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The Balcony can be excellent value for money and is one of the best sections to sit in for large-scale musicals. This section is very steeply raked, ensuring a clear and unobstructed view of the whole stage. The height of the section can cause the stage to feel rather distant.
As there is no overhang, sight-lines are excellent and the mid-level section has no obstructions. A safety rail restricts the view for the first two rows, but is not very high. Those who require extra legroom should sit in the aisle seats, with the best view being in the centre of the Balcony.
There are two bars available on this level, with seating.
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The fine bloggers over at Popehat recently posted a very interesting argument about laws changing in response to technological change. In particular, after a long introduction about slavery and the cotton gin, they talk about how gun control is becoming pointless thanks to the internet and 3D printers:
There's one step missing: proof that the average man on the street can actually use cheap CNC tools to build firearms.
Even with out a first amendment, samizdat would ensure that the data would be out there…but given that the legislature and the executive do have to respect our right to speak (even if it has to be reminded somewhat rudely by the courts and the people from time to time), it's relatively easy to find folks to talk to about home CNC production of firearms.
And remember that thing about information wanting to be free? In our glorious jetcar-free, but peer-to-peer-laden future, collecting and swapping is no longer just for baseball cards; it's also for plastic printing your own AR-15 magazines and lower receivers.
My only comment is to add that the lower receiver of an AR-15 is what is considered to be the "gun" part of the gun (and is therefore serial numbered and controlled) and is also what determines whether the AR-15 is semi-auto or full-auto. Since 1986, it has been illegal for a civilian to own any full-auto weapon not registered as such before 1986. As an anecdote, I recently saw someone trying to sell a pre-1986 M16 for $18,000, where that gun, semi-auto, brand new today (i.e. of higher quality) would run for $1,000.
I wouldn't be at all surprised if there are samizdat plans for full-auto AR15 receivers floating around on the internet.

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Monday, June 25, 2012
Look at this sweet boy-- his name is Patrick and he was recently turned into rescue. He is a really nice dog-- he loves other dogs and loves to give kisses. Patrick is three years old (born on St. Patrick's Day!) and about 16 pounds. I love his bowed legs-- so Pekey. If you would be interested in this wonderful boy, just let us know. Gonzo is now in his new home! His new name is Gucci.He was so excited to be there, it was hard to keep him still. He was so excited that he ran to check out the toys. His new siblings looked at their mom as if to say, "do we have to share my toys?" Yes, you do, you sweet things! Just say, "Welcome to the family!"
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Welcome family to be sure !!!!
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I am hoping Patrick finds a loving home too !!!!!!!!!!!
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By STEVE MASCORD
MELBOURNE coach Craig Bellamy revealed he would have given the job of kicking the winning field goal in an amazing comeback win over Manly to someone else if he'd known captain Cameron Smith had not booted one in his NRL career.
The Storm trailed 20-0 eight minutes before halftime, levelled the scores 15 minutes into the second half, hit the from with 13 left in regulation time and secured an historic when when captain Smith – playing a club record equaling 262nd game – booted a 22-metre field goal four minutes into overtime.
It was Manly's worst capitulation at home and Melbourne's equal-second biggest comeback, although hooker Smith described it as the best in which he had been involved.
"It's the first field goal I've kicked since under 16s, actually – back at Logan Brothers," Smith said. "The best I have is a couple of pot shots at the end of the week from 40 out, as a lot of footballers do … I don't do any practice at all."
The admission surprised Bellamy, who commented: "We sent out the message for Cameron to do it … I hadn't realised he hadn't kicked one before, I wouldn't have made that decision if I'd known. We probably would have gone (Benny Roberts) on Benny Hampton"
The Sea Eagles were cruising at 20-0 when fullback Brett Stewart sought attention for a sore hamstring 10 minutes before halftime. Stewart did not return for the second half and in his absence, Australia captain Smith took firm control of proceedings.
The 29-year-old's bomb to the north-eastern corner gave winger Sisa Waqa his first try seven minutes short of halftime and the long road back continued six after the resumption of play when the Fijian completed his brace off the pass of Billy Slater.
Again it was the no.9's scheming which gave five-eighth Ben Hampton a 52nd-minute try – converted by Smith – that narrowed the gap to six.
The spirits of the 14,000 crowd, dampened by a rain shower, were completely drowned when Kenny Bromwich crossed between the posts after Hampton fielded a kick and Jesse Bromwich almost knocked on at 55 minutes.
The penalty which allowed Smith to boot his side ahead for the first time also landed Manly tryscorer Justin Horo on report for a high tackle. A penalty at the other end gave Lyon the chance to square things up and magnificent defence from Ryan Hinchcliffe and Ryan Hoffman precent a Cheyse Blair try shortly after the start of golden point time. Ben Roberts missed a field goal attempt before Smith's successful pot-shot.
Manly coach Geoff Toovey admitted the loss of Stewart – who hopes to play against South Sydney on Friday – had been a turning point "but when you're up by 20 points at Brookvale Oval, you don't lose from there.
"There was a massive change in posession. It will be interesting to watch the video and see what happened."
Bellamy said: "The score could have been more in the first half, we made some bad decisions in defence.
"We've got a few young guys in our side who it probably would have been easy for them to be shellshocked by that score. They made a couple of errors as well but they didn't go away, they kept doing their job."
According to Lyon, former Eagle George Rose knocked on while playing the ball, shortly before the end of regulation time. "It's a bit hard (for the ball) to get from your hands to your feed without dropping it when you're on the ground," Lyon said.
Lyon approached referee Gerard Sutton about the alleged fumble but Rose countered: "It didn't happen. Killer always goes up to the ref. That's why they changed the rule!"
MELBOURNE 23 (S Waqa 2 B Hampton K Bromwich tries C Smith 3 goals field goal) bt MANLY 22 (S Matai 2 C Blair J Horo tries J Lyon 3 goals) in golden point time at Brookvale Oval. Referees: G Sutton/G Reynolds. Crowd: 14,200.
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So, as you might have gathered from previous posts I'm a bit of a lore buff. The Halo universe is one I'm particularly interested in due to my strong connection with the games, and so I read a lot of the novels and other media and am not against ideally looking through Halopedia to look things up (especially when I wrote that Halo/BSG crossover fan fiction that one time). Having recently played and completed Halo 4 for review purposes, I felt like writing about it and the lore surrounding it because, sadly, it's not really explained that well during the game itself. So, here I am. Feel free to tune out now if you're not really into this kind of stuff as it is kind of geeky, even for a gamer.
Do not read if you haven't completed Halo 4's campaign yet
NOTE: This article doesn't take into account anything that occurs within the Forerunner trilogy of novels written by Greg Bear (Cryptum, Primordium, Silentium). In all truth, I haven't actually read them yet but I plan too as it'll be interesting to see how the 'official' version of events is expanded on. Regardless, anyone who knows anything about IP canon knows that the primary source always takes precedence. In this case it's the Halo games and any material directly linked to that (for example, the Terminals). Anything that happens in the EU books is basically second-class material.
