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Ilkhom Theatre: The realization of a dream, clouded by tragedy
The Ilkhom Theatre of Uzbekistan makes its Seattle debut at ACT Theatre next week, a long-in-the-works dream on two continents.
Seattle Times theater critic
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ACT's Ilkhom Theatre Festival includes runs of "White White Black Stork" (Friday-April 6) and "Ecstasy With the Pomegranate" (April 9-13), at ACT Theatre, 700 Union St., Seattle; $10-$55 per show. Tickets and special programs: 206-292-7676 or www.acttheatre.org.
Note: The shows are performed in Uzbek and Russian, with English supertitles.
The Ilkhom Theatre of Uzbekistan makes its Seattle debut at ACT Theatre next week, a long-in-the-works dream on two continents.
Many have pitched in to import two productions, 31 actors and other personnel from this celebrated troupe, which is based in Seattle's sister city, Tashkent, and has close ties to this community.
But last autumn, the excitement of the venture was suddenly tempered by grief.
On Sept. 7, 2007, Mark Weil, the dynamic artistic leader of the Ilkhom and a part-time Seattle resident, was returning home from a rehearsal of Ilkhom's new version of "The Oresteia" in Tashkent when the tall, gray-haired director, 55, was struck on the head and fatally stabbed by two attackers.
Six months later, Weil's killing remains an internationally decried incident wrapped in mystery. Some of his allies — in Tashkent, London, Seattle — fear the killing was politically motivated. If Ilkhom Theatre Company's shows are not literally critical of the regime of strong-arm Uzbek leader Islam Karimov, they have alluded to provocative subjects.
In 2005, reports the journal Eurasia Insight, Ilkhom's poetic work "Flights of Mashrab" contained "a not-so-subtle anti-authoritarian message" after the infamous shooting of hundreds of demonstrators by government security forces in the Uzbek city of Andijan.
Notes Ilkhom actor Maxim Tumenev, by e-mail, "Everything ... the Ilkhom is producing can be considered as controversial — homosexual themes, reflection to political situation and government position. But we never had ... a goal to make these visible parallels on purpose. People see what they see and make their own decisions."
After Weil's death, police questioned his Ilkhom co-workers. "Almost all members of the company went through tough interrogations," writes Tumenev, who was questioned four times. "I can tell you it's not pleasant. One of the actors was put in jail for 10 days."
Since then, there has been scant official news about the homicide, and no apparent arrests. Says Alain Délétroz, who befriended Weil while working in Tashkent with the Open Democracy Institute (George Soros' public-policy organization): "I do not think we will ever know what happened to Mark. I would not trust an Uzbek investigation in a case like this. And like many places with a dictator in power, Tashkent is a place of many, many rumors."
This much is clear: Weil was a bold, charismatic cultural figure in a Central Asian Republic still in the shadow of Soviet Communism. And he would be mourned by many in an American city some 6,000 miles away from the theater he ran for more than 30 years.
International ties
Seattle has forged a bond with Tashkent, a storied city of 2 million — the largest, and one of the oldest, in Central Asia.
Tashkent dates back to at least 1 B.C., and over its history has been a multiethnic, cosmopolitan trade and cultural center under (at various times) Arabian, Mongol and Turkish rule. In the 1860s, Uzbekistan was colonized by Russia. And in the 20th century, under Soviet control, the country grew more politically oppressive and isolated.
Mark Weil was born into a Jewish family in Tashkent. Ambitious and creative, he started his own youth drama troupe at age 17. Then in 1976, after studying at the Tashkent Theatre and Arts Institute, Weil cofounded an upstart theater, later baptized the Ilkhom (Uzbek for "inspiration").
Remarkably, the Ilkhom has endured and flourished outside the "official" system of state-subsidized, government-endorsed Uzbek culture — surviving on ticket sales, grants and touring revenues.
Weil's link to the Northwest begins back in 1973, when Seattle became the sister city of Tashkent. Seven years earlier, Tashkent endured a devastating earthquake. By the late 1980s, when Seattle actress Michelle Blackmon joined a cultural exchange mission to the city, it had been extensively rebuilt. And the Ilkhom had become a hub for the Uzbek artistic intelligentsia — as one admirer called it, "a tiny, bright and incredibly unlikely beacon of light" in the region.
"It was an amazing experience being there," recalls Blackmon, now a Seattle Center administrator. "We were a group of 30 people [from Seattle], sponsored by the performers' union in Tashkent.
"I worked on a show with Mark at Ilkhom, and found him to be an extremely magnanimous man who knew how to negotiate difficult situations with people from different backgrounds. We all loved him."
In 1991, Uzbekistan broke away from the U.S.S.R., but Karimov, the formerly Communist Uzbek leader, retained power as president of the new "democracy" in elections the U.S. called "neither free nor fair."
Also in 1991, Weil visited Seattle for the first time. Warmly greeted by friends, and impressed with the city, he urged his wife, Tatyana, and daughters Julia and Aleksandra to settle here.
As he told The Seattle Times in 2003, Weil feared "an explosion of Islamic fundamentalism" in Uzbekistan, and wanted his daughters to be educated. Both became UW graduates. (The Weil family supplied information for this article, but declined to be interviewed.)
Weil visited his family here several times a year. But his devotion to Ilkhom kept him in Tashkent and on tour most of the time.
A hot ticket in Eastern Europe, Japan, England and elsewhere, his troupe was hailed for its invigorated classics and its original theater pieces steeped in Uzbekistan's complex, turbulent history.
