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Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 10:17 pm
Post subject: Unreleased MYSTIFIER interview from 1999
This was supposed to be in a zine I was making right after I got out of army, never finished the magazine, though. I always loved this interview how his rantings about racism sounded like the pot calling the kettle black, hehe! Enjoy!
1. What are the things MYSTIFIER stands for?
- Hail Penttl!! It is good to hear again from Finland !!
Well, we are composing new songs for our next album. Just now we are
looking for a fine agreement with a decent label to release it. It can
be entitled "Demystifying the Mystified" or "Will the Jews accept the
Antichrist as their Messiah?". The actual MYSTIFIER line up is: Arnald
J.N.D. on vocals; Paulo Lisboa on leadguitar, Thony D'assys on
leadguitar, me (Armand Beelzeebubth) on bassguitar and Louis Fernandez
on drums. For further info about us, the Finnish MYSTIFIER worshippers
can visit our official web site:
2. MYSTIFIER is one of the last non-nordic originators of modern Black
Metal still active (others being NECROMANTIA, IMPALED NAZARENE, MORTUARY
DRAPE for example), and in July 1999, is the 10th anniversary of MYSTIFIER.
What has changed in Black/Death Metal in those ten years MYSTIFIER has been
- Years ago we fought for a decent Underground Metal scene free from racism,
capitalism, prejudice, ignorance and so on. Nowadays the scene is infected
with racists, politics, enviers, liars, nazi ones, etc. What a shame !! But,
I try to do my part for myself. I don't believe in the youth of today. They
are feeble-minded ones !! Bands like GRAVELAND, BURZUM and others are a menace
for our Underground Metal Scene. If they live around Brazil, they would be
dead !! They are gothic babies !! Soon they will leave their masks fall down
and they will turn their back to Metal Scene and they will blaspheme against
us (The Metal Masters - the few, the proud!!).
3. When you formed MYSTIFIER 10 years ago, what things gave you the
inspiration for such work? There supposedly was not such a big movement as
there is now. What bands did you like back then?
- Well, I was inspired by bands like POISON (Ancient Black Metal German Cult),
SARCOFAGO, SLAYER, SEPULTURA, VULCANO, KREATOR, POSSESSED, SODOM and others.
Anyone of those bands preached racism or stupidity in their interviews or
lyrics. We didn't need it!! I prefer those ancient Metal bands than this bunch
of cowards that are singing shitty stuff and influence the youth of today. It
so called "big movement" is a "big trendy movement"!! You will see in the near
future who they are..
4. How old were you in '89? What was the reaction of people when they got to
know that you were playing Black/Death Metal? Were there a lot of people into
music like you were?
- We were around 17/19 years old and we played for 50/100 people around Brazil
in that time. We were few, but we were strong and conscious ones!! We fought
against punks and skinheads. Nowadays the punks are our friends and the
skinheads are dead!!. A lot of people feared us due to our violence against
our antagonists. A german guy friend of mine, told me that many Black Metal
guys of today are afraid to face the skinheads there (aahhha..hha...
-chickens !!). Ooh, where's the attitude?!? I told him that they should call
the god of cowardice (the so called Odin's disciple lady virkgayrnes (that bad
girl who sings in BURZUM) to help them, because he is specialized on to stab
men on their back!! - aahha..haha..).
5. Your first demotape "Tormenting The Holy Trinity" was released in 1989, and
a 7" followed in 1990, and in 1991 was released the "Aleister Crowley"
promotape. What kind of musical approach did these releases have compared to
your debut-album, "Wicca"? What about the re-releasing the demos on CD?
- "Wicca" is a compilation of those releases. "Cursed Excruciation" is from
"Tormenting the holy trinity" DT/89; All "Aleister Crowley" DT/91 songs are in
our debut album. Yeah, a Brazilian label is very interested to release our old
stuff on CD. We are thinking to release it soon. Maybe with tons of live and
unreleased stuff too.
6. Your three albums released by Osmose Productions; "Wicca", "Goetia" and
"The World Is So Good That Who Made It Doesn't Live Here" are all great and
original albums, especially the two first ones, with a really obscure and
mystical feeling. How come this
So few artists can capture feeling, and what do you think of your albums
- Thanks for your eulogies. Well, I really like what I do
man. I don't play this kind of Extreme Metal Musick for fun or trend. It
is very easy when you like to do it. I like all MYSTIFIER releases. We
play songs from all our releases. We only don't play alive the songs we
recorded for tributes. I hate to play covers alive.
7. Your 4th album "Demystifying The Mystified" is planned to be released
in the future.
What kind of progression does this album offer? What are songs like "The
Supreme Power Of Nothingness" and "False Superstitions Made By Tellers
Of Legends" about and is there a concept on the album?
Beelzeebubth - Well, we are dealing with a Brazilian label (Demise
Records) to release a single with some new stuff and tons of bonus
(tributes, lives, etc.). The album title will be "Demystifying The
Mystified Ones (For One Decade In The Earthly Paradise)". All topics in
our new stuff are about the false conceptions preached by the occidental
catholic society (for example: "False Superstitions made by Tellers of
Legends"). I changed the first song title you mentioned to "The Supreme
Power of the Human Empire" that is about Schonpenhauer's pessimism about
our existence. In my opinion, this stuff is similar to our last album.20
8. You've appeared on some compilations with covers songs (World
domination II with a POISON cover, Sepultural Feast with a SEPULTURA
cover, Kreator Tribute with a cover, Slayer Tribute with a cover too).
Do you enjoy playing covers? What other songs have you covered during
the years and what cover-song is your favorite
Beelzeebubth - Really, I don't like to play covers alive because the
crowd always will ask for them in our concerts. We only play in theses
compilations to pay homage to those bands that inspired us in the
beginning. We also did it to show that we are alive yet. This fuckin''
delay to release the new stuff is fuckin' boring!! Recently, we
recorded "Tormentor" for a Slayer tribute on Dwell Records. It was our
best version, because we got a fine budget to record it. Maybe, we will
record "Fallen Angel" for a tribute to Possessed, "Let's fight in the
depths of hell" for a tribute to Sodom and "Satanic Lust" for a tribute
to Sarcofago on Cogumelo Productions. Tributes are a great deal for
labels nowadays.
9. In 1999, Black Metal has become bigger than Death Metal was ever in
it's days of glory.
What do you think about the overpopulation of the scene and the rise of
bands like CRADLE
OF FILTH, DIMMU BORGIR and such?
Beelzeebubth - Ooh, I am very tired to talk about it again man... I am
not interested to know if Death Metal sells less or more that Black
Metal and vice-versa.. I want the trendy bands fuck off !!20
10. What do you think of the following bands:
-BEHERIT(rip): Ooh, I trade some stuff with them in 89. They were
fuckin'crazy guys in Blasphemy vein !! Their better releases were the
first demo-tape and the single, in my opinion.
