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A sampling of folklife and cultural tourism projects in the U.S.
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Washington State Arts Commission and Northwest Heritage Resources
If James Abrams in Pennsylvania (see above) can be credited with the prototype for the folklife driving tour tape/booklet, then Willie Smyth and Jens Lund in Washington deserve credit for implementing this idea on a larger scale and popularizing it around the country. Smyth and Lund were indeed influenced by Jim Abrams' Pennsylvania audio guide. The genesis for their particular project, however, was a car trip they took through the state. The breadth and depth of Lund's knowledge about their surroundings struck Smyth. Subsequently, he decided an audiotape/booklet guide would be the best way to replicate this experience for the public.
All of the tours were recorded at Jack Straw Productions' studio in Seattle and were also partially supported by Jack Straw Productions, which is a nonprofit studio and foundation which specializes in community-centered audio projects.
The booklet and tapes were produced by Northwest Heritage Resources (NHR), an organization which is currently being incubated by the Washington State Arts Commission (WSAC) and through which a number of folklorists work. NHR is now in the process of completing the series of seven guides, and when those are completed will produce a final project—a CD-ROM with information from all the tours combined.
The Arts Commission is currently handling the internet and mail orders of the guide, as it has the infrastructure at this point to handle the bookkeeping and the space to store the 4000-5000 guides currently in stock along with mailing supplies such as padded envelopes.
Any proceeds from the guide sales go to NHR, and the hope is that NHR will eventually be self-supporting and be able to handle all tasks related to the guides. NHR currently has a part-time executive director, Carla Wulfsberg, who has worked on many cultural tourism projects.
The initial proposal for the guides was based on heritage corridor routes, which had already been designated by the state. The major state partner for this project was the Washington Department of Transportation (WDOT). The funding for the first three guides, $25,0000 from the Department of Transportation and $25,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts, allowed for 1,000 copies to be made of each guide. The fourth guide received additional WSAC and US Forest Service funding. For the fifth, sixth, and seventh tours, WSAC funding replaced WDOT funding.
The Department of Transportation helped with editing the booklets and was especially helpful with mapping details. The DOT used its databases, for instance, to double-check the latest name of a bridge or the placement of a particular park. Smyth would suggest to others undertaking this work that they bring the Department of Transportation's mapping expertise to bear as early as possible in the project.
The guides, which are priced between $12-$19, are available through the Arts Commission's website http://ww.wa.gov/art/fa. Smyth estimates that approximately 30% of the orders they fill are from out-of-state customers. The guide is also available at the State Capitol House Museum, local bookstores, and select locations along the featured routes. The guides have been publicized through a number of Washington newspaper articles—one in Olympia and one in Port Angeles—which generated about twenty calls. The Olympia newspaper writer was willing to coordinate with NHR to ensure that when article was published the stores cited in the article had the guides in stock.
The state tourism office loves the guides. Smyth has presented the guides on 8-10 panels for various professional audiences, sometimes with staff from the tourism office. The Washington State Department of Tourism has no granting moneys through which to develop products, but only spends money toward promoting Washington through publications, public service announcements and commercials. While the tourism office has been unable to help financially with the production of the guides, at the same time the Department of Tourism has reacted very positively to the guides because they provide a new product/tourist activity that the department can sell. The state tourism office now promotes the project in its getaway guides and is planning to create links for it on their website as well.
Recently the first tour route has become the focus for an inter-agency state pilot project which would develop a product including both cultural and natural resources in that area. The project was launched with a bus tour led by Jens Lund, which included staff from state agencies related to arts, tourism, economic development, and natural resources. The outcome of this initiative is still in the planning stages.
When asked about the economic impact of these guides, Smyth first notes that tourism professionals he works with see the importance of producing a range of activities, from those geared towards immediate dollars and "heads in beds" payoffs to those which, like the driving tour guides, are more "education-oriented tourist information—the kinds of things which will bring people back or make them stay longer." The guides clearly fit more on the "tourist information" end of this spectrum. However, there is evidence from a brief written survey included in the initial guide that 30% of those who bought the guide and sent back the completed survey were actually motivated by the guide to drive one of the suggested routes.
Smyth notes that by tourism industry estimates, a cultural heritage tourist spends approximately $175 per person per day, a rate that is significantly higher than tourists pursuing sports, nature, or other popular interests. He also notes that tourism studies have shown that tourists who stay in an area for over 2 1/2 to 3 hours will have a tendency to spend the night in that area. To the extent, then, to which the guide prolongs tourists' stays in the state, it can be argued it is having a significant economic impact. In addition to this project's worth in creating richer tourism experiences, Smyth has also seen the guides as "a good way of doing survey field research with sources of funding not otherwise available."
