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A child of the 60s, Edwidge Danticat grew up amidst political upheaval in her native Haiti. Emigrating to the United States at the age of twelve, she began a journey that launched a celebrated writing career and led countless thousands to recognize that, despite her circumstances, hope prevailed and no obstacle is too big to overcome.
Born in Port-au-Prince in 1969, Edwidge Danticat would grow up to be the youngest recipient ever of the coveted National Book Award nomination. Many more nominations and accolades would follow for this Haitian who relocated to the United States as an adolescent. Here is the story of an award-winning novelist who is an inspiration to women, aspiring writers, Haitians and anyone who questions whether they can overcome adversity.
Leaving Haiti
The first in Danticat's family to leave home for the United States was her father, when Danticat was only two years old. Her mother was the next to emigrate, two years later, leaving little Danticat at the tender age of four without a father or mother in residence, She and her brother were left to be raised in Haiti by an aunt and uncle.
At the age of nine, Danticat began writing, directly influenced by the familiar Haitian storytelling she treasured so dearly. Her family expected writing would be but a side hobby for young Danticat, but it developed into a key and lifelong passion.
At the age of twelve, it was Danticat's turn to emigrate to the United States. Reunited with her mother and father in Brooklyn, New York, she overcame personal challenges. She went on to attend Barnard College, followed by a Bachelor's Degree with the accomplishment of earning a Masters in Fine Arts at Brown University. For her graduation thesis, she composed a piece concerned with overcoming challenges that closely mirrored Danticat's own life experiences. That 1994 work entitled "Breath, Eyes, Memory", went on to be Danticat's first book, published in 1998, and later honored as an Oprah's Book Club selection.
A Fresh Voice Becomes a Celebrated Author
Tackling real issues head-on brought taboo topics right out into the open. The fact that a Haitian woman was willing to tell all, without reticence, made it that much easier for other women, Haitian or not, to add their voices to the stories of surmounting painful obstacles. In a way, Danticat's young voice gave others "permission" to tell their tales. From this proud, unashamed precedent, many other stories leapt from Danticat's fingertips.
Book after book won award after award. Danticat has won the Story Prize, the American Book Awards, the Lannan Literary Fellowship, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, the National Book Critics Circle Award for Memoir/Autobiography and, most importantly, the admiration and gratitude of thousands upon thousands of grateful readers.
In 1999, Danticat's short story, "The Book of the Dead", was featured in an issue of The New Yorker Magazine spotlighting "The Future of American Fiction". How astute that magazine was to recognize an up and coming talent in Danticat. Famous books from this accomplished author include Krik? Krak!, a collection of stories from 1996; her 1998 novel, The Farming of Bones; 2007's Brother, I'm Dying and the powerful essay collection, Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work. Danticat has already made a wealth of contributions to the world of literature, and to women and anyone around the world struggling with poverty, adversity, abandonment and a host of other issues, that lets them stand up and say, "Enough. I am in charge of my life. I shall make it what I want to make it, regardless of what my past has given to me". Danticat may have earned awards, but what she has given to her readers is something far more valuable: hope.
Danticat and the Silver Screen
After graduate school, Danticat's worked with a production company. She had a small onscreen role in the 1998 Oprah Winfrey movie, Beloved, a part in the 2004 remake of The Manchurian Candidate, and appeared as herself in the 2012 documentary, Let Fury Have the Hour, which explored how creative artists have used their talents to respond to reactionary politics.
Despite these brushes with Tinseltown, writing has remained Danticat's passion. A close friend of hers had been working on a movie script for a long while. When this friend, Patricia Benoit, decided to produce the work as a film, she tapped her dear friend Danticat to star in the movie, called "Wòch nan Solèy" ("Stones in the Sun"). The title refers to a familiar Haitian saying that stones in the river cannot know the problem of stones in the sun; a concept that is core to the movie's storyline.
Danticat played the leading role of Yannick in the 2012 release, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in April of that year. The movie received critical acclaim and a special jury mention at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival awards in the Best New Narrative Director category, honoring Benoit's achievement.
Danticat adroitly transformed the script into a portrayal true to form on film, drawing upon her own life experiences in Haiti to help bring the character to life.
In a June 2012 interview with Katia U. Ulysse, promoting the movie, Danticat confided, "I feel very lucky to have had this experience, but I don't suddenly consider myself an actor".
Film in the Future
While Danticat may not expect to be rubbing elbows with the Hollywood elite on a regular basis, it appears that her fans may see more of her work on the big screen in the near future. A project is currently underway to create a film adaptation of "Caroline's Wedding", the final story in Danticat's 1995 Krik? Krak! anthology collection. And Peter Perecles, in conjunction with 88 Street Productions, is working on a film based upon Danticat's short story, "In the Old Days".
Of course, having her stories portrayed on the big screen in no way lessens the impact Danticat has had on her reading audiences. As long as she continues to share her heart openly and candidly as evidenced by her previous works, Edwidge Danticat will continue to touch lives and inspire countless others to reach beyond their means; to entrust that we create our own stories, and that we are beholden to no one to craft our own futures.
Almost like something right out of an Edwidge Danticat novel.


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Monday was another nice day, perhaps not as warm as Sunday but still very pleasant. Kauf, Kelsey, and Andy helped out with cleanup in the AM, then headed back to Boston after lunch. In the morning we cleaned up the pole barn, stowed the press in a corner, and moved the various other things we had removed back to where they belonged, checked the cabins, neatened up the boathouse, and stashed the grinder and press grates above the grandparents' garage. Then we toured the orchard and sugarbush, and I pumped Andy for knowledge on improving the soil.
The rest of the day was given over to details, no one of which was of much significance but taken together spent the day. My grandfather, mother, and I pitched the yeast on the carboys down in the root cellar:
We sorted the various equipment that had been gathered in the pole barn and put it back where it belonged, coiled the hoses and power cords, folded the tarps, and did some laundry:
As the daylight was fading, we strapped the tandem on the roof of our car (with the help of some pool noodles procured at the Georgetown Mall) and hit the road for Cambridge. It was a lovely weekend, thanks to the hard work and fine spirits of everyone involved. Special thanks to my family for putting up with increasing levels of cider madness every year, and to the folks who helped make sure the cider equipment was ready to go. Next year will surely be at least as crazy…

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Thursday, January 2, 2014
Scrappy Resolutions 2014
Happy New Year!
I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday. I am still enjoying time with my family before everyone goes back to work and school. It is so nice to hang out together. I'm not enjoying the weather though. We are in the middle of a deep freeze. Yesterday, I think it went down to -50 celcius with the wind chill. Airlines diverted their flights because of the cold.
I'm hoping that if I write down a few scrappy resolutions for all the world to see/judge, I will be more inclined to complete them.
This year, I hope to catch up with my layouts. I have gotten a bit behind. I will document 2012 and 2013.
This year, I would like to journal on each and every layout.
This year, I will have more fun with all my scrappy toys and my fabulous and inspirational cropping and scrapping friends! (In person and afar)
Who's in???
