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A Resource for Performing Artists, Scholars and Audiences.
I'll go first with something broad to get us going.
Were you surprised by anything in the book? Was there a topic or group in the book that was discussed that you had not heard of or found interesting?
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ok, admittedly i'm only just thru chapter 3 (performative architectures), so i don't doubt there are further surprises in store, but in the interest of kicking things off there have been two eye-opening concepts for me thus far.
and prefacing it, i must say i'm REALLY enjoying this book. it's a long-overdue history/analysis of the increasingly (always?) essential role technology has played/plays in performance practices. i find that in many live performance/theatre circles technology tends to get get a bad rap, that it is somehow inauthentic, cheating, unfair or a cop or less pure. which leads me to my first surprising moment.
in chapter 2 (space 2: media scenographies - performance in the realm of the technical image - p. 56), before going on to describe the experiments of robert wilson and richard foreman, salter discusses the "backlash" that arose in the 60s/70s from the avant-garde as a reaction to proliferating technological saturation. the standard-bearers for this branch were grotowski, peter brook, schechner's performance group, odin teatret, the open theater and the living theater. these are all theatre artists and company that i admire deeply but i hadn't until now considered them all in the context of rejecting the advances of the modern world. this is, however, an instructive perspective.
these artists all took the performing body (and its interactions) as a starting point. one can almost imagine these performances taking place in medieval england, golden age athens or prehistoric caves dwellings. in many ways, their techniques can live outside of the technological age. this is certainly in keeping with 60s-era organic trends. much of the history of this era focuses on these artists as personifying the zeitgeist. but salter seeks to tell a parallel story of the artists that were furthering all those aspects of performance that the "organic" practitioners were rejecting. i appreciate that. the performer him/herself has been pretty absent up to this point but i expect there will be a focus put on them in the "bodies" chapter.
i also LOVE how he identifies artaud as an inspiration to nearly all these aforementioned theatre makers and then is quick to point out that artaud also envisioned technology in aid of his theatre of cruelty realizations (i'm reminded particularly of his surround sound bells for les cenci). as ever, artaud provides a wide spectrum of inspiration for artists of all stripes.
secondly, i've been devouring the section on the contributions of architects (chapter 3 - performative architectures). this is a history i know so little about and is such an integral part of the picture. as a theatre artist, i have some amount of training in areas like scenography, lighting, even digital media. but i don't have even the barest introduction to this discipline. as such, the artists and their experiments are new to me and fascinating. i'm eager to learn more about this practice and how it contributes (or can contribute in the future) to what theatre artists do.
so these points have struck me so far. i'm doing my best to get thru it but it's a pretty dense tome with a lot to absorb. but i wouldn't mind having some convos even as we're all going along.
great choice for the first edition!
I have to be honest and say that I haven't had break in my schedule to even begin the book. But it is a good choice and Adrian's comment makes me want to at least get started. I was wondering if we could maybe make a reading schedule - and that might at least give us some targets to hit and then we can begin discussing. I'm happy to help with that, if needed. Just a thought. The book club is such a great idea and I want to see it succeed.
Thats a great idea. I am too fighting upstream in a scheduling flow....
I am surprised by... how much I could love and hate a book at the same time. Maybe I was hoping you'd chose this book just so I could vent, so apologies in advance for this. I'm about 2/3's through the book, but it's getting harder and harder to get through this last chunk. Not to go all scat', lol, but I've started keeping a book or 2 in my bathroom, reading a bit at a time, and I've now knocked several out. Well, it seems like I've been trying to finish this one forever. I've actually moved on to Rilke's Letters to a Poet just for a change of voice.
I think Entangled could be a very important book for capturing something rarely captured at this particular time. Then again, with the incredible rate of tech' change, it could need a Volume 2 sooner than most chronicles. I love that it's so comprehensive to this point in time though - the writer really did all the research for us. And it seems so relevant that it makes me push to finish it. I'm so interested in the topic's history that it maintains my interest as it jags from discipline to discipline.
But... I find the way it's written so incredibly frustrating. It's so thick, and not in a number of pages way, but that too. I don't mind big words, nor the artspeak, but I do not think that the structure of its communication needed to be so complicated. The story may be detailed, but it doesn't need to be convoluted. Like I tell my actors - just talk to me. The writer has impressed me so much with his knowledge that he doesn't need to impress me with his intellect. It's a big topic, but I think it could have been conveyed with far fewer words. So maybe I'm just saying that I found it a little overwritten.
I will go back to hacking away at this thing, soon. Everyone should know this stuff is there even if they don't hit it word for word. I'm very grateful to the author for getting this all down in print, but I'm not happy with him for getting me hooked on his book. lol!
Thanks. I feel better now. Ha!
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The voice of the survivors / Flight 93, fight to hear tape transformed her life
2002-04-21 04:00:00 PDT Shanksville, Pa. -- On a wind-whipped hill, Deena Burnett gazed across the fields to the mound of brown earth marking the spot where her husband, Tom, and 43 others died on Sept. 11 in the crash of hijacked United Flight 93.
Gone is the debris from the aircraft that was once scattered over the area. Under the leaden skies, all that remains is the small hill of earth in a landscape dotted with farmhouses and churches.
Burnett, who traveled to the place yesterday for the first time, said viewing the mound underscored with a terrible finality the fact that she would never see her husband again.
"The moment I knew I was in the presence of where the plane went down -- I felt it," Burnett said, weeping softly. "I saw the woods. I knew these woods were a place Tom would have loved to be. . . . This is where his body lies."
Burnett's pilgrimage to southwestern Pennsylvania came two days after she and scores of other relatives of the Flight 93 victims converged on a hotel in Princeton, N.J., for an unprecedented, FBI-conducted session where family members were allowed to hear the final 30 minutes of tapes from the flight's cockpit recorder.
At a visitor center a half-mile from the crash site, Burnett stood by her husband's parents and sisters yesterday while a family friend, Monsignor Joseph Slepicka, celebrated a Mass in memory of the man he knew as Tommy.
"The Gospel says, 'Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends,' " said Slepicka, noting this was what passengers aboard Flight 93 had done.
For Deena Burnett, the trip to this Pennsylvania field was part of an impassioned quest to find a way to make the world a better place.
Back on the morning of the crash, a San Ramon police officer had come to her house, after local authorities learned her husband was on the plane. Full of dread, Burnett darted upstairs to take a brief shower. When she came back downstairs, where the officer had been watching the television news, he told her, "I am afraid I have some bad news for you.' "
When he told her he thought Flight 93 had crashed, she collapsed on a couch.
On that day, Burnett's life changed forever: Tom Burnett, whom she'd known from their second date was the man she wanted to spend the rest of her life with, was dead.
Almost overnight, Burnett, a former Delta Airlines flight attendant and suburban mother of three small daughters, became one of the most forceful family members of Flight 93 victims to plead with the FBI for an opportunity to hear the tape.
Burnett, the daughter of an Arkansas cotton farmer, had a grit behind her soft voice and courteous manner, and she wanted to hear for herself. Two weeks after the crash, Flight 93 victims' families met with President Bush at the White House.
Bush spoke with Burnett and kissed her on both cheeks. She didn't waste her opportunity, telling the president she would like to hear the tape. The president said he could understand why she felt that way.
Last month the FBI scheduled the tape-playing session at a Marriott hotel in Princeton.
As the months passed, Burnett exuded the stoic, almost serene presence of a woman who now had a mission -- to wrest something worthwhile out of the plane's wreckage strewn over the Pennsylvania countryside.
It had all begun on the morning of Sept. 11, when her husband called her four times on his cell phone from aboard the hijacked Newark-to-San Francisco flight. She scribbled down notes and later made a transcript that she always carries with her.
Deena: Where are you? Are you in the air?
