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Beyond Heartbleed: 5 Basic Rules To Reduce Risk
When we talk about "the next Heartbleed" we have to consider that new vulnerabilities are discovered every day and that many of them are just as widespread as Heartbleed. To put some bounds on this lets define a "supercritical" vulnerability that would have similar impact to Heartbleed as one that meets all of the following 4 criteria (all of which Heartbleed does meet):
• Affects software that is in widespread use as an Internet-facing service that commonly handles sensitive data
• Is present in version(s) of that software representing a sizable percentage of the deployed base
• Can be exploited to reveal sensitive information (directly or indirectly) without logging in with a valid username and password
• Its method of exploitation is widely known
This definition narrows things down very quickly simply because there are only two types of services that can reasonably meet the first criteria: web servers and email. Over the past decade many of the services that would previously have existed as client/server applications with their own protocols have been migrated to web-based applications and over the past few years these web-based applications have begun a steady migration to a handful of cloud-based service providers, often running homogenous environments. We are increasingly putting more eggs in fewer and fewer baskets which increases the potential for damage if one of those baskets is found to be vulnerable. The only widespread service to buck this web consolidation trend, at least in some part, and remain as a standalone service is corporate email that still relies on the SMTP protocol for transport. Personal email accounts are in double-jeopardy as the front-ends have very much moved to web-based services like Gmail, YahooMail, and Hotmail but these services still rely on the same basic underlying SMTP protocol for mail transport as corporate email systems making them vulnerable to attack from either angle.
We also have to remember that there are other protocols and pieces of software that underpin the frontend web and email services. These include encryption technologies, like the OpenSSL software that was affected by Heartbleed, as well as the operating system software itself. Pretty much the worst thing imaginable (much worse than Heartbleed) would be an arbitrary code execution vulnerability in the TCP/IP stack (the chunk of the operating system software that controls all network communications) of a widely used version (or versions) of a common server operating system like Windows, Linux, or FreeBSD. This would let an attacker take complete control of any affected system that can be reached from the Internet, likely regardless of what services it is or is not running.
Defending against these sorts of vulnerabilities is a daunting task for the IT administrator who is responsible for securing systems running software that he has no control of while keeping those services available even in the face of potential zero-day vulnerabilities. There are some basic rules that can be used to drastically reduce the risk:
Less software is better:Unfortunately most default software installs come with every possible package and option installed and enabled. Every piece of software contains vulnerabilities, some just haven't been found yet, and every piece of software and functionality that gets installed and enabled exposes more of these potential vulnerabilities (even security software like OpenSSL, antivirus, and firewalls). Any unnecessary packages that are disabled, removed, or not installed in the first place will decrease the chances that a particular system is affected by the next big vulnerability.
Reduce privileges: Administrators have a bad habit of running software as a privileged account such as root, a local administrator, or a domain administrator. Similarly software developers and database administrators have a bad habit of using accounts with full read/write access to entire databases (or in some cases entire database servers containing multiple unrelated databases) for interaction between a web-based fronted and a database backend. These practices are convenient as they eliminate the need to consider user access controls but the consequence is that an attacker will gain these same unlimited privileges if he manages to exploit a vulnerability. The better security practice is to create dedicated accounts for each service and application that have the bare minimum access required for the software to function. It may not stop an attacker but it will limit the amount of immediate damage he can cause and provide the opportunity to stop him.
Patch:For those services that do have to stay enabled, make sure to stay on top of patches. Often times vulnerabilities are responsibly disclosed only to software vendors and patches are quietly released before the details of the vulnerability are publicly acknowledged. Administrators who proactively apply security patches will have already protected themselves while those who didn't will be in a race with attackers to apply patches before exploits are developed and used.
Firewall: The definition of a "supercritical" vulnerability above includes "Internet-facing" for a reason: it is much easier to find a vulnerable system when it can be found by scanning across the open Internet. Services intended for internal use should be restricted to access from internal systems only, and for those internal service that require access from outside consider a VPN in order to authenticate users before allowing direct access to the system. Firewalls are not an excuse to avoid patching however, as many attacks are launched across internal networks from systems already compromised by malware.
Defense in Depth: There will always be some services that must be enabled and kept exposed to the Internet that may be affected by a zero-day vulnerability for which patches are not available yet. We must then start relying on our ability to detect and stop an attack before it succeeds. Hopefully the combination of techniques described above (especially reduced privileges) will slow an attacker down enough that he becomes easier to detect. We can also increase the chances of detection by looking for the signs of an attack (such as with antivirus, intrusion detection/prevention systems, file integrity monitoring, behavior monitoring, and log correlation) while making it harder for him to exfiltrate any sensitive data (firewalling outbound connections, data loss prevention technology, proxying). We must also always have a real live human ready to quickly respond to any alerts and intervene to stop an active attack, without that all of this technology is useless and it's just a matter of time before an attacker finds a way around it.
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We spotted a couple of recent online references to our work—one from Canada, and one from Australia. Talk, it seems, does travel.
- The Globe and Mail, a leading Toronto-based daily newspaper, published a thorough (and thoroughly friendly) review of Talk, Inc., earlier this month.
- At the Web site of the Australian Institute of Management (Victoria & Tasmania), blogger Leon Gettler cited our Harvard Business Review article in a round-up post titled "How to Be a Better Communicator."

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(WOMENSENEWS)–Girls and women who shy away from computer coding shouldn't blame it on their brains. Or at least not the parts that are needed to handle PHP or JavaScript.
In a 2008 Scientific American article, "Girl Talk: Are Women Really Better at Language?," reporter Nikhil Swaminthan explains the biological reason behind remarkable gender differences among those who study languages.
He describes a series of experiments in which both boys' and girls' brains were observed during language-related activities. The results indicated that "girls completing a linguistic abilities task showed greater activity in brain areas implicated specifically in language encoding," an area involved in decoding abstract information.
During these same exercises, boys' brain activity depended upon the way in which a word was presented. For instance, if a word was expressed verbally, the auditory portion of the brain was activated; if a written word was presented for review, the boys' visually active brain areas showed activity.
Brain science and gender are highly tentative, of course, so I'm not raising these findings to say women or men are necessarily hardwired to be better or worse than each other at anything.
I'm raising them so girls and women who are interested in the male-dominated field of computer science know about this demonstrated female ability to manipulate and decode abstract information, such as a language. That knowledge might help them feel just as capable of mastering COBOL or C++ as Spanish or French.
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But do girls and women really need this kind of cheering? Katie Hafner's April 2 article in The New York Times, "Giving Women the Access Code," suggests they do. She reports that female computer science college graduates have fallen to 22 percent this past year, from 37 percent in 1985.
Women are still scarce overall in the higher-paying jobs in the STEM fields–science, technology, engineering and math.
Explanations for this disparity–even as women have wholeheartedly embraced the resulting technology in the form of MP3 players, cell phones, smartphones and laptop computers–have to do predominantly with the continuing strength of subconscious gender bias.
In a collaborative series with PBS and Scientific American, journalist Jenny Marder explored the findings of studies by Madeline Heilman, who researches psychology and gender. Those findings underscore the continuing strength of gender stereotypes to deter women with demonstrated mastery of scientific subject matter from choosing college majors and future careers related to those academic strengths.
Our unspoken and disproven gender stereotypes that men are the more rational and logical creatures best suited for computer science stay with every female freshman who enrolls in elementary education despite straight As in advanced-placement high school science classes, Marder concludes.
Women are over-represented in the study of languages, including ancient languages, some of which are now unspoken.
Studies of those who communicate via American Sign Language have found that language is language whatever its mode of expression. So the only reason for women to be steering clear of coding is the likelihood that many, at some point along the way, internalize stereotypes about technology being the domain of men.
Perhaps if coding or computer programming were included under the foreign languages section of college courses, more young women would enroll and wind up pursuing careers in technology.
Lindsey Harper Mac is a professional writer living in the Indianapolis area. She specializes in writing guest posts on social media and education on behalf of Colorado Technical University. She's currently completing her master's degree.
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The Story of the Teeth
I was born with comically bad teeth. I have only one wisdom tooth – welded firmly to my jaw – and had multiple permanent teeth for some of my milk teeth, and none for others. (I still have two milk teeth.) That I don't look like a caricature of a Blackadder-ish wisewoman is down entirely to my parents' swift removal of me to a brilliant orthodontist who – with the aid of braces, plates, and two operations – gave me a decent set of teeth.
