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The Song:
Instantly recognizable from it's opening drum beat and power chords, Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting was a rock n roll anthem in the 1970's. Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting was released in 1973 on the Goodbye Yellow Brick Road album, while Elton John was at his peak rock star status. The song only reached #12 on the U.S. Billboard charts, (according to Wikipedia), but received heavy airplay on FM Rock radio stations through the entire 1970s, and was played at countless high school sporting events, practices, and parties. I'm also willing to wager you'll find it on the majority of CLASSIC ROCK CD collections both online and in the big box stores.
The song contains some of Bernie Taupin's most memorable lyrics, "I'm a juvenile product of the working class...", " A couple of the sounds that I really like, are the sounds of a switchblade and motorbike..". Shakespere ? Of course not, it's not even some of Mr. Taupins most eloquent lyrics, but they bounce off each other so well here. It's just a really fun, catchy song. That said, the lyrics in this song that have always stood out to me where, " My Sister looks cute in her braces and boots, a handful of grease in her hair.." really ? I guess in a family where the "old man is drunker than a barrel full of monkeys", greasy hair, braces and boots is a step up. Go figure...
The Art:
I sketched this in my sketchbook again, as opposed to sketching it digitally on my ipad... I may keep this practice up for awhile as far as the newsletter posts are concerned... it is a different feel, and it's good not to lose that more natural feeling of actual pencil to actual paper. The other plus of working this way this week, is I realize I need to get a heavier duty pen for my line weight. Last week's lines were too heavy, but I think these are just a bit too light... that's what I get for buying a combo pack... every size but what I need. Also, I need to find some type of white marker that will allow me add white highlights on top of my colored pencils... I had to add these highlights digitally in Photoshop, where I also adjusted the colors slightly after I scanned it in.
There it is folks. I hope you like it. Let me know.
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The Martytoon Newsletter
The Thoughts, Designs & Process of Marty Qatani aka MartyToons.
Hi and welcome to the first blog post / newsletter of the all new revamped MartyToons website. Where to start ? I suppose a quick intro is in order for those of you who may be unfamiliar with me and what I do. I'm a cartoonist / character designer/ humorous illustrator. That sounds like a lengthy title, but none of those by themselves seems appropriate enough by themselves to describe what I do.
If I call myself a cartoonist, people tend to think I create a comic strip.... not true. If I call myself just a character designer, it seems a little limiting to me. I like to think I do a little bit more... make people think... wake people up, help someone remember a happy thought.... maybe even put a smile on people's faces.... hopefully. Calling myself just a humorous illustrator, just doesn't seem to have any "punch", "pizzazz", "sparkle"... you get the picture. I do like the sound of "Creator of Visual Enhancements for Artistically Challenged and Cartooning Impaired." It has a pretty cool ring to me, but it's a little hard to fit on a business card and still look cool.
What can you expect here ? How's a little doodle sound ? A little peek into what goes on in my working process and maybe even in my thought process ? That's my plan... I hope you enjoy. So let me dig into my archive, maybe shed a little light on happened and then invite you to comment. Sounds good ? Good... then lets get to it.
Peace Train
This is an early sketch of one of my favorite designs I'm working on. It's inspired by one of my favorite music artists, Cat Stevens, who know goes by the name of Yusuf Islam https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_Stevens . Check him out if you get the chance and are a fan of 70's "Soft" Rock, and especially if you're a fan of songs about being positive, hopefullness, and becoming a little wiser.
Music is playing more and more a part in my designs. I love many styles of music and I always have it playing in my studio while I'm creating. Alot of times I let the music direct what I'm going to sketch when I intentionally sit down to sketch, sometimes I'm not planning on sketching at all, but I hear a song and an image will just pop into my head, and I have to get it down on paper. I believe that's what happened here, but to be honest, I came up with this sketch several years ago, and I can't remember the exact circumstances that gave birth to this.
So there you have it. I hope you enjoy it. Got any questions ? Feel free to comment below.
thanks... Marty
July 2018


text: here is the first of the six constructicons that have recieved a new paint job. I present to you. LONGHAUL. I changed my mind and will be painting the constructicons in a more real world color for construction equipment (and very dirty, beat up and rusty). the extra pieces for the articulated Devastator are a cybertronic smelting facility for the fabrication of materials to further the decepticon cause. Hope you enjoy it and I look for to reading your comments. Thanks for the inspireation from all of the radicons that articulated or made their own Devastator which I refer to as "The Devi club".

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Reader has plan to reduce deficit and cut taxes
To the editor:
Over the past few months, supporters of the tea party movement have railed against big government and the need for the American citizen to fight to take our country back. Recently, buzz words such as "deficit reduction" and "big government" have been the main focal points of the tea party rhetoric. So I thought about a way to reduce the deficit and cut taxes.
The first portion of my plan would call for all those in the tea party and/or the "anti-big government" movements to call their friends, family members, business associates and acquaintances who have ever received money from the government and have them cut a check back to the government to offset the spending. These returns of funds would include any of those people who receive Social Security, Medicare, Pell Grants, business subsidies, first-time home-buyer credits or anyone who received a paycheck from stimulus funding employment. Go ahead, get out that checkbook and write those checks. If you do that, we can cut the deficit by one-third.


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Extracurricular opportunities include the Dance Company, Flag Corps, and World Drummers.
All students at Ronald McNair have the opportunity to be involved in STEAM programs. Those choosing to be a part of the Performing Arts Program can also take part in the Gifted Program, if they are eligible.


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Rescuing migrants at sea is particularly topical given the on-going situation in the Mediterranean with the end of Mare Nostrum and the start of Triton. The number of migrants and refugees requiring rescue at sea has continued to rise in 2015, this has led to a number of enquiries from Members on the issue.
Because of this, the Club now has a 'Refugees at Sea' page, dedicated to providing the latest updates on the situation. Access this here:
If you need to call our offices out of hours and at weekends, click After Office hours for a up to date list of the names of the Duty Executives and their mobile phone numbers.
This Ship Finder is updated on a daily basis. Members who need to advise the Club of updates to their recorded ships' details should advise their usual underwriting contact.


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Royal Mail will this week issue a set of four stamps to mark the start of the Paralympic Games - and two of the stamps feature SE1 landmarks.
The stamps will be available from Wednesday 29 August, the first day of the Paralympic Games. Royal Mail will become the first postal administration whose country is hosting the games to issue a set of stamps to celebrate the start of the Paralympic Games.