Tom: Yes, yes, just listen. Our airplane has been hijacked. It's United Flight 93 from Newark to San Francisco. We are in the air. The hijackers have already knifed a guy, one of them has a gun, and they are telling us there is a bomb on board. Please call the authorities.
-- 6:27 a.m., Sept. 11, 2001, from Burnett's transcript of her husband's first cell phone call to her that day
Burnett's cross-country trip to hear the cockpit tapes started Wednesday morning before the first gray light filled the Contra Costa County sky.
During the night, her twins -- 5-year-olds Halley and Madison -- and 4-year- old Anna Clare had clambered into Burnett's bed one by one, seeking reassurance.
Before leaving the girls behind in her mother's care, Burnett gave them "triple hugs and kisses."
Once on board the Philadelphia-bound United Flight 90, Burnett recounted how fundamentally her life had been transformed.
"My first response was I had been cast into a role I was not prepared to play," she told The Chronicle. "Some days I still feel that way, but I am becoming accustomed to the idea that this happened for a reason."
Before the crash of Flight 93, Burnett said her life was a day-to-day routine of grocery shopping, trips to the cleaner's, volunteer work at Saint Isidore's Catholic Church in Danville, hikes and other outings with the family,
homework and play dates with her girls. . Tom Burnett, who had grown up going on fishing and hunting trips with his father in Minnesota, particularly enjoyed those hikes.
"I was an everyday housewife -- a stay-at-home mom with three kids," Burnett said of her life in her peach-colored, two-story home, with its tastefully upholstered furniture and and thick beige carpet.
"It has struck me my life was normal, if not boring, on Sept. 10, and it is now so far from what it was then," Burnett said.
Deena: Tom, they are hijacking planes all up and down the East Coast. They are taking them and hitting designated targets. They've already hit both towers of the World Trade Center.
Tom: They're talking about crashing this plane. (A pause.) Oh my God. It's a suicide mission.
-- 6:34 a.m., from Tom Burnett's second call
During the Burnetts' 10-year marriage, Tom Burnett was very concerned about his wife's security because he traveled so much.
Five years ago, he went to work for a medical device company based in Pleasanton and the couple bought a new home in a gated community with immaculate streets lined with rows of similar tile-roofed homes.
This setting gave them some comfort, but Tom Burnett -- a former Bloomington, Minn., star high school quarterback and president of his University of Minnesota fraternity -- wanted more.
"Tom was the kind of guy who prepared for every situation," Deena Burnett recalled. He would put her through drills, saying, "OK, I am traveling and you are upstairs. You hear the front door open and someone is coming up the stairs.
What do you do?"
Deena Burnett said she told her husband she'd scream and he said, "OK, but make sure the window is open first so the neighbors can hear you."
It wasn't that he thought she couldn't handle anything, she said. He just wanted to make sure she'd thought of every eventuality.
Now, living with an eventuality neither could have foreseen, Deena Burnett waited to hear the cockpit tape.
When that day finally arrived Thursday, it was swelteringly hot and muggy in Princeton.
Wearing a pin of the U.S. flag on the lapel of her starched blue cotton dress, Burnett sat with her husband's parents, Thomas Burnett Sr., 72, and Beverly Burnett, 71, and his two sisters, Martha Burnett O'Brien, 46, and Mary Jurgens, 33, among rows of relatives facing a large screen in the ballroom at the Princeton Marriott Forrestal Village.
When she first heard the passengers' violent struggle with the four terrorists, she said, she cried so hard it made it difficult for her to listen for voices. When she heard the tape a second time, she distinctly heard her husband's voice among those giving instructions to other passengers on a planned revolt. "It was a beautiful gift" to hear his voice, she said.
In front of a battery of cameras and microphones outside the hotel, Burnett told reporters that she found peace from the tape. But later that night alone in her Manhattan hotel room, she cried.
"I didn't expect those sounds on the tape to be howling or haunting, but they were," she said. "The sounds were producing visual images, and I realized the horror of what they went through."
The next morning, though, Burnett got up at 4:30 a.m. and gave interviews to seven network morning television shows in Manhattan. Then she visited the World Trade Center site with her husband's family and gazed down on the spot where 2,843 people died when the twin towers collapsed after being hit by two terrorist jets.
Looking at the rubble, she thought of how her husband and the others aboard Flight 93 averted a similar loss of life by thwarting the four terrorists aboard their aircraft.
After the visit to the Shanksville crash site yesterday, Burnett was returning home to her daughters today. The months ahead will bring more change.
In June, Burnett will move with her mother, Sandra, and her daughters to Little Rock, Ark., where most of her family lives. Burnett, who has an undergraduate degree in communications from Northeast Louisiana University, says at some point she will go to work again -- maybe in speech pathology so she can help other people and still have time with her daughters.
As the days go by, she says she is learning that she now carries a responsibility which she said "is to make something positive come from the events of Sept. 11 -- to help inspire those who will listen to live a life worthy of those who died for our freedom."
Tom: They're talking about crashing this plane into the ground. We have to do something. I'm putting a plan together.
Deena: Who's helping you?
Tom: Different people. Several people. There's a group of us. Don't worry. I'll call you back.
-- 6:45 a.m., from Tom Burnett's third call
Before her husband's death, Burnett said, she had read of the world's wars.
"But I never gave much thought to the men and women who died in wars -- I never felt the weight of their loss until now," she said. "That's where the responsibility lies -- in recognition of the hundreds and thousands of people who have died in similar circumstances and what we owe them for the sacrifice they made for future generations."
Since soon after Sept. 11, a U.S. flag has hung by her garage, and a sign pasted in a window echoes her husband's comment in their last phone call about passengers' plans to retake Flight 93: "We're going to do something."
In her daily life, one of the hardest times is when pieces of mail arrive addressed to Tom Burnett -- especially the National Review, with its conservative commentary on politics, news and culture, and also the magazines about hunting, a sport he loved to do with his father, a retired high school English teacher in Northfield, Minn.
"I dread going to the mailbox now, but I haven't the heart to cancel those magazines," she said. "It is just one of those little things that makes this all very real."
The other day, though, she was amazed to receive a certificate signed by Bush, something she said was usually only given to the family of someone killed in military combat.
The certificate stated that the United States honored her husband and that the document was "awarded by a grateful nation in recognition of devoted and selfless consecration to the service of our country in the Armed Forces of the United States."
Deena: What do you want me to do?
Tom: Pray, Deena, just pray.
Deena: (after a long pause) I love you.
Tom: Don't worry, we're going to do something.
-- 6:54 a.m., Tom Burnett's last call


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Marcel Duchamp caused an art world uproar in 1917 when he took a mass-produced urinal, signed it, put it in a gallery, and called it art. This month, a group of contemporary artists are doing roughly the opposite, creating items that deliberately blur the line between art object and retail product and selling them in quantities in a New York gallery.
DISown, a retail exhibition curated by DIS Magazine and Agatha Wara, includes contributions from over 30 pace-setting artists. The ranks include Norwegian provocateur Bjarne Melgaard, Google Maps Street View explorer Jon Rafman, and Ryan Trecartin, the 33-year-old video wunderkind who a New Yorker critic deemed "the most consequential artist to have emerged since the nineteen-eighties."
These names may not be familiar ones, but one goal of DISown, at least conceptually, is to bring them out of the rarefied world of contemporary art and into real life. This bit from the press release does a nice job of explaining the endeavor: "Luxury brands couldn't exist without the cheap belts and underwear that they make for the average consumer. DISown is making the 'belts and underwear' version of art, in effect creating artist diffusion lines."
Art and capitalism are longtime bedfellows, and lately things have been kinkier than ever.
