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Thursday, July 16, 2015
Deferred - with a little help from the LA Times' editorial board
The issue seems to be that UC prez Napolitano said in an NPR interview that she favored using the "State Department" definition of anti-Semitism and she now wants to walk the comment back, probably due to concerns subsequently raised about academic freedom, etc. Meanwhile, the California state assembly adopted a different definition that refers to the State Department definition, but doesn't adopt it.
One of the Regents Gov. Brown's recently appointed (former assembly speaker John Pérez) said he approved of the assembly version. The Times doesn't refer to the assembly resolution. But it explicitly doesn't support the State Department version and loosely calls for a policy that isn't "overly broad." One can infer, therefore, that there are still unresolved deliberations (negotiations?) going on behind the scene at the Regents to come up with something that is not "overly broad."
UPDATE: The assembly resolution was also enacted today by the state senate:
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/sen/sb_0001-0050/scr_35_bill_20150713_amended_asm_v95.pdf and http://www.latimes.com/local/political/la-me-ln-legislature-urges-colleges-to-condemn-anti-semitism-20150716-story.html
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The three Guianas are part of the Guiana Shield, one of the world's oldest and most biologically diverse regions dating back 1.7 billion years. This relatively unknown region of the world is covered by more than 80% pristine rainforest and is home to the Neotropic Big 5 – the jaguar, black caiman, giant river otter, giant anteater and the impressive harpy eagle, the largest raptor in the Americas. Travellers will marvel at these giants and others like the little golden frogs that thrive within the giant bromeliads and the mighty arapaima fish as they surface for air in the giant Victoria Amazonica-strewn lakes of the Guyana savannahs.
The 'Wild Coast' along the three Guianas is one of the most-important nesting grounds on the planet for four species of turtles, including the Giant Leatherback. The coast is also home to a melting pot of diversity with Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana each culturally unique from one another with heritage to match. If you're looking for a highly rewarding off-the-beaten-path experience, look no further than the Guianas.
Travel the Way it Used to Be
To travel through all three Guianas is to explore one of the least-known and least-visited corners of South America. Wedged between Brazil and Venezuela and the Atlantic on the north-east shoulder of South America, the largely-undiscovered destinations of Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana are shaped by an eclectic mix of cultures, religions and races, indigenous communities and an extraordinary colonial footprint. Tourism is still somewhat undeveloped and the infrastructure lacks the sophistication and variety of choices of other more established Caribbean and Latin American destinations. Instead, there is a privilege of being in a raw and unspoilt region, set against a backdrop of stunning scenery where nature, adventure and cultural tourism predominate. You will journey by riverboat, mountain paths, rough roads and small planes and stay in comfortable, rustic lodges where your visit economically benefits the Indigenous communities you visit.
A Sampling of Adventures amid the Three Guianas
Only a select few operators specialise in adventures to this trio of destinations. Wilderness Explorers offers scheduled and tailor-made tours across the Guianas, combining the highlights of all three countries in a couple of weeks. One itinerary option combines the wonderful Maroon community of Danpaati on the Upper Suriname River with the charms of Paramaribo with the Guiana Space Centre and Devil's Island and Cayenne in French Guiana. It then takes you to Guyana to experience the delights of the Iwokrama Rainforest including its canopy walkway and Turtle Mountain, a stay at the Indigenous community owned and operated Surama Eco-lodge, as well as a unique culinary and market tour of Georgetown and sunset river cruise on the Demerara River.
A wildlife tour in the Three Guianas includes a houseboat excursion on the marshes of Kaw in French Guiana, into the isolated ranches of wildlife-rich savannahs and emerald green rainforests, and the summit of a mountain near an Indigenous community. Here your senses will be bombarded by the sights, scents and sounds of the jungle, including the extraordinary screech of the red howler monkeys, the world's loudest mammal and a glimpse of the Goliath Bird-eating Spider, the largest spider by mass in the world. During your tour across the region, you will visit the stunning remote Kaieteur Falls in Guyana which is almost 5 times the height of Niagara and is home to thousands of swifts who swoop down to roost behind the falls at dusk. River journeys on bronze-tinted waters will take you to oxbow lakes where giant waterlilies open as the sun sets and nature unfolds around you as you drift back to your river lodge looking at the stars and spotlighting for caiman, tree snakes and night-birds along the banks. The wildlife-viewing opportunities and quality of guiding are generally best in Guyana, where tour guides will be delighted to take you through the wildlife of the rainforest, rivers and savannahs and share with you some of the myths and stories of their culture.
Turtle and dolphin-watching are currently easiest in Suriname and French Guiana. Birdwatching in Guyana is particularly rewarding even for less-experienced neotropical birders due to the large number of widespread species that can be seen as well as the 'star birds' such as the rare sun parakeet and red siskin. Even if you're not into birding, it's hard not to get caught up in the excitement of seeing the stunning orange Guianan cock-of-the rock, the many species of colourful parrots and the mysterious and imposing harpy eagle.
The Authenticity of a Rich History
Combine some of the world's best tropical wildlife spotting with the intoxicating yet dark history of a region that embodies the struggle to escape colonial rule. This has resulted in a unique blend of English, French and Dutch-speaking nations, peppered with indigenous villages and pockets of Asian and African communities. Where else can you sample delicious Indochinese soup in a Hmong Market bought with Euros in a South American outpost of metropolitan France? Or eat peanut soup in an African community deep in the forests of Dutch-speaking Suriname and hear songs sung by the Maroons? Or attend a duck curry festival and eat curry and roti washed down with rum or beer overlooking the rice-fields of Guyana at the crossroads of the English-speaking Caribbean and South America? These three countries offer an enigmatic fusion of festivals, rodeos, Amerindian heritage celebrations and the world's longest Carnival, in French Guiana.
