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As a contribution to the many events held this year celebrating Louis le Brocquy's ninetieth birthday, the National Gallery of Ireland presented an exhibition selected by Pierre le Brocquy from private and public collections in Ireland and abroad. They featured images of well-known personalities, among them William Butler Yeats, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Francis Bacon, Federico Garcia Lorca and Picasso.
Included in the display were three studies of Yeats (1975, 1976); two studies of Joyce (1977, 1978), and four of Beckett (1979, 1989 and 1994). Of his numerous studies of Yeats and Joyce, Louis has said: "I have sought to bring their spirits back from the place into which they have faded not exactly as an archaeologist searching for traces of them but more as an alchemist rebuilding 'those ancient glittering eyes."
The exhibition was not solely confined to images of literary figures but fellow painters as well such as Pablo Picasso, whose portrait was commissioned from the artist in 1983 by the Musée Picasso in Antibes, and a portrait of Francis Bacon who was the subject of a series of images painted by le Brocquy over a twenty-year period from 1979.
In his introductory essay in the accompanying book, Colm Tóbín, said: "le Brocquy paints images of the head in the time when the face, in all its uneasy beauty and energy and singularity, outstares the skull and seems to contain within itself what le Brocquy calls 'the everlasting night of the stars' and what Yeats, in turn, called: 'All that man is, All mere complexities, The fury and the mire of human veins.' "
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As Israel and Hamas agree to a ceasefire, the dust over Gaza, along with Anonymous' cyber offensive, has started to settle.
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Now that a ceasefire has been agreed upon, Harry's work isn't over. He's going to be working on a documentary about an Israeli strike in Gaza that killed 12 civlians, ten of which were from the same family, the Al-Dalous. According to the Israeli government, the strike is still "under investigation."
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Telecomix is the group that provides dial-up internet lines for citizens who are struggling under an authoritarian regime that is censoring or shutting down their internet. I spoke to one of the central organizers of Telecomix, Stephan Urbach, as he drove through Germany. Stephan told me that Telecomix has up to 300 different dial-up lines at any given time, and that during the revolution in Egypt, they were being used at 80% capacity. Stephan told me people wrote him who had used the lines to "write emails to their parents or to send out pictures and blog posts." It wasn't all SOS messages though, after setting up a new dial-up line and checking the activity log to ensure that it was working, Stephan noticed someone in Egypt who was downloading an episode of How I Met Your Mother. He assured me, though, that Telecomix does not monitor or save logs of their dial-up lines and that he had only seen that particular moment when he was testing a new connection.
Now that the Gaza conflict is over, it is hard to say what the next front for Telecomix will be, but they are still working at providing internet to oppressed nations worldwide: "We never know where Telecomix is going... At the moment some Telecomix agents are working in Syria who have their internet blocked, others are working in Kazakhstan, some are working in Bahrain. There is a lot going on and we don't make plans of what to do, we only work."
Anonymous, too, announced an end to their offensive. In an official press release, they wrote: "We are gratified and immensely relieved, as is everyone in the world – to hear of the announced cease fire between Hamas and the IDF... We will therefore stand down immediately from all further cyber attacks upon the IDF or Israel so as not to risk this delicate and perilous cease fire arrangement... We ask this NOT on behalf or for the benefit of either the government of Israel, or Hamas – but we beg it of you on behalf of the innocent people of Gaza, that they may no longer be slaughtered with impunity."
Yesterday afternoon, I spoke to a hacktivist from Anonymous, who goes by DBCOOPA. DBCOOPA helped to organize #OpIsrael. Now that we're at the end of the conflict. DBCOOPA let me know that one of the major reasons Anonymous is so concerned about the communications network of Gaza being damaged is that, "war crimes have a tendency to occur when a population is unable to communicate with the outside world... In Egypt, Mubarak intentionally cut off the internet to limit the exposure of the abuses being committed against protesters and activists. There were murders on the streets of Cairo by security forces." As a result of those murders, Mubarak is now in jail for life.
I asked DBCOOPA how they felt about Anonymous' impact on Israel: "They definitely lost the social media PR battle. For some reason, they thought live tweeting their military operation would galvanize their supporters online. It had the opposite effect... they obviously tried to downplay Anonymous' role. I believe the Finance Minister claimed only one site had been down for a few hours. That was obviously a lie."
Given the highly advanced nature of the Israeli military, I posted the question to DPCOOPA of possible retaliation against Anonymous and the hacktivists who bombarded Israeli cyberspace with attacks. I didn't get a worried answer: "I haven't seen any sort of retaliation yet. Maybe we should start sleeping in our closets though."
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Two-handed casting 1-2-3
I am putting together a training sequence called 'three steps to a full line' for two-handed casters. My intent with this is to demystify casting the Atlantis, and it's free for owners. By full line I mean 115ft casts from foot to fly minus wiggles, or a 105ft tarpon intermediate line with a 10ft leader. (We can play around with much longer distances with shooting heads and running lines as well)
As this gets completed and I try to figure out when to get together, I thought I would post a few notes:
Step one: Getting to two hands from one
This part will talk about the changes you will encounter from an ingrained single handed casting style to a two-handed overhead casting style.
Part II: Adding acceleration
Making sure all of part I is working, work on applying a smooth acceleration to a hard stop at the proper point in the stroke, and shooting running line. This should result in consistent, clean 85 foot casts from both shoulders, either left-up or cross-handed. The motion should be effortless and the results consistent.
Outcome: get a working cast without any exertion, just a little bit of acceleration added.
Part III: Extending the stroke length, adding more acceleration to maximize the cast.
Part III should put the backing knot into the guides with little more than a drift at the end of the backcast to lengthen the stroke and a touch more acceleration. The angle of the rod must not be dipped down, "no trunking" during the backward drift. The drift allows the backcast to travel backward in the stroke, giving the angler a longer potential stroke length to leverage in the path of acceleration.
I think the single factor that makes casting the Atlantis easier for the practitioner is learning to relax and let the rod do the work, which is how it was designed to be cast. This simple three-step method makes the caster feel out the simple basics - stroke, acceleration and shooting techniques. Give them a try and I hope we can get together with the long rods soon.