Included in the set are two first class stamps. The first features a Paralympian competing in athletics alongside the Olympic Stadium, whilst the second shows wheelchair basketball together with the Palace of Westminster.
The set also includes two �1.28 stamps for worldwide airmail postage.
The first of these stamps features powerlifting with St Paul's Cathedral and the Millennium Bridge while the other features a Paralympic cyclist alongside the London Eye.
"The Paralympics will be a wonderful event � London's looking forward to welcoming Paralympians from all over the globe, and we think these stamps are an excellent way to reflect the once-in-a-lifetime event," said Moya Greene, chief executive of Royal Mail.
SE1 landmarks also featured strongly in the stamps issued by Royal Mail for the start of the Olympic Games at the end of July.


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This Enesco number 244570 porcelain bisque Precious Moments window or Christmas ornament is dated 1994 (produced in 1993). It's seashell shaped with a pink satin ribbon hanger, 3-1/4" high by 3" wide. A little girl is kneeling in the sand near a bucket of clams or oysters, the one in her hand is full of pearls. The caption reads "It Is No Secret What God Can Do". Comes mint in its original box. Three identical ornaments are available, price is per ornament.
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October 3, 2015
(If we live with an open and grateful attitude, every day will bring a gift. This is one of 365 gifts during the year I turned 70.)
Weather report: Weather-related closings, cancellations and postponements increase as Hurricane Joaquin approaches the mid-Atlantic region. The hurricane is not expected to reach Maryland's shore but flooding is expected. Baltimore's Fells Point Fun Festival and Dog Day on the Bay at Downs Park are cancelled this weekend. Temperature high 59⁰, temperature low 48⁰, humidity 92%, rain starting in 97 minutes, wind 15 mph.
I stand with my hoodie over my head, close to where the beach should have ended, but today there is no beach. Wind playing with the Chesapeake Bay creates large waves that overtake the sandy shore and beat against rocks and dead tree stumps. One huge log from an uprooted tree rolls helplessly back and forth as water pushes forward and then recedes. Fluid waves beat against grounded rocks and stumps, breaking the water into animated figures of prancing horses and gleeful ghosts.
The fury of wind and waves obliterate any other sounds around me and I am alone. Paradoxically, sound and sight both isolate and connect me. I am isolated from thoughts of yesterday and tomorrow and am immersed in the awe of the moment. As I stand safely on the shore, the power of nature absorbs my senses.
Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind." ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
My gift today is the power of wind and waves.
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Recently I was asked for my chutney recipe, and I had to say I didn't really have one, because I've never measured quantities of anything, more a general technique. Today I'm making green tomato chutney, but this would work with courgettes (which was specifically what I was asked for) or pretty much anything else you might want to make a chutney out of. It goes like this:
Pound some spices in a pestle and mortar and toast them in the dry pan - I generally use coriander, cumin, fennel and mustard seeds, aniseed, plus salt and pepper obviously - but a pinch of whatever you have to hand and you like.
Once the spices are toasted and before they start to burn, add enough oil to coat the base of the pan (olive, sunflower, groundnut - or sesame for a toasty nut flavour if you like, doesn't matter), then add finely chopped garlic, ginger and either finely sliced fresh chillis or chilli flakes.
Add finely chopped onion/s, and a dash of turmeric powder - enough to turn the onions a nice strong but not too lurid yellow. Cook till the onions are soft but not yet browning, then add the diced green tomatoes, courgettes (or whatever).
Cover and cook gently till the courgette is softening, but before it starts to break down, then add enough cider vinegar to half cover the veg, then re-cover the pan and leave it to simmer gently until the courgette and onion are just starting to mush together but well before they've become a homogenous gloop, and sharpness of the vinegar has mellowed - you can tell that by the effect on your nose and eyes when you lift the lid. Usually about twenty minutes.
Uncover the pan and simmer uncovered for a further five minutes - or as long as is necessary to allow the liquid to reduce to get the right consistency. If you want to add fresh leafy herbs add them just in the last minute before turning off the heat.
Then leave it to cool a little before transferring to sterilised jars.
That's about it, I think. Don't appear to have missed anything out.
As for quantities - that all depends on how big a glut of whatever fruit or veg you're chutneying you have, and how big a pan, and how spicy or not you like it. I guess the most significant quantities involved would be the ratio of onion to feature fruit/veg, but it's not crucial, it'll just come out more or less oniony, and as there's nothing wrong with onion chutney anyway, what's the worst thing that can happen? For what it's worth, for the purposes of science, and this blog, today I did weigh my diced onion and diced tomato, and the ratio was one to three – 300g onion (one and a half onions) to 900g tomato. That seems about right to me.


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Wanderer: (#133:) You are not what you think you are (:#133)! The wisdom of primeval mothers draws towards its end: your knowledge ["Wissen"] wanes before my will. Do you know what Wotan wills? (long silence.)
This passage, so far as I know, never seems to have gotten much attention from the academic community, and yet it is one of the most definitive pieces of evidence for my argument that Bruennhilde is Wotan's unconscious mind, in which he has repressed thoughts which were too unbearable to think to himself aloud, i.e., consciously, for Wotan here triumphantly proclaims to Erda, who taught Wotan fear, and who gave birth to Wotan's daughter Bruennhilde, through whom Wotan hopes to cease to fear the end of the gods Erda foretold, that "The wisdom of primeval mothers draws towards its end: your knowledge wanes before my will." Since Bruennhilde in V.2.2 described herself to Wotan as his will, in order to persuade him to confide his godly "Noth" (anguish) to her, and Wotan acquiesced by confessing to her the unspoken secret of all that Erda had taught to him about the inevitability of Alberich's victory over the gods, Wotan is evidently here proclaiming that by virtue of this confession to his will, Bruennhilde, Erda's fearful knowledge (of all that was, is, and will be) wanes before Bruennhilde. In this way Erda has taught Wotan how to end the fear her prophecy instilled in him, even if he can't escape its cause, the inevitable end of the gods.