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I'm in!!!!!!!!!!! I love ALL your resolutions! I want to scrap more for myself this year. happy New Year!!!!!ReplyDelete
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Judge Allows Effort to Keep Children's Psychiatric Center Open to Continue
Attorney claims Cuomo has plans for West Seneca site already
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) Judge Catherine Nugent Panepinto has ruled against a petition to block a coalition led by a local assemblyman to continue efforts to keep the Children's Psychiatric Center open in West Seneca.
"These are children, your Honor. Minors", says attorney Steve Cohen arguing against Cuomo's efforts to close the center. "We maintain that our standing is 'rock solid,'" says Cohen. He says the Coalition to Save the Children's Psychiatric Center is comprised of people of varying statuses, doctors, therapists, former patients, and Assemblyman Mickey Kearns. Cuomo contends there are no current patients in that group, giving it no standing. "That's ludicrous. You don't get an affidavit from an eight year old who's bipolar. The judge saw through that and the case moves forward," says Cohen.
Cohen says Judge Panepinto ignored the political ramifications of the matter. "This governor has a lot of people scared. There are people in the Assembly and the Senate who are frightened, who are saying they're getting pressure from the governor. We have Mickey Kearns and Pat Gallivan trying to have everyone stand fast, but the governor is making threats, saying 'you better side with me or else.' That pisses me off. I'm a registered Democrat. He's my governor, but I don't tolerate that."
Cohen suspects Cuomo already has plans in mind for the children's center in West Seneca. "The investment by the state to make the Children's Psychiatric Center move is going to increase and the argument will be look at the money we've lost," warns Cohen. He says he'd like to know what Cuomo has in mind for the site.
14,000 signatures of registered voters have been secured in support of keeping WNY Children's Psych Center open according to Kearns.


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Membership Requirements
This document is meant only as an overview of the requirements. Details and Application for each level may be obtained from the Academy's Central Office.
In order to maintain a high standard of professional recognition, the American Academy of Craniofacial Pain has established five levels of professional accomplishment that may advance in recognition for the TMJ practitioner.
This status is an entry level and is required for advancement to higher membership levels. It is granted to applicants who meet the following requirements:
- One must possess a Dental degree from an accredited university or college and must be licensed by the state in which he/she practices.
- Complete membership application and membership fee.
Fellowship Status in the Academy shall be granted to those members who have fulfilled the following requirements:
- Submit a written application to the Directors, on its standard application form for Fellowship status which:
- is accompanied by the application fee established by the Directors,
- is sponsored by two (2) Academy members holding Fellow, Distinguished Fellow, or Master of Excellence status,
- is received by the Directors at least thirty days prior to its annual meeting.
- Establish to the satisfaction of the Directors, that the applicant has completed the requisite advanced study and training. Said advanced study and training requirements will be satisfied by:
- At least two (2) or more academic years of graduate study in an accredited dental school program which resulted in a certificate or advanced degree in the diagnosis and treatment of Craniofacial Pain and Temporomandibular disorders; OR
- A minimum of two hundred (200) hours of "related" continuing education courses which have been completed within the immediate ten years prior to the date of submission of written application for fellowship in the Academy.
- Submit a notarized affidavit to the Directors on a form approved by the Secretary of the Academy attesting that:
- The applicant has personally completed all aspects of diagnosis and treatment for fifty (50) patients whose chief complaints included Craniofacial Pain of non-dental or alveolar origin. To ensure privacy, the patient list documenting completed cases may include patients' initials and or chart # with the patients' date of birth or last four digits of social security number. At the request of the Directors, the applicant may be required to demonstrate to representatives of the Academy, radiographs and records of acceptable quality, which clearly delineate the scope of the patients' complaints and treatment. Failure to provide said records or other information to these representatives shall be considered reasonable cause for refusing Fellowship status to the applicant or the request of his/her immediate resignation; and
- The applicant has been involved for the previous two (2) years in the diagnosis and treatment of craniofacial pain and temporomandibular disorders (Phase 1) of non-dental or alveolar origin.
- Execute an affidavit which provides:
- that the applicant will keep records in sufficient detail to enable the truthfulness of all statements and representations made by the applicant to be determined, including but not limited to, those statements concerning the number of patients applicant has treated for Craniofacial Pain, continuing education and other post graduate courses completed, and
- that the applicant will permit representatives of the Academy (to be appointed by the Directors) to examine said records during normal business hours upon reasonable notice to the extent necessary to verify any and all statements and representations made by the applicant to the Academy.
Dates of all deadlines, fees, and benefits will be established by the Directors and are to be listed in the Policy and Procedure Manual.
Please click here for the Fellowship application.
Please click here for the Exhibit A Template.
Additional levels of membership include:
- Retired — no longer earning an income which requires a license to practice dentistry
- Associate — reserved for Healthcare Practitioners who are not dentists
- International Chapter Member — Membership in the AACP is a necessary prerequisite to membership in any international (i.e., non-USA) Academy chapter
Comprehensive information and qualifications regarding the above levels can be obtained through the Central Office at the contact information below.
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The heartbeat of Memphis echoes throughout the soundtrack of Little Town of Bethlehem. This past October, EGM brought both music and movie to the 2011 Gandhi-King Conference on Peacemaking.
Memphis native Kirk Whalum opened the evening with a soulful performance before conference attendees—a diverse mix of activists, academics, and community leaders united in their commitment to peace and nonviolence.
The passionate offerings of this Grammy-winning recording artist, saxophonist, and ordained minister set the tone for an equally stirring "conversation" with Clayborne Carson, professor of history at Stanford University and the founding director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute.
By eight o'clock, houselights in Christian Brothers University's theater had dimmed and the haunting strains of a blues harmonica rose from Manger Square's center. Little Town of Bethlehem is rolling. Naturally, the film's score is very familiar to Kirk Whalum—he produced it, blending the music of Israeli and Palestinian artists with blues musicians from his hometown.
During the panel discussion that closed out the night, director Jim Hanon considers the Little Town of Bethlehem soundtrack, "one of the most powerful, emotive elements of the film."
The three-day conference culminated with a closing ceremony at the National Civil Rights Museum—the very site of Dr. King's assassination. While a cold rain moved activities indoors, it didn't seem to dampen anyone's spirit. In fact, a march organized by a large group of Occupy Memphis protesters actually culminated at the Museum as we gathered for the ceremony.
Kirk Whalum once again captured the moment with his moving interpretation of "Amazing Grace." Conference host Jacob Flowers then joined EthnoGraphic Media president Bill Oechsler for a presentation of a wreath. Its white sash read, "May the path to peace start here." As Whalum played "We Shall Overcome," the entrance hall filled with the hopeful voices of those who gathered.
Oechsler encouraged the crowd with these final thoughts:
|Some of you are true visionaries of nonviolence and social change. Many of you are community leaders, academics, organizers, and activists. All of you are peacemakers. The theme of this year's conference is A Living Moment. It carries a reminder to make today—every day—matter. "Make your life your message," Mahatma Gandhi encouraged. "Whatever affects any one of us affects all of us," Dr. Martin Luther King preached. Every day our individual words and actions are mutually linked. So how can we serve a higher purpose for a greater good—every day?


