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The Rose Center Theater in Westminster, CA. is a wonderful venue with a 40-foot wide proscenium stage and a nicely raked seating. This was the site for the inaugural performance of the Orange County Dance Festival presented by AkomiDance which is run by Co-Artistic Directors, Marie Hoffman and Anthony Aceves. There were works by sixteen choreographers, with at least seventy-five dancers performing. It was a marathon two hours representing a variety of dance styles and levels of talent ranging from professional to very amateur. Due to limited space, I cannot write about all the dances. The range of styles included modern, contemporary, jazz, tap and hip hop and, to be honest, some of the choreography belonged in high school and college arenas.
The host company, AkomiDance, presented two works that opened and closed the festival. The first, titled Divinity Lost was by choreographer and festival organizer Marie Hoffman. The piece was well danced by Anthony Aceves, Destany Churchwell, Daniel Diaz, Bailie Johnston, Jana Burleson Taylor, and Amy Walper, but the relationship between the live performance and the projected film was unclear. The central theme of the work was also ambiguous. There was a sense of ritual and sacrifice. The costumes were not helpful as they suggested indigenous peoples without placing them in a specific place. AkomiDance closed the program with a work titled Leaving Remnants by Anthony Aceves. It was a lively piece filled with highly aerobic movement and strong performances. Aceves would be better served to edit out the beginning, however, as it is far too sophomoric.
The strongest works in Act I were Sticks and Stones by Carisa Carroll, Muses by Francesca Lee, Panel by Joshua D. Estrada-Romero and Mine, a film by Laura Karlin.
I reviewed Sticks and Stones in an earlier article for SeeDance and was pleased to see that Carisa Carroll had re-worked it. The adversarial relationship between the two dancers, Kaycee Jannino and Elise Matthews, is now well defined and the work has come together. Muses by Francesca Lee was interesting to watch largely because of the flowing gold costumes and the strong performances by Kristy Dai, Megumi Iwama and Andrea Rivera. Which muses these were or what their relationship might be was not clear, but the dancing was good.
I always enjoy watching FUSE Dance Company perform and Joshua D. Estrada-Romero is an interesting choreographer. His work Panel is filled with ever-changing patterns and shifting relationships between dancers; seemingly on the verge of becoming aggressive and/or confrontational. His company members are strong performers. They include Kathy Duran, Olivia Hamilton, Rebecca Levy, Phillip Lu, Rebeca Montecino, Joshua Romero and Katherine Shepersky.
This was my second viewing of Mine, a dance video choreographed Laura Karlin, Artistic Director of Invertigo Dance Theatre, set in an abandoned desert building. It is a romantic duet, performed beautifully by Jessica Dunn and Alex Malachi Middleton. Mine is a love duet, but what enriches its beauty is the contrasts of skin tones against the stark abandoned structure walls and the harsh lighting from outside. Dunn is a very pale skinned redhead and Middleton is an African American with a rich milk chocolate skin tone. As they weave in and out of Karlin's complex lifts and partnering, those two shades mix like the batter of a marble cake. It is delicious to one's eyes.
Act II included tap, modern, hip hop, and a beautiful dance film by Deborah Brockus. Souls of Soles choreographed by Amy "Catfox" Campion, the Director of Antics, was a fun piece involving the making of shoes. After a rap-like tale of a shoemaker's family, the dancers became assembly line machines that passed along a bright red training shoe with an LED lit trim. It was a tad too long, but the dancing was a wonderful mixture of hip hot styles performed with passion by the members of Antics, Emeroy Bernardo, Bliss, Donald "BBoy Crumbs" Counts, Liezel Marie de Guzman, Ebonnee Arielle, Le'Triece, John "Magick" Liggins, Cyrian Reed and Stephen Velazquez.
this is not the end was choreographed and performed by Andrew Pearson to the music of HEADSPACE and an original score by Evan Monheit. Pearson begins by taping off a rectangular area with red masking tape, making sure it fit his dimensions by measuring it out with his body. He proceeds to perform a very introspective solo with movements, standing and on the floor, that appear to be measuring the space around him. He leaves the square and the movement expands. Pearson then returns to his confined area only to break out of it and simply walk off to his next adventure.
HAD WE BUT WORLD ENOUGH AND TIME is a sensual and somewhat seductive film by Deborah Brockus, the Artistic Director of BrockusRED. Dancers Deborah Brockus, Ruby Karen, Andrea Marblestone, Natalie Penn and Roxanne Reyes move through desert canyons, open desert land, urban sites and close by very large earth moving tractors. The movement is seductive and tempting as the landscapes and skies change. Bright sunshine changes into sunsets and canyons shift into city apartment complexes. The film is rich with texture and, for this viewer, a subtle political statement on how we continue to abuse Mother Earth.
Emergent Dance Company is a young group based in Huntington Beach, who performed Endless Repeats by Megan Pulfer. Pulfer, a former member of Clairobscur Dance Company in Los Angeles, has created a beautiful showcase for the talents of this youthful company. Dressed in brown dresses, the work had a sense of a cloistered group of women intent on a common goal. Pulfer has constructed this work in an unorthodox and intriguing manner that binds the women together but enables them to work individually; joined only briefly in unison. The cast included: Sarah Banks, Bridgette Burnette, Stephanie Lin, Jessie Mays, Jordan Nishkian, Katherine Shepersky, and Madison Simons.
Leah Silva is an extraordinary tap dancer! Her amazing solo, Love Me or Leave Me, was performed to the music of the legendary Nina Simone and she brought down the house. Never moving off a small, square wooden floor, Silva filled the stage without traveling anywhere. Her rhythms were crystal clear, and the emotions she conveyed through her complex footwork and powerful choreography were spot on with Simone's lyrics and classical piano improvisations.
R.ED Rhapsody En Dance is a company that I would like to see more of. Speak, choreographed by Rhapsody James was filled with a wonderful blend of contemporary dance and hip hop styles. The dancers were strong and the rhythms James created in and around those of the music were amazingly steady. The company members included Jennifer Bermeo, James Cabrera, Tyquan Christie, Samantha Glennerster, Julio Marcelino, Miki Michelle, and Miesha Moore.
Other companies performing on the Orange County Dance Festival included: Palm Dance Collective; Suzy Miller Dance; Passion, Grace, and Fire Dance Company; Blurredink, Kairos Dance Company; and Louise Reichlin and Dancers/LA Choreographers and Dancers. The Festival theater staff included Managing Director Tim Nelson, Technical Director Chris Caputo and Karen Rymar on Sound. The production values for the Festival were excellent and everything ran extremely smoothly. The projected program credits which scrolled out after each dance like those in Star Wars, was a nice and very "Green" touch.