Wotan: (#53:) O unwise woman, I call on you now (:#53) (#54:) to sleep forever, free from care (:#54)! (#133 chord) Fear of the end of the gods no longer consumes me (#133) now that my wish so wills it! (#133:) What I once resolved in despair, in the searing smart of inner turmoil, (#133 vari:; #92c?:) I now perform freely in gladness and joy (:#133 vari; :#92c?): [[ #134: ]] though once, in furious loathing ["Ekel"], (#37) I bequeathed the world to the Nibelung's spite ["Neid"], (#92:) to the (#133) lordliest Waelsung I leave my heritage now. (#20a) He whom I chose but who never knew me, the bravest of boys, though deprived of my counsel, has won for himself (#57) the Nibelung's ring: (#17 varis:) rejoicing in love, while free from greed ["Neides"], Alberich's curse is powerless over the noble youth; for fear remains unknown to him.
Wotan now embraces his own end and the end of the gods, which Erda prophesied Alberich's curse on his Ring (embodied by Alberich's son Hagen) would bring to pass, only because all that he values in himself will live on now in the heir to his legacy (#20a, Valhalla), the artist-hero Siegfried, purged of all that Wotan loathed in himself (his head, Mime, his fear, Fafner). Just as he implied when he rejected the Norns' knowledge of all that was, is, and will be, because it is in thrall to the real world (embodied by Alberich's Ring Motif #19 and the Loveless Motif #37, derived from Motif #18, associated with Alberich's renunciation of love for power), Wotan had previously made Alberich and his son Hagen heir to the world which Wotan despises, but has now made Siegfried heir specifically to Wotan's religious heritage, embodied here by #20a which, if you will recall, was embodied by another segment of the Valhalla Motif, #20c, in V.3.3 when we heard it as Bruennhilde was trying to persuade Wotan to leave her sleep protected from all but a fearless hero, so that Wotan would not bring dishonor on himself by dishonoring her. Wotan's leaving Siegfried heir to the heritage of Valhalla, the refuge from the care and dismay caused by the threat of Alberich's curse on his Ring, is the reason why Wotan doesn't fear his own end: thanks to Wotan's confession of his hoard of fearful knowledge which Erda had imparted to him, to their daughter Bruennhilde (Wotan's unconscious mind), Wotan now lives on in his heir Siegfried, minus consciousness of his true identity, knowledge which, as Bruennhilde will soon tell us, she holds for Siegfried. In this way Erda's daughter Bruennhilde offers the answer to the second question Wotan asked Erda, how he can end his fear, for Siegfried is fearless by virtue of the fact that Erda's knowledge wanes before Wotan's will Bruennhilde. This is the meaning of the newly introduced Motif #134, heard as Wotan announces that though he once made the Nibelung's spite heir to the all that Wotan loathes, the world, Siegfried will be the heir to all that Wotan values in Valhalla's (religion's) legacy. This is all thanks to Bruennhilde.
Wotan says, by the way, that Siegfried, freed from greed while rejoicing in love, is freed from Alberich's curse, because fear remains unknown to Siegfried. True, Siegfried did not learn fear from Fafner, but Siegfried will learn fear from Bruennhilde in S.3.3. Does that mean that Siegfried inherits Alberich's curse by virtue of learning fear from Bruennhilde? Siegfried has already won Alberich's Ring, and Alberich said anyone besides himself who possessed his Ring would suffer its curse. However, as we will see, Bruennhilde, before whom Erda's fearful knowledge wanes, because she is both Wotan's and Siegfried's unconscious mind, can temporarily spare her figurative son, and lover, Siegfried, from suffering from Alberich's curse, the wounds of consciousness, which so beset Wotan that he couldn't bear conscious knowledge and repressed it into his unconscious mind Bruennhilde. In fact it was this reason alone which granted Siegfried the fearlessness necessary to reforge his father Siegmund's sword Nothung, kill Fafner and Mime, take possession of Alberich's Ring, Tarnhelm, and Hoard, without suffering (so far) any consequences, and to ultimately penetrate Loge's protective ring of fire around Bruennhilde (the veil of Maya, artistic self-deception, to access the terrible truth hidden behind the veil), to wake and win her (i.e., win unconscious artistic inspiration from his muse).
Wotan: (#40b>>:) Bruennhilde, whom you bore to me, (#64>>:) the hero will lovingly waken (:#40; :#64): (#134:) waking, your all-wise child (#134 modulation?:) will work the deed that redeems the world. (somewhat broadly) And so, sleep on; (#97) close your eyes and, dreaming, behold my end (:#19?)! whatever they do ["Was jene auch wirken": Spencer's English translation must be vetted! Shouldn't it be "Whatever happens ... "?] – (#134:) to the one who's eternally young the god now yields in gladness (:#134). (#133:): descend then, Erda! Primeval mothers' fear! Primeval care! (:#133)! (#133:) Descend! Descend! (#97:) To ageless sleep!
The deed that Bruennhilde will work which will redeem the world, at least the deed to which Wotan alludes, is not her eventual restoration of Alberich's Ring to the
Rhinedaughters. No Rhinedaughter or Rhine music is heard here as Wotan describes the redemption Bruennhilde will bring to the world upon waking for
Siegfried. What we hear instead is the new motif #134, which is often called the World-Inheritance Motif. Wotan does not yet look to the restoration of the stolen
Rhinegold (in its incarnation as Alberich's Ring of power) to the Rhinedaughters, since Wotan assumes that the love Siegfried and Bruennhilde share will redeem the
world. That love, as we will see, is Wagner's metaphor for his own unconscious artistic inspiration of his redemptive art, the revolutionary music-drama. It is
hugely significant that #134 is the only motif Wagner ever called a motif of redemption, and yet the motif to which Wagner draws the most attention in the
finale of the Ring in T.3.3 is #93, the motif first heard in V.3.1 as Sieglinde praised the wonder of Bruennhilde's self-sacrificial intervention to save the Waelsungs and
the as-yet-unborn hero Siegfried in particular. It is also striking that Wagner said that Motif #134, at the moment of its introduction in S.3.1, should sound like the
herald of a new religion. The "new religion" to which Feuerbach alluded in several of his books which influenced Wagner in creating his "Ring" was man's winning his
freedom from the self-deception of religious belief, in order to create a new humanist religion in which mortal man looked to himself alone, and celebrated his
independence from the old religious faith, from superstition, in secular art and science and enlightened social reform. I had determined not to introduce any references from outside the libretto and music of the "Ring" until after I complete the portion of my argument which is based solely on the "Ring," but I couldn't resist mentioning this here since it explains so much what is at stake as Wotan (Wagner's symbol both for godhead and for that collective, historical humanity who unconsciously and unwittingly invented the gods in the collective dreaming called myth-making), passes the torch to his heirs Siegfried (Wotan's conscious mind now freed from the knowledge which paralyzed Wotan into inaction) and Bruennhilde (Wotan's unconscious mind, into whom Wotan repressed his unbearable self-knowledge, who holds it for Siegfried).