The most common problems people I see people have with their recently acquired two-handers include:
Excessive overhang - Too much of the running line is put out and a big hinge is introduced into the casting stroke. I am prone to go for too much overhand on occasion, so am very familiar with the problems it introduces.
Rod path - a longer rod with a power plant at the butt often gets yanked out of a straight path of travel, which is even more important for two-handed casting than for single handed casting since there is no double haul to overdrive the stroke out of trouble.
Line slipping thru hands - Single handed casting uses a 'free' hand to hold the line, two-handed casting can not. A three finger grip (under the middle finger, against the ring and index either side) dramatically improves the holding and slipping power of the hand against the line.
Application of power in the casting stroke - acceleration is not smooth or gradual leading to the speed/stop. Essentially trying too hard instead of letting the rod do the work.
Familiarizing with setting up between casts - Short heads, long heads, etc. Longer heads require a little more technique to roll out to aerialize but hold their loop over greater distances. Short lines are expedient and effective in carrying big flies out there. The angler needs to choose the weapon for what they plan to do.
The top ferrule should be taped. It's far enough away so that it doesn't get checked and if it comes loose and you try to cast 600 grains it's not going to survive the shock. Please tape the top ferrule of any two-handed rod as the spey afficionados out west and in Europe all do.
I'm in for any and all training sessions.
After more practice outings my 2-handed casting is getting worse. I'm about ready to put the Atlantis on ebay.
There are many questions/problems too numerous to mention here. I think the biggest difficulty for non-spey casters is the use of the lower(left) hand. The fingers on that hand must release and regrip line as well as move the rod. Unless you play the saxaphone this is hard to do.
Please keep me updated on on training dates.
Juro- my shooting heads and running line should be arriving at my office any day now, so I should be all rigged up for this weekend, providing the weather cooperates. Definitely want to concentrate on casting and presentation (both with Atlantis and 9wt single hander); catching fish would be a pleasant icing on the cake. I'll bring both my Sage and Orvis 9 wt rods (the Orvis is a stiffer tip-flex for speed, the Sage has a fuller flex), and we can discuss which (if not both) to bring out with us in addition to the Atlantis. As for taping, I'll pick up a roll of that new "clear" duct tape I've seen on TV ads- should be just the thing!
See ya Saturday...
Will that be one finger or TWO...
To followup on my "5 day perspective post", it has now been about 15 outings with the Atlantis. Your bullets are well taken, especially "taping the last ferrule". The rod generates alot of speed and that tip needs to be taped. As a novice 2 hander, I did not know that.
Also, I am really pleased with the feel of the 12 wt Wulff Triangle taper clear intermediate. It not the bermuda triangle line. Wulff was able to locate me a couple of these from a distributor in England. They may have more, if others need them. They performed quite well in the cool Atlantic waters.
Dennis -
Glad to hear you got home safely. Those clear cold water 12wt intermediates sound like a very nice match. I will contact Doug Cumming over at Wulff to get my hands on some.
Also, the Airflo 12wt clear intermediate full lines are very nice although it would be nice to have a visual mark at the junction of the head and the running line. They are easy to find as they are not discontinued. I have a feeling that the Wulff 30ft head is the nicer match, being shorter yet very well behaved when in the air.
Had another talk with Tim Rajeff and am really hot to try the striper 2-hander lines. One is a clear head with blue intermediate low-stretch running line, the other is a fast sinking DI-9 with color change, both in the Atlantis preferred grain range and 30 ft easy roll head lengths with 120ft of running line. These tapers are essentially designed to deal with high line speeds so that the loop form stays pretty even when slicing wind or waves.
I am also playing more with the Rio Scandinavian heads, after watching Simon Gawesworth rocket the line into the next time zone I was enlightened that I am just scratching on the surface of what good technique can give back to me over time, with practice.
Per my earlier post - please do like the spey dudes do and tape at least the top ferrule. It's far enough away so that you don't check it often enough, so the best approach is to tape as if you were spey casting.
Here is a search link to the topic from the Speypages Discussion Area (taping ferrules).
Try this:
Forget bottom hand line handling for now, let's use the top hand instead. Raise the middle finger, put the line under, then close. This puts the line against three fingers. Everything else goes into the basket.
To slip a little line, ease the middle finger. To stop, grip. To shoot, flip the bone.
Let's rewind...
I. Use only the head of the line. Pick it up, lay it down. Make everything smooth and straight. Easy.
II. Then go to a false cast sequence. Pick it up, false cast a few times, watching for the loop to track straight from back to front with bare minimum power. If you went any slower, the loop would fall to the ground. Make sure the elbow of the top hand/arm is bending on the way back, and the rod does not dip down backward when you kick the rod butt out. The rod tip tracks in a slightly convex path within the same plane, out to the side slightly so the loop passes by you like a sidecar on a motorcycle, but not on the ground of course.
OK, now we'll cast. Do II again, keep things smooth and straight. On a good feeling forward cast, accelerate a little faster and pop the bent elbow straight forward while pulling the bottom of the rod inward. Keep everything in a straight line. That should give you an effortless 85-90ft.
To go beyond that point, we add (a) drift to extend the stroke and (b) a little slip of line to extend the line not to mention more acceleration and a harder stop. We'll save that for next time.
Where do you live / work?
Live: Newton
Work: Yuck..bad word...retired
I had trouble holding the line with the middle finger as Juro describes. Whether I misunderstood or just poor technique the line always ended up sliding under finger at the joint. I have had better success with the index and middle finger pinching the line against the cork.
I too had alot of timing problems due to years of single hander only casting techniques. I found that I had slow down alittle and to start reversing direction alittle sooner due to the lag in response from the rod's additional length. Or to say it another way the line had already straightened and unloaded the rod somewhat before I would stop and reverse direction. Watch you loop, line end and timing.
I like Juro's suggestion of using the lower hand in this manner. push out from center of body out with lower, then bring into center. I like my other hand high on the grip at about shoulder height pushing out and forward.
