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Every week we will post 3 new short devotional podcasts (3-5 minutes each). The first few weeks have already been posted — this is a great time to JOIN US!
Although we believe this will serve artists and those who tour full-time, ANYONE can listen in and be a part.
The purpose of the podcast is to encourage, challenge and remind us of the good news of Jesus Christ. A reminder of the Gospel – what Jesus has done for us and what Jesus has done in our place. I pray this would be food for the journey and that God would use it to connect us through His Word as we are scattered all over the world.


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For better or worse, and mostly because we don't own a television, our kids are somewhat sheltered from a lot of the trends that come and go. I became aware of silly bands long before they did. After we went to the train museum, I saw train-themed silly bands at the gas station so I picked some up. I hyped up my surprise before handing them out in the car. Their reaction was… well, probably not what the silly band makers are hoping for. The silly bands did not last long- lost, dropped or forgotten over the next few days.
Since then, they have clued in and caught on to how you're supposed to collect them and trade them and whatnot. So when Neil's grandma bought them some, they were thrilled. Treasures! My kids, participating in mainstream childhood, yey!
A week and an afternoon with their uncle later, this is what became of the trendy, so silly bands…
Meet Flipper, the homemade pinball-ish game, played with a marble that you launch off the black silly band and try to land it in the highest scoring compartment. One more reason to love silly bands!

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Species in the genus Leucadendron are evergreen shrubs or small trees. Most species are shrubs that grow up to 1 m tall, some to 2 or 3 m. A few grow into moderate-sized trees up to 16 m tall. The leaves are spirally arranged, simple, entire, and usually green, often covered with a waxy bloom, and in the case of the Silvertree, with a distinct silvery tone produced by dense, straight, silky hairs. This inspired the generic name Leucadendron, which literally means "white tree".
The flowers are produced in dense inflorescences; they are dioecious, with separate male and female plants. The seed heads, or infructescences, of Leucadendron are woody cone-like structures. This gave rise to their generic common name cone-bush. The cones contain numerous seeds.


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GCPBA Signs On To Letter Regarding Overflights In Grand Canyon
December 10, 2014
Docket Operations, M-30
U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT)
1200 New Jersey Avenue SE
Room W12-140, West Building Ground Floor
Washington, DC 20590-0001
RE: Docket number FAA-2014-0782
Grand Canyon River Guides (GCRG), Grand Canyon Trust (GCT), National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA), and Grand Canyon Private Boaters Association (GCPBA) respectfully submit the following comments on the Grand Canyon National Park Quiet Aircraft Technology Incentive: Seasonal Relief from Allocations in the Dragon and Zuni Point Corridors.
Grand Canyon River Guides, Inc., founded in 1988, is unique in that it provides a unified voice for river guides and river runners in defense of the Colorado River corridor through Grand Canyon. Our non-profit educational and environmental 501(c)(3) organization is comprised of over 1,700 individuals who are passionately dedicated to protecting Grand Canyon and the Colorado River experience.
Grand Canyon Trust is a nonprofit corporation headquartered in Flagstaff, Arizona with over 3,500 members. The mission of the Grand Canyon Trust is to protect and restore the Colorado Plateau – its spectacular landscapes, flowing rivers, clean air, diversity of plants and animals, and areas of beauty and solitude.
National Parks Conservation Association was founded in 1919. It represents a million members and supporters through its headquarters in Washington, DC and 23 regional and field offices, all working to "protect and enhance America's National Park System for present and future generations."
Grand Canyon Private Boater's Association (GCPBA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to advocacy on issues surrounding private boater access to the Colorado River through Grand Canyon National Park. Founded in 1996, GCPBA represents a paid membership as well as a long-established internet constituency. GCPBA was an active participant in the formulation of the 2006 Colorado River Management Plan, and participated extensively in the NPS Grand Canyon Working Group dealing with overflight issues.
When Congress passed the 1987 National Parks Overflights Act, it challenged the National Park Service (NPS) to "substantially restore natural quiet" to Grand Canyon National Park. Twenty-seven years after it was enacted, barely 50 percent of the park is free from aircraft noise 75 percent of the time. Nearly half of the park's silence, one of the qualities that distinguish Grand Canyon from ordinary places, has been sacrificed to air tour noise. That is why Congress enacted restrictions to dial down the noise in 1987 and why in Section 4.9 of NPS Management Policies, the agency said that it "…will restore to the natural condition wherever possible those park soundscapes that have become degraded by unnatural sounds (noise), and will protect natural soundscapes from unacceptable impacts."
Despite these commitments, noise from air tours continues to impair a substantial area of Grand Canyon National Park.
With respect to the current proposal, please consider the following points:
1. Quiet technology isn't really quiet -- just less noisy.
2. Simply adding more seats to an aircraft should not qualify it for the quiet technology incentives. Operators should be maximizing their passengers per flight anyway.
3. Switching to quiet technology should be the cost of doing business in Grand Canyon, and a strict requirement integral to operating responsibly in one of the natural wonders of the world.
4. Adding more flights when we already fail to meet the standard of the "substantial restoration of natural quiet" in Grand Canyon National Park is counter-productive and unacceptable. It doesn't matter if aircraft are "quieter" -- if you add more flights, it's noisier, plain and simple.
5. The suggested incentives raise a lot of questions: How can the public be assured that noise won't increase? In this time of diminishing budgets, does Grand Canyon National Park have funds and personnel sufficient to monitor this? Will there be transparency and accountability? Once you give "seasonal relief from allocations," will it ever be possible to take it away? How will these changes be enforced and monitored?
6. In 2012, the very definition of the Substantial Restoration of Natural Quiet was re-written by a congressional special interest rider inserted into a must-pass spending bill. Substantial Restoration had previously been defined as: 50 percent "or more" of the park would be naturally quiet "at least" 75 percent of the time. The wording "or more" and "at least" were removed from this definition in a political move just as the National Park Service was preparing to issue final recommendations on reducing airtour noise over Grand Canyon. Under the new degraded definition, half the park can be loud all of the day, and the other half noisy up to 25 percent of the day. We do not support allowing unlimited "quiet" technology flights in the winter season, and up to 3,700 new airtours in the Dragon and Zuni corridors in the summer. These increases would adversely affect the visitor experience in the backcountry and along the river corridor.
Our organizations oppose any additional incentives beyond those that are already in place (i.e., decreasing the fees paid to the National Park by the air tour industry to operate over the park and allowing the use of previously unused allocations). The natural soundscapes in Grand Canyon are a threatened park value which we will continue to defend.
Thank you very much for your consideration of our views.
Lynn Hamilton, Executive Director, Grand Canyon River Guides, Inc.
Roger Clark, Grand Canyon Program Director, Grand Canyon Trust
Kevin Dahl, Arizona Senior Program Manager, National Parks Conservation Association
Walter Rist, President, Grand Canyon Private Boaters Association