The diffusion takes an unsurprisingly weird variety of forms, some closer to the actual "product" end of the spectrum than others. Bangkok-born Korakrit Arunanondchai created a sweatshirt and sweatpant set designed to look like a denim jacket and jeans on fire. Product description: "Feel the look of denim on fire with the comfortable, fun and easy to wear BANGKOKBOYS sweatshirt and sweatpants. An easy solution for the problem of not being able to wash and wear clothes that are actually on fire." A contribution from Lizzie Fitch, Ryan Trecartin's longtime collaborator, is a planter set on the familiar five-wheeled base of a typical task chair–a "functional mobile planter for an idealized office world." Prices for the products range from $50 to $500, with proceeds split between DIS and the artists.
Art and capitalism are longtime bedfellows, and things have been kinkier than ever in the last half century. The Pop Art of the '50s and '60s often looked to mass media and mass production for its subject matter–think Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans. DISown takes the intermingling one step further, not simply playing with the language of consumer capitalism but actually adopting the machinery of it.
The retail/gallery mash-up raises questions about taste, style, and why we buy art in the first place. But it also starts us searching for the boundaries we use, however subconsciously, to separate art objects from commercial products in general. Introducing the edition of DIS magazine that accompanies the DISown event, Agatha Wara points us to a clip in which the economist Milton Friedman explains how a simple pencil comes into the world:
The wood from which it is made, for all I know, comes from a tree that was cut down in the state of Washington. To cut down that tree, it took a saw. To make the saw, it took steel. To make steel, it took iron ore. This black center—we call it lead but it's really graphite, compressed graphite—I'm not sure where it comes from, but I think it comes from some mines in South America. This red top up here, this eraser, a bit of rubber, probably comes from Malaya, where the rubber tree isn't even native! It was imported from South America by some businessmen with the help of the British government.
Contemporary art, Wara argues, is built on a similar chain of handoffs and handshakes. With DISown, then, we have a chance to interrogate "just what sets apart our "art stuff" from "mere everyday stuff" especially when they share such similar means of production and circulation."
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Planning and designing your new home should include features and details that will make your home more livable as well as an extension of your personal style. The planning stage is the perfect time to make sure that your new home has all the features that you truly desire. Here are a few ideas to ponder as you draw up your wish list.
Living in Northern Michigan means four season weather conditions. You'll want your dream home to be accommodating regardless of the season. If you plan to live year-round in Northern Michigan, you may wish to consider an attached garage with a breezeway or an entrance that leads into a mud room This is convenient for hanging damp clothes, and to shed wet or muddy shoes before tracking in a mess to the rest of the home.
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Nothing beats an open floor plan for adding the feel of spaciousness no matter the size of the home. Popular designs include large windows to let in light and to appreciate the beauty of your setting. Often this area becomes the central feature of the home and sets the stage for the rest of your design ideas.
Lighting is often overlooked and adding the required wiring and fixtures later can be a nuisance. Home owners in Northern Michigan need to consider how seasonal changes in natural and ambient lighting will affect each room and plan accordingly. Be sure to consider how trees and landscaping can change the amount of available light with the change of seasons. Sometimes flipping the blueprint or changing the orientation of the house on the land can make a significant impact.
Laundry Rooms
No one ever complained about having too big of a laundry room. With all the outdoor recreation opportunities that our area has, you'll likely find need to accommodate extra laundry as well as storage for the extra gear and clothing.
Like laundry, extra space for storing your wardrobe is super desirable. Walk-in closets are great as they can be designed to arrange easier access and provide better lighting making for a much more functional space. Consider finishing the interior with genuine cedar. Cedar naturally repels moths and other insects, it is low maintenance, and provides a natural fresh scent!
Sometimes living in Northern Michigan means that your closest grocery store might not be so convenient. Having extra room to store staples can make country living more enjoyable. Walk-in pantries also give you more space to store kitchen gadgets that might otherwise take up up counter space.
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There's something special about a home bar. Perhaps you entertain frequently, and a bar makes a great place to congregate or maybe you've always wanted a place where everybody knows your name. With Northern Michigan being home to so many great breweries, a built-in tap system is a perfect way to enjoy the local flavor.
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The Memory Palace is a history podcast masterfully delivered by host Nate DiMeo.
The stories are lovingly crafted. They are often spooky, often heartbreaking, but it's over so quickly I'm left wanting more. Nate's delivery is perfect, and the control he has over you throughout the podcast is incredible. By the end Nate lifts the atmosphere, revealing the ending, often with a wry observation. It's like waking up from a dream.
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The final deadline to submit your nomination for the seventh annual Construction Week Oman Awards has been revealed
The nominations deadline for the Construction Week Oman Awards 2018 has been extended.
Companies and individuals wishing to nominate themselves or their colleagues for this year's event have until next week to submit their entries.
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All nominations for the CW Oman Awards 2018 must be submitted by end-of-business on Wednesday, 7 February, 2018.
The seventh annual CW Oman Awards will take place on Monday, 12 March, 2018, at the Grand Hyatt hotel in Muscat.
More than 200 decision-makers will gather at the grand finale to celebrate the achievements of construction professionals from across the sultanate.
Construction companies and professionals active in Oman can submit nominations across 13 awards categories, which are designed to recognise and reward individual excellence, corporate prowess, and project success.
Visit the event's microsite to find out more about this year's awards categories and the nominations process.
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"Childhood memories are sometimes covered and obscured beneath the things that come later, like childhood toys forgotten at the bottom of a crammed adult closet," Neil Gaiman writes in his slim, dark dream of a new novel, "The Ocean at the End of the Lane." "But they are never lost for good." Who we used to be sometimes seems like a faint shadow of who we are now, but Gaiman helps us remember the wonder and terror and powerlessness that owned us as children.
The novel begins when a man, the narrator, returns to his childhood home in Sussex, England, where he long ago knew a girl named Lettie Hempstock. When he rambles through her farm, when he follows the trail to the duck pond, he might as well be traveling through time. Memories are waiting all around, beckoning him, and when he tosses a hazelnut into the water, the ripples carry across his mind as he remembers "everything."
First, that he and Lettie used to call the pond the ocean. Anyone who has ever returned to a childhood home after so many years knows how small everything seems now, how outsize everything seemed then. A king bed turns out to be a twin. A cavernous fort turns out to be a cramped, dusty burrow beneath the stairs. An ocean turns out to be a duck pond.
Or maybe not. Maybe it actually is the ocean. And maybe Lettie's grandmother really can make the moon full every night, maybe she has been alive long enough to have witnessed the Big Bang.
When the narrator remembers his life 40-odd years ago, when he was 7, he remembers magic. A magic first unleashed by a lodger who steals the family car, drives to the end of the lane, runs a hose from the tailpipe to the window and fills his lungs with smoke. The suicide stirs ancient powers, chief among them a nanny named Ursula Monkton, who appears sometimes as a beautiful gray-eyed woman and other times as a "thing" with a face like ragged rotting cloth and limbs like broken mainsails.
Ursula seduces the narrator's family, and he is the only one who recognizes her as a monster. His sole hope lies at the end of the lane, where the powerful good-hearted Hempstocks live — 11-year-old Lettie, her mother and grandmother — on a farm that is a portal to other worlds.
The narrator is frightened, as you would expect, but he has been frightened his whole life; he sleeps with the door open and the hallway light on. He has been alone, too; no one comes to his seventh birthday party. We all know the vulnerability of childhood, when terrors lurked in the dark and bossy, moody adults judged our every move like impossible gods. This novel is at its most powerful and frightening when it exaggerates that defenselessness, as when the father kicks down the door of the bathroom, fills the tub with cold water and shoves his disobedient boy beneath the surface while Ursula observes them with her rotting-cloth eyes. "People kept pulling their faces off to reveal new faces beneath," the narrator observes of the adults in his life.
He finds consolation in books, in adventures and fantasies. They offer him the cues and answers the human world cannot. Lewis Carroll is quoted more than once, appropriate given Gaiman's Mad Hatter imagination and the novel's rabbit hole imaginings. "They taught me most of what I knew about what people did, about how to behave. They were my teachers and my advisers."