I found the Wulff line to be the most forgiving to cast with the Atlantis so far with my limited experience. I also spent alot of time just working out the best technique with the head always at the same location each time to establish a datum or place of reference. Later you can work on slipping more line into the backcast as you technique and timing is refined.
Hope this help give another perspective on improving your two handed casting technique.
Last edited by GregD; 06-15-2004 at 11:36 PM.
Good point Greg,
I should've said "choose a secure line holding method that works for you, I use the middle finger grip".
The ability to hold the line with the rod hand is an important step for those deeply ingrained in holding the line with the other hand while single hand casting. I meant only to suggest a method, there are many to choose from. The important thing is that the line does not slip during the power stroke, whatever method you adopt. The ability to slip line out to optimal casting length is also important. The way you grip it specifically is not.
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I think you should approach a line making company and together with CND make a short video for sale that shows all of this. There's no substitute for SEEING it! As an Atlantis owner I'd be willing to pony up a few bucks to be able to get the most out of the surf tamer.
Life is but a walking shadow. A poor player who struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot. Full of sound and fury!! Signifying nothing. May as well go fishing!
...Juro you could take a few slo-mo vids and post them here or on the speypages.
Moose, I don't have an Atlantis but I will be putting some overhead casting video up on the speypages very soon...unless of course Juro beats me to it
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I typed a long reply here last night but checked for new messages and lost all the typing, my own fault. Anyway the crux of it was that working with any good distance casting video, like George Roberts video, would be a very good study toward getting the most out of the Atlantis. Most of the concepts are the same:
There are differences - line management, double hauling, and dealing with wind using a backhanded cast is very effective with a two-hander where pretty lame with a single. But the foundations are the same.
Anyway I have bribed my daughter to take some video for me early next week. It's gonna cost me!
Also, I am giving a two-handed seminar at Rod Builder's Workshop and will make sure that we get some footage.
What is the date/details for the two-handed seminar at Rod Builders Workshop?
Hi Brendan,
Smitty called and we are working out dates that will work best for all. I will propose a couple of dates today and let him pick. This one is being picked up by Smitty so there is no charge to attend except a small organizing fee that pays for lunch (included) $20-25. It will be held in Kingston near the shop, you should call him for the other details. We will set the date today. There will also be a Spey casting class through them as well which is a paid class to be held on water. The two-handed class will be held on grass.
That is your schedule this weekend? I need to be back up north after the Big Brother Day so I hope to hook up with you and Dick Ivers sometime. Are you guys busy on Sunday afternoon / evening? Might have a third Atlantis owner coming as well. I would like to go through some new material with you to gather feedback.
Drop me a line if you can do something on Sunday, Dick that goes for you as well.
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Rush claims the battle was lost when conservatives started modifying the word "marriage" ("traditional marriage," "straight marriage") to describe the institution rather than insisting that the word itself necessarily refers to traditional/straight relationships and therefore doesn't require modification. How would you have enforced that message discipline against the left, though? Their 40 percent of the country would have been calling it "gay marriage" no matter what. If in fact phraseology is influencing opinion, then theirs was bound to influence undecideds too. Things might have changed more slowly, but they still would have changed. The real reason gay marriage has gone mainstream so quickly, I think, is because gays have become so much more visible in the culture over the past 25 years. When Pew asked people who have changed their minds about SSM why they did so, the answer most frequently given was that they found out someone they know is gay. The more people come out of the closet, the more those numbers increase. In fact, and to his credit, Rush has occasionally played his own small part to increase mainstream acceptance of gays. When he needed someone to play his wedding, he asked the famously gay Elton John to do the honors, then spoke warmly of him on his first show back after the honeymoon. According to his biographer, Zev Chafets, Rush "has no problem with gay civil unions" either. When Americans hear, from both the left and some on the right, that gays deserve the same substantive rights as married couples (if perhaps under a different name) and that out-and-proud homosexuality's no bar to friendship or an invitation to your wedding, it's no surprise that undecideds might not end up as sticklers on whether gay partnerships can/should be described as "marriages" too.
Meh, what did we really lose?
Meh, what did we really lose?
the opportunity for the government to get out of the marriage business.
the opportunity for the government to get out of the marriage business.
The issue was lost once TV started having more and more sympathetic gay characters show up in the programming. Marketing.
TV's "sympathetic" portrayal of gay people changed everything.
It sure ended slavery..
"What is the role of government" and not "What can I get the government to do?" I support freedom (including public marriage) in the hope for more freedom and principle, but I imagine I'll be disappointed.
Meh, what did we really lose?
I don't think marriage should be something under the domain of the government,
I see no logical reason while gays should be restricted.
I see no logical reason while gays should be restricted.
Why not just limit gov'ts scope in marriage and change cohabitation tax laws?
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1.5: History of Science
Who is this man with the wild white hair? Could he be an aging rock star? He's not a famous musician, but he's just as famous as many celebrities. His name is Albert Einstein, and he's arguably the most important scientist of the 20th century. Einstein really shook up science with his discoveries in the early 1900s. That may sound like a long time ago, but in terms of the history of science, it's as though it were only yesterday.
Evolution of Science
People have probably wondered about the natural world for as long as there have been people. So it's no surprise that science has roots that go back thousands of years. Some of the earliest contributions to science were made by Greek philosophers more than two thousand years ago. It wasn't until many centuries later, however, that the scientific method and experimentation were introduced. The dawn of modern science occurred even more recently. It is generally traced back to the scientific revolution, which took place in Europe starting in the 1500s.
In the Beginning
A Greek philosopher named Thales, who lived around 600 BCE, has been called the "father of science" for his ideas about the natural world. He proposed that natural events such as lightning and earthquakes have natural causes. Up until then, people understood such events to be the acts of gods or other supernatural forces.
Q: Why was Thales' idea about natural causes such an important contribution to science?
A: Natural causes can be investigated and understood, whereas gods or other supernatural causes are "above nature" and not suitable for investigation.
