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Most of us who love film noir and have seen all the classics are tantalized by the hard little gems that turn up now and then—lost or forgotten noirs that are sometimes as atmospheric as the better-known ones. In his essay "," from 1972, the director Paul Schrader argues that, measured by "median level of artistry," the noir cycle of the nineteen-forties and fifties represented Hollywood at its most creative: "Picked at random, a film noir2020欧洲杯最新战况 is likely to be a better made film than a randomly selected silent comedy, musical, Western, and so on." When a noir obscurity shows up on TCM, or is restored under the auspices of the indispensable Film Noir Foundation and screened at one of its Noir City festivals around the country, chances are it will be well worth seeing. It's likely to be a B movie—so many noirs were—but that won't mean it's any less appealing. Noirs were ideally suited to low budgets and low lighting, tight editing and short running times, stolen shots on city streets.
Led down some meandering Internet path not long ago—I've since forgotten what I was searching for—I came upon a nifty little suburban noir from 1951, "Cause for Alarm!," which is now streaming on Amazon Prime Video. Directed by Tay Garnett ("The Postman Always Rings Twice"), it stars the excellent Loretta Young as a housewife, Ellen Jones, tormented by her sadistic invalid husband (Barry Sullivan). Though it was written and directed by men, "Cause for Alarm!" feels like a work of accidental feminism—a cry for help sent telepathically from the fifties. (Maybe the uncredited writing contribution from Dorothy Kingsley helped.) The film takes as its subject a husband's sinister campaign to undermine his wife's perception of reality, but the setting is more conventional and ostensibly benign than that of, say, "Gaslight"—not a crepuscular Victorian mansion but a neat, tidy house in a sun-bleached California suburb. In that bright, smug milieu, Ellen is trapped and watched—by the nosy neighbor, the officious postman, even the cute but insistent little boy who keeps dropping by with his toy TV and six-shooters. Like the men in other noirs who've been accused of crimes they didn't commit, Ellen's reasonable actions attract suspicion, but, in her case, a maddening condescension, too. A notary who comes to the house to see her husband tells her, "He warned me that I'd get some resistance from you" but that "I wasn't to take you seriously." It's a tense, suspenseful movie, with a wry twist at the end, but it's also, in its way, a sharp-eyed study of the feminine mystique.
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February 17, 2020
"He was a renaissance man," the late Gil Scott-Heron once said, of Langston Hughes. "He wrote songs; he wrote poetry; he wrote columns; he wrote essays. And as a writer myself, I knew that you couldn't use just one form and get every idea across." This spirit animated Scott-Heron's career, and it allowed him to loom, in the cultural consciousness, as something more than just a musician or a poet. The same energy informs a few recent reimaginings of Scott-Heron's final album, "I'm New Here," which was released by XL Recordings in 2010. In 2011, the British rave-music revivalist Jamie xx recorded "We're New Here," splicing Scott-Heron's words and rearranging them into a meditative dance record. Some of Jamie xx's remix, in turn, was used by Drake and Rihanna, as the seed for "Take Care," the pair's mournful Top Forty hit. Scott-Heron, who died in 2011, resisted appeals to commercialism, but in listening to that track one got the sense that he could compete with any hit musician of today's generation.
2020欧洲杯最新战况The latest artist to remake "I'm New Here" is Makaya McCraven, a jazz drummer and producer from Chicago. Whereas Jamie xx's take was spacious, even anxious, McCraven adds a shagginess to Scott-Heron's album, layering in live instrumentation and old jazz recordings that his parents produced. Much of "I'm New Here" 's original power flowed from its confessional side; Scott-Heron used the album to explore his addictions and family history. McCraven gives those elements a new frame, returning again and again to the theme of matriarchy. "Womenfolk raised me, and I was full grown before I knew I came from a broken home," Scott-Heron says on the opener, "Special Tribute - (Broken Home Pt. 1)," repudiating the stigma of single parenthood. Scott-Heron spoke often of his all-knowing mother and grandmother, and in McCraven's hands those figures emerge in the foreground while political ruminations recede. You can't help but think that Scott-Heron would have been pleased with how McCraven fulfills the Hughes credo—that art and writing are never finished, and that both can continually deepen our perspective.
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February 14, 2020
Don't be fooled by the straightforward title of the lively new book "." A better description of Barbara London's indispensable and enticingly personal history arrives two pages in, when she writes, "This book describes the madcap trajectory of a pliable medium." Few guides are more qualified to lead readers through the rapid rise of the once renegade art form, which is now so ubiquitous that screens and paintings share walls in museums—London was the very first curator to introduce video to the Museum of Modern Art, where she championed tech-based experiments for forty-three years. (She retired in 2013.) What makes her book such a fun read is that it's not exactly the comprehensive survey its title implies. Instead, it's as much memoir as exegesis, an idiosyncratic front-line report from a deeply informed, intrepid, and passionate pioneer who is still in the trenches. (London now teaches graduate students at Yale, and her exhibition on is about to commence a five-year tour.) Even her curatorial path was unconventional: the native New Yorker was pursuing a graduate degree in Islamic art when she traded the classroom for downtown haunts, like Max's Kansas City, which was the Cedar Tavern of the electronic avant-garde—or "scenester intermedia mavericks," in London's words.
So, although readers won't learn about, say, Christian Marclay's iconic twenty-four-hour video installation "The Clock," from 2010 (the artist merits a mention, but not regarding his most famous work), they will travel with London to meet Chinese artists in Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, and Guangzhou, in 1997. (Full disclosure: I was part of a team in New York that produced London's daily online of that visit for MOMA, a blog before the word existed.) Any history of video must begin with the wizardly Korean innovator Nam June Paik (1932-2006), who is widely acknowledged as the medium's founding father. Paik plays a major role in London's story, but, in addition to contextualizing him as a towering historical figure, she shares personal anecdotes, including this vivid description of his studio: "I would crawl over and through a maze of electrical wire, tubes, and old circuitry to find Paik often standing in rubber boots, so as not to be electrocuted."
Similarly, an in-depth account of the work of the influential New York artist Joan Jonas—who has been combining performance with technology since the late sixties and whose bewitching room-sized installation "Mirage" (conceived in 1976), a six-part game of drawing and erasure, is a highlight of the new MOMA—includes the astrological tidbit that both the curator and the artist are Cancers. (London writes, of this cosmic affinity, "Once we met, I identified with her tenaciousness, imagination, and loyalty as a sympathetic friend.") One special merit of London's perspective is her emphasis on the role of women in the medium's evolution, from familiar names like the pop-culture crossover artist Laurie Anderson to equally important but lesser-known figures like Dara Birnbaum, whose deliriously feminist spin on a DC superhero is also now on view at MOMA,2020欧洲杯最新战况 in the five-minute video "Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman." Not a bad label for the pathbreaking insights of London herself.
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February 10, 2020
"," Rona Jaffe's best-seller from 1958, is what you would get if you took "Sex and the City" and set it inside "Mad Men" 's universe. A novel about three young women who meet while working in the typing pool of a publishing house, it has the white-gloved, Scotch-swilling aesthetic of the fifties but also an unflinching frankness about women's lives and desires—a combination that makes it feel radical, prescient. In order to write it, Jaffe interviewed fifty women about "the things nobody spoke about in polite company": losing their virginities, getting abortions, being sexually harassed. "I thought that if I could help one young woman sitting in her tiny apartment thinking she was all alone and a bad girl, then the book would be worthwhile," Jaffe wrote, in the foreword to the 2005 reissue of her novel. Put simply, she wanted it to say, "Me, too."