Everything has happened before…
Okay, so the first and most important thing you have to understand is that the Human Race has actually been around a long, long time, technically speaking. Hundreds of thousands of years ago back when the Forerunners were actually around and masters of the Galaxy, Humanity also existed on a technological level that rivalled that of the Forerunners. This is something that's kind of glossed over in the important Halo 4 plot sequence, and for those who weren't expecting it it can be kind of a 'wait, what?' moment. Hell, even I was like "hang about?" and I kind of knew it was coming, since I'd read up some stuff on Halopedia regarding all this. (The Forerunner trilogy is set during this time period, so there's a lot of background material already online).
Anyway – The short version, just so you know, is that Humanity was around, we were pretty awesome, but then we had a war with the Forerunners and lost. After we lost, we were kicked back to the stone-age, and after the Halo rings fired and wiped out all life we were one of the races re-seeded, which is where the actual timeline of humanity starts as far as 'real-life' goes and then things plod along until we get to the 'current' Halo timeline.
The Didact: Motivation
Ok, so even if you haven't played the game by now you should have some inkling as to who the antagonist of Halo 4 is – The Didact. In short, he is (was) the commander-and-chief of the Forerunner military and the highest member of the Warrior-Servant 'caste' within Forerunner society. He also has personal command over the 'Prometheans', a special sect within the Warrior-Servant Class (Special Forces maybe?). In order to understand why he hates humanity and why he wants to destroy them in Halo 4, you have to understand three key things: the afore-mentioned war between 'ancient' humans and the Forerunners, the fact that that war caused the Forerunners to be unprepared for the coming of The Flood, and that he saw Humanity as a threat to Forerunner superiority and holders of 'The Mantle'. I'll deal with each point in turn:
Human-Forerunner War – As mentioned above, Humanity was around long before and in a higher technological state then they are in 2557. What's also kind of glossed over/hidden in the EU works is that Humanity was also the first to encounter The Flood, and fought a gruelling war against the parasite which they were basically losing. In a desperate attempt to both flee from the infestation and stop it from spreading, they went from world to world and 'cleansed' any that were already touched by The Flood (the rest of Galaxy, inc. Forerunners were unaware of The Flood at the time, and Humanity couldn't be bothered to tell them it seems), including Forerunner planets. As the Librarian-shard states during the game, "Humanity wasn't expanding, you were running."
The Forerunners were already aware of Humanity and thought of them as a bit aggressive, but even they weren't going to sit back and let them kill their own people, and so the Human-Forerunner War raged. The Didact was the commander who led the Forerunner forces, so you can imagine how over time he came to see Humans as nothing but 'the enemy'. After the war was won, Humanity was 'devolved' and reduced to a primitive species, although the Forerunners still left them with potential within their genetics to reclaim what was once theirs, and even take up 'The Mantle'.
The Flood – As far as the game is concerned++, it's stated that almost as soon as the Forerunners defeated humanity and kicked them back to the stone-age, they discovered what was really going on. Humanity was running from The Flood and were trying to save the rest of the Galaxy through some extremely tough-loving. Personally, I feel that not telling anyone what you're doing because it 'wastes time' is a bit of a flimsy excuse, but what can you do. The Forerunners – especially the Didact and his troops – had already paid a terrible cost in stopping Human aggression, and so they weren't really prepared for The Flood when it attacked the Forerunners in turn.
The Forerunner-Flood war waged for a long time, again with the Didact leading a lot of the Forerunner forces, and it was a long, slow grind, one that the Forerunners were losing inch by inch. When it became clear that The Flood couldn't be defeated through sheer might, other options were considered.
The Mantle – The 'Mantle', in short, was a belief system and a way of living one's life (comparable to Buddhism, perhaps) that the Forerunners subscribed to. In a wider context, the Forerunners believed they held the 'Mantle of Responsibility' for looking after the 'lesser' races in the Galaxy, helping them grow and protecting them from threats beyond their control. The Forerunners had been around for a long, long time, even when Humanity showed up with all the enthusiasm of a young race with cool toys, and whilst many believed they could inherit 'The Mantle' as the Forerunner race declined, The Didact specifically believed that the Mantle of Responsibility was for Forerunners alone and forever, and resented the Humans for trying to assume the Mantle as their own (and for how willing some of his own people were for wanting to give it to them).
The Didact: Plan
So, in short, The Didact was pissed off at Humanity for A/ waging a great war against his species killing billions (inc. his own children) B/ leaving the Forerunners unprepared for the arrival of The Flood and C/ that Humanity dared challenge Forerunner supremacy and attempt to take Mantle upon themselves (through cleansing infested planets and not telling anyone about it). However, at the time, all that was kind of moot as he still had an infestation to deal with. An infestation that was winning.
This is where the Composer comes in: again, the Librarian-shard tried to explain what it did during the game, but basically it was a device that was created during the Forerunner-Flood war as one of the potential solutions, along with the Halo Array, in dealing with The Flood. What it essentially does is 'digitise' life and create some kind of digital/organic hybrid, but the project was abandoned because the newly created life form lacked a moral compass, and any attempts to reverse the process resulted in 'abominations'. Originally the Forerunners were going to use it on themselves to become immortal, but once the idea was abandoned in favour of the Halo Array, the Didact used the composer on his own Promethean Warriors to make them 100% loyal to him, but also make them immune to flood infestation so they could better combat the enemy. The form they took after this transformation is the form you see in Halo 4.
Unfortunately the Didact only had so many warriors at his personal command, and it was rather late in the war to be trying such an ethically questionable stunt, so it didn't have much effect. In search of new 'raw material' to create new soldiers, had a great idea. He would use The Composer on the remnants of humanity – this ensuring new warriors for his army and also getting his final revenge on an enemy the upstarts that had caused him and his a lot of anguish and trouble. It would also prevent them from re-evolving further down the line and trying to assume 'The Mantle' once more.
He managed to use the composer on some humans and continue his war, but eventually the rest of his race stepped in – his wife The Librarian was especially annoyed as she had worked hard to create a future for mankind. Whether alone or with help, she captured the Didact and imprisoned him within a 'Cryptum' at the centre of his own personal artificial planet (A Micro Dyson Sphere, if anyone cares) 'Requiem'. The Composer was then taken and stored in one of the other Halo Installations.
The Didact: Halo 4
So now we come to the events of the actual game. For reasons that have not fully been explained yet, the Didact seems to be the only member of his race in existence^, having been sealed in a 'Cryptum' by The Librarian so that he could both stop causing mischief, but so that he could also survive the effects of the Halo Array. What Promethean Knights he had left were turned into guards/jailors. However, as you'll know if you played the game, the Didact managed to trick the Master Chief into releasing him (it seems you can be aware and have limited control over things from within a Cryptum).