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How Bailey changed my life in a flash! When Nicky Haslam joined David Bailey on the photoshoot that transformed fashion, it was the start of his very own wild adventure
Next week's BBC4 drama We'll Take Manhattan tells the story of David Bailey, his muse Jean Shrimpton and a fateful Vogue shoot in New York that helped to change the face of fashion photography. Also on the trip was their best friend, interior designer Nicky Haslam. Here, he reveals how the adventure changed his life, too...
David Bailey was everything I wanted to be. I fell in love the moment I first saw him working as an apprentice at fashion photographer John French's studio.
He was so beautiful and charismatic, and had this shaggy hair and leather jacket. I had grown up in a 17th century country house and been to Eton. He was an oik, and I wanted to be an oik.
Meanwhile, he longed to meet a few toffs. I knew Cecil Beaton and people in that world, so we soon became firm friends.
Icons: Aneurin Barnard as David Bailey and Karen Gillan as Jean Shrimpton
We sort of traded personalities. I am still the only person allowed to call him David — everyone else calls him Bailey.
By 1962 David and his new girlfriend, the model Jean Shrimpton, were living with me in my tiny cottage in South London. The rent was £500 a year. He'd stayed a few times with his wife, a very stylish lady called Rosemary Bramble, but I think their nine-month marriage was already in trouble by the time he met Jean.
Jean's parents, nice middle-class sorts, had thrown her out when she started dating David. So they stayed with me. We were all the best of friends; like a triumvirate. David and I would go around London on our matching Vespa scooters and we dressed exactly alike.
We showed everyone how to do the Twist. It seemed as if we were the only ones in the whole country who knew how to do it. We would go to The Saddle Room in Park Lane — Britain's first disco — and get on the dance floor and twist. And then everyone would applaud.
Legends: David Bailey, Lord Lichfield and Nicky Haslam at the Berkeley Square Ball, London in 1979
The BBC film evokes this excitement about youth, which there had never been before. It felt as if we were having a breakthrough and the fact that everyone disapproved of us only made it more exciting.
One day David and Jean got a commission to go to New York for Vogue and they said: 'Why don't you come?' I was thinking about opening a nightclub in London and wanted to see how they did it in New York, so I bought a plane ticket.
Sitting next to me on the plane was Lady Clare Rendlesham, Vogue's fashion editor, who is played as a frightful snob in the drama by Helen McRory. In reality she wasn't awful, just surprised by everything we did.
Helen rang me while researching her role and there is one aspect that is right in her portrayal. Clare blinked a lot and you can see that in Helen's depiction.
Small screen drama: Bailey's life with Jean has been made into a BBC show entitled We'll Take Manhattan
David and I were wearing leather jackets, black trousers — you couldn't get jeans then — and pointy boots for the plane journey. And we had what was considered long hair, while Jean was in a kinky leather dress that laced up at the back and thigh-high boots.
Clare was worried we would not be allowed through immigration because we looked like Beatniks. There were all these riots going on in France and I suppose she did have a reason to be worried. If England was staid at the time, imagine what America was like.
But we got through Customs and the shoot — the main focus of We'll Take Manhattan — began. Watching a preview this week really took me back to those happy days. It's quite extraordinary how evocative it is of that time in our lives; we were really shaking things up.
Style upon style: Gillan and Barnard cut a dash as their characters in the new show
David is played by the actor Aneurin Barnard and his resemblance to the real man made me gasp. It's incredible. There are certain times where I thought he was David. He moves like him and kisses Karen Gillan, who plays Jean, exactly like David used to: in a sort of lunging way.
His cocksure charisma and bossiness are certainly true, though I don't think David is as downright rude as he appears on the film.
Beauty: Jean Shrimpton in an early Bailey shoot
When he is being aggressive it is always done with charm. He is never nasty-aggressive. Back then, David was so charming he could seduce you in half a second.
I like Karen Gillan's portrayal, though Jean never pouted as much. And she was a lot less aggressive than she appears in the drama.
Jean was always a placid person. You sometimes wanted to shake her just to get a reaction. She was as pliable as Plasticine.
I remember she would say: 'Oh Bailey, do I have to wear these clothes?' And he'd bark: 'Yes!' And so she did. He sort of moulded her.
This shoot made Jean's career, as David really showed off her immense beauty. It's hard to understand exactly what makes a perfect model, but she always had this sort of unsexy sexuality. Nothing was ever overt with her.
Much of the drama in this show comes from how this was about the older and aristocratic generation versus the newcomers. It shows Clare having constant rows with David and throwing tantrums when she didn't get her own way.
But it's a cliche — they have turned her into a baddie when she wasn't. I don't think Clare was appalled by the photographs being taken; she was more astonished and surprised. She did believe in youth, but she wasn't used to what David was doing.
He was opening her eyes to this young vision of fashion photo-graphy. All of his pictures were done in surprising locations — not the glamorous ones she had envisaged. One had Jean behind wire fencing, while in another she was in a gun shop.
Resemblance: Nicky Haslam says Aneurin Barnard has many similarities to David Bailey
Up until then hardly any fashion shoots were done on location. Even a few years later, when I did a fashion shoot with some models on a punt on a river it was considered unusual.
And what David did on that shoot — which was titled Young Idea Goes West — was photo-journalism mixed with fashion.
Clare helped to get the pictures into Vogue; they were not really liked at all. In fact, soon after they were published David stopped working for Vogue.
Although they are now regarded as seminal in changing the face of fashion photography, it took some time. It's not like suddenly everyone started doing similar things.
Classic: Playing a model will come as no problem to Karen Gillan whose career began posing for the cameras
But David brought something to fashion journalism that no one had done before.
At the end, the film shows the legendary American Vogue editor Diana Vreeland welcoming David and Jean with open arms once they finished the shoot, but that did not happen until at least a year later.
David and I both have Clare to thank for that. She was appalled I didn't have a job and introduced me to some people. I never came back from the New York shoot because I got a job in the American Vogue art department.
And when Diana became editor at the end of 1962, I asked her to meet David, and she adored him immediately.
David and Jean became regular visitors to my New York apartment. They still liked to shock. I remember the astounded look on people's faces when Jean showcased the mini-skirt at a restaurant I took her to in New York.
But increasingly they started visiting me separately, and then Jean left David for Terence Stamp. I think the romance had come to a natural end. He had moulded her and needed a new aspect to his life.
We were all moving on, though it is nice to be reminded of that special time we shared.
n We'll Take Manhattan is on BBC4 next Thursday at 9pm.
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January 24, 2011
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January 5, 2011
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November 28, 2010
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Stephen and I reunited for Thanksgiving and a bit of a culinary frenzy. Thursday we cooked a sublime feast of tikka-inspired turkey, pretzel rolls, cranberry chutney, mashed potatoes and roasted brussels sprouts. Friday featured left-over mashed potato bread (for turkey-cranberry sandwiches, of course) and Saturday we took a trip to Honey Bee Market in Detroit's Mexicantown with an eye to tackling mole.
Spurred on by the direction in Rick Bayless' black mole recipe to, "now do something that will seem very odd…turn on an exhaust fan, open a window and toast your seeds…until burned to charcoal black," we hit the kitchen.
We were there for hours.
We chopped, toasted, blended, fried, soaked, and simmered – much of the time with the fan on and the back door open.
And in the end, we got a silky, complex, just spicy enough, slightly sweet sauce that formed the basis of the best enchiladas I have ever made.
Was it fun? Yes. Did we set off the smoke alarm? Only two or three times. Do I want to do this again in the near future? No. But, fortunately, I still have three containers of mole in the freezer.
April 4, 2010
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When was the last time I colored Easter eggs? Well, it was last night, thanks to Jessica and Peter. That's her lovely cityscape there…almost too pretty to eat.
This morning, it was time for pancakes and somebunny came to call. What, you've never made a pancake shaped like a mysterious chocolate-giving rabbit?
Speaking of chocolate…
September 7, 2009
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Aw, man, how can these little babies be so flippin' gorgeous and tasty, too! Honestly I was just cooking, on a holiday, in my pajamas, and my salad made me clamber outside to the deck and pray for the thunderstorm to hold off so I could photograph my food. I mean, come ON. Lovely, lovely creatures, beets.
July 29, 2009
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We've had a rather cool summer, but things are now starting to grow in earnest. (Click to enlarge, if you dare.)
July 12, 2009
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Jim and I went to pick garlic at my farm today. Came back with sunburn, gifts of zucchini and garlic, and bellies full of hamburgers (with roasted garlic). Danny used the plastic lifter to uproot the rows of garlic, and we just had to pull them out and clean them up. Lifter broke on the last row, though, so I attempted to wield the pitchfork. Not my strong suit. Still, with a dozen or more volunteers we managed to harvest 120 bushels! The small bouquet in my kitchen smells divine.
(And no, the rip in my jeans was not because of mishandling the fork. Instead I caught them on a wire on a greenhouse table, about thirty seconds after Michelle warned me about the wires on the greenhouse tables…)
See also: my previous trip to Maple Creek Farm and what I did with their strawberries.


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Nicki Minaj Bats Her Mega Lashes on Wonderland Cover
Nicki Minaj occupies the cover of Wonderland's REVOLT/RECALL/RENEW issue, which lands tomorrow (Feb. 2) and stays on the stands through the doom and gloom of March.
Minaj certainly perks the grey landscape quite a bit with her cotton candy pink wig and those mega lashes. Pop music's favorite pink lady could take flight if she bats those fast enough. But she also has a face as flexible as comedian Jim Carrey, with the way she contorts, smiles, sucks in her cheeks and twists her lips. Minaj is such a ham, and this cover shows a different side of her expressiveness by honing in on her lovely eyes and not her rubbery expressions.
Minaj's wide-eyed, heavy-lashed, "I'm in shock" look is completed by a thick coat of chalky lavender lipstick. She accessorizes with gold earrings and a necklace, while wrapped in a race-car tee. She's a fashion revolutionary in this image. She also looks like the kind of gal you could hang out with in New York's Lower East Side. We bet Minaj and Lady Gaga would've been fast friends who shared closets back in the day if they had known one another, given their mutual outrageous taste in clothing.
The mag said the Minaj wore Prada for the shoot, and she looks like a billion bucks. In the accompanying feature, she talks about her various personalities, since the "Roman" in the 'Roman Reloaded' subtitle of her upcoming album is an extension of herself. (The full title is 'Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded,' in case you missed it and it's out in April!)
Minaj also revealed a love of cooking and expounded upon her obsession with Barbie dolls. Those are familiar topics in Minajville, but we can't wait to read more.