Trip Planning and Getting There
Although it is possible to fly easily between Guyana and Suriname, it is not possible to fly between them to French Guiana. Instead, there are exciting overland journeys to be made and river border crossings, such as that between Suriname and French Guiana where you feel like you have not just crossed a river but an entire ocean once you have left the dusty Surinamese outpost of Albina and arrived at the very French customs office in Saint-Laurent du Maroni. To fly to Cayenne on a plane from Paris is to have taken a domestic flight complete with its cargo of French papers, cigarettes, wine and bread.
The Three Guianas is a very rich and rewarding destination to explore. Often it is easiest to book an organised tour, be it in a group or on a private basis, so that the logistics and any visas are taken care of, allowing you to simply relax and enjoy the very different experiences each country has to offer. In French Guiana, English is not always spoken except in the hotels and restaurants in Cayenne, so English-speakers may choose to pre-book an English-speaking guide where possible through their operator.
The best season to arrange a tour to the three Guianas is September through to April, with the main wet season traditionally occurring between May and July and a short rainy season on the coast in December-January.
Air Access via North America and Europe
Air access to the region from Europe and North America is improving with airlines such as American Airlines and Copa Airlines flying frequently to Georgetown and talk of other carriers coming to Guyana with the onset of extensive offshore oil production bringing investment to the country. From the UK, the easiest access is through Barbados via LIAT, or Port of Spain, with Caribbean Airlines. Flying from Europe, there are frequent scheduled flights with KLM to Paramaribo and Air France to Cayenne making it possible to fly in or out of Cayenne in French Guyana and Paramaribo in Suriname on KLM combined with an overland journey between the two capitals. There are regular flights each day between Georgetown and Paramaribo making it easy to include Guyana in a three Guianas trip. Your local operator will be able to advise you on the best routing.
Travel Better in Guyana
Guyana is working hard to conserve its vibrant wildlife and ecosystems and protect its culture and heritage. We realise that it is often difficult to understand how you can support these aims and make a difference when you travel. That's why we've set out to help you by creating Visitor Guidelines For Sustainable Travel. All passionate globetrotters, curious culture seekers and bold adventurers are encouraged to do all they can to leave a positive impact on the people and places you visit in Guyana.


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Have you ever had a cup of tea made with a milk substitute? I did when I was in uni, and I didn't manage to get the fucking taste out of my mouth for the better part of a decade. The problem was that the milk substitute was soya milk, and that soya has less right to be a milk than an almond.
Now, coconuts; that's a different thing: It doesn't matter what you do to a coconut, it will basically result in something wet and milky. As far as a substitute for milk goes, it does the job for you with very little effort, and it doesn't leave your drink tasting like sausages at the end of it. Although, if putting soya in my tea resulted in me being given a plate of sausages, I'd do it. More on that later.
I have recently found myself thoroughly enjoying drinking coffee made with coconut milk. It was my birthday recently. As a treat I went and ate a kilo of barbecued meat, and I was over the moon to be able to top it off with a coconut latte from a local vendor on my way home. It was truly delicious.
This is not the first time I have had such a beverage, and it was not the first time the idea that non-animal-based diets had come up in our house. I may have mentioned this several times before.
There are two ways in which decisions are made: consciously and unconsciously. Imagine walking along a street, which bends gradually around to the right. Before long you are walking at a ninety-degree angle to the path you were on when you started. That is an unconscious decision at work.
So many of the most negative things which happen in this world are the product of an unconscious decision-making process: I mean, no one sets out to kill a few hundred babies; it's simply the result of a thought process no one had studiously thought through. Ask some baby milk manufacturers.
A conscious decision, on the other hand, is one for which you have no excuses. You chose to do that, and you chose to take that sharp right turn. This was no being-taken-with-the-general-direction-of-travel situation. You did it on purpose. You may not have planned every step of the sometimes tortuous route it took to get there, but you had a destination in mind and your feet listened to you.
We're doing the latter now; we had been doing the former. We were unconsciously eating more and more meat, because that is my taste; we are now consciously eating less of any animal based stuff.
The problem is that I do so love meat. So I have exempted myself from this drive to veganism, at least officially. The issue is twofold: on one hand I have always loved eating some foods which have no meat in it – I am a lover of pulses of all kinds, regardless of what they do to my bowels; I eat lots of vegetables, and can handle eating much more – so I'm happy to cook vegan food for the family.
That means that my diet is becoming resolutely more vegan, regardless of the fact that I have no interest at all in becoming vegan. My partner does, and our eldest isn't a fan of meat, so it's done.
Issue number two is that we now eat as a family. It is helping our larger daughter to eat her meals properly, and to keep her eating what her parents eat, which was always our intention as we drew up to her impending birth all those years ago. Then reality – and supermarket pizzas – took hold, and we moved away from our ideals. We're back now, and I am only cooking one meal a night. Full stop.
No one ever expected me to be vegan. If I want a slab of meat when I am not having the same meal as my partner, no one will batter so much as a butterfly's eyelid. I just happen to be joining in. Ish.
I write the menus for our family meals, and I cook the bulk of the meals that we eat together as a family. Consequently, once we had made the conscious decision to set our course towards veganism it was me that was most likely to be doing the turning of the ship. And I have chosen to take it slow.
I have started by cutting the meat-based dishes down to two a week. That sounds considerably more than a vegan diet should contain – because it is – but this is a path, not a teleportation. We're taking our time to get where we want to be. And I will have some sneaky ham when I am out of the house.
I started by adding in ingredients which both get me excited and which are not the product of dead animals. Lentils, beans and brassicas all make me happy, so they were some good low hanging fruit. In future I may consider some more outré non-meats, but I am happy with the beans for now.
We knew that we wanted to keep fish in our diet, at least for now. Ethically we have far less of an issue with fish. Likewise the eggs from the family farm. Care and provenance are important factors here, and they would help shape our decision making in the years to come. The marine remains.