Jens Lund and Willie Smyth created the guides based on extensive fieldwork undertaken by Lund. They realized early on the importance of running the information through local experts before printing it, such as when making reference to the specific sites visited by Lewis and Clark, a subject on which there is a great deal of controversy among local historians. Native American communities featured in the guide were closely involved in reviewing text and in making decisions about what was appropriate to be printed and what was not. In addition, contact information was not included for the artists featured in the guides to insure that the artists' privacy will not be invaded through their exposure in this work. Smyth has not heard of any such incidents to date.
Lund and Smyth are finding themselves fielding calls from many folklorists and cultural tourism professionals around the country who would like to replicate this project in their own locales, including individuals from the Hawaii Arts and Historical Commission, the Kentucky and Utah folklife programs, and the Delmarva Folklife Initiative.
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B1. Washington Heritage Tours
C1. Tennessee Overhill Heritage Project
D1. Cowboy Poetry Gathering
E1. The Portland Oregon Visitors Association
F1. The Craft Heritage Trails of Western North Carolina Guidebook
G1. South Carolina Heritage Corridor Tourism Projects
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We are engaged in the synthesis and characterization of semiconducting molecules and macromolecules for photovoltaic applications, including functionalized polyalkylthiophenes and alternating electron-donating/electon-accepting-type structures, as well as block copolymers for surface patterning. We have expertise in a range of polymerization and polymer characterization techniques.
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The Aransas County ISD Board of Trustees unanimously approved a bond referendum totaling $26.8 million to be included in the general election scheduled for May 14, 2011. Proceeds of the referendum would be used by Aransas County ISD to build permanent structures at Live Oak 1-3 Learning Center and Fulton 4-5 Learning Center to replace temporary buildings and renovate instructional support facilities.
The Board voted to call the election during the regularly scheduled meeting on January 20, 2011. The decision was made following an extensive study conducted by a Facilities Committee comprised of community members, parents, business representatives and school district staff. The Facilities Committee was formed in February of 2009 to explore possible solutions to deficiencies in school facilities. The Committee identified the replacement of temporary buildings at Live Oak 1-3 and Fulton 4-5 Learning Centers as the area of greatest community concern. The school buildings currently in use at these campuses include 44 temporary classrooms and 6 temporary restrooms. The Facilities Committee determined that the temporary buildings would have to be replaced three to four times over a period equal to the life of permanent construction and temporary buildings are more expensive to maintain over the long run than new construction. In addition, they noted that temporary structures do not support all teaching technologies and compromise student safety.
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WASHINGTON, March 11, 2013 – The sugar drink ban is one way to reduce the sugar overload in a city. That's what is happening in New York City March 12, 2013. This is a brainchild of Michael Bloomberg, mayor of NYC.
Mr. Bloomberg is seeking to reduce runaway obesity rates by banning the sale of large sodas and other sugary drinks at restaurants, street carts and movie theaters, the first restriction of its kind in the country. Under the plan, all restaurants, fast-food joints, delis, movie theaters, sports stadiums and even food carts and vendors will be barred from selling sugar-sweetened drinks in cups larger than 16 ounces.
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Many other cities may follow suit.
"The state should do exactly the same thing in stores," Bloomberg said, according to the New York Daily News.
Authorities in a Washington D.C. suburb are looking to implement a ban on soda-dispensing vending machines in public middle schools and high schools as well.
It comes to the point where a city mayor initiates a ban on such a harmful health substance like sugar.
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Sugar is a treat most people can't stay away from. They have to have it morning, noon, and night. People can't pull themselves away from it. Sugar stimulates a response in the hypothalamus in the brain that creates addiction.
And that's what's running in the veins of most Americans.
Nearly half of Americans, 48%, report drinking at least one glass of soda per day. Among those who drink any soda, the average daily amount is 2.6 glasses. Young adults — 56 percent of those 18 to 34 drink sodas. Sodas are the largest source of sugar in the diet of children and adolescents.
This ban has more to do with reducing the affects of sugar on young people, attempting to reduce their sugar temptation. While this won't solve the problem it may make it more difficult to get the sugar fix; like limiting drinks at a bar.
The next step is to reduce the foods that are overloaded with sugar and it's disguises like cane juice, and cane syrup, corn sweeteners and high-fructose corn syrup, and fruit juice concentrate and nectars.
What a difference in health this country would be if sugar would be reduced by half.
