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In "The Tale of 'Abd Allah of the Land and 'Abd Allah of the Sea" from the Arabian Nights, a poor fisherman fails day after day to catch anything but at last, in answer to his ever more desperate prayers, he feels something heavy land in his net. Joyfully, he hauls it up, only to find a merman, who begs for mercy—and for fresh fruit and vegetables, which are greatly lacking under the sea, he tells his captor. He promises that if the fisherman will bring him the produce and then release him back into the water, he'll return with lavish recompense. 'Abd Allah of the Land doesn't believe him, but lets him go anyway out of the goodness of his heart.
But this is a fairy tale, and so the merman will keep his word and rise again from the depths with basketfuls of fabulous gems from the sea bed—pearls and coral and chrysolites and other precious minerals—for his deliverer. Fruitful exchanges continue between them, and eventually, 'Abd Allah of the Sea invites his earthly friend down into the underwater world where, he tells him, he lives in one of many fine and diverse marine cities, each with its own society and culture. The fisherman protests that he will choke on seawater and drown. But the merman has a remedy: a powerful grease from a monstrous and terrifying fish called a dandan: "It is larger than any animal you have on land and were it to come across a camel or an elephant, it would swallow them up."
The dandan's liver—or in some versions of the tale its blubber—exudes a potent ointment that "looked like cow's grease, golden yellow in colour, with a clean smell." The substance is indispensable to mer-people for their own survival under the sea, but they cannot harvest it without human help. The monster is ferocious and deadly and voracious for flesh, mer- and other; however, it has a fatal flaw: it can't abide the sound of a human voice. As the great fish approaches, intent on devouring him, 'Abd Allah of the Land must cry out. The mighty dandan will then keel over and die, and 'Abd Allah of the Sea will be able to harvest the precious secretion.
And so it comes about.
Now properly smeared all over in the wonder grease, 'Abd Allah of the Land is given a full tour of the extensive settlements, where different peoples and creatures dwell under the sea. He learns in amazement of the symbiosis between fish and humans, and then finds himself collected by the sultan of the sea for his cabinet of curiosities. When the merman's mermaid daughters laugh at the fisherman for being "tail-less," he's hurt, and wants to go home and eat something besides raw fish; he is also affronted that the mermaids go about in the water bare-breasted and bare-faced, and speak their views so uninhibitedly. So he leaves the world under the sea.
This kind of fairy tale, as it brings the speculative imagination to play on surmises and glimpses of undersea conditions, strikes notes of delightful preposterousness. Much of the lore surrounding sea monsters exhibits the same wonderful mix of fantasy and observation, in which one can catch glimpses of whales and their valuable products, the vast lacy architectures of coral reefs, marine ecosystems, and pearl fishers' experiences, all mixed up with sheer fancy. Several of the maps explored in these vivid studies by Chet Van Duzer and Joseph Nigg illustrate, for example, the unfortunate sailors who camp on a colossal fish they mistake for an island: they've made a landfall on its back and built a fire to cook themselves a meal, but when the beast feels the heat of the flames, it rouses itself and dives, taking the heedless picnickers to their death in the deeps.
This cautionary tale was so popular that the island-monster was given its own name: aspidoceleon, after its resemblance to a shield turtle, and the scene is widely illustrated and told—in the Romance of Alexander, the tale of Sindbad, and in the legend of Saint Brendan, in which the medieval monk glosses it as a warning that too much pleasure-loving idling and dalliance in this world will take you down to hell (see illustration below). Like other monster stories the aspidoceleon envisions a horrible—comically horrible—possibility, and issues a warning; but above all , it belongs to the literature of astonishment—mirabilia, in Latin, or 'ajaib, as in the Arabian Nights, and its tellers aim to astonish and delight.
The status of monsters is never stable: Are they fact or are they fiction? It is a question that early modern mapmakers do not answer. The two 'Abd Allahs reflect the theory, found in Pliny's natural history, that "anything which is produced in any other department of Nature, may be found in the sea as well." This fantasy proved convincing to many, although in the thirteenth century Gervase of Tilbury, mindful that sea creatures need to swim, added a touch of hybridity:
There is no form of any creature found living among us on dry land whose likeness, from the navel upwards, may not be observed among the fish of the ocean off Britain.