Agreeing how many meals of meat we wanted to start with – understanding that we would be ending with zero – was a great first step. I respond to limits on my actions better than I do to a limitless landscape. It's why I write these blogs to a format every week for instance. Knowing what I am permitted to do allows me the freedom to riff in amongst that perfectly happily. It works for me.
Once that change is bedded in and become normalised we can see where we want to go next with it. Should we cut all of the meat out now? Should be keep the fish dishes we currently plan? Should we replace the milk we buy with coconut milk now? Where do avocados really fit in with all of this?
Working together is the key, it would seem. While this hasn't been my idea, it does make sense for us as a family. Buying meat doesn't make us happier, doesn't make us healthier, but it does make us poorer. Imposing rules on ourselves in the first instance, so as to make a sudden and sharp family decision on the consumption of dead things, would make me fall off the wagon immediately. We have more money to spend on whiskey, and I can have a burger whenever I want. I like that path.


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Isaiah 32:1 Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment. Isaiah 32:2 And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land. Isaiah 32:3 And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that hear shall hearken. Isaiah 32:4 The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly. Isaiah 32:5 The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to be bountiful. Isaiah 32:6 For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise profaneness, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail. Isaiah 32:7 The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the meek with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right. Isaiah 32:8 But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and in liberal things shall he continue.
Isaiah 32:9 Rise up, ye women that are at ease, [and] hear my voice; ye careless daughters, give ear unto my speech. Isaiah 32:10 For days beyond a year shall ye be troubled, ye careless women: for the vintage shall fail, the ingathering shall not come. Isaiah 32:11 Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: strip you, and make you bare, and gird [sackcloth] upon your loins. Isaiah 32:12 They shall smite upon the breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine. Isaiah 32:13 Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city: Isaiah 32:14 For the palace shall be forsaken; the populous city shall be deserted; the hill and the watch-tower shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;
Isaiah 32:15 until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness become a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest. Isaiah 32:16 Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness shall abide in the fruitful field. Isaiah 32:17 And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and confidence for ever. Isaiah 32:18 And my people shall abide in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places. Isaiah 32:19 But it shall hail, in the downfall of the forest; and the city shall be utterly laid low. Isaiah 32:20 Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth the feet of the ox and the ass.


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On November 1st, one in seven Americans on food stamps had their benefits cut, to the grand tune of $5 Billion nationwide. There is only one rational way to describe this action. It is utter madness. The scope and breadth of the madness are hard to calculate, but we can give it a good shot. Let's start with the raw numbers. Last year, there were 49 million Americans who experienced food insecurity. That's 15% of the population. Nearly 16 million of them were children.
In children, the effects of hunger are terrifying. We could trot out statistics all day about how they do poorly in school, how they experience depression and anxiety, how their bodies can't fight infections, how their growth is stunted. But let's not get too tied up in that. The statistics have been around forever, and they aren't changing anything by themselves. Let's just talk plainly. Children are growing. To grow, they need fuel. Food is fuel. If they don't get it, they don't grow properly. When they reach adulthood, they will suffer for the rest of their lives because they did not grow properly.
We all know that, right? Is there one among us who does not know that starving a child is a cruel and heartless thing to do? So why are we even entertaining the idea at a national level, much less putting a plan into action whose direct consequence will be millions of starving children? Why, in a nation where enough food to feed everyone goes to waste, would we not hang a millstone around the neck of a person who even hinted in the direction of anyone at all starving, much less a child? We spend a billion dollars a year throwing away food that is perfectly good to eat. You read that right. We're cutting food stamps by 5 billion dollars while we spend 1 billion to throw away food.
Read that again. Let it sink in. We spend a BILLION dollars to throw away food in America, and we're cutting food stamps by 5 BILLION dollars.
Can we call this anything but evil? In what possible universe can it be a good thing to look 45 million hungry people in the eye and then throw away the food they need?
But why? Why are we doing it? Why haven't we stormed Washington by the millions to demand an end to this madness? Perhaps the answer lies in our misconceptions of government, fueled by propaganda and misinformation from Republicans and Tea Party fanatics who envision a Libertarian Utopia, free from any government interference. Perhaps we cherry pick our Bibles, fawning over Michele Bachmann when she quotes the bit about people who don't work not eating, while conveniently forgetting the words of Jesus, who admonished the wealthy to sell all that they own to give to the poor. Surely it has something to do with the verifiably incorrect belief that poor people are lazy. Whatever the root cause, the end result is inexcusably flawed logic.
Let's take another path for a moment. Let's imagine that we can build our country in a different way. Let's propose something momentus: The federal government gives every single man, woman, and child in America enough food stamps to eat well for their entire lifetime. Does it sound preposterous? Does it sound like socialism gone barking mad? If it does, bear with me for a minute, and let's see if that proves true, or whether we've drunk too much individualist Kool-Aid to recognize a great thing when we see it.
The government provides a lot of basic services to all Americans. The roads, the fire departments, the farms, the police, the hospitals, the courts, the jails, the social services, the universities, the students, the elderly, the poor, and a thousand other entities are government funded in various ways, and it's all paid for by your taxes. In theory, the government could insist that everyone pay for all their own services. We could be forced to pay an inspector to certify the safety of our own food. We could be asked to pay out of pocket before firemen would save our homes. (This actually happened, in a manner of speaking, and just recently.) A few right wing crazies think this sounds like a good thing, but to most sane people, it sounds horrifying.
We're mostly okay in principle with the government providing a lot of services that seem free but actually cost a lot of money. We pay taxes for all of these services, whether we use them or not. That's the way it works. So why not take the remarkable step of making food one of the basic services our government pays for?
