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Yep. I had decided that wrestling with my hair was too much, so I did the best thing that anybody could do… cut it all off.
Starving Yourself Can Be Healthy
It started from a feeling that God was asking me to fast… after all, fasting is talked about all through the Bible. Then it continued with a realisation that most of the food I was eating was not really good for me. Finally, it all came to a head when I received a book I had purchased about fasting that turned out being all about health. It showed me that a fast was what my body needed to re-establish itself, allowing me to begin a new, healthier diet.
So now I had two reasons for fasting. The first was to seek more of God, and the second was in search of improved health. There was only one condition though… it had to be a pure water-only fast. Nothing, not even juices or drinks, could be included if it was going to be for health also.
It seemed easy. Just stop eating.
Correcting Your Mistakes – on Camera
The successes, and failures, of trying to fix an expensive video camera with the wrong tools.
Birthday in Oz
When I turned 40, it was a really big deal. Unfortunately for me, the people around me did not think the same way, and so my 40th birthday came and went without any fanfare at all. I guess when you are in the middle of Peru, surrounded by students and constrained by activities relating to the mission in which I am involved, it is pretty hard to organise something big.
A couple of eggs smashed on my head, which seems to be a customary thing for those with birthdays in Peru, and a card signed by a handful of friends were about the only reminders that this was actually one of the biggest days of my life.
The age of forty for me was one of the greatest milestones in my life. It brought with it many discoveries both about who I was and where I was going that caused both conflict and serious growth during this time. To have celebrated it in some big way would have helped me pass through this process at the time.
Now it does not matter anymore. Of course it did at the time, but it was one of those things that after a year it was no longer important. Now I am turning 41. This seems hardly significant at all, as most of my struggles relating to this new age are now over.
Turning 40 was like the entry into adulthood, it was the turning of a corner in life that revealed that I could not remain young forever. Perhaps for others this happens at 30 or another age. For me it happened at 40.
So when my birthday comes and goes it is no longer matters greatly to me. Sure, celebrating with good friends or doing something nice on the day is always great, but it is no longer a necessity. I can relate now to my late grandmother who saw every birthday the same as any other day.
Apart from some eats (as seen in the pic) for presents, there was nothing more to identify my birthday this time. No big party, no phone calls outside of family (maybe everyone is too used to me being overseas), no expensive presents, no anything. Yet somehow it seemed right. This time… I liked it like that.
This was the first birthday I have celebrated in Australia for over ten years… and the quietest one too.
More photos after the break…
Where Has the Help Gone?
Loaded with a huge pile of books balanced precariously on top of each other, I turn the corner for the umpteenth time and pass through the crowd of young people gathered outside after dinner. One jumps up from his conversation and walks beside me asking if I needed help. It quite surprised me. This was the first offer for help that I had heard since starting to move all of my gear from one room to another on the other side of the YWAM base. The only thing that the crowd had done before this was to withdraw their extended legs from my pathway.
It caused me to ask, "Where has the help gone?"
Living in community, one generates friendships and comradeship. When an event such as that which happened today occurs, you would expect others to take notice and want to help out, especially if they have free time. Yet amongst a crowd of young people there was not more than one offer for help and that only for a moment. So where were the offers for help, the inquiries as to if help was needed, the interest in what was happening? It didn't come, there was no response to get involved. This quite surprises me.
The people about whom I am writing are not bad people. They are friendly, kind and courteous, and if asked they all would have stopped what they were doing and come to help. Yet I did not ask, as I had passed by them quite a number of times by then and decided to wait to see what response they would give on their own. Yet they did not give any response beyond a few comments as to having a lot of stuff, or feigning that I had stepped on one of their feet, and a couple of jokes. It appeared as though they simply did not see any need to get involved, which left me carrying load after load on my own, cutting through their conversations and groups, and walking past them over twenty times until everything had been moved from one room to the other.
What caused this lack of initiative? This lack of involvement? I cannot say, but it certainly left me surprised.
Where did the help go? It appears that unless you ask for it, it does not exist.
Conquering the Snow
A Day of Small Beginnings
It was a bleak day when I set out towards town, ducking down to follow alongside a burbling stream with the aim of walking along the rocky beaches facing Lake Nahuel Huapi. This was a more preferable route although a little longer than that of following the roads.
The rocky beaches of Lake Nahuel Huapi
The dark threatening clouds that I saw hanging ominously over the windswept lake when arriving at the beach threatened to make the day wet and gloomy. Yet a there were a few slender rays of sunshine forcing their way through this grey landscape, reflecting off the water's surface and sweeping over assorted buildings that caught the eye in their radiant glow. This land of contrasts presented such an amazing scene as to remind me of just how fortunate I was to be in a place as beautiful as this.
Reaching the town around lunch time, I stopped by my favorite chocolate shop for a delicious hot chocolate and some lunch. With that rudimentary and yet delightful task completed, it was now time to conquer the snow. You see, it had snowed only two days earlier leaving the mountains covered even to reaching down as far as us where it droppd a little snow onto our lawn.
The Joy of Snow
Having lived in tropical and subtropical climates for my entire life, snow for me is still a novelty. Although my experiences have included moments of skiing on the mountains, the whole idea of living in a place where I could see the entire process of transformation from a green and sunny summer to a snow covered winter totally fascinated me. So when the snow fell that night I was as ecstatic about it as a young boy, running around wildly in the yard and covering myself in snow.
Getting covered in snow and loving it
I swore to myself that I would head up one of those snow covered mountains on my next day off. The two nights leading up to today were extremely late and followed by mornings starting way too early, and the deep black circles under my eyes indicated that my body had a profound need for rest. Yet this was the only day available to me for the next two weeks, so my Aussie instinct of "She'll be right mate" kicked in and I determined that nothing was going to deter me from getting to the mountains. After all, I had eaten well enough in the morning and had some food with me for the climb.
Choosing the Mountain
To make things easier, I decided to get as close to the mountain as possible before starting my climb. Cerro Cathedral seemed to be the best choice as it is Bariloche's main ski centre and the bus would take me right to the base of the mountain. So after climbing on the right bus, I sit down for the 40 minute ride and head out ready to conquer the snow.
Surveying the mountain as we are arriving, I see two main ski paths coming down from the top and decide to climb up the main one on the left. Being somewhat safety conscious I stop by a local worker to advise him of my intentions and then start off full of energy. Progress is easy in the thin snow at the base of the mountain and the slopes are not too steep when following the roadways. The weather was also good for this time of year with all of the menacing storm clouds hanging out over the lake and leaving the entire mountain clear.
First Mistake
With a strong sun and no wind it was not long before the clothes I had on became far too hot. The energy created by climbing fast up a mountain requires just the minimum of protection and so everything came off except for the singlet top which remained to provide a little protection from the sun's rays. It felt more like spring than winter.
Ignoring the sign saying that I was leaving the area of the ski zone, I assumed that it would be possible to catch up with the main track by cutting through the shrubs. But after a heavy fall of snow, the shrubs are bent over and loaded with snow above, and present mounds of snow covered branches that end up trapping feet beneath you. So after struggling with the shrubs for 15 minutes, showered upon by snow from above and falling into it every time my foot got trapped below, I decided that it would be easier to retrace my steps and find another way up. There was, and it was only around the corner from the sign that I had ignored. Lesson learned.
Early Progress
After finding the entrance to the ski slope and making good progress, the ground started to take on a much steeper angle and the snow grew deeper. Although it was now more demanding my progress was still good. The fresh snow however proved a lot more of a challenge than first anticipated.
There were two layers of snow, the first was light and fluffy and reached up well over my boots while the second layer even with its crusty firmness could not hold my weight and would give way under each step, sinking each leg in almost up to the knees. This two-stage process for each step combined with the lifting of sunken legs from the deep snow and an ever steepening slope eventually took its toll. Progress became slow and laborious. There was no rest from the deep snow.
Slowly but surely, not giving up nor slowing down, I finally make it to the top of the first section of the slope and throw myself into the snow face first to make an imprint and to cool off a little once I am there.
After taking a detour and following the service road I continue my way upward following the skiing slope. The mountain continued straight upward, steep and hard. All seemed fine as I continued to push myself to maintain the same rhythm as before. Up ahead I could see the main cable car lift building and restaurant. The idea of stopping there for a rest sounded fantastic, but somewhere along the way I lost the ski track and ended up in snow as deep as my waist. The going got very slow.
Wearing Out
It was at this point that my body started to show signs of exhaustion. Lifting leg after leg high enough to drag through the deep snow, falling over and picking myself up again after discovering a rock or plant buried beneath my feet, and walking over unstable, semi-frozen snow that sometimes held me up and other times would let me sink deeply was enough to sap any remaining energy that I may have had left.