The two works in ACT's "Ilkhom Festival" reflect Ilkhom's range. "White White Black Stork" is a romantic tragedy that one London critic termed "a touching, gently sad piece from an important international company."
"Ecstasy With the Pomegranate," a collaboration with American choreographer David Rousseve, drew some fire for its homosexual content. The piece was inspired by the life of early 20th-century Russian artist Aleksandr Nikolaev and his paintings of the Bacha — a traditional Uzbek dance performed by men in female garb.
Intense direction
Often invited to direct and teach abroad, Weil staged the Russian play "The Suicide" at Seattle's University of Washington drama school in 2003.
UW drama professor Mark Jenkins recalls Weil as "a soulful visionary, natural leader, first-class director and smart entrepreneur.
"At first our students were pretty shocked by how he liked to work — not from the inside out, as they were used to, but the outside in. He'd give them very extreme physical directorial choices. They came to appreciate his approach."
Several UW students later went to Tashkent to study at the Ilkhom. In spring 2007, Jenkins visited, and saw the company's entire 14-play repertoire.
He was struck by the 200-seat venue's popularity in a city "that's very pleasant, superficially, with its wide boulevards and parks, but incredibly repressive politically."
In his own 2005 trek to Tashkent, ACT Theatre artistic director Kurt Beattie was also struck by the Ilkhom's sold-out houses, and its "amazing, beautifully trained actors, capable of anything... Chekhov, Goldoni, modern stuff. And 'White White Black Stork' — Wow! It was so exquisitely poetic. The staging was brilliant."
Bringing in Ilkhom
With Weil, Beattie began laying the groundwork for an Ilkhom run at ACT, enlisting help from supporters and such groups as the Seattle-Tashkent Sister City Association.
In September, the elaborate logistics, the housing and visa arrangements were all in place. ACT had raised $400,000 for the project, from local patrons and national funders (the Ilkhom will also do a short tour to several other U.S. cities). Welcoming events hosted by Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels and the Seattle-Tashkent Sister City Association were also set.
Then the shocking news of Weil's brutal, perplexing killing reached Seattle.
"Mark always felt very safe," says Jenkins. "I don't think anybody remotely anticipated this."
Writes Tumenev, "Mark never told us that he was getting threats. Probably he was, but I think he wasn't scared by them. He was a very strong and brave person."
Beattie says Weil's death adds poignancy and urgency to ACT's presentation of works he directed and co-wrote.
And the Ilkhom troupe has stayed passionately focused on carrying out their late "master's" artistic plans. With this visit, they're honoring the spirit of what were widely reported as Weil's final, defiant words: "I'm opening a season tomorrow, no matter what."
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Lasse Thoresen
Lasse Thoresen, professor of composition at the Norwegian State Academy of Music, is one of Europe's outstanding contemporary composers. He has had works commissioned by all the major Norwegian Philharmonic Orchestras and the French National Radio, among others. He was the music festival composer/composer in residence for the 1996 Bergen International Music Festival in Norway.
Music can thus be a means for developing an individual's capability for understanding nonverbal messages. This capability is essential for any religious individual, since the holy writings tend to express their meanings through symbols and metaphors, images rather than abstract concepts. Bahá'u'lláh uses a very poetic language by which He evokes wonderful images and inner vistas. In order to understand these images and draw on the spiritual power they can release, we must first of all call forth these images from our imagination -- using our inner senses rather than the outward ones. Thus, when Bahá'u'lláh speaks of "rustling of the Divine Lote-Tree and the murmur of the breezes of thine utterance in the Kingdom of Thy Names," He suggests auditive impressions that we can imagine internally.
In order to evoke the spiritual potential of these images, in this case sound images, we have to dive into them mentally, listen to them, penetrate them, ultimately dissolve them in the clarity of understanding. We have to find out, though not necessarily explain intellectually, why exactly these sound impressions, these images, were chosen as metaphors by Bahá'u'lláh. Of course, to divine the meaning of these images ultimately becomes a very subjective and personal thing. Yet, the process of finding these personal meanings should be cultivated, as it stimulates the spiritual development of the individual. Art can play a vital role in this development, since the arts work with nonverbal symbols and images within the subjective, personal sphere.
All art appeals to the senses and communicates through the senses. Art, however, is a means not only of refining the senses but of transcending them. By transcending them, I mean that one goes from one's external senses -- that is, from listening with the physical ear, seeing with the eye, etc. -- to one's internal sense, that is listening and seeing with the mind and soul, and with our imagination. Our external senses are the tools of the soul for developing an inner vision and an inner audition. In this way, experiencing an artistic discipline and working on our external senses, can lead in the end to a transcendence of the external senses and a development of the faculties of the soul, particularly the faculty of inner vision. This is one of the most exciting and important aspects of how music and art in general can help us spiritualize ourselves.
Music is nonverbal, symbolic language that allows us to understand spiritual dimensions that go beyond words. The understanding of music helps us in our understanding of God 's Revelation, because the revealed word also contains nonverbal dimensions of expression. Music is of vital importance in mankind's spiritualization, as it may aid us to transcend our physical senses and to develop the faculties of the soul.
True music teaches us some of the alchemy of God's names. It shows us how certain of God's attributes can be visualized, be made audible and tangible. What is a merciful gesture? What is a wrathful gesture? What is justice, beauty, and so on? All of these can be made visible for us in a music that at the same time induces this gesture in us and makes us experience that gesture physically or mentally. This helps us to identify ourselves with and to adopt these qualities.
