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Family Portrait in Black and White - Review by Greg Klymkiw - Canadian Feature Documentary full of heartfelt moments in lives of 17 mixed race children in Ukraine and their foster mother.
Family Portrait in Black and White (2011) dir. Julia Ivanova
By Greg Klymkiw
The first time I visited Ukraine, the land of my forefathers, two things struck me.
First of all, I felt a strange, overwhelming sense - perhaps due to my own upbringing in Canada - that THIS was where I came from, even though I wasn't born anywhere near the place. The feeling of being from this seemingly magical country, being able to read the cyrillic letters, listening to people talk and realizing I understood more Ukrainian (and to a certain extent, Russian) than I thought I did and even feeling like it was a place I could live in since Canada (or more specifically, the city of Toronto) was really starting to drive me nuts. Even later in the first and subsequent trips when aspects of my time there became utterly horrendous, I somehow was able to explain it away by thinking to myself and/or saying to my (non-Ukrainian WASP wife), "I know my people all too well."
The second thing that struck me was that during my first few days there, I saw absolutely no Black people - not one single person even VAGUELY resembling someone of African descent. This was so overwhelming that even now I can clearly remember the three times that I actually DID see people of colour (excluding Asians, of course, there seemed to be plenty of them - more than enough Ukrainian women were raped when Mongol hordes occasionally pillaged the land).
The first Black person I saw was in a loge in the majestic Kyiv Opera House. He was an extremely handsome, dressed-to-the-nines gentleman with brown skin and a mix of African and Slavic features. The second time, I saw three Black people. They were clearly students, in their early twenties and entered one of my favourite restaurants in Kyiv - the best Ukrainian food I've had since my Baba died and cheap like the proverbial borscht. The third and final time I saw a Black person was on the stage of the Ukrainian National Philharmonic - the acclaimed American baritone Stephen Salters who performed a stunning selection of traditional African-American spirituals that had a standing-room-only house of Ukrainians leaping to their feet again and again and frankly, not leaving too many dry eyes after each and every song.
This latter experience especially came to mind as I watched Julia Ivanova's feature-length documentary Family Portrait in Black and White because it was so shocking to see and hear some of the most virulent racism towards people of African descent that seemed more at home in Alabama (easily the most openly racist place I ever had the displeasure to spend time in), but surely not the same countrymen that were so welcoming and moved by Stephen Salters.
Then again, I had to remind myself that Ivanova's documentary is set in the Sumy Oblast of Eastern Ukraine and that my most horrendous experiences in the country happened in the East. After Stalin butchered millions of Ukrainians and parachuted millions of Russians into Ukraine - most of them settled in Eastern Ukraine and this is where the insular, backwards and ruthless Soviet influence was most prominent. In fact, many cities in the East are rife with corruption and are major centres of the Russian mob.
In this sense, half the country - the East - is kind of like one big, ole' Alabama.
And it's in this setting that the film focuses upon Olga Nenya, a primarily Russian-speaking Ukrainian woman of middle age who has opened her heart and home to children who have been abandoned by their birth parents because of the colour of their skin. Over the years, many African men - primarily from Uganda - have come to Ukraine as foreign students to study. Ukraine has a great reputation for its educational institutions and low tuitions. (A Lebanese acquaintance studied medicine in Ukraine and has a successful practise in Paris - though, speaking of racism, his credentials weren't "good enough" for Canada.) And as any healthy, young lad is wont to do anywhere, but especially when alone in a country populated by some of the most stunningly gorgeous young women in the world (Olga Kurylenko, for one), they'll more than likely partake of the forbidden fruits (as it were). What this has sadly resulted in are huge numbers of Black children abandoned in orphanages.
However, here in the Sumy Oblast, seventeen Black kids have a home and a mother. Granted, the home is physically a shambles (though from my experience, pretty common for Eastern Ukraine), but the kids have a surprising amount of privacy, they have food, shelter, a bed, companionship and yes, a sense of family.
Nenya is a powerhouse - a true Russian-Ukrainian battle axe. She only wants what she thinks is best for the kids - a good work ethic, an education and a chance to get a job and contribute to the "new" Ukraine. That said, two of her children are gifted in soccer and music respectively and she has absolutely no use for this - she has no understanding how these interests will put "bread" on their tables when they leave the nest.
The kids are all expected to do their part - tend to the goats, cook, clean and do well in school. Nenya also has no use for the ignorance and racism of her fellow neighbours and countrymen. She especially detests snooty bureaucrats and in one delightful scene she deals with a barrage of social workers and city officials who pop by for a visit in the only way one can deal with these horrible people - with the sort of contempt that hurls garbage back in their faces. Bureaucrats the world over are all the same, it seems.
Her foster children clearly love her and are grateful that they are treated as family. That said, a few of them have established relationships with foreign families in Italy who sponsor children for holiday visits through a humanitarian program that began after the Chernobyl tragedy. Some of them long to leave Ukraine and move to Italy. Nenya essentially thinks of these foreign foster parents as part-time babysitters who also allow her time off and the opportunity to save some money for those periods the kids are away. Besides, as she points out, a bird can only have "one nest". I can't say I really disagree with this sentiment.
Of all the children, it is probably the story of Kiril that is the most compelling. He's the eldest and closest to leaving the nest. His feelings about Nenya are mixed. He clearly loves her and appreciates that she's made a home for him and the others, but he's also an artistic soul and wishes to pursue his love of music and literature. This, he eventually does, leaving for Kyiv to study journalism at university. Nenya is bitter about this decision and clearly there's bad blood between them that's not resolved.
Then again, there are many unresolved issues in the film. Ivanova has chosen to mostly eschew the oft-expected narrative tradition - especially in recent documentaries. As the title suggests, she is presenting a "portrait" which, delivers a portion, a glimpse, a tiny window into something that is clearly bigger. This is, on one hand, admirable, but it's equally frustrating. Ivanova tries to present all of the children's stories equally and instead, we get not enough of too many. Kiril, is by far the most compelling of the kids and I probably would have preferred more of his story and relationship with Nenya than the others.