I spent rather a lot of my childhood and adolescence in pain, as my teeth and jaw were cajoled and wired into place. (I must add, though, that my parents provided me with an endless supply of sympathy, and soft, delicious things to eat, as well as plenty to read.) It was partly for this reason that I never understood the outrage that greeted the news of Martin Amis's decision to spend around £20,000 in fixing his teeth, ending decades of persistent toothache.
Of course, much of the anger about this amount was linked to his lucrative move, in 1995, from the late Pat Kavanagh, the literary agent who helped him to build his career, to Andrew Wylie, causing an acrimonious rift with Julian Barnes, Kavanagh's husband. Indeed, AS Byatt later apologised to him for having criticised both his dental work and his acceptance of an extraordinarily high advance negotiated by Wylie, explaining that she had had toothache at the time.
In his memoir, Experience (2000), Amis writes evocatively of the hell of toothache: that it seems to be the only manifestation of dull pain which can't be blocked out or ignored. It demands attention. (Apparently James Joyce and Vladimir Nabokov were fellow martyrs to tooth pain. There is, clearly, a link between toothache and stylistic experimentation.)
It's no wonder that modern dentistry is usually cited as one of the best reasons against time travel. The dentist Horace Wells (1815-1848) originated the use of nitrous oxide (laughing gas) as an anaesthetic during dental surgery. Wells died – partly as a result of an addiction of chloroform, ironically – before nitrous oxide became the anaesthetic of choice, rather than ether for example, among dentists. In South Africa, I've found evidence to suggest that it was possible to have teeth extracted under anaesthetic from around the 1880s – although it's likely that this was available to wealthier patients before then.
In fact, the state of one's teeth has been a potent indicator of class difference since at least the nineteenth century. Access to dentists and technology – powders, pastes – to prevent tooth decay meant that the middle and upper classes had better teeth than those who were poor, whose diets tended to feature substantial amounts of tooth-eroding sugar, and whose visits to dentists – who had usually had little or no training – were done only in case of dire emergency.
In the pub conversation described in TS Eliot's The Waste Land (1922), the speaker refers to a friend, Lil, who worries that her recently demobbed husband will leave her, partly because she had aged so much during the recent Great War:
Now Albert's coming back, make yourself a bit smart.
He'll want to know what you done with that money he gave you
To get yourself some teeth. He did, I was there.
You have them all out, Lil, and get a nice set
As false teeth became cheaper and more widely available, it seemed to make better sense to have all one's teeth out at once, rather than suffer a lifetime's worth of dental pain.
We attach a wide range of meanings to teeth: from the elongated incisors of vampires, to the whiter-than-white rictus grins of celebrities. My friend Shahpar in Dhaka points out that in south Asia, some Muslims associate oral hygiene using the bark of the miswak tree with holiness, as they believe that the Prophet used the bark to clean his teeth. More generally, people in the region place an exceptionally high value on having a healthy, full mouth of teeth – reflected in some truly appalling jokes.
I've been reading about anxieties about oral hygiene and dentistry recently, hence this interest in shifting cultural and social constructions of teeth. During the early decades of the twentieth century, global anxieties about infant mortality and childhood health, resulted in a heightened concern about the care of children's teeth. This was part of an infant welfare movement which had emerged all over the world at the end of the nineteenth century, in response to unease about high rates of infant mortality (usually as a result of diarrhoea), the apparently failing health of urban working-class men, and eugenicist anxieties about maintaining white control over political, social, and economic power.
Although child welfare campaigners during the nineteenth century drew parents' attention to the need to instil in their children good habits of dental hygiene, the discourse around the state of children's teeth during the early twentieth century differed. To be fair, rotting teeth and gum disease are the cause of a range of health problems, and it makes sense to direct public health policy towards making dental services freely available.
But particularly during the 1920s and 1930s, preventing poor oral hygiene and tooth decay began to take on moral overtones. Doctors and child welfare activists increasingly understood bad oral health as a signifier of chaotic, 'unscientific' upbringings – which, they believed, tended to occur in working-class families. Writing about Major General Sir Frederick Barton Maurice's influential 1903 study of the large numbers of volunteers who were deemed to be physically unfit to fight in the South African War (1899-1902), Anna Davin explains:
If, as it seemed, these puny young men were typical of their class ('the class which necessarily supplies the ranks of our army'), the problem was to discover why [they suffered from so many physical ailments], and to change things. Proceeding to speculate on possible explanations, [Maurice] accounted for the prevalence of bad teeth among recruits by unsuitable food in childhood ('the universal testimony that I have heard is that the parents give the children even in infancy the food from off their own plates'), and decided at once that 'the great original cause' (of bad teeth at this point, but subsequently, and with as little evidence, of all the ill-health) was 'ignorance on the part of the mothers of the necessary conditions for the bringing up of healthy children'.
This was one of several essays and articles which argued that poor nutrition in childhood – most notably feeding babies food meant for adults – caused 'bad teeth' and, thus, compromised health in adulthood. The best means of remedying this situation was to encourage mothers (and in the minds of doctors, welfare campaigners, and policy makers, these mothers were inevitably working-class) to adhere to 'scientific principles' in raising their children, chief of which was providing babies and young children with a diet calibrated precisely to their needs. These principles and diets were formulated by health professionals – medical men – and they, as well as nurses, health visitors, and others, encouraged mothers to abandon 'superstitious' and 'ignorant' childrearing practice in favour of properly 'scientific' guidelines.
Those doctors and campaigners influenced by eugenics argued, though, that children's moral character depended on good dental hygiene. (Susanne Klausen explains what we mean by 'eugenics': 'in its broadest definition…eugenics was concerned with improving the qualities of the human race either through controlling reproduction or by changing the environment or both.') In The Story of the Teeth, and How to Save Them (1935), Dr Truby King, the extraordinarily influential founder of the global mothercraft movement, argued that the health and strength of babies' and children's teeth depended, firstly, on the health of the pregnant and lactating mother, and, secondly, on proper nutrition.
Breastfeeding – not on demand, but at regular intervals depending on the age of the baby – was, he believed, the foundation for the development of strong teeth and jaws. The introduction of nutritious food once the baby was six months old should, he wrote, encourage the child to chew, thus stimulating the nerves and blood vessels in the face, causing the milk and permanent teeth to emerge quickly and cleanly.
King had dire warnings to those parents – particularly mothers – who, he suggested, 'gave in' to the demands of their babies and children:
Decay of the teeth is not a mere chance unfortunate disability of the day – it is the most urgent and gravest of all diseases of our time – a more serious national scourge than Cancer or Consumption….
Why? Because oral hygiene and healthy teeth ensured that the citizens of the future would be morally good, productive, conscientious individuals:
'Building the Teeth' and 'Forming a Character' are parts of construction of the same edifice – standing in the relationship of the underground foundations of a building to the superstructure.
Our dentists tell us that nowadays when they insist on the eating of crusts and other hard food [necessary for encouraging the child to chew and, thus, in King's view, develop its jaw], the mother often says 'Our children simply won't!' Such children merely exemplify the ineptitude of their parents – parents too sentimental, weakly emotional, careless, or indifferent to train their children properly. The 'can't-be-so-cruel' mother who cries half the night and frets all day on account of the mother's failure to fulfil one of the first of maternal duties, should not blame Providence or Heredity because her progeny has turned out a 'simply-won't' in infancy, and will become a selfish 'simply-can't' in later childhood and adolescence. Power to obey the 'Ten Commandments,' or to conform to the temporal laws and usages of Society is not to be expected of 'SPOILED' babies when they reach adult life. …
Unselfishness and altruism are not the natural outcome of habitual self-indulgence. Damaged health and the absence of discipline and control in early life are the natural foundations of failure later on – failure through the lack of control which underlies all weakness of character, vice, and criminality.
Good teeth meant good citizens. Bizarre as this thinking may have been, it did – often – have positive outcomes. For instance, similar views held among South African doctors and child welfare campaigners were behind the establishment of a network of dental clinics for poor children – albeit mainly white children – during the 1920s and 1930s. Children whose parents could not afford private dental care, could attend these clinics gratis.
One of the most striking characteristics of eugenicist thinking was its tendency to blame mothers' ignorance, stupidity, or credulousness for the poor health of their babies and children, ignoring the environmental factors – the contexts – in which they raised their offspring. King's implication was that mothers were ultimately responsible for the 'vice and criminality' of society: if they, he wrote, had simply disciplined their children, feeding them properly and ignoring their demands, then all adults would be productive, self-controlled citizens.
Although King's reasoning is demonstrably bonkers, this tendency to blame (single) mothers for children's anti-social behaviour persists, particularly within right-wing political and media circles. This is a strategy which absolves the state and other institutions of any responsibility for ensuring that children are adequately care for.
