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A Utah teen is defending her decision to wear a traditional Chinese dress to her prom in the wake of cultural appropriation criticism.
After photos of 18-year-old Keziah Daum posing in a red cheongsam—also known as a qipao—began to go viral, the Woods Cross High School senior was accused by some of appropriating the Chinese culture. Daum herself is not Chinese.
"My culture is NOT your goddamn prom dress," wrote Twitter user Jeremy Lam in a tweet that has been liked over 178,000 times and retweeted nearly 42,000 as of Wednesday morning.
"This isn't ok. I wouldn't wear traditional Korean, Japanese or any other traditional dress and I'm Asian," added user Jeannie. "I wouldn't wear traditional Irish or Swedish or Greek dress either. There's a lot of history behind these clothes."
However, Daum insists she meant no offense and that her decision was made purely out of appreciation for the dress's beauty.
"To everyone causing so much negativity: I mean no disrespect to the Chinese culture," she wrote in response to her original post. "I'm simply showing my appreciation to their culture. I'm not deleting my post because I've done nothing but show my love for the culture. It's a f—ing dress. And it's beautiful."

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While doing the research for the Minuteman Lobbyist I came across Wikio's list of top political blogs. The sites has a number of categories of top blogs.
There doesn't appear to be a category for top homeschooling blogs, or even top education blogs.
If you are interested you might add your blog to their datebase by going here.
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Kohl Was A Force Inside!
The final day of the camp rolled around and we decided to show our love to the NCAA division. These youngsters got it going heavy today especially during the championship game. Here's a breakdown of what we saw.
Top Performers
Tyler Kohl 5'11 Forward (Easton, PA)- Kohl team came up on the short end of the stick in the finals but this kid did everything except sale hot dogs. He punished defenders on the blocks with smooth post moves and a feathery touch. He knows his way around the floor and really impressed me with his passing ability. He does need to work on his sportsmanship a little but that should come with age.
Samir Taylor 5'4 Guard (Philadelphia, PA)- Taylor finished his day off good. His wiry frame and ability to maneuver through defenders allows him to get quick buckets in the half court setting. He also showed good judgment when decided to pull up over potential shot blockers.
Kevin Crutchfield 5'5 Guard (Coatesville, PA)- I like some of the skills this lefty displayed. He was on a guard dominated squad but when he got the chance to create he cashed in. He has good body control and the ability to score the rock.
Alex Dankl 6'0 Forward (Cinnaminson, NJ)- Alex battled Powell tough in the finals. His length helped him get a few buckets off and grad some boards. Right now his lack of strength didn't allow him to dominate but he does seem to have a better upside for the inside position.
Jordan Holness 5'5 Guard (Toronto, Canada)- Jordan showed some skills in the finals. I like how he creates space with an array of dribbling moves and ended it off with a wet jumper. He has the type of handle that allows him to get into the lane at will. Expect a lot more from him in the future.
Deonte Hall 5'0 Guard (Toronto, Canada)- Speaking of getting into the lane this kid was one of the best at that. He was a blur with the rock and has the heart of a lion. He constantly beat defenders and even played good on the ball defense.
Tyrell Thomas 5'7 Guard (Hyattsville, MD)- Thomas has to be one of the most polished guards in this age group. He has that extra gear that helped him stand out in this bracket. Thomas can definitely score but I also saw him find teammates in transition.
Billy Clark 5'0 Guard (Brooklyn, NY)- Clark showed some flashes of a good playmaker. He created some space for his high arching outside shot and got to the cup a few times. On a few occasions he had the defender beat with his first move but his over dribbling gave them a chance to retreat.
Deante Cole 5'0 Guard (Ewing, NJ)- Cole ended his camp off in his usual fashion. He set up teammates and only took shots when necessary. He looked very good in the open floor nailing running teammates with no look passes.
Mike Jolaoso 4'11 Guard (Philadelphia, PA)- The hard nose guard got into the lane and created opportunities. I also like the way he turned ball handlers on defense and made them turn it over or get rid of the rock.
Jimmy Pazini 4'11 Guard (Spring Lake, NJ)- Jimmy got things going late in his game with a nice outside stroke and a few confident finishes near the cup. He didn't back down at all from the comp.


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How New York's new monument whitewashes the women's rights movementRoundup
tags: racism, feminism, New York, suffrage, monuments
Martha S. Jones is the SOBA presidential professor of history at Johns Hopkins University and author of "Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America" and, in 2020, "Vanguard: A History of African American Women's Politics."
Over the last two years, fierce debate has kept Confederate monuments in the news for weeks on end. But the lessons from that controversy have evidently already been forgotten.
This week, New York City's Public Design Commission approved Central Park's first monument to the struggle for women's rights. Instead of adopting an inclusive tribute to representative women who have shaped the city and the nation, just two figures — Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony — will be memorialized in the park. Lamentably, these women stood for a narrow, often racist vision of women's rights, and a monument lionizing them will send all the wrong messages to young women and girls.
One lesson of the debate over Confederate monuments is how the erection of statues can be an exercise in mythmaking. While purported to honor military greats and the war dead, these memorials were in fact conceived as tributes to the South's mythical Lost Cause and white supremacy.
Unfortunately, Central Park's women's monument also trades in myth. Initially proposed as a way to remedy the startling absence of monuments to "real," rather than fictional, women, proponents began with a list of some 50 women, all New Yorkers worthy of remembering. When Stanton and Anthony were singled out as the focus of a statue, monument organizers rooted their choice in Stanton's role convening the 1848 women's meeting at Seneca Falls, N.Y., the pair's leadership within the early women's suffrage movement and the way their long-term partnership shaped thinking about women's rights
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Sometimes it is really, really difficult to get rid of bad habits. One of these habits in our profession is the use of pages in web applications.
The World Wide Web started as a system of interlinked hypertext documents contained on the Internet. Why is it that nowadays, two decades later, we still build web applications using the document concept, putting content on pages?
The worst use of pages is when we force the user to switch between pages while doing a single task. Every page change means a short wait: the page needs to be loaded and rendered. Data needs to be retrieved. It also means the server gets hit, often needlessly (as the same data has been retrieved before). Moreover, every time a user needs to open a different page, she gets a context switch and needs to reorient herself. Eyes need to be focused. Things need to be recognized. Sometimes we even need to scroll the page! If this happens once or twice it's no big deal. But if it happens all day it becomes a headache.
Instead, an application should allow a user to put all tools needed to perform a task on one desktop. Of course we then get into the issue of screen real estate - is there enough space to display all tools (DataGrids, Forms, etc) on a single screen? This problem has been solved decades ago: we have used windows ever since. So what is holding us back from using windows instead of pages in web applications?
Sometimes it is really, really difficult to get rid of bad habits. Now that we have Silverlight we are free and could dump pages right here and now. But what is the first Silverlight Business Application template that appears in Visual Studio? One that is based on pages. Desktop applications never have pages. Why would they?
So I call upon all web application developers of the world: "Stop using pages! Put related controls in a window. Have a taskbar that contains for each window an icon that when clicked causes the corresponding window to appear on top. Allow windows to be resized, dragged, and closed."
Your customers will love it. Finally, finally they are free from pages!


