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Since May 25, 2012, we've watched and reviewed hundreds of films here on BuzzHub (306 reviews, as a matter of fact). But, as we reach our fifth anniversary and prepare to transition to Luwd Media, what are the very best releases of our existence? Let's reveal the Top 10…
Honourable Mentions: The Avengers (Whedon, 2012), Muppets Most Wanted (Bobin, 2014), Live Die Repeat (Liman, 2014), Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Abrams, 2015), I Daniel Blake (Loach, 2016), Moonlight (Jenkins, 2016)
10. Kingsman: The Secret Service
Matthew Vaughn's gentleman spy adventure is a riveting action film: cool, political and just the right amount of nasty. Colin Firth gives the most impressive performance of his career, and- in Taron Egerton- a star is truly born.
9. The Dark Knight Rises
It's not Chris Nolan's finest work, but his 2012 threequel has aged surprisingly well, with Anne Hathaway's Catwoman still the finest depiction of a female superhero in this era of comic-book movies. Tom Hardy's Bane is a tiresome antagonist, but the epic structure suits repeat viewings. An important blockbuster, if a significantly flawed one.
8. Skyfall
Sam Mendes' first go at Bond is the franchise's greatest film– Skyfall is packed with thrills and, in Javier Bardem, a gloriously sinister villain. A fresh, darker take on an iconic series.
7. Steve Jobs
Danny Boyle and Aaron Sorkin recruit the finest actors of their generation- Michael Fassbender, Michael Stuhlbarg, Jeff Daniels, Seth Rogen- for a gripping character study of Apple founder Jobs. Sorkin's masterful three-act script and Boyle's bold direction make for one of the decade's most impressive dramas.
6. Inside Out
Heartbreaking and life-affirming, Pixar's visualisation of a child's mind is one of the most profound, affecting animated films of all time. We'll never forget you, Bing Bong!
5. Whiplash
Damien Chazelle's second feature: a pulse-pounding thriller about a young drummer and his monstrous instructor. Miles Teller and Oscar-winner J.K. Simmons are an electric duo, while Chazelle's direction affirms him as a talent to watch.
4. La La Land
Four years on, Chazelle steps up a gear with this dazzling, delightful musical romance: a love letter to cinema and music. Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling are enchanting. The songs are unforgettable.
3. Interstellar
Christopher Nolan's Steinbeck/Tarkovsky/Kubrick-riffing outer-space mood poem may be half-an-hour too long (and contain 100% too much Matt Damon), but it's a knockout of breathtaking emotional strength; a beautifully-crafted father-daughter relationship (played to perfection by Matthew McConaughey and Mackenzie Foy/Jessica Chastain/Ellen Burstyn) at its heart. For big-screen experience, this is no less a cinema milestone than Nolan's very best work.
2. Moonrise Kingdom
This island-set romantic adventure starring two charming pre-teens, Jared Gilman and Karen Hayward, is one of Wes Anderson's most emotionally-affecting works, telling (not unlike our No. 1 choice) a sweet and uncomplicated tale of childhood curiosity, but with Anderson's typically-astounding visual palette as a plus. Bruce Willis and Edward Norton are at their very best; Frances McDormand and Bill Murray also star. Sadly overshadowed by his inferior Grand Budapest Hotel, Moonrise Kingdom is a masterpiece from the acclaimed auteur.
1. Boyhood
A year or two ago, Moonrise Kingdom or Interstellar would have topped this list. But Richard Linklater's Boyhood, an intimate epic filmed over 12 years; capturing Ellar Coltrane's growth from child to man in real time, holds up as a classic more than either of those films. It's a sincere and unfussy but dramatically-engaging portrait of a decade of childhood – by mere chance, the decade of my childhood. I've only recently started to appreciate the importance for me personally that a film like Boyhood was made as I was growing up. I may share relatively few experiences with Coltrane's Mason – he lives in Texas, never leaves the state, goes through a variety of stepfathers – but he's nonetheless a cinematic surrogate for my own Noughties nostalgia. From its stellar performances – Coltrane, Lorelai Linklater, Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke – to the glorious soundtrack, Boyhood is simply (and it is a simple story) one of the finest cinema achievements of the 21st century.


