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Your Guide to Verdi's AidaBy COC StaffPosted in Aida
Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, all upcoming performances of Aida have been cancelled. For more information and to explore ticketing options, click here.
Sondra Radvanovsky as Aida in the COC's 2010 production of Aida
An Intimate Drama...
Verdi was initially reluctant to take on this commission but was ultimately drawn to the character-driven drama and relationships in the story, which is reflected in the heartfelt and intimate arias and duets that punctuate the grand score.
...Wrapped in a Grand Italian Opera
Aida's epic plot of warring nations and a tangled love affair was drawn from a scenario by famed French archaeologist to mark the opening Cairo's new opera house. With its thrilling score and large chorus scenes, the opera draws much inspiration from the French Grand Opera tradition.
A Provocative Production Returns
Tim Albery's production returns to the COC stage after a decade. It shattered expectations with its updated, politically charged approach, and emphasizes Verdi's original intent to highlight the personal drama against the political.
Aida has rightfully earned its place amongst opera's greatest hits. It has remained popular since its premiere in 1871 and is considered one of Verdi's most celebrated works, alongside the likes of La Traviata, Rigoletto, and Il Trovatore. So it may be surprising to learn that Verdi was initially reluctant to take on this opera, nor did the path to its world premiere run smoothly.
Khedivial Opera House, 1869
In the mid-1800s, the allure of Ancient Egypt in the public imagination was at its peak, with the rise of modern Egyptology leading to many high-profile archeological discoveries, like the Rosetta Stone, since Napoleon's campaign in Egypt in 1798. The Suez Canal was also near completion, signifying Egypt's arrival as a modern, cosmopolitan nation to the western world. Its opening festivities coincided with the construction of a new opera house in Cairo – the first in the Middle East. The ruling Khedive of Egypt (a noted opera fan who would later help fund Wagner's theatre in Bayreuth) planned to mark the grand occasion with a new opera based on an Egyptian theme, and asked celebrity archaeologist August Mariette to come up with a plot for an opera based on his archeological findings. The scenario was later brought to Verdi by his Don Carlos librettist, Camille du Locle, who had fleshed out Mariette's original idea. But Verdi was reluctant to take on the project, having already rejected an offer from the Khedive to write a new anthem for the festivities. After some convincing and du Locle's persistence, he eventually relented, captivated by the moving story…or perhaps because the Khedive threatened to take his commission to Gounod or Wagner.
Verdi collaborated closely, as he was known to do, with librettist Antonio Ghislanzon (who also created the libretto for Verdi's La forza del destino). Ghislanzon took du Locle's French scenario and turned it into an Italian libretto, and Mariette was hired to oversee the costume and set designs, which were inspired by Ancient Egyptian artifacts. The premiere was planned for January 1871, but external forces conspired to delay the production – the Siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War cut off communications and prevented the sets and costumes, which were being built in the French capital, from leaving the city. During this time, Verdi was able to continue tweaking the opera, even adding Aida's famous "O patria mia" aria.
When the war ended, Aida finally received its long awaited premiere at the Khedivial Opera House on December 24, 1871, where it was met with rave reviews. Verdi did not attend because of his fear of sea travel, and considered the opera's La Scala opening some months later to be its "true" premiere since the Cairo audience was filled with dignitaries, nobles and critics rather than the general public. Aida cemented its popularity after its Milan debut and the composer is said to have returned to the stage 32 times during curtain call encores. In an act of understatement, Verdi wrote after the premiere, "It's probably not the worst thing I ever wrote. The public seems to have loved it. I think it will fill any theatre."
Giuseppe Verdi
From its opening notes, Verdi makes clear that Aida is a character-driven opera. While its large chorus scenes and majestic "Triumphal March" may steal the show, it is the more intimate arias and duets that form the opera's heart. The opera opens with a short, intimate prelude, in lieu of the bombastic, full-scale overture one might expect. (It's interesting to note that Verdi did compose such an overture, but it was only performed at the La Scala premiere as the composer ultimately rejected it.)
Aida also invokes conventions of the popular French grand operas of the time – historical events, epic scales and large casts – which is particularly evident in the first two acts with their grand public scenes and preoccupations with matters of state. But Verdi's primary interest in exploring the private drama of his characters (as with his earlier hits, Rigoletto and La Traviata), as well as the intersection of the personal and political conflict, draws focus to the work's more timeless themes of love and loyalty. This is perhaps best seen in the moving Act III sequence, beginning with Aida's moving ode to her homeland, "O patria mia," followed by a duet with her father who demands she save her people by betraying her lover.
Another aspect unique to Aida is the addition of specially constructed horns, played during the "Triumphal March" fanfare. These are longer and straighter than a traditional trumpet, with only one valve, and were designed to emulate how Verdi imagined Ancient Egyptian horns might sound. Presciently, when genuine Egyptian horns were discovered among the artifacts in Tutankhamun's tomb more than 50 years later, they were similarly pitched to Verdi's invention. The COC Orchestra is using six horns crafted by its very own musicians, bass trombonist Herb Poole.
A scene from the COC's 2010 production of Aida
AN AIDA FOR THE 21st CENTURY
For Aida's premiere production in 1871, archaeologist August Mariette insisted on replicating real artifacts and locations for the opera's sets and costumes in an effort to recreate an "authentic" Old Kingdom setting. To this day, many audiences associate Aida with the opulent productions reminiscent of a Cecil B. DeMille film. Amidst the spectacle, the intimate, character-based drama of Aida – which drew Verdi to the story to begin with – can often be overlooked. So when Tim Albery's radical new take on Aida first appeared at the Canadian Opera Company a decade ago – with not a single elephant or pyramid in sight – it raised some eyebrows.
"Revisiting a production after some years is always interesting for a director, particularly when it's been controversial with the audience," says Albery on Aida's return to the COC. "When we conceived this production, we were aware that, like in so many Verdi operas, it deals with an oppressed minority being controlled, ruled, attacked, invaded by a much bigger, powerful enemy, and we are in the home of that enemy throughout the opera."
In place of golden temples and hieroglyphics, Albery envisions a contemporary, yet non-specific, time and place that could represent a number of the authoritarian regimes seen over the last few decades – Pinochet's Chile, Saddam Hussein's Iraq or East Germany before the wall came down, to name a few. The opera begins in the public rooms of a palace – the great halls, the meeting rooms, the state apartments – and then begins a "descent down into hell" through the private, unseen spaces, before ending up in the basement tomb of Aida and Radames. The sets and costumes, with their "slightly tacky and vulgar" aesthetic recall the imagery – both in their public and private spheres – that's become associated with many of those authoritarian figures. Notes Albery, "The cliché would be gold-plated taps in the bathrooms."
All production photos by Michael Cooper.