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By Katherine Boyce
In August of 2011, several actors and actresses were filmed as parts of a low-budget independent feature film called 'Desert Warrior'.
However, they did not know that the entire purpose of the film was to be dubbed over with an anti-Islamic theme that
portrayed Muhammad as a child-molesting villain.
The plot of Desert Warrior that the actors were presented with involved a comet falling into the desert, and subsequently being sought-after by different Egyptian tribes. Georgian actress Anna Gurji, who played the role of Hilary, a young girl sold to a tribal leader called George, claims that she was only given the script for her own scenes, and not for the entire film.
Though it seemed strange to not have the full script, she had had a similar experience before, for a film in which only her own scenes were in English. Thinking that this was the same for Desert Warrior, she did not analyze this further. The character of George was changed to Muhammad when the film was released under the title Innocence of Muslims.
"There was no mention ever by anyone named Muhammad and no mention of religion during the entire time I was on the set," Gurij
says. "I am a hundred percent certain nobody in the cast and nobody in the US artistic side of the crew knew what was really planned for this 'Desert Warrior'."
Following the filming of her scenes, Gurij was told about a premier to which she would be able to invite friends and family, yet Gurij received no further notice about a premier, nor did she ever see a finished product other than the excerpts that were posted online.
Actress Cindy Lee Garcia also claims to have been deceived.
"There wasn't anything about Muhammad or Muslims or anything," Garcia says. According to Garcia, all references to Muhammad or Islam were added in during post-production. Writer and Director Sam Bacile swindled several actors into participating in a film that not only went against their values but also led to the deaths of embassy staff in Libya and many protest-related injuries all over the Middle East.
Despite only being shown once, to an audience of ten people, the film called Innocence of Muslims has sparked too many protests and angered far too many Middle Easterners. The actors, who were involved without their knowledge, do not want their names associated with the appalling toll the movie has taken internationally.


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If you've ever had an overbearing parent or partner tell you you're lazy for having a lie in, well, HA! The joke's on them, as their early rising ways probably means that their brains are full of nasty neurotoxins, according to new research.
As well as curing us of that sleepy feeling, US researchers have found that, while sleeping, the brain undergoes a cleaning cycle to rid itself of toxins and waste proteins that build up during the day. The glymphatic system, which is basically a plumbing system for your brain, sees the glial cells shrink during a decent night's sleep, increasing the gap between brain tissue and allowing fluids to flush away the built-up trash. It's a necessary process for helping in the retention of memories and learning it seems, and could also be a factor in medical conditions such as Alzheimer's or Parkinson's disease.
Dr Maiken Nedergaard of the University of Rochester Medical Centre offers a fitting analogy for a Friday night:
"You can think of it like having a house party. You can either entertain the guests or clean up the house, but you can't really do both at the same time [...] The brain only has limited energy at its disposal and it appears that it must choose between two different functional states - awake and aware or asleep and cleaning up." [Science Mag via BBC]


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A lot of people have bad skin. Acne, rashes, moles, cellulites… uglies. I put cellulite into this category.
The fixit mentality, the mindset where you don't go beyond first base 1 is making people rich. Not you, mind you, people who are willing to sell you s-h-i-t, that you don't need. You don't need it because it won't work.
Cosmetics. Washes. Cleanses. Supplements. Shower filters. Alkaline water. Makeup.
Why Sophie, what is wrong with those?
Probably nothing. But…
You can't paint ugly beautiful.
Your inner ugliness is showing on your skin.
Why? How?
The skin is our largest elimination organ. Your body first uses the kidney, then your poop, and if all those are full, then it will push stuff out through your skin.
Just smell an alcoholic. Or a chain smoker.
Your sweat stinks. Your skin pores are clogged. And then you have bad skin.
Your bad breath already predicted this was going to happen.
Here you go:
When you eat in a way your body can deal with the food and the beverages, use them and remove the toxins and dump them through the regular channels, your skin will be beautiful.
My skin is beautiful.
So let's take this apart, shall we?
When you eat in a way your body can deal with the food and the beverages, use them and remove the toxins and dump them through the regular channels, your skin will be beautiful.
There is a preferred way to eat, and it's genetic.
For me, it is eating one thing at a time. One ingredient.
Almost all mixes make me feel less than perfect… and the first symptom I have is fuzzy head.
Other types of eating: eat by taste, as opposed to eating what you heard is good for you.
A client wasn't getting better, because she ate the right things (she says) but dutifully.
When she decided to believe me (it took a while) and started to prepare her meals to her taste, use spices, for example, her health number started to climb.
Eat by appetite: you can safely ignore hunger, you won't digest your food unless there is appetite, a yum-yum, I feel like eating X.
Your digestive juices will not be there, and the food you ate will turn into a toxic sludge…
There are many other ways to eat. You can find out yours…
When you eat in a way your body can deal with the food and the beverages, use them and remove the toxins and dump them through the regular channels, your skin will be beautiful.
The second part of that sentence deals with the fact that all foods are toxic, but some your body can deal with. It is in your DNA, and it is also in the quantity and regularity of eating the food.
On the far east people's DNA has learned to deal with rice. It is still toxic, but their body has the detoxifying ability to it.
People who eat traditionally, have beautiful skin. Traditionally both in ingredients and in quantities.
Mongols, or mongol-like nomad tribes had beautiful skin, beautiful teeth, and were strong. They died in battle… and lived long.
But if they got rich, or exposed to food not in their traditional menu, they got sick, pimply, and lost their teeth. Just read enough literature on the descendants of Genghis Khan…
Wine is good for you, says the literature… but if it is not part of what your DNA says, then wine is bad for you. If you are a Mongol, you can deal with the fermented horse milk, which has some alcohol similar quantities as beer, but wine? liquors? they are overly toxic for you.
When you eat in a way your body can deal with the food and the beverages, use them and remove the toxins and dump them through the regular channels, your skin will be beautiful.
Third part of the sentence: remove the toxins and dump them.
This happens inside the cells.
Each cell is a mini factory. Nutrient rich stuff comes in… toxins and waste product go out… If…
If the cell is plump and properly hydrated. If not, there is no energy to take out the trash. The cell is filled with toxins and waste products and cannot generate energy.
Regular water isn't compatible with the cells. The cell is coherent inside, and rejects incoherent water. It lets in a little, just enough so it doesn't die, but that is not enough for the cell to do any work.
I know only one source of coherent water: water you make coherent with my Water Energizer audio that uses Source energy to make the water coherent. It take time… our water is very incoherent. The more traditional treatment the more incoherent.
Some water cannot be made coherent after humans futzed with it… distillation, ozone treatment, reverse osmosis… destroys the water's ability to be coherent again.
For example, expensive Smart Water is destroyed water. Distilled and then enriched… like your grains.
When you eat in a way your body can deal with the food and the beverages, use them and remove the toxins and dump them through the regular channels, your skin will be beautiful.
This last is when you have it all work, and all work together:
- you eat the way you are meant to eat, personally
- you eat what you are meant to eat, personally
- your cells are properly hydrated with coherent water
Then you are healthy, have energy, and have beautiful skin, beautiful teeth, and beautiful personality.
You poop doesn't stink, your sweat doesn't stink, your breath doesn't stink, and your attitude won't stink…
Now, it is really hard to know what to eat… especially because you don't eat the label, you eat the food. And our food, just like our water, has been futzed with.
I can't promise you 70% health like mine, because I can't go to the grocery store with you.
My clients have gotten up to 40-50% health.
If you can muscletest, reliably, in the store, before you buy the stuff, you can get up to 70%, maybe higher.
But even 30% health, 30% hydration, you'll be well, live longer, and have energy to burn.
The most important, like with anything, is to prepare the "machine" or the ground for the new life.
If you build but forget the storm drain, your house will be washed away.
So the preparation is to prepare the elimination…
Start drinking coherent water.
Make sure your elimination becomes regular, by adding fibers, fats, and probiotics to your regimen. Ask me, pay me, to test what fibers, what fats, what probiotics. The "labels" won't help you, only the actual stuff that is compatible with your DNA.
I can muscletest stuff I can connect to… match it to your DNA.
I am talking a brand of probiotics that is called Fem Formula… Every fiber of my mind protests, but that is the only probiotic that tests yes… And it works. You can't argue with success.
No fibers test yes for me… so it's vegetables. One serving a day. Eating, for me, according to the FDA food pyramid means death and destruction. One serving. No fruits. Just one of the five vegetables on my list. Handpicked in the grocery store.
Many of you will experience a huge jump in well-being from the water…
The second jump is from cleaning up your elimination channels…
If you want more, you want to know the way to eat that is best for you
And if you really really want to get well, if your goals depend on your being really well, you want the whole enchilada… Water, elimination, the way to eat, and your supplement and food lists.
It's also really personal.
But start at the root… No amount of paint will paint ugly beautiful.


