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I guess I should start by saying that it's been a while. Just over a year, actually. I also feel that I should once again apologize that "Ranking the Disney Canon" has still not been finished. It's due to a combination of putting my writing energy into my future career as a hopeful screenwriter/director and the busyness that comes with a senior year of college dedicating yourself to that career. I'm actually in the midst of plotting the return of the rankings, in a bigger way that you might expect. Though I don't have an update on that plan for you readers at this moment, I promise you'll be hearing more on that subject in the near future.
But the Rankings are not why we are here today. Or am I here, since I'm the one writing this piece. I'm writing on Disney and Beyond for the first time in a year because I've just been thinking. In retrospect, it's been a crazy year for me. I graduated college, first of all, which relates to most of the "crazy" that I mentioned in the very last sentence. I've had so many good and bad experiences, so many friendships solidified, so many ideas for my future, and so much fear about it too.
But more importantly, (Not actually more importantly) it's been a crazy Disney year for me. I got to meet Roger Rabbit, I promised Anastasia Tremaine seven castles (which I still haven't given to her), and I chatted with Rapunzel about Captain America's wardrobe choices. Come to think of it, I got to meet Captain America and Thor too, something that not too long ago was a faraway pipe dream. I've ridden rides for the last time and rides for the first time. I did Tom Sawyer's Island for the first time! I've gone to Disneyland more times than I can count, and honestly more times than I could ever imagine. I've had two more Disney World trips than I thought I would have. And this is all before getting into the Disney films, new and old, in theaters and on Blu-Ray, that I've seen and rediscovered and been inspired by. (I own The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad on Blu-Ray now. How nuts is that?)
But beyond the trips where I ride the same amazing rides over and over again and have somewhat insane conversations with characters, beyond the films and the parks, this past year (or so) in Disney has been defined by the people I've met, the unique experiences I've had, and the raw emotions I've felt during what I would tend to call life changing and affirming experiences. From this past year (or so) in Disney, seven of those meetings, those experiences, and those emotions have stood out to me over the past couple weeks, a crazy couple weeks for the Disney community.
I am here today to share with you those seven personal moments, those seven ways in which Disney has changed me, and made view a Whole New World, if you will. You may have seen me mention these moments before on Twitter or Facebook, but I feel that back on this blog, I'll have a better opportunity to expand upon and explore why Disney is so important in my life. So read on if you dare. Without further ado, and without further apology, here are Reflections on Seven Moments from the Past Year (or so) in Disney, presented in reverse chronological order.
A Wedding in the Old West
To me, the "Legends of Frontierland" experiment at Disneyland was a great success in my eyes for a number of reasons. For those of you who don't know what "Legends of Frontierland" was, it's a sort of role-playing game set up in Frontierland, where guest pledges their allegiance to either Frontierland or Rainbow Ridge, earn "bits" by performing tasks, sending out messages, and making arrests, and compete to buy land for their town. But among these number of reasons that this unique Disney experience worked enough to be extended past its original end date of September 1st was because, like in any good role-playing game, everyone got way too into their roles. Both Cast Members and guests went above and beyond, creating a sort of actual society full of mayoral elections, town poets, and relationships and rivalries that turn into friendships beyond the pathways of Disneyland. Even though I was only able to participate in "Legends of Frontierland" twice, the amount of memorable moments I've accounted for because of my fellow guests and the absurdly wonderful Cast Members participating are too numerous.
But none was more memorable than the wedding that occurred on Wednesday, August 27th, 2014.
I was in the park that day specifically check out the activities in Frontierland before its end date, because I'm one of those people who wants to savor every moment of a Disney Experience before it might be gone forever. When I entered Frontierland that day, I already felt a buzz in the air. The excitement in everyone's eyes was evident. Finally, I heard the announcement straight from the telegraph: at 5:15, there would be a wedding in front of The Golden Horseshoe. Afterward the announcement was made, the "citizens" of Frontierland and Rainbow Ridge were trying to find out everything they could about it. It turned out that a real life couple had gotten engaged right in the middle of Frontierland earlier that day, and as witnesses to the deed, the Cast Members and guests decided that a wedding must be thrown, even though this couple were newcomers to the #MyFrontierland experience.
(My apologies, but I have no knowledge of their names, which would be particularly useful for this story. For the record, they were both citizens of Frontierland and one them had the identity of Jack Rabbit.)
(For the record, I also represent Frontierland, repping WDW's grand version for the west coast crowd.)
Anyways, I had other matters to attend to that day, namely a Fastpass to Indiana Jones with my hypothetical name on it, but I knew I had to be back at 5:15 to witness the third wedding of my life. And sure enough, at 5:15, I was back in Frontierland, as a crowd had gathered around The Golden Horseshoe, full of Frontierlanders and Rainbow Ridgers setting aside their differences, all waiting for our lovely Peter Pan themed couple to get hitched. The ceremony was presided over by the Mayor of Frontierland and various other citizens, both Cast Members and guests. The couple had to announce their wedding vows out of a giant megaphone, making sure everyone could hear the love they were declaring to each other.
As the crowd grew, the wedding gifts were presented. A pineapple from our friends in neighboring Adventureland was given, and a special button from Main Street City Hall was received. The town poet, who had entered the park that day as just a guest, wrote and read a beautiful poem to the crowd. A song to the tune of "Oh Susannah," also written by our town poet, was sung by the entire wedding party. The citizens of Frontierland and Rainbow Ridge pooled their bits together to purchase five separate pieces of land for the happy couple. And every member of the crowd was given a small plastic glass of a concoction known as River Water to toast with as the newly "wed" couple finally kissed.
(Of course, five minutes later, in my clumsiness I nearly spilled my River Water onto some poor woman's sandaled feet. I apologized by giving her the bits I had accumulated that day.)
To me, this story represents two aspects of Disney Magic that I love so much. One, it represents the most magical side of Disney fans and Cast Members. Here is a couple that were complete strangers to the participants of "Legends of Frontierland" no more than 6 hours before, and yet everyone was going out of their way to give gifts, congratulations, and participate in the ceremony. Disney Magic, to me, is a reminder of the joyfulness and kindness that can exist in life, and the way that the citizens of Frontierland and Rainbow Ridge made this act of kindness come together is nothing short of amazing to me.
The other aspect that's amazing to me is how this kindness and joy has the ability to be shared with every single person who entered Disneyland that day. As the crowd of forty or so people watched the wedding ceremony, other guests who weren't participating in "Legends of Frotierland," guests who were coming from Fantasyland and Main Street to ride Pirates or head to Splash or journey to their reservation at Café Orleans, were passing by. Many of them, parents and teenagers and 20somethings, stopped to see what was going on. And many of them stayed to watch the wedding unfold, most of them with a smile on their faces thanks to this bit of surprise Disney Magic.
Showcasing The World Cup
The World Showcase has long been my favorite place in the entire world. My experience with the 2014 World Cup Final was the best confirmation of that fact that I could have. Friday, July 11th, 2014 was my full day at EPCOT, my favorite Disney Park, if that wasn't already clear, on this past Disney World trip.
I had seen tweets and blogs about the ways in which Disney World and EPCOT were celebrating The World Cup, and I was excited that I had the opportunity to check out the festivities, especially since I have become a huge fan of the World Cup and of international soccer over the past 12 years. With the Germany-Argentina final fast approaching, that Friday was my one guaranteed opportunity to check things out. While the decorations of the flags of all countries playing in the Cup outside the Odyssey buildings and a soccer themed topiary of Donald and Goofy were a treat to see, what really captured my imagination that day was the way in which I witnessed guests and Cast Members show their excitement for the final on Sunday.
My favorite thing about visiting The World Showcase, bar none, is watching guests discover an entire new culture. Sure, visiting The World Showcase is nothing like visiting those actual countries themselves, but to watch people who may never have an opportunity to visit France or Morocco or Japan or Norway explore the shops and exhibits of each pavilion, and especially watching them ask questions to the international cast members about their life back home or a specific food or just engaging in simple conversation, to me, represents the beauty of The World Showcase goes beyond the architectural representations of each country.