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The Kidnapping Children Experiment is a hidden camera video showing how real people react to what they believe is a kidnapping. The creator of social test , Yousef Saleh Erakat, posted this description via his Youtube channel fouseyTUBE:
Growing up my biggest fear was getting kidnapped. I would get home early from school and sit on my front lawn until my parents came home because I felt like someone was inside my house waiting for me. This video was a way for me to express that fear in an artisitc way and also spread positive change as to why it is important to ACT when put into these types of situations. Kids being abducted are nervous being around the person who captured them so it's on us to know when he or she is in danger. This video will not bring back any of the disappeared angels but it may help prevent losing anymore to the devil.


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Commencement is the capstone and most exciting moment of our students' college career — the culmination of all their hard work over the years and the beginning of their new life. Every year, Brooklyn College marks its Commencement Exercises with all the pageantry and excitement that the celebration calls for.
In 2010, we ushered in a new tradition: separate ceremonies for graduate and undergraduate students. This new format ensures that all of our students receive the special attention they deserve on this momentous day.
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MagLab Open House: Tallahassees Biggest Science Event!
By Kathleen Laufenberg
Posted: Jan. 25, 2013
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Think of it as a giant science festival, complete with cryogenic rocket cars, frozen flowers, shrinking quarters, ice cream made with liquid nitrogen, levitation and things that go boom.
When: Saturday, Feb. 16, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Where: 1800 E. Paul Dirac Drive (in Innovation Park) Click for map
Cost: Free — but please bring a canned good to donate to Second Harvest
Details: Visit our Open House page for more info
Its the MagLabs Open House — Tallahassees biggest family science event of the year — on Feb. 16, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Its all free, but please bring a canned good to donate to the Second Harvest of the Big Bend.
Some of the biggest and most powerful magnets on the planet are housed at the lab. During Open House, the MagLabs more than 250 scientists and engineers will demonstrate some of the complex science principles they use daily in the most fun ways they can dream up. Well have about 90 different science demonstrations going on simultaneously, and more than a dozen community partners with booths, demonstrations and experiments.
One of the labs most popular demos is Einsteins Ice Cream. Physicist Hans van Tol, who moved from Holland a decade ago in order to work with the MagLabs cutting-edge electron magnetic resonance machines, will crank out gallons of ice cream faster than youve ever seen. While it may take 4 hours to make a regular batch of homemade ice cream, van Tol can whip up a half-gallon of vanilla, chocolate or any other flavor in 8 minutes. How? He uses liquid nitrogen to make the cream freeze super fast.
Most of the science we do here at the lab is done at very low temperatures, and so normally we use liquid nitrogen to cool down our experiments, van Tol says. But on this day, we use our liquid nitrogen to cool down the ice cream and make people happy.
Theres plenty for you to do, too. You can set off a water rocket and manipulate the air pressure, amount of water and launch angle in order to change the speed and height of the rocket.
You can watch a pickle transmit electricity — and glow as its literally cooked in the process — or you can launch a potato from a special veggie cannon, a demonstration of the conservation of energy principle (i.e., that energy cannot be created or destroyed, but can be changed from one form to another).
Or perhaps youd rather experience a toroidal vortex. How? By aiming a giant, foot-wide smoke ring at a candle and trying to blow it out.
The smoke ring is in fact a circulating doughnut-shaped mass of air and smoke which is technically referred to as a toroidal vortex, says physicist Steve McGill, one of the scientists who works the giant smoke-ring machine at Open House. The circulation traps the air (and smoke) within it, and the mass of air moves through the atmosphere and carries momentum, which allows it to knock over light objects at a distance.
If mighty machines are your thing, you can witness the incredibly destructive power of a 2-tesla magnet as it flattens water jugs, or you can marvel over the labs 45 tesla magnet — the most powerful of its kind in the world (and we have the Guinness World Record to prove it!). Or you can witness a quarter shrink to the size of a dime with an impressive big bang.
There will be a variety of food trucks, too, and an open grill serving veggie burgers and hamburgers. And just down the street, there will be two other Open Houses during the same 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. hours, both on Levy Street.
One is at the Center for Advanced Power Systems (CAPS), 2000 Levy Street. At CAPS, youll find a variety of things to do and see — and you can even build your own extremely simple motor.
It's a good hands-on experience the kids really seem to enjoy, says Steve McClellan, the deputy director of CAPS. When youre done making your motor, you can take it home with you, too.
Across the street from CAPS, the High-Performance Materials Institute, 2005 Levy Ave., is hosting its first-ever Open House. They are offering 30-minute tours of some of their labs, and they will have an intriguingly lightweight, battery-powered car for you to check out. Some of the cars body is made using carbon fibers, says Frank Allen, the institutes operations director. Researchers at the institute focus on creating cool, high-tech composite materials.
