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Andrea Dworkin made this famous speech in 1983.
"I have thought a great deal about how a feminist, like myself, addresses an audience primarily of political men who say that they are anti-sexist. And I thought a lot about whether there should be a qualitative difference in the kind of speech I address to you. And then I found myself incapable of pretending that the qualitative difference exists. I have watched the men's movement for many years. I am close with some of the people who participate in it. I can't come here as a friend even though I might very much like to. What I would like to do is to scream, and in that scream, I would have the screams of the raped, and the sobs of the battered, and even worse, in the centre of that scream I would have the deafening sound of women's silence, that silence into which we are born because we are women and in which most of us die.
…. Why are you so slow to understand the simplest things not the complicated ideological things. You understand those. The simple things. The clichés. Simply that women are human to precisely the degree and quality that you are.
And also that we do not have time. We women. We don't have forever. Some of us don't have another week or another day to take time for you to discuss whatever it is that will enable you to go out into those streets and do something. We are very close to death. All women are. And we are very close to rape and we are very close to beating. And we are inside a system of humiliation from which there is no escape for us. We use statistics not to try to quantify the injuries, but to convince the world that those injuries even exist. Those statistics are not abstractions…. But I hear about the rapes one by one by one by one, which is also how they happen. Those statistics are not abstract to me. Every 3 minutes a woman is being raped. Every 18 seconds a woman is being beaten. There is nothing abstract about that. It is happening right now as I am speaking.
And it is happening for a simple reason. There is nothing complex and difficult about the reason. Men are doing it, because of the kind of power that men have over women. That power is real, concrete, exercised from body to another body, exercised by someone who feels he ha a right to exercised in public and exercised in private. It is the sum and substance of women's oppression.
It is not done 3000 miles away or 3000 miles away. It is done here and it is done now and it is done by the people in this room as well as by other contemporaries, our friends, our neighbours, people that we know. women don't have to go to school to learn about power. We just have to be women, walking down the street or trying to get the housework done after having given one's body in marriage and then having no rights over it.
The power exercised by men day by day in life is power that is institutionalised. It is protected by law. It is protected by religion and religious practice. It is protected by universities, which are strongholds of male supremacy. It is protected by a police force…. Against that power, we have silence.
It is an extraordinary thing to try to understand and confront why is it that men believe – and men do believe – that they have the right to rape. Men may not believe it when asked. Everybody raise your hand who believes you have the right to rape. Not too many hands will go up. It's in life that men believe they have the right to force sex, which they don't call rape. And it is an extraordinary thing to try to understand that men really do believe that they have the right to hit and to hurt. And it is an extraordinary thing to try to understand that men really believe that they have the right to buy a woman's body for the purpose of having sex: that is a right. And it is very amazing to try to understand that men believe that the 7-billion-dollar-a-year industry that provides men with cunts is something that men have a right to.
That is the way the power of men is manifest in real life. That is what the theory about male supremacy means. It means you can rape. It means you can hit. It means you can hurt. It means you can buy and sell women. It means that there is a class of people there to provide you with what you need. You stay richer than they are, so that they have to sell you sex. Not just on street corners, but in the workplace. That's another right that you can presume to have sexual access to any woman in your environment, when you want.
Now, the men's movement suggests that men don't want the kind of power I have just described. I've actually heard explicit whole sentences to that effect. And yet, everything is a reason not to do something about changing the fact that you do have that power.
Hiding behind guilt, that's my favourite. I love that one. Oh, it's so horrible, yes, and I'm so sorry. You have the time to feel guilty. We don't have the time for you to feel guilty. Your guilt is a form of acquiescence in what continues to occur. Your guilt helps keep things the way they are.
I have heard in the last several years a great deal about the suffering of men over sexism. Of course, I have heard a great deal about the suffering of men all my life…. I am an educated woman. I know that men suffer. This is a new wrinkle. Implicit in the idea that this is a different kind of suffering is the claim. I think, that in part you are actually suffering because of something that you know happens to someone else. That would be new.
But mostly your guilt, your suffering, reduces to gee, we really feel so bad. Everything makes men feel so bad, what you do, what you don't do, what you want to do, what you don't want to do but are going to do anyway. I think most of your distress is gee, we really feel so bad. And I'm sorry that you feel so bad – so uselessly and stupidly bad – because there is a way in which this really is a tragedy. And i don't mean because you can't cry. And i don't mean because there is no real intimacy in your lives. And I don't mean the armour that you have to live with as men is stultifying: and I don't doubt that it is. But I don't mean any of that.
I mean that there is a relationship between the way that women are raped and your socialisation to rape and the war machine that grinds you up and spits you out: the war machine that you go through just like women went through Larry Flynt's meat grinder on the cover of "Hustler". You damn well better believe that you're involved in this tragedy and that it's your tragedy too. Because you're turned into little soldier boys from the day that you are born and everything that you learn about how to avoid the humanity of women becomes part of the militarism of the country in which you live and the world in which you live. It is also part of the country that you frequently claim to protest.
And the problem is that you think it's out there: and it's not out there. It's in you. The pimps and the warmongers speak for you. Rape and war are not so different. And what the pimps and the warmongers do is that they make you so proud of being men who can get it up and give it hard. And they take that accelerated sexuality and they put you into uniforms and send you out to kill and to die. Now, I am not going to suggest to you that I think that's more important than what you do to women, because I don't.
But I do think if you want to look at what this system does to you, then that is where you should start looking : the sexual politics of aggression, the sexual politics of militarism. That is something that you sometimes try to address in your small groups, as if you changed your attitudes towards each other, you wouldn't be afraid of each other.
…. I think that you rightly perceive – without being willing to face it politically – that men are highly dangerous: because you are.
The solution of the men's movement to make men less dangerous to each other by changing the way you touch and feel each other is not a solution. It's a recreational break.
These conferences are also concerned with homophobia. Homophobia is highly important: it is very important to the way male supremacy works. In my opinion, the prohibitions against male homosexuality exist in order to protect male power. Do it to her. That is to say: as long as men rape, it is very important that men be directed to rape women. As long as sex is full of hostility and expresses both power over and contempt for the other person, it is very important that men not to be declassed, stigmatised as female, used similarly. The power of men as a class depends on keeping men sexually inviolate and women sexually used by men. Homophobia helps maintain that class power: it also helps keep you as individuals safe from each other, safe from rape. If you want to do something about homophobia, you are going to have to do something about the fact that men rape, and forced sex is not incidental to male sexuality but is in practice paradigmatic.
If you are afraid of the ascendancy of fascism in this country – and you would be very foolish not to be right now – then you better understand that the root issue here has to do with male supremacy and the control of women; sexual access to women; women as reproductive slaves; private ownership of women…. That is the morality they talk about. That is what they mean. that is what they want. And the only opposition to them that matters is an opposition to men owning women.
…. The men's movement seems to stay struck on 2 points. The first is that men don't really feel very good about themselves….
And I say don't tell me. Tell the pornographers. Tell the pimps. Tell the warmongers. Tell the rape apologists and the rape celebrationists and the pro-rape ideologues. Tell the novelists who think that rape is wonderful. Tell Larry Flynt. Tell Hugh Hefner. There's no point in telling me. I'm only a woman. There's nothing I can do about it. These men presume to speak for you. They are in the public arena saying that they represent you. If you don't, then you better let them know.