On that Friday, I heard a family from Alabama chat with a woman working in Sportsman's Shoppe about Brazil's astounding loss to Germany in the semifinal. In that same store, I saw a married couple from Texas look through the various Premier League jerseys on sale, trying to figure out which teams were good and which teams their children might want to root for. When I had dinner in France that day, a conversation about the entire Cup happened between the waiter and the family at the table next to me. In Japan, an American tourist and a British tourist shot the breeze about the intensity of a good soccer match as they waited for the rain to blow over. To me, this was all impressive considering the stereotype that Americans just don't care about soccer.
None of this compared, however, to the buzz in the Germany Pavilion that day. It seemed like every single person made mention of the big match of Sunday. Everybody, from American guests to British guests to Japanese guests to everyone in-between, was saying good luck and sending their well wishes to the German Cast Members. Those very same German Cast Members had a look in their eyes that spoke of both their excitement and their nervousness. It was in that moment that I decided readjust my schedule so that I could return to EPCOT on Sunday to enjoy The World Cup Final amongst the backdrop of The World Showcase.
Sunday comes, and after a morning at Hollywood Studios, I took a Friendship Boat to EPCOT to try to catch the match. After finding out that both the viewing party in the Oddesey and the viewing party in the former Wonders of Life pavilion were at capacity (which continued my impression that Soccer was actually becoming a thing in America), I decided to spend the duration of the match in the German Pavillion. Sure, they probably wouldn't have screens set up in order to preserve the magic of the World Showcase, but at the very least I could update Cast Members on the score and celebrate if them if the Germans took home the gold. When I arrived at Germany, I started walking my way through the various stores, and quickly found myself in the Weinkeller, which, as the name implies, is a sort of wine cellar where guests can find a number of German wines and beers. At one of the tables, I found a young couple watching the Final through the Watch ESPN app on their iPhone. Naturally, I asked if I could join them, and the kind folks allowed me to join in.
The image of the three of us watching a soccer match being played in Brazil on an iPhone in middle of a German Wine Cellar in Walt Disney World was both too absurd a situation and an amazing representation of the beauty of technology that I had to take a photo.
Throughout the next hour and a half, people would walk through the store and get a quick glimpse at the game and comment on it before going about their day. The German CMs, of course, were trying everything they could to get a glimpse of the action. One particular CM, who was behind the counter for the first half of the match, would come to "wash our table" even if it just meant he could watch is country for ten seconds. Other CMs from the Karamell-Küche and Die Weihnachts Ecke shops next door quickly rushed in and made us promise that we'd update them if anything major happened, any goals scored, any red cards, any major injuries, we had to let them know.
This continued on and on, until we got into a 0-0 match at the end of regulation, which meant there was to be an overtime period. By this time, the group watching the match had turned from me and the couple to a crowd of maybe twenty people, all huddled around this iPhone, seeing if either team could get a goal. And finally, it happened. The Germans scored. The crowd, people from all over the world, cheered and clapped and jump for joy. We all, by this point, had made friends and had conversations with many of the Cast Members and even the managers of the German Pavilion, and all of us were completely on board for a German victory. At the sound of our cheers, the German CMs from all around the pavilion rushed to us to catch the replay, to catch a single but important moment in their culture occur. There was already hugging and tears from the Germans, and though they soon had to get back to work, they made us promise once again to rush to their working stations if any other goals were scored.
I forget at this point how many minutes were left in the match, but those last minutes were as intense as I've ever been watching a sporting event. Every rush by the Argentinians was a heart stopping moment, and every stop by the Germans was a huge sigh of relief. We began to even be worried about the possibility of the iPhone running out of battery, until I quickly downloaded the app and subbed in my phone to watch the Germans take the victory. I wish I had been able to take a picture of the crowd watching along with us, and I wish I could have captured the exact moment that Germany became the 2014 World Cup Champions. But I did have to take one for the team in order to ensure that all of use watching could see those intense final moments. And when those final moments drifted away, and the match officially ended, the celebratory roar that erupted throughout the entire pavilion was almost as loud as Illuminations: Reflections of Earth.
With the final match of the World Cup over, I grabbed my iPhone, thanked the crowd, especially that young couple that I had been watching with from almost the beginning of the match, and rushed out to hug some Germans. I still, in some sense, regret not being able to capture that roar of a championship country, or the pure raw emotion of the first seconds of celebration. But here are a few pictures of what I could capture of the next five minutes of the joyous lunacy that is sports in a nutshell.
Once again, being that they do have a job to do, the German CMs eventually had to return to work. I stuck around a bit to chat with those I could about the victory, to watch guests come to Germany to get a celebratory beer and bratwurst, and to capture more pictures of Cast Members still letting out their emotions. Eventually, I had to get going to other things I needed to see around the World Showcase that day, but those two hours in the Germany Pavilion stuck with me for a long time. (As made obvious by me writing this much too long post about it.) The reaction to the German victory and the intensity and nervousness my new German friends had throughout the entire match proved to me that the importance of The World Cup goes beyond even the passion I have for my hometown Chicago, or the typical hometown passions of any typical sports fan. There is so much patriotic pride for the World's Game, and I was shown truly how special the game of Football could be.
And as mentioned before, it was a striking reminder of why The World Showcase is my favorite place in the entire world.
For The First Time in Forever, I Finally Understand
Another reason that the surprise Disney World trip I took in July was a matter of good timing was that I was going to be able to actually experience the Frozen Summer Madness event at Hollywood Studios. I'm always excited to see new things at the Disney Parks, and the limited time new things are no different. Many times, because of my distance from Disney World, often I am looking at limited time affairs from afar, so the opportunity to see ice-skating and a new fireworks show was one I was not going to miss.
It was during this experience that I truly understood how deep the Frozen Madness this country is experiencing. It's honestly somewhere in between the Star Wars fandom and BeatleMania. The rush for merchandise, the families excitedly waiting to build snowmen and to eat Anna themed cupcakes, and the men, women, and children finding their opportunities to take their Olaf Selfies proved as much to me.
But we're not here to talk about Frozen Madness. Well, not specifically. We're in this section of the post to talk about the pixie dust that falls over the parks when night falls: Firework Shows. I had never actually seen a Fireworks Show at the studio, much less a non permanent, non holiday special such as Star Wars Fireworks or the main event of this evening, Frozen Fireworks. I even rearranged my schedule after the World Cup viewing decision in order to make sure I saw the Fireworks Show on Saturday, July 12th, 2014.
After spending a good bit of time getting reacquainted with my favorite Hollywood Studios attractions, I made my way to find my Fireworks spot and was stunned by the amount of people already waiting for the show. I mean this… this was a CROWD. This was a Christmas type crowd, packed to the brim from the very front of the event stage to the entrance of the park. In retrospect, I shouldn't have been surprised at the crowd, considering Frozen Madness and Firework Shows and all that. But I kept that in mind as I found a seat near the ABC TV Theater.
After a very enjoyable show (during which people SCREAMED at the sight of Kristoff and I very much enjoyed the "Love is an Open Door" segment), I made my way towards the park exit. And that's when I saw one of the most beautiful sights I've ever seen in my life.
I saw a little girl, dressed as Elsa, sitting on her father's shoulders and above the rest of world, pretending to control the snow falling around her as "Let It Go" blared around Hollywood Boulevard. As soon as she caught my eye, I couldn't help but to keep looking. I watched the awe in her eye and let my own eyes tear up a bit. I took in her infectiously joyous smile, and I smiled myself. I watched the passion she had for the moment and the dreams that existed in her every movement and I allowed myself to feel alive. And as I am ought to do in these moments, I reflected on a number of things as I headed out of the park and onto my bus back to Saratoga Springs.