What's especially confounding is that the film never adequately addresses how or why Nenya was compelled to undertake this compassionate responsibility. What was it like to take legal charge of these kids? What was the process? What were the challenges? What were the joys? The pain? By the end of the film, we get a portrait of Nenya, but we don't get a bigger picture. I really don't feel like I know enough about her and frankly, I want to. Who is she? What is her extended family like? What was her relationship with her own parents? Did she ever have any friends, lovers, neighbours or anyone other than her foster children that she was close too? Why does she detest Kiril's artistic pursuits and intelligence so much? Is it, as Kiril suggests when commenting on Nenya, that the Stalinist form of communism she reveres and misses, really what drives her? (He calls his mother "the leader" and compares her to Stalin, "the great leader". I really loved this kid!) OR is there something more? She's clearly an intelligent woman, but what is it that drives her to such an anti-intellectual and anti-cultural position?
At a certain point I wanted Ivanova to move beyond the "portrait" because the subject, Nenya, is so fascinating that she demands more. While there might have been exigencies of production that didn't allow for such added probing, the fact remains that based upon the finished product, more was needed.
There are numerous things that are either left maddeningly unsaid or, for all the film's attempts to present things raw WITHOUT a slant, or angle or too much of the filmmaker's voice (all admirable, but not always satisfying), the movie DOES present a few unbalanced issues that feel (intentionally or not) like a very one-sided portrait. At one point, Kiril talks about what it means to be a Ukrainian and that it is a cultural identity he relates to and wants to relate to even more. I'll grant you it is because I feel close to this heritage that I was so deeply moved by this, however, the movie also disturbed me since it provided far too many one-sided negative portraits of Ukrainians and Ukrainian culture.
There are, for example, very few Ukrainians presented who share Nenya's compassion for these children. I just find this hard to swallow. Ukraine is a country that has suffered under the yoke of Russian, Polish, Turkish, Austrian, German and Mongolian oppression for its entire history as a nation and culture. Maybe I cannot proclaim the entire country or nation as being open to relating to the African experience on (at least a level of repression and/or genocide) based solely upon a few hundred Ukrainians weeping and cheering the African-American spirituals sung by Stephen Salters in Kyiv, but for all the documented racism, there are always two sides and some balance might have been nice. Why, for example, does Ivanova go out of her way (it seems) to present ONLY fuck-witted Ukrainian skinheads or Nenya's drunken, ignorant racist neighbour? And what about that neighbour? What drove him to drink to the point where he LOST his children? Why present such a one-sided portrait without even attempting to understand where this comes from? Who knows? Eastern Ukrainians suffered a great deal under Stalin and subsequent Soviet regimes (including the ethnic Russians forced to move there). The repression, poverty, discrimination could well be traced back to policies of genocide and Russification.
Another oddly offensive one-sided portrait is of the Ukrainian women who supposedly "abandoned" their Black children in orphanages? Why are they portrayed as so thoughtless? So heartless? For a multitude of Ukrainian women - no matter what or who their children are - placing their children in orphanages is their only hope that maybe, just maybe their children will have a better life than they can provide them?
What of the African men who have seduced and abandoned their blonde, blue-eyed living sex toys and by extension the results of their seed-scattering - the children? Are they blameless? Throughout the entire film I kept wondering if we were ever going to get an interview with an older African male in Ukraine. I would have loved to hear the opinions of some of the Ugandan students on the fates of these children who were sired by fellow members of their country? And finally, when Ivanova DOES present an interview with ONE African man who DOES care about his children and wants them back. It's a brief interview that takes place well into the film and the context it's presented in, once again, raises more questions that the film doesn't bother to answer. The man claims he will wait in Ukraine until the children can legally leave the care of Nenya so he can be their father. He states that the Ministry presiding over Ukrainian orphans are asking him to prove, via DNA testing - at his expense - that the children are really his. Well, uh, yeah! Makes sense to me. Anyone can say they're the biological father of a child. It has to be proven. If he can't afford it, what is his embassy or consulate doing about it? Has he even tried to secure their financial and/or political assistance?
This is a movie so full of magnificent moments that I kept longing for it to soar as it had the potential to. It's finally never enough for any movie to present a "portrait". When there are too many questions left unanswered, when there are endless one-sided perspectives as unfair and hateful as those presented amongst some of the film's subjects, part of me thinks that the filmmaker didn't get the job done. That said, Ivanova clearly has the soul of a filmmaker. She shot the film herself and there are images of such poignance, beauty and artistry, that I simply cannot believe that this is all there is.
Maybe, just maybe, there's enough material on the cutting room floor and, more importantly so much more material yet to be shot, that eventually, Ivanova, like Michael Apted and his extraordinary "Up" series will return to these people and this subject and present a lifetime document as anthropologically and artistically important as Apted's.
I hope so. She owes it to the kids, to Nenya, to the country and its culture. She certainly owes it to herself to take potentially wonderful material to even greater heights. Most of all, she owes it to the audience and potential audiences. With Family Portrait in Black and White, I personally see the beginnings of something that could be imbued with significance and staying power beyond its wildest dreams.
That's what makes it art.
"Family Portrait in Black and White" is in limited platform release across Canada via Vagrant Films (with a current playdate at Toronto's Royal Theatre). It played at the Sundance Film Festival and is a Hot-Docs Award Winner. It has been nominated for a Genie Award for Best Feature Documentary.
Posted by Greg Klymkiw at 3/02/2012 12:01:00 AM
Labels: ***, 2011 Films, Canada, Documentary, Genie Awards, Julia Ivanova, Ukraine
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Retailers and customers are smarter and more connected than ever before. The current marketplace is extremely transparent. With the increased usage of social media, consumers are able to speak directly with businesses, not to mention fellow consumers. More than ever, customers review and rate their experiences and share them online with others — hundreds if not thousands of others. It is said that the most successful marketing is "word of mouth."