What would the country look like if everyone got free food? Would people stop working? Probably a few, but most people have other bills to pay. And probably a lot of people would like to have caviar from time to time, or would want to shop at the specialty gourmet shops and organic markets and so forth. People would supplement their free food by splurging from time to time.
What possible negative effect can we think of from people getting free food? Would the grocery stores close? Of course not! They would be getting paid for the food just like before, only the government would be picking up the tab, not the individuals. In fact, more people would be shopping, because… remember that bit about 15% of the population not having enough food? Forty-five million more people would buy food. That's what's called a boon.
Remember the food waste thing? How much of that food would be put to use if everybody ate whenever they were hungry? How much of that billion dollars would be saved? I don't know, but I know there would be an impact. How much would the country save on medical bills once nobody suffered from malnutrition, and all the physical illnesses that result from hunger just vanished? How much would our children's grades improve once none of them were too hungry to learn?
Where is the downside in this plan? The only one I can think of is that certain people would be unhappy about paying the taxes for it. Is this really a downside?
But what's that I hear from the right side of the aisle? It's way too expensive to be realistic? Taxes would be so high that it would force people into poverty? Well, let's consider that for a moment. What are the worst effects of poverty? Those would be hunger and homelessness. We've eliminated one of those, and not having to pay anything for food means that a higher percentage of after-tax income would be available for housing, right? So it doesn't look like a good argument on its face. Let's dig deeper, though. Just in case.
The U.S. government has found that a "moderate" food plan for an average adult is about $260 per month. Let's take that as our rough number, since adult males generally eat the most of anybody. So our men will be scrimping a little, but everyone else will eat just fine. There are currently around 320 million Americans. A little math gives us a grand total of $83,200,000,000 a month. That's a terrifying number. Could we really afford an 83 billion dollar program? It's preposterous, isn't it?
Well, not really. For a start, let's not forget that we all pay for food already. Who among us doesn't pay $260 a month for food if we can afford it, right? (That's $8.67 per day. Most of us spend that for lunch, don't we?) And remember that everybody is getting a food card. So we're paying taxes that are essentially returned to us, minus some processing and handling charges. So let's take out the food we're already paying for. If we do that, we're left with $11.7 billion.
That's still preposterous, don't you think? Almost 12 billion a month to give every poor person enough to eat? Actually, it's not. If we divide that cost evenly between all the non-hungry people (Remember, that's 275 million people), it comes out to $42 a month. If we could somehow muster the intestinal fortitude to tax every well-fed American $42 dollars a month, nobody in the country would have to go hungry ever again. In case you want to put this in sharper perspective, the U.S. military costs $178 per person per month.
But that's not as pretty as it might seem. A lot of those 275 million are students, or children, or seniors, so it'll be a lot more than that per taxpayer. Well, what if we could fix that? What if, instead of taxing our citizens, we taxed our businesses instead? Walmart's revenue for 2011 was $442 billion dollars. $11.7 billion is a 4% tax on that revenue. So a 4% corporate tax on just one company would feed every single hungry American for one month. Put simply, if we taxed only the Fortune 500 companies, we would have an embarrassment of riches left over after we fed every hungry person in America for the entire year. There would be no hassle about qualifying, no offices filled with bureaucrats fighting over who deserves what, no muss, no fuss. Just everyone in America with plenty to eat. Sure, there would be lots of people who didn't *need* the service, but so what? Lots of people lose good jobs and need temporary help over their lifetimes. Imagine never having to stand in line for food stamps again, knowing that no matter what happened, you would never, ever go hungry, no matter where you lived, whether or not you were working, how old you were, or anything else. Imagine an end to hunger in exchange for the slight inconvenience of paying a tax and receiving a benefit card.
The truth is as simple as simple can get. Not only is there no reason for anyone to go hungry in America, it would be an absolutely simple matter to feed everyone. There is plenty of food, and there is plenty of money, and we could do it without raising the effective tax rate by one penny on a single individual. If we did that, we'd still live in a capitalist society. Walmart could still gouge its opponents with its massive market leverage. Banks could still be too big to fail. Anyone who wanted to go it alone could choose not to spend their government "handouts." They could bury them in the backyard to show their disdain for the evil, awful socialists who gave them free food. But really, would anyone want to throw away perfectly good food?
After imagining this country where everyone eats, let's come back to reality. My plan isn't going to happen anytime soon. Even so, perhaps we can use it to put things in a bit of perspective. Perhaps we can use it to fuel the fires of righteous indignation at Republicans who would dare to suggest that starving the poor is anything but heinous, inhumane, and dreadfully evil. We may not be able to end hunger in a single stroke, but we can damn sure prevent anyone else from starving in the name of fiscal responsibility. That is a lie, and a vicious one, and we must not tolerate it any longer.


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In a world where the arts are whittled down and down and down until they fit between ad breaks, where armchair experts dissect opera and where back-to-back Cold Chisel covers fill the air after the mindless prattle of an idiot host there is another world that exists on the premise of quality and dedication to craft. Fame isn't the goal but it's a possible by-product. The art, attainment of skills and selection by the company are the task at hand; you have to love it to want it so much and yet loving it still won't be enough for many.
Maybe it's been romanticised and become something akin to folklore, but for me ballet is the Cold War and The Iron Curtain, a world of discipline and defection. It's the Kirov in St. Petersburg and Bolshoi in Moscow; it's the Ballets Russes in Paris and The Royal Ballet in London. And it's where you end up after defection. It's Mikhail Baryshnikov and Rudolph Nureyev, Dame Fonteyn and Anna Pavlova.
It's a hidden and secret world, one rarely seen or penetrated by outsiders except during performances – where we see the apparent effortlessness of their behind-closed-doors hard work come to life. I can't help but feel like an outsider. But being an outsider made what I experienced so special. At the Australian Ballet's headquarters in Southbank I was given a tour, not just of the studios where the students take their first steps towards a career in dance or the senior company members loosen and limber up for another rehearsal – very special in itself – but through the wardrobe department and into the archives, past the milliners and wigmakers.
