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Olivia is back once more with her long awaited follow up to her highly successful album titled "Fall In Love" released in 2007.
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This arcade machine runs on empty plastic bottles
Coca-Cola engages in an environmentally minded publicity stunt by launching an arcade game that takes bottles, not coins.
The city of Dhaka in Bangladesh has a population of 15 million. It's a place that isn't known for a high awareness of recycling. To put a little dent in that, Coca-Cola built a classic arcade game machine that won't take coins, only empty plastic bottles. The slot is built to the exact size specifications of a plastic Coke bottle.
The machine, called the "Happiness Arcade," was deposited around the city in six different locations over six days. It doesn't exactly offer the most modern video game experience ever created. The game is pretty much like Pong, except it uses little Coke bottles in place of the usual moving paddles.
Grey Dhaka, the advertising agency behind the stunt, admits that it's hard to tell how much of an impact the machine might have, writing, "Like so much experiential sustainability marketing, this campaign will be difficult to value in real ROR (return on recycling!) terms. Ultimately, this campaign is all about awareness raising (agitpop you might call it)."
The report on the experiment is that thousands of bottles were collected over the six days the machine was in operation. Those bottles were turned into pellets through a recycling process that makes them reusable for other plastic products.
The recycling arcade machine concept may be rolled out in other parts of the world as part of a larger campaign. It would be nice if the game became a little more sophisticated, perhaps involving a version of Duck Hunt where you have to take out flying Pepsi bottles.
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Bear Country Camping
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another bad sleep
I live in BC Canada, and yep we got bears. Lots of them. We do a lot of backpacking, dual sporting etc. into areas with bears.
There is some great advise posted here as is the regular info. that we have all read about sleeping in bear country.
When it comes down to sleeping well doing every thing your told to do still wont give you a good night sleep.
After taking precautions the rest is in our minds. The fear still lingers.
Set up camp where you believe is the safest location. Closer to people, buildings, highways, public campgrounds etc.
Even camping around light makes us feel safer. I even set up my tent with my bike on one side and a rock for eg. on the other.
I also take sleeping pills when in my tent as if your a light sleeper you'll need all the help you can get.
Getting attacked by a bear is like getting hit by lighting. Chances are it ain't gonna happen. But the fear is there right.
The better you make yourself feel the better chance of sleeping good.
Besides if you get attack chances are it will be over with quick,,,,, after the second attack.....
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Brezinski's $5 Challenge For Daniel Espinoza
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Brezinski challenges Daniel to land a trick within five tries for five bucks. Is it worth it?
Brezinski challenges Daniel to land a trick within five tries for five bucks. Is it worth it?
It's down to Westgate, Rieder, Marks & Decenzo for the 10k fan favorite Real Street video winner.
Brezinski, Espinoza and Sebo tear it up.
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Yesterday House of Vans in NYC hosted a clinic for our good friends at the A.Skate Foundation. Here's a recap and video to check out.
Nunez gets a clip in this AMMO commercial. You know you want to check it.
Addie Fridy steps up for this installment of Bones' Mo Monday.
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Tomorrow Saturday July 9th. Check out this video and come out tomorrow for great skating and tons of free product.
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|Wang Yangming
|Family name:
|Wang (王)
(Pinyin: Wáng)
|Given name:
|Shouren (守仁)
(Pinyin: Shǒurén)
|Courtesy name:
|Bo'an (伯安)
(Pinyin: Bo'an)
|Hào 號:
|Yangming (阳明)
(Pinyin: Yángmíng)
|Posthumous name:
| (Ch: 王文成公 ;
Py: Wang Wenchenggong)
|Xinjianbo (新建伯)
(Pinyin: Xinjianbo)
|Master Yangming
| (Ch: 阳明子,
or 阳明先生;
| Py: Yángmíngzǐ, or fr.
Yángmíng Xiānshēng;
|Romanised as "Wang Yangming".
Wang became a successful general and was known for the strict discipline he imposed on his troops, repressing several rebellions. In 1519 AD, while being governor of Jiangxi province, he repressed the uprising of Prince Zhu Chen-hao, and made one of the earliest references in using the fo-lang-ji in battle, a breech loading culverin cannon imported from the newly-arrived Portuguese venturers to China. While governor of Jiangxi he also built schools, rehabilitated the rebels, and reconstructed what was lost by the enemy during the revolt. Though he was made an earl, he was ostracized for opposing Zhu Xi.
Thirty-eight years after his death, he was given the titles Marquis and Completion of Culture. In 1584 he was offered sacrifice in the Confucian Temple, the highest honour for a scholar.
Wang rejected both of these which allowed him to develop his philosophy of action. Wang believed that only through simultaneous action could one gain knowledge and denied all other ways of gaining it. To him, there was no way to use knowledge after gaining it because he believed that knowledge and action were unified as one. Any knowledge that had been gained then put into action was considered delusion or false.
In order to eliminate selfish desires that cloud the mind's understanding of goodness, one can practice his type of meditation often called "tranquil repose" or "sitting still" (靜坐 py jìngzùo). This is similar to the practice of Chan (Zen) meditation in Buddhism.


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See studies by W. F. Starkie (3d ed. 1965); O. Büdel (2d ed. 1969), R. Matthaei (tr. 1973), A. Paolucci (1974), D. Radcliff-Unstead (1978), O. Ragusa (1980), and A. Caputi (1988).
Luigi Pirandello (June 28, 1867—December 10, 1936) was an Italian dramatist, novelist, and short story writer awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1934.
Pirandello received his elementary education at home, but he was much more fascinated by the fables and legends, somewhere between popular and magic, that his elderly servant Maria Stella used to recount to him than by anything scholastic or academic. By the age of twelve he had already written his first tragedy. At the insistence of his father, he was registered at a technical school, but eventually switched to the study of the humanities at the ginnasio, something which had always attracted him.
In 1880, the Pirandello family moved to Palermo. It was here, in the capital of Sicily, that Luigi completed his high school education, began reading omnivorously (focusing, above all, on 19th century Italian poets such as Giosuè Carducci and Graf), started writing his first poems, and fell in love with his cousin Lina. During this period, the first signs of serious contrast between Luigi and his father also began to develop; Luigi had discovered some notes revealing the existence of extramarital relations on the part of Stefano. As a reaction to the ever increasing distrust and disharmony that Luigi was developing toward his father, a man of a robust physique and crude manners, his attachment to his mother would continue growing to the point of a profound veneration, which later expressed itself, after her death, in the moving pages of the novella Colloqui con i personaggi in 1915. His love for his cousin, initially looked on with disfavour, was suddenly taken very seriously by the family of Lina, which demanded that Luigi abandon his studies and dedicate himself to the sulphur business so that he could immediately marry her. In 1886, during a vacation from school, Luigi went to visit the sulphur mines of Porto Empedocle and started working with his father. This experience was absolutely essential to him and would provide the basis for such stories as Il Fumo, Ciàula scopre la Luna as well as some of the descriptions and background in the novel The Old and the Young. The marriage, which seemed imminent, was postponed and Pirandello registered at the University of Palermo in the departments of both Law and of Letters. The campus at Palermo, and above all the department of law, was the centre in those years of the vast movement which would eventually evolve into the Fasci Siciliani. Although Pirandello was not an active member of this movement, he had close ties of friendship with the leading ideologists of it: Rosario Garibaldi Bosco, Enrico La Loggia, Giuseppe De Felice Giuffrida and Francesco De Luca.