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FALMOUTH — Carolyn Ida "Cal" Scheuchzer, 87, formerly of Portland, died peacefully April 1 at Sedgewood Commons.
Born in Portland on June 30, 1922, she was the daughter of Eugene Scheuchzer of Switzerland and Lina Kern Scheuchzer of Portland.
After she graduated from Deering High School in 1940, she attended Bay Path College in Massachusetts where classmates gave her the nickname "Cal."
For 20 years she worked in the bookkeeping department at Burnam & Morrill in Portland. From 1960 until her retirement in 1990 she worked in insurance for John C. Paige and later for Fred S. James.
She was a charitable person who advocated for the poor and homeless.
Her favorite pastimes included traveling, especially taking trips with her parents and brother to Switzerland to visit family, and spending time with friends and family at the family camp on Highland Lake.
Devoted to her younger brother Sonny, she was always watching over him and cared for him in his aging years.
While she did not have children of her own, she enjoyed spending time with her niece and nephew, mentoring them and giving out words of wisdom and love.
She was predeceased by her brother, Eugene E. "Sonny" Scheuchzer, Sr., who died this past February.
Surviving are her nephew, Eugene Ed. "Ted" Scheuchzer, Jr., of Portland, and her niece, Debra C. Ryan of Buxton.
A joint graveside service for Carolyn and her brother Eugene will be held at Evergreen Cemetery in Portland at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, April 14, with a private reception for family and friends to follow.
Memorial donations may be made to the Preble Street Resource Center, 5 Portland St., Portland, ME 04101.
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Hello Kitty teamed up with Mac Cosmetics for two product collections that were released this month. To promote the products, the two created this commercial that's absolutely original and one-to-remember.
The ad has the Alice in Wonderland theme. It's a bit crazy and when watching feels like the creators were high when working on the concept.
You see Alice follow what it seems to be the Cheshire Cat and then find herself in a strange place with a lot of shirtless guys in tight black leather pants and huge black Hello Kitty heads, and the leading Kitty who is their dominatrix or whoever she as, at least they all obey to her order.


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My daughter, Nicole, started GUG in the Gifted Kids class (N1) in year 2006 when she was about 3 years old. Although the Gifted Kids class is a non-accompanied program but as she was new to the class, the teachers exercised flexibility in allowing the grandma to accompany her for the first week of class. The teachers were very caring and attentive towards Nicole and that made her settled down very quickly.
When Nicole first joined the early childhood program, she was shy, timid and did not have the confidence to interact and speak up in class. Her teachers were always assuring and constantly encouraged her to participate in the class activities.
I would like to highlight that the "Show & Tell" sessions were especially beneficial to Nicole. During a "Show & Tell" session, every child was asked to bring an item to talk about in class whereby the name of the item corresponds to the letter for the week. For example, if the letter for the week is 'F', the children can bring items like flower, frog, fish, fruit etc and they would briefly talk about their items in front of the whole class.
Initially, Nicole needed help from the teachers to prompt her in what to say but as time went by, Nicole was able to present the items without any help from the teachers! I believe these "Show & Tell" sessions had helped to build up her confidence level tremendously.
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I tried to find out the reason and found that as Nicole wanted to show her teachers the "perfect handwriting" thus, she kept erasing and re-writing until she deemed they were perfect.
After I found the root cause, I worked together with the teachers to try to let Nicole accept her not-so-perfect handwriting. We assured her that as long as her handwriting was legible, it need not be perfect. We also told her that in future during the exams in primary school, there would be a time limit to complete the exam papers. A perfect handwriting would not help in scoring points if the exam papers were incomplete. Gradually, Nicole understood the fact and she no longer erase and rewrite her work.
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U.S. Army Africa's commanding general met with Algerian military and government leaders in Algiers Dec. 5-7.
Maj. Gen. David R. Hogg discussed bilateral relations and regional issues, toured the Algerian Central Military Museum and met with reporters for a free-ranging press conference before returning to USARAF headquarters in Vicenza, Italy.
Accompanied by U.S. Ambassador to Algiers, the Hon. David Pearce, and members of the American country team, Hogg met with Maj. Gen. Ahcene Tafer, land forces commander of the People's National Army (ANP); Mohamed Kamel Rezag Bara, presidential adviser on counterterrorism; Maj. Gen. Ahmed Senhadji, secretary general of the Ministry of Defense; and Brig. Gen. Rachid Saoudi, commander of ANP special forces; said Lt. Col. Philip Archer, U.S. Army Africa's North African regional desk officer.
Hogg took the opportunity to clarify USARAF's missions and dispel erroneous perceptions during a press conference Dec. 6 with Algerian and international media.
"This is my first trip to Algeria, and I'm here to meet with the leadership of the land forces and to develop a relationship, and to discuss some of the future training opportunities that both of our nations can do together," Hogg said.
He mentioned upcoming joint Algerian-American reconnaissance and counter-IED training possibilities, and a future visit by Algerian soldiers to the United States to investigate how the Army integrates its lessons learned center into its training regime.
"A lot of mutual discussions and a lot of mutual benefits this year," he said.
Hogg went into some detail to explain what U.S. Army Africa is, its place in the overall U.S. military, and the context of its operations in Africa.
"Let me explain a little bit about what U.S. Army Africa does. It's one of these headquarters that a lot of people don't know anything about, to include some of the people I talk to in the U.S. military," he said.
Hogg clarified that USARAF is an Army component command with its headquarters in Vicenza, Italy, and is the land forces component of U.S. Africa Command, led by Gen. William E. "Kip" Ward, which is headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany.