"The Best of Everything" centers on Caroline Bender, April Morrison, and Gregg Adams. Caroline is a self-possessed Radcliffe graduate who was engaged until her fiancé took a six-week trip to Europe and left her for the first familiar girl he ran into on the ship. She has professional aspirations, which immediately earns her suspicion from her bosses. April is a starry-eyed girl from Colorado who just wants to meet a nice boy but instead falls in with a handsome upper-crust cad who works at Merrill Lynch. And Gregg is an actress who becomes infatuated with an emotionally unavailable theatre director. "Some people are made to be hurt," Caroline says at one point. "Gregg is that type." The three become close, search for love, and navigate the indignities of being a woman in the workplace.
Chief among them is Mr. Shalimar, the editor-in-chief of one of the imprints at Fabian Publications and a serial abuser who would fit right in at Leslie Wexner's Victoria's Secret. He asks April, on a night when he requested she work late, "Tell me, what kinds of things do the young boys do when they make love?" and later tries to kiss her in his office. He teases Caroline with the possibility of a promotion and then puts his hand on her knee at after-work drinks. And, most memorably, at the office Christmas party, Mr. Shalimar asks Barbara Lemont, an assistant editor at one of the publisher's magazines, whether she has nice legs, and, when she doesn't answer, he crawls under the table to appraise them. "You have beau-ti-ful legs," he concludes. When he reëmerges, he leans in to kiss her, but she dodges him. "What did you think I wanted to do, rape you?" he cries. "You're fired. Don't you dare come into this office on Monday."
Refreshingly, Jaffe doesn't treat this episode with cheerful permissiveness, doesn't present it as having a kind of louche glamour. Instead, she stays close to Barbara. "For the first time that evening her feelings were revealed completely on her face—resolution, fury, and desperation. 'I need this job,' she said. 'He's not going to take it away from me if I have to go to Mr. Fabian himself.' "
2020欧洲杯最新战况It's no better outside of work, either. On dates, which Barbara describes as "hand-to-hand combat," men force themselves on the women. At a wedding, the bride's drunk uncle pinches their cheeks and squeezes their waists as they try to politely signal that they'd rather be left alone.
2020欧洲杯最新战况Yet "The Best of Everything" imparts this vision with sly humor, top-notch banter, and a sudsy plot that made me gasp out loud. The book still reads like a romance, still gets its propulsiveness from the question of whether the characters will find the love they desire and happiness therein. Will Caroline's fiancé come back to her? Will April's socialite boyfriend commit to her? Will the married man whom Barbara Lemont is in love with leave his wife for her? And do we even want them to? Or are they all bad news? In fact, Jaffe uses the badness of men to raise the stakes for finding a good one; love becomes a heroic quest rather than a doomed endeavor. In this sense, "The Best of Everything" cunningly enacts a tragic irony: the worse men behave, the more fervently the characters turn to men to find exceptions to the rule.
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January 30, 2020
If you're going to traverse Antarctica on cross-country skis, it's advisable to go in a group, ideally with psychologically sturdy comrades in preternaturally good shape. You might bring kites, to harness the propulsive power of the wind, or arrange to have caches of food deposited along your route. The continent has seen sixteen such successful crossings. Four years ago, Henry Worsley, a retired lieutenant-colonel in the British Army, made the first attempt at an unassisted solo expedition, dragging a sled of provisions weighing more than three hundred pounds at the journey's start. (Worsley died; David Grann wrote about his endeavor2020欧洲杯最新战况 for this magazine.) Not long after, Ben Saunders, another British polar explorer, set out on the ice, but he misjudged how much food he'd require and was forced to abandon his mission at the South Pole. Finally, in late 2018, a thirty-three-year-old American endurance athlete named Colin O'Brady pulled it off: an unsupported, nearly thousand-mile hike across one of the most unforgiving landscapes on the planet.
2020欧洲杯最新战况In O'Brady's new memoir, "," he describes the undertaking less as a matter of grit than as a "brutal math problem," the main variables being "miles, calories, hours, days." Pack as much nutrient-dense food as you can carry—enough to sustain you but not so much that it's impossible to haul—and make it to the other side before the twenty-four-hour sunshine of Antarctic summer gives way to the unbroken darkness of winter. O'Brady had budgeted for a daily intake of seven thousand calories, but he ended up burning more than ten thousand a day—a starvation diet, unsustainable for much longer than the two months he had planned for the trek. Even the pace at which energy is expended in subzero temperatures is a careful balancing act: too little exertion and hypothermia sets in, but too much will result in sweat-dampened clothes, which can rapidly freeze against the body. One veteran explorer advised O'Brady on how to use plastic bags to keep the insides of his footwear dry. "A frozen boot never thaws in the deep cold," he warned. "That's it. Frostbite. Toes goodbye."
Beyond the physical perils lies an even greater danger. Marching twelve or thirteen hours a day, often in a sensory void, O'Brady felt "the quiet erosion of judgment and reason and sanity." His thoughts would race, descending into "that place of obsessive what-if fears." He contemplated the probable outcome should a freak squall send his tent flying: "I'd die alone, in the cold, my body temperature falling. I'd grow sleepy, then increasingly irrational, and finally I'd just lie down." At times, he'd stare absently at his compass and feel as though he were falling into it, relinquishing "the sense that it was separate from me." One night, while he was setting up camp, everything went blank. He stood there, shovel in hand, unsure of what he was doing or why, "as though my mind had just sort of walked off the field."
The obvious question is: Why do this to yourself? A charitable reading would credit O'Brady for testing the limits of human potential and furnishing us with a rich metaphor for chasing our dreams. A cynic might see naked ambition and a competitiveness verging on the colonial. (Louis Rudd, the second person to complete the crossing, along a parallel route, two days after O'Brady, had told the Telegraph2020欧洲杯最新战况: "It's really important it's a Brit that cracks this journey first.") For the last seventy-seven miles, O'Brady gave up on sleep entirely and trudged on for thirty-two straight hours. "I was a reduced man, stripped to his essence," he writes. "Everything unnecessary in the universe was gone." After fifty-four days of severe cold and isolation, and having lost twenty-five pounds, he reached a solitary wooden post, set into the frozen ground by the United States Geological Survey, marking the end of the continent and the beginning of the Ross Ice Shelf. In itself, O'Brady's story is neither cautionary nor inspirational; it's a Rorschach test for one's own character and aspirations. To what extremes would you go, and how much punishment would you endure, in the service of a single goal? If there is a lesson, it's that the path of the reduced man can lead to triumph, or madness, or both.
2020欧洲杯最新战况The documentary "" begins with shots of archives—boxes and boxes of old letters and photos—and a voice-over saying, "This isn't really a story about a man. It's about what his life was allowed to mean." That isn't aggrandizement; the movie really isn't about the four-time Oscar-nominated actor Montgomery Clift, at least not in the way you might expect. The voice belongs to his youngest nephew, Robert Clift, who was not yet born when the actor died, in 1966, and who made the film with Hillary Demmon. The popular image of Monty is one of gay tragedy—that he was a self-hating, love-starved closet case who drowned himself in liquor and solitude. (He died of a heart attack, at the age of forty-five, but a colleague called it "the longest suicide in Hollywood history.") Robert takes a closer look at his uncle's legacy, finding friends—including Jack Larson, who played Jimmy Olsen on the TV show "Adventures of Superman"—who attest to his joy and humor. He may have been closeted to the public, but he appears to have had fulfilling love affairs with both men and women. Maybe he wasn't so tortured after all?
2020欧洲杯最新战况It's an intriguing idea, but the documentary takes a sharp turn toward a more niche subject: the ethics of biography. In the seventies, two books appeared about Clift—one , by Robert LaGuardia, and the other , by Patricia Bosworth, who had the coöperation of Monty's brother (and Robert's father) Brooks Clift. Bosworth became the "de-facto family historian," Robert says. But, as the filmmakers discover, Brooks ultimately felt betrayed by Bosworth and begged her to make changes in later printings. Her research archives reveal that she may have unfairly suggested that Monty was arrested for picking up a young boy, rather than a grown man—playing into a homophobic trope.