Then there is a private world of misogyny what you know about each other what you say in private life; the exploitation that you see in the private sphere; the relationships called love, based on exploitation….
Say it to your friends who are doing it. And there are streets out there on which you can say these things loud and clear, so as to affect the actual institutions that maintain these abuses…. I wish I could believe it's true. I will believe it when I see you on the streets. I will believe it when I see an organised political opposition. I will believe it when pimps go out of business because there are no more male consumers.
You want to organise men. You don't have to search for issues. The issues are part of the fabric of your everyday lives.
I want to talk to you about equality, what equality is and what is means. It isn't just an idea. It's not some insipid word that ends up being bullshit…. That is not the equality we are struggling for. We could change our strategy and say well ok, we want equality; we'll stick something up the ass of a man every 3 minutes.
You're never heard that from the feminist movement because for us equality has real dignity and importance – it's not some dumb word that can be twisted and made to look stupid as if it had no real meaning.
As a way of practising equality, some vague idea about giving up power is useless. Some men have vague thoughts about a future in which men are going to give up power or an individual man is going to give up some kind of privilege that he has. That is not what equality means either.
Equality is a practice. It is an action. It is a way of life. It is a social practice. It is an economic practice. It is a sexual practice. It can't exist in a vacuum. You can't have it in your home if, when the people leave the home, he is in a world of his supremacy based on the existence of his cock and she is in a world of humiliation and degradation because she is perceived to be inferior and because her sexuality is a curse.
This is not to say that the attempt to practice equality in the home doesn't matter. It matters, but it is not enough. If you love equality, if you believe in it, if it is the way you want to live – not just men and women together in a home, but men and men together in a home and women and women together in a home – if equality is what you want and what you care about, then you have to fight for the institutions that will make it socially real.
It is not just a matter of your attitude. You can't think it and make it exist. You can't try sometimes, when it works to your advantage, and throw it out the rest of the time. Equality is a discipline. It is a way of life. It is a political necessary to create equality in institutions. And another thing about equality is that it cannot coexist with rape. It cannot. And it cannot coexist with pornography or with prostitution or with the economic degradation of women on any level, in any way. It cannot coexist, because implicit as all these things is the inferiority of women.
I want to see this men's movement make a commitment to ending rape because that is the only meaningful commitment to equality. It is astonishing that in all our worlds of feminism and antisexism we never talk seriously about ending rape. Ending it. Stopping it. No more. No more rape…. All of our political actions are lies if we don't make a commitment to ending the practice of rape. This commitment has to be political. It has to be serious. It has to be systematic. It has to be public. It can't be self-indulgent.
The things the men's movement has wanted are things worth having. Intimacy is worth having. Tenderness is worth having. Cooperation is worth having. A real emotional life is worth having. But you can't have them in a world with rape. Ending homophobia is worth doing. But you can't do it in a world with rape. Rape stands in the way of each and every one of those things you say you want. And by rape you know what I mean. A judge does not have to walk into this room and say that according to statute such and such these are the elements of proof. We're talking about any kind of coerced sex, including sex coerced by poverty.
You can't have equality or tenderness or intimacy as long as there is rape, because rape means terror. It means that part of the population lives in a state of terror and pretends – to please and pacify you – that it doesn't. So there is no honesty…. I want to see you use those legendary bodies and that legendary strength and that legendary courage and the tenderness that you say have in behalf of women, and that means against the rapists, against the pimps, and against the pornographers. It means something more than a personal remuneration. It means a systematic, political, active, public attack. And there has been very little of that.
I came here today because I don't believe that rape is inevitable or natural. If I did, I would have no reason to be here. If I did, my political practice would be different than it is…. It is not because there's a shortage of kitchen knives in this country. It is because we believe in your humanity, against all the evidence.
We do not want to do the work of helping you to believe in your humanity. We cannot do it any more. We have always tried. We have been repaid with systematic exploitation and systematic abuse. You are going to have to do this yourselves from now on and you know it.
The shame of men in front of women is, I think, an appropriate response both to what men do do and to what men do not do. I think you should be ashamed. But what you do with that shame is to use it as an excuse to keep doing what you want and to keep not doing anything else, and you're got to stop. You've got to stop. Your psychology doesn't matter. How much you hurt doesn't matter in the end any more than how much we hurts matters…. There wouldn't have been.
It is true that we had to talk to each other…. We couldn't read it in the newspapers, not then. We couldn't find a book about it. But you do know and now the question is what you are going to do: and so your shame and your guilt are very much beside the point. They don't matter to us at all, in any way. They're not good enough. They don't do anything.
As a feminist, I carry the rape of all the women I've talked to over the past 10 years personally with me. As a woman, I carry my own rape with me….Well, that is what it is knowing about rape. Piles and piles and piles of bodies that have whole lives and human names and human faces.
And I want 1 day of respite, 1 day-off, 1 day in which no new bodies are piled up, 1 day in which no new agony is added to the old, and I am asking you to give it to me. And how could I ask you for less – it is so little. And how could you offer me less it is so little. Even in wars, these are days of truce. Go and organise a truce. Stop your side for 1 day. I want a 24-hour truce during which there is no rape.
I dare you to try it. I demand you to try it. I don't mind begging you to try it….
And on that day, that day of truce, that day when not 1 woman is raped, we will begin the real practice of equality, because we can't begin before that day. Before that day it means nothing because it is nothing: it is not real: it is not true. But on that day it becomes real. And then, instead of rape we will for the first time in our lives – both men and women – begin to experience freedom.
If you have a conception of freedom that includes the existence of rape, you are wrong. You cannot change what you say you want to change. For myself, I want to experience just 1 day of real freedom before I die. I leave you here to do that for me and for the woman whom you say you love."


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Live Stage Show Podcasting with Julian Clark, Host, After Dark – Spreaker Live Show #50
Spreaker Live Show host and Head of Content Rob Greenlee talks with Hollywood-based "After Dark with Julian Clark" show at The Second City Studio Theater in LA and on the Adore.fm Podcast Network.
Julian Clark joins us to discuss his clip-centric late night experience complete with digital shorts, up-and-coming comedians and celebrity guests from television and film. This is the next-generation take on the late night talk show format, built by LA's underground comedy scene and catering to an internet audience. If you enjoy what you hear, you'll also enjoy what you see.
See video version of the show at: https://youtube.com/AfterDarkComedy
This is in episode 50 from March 16th, 2016.
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Show Guest: Julian Clark performs weekly or monthly at Second City in "After Dark with Julian Clark" Late Night style stage show. He can also be seen performing at UCB LA and iO West. Julian has traveled to comedy festivals around the country, headlining at venues in Chicago, New York, San Francisco and Austin. He recently booked a guest-star role on Spike TV's 'Tattoo Nightmares,' where he played a sailor in one of their sketch comedy reenactments.
Show Guest Topics:
- Give us a brief on your After Dark Show that you host Live on stage at Second City in LA?
- How did you get started doing this show? What is your background? You started on video first, then audio
- How has the response been to having an audio version of your Live show as a Podcast?
- Julian talks about his teams process for creating a video show and an audio podcast
- We also discuss the response young Hollywood actors have to his online only Late Night show
- We discuss Beth Hall from (CBS' Mom and AMC's Mad Men) who guests on the show
- Discuss coming couple of episodes with Matt McGorry (Netflix's Orange Is The New Black and ABC's How To Get Away With Murder), Katherine McNamara (Freeform's Shadowhunters and Maze Runner: Scorch Trials).