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Fred Astaire, JATP, And My Shameful Past
"Steppin' Out: Astaire Sings" From 1945 to 1957 Norman Granz produced a series of concerts called Jazz At The Philharmonic (JATP). Fred was their featured artist on one of the 1952 tours and the recordings were taken from those performances. Granz was Oscar Peterson's manager for most of his professional career but in 1952 they were just at the beginning of their working relationship. Internet music experts agree that the Peterson/Granz collaboration gave Fred an opportunity to really stretch as a vocalist. There are no songs from this album on YouTube that I could find, but here's a song medley from Fred's 1958 TV special "An Evening With Fred Astaire." Almost all the songs in this medley are on the album. I think you can still hear the influence of the JATP experience in Fred's phrasing here. Oh and there's an extra bonus number on this clip too!
WARNING: In this section I shall be divulging a shocking and repulsive secret that I have kept hidden for three decades. Look away now if you have weakness in your stomach or heart.
I think Fred Astaire was one of the greatest dancers who ever lived. No, that's not the shameful part. For several years in my early adolescence though, if you had asked me, I'd have said I preferred Gene Kelly. No shame in that either. Gene was also an amazing talent. My cousin and I had an ongoing Kelly/Astaire debate and I had what I felt was the definitive "Kelly is better" argument:
1. Gene is cuter.
2. He made more color movies than Fred. (I have no idea if that's true but it seemed right to me.)
3. "Singing In The Rain" was like, totally tubular! (It was the 80's. We were required by law to talk like that.)
Okay, perhaps it wasn't the most cogent argument but I did win the debate. More importantly, I won it without having to reveal the horrifying, nauseating truth behind my early 80's Gene Kelly preference. "Xanadu" yes, the 1980 Olivia Newton John stinkburger "Xanadu." I tuned in our one and only cable channel one day and recorded it on the Betamax. I played the tape over and over until I wore it out. I loved that movie so much that it caused me to declare that Gene Kelly was the greatest dancer of all time simply because he was in it. If you must judge me gentle reader, pray judge with mercy. After all, hath not a "Xanadu" fan eyes? If you prick us do we not bleed? If you give us satin shorts and skates do we not roller disco?


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(Boulder-CO) There were no smoke and mirrors, hidden compartments, or trick photography in tonight's Nuggets victory over the Magic, 111-101. The Nuggets finally found a sense of team chemistry on offense and defense and had six players score in double-digits. The win for Denver means finally back to .500 on the season with record of, 28-28, and more importantly a much needed boost in team morale.
The Nuggets were led tonight by Allen Iverson's game-high 34 points, seven assists, five steals, and four rebounds in a team-high 46 minutes of play. Carmelo Anthony added 25 points and six rebounds, Eduardo Najera kicked in 17 points and five rebounds, and Linas Kleiza finished with 15 points and three rebounds including three three-pointers.
The most impressive aspect of the game for me was the Nuggets taking care of the basketball and finishing with only 13 turnovers that directly resulted in a meager ten points for the Magic. On the other end of the floor the Nuggets were fantastic at causing the Magic to turn it over. Orlando was anything but magical in their erratic play, and finished tonight with 25 turnovers leading to just as many points for the Nuggets. Kudos to Denver for finally being able to enforce its will on another team.
My final note about this game is that it finished with a sense of accomplishment that far exceeded its actual value. A win is a win, and I'll gladly take one regardless of its grace, but when the Nuggets won tonight it was almost like a major pressure release occurred. They finally played as a team on offense and on defense. Carmelo and Iverson still combined for their sixty or so points, and a couple of guys are starting to emerge as reliable contributors. I like what I am starting to see materialize, but am still not sure if the Nuggets can get too confident banking on the few things that are starting to click. There is much work to be done, but at least now it seams like the Nuggets are working on it together.
Tomorrow the Nuggets travel before taking on Houston on Friday night. The last two times the Rockets and Nuggets have played they have split. Most recently being the Nuggets overtime victory back on January 20th.
I don't recall a time that .500 ever felt so good! Go Nuggets!


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Outside the Box, August 2013
Outside the Box was retired on April 25, 2018, to make way for the new and improved premium research service, Over My Shoulder.
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Exit, Schmexit
August 27, 2013
In last week's Outside the Box, which included a paper from the San Francisco Federal Reserve on the effectiveness of quantitative easing, I wrote, "What [authors] Cúrdia and Ferrero are really saying is that the latest round of QE, massive as it has been, has not had all that much effect on the economy, and that other factors should be taken into account. I'm sure this thesis is somewhat controversial, and I look forward to seeing what QE proponents like David Zervos over at Jefferies have...
What Has QE Actually Accomplished?
August 20, 2013
The market is obsessed with "tapering." The assumption is that all the "juice" in the economy is somehow the product of the Federal Reserve's actions. The headline on the front page of the Wall Street Journal today reads "Fear of Fed Retreat Roils India." I suppose one has to come up with some kind of reason to explain the convergence of emerging equity markets and those of the US. My friend Dan Greenhaus over at BTIG sent out this ugly graph (if you are an emerging-market investor) this...
The New Normal—Some Expensive Consequences
August 13, 2013
Everybody talks about the weather, but there's not much we can do about it except make plans that take into account what mother nature may throw at us. For most of us that means planning for the next few days, but we should all be aware of climate patterns that are going to affect us for the next 20 to 30 years. And those patterns are changing not just because of global climate change but also due to long-term periodic changes in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
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Mind the (Expectations) Gap: Demographic Trends and GDP
August 7, 2013
For today's Outside the Box we have a very special research piece by Rob Arnott of Research Associates and his colleague Denis Chaves. Rob was with us at Leen's Lodge last week, and in the final evening discussion session he asked an interesting question having to do with demography and GDP growth. I was intrigued by it, but the group soon moved on without fully exploring Rob's idea; so I mentioned it to him again later, and he was good enough to send along the following paper.


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4 Steps to Create Content Gmail Users Won't Unsubscribe From
In early March, Google announced that a new, clearly marked "unsubscribe" link would appear at the top of the header field in marketers' emails. The feature will be made available for most promotional messages with unsubscribe options. This is just another step—following the addition of the separate promotional tab—making it easy for Gmail users to remove irrelevant marketing messages from the inbox. Now more than ever, email marketers must be sure they are delivering relevant newsletter content for their readers, or emails will never hit the inbox at all, let alone be opened.
According to IMN's "Second Annual Content Marketing Survey," more than two-thirds of marketers state that monthly newsletters are an effective content marketing tactic to engage with customers and prospects. Relevant content not only strengthens relationships with the recipients, but also provides an opportunity for follow-up, which can turn casual newsletter readers into purchasers, no matter where they fall in the sales cycle. Before relevant content can be crafted, organizations need to align content to the goal. For example, if customer and prospect engagement is a top goal, thinking about the top five questions a prospect might ask and delivering that content would be a sound strategy.