Why get into sentence-by-sentence analysis of a forty-two-year-old biography? Partly because the filmmakers have a trove of material to draw on. Brooks, who died in 1986, compulsively recorded his phone conversations—with Bosworth, with Monty, and even with his wife, the journalist Eleanor Clift, during their divorce. Anyone versed in Janet Malcolm's trenchant observations2020欧洲杯最新战况 about journalists and their subjects will recognize the uneasy dynamic between Brooks and Bosworth. Of course, family members can be just as agenda-driven as biographers (often more so), and Robert Clift has his own emotional stake in his uncle's legacy. But the film asks pointed questions about how even small extrapolations can have distorting effects—was Monty really "more loved than loving," as Bosworth infers from an anecdote?—and about our reductive understanding of the pre-Stonewall era.
2020欧洲杯最新战况I first saw "Making Montgomery Clift" last summer, at the Provincetown International Film Festival, and was rapt. So I was surprised to see, months later, that it had been quietly released on demand. One wonders whether a more conventional film—one that upheld the image of gay self-loathing—might have had wider distribution. But the documentary is fascinating on its own peculiar terms, especially for anyone who loves or writes Hollywood history. In the end, it's a good portrait of Montgomery Clift as well. At one point, we hear Monty on a phone call with a journalist, who seems to imply that he leads a "murky life." "That sounds so fucking dismal, I must say," Monty replies. "I can't say I am just melancholy or I am just sad or I am just anything."
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December 20, 2019
A friend of the late Uruguayan writer Juan Carlos Onetti once that he had muy buena salud frágil2020欧洲杯最新战况—excellent fragile health. Mainly, it was a reference to the last twenty years of Onetti's life, when he lived in Madrid and spent much of his time in bed. In photos from the period, he's propped on pillows, reading, next to piles of books, a bottle of whiskey, and an ashtray the size of an overturned umbrella. This life style made his death, in 1994, at the age of eighty-four, seem like a special feat of longevity. Yet Onetti's "excellent fragile health" made even more sense in relation to his work. One of the greatest Latin-American writers of the twentieth century, he published six novels and dozens of stories and novellas, most of which are set in a fictional town called Santa María, which is populated with jaded eccentrics, castaways, and addled dreamers. In Onetti's fiction, characters are forever in limbo, between the world they actually inhabit and the one they'd prefer to imagine for themselves.
Onetti never received the international recognition of his peers, such as Julio Cortázar, Gabriel García Márquez, and Mario Vargas Llosa, who all admired him. Some of that was the result of his inscrutable personality. Onetti was taciturn and recessive, and he avoided political causes. But there was a literary reason for his obscurity, too. His novels can be hard to read, and harder still to translate. The sentences are dense and layered, evoking comparisons to Faulkner; his characters routinely drift into existential reveries. His most famous novels—a trilogy published in the fifties and sixties—are entrancing, but not especially inviting to the uninitiated. The first one, "," tells the story of Juan María Brausen, who glumly dreams up the alternate reality that becomes Santa María, where the next two novels ("," ""), about a grizzled pimp named Larsen, take place.
2020欧洲杯最新战况Onetti thrived in shorter forms, and the first major English translation of his collected stories, "," brings the author's talents into full view. The book, which was published, in November, by Archipelago, and translated by Katherine Silver, shows Onetti's usual darkness brightened by a hint of tenderness for his characters, who are lost but still trying to find their way. The volume's title comes from one of Onetti's trademark stories, in which a sardonic theatre impresario is approached by a woman who wants to pay him to stage a mysterious dream that she's had. The director acts like money is his primary motivation, but something else impels him to take the job, an understanding he comes to grasp "as clearly as if it were one of those things one learns forever as a child and words are later useless to explain." Another classic—and a personal favorite—is "Welcome, Bob," a character study of an aging lover wracked by guilt about who he's become. He grows obsessed with his younger girlfriend's judgmental brother, Bob. The story is devoted to him, like a deranged love letter, and the narrator counts the days until Bob, too, will get older, fall short of his own expectations, and spend his hours nursing the continual ache of disappointment.
Onetti published sporadically in his later years, and the stories in this volume span roughly six decades of his writing, from his early published fiction to the final years before his death. Aging and senescence are frequent themes, as they let Onetti explore the world of frustrated dreams. You'd think this would make the stories slow and meditative, but the effect is the opposite. Some of them have a special power of suspense; you're never sure whether a person's interior or exterior life will win out. (In fact, it's often not clear what divides them.) "Presencia," which was published in 1978, a few years after Onetti arrived in Madrid as a political exile, is a case study in this suspense, and one of the sharpest pieces of fiction ever written about the disappearances of the seventies and eighties. In it, a man hires a private investigator to locate his former lover, who was arrested in a military crackdown. But the investigator is a drunk and a scam artist. The man knows this, and pays him anyway, clinging to the hope that his lover can be found. By the end, he's commissioning the investigator to invent stories he can believe in, and even be bothered by, as long as they come up short of the more painful truth. "On my world map," he says, at one point, "there were twenty centimeters between Santa María and Madrid."
"," the new book by the food writer Alison Roman, makes the case that nobody should be too daunted by etiquette to have people over for a meal. "For anyone looking for tips on how to fold linen napkins or create floral arrangements, I am not your girl," she writes. Instead, Roman teaches her readers to make "unfussy food": homey meals that can be thrown together and snacks to hold you over when the throwing runs long. Roman gives cooks "permission to be imperfect." It doesn't matter if you don't own wine glasses and your guests drink out of mugs, or if some people have to sit on the floor. What matters—and this is the core of Roman's vision—is that a roomful of people can share food without pretense.
Roman is no ordinary food writer. Given the viral success of and the popularity of her book "," from 2017, she's more like a phenomenon. When "Nothing Fancy" came out, it jumped to the top of the Times best-seller list, and, when Roman announced a book tour, she sold out events in all thirteen cities. Like high-waisted pants or Sally Rooney novels, she's now a style signifier for the creative class—a part of a shared vocabulary. Part of the appeal is her grasp of her audience: the financially unsteady millennial generation, which has turned "nothing fancy" into an aesthetic choice. Her cooking also mirrors a shift in thinking about nutrition. The culture has reëmbraced fat, and Roman uses it with gusto: butter, chicken fat, ricotta, labneh, coconut milk. She flavors her food with tastes from across the spectrum—earthy turmeric and tahini, bright citrus and fresh herbs—and then adorns everything with flaky Maldon salt. But her signature is accent ingredients, such as anchovies and preserved lemon, that are briny, tangy, funky, and polarizing. Without prohibitive costs or cook times, Roman makes food more interesting.
2020欧洲杯最新战况"Nothing Fancy" has served me as Roman intended. At a Sunday dinner that started two hours later than planned, I put out her labneh dip with sizzled scallions and chili, and everyone declared it "bomb." On a weeknight, I made her "Casual Apple Tart with Caramelized Buttermilk" for my roommates (the people I'm always "having over"), and they called it the best apple pie they'd ever had. But my favorite discovery is her "Perfect Herby Salad": half lettuce and half herbs (parsley, cilantro, tarragon, mint), drizzled with lemon, olive oil, and, of course, Maldon. Like many of her best ideas, it has a why-didn't-I-think-of-that simplicity.
