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Q. My question is related to our Holy Father, in light of my admiration for him and for the new direction he is leading the church. Is Pope Francis still bound by the religious vows he professed as a Jesuit? I would imagine that Ignatian spirituality still plays a large role in his daily life, but is he still technically a member of the religious order? As pope, would he no longer be subject in obedience to the Jesuit Superior General? (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
A. The question you raise — whether Pope Francis is still a Jesuit — is an interesting one and is, in fact, disputed by canonists. Some say that years ago, when he became a bishop, he was dispensed from his vows of poverty and obedience and therefore exited the Jesuits. I think that's being over-technical.
He was dispensed from poverty because, canonically, a bishop owns diocesan property, and from obedience, because from episcopal ordination on, a bishop is subject to the pope rather than to his religious superior. I consider Francis to be still a Jesuit, and I think that he does, too.
Just a few days after his election to the papacy, Francis wrote a letter to the Jesuit Superior General in which the pope referred to the Jesuits as "our beloved order," and his papal coat of arms contains the official seal of the Jesuit order.
I would hold that Francis remains a Jesuit and is still bound by his Jesuit vows, but with an asterisk — and I would quote Code of Canon Law No. 705 in defense of that position. Nothing is said directly in the church's code about a religious who has been be elected pope, but Canon No. 705 does state that, "A religious raised to the episcopate remains a member of his institute but is subject only to the Roman Pontiff by virtue of the vow of obedience…."
So, Francis, I would conclude, continues to be bound by the vows of chastity and poverty (simplicity of lifestyle) but not by obedience. Father Ladislas M. Orsy, a Jesuit canon lawyer who teaches at Georgetown University Law Center, said recently of the pope, "His vow of obedience … loses its meaning because he has no Superior to obey."
Ignatian spirituality (St. Ignatius of Loyola founded the Jesuits in 1534) clearly threads its way through much of what Pope Francis says and writes. Jesuit Father James Martin pointed out recently that Pope Francis has more than once invited his hearers to picture themselves present at a Gospel scene and to consider how they would have responded to Jesus — a meditation technique favored by Ignatius in his spiritual exercises.
Q. I attend a lovely small parish. In the parish, there is a very active couple. (She has been a member of our finance committee and he, I believe, is a "knight" in a Catholic religious group.) According to a mutual friend, both spouses are multiply-divorced and neither received church annulments. (This friend, who is a Baptist, told me that the wife was married to someone else as recently as five to seven years ago, and their next-door neighbor, who is also a friend of mine, corroborates that.
So my question is this: Do I have any obligation (to the church or to them) to tell our pastor that this is at least the third marriage for each of them and that it is possible that neither of them ever had an annulment? (Part of me thinks that this is none of my business, since I am a sinner.) (Central Virginia)
A. My answer is a firm "no." You have no obligation to pass your suspicions on to your pastor — or to anyone. You have no facts at your disposal. Your concerns are based purely on rumor and hearsay. (Hearsay evidence, by the way, is excluded as testimony in American courts of law — and reasonably so.) What possible good could come from your passing such rumors on? Perhaps you believe that, if given this information, your pastor could have a conversation with the couple and, if need be, straighten out their situation with the church.
The more likely outcome, I would think, is large-scale animosity and nothing positive. Why not, rather, simply pray for the couple, that they be true both to their consciences and to the church's teachings?
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During this site's hiatus, back in July, 2009, TiVo and Best Buy announced a strategic alliance. Building on that, in May, 2010, TiVo and Insignia (one of Best Buy's house brands), announced that they would be developing connected HDTVs using the TiVo UI. Now it seems that partnership will bear fruit on July 31st, according to information uncovered by Zatz Not Funny.
Note that these TV's do not include DVRs! They are connected TVs, or cTV's in Best Buy parlance, which use the TiVo HD UI, introduced on the Premiere, for their functionality. I don't know if there is any Trojan Horse DVR functionality in there – say via an add-on module (Toshiba and others have sold HDTVs with this kind of sidecar DVR capability in the past), but we'll see.
We really don't know too much about the feature set of these TVs at this point. Will they support streaming shows from a TiVo Premiere (or Premiere Elite) in the home? We don't know, but I hope they do. I guess we won't have long to find out.
Two models are slated for July 31st – a 32 inch and a 42 inch set. And no TiVo subscription is required! I'm guessing Best Buy is footing the bill for the guide data service. Kind of like TiVo Basic on the old Pioneer and Toshiba TiVo/DVD combo units.
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The last weekend in March I made the trip back up to Bridgey. The Sound Tigers won 6-2 on Friday against the Springfield Falcons. Goals were scored by Tony Romano, Micheal Haley, Blair Riley, Rhett Rakhshani, and two from David Ullstrom. Saturdays game against the Portland Pirates went into OT. The goal scorers for this game were Blair Riley, Jon Landry, Rhett Rakhshani, and Trevor Frischmon who put one in the net just as OT was expiring. Check back for photos from Sunday's game against Manchester Monarchs on Autism Awareness Day!


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Heat, Edits and Sighs: Reading the full novel draft
For National Writing Day (in the middle of a UK heatwave) I spent hours in my kitchen reading through a printout of the first full draft of my second novel, The Running Lie. I tend to write and edit endlessly on my phone, so the chapters themselves aren't first drafts, but reading the novel as a whole makes a diference. For instance, I realised chapter 11 is massive (51 pages)!
Primarily, I started a list of 'papering over' scenes - small transitions in and out of scenes or tiny gaps within scenes. My ideas for scenes almost always start with a line of dialogue. This is all well and good in a draft, but for the final version most scenes require a bit more set up!
Other tasks include finding a specific type of rose someone can argue passionately about, adding some clothing descriptions and picking a street in Hampstead for a character's flat. And finally, making sure no character sighs - or smiles - too much.
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5 Major Banks Plead Guilty To Market Rigging, Fined $5.7 Billion
On Wednesday, the Department of Justice announced that five major banks: Barclays, Royal Bank of Scotland, JPMorgan Chase, UBS and Citigroup, will be fined approximately $5.7 billion after pleading guilty to crimes involving the manipulation of global currencies and interest rates.
The DoJ noted that four of the banks – Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Barclays and the Royal Bank of Scotland – have been forced to plead guilty to antitrust violations in the foreign exchange market, they worked together to enhance their profits by allegedly manipulating the $5-trillion-a-day foreign exchange market to $10 billion.
At a press conference on Wednesday morning, US Attorney General Loretta Lynch said that starting as early as 2007, currency traders at several multi-national banks formed a group that they dubbed "the cartel."
Lynch explained that almost every day for more than five years, traders in this "cartel" communicated through coded language in a private electronic chatroom to manipulate the market's exchange rate between euros and dollars.
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A local legendary music producer in the Shoals has passed away at the age of 85.
Rick Hall produced and recorded some of the biggest albums of this century in Muscle Shoals at his studio, Fame Studios. He was known as the "Father of Muscle Shoals Music." Hall worked with Aretha Franklin, Etta James and many other artists. According to "Rolling Stone" Magazine, his studio is responsible for an estimated $350 million in record sales to date, with songs from groups such as The Beatles and George Straight.