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Every once in a while, the Lords that rule over our lands set aside their differences, they ask their men at arms to lay down their weapons and reflect. This reflection is typically marked by a period of relative peace. Minor scuffles still do occur, but for the large part, they are quickly stamped out by the leadership of their respective Orders.
Recently, we entered into one of these coveted periods of time, when warriors can enjoy much-needed rest and armies can return home to their loved ones. The cause of this tremendous calming can be attributed to the global event recently launched, known simply as the "Develop Science" challenge.
All rulers of their towns were expected to take part and would be rewarded handsomely for doing so. Vast riches would be showered onto those lords who could best advance the technologies of their towns and thus the development of the realm as a whole.
It is during these time periods in which great advancements in military and economic technologies are made. As we have seen in the past, progress comes rapidly and towns flourish, especially since most are focused on advancing their knowledge base, rather than killing one another. A rare event indeed.
Scholars were working overtime and some towns even hired on additional help via the bonus activation, in which two scholars can be assigned to learning knowledge rather than the typical one. For those with these bonuses in reserve, or for those with the gold to purchase this upgrade, they saw an immediate increase in efficiency and thus were granted points at a much faster rate.
Some of these lords, such as Siegfried, Gimmbartiger, and Goldi were prime examples of those taking advantage of the bonuses offered to them, pulling far ahead in the early days of the event.
Still, many days remained, and much more knowledge was yet to be discovered. Candles burned late into the night as Scholars continued to pore over ancient texts and experiments of exotic nature were conducted.
In the end, there could only be a handful of winners from each bracket.
Siegfried, who had an early lead in the event, managed to remain in the top three positions, while Wolverine and Phoolie pulled strongly ahead, taking the first and second ranks respectively.
Yet, even though there were a few clear winners, the realm as a whole benefited from this cause: progress was rapidly advanced, new skills were learned and the production of resources increased tremendously.
Now, the peace is over and once again the rumblings of war are rising on the horizon. Lords will be looking to use those advantages they gained during this period of learning to gain the upper hand over their rivals and utterly crush their enemies. Some things never change.


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Maggie McMuffin heads to the Deep South with Craig Brewer's second film BLACK SNAKE MOAN.
"All I remember about Black Snake Moan is that I was 15 and Christina Ricci was playing a nymphomaniac and I watched based entirely off that."
This is one of those things that really should have made me realize I was gay much, much sooner.
Anyway. Christina Ricci playing a nymphomaniac is still on my list of 'yes please's but now I have a better understanding of racial dynamics so this is probably gonna be less baby gay fodder and more…I dunno. Aside from a big-ass chain and Justin Timberlake being okay I've really got nothing else to say about this before we dive back in, so let's go down south!
The film opens with an old blues man talking about love and deception. THE BLUES. And we cut to Rae (Christina Ricci) and Ronnie (Justin Timberlake) fucking like there's no tomorrow while a fantastic song plays (note: this soundtrack is rad). Despite this very visceral opening image, the rest of the movie is surprisingly sweet and, while I'm not a theology or English major, the word that came to mind is 'parable.' Maybe it's all the religious spots in the movie or maybe it's because this is a story about people learning to help themselves by helping other people.
Rae and Lazarus' (Samuel L. Jackson) stories are based in archetypes. Rae is the town slut in a small southern town while Laz is a brilliant farmer and recent divorcée whose younger wife ran off with his brother. These are characters who could easily fall prey to exploitation film stereotypes, and while they don't necessarily get a ton of depth they are treated with sympathy. Laz's story is not expressly about race. His being black is merely a part of his character because, newsflash, black men can't just stop being black men. Especially in the super-racist South. And Rae, while a nympho due to childhood sexual abuse, is not presented as either pure victim or irredeemable harlot. When she has her 'fits,' the camera is not lurid at all but instead shoots her body up close and piece by piece, illustrating instead Rae's own discomfort in her body rather than catering to the male gaze that she lives under in her daily life.
Indeed, there is an intersection of racism and sexuality here. Rae does cheat on Ronnie pretty much as soon as he ships out for the National Guard. She sleeps with a black man named Tehronne who is said to think of himself as a grade-A thug. Indeed, he does have two women he employs, but he mentions one being on vacation and another taking time off, which would indicate he's far more of a security figure than an abusive pimp. The only drug he deals is pot. Tehronne, while seen as the cuckolding stereotype by other white men in the film, is only guilty of sleeping with a woman with a boyfriend. In fact, when Laz thinks he's responsible for Rae being beat up, Tehronne immediately gets defensive and says that Rae may be a fucked up woman, but if anyone fucks with her they're also gonna fuck with him.
However, it is Rae's sleeping with Tehronne that results in her being beat up. Ronnie's best friend Gil, who criticizes them being together, decides during a ride home from a party, where Rae is incredibly fucked up and has already slept with another man, that he wants to break off a piece. He thinks Rae is an easy target, but despite being a slave to compulsive behavior and high out of her mind, Rae says no. She makes this clear, and when he rags on her for having slept with a black man, she laughs in his face and says, "You ain't got half of what Tehronne got." This is what causes Gil to switch from rape to a beat down, and he punches Rae in the face until she passes out, then tosses her out of his truck onto the side of the road.
Rae, throughout the film, doesn't let people see how much she hates her compulsive need for sex and her lack of control over it. She makes quips about it, she flips people off, and she wears her metaphorical scarlet letter with pride. Fuck everyone, both literally and figuratively. Her not playing a victim or someone filled with shame is a bigger perceived crime, especially since her sluttiness also represents miscegenation. Rae's pussy is hers and is also the great equalizer of a fairly segregated crowd. And the white men adhering to a good ol' boy sense of masculinity will not stand for that.
It's the other black men in the film who prescribe to less toxic ideas of what a man should be. Laz, while prone to yelling about his ex-wife, is not physically violent save for pulling a broken bottle on his brother. His good friend and preacher RL is called in multiple times to sit with people and talk to them. Indeed, at one point Laz tried threatening RL with a gun to make him leave, and RL calls his bluff. This is echoed later when Ronnie, having been kicked out of the Guard for severe anxiety, comes home to hear Rae slept with Gil—this is a lie Gil said and is not resolved save for Ronnie beating the shit out of him—goes off to find her, and winds up trying to kill Laz. Laz talks him down, asking him what kind of man he is and if killing someone will prove anything about that. After talking him down, RL comes over and we immediately segue to a makeshift couples counseling session where Rae and Ronnie are shown openly discussing their feelings for the first time in the movie. Ronnie owns up to his anxiety and how he can't be around loud noises without feeling helpless. Rae talks about intrusive thoughts based on her abuse and takes responsibility for her actions.
"I think we're fucked up. Both of us. I know I am. But that don't mean what I feel isn't real. That I can't love somebody."
They consider if they are broken but RL smiles and asks them what they're going to do about it. And the resolution is to help one another and learn to be stronger together. Also to get the fuck out of their small town and go after the dreams they want for themselves, rather than the ones they've been assigned by their community.
You may have noticed that I mostly talked about Rae and that's not a mistake. Laz's story is more covert and comes out through helping Rae. We see him make a connection with another woman in town, Miss Angie, who is very sweet and works at a pharmacy. They hold hands at the end after marrying off Ronnie and Rae. Laz goes back to his music, channeling any negative feelings into art. He does not reconcile with his brother or his ex-wife, but this film takes place over like a week? And he's shown dealing with everything at least. And he at least gets enough of his own thing going on to not be relegated to the role of a magical black man who comes in and fixes the white folks. He's simply the second (counting Ronnie) to treat Rae as a human being and not walking sex. He gets kind of sermon-y at her at times and he does chain her to a radiator and talk to her about being a lady, but what he stresses to her is that she can do things. When he makes dinner (and oh my god what a dinner it is I want to eat at his house so badly) and asks her to help, he offers support and insists she must at least know how to boil water.
(Note as someone who can fuck up pasta, this scene plus the following one where it is revealed that Rae cooked the eggs really touched me.)
Early on, Laz tells Rae that he 'tried' to take care of his ex-wife the way he's taking care of Rae. As we know that didn't work out, we know she felt stifled and like she wasn't living her life when she was in his house, it does give us a good launching off point for Laz's growth. While he starts out treating Rae with a hard hand and doing what he wants, he soon realizes that helping her means supporting her. It means believing in her, listening to her feelings, having a nice little jam session. It can also mean doing the hard work of carrying her out of a grocery store after she confronts her mom about an old boyfriend abusing her as a child and reacting to an honest attempt to reconcile and forgive by saying she wished she'd had an abortion.
And that moment is a turning point. Laz swoops in and takes Rae out. He doesn't feel shame for associating with her. He doesn't make the situation about him. And Rae breaks down crying and screaming, lashing out in a way that is all pain. She doesn't try to have sex with anyone or masturbate; she cries, and when Laz cradles her she clings to him in a wholly platonic way. It's a hard-earned connection, but it's balanced and mutual.
Even the chain, which was previously a symbol of Rae needing to get in line, becomes something Laz puts on her in place of a wedding ring that she uses to remind herself of where and who she is. It's an anchor rather than a leash, and her connection with it allows her to move past her final attack in order to help Ronnie, who is only just beginning to deal with his shit.
This is not a movie that merits a play-by-play or deep conversation. It's a nice movie about black and white people that isn't expressly about race but acknowledges it in a way that we're all trying to do more these days. It's genuinely about people just trying to do their best for themselves and each other, taking shelter from the storm by singing the blues and sitting down for biscuits.
Random Thoughts
— I distinctly remember thinking, "Oh, Timberlake is trying to act now" when this movie came out, but now whenever he releases a song, I'm like, "Oh yeah, he used to do music." I am glad we gave him the chance to do what he's better at even if it started with him doing dramas.
— Christina Ricci is so small in this and she's, like, all eyes. Also, I think I imprinted on her party outfit more than I thought I did because I dress like that in the summer.
— There is a scene where Rae is having a fit and a teen whose age we are never really told comes by the house. She has sex with him after trying hard not to. The movie doesn't really go into this and it is something that makes me uncomfortable and something where race really does play a factor in making it more uncomfortable. Also, the kid, Lincoln, looked grown up to me ten years ago but, much like when I see 22-year-olds at parties, I shouted "THAT IS A CHILD" at my screen.
— Samuel L. Jackson is really good at doing blues music and we should put him in more things where he sings and plays guitar.
— This movie is a bit confusing on where it stands about sluttiness. Like, it comes around to treating Rae okay, but it does shame several other women. But it's fine with other women who never get lines.
— Seriously. This soundtrack. Give it a listen.