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ADD YOUR IMAGE URL RIGHT HURRFirst off, Happy Halloween!!
what's my favorite Halloween movie????
Oh yes!
Did you know these fun facts?
There's even Jack emojis for messenger in the Itunes store!
There's a slew of party crafts on the Disney Family page.
I found some cute jack-inspired patterns on Ravelry and around the web:
First up, a Jack lovey; this is defnitely in my queue
A sweet Sally
Some appliques:
Perhaps you need a quick his/her outfit?
a festive comic:
How about some Jack Pops?
There's 5 pages of ideas on CRAFTSTER
and a festive playlist:
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Lest we forget your hands, did you know that Jamberry now sells the Nightmare before Christmas designs!!!
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Jennifer McMahon, May 2008. Traditional YA lesbian problem novels tell the stories of teen girls who fall madly in love with their female friends, only to face serious consequences when parents and classmates find out. In recent years, however, the trend is toward books featuring protagonists whose sexuality is only one aspect of their complicated lives.
Despite its 2008 copyright, My Tiki Girl is a reversion to the problem novel. Its heroine, Maggie, was pretty and popular until the car accident that killed her mother. Now she wears a leg brace and feels like an outcast until new girl Dahlia asks her to join her rock band. Maggie develops a crush; Dahlia reciprocates; and the two have a secret and joyous relationship until Dahlia's mother walks in on them half-dressed.
Until this point, My Tiki Girl, while formulaic, is charming and different. It features appealing secondary characters like Dahlia's younger brother Jonah, who believes he is a wizard, and funny portrayals of teens smoking clove cigarettes and obsessing about Sylvia Plath. But when the girls' secret is discovered by Leah, Dahlia's mother, the plot takes some bizarre turns. Leah has been portrayed throughout the book as a cool hippie mom who shoplifts with the girls and creates doll alter-egos for them. Her reaction to the girls' love affair ("Abomination! Pervert!") is, then, wildly out of character. It doesn't get better from there: the last chapters of the book involve a car accident that too obviously parallels the one in which Maggie's mother was killed as well as a makeout session between Maggie and Joey, a brain-damaged boy who lives in a cave. Recommended only for libraries where authors like Nancy Garden and Julie Anne Peters are popular.
(Originally published in GLBTRT Newsletter, Spring 2008.)


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Connection is Key: Promoting Positive Mental Health
Connection is Key: Promoting Positive Mental Health
All community members are welcome to attend this FREE event. Doors open at 5:15 p.m.
Come early for registration and to explore community displays. Refreshments and door prizes will be available throughout the evening.
Keynote Address by Dr. Brenda Smith-Chant:
The relationships that we have with our children are essential components of healthy brain development. These relationships play a key role all the way from early brain development to healthy adolescent development. This presentation will explore brain development through the lens that relationships and love build brains.
Dr. Brenda Smith-Chant is an Associate Professor with the Psychology Department at Trent University and Senior Researcher and Advisor to Stuart Shanker for the Self-Regulation Institute (www.selfregulationinstitute.org). She has been the primary researcher on projects with Peel Regional Health and the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care. She has served as past coordinator of the Developmental Section of the Canadian Psychological Society and as Senior Research with the Ministry of Children and Youth. Her research interests are in the area of children's cognitive development and how early development is influenced by parents, educators, and social policy.
Following the keynote address select ONE of the following optional workshops offered by DCDSB Student Services staff and community partners:
1. Stress Behaviour vs Misbehaviour (Presented by members of DCDSB Behaviour Resource Team)
"If you look at a child differently, you will see a different child" (Dr. Stuart Shanker). Examining challenging behaviours through a self-regulation lens and the belief that "kids do well if they can" (Dr. Ross Greene).
2. Understanding and Supporting Your Worried Child (Presented by DCDSB Social Workers)
This workshop will provide a basic understanding of anxiety in children and youth, highlighting the difference between adaptive and problematic anxiety. Some ideas and suggestions around ways to support your child with their worried thinking will also be provided.
3. Mindful Parenting (Presented by DCDSB Speech-Language Pathologist)
Mindful parenting is about being fully present with our children and teenagers - in both shared moments of joy, as well as during challenging times. In this workshop, participants will learn how mindfulness practices apply to parenting, how to develop present-moment awareness in day-to-day parenting, and strategies and ideas for engagin in mindfulness practices with your child.
4. No workshop
Select this option if you do not plan to attend a workshop (Don't worry - you can change your mind on the evening of the event!)
5 New Workshop: Communicating With Your Teen (Presented by Pinewood Centre of Lakeridge Health)
The adolescent years can be challenging for youth and parents alike. We will discuss effective communication strategies that encourage setting limits, house rules, fostering respect and supporting parents with regards to where to put their energy and where it is wasted. Changing the dynamics in the home can reduce the impact of problems that already exist, such as substance use, and prevent relationship problems from developing.


text: More than 20 years of liberalization has transformed Romania's energy sector. Today, businesses and households are no longer restricted to state-owned companies – they can pick and choose energy suppliers as they please to get the best deals and the best services. To deliver the control that customers crave, Electrica Furnizare S.A. launched slick web and mobile apps that offer quick, easy access to their energy accounts. The company worked closely with Lenovo and partner Entex S.R.L. to implement a flexible, software-defined infrastructure from Lenovo as the foundation for these services.


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Twirl, leap or gingerly make your way across the ice at one of these classic and new outdoor Toronto skating rinks and trails.
This newly renovated outdoor skating facility offers both a skating trail and a covered outdoor arena. Cozy changing area provided.
150 Greenwood Ave, Toronto
Nathan Philips Square
The most iconic skating rink in the city. Located in the heart of the city, skate rentals available.
100 Queen St W, Toronto
Brick Works
This lovely skating rink offers a simple skating trail that is perfect for beginner skaters. Skate rentals available.
550 Bayview Ave, Toronto
Natrel Rink
Located on the shores of Lake Ontario, Harbourfront's Natrel Rink is a fabulous spot to skate with the family. Saturday nights the rink is hopping with an on site DJ.
235 Queens Quay W, Toronto
The Bentway Skate Trail
The Bentway's unique figure-eight skate trail opens for its second season on December 21, 2018. Just in time for the holidays! Skate rentals and skating lessons will be offered again this year, there will be curated food and beverage options on select dates, and an expanded winter village full of snuggly blankets, warming lounges, and fire pits.
250 Fort York Blvd , Toronto
Colonel Samuel Smith Park
This west end skating trail is a true treasure. The trail loops through the trees and around a small pond in the midst of the beautiful CSS Park.
>> Family Outing to Colonel Samuel Smith Park
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Sally Lindsay has called for more female writers in order to tackle ageism in the TV industry.
The former Coronation Street star believes that actresses over 50 still struggle to find work.
Lindsay said that men do not face the same sudden lack of roles or the limited expectation to be seen as either a parent or grandparent.
She believes more female writers are needed in the entertainment industry to create more roles for women.
Lindsay said: "Fortunately for me that hasn't happened, but I'm not saying it doesn't, because it bloody does.
"I think what it is is when you get to 50, you're too old to play mums, but you're too young to play grandmas, and for some reason society is OK with men not being either of them.
"We just need more female writers and more female script editors, which is happening, because then they can tell the story of that age, which is really interesting because so much happens in that age and there's so many stories to tell."
Lindsay is starring in upcoming ITV crime Channel 5 drama Cold Call, playing a woman who has become victim of fraud.
In the drama she is failed by the authorities and believes that authority has failed in real life.
She said: "We've got a government which is fighting within itself, we've got an opposition which is fighting within itself, I think we're all sort of flying solo, really.
"We're all just clinging onto our families and going, 'Well, we'll just look after ourselves' and it's a horrible way to be for society, but nobody knows what's going on."
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How does it feel when you are the only woman sitting in the Islamabad High Court at the Justice Qazi Faiz Isa led three-member judicial commission? You don't feel harassed by all the men present there. Not even a single female lawyer or witness or a female journalist with the exception of a female secuirty guard (in plain-clothes). The thing that hits you hard is, in Pakistan every political or public discourse is "male-dominated". You don't get to see the "female" perspective.
Why it is like this? Because the traditional role of men and women are defined in a way that you don't even question it. Hence, Politics is not a job done by women. Court reporting is a field of men not women. Many here argue that trends are changing in Pakistan but seriously after yesterday, I feel, it would take another century to see presence of women in the public sphere. But then I also feel that there is no "public sphere" in the Pakistani society. The public sphere defined by German philosopher Jürgen Habermas. The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society (1962).
"By the 'public sphere' we mean first of all the realm of our social life in which something approaching public opinion can be formed"… "Citizens behave as a public body when they confer in an unrestricted fashion – that is, with the guarantee of freedom of assembly and association and the freedom to express and publish their opinions – about matters of general interest."
Are Pakistanis only passive consumers? As Habermas mentions various factors that adds to the eventual decay of the public sphere. Consumerism in one of the factors that turns the critical public into passive consumers. Aint we all dependent on TV Channels giving us information about each and everything that concerns us. The commercial mass media discuss our problems and issues without including citizens in the debate. According to Habermas, " Democratic public life cannot develop where matters of public importance are not discussed by citizens."
The High Court proceeding yesterday about the "Memogate" scandel is of high public importance but is it discussed by the public? This question is yet to be debated either by the public or by the consumers.