Establishing a content strategy begins with asking basic questions such as:
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Once those basic questions have been answered, there are several core best practices to keep in mind in order to effectively leverage content as a tool for improving customer engagement and loyalty.
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Choosing Spinal Decompression Exercises
There are a number of different spinal decompression exercises and therapy treatments to choose from. The question to ask is which one is right for you. So, if your friends start telling you how to go about treating constant back pain…listen but not really, you need to take this seriously and seek professional help.
What Is Spinal Decompression?
A compressed spine can happen from the top of the neck all the way down to the lower back. Think of the spinal cord as this intelligent verbal highway that talks to the brain. The brain constantly communicates to the muscles, soft tissues and the nerves. This amazing cord is interconnected and twined in between massive layers of vertebrae, discs and bones.
Compression and pain is instant when there is an injury to the spinal cord or the vertebrae. The nerves will instantly fire off signals and tells the brain the back or neck is out of whack.
Spinal Decompression Exercises Relieves Pain
Depending on the injury spinal decompression exercises can relieve the pain and in some cases be a quicker healing treatment for recovery. Lets break this down so that you know how to identify the pain. The cervical vertebrae supports the neck, the thoracic vertebrae supports the middle of the back and the lumbar vertebrae supports the lower back.
Sciatic Pain
It's important to be able to understand what part of the spine is causing pain. One of the common symptoms that can tell the body the back is out of whack is sciatic pain. The sciatic nerve is in the lumbar, lower back. This is a very large nerve that travels across the butt all the way down the legs and to the feet.
Recognizing Sciatica Symptoms
When the sciatic nerve is pinched the nerve will signal off a traveling tingling pain running up and down the leg all the way to the ankle. This pain can travel to the front or back of the leg. Don't mistake this for leg or back-pain, it is much more than that.
Beginning Gentle Sciatica Stretches
Spinal decompression exercises and treatment is one of the fastest alternatives for sciatic nerve relief. Mild and gentle sciatica stretching exercises are part of the healing process.
Most importantly before doing anything if there is swelling or feelings of heat to the back or neck areas do not exercise, immediately start ice packs to take the swelling down. You my have to use a over the counter anti-inflammatory to take the pain and swelling down until you can talk with a naturopath or your doctor.
Natural Alternatives: if you can find calcium orotate or calcium, magnesium, orotate this helps the healing process and warm epsensol baths can relax the muscles and soft tissues.
There are three gentle exercises that will help to decompress the spin and relieve sciatic pain. Do these exercise 2 times a day. This will take time and you will need to stick with it. You may also want to consider working with a practitioner that provides decompression therapy such as inversion tables, acupuncture and deep tissue message.
Be A Cat
This stretch is a good warm up and a good way to start. Do not over extend always work at the level of comfort to feel a gentle stretch. Hold for a count of 10, this is the position to move into the fetal rock.
These exercises done together should become part of a regular routine. Stay with it to strengthen the muscles as the nerves and soft tissue heal. It will take perseverance.
The Fetal Rock
Continue to release the pressure off the lower back. Start on all fours, on hand and knees, gently stretch arms out as far as you can while lowering knees underneath chest, hold for a count of 25 and gently rise up to all fours and be a cat, count to 10 and then repeat 3 times.
Rolling Knees
Place knees up to chest gently rock side to side to warm up. When warmed up stretch arms out in a T-position. Stretch one leg out and the other leg knee up to the hip, roll to the opposite side as far as comfortable. Hold for a count of 10. Do this on each side 3 times.
As long as the disc is not severely herniated you can avoid surgery. It will take time to heal and as you heal be aware of how you bend, always from the knees and do not pick up heavy object For the ladies or men, stay out of high heels.


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filmora.io introduces a free YouTube Resources Library for community members
VANCOUVER, B.C. (PRWEB) July 11, 2018
The community for YouTube creators, filmora.io, launched a Free Resources Library along with a new look for its website today. Aiming to inform, motivate, and inspire online video creators, filmora.io continues to offer practical content such as resources, video tutorials, and articles. The new Resources Library includes YouTube essentials like channel art templates, intro templates, and ebooks that are full of advice, instructions, and video ideas.
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Happy new year!! I hope it's off to a good a start for everybody as it has been for me! We just got back from an AMAZING trip home to Vancouver, back into full on summer time here in Sydney.
I was planning on keeping up with the blog while I was away but…I didn't! I cooked a lot and took lots of photos with the intention of posting, but too much was going on!!! Here's just a few food pics from our visit…
Putting mum and dads new BBQ to good use on Christmas morning!
Christmas breakfast! Vegan breakfast casserole, steamed kale, BBQ'd veggie sausages and BBQ'd mushrooms and onion.
Christmas dinner! Mum's amazing vegan tourtière with cranberry sauce, sweet potato and kale pasta bake, and roasted potatoes and Brussels sprouts
Ready to get stuck in! We were so full after dinner we didn't even eat our pumpkin pie :O
Vegan nachos at La Bandidas Mexican restaurant. SO good. I'm really going to miss daiya cheese here in Australia, I have to try and get someone to import the goods!!!
Fricken amaZing enchilada. Again, the daiya cheese…so…good.
Mums ridiculously good curry sittin' pretty on the good old Aga. I got a curry tutorial from her so will be recreating it soon and posting the recipe!
The aga really is a cooks best friend!! Cooking up a New Year's Eve feast here.
Quinoa with almond crusted tofu, caramelised Brussels and green beans with a cashew miso dressing.
So there is just a sampling of all the delicious food that was had!! Some other favourites were mum's lentil shepards pie, pumpkin soup, vegetable soup, tempeh breakfast sandwiches, rice balls with peanut sauce, chick pea flour fries, vegan mac n cheese, many drunk daiya grilled cheeze sandwhiches on the aga aka the grilled cheese master!!! and I also made my vegan Nanaimo bars which everybody went crazy about…especially when they found out they were healthy!
So all and all, it was a very tasty holiday!
Now here is a pasta recipe for you…
A very green pasta:
It's funny how your body craves warm hearty stuff in the cold, hence the soups and curries of back home, but as soon as you're back in the heat all you want is fresh simple stuff! This pasta dish took about twenty minutes to make and made four big servings.
1 400 gram package of pasta (I used whole grain spelt spaghetti)
1/2 head of broccoli chopped (use the stems too! They are really nice and crunchy!)
1 zucchini chopped
2-3 big kale leaves taken off the stem and chopped quite finely
3-4 green onions chopped
Boil pasta. Chop veggies and place in a big strainer over a large pot. Once the pasta is cooked strain it over the veggies and into the pot. Place a lid on top and let the hot pasta lightly steam the veggies. Meanwhile get out your seasoning…
So simple and so good. If you haven't tried hazelnut oil I suggest you do ASAP! My aunt bought this for me and I trekked it all the way back to Sydney and I was blown away by the flavour!
