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The 2nd annual Bada Bling weekend for charity hosted by the Chris Webber Foundation in Las Vegas happened to be one of the most incredible weekends fit for royalty. From the cream 2008 Escalades that chauffeurred everyone in attendance to and from the airport, to the weekend's swank highlight, The soiree, hosted by funny man Charlie Murphy, everything was top notch and white carpet tight. The weekend kicked off Friday evening with a charity poker tournament that included everyone from Rip Hamilton of the Detroit Pistons to last year's winner Miss California, Tamiko Nash. Hip Hop poet Nas, comics Charlie Murphy and Marc Curry, boxer Zab Judah, model/actress Claudia Jordan and a bevy of athletes and entertainers rounded out those who chose to spectate and mingle with their celebrity peers. The night concluded with a sick welcoming party at club OPM. Doug E. Fresh and Slick Rick the Ruler performed their all time classics with old school tracks spun by Biz Markie.
A celebrity golf outing started the second day of events. I can only imagine what affect the sweltering Vegas heat had on everyone's golf swing. Lastly, the weekend concluded with The Soiree'. Charlie Murphy had everyone rolling with his straight forward routine and fellow comedian Marc Curry helped out with the auction which included everything from a dinner with Webber at his home in Atlanta or Detroit, to a 2008 All Star Game VIP package in New Orleans. Howard Hewitt of Shalamar fame, Raphael Sadiqq, Lil' Mo, Nas and the Isley Brothers all did their thing on stage. The night ended on a high note with Biz once again mixing the hottest tracks at the after party right next door. If you ever go to Vegas, Caesar's does it right. Since every thing was happening in the hotel, I never had to leave. Great event and it was crazy having to come back to reality.
Here's some quotes from the many sports and entertainment personalities paying homage to Chris that were present:
MT: Kareem, Chris seems like a throwback athlete because he seems to take a solid initiative in properly using his talent and fame to give back. How does he compare to the athletes of your generation that thought of more than just themselves?
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Chris's philantrophy transcends generations. This is my second year attending this event, and I do so because Chris is doing this genuinely from the heart. Past athletes like Jim Brown, Jackie Robinson, etc., would and should be proud of Chris because giving back is so important to him.
MT: Should athletes give back no matter what or is it their personal choice?
Kareem: Well, it's always there choice, but athletes should understand the position they are in and make sure the youth of our society see them in a positive light by making themselves available to not only the communities in which they play, but society in general.
MT: Shawn, didn't expect to see you here. What can athletes do to make America understand that most athletes do the right thing?
Shawn Marion: Besides setting up foundations like Chris has done so well, athletes have to understand that kids see them differently than adults. We are blessed to be here and should make sure we stay relevant by giving back every chance we get.
MT: Mr. Webber, I know it was a dream come true having your son sign with his hometown team, the Detroit Pistons last year. Could you let us in on the disappointment you felt after Detroit came up just short?
Mayce Webber: It was definitely a dream come true. I was so excited and can't really put into words the feeling when Chris signed. It was really an emotional moment for me. I feel that there should have been no way Cleveland got past us. It was more than the players that allowed for this to happen. Detroit was definitely a better team than Cleveland and it just made no sense that they went on and faced San Antonio. Detroit definitely would have been a better match up for the Spurs.
MT: Should your son re-sign with Detroit? His career has come full circle and I'm sure his fans know Detroit is where he belongs.
Mayce Webber: Yes, I do think Chris should re-sign with Detroit. Joe Dumars has been good to him and the fans of Detroit deserve to see Chris finish out his career there. I hope he stays.
MT: Chauncey speak about Chris and why he gives so much back.
Chauncey Billups: CWebb does it big. He has a huge heart. No one does it like CWebb. I tell everyone that. Every time he does an event it's the best. I'm never going to miss this. I'm here to support him–giving back like he does.
MT: Most athletes in today's free agency era would not have resigned with their respective team. What prompted that resigning?
Chauncey Billups: I love the situation that I'm in. The Pistons are the first team that fell in love with me and I'm just showing that same love and respect to them. Obviously, I could have done a lot of different things, but I'm a loyal dude.
MT: Are you doing your best to persuade Chris to stay in Detroit?
Chauncey Billups: Man! I'm trying! I'm trying hard as I can.
MT: Carmelo, what brings you here besides USA basketball?
Carmelo Anthony: Well I am in town for USA basketball, but I'm here to support Chris. He's my big homie, a big veteran of the league. I want to show love to him. He's doing big things.
MT: What I remember about you, Matt, is last year at this event. We were on the white carpet at the Soiree'. Your former Sixers coaches, Maurice Cheeks and Mike Bibby's dad Henry were having a conversation. I could see the fire in your eyes. We were talking about Philly not giving you any playing time (Matt laughs). Do you remember that?
Matt Barnes: Of course I remember.
MT: All of a sudden, you go to Golden State and blow up! What was your mindset going into the off season and being so successful with the Warriors and upsetting the number one seed Dallas Mavericks. It was one of the biggest upsets in NBA history.
Matt Barnes: It was a lot of just showing what I can do. I sat on the bench for two years in Philly and didn't get the opportunity to play. I really wanted to play. Playing so hard in Golden State was my way of showing Philly that they made a big mistake by not playing me.
MT: What are you going to do this year to show everyone that last year was not a fluke? On the floor you have the eyes of a straight up assassin. I don't know if anyone expected GS to do what you did in the playoffs. It was real and it affected every single basketball fan alive who truly has their finger on the game's pulse. I felt connected to you any time I saw you play because of our conversation last year. Proud of you brotha. Follow it up!
Matt Barnes: I have to just keep working hard. Keep doing what I do. It took me a little while to arrive on this stage, but I'm here to stay. I just try to go out there and get better every day. I feel you on that connection. I thought about it during the year too. I'm in negotiations with some teams. Just trying to get back into the swing of things and get ready for the season. It's good to come out here and support Chris and his foundation and see some people I haven't seen in a while.
MT: Joakim, being you are one of the youngest players here, why come?
Joakim Noah: I feel as though I'm in a great situation with Chicago and I'm here for CWebb. I've never been to one of these. I know I want to do a lot of things myself in the future. I want to have foundations. I think it's the right thing to do to support people like Chris and their foundations to learn how it's done and see how the money is generated. Just learn the ropes.
MT: Everybody talks about the emotion you bring to the court every single second you are out on the floor and even on the bench. What is something that people don't know about you?
Joakim Noah: There's a lot of things people don't know about me. I'm always going to play with emotion while on the court but people see you on TV playing basketball and they expect you to be emotional all the time. Sometimes I'm tired. Sometimes I'm angry. I have a lot of different emotions too like every other human being.
MT: What will resonate in your mind about what you and your teammates were able to accomplish in winning back to back national titles at Florida? What kind of career do you envision for yourself with the Chicago Bulls?
Joakim Noah: I say going back to campus after winning the second title. It was just ridiculous. We just had so much fun man. We were wilin' out. We did it the right way. That's what you are supposed to do after winning a championship. Hopefully, I'll have a long career with a lot of buckets, a lot of rebounds and a lot of blocks. Hopefully some chips along the way.
MT: I know you are out here for USA Basketball Tayshaun. Nice to see you took time out to support Webb's event.
Tayshaun Prince: It's for a great cause obviously. We're out here to take care of business on the court. Since Webb is having something out here the same time it's good to show appreciation for Chris while also supporting his foundation. It just goes to show that we can do stuff off the court and support our fellow athletes that give back.
MT: Nice to see you back here for the second year in a row Nas.
Nas: I like what Chris stands for. He's a good person through and through. 100%. This thing right here is all for the children. I made a record, I Can, and kids were singing that at graduation. That touched me. So anything for the children, I'm all for. I love everything that Big Webb is doing. Everything he's doing is from the heart. It's a piece of who he is. He's sharing it with the world.
MT: We spoke during the Poker tournament about philantrophy and you gave Chris many accolades for being a force in the community. Speak about Chris Webber the beat maker and also about Hip Hop going through it's present transition. How are we going to get back to the conscious Hip Hop representative of artists like yourself?