The terms sea horse, sea cow, and sea lion still enfold this dream of parallel plenitude, while in the past the catalog of sea creatures included every species: sea snakes, sea pigs, sea hares, and the appealing sea mouse that, according to Pliny, helps whales to see where they are heading by parting the heavy brows above their eyes.
While Chet Van Duzer, in his authoritative, wide-ranging study, and Joseph Nigg, who concentrates his full attention on the masterpiece made by Olaus Magnus between 1527 and 1539, strive to distinguish fantasy and reality in their accompanying texts, the pictures have such living presence (that quality of enargeia, the Greek ideal of vivid, hallucinatory representation) that the possibility of any monster—whale or dragon—remains just as likely as it is unlikely. And it must be said that their unlikelihood adds to the pleasurable curiosity such stories excite and feed, the delight in disagreeable and frightening things that Aristotle puzzles over toward the very beginning of the Poetics.
Both these sumptuously produced volumes about sea monsters place maps at the heart of scientific marine inquiry; the mapmakers attempted accurate documentation and measurement of land masses and coastlines but fill the surrounding seas with marvelous, terrible, and colossal fishes, serpents, sirens, and other creatures from the populous mythological cast—besides sea pigs, sea snakes, and sea horses, they include tritons, sirens, Scylla, Charybdis, the kraken, the remora, the grampus, the prister, each of them colossal, singular, and fearsome.
At the unknown beginnings of the world, gigantic monsters embody chaos and emergence, in Babylonian myth as well as in the fabulous classical zoo that Hesiod set down; he traces our anthropomorphic forebears—the Titans and Cyclopes and Olympians—back to terrifying gorgons and dragons and sphinxes. John Boardman has argued in his book The Archaeology of Nostalgia (2002) that the Greeks were attempting to make sense of dinosaur bones they found in the landscape, and he convincingly compares the bone-white sea monster on a vase, lurking in a cave and ready to pounce on Hesione, with the fossil skull of a Samotherium, or Miocene giraffe, such as was found around Troy.
But rational conjectures of this kind, however entertaining, don't explain the whole activity of the monstrous imagination, which revels in excess and assemblage; tricephalous and multilimbed, with arthropod and reptilian features such as ruffs, tusks, fangs, tentacles, and jaws, many of these primordial monsters are hybrids defying nature. They belong to dark places, those underworlds under land and sea—volcanoes, ocean abysses—because they embody our lack of understanding, and mirror it in their savagery and disorderly, heterogeneous asymmetries of shape. For this reason, at the same time that Olaus Magnus was making his marine map, artists conjured extremes of physical monstrosity to convey spellbound states, in which perverse desires are spoken and thrilling moral transgressions follow.
The artist and art historian Deanna Petherbridge, with her selection of mostly printed images for the exhibition "Witches and Wicked Bodies," explores how some of the most powerful artists—from Dürer to Goya, Jacques de Gheyn to Fuseli—combine and recombine grotesque medleys of limbs and disfigure and exaggerate aging female bodies to express the terrors of witchcraft. These expressions of monstrosity stigmatize the flesh, especially old women's, while also appealing to the viewers' appetite for thrilling perversity; rather like modern British tabloids, lurid scenes of other people's sins—night-flying and Sabbath orgies—are titillating even while they purport to condemn. (In the case of Goya, the targets are many, ferocious, and tragic.)
Monsters still fascinate precisely because they express what might lie beyond the light of common day. And as in the case of Goya's dream of reason, the fear and awe monsters inspire can't entirely be dispelled by enlightened investigations, neither in the past nor today. The ocean swirls in a condition of mythopoeic duality: it is there, it covers two thirds of the world, it is navigable and palpable and visible, but at the same time, unfathomable, stretching down in lightless space and into the backward abysm of time where every fantasy can be incubated.