Finally coming out of the deep snow, I find my way along the service road for the last few hundred meters. The snow was still very unstable and many times I found myself stumbling as one foot sunk randomly through the semi-frozen surface. The struggle from the last part of this climb had exhausted me and this last unpredictable section seemed as though it would never end.
Highest Point
Finally reaching the complex, it was incredibly dismaying to see it not only closed but still under heavy renovations. I had been climbing a little over two hours to reach here. Looking around, the only place that I could find without snow was in a corner of the patio, with nowhere to sit. I stop here and take some highly needed rest, enjoying the view and cooling down after the effort of climbing.
Before long my feet are getting very cold and I quickly discover that my feet are sodden. The untreated leather boots were wet right through. The much colder weather at this altitude quickly started to strip away any warmth that I had generated during the climb. Layer after layer of warm clothes that had been stuffed into my backpack were quickly removed and worn to keep what little warmth remained in my body. With the heavily thermal clothes layered up to five layers deep I was warm enough to consider eating lunch. The only problem was that I had forgotten to bring it with me. In my pack the food that remained was a block of cheese and some stale bread with a packet of honey-drop sweets.
Water was also a problem as I had run out of water on the climb. A nearby ice wall was dripping enough to be able to suck water from the melting snow and provided the liquids that my body desperately needed. The energy however just could not be found in the foods that I had brought with me. Even though I ate some of the hard stale bread and as much cheese as was possible to stomach at one time it was not any of the instant energy foods required by a worn and tired body. The honey-drops were the closest thing to what I did need but when I tried to eat them I felt sick and stopped. The idea of getting sick on top of a mountain that I still need to walk back down again was not a favorable idea.
The weather also had started to close in, with clouds of snow forming overhead and a wall of white cloud clutching the opposite ridge. My goal had been to reach the summit of the mountain, but when my body does not gain any energy after resting and with the weather closing in this idea is quickly put to rest. Where I am will have to suffice for today.
Heading Back Down
Finally it is time to return back down the mountain. Rather than return the same way in which I had come, I make my way over to the other ski slope that I had seen on my way in. I make a false start by trying to reach it by climbing a steep hill up to my armpits in snow that was impossible to climb and which sapped much of the little energy remaining. Instead I follow underneath the cable car towers, weakly struggling along until reaching a service road traversing the mountain that will take me there. From here the going is easier but with deeper snow and I stumble often.
Somewhere in my mind was the idea that upon reaching the ski slope everything would be an easy ride back down by sliding on my belly like a penguin. It was not to be. The snow was very soft and powdery and any attempt at sliding even on the steepest sections of the slope was stopped short behind a wall of snow. Snow plowing would have been a better word for each attempt.
Making my way back down the slope by walking, the ground beneath the snow is uneven and full of surprises. Every few steps I find myself falling or stumbling and having to lift myself back out of the snow. With already extremely low energy levels being sapped more and more by every fall I finally reach a point of sheer exhaustion and collapse into the snow. Every step had been an effort and every fall required strong mental as well as physical exertion to get back up again.
Calling for Help
As I lie there my thoughts turn to the task ahead. What would normally be a very easy descent had now become a massive task. The idea of trying to make it down the long and steep ski slope in my current state seemed somewhere between highly difficult and impossible. The signs my body was giving off indicated a desperate need for energy and rest, two things that were not available to offer it in my current position.
There on the deserted ski slope it felt more remote than it was. As I considered my options the idea came to me to call and ask for prayer from my friends. I had never prayed for something like this nor had I ever asked for prayer for something like this but it seemed a very reasonable option in my current state.
What happened next defies reason. At least from my perspective it does. While I had been lying on the snow I had also been monitoring my body and the signs it was giving me. Within a couple of minutes of asking for help all of the signs that had indicated exhaustion in my body disappeared and a new strength rose within me. It was not like a fresh strength as though I had not climbed at all but rather a strength that gave me a desire to continue my downward plight.
Lying there a little longer just to be sure this was not a passing feeling I rose to my feet to be greeted with a new strength. It was a strength that covered over the exhaustion that I was feeling, and not only a strength but also a fresh desire to get down this mountain.
The Final Return
Now back on my feet I head off walking through the snow. The same uncertain ground is beneath me yet I find that I am no longer stumbling. As I continue downward there comes a crest in the slope where I can see the base of the mountain and all of the buildings again. Progress is good but it still seems slow so I decide to start running, throwing myself down into the snow at times just to see if it is possible to slide. Each time I throw myself down I am stopped almost as quickly behind a wall of snow. Sometimes in using my arms to drag myself along I can make it a little further but the effort for the results is just not worth it.
The energy and stability with which I am descending surprises me. Not slowing down nor holding back I continue running down the mountain slope. My cold and wet feet are now freezing and starting to hurt with the cold yet the rest of my body is breaking out in a profuse sweat from the effort expended in the run. Finally I reach the very last section of the slope where it is covered with people learning to ski and enjoying the fresh snow. It is here where I discover a track in which by sitting down it is possible to slide freely, and do so all the way back to the car park.
My descent was now over, and the mountain adventure had ended. Energy levels were low but nowhere near as low as they had been at the point of the phone call for help. All that remained now was to wait for the bus to take me back home. I had done what I had come to do; I had conquered the snow.
After calling my friends again to let them know that I was safely down the mountain, I returned home on the bus and stopped at a nearby restaurant for a hearty, solid meal. Then after a short walk home, I threw myself in the bed and rested. Even with the extra energy that came through the prayers of my friends it had not taken away the exhaustion that I had previously felt. But I felt great for having spent the day in the snow, climbed a mountain, and seen another part of Bariloche that I had not seen before.
I had conquered the snow!
The main entrance to the slope I climbed
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Fleeing for My Life
What just happened to my friend Paul and me still has my head reeling. It felt like I was living a movie scene… except they were real people chasing me, with real bullets flying over my head… and I was in some serious danger.
Always Walking
It all began as we were walking back to our home after visiting a church in the city. Our home is about three kilometers from the city limits, along a long and dark gravel road, a planned cluster of properties that form a suburb outside of the city.
As none of us have vehicles and the bus service only passes three times per day on week days, we tend to walk everywhere. This is not a great problem, and most of us enjoy this time if the wind is not whipping up clouds of dust into our face and the temperatures stay above zero degrees Celsius. Even so, walking takes a significant amount of time and we are always looking for shortcuts to the places we are going.
Wind whipping up the dust along the roads of the Quintas.
Taking the Shortcut
It so happened that the shortcut that Paul and I were taking this night was a very remote area outside of the city. We were cutting through here to save ourselves an extra ten or twenty minutes of walking, and with Paul suffering some pain in his leg with every step, it seemed worth it at the time. Little did we know what was about to happen along this lonely dirt track.
When we had passed through here heading for the church at the start of the night, it occurred to me then, that I had foolishly brought everything with me related to both money and identification. My passport, credit cards, driver's license and all of the information about my travels was stored in my mobile phone. There was nothing left at home that could identify me. How careless I had been, especially when my travels to Australia were in just two weeks. But nothing would happen to us I reasoned… after all, it never has before.
Taking a different shortcut during the day, about the same distance from the city.
Instantly Healed
Although I believe that God can heal, it is very rare when I am praying for somebody that they are healed right then on the spot. You see, my mum was healed of the fast acting strand of multiple-sclerosis over twenty years ago, and my shoulder was instantly restored to normal, from being virtually pulled from the socket and stretching the ligaments beyond repair, after my mum and her "prayer team" prayed for me.
I have heard of many instant healings and even miracles during my life, but only for two or three have I been present to witness. They were unmistakeable however.
One was for a friend with extremely sore eyes that were very blood-shot after sleeping with his contacts in all night in front of a fan. When I prayed for him, the pain and soreness disappeared and the redness was reduced dramatically. He was amazed at the difference, and went away happy. Later in the day he mentioned to me that some discomfort had returned again, although it was not as bad as before. I do not know why this happened.
Another time I prayed for a weakened hand which was instantly restored to strength.
Both of these times I felt very strongly that I should pray for these people. The next time I did not happen this way. Recently, while in Peru, I was asked to pray for a woman with an excruciating headache. She was instantly healed.
Not knowing about her pain, I was passing through their house where we were staying when her husband called me and asked me if I could pray for her. Just by looking at her I could tell that she was in a lot of pain. Her eyes were bloodshot and filled with tears from the aching.
So I gently placed my hands on her head and prayed. I felt nothing while praying, just a slight warmth on my hands. When I had finished, I asked her how she was feeling. With a smile coming from a relaxed face she said that the headache had gone. Then she grabbed her throat and said that the pain that she had experienced there was also completely gone too.
