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VETERANS-in-TRANSITION from HOMELESSNESS Created THEIR OWN THEATER BUSINESS
Essay by David M. Boje, Ph.D. March 7, 2014; revised Mar 26, 2015
Essay by David M. Boje, Ph.D. March 7, 2014; revised Mar 26, 2015
GOAL: To raise a total of $3,000 to put on three theater productions where formerly homeless veterans present "Life of Veterans in America."
Our next production ( 'Dead While Waiting for My VA Appointment!') is APRIL 30th 5:30PM-630PM at NMSU Center for Performing Arts. Tickets $6 Students, $12 Adults (lodge), & $25 (Front Row). Order tickets online at CrowdSource Project: GoFundMe.com/mol1wc or call Dr. Boje at 575-936-9578. Or, order tickets by mail: send check to Dr. Boje 4700 Dunn Drive. Las Cruces, New Mexico 88011. We can mail you back your tickets or you can pick them up at the theater (1000 E University Ave, Las Cruces, NM 88003).
Here is link to our first public live performance held March 18 2015 in case you missed it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVw49dNWJYE&feature=youtu.be
Above NMSU professors Dr. Erika Gergerich and Dr. David Boje, directing Veterans Theater
My name is David M. Boje Ph.D. I am a Storytelling Change Agent, Amateur Blacksmith, & 'Wells Fargo' Chaired Professor at New Mexico State University, and Aalborg University awarded me their Honorary Doctorate and affiliated me with Material Storytelling Lab, Denmark. I am working with Dr. Erika Gergerich from NMSU Social Work to direct theater productions with the Veterans from Community of Hope.
The MGT375v (Sustainable Development and Global Environment) students (Areej, Luke, Sharron, & Meshal), the Veterans of Community of Hope (Ernst, Sykes, Johh Hawk, BA, Michael, and Dr Erika Gergerich's social work students (Jen Kitcey, Maxie ...) are creating a SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS called 'VETERANS' THEATER'.
The "Veterans' Theater" business is putting on plays in university, public school, and community theaters --- to paying customers.
"In case you forgot, the VA is still terrible. Despite a Los Angeles VA official claiming their new wait times were four days—it turns out it's really more like 44 days." --- Jon Stewart skewers the VA's 44-day-long wait times...
Watch below or click here:
"The Choice Program, which was put in place to speed access to medical care after it was revealed that some patients had been waiting months for treatment, allows veterans who live far from VA facilities to get out-of-network care closer to home." More
Our project is creating economic sustainability for Las Cruces homeless veterans in transitional living at Camp Hope and Oak St. start their own business. We are doing this by fund raising events and by crowdsourcing. Crowdsourcing is a way social entrepreneurs process of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by seeking contributions from a large group of people. Here is a YouTube of a rehearsal of Act IV: 'Why VA if Full of Madness'
Veterans Theater — For more information, see http://peaceaware.com
Or contact Professor David M. Boje, Management
Department, NMSU, firstname.lastname@example.com 575-936-9578 (cell)
VETERANS' THEATER REHAEARSAL LOCATION: Community of Hope's Veteran's Transitional Living, 3350 Oak Street, Las Cruces, New Mexico 88005-3784
We did our first performance at Sweet CeCe's on 18 March 2015 at 7PM. It was a sell out crowd, an evening of laughter and critical merriment. We raised $200. We did our tabling at the El Paseo Wal-Mart in Las Cruces March 21 2015 and raised another $130. Togother with the GoFundMe crowdsourding we have raised over $1,000. We are now 1/3rd of the way to our goal: To raise $3,000 for the theater rental fees, set construction costs, and printing costs we have for 2015. Give to http://GoFundMe.com/mol1wc
Above are VETERANS THEATER performers (Maxie & Jen from NMSU Social Work with David, Michael & John (3 veterans) at fundraiser owned by a Vietnam veteran, located at Las Cruces 901 East University Ave, Suite B Las Cruces, NM 88003. Here is the Sweet CeCe Event Flyer created by NMSU Marketing Student Areej Gardi.
more at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVw49dNWJYE&feature=youtu.be
Above is BA, Ernst (holding mic), John Hawk, Alex & Christopher (holding signs), & Sykes (wearing Army shirt). These actors are all Community of Hope veterans in transition from homelessness. They are telling their stories. The sign 'All Threats Will be Teken Seriously' is what the VA actually displays in its offices. The second sign is our comic relief. See 30 minute YouTube video by Matthew Saylors (filmographer) of our first public performance of Veterans Theater (18 March 2015.
Professors David Boje of College of Business and Erika Gergerich of Social Work in College of Health and Social Services are bringing together veterans in transition from homelessness with social worker and business sustainability students to give the audience a look at the Veterans Administration (VA) from the inside out.
Social workers (nurses, doctors, etc.) have a heart-of-care and somehow strait-jacketed working in the VA by a bureaucratic mess. The veterans-themselves and the social workers bring the VA pattern of processing vets into view on the stage so that he audience can engage a disciplined inquiry into the organizational behavior and achieve an understanding of the pedagogy of the oppressed. David Boje of College of Business directs the Veterans' Theater. He is Equine-Assisted Growth And Learning Association (EAGALA) equine specialist also certified to work with veterans and military family members.
EAGALA (see our http://peaceaware.eagle) site for more info on our work with horses and veterans.