Because of a conflict with a Latin professor, he was forced to leave the University of Rome and went to Bonn with a letter of presentation from one of his professors. The stay in Bonn, which lasted two years, was fervid with cultural life. He read the German romantics, Jean Paul, Tieck, Chamisso, Heinrich Heine, and Goethe. He began translating the Roman Elegies of Goethe, composed the Elegie Boreali in imitation of the style of the Roman Elegies, and began to meditate on the topic of humorism by way of the works of Cecco Angiolieri.
In March 1891, he received his doctorate, under the guidance of Professor Foerster, in glottology with a dissertation on the dialect of Agrigento Sounds and Developments of Sounds in the Speech of Girgenti. The stay in Bonn was of great importance for the young writer; it was there that he forged the bonds with German culture that would remain constant and profound for the rest of his life.
The first years of matrimony brought on in him a new fervour for his studies and writings: his encounters with his friends and the discussions on art continued, more vivacious and stimulating than ever, while his family life, despite the complete incomprehension of his wife with respect to the artistic vocation of her husband, proceeded relatively tranquilly with the birth of two sons (Stefano and Fausto) and a daughter (Lietta). In the meantime, Pirandello intensified his collaborations with newspaper editors and other journalists in magazines such as La Critica and La Tavola Rotonda in which he would publish, in 1895, the first part of the Dialogi tra Il Gran Me e Il Piccolo Me.
In 1897, he accepted an offer to teach the Italian language at the Istituto Superiore di Magistero di Roma, and in the magazine Marzocco, he published several more pages of the Dialoghi. In 1898, with Italo Falbo and Ugo Fleres, he founded the weekly Ariel in which he published the one-act play L'Epilogo (later changed to La Morsa) and some novellas (La Scelta, Se...). The end of the 19th century and the beginnings of the 20th were a period of extreme productivity for Pirandello. In 1900, he published in Marzocco some of the most celebrated of his novellas (Lumie di Sicilia, La Paura del Sonno...) and, in 1901, the collection of poems Zampogna. In 1902, the first series of Beffe della Morte e della Vita came out. The same year saw the publication of his second novel, Il Turno.
In 1909 the first part of I Vecchi e I Giovani was published in episodes. This novel retraces the history of the failure and repression of the Fasci Siciliani in the period from 1893-94. When the novel came out in volume in 1913, Pirandello sent a copy of it to his parents for the fiftieth anniversary of their marriage along with a dedication which said that "their names, Stefano and Caterina, live heroically." However, while the mother is transfigured in the novel into the otherworldly figure of Caterina Laurentano, the father, represented by the husband of Caterina, Stefano Auriti, appears only in memories and flashbacks, since, as was acutely observed by Leonardo Sciascia, "he died censured in a Freudian sense by his son who, in the bottom of his soul, is his enemy." Also in 1909, Pirandello began his collaboration with the prestigious journal Corriere della Sera in which he published the novellas Mondo di Carta (World of Paper), La Giara, and, in 1910, Non è una cosa seria and Pensaci, Giacomino! (Think it over, Giacomino!) At this point, Pirandello's fame as a writer was continually increasing, but his private life was poisoned by the suspicion and obsessive jealousy of Antonietta, who began to turn physically violent.
In 1911, while the publication of novellas and short stories continued, Pirandello finished his fourth novel, Suo Marito, republished posthumously (1941), and completely revised in the first four chapters, with the title Giustino Roncella nato Boggiòlo. During his life, the author never republished this novel for reasons of discretion: in the novel, there are implicit references to the writer Grazia Deledda. But the work which absorbed most of his energies at this time was the stories: La Vendetta del Cane, Quando s'è capito il giuoco, Il treno ha fischiato, Filo d'aria, and Berecche e la guerra were all published from 1913-1914 and are all, now, considered classics of Italian literature.
In 1917, the collection of novellas E domani Lunedì (And Tomorrow, Monday...) was published, but the year was mostly marked by important theatrical representations: Così è (se vi pare) (Right you are (if you think so)), A birrita cu' i ciancianeddi and Il Piacere dell'onestà (The Pleasure Of Honesty). A year later, Non è una cosa seria (But It's Nothing Serious) and Il Gioco delle parti (The Game of Roles) were all represented on stage. Meanwhile, with the end of the war, Pirandello's son Stefano returns home.
In 1919, Pirandello was left with no alternative but to have his wife placed in an asylum. The separation from his wife, toward whom, despite the morbid jealousies and hallucinations, he continued to feel a very strong attraction, caused great suffering for Pirandello who, still in 1924, deceived himself into believing that he could take care of her at home. Antonietta, however, would never leave the asylum which was both her prison and her protection against the resurgence of the phantasms of her overwhelmed mind which made her out to be the passionate enemy of a husband whose world was profoundly foreign to, and irremediably distant from, her.
1920 was the year of comedies such as Tutto per bene, Come prima meglio di prima, and La Signora Morli. In 1921, the Compagnia di Dario Niccomedi staged, at the Valle di Roma, the play, Sei Personaggi in Cerca d'Autore, Six Characters in Search of an Author. It was a clamorous failure. The public split up into supporters and adversaries, the latter of whom shouted: "Asylum, asylum!" The author, who was present at the representation with his daughter Lietta, was forced to almost literally run out of the theatre through a side exit in order to avoid the crowd of enemies. The same drama, however, was a great success when presented at Milan. In 1922 and again at Milan, Enrico IV was represented for the first time and was acclaimed universally as a success. Pirandello's fame, at this point, had passed the confines of Italy: the Sei Personaggi was represented in English in London and in New York.
But it is right to remember also his public words about his apolitical belief ("I'm apolitical, I'm only a man on the world..."), or his continuous conflicts against famous fascist leaders. It's very interesting when in 1927 he tore his fascist membership card up to pieces, in front of the dazed secretary-general of the Fascist Party; in the remainder of his life, Pirandello was always under close surveillance of the secret fascist police OVRA.
Pirandello's conception of the theatre underwent a significant change at this point. The conception of the actor as an inevitable betrayer of the text, as in the Sei Personaggi, gave way to the identification of the actor with the character that she plays. The company took their act throughout the major cities of Europe and the Pirandellian repertoire became increasingly known. Between 1925 and 1926, Pirandello's last, and perhaps greatest, novel Uno, Nessuno e Centomila (One, No one and One Hundred Thousand) was published in episodes in the magazine Fiera Letteraria.
Pirandello was nominated Academic of Italy in 1929 and in 1934 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. He died alone in his home at via Bosio, Rome on the 10th of December, 1936.
Animated by a furious need to clear away all false certitudes, Pirandello pitilessly dismantles every fictitious point of reference. This initial, resolute epochè opens up horizons of disconcerting restlessness: reality is seen as having no order and as being contradictory and unattainable. It evades any attempt at classification and systematically violates the obligatory nexus of cause and effect which, even while seeming to suffocate in an unbreakable concatenation the tiniest spark of freedom, permits us to know, to predict and therefore to dominate.
Already in Pirandello's first novel, L'Esclusa, it seems clear that nothing is predictable; on the contrary, anything and everything can happen. There are no secure anchors or objective facts which can be correlated with judgements and behaviour. What is a fact for Pirandello? Just an empty shell that can be refilled with a mutable meaning according to the moment and the prevailing sentiment. An irrelevant grain of sand can assume the crushing consistency of an avalanche that overwhelms, as happens to Marta Ajala, the protagonist of l'Esclusa, who, surprised by her husband in the awful act of reading a letter from a man, is thrown out of the house even though she has done nothing wrong. But she will be accepted and taken in again, and here lies the humoristic genius, only after she has actually committed the act which she was unjustly charged with committing in the first place.