It is also noteworthy that, as we hear Motif #134 again, Wotan tells Erda that "… to the one who's eternally young the gods now yields in gladness." This is
noteworthy because in her last talk with her father Wotan in V.3.3, when she was pleading with him not to dishonor himself by dishonoring her,
Bruennhilde told Wotan that "you cannot want to dishonour that part of you which is ageless nor suffer a shame that brings you disgrace … ." Later, I will
reference several quotations from Wagner's writings in which he expressed the view that the only true immortality is to be found in secular art (especially
the art of music), and that when religions die out and scientific ways of understanding the world change, great art lives on eternally unchanged.
Wanderer: (#135:) Who made the sword so sharp and hard that his fiercest enemy fell before him (:#135)?
Siegfried: (#103 forging vari:) I forged it myself since the smith was unable: (#41:) I'd otherwise still be swordless (:#41).
Wanderer: (#135 on horns:) But who made the mighty fragments from which you forged the sword ?
Siegfried: What do I know of that? (#124 varis:) I know only that the bits were no use unless I re-made the sword (:#124 varis).
Wotan/Wanderer has asked Siegfried this long series of questions, which trace Siegfried's significant actions back to a past he doesn't remember, to insure that Siegfried is not conscious of being Wotan's agent in redeeming the world from Alberich's curse on his Ring. In other words, Wotan is insuring that Siegfried is Wotan's unconscious agent, who subliminally is motivated by Wotan's will (Bruennhilde), yet remains unconscious of Wotan's influence. Bruennhilde holds this knowledge for Siegfried.
Siegfried: (#voc: [back reference to Siegfried's remarks: "My woodbird's flown away; with fluttering flight and sweet-sounding song it showed me the way," and "Are you laughing at me? No more of your questions, old man … ."]) Let me see what you look like! Why are you wearing so huge a hat (:#voc [back reference])? (#66:) Why does it hang down over your face (:#66)?
Wanderer: (still in the same position: #112 vari >>:) That is the Wanderer's way when he walks against the wind (:#112 vari).
Siegfried: (observing him more closely: #20ab:) But under it one of your eyes is missing (:#20ab)! No doubt someone struck it out when you stubbornly stood in his way? Be off with you now! Or else you could easily lose the other one, too.
Wanderer: (very calmly: #20a:) I see (:#20a), (#20b >>:) my son, that where you know nothing, you know how to get your own way (:#20b). (#20ab:) With the eye which, as my second self ["das als and'res"], is missing, you yourself can glimpse (#20c:) the one (:#20c) (#20d:) that's left for me to see with (:#20d).
Wotan is describing Siegfried as the eye which Wotan had to sacrifice in order to win wisdom from the waters of the sacred well which poured out from the roots of the World-Ash Tree, and in order to break off its most sacred branch to make Wotan's spear of divine authority and law, represented by Motif #21, one of Wagner's two symbols for The Fall in the Ring (the other being Alberich's Ring). Siegfried, the eye Wotan had to sacrifice in order to attain the power of conscious thought, which brought about The Fall, is therefore a pre-Fallen hero. Obviously the sacrifice of one of Wotan's two eyes is a metaphor for what Wotan described as the love that waned as Wotan began to seek and obtain worldly power, predicated upon the power of Alberich's Ring, whose motif #19 gave birth to the first segment of Wotan's Valhalla Motif, #20a. What Wotan had to give up was preconscious feeling, in order for the power of reflective, symbolic human thought, Alberich's Ring, to supercede it. So, as Robert Donington suggested, Siegfried is Wotan's missing eye which looks inward. Wotan's missing eye is the subjective, the unconscious, Wotan's feeling as opposed to his power of thought, which is embodied in his Spear of divine authority and law. We find here another example of Wotan's figurative matricide, religion's figurative murder of Mother Nature (Erda), because in T.P Erda's three daughters, the Norns who weave the rope of fate, all that was, is, and will be (objective knowledge of the world's truth which Wotan, religious man, sinned against in positing a supernatural realm of immortality in opposition to Erda's natural law that all that is, ends), tell us that the wound Wotan made in the World-Ash in order to break off its most sacred branch ultimately killed the tree, which is a figure or metaphor for Mother Nature (Erda). In fact, the World-Ash Motif is closely akin to Erda's Motif #53, which in turn is based on Motif #1, the Primal Nature Motif out of which the entire cosmos of Wagner's "Ring" was brought into being in the Prelude to R.1. Siegfried and Bruennhilde are at one with the earth (Erda), Mother Nature, in a way that Wotan is not because, according to Wagner, religious faith denies Nature, whereas inspired secular art offers us a religious feeling of transcendence while remaining entirely within the real world.
What Wotan says to Siegfried here is fascinating in another respect. He says that where Siegfried knows nothing, Siegfried knows how to get his own way, echoing Mime who stated that Siegfried would succeed in re-forging Nothung because no sage can help in this, that only folly can help the fool. And that was the whole point of Wotan repressing his conscious knowledge of all those things in his own self which impeded his desired freedom to break his own law and retrieve Alberich's Ring from Fafner so that Alberich could not regain its power and bring the gods' power to an end. Siegfried can get his own way without Wotan's insuperable hurdles because Siegfried is unconscious of who he is, by virtue of Wotan having made Bruennhilde the safe repository of Wotan's loathsome self-knowledge and fear, embodied now by Mime. This is the sole authentic basis of Siegfried's naivete, his ignorance of self, his fearlessness, and his ability to take possession of the sources of Alberich's power and Alberich's Ring curse, without suffering the consequences. Bruennhilde (as we will learn from her in T.2.5) magically protects Siegfried at the front from wounds, i.e., Siegfried's unconscious mind protects Siegfried, at his front, from Wotan's paralyzing foresight or foreknowledge of the gods' predestined and shameful end. What Siegfried doesn't know (but Wotan's knowledge, repressed into Bruennhilde, does) is that he is Wotan's unwitting and unconscious agent, a fact dramatized here by the fact that we hear four of the five segments of Wotan's Valhalla Motif, #20abcd, as Wotan tells Siegfried that his ignorance is his virtue, and that he is the very eye Wotan is missing.
Siegfried: (#135 vari:) But listen, I'll gossip no longer; quickly, show me the way (:#135) and be on your way, too! For nothing else do I deem you of use! So speak or I'll send you packing!