Nas: Chris is really into music like how I am. We like to have conversations about all kinds of music. We vibin' right now to the Sinatra kind of sound. That's what you are hearing now. We just had a barbecue thing and we were vibin' off of Sinatra and Sam Cooke. The song we did, Blunt Ashes, was about artists before our time. Everybody that was in the game. It's about the heroes of music. You can tell that's our connection all the way.
Nas: Hip Hop is on a natural course. Hip Hop became global, so you have elevated Hip Hop, you have dance Hip Hop and all kinds of Hip Hop music. The whole thing got bigger. You have to go inside and find who you really like. The guys that I really like are still doing their thing. It doesn't have anything to do with all the other stuff that's going on. It's great that the other stuff is going on. Everybody gotta eat, so let the other guys eat. Everything ain't good, but you have to take the good and the bad.
MT: Rip, Rip! (Trying to land BHop-Winky Wright tickets and straight up igging me out before finally turning my way and almost eating my recorder) What's goin' with the Poker tournament? Is it a friendly competition?
Rip Hamilton: My bad Mike, you know how it is… I'm out here for Webb man. Great individual. He's done some special things for the community. I went to war with him on the floor. Any opportunity I can be here for something special, I'll do it. It's fun. We all want to win. Right now it'll start of friendly but you know how we all are and it will turn competitive and we all want to win.
MT: You came up a little short this year. What do you expect out of the Pistons next season? The signing of Mr. Big Shot was an important step.
Rip Hamilton: Same thing. Right back in the mix. We feel like we should have been in the Finals the last four years, so it's tough. We let one slip away. You gotta give a lot of credit to Cleveland. They played well. LeBron played awesome. We just gotta get back to where we were last year and hopefully get a win. Definitely was an important step. You look at the great back court with the Pistons–Isiah Thomas, Joe Dumars–those guys retired together. When we get the opportunity to sew up a back court like this, it's a great thing. We won a championship and feel like we can win another one. We can only get better and hopefully will get right back there.
MT: Bobby Jax. You out here in Vegas to support your boy? Are you going to do anything with those chips in front of you?
Bobby Jackson: Yeah I'm out here to support my boy Chris. I love poker. Love to gamble even though I don't get to do it often. I just got that competitive edge. Hopefully I can win some free hours on that jet over there and go home happy. There's always competition going on between me and the fellas. Once we step off the floor doing what we do, it's gonna get competitive. It's just like on the court; we don't want anybody else winning.
MT: Back in New Orleans this year. What's going on with the fans as well as the team? What's going on in the region? Is there any positive development or is it still dilapidated?
Bobby Jackson: If we stay healthy we can be a pretty good team. We had a lot of injuries last year to a lot of key guys. We just missed the playoff by two games, so that says a lot about us. But I'm happy. Going back to New Orleans, the city has given us a lot of support and needs our support as well. It's growing. I don't know why it's taken so long. It's taking much longer than it should. As athletes and friends, we can make a difference. We can take it one step at a time and try to build up the community. The government has to take the initiative to do that also. They are really taking their time to build up the city and it really doesn't make any sense why that is happening.
MT: Coach, speak about the development of Chris Webber the player from when you coached him in Washington and later in Philly. What brings you here? You here to represent Dei?
Jimmy Lynam: Wow, Chris has developed into a fine player. He was a big part of what they had going on in Sacramento. I loved his game early on even in DC and later in Philly. He's a basketball player without the restrictions. I came here to represent my daughter who came in second at the poker tournament. I'm here to defend.
MT: Dale talk about this event as it relates to the community.
Dale Davis: Oh it's huge. CWebb is doing a lot of things to help the youth. So we're just coming out here to support and have some fun at a beautiful event.
MT: You've played in the NBA a long time and done a lot of big things. How has the NBA been to you?
Dale Davis: It's been great. No question about it. It's been a great experience. I've been able to do a lot and meet a lot of people and have a great career. I've definitely enjoyed it. The game is going to a new level.
MT: I see you are here again showing love to your friend Jackie and Doug. What do you have going on?
Doug Christie: Where do you start? Chris is a beautiful individual and is a great human being for doing what he does for the kids. Anytime he has an event, we are here to support. We love what he does for the community with his money.
Jackie Christie: We have our fashion line that will be coming out in the spring. Doug is going to be heavily involved and also going back to the NBA. We're excited about that. We definitely will be doing a men's line. We have our book out, No Ordinary Love, that we've debuted on June 1st.
MT: I'll get to review it, right? Doug, talk about your career as an NBA player as it transitions to other forms of life.
Doug: I got you Mike on the book. Well, I think more than anything, it's a lesson along the way. You are meeting people, but it's a business. Over the years, I learned that. Once I got married, I understood that family meant everything. Then came the business desire. My wife having that background, helped me more than anything start the transition. After basketball, yeah we have the money, but what are we going to do next? We are gonna keep on pushing. I credit her because sometimes people don't think that way. You are just in it and keep grinding. I'm proud of her for the stuff she's put into it and also myself for staying in and learning everything I can business wise. I don't know, everything.
MT: There was a crazy period where there were a lot of misconceptions about your relationship. Are you two still going through it or has the media and public calmed down? Thanks for providing people with an inspiration.
Jackie Christie: It definitely was crazy. I think it has come full circle. They were so hard on us at first–we took a lot of punches. We just kept it strong and didn't change. Nothing they say matters. With the book, they get a real good understanding of who we are. We never said we were perfect. We love each other and we are not going to change anything.
Doug: You see a lot of players with their wives and children and that image is good for other players to see. They think it's cool and if they think it's cool, then that's power–especially in our community.
MT: Ruthie, did you develop a friendship with Chris while you both played in Sacramento?
Ruthie Bolton: Yes, during that time. I'm definitely a big Chris Webber fan. He's definitely a great person. He has a beautiful smile and is also a beautiful person inside. So when he asked me to come, I didn't hesitate.
MT: Are you happy with the direction the WNBA is going in–especially with the new contract they signed with ESPN? You and some of the other players of your era really did the league and it's players a solid by trailblazing a path of success.
Ruthie Bolton: I think it's going to be great. I was just at the WNBA All Star game and I miss it so much. It's going to get better. I tell young girls all the time that they are going to get to enjoy the pro game because right now it's still in it's birthing stages. The NBA is backing the league, so it's going to be great. It's good that women have something to look forward to professionally in this country instead of going over seas. The first four years it was Houston and the next three LA. There's more balance now and you never know who is going to win. The younger kids are coming in and making a bigger impact early on. I love watching the game. The talent is great across the board. I wish I was still playing but it's cool to pass the torch to players that really represent women's basketball with a strong impact.
MT: Shav, what is Chris Webber the teammate like?
Shavlik Randolph: He's like a big brother to me. One I've never had. He took me under his wing and showed me the ropes on and off the court. He's honestly one of my best friends. He'll be my brother and friend for life. I'm so glad I can come here and support what he does.
MT: What's going on with the Sixers? How are you going to transition from Allen Iverson and later Chris Webber, to Andre Iguodala, Rodney Carney and yourself?
Shavlik Randolph: We have a lot to be excited about. We had one of the best records last year post all star break. We have a lot to look forward to. Obviously, it's hard to replace two Hall of Famers in Allen Iverson and Chris Webber, but we have Andre Miller and a lot to build around. We've done the rebuilding thing and are at the top of the ladder and going into the upcoming season with expectations of making the playoffs.
MT: Brian, talk about your relationship with Webber and the transition from player to coach.
Brian Shaw: Chris and I have been friends for a while. I will do what I can to help him in any way because he's such a good dude. It's different being a coach. You have to be less emotional and not react like you would as a player. The players look to you for guidance and support and that's what I try to give them.
Webb finally steps up to the mic to talk about his event, athletes having similar intentions, and if the money actually goes to his foundation.
Chris Webber: I was inspired by many people to have this. Magic had his Midnight Summer Magic. Michael Jordan had his events. I just wanted to do the same thing. Truthfully, I have so many friends that have the resources and intentions to help and I like calling them out to come help me and I'll do the same for them.
I'd rather be with kids than having a good time now. I can make fun of them for being a Lakers fan. You can tell them a stupid joke and they won't laugh. If they aren't a Pistons fan then they'll tell you. You have to respect that. I really love working with children. My mother's been a teacher. We've had everything from schools in our home, to vacation Bible schools and day cares in our home that my mother ran. She taught me in 6th and 7th grade–which wasn't fun, but children are our focus.