The obscure will which dominates heavily in the first novel comes out into the open in Il Turno (1902), Pirandello's second novel. Here it manifests itself as the irrational accident, careless and spiteful, which diverts itself by subverting all human plans or programs for the future. The expectations of Marcantonio Ravì are certainly not chimerical illusions; they represent the normal projection into the future of what has happened many times before and which is presumably supposed to happen again. His attractive daughter Stellina, thinks the wise Marcantonio, will sacrifice herself for a short time by marrying the old but wealthy Don Diego who, according to all common sense predictions, will die very soon. Stellina will then be filthy rich and can marry her true love, Pepè Alletto. Isn't Marcantonio's plan perfect? But, as everyone knows, sometimes things don't quite go according to plan and, in this case, Don Diego, notwithstanding a bout of pneumonia, finds the strength to survive. However, the lawyer Ciro Coppa who, after the annulment of the first hateful marriage, became Stellina's second husband dies suddenly and unexpectedly. Perhaps now it will finally be Pepé's turn. But who can be sure? Reality is, at the profoundest level, unknowable: a secret law manages the great spectacle and often designs capricious circumvolutions of disconcerting coincidences which are certainly not explainable in the light of a deterministic vision of the universe. In this obscure labyrinth, man questions himself about himself but discovers, and the discovery is terrifying, the uncertainty of his identity. The obscurity of external reality finds in this way, in a sort of ironic and upside down mysticism, a correlation in the dark interior which throws into crisis the very stability of the self.
Turning one's eye inward toward one's own consciousness means seeing with horror the threat of disintegration, of dis-aggregation of the self. In 1900, Pirandello had already read the short essay by Alfred Binet, Le altérations de la personnalité (1892) on the alterations of the personality. He cited several excerpts in his article Scienza e Critica Estetica. The experimental observations of Binet had apparently scientifically demonstrated the extreme lability of the personality: a set of psychic elements in temporary coordination which can easily collapse, giving way to many different personalities equally furnished with will and intelligence cohabiting within the same individual. In Binet's "proofs", Pirandello found scientific support for the surprising intuitions of much German romanticism on which he had probably meditated during his years spent in Germany. Steffens, Shubert and others who had concerned themselves with dreams were the first to discovery the existence of the sub-conscious. Steffens already spoke of a "consciousness which sinks into the night" and, in Jean Paul, there are already present the ideas of terror of disintegration and the chilling sensation of seeing oneself live. Pirandello shares the view that the self is not unitary. That which seemed like an irreducible and monolithic nucleus multiplies as in a prism; the exterior self does not have the same face as the secret self: it is only a mask that man unconsciously assumes in order to adapt himself to the social context in which he finds himself, each one in a different manner, in a game of mobile perspectives.
Compelled only by an interior sense of necessity, furnished with different instruments and aiming at other prospects, Pirandello ventures on his own initiative into territory which will later on end up in Freudian psychoanalysis and the analytic psychology of Carl Jung. Jung published his work The Self and the Unconscious in 1928. In that work, he attempts to scientifically investigate the relationship between the individual and the collective psyche, between the being that appears and the profound being. Jung called the self that appears a persona saying that "...the term is truly appropriate because originally persona was the mask that actors wore and also indicated the part that he played." The persona is "that which one appears" behind which is hidden the true individual being. It's difficult not to be stunned and impressed by the wisdom of Pirandello who had been employing these concepts in his art from his very first novel. But within the genre of novels, it was with Mattia Pascal that Pirandello inaugurated the series of personages to whom he would assign the arduous task of searching for their own authenticity in this Heideggerian sense. But upon the emptiness left by his presumed death, in fact, Mattia quickly reconstructs another persona which, only apparently different from the first, in reality represents its grotesque double. Mattia's voyages, without any precise destination or practical utility, can seem like the modern transcription of the great romantic theme of vagabondage. But Mattia has nothing in common with the joyous ne'er-do-well of Joseph von Eichendorff, who with the sole companionship of his violin abandons the paternal home and opens his ingenuous eyes on the transient spectacle of the world. And he has also has nothing of Knulp, the more modern vagabond of Hermann Hesse and other characters of this genre. He is not an innocent and ingenuous man freed from all the constrictions of society. His voyages are not joyous but filled with the acrid odours of train tracks and stations and they are an obsessive and inconclusive set of movements which in the end will bring him back fatally to the point of departure. The dissociation of Mattia from the bourgeousie universe based on money and profit is manifested only in the vindictive exercise of his virility with the beautiful Oliva, the wife of the avid administrator Batta Malagna who had previously subtracted from him all of Mattia's ownings. Oliva becomes pregnant and through a subtle game of subtractions and grotesque additions everyone is finally paid off. This is not the eros of Klein, the protagonist of the short novel of Hesse, Klein and Wagner, published in 1920, which offers surprising analogies with Mattia Pascal. Klein, small and squallid bureaucrat, exactly like Mattia, runs away horrified from his own extrerior persona in search of his more profound being. On the way, he encounters the ballerina Teresina and experiences the frankly sexual fascination of the blond hair, of the confident and sharp gestuality, of the tight stockings on her smooth, long legs. A shy reserve, on the other hand, keeps Mattia (and his author) far away from the powerful, disruptive force of Eros which is transformed into a sickly sweet attraction, smelling of talcum powder, for the bloodless Adriana, surprised in her nightgown in the home of Paleari.
Pirandello is an author who does not let himself be taken by surprise in the territories of the unconscious; his art is not an escape into the shadows nor does it represent a plane of direct conflict with man's interior phantasms. His writing, although perfectly in line with so much of art at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, never drowns in dis-aggregation but lucidly transcribes it. The oniric and hallucinatory atmophere of the paintings of O. Redon or of the designs of A. Kubin are completely foreign to Pirandello's sensibility. In him, the unconscious does not have two aspects, a positive and a negative, one which can destroy and one which can save: the elixir of the devil can never become the nectar of the gods. This is why the carefully scrutinized interior monologues of so many characters (Mattia Pascal, Vitangelo Moscarda, Enrico IV, etc.) never becomes pure stream of consciousness as in Joyce's Ulysses, but moves within the confines of a consciousness, humoristically recomposed only to register, disconcertedly but extremely lucidly, through the narrative, its own defeat. The pointed and painful writing assumes in this way the responsibility to represent the unique common thread of a precarious and compromised self.
Pirandello's commitment as a narrator and dramatist revolves around the impossibility of liberation. And, at times, the narrative and dramatic structure itself emphasizes the burning defeat, reconnecting the starting points with the ending points in a sort of tragic merry-go-round. The character almost always exemplifies or lucidly denounces his defeat. In a Sicily which was permeated by cruel prejudices smelling of holy water transformed into an ashtray, anti-heroic characters, "poveri christi", trace the graphic of solitude and of alienation. The author follows them into the entangled chaos with that "ruthless pity" which represents the ungrateful wealth of his humoristic vision in which pain and laughter, participation and detachment are mixed.