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Today a review of the Belli Pregnancy Pampering Collection gift set - a perfect gift for expecting mamas. Inside the pampering...
Today a review of the Belli Pregnancy Pampering Collection gift set - a perfect gift for expecting mamas.
Inside the pampering collection set: Pampered Pregnancy Body Wash 4 oz, All Day Moisture Body Lotion 4 oz., Elasticity Belly Oil 2 oz. and Skin Smoothing Body Exfolaitor.
Cost: The gift set is $38.99 and comes with the four products above packed nicely in a little gift box.
Use: This set is meant to be an ultimate pregnancy treat. During the nine months of pregnancy, a woman's body experiences numerous changes - internally and externally - the ever-expanding tummy, lower back pain, morning sickness, dry skin, and more. On top of that with everything going on it can be hard for women to find papering time during pregnancy. The Pregnancy Pampering Collection aims to make papering yourself much easier during pregnancy.What I think: I tried all the products in the set and had a preggers pal and another pal take a test run too. Here's what we liked and didn't about each of the products.
Pampered Pregnancy Body Wash: The wash is a mix of green tea and cucumber, and the relaxing aromatherapy of lavender and chamomile lathered up perfectly in the shower - one of my pals used it as bubble bath and liked that too. The scent is subtle, not overpowering lavender and none of us experienced any skin irritation.We couldn't find any cons but I thought the scent could have been stronger - but even during pregnancy I LOVED strong scents, most women will like this body wash as is. All Day Moisture Body Lotion: The lotion features essential oil of lemon which really perks you up in the mornign when you're sleepy. Lemon is also known to calm upset tummies so this is perfect for morning sickness days. It additionally has Chamomile to soften and refresh your skin. The lotion overall was everyone's least favorite product in the kit. No one hated it exactly, but we all thought the moisture could last longer. You know how you only want to apply lotion once - well, this we felt had to be applied more often. It wasn't bad, just not long lasting.
Elasticity Belly Oil: The oil was great. It's the sort of body oil that seeps right into your skin without leaving greasy marks all over the place (counter, clothing, etc.). It smells nicely of lavender and contains sweet almond oil, Gotu Kola extract, Vitamin E and Collagen Hydrolysates - all of which have been shown to decrease the risk of stretchmarks by 39% compared to placebo treatment. Everyone thought this was an excellent oil treat and my preggers pal hasn't had stretchmarks yet (she used the most) - although that could just mean great genes. Skin Smoothing Body Exfolaitor: This was hands down the favorite product of the bunch. This skin exfoliator is rich in anti-oxidants and anti-inflammatory ingredients featuring green tea, ginseng and peppermint oil. You can swirl this on your skin to sweep away old skin cells and to smooth and prepare skin for other Belli treatment products. Not only did this scrub smell amazing, but it was the perfect texture - not too harsh for a pregnant mama's changing skin, but scrubby enough to get the job done. The peppermint scent was light and refreshing, not too minty. We all agreed that we'd use this preggers or not. Overall: Belli has many eco-perks and safety perks for pregnant mamas. They test all products extensively and screen all ingredients to help guard against chemicals that are linked to birth defects. The company overall has many cool perks - read about all Belli company safety. What the team suggests: The Elasticity Belly Oil and Skin Smoothing Body Exfolaitor were the best of the bunch but my testers and me think that overall this is an excellent safe pampering kit for mamas-to-be. If you like a light lotion this is a totally perfect kit as is. If you like a richer lotion, we suggest skipping the kit and buying larger sizes of the other three products separately. Read more about the Belli company or buy the Pregnancy Pampering Collection gift set for yourself or a pal.


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I do not understand regret.
Oh sure, I've read the definition. I can comprehend and use it correctly.
But I do understand it, specifically the function of it.
First off, the past can't be changed. Yes, there's a time travel argument, but some would bring up alternative time lines and... I'm sticking with the statement: The past cannot be changed.
A lesson can be learned from a mistake. A future mistake could be avoided because of that. But these are not the function of regret.
Regretting one choice over another- The other path is different, not better.
It seems better because you are failing the test of THIS path you are on. Stop failing and THIS will become that better path.
If the other path seems easier, it wouldn't have been. Easy is a disguise, a lie we tell ourselves to lessen the pain of personal failure. The other path would have had different tests. Make your path the easy one. Learn how. Figure it out.
Grief and regret are evil bedfellows. "If only I had ___, then ___ might have (lived, died better, died later)." Well, that didn't happen. Maybe in a multiverse. But it isn't what happened here. Grief is natural and part of a process. Regret is not part of a process. Regret is cancer for the soul.
"What about Batman?"
Someone always brings that up. Bruce Wayne regretted not saving his parents. So he became Batman. But saving his parents wasn't supposed to be his job. And the regret isn't what ultimately dives him. Regret offers no power. When he overcomes regret, that's when he improves. Go examine it again.
That's my two cents for today.
And yes, I have plenty to regret. I have a grief so powerful that there isn't even a word (orphan, widow/er, ... but then the one without a word). But no, I allow no regrets in my mind. They fix nothing.