Gaiman has said much the same in interviews, and it's interesting to consider how he and other fantasy writers have inherited and revised the genre. Anyone attracted to fairy tales and fables should check out the stories and criticism of Kate Bernheimer. I'll bastardize some of her thoughts here by saying that the fairy tale normalizes magic. If a baby turns into a pig or a wolf speaks in a pleasing baritone or a star descends from the sky and changes into an elderly woman with three wishes to spare, the characters do not question the illogic of the circumstances but freely accept that the surreal is real.
Rarely does someone say, "This can't be happening," in a Karen Russell story, a Kevin Brockmeier story, an Aimee Bender or Matt Bell story. Because Gaiman's adult narrator is unreliable — he admits to chasms in his memory — and because he is describing his adventures as a fanciful 7-year-old who spends his days lost in books, the reader can effortlessly accept the extraordinary made ordinary. Whether it is real, or the wild dreams of childhood, doesn't matter so much. Because to a child the jungle gym is a pirate ship, the shadow in the closet is a monster, the pennies in the belly of the piggy bank are gold. Imagination is reality.
As a writer, there are two ways you can go about this. Give in to whimsy. Let the imagination run free. Werewolves attend boarding school (as in Russell's "St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves"); a black obelisk descends on Earth (Brockmeier's "Ceiling").
Alternately, you can try to persuade the reader that magic is perfectly reasonable. Patrick Rothfuss, whose fantasy novels rival those of George R. R. Martin, spends a great deal of time explaining his magic system. There is an almost slippery science behind the spells and potions, so convincingly described the reader feels enchantment within reach.
I wondered about this — whimsy versus logic — when reading Gaiman. It feels rather curmudgeonly to say, but I'm not sure you can have it both ways. Gaiman talks about "Dark Matter, the material of the universe that makes up everything that must be there but we cannot find," and riffs his way into a kind of quantum physics school of magic. This aligns nicely with the Hempstocks' ability to snip out pieces of time, channel energy, remember the Big Bang. But then something more whimsical will pop up, as when a character mentions that Cousin Japeth "went off to fight in the Mouse Wars." That sort of silliness feels like a slight to the more substantial world-building Gaiman has achieved.
Though marketed to adults, this book would be equally at home on a young adult bookshelf. Aside from one scene of sex (described abstractly and confusedly through the eyes of a 7-year-old), it feels like a family-friendly nightmare, its tenor akin to that of Gaiman's Newbery-winning "Graveyard Book." The two novels are close cousins in other ways as well. A young boy faces horror and finds himself expelled from his family, alone and insecure. He befriends a girl who grants him access to another world. He finds sanctuary in a supernatural family. He flirts with supernatural powers that aren't fully reachable to them. And in the end, as the protagonists grow into men, they lose their ability to access the extraordinary.
This is not a reductive summary — each novel is a distinct treasure — but an effort to highlight a preoccupation: Gaiman is especially accomplished in navigating the cruel, uncertain dreamscape of childhood.
There is a moment, toward the end of this novel, when the narrator drops into the duck pond (or ocean, as the Hempstocks call it), and his mind melts and achieves a kind of transcendent understanding: "I saw the world I had walked since my birth and I understood how fragile it was, that the reality I knew was a thin layer of icing on a great dark birthday cake writhing with grubs and nightmares and hunger."
Which replicates the experience I have whenever reading one of Gaiman's books. His mind is a dark fathomless ocean, and every time I sink into it, this world fades, replaced by one far more terrible and beautiful in which I will happily drown.


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Pop Pop Bang is a collaboration between creative director Anna Burns and the photographerThomas Brown. Through the use of various mediums the pair have curated an exhibition that explores the masculine world of B-Movies and juxtaposed it with the traditional British landscape.
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water sculpture
New York base Japanese artist Shinichi Maruyama created a unique way to express his work with water, ink and a very large brush.
Chris Cunningham: jaqapparatus1
A sculptor/director/makeup-artist/musician, Chris Cunningham use his latest Laser-Fueled Robo-Sex Ballet to express his creativity .
Watch video here >>Chris Cunningham: jaqapparatus1 on Nowness.com.
From his formative years sculpting alien heads for Ridley Scott to his recent "jaqapparatus1" robotic performance-art installation, seminal music video director-turned-artist Chris Cunningham retraces his varied and critically acclaimed career in this personal, self-directed short. One of an elite group of directors alongside Spike Jonze, Michel Gondry and Jonathan Glazer who redefined MTV in the 1990s, Cunningham elevated the pop promo to a burgeoning art form with daring and disturbing music videos for the likes of Aphex Twin, Björk and Madonna. While his peers graduated to the big screen, Cunningham went underground, quit making promos and commercials, and spent the best part of a decade experimenting with fusions of film, music, art and technology that culminated in a string of live audio-visual performances at festivals in Japan and Europe. For "jaqapparatus1", his first installation unveiled last month at the Audi City London high-tech concept store—a shadowy, sci-fi set involving two laser-firing robots locked in what seemed like a brutal mating ritual-cum-war—Cunningham cast two Talos motion-controlled camera rigs as his anthropomorphized protagonists. "Mounted on the robots heads are powerful lasers which they use to attack, repel and communicate with each other," explains Cunningham, "a kind of duel, a surreal mating display which sees each machine trying to dominate the other."
Swimmer Shaved
A short video of a male covered with shaving foam and shave with a invisible line to perform a visual effect to please mostly ladies.watch video here
The Art of the Close Shave Demonstrated in Fashion Filmmaker Bart Hess' Sexy Short
The seductive curves of a toned figure are slowly unveiled by the ultimate seamless shave in designer, animator and photographer Bart Hess's sleek new film. Inspired by the aerodynamic forms of swimmers currently battling it out in the Olympic pool, Hess was aided by a pair of human shavers manipulating a two-meter long blade in turning a mechanical act of grooming into a strangely hypnotic performance. "What is important to me in my work is a sense of estranging," admits Hess, who added the white bar in post-production to compound the uncanny feel of the film. "I want to show the spectator an image that may not be recognizable right away." Collaborating on textiles with designers like Ann Sofie Back and Iris van Herpen, and sculpting unique outfits for photographer Nick Knight's editorials for AnOther Magazine and US Vogue, Hess is known for his experimental treatment of materials, like the 15Ib slime dress created for Lady Gaga's Born This Way album and video. "Normally within my work I am looking for the limits of a material," says Hess. "But in this film I was looking for the limits of the shaving ritual by scaling it up to include the whole body." Here, Hess takes NOWNESS beneath the skin of his shoot.
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Highly Strung
The performance of Highly Strung featuring the giant 14 meter puppet took place on the night of October 28th 2011 during the Nati Frinj festival. The puppet took ten people to operate and had animation (largely created by the children at the local primary school) projected onto it from projectors mounted both on the ground and in the head of the puppet itself. Music by Stephen Oakes
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Syria's Opposition Accuses Assad, Nasrallah of Bringing to Standstill Efforts to Resolve Crisisإقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
The Syrian opposition said on Saturday that Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah's recent statements meant the Syrian regime and its allies had a strategy to bring the international efforts to resolve the Syrian crisis to a dead end.
"The Hizbullah militia does not have any decision-making but it is … the porte-parole of the Iranian regime," the National Coalition said in a statement.
His remarks "make sense because the survival of his forces is linked to (Syrian President Bashar) Assad's survival," it said.
"Nasrallah's remarks meant that there is a clear strategy by Assad and his allies to bring the international efforts to a dead end and take back the Syrian file to the starting point," the statement added.
Assad was re-elected in a landslide, officials said Wednesday, capturing a third seven-year term in the middle of a bloody three-year-old uprising against his rule that has devastated the country.
"Syria's election is one of the most important events that have recently happened, in addition to this popular turnout which represents a major victory for its leadership," Nasrallah said in a speech on Friday.