In case you're wondering, yes there is a full-time wigmaker and on tour and after every performance the wigs are washed and readied for the following night. To put that into perspective, there are 69 company members and in the recent season of Madame Butterfly everyone wore a wig. There are also 160 costumes that need to be seen to, repaired if necessary and altered or fitted on the fly.
In the archives and still stored in hardcopy, programmes for every ballet ever performed list everything from set design, stage direction and costumes down to the colour and swatch, make-up and hair, music and lights. It is Mecca (or even Shangri-La) to any fan of design, history and dance and I hope nothing ever happens to it.
The upcoming British Liaisons, currently in Sydney, is a showcase of three generations of Britain's best choreographers. The opening piece, Checkmate, is a ballet where "kings, queens and pawns battle to the death" with costumes to match. The costumes from the original production, where they cannot be used or refurbished, are faithfully reconstructed using original fabrics and the extensive archives. Even down to make-up and hair, the ballet will remain true.
Wardrobe Manager Michael Williams, who joined the Australian Ballet Company in 1976, usually has about four months to prepare for a new production, but sometimes time isn't an option. Consider this year's The Merry Widow: there are 280 costumes to somehow find the time for. And no, it's not just tutus and tights – which provide their own challenges – but a proper, full-on costume drama. Coincidentally, Williams' production in his first year was The Merry Widow.
In the fabric vault, from the corner of my eye, I got a very secret sneak peek at the beginnings of the Romeo and Juliet costume collection designed by Akira Isogawa. The classic ballet opens in September, with Graeme Murphy's choreography; it's a totally new commission for the company that uses Shakespeare's star-crossed lovers and Prokofiev's magnificent score as its counterpoints.
There is something wonderfully alluring about the ballet: the soft, delicate ballerinas who possess an inner strength and beauty found in few people; the male dancers who, despite an oft-misconstrued reputation for femininity and obscurity, hold such masculinity and confidence it would put the toughest of tough guys to the test. This is the attraction; this is a secret world rarely seen by outsiders. And then, despite the dedication of company members, it's still only ever seen by the very loyal balletomane.
Perhaps you would be more interested if you knew that every principal artist gets a new pair of shoes everyday and every senior artist every other, that every member prepares their shoes in their own special way and that every member does their own make up; that the Australian Ballet Company is one of the hardest working in the world, giving approximately 200 performances a year, and is recognised as one of world's major international ballet companies.
But as I learnt from Oscar Wilde via Stephen Fry, all art is quite useless. We don't need it, it doesn't hold up our ceilings or provide us with warmth or energy essential to our survival. But this is the point. It is to enjoy. It is to be admired, pondered, acclaimed; it is to encourage controversy. It is to make us think and make us react. So in the end it is what makes us. Its absolute uselessness is why it is so important.
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Getting Dressed
Sometimes I manage to find amazing ways to fill time voids that don't really exist. I might spend an hour or five sitting in a hammock reading a book which is time I could use to do...anything, I suppose.
Sometimes I manage to find amazing ways to fill time voids that don't really exist. I might spend an hour or five sitting in a hammock reading a book which is time I could use to do...anything, I suppose.
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"So, I hate to tell you this, but I saw something in the kitchen on my way back in, it was round and orange and -"
"Shit. Like a pumpkin?"
"Were there like, singing mice in little carts?"
"Gods, don't tell me there was an old lady."
"In a blue dress, yes."
"Did she have wings?"
"Rather iridescent wings."
"Gods, she's such a bitch. The positive attitude, too. She won't leave until I do."
We snuggle back into an embrace we hadn't wanted to leave in the first place. I giggle into the warm strong arm wrapped around me.
"Did she have a crown?"
"Yup. And a wand."
"Ugh, she's relentless. You have no idea."
We giggle, our giggles stopping as our lips meet and do what lips do together, so slowly, so very slowly, with the quiet patience of being in the here and now and the not going anywhere. With the realization that we both knew before we started that eventually one of us would have to go back to their own beds.
I don't want to leave.
I'm the odd bed out, so it's my turn to go home.
We snuggle back and look at the stars.
"I guess I should probably get dressed then. I wouldn't want to upset your flatmate with the old lady and the talking mice."
"Uh-huh," laughs, arms around my shoulders.
"We are ridiculous, you know."
"Oh yeah."
"This should be a play."
"But it would only be meaningful to the two of us."
Perhaps, I think and perhaps not. The moment feels too warm, too real, too lush, too right to be a moment that exists only between two lovers wrapped together in arms unwilling to leave. We are in the trap all lovers find themselves in at some point, of wanting each other and wanting to get on with life and wanting sleep and wanting to be independent and wanting to lose oneself entirely in the other.
Wrapped in black, and thorns, and roses, I navigate narrow spaces, and find myself wrapped again in arms before I can make it out the door, and for a moment my mind is blank and there is nothing but strong arms and an even stronger desire to stay right where I am and let this moment exist until the end of time.
And like all moments, this one refuses to do so.
"It's pumpkin hour, darlin' and I have to go."
"Yes, you do."
It takes another five minutes to leave, and by then the kitchen is full of muckrakers, fairy godmothers rolling around the ceiling, and mice pacing too and fro worried about the time, and me, with one shoe on the foot, the other in had, disappearing into the night and out the door.
Posted by Saradevil Labels: Life, Love, The Play is the thing, Unthink, What the Hell? 0 comments at 7:14 PM
I was reading in passing somewhere tonight and the mention of "deleting posts" put a tremor of terror in me.
Destruction, demolition, debris, detritus, deletion...
There was a part of me that was horrified by this. To take it away, delete it? I couldn't imagine. I would never (when I know that like Nin before me there are parts here and there that have been witheld from the public whole).