The Veterans' Theater audience enters a space of critical dialgouge of how the VA engages in universal standard-making practies while social workers attempt to use story-listening in a heart-of-care and not fall into the bureaucratic trap of processing 'cases' instead of 'people.' Here is an example:
Above, an NMSU Social Work student volunteers to take the role of a VA service provider, and reenact a scene, to see how the VA might use the resources it has to do its work with more humanity towards veterans. From left to Right: David (NMSU & Vietnam Veteran), Jen and Maxie (NMSU social work), volunteer social work student from audience, and Sykes a co-founder of Camp Hope and Vietnam Veteran). This approach to problem solving is called Forum Theater, and was created by Augusto Baol, and is based on Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed. It is a way for the the veterans and social workers to 'speak back to powerful' institutions such as the VA, and bring aobut problem solving, and bring the entire audience into the Situation.
Above 'Veterans Theater actors': BA (22 year MP who heads up 'Safety Team' at Camp Hope; veterans Ernst, Sykes, and John from Transitional Living unit of Community of Hope who are developing the plays about the meds-industry relations with the VA to show the audience how this looks from the inside out.
Above is our first live audience. Thank you for attending the 18 March event, now buy tickets for the April 30th full performance.
We are raising $3,000 to put on the full five act perofmrance. http://GoFundMe.com/mol1wc All money goes toward producing the plays, theater costs, set design, costumes, transportation, and getting our veterans' story onto the big stage. All proceeds go to Veteran's Theater costs and to pay for EAGALA sessions for our veterans and any family members. 'SUPPORT THE TROOPS' with more than words! Their smiles are thanks enough! Order a front row $25-seat at the first show, or $6 students, $12 adults. The show must go on!
The PeaceAware.com Veteran's Theatre Group (John Hawk, David Boje, Ernst Ramey, Brad Stiles, and D. Sykes Jr.; not shown Carlos Ramsdell Macías) Tweet; GoFundMe.com
Thank you from Veterans' Theater.
THE PROBLEM: The death of storytelling! The disappearance or 'death' of storytelling is to blame for the increase in veterans suicides (22 each and every day). Walter Benjamin (1936) in his calssic essay, The Storyteller, diagnosed the death of storytelling because people jsut don't sit around and practice their storytelling skills anymore. The disappearance of storytelling competencies in American enterprises is responsible for veterans not getting the heart-of-care they need and are eligble to receive from the Veterans Administration (VA). To date, 19,500 veterans died while waiting for care, caught up in strange rules, lsot paperwork, a process over-dependent on dispensing medications instead listening to the veterans themselves about their needs. The VA is perfectly designed to produce the death results it is getting: ineffective storytelling, no story-listening skills. Veterans, social workers, nurses, doctors of all type, and the nation would like to find solutions to the death of storytelling at the VA, and to the death of veterans who served the USA. How is it that social workers (psychologists, nurses, physicians, etc.) are trained by our finest universities in the land, yet are unable to understand the stories that veterans are telling? Could it be a crisis of story-listening. This is why we are putting on Veteran Theater events, so you the public can enter into the story listening and the storytelling, as we speak back to the most powerful institutions in the land: VA and pharmeceutical companies, and the American Psychological Association.
What are the storytelling competencies that have died in the USA since World War II? Walter Benjamin's (1936) amazing essay, The Storyteller , is in my view, the most seminal piece on organizational storytelling ever written. Bejamin argues that ways of storytelling are dying, being replaced by trite linear-narrative, information processing instead of care, and bureaucratic forms of communication that making story-listening impossible. Storytelling for Benjamin is a craft, one that grew up in the pre-capitalist world of people sitting around telling and listening to stories while they did their sewing, weaving, or sea-faring crafts. Benjamin lamented that the face-to-face listening and story swapping in work groups was on the decline. Now with our society (me included) using iPhones, iPads, Tweets, Facebooking, YouTubing, and staring at so many computer screens, those face-to-face storytelling skills are more in decline, than ever before. Benjamin foretold that storytelling forms of high reflexive introspection, and critical communicative understanding would be increasingly dominated by the over-simplifying narratives of abstraction, destroying the richness and nuance our 'living story' experiences of Being, dumbing them down, in an increasing bureaupahology, no where, more prevelant than the VA. The VA social workers and veterans seeking help there, are both losing storytelling competencies with each new generation.
The ability of the veteran storyteller to weave and spin their experiences into communicative competence has been lost. The ability of the social worker, as story-listener, to engage what is told with any sense of moral reflexivity has long been lost.
At Veterans' Theater, we believe it takes the entire community to regrow the lost competencies of storytellers and story-listeners. Walter Benjamin (1936: 91) said these are skills best honed in a "rhythm of work" among craftspeople, in the "milieu of work-the rural, the maritime, and the urban… artisan form of communication." This is why the focus of Veterans' Theater is on dramaturgy, on reenacting the scenes of encounter between veterans and social workers at the VA office, while the audience of America, can observe for themselves, the breakdown in storytelling, the death of storytelling, first hand.
Veterans can no longer exchange their experiences of trauma of war (PTSD, TBI), marital crisis, joblessness, that economic collapse sending 49,933 veterans into homelessness, including veterans of Vietnam, and the recent wars in Iraq, Kosovo, and Afghanistan.
We are resurecting lost storytelling competencies by putting on public performances by veterans and social workers where the live audience has opportunities to participate in the 'storytelling', to engage inreal time problems solving, to relaim the lost art of storytelling.
What are the lost competencies of storytelling?
"All great storytellers have in common the freedom with which they move up and down the rungs of their experience as on a ladder. A ladder extending downward to the interior of the earth and disappearing into the clouds is the image for a collective experience to which even the deepest shock of every individual experience, death, constitutes no impediment or barrier" (Walter Benjamin, 1936: 83).
It it impossible to move up and down the rungs of veterans' experiences, when the ladder is so bureaucratic, so riven with informaiton processing devices, and bureaucratic protocols, that the humanity of the storytelling itself, ceases to exist.