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Regardless of how much you might hear about spam emails clogging up the Internet and Nigerian scams draining people's bank accounts, the truth is that email promoting is a proven money maker. It is even perhaps the most affordable of all marketing mediums in terms of costs versus individuals reached. Read on to learn how you can tap into this tool.
Provide exclusive content in your marketing emails. By providing those on your mailing list with information not available on your site, your customers are more likely to read each message, and begin looking forward to them. Your customers will feel special and appreciated when they receive relevant information in your emails.
Offer a coupon to customers who sign up for your marketing email list. Put a form on your website where customers can sign up and set the form to email automatically new customers a coupon when they submit the form. This encourages customers to agree to allow you to send them marketing materials so that you won't be accused of sending out spam.
Always seek permission before sending marketing emails to potential customers. Sending unsolicited emails will quickly have you labeled a spammer. Getting permission to send your messages doesn't have to be hard; offer something valuable to your customers in exchange for the ability to email them, such as a discount, coupon, or other sign-up incentive.
Be predictable in your emails. Send them on a specific schedule. Make sure you send something at least monthly, this will help keep your customers interested. If you can send emails on or two times a week, that is even better. Test out which days give your site the best responses, and then use these days as your normal days to send emails.
To get the most of your marketing with email, invest in a program that personalizes your emails with every customer's given name instead of a generic greeting. Ensuring that every email starts with the recipient's name is key to encouraging your customers to see your newsletters as valuable information and not just more sales spam.
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Try engaging the customer using the subject line of the email. Your email must grab your reader's attention the minute it lands inside of their inbox, otherwise it may go into their trash. If you have a weak or uninteresting subject line, that is exactly what will happen. So try spicing up your subject line with some creativity.
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Misfit Studio – Toronto, Canada
"Rooted in yoga, informed by pilates and inspired by dance", says creator of Misfit Studio as well as the Misfit Method, Amber J, from the opening video on the website's homepage. There are elements of form, mysticism, and mindful use of language in their teaching method. The story is the studio's been around on Queen St. for ages where they have always combined pilates and yoga in a modern, almost rebel way. Now there's a second studio on Ossington. They have over 10 classes a day focusing on movement, strength and…read more


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FORT COLLINS — Tom Hilbert didn't overreact on Friday when his team thrived without much of a challenge to open the season.
Saturday was the reason why.
But in the process, the Colorado State volleyball coach learned his team has a little bit of moxie when pushed to the brink, as Cal Poly did Saturday night at Moby Arena.
The Rams weren't hitting .529 as they did against the Baylor Bears. No, the Mustangs posted a better block and played tougher in the back row, and after two sets, the Rams were hitting just .187. Late in the second set, they trailed Cal Poly, 22-21, but regrouped and found a way to win the set, and eventually the match in a three-set sweep, 25-19, 25-22, 25-16.
"I want to go back to set two, because even though I don't think we played great in set two, I thought we competed well at the end, and those are the moments we have to do well in," Hilbert said, his team 2-0. "We got back, it's 21-22 and (Kelsey) Snider gets two aces, and then Dri (Culbert) takes a really nice swing out of the back row and misses it, but we get a kill out of Marlee (Reynolds). This is a good effort. That team's not bad out there, and they were fired up and getting after it with us.
"We're going to be a team like you saw (Saturday) unlike (Friday). We'll have some deficiencies in certain areas at certain times, and we've got to figure out ways to work through those."
The Rams did, in many ways. They posted six aces in the match, two each from Snider and Kaitlind Bestgen. They have overall proven to be better defensively than in the recent past, and to top it off, the Rams were more effective with the block, posting 10.5 a night after having just three.
Hilbert pointed out one big key to it all will be setter Deedra Foss finding what works, and that turned out to be the middles in the match.
Snider, moved back to the middle after playing the outside last year, led the team with 13 kills, while her counterpart Sam Peters had five, adding six blocks.
"I'm a lot more comfortable," Snider said. "Me and Deej are starting to connect really well, and I'm starting to see more things, which is awesome."
After proving they could close out a tough set, some Rams individually proved they can regroup themselves. Neither Reynolds or true freshman Michelle Lawrence started the night well, but both came back with improved third sets as Lawrence had six kills, Reynolds five.
It showed a lot to their teammates, too.
"Michelle struggled at first, but it was great to see her come right back out on the court, take big swings, not be tentative and not get down on herself just because she had a rough patch in the middle of the match," Peters said.
Peters was also encouraged by what the team did at the net in terms of blocking. The senior credited the call of assistant coach Matt Botsford, but also to getting a chance to block shots, period.
"I think we were penetrating and closing a lot better tonight than we were last night," she said. "It also helped the team tonight was hitting balls on the court, so we kind of got our hands on balls that would have actually been in the court, which was nice. I think the outsides are setting up where the block should be really nicely for us middles."
Hilbert viewed it as a productive night in light of some of the hitting numbers (the Rams hit .259 overall), because of what it showed his team.
"We do need it," Hilbert said, whose team will host a Northern Colorado squad that has beaten both Cal Poly and Baylor as well. "I think Northern Colorado will be better than both of these teams, and I bet you it will be a very tough match. Our focus will be preparing for those guys and being able to improve our team's outside hitting."
Mike Brohard can be reached at 635-3633, email@example.com and @mbrohard


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From the National Hurricane Center 11am advisory: Hurricane Dorian is moving North-Northeast at 8mph with maximum sustained winds at 110mph.
- The Tropical Storm Warning has been extended northward to Fenwick Island, Delaware, and also extended northward in the Chesapeake Bay to Drum Point, including the Tidal Potomac River south of Cobb Island.
- The Storm Surge Warning has been discontinued south of Edisto Beach, South Carolina.
At 1100 AM EDT (1500 UTC), the center of Hurricane Dorian was located near latitude 32.5 North, longitude 79.1 West.Dorian is moving toward the north-northeast near 8 mph (13 km/h). A turn toward the northeast is anticipated by tonight, and a northeastward motion at a faster forward speed is forecast on Friday. On the forecast track, the center of Dorian will continue to move close to the coast of South Carolina today, and then move near or over the coast of North Carolina tonight and Friday.The center should move to the southeast of extreme southeastern New England Friday night and Saturday morning, and approach Nova Scotia later on Saturday.
Reports from Air Force Reserve and NOAA Hurricane Hunter aircraft indicate that maximum sustained winds are now near 110 mph (175 km/h) with higher gusts.Slow weakening is expected during the next few days.However, Dorian is expected to remain a powerful hurricane as the center moves near the coasts of South and North Carolina.
Hurricane-force winds extend outward up to 60 miles (95 km) from the center and tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 195 miles (315 km).The Weatherflow station at Winyah Bay, South Carolina, recently reported sustained winds of 60 mph (97 km/h) and a wind gust of 76 mph (122 km/h).Charleston International Airport recently reported sustained winds of 40 mph (64 km/h) and a wind gust of 56 mph (91 km/h).
The estimated minimum central pressure is 958 mb (28.29 inches). NOAA buoy 41004, currently located inside the eye, has reported a minimum pressure of 959.7 mb (28.34 inches).