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The provision of a small group sewerage scheme by a group of neighbours to their homes can have many advantages. Compared with an individual system the cost is usually much lower. Schemes commenced on or after January 2014 qualify for a grant of 75% of the cost, subject to a limit of €6,750.00 per house. The remaining 25% must be contributed by the Group Sewerage Scheme.
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Palestinian leader encourages African Union members to continue to stand with Palestine, keep embassies in Tel Aviv
Speaking to African leaders on Sunday, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas lashed out at the US for encouraging Israel's mistreatment of his people.
"What encourages Israel to behave [as if it was] above the law is the US administration," Abbas told the 32nd Summit of African Heads of State and Government in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia's capital. Palestine has observer status with the African Union.
Blasting US President Donald Trump's decision to move the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, Abbas added:
We remain determined to fight for the realisation of the two-state solution with East Jerusalem as the capital of Palestine.
Referring to the US decision to cut all aid to Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza, he also said: "Those who stand against the two-state solution are engaged in drying up all funds to the Palestinian people, neglecting the rights of the Palestinians."
"We reject any American interference in Palestine and in Venezuela as well," he said.
"We call upon African nations not to move their embassies [to Israel] to Jerusalem," he said. "We call upon the international community to help us move the peace process and hold national elections."
The African Union, as a pan-African body, has expressed unanimous support for the Palestinian cause.
Source: Middle East Monitor


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One of the things I love about history is being able to read it, I mean really read it. I own an ever expanding collection of vintage books and magazines and were ever possible they were either printed in Australia or directly imported for sale in Australia and heavily effected our culture.
When and if possible I scan and share parts of this collection or at least the cover and info about the book, as it is not always safe to fully open some of my collection. On this page you will be able to click the name of an item and be taken to the related post.
Should you be after more info about anything you see please feel free to email me at j.l.boniface @ live.com.au (no spaces)
Happy reading!
Companion Grade 3 reader
New Australian Cookery
Australian Cookery of Today
Shoe Harmony for Spring 1951
Australian Women
Winter Fahions1958
Building/ DIY
1980's Flooring Cataloge
Homemaker and Handyman - July 1955
Homemaker & Hamdyman - June 1956
Home Decorator
Autralian Women's Complete Household Guide
Practical Householder July 1959
Australian Home Beautiful
March 1943
March 1960
April 1967 - Part 1
Australian House & Garden
March 1966
Australian Home Journal
December 1949
April 1951
June 1954
November 1954
February 1955
August 1955
January 1956
July 1957
May 1959
September 1959
October 1959
February 1962
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KENNEBUNKPORT — Three ordinance amendments will go before voters during the Town Meeting in June.
KENNEBUNKPORT — Three ordinance amendments will go before voters during the Town Meeting in June.
The Board of Selectmen held a public hearing on the ordinance amendments during a May 23 meeting.
The amendments include a change to the land use ordinance concerning non-conforming lots, which will require that any construction on non-conforming lots must be in the same architectural style as the original building, or a design that is comparable to the structures in the immediate neighborhood.
"We've recognized over time that these non-conforming lots are in areas that define the town's unique areas," said Town Planner Werner Gilliam. "There's been a desire to attempt to maintain the architectural character of what we have here in Kennebunkport and an attempt to maintain the traditional New England character as well. This amendment would enable that to occur."
A non-conforming lot does not meet ordinance requirements for the area in which it is located. The ordinance amendment would not affect lots which meet ordinance requirements.
An amendment to the Growth Planning Committee Ordinance would allow the GPC to update data and charts in the town's comprehensive plan as changes occur from year to year, without having to get approval from voters.
The final amendment before voters, a change to the Solid Waste Ordinance, would update the ordinance to include the new agreement between the town and Casella Waste Systems. The agreement was approved by voters in March and is saving the town $1 million over 12 years, said Town Manager Larry Mead.
"Really, this is a housekeeping change that acknowledges that change is taking place," Mead said.


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The mother-daughter relationship is especially complex: being mothered well, as with much of the roll of the dice in life, is a bit of a lottery. Some of us get lucky and some of us don't. The myths and taboos about "dissing", or naming difficulties with our mothers, only serve to isolate those women who have not been the beneficiaries of an easy relationship.
It would be extremely negligent not to acknowledge the social and cultural constraints on mothering over generations. But this does not lessen the existence of negative impact, for daughters, of a destructive, cold or critical relationship with a mother. The consequences of difficult parenting, by either gender parent, to either gender of child, is not argued in terms of rank - just that there is something particular about mother-daughter relationships.
In my practice I see adult daughters who are feeling empty, and full of self-conflict when that maternal relationship was painful. Maybe it's the case that poor mother-daughter relationships are discussed less - and are perceived as more "dysfunctional", because of a cultural belief that women should be more nurturing, empathetic and social than boys and men.
And that in some way those culturally enshrined qualities should prevent any serious conflict between mothers and their daughters. Yet studies suggest nearly three out of 10 women have been estranged from their mothers at some point in their lives.
Low self-esteem, dating and relationship problems are top of the list of what often brings women to seek help. If there is a difficult maternal relationship in the history, then feelings of profound worthlessness and depression accompany the struggle.
In a word, it hurts a lot and takes a long time to work through an early difficulty in attachment. Often the existence of an unresolved relationship with her mother isn't perceived by the adult daughter as a primary problem.
It's only as we talk more comprehensively about her earlier life, that an early experience sometimes emerge as a significant factor.
When we look at the dramatic impact of attachment styles on the emerging personality, it is obvious how psychological wounds can occur.
If a mother is attuned and loving, her baby is securely attached. Feeling seen and heard is the bedrock of self-esteem, and indeed, the whole the sense of self.
The daughter of an emotionally distant or withholding mother, will learn quite different lessons - an insecure attachment will be either ambivalent, (confusion about "good" or "bad" Mummy); or avoidant: wanting the love so desperately, but are equally afraid of seeking it. A pattern is often set and will play out in adult life.
Like anything, it's all so explicable once we can see it. But the adult life struggles can be so devastatingly destructive, and because they are insidious they can be hard to define.
They range from lack of confidence and trust, through to over-sensitivity and self blame. And the replication of the insecure attachment, a powerful tutor in the unreliability and danger of love, plays havoc with wellbeing.
We know that part of growing up is finding your own identity - and in infancy and childhood that first glimpse of the self is in the mirror of the mother's face.
Deep self-criticism often comes about as a result of a child's internalisation of the harsh and abusive criticisms of a parent. And daughters who did not feel love and verbally aggressive or emotionally absent mothers, struggle terribly with self-criticism, and finding a way to regulate negative emotions.
Are mothers more critical of their daughters than their sons? Yes, says a 2,500-strong survey by UK parenting website, Netmums. More than half the mothers interviewed said that they had formed a stronger bond with their sons.
Mothers were more likely to describe little girls as "stroppy" and "serious", and sons as "cheeky" and "loving".
As Susie Orbach, author and psychotherapist, (currently appearing at The Writers Festival in Auckland), said in a 2010 Guardian interview: "Mothers unconsciously allow more latitude and open encouragement to sons, and with daughters, they treat them as they would treat themselves. As though they're teaching them to still their pain or their own distress - it's the way women have been brought up".