The storytelling practices between the veterans and the VA social workers, medical doctors, psychologists, and so on, has broken down. Veterans' Theatre creates a place of practice, a time to experiment with old school ways of storytelling, riach in performative competencies. This is a dramaturgical encounter between the veterans and the social work profession, the pharmeceutical industry of over-medication, the profession of psychology that has become diagnosis-by-numbers (akin to paint-by-numbers), and all professions everywhere that engage in bureaucratic-communication with veterans doing their storytelling, having untold stories in organizations (Izak, Hitchin, & Anderson, 2015).
There is an even deeper and more troublesome root cause: The death of storytelling is accmpanied by a a society turning its bakc on death itself.
The Death of Storytelling Indictments:
- We do formally charge that the death of storytelling is a serious crime. The death of storytelling is an indictment for societal conspiracy, a society trying to turn its back on the death of veterans, on death itself!
- The dramaturgy we observe at the VA is a situation, a storytelling system that is so bad, it deserves to be condemned. Yet, there is somthing eles that is troubling, a society that cannot stare death in the face.
- How can the USA sit by and watch the death of storytelling when it does lead to so many other kinds of death of veterans? 22 veteran suicides a day, 8030 a year, 56,210 every 7 years --> more than death by combat --> more veteran suicides than happened in WWI or WWII. Surely the nation is watching death in video games, yet unable to face the death of its soldiers, its veterans after deployment.
These are indictments, not of the VA, but of an entire society, that is complicit in the death of storytelling! The death of storytelling coincides with the way the face of death itself has changed.
"Death is the sanction of everything that the storyteller can tell" (Benjamin, 1936, online).
"Dying was once a public process in the life of the individual and a most exemplary one; think of the medieval pictures in which the deathbed has turned into a throne toward which the people press through the wide-open doors of the death house. In the course of modern times dying has been pushed further and further out of the perceptual world of the living" (Benjamin, 1936, online).
Veterans who escape dying in the theaters of combat return home, in these modern times, ony to have their dying pushed out of view of the world of the living society. Today veterans are stowed away in VA waiting lists, or in VA hospitals, so that the rest of society is never touched by death. Yet we all know of veterans or know of a friend of a veteran, who died waiting for care.
"The idea of eternity has ever had its strongest source in death. If this idea declines, so we reason, the face of death must have changed. It turns out that this change is identical with the one that has diminished the communicability of experience to the same extent as the art of storytelling has declined" (Benjamin, 1936, online).
The purpose of Veterans' Theater is to bring the lost arts of storytelling back to life. We practice increased communicability of veterans' and the VA social workers' experiences. We do our dramaturgy to restore to life storytelling practices that bring a new vigor to not only storytelling at the VA, but resuscitate storytelling in the USA. We are here to relaunch storytelling! Storytelling has collapsed and has yet to be resurrected. In this way dead storytelling is resurrected. In a land where veterans can no longer tell a tale of trauma properly, we are reclaiming lost storytelling competencies, putting them in the Mirror Stage, so USA can see its own storytelling practices, in the mirror.
Benjamin, Walter. 1936/1955/1968. The Storyteller: Reflections on the works of Nikolai Leskov, Pp. 883-110. In Illuminations, Edited with introduction by Hannah Arendt. Translated by Harry Zohn. NY: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc. 1936/1955 in German, 1968 in English. See searchable PDF
I am often asked why is someone from the College of Business doing work with veterans? I want to understand how 22 veteran suicides a day is related to doing business with the VA.
According to the VA: The care needed for 25.6 million living veterans is unsustainable given "the federal budget climate" (p. 4, http://www.va.gov/healthpolicyplanning/vision2020.pdf).
Here are the Facts: About 4 million of the 25.6 total number of living veterans receive care in any given year. This means that VA does not have the budget for facilities, personnel, technology, meds, etc. to actually do the job. The USA strategy therefore has been to restrict and allocate care by giving priority access to veterans with service-connected disabilities. This means that most veterans, committing suicide (22 a day) are not receiving any VA care.
In Las Cruces, for example, 80% of the veterans at Community of Hope do not seek or receive VA benefits. Rather, they exist on medicaid, medicare, or private care. Of 22 suicides a day, 21 of the 22 have no care at all.
The VA operates 162 VA hospitals nationwide. 57 VA regional offices provide benefits to veterans. VA has medical care budget of more than $28 billion, and employs more than 180,000 health care professionals in 162 hospitals, more than 850 community and facility-based clinics, 137 nursing homes, 43 domiciliaries, 206 readjustment counseling centers, and various other facilities throughout the country.
Of the 25.6 million living veterans, most (75 percent) served during a war or an official period of hostility. Of these, Over 6.2 million enrolled veterans look to VHA for health care services and more than 4.3 million veterans received care in FY 2002.
"VA has been unable to provide all enrolled veterans with timely access to health care services because of the tremendous growth in the number of veterans seeking VA health care" (p. 4).
source of above statistics: http://www.va.gov/healthpolicyplanning/vision2020.pdf
The VA does a lot of business with pharmaceutical companies.
In the April 30th 2015 VETERANS' THEATER production the veterans and social workers, in the production, will be taking a critical look at the role of pharmaceutical companies.
"Eight pharmaceutical companies, including the nation's three largest, doled out more than $220 million last year to promotional speakers for their products, according to a ProPublica analysis of company data.