The novel Suo Marito (1911) signals a particularly important moment in the narrative production of Pirandello. The protagonist, Silvia Roncella, is a writer. With her, Pirandello intended to investigate the processes of artistic creation and the relations between art and life. The artist for Pirandello, who is very close to Schopenhauer in this, alienates himself completely from the normal relations between things and from the impulses of his individual personality (principium individuationis) in order to grasp the essence beyond existence. Silvia is a true artist. In her, the creative activity is dictated exclusively by a natural "necessity." Counterpoised to her stands her husband Giustino, who tries thousands of different avenues in order to ensure that his wife's art receives concrete recognition (economic, of course, economic!). It is he who spends his time chatting with the actors while they stage his wife's dramas, it is he that suggests, that stimulates, that establishes relations with critics and journalists. Without him perhaps no one would know of his wife and her artistic qualities. This small man is described by Pirandello with great vivacity in a mist of pity and disdain. Giustino is just made that way. He needs to bend everything, even the highest things, to the dimension of utility. Silvia is the absolute contrary; she is the voice of supremely disinterested artistic creation and experiences moments of pure contemplation, when she becomes, forgetting herself, "the limpid eye of the world."
The commingling, deliberately not amalgamated, of ancient and new, of lucid torments of reason and of desperate desires for immemorial resting places represents the characteristic cipher of this surprising author who certainly does not attenuate the contrasts and contradictions. The novel Quaderni di Serafino Gubbio operatore (1925) brings us into the world of the cinema, a world with which Pirandello had a contradictory and problematic relationship. Although he was fascinated by it, he condemned it as a mechanical degeneration of the creative activity of the artist. With the character Serafino Gubbio, film operator, Pirandello reflects on the ever more invasive role of science and technology. The insecurity of modern man, the multiplication of perspectives, the lack of a unique point of reference are due, in his view, to the failure of positivistic culture to respond to the ultimate needs and questions of man. Science has corrupted the ingenuous margins of religion and fractured the anthropocentric perspective, the source of security for man in the past. Man the measure of the universe, the free forger of his own destiny, who could make Pico della Mirandola exclaim proudly:
In this strange geography of shipwrecks, only one character, the extremely lucid Vitangelo Moscarda, protagonist of Pirandello's last novel Uno, Nessuno e Centomila, comes close to a suffered authenticity. After the initial humoristic dislocation of the persona (everyone around him has formed a "Vitangelo" persona of his own but he will spitefully fracture these inconsistent masks), with the complicity of a mirror, he seeks to surprise the face of his true interior self. But the mirror offers no guarantee of knowledge: the result is only a tragicomic doubling. In pages dominated by sharp tension, Pirandello designs the comic drama of the improbable knowledge of a self which, like Prometheus, continually changes and eludes all attempts to be grasped. The alienation from oneself experienced by Italo Svevo through the various "accidents" of existence in the ironic Coscienza di Zeno becomes here a vertiginous immersion in the search for the profound self. Beyond the deforming exterior stratifications that, like the expressionist masks of Grosz or Dix, rigidify but do not express, the self, deprived of a nucleus, is entirely lost here and does not exist if not as transformation and mutability. Pirandello, in this novel, echoes David Hume's view of the self as a bundle of transient sensations. The interior monologue of Vitangelo accompanies the phases of his search and his discovery with an interior commentary, extremely modern in style, surprisingly ductile in tone and in expresive register. Vitangelo, after having brought the crisis of the self, without hesitation, to its extreme consequences, in the final pages approaches liberation. He abandons every tie with reality. The path to authenticity must go through the itinerary of renunciation and of solitude. Finally liberated, Vitangelo feels in every way outside of himself. It is an experience which mystics know well. As Meister Eckhart expressed it: "As long as I am this or that, I am not all and I do not have all. Disconnect yourself, so that you no longer are, nor have, this or that and you will be everywhere... when you are neither this nor that, you are everything." Vitangelo, not "accidentally", but with a resurgent act of will, reduces the self to the sensation of feeling his own existence in the things around him. The self that remains is the profound self in perpetual transformation where there are no more barriers between interior and exterior: "This tree, I breathe shaking off the new leaves. I am this tree. Tree, cloud; tomorrow book or wind; the book that I read, the wind that I drink. All outside, wayward."


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Toddler struck by car in driveway of Chantilly home
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CHANTILLY, Va. (AP) - Fairfax County police say a 1-year-old boy is in good condition after being struck by a car in the driveway of his Chantilly home.
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Editor's Note: Oscar-winning director Mike Nichols took part in a lively conversation with Jason Reitman back in June 2011 at the Walter Reade Theater, discussing his 1971 film Carnal Knowledge and other topics. Today we're re-posting the article by Daniel Loria in the wake of the news he passed away Wednesday night. The Film Society is saddened by the news.
A candid Mike Nichols sat down with Jason Reitman on Sunday night at the Walter Reade Theater during a weekend of free events at the Film Society.
"First of all, Jack [Nicholson] had a hot tub and I don't have to say anymore about that," Nichols explained at one point, "Secondly, Artie [Garfunkel] was over there all the time and he had a girlfriend we were all terrified of. But he didn't have her for very long... because Jack somehow took care of that, too."
The two filmmakers sat down for a conversation following the screening of Nichols's explosive Carnal Knowledge, the controversial film starring Jack Nicholson, Art Garfunkel and Ann-Margret. Nichols was very open and willing to share some of the fun anecdotes from the set, a shoot which he described as the most enjoyable he's had in his career. According to Nichols, the morale on the set was always high and everyone seemed to get along perfectly with one another. Days would end at three or four in the afternoon, and usually included leisurely meals at restaurants. "Jack had some nude scenes," revealed the director. "They're not in the film anymore but they were hilarious. He'd go up and say, 'Alright! Here comes Steve, get ready for him!' and he'd make such a fool of himself that everyone else would be cool."
Nichols came upon Carnal Knowledge after a trio of strong films to start his career. The success of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Graduate and Catch 22 gave the filmmaker the opportunity to take more risks with his next film. "It was one of the few films where I knew exactly what I was going to do as soon as I read it." The result was a film that, according to Reitman, is more controversial today than it was upon its original release.
"I look at this film and it really upsets me there's no films like this out. This is the most honest film I've ever seen, the way it looks into the male mind. Do you think this film could be made today?" Reitman asked.
"I don't think so," answered the veteran director. "Among other things, it wouldn't be entertaining."
"Was the idea for this to be entertaining?"
"Well yeah, as long as it could be," Nichols answered, "I didn't want them to be looking when the trap was sprung. I wanted them to be thinking of something else -Ann-Margret's top, for instance. The more I could get them to look at her, the more they would be complicit in what happens to her."
In Carnal Knowledge, Nichols guides and manipulates the audience to go to uncomfortable places. Reitman expressed his own desire to go back to an age when he felt filmmakers had more of a liberty to take risks in possibly alienating their audience, "I'm close to the age that you were when you made this film, and I want to do that to an audience," shared the director of Thank You for Smoking. "I don't pretend I can make something this brilliant, but what I love is how this film upsets me."
"I think it's still possible," answered Nichols. "The thing that usually gets us is a simple thing. To be upset in the Greek sense, that gets you in a way that you don't have the words for, is one of the reasons we're here. I'm about to do Death of a Salesman, so God help me because I'm about to find out if we can still pull off such a thing and if anybody is willing to come with us."
Nichols sees the renaissance in television as a new outlet for narrative risks otherwise unseen, "A great thing is happening on cable TV. You see characters change in stories over years, like in Tolstoy. That's a whole, thrilling new form that I really enjoy. They are Tolstoy-an in their endless character development and narrative changes...a show like Breaking Bad is astonishing."
Film, however, is a different question altogether. Reitman showed caution at labeling recent cinema to be as truly groundbreaking as some of the work coming from the young directors of the 1970s, to which Nichols replied with a compelling counterpoint. "It's very weird about movies: you never know which ones are going to stay alive and which one are going to be meaningless," said Nichols. "When you're there you couldn't possibly predict it. Some things slowly die and others slowly stay a while."