Maybe the call is not for everyone, but hopefully we've all had good parents with a strong background to make it where you are and where we all are. Hopefully we can represent those values that got us here. Hopefully you have conviction and enough courage. It doesn't have to be this. It could be taking to kids during summer to a camp that don't have fathers or mothers. Just do what you can do.
I thank God that people appreciate my word. If I tell people they are going to have a good time, hopefully they are going to be accommodated 100% of their money goes to the foundation. I have no incentive to take, rob, steal. I just want people that are humble to help the community. If we have that, then we have everything that we need to do.
MT: Briefly speak on what basketball has given you. From playing high school ball in Detroit to coming full circle and playing professionally in Detroit. What has that experience been like?
Chris Webber: It's been a learning experience. It has had its ups and downs. I became a man in front of the eyes of the world. People still learn at the ages of 50 and 60. I know I'm still learning. It's been rewarding. At the end of the day it's built a lot of character and settled me. You can't get too high or too low. Take all compliments with a grain of salt and everybody that hates you, don't even listen to them.
MT: You gonna stay with Detroit? What's going on with that?
Chris Webber: I don't know. I would love to. Right now I'm thinking about Detroit and Dallas, so you never know. Watch out for BShaw though he's trying to get me in LA!
Bonus Gavin Maloof UPDATE:
MT: What are your thoughts on the Bada Bling event and could you reflect on the time Chris spent in Sacramento?
Gavin Maloof: First of all we are really proud of Chris Webber and his contributions to charitable events. What he's doing is so good. When we had him with the Kings, he was definitely the cornerstone of the franchise. We'll never forget what he did for our team.
MT: What's going on with the new arena?
Gavin Maloof: Right now, we are just waiting on the David Stern's office to come back with a plan. They've been working on that for the past 6-8 months. They'll present us a plan in the upcoming weeks. It's what they tend to do. The NBA took over the process. We're kind of out of the process at this point.


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I also talked about the importance of placing the head near the very top of the paper (unless your arms are going to be raised above the head) so the figure would be tall enough. We used white crayon on black construction paper.
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but I noticed that most kids gave it a try.
The students did a GREAT job of cutting out their silhouette. We only had one head and one arm cut off in 2 classes, and that was an easy fix when they glued the silhouette on the background later.
positive and negative space", was to paint their areas of negative space with different tints and shades of one color. Students used cake tempera and liquid white tempera. They had a yogurt container lid for their palette and we talked about how to use the palette without smearing color over the entire surface and trying to keep separate little areas for mixing. If the palette did get "full" they could easily wipe it clean with a paper towel and start again.
One tip, when painting the negative spaces, I asked kids to paint a little over the pencil line, into their positive space area, so that later when they glued they would only see only color and not the white, unpainted background.
When all the negative spaces were painted, children put dots of glue around the edges of their silhouettes (on the back side where the white crayon lines were), flipped them over carefully and glued them in place.They placed them on the drying racks, but since we are in the middle of a heat wave, these were dry before I knew it!!
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Saturday, March 15, 2014
Beyond Thirty by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Lost Continent is the title given to Burroughs' short novel entitled Beyond Thirty when it first appeared as a mass market paperback in 1963. Beyond Thirty was written in 1915 and appeared in magazine form in 1916, and is a response to the First World War. I read a library copy of the 2001 edition, part of Bison Book's Frontiers of the Imagination line. This edition has additional material by David Brin, Phillip Burger and Richard Lupoff. (The University of Nebraska Press's Bison Frontiers of Imagination series is something all classic SF fans should know about.)
To keep anybody from crossing the 30 or 175, the Americas have a powerful navy that patrols both meridians. This short novel (just about 100 pages) is about Lieutenant Turck, our narrator, a naval officer who, due to mechanical failure, inclement weather, and treachery among his crew, is abandoned on a boat with three regular sailors, and ends up shipwrecked in England. He finds that the Great War has totally obliterated British civilization, that Great Britain is a wilderness inhabited by wild beasts and people with a stone age technology and social structure.
As you would expect in a Burroughs novel, Turck fights beasts, gets captured by jerkoffs, escapes from said jerkoffs, rescues a beautiful princess, falls in love with said princess, and so forth. What's a little different in Beyond Thirty is the anti-war theme. Writing with the World War, which the U. S. is not yet involved in, in mind, Burroughs again and again reminds us how great a city London is, and how fine a people the English are (Burroughs comes off as a serious Anglophile here), and warns of how foolish and wasteful it would be for that great civilization to be lost to war. Burroughs not only points out again and again how war has destroyed so many buildings and killed so many people, but even presents examples of the ruinous effect of war on human psychology and morality: the barbarian English of 2137, even the beautiful princess, consider that life is cheap and murder is normal.
Recognizing the enthusiasm for war felt by some virile young men (and reflected in so much of Burroughs' own fiction) Burroughs has his protagonist admit that he and others of his class have often fantasized, longed, for war, but when Turck sees the ruin that war has led to, his view changes.
In the last quarter or so of the novel Turck goes to the Continent where he encounters more barbaric whites and is captured by civilized blacks. While the Europeans are illiterate spear-carrying hunters, these Africans have guns, swords, domesticated horses, and books – many, even among the privates, are voracious readers. The blacks are conquering Europe and enslaving all the whites who come into their hands. Making his anti-imperialist point directly, Burroughs has Turck say that the blacks have obviously been better off with black rulers than they were when whites ruled Africa in the days before the Great War.
Burroughs is broadly sympathetic to the blacks, but he still says things which wouldn't pass muster today, like pointing out an ethnic hierarchy in the African army; the officers have Semitic features while the privates have thick lips and wide noses.
With the Europeans broken and reduced to barbarism, the civilized empires of the Africans and the Asians are fighting for dominance of Europe. Our American protagonist, enslaved and serving as an African cavalry officer's body servant, accompanies a mighty black army to the African city that has been built on the ruins of Berlin. The army of the Chinese Emperor takes this city, and Turck is captured. Fortunately the Chinese believe his story of being from the Americas, and in the last few pages of the novel Turck becomes a sort of ambassador, meets the Chinese emperor, and is the trigger for renewed friendly relations between Asia and the Americas. Perhaps undercutting the book's anti-war and anti-imperialist themes, Turck triumphantly predicts that the Chinese are going to throw the blacks out of Europe and then the Americans are going to civilize the barbaric Europeans.
The introduction by David Brin and the two essays, one by Phillip Burger and one by Richard Lupoff, are all worth reading. Burger's interpretation of the book is very different than mine; whereas I thought the book a denunciation of war, Burger argues that what Burroughs is doing in Beyond Thirty is lampooning American isolationism, showing that Europe fell into barbarism because the U.S. failed to aid the Allies in their war with the Central Powers. When Turck says again and again that London was the greatest city on Earth and now it is gone, I thought Burroughs wants you to think, "Damn, we have to make sure we don't have any more of these horrible wars," while Burger believes Burroughs intent was to make you think, "We'd better go help the English before Fritz eradicates their beautiful civilization," or, "Those Europeans can't seem to do anything right, we'd better get over there and sort them out." According to Burger the anti-imperialism themes I see are anti-European imperialism; Burroughs thinks the Euros are selfish exploitative imperialists, but that the U. S. or some other power (like the Chinese in the story) could be helpful enlightened imperialists.
Beyond Thirty is probably one of Burroughs' lesser works, but its anti-war and/or anti-isolationism slant, and the insights it may provide into American thinking during the early part of the First World War, add a layer of interest. Fans of Burroughs should check it out if they haven't read it, as should those interested in anti-war or anti-imperialist SF, or in portrayals of blacks in SF.
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Its outline, for which I want to thank you here, looks so wildly improbable that calling it science fiction seems useless. It is, instead, another Burroughs action-adventure story, with a slant to future prediction, and the only merit it seems to have now is of having (possibly) inspired Robert A. Heinlein's novel FARNHAM'S FREEHOLD, a story set in a post-war America where the blacks have risen to absolute power and enslave, not to say eat, the poor whites. Does any of the commentators you name make mention of such a relationship? Thanks again.ReplyDelete
Brin, Burger and Lupoff don't make any reference to any influence Beyond Thirty might have had on any authors; in fact, a theme of their essays is that Beyond Thirty is a minor work of Burroughs' which was read by few people. It was first published in a relatively minor magazine (not a big famous magazine like Argosy) and didn't appear in book form for 40 years.ReplyDelete
I haven't read Farnham's Freehold myself, but I probably will someday. I will keep Beyond Thirty in mind when I read it; Heinlein was a Burroughs fan, after all.