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Aretha Franklin at SF's Fillmore West: She pulled Ray Charles out of the crowd and made history
On the third night of a three-night stint at San Francisco's Fillmore West in 1971, Aretha Franklin pulled an "impeccably dressed" man from the audience onto the stage.
He was dressed in "charcoal from head do toe" and his eyes were "obscured by wrap-around dark glasses," The Chronicle reported in a review of the show.
Within seconds the huge crowd recognized Ray Charles and he joined Franklin in the legendary 9-minute rendition of "Spirit in the Dark." (The two had allegedly met for the first time earlier that day.)
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Rolling Stone included the performance in their list of the 50 greatest concerts of the last 50 years, and The Chronicle called it one one of the truly thrilling events of pop music annals.
"She turned the thing into church," Charles said later. "I mean, she's on fire."
Bill Graham booked Franklin for the shows on March 5, 6, and 7. The Queen of Soul was nervous about performing for hippies at the storied rock-and-roll hall.
"I wasn't sure how the hippies reacted to me," Franklin wrote in her 1998 autobiography.
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She didn't need to worry — the San Francisco audience loved Franklin and her band which featured King Curtis on saxophone and Billy Preston on organ.
They started each night with a spitfire version of "Respect" and remade many rock classics, turning Simon and Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Water into call-and-response gospel and reworking "Eleanor Rigby" as a funky stomp," according to Rolling Stone.
"It was the most exciting, electrifying show I have ever seen!" shared Gary Fauth in the San Francisco Remembered Facebook group.
Jim Reiter was also there that night. Charles "had been performing over in Berkeley and came into the city to catch the end of Aretha's show," Reiter recalled.
"He and Aretha whipped the crowd into a frenzy," he added. "Tower of Power was the opening act followed by Wayne Cochran and the C.C. Riders. It was a magical, memorable night of great music."
Boz Scaggs also played an opening set.
Atlantic Records recorded the second and third nights and released the record "Aretha Live at Fillmore West," Franklin's second live record just two months later. Atlantic 's Jerry Wexler specifically made the album to connect with the hippie audience expected to attend the shows.
Franklin, who for more than a half century reigned over the worlds of pop, rock, R&B and gospel music, died Thursday at age 76 from pancreatic caner.


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Many personal injury attorneys we deal with here at JNLAEM call upon us for expert witnesses. Also, this is particularly the case in brain injury cases. A brain is a lot like a desktop computer. For example, if you drop it, or bang it up, there is always a risk of messing up the internals. So impact injuries are akin to the dreaded blue screens of death and error messages.
Unlike a computer, a human brain cannot get repaired or replaced with the same ease. , at least until now perhaps. In this story, we will cover the latest tech that may just be able to help car accident victims with head injuries. Consequently, this advance could do more than just help those patients suffering from vertigo. Although we have seen many advances in science, we still have not seen a spinal cord repaired. Well, at least we have not seen a spine repaired enough to allow quadriplegic victims to walk. But we do know that we are on the way there.
The Injured Brain Blessed with Computing Power
Case in point is patient T6. This sufferer had the best moments of her life when she got blessed with extraordinary powers. So this power was that of controlling a computer tablet with her brain in 2014. She moved to the world of Android from a system of the 1980s that she had been on for several years. Also, patient T6 suffers from a disease called Lou Gehrig's disease. Furthermore, this is also known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Because of her condition, this lady had just crossed the 50 mark on age scale. Also, she cannot move, talk or communicate with normal people. Consequently, her whole body starting from her neck had become paralyzed.
Thus, it was a challenge for experts in technology to make her communicate with the world outside her brain. This could have become possible by using brain-machine interfaces. There are millions of people in the world with this disease. Mostly, its onset comes when a person receives an injury to the spinal cord. Hence, these people cannot communicate with the people because they can't speak. Sometimes they cannot even write or perform communication tasks. So their thoughts and intentions are only limited to their brains. Hence, no one in the outside world ever knows what they are trying to say or communicate.
The Technology Of Connecting Brain With Computer
Nearly 20 years ago we saw a boost in the brain-machine interface industry. The purpose of these efforts was to come up with a device that could allow these people to communicate. We have seen several improvements in this technology. There have been some revolutionary creations, but their impracticality made those devices less useful. We can talk about the eye and head tracking devices that were created to help these people communicate with the outside world using the signals in their heads or movements of their eyeballs. The movement controlled the movement of the mouse pointer on the screen.
The problem with eye-tracking devices was that they were not very accurate in their outputs. In addition to that, they were not very practical because they tired the users' eyes. The custom hardware required for these devices to run made them extremely expensive. This meant that only the patients coming from affluent backgrounds could afford these devices.
Paul Nuyujukian is a physician and neuro-engineer coming from Stanford University. He was delivering his talk at 2015 Society for Neuroscience annual conference when he mentioned that one of the aims of his team and other people working on the same task was to make the technology affordable enough to be easily available in clinics. This effort led them to the idea of neural prostheses. The purpose of neural prostheses was to go beyond eye tracking and to come up with a system that could allow the brain to communicate with the computer without the patient ever having to use any other organ like the eye.
Brain Decoding Language is the Future
This could be done by using the signals being produced by the brain and decoding them into the language that computer could understand as quickly as possible. Dr. Nuyujukian said that eye-tracking technology was much inferior compared to this technology, but again the problem with this technology is its high cost. However, his team did not lose their spirit, and with patient T6 they set out to make it possible for them to come up with an affordable technology that could allow the patients to communicate with the computer by using just their brains.
The patient T6 had to become a part of the BrainGate clinical trials, which she did. After she agreed for the trials, the doctors and engineers implanted her brain with a 100-channel electrode array. This unit was inserted in the part of her brain that controlled the movement of her body i.e. the left side. While this was happening, a custom designed keyboard was also under work by a Stanford subdivision. The purpose of this keyboard was to capture the pulses in the brain and decode them to allow patients to type words by simply thinking about them.
Enter the Neural Electrode Signal
So the neural prosthesis, in this case, received signals from the electrodes as she laid her eyes on a particular letter on the screen. After these signals were passed the cursor moved to the letter she wanted to type. This prototype was used on patient T6, but despite its state of the art interface and accuracy, it could not become practical because the patient got drained of using this method and many a time she had to correct her words. According to Dr. Nuyujukian, they wanted to remove the need of electrodes from the equation and also wanted the design of the whole system to look like a modern design.
The Revelation
The revelation came when the team realized that the kind of point and click system they were working on was not much different from the workings of the touchscreens used in the world today. After this thought, they went on to design a device with touchscreen features. Before they could start working on their own device that came up with another bright idea that they could get such devices from the market because they were going to work on something that was already there. Nexus 9 tablet was their choice of the apparatus.
They started working on the setup and connecting it with Nexus 9 tablet. This job was much easier than they had expected and in less than a year they were able to complete their work on the system. The connection between their setup and the tablet was made using the Bluetooth that was already there on the device. Dr. Nuyujukian explains that neural prosthetics send messages to the tablet that are decoded by the tablet as if someone was using a Bluetooth mouse attached to the device. Patient T6 was asked to enjoy for some time on an application on a website.
The System Worked Using Video Clips of the T6
Here, the team presented the success of their work in the form of short movie clips. So these are what they shot as the patient interacted with the system for the first time. Furthermore, in these video clips patient T6 could had been seen using Google and the onscreen keyboard. She did so with full efficiency. Furthermore, she even clicked on tiny URLs on the screen using just the power of her brain. Also, gardening was her favorite subject. So this is what she performed most of the searches for on Google search engine. Also, Dr. Nuyujukian said that it is quite exciting. So he was very pleased to see that she can now use whatever app she likes from the Android app store.
But at this point the team thinks that their system should keep working without any problems. They want to iron out potential problems for at least two years. But they don't think this is enough time for their system to stay up. So they are going to work on it to make it more durable and long lasting. Also, Dr. Nuyujukian mentioned all they had to use was hardware that already existed. Furthermore, this is stuff already in the market. So using the system, his team has proven their new innovation can get put to use by clinics as well. Thus, the team is happy with their recent achievement but is not going to stop making the system better.
Click Through Brain Injury Repair is the Future?
Dr. Nuyujukian's team is thinking of infusing more features into their technology. They propose doing this by allowing patients to click and browse through various applications. Also, it lets them perform actions like dragging and dropping the items on the screen. Hence, it is multi-touch. Thus, they are also looking to expand their program. Also, they wish to make it available to all BrainGate clinical facilities.
So they intend to place the system on other operating systems. But currently, it is only available on Android. Thus, Dr. Nuyujukian says that they want their system to be complete enough. So he is saying he wants to give patients access to all the cool features. At the very least, he wants patients to use what uninjured people have on their devices. So at the end of the day, he said that this is only a small step. Ultimately, it is a great move in the direction of brain-controlled communication. Hence, it is a huge leap forward for patients who get paralyzed like patient T6.
Thus, car accident victims and PI attorneys have a new goal to work towards. Also, this can help the defense when mitigating personal injury damages. Because of this, the less affected a patient is by their condition, the more judicially economic the outcome. So if you or someone you know suffered a brain injury in a car accident. Furthermore, it makes sense to talk about this program as a form of damages mitigation. Let us know about your story.