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A toy train floats on air and demonstrates cool concepts like magnetic levitation, the Meissner Effect and magnetic flux trapping.
Talk about inflation! The interplay of magnetic and electric forces can shrink a U.S. quarter to the size of a dime – in one millionth of a second.
See, smell and feel starfish and other water dwellers in a special touch tank brought by FSUs Sea–to–See program, one of dozens of community partners contributing exhibits to Open House.
Science is the wheel deal … and if this demonstration on angular momentum doesnt convince you, nothing will!
The smoke rings produced by this special launcher are actually circulating masses of air and smoke called toroidal vortexes. Holy smoke!
Can you plug in a pickle? Sure! This demonstration shows that pickles are both tasty and good conductors of electricity.
Open House is free for everyone! In the spirit of community, please donate a canned good to Americas Second Harvest of the Big Bend at the entrance.
Watch the purple sparks fly from our tesla coil and learn neat science about resonance and transformers.
Put on some special specs and see how 3–D images illustrate how the labs electron microscopes work.
Were located at 1800 E. Paul Dirac Drive in Tallahassees Innovation Park. Follow the link and look for the little red thumbtack!
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Something for your sweet tooth is available from Einsteins Ice Cream, which serves the popular frozen treat with (of course!) a scientific twist. Surely, Albert himself would approve. The ice cream is FREE for everyone at Open House.
Bring your appetite: Several food trucks will be on hand offering a variety of lunch fare.
Watch what happens when scientists from our Cryogenics Lab freeze balloons and flowers to -320 degrees Fahrenheit with the help of liquid nitrogen. Brrrrr!
Helium–filled sharks go airborne at Open House so that you can learn about buoyancy and aerodynamics.
Watch this slideshow of the 2011 Open House!
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After old rap guys Busta Rhymes and Q-Tip reunited on the excellent new tracks "Thank You" and "Butch & Sundance," with both of them sounding absolutely reinvigorated, expectations were high for their new mixtape The Abstract & The Dragon. As it turns out, the new tape is not an all-new full-length, which is what most of us were hoping for. Still, it's a deeply fun listen: A compilation of all their collaborations throughout the years (and there have been a lot of them), mixed in with a few new collabs, some skits where they're happily talking to each other, and a few surprises like a version of a Tribe Called Quest's "Oh My God" with a verse from Busta. (He was just on the hook on the original track.) Download the mixtape at Livemixtapes.
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How green is your lawn? The Grass Scanner tells you
As summer lurches forward, suburbia becomes a beauty contest of lawns, each aspiring to be the best shade of green. But who's the greenest one of all? The Grass Scanner can tell you. Designed by Alice Wang, this conceptual device takes readings from three patches of grass, figuring out where your lawn places in a Pantone color swatch of greens. Once you have your Pantone code, you can compare your lawns greenness to the "average" grass colors of various parks in the U.K. (I'm guessing Wang is British.)
The Grass Scanner seems like it would be an easy enough thing to build, though I can't see the demand being there… it's easy enough to tell if a lawn is a nice shade of green without the Pantone code, and in any case people who are in this game compete with their neighbors, not public parks. Still, cool pic — is that Frank Gorshin?


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Monsanto gets a bad rap, y'all. Sure they're genetically-altering food and people are in a huff about it. But let's play Devil's advocate here, shall we?
Screenshot via YouTube Organic food is for liberals.
Maybe genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and genetically engineered (GE) foods aren't so bad? Maybe the whole debate was started by other corporations like Whole Foods and Fresh Market to lure you into buying "clean" and "organic"?
Don't tell us what we like, you small family farms that struggle to keep up with giant mega-corporations. Maybe we like giant, screaming watermelons!
See also: Investigation Finds GMO Sweet Corn Is a Fail in U.S. Stores
We found a video, produced by the hilarious Happy Little Guillotine Studios that shares our love for Monsanto. In it, some grateful non-granola people compare GMO's to Spiderman. Hey, they're both genetically engineered and who doesn't love Spidey? Can we now agree that genetic mutations can save the planet and be part of a sensible diet?