Dump you pasta and your now lightly steamed but still fresh veggies into a large salad bowl. Drizzle with oil, nutritional yeast, Himalayan rock salt, pepper, pumpkin seeds and sesame seeds.


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My son (age 9) and I watched a lot of the footage of the Osama bin Laden killing. When they showed all of the people dancing and cheering in the streets, he asked me, "Mom, did we win something?" I honestly didn't know what to say. Americans like us and certain parts of the world have waited for over 10 years for this day. I make no claims to even begin to understand the pain of those who lost people in 9/11, and I feel at least some relief at what I see as a necessary step on the part of the United States, but I found our citizens' behavior…distasteful wwe supercard herunterladen benötigter inhalte nicht möglich. What do you recommend I say to someone so young about justice (or perhaps revenge?) in a case like this?
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Revenge is a very powerful phenomenon that leads to intense, short-term satisfaction. Getting an eye for an eye can actually be a very adaptive process. It gives you motivation and strategy to protect yourself ("if she does this to me, I can do it right back. I'm just as capable and strong.") and can potentially serve as vicarious learning for those who are considering harming you fortnite fortnite. If you show people you are not to be messed with, they will often back off.
However, this approach is not without problems. Cognitively, it allows us to believe, correctly or not, that we've settled the score. In the case of bin Laden, that assessment would be misguided. While many people casually bandied the term "closure" during interviews, no one who lost friends or family in the World Trade Center attacks would re-experience their loss in exchange for the death of bin Laden under any circumstances boulder dash kostenlos downloaden. Killing a killer leads you to temporarily believe that the playing field is now equal. Very often, it is not. Just ask the victims' families.
From a purely psychological perspective, was the killing of bin Laden a necessary step? Absolutely. The direct victims and many people of the United States couldn't even begin to move on with the notion that innocent people were killed without any accountability prosieben filme downloaden. But the people shouting in the trees and the streets of Washington D.C./New York City missed an important concept: justice is to be appreciated, not celebrated. It's a time for sober thought and reflection, not a mimicry of capturing the Stanley Cup. We didn't win anything, far from it. And, after the partying has died down, those who have lost the most will still feel hollowness warcraft 3 kostenlos downloaden deutsch. This event will likely help, but it won't end the experience.
So, how do you explain this to a 9 year-old, to someone who is very impressionable and could use this extreme example to easily lump all people into purely good or bad? As most of you know, I'm not an expert on children – which makes it all the more puzzling that you continue to seek my counsel on it – but I think I might go with something along the lines of this (note that because I don't talk to children very much, I often speak in very anti-septic, generic, almost clueless phrases, so feel free to spice it up with a little character):
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If someone in our family was hurt by a person outside of our house, we would want them to be arrested and probably put in jail publisher kostenlos herunterladen. It's not okay to damage someone simply because you don't like them. But with a man like Osama bin Laden, this wasn't a real option, because he killed so many people: moms and dads, sons and daughters. He was wealthy and powerful and spent a large portion of his adult life trying to hurt us. He was known all over the world, and if our country didn't take a drastic step, other countries in the world might think that it was okay to do that to us as well herunterladen. We needed to show people who want to hurt that you will pay the ultimate price if you do very bad things to us: you will have to die yourself.
The people who are chanting and dancing are caught up in the excitement of having found this man who was able to hide from us for over 10 years. They are also bonding over a common cause. This is, in many ways, a good thing, because connection creates a sense of community and belonging animation herunterladen. They also feel happy for the families of the people who died, because those people in particular were hurt the most by Osama bin Laden.
However, some of them think that this means no more harm will come to people in this country. Not many agree with that idea, but at least some do. Some think that if you do to someone what he has done to you, then life is fair. For us, I think it's important we see that having to take such a strong stance and kill another person means that we didn't have another option. Too many other people could have been hurt if this man stayed alive. You and I don't need to do any dances, we just need to see that the world is often a very violent place, and that there are rare times when you need to respond to violence in the same way. My hope and plan is that you never have to do that yourself, but it's important to know that it's sometimes necessary so that other people can be safe and live the way they choose.
I could probably spew another thousand words about my attitude toward such an historic event, but you've either already agreed with me or swallowed your own vomit. So I'll just leave it at that and let you have at it in the comments thread here or Facebook if you so choose.


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Roasted Two-Tone Potatoes
These roasted potatoes are browned and slightly crusty on the outside and soft and moist inside. Yukon Gold potatoes have a wonderful buttery flavor, while sweet potatoes add their warm color and special sweetness.
- 8Servings
- 1 1/2 lbs. potatoes (about 2 medium)
- 1 1/2 lbs. sweet potatoes (about 2 medium)
- 1 Tbs. vegetable oil
- 3/4 tsp. salt, or to taste
- 3/4 tsp. ground nutmeg
Preheat oven to 400F. Coat large roasting pan with cooking spray.
Peel all potatoes and cut into 1/2-inch-thick pieces about 1 1/2 inches long. In large bowl, combine potatoes, oil and 1/2 teaspoon salt; toss to coat. Spread potatoes in prepared roasting pan.
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Neil Warnock`s side went into the encounter knowing victory would seal their return to the Barclays Premier League after a 15-year absence, although they can now do so with victory over Hull at Loftus Road on Easter Monday.
For Cardiff, a draw was not really good enough for their automatic promotion ambitions and they now sit one point behind second-placed Norwich with just three matches remaining.
A blistering start, with two goals inside the opening 10 minutes, set the pattern for a pulsating afternoon.
At the heart of it was enigmatic QPR skipper Adel Taarabt, who showed why he is the Championship`s player of the year with two great finishes, the second of which came in the 71st minute to cancel equally impressive first-half efforts from City`s star duo Jay Bothroyd and Craig Bellamy.
R`s striker Heidar Helguson had promotion within his grasp in the 89th minute, but he could only find the side-netting with the goal at his mercy.
Both sides were unchanged from their last outing and it was Bellamy who set up the first clear opening for Peter Whittingham after just three minutes, but the 10-goal midfielder failed to connect properly with his shot and Paddy Kenny saved well.
But it mattered little as Bothroyd soon broke the deadlock in stunning fashion.
The former Arsenal trainee picked up the ball on the right touchline and skipped inside a challenge before curling a delightful left-footed effort from 18 yards into the top corner off the crossbar.
But anything Bothroyd could do, Taarabt could match.
The Moroccan saw a corner returned to him on the left but an acute angle mattered little as he planted a stunning curling shot beyond the reach of Stephen Bywater and into the far corner.
Despite the pace of the opening stages slowing slightly, half chances continued to flow at either end.
And the majority of the 26,058 inside the Cardiff City Stadium were brought to their feet again in the 35th minute.
Bothroyd was allowed time to send over an inswinging cross from the right which Matthew Connolly failed to deal with, even using his hand in the process, and the ball squirmed through to Bellamy to swivel and smash past Kenny into the top corner.