Pictured above: Mike Nichols at the Film Society of Lincoln Center on Sunday night. Photo by Godlis.


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11:53 AM — Around a quarter of homeless young people are #LGBT, a report by Albert Kennedy Trust shows.
16th December 2014
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2:22 PM — An LGBT charity in Birmingham is set to deliver new sexual health services for the city's LGBT community.
2nd June 2014
Charity calls on LGBT drug and alcohol treatment to be improved 5
3:37 PM — A new report calling on drug and alcohol treatment services to be improved for the LGBT community has been published by the charity London Friend.
24th March 2014
UK: Gay magazine to be axed after 14 years 5
3:49 PM — The Lesbian & Gay Foundation has announced that outnorthwest, its community magazine, will no longer be published.
20th February 2014
LGBT charity launches its first ever workplace diversity programme for Northern Ireland
3:24 PM — Northern Ireland's Rainbow Project has launched a new workplace diversity and inclusion programme.
2nd January 2014
Cumbria receives new LGBT community helpline service
3:20 PM — A new LGBT helpline has been launched for residents living in Cumbria.
19th December 2013
TalkTalk apologises for blocking access to LGBT charity website by incorrectly labelling it as porn 4
5:33 PM — TalkTalk has apologised for blocking access to the website of London Friend, after the internet service provider incorrectly classified the LGBT charity's site as "pornographic".
TalkTalk blocks access to LGBT website by incorrectly classifying it as 'pornographic' 9
3:21 PM — LGBT charity London Friend says access to its website has been blocked by the internet service provider Talk Talk because it has incorrectly been classified as "pornographic".
6th December 2013
Will Young becomes patron of LGBT mental health charity PACE 3
7:34 PM — Singer Will Young has been announced as a patron for an LGBT mental health charity.
16th October 2013
Lesbian and Gay Foundation receives award for gonorrhoea poster
3:44 PM — Manchester's Lesbian and Gay Foundation (LGF) has been honoured for its sexual health advocacy work.
9th October 2013
Charity says rise in lesbian domestic violence in Scotland due to increased reporting 1
5:29 PM — A rise in the number of Scottish women detailing violence in same-sex relationships is down to increased reporting and not increased abuse, according to an LGBT charity.
9th August 2013
LGBT demonstration to take place outside Russian Consulate in Edinburgh this afternoon 2
12:47 PM — A demonstration against Russia's homophobic censorship laws is taking place outside the Russian Consulate in Edinburgh this afternoon.
15th April 2013
Former Commonwealth human rights head becomes Kaleidoscope Trust chair
5:31 PM — LGBT charity the Kaleidoscope Trust has elected a former Commonwealth human rights senior official as its new chair.
25th March 2013
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12:49 PM — While hosting an LGBT event over the weekend, actor and activist Sir Ian McKellen spoke of the damaging effect hate speech can have on the lives of vulnerable people and said "cruel" religious leaders should feel responsible for gay teens living on the streets.
23rd June 2011
London's oldest gay charity 'saved' 7
3:50 PM — Islington council has announced that London LGBT charity London Friend will be able to buy its premises. The charity, which is the capital's oldest counselling service for LGBT people, faced an uncertain future when the council announced in November that the Caledonian Road property was to be put up for auction with just a few weeks' notice.


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UTSA presents production of Arthur Miller's 'The Crucible' April 15-18
(April 12, 2010)--The UTSA Department of English Drama Through Performance Troupe will present performances of Arthur Miller's play 'The Crucible' at 7 p.m. April 15-17 and 2 p.m. April 18 in the Buena Vista Theater (1.326) at the UTSA Downtown Campus. Admission is free and open to the public.
Written in 1953, "The Crucible" is a dramatization of the Salem witchcraft trials in Province of Massachusetts Bay during 1692 and 1693. Miller wrote the play as an allegory to McCarthyism in the 1950s, when the U.S. government blacklisted accused communists. Miller himself was questioned by the House of Representatives Committee on Un-American Activities in 1956 and convicted of contempt of Congress for failing to identify others present at meetings he had attended.
The UTSA production is directed by Susan Arias, lecturer in the Department of English, and produced by Bridget Drinka, chair of the Department of English.
Cast and production members include The Thespian Club, Juan Contreras, Omar Quimbaya, Stephanie Crain, Trevor Johnican, Norma Villa, Chris Mery, Carlos Gerardo Saenz, Sarah Phillips, Sloane Hughlett, Katrice Simmons, Carolyn King, Jacob Phillip Holmes, Lacole Spraggins, Eric Repp, Matthew Underwood, Meg Edyvean, Robert Torres, Kristen DeGroot, Nirav Bhakta, Matthew Leon, Christina Coronado, Will Broderick, Jason Garza, Jason Blum, Jannette Monteith and Abigail Williams.


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Tailwinds Distilling
Tailwinds Distilling Company is Chicago-land's premiere Micro Distillery. Located just 30 minutes from Downtown Chicago resides the family owned and operated distillery affectionately referred to as "the hangar". The hangar is a 5000 square foot production facility with an on-site tasting room and store front shop. The fermentation, distilling, aging, blending, bottling, labeling, and packaging is completed entirely on-site, forging a truly hand crafted spirit. By distilling each spirit in small batches as opposed to larger continuous operations, the distillers are able to focus on quality during every step of the process.
The Midtown Men at the Rialto Square Theatre
This sensational production reunites Four Stars from the Original Cast of Broadway's Jersey Boys. Tony Award winner Christian Hoff, Michael Longoria, Daniel Reichard and Tony Award nominee J. Robert Spencer, star in this one-of-a-kind concert experience celebrating the music that defined the '60s.
The Drake Hotel Oak Brook
Breathtakingly elegant, lavish, and newly renovated, The Drake Oak Brook features traditional furnishings and timeless architecture. Stunning banquet rooms open to newly designed terraces and courtyards.
CITY:Oak Brook
Shinedown at the Rialto Square Theatre
Shinedown is indisputably one of the most successful rock bands of the past 10 years, enjoying an unparalleled streak of hits. The band's unprecedented ascendancy over multi-format rock radio commenced with their RIAA platinum certified 2003 debut "Leave a Whsiper" and its gold certified 2005 follow-up, "Us & Them." With guests, Nothing More
Join the Village of Romeoville Parks & Recreation Department for another exciting RomeoFest from Thursday, August 6 - Sunday, August 9, 2015. Romeofest is a family-oriented event that consists of a variety of entertainment for all ages, great food, bingo, and carnival rides. Activities include fireworks on Friday and Sunday evenings, children's entertainment, food vendors, and bean bag, tennis and softball tournaments. The food booths, beverage garden, bingo, and main stage entertainment will be held on the Municipal Center Grounds, 1050 W. Romeo Rd. Carnival rides and attractions will be held on the Recreation Center Grounds, 900 W. Romeo Rd. Family entertainment and fireworks will be located at Village Park, 900 W. Romeo Rd.
Fall Hayride and Campfire
October is pumpkin time! Join Lake Katherine for a fall hayride followed by pumpkin painting, treats and songs around the campfire. Registration and payment to be made in person or by mail no later than the Monday before the event. We do not accept telephone registration. $8 per person Program #429.
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Home Free at the Rialto Square Theatre
"Home Free" continues to entertain audiences with their high-energy show peppered with quick-witted humor that meshes Nashville standards with pop hits dipped in country flavor. No better venue than historic Rialto Square theater. 7:30pm show.