Despite his wife urging him to meditate and to come to terms with everything, it seems The Didact is still pretty pissed. Realising though that Humanity had not yet assumed 'The Mantle' yet, he still sees a chance to at least have his revenge for all the shit they caused him back in the day. Therefore he seeks to find the Composer again and use it against humanity so he can finally have his revenge and prevent them inheriting the Forerunner's empire, which is basically the plot of Halo 4 and source of the "An Ancient Evil Awakens" moniker.
I like to sum it up by saying the Didact wants to upload Humanity onto a USB stick and lock that stick in a box somewhere for all time.
Trivia & Notes
* Whilst this is currently under contention, it is my personal belief that the speech the Didact gives after the credits have finished rolling during the 'secret' ending is actually from his original trial following his victory over ancient humans, and not some proof that he survived the events of Halo 4. Even though it's highly likely that he did survive and will return, many people online seem to think that particular speech is from the present, when I think it's actually from the past.
* ^ It's not been fully explained what happened to the Forerunners. Some of the EU stuff mentions that many just up and left the local part of the Galaxy for destinations unknown, and the games don't really shed any further light on the subject, not even through terminals. I always assumed that the Forerunners were unable or unwilling to save any of their species before the Halo rings had to be fired (to prevent the Flood interfering and ensuring they couldn't be fired at all). I imagine we'll find out at what actually happened some point down the line.
* ++ There's some discrepancy between various media regarding the events following the Human-Forerunner war and the start of the Forerunner Flood war… Halo: Legends stipulates that The Flood randomly arrived from 'outside' the Galaxy (possibly indicating that the Halo 4 material is essentially changing the original idea), but what 'officially' happened is that Humanity drove off the Flood for a time, although not in time to stop them being annihilated by the Forerunners who by that point just saw Humanity as too much trouble to be left standing. The Flood supposedly remained hidden for a while before pouncing upon the Forerunners in turn by arriving from outside the Galaxy, where they hid, although it's possible Forerunners still knew of them through documentation left over by The Humans. They knew enough to know what the Humans were running from, at any rate.
* The Flood was actually created by the 'Precursors', an ancient and powerful civilization who held the 'Mantle' prior to the Forerunners. In their tending of the Galaxy, they deemed that the Forerunner race should be made extinct and tried to kill them all off. However the Forerunners rebelled and defeated the Precursors and assumed the Mantle for themselves. The Flood were created as both revenge against the Forerunners, and as a 'test' to Ancient Humanity, who the Precursors saw as their rightful successors.
* The Humans were aligned with an ancient version of the Prophet race, who were also kicked back to the stone-age when they lost.
* The Covenant obviously return in Halo 4 as well, and just for clarity so that their deal is this – The Covenant forces you encounter in the game are a 'sect' that are highly religious and still believe that the Forerunners are Gods. Via events that you can actually read about in the Kilo-Five trilogy of Novels by Karen Traviss (Glasslands, The Thursday War and an untitled final novel), they learn of the Didact's existence and his location and seek to free him. Conveniently they seem to arrive at the same time as the Chief's segment of Forward Unto Dawn.


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Next August I will be holding a presentation for american ostomates – on the national UOAA conference, which will be held in Reno. My presentation will be about my adventurous life with ileostomy and view on life where I hope I can continue to spread the word about fun and adventurous life with ostomy. It will be a great experience to meet up to 700 people with similar experience and I am greatly honored to be a part of this.
If interested, you can see information abut the conference here.
I am hoping to make an adventure out of this as well as the Yosemite National Park is the mekka of rockclimbing in the US – with up to 1000 meter (3.300 feet) vertical cliffs. I will probably not have time to do any real climbing but just the sight will probably be amazing. Below is a video from this place, and you will hopefully see that this place is a natural wonder. (the big cliff in the beginning is Half Dome, a famous climb)
Regarding other plans for this year it is unlikely that I will do any extreme challenges like last year. I will however probably travel to France with my family where I hope to learn to surf, along with "typical" touristic stuff. I also plan on climbing a ~400 meter (1300 feet) vertical cliff in the north of Iceland, which about only 10 teams (20-30 people) have climbed so far. If I do that, I will have to prepare well.
Other adventures will hopefully appear randomly and if they will – I will embrace them and enjoy them.
This year has however started with a very tight work schedule leaving little time for activities. Hopefully that will change soon.


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Polish freedom through the lens of Chris Niedenthal
On 13 December 1981 martial law was introduced in Poland – one of the most difficult and tragic experiences in the recent history of the country. Chris Niedenthal, photojournalist, had the opportunity to observe these events up close. In his interview for Polska.pl, he talks about the atmosphere of these years and about his photographs that went down in history.
Polska.pl: Warsaw's Moskwa Cinema, an armoured personnel carrier and soldiers in front of it, and a huge film banner with the title Czas Apokalipsy (Apocalypse Now) – you have talked about this photograph many times and almost every adult Polish person knows it. What happened outside the frame? What do you remember from the night of the 12 to 13 December 1981 and the morning of 13 December in Poland?
Chris Niedenthal*: I visited a few parties that night. One was held in an office of an English TV channel that had just opened its Polish branch – what timing! The new employees organized a party to celebrate, and we went there with my wife. Then we went to our friends, where also a lot of people with ties to the Solidarity movement attended, and then we heard that people were starting to disappear, that some of them were gone. Nobody knew what was going on, it was late in the evening. Then I went to my family, to Saska Kępa, where I lived at the time. The atmosphere was uncanny. We had a window open and we sang patriotic tunes! We came back home just before three a.m., and there was a friend of mine waiting for me, a cameraman and a photographer, and he told me that something was up. He said: "Don't go home, take your camera and let's go see what's happening." That's what I did, I crossed the Vistula River and I went downtown. I saw the concrete anti-tank crosses on the bridge. They weren't laid out, but they were there, just in case, to shut down the bridge, prepared. It was then that I realised that something awful is going on.
What did you think about then? Where did you want to go, as a photojournalist?
We went to Mokotowska street, where the Solidarity movement had its seat in Mazowsze. The street was closed. There were military and militia trucks, there was no access. My friend had ties to the opposition and he said that there was a flat nearby where we could spend the night. He took me and a few other people to an empty flat at Plac Zbawiciela; the flat only had a bed and a TV set. We went to sleep where we could – some of us on the floor, some of us on the bed.
Was it then that you learned about the martial law?
I had a small short-wave radio that received the BBC and Radio Liberty. Practically all western journalists had one, because it was small and you could take it with you everywhere. Every hour on the hour you could check what the BBC was broadcasting. I tried to get BBC in that flat and see whether their journalists know more than I do. There were all these trucks, militia and soldiers, and they all used walkie-talkies, and they jammed my radio. But I heard what the soldiers or the militia were talking about. There were so many of them that I couldn't receive western stations on my radio, which made the situation seem worse. We turned on the TV in the morning and listened to General Wojciech Jaruzelski speak. And that is how we found out what had happened.