This was a reminder that the magic of the Disney Parks is bigger than any of us can ever truly realize, just as life is bigger than we can even imagine. As Disney fans, we tend to have our own opinions about what should and shouldn't be added to the parks, what should and shouldn't be taken away, and what we enjoy and what we want others to enjoy. And in many ways, that's fine. Healthy even. But when I watched that nameless little girl see the world as perfect for that one brief moment, I was reminded that the Disney World, and the world itself, is much bigger than me. I can take in all the Frozen stuff that Disney puts out and analyze it and enjoy it and debate about it with other Disney fans on Twitter. But that girl's wordview, the perfect vision of life she had, is something I lost a long time ago and yet still have inside me. It's that insane experience that completely defines what the Disney experience should be, the experience I try to give even an inch of to my friends and family who think my Disney obsession is a bit crazy. This moment put everything in perspective, and it's a moment that I often think about when discussing Disney with the masses.
This moment also put into perspective why I want to be a filmmaker. A group of people, animators, directors, writers, producers, the whole lot, created a piece of work that effected this girl's imagination in such a wonderful way. It made me want to make a piece of writing or a filmic work that affects someone even an inch as Frozen opened up that little girl's heart.
All The Cats Join In
(After those marathons of stories, I'm sure a small little interlude will be a bit refreshing to the eye, no?)
Saturday, May 17th, 2014 was only a day past my graduation, and it would probably come as no surprise to you readers that there was a certain amount of anxiety about my future. I mean, I was a college graduate! I want to get into the film business! I want to make Disney Films! How was I going to manage all that? How was I going to be an adult?
What better way to settle my mind than a weekend stay at the Disneyland resort with my whole family?
Well, that Saturday was technically a me day, my opportunity that weekend to spend some time at parks and do the things I love to do, like musical chairs with Alice and multiple trips to the newly reopened for exploration Temple of the Forbidden Eye. But once again, the real magic happens as night falls. To some people, the combination of Disneyland and Saturday nights means one thing: Swing dancing. It had been had really long time since I had been to Disneyland on a Saturday night, and I just love the concept of swing dancing at Disneyland because it's an event that's so uniquely Disney and so richly connected to the history of Disneyland. There's was no way I wasn't going to check it out on this particular Saturday. My intention was to watch one of the later dances in the evening and check out the scene before going about with the rest of my night.As you might have seen as a common link in these stories, I like to let plans shift every once in a while.
That night, I truly took in the performances happening in front of me, not just by the Swingtown band but also by the guests who were extremely skilled at the art of swing. I watched as they switched partners, chatted with each other, and caught up with each other's lives. I realized that this wasn't simply a random group of strangers on a date night, but instead an entire community, nay, a family who enjoy Disneyland and dancing all the same. Well, probably not all the same, but they certainly shared those two interested.
As I stuck around and watched the rest of the night's swing dancing sessions, I reflected on that sense of community. My thoughts turned to my fellow Disney fans that I've met on Twitter and various fansites and in the parks and the sense of community I had with them. I thought about the screenwriters I just graduated with, and bond that I had made with them over the past four years. I thought about my closest friends and the ways in which I've shared my closest moments with them. And of course, I thought about my family, who were just beyond the Esplanade, enjoying a quiet night at the Grand Californian. Having the opportunity to share that night with the Disneyland Swing Dance community calmed me down just a bit. I knew that no matter what this confusing future in adulthood would be that I would have my family and friends, both the ones I know personally and the ones I meet on my journey, will be there to help me along the way.
That One Time I Worked on the Disney Studio Lot
With the recent release of The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad and Fun and Fancy Free on Blu-Ray, I finally got a chance to check out "The Reluctant Dragon," the main bonus feature on the set. Of the many immense joys that come from watching the film, the one most personal to me is the ability to see footage of the Disney Studio in the era of Walt Disney himself. During a recent viewing, I couldn't help but to realize how absurd it was that just a year ago, I was working on the Disney Studio lot.
It was pure stroke of luck that semester that I had an internship at Marvel Studios was the semester that they moved their operations from Manhattan Beach to the Frank G. Wells building at the Disney Studio. And though I can't talk about my time at Marvel for obvious reasons, I sure as hell can talk about the amazing four months I spent at the Disney Studio! For those four months, I spent three days a week at the studio and relished every minute of it. I'll never forget driving onto the lot for the first time, the elation I felt to even have a small taste of my larger dream in life. Just to park in a parking structure known as The Zorro Lot was grin inducing. I had taken a tour of the studio once through D23, but there was no feeling in the world like walking through the lot on that very first day.
Throughout my limited time at the studio, I took every opportunity that I could to make my time on Walt Disney's lot as memorable as possible. I would arrive a half hour early to walk around a bit. I enjoyed my ability to walk around the Legends Plaza and to pay tribute to many of my favorite Disney heroes. I'd spend at least a part of my hour break inside the studio's Disney Store, just to listen to the Disney music playing and to sneak a little playtime with the stuffed dolls. When I got my one opportunity to enter the theater on the lot, I took it in a heartbeat. When I got my second opportunity to visit the Disney Archives, I relished every last moment I had in there. I would buy lunch at the commissary every day because the food was actually pretty good and because IT WAS THE COMMISSARY ON THE DISNEY STUDIO LOT! I even got to attend my first movie premier, which was a nutty experience even in itself.
I made sure I'd walk pas the animation building everyday, because I couldn't believe I had the ability to stand next to the place where most of my inspirations came to be. I took a couple of afternoons to walk past the buildings that once housed the sets of Mary Poppins and the Fantasia Orchestra. For those four months, both in the original sections of the studio and the sections added later, I just appreciated the surreal feelings I was experiencing. Here was the ground that many of my heroes, from Walt Disney to Mary Blair and everyone in between, once stood. And now I was standing on it. For those four months at the studio, I felt like I was home.
But, unfortunately, I knew my time in this new home was a limited engagement. My last day at the studio, December 18th, 2013, was simultaneously the longest and shortest day of my four months there. While the hours passed by quickly, I took as much time as I possibly could to take in the Legends Plaza, the Disney Store, the Commissary, the Animation Building, and the studio as a whole. Even so, before I knew it, the night fell, and it was time to walk back to the Zorro lot one final time. I'll admit to you right here that I teared up as I walked through the studio that last time. It was hard to think that I wouldn't be traveling back to the Disney Lot that next week, or that next semester. Every time I walked onto it, it was magical feeling for me, from the first day to the final day, and to think I was going to lose that magical feeling was a bitter pill to take.
In another sense, however, that final walk-through was still a magical moment for me. It was confirmation that there was nothing more I wanted in this world than to be able to work at the Disney Studio every single day. It was reaffirmation that my dreams were the dreams that I wanted to chase. It was another bit of motivation for me to work hard, write good material, and continue on this journey I started when I came to California in 2010. I still miss the studio even as I type this sentence. I wish dearly that there were some easy way to get back to it, or some way to start making my movies on that lot. If my four months there told me anything, it was that I will make it back. I can guarantee that.
Out There
It wouldn't be any stretch to call the two D23 Expos I've been able to attend the two most fun weekends of my entire life. There are plenty of choice candidates for that title, but can there truly be a better choice than a D23 Expo weekend?
D23 Expo is, in many ways, a Disney Fan's dream. Beyond all the news from Disney about the future of its animation, its films, and its parks, which are always a treat to receive, it is a weekend filled with one-of a-kind Disney merchandise, unique Disney themed panels full of wonderful stories and the occasional information drop, celebrities in the form of Imagineers and Animators, and thousands of Disney fans getting to meet each other, chat with each other, and share in the magic that we're all so passionate about. It's a special weekend that I look forward to living every two years.
This past D23 Expo, one special, once-in-a-lifetime event stood out above all the rest: The Richard Sherman/Alan Menken concert.
When the Sherman/Menken concert was announced, everybody was ecstatic, as was I. This was one of those moments in time that you couldn't imagine ever happening in your wildest dreams, and yet here was an opportunity to see possibly the two most important and best songwriters in the history of a company that in many ways defined by its music perform in the same night. There was no way I was going to miss this for anything in the Disney World.