Both Chet Van Duzer and Joseph Nigg explore maps as maps, with monsters as the decorative—and instructive—elements in the mapmakers' repertory, and both bring the story into the present, showing how "the geography of the marvellous" has deeply imprinted the collective imagination and has naturalized ancient sea monsters through different media, including video games. Neither author widens out into relations with the Zodiac or cosmology, or dwells on the mythology of shape-shifting Proteus or the terrifying Old Man of the Sea, nor do they linger on the rich fairy-tale lore of undines and selkies.
Nevertheless, they prove the case for the maps' importance to the continuing life of myth and, above all, to the present vogue for fantasy in film and fiction. Moby-Dick, the giant squid and other sea monsters in Jules Verne, the Creature from the Black Lagoon, and even the computer-generated mask of glaucous, waving, suckered tentacles that the actor Bill Nighy is condemned to wear in the role of Davy Jones in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest reveal the near-indestructible longevity of the marine world picture that was crystallized by early cartographic visionaries. It's also significant that both the volumes under review exemplify a new rich phase in the history of book production: digital magnification and reproduction have made practicable marvelous close-up details from every moment of the maps' journeys, while the jacket of Nigg's study unfolds into a full-color poster of Olaus Magnus's masterpiece, mapping his native Scandinavia.
Olaus Magnus was the Catholic archbishop of Uppsala, who was ousted from his cathedral by the Swedish Reformers and took refuge in Danzig, and he may have been inspired by nostalgic pride in his lost homeland. He truffled the northern oceans with dozens of colossal and polymorphous mythic monsters, as if laying out a deluxe box of chocolates with glorious flavors and varieties, emerald green and crimson, frilled and bulbous, toothy, barbed, and serpentine. In 1555, he went on to add a learned commentary, in which he melded together classical fable and science, lore from bestiaries as old as the Sanskrit Panchatantra, dating to the third century BCE, with observations gleaned from Aristotle, Pliny, and the anonymous Hortus Sanitatis.


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Millionaires are ruining music. The songs made by the Huntington Beach duo—Melissa Marie Green and Allison Green —will make you want to gouge out your ears. They are the downfall of society. 2010, the year their debut full-length is scheduled to come out, will probably bring the Apocalypse.
Wait a second. That can't be true. Catchy, fun electro-pop songs made by cute, foul-mouthed girls who are both 21 and under can't possibly be the thing that ends the world, can it? Truth is, their songs aren't gonna ruin anything… except maybe the credibility of some Internet haters when it turns out they like Millionaires.
The girls get it. They know their band started as an accident, when Melissa Marie and Allison started fucking around on GarageBand one day in the summer of 2007 and made their first song "I Like Money." They know it's been a combination of a strong DIY work ethic, a unique sense of style and a willingness to put their fast-talking, in-your-face songs into the scrutiny of the public that's transformed them from a one-time joke to a serious band. They know it takes guts to write bouncy, hooky, indefinable songs about alcohol and sex and boys—and to perform those songs on stage during their unstoppable live shows. They know it takes determination and steadfast self-promotion to sell out two headlining tours before ever releasing an album. They know that MTV doesn't ask just any band to perform live on one of the final episodes of TRL and pen the theme songs for Teen Cribs and A Double Shot at Love. They know the album they've been working on is going to be gobbled up by haters and fans alike.
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Mayor Hafen will present his 2014 State of the City address on Wednesday, February 5 from Green Valley Ranch Resort. The Mayor's remarks will highlight projects and accomplishments along with what lies ahead for Henderson in the coming year. His address begins at 12:30pm and additional information will be available at cityofhenderson.com.
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Lauren and Nick Chitwood met in college at a fraternity party. "Nothing super classy about that," she said, "but we hit it off instantly."
He appreciated her tenacity toward life, how she "really strives to do the best in anything she does be it love, friends, family or work."
She loved his intelligence and rational way of looking at life.