For the first time, all these companies have reported a full year of payments, allowing for head-to-head comparisons of how much they spent on physicians to help push their pills. Some appear to be paring back." (source)
This is big business. For example, Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) announced financial results for the fourth quarter and full year of 2013.
source: https://investor.lilly.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=822044
"Total revenue in the U.S. increased 5 percent to $12.890 billion due to higher prices, partially offset by volume declines for Cymbalta and Zyprexa® due to the loss of patent exclusivity. " … "Zyprexa sales outside the U.S. were $1.071 billion, a 20 percent decrease driven by the unfavorable impact of foreign exchange rates, lower volume in markets outside of Japan, and lower prices"
However, there is another side to the Zyprexa story, it may not be safe:
"Two patients have died unexpectedly after their Zyprexa Relprevv injections, and the FDA is now investigating. The agency says the patients died three to four days after receiving "an appropriate dose," and both had "very high" blood levels of olanzapine, the long-acting Zyprexa product's active ingredient" Source: http://www.fiercepharma.com/story/fda-probes-long-acting-zyprexa-safety-after-2-patients-die/2013-06-18… Made by Eli Lilly ($LLY), Zyprexa Relprevv is a follow-up to the company's blockbuster antipsychotic Zyprexa. The long-acting injectable version isn't a big seller for the company; Lilly doesn't even itemize its sales, just reports the total Zyprexa franchise revenue, which amounted to $1.3 billion last year. The Relprevv version is, however, still on patent, so it's selling at brand prices without generic competition. Its key patent expires in 2018."….
"Zyprexa itself has come under plenty of FDA scrutiny. After years of reports of weight gain in Zyprexa patients, the FDA investigated, and the drug now carries a label warning of the risk of weight gain and metabolic problems. Lilly faced thousands of lawsuits from Zyprexa patients claiming the drug caused them to develop diabetes; the company wrapped up most of them in a $1.2 billion settlement. The company also paid $1.42 billion to resolve a Justice Department investigation into its Zyprexa marketing practices" source: http://www.fiercepharma.com/story/fda-probes-long-acting-zyprexa-safety-after-2-patients-die/2013-06-18
"Among the allegations: That Lilly pushed Zyprexa for children and for elderly dementia patients, both off-label uses. That it made particular efforts to push Zyprexa in long-term care facilities and nursing homes. And that Lilly aimed to make Zyprexa a primary care drug, despite the fact that it was only approved to treat two disorders--schizophrenia and bipolar disorder--typically not handled by primary-care doctors." source: http://www.fiercepharma.com/special-reports/top-10-pharma-settlements/eli-lilly-zyprexa
"The Veterans Administration's inability to pay benefits to veterans before they die is increasingly common" Source
"Long wait times are contributing to tens of thousands of veterans being approaved … after its too late" Source or Source
7.7 Million Americans have PTSD. 31% Vietnam Vets have PTSD.. (source).
That's the question the family and friends of Air Force Reserve Capt. Jamie Brunette are struggling to answer.
"At 30, Brunette seemingly had it all. A vivacious and attractive athlete and scholar, she had been lauded by the Air Force for her work in Afghanistan, was a partner in a fitness center about to open in Largo and was known by her family and friends as being the strong one always ready to help others.
But for some reason, Brunette, who left active duty after 11 years last June and joined the Air Force Reserve, couldn't help herself.
On Feb. 9, Tampa police found her slumped over in the back of her locked Chrysler 200 sedan outside a Harbour Island cafe near her apartment." More
Everyone wants to know, why are there so many homeless veterans (1 in 4 homeless are veterans)? Why are so many veterans homeless in the USA (49,933)? Why are 22 veterans a day committing suicide?
Figure 1: PeaceAware.com Veterans' Theater Can Stop this Dowward Cycle--> Learn the Facts, Become Aware of the Peace Effects after the Veterans Return from Deployment; Support Veterans' Theatre --> Veterans creating their own entrepreneurial adventure.
There are many reasons why people do not go to the VA
More see http://peaceaware.com/eagle
I am proposing a program: Building Change through storytelling for Veterans Transitioning form Homelessness in Peace Time. We are building sustainability in the Veterans' Theatre business venture. For example, as an amateur blacksmith, I am recycling rebar into ten pegs for Camp Hope, so the tents don't blow away. I am also making a Kiln to melt beer and soda aluminum cans so they can be sand-cast into parts of life-size veteran-Marionettes that can be used in our stage productions of Veterans Theater
You can help by recycling rebar or aluminum, or donating directly at http://GoFundMe.com/mol1wc
Above is Matt Mercer, whohelped found Camp Hope in 2011 after several years of living homeless in Las Cruces. Today, Mercer works for the Mesilla Valley Community of Hope, which runs the camp. (Source: Andres Leighton/For the Albuquerque Journal)
It started with sandtray work with homeless veterans, move along to EAGLE (equine-assisted-growth-and-learning-events) with our student veterans and families, now we are taking our own Forum Theatre on-the-road. Forum Theatre is Augusto Boal's way of getting the actors on the stage to interact with the audience spectators, until the spectators become actors, or as he calls them 'spect-actors'. Our innovation is to make this part of Lacan's Mirror Stage. Veterans recognize themselves in the strange reflected images of the Mirror Stage.
