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Wrapping up the Biennale
The exhibitions have been taken down, the Biennale's over - so how did it go? Festival director Jeff Moorfoot and president Julie Millowick talk about some of the highs and lows of a very long month.
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Once the dust has settled, you'll usually find the people in charge of a big event talking over the highs and lows, and working out how to make it better next time.
Daylesford Foto Biennale committee president Julie Millowick concedes that running a full-on, non-stop, month-long festival can be 'a bit of a nightmare' - but it's worth the stress.
"It's fantastic, and it's really enriching; you have these absolutely wonderful moments. People's responses have been absolutely brilliant - but the fact is, it's very, very wearing. And you get to the end of it, and you have to take it all down. It's been quite exhausting."
Festival director Jeff Moorfoot says that preliminary planning is already underway - even though no firm decision has yet been made on whether or not there'll be a third Biennale in 2009.
"We had a committee meeting in week four [of the 2007 Biennale]," he says. The timing was deliberate, he says; he wanted people to start thinking about it before the rose-coloured glasses came out, while people still remembered the hard work and problems.
"We haven't made the decision yet whether or not there will be a 2009," he says.
"We'll make that decision by Christmas, but in the interim, we're still putting things in place, just in case."
The only other major photographic festival is held in even-numbered years in Fremantle, WA. There are strong links between FotoFreo and the Daylesford Foto Biennale, with FotoFreo committee members in Daylesford, and contact between the two organising committees.
"Bob [Hewitt, chairman of FotoFreo] gave me their report on their 2006 festival - basically, their debrief document," Jeff says.
"It's interesting to read through all their problems; they're exactly the same as the problems we have here, it's mirrored."
The main problems, he says, are the eternal ones: money and people.
"It's resources, both in terms of finances and manpower. One would think if you had lots of money, you could probably solve the manpower thing - but when you have neither, it's a case of relying on your wits, being resourceful, trying to get those things together.
"I think everything we did in '07 was a huge improvement on '05, because that was our first time around. But everything we did was compromised because we didn't have any money. Everything we do could be done better, given more money."
Assuming 2009 does go ahead, Jeff says he'd want to concentrate on 'better' rather than 'bigger'; if 'bigger' is going to happen, there would have to be an overhaul of the festival's structure. For 2007, the festival had five components; the two tiers of the exhibition program, with the main and umbrella programs, the workshops, the seminars, and the projection program.
"I think, for me, the main program should always get better; it should become more elite," Jeff says.
"We've kind of toyed around with the idea of having a three-tiered festival - the main program, which would still be 20 works maximum, and that would be the part of the festival we have total control over, then maybe a mid-tier umbrella program, and then the fringe. I would see the fringe being entirely the domain of the satellite towns; they need to organise venues, they need to organise staff.
"Some venues in the umbrella program this year really went the whole 10 yards; they promoted. Others basically said 'you want to have a show here? Okay, we'll have a show here, but we won't do anything.'
"The idea would be, those venues that are really keen would become part of the umbrella program, and then those others could be in the 'off-Daylesford' program."
So that tackles some of the problems - but what were the high points?
"Andersons Mill was the jewel in the crown," Jeff says.
"In terms of the shows we had there and the way they fitted the space, just the whole thing was fantastic."
Julie agrees, and can also nominate a few other aspects of the Biennale as winners.
"I would have to agree that Andersons Mill was fantastic," she says.
"People discovered it. I found lots of people went back to Melbourne, and came up the following weekend or some other weekend during the festival, and I think that's fantastic for this area, that people actually realised it was so huge they had to make several visits. They stayed in B and Bs, and there's real evidence that we actually brought money into the towns.
"Andersons Mill was stunning, but I also have to say that the DFB was very honoured, very lucky to have David Callow's 40,000 + 40 in the Uniting Church, and in the foyer the exhibition by the Indigenous elder John Briscoe.
"John Briscoe's entire exhibition has been sold to a public institution, which is quite remarkable because this was its first outing. We were the first venue where either of those exhibitions was displayed. They created a tremendous response; they were on the ABC TV Sunday afternoon arts program and, on the final Sunday [of the Biennale], the minister, because of all the drama about the Aboriginal issues with John Howard's new plan, actually conducted the Sunday service in the church so that people were able to absorb a little bit of this atmosphere, read these people's stories, and maybe gain a greater understanding of what this very traumatic situation is about.
"So the DFB was operating on all kinds of levels. It was multi-layered, it was reaching people from all walks of life, people with all sorts of different tastes...we haven't actually set ourselves up with a very narrow exhibition criteria, we've been broad. We've had imagery that's been very provocative, we've had imagery that's been seductively beautiful, we've had imagery that makes a very strong social and political statement."
"Our mission statement is about diversity - diversity of photographic genres, but also diversity of status," Jeff says.
That means that, while the Biennale attracted high quality national and international photographers, it also saw people exhibiting for the very first time.
"Everybody's got to start somewhere, and what better way than to have someone say 'I had my start at Daylesford'? It'd be a wonderful start to somebody's career."
The Biennale offered diversity not only in the status of artists but in the styles of photography and exhibitions, from digital cameras to large-format cameras to pinhole cameras, and from conventional hanging space to Kim Stanley's installation of photographs floating in Lake Daylesford.
Julie also says the seminar speakers were a highlight of the program, but didn't get the audience they wanted.
"I know, if those seminars had been held in Melbourne, they would have had hundreds of people along...the seminars were so enriching and so full of information that anyone who was even vaguely interested in photography couldn't have helped but gain valuable information from them."
When it comes to choosing the artists for the main program, Jeff Moorfoot gets to pick half the program; the other half is a selection panel decision.
"The bottom line for me is, is the work interesting? It's not necessarily the sort of work that I like - there's a degree of pragmatism that comes into it. I have to think, 'okay, I like this style of work - but I also know there's a broad audience for another style of work.' So it's a bit of a juggling act."
81 people put in proposals for the half of the main program that was judged by selection panel; in the first Biennale in 2005, there was only one response to a similar call. Those who didn't make the cut for the main program were offered space on the umbrella program.
"I would hope that at least half the program [in 2009] would be international; the balance would be the very best of Australian [photography], with maybe another tribute show."
The question is, just how many great Australian photographers are there? Ask people to name five great Australian painters, most people could do it - but how many could name five great Australian photographers off the top of their head?
"Hopefully things like Daylesford and FotoFreo will make a change in people's perceptions of photography and photographic art," Jeff says.
But where is the border between simply taking a snap and creating art? With photography being one of the most 'democratic' art forms going - after all, nearly everyone has a camera, even if it's just a tiny one in their phone or an old film 'point and shoot', and disposable cameras can be had for a few dollars - is everyone an artist now?
In addition to her role as festival president, Julie Millowick is a deputy head of school and lecturer in photography at La Trobe University in Bendigo.
"When you use the camera as a little compact mobile photocopier, that's not art," says Julie.
"You're not bringing anything to it.
"When you actually use the camera to bring forth something that is within you, whether it's an idea from your head or a feeling from your heart or maybe both, then that is when you're using that little instrument to interpret what you see, what you feel, what you react to. So you're actually beginning to make a statement.
"Whether your technical skills are up to making the translation is another matter. That's when you have to start consciously thinking 'I want to say this, how do I say it? Well, I have to learn to do A, B, C and D.'"