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I have just a few moments before bed, so this will probably be short.
Never has it seemed more clear to me just how limited our mortal perspective is. I have had cause recently to consider choice and accountability. The burning question I tried not to ask myself for so long was this: Is it my fault all these bad things are happening in my life?
It was hard to face to this question-- maybe harder than anything else I have had to do. But the experience of shame and blame and catharsis taught me something in a very poignant way. The Lord knew things I didn't know and my choices all along were limited to the things I could see at the time. Am I responsible for the choices I've made? Yes. Should I blame myself now and punish myself for doing things I believed were the best at the time? No. All I should do now is make sure that I consult with the One who knows much more than I do from now on.
Friday, March 28, 2008
I have just a few moments before bed, so this will probably be short.
Posted by Jessio at 10:19 PM
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Retail rant.
So I'm starting a new job tomorrow. The UVSC bookstore needs people to help with the buyback at the end of the semester, so I've been hired as a temporary for the month of April. (Tomorrow is my first training.) Taking a temporary job kind of sucks because it requires finding something else immediately, but it seemed worth it me for the pay. I've recently decided that it just really isn't worth it to take a job that pays minimum wage or even a dollar over. If I'm going to work a ton of hours all the time, I want to make a reasonable wage. The thing that frustrates me is the fact that the only jobs that are available to me seem to be retail jobs.
Honestly, I hate, despise, and loathe retail. My experience in retail is thus: you are one of many undervalued employees who have to spend 39 and a half hours a week on your feet being yelled at and having a constantly changing schedule and being called in to work on all the days you actually plan to do something fun. And if you accidentally break the 40 hour limit, you are lectured endlessly because the store does not want to have to actually give you benefits for working for them. (They figure, "Who really likes to go to dentists and doctors anyway? We're simplifying their lives by making sure they don't have the option at all since we don't pay them enough to afford medical bills without insurance!" How very kind they are, don't you think?)
It gets old.
And so I took this temporary job with the firm resolution that I will find something better for the summer. I'm not talking glamorous or fabulous-- just something that pays reasonably that I don't hate, loathe, and despise. Why should I undervalue myself enough to take a job like that? I don't know what I'll end up doing, but it will be better than retail.
Posted by Jessio at 2:22 PM
A correction to the text.
I stand corrected. Jeanne was not actually there for the imaginary cookie incident. She was only at school there with Ruth and I for the first semester and then she moved away the second. But I have lots of happy Jeanne memories that are just as fun. One of my favorites was one of the last nights before Jeanne left and there was a heavy snowstorm. It had snowed too much too fast for the street scrapers to respond, so the streets were covered in a thick layer of compacted snow that was extremely slippery. Jeanne and I went "skating" up the streets, which included much running and sliding and trying not to fall. We had been getting in shape for several weeks (with Ruth) and we got hyper and started running as fast as we could. It was really amazing to feel our legs burning with the exertion of running while we were literally trembling with cold.
Posted by Jessio at 2:11 PM
Sunday, March 23, 2008
Imaginary cookies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Today I had the most random memory come to me and it really made me laugh. My sophomore year at college, my friends Ruth, Jeanne, and I did some seriously silly stuff. (Our friend Elyse was involed too, I think.) We made cookies once and had stuffed ourselves on them before putting them into a gallon baggy. I think I started the madness, but it might have been Ruth. Anyway, we took turns hiding the cookies in random places around the apartment, getting a little more creative each time. "Hide the cookies" became commonplace on warm and boring afternoons.
But it gets better. On one such afternoon, the three of us were laying in Ruth's bedroom burned out from homework and feeling utterly lethargic.
Ruth said, "Let's play Hide the Cookies."
"We don't have any." I said, "I'm too tired to make cookies right now."
"Well," Ruth responded, "I'll hide some imaginary cookies, then."
I started to laugh lazily, but she closed her eyes and said, "Wait. Wait. I'm hiding them. I have to find a good place." After a moment, she opened her eyes again. "All right. I've hidden them."
It turned out that "Hide the Imaginary Cookies" was even funner than "Hide the Cookies!" You could put them in much more interesting places than real cookies would allow. Once I hid them in the pocket of the Levi jacket in my closet and another time under the plunger in the bathroom. Ruth liked to hide them on the under side of furniture.
Anyway, it is completely ridiculous, but we had so much fun! Ah, the Ruth and Jeanne era...
Posted by Jessio at 5:34 PM
Friday, March 21, 2008
Sera, Sera, whatever will be will be.
The world moves so quickly and things change constantly. Paul and I are on the job hunt again and we're obsessing over where Paul will apply to grad school. There are a lot of choices and most of them only accept a small number of applicants- we're talking five or ten individuals. But they all cost money to apply and we don't have loads of that to throw around.
There is great news, though. We recently learned that a lot of universities offer fellowship grants to their graduate students and you shouldn't go to one unless they're paying you for it. (At least that's how it is in Psychology. I can't speak for other fields of study.) So in two more semesters, we graduate and then move to WHEREVER we're going and get money for our living expenses. That really gives us something to look forward to!
So Paul's looking at a schools in New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Washington, and Oregon. We're talking constantly about what it would be like to live in all of those places, but of course we don't really know. All I know is that it sounds fun to live somewhere new and tackle experiences I have never faced. It will be exciting!
Posted by Jessio at 10:21 PM
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Pennies from Heaven.
I love to see spring approaching. Today it was beautiful out-- cold if we weren't in direct sunlight, but beautiful. When Paul and I went for a walk, I just really enjoyed being outside. The wind stirred up crisp leaves in the gutters and there were little shoots of bright green grass pushing out from the yellow lawns. I was skipping along, singing, "Every time rains, it rains pennies from Heaven. Don't you know each cloud contains pennies from Heaven? ... Make sure that your umbrella is upside down."
And of course, there really are "pennies from Heaven" all the time in our lives. I think if we could see all of the things that the Lord does for us, we would be surprised.
A lot of the hard times in my life have been from failed friendships or a feeling of being friendless. I don't know why that is-- maybe I have been just too much in my own head, but these times stand out in my memory as times that I was more able to see the goodness of God in my life. I know that sounds strange. But when I was the most lonely, I found joy in every smile or friendly greeting from another. I took pleasure in every small kindness that I would normally take for granted-- like the cashier who wants to chat with you when ringing up your order.
Likewise, having to deal with my health problems has taught me to enjoy fully the days that I feel good, to appreciate the body that I have. Why do women always want a different body than the one they have? Didn't we all want bodies badly enough before we came here? If we hate them, isn't that showing God that we're not grateful for this amazing gift?
Anyway, I really do think too much. Sometimes my mind flies off on these tangents and I just follow them wherever they go. My point was something along these lines: when we pay attention, we can see the pennies from heaven stacking up. Only then do we realize how rich we really are!
Posted by Jessio at 3:00 PM
Saturday, March 1, 2008
Small degrees.
As I consider my life, I have cause to wonder. If my blood sugar levels had stayed too high, I could have gone into a diabetic coma. I could have died. I don't know the likelihood of that happening, but it could have—and suddenly I would have found myself standing before God, having to make an account of my time in this life.
I wonder how I would feel then about this life that I lead, what I would say about all the things I'm doing that I shouldn't and all the things I'm not doing that I should. Would I be comfortable in the knowledge that I did all that I could? Or would I feel ashamed that I could have tried so much harder? When I'm completely honest with myself, I know that so many times I was kind but had no kindness in my heart. If you do the right thing but your heart is not in the right place, does it really count as doing the right thing? Won't I have to answer for the state of my heart more than for my individual actions?
But I realize also that individual actions are the things that change a person's heart like tiny colored particles too small to see. Every tiny thing I do colors my heart one way or another, changing me by small degrees into a different creature than I now am. It strikes me as almost paradoxical that the most important decisions a person can make are all the tiny ones that add up to transform us in ways we would not imagine. Have all my small choices changed me to a better person than I once was or am I slowly drifting into a form I would like less? If I had to answer for my soul today, would I wish I had made so many more good small decisions?
Speculating, of course, gets a person nowhere all by itself. I can imagine all day and night, but until I change something in my life, it won't do much good. The thing to do now is to set a goal to do something worthwhile today. Life can be full of so much meaning and beauty if you will choose to see it and participate in it. I can be aware of my decisions and make them more thoughtfully. I can rededicate myself to good things and fulfilling activities. I can think more about others and strive to keep genuine feelings of love in my heart.
Then, in 80 years or so, when I am called to stand before my God, I will be able to laugh with him about all the ridiculous hilarious things that happened in my life, feeling no shame and only joy. That's what I want to happen.
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/tool fetch
Fetch is one of the console tools in Mikrotik RouterOS. It is used to copy files from any network device to a Mikrotik router via HTTP or FTP.
In latest v5 versions it is possible also to upload files to remote locations.
Fetch now supports HTTPS protocol. By default no certificate checks are made, but setting check-certificate to yes enables trust chain validation from local certificate store.
|address (string; Default: )
|IP address of the device to copy file from.
|ascii (yes | no; Default: no)
|check-certificate (yes | no; Default: no)
|Enables trust chain validation from local certificate store.
|dst-path (string; Default: )
|Destination filename and path
|host (string; Default: )
|Domain name or virtual domain name (if used on web-site, from which you want to copy information). For example,
address=wiki.mikrotik.com host=forum.mikrotik.comIn this example the resolved ip address is the same (188.8.131.52), but hosts are different.
|http-method (|delete|get|post|put; Default: get)
|the HTTP method to use
|http-data (string; Default: )
|the data, that is going to be send, when using PUT or POST methods
|http-content-type (string; Default: application/x-www-form-urlencoded)
|the MIME type of the data you are going to send via POST/GET.
|keep-result (yes | no; Default: yes)
|If yes, creates an input file.
|mode (ftp|http|tftp {!} https; Default: http)
|Choose the protocol of connection - http, https , ftp or tftp.
|password (string; Default: anonymous)
|Password, which is needed for authentication to the remote device.
