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Q. During a discussion of possible remedies for eczema on your public radio program, someone mentioned that drinking oolong tea reduced his symptoms. I suffered for years with a spot of eczema on my ankle about the size of a softball. At times it was raw and at other times it was a little better, but it was a constant presence for years.
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Farro with Wild Mushrooms
Farro is an ancient grain with a texture similar to that of barley. Farro's slightly nutty flavor is underscored by the earthiness of dried wild mushrooms and sage.
1/2 cup dried shiitake or porcini mushrooms (1/2 ounce)
2-1/2 cups boiling water
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 small onion, finely chopped
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 cup farro
2 cups carrot juice
3/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon rubbed sage
1 In a small heatproof bowl, combine the dried mushrooms and the boiling water, and let stand for 20 minutes or until softened. Reserving the soaking liquid, scoop out the dried mushrooms and coarsely chop. Strain the soaking liquid through a coffee filter or a paper towel-lined sieve.
2 In a large nonstick saucepan, heat the oil over medium heat. Add the onion and garlic, and cook, stirring frequently, until the onion is golden brown, about 10 minutes.
3 Add the farro and stir to coat. Add the mushrooms and their soaking liquid, the carrot juice, salt, and sage, and bring to a boil. Reduce to a simmer, cover, and cook until the farro is tender and most of the liquid has been absorbed, about 1 hour and 15 minutes. Makes 4 servings
Makes 4 servings.
Per serving: 232 calories, 4.8g total fat (0.5g saturated), 0mg cholesterol, 2g dietary fiber, 47g carbohydrate, 6g protein, 473mg sodium.


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Posted on April 3, 2009
Why Blog, indeed?
My favorite author, Glen Hirshberg (pictured left. photo taken from his Facebook page because I hate his "author" photo), has started a blog and I couldn't be happier about this. After already consuming everything he's published, I get a thrill every time he posts something new because, to me, even reading a single Hirshberg-written paragraph is like a starving person getting a morsel of food. Of course I could really go for a nice big steak, but I'll take a few french fries instead to tide me over until the main course arrives.
Anyway, his newest blog gave me a "happy spurt" for several reasons — The first was because it was perfect timing, I'd been having a rough day and very few things help me forget about life's problems more than reading something of his. (I can't tell you how many times I've read The Snowman's Children to get my mind off of something. Not to mention the fact that I happened to be reading American Morons when Aaron was attacked by a shark. That got me through some harrowing hospital times.) The second was because he mentions ME in the blog, first, before the rest of the huge list of people who support him. (I'm wondering if the list was written in order of annoyance.) And the third was because he blogged about blogging, and for some reason, I love when people do that. It's so Postmodern.
Hirshberg writes, "Why blog? Why, especially, about something so grueling, nonsensical, and potentially even humiliating as trying to sell a book you somehow decided was worth 14 years of your life?" Or, in my case, why blog especially when it's about something so uneventful as my life, or the lives of many other people that sat down and started to write a blog? He calls it "chattering into the void" which is a really apt way of describing things like blogging and Twittering. And it's both what I love and hate about doing both of those things.
I hate void-chattering because it feels exactly like that, mindless and pointless chattering into the ether. There's no instant response, unlike a conversation. But I love it because, if I'm lucky, I can get several responses, sometimes from people I didn't even know read anything that I write! Or like the reason Glen gave in his blog, "Well, when's the last time you were likened to a bighorn sheep, for starters?" Turns out one of his readers creatively and apparently quite accurately compared him to a bighorn sheep in a comment on another one of his blogs.
Blogging can be lame mindless and un-inspirational chatter, but it can also be a means of connectivity, of idea exchange and a revealer of surprising facts about you and the world that surrounds us.
So blog-on Glen. And as much as I may inspire you, you've also inspired me (and many others) more than you will ever believe with all your void-filling "chatter."


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College roundup: McMurry baseball team sweeps Schreiner
The McMurry War Hawks got a belated start to their American Southwest Conference West Division schedule, but made up for lost time Sunday with a sweep of their doubleheader against the Schreiner Mountaineers.
After two days of weather delays, the War Hawks won 9-1 and 9-2 at Walt Driggers Field.