I wonder if Michael Moorcock, another Burroughs fan, read Beyond Thirty. Ages ago I read two of Moorcock's Oswald Bastable novels; one was about an African king who built up a super army with a huge tank and conquered the white world, and the other was about an Asian revolutionary who built a super air force and defeated the Western imperialists.
Beyond Thirty is primarily an adventure tale, and I don't think Burroughs was trying to really predict anything, just using the fantastic setting to make points about war, foreign policy, racism and imperialism. I like a good adventure story, and I'm interested in military and political history, so I thought it was a worthwhile read.


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The love of Chaslov's life and the source of his ultimate downfall, was the Countess Marianna Gandsky, who was later to become the wife of Prince Georgi Borosh. Of noble lineage, the Countess was the granddaughter of Ivan the Timid. Ivan was the first cousin of Ivan the Terrible, half brother of Ivan the Awful, and pen pap of Ivan the Really Nasty. Because Ivan had to survive in, to say the least, some very impolite surroundings, he became a master of lying low in the Moscow countryside while his kinfolk tortured, pillaged, and massacred each other, all in good masculine form of course. The lessons he learned were not lost on his descendents, who would often gather around the family hearth to listen to the old man sing the virtues of being very, very cautious.
The young Marianna was impressed by her grandfather, and soon she developed those cautionary traits that enabled her to elude the hard charging bull which most men either embodied, or were full of. In her later years, she codified the lessons of her spirited youth in her book, 'Little Men'. Several of these lessons she used to great effect on the ever scheming Anton Chaslov, whose rather inflated view of himself allowed him to unknowingly drift about, blimp like, yet prone to guidance by the prevailing breeze of her feminine wiles. These lessons, known today as Chaslov's antidotes, became a guide to those fair and meek maidens who wanted a strong, independent, courageous, and tender love whose every move they could subtly control.
In a sad chapter of a glittering and romantic life, Marianna's antidotes worked all too well, and proved to be the undoing of Count Anton Chaslov. Longing for a final, ultimate romantic challenge, Chaslov broke even his own rules, and decided to pull out all the stops in a mad courtship of the Countess, even through he realized that she was happily married at the time Irritated to the breaking point by having to receive constant deliveries of flowers, perfume, and candygrams, her husband soon had enough, and challenged the Count to a duel. Anton had the grave misfortune to receive a superficial wound to the groin. Mistakenly believing that his career was truly over, the very shock of that realization caused him to expire on the spot. Thus ended a glittering and successful career, but the legend had scarcely begun.
Marianna loved the company of men, yet in true feminine fashion, she knew that an prospective love would never be truly dedicated to her until he had mountains to climb, rivers to cross, deserts to travel, and assorted other minor inconveniences to fend off like starvation, thirst, and marauding Mongolian tribesman. So Marianna would entertain her prospective suitors in the drawing room of her Moscow estate, and took pains to encourage the amorous and sentimental fantasies of each one. To seal the emotional bond, she made wondrous romantic plans with each suitor, and after driving them to a romantic frenzy, she then moved with tender and tearful regrets to her summer cottage beyond the Urals near the Mongolian border. Faced with such a daunting challenge for what amounted to just a Friday night date, most of her suitors either wavered at the challenge, or else set out bravely, and fell off some obscure precipice, of fell into a raging river, glacial crevasse, or pot hole. Not to matter though, since for most, it was a glorious oblivion; after all this was the romantic age.
Like Marianna, a woman must be tough minded about judging her prospective suitors. She has to be that way in order to tell exactly what a suitor really had on his mind.. If a man had the very realizable hope of a lasting and intimate relationship, just the hope would suffice to dissolve any ambivalence towards pursuing a committed relationship. Thus, a man's true ambivalence towards pursuing a relationship is determined by simply observing not how strongly he pursues in the short term, but in the long term.
For a woman whose heart is set on a more than transient relationship, intimacy should only be withheld for the amount of time it takes to determine whether a man's intentions are serious. The temporary withholding of intimacy is not only a good way of gauging that interest, but is also an excellent means of raising his opinion of her. These aims are also well served if a man makes the time to see a lady that he truly cares for. The 'climb every mountain' test of courage and desire that romantic heroines subject their men to is an extreme case, but the concept is basically valid. A truly committed man will make the time to see his beloved, and a woman should set in his way at least enough survivable obstacles so as to reaffirm the depth of his commitment. However, it is absolutely crucial that those obstacles never bar the way of a very real relationship. Love always borders tenuously on hatred, particularly when a person's courtship behaviors are directed to other selfish ends. Hence, the promise of a budding relationship should be valid and crystal clear, otherwise a lady may find a man abruptly and resentfully bowing out of the relationship.
For both men and women, relationships are not ambivalent because one party or the other is confused, but primarily because one or both parties want certain things from a relationship that they cannot outwardly concede, or because they are still discovering and weighing in their minds the particular characteristics of the other person that will shape their ultimate posture towards the relationship. Since almost all men know pretty soon whether or not a budding relationship is the 'real thing'; any ambivalence beyond the relationship's initial stages will usually mean that the man wants the relationship to take a form that woman would never approve.
Many men enter into a series of relationships that are cozy, sexual, and very transient, yet when they invariably tire of them, they find it not as painless to leave them as they were to begin. Because there is no easy and painless way out of their predicament, it is a natural that they either become confused, or feign confusion. Either way, an expressed confusion about the relationship is a safe way to soften the impact of what is very clearly a rejection. A woman must understand that a man's ambivalence is rarely that, but rather a crude form of communication whose intent is almost always unfavorable to her best interests. Hence, a lady should give a gentleman all the time he needs to work out his difficulties, alone. In the meantime, she can very unambivalently pursue other interests, and other men, who are not so afraid to truthfully follow their best interests.
Marianna was a radiant presence at Czar Alexander's court, and her easy sociability made her a favorite among the Czar's retinue, and it was rumored a favorite of the Czar himself. In actuality, Alex and Marianna did double date once or twice, but outside of sending out for pizza, there was nothing else that the couple shared. Nonetheless, Marianna displayed a calculated silence about the whole affair. Her silence set the court all a quiver about her 'real' activities, and soon rumor had it that she was the source of the unrequited passion of not only the Czar, but half the nobility, the imperial guard, and the palace gardener. These wild rumors soon reached the ear of Anton Chaslov, who decided, if only for pride's sake to storm the citadel that guarded her heart. In translation, this means to arrange a hot date. He found his chance at the annual Grand Ball and wiener roast held in honor of the Czar. Mariana and Chaslov were introduced to each other by the Czarina, who knew from their plumage that here was a perfect match. After studiously ignoring each other while flaunting an invincible air of superiority, they both knew it was love at first slight.
Alas, their relationship was doomed from the start, since both had the misfortune of figuring out each other's motives. When Marianna asked Chaslov to cross mountains for her, Chaslov took the train, and when Chaslov gave her half his time, Marianna gave him in turn half of hers. Give that multiplier effect, soon Chaslov became no more than a fond memory to Marianna, which in her opinion was just as well.
Whereas a man finds it necessary and useful to broadcast his attributes, a woman's assets are usually much more subtly displayed, and can be no better highlighted than when she refuses to compromise her principles. A woman displays weakness when she acts a part that exaggerated or is contrary to her nature to secure the commitment of another man. Whether this be reflected in an easy sexual availability or through fawning over a man, a man can usually recognize this very quickly. This behavior hardly affirms the individual character and virtues of the man who receives it, since it obviously denotes a desperation for the company of any man, and thus a man is more likely to be insulated rather than complemented.
On the other hand, a woman displays her strengths through her demonstration that she can exist and thrive independently of a man, and that she has emotional needs for a man who is a whole lot more than just a pretty face. As with men, a woman's feminine needs must not be confused with feminine weaknesses. A woman should only act as dependent or 'needy' as is required for the man to recognize that his attentions are wanted and appreciated. Furthermore, her needs must be focused on the encouragement of the attentions of the 'right' man, or at the very least, to encourage a man to behave rightly. By tailoring her 'weaknesses' in just such a way to encourage to man's equal posturing as a strong partner, she assumes a very necessary degree of control over her personal relationships with men that few man may fault.