It was now Saturday, August 10th, 2013, and after waiting in line for who knows how long, I was sitting the Arena, my phone out of battery, my feet tired from a full day at the expo, waiting for the concert of a lifetime to begin. Finally, Richard and Alan walk onto the stage, and I knew in an instant that this was going to be one of the most special things I ever had the privilege of experiencing.
I could spend some space talking to you about all of Richard's amazing stories about working with Walt and his brother Robert, and all of Alan's stories about working with the great Howard Ashman. I could recount to you that time Richard forgot the lyrics to Winnie the Pooh and we all had to help him out, and how Alan ripped through his discography like the Monorail zips from The Magic Kingdom to EPCOT. But to save some time, and because I want those of you who haven't seen it to experience something honestly spectacular, I'm just going to post Inside the Magic's wonderful videos containing the entire event. I'll let you discover some of the more magical moments yourself.
The personal Disney moment I'm here to tell you about comes in the latter half of Alan Menken's half of the concert. By this point, I'm already completely blown away from what's been happening for the past three or so hours. Hearing these stories and songs from the people who helped create them, and in a way helped to influence my whole life, was already causing a million different things to rush through my mind. It was at this moment that Alan Menken began to perform songs from "The Hunchback of Notre Dame."
I watched attentively as Menken performed songs from one Disney's most underrated musical scores, as "Bells of Notre Dame" and "God Help the Outcasts" rolled through my ears and rattled in my brain. As Menken transitioned into the next Hunchback song, I started to feel something stirring inside me. I don't know why at this specific moment I was starting to feel it. It might have been because I had been up since 5AM and hadn't eaten since 5:15AM. It might have been because I was unable to handle the surrealness of this whole weekend, and my ability to witness something so, so special.And maybe there was even a higher power involved that night.
As Alan Menken belted out "Out There," I had a spiritual experience for the second time in my life.
I can barely come up with the words to describe what I was feeling. I was outside of my own body, all around the room, flowing with the music. I was on another plane of existence entirely. I was in a million different places, and yet still a single whole. I was connected to all things Disney and all things in my past, present, and future.
That might sound like a bunch of nonsense, but that is the recollection I have of the emotions I felt during Menken's performance of "Out There." I credited those emotions to the spirit of the entire night, a night that transformed me in ways that I still don't really know. In many ways, it was probably the greatest three hours I've ever spent, or at least among the greatest three hours. I'm sure it makes more sense to you when I say that D23 Expo weekends are the best weekends I've ever had.
The Birds Stand Still, And The Tiki Room Flies Away
I haven't revealed this final story to anyone, I don't think. It's by far the most personal story I'm sharing with you here, but I feel this post is as good a time as any to share it. This post is already too long as it is, might as well go all in, right? This story, to me, represents why Disney is so important in my life.
August 2nd, 2013 was in the middle of a very tough time for me in a variety of personal and professional ways. That summer, I had gone through a tough relationship experience that forced me to reevaluate the person I was and the person who I wanted to be. More frightening to me, I also realized something that summer that I don't think I've told anyone until now: I had been spending so much time over the past year working on adaptations of material I didn't have the rights to because I had been struggling to come up with an original script idea for a while, and I was starting to realize that my future as an adult was standing right in front of me. At that point, I didn't know if I would be able to handle it, or to have the ability to find a path to my ultimate goal of making all those adaptations for Disney.
By happenstance, August 2nd was a date that I had scheduled for a Disneyland trip for a while, and it couldn't have come at a better time. I needed a day to myself, a day to try to calm down and get away and go to a place where I know I could think. It was the type of day where I rode Mr. Toad's Wild Ride five different times. The type of day where I took a couple walks through Sleeping Beauty Castle. It was the day that I saw Mickey and the Magical Map for the first time, which I heartily enjoyed. But throughout the entire day, fear, sadness, rage, and confusion all rattled inside of me, and I tried to make sense of all of it as I made my rounds.
My rounds through the park eventually took me to The Enchanted Tiki Room, a Disney fan favorite and an attraction I had enjoyed very, very much up to that point. As the reflections continued in my head and throughout my entire body, I took in the pre-show as I had done many times, and made my way into the theater, heading straight for the my favorite seat in the house, the back of the wall straight across from the entrance. And soon, we woke up Jose and the glee club and began to sing.
The Enchanted Tiki Room holds up so well today because it is a perfectly structured attractions. The emotions flow perfectly from segment to segment, from happy and energetic to calm and serene to peppy and catchy to angry and brutal and finally all the way back to happy and energetic. That flow was exactly the cure I needed for all that ailed me. My emotions moved side my side with the emotions of the show. During the opening song, I thought about the past three years at USC and what had gotten me here. During "Let's All Sing Like the Birdies Sing," I confronted love in a way I hadn't in a long time. As we moved into the musical luau, I felt calm, reflecting on some of the better moments I tended to forget about at times like this.
Suddenly, drums. Chants. Red Light. It was the Hawaiian War Chant, the climax of the show.
Remember the angry and brutal emotions of the show I mentioned earlier? That's The Hawaiian War Chant to me. And in that exact moment, it was at its most brutal for me. The drums and the chant roared at me. The totem poles of Tiki Masks stared at me. The rising intensity of the music matched the intensity of my mind. I had to close my eyes, and in that moment, memories flashed before me. The anger and the rage that had been bubbling inside me were all there, right in front of me. I confronted everything I hated about myself and every mistake as I had made as the song became faster and faster.
The thunder cracked. The rain poured. All those emotions inside me crashed together. I broke down and cried.
But as the birdies above me began to talk about clouds with silver linings, something amazing happened: I had an idea! A story idea! And then another one! And another one! We stood up to face the door, and I figured out that I actually needed to be broken first before I could fix myself.
Within the span of a simple Tiki Room show, I experienced an entire emotional breakdown. So, of course, I immediately rushed back to the entrance and saw the show again.
The rest of that day became the start of a personal journey that took another six months to truly complete. In the days and months that followed I still made mistakes and had confusion and needed to think, but that moment in the Tiki Room was what unscrambled all that into a personal reaffirmation of my own identity. In the weeks that followed, I found that Disneyland had not only become a personal place of peace for me, but also the place where I wrote my best work. The Tiki Room is still where I get my best ideas, and as I told my fellow classmates once, "I go into the Tiki Room, and suddenly it all makes sense." It has become one of my favorite attractions and probably the one that is most important to me.
Over a year later, on August 27th, 2014, the same day as the Frontierland Wedding, I watched World of Color for the first time in forever, and as thoughts about my passion for Disney, my desire to create films that may or may not be in a future World of Color, and my status as a college graduate came to my mind, I once again became emotional. Naturally, once the show was over, I bolted out of California Adventure, headed straight to Disneyland, and took a seat at one of the final Tiki Room shows of the night to help unpack my head.
That night, I realized something vitally important: Disney is so important in my life because it has changed my life in so many variable ways. Without Disney, I don't have that dreams I have, I don't meet the people I've met, I don't go to the places I've been, I'm not the person that I am. Disney is more than a company to me, more than animation, more than theme parks, more than entertainment. Disney is my comfort. Disney is my joy. Disney is me, in so many ways. Disney makes me feel alive. Disney is what pushes me. Disney is in my heart, in my mind, and in my soul. Disney is something that has and will molded me and shaped me and defined the very person that I aspire to be. Disney something that shows me fantasies can be real. It may take a little more than wishing upon a star, but dreams are still attainable.
Disney has given me so much more than I can ever really say in an overly long blog post. And the idea that I might be able to someday put something back into Disney is humbling in and of itself. To have the ability to put some stamp onto the legacy of the company, and in turn have the ability to effect someone as much as Mickey and friends have has an effect on me is something I can't even fathom, and desire so badly. My journey to Disney continues. I don't know where it will take me. I don't know when I'll get there. But the Disneyland Railroad has to stop sometime, and when it stops at the stations where I get to make Disney films, or Disney attractions, or just make someone's Disney day, you can be sure I'll jump off at that stop.
Until that time, I'll keep having Disney Moments, I'm sure. And who knows what'll happen the next time I get sprinkled with some Pixie Dust.