All of the words that make up the journal, that make up the thing that exists here, the emotions, the moments, the strange, the weird, the sad, the girl, the woman, the thing, the object, all of it in some way encapsulated here and to curate that to an extent that it just...never...existed?
Lately, I've been obsessed with the thought of HARD COPY.
Do I want that. You would think with over 15 years of outpourings here, that when I read through nothing must be a surprise, but I'm always amused about what I was compelled to speak about in any given year. I have to try to find that emotional mindscape again, the who I WAS than vs who I am now, and is the now me really so much different from the then me, and then we start to get off the rails and into the depths of existence itself, tricky.
So very tricky.
No, for better or for worse it's all here, it will be here, and it won't be me that makes the decision on what happens to all the letters in the void that no one actually reads. I might curate it.
But I won't delete it.
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It's one of those blisteringly beautiful Chicago summer mornings. Quite literally my hands sit in sun dappled light, clicking away at keys to bring about letters to create words that illustrate thoughts that communicate thinkings and feelings and it all seems a little mad, and it all seems so very lovely. Today, it makes me think so very clearly about time, life, the life I have lived. My life has change, the beauty that is the light that falls upon my hands from the windows is already eight minutes old. I am illuminated by the recent past as I contemplate my current now and consider my near future. The next eight minutes, the next thirty-six, and then...
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Roughly two years ago, just around the time of the somewhat rushed move from New York back to Chicago, I spent a week in Recife being good at my job. Like most weeks spent in foreign countries, I usually manage to do what I set out to do, and that particular week was no exception.
On this particular trip I'd managed to get some cash in the local currency. This happens less and less often now, as I may well forgo getting any cash at all under the assumption that most of the time I'll be with handlers or likely to be able to use plastic to science fiction exchange labor credits for things.
However, occasionally, it seems like having cashy-money is a good thing.
There was a car set to come and fetch me from the hotel that morning, and I still had a few dollars worth of local coin burning a whole in my pocket. The day before, when walking back from the beach I had noticed a gentleman on the corner selling various types of fabric things and made a note to try to stop by before I left for the airport the next day.
When I approached the guy on the corner, there was not much to see. He had a few macrame car seat covers, and some various other types of fabric one my used to adorn a vehicle, but then I noticed some stuff hanging around the other side of the wall which appeared to be tapestries, but I wasn't quite sure. Through a muddled process of 'I don't know your language' we managed to work out a system of communication that eventually allowed me to stumble upon a word we both knew "hammock". So the last of my dollars in the local currency went to procure a hammock. I recall he asked for probably a hundred more pesos than I had on hand, but when I showed him my wallet and that this was, quite literally, all the money I had in the world, he happily took my cash in exchange for a hammock.
My thinking at the time was that this hammock would make a nice housewarming gift for the Bard and the Electrician. After over a year of languishing in an upstairs closet, a stand has been acquired and the hammock now swings prettily in the backyard. The dogs are in love with it.
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"I'm going to go see the fireworks."
"Let me know if you don't mind company."
"Meet me at my place at 8."
The night is a sticky humid city summer night. Chicago edging the thermostat to the top with matching humidity so that I feel slick from even a minimum amount of walking. Holding hands that slip around, but for some reason don't bother that much, we walk across the city towards the beach, joining a parade of people doing the same thing, going to see the light show, going to check out the colors in the sky.
From the sanctioned fireworks to the random people that have prepared for at least a month for this night, we are in good company to watch stars explode in front of us and watch those that want to blow up the night. On the train, I'm amused by people wearing what look as if they are prepared for the end of the world or a planned invasion.
Light is fading quickly against the sky, and we pass out of the streets and into the park edging the lake. There is a large hilltop there, topped with easily a hundred people sitting on the grass and watching the sky light up. We go further all the way out to the beach, sitting on top of a breaker wall, with people on every side around us, views up and down the lakefront.
There were hundreds of children playing on the dark beach, girls wearing bows that fluttered in the dark in neon light up colors, various children spinning around light wheels to add to the creative explosions in the sky. The air tasted like burning metal and the smell of ozone was everywhere on the wind.
"Mother nature's contributing," says the Drummer, pointing out the lightening filling the sky to the east and the south. And so it was, a thunderstorm rolling away from us as the backdrop for the fireworks displays up and down the shore.
In front of us people let of trains of sparkling explosions, while near and far up and down the beach cannons at various local parks, from local businesses, from everyone who was stocked up to participate, filled the night with sounds of popping, colors in pink, purple, blue, red and green, and all around us the whistle-hum-zip-boom of a thousand launches into the night.
"Humans are amazing."
"This serves absolutely no purpose but to entertain, really."
We watch a beach patrol roll along the lake front.
"Your tax dollars at work. So pointless. No one cares, everyone knows it's legal today, but still someone needs to make a fuss about in so that you can have a small convoy of four ATFs rolling down the lake front."
"Especially, tonight. Everyone knows that it's illegal in the city and everyone knows that no one will likely get busted. It's like an isolated mini-Purge. Acceptable levels of illegality to keep everyone in line for the rest of the year."
"It's not the same on TV. There is something about fireworks that must be seen in person."
"That is true."
We lean into each other and watch the night sky explode around us, drifting on the trails of a thousand different light shows as the cool breeze from the storm drifts off the lake and breaks up the choking heat from the day, listening to the music of the light show punctuated by the occasional flash bang and laughter of beauty of so many humans congregating to take in a single moment together.
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We are in a moment that won't let anyone check out anymore. Everyone has to be on all the time, ready to go, thinking about possible solutions.
"It was just after the election, someone posted something asking if you'd be ready to hide people when it comes to that. And, I shrugged it off. I didn't think it would happen so fast," the Bard says as I sit on the couch spilling out all my various fears.
"And we are ready?"