Reports say Hall had been in declining health recently. There is no word on how he died.
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In his first start since winning the U.S. Open, Dustin Johnson won another World Golf Championship on Sunday.
Johnson ran off three birdies on the back nine at Firestone and closed with a 4-under 66 to win the Bridgestone Invitational. He was helped in part by a surprising collapse by Jason Day.
Day, the world's No. 1 player, was tied for the lead when he hooked a 3-wood off the tee on the par-5 16th, hit across the fairway and tried to bend a shot around the pond. He went into the water, making double bogey.
Day did not hit a green in regulation over his last six holes.
Johnson now has three WGC titles, and goes to the British Open as the player to beat.
Defending champion Brooke Henderson survived some tense moments on the back nine on the way to a four-stroke victory at the LPGA Cambia Portland Classic.
The second-ranked Henderson shot a 14-under 274 after a final round 71 at Columbia Edgewater Country Club, pulling away from American Stacy Lewis, who was 10-under after a 69.
Henderson became the first back-to-back winner at Portland since Annika Sorenstam won consecutive tournaments in 2002 and 2003. The 18-year-old is the first wire-to-wire winner at Portland since the tournament went to a 72-hole event in 2013.
Henderson is the tour's second wire-to-wire winner this year, joining Ha Na Jang, who won the Coates Championship in February.
PGA Europe
Thongchai Jaidee won the French Open at Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines by four strokes, as Rory McIlroy failed to deliver a final-round surge.
Starting the day with a two-stroke lead over McIlroy, the 46-year-old Thongchai birdied two of his first six holes and shot a 3-under 68 to finish 11-under 273 at Le Golf National outside Paris, where the 2018 Ryder Cup will be staged.
For his eighth victory on the European Tour, the Thai player collected $650,000 the biggest check of his career. He described his fourth victory over the age of 40 as his "biggest win ever."
Francesco Molinari finished in second place after shooting 66, the lowest round of the final day.
McIlroy couldn't get near Thongchai. He bogeyed No. 3 and made his only birdie on No. 14, shooting par 71 for third place.
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Colombia's Paola Moreno won the Tullymore Classic for her third career Symetra Tour title, closing with a 6-under 66 for a two-stroke victory at Canadian Lakes, Michigan.
The 30-year-old former USC player finished at 12-under 204, capping her bogey-free round with a 20-foot birdie putt on the par-5 18th.
Erynne Lee and Megan McChrystal tied for second. They each bogeyed the final hole, McChrystal for a 66, and Lee for a 71.


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Air Education and Training Command is reimagining how Airmen are developed, through a paradigm shift in education, training and capitalization of experiences in a new concept: The Continuum of Learning.
The effort officially kicked off with a leadership summit, in which AETC senior leaders, wing commanders, command chiefs and superintendents conducted a deep dive into the Continuum of Learning redesign.
The Continuum of Learning initiative is a shift to better focus how Airmen learn by integrating education, training and experience in ways that allow them to learn anytime, anywhere throughout their careers. The end goal is to create a culture of lifelong learning.
"So in our business of national security, where our job is to fly, fight and win...our job is to prepare for the unexpected. Our job is to win...no matter what. We better be masters at this game of innovation." –Lt. Gen. Steve Kwast, commander of Air Education and Training Command
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You miss things when you've been on holiday.
I've come back to the news that Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) is shutting down four MMOs – Vanguard: Saga of Heroes, Free Realms, Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures and Wizardry Online.
I've said enough before about Vanguard and the great and epic flop that is associated with it. My experience with Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures was very limited; Free Realms never interested me enough to play it. Wizardry Online was a title I mocked from the sidelines.
SOE is cleaning house. Again.
That Conspiracy Theory
Almost a year ago, SOE announced the shutdown of Bullet Run, a F2P FPS that it was publishing in association with its developer Acony. At the time I thought it was odd that SOE had published a title that was almost a direct competitor with its upcoming PlanetSide 2, only to cancel that third party title when SOE's first party title was due out. I thought it looked like an experiment – that SOE has a similar title where it could test out some things, keep developers working on a live title for a while, maybe have Bullet Run keep those PlanetSide 2 servers warm up to the point they were needed.
Which seems very close to what has happened with Wizardry Online. EverQuest Next is gearing up for beta soon. SOE's looks to have gained some recent hardcore MMO experience from Wizardry Online, but now it's time for that third party title to make way for the next installment in the EverQuest franchise. It's arguable that SOE could have launched permadeath in one of their own titles, but such a controversial system could be offered in a third party game that wasn't expected to have a long shelf life. Lessons could be learned at minimal cost.
Both Bullet Run and Wizardry Online ran for very short period of time (for MMOs) – about six months for Bullet Run and about twelve months for Wizardry Online. That's a terrible length of time for SOE if they wanted them to be valuable as titles, but just the right amount of time if they were being used as warm-ups to the main events, or there were other bonuses to be gained.
(Vanguard being shut down at the same time might be seen as a way for SOE to also free up some extra resources for EverQuest Next as well, but that was a title that had quite a long life. In contrast, Wizardry Online always seemed like an odd title for SOE to publish in North American markets, unless it had some extra benefit attached to it.)
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The Irish Show Jumping squad has been named for next week's five-star Mercedes-Benz German Nations Cup in Aachen, which will be the second of three Nations Cup's in three week's for Rodrigo Pessoa's Irish team.
Ireland are in Nations Cup action this Sunday at Falsterbo in Sweden, followed by Aachen on Thursday before they travel to Hickstead in the UK the following week.
The Irish squad for the Mercedes-Benz German Nations Cup in Aachen is as follows:
Louth's Mark McAuley with Utchan De Belheme – owned by Charlotte McAuley
Meath's Cian O'Connor with Good Luck – owned by Ronnoco Jump LTD
Mayo's Cameron Hanley with Quirex – owned by Patrick Mielnik
Offaly's Darragh Kenny with Babalou – owned by Jack Snyder
Cork's Shane Sweetnam with Chaqui Z – owned by Spy Coast Farm LLC
Although not part of the Longines FEI Nations Cup series, Rodrigo Pessoa is looking forward to Thursday's competition in Aachen which will attract many of the world's top teams as preparations continue for September's World Equestrian Games in Tryon, USA.
"Aachen may not be part of the Super League Nations Cup series but it is a very prestigious show. We have not competed there as a team recently and we will be trying to do our best to get a good result," Pessoa said.
Ireland last won the German Nations Cup in Aachen eight years ago in 2010 when managed by Robert Splaine. That team included Billy Twomey (Tinka's Serenade), Dermott Lennon (Hallmark Elite), Cian O'Connor (K Club Lady) and Denis Lynch (Lantinus).


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Primacy vs. Synodality
Russell Shaw
Although some element of conflict between primacy and synodality is unavoidable, it would make good sense to develop clearer ground rules for the relationship than apparently now exist.
