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Every year hordes of improvisers take over BATS for one week of made-up mayhem; running workshops, masterclasses and a full programme of improv theatre fun. Across the week we present three or four one-off shows a night. There are no scripts, no lines to remember; only spontaneity and generosity on stage, creating theatre that has never been seen and will never be seen again.
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Year : 2014
Style : Power Metal , Heavy Metal
Country : France
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Founded in 1997, Deafening Silence lived through the years while keeping the flame alive, elaborating a style of metal that evolved along with the influences of its members. After over fifteen years of existence, some line-up changes, three demos and two albums (Edge of Life in 2003 and Backlash in 2007), the band is now back with a new embodiment consisting in Nico (vocals), Guiome and Gaabh (guitars), Phil (bass) and Tom (drums), ready to deliver its third offering. With this brand new LP, the band pushes back the boundaries of its music, reaching more aggressive territories on the verge of thrash metal and developing a significantly progressive side. As soon as the album is out, Deafening Silence will be back on stage.Né en 1997, Deafening Silence a traversé les années sans jamais perdre la flamme, distillant un Heavy Speed Metal qui n'a cessé d'évoluer en fonction des influences de ses membres. Après plus de quinze ans d'existence, plusieurs changements de line up, 3 démos et 2 albums, (Edge Of Life en 2003 et Backlash en 2007), le groupe, composé de Nico (chant), Guiome & Gabriel (guitares), Phil (basse) et Tom (batterie), est de retour avec un nouvel album conceptuel traitant des fusillés pour l'exemple durant la 1ere Guerre Mondiale. Pour ce disque, Deafening Silence a repoussé les limites de son Heavy Metal en explorant des territoires plus agressifs aux frontières du thrash et en développant un côté plus progressif. Dès lors que l'album sera sorti, le combo reprendra la route des concerts.
The third studio album in many careers has been the 'breakthrough' record in terms of career longevity. For many Metal consumers, you only need to look at IRON MAIDEN or METALLICA and think of the worldwide impact efforts like "The Number of the Beast" and "Master of Puppets" made on the fans, catapulting their status and inspiring generations of future musicians. Hailing from France, the Power Metal quintet DEAFENING SILENCE have now arrived at this pinnacle point in their career – taking their time in pushing quality over quantity as "Scapegoat of Ignorance" is their third full length album in their 18 year history.When many think of Power Metal visions of happy melodies, persistent double bass and twin guitar harmonies abound. Do not forget that during the 1980's, American acts like LIEGE LORD, METAL CHURCH, and SANCTUARY developed their own brand of power/speed riffs, combining soaring multi-octave vocals and tempos that made fist pumping and chanting mandatory. The latter template is the one this band employs, fluctuating between power/ semi-speed fare like opener "The Call" and "Soldiers of Fortune" and culturally-oriented to mid-tempo anthems that serve as call to arms numbers like "Under Siege" and the 7 minute plus "Dereliction of Duty".The positives include a great dynamic balance between clean and dual harmonic skills for guitarists Gabriel Palmieri and Guillaume Corsale – their abilities are not necessarily neo-classical / shred worthy, but there appears to be a lot of superior melodic nuances in a fashion heard with JUDAS PRIEST or the aforementioned METAL CHURCH. Check out the understated ballad "Farewell" and the heads down battering you'll gain from the doom to speed riff-tastic "Of Iron and Fire" and I would imagine many will simulate their best work in an air guitar fashion. Also noteworthy is the rhythm section action- flashy when necessary during the faster material and also open-ended with a little bit of progressive-minded flair on "Carved in Stone".What could be a deal breaker in the full on appreciation of DEAFENING SILENCE lies in the high falsetto screams of Nicolas Griette. It is one thing when you are a Rob Halford or Warrel Dane and can convincingly reach the stratosphere without cracking – but his ideal range is more middle register a la Mike Howe, because the piercing notes during "Death Squads" or the aforementioned "Dereliction of Duty" sound very cringe worthy. I will say that the vocals are more than tolerable a majority of this record- just be aware that he needs to stay within his strengths on future recordings."Scapegoat of Ignorance" should gain a minor splash in the hearts of older 80's Power Metal fans, those people who remember when traditional sounds were taken to another level of musicality without being purely about aggression and speed for speed's sake.
Line Up:
Nicolas Griette - Lead Vocals
Guillaume Corsale - Guitars, Backing Vocals
Gabriel Palmieri - Guitars, Backing Vocals
Phil Wax - Bass, Backing Vocals
Tom Coulaud - Drums
01. The Call 04:12
02. Death Squads 06:38
03. Under Siege 05:33
04. Of Iron and Fire 05:18
05. Carved in Stone 06:58
06. The Last Stand 13:04
07. Soldiers of Fortune 04:46
08. Dereliction of Duty 07:18
09. Farewell 06:07
10. Epitaph 03:39
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We moved the furniture, printed the draft, and literally walked through the pages, looking for the best homes for over a dozen great side-bars we had solicited and received from a bunch of industry pundits and peers. In addition, Rick has done 25 wonderful cartoons on the subject, and we wanted to make sure that they were not only placed appropriately to the text, but also were relatively evenly spaced throughout the book.
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Rick and I weren't the only ones who enjoyed getting "hands on" with the project. It was all going so well until Muzzle Punk woke up from his post-luncheon siesta.
He faked us out on his way back in from a trip to the Potty Patch.
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Good thing.
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And if we end up a bit late on meeting our deadline, will someone please print this out and take it to our publisher?
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How far was there an administrative policy peculiar to Norman rule in Normandy, England, southern Italy and Sicily and Antioch, the crusading kingdom established in the early twelfth century? In 1969, D.C. Douglas stated the case as follows[1]:
"Before the twelfth century was far advanced, monarchies established by the Normans controlled the best organised kingdoms in Europe and a Norman prince ruled the strongest of the Crusading states. This success was, however, not due merely to the facts of conquest or even to the establishment of notable rulers supported by strong feudal aristocracies. It derived from a particular administrative policy which was everywhere adopted by the Normans. In all the states they governed, the Normans at this time were concerned to give fresh vitality to the administrative institutions that they found in the conquered lands and to develop these constructively to their own advantage."
In Sicily, as in England, historians have implied that the Norman rulers chose the best practices and institutions and incorporated them into the Norman system that their 'genius of adaptation' then developed into one that was more efficient and more successful than its predecessor.
The claims made by Douglas and his predecessors have been strongly challenged for England by James Campbell and W. L. Warren. They suggest that the evidence for Anglo-Norman administration is open to a fundamentally different interpretation[2]. Warren attacked the 'myth of Norman administrative efficiency':
"Until the end of the eleventh century, Anglo-Norman England was largely managed by Englishmen. The crisis in continuity emerges not at the Conquest but as the generation personally familiar with pre-Conquest practice dies off and the Normans had to cope for themselves. The critical questions are how far were they able to master the Anglo-Saxon inheritance and how far they understood it. The innovations in administrative practices were...at least in part a response to problems which the Normans themselves inadvertently created and an attempt not so much to improve upon the Anglo-Saxon system as to shore it up and stop it collapsing...Under the Normans, the Anglo-Saxon system became ramshackle. Norman government was a matter of shifts and contrivances. Nevertheless, there is a break in continuity, not at the Conquest itself...but within fifty years. The break occurred not because the Normans did not wish to preserve the Anglo-Saxon inheritance but because they did not know how to..."
What is now clear is that. First, in the immediate post-conquest period, in England and Sicily, the Norman rulers sought to adapt native administrative practices to their own needs. Secondly, in both areas a generation after the conquest, there was a break in continuity caused by a failure of the conquerors to preserve the administrative structure inherited from the previous rulers. Finally, in Sicily, as in England, Norman rulers then introduced administrative innovations to repair the damage done to the pre-conquest system; innovations that underwent rigorous selection through a process of trial and error and rapidly developed in new directions.
There were, however, important differences between the ways in which the Norman rulers of England and Sicily adapted native administrative processes to their own needs. In England, the Norman rulers initially perpetuated the Anglo-Saxon inheritance by employing native administrators. Until 1071, a significant group of English earls and thegns retained power and status and played a significant role in the post-conquest settlement. After 1071, at the level of the shire a small but vital administrative community of Anglo-Saxons survived ensuring the continuity of Anglo-Saxon customs and traditions. After the conquest of Sicily was completed in 1091, no Muslim lords held land in fief from the Normans. Although Sicilian Arabs must have been employed within the early Norman administration, we know the name of only one before 1130 while an entire class of Greek Christian administrators was imported from east Sicily and Calabria to manage and adapt the Arab and Islamic institutions through which the island was administered.