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LONDON —Manchester United ended leader Chelseas unbeaten start to the Premier League season and moved a point behind its opponent after benefiting from key refereeing decisions to win 3-2 on Sunday. Justin Tucker Elite Jersey . After United threw away a two-goal lead when Juan Mata and Ramires scored, Chelsea had Branislav Ivanovic and Fernando Torres sent off. And referee Mark Clattenburg then allowed Javier Hernandezs goal to count in the 75th minute despite the United striker appearing to be in an offside position. "Hes always going to be a threat to defenders and hes got the winning goal in an important game," United manager Alex Ferguson said after his teams first league win at Chelsea since April 2002. "Its always hard to come here and its hard to get decisions here. Over the last few years there have been some shocking decisions against us, and I think everyone knows that. But today, if we did get a little break, I think we deserved it." United climbed back above third-place neighbour Manchester City on goal difference, while Tottenham returned to fourth place with a 2-1 victory at Southampton. In Sundays other matches, fifth-place Everton fought back from two goals down to hold Liverpool to a 2-2 draw, and Newcastle beat West Bromwich Albion 2-1. At Stamford Bridge, United looked set to storm to victory after scoring twice in the opening 12 minutes. Chelsea defender David Luiz inadvertently turned the ball into his own net in the fourth minute after Robin van Persies shot had rebounded off the post. Van Persie then found the net himself, sweeping home from Antonio Valencias cross after United again tore through Chelsea down the right flank. United goalkeeper David de Gea pulled off a string of saves to prevent Chelsea gaining a foothold in the game, but the hosts pressure paid off when Mata curled in a free kick just before the break. Mata helped to set up Chelseas equalizer eight minutes into the second half. His cross was headed on by Torres to Oscar, who chipped the ball across to Ramires and the Brazilian headed Chelsea level. But the game swung back in Uniteds favour when Ivanovic was sent off in the 63rd for bringing down Ashley Young and Torres received a second booking for diving after being judged to have gone down too easily under Jonny Evans challenge six minutes later. Hernandez, who Ferguson brought on after Ivanovics dismissal, then pounced by turning Rafael da Silvas shot into the net. "They say that the winning goal came from an offside, so thats the bit of luck I think we got," Ferguson said. "We started the game so well, absolutely brilliant, and then just 10 minutes from halftime we lost our way a bit. I couldnt wait for halftime, to be honest with you. "But they got that second goal after halftime and, at that moment, we had to start performing properly, and I think we did better then." 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Getting rid of some layers of government in Illinois was the topic of a forum in Lisle that drew participants from around the area.
DuPage County Board Chairman Dan Cronin said that the trend toward consolidating units of government is picking up steam.
"Would you design a system this way," Cronin said about the number of government units in Illinois during the event at National-Louis University in Lisle.
Cronin was referring to the almost 7,000 units of government in Illinois, of which about 400 are in DuPage County.
Consolidating or even eliminating some of those taxing bodies was the main topic Cronin debated with Robert Porter of the law firm Ancel Glink; freshman state Rep. Chris Welch , D-7th of Westchester; and Brian Costin, director of Government Reform at the Illinois Policy Institute.
Cronin said he supported legislation in Springfield that, when signed by Gov. Quinn, gave DuPage County legal authority to dissolve units of government if it is in the best interest of taxpayers.
To date, the move toward consolidation has only seen the dissolution of the Timberlake Estates Sanitary District and the Fairview Fire Protection District in unincorporated Downers Grove. Cronin acknowledged the challenges of consolidation.
"Consolidation is not easy," he said. "It's really hard, tedious work."
Porter was not ready to oppose all efforts at consolidating government or services, but defended the right of local communities to decide what type of government was best.
"These units of government didn't grow because they popped out of the ground like mushrooms," he said, stressing they were decisions made by local citizens, often the result of referendums.
Porter, whose background includes service as director of the Lemont Park District and supervisor of Lemont Township, stressed that before any unit of government was eliminated, there was a need for an open dialogue, an in-depth study, and safeguards against misdirecting any cost savings.
Porter said that a connection to local citizens is key, and defended the financial record of local entities.
"At at the local level they (citizens) can find you," he said. "And local governments don't have a pension problem."
Welch's background is in local government, previously serving as president of the Proviso Township High School Board. His experience has led him to believe that consolidation can be beneficial.
Welch said there are too many school districts in Illinois, as well as other governmental bodies, and has himself introduced legislation that would allow local voters to merge River Forest Township with the village of River Forest.
"I believe that in some cases government can be streamlined . . . it's an issue their residents should decide," he said.
For Costin, the need for consolidation in Illinois is highlighted by the fact that 40 other states have only two levels of government ruling over the citizen.
He cited the difficulty in monitoring so many levels of government and attributed some of the blame for Illinois having the second highest property taxes in the nation to its excessive number of taxing bodies.
"The public should have a say," Costin said.
When Doubek asked what consolidation Porter would support, he said it was something that each community had to decide is a local dialogue.
"Citizen discussion is the key," he said.
With Democrats, including candidate for county clerk Jean Kaczmarek, calling for returning the county's election duties to the County Clerk's Office and eliminating the cost of the DuPage Election Commission, Doubek asked Cronin why the commission wasn't on his list for consolidation.