The accessibility of Roman's food is matched by the accessibility of her persona. On her Instagram Stories, she answers questions from her followers (What if I don't have this ingredient? Is it O.K. if I skip this step?), and in "Nothing Fancy" she writes with chatty informality and self-deprecating humor. But her friendliness toward her readers is less convincing—and less interesting—than her annoyance at her guests, which she cloaks in recipe tips. About her D.I.Y. Martini bar, she writes, "Since making individual 'tinis for everyone who walks through the door is not on my agenda for any evening, I like to make one giant batch." Or, on "Smashed Eggs and Fancy Fish on Crackers," she writes, "Not to be rude but if you're coming over, I am already doing a lot of work and I don't feel like I need to assemble a cracker for you." These moments lend her a queen-bee charisma. Whereas Ina Garten and Martha Stewart are prim and gracious, Roman, with her crackling chicken skin and red lips and nails, is libidinous and a little bit mean. Lots of cookbooks promise to help you entertain with ease, but "Nothing Fancy" makes that idea briny, tangy, funky, and a little polarizing: Why play hostess when you can be the life of the party?
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November 26, 2019
There is no dearth of cooking shows to explore as one casts about for ideas for Thanksgiving—or just for Sunday dinner. In fact, the cooking show has spawned multiple subgenres. There's the competition show (the hammy theatrics of "Iron Chef"; the kindly, well-behaved "Great British Bake Off"), the home-kitchen show (the butter-basted-everything "Paula's Home Cooking"; the upper-class serenity of Ina Garten's "Barefoot Contessa"; the celebrity-kitchen adventures of Martha Stewart, Trisha Yearwood, Valerie Bertinelli, and Tia Mowry), the cooking talk show ("Rachael Ray," "The Chew," "The Kitchen"), and the travel show ("Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown," "Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern," "Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives"). And then there's "Good Eats."
2020欧洲杯最新战况"Good Eats" premièred in 1999 and ran for more than two hundred episodes, until 2012. This year, the show was resurrected as "Good Eats: The Return," and is, fittingly, a return to form. Whereas many cooking shows fit into one category, framing the kitchen as a space for culinary clashes, everyday food preparation, artisanal eating, or the discovery of new cultures and traditions, "Good Eats" was the happy bastard of the genre, playfully manic in its approach to food—not just its means of preparation, with breakdowns of recipes and kitchen tools, but also its science and history. It upended the form with humor and a strange, variety-show style.
The charismatic host and showrunner of "Good Eats," Alton Brown, pairs clear-eyed practicality with free-range dad jokes and Internet-age goofery. In each episode, Brown fast-talks his way through the rules of the kitchen, debunking common myths and providing helpful tips while using costumes, puppets, props, and campy characters to illustrate his culinary know-how. Set changes (say, a sudden move from the kitchen to a classroom), blink-and-you'll-miss-them cuts, and obtuse camera angles from inside cabinets and pantries lend the show a sense of lighthearted exploration. The series also specializes in educational nuggets, explaining the chemical process behind fermentation or the anatomy of a knife, with accompanying trivia-style factoids that flash onscreen. Like "Bill Nye the Science Guy," which also featured rapid-fire pacing, comical interludes, and a focus on science, "Good Eats" is neither too precious with its subject nor too flippant; the show frames cooking as a constant process of discovery, each dish and even each motion (for example, cracking an egg) providing an opportunity for knowledge. Many cooking shows adopt the mode of instruction—Julia Child counselling aspiring chefs from the screen. But, in "Good Eats," Brown delivers a performance that is equal parts lecture, theatre, and winking conversation between friends. Sure, there's delicious food, but you can get that anywhere. The show is also food for thought, with a side dish of oddball humor.
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November 15, 2019
In Noah Baumbach's newly released "Marriage Story," Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson play a couple who are going through a painful, protracted divorce battle. The movie portrays the dissolution of a marriage as a domestic catastrophe that doesn't stem from either partner's worst impulses, but that can happen even to good, loving people whose ambitions and needs end up at cross purposes. I enjoyed the film, but, as I watched, I sometimes felt that I would have found it more honest and complicated had I not felt that the baser, crueler instincts of the protagonists had been sanded down to an essential decency. As I exited the theatre, I realized that the poisonousness and discomfort I was missing—the depiction of complex human characters driven near-mad by spite and lust and jealousy and loathing and bitterness—were already in an earlier Baumbach movie. I went home and rewatched "Greenberg."
In a Profile of Baumbach in this magazine, in 2013, my colleague Ian Parker noted that when "Greenberg" was released, in 2010, some viewers found it so distasteful that a theatre in which it was being shown was compelled to post a sign reading "We must limit refunds to an hour past start time." (The movie will be at the Metrograph, in New York, where Baumbach is doing a residency.) As one of the film's stars, Greta Gerwig, suggested in the same Profile, "Greenberg" is the sort of movie that "will make you feel perhaps uncomfortable about choices you've made in your life." But while it's true that, with its savage portrait of a man's noxious narcissism, "Greenberg" can be unpleasant to watch (my editor, when I told him that I wanted to write about how much I love the film, said, with some surprise, "Interesting pick!"), its power lies exactly in its ability to perform the subtle balancing act of rendering its protagonist no less sympathetic for being toxic.
That titular protagonist, Roger Greenberg (a tightly coiled Ben Stiller), is a loser, and he knows it, and it's absolutely killing him. He was once a promising musician, until he blew up a record deal that could have set him and his bandmates on the path to stardom. ("It was corporate bullshit!" he still insists.) Now that he's forty and working as a carpenter, the only thing that matches his self-hatred is his stubborn self-aggrandizement. "I work out of a studio in Bushwick that I share with a few other carpenters. . . . That's been pretty good," he tells Beth, an old girlfriend (Jennifer Jason Leigh, who has a co-writing credit on the movie), before adding, offhandedly but pompously, "It's political, though." After being hospitalized for a nervous breakdown, he emerges from a mental ward and travels to Los Angeles for an extended stay, to house-sit the lavish home of his much more successful younger brother. "Recently, I had this thing where I couldn't move my legs," he says to Beth, apropos of nothing, during the same conversation. "But it was psychological."
We hear nothing more about this episode, but the easy combination of such seemingly throwaway tidbits, which swing within the span of one conversation from the obnoxious to the heartrending and back, is part of the movie's understated sketching of a multifaceted character. Greenberg is a nightmare—a self-obsessed mansplainer who is embarrassingly entitled, and whose self-awareness is flickering at best—but his vulnerability is recognizable, even poignant. At one point, he tells his kindly friend Ivan (the casually terrific Rhys Ifans) that "life is wasted on people"; and, indeed, who among us hasn't been disillusioned by adulthood, and by what seems to us, whether correctly or not, others' blithe, easy acceptance of its limitations? Of course, Baumbach allows us to identify with this side of Greenberg only to almost immediately pull the carpet out from under our feet, by having him throw a hissy fit at a restaurant after Ivan has a candlelit birthday cake brought to him by a host of singing waiters. "I'm not one of these preening L.A. people who likes everything to be about them," he complains to his brother's assistant, Florence (Gerwig, who is lovely here, in her first big mainstream role), as she drives him home.
2020欧洲杯最新战况The centerpiece of the movie is Greenberg's sort-of relationship with Florence, who is a young, not-very-ambitious aspiring singer. Florence is as loose as Greenberg is uptight, and her dreams and disappointments are as fuzzy as his are acute. Their encounter serves less as a fully realized bond in which each partner affects and changes the other and more as a chance for Baumbach to showcase the highly particular, highly recognizable attributes of both. "I don't read enough; I'm such a bad reader," Florence, who listens to mainstream soft rock and hasn't seen any so-called important movies, tells Greenberg. ("You like old things," she says to him, after he gifts her a mix CD brimming with relative obscurities of decades past.) But she is also a much kinder and freer person than he is—the sort who is responsible and caring enough to keep an ailing dog's complicated medication schedule straight, while still delighting in the animal's beast-like corporeality. ("His tongue is so scratchy!") The movie treats her character's foibles and charms with an affectionate but clear-eyed remove.