Sinbad at the Rialto
Ranked by Comedy Central as one of the top 100 standup comedians of all time, Sinbad has built a loyal following by taking day-by-day life and causing an uproar of comedic hysteria.
Masters of Illusion at the Rialto Square Theatre
Believe the Impossible! Nothing beats the experience of seeing a magic show in person. You'll see grand illusions, levitating women, appearances and vanishes, escapes, comedy magic, sleight of hand and beautiful dancers...everything you could possibly imagine and performances that you never dreamed possible – all rolled up into a live show.
Pure Prairie League with Firefall at the Rialto Square Theatre
Pure Prairie League became fan favorites in the 1970's with radio hits like "Aimee", "Two Lane Highway" and "Falling In and Out Of Love", and are still going strong. Also appearing Firefall, known for "You Are The Woman", "Mexico" "Cinderella" and other chart topping hits.
Beer House
Beer House, located on the outskirts of Yorktown Center, is a unique concept bringing over 60 tap and hundreds of bottled beers to one great venue. You can be sure to find almost half of our tap line dedicated to local Chicagoland breweries. Catering to both the beer aficionado and those wanting to learn more, our staff is willing to answer questions and make suggestions. Come drink the best beers, enjoy live music, catch sports on our 15 televisions, or just relax with friends!
Hirano Sushi
Hirano Restaurant specializes in sushi. With an endless variety, every taste bud is sure to leave satisfied!
Church Street Brewing Company
The Church Street Brewing Company is a production brewery located in Itasca Illinois. We are open from 4 to 8 pm on Thursdays and Fridays, 1 to 7 pm on Saturdays, and 1 to 4 pm on Sundays. Come in, see our brewery, try a sample, have a pint or take home a growler!
Route 66 Kiwanis Art Fair
The inaugural Route 66 Kiwanis Art Fair in Romeoville, Illinois, on Aug. 22 will include a tribute to late Route 66 artist Bob Waldmire, and also will have a musical tribute to singer Nat King Cole, who popularized Bobby Troup's song "(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66." The fair will be from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Aug. 22 at the Edward Hospital Athletic and Event Center in Romeoville, and features live music, a children's tent, food booths and giveaways. Proceeds will fund charities and scholarships for area youth programs.
Hotel California - A Salute to the Eagles at Rialto Square Theatre
For more than two decades, Hotel California has touched the hearts of fans all over the world, by faithfully and accurately reproducing the Grammy award winning sounds of the Eagles. Each concert presents an exciting, showcase of The Eagles megahits such as "Take it Easy" "Heartache Tonight" and of course "Hotel California" as well as selected titles from the solo works of Don Henley, Glen Frey, and Joe Walsh.
NASCAR Tripleheader Chase Weekend
The Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Starts Here for the 5th consecutive year! The weekend kicks off Friday night with the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series. Then the NASCAR XFINITY Series takes to the track for the second time of the season. Finally, it all leads up to the start of NASCAR's playoffs with the MyAFibStory.com 400 on Sunday! Subject to change.
Legendary Diamonds Lizzadro Museum of Lapidary
See the fascinating stories of some of history's most famous diamonds and their equally famous owners. The exhibit blends the lapidary art of faceting with historic figural artistry to tell each diamond's story including The Hope, The Orlov, The Table Cut, and The Regent.
Dinner & A Little History: Female Spies of the South
Led by a host of mostly female scholars, new research has revealed that women were involved in the Civil War efforts of both the North and the South, in ways most people never expected. Speaker: Amanda Fesperman of the Illinois Valley Community College has been studying women in politics and history for the past 25 years and will lead an informative and fascinating discussion.
Cosley Zoo Uncorked
Looking for a wild night out? We have just the thing! Enjoy a distinctive wine tasting experience, complete with the animals and atmosphere of Cosley Zoo. Sample up to 50 different wines, enjoy hors d'oeuvres and desserts, and win fabulous prizes! The first 350 registered receive a Cosley Zoo collectible wine glass for sampling. Wine will be available to order at a discount from Famous Liquors Wine Super Center with 10% of all sales benefitting Cosley Zoo. You must be 21 years or older to attend.
Kohler Water Spa
Relax and unwind at Kohler Waters Spa at Burr Ridge – recently named the #1 Day Spa in Chicago by Chicago magazine.
CITY:Burr Ridge
Celeste is a modern, sophisticated, multi-level establishment. The design of the building is reminiscent of turn-of-the-century Chicago and the food is just as innovative. Enjoy classic American drinks, a versatile wine list, and seasonal multi-layered cuisine. Drink and dine at the bar, in the deco room, or in the garden.
River Roast
Located on the Chicago River, River Roast offers city and water views from every seat, inside and out. The menu features contemporary American tavern far and new inventive drinks. With one of the best patios in the city, the restaurant is a great place to connect with friends and family.
A River Through History - The Des Plaines Valley Rendezvous
A River Through History is a living history reenactment of early American life at Columbia Woods Forest Preserve, as it was on the Illinois frontier prior to 1848, with emphasis on our local history from the fur trade era to the canal era. An exciting, entertaining and educational experience for all ages. We strive to create a better understanding and appreciation of our history by allowing the public and the reenactors to mingle, both as witnesses and participants, in our event. Finally, we seek to have the most authentic and highest quality reenactors and trade goods to represent our vision of the rendezvous to promote and enhance the historic, recreational and economic development of this new style National Park.
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Hippiefest at the Rialto Square Theatre
Dance to the music as the legendary group, The Family Stone headlines Hippiefest Tour 2015 with Rick Derringer, Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels and Badfinger featuring Joey Molland. All at the beautiful and historic Rialto Square Theatre.


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The basics, baby
Our Collier County chapter is part of the Baby Basics program that has been selected for the "12 Days of Charitable Giving " program created by feature columnist Kelly Phillips, known as taxgirl, at Forbes magazine and Forbes.com.
Phillips encourages readers to support Baby Basics because of its solid record of public service with no administrative overhead.
Baby Basics is an all-volunteer organization that provides and distributes diapers and kindness to children from low-income, working families.
The children must be under three years old; and families cannot receive federal or state cash assistance and must meet certain financial criteria. All babies are referred by partnering community social service agencies.
Baby Basics serves 315 local children but our program impacts the lives of more than 1,200 family members.
We are part of a national organization and are proud to be its largest chapter.
Low-income families have to make hard decisions on how to spend their money but without the need to purchase diapers, families can use their limited funds for food, gas, etc.
At each distribution our volunteers strive to create a community of kindness and support.
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The availability, representativeness, and quality of the available information are limited in several important ways. As noted above, even if the developers of guidelines have conflict of interest policies, they may not refer to them in individual guideline documents. This in turn means that the summaries in the National Guideline Clearinghouse are likely to have no information either. A number of groups have recently revised aspects of their policies, and the committee is aware of other groups that are considering changes. In some cases, these changes may not be reflected on websites or in publications.
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procedures for managing the relationships disclosed, including limitations of participation by members with conflicts (such as serving as chair or cochair or voting);
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ERIE, Pa. - Acting United States Attorney Robert S. Cessar announced today, March 17, 2010, that Dale Allan Moore, a resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of violating federal laws relating to the sexual exploitation of children.
Moore, age 54, pleaded guilty to one count before United States District Judge Sean J. McLaughlin.
In connection with the guilty plea, Assistant United States Attorney Christian A. Trabold advised the court that Moore possessed computer images depicting minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct.
Launched in February 2006, Project Safe Childhood is a nationwide initiative designed to protect children from online exploitation and abuse. Led by the U.S. Attorneys' Offices, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state and local resources to better locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet, as well as identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.projectsafechildhood.gov.