"It is strictly a headquarters. That means I have a staff and personnel that do headquarters-type business. I have no assigned forces, which means I do not have combat forces assigned to my headquarters," Hogg said.
"Our primary mission here on the continent of Africa is what we refer to as theater security cooperation. In other words, we come at the request and the permission of the sovereign countries here in Africa to train, to work with, to cooperate on a variety of areas — from just basic command-post exercises to doing humanitarian- and disaster relief-type events — the whole realm.
"But we come only if a nation says, 'Hey, we'd like to do some work with you, we'd like to partner with the U.S. Army forces.'
"And the other piece that's very important is that we are in support of the embassies. So we do not do anything on our own, unilaterally. We work with the countries and we work with the embassy, and that's really what our mission set is."
Hogg responded in the negative when asked whether USARAF had established or was in the process of establishing bases in Algeria or the region.
"I think the question you're trying to ask is: Do we have any bases here in Algeria? And the answer is: No, we don't have any bases here," he said
Hogg responded as well to a number of questions regarding security and counterterrorism activity in the Sahel region.
"As you know, this is a regional issue, where Algerian land forces have taken a leadership role, and it's very impressive, the progress that's been made," he said.
He described the current status of counter-terrorism in the Sahel as a work in progress. "And with the leadership of the Algerian land forces and the work that they're doing down there for coordination, there's progress being made," Hogg said.
He was asked about whether counter-terrorism training is part of the Algerian-American land forces relationship.
"Our support and assistance is based on request from sovereign countries, and it's really in a training piece, so that kind of flows into your counter-terrorism training," he said.
The general was asked whether USARAF, or AFRICOM, is planning to establish a headquarters on the African continent proper, and took the opportunity to dispel that lingering notion.
"There is no decision, no desire to move the AFRICOM headquarters. I mean, Gen. Ward's been pretty clear on that: He wants to get beyond that and just get into the mission. As far as my headquarters goes — Vicenza, Italy: that's where we're at, that's where we're going to stay.
"Which means we do a lot of travel to make the mission happen — but that's OK.
"So there are no plans now, in the future or in the past to move AFRICOM into the continent . . . and that's really where we're at at this stage. We're more interested in getting on with our mission of cooperation and helping with security and stability on the continent.
"The bottom line is: continued engagement and agreement as far as some of the future activities that are planned, and the potential for future exercises here in Algeria. And so it's very productive and very enjoyable. I've enjoyed it and I'm looking forward to coming back."
Hogg returned to Vicenza Dec. 7. The visit strengthened the overall relationship between the Algerian and American land forces, said Archer.
"They value the growing partnership with the U.S. military. They are a very modern military and we have much to learn from them," he said.


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Due to the uncertain economy of the last several years, many hard-working, responsible people who never thought they would consider bankruptcy find themselves doing just that. The reality is that anyone can find himself facing job loss, overwhelming medical bills, or divorce. Those factors, together with the economic climate, can make it impossible to regain control of one's financial situation without help. Our government has long understood this, and the Bankruptcy Code was created to help any American who needs and deserves a fresh start.
St. Ignace bankruptcy attorney J.D. Praasterink helps clients in Mackinac, Luce, and Chippewa Counties, as well as the rest of the Eastern Upper Peninsula to regain control of their finances with bankruptcies under Chapters 7, 11, 12, and 13 of the United States Bankruptcy Code.
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Chapter 7 is often referred to as "fresh start" bankruptcy, designed for debtors who do not have the ability to pay their existing debts. A "means test" exists to determine if a debtor's situation qualifies for chapter 7.
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A successful Chapter 7 bankruptcy wipes the slate clean of your existing debts (with the exception of certain types of debt, including domestic support obligations, student loans, and others).
Chapter 13 is designed for individuals with regular income who can pay all or part of their debts over a period of three to five years. It is sometimes referred to as the "wage-earner's plan." Some people who don't qualify for Chapter 7 may qualify for Chapter 13. A key advantage of Chapter 13 is that is it can stop a home foreclosure and allow for payment of mortgage arrears over the life of the Chapter 13 plan.
Under Chapter 13, the court must approve your plan to repay your creditors all or part of the money that you owe them using your future earnings. After completing the payments under your plan, your debts are generally discharged (forgiven) with the exception of those debts that are non-dischargeable under the Bankruptcy Code.
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Fluffing the Don
Before making the wholly charming Quinceañera (now playing at a theater near you), my friends Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland made an intriguing and rather less charming movie called The Fluffer. It's set in the world of gay porn, and the title character is an extra whose job is to ensure that the star is in a state of readiness before the cameras start rolling. The fluffer is gay, the star is straight (this much is evidently true to life), and in the film, the adoration that the former feels for the latter is complete and all-consuming.
Richard and Wash maintain that "the fluffer" is in fact an archetype — the one who loves with total, self-abnegating passion and with no hope of requital. Certainly the fluffer can be encountered regularly on the operatic stage. I once took Wash to the L.A. Opera to see Turandot for the first time, and he spotted Liù in a second.
This comes to mind in the wake of Festival Opera's interesting new production of Don Giovanni in Walnut Creek. It's an updated version, done mostly for laughs (Leporello's catalog, e.g., is a PDA). But Michael Morgan, who directs as well as conducts, introduces something new and telling: a gay Leporello who's in love with Don Giovanni. Instantly the relationship between them — the testiness, the interdependence — is presented in a different light. Particularly striking is Leporello's attitude toward the Don's womanizing, a weird mix of fascination and revulsion — with the latter now revealed not as moral scruples but as simple jealousy. This Leporello is not as pathetic and selfless as Liù (who could be?), but he is indeed our old friend the fluffer.


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During warmer months, the river is dotted punters drifting slowly down the river. A punt is a long, narrow, and flat boat that is propelled and steered by a long pole at the back of the boat. If someone is a pro at punting like Stuart it's very romantic, but if you are new to punting, you may spend a lot of time in the shrubs and trees that overhang the river.