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Maria Steiner is the designer behind the Viennese fashion label Ruins of Modernity. I first came across her designs last summer at the w?atf – What About the Future pop-up store at Pressgasse 28, near Naschmarkt, in Vienna. Organized by Sonja Weinstabel, w?atf showcases young and up-and-coming local designers' work in Vienna. Maria Steiner's work stayed with me for a long time and her intriguing label begged to be examined.
Founded in 2010 in Vienna, Ruins of Modernity is about to present her 4th collection during the upcoming Vienna Fashion Week. Her 2012-13 collection, called "grow up" – is another clever name that puts a smile on your face just thinking about it. All collections adhere to a particular strand of Viennese understated and elegant chic, bordering on minimalism or reductionism, yet at the same time remain tauntingly sensual, and even sexy. I got in touch with Maria to find out more about her work:
How would you describe your design style?
Clean architectural shapes, grown-up emancipated elegance, reduction & minimalism. On top of that, every collection has its own signature element.
Are you collections all very distinct or are there themes and looks that carry over?
Every collection has its very own title and topic and thus a very own feeling to it, but in every collection are bits and pieces, details in cut and construction from the last one. Aside from collections I try to develop in own language.
The name "Ruins of modernity" is hauntingly fascinating. What does it signify for you and what specific images or concepts do you associate with it?
Actually 'ruins of modernity' was the title of the first collection – but I found it to be so much more, it's about society in a time between black and white, after modernity..
When modernity dawned on the world and rationality and science set their light in people's minds, black and white started to fade to a million different shades of grey. The encrusted, rigid towers of set morals, values and truths crumbled piece by piece. Reason fought its way into the highness of church and throne and slowly tore apart the breath-taking corset that held people in their place. What is good and true, what is wrong and bad? The view of the world ever widened to different opinions, reality and perception became individual. Free from the tight corset of answers we nearly tumble under the overwhelming complexity of questions and questionable layers of reality and truth. What do you believe and why should you think it's true? We stand in midst of the ruins of modernity, fallen and broken buildings of values and truth, in midst of the ashes of our past – free to build something new.
How does the city of Vienna represent / manifest / clash / deal with ruins of modernity? Or with the modernist style in general?
There is a lot of support, not only from institutions like Departure (Wirtschaftsagentur Wien) but also from people who are interested in buying sustainable quality from smaller labels. The clean shapes of ruins modernity and its un-ostentatious elegance seem to appeal to a part of the Viennese people, which is amazing.
Modernity is all about breaking with traditions. How does this play out in the city and in the fashion scene?
Every tradition, every school of art, different times even are present in the city of today, which you can see best in architecture. Avant-garde turned into classical, into new tradition. All that left specific traces, ultimately adding up to something new. That is something very inspiring – not only as a source for fashion design.
What do you find inspiring about Vienna?
Vienna has a certain darkness in its air, a hint of sarcasm and morbidity that sticks with people. This is the one thing, the atmosphere of Vienna. The other thing is the coexistence of high and low, the presence of arts, culture and history and the youngster pop and party culture.
How would you describe the fashion scene in Vienna?
It's small and diverse, colourful and vivid, fragmented though. Again, it's the coexistence of high and low.
What are some sources of inspiration for you when you design a new collection?
I have a bit of a conceptional/theoretical approach, after finding a topic I do research in books & journals in order to create the base construction/guidelines for the whole collection. Within these construction 'rules' I process other aesthetical sources, which I find mostly while travelling, in street style, architecture, nature. As a matter of fact – until now I have done the main design work on every collection on a trip/short holiday.
Could you tell a bit more about starting your label?
I showed my first collection at the MQ Vienna Fashion Week right after finishing my training/education. For a short time I worked as a designer for a company but I quickly realized that I didn't give up my job and start all over again with school to be stuck with a nine-to-five job. So I decided to give it a try and do my own thing.
Who are some of your role models / people who inspire you and your work?
I try to focus on an individual path and orientate on concepts rather than on role models. But I find Gerhard Richter's work very inspiring, I like Haider Ackermann.
What would you say are the main differences between male and female fashion designers?
I don't think it is about being male or female. Whether you are designing for yourself or for the other sex seems to make a difference – you can dress someone or you can dress someone up. The relation to body and person defines what projections of images and attitudes are packed into the designs.
What are some of the challenges of being a fashion designer (in Vienna)?
There are only a handful of paid jobs as a designer, so you practically need to start your own company. This implies a lot of work that is not designing. On the structural side the distribution channels are not very good. There are some small shops and boutiques that sell young labels, but the bigger stores feature only more-than-known brands.
Do you have any advice for up-and-coming designers?
Find collaborators. Set up a team. Be open minded. Be precise and clear. And most important of all: work a lot. Work hard.
Are you presenting a new collection at the Vienna Fashion Week in September? What is the new collection called?
I will show the SS13 collection in my show on Sunday. The collection is called 'wild at heart'.


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San Francisco, CA — October 16, 2013
Esurance, the direct-to-consumer insurance company, is now offering Kansas renters coverage.
The coverage — which costs around $10 a month on average* — is available to residents that live in apartments, condominiums, and houses in the Sunflower State. Kansas renters who choose Esurance will gain full access to innovative online technology and tools that help clarify and simplify the insurance process.
With its launch of renters coverage in Kansas, Esurance continues to expand its portfolio of products and services to reach the increasing number of consumers who want 24/7 customer service, an easy-to-use website, and simple online policy management.
In addition to coverage for policyholders' personal belongings and liability, typical renters coverage from Esurance includes financial protection for:
Kansas tenants who choose to add the coverage to their Esurance car insurance quote or existing auto policy are also eligible for the Renters Plus® discount** on their auto insurance, which can offer additional savings.
For more information about all things renters insurance, including tenant rights and common renters insurance claims, visit the Esurance website and the Esurance blog.
*Average monthly cost and annual premium figures based on Esurance renters coverage purchased between 8/25/2012 and 7/31/2013. Your premium will depend on the details of your selected coverage and your specific property. Coverages subject to availability and qualifications. Terms, conditions, limits, and exclusions will apply. Esurance renters coverage is not available in all states. In those states, Esurance Insurance Services, Inc. (California License #0G87829), offers, among other insurance products and services, the renters policies underwritten by member companies of the Homesite Insurance Group and Security First Insurance Company.
**Discount of 30 percent of renters premium deducted from auto premium automatically.
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When this infographic landed in my inbox, I wasn't too surprised to find Portland, OR on the top of the list. Being a Portlander myself, it feels great to see the results…..the gloomy weather does have its advantages after all 😉
Thanks to my friends at DailyGlow for the infographic!
Where you live may play a bigger role on your complexion than you think. Find out how your city ranked.
And here's why Portland, Oregon is right at the top of the list…..
"Portland is ranked just in the right spot," says Diane Baker, MD, clinical professor of dermatology at Oregon Health and Science University in Portland. In addition to a long rainy season that makes it easier to stay out of the sun, Dr. Baker credits the combination of a pollution-free environment and the decline in the amount of people smoking overall for helping Portland achieve the top position.
"It's a great place to live and have really healthy and youthful-looking skin for a long time." According to Baker, Portlanders know exactly what to do in terms of health and skin. "In general, they eat healthy, they exercise, and they are savvy about protecting their skin from the sun," she says. The data supports this: Portlanders are less likely to be smokers or have suffered a sunburn in the past year than most of the US population.


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NSK Ltd. announced that it has developed a super-clean package. It eliminates the need for cleaning and degreasing after opening the packaging of high-precision angular contact ball bearings* designed for such applications as machine tools, and it will contribute to improved quality and productivity. NSK will apply this package to its high-precision angular contact ball bearings starting in April 2013 and is targeting one billion yen in annual sales for 2013.
NSK display the product at the 26th Japan International Machine Tool Fair (JIMTOF 2012), to be held from Thursday, November 1 to Tuesday, November 6 at Tokyo Big Sight (Koto ward, Tokyo).
*: Ball guided polyamide resin cage specification
Development background
In recent years, as the need for higher energy conservation and a smaller environmental footprint has grown, the need for grease lubrication has increased, since it is less expensive and easier on the environment than that of oil lubrication. However, compared to oil lubrication, grease lubrication is more susceptible to the accumulation of foreign particles and therefore requires highly clean storage. Traditionally, bearings are packed in anti-rust oil to prevent rust during storage and shipping. However, this means that the machine tool makers must wash the bearing and degrease the anti-rust oil prior to applying lubrication grease to the bearing.
However, having such additional processes is counterproductive in terms of assembly time, in addition to the fact that it involves the use of cleaning and degreasing solvents, which are detrimental in terms of their environmental footprint.
In order to answer the need for improved productivity and a reduction of environmental footprint, NSK developed, a super-clean package that eliminates the need for cleaning and degreasing prior to assembly.
Product features
(1) Super-clean package
Specially sealed package keeps the bearing very clean to prevent quality degradation.
(2) Optimized amount of anti-rust oil
The grease can be applied without cleaning or degreasing the anti-rust oil. The result is the same level of grease retention and lubrication performance as the conventional product.
Product benefits
(1) Improved productivity
Since cleaning and degreasing are no longer required prior to assembling the bearing, machine assembly time is reduced by one-fourth.
(2) Low environmental footprint
No need for solvents to clean and degrease the bearing.
Development Background of super-clean package
•Need for energy conservation and smaller environmental footprint has resulted in increase in demand for grease lubrication.
•Grease lubrication requires cleaning and degreasing prior to assembly to avoid the risk of foreign matter intrusion and grease outflow.
•Machine tool makers need to reduce assembly time to improve productivity.
Concept of super-clean packageSuper-clean package eliminates the need for cleaning/degreasing prior to assembly:
•Special control process to achieve highest level of cleanliness in the industry.
•Amount of anti-rust oil kept to a minimum but still achieves anti-rust, lubrication and grease retention performance that is equivalent to the conventional product.
Elimination of the need to clean/degrease after opening bearing package
Improved productivity
Elimination of cleaning/degreasing process prior to bearing assembly results in a huge reduction in machine assembly time.
Smaller environmental footprint
Reduction in amount of cleaning and degreasing solvents.
source: NSK Ltd