Just a few hundred years after Thales, the Greek philosopher Aristotle made a very important contribution to science. You can see what Aristotle looked like in the Figure below. Prior to Aristotle, other philosophers believed that they could find the truth about the natural world by inward reflection—in other words, just by thinking about it. Aristotle, in contrast, thought that truth about the natural world could come only from observations of nature and inductive reasoning. He argued that knowledge of nature must be based on evidence and logic. This idea is called empiricism, and it is the basis of science today.
Aristotle introduced the idea of empiricism around 350 BCE. It is a hallmark of modern science.
Introducing the Scientific Method
In the first 1000 years CE, Europe went through a period called the Dark Ages. Science and learning in general were all but abandoned. However, in other parts of the world science flourished. During this period, some of the most important contributions to science were made by Persian scholars. For example, during the 700s CE, a Persian scientist named Geber introduced the scientific method and experimentation in chemistry. His ideas and methods were later adopted by European chemists. Today, Geber is known as the "father of chemistry."
Modern Western Science Emerges
Starting in the mid-1500s, a scientific revolution occurred in Europe. This was the beginning of modern Western science. Many scientific advances were made during a period of just a couple of hundred years. The revolution in science began when Copernicus made the first convincing arguments that the sun—not Earth—is the center of what we now call the solar system. (You can see both models of the solar system in the Figure below.) This was a drastic shift in thinking about Earth's place in the cosmos. Around 1600, the Italian scientist Galileo greatly improved the telescope, which had just been invented, and made many important discoveries in the field of astronomy. Some of Galileo's observations provided additional evidence for Copernicus' sun-centered solar system.
The model on the left shows what people believed about the solar system before Copernicus introduced the model on the right.
Q: Copernicus' ideas about the solar system were so influential that the scientific revolution is sometimes called the "Copernican revolution." Why do you think Copernicus' ideas led to a revolution in science?
A: Copernicus' ideas about the solar system are considered to be the starting point of modern astronomy. They changed how all future scientists interpreted observations in astronomy. They also led to a flurry of new scientific investigation. Other contributions to science that occurred during the scientific revolution include:
- Kepler's laws of planetary motion
- Newton's law of universal gravitation
- Newton's three laws of motion
Einstein Rocks Science
Another major shift in science occurred with the work of Albert Einstein (the "rock star" scientist pictured above). In 1916, Einstein published his general theory of relativity. This theory relates matter and energy. It also explains gravity as a property of space and time (rather than a property of matter as Newton thought). Einstein's theory has been supported by all evidence and observations to date, whereas Newton's law of gravity does not apply to all cases. Einstein's theory is still the accepted explanation for gravity today.
Q: How might Einstein's theory have influenced the course of science?
A: Einstein's theory suggested new areas of investigation. Many predictions based on the theory were later found to be true. For example, black holes in the universe were predicted by Einstein's theory and later confirmed by scientific evidence.
- Science has roots that go back thousands of years to Greek philosophers including Thales and Aristotle.
- The scientific method was introduced in the 700s by a Persian scientist named Geber.
- Modern science began with the scientific revolution in Europe the 1500s and 1600s. The scientific revolution was launched by Copernicus' new ideas about the solar system.
- In the early 1900s, Einstein rocked science with his theory of gravity, which explained the concept in an entirely new way.
Watch this video about the scientific Revolution, and then answer the questions below.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hodYUDDfsY (3:55)
- How did Newton prove his ideas about gravity?
- Why did Galileo get into trouble?
- Why were the late 1600s and the 1700s called the Age of Enlightenment?
- Why is Thales called the "father of science"?
- What is empiricism? Who "invented" this important idea?
- Describe Geber's role in the history of science.
- Relate Copernicus' ideas about the solar system to the scientific revolution.
- How did Einstein rock science?
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SMITHVILLE – With a home playoff game on the line in the regular-season finale for the Division 1-1A rivals, the Falkner Eagles and the Smithville Seminoles, the home team wasted little time in staking their claim to the No. 2 seed.
The Seminoles, the second – ranked team in the Daily Journal's Class 1A/2A rankings – recovered an onside kick to start the game, marched 42 yards to take a 8-0 lead and never looked back, cruising past the fourth-ranked Eagles, 35-6.
The Seminoles will host a Class 1A playoff game against Greenviulle St. Joe next week; Falkner hits the road as the No. 3 seed.
Smithville scored on their first two possessions for a 15-0 lead mid-way through the first quarter. Coach Bubba Tacker said starting fast was key.
"That's what we talked about all week," said Tacker. "I told the boys if we took care of the football and played good defense, we would be in the game and probably would win it and that's what happen."
The Seminoles did have four turnovers, two fumbles and two interceptions by starting quarterback Drew Lann, but the Smithville defense did their part by limiting a normally potent Falkner rushing attack to just 79 yards. The Eagles had averaged almost 350 per game. Leading rusher Jeramie Lawrence had just two carries for six yards.
"I was kind of expecting a great game out of the defense and they stepped up tonight," added Tacker.
Smithville rushed for 312 yards. Senior Turner Sanderson led with a game-high 143 yards on 19 carries, while junior Tyler Hood rushed for 114 yards with touchdown runs of 25 and 35 yards. He also hauled in a 25-yard first half TD pass from Lann. They led 23-0 at the break.
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I have been an atheist since I was 13 but shortly after having kids I spent 5 years pretending to be a christian – a fundamentalist christian. The kids were going to church and Sunday school every week, sometimes more than once a week. I was a methodist as a kid and was not worried. I thought that it would be nice for them to know about religion and never thought that it would take over their minds. Everyone told them that the crazy was true and I kept silent. I was an atheist raising fundamentalist kids. Just a few short years after I stopped pretending they have both come out as atheists.
I have since met several people that have not had the same results. A good friend of mine is an atheist and his spouse took the kids to church 2-3 times a week. He wanted to show respect for religion and did not want to cause any trouble. When he thought that the kids were "old enough" (around 13 and 15). He decided to talk to the kids about religion. The kids said that they had been warned about this and refused to listen to him. My friend was shut down and cut off. It was too late.
I am so glad that things went better with me and I have been thinking about what was different between my friend's family and mine. There were many things I did while the kids were young and I think it helped.