The study of attitudes towards teeth and dentistry reveals a range of beliefs about parenting, childhood, and, nutrition. It seems, then, that we are not only what we eat, but we are also how we eat.
Sources cited here:
Anna Davin, 'Imperialism and Motherhood,' History Workshop, no. 5 (Spring 1978), pp. 9-65.
Susanne Klausen, '"For the Sake of the Race": Eugenic Discourses of Feeblemindedness and Motherhood in the South African Medical Record, 1903-1926,' Journal of Southern African Studies, vol. 23, no. 1 (March 1997), pp. 27-50.
Antora Mahmud Khan and Syed Masud Ahmed, '"Why do I have to Clean Teeth Regularly?" Perceptions and State of Oral and Dental Health in a Low-income Rural Community in Bangladesh' (Dhaka: BRAC, 2011).
Truby King, The Story of the Teeth and How to Save Them (Auckland: Whitcombe & Tombes, 1935).
Further Reading:
Naomi Murakawa, 'Toothless: The Methamphetamine "Epidemic," "Meth Mouth," and the Racial Construction of Drug Scares,' Du Bois Review, vol. 8, no. 1 (2011), pp. 219-228.
Alyssa Picard, Making the American Mouth: Dentists and Public Health in the Twentieth Century. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. 2009).
David Sonstrom, 'Teeth in Victorian Art,' Victorian Literature and Culture, vol. 29, no. 2 (2001), pp. 351-382.
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Personal Memories Of Tom Carnegie
We all knew this was coming, probably sooner than later. Yet, when I learned Friday that Tom Carnegie had passed away – it was much more of a shock to my system than I thought it would be. I was probably one of the last to find out about it. I was on a five-minute break during one of those all-day Friday meetings at work. I went into my office, checked my e-mail and read the news. Without time to do anything other than e-mail the news to both of my brothers, I returned to the meeting about budgets and procedures.
I found myself more upset than I thought I would be. When someone passes away at the age of 91, you generally smile and say something trite like "…well, he had a full life". Instead, I felt like I had lost a member of my family. I saw on Twitter where Curt Cavin said that "…even though Tom Carnegie was great on the PA, he was an even nicer man. He treated me like a grandson". Well said.
Last year, I wrote a post on Tom Carnegie. I wanted to write something about him while he was alive, and it wouldn't be so much a tribute or an obituary. I went back and read it over the weekend and I still marvel at all of the historic moments that his eyes witnessed. He saw both incarnations of the Novi, the front-drive as well as the Novi of the early sixties. He called races that invoked the regal names of Mauri Rose, Ralph Hepburn, Rex Mays, Bill Vukovich and Pat O' Connor. He was there when AJ Foyt was a rookie in 1958. He was also holding the microphone when Foyt tearfully announced his retirement in 1993.
Tom Carnegie was the one that informed the crowd of the deaths of Eddie Sachs and Dave MacDonald. He was there at my first Indianapolis 500, calling the race that saw the first rear-engine car take the checkered flag with Jim Clark behind the wheel. Of the ninety-four Indianapolis 500's that have taken place, Tom Carnegie was behind the microphone for all but thirty-three of them – which includes the past four races.
Many eloquent tributes have been written in the past few days. Many have told his story and given point-by-point accounts of his life. I'm not going to rehash what others have said. What's the point? I couldn't do it as well as they have and if I could, it would be repetitious anyway.
Instead, I'll share the memory of Tom Carnegie that is most special to me. The year was 1992. I had been to the Indianapolis 500 seven times as a kid. From 1965 through 1972, I went with my family to qualifying and race day almost every year (except 1966, when my father took my uncle and grandfather). I grew up in pretty much a "Leave It To Beaver" household. Today, I almost find myself apologizing for the fact that I had a very happy childhood – because I've found that so many people didn't. A big part of those childhood memories revolved around the Indianapolis 500.
After a twenty-year absence, I returned to the Speedway in 1992. When my (then) wife and I parked in the infield on race day and got out of the car – it was freezing. It was a cold, damp morning. Even the usual infield crowd was subdued. They were more concerned with staying warm, than having the usual 8:00 am cocktail. As we stood there shivering, wondering whether we should head for our seats or get back in the warm car – suddenly this booming voice came over the PA system. As Tom Carnegie welcomed us on behalf of the Hulman-George family, a swirl of childhood memories overcame me. I felt like it was 1967 again and I was eight years old.
At once, my chill went away. Much to my wife's dismay, I couldn't get to our seats fast enough. We weren't prepared for the cold. I was lucky to have packed a pair of jeans, much less a heavy coat. Unless you were there, it's hard to convey just how cold it was that day. But we sat in our seats in the Tower Terrace, just south of the starting line, the entire morning. We watched the cars moved to their individual pits and then to the starting grid. With my wife being bored to death and relentlessly reminding me how cold she was, we watched all the drivers and car owners parade in front of us. I was in heaven while I was taking it all in. But what amazed me was how every time Tom Carnegie's voice echoed through the speakers, telling us whatever was going on, it seemed like I had never been away from that place.
When he retired after the 2006 race, it wasn't quite the same. I think Dave Calabro does a great job, especially considering the shoes he is filling. There is really no one who could have done a better job – except for Tom Carnegie. But Dave was a good friend of Tom Carnegie and was always gracious enough to share the mic with Mr. Carnegie, whenever he was around and willing to share a few words.
I saw Tom Carnegie race day morning last year. He was in his wheel chair looking rather frail, but was always smiling as he was surrounded by a throng of well-wishers. But when they put him on the microphone to say a few words, the voice was as strong as ever. It was eighteen years since that frigid day in 1992, yet it still brought back those memories – and the memories of when I was a little boy being captivated by what I was seeing and hearing.
Now those melodic vocal chords have been silenced forever. It saddens me that I won't hear that majestic voice this May, or ever again. We've all lost a major link to the historic past and our own personal past. We all knew this was coming, but it still stings nonetheless. He will be missed.
George Phillips
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I do not think anyone could add anything to that post George….
Beautifully written, George. You described my weekend perfectly.
Very nice, George. In the true spirit of Tom Carnegie, you said what needed to be said with grace and polish.
A very well done piece George. Thanks for sharing your memories of Tom Carnegie
I was at the race when Eddie Sachs and Dave MacDonals died. We were parked in the infield next to the backstretch fence. Huge clouds of black smoke arose from the grandstand area and the crowd everywhere on the track became very quiet. Later Tom Carnegie confirmed what we all feared and announced to the crowd what had happened as only he could . The entire crowd fell silent. Some fans immediately began to leave.
Like you, I returned to the 500 in 1992 after a long absence. My daughter and I were guests of my uncle Charlie Campbell who had attended 33 races in a row at that point. The night before it rained so hard that there was enough water flowing down my uncle's Broadripple street for me to float a canoe on. The rain washed the rubber off the track and the next moring was very cold. Many fans from perhaps warmer places were unprepared for the cold and were shivering. Then, exactly as you remember, Tom Carnigie came on the loudspeaker and welcomed the crowd. Soon, everyone's adrenalin began flowing and we ignored the cold weather.
Later, Roberto Guerraro the pole sitter spun out of the race on the pace lap while trying to warm up his tires. I don't recall what Tom reported about that. Perhaps you do.
This is a beautiful piece, George. Great job.
I've been going to the 500 since the early 1980's. We were up there pretty early on Saturday in 1992. It was a very warm day, probably in the 80's. About 8:00 as I recall the cold front began moving though and within an hour it was in the 40's. We had to buy sweat shirts from the vendors just to stay warm. We were at the Coke Lot that year and it was a very cold night and next morning. Very heavy overcast. Watching the Pole sitter wreck on the pace lap was something I won't soon forget. We were in the stands along the back straight that are gone now but we could see the wreck. The day was salvaged by the close contest between Al Unser JR. and Scott Goodyear at the end of the race.
This was also the days before the jumbotrons (or whatever the current name is for the big screens TVs in the infield) were installed. Tom Carnegie did some of his finest work keeping you informed of the events going on in areas away from where you were sitting. In some ways it was better than watching the jumbotron.
GEORGE that was the best piece on TOM CARNEGIE ive seen. 1960 was my first 500 an 2011 will be my 51st , i cant beleve i wont here that great voice!
thanks for your blog
George, I hope to meet you this May. Well said. Soon, and it is coming, life as we knew it Pre-1960 with all the stars of Indy, is coming to an end. Tom probably was the most important "non driver" to ever be associated with the "500", other than Mr. Hulman and very close behind, Jim Nabors. Our heroes are slowly fading away, let's hope this new breed is as good a caretakers as its' predecessors.