Bywater preserved City`s lead going into the break, producing a great diving save after Shaun Derry`s shot took two deflections.
Whittingham wasted his second good chance of the afternoon shortly after the restart.
Unsurprisingly, the pace of the second half failed to match that of the first and that was reflected in the lack of clear-cut opportunities created.
But Taarabt made sure he did not waste the one which did come his way in the 71st minute, shrugging off the attentions of Kevin McNaughton to bring down Wayne Routledge`s chipped forward pass and beat Bywater from just inside the area.
Bellamy was denied by Kenny but it was Helguson who passed up the best chance of victory, somehow shooting wide from close range late on.
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The description for Eric Weber's job has not changed in more than a century.
Charged with keeping watch over thousands of acres of land stretching nearly a hundred miles in every direction, Weber scans the horizon for smoke from his perch in the sky.
For decades, state and federal foresters have been phasing out lookout towers like his, relying instead on aircraft, satellites and 911 callers to find wildfires. At one time, there were nearly 9,000 fire towers nationwide. Now a little more than 800 are active, according to the Forest Fire Lookout Association, a national network dedicated to preserving the towers.
In New Jersey, the most densely populated state in the country, 21 towers, dotted throughout the state, remain the first line of defense against wildfires. In fact, 25 percent of the blazes here every year are first spotted by a lookout, according to the New Jersey Forest Fire Service, a division of the Department of Environmental Protection.
"You can see just about the whole state from the air with those 21 towers," said Bob Wolff, section warden for the fire service and co-director of the state chapter of the lookout association.
Staffed when fire danger is moderate or higher, the towers in the northern half of the state, in places like Denville and Mount Olive and Frankford, are active roughly four months out of the year.
New Jersey's network of watch towers is strategically spaced, focusing on wilderness areas like the Highlands and the Pine Barrens. Along the Appalachian Trail in the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area, roughly 1,500 feet above the Delaware River, Weber keeps watch in the Catfish Station tower on the hot, dry days when the risk for fire is high.
On clear days, he can scan the Catskills to the north and peer down into South Jersey, maintaining contact with nearby towers by phone and dispatching fire crews by radio from his 7-foot-by-7-foot box, 47 feet above the ground.
"I look at the same thing every day," Weber said. "If something changes, I know it pretty quick, because not much changes."
He can tell the difference between a wildfire and someone burning a log in a fireplace.
"I call them 'pencil smokes.' They come up really skinny, thin and white in color." Weber said. "They don't ever change and then eventually they dissipate. If it comes up a pencil, and it starts building and building, then something else is going on out there."
"That's when we send somebody."
In his first season as a lookout, Weber, 26, has been a wildland firefighter and is also a volunteer fire chief in Knowlton Township. On a typical shift, he spends about eight hours in the small metal cab atop a red and white tower. By necessity, it is neat and tidy. Everything has its place – a hot plate is in one corner, a pan hangs from a hook on the wall and emergency rations are kept under a desk along with an American flag.
The room is dominated by a large metal disc mounted on a pole in the middle of the room. The alidade is one of the most important tools a fire lookout has, aside from keen eyesight aided by a pair of binoculars. It's similar in concept to the devices used to navigate at sea and survey roads. It's ancient too; Arabs are believed to have used similar devices in the 12th Century.
Weber uses this to determine what direction the smoke is in relation to his tower. He coordinates with neighboring towers to triangulate the location of a fire to within a quarter-mile.
"Hopefully, when a smoke comes up, at least one other tower can see it. It makes our job a lot easier," Weber said. "If another tower can't see it, then we use the lay of the land — count the ridges out or local landmarks — whatever resources we can to home in on where the fire is located."
Lookouts also act as dispatchers for fire crews, a task that Wolff said is more effective than using modern technology. More than two decades ago, for four years Wolff sat in the same tower that Weber does today. Now, the section warden fights the blazes that Weber spots.
Seven or eight years ago, before Weber's time in the tower, Bob Yanvary was at work 30 miles from home when dry lightning sparked a blaze near his house in Hardwick. The lookout on duty that day at Catfish Station saw the smoke from roughly three miles away.
"He's the one that spotted that fire. He was the one that notified the local fire department," said Yanvary, a builder who restores homes. "Who knows what would have happened, because they were able to respond quickly. I thank God for that guy up there. He was paying attention that day."
Weber said he has called in a dozen fires in one day. Other days are quieter and he can read, do homework or watch the red-tail hawks and occasional bald eagle ride the thermal updrafts within feet of his windows.
The solitude of a fire tower is occasionally interrupted by visitors - both hikers and tourists. Lookouts welcome the chance to invite them in, give a brief tour and have them sign the logbook. It's an opportunity to educate the public about fire dangers and safety in the wilderness.
"When people come up there, they are scanning thousands of acres of woods on top of the Kittatinny Ridge," Wolff said. "They don't see an interstate. They don't see a refinery. They don't see the bad things that New Jersey is known for.
"All they see is beautiful storms, the green forest and just the beauty of what North Jersey is," he said. "It's wonderful. Every day you go up there, the view is different. It's the same tower, it's the same terrain, but the view is different."


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An upcoming article in the Atlantic will paint a very unflattering picture of Hillary Clinton's campaign, if the early leaks are reflective of what's in store. They suggest strongly that Hillary has little executive ability, and that Bill was pulling the strings behind the scenes even more strongly than we all suspected. The urgings to paint Obama as the "other" and exploit Jeremiah Wright also show a tin ear for Democratic politics that by necessity relies on a multi-racial coalition. Rants similar to Wright's can be heard Sundays in many a black church. On what planet, exactly, does the act of condemning those churches help a Democrat?
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Interview with Von Leadfoot
You're not going to be writing your own words on this project. What would you have written?
To me it's not necessarily the words that convey a message, it's making those words have an impact and message all of their own. Solely by giving the type and the actual letters a specific feel within a designed layout. Bold letters can be considered unfriendly if used a certain way, script conveys a delicate message, block letters have a simple and welcoming feel, and so on. I'm not a wordsmith, but I could be considered a letter smith if that makes sense. I'd happily leave the writing of this project up to someone who excels at words and stringing them together, while focusing on amplifying the message by honing in on the small details of the letters themselves. This can actually give them the impact they need to help the written message come through.
How did you get into the sign writing business? Is it tough finding work in competition to more modern graphic designed signs?