Martial law and the accompanying tensions are a huge challenge for a photojournalist, but as a human, you must have surely been afraid?
I swallowed hard and I thought that we can't do anything, and surely we can't take photographs. But that was our job. We hid our cameras under our coats and we ran to the Solidarity's offices. No military or militia was there, but the glass pane in the door was broken. It turned out that the militia searched the office, everything was scattered: typewriters, papers. Even though I was afraid, I started to photograph the building. It started to get dangerous, because apparently a militia convoy was coming. We were trapped, they had us served on a plate. We had no way to run. We even planned to climb up the roof and run on the roofs – but you should try running on the roofs in Warsaw in December... In the end we managed to run through the back door before the militia came. We learned that a copy of the Our Lady of Jasna Góra painting, a holy painting for the Polish Catholics, was to be transported from St. Stanislaus Kostka Church to another church. It was planned for a long time, as the copy had travelled all around Poland, and on that day it arrived in that particular Warsaw church. We went there and what I remember the most are the photographs taken right there. The faces of people during the mass. The fear in their eyes. What is interesting, nobody stopped the procession, even though martial law prohibited mass events. I guess the authorities did not want to be compromised by stopping a religious procession. No militia or army was present. The procession went along the streets of Żoliborz district. It was led by Father Jerzy Popiełuszko, less known at the time than he is now. It was very moving – people knelt on the snow, women cried and carried candles in their hands. It was really a day where everybody was afraid. Nobody knew what would happen, nobody knew what martial law meant. Was it war, or was it not?
How did you find yourself in front of Moskwa Cinema?
I'm not sure whether it was the 13th or 14th December... I went through my notes but the answer is not in there. I know that we went there with my friend, the cameraman, and an American photographer. We stuck together, because we were afraid and we decided that we would be safer in a group. We drove along Rakowiecka street, towards Puławska street, that leads to Moskwa Cinema. My brother-in-law was driving, so that we could have our hands free to take photographs – because we couldn't do it on the streets. When we arrived at Puławska, I saw a soldier managing the traffic. Luckily, he had his back to me. I took out my camera, I saw the cinema with the Apocalypse Now banner. I knew that it would be a great picture. I told my friends that we had to stop here and try to find a place to take photographs from, because a good photograph is in the making. And we hadn't seen that vehicle yet. It was behind the trees. We saw it, when we turned right. I thought: what a frame! I got off and started to look for a place to hide. It wasn't a good place, because the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was just behind the corner; its employees could live in the buildings nearby. Luckily, the door to one staircase was opened, and the windows went out to Puławska street, and so the picture was taken.
It was only the beginning, because the film had to be transported to the West. How did that happen?
It was all very strange, because as we took the photos, the alarm went off in our car – that we all forgot about. Imagine: a few weirdly dressed guys, because we had the cameras underneath our puffy coats, and a wailing alarm. Luckily the army ignored us and we were able to leave. We did not know how to deliver the photograph to our office in the United States before they finish with the next edition. There were no planes, no phones. All I could think of was to go to a railway station, because a train to Berlin was due to leave in the evening. It was Dworzec Gdański, at the time trains to Berlin left from there. I went there just before 10 p.m. The train was scheduled to leave at 9.50 p.m., and the curfew started at 10 p.m., and you could get arrested, so I had very little time. I nervously looked for a passenger who would agree to take these films to Berlin. It wasn't easy, because there weren't many passengers to begin with. Polish people couldn't go at all, because borders were closed. There were some people there, but I was afraid to ask, because I had no idea who they were. It could be the Secret Service who only waited for people like me, because I wasn't the only one who tried to have different things transported out, not only films. I was afraid of everything and everyone, and time was running out, because the train was going to leave soon. I had to get off the streets soon. In the end, I jumped on the train and I checked compartment after compartment, looking for somebody to help me. I looked for someone young. In the last moment I found a young German student, I told him everything, because I didn't want to leave him with a cat in the bag. I gave him the films and I asked him to call Newsweek's Bonn office. I told him: "Just call them, they will know what to do." For a photographer, this is a nightmare to give up your films at such a historic moment. The unknown. I was afraid that the student would be searched at the border, that he would be arrested, I would be in trouble, and there would be no photographs. It looked bad, but I had no other choice. Off he went, and I never saw him again. Now I wish I had taken his contact information, because I didn't have an opportunity to thank him. I even don't know where he was travelling to. I only know tha the did call Bonn, the office sent a courier to get the films, and it all ended well.
But how did you feel as a photojournalist who is the first to arrive on the spot but can't go to where the action is and is unable to take photographs? Like during the strikes in the Gdańsk Shipyard in August 1980?
It's a weird feeling. You know that you are in a place where history is being written, but you are not allowed to enter, and when they do let you in, you can't take photographs. You had to make a decision. I got in, and I promised not to take pictures (laughter). I was allowed to enter as an interpreter, because an English journalist came with me. He actually was the one that convinced me to come. We arrived there on the second day of the strikes, there weren't any other journalists there. The workers were scared, they didn't know what to do with us. No foreigners could enter the shipyard, not to mention foreign journalists. In order to enter the shipyard during a normal working day, not during the strikes, a journalist had to apply for a permit from different ministries, and it took weeks. And we came and wanted to enter just like that. Their first reaction? They said no. They were afraid that they would be responsible for letting foreigners, potential spies, into the shipyard – at the time each and every person from the West was a spy to them. I was afraid, too, but I knew that we had to get in. I convinced the workers to let my friend in, the journalist, so that the world could learn what was going on. But he didn't speak Polish, so I asked them to let me in as an interpreter. They told me to sit next to the shipyard's director, Klemens Gniech, and the guy with the moustache. They started to talk, and I interpreted. It was clear that the guy with the moustache knew what he was doing. I later learned that the guy with the moustache was Lech Wałęsa.
And when did you manage to take the pictures in the Gdańsk Shipyard?
At one point I just couldn't resist, and when there was a pause in the negotiations, I got up and I took the first pictures from behind Gniech's back. I knew that this event is so important that I just had to take it. Then I went out and I took a photograph of the gate to the shipyard.
Let's go a year back, to the first pilgrimage of John Paul II, the Polish Pope, to his homeland. We are in Częstochowa and once again you are in the right at the right time. You take a picture of a small girl held by the Pope. What happened then, during that pilgrimage?
That was the moment when my so-called career started. That pilgrimage was so incredible, for Poland, for all Polish people. You could feel that unique atmosphere everywhere, and I was happy, too. First, I was happy that Poland was back on the world map, it meant that people all over the world would finally know where Poland was, and it would be easier for me to sell my reports from Poland, because my editor would know where it was. Second, it was the country of the Pope – even better. I only did one small report for Newsweek, somebody turned to me, miraculously. And then one journalist from the Newsweek's Bonn office asked me to take photographs during the Pope's pilgrimage. The central office in New York did not agree, and they sent their own photojournalist. There were two of us, but it was me, a young and unknown photographer, that I took better photographs, in a way.