George, your tribute is a most fine one
You're that good at writing on Indy, George. Damn good. Don't mind if you don't get paid, what matters is that we read it.
I've been in a funk about this for almost a week. It's hard to believe we won't be hearing Tom on the PA. It didn't matter what kind of week I had had, or what else might be going on, when I got to the track early, as we die-hards always have and always will, hearing Tom say "GOOoooood MMMMorning RRRRace Fansssss…..and welcome….." all was right with the world. I haven't missed a Race Day, or qualifying day for that matter, since 1978, and Dave, Jerry and the others do a fine job, but I'll miss Tom badly.
I wish someone could invent a time machine so we could all take our kids back to a first weekend of time trials and experience it the old-fashioned way with Tom Carnegie, Jim Phillippe and John Totten. Those were the days.
In reply to an earlier post, I would include Donald Davidson among the most important non-drivers at the Speedway as well.


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Two different sides of the story.
Indeed, the long run of 'Hanggang Saan' can be divided into two parts. One part featured a series that struggled right out of the gate, and the other part featured a series that became a winner in the viewers' book.
'Hanggang Saan' first aired on November 27, 2017 amid a slump in Kapamilya Gold's fortunes. When it began its run, rival GMA series 'Haplos' was still ruling its timeslot, and it also helped that its success was bolstered by its lead-in shows 'Ika-6 na Utos' and 'Impostora'.
The fact that ABS-CBN received some criticism for overemphasizing 'kabitseryes' in the afternoon weighed heavily on 'Hanggang Saan'. At the time, it seemed like the series was on the verge of immediate cancellation with the way it performed from the start.
But when 'Haplos' was replaced by 'Hindi Ko Kayang Iwan Ka', 'Hanggang Saan"s fortunes soon turned for the better. After scoring an average of only 12% in the ratings to 'Haplos" 14%, 'Hanggang Saan' raised its mark to 14% whereas 'Hindi Ko Kayang Iwan Ka' fell to 10%.
In a similar manner as 'Haplos', 'Hanggang Saan' benefited from the success of 'Asintado', which replaced 'Ika-6 na Utos' as the Philippines' top-rating afternoon series by late March. That, of course, helped save the series from the guillotine and assured that 'Hanggang Saan' would end on its own terms.
Overall, 'Hanggang Saan' will have a total of 108 episodes once it reaches its finale this Friday. While it didn't come close to reaching the heights of Sylvia Sanchez's previous series 'The Greatest Love', 'Hanggang Saan' still enjoyed a respectable performance on its own right.
That said, 'Hanggang Saan"s successful run only added to Sylvia's growing legend as a top-billing actress in her 50s. It may be a case of late blooming, but it was still good to see a career supporting actress turn into a bankable star at this point in her career.
The series also provided a boost to the careers of emerging stars Arjo Atayde (Sylvia's real-life son) and Sue Ramirez. Both should be primed for greater roles in future projects.
On Friday afternoon, 'Hanggang Saan' will air its last episode. Notwithstanding the slow start, the most important thing here is the finish, and that is how this series will be remembered for it.


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Trump pushes public works agenda, health care on Ohio visit
CINCINNATI — President Donald Trump is using the Ohio River as the backdrop for a speech about upgrading roads, bridges and waterways, but before talking about overhauling aging infrastructure, he urged the Senate to follow the House and vote on a bill to overhaul the health care system.
"Now it's the Senate's turn to act," Trump said after meeting aboard Air Force One with a pair of families the White House described as "victims" of the Obama-era health care law that the president and congressional Republicans want to repeal and replace.
Trump said the families — one from Ohio and one from Kentucky — are going through "turmoil" along with millions of other consumers faced with rising premiums and limited choice for health coverage under the law.
"Obamacare is in a total death spiral and the problems will only get worse if Congress fails to act," Trump said.
As the White House tries to shift the focus back to Trump's legislative agenda, the president traveled to the Rivertowne Marina in Cincinnati to argue his case for efforts to repair aging levees, dams, locks and ports, as well as his larger public works aims.
"The American people deserve the best infrastructure in the world," he was expected to say, according to speech excerpts released by the White House.
The White House has yet to detail specifics of the plan, which it hopes to achieve largely through public-private partnerships. It has proposed funding the improvements with $200 billion in tax breaks over nine years that would — in theory — leverage $1 trillion worth of construction.
The speech came a day before former FBI Director James Comey's testimony to Congress Thursday and as the White House faces new allegations about possible efforts by the president to influence the investigation into potential ties between his campaign and Russia. Trump has denied the allegations and called the Russia story "fake news."
Trump, in a tweet early Wednesday, announced his pick for FBI director — Christopher Wray, a former Justice Department official who served as New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's personal lawyer during the George Washington Bridge lane-closing investigation.
U.S. inland waterways are critical routes for transporting agricultural products, but officials say they've grown old and run down.
The White House has billed this week as "infrastructure week" and planned a series of events, beginning with a push by the president Monday to privatize the nation's air traffic control system and separate it from the Federal Aviation Administration.
The president planned to host governors and mayors at the White House on Thursday to discuss the use of tax dollars for infrastructure projects.
While infrastructure was initially seen as an area where Republican and Democrats could work together, Democrats have balked at Trump's plans for financing improvements, arguing they would result in taxpayer-funded corporate profits, with costs offloaded on consumers.
Mike Toohey, president of the Waterways Council Inc, an inland waterways infrastructure advocacy group, said he was pleased to see the president addressing what he called the "silent r" of the transportation system — rivers. Far more attention is usually paid to roadways, railways and runways, he said.
Still, he said the industry is concerned about Trump's recent budget proposal, which he said could result in higher costs for the commercial users that finance the waterways' upkeep.
As a candidate, Trump had promised to invest big money in Cincinnati's infrastructure, including Interstate 71 and the overcrowded Brent Spence Bridge.
During a campaign stop in Wilmington Ohio last year, Trump said he would redirect billions of dollars in payments to the United Nations to combat climate change and "use that money to invest in America," including replacing the double-decker bridge.


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Betting the farm on illegal immigration (as Calbuzz predicted), Steve Poizner on Thursday launched a new TV spot, featuring GOP rock star Congressman Tom McClintock (as Calbuzz suggested) explicitly appealing to Republicans to reject Meg Whitman.
"This time our choice for governor matters," McClintock says directly to the camera. "And it comes down to this: Steve Poizner supported Arizona's law to stop illegal immigration; Meg Whitman cut and ran.
"This time, let's have a governor from the Republican wing of the Republican Party – Steve Poizner."
Up until now neither candidate has put money into television ads appealing directly to partisans, but Poizner, who is running behind in every public poll, now is seeking to rally the GOP base with an explicit partisan pitch. (Poizner, for example, has until now appealed to conservatives and occasionally referenced "Republican" on the screen, but this ad takes partisanship to a new level.)
Does it mean he's desperate to rally his base or is he within striking range and needs to peel away a few more conservative Republicans? Or both?
Clip and take to the polls: Kudos to California Choices.org for coming up with a nifty comprehensive grid that shows who's for and against what ballot measures in the June primary.
The ultimate non-partisan goo-goos, the group has collected and collated the initiative endorsement picks of more than 40 newspapers, non-profits, unions and other political groups. California Choices is an academic collaboration focused on political reform in the state which includes Cal's Institute of Governmental Studies, Stanford's Bill Lane Center, Sac State's Center for California Studies and Next 10, a non-profit funded by venture capitalist F. Noel Perry.
For fans of the cui bono school of political analysis, or those who are just too bored or lazy to read the voter handbook, the endorsement guide provides a useful means for preparing your own ballot cheat sheet, simply by aligning yourself with the groups that most reflect your views.
Example: the guide shows clearly that Prop. 16, the zillion dollar initiative financed by the greedheads at PG&E, which is aimed at killing in the crib any new attempts to approve public power in the state, is opposed by all right thinking people everywhere; virtually everyone on the list except –- surprise, surprise — the state Chamber of Commerce, the Republican party, the conservative California Taxpayers Association and the corporate-dominated Bay Area Council (we're not sure how the L.A. Daily News, none of whose readers are served by PG&E, got in there) — is agin it.
And Prop. 14, the open primary initiative, which has set off a furious, dithering debate among members of the High-Powered Calbuzz Executive Board of Senior Executives and Maintenance Engineers, is backed by almost every newspaper editorial board in the state — but opposed by every political party and union on the list.
We figure that anything the Republicans and Democrats agree is terrible might be really good, although the determinative signifier for us, as usual, is the AARP, which casts an "aye" vote on Prop. 14.