It's sort of the constant spinning question now because it seems more and more like it's not an if but a when it happens. The last hope is still months away and there is still no real sure way to know exactly what is going to happen, how it will happen and how it will end.
So, what do you do?
For the last two days I stayed in my room, sewing, making things. I'm thinking of how I can make more complicated things. Anything to keep my hands busy. Keep me busy, keep me from thinking to hard about thing.
In the middle of the afternoon my heart started racing and I felt the nervous edge of a panic attack coming on, and suddenly I couldn't really breathe and I wanted to run, to hide, to cry. I felt frozen in it. My anxiety is become so real it is recognizable to me, palpable. The way it freezes me in place and keeps me from being active. I almost couldn't sew, the desire to do bad things was so overwhelming.
There is enough darkness in my life that there are moments when it is really easy to feel it on the surface, but this usually passes and I'm always okay, but lately, it just seems so much more...possible.
Everything horrible seems possible and this is the thing that is possibly the most terrifying.
Nothing horrible happened yesterday, just thousands upon thousands, upon millions of people standing up around the world and shouting that we would not go gentle. And yet, it still seems like the sky is falling and that each today without the world ending is just today in which we have been so lucky yet again.
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While there tends to be so much emphasis on pre-workout activities and the workout itself, did you know that the post-workout program is equally a critical part of the fitness routine?
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Cooling down involves bringing your heart rate down, workouts raise it considerably and will help you have better heart health. Cooling down sessions also enable you to have a greater and easier recovery.
These cooling down sessions are also highly recommended as you are very likely to feel dizzy if you stop abruptly after an exercise. Why? Workouts can lower your blood pressure.
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Your muscles need some protein to repair themselves and to grow before the next workout session.
5. Get some good rest and enough sleep
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Continuing in our look into how beer is made and what each of the ingredients does we now take a look at hops. You may not have ever heard of them so read on to learn more!
Hops come from a perennial plant, and were first used in beer to counteract the inherent sweetness of malt sugars, but also have an interesting quality that makes them a successful sleep aid as well. Hops are grown in the temperate climates between thirty five and fifty degrees of latitude, both north and south of the equator. The length of the days in which the hops are grown is one of the determinant factors in proper growth and production. After they grow in the summer, they are harvested in the late summer and early fall, then they are transferred to a kiln facility where they heated to one hundred and forty degrees to dry them out and prepare them to be used in brewing.
There are many different types of hops that are used in brewing. They are often sorted by their shape and characteristics in beer making. There are whole leaf hops, pellets, and hops extracts. Whole leaf hops are useful for their full flavor, but are susceptible to spoilage. Pellets are inexpensive and easy to store, but create a sludge on the bottom of the vats. Hops extracts are simply the oil extracts of the whole hops, and have the benefit of being stored safely for a long time. Pellets are the most commonly used hops in the major manufacturing breweries, while smaller breweries tend to use whole hops.
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A weird thing in Dem politics has been the decades-long contradiction between "we must end welfare as we know it" and "any social program must be means-tested so that it doesn't quite reach middle class people." If welfare was unpopular because it only reached those shiftless poors, then other programs targeted at the poors aren't going to be much more popular. People who get it love the Medicaid expansion. People who earn a buck too much and have to suck on a "bronze plan" are really pissed off about it.
Popularity isn't the only measure of value, of course, but doing popular things does help you to be popular. All that free money to the poors, and only the poors, wasn't very popular in the 90s. Why do think tanks and consultants think a new version of it is going to be popular now? But almost every "nice thing" they propose is...just that.


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Marie Antoinette2 Stars
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- Sofia Coppola
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Kirsten Dunst carries along all of her high-school girlishness from Bring it On and fits perfectly into Sophia Coppola's vision for Marie Antoinette. Coppola describes the famous Austrian-turned-French Queen as no more different than a modern teenager. She cleverly infuses contemporary phrasing into her dialogue, yet uses the most elaborate costuming imaginable; Coppola's mix of old and new is often a welcome postmodern approach on the material. But she takes it a few steps too far, or perhaps not far enough, and loses the audience somewhere between French salons and alternative rock.
Sofia Coppola made creative choices in casting by mixing classical actors like the underappreciated Judy Davis amongst the likes of comedians such as the hilarious Steve Coogan and the all-but-forgotten former SNL star Molly Shannon. Asia Argento, daughter of Italian horror director Dario Argento, plays Louis XV's mistress the Comtesse du Barry. Jason Schwartzman, from the brilliant Rushmore and I Heart Huckabees, plays King Louis XVI. Schwartzman turns the king into a quietly indifferent figure with a childlike unresponsiveness to sex and an unhealthy obsession with making keys. (Eventually, to bring Louis and his new bride Marie Antoinette together in bed, a friend points out the obvious sexual metaphor of lock and key to entice him.)
Coppola avoids all possible historical analyses of Marie Antoinette's actual life. She instead cultivates the figure so that young women in their late-teens or early-twenties might be able to see she was not so regal that it prevented her from being human. Coppola recognizes that Marie Antoinette's tastes drove her away from mundane affairs of state. Much of the movie the queen drools over elaborate food, dress, and men; meanwhile she's oblivious to France's deteriorating political conditions. Audiences will sense a very familiar character in Coppola's version of the queen, as we've seen her before in a thousand romantic comedies and dramas featuring women Dunst's age. She is the spoiled-but-somehow sympathetic rich girl.