-BLASPHEMY: It is difficult to talk about people who are my friends. I
always call Blackwinds and Caller of the Storms to talk about our
quotidian life. Blackwinds was thinking to form a band called APOSTASY
and Caller of the Storms is in a job. I like very much all Blasphemy
releases, mainly "Fallen Angel of Doom".20
-MAYHEM, and their re-forming: While Euronymous was thinking like an
apocalyptic Metal warrior of the youth like us (who shall rule over the
next millenium), I supported him. I liked to read some old magazines
with their ideology, preaching against capitalism, christianism, and so
on. But when he opened his dirty mouth to say that supported
catholicism, Satan has thorns and tail, hitler rules, influencing
ex-Black Metal enemies like that girl from that bullshit Death Metal
band called "old-shitty-funeral", I turn my back to him. He was a liar
!! I bought my copy of "Deathcrush" in 90 and I read in the back cover
album something like: "Your copy is 705. Write for booklet". Then, I
wrote for it. Years after, for my surprise, Euronymous wrote me back
with a full catalog of his label and didn't send me any booklet..(!?!?).
Then, I thought: He said hates mercenary labels and trendy bands and
he?!? Who is he?!? I don't believe in this reformed mayhem..
necrobutcher and hellhammer were puppets!! Maybe if they resuscitate
-ROTTING CHRIST and their sell-out: Well, I won't discuss if they are
sell-out or not.. We played together last year in Brazil and they are
fine guys (no posers !!). Sakis and his brother are fuckin' guys. Their
better stuff for me is "Satanas's Tedeum" DT and the first three albums.
-GOATPENIS(rip?): aah..ha..ahha. These guys are comics !! They remind me
those nazi gothic (?!?!) wimps who are coming from Scandinavian. Years
ago, they played a grinding shitty crossover ala napalm death, carcass,
s.o.d. and anthanx. When they read that bullshit capitalistic magazine
with Euronymous and his children speaking an amount of shit, they became
a nazi Black Metal band (aah..ha..hha..). Really, hitler can lick up
their asses and fuck them !! Now they are playing industrial music and
blaspheming against our Extreme Metal Musick (aahhaa..haa... - Fuck off
ass holes!!).
-GRAVELAND: aah..ha..hha... Please, stop man !! I'll die with your
jokes!!. Really, hitler failed when march over Poland, because any
polish bitch was ripped by an aryan nazi soldier and gave birth to one
of those wimps who plays in this crap band. Read it: "It seems to me
that nothing would be more foolish than to re-establish the worship of
Wotan. Our old mythology ceased to be viable when christianity implanted
itself". Beware!! You may be taken by force to a concentration camp!!
11. Then to your lyrical approach. The first two albums were lyrically
more towards, occultism,
satanic rituals, demonology and such concepts in the forms of spooky
stories. But then, "The
World Is So Good..." lyrically contained mostly very philosophical
topics. Tell me what caused
this advancement towards more philosophic lyrical approach to be taken?
Beelzeebubth - The delay for the releasing of our third album, it was
because I changed all lyrics and songs concept to distinguish from this
Black Metal trendy scene. Many MYSTIFIER worshippers didn't like that
change. I chose the most difficult side and in it I shall stay.
Probably, one of those songs will be in the single.
12. You've stated that you dislike bands like BURZUM and GRAVELAND,
which have some
views and beliefs strongly connected to fascism and even directly
national-socialism. Is there
any space for thoughts like this in the head of a Black Metal musician?
Beelzeebubth: Well, we are free in this world to do what we want to.
They are white and I am black. If they think I am inferior or stupid
because I am black...well, I hope, for their health, they stay so far
away as possible from me. I am a pacifist, but if the person offends me
or cross my way with stupidity, well, you know those things... (An eye
for an eye). My problem is that I want to war against racist ones, nazi
ones, capitalist ones and politic ones. Many Brazilian racist ones are
afraid of me. Really, I hate that kind of people and they shall hate me
too. About the question, If there is any space for thoughts like that in
the head of a Black Metal musician, oh, yeah! The one that they should
have in the ass, they have in the head. It is normal, mainly, if it came
from Scandinavian.
13. If I am not completely mistaken you are of African descent, right?
Has this been a problem
in any cases, concerning the style of music you are in? Some Norwegian
magazine stated
some years ago that MYSTIFIER would be one of the most false bands
because of you were not
white. What do you say about this?
Beelzeebubth - Norwegian magazines are not authorities to speak on
Extreme Metal Musick (Death Metal, Doom Metal or Black Metal). Maybe,
they are authorities to speak about new wave (like that bullshit band
called a-ha). What original musical style did norwegian musicians
create? Black Metal !?!? Sorry, no!! Norway has not any Metal
tradition!! Maybe, we can mention some great Norwegian Ancient Black
Metal Cults like Thy Abhorrent (Where's that fuckin' hooded guy called
Occultus?!? He isn't nazi or racist, I guess..). They had produced a
fantastic Black Metal music with Heavy Metal parts and well done
arrangements and vocal lines. They weren't Bathory or Venom clones like
their fellow countrymen. Ask to that teenager, who said we are the most
false band...(aahhha..haa.. - what a audacity !!?!?), if he knew bands
like Vulcano(Bra), Thy Abhorrent, Dead Conspiracy(Usa), Mutilator(Bra),
Malfeitor(Usa), Necrofago(Bra), Hellhouse(Usa), Expulser(Bra),
Sorcery(Swe), Sex Trash(Bra), Demoncy(Fin), Invoker(Bra) or
Damnation(Can) (!??!?!?). But, if you ask him about trendy bands like
burzum, graveland, cradle of filth, mayhem, and so on, he knows...
14. Do you accept racism if it is backed with reasonable arguments? Is
Brazil a racist country?
Beelzeebubth - No, I don't. Reasonable!! What is reasonable for you? To
do a concentration field and obligate the women to do sex with the
strongest men to continue the pure race!?!? To enslave the weak ones and
to kill the people who think different from you? It can be good for the
european youth, but for us (the young ones from the rest of the world),
that is very a little!!! We want more!! We want to change the world!!
Liberate it of all the diseases originating from of the capitalism,
catholicism , christianity, etc. A world without walls for the youth.
Yes, Brazil is a racist country too. There are many german, spanish,
italian descendents here. I don't know what they are doing here !?!? I
hate them! They brought that plague from Europe. One of my goals is to
send them back to Europe.
15. Tell me about the region/city where you live. How is the metal scene
in you city?
Beelzeebubth - There's a small METAL scene here. I can mention some
bands like Malefactor, Sower, Headhunter and few others. In general,
Brazilian scene is very small. The people only support sell-out bands.
They don't support underground Extreme Metal bands like us. Sepultura
played days ago here for a crowd of 5.000 people. We have played for 500
or 1000 people. What a shame!!
16. What about live-shows? Have you played a lot of shows and how is the
audience in Brazil?
In Finland the audience tends to be quite "stiff", by just standing and
watching, trying to be evil or
Beelzeebubth - Well, I like very much to play through Brazilian cities.
Our concerts here seem like Hell!! 20
The crowd like very much to shakes their heads.20
17. Do you think it is easy to capture the mystical, dark and obscure
sound you have on your
albums when playing live?
Beelzeebubth - No, I don't. We would need a big budget to make a fine
production for a concert. It is very expensive. But, we try to make that
in our concerts.
18. Then off to more personal topics... You most likely have a high
interest in Satanism and the
occult. What got you interested into those things in the first place?