|port (integer; Default: )
|Connection port.
|src-path (string; Default: )
|Title of the remote file you need to copy.
|upload (yes | no; Default: no)
|If enabled then fetch will be used to upload file to remote server. Requires src-path and dst-path parameters to be set.
|url (string; Default: )
|URL pointing to file. Can be used instead of address and src-path parameters.
|user (string; Default: anonymous)
|User name, which is needed for authentication to the remote device.
The following example shows how to copy the file with filename "conf.rsc" from device with ip address 192.168.88.2 by FTP protocol and save it as file with filename "123.rsc". User and password are needed to login into the device.
[admin@mt-test] /tool> fetch address=192.168.88.2 src-path=conf.rsc \ user=admin mode=ftp password=123 dst-path=123.rsc port=21 \ host="" keep-result=yes
Example to upload file to other router:
[admin@mt-test] /tool> fetch address=192.168.88.2 src-path=conf.rsc \ user=admin mode=ftp password=123 dst-path=123.rsc upload=yes
Another example that demonstrates the usage of url property.
[admin@test_host] /> /tool fetch url="http://www.mikrotik.com/img/netaddresses2.pdf" mode=http status: finished [admin@test_host] /> /file print # NAME TYPE SIZE CREATION-TIME ... 5 netaddresses2.pdf .pdf file 11547 jun/01/2010 11:59:51
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Submarine slope failures along the convergent continental margin of the Middle America Trench.
Harders, Rieka, Ranero, César R., Weinrebe, Wilhelm and Behrmann, Jan H. (2011) Submarine slope failures along the convergent continental margin of the Middle America Trench. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 12 (6). Q05S32. DOI 10.1029/2010GC003401.
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We present the first comprehensive study of mass wasting processes in the continental slope of a convergent margin of a subduction zone where tectonic processes are dominated by subduction erosion. We have used multibeam bathymetry along ∼1300 km of the Middle America Trench of the Central America Subduction Zone and deep-towed side-scan sonar data. We found abundant evidence of large-scale slope failures that were mostly previously unmapped. The features are classified into a variety of slope failure types, creating an inventory of 147 slope failure structures. Their type distribution and abundance define a segmentation of the continental slope in six sectors. The segmentation in slope stability processes does not appear to be related to slope preconditioning due to changes in physical properties of sediment, presence/absence of gas hydrates, or apparent changes in the hydrogeological system. The segmentation appears to be better explained by changes in slope preconditioning due to variations in tectonic processes. The region is an optimal setting to study how tectonic processes related to variations in intensity of subduction erosion and changes in relief of the underthrusting plate affect mass wasting processes of the continental slope. The largest slope failures occur offshore Costa Rica. There, subducting ridges and seamounts produce failures with up to hundreds of meters high headwalls, with detachment planes that penetrate deep into the continental margin, in some cases reaching the plate boundary. Offshore northern Costa Rica a smooth oceanic seafloor underthrusts the least disturbed continental slope. Offshore Nicaragua, the ocean plate is ornamented with smaller seamounts and horst and graben topography of variable intensity. Here mass wasting structures are numerous and comparatively smaller, but when combined, they affect a large part of the margin segment. Farther north, offshore El Salvador and Guatemala the downgoing plate has no large seamounts but well-defined horst and graben topography. Off El Salvador slope failure is least developed and mainly occurs in the uppermost continental slope at canyon walls. Off Guatemala mass wasting is abundant and possibly related to normal faulting across the slope. Collapse in the wake of subducting ocean plate topography is a likely failure trigger of slumps. Rapid oversteepening above subducting relief may trigger translational slides in the middle Nicaraguan upper Costa Rican slope. Earthquake shaking may be a trigger, but we interpret that slope failure rate is lower than recurrence time of large earthquakes in the region. Generally, our analysis indicates that the importance of mass wasting processes in the evolution of margins dominated by subduction erosion and its role in sediment dynamics may have been previously underestimated.
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|Meeresgeologie; Geodynamics; Convergent margin; landslides; slope failure; subduction erosion; submarine mass wasting; tectonics
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The Psychology of Reward
First of all, it's important to understand that at a time like this it is not frivolous to be thinking about rewards, as though it is too selfish under the circumstances. Actually, quite the opposite: It's absolutely critical that you reward yourself regularly for achieving your goals along your job search. One of the reasons a job search stalls amidst hopelessness, lethargy and a creeping loss of motivation is the lack of reward. On the other hand, if we reward ourselves during this process (or during any extended endeavor), we will begin to feel like as though we're making progress. A gift also becomes a material reminder of the efforts we are making. And when you feel better, you will maintain your enthusiasm.
Another important point to keep in mind is that this notion of incentivizing yourself is not about rampant materialism, greed or selfishness. This is about a psychological reward. As much as we would like to think we can't be manipulated, in truth we can be influenced easily. Human beings are taught to crave appreciation as well as a reward. So if material rewards during this job search bother you, then think of something else you can use to compensate you for your efforts. Because it is your reward system, it is entirely up to you to decide on the reward.
The research I have conducted indicted that that there are several types of incentives, but we will consider only three that we can give realistically generate for ourselves:
- An economic incentive that results in some form of material reward, such as money or a gift certificates.
- moral incentive to behave in a particular way when it is perceived to be the "right" or "worthy" thing to do. This usually results in personal self-esteem.
- A physical incentive results in a contribution to our physical health and well-being.
We can receive some form of these incentives in our jobs. Economic incentives come in the form of pay, benefits, paid time off and more. But we may also derive personal satisfaction about the product of our work, such as building a road or administering medical care in some capacity. A person in the military may rightly feel pride as a defender of the country, a teacher can be cited for contributions to shaping young minds, and the head of a financial institution can claim to disperse funds that allow citizens to start businesses or purchase houses or cars. When your job requires you to move around, such as a police offer, postal carrier, stock keeper, or even an office manager, it exercises the various parts of our bodies.
I understand that incentivizing yourself is easier said than done. While you are in the middle of this maelstrom, facing so many tasks and responsibilities, it may be fatuous to say, "I am going to indulge myself." I still encourage you to do so. Even though I have advised you to make the most of your time, I also wish that you resist the urge to be productive all the time. There are rates of diminishing returns, and since you cannot be truly fruitful in all of your moments, you should plan some off time just to recharge. Here are some easy ways to take care of yourself from each of these three broad categories of incentives that we mentioned.
Economic incentive
Spend money to fight a feeling of scarceness. Theologians generally agree that when Jesus proclaimed "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven," he was not encouraging people to be materially impoverished. Instead, he was encouraging them to be humble. Similarly, I encourage you to consider spending money at times to fight off "feeling poor."
True-life Story! Several years ago, my wife and I had planned a trip to Italy to visit our families during Ferragosto, which is a holiday celebrated on August 15, a summer bacchanal that is not dissimilar to America's Independence Day. We booked the flights, contacted our relatives and were set to go. Months earlier, my consulting business hit a wall, and we could have just as easily canceled the trip. One day, as our departure approached, Marie said to me, "I know that you have not mentioned calling this off. I would understand if you did."
I said, "Marie, I don't want to do that. If we don't go, we will feel poor, and I don't think that will be good for our spirits." We went; we had a great time and received a lot of loving from our families, and we were able to say that we were in Italy for one of its most popular holidays.
While I was there, I posted photos of the trip on Facebook and my social media, and that maintained everyone's interest in what I was doing. Furthermore, I received phone calls about a possible job at a company back home. All of this helped keep us in a positive mood; there is no telling what the effect on our mental health had been if we stayed home and wallowed in pity and regret. It remains one of the best events in our long marriage.
Think about this for yourself. Were you scheduled for your own vacation, a remodeling job on your home or some other outlay of money? If so, weigh the hidden and real costs if you cancel.
Though it may be counterintuitive at this time, it may turn out to be the best decision you ever make.
Moral incentive
Give your time to the community. Figure out the amount of time you can spare from your job of searching for a job, and give at least some of it to someone else. Volunteer at the public library. Tutor a student in the area you know best. Drive seniors to their medical appointments. You will be surprised at the mutual benefits derived.
Give away material goods. This may be a good time to clean out your closet or attic to the benefit of others. You may be tempted to wear your oldest clothes to an interview, but rid yourself of that lure by giving the clothing away first. Then see what old but functioning appliances are hanging around, and consider how others can make use of them. At a time when you are not drawing a regular pay, you may discover just how rich you truly are.
Physical incentive
Take time to laugh. We learned a lot about laughter therapy from Norman Cousins, the famous editor of Saturday Review. In his revolutionary book, Anatomy of an Illness as Described by the Patient, Cousins described the effect of emotions on his own health. In 1976, he had been diagnosed with a very painful, life-threatening form of arthritis called ankylosing spondylitis. Doctors gave him little chance of recovery. Eschewing traditional medical treatments, Cousins took megadoses of vitamin C and watched Marx Brothers films and TV sitcoms. He found that good old-fashioned laughter, out-and-out guffawing would relieve his pain and allow him to sleep. He eventually recovered from the disease and wrote extensively on the links between humor and health.
We know today how laughter relaxes the whole body and relieves our physical tension and stress. Laughter also boosts the immune system, decreases stress hormones and improves the function of the entire cardiovascular system. So turn off the TV and find things that make you laugh. (I have several comedy stations on my Pandora list, so I turn on comedy whenever I take a break, when I am up in the morning, and before I go to sleep each night. It has made demonstrable differences in my own physical and emotional health.)
Take the weekends off as you would any job. As I have written, this job hunt is your job right now. But as with any job, you need time off. So let up on yourself and keep your weekends completely open for a movie, time in the mountains or at the shore, and perhaps most important, a date with your significant other. Turn off the e-mails and cell phone and just unwind.
These are just a few of the ways we can keep our sanity during a job search. I will be discussing more in future posts and in my upcoming e-book on how to rejuvenate a lagging job campaign. The book is untitled at this time.