This corrosive self-criticism is the mental habit of attributing bad outcomes or situations (failing a test, a relationship unravelling, not getting a job) to generalised fixed characteristics about the self - rather than to a series of cause and effects.
It can also result in finding a partner, who will display the same attachment characteristics as the earlier relationship, creating the same pattern of self-blame and insecurity.
So what can be done about it? Dr Kristen Neff, associate professor at the University of Texas, and pioneering researcher into the link between self compassion and self esteem, advocates learning to use empathy towards the self, that was not demonstrated to you as a child. It's a big departure from a behavioural norm in these instances.
The subsequent struggle to heal and cope is huge. Consciousness is the first step in resolving the pain, and dimming the harsh sounds of self-attribution of inadequacy.
Then, and only then, can the point of origin be properly understood. A difficult mother, typically, is a wounded child, arriving at motherhood under layers of maternal pain.
Says Orbach, "We are still today only a couple of generations from when mothers had to put their own needs second".
First, however, the hurt child has to salve her own pain, belatedly, as an adult. Then she can better understand her mother - and therefore herself.
We still have a way to go in our conscious understanding of the transmissions of these legacies.
Debate on this article is now closed.


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Wagners Uganda Mission Trip
Uganda Mission
Books of Hope
Uganda Video
Uganda Shop
What We Learned
Guest book and Blog
Books of Hope Project
Kids in Asheville, North Carolina, some who go to A.C. Reynolds Middle School and others that go to Haw Creek Elementary, wrote books for the children in Uganda to read and enjoy. We brought over the books and gave them to schools, so the kids could see all the books. We then gave them blank booklets to write in, and we had to give them pencils too, because nobody had one. They wrote about themselves, their lives, and made up stories. They drew wonderful pictures, too.
We brought the books the Ugandan kids wrote so that kids in America could read about the kids in Uganda, and the stories they wrote. You could start a project like this too. Go to
are some pictures of the kids writing and reading the books.
The kids were very happy to get these books. They sang and danced, and even let us play soccer with them while school was supposed to be going on. It was an amazing experience.
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There's really no introduction needed here…the title speaks for itself.
What you'll need:
- 1/2 cup room temperature butter
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 3 eggs room temperature
- 3 cups instant pancake mix
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1 cup frozen wild blueberries (or mixing of your choice)
1) Cream together sugar and butter in large bowl. Add eggs one at a time, mixing fully between each egg. Add pancake mix 1 cup at a time, mixing fully between each cup. Scrape bowl down and add milk and mix slowly. Fold in blueberries.
2) Bake at 325F for 30 minutes or until a toothpick comes out cleanly from center. Either grease down cupcake pan or use paper cups.
Using pancake mix instead of flour really gives these muffins a fall apart in your mouth silky goodness.
For the lemon buttercream icing:
- 1 cup of unsalted butter (softened)
- 4 cups of icing sugar
- 3 tablespoons lemon juice
- 2 teaspoons cream
1)whip your butter until its all whipped like. 2) beat in sugar one cup at a time until it's fully incorporated before adding the next cup. 3) beat in lemon juice, and then cream until desired consistency. 4) eat it by the spoonful.
xo Amanda
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This Spring, the Center for Gender & Sexuality Law is pleased to welcome an exciting cohort of Visiting Faculty, who will be working in residence with our team at Columbia Law School this semester. Our visitors, Professors Sahar Aziz, Suzanne Kim, and Melissa Murray, will be engaged in programming with students and faculty at Columbia Law School, while also working on individual research projects, detailed below.
Please join us in offering a warm welcome to our visitors, and read more about their exciting work below!
Sahar Aziz
Professor of Law and Chancellor's Social Justice Scholar, and Middle East and Legal Studies Scholar at Rutgers University Law School.
Professor Aziz served as a Senior Policy Advisor for the Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security where she worked on law and policy at the intersection of national security and civil liberties. Professor Aziz began her legal career as a litigation associate for WilmerHale after which she was an associate at Cohen Milstein Sellers and Toll PLLP in Washington, D.C. where she litigated Title VII class actions on behalf of plaintiffs.
Professor Aziz earned a J.D. and M.A. in Middle East Studies from the University of Texas where she was as an associate editor of the Texas Law Review. Professor Aziz clerked for the Honorable Andre M. Davis on the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland.
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Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) -- A nation of desperate and grieving people showed the fervency of their faith Saturday in this earthquake-ravaged capital.
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In a somber ceremony, Haitians turned out for a funeral Mass for the archbishop of Port-au-Prince, whose body had been recovered from rubble near the landmark national cathedral. They buried Monsignor Joseph Serge Miot at Lilavois Cemetery.
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In the Champs de Mars plaza, which has become a makeshift settlement for earthquake victims, Haitians gathered for what they called a day of redemption.
Pastor Gregory Toussaint of the Tabernacle of Glory Church in Miami, Florida, who helped organize the event, said that those who suffered when the Earth shook wanted to ask for God's forgiveness.
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The stench of human waste mingled with fumes from hot grease. Women fried fish patties and sausage while a long line formed for people to get up on stage with the pastor.
The Earth's convulsions rendered hundreds of thousands of Haitians homeless. Many settled in more than 200 open spaces around the capital.
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I have spent this last couple years (well more like 8) as a Clinton supporter. I have always felt that although she may be an imperfect candidate, she will make an outstanding President.
I will admit that Bernie tugged at my heart. He had the right message and some great ideas, but I still felt that when it came to understanding foreign and domestic policy - especially in regards as to how to implement it - Hillary had the edge.
As usual, the controversies ensued. There are so many Clinton haters on the far right and they never have hard facts, they only need to put their imagination into print. Case in point is the "Clinton Cash" piece of trash which uses innuendo and tainted facts to try to bring down one of the most admired and effective charity foundations in the world.
The e-mail scandal was another fabricated piece of dogma. An exhaustive FBI investigation and hours and hours of Congressional testimony has found nothing. But the facts don't matter - they use the idea that she made a mistake in setting up a private server and used every conceivable cause and effect relationship they could insinuate. It became fact in social media and on Breitbart....and with Trump using his far right bully pulpit and echo chamber, his followers will believe anything.
I am amazed at some of the things put on Twitter as if they are unquestioned in authenticity. There are no real sources - all it takes is one opinion expressed in a personal blog and the echo chamber does the rest.
If Hillary wins tomorrow, I am not naive enough to think that any of this hate and fearmongering will end. But what disappoints me is that so many people who should know better fall into the same trap.
Bernie supporters, naturally, would look for policy failings of Hillary Clinton and make a case that way. Fine. I fully understand those differences. But these crazy election fraud theories and her being deep in the pockets of Wall Street. That was way overblown. Yes, DWS was inappropriate plenty of times, but she wasn't the entire DNC - plenty of committee members disagreed with her policies (Gabbard and Rybak to name a couple). My personal opinion was that she should have stepped down long before she did. But that was then, this is now.