Beelzeebubth - I always question me about our existence in the earthly
paradise, gods, saints, angels, souls, power, and so on. I don't live
for live (nothing) like many human beings. I am here to do something and
I am looking to do it every time. I started to study about occultism
when a friend of mine gave me the book "Satanism and Black Magic" of
Peter Hainning. It is a demystifying book and not a book full of manuals
of bloody rituals for any deity. My favorite writers about the occult
are Eliphas Levi, Aleister Crowley and William Blake.
19. What do you think about when these Black Metal people, claiming to
be "Satanists" scream
out that Satanism is only pure hate, freezing coldness and other
miscellaneous shit that they think
sounds cool? To me Satanism has at least more meaning than just wearing
inverted crosses and
shit like that.
Beelzeebubth - Those satanic christians are a shame for the youth. I
hate them!! They can die nailed to the cross with their deities,
priests, politics, slavers, and so on. When they know the formula to mix
rebelliousness with intelligence (wisdom) they will be worthy to join
20. How do you see Satanism when it comes to yourself?
Beelzeebubth - When I open the window and I see the sun being born...
"Art Thou Lucifer? The Star of the Morning of Intelligence rising
again?" Never forget, Only those who have the light have the power to
walk among the darkest worlds!! The blind men are leaving...
21. What do you think about Friedrich Nietschze and his works? Do you
believe in his theory of
the superman?
Beelzeebubth - I agree in part about Nietzsche's superman theory. I
think if I am strong, I shall help the weak ones and I shall not enslave
them. I try to understand because many people use drugs, worship
deities, kill themselves, and so on. It is very difficult to understand
everything about Nietzsche works. I prefer to read and study "The
Anti-christ" to develop my thoughts against the ignorance and the
intolerance in this world.
22. What about Social-Darwinism and "survival of the fittest"?
Beelzeebubth - Darwin was great in his theories about the evolution and
Natural Selection, but he failed about that survival of the fittest.
Don't exist any superior people to gain wealth and power. The fall down
of the imperialism was the proof. If you think you are superior because
you are from a pure race, I will attack you, kill you and devour your
flesh with the survivors from your persecution (aahha..hahh..). Really,
EVOLUTION is the key for our existence in the earthly paradise. But, if
you think any god keeps all the secrets about our existence, you are a
meek and cannot inherit the earthly paradise (aahha..haa.. - go back!!).
23. What are your all-time 10 favourite albums?
Beelzeebubth - It will be hard to say... But, my top 10 Metal band
albums are:
1-Slayer: "Show No Mercy"; 2-Sarcofago: "I.N.R.I."; 3-Sepultura:
"Bestial Devastation"; 4-Possessed: "Seven Churches"; 5-Blasphemy:
"Fallen Angel of Doom"; 6-Messiah: "Hymn to Abremelin"; 7-Autopsy:
"Severed Survival"; 8-Judas Priest: "Defenders of the Faith";
9-Sodom:"In the Sign of Evil" and 10-Exodus: "Bonded by Blood". I love
lots of demo-tapes too, i.e., Poison "Into The Abyss" and "Awaking the
Dead" (My favorite ones!!), Blasphemy: "Blood on the Altar", Damanation
"Repulsive, Aggressive Symphony", Necrophobic: "Slow Asphyxiation",
Sarcofago "Satanic Lust", Sodom "Victms of Death", Malfeitor "Bringer of
Hate", Hellhouse "Kill your Mother", and so on.
24. Is there anything you would like to ask me?
Beelzeebubth - Is god a mistake of men or is men a mistake of god ?
25. Thanks for the interview, Beelzeebubth. End this interview the way
that you want, and keep up the fever!
Beelzeebubth - Thanks a lot Penttil for supporting us. The first hail
goes to thee!! Health and Power for all finnish Extreme Metal Musick
worshippers!! I hope a day (in the doomsday, I guess) play there and
spread hell on Finland (aaha...ahh..). Turn off the light!! The bringer
of light already is among us!!
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some pretty astute answers
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Great and interesting interview, thanks for sharing that one.
A nobody in a world of somebodies.
A little debil ain´t enough.
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Great IV, cheers for sharing!
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Awesome interview
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Classic. What were the broken photos posted earlier up in the thread?
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Killer and definitely a cult band but damn these rants against racism and capitalism are tiring.. Then again, you keep teasing him with questions haha! Laughed hard at some of them
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Racists watch out because Mystifier is coming for you.
Funny because I kinda feel like when I wear my Mystifier hoodie it's like saying, "I'm not racist. I have a black friend."
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Nightvvolf wrote:
Racists watch out because Mystifier is coming for you.
Funny because I kinda feel like when I wear my Mystifier hoodie it's like saying, "I'm not racist. I have a black friend."
Don't you feel that way when you listen to Blasphemy too
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Eternal Sacrifice is real good, too.
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Its only uncool to be racist if you are white... then the whole world stops to look at you personally like you are the entire fucking global problem.
Good times.
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Still waiting their new album
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Still waiting their new album
me too. for the last 16 years
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Beelzeebubth - No, I don't. Reasonable!! What is reasonable for you? To
do a concentration field and obligate the women to do sex with the
strongest men to continue the pure race!?!? To enslave the weak ones and
to kill the people who think different from you? It can be good for the
european youth, but for us (the young ones from the rest of the world),
that is very a little!!! We want more!! We want to change the world!!
Liberate it of all the diseases originating from of the capitalism,
catholicism , christianity, etc. A world without walls for the youth.
Yes, Brazil is a racist country too.
There are many german, spanish,
italian descendents here. I don't know what they are doing here !?!? I
hate them! They brought that plague from Europe. One of my goals is to
send them back to Europe.
Totally not hypocritical or racist in the slightest.
Wicca and Goetia still are great albums though.
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Part IV establishes a "dedicated marijuana fund" for all revenue received by the liquor control board, and explicitly earmarks any surplus from this new revenue for health care (55%), drug abuse treatment and education (25%), with 1% for marijuana-related research at University of Washington and Washington State University, most of the remainder going to the state general fund. A March 2012 analysis by the state Office of Financial Management estimated annual revenues above $560 million for the first full year, rising thereafter.[5] February 2011 analysis of the similar Washington House Bill 1550 estimated annual state and county law-enforcement savings of approximately $22 million.[6][7] OFM's final, official analysis did not include law-enforcement savings, but estimated five year revenues at approximately $1.9 billion.[8][9][10] Proponents of I-502 have posted a pie chart showing annual dollar-per-purpose earmarks, based on these projections.[11]
Part V on "driving under the influence of marijuana" sets a per se DUI limit of active blood THC levels at greater than or equal to 5 nanograms per milliliter. Some medical cannabis advocates are concerned that this will lead to DUI convictions for medicinal cannabis users, who are driving with blood THC levels greater than or equal to 5 nanograms per milliliter.[12] If a suspect's blood tests for more than 5 nanograms/ml, under I-502 they would be guilty of DUI by definition, as opposed to the current law, RCW 46.61.502(1)(a) which requires proof of "impairment" for a conviction.