"It was worth the wait," McMurry coach John Byington said. "We had a good day and the guys competed well. We're excited about getting two wins, we just have to finish it (today)."
The series wraps up with a single game at 1 p.m. today with McMurry (7-11 overall, 2-0 ASC) looking to extend a five-game winning streak. Schreiner (3-14, 0-2) has lost six of its last seven.
In the first game, Spencer Smith (3-2) pitched a complete game, allowing a run on four hits while striking out three. Ruben Zendejas went 2-for-3 with a double and two RBIs. Matt Thompson, who had a triple, and Marcellus Biggins both went 2-for-3 with an RBI.
The War Hawks took control in the first with the help of two Schreiner errors (the Mountaineers had six in the game), scoring three runs with Thompson and Nick Marsh each singling in a run. Two more errors led to a run in the second and McMurry made it 7-1 in the third on a sacrifice fly by Brian Durst and Zendejas' two-run double.
Matt Valley (0-5) went the distance for Schreiner in taking the loss.
In the nightcap, Dylan DeLeon, Thompson and Bradd Baker each homered and Zach Matthys (2-2) worked into the eighth, giving up two runs on five hits.
Thompson, who was 3-for-4 with three RBIs for his fourth multi-RBI game of the season, started things off with run-scoring single in the first and Connor Griffith followed with an RBI double. DeLeon, who finished 3-for-5, connected with two outs in the fifth for his second homer of the year to make it 3-1, and added an RBI single as the War Hawks scored two more in the sixth. Andrew Bell also singled in a run in the sixth.
Baker hit the first homer of his McMurry career, a two-run shot off reliever Ethan Catalani, in the seventh and Thompson homered with a man on in the eighth.
Schreiner starter Barrett Houser (1-3) gave up five runs on nine hits over six innings to take the loss.
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McMURRY 9-9, SCHREINER 1-2
Game 1
Schreiner 001 000 0—1 4 6
McMurry 313 011 x — 9 10 1
Matt Valley and Rogelio Chavez. Spencer Smith and Bradd Baker. W — Smith (3-2). L — Valley (0-5). 2B — Schreiner, Jesse Paredes; McMurry, Ruben Zendejas. 3B — McMurry, Matt Thompson.
Game 2
Schreiner 010 000 010—2 5 2
McMurry 200 012 22x — 9 13 2
Barrett Houser, Ethan Catalani (7) and Chris Whitehead. Zach Matthys, Caleb Gonzales (8) and Bradd Baker. W — Matthys (2-2). L — Houser (1-3). 2B — Schreiner, Whitehead; McMurry, Matt Thompson, Connor Griffith. HR — McMurry, Dylan DeLeon (2), Thompson (4), Baker (1).
Records — Schreiner 3-14, 0-2; McMurry 7-11, 2-0.
No. 7 Delta State rallies in ninth
CLEVELAND, Miss. — Justin Badon's RBI double in the bottom of the ninth inning lifted No. 7 Delta State to a 7-6 victory over Abilene Christian in a nonconference baseball game Sunday.
Delta State (12-3) rallied for a run in the eighth to tie the game at 6, before Badon's game-winning hit.
The victory helped the Statesmen take two of the three games in the series. The two teams split a doubleheader on Saturday.
Delta State pounded out 15 hits in the game, including four doubles. ACU (12-9) scored a run in the first on Rodge Macy's RBI single, but the Statesmen scored three runs in the bottom of the inning and added two more in the second for a 5-1 lead.
ACU got two runs in the third — one on a Travis Schuetze RBI single, and Schuetze later scored on an error.
The Wildcats tied the game on Reed Watson's two-run home run with two outs in the sixth, and ACU took a 6-5 lead on Kevin Finklea's solo homer to start the seventh.
Delta State tied the game in the eighth on Sam Kidd's two-out, RBI single and won the game on Badon's double with one out in the ninth.