Carlos Ramsdell Macías of
Storytime Enchantments'
The Sun & The Moon
Marionette Theatre
February 17, 2015
Carlos' Materials List to construct a Marionette Theatre Set and (10) Hand-Held Puppets. We raise $450 to fund Carlos' marionettes and stage set so he could purchase the following:
We plan to do several fund raisers:
Las Cruces 901 East University Ave, Suite B Las Cruces, NM 88001
We appread at CeCe's on 18 March 2015 at 7PM
|Need to set the date
|26th Annual Bataan Memorial Death March on 22 March 2015!
|Registration is $110 per person; $500 for a team. SEEKING SPONSOR for 4 Vets to go
|Seeking Waiver for fee so that 5 veterans from Community of Hope may enter the event
|Bruce Springstein Concert at Las Cruces New Mexico
|We are $200,000 short of what Bruce's handlers want to come to Las Cruces
|The NMSU activities people have been talking to Springstein, and they are getting closer to agreeing on terms
Answer 1: Giant Size:How about a Veteran Marionette that is 50 Feet High, wearing a Screaming Eagle patch
Read KRWG story online; YouTube Link address
"All this may be no more than a kind of game. But it is in the course of some such story that one can isolate functions like those that I wished to reproduce here on the blackboard. In order to conjugate the schema of the net with those I have made in response to a psychologizing theory of the psychoanalytic personality, you have only to turn the obturator I referred to earlier into a camera shutter, except that it would be a mirror. It is in this little mirror, which shuts out what is on the other side, that the subject sees emerge the game by means of which he may — according to the illusion of what is obtained in the experiment of the inverted bunch of flowers, that is to say, a real image —— accommodate his own image around what appears, the petit a.. It is the sum of these accommodations of images that the subject must find the opportunity for an essential integration" (Lacan, Book X, p. 159).
From the cosmos to the unheimliche; The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book X: Anxiety (ed. Jacques-Alain Miller), N.Y.: Polity, 2014
Sandtrays, horse areans, and the Mirror Stage our theatre group performs, its all kind of stroytelling game. Each of these reproduces a stage, and you the audience take a picture of it, in the blink of an eye, except that too would be a little mirror that shuts out what is the Other, in a game of many images of Veterans held out of view.


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Try 40 rods per hogshead in miles per gallon [google.com], and all you get are Simpsons references. Of course, one of the first is Shafe's Simpsons Stuff - Grandpa's Hogshead Converter [shafe.com], so it works. Sort of.
But then, given the
units '80 calories' 'joules'
airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow in miles per hour
(Sheesh, what a way to spend an afternoon.)
Once, for the hell of it, I tried www.boogle.com [boogle.com]. It's Google with a different quote and a different pretty picture each time you go. So, just for more hell of it, I tried a bunch of other oogles just now. Here are a few:
joogle.com [joogle.com] - a directory site. Never used it or heard of it.
koogle.com [koogle.com] - same as joogle.com.
moogle.com [moogle.com] - Part of Strayer University. Never used it or heard of it.
noogle.com [noogle.com] - Part of moogle.com
ooogle.com [ooogle.com] - sex
roogle.com [roogle.com] - not taken
toogle.com [toogle.com] - got a casino alert box and then sent to usseek.com
uoogle.com [uoogle.com] - redirected to sharewareisland.com
voogle.com [voogle.com] - get free email addresses and a disturbing picture of a frog in a bikini.
woogle.com [woogle.com] - same redirect as toogle.com, to usseek.com
xoogle.com [xoogle.com] - not taken
yoogle.com [yoogle.com] - under construction
zoogle.com [zoogle.com] - Xaraya Content Management Solutions
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Hollywood's been trying to get a handle on the Beat poets for years. Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac led wild and influential lives. But films about the Beats, like "Naked Lunch" or "On the Road," never really clicked with audiences.
Our film critic Bob Mondello says a new picture called "Kill Your Darlings" may fare better, partly because it stars Daniel Radcliffe, and partly because the story centers as much on murder as on poetry.
BOB MONDELLO, BYLINE: 1943, student orientation at Columbia University, incoming freshman Allen Ginsberg is on a quiet, dignified tour of the campus library when a student with a face of a choirboy leaps on a table with a book, Henry Miller's "Tropic of Cancer."
DANE DEHAAN: (as Lucien Carr) Let's hear a bit, shall we? On a Sunday afternoon, when the shutters are down and the proletariat possesses the street, there are certain thoroughfares which remind one of nothing less than a big cancerous...
MONDELLO: And we can't give you the last word on the radio. Suffice it to say, the word was even more shocking in the 1940s and that Ginsberg grins broadly, as played by Daniel Radcliffe with not a hint of Harry Potter about him. Truth be told, young Ginsberg is kind of smitten, both by the handsome Lucien Carr and by his literary passion. He is soon hanging out with Carr in the dorm, talking poetry.
DEHAAN: (as Lucien Carr) How's your Yeats? Have you read "Vision?"
DANIEL RADCLIFFE: (as Allen Ginsberg) Never heard of it.
DEHAAN: (as Lucien Carr) Oh, it's completely brilliant and impossible. He says that life is round.
MONDELLO: Carr, who's played by Dane DeHaan as a young man entirely aware of the effect he has on others, soon introduces Ginsberg to a stoned young Willie Burroughs.
BEN FOSTER: (as William Burroughs) Tear them up, boys. Destroy the old and build the new.
MONDELLO: A nice piece of impersonation by actor Ben Foster. Later, Jack Kerouac joins their band of troublemakers, all of them dreaming of changing the world, but not sure quite how to go about it. And because they're college kids, their literary ambitions often take a backseat to drugs, drinking and pranks, including one at the library that gets them into all kinds of trouble. Bigger trouble, though, is following Carr in the person of an obsessive admirer.
DEHAAN: (as Lucien Carr) He is a professor who won't let me go.
MONDELLO: How he deals with that situation gives the story its spine and also a startling climax. First-time director John Krokidas doesn't make "Kill Your Darlings" terribly linear. When its heroes go on drug-fueled binges, so does his camera, at one point freezing other characters in place at a jazz club so that the amphetamine-buzzed poets can flit around them.