You were closer.
I was lucky, because I knew a monk, and when all journalists took a coach to the press centre, he stopped me and said that the Pope might go to see the crowds again. And so I stayed. I took pictures as the Pope was walking, and someone from the crowd put the girl up. The Pope took her, and the girl, as little girls often do when held by a stranger, started to cry. Years later, when special editions of magazines about the Pope appeared, that photograph was published by one of them. That girl's parents wrote to the paper whether they could contact the photographer, because they wanted to have that photo in their album. I sent them the photo and the girl, twenty-something at that time, wrote to me that she is very grateful and suggested that perhaps we may could meet someday. We managed to meet years later, and it was a very moving moment. I'm sensitive and I get emotional easily. That girl was a co-creator of my professional success, I met her as an adult woman, she came to me with her boyfriend. It was an important moment.
Interviewed by EWA KWAŚNIK - CIĄGŁO and MONIKA NOWICKA
*Chris Niedenthal - one of the most distinguished photojournalists in Europe. He has worked for international publications such as Newsweek, Time, Der Spiegel and Forbes. In 1986 he received the World Press Photo award for his portrait of János Kádár, the General Secretary of the Hungarian communist party. He became famous for his photographs of Poland during martial law, Solidarity and pilgrimages of John Paul II to his homeland. On 14 December 2009 he was decorated with the silver Gloria Artis medal.
Martial law
Martial law was introduced in the territory of the entire People's Republic of Poland (PRL) governed by the communist authorities on 13 December 1981. General Wojciech Jaruzelski announced it in his morning speech broadcast on television. Armoured army and militia columns entered the cities. Curfew was imposed between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. You could not leave your place of residence without a permit. At the beginning phones were turned off; later the phone calls and correspondence were censored, or redacted.
The decree that imposed martial law also suspended all organisations, associations and trade unions. According to historians, its introduction was to prevent mobilisation of the Independent Self-governing Trade Union "Solidarity" that was getting ready to launch a general strike. Established in 1980, the Poland-wide trade union was a leading opposition force against the PRL government. Lech Wałęsa is one of the best known representatives of the Solidarity movement.
Martial law was suspended on 31 December 1982, and revoked on 22 July 1983. During that time, Polish people were afraid that the Soviet Union would invade their country.


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Many smartphones and tablets today offer chips, screens and cameras that are more or less similar, and that leaves gadget makers struggling to differentiate their products in other areas.
Lenovo Group is trying to do this by offering a suite of its homegrown apps on its new tablet. The Yoga Tablet 10 HD+, which the Chinese personal-computer maker just unveiled at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, comes with apps that Lenovo says help users share, protect and manage their data. One app, for example, lets users instantly share photos, videos, music and document files with other devices, without requiring an Internet connection.
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Lenovo, which overtook Hewlett-Packard as the world's largest PC maker last year, is trying to sell more smartphones and tablets, hoping that mobile devices will become its new engine for growth over the next several years. Lenovo's global tablet market share rose sharply over the past year, but it is still far behind Apple and Samsung. In the fourth quarter, Lenovo was the world's fifth-largest tablet maker with a 4.4% share by shipment volume, up from 1.3% a year earlier, according to research firm IDC. Apple held a 34% share, followed by Samsung's 19% and Amazon.com's 7.6%.
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Is the NHS Health Checks scheme really a 'remarkable success'?
Dr John Robson argues that the NHS Health Checks programme is massively helping reduce the burden of cardiovascular disease while Dr Paul Cundy argues the scheme is a waste of time and money
Overall the NHS Health Checks programme has been a remarkable success story. It has survived a change in Government, reductions in funding, the shift to local authorities, and some media and academics who have been hostile to statins and health checks in general.
We do not know exactly how many more heart attacks and stroke have been prevented by the programme than by standard care. But as our analysis of the scheme shows, we do know that many more people at high CVD risk are being treated with statins and treatments to reduce high blood pressure than five years ago. This increase alone will have substantially cut the burden of CVD – we estimate it will have prevented around 2,500 heart attacks and strokes nationally over this first five years of the programme.
Also, since these estimates are entirely based on the reductions resulting from drug treatments, and take no account of reductions from smoking cessation or changes in diet and physical activity, the true impact of the NHS Health Checks programme will have been even greater. Extrapolating from this sample to the current 1.5 million NHS Health Checks (2014/15) nationally, it can be estimated that 5500 heart attacks and strokes will be prevented if current treatment was continued over the next five years, twice the number as in the initial period. In addition 55,000 new cases of hypertension, 13,500 new cases of diabetes and 5500 new cases of CKD will be identified every year. If all CCGs performed at the level of the current best, these numbers would be doubled.
Those with most to gain from an NHS Health Checks are those at highest risk – and the scheme is reaching many of these people. However, there are also real gains for those at a lower risk. About 80% of the total referrals for dietary and physical activity advice were for people at lower CVD risk.
Not only does the programme directly impact on preventing events, but it also helps create a climate for both personal and political change to reduce obesity and alcohol use, which require changes in both the food industry as well as in individual behaviour. For those willing to improve their health risks the NHS Health Checks programme is an important source of new information and support including newly identified conditions such as high CVD risk, diabetes, hypertension and chronic kidney disease of which patients were previously unaware.
There is a need to increase uptake of NHS Health Checks, which remains highly variable – ranging from 80% in some areas to less than 20% in others. In east London, 50% of those identified at high CVD risk (>20% QRISK2) are taking statins – if all CCGs came up to the level of the best, the current estimate of prevented CVD events would double to over 10,000 over the next five years – and smoking cessation, alcohol reduction and dietary change would add further to that saving.
Overall NHS Health Checks have made a promising start, and in future could do even better.
Dr John Robson is a GP in Tower Hamlets and clinical lead for the Clinical Effectiveness Group at Queen Mary University London
There's never been a shred of evidence anywhere on the planet that indiscriminate whole population testing works, in fact the evidence is that they induce health anxiety. Remember the NHS Health Checks scheme came about from a political whim, announced by Gordon Brown in 2008, it was and has never been justified or vindicated on scientific grounds.
The latest analysis merely confirms what the numerous previous analyses have shown, that they are a waste of money.
Firstly, the paper misleadingly claims that diagnoses made amongst attendees are all 'new' and would only be picked up by the program. In fact new diagnoses were also being made up among those who didn't attend for a NHS Health Check but who attended for other reasons - opportunistic pick-up, but they have conveniently not allowed for that.
Subtract the opportunistic pick up rate and it roughly halves the programs achievements. They claim 1,934 new cases of diabetes were picked up in those that attended (a pick-up rate of 0.9%) but the baseline pick up rate amongst those that declined the invite but attended for other reasons was 0.4%. So the programme actually resulted in about 900 patients being diagnosed who might not have been diagnosed if they hadn't seen their GP for other reasons. The same bias applies to the other conditions.