As you walk into the gates leading to the meadow, you're greeted by the War Memorial Garden, which as a quintessential English border, has something in bloom at all times of the year. The garden is beautifully framed by the backdrop of Christ Church's Tom Tower and dining hall.
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And as is also usual, she was bored to death with my unending saga of self pity. But she was nice enough to pretend and listen. After a while though, she looked away and began staring at the ceiling. And at some point, without her realizing, I stopped talking.
After a couple of minutes though, by when my attention had drifted to the Leonard Cohen song playing in the background, she squeezed my arm and exclaimed with a look that accompanies an epiphany,"TS! You should start a blog!"
I responded with an expression so blank that the next half an hour was spent in her explaining the meaning of the word 'blog' to me in great detail. And once P thought she had gotten through to me and of course convinced me to start a blog of my own, she took me by the hand and led me to the computer where with the click of a few buttons, we conceived The Wander Years .
That was then.
But over a period of time, The Wander Years has transformed into an idea that defines my life.
Maybe that's why &. magazine's June issue of 2008 is also themed 'The Wander Years', in continuation to an article in the May issue, which talks about how the youth today are running away from the all things conventional and attempting to redefine their idea of life in general.
And today, as this little corner of the blogosphere completes two years in existence, I hope there is reason to rejoice. Not because it has sparked any intellectual revolution or uncontrollable laughter or worthy debates on social issues, but because while The Wander Years was catalyzing my redefinitions, it may have also given all of you a few reasons to smile in agreement with a post or a comment and whisper to yourselves, "I so know that feeling".


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The analysis was drawn from a series of focus groups and a bipartisan national poll conducted for Lifetime Television and the Center for Policy Alternatives. The joint project was called Women's Voices 2000.The findings suggest it won't be easy for politicians of either party to fashion a "women's message" because the women's vote is far from monolithic, and some of the issues of concern to large numbers of women are so tough and so complex they will require very creative solutions.For example, two of the major issues of concern to poll respondents were the ever-tightening "time crunch" (more time at work, less time with family) and what was perceived by many respondents as a decline in the nation's moral values. The best way to reverse the decline in moral values, according to the poll, was for parents to spend more time with their children. But the ever-increasing demands of work have made that virtually impossible for most families.According to the poll, 59 percent of women with children under 6 said they were finding it harder to balance the demands of work and family now than they did four years ago, when the last Women's Voices analysis was conducted. And 30 percent said it was "much harder."The poll also found:* That a large majority of women - 72 percent - would like their health insurance to be independent of their employment. This was not even one of the issues the pollsters had intended to ask about, but it came up repeatedly in the focus groups that preceded the polling. Politicians should take notice.* That 93 percent of African- American women, 91 percent of Latinas, 90 percent of Asian-American women and 87 percent of white women said equal pay and benefits for women should be one of the top policy priorities in the United States.
Focus on WomenBy BOB HERBERT, NY TimesThe most extensive analysis of women's views in this campaign season has shown that as the economy has improved, American women have been taking a much closer look at the quality of their lives, and not liking a great deal that they see.The new economy has bolstered the incomes of millions of families, but it has also exacerbated the sense of estrangement between the haves and have-nots, and has left many women with the feeling that they have less and less time to spend with their families and properly care for their children.


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Growing up in the 1980s, kids had a pretty standard set of villains haunting their nightmares. Freddy Kruger, Michael Meyers and Jason Voorhees formed the unholy triumvirate that spooked most Gen-Xers in their formative years.
But the two monsters that kept me cold-sweating into the wee hours of the morning were Cujo:
Children of the Cornhusker State may have written Sebastian off as no more than the malignant alter ego of Donald Duck. But I didn't. Beyond the cartoonish "tough-guy" sneer, this was a bird capable of (and ever willing to) rip the still-beating heart right out of your chest.
Starting with the 1984 Orange Bowl and continuing on to the 2002 Rose Bowl, Sebastian and his Hurricane Horde frequently left Nebraska teams in physical and/or emotional devastation. And, by extension, their wide-eyed fans.
I don't need to recap the path of destruction Miami laid upon Husker history these past 30 years. We all know it.
But as the Hurricanes get ready to storm Lincoln on Saturday, I've developed a strange sensation. A bittersweet nostalgia. Which is not what I expected. I am , in many respects, still reeling from my one and only experience seeing these two teams clash in person — the Nightmare in Pasadena.
As rivalries go, Nebraska and Miami are an odd coupling. Nebraska's quiet and reserved Felix Unger to Miami's brash Oscar Madison.
It's hard to think of two locations in the country that have less in common. And, yet, thanks to college football, Lincoln has often been on Miami's mind and vice versa.
In the summer of 1994, as a second-year freshman at UNL, I flew out to LA to participate in a week-long media workshop. The event was attended by two to three hundred Hollywood-aspiring college kids from all over North America. The organizers of the event made a concerted effort to assure that students from varied backgrounds intermingled. For example, we were all housed in suites at UCLA's Olympic village and, in my four-man dorm, I was joined by a guy from Montreal, another from Maryland and Heath, from Miami.
We all wore badges with our names and Universities on them. When Heath saw mine, he immediately bore a huge grin and said, "Cornhuskers." Surprised by this greeting, I read his name tag and stammered, "Hurricanes." We then became best buddies the rest of the week. Which weirded-out the dude from Maryland who saw Heath as a potential clubbing partner. Someone he could be wing-man to, because Heath — sure as shit — wasn't going to be his.
Despite the organizer's best efforts to scatter the participants based on backgrounds, students from the same colleges did end up grouping. Heath found a buddy from Miami. And I formed a mini-wolfpack with another UNL student and a guy from UNO. These two groups then became a college-football gabfest — reliving the rise of the Hurricanes and the folly of the Huskers. We were still six months away from Nebraska exacting its revenge in the 1995 Orange Bowl.