I think that a spiritual artist has potentially much to contribute in our current situation, as he represents a few feathers on the wing of religion that `Abdu'l-Bahá says has to be developed in order to balance the wing of science . Scientific discovery has become predominant in shaping the way we in Western civilization perceive the world. Often our world, therefore, is lost in numbers and calculations, and we forget to regard it in a spiritual and symbolic way. The Báb , Bahá'u'lláh, and `Abdu'l-Bahá often use images and symbols taken from nature. As far as I can see, they were concerned with nature in a way that is more phenomenologic than scientific. They turned simple perceptions into metaphors for spiritual reality. They did not concern themselves with the scientific explanations of these perceptions.
For example, the Báb and Bahá'u'lláh often talk about the rising sun, and this image is a very central and archetypal one in our Faith. From the scientific point of view, we know that the sun does not rise. It is our planet that spins, so that the sun becomes visible. However, the perceptual illusion that the sun rises is enough for the Manifestation to be able to use it as a metaphor and a symbol for spiritual reality. The Báb goes so far as to affirm that this symbolic reality is the sun's essential reality. He says: "Verily, the sun is but a token from My presence so that the true believers among My servants may discern in its rising the dawning of every Dispensation."
The artist today can play a vital function in making the phenomena we experience around us appear to be the wonders that they really are and in helping us unravel their symbolic and spiritual potential. In doing so, he (or she) strengthens a spiritual perception of the world, and counteracts a tendency reinforced by contemporary science to regard the world exclusively as material.
As a Bahá'í and an artist, my ideal is of course to convey some spiritual insight through my music, hopefully without my own ego too much in the way. To purify the mental sources of inspiration, to open the right channels, so to speak, one has to submit oneself to some spiritual discipline, and the Bahá'í Faith has offered me many means and opportunities to do that. It still does -- this process never ends. I choose to listen to my inner voice, knowing full well that it is not always reliable or divine, because at the same time I am practicing spiritual disciplines to purify myself as a channel. I accept the imperfections in my inspiration and in my composition because I accept my own humanity and the dynamic evolution of spiritual qualities.
"From the sweet-scented streams of eternity..." a concert of choral music composed for the Bergen International Music Festival in May 1996, was the realization of a dream I have had for over 20 years: a concert of vocal music and texts based on the holy scripture of the Bahá'í religion. The Bahá'í Faith emerged in the last century in the Middle East and is an independent world religion which builds on unity despite color, race and creed. During its first century it has won millions of followers from all corners of the world. In accordance with its motto 'Unity in Diversity', the universal spirit of the Bahá'í Faith is finding different expressions while it adapts itself to the forms developed in various cultures. My challenge as a Western composer has been to choose musical elements from the European and Norwegian traditions' sacred vocal music which I feel lend themselves to express the spirit and content of the chosen texts. I therefore feel as if I am both an ambassador for the European culture with regard to the Bahá'í community and a spokesman for a religion that is relatively unknown to most Western listeners. Therefore, through my choice of musical styles, I have tried to reflect the different European sacred traditions as seen from my personal view point in the 20th century.
Like all other religions, there is a core of mysticism in the Bahá'í Faith: the human spirit has to be transformed and perfected until it can reflect all the divine attributes. Prayer and meditation are important factors in this process, and music is capable of enhancing them. According to the Bahá'í writings, music is a ladder by which the soul can ascend to the realms on high. My hope is that the combination of music and holy scripture will give the listener a glimpse into the eternal and invisible world which is hidden within the human heart.
The Bergen concert opened with the Oslo Philharmonic Chamber Choir singing "From the sweet scented streams of eternity". This piece was written for four choirs which were placed around the audience. The tones of the melody are influenced by Gregorian tradition while the text, written by Bahá'u'lláh, is characterized by metaphors which point to mild, harmonic and natural surroundings (such as water, fruits, meadows, gardens, doves, breezes). The sound from the four choirs embraced the audience as if they had found themselves in such surroundings and created a peaceful and meditative atmosphere.
Another element in the concert was Anne-Lise Berntsen's performance of three sacred songs ("Hellighvad", unaccompanied songs with Norwegian texts) in a style akin to archaic Norwegian folk music, which employs unusually rich ornamentation.
After the intermission, Anne-Lise Berntsen sang two sacred songs with English texts. Following two shorter songs performed by the choir, the concert finished with a long choral piece based on the long healing prayer by Bahá'u'lláh. The prayer starts with a series of invocations of God by his many names. The original text in Arabic has a suggestive rhythm and resonance and I therefore chose to let the choir sing in Arabic. The piece culminated when the healing prayer itself was performed in English by Anne-Lise Berntsen, accompanied by the choir.
The first portion of this interview was excerpted from "Ladder of the Soul: An Interview with Lasse Thoresen," with Trym Bergsmo, which was originally published in The Creative Circle: Art, Literature, and Music in Bahá'í Perspective, edited by Michael Fitzgerald and published by Kalimat Press, Los Angeles (1988).


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One of the North Shore's leading postmodern mythologists, Brian Grazer of Imagine Entertainment, happens to own a tastefully opulent spread on Sunset Beach, but he enjoys the fray of local street life. "The tone of the North Shore is still very sixties and not commercialized, which makes the town very seductive," he says. "We have one hotel, one supermarket, and one Starbucks—and that's it. But this is the epicenter of surfing on the planet." With partner Ron Howard as director, Grazer produced The Da Vinci Code, A Beautiful Mind, and Apollo 13; a detour into the let's-go-surfing-now genre, Blue Crush, brought him to the North Shore of Oahu. Grazer hired such hometown surfers as Megan Abubo for stunt-double work, took surfing lessons himself, and used some of the more atmospheric legends—Kai Garcia and a massive fixture of a man named Hawaiian—for the punch of reality. "Kai is one of the most physically tough guys I've ever met," Grazer says, "and his society, the surfing world of the North Shore, is stratified in a way that is just so male: it's purely about the power of your body—not guns like South Central, but all that testosterone can be scary. I'm only connected because I used these guys in the movie." On the North Shore, true watermen are honored—even by Hollywood moguls—with the reverence accorded to samurai warriors.