But what disappointed me the most was that a lot of progressive people started attacking Sec. Clinton with links to Breitbart and Drudge and PowerLine and Red State. C'mon - these characters don't understand what real research and reporting actually is. They just tell lies. And lies should never be used for convenience.
If Clinton wins tomorrow, she needs our support. She also needs us to challenge her when she strays off a progressive policy line. There is no reason not to oppose her on some policy initiatives, but we need to do it on the merits, not on just some kind of false mistrust.
There will be plenty of obstruction going on. I imagine the GOP will hold the House...and the Senate can still filibuster. She may have to compromise on what she really wants in order to get most of what she expects accomplished. We have to listen to that. Have her back when she argues the point. Be willing to give her the benefit of the doubt when it is not fully what we would like to see.
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As I returned home from a short trip to the mainland, the major river systems of northern Tasmania were in flood.
After heavy rainfall a few days earlier, rising waters destroyed homes and property, swept away livestock, and brought about the end of at least one life, with several more people missing.
Latrobe, on the Mersey River, looked almost entirely submerged in aerial photos; 19 houses have been rendered 'uninhabitable'. I am about to move into the suburb of Invermay: it was evacuated as I returned to it. I tried not take this personally.
Flying across Bass Strait, the aftermath of flooding in the Emu, Forth, Mersey, Meander, Macquarie, North Esk and South Esk Rivers was evident. I couldn't see much from the aisle seat, of course, but I joined the neck-stretching gawkers trying to see what had occurred while we were north, on the big island.
I went straight from the airport to the Cataract Gorge. Dozens of people were there, watching huge quantities of water barrel down beneath the suspension bridge, a turbulent, seething, brown-and-white mass. The flooding of the Gorge has long had this effect; it brings a crowd, at all hours, and suddenly we have something to talk about with our neighbours.
It also reminds us that this town at a confluence of three rivers; the water in the Cataract Gorge, spilling over the blunt concrete of its dam walls, is identifiable as a genuine river, the longest one in Tasmania no less, whose headwaters at the base of Ben Lomond require several days to journey to the second-most populous town on the island. As our lives move away from practical geographical knowledge, the Gorge is treated like an island, as if it is its own ecosystem, isolated: many Launcestonians I know could not tell you which river runs between those dolerite cliffs, and I suspect many do not even recognise it as part of a river system.
But we can understand it better, even if the way we talk about it is unscientific. "I've never seen it this high," says everybody. "Do you reckon it'll go over?" the residents of Invermay asked each other by the flood levy on Tuesday night, before the evacuation. "Nah, don't reckon..."
On the aeroplane, a husband is pointing out what he thinks are various roads, submerged farms, bridges that must be washed away. She looks up from her electronic book, and spits, "Oh, what would you know!"
This flood follows a summer in which a lack of rainfall threatened us. Hydroelectric dams ran close to empty. Dry lightning struck dry vegetation, creating bushfires in the rainforest.
Gaston Bachelard has written a Psychoanalysis of Fire; who will treat a psychoanalysis of floods? We so blithely use the river as a metaphor for steady movement, progress, providence, time. A flood ignores these interpretations. The river is usually an uninterrupted flow of hours; the flood interrupts, makes time's rhythm seem less benign. It reminds us that there is no guarantee that we have an allotted amount of days, or that the hours will trundle by coolly and calmly. Years may pass in peace, but the arrival of a single violent moment can end it all. We are alerted to the fact that the same hand which feeds us might yet throttle us.
And yet for modern witnesses, the spectacle of the sublime draws us to itself. Even as elsewhere lives and livelihoods are being washed away, we stand by the seething rivers, waves lifting out from the depths and pushing forcefully out to the mouth, into the sea, suddenly unnoticeable.
My new housemate takes the record player off the top shelf; we were not flooded out. The levy held the waters back. They say this was a more severe flood than the one in 1929, which was a genuine disaster. But our infrastructure has reprieved us of much worse. In a poorer country, the death toll would stand at thousands. In rural Tasmania, the consequences are devastating: socially, economically, emotionally. But for those in town, we once again allow ourselves to believe we have mastered the ancient processes of our ecosystems.
Two years ago I wrote 'A Short History of Shitty Weather', about the 1929 floods.
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Catholic health care is facing many of the same challenges confronting the Catholic Church as a whole, John Allen Jr. told members of the Catholic Health Association during the group's annual meeting Nov. 3 at St. Patrick in Edina.
Allen, senior correspondent at National Catholic Reporter and a commentator for CNN, said religious freedom will be the greatest concern of the Catholic Church globally in the 21st century.
During his talk on "Religious Freedom and Catholic Health Care," Allen noted that, according to a report by one secular human rights organization: "There is an anti-Christian tide" around the world in which 80 percent of the religious freedom violations are against Christians, mostly in the Middle East, sub-Saharan Africa, the Indian subcontinent and China.
Oct. 31 marked the one-year anniversary of the attack by terrorists on Our Lady of Salvation Catholic Church in Baghdad, which left 53 dead and hundreds injured, he said. Although there had been many previous bombings of Catholic churches in Iraq, this attack was by terrorists who burst into the church and started shooting. In 1991, he said, there were 1 million Catholics in Iraq and now there are 250,000 or fewer.
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"The U.S. situation is legal rather than lethal," he said.
Attacks on religious freedom in the United States are more political, such as the health care mandates proposed by the Department Health and Human Services, he said. The agency's interim final rule requires coverage of contraception and sterilization in most health insurance plans — practices that the church opposes.
That is a blow to Christian agencies that have long served people in poverty, migrant workers and trafficking victims. Without a broad religious exemption that protects Christian agencies from violating their consciences, the mandates will push out religious health care groups or curtail the services they provide.
HHS also recently did not renew a grant with the U.S. bishops' Migration and Refugee Services, ostensibly because the agency does not provide abortion and contraception to trafficking victims.
Religious freedom is facing a one-two punch, Allen said.
"We are living in a Catholic Church which is increasingly concerned with its Catholic identity and increasingly resistant to pressure from the outside world," he said. At the same time, the outside world is less inclined to defer to religious authority or protect religious communities.
"I suggest to you that religious freedom is where those two forces collide," he said.
Now and in the future, Catholic health groups will be facing new demands for global solidarity, more tension over "Catholic identity" in their facilities, and a variety of legal and political battles, Allen said.
However, because the church is becoming an "embattled subculture," there are opportunities to "recalibrate relationships" with the bishops and with the broader public, he added.
As head of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York has had several confidential meetings with President Barack Obama to discuss the church's concerns about the HHS mandates, Allen said.
"Our best hope is on getting Obama personally engaged," he said. "He is the first U.S. president to be a former paid employee of the Catholic Church" through the organizing work he did with Catholic Charities in Chicago. The president is well-versed in the language of the church and good work it does, Allen added.
But the mandates are not just a Catholic issue. Other faith groups are affected, and everyone needs to let legislators know that this is a concern, he said.
Watch for 'southern wave'
Allen also urged CHA members to keep in mind that the 60 million Catholics living in the U.S. make up just 6 percent of the total Catholic population.