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Redefining north.
by Monica Berlin
The morning after they find out something is wrong, the house fills up with strangers. It's just bad timing, really, that they'd scheduled all the maintenance and repair men to come on the same Wednesday—after all, why not get everything taken care of at once—but when the doorbell starts ringing just after eight o'clock, just after her husband has left for the office, she's startled by how much care this old house needs. By noon, eleven men are working in different rooms on separate tasks. If she weren't so devastated, she knows she could find humor here; she'd imagine an episode of I Love Lucy, the small Ricardo apartment filling with coveralls. But these high ceilings do not echo with Cuban song, and her sudden grief carries too much weight.
She barely shows yet unless you know her well enough to have noticed the slightest curve at her waist, the tightening fabric across her chest, the graying skin just below her eyes, so when she answers the door she cannot quite say, My baby might be dying. Cannot quite say, It could be so bad I might have to wish the baby dead. Cannot announce to any of these men, I want to die. Instead she says, Of course, this way.
They all know each other, have always worked together. At the screen door no one remembers not to let slam, they chat about business, their wives, plans for lunch. The plumbers joke about which of their grand-fathers would have installed the toilet. The first time the door snaps shut, the carpenter announces, You just can't get a door like this any more. Even as he's the one who lets it go the hardest, he promises to bring a plane tomorrow to ease the banging. These men, she thinks, these men know heartache. The carpenter—now sanding down plaster in the first floor bathroom, tracking dust in and out, that carpenter, retired fifteen years from the factory, now just a shell of a building on the west side of town, the one that had boarded up windows and doors when it packed up, the one that only left on a light so everyone could find their way out—is listening to the electrician talk about his sons in the desert, how one of their jobs is to sweep for improvisational roadside bombs, how the other stands at a checkpoint where civilians wait to pass. She thinks about this man's children keeping track, looking carefully, and all those ordinary people fidgeting with documentation, going in and coming out, every hour of the day, their eyes focused on nothing, their heads turned down.
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Back in bed, pretending the house is just hers again, she turns on her left side, curled away, practicing words she isn't sure she'll be able to say. Words like, We lost the baby, even though it might be a lie. It might have to be more accurate to say, We had to lose the baby. But the construction is awkward, she knows. Nothing fits. She tries each phrase on, over and over, the way a month ago in the overpriced maternity boutique she had velcroed that round pillow around her waist before pulling on shirts too wide, too swingy, over her head. She couldn't imagine how her body would fill them.
She hears the men chattering to each other. One patches an old plaster wall. Another services the water heater, with its slow dribble, its too-small basin. Ashamed now, she remembers, months ago, how she had hoped for a flood so they could afford to replace everything. Who wishes for a flood? Someone changes the air filter on the furnace. Someone measures the length of the floor between pipes. If she didn't know better, everything they said would sound like a euphemism: their plumbing problems, their troubled wiring, the sloppy mistakes made before they knew better.
The day before this invasion, she and her husband had seen the bridge of the baby's nose, the long line of its spine—perfectly arched—and she had counted its ribs. Her husband asked the sonographer questions. Between answers—Yes, two ears. Yes, two eyes. Yes—she held her breath. When they had heard its heartbeat they forgot to ask anything else, and although the room filled with what they thought was wonder, she knows now that the technician had seen something wrong, had willed them silent by turning on the machine's sound, had distracted them while she looked closely at something they wouldn't have been able to decipher. They were sent back into the waiting room, clutching their foggy, strange pictures.
Again, then, they were sounding out names, playing a game that had been theirs longer than they talked with any seriousness about having a child. The last few weeks, her husband started calling the baby Time. He laughed about it, this acronym for Thing: It Must Eat, but it had stuck. Because she had never been someone to eat more than once a day and now she was packing sandwiches to take to the office, small plastic bags with carrots for an afternoon snack, saltines wrapped in her purse, he thought it would make her feel better about the hunger, blaming it on this little speck of a body, making it not about her. At first, it seemed funny. He would ask, What's Time doing? Where's Time now? One morning just before this eighteenth week, half asleep, she had said, What if Time isn't right? She had said, What if Time disappears?
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The men ring the bell out of politeness, despite the front door being wide open for them to come in and out, bang in and out, traipsing mud in from last night's rain. Between the metallic ring and the sound their boots make along the pine floors, she can't sleep. Instead, she keeps replaying her midwife explaining, If the specialist says we need to terminate—. She wonders at the pronoun, the verb, this woman's calm. She thinks about after, the word terminate choking in her throat, her husband holding her hand, and how the midwife had shown them out a back door—to give them privacy, she had said—but how they had passed through a large room where she'd never been before, a chair lowered to the floor and everything newly scrubbed clean. Weren't they supposed to see that room, supposed to be reassured that sometimes procedures have to happen and that they happen in the same place and with the same people with whom you also share these other kinds of days, these other turning points, everything becoming routine? Maybe, too, the midwife hadn't wanted to scare the others, all those women flipping through magazines, full, hopeful, waiting their turn.
Someone trips the breaker, and for a minute, the house is dead still. When the power comes back, she's holding her breath, listening for the men, waiting for something to catch. She wonders why she heeded the recommendation to wait on the first ultrasound. Why had they waited until after she'd packed up her smaller clothes, after she'd wrapped her more delicate bras in tissue, after they'd picked out a rocking chair? She had just told her colleagues she'd be taking some time off, practiced the words maternity and leave and expecting for weeks before she said them aloud. How would she walk it back? Would she be expected to? They had told their families at week twelve, her sister whispering between clenched teeth, Don't say anything else until the ultrasound, until you see it—there, again, the pronoun inexact, imprecise, unavoidable. To reassure her, she had told her sister then that she'd felt its heartbeat weeks ago, lying still on her back—which she wouldn't be able to do much longer—in the deepest quite of the night, her husband beside her. On the other end of the line, her sister stayed quiet. Maybe she had been wrong, swearing she felt its heart. Why had they waited until the eighteenth week? What was safer about it? Christ, they had fallen in love with each other all over again, every day suddenly playful, secret. They had even let themselves fall in love with the baby, the idea of the baby. It had just started its fluttering, too. She knew that much wasn't imagined. It was moving inside her, like thin wings flapping against the walls of her, so slight, still half abstraction.
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They don't make 'em like this any more, each of them says, clomping along the floorboards. She's sure they say this every time, in every home that lines the northern streets of town. It's endearing, really, their admiration for houses. She's still awed, too, after all these years: the craftsmanship, each curve, the character upheld in the integrity of each building, in the fingerprints left over time. So much personality, each of them says as they let slam the wooden door, their necks craning up, their eyes surveying. Funny little house, another says. What a quirky place. In bed, listening, she nods.
The woman who had the house built, apparently, held so firmly to superstition that she demanded the house believe it too. Afraid of ghosts, certain they'd come to the front door and ask to be invited in, she had the builder make the foyer a spirit room, a small trapezoid with a near-floor-to-ceiling mirror facing the street, so that if a ghost did come to the front glass door to knock, it would see its reflection in the mirror and be scared away. Framed by windows on either side of the door, a wall of beveled glass, and on the two smaller sides of the room, matching wooden doors that hid the twin living rooms—one a sitting-room and the other a parlor—that room, that small room, convinced her this had to be the house where they'd grow old together. She couldn't have known the sound that screen door would make, or that in winter the spirit room would frost over, or that bad luck wouldn't always stand on the porch, facing itself, to ring the bell.
Still, she had never loved anywhere more. The house's symmetry, how it repeated itself on either side, was a marvel to her. Sometimes she imagined folding the house in half and pressing one side against the other, flattening it out, matching up its edges, unfolding it another way. Today, waiting for the men to finish, she starts counting doors and thresholds, windows, considers the few places where the pattern of the house breaks. She wonders why such inconsistencies might have been acceptable for the woman who believed, so strongly, in the fact of repetition.
She remembers hearing that when spinning a web, some spiders use their legs as a way to measure the silken threads, to make it even. She wonders why all spiders didn't do this. She wonders if the woman who had this house built watched those orb spiders in the garden stretch out a limb to make their perfect webs. She thinks about her body making this baby, about how her body knows what to do but sometimes doesn't. And she thinks about the symmetry of parts, the body trying to replicate itself in miniature. Behind her bedroom wall, where the roofline curves, the electrician talks to someone else about circuitry—such a beautiful word—even though this morning, there is only their purposefulness. To fix the things that can be fixed and replace what cannot.
Monica Berlin's work has appeared or is forthcoming in Ninth Letter, The Southeast Review, Third Coast, Dislocate, Artful Dodge, The Missouri Review, After Hours, Diagram, Fourteen Hills, New Orleans Review, Rhino, Memoir (and), and Passages North, where she was awarded the 2009 Thomas R. Hruska Memorial Prize in nonfiction. Her critically work has been published with MLA's Professions, in Black Warrior Review, and with Dalkey Archive Press. Currently, an Associate Professor at Knox College in Galesburg, IL, Berlin teaches creative nonfiction, poetry, and fiction, focuses on late 20th and 21st century American literature, and serves as the Associate Director for the Program in Creative Writing. She is the creative nonfiction editor for Fifth Wednesday Journal, and the project director for The Knox Writers' House, a digital audio archives of contemporary literature.