MONDELLO: In writing circles, the phrase kill your darlings is generally uttered by an editor as advice for a writer who's polished and labored over a favorite sentence so long that all the life has gotten squeezed out of it. Kill your darling means get rid of that treasured bit and find a more natural way to say what you want to say.
The movie "Kill Your Darlings" is about budding artists who applied that advice to every element of their lives, abolishing rhyme and meter, declaring war on rules, traditions, even people who had the temerity to love them. They flail and they thrash, and Krokidas' film is just like them, as jazz-inflected and freewheeling as the beat poetry these guys were about to unleash on the world. I'm Bob Mondello.
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Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis enters the lion's den today, attending his first meeting of euro zone finance ministers where he will spell out his plan to drop his country's bailout and end austerity.
Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis enters the lion's den today, attending his first meeting of euro zone finance ministers where he will spell out his plan to drop his country's bailout and end austerity.
G20 finance ministers and central bankers meeting in Istanbul will pledge to act decisively on monetary and fiscal policy if needed to combat the risk of stagnation, according to a draft communique obtained by Reuters last night. As has been customary at these summits, a lot of the discussion implicitly centres on Germany.
Alexis Tsipras is not for turning, not yet anyway.
Speaking in parliament on Sunday night the new Greek premier said he would not accept an extension to Greece's current bailout, something the euro zone is urging him to do, and stuck with austerity-ending pledges such as giving free food and electricity to those who need it, reinstating civil servants who had been fired as part of bailout conditions and raising the minimum wage. Privatisations have already been halted.
After flying to Kiev to present a new peace plan, Germany's Angela Merkel and France's Francois Hollande will be in Moscow today for talks with Russia's Vladimir Putin.
Last night, after Greece's new Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis met Mario Draghi, the European Central Bank cancelled its acceptance of Greek bonds in return for funding, shifting the burden onto Greece's central bank to finance its lenders, the latest reverse for the country's new government.
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will visit Rome for talks with Italy's Matteo Renzi and will be met there by his finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis, who has already been to London and Paris to try the scope for a new debt deal for Greece and reassure investors that there won't be a default.
A week into government, Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis will be in London today for talks with investors and his British counterpart George Osborne. He will then fly to Rome where he will be joined by his prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, on Tuesday.
Russia's central bank meets having shoved interest rates up to an eye-watering 17 percent late last year.
The central bank has said rates can only come down if inflation was trending lower. It was running above 11 percent last month and the government expects it to peak at 17 percent.
EU foreign ministers hold an extraordinary meeting today after their leaders have asked them to consider possible new sanctions on Russia. A final decision to impose them is likely to be left to their bosses who meet in next month and again in March.
Ukrainian separatists said they had pushed government troops out of two districts on the outskirts of their main stronghold Donetsk and their aim was to expand control to the entire eastern region.


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10# Maris Otter & [Insert your opinion here] hops
I've heard Amarillo was a good choice, and a friend of mine is making that soon...I'd like to try some different hop and compare! So toss me some suggestions!
Primary: Karankawa Pale Ale
Primary: Palisade Pale Ale
On Deck: AHS Summer Irish Ale & Honey Hibiscus Wit
I've wanted to do a Summit SMaSH...
I just made a all Citra hopped XPA that is tasting really good. I drank half a pint of warm (but quite carb'd) while racking to secondary. Lots of grapefruit/citrus going on, very little bitterness, great malt backbone. Caveat -- this wasn't a single malt.http://hopville.com/recipe/171554/am...ipes/citra-xpa
All whole leaf 11% AA Citra. I'm going to dry hop an ounce also.
first wort 60+ mins 0.75
boil 20 mins 1.0
boil 10 mins 1.0
aroma 1 min 1.0
EKG or Fuggles.
English base malt + classic English hop. I am about to break into a MO/Whitbread Golding Varieties SMaSH that I did.
I have a MO/ columbus (oops, had crystal in it...) up right now and it is fantastic... it smells like ruby red grapefruit juice. very nice.
Simcoe would be a great one to try. In fact, I think I'll do that.
Doing Kent Goldings/Marris in a few weeks.
IMO use EKG, but toast up a pound or two of that grain in the oven first. S04 for the yeast.
I've always been intrigued by MO-amarillo as a combo also, going to have to try that soon.
Left tap: Myrd's IPA
Right tap: Heffeweizen
Kegged: Blimey's ESB, Apfelwein, Ed's Haus Pale Ale
Fermenting: Air, but soon to be Ode-to-Arthur and more Apfelwein.
Back in September '09 I did a MO/Chinook SMaSH, 11lbs MO and 3oz. Chinook. To be quite honest it's just boring. I still have just under a case left because if there's different cold homebrew I'll grab that instead of the SMaSH.
If I were to do it again, I go with more of a citrus rather than spicy hop.http://www.homebrewtalk.com/f85/smas...hinook-137698/


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so, we are going to rule the world, i love the sound of that.
yes hellcat we are and i want everyone to know that i will personally make sure each of you have your own territory to control
hey i'm new to this clan to just let you all know i'm a half vampire so are there any vampire hotties in here?
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Phone: (39) 06 6791614
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Alcatraz is a modern disco bar with an underground feel. The dark room in the cellar offers slightly quieter surroundings. The bar is arranged over three levels, which allows its clients to choose where they want to spend the evening or bounce between the three to suit the changing tempos of the night. As for the drinks, Alcatraz offers a good variety of draught beers, cocktails and theme parties. The bar is arranged over three levels, which allows its clients to choose where they want to spend the evening. Alcatraz offers a good variety of draft beers, cocktails and theme parties.