Unlike Chaslov, Marianna was under no illusions about her own greatness. She too subscribed to the Chaslovian rule that absences often speak louder than words. However, as a very practical lass, she believed that while it was important to encourage men to build mental monuments to her through her calculated absence, it was nice to encourage them to build real monuments as well. To those brave suitors who proved their dedication to her by surviving a trek through the Siberian wilderness, she set them upon a variety of household tasks that would have done Tom Sawyer proud. Besides painting the fence, her suitors gleefully volunteered to wall paper her Moscow estate, add a sewing room, and lay the foundation for the Jacuzzi she had always wanted. These labors were of course a pleasure to them, since every now and then Marianna would offer them a glass of tea and an encouraging word to sustain the romantic fantasies which spurred them on.
In spite of the great strides women have made towards equality, its still very much a man's world, and this means that men are still expected to shoulder the burden not only of supporting a wife, but also of raising a family. It thus becomes important to discover how seriously a man does indeed view his responsibilities beyond sustaining the mere romantic gloss of a newborn relationship. A woman must necessarily demand much from a prospective suitor because she has much more to lose. If she can direct his courtship behavior to display those psychological attributes that she demands, she informs herself of the ultimate and longstanding value of a prospective relationship, and informs him of the responsibilities he must assume to make a relationship work. Sometimes a true test of character is indeed a willingness to paint the fence.
The Chaslovian laws and antidotes summarize those manners that may spur or dampen romantic fantasy. The romantic imagination has often been called an interesting artifact of a bygone age, yet men and women continually emulate, if not the trappings, then certainly the spirit of the romantic hero and heroine. This is because romance depends upon the creation of a special mystique and allure that is meant to stimulate warm and affectionate fantasies, primarily of a sexual nature, that produce emotions and behaviors that rise far above those associated with the sexual act. The act of falling in love however represents no mere knee jerk response to , say, any pretty face, but is the culmination of a series of conscious appraisals, and is signaled by personal choice. Although sexual attraction is in many respects an involuntary act, the emotion of love builds on this response, and romance acts to trigger that emotion through the cognitive embellishment of a special person.
The decision to be romantic and to respond emotionally to romance is a personal choice that is determined by the appearance as well as the reality of the attributes of another person. Since people often find it hard enough to understand themselves, let alone other people, the ability to maintain and develop appearances, and to recognize what is mere appearance, is crucial to romantic success.
In the effort to attain romantic success, knowing when to reject romance is a far more important skill than knowing how to stimulate it. People behave most absurdly and painfully when they prematurely make the decision to fall in love, for love can literally be a powerful addiction that makes us blind to reason and our best interests. Much of the contemporary obsession with psychoanalyzing the opposite sex is due to the fact that many of us simply can't let go of relationships gone sour because of this emotional attachment. Hence we grasp at straws, hoping that this analysis will suggest a change in some minute aspect of our behavior that can, like the invocation of an obscure clause in a legal agreement, restore a relationship to some ideal form. Unfortunately, it just isn't so.
The initial stages of a relationship are when both individuals should be on their best behavior. If you don't perceive that the other person is acting his best, then he shouldn't be of interest to you, and most likely isn't interested in you. Beyond this very crucial determination of those behaviors that in effect mark an individual's relative ambivalence towards a committed relationship, one should provide every encouragement to the latent romantic fantasies of those individuals he or she finds of interest. Romance stems from the appraisal that the loved one is better than what he or she as an individual could ever hope to be, and a Chaslovian strutting, posturing, and elusiveness are the necessary foundation for this happy fantasy, that is hoped, precedes the reality of love.


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R20 Review: Cross-Town rivals lower Sydney's colours
By Jeremy Ruane:
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Round 20 Review
Western Sydney Wanderers finally ended the unbeaten run of cross-town rivals Sydney FC in the Hyundai A-League on February 18, prevailing 1-0 in front of 44,853 fans at ANZ Stadium to end the league leaders' bid to go through the regular season without suffering a defeat.
Brendon Santalab's 26th minute strike ultimately settled an intensely contested affair, which had plenty of incidents to put referee Chris Beath – and the overall standard of A-League refereeing, truth be told – in the spotlight.
Sydney will be quite aggrieved that he failed to award them a late penalty after Robbie Cornthwaite clearly felled Alex Brosque in the area, while there were numerous other instances prior to that when spot-kicks were claimed, and plenty of others where offences could and perhaps should have been more stringently policed.
There were also a fair few goalscoring chances, the pick of which saw Danny Vukovic twice keeping Sydney in the contest inside the last twenty minutes, during which Wests' Vedran Janjetovic produced an outstanding double save to ensure his team would emerge victorious and cement sixth spot in the race for the play-offs.
Second-placed Melbourne Victory eased past Central Coast Mariners 3-0 at Central Coast Stadium, where Besart Berisha broke the deadlock after a fairly even opening 25 minutes.
This was the cue for the visitors to pile on the pressure, and how they failed to at least double their advantage prior to the break only they will know. But they managed to realise that objective just before the hour mark, James Troisi putting the travelling team firmly in the driving seat.
There was no way back for Central Coast after that blow, and when Berisha added a third goal in stoppage time, regaining the outright lead in the Golden Boot stakes in doing so, it left the 7,013-strong crowd wondering what might have been as the home team's brief winning streak came to a close.
Melbourne City moved into third spot after mauling a woeful Wellington Phoenix combination 5-1 at Westpac Stadium, after Costa Barbarouses' fifteenth minute penalty miss – he hit the bar – left the 6,131 fans present somewhat subdued ahead of City's inevitable riposte.
It arrived five minutes later, Ryan Lowry inadvertently turning Nick Fitzgerald's cross into his own net. And when Bruno Fornaroli struck just shy of the half-hour mark, any hopes Wellington harboured of getting back into the contest seemed to evaporate.
There was no way back once Anthony Caceres made it 3-0 on the hour, although ten minutes later, Barbarouses' brilliant solo strike gave the home team hope, which proved to be false.
For both Neil Kilkenny and substitute Nicolas Colazo struck inside the final ten minutes to give City a nap hand, and leave those who'd been chanting 'ten more years' twelve months ago wondering just how long Football Federation Australia will be prepared to endure performances of this nature from a team whose contributions to the A-League, on and off the park, offer critics fuel aplenty for the fire.
City are third on goal difference from Brisbane Roar, who were held to a 2-2 draw by fifth-placed Perth Glory in front of 10,762 fans at NIB Stadium, where all the scoring was condensed into a seventeen-minute spell.
Jamie Maclaren opened the scoring for the visitors after a lively opening half-hour, but Perth were level soon after through a Nebojsa Marinkovic blockbuster, although the goal shouldn't have counted, given the ball had been out of play when Diego Castro delivered his cross.
Unperturbed, Brisbane hit back straight away through Dane Ingham, but three minutes into the second spell Adam Taggart restored parity once more for Perth, who survived penalty claims for a handball offence before they could be assured of a point and retention of fifth place in the play-offs race.
Reigning champions Adelaide United dealt Newcastle Jets' play-off hopes a blow in front of 6,642 fans at Coopers Stadium on Friday evening, Marcelo Carrusca's penalty on the hour earning the home team a 1-0 victory – just their third win of the season.
Both goalkeepers were called into action in the first spell, with Newcastle's Jack Duncan denying Jordan O'Doherty before John Hall put saving Morten Nordstrand's looping header before self-preservation on the half-hour, the 'keeper tipping the ball round the post before crashing into the upright.
The second half saw both teams start strongly, with Adelaide earning their reward after referee Kurt Ams ruled the combined challenge of Daniel Mullen and Nigel Boogaard, which brought Tarek Elrich to earth in the area, merited a spot-kick, one which Carrusca didn't miss.
Tempers flared soon after, culminating in a gathering of the clans, after which the visitors went close to levelling the scores through Andrew Hoole, Hall's reflex save preserving Adelaide's advantage.
Melbourne City and Sydney kick off the next round of action at AAMI Park on Friday evening, twenty-four hours before Melbourne Victory and Adelaide lock horns at the same venue.