Wanderer: (gently: #81:) If you but knew me, brave-hearted youth, you'd spare me this affront! (:#81)
Wotan already has shown Siegfried the way to Bruennhilde not only by virtue of the fact that Siegfried was born of the divine seed Wotan planted in Bruennhilde, the womb of Wotan's wishes, through his confession to her, but also through the Woodbird, who has revealed to Siegfried all that Wotan wished for Siegfried to do in order to take possession of Alberich's Ring to keep Alberich from regaining its power, and to redeem the world from Alberich's curse (of consciousness). Thus the Woodbird's final instruction was to wake and win Bruennhilde, Siegfried's unconscious mind (repository of Wotan's unspoken, secret confession) and future muse of unconscious artistic inspiration, to whom Siegfried will deliver Alberich's Ring for safekeeping (in T.P). Also, by virtue of making Loge ring the sleeping Bruennhilde with protective fire (the fire of man's self-deceit, or Wahn, the veil of Maya), Siegfried alone, the hero who is fearless because he doesn't know who he is, is privileged to penetrate this veil of illusion to access Wotan's daughter Bruennhilde, the keeper and guardian of Wotan's religious mysteries. Note that Siegfried's glib dismissal of Wotan is decried by Wotan here in conjunction with Motif #81, the motif which in V.2.1 expressed Wotan's growing awareness that Siegfried's father Siegmund was not in fact the free hero Wotan wished for (in spite of Siegmund's sympathetic and self-sacrificial, loving and heroic nature), as if Wagner's orchestra is motivally chastising Siegfried's unwitting crime of hubris.
Siegfried: (quietly) Blissful wasteland on wondrous heights!
(#15; #129b; #23: He climbs right up and, standing on a rock by the precipice at the back, observes the scene in wonderment. He gazes into the pinewood at the side and moves further downstage.)
As Siegfried passes Loge's fiery barrier and reaches Bruennhilde's mountain peak Siegfried is overcome with aesthetic arrest, which is embodied musically here both with the Rhinedaughters' Motif #15 "Rhinegold! Rhinegold!," and specifically by Motif #23, which was introduced by Fricka in R.2 when she expressed her hope that the heavenly home to which Wotan and she awoke (not yet named Valhalla by Wotan) would satisfy Wotan and keep him from straying and being disloyal to her (i.e. disloyal to the religious and domestic and family values she represents). Through Motif #15 Wagner is suggesting an analogy between the loving union with Bruennhilde Siegfried will soon enjoy, and the Rhinegold in its pure, pre-Fallen state, as if to say that the art the muse Bruennhilde will inspire Siegfried to create will be a restoration of lost paradise, lost innocence, and through Motif #23 Wagner is suggesting that Valhalla, the god's heavenly home and hope for immortality of mortal heroes, is equivalent in some way with the bliss of Siegfried's loving union with Bruennhilde, which we will come to recognize as Wagner's idea of the "new religion," inspired secular art, specifically Wagner's revolutionary art, the music-drama. This secular art is the New Valhalla.
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Riffing on the American Icon
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By Patrisha Zabrycki
I was five years old, strolling through the aisles at Macy's with my Mom, when amid the drabness of corporately diluted earth tones and jeans washed without a thread of conviction, I spotted something that really stood out: a button up shirt, blue as the sky, with the tiniest emblem of red, white and blue. I begged my Mom to buy it for my Dad.
THAT was my first encounter with what Tommy Hilfiger calls "fresh yet familiar." A crisp twist on the classically American preppy style. Hilfiger launched his now famous brand in 1985, which I'll hesitantly reveal, was the year this writer was born. As I prepared to conduct this interview with "Tommy" I was more than a little aware I literally have been familiar with his work my entire life.
The Hilfiger brand has a way of reaching across generations and cultures with its expertly crafted line of clothing, shoes, accessories, house wares and… eyewear. Capturing and succeeding in the global market is central to Hilfiger. "For me it's all about pop culture. It's about fashion, art, music, entertainment and how it all blends together, and how it all really makes the world go round. Because in Japan pop culture is as important as it is in London or in New York, or in Minneapolis or Miami, so for us to embrace music, sports, entertainment, Hollywood is very important to keep the brand fresh, cool, relevant and timely."
But while many designers might keep an eye on pop culture, Hilfiger makes it central to his products' strategy. As a huge supporter of the pop culture and entertainment industries he is always close to his consumers. And while he has unique gifts as a designer and entrepreneur, his biggest talent is an instinct for knowing what fashion lovers all over the world will respond to—functionally stylish clothes and accessories that star on the tennis court and in the boardroom.
Much consideration is paid to the design and marketing of his new eyewear collection. Having recently signed on with Sàfilo Group for the manufacturing and distribution of Tommy Hilfiger eyewear, he is confident in the success founded on the new partnership. "We feel Sàfilo is the best in the business. They understand us very well. They know what they're doing in terms of manufacturing and collaborating with us on design. But also with distribution, we have a great reach with them. Having a partner like Sàfilo positions us very well in the market." A market that is in love with the preppy, all-American designs that the Hilfiger brand has successfully crafted for years. His style has stayed close to its roots: plaids, tennis whites, chinos, pleated patterns and color-blocked rugby shirts. It's an all-American sensibility with a pinch of 'tude. Hilfiger illustrates this point: "Every season I seek to set trends while staying true to the signature design sensibilities that Tommy Hilfiger has embraced for the last 25 years. I have kept true to my roots of American classics while adding a fresh twist each season. I've added prints to basic silhouettes, reshaped the classic polo, played with new colors, and added a heel to the classic boat shoe. These elements inject a sense of newness that keeps the collections at the forefront of cool, American style."
As I watched our cover shoot, I noticed Hilfiger stepping back between shots to make sure the models had the right look. Even among the high-strung droves of PR people, hairstylists and makeup artists, Hilfiger—ever the designer, ever the stylist—reached over to the models and began patterning the pleats of the model's lily-white tennis skirt and smoothing the lapels on the male model's piqued polo. In fact, the longer I was around Hilfiger, the easier it was to see the care, the detail and quality he pours into all aspects of his iconic lifestyle brand, and the new Tommy Hilfiger collection is no exception. Every detail is scrutinized. From the selection of color on the 1985 25th Anniversary style—a color blocked zyl sunglass, striated in a patriotic red, white and blue—down to the gold hued temple details on the tortoise ophthalmics that Hilfiger dons.