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What I like best about Korean epics set in the middle ages are the men's hats: wide-brimmed stovepipes made of black mesh that diffuses the shadow cast on the face; overturned, blue or earthen-colored bowls embellished with topknots and attached to the head with a strip of fabric secured in the back like a bandana; towering royal cones that look collapsible and slyly suggest the instability of any and every empire... Having been raised on the knit caps and baseball visors, the earmuffs and do rags of the late 20th century, these antiquated, grandly executed headpieces speak mysteriously, intriguingly of hidden meanings that have nothing to do with designer labels and sports franchises. Back then a hat had meaning! It defined your class, your rank, your identity in a way that today's tiaras and aviator hats do not. Talk about ridiculously aspirational. Well, Blades of Blood has hats aplenty. And aspirations too. And for that I thank director Lee Jun-ik (since I don't know the name of the costume designer). With this historic drama documenting eternal futility more than temporal reign, he's parading out a veritable fashion show of medieval formal- and sports- wear between and during the sword fights.
But clothes alone do not make a movie any more than they do a man. And at the center of Blades of Blood are actually two shabbily attired men: One, a blind samurai wearing a patched-up version of the stovepipe mentioned above; the other, his bare-headed apprentice with a robe as bland as a navy sportscoat. They're both hell-bent on revenging the man who killed Pil-joo (Lee Hae-yeong) -- friend of the former, father of the latter. And they have to trek by hundreds of people infinitely better attired to do so. It's a classic tale with the two men acting out a Star Wars-like mentorship as the elder -- a blind fool named Hwang (Hwang Jeong-min) -- teaches the younger -- a hot-tempered bastard named Gyeon-ja (Baek Seong-hyeon) -- the finer points of swordplay and hand-to-hand combat with plenty of head clobberings as reprimand. If the Foley soundtrack is to be believed, those hits to the head sure hurt! And it's not the only form of pain suffered throughout Blades of Blood. (it may be the only pains that continuously cause a laugh though.) For serious injury early on, Gyeon-ja gets stabbed right through the abdomen by his nemesis Lee Mong-hak (Cha Seung-won) and is given up as dead (as if that's the way movies ever worked). That hurt! And many of Lee's cohorts end up seeing the end of Lee's sword come out their other side, without coming back to life. As to other aches, there's Baek-ji (Han Ji-hye), lover to both Mong-hak and Gyeon-ja. That's gotta hurt for both men. How the love triangle happens is one of life's great coincidences. How it resolves itself is one of the film's greatest achievements. The whole thing's not quite as magical as Lee's masterpiece The King and the Clown but it's still an entertaining romp in the past. I say, hats off to them all!


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Giant Pumpkin Weigh-off Details!
Good afternoon, Growers!
Just putting the final details together for this year's weigh-off...Yes, there will be a weigh-off, just not in the same location, date, time as in the past.
Here are the details:
Saturday, October 30, 2010, 10:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m., at Island View Nursery, http://www.islandviewnursery.com/ as part of Island View Nursery's Fall Festival, the address is 3376 Foothill Road, Carpenteria, CA 93013, (805) 684-0324. Please visit their website for directions.
The new date/location is due to the fact that I'll be in China, introducing my daughter Michelle, to her many relatives, from October 14-30, 2010, so the folks at Island View have graciously stepped in to organize and run the weigh-off this season! It's a beautiful nursery and a nice drive up the 101, so I think you will have a great time! Plus, Kellogg Garden Products will be participating as usual!
Take care, have fun, and good luck!


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- Game Highlights
- Coach Shawhan Interview
- Brent Baltus Interview
- Raymond Brice Interview
- Photo Gallery
HOUGHTON, Mich. – Michigan Tech defeated No. 20 Northern Michigan 4-1 Friday (Nov. 10) night in front of a standing room only crowd on Military Appreciation Night at the John MacInnes Student Ice Arena. Captain Brent Baltus scored a pair of goals as the Huskies snapped a five-game winless streak.
Tech scored two goals in each of the first two periods and improved to 5-5-2 overall and 3-4-2-1 in the WCHA.
"I was extremely proud of the compete level our team had and the balance we got offensively," Tech coach Joe Shawhan said. "All lines contributed in all facets of the game.
"I'm thankful for the support we got from the community tonight. We haven't given them much to cheer about lately. I'm very pleased that the people who deserve it were able to go home happy tonight."
Raymond Brice opened scoring 11:34 into the game as he took advantage of a steal by Greyson Reitmeier at the side of the net for his second of the season.
"That was the start we were looking for," Brice said. "It was a great play by Greyson, and it happened to go in the net for me."
Brent Baltus added to the lead just over 5:00 later, burying his first of the season on a delayed penalty. Keegan Ford took a long shot from the point that rebounded out to Baltus. Mitch Meek kept the puck in the zone and Alex Smith had the secondary assist on the pass to Ford.
In the second period, Gavin Gould buried his team-leading sixth of the season 7:01 after intermission. The play started with a Gould breakaway that was steered aside by NMU netminder Mathias Israelsson, but Jake Lucchini created a turnover in the corner, and Gould sniped a shot over Israelsson's blocker.
Baltus added his second of the game at the 9:40 mark of the second, tipping in a long shot off the stick of Jake Jackson for the 20th of his career. Smith picked up his second assist on the night with the feed out to Jackson at the blue line.
"I'm happy for Brent Baltus with the night he had," added Shawhan. "His leadership was incredible tonight. He is just so loved on our team, so when he has success it lifts everybody up. He's a great young man and a great leader for us."
NMU (5-2, 3-2 WCHA) got on the board at 14:49 of the second with a power play goal by Joseph Nardi. Assists went to Jordan Klimek and Ryan Black.
Tech outshot NMU 32-21. Patrick Munson made his return to the net for the Huskies, stopping 20 shots, including 12 in the second period alone. Israelsson finished with 28 saves for the visitors.
Staff Sergeant Jon French dropped the game puck with his two sons. Jon is a former Husky, playing on the 1993-94 team and later served in the US Army after graduating from Tech with a bachelor's and master's degree in engineering. He was injured in Eastern Afghanistan and currently serves as a Squad Leader, Designated Marksman, and Combat Engineer (12B) with the 1431st Engineer (SAPPER) Company, a Michigan Army National Guard unit out of Calumet.
The Huskies wore special camouflage jerseys Friday that were auctioned off to benefit the Copper Country Veteran's Association as part of Military Appreciation Weekend. The CCVA provides military rites for deceased veterans in the Upper Peninsula.
Tech and NMU will resume the WCHA series on Saturday (Nov. 11) at the Berry Events Center in Marqueete. Puck drop is set for 7:07 p.m. Fans can listen to the game on Mix 93.5 FM WKMJ or watch live on Fox UP.