"The Syrians said we're the ones who make Syria's future, not the U.S. or Geneva I and Geneva II" talks, he added.
idiot hezbi whore still sounds hollow, his stupid robotic posts is the perfect image of what this militia is made of: empty brains....
.. and poor uneducated people who follow Iran like sheep to the slaughter.
Shia Takfiris
Alqaida Takfiris
...same thing.
I hope they eat each other starting with you lebpatriot2323 Takfiri.
Nope lebpatriot2323 I'm in Lebanon 12 years now.... Stupid ...
Don't forget there are 4,000,000 Lebanese in Lebanon and 12,000,000 outside Lebanon ...
12 years stupid... Takfiri Shia scum.
Wow really pissed you off lebpatriot2323
74% turnout ... Considering the demographics of the war sooooooo impossible !!!
Stupid dictators and tyrants they now Zero of HOW elections work....
My Home country is Canada and Lebanon. More than what I an say about you from Iran or is it Syria .... 74+ % turn out...
Saudi Arabia I like you hope it becomes democratic one day ... Iran too
But unlike you you will always say Iran and KSA are different
But I say they both serve the Zionist
Can you say the same ... Can you not see the truth...
Can you not see they both compete to win favours from the USA/Zion machine.
So go shove M8 and M14 ....*}^^#%**%
74% turnout ... Considering the demographics of the war sooooooo impossible !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
People or sheep like you truly believe everything that is spoon fed to you... You can't possibly sit down and ponder in your own thoughts and maybe consider you are been made a fool of.
Do you seriously believe what a politician says!?!?!? From ANY part of the earth... That's how bad things are on this planet now... I hate people who believe everything they are spoon fed...
JUST for once consider it, consider that you are been fooled and played with...
By both M8/14.
Nope lebpatriot2323 I'm in Lebanon 12 years now.... Stupid ...
Don't forget there are 4,000,000 Lebanese in Lebanon and 12,000,000 outside Lebanon ...
12 years stupid... Takfiri Shia scum.
pajama boy... in Australia it's 99% turnout!
74% of "eligible voters"... which means is 11million voted from approx 14million eligible voters of the 24 million syrians. If the regime forces control 70% of the populated areas, those that left syria illegally or the 30% living under ISIS or Al NUsra and the islamic front can't vote.
There is no national opposition or coalition or FSA.This is just a turkish soap opera that begs for money. Has no support or any influence on the ground in syria. So reality is... The jihadist, al nusra and the islamic front (allied with al Qaida) or ISIS (too extreme for al Qaida).... or the Assad Regime.
You cant keep living in denial. this is the reality on the ground. the rest of the world knows it's over.
Ado I'm sorry man but you don't make sense?
There are 22.3 million of Syrians, at minimum 7 million children ... At the minimum! 7 million.
That leaves 15 million eligible voters.
ASSad says he got 10.7 mil of (74%) of the eligible voters ...ok?
10.7 - 15.0 = 4.3 mil eligible voters that are NOT in ASSad territory
Of the 4.3 mil
Over 3.0 mil are outside Syria ...
So only 1.3 mil in opposition Syrian land?!?!?!
And remember from the ASSad tyrants mouth, about 400,000 expats were able to register and vote outside Syria. And most were from Lebanon ... And the others in Turkey UAE KSA Jordan Germany .... We're not allowed to vote for a tyrants reelection...
Yes let's have election but allow AALLLLLL


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You Have Ample Space
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It Saves You a Lot of Home
Home swapping turns out to be cost-effective than booking a hotel room. In a hotel, the more comfort and flexibility you want the more money you pay. The rates limit your days in a hotel but when you opt for home swapping, you can enjoy more days at an affordable rate.
The comfort you get in a home cannot be compared to paying thousands of dollars in a hotel. You save on other hotel bills when you have to buy snacks and drinks that have been overpriced. You buy them in bulk to stock up your bridge which will save you lots of money.
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Holiday swapping gives you a delightful experience of a destination and the local community. It's affordable especially when you have a family and it's convenient.


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Last night, after a months of speculation (and—for those that slept outside the Mondo Gallery in anticipation of the event—after a few restless nights on the sidewalk lining 41st and Guadalupe in downtown Austin, TX) the good folks at Mondo finally opened the doors on their Universal Monsters Gallery show. With nearly 20 new prints on sale, over 50 original pieces of artwork, and surprise appearances from legendary poster artist Drew Struzan and Shawshank Redemption director Frank Darabont, the show was a smash success.
Wanna see some images from the show and hear what Limited Paper thought about the whole thing? Meet me after the jump, folks.
First of all, let's get an apology out of the way: when I woke up this morning and sat down to produce my big-ass writeup covering the grand opening of the Mondo Gallery's Universal Monsters show, I discovered that either my router or my internet provider had totally crapped the bed overnight, making it very difficult to provide a quick-and-easy writeup regarding last night's show. I've set up shop inside a nearby Starbuck's in order to bring you the photos you're about to see below, but I'm also planning on getting a more involved/thorough writeup (not to mention the coverage from the "Universal Monsters Tattooapalooza" event Limited Paper threw in conjunction with Shaman Body Modifications in Austin, TX) hammered out for you the moment the internet comes back online at Limited Paper HQ. These aren't the circumstances under which I'd like to be sharing these images, but in the interest of getting something up sooner rather than later…here we are.
Secondly: what an amazing evening. It's common knowledge by now that every Mondo Gallery show is something special—from their biggest shows (the first-ever "Sci-Fi"-themed show, last night's Universal Monsters-themed shindig) to their smallest affairs (Jay Shaw's Don't Go Out Tonight, last month's Brandenburg & Drake Show)—but last night's event was easily the most involved, overwhelmingly impressive gathering ever organized at Austin's Mondo Gallery. The photos throughout this article document the scene inside the Gallery last night, and—as you can see—it was truly spectacular.
Outside, a line started to form nearly two days in advance of the opening. In between trips to and from the airport (to pick up fellow collectors who were coming into two for the event), I swung by the line to see how morale was holding up, and everyone was in high spirits. Locals brought chairs, baked goods, coffee, donuts, and various other supplies to keep people well-stocked and as comfortable as possible during the wait, and (from what I saw) things remained relatively civil from the time the line formed all the way up through the moment (again, almost 48 hours later) that the gallery doors opened.
And when they did, the Mondo guys did not disappoint. New artwork from Martin Ansin, Ken Taylor, Laurent Durieux, Drew Struzan, and many, many others covered every available wall, offering unique and beautiful takes on the most iconic movie monsters Hollywood's ever created. Drinks were being served both inside and outside (on the newly-constructed back patio, which offered a comfortable U-shaped bench for fans to sit on while shooting the shit about what they'd already bought, planned on buying, or were sad they couldn't afford), while fans circulated through the show.
Many fans were priced out of the OG's (Struzan's stuff, for instance, was selling for about $5k per piece), but there were still a number of far-more-affordable pieces on offer (one collection of OG's—from Delicious Design League—was made up of $60 pieces, and elsewhere I saw OG's in the $300-700 range). At the counter, Mondo's own Mo Shafeek and Justin Brookheart valiantly met the swarm of fans that crowded the buy-counter, filling orders, bagging posters, and bullshitting with fans as they stepped up to talk about their favorite pieces from the show. The atmosphere was electric, joyful, totally free of the drama that seems to have dominated the online portion of this hobby lately.
About halfway through the evening, rumors started to circulate that one or two "special guests" might be arriving, and everyone seemed to have their own opinions as to who those guests might be: Robert Rodriguez had already showed up earlier in the evening, but fans were also whispering that Martin Ansin and Metallica's Kirk Hammett might also be making surprise appearances at some point. As it turns out, the "special guests" were none other than legendary poster artist Drew Struzan and acclaimed director Frank Darabont. Their arrival was met by countless cheers and camera flashes, and both took the time to stop and chat with any fan that approached (Struzan seemed somewhat overwhelmed by the hero's welcome he received).