Something that happened at a bishops' meeting nearly half a century ago raises questions about the Vatican's action last month telling the U.S. bishops to cancel a scheduled vote on two proposals for self-policing on sex abuse. It also illustrates the built-in tension between two interlocking principles--"primacy" and "synodality"--that today are increasingly shaping the Church.
The earlier incident is recounted in my book about secrecy in the Church, Nothing To Hide (Ignatius). It occurred just before the general meeting of the American hierarchy held in April of 1972 in Atlanta. Five months earlier, the bishops had voted to set aside their practice of meeting behind closed doors and open the proceedings to the media and observers. As director of media relations for the bishops' conference, I was one of those who'd argued for this step.
On the eve of the spring general assembly, the administrative committee of the bishops' conference met to review the agenda. At a coffee break, Cardinal John Krol of Philadelphia, who'd been elected conference president the previous November, approached me holding a sheet of paper and looking angry.
The Cardinal had a reputation for being tough. But he also was notably fair man with a wry sense of humor. "I just got this message from Rome," he said. "They're very worried at the idea that the bishops are going to allow reporters in. They want me to prevent it. You know very well that I opposed the idea from the start. But the bishops voted for it, and it's my job as president of the conference to see that their decision is carried out--and I will."
He paused and, fixing me with a glare I took to be only partly humorous, added, "I bet you think that's funny."
Although the Cardinal proved good as his word, he also managed to take his revenge. As the meeting got underway, he addressed the bishops and reporters for the first several minutes in Latin.
Fast-forward to the bishops' meeting last month in Baltimore and the scrubbing of the vote on the two proposals. This incident has been reported and commented on repeatedly since then. No need to repeat here much of what has already been said.
But it is helpful to reflect on the tension clearly illustrated in what happened between synodality--the decision-making authority of a group of bishops such as an episcopal conference or a synod--and primacy--the absolute authority enjoyed by the pope and, by extension, agencies of the Roman Curia acting in his name to answer questions, settle issues, and make decisions anywhere in the Church. In noting this tension, furthermore, it's helpful to consider the contrast between what happened in Baltimore and what happened in Atlanta in 1972.
Although some element of conflict between primacy and synodality is unavoidable, it would make good sense to develop clearer ground rules for the relationship than apparently now exist. "We are not branch managers of the Vatican," one bishop reminded his brothers during the debate in Baltimore. The Vatican no doubt would agree--and then go on to add that the pope always retains universal jurisdiction in the Church. Isn't there some middle ground?
Back in 1972, when the term "synodality" was not yet in use, Cardinal Krol's decision expressed the wisdom of letting local bishops facing sensitive practical issues handle them as they judge best, without last minute interventions by people in Rome who lack an experience-based grasp of the facts. That sounds like a sound principle to me.
Russell Shaw is the author of more than twenty books. He is a consultor of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications and served as communications director for the U.S. Bishops.
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THEATER: Happily Ever After: Skagit's Theater Arts Guild presents 'Once Upon a Mattress'
Skagit County's Theater Arts Guild presents "Once Upon a Mattress," Mary Rodgers' musical written as an adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale "The Princess and the Pea," at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, May 2 (bargain night; all seats $15 at-the-door), and May 8, 9, and 13-16; and at 2 p.m. May 10, at Lincoln Theatre, 712 S. First St., Mount Vernon.
Carried on a wave of wonderful songs, by turns hilarious and raucous, romantic and melodic, the rollicking spin on the familiar classic of royal courtship and comeuppance provides side-splitting shenanigans.
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This week is already flying right by for me.
I almost forgot it was my birthday tomorrow. I am so caught up in 'wedding world' that I honestly do not have one thing planned for my birthday. That is so unlike me. This was my biggest fear in choosing our wedding date so close to my birthday. I didn't realize it would be this bad. Basically my birthday is non-existent tomorrow... at least as of now.
Then on Saturday (5 days from now) I am getting MARRIED!
Between now and then (in those 5 short days) I have a lot to do.. or do I? Am I just stressing out over it all for no reason? I don't know but I am so excited!!
Today I finally got to see our engagement pictures we had taken two weeks ago with Raylan. They turned out so beautifully! I ordered a few and ordered them with next day shipping, so I hope they make it here on time to have a few displayed at the wedding! Here are a few sneak peaks of some of them! I don't know how to upload them yet, so sorry for the poor quality!


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Michael Ward's America is a pastel wonderland. Quiet, reflective, and honest, his paintings reflect an America often looked at but rarely seen. His interview is a meditation on the evolution of art and the idea of Americana. I suggest you take a read.
Tell us about your most recent piece, where was it? What was it?
My most recent piece is LLamame ("Call me" in Spanish). It's of a wall-mounted payphone in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, seen in dappled sunlight. I added a wooden chair, also from Mexico, for compositional interest. I painted this at the Laguna Festival of Arts, while manning my booth. This was the last of four works I did there during the two-month run of the Festival.
How has your subject material changed since you began painting? How has your perception of your subjects changed? How do you think the public's perception has changed?
I started painting, way back in the 1980s, by working from slides I had taken while wandering around Long Beach and Los Angeles county. I had managed to capture some striking images, and wanted to see if I could paint them. These images were part of my lived experience at the time: old (i.e. cheap) stucco apartments, palm trees, neon signs. Old things caught my eye: historic architecture, old signage, old cars. In those days you could find a Model A in daily use parked on the street, or a Wildroot Hair Cream sign stuck in the back window of a barber shop if you really looked. Was I being nostalgic? Not really, since I was born after those earlier decades. But I was raised by people who came of age in the Depression, and my cultural influences included 1930s cartoons and old movies, and my fascination with model trains led me to an interest in historic architecture, all of which influenced what I photographed in my wanderings, and thus the material available to me to paint.
I was doing this all naively at the time, of course. Only recently have I become aware of what I call the "layers of time" that are part of our existence. One age does not replace another, just adds another coat of paint, and the past pokes through in spots. This is something you realize as you get older, I think. Beneath that shiny new present is yesterday's new present, and last Thursday's.
How would you describe 'Americana'? What does it mean to you? What did that word mean when the term was created in the mid 20th century and what does it mean now? As an artist, how is your perception of the romanticized vision of the West different from the vision of others?
Ah, Americana. I was driving on Beach Blvd. near Knotts Berry Farm recently and passed the "Americana Motel", probably so named in the 1950s or 60s. What Americana meant then was probably Daniel Boone and Davy Crocket, or the quaintness of an imagined Main Street. How that would apply to a motel is
unclear. Were there crank phones in the rooms, or outhouses out back? A swimmin' hole in lieu of a pool? Probably not, if code enforcement had anything to say about it.
I would say that Americana is maybe a better term than nostalgia for that yearning for an imaginary and imagined past that afflicts us as a society. It's a way of papering over our faults and the faults of our forebears. It makes us feel better if we can imagine we came from a better past than we actually did. Then we can have Civil War reenactments without slavery, or Art Deco without Jim Crow. I remember seeing a survey of Dada art (at the deYoung, I think) that made no mention of WWI. That was an exercise in Americana-style historicism.