"The global realities of the church . . . are increasingly going to set the leadership tone for the Catholic Church in the 21st century because that's where our people are," he said.
That global influence from the "southern wave" — which includes Asia, Africa and Latin America — was evident in the recently released document from the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace on global economic reform, Allen said. The document calls for economic justice and was presented by Cardinal Peter Turkson of Ghana, who heads the council.
Allen's book, "The Future Church: How Ten Trends are Revolutionizing the Catholic Church," points out the disparities in global health care. Although poor countries account for 95 percent of the HIV/AIDS cases and 98 percent of the tuberculosis patients, only 5 percent of health care's research and development is spent on those diseases, he reported.
As Medicare and Medicaid costs continue to rise and the workforce continues to decline in the U.S., Catholic health care groups will need to continue to create partnerships with other religious health care groups and seek support from their constituents.
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Rob does indeed have a website, and also an award-winning podcast chock full of Reality Infotainment. He started following Big Brother closely last year and is on CBS' list to interview the (non-squestered) house guests as they are evicted from the game.
Of course, Rob also interviews the Survivor cast-offs, and has a variety of Survivor and Big Brother personalities who make appearances to chew the fat with Rob and sometimes his wife Nicole. If you aren't already a Rob Has a Podcast subscriber, you should probably start with his Jeff Probst podcast, then maybe the podcasts featuring Jonathon Penner or John Cochran and go from there.
Rob has branched out with an original webseries, called Reality Gamemasters. The series features 6 players--three from Big Brother and three from Survivor who are pitted against each other in a game of the boardgame Risk. Rob drafted players carefully, picking people who he considered strategists and shrewd game players. The contestants are:
Big Brother
Matt Hoffman - BB12
Eric Stein - BB8
Ian Terry - BB14 Winner
Steven Fishbach - Runner up, Tocantins
Sophie Clark - Winner, South Pacific
John Cochran - South Pacific, Winner Caramoan
I've just watched the first two episodes, and was impressed by the production values. Rob has created an ESPN-type environment around the game, featuring seamless coverage from "the booth" with co-host Dalton Ross, play-by-play updates and Survivor Andrea Boehlke (!) covering the scene from the sidelines. The players are VERY competitive and there is quite a bit of tension in the air. There is a small curtained area where they can go for private conversations, apart from the others. These little private pow wows started happening a lot faster than I thought they would, and paranoia about being back stabbed was getting contagious.
New episodes are released every Tuesday and Rob does a great job ending each webisode with a cliffhanger. The episodes I've watched were less than 8:00 long, so the pace is lively.
And the game?
I really have no freaking idea. Not only do I not know how to play Risk, I'd never even heard of it. If I had, maybe I would be better at Geography. Because playing Risk involves global domination. A hefty task indeed. Some of the players said they have played it since childhood. Ian said he was the "Risk Champion of the Sixth Grade", or something lofty title like that. Only Cochran claims that he doesn't know how to play.
It's interesting to note that when they filmed Reality Gamemasters, Survivor Caramoan was still mid-season, so no one knew that Cochran made the Finale, and even Cochran himself didn't know that he won. He wasn't allowed to talk about that, but watching him on the webisodes, you can almost see the Tweetybird feathers poking out of his mouth. He was almost a millionaire during this game of Risk. (And now he is part of the writing staff for a prime time TV show....)
Ian seemed to be enjoying himself and it looks like he may be ready to play a big game. It is great to see Eric Stein again, and what a treat to see Matt Hoffman in all of his smirky glory. One funny (and sad) highlight was Cochran calling Matt by the wrong name and then apologizing. (Don't get mad, get even Matt!)
Seeing Sophie Clark again is not a treat, however, and maybe I'll just leave it at that. Okay, maybe not. She has on WAY TOO MUCH eye makeup, and is much prettier without it in my opinion. I can tell that Sophie is going to be a raging bitch on Reality Gamemasters, but I like that she owns that. She wants to dominate the game and I will enjoy watching what happens, because I can't see her winning or losing with any grace whatsoever at this point.
Somebody's going to win of course, but five people are going to lose. And from what Rob said on his podcasts, some of the losers are still mad. Rob might even do exit interviews with them on the podcast as they leave the Risk playing field so they can vent and throw shade.
Here is the link to the Reality Gamemasters website. I think I just talked myself into watching the first two episodes again....


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Sofia Ljungqvist
Sweden's Sofia Ljungqvist shot an impressive 6 under par in the opening round to take a one shot lead over fellow Swede Julia Davidsson and Csilla Lajtai-Rozsa from Hungary, at the Elisefarm Ladies Open in Sweden.
Ljungqvist recorded eight birdies and two bogeys on her way to a 66. Davidsson holed her second shot on the par four 15th hole to move into a tie with Ljungqvist but finished with a bogey, to fall one shot behind.
Lajtai-Rozsa also briefly moved to 6 under par after 16 holes but dropped a shot on the next hole to move back to 5 under par and into a tie for second with Davidsson.
Ten players are tied at 3 under par, Austrian's Sarah Schober and Nina Muehl, German amateur Luisa Dittrich, Annika Nykanen from Finland, Australia's Amy Walsh, Laurette Maritz of South Africa, Scotland's Laura Murray and Sweden's Johanna Bjork, Therese Nerpin and Sarah Nilsson.
The second round's play will commence at 8.00 from both the 1st and 10th tees.


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Gorillaz-Unofficial is an online community focused on the virtual band Gorillaz and its collaborators.
Originally created in 2004, the site featured news, history, interviews with people related to the project, a detailed discography, and biographies of the band, its members, creators and collaborators.
The site was also known by people from Zombie Flesh Eaters, Passion Pictures and EMI. It was also mentioned on Rise of the Ogre, with a page dedicated to the website mentioning that Noodle was a frequent visitor of G-U, and that 2D found out about his father's original surname through the site. They have done multiple interviews with both Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett, as well as Cass Browne, Gorillaz' former dummer and scriptwriter. At one point, Jamie Hewlett even had the website as his homepage and had the webmaster's number on his cell phone. The website was once officially shouted out by 2D in a phone call on June 2009. Their Twitter account is also followed by Murdoc's official Twitter page. It was created by 2-J, who was a staff member for Gorillaz' former official message board (OMB) until it became inactive. 2-J was also the owner of Gorillaz' official Myspace page, which became the most friended band page on Myspace in 2008, as well as being the owner of the original official website for Damon Albarn's other supergroup The Good The Bad and The Queen.
The website was unintentionally disabled in April 2014 as a result of the Heartbleed security bug, and the site itself no longer existed as of September 2014. However, on December 30, 2015, the website was officially reactivated, but was disabled again in late 2017.
Much of the community currently still keeps in contact through the Gorillaz-Unofficial chat on Discord, created by NicoleR, a member of the Gorillaz-Unofficial forums and the creator of the Gorillaz-art blog on Tumblr. Although the Discord was originally made as an extension of G-U, many new members also join the chat to this day. In 2018, the Gorillaz-Unofficial Discord group started the #freethesea campaign, which was a campaign revolving around an effort to make Albarn and Hewlett aware of the amount of fans who would like to see unreleased Plastic Beach material resurface.