The prints available for purchase would've been more than enough, but looking through the original works, meeting these living legends, and having a comfortable place to kick back, relax and talk posters with fellow collectors elevated this event to a level that no other Mondo Gallery show has ever approached. The Universal Monsters Gallery show was one for the books, an event that fans of the Mondo brand will probably judge all future Mondo Gallery shows against (I spoke with one Mondo associate who just sighed and shook his head when I asked how they ever planned on topping this event) and one they'll never forget. It was incredible, and almost certainly worth whatever amount of effort anyone went through in order to attend the show.
Like we said up top, I'm going to be back in another day or so with two more write-ups for you—one covering the "Universal Monsters Tattooapalooza" event that Limited Paper threw in conjunction with Shaman Body Mods of Austin, the other offering more details about each of the prints that were made available during the Universal Monsters show—but for now, please enjoy the images spread throughout this article. For those that weren't able to attend, we recommend swinging by the Mondo Gallery (located at 41st and Guadalupe in downtown Austin, TX) as soon as possible: the show may run for the next few weeks, but for now there are still a ton of posters on sale (only the Taylor variant and the Mike Mitchell giclees were sold out at the time of this writing), and all ya gotta do is swing by to pick 'em up.
As always, if you're an artist or gallery with artwork you'd like to see featured on Limited Paper (or if you're just some lucky bastard who happened to overhear a bit of poster-related gossip while standing in the bushes outside Martin Ansin's house) we wanna hear from you! Email Limited Paper directly at firstname.lastname@example.com, and be sure that you're following us on Twitter via @LimitedPaper for ongoing commentary, news updates, giveaways, and more!
Check out over 90 images from the gallery event below (click on the pictures for high res):


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So the bf is no longer the bf any longer he is now the fiancé. Being the un-romantic kind he took me and one of my nieces to a local mall told me I had a budget and to choose a ring. I found one, he bought it and I am now an engaged badger.
So I guess you can say that I have added a little more anxiety to the picture as I know have a wedding to arrange though when that will be I have no idea. If I had the money I would want as soon as possible but money is going to be the problem. I have debt on top of debt at the moment and the fiancé no longer has a job as he quit it due to personality clashes and the stress that the job had been bringing him. He also has no idea what he wants to do next and knowing him as I do he will take his time and be lazy about it too.
I guess the other big news is that my sister no longer lives with me. After another stint in hospital she has been released and has got a place of her own or she may be living with people she knows. We are not sure which one as she hasn't really told us anything. She took her dog and then returned him and says that she is going to collect her stuff. She has also broken into the house twice.
My mother is no longer speaking to my youngest brother due to his wife in one of her fights where her opponent has no idea that they are fighting. Though admittedly he is not making an effort to talk to her so maybe he is more aware than we know. He usually calls her once a week and hasn't since the dispute occurred. She though does have a good reason for her anger at my brother and sister-in-law.
State of Origin starts tonight and for the first time in a long time it seems that I will have to watch the match. I really don't want to watch as I was going to start my yearly watch of Cowboy Bebop tonight but the fiancé is coming over to watch the match as he is unable to as he can't get a signal where he is at the moment. He really needs to move in and with my sister gone he can though I guess with him being unemployed….
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Scarabs, Chronology, and Interconnections Egypt and Palestine in the Second Intermediate Period. 2007 XII-212 p. text + 228 p. plates. ISBN 978-3-7278-1593-5. Dr.Daphna Ben-Tor.Curator of Egyptian Archaeology at Israeli Museum in Jerusalem. **Signed by author personally**. Scarabs, Chronology, and Interconnections Egypt and Palestine in the Second Intermediate Period. Collection: Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis, Series Archaeologica (OBO SA), volume 27. The present study deals with relations between Egypt and the Levant during the Second Intermediate Period, based primarily on contemporary scarabs from both regions. The potential contribution of scarabs for the historical reconstruction of the Second Intermediate Period, especially with regard to Egyptian/Levantine relations, has long been recognized. Yet the controversy over scarab typologies ruled out scarabs as a reliable historical source. This study proposes a new typology of scarabs of the first half of the second millennium BCE, which is now feasible owing to recent studies of ceramic assemblages from Egypt and the Levant. Based on these studies one can determine the relative and absolute dates of deposits in which scarabs and scarab impressions have been found in both regions, and substantiate the corrrespondence of the Second Intermediate Period in Egypt with the Middle Bronze Age IIB in the Levant. The principal methodological difference between the present study and previous scarab studies is its treatment of the Egyptian and Palestinian series as two separate groups. The geographical classification of the large corpus of scarabs, which previously had been dealt with as one entity, allowed for a systematic differentiation between Egyptian and Canaanite scarabs of this period and the establishment of separate stylistic and chronological typologies for each group. The historical conclusions presented in this study confirm the significance of scarabs as a primary source of information for reconstructing the history of the Second Intermediate Period in Egypt and the Levant. Daphna Ben-Tor is the curator of Egyptian Archaeology at The Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Born in Jerusalem, she received a B.A. in Archaeology, M.A. and Ph.D. in Egyptology from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her scholarly work focuses on scarabs of the first half of the second millennium BCE, mainly with regard to Egyptian/Levantine relations. XII-212 pages text, 228 pages plates. **Signed by author personally**. Please reserve you copy now. Shipping included in price.
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As I test it at home with a clean olfactory palette, I am stunned at its sensuous, slightly metallic beauty. I must quote directly from Bond No. 9 because they have done such a superb job at marketing this fragrance.
"We conceived of Silver Factory as a smooth, smoky, spicy blend of interlacing incense (a key scent of the 60's), wood resin, and syrupy, seductive amber. But just to complicate things, we gave it a heart of jasmine, iris, and violet - a scent that Warhol was especially fond of. These slightly dissonant florals combine to evoke a metallic effect - that of warmed-up, molten silver. And then, for the merest hint of coolness, we threw in a handful of cedarwood."
Top Notes: Citrussy Bergamot in soft and gentle mode (as if it had a hangover), impudently zesty Grapefruit, mood-altering Lavender
Middle Notes: Non-shrinking Violet (Andy Warhol's favorite scent), intoxicating Incense summoning up the 60's with a single sniff, criminally sultry Jasmine, elusive, metallic Iris, smelling the way silver might smell
Bottom Notes: Velvety-soft Amber - a tranquilizer in fragrance form, syrupy Wood Resin, hinting of a raunchy breed of vanilla and cool but sensual Cedarwood
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Did you know KMB hails from San Diego? This is our hood, people! Here are KMB's recs for our fave San Diego restaurants, plus entertainment and escape spots to beat the chaos of the CEDIA show floor.
Breakfast Republic (Liberty Station) (Formerly MCRD)
Filled with arts, eats, and shops, Liberty Station has become one of our go-to's now that the original Naval Base and Marine Corp Recruiting Depot has been completely overhauled and repurposed. We are particularly fond of Breakfast Republic, where you can enjoy the most important meal and power up for your CEDIA agenda. Try the breakfast Mac-n-Cheese! Open from 7am–3pm, it also has 20 beers on tap. Delish.
The LOT Movies & Dining
Also at Liberty Station, The LOT is great for all of the many movie and dining fans that CEDIA inevitably attracts. It's one of those new theaters with a restaurant and bar, all with the great AV (not to mention incredibly comfy seats by Fortress Seating). A high-energy social hub for craft coffee, artisan pastries, elevated cuisine, premium spirits, and sophisticated wines.
Women's Museum of California (Liberty Station)
Need a little culture in your CEDIA week? Check out the Women's Museum of California while you're at Liberty Station, where Katye's sister heads up the events and design teams!
Rubio's Coastal Grill
As cliché as it might sound for a native Californian to recommend a fish taco, it's hard to beat one when you're in America's Finest City. If you've never tried a fish taco, this is the year to do it!
