenannte "Geisteskranke" herausgefordert. Ausgehend von bekannten Beispielen alternativer Psychiatrien der 50/60/70er Jahre und von zwei aktuellen Berliner Projekten soll die (Erfolgs?)Geschichte solcher Versuche nachgezeichnet werden. #ENG# Groups attached to the question of 'mental health'-care challenge traditional psychiatric approaches of 'mental health'. We invite people from two groups in Berlin 'IrrenOffensive' and 'Weglaufhaus' and confront these with initiatives in Paris 'La Borde', London 'Kingsley Hall' and Heidelberg 'SPK'. ============================================================================== la Borde #D# Die Clinique de la Borde in Cour-Cherverny, etwas südlich von Paris, wurde 1953 von dem Psychiater Jean Oury gegründet. Ourys Methode institutioneller Psychiatrie setzt bei der Aufhebung der formalen Unterscheidung zwischen Patient und Mitarbeitern an. Die Bewohner können sich in der Einrichtung frei bewegen und beteiligen sich aktiv an der Instandhaltung des laufenden Betriebs der Klinik. Ab 1955 arbeitete Felix Guattari gemeinsam mit Oury in La Borde. Guattari betrieb dort die Recherchen für sein und G. Deleuzes Konzept der "Schizoanalyse". In "La moindre des choses" verfolgt der Dokumentarfilmer Nicolas Philibert die Hochs und Tiefs während der Proben zu einer Theateraufführung der Mitarbeiter und Bewohner von La Borde im Sommer 1995. Aufgeführt wird Witold Gombrowiczs absurder Bühnentext "Operetta" (1966) über die Geschichte und Revolutionen des 20. Jahrhunderts. Entlang der Vorbereitung zu diesem Ereignis zeigt der Film das Leben in La Borde, die tägliche Routine, scheinbar nebensächliche Details, die Einsamkeit und die Erschöpfung, Momente allgemeiner Heiterkeit und die besondere Aufmerksamkeit, die sich die Bewohner von La Borde gegenseitig schenken. #ENG# La clinique de la Borde in Cour-Cheverny, South of Paris, was founded in 1953 by the psychiatrist Jean Oury. La Borde proposes a new method of "institutional psychiatry" with annuling the formal distinction between patient and staff. Not only are the residents free to move in the facility, they actively participate in running it. From 1955 on Felix Guattari collaborated with Oury at La Borde and researched on his and G. Deleuzes concept of "schizoanalysis". In 'La moindre des choses' filmmaker Nicolas Philibert follows the ups and downs of the rehearsals of a theatre performance by staff-members and residents of La Borde in summer 1995. They are putting on stage Witold Gombrowicz's grotesque dramatic text "Operetta" (1966) on the history and revolutions of the 20th century. Along the preparation of the event the film describes life at La Borde, the daily routine, seemingly insignificant details, the loneliness and the fatigue, as well as moments of collective merriment and the extreme attention all devote to one another. ============================================================================== Kingsley Hall #D# Kingsley Hall: In ihrem berühmten Buch 'Sanity, Madness and the Family' (1964) führen Robert Laing und Aaron Esterson klinische Beweise dafür an, dass einige Formen der Schizophrenie durch mangelnde Kommunikation innerhalb des Systems Familie verursacht werden können. Das konventionelle "Psychiater-Patient" Verhältnis habe versäumt, die sozialen Lebensumstände des Patienten in Betracht zu ziehen. 1965 gründeten Laing und eine Gruppe von 20 psychiatrischen Patienten eine therapeutische Hausgemeinschaft, den Kingsley Hall Therapeutic Center, in Londons East End. Das fünf Jahre dauernde Projekt wird fälschlicherweise oft mit LSD-Therapie in Verbindung gebracht. Laing gilt heute als einer der Begründer der Anti-Psychatrie Bewegung - ein Begriff, den Laing zeitlebens ablehnte. 'What You See Is Where You're At' (2001) von dem schottischen Künstler Luke Fowler ist eine Kollage von historischem Filmmaterial aus dem R.D. Laing Archiv der Glasgow University und aktuellen Interviews mit ehemaligen Bewohnern von Kingsley Hall. #ENG# Kingsley Hall: With their book 'Sanity, Madness and the Family' (1964) Robert Laing and Aaron Esterson provided clinical evidence that some schizophrenia was caused by communication breakdown within the family system. They argued that the 'psychiatrist-patient' relationship failed to consider the 'patients' life-in-context. In 1965 Laing and a group of 20 psychiatric patients initiated a therapeutic community household, the Kingsley Hall Therapeutic Center in the East End of London - a clinical space within which people could overcome psychotic breakdowns in a non-institutional context. The five-year project is