No. 7 Delta State 7, ACU 6
Delta St. 320 000 011—7 15 3
Michael Curtis, Aaron Lambrix (3), Josh Stone (8) and Rodge Macy. Josh Branstetter, Ricky Winters (7) and Jon Canahan. W — Winters (1-0). L — Stone (3-2). 2B — ACU: Kevin Finklea (1); DSU: Brent Kakwitch (3), Michael Vinson (3), Justin Badon (1), Chad Fortenberry (4). HR — ACU: Reed Watson (1), Finklea (1).
Records — Abilene Christian 12-9; Delta State 12-3.
Cowboys split series at Sul Ross
ALPINE — The Hardin-Simmons baseball team split a doubleheader at Sul Ross State on Sunday, dropping the first game 13-4 before rebounding with an 11-4 win in Game 2.
In Game 1, HSU (7-7 overall, 1-1 in American Southwest Conference) led 2-1 after an inning and 3-1 after a one-run top of the third. But Sul Ross countered with five in the bottom of the third and never trailed after that.
The Lobos, who went up 7-3 with a run in the fourth, answered a one-run HSU fifth with six runs in the bottom of the inning, getting a grand slam from Dakota Dill to turn a three-run game into a blowout.
The Cowboys used six pitchers in the game, including three in the fifth inning. Blake Sieck, who started and lasted just 2 1/3 innings, took the loss.
HSU bounced back in a big way in Game 2, however. After falling behind 2-0 following one-run frames for the Lobos in the second and third innings, the Cowboys took their first lead with a three-run fourth on RBI hits by Troy Tarrant and Brian Blare.
The score stayed at 3-2 until the top of the seventh, when HSU broke the game wide open with a 7-run inning. In that frame, which included six Cowboys hits, Jay Hiller and Blare each had a two-run doubles and Tarrant had a two-run single.
Sul Ross cut HSU's lead to six with a two-run bottom of the seventh, but HSU capped the scoring in the ninth with a single on Chris Matthews' RBI single.
Troy Nicholson, who pitched into the eighth, allowing four runs on nine hits, earned the win for HSU to move to 3-1 on the season.
The teams will complete the series today with a one game at 1 p.m.
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Sul Ross State 13-4, Hardin-Simmons 4-11
Game 1
SRSU 105 160 x — 13 17 0
Blake Sieck, Stewart Person (3), Parkier Robinson (5), James Simmons (5), Skylar Sillivent (5), Alex Bradley (6) and Chris Matthews, Will Wise. Jay Croft and Emmett Crisp. W — Croft (1-4). L — Sieck (1-2). 2B — HSU: Troy Tarrant; SRSU: Dakota Dill, Brian Mata, Chris Rubio, Marty Ballez. HR — HSU: Marcus Uechi (1), Tarrant (3); SRSU: Dill (1).
Game 2
Troy Nicholson, James Simmons (8) and Chris Matthews. Anthony Trevino, Acy Kimbo (7), Cody Christian (7) and Justin Jones. W — Nicholson (3-1). L — Trevino (0-2). 2B — HSU: Marcus Uechi, Jay Hiller, Andrew Rehling, Bryan Blare; SRSU: Andy Silcox. 3B — SRSU: Davkota Dill. HR — SRSU: Justin Jones (1).
Records — HSU 7-7, 1-1; SRSU 5-15, 1-1.
Cowgirls sweep twin bill with TLU
The Hardin-Simmons softball team swept a home doubleheader against Texas Lutheran on Sunday to open American Southwest Conference West Division play at 2-0.
The Cowgirls, now 7-5 overall, won the first game 6-1 and followed that with a 6-5 win in Game 2.
HSU opened Game 1 with two runs in the bottom of the first, getting an RBI single from Taylor Namey and an RBI double from Brittany Acosta. And after TLU cut into their lead with a one-run second, the Cowgirls went up 4-1 in the third on run-scoring hits by Acosta and Julia Bradley.
That score stood until the fifth, when HSU added a fifth run, and the Cowgirls scored again in the sixth to cap the scoring.
That was far more than HSU starter Blair Wallace needed. The senior allowed one unearned run on five hits and four walks over seven strong innings to earn the win.
TLU (5-7) opened the scoring in the second game, scoring three second-inning runs to take an early lead. But HSU countered with two in the bottom of that inning on a pair of RBI singles.