Judge McLaughlin scheduled sentencing for July 28, 2010 at 10:00 a.m. The law provides for a total sentence of ten years in prison, a fine of $250,000, or both. Under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, the actual sentence imposed is based upon the seriousness of the offense and the criminal history, if any, of the defendant.
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Doesnt sound like excuses to me. Diaz gave Bendo the props and explianed where he felt his game lacked... Is it not possible to talk about losing a fight with out it being an 'excuse'?
People just love to hate. Clearly Diaz's eye was messed up, and he was not fighting the way he normally fights. Bendo definitely put on an awesome fight, but for a guy as good as Nate to get beaten THAT badly usually means something happened.
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The Rev. Eric W. Gritsch, a prominent Lutheran theologian, educator and author whose teaching career at the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Gettysburg, Pa., spanned more than three decades, died Dec. 29 at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center of complications from an infection.
The longtime Canton resident was 81.
Michael Cooper-White, president of the Lutheran Theological Seminary called Dr. Gritsch, "one of the giants in 20th-century Lutheranism."
"I am among hundreds of women and men privileged to have sat at his feet during his third of a century as a professor here at Gettysburg Seminary," he said. "Beyond the classroom and campus, during times of crisis over civil rights and the Vietnam War, his prophetic voice taught us what it means to be a 'public theologian.' "
The son a of Lutheran pastor and a homemaker, Eric Walter Gritsch was born in Neuhaus am Klausenbach, Austria, and raised in Bernstein, Austria, where his father had moved to take over a congregation in the town.
When Adolf Hitler annexed Austria on March 13, 1938, Dr. Gritsch and his parents traveled by bus to Vienna.
"From the shoulders of my father I saw Hitler on a platform in the distance, raising his right arm and bellowing into loudspeakers," wrote Dr. Gritsch in his memoir, "The Boy from the Burgenland: From Hitler Youth to Seminary Professor."
"The annexation of Austria was a tragic event. The regime of Hitler 'coordinated' all levels of society into a tyrannical whole. I became estranged from my parents when I became a Hitler Youth at age 10; membership was part of compulsory education," wrote Dr. Gritsch, who rose to pack leader.
When he asked the young man who was in charge of the district what would happen if they ignored orders, he was told, "We will treat them like deserters in the army and shoot them."
"That remark cost me much sleep for a long time and made me meditate about the Nuremberg trials of Nazi leaders after the war. Did they do all those horrible things because they were afraid to be shot if they did not obey orders?" he wrote.
Dr. Gritsch's father, who had been active in an anti-Nazi underground movement, was betrayed by a school principal and was called up for service in the German army.
"I never saw my father again after 1941; my mother discovered by 1948 that her husband had died on a death march as a Russian prisoner of war," he wrote.
By the end of 1944, Dr. Gritsch was sent with other members of the Hitler Youth and older men to the Hungarian border, where they were fed "hay soup" made from grass and lard.
When one young boy refused to eat it, the commandant took out his pistol and killed him.
"I vowed to kill the officer if ever I had a chance," he wrote.
Dr. Gritsch later deserted and took refuge in an abandoned farmhouse and changed out of his uniform to elude capture.
He eventually returned home and resumed his high school education at the Oberschutzen Gymnasium after the war.
Dr. Gritsch earned a degree in 1952 in Protestant theology from the University of Vienna and took additional courses at the universities of Zurich and Basel.
Named a Fulbright scholar, he traveled to Yale University, where he earned a master's degree in 1954 in sacred theology. He completed ministerial studies in Austria and served as vicar of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Austria in the Bruck an der Mur.
In 1957, he immigrated to the United States and returned to Yale, where he earned his doctorate in 1960.


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If anyone wonders why dredging of the East Pass inlet is required so often, it's because Destin city officials and the state Department of Environmental Protection are going at it all wrong. In 2006 and 2008, they dredged sand from the pass and dumped it "upstream." Mother Nature sent it back.
Destin and the DEP apparently are unaware that sand along our beaches has a natural flow from east to west, just as a current flows in a sea or a river. Now they want to place the sand upstream again and repeat their mistake.
To add insult to injury, they plan to place that dredged sand on Holiday Isle's private beach, using tax dollars to do so. Naturally, as soon as it's dumped there, it will start its movement back to the west. It's a wonderful make-work project if you're in the dredging business, or if you're an owner of the private beach.
Sand dredged to open the East Pass inlet should be placed along Okaloosa Island, the way nature intended. It then will continue its drift westward along Okaloosa Island and provide continual and natural replenishment of our beautiful, sugar-white beach.
I concede that the private beach on Holiday Isle does at times need sand. But that sand should come from offshore, where it won't have a detrimental effect on Okaloosa Island's beach. And that project should be paid for by owners of that private beach, not by all the taxpayers who never get to use it.
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Since mid-2013, the Department of Health and Human Services has recovered more than $10 million from numerous entities in connection with alleged violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act ("HIPAA"). However, during a recent American Bar Association conference, Jerome B. Meites, a chief regional civil rights counsel at the Department of Health and Human Services ("HHS")… Continue Reading
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Stolen Laptops = HIPAA Settlements Totaling Nearly Two Million Dollars
Unencrypted laptop computers and other mobile devices pose significant risks to the security of patient information, reminds the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) in its announcement yesterday that it collected $1,975,220 from two entities collectively to resolve potential violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)… Continue Reading
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The $50,000 in penalties that the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) recently imposed on a health care provider in Idaho was due in part to allegations that the HIPAA covered entity had not conducted a risk assessment as required under the HIPAA privacy and security regulations. Of course, HIPAA is not the only law that requires a risk assessment…. Continue Reading
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Waterloo, Ontario — Sandvine, (TSX:SVC) a leading provider of intelligent broadband network solutions for fixed and mobile operators, today released its latest bi-annual Internet traffic trends report, entitled "Global Internet Phenomena Report 1H2014". The report is based on data from a selection of Sandvine's 250-plus communications service provider (CSP) customers spanning North America, Europe, Middle East and Africa, Caribbean and Latin America and Asia-Pacific.
"While the app of choice varies drastically between continents and countries, this latest report makes it clear that mobile messaging matters," said Mr. Caputo. "An African mobile operator that used Sandvine's solutions to offer affordable daily, weekly and monthly zero-rated WhatsApp plans saw the application soar above 20% of network usage. There's no better example of the power of service innovation, because users that otherwise could not afford to access the Internet from mobile devices are now rapidly adopting data plans."
Sandvine's Global Internet Phenomena Report 1H2014 contains findings from fixed and mobile networks around the world, including:
On Demand Video North American subscribers who exhibit cord cutting behavior (top 15th percentile of video users) are dominating network usage:
Consuming on average 212GB a month, more than seven times the 29GB of a typical subscriber
Viewing the equivalent of 100 hours of video each month
Accounting for the majority (54%) of total monthly network traffic
In United Kingdom and Ireland, Netflix is now the second largest source of traffic during the peak evening hours, accounting for over 17.8% of downstream fixed access traffic
The availability of high bitrate Super HD content to all Netflix subscribers in North America increased Netflix's peak downstream traffic share from 31.6% to 34.2%. Amazon Instant Video continues to gain share, but still only accounts for 1.9% of downstream traffic
Messaging On an African mobile network where the majority of subscribers have talk and text plans, WhatsApp accounts for over 23% of traffic due to the introduction of a low-cost, unlimited access plan for the service that is designed to drive data adoption
WhatsApp is the leading messaging service in Africa accounting for almost 4% of traffic on mobile networks
Snapchat generates more traffic than any other third-party messaging app on North American mobile networks, and on one network accounted for an astonishing 12% of total traffic on New Year's Eve
On several LTE networks in Asia, third-party messaging apps such as Line or WeChat are used by over 40% of mobile subscribers each hour.