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US NAVY is conducing COMPTUEX war-games near-by
"To the dolphin alone, beyond all others,
Nature has given what the best philosophers seek,
friendship for no advantage;
friendship for no advantage;
yet it is friend to all men
and has often given great aid." Plutarch
and has often given great aid." Plutarch
'WE ARE NOT ALONE...YET: HOW WE ARE WAGING WAR ON A TRUE 'EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE' by JEFF PHILLIPS
http://jaxairnews.jacksonville.com/military/jax-air-news/2013-11-26/story/bush-strike-group-begins-comptuexQuote of the day by Mr. Phillip Clapham from National Marine Laboratory in Seattle, Washington: "These events, while they're tragic, don't have any implications for the survival of the species." ...and these are people who are entrusted with our natural resources. Also imagine if we approached treating humans like that "since there are 7 billion humans, we really do not need hospitals to treat anyone, because all these deaths are not affecting humans as species " StrandedNoMore
"We cited a study about dead carcasses, where controlled release offshore ofdead carcasses only yield to 8% of carcasses actually washing ashore. So what we see on our shores is a tiny fragment of what is going on. That is why we believe so strongly that every live stranded cetacean is a miracle that went through hell to stay alive and because of that should be given any help imaginable to survive."
Interview with StrandedNoMore
FROM STRANDEDNOMORE, today, 4 December 2013
Bad news just in: EFFING NOAA is saying they are gonna kill all 45 whales!!! Please voice your opposition, please! http://www.cnn.com/video/?%2Fvideo%2Fus%2F2013%2F12%2F04%2Fnr-intv-dove-whales-in-everglades-park-may-be-euthanized.cnn&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitterutm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_topstories+%28RSS%3A+Top+Stories%29&video_referrer=http%3A%2F%2Ft.co%2FPphyYAiIMm
End of day update: 51 short finned pilot whales in Everglades, FL, first reported 12/3/13 around 2:30 pm ET by park rangers. Today NOAA rescued exactly 0 whales, but managed to euthanize 4. Around 41 whales still alive, no actions will be taken tonight. NOAA hopes whales die overnight, if not, tomorrow morning they will start a massacre. It does not look like they will be attempting any sort of rescue tomorrow. Over and out.
"In order to appreciate the future of undersea warfare, it is necessary to understand some aspects of the current state of the oceanographic sciences and their development. In no other field of warfare does the environment enter in so complex a way to fashion and fix the character of the operations. The classical example is that of biological intervention. In the air and on the ground the intervention of an animal or plant in military operations is rare and noteworthy. In the sea, freedom from such interference - by organisms that reflect sonar pulses, for example - would be extraordinary."
'Militarized Oceans' by William A. Nierenberg, chap. Unless Peace Comes, ed. Nigel Calder, 1968.
"Killing With Sound: What Happens When the Whales Stop Singing?"Close your eyes. Your world is now only sound -- the rain, the traffic, that far-off siren. In this acoustic world, how you navigate, find food, your children, or mate, all depends upon how well you hear. Imagine that as you search in the darkness for a crying child, a horrifying drone, loud as a rocket, suddenly blasts sound pulses like shock-waves through your home.
There are no noise-cancelling headphones to stop the U.S. Navy's 235-decibel pressure waves of unbearable pinging and metallic shrieking. At 200 Db, the vibrations can rupture your lungs, and above 210 Db, the lethal noise can bore straight through your brain until it hemorrhages that delicate tissue. If you're not deaf after this devastating sonar blast, you're dead.
This is the real life of marine mammals destroyed by the U.S. Navy's all-out acoustic war on the world's oceans. The collateral damage of this high-intensity military sonar is shocking. But because all these millions of dying whales or dolphins are too often out of human sight, they're also out of mind. Only when cetaceans strand on land do we witness what orca researcher, Ken Balcomb, calls, this "acoustic holocaust." Military sonar so panics cetaceans that as they try to escape the sonic violence, they rise too quickly to the surface and die of "the bends."
Ken Balcomb has researched multi-generations of the resident orca pods in the Pacific Northwest. In March, 2000, Balcomb documented a mass stranding of predominantly deep-diving beaked whales off the Bahamas that the Navy later finally admitted was a result of their LFA (Low-frequency Active sonar) tests. Balcomb told the Los Angeles Times, 'sonar waves at certain frequencies might have resonated around the whale's ears, causing tissues to tear much as a wineglass will shatter at a particular pitch.'
Scientific American calls military sonar, 'rolling walls of noise.' For the dolphins, whom researchers have documented as "self-aware," noting that they "call each other by name," this is a brutal and inhumane death sentence. For whales, such as the great blue, who can communicate over thousands of miles, such sonic stress affects reproduction and communication so much that some whales simply stop vocalizing. What happens to our oceans when the whales stop singing?
In the Navy's latest environmental impact statement draft, they admit that the sonar exercises planned for 2014-2018 may unintentionally "harm marine mammals 2.8 million times over five years." This estimate is up about 150,000 instances a year from their EIS statement of 2009-2013. Included in this estimate are two million incidents of "temporary hearing loss," and 2,000 are targeted for permanent hearing loss.
A deaf whale is a dead whale. Dr. Lindy Weilgart, sperm whale researcher at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia warns us 'There are some technologies that simply should never be used. As a scientist -- and as a mother and fellow inhabitant of this fragile planet -- I am alarmed at this new threat to our oceans. The ocean gives us our air, our water, our food, and regulates our climate. The ocean literally enables human life.'
Criticism of the Navy's sonar has intensified, even as the military has intensified their sonar tests.The main concern of scientists and environmentalists is that the Navy has not done enough environmental impact research and knows much too little about the devastation they're unleashing on our marine environment to proceed with such expanded target ranges.
The Navy has paid little heed to the scientists, the lawsuits, the public outcry, and the many media storms all protesting this risky technology. Even while sometimes admitting sonar's role in mass strandings -- like those in the Bahamas, Canary Islands, Pacific Northwest, Greece, and North Carolina -- the Navy has proceeded to garner federal permits to expand their sonar tests.
NMFS (National Marine Fisheries Service) just gave the Navy the go-ahead for their proposed 2014-2018 sonar exercises, targeting those two million whales and dolphins. In response, the NRDC (Natural resources Defense Council) and Earth Justice, along with several tribes have brought a lawsuit claiming that NMFS was "wrong to approve the Navy's expanded training plan," which would affect Washington, Oregon and California coasts.
The Navy has agreed only to post look-outs onboard ships to spot whales. "Visual detection can miss anywhere from 25 to 95 percent of the marine mammals in an area," says Heather Trim, Director of Policy for People for Puget Sound. The Navy should at least use common-sense precautions: declare whale sanctuaries, birthing nurseries, and whale migration paths off-limits to sonar testing. The Navy could employ their sophisticated listening devices to make sure no cetaceans are in the path of their lethal sonar. Finally, the Navy could engage in a serious and thoughtful dialogue with scientists and environmentalists about how to assure our military readiness while not destroying the very ocean they supposedly serve.
Our seas are not just a backdrop or stage upon which to practice our war games. As a recent New Yorker blogger wryly points out, 'The cat-and-mouse games played by submarines may have made a certain kind of sense during the Cold War, but what is the point of them now? Russia is annoying, but it is no longer our mortal enemy. The Chinese have no desire to bury us, except under piles of sneakers and kitchen appliances... The terrorists have no submarines.'
As we now ponder cuts to the defense budget, why not stop this military sonar's expansion until we have enough sound science and environmental research to use it judiciously and with much greater concern for all life? In this time of collapsing fisheries and disastrous marine pollution, when our oceans are more fragile and endangered than ever before, why let the Navy blast its expensive and fatal sonar through our seas?
We must not let our fear of some supposed enemy destroy our foresight. The tragedy is that in our zeal to protect ourselves, we are destroying the same life support system that we need for our own survival -- our oceans. Because when you save the whales, you also save the humans.
Get involved:
Watch a video and listen to underwater recordings of the 2003 sonar tests off the Pacific Northwest.
Watch the NRDC video, "Lethal Sound " on sonar's effects on marine life.
Watch PBS, "Ocean Giants" for in-depth look at military sonar.
Sign a petition to make your voice heard in the public comment, ending March 11th on the Navy's expanded sonar testing for 2014-2018.
Brenda Peterson is a National Geographic author. Her 17 books include Animal Heart, a Sierra Club book exploring military sonar, and Sightings: the Gray Whale's Mysterious Journey. Her new novel is The Drowning World For more: BrendaPetersonBooks.com


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The Slovenian dessert called potica is hugely popular among the natives and it is also the best ambassador of Slovenian culinary distinction and gastronomy. Numerous interesting flavours of this dough roll with a variety of sweet and savoury fillings evidence the skill and mastery of potica making. In 2017, the Republic of Slovenia gave protected status to five varieties of Slovenian potica for the beginning :
with walnut, walnut and raisin, tarragon, tarragon with cottage cheese, and raisin fillings.
Next comes the protection of the Slovenian potica as a guaranteed traditional speciality (GTS) in the European Union.
The present book on the Slovenian potica is intended for a wide circle of readers, particularly the young ones, who are advised to discover the countries of the world and their everyday life and holidays "through" tastes. And it is intended for all tourists who visit Slovenia to learn about our potica and, in the first place, to taste it because it is matched by no other dessert in the world!