Linguistically, there were parallels between England and Sicily. Both islands had become 'trilingual' as a result of the conquest though it is important to recognise that a concentration on three big languages oversimplifies the complex linguistic structure of the islands. For example, it ignores the linguistic diversity of north and west Britain and the wide variation of Romance vernaculars in the Sicilian kingdom. It also neglects the Scandinavian communities in Britain and the presence of some Normans who still had Norse personal names. In England, although Old English (Anglo-Saxon) was the administrative language before 1066, Latin was already the dominant literary language and soon after the conquest (around 1069) replaced Old English as the language of records, though it retained the unwritten language of local government. French (Anglo-Norman) was introduced after 1066 as the language of the victorious elite, but, except in the king's court, French-speakers were soon assimilated into English-speaking society. French was soon established as a literary language but it was not until the mid-13th century that it was widely used as a language of record.
In pre-conquest Sicily, Arabic was the dominant language of administrative at all levels, of literary culture and of religion. Greek was confined to monasteries and to the Greek urban societies of eastern Sicily. Even the non-Muslim minorities (Jews and Greek Christians) seem to have been predominantly Arabic-speaking. After the conquest, Arabic continued to be used in some documents for a generation but was then dropped. Greek was established as the language through which the Normans ruled and rapidly became the dominant language of administration on the island. By 1110-15, the almost complete replacement of Arabic by Greek and of Arab Muslim by Greek Christians in the central administration hastened the collapse of the pre-conquest administrative system far more than the, as yet, insignificant introduction of Latin. The new Greek structure incorporated some things salvaged from the pre-conquest Muslim administration but it was essentially new and foreign. Latin lords and their Arab 'villeins' used, respectively Latin (or a Romance vernacular) and Arabic with Greek Christians acting as intermediaries between the two communities. In post-conquest England, an educated person might read and write Old English, Latin and French but in Sicily, such 'trilinguism' was uncommon and confined largely to the Greek Christian community. In the long term, the language of the Norman conquerors enriched English but was replaced by it as English became the dominant language throughout Britain. In Sicily, the Romance vernaculars of the Normans had almost completely ousted Arabic by the end of the 13th century and medieval Sicilian contained only some three hundred words of Arabic derivation.
The Anglo-Saxon and Muslim inheritances were fundamentally different from each other and the Norman rulers sought to adapt these inheritances in England and Sicily in very different ways. This contrast is reinforced by the ways in which Henry I and Roger II each sought to make good the damage done to the pre-conquest systems. In England, Henry I replaced existing Anglo-Saxon social mechanisms with a series of innovations amounting to a rapid expansion of the early state and the administrative machinery through which it was governed. Roger II sought to preserve and to restore the system inherited from Muslim Sicily by importing administrative practices, institutions and personnel wholesale from the contemporary Muslim world so that the Arabic administrative of Sicily in the mid-12th century resembled the classical Islamic system as exemplified by contemporary Fatimid Egypt. In England, the existing Anglo-Saxon system was close to collapse. Henry I had little choice but to innovate. In Sicily, Roger II sought to repair the existing native system and gave a new lease of life to previously decaying Arabic and Islamic administrative systems and institutions. At the same time, Roger II and his successors introduced a series of far-reaching innovations in the Greek and, especially in the Latin branches of the administration.
There are important differences in the ways in which the Normans in England and Sicily responded to a common problem: how should they react to the collapse of existing native institutions? 'Administrative efficiency' was not the consequence of the conquests but a necessary response to Norman failure to maintain the administrative systems they inherited. Good governance had to be created in England after 1100 and recreated in Sicily after 1120. This was the administrative achievement of the Normans.
[1] D.C. Douglas The Norman Achievement 1050-1100, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1969, pages 181-182. Douglas was here following the view expressed by C. H. Haskins in his 'England and Sicily in the twelfth century', English Historical Review, volume 103, (1911), especially pages 433-5 where he stressed that a 'genius for adaptation' characterised Norman government in Normandy, England, Italy and Antioch.
[2] James Campbell 'Observations on English government from the tenth to the twelfth century', Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 5th series, volume 25, (1975), pages 39-54 and W. L. Warren 'The myth of Norman administrative efficiency', Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 5th series, volume 34, (1984), pages 113-132.


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I try not to look as I pass the puddings on temptress Peggy Eagle's stall at Whitstable Farmers' Market. I can resist everything except temptation in the pudding department, but with her maxim "occasional indulgence is good for the spirit" ringing in my ears, I deceive myself that a seasonal fruit-based pudding is somehow less wicked. I must confess to having succumbed to her plums with star anise and black pepper, her cream pots with crab apple and rosehip reduction, her avocado and lime pudding and her orange and rosemary creams.
Time to harvest currants from the fruit cage, so I asked Peggy to practise her alchemy on those tart little jewels: translucent white currants, the zingy reds and musky blackcurrants and turn them into irresistible puds. She suggested a blackcurrant clafoutis: sweating the fruit with sugar in butter in a heavy pan, then covering with a vanilla-flavoured eggy batter and cooking in a moderate oven until browned. Then, a modern summer pudding of stacked juice-soaked brioche rounds in between layers of black and redcurrant compote, set inside a washed and oiled tin (ex-baked bean tins make good formers) in the fridge, then eased out and decorated with redcurrants. And finally, pretty white currants floating in a mouth-watering gooseberry and elderflower jelly, set with agar.
Rich in vitamin C, blackcurrant juice was offered free to wartime children. Perhaps it's this happy memory that makes it such a popular flavour, though more than 95 per cent of cultivated currants go to Ribena. The leaves are strongly aromatic (of cat's pee, some would say) but that doesn't stop their use dried in teas and pickles, in perfumes from Guerlain to Gucci, and in this delicious sorbet from Mark Diacono: simmer together two handfuls of crushed blackcurrant leaves, 250g of caster sugar and 600ml of water until the sugar has dissolved; when cool add the juice of three lemons, strain and freeze in a sorbet maker, adding a whisked egg white before the final freeze.
Mix a simple cordial (dissolving 200g of sugar with 400g of currants in a little water, then add lemon juice to taste, strain and bottle) with white wine to make Kir, with champagne to make Kir Royale, or like the Germans make a summer drink of redcurrant cordial with a splash of soda water, or use white currants to make a spectacular Linzertorte. Obviously redcurrants make good jelly and blackcurrants make a popular jam, but all currants freeze well, for use in pretty tarts, sorbets, ice creams and jellies.
Picking currants is hard work. I spoke to Sandra Herbert at Whetstone Pastures Farm near Leicester, one of the few remaining pick-your-own fruit farms, who says there is a small revival after the desert years of the Nineties, and that maybe people are bringing their children to relive childhood memories of happy times picking fruit. The success of each soft fruit depends on the ease of picking, so currants come low on the list.
Whetstone is an educational farm, and the Herberts teach children who have never seen a goosegog, and help special needs and disabled groups connect with the countryside. Sandra also makes a delicious range of jams including raspberry and redcurrant.
How to grow currants
Growing currants is easy. Blackcurrants need slightly different treatment to reds and whites, and all should be grown in a cage for any hope of a harvest.
Blackcurrants need rich soil and a sunny situation. I used to let my poultry flock overwinter in the fruit cage to liberally manure the soil.
Plant them deep in autumn and prune every two years to encourage growth from ground level.
Red and white currants grow well in semi-shade and should be pruned in March, cutting back the oldest wood by half. Cut back all new side shoots to four leaves after fruiting.
Prune into a cup shape to avoid overcrowding and mildew.
Mulch plants in autumn and water well during dry spells.
Buy currant bushes from Ashwood Nurseries or Bakker
Unwins is selling redcurrant 'Rovada' as a cordon, and blackcurrant 'Ebony' boasting it is sweet enough to eat from the bush.
Try redcurrant 'Junifer' or 'Jonkheer van Tets'; white currant 'White Pearl' or 'White Versailles'; and blackcurrant 'Ben Lomond' and 'Ben Sarek'.
For more of Peggy Eagle's pudding recipes, follow her on twitter @puddingpeg or on Facebook, or visit Whitstable Farmers' Market


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Homily: Closing Mass at Catholic Conference 2002
A man who is deeply depressed about the state of the world decides that he needs some comfort food. He goes to a restaurant and tearfully asks the waiter to bring him some fish like his mother used to make, and also to favour him with a kind word.