Cronin said that reforms of the Election Commission had already resulted in savings of about $2 million and that more reforms were being studied.


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Definitions for litanyˈlɪt n i
This page provides all possible meanings and translations of the word litany
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
lit•a•nyˈlɪt n i(n.)(pl.)-nies.
a ceremonial or liturgical form of prayer consisting of a series of invocations or supplications with responses.
Category: Religion
a prolonged or tedious account:
a whole litany of complaints.
Origin of litany:
bef. 900; ME letanie, OE letanīa < ML, LL litanīa < LGk litaneía litany, Gk: entreaty, n. der. of litaínein or litaneúein to pray
Princeton's WordNet
any long and tedious address or recital
"the patient recited a litany of complaints"; "a litany of failures"
a prayer consisting of a series of invocations by the priest with responses from the congregation
A ritual liturgical prayer in which a series of prayers recited by a leader are alternated with responses from the congregation.
A prolonged or tedious account.
Origin: From λιτανεία, from λιτή.
Webster Dictionary
a solemn form of supplication in the public worship of various churches, in which the clergy and congregation join, the former leading and the latter responding in alternate sentences. It is usually of a penitential character
A litany, in Christian worship and some forms of Judaic worship, is a form of prayer used in services and processions, and consisting of a number of petitions. The word comes from the Latin litania and the Ancient Greek: λιτανεία, which in turn comes from Ancient Greek: λιτή, meaning "supplication". For the "Litany" as used in the Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches, see Ektenia.
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a form of supplication in connection with some impending calamity in which the prayer of the priest or officiating clergyman is responded to by the congregation.
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A friend had to go to her gynecologist the other day. A small girl, she's struggled in having her new boyfriend penetrate her. The gynecologist insisted that was physically impossible, and her problems were all mental. She insisted they weren't to which the doctor finally replied, exasperated, "Tell you what then. Go down to Eighth Avenue, buy a dildo, and come back here and show me you can masturbate with it."
(Have you digested that…?)
I also have been getting into a lot of awkward situations lately. Especially this time of the year. Seems that every other night for the last few weeks I've had a birthday party to attend. Birthday parties always bring out the awkwardness, not that a drunkard like me gets fazed that often. One such recent soiree amazingly came on the exact same date as my last girlfriend's birthday. Instead of sending that ex a birthday card, I should send her a thank you card, because since she dumped me, I've never met so many women in my life. It was one of these women, Angie, who I had only been dating for a week or two, who had her birthday on that formerly meaningful day to me. I was loathe to attend a birthday party for a girl I had just started dating, seeing all sorts of problems arising, but, with a little prodding from her, I eventually agreed to. I would almost immediately regret that decision when I then recieved the evite and learned the party would be less than a block from where my same-birthday-ex lives, putting me the closest I had been to her apartment since getting 86ed from her life.
Things got even worse when a huge college football game I really wanted to see got rescheduled for the same evening. Obviously, I began pre-gaming by myself quite early to eliminate my nerves and inhibitions, polishing off several Ballast Point Big Eye IPAs my sister had bought on a recent jaunt to San Diego. I'd asked her to find me some stuff from the area's more famous breweries (Russian River, Alesmith, etc) so I was a bit disappointed when she only brought back the Ballast Point. Oh, I'd heard of the brewery, sure, I just thought it was a "lesser" one. However, simply based on their IPA, I was clearly wrong. An incredibly frothy head, it smelled like a classic piney and citrusy California IPA. Nice hops made for smooth session drinking. I look forward to trying more stuff from the place.
After three brews, I headed up Amsterdam Avenue wearing a disguise* lest I run into my ex. Knowing my fortune, I figured she'd be hosting a birthday party in the very same bar. Luckily, that would not be the case. But things would go nearly as badly.
Immediately upon arriving at the watering hole, I learned I had gotten there late. Seems I had misread the stupid evite. Her brother, Timothy, a man who resides in the Upstate sticks and who I had yet to meet, quite rudely and tersely informed me of this. He must have stalked me on Facebook because he recognized me the second I entered the place, as he stood watch near the door like some overly-freckled, America Eagle-clad, miniature version of a palace guard. I never understand brothers that protect their sisters' vaginas like the Hope Diamond. It's peculiar. Queer. Your sister's a grown woman, she doesn't need your 155 pounds of protection and your lame insight in order to make romantic and sexual decisions. She's not Joanie Cunningham and you ain't Richie, though, come to think of it, Tim did sort of look like him.