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"Becker puts a little more pressure than the others"Hits: 780
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contributed by Thuy Anh Nguyen
Stefan Edberg beaten: 6-4, 3-6, 6-3.
A warm salute between Stefan Edberg and Boris Becker after their 1986 Canadian Open final
West German Boris Becker, ranked third in the world and seeded number two in Toronto, eloquently demonstrated yesterday at the Canadian Tennis Open that his second service bullets can be just as deadly as his first.
Becker won the final against Swede Stefan Edberg in three sets 6-4, 3-6, 6-3, despite playing under humid weather, but sunny sky (45° Celsius). Becker took advantage of a slow start by his opponent and of his own devastating second serves to make a success of his first appearance in a tournament on Canadian soil.
Neither player, perhaps tired for having played a lot during the week, was at top form.
Becker, twice a champion at Wimbledon, pocketed the first prize cheque of $71,400 (US $51,000), losing only one set in four matches.
"Last week at Stretton Mountain, I was only playing the sixth tournament in my life on a cement surface," said Becker. "In Germany we do not have similar courts. I grew up playing on clay. I did not know what to expect."
"But this kind of surface fits me like a glove. I can serve with power and play my style without changing my habits. After two wins on hardcourt - last year in Cincinnati the previous one - I think it's one of the best surfaces."
About his confrontation with Edberg, the winner of Toronto has clearly stated that he had never been face down to his opponent.
"I broke his serve early in the match, said Becker. I know him well. I don't have to give him too many chances. He can play well under pressure. One would not say that he has weaknesses. You have to play with confidence. He had his chances to fight."
Easy win.
Becker, who will be 19 on November 22nd, has placed in 49 percent of his first serves. Edberg, who receives $35,700 as a finalist, won two points of three on his serve in the first set.
"I have not served very well, said Edberg who will play this week in Cincinnati before traveling to the US Open, on August 26th. I missed too many first serves. On the other hand, I was a little tired. When you play against Boris, he puts a little more pressure than most of the other players do."
"There is not much to add, what a great week, a record crowd, beautiful temperatures and I am the winner," simply concluded Becker.
Becker Beats Edberg for Canadian Open Title
from Los Angeles Times
Second-seeded Boris Becker of West Germany proved there's more to his game than a big serve Sunday as he defeated fourth-seeded Stefan Edberg of Sweden, 6-4, 3-6, 6-3, to win the $375,000 Canadian Open tennis tournament at Toronto.
Becker, a two-time champion at Wimbledon, took the winner's check of $51,000 to increase his earnings this year to $485,939. Edberg, the Australian Open champion, received $25,500.
Playing in temperatures up to 115 degrees, neither player was at peak form.
"It was a tough match because it was very hot," Edberg said. "Boris returns very well on second serves, and I was missing too many first serves today. I was a little bit tired, and Boris put more pressure on me than any of the other guys did."
Edberg served excellently all week, making 94% of his first serves against Robert Seguso in the quarterfinals and 90% against Christo Steyn in the semifinals.
But against Becker, Edberg's first-serve percentage dipped to 67%. The West German made 49% of his first serves.
Becker blasted seven aces in the 2-hour match but committed an uncharacteristic six double-faults.
The turning point in the final set came with Becker leading, 2-1, and Edberg serving. Becker smashed two forehand volleys and then tucked a passing shot down the line to break Edberg and go ahead, 3-1.
At 5-3 and 40-15 in the third set and Becker serving two match points, Edberg rallied with two backhand winners from the net to force deuce. Becker slapped a forehand return down the line for advantage. Edberg's forehand crosscourt return was wide, giving Becker the match.
"In the last game… I thought I could come back," the Swede said. "I tried my best, but I just couldn't do it."
The victory boosted Becker's career record against Edberg to 4-2. It was also Becker's third win of the year, the others coming at Wimbledon on grass, and Chicago indoors.
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- Greatest tennis player: Edberg wins 'best backhand' poll
- Stefan in Federer's box at Wimbledon
- Game, set and cash to Edberg
- McEnroe: "I don't believe in Edberg"
- Edberg Overcomes Lendl at Tokyo
- Heads up!
- Edberg beats McEnroe for 1st time, wins 3rd title
- Edberg Wins Stockholm Open Title
- Stefan Edberg wins the Swiss Tennis Open
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New JVC HD Everio Line Includes World's First 50-Hour AVCHD Camcorder and Dual-Format Models
JVC has added three new high definition camcorders to its HD Everio line, including a pair of dual-format models, one of which records up to 50 hours of AVCHD Full HD video.
Two new models, the GZ-HD40 and GZ-HD30, are the world's first AVCHD / MPEG-2 dual-format camcorders, allowing access to the superior long time compression afforded by AVCHD, as well as MPEG-2's superior editing and post-production environment. Both offer 1920 x 1080 Full HD recording in both formats to a 120GB (GZ-HD40) or 80GB (GZ-HD30) internal hard disk drive. The third new model, the GZ-HD10, offers 1440 x 1080 recording in the AVCHD format to a 40GB hard drive.
Technologies behind the scenes include new CMOS imaging chips with interpolation technology, the HD Gigabrid Duo chip that includes codecs for AVCHD in all camcorders and MPEG-2 in the GZ-HD40 and GZ-HD30 as well as noise reduction technology, and 1920 x 1080/60P output for all camcorders via HDMI (V.1.3 with x.v.Color). Ease of use innovations include Intelligent Grouping, which sorts and groups together similar themed scenes for easier access, and Digest Playback, which creates a video montage of scenes, much like a "coming attractions" clip, when they're burned to a DVD.
JVC designed the GZ-HD30 to meet the needs of a broad segment of people who shoot video, including family users. More compact than the GZ-HD40, it offers all of the performance and nearly all of the features of that model, except it has a slim 80GB internal hard disk for a maximum 33 hours of Full HD recording, and does not come with a docking station. As of June 2008, it is the world's smallest Full HD camcorder with 1.8″ HDD.
JVC provided the GZ-HD40 with a 120GB hard disk drive for up to 50 hours of AVCHD Full HD video recording, and a docking station to meet the requirements of the prosumer or high-end enthusiast.
JVC designed the small sized HD Everio GZ-HD10 thinking of the needs of budget-conscious users, yet it offers a high quality KONICA MINOLTA HD LENS and a 40GB hard disk that provides up to 16 hours of high-definition recording. The GZ-HD10's 1440×1080 AVCHD recordings are also up converted for playback at 1920 x 1080/60P via HDMI.
All three of the new HD Everio camcorders can connect to the optionally available CU-VD50 Everio SHARE STATION with stand-alone playback. The new HD Everios can also connect to the JVC CU-VD3 SHARE STATION to offer an even more cost-efficient archiving and playback solution. The combinations offer the world's first PC-less solution for AVCHD and MPEG-2 burning and playback, with AVCHD DVD discs that can be shared with commonly available AVCHD compatible Blu-Ray players.