The big question for you is:
Do you think the world would be a better place if more people were non religious?
If you do – what are you doing about it? It is great to have meetings and share drinks in a bar but, you need to get out there and save people. You must do something about it. It can take years to save a 40 or 50 year old from religion but with a kid you may only need a spark.
Yes! I am suggesting that we free the minds of kids. Religion has been indoctrinating kids for a very long time and their system of lies is very powerful. We need to fight back, we need to do a better job, we need to get to the kids! Use the ideas below to help your kids, grandkids, younger siblings, nieces, nephews, your kid's friends or your friend's kids. If you are afraid to fight religion then you need to recognize it still has a effect on you. All people deserve respect – bad ideas do not!
Keep in mind your relationship with the kids and / or their families. Do as much as you can and push the limits but, don't over do it. You don't want the fundies to take away the only sane voice the child may here.
11 ideas to save kids and break the cycle of religion.
10) Teach them about science and the scientific method in fun ways. Steve Spangler Science is a company that makes fun science toys and games. Use them to create a party theme or give them as gifts. At one party we used these really cool beads that are all white in house lights but turn different colors in the sun or a blacklight. The kids made friendship bracelets and we talked about UV light from the sun and then had some fun with a black light. The kids loved it and the learned some cool science.
9) Watch shows like "Evolution" , "The Universe" or "Planet Earth". You can buy, rent or stream. Make sure they know how the world really works before religion ruins the magic. Please don't sit them on the couch and force them to watch it. Create an environment where they can play in the same room while the shows are on. Don't push or they will push back. Just let it soak in. Let them associate science with play time.
They may also like this video that shows how hard it is to pay attention to little details.
There are also many books about optical illusions. Just like some of the other points above they will have fun while learning that they can be tricked.
1) Books! There are so many books that can help free kids' minds. Start with something simple and fun like Daniel Loxton's new book "Ankylosaur Attack". (shown on right) If that goes well you can try his wonderful book "Evolution: How We and All Living Things Came to Be." Another great book about the world is Dawkins' new one called "The Magic Of Reality". "Bang!: How We Came To Be" from Michael Rubin is another good choice. If one or both of the parents are free from religion you could give them Dale McGowan's "Parenting Beyond Belief".
If they already have questions you can get them one of the really hard hitting books on atheism: God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, or The God Delusion. If you want something that they can read in under two hours give them Sam Harris' "Letter to a Christian Nation". If they place all of their faith in Jesus you could try "Nailed: Ten Christian Myths That Show Jesus Never Existed at All" by David fitzgerald. There are so many that I can't list them all.


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Title: John W. Allen digital images and writings, 2001-2002
Predominant Dates:2001-2002
Primary Creator: Allen, John W.
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Date Acquired: 01/05/2010
Subjects: Mushrooms, Hallucinogenic, Mycology, Psilocybin, Psychoactive Substances Research Collection at Purdue University., Psychotropic drugs
Languages: English
John Allen has done extensive research in the field of ethnomycology; he has received degrees from Seattle Community College in Mycology and a degree from the Washington Technical Institute in Graphic Art. Allen also served as Dr. Mark D. Merlin's research associate at the University of Hawaii. He has published extensively on mushrooms and recently co-authored works such as "Kratom, The Energetic Thai Opiate" with Muraco and Teonanacatl: A Bibliography of Entheogenic Fungi with Jochen Gartz.
Allen, John W. "A Biography of Mushroom John." Mushroom John's Tales of the Shrooms. http://www.mushroomjohn.org/bio1.htm.
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This bird can dance!
Thunderbird can finally do the Tango
For a long time Thunderbird has been using the same theme for Linux and Windows, resulting in an ugly and out of place Linux theme. However now Magnus has a patch is up to create a gnomestripe theme space. Magnus already moved Thunderbird menus over to using the gtk stock icons.
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In Defense of Ultragrrrl
The most controversial figure in New York' s music scene is sitting in a T.G.I. Friday's on West 34 th Street, eating some disgustingly delicious fried food. Sarah Lewitinn, the blogger, published author, DJ, VH1 commentator, and a&r rep known professionally as Ultragrrrl, is five foot one, with chin-length, bobbed brown hair (the previous color, purple, is long gone), and looks not one iota like one of "the most influential people in music," as New York magazine dubbed her last year. She doesn't look like the kind of girl who'd inspire bloggers and Internet denizens to hate her with a passion so great they create message-board threads with titles like "I Want to Shoot Ultragrrrl in the Face." Nor does she seem like one of the "50 Most Loathsome People in New York," as the New York Press once dubbed her.
For now she's just a normal girl digging in to a heart-attack-inducing mealcrispy green-bean fries and a fatty Tuscan portobello melt. She sits with the singer of Permanent Me, one of the signees to her new label, Stolen Transmissionthe Long Island pop-punk band has just played for 2,000 people across the street at the Hammerstein Ballroom, opening for Fall Out Boy. There are two hours to kill before the headliners go on, so we eat our greasy food with relish.
When we head back to the venue, she looks for a kid in need of a ticket. She has an extra, and wants to make someone's night. She eyes a teary blonde teenager who's outside the front door crying hystericallyeither she just got kicked out or the guards won't let her in. Looking like a teenager herself, Lewitinn, slightly disheveled in a black-and-white polka-dot dress, mussed-up hair, and smeared eyeliner, takes up the cause; Lewitinn tries to convince the authoritarian security guards that she's not some desperate girl trying to get a stranger backstage.
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The security guard's stern expression doesn't change, and the blonde becomes more despondent. Lewitinn continues to argue. "But why? Let her inthis is a legitimate ticket. I work for the label." She thrusts the ticket into the girl's hand.
The guard gets more annoyed with each pleading cry from both ladies, though, and for a second it looks like nobody's getting in. Reluctantly, Lewitinn gives up, and we leave the teen to her own devices as we head inside.
"I used to be that girl, up in the front row, jumping up and down," Lewitinn says a little wistfully. "Now I'm in the back."
But the farther back she gets, the closer she gets to the spotlight herself. Ultragrrrl now has to sell records with the same enthusiasm and magnetism she once used to sell herself.