Subtracting those picked up opportunistically the programme's pick-up rate is virtually no different from normal GP pick-up rates.
Secondly, the rate of positive risk factors in the attendees was lower than in those who declined the invite. This is a well-known phenomenon: those most interested in their health, and therefore more likely to be healthier, are more likely to respond to an invite.
If we assume it costs £1 to invite each patient and a very modest £25 (some non GP providers get paid £75) for each attendance, then the program has cost at least £7,029,000. They can reasonably claim to have picked up 6,526 new diagnoses of CKD, diabetes and blood pressure. That's approximately £1,076 per new diagnosis vs the £25-30 cost of an ordinary GP appointment. So for each new diagnosis they could have paid for 40 routine GP appointments.
So in fact this evidence proves, as have all previous studies, that the NHS Health Checks program is simply a waste of time, effort and money. And this is before we factor in the other costs of administering the service and the consequential costs of increased health anxiety etc.
The fundamental flaw in the NHS Health Checks programme is that it is indiscriminate – it targets everyone, no matter how healthy we already know you are. You may be a non-smoking, non-drinking, normotensive, marathon running daughter of centenarian parents with normal BMI and a cholesterol of 2.5 but you'll still be invited. GPs know their patients, we know who is fit and who isn't. Our IT systems could easily draw up lists of those most likely to benefit from a health check and leave those who don't need them unbothered. Until this elementary error is fixed it will remain a complete waste of valuable time effort and money.
Dr Paul Cundy is a GP in Wimbledon and chair of the GPC IT subcommittee
Image credit Dr Cundy: Andy Lane
Readers' comments (7)
Hear Hear to Dr Cundy. The huge amounts of wasted money on indiscriminate checking of the worried well is a shameful waste of resources.
Remember the dementia diagnosis money?
If you paid an incentive for each new case of diabetes diagnosed, we'd diagnose more of it (and the diagnosis has a definite diagnosis done by numbers so much less scope for gaming. That alone would improve the health of the nation, and we'd be actively looking for it in our populations at risk.
Or pay an incentive for identifying people at over 20% 10 year risk (with a secondary incentive for discussing a statin with them), and you'd have an immensely more effective way to do population screening because we can easily identify those at higher risk and target our screening appropriately.
But no, indiscriminate screening has been imposed because it's popular with the middle class worried well that the politicians are wooing.
Maybe one day...
Ok . Leave aside the academic arguments for a moment. Am I right to say the protagonists from YES camp should stand up and rebel against those councils(hence the central government)which are likely to strip the funding of these checks . Don't tell me you would ask colleagues to do them for free!!
Politics is about doing the 'right' thing at the right place at the right time in history and please do not tell me you are scholars and should remain politically neutral !
And to remind you about the politics behind the launch of these checks . Yes, it was created under Labour government , hence the legacy from the opposition party of this current government . If a plug is to be pulled for the sake of austerity , this legacy is certainly qualifying the political re'sume'. Agent Hunt and his government does not really care about this , mate.....
7:27 "My GP certainly believes in them. His pharmacy has done hundreds!!"
That may be a non-sequitur. I don't believe in them at all but I encourage attendence amongst my patients because I beleive the money my practice gets paid per health check more than covers the expense.
Essentially I am disadvantaging the most healthy members of my practice population by bringing them to pointless health checks in order to get funding for other acitvity which may be of actual benefit.
My analysis of NHS HEALTH checks at my surgery shows that just over 2% of those tested were directly diagnosed with Diabetes, with almost 3% overall going on to get diabetes. In raw numbers as many opportunistic diabetics by clinical judgement were identified as the initial NHS checks.
Over 2% had hypertension directly diagnosed with an additional 2% going on to be diagnosed after further monitoring, so over 4% of those tested had hypertension (I didn't discount diabetics from this cohort of hypertension and vice versa).
The thing that surprised me was how low the initial risk scores were for the diabetics, very few in the 20%+ cohort before taking diabetes into account.
Overall despite these figures, if all we had to do was identify new diabetics and new hypertensives, they would be much better to give the money to GPs for opportunistic screening I think we would be much more cost effective.
But of course that would be too easy and would not satisfy those who want to win tenders.


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Treating Female Athletes
There are Distinct Differences Between Male and Female Athletes
When it comes to sports and recreation-related injuries, females differ from males in several important ways. For example, our research has shown that concussions are different for young women than for young men. After a concussion, female athletes are nearly twice as likely as males to have problems with thought or memory. They're also more prone to emotional changes and more likely to have symptoms that last longer than in men.
Female athletes are also at higher risk for suffering ACL tears. When an athlete is suspected of suffering an ACL tear, a quick and accurate diagnosis is important to them. As primary care physicians, we can also help coordinate access to our leading orthopedic experts who can repair the ligament. For female athletes involved in sports that place them at high risk for ligament tears, such as soccer and basketball, we can teach female athletes injury prevention exercises to help avoid tearing their ACL.
Female athletes are also at a greater risk than men for developing stress fractures with certain sports. Our physicians are experts in the diagnosis and treatment of these overuse injuries. We understand how to determine if there is an underlying cause to the stress fracture, such as low bone mineral density or training errors. We also work with sports nutritionists who specialize in helping treat individuals with vitamin deficiencies and low bone mineral density.
Experts in Treating Female Athletes
Because of important differences like these, you want specialists with extensive experience working with female athletes on your side to help avoid and treat injuries.


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Our talented faculty members also teach at such renowned institutions as New York University, School of Visual Arts, Pratt, International Center of Photography, and Fashion Institute of Technology.
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Sunnyvale, CA Gathering- Podcast 10-21-14
A very powerful worship time, and the angels began to come in and join us all, a powerful prophecy came forth for the California areas, and for the new leadership arising in this hour.
It is time to stand in your gates to legislate what the courts of Heaven want to activate in this hour in this hour!
The Lord is moving, and it is time to launch out into the deep things of His Spirit right now.
A time of worship, 2 powerful messages, and ministry time activations recorded.
(The prophecy begins around the 27:30 min mark....)
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Like most people, you are probably familiar with allergies. Either you are sufferer or someone close to you deals with allergies, and you are very aware of the problems they pose. No matter how you slice it, no matter which angle you view it from, it's clear that allergies can be bad news. Thankfully, the article below offers many excellent tips that offer advice on how to effectively deal with those troublesome allergies.
During the periods of really nice weather, you may be inclined to crack open the windows at home in order to save some money on expensive air conditioning costs. Opening your windows can lead to allergic reactions. Make sure you use HEPA filters in your air conditioner because they help get rid of indoor allergens. The HEPA filter is a great way to ensure that you can breathe easily in your own home.