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The United Methodist Men's group meets monthly for breakfast in the fellowship hall. Meetings consist of great food, fellowship and an opportunity for spiritual growth. Check the church calendar for upcoming dates.
The ministry of men in the local church is defined as a core group of men, partnering with their pastor, to invite and initiate spiritual growth opportunities for all men of the church. Everyone has different gifts, graces and areas of interest. Therefore, opportunities for participation would include diverse ministries of the church, such as prayer groups, missions, Bible studies, retreats, workshops/seminars, small groups in the Wesleyan tradition, leading and participating on committees, teaching Sunday school classes, youth ministries, scouting, mentoring and assisting in leading worship service. The focus is not inward, concentrating only on those who attend a set meeting, but outward to all men, assisting them to engage the process of spiritual growth.
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"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong." Joseph Chilton Pearce
I agree with Joseph…and I would add…
Creative Self Expression is vital to our whole health.
We are all born creatives. Life is creativity itself.
Creativity is channelled through my life source energy.
Without expression I feel a little less me and a little more lost.
My creativity is an anchor into the very depths of me.
It both centers me and sets me free.


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"Spicy blue and black fruits, notes of licorice and ground black pepper, hints of violets and black olives tapenade. On the palate, ripe but not jammy berry fruit overlaid with spice and minerality, subtle notes of vanilla and cedar wood. Pairing: Great for grilled meats or veggies, or wild game meats."
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- • Producer: Barkan
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Quotes for "34":
"Since the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening many of our Nation's standing environmental laws, some of which were signed into law by his father."
"Not one Republican president has balanced the budget in 34 years. You can not trust Republicans with your money."
"Anyone who writes an autobiographical work at the age of 34 is, at best, presumptuous. It occurred to me that it was time to set the record straight."
"I guess as long as people think of me for different ages, I'll trust their opinion. I remember noticing one year that Michelle Monaghan played 34 and 19, so I've kind of clung to that as my justification that I can be Jake Gyllenhaal's wife and a freshman in college in the same year."
"We've not had one Republican president in 34 years balance the budget. You can't trust right-wing Republicans with your money. You ought to hire somebody who has balanced a budget. I'm much more conservative with money than George Bush is."
"I would drive home and see people wearing my No. 34 jersey and wonder why, because I didn't feel worthy of that. And all the time I just knew people were staring at me, talking about me everywhere I went."


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Can't Help Falling by Kara Isaac
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
I struggled with the first book by Isaac because I didn't have any LotR knowledge. But when I saw this one was based on CS Lewis for the literary background I felt much better about it. While I haven't read all of his Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe books I have read the main book and know more about the series.
I really liked this book. I enjoyed the two main characters a lot. I hate that so many lies were told in the story but understood why and liked that in the end the truth came out. I also really enjoyed the main male character being a rower. I didn't know anything about the sport and enjoyed learning a little bit more. I felt like the sport was described the perfect amount without going too far into it.
I especially liked the character development for Emelia. I found her character very intriguing. I also really liked the love story though I wish it would have expounded upon the spirituality a little bit more.
Overall I was very pleased with this book and am glad I gave it a chance. I do look forward to more books by Isaac in the future.
Netgalley provided me a copy of this book. This is my honest opinion.
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About the Talk
February 18, 2012 9:20 AM
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Content and presentation are separate, but as developers we want to make things easy for users, so we lump them together. This talk shows you why you should separate out your content into structured fields, why your users will like you better for doing so, and how to actually make it happen.
Tools discussed: Magic Fields 2, Search Everything, Markdown on Save
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Top apps are integrating Siri Shortcuts, making favorite apps even easier to use with a simple tap or by asking Siri. Now available with iOS 12, shortcuts use powerful on-device intelligence to help users get things done faster, whether it's commuting, being more productive, staying healthy, and more. Here are some top apps that now offer Siri Shortcuts.
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Morning routines are now easier with Siri Shortcuts. Weather reports from top apps like The Weather Channel, CARROT and Dark Sky are quickly delivered with simple voice requests like "radar," "rain report" and "UV index." Citymapper helps manage the morning commute with real-time departures, line status and disruption alerts, and whether you travel by bus, train, bikeshare or Uber, using Siri Shortcuts on the Transit app makes it a snap to get where you need to go.
Productivity Tools
Siri Shortcuts help users tackle daily tasks in an instant. With just a tap on the Lock screen or by asking Siri, users quickly gain access to apps like Evernote, which has created shortcuts to easily share notes, create audio and camera notes and print. Create and update journal entries and record audio directly in the Day One app, and schedule and preview the day's calendar for upcoming events and meetings with Fantastical. At work and at home, users can streamline projects, boards and cards with shortcuts in Trello, Omnifocus 3 and Things.
Based on how customers use their devices, Siri will suggest simple, useful shortcuts right when needed on the Lock screen or in Search. Look for the "Add to Siri" button in apps, or go to Settings > Siri & Search to find all shortcuts available from your apps and to set a personal phrase to run them with.
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Lester Young: Live at Birdland
The first of the three sets was recorded January 15, 1953 and broadcast on NBC radio. Of the three performances heard here, this set curiously features the finest audio quality, though the second two were recorded three years later. In fact, the first portion of the disc is what will make this an attractive recommendation, since it features Prez playing along with the great Horace Silver on piano, as well as trumpeter Jesse Drakes, bassist Franklin Skeete and drummer Lee Abrams. The group stretches out with a couple of Gershwin standards that showcase imaginative soloingparticularly Drakes, which makes one wonder why he never ended up in the same canon as Lee Morgan, Art Farmer and Kenny Dorham. This portion also features a fine rendition of the Young staple "Lester Leaps In," another version of which also opens the disc's second featured set.
The 1956 sets showcase a different rhythm section (pianist Bill Triglia, bassist Gene Ramey and drummer Gus Johnson), along with Don Ferrara replacing Drakes on trumpet, and were recorded on two consecutive Tuesday evenings in August of that year. The sets primarily consist of standards, including the Prez favorite, "Three Little Words." The only problem with this portion occurs due to the Symphony Sid-esque announcer Bill O'Toole, who has a tendency to interrupt the playing with various interjections that weren't likely appreciated by the musicians or the audience.
Though by no means as essential as The Complete Aladdin Sessions or his work with the Oscar Peterson trio, Live at Birdland is a must-own for Prez completists. Additionally, it serves as a time capsule of sorts since the ABC broadcasts are book-ended by an announcement saying that the broadcast was co-sponsored by the US Treasury Department, which encourages the listener to "invest regularly in United States savings bonds.
Track Listing
Oh, Lady Be Good; A Foggy Day; In a Little Spanish Town; Lester Leaps In; Theme: Lullaby of Birdland; Announcement; Lester Leaps In; Announcement; Polkadots and Moonbeams; Up
Lester Young: tenor saxophone; Jesse Drakes: trumpet; Earl Knight: piano; Aaron Bell: bass; Lee Abrahams: percussion; Steve Allen House Band; Count Basie Orchestra.
Album information
Title: Live at Birdland | Year Released: 2008 | Record Label: ESP Disk
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Let me not pass through this veil
Unseen, in quiet solemnity.
Let me go, instead, through the place
I am here. See me.
I am alive. Have me.
Love me.
Remember me.
Let me not pass through this veil
Unseen, in quiet solemnity.
Let me go, instead, through the place
I am here. See me.
I am alive. Have me.
Love me.
Remember me.
Memories: birthdays, holidays, deaths
All colored with the splatter of blood
On the wall and hair ground out
From the root and the hollow
Eyes that saw nothing
And the raw ears that heard nothing.
I mark time with the lines the switch made:
Eight for my eighth. One less for ten.
You remember the cake–your favorite–
And the visit from your mother
I remember the disarray
And his boot print on your shirt.
You remember the songs we sang
I remember my voice quavering
The baby, hurting myself so it would hurt less
Trying and failing perfection over and again
Desperate to keep him happy.
In the silence and the sound
I feel the calloused ridges
Of his palm; you remember it gentle
And protective
I remember the sting and dizziness.
Now you forget and your eyes pretend
And I swallow past the lump in my throat
And I am careful not to make him angry
And every fist he makes
Feels connected to the other fists that connected
And you will not remember and
Dammit, forget it, your eyes demand.
But you will not remember
And I cannot forget.
That is the nature of memories.
And I have the scar, raised and straight
The perfect shadow of a half buried root.
It lays somberly across my thigh;
I trace it every now and then.
I feel the blood that runs deep beneath
Wondering if it will ever break through.