Now, beyond this (albeit) intense bit of mutual interest, Heath and I didn't have all that much in common. He was attending the workshop as part of his dream to enter sports broadcasting. I, on the other hand, was an aspiring Francois Truffaut. As odd a couple as the Hurricanes and Huskers themselves. But there was something magical about this bonding. Kind of like a cool kid in high school taking a shine to one of the students who dwells in the periphery.
Sort of like the movie, "Lucas," I guess.
So, the Ibis isn't quite as scary as he used to be coming into Lincoln this Saturday. Much like his last appearance at Memorial Stadium. This will be the first meeting since then that the outcome won't determine a National Title. An astonishing 5 such matches have been played in the interim (with Miami winning 4 of those).
Part of me is excited at the prospect of Miami's offensive line being grossly outmatched by the Blackshirts on the other side of the trench. Seeing the Huskers walk all over da U would do a lot to wash away the bitter taste left by the 2002 Rose Bowl.
On the other hand, another part of me wishes it was the same swaggering Miami. The gnarly old bird gnashing its beak through the tunnel smoke. The dirty albatross around Nebraska's neck.
A win against the mystique, after all, is the kind that forms bonds across the varied American patchwork.


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The Snack Badge is one of those badges with endless opportunities to have fun. I do not have any earth-shattering activities, crafts or wisdom to share, but I can tell you what I did for this meeting and hopefully take the planning phase out of your schedule.
We also plan to tour Central Market, which is a gourmet grocery store, for our next field trip. They plan on showing the girls some odd fruits in produce, lobsters in the Seafood Dept and breads in the bakery! We get to end the tour with gelato! Can't Wait!
I used the www.ChoosemyPlate.gov website for information and to help guide my troop discussion. I passed out small paper copies of the plate and asked the girls what they observed when looking at the plate. Kids are funny... one girl commented that green seems like a good color to represent vegetables (since most vegetables are green) on the plate and red for fruit (because strawberries and apples are red), brown for grains (because bread is often brown) and she gets why Dairy is blue since the lid to her milk is blue, but why is protein purple? She has never eaten purple meat. Friends, this is why I love leading! I had to laugh, these girls can be so observant.
I had to redirect the conversation because this was not quite the information I was fishing for and finally a girl comments that Vegetables and Fruits are the biggest colors on the plate. YES! So with this observation I asked the girls to give examples of foods in each category. We talked about the "Recommended Daily Plan" for each of these food categories, what constitutes a serving, how to calculate a cup of food and so on. I did not get into a lot of detail. I did not feel this was a big health lesson, just an awareness. They could probably spend an entire month on diet alone in 3rd grade. Besides they could not sit still anticipating the snacks.
I once again set-up the snacks in stations, with a large troop this makes the most sense. Each girl was asked to go to one of 3 tables where I had a parent helper to lead the building of their snack. We talked about how much fun food can be to make and that they are old enough to find foods they can make on their own. The 3 station were good examples of foods they could make themselves.
Station 1: M&M Flowers was a Birthday Snack for one of my Brownies and was a good example of a less healthy alternative for a snack, but a good chance to reinforce that not all snacks need to be healthy all of the time. Birthdays are a great time to celebrate and be less concerned about healthy foods.
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After dinner, went to relax...just minding my own business when Bruno decides he wants to play
Not now I said, I just ate, Mom likes me to take it easy after I eat, and well....I am so GOOD at taking it easy, but Bruno wouldn't let me
Guess you're sleepin' on the floor tonight....LOL
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Are they really buddies..?
After dinner, went to relax...just minding my own business when Bruno decides he wants to play
Posted by Nika + PARKER at 6:59 PM
5 comments:
- Elizabeth said...
The pups need another playmate other than us humans!!
Elizabeth & Luna
- August 13, 2009 at 8:07 PM
- dewdana said...
Awwww! So cute Parker Buddy!Moose plays with toys in bed and sometimes when they fall off he looks at me like he is waiting for me to go get it! I would say he is crazy but I often do get it for him so guess he is just smart (and lazy!).
- August 13, 2009 at 8:45 PM
- Ms. ~K said...
Bed Buddies are good!
- August 13, 2009 at 9:54 PM
- JackDaddy said...
OOOOOO, no toys in the bed. The tall guy says I would never go to sleep if I got to have toys in the bed!
- August 14, 2009 at 12:42 AM
- Chester said...
Your buddy Bruno is a wild man!!! Do you not tear him to pieces when playing? This might be a major difference between us twins. No stuffy has been left stuffed in my presence - yet!
Mom hope that someday I will find a best buddy like Bruno too!
Hope you have a fun weekend planned, Parker!
Chester :0=)
- August 14, 2009 at 5:28 AM


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So towards the end of last year I took an oil painting course at the Jika Jika Community Centre with Bonny Hut. It was fun. The course was super relaxed with lots of random conversations springing up here and there in between the few bits of oil painting talk that we had.
I've always wanted to try oil painting, but thought that it was one of those messy and resource intensive activities. The course proved me wrong. Bonny made it pretty easy to follow and to pick up on the absolute basics, which was all that I was really after.
This is the painting that I did during the course. I call it "Not so sallow lady" – as the original that I copied it from was of a very miserable looking lady!
In the last two weeks of the course I got to start working on my second piece. I chose a photo that I had taken during 2014 in a Tall Order Giraffe Encounter experience at the Werribee Zoo (lots of fun – highly recommended!). It took me awhile to finish it, with lots of rework, but I got there in the end!
So this will be my focus for 2015 – oil painting! I'll still be making polymer clay jewellery, but now that I've got the hang of that, I won't need to burn so much brain power on it! I'm still trying to decide which markets to attend for 2015 – in the meantime you can still shop for Jelly Jungle jewellery at jellyjungle.etsy.com.