This little nerd immediately starts giving me the third degree about my "intentions" for his sister, a topic of conversation I've wasted far too many hours of my life having. I could have quoted Lloyd Dobler when he was once asked a similar question ("What I really want to do with my life–what I want to do for a living–is I want to be with your [sister]."), I could have said something real nasty ("Fuck her while you watch since you seem to care so goddamn much.") but instead I simply kowtowed to the mid-thirties apparent virgin and predicted a bright and innocent future with his kin ("Hey Tim, can't wait to hear what you say at our wedding, heh heh.") Tim's lucky I didn't tell him what my intentions were for him as my mind was spinning with schemes.
Tim escorted me to a back private room where the party was already in full swing. Angie was predisposed with some people so we were only able to have a second of loving eye contact, a friendly can't-wait-to-shake-this-boring-dialogue-so-I-can-kiss-you grin from her. Waiting for Angie's conversation to end, I went to mingle and schmooze up some of her friends, none of which I had met before, nor even knew much of anything about. However, the reverse was clearly not the case. I was the star attraction, Angie's mysterious new man, who she had already told them "so much" about. They swarmed me like hungry pigs in a sty, I the farmer entering with a slop bucket.
I quickly found out that literally all of her chums were workmates. That typically sends a signal to me. It's fine to have coworker cohorts, but when a person only has work friends they usually don't have any real friends. It's one thing to make and cultivate a friendship in the real world, it's another to have pals that you head straight from work to the bar together to get loaded and bitch about Barry your asshole boss. All these friends were quite terrible, a real horror show of women. Each being seemingly decent looking until you found that one single defect that overshadowed everything good. There was the one with the highly visible gum line, the one that seemed to have fifty-five teeth in her mouth, the one with a prominent birth control mustache, and the one that wouldn't shut the fuck up about her "recent" engagement (four months ago).
The latter mentioned buddy, clearly with either some prompting from Angie or more likely some nosiness of her own, had friended me a week earlier on Facebook. I thought that was sweet until my news feed began to fill up every single day with her every-five-minutes' status updates, all about her upcoming nuptials: "Shirley is shopping for wedding gowns!," "Shirley is meeting the flower guy," "Shirley is deciding between band and DJ," "Shirley is admiring the engagement ring her latently homosexual fiance bought her," etc. Aaron is…already hating you and wishing he could delete you as a friend without you finding out.
Finally, Angie was free and came over to me with a big hug and a sloppy, wine-soaked smooch. She was well lit up already. In our few dates together I'd never seen her so drunk. In fact, for our first date we had closed a lower Hell's Kitchen dive bar down drinking pitchers of beer with countless Jameson shots yet she had remained unflappable, something I perversely found quite fetching. But this time she was quite flapped, drunk and moody. She quickly noticed that I was empty-handed. As in, I hadn't brought a present. Hey, I didn't know it was one of those parties, what are we, fucking eight years old? We're in a bar, not a rollerskating rink or bowling alley. And, any how, I kinda have a rule about not getting birthday presents for girls whose middle names I still don't know. Then again, I'm also arrogant enough to usually think my best gift to any one is my presence, and not my presents. Having said all that, though, seemingly every other one of the two dozen invitees had brought a gift, rendering the "new boyfriend" the "big asshole." As Tim tsked tsked me with his beady eyes, Angie began yelling at inconsiderate me, the row only ending when she needed to go piss.
I headed to the bar to finally score a drink and there I learned two things, one horrible, one amazing. Which would you like to hear first? OK, let's go with the horrible. The fucking bar's satellite is down and I can't watch the football game I had so hoped to keep an askance eye on. The football game which I now wanted to fully focus my attention on what with a girlfriend that is wasted, her friends that are lame and make me viscerally vomitous, and her brother who seems to have unrequited love for his sis. As I mentioned though, there was some good, that being that her West Coast parents had the acumen to set up a $1000 bar tab for everyone to imbibe from. The bar tab came with no stipulations so, while everyone else drank Bud Lights, garbage vodka drinks, and Lame-tinis, I like an asshole began ordering the best bourbon in the house, the small-batch Booker's which comes in at a scorching 127 proof, all the while remaining incredibly flavorful and quite complex. "Neat!," I thought and "Neat" I said to the barkeep when he asked how I wanted it.
Returning from the bathroom, Angie had calmed down, heck, seemingly having forgotten about our fight just a few minutes earlier. Things began going decently, we're goofing around, getting loaded, hey!, this was the girl I'd had so much fun with over the last couple of weeks. I guess there might not be a chink in her armor. Unfortunately, that lasted for all of fifteen minutes before Trevor arrived and made a beeline for her.