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Tuesday, February 10, 2015
Hope you all had a great weekend? Mine was awesome...Rebecca's volleyball team won their first *GOLD* medal...we are so proud of this team!!! Hope there are more to come ;) ?!?
Anyway, I'm stopping by with this weeks COLOR Q.....
I was so excited about the *Newsprint* on the inspiration photo below, since I've bought the PTI - Newsprint BG Stamp over a year ago and I've finally had a chance to ink it up for this card....yeah!!!
Here is this weeks CQC279 color palette.....
Please don't forget to swing by the COLOR Q BLOG to view the entire teams take on the colors and this weeks entries as well!!! Wishing you a great day...until later,
Hugs, ~Silke~
Stamps: PTI - Newsprint BG and PTI - Birthday Classics: February plus Flourishes retired sentiment
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
Paper: White CS, SU Real Red, Black CS
Others: Doily, PTI - Linen & Canvas Impression Plate, SU Heart Dies, SU Happy Heart EF, Silver Pearls, PTI Black Button, and White Scrapper's Floss
6 comments:
- kacee said...
Wow I don't remember that newsprint set, your card is lovely. I like the combination of black and red. Nice job!
- February 10, 2015 10:21 AM
- Maria said...
So very pretty! Love the embossed red heart, doily, and the newsprint...well done!:-)
- February 10, 2015 2:26 PM
- Birgit said...
Gorgeous! All your elements have been put together perfectly.
- February 10, 2015 6:58 PM
- JoAnn said...
This is beautiful. Love all the elements and layers.
Congrats to Rebecca and the team on the "Gold Medal".
I have 2 granddaughters that play on volleball teams also.
- February 11, 2015 5:48 PM
- Monika Reeck said...
Hi Silke...I really love the texture on your heart and great newspaper you have and the add of the doily add the elegance on your card..love that shiny dots too...really Striking card...stunning made Silke...
I just play again at colour Q and now visiting the fab cards from the DT Member.. if you have 2-3 minutes would be happy to have your visit on my blog...my card is #48 to make you easy to find where is my entry to the challenge...thanks before..hugs, Monika
- February 15, 2015 12:41 PM
- Becky said...
Beautiful Valentines card Silke. Your cards are always so simple but look so elegant!
- February 22, 2015 2:48 PM


text: Jimmy was a teenage baseball player with a history of severe abdominal pain. I think his case illustrates how many M.D.'s have lost our ability to structurally diagnose patients with chronic pain. Since he had high abdominal pain below the ribs, he had the million dollar GI work-up for his abdominal pain. He was ultimately placed on very high dose narcotics and other drugs by a local Childern's hospital. When he first came to our clinic, his pain was across the top of his stomach and he couldn't sleep more than 1-2 hours a night. He wasn't eating well and had given up baseball (his passion). What was striking on initial exam was that if this patient had an internal organ problem, you wouldn't expect his upper abdomen to be tender, right along the rib cage. When these lower ribs were followed to his upper back, he had muscle spasms in this area as well. Since nobody had ever found anything wrong with little Jimmy's internal organs, it was a safe bet that he had a lower thoracic problem leading to pain in the ribs, which masqueraded as a stomach problem. Further exam in Jimmy's case showed that the abdominal muscles had significant trigger points and the area that attached to the ribs had a significant enthesopathy (swelling at the tendons that attach to bone, due to excessive pulling on the attachment by tight muscles). Our plan was to begin injecting the lower ribs with prolotherapy solution to allow these abdominal muscle attachments to heal and to get rid of trigger points in the abdominal and upper back muscles using an IMS technique. Within 12 weeks (Jimmy had suffered for two years), Jimmy was back to playing baseball and without pain. He went off all meds and at one year follow-up, he's still off meds and without pain. His case is a good example of how a simple musculosketal pain problem can be misdiagnosed, cost a bunch of money in expensive diagnostic work-up, and if undiagnosed and without proper treatment, would have led to a teenager addicted to narcotics.


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In my recent babbling about which collective noun best describes residents of Springfield, I explored which of the word endings "-ian" or "-er" was most appropriate to attach to the word Springfield.
The Brits seem to have settled on "-ian," but opt for making it part of a wholly new word. Thus Oxonian, Glaswegian and Mancunian for a citizen of, respectively, Oxford, Glasgow and Manchester.
This is not mere British eccentricity. Oxonian derives from the Latin term for Oxford, and has been in use since the 1500s. Ditto, in general terms, for Mancunian.
The origins of Glaswegian are murkier. It might have been something that Sir Walter Scott made up, which would be just like him.