The pain from her face had left, and her eyes no longer watered. She smiled and said thanks, and then I moved on. Why this happened to her and not to any of the countless others for whom I have prayed for, I do not know. Why my friend's eyes started to cause discomfort again in the afternoon when they were perfect after I had prayed for him in the morning I do not know either.
The only thing that I know, is that I have seen with my eyes that people are healed when you pray for them. Not all of the time, but sometimes. And for me, that is enough to encourage me to keep praying for people.
Maybe the next person I pray for will also be instantly healed.
Identifying and Obeying Our Values
A doctor seated beside me told me of how he and his Catholic priest would head over to his place for a number of beers. Sometimes they would get so caught up in their conversations that they would drink until they had become drunk. His question was, "what harm is there in two guys getting slightly drunk at home?"
The implication however, was that getting drunk was perfectly fine because if the priest did it with me it must be ok. Talking to him further revealed that he had a number of children who were now teenagers. This doctor mentioned that he would never drink in front of them. This directly contradicted with the man's first statement.
We started discussing this point, arguing that if he was not willing to drink in front of his children, then it was obvious that he held a value that drinking was wrong. If it was not wrong then there would be no problem in drinking in front of them. It may also be, for arguments sake, that the value was about it being wrong to get drunk. In either case, this value was being violated when the doctor would drink to excess with his priest.
Not only this, but each time he drank with his priest, he was fooling himself into thinking that everything was alright because his priest was also part of the act, dissipating part of his guilt. Perhaps he was reasoning with himself that it was ok to drink because he felt that he could control himself, or for some other weak concession that he was making for himself. In reality, he was trampling all over this value of his which so clearly showed itself when his children were around.
After violating a value for a sufficient amount of time, our conscience does not remind us so loudly of our error and we start to sear it as with a hot iron, becoming less and less sensitive to it. Soon we do not even hear it, but it does not change the fact that we are still acting against it.
Being true to ourselves is identifying those values that we hold and starting to live true to them, obeying our conscience no matter how weak its voice may have become. It is through doing this that we will experience true peace, both with ourselves and with others.
What are "labels" except division
So many times I have heard people talk about this denomination or that denomination or this "religion" or that "religion" and so on. The reality is that we are all simply people standing before a living God. All of this talk simply creates divisions; an "us" against "them" mentality.
Having grown up without knowing much about God, save for some time spent in a Sunday School briefly, when I found Him, my life was not spent in one denomination but many different ones. From one to another to another I went, partly because of my family's constant moving, and partly because I was not looking at the outside or structures, but rather searching for people that lived what they believed. If I found it in a Catholic Church then that was fine for me. If I found it in a Baptist church then that too was fine. As was any denomination that was there.
My belief was not always welcome, but I always found it hard to describe what I felt about all of this to people. Normally I would just tell them that it does not matter where people come from or which denomination or religion they come from, but only that they love God and live this in their lives.
Now, in reading this email, I found this explanation that seemed to be so much clearer in explaining how we are simply people before a living God, nothing more and nothing less. The labels are nothing.
Let me state here and now that man, not God, started every denomination, institutional church, and house church on the face of the earth. Some may be following God's will, some only think they are following God's will, and most are just doing what they want to do with no thought to God's will. We aren't interested now in explaining how or why they do what they do, we simply wish to state that man does all these things, not God. The Kingdom is within you. There is only One Church, and that is the Church that Jesus is building. There is only One Flock, and One Shepherd. Everything else is periphery.
When we see how much of this is man's doing we are liable to become upset over it all, but God just bypasses and transcends the boundaries we put up between one another. God is just too big to confine Himself to working within one little sect, whether they are "in" or "out" of the religious system. God has never blessed a denomination, and He never will. He blesses people, not movements. He judges people, not systems. He only sees one thing, and that is His Son. He only gives us one thing, and that is His Son. If you have the Son, you have Life. If you do not have the Son, you do not have Life. This is the only thing God is looking for.
Sent in an email from Glory of His Cross Prophetic Ministries, titled "One Flock, One Shepherd" by Chip Brogden.


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Note: This high-calorie recipe is especially for kids with cystic fibrosis (CF), who may need additional calories to meet their nutritional needs.
Enjoy this dish alone or with vegetables on the side. This high-calorie meal tastes even better the next day.
Prep time: 75 minutes
Serves: 6
Serving size: 11/4 cups
Nutritional analysis (per serving):
750 calories
33 g protein
46 g fat
1162 mg sodium
370 mg calcium
Note: Nutritional analysis may vary depending on ingredient brands used.
Variations and suggestions:
You can cut this recipe in half and make cornbread muffins with the leftover batter.
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The modern incarnation of Doctor Who has been subject to many curses: Daleks, Cybermen, the Adipose. But most of all he's been cursed by two recurring horrors: orchestral soundtracks and council estates.
In his Seventies heyday, the Doctor travelled to endless different planets (though, to be fair, many of them shared the same shiny floor as Blue Peter) and his music came from the Radiophonic Workshop. In his new guise, he has been largely confined to Earth - often, the more deprived bits of London - but accompanied by the pretension of a Hollywood score. Devotees of the old-school Doctor have found it all rather irritating - which is what makes the next special episode, to be aired on BBC One in November, stand out so impressively.
The Tardis pitches up on Mars in 2059. David Tennant, in his prepenultimate episode, finds Lindsay Duncan running what on the moon would be called a moonbase. She's minding her good-hearted business, growing carrots under huge interplanetary cloches, but nonetheless her mission appears doomed by a zombifying infestation of water-spurting aliens.
What ensues is proper off-world sci-fi, with visual nods to Space: 1999, Thunderbirds and Back to the Future, and a cute robot - called Gadget - the likes of which has not been seen since Disney's The Black Hole in 1979. There's lots of running down corridors, airlocks that leak right on cue, and a really corking second-by-second countdown to destruction. For Duncan, playing Mrs Thatcher earlier this year can't have been half as much fun as riding pillion with the Doctor on a newly supercharged Gadget.
Best of all, nobody sits in a council flat looking morngy, and the music doesn't sound relentlessly like a children's Prom. For fans of vintage Who, this episode is a classic.


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Jon Rafman "The Mental Traveller" at Galleria Civica, Modena
Fondazione Modena Arti Visive presents The Mental Traveller, the first large-scale exhibition of works by Jon Rafman to be shown in an Italian contemporary art institution. Curated by Diana Baldon and presented by Fondazione Fotografia Modena and the Galleria Civica di Modena, the exhibition will open at the Palazzina dei Giardini on Friday 14 September 2018, to coincide with this year's festival filosofia, the theme of which is truth.
The exhibition brings together a selection of multimedia installations, presented for the first time in Italy, tracing the arc of the Canadian artist's practice from 2011 to the present. Employing a variety of media—including photography, video, sculpture and installation—Rafman explores how reality and simulation have become increasingly homogenized in contemporary society in artworks that blur the boundaries between the virtual and the tangible, between physical bodies and technological replicas.
Born in 1981 in Montreal, where he lives and works, Rafman studied literature and philosophy at McGill University before graduating in film, video and new media from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Since his earliest career, Rafman has investigated the ramifications of our reliance on technology on our perceptions of reality. To create Kool-Aid Man (2008–11), Rafman spent three years exploring the virtual-reality platform Second Life, in the guise of the titular avatar, to discover the myriad incarnations of its digital 'inhabitants'. Rafman neither judges nor criticises his Second Life cohabitants: rather, his intention is to document how technology enables people to create entirely new versions of themselves in fantastical environments, giving them the freedom to invent new identities and iconographies.
Rafman also drew from the Internet and its multiple online communities as archival resources for the three videos comprising his Betamale Trilogy (2013–15)—Still Life (Betamale), Mainsqueeze and Erysichthon—which are among the installations included in this exhibition. As in the novels of Georges Bataille, where the narrative arc implodes in the claustrophobic and catastrophic arena of the writing, this leads to a proliferation of narrative strands and interpretations. Watching the Betamale Trilogy, the viewer feels trapped in a vortex of scenarios that are traumatic yet seductive. Rafman skilfully conveys the ambiguous lure of the Internet, which seemingly promises freedom and the discovery of new worlds, yet, in reality, imprisons you in a space tracked by algorithms and monitored by agencies that process, then sell, your navigational data.
Rafman's extensive research on both the Internet and the deep web has enabled him to assume the mantle of amateur anthropologist and digital flâneur. He investigates the epistemic collapse in recent years of the distinction between digital and authentic worlds, between reality and its virtual representation. In his videos, a poetic and hypnotic off-screen voice invariably accompanies a sequence of images taken from the Internet, videogames or online chat forums.