"When we first started dating, she would always find ways to keep our relationship intriguing. Be it good conversation over dinner or a spontaneous day trip, she really had a knack for keeping our relationship healthy., I think this has carried over into our marriage, and she is always thinking of little ways to make our hectic lives a little easier," Nick said.
As a wedding planner, that's also Lauren's M.O. "She lives to make fantasies come to life," Nick continued. "She's theatrical, and so visual – and you can see every bit of her in our daily lives."
How did he propose?
"I'm impossible to surprise; I have to have my hands in everything. When Nick proposed, he led me on a wild goose chase around Lexington, which ended with me holding a copy of The Lexington Herald Leader. He had taken out an advertisement in the paper asking me to marry him. Needless to say, I was surprised."
How do you make it work?
"A mixture of being humble and appreciative. No one is perfect and we all have our moments; however, the key is to realize in the end it's all small stuff," Lauren said.
"No doubt, we lead stressful, fast-paced lives, and there are often times we don't have the energy to put towards our relationship," said Nick. "We both seem to realize how important the relationship is to our success and really work hard to make time for each other when we can."
Do you have nicknames for each other?
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How do you divide up household chores?
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You are still fairly new at marriage, but what have you learned thus far?
"Define the "˜big things' in the relationship quickly. When you find that you're frustrated with each other, if it's not one of those big things, you've got to move on," said Nick.
"And," added Lauren, "always kiss each other and hold hands. This may seem obvious, but when you become so focused on careers and education, it's easy to go a few days without actually doing those simple things."
What's your advice for soon-to-be newlyweds about the actual wedding day?
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Describe your wedding.
"Our wedding was a great time with family and friends," said Lauren. "We had a fantastic band, and a superb dinner. Our guests partied the night away. I changed into a short gown just in the middle of the evening and danced for hours. I cannot express enough the wonderful experience we had at the Brown Hotel. I would go back time and time again."
Where do you like to go when you're out "˜n' about?
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On the hour ride home from the interview, Davis observed that he and Kelly had more in common than they had in contrast.
"What we had in contrast centered around how each of us felt about race. He thought his race was superior to my race. I thought that my race was equal," Davis said. "He felt the races needed to be apart. I felt they needed to be together. Other than that, we agreed on a lot of things."
Davis did stay in contact with Kelly. The white racist visited Davis' home, but Davis was never invited to Kelly's home. A couple of years later, Kelly was promoted from state leader to national leader of his particular splinter group of the Klan.
After he obtained the rank of imperial wizard, then Kelly invited Davis to his home and to Klan rallies.
Though the two men disagreed on race relations, they treated each other with respect and listened to each other and did not challenge each other with violence or rudeness.
"The imperial wizard said he respected me," Davis said. "If you have an adversary, someone with an opposing point of view, give them a platform. Allow them to air their point of view even if their point of view is so extreme it cuts you to the bone. I have heard some things that cut me to the bone."
When people are polite and ask for clarification of a point, then there is a better likelihood of that person reciprocating and allowing the other to have a platform to express a viewpoint.
"Make sure you have your facts so when it's your turn, you can do it in an intelligent and influential manner so that at the end of the day, you each have to think about what the other said," Davis said.
Davis said during a 90-minute lecture Tuesday evening at Cleveland State Community College that he never set out to change anyone. The 54-year-old author, lecturer and musician said he simply wanted to understand why people pelted him with rocks and bottles when he was 10 years old.
He told of being the only African-American Boy Scout in a parade between Concord and Lexington, Mass., in 1968. Men and even children threw objects at him as the Scouts retraced the path of Paul Revere's famous ride. The young flag-bearer first questioned why the crowd was throwing things at the Boy Scouts. Davis did not realize he was the only target until adult Scout leaders hovered over him until he was out of harm's way.
That was the first time Davis experienced racism. Until then, he had attended international schools in countries all over the world where his parents were assigned as career diplomats. He grew up "an embassy brat" in a "multicultural" environment and he did not believe his parents when they told him he was the object of racist behavior.
The assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., on April 4, 1968, made him realize his parents did not lie. However, he still did not know the "why" of racism. Later that same year, his parents were reassigned oversees and he had no more difficulty.
"But when we came back to the United States, I had problems and it just didn't make sense," he said.
Davis began reading everything available on the Ku Klux Klan in an effort to gain insight into the phenomenon of racism in the United States. White authors wrote most of the books. Two black authors wrote of escaped lynchings. During his search for answers, Davis graduated from Howard University in 1980 with a music degree. In 1983, he joined a country and western band as a pianist.
He told of playing the Silver Dollar Lounge in Frederick, Md., not too far from his home, in which he was the only black person.
"When I say I was the only black, I don't mean blacks could not go in there, but blacks did not go in there. It was by their own choice and usually, it was a very good choice," he said.
During the break after the first set, a white man complimented the band on their music. He then complimented Davis on his piano playing.
'This is the first time I've ever heard a black man play the piano like Jerry Lee Lewis," the man told him.
Taken aback, Davis asked, "Where do you think Jerry Lee Lewis learned how to play?"
"What are you talking about?" the man replied.
"Jerry Lee Lewis learned how to play that style from black blues and boogie-woogie piano players," Davis responded. "That's where rock and roll and boogie-woogie came from."
The polite argument over who invented rock and roll was the first encounter the then 25-year-old Davis had with the man who revealed he was a member of the Ku Klux Klan.
"He gave me his phone number and asked me to call him anytime the band played in the bar. He wanted to bring his buddies so they could see this black guy play the piano like Jerry Lee Lewis," Davis said.
Their casual relationship continued until the end of 1983, when Davis returned to rock and roll and blues. Eight years later, Davis still did not know the answer to the question about why there is racism. He decided to write a book based on face-to-face conversations with members of the Klan.
"I still had not found the answer to my question from when I was 10 years old: Why? Why would you hate me? Why would you throw things at me when you don't even know me or know nothing about me. Tell me why?" he said. "Who better to ask than somebody who would join an organization that promotes supremacy or separation?
The black musician remembered the man from eight years earlier. Since then, the man had moved and he no longer had a telephone. But, Davis discovered the man's address and showed up unannounced at his apartment one evening. That man, he discovered, had resigned from the Klan.
Davis asked the man to introduce him to Roger Kelly, the grand dragon of the Maryland Ku Klux Klan. It was that request that led to Kelly's and other's resignation from the Ku Klux Klan.
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My eight-year old daughter is playing soccer. She's not terrible but she is just slow compared to all the other girls. Any ideas on exercises or drills that can help her run faster? Never been much of an athlete myself so I have limited knowledge in this area.
She's probably just not as developed neurologically as some of the other kids. Drills for quick foot work is what she'll need to work on the most. She'll need to practice with lots of repetition on a daily basis to show marked improvement if other girls her age seem to be preforming above her skill set right now.
If you have a wall she can kick the soccer ball against over and over, she'll be able to get a lot of practice in that way. You can play with her sort of like racket ball, with a soccer ball. That's probably the easiest way to get her interested in working on it.
Of course any old school foot ball drills would be the number one way to improve footwork. Ball and Chain, Karaoke, high knees, but kicks, skipping, and bounding. They're tough to explain in words, but they're pretty standard drills that you shouldn't have trouble finding video of on line.
To increase running speed, you'll want to target the "posterior chain", which includes hamstrings, glutes, lower back and abdominal muscles.
Since this question pertains to your daughter, I will avoid any weightlighting exercises since weight training at such a young age is controversial and is generally not advised.
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I used to play basketball. We had to work a lot on having explosive starts and fast sprints. We did
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This is just personal experience, over the past few months I started doing a large number of squats three times a week.
I play soccer all year round.
I have an increase in take-off speed, I can run at higher speeds later in a game and I also feel my thighs aren't as sore during recovery.
Disclaimer: You will need to figure out personally what a reasonable number of squats your child should be doing or if this is suitable for someone her age.