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What makes a book a gay book, or a writer a gay writer? Walt Whitman, for all his sizzling erotic verses about men, insisted to the end that he was interested only in women. Gore Vidal, who has made no secret of his attraction to men, writes sparingly about gay characters and has asserted that there is no such thing as a homosexual, only homosexual acts. James Baldwin's novels typically repose on bookstores' African-American shelves, rather than their gay and lesbian sections — even "Giovanni's Room," which centers on a relationship between two white men.
Christopher Bram, who calls himself a gay novelist (his "Father of Frankenstein" was the basis of the movie "Gods and Monsters"), assumes the task of herding the gay American male writers who emerged after World War II into a coherent history, beginning with the coded innuendo of Tennessee Williams's "Glass Menagerie" in 1944 and peaking with Tony Kushner's luminescent "Angels in America" in 1991. In between, Bram writes, a growing stream of gay-themed novels, plays and poems, some bolder than others, prefigured or hastened sweeping changes in the culture at large. "The gay revolution," he writes, "began as a literary revolution."
As the title suggests, "Eminent Outlaws" is mainly a reverie for a time past, seen through a romantic lens. No one would think of a gay writer now as an outlaw, at least until David Sedaris starts robbing banks. Even the category of the gay novel or play, once embraced as a liberating break from the closet, now seems more a straitjacket. In a 2005 essay in the Book Review, David Leavitt celebrated the emergence of "post-gay" fiction, in which sexual identity, while important to the characters, neither defines them nor drives the plot. While Allan Gurganus's best-selling "Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All" features love and embraces between two men, it is not a gay novel in the way that, say, Christopher Isherwood's "Single Man" or Larry Kramer's "Faggots" is.
Leavitt and Gurganus make only token appearances in "Eminent Outlaws," with little or no discussion of their work. Ditto for William Burroughs, Paul Bowles, John Rechy, Terrence McNally, Craig Lucas, Paul Monette and Paul Rudnick. Burroughs appears as a "boyish would-be writer" notable mainly for his friendship with Allen Ginsberg; McNally is a love interest of Edward Albee "who later became a playwright himself."
James Purdy, Reynolds Price, Dennis Cooper, Augusten Burroughs and E. Lynn Harris do not appear at all; nor does Sedaris. John Cheever appears only in passing and without reference to his bisexuality, which surfaced in Cheever's memoirs. Lesbians are largely absent because, Bram writes, they deserve their own book. Theirs is the love that dare not speak its name, at least not here.
Instead, Bram uses a small cast of writers to draw a "large-scale cultural narrative" in which literature played a uniquely transformative role. Starting with the first great thaw — circa 1948, the year of Truman Capote's "Other Voices, Other Rooms" and Gore Vidal's "City and the Pillar," both featuring explicitly gay characters — books that openly discussed gay life showed teenagers in the hinterlands that they were not alone and pushed discussions of homosexuality onto national television and into the mainstream press. Gay bookstores like the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop, which opened in Greenwich Village in 1967, two years before the Stonewall riots, provided safe havens to explore love, lust, politics, art and anatomy — the stuff of urban life, gay or straight.
Bram draws this history as a movement from darkness to light, against a "homosexual culture panic" that is mighty but doomed. He does not explore how the immovable object was moved, and at times he appears to be explaining gay culture to visitors from another planet: "For many gay men," he writes, "the first experience of good sex is so electric that it magnetizes the body and soul forever." Well, golly.
Bram's framing best suits the first part of his tale, when writers often spoke only in code. The narrators of Isherwood's "Berlin Stories" and Capote's "Breakfast at Tiffany's" — the second published after Time magazine described "Other Voices" as "calculated to make the flesh crawl" — never declare their sexuality, though the clues are there for anyone who knows to look. Williams, in successive drafts of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," made the male lead, Brick, less and less explicitly in love with a lost male friend. "When Brick and Big Daddy throw the word mendacity at each other," Bram writes, "one can't help hearing Williams cast a similar charge of lying against himself." The sparring heterosexual couples in Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" were believed by many at the time to be gay couples in drag.
Bram connects the emergence of more declaratively gay literature to the civil rights and antiwar movements of the 1960s (though not, curiously, to the broader sexual revolution). After Stonewall, or maybe after the Village People, writers found less need to be coy. If Vidal guided the first half of this history, its center for the second half is Edmund White, whose gay characters do not have to be gay archetypes as well. The two writers, Bram notes in what is presumably meant as lively dish, "are both highly literary and well-read, write excellent prose and are fiercely productive. Both lived for many years in Europe; both are fond of hustlers."
Yet even during this literary coming-out, much of the work remained gloomy. As Bram smartly observes, Kramer's "Faggots," White's "Nocturnes for the King of Naples" and Andrew Holleran's "Dancer From the Dance," all published in the breakthrough year 1978, each retained the grimness of what Isherwood called "the Tragic Homosexual myth." But the books were successes; the deluge was on. By the end of the 1970s, a cartoon in Christopher Street magazine showed a gay bar in which a man complained, "This used to be a fun place before everyone started writing a gay novel."
The end point of all this progress, of course, is the sitcom "Will and Grace," which White said killed gay literature. Without organized repression, or without a virus more deadly than any cultural enemy, there may still be new books by gay writers, but no unifying story line, no outlaws.
Little of this is news. By compressing literary history to a coherent movement, Bram concentrates mainly on the obvious, and by ignoring outliers he is left with a canon too thin to fill a summer vacation. The books are triumphs first, literature second.
That's one way to tell the story, and it's not an unreasonable one. But it leaves the implication that gay writers mattered because of their enemies more than their verse or prose. After "Angels in America," which was as magnificent as the plague was disastrous, the story has nowhere to go; even Michael Cunningham's Pulitzer Prize for "The Hours" doesn't strike a blow for freedom because there's no one to strike it against. To Bram, it's just a gloss to Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway," which doesn't move him because "I had unlocked 'Mrs. Dalloway' for myself and did not need a substitute."
Gay writers and their work are much messier than the story told here, and more interesting for it. "Eminent Outlaws" deserves a prominent place in the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop. But alas, the store closed in 2009 — once vitally necessary, now made obsolete by its own success.


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Masala Egg Bhurji
I don't like eggs - in any form, but S absolutely loves it. Never tried anything new with eggs, but the usual recipes like omelet/scrambled egg, bhurji seem to be delicious enough for a really quick breakfast. My previous team mates at work were all North Indians and they used praise the
combination of masala egg bhurji wih chapathi. :)
Masala Egg Bhurji
Serves - 2
Spice Level - Moderately spicy
Prep time - 10 min
Cook time - 5 min
Eggs - 2
Onion - 1 small, chopped finely
Coriander Leaves - half a handful, chopped well
Green chilli - 1 , chopped finely
Cumin powder - 1 tsp
Pepper Powder - 1 tsp
Turmeric powder - a pinch
Salt - as per taste.
Oil - 1 Tbsp
Beat the eggs well in a bowl. Add in the rest of the ingredients and give it a quick mix.Heat oil in a small pan. Add the prepared egg mix. After a few seconds, using a ladle stir it off. It will look messy at this stage. Keep stirring every few seconds, until you get a dry mixture like in the pic above. Take off the heat when you think its done as per your need.
You can also make an omelet with the prepared egg-mix if you prefer to have it that way. Try eating this with chapathis, toasted bread - I hear its super delicious especially with chapathi.
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I received word that my proposal for this year's AAR has been accepted. Here's what I've proposed (it may sound vaguely familiar):
Cinema and Subjectivity: On the Possibility of Theological Films
The relationship between theology and film is often characterised by the use of film to illustrate theological concepts or present Biblical narratives. In this paper I argue that only by redefining this relationship is it possible for film to function appropriately in relation to theology. It is only in the context of the process of such a redefinition that film can be used to teach theology. In the process of this argument, I will also review the importance of recent continental philosophy for understanding cinema as a distinct discipline.
This argument will proceed through fourth stages. First, I will briefly present examples of films typically regarded as theological. These may be separated into two categories: 1) films which are explicit in their attempt to be theological, such as The Passion of the Christ; and 2) films which explore theological themes (i.e., sacrifice, redemption), such as 300. Having divided 'theological' films into these two categories, it is possible to demonstrate how nearly any film can be regarded as theological.
In the second stage, I will argue that this categorisation demonstrates an inadequate understanding of the relationship between film and theology. Using the work of Alain Badiou, Peter Greenaway, and John Mullarkey I will begin to redefine what it means to call a film 'theological.' Greenaway argues that the first century of cinema has largely been confined to a process of illustrating texts. Film, as a medium, is often constrained by enduring connections to nineteenth century literature. In Badiou's terminology, film remains part of a statist configuration. Badiou also offers a way of reconceiving the role of film. He describes art as one of four truth procedures. Truth procedures, within his model, are modes of subjectivisation. I will argue that the key to film operating as a truth procedure, and hence operating theologically, is the examination of film as a medium.
The theoretical impetus for this redefinition stems from an important recent work by John Mullarkey entitled Refractions of Reality. In his book, Mullarkey argues that film must be understood as non-philosophy. In other words film cannot be reduced to cinematic explorations of philosophical concepts; film is its own thought. Similarly, I would posit that film cannot be understood as theology, but only as non-theology. To use a more theologically familiar bifurcation, it might be said that theological films are idolatrous; non-theological films are iconic.
To explain this difference, it will be necessary to examine cinematic subjectivisation. In this third stage I will argue that as film engages itself as a medium it embraces its capacity to subjectivise the viewer. This process of subjectivisation is the site of films non-theological potential. As Greenaway's films explode film from within, the viewer is presented the opportunity of subjectivisation; he or she is granted agency as a viewer who has been promoted to participant. This promotion opens the possibility of creative responses to cinematic experiences instead of being trapped within predetermined statist responses. This stage thus provides the point of conjunction of the paper's three major resources: Mullarkey demonstrates that film must be understood as non-philosophy, Badiou provides a schema that allows non-philosophy to be considered in relation to subjectivisation, and Greenaway reveals how this process of subjectivisation is dependent on film's examination of itself as a medium.
In the fourth and final stage, I will consider the importance of this reconfiguraiton for thinking the role of film in teaching theology. Books and courses on theology and film have become as numerous as those on philosophy and film. Yet in both instances film tends to be consigned to illustrating concepts. In order to demonstrate how film might function non-theologically in the classroom, I will briefly examine Alain Resnais' L'Année dernière à Marienbad. To show this non-theological operation, I will explain how the film challenges the four tyrannies that Greenaway argues threaten cinema as a medium: 1) the tyranny of the text; 2) the tyranny of the frame; 3) the tyranny of the actor; and 4) the tyranny of the camera. I will show the dismantling of these tyrannies through a variety of cinematic techniques enable a film to function in a non-theological fashion. This dismantling might be summarised in the film's four refusals: 1) the refusal of plot; 2) the refusal of point of view; 3) the refusal of chronology; and 4) the refusal of naturalism. These refusals do not correspond to specific theological doctrine, but engage in the practice of non-theology.
This paper hopes to not only to relate recent advancements in film theory, but to indicate the continuing need for theology to have an aesthetic theory that is not subordinated to doctrine. This argument challenges recent attempts within some North American Christian communities to develop an alternative Christian film industry. In contrasting these developments with the efforts of directors such as Greenaway and Resnais, I will show how non-theological work has been underway and deserves the attention and respect of the theological community.