While I sort out my next oil painting project (!!), here are a few photos of my giraffes in development. Hope you all had a lovely new year!


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November 29, 2018
Earlhamites are more likely to engage in high-impact learning practices than their peers at other colleges and universities, according to a survey of undergraduates in the United States and Canada.
Data from the 2018 National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE), an initiative of Indiana University, shows that 69 percent of Earlham graduates studied off campus before graduation. That's 55 percentage points higher than the national norm. Earlhamites also outpace their peers for engagement in undergraduate research and internships by an average of 33 and 23 percentage points, respectively. Overall, 96 percent of Earlham seniors participate in two or more of these types of "high-impact practices" compared to only 60 percent of students nationally.
"Earlham offers an extraordinary academic experience led by professors who make important connections for our students that go far beyond the four walls of a classroom," Interim President Avis Stewart says. "We also make an attractive offer to our students: funding for at least one transformational learning experience before graduation, affording them the kind of flexibility they need to chart their futures wherever in the world their interests take them."
Earlham delivers on an exceptional liberal arts experience by committing to high quality teaching, by encouraging students to take part in collaborative learning, and by offering the EPIC initiative. EPIC is a four-year journey integrates the academic major with transformative learning experiences to prepare students exceptionally well for life beyond Earlham. The EPIC Advantage — an average of $5,000 in funding to all students in support of an internship, project or research experience — is a signature component of the initiative.
High-impact practices increase rates of student retention and student engagement and benefit students from all backgrounds, according to the American Association of Colleges and Universities. Conversely, the NSSE is an indirect measure of student learning. The survey asks questions like, "What did you do and how often?" In general, students are asked about exposure to effective educational practices, use of their time and the quality of their interactions.
Survey responses from Earlham's first-year students also stand out in NSSE's annual survey. Earlham performed significantly higher than the national average for a series of "Engagement Indicators" that include collaborative learning, discussion with students and faculty from diverse backgrounds, student-faculty interaction, and supportive environment.
Earlham is consistently ranked among the nation's top liberal arts colleges and is part of a select group of 40 institutions featured in the popular book Colleges That Changes Lives. In Princeton Review's 2019 Best 384 Colleges guide, Earlham faculty rank 7th in the nation for Best Classroom Experience. In the 2019 edition of U.S. News and World Report's annual "Best Colleges" guidebook, Earlham ranks 14th for value and 22nd for having a strong commitment to undergraduate teaching, a recognition reserved for just 33 liberal arts colleges.
For more information about the NSSE, visit nsse.indiana.edu.
Earlham College, a national liberal arts college located in Richmond, Indiana, is a "College That Changes Lives." We expect our students to be fully present: to think rigorously, value directness and genuineness, and actively seek insights from differing perspectives. The values we practice at Earlham are rooted in centuries of Quaker tradition, but they also constitute the ideal toolkit for contemporary success. We rank 7th nationally by Princeton Review for Best Classroom Experience and 22nd by U.S. News and World Report for commitment to undergraduate teaching.
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We are pleased to announce that the winner of the 2018 JCS Prize is Samantha Stehbens for her paper entitled 'FGFR2-activating mutations disrupt cell polarity to potentiate migration and invasion in endometrial cancer'. The $1000 prize is awarded annually to the first author of the paper that is judged to be the best by the Editors and Editorial Board.
CORVET, CHEVI and HOPS are multisubunit tethering complexes that regulate the major membrane flows required for endocytosis, lysosome biogenesis, autophagy and phagocytosis. Judith Klumperman and colleagues provide an integrated overview on the cellular functions of these proteins and pathological defects associated with them.
The small Rho GTPase family member Cdc42 regulates cell polarity across organisms. Franck Pichaud, Rhian Walther and Francisca Nunes de Almeida review how the spatial regulation of Cdc42 promotes polarity and polarized morphogenesis of the plasma membrane, with a focus on the epithelial cell type.
"If someone shares an idea with you, they are sharing something they created, or if not, something they obtained and feel has value."
Mole explains why we should receive ideas as gifts.
Have you seen our First Person interviews with the early-career first authors of our papers? The authors talk about their work in and out of the lab, the journeys that led them to where they are now and the scientists who inspired them along the way. Recently, we caught up with first authors Samantha Salvage, Yasuha Kinugasa and Abhishek Chadha.
Journal of Cell Science (JCS), Journal of Cell Biology (JCB) and Molecular Biology of the Cell (MBoC) announce a new manuscript transfer option that will empower authors whose manuscripts have been declined to seamlessly transfer their manuscripts and associated peer review reports between the journals.
We offer Travelling Fellowships of up to £2,500 to graduate students and post-doctoral researchers wishing to make collaborative visits to other laboratories. The next deadline to apply is 31 May 2019.
Alexander García Ponce used a Travelling Fellowship to go to the Sanquin Blood Bank in The Netherlands. There he investigated how hematopoietic stem cells cross the vascular wall and reach the bone marrow for his PhD project.
Journal of Cell Science is pleased to welcome submissions for an upcoming special issue on 'Cell Biology of the Immune System' edited by Ana-Maria Lennon-Duménil. We invite you to showcase your breakthrough research on all aspects of cell biology as it relates to the immune system. The articles within this issue will receive extensive exposure to a broad audience of cell biologists and immunologists. Submission deadline: 30 June 2019.
Mariana De Niz highlights a preprint from Uri Manor and colleagues who use nanobody technology for live imaging of sub-organellar actin dynamics at previously unachieved temporal and spatial resolution, and explore its relevance for organelle fission.
Catch up with other recent preLights selected for the cell science community.