Some kids' motor skills develop at rates different than the other kids their age. This is a somewhat tricky area since in order to develop them, she needs to engage in some repetitious activity, and young children are often not fond of repetitious activity that isn't their idea.
The earlier answer that mentioned kicking a soccer ball against a wall and making a game out of it is a pretty good idea. Other things that will help are (oddly enough) things like playing hop-skotch, skipping, and jumping rope. Anything that requires balance shifts, direction changes, and exact foot/hand placement will work, as long as it's fun for her.
Keep in mind that if it's not fun she won't want to do it enough for it to help her motor skills. And keep in mind that some children simply develop those skills slower than others. I was unable to jump rope until I was like 10. But I went on to play JV basketball, take 5th in the State Wrestling Tournament, 8th in the 100m dash, and 5th in the 400m dash in high school.
Ever seen movies where the character gets a new body, and needs time to get used to it? That's what growing up is like, and if you don't have enough practice "using" your body, you will handle it incorrectly.
Best advice: find a similar skill level for her to play with, until she develops the skills Natalie talks about. If you can't, then yeah, any level of practice will help develop those skills.
Important: nothing's wrong with her, just needs practice.
Maybe her muscle performance is (genetically?) more suited for long-term endurance sports like marathon running for example.
Simple experiment. Just observe what happens:
Tell her that -although she might not be the fastest in the first half of the game- she can still be the fastest in the last 15 minutes of the game when the other players are more exhausted than her.
Maybe she can simply outrun the defenders in one of the last attacks. It's possible to score key goals that way. She must still be willing to perform well at the end, it's difficult after being slower for 80 minutes (or if the other players aren't exhausted at all). Maybe you can still motivate her?
Increase pure top speed? Short change of speed drills are best. Recommend these ideas for your daughter.
1) make it fun. Whatever you do, make it fun with positive reinforcement anytime she performs a desirable action. Regardless of talent or speed increase, positive reinforcement will hopefully allow her to enjoy exercise for her life and find personal value in being active. Way more important than speed.
2) 2-3 times a week conduct speed workouts with her. Use short distances and have her run close to top speed with 3 minutes rest between reps. An example progression would be... 4 x 40 meters at top speed 6 x 40 meters 4 x 60 meters 6 x 60 meters 2 x 60, 2 x 100, 2 x 40 respect the bowerman principle of hard day followed by an easy or rest day
3) once a week run short hill sprints. Sprints should be 10 seconds up the hill followed by a jog down and then followed by a 3 minute rest. Start at 4 or 5 and add one a week until you are up to 10 or so.
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- Clean & Care: Vacuum regularly as new wool rugs can shed yarn fibers for up to three months. Avoid direct and continuous exposure to sunlight. Do not pull loose ends, clip them with scissors to remove. Clean liquid spills immediately by blotting with cloth or sponge. For hard to remove stains, professional rug cleaning is recommended.
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Our robust curriculum prepares our students to be 21st century learners, and seeks to inspire and prepare them to participate actively as members and leaders of a democratic society.
Our Vision
Vincent Academy is a safe, joyful, academically rigorous, and community-minded elementary school where children can develop their innate talents and skills, learn about the complex world around them and receive the support necessary to truly thrive and become community leaders in a global context.
The combination of a state-of-the-art education program, enriched by the arts, with a range of family support services will make Vincent Academy an extraordinary elementary school and an important community asset. Learn more about our philosophy.
Please help us cover the cost of our enriched, extended-day program
Interested in attending Vincent Academy?
Contact Lakisha Hill, our lead recruiter at (510) 452-2100. Or to learn more about enrolling at Vincent Academy, click here.
Vincent Academy and Bridge Housing are partnering on construction of a permanent home for Vincent Academy, directly across the street from Bridge's Chestnut Linden Court apartments in West Oakland. Through this partnership, Vincent Academy and Bridge have an unprecedented chance to create a true "neighborhood of opportunity" in West Oakland -- where families have quality affordable housing, children are academically successful, families and parents can access quality services, and the community stabilizes and thrives.