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By creating a thermal barrier, ThermoWall keeps heat in during winter and the heat out during summer creating a comfortable, healthy and energy efficient environment.
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This reduces air penetration into the home, particularly on older structures without building paper, through gaps in the wall linings and external cladding. This air infiltration is a large portion of the building heat loss.
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(Capcom's primary storyline)
The island culture (tentative) was an archaeological culture which existed on a Spanish island.
Cultural practices
The islanders are known to have practiced cave art. This can be seen in a cave at Wharf B, where paintings of executions were made in a special room dedicated to it. The islanders also at some point practiced mosaic artwork. This can be seen in the Ruins. The symbol of Los Iluminados above the cave paintings suggests the religion itself is very old and was involved in this ancient culture.
This culture also saw certain animals as sacred. Black panthers; snakes and eagles were all important to their culture in some way.
A large archaeological site was present on the island until it was destroyed by Jack Krauser in 2004. It consisted of a number of buildings, with a multi-level fortress separated from the other buildings by a trench. Iron bars were by then inserted into the fortress windows. The Los Iluminados cult had also built a door to one of their facilities just against the ruins.


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Cataplexy is a brain disorder that causes a sudden and temporary loss of muscle tone and control. (1) The episodes (or "cataplectic attacks") in most cases are triggered by strong or extreme emotions, including anger, stress, anxiety, fear, a depressed mood, joy, and laughter.
The vast majority of people who experience cataplexy do so as a result of having type 1 narcolepsy, a chronic sleep and neurological disorder in which the brain has trouble properly controlling wake and sleep cycles. In very rare cases, cataplexy has been reported in individuals without narcolepsy. (2)
Living with cataplexy — whether you have narcolepsy or not — is a challenging condition. That's because you cannot always control your emotions or emotional response, so cataplectic attacks can occur randomly. For some it means being constantly vigilant about how to avoid losing control of their bodies. (3,4,5)
Here are some important things to know about why cataplexy happens, its connection to narcolepsy, and how to manage the potentially debilitating symptom.
Cataplexy — episodes of uncontrollable muscle weakness — typically last a few seconds to a few minutes, and can happen as infrequently as a few times a year or as often as a few times a day. They are typically caused by a strong feeling of sadness, excitement, joy, or other emotion, and can cause someone's knees to buckle, their head to bob, or cause them to fall down if they are standing and lose control of their leg muscles, explains Shelley Hershner, MD, assistant professor of neurology and director of the Collegiate Sleep Clinic at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, who has worked on the narcolepsy quality metrics for the American Academy of Sleep Medicine.
Cataplexy is often misdiagnosed as a seizure disorder; but unlike fainting or seizure disorders, people who experience cataplexy are awake and aware of what's happening — though some may fall asleep after the episode ends. (6)
People who have cataplexy must constantly be on guard to avoid injury. When an episode of cataplexy strikes, an individual may slump, lose his or her grip on something, or fall down. "Some people may avoid swimming, climbing a ladder, or taking a bath," says Dr. Hershner.
Cataplexy can cause muscle weakness in any part of the body, though cataplexy commonly affects the limbs (hands may drop whatever they're holding, knees may buckle, legs may collapse) and face (eyelids may droop, jaw may go slack and speech become slurred, the head may nod). The attacks can range from mild, such as a slight drooping of the eyelids, to severe, such as a total body collapse.
The vast majority of cases of cataplexy occur because an individual has type 1 narcolepsy. People with this type of narcolepsy have abnormally low levels of a sleep-wake regulating brain hormone called hypocretin. This error can causes rapid eye movement (REM) sleep to happen at the wrong time. (7)
Most people who are diagnosed with narcolepsy do have cataplexy, too. In some cases, type 2 narcolepsy — the one without cataplexy, which has milder symptoms — may develop into narcolepsy with cataplexy, says Eric Olson, MD, an associate professor of medicine and sleep medicine specialist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and a board member of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. (8)
Understanding REM sleep — specifically, the way that sleep cycles are disrupted in people with narcolepsy — may help us gain insight into why cataplexy happens in people with narcolepsy. In normal sleep cycles, people go through three stages of non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep before entering the REM phase. Each cycle takes about 60 to 90 minutes before repeating throughout the night. But these cycles malfunction in people with narcolepsy. They may enter REM sleep right away when they fall asleep, and then wake up, bypassing the NREM stage; this can occur both during the night as well as the day, blurring the lines between wakefulness and sleep. (9,10)
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Another important point: The REM stage of sleep is when dreaming occurs, and when our bodies become paralyzed — a mechanism that is thought to prevents us from acting out our dreams and harming ourselves. In people with narcolepsy, this sleep paralysis associated with REM sleep happens at the wrong time, too, which is why sleep paralysis and vivid hallucinations while falling asleep or waking up can also occur. (11)
Cataplexy episodes resemble that loss of muscle control that naturally happens during REM sleep — but occur when someone is awake rather than during sleep.
Research published in September 2012 in the Journal of Neuroscience suggested that in healthy individuals, positive emotions may lead to muscle weakness (feeling weak with laughter, for instance), but that the brain chemical hypocretin (the one absent in people with narcolepsy) prevents that loss of muscle tone from being anything more than a brief event. (12)
This may help explain why, in people who have narcolepsy with cataplexy, that response is more extreme. More research needs to be done to better understand why and how strong emotions trigger this response to begin with, but recent and continuing discoveries into the role of hypocretin in narcolepsy are significant.
Without proper diagnosis and treatment of narcolepsy, symptoms such as cataplexy can be dangerous and "life-restricting," notes Dr. Olson. "Someone may stop competing to avoid winning something, or avoid laughing, or even engaging in intercourse," says Olson.
In short, people affected by cataplexy may learn to modify their behavior and activities to minimize their risk of bringing on an episode, and many end up avoiding situations that may cause cataplexy. These adjustments can be consequential and vastly affect quality of life, such as if someone skips social situations with friends, or avoids driving.
There are drugs that have been shown to be effective in treating cataplexy. There is some evidence that tricyclic antidepressants, such as clomipramine, imipramine, and desipramine, and serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) may be helpful for cataplexy, as well as other narcolepsy symptoms. (13) Sodium oxybate (also known as gamma hydrobutate, or GHB, the so-called "date-rape" drug) has also been shown to be effective in treating severe daytime sleepiness as well as cataplexy attacks. (14)
If an individual has very rare episodes of cataplexy, intervention may be unnecessary. But people who experience frequent attacks (or ones that greatly disturb their lives) should discuss medication options with their doctor and consider the potential benefits, as well as possible side effects. For people with severe cataplexy, being able to take medication that can help control attacks may significantly improve social interaction, safety, and overall quality of life.