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4. Climate change, energy rights and equality Simon Caney
5. Common atmospheric ownership and equal emissions entitlements Darrel Moellendorf
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New to Australian waters is the Ocean Master range of GRP boats. Bernard Clancy took to the water in one to confirm the good reports coming from this year's Melbourne Boat Show
One of the features of this year's Melbourne Boat Show was the number of new toys on display. And chief among those was the debut of Manny Grima's new Ocean Master range of GRP boats. They attracted much attention, and we at TrailerBoat couldn't get our hands on one quickly enough.
In retrospect, we were a bit too quick. Our test day on Corio Bay in Geelong was mirror smooth, which negated any chance we had of testing the Ocean Masters' ability to handle a sea. We had heard good reports, but the only happy bloke on the day was photographer Stu' Grant who just loves calm water to do his pix.
This report is on the boat in the middle of the Ocean Master range, the 5.9 Explorer, and we'll bring you stories on the others in coming issues. Because the test boats were rushed into service for the boat show, Geelong Boating Centre, the sole Victorian agents, didn't have the time they would have liked to put into preparing them for test, so we had a few glitches here and there. As you'll appreciate, there is a difference between preparing a boat for show and one to go.
Never mind, we came away impressed.
In a general sense, the boats are well designed, run well and storage is excellent, among the best in their class. There are lots of good ideas and the moulded dash layout is among the best I've seen.
The Explorer is 5.9m LOA, including the very long and strong bowsprit, so in the old days this would be called an 18-footer.
The cockpit space is substantial and the compromise for this is a smaller cuddy than some of its competitors. And yet there is a very cunning design feature here which maximises available space. There is no V-bunk as such in this boat, just two black-carpeted trays either side of the central walkway. The port side is a few inches longer than the starboard, due to a clever use of space by having a solid bulkhead on the starboard side with the remainder open. While that means there is no under-bunk storage, there's still plenty of space throughout the boat.
Headroom in the small cuddy is OK, the flowcoat good and the hatch a good size, although I'd be fitting an anchor winch. My days of crawling up and under are well and truly finished. The wiring behind the bulkhead is unprotected but that can be easily fixed.
The bowsprit is quite a work of art, capable of carrying any sort of anchor. The chain feeds through a hole in the anchorwell hatch and there's room underneath for a barrel winch. The bowrail is a solid, split unit.
The four-piece screen, common to a number of the boats, has an integrated grabrail which is first class. However, the top of the screen can be at an annoying eye level in certain conditions. Such is the price you pay for aesthetics.
The moulded dash is a gem, with instruments and radio front and centre with the compass offset towards the centre-left, but that's OK. This unit was fitted with a Humminbird 917C GPS fishing system directly in front and it supplies all the information you need.
There are two stainless steel cupholders moulded into the dash for the skipper and passenger, plus a stainless steel grabrail over the cuddy entrance. A lockable glovebox is in front of the passenger. There's a footrest for the passenger on the top of the cuddy storage bin bulkhead, but none for the skipper, however, that's easily fixed. Other boats tested had a bolt-on stainless steel unit, but even this would require a strip or two of non-slip tape.
The test boat was fitted with a bimini attached to a fairly basic six-pot rocket launcher.
A huge underfloor bin is located between the seats and has a very solid lid. Many of them don't.
As mentioned earlier, the cockpit is large enough to fish four comfortably, with huge, covered sidepockets the length of the boat, the top two compartments for gear, and the bottom one for rods. Two stainless steel grab handles are moulded into the sidepocket coverings for passengers in two rear quarter seats, which fold down neatly to provide not only more fishing room, but padding to lean on when fighting a tough fish. Non-skid panels on the gunnels are good, as are four stainless rodholders with rubber inserts.
The cuddy walkway, storage bins and cockpit floor are covered with a silver-flecked black marine carpet. On a hot day you wouldn't want to be in bare feet. There are other carpet options available though.
The transom treatment is really good with a livebait tank on the port quarter, plumbed with the water intake at the bottom of the tank, not the top, so your bottom-swimming fish shouldn't die. On the starboard quarter is a storage bin. A flap in front of the motor folds forward for motor lift when travelling, but is hardly needed. Fuel filler is in the engine well, another plus. The test boat was not fitted with boarding platforms but they are available.
From a performance point of view we were hampered somewhat by the skipper's chair breaking loose from its moorings (so to speak) early on in the piece and chucking one test pilot into the back of the boat. In Melbourne Boat Show haste, the pole-mounted bucket seat had not been secured properly, tacked in only with four 25mm x 12 gauge screws rather than six 45mm x 14 gauge units. I can guarantee you that this sort of stuff fails to impress boat testers, but the explanation is accepted. Let me add though that the ideal is to through-bolt their chairs to a metal plate.
However, the boat performed very well prior to this incident - the 150hp Yammie four-stroke is ideally suited to the craft. It cruised at 52kmh at 4000rpm and WOT was a very good 83kmh at 6100rpm. Most people would be happy with that, even though the maximum horsepower recommended is a whopping 230. I'm just disappointed we didn't have a bit of rough stuff to barrel through.
Perhaps it's appropriate to add here that I thought the Ocean Masters were well built. There appears to be plenty of glass in them and even the decks were solid glass and very sturdy.
I think that fitted with a few aftermarket items (and they're fairly limitless), the Ocean Master will attract its share of buyers.
Dash layout
Grabrail on windscreen
Fuel filler in engine well
Windscreen height
No foam bunks in cuddy
No skipper's footrest
No shelves in cuddy
Specifications: Ocean Master 590 Explorer
Price as tested: $66,495
Options fitted: Cockpit carpet, stainless steel latches, VHF radio and aerial, Humminbird 917C, stainless steel rocket launcher and bimini, white tandem alloy trailer wheels and LED trailer lights, 150hp Yamaha four-stroke upgrade, high-performance propeller, concealed controls, switch panel, auto bilge pump, Hella LED cockpit lights
Priced from: $46,091
Material: GRP
Length overall: 5.9m
Beam: 2.3m
Deadrise: 19°
Rec. max. HP: 230
Weight: Approx 900kg (hull); (on trailer): approx 1650kg (on trailer)
Fuel: 210lt
Make/model: Yamaha F150
Type: Four-stroke outboard
Rated HP: 150
Displacement: 2670cc
Weight: 216kg
Propeller: Yamaha SS 13 x 19in
Geelong Boating Centre,
88 Barwon Heads Rd,
BELMONT, Vic, 3216
Phone: (03) 5241 6966
Website: www.geelongboats.com.au
Originally published in TrailerBoat #235
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CARTAGENA, COLOMBIA — On a dance floor in a plaza of this many-hued Caribbean city, salsa was oozing from vast speakers. Latin feet were shuffling. Voices were singing along in impassioned Spanish.
And then came a song that electrified the mostly Colombian crowd as few songs had. It was "I Gotta Feeling," by the Black Eyed Peas, which electrifies my generation wherever they live in the world. When historians of culture look back at this wave of globalization, the song's lyrics may be of use.
They repeat the hope "that tonight's gonna be a good night" over and over and over. There is little elaboration. And yet, as global anthems go, this is lyrically ambitious. The music that links the global young today is one of thumps and beeps, sounding to older music lovers like a room full of malfunctioning computers.
This is not the only way in which words seem to matter ever less to my generation, and not the only way in which this desertion may be the bitter price of a good thing: a world that talks to itself more easily than ever, by taking the art of talking less seriously.
We are all linguistic utilitarians now. At work and home, in person and on our devices, function rules and form pales. Capitalization, commas, full sentences, the writing of words without numbers in them, the avoidance of jargon and mixed metaphors — these norms are suffering, unable to persuade multitaskers of their worth.Continue reading the main story
Of course, anxiety about language is very old. When technologies turn, when new social groups rise, when politics change, critics predict the end of literacy. George Orwell, in a seminal essay in 1946, warned that pretentious diction and meaningless words and other bad habits were corroding politics. He criticized the belief "that any struggle against the abuse of language is a sentimental archaism, like preferring candles to electric light."