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The Islanders are in a big hole after the Hurricanes handled them in a 5-2 loss on the road to give themselves a 3-0 lead in this Second Round series. >> Box Score
Five takeaways from Wednesday's game...
1) It was the Hurricanes getting on the board first, as Teuvo Teravainen buried it right next to the goal line. But Devon Toews quickly made it a tie game at one apiece with a power play goal. It was the rookie's first Stanley Cup Playoff goal of his career.
2) In the second period, the same thing happened with the Hurricanes scoring first and Islanders calling their shot. Justin Faulk sprinted out of the penalty box and caught a breakaway on Robin Lehner that he potted back-handed. Josh Bailey, though, finished on a hard-fought forecheck that was assisted by Tom Kuhnhackl on a between-the-legs pass.
3) The Islanders had their chances in the third period, but Justin Williams' goal to make it 3-2 at 10:15 ultimately finished them off. Two empty netters for Carolina secured the win.
4) Lehner still totaled 33 saves on the night, while Hurricanes goaltender Curtis McElhinney had 28 saves.
5) It is an obvious must-win for the Islanders in this series, as a loss on Friday night will be the end to their season.
What's next:
The Isles can keep this series alive with a win on Friday night at 7 p.m. on the road against the Canes.


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Greece/Japan is a somewhat uncommon pairing involving the characters Greece and Japan. The pairing is sometimes referred to as Giripan, a portmanteau of the first few syllables of Greece's name in Japanese and the last syllable of Japan's name. This pairing is also called Nekonbi (ねこんび), Cat Combo, in the Japanese fandom.
Greece and Japan and the Cat RelationEdit
At the beginning of the strip, Greece explained that he had been good friends with Japan for a long time and that he felt grateful to Japan for helping him with his trade deficits and selling him inexpensive yet durable cars from his country.
Greece also enjoyed visiting Japan to see more of his culture, such as samurai and shrines, and Japan was shown explaining to him how to invoke the gods at one of his shrines. Greece asked him if it was okay for him to wish for the death of his neighbor Turkey, and Japan told him to "express it more mildly."
Lazy Comic CountryEdit
In the first strip ("This Exchange Continues Back and Forth for Another 15 times'), Greece attempted to learn how to speak Japanese from a guidebook and kept on consulting Japan on whether he was saying the phrases properly or not.
The second strip ("Greece and Japan's All-Too-Slow Paced World") had Greece saying to Japan that he'd like to be reincarnated as a cat and be free from GDP and trade deficits, but that he didn't think it would come true. Japan responded by placing a pair of cat ears on his head, and Greece tried to ask something along the lines of "Am I the child of a cat?" but Japan seemed to be confused by his imperfect Japanese. In the anime, he remarked, "Look. I am a big cat. Don't you want to scratch my belly?" to which Japan replied, "You need to seek professional help."The final strip ("Frequency") was based on the results of the 2005 Durex Global Sex Survey, where Greece placed #1 in the frequency of sex around the world and Japan placed last. After confirming the findings with Greece, Japan said that he envied his ability to have that much action as he considers himself to be an old man who lacks the energy to do it. Greece replied that Japan should learn how to enjoy sex more even if it might hurt at first, and the scene cut to a view outside of Japan's house with Japan screaming so loudly from inside that a nearby country, China, yelled at him to be quiet. In the next panel, a naked (or at least shirtless) Japan was seen bolting up in bed, yelling about how relieved he is that it was all a dream, even as Greece was shown to be sleeping next to him.
Rainy DayEdit
While walking together under an umbrella in the rain with Greece, Japan asked him why he was keeping his face turned away from him and Greece said that it was because the rain made his hair unnaturally curly and that he didn't want Japan to see his hair in that state. Japan couldn't see any difference between the way Greece's hair usually was and the way his hair looked now, and told him that his hair looked the same as usual and that he'd like to know how to tell his 'normal' and 'bed hair' apart. Greece appeared to be upset by his statements, until he recalled something France once said about "humiliation play" and wondered out loud if this was what was happening right now.
In an omake of sorts, Japan was stated to be feeling down afterwards for some reason and to have become delighted when he found the hair iron he had bought from America and buried in his cabinets when it had failed to make any noticeable effect on his (already straight) hair.
Other StripsEdit
In "Soon Already," Japan and Greece went on a shopping trip to find a present for America's upcoming birthday. Greece showed Japan some possible gifts, but Japan said that they wouldn't make good ones for America, first telling him that a small stuffed cat wouldn't be a typical gift for a man and then saying "It's not about the size" when Greece showed him a much larger stuffed cat.
Greece asked Japan in "Super Angry Japan" if it was really true that no one had ever seen him get angry. The two agreed to try and get mad together; Greece easily succeeded by thinking about Turkey laughing at him, but Japan could only work himself up to a mildly dissatisfied state. Greece suggested that he think about wasting money to make himself even angrier, which was implied to have worked so well that a frantic Greece called up Turkey and asked to borrow a camera from him to take pictures of Japan in his 'super angry' state.
"Do your best, Japanese snacks!" was mainly about other countries trying out the Japanese snack "takenokoyama" and either finding it distasteful or not taking it seriously, with Greece as the only shown country who appeared to enjoy the snack, to the point of calling in his people and having them eat all of it.
Greece began telling Japan in "Giant Moussaka" that he made a movie about a moussaka turned enormous by aliens, but fell asleep before he could finish describing it to him.
In the Hetalia Fantasia CD, Japan briefly mentioned Greece as being unable to join in the RPG because Internet costs were too high at his place.
Greece's newest profile had a section about his relations with several other countries; one of them was Japan who was simply stated to be "Right here."
A May 2011 sketch of Greece in a chiton had a bonus sketch that showed him wearing cat ears too (in a possible reference to the Lazy Comic Country strip where Japan put cat ears on Greece's head) and holding up a piece of a cloth for a visibly flustered/embarrassed Japan to see.
In the MangaEdit
In Volume 2 of the published manga, there was a chapter about Greece and Japan's relations that borrowed elements from several webcomic strips and integrated them with new ones. Their roles from Greece and Japan and the Cat Relation were reversed here, with Japan as the one visiting Greece's country and learning more about his culture and gods. Among the places Greece took Japan to were some of mother's ruins which he promptly fell asleep in, causing Japan to muse about what a mysterious person Greece was, the ancient temple for Zeus where he explained some of his gods to Japan, and the city of Sparta where he told Japan about how Spartans used to have naked examinations and offhandedly asked him if he'd like to try one, to which Japan gave a blunt "No."
Their mutual interest in cats and Greece's attempts to speak Japan's language were also shown, with Japan being introduced to Greece's cats and holding a conversation in Japanese with him. The latter scene in particular had Japan, having adopted Greece's alias of "Nekojirou-san" for him, answering his question of "Who does Nekojirou-san get along with?" with "His friend, Nekokichi-san" and then getting flustered when Greece asked him with a smile, "Am I Nekokichi-san?", finally hesitantly replying with "No comment."
Partway through Japan's tour of Greece, Turkey showed up and he and Greece got into an argument about which one Japan got along with more, with Turkey accusing Greece of trying to "invade" Japan and Greece telling him not to talk to Japan. When the two confronted Japan on which one of them he preferred, he avoided giving a proper answer, instead declaring that they should settle this with a game of "Rock, Paper, Scissors." It didn't seem to have settled anything since the next strip showed Greece and Turkey walking on opposite sides of Japan with Greece fuming and Turkey silently raging at Greece, at least until Japan tried to lighten the mood by showing them a trick with his thumb that left both of them gaping in shock at him.
The chapter concluded with a "Super Angry Japan" part nearly identical to the original webcomic strip.
Fan SpeculationsEdit
There is some debate on whether Japan's exclamation that "It was all a dream!" at the end of Lazy Comic Country while he's naked or at least shirtless in bed with Greece is meant to be taken at face value or as a statement of denial about what really happened, but the general consensus is that it's most likely the latter. Either way, this strip is the only time so far in the webcomic series where sexual intercourse is heavily implied to have occurred between two characters, notable characteristics being that of Greece's slightly-askew hair and Japan's shirtlessness.
There are also some implications in other strips that Greece and Japan's interactions may have more than friendship behind them, the most notable being the Rainy Day strip where Greece and Japan share an umbrella, an action seen as romantic in Japanese culture. In the same strip, Greece wonders if "humiliation play" (apparently a reference to a sexual ploy) has something to do with Japan's statements about his hair that left him feeling hurt, which seems to indicate that Greece cares a lot about what Japan thinks of him and wouldn't be adverse to the possibility of Japan wanting to have sex with him at the very least, especially when coupled with him implicitly teaching Japan how to enjoy sex more in Lazy Comic Country. Similarly, Japan's actions in these same strips appear to imply that these feelings may not be entirely one-sided on Greece's part.
Many fans also see Greece and Turkey to be love rivals for Japan, as they get into arguments about which one of them Japan pays more attention to and the author's notes for Greece and Japan and the Cat Relation describe their relations as Greece→Japan←Turkey. While Japan avoids answering their question about which one of them he favors, the fact that he has been shown together with Greece much more often than with Turkey (in fact, Turkey has yet to receive a single strip with Japan that doesn't also include Greece) makes it highly likely that Japan is just being polite.
In general, Greece and Japan are portrayed in fanworks as having a highly stable and peaceful relationship due to their personalities being similar enough for them to rarely ever argue but also being different enough for them to patiently help each other overcome their faults, with Greece viewed as the one who can get Japan to relax and loosen up the most and Japan as the one who can get Greece to stay awake and focus the most.
Published MangaEdit
- Greece and Japan's Loose Relations (Axis Powers Hetalia volume 2)
Webcomic: Extra StoriesEdit
- Greece and Japan and the Cat Relation
- Lazy Comic Country
- Rainy Day
- Do Your Best, Japanese Snacks!
Webcomic: Comic DiariesEdit
- Comic Diary 6 ("Soon Already")
- Comic Diary 7 ("Giant Moussaka")
- Comic Diary 10 ("Super Angry Japan")