Memory figures as a major theme in many works. In A Man Digging (2013), which comprises footage from videogames including Max Payne 3, the main character speaks of the intrinsic mutability of memory and how it allows for the rewriting of individual and collective history. While the narrator nostalgically drifts along in search of his fragmented past, Rafman transports us, via the glinting surfaces of memory, to the furthest reaches of reality. The video Remember Carthage (2013) tells the story of a man who sets sail on a ship bound for Tunisia in search of a mythical city in the Sahara Desert that existed at the same time as Carthage. Despite its legendary status as the 'Las Vegas of Maghreb', however, no trace of the city remains. Composed of footage from Second Life and the videogame Uncharted 3, the film again features an off-camera voice detailing the sublime architectural beauty of ancient civilisations. Remember Carthage explores not only memory but the contemporaneity of history, since – thanks to technological developments such as videogames and Second Life – even history can now find a different form and influence.
The video Dream Journal (2016–17) comes from Rafman's habit of animating his dreams using amateur 3D software, and has a soundtrack composed by James Ferraro and Oneohtrix Point Never, with whom the artist has previously collaborated. Two young female protagonists – a stereotypical millennial and a child warrior – set off on a Dantean journey within a dystopian universe. The narrative interweaves imaginary scenes with characters from classical epic tales to yield a series of darkly surreal incidents: this is Rafman's unconscious mind, augmented by online surfing, rendered visual.
Greeting visitors at the entrance of the Palazzina is the artist's latest work, Legendary Reality (2017). In this he leads us on a voyage into 'inner space'. An anonymous protagonist narrates a journey through what appears to be a sci-fi landscape – although he could just as easily be sitting at a computer screen on which historical depictions have become conflated with virtual experiences.
Jon Rafman (Montreal, 1981) is an artist who explores digital culture and subcultures, exposing the desires, obsessions and fetishes triggered by the use of technological devices. Recent solo shows in international contemporary art institutions include: I have ten thousand compound eyes and each is named suffering, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2016); Jon Rafman, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster (2016); Jon Rafman, Zabludowicz Collection, London (2015); The end of the end of the end, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (2014); Remember Carthage, First Look: New Art Online, New Museum, New York (2013); The Nine Eyes of Google Streetview, Saatchi Gallery, London (2012); Jon Rafman, online exhibition, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2012). He has also participated in numerous group shows, including: I was raised on the Internet, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (2018); Alone together, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal (2018); ARS 17: Hello world!, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki (2017–18); Jon Rafman / Stan Vanderbeek, Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles (2017); Manifesta 11, Zurich (2016); Welcome to the Jungle, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2015); Speculations on Anonymous Materials, Fridericianum, Kassel (2013); Nine Eyes, Moscow Photobienniale (2012); Screenshots, William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut (2012); From Here On, Les Rencontres de la photographie d'Arles, Arles (2011).
Jon Rafman
The Mental Traveller
Curated by Diana Baldon
14 September 2018–24 February 2019
Opening 14 September 2018, 6pm
Galleria Civica di Modena | Palazzina dei Giardini, Corso Cavour 2, Modena
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Happy birthday to the late Link Wray, the one-lunged, Shawnee native who changed the way people thought about guitar would have been 88 today. Antone's celebrates his legacy at a concert later this month.
Wray is credited with inventing (or at least popularizing) both the power chord and distortion as a vital part of a guitarist's musical palette, two elements upon which the rock 'n' roll church is built.
Wray, who hailed from Dunn, N.C., did most of his best work in the Washington, D.C./Northern Virginia/Maryland area. Legend has it that the Korean War veteran came up with his primal rock instrumental 'Rumble' while playing a dance at the Fredericksburg (Virginia) Arena.
Someone asked for a stroll, and Wray and his band knocked out one of the most powerful instrumentals of all time. The single was released in '58 and the rest, as they say, is history.
"Rumble" is a wonderful song to listen to in the autumn — this sound is wind in the Central Virginia hills, leather jackets over heavy flannel shirts and violent D.C. juke joints.
It's a sound that hypnotized everyone from Pete Townshend to Bob Dylan; bands such as the Cramps and the Rev. Horton Heat built entire careers around the rockabilly-as-menace shtick, mixing it with junk culture and punk rock.
His hits collections, full of ripping instrumentals such as"Raw-Hide," "Jack the Ripper," "Ace of Spades," are mandatory listening for every rock fan.
As the Beatles ascended, instrumental rock faded. In in the late 60s and early 70s, Wray's career had a strange second act when he and his band cut three albums over a few years time on his father's farm in Maryland, the "3-Track Shack." A blend of blues, country, gospel, Native American chants and folk, they sound like the could have been cut tomorrow. One of them, "Beans and Fatback" was reissued for Record Sore Day 2017.
But he never forgot his overdriven, holes-in-the-amp-speaker roots, especially as punk embraced fuzz and distortion. "Link Wray: Live at the Paradiso, released in 1979, is a proto-noise-rock stunner.
Wray — who toured until his death and did two nights at the Continental Club several months prior — is remembered for making music that embodied the idea of rock guitar as dangerous, as menacing, as something that could barely be tamed.
For those who want to see Austin players pay tribute to the godfather of distortion, head over to Antone's on May 13 for the "13 Guitar Rumble" starring Burnin' Mike Vernon (3 Balls of Fire), Eve Monsees (Exiles), Mike Buck (LeRoi Bros), Denny Freeman (Bob Dylan), Speedy Sparks (Sir Douglas Quintet), Rosie Flores,
Rick Broussard (Two Hoots and A Holler), Steve Fulton, John X Reed, Danny B Harvey (Nancy Sinatra), Pierre Peligrin (Havana 3am), Pat Collins (LeRoi Bros), Don Leady (Tail Gators), Jack Montesinos (Don Leady's Rockin Revue) and Homer Henderson along with all kinds of guests.


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It's no secret that Instagram allows the user to place in the profile only one active link. These are the realities of today.For those who do not agree to put up with this state of affairs and wants to be able to "send" visitors to their profile in two or more directions, this article is written, in which we will solve the problem of adding several links to Instagram profile.
This service, in addition to the possibility of placing in the profile an unlimited number of links, provides absolutely free of charge the ability to track clicks on each link and select a menu theme with links.
In addition, there is also a PRO-version of this service, which in addition to the above, allows you to fully adjust the color and style of the buttons, allows you to change the name of the link, and also redirect visitors to Facebook and Instagram by adding a pixel to facebook.s you Add multiple links in Instagram you get the very best options now.
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How to add multiple links to your Instagram profile?
Previously, on the device on which you will perform manipulations on adding several links to Instagram, you need to log in to your account of this social network.
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Go to the website and in order to authenticate click any of the specified buttons:
This article will tell you about 3 services that allow you to increase the number of active links on Instagram.
Instagram links: 5 to 1
It is a simple service that allows you to add multiple links to your one active one. 5 in 1, in short. You can create a custom link for instagram to include in your profile, and when you click on it, a few more pop up.
For example, a link to your email, product catalog, blog, VK, etc.The service allows you to use up to 5 active links in this way.
But your profile link is fixed and displayed in the Instagram description in the free version. The free version also includes an unlimited number of links (which can be created), reports on the number of clicks on each link, and three topics.
The paid version of osts $ 6 per month and includes a traffic report from links, sharing, buttons and styles, a title, the ability to make links on a schedule, as well as add Facebook audience.
Instagram links: how to manage customer accounts
If you have one account on Instagram, then you will not notice much difference between link.
With the free version, you get an unlimited number of links, but not a branded, but a random URL, as is the case.
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Free for 30 days only. After that, the service will cost $ 9.99 per month and include a special landing page assigned to your Instagram profile and image.
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Milano DC Ceiling Fan Features:
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|Suitable up to 20 degrees
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|Indoor Only
|Motor Type
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The Cinni Milano DC ceiling fan is a modern designed fan with 4 sleek, aerodynamic blades and providing excellent air movement. This fan offers a high grade, aluminium cast body with quality, plywood blades. It features the innovate, new DC technology and is reversible for both summer and winter use via the included 6 speed, radio frequency remote control. This model comes with an integrated, 18W, warm white LED light.
Please note that all fans should be installed by a qualified electrician and all instructions for installation are followed. You are required to comply with the electrical wiring regulations and any other relevant regulations. Please consult with your electrician if you are unsure of what these are and whether your application is safe for installation.
This fan utilises a DC motor, however has an internal inverter and thus is compatible with normal AC electrical systems. Cannot be connected directly to a DC power source.