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Presidential commitments to foreign nations are one thing, but the struggle to get re-elected is something else. So Jimmy Carter -- and Americans -- are finding out, as election pressures and the Democratic Party platform clash with the President's policies on Jerusalem, nuclear power, the fight against inflation, and free trade.
On the status of Jerusalem, experts agree, President Carter can hardly accede to the language of his party platform without jeopardizing the economic stability of the United States.
The American Embassy in Israel, the platform states, "should be moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem" as a "symbol" of the party's recognition of the Holy City as the capital of Israel.
Such a move, many observers believe, would cause an abrupt cutoff of Arab oil from the US and the alignment of almost all Arab and other Muslim states, moderate and radical, against the United States.
Currently the US imports nearly 3 million barrels of oil daily from Arab nations, roughly 17 percent of all petroleum consumed by Americans. Most of this oil comes from Saudi Arabia (1.4 million barrels daily), Libya (637,000), and Algeria (533,000).
Saudi Arabia and Iraq, later joined by other Arab states, have pledged to break diplomatic and economic relations with any nation actively accepting the new Israeli law describing Jerusalem as the permanent and undivided capital of the Jewish state.
A number of Latin American countries now are hastily moving their embassies from Jerusalem back to Tel Aviv, where most nations maintain their diplomatic missions.
The government of the Netherlands, the only West Europen nation with an embassy in Jerusalem, now is debating whether to shift its diplomats to Tel Aviv , as Arab capitals demand.
US presidents, including Jimmy Carter, have refused to transfer the American Embassy to Jerusalem, on the grounds that the final status of that city remains unsettled.
Less apocalyptic in potential, but nonetheless a lively domestic issue, is Carter's pledge at the June economic summit in Venice to increase US development of nuclear power.
"We underline," said the seven Venice participants, "the vital contribution of nuclear power to a more secure energy supply. . . . We shall therefore have to expand our nuclear-generating capacity."
The party platform on which Carter is running, by contrast, calls for the retirement of "nuclear power plants in an orderly manner," as energy conservation and the development of alternative fuels permit.
This reflects the conviction of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy and may other Democrats that American use of nuclear power -- except for the future use of fusion -- should lessen, not grow.
Also in conflict is Carter's policy reaffirmed at Venice, of raising domestic oil prices to the world level. Senator Kennedy has insisted that price controls be maintained on US oil to shelter low-income Americans.
American officials also helped to write into the Venice communique that "the reduction of inflation is our immediate top priority and will benefit all nations."
This accords with the President's advocacy of fiscal and monetary restraint to curb inflation, even though the results have been higher interest rates and rising unemployment in the United States.
Now, to win the support of Kennedy forces, Carter has accepted the "spirit and intent" of something quite different, a platform pledge to take no action -- fiscal, monetary, or budgetary -- "whose effect will be a significant increase in unemployment."
Pressure is mounting on Mr. Carter to impose import curbs on certain foreign goods, with emphasis on autos and steel, to protect American workers from job loss.
Consistently the President has stood for free trade, in line with the US commitment to reduce trade barriers, embodied in the multilateral trade negotiations (MTN) ratified by Congress last year.
Recently, however -- with hundreds of thousands of Americans in the automobile and related industries laid off -- Mr. Carter asked the International Trade Commission (ITC) to determine whether foreign car imports, mostly Japanese , were causing serious injury to Detroit carmakers.
The ITC will not make its finding until mid-November, thus relieving the President of having to decide on import restrictions in the heat of an election campaign. The Democatic Party platform is not prodding the President in this case either. It calls only for "safeguarding domestic industry from unfair trade practices." Nonetheless, both the Ford Motor Company and the United Automobile Workers are pressing Mr. Carter to act soon.


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Children of Edwin and Sallie Griner
In the 1930's D. Edwin Griner was a miller working at a grist mill in Ray City, GA. He and his wife grew up in Berrien County, GA and lived for many years in and around Ray City.
As a boy D. Edwin Griner suffered tragic loss, watching his siblings die of measles in the spring of 1889 – four dead in a week – and in the winter of that same year his mother, Sarah Gaskins Griner, was taken.
In adulthood, Edwin Griner married Sarah "Sallie" Rouse, daughter of Robert and Kizzia Rouse. The couple made their home in the 1144th Georgia Militia District, the Rays Mill District where the census of 1900 shows they owned a farm near Sallie's parents and others of the family connection.
But tragedy was not over for Edwin; he and Sallie would have to endure the painful loss of four of their own precious children, and the loss their daughter-in-law.
The four lost children of Sarah Rouse Griner and D. Edwin Griner rest at Empire Cemetery. Their son, Bill, the only child who survived to adulthood, was buried next to his parents at New Ramah Cemetery, Ray City, GA.
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- Almost Gone ~ Graves of D. Edwin Griner and Sarah Rouse at New Ramah Cemetery
- Death of Sarah Griner
- Four Dead in a Week
- Robert O. Rouse Sought Confederate Pension
- Constitution of New Ramah Primitive Baptist Church
- A Brief History of New Ramah Baptist Church at Ray City, GA
- Historic Marker Placed at Site of New Ramah Church
- Black John Griner Buried at New Ramah Cemetery, Ray City, GA


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Walking Your Writing As You Would Your Dog by Lawrence Sutin over at Hunger Mountain, on the similarities between writing and dog ownership, including Nondiscretionary Commitment; Depth of Affection; Faithful Obedience; Recognition of the Ineluctable Other; and Death.
An explanation of the term duende, which I had never heard before. (It's related to muse.)
All Those Who Default From the Default Will Be Punished (But I Personally Think They Will Be Awesome) by Sarah Rees Brennan over on GayYA.org as well as her Queen of Atlantis short story on Subterranean Press.
And some thoughts by Kate Elliott on revising, since I'm in manuscript emergency triple bypass surgery with revisions.


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Yesterday there was a report that Samsung was working on a Facebook clone.
We thought that was the worst idea ever.
Samsung agrees! Here's what it said:
"There have been inquiries and a few articles claiming that Samsung Electronics is going to offer a Facebook-like service, being developed under a code-name called 'Samsung Facebook.' However this is not true and the rumor is groundless.
'Family Story' has been available since February 2012 on Samsung Smart TVs, Smartphones, Tablets and the web*. This service, like its name, is a family-oriented convergence service that focuses on sharing and storing families' special moments.
It is true that we currently are working on upgrading 'Family Story' as we always thrive to provide consumers with enhanced experiences, but this is far from a "Samsung Facebook" as some are claiming it to be."


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Thursday 26th April from 10am to 5pm, Jigsaw, Fairgreen Road, Galway City (across from the new bus station)
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Having lived vicariously through my kids travels, I decided it was my time to do some traveling. Our first experience was "flying across the pond" to do a river cruise. Everything was so new to me and I was anxious to do more. The travel bug had bitten me – really hard and right near my heart. All I could think about was making my bucket list and prioritizing where I wanted to go. I had to find a way to make my dreams come true on a limited income.
This blog is about my journey fulfilling that dream. It may not be on a shoe string budget but it is cost conscious. Tips on maximizing your experiences while minimizing the costs, using credit card sign-up bonuses, manufacturered spending to give you more points, and shopping bonus categories for 5 times points….all this will be written about so that a beginner can understand.
Blogger Hubby and I are a retired couple on a fixed income so we are cost conscious about all of our travels but at the same time I want a millionaire's (well, maybe a thousandaire's) vacation. I don't want to stay at the cheapo hotels and fly coach across the Pacific from the East Coast but I will fly economy across the Atlantic to save my miles. That is what started my interested in points – a way of maximizing my vacations through points and miles.
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LONDON (Reuters) – European shares rallied and the euro took a sharp hit on Tuesday in a knee-jerk reaction to European Central Bank President Mario Draghi's comments indicating a possibility of new rate cuts or asset purchases.
FILE PHOTO: Mario Draghi, President of the European Central Bank (ECB), attends a news conference in Vilnius, Lithuania June 6, 2019. REUTERS/Ints Kalnins
The euro fell 0.24% to 1.1191 as of 0845 GMT after Draghi said the ECB will need to ease policy again, if inflation doesn't head back to its targets, and that there was still "considerable headroom" to do it.
Those signals come a day ahead of the widely anticipated U.S. Federal Reserve policy decision, where expectations are running high that Draghi's counterpart Jerome Powell will likely lay the groundwork for a rate cut later this year.
"In just a few months, the market has turned from being guided by the Fed to actively guiding the Fed," wrote interest rate strategists at Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
The U.S. central bank is likely to leave borrowing costs unchanged, but markets are almost fully pricing in a 25-basis-point rate cut for July.
The meeting will also provide the most direct insight yet into how deeply policymakers have been influenced by the U.S.-China trade war.
The impact of U.S. restrictions on exports to China is already reflecting in Europe with German silicon wafer maker Siltronic warning that the spat would hit its sales and profitability.
The warning knocked European technology stocks, but a sharp reversal in the euro and rate cut signals drove the pan-European STOXX index 0.7% higher as of 0837 GMT.
In Asia, MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan edged up 0.6%, while Japan's Nikkei dipped 0.7%. MSCI's gauge of stocks across the globe rose 0.15%, boosted by Europe.
"Markets have been very tentative over the last few sessions, trading largely sideways … oil dropping and gold rising is also an ominous sign," said John Woolfitt at Atlantic Markets.
Oil prices dipped 0.2% on Tuesday on global growth worries, although losses were capped by tensions in the Middle East after last week's tanker attacks. [O/R]
Acting U.S. Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan announced on Monday the deployment of about 1,000 more troops to the Middle East for what he said were defensive purposes, citing concerns about a threat from Iran.
The dollar index, tracking the greenback against six major peers, is holding tight at two week highs.
The Australian dollar fell to a fresh five-month low of $0.6830 after minutes from the Reserve Bank of Australia's June meeting showed policymakers thought it may have to ease again to push down unemployment and revive wages and inflation.
The central bank cut rates to a record low of 1.25% earlier this month to support the slowing economy.
Meanwhile, sterling steadied after hitting 5-1/2 month lows as traders waited for news on the contest for the leadership of the ruling Conservative party.
"The fact that Boris Johnson will most likely become the new prime minister hangs like a sword of Damocles over the trend of the pound. With this in mind, investors are currently rather reluctant to place too much trust in the currency," said Marc-André Fongern, a strategist at MAF Global Forex in Frankfurt.
In the developing world, stocks were set to snap a four-day losing run on Tuesday, while emerging markets currencies edged firmer against the dollar as cautious optimism crept into markets ahead of the Fed meeting.
Inflation in the euro zone slowed to 1.2% in May, the lowest rate in more than a year, as price growth in the energy and services sectors slackened.
Reporting by Thyagaraju Adinarayan in London; Editing by Andrew Cawthorne