"Greenberg" is, among other things, a satire—a spot-on taxonomy of the many ways in which the white, privileged, and artsy members of the haute bourgeoisie can be unbearable—and the movie's best extended scene, to my mind, is one in which Greenberg ends up hanging out with a gaggle of millennials at a house party. The secondhand embarrassment I feel for him every time I watch it is nearly debilitating, but it lands the familiar notes of "older person hanging out with younger people" so well that I can't look away. "I read an article—are you guys all just fucking on the Internet?" he asks the crowd, before proceeding to do a line of cocaine ("This is good coke"), gulping down a Vicodin, and flirting aggressively and awkwardly with teen girls. ("Fight or fuck?" he asks one of them, making a karate-chop gesture and eliciting titters from the bratty college students around him.) Greenberg ends the night by leaving a long, musing message on Florence's answering machine. "When I was a kid, I was a leader. My mom said other kids looked up to me," he says, spectacularly navel-gazing. But then he goes on. "I just don't understand. What happened to me? Where does experience go?" The questions are self-indulgent, but they still strike a nerve. What does happen to us when we grow older? Where does2020欧洲杯最新战况 experience go? Greenberg is an asshole, but every time I rewatch this scene, it hits keenly.
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Her Majesty Queen Silvia travels to St. Anna-Stift in Kroge, Germany to celebrate scholarship winner Ms. Annette Löser of Chemnitz
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On behalf of all Queen Silvia Nursing Award partners, we congratulate Janina Viitasaari of Metropolia University of Applied Sciences for winning the scholarship in Finland!
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The sandy island of Susak is a home to two villages, only a few hundred meters away from each other, Donje selo, called the Spjaza and Gornje selo. Sharing the fate of nearby islands, Susak had seen the Illyrs and Romans take over the island, which was finally inhabited by Croats in the 10th century, when the roman monastery was built. Island was at its economic peak in the 1936, when the winery was build. Wine had been the major product of the island until 1964, when the government introduced bigger taxes on wine, so many of the island's residents emigrated, mostly to the USA. Beautiful and shallow sandy beaches make the island a very popular destination for sailors.


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Krohn was founded in 1865 by two young Norwegians, Theodor Wiese and Dankert Krohn. Over the next century and a half the company has built up a remarkable reputation thanks to its aged Port Wines, particularly the Harvest. Krohn is also known for its elegantly built Vintage, which originates from its property in the Torto River valley, Quinta do Retiro Novo.
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Judgement Bringers
|Judgement Bringers
|Battle Cry
|"Judgement is upon you!" or "Death! DEAAATH!!"
|Enoch the Relentless
|Terra, formerly fleet based
|Shock and awe, heavy ordnance
|Dark Imperium
|Grey, red, bone
The Judgement Bringers are the seventh legion in the /tg/ alternate history 40k timeline Imperium Asunder. They are a balanced force, but one that leans on shock and awe tactics, heavy ordnance, and sometimes heavy vehicles. The primarch of the Judgement Bringers is Enoch the Relentless, whose growing hatred of his 'father' the Emperor was key in the warmaster gaining the allegiance of Legio: VII, which was ultimately key to the Emperor's death and the creation of the Dark Imperium.
Summary of Legion VIIEdit
The Judgement Bringers were originally a fleet-based legion. Unsurprisingly, Enoch held no affection towards the arid rock he grew up on. In a self-indulgent moment, his first act as primarch of the Judgement bringers was to bring his fleet to that tiny planet and have his guns pulverize it into space dust. After the death of the Emperor and the corruption of Segmentum Solar, the warmaster 'suggested' that Enoch establish Terra as an adoptive homeworld for his legion. Enoch spends most of his time upon his flagship, Inheritance, avoiding the twisted spires and demonic instability of Terra.
As stated above, the Judgement Bringers are a balanced force, that tends to lean on shock and awe tactics. Enoch's sons inherit his strength as a meticulous planner, and likewise, you see the 'relentless' right there in the primarch's name? Once the Judgement Bringers set a course they do not like to back down. On the other hand they can be somewhat ponderous at times, not wanting to strike until a battle plan is set.
What specialty the Judgement Bringers do have is in artillery. The favorite tactic of the seventh legion through the great crusade and even into 40k was to bury their targets in withering and damn accurate ordnance, and while the enemy were keeping their heads down marines were closing the gap across no-mans-land. The barrages would be carefully coordinated so that the last volleys would arrive on target just as the foot-sloggers would arrive, so that as soon the booms stopped, marines came over the top and were laying into it with close-range bolter fire and chainswords, not giving them a second to regroup.
Certain commanders among the Judgement Bringers focus more on the fear aspect of their shock and awe tactics. They break the will of their enemies will to fight with terrifying and psychological displays of dominance, especially using the aforementioned artillery. These commanders also tend to favor weapons like the heavy bolter and thunder hammer, whose intimidating reports lend themselves to this strategy.
Since the great crusade, the Judgement Bringers legion has been comprised of multiple chapters, each chapter consisting of companies which are then broken down into squads. The exact numbers of marines to a squad, squads to a company and so on varied greatly from the onset of the crusade to present day. Their organization is typical save a few deviations; Firstly the commanders of chapters were called Judicators, and there was one Grand Judicator above all others who is second only to the primarch. Secondly, usually one chapter (but on occasion more) are named Death Bringers, whose armor is painted black. Marines who show themselves to be especially ruthless and effective are promoted from the other chapters into the Death Bringers chapter, and are considered the legion elite. The Death Bringers are led by Executioners and a single Grand Executioner, who answers only to the Primarch. Thus this chapter exists somewhat outside the regular legion hierarchy, and can operate independently. The Grand Executioner, whether by the primarchs order or his own decision, oftentimes lends squads of Death Bringers to be attached to Judgement Bringer forces, where they perform close-combat and heavy shock troop roles.
Legion HistoryEdit
Enoch's DiscoveryEdit
Enoch was the 11th primarch reunited with the Emperor, when he was found on a nameless barren rock in the galactic north.
Wind and sand. He couldn't tell how long it had been, but that was all he knew. His entire universe. Alone in the drifting wastes and rocky crags, his only companion the wind and the sand. It was impossible to remember, but he had landed here, as an infant. How had he survived those early years into adulthood? Were the chaos gods twisting fate knowing that this lonely little thing would someday serve them? Even in adulthood, how did the sand not scrape off his skin and flesh until he was nothing? To the wanderer it did not matter. To the wanderer it could not matter, for he had no memory of landing here, no inkling of how his genes grew him into a titanic man in mere years. No, for him things were always the same. Existence was grit in his eyes, sucking on dried bones, chewing on dead plants. Wind and sand. And nothing else."
But then there was something else. Thunder and lights, golden lights, a haze through the dust storm. This was not sand. This was not wind. This was something... different? The wanderer felt something he did not understand. He had no word for it, no concept of it at all. Was this curiosity? Out of the thunder and lights, out of the dust there became a shape, a cold and hard shape with sharp edges and straight lines, and out of the shape came striding a figure clad in gleaming plate.
Enoch was unlike his brothers in all ways but few. Unlike them, the future Hand of the Warmaster landed amidst no oceans to brave, or strange cultures to study and grow in, or monsters to battle. Enoch was cast down upon a barren, lifeless rock, so remote and tiny that it appeared on no starmaps and drew no attention. Growing rapidly into a young man after his virto-pod shattered against the windswept barrens of his new home, Enoch knew only sand and grit for the long days of his youth. Bereft even of a clear view of the sky, he wandered aimlessly in the howling dust storms that enveloped the lifeless plains. He subsisted on what moisture and fungal filth he could scrounge from the undersides of rocks, lead on in his endless pilgrimage by nothing but the knowledge that, wherever he was, there was nothing for him here.