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Whether it's a London staycation or a three-day city break abroad, you've got a busy Bank Holiday weekend lined up – and you need the perfect makeup. To get you ready, we've rounded up the products that will prep you for the fun ahead, plus the seven face essentials to pack in your suitcase for every occasion.
Before the Bank Holiday
Get your golden glow in the days leading up to the Bank Holiday with a good self-tanner. If you love a gradual tan that you can't feel on your skin, try SunShimmer In-Shower Self Tan, £9.99. You apply the lotion in the shower by stepping out of the water stream, smoothing it on, waiting one minute and rinsing it off.
If it's already Thursday and you want a deep tan that lasts up to 7 days, go for SunShimmer Self Tan Mousse, £7.99, which comes with a tint so you can see where you're putting it, and tans limbs a holiday-worthy shade of bronze.
Finally, do a DIY manicure with Super Gel Nail Polish, £5.99. Slick your chosen colour on on a Thursday, add the Top Coat, £5.99, to seal down the gel formula, and it will last for up to 14 days.
On the Bank Holiday
If you're off on a city break, consider this your perfect packing list. If you're staying at home, keep these to hand for everything from barbecues to shopping trips.
First up, you need a foundation that's super-quick to apply, so opt for one that makes seamless blending a breeze, likeMatch Perfection Foundation, £7.99. Not only is this base the dream for creating a second-skin finish, but it's also packed with a 24Hr Moisture Complex, so your face feels soft all day.
For flawless brows, get the Brow This Way Eyebrow Kit, £3.99, on your radar. It holds a soft wax that tames the strands, plus a tinted powder that adds fullness and depth. We're all about making your brows stand out, so try the shimmery Brow This Way Highlighting Pencil, £4.99, too. Apply under the arches of your eyebrow and your brows will lift and brighten your whole face.
To get a healthy flush that lasts, Royal Blush, £5.49, is goals. It's a cream formula that transforms into powder on your skin, and comes in three ultra-flattering colours. There's Majestic Pink for cool skin tones, Peach Jewel for warm skin tones, and Coral Queen for anyone looking to nail a sun-kissed look. Which is pretty much everyone.
On lips, look for hydrating formulas or lipsticks that promise long wear. We love Moisture Renew Lipstick, £6.49, for a balm-like texture with a major punch of dewy pigment. Kate Moss' 15th anniversary range of Lasting Finish Lipsticks, £6.49 each, were also made for Bank Holidays. The dreamy day-to-night nudes range from pinky (Rock 'n' Roll Nude), to beige (My Nude), to peachy (Boho Nude) in tone.
And, finally, get your lashes and liner sorted with this eye-defining combo: Volume Colourist Mascara, £5.99, and Colour Precise Eyeliner, £5.99. The mascara gives instant volume plus a gradual tint for your darkest lash look yet, while the liquid pen liner offers total control over your flicks. Perfect.
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I have a 15 inch MacBook Pro (model MacBookPro6,2) with 2.66 gHz Intel Core i7 and 8 GB RAM from mid 2010.
Right now, I use a LaCie Firewire 800 bus powered Little Big Disk Quadra which works well. There are two Firewire 800 ports on the Little Big Disk Quadra, so I am wondering if I can daisy chain another Firewire 800 bus powered external hard drive to it? Will the MacBook Pro be able to power both?


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Welcome to Phil Taylor Towbars. We are a family business based in Horndean, Hampshire. With 50 years experience in the towbar industry we are one of the leading towbar fitting companies in the South.


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Out of all the adventure activities in Andaman, banana boat rides are the most exciting and fun activity to do. Six people can ride these boats at a time, these boats are shaped like a banana and are tied behind a speed boat to gain rush.
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AudienceView has a full suite of features to help organizations just like yours drive additional revenue from a customer's order. In this short information video, Russell Ashby – Product Manager at AudienceView, discusses strategies and techniques for boosting your revenue through up-selling and cross-selling, earning you more money per order.
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U.S. 'indecisive' on food aid to North Korea
North Korea
September 26, 2011
NGOs claim civilians are 'caught in crossfire' of politics
Despite repeated warnings over seven months that a potentially catastrophic food crisis is emerging in North Korea, the U.S. government remains indecisive over sending substantial food aid to help many of the nation's civilians from starving to death.
"We don't understand why food assistance is being withheld." says Matt Ellingson of Samaritan's Purse, who led a delegation of representatives from five U.S. non-governmental organizations (NGOs) into North Korea earlier this month. "The NGOs strongly recommended a food aid program for women and children months ago, and that program has received no response. We fear that millions of North Koreans are caught in a political crossfire."
Since February, assessment teams from U.S. NGOs, the World Food Programme (WFP), the U.S. government and the European Commission's humanitarian aid arm (ECHO) have visited North Korea and confirmed that food aid is urgently needed.
"President Obama pledged in his Inaugural Address that his Administration would help 'nourish starved bodies' in poor countries. When will the President live up to his powerful words for the people of North Korea?" asks Jim White of Mercy Corps. "Many innocent people are at risk today, and we know that food aid can save lives."
In 2008-2009, Christian Friends of Korea, Global Resource Services, Mercy Corps, Samaritan's Purse and World Vision conducted a program that delivered food aid to 900,000 North Koreans over nine months.
During September 3-10, a delegation of the same five NGOs visited the provinces of South Hwanghae, North Hwanghae and Kangwon – considered collectively to be the nation's "breadbasket," according to White.
The delegation consisted of six experts all with experience working in North Korea, and half of them were fluent in Korea, thereby enabling direct interviews with civilians without interpretation from North Korean officials.
The trip, made with U.S. government support after the North Korean government requested assistance, was in response to floods this summer. Heavy rains and winds from monsoon-strength storms battered the southern and southeastern provinces of the country – collapsing buildings, destroying gardens, and devastating crops, roads and railways.
"Health and food security, always fragile in North Korea, are deteriorating and people are vulnerable," says Ellingson. "Already hungry children have been pushed over the edge by continued food shortages and diarrhea caused by dirty water and poor hygiene. Without immediate and direct intervention there is significant risk for a far greater crisis to unfold in the coming six to nine months."
Delegation members met a 747 cargo plane carrying more than $3 million worth of emergency response supplies including oral rehydration salts, ready-to-use therapeutic foods, tarps and other items. They monitored the distribution of these supplies directly to civilians.


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Merry Christmas Mississippi.com
Lighting Up Mayton Display
For over 25 years I have been building Christmas Displays that keep growing and growing. This past season I had over 55,000 lights, (many computer controlled and sequenced to music), Mega trees, mini trees, plywood cutouts, wireframes, and now inflatable's.
I enjoy doing the work and many people from central Mississippi enjoy coming out to the country to see the lights and watch them dance to music which you can hear from the comfort of your car on FM 107.9, my low-power hobby radio station.
When you come, I would like to ask something of you. Please consider helping someone else during this Christmas Season by making a donation.
I am a collection location for new, unwrapped toys for the children of the Blair E. Batson Children's Hospital in Jackson, MS. If you would like to make a cash donation while here, those donations go towards the benevolent causes of Union Baptist Church.
We look forward to seeing you this Christmas Season at
"Lighting Up Mayton"
We are located in southeast Rankin County Mississippi near the town of Puckett. We are about 25 miles south of the city of Brandon and 12 miles north of the city of Mendenhall on Mississippi Highway 13. From Brandon, travel southeast on Mississippi Highway 18 and come to the intersection on MS Highways 18 and 13. Turn Left and go north on MS Highway 13, 2.5 miles and watch to your left. From Mendenhall just go north on MS 13 for 9 miles then through the 13/18 Intersection. Go Straight for 2.5 miles. From Morton, Mississippi, take MS Highway 13 south at Interstate 20. Go 18 miles and look to your right. You can't miss the glow!!


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Enjoy the benefits of cross-training every week with two triathlon disciplines built into each class. Alternate between swim/bike, bike/run, and run/swim workouts over the course of each session. Let Tri Faster coaches motivate and teach you how to elevate your fitness to a higher level in an up-tempo and spirited workout. This class is appropriate for triathletes and fitness enthusiasts who want to add some fun, variety, and challenge to their training. Workouts will be held on the spin bikes, treadmills, and WAC indoor pool. Registration options available for single day drop-ins or entire sessions. For more information and to register go to trifaster.com
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SharedEarth connects land owners with gardeners and farmers.
Austin – SharedEarth (www.sharedearth.com) launches as the world celebrates Earth Day.
SharedEarth.com is a free match-making website that connects land owners with gardeners and farmers. Land owners share their land with someone they trust and get free fruits, vegetables and flowers. Gardeners and farmers get free access to land and the opportunity to grow what they love. The produce is shared between the two parties as they see fit. The result is a more efficient use of land and a greener planet.