The waiter goes away, brings back the fish, and is about to leave the table when the diner grabs him by the arm, and begs: "and what about a kind word?"
The waiter regards him impassively and then whispers in his ear: "If I were you, I wouldn't touch that fish!"
And even if the meal is tasty, politics and prejudice can spoil the food.
A Jewish gentleman walks into a restaurant and see an Asian gentleman contentedly eating chicken soup with dumplings. He falls into a rage, rushes over, and hits him with a pickled cucumber. "That's for Pearl Harbor!" he shouts.
"But I'm Chinese, not Japanese," says the other indignantly.
"Chinese, Japanese, Siamese - it's all the same to me," responds the Jewish fellow as he marches back to his table.
Later as he is contentedly leaving the restaurant after the meal, the Chinese fellow runs after him and hits him with a salami. "That's for the Titanic!" he shouts.
"But the Titanic was wrecked by an iceberg", the Jewish fellow shouts back indignantly.
"Iceberg, Greenberg, Goldberg, Rosenberg ..." says the Chinese fellow, "It's all the same to me.
What can you do in this unholy mess? Begin to build a new world order!
There is an old scholastic idea that if you want to define something, you describe it narrowly at first and then expand the description in a disciplined way. I take my narrow definition of globalization - very narrow - from the International Monetary Fund, which sees it as the growing economic interdependence of countries worldwide, caused by the increasing volume and variety of cross-border transactions in goods and services and of international capital, and the rapid and widespread diffusion of technology. This economic definition gives us a sense of the material meaning of globalization, but we have to add a political and cultural understanding, and ultimately a spiritual understanding.
This is not the first time that we have been in a period of intensive integration of global economies. Between 1870 and 1914 there was unprecedented integration in trade relationships. Yet there is something new in the scope, complexity and reach of globalization today.
Some argue that globalization is inevitably harmful to the world's poor. Others question not the process itself but its procedures and outcomes. Their question is: how can we make globalization work for the world's poor? The answer is that we must start to provide an ethical structure and framework for it.
Globalization has its own logic, but not its own ethic. Both technology and globalization press to cross the next stream, to climb the next mountain, to conquer the next field. But this is not like a force of nature that cannot be moved, shaped and developed. How we shape it and who will direct the shaping of it is the ethical key.
We have done this before; we have confronted phenomena which had their own logic but not their own ethic. Think, for example, that since the fourth century there has been a recognition that in this world of ours, fallen and not yet fully redeemed, force would be used, and therefore an ethical framework had to be set around it. Just war theory - to give direction, provide limits and set mandates.
The Christian church has the capacity to make a special contribution to the globalization debate. But for a long time people have thought it unnecessary to understand religion in order to understand world affairs. Philosophers and statesmen who designed the origins of the modern state system in the seventeenth century were looking back on 100 years of religious war in Europe. They believed that the best thing to do was to take religion out of politics entirely.
I don't know of a single major text book on international relations or world politics that treats religion seriously. Practical politicians, too, assume that they need no acquaintance with religion. Yet Latin America today cannot possibly be understood without consideration for the Catholic Church's role, any more than the transition to democracy in South Africa can be understood without Bishop Tutu or the collapse of Communism in Central and Eastern Europe without reference to the election of a Polish Pope.
In this globalized interdependent world, one of the most important roles has been that of transnational organizations based in one place, yet present in several places, and possessing a trained corps of personnel, a single guiding philosophy and a sophisticated communications system. These transnational actors have begun to exercise influence in the world similar to that of states in the past.
All the major religious traditions have this transnational capacity. Since the attacks on the United States on 11 September, we have seen how the idea of the Islamic nation cuts across state boundaries. This is a phenomenon world diplomats need to understand, whether they like it or not.
The Catholic Church, which is not new to the world stage, illustrates this intersection of ideas, institutions and community in a powerful way. As we begin the twenty-first century, the social awareness and social fabric of Catholicism have been strengthened and deepened. There were three steps in the process:
- the updating of the social teaching itself,
- the catalyst of the Second Vatican Council,
- and the pontificate of John Paul II.
The social teaching of the Church had to respond to three separate developments in the twentieth century: the industrial revolution, the internationalization of the world that followed the Second World War, and the rise of advanced industrial societies in nations such as Britain and the United States. Each stage of development posed a major question for Catholic social teaching: what are the moral consequences of the industrial revolution - who needs to be protected, what needs to be reshaped; what does it mean when you move from a vision of society that is primarily about your own state to the international system which emerged after the Second World War; and what of advanced industrial societies, from which come the ideas and the institutions that shape globalization?
The core concept developed by Catholic social teaching in response to these challenges was the dignity of the person. The human person must always be an end and not a means, a subject and not an object or a commodity of trade. Here is the cornerstone of the Catholic social vision, reaffirmed recently by the Pope in an address to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.
"We are seeing the emergence of patterns of ethical thinking which are by-products of globalization itself and which bear the stamp of utilitarianism. But ethical values cannot be dictated by technological innovations, engineering or efficiency; they are ground in the very nature of the human person. Ethics cannot be the justification or legitimation of a system, but rather the safeguard of all that is human in any system. Ethics demands that systems be attuned to the needs of persons, and not that persons be sacrificed for the sake of the system."
No political system or economic system, whether national or international, is self-justified: all social systems must be tested by what they do to and for the dignity of the person.
The notion of personal human dignity is then matched with the concept of universal human community. Catholics recognize regions; they recognize nation states with their boundaries and borders; they recognize structures that exist across the world. But the fundamental moral unit they must be concerned about is the human being in community.
Between the person and the community lies the fabric of rights and duties. The Church measures and directs that fabric by a series of refined specific concepts: the common good; the option for the poor; subsidiarity and solidarity, which the Pope has called the necessary virtue for an interdependent world.
A powerful impetus was applied to the legacy of social teaching by the Second Vatican Council. Its document on the Church in the Modern World, Gaudium et Spes, entrusted to the Church the task of standing as the sign and safeguard of the transcendent dignity of the human person. So whatever threatens that dignity becomes the business of the Church. If globalization, while it is neither good nor bad in itself, has a dynamic that threatens human dignity, this needs to be address by the Church.
As a result of the Second Vatican Council, the Catholic Church became less political and more social: less political in the sense that the document on religious liberty cut the Church free from many relationships with states that had kept it in thrall to state power; more social in that the Church, free politically, could now be more deeply involved in the social arena.
There is a wonderful phrase in Gaudium et Spes which says that the way the Church can show its love for the world is by its willingness to dialogue with the world. Dialogue means not thinking one knows everything. The Church has something to teach and much to learn. That is a good posture to approach something as complex as globalization.
The Second Vatican Council also gave a new impetus to the local Church as a legitimate voice in the universal Church. The council saw the local Church as a source of moral wisdom and insight derived from living in the world and speaking about its condition. That validation of the local Church will be crucially important in the globalization discussion, for it allows Catholicism to take account of particular contexts. Globalization looks different when it is viewed from New York City, Sao Paulo, Lusaka. Warsaw, Manila and Jerusalem.
Finally, there is the work of John Paul II, who has deepened and broadened social teaching, giving it more a fabric and greater sophistication. The term "solidarity: was in the Church's social teaching long before John Paul II took the seat of Peter, but solidarity means much more in Catholicism today because of the living witness of the Pope."
This, then, is where Catholicism prepares itself to engage globalization. But an ethic is not enough.
Novo Millennio Ineunte # 43.
..... Before making practical plans, we need to promote a spirituality of communion,...
A spirituality of communion indicates above all the heart's contemplation of the mystery of the Trinity dwelling in us, and whose light we must also be able to see shining on the face of the brothers and sisters around us.
A spirituality of communion also means an ability to think of our brothers and sisters in faith within the profound unity of the Mystical Body, and therefore as "those who are a part of me". This makes us able to share their joys and sufferings, to sense their desires and attend to their needs, to offer them deep and genuine friendship.
A spirituality of communion implies also the ability to see what is positive in others, to welcome it and prize it as a gift from God: not only as a gift for the brother or sister who has received it directly, but also as a "gift for me".
A spirituality of communion means, finally, to know how to "make room" for our brothers and sisters, bearing "each other's burdens" (Gal 6:2) and resisting the selfish temptations which constantly beset us and provoke competition, careerism, distrust and jealousy.
Let us have no illusions: unless we follow this spiritual path, external structures of communion will serve very little purpose. They would become mechanisms without a soul, "masks" of communion rather than its means of expression and growth.
Globalization also has to be addressed from within institutional structures that have some of the strength of globalization itself.