In a nutshell, I used to paint old American cars and motorcycles. Over the years I became obsessed with lettering as well as typography. After fooling about with lettering brushes for a few years I began to call myself a sign painter and chased the dream. It was the only thing that made sense after the recession, combining my love of paint with a new found love of type, and from the financial crash I had loads of time to pass when not looking for a job. In the end I was lucky enough. With a bit of hard work as well, I managed to get the best of both. Paint and letters! It's not difficult finding work at all, not even against "modern" graphically designed signage. Chances are if its been done by a computer, it has been made out of vinyl stickers, and therefore is rubbish. It'll weather, it'll peel, it'll crack, it'll fade, and all within a couple years. Most of all, it will look computer generated. If anything, it's actually the vinyl graphically designed signs that keep me in business. People want hand made and hand crafted, because they know it will stand out as an original against the rest of the mundane computer graphics, and more importantly, it will last. The hardest part of being a sign painter I'd say, isn't the competition of more "modern" designed signage, its getting the point across to clients before they pull in a designer, that sign painters are themselves designers and illustrators by trade. Do you think the Coca Cola script was designed by a computer? Nope, it was designed by a sign painter back in the 19th century, and still holds up.
I always love finding hand painted signs when I'm abroad. Do you have any favourite research methods?
Same. No need to research, just look up while walking down the street! Portugal, France, Italy, Chicago, New York, and London; these were all hot beds of activity in regards to hand painted and gilded signage, both past and present. Signs and lettering make up a massive part of our daily lives, they're EVERYWHERE, especially in the city. Have a look around as you walk, sit on the top deck of the bus, you'll spot the hand done signs straight away.


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One of Careof's main activities is the filing, preservation and promotion of contemporary art material. In fact the archive also includes catalogues, specialised magazines, artists' portfolio and photographs in all sorts of formats. The collection is an important resource to understand the development of contemporary art research over the past 40 years and specifically in Italy.
Careof has decided to make the archive perform, so we can spark a reflection that doesn't only contemplate history, but it allows it to re-live, be modernized, enriched and expanded.
All of the material can be viewed at DOCVA - Documentation Centre for Visual Arts, where Careof's and Viafarini's collections are brought together.
If you'd like to make an appointment to visit the library and the video archive contact us quoting the material you'd like to view.
If you'd like to start a co-working project at DOCVA fill in this form.
The video archive includes over 7.000 pieces and is the most important collection of videoart in Italy.
The catalogue holds over 6.000 artworks, from the first experiments made in the 70s to work by the latest generations, and about 1.000 videos documenting exhibitions, conferences, performances and art events of international relevance.
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On a recent trip to Riga, Latvia, I brought friends who wanted to see some of the region to make the most of our trip. Since there are many great cities along the Baltic Sea coast, Riga being one of them, we checked to see the ferry situation. Perhaps we could take a day trip to another city on the Baltic, such as Tallinn, Helsinki, Turku, or Gdańsk. Well, Riga offers no ferries to any of those destinations, or actually to any destination save Stockholm, Sweden; so Stockholm it was.
The company that offers the ferry service is the Tallink Group, operating out of Tallinn, Estonia; in addition to the Tallink line of Baltic ferries, they also own the Silja line, a Finnish company operating between Finland and Sweden.
I'd heard many stories and rumors regarding the Tallink ferry from Riga to Stockholm from some of my local friends. From it being a drunk Lithuanian seaborne haven to the crew perpetually dismissing calls of "man overboard!" – I must admit, I was intrigued.
My friends and I decided to leave on a Monday afternoon; since the ferry is an overnight ordeal, about 17 hours in length, we would arrive Tuesday morning in Stockholm. We are more budget travelers, so we opted for the most economical board we could find; the Tallink ferries have numerous room options, priced all the way up to €824 ($1105), but we split one B-class cabin on the interior of the ship (no windows) for the four of us, at a relative bargain – €131 ($175) to split 4 ways. Originally when we planned the trip, we were only going to be three people on this ferry, and we were happy to know that there are shared B-class cabins, where a single person could book a bed in a 4-person cabin for only €33 ($44), exactly a quarter of the cost.
Our friend Normunds took us from our hotel to the Riga Passenger Terminal located in the heart of the city, just north of the Old Town on the banks of the Daugava River. The ferry terminal is a simple affair, since this Tallink cruise is the most substantial option that docks there, I imagine. Inside about 45 minutes prior to departure, I went to a machine which gave me a numbered ticket, and then I waited about 10 minutes for my number to be called. Once it was my turn, the lady was able to validate my reservation by my passport, and I was given four boarding passes and four beer coupons, which gave us 50% off the price of one beer onboard. We then immediately turned around, took the nearby escalator to the mezzanine area, and went through an unmanned checkpoint which scanned our tickets and allowed us across the gangway onto the ship.


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The most frequent question that barefoot runners ask me is, "Why does the top of my foot hurt?" Second, "Why do the insides of my ankles hurt?" I will go a bit backward with my posts, because I've gotten two inside ankle pain questions in the past two weeks. I will try to address top of the foot pain in my next one. First of all, what is Too Much Too Soon Syndrome (TMTS)? TMTS is very common among us newly converted barefoot or minimalist runners. Many of us have tried for years to run in traditional shoes and failed to run injury free, or failed to meet our goals, or just failed to run happy! Running happy is the most important thing of all. So, that being said, when we start running barefoot or even in Vibrams, something funny happens to us. The first time, it's a little weird, and we may even vow to never do it again. All it takes is that second time. Two barefoot runs, and you may find yourself addicted. THIS IS FUN!! WHEEE!!! All of the sudden, running is fun again, and it feels like play. Sensation is on overload, your awareness is heightened, and you think to yourself, this is great! I'm going to run my usual five mile route! Now it's very difficult for a barefoot runner to do their normal five mile route because their soles will force them to turn around, but this is where many Vibram Five Finger runners get in trouble. We have a false sense of security from the rubber on the shoe, and we do not pick up the feedback that's telling us to stop for the day. And that's when I get an email, or a message on Facebook…
They usually go something like this: Leigh, I tried those stupid shoes (and yes I ignored you when you said to go barefoot first) and I started really slow by walking in them, and then I ran 4 miles. Or 6 miles. Or 8 miles. Now, I can't walk! The top of my foot hurts, or my calves are dying a slow death, or the insides of my ankles hurt, or my whole body hates you Leigh, and I can't even sit on the toilet correctly. I broke myself. These are all things that I've heard! And guess what? I've experienced all these things, because I too, am an impatient runner and ignore my own advice. It's true, PTs make the worst patients!
Anyway, what am I talking about? Right, TMTS. So as new barefoot runners, we truly need to appreciate the amount of time it takes to build strength in the lower legs. Not only that, but the mobility of our foot must be enough to accommodate our new running style which is decidedly different than say, running in a shoe with an 1.5 inch heel. It is known that it takes about 8 weeks to gain strength and mass in a muscle. While we may feel stronger after only a few sessions of weight training or barefoot running, this is only due to neurological factors, i.e. the signal from the brain to the muscle to tell it to contract is getting faster. This is the common phenomenon that may happen when you're trying to bench press for the first time. The first time you try it in the gym, the bar wobbles around like a noodle, and everyone laughs. Yes, it's happened to me. But after a few days of persistence, that bar is steady and you get to show off your mad skills. Are you stronger? Well, in a way. You have better control. But you won't be maxing out on the bench press with the big boys and girls until you practice for a long time. And so, there is the parallel to barefoot running. Just because you've been a runner, doesn't mean that you can max out (run 5 miles barefoot) the second time you try. We are learning to turn on muscles that have been off for a long, long time.