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Registration for the Image Conference,Athens, is now open
Registration for the Image Conference in Athens on 6th and 7th October is now open.
The Image Conference is the annual conference of the Visual Arts Circle, and this year it is being hosted and co-organised by New York College, Athens with the collaboration of the Global Issues SIG of IATEFL. Leading experts and practitioners in the use of images in language learning will share their experiences, insights and know-how and provide participants with an excellent opportunity to enhance their competence in the innovative, critical and creative use of images in language education.
We look forward to seeing you in historic and vibrant Athens.
Visual Arts Symposium: Street art in EFL classroom by Magdalena Brzezinska
10th Virtual Round Table
On April 27, the Visual Arts Circle went live on the 10th Virtual Round Table. Among the people who participated were Kieran Donaghy, Rob Howard, Magdalena Brzezinska, Magdalena Wasilewska and Valeria Benevolo Franca.
One of the VAC Circle's members who presented, Magdalena Brzezinska, talked about the use of street art in the EFL classroom with teens. Her session was especially designed for the Visual Arts Circle symposium at the 10th Virtual Round Table (VRT) Web Conference and 9th vLanguages Conference.
Mura-love : Street art in EFL classroom
In her talk, Magdalena shared with the participants her love for street art, and she offered some specific tips on how such art can be successfully used in an EFL class to improve students' knowledge and skills and to inspire learners to create.
The activities presented varied from simple pen-and-paper ones to high-tech online ones. Discussion incorporating certain MoMA's art and inquiry techniques was introduced. Some other activities included :
- a debate;
- street-art-inspired creation of headline poetry, stencils, or students' own graffiti;
- designing a social campaign; and creating a virtual interactive walk.
There followed a sub-section devoted specifically to Banksy's peace art and Banksy-inspired stickers and tattoos, where such techniques as impersonation, focus on the senses, and designing one's own peace sign/symbol were examined.
You can download Magdalena's slides Magdalena Brzezinska VAC Mura_love Virtual Round Table.
In our series of ART & LANGUAGE lessons we invite you to explore the world of contemporary artists in the classroom. They are all members of the Visual Arts Circle, and they have given us exclusive permission to use their artwork to create lessons for the Visual Arts Circle website.
Art & Language Lesson 1
Charis Loke and the 'Sorcerers Royal'
In our first lesson we take a journey through Charis Loke's illustration, a cover for a fantasy novel. The title of the artwork is 'Sorcerers Royal'.
Charis Loke is an illustrator, visual storyteller and visual art teacher. She is based in Malaysia, and she also works on community arts and culture projects with Arts-ED Penang.
Aim of the Charis Loke lesson plan
The aim of this lesson is to explore a book cover visually and use it as a starting point to find out more about the story it illustrates. We start with the image as it is easily accessible for most students. By looking closely your students might come up with ideas which are surprising and unexpected for you, and we believe that real discussion starts like that.
Range of topics to explore during this lesson
- The visual world of the illustration
- The creative process of the illustrator
- History: Regency Era
- History and Geography: Globes and maps, exploring the world
- Literature: Magic and fantasy novels
Here you can download the slides of the lesson plan in PDF format:
You can also download the Teacher's Notes in PDF here:
We hope you will enjoy this lesson!
This lesson plan was written by Nora Nagy , Arts & Pedagogy Coordinator of the Visual Arts Circle. Nora works as a blog writer (Helbling Readers Blog). She is also a PhD student in Applied Linguistics, and she's writing her dissertation about multimodal literacy development. She teaches at Eötvös Lorand University in Budapest, Hungary.
Emma L. Pratt at the IATEFL Conference Brighton 2018
One of our VAC members, Emma L. Pratt, was invited to participate in a innovative way at IATEFL 2018.
Header Image: Detail from "The Ecosytem", in response to the first plenary about the relationship between research and the classroom.
Being Invited to be the Artist in Residence at IATEFL in Brighton 2018
When I was invited to be the artist in residence at IATEFL in Brighton this year, I jumped at the chance. I had already been talking about artists' residencies in learning at our Image Conference http://theimageconference.org/emma-louise-pratt-talks-about-her-session-at-the-image-conference/ and especially language learning contexts, and I was keen to develop my own practice and build on my knowledge from having coordinated artists in schools in New Zealand.
The Pre-Conference Day for the GISIG
I had also been invited to participate in the Visual Arts Circle's facilitation of the Global Issues SIG PCE day. This was an opportunity to explore workshop as performance; an artwork in itself. I had used video and storytelling to lead delegates into a space where they were invited to express their own personal thoughts and stories visually on the theme of social justice.
The Visual Arts in IATEFL 2018
Over the four days of the conference I made work that responded to the guest plenary speakers of IATEFL. I was daunted by the prospect of having to produce "something" under pressure on a topic that was not of my choosing. Added to that, having to do it in public. In short, a difficult brief that is almost counter-creative. Not everyone can do it, but I have a secret weapon. Children and a day job.
My arts practice has long fitted itself around the requirements of co-raising children, co-running a home and co-running a small company. When you are this busy, you become very efficient in the art of filtering noise, stealing moments and giving space to let ideas bubble and process. When I can't physically make with my hands, I see it in my mind's eye: images, shapes, colours, all coming and going.
I've heard it called "El rio bajo rio" the underground river. All practised creatives know that this river of creativity is flowing even when it's apparently built over with the day to day needs asked of you. There it flows in the dark velvety deep.
The Teaching Artist
The concept of a teaching artist is perhaps a new idea in language teaching circles. However, in arts circles, it's a term well used, especially in the United States. You may have heard the concept described sometimes as the participative artist, collaborative artist, the citizen artist and activist artist.
These are all ways to describe artists who move and shapeshift, finding their practice to be something that covers both the making of art works and interaction with a community.
These acts of art making take place away from the sometimes exclusive or problematic world of galleries and museums. They take place in the forms of residencies, performances and workshops in classrooms, public spaces and in my case this April 2018, at the IATEFL conference in Brighton.
Slow Digestion
My temporary art studio, with its work in progress provided chance for reflection. I only had one plenary to digest slowly for the day. Meanwhile, others dashed about in front of me, often asking me hurriedly if room 11 was anywhere near.
Conferences cause a sense of rush. We often need to "doggy bag" our thoughts and reactions, in order to sit down at the next meal. One workshop or presentation after another blurs into a degustation menu that is presented too fast, the plates taken away too suddenly.
I on the other hand, had the space to slow it all down. People could, and did, come and pull up a chair and chat with me as I worked or wandered about the visual work I was creating and peered over my shoulder.
Giving Silence a Place
During the GISIG preconference day, in the first playful stage of our workshop, I noticed that the room had fallen silent. Everyone had been asked to pick up brushes and in and water and simply play with the material on watercolour paper. It was a stage designed to loosen everyone up and introduce them to the materials before we got on to more serious matters.
I had expected chatter, but what I found was silence. A silent room. One delegate described it as if the act of watching the ink absorb in the paper made our bodies and minds slow down too. Perhaps we could consider more space for that."
Emma would like to thank the GISIG, VAC and IATEFL for the invitation as well as her small team at Frameworks Education Group who walked the dog, fed and entertained the children and held generally held the fort, enabling her to be there. 😉
Anna Whitcher & Kieran Donaghy: GISIG & Visual Arts Circle Joint PCE
Social Justice and ELT through the Visual Arts
Last March, Anna Whitcher and Kieran Donaghy presented at the GISIG and Visual Arts Circle Joint PCE. In this session , they looked at a number of resources such as projects, resource websites, lesson plans and publications which promote social justice in English language teaching, created by members of the Visual Arts Circle, a community of practice of language teaching professionals with a shared interest in the value of using the visual arts in language education.
These are the resources presented in the session:
Judy Boyle – The NO Project
The No Project
The NO Project is an award-winning, global, educational anti-slavery campaign that specifically targets youth awareness of modern slavery and human trafficking through film, music, art, dance, theatre, journalism, creative writing, education and social media. The project was set up and run by Judy Boyle.
Naomi Epstein – Visualising Ideas
Naomi Epstein is a teacher of deaf and hard of hearing children in a secondary school in Israel. She created her website Visualising Ideas to share her materials and ideas on how to use the visual arts with deaf and hard of hearing children in the language classroom.
Chrysa Papalazarou – Art Least
Art Least is a site created by Chrysa Papalazarou, an English teacher from Greece who works in a state primary school. Her site explores ways of using art in English language teaching and learning, promoting social justice, and a more thoughtful and creative flow in the English classroom
Linda Ruas – Easier English Wiki
Linda Ruas – Easier English Wiki
Linda Ruas is a trainer of ESOL teachers and an ESOL teacher at a London college. She is also Joint Coordinator of IATEFL Global Issues SIG.
The Easier English Wiki provides the same texts and photos that New Internationalist magazine offers, but with easier vocabulary and grammar. This content covers the issues many English language students are living with or experiencing, or issues that are vital to understand in today's world. Learners can learn English, reading the simplified article and then the original, develop critical thinking and visual literacy skills, and break down barriers at the same time.
Kieran Donaghy – Film English
Kieran Donaghy is a teacher, trainer and writer based in Barcelona. His website Film English has a large number of lesson plans designed around short films which promote social justice and universal values such as compassion, kinness and equality in the language classroom.
The Image in English Language Teaching (ELT Council)
Edited by Kieran Donaghy and Daniel Xerri
The book can be downloaded for free:
The Image in English Language Teaching is the first publication of the Visual Arts Circle in collaboration with the Maltese ELT Council. It's a collection of 18 chapters inspired by talks at the first five editions of the Image Conference. Two chapters are on how art can be used to promote peace and social justice in the language classroom:
Peace art: words and images interwoven
by Magdalena Brzezinska
Images on canvas: art, thinking and creativity in ELT
by Chrysa Papalazarou
For anyone interested, here is their powerpoint presentation and description.Social Justice and the Visual Arts in English Language Teaching Handout
Jade Blue: Workshop in the Visual Arts Circle and Global Issues SIG PCE, IATEFL 2018
We are delighted to present a write up of Jade Blue's workshop in the Visual Arts Circle and Global Issues SIG pre-conference event at IATEFL 2018 last March in Brighton. This is the first of the workshops/talks from the joint even at IATEFL we are going to present here.
Drawing in the ELT Classroom to Explore Social Justice
This was a practical workshop session applying practical teacher-drawing and learner-drawing tasks to explore issues of social justice and human rights.
Why Global Issues and the Visual Arts? What's the link?
Those of us attending the PCE were doing so because we're interested in, and recognise, either (or both) the power of visuals, and the importance of Global Issues in English language teaching. The visual arts have the power to trigger deeper discussion and engagement with a topic. We, and our students, are global citizens, of a world in which themes such as social justice and human rights are becoming increasingly important.
I believe that these things need to be talked about. One of the many things we're doing as language teachers is helping to 'grow' a shared language – a lingua franca – with which we can talk about such things. The visual arts have the power to help us do that.
But Why Drawing?
How does the act of drawing differ from just looking at someone else's visual? In a nutshell, the act of drawing as a way of exploring language leads to a deeper and more personalised, memorable connection. The workshop demonstrated and tried out learner-led and teacher-led drawing tasks.
The learner-led tasks are designed to act as a launchpad, or springboard, for discussion, with learners working in pairs or groups to share and generate ideas. These tasks looked at what a child in today's world needs to survive and thrive, and the relationship between society and the individual, although the activities can be adapted for a range of related topics.
The teacher-led task, a PICTOGLOSS, is designed to aid learner comprehension of stories and language. In the PCE session, we looked at a story entitled 'Teacup' by Rebecca Young. Whilst telling the story the teacher illustrates it on the whiteboard and the learners then use these visuals to verbally reconstruct and discuss the content of the story. Again, the Pictogloss activity can be adapted to work with a wide variety of text types.
Jade Blue's slides from her workshop can be viewed here JADE BLUE Drawing in the ELT Classroom to Explore Social Justice
Jade Blue 2018
Header Image: "Satellite View of The Road to Arlit, Niger" The Road to Arlit is a dangerous passage way for human traffic and economic migration. This is a detail of a carbon and pencil drawing. Artist Emma L Pratt drew every detail of the topography of this area as a reflection upon reading about the discovery of the bodies of 92 people who died of thirst after their vehicles broke down as they tried to cross the Sahara.