"Community gardens exist in every major city in the United States, yet virtually all have waiting lists. With over 25 million square feet of shared space on the system, SharedEarth.com has created an alternative with the largest community of private land owners and gardeners on the planet. We are making more efficient use of land and a greener planet, one garden at a time," said SharedEarth.com Chairman and Founder, Adam Dell.
Much like online dating sites, SharedEarth.com users create their own profile and find matches based on criteria such as location, years of gardening experience and the type of produce to be grown. Gardeners and farmers find the service useful because they are able to gain free access to land. Land owners find the service useful because they often lack the time, experience or commitment needed to cultivate a productive garden on their property.
Malcolm Gladwell, the author of the best-selling books The Tipping Point, Blink and Outliers, had this to say about Shared Earth: "Whoa! What a grand idea."
Shared Earth was born out of Dell's own experience looking for help growing a garden on his property. He turned to the Internet to find a qualified match. And now he reaps the rewards of this partnership through the fruits and vegetables he eats every day. SharedEarth.com was established as a not for profit sustainable corporation to help facilitate this process for others.
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The M9 ACE in Detail is a 132 page full color photo journal of the U.S. Army's armored combat earthmover. The book contains extensive color photos of the ACE in action in the field, and a comprehensive walkaround section for the detail-oriented. Makes a great companion to the Takom 1/35 ACE model kit!
The M1A2 in Detail contains more than 100 pages and hundreds of photographs of the M1A2 in the field and as a walkaround. Full color. Includes photos never before seen in a unique photojournal. CURRENTLY SOLD OUT.
M1A1 in Detail consists of 144 pages of full color, large format photographs of U.S. Army M1A1 tanks in combat environments in Iraq starting in 2003.
The M60A2 in Detail volume 1 is a comprehensive 132 page full color photo-journal of the U.S. Army's short-lived M60A2 missile-firing main battle tank. Volume 1 is entirely black and white period photos, with many close up detailed shots. Some interior shots. Volume 2 will contain about 60 pages of color in action photos and about 60 pages of walkwround detail shots.
The M60A2 in Detail volume 2 is the second part in a two-part series on the short-lived but highly interesting U.S. Army missile-firing main battle tank. This book contains hundreds of full color photographs in 60 pages of the vehicle in the field in Germany between 1978-1980, and another 60 pages of walkaround detail shots. These two volumes area must-have for the Dragon, Academy and the AFV Club 1/35 scale model kits of this tank.
This is the second volume on the M1A2. Expanded to 148 pages of full color photos on the Army's M1A2. Includes vehicles from 3-8 Cav, 2-8 Infantry, 1-37 Armor, and various units in Europe. All new content and all photos are taken of actual vehicles in service with the U.S. Army on maneuvers in the field.
The revised and expanded reprint of SABOT Publication's first and sold-out book on the M1A2. The original 100 page book has been edited, some corrections made, and includes the addition of 44 more pages of brand new large color photographs of M1A2 SEPs in action around the world.
Volume 1 of 2 volumes on the M2A3 Bradley, covering Bradleys in Europe, in green and camouflage, at Grafenwoehr and on maneuvers in various countries in Europe. Includes a walkaround, color profiles, and more than 130 pages of photographs.
Volume 2 of 2 volumes on the M2A3 Bradley. Covering Continental United States (CONUS), Europe, and Korea. Walkaround of both the exterior and interior, coverage of the B-FIST, color profiles, and more than 144 pages of photographs.
Volume 1 of 2 volumes on the M60A3 main battle tank. Volume 1 covers M60A3s on maneuvers in Europe during REFORGER exercises as well as M60A3s as OPFOR at CMTC in Hohenfels. Includes color profiles, and more than 120 pages of photographs.
A photo-reference journal of the United States Army's M18 GMC Hellcat World War II tank destroyer. 116 pages, 12 color plates of various M18s, including Balkan Wars vehicles, 12 pages of period photos, and full color walkaround.
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Gary Lucas: Action guitarist
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass., April 17, 2001) - Gary Lucas www.garylucas.com has been called a "neo-expressionist guitarist." It's as apt a description as any for the painterly approach the Grammy-nominated pop songwriter (for Joan Osborne's "Spider Web") brings to his singular interpretations of traditional folk, blues, Chinese pop, European classical and Jewish spiritual music, as well as to his original compositions, many written for TV and film.
"I like to paint pictures when I play," said Lucas -- who brings his one-man "guitar jamboree" to Club Helsinki this Friday, April 20, at 9 -- in a recent phone interview from his New York apartment. "I like to fling a lot of paint around. I let my inner child make the decisions. My ear opens and closes automatically. I don't really consciously govern, choosing or rejecting anything.
"At the end of the day, it's all words, though. I'd hope that people would be grabbed viscerally and drawn in by the music. You can get all intellectual about it, but in the end it's pretty gritty and gutbucket in approach."
It is perhaps the unusual combination of intellectualism and visceral grit that has so characterized Lucas's work since he came to fame initially as the last guitarist in Captain Beefheart's band. The Yale University-educated English major made his professional concert debut in 1973 as part of an orchestra conducted by Leonard Bernstein in the European premiere of his "Mass."
Lucas spent 13 years as an advertising copywriter for Columbia Records, churning out hype for the likes of Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen and the Clash, before launching his career as a solo guitarist in a legendary sold-out show at New York's Knitting Factory, then a relatively new and unknown venue, soon to become the temple of the downtown avant-garde. (Lucas returns there this Sunday with his art-rock trio, Gods and Monsters, whose members have at one time or another included Matthew Sweet, Mary Margaret O'Hara and the late Jeff Buckley.)
Six months later, he was headlining the Berlin Jazz Festival, where on the 50th anniversary of the Night of Broken Glass (the pogrom in which thousands of synagogues and Jewish-owned business in Germany were destroyed and nearly a hundred Jews murdered, signaling the beginning of the Holocaust), he stunned the audience with an unannounced composition he called "Verklarte Kristallnacht."
A knowing reference to Arnold Schoenberg's "Verklarte Nacht," the piece ironically juxtaposed the Israeli national anthem, "Hatikvah," with phrases from "Deutschland Uber Alles," amid wild electronic shrieks and noise. The next day the papers ran a picture of Lucas with the triumphant headline, "It is Lucas!"
"Verklarte Kristallnacht" is among the pieces Lucas is expected to perform tonight in honor of Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) and the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
Labeled a "guitarrorist" for his shrapnel-like, exploding-note attack and his habit of composing scores for news documentaries about murder and violence (among them "Unabomber," "Who Killed Martin Luther King?" and "Rebirth: Untold Stories of the Oklahoma City Bombing"), Lucas is also the creator of a gentle, quirky album of children's songs based on Jewish holiday and cultural themes.
Lucas has also recorded albums of 1930s Chinese pop music, avant-garde film music (he performed his original soundtrack to the classic German silent film, "The Golem," at Mass MoCA last summer), acoustic guitar tunes, radical Jewish culture, and rock music. His most recent recording is "No Knowledge of Music Required," an album of psychedelic bluegrass recorded with Peter Stampfel of the Holy Modal Rounders under the name The Du-Tels. Asked to pinpoint one overall, unifying esthetic running throughout his various projects, Lucas said, "I like to have an element of blues in everything I do - even the Chinese and the Wagner. And Jewish music is very bluesy, too. Also I really like unusual, otherworldly feelings that I generate when I play."
For solo concerts like tonight's show at Helsinki, Lucas draws from a performance repertoire of over 300 pieces, including folk, blues, Jewish, Chinese, and Wagner. "It's sort of a virtual history of guitar styles. I sort of sift through the whole corpus of Western and Eastern music and make it my own, run it through the Gary Lucas wringer.
"It touches all bases of my esthetic; it's like an overview, sort of like a little mini-tour through 'Improve the Shining Hour'," said Lucas, referring to last year's excellent, 20-year retrospective of his recorded output, which includes collaborations with Nick Cave, David Johansen, DJ Spooky and Richard Barone, as well as Lucas's own original singer-songwriter material.
In addition to "Improve the Shining Hour," his solo albums include "Gods and Monsters" (also the name of his band), "Bad Boys of the Arctic," "Evangeline," "Busy Being Born" and "Skeleton at the Feast," which includes music for "The Golem."
As to his unique, orchestral approach to his instrument, equally influenced by American country-blues and British electric-blues guitarists as well as a host of other styles, Lucas said, "I'm really an enemy of standard issue licks and guitar heroism brought to you by large corporations. To me it's too athletic, like gym rats pumping, the Van Halen school of guitar heroics.