The arrival of the Emperor was not simply the return of an absent father for Enoch, nor the arrival of a worthy king. It was salvation - it was the end to his wandering, the end to his constant loneliness. Unable to speak and baffled by the shapes and sounds of humanity, Enoch was taken to Terra to be rehabilitated and educated in the ways of the Imperium. Though he spent much of the journey at his Father's side, learning all he could of what he was and how he would fulfill his purpose, the Emperor quickly went about his own secret business upon the return to the center of his Imperium, entrusting Enoch to an ever-increasing succession of scribes, scholars, and generals, each one with their own lessons to teach the Primarch. These soft humans seemed to him almost an impossibility, their forms so frail and small, and as his tutelage drew onward, he found himself feeling increasingly alone. Still, he was attentive and fervent in his studies, demonstrating utter devotion in the hopes that it would soon enough attract the radiant gaze of the Emperor.
Eventually, his devotion was rewarded not by his Father, but by one of his brothers. Judging his integration into the Imperium complete, The Warmaster (then simply The Heir) finally assigned to Enoch his Legion, and set him forth upon the great undertaking of the Crusade. Looking upon his legion, Enoch vowed that he would soon see them in the utmost favor of his Father, no matter how many men had to die to make it so.
The Great CrusadeEdit
The Traitor's TournamentEdit
"Everything is in place, my liege. The warmaster has given the signal." The warrior was clad the colors of Enoch's own legion, but Enoch's small cadre knew this stranger was not a true son of the primarch.
"No. We had a plan. This was not part of the plan," Enoch chewed his knuckle nervously, as nervously as an immortal son of the Emperor could, anyway. "The artillery, that was a precautionary measure. A last resort."
"The warmaster has spoken, my liege. The time is now!"
"No! I can parley with them, I can show them the error in their ways, they'll see! I'll make them see!"
"I speak for the warmaster, Enoch! It is an ORDER!"
Enoch glowered at the liaison. "You are not the warmaster, nor would I obey that order even if you were."
The confrontation was interrupted by the sudden silence of the crowd, and Enoch's attention was drawn back to the arena. He smelled blood. Far too much of it.
"No... No! Zaul, keep your watch on this meddling spy. The Judgement Bringers will not fire a single round until I give the command." Enoch jumped down into the arena where he could hear what could only be the insane cries of Garmon, and the shocked and confused shouting of the rest of the arena. He walked toward the action but with mere seconds gone by, Enoch heard a sound that made him tremble: The unmistakable whine of dozens of incoming whirlwind missiles. He trembled and shook in his rage, at the insult the warmaster had smacked across his face, and the pitiful waste of astartes life that was fractions of seconds away, at the insubordination of his sons. Before he could mutter a word, everything was deafened and loyal marines were being tossed about like children's toys. The earth literally shook and heaved under the abuse of the Judgement Bringers, true to their namesake and masters at their craft. And through the barrage came striding, resplendent in his hatred, glorious in his fury, the Emperor's Storm. Engerand.
"ENOCH!!" Engerand roared. A single word that carried with it volumes, and was all that was needed. Enoch said nothing as he drew his blade and rushed to meet his brother. The time for words was over. He had made his choice, and he would see it through to its bitter end.
The Death of the Emperor, and AftermathEdit
(Panzer Kommandant) Romulus KurskEdit
Romulus Kursk had faithfully served the VII legion since the earliest days, rising to command of the Armored Division. This put him in a singularly difficult position when Enoch assumed command of the legion. Where formerly Romulus had fought mobile campaigns and heavily employed mechanized infantry, Enoch increasingly made use of artillery pieces. What proper tanks remained were employed as assault guns. Famously, when Enoch ordered that all remaining rhinos undergo conversion to whirlwinds or razorbacks, Kursk asked his primarch how his troops were supposed to cross the battlefield. Ever taciturn Enoch is said to have replied "You still have legs." None the less, Kursk served competently and loyally into the Heresy, first on Luna, then elsewhere, enduring the continual diminution of his command and the ever stranger requirements of the Warmaster. In the end, it proved too much for Kursk and he rebelled, charging that Enoch was simply the puppet of the Warmaster. After a failed attempt on Enoch's life, Kursk and his company took to the void, fighting their former brothers with an intense hatred. It is suspected that Kursk linked up with his former comrade Baqar Hadbaal of the XIIIth during the chaos of the Heresy and was eventually granted a domain in the Eastern Imperium, but this remains unconfirmed.
Helmut Von Somme, Siege Master of the Judgement BringersEdit
Von Somme is perhaps iconic of the post-Enoch face of the Judgement Bringers. Drawn from some unremarkable rock, Von Somme displayed a talent for siege operations that won him the regard of the VII Legion Primarch. A dark and brooding figure, unlike his close associate Chelkam Marne of the Behemoth Guard, Von Somme was notorious for his bloody assaults. Despite the often appalling death toll of his campaigns, he was well respected by his men, in part because of his insistence that he lead from the front. He believed that no man should take risks he himself would not and by the end of the crusade had extensive cybernetic augmentation. It was he that prepared the bombardment at the Tournament, though he was deployed on Luna at the time, where his talents were in need by the Warmaster. Von Somme took over primary command of the Siege of Luna after the Paladins rotated out and Enoch was pursuing the fleeing loyalists across the Segmentum Solar. Across the surface of Luna, Paladin trenches were reinforced and expanded. The blood of Loyal legions had been expended to blunt the Oathsworn's might, and Von Somme planned to bleed them dry. Faustus might be a Primarch, but big guns never tire. Thus began a period of essentially static positions on the Lunar surface, with Von Somme attempting to reduce Faustus' fortresses to rubble. This grinding attrition took its toll on both legions and as time passed, Von Somme found his authority increasingly usurped by Asuran sorcerors. Though he and his men resented the witch-kin and their daemons, their loyalty to Enoch and the Warmaster was unshakable. When tempers flared, Von Somme reminded his men of their duty and the attrition campaign continued. At the VIth Battle of Tycho Rim Von Somme was killed leading a charge against a fortified position. In the wake of his death, several companies mutinied, tired of shedding their blood for esoteric goals that they had no stake in. In a cruel twist of fate, it was Enoch himself who arrived to put down these mutinies. Though his sons immediately surrendered to his will, the Warmaster ordered him, on the advice of Anshul, to massacre them anyways, so as to complete the ritual sacrifices required to summon forth the hosts of daemons. Enoch informed the mutineers of their fate and carried out their judgement. From that day forth, Enochs judgement was ever the Warmaster's.
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Thunderstorms are in the forecast across much of the South Central states for the start of the holiday weekend.
Some erupting storms late on Saturday and into Saturday night will have the potential to be severe.
With the strongest thunderstorms, the main threats are expected to be large hail and damaging wind gusts. Larger storms could also produce blinding downpours and dangerous lightning.
First Round of Severe Storms for Texas, Oklahoma
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Just some of the cities within the zone of greatest severe threat include Oklahoma City and Norman in Oklahoma and Wichita Falls and Dallas in northern Texas.
The combination of dry air from the Southwest, and warm, moist air coming from the Gulf of Mexico will be the perfect recipe for a severe threat late on Saturday.
A weak storm will continue to slowly push out of the southern Plains helping these storms to start up.
During the day on Saturday, the strong thunderstorms from late on Friday will continue moving eastward to bring thunder from eastern Kansas and Missouri to northern Louisiana, and northern Mississippi by the afternoon.
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Way back in the 20th century, physics witnessed a number of startling unifications. Einstein brought together both matter & energy and space & time. De Broglie did the same for wave & particle.
Today, many physicists believe that all subatomic particles might well be manifestations of a single object, the string.
Aspects of nature long considered separate and distinct were shown to be different faces of an underlying unity.
Are mind and matter like that? Different ways of looking at the same thing?
A number of illustrious persons have put forward the notion, including Bertrand Russell, Wolfgang Pauli, Herbert Feigl, David Bohm, David Chalmers — and me!