The sport of Hawaiian kings has evolved into a multibillion-dollar global phenomenon. Naturally, monolithic corporations are also chasing the youthquake edge of surfing, that mystical yet eminently marketable chimera of sun, fun, freedom, and unemployment. Like hired gunslingers, young North Shore surfers—many of whom were taught the sport by their hippie-dippie parents—will say they ride for Roxy or some other outfit. The teen icons of surf world, who can make a quarter-million dollars a year, are compelled by contract to be walking billboards of surf leisure clothes, though they barely process the sixties notion of selling out.
Some North Shore locals claim that tourists hijack street signs that point to the more fabled surf turf, which might be why Banzai Pipeline, a surf-movie staple and the fountainhead of North Shore mythology, is not marked: it's just off Ehukai Beach Park, across Kam Highway from Sunset Beach Elementary School. During the season, Quiksilver, Billabong, and the like spend a fortune renting modest beach houses, useful for hosting their star surfers and searing the company brand into the heart of hip. The Rip Curl Pro Pipeline Masters is the summit of the Vans Triple Crown, a series of competitions that frames the North Shore social season: thousands of fans, groupies, tourists, and groms clog the beaches and Kam Highway, an invasion that doesn't always sit well with locals, who lose treasured surfing days and their small-town, Mayberry-gone-trendy ambience. Pipeline, which breaks close to the beach with 10-foot waves, can be a terrifying spectacle. One midnight at a throbbing youth barbecue in an old-line family's beach house, which had been rented by Red Bull, the portraits on the wall literally shook when a big swell came up.
Jack Johnson, the noted art-surf star—he's gone platinum with such albums as In Between Dreams, a long way from Jan & Dean but still free and easy, the aural equivalent of a lazy day at the beach—grew up in a house at Pipeline, making the finals of the Pipe Trials at the age of 17. Shortly before last year's Pipeline Masters, a kind of People's Choice Awards of the sport held every December since 1971, Johnson and surf celebs Kelly Slater, Mark Cunningham, and Rob Machado co-hosted a benefit to keep the lush Pupukea-Paumalu bluffs above Pipeline a recreational preserve. The 1,129-acre tract, once intended to become an upscale housing development, is now being sold by the Obayashi Corporation; a consortium of environmental groups has raised $7 million and—according to Josh Stanbro, project manager of the Trust for Public Land—has a letter of intent from Obayashi for the sale. Recently, the same groups kept Waimea Valley from being developed; the next battle is a fight against the inevitable specter of condominium development. To natives, the North Shore is all about using money as a force of cool, and in recent years, the falling yen has allowed locals to save much of the undeveloped land.
The North Shore has the capital of Malibu, but somehow it has kept the raw funk of early Venice Beach. In the modern age, money never needs to go to the office anymore, and software designers and financial types like trader Fred Parr ("I surf in the mornings, and do business with Japan from noon on") might live next door to a garage apartment occupied by some terminally 1968 boho character who gets along by selling macramé hangings at the flea market. On Sunset Beach, the narrow access path between Kam Highway and a string of beach houses is a lush wonderland of hibiscus flowers, banana trees, and enormous Pritchardi palm fronds. But it's also plastered with surf company decals, the local equivalent of graffiti, and serves as a dumping ground for abandoned cars: gypsy surfers—who sleep in hostels, rented rooms, their girlfriends' apartments, or on the beach itself during the season—buy old junkers for cheap transportation and just leave the rusting hulks on the side of the road in the spring. Memorials to youth, beauty, and the perils of surfing are everywhere, carved into trees: IN MEMORY OF AN AUSTRALIAN WHO LIVED AND SURFED HIS DREAMS: 18 FOREVER.
On the other side of Kam Highway, in an even more eclectic neighborhood that winds its way up to the Pupukea ridge and a motocross track, Hawaiian hillbillies operate welding shops out of improbable plywood huts; cows, horses, and goats graze along the road, with roosters scratching for leverage in the dirt. Way up in the hills, James Michener wrote Hawaii. Years later, a middle-class neighborhood is still talking about the renter who covered his windows with tinfoil, knocked holes through the second floor of his house, and grew 15-foot-tall marijuana plants. Recently, at Happy Trails Hawaii, where tourists take trail rides, general manager and polo player Mark Becker was contemplating dinner, his staff having speared a wild boar after their dogs chased it down. Oahu is not for wimps.