Brisbane and Wellington meet at Suncorp Stadium prior to that match, while Perth wrap up another Saturday night triple-header when welcoming Western Sydney to NIB Stadium in a round which is completed by the F3 derby between Newcastle and Central Coast at McDonald Jones Stadium on Sunday night.
Match Details:
Adelaide United FC 1 (M. Carrusca (61 pen)) – Newcastle Jets FC 0; HT 0-0
Central Coast Mariners FC 0 – Melbourne Victory FC 3 (B. Berisha (25, 90), J. Troisi (58)); HT 0-1
Perth Glory FC 2 (N. Marinkovic (38), A. Taggart (48)) – Brisbane Roar FC 2 (J. Maclaren (31), D. Ingham (40)); HT 1-2
Wellington Phoenix FC 1 (C. Barbarouses (70)) – Melbourne City FC 5 ("oggie" (20), B. Fornaroli (29), A. Caceres (59), N. Kilkenny (82), N. Colazo (87)); HT 0-2
Western Sydney Wanderers FC 1 (B. Santalab (26)) – Sydney FC 0; HT 1-0
P W D L F A GD Pts
Sydney FC 20 14 5 1 41 10 +31 47
Melbourne Victory 20 12 3 5 42 24 +18 39
Melbourne City 20 8 6 6 35 28 +7 30
Brisbane Roar 20 7 9 4 27 25 +2 30
Perth Glory 20 7 7 6 38 37 +1 28
Western Sydney Wanderers 20 5 9 6 24 29 -5 24
Newcastle Jets 20 5 6 9 26 33 -7 21
Wellington Phoenix 20 5 4 11 23 34 -11 19
Central Coast Mariners 20 5 4 11 23 38 -15 19
Adelaide United 20 3 5 12 16 37 -21 14


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I am a stay at home mom to two wonderful, adorable spunky little ones, Hannah (3) and Colin (3 months). Our life is not terribly exciting to the outside observer but my hope is that if I can help one other family out there with this blog then I am happy I shared our story.
Our son, Colin has been diagnosed with Food Protein Induced Enteropathy at three months old. It has been challenging and a huge learning experience so far and we are just getting started.
It has been hard finding information on this, even our doctor got the medical book out to read it to us, but here is what we think we know so far:
Food Protein Induced Enteropathy is a food allergy that affects the intestines but is different from regular allergies. It is a non-IgE-mediated disorder so unlike a peanut allergy for instance, skin prick testing most people are familiar with would show up as negative. It is more like celiac disease. It usually shows up in the first months of life with diarrhea, vomiting, and/or failure to thrive. Most commonly is is caused by reactions to milk and soy but egg, wheat, rice, chicken and fish can also be triggers. Colin seems to have some other foods that bother him as well, so not sure how that fits. Children with this can grow out of it, usually by age two or three. It is similar to but less severe than Food Protein Induced Entercolitis (FPIES). Children with Food Protein Enteropahty usually have less vomiting, no bloody diarrhea and less severe reactions to the problem foods.
Diagnosing: There is no one magic test to diagnosis this. Most commonly it is discovered when the symptoms appear, other causes are ruled out and the elimination of trigger foods alleviate the symptoms.
Treatment: For us the treatment involves discovering the trigger foods and trying to eliminate them from my diet since I am breastfeeding. Since Colin is growing so well our doctor believes breastmilk is doing him a lot of good and is a better choice than the specialized formula he would need if I stop breastfeeding. In 6 months or so we might try to re-introduce foods or "challenge" them by feeding small amounts and then increasing the dose while watching for reactions.


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We stopped about two hours later in another open saw grass clearing for a rest and lunch break. I called for and got permission to take a resupply chopper while we were in the clearing so we could get some sand bags, ammo, mail, and C-rations. Next I got in touch with the trains area and told them what to send out on the resupply chopper. While I was on the radio talking to the CO, one of my friends from the second squad, a fellow country boy from Alabama, walked up holding a beautiful yellow green snake about two feet long and about as thick as a pencil. He knew I liked to handle snakes too, so he offered him to me to hold. Still talking on the radio, I told him maybe later. The head of the snake was shaped like a spear point with large round eyes and for some reason that roused my defenses. I got through finding out that our injured man had been sent to the field hospital and would live, but was going to be shipped home for treatment. About then, a soldier came running up yelling, "get a Medevac! That damn snake bit him in the neck." I quickly changed frequencies and called battalion for an immediate Medevac. I was moving towards the injured man, when Doc stood up shaking his head and said quietly, "Forget the Medevac, he's dead." I stood there for a few seconds, stunned. It turns out that the snake wasn't a harmless green snake after all. I now know that it was a deadly bamboo viper. The neurotoxin had paralyzed his breathing and killed him within a matter of minutes. Regaining my composure I cancelled the Medevac and got in touch with the incoming resupply chopper to let them know that we had a body to send back with them. After the chopper left, the silence was weird. No one moved, no one spoke. The supplies just lay where they had tossed them out the chopper. We were all in shock. I just sat there staring blankly, replaying the entire scene in my mind. It could have just as easily been me. What had prevented me from playing with that beautiful snake? Finally the radio started up and I had to come back to reality. It was the CO wanting to know what had happened. By the time I had updated the CO, the supplies had been split up and passed out for transport. We had to move dangerously fast to make the hill top before night fall and still have time to prepare fields of fire and dig foxholes. I sent out three man listening posts up and down the trail about fifty meters. I also had a LP positioned a short distance down each slope of the ridge, to detect any movement coming up from the valleys. Needless to say, we fired in artillery defensive targets before the patrols went out. They were told to set up about 50 meters from the impact of the rounds, so they would have prefired close in support to cover any retreat. The night was long and surprisingly cold. I got little or no sleep. I kept replaying the days events in my mind.
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As his book Plagiarism, Intellectual Property and the Teaching of L2 Writing is published this week we asked Joel Bloch to tell us about his interest in plagiarism and intellectual property.
On the popular American television show, CSI, there was an episode where a woman was accused of murdering her boyfriend because he had cheated on her. She denied that his infidelity was any motive for murder. However, later it was discovered that he had plagiarized something she written, and had questioned whether her work was original in the first place. At that point, she confessed that she had killed in a fit of rage when she had discovered what he had done. The fact that plagiarism can be more a motive for murder than infidelity should come as no surprise to anyone who has dealt with plagiarism over these years, particularly for those who have dealt with non-native English speakers.
The question of whether students from different cultures have different attitudes towards plagiarism, as well as towards the more general uses of intellectual property, has been at the center of an often heated debate over how culture should be viewed and how it may affect how an individual thinks and writes. This debate has intensified with the development of the World Wide Web and its support of what Ethan Zuckerman has called "The Cute Cat Theory," which highlights the ability of the web to support the publication and sharing of photos of cats, as well as every form of intellectual property.
My own interest in plagiarism and intellectual property came almost accidently when I innocently gave a group of Chinese students an article to read on plagiarism and then saw how angry they became. Today there is not a day passing where there is not some scandal somewhere in the world involving plagiarism. The publication of every such instance often brings out a debate over how such incidents reflect the decline of the academy, of journalistic standards, and often of the society itself.
Intellectual property law has raised such passions. The US has just gone through another battle over what restrictions should be put on the use of the Internet in order to curb the scourge of the illicit use of intellectual property. This battle pitted one set of lobbyists against another, developed countries vs. developing countries, media companies against Silicon Valley, adults against the young, and even Northern California vs. Southern California. Writing teachers are often thrown into the controversy with little preparation because of the background of their students and perhaps more importantly, the very nature of their work. They are often told what the restrictions are but rarely what their rights are.
For the last ten years, I have been teaching a second language writing course that deals primarily with plagiarism, about which I have written extensively in this book. The goal of the course is to not only help students avoid falling into the trap of plagiarism but also to understand the debate over these issues regarding the use of intellectual property. After all, most writing, particularly in the university, is about the use of intellectual property and therefore the rules for using it has seemed to me to be a natural topic around which to center a course. I wrote Plagiarism, Intellectual Property and the Teaching of L2 Writing in response to these controversies and to help writing teachers understand the importance of their contribution to this debate. Although I clearly fall on the side of those who are looking for changes in traditional attitudes towards plagiarism and intellectual property, I hope this book helps teachers involve themselves in this debate and become advocates for whatever is best for their students.