One of the characteristics of the Church, as I have just shown, is to be as transnational as globalization, while at the same time being integrated along a vertical line that runs from Rome down through the local Church to the communities at the base. So the Church can speak about the system as a whole (best embodied in the Pope); about national policy in different places (bishops' conferences); and about local life where people live their faith (parishes and other organized groups). This vertical integration, which is systemic, national and local, has precisely the multi-dimensional aspect necessary to address globalization.
Globalization presents today a similar challenge to Catholic social teaching as industrialization at the end of the nineteenth century. There had been social teaching before Leo XIII's encyclical Rerum Novarum, but industrialization demonstrated to the Church that it had to be much more systematic, rigorous and expansive. Catholic teaching in the twentieth century has gown and developed: Thomas Aquinas talked about the common good, but he never talked about the international common good; Catholic social teaching today talks about the international common good. Aquinas talked about legal justice; today, the Church talks of social justice.
So it is that as Catholics confront globalization, they will need to develop their teaching. The Church does not have the concepts to handle all the issues that the phenomenon raises. The question, for example, of what to do about global financial markets -whether to regulate them or not, whether or not to tax the flow of money - is highly debated among economists. There is no encyclical in the Catholic tradition which can tell anyone what to do on this; we need to develop adequate concepts.
The debate about building a new world order will turn on trade, third world debt and terrorism. These core issues take on different dimensions in the context of globalization.
I. Trade
Trade was described by Pope Paul VI as the issue of social justice. The trade contract, he said, was like the wage contract: if it starts with equality, it can end up with equal distribution or at least proportionate distribution; but if it starts with structural inequality, then adjustments have to be made in the structure of trade relationships.
Today the trading system is immensely more complicated than when Paul VI faced it in 1967, but his moral principle is still the same. It is the task of the Church to take that moral principle, expand it and develop it.
The market, of course, is crucial to globalization. It is a valuable way of organizing economic life but it is not a self-sufficient way; the market may produce efficiency, but it will not necessarily produce justice. Those who have no resources to bring to the market simply cannot gain anything from it. And the market itself does not know how to value all goods. It treats them equally, but they are not equal. Health care is not the same as selling cars. And precisely because the market is limited, it needs a social structure of policy surrounding it. This is our framework for globalization.
The provisions of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) came into force in 1994.
A report written in 2001 by economic analysts from the United States, Mexico and Canada concludes that: "an evaluation of the North American Free Trade Agreement on its seventh anniversary finds a continent-wide pattern of stagnant worker incomes, lost job opportunities, increased insecurity, and rising inequality." (NAFTA at Seven: Its Impact on Workers in All Three Nations, Robert E. Scott, Carlos Salas and Bruce Campbell, Economic Policy Institute, Washington, D.C. April 2001).
The authors acknowledge that trade and investment among the three countries has increased greatly during the past seven years, and there has been a period of economic growth. But all three countries have also experienced an increasing gap between rich and poor in their societies.
In Canada, the top 20 percent of families saw their share of pre-tax and transfer incomes increase from 41.9 % to 45.2% by 1998. The bottom 20% saw their share drop from 3.8% to 3.1%.
The income of salaried Mexican workers fell by 25% between 1991 and 1998, while incomes of the self-employed fell by 40%. During the 1990s, the minimum wage in Mexico lost nearly 50% of its purchasing power. Manufacturing wages fell 21% between 1993 and 1999.
NAFTA eliminated an estimated 766,000 jobs in the United States between 1994 and 2000, and the trade deficit between the USA and its northern and southern neighbours was greatly increased.
Any wider free trade agreement that does not give as much priority to labour and social development as it gives to the protections of investors and financiers is not viable. Rather than attempting to spread a deeply flawed agreement to all of the Americas, the leaders of the nations of North American need to return to the drawing board and design a model of economic integration that works for the continent's working people.
The global economy must be humanized. In Ecclesia in America, Pope John Paul II pointed out that:
"... if globalization is ruled merely by the laws of the market applied to suit the powerful, the consequences cannot but be negative. These are, for example, the absolutizing of the economy, unemployment, the reduction and deterioration of public services, the destruction of the environment and natural resources, the growing distance between the rich and poor, unfair competition which puts poorer nations in a situation of ever increasing inferiority."
The pressure on the wages and income for a majority of people has grown in each country, and at the same time government programs that once protected citizens and the environment have been removed.
Traditionally, governments have understood their role as one of regulating certain activities of corporations to serve the public interest. This meant to ensure, for example, that the environment was protected against degradation, and that workers were fairly treated. But the Investor-State mechanism contained in Chapter 11 of NAFTA is turning this historical relationship on its head.
The primary focus of Chapter 11 has been to limit government's capacity to support environmental, health and other public values in the face of commercial interests. This measure makes it increasingly difficult for governments to act in the best interests of the citizens who have elected them.
Corporations have moved quickly to seize the advantage open to them under chapter 11. They have launched approximately 15 lawsuits that strike at the heart of government policy-making and national sovereignty, taking aim particularly at laws protecting the environment. Information on these Chapter 11 cases remains incomplete because under NAFTA rules they are shrouded in secrecy, in stark contrast to normal proceedings in domestic courts of law. Nevertheless, some information has surfaced, e.g.
- Ethyl Corporation versus Canada
- Statement of claim: October 2, 1997
- Out-of-court settlement: US $13 million, 1998
Canada banned the importation of a gasoline additive call MMT, produced by Virginia-based Ethyl Corporation. The government had evidence that MMT was both a health and an environmental hazard.
Canadian officials went into the case with confidence, but despite the fact that NAFTA is supposed to allow governments to pass environmental legislation, it was clear from deliberations of the tribunal that Canada was going to lose the case. Rather than face a US $250 million dollar penalty based on the loss of future profits claimed by Ethyl, Canada decided to settle under the following conditions: a US $13 million payment to Ethyl, the removal of the ban on MMT in Canadian gasoline, and a public apology to Ethyl for implying that its product was hazardous.
The proceedings were conducted in secret, in accordance with NAFTA Investment chapter provisions, and were widely criticized in Canada. They provided a rude awakening regarding the impacts of the NAFTA expropriation provision. They also resulted in a direct reduction of Canadian health and environmental protections.
II. Unpayable Debt
Archbishop Medardo Mazombwe of Zambia
"I come from a country, Zambia, where every woman, man, and child, owes $750 in external debt (per capita income in Zambia is just over $250 US). What servicing this debt means for Zambians is lack of education opportunities, inadequate health care facilities, poor housing, water and sanitation structures, insufficient productive investments for promoting jobs, etc. These are the serious wounds that Zambians experience because of debt and the demand for debt servicing.... The debt problem is not simply an economic issue. It is fundamentally an ethical issue because it is radically a human problem, affecting the well-being of families, the survival of the poor, the bonds of community, and the security of the future."
The burden of external debt of the poorest countries is crushing the lives and the dignity of vulnerable children, women and men. In most cases, those who bear the burden of repaying the debt had no voice in the decision to borrow and did not benefit from it; in some cases the borrowed funds were wasted, used for extravagant activities, or even stolen by unprincipled officials.
Debt is symptomatic of a larger unfinished agenda we carry into this new millennium: the problem of underdevelopment in so many parts of our world. The debt crisis is one critical aspect of a much wider problem of development that must be addressed if large segments of the world's population are to avoid a future of marginalization, despair, and hopelessness.
Pope John Paul II, while acknowledging that high interest rates, irresponsible lending decision, and corruption were all factors in accumulating massive debt, wrote in Ecclesia in America:
It would be unjust to impose the burden resulting from these irresponsible decision upon those who did not make them. The gravity of the situation is all the more evident when we consider that "even the payment of interest alone represents a burden for the economy of the poor nations, which deprives authorities of the money necessary for social development, education, health and the establishment of a fund to create jobs."
Considerations of justice suggest that no single principle can govern the many situations of indebtedness. While the moral presumption that debts should be paid should not be readily overridden, in many instances this presumption must give way because of other considerations, especially the social costs of repayment. To focus only on the terms of a loan - rather than the conditions under which it was contracted, the purposes for which it was used, or the impact on individuals today as the terms of repayment are set - is to isolate a narrow understanding of commutative justice from the broader considerations of distributive and social justice.
III. The War on Terrorism
The US government's stated intention is to end worldwide terrorism through political pressure and military force.