As I grow older, and learn more about the past, good and bad, my perception of America has changed. And my perception of the historical eras that make up those layers of time has changed. As a baby boomer, I grew up during the Cold War, under the shadow of the bomb. Only in the last few decades has it become apparent that the Cold War was all a big lie. The Soviets never wanted to attack us, we were the instigators of the arms race, and we were more at risk from nuclear accidents than actual bombs. It's very disturbing when an important part of your experience, as the Cold War was, is seen to be a chimera. Especially in southern California, where the defense industry played such a central role in the creation and growth of the area. Almost everyone I went to college with had a father in the defense industry. If Americana came to be in the middle of the 20th century, that was the generation that created it, while making good money building ICBMs and U2s.
In college I read John Dos Passos' USA trilogy and almost all of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald was entertaining but ultimately insubstantial, like eating a whole can of Pringles. Dos Passos portrayed the same era, on the other hand, with a rich tapestry that placed the historical alongside the narrative, with little one-page vignettes of the shady doings of people like Henry Ford. The artistic analog to Fitzgerald would be Thomas Kincade, the analog to Dos Passos would be the murals of Diego Rivera. (Now I've pissed of fans of both literature and art). Obviously I preferred Dos Passos. That vision, of a clear-eyed look at how and where we live, in the present and in the past, has informed my art. It's probably why I resist painting "pretty" scenes, beaches and sunsets and mountain streams and flowers in vases (to the detriment of my commercial potential). It's why the cars in my paintings tend to have dents in them.
Do you think Americana will mean the same thing in a decade? In two? Renaissance paintings will always be Renaissance paintings, or one would assume such. Do you think that the term Americana will always mean the same thing? As a romanticized representation of a time period, that time period is framed with cultural context, how will a changing, and hopefully evolving, society re-contextualize 'small town America'?
Our perceptions of the world and of ourselves are constantly changing. Renaissance paintings will always be renaissance paintings, but our perception of them is different than our parents' perception of them. The Met bought a forged Vermeer in the 1920s that is laughable in its crudeness, which shows how art experts' perceptions have changed over the years. So who knows what Americana will mean in a generation or two.
One thing that has definitely changed is that America is no longer the uncontested leader of the Free World. Our empire is in decline, and we are following the path England travelled after the collapse of it's empire. They went from Gunga Din to Alfred Prufrock in a generation. And they've struggled to make peace with their diminished status ever since. America will go through the same process, in literature, in art, in life. It will probably be a painful transition.
Small town America: I grew up in small towns, and in suburbs of big ones, which is much the same. Long Beach, where I spent my teens and twenties, though 300,000 people, had a small-town soul: it was known as "Iowa by the sea" for all the small-town emigrants who settled there (my father included). Maybe these emigrants gave rise to Americana. They were fleeing something harsh and unpleasant, or they wouldn't have left, but they still longed for what was left behind. Walt Disney was one of these, and we can lay much of the blame at his feet. My generation, the baby boomers, and subsequent generations reversed that movement, repudiating small towns (and Americana) for the big city and a more enlightened (or jaundiced) view of past history. All while harboring that same nostalgia for where they came from that our parents' did. (The best book on suburbia, by the way, is Holy Land by my friend and traveling companion D. J. Waldie.)
Being in the Laguna Beach Festival of Arts has been an enlightening experience, because I've encounted a vast array of people with a vast array of opinions about my work. A lot see it as nostalgic, or "Americana", which I would have protested in the past. But I've come to see what they see—certain resonances that speak to them based on their life experience. I paint a lot of houses, and they're always "just like" the one they grew up in, or their parents did, or their grandparents. And the buildings I paint, people have always seen them, though they're never sure quite where (or if they are, they're usually wrong). I put a little map in my booth this year, to show where the images for the paintings were located—that got almost as much attention as the paintings themselves.
My painting "Lee's Market" could be considered an exercise in nostalgia. It shows a 1920s-era zig-zag modern building in East Los Angeles, a rare architectural form from LA's boom years. All well before my time, of course, though I grew up among similar buildings in Long Beach. I could have cleaned it up to be a more romanticized view (in fact I did add back some of the lost ornamentation), but I left it pretty much as it is today, with paint peeling and cheap replacement windows. So the romantic jazz age past is there, but the present as well, with reference to EBT and Korean real estate agents. And the future, if you count the little kid walking by. All those layers of time are there. It got a lot of response from Festival-goers, those who had seen it and those who thought they had. It's not clean enough for Americana, but nostalgic, probably. I like to think of it as a documentary, slightly edited, of something overlooked.
I used to look down on nostalgia as a false emotion, a longing for a mis-remembered or imagined past. But as I see the resonances my images evoke in people, I've come to have more respect for nostalgia. It's not just us fooling ourselves into believing the past is better than it actually was. It's paying tribute to our lived experience, good and bad. We went through it, we remember some of it, and it is still with us, and will be until we die.
As Faulkner said, "The past is never dead. It's not even past."


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Occasionally, I will get on a consult call or free information call and will blow someone's mind with the idea of reverse engineering. While I am no numbers girl, I do know the value of taking your income goals and breaking them down so that you know exactly what it will take to reach those goals.
So, just in case you aren't quite sure how to hit your income goals every month...let me introduce you to the concept of reverse engineering.
Setting an income goal
There are various ways to set an income goal and each individual will do this differently. Some will set their goal based on how much they want to give. Others will set their goal based on a desire to replace either their full-time income or their husband's full-time income. Whatever your goals are in terms of the why behind your income goal, it is incredibly important that you have a clear income goal for each month.
Product Flow
Next, you have to consider your product flow or streams of income. What is bringing money in each month? You have to know the price breakdown for each stream of revenue as well.
Okay… so what does this look like?
Let's say that your income goal is $5000 per month and you provide 4 product services:
- A passive eBook ($50)
- A group online program ($199/month)
- VIP 1-on-1 program ($250/month)
- Membership Site ($35/month)
Now, let's say your goal is to sell 10 eBooks ($500), and you have 5 VIP's ($1250) and 20 members for your membership site ($700). Your total income is $2450, leaving you with $2550 to make your income goal of $5000 for the month. $2550 divided by $199 is 13...which means you need to get 13 people signed up for your bootcamp this month.
Why this matters…
Knowing how many people you need to sign up will help you figure out your marketing strategy. Many entrepreneurs grossly overestimate how many of their followers will actually convert to paid clients. Because of this, it is incredibly important to know exactly how many clients you need to meet your goal, so you can cast a sufficiently wide net in terms of leads. It is a good idea to bring in at least 10 times the number of clients you need, in terms of qualified leads, through your lead generators and social media posts. Once you know that number, you can effectively plan Facebook ad targeting and social media posting strategy.