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Dear President-Elect Obama, We congratulate you on your historic victory and welcome the change that your election promises to usher in for our nation. As leaders in the sustainable agriculture and rural advocacy community we supported you in record numbers during the caucus, primary and general election because of the family farm-friendly policies that you advocated during your campaign. As our nation's future president, we hope that you will take our concerns under advisement when nominating our next Secretary of Agriculture because of the crucial role this Secretary will play in revitalizing our rural economies, protecting our nation's food supply and our environment, improving human health and well-being, rescuing the independent family farmer, and creating a sustainable renewable energy future. We believe that our nation is at a critical juncture in regard to agriculture and its impact on the environment and that our next Secretary of Agriculture must have a broad vision for our collective future that is greater than what past appointments have called for. Presently, farmers face serious challenges in terms of the high costs of energy, inputs and land, as well as continually having to fight an economic system and legislative policies that undermine their ability to compete in the open market. The current system unnaturally favors economies of scale, consolidation and market concentration and the allocation of massive subsidies for commodities, all of which benefit the interests of corporate agribusiness over the livelihoods of farm families. In addition, America must come to understand the environmental and human health implications of industrialized agriculture. From rising childhood and adult obesity to issues of food safety, global warming and air and water pollution, we believe our next Secretary of Agriculture must have a vision that calls for: recreating regional food systems, supporting the growth of humane, natural and organic farms, and protecting the environment, biodiversity and the health of our children while implementing policies that place conservation, soil health, animal welfare and worker's rights as well as sustainable renewable energy near the top of their agenda. Today we have a nutritional and environmental deficit that is as real and as great as that of our national debt and must be addressed with forward thinking and bold, decisive action. To deal with this crisis, our next Secretary of Agriculture must work to advance a new era of sustainability in agriculture, humane husbandry, food and renewable energy production that revitalizes our nation's soil, air and water while stimulating opportunities for new farmers to return to the land. We believe that a new administration should address our nation's growing health problems by promoting a children's school lunch program that incorporates more healthy food choices, including the creation of opportunities for schools to purchase food from local sources that place a high emphasis on nutrition and sustainable farming practices. We recognize that our children's health is our nation's future and that currently schools are unable to meet these needs because they do not have the financial resources to invest in better food choices. We believe this reflects and is in line with your emphasis on childhood education as a child's health and nutrition are fundamental to their academic success. We understand that this is a tall order, but one that is consistent with the values and policies that you advocated for in your bid for the White House. We realize that more conventional candidates are likely under consideration; however, we feel strongly that the next head of the USDA should have a significant grassroots background in promoting sustainable agriculture to create a prosperous future for rural America and a healthy future for all of America's citizens. With this in mind, we are offering a list of leaders who have demonstrated a commitment to the goals that you articulated during your campaign and we encourage you to consider them for the role of Secretary of Agriculture.
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[bob raskey] - Just how many A-holes can you fit in one picture..??
[sam smith] - wow at that misleading banner behind them lol "Honest Leadership" my ass lol
[don camp] - as of 12/31/13 I will be off my wife's insurance who works for UPS, Which has dropped ALL spouses from their HC plane. Yeah it sucks Thanks al lot ASSOBAMA And I will NOT sign up for ObamaCare NFW
[peggy ann palma] - Honest leadership. HAHAHAHAHA! Yeah right. Even their truth isn't true
[laverl turley] - Everyone that I see in this picture are bald face liars. If they told me that manure stinks, I would have to check it myself before I would believe anyone of them. I might even dig around in it to make sure there is no dead body's in it.
[kimberly creighbaum] - there is not a dam thing honest about any of these people !!!
[muriel latus] - Squirrels would have a fine meal with that crowd.
[blaze carpenter] - Who are they trying to kid. This government is to big and to many conspiracies and scandals going on. When will congress impeach
[nick anthony] - We are past impeachment its time for a revolution!
[richard poston] - Wish everyone on the podium would suffer for what they are doing to the American people. They need to be run out of Washington, if not the USA
[sharon jordan] - They are so proud of the deception they have placed on the American people...... socialist.
[mary doan] - Honest ??? Hahahahahahahahahaha
[frank holmes] - The dem's are now putting the blame on the insurance companies for cancelations , SNAKES !
[bill ciampa] - This is what you a hole libs did to our great country you will never be forgiven for this ever you will hated for the rest of time because people will never forget this time in history.
So help me God if I see someone in need of help for their life,I will ask them first,who did you vote for? If the answer is a liberal in any way shape or form, you going to die.....
[carol olander kuhn] - Hopefully Virginia will be the first hole in his wall of deceit.
[david mace] - Monte Montana could Rope them All and toss them in to a Bull Pin...
[kurtis tegman] - Who the hell put that ridiculous banner behind THESE A-holes?
[bill tazioli] - Jeez it's only 41%+ of the ENTIRE U.S. POPULATION
But hey that was his plan in the first place
[robert joseph francis] - They are liars and thieves with no conscience.
[rick thompson] - The biggest JOKE is the sign behind them HONEST leadership??? LMAO..."Open Government" maybe they are dyslexic Everything is BACKWARDS LMAO
[jim rowland] - One is too many!
[patrick maurer] - Yaba daba doooo. Makes sense to you.
[jerry laughlin] - Obama and those in Congress backing the ideology are screwing the people. Democrats back Obama because he's their money ticket... willing to damn the future of the country. Treasonous actions.
[brian berthon] - Half of the damn country is going to lose my three daughters have already.
[barbara kletecka] - Agreed Sharon Jordan.
[barbara kletecka] - With all the complaining about this not one politician has mentioned to amend the law.
[lee vaughn swedberg] - Look at that Face He looks EVIL I guess that's what so many lies has done to him. He is an EVIL person I think he hates America sure is trying to prove it!!!!!
[larry miller] - Having a little trouble here. Why would anybody put forth such a disliked law ACA, tell lies to sell it, have hundreds of party people repeat the lies to promote it and the due date be January 1, 2014. Makes no sense for your re-election campaign. Therefore, I believe it is not about ACA, but rather data collection of your personal information for later use. Say November!
[lynette luukkonen] - Wait til unions and government workers are forced into the exchanges....will make Wisconsin look like a party.
[darin bishop] - luv the background sign
[howard wilson] - We have to pass obamacare to see:
• How many will loose their insurance!