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Money is in the air and drinks are on the menu. Strut your stuff, pretend to be a lucrative gangster - whatever your heart desires. Hang with the in-crowd down at Jackie O'. The drinks are great and your wallet knows it, but that's what you expect in such a classy place where you may rub elbows with just about anyone. This famous disco is popular with the international jet set who appreciate the attentive, professional hospitality. There is a restaurant and a pleasant piano bar on the first floor replete with international evergreens. The bar offers an interesting array of cocktails, soft drinks and beers.
Bluepoque, to the Romans, is a cult of sorts evolved over a culmination of many years. Ever since it opened doors in 1972, Bluepoque has entertained and romanced generations of people. Today an elite and exclusive club, Bluepoque is one of the hottest clubs in the nightlife circuit of the city. Funky interiors, groovy music and an electrically charged atmosphere that gets you in the mood to kick off those shoes and dance the night away, make it a top preference for any party animal stranded in beautiful Rome!
Boeme belts out foot-stomping music and groovy tunes to shimmy to, guaranteeing a night of fun. This nightclub is a favorite amongst locals and visitors alike and is packed to the rafters every other night. With DJs creating magic on the turntable, Boeme is a party-lover's paradise, with music that will burn and sizzle. Grab a drink and head to the dance floor. Let the party begin!
Gilda is popular with show biz personalities, as well as the politicians that live and work in the neighborhood. This fashionable nightclub should be a priority stop for anyone visiting Rome to enjoy the local flavor and nightlife. As one of the district's most popular venues, Gilda often hosts fashion shows and art exhibitions. The comfortable surroundings, dance floor and excellent piano bar all add up to a great night out. They serve food until midnight. Keep in mind the venue remains closed from July to mid-September.
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Today wherever we go, Jazz music has carved itself in the roots of all forms of music be it soul, blues, swing or bebop. Charity Cafe has made a mark for itself by playing the perfect host to a string of Jazz performers and rendering us to music for all times. 'Food, Wine, Cocktail...and Jazz' is what they serve and boy do they mean business. All that they have on offer is of the best quality and no doubt it will leave you asking for more.
»Art Café
Located near Piazza di Spagna, the Art Café is one of Rome's most popular dance clubs. The large, multi-leveled space provides plenty of room to groove to your favorite tunes after an elegant dinner. The club hosts theme nights including hip-hop and jazz nights. When you drop into the Art Café be sure to dress to impress. After all, you never get a second chance to make a first impression, and you don't want to be denied entrance because you look like hell. Check out the website for the event schedule.
»Boite Pigalle
Boite named after the French word meaning drink, is an adult nightclub with a French theme. It is a great place to come and unwind after a tiring day and enjoy drinks all night. Situated in the center of the capital, this club could be part of the so-called Erotic Rome. Every night enjoy the strip tease shows that the club organizes. The club is a hot-spot for all those who love to enjoy a fun night out with beautiful women to please you.
Located just a few minutes away from the Colosseum is Rome's very first gay club, Hangar. The clintele is not limited to locals; instead it is a happening spot even among tourists, who love to drop by for the great ambiance and drinks. There are two bar areas, where there are cocktails and beers to be had. Many events are organized throughout the week. The club is closed on Tuesdays.
»Habana Café
This very small bar, always a bit chaotic, is situated in the heart of the city, very close to the Pantheon. There is a good selection of food, beer and cocktails, and live music is performed every night. The bar consists of two rooms: one has a bar and tables where people can sit to eat or drink, the other is for live music and dancing.
The Shangò is located near one of the most important historical sites of Rome around the Aventine Hill, next to theTestaccio district. The club/disco have 2 rooms, with also a smoking area and the Wardrobe. The first room has a track, a private room and a bar. The second room is located at the top of the room and shows a beautiful private garden with table reserved.
»Piper Club
This is one of the most famous discos in the capital, playing underground and house, along with rock and disco music from the 1970s, depending on the day of the week. During the summer, Piper becomes "Open-air Piper" situated next to the Circolo Oasi di Pace in Via degli Eugenii. Considered almost as a landmark in Rome due to its thirty-year history, it has been renovated many times and is now a mix of metropolitan and post-modern styles. Saturday brings a mostly gay crowd.


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Don't Stop File-Sharing, Says Former Pink Floyd Manager 243
from the leave-those-kids-alone dept.
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"Does John Q. Public really care all that much about file sharing?"
They don't, which makes the label's attempts to equate file sharing with more egregious crimes all that more laughable. This three strikes nonsense they're trying to pass in France is one example; French law makers passed it with flying colors last year because label lobbyists showering them with contributions and everything was great. Then a little earlier this year those same politicians realized they had to get re-elected; now they're balking, and some are even backing out of the pockets of those label lobbyists. http://www.zeropaid.com/news/89860/french-ump-members-having-second-thoughts-on-three-strikes/ [zeropaid.com] Bend with the breeze indeed. I'm sorry, but file sharing is not as criminally dangerous as murder. Not even a little.
Nope, they weren't run by the russian mob. Or at least in no more way than the USA Mob ran entertainment (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Sinatra).
Odd you bring up RIAA accounting because AllOfMP3 had the monies owed to the artists available, but RIAA refused to take it.
Compare the rates paid to the 3c/song compulsory licensing that radio (which you can tape from for everyone in the US). The money was the same.
> I fail to see any legal jurisdiction the USA might have.
Any nation has a right to protect it's ships and sailors at sea. This includes the merchant marine too.
What jurisdiction do those countries you name have?
Pirates are deemed enemies of all humanity; as such, every country has jurisdiction over pirates, though some may be unwilling to exercise it. Check it out. [wikipedia.org]
Oh yeah, and why is the US and other countries using their MILITARY to protect civilian cargo ships?