Reverse engineering might be a little more number-y than I like, but it is truly the most effective way to figure out how you will meet your income goals each month. Every time I hop on a consult call, I ask my clients to tell me their income goal, then we walk through their product flow and exactly what they will need for the month. If you haven't planned out your income this way in the past, I highly recommend you give it a try! Seeing the breakdown can be incredibly motivating and help you focus your efforts on bringing in exactly what is needed to hit your goal each month!


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"We've become a family": Adam Lambert on Queen, his solo career and how Simon Cowell got woke
by Jordan Bassett
"How would you feel if you lost a job? You'd say anything"
No-one could ever replace legendary Queen frontman Freddie Mercury, but fans have taken warmly to singer Adam Lambert since he began performing with the band in 2011. Adam found fame on American Idol, where he first auditioned with 'Bohemian Rhapsody', and eventually caught the attention of original Queen members Brian May and Roger Taylor - dream come true stuff. This is a big year for Queen fans, with a massive North American tour coming up in September and the upcoming Freddie biopic, Bohemian Rhapsody, due for release in October. The film has not been without its controversies; director Bryan Singer and star Sacha Baron Cohen both left mid-production, having been respectively replaced by Dexter Fletcher and Remi Malek, and its recently released trailer has been accused of whitewashing Mercury's homosexuality.
We caught up with Adam to talk about his forthcoming solo album, Queen, and the movie.
Your shows with Queen just get bigger and bigger and bigger. If you went in now at the level the shows are currently, do you think it would be too overwhelming?
"Well, the first full-length set I did with them was completely overwhelming. It was for a quarter of a million people in the Ukraine! I was completely terrified. I had nine days of rehearsal to do a two-hour show. I was way in over my head; I was terrified. I think I've become stronger, better and more confident because of Queen. In the six years I've toured with them, the show has grown and so have I."
Were there any songs that you couldn't get on with when you were trying to perform it, that you came round to?
"There were some that were hard to learn. 'Don't Stop Me Now' - there's a lot of fucking words. The thing about a lot of the songs is that Freddie did stuff with the phrasing, where he would slide in and out of notes. When you're trying to learn one of his songs, listening to the recording, sometimes you're like, 'What's he doing? I don't wanna mimic him, but what's the fucking melody?'"
You've talked about the fact that we now live in a world that's less hostile to open gay celebrities. It's true, though, isn't it, that openly gay A-list actors remain something of a rarity?
"TV is more progressive, for some reason. I think it's because it's all financially driven. With a film, you've got to get out your house and buy a ticket. It's more of a sale. People have already subscribed to cable or a streaming service. They've already sort of signed up. Maybe it's TV's moral obligation to educate the masses and introduce them to characters from all different walks of life, that identify as all different types of things - including queer or trans and bi-racial. All these issues we're looking at right now, I think TV has been pushing in a good way."
"'Don't Stop Me Now' was hard to learn - there's a lot of fucking words!"
You found fame on American Idol. Did you ever have a conversation with yourself where you thought about whether you might suppress certain parts of your personality?
"No, not at all. I don't think I suppressed anything."
No, that's what I mean - but did you have that conversation with yourself?
"Up until that point, it wasn't a conscious thought. I realise, now that up until my season, anytime someone came on the show that was perceived to be gay or it was obvious enough that they were gay, they were a joke. They were made fun of. Simon [Cowell] would make fun of them. That was the comic relief. 'You couldn't possibly have a career as a recording artist; you're too effeminate.' To be fair, some of them weren't great singers, but there were a couple of really good singers that came on. And they weren't taken seriously. One went on to Drag Race eventually. You know Adore Delano? He competed as Danni on American Idol years before he was on Drag Race and he's a good singer."
But he was made a joke on American Idol?
"Simon gave him a real hard time. He wasn't the only one; there were a few. To me, the idea of being a music artist seemed like a pipe dream. There's no way I'm going to be a solo music artist - they're not looking for people like me. Before all that I never thought I'd be on the show; I was just a fan. Going into it I definitely thought, 'Am going to be another one of these people that are made into a joke?' It was only in the back of my head, but I kept going. Every time I would go through to e next progression and then the next progression, I was like, 'Oh, they like me, this is working.'"
Do you ever see Simon Cowell around nowadays?
"I bumped into him when I did The X Factor. I did the finale the year before last, and it was the first time I had seen him in 10 years. He was sweet. He said, 'Good to see you - good job.'"
All that stuff about how he would joke about queer contestants seems so alien in 2018...
"I think even he changed. He sort of wised up on that angle and he realised quickly that is not acceptable anymore."
Yeah, it's amazing how culture moves on
"The thing that is interesting on Idol is that once you become part of the top 12 or 13, you don't talk to the press. They sequestered you, and made you delete your Facebook. We didn't even have Twitter yet. Some pictures had come off my Facebook page of me kissing my ex-boyfriend, all dressed-up and glammed-up with make-up. [The press] were like, 'Is this you?' I was like, 'Yeah! That's me.' And then that was it; the cat was out of the bag. I finally finished the show and I was like, 'Oh, finally, I can respond to this shit.' We decided to take advantage and respond on the cover of Rolling Stone, which was kind of fabulous."
That must have been such a bizarre time for you
"It was interesting because there were members of the gay community saying, 'Why aren't you out? I thought, 'I am out!' I didn't realise when you're in the public eye you've got to declare it. It was interesting to be learning as it was happening. "Oh this is what it is to be a queer celebrity." I didn't have many examples so I didn't know what to do or the right way to do something."
You've said you experienced resistance from the music industry when you kissed a man at the American Music Awards. Did that make you more determined to be as outspoken as you are?
"It was definitely a reaction, definitely to prove a point. Then quickly I realised it could potentially take my chance away, and that was a difficult position to be in. My principles were very firm, and I was very clear on what I believe, and I'm always one to be kind of contrary and to debate and to prove a point. But I also didn't want to lose my shot. I wanted to have a career that was all of a sudden available to me, so that was a bit of a conflict for me. I didn't know exactly what to do and I was scared. I backed off a little bit and I had some success. When I went on tour after that album [his debut, 2009's 'For Your Entertaiment'] coming out, I was definitely all about it. I was kissing a musician every night on stage just to prove that point."
It's interesting what you said about being exposed to middle America, because Queen were massively camp in a time when it was more taboo to be out and gay. You wonder how this incredibly camp, pretty obviously gay music connected with such a mainstream audience in the late '70s
"Well, yeah, but it was almost in fashion to be [sexually] ambiguous in the '70s. It was cool to be effeminate, androgynous. Is he? Isn't he? That was all very rock 'n' roll. Bowie was doing it. Freddie, Mick Jagger. It was a product of the time. People were post-free-love'60s. There was a lot of partying going on, a lot of sex, a lot of rock 'n' roll. Then the Reagan administration came in. Everything was every conservative, with reforms like The War On Drugs. And then AIDS hit; everyone freaked the fuck out. It made all of that very dangerous and very wrong. Everyone clammed up quite a lot. Look at George Michael - he was fighting it his whole career."