Life in imitation of art: Not since the Great Tiger Woods Mistress Count have we wasted as much time cruising the internets as we've frittered away in recent days following every twist and turn of South Carolina's Nikki Haley (maybe-maybe-not) Sex Scandal.
In the wake of the infamous Argentina-Appalachian Trail dalliance of Mark Sanford, Will Folks, a political blogger and former aide to the Palmetto State governor, has offered up a bizarre confession in which he admits to a purported affair with Haley, a state representative who's the Palin-Tea Party favorite to succeed the Luv Guv.
Folks, who's been backing Haley in the governor's race, on Monday put up a post on his FITSNews.com blog ("Unfair. Imbalanced.") that he'd had "an inappropriate physical relationship" with state Rep. Haley, saying that he was doing so only because he'd been "pressured and threatened" by unnamed political consultants and reporters, and he's too chivalrous to say more:
I will not be discussing the details of that relationship, nor will I be granting any additional interviews about it to members of the media beyond what I have already been compelled to confirm.
Well, not exactly.
After Haley immediately and categorically denied the allegation, FITSNews.com started dribbling out a non-stop series of archived text messages, cell phone records and hints of "compromising" photos in an effort to stand up his claim; to date, his documentation has gone right up the edge of confirmation but not quite made it.
As the muggy Body Heat mystery of this incestuous redneck political drama deepens, there are a few things that have become clear:
1-There's something really weird in the water in South Carolina.
2-Haley is what you call your Rather Striking Woman, while Folks looks like an oaf, not your most common recipe for sultry romance.
3-The non-stop posts that FITSNews keeps putting up have seriously spiked his traffic.
In light of this, Calbuzz is now duty-bound to inform our readers that Dr. P.J. Hackenflack, our staff psychiatrist, recently confessed, in the course of an emotional and tearful meeting with our stockholders, that he for some time has carried on "illicit, horny-toad relations" with at least one prominent candidate for an important statewide office in California.
Unfortunately, we can't tell you more. But keep checking back (and click on the ads!) anyway, just in case we do.
Read of the week: E.J. Dionne on how red state anti-government warriors learned to stop worrying and love socialism.


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Earlier this week I posted some photos of the pre-occupation march and initial occupation at Cesar Chavez Plaza. On Wednesday I returned in between classes for a few minutes and then again in the evening for a few hours. It turned out to be a pretty big night for the occupation.
After the initial confrontation on Saturday, the occupation has been constantly in flux, shifting from plaza to sidewalk. The plaza closes at 6.00 in the evening, and around 5 or 5.30 occupiers pick up and move everything. Cars pull over to load up countless coolers of water and boxes of chips and bread, the first aid station is packed up, everything is taken off site. Protesters remain, but they remain within four feet of the road, on the periphery of the plaza – and they can't sleep.
In a show of support, several businesses have tried to lend a hand. The Five Guys around the corner has offered its restrooms to occupiers, and those who can patronize there to return the favor. After Wednesday night's General Assembly a large group walked there to buy dinner, and there was even a proposal to buy cleaning supplies and send crews to clean the bathroom for them as a sign of thanks. A cafe called Conspire has been a hub since the beginning, gathering food there even before the occupation began. On Wednesday there were rumors of the cafe extending its hours to allow occupiers to use the internet and get some rest.
On Wednesday, as it got closer to closing time, we began to pack things up. As we loaded water into a truck there was a sudden call for a time-sensitive GA. The police had decided to stop enforcing the plaza closure. It's hard to say whether it was pressure of the City Manager (who had been somewhat shamed at a city council meeting earlier that morning when occupiers stated that he could have prevented the mass arrests Saturday night by giving an earlier warning) or from police department worries about putting sleep-deprived people on the edge of the road in the middle of the night, but either way they made their decision. We discussed the caveats as a group – sleeping would still be prohibited and no-camping rules were still in effect, and we were trying to figure out where that line fell.
That night, someone brought a kettle of warm pasta, which was a well-received change from the peanut butter sandwiches and chips that we had been eating. More and more people flowed in as we prepared for the general assembly. The number of occupiers has big spikes and lulls, like I'm sure many occupations have. Compared to what I've heard from people in New York and Oakland, the occupation in Phoenix doesn't have the community feel just yet. It might be because there had been so much back-and-forth in the first few days. Last Saturday there was a market place and a library, but both seem to have been shelved during the move. Despite having lasted six days now, when I was in the plaza it felt temporary. During most of the day the plaza had one gazebo, a bench, a computer, and a collection of coolers – the rest was people and food. The authorities must be happy with this – it looks more like a birthday party at a park than a politically engaged and self-sustaining community, if not for the countless signs. But with the plaza opened indefinitely, I hope to see the occupation grow.
It seems that the authorities are already trying to stymie the growth. As the police presence dwindled on Wednesday, the sergeant on the scene discussed with a couple of us some of the finer points of what would be allowed and what wouldn't be. Right as he left, he told me that the media center – a desktop computer under a tree running the livestream – was borderline and might have to go.
This afternoon, the power to the plaza was cut, shutting down the media center and anything else the occupiers had plugged in. There are a handful of car batteries and two solar panel chargers, but the occupiers don't have enough to provide power to the whole plaza. In addition (and maybe only because the power is out) the city WiFi network usually available at the plaza is also gone. The occupiers are currently marching, and there is a campaign going to call the mayor to convince him to turn the power back on. Meanwhile, it seems that while the plaza may be open to the occupiers to stay in, they won't be able to sleep, camp, cook, record, connect, or organize. The city gives, but the city also takes away.


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2023 / 2024 Update : Cali's innovative work is included in upcoming documentaries and Cali Lili Indies is preparing Cali's next movie & album (TBA)
Movie Review 2022 Times Square Chronicles
Cali Lili 's Oscars 2020 Contender
eVe N'god this female is not yet rated
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Dear Ladies + Gentlemen,
We are SO PROUD to share
The HERstory of Our Oscars 2020 Contender:
In 2012 I set out to make a sustainable, green, upcycled, lgbtqia , interracial love story – an – all- female-crew motion picture —
with — an original, eclectic soundtrack —
much of it to be shot + recorded on a floating film set
and surrounding Venice Beach "hood" near my "AquaCultureZ™ WaterGarden™ feMt0™studi0"
The HERstory of the project is enclosed below and more exciting things are on the way
In the meantime, I'd like to add that this project was also a prayer for democracy and in contemplating , meditating about culture I publish some thoughts from time to time… Here's one of my offerings published by the "Cranky Yank" magazine in 2022 :
Upon graduating early with a Master's Degree from NYU, then entering the life of a "working actress" I learned most roles offered to girls + women (except a lucky few) were too often broadcasting degrading messages about us.
I tried to "adjust" a couple of the early roles – to balance ' the power in the frame.' Despite the content of any given dialogue or role, I worked to imbue the character with strength.
I was beginning to get offered somewhat lucrative roles, I was more than willing to work hard – "work my way up." The problem with that plan – is summarized by the "MeToo" movement, which is not just about inappropriate sexual innuendo, but psychological abuse leading to agony, resulting in self-doubt.
It's also an Economics problem, with roadblocks held in place by threads of racism, sexism , homophobia , climate-ignorance in a gate-keeping culture – when all I wanted was to excel in the profession to which I'd dedicated myself whole-heartedly.
I'd been warned about this environment by older actors ( not actresses ) but assumed times had changed so I walked blindly into an environment reminiscent of a bygone era that had never updated it's own "operating system."
There I was with all this 21st Century software but there was nothing to run it.
How does a professional, work their way up such a slippery ladder? Perhaps economic inequality is sourced in such pathologies?
Until #MeToo became a hashtag – I'll venture to guess that most women suffered under the weight of judgement by their families, friends and self-criticism about why they hadn't progressed further despite their talent and drive. The worst part, is not being supported by "sisters" of a sorority I feel could be so comforting – and even worse, navigating a hyper-competitive "pigeons-for-scraps" culture based in scarcity where ideas and intellectual property can be so easily appropriated by those with power, harvested from those without.
I'll venture to guess we all felt as though it was just happening to us alone. Similar to the "Occupancy Wall Street" awareness – when people realized that getting their degrees and working hard was not enough in an economy rigged for the 1 percent.
Even if I'd been willing to be willing on whatever levels of "consent" – I'd just come from surviving an abusive childhood – literally "rescued" by my passion for acting , dance, arts , learning – and my teachers who saw the talent, had invested their care in that little girl rushing through the streets of Manhattan – from dance class to acting class to anthropology and science classrooms.