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EA suggesting fixes that don't seem to solve the issue
Numerous PC players who've picked up FIFA 15 are reporting they're experiencing a major bug that breaks the game.
Only one day after the game released in North America, a number of players on the EA support forums are highlighting the problem. Those affected are getting no sound when a match starts followed by all the players in the match running to the halfway line.
Suggestions of fixes from EA include using the 'repair game' option in Origin, trying to disable Origin when playing and using keyboard and mouse to play the game, although said fixes so far don't seem to have provided a solution.
It has also been suggested that the mass congregation of players in the centre circle could be the result of anti-piracy measures, in a similar fashion to the pixelation glitch in The Sims 4. Players reporting the issue on the forums are however adamant they have bought the game legitimately through Origin.
FIFA 15 is rolling out across Europe tomorrow and the UK on Friday on PC, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Wii, 3DS and Vita, no bugs of a similar nature have been reported as yet on platforms other than PC.
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Neurosis and Behavioral Therapy – The Consequences of Depression
Neurosis is the beginning of the destruction of the human side of your conscience. In other words, it is the beginning of the invasion of the anti-conscience, your primitive side, into your human conscience.
The scientific method of dream interpretation gives you a very clear vision of your psychological condition, since all dream images are immediately translated into words that make sense to your conscience.
Neurosis is a serious mental illness, but it can be easily cured through dream interpretation. Depression can be easily cured the same way, and it must be cured immediately. Otherwise, it can become neurosis.
All distortions of human behavior are mainly the consequences of depression.
When you are depressed you accept any solution, because you desperately want to get out of this unbearable condition. This is the perfect opportunity for your wild side to mislead you by suggesting various absurd solutions that you don't criticize.
You cannot imagine that all the ideas that start appearing in your mind are not the product of your own thoughts. However, they are imposed by the anti-conscience. The wild anti-conscience can read your thoughts and interfere in them, while you cannot imagine that your conscience was invaded by a primitive absurd rationalism.
Even though the futile mindset of our civilization doesn't consider them as the result of mental illnesses, among common behavioral abnormalities that are the consequences of depression and neurosis, we can mention:
- Self-Abuse
- Homosexuality (in men and women)
- Suicidal Tendencies
The behavioral therapy for these abnormalities through dream interpretation according to the scientific method is not as simple as the cure for depression and neurosis, because in many cases, the neurosis has already become psychosis.
However, the cure for self-abuse, homosexuality and suicidal tendencies through dream interpretation is as possible as the cure of psychosis and schizophrenia.
While depressed and neurotic patients are cured in only a few months of psychotherapy, the cure of psychosis and schizophrenia requires a significant amount of time. However, the scientific method of dream interpretation helps everyone find peace and mental health, even in the worst cases. All mental illnesses and behavioral abnormalities can be cured thanks to the unconscious wisdom.
Dream interpretation also helps everyone prevent all mental illnesses. This means that it must be taught in all schools so that we may eliminate the roots of absurdity from the human race and finally find peace.
This way we will put an end to terrorism, hate, wars, poverty, immorality, indifference, futility, hypocrisy, and all the horrors that characterize our civilization.
The scientific method of dream interpretation is the result of the arduous research of the psychiatrist Carl Jung, who discovered the meaning of dreams and the psychotherapy provided by the unconscious mind that produces them.
It is also the result of my arduous research continuing his where he left off. I discovered that the unconscious mind is even wiser than what he had believed. I also discovered that all the absurdity expressed by humans comes from the anti-conscience; the primitive and wild side of the human conscience that didn't evolve like the human side of our conscience.
I obeyed the unconscious mind, recognizing its sanctity. As a psychiatrist Carl Jung could not have the indispensable religious attitude I had, and this is why he considered the unconscious mind only as a good counselor for the human conscience.
The truth is that the unconscious mind is the best psychiatrist we could ever find, and also the voice of divine providence.
Everyone must precisely follow the unconscious guidance in their dreams, so that they may prevent or be completely cured from depression, neurosis, and other mental illnesses. Then live happily forever.
Christina Sponias continued Carl Jung's research into the human psyche, discovering the cure for all mental illnesses, and simplifying the scientific method of dream interpretation that teaches you how to exactly translate the meaning of your dreams, so that you can find health, wisdom and happiness.
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One of the comments I hear the most when I talk about made to measure lingerie is that "it's all soft cup bras and panties". These kinds of comments always make me sad, because the made to measure and independent lingerie world is pretty huge these days. Independent designers are catering to a wide range of tastes and sizes now, and many are branching out or adding new spins to traditional pieces.
There are literally thousands of options to choose from, especially once you start looking online. If you're into causes, there is locally made or eco-friendly lingerie. If you're into traditional lace, linen, bondage style lingerie, latex, silk, satin, chiffon, beaded, or fringed lingerie it's all out there. I obviously can't cover everything today, so here are a few of my favorites.
Dottie's Delights is literally making the old new again. Her new Garden Party Girdle Skirt repurposes vintage deadstock satin and splices it into an entirely new piece. It's retro with a whole new look.
If vintage isn't your thing, there's always lace. Sonata is taking the lace lingerie tradition in a whole new direction with their sheer and colorful bodysuits. They're marketed as bedroom pieces, but my favorite way to wear mine is with a matching tank under it and a pencil skirt. These bodysuits can be made to order to anyone's measurements, and look great on everyone.
Ayten Gasson is one of the few lingerie businesses making everything in the UK, and her stuff is absolutely gorgeous. Her bras don't work for me (although I've heard rave reviews of them from lots of people), but I'm a huge fan of her bed jackets and panties. I throw them over tons of shirts and skirts, and I always get compliments on them.
I've only touched on a few designers today, but there's a treasure trove of incredibly creative and gorgeous lingerie out there in all categories. You can find everything from latex lingerie to traditional bridal sets now and have them all made to order in your size.
Like what you see from Ayten Gasson? Check back on Friday for our giveaway!


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This is Murphy.
Murphy is my aunt's partner's dog. He's a little canine gentleman through and through–charming and well-mannered, without the intense neediness most dogs his size seem to have. As my aunt says, "He's a good little Irish boy." But Murphy has one odd, very un-Irish weakness.
I highly doubt I will ever love anything as much as this dog loves matzo. Where other dogs will do tricks for doggy treats, Murphy will do tricks for matzo. If he sees a matzo box, he'll start showing off even before he's asked, because he knows there is salty crunchy goodness in his immediate future.
But whereas Murphy can't get enough matzo, some of us humans–especially those who have to live on it for a week every spring–aren't so enamored. So, here is a very un-Murphy-safe way to make matzo irresistible: by smothering it in toffee and then smothering the toffee in chocolate.


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Valentine's Day symbolizes love and we, at GemstoneUniverse experienced it well this year. Our fans poured their love generously for GemstoneUniverse& their life partners on our social media platforms.
GemstoneUniverse always endeavors to spread love amongst itscommunity along with bringing substantial changes for good.Keeping these long-term goals in mind, we rolled out a 14-day #LoveGemstoneUniverse Campaign on Facebook and Twitter. We gave our fans an opportunity to express their affection for their loved ones in ways never thought of before. This was an opportunity to refresh their relationships once again with an additional advantage of winning something as great as a customized Natural Upratna Ring/Pendant!
The whole idea of the campaign revolved around LOVE, where we asked our fans and followers to participate and share their lovely memories in the form of text, pictures, videos, and sketches. The response was truly awe-inspiring as our fans liberally showered our Facebook and Twitter pages with their entries.
The brand image that GemstoneUniverse carries is that of a brand that is "real", "genuine", "trust", "caring" and so on. And we try our best to live up to the expectations of our patrons and followers. When the purpose was to spread love, we wanted to keep as less scope for disappointment as possible (though that's not completely possible with such a huge fanbase of around 2,75,000, including both facebook and twitter). Therefore, we decided to announce and reward as many fans as we could. Refer to the list here.
With a Total Reach of more than 9,00,000 Users, the entire campaign engaged more than 1,00,000 users! Both pages were flooded with numerous unique participations for which we cannot Thank You enough.
We Whole-Heartedly acknowledge and thank all the participants for their unconditional love and appreciation throughout our successful journey. We wish to be a bigger family with more loving fans.


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Ray Price "Night Life" – Classic Album Review Ultimate Twang remembers one of country music's greatest albums, this 1963 release.
I'm excited to talk about this Ray Price album. It's a classic, and arguably one of the greatest albums ever made in country music. "Night Life" deserves classic status, boasting twelve powerful performances from a true stylist. Listening to these tracks, the listener is reminded, why Ray is one of … Continue reading


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Howie Mandel headlines 2018 Celebration of Optometry at premier professional meeting
If laughter is the best medicine, doctors of optometry are in for a dose of jocosity during Optometry's Meeting® 2018 June 20-24 in Denver, Colorado.
Howie Mandel-comedian, actor, producer and author-will perform at the Celebration of Optometry, sponsored by Hoya Vision Care, on June 23, the closing night of Optometry's Meeting, in the Colorado Convention Center. Mandel may be best known these days as a celebrity judge on the hit talent competition series, "America's Got Talent," on NBC.
"Howie Mandel—comedian, actor, producer and author—will perform at Celebration of Optometry June 23, the closing night of Optometry's Meeting, in the Colorado Convention Center."
But his entertainment resume is long and versatile.
In show business for 30 years, Mandel has been the executive producer of several shows including "Take It All," "Howie Do It," "Deal With It" and "Mobbed." He previously received an Emmy nomination for "outstanding host for a reality or reality-competition program" for the game show "Deal or No Deal" and a Daytime Emmy nomination for outstanding game show host for its syndicated version.
Mandel starred six seasons on the Emmy-Award winning "St. Elsewhere" as Dr. Wayne Fiscus. His Emmy-nominated animated children's series "Bobby's World," ran eight seasons and now appears in syndication in 65 countries. As the series' creator and executive producer, Mandel was involved in its writing and provided the voice of Bobby, Bobby's dad and other characters.
A frequent guest on talk shows, he performs as many as 200 comedic concerts a year. His career start in comedy. He got his big break one night in Los Angeles when he took the stage on amateur night at the legendary Comedy Store. Fortunately, a producer in the crowd immediately hired him for an appearance in a comedy-game show called "Make Me Laugh."
Also, an author, Mandel released in 2009 his honest, humorous memoir, "Here's the Deal: Don't Touch Me," about his continuing struggles with obsessive compulsive disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. The former talk show host performs as many as 200 comedy concerts a year.
Planning is underway for Optometry's Meeting 2018. Book your room at the official conference hotel now. Registration will open soon.