On October 11th 2018 at Gorillaz' performance at the Wells Fargo Center in Philledelphia, and October 20th 2018 at Demon Dayz Festival in LA, Gorillaz-Unofficial conducted full interviews with Gorillaz' creators Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett individually. In the Wells Fargo Center interview with Albarn, the topic of unreleased Plastic Beach material was one of the subjects discussed, and when asked about the possiblity of the material resurfacing, Albarn responded with "I don't know", but acknowledged the fact that there were fans who would like to see the material released. Since the interview, Gorillaz-Unofficial started a campaign for #Freethesea, an effort to make Albarn and Hewlett aware of the amount of fans who would like to see scrapped Plastic Beach material to resurface. In an interview with Jamie Hewlett at Gorillaz' Demon Dayz Festival in LA, Hewlett acknowledged the campaign when it was brought up and mentioned that he and Albarn were both aware of it. At the end of the interview, Hewlett was given the official Gorillaz-Unofficial fanzine as a gift to which Hewlett responded very positively to. The campaign came with a petition that has thousands of signatures, and both Albarn and Hewlett are aware of this campaign. On October 27th 2018, the campaign was acknowledged by Murdoc in the final #FreeMurdoc chats.
According to site's creator, 2-J:
2-J and Jur, both huge Gorillaz fans had the idea of making a website for Phase Two. 2-J, had the idea of making a site since early spring 2004, mostly inspired by his work on the song list topic on the official message boards, and annoyance at the fact that The Official Fan Site never updated its news. He planned G-U on paper over the summer of 2004, and tried to learn Dreamweaver.
For his part, Jur had http://thesounder.nl/ for a long time, as a fairly basic site with some lyrics and a few other bits of info. He intended to step this up for phase two.
At one point, 2-J was going to work on lobotomypop.com doing the news and discography, and at other times they were both going to make their own sites, 2-J concentrating on news, and Jur on everything else.
Inspired by the Noodleblast, 2-J decided to lock himself away for a Friday and a weekend, learning enough html to be able to customize a livejournal, registering a domain, and bringing together the basic pages of Gorillaz-Unofficial.
When it launched, Jur was impressed with what he'd done, so 2-J suggested that since he had made that start, why didn't he come work on the website with him, as an equal partner. Jur had already registered http://lobotomypop.com/ with a company offering a good bandwidth deal, so they decided to use that place for downloads. Jur ended up completely re-designing the website, and, along with 2-J, keeping it running for the first seven months of 2005.
Forum History
The G-U forums are the largest unofficial Gorillaz fan forums/community on the internet. Many of the frequent members of this forum made their way to it from the official Gorillaz forum at forums.gorillaz.com. During phase 1.5 and beginning of phase 2 in the Gorillaz story the official forum began to deteriorate, due to lack of moderation, prompting the creation of the G-U forums.
The forums had an additional IM chat interface which was used for several years as the primary socialization area between G-U's frequent members, although due to dissatisfaction with the IM software, the community completely moved over to Skype around the end of Phase 3.
Following is the list of subforums that existed on the site:
Want To Join The Forums? Post Here
The forums used a manual account activation system to thwart bots, and this subforum hosted the entryway for activation.
Subforum for official forum announcements. This subforum also contained the current list of banned users, as well as any discussion pertaining to the state of the forums.
- Moderator: 2-J
This Week's Poll
Weekly polls used to be an active feature of the forums, although they ceased around Phase 3.
This Week's Editorial
Like polls, weekly editorials ceased around Phase 3.
Gorillaz-Unofficial Wiki
A short-lived project to attempt to create a comprehensive and well-maintained Gorillaz wiki maintained by well-known figures in the Gorillaz fan community (you know, unlike this wiki.)
VIP Area
Essentially a downloads/requests forum containing downloads to all sorts of Gorillaz, Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett projects, both common and rare. In order to access this forum it was required for to have a minimum of 100 "non-spam" posts as determined by a moderator.
- Moderator: Mig
Gorillaz Music
General discussion for Gorillaz music.
- Moderator: German Shake
Gorillaz Art
General discussion for Gorillaz art, story, universe etc.
- Moderator: LuckyLungs
This forum was used for discussing Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett's other projects - such as 'Tank Girl', Blur, 'Monkey: Journey To The West', The Good The Bad & The Queen, and more...
- Moderator: onion70
The Sounder (2005 - 2012) / DoYaThing (2012 - 2014)
This was G-U's forum for sharing user creation such as music, art, writing and any other creative endeavours, Gorillaz-related or not. This forum's music scene was particularly strong and still continues today even beyond the forum's demise.
- Moderator: AC
Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah
General discussion forum. This subforum was designed to be more "sensible" discussion as opposed to The Landfill.
Moderator: Chaz
We Are Happy Landfill (2005 - 2010) / Styrofoam Deepsea Landfill (2010 - 2012) / The Landfill (2012 - 2014)
This subforum was the equivalent of a "Random" subforum. Anything went in this forum as long as it abided by forum rules.
Moderator: TheBritishSushi
G-U Legends
In no particular order:
2-J, James, J or 2-Gay is still single, and has owned the gorillaz-unofficial site for around a year now. 2-J has built, through the years, the full Gorillaz-Unofficial.com site as it is today, to provide fans with the very best gorillaz news 'unofficially', and therefore should receive all the credit for that. He also runs the official The Good, The Bad And The Queen fan site.
Raised on a diet of secondhand books and Tippex thinners, Chia's the Forum Admin at G-U, which is sometimes a tough job considering what you lot can get up to armed with nothing more than a keyboard and a box to type in. A quasi-permanent figure in the Gorillaz community since 'Tomorrow Comes Today', it's Gorillaz Chia blames for making her get up off her arse and start writing for a living. By day a humble journalist, by night a comics superhero; Chia's unusual in her profession as she doesn't have a beard. She is kind to dead people and cats.
True to his username, Erik spends half his time tormenting others with his eclectic musical tastes and the other half working in espionage as a secret operative for the Canadian government. He'd always enjoyed Gorillaz music in the background, but that all changed in 2004 when he was given the debut album as a "gift". One listen and he realized this music was the key to Canada's plan for world domination. Erik has since spent part of his time maintaining the G-U discography, using the opportunity to insert encoded messages to other spies in hopes of bringing destruction to dangerous political parties in his home country of the Netherlands.
By day a mild-mannered and thoughtful "16-year-old", by night he searches for more weapons amongst Alternative, Indie, Britpop, and Folk bands often overlooked by others.
Bassman only wishes he was this cool.
The current editorial writer. Works in a bookstore and sometimes compares Damon Albarn with Jesus (most people agree).
The regular forum ladies man. His most noted attributes are a slick tongue and a smooth talker, especially with the ladies. Bassman is highly recommended for hilarious YTMNDs, most of which come highly praised. He is a moderator of the Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah forum. And his legendary Mighty Boosh avatar dances to every kind of music you can imagine.