The image sensors used in the new HD Everio line are newly developed small size but high resolution 1/3″ and 1/4.5″ CMOS chips. This CMOS uses proprietary interpolation technology based on what JVC developed for its 3CCD cameras. This algorithm makes it possible to generate virtual pixel data from the red, green and blue physical pixels, thereby providing image information that actually surpasses what's required for 1920 x 1080 Full HD imaging, or for 1440 x 1080 imaging in the GZ-HD10.
JVC's HD Gigabrid video engine, which processes in full 1920 x 1080 progressive video, was the result of years of experience in signal-processing technology, and uses five digital noise-reduction algorithms as well as signal processing to improve horizontal scan resolution by approximately 20 percent over JVC's previous interlace technology, for an extremely clear and sharp image.
New this year with the HD Gigabrid Duo engine is its further advanced integration, adding the AVCHD codec (GZ-HD40/30/10), and incorporating all functions of the previous HD Gigabrid engine (including MPEG-2 codec for GZ-HD40/30), as well as the USB Host controller function for use with an Everio SHARE STATION.
Enabling output of a 1080p 60 fps progressive signal on all three models allows recordings to be enjoyed on high-end displays. Using the same high power Genessa technology as in JVC advanced displays, conversion to 1920 x 1080p at 60 fps provides seamless natural video, free of motion judder during fast action activities, jaggy lines on angles, and moire patterns on fine detail when zooming. 1920 x 1080 HD discs played back from CU-VD50 SHARE STATION or via the camera from CU-VD3 SHARE STATION are also converted to 60 fps progressive.
The new JVC HD Everio camcorders record using x.v.Color technology. The universal standard xvYCC, known as x.v.Color, provides more accurate color reproduction with more detail and shades that look more natural to the human eye. It can display 100 percent of the colors that the human eye is capable of perceiving, whereas the traditional sRGB system can only display approximately 55 percent. The difference in color reproduction performance is especially noticeable in greens and yellows. These new HD Everio camcorders output to televisions directly using HDMI (V.1.3. with x.v.Color).
All three models are equipped with USB2.0 and HDMI digital interfaces on the camcorder. The Docking Station supplied with the GZ-HD40 is equipped with USB2.0 and i.LINK (IEEE 1394).
For editing and archiving via PC, the new HD Everio models come with the CyberLink BD Solution software suite for Windows. This includes "PowerDirector 6 NE" for HD video editing, "PowerProducer 4 NE" for authoring high definition Blu-ray discs, AVCHD discs and DVD-Video discs, "PowerCinema NE for Everio" for HD file management and playback, and "PowerDVD 7 NE" for playback of AVCHD discs.
The GZ-HD40/HD30 also come with a plug-in that allows HD Everio's MPEG-2 files to be used with Apple iMovie HD 6 and Final Cut Pro 5 or 6 video software for the Macintosh. For all camcorders, AVCHD files can be used with Apple's AVCHD applicable software without a plug-in for the Macintosh.
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This weekend Team Romney held a round of big dollar fundraisers out in the Hamptons, where New York's rich and super-rich spend their weekends and summers. And if the word went out not to conform to stereotype, well … apparently no one got the word.
A bunch of rich stories have been filed so far. Here's a gem from the LAT's Maeve Reston, who was apparently chatting up attendees as they drove their cars up to the manse …
A New York City donor a few cars back, who also would not give her name, said Romney needed to do a better job connecting. "I don't think the common person is getting it," she said from the passenger seat of a Range Rover stamped with East Hampton beach permits. "Nobody understands why Obama is hurting them.
"We've got the message," she added. "But my college kid, the baby sitters, the nails ladies — everybody who's got the right to vote — they don't understand what's going on. I just think if you're lower income — one, you're not as educated, two, they don't understand how it works, they don't understand how the systems work, they don't understand the impact."
Got a read for me on that reference to the right to vote?
And as Dan Savage might say, it gets better.
Ted Conklin had a few choice words as well. From the NYT …
A few cars back, Ted Conklin, the owner of the American Hotel in Sag Habor, N.Y., long a favorite of the well-off and well-known in the Hamptons, could barely contain his displeasure with Mr. Obama. "He is a socialist. His idea is find a problem that doesn't exist and get government to intervene," Mr. Conklin said from inside a gold-colored Mercedes as his wife, Carol Simmons, nodded in agreement.
Ms. Simmons paused to highlight what she said was her husband's generous spirit: "Tell them who's on your yacht this weekend! Tell him!"
Over Mr. Conklin's objections, Ms. Simmons disclosed that a major executive from Miramax, the movie company, was on the 75-foot yacht, because, she said, there were no rooms left at the hotel.
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Sr. Jacqueline Marie Stoll, OP, who ministers at the University of New Mexico Medical Center in Albuquerque, made her Final Profession of Vows with the Dominican Sisters of the Congregation of the Most Holy Rosary, of Adrian, Michigan, during a special Liturgy held on December 3, 2011, at Holy Rosary Chapel, on the Congregation's Motherhouse campus. Dominican Fr. Robert Kelly, OP, Motherhouse chaplain, presided.
Sharing this milestone event with Sister Jacqueline were her sister, Karen Kitchen; a friend, Deborah Markee; her witnesses, Sr. Geneal Kramer, OP, and Sr. Lorraine Reaume, OP; Adrian Dominican Sisters and Associates; and friends. Many who could not be present in Adrian witnessed the Profession on their computers through live-streaming technology.
Before professing her vows, Sr. Jackie stated her intent to "respond to God's loving call and the deepest desire of my heart, which is to give myself completely to Christ for the rest of my life." She asked for God's help and guidance so that "my work, my life and my entire being may always and everywhere be a preaching of the Word of God until the day I die."
Sr. Jackie professed her vows to God, the Blessed Virgin Mary, St. Dominic, and Sr. Attracta Kelly, OP, Prioress, and Sr. Attracta's lawful successors, until death. The vow statement was followed by the official signing of the profession papers and the blessing and presentation of Sr. Jackie's ring, symbolic of her fidelity to Jesus Christ.
In her reflection, Sr. Lorraine contrasted the traditional waiting of the Advent Season to everyday waiting. "Advent waiting chooses to be present," she said. "Advent waiting honors the time it takes for something special to happen," she said. "I believe religious life is also a witness to Advent waiting. It's a public statement that waiting on our God is worthwhile, so worthwhile and fulfilling, in fact, that we are willing to give our lives to it, as Jackie is doing this day….In a culture that values instant gratification, the vows say there is something deeper worth waiting for, something you might miss if you don't learn to wait."
A native of Akron, Ohio, Sr. Jackie received a bachelor's degree in nursing from Bowling Green State University; a master's degree in psychiatric nursing from Boston College; a master's degree in health care mission from Aquinas Institute of Theology; and post-graduate certification as an adult nurse practitioner through Columbia University in New York City. She entered the Adrian Dominican Congregation in 2004.
Before her current ministry at the University of New Mexico Medical Center, Sr. Jackie ministered for the Archdiocese of Anchorage, Alaska, as coordinator of the archdiocesan Parish Nursing and Parish Health Ministry Program. Sr. Jackie also ministered as a nurse practitioner at the medical clinic at Francis Homeless Shelter, operated by Catholic Social Services of Anchorage. She received the Ruby Award from the Anchorage branch of Soroptimist International in recognition of her work to open and administer a similar clinic at Clare House, a shelter for women and children.