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When I wrote To Set Against the Dark, I focused on the little Quan Am I brought back from Hoi An. But she has company on that shelf. Over to the left, too dark to see in this photo, is a bird's nest I found one year in a Christmas tree. To the right is a framed copy of the Madonna and Child page from the Book of Kells, a Brigit's Cross in front of that and, to the right, a votive candle holder from Wales. When I say I will light a candle – someone is traveling, or going through a hard time, or grieving – I mean it and this is where it is done.
I learned to make this kind of space over the years. At first everything had to be symmetrical or there had to be a theme or a change every season. Lately, though, I have grown accustomed to its serene disorder. The juxtaposition of the Christian Madonna, the Buddhist Quan Am, and the Celtic goddess/saint works for me and over time I have come to understand that it works for them as well.
I have had this space, or one like it, for many years but it has become more meaningful since I saw how often prayers are offered with candles or joss sticks or shrines in Viet Nam. Sometimes this happens within pagodas, but even there the ritual seems woven into the ordinary (see Sacred Housekeeping). Often the shrine sits on the floor where there is much coming and going, causing me to rethink my ideas about sacred space. At the Catholic pilgrimage site of Our Lady of La Vang an enormous sand-filled cauldron stands on the steps of the outdoor altar. The day we visited My Lai there were preparations for an honoring of the 45th anniversary of the massacre. The candles sat on ordinary pieces of sheetrock in the hedges or hung from the branches of trees. In all these places and in others there and here, each candle, each joss stick, each offering weaves a net between living and dead, seen and unseen, earth and heaven.


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Larry has been treating me almost daily with birthday gifts. I sort of stretch this celebration out as long as I can, and today's goodie was a whisk. It's Worth It.
This silicone beauty is a Butterfly by Kuhn Rikon, Switzerland. Feels great in the hand.
It took just a couple of whooshes through my favorite whole wheat pancake batter (Kodiak brand) and… yikes, step away from the bowl. How do a few extra curls in wire make things whisk quicker??
Yes, he gave me other things. The hot stone massage was wonderful. And dinner at a local Italian restaurant, always yummy.
Wait 'til I start playing with the Winemaking Kit. It's 5 PM somewhere, isn't it?


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Five years ago, my father started feeling a little bit off. The blues, we said, dismissing his fatigue and slurring speech and slight shuffle. It was all so unlike him – the life of our family's party boat, the longest, loudest laugh, the strongest opinion, the silliest prank. Go back to school, we suggested, go traveling, try meditating. Instead, he went to the doctor. It was a natural response for the son of a doctor, and a former engineering student himself. Isolate the problem, identify it, solve it.
Five years, dozens of pills and fifteen specialists later, we can safely say that the medical system has failed him. My father is a healthcare orphan.
Three months ago, after fighting a near civil war, the House managed to pass a healthcare reform bill that might lead to one of the single greatest overhauls of social service in our country's history. But even as the Obama administration limps off to face other proxy battles in the Left-Right war, my father and countless other patients will still be trapped in the nightmare of modern healthcare.
The word "healthcare" itself is deceptive. In his battle with illness, my father has encountered anything but actual care. For that, he has my mother, my brother and my husband and me, but certainly not the many doctors and therapists and health care professionals who have been paid to provide it.
His illness is confounding and exhausting, a degenerative neurological condition affecting how his brain communicates with his body, and over these past five years, it has stripped him of his speech, his handwriting, his balance and his coordination. It has crippled him with stiffness and mind-numbing fatigue, caused him to choke on his food, and altered his personality in dozens of ways. His illness has taken from him the things he loved most in life – travel and sports and conversation. And still, he is the easiest person to make laugh, the most optimistic person in our family about what the future will bring.
How are you so courageous, I asked him just this week? Because, he said, I have hope for a cure.
Because modern neurology relies on groupings of symptoms for diagnosis, and because my father's symptoms don't originate in one or another part of his brain, but rather from some kind of short-circuit in his brain's network, he still has no diagnosis. And without a diagnosis, there can be no treatment and no cure. His many doctors and specialists can only tell him to come back every six months and pay them hundreds of dollars to receive more referrals to other specialists or more tests imaging his brain, assessing his vision and bladder and psychiatric function, monitoring his sleep. The family doctor, who tends to be available, is confounded by the illness and has no more patience for our emergencies and questions. The specialists are inaccessible and only interested in patients that advance one or another research study, in which there are no spots for people without a diagnosis.
Whatever indignities my father's illness has subjected him to have only been compounded his experiences in the healthcare system. Two years into his journey through waiting rooms and pharmacopeia, one of the leading movement disorders specialists in the country told my upset father, who had started falling without warning, to "stop complaining and get yourself a cute cane." Two years after that, after a week-long hospitalization and exhausting stint in a rehab facility (with a hearing impaired roommate who left his television blaring all night), an administrative employee with a home health care company called my father and told him that he was not "allowed" to leave his house to go to the theater with his wife because in order to receive the 24-hour care he needs, he had been officially classified as "homebound."
Not to mention the hundreds of minor and major humiliations he's had to endure, like being strapped to a gurney for hours after a fall while an on-call nurse finishes a bag of Fritos before calling a doctor to come check on him, or having a trained nurse ask him if he has any trouble "going pee pee and poo poo."
All of this is expensive, but thankfully, my parents are savvy and bought a blue-chip long-term care policy before my father became ill. My mother also works full-time and has excellent health insurance coverage for her and her spouse through her employer. So, problem solved, right? Absolutely wrong.
The blue-chip long-term care policy, which my parents have already paid for, will only allow my mother to spend $240 a day on in-home care, or $10 an hour. Any professional nursing service charges between $20 and $30 an hour. They require documentation and paperwork for every claim, even a $50 walking stick. They held off reimbursing my mother for nearly one year after she began filing claims, racking up thousands of dollars until their "social workers" had investigated to prove that my father was really sick. My mother's health insurance plan, in a bid to save money, requires that all prescriptions be filled remotely, by mailing in prescriptions and ordering refills on the telephone. Refills can only be ordered after a set number of days, but prescriptions can take anywhere from seven to, once, 18 business days to arrive. Express shipping costs extra. If my father has an emergency and needs a prescription right away, he has to pay out of pocket for the doctor to call the prescription in to the local pharmacy. My father has been hospitalized six times in the last three years, and each time, various doctors and specialists drop by for a few minutes at a time, charging hundreds of dollars for each visit. After his last hospitalization, the health insurance company sent an investigator to hound my mother like a debt collector, accusing her of committing fraud and leaving messages that came within a hair of actual threats.
Both the insurance company and the long-term care company place the burden of proof that my father is actually ill on my father, while the many doctors and specialists still resist giving my father a diagnosis.
And with the quality of his coverage, my father is one of the lucky ones.
I have no real answers to the central question of the latest healthcare reform debate, which is, who should pay for health insurance? But I know that the debate should focus a little less on this question and a lot more on how to care for the very sick in our society.
Kavitha Rajagopalan is a senior fellow at the World Policy Institute, where she writes and lectures widely on immigrant integration, global migration and the informal economy, and Muslim immigrant communities in the West. She is the author of "Muslims of Metropolis: The Stories of Three Immigrant Families in the West."