Bowie and the Stones felt countercultural in a way that Queen didn't, though
"With Queen in particular I think there was something very coy and clever about it. Freddie was flirting with the taboo of [his sexuality]. It was taboo in the media; they were a little scared of it. A rock fan didn't even want to face it, didn't want to question it. There were songs that were whimsical and silly and flamboyant, but [the band] would balance it with a hard-rock banger."
"Freddie was flirting with the taboo of [his sexuality]. The media were a little scared of it."
Have you seen the upcoming Freddie biopic, Bohemian Rhapsody?
"No, though I saw the trailer and it looks great. He [Remi Malek, the actor who stepped in to play Freddie] looks just like [Freddie]. I like the music in the trailer and they way they have blended all the songs together - I've heard there's a lot in the movie about how the songs were created.
What did you think about the controversy around Sasha Baron Cohen's departure from the project? He claimed the band were too involved, and had tried to manipulate the narrative
"I mean, how would you feel if you'd lost a job? [Cackles] You're bound to say all sorts of things."
He said they wanted Freddie to die halfway through, and then the movie would be about how they continued to thrive without him
"I don't know, I wasn't there. I don't how it went down. Again, how would you feel if you lost a job? You're bound to say anything."
Some people have claimed that the trailer is guilty of 'heterosexual-washing' Freddie...
"The trailer? How can a trailer...?"
... And playing down his sexuality. We don't really see Freddie with a man, for example
"I saw him with a man. At the piano."
The official Fox office synopsis says it's about him dealing with a "life threatening illness", but shies away from saying that that life-threatening illness was AIDS
"I haven't seen it, and it's not my film. I would like to wait and see the film until I have an opinion on that. Not a trailer. It's a little bit jumping to conclusions, isn't it?"
Let's talk again when you've seen the movie. Easier question: your favourite Queen song?
"I love 'Another One Bites the Dust', I love the bassline. I also love 'Somebody to Love', I love singing that one, I love the words in that song. I relate to the words. I'm like, 'Please, just let it happen'. I love so many of them, but for different reasons. To sing 'Who Wants To Live Forever' is, like, it's so intense. There's so much release in it. Brian wrote it about his father, but singing it now, when I hear it, that song is obviously very much something that I think about Freddie."
"When I sing 'Somebody To Love', I think about Freddie"
There's going to be new solo material this year. What we expect? And when will we hear the record?
"I'm not sure yet. I am well along the way making it and have been taking my time to create something that I love. It's hard to describe because it's not genre specific. I have just been writing what I feel like writing. I'm excited about it! I've been influence by everything going on around me, and I wanted to make a record exploring all my influences from years gone by to now, so that's what I have done. I'll be back in the studio as soon when the [Queen] tour finishes."
You've talked about the fact that it's easy sometimes to get co-opted into musical trends. How have you found your unique place in 2018?
"I think I have found it more than ever before. I'm really just listening to myself and what I want to do, and I think that's working for me. I'm being influenced by what I love from years gone by and from now, rather than the trends. I do feel more confident in doing my own thing more than ever before, so it's about really following that."
Finally: how would you sum up Brian May?
"He's a thinker and a feeler. He likes to tune into the heart of things whether it's emotional or scientific. He's hyper focussed on the feeling he wants to achieve. He takes a minute. He's not impulsive. Roger's fiery and impulsive. He's a drummer; he's flashy and glam. He's very rock n' roll that way. They compliment each other really well. They were the original founding members before Freddie. They have been so open for me and warm. We've become a family and we trust each other."
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A passionate outdoor enthusiast with years of hiking, biking, climbing and river running. After many years in the medical world, Steve has shifted his focus to pursue his passion of furniture design and craftsmanship.
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Each piece is an individual; no two are alike (unless made as a set); much is determined by rope availability, color, and length available. (Note: Used climbing ropes may have color and wear variations; authentic signs of real world use)
These pieces have a unique style and construction method not available elsewhere; no one else is doing this.
The furniture evokes the rugged feel of mountains and outdoor sports and can provide color and outdoor sport authenticity to a lodge, cabin , or home. The furniture itself, consists of not only a beautiful wood frame, but also can showcase the wide variety of weaving patterns and color combinations found in modern climbing ropes.
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Balls & Strikes: Astros burned by check swing against Indians
Some takeaways from the Astros' 5-4 loss to the Indians:
Check swing: Before Carlos Correa's eighth-inning blast to left field that fell just short of the Crawford Boxes, perhaps there was another missed opportunity for the Astros — this one against the almost infallible Corey Kluber.
And it was out of their control.
Marwin Gonzalez lined a one-out single in the fifth inning, raising his absurd numbers against Kluber even higher. He's now 8-for-17 lifetime against the two-time Cy Young winner.
Kluber plunked Evan Gattis with his next pitch, putting two on with one out for nine-hole hitter Tony Kemp. The Astros' hadn't had two baserunners against Kluber in any inning prior.
Kemp worked the count to 3-1. Kluber offered a sinker and Kemp checked his swing. He flipped his bat and began to trot to first base, thinking there was no question he held up.
Third-base umpire Bill Miller deemed he went around. Kemp was summoned back to the box.
He bounced into a 6-4-3 double play on the next pitch.
"Had some tough luck on Tony's check swing, which would have set a pressure inning for him with (leadoff hitter) George (Springer) coming up," manager A.J. Hinch said.
Settled in: After Dallas Keuchel's disastrous first inning, he settled in for a pretty typical outing.
The weak contact that was nonexistent in the first inning returned for the final four. He retired the side in order in the third and fourth innings. Keuchel induced a groundball double play in the second, too, erasing Francisco Lindor's one-out single.
Even the final run he gave up was vintage. A walk to nine-hole hitter Rajai Davis was not ideal, but two soft groundouts by Lindor and Michael Brantley — Lindor's was tapped in front of the plate — got two quick outs.
Jose Ramirez got the run in after a swinging bunt rolled just fair.
"They came up swinging the bats pretty aggressive, they found some mistakes, put some balls in play in some areas we weren't playing," Hinch said. "Other than that he was pretty good and got some soft contact, even at the end ... All in all it's a disappointing day for him, but it wasn't as bad as the first inning felt."
About tomorrow: Lance McCullers Jr. gets the ball in the rubber match against Carlos Carrasco on ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball. Carrasco has a 2.67 ERA in 33.2 career innings pitched inside Minute Maid Park.


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According to Nigerianfilms,The Navy helicopter that crashed claiming the lives of prominent personalities, late General Owoeye Azazi and Gov. Patrick Yakowa might have become a forgone issue but not when someone has just pick a hole in the statement made by actor, Ramsey Nouah and Timi Dakolo, a singer.
It is however, interesting to note that neither Noah nor Dakolo's name was on the flight manifest. It is unclear how the two artistes intend to justify their claims in the face of stark reality that they weren't in any way connected to the flight in which the late statesmen were airlifted. Given that the lust for fame is a powerful aphrodisiac, it is understandable that Noah and Dakolo would be desperate for publicity of any kind, but for them to seek acclaim and media mention off the misfortune and demise of a towering statesman smack of ruthlessness and unforgivable shallowness unbecoming of public figures in their mold.