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7 Charming Lighthouse Inns
Keeper's House Inn
Isle au Haut, Maine
Yearning for a true island getaway? "No television, no fax, no e-mail, no Internet, no electricity," promises the Keeper's House Inn.
A 40-minute ride on the mail boat from Stonington takes you across Penobscot Bay to Isle au Haut, on which dwell about 75 full-time residents, a stubby 1907 lighthouse, and the comfy but rigorously off-the-grid inn. There's no electricity here, save for some solar and windmill power supplementing the gaslights, candles, and kerosene lanterns.
Still, three gourmet meals a day come from the kitchen, and the inn supplies bicycles for exploring the fishing village and the 2,700 acres of Acadia National Park land. The four rooms in the main house and the two cottages are a bit spare but blissfully cozy, in keeping with their ruggedly beautiful surroundings.
Book it: Rates start at $350; 207-335-2990 or keepershouse.com
Tip: Are you cut out for the lobstering life? Take a cruise on a lobster boat and find out. Helping to haul traps is encouraged.
Rose Island Lighthouse
Rose Island, Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island
A tidy building with an octagonal light tower rising from its mansard roof, Rose Island Lighthouse sits in Narragansett Bay, about a mile offshore and accessible via private vessel or ferry. Volunteers restored it to its circa-1912 state, complete with pitcher pump at the pantry sink. (All water comes from rain collected in a 3,000-gallon cistern. The building has some windmill- generated electrical power.)
Day visitors and regular overnight guests in the two first-floor bedrooms get just a taste of old-time lighthouse life. Volunteer keepers get the full experience—and the use of the second-floor apartment for the week. Duties—cleaning, managing the wind- powered electrical system, routine maintenance—can fill several hours a day. But the satisfaction lingers long after any muscle soreness has faded from memory.
Book it: Rates start at $195; 401-847-4242 or roseislandlighthouse.org
Tip: Pack a cooler with food, beverages, and ice—there are no refrigerators here.
Heceta Head Lighthouse
Yachats, Oregon
Gorgeous during the day, spectacular at sunset, the view from Heceta Head Lighthouse turns otherworldly at night. The beam, 205 feet above the waves, sweeps across the Pacific, visible for 21 miles on a clear night. Far below, waves hiss and boom against the rocks. Way out there, across the dark sea, awaits adventure.
But don't run off seeking thrills, or you'll miss the lavish seven-course breakfast at the old keeper's house, now the Heceta Head Lighthouse Bed and Breakfast. Better to snuggle back under your down duvet in one of the six pastel-colored guest rooms.
Book it: Rates start at $133; 866-547-3696; or hecetalighthouse.com
Tip: If you'd like to meet Rue, the friendly lady ghost who supposedly haunts the house, your best bet is Victoria's Room.
Point Arena Lighthouse
Point Arena, California
The gnarled finger of land called Point Arena thrusts so far into the Pacific that locals like to say it's the closest bit of U.S. mainland to the Hawaiian Islands. You can't exactly see Mauna Kea from the top of the 115-foot lighthouse, but you may spy a creature normally found in Hawaii: a Laysan albatross that has visited every winter since at least 1994. Al, as birders call her/him, usually hangs out here until March. (Look for a really big bird; Al's wingspan measures about six and a half feet.)
Migrating gray whales pass tantalizingly close to the point through April, along with harbor seals and plenty of other seabirds. The three assistant keeper's houses at Point Arena Lighthouse, built in the 1960s, have breezy, open living rooms that look out to the sea with wood-burning fireplaces, full kitchens, satellite TV, and small dining areas. Bonus: They're a bargain at $225 for three bedrooms with queen beds and twin beds and two baths. There's also an apartment and a Keeper's Room—smaller, but the views are just as big.
Book it: Rates start at $125; 877-725-4448 or pointarenalighthouse.com
Tip: For a cool—and eerie—look at the Pacific from the top of the lighthouse, take a Full Moon Tour.
East Brother Light Station Bed & Breakfast
East Brother Island, California
The Victorian keeper's quarters, with its built-in light tower, has perched since 1873 on East Brother Island, between San Francisco and San Pablo bays. The San Francisco skyline, the Marin County hills, and Mount Tamalpais provide spectacular scenery for all five rooms where antique lamps and Oriental rugs over hardwood floors create a comfortable ambience. But dinner ups the ante: four delicious courses filled with seasonal ingredients, many from the inn's garden, are lovingly prepared according to mix-and-match culinary influences, accompanied by wine, and served at a communal table.
Still, East Brother isn't for everyone. One-night guests aren't allowed to shower because of the limited water supply, and the foghorn operates continuously from October until April. Some guests find it soothing; for others, the inn supplies earplugs.
Book it: Rates start at $315; 510-233-2385 or ebls.org
Tip: Walter's Quarters is closest to the water, farthest from the foghorn.
Sand Hills Lighthouse Inn
Ahmeek, Michigan
In this grand yellow-brick castle of a lighthouse, built in 1917 to house three lightkeepers and their families, you feel like royalty. Especially if you stay in the sumptuous King Room, lavishly decorated in royal red and purple and featuring a canopied king bed, a fireplace, and a grand view of Lake Superior. The square tower that rises from the middle of Sand Hills Lighthouse Inn lost its light in 1954, but it still makes a great vantage point for watching the sunrise and set over the lake and, if you're lucky, the Northern Lights dance in the sky at night.
The Victorian decor, nightly desserts, and piano serenades add to the romantic atmosphere. And don't worry about staying up late—serving time for the made-from-scratch breakfast is not until 9:30.
Book it: Rates start at $165; 906-337-1744 or sandhillslighthouseinn.com
Tip: Comb the beach to find Lake Superior agates, known for their rich red, orange, and yellow colors.
The Lighthouse Inn
West Dennis, Massachusetts
Overshadowed by three tall chimneys atop the Main House rises The Lighthouse Inn's reason for existence: a modest, red-roofed lantern room. At the building's heart, obscured by its numerous additions, still stands a sturdy two-story structure built in 1855 as the Bass River Light.
The light was deemed surplus and went dark in 1914, but in 1938, while planning to develop the property, Everett Stone and his family began accepting overnight guests for extra income. Unintentionally, they had founded an inn, which still has five renovated guest rooms.
Today, the property has grown into a classic Cape Cod resort with a private beach, heated pool, and smattering of gray-shingled cottages. And—since 1989—it also does double duty as the West Dennis Light, a navigation aid to summer boaters.
Book it: Rates start at $145; 877-208-2244 or lighthouseinn.com
Tip: The inn remains old-school enough that "proper dress is requested after 6 p.m."