Orwell, writing during the Cold War, was especially worried about the ideological misuse of language. In our own day, the threat would seem to come instead from a new trinity of technology, globalization and business, which seem to exert a pragmatic pressure on language, to undermine the idea of language as an end in itself.
Technology is changing how we read, write and reason, as a growing number of critics suggest. Television has long been accused of making us stupid, but now the Internet, though overflowing with text, is also blamed. In an essay in The Atlantic last year, the technology writer Nicholas Carr argued that the power-skimming, link-hopping and window-toggling that define the Internet experience have eroded the old practice of reading unbroken stretches of prose, with grave implications for our writing.
E-mail, meanwhile, has become a linguistic wasteland — even among language lovers. Cellphone keypads make us promise to "call u back after the mtg." Twitter coaxes us to misspell to meet the 140-character maximum. Blogs, though they seek to bring out the writer in us, are notable for how little stress they put on the actual writing. How many literary greats has the rise of the blogosphere produced?
Globalization, in bringing cultures together, exerts its own pragmatic pressure. With English the escalator of globalized success, the language's center of gravity is tilting away from English-speaking lands. A stripped-down English of catchphrases and trite idioms, light on richness, is becoming the true global language.
The English-learning boom in developing nations also corrodes their own languages. Their young increasingly learn enough English to do a global-economy job but not so much as to be articulate in it. Yet many give up on mastering their native languages. They end up, as the Indian writer Pavan Varma has called them, "linguistic half-castes," functional in many tongues, without command of any.
A further abuser of language is business, with its growing influence over how many of us talk and think. Orwell worried about authoritarian treatment of language — about warmongers' calling bombardment "pacification," for example. But, with totalitarianism in retreat, it is business that conquers by word-twisting and euphemism.
When a company is "levering up," it often means, in regular language, that it is spending money it doesn't have. When it is "right-sizing" or finding "synergies," it may well be firing people. When it "manages stakeholders," it could be lobbying or bribing. When you dial into "customer care," they care very little. But when they call you, even at dinnertime, then it's a "courtesy call."
It is tempting to conclude, as Orwell did, that language is dying. But language, like culture, is a dynamic thing. It was an oral thing once, then became a printed thing and is becoming a digital thing, infinitely reproducible, infinitely disseminable. As such, we are not abandoning language so much as reimagining it.
Increasingly, we treat language as computers do, as a protocol: a code that machines use to communicate with other machines, a code that is not savored or loved, a code that exists to get the job done and works precisely because it is boring, standardized and pragmatic.
In the language-as-protocol worldview, the best lyrics are the least lyrical, because the greatest number can follow them. The most successful headlines are not those with the freshest word choices but those whose well-worn expressions are frequently Googled. The most effective communication at work is not the bulky memo, but the bullet-riddled PowerPoint presentation, which people from varied nationalities can absorb in very little time.
A linguistically utilitarian world may be, for billions who don't speak English, an easier world in which to prosper; a world that breeds less resentment among those without a gift for words; a world in which technical inventions flow more easily among nations; a world in which the intrinsic thrill of language is slowly, tragically forgotten, but not because of the evil rulers that George Orwell feared.
Language may suffer in the coming age simply because we have so many people, near and far, to address, so little time in which to do so, and diminishing patience for rules that slow the headlong rush into linguistic limbo.Continue reading the main story


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Glad to see your net worked .Very nicely done, Looks very neat.
I know they will strike even though they can't reach the fish. Sometimes they will spear the fish but can't get them through the netting.
My wife made the same weathervane comment... Minus the stuffed part.
In regards to spearing through the net... I had read the same thing so I made sure that the distance I have between the net and water surface takes into account the heron walking on the net and then how far his beak could wedge down through the one inch openings. I even bought an old school chalk board and chalk to do all my calculations like Einstein probably had....So I hope my math works out.
A cheaper and simpler frame that can be set up on the pond is a frame made of PVC and PC elbows. Although I like the set up in the OP! You can attach the net to the frame with zip ties. PVC can also be painted with paint you can get at the hardware store. They would be heavy enough so that you would't have to secure them and can be easily lifted to do whatever you need on the pond.
I build frames like this for the top of my fish cages I use to hold or separate fish in my ponds.
The risk I took was calculated, but man am I bad at math!
I tried the pvc... which works... but I found it would have to be raised off the water a lot more.... this being because I couldnt pull the netting taught without warping the pvc.
I might have to net my other tiny goldfish pond in my front yard now too... which is against the front porch and under a crabapple tree...the dumb heron must have found it anyway. Half my fish are gone and the rest wont come out from the back corner even for food. Its been two weeks and they still dont move out.
Last edited by Nevermore; 10-21-2018 at 07:14 PM.
Nevermore, regarding your posted photo of your child protection screen, was that typical woven wire fencing secured to the bottom of the lumber with screws? Did it also have removable sections? Do you think this aluminum frame would support a child if wire were used?
Last edited by Cecil; 10-27-2018 at 07:39 PM.
The risk I took was calculated, but man am I bad at math!
Grumpy... The wire fencing was held on with a bunch of the galvanized fencing staples hammered in to the underside of the wood. And for openings....The same section I have hinged to open now was hinged on the kid version too. You can see one of the black hinges is the photo. That version was heavier of course... But not the worst. Could the aluminum frame with wire fencing hold a 50lb kid?... I bet it could in my situation... Much much more and it would start bending. You would need to think about how to hold the fence to it though...the aluminum wall isn't too thick.
Cecil... I don't remember what type of pvc I tried... But for this aluminum version.. I pulled the netting tight enough for it to start hurting my fingers to loop around the screw heads... Which started bending the long runs. Either type of pvc would have more give I would think. If it would work to have the net higher off the water... I would go the pvc route and paint it.
If money wasn't an issued, I would learn how to weld and make a metal frame.. Get it powder coated... And make it reeeeeal naaace' That way I could get rid of a lot of cross beams
Last edited by Nevermore; 10-22-2018 at 12:35 AM.
Since I raise fish for a living I can get a permit from Fish & Wildlife and my state to take out herons with a gun if all other non lethal methods fail. It's not cheap at $100.00 a year and Fish & Wildlife determines how many I can take out. I hate to do it but have removed a small number that just can't take no for an answer and get by every non lethal method I have come up with on the four ponds.
I will tell you as soon as one takes one out another will take it place in short order. They are quite common in my area (I have about 100 lakes in my county.)
Another thing I have noticed is there is not much to them although they appear quite large. Mostly feathers and legs! A large bird can't weight more than a couple of pounds!
Last edited by Cecil; 01-22-2019 at 12:07 AM.
The risk I took was calculated, but man am I bad at math!
I see Heron's early in the season and later - which are the 2 problem times since i have normally have no plant cover for my fish. i love your solution but wouldnt be practical for my my pond. so i normally do 2 things to deter them: 1) i have a motion water sprayer which seems to do a great job and 2). i have a floating gator in my pond. those 2 seem to work well until my plant cover grows in and provides shelter.
my koi are all larger now so heron won't eat them but they will spear them and throw them up on land because they see larger fish as competition for them and will normally try to kill them (rather than eat them). the other issue is once a heron finds your pond - you are likely to see it every year.
i'm actually surprised the heron flies near your pond given the cover around it. they are very cautious birds and will normally look for an easy way in and out before they will attempt to come close and attack.
I found the best defense is a dog!! For 14 years i had a dog and NEVER saw a heron. we only started seeing them after our dog passed away.
The dog comment is spot on. I remember reading in an aquaculture publication where a kennel in the southern U.S. was selling trained border collies to run off herons.
I had a dog trained to do the same, but unfortunately she was a house dog s she had to 1. See them out the window and 2. I had to let her out. However all I had to do was say "Bird" and she was ready to run them off! It wouldn't be difficult to train a dog to run off a Great Blue Heron. Dog's tend to be territorial and want to feel useful.
I respectfully disagree with your contention that GBH's see large fish as competition. Just my opinion of course but I don't believe they have the thought process to go that far. But I could be wrong. I believe it's just an instinct thing to spear anything that moves in the water.