Lewitinn first got national attention in 2003 via her blog, Sarah's So Boring Ever Since She Stopped Drinking (now located at ultragrrrl.com). Then came Making Out With Ultragrrrl, her minuscule but influential column in Spin that ran from 2003 to 2004. She's won Paper magazine's People's Choice award for Best Party and Best DJ (sharing the latter honor with her DJ partner, Karen Plus One) two years running, and in 2005 wrote The Pocket DJ, a book of playlists for different genres, moods, and occasions. It sold 38,000 copiessuccessful enough that she's signed to do a second book, The Pocket Karaoke. She's working with a screenwriter on a movie script partially based on her life. Her growing profile nabbed her a recent write-up in Vanity Fair (written by her good friend and former Spin mentor Marc Spitz, which spurred a bit of controversy) and more media attention than any other a&r rep in town when she started Stolen Transmission, a subsidiary of the Island/Def Jam label empire. But her main claim to fame is the early discovery of New Jersey goth punkers My Chemical Romancea band she briefly managedand her similarly prescient championing of Las Vegas dance-rock sensations the Killers. She also provided early support for such bands as Muse, Franz Ferdinand, Fall Out Boy, and Stellastarr(whom she also briefly managed). She has shown an unsettling ability to call the next big thinga soothsayer for teenage girls, middle-American music fans, and even hipsters who would like to think they know better.
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Lewitinn just turned 27, but she seems perennially 21, a happy-go-lucky party girl who just really loves music. She's not much different than when I first met her eight years ago, playing records at a LES bar with Spitzshe got so drunk she had to be carried downstairs to the bathroom, leading to an incident that earned her the nickname "Buckets." She just really loved music then, too, but back then no one paid much attention to her opinions.
At that time, she was the office mascot at Spin, an intern who would tell the unimpressed, uptight indie-rock music nerds working there that a then unknown band was gonna be huge, with the unfettered, unabashed enthusiasm of a cheerleader. While the nerds were griping that she couldn't write, her ear for whether a band's sound would resonate beyond the four walls of her LES apartment impressed superiors far older and more experienced than her. "She had a really uncanny, almost terrifying ability to wander in the office and say, 'I saw this band; I think they're gonna be really bigthey're called the Strokes,' two years before anyone had heard of them," says Michael Hirschorn, a former Spin editor who's now a vice president at VH1.
"She's directly responsible for the bad magazine I used to work for getting interested in covering bands that had Web buzz on them," says Spitz, who wrote a longtime gossip column for the magazine until he was fired last year after a publishing takeover. "SoundScans would materialize Tuesday and Wednesday morning, and those were the bands we'd consider Matchbox, Creed, Sugar Ray. Bands like Interpol, the Killers, My Chems, the Yeah Yeah Yeahsway before they got big, this girl was talking them up. Suddenly, a switch flicked. We were like, 'Sarah, what are you listening to?' She's the most gifted, natural, organic listening machine that probably ever existed. She's just scary good at what she does. I'm sort of in awe of her."
She left Spin in April 2005 to start Stolen Transmission, where she's "Top Banana" (as her e-mail signature proclaims) along with her partner, longtime a&r star Rob Stevenson, who signed the Killers, Fall Out Boy, and the Bravery. At work, she regularly sits beside Jay-Z at label meetings. L.A. Reid, the iconic Island/Def Jam chairman, calls her his "rock star" and once even jokingly bowed down to her in the hallway, chanting, "I am not worthy!"
"They love her because she speaks her mind at Def Jam meetings," Stevenson says. "She has no filter."
But convincing magazine editors to cover buzz bands is different from creating that buzz herself. The question remains: Can lightning strike again? "A lot of people are watching her and watching her label to see what it does, to see if she can continue her streak," Spitz says. "People are counting her out, saying that she lost it or signed bands that aren't making the same dent on the culture as My Chems. I'm sure they'll be listening to at least one of her bands in the next 18 months. Maybe not all of them."
Lewitinn can't afford to fail. Too many criticsmost of them anonymously trolling message boards and blogsare rooting for her downfall. People love to hate Ultragrrrlor at least the persona she's created, a character so grating to some that the New York Press, naming her to their "Loathsome" list, wrote: "Once confined to her ultra-vapid sycophantic hipster blog Ultragrrrl, Sarah Lewitinn has somehow parlayed her love for wimpy bands and kitsch into a career as a record promoter and talking head abouttwo guesseswimpy bands and kitsch."
People hate her 'cause she's raving about bands they already blogged about. They hate her because they think she has no business writing and is a step away from being a groupie. They hate her because they think she's just a lucky girl who was in the right place at the right time, earning a spot at Spin coveted by thousands of aspiring writers. They hate her because she writes about her dog, Monkey, a funny-looking Brussels Griffon that's inspired its own cult of fandom. For those and many other reasons, she is roundly and endlessly dissed on blogs and public discussion groups, where anonymous commenters run wild, writing things they would never say to her in person, from mean-spirited pattercalling her "carb face" or dismissing her as "frumpy" and "dumb"to more misogynist and hateful remarks that no male writer or executive would ever have to endure.
On the popular music-discussion board I Love Music, one anti-Ultragrrrl thread, originally titled "I Want to Shoot Ultragrrrl in the Face," goes on for an astounding 15 pages. Another thread, deriding her appearance on VH1 where she proclaimed Eminem's "Lose Yourself" one of the greatest pop songs ever, was 22 pages longwith detractors bravely making fun of her "chunky troll legs." People who are ostensibly her peersthe ones she is writing for and hoping to reach with her labelrip her up at every chance.
"How did this womanI mean, grrrl become the music scene's Paris Hilton?" wrote one detractor in a comment on the music news/gossip site Idolator. "So much praise and adulation, such little talent."
"Let's see . . . three bands I cannot stand: Fall Out Boy, My Chemical Romance, and the Killers," read a similar post on Gawker. "And you're telling me this girl is responsible for all of them? Is she also responsible for Fergie? I hope I never run into this bitch on the street."