Trevor, her college boyfriend, her "best" friend. Right. Let me tell you something, women, though the smarter ones of you know it already, former boyfriends that you dumped yet which still hang out with you like a pathetic puppy dog are rarely friends with you. They are just losers with no other female options, with no integrity, confidence, or self-esteem that continue to have the hopes that one day you'll fall back into bed with them, back into a relationship with them. Today's the day!
Angie leaves us to make another lap around the room and I'm forced to speak with the dullard Trevor. The kind of guy who is so predictable, so two dimensional, so amazingly a living-and-breathing archetype, that one need only know him for a minute to know everything about him, to fill in all the blanks. A neo-hippie from Brooklyn who spends every second he's in Manhattan telling you how much it sucks compared to Brooklyn. I let him do the blabbering because I like to let idiots blather so I will always have content to write about.
Here's a few things one quickly learns about Trevor. He's the kind of guy that wears an Obama pin every single day even though the election has been over for weeks, still so proud that he voted for him. Oh, sure, he would never remain a fan of a band that suddenly became even marginally locally famous, but he's really proud, thinks he really unique, sui generis, that he was one of seventy million to vote for Barack. I ask him if he wants to get a drink with me. Naw, not drinking now, he's decided he should remain sober for the month, detox a bit for his cosmic health. Then let's have some mozzarella sticks laid out at that table in the corner. Nope, he doesn't eat "processed" foods either, which makes me now realize why he is such a lithe little pixie of a boy. And with his intentionally scrubby vintage clothing he looked like a lank Tom Joad who had decided to go east, young man, instead of west.
In fact, Trevor doesn't like much of anything. Oh, but he'll sure tell you everything he dislikes: the nebulous idea of "corporations" (even though the dilettante of a musician is forced to work low-low-level for a Wall Street one), the nebulous idea of competition, sports, American studio movies, people with money, free market economics, and television (doesn't even own one he proudly proclaims, though he must be a Marshall McCluhan fan cause later he talks about watching "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" on his Macbook.) When it comes down to it, Trevor is the kind of guy that adds absolutely nothing to a conversation, unable to generate anything interesting of his own, only able to snarkily, and poorly, critique things created by other people. He's like a blogger that is only able to reblog stuff from others with perhaps only a single boring caption added.
If he was a movie character, critics would deride him as being too wooden and predictable, saying that real life humans have much more depth than this. Sadly, that is simply not the case. In fact, I find Trevor to be such a detestable fucking loser–the kind of guy that thinks listing your sexuality status on Facebook as "swinger" as being the height of American comedy–that it makes me question if Angie is a loser for having once dated him (and still being good friends with him no less!) and whether I am a loser, quod erat demonstrandum, for now dating and liking her. To make myself feel better, and not cause I completely believe it, I note to myself that college for the 28-year-old Angie was almost a decade ago and why judge her on her past actions, past boyfriends, I certainly wouldn't want to be judged on my actions, my past relations.
That was dumb thinking, though, and I should have analyzed the situation more rigoriously. As the party heated up and Angie started ignoring me in favor of her friends and Trevor, I do what I usually do when I'm bored at a party, wedding, or whatever, I headed to the bar. I start gabbing with the bartender and find him to be a very cool guy. We talk about the fucked up situation I am currently in. He agrees with me that, yeah, it was dumb to come to the party and, yeah, both Angie and Trevor were dumb for feigning friendship and I should just leave them both to their own devices, that I'm better than that.
Finally, he poured me a triple of Booker's into a plastic cup and said, "Leave."
"Yeah, I've seen this story a million times before. You're just wasting your time here. Take this bourbon, forget about that girl, and go to a bar that actually has satellite TV working. And when you get there, could you please text me the fucking football score?"
He was a wise sage and I had to agree with him.
As I discreetly left the bar, I noticed Angie and Trevor in the corner now close-talking. They would probably be kissing soon. Pathetic. Those losers deserved each other.
As I walked back down on Central Park West, sipping my bourbon, headed to a nearby bar I knew had good television screens, I deleted Angie's name from my phone.
Just a few minutes before I began writing this, I was as per usual dicking around on Facebook. Angie had finally gotten around to posting an album from that weeks-ago party. Unsurprisingly, I was not tagged in any of the photos. After looking through them, I revisited Angie's profile. She was now listed as being in a relationship with Trevor. I spit my Starbucks Christmas Blend** across the room as I cackled heartily. Crisis averted.
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**I am decidely not a Starbucks fan and I rarely get my coffee there, but I must say that their Christmas Blend is quite good if you're like me and like bold punishing coffee that tickles once down your gullet immediately tickles your spine.