As Hilfiger and I sat courtside at the Manhattan Plaza Racquet Club in canvas deck chairs, he took me through a few pieces of his collection starting with the 1985 25th Anniversary sunglass. "These have the red, white and blue enamel, but they remind me of old Hollywood and they're also a bit sporty." Then, picking up a 1970s-inspired sunglass, "They're oversized but not dramatically oversized and we think that this shape in many different colors is a must-have. And if you look at it in red with the white inlay, we think it's pretty fantastic—gold accents on the temples," pointing to the golden Hilfiger insignia and commenting that it maintains a subtle branding reference—not too over done, just played down enough.
Fingering over his mostly zyl frames, Hilfiger says, "We have a big following in Europe and all over the world, anything with a little bit of a twist on it is really important to us. We're very preppy all-American. And these [frames] can go from day into evening; they can be dressed up or dressed down."
Showing me the aviators, he continues: "On the men's side they are really iconic… red, white, black or red, white, blue and sporty but at the same time a unique signature."
Referring to the frames he is wearing, "This is a real classic, ivy league, collegiate…Vintage but also very fresh and familiar, which we like with everything we do." Hilfiger asks one of his associates for his own frames, puts them on and quips, "Oh now I can see you!"
Once clad in his Rx frames, Hilfiger leans in holding the tortoise ophthalmics up to the light, "I like anything tortoise. I like the dark tortoise, of course I like the light tortoise. I like when you hold them up to the light and you can see through them. And I love the fact that the quality is there. It's great quality."
As he treated each frame like he was showing me the world's finest eyewear, one really got a sense of how much sincere thought and detail goes into a Hilfiger design. Even the way a patterned zyl catches the light is a consideration.
I remarked that I too am a lover of anything tortoise, to which he replied, "Yes, it's very collegiate; it's preppy, very all-American, very Ivy League, very old world and it can go with ANYone, ANYtime, ANYwhere."
As chat time with Hilfiger drew to a close, I began to see how someone who has been at the top of the fashion world so long, who has seen all manners of fads and fashion movements oscillate in and out of favor with consumers, views the difference between a trend and style. It is a line that as a fashion editor I am constantly straddling—embracing the trendy yet discerning if a fad has the longevity to enter the canon of timeless style. Hilfiger remarks, "Style is forever and trends come and go, and I think fashion is bent on trends and sort of makes the headlines. But style is something that you either have or don't have. You can buy it but you cannot necessarily own it. I think a lot of people are just born with it, the way they put themselves together, the way they eat, where they go and where they live—it all has to do with a certain style and a certain attitude. Sometimes you can look at someone and think immediately—that person has style—just by the way they carry themselves, they could be in jeans and a t-shirt. Something that is not anything you can put your finger on is about style." Wearing a bespoke tailored suit, dark hued P3 frames and with his delightfully fitted, plaid coat draped over his arm ready for a swift and stealth-like exit, Hilfiger embodies this specifically unspecific quality. In a swift instant, he went back out to the windy daybreak streets of New York, living his brand detailed down to the last perfectly preppy thread. ■


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Marton Fulop is ready for the Daz challenge.
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payments will be made.
Comptroller, DHS agree EI
services fall under active consent decree. Comptroller Leslie
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Department of Human Services (DHS).
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December if the impasse continues.
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ground and pass a balanced budget so we can fund our critical
priorities," Munger said.
Other states besides Illinois have
also not passed a working budget for current fiscal
States operating
as of Monday, September 14, without a twelve-month budget include
Alabama, Illinois, New Hampshire, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania.
Large, urbanized states such as Illinois and Pennsylvania are proving
to be especially vulnerable to budget pressures, especially when the
Governor's office and the state legislature are in separate
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significant reductions in State spending trajectories and the
so-called "structural deficit," and their proposals have been rejected
by Democrats. Long-term spending pressures, especially in urbanized
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Exelon in a policy announcement released on Thursday, September 10.
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plants. The rate changes, which the company asserts follow policy
moves already granted by Illinois and other states to firms that erect
wind turbines and generate wind power, are described by Exelon as a
way to level the playing field for all forms of clean energy.
The Clinton plant, which is especially threatened at this time,
sells electricity into the Midcontinent
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This network is also getting power offers from newly-built wind farms
and from generators powered with natural gas. Exelon has stated that
the Clinton reactor plant is responsible for 600 direct and indirect
Central Illinois jobs, with paychecks totaling $50 million
Illinois State Lottery General
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The nonpartisan
Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability (CGFA) found
that in FY15 (ended June 30, 2015), transfers to State funds from the
Lottery dropped by $125 million from transfers in FY14. This was the
first such decline since 2009. Most of this diminishment was borne by
the Capital Projects Fund, as surplus Lottery profits are allocated to
State and local infrastructure. The Capital Projects Fund received
$145 million in FY14 and just $8 million in FY15, resulting in
slowdowns in the release of funds for a wide variety of State-funded
capital projects including school construction projects.
Press accounts of the CGFA report were, in some cases, slightly
misleading. Some of the news stories presented the drop in Illinois State
Lottery profits as a red-ink number rather than a diminished black-ink
number. The State Lottery is currently highly vulnerable to bad
publicity, as in the absence of an FY16 budget it is legally barred
from paying out prizes greater than $25,000. Winners of large prizes
are being presented with Lottery IOUs rather than cash, and litigation
is pending.
The CGFA report, "Wagering in Illinois: 2015" was released on
Thursday, September 17.
Smoke-Free Law – Beer Gardens New
administrative rule tries to crack down on enclosed smoking, adds to
The Smoke-Free Illinois Act, enacted in 2007, is aimed
at reducing involuntary exposure to tobacco smoke. Language in the
law forbids smoking tobacco indoors in public places, including casino
floors, bars and taverns. Some bars and taverns have opened "beer
gardens" in which patrons are allowed to smoke.
New administrative rules from the Illinois Department of Public Health are meant to
clarify the situations in which outdoor smoking will be allowed. Many
tavern owners and operators report being confused and challenged by
the new rules and say that they are getting legal
advice that indicates that full compliance with the new rules could
completely end smoking in beer gardens. A push has begun to
scrutinize and possibly modify the new rules.
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Wednesday, June 16, 2010
You Can't (and shouldn't) Win Them All! by Terry's Client Deborah Dee Harper
Who'd ever imagine that losing $20,000 and guaranteed publication of my novel with a powerhouse publishing company would be a good thing—a very good thing?