A single KH domain in Bicaudal-C links mRNA binding and translational repression functions to maternal development
Megan E. Dowdle, Sookhee Park, Susanne Blaser Imboden, Catherine A. Fox, Douglas W. Houston, Michael D. Sheets
Development 2019 146: dev172486
Primary wall cellulose synthase regulates shoot apical meristem mechanics and growth
Arun Sampathkumar, Alexis Peaucelle, Miki Fujita, Christoph Schuster, Staffan Persson, Geoffrey O. Wasteneys, Elliot M. Meyerowitz
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Family days out at the Irish National Heritage Park
Activities for everyone…
Family Fun
Scattered around the Park, the family will find a series of Have a go! interactive challenges. The children will have to try and move a megalithic, carve some rock art, weave a wattle house and even pan for gold! If the children complete the tasks and bring back a piece of gold to the reception desk, they will get a certificate of merit.
We have two adventure playgrounds on site: one for younger children through the restaurant near the visitor centre and one for older children up on the hill near the castle with a wide range of climbing frames and ropes.
Special activities run throughout the year with pay and play archery and seasonal family events.
- Restaurant
- Children's lunch menu
- Toilets- Baby changing facilities
- Gift Shop
- Guide Tours (with a costumed guide)
- Self Guided Tours
- Free coach/car parking
- Major Credit Cards accepted
Your family Adventure begins here.
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Please allow approx 2 hours for your visit.
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Who is The Hottest Woman of This Year?
American supermodel Marisa Miller has won the battle royal of hotness and has knocked famous hotties from the top of men magazine Maxim's list of the 100 hottest women in the world.
Megan Fox was also nominated for the hottest woman in a FHM's anual poll, but is she hotter than Marisa?
In regards to her Maxim ranking Marisa told:
It's pretty amazing I am really happy and humbled. I wasn't on the list last year, so to be number one is pretty crazy.
Marisa also gave some helpful tips on how men can pick up on Victoria's Secret models.
Be yourself, women understand it's hard for guys to approach, be genuine.
Here is how the top 10 list looks like ordered by hotness:
- Marisa Miller
- Scarlett Johansson
- Jessica Biel
- Eva Longoria-Parker
- Sarah Michelle Gellar
- Elisha Cuthbert
- Eva Mendes
- Christina Aguilera
If seeing Marisa Miller in lingerie and bikinis isn't enough to convince you that she is the hottest woman on the planet, nothing is.
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Western Downs Looking Good
The scenery around Dalby, Chinchilla and the Western Downs is looking magnificent with crops like this. Perfect time of the year for a country drive. For a library of Australian rural stock photos and many more images like this, dont forget to check out the www.australian-image.com.au website.
Queensland Flood Crisis
A slideshow of photos from the recent Queensland Flood Crisis. The scale and magnitude of this flood is bigger than most people have seen in a lifetime. It was a humbling experience wading around the streets talking to many people who have lost everything. I was shooting for Getty Images in places like Toowoomba, Oakey, Dalby, Chinchilla and Lockyer Valley. Thanks for watching, comments appreciated.
Flood Devastation in Queensland
The Darling Downs and Lockyer Valley are still a disaster zone, the damage is incredible. 22 towns and cities were covered in water last week, an area the size of France & Germany combined! I've been out shooting some of the flood damage in Dalby, Chinchilla, Oakey and Murphy's Creek.
Flash Flood hits Toowoomba
Toowoomba was hit by the worst flood most people have seen in a lifetime today. Twisted cars were strewn about the city and shops have been destroyed, after a huge surge of water smashed through the CBD this afternoon. More rain and flooding expected tomorrow. Click here to see the latest photos.


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Israeli minister sorry after warning death for fake news
JERUSALEM – Israel's minister of communications has apologized over what he says were misinterpreted comments warning that broadcasting "fake news" warrants corporal punishment.
Ayoob Kara, of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party, had said "all those bringing fake news are bringing upon themselves a death sentence."
It was not clear who or what Kaya was referring to in his remarks Friday at a Likud party retreat.
He later apologized on Twitter, saying he was speaking figuratively and meant that false reports result in fewer consumers for media outlets.
Netanyahu has also lashed out at media over the past year dismissing some coverage of investigations into corruption allegations surrounding him as "fake news."
The long-ruling Israeli leader has denied any wrongdoing and calls the accusations a witch hunt orchestrated by a hostile media.


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If the New Year brings Lubbock native Bruce Ruffin about half as much as the old year did, the 23 year-old Philadelphia Phillies pitcher will be pleased indeed.
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Thank you for visiting my site.
I am a football writer and sports journalist.
I specialise in produce online sport content such as reports, previews, reviews, analysis, in-depth tactical pieces and also historical or interest features. I also live report/tweet for major sporting events, an example of which is here.
I have written for various online publications and am currently studying a NCTJ-accredited Sports Journalism Diploma.
In a previous life I was an insurance broker dealing with portfolios for large multinational companies, so I have extensive experience outside of writing and journalism in a pressurised and unpredictable environment. This means I fully understand the meaning of strict deadlines, ongoing communication and being reliable at all times.
I am also a keen Liverpool fan and regularly visit Anfield to shout uncontrollably at seriously mediocre football. I enjoy a day out watching the England cricket team at Lords and also take a keen interest in mixed martial arts' biggest promotion, the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). I am also still a huge fan of pro-wrestling and become an excitable kid when it comes round to Wrestlemania season!
A varied mix, as you might point out, but I could probably watch paint dry if it was taking place in a competitive environment.
Hope you enjoy reading some of my stuff and if you have any questions or enquiries, please feel free to contact me on Twitter @leeroberts82.
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Dj Ryan Thomas
Fierce four to the floor house with a hard edge! Ryan Thomas has been movin' the crowd in Colorado for over eight years! Now as a recent transplant to L.A. he is ready to bring some mountain flavor to the coast. Having performed with the likes of Robert Armani, Jon Bishop, and Bad Boy Bill Ryan is definite world class talent. Time after time you can expect an energy filled, unique and technically skilled set!
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It's hard to classify all the genres and sub-genres...just two words good house!
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