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Feminine Mystique: A Review of Soft Tissue
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Ella Gilbert's solo show plays with ideas of constructed femininity. Jess Bates reviews.
Soft tissue includes tendons, ligaments, fascia, skin, fibrous tissues, fat, and synovial membranes (which are connective tissue), and muscles, nerves and blood vessels (which are not connective tissue). It is sometimes defined by what it is not.
I'm not often seduced by the poetry of wikipedia, but seeing Soft Tissue at the Basement has got me googling. "Soft tissue" wiki helpfully informs me, "is sometimes defined by what it is not." As a comedic meditation on the affectations of the 'weaker sex,' Ella Gilbert's solo clown show Soft Tissue contains the same back-handed articulations and remains just as elusive.
The Basement loft is the barest I have ever seen it: the newly installed back hall through the double doors is lit with a graveyard blue and an eerie sequence of gendered calls echo from backstage. Like a sputtering dial-up tune, the sequence goes something like: giggle-giggle-mm-hmmm-mmm-hmmm-hack-splutter-hoot-hoot-cough. For the ensuing hour of feminine (and arguably feminist) clown work, this will be Ella Gilbert's aural tool kit; a soundscape which has us laughing every time.
A playful, bandage-wrapped creature in beige heels minces out from backstage, as though through an abbey from the Sound of Music. She has the doe-eyed look and bonnet of the Baroness and the trembling lost lamb feet of Frauline Maria. Though her costuming references that unflattering nineties favourite, the boob-tube dress, the giant piece of tubular gauze from armpit to knee is somewhere between Parnell housewife and a burns victim, and considering the content – this hits the mark beautifully. Ella Gilbert plays the buttery-eyed victim to her own circumstance, bemoaning the ever-climbing length of her skirt and the little red grazes where her shoes bite at her heels. She pinpoints the damsel with perfection. We giggle with her at the performed distress.
The lovely tightrope Gilbert walks is that quivering membrane between virgin and whore that we know so well. Gilbert is captivating in the accuracy of her feminine mystique - the simpering giggle, the slight bob of the knee, the serene doll-like mask. But she peppers this with a highly sexualised feline character, rolling and spitting like cat-woman in a hurricane. It is a creamy combination, that she does well to slip so effortlessly between. Gilbert has a sense of comic timing that is fine-tuned, knowing just how far to push these archetypes before the room will crack.
Gilbert has a sense of comic timing that is fine-tuned, knowing just how far to push these archetypes before the room will crack.
Just as we reach critical mass on her glossy characterisations, Gilbert drops out completely - bouncing her boob-tubed 'titties' inches from the face of an audience member, to a dirty rap beat that is impossible to trace, but from which the enduring lyric remains, "there's a voice coming out my mouth." The moment is brief, but serves perfectly to pop open Gilbert's nostalgic representation of the feminine. This is the contemporary grotesque of girl-hood that defines my generation, an MTV in-your-face sexuality, lacking all the poise and subtlety of its feminine forebears. It is a useful device for change in a room that is otherwise saturated by a cooing, simmering pussy-cat. When she whips out a pregnant belly to crump at another hapless audience member, the audience is delighted and shocked, all over again.
The best thing about Gilbert's work, however, is her fearless clowning. Clown is a satisfying form for both it's minimalism and its risk - it relies on the performer to be an acute listener, to hear the joke dying in the room and save it in the seconds before it expires, every time. The game of saving the show, with simple, silly ideas, must always be alive in the eyes of the performer. Gilbert's clown, in all her curated feminine glory, is a perfect fit for the game between audience and performer. It is a clever alignment of both form and material. The feminine archetype asks, with every movement "am I beautiful? do you love me?" and the clown's delight to perform is always "look! I am being a silly woman, do you love it?" The result is a form of drag that is both familiar and unsettling, the kind of doubly percussive performativity that Judith Butler would be proud of.
As part of this real-time conversation, Gilbert has a knack for casting the audience in satisfying ways; first as the parent or lover that might kiss her boo-boo, then as a pack of rampant dogs and finally as her providers; with big hope-drowned eyes she begs for "just a little bit" of food or drink. The second-night crowd is delighted to attend to her requests, charmed by her sexualised consent jokes (should she put one finger in her mouth, or three?) and the faux distress of her plea to "help me!" The discomfort sets in somewhere around the point I realise that there is no alternative voice in the show. Soft Tissue is a pillowy femininity set on loop. This is by no means unintentional, but it is certainly at times bleak. She fits three fingers into her mouth at the request of the viewer, despite her protestations, and remains delighted and aroused at the thought. Her coy pleas-for-help become an echo chamber for female tropes written by the male gaze, and the result is every bit as "confronting" as Gilbert's marketing promises.
When Gilbert finally fulfils the prophecy of her song, and allows a full, grounded voice from out of her mouth, it is to begin a diatribe on the problems of the "staunch" woman. It is a tone with all the oratory of an inaugural address and begins to recall the "nasty" woman speech of this years' Woman's march. The importance of this moment is clear. Up until this point, Gilbert has spoken only in cute-isms and apologies, trapping sound like an effeminate Pikachu behind her teeth. To finally speak is a grand evolution for this character. I even think I hear a soft sound cue and I can feel the room change, as the audience sits forward in their seats. We are ready to move into the meat of Gilbert's material. But just as it begins, this moment is thwarted. The new voice disappears, and we regress back to the poised and vacant woman, teetering and tripping towards us with a smile.
This is the crux of Soft Tissue's enquiry: to truly say "no thank you" while remaining well-liked – that matrix of feminine etiquette that demands gratitude for a problematic patriarchal inheritance.
The arc of the show here begins to collapse. I can hear the real matter of the show, the terrifying voicelessness of feminine experience, knocking at the door, but not being allowed in. Yet Soft Tissue comes so close, and I must admit, I have seen nothing like it. Gilbert is closest to a sense of hope with her parody of an impassioned acceptance speech in the final third of the show. She gushes with gratitude for our part in pushing her, for believing in her, for holding her up, and then moments later is politely refusing the award completely. This is the crux of Soft Tissue's enquiry: to truly say "no thank you" while remaining well-liked – that matrix of feminine etiquette that demands gratitude for a problematic patriarchal inheritance. This is perhaps comparable to Jacinda Ardern's response to 'the baby question.' As a female politician, it is almost impossible to simultaneously play feminist values while remaining a media darling. It is impossible to draw boundaries for oneself and to also survive.
Like it's name, this work in Soft Tissue is one of many layers – the feminine becomes both a means to exploit the performers needs, and the trap that prevents her from any real autonomy. My regret is that this fleshy problem was not used to close the show. The choreographed dance and missed joke that sit in its place feel like a work-in-progress ending. However, as the operator executes a twenty second fade on a single abandoned shoe in the middle of the stage, I cannot help feeling the muted intelligence and deep hilarity under the work. Soft Tissue is an original and articulate enquiry into uncomfortably familiar territory. As I wander down the stairs, I check my baby voice as I address my partner, and wonder if I'm more embedded in the sticky, voiceless swamp of softness than I might think.
Soft Tissue runs from 26-30 September at Basement Theatre. Tickets available here.