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TORONTO – Asked who he was most looking forward to lining up against on Saturday when Toronto take on Liverpool (4 pm ET, Fox Soccer/Sportsnet), Terry Dunfield didn't have to think long before going with England captain Steven Gerrard.
Unfortunately for Dunfield, jockeying with Gerrard for space in the center of the park isn't in the cards after all.
READ: With Liverpool circling, Mariner says Dempsey ready
Liverpool announced on Friday that due to FIFA regulations regarding mandatory vacation dates following international tournaments, England internationals Gerrard, Glen Johnson, Martin Kelly, Jordan Henderson, Stewart Downing and Andy Carroll as well as Spain's Pepe Reina and Italy's Fabio Borini would not feature in the Toronto leg of their North American tour.
All but Reina are scheduled to join the club in the US next week for matches against AS Roma on July 25 in Boston and Tottenham Hotspur on July 28 in Baltimore.
That may come as a disappointment to fans in Toronto, but Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers said there would still be plenty of star power at the Rogers Centre come Saturday afternoon.
"I think we have a lot of big players here. These are some of the core of the group that are going to be very important for me, along with some of the stars of the future I believe in our young players," Rodgers said. "Of course, we have some players that are not here, but there's a purpose and reason why they're not here. They need to recover and recover well.
READ: TFC youngsters get chance to impress vs. Liverpool
I don't think it takes away anything from the players that I've got. I've got top international players, players that are multi-skilled and players that will fight for the shirt. It's been a privilege to work with them these first few weeks. I'm sure the supporters will see that effort, that commitment and that quality in the game."
Uruguayan forward Luis Suarez and Welsh attacker Craig Bellamy will also miss out on the tour while participating in the Olympic Games in London.


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