today wrongly connected with LSD Therapy, while Laing is considered one of the founders of the anti-psychiatric movement. He was especially opposed to the use of lobotomies, electro-shock therapy and the dehumanizing effects of incarceration in psychiatric hospitals. Scottish artist Luke Fowler's 'What You See Is Where You're At' is a collage of found footage from the Glasgow University R.D. Laing archive and interviews with former residents. Fowler provides an inside-view of life at Kingsley Hall Center. =========================================================================== SPK #D# SPK (Das Sozialistische Patientenkollektiv) : 1965 von Dr. Wolfgang Huber von der Psychiatrischen Universitätsklinik Heidelberg initiiert. 1970 trat das Kollektiv mit der ersten Patientenvollversammlung der Welt "pro Krankheit" öffentlich als Sozialitisches Patientenkollektiv hervor und stellte alles Bestehende in Frage, nicht zuletzt auc die Zustände in der Psychiatrischen Poliklinik selbst. Nach Hungerstreiks, Besetzungen von Dienstzimmern und des Rektorats, zahllosen Go-Ins, Sit-Ins und Teach-Ins ergingen Morddrohungen, auch gegen Huber. Jean-Paul Sartre war "außerordentlich beeindruckt". Der deutsche "Staatsschutz" war anderer Meinung. Fest steht: In den gerade mal 17 Monaten seiner umkämpften Existenz radikalisierte sich das antipsychiatrisch-revolutionäre Kollektiv bis hin zur Bewaffnung, und nach seinem Ende schlossen sich über ein Dutzend seiner Mitglieder dem bewaffneten Kampf der "RAF" an, der in den folgenden Jahren die Republik erschüttern sollte. Das SPK-Video (1997) von KRANKHEIT IM RECHT / SPK führt die SPK-Aktionen in Heidelberg in den 70er Jahren ein: in der psychiatrischen Poliklinik, in der die Patienten Anfang 1970 die erste arztfreie Patientenvollversammlung der Welt abhielten, das Verwaltungs-Direktionsgebäude der klinischen Universitäts-Anstalten, in dem der Hungerstreik der Patienten Ende Februar 1970 stattfand, das Universitätsrektorat, das von den SPK-Patienten im Juli 1970 besetzt wurde usw. #ENG# SPK (Das Sozialistische Patientenkollektiv): initiated in 1965 by Dr. Wolfgang Huber of the Psychiatric University Clinic of Heidelberg. In 1970 the socialistic patients collective went public with the first patients "pro illness" plenary meeting in the world. It questioned everything, also the conditions in the policlinic. After hungerstrikes, occupations of the director's office, numerous Go-Ins, Sit-Ins and Teach-Ins threats on Huber's life. Unlike the German Police, Jean-Paul Satre was "very impressed". In the 17 months of its existence the collective got radical up to the point of getting armed. After the end of the collective over a dozen of its members joint the RAF. The SPK-video (1997), published by KRANKHEIT IM RECHT /SPK introduces the SPK's actions in Heidelberg in the 70ties: in the Psychiatric Polyclinic, where the SPK patients held their first general assembly of patients and a patients' congress, a self-organized plenum of patients; the administration building of the university clinics, where the first hunger strike of the patients took place at the end of February 1970; the office of the rector of Heidelberg University, which was occupied by SPK patients in July 1970 etc. ============================================================================= Irren-Offensive #D# "Irren-Offensive: Die Irren-Offensive e. V. (IO) 1980 gegründet und erste selbstbestimmte und antipsychiatrische Initiative ehemaliger Psychiatrie-Insassen. Das Psychiatrie-Beschwerdezentrum e. V. ein Verein der Beratungen anbietet und Beschwerden aufnimmt. Es werden Rechtsanwälte vermittelt. Diesen Begegnungsort benennen wir nach Werner Fuß, einem bedeutenden Mitbegründer der Irren-Offensive. Werner wurde erst in seinem 34 Lebensjahr erlaubt, sich aus der Bevormundung zu befreien. Er nannte sich selber "der Ausbrecherkönig der Psychiatrien" und war Gründungsmitglied der Irren-Offensive. "The Verdict of the Foucault Tribunal" (1998), von Hagai Aviel, Vorsitzender des Isreali Association Against Psychiatric Assault. Die Irren-Offensive ist Mit-Organisator des Foucault-Tribunal, gemeinsam mit der Freien Universität Berlin und der Volksbühne Berlin, wo das viertägige Seminar zum aktuellen Stand der Psychiatrie 1998 stattfand. Ankläger waren u.a. Thomas S. Szasz, Gerburg Treusch-Dieter, Wolf-Dieter Narr. #ENG# "Irren-Offensive: (nuts-offensive) was founded in 1980 as the first self-determined and anti-psychiatric initiative of former psychiatry inmates. The Psychiatrie-Beschwerdezentrum e. V. (center for psychiatry complaints) is an