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TRIVIA FROM OLIVIA: Bye, Bye Miss American Pie
When one of my editors went through Shifty Business, she commented on how "real" the airplane scene was and how she empathized with Gerry. There's a good explanation for that realism. I've felt it! My husband is a pilot and just before we were married he purchased a 1958 Cessna 172—a "classic." Now the hubby is an excellent pilot, but we've had some events that make a person like me awfully nervous. I tapped into those when I wrote the flying scenes.
Also, the airplane Nicky flies is an "old straight-tail." Any pilot will know what that means and most of them sigh with nostalgia and remember the first one they ever flew. I sometimes think all pilots must have started out in an older Cessna 172. It's a much-beloved airplane, sometimes called the Impala of the skies: durable and easy to fly.
So my dear husband calls our airplane American Pie II. His Cessna came off the assembly line the same month Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper went out on the Winter Dance Party Tour which would eventually lead to their deaths in an airplane crash… an airplane called American Pie. It may seem like a bad omen, but that "beautiful old bird" took us many a mile. And the story about her name is always a fun one to tell, especially since the Big Bopper was from my region of Texas and Buddy Holly was from the hubby's hometown of Lubbock.
Don't you just love how small the world is sometimes?
The hubby and I sold that gorgeous plane a few years ago and I know that he missed her a lot. Still, it gave us a lot of fun and adventure for about 20 years!
Olivia Hardin


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For many of us, our late teens and early twenties are a time of assertion and self discovery. Emmanuel's ideas to modernize soapmaking along with his Zionist ideals lead to strife within his family, so he decided to pack it up and move to America in 1929. There he found work with US soap and chemical manufacturers, and met his first wife, Paula. Seeing the writing on the wall, Emmanuel dropped "heil" from his last name, and began asking his parents to join him in America. They never did. Eventually, Emmanuel received a postcard from his father that read simply, "You were right – Your loving father." He never heard from his parents again.
After his wife died in 1944, Emmanuel adopts the honorific "Dr.", though he never completed the advanced degree. Leaving his children to be raised in foster homes, Dr. Bronner decided to try to convince President Roosevelt, Eisenhower, and the American people in general of the dangers of Communism and Fascism, as well as his plan for world peace. In 1945, Dr. Bronner was arrested for speaking without a permit at the University of Chicago and was committed to the Elgin State Insane Asylum where he underwent shock treatments. He escaped after a few months, and traveled to Los Angeles.
His time in Los Angeles was spent embroiled in the political activism of Pershing Square. It was there that he found a platform for espousing his "All-One" religio-scientific ideas, and sold soap on the side. After realizing that most of the people were coming for the soap, but not listening to him speak, he got the idea of filling all of the extra space on his labels with elements of the "All-One" philosophy.
In the years that followed, Dr. Bronner continued honing his soap and and his philosophy. Time was on his side, as they say, and along came the counter-culture revolution of the late 60s and 70s. And with this revolution came a new breed of young people who sort of dug what Dr. Bronner was laying down. But more than that, they loved his soap for its natural ingredients and homespun vibe. The soap business began to flourish.
Though it was originally offered only in Peppermint, Dr. Bronner's soaps now come in a variety of scents, such as almond, lavender, eucalyptus, citrus, and rose. In addition to their soaps, they also now offer an extensive line of balms, lotions, shaving gels, and hand sanitizers.
Although Dr. Bronner passed away in 1997, the Bronner family continues making his soap more or less the same way he was making it. All of his soaps and balms are made with organic and fair trade ingredients. All the bottles are 100% post consumer recycled plastic. There are no detergents, foaming agents, petrochemicals, or synthetics, and they are not animal tested. My wife and I like to take it along when we are camping to wash the dishes, or to wash oneself if so inclined.
Why is it called "18 in 1 uses"? Well, according to the packaging:
- Always dilute for Shave-Shampoo-Massage-Dental Soap-Bath!
- Peppermint is nature's own unsurpassed fragrant Deodorant!
- A drop is best Mint Toothpaste; brushes Dentures Clean!
- A dash in water is the ideal Breath Freshener & Mouth Wash!
- Peppermint Oil Soap for Dispensers, Uniforms, Baby, Beach!
- Dilute for ideal After Shave, Body Rub, Foot Bath, Douche.
- Hot Towel-Massage the entire body, always towards your heart.
- Pets, silk, wool & body tingles head to toe – keeps cool!
- 3 dashes in water rinse most Sprays Off fruit & vegetables!
- 1/4 oz in qt H2O is Pest Spray! Dash, no rash Diaper-Soap!
I know what you are thinking, and you're right. That's only ten. I don't know what to tell you. Let me see if I can come up with eight more.
- It makes a decent shaving cream.
- According to Levi's official website, Dr. Bronner's keeps your Levi's shrink-to-fit jeans fitting like a glove.
- It's concentrated, so it's great to take camping or on a boat where every square inch of storage counts.
- The peppermint variety apparently makes a decent organic pesticide.
- It's good for cleaning out the car and leaves a pleasant scent.
- Empty bottles can be used for storing paint in single serving portions.
- It always gives to something to read in the bathroom.
- Can be used to convince unwanted guests that you have joined some sort of intergalactic soap cult.
Yikes. That was harder than I thought.