"I fuckin' hate Ultragrrrl," concluded a Brooklyn Vegan commenter. "You stupid hipsters."
But if people dislike her as vehemently in the industry, they don't show it. Attempts to get on-the-record criticism about Ultragrrrl came up mostly empty. Those who wanted to talk trash wanted to do so anonymously, including a few who'd been up for an a&r job she eventually got. One of the only people willing to comment on the record was freelance writer (and occasional Voice contributor) Jason Gross, who said he lobbied to keep her off a panel last year at South by Southwest because he didn't think "she'd have anything constructive to add and would just pat herself on the back the whole time. The one thing she's definitely good at is self-promotion. People in the industry know who she is, but that's because she makes such a spectacle of herself."
The question now becomes, can she make enough of a spectacle to sell Stolen Transmission's roster? So far, with the exception of the Horrorsalready a minor sensation in the U.K., and already part of the Universal family that oversees Island/Def Jamthe buzz on the label's acts has been rather quiet. But Lewitinn and Stevenson can't sign the next Killers or My Chemical Romance. While they could funnel the bands (commonly called upstreaming) to Island/Def Jam, Stolen Transmission is a four-person operation with an indie-sized budget focused on indie-appropriate bands, a scale much smaller than the mainstream success of the Killers. "If a band is being coveted and approached by another label, I can't afford it," Lewitinn says. "Our budget is literally peanuts. The entire budget for [recent signees] Bright Light Fever is probably tour support for some band out there."
The label's seven-band roster, a combination of all four employees' picks, is wide-ranging a little bit of powerpop emo (Permanent Me), a little bit of girly California sunshine pop (Oohlas), a little bit of scary British post-punk (the Horrors). Reviews have been mixed but mostly positive, with a couple key write-ups in Spin and Blender.
With four records released in the past six months, sales are far from scintillating. Lewitinn was reluctant to reveal the numbers, lest they invite more public barbs, but SoundScan shows that the label's best seller thus far is pop-punk group Monty Are I's Wall of People, released last August, with 7,259 copies sold. Bright Light Fever, a band that invites comparisons to Queens of the Stone Age, did the worst, selling fewer than 1,000 copies since October 2006. Stolen Transmission's hopes are pinned on Permanent Me. Their debut record, After the Room Clears, had already sold 3,800 copies since its January release.
That sound you hear is the Internet snickering with schadenfreudean glee. "Whoo-hoo," cracked an Idolator commenter. "Tearing up the Billboards."
"I would be ecstatic with 25,000," Lewitinn says of Permanent Me's potential sales. Clearly, the scales she's using aren't meant for heavyweight fighters. Billboard magazine's indie correspondent Todd Martens agrees: 20,000 records sold "would be a huge success, especially on this record. That's something that wouldn't be expected to happen overnightmore over the course of two years."
Lewitinn and Stevenson say that a grand slam is not their goal, anyway. The word they use is incubator. "That's a model that a lot of the major labels are looking to these days, not just Stolen Transmission," says Martens, pointing to smaller labels such as Fueled by Ramen, which grew future mega-successes Fall Out Boy and Panic! at the Disco. But while she told Vanity Fair that she "hasn't been wrong yet," that's not exactly true. Early Stolen Transmission picks like the Spinto Band and Louis XIV were less than memorable; another Ultragrrrl favorite, Stellastarr*, didn't grip the culture the way her other favorites have. "Some artists take longer to get to a point than others," Lewitinn says. "But we're about developing future iconic bands, not just throwing bands out of the gate and expecting them to change the world."
Unfortunately for her, the world expects her to do exactly that. Anything less is failure. Bring on the dogs.
"I find comfort in the fact that people who actually do know me like me a lot," Lewitinn says, preferring that over worrying, "Oh my God, that person on the Internet hates me." Over dinner at Clinton Street Bakery, it becomes clear that Lewitinn is unfazed by her detractors. She ticks off their charges against her: "That I'm talentless. I'm a whore. That I have bad taste in music. I make rash judgments. Mostly, that I have no talentwhich is fine. I don't need to have talent. I got this far without it." There's also the "groupie" label, perhaps not helped by the title "Making Out With Ultragrrrl" or blog posts like this one: "OK. My lunch with Cappa [Cappadonna of Wu-Tang Clan] went really well. We had pasta, talked about how you don't need drugs or alcohol to have fun, and he said I had a good aura. Then I sat on his lap for a picture."
She's coming off a cold and has a little cough. Her eyeliner is, as always, smeared. Unlike the other 500 girls roaming the Lower East Side, this is not an affectation. Part of her charm is her ability to seem completely uncalculated and tuned-in at the same time. She's just out there having fun, listening to bands, and letting people know about it.
"I'm an easy target," she continues. "I open myself up a lot. I don't take myself very seriously, which I think bothers people a bit. A lot of people are very calculated in the things that they do, and I've never calculated anything. So I didn't plan on being where I am today. It bothers people that I step into lucky situations all the time. I think it's because I'm not sitting there ruing everything. A lot of people rue situations, lost opportunities. Whatever, I don't care."
She used to be hurt by all the nasty comments, by the people who would post anonymously on her own blog, calling her fat and untalented. But she's realized most of it is just envy. "When I read shit like that, it's as if they are talking about Lindsay Lohan and, like, Nicole Richie," she says. "I feel like the person they talk about isn't even me. Maybe that's kind of sociopathic, but I recognize they are so far off they obviously don't know who I am, so I can't even be offended."
For dinner, Lewitinn opts for all side orders: a salad with blue cheese crumbles, mashed potatoes, and sauerkraut. A modern Orthodox Jew, she's also kosher vegetarian. She goes home every Friday for Shabbat dinner with her family in Cliffside Park, New Jersey. Her parents are Egyptian Jewish immigrants who fled the country during the Sinai campaign in 1956, signing away their property. Her brother Lawrence, who frequently defends her on blogs and tends her Wikipedia entry, is a real estate investor; her older brother is a TV producer for CNN. Her mother is a real estate agent, while her father is a perennial salesman with a colorful career selling everything from jewelry to real estate to his current productart on eBay.