Certainly not me—at least not back in the days when I was one of five finalists for the 2009 Operation First Novel contest sponsored by the Jerry B. Jenkins Christian Writers Guild and Tyndale Publishing House. That event stood, to-date, as the pinnacle of my writing career. Yes, I'd been published before, but this was the big time. This was the culmination of years of study, the completion of the manuscript I'd worked on for two solid years. Achieving finalist status in that prestigious competition was proof that somebody—somebody in the know, someone besides me—believed I could write.
I fretted for four months. But that all changed about thirty seconds after hearing Jerry B. Jenkins make the announcement at the Writing for the Soul conference last February that someone else (a very deserving man) had won, Misstep had not, and I was officially a loser. (Well, he didn't say it exactly like that.)
Strangely, after my initial disappointment faded, a great relief washed over me. I was free! No more waking up to thoughts of winning. No more drifting off to sleep worried about losing. It was settled. I could get on with my life. Sure, winning would have been nice; I could certainly use $20,000 and I'd love to have my Christian novel published by Tyndale. But I realized it wasn't the right time in my career to bypass the hard work of pitching my manuscript. I needed to speak with learned professionals from the publishing industry—the agents, editors, and publishers from around the country who were present at the conference. It was imperative that I hear what they had to say, soak up their knowledge, immerse myself in the atmosphere and camaraderie of like-minded individuals whose collective goal will always be to honor our Lord and Savior through our writing. It was up to me to prove I could deliver what they needed, that I had what it takes to be not only a writer, but also a published author. I had to believe in myself before I could ask them to believe in me.
So I hit the floor running and for the next two days, I pitched and smiled and asked questions and soaked up advice and acted the part of someone who had a product to offer that she believed in. I left the conference energized and optimistic (albeit sans the $20,000), returned home, and sent out requested proposals, manuscripts, and thank you notes. Then I prayed.
Four months later, Misstep and I are represented by Terry Burns, one of best agents in the business, and I'm now officially a proud member of the Hartline Literary Agency family. Through Terry I met Linda Glaz who not only helped me with my manuscript, but brought many a smile to my face in the process. I have a new batch of colleagues who have welcomed me into their midst with warmth and encouragement. Now that's winning.
And I owe it all to being a loser.
Deborah Dee Harper www.deborahdeetales.blogspot.com
8 comments:
- Lynda Schab said...
Very inspiring post and an even more inspiring attitude! I think we could form our own version of "The Biggest Loser" and make it about people who lost something, only to turn that "loss" into something positively bigger. You sure did.
- June 16, 2010 at 6:55 AM
- Jeanette Levellie said...
Whoa, what an excellent attitude! I'd say you ARE a winner, Deborah. Thanks for sharing your experience, and your heart of grace.
Blessings on you,
- June 16, 2010 at 8:46 AM
Great story and lesson. No doubt, in God's eyes, you took a big step with your wonderful attitude, and stedfast motive of honoring Him with your writing.
Praise God!
Parralel with attitudes and motives, I believe that 'obeying God' is our greatest of opportunities...and it gives us incalculable potential.
Once I took a giant slice of my net worth, and purchased silver. I knew silver was going to explode in price shortly. I expected for the first time in my life, to make a lot of money the easy way.
In a matter of months the price explosion fuse was lit. One evening, I contemplated the good things I'd be able to accomplish for my family and some missionary friends with my sooncoming fortune. But suddenly, God spoke to me, "Forget the big fortune. Sell all the silver, and give all the proceeds to...." (someone I didn't like at all)
Do I need to explain all the ways I felt? I was even going to lose my huge initial investment. But there was only one possible response that made real sense to me. I would OBEY GOD. I rose up early the next morning and took care of the business of FULLY OBEYING GOD.
Yes, silver went sky-high, and I would have made the kind of money to change my families' lives. I had to sweat and get filthy dirty working, working, working to try and make up just part of my own initial investment.
But that experience was a tremendous success in God's eyes: I was given an opportunty to SHOW God how much I desired to be obedient to Him. And I succeeded!
Deborah, you used your experience to show God your good attitudes and pure motives, desiring to honor HIM. I do fervently pray HE honors your writing efforts in such a great way, that it will add even more meaning to the narrative you shared with us.
- June 16, 2010 at 12:06 PM
- Kelly Freestone said...
Yaaaay! Through heartache and frustration, you found your home!
So exciting.
Great testimony.
Thanks for sharing.
- June 16, 2010 at 4:13 PM
- Shmologna said...
This blog makes me so happy. God is so wonderful like that. The world says LOSER, but God says, "I have another opportunity for you. Learn. Grow. And be doubly bless by what I have in store for you."
Again, thank you for this inspiring post.
~Britt Mitchell
- June 16, 2010 at 4:47 PM
- Deborah Deetales said...
Lynda, Jeannette, Writer Jim, Kelly, and Britt...
Thank you so much for your kind thoughts. A few years ago, I'd have thought I'd be crazy to think losing something like that would have been not only God's will and a far better thing for me (and my career) than the prize and publication. It's meeting great folks like you who drive home that point more and more. I love the support we give one another on this blog. That makes us all winners!
- June 17, 2010 at 2:38 AM
- Caroline said...
Wonderful post, Deb. You're definitely a winner w/that kind of attitude!
- June 17, 2010 at 12:48 PM
- Deborah Deetales said...
Thank you :-) I'd do it all over again (losing and all!) to be a part of this group of talented writers. Being a part of the Hartline family has been so encouraging.
- June 17, 2010 at 3:19 PM


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A prediction of upcoming story plots for the Fishman Island Arc.
In the Skypiea arc, Eiichiro Oda made Skypiea a parallel to heaven, so I wouldn't be surprised if he made Fishman Island a parallel to Hell because it would be "under the sea."
I think that the future story plot for the Fishman Island Arc will be that a bunch of fishermen, from the Shabondy Islands, would be trying to take over Fishman Island. A battle between fishermen and Fishman with the Straw Hats in the middle of the whole thing!!!!!
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Another theory of mine is that Smoker may join the Straw Hats, unlikely as that is. Smoker may discover something bad about the World Government and be kicked out of the Marines, thrown into the water to drown, after which Luffy might order Zoro to save him or something similar. After which he might, upon discovering Smoker's situation, ask him to join, prompting a shocked reaction from the crew. xD It's unlikely, but still!