Here's a recent news article about it: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505245_162- ... pot-sales/
One of the more interesting things to keep in mind:
Just as likely, it could bring on a protracted fight with the federal government. Marijuana remains illegal under U.S. law, and when state and federal laws conflict, federal law takes precedence. The Justice Department has kept mum, but if I-502 passes, many lawyers believe the DOJ is likely to try to block the law on the grounds that it frustrates the Controlled Substances Act.
That could leave just part of the initiative standing: decriminalization of up to an ounce of pot under state law, with no way to buy it legally, and a driving-under-the-influence standard that opponents consider arbitrarily strict.
The federal government could also prosecute growers or retailers licensed under the law, seize Washington's new marijuana revenues as proceeds of illicit drug deals, or withhold money from the state.
In other words, it'll be the first time the issue is really forced to the national stage. Not that I think either Obama or Romney would support any easing of the War on Drugs, but these kinds of national conversations really need to start happening in order to accelerate the process. It's pretty clear to anyone paying attention that just like gay marriage, it's just a matter of time at this point. The general consensus in national polls has shown support for easing marijuana laws growing steadily over the past few decades. Recent polls show as much as 75% of the country believe states should be free from the federal government to regulate the substance for medical use, and as much as 50% of the country believes it should be legalized. (http://www.gallup.com/poll/150149/recor ... juana.aspx)
Exciting times. If you live in Washington State, please make sure your voice is heard.


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NY Hospital Recommends Queen, Pink Floyd, Lynyrd Skynyrd Songs for CPR Timing
New York Presbyterian has released a list of songs people can use to properly time CPR.
When people are being taught to perform hands-only CPR on an adult, they're told to give sternum compressions at a rate of about 100 beats per minute.
Since not everybody can be Neil Peart in the timing department (especially during an emergency), the popular method is to sing a song to yourself while giving chest compressions in order to keep your compressions steady and on-beat.
The go-to song for many reasons (including coincidence, we're sure) is "Stayin' Alive" by the Bee Gees. But alas, disco is dead, and not everybody knows that particular song. So New York Presbyterian Hospital offered a playlist of popular songs in that same 100 BPM range that will also work for timing CPR.
The playlist includes 40 songs from different genres, so there's something for everybody.
Here are the rock tunes in the order in which they appear on the playlist:
1. Simon & Garfunkel "Cecilia"
2. The Black Crowes "Hard to Handle"
3. Lynyrd Skynyrd "Sweet Home Alabama"
4. Queen "Another One Bites The Dust"
5. Phil Collins "You Can't Hurry Love"
6. Pink Floyd "Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2"
7. Norman Greenbaum "Spirit In The Sky"
8. The Doors "Five To One"
9. Modest Mouse "Float On"
Performing CPR more than doubles the survival rate of patients who go into cardiac arrest.
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Will there be a corresponding release of Chrome for Android to fix these security issues, or is the Android version not susceptible to them?
very nice!!! ;)
I've had an issue for a few weeks due to the new version of flash. When I unplug or plug in my logitech g35 headset (remove/add audio device) I have to close Chrome and reopen it before browser audio is out put to my headset, or to my speakers if I was unplugging my headset. It seems as though flash is having trouble detecting that the default audio device in Windows has changed.
No mention of the PeerConnection API?
Font rendering is broken...
I'm on win7x64.
One Question: My notebook is Samsung 3 series and have AMD APU A6 with integrated Radeon HD 6520G. This GPU-accelerated video decoding will works for me?
PopUp window for website permissions on Russian looks ungly and not properly aligned
still not gpu accelerated for me
Very nice, it would be good now to get a 64-bit version for Mac OS X and a share(Twitter, etc.)-functionality as part of the browser. (This share-functionality exists on Chrome iOS and on Safari Mac OSX)
When I press on the 149904 link to view details for the Mac performance issue, I get "Your client does not have permission to get URL /p/chromium/issues/detail?id=149904 from this server. That's all we know."
Is there anything I can do to avoid this?
The latest 11.5 flash player doesn't work for ALL VIDEO PLAYER. and the only fix i was able to watch was i had to restore the point before 11.5 release :l
I notice the audio on YouTube videos is slow and stutters since the update here.
The problems with pages that contain several GIF images remain.
Very laggy and sometimes doesn't even load all the images.
Exemple: http://www.cronixsoul.com/45-stunning-examples-of-animated-gif-photography-from-jamie-beck/
Dustin, I have the same problem.
I'm not exactly sure if it's Flash or Chrome's problem, but if I unplug my Koss headphones midway through a YouTube video, the sound gets cut off and doesn't produce any sound through my speakers, which are always on. Same thing vice-versa. If while I'm watching a video on YouTube, and I have my speakers on, and then turn them off and plug in my headphones, there's no sound unless I wait for ~15 seconds or restart Chrome.
It's been happening ever since I've updated Chrome.
hmm! Could not update to Chrome 23 stable from 22 stable on my Win7 Ult on i5. Possibly because I've Comodo Dragon too installed.
Work around was to 'set TMP=c:\test' download chromesetup to c:\test and run 'start c:\test\chromesetup.exe' from command prompt.
will write a post about it at
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Parabens pela estrutura e conteudo de seu blog, Forte abraço Renato Artesanato em MDF
Close tab buttons are still too big (1-2 px beyond the red graphic).
For someone with lots of tabs it may cause accidental close of tab much more often than before.
Chrome Team,
Please stop making stupid UI tweaks. Having a red circle x close button on a tab not only looks dumb, but is completely unnecessary. The grey one was perfectly fine and got the point across without adding playful color. Next thing you know you are going to be having everything popping up colors everywhere.
Also, greying out the bookmarks dropdown text is REALLY annoying.
Getting aw snap error on every page after updating to version 23.0.1271.64, on windows xp sp2. How should I fix this ?
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try updating to SP3.
Why haven't you done this already? It's been around since April 2008.
Plus, if your still on SP2 you'll find there's around 100 updates since SP3 to download and install.
Do the "[Linux only]" security bugs apply to the BSDs as well? If so can you please stop with the misleading label?
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NIAGARA FALLS – The estimated cost to repair damage at the city's sewage treatment plant from last week's storm is pegged at about $2 million, officials said Wednesday.
But that figure may rise if damage to the Buffalo Avenue plant's main pumps means that they have to be replaced instead of just fixed.
The Falls facility, which also treats wastewater from parts of the Town of Niagara, has been mostly shut down since about 10:30 p.m. Friday. The areas of Belden Center, Tuscarora Road and Cayuga Village in the Town of Niagara sustained damage because of the plant shutdown, Town Supervisor Steve Richards said.
Because of the flooding that shut the plant down, at least 25 million gallons of untreated sewage waste has been flowing into the lower Niagara River per day, said Paul J. Drof, executive director of the Niagara Falls Water Board, which operates the wastewater plant.
The plant has been able to treat between 15 million and 18 million gallons of sewage a day from the city's North End, which has its waste pumped to the plant from the Gorge pump station.
Crews have been working 24 hours a day at the plant trying to make repairs to get it back into operation. Workers from a number of area contractors, including Ferguson Election, O'Connell Electric, Volland Electric, J.W. Danforth, Godwin Pumps and Niagara Vacuum are on hand at the plant.