It should be clear to all of us by now that no country, even one as powerful as the US, can successfully end terrorism by warlike measures. The overwhelming military response fuels anger and hatred, and serves to inspire new recruits to the causes espoused by those who commit acts of terror. Key is the need to address injustices and root causes that create the fertile soil in which disinherited and disillusioned people are recruited into terrorism.
It is relatively easy to draw up a list of additional areas of concern that need to be addressed: the call for a Palestinian state and security for Israel as the only way to bring peace to the Middle East; condemning the use of sanctions against innocent populations in Iraq; addressing the question of foreign investment and the political and religious terrorism in Sudan; pointing to our government failures in helping development efforts to overcome the world -wide scandal of poverty; criticizing our alliances with countries that violate human rights; the need to reverse our role in the international arms trade; etc.
When all the shooting stops, the challenge facing the newly formed alliances is to develop and to maintain the political will to act decisively on behalf of the disposed of the world.. This requires much more than emergency food aid in times of calamity. The world's political elite needs to recognize that inequality does matter and has to be tackled if peace and security are to be achieved, and if globalization of terrorism is to be curtailed.
A new direction in the worldwide response to terrorism is called for. It is not enough to say: "you are with us or with the terrorists." As people of faith we must engage in more dialogue and deeper discernment. We need to rethink the "just-war" tradition and seek a new paradigm for judging the questions of war and peace today.
The current crisis demands also a more inventive and resourceful response form religious leaders. Given the role of religion as a potential mobilizing force in recruiting would-be terrorists, we need to hear and see more from them than pious denunciations and inter-faith peace gatherings that we have witnessed to date. During the conflict in Bosnia, the UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan, spoke of the need "to restore religion to its rightful role as peacemaker and pacifier."
It is questionable whether or not religion has ever fulfilled that role. To do so now, the world's religious leaders would first need to acknowledge the ambivalence of their own religious traditions towards violence. The fact that all the major faiths have at times sanctioned the use of force to protect and even to promote their own sectarian interests allows religious terrorists today to clam more justification for their actions. It is not enough for religious leaders to disown the unacceptable actions of their fringe groups. Each faith community needs to promote a respect for human life above all other beliefs and interests. Until this happens religion will always have the potential to be a divisive and destructive force in the world.
To speak of the need for tolerance is a wholly inadequate response to the terror perpetrated in God's name. The concept of tolerance was developed essentially as a reaction to the growth of pluralism in belief and practice. The crisis today in our global human relationships calls for a more pro-active approach to diversity. It demands willingness from those with faith and those without it to acknowledge and to protect more vigorously the right of others to think, to believe and to act differently. No creed or grievance should ever be allowed to justify human slaughter in any part of the globe.
If we are to build a new world order, then we need to learn the lessons contained in three ancient tales.
In the first tale several disciples seek out a great desert monastic for spiritual direction. However, the monk cryptically responds: "Go into your cell and your cell will teach you everything." The implication of that answer for the role of the church is relatively clear: religion has to do with becoming immersed in the mystical, with the touch of the eternal within me, deep in myself, alone with God. In this case the role of the church is to transcend life.
In another tale the disciples ask one of the holy masters the greatest spiritual question of all: "Is there life after death?" The master replies: "The greatest spiritual question of them all is not is there life after death but rather is there life before death?" The emphases here being that life itself is a spiritual question and the function of the church is to be a fulcrum which enables us to choose life in all its fullness and fervour.
In the third tale, a rabbi returns from the synagogue obviously tired, clearly disheartened. His wife asked him: "How was your sermon?" The rabbi sighed: "Oh, it was half good." She said: "What do you mean, half good?" He replied: "I now have the poor willing to take but I am not nearly as sure that I have the rich willing to give." In this view it is not enough for religion to transcend life; nor is it enough for religion to simply enable life, but it must transform life as well.
There is some truth in each of these views and I think that the secret is to hold the three together in a delicate balance - to transcend, choose and transform life.
☩ Frederick Henry
Bishop Emeritus of Calgary


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Had my very 1st book signing yesterday at Prospero's! I only sold 4 books, but what a learning experience!
I got a lot of practice talking about & pitching the book. Unfortunately, it was after the guy from 88.5 stuck a microphone with a tape recorder in my face. Asking the vampire novelist about the upcoming civil war festivities in town was probably not the best idea for a good sound byte, but there was nothing else going on that early in the afternoon.
Sadly, I can't think that fast on my feet. Even when I'm sitting down. =) Pretty sure that my unrehearsed babble is not going to make it on the air (I didn't even remember to mention the NAME of my book! *sigh*), but it reinforced the need for a pre-prepared talking points.
Hubby stayed with me the whole time, so during the many lulls he asked me lots of questions. Hopefully the next time I get interviewed with no notice I won't sound like a complete idiot! Although to be fair to myself, it could have been much worse. At least I remembered to mention my website this time.
I now have a much better idea of what to do & to expect for future signings. Going to try & get to a lot of conventions this year, I think I'd be a lot more successful in that sort of venue.


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Natural Attractions
Enjoy our natural diversity
The Diocese of Sale offers visitors an opportunity to experience some of Australia's unique flora and fauna. Gippsland is known for its rugged beauty and natural history which has been preserved in literally dozens of national and state parks. Many protect small remnant stands of undisturbed forest, deep gullies with magnificent tree ferns, lyrebirds, brightly colored parrots, honeyeaters and a host of other flora and fauna.
During your stay in our diocese you might visit Phillip Island to witness the world's smallest penguins, fairy penguins, make their nightly pilgrimage up the beach and back to their burrows and waiting chicks. Phillip Island is also home to a large koala population, and the largest colony of fur seals in Australia.
The Buchan Caves in the east of the diocese feature several caves which are open daily for tours. The spectacular limestone formations are regarded as among the best in Australia. The caves reserve is a popular spot for native wildlife, particularly eastern grey kangaroos which hop into the reserve looking for handouts from picnickers. Camping is allowed in the reserve and on a hot summer's day there is nothing more refreshing than a dip in the swimming pool fed by an underground stream.
If you are looking for a taste of Australia's famous beaches you might take in a visit to the Ninety Mile Beach. This is one of the longest straight beaches in the world stretching some 150km from the inlets of McLoughlin's Beach to Lakes Entrance which is one of Victoria's favourite holiday destinations.
The Gippsland Lakes are Australia's largest navigable lakes system, teeming with yachts and other pleasure craft throughout the year. The lakeside towns of Lakes Entrance, Metung, Paynesville and Loch Sport offer visitors to the diocese magnificent views of the lakes. The Mitchell River silt jetties near Eagle Point are unique in Australia and second in length only to those of the Mississippi River.
For the skiing enthusiast the Diocese of Sale is probably one of the few places where you can snow ski in the morning and a few hours later be waterskiing on the beautiful Gippsland Lakes. Mount Baw Baw is a prominent feature of the Gippsland skyline and in winter is a popular place to play in the snow and ski on gentle slopes. Mt Hotham and Dinner Plain resort, although just outside the diocese are easily reached from Gippsland and many choose to stay in the alpine town of Omeo which is part of Bairnsdale parish.
Visitors to the Diocese of Sale will be in awe of the spectacular beauty and varied terrain of Wilson's Promontory. "The Prom" is the southernmost point of mainland Australia and a dominating feature of the Gippsland coast. It is one of the world's oldest national parks, recognised for its rugged splendour. The park is a mecca for bushwalkers and features Mt Oberon, a massive granite mountain which presides over some of the area's most pristine beaches.


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Made from a metal gift tin.
Throw away the lid, stuff firmly.
Make a quilted circle about 3" bigger than top.
Stitch and gather, stuff some more
Glue into can.
Decorate sides of tin with paper, lace, string, tape or whatever.
Sew couple buttons on top.
Sunday, February 19, 2012
5 comments:
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- February 19, 2012 at 1:43 PM
- Yitte said...
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I'm going to keep asking every week: Any news of the future of Southland?
And I finally have an answer -- TNT has picked it up for another season which I think is going to start in January....thanks for asking.
So Steve Carell says he's done with the show when the contract ends after next season. Is he telling the truth, or is it just the opening salvo in a Contract Negotiation?
Sorry for the lag time -- technical issues.
I think a good rule of thumb is that anyone who announces next season will be their last before this season has even finished is firing the opening salvo in a contract negotiation. NBC has so many holes in its primetime schedule and "The Office" is one of the "bright" spots, which, to be perfectly accurate, means that it does NOT do a broadcast sized audience but does particularly well with 18-49 year olds. So it's pretty much a given that NBC will want the show to come back after next season and of course it will not work without Carell, so there you have it: next spring's headline, all nicely laid out.