• How many insurance companies will be forced out of business!
• How many doctors will be forced to work for the government!
• How many will die without proper health care!
[kay zimmerman warrick] - It does not bother him when he lies
[robert roesing] - they are dunn,,,,,,let's all put a fork in them !!!!!!!!!
[mark voss] - dang, three of the biggest liars right in the front! The old saying 'Birds of a feather flock together' seems to be the new them of Congress and this admin. Not saying other admins were not just as bad but these guys do not even try to hide it...and the sheeple continue to eat it up!
[gary pickles] - Divied and conquer its done
[troy hinson] - look at the demons.
[erin colbaugh] - The honesty of assholes
[earnest roberts] - this pic is how propaganda is meant to work... "we the people" are awake, alive, ready to see justice come to the treasonous usurpers holding our white house hostage.. justice and "we the people" will prevail!
[alania keymel] - Impeachment is good now
[jacob turner] - Everyone will lose it...
[norval johnston] - You people do not get it he is a Islamist first not a Democrat (Obama)
[mike armstrong] - Truth "twisting?" Oh c'mon..... it is outright LYING after the first time he said it. Gawd, I cannot believe these a-holes in the media..... How can you forgive this pathological liar? It is constant..... he hasn't told anything true yet...... except that our guys killed osama..... and that is only because it was good news and HE had nothing to do with actually accomplishing that mission.... JEEZUS!
[christine totten-dunn] - Its all done on purpose! A Scam and lie from day 1.
[suzy humphrey o'connor] - I read an article in st jo paper that millions will get cancellations because the policies they had aren't covering what the law specifies....the law and the people who wrote and passed it and the idiot who came up with the idea are to blame ....NOT THE INSURANCE COMPANIES OR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE....Odumass and his lackeys are the ones ruining everyone's way of life, rights and freedoms
[rick baker] - How do you defend the in defendable? He needs to go.
[allen peltier] - even there banner is lying, shut up allready obama, your a disgrace....
[roy dodd] - is that a friggin joke behind them honest leadership what in the hell would these two know about leadership or honesty they are both the lieing assholes on the hill I want them both dead and gone
[angie robinson dunaway] - Yeah and Harry Reid is like a dam cricket now that this has gone to hell in a hand basket!
[gene blanton] - Throw a bomb between them want bother me
[camille conner] - How dare they take away our insurance. Forcing us to take there obamacare.American Patriot: How Many People Who Are Happy With Their Health Insurance Will Lose It? Only 129 Million – Th - 50th Comments
[jannette jacobs] - Im very happy with my insurance
[jannette jacobs] - All my doctors arent accepting ObamaCare~LMAO
[jimmy dowdall] - that sign & these jacka--es don't belong in the same pic
[myra wagner] - Liar Liar pants on fire
[william myers] - Honest leadership my ass.
[judith orrill] - Truth twisting is lying!
[deborah l. earl] - ALL OF THEM!!!!!!!!!
[dana hendricks-fox] - These people have NO idea the meaning of honest.... evil people
[teri koenig] - Are you sorry now?
[velva meyers] - Hopefully Obama and his cabinet, Reed.Polosi and the rest of Democrats.
[joyce klug] - my husband died this past Jan. I thank God that we had good health insurance. I feel sorry to all the people now suffering because of that jerk called president
[derek grell] - Check out The Libertarian Catalyst if your not a liberal its probably for you!
[patrick brocuglio] - all a bunch of white collar gangsters talk about extortion ,racketeering..racketeering - Definition of RACKETEER : one who obtains money by an illegal enterprise usually involving intimidation
[benjamin tessler] - HONEST LEADERSHIP...OPEN GOVERNMENT....You left out the arrow directing you to the next room. It certainly doesn't refer to the folks in the picture.
[lanny christenson] - That's a pile of A-holes alright...spouting sh*t as usual...
[david zuelke] - were getting healyh care from a president who wont go on it him self. nor his family. just us sheep are being forced to be on it. and why is the free clinic near me building on if we are ALL supposed to be on obummer care
[gary d westfall] - The wording on the sign in the background sure does not fit the people in the picture. LOL.
[deeny cox] - Most all of them
[lynn rogers] - QUICK GET AS MANY TUBES OF PREPERATION H YOU CAN FIND AND SHOVE THAT OBAMACARE RIGHT DOWN THEIR SHITTY THROATS...:-) With all due respect of course.
[susie l guyer] - http://patriotupdate.com/2013/11/obama-want-put-fear-god/#rcw6jc05goq1rdRg.99
[marjee zeier] - I have the VA, I don't have to sign up for shit.
[donna gibson simons] - Stupid, stupid, stupid.
[ron rekunyk] - wow your full of shit
[ken smith] - ----- Forwarded Message -----
Subject: Obamacare is a success. (THIS IS A MUST READ!)
Why ObamaCare is a fantastic success
By Wayne Allyn Root
> Published October 21, 2013
> FoxNews.com
> ·
> There are two major political parties in America. I'm a member of the naïve, stupid, and cowardly one. I'm a Republican.
> How stupid is the GOP? They still don't get it.
> I told them 5 years ago, 2 books ago, a national bestseller ago ("The Ultimate Obama Survival Guide"), and in hundreds of articles and commentaries, that ObamaCare was never meant to help America, or heal the sick, or lower healthcare costs, or lower the debt, or expand the economy.
> The GOP needs to stop calling ObamaCare a "trainwreck." That means it's a mistake, or accident. That means it's a gigantic flop, or failure. It's NOT.
>> Message to the GOP: This isn't a game. This isn't tiddly-winks. This is a serious, purposeful attempt to highjack America and destroy capitalism.