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Katharine Hepburn is about to be remarried. Her first husband, Cary Grant, turns up the day before the wedding, bringing along reporters James Stewart and Ruth Hussey. Directed by George Cukor.
Can there be a more perfect film? Let's see - Casablanca, The Godfather, Days of Heaven, Paris Texas... well, I guess there can! But still... It's a pretty much flawless film. There was a moment in time when these people got in front of the camera, 70 years ago actually, it's on film, and we get to watch it in our livingrooms, today or five years from now. The actors, the script and the direction, everything came together for this little masterpiece. Even the girl playing the little sister is good, she's not as annoying as kid actors often can be. Stewart is especially funny in the scenes where he's drunk. It's he who has the most showy part of the male actors; Grant, bless him, doesn't try to steal the spot light, but rather delivers a low key but very appealing performance.
In the beginning of the film Hepburn has no tolerance for human weakness; she is referred to as a goddess to be admired, not a real human being. During the film she learns a lesson, not to put herself or others on a pedestal. It's a bit ironic that that's exactly what has happened with these actors - they have become immortal gods and goddesses. I think it's a bit too easy to have this nostalgic awe for the past and say, Ah, they don't make movies like this anymore. Well, mostly they don't, but I think, say, Cate Blanchett, Brad Pitt and George Clooney could have done the job just as well. I'm not talking about a remake, but if it had been an original film made today. And I don't really see any reason why the script couldn't have been written now. Teenagers would be bored out of their skulls watching this film, of course, sending text messages during most of it, but fuck them anyway.


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Actor Willem Dafoe speaks during a press conference at the 15th Pusan International Film Festival in Busan, South Korea in 2010.
A mesmerizing figure on stage and screen, known for experimental stage works, independent films and the occasional blockbuster, Dafoe was earned three Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actor, most recently for the 2017 drama "The Florida Project."
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In "The Florida Project," Dafoe plays Bobby, the manager of a motel on the seedy outskirts of Orlando, that is home to struggling families always on the edge. "I'm kind of, in the movie, connective tissue," Dafoe laughed. "I'm always going around putting out fires, because all these people have pretty challenging lives, and there's lots of problems at this budget motel, and I've gotta sort things out."
Because director and co-writer Sean Baker made the film on a minuscule budget, it wasn't money that attracted Dafoe to the project: "The fact that basically he was making it, you know, with a mixed cast of professional and new performers and children and non-performers filming in an actual place, telling a story that's not usually told, of an underclass, of a world I didn't really know," Dafoe said.
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CBS News' Martha Teichner with actor Willem Dafoe in Tompkins Square Park, on Manhattan's Lower East Side.
"I'm very high-minded about what I do," he said. "I'm very serious about what I do. And it can be very important. When I was a young actor, you know, everybody used to always say, 'Ah, you know, it's not brain surgery.' Well, it is a little bit. Because you can change how people think. You can change how you think by performing."
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An undated head shot of Willem Dafoe.
The son of a surgeon and a nurse, William Dafoe, hailing from Appleton, Wis., was the second youngest of eight children. "Willem" was a nickname that stuck.
He performed in college production at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. And at age 22 he came to New York City ("Mecca," he called it) and found himself living in the East Village, where he began working with The Wooster Group, an experimental theater company at its most experimental.
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Willem Dafoe in the Wooster Group's "Point Judith (an epilog)" (1979), produced at The Envelope in New York City.
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Willem Dafoe, Spalding Gray, Matthew Hansell and Ron Vawter in the Wooster Group's "Point Judith (an epilog)" (1979), produced at The Envelope in New York City.
Willem Dafoe and Michael Rivkin in the Wooster Group's "Point Judith (an epilog)" (1979), produced at The Envelope in New York City.
"It was a new kind of work," he said of Wooster. "It wasn't a commercial work; it was a work that was personal and it was a work that pushed forms."
Twenty-seven years with the company taught Dafoe a very physical kind of acting. "I have a lot of faith in the wisdom of the body," he said. "I feel like the body doesn't lie."
After being cut from Michael Cimino's "Heaven's Gate," and having small roles in films (including "The Hunger"), Dafoe made big impressions as criminals in "Streets of Fire" and William Friedkin's "To Live and Die in L.A." (left), in which he played a counterfeiter.
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Willem Dafoe as Sgt. Elias in Oliver Stone's Oscar-winning Vietnam War film, "Platoon" (1986). Dafoe received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
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Willem Dafoe is an FBI agent investigating the disappearance of three civil rights advocates in the segregated South, in the 1988 drama "Mississippi Burning."
Willem Dafoe as Jesus in Martin Scorsese's "The Last Temptation of Christ" (1988), based on Nikos Kazantzakis' novel. The film was a powerful examination of morality, political agency and spirituality, as Christ questions his own divinity and is forced, by Satan, to make a terrible choice.
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Willem Dafoe as Jesus being visited by a spirit in the desert in "The Last Temptation of Christ," adapted from Nikos Kazantzakis' novel about Christ as a revolutionary against Roman rule, and, more intrinsically, the duality of Jesus' nature as both man and divine spirit.
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Anna Kohler (on video) and Willem Dafoe in the Wooster Group's "Brace Up!" (1989-1991), adapted from Chekhov's "Three Sisters."
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Willem Dafoe and Tom Cruise as disabled Vietnam veterans in Oliver Stone's "Born on the Fourth of July" (1989).
Willem Dafoe as Bobby Peru in David Lynch's "Wild at Heart" (1990).
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Willem Dafoe (pictured with Harrison Ford) as a black-ops officer in the Tom Clancy thriller "Clear and Present Danger" (1994).
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Willem Dafoe and Jeffrey Wright in the biopic "Basquiat" (1996), Julian Schnabel's biopic of the post-modern artist.
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Willem Dafoe as an intelligence officer in the wartime drama "The English Patient" (1996).
Willem Dafoe in the Wooster Group's 1997 production of Eugene O'Neill's "The Hairy Ape," at the Selwyn Theatre in New York City.
Willem Dafoe earned his second Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as silent film star Max Schreck, whose portrayal of a vampire in the F.W. Murnau classic "Nosferatu" turns out to be more realistic than expected, in "Shadow of the Vampire" (2000).
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Willem Dafoe as Green Goblin in "Spider-Man" (2002), one of the more colorful villainous characters he has portrayed.
"A lot of the villains I play with a lot of love and a lot of pleasure," he told Martha Teichner. "And you also play them as heroes, you know? You don't judge them."
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Willem Dafoe voiced the character of Gill, a moorish idol fish, who plots an escape from a dentist's office fish tank in "Finding Nemo."
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Waris Ahluwalia, Michael Gambon, Anjelica Huston, Noah Taylor, Bud Cort, Bill Murray, Matthew Gray Gubler, Seu Jorge, Jeff Goldblum, Cate Blanchett and Willem Dafoe in Wes Anderson's "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou" (2004).
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Willem Dafoe in Lars von Trier's "Manderlay" (2005).
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Denzel Washington, Willem Dafoe and Chiwetel Ejiofor in the 2006 crime thriller "Inside Man," directed by Spike Lee.
Willem Dafoe is an auteur who discovers the premiere of his latest work at the Cannes Film Festival has been upset by the bumbling antics of Rowan Atkinson's Mr. Bean, in the 2007 comedy "Mr. Bean's Holiday."
Charlotte Gainsbourg and Willem Dafoe are a couple who struggle to overcome the death of their child in Lars von Trier's "Antichrist" (2009).
Willem Dafoe and Alenka Kraigher in Richard Foreman's "The Idiot Savant," produced at New York's Public Theater in 2009.
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Chloë Sevigny and Willem Dafoe in the mystery "My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?" (2009), directed by Werner Herzog and produced by David Lynch.
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Actor Willem Dafoe with his wife Giada Colagrande are seen on the red carpet at the 69th Venice Film Festival on September 1, 2012 in Venice, Italy.
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Woody Harrelson and Willem Dafoe in the thriller "Out of the Furnace" (2013).
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Willem Dafoe plays a European banker whose money-laundered funds might fall into the hands of political refugee Grigoriy Dobrygin in "A Most Wanted Man" (2014), based on the John le Carré thriller.
Actors Willem Dafoe, Rachel McAdams and Philip Seymour Hoffman, stars of "A Most Wanted Man," pose during the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, January 19, 2014 in Park City, Utah.
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Willem Dafoe and Adrien Brody were among the villains and cads of Wes Anderson's "The Grand Budapest Hotel" (2014).
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Willem Dafoe as the Italian filmmaker, author and intellectual Pier Paolo Pasolini, in director Abel Ferrara's meditation on his life and art, "Pasolini" (2014).
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Actor Willem Dafoe attends the premiere of "Pasolini" during the 52nd New York Film Festival at Alice Tully Hall on October 2, 2014 in New York City.
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Actor Willem Dafoe portrays Marilyn Monroe in a Snickers ad, which aired during the 2016 Super Bowl.
Nicolas Cage and Willem Dafoe star in director Paul Schrader's crime comedy, "Dog Eat Dog" (2016).
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Dafoe as the motel manager in "The Florida Project." His understated performance has earned him his third Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor.


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This tweet here by @BlueMarTen makes one wonder what they are even worrying about when the universe itself is so full of life and death.
Personally, I think its human nature to worry! I could be wrong – but even at a young age we begin the process of worry. We worry if we are going to do well… We worry if we are going to fail… We worry about a future we have very little control over… We worry about life and death. So why worry?
Think about it like this… whether you worry or not something is going to happen! Did you prepare to the best of your ability? Did you seek help when you really should have? Did you try your best? Well… then let it happen. No need to allow yourself to get sick and stressed over something that we as drops in the pond compared to the universe can do to change much more.
Take a step back, Take a deep slow breath…. let it go. Now, face what comes with the courage our human ancestors had to face the unknown world – and Succeed!