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I have this theory that perhaps the fishmen's hatred towards humans stem from the World Government possibly having control over the island, not just fishmen are superior to humans.
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i could see that. also if and yes it is a big IF Jimbei is there than he would keep the bad out and protect the people. he could be the good Shichibukai out of the lot. seeing as all the ones that we have seen in detail all want more power.
Jimbei could have the same morals and values as the Strawhats.
this is way out there but it would be good to see.
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A comrade of mine came up with this while we were watching the Funi DVD's.
The mini-arc where they meet Gaimon, the guy trapped in the treasure chest. It just seemed too out of place and insignificant to warrant any place in the storyline. But, as has been stated, Oda loves his foreshadowing and he tends to make even the most mundane events into major turning points/symbolism for later on.
When the Strawhats do get there, will there even be a treasure left? Will someone have beaten them to it? An even then, if there is nothing there, how would they all react? My comrade figured, what if Gaimon's little story was an overall representation of the story? I could see Oda doing it.
|2008-11-08, 18:41
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This is something that I came up with when the crew set sailed for Fishmen Island in the manga (warning: there be some spoilers in this farfetched idea of mine) and while I made a few changes here and there to reflect the current events of the story, the original premise is still there.
Spoiler for some manga spoilers:
I know some will think that I'm copying things from Code Geass, and while I did watch it, I didn't start that series until the middle of its second season.
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Besides, you can't rule out that this arc may have connections outside the series. Maybe Oda's making allusions to some other media; some movie/game/etc that he happens to enjoy. Maybe this just came to him randomly through his dreams and he was compelled to go with it. Maybe he just did to waste time...
But at any rate, the series has yet to end so we can't be 100% on whether or not this arc will have some relevance later on in the plot. Maybe the only importance of this arc was meeting the Foxy Pirates because they'll be recurring characters much like Hachi was. After all, Oda does have a way of digging up the most miniscule of details half-way later into the series, just look at Brook and Laboon.
Not that I'm trying to disprove anyone or anything like that, I merely ask that we keep our minds open. The possibilities are endless...
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I think the funniest thing about these are that the villains actually call him by these names... I mean who would really think to start calling him "Mizu Luffy"?
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I think that Franky will find a special Devil Fruit that would allow him to turn his body into any kind of mechanical tool
I have writen a post about my idea for the Meka Meka no Mi in the make your own Devil Fruit
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Source: Analytical Collection of Medical Formulas (1682)
Author: Wang Ang
Category: Formulas that Clear Heat
Pattern: Chronic cough caused by Lung Heat and Yin deficiency
Key Symptoms: Chronic cough with excess phlegm, fever due to overexertion, lung abscesses, blood streaked sputum
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Preparation: Decoct with Sheng Jiang. The source text does not specify doses.
Actions: Clears Heat and dissolves Phlegm, stops cough, moistens and protects the Lung Yin
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I never realized how green a pea was. Or how good it tasted simply mixed with salt and oil. I always knew quinoa was quirky, but never so much now as I stared into a bowl of it, noting all of the little germ rings daintily sitting upon each grain like a tiny lasso. Never has coconut oil been so buttery, or salt so clean. Why? Because some of these things are the only foods I've eaten for the last few weeks as I allowed my body – and my mind – to slowly heal.
For the last seven years or so I've been on a quest for happiness in limited variety. I've been here to prove to myself that there is more out there than what my culture has to offer, what the freezer section beckons me to buy and what my body says I can't have. I've been convinced that there is hope out there, hope eternal and external that this foodie could be consoled by as she forever said goodbye to bread, and yeast, and sugar. Now, I don't know if forever existed at all.
Food allergies, intolerances, sensitivities, and fear went away yesterday as I took in every part of the tasting experience during my own sacred and spiritual moment yesterday. It was the moment. That moment.
I. Ate. Bread.
I slowly felt every part of the object in my hands. The soft inside, the crusty outside. I brought it to my nose and breathed in, deeply and consciously. I asked the bread – and myself – permission. I asked if I could trust. I asked if it was safe.
Safety. What a word. It didn't save me from the pain and heartbreak. It didn't shield me from the lies. What it did was put up a wall, a net. One I would keep up for seven or so years.
I broke off a piece of the white flesh and took a bite. No chewing. No swallowing. Just a bite. In me welled every emotion possible. And then peace. Peace. Quite a concept. I had been waiting for peace.
I swallowed peace. I accepted peace. I allowed it to slowly travel to my stomach, and I allowed the love to travel to my heart. From my heart, I opened up a door to my lips. And smiled. From my lips to my brain, and from my brain to my mind.
Sometimes the connection between pain and family is so strong that we separate the very elements of our personal joy to cope. We take food – so strongly connected to love and sex and identity – escape into it literally for dear life, life we are desperately holding onto, and hoard it deeply within ourselves. We cope through intense fear and shame and all of the Why's in our world until coping becomes a mechanism of it's own. We are not afraid of being fat. Or lazy. Or addicted. Or a glutton. We are afraid to live a life beyond the scared words of another person. We are afraid to prove it wrong, and to be proved wrong because it hurts. so. damn. bad.
Bread. Bread is life. Bread is the heartbeat. Bread is blood. Bread is living. For seven (or so) year I haven't been living. I have been afraid of life. Afraid of bread.
I feel the crumbs scatter around my feet, falling down my legs to the floor. I hear the drip drip of my watering mouth with closed eyes as I use this piece of life to pacify such deep hurt. Hurt that is coming out. Hurt that can no longer hurt me.
I take in a breath. It is time to trust again. Mine is the only voice that is truly left.


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It's been two weeks since my industrial training started. My place, Ann Joo Steel Berhad which is known to produce steel product. I was placed at SMP-MM ( Steel Making Plant-Mechanical Maintenance) and further specialise in CCM operation.. that is continuous casting machine. All the guys there is really nice. The technicians and engineers really knows their way around the factory.
Every tuesday there will be a PM-day. That is preventive maintenance day. This is the day that usually they allocate about 4 hours for repairing any necessary parts thats need to be repair. Sometimes if there is too many problem, the repair time could take up to 8 hours. This is the time where the technicians and engineers rush their way to tune the machine to it's perfect condition.
A lot of things that i have learn even within two weeks time. The most important thing is that safety is very important in workplace. Respecting each other is important in life.... I'll always remember that.. till next time.. not forgetting.. i'm happy now.. thanks..


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