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The Three Suns - Movin' 'n' Groovin' (1962)
Well, here it is! This is generally considered The Three Suns' ultimate LP. Charles Albertine once again returns to provide the arrangements. As this is a Stereo Action release, it provides "The Sound Your Eyes Can Follow." This means the best stereo effects to show off your new hi-fi!
In my comments for The Three Suns in Japan posting, Billy linked to a posting of this LP available on RapidShare. That version sounded nice, but it was as though the original capper was trying to remove the vinyl crackles with a low-pass filter. The sound is too flat. There is a 192kbps rip over at ROCKOVERGRACELAND that sounds like it may have the same source as the Astro Age bootleg CD rip I'm using. I've upgraded three of the tracks by pulling the remastered versions from The History of Space Age Pop three volume series: "Caravan," "Autumn Leaves" and "Danny's Inferno."
I've included some bonus tracks from the Rarities CD released by Astro Age. Aside from the two extra tracks I included with the Here Come the Suns LP post, they're actually the only other rarities left. The first are the four Three Suns tracks from the 1963 Christmas compilation LP A Gershwin Holiday. The arrangements are also by Charles Albertine and fit in perfectly with the sound of Movin' 'n' Groovin'. The last two tracks are from the "Sunday Showcase Theme" 7", also released in 1963. The b-side of this single is a new version of "Twilight Memories" that Astro Age calls the "Rockin' Version." It doesn't appear that the single actually uses this title, so I didn't tag it that way. According to its page over at Michael David Toth's The Three Suns Universe, Movin' 'n' Groovin' was released in June 1962. The orchestral sound on on "Sunday Showcase Theme" is much closer to the sound of the LP it followed, December 1962's Warm and Tender LP. Since that LP was already released by ROCKOVERGRACELAND, I'm including these two tracks at the end of this release, where they are not totally out of place.
The only Three Suns LP I have left to post is A Ding Dong Dandy Christmas!, which I'll post, appropriately enough, next month.
The Three Suns - Movin' 'n' Groovin' (1962)
1. April Showers (2:53)
2. Caravan (2:47)
3. Autumn Leaves (3:11)
4. Dancing with Tears in My Eyes (2:08)
5. Jungle Drums (3:53)
6. Movin' 'n' Groovin' (2:53)
7. Anniversary Song (3:14)
8. Beyond the Sea (3:04)
9. Some of These Days (2:52)
10. Danny's Inferno (2:48)
11. Vagabond King Waltz (3:30)
12. Stumbling (3:03)
From A Gershwin Holiday Compilation LP (1963):
13. I Got Rhythm (2:23)
14. They Can't Take That Away from Me (2:35)
15. Bidin' My Time (2:52)
16. Liza (2:33)
Sunday Showcase Theme 7" (1963):
17. Sunday Showcase Theme (2:22)
18. Twilight Memories (2:19)
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In yesterday's NYT, George Vecsey allowed that he may have been just a slight bit off in his "Abandon Hope" column in which he previewed the Mets season. Yesterday, Vecsey even offered the Metropolitans a bit of praise:
Having predicted dire things for the Mets, I confess to having been charmed by their 20-inning game in St. Louis, when Manuel managed to produce Pelfrey for a first career save and the resident genius of the Cardinals, Tony La Russa, went down with two position players pitching and a pitcher in left field. Was that a turning point for the Mets?
The funny thing about this homestand is that the Mets are encountering visiting managers with New York ties and vastly more credentials than Manuel.
First came the Cubs' Lou Piniella, 66, who blossomed with the Yankees, and the Mets took three of four from him. Then came Bobby Cox of the Braves, who turns 69 on May 21, whose only major league playing was with the Yankees, and the Mets took three straight from him. Now comes Joe Torre, 69, of the Dodgers, who played and managed for the Mets before winning four World Series across town. He's working without a contract beyond this season, for a franchise whose owner, Frank McCourt, is going through a divorce.
As a result of this new found Mets renaissance, we experience the bizarre.
And around the league we go:
Are you sold on Stephen Strasburg yet? DC Matt is. Craig Calcaterra is. I think I am too.
Since Moutain Frank hasn't weighed in yet, we'll turn to Rob Neyer who reflects upon Chris Iannetta getting farmed out in Colorado.
Here's the last link on the Ryan Howard contract, this time from Dave Studemen of THT.
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I've just got the idea recently from one of the comments to simply have another one of those reviews that have nothing to do with the current season. It's just a nice change of pace and more than that, it's not just my spontaneous opinion on something I've watched a couple hours ago. And so I've figured I would talk about the second Ghost In The Shell movie, the one that's wisely called just "Innocence" in Japan. Don't get me wrong, it's not a bad movie but it's the kind you delve into. You don't just watch it and leave it behind. You probably will need to do some research to understand the depth of this movie. And so, I will open with a few researched explanations of this movie's content before I move on to my actual review. Seriously, it's necessary… and it's kinda frustrating. This movie became more enjoyable by actually giving it more attention than the one I had given it just watching it, but at the same time those very revelations showed off one of the bigger flaws of this movie. It's a complicated movie, to make it short.


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Canned Heat I was published several months ago. To catch you up to date includes 2 flocks of chickens decimated by an 11 year old dog and a summer garden.
We finally got the chicken/dog issue straightened out. But the fact that chicks were sharing my work space and I wasn't going to run power-tools and use chemical sealants around them, meant the Mister saw no need to make a jig if I wasn't going to use it immediately. The upshot is, I am just now getting around to the 2nd phase of the project.
So after cleaning the cans I set up a jig on the drill press to take out the bottom of each can. Initially this consisted of a board bolted to the table on the drill press with a groove routed out.
After a couple of tests, in which I realized how much torque (twist) the hole saw created I had to figure out how to keep the can stable while the saw was cutting the bottoms. I hit upon this configuration:
This was held onto the table with 2 vice grip clamps. The Gorilla Tape helped to fill the space to create a snug fit, but was slick enough to allow the can to be inserted and removed smoothly. The bevel in the back allows the can to fit, as the hole saw was long enough to interfere with placing the can into the jig.
Note the sheet-rock screw. I found that if you put the screw inside the can opening and twist it until the side of the opening touches the screw, you simply have to hold the can down. This means you don't have to squeeze the can to prevent it from spinning and you avoid crushing the can.
I used a 1.5″ bi-metal hole saw.
Please wear gloves and safety glasses. Drilling creates a lot of metal shavings. They are sharp and small and would not be pleasant under the skin.
Next, I needed to cut the tops to allow more air flow. You don't want holes that are as big as the can, nor do you want them to align perfectly. Large, perfectly aligned openings, allow the air to move through too quickly for the air to make much contact with the warmed metal . So using a tin snips and cutting the top into a series of tabs will allow you to bend some of the tabs. The bent tabs create baffles, which creates turbulence in the air flow. This turbulence causes the air to touch the warmed metal more often, resulting in warmer air.
Next you will want to push some of the tabs down. Please don't use fingers. I use an old stand by that you probably already have on hand: an inexpensive can opener.
So, all that done, I needed a jig to hold the cans in place while the adhesive cured. I've seen people use angle iron and other types of contraptions, but the main idea is the keep the cans stable and in line while the sealant sets up.