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This is Part Five of a six-part series of reminiscences by Neal Weaver entitled The Mad Russian and the Great Dane, Tales of Rudolf Nureyev and Erik Bruhn.
You can read Part One here.
You can read Part Two here.
You can read Part Three here.
Part Six will be published next week.
You can read more about this author at the end of the article.
Parts One-Four were first published on Stage Raw.
Part Five: More About Erik
When the 8 o'clock performance of my play was cancelled due to the theatre flooding, Erik Bruhn and I went to a Ukrainian restaurant called The Orchidea, on Second Avenue, one of my long-time hangouts. We ordered dinner, and as we were eating, actors from my cast arrived to join us. They were feeling very sore and hurting. The rehearsal period had been night-marish, and they knew before we opened we were doomed, but we were contractually obliged to carry on. The producers had publicized the show as if it were a piece of gay porn, and the actors had banded together to complain to Actors Equity. Equity told them that was the producers business, and to grin and bear it. The reviews were viciously brutal, with Critic Marilyn Stasio beginning her piece with, "Picket this abomination before it proliferates!" So the actors were both sad and sober.
Erik seemed to sense their hurt and their state of mind. He began talking about his own spectacular career failures, and in some mystical way he seemed able to take away their pain. It seemed almost magical to me. (Lydia Joel said he was famous for doing that with his own company, but it was surprising that he could do it with actors he didn't know.) We were enjoying the talk, and the actors enjoyed having a celebrity among them.
Then our producer, Rick appeared. He was very concerned because contractually he had to give the show a three week run in order to be able to claim his slice of the play's future profits; he wanted them to come back to the theatre immediately and do the second or late show to meet the contractual requirements. So they traipsed out. Erik and I by this time were feeling pretty mellow and decided to stay at the Orchidea and talk and get quietly plowed.
We had a long and surprisingly intimate conversation. I told him about having discovered a picture of him and Rudi, at the bar in class. He was smirking and looking pleased with himself because he'd just delivered a lethally cutting remark to Rudi, and Rudi was breaking into tears. I told him how I'd taken the photo from the file and destroyed it because it was too intimate and personal for publication.
Then I asked him why he and Rudi had broken up. He said, simply, that Rudi had begun talking to the press about their relationship. (I'm not sure that was true. Rudi never liked to be asked personal questions, and even on the Dick Cavett show, he got resentful about being asked about what he considered personal things. Cavett said, "Boy, you really don't like being asked personal questions." Rudi smiled wickedly—and dangerously. "Is all right. You ask one, then I ask one!" Cavett backed down.)
Then Erik told me the entire saga of his relations with Rudi and Maria Tallchief. I said, "Are you sure you want to tell me this? I mean, I'm press too." To which he replied, "I trust you." Sweet words to hear from that man.
He said that he'd had an affair with Maria, long before he met Rudi. But he was not happy about it because she was very possessive, and he liked her husband and didn't like making him a cuckold. In order to escape from Maria, he joined another company far away from her. But the new company's prima ballerina had turned up pregnant, and the only available replacement was Maria.
Meanwhile, Rudi had just spectacularly defected, and become involved in a liaison with Maria—mainly as a way to get to Erik, whom he'd long hero-worshipped. And the rest was history. I didn't entirely trust his version of the story, as I'd seen him with Maria and he clearly adored her. He may have used her to get to Erik, but he hadn't just used her.
Eventually it was time to go home and we asked for the check. I was digging in my pockets for my portion of the tab, but he said, "Let me get this." When I hesitated, he said, "Let me get it. I'm rich." Not bragging, just stating a fact.
Afterwards I kept thinking about the way he'd related to my actors, in a way that was downright therapeutic and miraculous to me. The following Monday, in the office, I decided to call him and thank him again. I was highly emotionally vulnerable at that time, due to all the horrors of the production of my play. He was in when I called, and I said without preamble, "That was the first time I ever saw anyone take away pain, and I love you for it!" I then, without warning, burst into tears. I could feel him backing away fearfully, thinking that I was making a confession of romantic/sexual love. Nothing could have been further from the case. I'd never found him sexually attractive. The two of us were too much alike, at least psychologically, so that sexually we'd have cancelled each other out. He needed someone as rash, brash, and impetuous as Rudi to penetrate his protective shell of reticence, dignity, melancholy and elegance. But he hated all the sturm und drang of life with Rudi.
But in my case, the damage was done. Erik got off the line as quickly as possible. There was no way I could explain that I was speaking of platonic love—agape, if you will—in a way that he'd believe me. My tears were tears of gratitude, not amorous feelings. I'd just unwittingly destroyed a friendship that meant a great deal to me. He had spent much of his career fighting off love-sick fans and sycophants, and I'd placed myself in that category. There was no turning back.
I only saw Erik once more, considerably later. I was scheduled to do an interview with actor Michael York, who was also managed by Chris Allen. I went to Chris's apartment to meet Michael, and Erik happened to be there. He seemed like a totally different man, hard and bitter. Obviously things were not going well with him. He was friendly on the surface, but wary and hostile underneath. After the usual chit-chat, I asked him what he was doing. "I'm writing a novel," he said. I asked what it was about, and he snapped, "Cannibalism," and departed up the stairs. In his mind, I guess I was one of the cannibals.
Later I heard that he was dying of lung cancer. And according to a biography of Rudi, when Erik was dying, in the hospital, Nureyev visited and they were reconciled—and Rudi climbed into the bed to hold him close. They'd been together off and on for 25 years.
But I was to have one more encounter with Nureyev…
Part Six—the final part—will be published next week.
Parts One-Four were first published on Stage Raw.
About the Author – Neal Weaver:
A playwright, director, and critic, Neal Weaver has been working in and around theater for 65 years. Over these six-plus decades he has worked as an usher, a puppeteer, a movie projectionist, actor, playwright, publicist, and editor.
Neal Weaver's plays have been produced Off-Broadway, Off-Off Broadway, in LA's 99-seat theaters and in universities.
Weaver was stage manager for the Playwrights Unit of the Actors' Studio in NYC, and he was founder and artistic director of The Meat and Potatoes Co (NYC)., which mounted 92 productions in 12 years.
He began his journalism career in 1968 as associate editor, critic, and feature writer for the now defunct After Dark Magazine, reviewing theater and film. He moved to Los Angeles in 1987, and since his arrival here has reviewed theatre for LA View, Backstage, LA Weekly and Arts in LA., and has been a member of Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle since the mid-1990s.


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Antler Banter: Season 1, Volume 51
The GamesThe Moose rolled into San Antonio having taken two games from the Rockford IceHogs, so there were aiming for a three-game win streak. The Moose were already 3-0 against the Rampage so a season sweep was also on the line! The home side, though, jumped out to a 2-0 lead early in the second period before the Moose sprung to life! Scott Kosmachuk scored his 19th goal on the power-play, Jansen Harkins notched his first goal, and Jimmy Lodge potted his first goal in a 4:22 span at the end of the period to stake the Moose to a 3-2 lead through 40 minutes. Lodge wasn't done there, though, as he added a pair of goals in third period to complete the hat trick and give the Moose the 5-2 victory! Connor Hellebuyck had a rather quiet game with 18 saves for the win while Reto Berra took the loss. With the win, the Moose improve to 26-40-4-5!
It was onward for Game #76 as the season would end for the Moose after the game on Saturday. The Moose entered the game against the Texas Stars with an 0-2-1 record on the season against the Stars, so the Moose were looking to erase that goose egg in the win column. Unfortunately, the Moose found themselves trailing 3-0 late in the third period before Dan DeSalvo broke the shutout with his fifth goal of the season at 16:35. An empty-net goal would seal the win for the Stars, though, as they skated to the 4-1 win. Jack Campbell earned the win while Eric Comrie suffered the loss. The Moose finish the season with a 26-41-4-5 record.
That's All, Folks!No player moves or injuries to report because the Moose are off for the summer at this point! They'll do their exit interviews, clean out their lockers, and meet with the media still, but there are decisions to be made. Will the Jets take a closer look at their development club after this season's 28th-overall finish? Does head coach Keith McCambridge get a new deal? Do they need to fill a void as the team had nothing to show for a veteran leader?
There were some nice additions to the Moose roster at the end of the season who I'd like to see come back. Dan DeSalvo was a great find as a centerman, Jake Baker was a nice find for the blue line, and Jansen Harkins was a great addition very late in the season. There will be many evaluations as the players cycle through the locker room, so we'll see what September holds for this team once again.
Thanks for tuning into Antler Banter for the last 51 weeks! As always, I'll evaluate these weekly pieces moving forward, but for all those that read the weekly Moose report on HBIC, I thank you for your readership!
Until next season, keep your sticks on the ice!