Crews are installing five temporary pumps at the plant as work continues to repair the main pumps, said Richard Roll, technical and regulatory services director for the Water Board.
Plans are to power up the first temporary pump early this morning, Roll said.
But even when all temporary pumps are running, the plant will only be able to treat about 30 million gallons a day, or its typical dry-weather capacity. Full, wet-weather capacity won't be back until at least one of the main pumps is back online.
One of the main pumps could be fixed and online by late today or early Friday if no defects are found, Roll said.
Several public officials toured the damaged plant on Wednesday afternoon.
The first step in trying to obtain federal and/or state aid will be making an application for funding to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, said State Sen. George D. Maziarz, who was among those who toured the plant.
Local officials have had conversations with federal representatives and are "cautiously optimistic" there may be federal aid available for damage to municipal systems, Maziarz said.
If no federal money is available, Maziarz said, the state is expected to help, as it did for Lockport, which was hit by a storm June 28.
"I assume we're going to go through the same process here," he said. "We're going to go through the federal government first."
The state will assist in applying to the federal government for funding from the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program, which provides financial assistance to facilities to prevent damage from natural disasters.
Also on the plant tour was Matthew J. Driscoll, president and CEO of the state Environmental Facilities Corp., a public authority that aids in environmental projects related to water and wastewater.
"I think really the first order of business here is to really start thinking about how we're going to protect this facility from future flooding events," Driscoll said.
Officials also said Wednesday that area residents in any municipality who suffered property damage should contact state Department of Financial Services officials who have set up a mobile command center outside Niagara Falls City Hall.
That means residents of the Town of Niagara, City of North Tonawanda and any other communities facing damage from the storm – not just residents of Niagara Falls – can find assistance from state officials at the mobile command center.
The center will be open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. today.
For those who cannot apply in person, they can call 286-4300 and speak to someone who will help fill out paperwork over the phone.
North Tonawanda Mayor Robert G. Ortt said his city also has also requested emergency assistance from Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's office due to the number of residents who sustained significant property damage from Friday's thunderstorms. He also wanted to remind his residents and businesses affected by the storm that they also may use the services of state officials.
"This mobile unit from the state is here to service any resident or business affected by the recent storm. It is not only for Niagara Falls residents and I am upset that more people outside the City of Niagara Falls, who were affected by the storm, were not made aware that these folks would be available."
"I would like to thank Gov. Cuomo for making them available and for recognizing the seriousness of this weather event," Ortt added.
Ortt also noted that North Tonawanda will continue to pick up any bulk items damaged as a result of the storm. In addition, any tree branches or brush related to the storm damage can be placed at the curb. The Department of Public Works will be making runs to pick up these materials for the remainder of the week.
News Niagara Reporter Nancy A. Fischer contributed to this report. email: firstname.lastname@example.com


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For better or worse, Herbie: Fully Loaded has a pat plot without one surprising turn of events. If and only if you can ignore all the ads, you're likely to find this a pleasant family picture to the extent that you don't mind being bored out of your brain for the sake of the tykes for whom this predictable adventure is intended
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Maggie hails from a racing family, but her father Ray, Sr. (Michael Keaton)doesn't want his daughter following in his and Ray, Jr.'s (Breckin Meyer) footsteps down such a dangerous career path, especially since she's the spitting image of his dearly departed wife who passed away ten years ago. But when he takes her to a junk yard to buy a used car for her cross-country trip, she picks a retired racer off the scrap heap, Herbie, #53. With the help of mechanic/boyfriend-to-be Kevin (Justin Long), Maggie manages to get the dilapidated Beetle with a mind of his own going again. This sensitive, souped-up jalopy can squirt wiper fluid, hurl a hubcap, or blink its headlights to let you know just how it's feeling.
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Rating: G
Running time: 92 minutes
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By Caitlin Green, Client Engagement Officer
Based in the Iowa city of the same name, Theatre Cedar Rapids (TCR) is a community theatre that produces nine shows a year, in two venues, and in a stunning building in the heart of downtown. The staff is deeply connected to the work and the community, and each of them wears an extra hat with remarkable enthusiasm and grace.
First published: August 2019
Northern Stage had aspirations to revolutionise their relationship with audiences. As one of the larger regional producing theatres in the UK they knew that transforming their business model to reduce reliance on core funding and increasing earned income was essential.
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In recent weeks, there has been passionate online discussion around whether rising average ticket prices were having an impact on attendance. Frequently, in our work with clients we find that when it comes to pricing, people have opinions or viewpoints that come from personal experience. As always, we recommend taking a hard look at the data to see what's happening in your organisation. Don't be distracted by ticket prices alone - there are other key metrics that might be hiding the real story.
In autumn 2015 Sheffield Theatres was in a good place, seeing increasing revenue returns and having won UK Regional Theatre of the Year twice in consecutive years at The Stage Awards. However, with decreasing public funding, the organisation knew it needed to make dramatic changes to ensure a sustainable future.
"Public funding accounted for 24% of our income when I arrived at the organisation in 2009," said Chief Executive Dan Bates. "By 2015 that had fallen to 13% – about a £500,000 difference – and we were aware that our Local Authority funding could disappear. We didn't want to become too reliant on increasing ticket prices and were experimenting a lot with different pricing plans, but with so many pressures on our time, it felt like we were just tinkering rather than having a strategic approach."
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In a single season, DTC has seen a 41% increase in revenue from tickets and subscribers and a 31% increase in subscriber admissions.
Thanks to advances in CRM technology, arts organizations now live in a world awash with data. Getting data points is not usually the hard part. What's difficult is taking action on what the data tells us and making changes to strategy to cause metrics to move up or down. That's what makes Arts Club Theatre Company's most recent success story so impressive.
This Vancouver-based theatre company has been a TRG client since 2008. In the first two years, Arts Club saw $3 million in earned revenue growth. Since then, Arts Club's focus on building patron loyalty resulted in a further 30% increase in single ticket and subscription revenue.
It started with a simple question: "If we're working so hard to get new audiences, why haven't audiences grown?"
New Wolsey Theatre was curious. Looking at their data, they found that they attract many new ticket bookers each year, but many of them were not returning to the theatre after their first visit, 75% of first-timers in 2014-15.
Because so many new audiences were not returning each year, New Wolsey Theatre still wasn't seeing a net gain in total audience numbers.
Despite widespread reports of the subscription's decline, these loyalty programs continue to generate a large amount of revenue for performing arts organizations. Knowing what we know about audiences in 2016, what strategies are proven to help the subscription succeed? TRG Arts is proud to bring you the stories of three arts organizations that have defied conventional wisdom by growing subscriptions:
Their secret? A simple, radical idea: when you commit to selling subscriptions, arts lovers will subscribe.
After a poor year for earned revenue in 2012*, Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma (LTO) had rebounded and was experiencing a growth spurt. In 2013, Director of Marketing Danyel Siler had turned her attention to single tickets. Her hard work had paid off, but season tickets were still a challenge.
"Season tickets were steadily declining," she said. "The season ticket campaign had been done the same way for years, maybe even decades. And we blamed the fall on the trend that subs were declining everywhere. Our executive director, artistic director, and I all knew something needed to change, but we didn't know what."
Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma hired TRG in March of 2014 for a best practices consultancy which began with an analysis of income trends, data stewardship, and current marketing practices.
TRG conducted an initial Baseline Assessment, which analyzed patron, pricing, and revenue data to identify key issues at KC Rep. Among them were aligning resources with revenue opportunities and focusing on building loyalty in addition to prospecting. The assessment identified the annual fund as an opportunity for growth. After a large influx of new lower-level donors in the 2011-12 season due to a one-time experiment with telefunding, donors and revenue had dropped off and stayed flat.
"What's the big deal about a ballet company having a successful Nutcracker?" you may be asking yourself. "We all know that holiday programming practically sells itself."
It's true that holiday programming attracts a large audience and has huge revenue potential. It also means that the stakes are high. Holiday events often make or break an organization's revenue budget. In many cases, holiday programming can account for over 50% of annual earned income so even a one percent achievement over goal—or an equally "small" miss—can add up to big dollars.
Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre (Royal MTC) was stable throughout the recession. However, the company saw a dip in patron-generated revenue in the 2011–12 season, attributed to changes in their entertainment landscape, including the return of the beloved Winnipeg Jets. With flat annual fund donations and declining single tickets and subscriptions, Royal MTC prioritized reversing patron decline and revenue losses.
Royal MTC relied heavily on their subscriber base, which was one of the largest among Canadian regional theatres. Even with strong renewal rates, subscriber decline is inevitable without strong campaigns to attract new subscribers. In Royal MTC's case, the subscriber audience far outweighed the single ticket audience, which meant they often did not have the sheer number of leads necessary to fuel successful subscriber acquisition campaigns. That, coupled with a low volume of individual donors, created a patron loyalty challenge at Royal MTC.
Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) was preparing for their 125th anniversary season. Subscription sales had been strong in previous seasons, but staff wanted to increase the number of subscription units sold. (At CSO, a "unit" is defined as one ticket to a concert.)
While working with TRG on their annual subscription campaign plan, CSO identified their 125th season as a cause for celebration—and an opportunity to ask patrons to invest more in their subscriptions. Jennifer Colgan, CSO's Marketing Manager, Patron Retention, made a plan to ask renewing patrons to upgrade. An "upgrade" is the right next step for a patron, whether it's adding on a series, moving into a larger package, or moving to a more premium seating section.
"We shouldn't—and don't—underestimate the loyalty of our CSO Main subscribers," Jennifer said. "If given the opportunity to go to more concerts, they'll go. If we communicate the opportunity to go to more concerts and the benefits price-wise, then they will buy more. The 125th anniversary was a major opportunity."
One marketing person. A box office director. An executive director. These positions made up the core of the administrative staff dedicated to Newman Center Presents, the performing arts presenting program of the University of Denver. Yet, this three-person team was nimble and efficient. They made small changes and, even with limited budget, saw big results.
Newman Center Presents hired TRG for a full suite assessment, focusing on pricing practices, inventory management, and season ticket campaign design.
Washington Pavilion, located in a beautifully renovated historic building in downtown Sioux Falls, South Dakota, is one of only a few facilities in the world to bring together under one roof the performing arts, visual arts, interactive science, and educational opportunities. Washington Pavilion is TRG's only client with an active patron base from all 50 U.S. states, plus multiple provinces in Canada. This multidisciplinary model strengthens the organization's audience development potential. Yet the model is a challenge in complexity on both the patron and administrative sides.
In 2014, the New Wolsey Theatre was re-examining its financial picture, focusing on its earned vs. contributed income streams. Like many theatres in the United Kingdom, government funding still accounted for a significant proportion of their revenue. Over the three years prior, they had received moderate funding cuts totaling approximately £50,000 (around $79,000 U.S.).
Located in Ipswich, Great Britain, the midsized regional theatre produces a spring and autumn season, as well as a Christmas show, with a mixture of both home produced and touring product. Many of the productions were selling well, which left Head of Sales and Marketing Stephen Skrypec wondering what the theatre could do to grow earned income.
Stephen: We'd become as efficient as we could in the rest of the business; the only place to reduce spending was in artistic and we really didn't want to do that. For earned revenue, I had done standard things I felt I could do—making sure there were more tickets available at the top price and making sure every single seat was sold when it could be sold. I'd gotten to the point where I'd done all I thought I could do to maximize revenue. What do I do now?
Dallas Theater Center (DTC) hired TRG for capacity building consulting in November of 2013. DTC faced challenges with pricing, in particular reinforcing loyalty through pricing. Founded in 1959, DTC became a resident company of the new state-of-the-art AT&T Performing Arts Center in 2009. The new venue's flexible mainstage, the Potter Rose Performing Studio at the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre, enables DTC to configure seating differently for each production, from 1 to 573 seats. DTC also produces in a traditional 99 seat "black box" space at the Wyly and at its original home, the 491 seat Kalita Humphreys Theater, the only freestanding theater designed and built by Frank Lloyd Wright.
At the end of its Landmark 35th Anniversary season, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago was at a high point. Ticket sales and fundraising were stronger than ever, and buzz in the Chicago community and in the dance world was growing.
While Hubbard Street had developed a significant and enthusiastic ticketing and donor base, the marketing and development team wanted a greater depth of knowledge about the company's most engaged patrons. Bill Melamed, Chief Marketing and Development Officer, and Stacey Recht, Associate Director of Marketing, began asking: How well do we really know our patrons? How do our patrons interact across the organization? What are the trends and entry points? How can we best cultivate them toward long-term loyalty?
Hubbard Street wanted to cultivate this audience more holistically, beyond basic categories like ticket buyer, subscriber, or donor. They became curious about each patron's total investment across those categories, and engaged TRG to help analyze the data and recommend steps toward increasing loyalty.
Pensacola Opera is a $1.3 million organization which stages two productions a year with two performances each. For the past several years, the company had been focused on institutional stabilization—paying off debts, completing a capital campaign for establishing cash reserves, bolstering its endowment, and making capital improvements. In the meantime, the company was having trouble consistently meeting revenue goals for their productions.
To Executive Director Erin Kelley Sammis, it was clear that the company needed to shift its attention to growing sustainable patronage and revenue. In the summer of 2013, Sammis engaged TRG for a consultancy that would begin by focusing on increasing single ticket revenue and volume.
Collaborating cross-departmentally to grow loyalty is essential to long-term revenue growth. However, in many organizations, the box office isn't integrated into development campaigns. TRG Arts sees development, marketing and the box office as deeply intertwined. A healthy development department depends on marketing to deliver donor-ready patrons. The box office regularly interacts directly with patrons and so can make asks that are both appropriate in the moment and that do a great deal to deepen loyalty. For example, a telefunding follow-up call to a first-time single ticket buyer may push the new patron relationship too far, while an invitation to add on a donation during a purchase may seem more natural.
TRG research shows that no matter the size of the gift, the effects of donating on loyalty and overall lifetime value can be tremendous, turning short-term revenue into long-term opportunity. Most major donors are cultivated from lower giving levels, rather than entering the organization as brand new high-level donors. Given this fact, campaigns where a front-line sales team like the box office asks for a lower-level gift make sense—and also make money.