"I'm into using guitar as a magic wand, a way to transport people into other worlds. I look at the guitar as a little six-string orchestra. Through the combination of different chords and harmonies and fingerings and finger-picking and occasionally some electronic modification I'm able to conjure up the sound of electronic symphonies."
Lucas draws on traditional guitar genres but sets them in new and sometimes surprising contexts. "I recontextualize the guitar, playing blues-inflected runs over a psychedelic landscape, swirling with sounds and colors. It's new and different. I like the idea of being able to conjure up new worlds in sound."
Lucas is also very conscious of his moral responsibility as an artist and performer. "Guitars can be dangerous if not played right. For one, they can hurt people's eardrums. But they're dangerous in lots of other ways. They' re injurious to your mental health and spiritual growth if you hear bad guitar. I think I'm a very tasteful guitarist in my way, although I occasionally veer into excess."
[This article originally appeared in the Berkshire Eagle on April 20, 2001. Copyright Seth Rogovoy 2001. All rights reserved.]
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The past two nights I watched the two part movie The Dovekeepers. It's based on a book and produced by the people who made Son of God and The Bible. The movie is about the women who survived the siege of Masada. Part one was mostly adultery. All that adultery didn't sit well with me. It would be alright if we establish ONE of the characters as having an affair in the beginning and then she reunites with the man years later, but both women habitually seduce married men, and those men have a habit of dying, and then the women go on to seduce even more married men without caring a bit about the men who just died. This is the story of the last stand of the Jews against Roman oppression, and the two narrators are notorious whores? Whose idea was that?
Let's begin at the beginning. This woman – claimed to be a witch – is having an affair with a married man who happens to be the best warrior in the whole of Judea, and he has a sexy goatee and black leather pants to prove it (I didn't know they had black leather in AD 70, but it looks really cool, I'll admit that). She has a daughter by him who turns out to be transsexual and lives as a boy. She is cast out of the city and has to live with a nomad who has a son with her. The son is a moron and a weakling and his older sister has to take up the slack of fighting and killing people with a bow and arrow like Robin Hood or Robin Hood knock-off girl movie (Hunger Games). The witch leaves with both children to go to Masada, never to see the nomad man again.
Meanwhile there is an red head girl who has a deeply troubled father because her mother died in childbirth. She has an older brother who is literally the only likable character in the whole movie. The brother goes to Masada after wounding a Roman general while he's out playing Assassin's Creed IRL. Red head and the father then leave months later, I guess, to go to Masada also to find the brother. On the way she has sex with a married man literally five feet from his wife. I'm not making this up. This guy wakes up the red head, who he just met, and says something like "let's go over there, five feet away, and have sex right next to my wife." Then like a week later he and his wife die from some unidentified disease, probably an STD that he got from the red head and then later gave to his wife during make up sex. "Hey, honey, she means nothing to me, I was just really drunk last night and thought she was you. Very drunk." (feel free to use that excuse if you want.) Red head and the father make it to Masada and she gets a job sweeping dove poop. That's literally the only time we see doves in the whole movie, in two scenes where she's sweeping poop.
The tranny is in love with the red head's brother and they frequently run off together to have sex in like warehouses and other places. The witch goes to the cistern to have sex with the chief. I guess no one is worried about sperm getting into the water supply and then several women getting pregnant from bathing. At least half the movie is sex.
A Roman slave – a giant Norwegian man – is taken prisoner by the Jews at Masada and red head seduces him. Red head gives birth to a baby conceived by the dead man who had sex with her one time and the Norwegian man raises the baby as his own, which is awfully nice of him considering that both the Romans and the Jews treat him like a slave. Red head convinces the Norwegian man to go back to Norway in the cover of night but he gets captured and put in jail.
End of part 1.
Part 2. Stuff actually happens in part 2. They really could have made this a single movie. There's so much filler because the book on which it is based is so long.
The witch helps cure the chief's wife's tuberculosis or something and then the wife tries to incite a riot and have the witch killed, but the witch uses her literal magic and causes a rain storm and the mob all of a sudden forgets about killing her.
The witch teaches the red head how to make poison from snake skin and leaves. This is Chekhov's gun, remember it.
The wimpy brother goes off on a raid to kill Romans Assassin's Creed style and the other brother yells at him because he's not even beta and he's going to get everyone killed. He gets stabbed in the leg and cries like a little baby and the other brother carries him back and the witch hates him even though he literally saved his life. The tranny has to dress like the wimpy brother and go off on raids in the future, but she's like Robin Hood and can actually kill people. On another raid, after she's killed like ten Roman soldiers with perfect headshots she sees the other brother – her lover – kill one of the soldiers' wife and daughter, and since only women's lives have value she then hates him forever.
Back at Masada the tranny goes to see the quiet man who saved her life during the raid she wasn't supposed to take part in, and the man says "I'm quiet because my wife died and I promised her to get revenge against the Romans. And I promised her I would never have sex again." Then the two of them have sex right there. I kid you not.
The witch is pregnant again with another kid by the chief. This was thrown in to show just how fertile these people are, I guess.
Red head goes to see the Norwegian and gives him a bow and arrows and tells him to escape, again. I'm not sure what happens to him but we never see him again.
Red head overhears the witch talk to the chief that the chief is injured and needs help when he goes on another raid. Red head makes poison and poisons the Romans secretly and at least fifty of them die and when the Jews get there they don't need to kill anyone because they're all dead already and they're like "woah, how did that happen?"
Other brother confronts tranny and asks her why she hates him but she won't answer him. He gets rough but he lets her go off because he doesn't want to hurt her. He's probably the one good character in the whole movie, not counting the baby who doesn't do anything.
There's a tender moment where the father is playing with the baby and red head walks in and he apologizes for mistreating her because he was heartbroken over his wife.
The Romans have built a siege tower and are breaking down the walls of Masada. They have catapults that launch flaming boulders and set the city on fire. They dunk the boulders in clear liquid that is super flammable and didn't exist back then, but Hollywood adores fire. Even though we've seen maybe two Jews getting killed by the Romans up to this point because the Jews have super ninja powers and can kill a million Romans, the Jews are worried that the Romans are about to rush in and kill everyone. The chief comes up with the plan that everyone die so that the Romans don't have the pleasure of killing anyone. Other brother goes off and kills the tranny and then the quite man kills him. Though I just saw it I don't remember how the quiet man dies. The chief begs the witch to kill him and she does and then she, red head, the baby, and the wimp go off to the cistern to hide while everyone else dies. The next day the Romans break into the cistern and capture them and take them to Josephus to tell what happened inside the city. Hearing everything they've been through Josephus lets them go free. The end.
The movie was terrible, unnecessarily long, and I didn't like any of the characters except the designated bad guy brother. I didn't like how the witch literally had magic powers, I didn't like how men were portrayed as utter crap and the adulterous women who seduce everyone were held up as heroes who "don't even need a man." I don't like how every problem but one was caused by the adulterous women and they get a pass like they did nothing wrong. This was like a Harlequin sex fantasy fourth grade reading level pulp book (which it was). It was just crap. Every time I thought I would like a character that character then went off and did something contemptible.
I know the history of Masada. The real history is the only thing that put any real emotion into the last 20 minutes. It is sad what they went through, and the Romans really were the villains in real life, but the characters in the movie were so bad I was actually rooting for the Romans! I don't even know how to rate this movie. I want to say maybe 45/100.
02 April 2015
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Atlanta Housewives Celebrate Phaedra's Birthday – Somewhere Over the Pond
Twitter is a flutter with the news that the Real Housewives of Atlanta (most of them) are off at some exotic location (with an outdoor tub and shower) celebrating the birthday of Phaedra Parks.
Here are some instagrams and tweets:
Kandi announced that Derek J came over and did her hair because she was heading out of the country, then posted a photo of herself on a plane with a mask on because she was not taking any chances. I suppose she means because it is flu season, because Kandi is no Jill Zarin. Her hair does look nice.
I'm not taking any chances! Thanks Dr. @jingjingharrisfor my mask! 😘 I won't be instagramming for a while. I'll miss you guys!
#BirthdayTurnup for @phaedraparks!!!!!@cynthiabailey10 @porsha4real @thekenyamoore@claudiajordan @demetria4real
Paradise! Outdoor tub & shower… All I'm missing is@todd167!
Kenya posted about the time change. At one pm in the afternoon in ATL it was 8 am wherever she was – which puts her around the longitude of Fiji.
Cynthia tweeted a photo of a bunch of them, including the two new girls:
Phaedra was also tweeting up a storm thanking Richard Branson of Virgin Airways for the flights. It appears she was invited to a party aboard Virgin's new Dreamliner on a flight from Heathrow London to Atlanta. Or perhaps the ladies got on the return flight – which would make more sense logistically, assuming the party continued.