For further information on plagiarism please see Joel's websites: http://www.scoop.it/t/plagiarism and http://plagiarismstories.tumblr.com/.


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Young Gold Coaster's Movie To Feature In Cannes Film Festival
Short film up for big award
A Bond University student's dreams are coming true, after her short film was selected to feature in the Cannes Film Festival.
Hannah Keogh is heading over to France in May to watch her flick Wheels of Fortune on the big screen, and also get some work experience with an LA production company.
The 20-year-old said she doesn't know what awards her movie (a retro, 70s flick about a wheelchair-bound man who dreams of becoming a skater) will be up for just yet.
"It is in competition at the moment however we are still just waiting to hear back from officials about what categories we got into," she said.
"It is a slow process unfortunately, but we're really excited to find out in the next few days what we're really going to be in with a chance with".


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Bread Pudding is a nice sweet and savory dessert. Of course since I have two people in my family that likes everything plain and my son and I feel as if anything goes that I had to make half plain and the other half with apples and walnuts. I topped it off with a molasses rum sauce.
Bread Pudding starts off with stale bread or what they may call day old bread. Any type of white bread can be used for example french, italian or brioche. Then one can go another route and use honey wheat bread or cinnamon raisin bread. It all depends on the type of bread pudding one would like to make and the ingredients you would plan to put in it.
For this recipe I went to Panera Bread and bought a loaf of white bread and had them cut it into Texas toast size slices. Therefore; it would be easier for me to cube the bread into pieces.
-4 cups of milk
-1 cup of heavy cream
-5 large eggs
-1 1/2 cups packed dark brown sugar
-3 teaspoons vanilla extract
-1 teaspoon cinnamon
-1 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
-1/4 teaspoon salt
-enough butter to coat a 13x9 pan
In a large bowl add the cubed bread.
In a medium bowl beat the eggs and whip in the rest of the ingredients.
After the egg mixture is combined pour it over the cubed bread and fold it over until covered. Leave the bread in a bowl until the egg mixture is soaked into the bread. (No Longer than an hour).
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Monday, January 25, 2016
Thirteen Towers of Chankillo, Peru
The enigmatic, 2,300-year-old Chankillo ruins, seen from space. The Thirteen Towers — with each tower spaced about five metres apart — are thought to be part of a solar observatory to mark the solstices and equinoxes.
Located in the Peruvian coastal desert at the Casma-Sechin Oasis, stands the incredible monumental complex of Chankillo, also known as Chanquillo, which extends across four square kilometers. The ancient archaeological site consists of a fort located on hilltop and thirteen solar observatory towers, as well as residential and gathering areas. It was occupied for a relatively short period of time – between the mid-fourth century BC and the early first century AD.
Located between two observation platforms, the thirteen astronomical towers span the entire annual rising and setting arcs of the sun, which shift north and south along the horizon gradually over the course of a year. What makes Chankillo so important is the fact that, according to archaeologists, Chankillo may be the earliest known astronomical observatory in the Americas, built some 2,300 years ago. The Incas, also well known astronomers, observed the sun and the stars, but they did so many centuries later.
Research has shown that the astronomical alignments seen at Chankillo were, and still are, incredibly precise. The towers have been known about for a long time but their astronomical value had not been widely realized until Ivan Ghezzi and Clive Ruggles undertook detailed research at the site in 2007.
Archaeologists suggest that the inhabitants of Chankillo would have been able to determine the date with an accuracy of +/- two to three days by observing the sunrise/sunset from the correct observational platform. On the winter solstice, the sun would rise behind the further tower on the left and then over time, would rise behind each of the towers until it reached the furthest tower on the right some six months later on the summer solstice, marking the passage of time. Other ancient sites known for astronomical observatories contain only one point of astronomical alignment which does not provide enough information for an accurate measurement of time over one year.
The towers at Chankillo, which are spaced at intervals between 4.7 and 5.1 meters, vary in shape and size, ranging from 70 to 130 meters in width and up to 6 meters in height. According to archaeologists, at the time the towers were constructed they were completely flat on top. [To view the thirteen towers of Chankillo on Google Maps, select Google Earth's 'Fly To' option and enter latitude: 9 33 40.27 S and longitude: 78 13 38.53 W.]
The walls of this ancient site were once shiny white, with paintings and figures decorating the monuments. The structures found at Chankillo were built of shaped stone and mortared walls, a combination that reflects the surroundings of this coastal desert and incredibly beautiful environment in Peru. Apart from observing the Sun, the Chankillo observatory would have aided the builders of Chankillo to know the best time to plant and harvest of crops.
The most puzzling aspect of Chankillo is, who built this incredible complex? Archaeologists no almost nothing about these ancient builders who paid tribute to the sun and stars, constructing the first ever solar observatory in the Americas.
Like many other ancient cultures that have worshiped the sun and the Sun God, Chankillo wasn't much different, as the towers were probably built, not only as a calendar and observatory, but also as a place with which to celebrate their mystical connection with the sun. "If you were just measuring seasons, there would be no need to make such great structures," says Ghezzi . "The idea was to transmit a political and ideological message about a ruler's close relationship with the sun."
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LONDON (Reuters) - The first image visitors confront at the National Gallery's new "Sacred Made Real" show is an impressively realistic severed head, complete with detailed rendition of the anatomy of a neck.
"Head of Saint John the Baptist," by Spanish master carver Juan de Mesa, was made in about 1625 and shows the lengths to which he and his peers went to make their subjects seem real.
Curator Xavier Bray believed the artist may well have used a real severed head as a model, "as a lot of people were decapitated in those days."
Throughout the six rooms that make up the exhibition, there are painstakingly painted sculptures of saints, martyrs, the Virgin Mary and Christ, hanging on the cross and lying dead, naked apart from small loincloths.
They are interspersed with religious paintings by Spanish masters like Francisco de Zurbaran and Diego Velazquez, and the show explores the importance of one art form to the other in 17th century Spain.
While it is widely accepted that Caravaggio ushered in the powerful realism achieved by such painters, the National Gallery argues that religious sculpture was just as important and explained the sculptural effect of the canvases on display.
"This is an exhibition of sculpture and painting, and the relationship between the two is very important," said National Gallery director Nicholas Penny at a press preview on Tuesday.
"It is also an exhibition on a really neglected aspect of European art being displayed outside of Spain for the first time."
He said it had been "fantastically difficult" convincing Spanish churches to part with precious and often fragile sculptures, and the show, which runs from October 21-January 24, 2010, is the result of 10 years of work by curator Bray.
The sculptures were artists' response to a challenge laid down by Dominican, Carthusian and Franciscan orders who wanted to bring the sacred to life, in order to shock the senses of the faithful and strengthen their devotion.
One painting by Francisco Ribalta shows Saint Bernard before a sculpture of Christ that appears to have metamorphosed into a living being, underlining the almost mystical union between religious followers and works of art.
In the same room hangs Zurbaran's striking "Christ on the Cross," encased in an arched recess to recreate its original setting in a chapel attached to the sacristy of the Dominican friary of San Pablo in Seville.
Christ's lifeless body emerges from the blackness and achieves the illusion of three dimensions on two.
Nearby is Gregorio Fernandez's "Ecce Homo," a sculpture of Christ as he was presented by Pontius Pilate to the Jews which features painstaking recreations of flesh wounds on his back.
In the next room, a model of the dead Christ is illuminated in an otherwise dark room for dramatic effect, blood still oozing from the wounds.
The close relationship between painters and sculptors in the Spanish Golden Age is underlined by the fact that in Seville, Francisco Pacheco, who painted the flesh tones and drapery on sculptures, taught Velazquez and became his father-in-law.
Early reviews of the show have praised the macabre images as disturbing and even erotic.
"Painted or sculpted, these are real presences," wrote Adrian Searle in the Guardian. "I left devastated and deeply moved."
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SCHIP: Doctor-Owned Hospitals Win; Tobacco Companies Lose
A day after Obama had to deal with Tom Daschle's withdrawal from the running for HHS secretary, the president got a health victory. Congress passed a long-awaited bill expanding the State Children's Health Insurance Program to include about 4 million more kids. Obama, a supporter of SCHIP, is expected to sign the bill into law this afternoon.