In the past couple of weeks, I've gotten questions from two different people about inside ankle pain after ramping up mileage in Vibram Five Fingers. In both scenarios, the individual ramped up mileage very quickly. Because they were both runners before, they likely assumed they could do this. Let me start out by saying that if you're experiencing persistent pain after trying minimalist or barefoot running, please see a physical therapist who specializes in running. If possible, seek an open minded, knowledgeable PT who has experience in minimalist running. Physical therapists are movement and musculoskeletal experts, and they can evaluate and treat the specific problem. While primary care doctors are a good starting point to get a referral to see a PT, they might not necessarily know exactly what's going on or be open minded to a form of running that's still considered to be "alternative" or "different."
So let's get back to inside ankle pain. Inside ankle pain is not uncommon because the muscles that support the arch and muscles of the lower leg are usually atrophied from wearing regular shoes or running shoes with an arch support. The arches including the intrinsic muscles of the feet need to learn to come alive again, but until then, sometimes certain muscles will try to do all the work to hold up and support the arch. One such muscle that may become overworked while trying to control the arch, is a muscle called the posterior tibialis. This muscle originates deep in the calf area and its tendon wraps underneath the inside ankle bone (medial malleolus) and connects to a small bone in the arch called navicular, and then attaches by fibrous expansion to many other small bones in the foot. When this muscle is overworked, one could develop posterior tibialis tendonitis. The action of that muscle inverts or brings the foot in towards the midline, plantarflexes the foot (points it like a ballerina) supinates the foot (helps it roll out during running) and helps to control pronation (arch rolling in during running.)
So what can you do for this ailment? Well, for starters, RICE. Rest, ice, compression, elevation. Yes, it works! Then, it will be necessary to restore normal mobility and strength in the feet and lower legs. This is important for anyone who is considering barefoot/minimalist running! So the question is, is there anything that could cause inside ankle pain other than the posterior tibialis tendon? Of course! That's why it's important to talk to your PT. But, these exercises below will be beneficial to ANYONE who is considering minimalist running, so you really can't go wrong with them.
1. Gastroc/Soleus Stretch: Please perform this with knee straight and then bent to stretch both gastroc and soles muscles. Soleus (knee bent) is of utmost importance as you will be eccentrically loading this guy with your barefoot running. I like to hold this one for up to 1-2 minutes and repeat 3 times to really change the tissue and increase the dorsiflexion range of motion. Additionally, I like to use a slant board to obtain even more of a stretch. It is necessary for barefoot runners to have lots of dorsiflexion range of motion!
2.Ballerina Stretch: This will ensure the top of the foot has sufficient range of motion so that the muscles/tendons in back of the leg are not overworking.
3. Roll Out! Roll your calves out on a foam roller. Get in there! Also, roll out the arch of your foot on a golf ball. Get in there! This should be a "good hurt" and the area should feel looser and freer afterward, not damaged and painful. The muscles/tendons need to be free of adhesions, rolling out can help bring circulation to the area. Increased circulation means increased blood flow and oxygen, which brings the good stuff we need to repair tissue.
1. Direct Isolated Posterior Tibialis Eccentric Strengthening: Tendonitis and eccentrics are enemies. This one is a great addition to your toolbox!
2. Short Foot Exercise: Janda's genius idea. This one is fantastic for intrinsic strength, so that posterior tibialis does not have to compensate for intrinsic weakness. Sanatan calls this the invisible arch support exercise:
3. Calf Raises with Eccentric Lower: Great strength exercise for minimalist runners, as we must have eccentric control via the muscles of the lower leg and foot to decelerate upon landing on the forefoot. Please be sure that your weight is focused over the big toe. In other words, do not allow the foot to roll out when lowering down. I use this daily!
4. Calf Raise 100's: Love this!
5. Functional Posterior Tib Exercises: During the second video, you can stop watching at about 3:30, unless you want to know about the navicular drop test.
These exercises are just a few things to put in your toolbox for minimalist barefoot running. The most important thing to remember is that patience is key to success in your transition, and the reward in the end is well worth your time. Run happy and run strong!


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Integrity missing from Washington
Integrity, a word defined as "soundness of and adherence to moral principle and character; uprightness; honesty." Sad to say, but our president and our senators and representatives no longer have any.
Congress votes on legislation with out reading it, an act of total disrespect for we who pay their salaries.
They have given us, via the "stimulus package" a national debt, (held by foreign nations) that our great-great-grandchildren will be paying for.
They propose to give us "universal health care" with a government option, run by a bureaucracy. They ignore the actual results of programs used in Massachusetts, Canada and the United Kingdom, which have resulted in rationing and denial of care.
Early in June our president, who had promised us a new kind of politics, got involved in the firing of the inspector general for the Corporation for National and Community Service. This is the agency that oversees such subsidized volunteer programs as AmeriCares. The inspector general, Mr. Walpin, investigated reports of misuse of funds by St. Hope, a California nonprofit run by former NBA star and Obama supporter, Kevin Johnson. The misuse of some $850,000 was involved. Mr. Walpin recommended that Mr. Johnson and St. Hope be suspended from receiving federal funds. Mr. Johnson was also mayor of Sacramento. Mayor Johnson's suspension could have prevented Sacramento from receiving "stimulus" money. Mr. Walpin was fired.
Let's retaliate! Fire them all in 2010.


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Beijing Traffic Jam Stymies K-Pop Star
China has a passion for Korean pop culture and for cars. On Sunday, as the Beijing auto show opened to the media, the combination proved to be less than harmonious.
Hyundai Motor China joint venture canceled its briefing at the Beijing International Auto Show on Sunday just minutes after it was due to take place at noon. That meant no appearance from Kim Soo-hyun, a fresh-faced Korean heartthrob best known for playing an ageless alien on Korean TV's "My Love From the Star." The show has been watched more than 14.5 billion times since its debut last December on iQiyi, one of the domestic online video platforms in China.
The reason? A Hyundai spokesman told a milling crowd in front of the Hyundai booth Sunday morning that it was due to a traffic jam. The excuse holds water: the streets around the China International Exhibition Center were packed Sunday morning, prompting many show-goers to abandon their taxis and buses and hoof it for the last mile.
Hyundai had announced Mr. Kim's plans to attend on its official Weibo account, drawing crowds who somehow squeezed into the show even though it was limited to media and industry officials on Sunday. "I really want to see him," said one, who gave her surname as Li. She said she and her friends got their passes from a scalper.