Rad times playing 🎶 for #virginatlantic @richardbranson party w @RudimentalUk @LarkinPoe &grt laughs w @PhaedraParks pic.twitter.com/d0Nltta7zd
— Martina McFlyy (@MMCFLYY) October 27, 2014
NeNe was a NoNo, or at least missing in all the tweets and photos. Taking the high road, she did post this:
Real Housewives of New Jersey
"Secrets Revealed – Part One"
By HydrangeaHussy
In addition to the Florida trip, the ladies took a trip to Atlantic City. Teresa brings her entire wardrobe, even though she tells us that she's changed. Melissa feels like she's on the way to a bachelorette party because of the party bus. Dina isn't a fan of the "melting pot of white trash" that is Atlantic City. I don't remember her having a problem with Atlantic City in season one. Amber has never been away from her children, so she's nervous. The twins are way underdressed considering it's winter. The ladies begin the trip with shots and talk of their periods. I really didn't need that much information about them.
Nicole was able to get the presidential suite, thanks to her jet broker connections. The suite is beautiful and the ladies get ready to go out for drinks. Amber wants to let loose since she's out with friends. She is downing the drinks and pushing the other women to drink. The talk turns to the bedroom and Amber gives us way too much information about her and Jim's roleplaying. "Alana" is her hooker alter-ego. I really didn't need that mental image. The talk turns to divorce. Jim was divorced when Amber met him. They met in July, got engaged in August, and got married in December. They've been together for seven years, which is how long Teresa A's marriage lasted. Nicole has been divorced for four years. Dina says that she and Tommy have known each other since she was nine and that they have a better marriage then most people. Hmm, if it's such a great marriage, why are you getting divorced?
Back in NJ, Juicy is watching the girls. Needless to say, Milania is making thing difficult for him. They are making hamburgers. Gia points out that Milania is playing with the food, rather than cooking it. It's pretty obvious that the other girls are pretty tired of Milania's antics. After dinner, they try to settle in for a movie night but the dog has made a mess in the house. None of the girls wants to clean it up. Teresa admits that her mother advises her to be more strict with the girls, but it's pretty clear that they let the girls do whatever they want.
The ladies are going to the casino. The twins are running late, so the others go downstairs without them. They decide to play blackjack. This should be interesting. The twins are pissed that the ladies left them. Teresa A says that they lack manners because they left without telling them. Seriously? It's rude to keep your guests waiting. Amber apologizes for leaving without telling them, but the twins won't let it go. Amber wonders why they are focusing their anger on her, instead of Melissa, Teresa, or Dina. She tells the twins to calm down and stop being so intense. Melissa just wants to finish her game of blackjack without drama. Amber and the twins continue to yell until Amber leaves the table. They continue to make fun of her. Dina goes with Amber. The twins, Teresa, and Melissa leave to go to the club.
Melissa has arranged for a burlesque lesson at the hotel. The ladies each get a feather boa. Teresa A thinks that Melissa will have the advantage because it's rumored that she was a stripper. Oh dear, let's not bring that up again. Amber wants Teresa A to leave it alone because she doesn't want Melissa to be uncomfortable. They begin by learning how to shimmy, then they divide into two groups for performances. Amber was in the zone, until her dress started coming off. She is very competitive with Melissa. The teacher names Amber as the best dancer.
The ladies go back to the suite to get comfy and chat. Teresa A wants to know everyone's first impression of each other. Dina liked Melissa because she was at a ladybug function. Teresa loved Dina because she was so beautiful. Nicole says that she thought Dina was an "ice princess." Dina says that she was overwhelmed by the twins at first. Teresa A takes offense to Dina's comments about their breasts being on display. They sure can give it out but can't take it. Melissa says that she thought Amber was a little bit of a know-it-all, and is still like that. Amber says that Teresa A says things before she thinks. Teresa A says that she does think things through, and that if she insults you she meant to do that. Amber is done and decides to go to bed. She's tired of Teresa A being confrontational with her. Dina and Teresa are sharing a room. She's glad to be away from the twins so she can get some rest. Teresa sleeps with her hair fanned out because she needs it to last for another day.
Amber decides to give the ladies a boot camp workout. She has a masters in exercise physiology, so she's qualified for this. Dina isn't into the workout, she'd rather be stretching. They had a hard night and the workout is tough.
Nicole and Bobby are double-dating with Jim and Amber. Amber is late, as always says Nicole. Weren't the twins very late in Atlantic City? Amber is so glad that Nicole and Bobby are together. She thinks that they are great together. What a difference compared to the end of the season when all Jim and Amber did was talk badly about the relationship. Bobby explains that he calls everything sexy, from banana bread to an outfit. Weird. Nicole and Amber has a true friendship, according to Nicole. We all know that their relationship will hit the wall soon.
Teresa and Kathy are working on their relationship, but Teresa didn't appreciate the dictionary that Kathy gave her as a gag gift. I thought it was funny, and appropriate. Teresa, Dina, and Kathy get together so that Teresa can confront Kathy. Kathy thinks that they're just getting together to catch up. She tells the ladies that she is writing a cookbook and her editor wants Teresa to write a blurb for the back of her book. Teresa gets out a dictionary and looks up the word "blurb." Seriously? She says that she's changed? Teresa tells Kathy that she was really hurt by the dictionary. Kathy thinks that Teresa is just looking for a fight. Teresa finds it odd that Kathy wants her to write a blurb, when she thinks that Teresa can't speak English. Teresa wants to drop the whole thing, but Kathy is now upset and won't drop it. Kathy explains that she meant the gift as a joke and that they all mess up the English language. Teresa doesn't want to hear it. Kathy doesn't understand why Teresa won't support her, when Kathy has constantly supported Teresa. I'm so tired of these arguments.


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The Samsung Galaxy S3 has undoubtedly been the biggest smartphone success in 2012 so far. In the space of a few months it has sold over ten million units and become the fastest selling Android phone of all time, as well as the most pre-ordered gadget in history. In all likelihood, its success will be overshadowed by the impending launch of the iPhone 5, which some analysts are forecasting to sell in excess of 250 million, but to date no other smartphone has come close to matching it.
This could all be about to change with LG's recent unveiling of the Optimus G at IFA 2012 in Berlin. In many respects, the Optimus G is very similar to the Samsung Galaxy S3. It is a similar size and, like the S3, features a 4.7 inch display. It also runs on Google Android and is powered by a quad core processor, includes NFC, and has LTE support where available.
Although Samsung's Super AMOLED screen technology is renowned for its unparalleled vividness and colour depth, the Optimus G's True HD IPS+ LCD screen is certainly noteworthy in its own right. As the name would suggest, this offers one of the highest screen resolutions found on a smartphone to date, and the 768 x 1280 resolution provides a much sharper screen pixel density than the Samsung Galaxy S3.
On top of this, the Optimus' quad core Snapdragon S4 Pro processor has outperformed the S3's chip in all benchmark tests, even though on paper it is only marginally quicker at 1.5GHz, and the LG device includes double the amount of memory as Samsung's flagship, with 2GB RAM.
But even though much of the hardware in the Optimus looks set to outperform the Galaxy S3, will it prove to be quite as popular? Within the last year or two, Samsung has started to realise something that Apple and many of its fans have been saying for years: most people do not care about hardware specifications, but what they can actually do with their phones. In this respects, the Galaxy S3 still has the upper hand.
The Optimus may include a 13 megapixel camera with 1080p video support, but Samsung has included many excellent software features to accompany the S3's 8 megapixel camera that make it much more enjoyable and easier to use. Like the HTC One X, it is possible to take photographs while recording video, and Samsung's superior facial recognition and Social Tag features make it much easier to browse through and share images captured on the phone.
Likewise, the Galaxy S3 offers many other superb and novel software features including the SmartStay eye tracking feature, S-Voice, the ability to watch videos while composing a message or email and also an enhanced version of the NFC powered Android Beam sharing app.
On top of this, the Galaxy S3 is currently in the process of being updated to Android Jelly Bean, and will be one of the first phones to see this update. Although its launch is still a couple of months away, the Optimus G will be put on sale with the older Android Ice Cream Sandwich and have to wait even longer to be updated to Jelly Bean, by which time the next version of Android may already be on release.
There may be one major advantage that the Optimus has over the Galaxy in the United States at least. In the aftermath of the recent Apple vs Samsung court battle, Apple is keen to have many Samsung smartphones pulled from sale in the United States. While the Galaxy S3 was not one of the devices listed with the offending products, it is only a matter of time before Apple attempts to knock down its biggest smartphone rival. The recent court victory in California may make it much easier for them to achieve this outcome.


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