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Is it time for this again, already?
On Feb. 11, National Post columnist Jonathan Kay penned the latest in a series of 'Asian Boogeyman' articles popping up in right-leaning Canadian media questioning the place of this growing demographic in Canadian higher education.
Kay's piece, We're all turning into 'Tiger Mothers', contends the mere sight of elite Canadian campuses increasingly dominated by immigrants – although only Asians are cited – will "arouse some of the tribalistic impulses that usually lie dormant in our society." Of course, the column's preceding 900 words to that phrase did nothing more than arouse said tribalistic impulses of National Post readers (not a long journey, I realize).
Not satisfied with simply insulting Asian students, who are painted as blocking white student achievement, and white students, who are told they can only compete with their own kind, Kay then blames this influx of perceived over-achievers from afar for altering the parenting style of Canadian families.
No more television, kiddies, it's time to hit the books. And you can blame the Asians for that.
"It used to be that upwardly mobile native-born parents could count on getting any reasonably bright child into a good private school and university," Kay wrote. "Now, those children are in competition with Asian immigrants who spend their weekends drilling math and spelling-bee lists."
Ah, yes, nothing like the nostalgic waxing for a non-existent simpler time where everyone knew their place. It's the last vestige of solace for fools and Luddites, people like Republican presidential contender Rick Santorum, who prays for a return to a mythical world before gay people, or CBC court jester Don Cherry, who begs for a boat upon which to ship Europeans back across the pond.
In 2010, Maclean's magazine ran a since-discredited piece entitled, 'Too Asian': Some frosh don't want to study at an 'Asian' university. (Showing the shallowness of his stance, Kay cites this embarrassing article in his own.) Since that article, the topic has cropped up every now and then when someone wanted to stir the pot. And nothing like down economic times to cultivate a little fear of foreigners.
Remember, Kay and publications like Maclean's don't ask loaded questions without answers already in mind.
Fear-mongering campaigns usually start as whispers, mentions here and there to test the waters of the acceptability of a usually unsavory opinion. I saw this play out in the U.S. South on countless editorial pages and in political campaigns where loaded words were substituted for far more crass ones. But they got their point across nevertheless.
Canada is facing a tectonic shift in its cultural demographics. Canadian birthrates are not keeping up, and immigration is increasingly being seen as the answer to our long-term sustainability. This makes certain people nervous. And trial balloons of distrust like Kay's are the leading indicators of a larger campaign.
It is not coincidental this column ran during Prime Minister Stephen Harper's trip to China. The visit hoped to fling the door open on relations between the two countries on everything from trade to higher education. On the latter issue, Western University President Amit Chakma has taken the lead.
The Globe and Mail reported the federal government has made a $10-million, two-year commitment in the 2011 budget toward developing an international education strategy and attracting students from overseas. Chakma heads the advisory panel that will make recommendations on how best Canada can go about doing that.
Despite the fact China already sends the largest number of international students to Canada, the country is seen as our greatest growth opportunity as well. But Chakma and Co. should know that opportunity will come with plenty of pushback. It might seem like a slamdunk to the sane, but that's not the target audience for appeals like Kay's.
And the campaign has already begun.


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I had to write a page for a regional tourist guide; one of those glossy full colour productions that are half an inch thick and that no-one reads. They print a million of them and they get thrown unread into the motel waste basket along with empty beer cans from the mini bar, the pay-TV guide and last night's Chinese takeaway containers.
The thing I had to write was a biography of nineteenth-century poet Adam Lindsay Gordon, who had lived in the region. Tourist authorities milk these things for all they are worth; especially history, especially famous people, who become a property, a drawcard. Potted biographies usually give no real idea of the human being. Dick Turpin slept here! Who the hell was Dick Turpin? Who cares! Buy the T-shirt! Or the mug!
So I wrote about Adam Lindsay Gordon, but it wrote itself. I had known nothing about him or his work. Gordon had arrived in Australia at the age of twenty, already an accomplished horseman; married a girl of seventeen; wrote vivid epic poetry; rode Cup winners; and endured tragedy. A horse kicked him in the face causing injuries that worsened his depression. His poetry was all but rejected in snob-town Melbourne, the residents of which thought they were above his rollicking verse just like they were above convict-town Sydney. Gordon's fortune disappeared. Then, the one light in his life was extinguished when his infant daughter died. Adam Lindsay Gordon got out of bed one morning in 1870, took a revolver out of a drawer, walked into the ti-tree at Brighton beach and shot himself.
I wrote it up and felt sad for the lost child and her father and sent the copy off and hoped that Adam Lindsay Gordon would have liked the change of emphasis from tourist fluff to human tragedy.
That was last week. On Monday William pulled out a 500-page volume - one of ten from one of my old encyclopedias from about 1956 - from its low shelf and opened it at random. He asked me to read the 'story' on the page that fell open. He liked the pictures: 1940s woodcut images of a silhouetted ship foundering on a reef with people trying to get to shore, and two horsemen galloping through the night on foam-flecked steeds to alert a nearby town's authorities to the unfolding tragedy at sea. It was a poem of several hundred lines, From the Wreck, by Adam Lindsay Gordon. Nice coincidence.
Wednesday. We are walking through the semi-darkness of a quiet State Library corridor – the fourth level exhibition space entitled Victorian Visions: Ned Kelly replica armour, old black and white photographs, a decaying wine barrel from a Sorrento shipwreck, a model of a Fitzroy to Preston cable tram. That kind of thing.
Farther along, there is a wall of nineteenth century paintings. William pointed to one, at random. I stepped forward, leant down to the tiny brass plaque. Thomas Hamilton Lyttleton's Adam Lindsay Gordon Riding at Dowling Forest, 1869.
The encyclopedia and the old painting.
Posted by kitchen hand at 6:26 PM
4 comments:
- White Dove said...
Such dry humour...your talents continue to amaze me. Haven't quite worked out where you fit in the scheme of things (writer/teacher/cook extraordinaire).....but that business with ALG is a bit goose bumpy if you know what I mean.
As an aside....do people really drink/eat things out of the mini bar? Cost wise that can be soul destroying!
(my husband's yelling at me that 5 front benchers have resigned...have to go and watch the ensuing fracas!!!!) luv it
- Thu Nov 26, 07:09:00 PM GMT+11
- kitchen hand said...
WD, I think by the time hotel guests get into the minibar contents, they are no longer worried about cost.
- Fri Nov 27, 01:19:00 PM GMT+11
- A New Life said...
Such a pity about what goes into the motel waste basket. Every bit of it is recyclable!
- Sat Nov 28, 04:54:00 PM GMT+11
- kitchen hand said...
Motels are too busy recycling guests, AFEL.
- Wed Dec 02, 06:30:00 PM GMT+11
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…well, fancy that.
so yesterday, in Berlioz class, we spent a great deal of it talking about Romantic aesthetics and music as a Romantic art. from previous posts, you all know how i feel about Romanticism but i have found myself in a bit of a quandary. what is it, you might ask? well, it's that i love Hegel. yep, there, i've said it. i'm a big, big fan. not only that, but i kinda love his views on music and art. what is a neo-everything-ist like me to do?
it all started in my sophomore year of college. i had just started at a new university and didn't know any better. didn't know enough to know that taking a class entitled "Philosophy 303: Phenomenology and Transcendentalism" might be something from which to stay away. well, i was in it to win it so myself and eight other philosophy majors trudged our way through Heidigger, Kojève, Strauss and Hegel. after we spent the first two weeks trying to grasp the concepts of "chair" and "triangle" (those were our metaphysical examples) we got to the meat of the class and i made my best attempts at relating it to my own musical life. it was here that i realized that i was deeply and truly interested in the philosophy and aesthetics of music in which Hegel plays a huge part.
yes, i could go into the rise of German-based musicology alongside the rise of Germanic philosophical thought blah blah blah but i wont. that's what google is for.
well in class, my brain suddenly remembered why i loved all of that in the first place. the idea of abstractness making something more tangible than not, concept and form embodying an ideal, hearing versus seeing — all brilliant things to play with and think about for days, if you have that kind of time. so with all of this in mind, can i still feel the way i do about the artists who tried to reflect these ideas in their works? to that, i'm not sure. all i know is, if Lélio is an example of Hegelian aesthetics, i'll just pretend that Hegel never existed.


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Let's keep our fingers crossed as it should be fine to get the accidental charges waived off.


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This sounds pretty straight forward, right? The key to interpreting the results is your physician's knowledge of what may interfere with the results, such as your health status, age, medications, herbal remedies, vitamin intake, diet, exercise habits and even occupation. It is also very important to have followed instructions before the test, such as fasting for the proper amount of time.
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ok so i wont be posting any pix for a while…i'm here and my cables are there.
Things I've learned this week:
Sometimes pain and ugliness can be beautiful.
Its good to have family close by when things go pear shaped.
Sometimes just when you think its all over – its not.
My Dad inspires me.
And now, a question….
Why is it that those who can bear it – have to ?
(or why cant the good guys have it good ?)
I have the feeling that Buddha has something to say about that, what about you ?


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