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Performing with Trey Songz on MTV Unplugged was a lot of fun! I got the call 10 days before the show and all I knew were the songs we would play. So I locked myself up and learned them from the record and created my own parts (cause there were no violin parts on the record). Trey loved what I had created and gave me a couple of features :-) ENJOY!
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A judge in the U.S. District Court in Chicago is considering a proposed settlement agreement involving several class-action lawsuits filed against the NCAA for injured student athletes. Two of the attorneys representing the plaintiffs, however, disagree about whether the proposed settlement is sufficient. Attorney Jay Edelson argues the proposed $70 million is not enough to give the plaintiffs the compensation they deserve, and will also cause them to forfeit their rights to sue if they accept the settlement. Attorney Steve Berman on the other hand believes the proposal should be approved and will provide the best outcome for all involved. Part of the proposal includes a provision allowing 4.4 million former and current athletes who played sports in college to apply for NCAA-funded testing related to athletic injuries. In exchange for the testing, the NCAA will be shielded from class-action lawsuits, but current and former athletes would still be able to sue their colleges and the NCAA as individuals rather than as a class. Berman emphasizes the fact that the NCAA-funded testing would then allow those athletes the medical grounds to actually file those suits if they choose to. Most importantly, the settlement as proposed would enforce rule changes to help prevent brain injuries in the future.
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Washington (CNN) -- Forget red versus blue. The nation's capital is seeing green.
Fifty-five years after debuting on a Washington television station, the original Kermit the Frog puppet was donated Wednesday to the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.
America's favorite amphibian was one of 10 puppets from the 1950s show "Sam and Friends" given to the museum by the family of Muppets creator Jim Henson.
Included in the cast of characters joining Kermit at his new home are Pierre the French Rat, a voracious purple skull named Yorick, and a yellow monster called Mushmellon -- possibly an early ancestor of Oscar the Grouch.
The Museum of American History also has, among other things, a 1969 version of Kermit the Frog, Howdy Doody, and Edgar Bergen's ventriloquist dummy Charlie McCarthy.
"With these puppets we provide insights into American identity, and we also explore entertainment and popular culture throughout our history," said Brent Glass, the museum's director.
"Jim Henson embodied the innovation and ingenuity that are inherent in American culture. Beyond the entertainment value, Henson's creations helped educate and helped inform his audiences, and they continue to influence us today."
"Sam and Friends" ran on Washington's NBC affiliate -- WRC-TV -- from 1955 to 1961. While many of its characters soon faded from public memory, Kermit went on to a starring role in shows such as "Sesame Street," launched in 1969, and "The Muppet Show," which ran from 1976 to 1980.


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Online future for PlayStation 2
Electronics giant Sony will unveil online gaming for its PlayStation 2 (PS2) games console in the US in August.
Sony said it will sell a network adapter for $39.99 (�28) beginning that month, allowing for both low and high-speed Internet connections.
The PS2 does not have built-in network capabilities but does have high-speed expansion ports designed for such a purpose.
It is the latest in the battle of the gaming consoles as Sony takes on Microsoft's Xbox and the GameCube from Nintendo.
Last month Sony said online gaming would be a reality in Japan in April.
PlayStation BB will also give users access to internet browsing, e-mail and instant messaging services, mp3 music file access and video streams.
However Mike Wallace, an analyst at UBS Warburg, said he is not confident of online gaming success for Sony in the US.
He said: "Peripherals and add-ons do not do well in this industry. No-one's going to spend a lot of money (on this).
"First of all because it's not apparent how any of the third parties are going to make any money on this, and second of all, there's no installed base."
No games were announced for the new platform, though Sony said it would reveal them in the coming months.
Microsoft's Xbox has the advantage over its rivals when it comes to online gaming because it will not need any additional adaptors.
The company is rolling out its new services later this year.
However the Xbox is more expensive than both the PS2 and GameCube.
Nintendo has kept quiet so far on the online gaming potential of their GameCube, as it has no built-in access ports.
Both the GameCube and Xbox have yet to be launched in Europe.
Microsoft's games console comes onto the market on 14 March, while Nintendo's machine is released in May.
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Move over Formula One, it's time to watch the FIA Formula-E e-Prix. TAG Heuer, the founding partner and Official Timekeeper of this 21st Century championship, came forth with its full support for the world's first fully-electric championship. The 18 single-seater, fully-electric vehicles were on the starting line of the Visa Paris e-Prix, which took place on April 23, 2016, on a track constructed around the Les Invalides building.
While the event heralded the return of car racing to the French capital, it brought with the complete thrill of watching cars zoom past at 220 km/h at the Boulevard de la Tour-Maubourg. TAG Heuer has been closely working with the FIA World Championship to bring electric car racing to every major city in the world. The first e-Prix took place in Beijing, China in September 2014.
The inaugural of e-Prix in Paris was marked by the unveiling of the customised Formula-E showcar created by Lapo Elkann and his design agency Garage Custom Italia. The car was auctioned for €1,20,000 at the gala dinner in the presence of HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco and Alejandro Agag, CEO of Formula E Holdings.
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Live poker is the most traditional form of the game. Whether you visit Atlantic City, Las Vegas, or somewhere in between, you'll find that poker is one of the main attractions in every casino. Live poker offers a variety of dynamics that vary greatly from what you'll find in typical online play. You'll need to learn how to identity and understand live tells, what playing in a casino entails, and how to find the best game for you with the least amount of time and effort. The game may be the same in terms of rules, but it actually plays quite differently when you shift from online to live play.
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Online poker is largely what enabled Texas Hold'em and other forms of poker to explode after 2003. If it wasn't for Chris Moneymaker winning a satellite tournament on PokerStars to earn his entry into the World Series of Poker Main Event, who knows if the game would have ever become really popular. As the years progressed, online poker really began to change. At one point in time, even the weakest of players were able to generate huge amounts of profit. As players gained more experience, however, the skill levels continued to rise. Online poker isn't what it once was in terms of playing styles, and the ability to adapt is one of the most vital skills that a player can possess.
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Poker isn't just about playing your cards; there is a lot more involved than you may realize at the surface. Some of your biggest assets as a player will come from skills that you practice when you aren't on the felt. This could mean mathematical decisions, emotional control, financial decisions, and so on and so forth. Having a sound framework for your play is one of the easiest ways to ensure that you are creating a profitable future in the game. These articles focus on the broader areas of the game and lend themselves to a much more general approach to the game.
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Games and opponents are one of many ever changing variables in poker. You won't usually be in the same sort of game dynamics as you move from table to table and room to room. Making the necessary adjustments in your play in order to capitalize on specific circumstances is absolutely crucial if you want to be a long term winner in the game. These articles were designed with the objective of elaborating on defined situations, game types, and opponents. Use the parameters in the titles to understand how strategy varies from one situation to the next.
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Sit and Go Strategy
Sit n go poker is the abbreviated version of tournament play. You won't be playing for hours or days on end, but you are playing with the goal of knocking out your opponents until there's only one player left standing. As is the case with tournaments and cash games, there are many different types of sit n go's in existence. You could play faster paced games, deep stacked games, etc. As the third most popular form of poker, sit n go's create plenty of opportunity for profitability.