Puesto Mexican Artisan Kitchen and Bar
Stewart Filmscreen's Shannon Townley introduced us to Puesto, very near the Convention Center. Good prices for fresh food and powerful drinks. (And you know you are gonna need one after day one!)
El Indio Mexican Restaurant
We're huge fans of authentic Mexican food, and one of our favorites is close to downtown—El Indio Mexican Restaurant and tortilla factory. Insider tip: We often stop here before going back home in order to get a stash of fresh corn and flour tortillas. If you have access to a freezer the night before you depart, these tortillas freeze and travel well in a plastic bag (now outlawed in California).
Roberto's Taco Shop
For an entirely different, very SoCal, authentic Mexican food experience known to many who grew up in the area (and perhaps had too much to drink on rare occasion), visit the Roberto's empire. Really, honestly, any "-erto's" is more than likely gonna be good. Try the rolled tacos and a carne asada or California burrito.
Bluewater Seafood Market and Grill
Like fish? Look no further than Bluewater Seafood Market and Grill, which happens to be next to El Indio. John Bennett says you have to have one of their fish sandwiches! Be careful, you might want to move to SD just for this sandwich. #Truth.
Point Loma Seafoods
Robert Keeler of Stewart Filmscreen agrees that this is the place to go for your daytime seafood eating needs, especially if you like a diverse—very diverse—seafood offering. They claim to be the "freshest thing in town," and friends agree.
Little Italy
If authentic Italian food and atmospher is more your style, try Little Italy. We like both Solunto (the bakery!) and Sorrento (great pizza!)
Rustic Root
This place has incredible rustic American fare where traditional dishes are given a modern twist. Last year several companies and KMB got to know Rustic Root and became big fans. We're going back and know others who are too. Like Shawn Tobin of CE Pro, whose bone-in ribeye was larger than his head. (This was proven. We saw the pictures.)
Raised by Wolves
We haven't been here yet but friends tell us it's a fun place to be. Yelp reviews suggest it might be a bit of a pain, so proceed with caution. We're gonna check it out for a) the interior design (see below) and b) the fact that it's a speakeasy. KMB loves to speak easy.
The Whiskey House
Whiskey lovers, rejoice. We're told this place is the place to go while in SanDiego. Industry expert Robert Keeler of Stewart Filmscreen attests to the breadth of its offering, which tops 600 different kinds of whiskey.
Gelato Vero Cafe
Big fans of ice cream here at KMB. So we always try to stop at Gelato Vero Cafe for gelato. It's just North of El Indio. Go for the gelato not the service.
In-N-Out Burger
Do you know about the secret menu? Look it up and be woefully cool when you order in front of your colleagues California's most famous burger. For Katye, it's animal style with crispy fries.
San Diego Surf Polo Club
Ever taken in a game of Polo? Just so happens there's a world-class polo venue just north of San Diego in Del Mar, with games taking place both weekends, before and after CEDIA Expo. Even Better, there's a tournament on the beach in front of the Del, which in and of itself is a sight to behold (see below).
Rent a Boat
Want to hit the water? Rent a stand up paddle board, boat, or even a yacht and take to the seas (or just stay in the marina).
Upscale Baja-style seafood with menu items like Lobster and Black Bean Flautas, you can't miss with this rec. We haven't eaten here ourselves, but hear from our foodie friends it's divine, and the views appear to be amazing!
Top of the Hyatt Bar
Home of the original Bombay Sapphire martini and 40 floors above the ground overlooking the harbor. You might see KMB peeps hanging here pre- or post-dinner during CEDIA week.
So Many Craft Beers, So Little Time
According to Beer Connoisseur, San Diego has earned props as one of the world's top craft beer cities. And with more than 140 craft breweries in the area, there is plenty of hoppy delicious to keep your week interesting. Having reviewed over 500 craft beers. John has a few favorite breweries to share in this guest blog.
We hope you try (and love) some of our recommendations. Tell us what you thought of them in the comment section below. And see you in sunny Sandi!


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3:15 pm on Tuesday, June 26th, 2012
During winter time, many people use sheepskin style winter hats not only to stay warm but also to make them look their best. Among the most popular of men's winter hats are the Russian style hats, which you normally see being worn by many men during the coldest weather.
The sheepskin material prevents the escape of heat, because it is non-conducting. These men's winter hats can be made of mouton or shearling sheepskin. You can wear them in various ways all winter long to keep you looking stylish and cozy. A sheepskin winter hat is also available in different styles such as ambassador style Cossack hat, or the Russian hat.
The Russian hat has long ear flaps, along with a wide body, wide front brim and flat top. You can wear the ear flaps hanging down to cover and offer warmth to your ears, or tied up at the crown. Either way gives you comfort and style. The exterior of this men's winter hat is made of full 100 per cent genuine sheepskin. Sheepskin is a wonderful material for a winter hat, not only for warmth and comfort but also breathability, giving you a pleasantly warm body temperature. Another good thing about sheepskin winter hats is their ability to help you stay dry because they can wick up to 30% of their own weight in moisture.
There are many different color choices that include black, natural, dark brown, in many different styles. Russian style hats are as protective as they are stylish. They make a perfect addition to any man's winter wardrobe. Wear it and you are sure to be an eye catcher wherever you go. Be among the fashionable men who wear stylish winter hats and make sure to pair your hat with some shearling winter gloves from our sister site: Sheepskin Town.


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Chanterelles we found on our mushroom foray for John Taylor and Tom Bruns' PMB110 class. They were yummy!
Observations of the Natural world
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Chanterelles we found on our mushroom foray for John Taylor and Tom Bruns' PMB110 class. They were yummy!
We went to Muir woods to celebrate the holiday weekend of Amy's birthday and the Labor day. Had a great time, especially when we left the main path and went up higher away from the crowds.
Some more pictures from california park visits in this album.
We went camping on Ocracoke at the end of May.
Also set up Flickr account (jason.stajich) to link to images, we'll see how well this works.
We went up to the mountains for a weekend of winter camping. And boy was it cold. We took our two dogs for the adventure as well.
We started out at North Mills River in Pisgah National Forest and stayed for $4.50 a night (winter rates).
Even after a pretty cold night in North Mills we decided to head up to higher elevation. First we went to the Folk Art Museum outside of Asheville. Then we headed up to Linville Falls. Unfortunately the campground was closed for the winter, but we weren't deterred enough to not camp so we hiked down from the road closed sign to the campground to setup camp for the night. We had a fire and made grilled chicken and enjoyed the caramel porter we had lugged down. The next morning it was so cold the water froze in dog's bowl ten minutes after I had put it out for them and the water in the pump line for our water filter had turned to ice as soon as I was done filling up the bottles. Thank god for the whisperlite!
On Sunday we hiked to the plunge basin of the falls for a nice lunch.
We had lost Molly's collar during our rescue of another dog this weekend so I went back to search for it. Fortunately I found it.
Not to waste a trip I took some pics of some fungi and the river on a great afternoon.
Some fungi
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By Matt Gardner
The Appling County Pirates (5-4 Overall, 4-2 Region 1A-AAA) hosted the Brantley County Blue Herons on October 30 and were able to get a 44-35 win. The victory gave the Pirates the fourth seed from sub-region A in the region playoff. The Pirates will travel to sub-region B top seed Southeast Bulloch Yellow Jackets (6-3, 5-0) on Friday, November 6 with the winner advancing to the AAA State Playoffs.
Pictured above front right is ACHS Assistant Principal David Williams introducing Dexter Carter who presented a football from the NFL celebrating the 50th Year of the Superbowl. Carter played in the 1994 Superbowl with the San Fransico 49ers. Pictured back row left to right, ACHS Principal Dr. Gene Starr, Carter, Appling County Superintendent Dr. Scarlett Copeland and Coach JT Polluck.