My modest efforts have recently received the recognition they so desperately deserve and I can't help but feel that the whole world would do well to sit up and pay attention.
On the Unification of Mind & Matter (pdf)
If I have achieved anything, it might come down to this: What if we take a largely unexamined axiom of our science — the notion that colors & sounds & such exist only "in the mind" — and turn it on its head?
What geometry might then result?
Now, to be sure, for many intelligent persons, this move induces a … state of disequilibrium. (Try it!)
But the math and the physics and the neuroscience all seem to work out wonderfully well.
Happily, modern technology affords ready means whereby one might subvert the established order, which is always good fun, in any case. And if there's money in it … well!
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Episode 1 of 41: Ksana-Kai
Episode 1 of 41: Ksana-Kai
She walks alone beneath the amber lamps,
her orange blossom colored skirt gently caressing her legs.
She cries as her tears drip down her cheeks, sobbing deeply
She is walking aimlessly, forgetting she had driven her car
to the airport. His plane roars over her head and she looks on,
She had lied to him. She had told him she didn't really love him.
That she was using him to get back at her first love.
That he would be better off going back home to his family.
There he would find true love, the love that he deserved.
But she had lied because she was hiding another secret.
Hadn't she been unfaithful? Hadn't she promised him eternal love?
This is not the ending she had in mind when they first met...
She had been with her family at the beach, a family picnic.
There she had been strolling where the water laps the seashore,
it's frothy bubbles leaving their residue upon the sand.
Her thoughts lost in those bubbles, she had bumped into him.
They say the ocean is cleansing itself, purging dead algae,
salt, and other dissolved organic matter. And the ions,
one merely needs to breath deeply and walk upon the beach
and the cleansing occurs as one breathes in and then out.
Ksana-Kai volume I
by Lewis Jackson
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Fallout from the incendiary Nakba Day protests - sparked by righteous Palestinian anger, tamped down by excessive Israeli firepower - goes on. A roundup here; why Jews need to recognize the Nakba here; video here, the second, of the brutality Palestinians daily encounter; and a look at "this ungodly mess" that is Israel here. As a Jew, one weeps. Below, protesters march, chant, wave flags and finally scale the fence at the Golan Heights.
"The same Occupation which ruins the lives of our neighbors, our cousins, the Palestinians, has also rendered Israel bloated and fearful and tainted and dumbed down and callous – and thus fundamentally unable to do anything about the most enduring threat to its own future, the Occupation."
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I am so excited, Janis asked me to be guest designer for the new challenge at Paper Playtime. The theme is to use your Cricut and Hearts or Love. This is what I came up with.
Monday, February 6, 2012
Love is in the Air
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- AnonymousFebruary 6, 2012 at 8:17 AM
Love love love the Valentine's Day cards!!!! You provide such awesome inspiration!ReplyDelete
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The life of Rev. Father Patrick Francis Brannan, who was laid to rest at Weatherford, Tex., on February 1, 1916, was an interesting and unusual one. As a citizen soldier, lawyer, public official, and missionary priest his experiences were many and varied.
Patrick Brannan was norn November 30, 1848, at Columbus, Ga. He was a mere lad when the war broke out; but, imbued with love for the Southland, he went into service as a drummer biy at the age of fourteen, serving with the 15th Alabama, Company K. During a part of his service Colonel Oats (later Governor of Alabama) was in command of his regiment, and he took a great interest in young Brannan because of his enthusiasm and diminutive size. The colonel reprimanded the impulsive drummer boy several times for getting into the firing line, but he would get back into the thick of the fray at every opportunity. He often alluded to the tender solicitude of his colonel during the boyish patriotic outbreaks. They were always warm friends.
When the war was over, Patrick Brannan took up the study of law at Louisville, Ky., was admitted to the bar, and began his practice in that city. Removing to Texas, he settled at Weatherford and practiced his profession there. During the trial of a case in Cleburne he met Miss Mary Powers, to whom he was married. A son and a daughter were born to them and survive him.
He became a great friend and protege of Governor Lanham and was a frequent and welcome visitor at the Lanham households in Weatherford, in Washington, and in Austin. In 1882 he became mayor of Weatherford, being the first Democrat to hold the office, and he filled it efficiently. In the very zenith of his career as a lawyer his wife died, and he determined to devote his life to the Church. Entering the Catholic seminary in Baltimore, he completed an eight-year course in three years, and after his ordination he began his service as a missionary priest, which he continued until his death, his missions extending over the United States.
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Identifying an expired projector lamp module
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This is #3 in a series on sex and aging. If you have already read this preliminary disclosure, you may skip to the new material below the "more" button.
These posts are about why sex gets better when we become capable of leaving some things behind, and why this generally only happens as we age.
Now be advised: I'm going to write about sex and these topics openly, so if you are:
- under age (18),
- prefer not to read about this kind of thing, or
- want to read about it only as long as certain kind of words are (not) used or descriptions remain allusive and euphemistic,
please do not read this or other post(s) on sex or other adult topics!
"Making a list, checking it twice, gonna find out who's naughty or nice …"
One of my favorite popular culture check points is Fred Meyer. For those on you not familiar with the Pacific Northwest, Fred Meyer is a branch of "one-stop-shopping" stores where you can buy everything from groceries to furniture.
Fred Meyer tends to be conservatively mainstream. The book section features glossy exposés of "liberal" figures and causes, and laudatory valedictions of conservative figures and causes. Anything on sex and relationships appears in books like those by Dr. Laura (that bastion of advice for how to treat your husband like a pet without him knowing it) or Dr. Drew (both stoking and riding the current wave of an "addiction" frenzy that comes, in part, from deeply ambivalent and contradictory sexual subtexts in popular culture. See SGBWA II: O … God).
The magazines up front tend to be a bit more practical and less pretentious. Now, Fred Meyer isn't the kind of place to carry Maxim, but they do carry Cosmo (even a Fred Meyer has to bow to the pressures of popular demand) along with mags like Woman's Day, Ladies' Home Journal, Redbook, Oprah, Fitness, and, of course, the National Enquirer. That is to say, there is a fairly broad, though discernibly right-leaning, spectrum of publications. I figure that is, culturally, pretty much where a substantial number of Americans hang out most of the time, at least in their public personas.
Anyway, I also figure that if a trend appears in Fred Meyer, it's not going to be very fringy. And so, when I'm there I sometimes peruse the book titles and flip a few pages, and when there's a long line in checkout and Susan takes the hike down to the restrooms I'll pull out a few magazines.
One thing that really strikes me, from the bookshelves at the back to the last magazine you can grab before swiping your Rewards Card, is how obsessed with checklists and ratings we are. From "5 things that say your sex life needs a lift" and "4 sure signs that s/he is cheating on you," "15 moves that will rock your world" and "7 ways to bring intimacy back to bed," to "How sexy are you?" and "the four things he wants but won't ask for," people seem to need something to check off to make sure that they're sexually okay.
It occurred to me that the need for lists are one of the symptoms, a kind of hallmark, of the sexual baggage that people bring, and then develop, in the first half of their adult lives. I started looking around at who else in the aisle is perusing these lists. And, from a decidedly unscientific observation, those at whom most of the lists are directed, and most of those perusing the materials, fit that demographic. But I get that. How many of you have made an actual or mental list of the following in the course of your sex life, and used them to gauge whether you should feel good, or not so good, about it?
- Sexual progression (holding hands, first kiss, first boy/girlfriend, etc.) correlated with ages.
- The number of sexual partners you have had or not had.
- The size, color, or other features of your naughty bits.
- Places you have had sex (couch, bed, rooms in the house, public places, public transportation, the car, etc).
- Kinds of sex (oral, anal, toys, etc.) you have had or not had.
- How many times (a day, a week, a month, etc.) you have sex.