Live Streaming Twitch.TV, a live streaming service where video gamers watch each other play, has established itself among the top-15 applications on many fixed networks across the globe, and now generates more traffic than HBO GO on US networks
During the World Cup, live streaming of matches is predicted to account for over 40% of network traffic on some Latin American mobile networks
"Just over two years after its launch, Netflix has become the second largest driver of traffic on fixed access networks in the UK and Ireland," said Dave Caputo, President and CEO, Sandvine. "This rapid ascent underscores how important it is that operators have business intelligence solutions in place to accurately measure and monitor the impact that over-the-top services have on their networks."
Check out Sandvine's Internet Phenomena blog on a regular basis for the latest trends, predictions and phenomena impacting Internet usage around the world.


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When Amy Lents of Amy's Cooking Adventures first asked if I wanted to join in her virtual Holiday Party, I leaped at the chance. I love parties of any kind, but these online versions are just a kick in the pants! It is an opportunity for all of us to meet creative people and discover wonderful blogs that open whole new worlds to us. You never know what's going to happen and that is part of the fun!
Today we have recipes and crafts from ten different people from all different walks of life. And trust me, there is something for everyone. From savory appetizers and fun, creative holiday craft projects to some downright mouthwatering recipes that I am dying to try, you are going to love this collection of our holiday favorites. Before we get to the rest of the collection, I get to share one of my all time favorites with you!
I knew right away what I wanted included in this collection. This recipe is so good, I couldn't wait to share it with you again! A few years ago I was lucky enough to go to a cooking class taught by the amazing Emily Luchetti, Executive Pastry Chef of Farallon and Waterbar restaurants in San Francisco. Not only is she one of the most talented pastry chefs in the country but she is an absolutely delightful person. When you see her in action, she makes everything seem so easy. I kept saying, "I can do that" throughout the whole class.
Everything was delicious, but her opening recipe was the most incredible hot chocolate I have ever had. Combining three different types of chocolate with just the right amount of sugar, it had every one of us swooning with delight. Have you seen the movie "The Santa Clause"? There is a scene in it where the elf Judy is telling Santa about her hundred-year-old recipe for hot cocoa … "not too hot, not too sweet, just right." That is how I feel about Emily's hot chocolate!
This is not your ordinary hot cocoa. It is more like a pourable pudding or slightly thinned ganache. It has an incredible chocolate flavor from the blending of chocolates and cocoa and an unbelievable creaminess that comes from the heavy cream and white chocolate. The bitter cocoa takes the edge off the sweetness making this something you will dream about for years to come. As Emily says, this isn't for lightweights who prefer a mild-flavored hot chocolate!
Today I am sharing it with you plus a few tweaks of my own. I know, you're saying, is there anything she doesn't mess with? The short answer is no – I tend to put my spin on just about everything I make. I can't help it, it must be the creative gene in me, LOL! In this case, I am trying to recapture the fun of earlier times when I was single – the winter days we spent skiing at Lake Tahoe and the nights gathered around the fire sipping hot chocolate with Peppermint Schnapps! For an adult version, you can add the alcohol to the cocoa and the only things you'll be missing are the aching muscles and sunburned face!
The original recipe is in Emily's cookbook, A Passion For Desserts. Running the gamut from simple, traditional desserts to high-end, knock your socks off presentations, this book will make you a better baker and garner you rounds of applause from family and friends. Just like in her classes, she has the ability to explain things so that you have the confidence to try challenging recipes. In addition to her cookbooks, you can also follow her blog. It would make the perfect holiday gift for the food lovers, cooks, and bakers in your life!
Jane's Tips and Hints:
You can add a splash of liqueurs to coffee, hot chocolate, or other drinks. I like to keep a small assortment on hand. Served over ice, they can be refreshing cocktails or you can use them in mixed drinks. When added sparingly to desserts, there is a nuanced flavor that people can't quite put their finger on, but love!
If you are only going to occasionally use a liqueur, consider buying the mini bottles. They do cost more per ounce, but can save you a lot of money if you want to try several flavors. You won't have to buy full-size bottles to use just a little bit.
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If you use pure unsweetened cocoa and not a hot chocolate mix, his recipe is naturally gluten-free, no adjustment necessary!!
Minty Triple Chocolate Hot Cocoa
Modified recipe from Emily Luchetti
Yield: about 6 (1-cup) servings
1-1/3 cups heavy whipping cream
1-1/2 cups whole milk
11 oz white chocolate, finely chopped
5 oz milk chocolate, finely chopped
Pinch of salt
3 tbsp cocoa powder
1/4 tsp peppermint extract
3/4 oz (half a jigger) Peppermint Schnapps, optional
Lightly sweetened whipped cream
Crushed peppermint candies or coarse red sugar, for garnish
Candy Canes, for garnish
In a medium saucepan, heat the cream and milk over medium heat, stirring frequently, until hot and bubbling around the edges, but not boiling. This is called scalding the milk.
Remove the pan from the heat and stir in the white and milk chocolates, salt, and cocoa powder. Let sit for 15 minutes to melt the chocolate, and then whisk until smooth. Stir in the peppermint extract. If you really love the minty flavor, you can add as much as you want!
Pour into coffee cups and top with a dollop of whipped cream. Sprinkle with crushed peppermints or red sugar and hook a candy cane on the edge of the mug for stirring. Serve immediately.
You can make the chocolate mixture up to several days in advance. Refrigerate until ready to serve, and then reheat over indirect heat in a double boiler, or in the microwave. Stir until smooth, top with whipped cream and garnishes, and serve.
Check out these other amazing recipes sure to make your holidays bright and happy!


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Firstborn children are more likely to develop heart disease as adults, an Italian study suggests. The team found over 60 per cent more firstborns among a group of heart disease patients than would have been expected.
They speculate this may be because firstborns are predisposed to developing a more coronary-prone, "type-A" personality. But other heart experts say much more research is needed to establish that link.
"After many years of practice, we noticed a prevalence of firstborns among people affected by coronary heart disease (CHD)," says Maurizio Ferratini of the Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi, Milan, who led the research.
The team studied 348 people with CHD. They looked at birth order, age, gender, family history of CHD and the presence of other major risk factors. And though firstborn and subsequent children had a similar number of risk factors for CHD, 47 per cent of the patients were firstborn, compared with 29 per cent of the general local population.
Psychosocial differences
"Because we found the same kinds of risk factors in both groups, we suspect being firstborn is the likely explanation," says Ferrantini, adding that biological, social, environmental and educational factors differ according to birth order.
He suggests that psychosocial differences might explain the new findings: "The family context frequently orients firstborns along a perfectionist path, giving them a determined, winning and aggressive attitude - aspects frequently observed in subjects with a type-A personality, also known as coronary-prone."
But Craig Haslop of the British Heart Foundation says there is no experimental evidence that firstborn children are more likely to develop type-A personalities. But if they did, it is possible that this might put them at increased risk for CHD, he says.
"There are suggestions that Type As are more prone to get CHD but there is no clear evidence on whether that is to do with stress itself or the way they deal with stress," says Haslop. "Maybe firstborns are more prone to not eat the right foods to deal with stress."
Ferrantini's team presented their results at the American Heart Association's Asia Pacific Scientific Forum in Honolulu, Hawaii.
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