Now that Tim Urban is gone and viewers can no longer use Ellen DeGeneres' proclaiming him "adorable" as a cue to drink, I propose a game inspired by you: the new prompt is any Decency Police Moment.
Granted, this may be more subjective, but that makes the game even better. In my opinion, there were at least two such moments in Tuesday's show: Ellen's crack about "everybody aboard the Shania Twain" and Kara's comment that "bigger is not always better" (I think that was when she commented on Siobhan's performance).
There was of course, the whole business about Aaron Kelly changing the "making love" lyric because he was singing to his mother, but as you noted, that was kind of creepy. However, I think a drink was warranted in that case to try to block out that memory.
Excellent drinking game and I will get that underway next week with my blog. I did notice the eye rolling and guffawing over Kara's comment that "bigger is not always better." And I too felt an urgent need for a drink, or fumigation, when little Aaron was explaining he de-sexed that lyric in his Shanai Twain tune choice so he could sing that particular love song to his mother...
Pookie, your column about this was a marvelous piece of writing. I loved your line "...she explained, blondely." Absolute perfection. You should win some sort of award for this one. Thanks for the laugh. (You're so right--you can't make this stuff up.)
Wonderful column on the Oprah interview with John Edwards's girlfriend. Once again you do the heavy watching so we don't have to. Any comments that didn't fit into the column? Thanks!
None that I can publish here. Let's not forget, my mother does show up occasionally...
Pookie -- Are NBC execs worried about continuing to air the Celebrity Apprentice given Bret Michaels's health? Seems to me that if he's a finalist, he won't be able to appear and/or possibly win.
BUT, if he's fired before the end of the season, and Trump says something mean, that could be problematic, too. Thanks!
Though I'm confident they would never admit it, I'm guessing they are dancing a happy dance in the privacy of their own homes. "Celebrity Apprentice" is not burning up the ratings these days and this is sure to bring lots and lots of people to the live finale....
The season finale looked like a series finale. Is it coming back?
When last I checked it was not looking likely... it's audience is very small and, as usual, prices tend to go up every year because everybody wants raises...
This one's so old I should probably be sharing it with Tom Shales but here goes: After the end of Sid Caesar's program, Carl Reiner wrote and starred in a sitcom pilot called Head of the Family. He played a comedy writer named Rob Petrie who lived in the New York suburbs and wrote for a variety series.
CBS thought Reiner skewed "too Jewish" and decided to recast the show. It had to decide between two actors with appropriate WASPy features (shades of Arizona!). In the end, the network cast, and named the show after, Dick Van Dyke.
There would be no sitcom stardom for the other fellow, a young Nebraskan named Johnny Carson.
No submission too old! I like this one a lot. We're still taking all TV Trivia entries -- send them to the chat or to @wapoteamtv on Twitter.
I see Baby Stan has quietly gone into that good night on Cougar Town. Does that mean the producers and writing staff ditched the mandatory seminar: "The Effect of an Infant on Series Television as Exemplified by Baby Emma on "Friends": Why a Monkey is Always a Better Character Than A Baby"?
Thank goodness they had sense enough to snuff Stan so quickly. REmember the "Murphy Brown" baby? Gak!
Who do you think will win the title of "American Idol," and which Idolette will have a better career by not winning?
I'm hoping Siobhan Magnus, since she was booted this week. I think she is enormously talented, hough she had not done well the past couple weeks -- but I think she got freaked when, week after week, she got bad notices from Kara and particularly Simon. He never had a nice thing to say to her, until the last week when he nicked her and gave her tepid praise at the same time. And don't get me started on Kara and her "I don't know who you are" nonsense...
or is GLEE really lame so far this season?
I was not a fan of the all-Madonna episode. I don't think they should have stooped to the gimic -- the show should have stood on its own. I have not yet watched this week's episodes, it's sitting in my DVR. I was hoping it was better -- you seem to be saying otherwise.
Dame Lisa -- I saw that former Hollywood "it" girl Winona Ryder scooted back to TV in what looked like a scenery-chewing performance in a made-for-TV movie last Sunday regarding Alcoholics Anonymous.
Here's to hoping she doesn't become a regular on the drippy Hallmark movie circuit -- e.g., Meredith Baxter, Markie Post. This seemed like a career low for Ms. Ryder.
Sad, isn't it? That whole alleged shoplifting craziness really took a bite out of her brilliant career....
I DVR American Idol each week and unless you write about something not to be believed (Seabiscuit's deranged shenanigans, etc), I delete the shows without watching them. Am I counted in the ratings because it's been DVR'd? (I'm not in the Neilsens).
Rest easy -- if you're not a Nielsen home, you don't matter. Sorry.
I am one of those people who is always singing the praises of the Amazing Race and insisting its the gold standard for a "reality" show can be.
And yet this season...not so much. I can't decide if the show has just run out of steam or if this batch of racers is just not worth watching, but for whatever reason it just feels lacking.
The real shame is that it was the first show my kids and I watched together (in contrast to the kiddie dreck I spent years sitting through). Guess we need to find a new family-friendly/genuinely enjoyable show. Any suggestions?
I have some friends who are parents of young children who told me they loved that they could watch "Glee" with their children -- until this season when they were horrified at all the hookups going on in these early episodes. I'm a big fan of Turner Classic Movies for family viewing, though you do need to know what movie you're about to see because I'm not sure some of the war flicks are appropriate for little kids. "Idol" is generally good for family viewing. And, of course, you'll need to stay away from sports programming because the language can get vulgar (I know, what am I smoking thinking someone's going to stay away from sports programming)
Lisa, loved your column on Rielle Hunter's Oprah interview.
(With Rielle Hunter, Oprah explores the depths of sex, lies -- and a videotape)
While I don't think much of Ms. Hunter, I had to agree with her that it seems likely that John and Elizabeth Edwards likely had a lot of problems in their marriage before she came along.
I don't buy the idea that Rielle Hunter is so special that she could break up a marriage unless it was going to fall apart already.
I agree she bears no responsibility for the breakup of the marriage because, with her or without her, Edwards was going to go out and seek his "truth." I'm guessing all her married chick friends are going to keep well away from her after watching her rationalization in re why she's the real victim here...
Really enjoy your work Lisa. PLEASE don't use "blonde" as shorthand for "stupid." In fact, isn't the Post supposed to have a policy on this? It's really offensive, and since it's not applied to men with blonde hair, also really sexist. Thanks.
I'd be delighted to apply it to men!...
Is this an April Fool's joke? Greg Kinnear and Katie Holmes. Who thought they would be capable of pulling off those roles? It's a travesty.
Are you saying we could do a better job casting The Kennedys miniseries? In that case, I AGREE, so long as we can maybe cast Mandy Patinkin in some. I don't care much which role. He can play Jackie O for all I care.. or, he could play Frank Sinatra... Anyway, le'ts get started...
Pookie, your column makes me glad I did not watch this interview yesterday, because I would have been throwing things at my TV (and that would prevent me from watching "Glee" over and over on my DVR). Please tell me that Oprah at least tried to make Hunter look as dumb as she sounded.
Oprah was a master of restraint during the interview -- I was very very impressed because I too wanted to throw things at my TV here in my office. Unfortunately, the management of the Post frowns on breaking office stuff.
Lisa, I felt a twinge of sadness when Shania was the guest mentor on AI. She was as big a star as there was in the late '90s early 2000s, and now she is reduced to giving the Idols advice.
She's not rising like Adam Lambert or Miley Cyrus, and she's didn't reach sage proportions like Tony Bennett or Diana Ross. It really is striking that her ex-husband, Mutt Lange, was a big force behind Shania the superstar. Just a little bit sad to see her reduced to AI mentor at 45 years old.
Wait just a minute. Lady Gaga is going to be on "Idol" next week. Don't you love it: Lady Gaga performing during Frank Sinatra week! I hope she comes dressed as a young Angie Dickinson. But, getting back to my point, "IDol" mentoring and guest performing is no longer just for has-beens. And isn't it ironic that, now that the show is in its mature years and on the way down ratingswise,that all the hottest pop music celebs want to be on the show but when it was a young show and getting about 8 million more viewers they wouldn't get caught dead on it?
This past Wednesday, "Modern Family" introduced Phil's father--and he was played by Fred Willard. And earlier in the season, Shelley Long appeared as the mother of Claire and Mitch.
Both pieces of casting were perfect, but I have a weird theory as to why this is so and love you to tell me if I am crazy or not.