This analysis revealed that there were entire elements of the Theatre's business model that were missing, which influenced an atmosphere of waning loyalty, specifically among subscribers.
NOTE: We recently held a webinar based on this case study. "Launching Loyalty from a 'Second Date' with Patrons," featuring Seattle Repertory Theatre's Katie Jackman and her team, hosted by TRG's veteran consultant Joanne Steller. Click here to watch>>
In October 2012, Denver Art Museum (DAM) opened Becoming Van Gogh for a limited run in Denver only. The exhibit brought together for the first time various works by Van Gogh and those artists who influenced him. With such a unique exhibit and popular subject matter, the staff of DAM knew that the exhibit would be a smash hit.
Molly Wink, Director of Membership & Amenities, was especially interested in leveraging the would-be success of this exhibit and the consequent influx of new patrons into lasting patron relationships, especially via her direct mail campaign.
Hartford Stage has long enjoyed a sterling reputation as one of the country's leading resident theatres. However, after 2008–09, one of the best seasons on record, revenue plunged and continued to trend downward in subsequent seasons.
A major portion of the revenue decline came from the loss of subscribers and subscriber revenue. In 2002, Hartford Stage introduced EZ Tix, a flexible voucher subscription. As EZ Tix became the focus of acquisition efforts, sales for the full 6-play subscription fell steadily.
Repertory Theatre of St. Louis had experienced ups and downs in subscription sales. By 2012, overall subscriptions had been decreasing by 3-8% almost every year since 2008, despite a strong renewal rate.
The underlying problem seemed to be attracting new subscribers. Initial analysis by TRG Arts suggested that, long term, The Rep needed to grow the number of prospects for subscription in their database. TRG also discovered that The Rep likely hadn't been spending enough on subscription acquisitions. Spending on marketing new subscriptions acquisitions had remained flat, despite the declines in subscription acquisitions.
Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) had a strong subscription program overall. "The CSO has a very loyal subscriber base—once we bring them into the fold, they stay with us," Kate Hagen, Marketing Manager, Patron Retention, said. Hagen and her colleagues had created a comprehensive program which had successfully retained both long-term subscribers and those in their first few years at rates well above industry averages.
By 2010, the Albany Symphony Orchestra (ASO) had experienced a steady decline in subscribers over seven years. During the 2009–10 and 2010–11 seasons, ASO had implemented an idea popular in the orchestra field of growing new subscriptions by offering them at half price. Units increased significantly. However, per-ticket revenue declined and renewal rates were poor.
The Smith Center opened in Las Vegas in 2011. In its first season, the new venue planned a Broadway Series of touring productions, and a presenting series of touring musical and dance attractions.
Since the organization was just opening, they needed to find new patrons—lots of new patrons. They engaged TRG Arts to help find patrons based on behavioral and demographic characteristics, modeled after patrons who attended similar organizations across the country.
The 5th Avenue Theatre faced a significant projected shortfall in the annual fund near the end of the 2009-2010 fiscal year. Previous campaigns relied almost exclusively on telefunding and the cost of sale was high. Subscribers who donated made up a small portion of the 5th's season ticket holders, so there was clearly room to grow. 5th Avenue Theatre had to increase revenue—and fast.


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Porn is out there, it's accessible, and it's here to stay. Sex and porn are so inextricably linked that it's as impossible to imagine the world without the one as it is without the other. Call me biased, but it seems prudent to me to educate the next generation on both topics, rather than just one (or neither, as is the unfortunate case for many) since ignoring porn, or even demonizing it, won't make kids stay clear of it. Remember how having "the drug talk" with your kids became mandatory in the last 20 years? I think we now need the same thing, but for sex media: porn, erotica, sexting, etc.
According to a recent New York Times article, there are parents who agree with me on this. Okay, so I doubt many have had the same kind of premeditation on the subject or it's broaching as I have (see my last blog post), but I was so impressed by how the parents interviewed chose to deal with "the talk" after it became evident that their child had seen, or was interested in porn. And just like the most successful "drug talks" I've heard of, the parents with whom I was most impressed chose to educate their child in the most informative, supportive, judgment-free environment possible.
On the heels of this article arrives one by the Los Angeles Times, a five questions piece regarding the recent book The Demise of Guys: Why Boys Struggle and What We Can Do About It and the authors' findings that great exposure to pornography (as well as video games, interestingly enough) leaves young men isolated and socially stunted. I won't argue this point, but I would like to add that this would probably occur under specific conditions: those being that viewing porn without any context, and without any real-world experience can be a very confusing thing.
This is because the current state of mainstream porn is sad. From what I've seen, it rarely represents the typical human sexual experience in any way, and without that element of reality, reflects a kind of parallel universe of hairlessness, bleaching, diminutive speech, athleticism: a formula devoid of much pleasure, ending in ejaculation. I imagine teens being transfixed by this parallel universe, much like young children who reach up to touch the Sesame Street puppets shown on the TV screen, completely unaware that the images are in no way real. Regardless of one's sex politics, I think there are few parents who want their children to think that that's how sex is or ought to be.
Maybe, as the Los Angeles Times interview suggests, there needs to be a closer marriage of reality and porn, something that brings it out from the shadows of isolation and instead adds to a person's social wellbeing. All I can suggest, as I so often do, is seeking and promoting good porn. Something that leaves the viewer feeling good about their experience, rather than bad or confused. One parent from the New York Times article even went so far as to offer their child a couple of websites that they thought were appropriate, which would both offer their teen an outlet for their interest, and represent a positive sexual experience.
It reminded me of a recent interaction I had in nearby Girona, during an art house screening of my latest movie, Cabaret Desire. Two middle-aged fans approached me to sign a copy of the DVD and we chatted. When I asked to whom I should make out the signature, the woman stated that it was for her son. "He's sixteen, he watches porn anyway -- so he'd better be watching this!"
I guess what I'm trying to say is that I'm thrilled when parenting and sexuality intersects, and appreciate the debates and conversations that arise when it does. So I'm particularly excited when two large news publications cover the topic of porn and parenting back-to-back like this. These discussions remind us that, just like one can't rely on TV to be a babysitter, one can't rely on porn to be their child's sole sex-educator. That information has to come from the parent before they seek porn or have sex, and then maybe they'll have a chance to be able to distinguish between good and bad porn, reality and fantasy, and leave them more connected to others and the outside world.


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I have a history of letting applesauce go bad. I open a jar, use a little for something, then tuck it in the back of the fridge. Then it sits. I intend to use it for something else, but I don't, and then it sits some more. Then it goes moldy. And then I get crabby, because my expensive jar of organic, unsweetened applesauce is no longer good to eat. When this happens, I try to convince myself of something positive as I begrudgingly dump applesauce into my compost bucket. "At least it molds," I think to myself, "because that means it really is free of preservatives, right?"
I'm always looking for the silver lining.
Anyhow, I decided I was not going to let that pattern repeat itself this time. As I was cleaning out my fridge last night, I found the proverbial jar of applesauce tucked in a back corner. I knew something had to be done. I had to use that applesauce, there was no choice. Now. Either bake with it immediately, or freeze it in little cubes for later.