One of the reasons for a country to have a navy is to maintain that country's free, lawful use of the sea.
Yeah, and the US is already *lot* more generous than other nations are, pirate-wise.
When a Russian ship catches pirates, they (on the theory that they can't hold them as prisoners since there's no declaration of war and they're non-uniformed*) simply set them adrift on whatever small bits of their boat remain floating after the shells exploded.
Frankly, good for the Russians.
*) This lapse in international law, BTW, is the same one that causes the US all kinds of headaches for terrorists we capture. There really needs to be a new Geneva Convention to address protocol when confronted with non-uniformed belligerents when no state of war exists, including pirates and terrorists.
"All middle men are bad." - Syd Barrett,
(Melody Maker interview with the Pink Floyd, December 9, 1967)
R.W & Co didn't agree, so that's probably an important reason why Syd left.
R.I.P. Syd.
Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do. -- R. A. Heinlein


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The Kapital stumbles upon a newly declared sovereign nation—a community of hundreds living on oil platforms with dreams of forming a new utopia. With the world's governments and economies in shambles in the post-Crash world, is this new "country" the hope for the future that Callum Israel and Ninth Wave are looking for? Or is it the divisive issue that'll bring his crew to their breaking point?
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The front of my house is BORING!
Hi all,
Posted in lighting, but really need more help. I purchased an 1880-old bcutie. It is light gray with white windows, trim, storm door, interior door, wall sconce and mailbox. It does have tiny old brass house numbers. I like the look of black to contrast the house color and trim. How does that sound?
Hard to say. A picture would help, but I do like gray with black or navy. That said, I also love the look of gray with white trim-sort of northeast shore look. Maybe just start with changing your door color would help you like it better.
Hope you do post a picture though. I bet it is a darling house!
As I was reading your post, I was thinking black too.
Two houses ago, we transformed our exterior from all brown (yes even the trim) to a gray exterior, white trim, and black shutters. Very pretty combination.
You said your windows are white. Do you mean the trim around them. Our windows were Anderson white vinyl clad wood windows. The black shutters really finished the house.


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A snowy winter that caused a handful of school cancellations has pushed graduation back to late June for some local school districts.
Here's a district-by-district look at graduation dates:
East Lyme High School
The last day of school was originally set for June 11 but was moved tentatively to June 19 after five snow days this year. If there are more school cancellations, the days may be added to the end of the year. The Board of Education will set the graduation date at its April 7 meeting. Graduation last year was June 20.
Groton Public Schools
The last day of school will be June 18, followed by the Fitch High School graduation on June 20. The school calendar had eight days built in at the start of the year in case of snow, Superintendent Michael Graner said. Groton has used six of the eight snow days so far. Graner said he hopes winter is over, "But we've had snow in April. I don't want to jinx that." Graduation last year was June 21.
Ledyard High School
Though the last day of school has been pushed back from June 11 to June 20 because of the district's snow days this year, the June 21 graduation date will not change. Graduation was held last year on June 22.
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The last day of school has been moved tentatively to June 20 because of seven snow cancellations, but that could change with additional closures. The Board of Education will set the graduation date at its April 2 meeting. Graduation last year was June 21.
Montville High School
Montville will set the graduation date at its April school board meeting, but graduation is usually held on the last day of school. This year, that's expected to be June 19. That would be earlier than last year, when the last day of school and graduation were June 20.
New London High School
The school system has not yet set a date for graduation. The date will be determined in April, according to Chief Academic Officer Kate Ericson. Because of the five snow days the district logged this winter, the last day of school is scheduled for June 10. Last year's graduation was June 21, and district officials expect this year's graduation to be around the same date. One additional factor in scheduling the New London High School graduation is the availability of the facilities at the Coast Guard Academy, which the district prefers to use for its graduation ceremony.
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The district has had six snow days so far this school year, pushing back the tentative graduation date, and the last day of school, from June 13 to June 19. Graduation last year was held June 19.
Norwich Free Academy
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St. Bernard
The last day of (regular) school at St. Bernard is May 30, which is also the graduation date. Students will have final exams June 2-5. On June 6, some students will have make-up exams. A school official said the snow did not influence these dates.
Stonington High School
Graduation was scheduled for June 12, but has been tentatively set for June 19 because of five snow days. The date could change if there are additional snow days.
Waterford High School
A date for graduation has not been scheduled. The district does not set "hard and fast" graduation dates, according to Joyce Cumming, assistant to the superintendent. Cumming said the Board of Education may discuss this year's graduation date at the board's April meeting. She said she does not anticipate a graduation date later than last year's, which was June 25. Graduation was relatively late last year due to school cancellations during storms last fall. This year, the district has seen six snow days, delaying the last day of school from June 10 to June 18.
Williams School
The Williams School's graduation takes place on June 4 at 3 p.m. at Palmer Auditorium at Connecticut College.
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Bryant, who did not practice Wednesday and was limited Thursday because of a sore back, was listed as probable on the injury report. Bryant said the injury occurred when he was hit in the back after catching a screen pass in the first quarter last week.
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The core gameplay of Sleeping Dogs consists of giving the player an open world environment in which to move around freely. Sleeping Dogs is played as an over-the-shoulder, third-person perspective action-adventure game with role-playing elements. The player controls Wei Shen, a Chinese-American police officer, as he goes undercover to infiltrate the Sun On Yee Triad organization. On foot, the player character has the ability to walk, run, jump, climb over obstacles and swim, as well as use weapons and martial arts in combat. Players also drive a variety of vehicles including cars, boats, and motorcycles.
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