Fred Willard has made a career out of playing lovable goofballs, so when he shows up as the father of Phil--whose character is that of a lovable goofball--I felt I instantly understood why Phil is the way he is. And that's because his father is Fred Willard--not the guy Fred was playing, but actually Fred Willard. All my previous associations with Fred, from "Fernwood Tonight" onward, were wrapped up in his characterization.
Similarly, Shelley Long's most successful role as Diane on "Cheers" was inescapably linked to her portrayal as Claire's mother, of whom Claire said, "You know that voice inside your head that keeps telling you you are not good enough. Well, mine was outside my head, driving me to school." Which is exactly what I would think Diane would be like as a mother.
Do you think this played into the casting, or have I been watching too much TV for the past 50 years or so?
I too think the roles these guest actors are closely associated with informed the casting decisions of the "Modern Family" producers. It was clever but I would have preferred if they had not jammed in so many guest stars in the early episodes. It's too distracting. Typically in the first season of a series shows don't do alot of guest-stunting because they want viewers to focus on getting to know and love the regular cast members. Once they've gotten you deeply invested in the regulars, the guest-casting begins -- particularly during sweeps periods...
Appropriate that they did a vampire-themed Ford commercial this week because they just drained all of the life from the show by losing Siobhan? Is there any doubt in your mind that, as raw a performer as she is, she will have a better career than anyone else left on the show?
I hope you are right. It would make me happy if she showed them up and got some great gigs....
I'm guessing having Sara spend most of this week's "Chuck" episode in her lingerie was an attempt to goose their ratings. Did it work? Or is it still scraping the bottom of the ratings barrel?
Too little too late. But I do think you have interpreted the episode correctly...
Will stations that carry "Oprah" be reluctant to have Kitty Kelley as a guest, hyping her Oprah book? Or, since Oprah is packing up and moving to her own network anyway, will those station be eager to have Ms. Kelly get in a few jabs before the big send-off?
Kelley said, I think on "Today," that she's having trouble getting TV bookings to talk about her new Oprah bio. I assumed that meant she was having trouble getting booked on, say, ABC programs since ABC has such a cushy relationship with Oprah.
Kelley did a chat earlier this week:
I want to love it. I really do. I'm trying so hard, because I love everyone - except Courtney Cox. Now, they have her hooking up with hot neighbor. Sigh. And "Modern Family" is so fantastic.
I actually like this show a lot better than I expected because I too am a Courtney Cox non-fan. But the director is making the most of her on the show and I recommend it.
Hi. Do the Reporters Who Cover Television get to see any pilots? When? Out of this year's crop, do any hold promise? As a die-hard James Garner fan, I'm excited/petrifed about the new "Rockford Files" - what's the word there?
Generally pilots are not dispensed until after the network has decided which ones it's going to greenlight to series. I too am filled with fear and loathing about the new "Rockford Files" On the other hand, haven't they cast Dermot Mulroney in the lead role? That seems like a pretty good bit of casting.
I watched the whole painful interview. There were times I wished I could have reached my hand through the screen and smacked her. The comment about people only hating her because their father cheated did it for me.
Yes, that was quite an interesting bit of logic. I found all her Truthiness to be utterly fascinating...
He would be smart to facilitate an end to that show THIS season, not just next. Last night's episode was the worst ever, in a show that's been getting bad for years. Talk about out of ideas...
Yeah, I'm pretty over it too. It had a good run and it's always sad when a show does not quit while it's ahead. On the other hand, I'm sure NBC is throwing bags of gold at them to keep producing episodes since the network has such gaping holes on its schedule in various other timeslots...
Not usually a fan, but loved his turn as an FBI/flirt-interest on a recent "In Plain Sight." I know he's got another show, "Happy Town," but any chance they'll bring him back?
Safer potential relationship for the female lead because if she and her partner get together the show dies in the water (i.e. where can Pam and Jim go as charachters now that they're man and wife?).
I am a complete convert since seeing him in "Studio 60" on NBC. It was a revelation.
The worst thing about this show now is having four judges. When Simon leaves, they should just replace ELLEN, and keep it to three judges.
Ellen is the new Paula (Den Mother) and Kara is the new Simon (industry expert)...
Wow, I may go back to watching that horrifying show.
Yes, give it another chance, if only because they seem to have lost the baby along the way and we need to encourage this...
Did the producers originally hope to air "April 29, 2010" -- the day everyone saw in their visions -- last night, or did ABC's long hiatus mess that up?
You'd think, right? But that's the least of their problems with this show..How about the mis-casting? Now there's a huge problem!
OK, you're probably right, but I prefer to think/hope that (1) he wants to focus more on movies, where he's been doing pretty well, and (2) he has the Seinfeldian (or, more to the point, Gervaisian) sense to get out before the real decline. "The Office" still has plenty of great moments, but sometimes it feels like it's living on borrowed time and it has come perilously close the the water-ski ramp a number of times.
Yes, it would be wonderful of him to leave, thereby killing the show, saving it from one of those hideous dead-show-airing final seasons
Grr, pookie! Once again, AI ran past 9:00, cutting off the end of "Glee" for those of us who DVR'ed it. Right in the middle of Kristin Chenowyth's rendition of "Home" from "The Wiz." Why does FOX hate us DVR'ers?
I suggest DVR'ing the local news that follows for the rest of the season since "Idol" cannot seem to wrap on time.
I have to agree with the previous comment - Glee is really lame this season. There isn't any continuity between episodes (Schue and Emma are together, no, they've broken up because Schue is in a self-destructive pattern, wait, now they are together and she wants to be with him, etc.) and, aside from Sue Sylvester, there aren't any likeable characters. And Sue is only likeable because she's played by Jane Lynch.
I'm hearing from a lot of people that theyr'e starting to fall out of love with the show. Hopefully the producers are hearing from you too and will adjust accordingly....
Ms. Hunter apparently said something like: "In my experience you can't wreck a home...it's already fallen apart."
My question is "How many homes has she not wrecked ?".
I too was left thinking that maybe this was not her first time in this kind of situation, after hearing her say that.
Trump is careful never to say anything mean to his celebrities unless they are total slackers or quitters. Bret has been hard-working, amiable and creative, so even if he's fired, rest assured Trump will be telling him how hard it is to let him go.
Happily, it seems that Bret will (slowly) recover, so it's not too creepy to watching the show. And Bret's been too likable to be a finalist. I predict a Holly/Sharon or a Holly/Cyndi final two, which offers maximum tension.
And, of course, they can always re-edit to take out any mean bits that might seem in bad taste while the guy's in the hospital...
The well-known psychologist Joyce Brothers was famous first as the '50s equivalent of a reality-show star. She appeared as a contestant on "The $64,000 Question" and won it all answering questions about . . . boxing.
excellent entry!
Do you mean they no longer mention the baby, or the storyline literally had him getting killed? Fer real? Well, fer made up?
I confess I have not watched the last couple episodes yet -- also lounging in my DVR -- but if they killed a baby in the show I'm thinking it would rule out being nominated for a best comedy Emmy. My guess is the chatter simply means that all trace of the baby has disappeared which was definitely the case in the epsiodes I have seen most recently...
I see that that series (whatever it is) that stars David Spade is still on. My question is, "Why?"
Because it skews young compared to most of CBS's primetime and it's a good utility player. As to why that is -- we'd be here all day talking about the decline of civilization, what photos David Spade has of top CBS suits, etc...
I wanted to like it too, but get kinda skeeved out looking at that lady's alien plastic surgery and puffy lips.
Wow -- what show are we talking about here?
C'mon, that's just mean! Sincerely, Ted McGinley
sorry pookster but I'm an equal opportunity offender.
You think Dermot Mulroney is good casting?!? I don't think I've ever disagreed with you before. But I simply cannot watch the man.
Clearly you did not see his tour de force performance in "The Wedding Date" ....he had this Oscar-worthy scene in which he took his shirt off and ....oh, never mind!
George Clooney became famous as Dr. Doug Ross of "ER." Before that he also appeared as a regular on "Roseanne." But his first regular role occurred in the mid-'80s in a half hour comedy starring Elliot Gould. The name of that show: "E/R."
another good entry. thanks!
Although it wasn't great, the duet between Schuster and Kristen Chenowith on the mash-up of "One Less Bell to Answer" and "A House is Not a Home" was terrific and actually has me considering finally getting an iPod so I can download it!
You are Fox's dream viewer. It' s all those ancillary markets that have them so excited about this show.