Since it was a cool night in Minneapolis, and my apartment no longer felt like a steam room, it seemed like a good night to bake something. And when I decide I want to bake something, I usually settle on a muffin. I love muffins. They provide endless opportunity for creativity, don't need to be sliceable, and are complete and whole unto themselves. A muffin isn't a slice, or a wedge, or a part. It is a whole being, satisfying all on its own. I kind of think of a muffin like my own little personal-sized cake.
I decided to use a recipe from Dr. Peter J. D'Adamo's Eat Right For Your Type as inspiration. His recipe is for a currant-studded, applesauce-laden quinoa flour cake, and for years it has caught my attention. But sadly, it uses eggs ( I'm allergic), sugar (avoiding), nuts (also allergic), and cloves (yet again, allergic). I adapted it to be a blend of quinoa and teff flours, threw some goji berries in the mix, changed some proportions to fit with the amount of applesauce I had left over, and adapted it to be egg, nut, sugar, and clove free. Then I made the batter into muffins instead of a cake, filling those muffin cups right up to the brim.
Thirty-five minutes later, my kitchen was graced with eight plump, moist, and lovely muffins. They have a wonderful texture and a slightly sweet, rich, spicy flavor - the blend of quinoa and teff is delicious, and is highlighted by the sweet pop of currants and goji berries. I generally like the way that teff flour and quinoa flour perform, but had never used them together before, and love it! The texture really blows me away - they remind me of "real" muffins! They didn't crumble into bits on contact or turn to sawdust in my mouth, nor did they bake into some weird, über-moist, dense blob. Hey, if you've ever baked gluten free, you (like me) are probably intimately familiar with failed baked goods of both those descriptions, right? Yeah, that's no good. But these muffins have a definite crumb, and a hearty, yet light, texture. Even after sitting all night, the muffin remained steadfast, and was still and lovely today. I bet these will freeze very well!
From a nutritional standpoint, these muffins also have a lot to offer. Quinoa and teff are both high protein, high fiber flours with a low glycemic index, and loads of amino acids. Chia seeds add an extra punch of fiber, and the goji berries and applesauce pack a wallop of vitamin C with every sweet bite! In terms of sugar content, I used only 1 tablespoon of agave nectar in the whole batch, relying on the natural sweetness of applesauce. And by using a high quality, healthy fat - like olive oil, coconut oil, or organic ghee or butter (for dairy-eaters, that is) - you are providing your body with fatty acids, vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and naturally anti-microbial compounds. Easy to make and lovely to eat, these muffins are the best way to use up old applesauce I've come up with yet. Enjoy!
adapted from Quinoa Applesauce Cake recipe from Eat Right For Your Type, by Dr. Peter J.D'Adamo
yield: 8 regular-sized muffins
3/4 c teff flour
3/4 c quinoa flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp allspice
1/2 tsp salt
1 1/2 c unsweetened organic applesauce
1 T agave nectar
1 T chia seeds + 3 T water (mix and let sit for 10-15 minutes)
1/3 c olive oil, melted coconut oil, melted ghee/butter, or blend (I used a blend of olive oil and butter, yum)
2 T currants
1/4 c goji berries
- Preheat oven to 350*, and prepare muffin tin.
- Stir together chia seeds and water in a small bowl, and let sit for 10-15 minutes, stirring a few times. It will become a thick, gel-like goo.
- Sift together flours in a medium bowl. Add baking powder, baking soda, allspice, and salt, and whisk briskly until well combined. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, combine applesauce, oil/melted ghee/butter, agave, and chia goo, and stir until well mixed. Set aside.
- Lightly coat currants and goji berries with a little flour (this will help prevent them from sinking to the bottom of your muffins).
- Add dry ingredients to wet, stirring gently and quickly until evenly moistened. Then gently fold in berries, and stir only until evenly mixed. Batter will be thick.
- Spoon immediately into muffin tins, filling all the way to the top for big, plump muffins! Bake at 350* for 35 minutes, or until toothpick inserted in largest muffin comes out clean.
- Cool in tin for about 10 minutes, then transfer to wire rack to finish cooling.
- Store in refrigerator, or wrap tightly and freeze for longer storage.


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Deacon ClaybournePlayed by Charles Esten
It's hard to imagine Rayna Jaymes on stage without Deacon at her side. Twenty years ago the two teamed up as songwriters. She became a star and he became her band leader. At that time, they were also a romantic couple but there's a reason that Rayna and Deacon couldn't stay together: Deacon's alcoholism made a stable relationship impossible.
Now that he's sober, however, and Rayna has called off her engagement to Luke Wheeler, it seems the timing may finally be right for this star-crossed couple. There's just one thing: Deacon has recently received a liver cancer diagnosis that means he may only have six months to live if he doesn't receive a transplant.
MEET THE CAST: Rayna James | Juliette Barnes | Deacon Claybourne | Scarlett O'Connor | Teddy Conrad | Avery Barkley | Will Lexington | Maddie Conrad | Gunnar Scott | Daphne Conrad | Jeff Fordham | Luke Wheeler
Born in Pittsburgh, PA, Charles "Chip" Esten was raised in Alexandria, VA and attended T.C. Williams High School (made famous in the film "Remember the Titans.") He then attended The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, where he graduated with a degree in economics and met his eventual wife, Patty. While in Williamsburg, he was lead singer/songwriter in a popular local band, N'est Pas.
Esten made his theatrical debut in London when he portrayed Buddy Holly, singing, acting and playing guitar in the hit West End musical "Buddy." In that role he was honored to perform for H.R.M Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip, and eventually President and Mrs. George H.W. Bush at The White House. He was also very honored to perform with Jerry Allison and Joe B. Mauldin, Buddy's original hitmaking bandmates, the Crickets.
It was during his run as Buddy that Esten first appeared on the original British version of "Whose Line Is It Anyway?," with Ryan Stiles and Greg Proops. When "Whose Line" came to ABC, he became a recurring cast member and frequent song improvisor. Since then he has appeared on Drew Carey's Improvaganza and toured frequently, performing live improv shows with Stiles, Proops and Jeff B. Davis.
Esten's many additional television credits include recurring roles on "Big Love," "Enlightened," "The Office" and "ER." Besides being the father on Disney Channel's "Jessie," he has been a Klingon on "Star Trek: The Next Generation," a secretary on "Murphy Brown" and Kelly Bundy's fiance on the series finale of "Married with Children." His film credits include "Swing Vote," "Thirteen Days," "61*" and "The Postman."
During his first season on "Nashville," Esten was honored to perform in the Grand Ole Opry and the historic Ryman auditorium. He sings on the Season One Vol. 1 soundtrack, which has sold over 1.5 million tracks to date.
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Hi everyone..
My problem is that i had installing Ubuntu 10.10
just Ubuntu
everything works so good.
whats up with the webcam?
and the wireless card? (atheros blabla…)
I just cant find a solution (solutions doesnt have to be complicated, i mean code and codes and weird stuffs, a solution is a solution, im kinda tired of seeing so messy things
can the Atheros Wireless card of the HP G60 247CL work with Ubuntu?
thanks for read