And, although I love the Mister, he has a tendency to …*ahem* over build things. (At least in my humble opinion) And the jig for the cans was no exception. All I needed was two 2×4's joined to form a right angle. But nooooo….. I got a fancy jig instead. One that took a lot longer to build, but I'm not sure works any better. But, at least he got the job done. Sometimes that's all you can ask.
So we've jumped ahead a bit with this picture, but I just wanted to show you the basic idea.
I'm using a sealant for roof flashing. It is U.V. and heat resistant. It takes 24 hours to cure before painting, hence the need for a jig to held it in place. I've found it best to apply sealant to several cans at once, then place them in the jig, making sure that the cans are seated one atop the other and in contact with the sides of the jig. Use enough to adhere the tops and bottoms together, but not so much that you have to do a lot of clean up after the sealant dries.
I can do about 1 1/3 stacks a day. So, in less than two weeks I should be able to the 16 stacks needed for the heating unit.
I'll try to be a little more timely with the next part of the project. Stay tuned.


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Stumbling about Midtown one day I ran across this newish Turkish döner shoppe wedged between other life maintenance venues near the Pierce Elevated. What initially caught my eye was the German umlat over the "o" in the name. A German-named venue serving Turkish items in Houston, Texas.
Odd enough for investigation.
Dögarz is a small space, I doubt 20 people could wedge in at once. I've been three times and the sit down crowd is consistently limited to a few suits on phone conferences and a few headphone-clad college students working on their laptops. Most patrons order takeaway. The neon apple-green walls and jet-black furniture give it a calming, modern feel. The open kitchen allows the smells of rotisserie grilled meats to permeate the interior, which frankly, smells so good it makes me want to order more than I need. But I don't.
If you're from some other parts of the Middle East, you might better know these as shawarma instead of doner. At Dogarz the menu is simple, doners: lamb and beef combo, chicken or fish. You can have those in a freshly baked pita or wrapped in lettuce. There are a few middle eastern pastries. Drinks are in the refrigerator off to the side. With the doner, you can get 'spicy sauce' and feta as options. I recommend both. The spicy sauce tastes of harissa and on the heat-meter weighs in less than Tabasco.
You'll notice some ingredients in the doner seem out of place, most notable purple cabbage and corn. Me thinks they are mostly there for colour, definitely a win for presentation. However, they are in small amounts and I found the crunch of those items a good texture play with the soft pita and toothy, juicy grilled meats. I've had all three doner varieties and all were excellent.
Counter order, table delivery. Quick and accurate. For people ordering takeaway, 10 minutes max.
Lamb and beef doner with feta and spicy sauce – $10
I like Dögarz for its balance of quality ingredients, appealing presentation and quick delivery time. The other upside is that its a short walk from the Mc Gowen subway stop. For those compulsively tracking steps – 3000 round trip.
Lunch: February 2015
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Book Launch: James Curran & Jean Seaton: Power Without Responsibility:
Broadcasting, Press and the Internet in Britain - Eight Edition
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309 Regent Street, London W1B 2HW
6:00pm to 8:00pm
This event will launch the eight edition of James Curran and Jean
Seaton's "Power Without Responsibility: Broadcasting, Press and The
Internet in Britain".
The book, which has six new chapters and much new original research
material throughout, has been in continuous publication since 1981.
It has been translated into five languages, copied in many nations and
is seen as an iconic and founding text in analysing the media. It put
the history of the press and broadcasting and communications at the
heart of understanding and policy reccomendations.
Hugh Grant - fresh from playing Jeremy Thorpe in the BBC One drama, A
Very English Scandal - will introduce the event - speaking about the
press in Britain.
There will also be an auction of the original cartoon for the cover by
Martin Rowson, the distinguished cartoonist who drew the image. Rowson
is also a University of Westminster Honorary Fellow. He will conduct the
auction with Lord Carter which will raise funds for the Winter Shelter
for the Homeless at St James's Piccadilly - who Seaton and the Orwell
Foundation have been working with for the recent dramatisation of
Orwell's Down and Out In Paris and London.
Professor James Curran, now at Goldsmiths, University of London, was one
of the founding members not only of Westminster's media department but
also of the tradition - the Westminster School - of practical policy
engagement. He has written and edited more than 20 important books on
the media. He has been visiting Professor at the University of
California, Oslo, Pennsylania, Stanford, and Stockholm. He is
internationally recognised as an influential media theorist and campaigner.
Professor Jean Seaton - as the Director of the Orwell Foundation - has
created pioneering ways of highlighting media issues and intervening in
policy and public debates. The Foundation runs the most prestigous
prizes for political writing and journalism, great public lectures and
other events. It has recently read 1984 LIVE. She is co-director, with
Professor Rosie Thomas, of the pioneering and unique FCO Chevening South
Asian Journalists Programme at Westminster. She has written a volume in
the Official History of the BBC, titled Pinkoes and Traitors: the BBC
and the Nation 1974-87.
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To Villains, With Love
Pages 1 2 3 NEXT
Bad guys need love, too, you know, and these letters are happy to provide it.
None from Bowser? Bah. SOMEONE write one!
What is this I dont even
Apologies, I loved the Sephiroth one the best, 'Impale me with your sword indeed'...
Can we add to these?
Please do!
Sephiroth looks like a girl is an old joke but you pulled it off, kudos.
That said if the writer thinks that he's a woman then how does the "impale with sword" bit make sense? It sounds like an innuendo but for what? I guess you could buy "swords" so maybe that's what he/she meant.
Sephiroth one was the best, especially the part:
"...for you are the most striking woman I have ever seen."
I would write one for Saren Arterius, but I think it would come out a little too personal...
I'm tempted to try and write one for Mother Brain (albeit not truly a villain in the sense of the word used here it seems)
I actually felt for the Ganondorf one. That was really upsetting.
Anyway I would write one to Wesker but hes at the bottom of a Volcano ... So fuck that.
Aww. Cute.
This is so j-Pod
M.Bison's responce:
I can't make the text really big, and someone had to say it.
i'm surprised there wasn't one for
I wouldn't really say that she was a villain.
use (h1) (/h1) " ( ) "=" [ ] " like....
Oh right, forgot about the "Villian" part after I got to Sephiroth being called a Woman.
Does it have to be primarily a video game villain or can it be someone added into a video game from other media?
I know this is just for fun, but I want to see what sort of criteria you used for the article. :P
I have one
Warning world's nerdy-est wall of text coming up
WHAT?! Non for Dr. Cortex! Poor balding chap.
And those were some lovely love letters i've ever read, well done.
Oh my god I just did a spit take on the Sephiroth letter. LOL
Well, you can do whatever you like, but we chose characters actually in the original game themselves.
Eh, close enough. We can stretch the definition in the name of fun. :)
Thats alot of postage.
So they be ambiguous characters
(I finally quoted a mod always wanted to do that hi Susan)
Give me a few hours then and we'll see what i can come up with
Nothing about the G-Man's mysterious persona and crystal green eyes?
This was very, VERY disturbing yet quite entertaining.
No letter to GlaDos? After she wrote that song for you? I'm dissapoint escapist.
Anyway, great letters, especially Sephi one :P Keep up the good work
Better get to work then! :D
So when we have written theses do they just stay here or will they actually be put somewhere to keep. Cause what is the point of weighting them is they disappear or sink with the thread without many people seeing them.
Hey Lucane. Do you know where can we see a kind of rule book to post big letters, images and videos in these forums?