According to an insider, "It's unfortunate that whenever there is a mishap of this nature in the country, people often emerge to give narrow-escape testimonies, most of these, nobody can confirm. Most of them are attention seekers, and pathological liars. It's shameless. I saw that helicopter on that day, only twice. The first time, it came to pick, yet again, a 5-star General, it must have been then, Azazi called for the helicopter to pick him. The second time I saw it, it came to pick Azazi. The information minister had departed the venue over an hour before the Navy helicopter came for Azazi. Governor Yakowa decided to fly with Azazi, ditching his private arrangement before he and others met their death.
It's laughable that a struggling singer, Dakolo, who was billed to perform at a time, long after General Azazi had departed the event also claimed that "God saved him". Saved him how? Is he a General? Is he Azazi or Yakowa's aide? In what capacity was he supposed to fly with Azazi that 'God saved him'?"
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Autumn is here and in full swing! The leaves are changing and falling, the air is crisp and cool, and apples are ready to be picked and eaten! Whether you are in the Massachusetts eating local Macintosh apples, or elsewhere in the world eating one of the other 7,500 varieties of apple, here are some ideas for how to enjoy your apple.
Personal Apple Pies
Apple Pie may be a staple of both fall and the holidays, but this twist is anything but traditional. Try making a single-serving apple pie by carving out the innards of the apple, replacing them with apple pie filling, and then placing a layer of flakey crust on top.
Dried Apples
a tasty and packable treat, drying your own apples–though a long process–gives you the artistic licence to do whatever you please! Sprinkle with cinnamon, dip in peanut butter, top with salt or leave them au natural.
Apples in a Soup
Many soup recipes call for apples. There's Potato Soup with Apples and Brie Cheese, Butternut Squash and Apple Soup, Curried Apple Soup, Apple-Pumpkin Soup…and the list goes on! Try experimenting with sweet apples to make a savory dish!
Caramel Apple
Treat your sweet tooth to a decadent Carnival Style Caramel Apple. Or don't, and purchased some pre-packaged caramel dipping sauces from your local grocery store. Either way, caramel + apples = nirvana for your mouth.
Waldorf Salad
Follow the footsteps of the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in NYC and put apples in a salad, along with some celery, grapes, and walnuts.
Apple Compote
Perfect for breakfast, dessert, with breads or by itself, warm apple compote is a wonderful mix of soft baked apple, brown sugar, and yummy spices.
Apple Butter
Though it may take forever to make, apple butter is well worth the wait. Plus, once its cooked, if it sealed correctly, apple butter will keep in the fridge or the freezer for a long period of time, allowing you to enjoy it for much, much longer than it takes to make!
Apple Sangria
Put a spin on this traditional fruity drink by adding apples, oranges, and spices to your liquid mixture (a recipe for those 21+).
Fresh Apple Salsa
Most people have eaten tomato salsa, and most have heard of mango salsa, but fresh apple salsa rivals both of these dishes. Mix it with strawberries and kiwi for a sweeter dish, or with jalapeños and lime juice for a bit more of zing.
Apple Sauce Brownies
For a healthier version of your favorite brownie recipe, try using applesauce as a substitute for oil. The brownies come out just as moist and tasty, though a bit lumpier. A worthwhile exchange for the health benefits of the switch!
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text: Phind it for Me is a new service based on an open source project launching initially in Philadelphia (with other cities to follow shortly) that aims to better connect people with their neighborhoods. The application works by letting users send a simple text message (from any SMS-enabled mobile phone) to find the closest location in their neighborhood for a specific type of service (e.g., libraries, schools, etc.) This helps citizens become more connected to the places where they live by making it easy to find the things they need right in their own communities. Where is the closest library to where you live or work? Where is the closest school, hospital, senior center, recreation center, public pool, polling place, or hospital? Phind it for Me answers these question by allowing people to send a simple text message to find out. The code that powers Phind it for Me is open source and available on GitHub. The data that powers Phind it for Me comes from the OpenDataPhilly project and is housed in PHLAPI. It is free and available for any developer to use. Data repositories similar to PHLAPI also exist for other cities, like Baltimore, Seattle and Portland.


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Green Smoothie, Pink Toes
My Airbnb accommodation here in Kihei has a Vitamix so you know I'm going to be blending all kinds of things while I'm here in Maui. This morning's green smoothie consisted of local bananas & pineapples, kale, hemp hearts, almond milk, and Organic Whole Greens powder. I like to bring the greens powder along with me when I travel because it's an easy way to get several servings of healthy, nutrient rich greens, which isn't always possible when you are away from home.


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Have you ever had a week when all of those old sayings apply to your life? Let me give you a few. If there is an emergency on a plane, put your mask on first. You can lead a horse to the well, but you can't make it drink. Don't take any wooden nickels (that's my mom's favorite). Do unto others as you'd have them do unto you. Patience is a virtue (I once had to write that 50 times during my junior year of high school). I could go on and on. You get the point.
Some days are more of a challenge than others, especially for small business owners. But, you can't complain. You have to keep smiling and as the kids say, "keep it moving." You have to often think outside of the box to come up with a viable solution. Entrepreneurs, remember, things may not happen right away, but they will happen. Just don't give up.
A friend had to recently remind me – remember what you know. I have shared that piece of advice with others. Going back to the basics may help you through those ups and downs of daily business decisions. And, those old sayings just may help get you through as well.


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Syria denies UN claims it used heavy arms in Tremseh
Syria has rejected claims by the UN that it used heavy weapons in an attack on the village of Tremseh on Thursday.
It accused UN and Arab League special envoy Kofi Annan of "rushed" comments, adding that only troop carriers and small arms were used in the operation.
Syria said what occurred were armed clashes, not a massacre, with only 37 recorded deaths - far short of the 200 or so deaths activists have suggested.
UN observers have returned to Tremseh to continue investigations.
They still need to determine how many people died, who they were and exactly who carried out the attack.
'Not a massacre'
Syrian foreign ministry spokesman Jihad Makdissi told a news conference in Damascus that no helicopters, aircraft or armoured tanks were used in the attack - only troop carriers and small arms, including rocket-propelled grenades.
He said Mr Annan had sent a letter to the foreign ministry on Saturday that "did not rely on facts".
"As diplomatically as possible, we say that this letter was very rushed," he said.
Mr Makdissi said five buildings housing what he termed "armed terrorists" had been targeted.
He said the army's attack was in too small an area to use tanks.
"It was not a massacre but a response by regular military forces against heavily armed groups that do not want a political solution," Mr Makdissi said.
He cited the initial findings of the UN observers as supporting the Syrian government's account that armed rebels had been targeted.
However, the observers had confirmed that heavy weapons were used, in violation of a commitment given to Mr Annan by the Syrian authorities.