Coppola reportedly used Stefan Zweig's book Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman (which argues the French aristocrat bore characteristics of a commoner) as her influence. Thus, Coppola's approach, which fails to address some of the most notable events in Marie Antoinette's life, plays out like an exercise in sheer frivolity. There's no need to penetrate into the Affair of the Necklace, the symptoms leading to the French Revolution, or Marie Antoinette's eventual execution during the bloody days of The Terror. But Coppola does concentrate on the superficial details: Marie Antoinette's contributions to fashion such as the popularization of the "pouf" hairstyle, and her farm-like life at Le Petit Trianon. Shot on location at Versailles with rare permission from the French government, Coppola's film often resembles neoclassical painting, complete with splendid, golden, tromp l'oeil detail. Even her lighting is less natural than in other authenticity-driven movies set in the period, such as the French film Ridicule. Brimming with bright pinks, reds, blues, and always-present gold, Coppola's painterly film refreshingly exaggerates the brightness of colors the way a court painter from the period might.
My major quibble is the songs gauchely added onto the soundtrack from The Cure, Adam & the Ants, and The Strokes, among others. The awkward partnership between the authentic eighteenth century setting and the modern alternative music caused huge problems for me. Coppola unevenly interchanges the score from scene to scene, from classical music of the period to modern alternative riffs. Coppola's approach to the content was postmodern, understandably, but the music made the postmodern style inconsistent, even random. Coppola wavers in her presentation so that the modern elements in her otherwise classical period piece are nothing more than subtle distractions. Never fully a period piece, never fully a modernization, Marie Antoinette feels somehow incomplete, as though Coppola's postmodern hopes for the story were in conflict with the authenticity of shooting at Versailles. The result lingers in filmic limbo.


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Chick-Fil-A is a saying people used to use, usually accompanied by jazz-hands, to punctuate a sentence with pizzazz and excited sentiment. The "A" was drug out over a few seconds: the longer the hold, the pizzazzier the sentiment. Ecstatic with the phrase and emotion, but unhappy and frightened by the non-christian homosexuals who predominately used it, S. Truett Cathy decided to make it his own. He said "why do all those g*ddamn girly boys have to filth-i-fy all that is holy on god's earth with their sinful ways." He vowed to change the tone of the phrase and wipe all that was fun from the original incarnation, as most god-fearing homophobes do. Naturally, his plan to do this was to create some sort of retail chain and name it Chick-Fil-A. After a year of trying to figure out what to sell, The not so bright and poor speller S. finally settled on chicken, since his born-again phrase, (like the very jesus-man himself) already had the word "chick" embedded in it (like the very jesus-man had spikes).
He knew that all good christian soldiers went to church on Sundays, so anyone who would want to go to his poor excuse for a restaurant on a Sunday must be a non-christian homosexual. Standing by his logic, he made it mandatory for his restaurants be closed every Sunday. Extrapolating his theory further, he decided that if one of these man-lovin heathens tried to enter his restaurants on a Sunday, he would try to "fix 'um" with a dose of anti-gay mist, commonly known as hydrochloric acid; a practice still enforced today.
Eventually, the whole operation became a front. He sank every last dime he had into anti-gay cults, clans, hate groups, politicians and Dane Cook in hopes they all could prevent non-christians from being happy. His homophobic paranoia grew to the point where he even feared puppets because he could not figure out their gender. Eventually his hysteria climaxed where he attacked and successfully killed himself with a high heel shoe because his first name was androgynous, and his last name was that of a girl. – Da Ritzenator
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It's always difficult to look at a game that really challenges modern design concepts and what qualifies as being fun. From Dust is a game that was recently shown at GamesCom 2010, and it already has me wondering how well it will sell. The concept looks fantastic, the graphics look great, and the replay value seems endless to me. But then again, that what most 'God Games' look like. In theory they sound, and sometimes even look great, but in practice things tend to fall apart. Does From Dust have the potential to be its own natural disaster?
The most recent failure in creationist-gaming (in my opinion) is Spore. The game promised the idea of taking a creature from one end of evolution to another, while at the same time displaying its insignificance. In the end, the most interesting phases of the game were far too short and a large majority of the game is played in a very modern/futuristic setting.
For a game that promised so much from evolution based gameplay, there was really very little evolution, and this is where From Dust has already won its first point. There's really no promises.
Making a game that doesn't guarantee anything aside from an 'experience' sounds cheesy and lame, but there's certainly a lot of merit in the idea provided it's done right. If the purpose of the 'creator' in-game is to complete a series of very well defined objectives, then it's no longer a sandbox title and more of a RTS. Likewise, if the game gives too little direction then it's hard to even figure out what to do that would be fun.
From Dust takes a unique standpoint, somewhere in the middle. Watching civilizations expand and fall through the constant shifting of the world lets players be creative in their own right, but still very much objective based. The goal is to be a child subtly helping ants in an ant farm, rather than objective god-like dictators.
Another extremely unique selling point would be the game's system of interaction, the environment. Rather than influence the world actively with creatures and other races, players have simple control over the terrain. Action/reaction gameplay may not sound like the most thrilling type of gameplay, but it can often times be the most rewarding, particularly in the case of From Dust where visuals are part of the experience. Being able to actively change the world, and proactively take part in the development of civilization is what will make the difference here. It's not the same as commanding an army to take over a particular area, but it's just as effective and equally cool.
Games like From Dust exist to me in the same vein as games like Katamari Damacy. Unique, but extremely effective. Perhaps the overall strangeness of Katamari will distract from the comparison, but putting aside the obvious difference both games have a lot in common. Reasonably 'loose' objectives that must be met, memorable gameplay and challenges, and the overall feeling of power. One will apply that feeling through the way you shape the world around you, while the other grants power in the form of rolling over all life forms; but the general feeling is still there and it's extremely easy to identify with.
So what expectations should be set for a game like From Dust? Extremely high ones. Perhaps in some ways going into any game praying for a life-changing experience isn't the best route to take, but very rarely does a game come out that offers something provocative enough to warrant such hope. From Dust looks engaging enough to really present players with something genuinely different, and extremely memorable. Most importantly it does so in very subtle, creative ways. I find it hard to imagine anyone would disagree.
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