Here is a large fish that was speared at my farm a while back and thrown up into the willow leaves (hence the light markings made by the leaves). The GBH really went to town on the fish as you can see. Unfortunately for the GBH I was ready for him the second time with my federal and state permit. He is no longer a threat.
Last edited by Cecil; 01-07-2019 at 07:59 PM.
The risk I took was calculated, but man am I bad at math!
I think they lack the intelligence to determine the correct size to eat and try to spear anything. After successful spearing if they can't lift and swallow its left on the bank to die. Not a very smart bird that can access danger correctly. After easy fishing is on the brain it overrides any sense of danger. Once seen one come back three times in quick succession after being ran off by a Jack Russell Terrier. The third time he didn't get to fly off. We have multiple ponds, a creek and river in the back of the farm that a heron could fish uninterrupted but they always pick the most dangerous (koi) pond next to the house.
I would worry about a dog getting too close as that beak is fast and could blind a dog. Was told once they go for they eyes when they feel threatened up close. A guy told me a friend of his got one in a muskrat trap and went to free it. The bird blinded him in one eye.
Last edited by Cecil; 01-13-2019 at 11:03 AM.
The risk I took was calculated, but man am I bad at math!
I've seen some crazy internet videos of people not experienced with large birds getting bit and pecked while trying to help free or catch them. If one is ever caught in netting be careful. I was always fearful something would happen to this dog but being a JR they know how to deal with it.
The Great Blue at my place was a Die Hard fan who pumped iron. I had these posted here years ago: https://www.koiphen.com/forums/showth...553#post512553
* Nevermore your netting system is awesome. So neat and fits well into the rest of the decor.
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She helps her clients live life from what the Seer and mystic Almine describes as " the Poetic Perspective." The Poetic Perspective is seeing the perfection behind the appearances of your life. You begin to decode the symbols embedded in your day-to-day life interpreting them like a dream. When you peel back the appearances like a skin, the truth reveals juicy bright bits of wisdom, guidance, gifts and blessings underneath. You live from the inside out.
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Rally Time: TODAY 6 p.m.
Where: Washington Square Park
On two consecutive nights in Minneapolis, Black Lives Matter protesters have been shot in front of the city's Fourth Precinct police station. On the first night, five protesters were injured by the bullets. Protesters had been outside the Fourth Precinct continuously since the murder of Jamar Clark on November 15 while he was being arrested and was already handcuffed.
With Black people being killed by police every eight hours in 2015, the most extreme, openly fascist elements of white supremacist terror are on the rise across the US. In June, Dylann Roof opened fire and killed nine black congregants at Charleston A.M.E. Church. Three weeks ago, Black Mizzou students faced public death threats were they to enter campus for protesting their school's racial discrimination. Just this week, Donald Trump explicitly defended those who assaulted a Black Lives Matter protester at his campaign rally, and at the same time, racists pranksters announced the creation of over 20 new "white student unions" at universities across the country, which later turned out to be a prank.
The rise in white supremacist sentiment has extended to other spheres of imperialist terror within and outside US borders. Fascist Trump has proposed requiring Muslims to carry special ID cards, and he and other presidential candidates have called for the mass detention and deportation of all 11 million undocumented people living within the US. And while France launched dozens of airstrikes on Syria, the House of Representatives just passed a bill that would refuse to accept any Syrian or other refugee until both the heads of the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security individually certify that they are not a threat to national security.
The overt white supremacist terror on the crowd of Black Lives Matter protesters represents a qualitative change in the oppression people are facing, and it demands implementing different tactics in our struggle against the enemies of the people. The shootings demonstrate that the Minneapolis Black Lives Matter protesters outside the Fourth Precinct might be attacked anytime by either the State or racist vigilantes, and they have no method of defending themselves. Three Black Lives Matter protesters tried to disrupt a Donald Trump rally and one of the three was brutalized by Trump's fascist supporters. Comrades could have been killed in either of these protests. If we do not change our tactics, we continue exposing ourselves to brutal repression, putting our lives at risk, and ultimately endangering the Black Lives Matter movement.
With fascism on the rise, together with every form of white supremacist and imperialist terror, the enemy has shown no moral boundaries to the violence it is willing to inflict on oppressed people. We cannot continue to rely on the enemy not to physically attack us while we are peacefully protesting. We must move beyond expressing our dissent through protest, and organize resistance to actively end the genocide our communities are facing. We must organize against each of the different means by which our communities are oppressed: the exploitation of labor, higher rents and gentrification, and immigrant detention and mass incarceration.
Organizing in each sector will require continuously struggling out different non-antagonistic contradictions that may exist within our communities such as patriarchy and homophobia to establish the highest possible level of unity among ourselves. By achieving true unity we can build power, and by building power we will be able to win the war that is being waged against us and defeat the US imperialist, white supremacist State.
"In order for nonviolence to work, your opponent must have a conscience." – Stokely Carmichael
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The Generation T launch, a celebration of Thailand Tatler's first batch of 50 young talents under 40, was the party to be at last week if you have any interest in meeting visionaries in each of the most crucial fields in our society. Officially beginning at 6:30pm, the party didn't end until 6 hours later, with many of the Generation T VIPs and friends staying on until the end on a "school night". Because as the saying goes, "work hard, play harder".
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Monday, August 27, 2007
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I suppose this is as good a place to start as any.
To me, Southern-fried food is comfort food, regardless of whether it's actually fried. Fried green tomatoes, however, are the sort of comfort food akin to peach cobbler and skillet-baked cornbread.
My partner, J, fell in love with them on a business trip to Memphis, and I learned to make them at the hip of my grandmother, the Southern Food Maven.
In Texas, green tomatoes are available at farmer's markets and roadside fruit stands from March ,for imported, South American fruit, through mid-September. Local fruit is available from June through early September. I've seen green varieties in specialty grocery stores, but this is not the type of tomato that I'm talking about. Choice tomatoes for frying are firm, unripened plum tomatoes, pale celandine and barely blushing.
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1 pound green tomatoes
1 1/2 cups coarse corn meal
1/4 cup all purpose flour (or whole wheat, if you prefer)
2 tbsp nutritional yeast
paprika to taste
salt and pepper to taste
1/2 cup + enough to cover pan neutral-tasting oil (like canola or safflower)
Mix dry ingredients in a shallow pan.
Heat oil in a deep pan (I use a stock pot) until it starts to smoke. Reduce heat to medium high.
Slice tomatoes roughly 1/2" thick. Dredge in oil, then cornmeal mixture and repeat until evenly coated.
Fry in the oil until golden on both sides, about three minutes on each side, and drain on paper towels. Eat them warm and right away.
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If you are a mom who makes time in her busy schedule to volunteer, whether at your child's school, your church, or in other community organizations, your child sees the example of volunteering as a part of your philanthropy. That's a great thing! Following that example, your child may want to volunteer themselves. While that may add some additional complexity to your schedule, it's a schedule adjustment that is very much worth it.
Giving time and effort is just one ways individuals and families engage in philanthropy, and many community organizations couldn't survive without that volunteerism. You may not have thought about it before, but kids, even young kids, can volunteer their time.
Depending on your child's age, volunteering time in the community could be part of a family effort, or it could be completely self-starting. It could be easy to arrange, or a bit of a logistical (or appropriateness) challenge. It's almost always worth the effort, however.
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While many organizations are willing to take on youth volunteers, some are not. If your child expresses an interest in volunteering, ask your child what kind of an organization they think they would like to volunteer with, and what they think volunteering means. From there you and your child can contact organization about any age minimums for volunteers, and what kind of volunteers they need.
Remember that volunteering is about helping the organization, and you need to be willing to help with what they need, not just with what you or your child thinks they want to do.
For example, if your child wants to volunteer working at the local animal shelter, he or she may think that playing with the animals constitutes appropriate volunteering, but maybe the shelter needs someone to do the more mundane task of dishing out food for the animals — something that perhaps hold less appeal, or maybe isn't appropriate for your child's age. You and you child need to understand that the first priority of volunteering is helping the organization in just the way they need help — but likely the more "fun" part could follow.