"A wide range of weapons were used, including artillery, mortars and small arms," UN spokeswoman Sausan Ghosheh said in a statement.
Mr Makdissi said if any heavy weapons were used it was by the rebel side.
Some activists and witnesses say more than 200 civilians were killed in an indiscriminate massacre, initially by an army bombardment then by pro-government shabiha militiamen who swept into the village and killed people one by one.
'Under the rubble'
The BBC's Jim Muir, in neighbouring Lebanon, says the conclusions of UN observers have so far been more in line with the government's version of events than with reports of an indiscriminate massacre of civilians.
He says the Tremseh killings appear to differ from the situation at Houla two months ago, when UN observers were able to arrive quickly and count the bodies of what was clearly a massacre.
He says that because the observers arrived in Tremseh 48 hours after the attack, all they could conclude was that it appeared to target rebel fighters or defectors from the Syrian army.
Video posted by activists shows dozens of people buried in a mass grave but this has not been verified and activist groups themselves are struggling to determine the number of dead.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights group said it had the names of 103 dead, including 50 rebel fighters.
One activist, Bassel Darwish, told Associated Press: "There are still martyrs under the rubble and in the fields."
Residents were unable to reach fields, where many bodies were said to be scattered, because of army checkpoints, he said.
Mr Darwish said Syrian troops had entered Tremseh with the UN team on Saturday "so that no-one would talk to the observers".
Reports of casualties often cannot be independently verified, as Syria severely restricts journalists' freedom of movement.
Some 16,000 people are thought to have been killed since the uprising against Bashar al-Assad's regime began in March 2011.


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It's always struck me as strange and absurd and bizarre that we escape "real life" by going away on vacation. That our lives should be so unlike vacations that we run away once or twice a year to finally relax and be with family and enjoy somewhere beautiful.
What is real life, then?
After a really lovely long weekend in Maine spent with my partner (think rolling mountains, beautiful sunsets, late nights with cocktails, a sweet little Airbnb, sleeping in and coffee in bed, walks on the beach), I'm letting all these thoughts tumble around in my head. How can it be, that Monday through Friday feels like living in a cave, and Saturday morning I wake and the sun is shining, only to disappear again on Sunday evening? Why shouldn't every day feel just as glorious?
I'm thinking about little ways I can make the "real world" feel more like vacation -- perhaps putting fresh flowers in the bedroom to feel like a hotel, trying a new tucked-away restaurant to feel like we're exploring a far-off city, carving out time for long hot showers and fluffy clean towels.
Because I refuse to believe that life is to be escaped. It can't possibly be. And so I will create it.


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The Journal of Pain Summary
Highlight from The Journal of Pain (Volume 19, No. 9, September 2018 Issue)
"I Was a Little Surprised": Qualitative Insights from Patients Enrolled in a 12-Month Trial Comparing Opioids with Nonopioid Medications for Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain
Marianne S. Matthias, Melvin T. Donaldson, Agnes C. Jensen, Erin E. Krebs
The results of a 12-month randomized trial, conducted by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and published in The Journal of Pain, showed that opioid therapy did not differ from nonopioid therapy when assessing pain-related function. Further, most patients in both treatment groups in the study had improved function from baseline to 12-month follow-up.
The Strategies for Prescribing Analgesics Comparative Effectiveness (SPACE) trial compared the benefits and harms of opioid versus nonopioid therapies for chronic musculoskeletal pain. For the study, 34 veterans with chronic pain were interviewed for postintervention evaluations to understand their experiences with the SPACE trial, including their views about the anticipated benefits of opioids versus nonopioid therapy. Pain treatment response was defined as improvement of at least 30% on the Brief Pain Inventory Interference Scale.
Despite the lack of evidence on the long-term effectiveness of opioids, these medications are frequently perceived to be powerful pain relievers. However, perceptions can influence patients' responses to the medications and perhaps shape outcomes.
Study results showed opioid therapy was no more effective than nonopioid therapies for improving pain function. However, pain intensity and medication-related adverse symptom outcomes were significantly worse for opioids. Interviews also showed how patient perspectives changed over time. Some patients in the opioid group expressed disappointment in the results of their therapy, expecting greater relief than they experienced. Subjects in the nonopioid group expressed surprise that nonopioid therapy could work as well as it did.


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Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire For No Witness
Heavenly second album from celestially tagged Missouri-born singer-songwriter.
ANYONE WHO SAW Angel Olsen brazenly back-chatting bearded alt.country patriarch Bonnie 'Prince' Billy while playing with his occasional accompanists The Cairo Gang might have suspected she was bound for great things. And this superb second album makes a comparably dramatic leap forward - vaulting straight from evident promise to its stringent and unarguable realisation - to the one Will Oldham made at the same point in his pre-Bonnie incarnation as Palace Brothers. The seductive harshness of Karen Dalton, the infectious languor of Mazzy Star, the clipped, sardonic intensity of the first two Cate Le Bon albums... if you've a partiality for any one of these addictive pleasures, this album will have plenty to offer you. For those who are suckers for all three, your Christmas and birthday have come at once.
"Suggests Grace Slick auditioning for Nico's role in the Velvet Underground."
It's not so much that Angel Olsen's singing explicitly recalls any of that illustrious trio, rather that it now inhabits its own particular space with the same feline self-assurance. The dizzying vocal swoops and stripped down acoustic backings of her 2012 debut Half Way Home still felt slightly staged, as if they were the work of someone successfully following a set of instructions. But the happy circumstances of the intervening year - her rapid coalescing with drummer Josh Jaegar and bassist Stewart Bronaugh into an operational band, the judicious promptings of Bill Callahan producer John Congleton - have facilitated a far more authoritative demeanour.
From the deliberate duplication that subtly undermines Hi-Five's superficially affirmative message - "Are you lonely too? High five - So am I!" to the subliminal shimmer of a bossa nova wavelet beneath Iota's yearning refrain of "If only we could always stay the same", it's the subtle interplay of writing and performance skills that makes these songs so powerful. And Olsen's imposing vocal range is now matched by a similarly expansive stylistic waterfront.
The two-minute indie power-surge of Forgiven/Forgotten would not have broken the breezy pop-grunge spell of the second Breeders album; the moment when Olsen kicks up a stentorian gear in High & Wild suggests Grace Slick auditioning for Nico's role in the Velvet Underground; and her playful delivery on the Nashville-tinged Lights Out ("If you've got a sense of humour, you're not so bad") is worthy of the great Arkansas quaverer Iris Dement. But it's the album's sumptuously mordant seven-minute centrepiece White Fire that really steals the show. This is Cohen-esque not in the all too familiar manner of having been specifically framed to create that impression, but in the rarer and more valuable sense of making you wonder if Leonard could have done as well with it.
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Lisa's Homeschooling Room Redo
Speaking of Lisa, and her wonderful-ness, I couldn't wait to help her with a couple of spaces in her home.
First up today, the school room.
This room was already functioning well, as she has two little ones and one grade-school age child. She uses it for school with […]