- Different kinds of fantasies you have (or don't) about sex.
- Characteristics of addiction or other problems.
- Different sexual positions or techniques that you have tried or not tried.
- How many orgasms you have had or given in one session.
- Kinds or sexual embarrassments or failures you have had.
- Quizzes to tell you about how sexual you or your partner are and whether you such things as "boring," "normal," or "kinky."
- Quizzes to tell you if your sex life is worse/better than "normal" or in some way okay (physically, emotionally, or spiritually).
So, how many did you check? If you checked:
- over 4 and under 10, you are NORMAL
- over 10, you are NEEDY.
And if you checked under 4, you are … probably lying.
Okay, I'm being a bit facetious and intentionally ironic here.
But see? We love lists and ratings. And why not? They're comforting. So uncomplicated. So contained. So conclusive. Lists are handy and helpful for helping us find our way through complicated tasks, where leaving something out or getting the wrong thing can spoil the experience: travel, weddings, shopping, and sex. They're also handy for helping us find clear demarcations where there are none. They tell us what constitutes success or failure, and to draw lines and tell us what it means if we cross or don't cross them. So goal oriented in that way, lists are. So helpfully determinate.
And, sometimes, so debilitating. After all, what is the goal of sex? Being consistently over or within a certain number of ________s? (Fill in the blank). And moreover, why does someone else get to define sexual parameters and to draw these lines in the sand for you … and your partner?
One of the great reliefs in growing older is that you learn to abandon the lists, the labels, and the letter grades. Sure, I think we're all somewhat interested in how our sex lives compare to others. But as you grow older you learn that it's just not about them. And it's not a competition, a test, or an assignment where you have to stay within someone else's lines. And it's not about checklists. The ultimate test of our sex life isn't how many (or how few) items we can check off someone else's list, but how thrilled, fulfilled, and happy sex makes us and our partners.


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Some people are just meant to be relievers and Jorge Zavala might be one of those guys. Over the last two years, Zavala has an ERA of about 0.66. I didn't even do the math for that, I just looked at the ERAs of the last two seasons. That's how damn impressive he has been since the beginning of last year.
Zavala was born a couple of months before the 1994 Baseball Strike in Honduras. How unusual is it to see baseball players out of Honduros? According to Baseball-Reference, the only Honduran major league baseball player is Gerald Young, who played between 1987-94. Young was actually raised in California and was a draftee in 1982 so there is that added caveat. Soccer is a much bigger sport in Honduros than baseball, but Zavala bucked the trend and started to throw a baseball with velocity.
Signed before the 2012 season, Zavala was sent to the Dominican Summer League for his first professional action. He started three of the 16 games he pitched in and limited batters to no homers and less than a hit an inning. He also didn't stand out much. A 3.07 ERA and 1.27 WHIP in rookie ball won't attract a lot of attention without big K numbers and again, here Zavala didn't amaze anyone especially compared to Michael Flores, a lefty who would go on to struggle over the next two years. Still, Flores looked intriguing in 2012
Then 19, Zavala moved up to the Gulf Coast League and started another five games to go with eleven total outings. Not much changed as far as Zavala's prospect status. He wasn't bad and you could argue that he was good (his ERA was a bit higher than it probably should have been), but there was just nothing to write home about and say "this guy has something."
Atlanta must have concurred because they kept Zavala at Champion Field in the Gulf Coast League to open last year. They moved him out to the bullpen full-time and Zavala excelled. In 18 games out of the GCL pen, he nailed down seven saves while walking the same exact amount. In 24 innings, he struck out 27. Oh, and he allowed just one run for an ERA of 0.38. He basically had an ERA of Anthony Varvaro. He was moved up the chain to Danville and in 2.1 ING, he matched the one run he surrendered in GCL, but still, he finished the year with a 0.68 ERA in 26.1 innings. Not the greatest sample size, I grant you, but that's greatly impressive. For his efforts, Zavala was named Pitcher of the Year by the Braves organization for the GCL Braves.
Zavala joined Rome to begin the year and has been there outside of a one-game stint in Carolina that coincided with the bus accident that ravaged the Mudcats roster. In ten games in Rome, he has pitched 12.1 ING with 17 K's with an microscopic ERA of 0.73. I'd match his ERA with a Braves player, but according to Baseball-Reference, no Brave has played under that number outside of probably spring training.
So, has Zavala established himself as a real prospect? Probably not yet, but he's getting there. You can't put numbers up like Zavala has done to this point and not start to get noticed even though I haven't read any glowing scouting reports on him. This video is from several years ago and it's the closest I've come in my brief research to getting a handle on his pitching style. In a system full of big pitching prospects both ahead and behind Zavala, it's easy for good performances by the lesser-known pitchers in the system to get lost in the shuffle – especially when they are coming from a reliever – but Zavala is a guy you ought to keep a look out for. Over the last two years, he has been special. That in itself doesn't mean he'll be successful, but there clearly is something here. Let's hope it works out.
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Jobseekers looking to move into a new role face a slim array of options but the consultancy sector soars, according to a report.
Job vacancies fell last month as the impact of the EU referendum sparked a pause in hiring among businesses, according to a new report.
The post-Brexit summer of uncertainty is one reason for the lull, research by jobs site Adzuna has found.
It said jobseekers looking to move roles had fewer options to choose from in August, as advertised vacancies fell by 31,000 to 1.1 million for the month, a drop of 2.7% from July.
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The jobs market is proving resilient in the face of uncertainty however, with overall hiring increasing by 0.6% compared with six months ago.
"Hiring has certainly not ground to a halt as many predicted after Brexit. This is a seasonal suspension, not a long-term lull," said co-founder of Adzuna, Doug Monro.
"Skilled workers in shortage areas like tech and engineering are hot property," he added.
The consultancy sector is bucking the trend. It has shown a strong performance with average advertised vacancies up 5% month-on-month and 10% compared to the same period last year.
Average consultancy salaries have also increased by 8.9% year-on-year.
Other sectors showing year-on-year salary growth include maintenance (up 12.1%), property (up 7.9%), PR (up 4%) and IT (up 2%).
Despite the number of vacancies falling, the employment rate is at its highest level since records began in 1971, according to latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
This has in part been propped up by the growing gig economy and a rise in self-employment as jobseekers look for alternative means of income.
A surge in millennials starting their own businesses amidst the growing entrepreneurial environment has helped drive the rise.
UK businesses have topped 2.1 million for the first time, up 4% on last year, as the startup economy continues to thrive, according to the national accountancy group, UHY Hacker Young.
"The recession showed that working for big business is no longer a guarantee of job security," said Marc Waterman, a partner at UHY Hacker Young.
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QiYi X-Man design Volt Square-1
Used by Charlie Stark to set the single world record of 5.73 seconds in September 2017
New from X-man designs, the designer of World record setting puzzles such as the Galaxy, comes the Volt square-1. With many innovative features to improve your square-1 solving times:
A widened middle layer increases the gripping area and controllability
Innovative nylon-abs nut design, makes assembly easier, whilst reducing wear
New double sphere core, and piece design reduces the possibilty of both edge and corner pops.
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Posted by Rollercoasterben on 16th Aug 2018
Don't get me wrong, this is the best square-1 on the market at the moment, but still has some issues. When I got this cube, I loosened it and lubed it with 5k on the core and green velvet on the pieces (both of which I would highly recommend). Since it was lose, and I was turning fast, it twisted, taking an 'edge piece' (I'm not sure what the pieces are each called) with it as I did a slash move. It bent the piece, but I fixed it with a bit of superglue. This is no fault of thepuzzlestore, and I would highly recommend this cube still
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Posted by Ali Macey on 27th Feb 2018
This cube is fun, challenging, turns brilliantly and has never popped despite it being a square-1. What more could you want!!