The dad from "Modern Family" as JFK. Kinnear as Bobby (sort of the "Van Johnson in Sabrina" role). Lindsey Lohan as Jackie -- beautiful and a little vacant. Randy Quaid as Nixon. Patinkin as LBJ, if he'll stand in elevator shoes.
Do you mean the William Holden in Sabrina role? Anyway, I like your casting!
but Sibohan was as graceful as Ethel Merman. waaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh!!! She will NOT be seen again.
Excuse me for living but Merman was a huge, huge, huge star....
Or, Fred Willard worked with Lloyd and Levitan (producers) on their last show (Back to You) along with Ty Burrell.
Oh you and your SIMPLE answers!
Dear Pookie- I just dont know who to ask about this, its just so upsetting. On Wednesday, I was watching Top Chef Masters and about 10 minutes before the end of the show, they ran a promo for next week's episode which showed the winner of the show I was watching competing in the finals! (This was the 10pm first showing of the show.) Why, why, would Bravo do this? Is it just carelessness? Do heads roll over this type of thing? p.s. Looove the chat/ column
That is some seriously sloppy promo department. Thanks for bringing this to my attention...
Rielle Hunter looked so different from the few pictures I saw of her prior to the Oprah interview. Plastic surgery? After watching the interview it became clear she and John are so selfish and icky. After hearing her flimsy excuses, I felt like I needed to get disinfected. Do you think they will just go away?
hahahaha ---- you are so cute and naive. Don't ever change.
So is "truth" the new euphemism like "shoes"?
you betcha!
I upgraded all the doorknobs in my house last weekend. If Bret Michaels dies, I'm going to dedicate the new doorknobs to him. The "Bret Michaels Memorial Doorknobs." That is all.
You are a sensitive and thoughtful human being, and you put to shame all those people like me, who are repainting their houses without even giving a thought to dedicating their newly painted front doors to Bret.
Hi Lisa -- I definitely agree with the poster about "The Amazing Race." The challenges seem repetitive now, as are the couples (the good looking but vacuous models, the tough guys who cry when they're eliminated, the parent/child who fight like crazy then bond, etc. etc. -- oh, and I forgot the required gay person, a fixture on just about every season except the much-reviled family edition...what does that say about CBS?) Anyway, I think the same thing has happened to "Survivor," which used to be required viewing in my house. The machinations are entirely contrived and predictable, and there seems to be a hidden immunity idol under every palm tree now.
What it says is that CBS needs to assign someone else to cast this show.
Hi Lisa, I'm a big fan of Parks and Rec. How is it doing in the rating?
Not well...
Wai....What.....I watch Cougar Town, but haven't seen Baby Stan's "off'ing" Whud I miss?
Have you noticed any Baby Stan sighting?
Any idolette that dedicates a song to a parent is too young to be in the competition, and must be voted out immediately!
Yes, and where is Simon when you need him to point that out to the viewers so they vote the guy out.. Simon has definitely been neutered. I think it's important we find a way to break up his engagement before next week's episodes. We need our Simon back....
As a liflelong blondie, please, please PLEASE don't hesitate in any way to use "blonde" as euphamism for stupid. For me, that would be step up....look! shiny red ball!
Thank you for being a blonde with a sense of humor. If you only knew how difficult it is for all us brunettes growing up in a land of gorgeous blondes....
Everybody keeps referring to Glee "seasons." We're still in Season 1, by the way.
Yes, Fox is rolling out this show in kind of the Cable Way: season 1A and 1B. I think we're talking about 1B here...
I'll add to the Joyce Brothers bit. The sponsors of the quiz show (a consmetics company) wanted her off, because she was perceived as "not glamourous," but she kept winning and coming back the next week. So they threw her a curve by asking a question about a boxing REFEREE who judged a 1930s title fight. She identified him correctly and took home the big money!
Wow -- even better! And isn't it nice to know advertisers never change?
COUGAR TOWN: Courtney has weird stretchy face, but her friend has it worse: her lips are contorted from bad face lift! I get scared looking at her melty face.
Oh -- yes, the faces are a little scary...
Not the original poster, but I assume s/he means Cougar Town. The lead lady freaks me out, too.
Yes, they were talking "Cougar Town"...but, in fairness, shouldn't the star of a show called "Cougar Town" have had face work?
I loved her combination of new age psycho babble, self satisfaction and shamelessness. Her truth is everyone else's lie and Johnny's life of integrity is everyone else's disgrace. The Pentagon should hire her as Global Director of Truthiness.
Except that she has brilliant prospects in Hollywood which I'm guessing is her goal...
I have a love-hate relationship with Oprah, but there was one moment in that interview that made me just want to kiss her. When she asked about how "Johnny" reacted to the news of her blessed event, Rielle said "He was incredibly gracious." The look on Oprah's face was priceless. She kind of cocked her head to the side, bugged out her eyes, and you could almost read the "Come ON, Blondie!" thought bubble over her head.
I had the same reaction. I wanted to give her a medal. I want CNN to hire her to take over for for Anderson Cooper....
In a fairly recent episode, they were checking out the baby's private parts. I don't think it's gone away.
Are you telling me I've been led down a primrose path on this chat today? Drat!
I first fell in love with GC as George on Facts of Life...sigh. Yummy yum yum.
I'm hoping this is a trivia entry....
Wait, wait!!! Didn't someone say that "My Boys" is coming back?
Thank God! I was going to have to keep this chat going into the weekend if somebody didn't put up a "My Boys" question. Yes, "MY Boys is coming back to TBS, in July. I'm out of time. Bye.


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Your Strongest Weapon Against Cancer May Be In Your Own Blood
A T-cell is a type of white blood cell present in the human bloodstream. "T" stands for Thymus, the organ in which this type of white blood cell matures. These cells are important in maintaining the body's immune system and are critical in the fight against harmful invading substances.
Cytotoxic T-cells work to destroy tumors or mutated cells, much like soldiers repelling an invader.
A race against time and the promise of non-toxic T-cell cancer treatments
As many people know, cancer can be relentless. For Abled.com Co-Founder Laura Meddens, this was the case with her Seeing Eye® guide dog Wagner. He had been battling Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma since 2010 and all of "Waggie's" chemotherapy treatment options in the Netherlands had run their course, and recently, the tumors came back. However, there is a new option in the U.S. that holds the hope of saving him.
Hope for dogs with cancer means hope for humans with cancer
Wagner has been accepted into a clinical trial being run by the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, and Texas A&M University College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in College Station, Texas.
Waggie's blood samples were sent over to Houston from Amsterdam, thanks to the help of many people in the Netherlands and the U.S., and you can read more about that global effort at our facebook page, http://www.facebook.com/Abled
AT the MD Anderson Cancer Center lab, Dr. Colleen O'Connor isolated a certain type of T cells from his blood and expanded them to number over three billion, ready to be re-infused back into his bloodstream to kill the cancer cells.
These are the T-cells that have been expanded from Wagner's blood samples that were sent from Amsterdam to the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.
The cells were expanded (grown) to number over 3 billion and have been cryopreserved for re-infusion into Waggie's bloodstream.
It is a non-toxic way of killing the cancer.
And what's learned from Waggie's treatment will be applied to develop similar treatments for people with various types of cancer.
"We developed this idea after observing clinical data that showed the faster the human T-cells recovered after chemotherapy, the better the patient's prognosis," says Colleen O'Connor, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow at MD Anderson's Children's Cancer Hospital (CCH) and an investigator on the trial. "Thus, we tried infusing large numbers of healthy T-cells back into the dog to help the immune system recover after chemotherapy."
The trial, undertaken in collaboration with Heather Wilson-Robles, D.V.M., assistant professor at Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, is proving successful and yielding new insights into the disease. Two of the dogs treated with T-cell therapy have been in complete remission for two years post T-cell therapy, and most of the others have lived well past the 10-month period.
This T-cell therapy isn't restricted to lymphoma, however. Because the composition of canine blood is very similar to human blood, especially in children, it is hoped the research gained will lead to new treatment protocols for humans. An experimental T-cell therapy in Philadelphia has already saved a 7 year-old girl from an aggressive form of leukemia; she's been cancer-free for 8 months, and counting.
"The power of this study is that it can be used for all types of cancer," says Laurence Cooper, M.D., Ph.D., professor and section chief of pediatric T-cell therapy at CCH and the study's senior author. "In the near future, we're interested in targeting other malignancies, such as brain tumors and bone cancers using this approach as a platform."
Professor Laurence Cooper oversees the research, and speaks with Dr. O'Connor (both pictured above) about the process in this video on their facebook page.
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