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As a man and as a husband it's your duty to protect your wife's heart, not to break it. Don't hurt your wife in these silent ways:
1. You check out other women
Your wife wants to be your queen. She wants you look at her and think "I married the most beautiful woman in the world". What do you communicate when you check out other women? You basically say that you desire other women more than you desire her. Your wife wants to be desired, loved and appreciated. She wants to be your number one. Think about how much you hurt her before you allow your eyes to wander.
2. You only talk about yourself
Imagine you come home from work and you immediately start to tell your wife about your boss, your coworkers and your plans for the weekend. She listens because she's interested in your life. She wants to know how you feel and what you experienced.
Now it's your turn to listen to her. But the moment she opens her mouth, you walk away from her to switch on the TV. How does she feel? Just think about how you would feel if she did the same to you.
3. You don't do the small things you used to do
Do you remember the time when you and your wife met? Do you remember your first date? I'm sure that you acted like a real gentleman. You opened the door for her. You looked deep into her eyes. You gave her a gentle kiss on the head. Now that you're married, you don't do any of these things. You are too busy. You don't have time. And when you are really honest to yourself, you don't care about these things anymore, now that you won her heart. But just because she's yours now doesn't mean she won't leave if you break her heart. Make time to be that caring, loving and thoughtful gentlemen your wife first fell in love with.
4. You spend more time with your friends than with her
I encourage you to spend time with your friends. Having good friends that you can rely on is extremely important. However, you are not married to your friends. You are married to your wife and you should give her the feeling that she's the most important person in your life – because she should be. Nobody wants to feel like the second choice, especially not the woman who loves you more than anyone else.
5. You rather look at your smartphone than at her
You are getting older and your wife is getting older too. You might not know it, but one of your wife's biggest fear is losing her beauty. A woman's perception of her own beauty is directly correlated with her self-esteem. I'm sure you want a confident wife who feels beautiful. Good. Then show her how beautiful she is. You don't have to say a word. Just look at her with a cheeky smile and give her a kiss. Stop staring at your smartphone and appreciate your wife. She deserves it.
6. You don't desire her anymore
Desire and passion are important aspects of every marriage. Once the flame is out, it's hard to save your marriage. Giving your wife the feeling that she's not beautiful will break her heart. Giving her the feeling that you don't desire her will rip it into pieces.
Act before the flame goes out.
7. You don't see that she's suffering
Let's imagine for a second that you only talk about yourself, spend more time with your friends than with her, and you haven't had an intimate moment in weeks. She's worried that you are not attracted to her anymore. She's scared that you don't care anymore. That's bad, but you could still rescue the situation. Being aware of her suffering and reacting appropriately is your last chance to save this sinking ship.
The best thing you can do is to tell her that you are sorry, talk to her about everything and promise to better yourself.
The worst thing you can do is to ignore that she's suffering and to move on as if nothing is wrong. If you do that, she'll move on too…but without you.


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Colloquium Lectures
|Algebraic structures for topological summaries of data
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Berkovich spaces over Z and convergent arithmetic power series
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Algebraic surfaces with minimal Betti numbers
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There are three flavours, Prawn Cocktail, Roast Beef and Salt and Vinegar (all suitable for Vegetarians so we could even eat them on one of our Meatless Mondays) and they have no artificial colours or preservatives. I was mighty impressed that the entire bag is only 85 calories, perfect for dieting me, and as they are made of wholegrains it means they are packed full of some very important nutrients and as they are crisps I don't have to disguise them... the children will eat them willingly!
I'm pretty certain that these crisps (Are they crisps? Are only crisps made out of potato really crisps?) okay, Baked Snacks, will be making future appearances in our lunch boxes (Valentines Day Hugs and Kisses and maybe a game inspired lunch too!) and I'm hoping that they will bring out a few more flavours too. Personally I'm a huge Cheese and Onion and a Roast Chicken fan.
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I can't seem to go a week these days without some wrinkle or shenanigan involving Planned Development District PD-15, located on a small patch on Northwest Highway near Preston Road behind the Pink Wall. Last week, the Athena and Preston Tower had their fact-free punch-fest, and this week it was the Preston Hollow East Neighborhood Association's turn (PHENA). They're the single-family neighborhood north of the Preston Hollow South Neighborhood Association (go figure).
For about a week, I'd been aware of a small but vocal (ok, accusatory) group of the neighborhood's residents who appear to have awoken from a slumber now that PD-15's future is finally getting serious. Granted, I know the world doesn't all read my missives about PD-15 (here, on D Magazine – here, here – or Preston Hollow People), but PHENA has also sent scads of emails, texts, Facebook posts, and updates on the neighborhood's website. My ears are cinders from what's been said about me on Backdoor, Sidedoor, Frontdoor Nextdoor. Personally, I leave the social media trash talk, gossip-mongering, and digital curtain twitching to those with nothing better to do.
The point being, folks six feet under at Sparkman Hillcrest have heard about the ongoing redevelopment planning for PD-15. Given that the Preston Place condos burned down weeks shy of two years ago, you'd almost have to be willfully out of touch.