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June 2, 2016
Natural Body Products: Gypsy Scents Deodorant
Guys! I am so thrilled. Remember in my 5 Happy Things post, I promised I'd share about my happy deodorant discovery? Well, today I am making good on that promise.
Deodorant has been a pretty persistent problem for me since I started my all-natural product shift, and it's one of the most important ones too! Most of the deodorants/antiperspirants on the shelves in stores are so bad for you. Aluminum has been linked with breast cancer and Alzheimers (though this has not been conclusively proven, as far as I can tell), and even the simple act of blocking your pores from sweating sounds like a really bad idea when you step back and think about it.
It's been a bit tough though, since most of the all-natural deodorants I've tried so far have a) made me need to re-apply throughout the day to keep back the stink b) required me to rub it in to my armpits with my fingers to actually get it to smooth out c) given me some super itchy pits or d) forced me to avoid white shirts at all cost for fear of yellow stains. So, all-natural? Yes. Practical? No. After over a year of trying out different brands, I was thrilled when I came across Gypsy Scents at a market I was participating in as well, and that I tried out a small sample size of her deodorant. Because guess what? IT WORKS.
I can go a full day with out any stink, I've worn white shirts without it staining, and I don't have to rub it in with my hands. And this particular scent, Lavender, is absolutely my favourite! I just love it! And Kimi, the mind and hands behind Gypsy Scents, is such a lovely soul - we arranged a drop-off date since she would be traveling through the area and was so accommodating and lovely to speak to. Thanks Kimi!
It does need a bit of a rub with the deodorant stick itself to get absorbed on my pits, and I do find that I have to clean up the edges of the stick when I'm done to make sure I don't waste any of the deodorant that goes to the sides, but that's not all that different from any other type of deodorant - and it's worth it for a product that works!
You can check out what other scents and products Kimi makes on the Gypsy Scents Website
(Disclaimer: I am NOT being compensated for this post. I really like this product and simply want to share for any of you who are interested and who are looking for functional, all-natural body product alternatives.)
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Here's a new painting that was just released in the recent Dungeon magazine issue #200. This has to be one of my favorite paintings that I've done recently. It was one of those instances where everything just worked seamlessly from the start, and the final turned out very close to what I had in my head (which is not always the case).
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THEATER San Francisco's Brava Theatre is mostly dark, except for the spotlights on stage. Under the white light, singer Nomy Lamm's face peers out from under the beak of a vulture headpiece. She flaps her feathered wings and thrusts her hips, like she is working a hula hoop in slow motion.
"I remember the feel of your hands on my body," Lamm sings. "Makes me scream, 'Am I broken?'"
It is three weeks before the premiere of this year's Sins Invalid's performance art show of the same name, and artistic director Patty Berne sits near the back of the theater. She watches Lamm's rehearsal intently, and as the performance ends, her face splits into an approving smile. "Oh Nomy, I am so frickin' excited," Berne exclaims. "That was so hot you don't even know!"
Currently in its fourth year, Sins Invalid is an annual performance project about sexuality and disability. The upcoming show, which runs for three nights at Brava, showcases 12 performances from local and international artists, including Oakland's Seeley Quest and the U.K.'s Mat Fraser. The collection of theatrical, musical, spoken word, and multimedia performances includes passages that are confrontational and provocative and moments that are soft and sweet.
According to Berne, who is also the cofounder of Sins, the show's dimensions reflect the diverse issues that people with disabilities face, living in societies where they are traditionally perceived as unsexy, or even sexless. "[People with disabilities] are thought of as asexual and [it's assumed] that our lives are defined by our disabilities," she says. "Thinking that we are neutered is absurd. It's like assuming parents stop having sex because they have a child."
According to the Sins Invalid mission statement, the performance project not only supports artists with disabilities, it also strives to centralize "artists of color and queer and gender-variant artists." The goal of the organization, explained cofounder Leroy Moore, has been to create a community of historically marginalized artists and to provide a mirror for those who are disabled, queer, or of color.
The tone of this year's two-hour show is set with Lamm's opening act, "a sexy monster rock opera" called The Reckoning. Dressed as a vulture, Lamm plays a dejected animal that struggles to know itself and its place in the universe. In the more intimate Bird Song, she is an abandoned baby bird that sings from a nest made of stuffed panty hose and prosthetic legs.
"[Bird Song] is about quiet power. It's like, 'I know what I have, and when you're ready to see it, come say hi,'" said Lamm.
Other artists, among them Fraser and choreographer/dancer Antoine Hunter, use their bodies to create powerful performances. In the solo act No Retreat, No Surrender, Fraser taps into his martial arts training to simulate being physically beaten to a soundtrack of insults commonly hurled by ableists. In The Scene, theater marries film in a sexually explicit and tense performance about a man who visits a dominatrix and unexpectedly undergoes an inner transformation.
Moore, who plays the visitor in The Scene, explained that in addition to flipping the notion of who visits a dominatrix, the piece is about loving oneself. "In the beginning [of the scene, the man going to the domme] is not sure what to expect. At the end, he comes to love himself and know 'I am beautiful.'"
Since the inaugural Sins Invalid showing at Brava in 2006, what once was a one-night annual event has blossomed into a three evenings of performance. According to Berne, previous shows have packed full houses. The public's reaction to the project, many Sins artists say, has been a validating if not overwhelming experience.
For Sins performer Quest, who lives day-to-day as a "broke-ass artist schlep," receiving shout-outs from past audience members is one of the most rewarding parts of the experience. "All year 'round, people are like, 'I saw you at the show, and I told about my friend about you guys!' People are circuutf8g the news and it's totally gratifying."
By helping to create new dialogue among the disabled and able-bodied communities, many of those involved with Sins feel like they are making history and as Moore states, rewriting the books as well. "[Being involved in Sins] feels like I'm correcting history for people with disabilities," says the Berkeley activist. "History is not written from us it's always about others. Now we get to speak our own stories."
Houston-based Maria Palacios, a spoken word artist who has been with Sins for three years, feels that the project passes the torch of hope to the next generation of people with disabilities. "When I was growing up, I didn't have a Barbie with a wheelchair," Palacios said. "But now kids will have us as heroes to look up to they will have a history in place already."
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A week! It's been a week! And sadly my brain power is so zapped by five times four hours of Polish interpreting (not to mention language classes, tandem, cinema and plain old day-to-day survival) that I have been incapable of crafting the witty missives that I so hoped Kraków would inspire in me.
Instead, I've compiled an A-Z (well, roughly) of this week. Probably not even in alphabetical order...
Arbuz - watermelon. Essential for keeping cool in Polish heatwave. And definitely not from French* (which explains the bewildered looks at the fruit stand in Brussels when I asked for 'une arbouse s'il vous plait')
blada - look, by my standards this constitues a tan, ok?!
kabina - a hot little soundproof box where you put on a pair of headphones and try to piece together
something plausible out of the spider's web that constitutes Polish syntax.
kamieniołom - quarry, especially abandoned quarries formed into a beautiful, clear-blue lake in the middle of the city, surrounded by steep cliffs. It is absolutely forbidden to climb down the cliffs and swim and none of us would ever dream of doing such a thing...
lącz - meal eaten in the middle of the day, after classes.
Magda M - ok, ok, I gave in and bought series 4 from Empik.
piwo - something I can't drink anymore without getting migraines in the heat
upał - it's too bloody hot. When I visited in January, the thermometer on the wall showed minus 15 degrees and I had to go out and buy extra woolly socks to stop my poor toes freezing off. Now the temperature is in the 30s and I've just spent most of my Saturday languishing on the sofa with a packet of frozen spinach pressed melodramatically to my forehead. When I finally managed to stagger out to the pharmacy - swaying a little under the sheer weight of the warm air - I noticed a teenage boy loitering about on the street corner, dressed only in knee-length shorts, playing Polish rap** from his mobile phone. On my return, about twenty minutes later, he was still there, pacing about aimlessly, skipping between rap tracks, pale torso baking in the heat.
As I passed, I realised that he was probably trying to sunbathe...
*it's pasteque in French. I always forget this because I've never been in a French-speaking country in hot weather. I never, ever forget the Italian or Polish versions.
** plosive-heavy Polish consonants are perfect for spitting out angry rap lyrics: I can't believe this idea hasn't taken off more widely. The music is terrible, of course.
Saturday, 17 July 2010
One week
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It's arbuZ, blada pinolono :)
trying to survive the summer heat with a help of an improvised fan
- 18 July 2010 at 13:12
- pinolona said...
corrected already! It's not so hot today though. Great to have a lovely storm finally :)
- 18 July 2010 at 15:20
There was a shower of rain this afternoon in Warsaw too. I actually went out to get wet :)
- 18 July 2010 at 23:22
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This pilot increased access and transition for high-risk IHN-CCO families, using a blended service model of Family Tree Relief Nursery's home-based interventionist and traditional healthcare workers as an innovative way to help families. The pilot assisted by linking families to their medical home and family services, and providing stabilized support for improved outcomes for family health, stability, and attachment.
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In the early 1980s I was filling for a music teacher on maternity leave at St. Catherine's School for Girls in Hong Kong. The pictures on the introduction to their website look exactly like the school looked over 20 years ago. The uniforms are the same, and they still have an orchestra (which was started by Keith Anderson, the person who now writes program notes for Naxos).
One afternoon I went on a field trip with my students to a rural part of Hong Kong that the other teachers said was very much like rural China. My job was to teach the girls at St. Catherine's Western music, and they decided that the bus ride was a chance for them to teach me something about Chinese music (I loved these girls).
First they taught me to sing Ach du lieber Augustine in Cantonese, and then they started singing some music from a Chinese opera. I was completely surprised by what I heard. They used their voices in very strange ways, but they seemed completely comfortable (these were very musical girls). I was also amazed that these young children would embrace what seemed to be a rather adult musical style. I guess I likened it to American children introducing their Chinese teacher to Western music by singing a bit of Verdi.
When my six weeks at St. Catherine's were up, the students gave me a box of small ceramic masks that represented characters in Chinese Opera.