> This is a brilliant, cynical, and purposeful attempt to damage the U.S. economy, kill jobs, and bring down capitalism.
> It's not a failure, it's Obama's grand success.
> It's not a "trainwreck," ObamaCare is a suicide attack. He wants to hurt us, to bring us to our knees, to capitulate- so we agree under duress to accept big government.
> Obama's hero and mentor was Saul Alinsky -- a radical Marxist intent on destroying capitalism. Alinksky's stated advice was to call the other guy "a terrorist" to hide your own intentions.
> To scream that the other guy is "ruining America," while you are the one actually plotting the destruction of America. To claim again and again…in every sentence of every speech…that you are "saving the middle class," while you are busy wiping out the middle class.
> The GOP is so stupid they can't see it. There are no mistakes here. This is a planned purposeful attack.
> The tell-tale sign isn't the disastrous start to ObamaCare. Or the devastating effect the new taxes are having on the economy. Or the death of full-time jobs. Or the overwhelming debt. Or the dramatic increases in health insurance rates. Or the 70% of doctors now thinking of retiring- brining on a healthcare crisis of unimaginable proportions. Forget all that.
> The real sign that this is a purposeful attack upon capitalism is how many Obama administration members and Democratic Congressmen are openly calling Tea Party Republicans and anyone who wants to stop ObamaCare "terrorists."
> There's the clue. Even the clueless GOP should be able to see that.
> They are calling the reasonable people…the patriots…the people who believe in the Constitution ... the people who believe exactly what the Founding Fathers believed…the people who want to take power away from corrupt politicians who have put America $17 trillion in debt…terrorists?
> That's because they are Saul Alinsky-ing the GOP. The people trying to purposely hurt America, capitalism and the middle class…are calling the patriots by a terrible name to fool, confuse and distract the public.
> ObamaCare is a raving, rollicking, fantastic success. Stop calling it a failure. Here is what it was created to do. It is succeeding on all counts:
> 1. ObamaCare was intended to bring about the Marxist dream -- redistribution of wealth.
> Rich people, small business owners, and the middle class are being robbed, so that the money can be redistributed to poor people (who vote for Democrats).
> Think about it. If you're rich or middle class, you now have to pay for your own health care costs (at much higher rates) AND 40 million other people's costs too (through massive tax increases).
> So you're stuck paying for both bills. You are left broke. Brilliant.
> 2. ObamaCare was intended to wipe out the middle class and make them dependent on government.
> Think about it. Even Obama's IRS predicts that health insurance for a typical American family by 2016 will be $20,000 per year. But how would middle class Americans pay that bill and have anything left for food or housing or living? People that make $40K, or $50K, or $60K can't possibly hope to spend $20K on health insurance without becoming homeless.
> Bingo. That's how you make middle class people dependent on government. That's how you make everyone addicted to government checks. Brilliant.
> 3. As a bonus, ObamaCare is intended to kill every decent paying job in the economy, creating only crummy, crappy part-time jobs.
> Why? Just to make sure the middle class is trapped, with no way out. Just to make sure no one has the $20,000 per year to pay for health insurance, thereby guaranteeing they become wards of the state. Brilliant.
> 4. ObamaCare is intended to bankrupt small business, and therefore starve donations to the GOP.
> Think about it. Do you know a small business owner? I know hundreds of them. Their rates are being doubled, tripled and quadrupled by ObamaCare.
> Guess who writes 75% of the checks to Republican candidates and conservative causes? The GOP.
> Even if a small business owner manages to survive, he or she certainly can't write a big check to the GOP anymore. Money is the "mother's milk" of politics. Without donations, a political party ceases to exist. Bingo.
> That's the point of ObamaCare. Obama is bankrupting his political opposition and drying up donations to the GOP. Brilliant.
> 5. ObamaCare is intended to make the IRS all-powerful.
> It adds thousands of new IRS agents. It puts the IRS in charge of overseeing 15% of the U.S. economy. The IRS has the right because of ObamaCare to snoop into every aspect of your life, to go into your bank accounts, to fine you, to frighten you, to intimidate you. And Obama and his socialist cabal have access to your deepest medical secrets.
> By law your doctor has to ask your sexual history. That information is now in the hands of Obama and the IRS to blackmail GOP candidates into either not running, or supporting bigger government, or leaking the info and ruining your campaign.
> Or have you forgotten the IRS harassed, intimidated and persecuted critics of Obama and conservative groups?
> Now Obama hands the IRS even more power. Big Brother rules our lives. Brilliant.
> 6. ObamaCare is intended to unionize 15 million healthcare workers.
> That produces $15 billion in new union dues. That money goes to fund Democratic candidates and socialist causes -- thereby guaranteeing Obama's friends never lose another election, and Obama's policies keep ruining capitalism and bankrupting business owners long after he's out of office.
> Message to the GOP: This isn't a game. This isn't tiddly-winks. This is a serious, purposeful attempt to highjack America and destroy capitalism.
> This isn't a trainwreck. It's purposeful suicide.
> It's not failing, it's working exactly according to plan. Obama knows what he's doing. Stop apologizing and start fighting.
> Oh and one more thing…Conservatives aren't "terrorists." We are patriots and saviors. We represent the Constitution and the Founding Fathers. We are the heroes and good guys. Unless you get all this through your thick skulls, America is lost…forever.