They'd invested their own passion for education – in that little girl – me.
I couldn't let them down and I couldn't let down other little girls who might someday see a movie that I was in – and when she sees me in that movie, she sees herself and when she sees herself, I want her to feel strong, not helpless. I want "her" to feel proud of "HERstory."
After turning down three lucrative roles in a row, especially after bumping into one of the producers I'd turned down at a social event – noticing his "WHO are YOU to turn ME down glare " –
I sucked it up – GLARED BACK with a smile –
and THAT was the moment I learned :
WHO I AM ? Is a girl who won't get bullied – ever again.
Who I am – is a girl choosing integrity over expediency – no matter how ambitious I may be.
And I'm ambitious.
In that moment – I realized – the only way to hopefully "work my way up" – without dipping way down into the "MeToo" swamp I found myself wading through – was to make my own film and album – with an all female crew – so that I could speak to "the little girl in everyone"© – and – simply do what I do best : "pictures words music in motion ™" ©
I also understood that it wasn't "men" – it wasn't "directors" or "producers" — it was the Culture at large. Certainly I'd run into plenty of women who had internalized misogyny to enact upon sisters and there was plenty of it in every profession. I had to find a way to work in my chosen profession, to which I had already dedicated – so I chose – to literally "be the change I wished to see" as the saying goes.
Having studied anthropology along with intercultural, interdisciplinary performance modalities – I felt uniquely equipped to grapple with these new insights – even though, they'd prove beyond challenging to implement. I'd be needing some miracles and tons of hard work integrating the education + early work experience I'd earned – with the realities of making a movie and album. A tall order.
I had saved up babysitting, lemonade stand, acting gigs and yoga teacher earnings and these were "startup funds" which I partly used to create our first music video "ElectionTrain" made in urgent support for Obama. Then we began pre-pre-production on the feature motion picture :
"eVe N'god this female is not yet rated ™©
"Pictures Words Music In Motion™"
" I didn't want to make a film or album that I'd already seen before.
I was aware that most noted 'counter-culture' revolutions in media had previously involved an examination but also ultimate glorification of violence + what is sometimes described as 'toxic masculinity.'
The film prologue introduces my storytelling concepts which I've been referring to, as : "orgasmic" instead of "phallic." I'm positing that my liquid, fluid, music-based, "orgasmic" storytelling journey to tell the "love-is-love-triangle-story" of eVe, Lila + Doctor Goddard – can exist in harmony with the more normative "phallic" cinematic storytelling styles most cultures expect in a narrative movie. While other directors have experimented with dabbling in it – I feel my movie, while working within the constraints of a modest budget, fully explores this type of storytelling, not with outer special effects, but with inner ones.
The movie draws us "under" and "into" the deep end of the pool, the pond, the ocean as if vacillating between conscious + unconscious time-space dimensions but always flowing like water (orgasmic) instead of rocketing into space (phallic) as "eVe" describes from "inside the closet."
While I'm proud to say my film was made "like a girl" as that popular hashtag proudly proclaims – I'm almost tempted to ask the audience to consider my innovative storytelling "as if" this were directed by one of several guy filmmakers who've experimented this way, but with larger budgets but perhaps a bit less insight about the female nature of this "orgasmic" storytelling style which, in my work, seeks to flow poetic, liquid, music.
It is, in fact, I guarantee you, a different type of "orgasm."
As my movie does include a theme + dedication to victims of violence against the LGBTQ community, women, black individuals + communities, indigenous individuals + communities … and … AND : our oceans, our mother Earth, wildlife – especially Sea-Life (most feminine) – I did portray an act of violence, but I was cognizant of telling the story of the movie in a manner I described onscreen as 'orgasmic' existing alongside most storytelling which is often "phallic."
I posit that both 'orgasmic' + 'phallic' storytelling can ( and must ) exist inter-dependently in our Arts + Culture.
I found myself having to not only "shatter glass ceilings" + "break sound-barriers" – but I also had to "break" some storytelling / cinematic / music ' rules ' –
in order to tell my 'love-triangle' 'love-is-love – story' : AUTHENTICALLY.
This wasn't going to be structured like other movies – this "herstory" needed something from me + "she" is composed of the twin-Tao-yin-yang characters : "eVe" + "Lila." "She" wrote herself, directed herself.
SO – my "Declaration of IndiePenDance™ re – EVOL ution ™ femt0™studi0 " has evolved, organically – out of necessity – into a counter-culture womanifest0™ " ©
An all female, openly LGBTQIA crew in 2013 was VERY NEW (still rare) – if we were not 'the first' – we are definitely among the very first –
Eyes widened whenever I floated the idea. Also pushback – pushed back — on a variety of levels.Sigh.
Some men "mansplained" – my idea was discriminatory. Others proudly displayed their self-hatred through open sexism, racism, homophobia, climate-denying biases, which was – briefly surprising but eventually – worthless, because hate, though 'loud' – is such a drab, useless – one way ticket.
Recently, I became aware of a "mini-genre" to which my "eVe" belongs – and by that I mean – movies which explore the internalized concepts of various religious "eves" – in the context of secular, colloquial (not biblical) culture.
As my Master's degree incorporated both Anthropology+ Performance Arts – I tend to "study" culture – even while I'm creating it.
I've noticed + personally experienced – the regulations + limitations placed on HER-stories – the " 'slut-shaming" of "eVe" ' – which has : palpable, real-life consequence for most women, girls, feminine males + wildlife (especially Sea-Life , most feminine) — with it's victims buried deep in the roots of most cultures.
Shaming-eVe :
When looking "in the closet" of any given Culture – if we venture to explore past the climate-denial, past homophobia and racism – we'll find misogyny – hiding – way – WAY … at the back of that closet – where most of us, even women, are unaware of the insidious odor seeping deep :
" into the fabric – it's in the stitches"© as my protagonist eVe™ discovers.
Misogyny – suspicion – hatred of all things femme, wild , uncontrollable, the soft-strength, the innocence – the vulnerability …
… including Nature, feminine girls, masculine girls, feminine boys, water, fluid sexuality + gender, wildlife, Sea-Life, cetaceans … "all are snaking along … slithering in + out of the multi-verse like the proverbial snake swallowing her own tail "© … all included … on that spectrum …
All that "femme" – is feared by the toxic entity which has hounded Humanity for eons – I'll name it here : "that which believes it must control others or die." That toxin can be present in women too.
My "eVe" spends a good bit of the movie "trapped" indoors and she wisely uses some of that time – exploring the "closet."
eVe "speaks truth to power" when she discovers "in the closet" – that "Shame" is misogyny's "favorite weapon – the ultimate WMD? " ©
My team and I are SO PROUD to be considered for the 2020 nominations.
It's beyond ego, it's a form of healing.
Thank you.
For Your Consideration
I discussed my movie as ' archetypal fable' – in a 2019 Interview – before I ever saw the other "eve" reference movies —
The project was made partly in response to my own Me-Too experiences (and that of fellow female artists + craftspersons).
I believe it's impossible to fully comprehend what it's like to be female – or LGBTQ – in the context of cultural biases + expectations toward – "female essence " ("in all 6 billion gender expressions"© ) – without exploring the internalized cultural influences of – the "myth" of "eve" — and as I've posited in the film – equally important – Eve's twin – whom we call "Lila" representing "the myth of Lillith."
Furthermore, in understanding the 'female experience' – I truly believe that men, and ' male-identifying ' persons (some of whom, are biologically 'female') – will greatly benefit, resulting in the betterment of our blue-planet and 'every inter-dependent living being' ©
Those espousing hateful views towards people – or environmental conservancy – often cite economics + productivity as excuses for exclusionary actions. In fact, hate, exclusion + climate denial are completely – un-productive for society + for the planet.
It's pure economics if one needs that sort of excuse. Discriminatory, hateful, wasteful energy create nothing except toxins + problems .
We already have a surplus of those.
This planet needs solutions that heal our problems. More than ever I believe education + quality communication skills are the universal "solvent" whereby we can dissolve + detoxify global cultures from such maladies.
In fact, my " feMt0™studi0 AquaCultureZ™ "© which are " Authentic Artisanal Farm To Table Indie Movies , Music, Books ™ —
– surviving independently, indigenous + sustainable – like an endangered species ( along with all other endangered species wildlife, Sea-Life, and the working class / middle class in every economy ) – on gasps of oxygen –
in spite of the BigMoney$ in BigMedia$ – enacting a full on — GentrificationOfCulture™ by buying up / swallowing up – the arts, the media – human culture ©
we are hand-made – on sustainable half-a- shoestring budgets – I'm hoping that the Academy considers my written request to create a new category for this budget level –
hand-made by an artist – with a crew of fellow artists + craftspersons (not a corporation) positing this idea :
" LOVE is good for the economy – we are MakinALivinNotAKillin™ "©
Which Should be a relief for some economists arguing with haters + abusers of power!