And about the letters: Dark Queen is hot.
This was not what I was expecting, but still made me so very happy. Very funny, great job.
Really does make me want to write my own. "Oh Bowser, even without your fire breath, you always light my fire..."
I'm not Lucane, but I can answer your question:
Couldn't believe no mario..
these were really funny - especially the one to the zerg queen!
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He is an unlikely people's hero. He has the body of the Milkybar Kid, the nerdy quiff of Tintin, the bow tie of a ventriloquist's dummy and the specs of a librarian. And yet the nation has taken 36-year-old Gareth Malone to its heart. There's that part of the nation that goes dewy-eyed at the sound of servicemen's other halves joining their voices in reach-for-the-Kleenex harmony. And it's surprising how large that part of the nation is. Especially in weeks such as this.
But, equally, few reality stars have been as successful in reaching the more difficult to seduce. His work on his first show, The Choir, with a bunch of comprehensive schoolchildren suggested he might be a sort of Jamie Oliver of singing.
Malone and his Military Wives Choir will be leading the Commonwealth Band at the diamond jubilee concert at Buckingham Palace tomorrow. It's significant that this fact was first announced exclusively on the British Monarchy Facebook page (yes, this phenomenon exists). Because this is exactly where Malone fits in – at the slightly clunky, uncomfortably British intersection of the modern and the traditional.
He has been closely involved with Sing, the official diamond jubilee song co-written by Gary Barlow and Andrew Lloyd Webber. As well as featuring the Military Wives Choir, the on-sale version of the track, also features Prince Harry on the tambourine "in his recording debut". To his credit, there is no suggestion this was Malone's idea.
Britain's favourite choirmaster has also been in the headlines for speaking out about bullying. He revealed last week that he has regretted not hitting back at bullying when he was at school. "It never quite got to, 'I'm just going to lamp them', but looking back I kind of wish I had because it would have solved it. I am not endorsing violence but maybe it would have been better just to have a bit of a scrap in the playground."
In his current incarnation, he is still on the receiving end of jibes about being "a bit gay". He is married to Becky, an inner-city schoolteacher, and they have a 20-month-old daughter, Esther. "It was slightly disappointing to find that, after leaving school and leaving all that behind me from the age of about 15 to 30 and then coming into television and realising, 'Oh, right, everyone is just as juvenile as the kids at school were.' I mean, I am fairly flamboyant and expressive, but I know plenty of gay people who are incredibly repressed and aren't showy and don't like Judy Garland, you know."
He added that many people still seem to regard "any display of emotion, crying, heart, feeling" as "gay" and see singing in a choir as something for women. "It's an ongoing problem and I think it's been the spine of my work. Boys don't sing. They just don't want to open up or they don't want to make idiots of themselves."
Malone's philosophy is all about the power of emotional resilience. It's what he draws on to bring out the best in his singers. Something about his quietly supportive, no-nonsense attitude captures the spirit of the jubilee. Fresh-faced, young and talented but not too funky or hip, he embodies something obviously many felt was missing from the entertainment scene: clean-cut, sensible niceness.
Self-dubbed "choral animateur", Malone is best known for his work with the Military Wives Choir, but he first appeared on BBC2 five years ago with The Choir, a series that followed his attempts to build a school choir from scratch and make them capable of competing at the 2006 World Choir Games in China. The series won a Bafta. The Big Performance for children's channel CBBC followed, where he coached 10 painfully shy young singers, culminating in a live performance for Children in Need in front of 40,000 people.
His 2011 show Gareth Malone Goes to Glyndebourne, about a group of untrained teenagers performing opera, won an Emmy. TV critic Lucy Mangan wrote at the time: "The joy of any programme involving Malone is that he has perfect pitch in everything. He sees each member of his choir in the round and provides each one with the right amount of praise, cajolery and castigation." One of the most moving moments in the film comes when one of the choir sobs: "It just goes to show that with the right teacher you can achieve anything." Malone is now filming another series of The Choir and has shot the pilot for a new show in America.
Malone has said it took him years to realise that his skills lie in "leading others". He grew up in London and moved to Bournemouth at the age of 10, where his parents still live. His father worked in a bank and his mother worked at Marks & Spencer before joining the civil service. Both sang in a choir and always had music in the house. The young Gareth was particularly close to his late grandmother, Patricia. "She was an inspiring, witty, incisive character and I wanted to be like her."
He attended a grammar school where his love of music first made him a target for bullies. "I was not a rough-and-tumble sort of child and in an all-boys' school that can get you a ribbing." He performed in a touring production of Evita at Bournemouth Pavilion at the age of 11. In his teen years, he sold ice creams on Bournemouth beach, where his boss made him pick cigarette ends out of the sand. "I knew then that I wanted more out of life. So I threw myself into everything at school." He trained as a classical singer, studied drama at the University of East Anglia and won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music. He was assistant conductor and chorusmaster at the London Symphony Orchestra and, until 2009, when TV work took over, he ran its youth and community choirs.
It was at the LSO that Malone got his break when producers of The Choir, unable to find someone to front the programme, hit upon the idea of researching the term "community choirmasters" and Malone's name popped up. Since then, the blinking, pale-faced David to Simon Cowell's preening, perma-tanned Goliath has reinvented musical reality TV. When his Military Wives song Wherever You Are reached number one last year, selling more than half-a-million copies in its first week, Cowell was finally forced to admit defeat.
No small part of Malone's appeal is that he offers the nerd's revenge. He has taken on the giants of the talent shows and won. His focus is on filling his singers with self-belief, helping them to see potential in themselves they would not have found on their own. But he shares a steely-eyed commercial sensibility with Cowell. Malone doesn't really do subtle. Military Wives' debut album In My Dreams, which came out in March, features the tracks On My Own and With or Without You.
None the less, Malone somehow manages to put himself beyond criticism in the way he does things. The success of the TV series resulted in the Military Wives Choirs Foundation, a social support network "for military wives through the medium of song": £1 from the sale of each album goes to this charity. In its first week of sale, only Bruce Springsteen could keep it off the number one spot. By the second week, the Wives' sales had relegated the Boss to number five.
It helps that even the most stony-hearted of TV critics adore his sympathetic, quiet manner. "Jamie Oliver might have changed school dinners but with his TV series Gareth Malone showed that we are more, much more than we eat," wrote Norman Lebrecht in the London Evening Standard. "One of the most enthralling, informative and uplifting reality series yet made," wrote Andrew Billen in the Times. About time for a backlash? Not just yet. The only project that has drawn criticism was the 2010 series Extraordinary School for Boys, where he stepped away from his choirmaster role and tried to engage a group of primary-school boys who hated school. He swiftly returned to the niche where he works best: as a singing maestro and coach supreme.
In the past year, his work has also seemed to capture the patriotic public mood. The text of the Military Wives' hit is a love poem compiled from letters written between the women and the absent servicemen. It was set to music by Paul Mealor, who also composed a choral work sung at the royal wedding in 2011. Now, wherever there's a musical moment that needs to be underlined as patriotic, sympathetic and worthy, Malone will probably be somewhere in the wings. His ambition? To be remembered for music. "I'd like people to listen to some music and say, 'Gareth introduced me to this…' That would be a great epitaph."


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One of the first things you notice when walking into a unit at the Eden Condominiums in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of Northwest Washington is all the windows. The windows overlook a courtyard, the neighborhood and even other units.