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Appropriate time
Kids, especially kids on the younger side, generally can't volunteer for particularly long periods of time. While older kids may be able to put in two or three hours at a local senior center, younger kids can manage about an hour or so at a time.
Making sure that the volunteer opportunity is respectful of your child's age and development can go a long way to establishing first volunteering experiences as positive, and set the foundation for a lifetime of volunteerism.
Appropriate supervision
Any volunteer opportunity, no matter the organization or your child's age or role, needs to have an appropriate supervisory element. Just as with first jobs, kids need to be supervised as much for their own safety as anything else. As a parent, verifying that supervision is part of making sure the volunteer opportunity is appropriate.
The supervisor may be you in some cases, but in others, it's an organization staffer. Older kids may chafe at this supervision element, but since the greater goal is helping the organization, it's necessary to ensure the highest level of efficiency for volunteering.
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St. Brendan's Church is located on the Larkfield Road in Sydenham, Belfast 4, and may be accessed via Connsbrook Avenue and Palmerston Road, both of which are off the Holywood Road, East Belfast.
- Pastor: Mr Joe Turner
Revd Canon Tom Keightley
About Us
The Present
We are a friendly Church, eager to welcome and integrate new members. Over the last couple of years we have experienced God transforming our Church, providing and blessing us far beyond our expectations. We have seen people coming to faith or being renewed in it. Youth and children's work remains an importatnt priority for us and we have experienced considerable growth. We will continue in our efforts to integrate our young people into the Church family. We are blessed to have such an eager team of youth leaders. We have a dedicated choir and our worship has become more real, alive and meaningful and members of the Church are using their musical gifts to accompany the praise with various instruments. Our main mission partners are 'Fields of Life' and 'Open Doors'
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We seek to continue to grow as a family of God, encouraging one another and growing in our knowledge and love of God. Our fellowship is enhanced by events like our annual Church weekend away when we come together for teaching, prayer, worship and fun. We endeavour to communicate and show God's love to the people of Sydenham, and the wider world, that they may be won for Jesus Christ. We want to encourage more young families and young people to worship with us and to seek God for their lives. We also want to bridge the gap between the hall and the church, encouraging our young people. In everything we do, we seek to glorify Christ.
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An interface between Prolog application programs and the X Window System that aims to be independent from the Prolog engine, provided that it has a Quintus foreign function interface (e.g. SICStus and YAP). It is mostly written in Prolog and is divided in two libraries: Edipo - the lower level interface to the Xlib functions; and Ytoolkit - the higher level user interface toolkit.
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1. 16th Letter of the Greek alphabet.
2. (Π). Symbol for osmotic pressure; in mathematics, symbol for the product of a series.
3. (π). Symbol for the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter (approximately 3.14159265).
4. Symbol for inorganic orthophosphate (should not be used when covalently linked to another moiety).
5. The pH value for the isoelectric point of a given substance.
6. An acronym for periodontal Index.
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In January 2014, thousands of people in the usually warm southern US city of Atlanta, Georgia experienced a rare snowstorm which effectively brought it to a standstill.
The storm, which left around two to three inches of snow on the ground, caused virtual gridlock on the roads and thousands of people were left trapped on the city's highways for hours.
While some considered the storm a freak occurrence similar to the Polar Vortex which recently gripped most of the country – or even a direct consequence of global warming and climate change – many felt there was an altogether more sinister explanation.
Meet the fake snow conspiracy theorists, those who believe the snow which recently fell in states such as Georgia, South Carolina, and Virginia was planted by the government.
There are countless videos online of people showing the snow does not melt or leave a puddle of water when exposed to an open flame, and also leaves a black mark resembling an attempt to melt Styrofoam.
YouTube videos show people attempting to melt the snow using a lighter or a blowtorch.
When this fails, they see it as proof that the government is deploying an old weapon known as geo-engineering" – whereby the administration uses the weather as a weapon – or that "chemtrails" are being sprayed into the air as part of a covert government operation to slow down the global warming process by increasing the amount of sunlight that is reflected back into space.
"You're being distracted from all fronts, you're preoccupied. They're up here signing bills, the government, to pretty much take away more of your rights and freedoms," said YouTube user Occult Sin on one of his videos, which purports to expose the fake snow "truth".
However, as the number of videos uploaded online began to increase, scientists came forward to give an explanation as to why the 'fake snow' does not melt.
Steve Ackerman, a professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences at the UW-Madison, explained to the Wisconsin State Journal that when you heat snow, it turns from a solid to a gas during a process called sublimation.
"Whenever there is an interface of air and water, either liquid or solid, you have molecules trying to leave the water," he said.
"The constantly vibrating molecules in a liquid or solid are restrained but a water molecule will escape the water and enter the air when it moves violently enough.
"We call that evaporation from a liquid, and sublimation from a solid," Ackerman said.
The black mark left on the ground can also simply be explained as butane from the lighter after being exposed to the snow.
Scientists add that the effects of sublimation can be seen in freezers, when ice cubes sometimes shrink over time, or when snow melts in a field.
"You notice there's no liquid water, none of the hard ice that results from melting and refreezing, but the snow still shrinks," Ackerman added.


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"Then He walked over to the coffin and touched it, and the bearers stopped. 'Young man,' He said, 'get up.' Then the dead boy sat up and began to talk to those around him. And Jesus gave him back to his mother." Luke 7:14-15...."Did you know that Jesus ruined every funeral He ever attended?" Randy Asburry
I think it was Beth Moore who said that Jesus never attended a funeral where the person stayed dead. This is seen in the above Scripture from Luke and the widow of Nain and her son. It is seen in Mark 5, with the synagogue official Jairus, and his daughter, and then, most famously of all, with Lazarus, dead three days in his tomb. It makes me wonder what "funerals" in my life, and yours, have we been holding, are holding now, that desperately need a visit from Jesus Christ?
The power of Jesus Christ can and still does raise the dead, and there are reports of these resurrections from all over the world. Most of them seem to come from cultures far less sophisticated and what we would call "enlightened," than ours. The people have not been taught to believe such miracles cannot take place. They simply trust Him and believe. Yet it is not a physical death that I want to write of today. There is another type of death that afflicts us, torments us, and leaves us in despair. This is the death of our dreams, our hopes, our futures. Dead, at least from our viewpoint, and likely the view of many around us as well. Nothing new in that. Jesus came upon the widow of Nain in the midst of a funeral procession. They saw the death of the boy as final. Likewise all the mourners at the home of Jairus. His daughter was beyond the reach of hope. Worst of all was Lazarus, dead for three days, beyond what Jewish law stated was the limit for a body to brought back to life. Such can be our outlook on our own lives and circumstances. Our relationships, marriage, ministries. We may have been filled with hope once, but that was long ago. Too much time has passed and the dream has died, the vision has vanished, the chance has been missed. It's over. All has been lost. It's all dead now, and will be so tomorrow as well...and beyond. Dare we.....dare you, to believe that He longs to be invited to your funeral, to enter into your funeral procession? To come and bring life out of death, joy out of sorrow, hope from despair, beauty from ashes?
Jesus Christ is King....and He has authority over all things....including death....including what we consider beyond resurrection. He is the funeral wrecker. He has always been such....He always will be. Yes, death, divorce, failure, loss, these are all real. But their affect upon us needn't be final. If He is invited to our funeral, they won't be. He does and will turn mourning into dancing. He does make a way where there is none. He does make mountains disappear.....and quiets the fiercest of storms. He walks on the very waters that we are sure will drown us. He comes and touches the "coffin" into which we have placed all that we have lost, coffins that for all intensive purposes contain ourselves as well.... and makes them, us, live again. As He gave her son back to his mother, He gives life, hope, joy, abundance, back to us again.
Are you caught up in a funeral procession? Jesus approaches you. Will you bid Him welcome? Or, do you allow Him to pass by? And the funeral goes on.
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