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This post is a response to JHK's article in singletrack.com.
As a long time racer (first Norba sanctioned XC event in 1989), I've seen our race scene change quite a bit. While I've never been a "world cupper", I have been the overall winner at many races over the years. I stay as a fit as I feel like staying in order to remain competitive and not make a fool of myself. Prior to the mountain bike, I raced ABA bmx. Over the past 10 years I've taken racing much more seriously competing in short tracks, xc's, marathons, 100 milers, and even a stage race. I still do road races about once a year. I participated in the Mercury Tour and Team Big Bear's King of the Hill way back in the 90's, so I think I'm a pretty good judge of what our racing scene in America is and was all about.
Two years ago a buddy of mine and I decided to put on an endurance event, the El Paso Puzzler. We had 28 competitors in v.1, v.2 had 68. This year is v.3 and we are expecting around 125. Not bad for the middle of winter in a dirt town like El Paso, TX.
As a race promoter/director/organizer, my goals are simple: make sure everyone has a great racing experience (however difficult our event may be), raise awareness of the trails in El Paso, and raise some money for our bike club, the BMBA. While I strive to get better riders to our event, the last thing on my mind is helping world cuppers get UCI points.
The UCI charges an enormous amount of fees and requires that the promoter subsidize drug testing costs at any event that has UCI points. No thanks. Toke a blunt on the course and shoot up some amphetamines at our race if you want. We don't really care about that stuff. If you can afford that stuff, you definitely shouldn't be whining about prize money or UCI points.
American mountain bikers, at least the ones who have been in it for over 20 years, are looking for something more challenging than the 1.5 hour lapper at a ski resort or broken bottle riddled city park. They want adventure. They want to push themselves to a new level. They want to go beyond the bonk, sit down on course and eat 1000 calories, run out of water, crawl to a feed zone, finish refueling, and ride another 20 miles to the finish with a knog led lighting the way. They want cool venues where they can camp and gather around a bonfire while their teammates slog out more laps during a 24 hour race. They want to use the same bike in a multi-event race where pads and full face are worn one day and two camelbak bladders are packed the next. The demand for diversity is out there. However damaging this diversity may be to UCI point seekers, that demand far outweighs the benefit of hosting a UCI event. I'm sure the Angel Fire promoters will agree with me on that one.
American mountain bike racing has become incredibly diverse and promoters of these diverse events are not complaining. In fact, many of them are capping the number of participants. Entry fees range from nothing to thousands of dollars and people show up from all over to try out whatever new fangled adventure awaits over the next pass.
Big money competitive mountain biking in America has been dead for longer than most care to admit. Even the Chevy Truck days were weak compared to European world cups today. American world cuppers need to do just like the roadies did….nut up and spend A LOT of time in Europe. If you really want that front row start, prove that you deserve it with the best XC racers in the world. The list of American road racers that have done this is too long for me to publish on my pissant blog. They are doing it for a reason. Racing in Europe is a spectator sport. People pay to sit in grand stands and enter parks where the events take place. Do that in the US and you'll be lucky if half the stands fill up. Try it at a city park mountain bike venue and the neighbors will be pissed that they won't be able to walk their dog that day.
Keep the UCI out of American racing. American promoters should keep pushing the limits of the support with challenging events. Dare to be different. Make that feedzone just far enough into the race where a camelbak AND bottles have to be carried. Provide bacon and burgers in the feedzones. Serve beer and margaritas for free at the awards ceremony. Charge camping fees to raise money for a youth cycling program, not prize money or promoter profit. Utilize paydirt programs to get more trails.
American mountain biking has soul. That soul is getting better with age. The UCI has done little to promote the soul of mountain biking in the US. Let's keep it that way.


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"Tata Gala" group show, Sarasota Design Center, Sarasota, FL 2010
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The Golden Flower: A Taino Myth from Puerto Rico (Hardcover)
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The syncopated prose of Nina Jaffe draws the reader to the island of Puerto Rico, back before the Spaniards arrived. The island was inhabited by the Taínos, and they called their beloved island, Boriquén. This is their story of how Boriquén came to be.
In the beginning, there is only a giant mountain above a dry plain without water or plants. When a child walks over the flat land below the mountain, he finds seeds dancing in the wind. When he plants the seeds on the top of the mountain, a forest grows on the crest and in that forest, a large golden flower appears. Soon, the boy and his community reap benefits that they had never before imagined.
A joyful creation myth about the evolution of a beautiful island habitat, this picture book, originally published by Simon & Schuster, is also a celebration of the young boy's quest, which encourages young readers, ages 4-8, to respect the gifts of the winds and the cycle of nature that bears fruit for the whole community.
Jaffe's adaptation of this traditional folktale common to indigenous peoples of South America and the Caribbean stemmed from her encounter with a Spanish-language text by Carmen Puigdollers, "Como se formó la bella isla de Boriquén," and research in Puerto Rico.
NINA JAFFE'S acclaimed retellings of world folklore include The Golden Flower: A Taíno Myth from Puerto Rico (Piñata Books, 1998), named an Honor Book in the 1998 Pura Belpré Awards; La flor de oro: Un mito taíno de Puerto Rico (Piñata Books, 2006); The Way Meat Loves Salt: A Cinderella Tale from the Jewish Tradition (Henry Holt and Co., 1998), a PJ Library selection; and Patakín: World Tales of Drums and Drummers (Cricket Books, 2001). Cited in Best Books for Children as "among the very best in the field" of authors who draw on oral traditions, her books have been honored with the Sydney Taylor Award and Anne Izard Storytellers' Choice Award and have been named a Smithsonian Notable Book. Recent publications include Tales for the Seventh Day: A Collection of Sabbath Stories (Scholastic, 2000) and Wonder Woman: I Am Wonder Woman (HarperFestival, 2004). Nina is on the graduate faculty of Bank Street College's education department and lives in New York City.
Long ago, the island of Puerto Rico was called Boriquen . . . . And so begins this myth from the Taino, one of the indigenous cultures of the West Indies. Exquisitely penned by a gifted storyteller, this unique tale tells how a golden flower brought water to the world. Full color. Baby/Preschool.


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Applause Performances: Melanie May
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Growing up in Geauga County, Melanie May would listen to country music while working in her neighbor's horse stables.
Melanie May and Ghost the horse [courtesy: Melanie May]
But when she sang the national anthem at a local rodeo she realized harmonizing, not horseback riding, would be her future.
Melanie May singing at SEBRA Rodeo [Jim Sommers]
Melanie May joined ideastream's David C. Barnett in ideastream's Key Bank Studio for Applause Performances.