The building is in the middle of a quiet block at 2360 Champlain St. NW, an area that has experienced a surge in residential development in recent years. On a recent Saturday afternoon, the sales office was filled with prospective buyers interested in touring the contemporary-looking building.
The sleek, four-story, 18-unit brick building has seven condos left for sale ranging from $529,900 to $749,900. The developer says the windows are designed to let in lots of natural light but not outdoor noise.
"The way the spaces at the Eden feel and function are even more appreciated," said Lynn Tsao, sales associate with Urban Pace, adding that the windows are well insulated to deaden sounds from outside. "The height of the ceilings and the brightness of the homes make them feel expansive."
Balcony views: Tsao said that buyers have found the quality of the finishes, private outdoor space and contemporary aesthetic especially attractive.
Eden's rustic courtyard is highlighted by a towering brick wall, a stone patio, bench seating and a stage.
"The garden courtyard is a unique feature that has several purposes," said Tsao, adding that the builder wanted to provide a buffer between the new condos and an existing rowhouse.
All units come with spacious balconies of varying shapes. The front exterior balconies protrude from the building and offer views extending from Columbia Road to Florida Avenue.
As the weather starts to warm, homeowners will enjoy the green roof deck that offers a view of the Washington Monument. Tsao noted that the garden theme is also carried through to the green rooftop terraces. They have built-in seats and a grill and is a great space to sit and take in the city life from up high.
Luxury appointments: The one-bedroom units come with 1.5 bathrooms, and the two-bedroom units have two full bathrooms.
The units range from 794 to 1,243 square feet.
"The developer has lived in this neighborhood for many years and has an appreciation for urban homes and the importance of how a space serves those who occupy it," Tsao said. She added that when a space, small or large, functions well, it increases the quality of life. "And when it's designed flexibly, it appeals to a broader range of clients."
One second-floor unit, listed at $624,900, has an open kitchen, a dining and living area and two bedrooms with ample closet space.
The units have several unusual features, including niches, bay windows and plenty of cabinetry in well-organized kitchens ideal for entertaining. Standard features include a balcony, hardwood floors, silestone and granite countertops, stainless steel Bosch appliances and a security system.
Where the action is: Adams Morgan is a main draw. "The history and vibrance of this neighborhood are well known," Tsao said.
A plethora of restaurants, night-life spots, boutique shops and coffeehouses are just outside the door. Cuisine ranges from Latin American to Ethiopian and Caribbean. There's a pet store down the street that focuses on organic pet foods and supplies. Several nearby parks provide plenty of places to walk the dog or go for a stroll.
Eden's design is a joint project between Dennis Lee of D.B. Lee Development, Bonstra Haresign Architects and Capital Design Group.
Capital Design Group is a Washington-based design-build construction firm whose other projects include the Erie at 2351 Champlain St., directly across the street from Eden. Other projects by Capital in Adams Morgan include the Kalorama at 1882 Columbia Rd. and 2424 18th Street Lofts.
Transit: The Woodley Park Metro stop is the closest to the development and is a short walk away. Drivers can easily access downtown via nearby 16th Street.
Carisa Crawford-Chappell is a freelance writer.
2360 Champlain St. NW, Washington
Builders: Dennis Lee of D.B. Lee Development, Bonstra Haresign Architects and Capital Design Group.
Features: The condos have lots of windows to let in natural light and have high-end appointments, including hardwood floors, silestone and granite countertops, stainless steel Bosch appliances and a security system. The building is in Adams Morgan and is in walking distance to trendy restaurants and shops.
Bedrooms/bathrooms: 1 to 2/1.5 to 2
Square footage: 794 to 1,243
Homeowners association fee:
$193 to $305 a month.
View models: By appointment Monday
to Saturday; open house Sundays noon
to 4 p.m.
Sales office: 202-303-3457 or www.edencondosdc.com .


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Bosnia's National Museum, a custodian of culture for a region torn by ethnic divisions, has re-opened after a three-year closure, displaying treasures including a medieval Jewish book of Passover rites.
After Bosnian authorities finally agreed on a way to finance the landmark Sarajevo institution, school children and citizens filled the chambers and garden that had been closed in 2012 for lack of funding.
Its status has remained unresolved for years after the 1992-95 war that split Bosnia into two ethnically-based regions, reports Reuters.
"It's so nice that the museum re-opened," said Abdulah Sarajlic, a Sarajevo high-school student. "I was so displeased when they closed it."
Under public pressure, authorities from different layers of Bosnia's complex government on Tuesday signed a deal pledging to finance the museum and six other national cultural institutions based in the Bosnian capital.
The autonomous Serb Republic refused to take part, saying the institutions were not in its territory.
"The National Museum is the national treasury of all citizens of Bosnia-Herzegovina," Bosnia's Prime Minister Denis Zvizdic said, promising to work towards finding regular funding for all seven institutions.
Funds that were pledged can cover the museum's financing needs for one year, said museum director Adnan Busuladzic, who surprised everyone when he handed in his resignation saying that with the re-opening of the museum he has completed his duty.
"My resignation is not the result of negative but positive feelings and intentions," Busuladzic told reporters after the ceremony. "I stayed with museum workers until the end."
The museum complex, with 4 million artifacts in departments of archaeology, ethnology, natural sciences and a rich library which includes the Sarajevo Haggadah, the 14th century Jewish book of Passover rites, is the largest such institution in the region.
It had outlived the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, two world wars and the break-up of Yugoslavia but has barely survived Bosnia's post-war system based on ethnic quotas.
The US Embassy in Sarajevo pledged 1.1 million Bosnian marka ($637,000) for the museum's renovation, and committed to bring US experts to help its management.
A civic action "I am the Museum" has drawn 3,000 people along with museum workers over the past six weeks to guard its heritage.
"The biggest success was that we handed the museum over to the citizens from politicians," said Aida Kalender, who started the civic initiative.


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With the start of ICAD (Index Card a Day for June and July through "Daisy Yellow"), I have been making more time for art and thoroughly enjoying these small projects.
(Scroll down if you are interested for my other 8 cards, as well as other projects this week)
I had discovered another challenge (Circle of Art) yesterday and it really appealed to me. Every Friday a quote is posted and you are asked to create something in response to it. Check here for more information.
I decided to create an ICAD card for it:
Again I have used gelli papers, this time scraps in a collage as the backdrop for this great quote by Van Gogh.
The quote inspired me as well to create a tribute to Terry Fox, one of the few true heroes in our time.
I had just finished reading the YA novel "Run" by Eric Wilson today and loved it.
I can still remember watching Terry run across Ontario and then having to stop his run as the cancer had returned. Every year for the past 30 years I have taken part in a run at a school I have been in. The children are always so moved by his story and want to help run the "Marathon of Hope".
This has always been one of my favourite quotes of his. It is so true.
Alpha Dictionary - U
This week at "The Craft Barn", U is the letter for the Alpha Dictionary Challenge.
I chose "unique" and thought of my Aunt Jessie, my godmother and my Mother's older sister.
She was like a second mom to me and was so special. She was also an exceptional artist, creating beautiful pieces with rosemaling. (Norwegian folk art) She was also a seamstress and a wonderful friend.. This is my tribute to her.
(Again the gelli paper background.)
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