Sometimes, people are more apt to suffer from allergies as they age. Babies are often fed certain types of foods that do not trouble them with allergies, which can result in other types of allergies later on. When babies get older, they are around other protein allergens, which could later turn into a pollen allergy. If your child starts exhibiting allergy symptoms, such as sneezing or watery eyes, do not rule out allergies simply because your child had not previously seemed allergic to pollen.
If you have to have a pet make sure they do not have a lot of fur. Every sort of animal may worsen allergy symptoms, but longer-haired ones tend to make things worse. In order to ameliorate the effects of animals, never sleep in the same bed with your pets.
Skin Test
An allergy skin test can show what substances a patient is allergic to; however, it may not indicate the severity of the allergies. A skin test may only show you have an allergy to a specific spore. It is possible, however, that you may experience extremely mild symptoms in the presence of the allergen; you may not notice any discomfort at all.
Look at what time you are experiencing your allergies. Between 5 a.m. and 10 a.m., pollen levels are at their highest; it is best to stay indoors during this period. When leaving your house cannot be avoided, you should spend as little time as possible outdoors; it also helps to keep activity to a minimum.
Keep the air inside your home free of allergens by keeping the windows closed. Anytime windows are open, pollen can start wreaking havoc on your health because of the allergens you let in. You can also prevent allergens by cleaning the filters in the air conditioner and vents.
Allergy Symptoms
Hopefully, you have gained useful tips to help you deal with allergy symptoms. You and your fellow allergy sufferers will not have to suffer with allergy symptoms any longer. Life may get a lot better for you after you make use of this article's advice.


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Well, it's over. A fantastic 60th year of the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity and this year we can crown the first AdParlor Cannes Pride Top 100.
These 100 individuals have fended off competition from the other 24,337 glittering conversationalists talking, on Twitter, about Cannes Lions to demonstrate their digital influence and leadership.
About the Cannes Pride
While many Top 100 lists can be found on the internet, Cannes Pride is different: this is not a subjective list of "top influencers" curated by an individual, nor is it a generalized system for measuring general social media influence and trying to apply that to a specific community.
No, instead it is a hybrid of the two. It has been devised by a Cannes Lions participant (Simon Baptist) and sponsored by a Cannes Lion sponsor (AdParlor) using real metrics and weighting as devised in accordance with the digital leader culture at Cannes. Using my web application Leaderboarded to crunch the data and generate the leaderboards meant that the task of creating a bespoke ranking system, one that would usually take a team of data scientists and engineers working round the clock, was completed automatically every day by the system without any fuss.
There was plenty of 'big data' to work with, we compiled the list having crunched 73,000 individual tweets, 33,000 mentions and 14,000 retweets to come up with the top 100.
What it means?
The Pride, the Top 100 are digital leaders and influencers at Cannes Lions. In a very noisy festival being able to influence the conversation as an individual lion using Twitter shows a real ability to connect with the wider Twitter audience.
While no one player managed the best possible score of 100, many came close. To succeed you had to discuss (and be retweeted on) #CannesLions, have a good overall PeerIndex social influence score and to be active in promoting and discussing CannesPride itself (worth a secret 3% of the score but enough to have been worth doing for the top players). You'll know for next year.
Next year we'll be back with ranking based on more digital channels and maybe some physical ones too. Thanks to all the Pride and we look forward to seeing your influence grow, not least because you're showing everyone your Cannes Pride badge!


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At the Saint Patrick's Day parade held every March 17 on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, it is common to see Bretons flying their black and white flag, which is reminiscent of the Star-Spangled Banner of the United States.
The French and American flags share the same colors, but the Stars and Stripes actually have more in common with the flag representing the French region of Brittany. Adopted in 1777, the U.S. standard was born of the independence granted to the 13 American colonies, symbolized by the 13 horizontal stripes. The number of stars then increased over time. Since July 4, 1960, the flag has displayed 50 stars in reference to the 50 states.
This emblem of freedom inspired French militant Morvan Marchal to design the first Breton Gwenn ha Du flag in 1920 (meaning "Black and White"). "These two flags embody revolution and sovereignty," says historian Joël Cornette, author of Histoire de la Bretagne et des Bretons. "They are hoisted in a sign of recognition."
The stripes on the Breton flag reference the nine dioceses that disappeared during the French Revolution. The provinces of Haute-Bretagne are represented by the five black bands, and those of Basse-Bretagne by the four white ones. The ermines are black, just like the tail of the animal they stand for —a symbol of the dukes of Brittany who rejected the fleur-de-lis of the French kings. There is no set number, however, but the most common versions feature 11 ermines.
An American Flag in Brittany
The Breton banner can now be spotted at concerts, festivals, and other events all over the world. The Breizh Flag Trip Tour website has even recorded the 168 countries where the flag is flown. And in the U.S.A., some 58% of Americans say they regularly show off the Stars and Stripes. Both ensigns can be seen from far away, and are often used in marketing campaigns with resulting merchandise such as T-shirts, posters, and bedlinen. But this love story between the American flag and Brittany goes back even further than the Gwenn ha Du itself.
Edouard Moran, The First Recognition of the American Flag by a Foreign Government, 1898. © U.S. Naval Academy Museum/National Archives
It was in Quiberon Bay, in the Morbihan département, that the Stars and Stripes were officially recognized for the first time. This "Breton baptism" took place in February 1778. First Lieutenant John Paul Jones, a leading figure in the U.S. Navy, traveled to Nantes and announced the signature of a treaty between America and France. As part of the alliance, he also obtained a fleet of French boats in Quiberon.
Upon seeing the boats commanded by the Comte de la Motte-Picquet moored in the bay, the first lieutenant fired 13 cannon shots in homage to the royal French fleet. The sailors from the French side then let off nine shots — fired customarily to greet an independent republic. This was the first time the American flag had been recognized by another power, some 150 years before the invention of the Breton version, which has never been granted an official status.
=> Read our story about the mutual history of the French and American flags and discover why they share the same colors.


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Of all the destinations I've seen in Europe, no country has wedded human-made and natural beauty with such success as little Slovakia. There are few places in the world where a vacation among cities can also pass as an outdoor spectacle, but one of these can be found nestled within the back roads that wind through the verdant Carpathian Mountains in which Slovakia is situated. The land has unknowingly been tailored to become a romantic getaway for the 21st century traveler; its history as a violently-contested territory, vied for by a disparate amount of groups—southern Hungarians, local Slovaks, cold Poles to the north, and brazen Tatar hordes to the east—has birthed impossibly-majestic castles that loom over lazy hamlets of medieval charm. The timelessness of the area still ticks on, thanks to the isolation ensured by the rugged terrain, and one is comfortably shielded from the stresses of the outside world by the looming mountains and incandescent fields of yellow rapeseed.