organization that offers advisory service, accepts complaints and connects people with laywers. The meeting center is named after Werner Fuß, an important member and co-founder of the Irren-Offensive. Only with 34 years Werner was freed from paternalism and he later referred to himself as "king of breaking out of psychiatries". "The Verdict of the Foucault Tribunal" (1998), from Hagai Aviel, Chairperson of Isreali Association Against Psychiatric Assault. The Irren-Offensive is co-organizer of the "Foucault-Tribunal" together with Freie Universität, Berlin and Volksbühne, Berlin, where the four-day seminar on the state of psychiatry took place in 1998. "Prosecutors" were Thomas S. Szasz, Gerburg Treusch-Dieter, Wolf-Dieter Narr and others. ============================================================================== Weglaufhaus #D# Weglaufhaus: Das Weglaufhaus in Berlin-Frohnau »Villa Stöckle« ist ein antipsychiatrisch orientiertes Wohnprojekt, das wohungslosen oder akut von Wohnungslosigkeit bedrohten psychiatriebetroffenen Menschen die Möglichkeit bietet, sich dem psychiatrischen System zu entziehen und ihr Leben wieder in die eigenen Hände zu nehmen. Träger und Initiator des Projekts ist der Verein zum Schutz vor psychiatrischer Gewalt e.V.. Seit 1982 engagierte sich die Sozialpädagogin und mehrmalige "Psychatrie-Insassin" Tina Stöckle für die Idee des Weglaufhauses. Ihr zu Ehren trägt das Weglaufhaus den Namen »Villa Stöckle«. In ihrem Film "Fluchtpunkt: Wirklichkeit" (1999) begleitet die Dokumentarfilmerin Christine Mast die Bewohner des "Weglaufhaus" über einen längeren Zeitraum bei ihrer gemeinsamen Alltagsroutine, beim Kochen, Putzen und Einkaufen. Dabei führt sie zahlreiche Gespräche mit Bewohnern und Mitarbeitern des Hauses. #ENG# Weglaufhaus: Das Weglaufhaus (run-away house) in Berlin-Frohnau, at "Villa Stöckle", is a anti-psychiatric oriented living-project. It gives homeless and people threatened to lose their homes, who are psychiatry-affected, the possibility to leave the psychatric system and to take their lives into their own hands again. Operator and Initiator of the project is the Verein zum Schutz vor psychiatrischer Gewalt e.V. (organization for protection from psychiatric violence). Since 1982 social-pedagogue Tina Stöckle engaged herself for the idea of the Weglaufhaus. To honor her the house in Berlin was named "Villa Stöckle". In the documentary film "Fluchtpunkt: Wirklichkeit" (vanishing point: reality) filmmaker Christine Mast accompanies the residents of the Weglaufhaus during their daily activities of cooking, cleaning, shopping and approaches their lives in several conversations with residents and staff members. ============================================================================= ------------------------------ # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo {AT} bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime {AT} bbs.thing.net


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Derwin Mak
Science Fiction Writer and Military Historian
Two-Time Aurora Award Winner
Author of "Transubstantiation", winner of Canada's national science fiction award, the 2006 Prix Aurora Award for Best Short-Form Work in English.
Co-editor of The Dragon and the Stars, winner of the 2011 Aurora Award for Best Related Work in English.
For the latest news, go to my blog: http://derwinmaksf.blogspot.com/
Where the Stars Rise, an anthology of Asian science fiction co-edited by Lucas Law and I, has been published by Laksa Media. Read about it on Laksa Media's website.
Dark Helix Press is republishing my Siren Stone novels, starting with The Shrine of the Siren Stone, followed by The Moon Under Her Feet. (Although that isn't the original publication order, these novels can be read in any order.)
My story "It Came to Eat Our Chicken Wings" has been included in the anthology AlliterAsian: Twenty Years of Ricepaper Magazine. I'm honoured to have my story included in a book celebrating Asian Canadian cultural history and the Asian Canadian Writers Workshop.
Ricepaper, the Asian Canadian literary magazine, has published its special Speculative Fiction Issue (Fall 2014), edited by me and JF Garrard. It includes science fiction, fantasy, and horror stories by Tony Pi, Eric Choi, Melissa Yuan-Innes, John Matsui, and JF Garrard. It's in bookstores across Canada now. You can also get it online for just $5 here.
Jef Catapang interviews me and several other science fiction writers for his article "Racism, Future: Sci-Fi Authors Riff" in The Ethnic Aisle.
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