The Divine Goddess of Everlasting Patience, Strawberries, and Chocolate, is the rumored Moderator of the elusive Forum 18. She turned the hell into a heaven, spending endless time and money on making it an exciting pleasure for each and every fan to be part of such a nice place. Rumor has it if there was a "Thanksforbeingamod" forum she'd be moderator of it. She always brightens up the forum and welcomes everyone with a warm smile (With the exception of a glare every once in a while). She's a total MILF with a fearsome number of nicknames.
Ho Musabi
What a lovely little fella. Most of his lifetime he spends in the chat. He is like the police officer of Gorillaz-Unofficial. Troublemakers fear him and that is just the way it is supposed to be. Ho Musabi is known for having a weakness for shemales.
Ho recently became a cyborg, bridging the gap between robot and man (well, teenager), guaranteeing the G-U's place the New World Order after the coming robotic uprising.
Moderator Ho Musabi's stamp of approval ;D
This German girl with endlessly long legs is well known for having several affairs with G-U men, it is rumored that she only became a moderator because she took a closer look at 2-J's stamp collection. Being one of the OMB oldbies, she enjoys bashing on newbies and weaker ones. Has an uniform fetish. What a woman. She is currently having an affair with bassman and 2-J. Though, to be honest, she leans towards bassman, if you know what I mean.
Dave walks in and suddenly the chat room is your favorite sitcom. The one you wait for all week with new jokes alongside cozy old favorites. The chat's resident comedian, Dave has plenty of wooing to go around so no one feels slighted. Nobody has ever seen his face, but artistic interpretations portray him as tall, dark, and mustachioed. Some might say that he tries. And try he does. But man, what is his problem?
Also remember that one time he made that poo mustache joke?
A Mod who has felt left out on his lack of Wiki Mod page displayage, And all around awesome guy with some awful habits, like having dial-up and watching Jerry Jackson. DANGER, also pedolicious ;D. Has a thing for calling Cannibal Massakren "Phillip".


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See Also: • Global Dubstep Festival Survival Guide • Dubstep for Dummies, a primer for newly-minted dubstep fans (infographic) • NORAD dance bar to open next month in 2200 space
The weekend is here! Time to cut loose and get your groove on. If that's exactly what you have in mind right about now, great news: You've got myriad options this weekend, from tonight's Global Dub Festival, which essentially kicks off a summer of dance music at Red Rocks, to a chance to catch some rising EDM stars such as Sub-an and Drumcell and a whole lot more. Oh and in case you feel like partying, there's a pink party, some reggae goodness, some hip-hop and even a fashion show. Page down to get the drop on this weekend's best dance and party bets.
The bass will be in full effect at Red Rocks tonight at the Global Dub Festival, featuring Flux Pavilion, Doctor P, Datsik, Dirtyloud and Downlink. (all ages, 6 p.m., $39.75-$80) Check out our Global Dub Festival survival guide for set times and lots more information on the show.
At Beta, meanwhile, Bassic Fridays features Downlink tonight, who will bringing punishing, heavy bass to club's world-class sound system, supported by Ishe and Sureshot. In the Beatport Lounge, P.U.N.C.H.I.S. presents Willis Haltom, Andrew Kevins and Diizel for the best in underground techno. (18+, 9 p.m., $5-$15)
The High Tops, Molina and producer Diles will be celebrating their latest album releases at a dual CD release party at Herman's Hideaway tonight. Also on the bill are Pink Hawks, Mono Verde, and more.
Over at Funky Buddha, Massive Reggae with DJ Uplifter and Da Teacha will be taking advantage of the summer weather (and Buddha's patio) with their super hot reggae monthly party. Expect dance hall vibes for your winding and grinding pleasure, along with $2 Red Stripe and $3 well drinks. No cover and it's 21+up.
Raising Our Voices, a hip-hop show going down at the Tivoli from 6-10 p.m., features a group of artists who are donating their time for this event organized around ending domestic human trafficking in Colorado. Lady Speech in Honey Badger Ritual will be on hand to entertain the masses, as well as DJ Cavem, Rhyme Progression, Overdose and more. $10 a ticket, and $15 will sponsor a youth.
Page down for the rundown of Saturday's best dance and party bets.
If you're looking for bass on tonight, head to the Bluebird for South London dubstep impresario Distance, plus more bass from Starkey, Zeno and Thorazine. (all ages, 9 p.m., $15-$20)
Roots and AAMP are teaming up for rising star Subb-an with Kate Simko on the way to DEMF, along with H-Foundation and Nutmeg at a to-be-announced venue; with lineups like these, the Denver scene just keeps getting better and better. (21+, 10 p.m., $15-$20)
Elevate Patio Sessions presents Kate Simko at the Funky Buddha; the Chicago techno/house (not tech-house, necessarily!) virtuosa will be supported by Jacqueline, so head over for a, well, elevated patio session. (21+, 9 p.m., no cover)
At Bar Standard, Francoise Baptiste and Alvin LaCabe of 3 Deep Productions, along with Duane Taylor and Kevin Kain ENT, hold things down at their hot new Saturday night, Soiree. $10 at the door, dress code is strictly enforced.
Two headliners from last year's Great American Techno Festival, Drumcell and Tony Rohr, will be at 2200 with Bones for the industry-invite opening of NORAD Dance Bar, which comprises an overhaul of 2200's facilities and a renaming of the venue; the second floor will be unveiled with new sound installations, state-of-the-art lighting and LEDs and video mapping. (21+, 9:30 p.m., $10)
The Blend is presenting a theme night tonight at the Meadowlark; this month's organizer (resident Sami T) has pink on the brain, so it's time for the first-ever Pink Party to hit the stages. Pink Mammoth's Ryel K will engage in a disco-boogie battle with Sami, and you can buy limited-edition pink Blend T-shirts if you don't have the appropriate garb. (21+, 9 p.m., $5) Things are going to get glitchy, weird and experimental tonight, meanwhile, at Cervantes' at the aptly named BrainFeeder Showcase with Samiyam, Mono/Poly, RYAT and Mast. (16+, 8 p.m., $12)
Boulder's Technicolor Tone Factory takes livetronica to a whole new level at Casselman's on Saturday night; the band plays Daft Punk, Pretty Lights and other top-level tracks infused with an energy that comes standard in live music. Kid Vegas, Cold River City, GodLazer and Reido will also play. (21+, 7 p.m., $8)
KSHMR (of the Cataracs) will throw down a DJ set at Vinyl on Saturday night; DJ Soup and DJ Digi will support, so come get down to the sounds. (18+, 9 p.m., $15-$20)
If house is your sound of choice, then you'll want to be at And Jack Had a Groove, an all-house bash featuring Jared F, E Dub L, Mr. Rickdiculous, DJ Johnny Gear and J-Trix. The bash goes down at the Cow; bring your dancing shoes! (21+, 9 p.m., $7-$15)
At Beta, the progressive sounds of Michael Woods will be filling the main floor along with resident Dragon and Marshall Monica on Saturday night. (18+, 10 p.m., $10)
Crystal Lee finishes off the weekend festivities with the launch of her fashion line, Block Party, at Beta on Sunday night. Guests will be treated to fine fashion services, manicures and more. ($10 at the door)
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