Prievidza: Getting There
As could be guessed, getting to this backcountry wonderland from the capital of Bratislava takes a bit of determination and planning, so waking up with the worst hangover-induced headsplitter of your life is really going to limit your progress eastward. On Thursday morning, I came to with a start on my hostel bed, in my clothes, and immediately knew I had missed the bus to Prievidza, the cute castle town where I was supposed to be headed for the day. Grasping my temple, in which my brain was hard at work grinding its halves together down the Corpus Callosum, I got all of my crap together and made for the reception to check out and get new bus and trains times to Prievidza. Not only had I missed my best transport option, but the schedule disruption was likely to throw off my Couchsurfing host Eva, who was to meet me at the bus station in Prievidza round noon.
Waiting in the rain for the bus to the train station felt like dying from poisoning, and along with this I was all but sure I would miss the last morning train to Prievidza and thereby screw everything up royally. It's hard to have any wiggle room when you are trying to see an entire country in 4-and-a-half days. Thus, I bolted out of the bus when it hit the station and got a ticket to some goodness-forsaken town that had a connection to Prievidza, and jumped on the train with naught but seconds to spare before the conductors hopped on.
The ride was a messy one for me, purely in the mental sense, as I couldn't sleep on my awkwardly-composed backpack and had no water to sake my post-binge thirst. When the trolley man unexpectedly came by with overpriced water I was clawing my way through my bag for Euros before I knew what was happening. The drink helped immensely, but a new problem presented itself when the train dropped me off at the nondescript destination where I had my connection (Its name lost to the pages of history/Google search). I was minutes away from missing my connection, as the bus terminal was miles from the railway station, but the station's sympathetic railmaster drove me to the terminal just in time. You can always count on finding good hearts on the road.
A few liters of life-giving water and a bus ride later, I was in Prievidza, and waited at the station for an hour-and-a-half until a girl with black hair—my host Eva—showed up searching for no one in particular. I'm currently armed with a high-powered beard and a pair of Indigo spectacles, which makes me look like a total stranger compared to my profile on Couchsurfing, so I approached her and introduced myself by apologizing for the wait. She was totally chilled out and didn't mind a bit about it, and we got on to friendly conversation quite readily.
Prievidza and Bojnice:
Eva was a great host to have. We spent the rest of the day just relaxing at her apartment, where she lives with her brother and mother, and talked about a hundred different subjects (e.g. Slovak culture, medical expenses, university, funny sounds in Arabic) until the sun went down. She made some really good cheesy chicken for dinner, which didn't seem to be traditionally Slovak or anything but it hit my cramped-up stomach just right. Furthermore her two cats were a delight and I could feel the pet-deprived neurotransmitters in my noggin going crazy when I got to pet them and hear them purr. I treat everybody's pet like my own, now that I haven't got one!
The next day was castle time. Located nearby as the one saving grace of Prievidza, magnificent Bojnice Castle is home to the annual Festival of Ghosts and Spirits, an entertaining string of supernaturally-themed events that fuses just enough kitsch and artfulness to be a good time for local visitors. So what happens at a ghost festival? Well, special tours headed by a 'parapsychologist' are conducted through the uniquely-contrived hallways and chambers of the romanticism-inspired castle, which happens to be inhabited by mischievous ghosts that can argue, tell jokes, swordfight, sing, and dance. The local youth have a great time with it all as they constitute the white face-painted labor force tasked with populating the place. Eva recognized one of her high school classmates as a severed head which had a comic tussle with a murderous Mongol.
Along the way, there was the Addams family, vain ghost girls screaming about developing wrinkles, a flamboyant vampire that looked like a blond Liberace, undead burlesque dancers, and hilarious paper hydras suspended on poles by unenthused boys hiding under a low-lit railing. The finale of the event occurred when all the supernatural hosts had a ball in the castle's main hall and, immediately after showing up, I was led away by a smokin' hot lady-specter to join the fun. Well, I danced with her for about a minute, during which time I tickled the crowd with my best worst dance moves, including the unstoppable Back Bender (Back to back, you raise the gal up), and then I fled back to Eva's side in the darkness (I seem to be a target for this kind of shenanigans, and something similar went down when I was hoisted up onto a fashion show runway in Turkey last year. Of course, I didn't let the spectators down then either).
The tour ended when our parasychologist guide fell in love with a cowled ghost man who gave her a flower. Uh…right.
Despite this, and despite the entire thing having happened in the Slovak language, I really enjoyed it all and would recommend it to all possible visitors in the future. Just be sure to bring along a little Slovak girl to translate everything for you if need be!
Prievidza: Getting Away
Eva and I were waylaid by a Spanish man and his Slovak girlfriend on the way out of the castle for a picture, and I got the opportunity to show off my dreadful Spanish for fifteen minutes of strained talking, but it did the trick and we had a nice conversation about the Camino de Santiago and castles. I can't say much in Spanish, but I can definitely make my love of ancient fortifications clear as day (OYE CHICO, ME GUSTAN LOS CASTILLOS MUCHOOOOO).
After getting some marginal Slovakian ice cream in cones that were disgustingly soft, we got back to Eva's flat and then realized that the last bus to Levoca—my next town—was leaving in minutes. For the second time on my trip, I had to run my ass to a bus station, this time with Eva panting next to me, and I thanked my lucky stars for getting there about 30 seconds before departure. With one sweaty hug and excited goodbye delivered to Eva, I got on the bus and had another wonderful evening of confusing connections and waiting at bus/train stations. Still, any opportunity to listen to a random album like Electric Light Orchestra's Greatest Hits to discover two awesome songs should be valued.
Coming Up Next: Final days in Slovakia in magical Levoca and Bardejov


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Under Elastic City Construction
Submitted by todd on Mon, 09/13/2010 - 11:59am
We were initially given Labor Day weekend for our September date at the Flea, but because of the long weekend and lots of people out of town, we pushed it back a week. to 9/11. This added a whole other layer to our work:
How do we raise awareness about conceptual art walks in a flea market while acknowledging the September 11th attacks?
What a ridiculous sentence.
We decided to create a construction zone where the public can build their own monuments. They'd tell us which shapes they want to use and we'd build it. Then, we'd photograph them with their monuments and place the photos on our blog. Given this was our last time at the Flea, we decided to use detritus from our past Flea installations as material to create the structures.
It was an incredible afternoon. Lots of families showed up to participate. See the slideshow below!
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Some little projects are done but, little ones make the bigger ones look better!
Water bottle holder
a place to set drinks and snacks while games are played and something to remember
a raised garden bed for our future garden area
a bench, we made 2 out of our neighbors old deck
our entry way message station.
My lovely warped husband painted the ceiling with oops paint. On his own!! He picked out the paint and just did it!! Awesome!!
Planted pretties by the fence, added post lights, working on a window to hang on the fence to complete the cottage feel the fence provides.
Taught the warped little one how to eat an elephant. (One bite at a time) It is a simple square frame to make a huge job seem smaller. It does work!!
A desk the warped hubby picked up on a curb, it will eventually be a potting bench.
So far that is it for the updates. Of course more to come!