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In the first anti-tourism incident on the Canary Islands, chairs have been attacked on the beaches of Playa del Ingles and Maspalomas, which are popular among tourists visiting the holiday hotspot.
Authorities in the Canary Islands have condemned the events of Barcelona and Mallorca where anti-tourism protesters have campaigned against people enjoying their holidays.
The president of the Spanish Federation of Associations of Travel Agencies (FEAAV), Rafael Gallego, said: "Tourism-phobia has been worrying us since last summer, when the problem began.
"Back then, the Vice-President and Councillor of Tourism of the Balearic Islands, Biel Barceló, made statements on this matter and the FEAAV warned him of the danger of its demonstrations."
Stickers with anti-tourism messages have been stuck on hundreds of cars in Mallorca, with messages such as "tourism kills Mallorca".
Other messages read: "Have you ever thought that this car shouldn't be here when you have seen one of the 100,000 rental cars that we have in Mallorca? Today is the day."
Spanish prime minister Mariano Rajoy has condemned protestors, warning them the tourism trade is essential to the country's prosperity.
He said: "I never thought I would have to defend tourism, this is unbelievable".
Mr Rajoy said tourism creates jobs for 2.5 million people, which is around 13 per cent of Spanish overall employment and contributes "a lot" to the economy in Spain.
He also said: "Attacking tourism is crazy and senseless."
Anti-tourism protesters have campaigned against city breakers and cruise ships this summer in Barcelona and Venice, while films have emerged of rental bikes and tour bikes having their tyres violently slashed.
Mr Rajoy has blamed extremists for the anti-tourism protests and called for "good judgement" to isolate the protestors.
He said: "We move forward and better when we walk together."
An anti-tourism march is planned in Mallorca for August 17 against the 75.6 million tourists who visit Spain each year.
The Canary Islands, which boasts 160 miles of beaches, attracts around nine million tourists annually.
Rafael Gallego, the chairman of the Spanish Association of Travel Agents, said: "This tourismophobia has been worrying us since last summer.
"In 2016 we noted graffiti and there was an aggression with a glass against tourists who were on an excursion, so we alerted that the situation could radicalise, which is what we have seen."


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Exploring some of the most dramatic scenery on the planet, the South Island, New Zealand with Anne Carolien Köhler. And special thanks to Canon Australia, Pegasus Car Rentals, Air Milford, Southern Discoveries and Mt Cook Glacier Guiding for helping make this unforgettable, life-changing trip possible.
It began with an idea that sparked a conversation, which saw two like-hearted photographers with tickets to the South Island of New Zealand. One Australian, the other very far from home (The Netherlands), both were united over a shared belief that New Zealand is perhaps their favourite place in the world. Thus began a two week long road trip and non-stop adventure - camping, hiking and seeking new heights (physically and emotionally) to immerse themselves in the vast, diverse and uniquely beautiful land of the long white cloud.
Remember when you were just a kid and you decided you liked someone instantly, without any overactive questioning of why or how. When someone walked into your life at the exact right time and you just got each other. That's how I feel about my friend Anne. No questioning, it just makes sense.
For someone who might appear to be extroverted I'm actually quite shy and it takes a while for me to truly let people into my life, to break down the walls and allow love to come in. I'm grateful for the special friends and incredible bonds I have formed with my inner circle over the last decade plus, however it's not very often that someone new walks in and instantly it's okay. Again, It's not very often you can hit the open road with someone new and be left feeling awe-inspired and alive. Now, out of the cloud and reeling from a journey that was a somewhat earth-shattering catalyst for change, I can see it all for the significance it holds.
Often I am hyper-aware of how I tend throw the word "favourite" around, but still mean it with all sincerity. E.g - "Nepal is my favourite country in the world." (Truth). However, sentences like "New Zealand is perhaps my favourite place in the world" also ring so clearly true. I remember the first time I went to the South Island and I had tears rolling down my cheeks. Completely unexplained, there was nothing that happened, I wasn't even out of the car yet, and there was no monumental experience to trigger it. Except this strong and completely overwhelming sensation of home. A love affair from a young age, perhaps connected to my blood and heritage, but undeniable and overwhelmingly uncontrollable nonetheless.
You could say that New Zealand holds the title favourite place, even with its heartbreaking background for me. It's a totally different sentiment to my again unexplainable love affair with the sensory overload and sheer beauty of Nepal, however, it's a title so equally deserved and spilt between the two.
Part of this story began back in late 2014, the last time I was in New Zealand, when my mother messaged me saying she needed to call. I was living in Victoria and was literally on my way home, via Queensland, to see her. At the time I was driving towards Christchurch, passing through Lake Tekapo and I will never forget that phone call. The one that couldn't wait. It was the beginning of the end of life, as I knew it.
"Melissa, I have terminal lung cancer." The words escaped my mother's lips.
I remember trying to brave a straight face and failing miserably. I was searching, grasping for something, for anything. But there was nothing.
Making it to the edge of the lake, I recall watching the sky burn the most beautiful sunset colours I had seen during those days but inside, well, I was screaming. HOW could I be witnessing something so uniquely beautiful, yet my heart was shattering into a million pieces? Those words etched into my mind, forever echoing, burnt so fiercely into my heart. Writing about that moment shoots an indescribable feeling throughout my entire body. A feeling likened to that of hearing the greatest song ever written. How that relates to this circumstance is something I hope you will come to understand.
There was a time in what now feels like a past life, where I 'casually' spoke about running away to these mountains, still close enough to the sea, and building a life with someone I love(d) dearly. And I guess I never knew the weight of it all, nor that I meant every single word. I never understood how that would come full circle to the present moment and become another chapter of the whole story. A chapter which painfully had to end and end within such close proximity to the compounding devastation of the other chapters unfolding around me. It is a piece of the story so seemingly disconnected from the rest, but completely entwined and undeniably necessary for growth.
Although that insight shared above is a raw and extremely vulnerable piece of my heart, it is only a small whisper of a greater narrative. But back to that day, in Tekapo, where I almost threw it all in. Myself and my camera. I seriously considered hurling one of the only material possessions I've ever cared about right into that lake and giving up. I felt utterly helpless. I was drowning.
I hurled a big rock into the lake. Alone, the tears rolled silently and seamlessly down my face. I then picked up my camera and captured one single frame. That was all I needed to remember why I do what I do and where the strength I would certainly need for the months/years ahead would come from.
To be back in 2017, in the place that ripped my heart apart only a matter of years earlier and to stand at that very same waters edge among those same mountains, I felt a sense of pride. I was reflecting on those last two years of my life and felt proud of myself - an unnerving and altogether unfamiliar emotion. In those years I had opened myself up completely for the first time in my life. In doing so, I leaned on the support of my friends, my family, in every sense of the word. I don't even know if I would have been standing back in that spot without their unwavering love and support. In those years that had passed, my world had been turned upside down and I ripped it even further apart in the process. I had travelled extensively, potentially running from dealing with demons of my past, I had finally realised my greatest love and lost that love and begun a necessary but painful journey that arguably led me right to that very moment of pride.
I met a man named Ian on a mountain and with a simple smile he melted my heart. We crossed him on the journey up, sitting in the bush seeking shelter from the heat of the midday sun and blissfully eating an apple. He was alluring. Upon arriving at the saddle, Ian was sitting on the only chair there, admiring the grand view before us. We began to talk. It was a short interaction, maybe half an hour, which left me flawed. Obsessed with wanting to learn about people and absorb their thoughts on the world around us, what I heard from Ian changed something inside me. At 79 years of age he exclaimed "I woke up and wanted to walk up the mountain today - so I did." What a simple yet beautifully profound statement. Isn't it a fundamental mindset and great analogy for everyday life? Directly, if I may, relate it to overall happiness. The road is hard, walking up a mountain is hard and life, it is beautifully hard, but we do it every day because we choose to or because despite it all, we want to.
To seek strength from pain, to dive head first into figuring out that burning desire within ourselves and how we need to apply it. To come to this very place and have the ability to reflect on the courage it took to allow oneself to be incredibly vulnerable and sort through the inevitable mess of life. To accept it is okay, to not be okay. To stand here and watch those stories intertwine, collide, explode and become perfectly unravel in that moment.
It's been two years of self-discovery. Not just of places you can physically see, but of the places deep within. After it all, the perpetual state of change and being pushed to the limits while living on the road came crashing down to a defining emotion: pride. Pride for the strength somehow found to constantly adapt, evolve and strive. To seek that all through beauty in the natural world. And to choose it - wake up and choose it every single day, just like Ian. It was a fine balance, at times a dangerous dance, albeit one I survived. After all, isn't this the human experience? Without those lows, would the heights we seek soar so fluidly through our hearts with such a profound impact?
There, amongst a pre-historic land, dating back to a time when dinosaurs ruled the earth, feeling so moved by the human connection and by that untouched, rugged wild of nature. Exploring those challenging, unexplored peaks and deep valleys. To come here and to find something SO much bigger than ones self.
And so, here is the realisation. Those friends who will jump on a plane last minute with you, the ones who walked into your life and chose to never leave. That constant stream of messages of heartfelt love, support and encouragement. Those reminders to take each day as it comes and quite literally put one foot in front of the other daily. To walk up those mountains, figuratively and literally. To drive the open road, those songs, those lyrics, those moments shared with hearts-alike. Those places you go. Ultimately, all of those things become the very pieces of the puzzle you never knew you were missing. They shape you. They shake you. They SAVE you.
To be back, in that time and in that place for the first time in two years, to begin dreaming again. New Zealand, to say you are a special is an understatement.
This is a brand new start.
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Anne using 5D mark IV.
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A special mention to Liz Carlson, for being the all round, feel-good energy bubble of happiness that she is and joining part of the adventure with her infectious presence.
To Scotty Sinton, amazing to randomly bump into you in the Te Anau grocery store and see that wonderful, warm smile of yours.
-- Just two of my favourite Kiwi's (Liz, can I call you that yet ;) )
M. x
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B.B. King: On The Road
B.B. King spent 65 years on the road, with hardly a break for more than a few weeks' time, totalling some 18,000 performances. To say that there were some more than memorable incidents over all these years would be a massive understatement.
Impossible to include all these anecdotes of the numerous dedicated musicians and companions who lived and played with the great BB King in Jon Brewer's highly acclaimed Documentary 'B.B. King : The Life of Riley' featuring Morgan Freeman, this feature documentary organically arose after the passing of King in 2015, when a legion of his past band members, family and companions reached out in an effort to share these stories from the numerous Tours over decades, recounting the journey they shared with 'B.B.' through civil unrest, historical moments in music and in stage , from 'Chitlin' Circuit to Stadiums with The Rolling Stones and U2 - cut out by the great man and his massive talent. But no man is an island, and he would be the first to say his crew, band, friends, companions were his 'on road family' and pivotal to his life on the road.
Director Jon Brewer meets up with a selection of those who were on the road at varying times, and who have much to impart to us on the late great BB King, and of the many great adventures life on the road presented to them all. A cinematic pictorial feast, featuring the story-telling style that has established Brewer at the pinnacle of Documentary filmmaking and the timeless beauty of America's highways and roadsides.
'On the Road' invites fans of both music and film to avail themselves of stories and information about the lifestyle and shared journey of this hugely prolific musician doing what he loved best : playing for the world.