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I watch this program in the morning every once in awhile with my jaw hanging open.
Sometimes I feel awe, sometimes I feel pity for the oldest kids with so much responsibility, sometimes I feel angry that the mother risks her life, at this point, with additional pregnancies, and sometimes I feel inadequate when I see how smoothly this household seems to run compared to my own. More importantly, I wonder how they arrange 19 people so nicely for a family portrait when I can't get a decent photo of just 3 kids??? Why?!? Why?!? (Sorry, Christmas card drama is still a fresh wound...)
What do you feel when you watch this show?
It's Feedback Friday...
Do you think it's a risk to have a 20th pregnancy? Do you think it's a beautiful thing? Do you think the show figures in to their family planning?


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Wow! This was the first reaction when we saw Lumia 800. And the reasons for that were the gorgeous screen and a fantastic design. Lumia 800 is compact, sleek and very stylishly-built phone. The unibody shell is built of polycarbonate, which is soft to touch, is sturdy and feels a lot more premium than normal plastic. On the top, there are slots for micro USB, micro SIM card tray and 3.5mm jack. As it has been the case with most unibody phones, users can not access battery and there is no provision to add micro SD card.
The front is all curved glass, with three capacitive touch buttons. The buttons - back, home, and search - are standard Windows Phone 7 affair. On the right side, there are buttons for volume control, on/off and camera shutter. All of them have chrome finish to them.
The AMOLED screen is vibrant and bright. Combined with the modern design, this goes very well with the Metro UI of Windows Phone 7.5 aka Mango.
Lumia 800 has an 8 megapixel camera. Inside the demo room lighting conditions were not very appropriate and hence we could not test out camera properly - it's hands on, right? But the pictures we took looked good and had appropriate colours.
The interface was the standard Windows Phone affair. That means it was fast and fluid. In addition to Mango apps, Lumia 800 will come with Nokia Drive - a navigation app - and Nokia Music. Of these Drive, with its turn-by-turn voice navigation feature and support for a large number of India cities, has potential to be the killer feature of Nokia's Windows Phones.
Overall, our first experience with Lumia was pleasant. Of course, once we explore it in detail we will be able to say more on it. Also, whether it will appeal to consumers or not will depend on its price, something that Nokia refused to reveal today.
Lumia 800 is powered by a single-core 1.4Ghz CPU. It has Adreno 205 GPU, 512MB RAM, a 3.7-inch screen (480 x 800 pixels), a 8MP rear camera with dual-LED flash, and 16GB storage. It weighs 142 grams.
This device from Nokia is aimed at mid-segment of smartphone market. And as a result lacks the chutzpah and elegance of its older sibling.
Lumia 710 is more average looking phone with a pretty thick design and plasticky buttons. Fortunately, the material on the back cover - yes, unlike Lumia 800, it has one - is soft rubber which feels nice to touch.
While Lumia 710 felt like a decent mid-range phone, we did not like the touchscreen at all. Not only it looked dull - especially after we had feasted our eyes on the gorgeous screen of Lumia 800 - but also felt a little slow as far as touch response is concerned. Of course, it was a demo piece and things may turn out to be different with the actual retail units.
The camera on Lumia 710 can shoot 5 megapixels pictures. We snapped a couple of pictures in the demo room. They were decent but nothing exceptional. Due to low light there was noticeable grain on the photos.
On the software side, Lumia 710 runs the same Mango that other Windows phones sport. Performance is good and there is no lag. Similar to how it is with Lumia 800, this phone too will come with Nokia Drive and Music.
Unlike Lumia 800 that has good looks going for it, we feel that Lumia 710 will have a harder time against the competition. Unless Nokia prices the device very aggressively.
Lumia 710 is powered by a single-core 1.4Ghz CPU. It has 512MB RAM, Adreno 205 GPU, 8GB storage, 5MP camera with LED flash and 3.7-inch TFT screen (480 x 800 pixels).


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Concerta, Ritalin Linked to Abnormal Heart Rhythms
A new study suggests that children who use Concerta, Ritalin or other ADHD medications containing methylphenidate may be more likely to experience abnormal heart rhythms. While the risk is small, the authors of the report advised doctors to take their findings into account when prescribing the medications.
According to HealthDay News, some 3.5 million children received methylphenidate or another stimulant drug to treat ADHD in 2011. Two large scale studies conducted in the U.S. had already suggested that these drugs might be associated with some degree of cardiac toxicity. Other stimulants have been shown to affect heart rate and heart rhythm.
For this study, researchers in Australia analyzed data from a South Korean database that included 114,600 children aged 17 or younger, all of whom were recently prescribed methylphenidate. Children in the group experienced 1,224 cardiac events, including heart rhythm problems, high blood pressure, heart attacks, stroke and heart failure, between 2008 and 2011.
Overall, those taking methylphenidate had a 61% increased risk of arrhythmias during the first two months of use. However, children with pre-existing heart problems had a three-fold increased risk of heart rhythm problems.
Kids were most vulnerable in the first two months of treatment. During the first three days of treatment, methylphenidate users were about twice as likely to experience a heart rhythm problem compared to kids who weren't using the medication.
"In the average child, the risk of serious cardiovascular events is extremely small [three per 100,000 per year], and any absolute excess risk associated with methylphenidate is also likely to be small," the lead author of the study told HealthDay News.
The research team urged doctors to monitor patient's heart rate and blood pressure to mitigate risk, and to consider the risk/benefit balance in children with prior history of heart disease, especially when ADHD symptoms are mild.
Other Concerta Side Effects
According to RXInjuryHelp.com, the side effects associated with Concerta and Ritalin may also include suicidal thoughts and behaviors. In 2005, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration announced that it intended to update the drugs' labels with stronger warnings regarding the potential for suicidal ideation and other psychiatric side effects.
In 2012, a Toronto Star investigation revealed that, between 2002 and 2012, nearly 600 Canadian children had suffered serious side effects, including suicidal thoughts and behavior, while using Concerta and other ADHD drugs. Just last year, Health Canada modified the drugs' labels to include information about their possible psychiatric risks.
Bernstein Liebhard LLP offers free legal reviews to individuals who allegedly suffered harm due to Concerta, Ritalin or other methylphenidate-containing ADHD medications. To learn more, please call 877-779-1414.


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Dick has been the back bone and second generation of IC Refrigeration since 1964 following in his father's footsteps. Dick is a 1963 graduate of Cal Poly. In 1985 the founder of IC Refrigeration, W.W. (Bill) Imfeld passed away. It was at that point that Dick along with his wife Shirley took over all operations at IC Refrigeration. Dick's main focus is mentoring his son Rich in preparing the third generation of IC Refrigeration for continued success.
Little known fact about Dick: He was elected into the Stanislaus Senior Softball Associations Hall of Fame.


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This is a combined Safer Vincent and TravelSmart initiative and we're the only Council in WA to be working with the WA Police on this.
Your bicycle is a valuable item and it can be an easy target for thieves. Thousands of bikes are stolen each year, many of which are recovered by the police. However, most cannot be identified and returned to their rightful owners because the serial number and other identifying features are not recorded.
Help bring your bike home! Record your bike's details using the form (see further below) and file it away. If your bike is stolen, simply give the details to the police - they'll have a much better chance of finding your bike.
You can pick up a copy of the Bike ID card from the Vincent Administration Building, or you can download a copy here.
Remember—thieves are opportunistic—do not leave your bike unsecured, even for only a minute, it only takes a few seconds to steal!
Report bicycle theft to police on 131 444.
Please contact our TravelSmart Officer on 9273 6000 or email: firstname.lastname@example.com
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A group of people talking as if they were at a party or gathering. This was made for background audio for a play in Dallas. Recorded to a Dell Inspiron through Audigy soundcard, simple stereo mixer and two SM58 microphones
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