One group that's celebrating: The Physicians Hospitals of America, which represents doctor-owned hospitals. They were fighting a version of the bill that would have curbed expansion of these hospitals by prohibiting Medicare payments to new ones and restricting expansion of existing ones.
The restrictions were the brainchild of Rep. Pete Stark (D., Calif.), a big critic of these kinds of hospitals, which he has criticized as cherry pickers of lucrative patients, among other things.
The bill Congress sent to the president dropped the Stark language. The PHA braced for more trouble ahead, though, saying in a press release:
Congratulations and thanks to all of you for engaging in this latest challenge! Please take precisely one moment to celebrate… and then begin to prepare for the next challenge. It will not be long before we are once again added to another bill either as a pay-for or general provision. Senator [Max] Baucus and Representative Stark are not prepared to let us win and, as we've seen in the past, will clearly keep up their attempts to harm our hospitals.
Tobacco companies aren't faring even that well. The tax on a pack of cigarettes will go up more than 60 cents to about $1 a pack to help fund the $33 billion SCHIP expansion. Analysts expect the hike to eat into sales at the three major U.S. cigarette makers, Altria Group, Reynolds American and Lorillard.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Broadway's lights will darken on Friday in tribute to actress Elizabeth Taylor, who died in Los Angeles aged 79 on Wednesday.
"The Broadway community mourns the loss of Elizabeth Taylor, legendary stage and screen star," The Broadway League said in a statement.
In Taylor's honor, Broadway's theater marquees will be dimmed at exactly 8 p.m., the traditional curtain time for shows, for one minute.
The actress, best known for her starring roles in Hollywood and Europe during the 1950s and 1960s, appeared on Broadway in a revival of Lillian Hellman's "The Little Foxes," for which she won rave reviews and a Tony award nomination.
Taylor returned in 1983 as producer and star of Noel Coward's "Private Lives" opposite her former husband, Richard Burton, and produced "The Corn is Green" that year as well.
"With her remarkable talent and extraordinary beauty, Elizabeth Taylor lit up the Broadway stage the same way she lit up the silver screen," League chairman Paul Libin said.
"Off stage, her tireless commitment to fighting AIDS as a co-founder of amfAR and founder of The Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation added yet another meaningful role to the story of her life. Our thoughts go out to her friends, family, and fans."
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When you were growing up, were you required to eat everything on your plate? You were supposed to learn not to be wasteful.
But then one day somewhere between Little League and the Big Leagues, the rules changed.
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Yesterday's Boston Globe featured an article questioning the 'war on invasive species.' Some ecologists, according to the article, challenge the prevailing wisdom to promote native plants and encourage control of invasive species.
I hate to be a spoiler, but the end of the article implies the debate is really a fight about how we talk about native and non-native plants and less about how we manage our forests.
Scientists on both side of the debate agree that many non-native plants not problems and some are beneficial. And everyone also agrees that we need to control the most destructive invasive species, like the Asian Longhorn Beetle. Although the story didn't mention it, I would bet that they would also agree that we need to control the fast-growing mile a minute vine, which is now covers dozens of acres on Greenlodge Street in Canton.
We are supporting the Department of Conservation and Recreations' efforts to successfully control the mile-a-minute vine which grows in the part of Blue Hills called Fowl Meadow. So no matter whether you think we should cherish our natives or celebrate our invasives, I hope you'll join us August 13th to control the most destructive invasive species in the Reservation. Check the calendar for details.
I've included some excerpts from the article below. Read the full story on the invasive species dispute.
Above photo by Jean Lewis of Canton.)
According to [Macalester College biologist Mark] Davis and his co-authors, the fight against invaders amounts to an impossible quest to restore the world to some imaginary, pristine state. The world changes, they argue, and in some cases, the arrival of a new plant or animal can actually help, rather than hurt, an ecosystem. The whole idea of dividing the world into native and non-native species is flawed, the article says, because what seems non-native to one generation might be thought of as a local treasure by the next. Instead we should embrace "novel ecosystems" as they form, and assess species based on what they do rather than where they're from.
it would appear that the two sides are badly mismatched – those who oppose the targeting of non-native species are still very much a minority – their disagreement highlights questions about mankind's relationship to nature that are far from settled.
"We need to learn to accommodate change, and change our attitude rather than try to garden nature and keep things the way they are," Davis said recently. Species migrate, he said, and some end up thriving while others go extinct. This would happen whether people were involved or not, and Davis emphasizes there's no reason to believe that the best version of an environment – whether that's defined as the most diverse, or the most useful for humans – is the one that happened to exist just before we meddled with it.
When it comes to what we should actually do for the environment, the two sides of this debate might not be quite as far apart as their denunciations of one another might indicate. Just as most ecologists accept that only a fraction of non-native species are harmful, the anti-nativists, when pressed, will admit that unequivocally destructive species like the Asian longhorned beetle should be reined in. Their disagreement lies more in how we should talk about the issue, how we justify our interventions and how we label the species we want to eradicate.
Is the debate simply over rhetoric, then? If it is, its fierceness has highlighted just how important rhetoric is to the environmentalist movement, and how valuable the distinction between native and non-native is in terms of rallying people to the cause of conservation. Psychologically, it's not hard to see why the anti-nativist position holds an appeal, and why it would worry environmentalists.


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It's a waste of your money, calling on the information and you are wasting your time manually dialing the number. I am driving along in my car and I need to call about this cool place where I can have a panini and use the internet at the same time, and I don't know the number. I hit the speed dial for information that I have programmed.
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Hey gang! lately, I've been having a lot of fun making custom toys, whether they're custom Funko Pops or my little Obvious Cause of Death Ghosts, and recently I was wandering around the local craft store and picked up some various-sized wooden blocks and had an idea.
A little wood glue, craft paint and Mod Podge helped me come up with these little chaps...
I'm not sure if there's something there or not, but I still have a bunch of wooden blocks left, so maybe I'll make more.
Right now, I'm calling them Kyoobz, but we may need a better name. Any ideas?
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As the title suggests, this is both a positive and kick up the bum post.
I need to get it out or I'll explode. So first the good; I GOT MARRIED!
WOOOOOOO! After nearly 9 years I finally got hitched to Mr Fisher and I could not be happier.
Here are just a few pics of the amazing day.
It was a wonderful day and soo many people came.
And now the not so good.
I am really struggling with this healthy living lark.
In the lead up to the wedding I had something to aim for because I needed to make sure I could fit into my dress but I had been struggling for a while if I'm being honest with myself.
Firstly, this has nothing to do with quitting Slimming World as that was making me miserable; that was obsessing TOO MUCH about the scales, which isn't healthy either in my opinion.
I know living healthy will help me live longer but something just isn't clicking for the long-term in my brain at the moment.
At the weekend,we did our weekly shop and along with all the typical salad that is a regular in my trolley now, we picked up some indian starters, not just 1 or 2,4 different varieties and about 6 of each. Then I fancied one of those packs of mediterranean meats; you know the ones that have fat in them like serrano ham and such like. So I grabbed a huge pack because they were the only ones that had variety and because we had that, we got a pizza to put some of the meat on. (I NEVER BUY PIZZA IN THE SUPERMARKET)
I feel like I'm losing control of my ability to say no, or my ability to balance out the bad with the good. I was pretty good last week because when I'm at work, I have routine, but it gets to Friday and its like I let my cares disappear and shovel whatever I can in my mouth.
I feel like if Lee's having something, then I want it too because I don't want to miss out. I HATE MISSING OUT,especially when it comes to food.
I know I should draw a line under it and enjoy those little wobbles because life is about balance, but I can see my body shape changing and not for the better. 😦
I've worked so frigging hard but it seems to be getting really hard for me to keep my healthy food in check.
My little sister is joining Slimming World with my mum on Wednesday, so I'm hoping they can give me some motivation because I don't want to go back up into the next stone bracket because I'll feel like I've failed.
I'm trying not to use the scales too much but I need to get over myself and see what the damage is, and take my measurements again to see where I am with things.
I need help. How do you get back on it if your brain has basically given up and every time anyone offers you anything remotely naughty,you say yes straight away.
PLEASE HELP, I am seriously struggling :((