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Agencies, like most businesses in today's economy, are going to great lengths to avoid risk. It's easy to assume that the least risky path is to pull in your horns and keep plowing forward with your current business model. This is essentially the strategy of "just try harder." But marketing communications firms are at the nexus of the Great Recession and the Great Upheaval of Mass Marketing. Continuing on the traditional agency path is by far the greatest risk you could possibly take.
Don't risk everything, but be willing to risk something
Especially now, it's important for marketing executives to understand the nature of risk. Risk is inherent in absolutely everything you do, starting with your drive to work every morning. If you own a business, just turning on the lights and incurring payroll expenses every day is a risk. Then there's the risk that your largest client could get acquired, your most talented creatives could leave, a group of employees could decide to start their own agency, and everything else that may keep you up at night.
Choose your risk instead of letting it be chosen for you
There's risk in every decision you make about your firm, but there's actually greater risk in not making decisions. You can choose to be either proactive or reactive when it comes to risk. You can make active decisions about the kinds of risks you believe your agency should take, or you can sit back and let your firm be passively subject to the risks that are inherent in running a marketing communications firm in an era of constant and disruptive change.
In Ignition's view, here are 15 of the greatest risks to agency profitability now and in the future:
- A skill set built mostly around "interruption" instead of "engagement." Attempting to solve marketing problems through paid mass media.
- A digital department in place of a digital competency. Viewing digital as a separate discipline rather than mandating that every agency professional learn and practice it.
- Core competencies focused on "one-to-many" instead of "one-to-one." Irrational fear of databases and CRM, which are the future of marketing. Mass messaging instead of mass customization. Broadcasting instead of narrowcasting.
- Continuing to focus on "brand-to-consumer" communications at the expense of "consumer-to-consumer" communications. Viewing consumers mostly as an audience instead of as a medium. Continuing to practice controlled communications instead of open conversations.
- Lack of analytics and tools to measure and demonstrate effectiveness.
- Production people skilled in traditional media output instead "producers" in the Hollywood sense. Linear instead of organic approach to production. Moving on to the next campaign vs. analyzing and optimizing the current campaign.
- Developing media plans instead of channel, communications, conversation, or engagement plans. Media placement instead of media creation.
- Creating brand transactions instead of brand relationships. Producing one-time sales instead of helping clients nurture and cultivate customer relationships.
- Continuing to rely on the mass media-centric "big idea" instead of "big multichannel ideas." Advertising production instead of multichannel production.
- Expecting "account executives" to be both strategic leaders and project managers (these are two very different skill sets, especially in the digital age).
- Working exclusively in the realm of brand perception instead of brand experience. Helping clients only in the "pre-purchase" phase instead of purchase and post-purchase.
- Standing for everything instead of standing for something. Supporting the increasingly unrealistic cost structure that comes with attempting to house every possible service under one roof. A business strategy that must support both high-value product offerings (strategy and ideation) and increasingly "commoditized" product offerings (basic production and execution).
- Continuing to manage knowledge workers in a framework left over from the industrial age. Knowledge workers — especially those in the professional services — need a different set of tools, resources, and work policies to be effective. Staff management instead of talent management.
- Continuing to allocate client budgets to media instead of creative. In a world where many of the most powerful media have a cost of $0, ideas are the real currency of marketing, not money.
- An accounting and compensation system built on time, costs, and efficiency rather than outcomes, value, and effectiveness. Selling hours worked instead of value created.
This adds up to a lot of change. Which is why agencies need to move from an attitude of "tried and true" to "test and learn." Because they're used to functioning as third-party "agents" on behalf of their clients, agencies aren't used to investing their own capital and taking risks on behalf of their own brands. But now agency leaders must move beyond disrupting their clients' brands and instead disrupt their own brand.


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Daisys Little Cottage
Saturday, 16 February 2008
from the trip
A few more sweet finds from last weekend; these adorable glittery bobble head peeps and...
old crazed planter. These will be for my spring & Easter decorating.
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