In my movie – my lead female protagonist – 'eVe' – posits new ideas to the male protagonist – 'doctor Goddard / aka 'god.'
"eVe" speaks "truth to power" when she posits her thesis about a "fempowered™ fluid female economy based on water instead of Oil " © :
" oil – that's energy from death – but WATER is LIFE! waterways of the world wear LINGERIE not boxers! " ©
"eVe" continues her argument in this debate towards her PHD :
"doc, we REALLY need our goddesses back" © in order to create a "fair sex ecology, economy, a fair sex state! the STATE wants a goddess – NEEDS a goddess – " © ( Cali Lili Indies ™ "eVe N' god this female is not yet rated ™"©)
Runaway With A Scholarship ™"
Just after graduating at an impossibly early age, having been skipped several grades, earned scholarships to pay my own tuition- with a Master's Degree but no high school diploma – i stepped out into the "real world" only to discover that the "ISMs" I had believed to be "anachronISMs" – from history books – racism, sexism, homophobia , climate denial – the "male gaze" – the "white gaze " + other "gazes" – were still alive and finding their way back , insidiously, into our world consciousness, our current histories + HERstories.
The HERstory that we are living now – became a source of great worry to me. I had survived an abusive childhood + I know abuse when I see it.
Abuse of Power exhibited all the tell-tale signatures of Domestic Abuse, Child-Abuse — AND – Environmental Abuse — on a larger scale. The 'family' is 'humanity' and as my family of origin was never a safe place to be — I had already adopted "Humanity" as the family with whom I "belong."
As a person born of vastly varied, multi-cultural heritages – I could see early on – that "tribalism" was a way to keep walls between people. Which is why I was a "global citizen" before that became a hashtag.
'Born on the water,' I've always felt – my "true heritage" – is water.
The two debating characters in my movie – "eVe" and "Doctor Goddard – are never – in the same room.
They are separated by "walls" – through which they "debate" – but their ultimate "union" is a form of "healing" … a little miracle.
Large Part of the purpose for those Project – was my dedication to Sustainability + Green Practices.
My alarm at what's happening to our planet – especially to our waters, ocean life, wildlife – all of which endanger human life + civilization, led me to take my own tiny climate- actions very early on.
In high school – I had designed a "SurFShackLoft™feMt0™studi0™h20 " to be handbuilt very frugally – from biodegradable + upcycled materials.
Miraculously, this loft was built very economically – but equally important – was combining that Sustainability Ethos – with my aesthetics + methodologies developed from early background in dance+theater – to create my signature style along with SustainableFilmSets™.
SustainableFilmSets™ ArtisanalFarmToTableProductions™
Without a doubt, my feMt0™ studi0 is – the – Innovator/ Pioneer in SustainableFilmSets™ + "ArtisanalFarm-To-TableProductions™"© Sending out the "pearls" from my little "AquaCultureZ™ Direct to the audience from VenusBeach™ CuttingEdgeOfThePacific™
An added touch of sweetness came when i had asked my local farmers to donate lemons, avocados, kale and flowers, along with other produce – to the creation of our GardenOfeVe™ film set — and they were THRILLED to do so.
"ToyBoxTech ™ ©
As I planned for the movie, I realized that while I don't consider myself a "designer" – my script – born from story + music (the lyrics are written into my scripts) — but also from methodology + aesthetics, had already designed both sets + costumes.
I hadn't intended to do this. It just created itself.
We built an "indoor garden" that looked as though a proverbial metaphorical "eVe" embodied by a contemporary – "surfer-chick-student-burlesque-dancer eVe" – had left somewhere in a hurry + quickly planted her own indoor " victory garden" – out of survival.
This wasn't fully autobiographical but it metaphorically mirrored my childhood.
Hard as it was to convey – not wanting to sound grandiose – I just knew in the heart of that little girl who survived with the aid of her dedication toward the arts + teachers encouraging her talent – that little girl (me) – her eyes – were witnessing – what 'eVe' in my movie refers to – as 'an ancient grief' – her precious 'global family' – was falling victim to ancient abuse.
A 'silent scream' was often all that could be mustered by that little girl witnessing domestic violence at so young an age. That 'silent scream' sensation was returning but this time – 'she' – 'the little girl me' – was witnessing on a larger scale. Those who know about domestic abuse, know that the witnessing is even more destructive than most people know. Her childhood home was a place she had escaped – always imagining a beautiful world of possibility out here where ' the world is my living room' © ( from one of the songs on the soundtrack ). Now THAT world was experiencing the 'domestic abuse' too.
I'm still discovering the movie and songs even now, perhaps the Project can be described as : "A Not-So-Silent Scream ™"© A project born from worry – destined for determination and resolve to be "HandMadeToMakeADifference ™."©
"Odd Like Me"
eVe N' god this female is not yet rated ™ "
I'm in love.
With Movies –
and her sister – Music.
"Pictures Words Music in Motion ™"
In addition to a " Coming Out " this movie, this music is intended as a "Coming In From The Cold."
All through the making of this project, I found myself fighting to save my studio and home in Venice Beach from the severe gentrification and homelessness growing all around me.
It was a familiar fight – against an unjust encroachment from abuse of power. Many times I found myself staying up all night figuring out legal documents, in order to fight back against Trump-style developers – while during the day – working to keep the project going.
A familiar struggle, reminiscent of a childhood framed with terror but propelled by hope and love. A childhood and adult-hood experienced by many less fortunate than myself.
It can heal everything.
I learned that early in life.
It's odd, like me, earning a Masters' degree (NYU) with no high-school diploma, having been skipped several grades directly into University. Odd – like me. My fellow students in the Masters' program were already professors in other countries who had done all they could, to come to America, to study at NYU. I was a kid with no high school diploma – and they were grown-up professors. Odd, like me. I often think about them now, back in their countries and what they must think of America now.
Having survived an abusive childhood – I was dedicated to the arts and grateful for the "shelter" I could find in my deep love / passion for the arts and my teachers, who'd encouraged my work.
Dance was my first love – along with her twin – music. Then I discovered their sisters – theater and cinema. Along with the support of my teachers, these ladies "saved my life."
Alone with my dreams, walking the pavement of NYC streets, afraid to go home on the subway until
late at night, I learned my craft comforted by the shelter of dance classes with Broadway Pros, art house cinema screens, and haunting legacy of timeless masterpieces echoing from the halls of every Manhattan museum and library.
My teachers were angels + allies in my "dreams come true" and thanks to them, and to my love – I won scholarships, was skipped grades and offered a scholarship to NYU where I earned my Masters' Degree at a very young age.
One of my report cards described me as a "runaway imagination" and of course, I imagined my imagination running away and I myself became a "runaway with a scholarship."
I caught a wave + scraped together my "half a shoestring" budget, built my tiny "green" grassroots, up-cycled, recycled, mostly "off the grid" floating film + music Tiny SurfLoft On The Water in Venice Beach, hand-picked my team + went to work !
I had saved up lemonade-stand, babysitting, yoga teacher + acting gig earnings and my hand-built studio and methodologies as a matter of following a course I had set, upon navigating my way from graduating with a Master's Degree at an impossibly young age. There was a virtual drummer playing an indigenous soundtrack to my life and — I was listening and following the steps. The ocean was an important core for me and I had dedicated my artistry toward creating my own style of "AquaCulture."
I likened it to building a "an oyster-pearl-farm" and my projects would encourage audiences to "sip the oyster savour the pearls ."©
My projects are :
"HandMade 2 Make A Difference with ToyBoxTechnology ™ "
Riding the subways alone at too young an age, doing all I could not to go home – I found myself "living at" all my dance classes in private studios on additional dance scholarships, then "living at" the museums and libraries of NYC – kept me busy, along with part-time babysitting and other jobs to pay for anything scholarships didn't cover.
So … I just … – never had time – to explore / learn about my own sexuality.
By the time I did learn about it – I was married to my much older male partner, and then BOOM – one day – I FELL — in love with a girl.
It felt CRAZY –
But it was also – BEYOND GREAT !
The LOVE I had for dance, and the arts – had now come full circle into bloom.
I was blooming.
My amazing male partner – reflected this too. He said – you are more YOU now.
I had a lot of figuring out to do.
First — I had to figure out – WHY – did I feel as though I was SUPPOSED to be upset?