One of the biggest fallacies about Lewitinn is that she's a trust-fund baby with a rich family, a misconception perhaps stemming from a high-profile 1995 incident in which her father, having discovered some Torah scrolls in a museum on a family trip to Egypt, sued the Egyptian government for the scrolls to the tune of $500,000,000. (He wanted the scrolls moved into Jewish custodythe courts threw out the case, though another organization took up the cause later.) "The judge said, 'You need to give a numerical price for these Torah scrolls,' " Lewitinn recalls. "My dad's like, 'It's priceless; I can't give a figure!' And like, in an Austin Powers moment, my dad said they're worth $500 million." She laughs. "Both of my parents are not afraid of failure, and I'm not afraid of failure, which means that if you can go headfirst into something, you're gonna do really well or do your best, because you're not worried about making a wrong move."
In high school, Lewitinn took a bus after school to her first internship in 1996, a two-year tenure at ABC News' website. It was during that time that she needed an AOL screen name Lawrence suggested Ultragrrrl, a combination of a failed feminine product he was repping called Ultrafemme and a riff on riot grrrls. Unbeknownst to them, the seeds of a perfect marketing persona were planted.
It was also around this time that Lewitinn met Mikey Way, who many years later would become the bass player for My Chemical Romance. She met him by typing in a string of search terms (Blur, Radiohead, NYC) into AOL's search engineshe e-mailed Mikey and they became fast friends, even briefly dating. Another search, this one for "New York City" and "music journalist" turned up Marc Spitz. "She was like any other IM you would get unsolicited from someone random," says Spitz, who was working for Spin's website at the time. "Nine times out of 10, I would have closed the box and not responded, but I thought, 'Ultragrrrl, that's interesting.' "
As an intern at Spin, Lewitinn was an idea machine, if not exactly a gifted writer, which led some to criticize her behind her back. "I always planned on being in the music industry, but I never planned on being a rock critic," she says. "I never was a rock critic. I was a rock fan that had a pen."
Her college education is minimal: She has a two-year degree in advertising and marketing from the Fashion Institute of Technology. She's got a sort of George W. quality to hershe's not particularly eloquent and can come off spacey. But she's smarter than she seems, and despite her insistence that she's totally uncalculating, she's quietly used various internships and assistant-level jobs to construct her own University of Ultragrrrl course load, learning about every aspect of the music industrywriting, publishing, Web design, publicity, marketing, scoutingwhile working at inside.com, sonicnet.com, ivillage.com, and Ultra14, an online marketing company. At one point, she interned for a band manager, garnering a skill set she later flexed (not very well, by her own account) for My Chemical Romance. She'd gotten the gig in 2001 via Mikey Way, her old friend and former boyfriend, two months after the band had formed and before they'd even recorded their first album. A bidding war ensued, but the band didn't sign with a major because they felt they were too green, instead releasing their debut, I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love, on an indie. Lewitinn realized she was in over her head. "I was trying so hard to get them a new manager because I didn't know what the fuck I was doing," she recalls. "But I got them a bunch of meetings." Eventually, Reprise signed them in 2003the sophomore release that resulted, Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge, went platinum.
She never saw a dime.
"People always ask me if I ever made any money and if I'm upset that I didn't, and I'm not!" she says. "I was not in it to make money. I was in it to help these bands. I love music, and sappy as it sounds, I helped these bands because I loved them. It's one of those things where you don't see the money immediately, but you feel it later on. I'll always be able to have it on my résumé that I managed My Chems. While I didn't get a $30,000 check, I did get opportunities and doors opened because of my reputation, so I had no problem with that. You can't buy reputation."
When she likes a band, she goes the extra mile, which might be what separates her from rival bloggers all chasing the same thing. "People at the label realized they were getting a three-fer," says Hirschorn. "She's got good instincts, she'll promote the band on her blog, and she'll actively sell the band to a network of people who know who she is."
"She's a huge cheerleader for her acts," concurs Billboard's Martens. "But it doesn't necessarily translate to sales."
"I'm a born promoter, ultimately, because I have a big mouth and I'm obsessed," Lewitinn says. "All I do when I get into a band is talk about them nonstop, and I send e-mails to so many people every day that, like, a band that is unheard-of is suddenly known, but nobody knows why, because all I do is, 'Muse, Muse, Muse.' "
Indeed, when Stevenson first met a teenage Lewitinn at an EMI Christmas party, she was balancing a drink on her head and going on about Muse, an operatic rock band from England. "I thought, 'This girl had some amazing energy,' " he says. His next real encounter would be when she was managing My Chemical Romance. After that, they kept in touch, and when he first heard of the Killers, he asked her to dig up an MP3 and find the band. She did, and urged him to sign them.
"Here's this downtown blogger saying she loves Linkin Parknot saying it's a guilty pleasure, but as a fact, just like her telling me how much she loves the new Interpol record," he recalls. "When she told me that, I knew she'd be a good a&r person, because she wasn't trying to find things that were cool. Some people think they have an ear because they are trying to find things that are around a cool scenenot music."
Several years later, Stevenson and Lewitinn officially teamed uphe benefiting from her hyper-attuned ear, she benefiting from his vast knowledge of how to run a label. They just released the Photo Atlas' record, No, Not Me, Never, and are gearing up for Play Radio Play's The Frequency EP in late April and the Horrors' full-length, Strange House, in early May. The skeptics will be watching.
So far, the success of Ultragrrrl has hinged on her ability to turn herself into the ultimate fan. Now, she has to turn herself into the ultimate music mogul. When the hype and the cacophony of hate fade, it all comes down to her ear.
"You just get that feeling," she says. "It's not a matter of taste, or just looking out for different things. It's like, when I listen to something, I know within the first minute if I'm gonna like it. I know immediately. Rob thinks I have really good instinct. Like I said, I am not very calculated; I just feel it."
As we left the Hammerstein that night, I noticed that the blonde superfan from earlier had managed to get in after all. "I tell people I'm psychic," says Ultragrrrl, as our taxi pulls away. "I know what's gonna happen. They don't believe me." Maybe someday they will.
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