The crowds proved to be a problem. Police and staffers blocked the entrance to the Hyundai booth about half an hour before the show was to begin, citing too many visitors.
And when the news came that Mr. Kim wouldn't show, the audience began to boo. A Hyundai official told the crowd that they would get an autographed photo of Mr. Kim if they visited the Beijing Hyundai Weibo account. Many of the fans weren't impressed. "So meaningless," sighed Ms. Li.
Or maybe not. Mr. Kim appeared about two hours later at the Hyundai booth for just a few minutes, according to the auto maker's Weibo, which said his appearance had been rescheduled for security reasons. It wasn't clear whether Ms. Li and her friends were still there waiting.
Mr. Kim wasn't the only K-Popper who left audiences hanging. Hyundai's sister company, Kia Motors, said on its Weibo account that another Korean A-lister, actor Lee Minhoo, wouldn't attend its event. It cited a scheduling conflict.
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Last month, my employer (TheBestSchools.org) had a last-minute opportunity to interview presidential hopeful, Ben Carson, M.D. As president and cofounder of the Carson Scholars Fund, he had a perspective we wanted to hear, and his advocacy for education is legendary.
I was tasked with filming the interview and would even have the opportunity to ask a question or two, myself. Yay!
What ensued was a comedy of mishaps—which I am told is typical with nearly any field shoot, especially with borrowed gear, a hastily-assembled team, and barely a week to prepare. First, we were led to a room super-saturated in orange due to sunlight bouncing off a stadium of day-glo-painted seats straight into our skybox. Then we had a ridiculously noisy A/C blower permanent set to "11." We had power issues, until we realized the room's power had to enabled remotely. We had mic issues. Only, we really didn't really have mic issues. Turned out our digital audio recorder was fried—and we didn't know it till we checked the "tape" afterward.
Somehow, we survived with aplomb and salvaged the interview using the onboard audio from the video cameras. (Note to self: air conditioners are fine, but OMG, the noise!) I even got to ask a couple off-the-cuff questions and they were deemed acceptable.
That day I learned that Dr. Carson is a prince of a man. Whatever you think of his politics, he's smart, humble, and gracious. Our country would be well-served with more men and women like him to serve as inspirational examples.
Check out the full interview here:
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By Edward O. Wilson
243 pp. Liveright Publishing. $24.95.
The act of reading alters your brain. It does so, first, because your thoughts are brain processes. When you read, neural patterns come and go as the words pass before you. Some of those patterns also give rise to memories, subtle molecular changes in cells and the signaling mechanisms that link them. And third, your brain is physically transformed by learning to read. The networks that underlie vision and language are changed. Even people who become literate in adulthood, as a team led by the French neurobiologist Stanislas Dehaene has shown, acquire differences that are visible in a brain scan. With and without literacy, the brain is the same basic organ, with the same shape and chemistry, but a reading brain is different in ways that count. As Cecilia Heyes says in her forthcoming book, "Cognitive Gadgets," if one didn't know that reading is a recent human invention (literate culture is perhaps 5,000 or 6,000 years old), a skill passed on through learning in each generation, it would be easy to mistake the brain patterns seen in reading as evidence for a genetically encoded reading instinct or "innate module."
Reading is an apt skill to celebrate in a book review, a piece of writing about a piece of writing. E. O. Wilson's new book, "The Origins of Creativity," is about the role of the humanities in an intellectual culture increasingly dominated by science. Wilson values the humanities, but he wants them to have closer ties to some of the sciences, an argument that draws on his view of the relationships between human biology, thought and culture. "It is becoming increasingly clear," he says at one point, "that natural selection has programmed every bit of human biology — every toe, hair and nipple, every molecular configuration in every cell, every neuron circuit in the brain, and within all that, every trait that makes us human." But reading itself, the reading of books like his own, shows that this isn't true. The circuits of the brain are changed by literacy, and the molecular configurations in countless cells are being altered as you pick up new ideas from the page, as they make their way into your memory. If what Wilson says were true, there would be no point in reading, in trying to learn songs or engage in many other activities. We'd have little resemblance to humans at all.
I have much admiration for the work Wilson has done in biology, not for the theoretical side but for the crawling in and climbing around side — his unearthing of new species, his charting of the quirks of their lives and attempting to get into the worlds of countless small fierce invertebrates. I also admire much of the path his life has taken, some of which is sketched here. His parents divorced during the Depression and his youth was spent roaming the South, attending 14 different schools. But he made it to college and then on to graduate work and a career at Harvard. It's impossible to begrudge such a person a few literary victory laps. Yet Wilson is so widely read and admired that when he makes a public statement about the relationship between science and the humanities, it has to be taken on its own terms and assessed for what it says. And "The Origins of Creativity" is an extremely shallow book.
Wilson wants the humanities to make more contact with science. By the "humanities" he means the fields that study languages, literature, history, art and so on. What Wilson would like is for these fields to become more scientifically literate and attend especially to developments in paleontology, anthropology, psychology, evolutionary biology and neurobiology — what he calls the "friendly ground of science," where the humanities can seek alliances. Such connections are always welcome, but is there a problem with the humanities that makes these meetings urgent?
Wilson thinks there is indeed a "shortcoming" within the present-day humanities. The problem is their extreme "anthropocentrism." Initially it's hard not to read this as a joke — the humanities are anthropocentric? But it's not intended as one. Part of what Wilson wants is for human creative capacities to be put in a broader context that includes our prehistory and the biology of our nonhuman ancestors. He offers some sketches of his own of this kind, cataloging great films, for example, by identifying six archetypal figures and themes within them that have plausible resonance with prehistoric human experience: the hero, the antihero, the monster, the quest, the pair bond, other worlds. (The films include two Indiana Jones installments, no Fellinis).
The plea for a broadened scope is also linked to Wilson's view of the relations between the content of humanistic and scientific work. Scientific observation and experiment, for Wilson, cover everything in the actual world. Scientific theory goes farther and considers all "possible real" worlds. The role of the humanities is to offer an even "further reach," covering merely "conceivable" and "fantasy" worlds.
While some artistic endeavors can range in this way, this is not in any sense the point of the project. "The humanities" is a broad category; it includes not just the overtly literary and artistic work that Wilson focuses on but everything from John Rawls's "A Theory of Justice" to studies of how Alexander the Great copied Persian royal costumes when organizing his court. And even within the more overtly literary and artistic category, much of the point of the work is entirely different from any sort of quest for breadth or reach. Much of the concern of the humanities is not to be general but to be particular, to look very closely at individual human lives and forms of human life, to turn them over and pause over them, over the singular experiences of individuals at certain times and places — much like, in fact, the brief better moments in Wilson's book, when he or another naturalist (like the novelist Vladimir Nabokov, whom he initially knew "only as a lepidopterist") walks through some particular landscape and marvels over some unprecedented ant or unrepeatable butterfly.