I DID agonize about –
feel GUILTY about it —
but I HAD to ask – WHY?
That's when it came to me – the title of one of the soundtrack songs + a work of art I released with the project :
"We Don't Fall in Love, We Rise ™"
Little did I know how many times I would repeat that to myself + others.
We had a lot of figuring out to do. Luckily – I was and am still – married to an amazing human being.
Well, of course – I was growing up – growing into Me.
Along with this personal growth, came my awareness of what was happening in the 21st Century world at large.
My personal anguish into ecstasy and my growing deep concerns for the future of Humanity / Mother Earth as an "Endangered Species" became so agonizing – that my only way to deal with anxieties about what I saw happening to this planet in the 21st Century while I was literally "blooming" personally – was to speak up and speak out – doing what I do best.
Suddenly I KNEW that there were people who were experiencing the same "awakenings" about their sexuality but who were living in repressive cultures – and I wanted to reach out to them – to hear THEIR stories – and tell them it would be ok – share my experiences with them – when I first began visualizing this project in 2010.
Although part of my anguish about the LGBTQ community was brought on by learning about the story of Brittany Cosby and Crystal Jackson who were "killed for kissing"© as well as that of Matthew Wayne Shepard – all of whom the movie is dedicated on-screen (dedicated to several communities) … — never did I imagine, of course, that we'd be experiencing all of this today – in 2019.
So many of my posts regarding this project were aimed at persons who lived in other ( more repressive ) cultures and dictatorships.
And here we are, ladies and gentlemen.
Here – we – are.
A " Coming Out " and a "Coming In From The Cold."
I hoped to release a "healing balm" for the "global family" – at the intersections of LGBTQIA communities and my growing concerns for inter-related social justice crises such as – reproductive rights / women's rights, violence against LGBTQ and female communities, Indigenous People's and Black Lives Matter and Climate Change / endangered species.
As intended – this movie, soundtrack and everything my feMt0™studi0 has been working on since inception in 2012 has already reached selected but passionate audiences from Los Angeles to Lagos, Uganda to Agra, Mali, to Manhattan —
My wish after graduating – was to create an international – inter-disciplinary – multi-gender – mixed orientation team – in order to reach domestic + global audiences, without the "Over-Lords" of corporate media, stifling the creativity my teachers had encouraged in me.
Much to my surprise – I got a bit of that wish with the limited releases of this project and my first Youtube music video "Election Train" leading up to the movie. I had taken some time from the creation of the movie – to make the music video in order to support Obama's re-election.
I am REALLY WISHING that with an acknowledgement from YOU — that this project can TRAVEL FARTHER – and reach MANY MORE people who might be comforted by it's message of acceptance and LOVE IS LOVE – along with being entertained by the work itself.
Creating high quality cinema and music – was of utmost importance along with the "message" of the story. Excellence and Craft is a must.
I was very much aware of 'composing' + 'designing' along with screenplay-writing, directing, acting, along with rapping-singing+producing – so there's definitely a '21st-Century-Girl-rapper-rock-band' – aesthetic at work here . The wardrobe was a "meditation on mens-wear"© + I had imagined it could be a clothing line someday! This was also based on an exploration of "the male gaze" + "the white gaze."
'Culture is Nutrition meets Environment …' ©
'We Consume it + sometimes unwittingly, like the air we breathe, we consume by OSMOSIS …'©
Lovers of Movies + Music as well as – Free-speech a Free-Press, Journalism + uh – Basic Freedoms of Democracy might do the Culture + the Planet ( ourselves ) a favor – if we simply support an authentic indie artisanal "maker" like myself and my team.
I'm not against big budget films – I often love them!
And – I'd like to find more opportunities to work in them as an actress – because the current system is one big roadblock.
I just need a bit of "oxygen" – support from my community + from the Culture – to do what I do at my Sustainable femt0 ™studi0 : " IndiGoGreen™ DreamBigTinyFootPrintZ™" we dream big + leave tiny footprints"©
Often , I liken my signature artisan-made process to "farm to table" + "Aquaculture."
There's a scene in Billy Wilder's movie "Sabrina" where Audrey Hepburn as Sabrina , having been to the Sorbonne – is able to cobble together a feast – from just a few eggs + crackers + milk … – THAT'S my aesthetics …
Yes I'm mixing metaphors when I say I'm allowing the "AquaCulturalZ™ Oyster-Pearls to "vine-ripen" + then when we release a project – I aim to "nourish" through "pictures words music in motion ™" encouraging Audiences to :
"sip the oysterZ savor the pearlZ ™ "©
Every day at my ocean studio – I send out RIPPLES on the water – wishing for love and peace in the world …
My most effective "Ripple" is this move, this album … –
I hope that your acknowledgement — will help this Ripple travel much farther than I can get it to go on my own …
It's funny how sometimes we have to do what GingerRogers described along the lines of "dancing Backwards In High Heels " – in order to move forward one step.
"She takes her baby steps,
BackWardsInHighHeels "©
" and though she be but little, she is fierce " – (Shakespeare )
this quote is invoked in one of my favorite true-life stories about the great " seabiscuit " –
a story warming my heart from the very beginning of this journey with my own movie – Tiny Budgets + tiny teams – uphill climbs – hopes + dreams –
' She KNOWS
she's the Dark Horse here –
but darkness
she doesn't fear
+ Oh she loves to run…
My genuine aim is to:
" nourish " through
" Pictures
Music In Motion " ™
Bon Apetit !
"We Don't Fall in Love,
We Rise ™ "©
Truli© Cali Lili
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© Cali Lili ;
My process is based on my methodologies in my book 'The Declaration Of IndiePenDance™' where I explore my film-making+music-making approach – I call it c.lili™ 's CynAesthetiX™ and it includes a variety of innovations in cinematic+music aesthetics.
As a young actress who's taken the time to respect the history / HERstory of my craft – from the craftspersons' perspective – I know that 'innovation' rests upon the past + is a bridge to the future.
With My Sisters – For My Sisters : in my recent writings and explorations about feminism — I am finding it crucial for us to find out – not so much why men hurt women – but instead, why some women – hurt women –
including the fact that often, we women, hurt ourselves, it's a vicious cycle – and by hurting our sisters, we are expressing our self hatred …
I explored this – but it was not until VERY recently that I fully understood the depth of how these incidents shape us from childhood, into our teenage years, school experiences and then –
importantly, as we enter the professional world and encounter the competitive forces from our sisters, which often lead women to do unspeakable things – things they write about and rail against as #feminists – but which they do to each other, sometimes unconsciously …
I completed my movie + album while continuing essays and posts about what I would come to call the "Gentrification of Culture ™ "© referring to the intellectual property theft and secret exclusionary behaviors in the most unlikely corners of Arts and Culture …
As we know, our work as feminists – and feminism can be fragile, as the world is often cruel to women who speak out, we often need each other — a form of Stockholm-Syndrome style bond out of necessity … so now the "famous feminists" can become the new bullies, having internalized the misogyny — perpetuating the predatory abuse of power — which is why I don't often avail myself of friendships that are based in "need" or which arise out of hardships like global misogyny …
But there is a bond among us sisters and I always hold a wishful hope that women / girls I encounter will understand the need for true friendship, genuine caring, listening to each other — behaving towards our sisters in ways we wish to be treated … Unfortunately though, I'm going to say it here, and elsewhere – we often miss that mark.
I'm sorry to have to say it, sorrier to have experienced it, but damnit – we need to do better with each other. "Mean Girl Culture Cool" is often invoked when women / girls are acting all "empowered" – but of course that's just stupid and self-defeating. We must do better.
Sisters – we really must. I offer the project below – which is the first in a trilogy on the subject. This project was a gift I made with my sisters, for my sisters all over the world. We might have been the first AllFemaleCrew as a production team – but we were certainly among the very first ever and I am certain we were a catalyst.
The Project is not easy to pigeonhole – and that's true to form. I never wanted to make a movie I've already seen anywhere else.
One could describe this movie as :
A meditation on 'male-gaze' – 'white-gaze' – 'mens-wear' + other 'ISMs'….
"A Not So Silent Scream " ©
I'm still discovering it myself.
I offer it up and hope it reaches both Sisters and Brothers too –
Together – we really must GirlTheWorld™ – this is why I made this project – I believe this is how "we shall over-come" our challenges – the ISMS – racism, sexism, homophobia and including climate denial.
I believe honoring the "Sacred Feminine" – the Female – the WomanKind on MotherEarth is the main component of Healing this BluePlanet – our WildLife our SeaLife and our Humanity " © Cali Lili all rights reserved
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