> Wayne Allyn Root is capitalist evangelist, entrepreneur, and Libertarian-conservative Republican. He is a former Libertarian vice presidential nominee. Wayne's latest book is "The Ultimate Obama Survival Guide: Secrets to Protecting Your Family, Your Finances, and Your Freedom." For more, visit his website:http://www.rootforamerica.com/. Follow him onhttps://www.twitter.com/WayneRoot.


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Judy Schiller is still coping with the death of her son, Darren, who was killed fiver years ago in a car crash in Santa Maria. She's says it's deja vu and she didn't believe the news when she heard 21-year-old Damian Coles was killed while riding with a drunk driver in Orcutt on New Year's Day.
Meanwhile, neighbors living nearby say cars speed past Old Town Orcutt, often traveling at least twice the posted speed limit. Flowers were left at the scene of the accident. A memorial will be held Thursday January 11th at 11am at the Pacific Christian Center in Santa Maria. It would have been Damian's 22nd birthday.
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March 15th, 1970
Island Studios, London
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Jimi was recruited by Stephen Stills to lend guitar to his upcoming debut solo release, Stephen Stills (Atlantic Records, 1970). Jimi added lead guitar to the track "Old Times, Good Times" and also recorded some additional tracks with Stills that remain unreleased.
March 16th, 1970
Petticoat's Keith Altham interviews Hendrix for a May 30th piece where Jimi talks about his voice. "Singing… I used to be embarrassed by my voice. We drowned it on the first few albums I made, but then I realized I was judging it by the wrong yardstick. Dylan has a lousy voice technically, but it is good because he sings things he believes in. True feelings are really the only qualities worth listening for in a voice."
Jimi also entered into discussions with Emerson, Lake & Palmer about a possible joint tour in the future.
March 17th, 1970
Olympic Studios, London
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Hendrix returned to Olympic Studios, the recording facility where his first two albums Are You Experienced and Axis: Bold As Love were recorded to record with Love. Invited by Love founder Arthur Lee to contribute to their album, Hendrix and percussionist Remi Kabaka joined Love in recording "The Everlasting First," which would later be issued as part of False Start (Blue Thumb, 1970). In addition, Hendrix took part in an extended instrumental jam session as well as a version of his own composition, "Ezy Ryder."
March 20th, 1970
Now a solo artist, Noel Redding begins recording the album Nervous Breakdown at New York's Sound Center Studios. Redding was joined by vocalist Roger Chapman (Family), Paul Caruso, organist Gerry Guida (Big Three) and fifteen year old drummer Steve Angel. The sessions included recordings of "Walking Through The Garden," (previously recorded by Fat Mattress) and Eddie Cochrane's "Nervous Breakdown." Also recorded were "Everything's Blue," "Highway," "Eric The Red," "Wearing Yellow," and "Blues In ¾." Ever industrious, Redding copped support from many friends who joined the bassist in the studio including Lee Michaels, Neil Landon and even the doorman from the Penn Garden Hotel (on bagpipes no less).
March 23rd, 1970
Hendrix joined his former bassist to add guitar to Redding's own "My Friend." The song remains unreleased however, as despite his best efforts, Redding's self-financed project never saw commercial release.


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An updated lvl4 mission Tengu
As good as it gets :) Ship itself has a 585 omnitank defence, it might be slightly overtanked for a lvl4, however the there isn't much space for improvement what goes on weapons, so what the hell. Dps is 894 with Rage missiles, imho as good as it gets, as addition of any new damage mod wouldn't improve overall damage almost at all, and is thus insignificant. Speed of this ship is round 661 m/s and thus the relatively short range of assault missiles of 27km doesn't really matter in the end. The electronics subsystem should be in fact Dissolution Sequencer, however i use CPU efficiency gate, as honestly i think it looks slightly better :) and there is no significant loss of performance. The hardeners may be exchanged according to specific mission. Cap is stabile with all mods turned on. Thanks to Greengimp, as many of my fittings were inspired by his creations |
however this ship allows for mistakesI agree with this, but I had no trouble using my tengu with a large shield booster II when things got bad, the cap would last about 2 minutes which was easily enough time to make up for the mistake, I like the fit, but i belive you spent to much on it.
Yes, i like my ships riggedmore like I trained my energy skills...
i guess you can't afford rigs, but hey that's ok
I appreciate your comment, however if you saw this in eft, it indeed does need cccFAIL comment is FAIL
in fact, its 59% stabile with all lvl5, which does correspond to my current skills
As mentioned, buffer left for sudden misshaps, a pvp situation as for instance.
This fit is both, double safer than most other, and doesn't lack any dps
Besides, his esteemed Tengu needs ccc rigs as well.
There's 27km range on Rage missiles, on a ship that does well over 600m/s
now please explain to me how can in such case missile range be an issue.
WTF dude, you sure do take this personally...If you don't like advice...don't post SHIT like this.
If you don't like the fitting, go search for another one
By swapping one low slot for a cap mod, you could lose 1-2 rigs in favor of hydraulic bay thrusters, giving you more range meaning you can start shooting much faster. It'll correspond to better mission times than your current setup.
Also, I'd stick with a c-type shield booster... it'll provide enough tank and make you less gank worthy. Also, t2 mission specific hardeners will suffice.
Other than those minor changes, it looks fine. Though I would be tempted to bring a tempest over and kill it...
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uh, Tengu has 4k shield and it has insane resistances, the way i see it is,
a Megathron fitted with blasters could inflict around 4k dmg in a single volley, however most
of this would bounce of the shield resistances, a raven with torps could have best
shot at this however again torps couldn't do 100% damage unless tengu is heavily webbed and
painted, then the resistances also play important role.
I decided to change one rig to get a bit more distance on the HAMS.
Thanks for the input