The Cowgirls then tied the game in the fourth, took their first lead with one in the fifth and tacked on another run in the sixth to go up 5-3.
In top of the seventh, though, TLU scored two on a double by Kaitlin Tomlinson to force extra innings, where HSU won the game in the eighth on bases-loaded hit by pitch.
Sarah Shurbet, who pitched all eight innings for the Cowgirls, took the win.
HSU, which will play another doubleheader against TLU starting at noon today at Ellis Field, had several offensive heros.
Taylor Namey went a combined 5-for-8 with a home run six runs scored and three RBIs, while Laine Strickland and Brittany Acosta each had a combined five hits and Julia Bradley had four between the two games.
Hardin-Simmons 6-6, Texas Lutheran 1-5
Game 1
HSU 202 011 x — 6 9 1
Megan Carmichael, Jordan Mundine (5) and Hope Estes. Blair Wallace and Taylor Namey. W — Wallace (4-2). L — Carmichael (0-1). 2B — HSU: Namey, Brittany Acosta.
Game 2
Sarah Carmichael and Hope Estes. Sarah Shurbet and Taylor Namey. W — Shurbet (3-3). L — Carmichael (0-1). 2B — TLU: Estes, Kaitlin Tomlinson; HSU: Blair Wallace. HR — HSU: Namey (2).
Records — TLU 5-7, 0-2; HSU 7-5, 2-0.
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MARION COUNTY, Fla. (CBS Tampa) – One should not mess with an elderly man who is in a rush to play bingo.
Security guards reserved two handicapped parking spaces, by placing crates in the spots, for two elderly women to play bingo.
According to a news release obtained by WESH-TV, an 84-year-old man drove up, moved the crates, parked his car, and went inside the building.
That is when authorities said the security guard ran after the 84-year-old and told him to move his car.
According to the station, investigators said that when the man refused to move his car he pepper-sprayed the security guard.
The security guard told police that he did not want to press charges against the 84-year-old because of his age.


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Here is what you will need:
- 6" flat floral and craft ring
- 1 sheet white paper
- Scissors
- Hot-glue gun
- 1 box of 144-count paper straws ($7.50 via www.Kikkerland.com)
- Pencil to trace and mark the straws for trimming
Now it is time to make a wreath!
Trace the floral ring onto the paper and cut it out. I used the paper by itself to glue the straws to while I was creating the wreath and then glued the floral ring to the back of the wreath once it was complete. At this point also plug in your glue gun.
This is the step that will take you the most time - cutting the straws. Cut 49 straws to 6.5 inches, 49 straws to 5.5 inches and then 25 cut in half to get 50 at 3.75 inches. I ended up only cutting 25 of the small ones, so I can use more of the remaining straws from the pack during the party. :) Another tip, I used one straw as my guide and was able to cut two at a time.
Now you will start to glue the longest straw around the paper with a tiny drop of glue on each straw. I usually did two straws at a time here to keep it moving. I did try to draw a line of glue on the actual paper but this did not work, the glue dried too fast. Once you have finished the longest straws all the way around, repeat the pattern with the mid-length straws in between the longer ones. Then again for the shortest. Again at this step, I just skipped every other medium length and only used 25 of the shortest.
Flip over the wreath to glue the floral/craft ring to the back to secure the wreath.
And it is essentially done! I added a letter and ribbon to match the baby sip-n-see decor. I glued the letter to the ribbon once I had it looped and tied the way I wanted it.
I can't wait to show you the rest of the details from the sip-n-see soon. What do you think? For Valentine's Day it would be cute to have the red stripes and add a heart in the center with a pink polka-dot ribbon. Happy crafting!
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Outlandish, lightning-paced, and genuinely hallucinogenic in its flow of bizarre behaviour, feverish plot development, and gaudy Eastmancolor-infused visuals, The Lost Continent is something of a lost continent itself in the realms of B-movie appreciation. The best directorial work of Hammer scion Michael Carreras (who also scripted under the name Michael Nash) and the second in a fiscally ill-fated series of adaptations of Dennis Wheatley novels by the great British House of Horror, The Lost Continent was taken from the novel "
a rather better and more apt title, not least because there's no real continent
in sight. Few movie tropes say '1968' quite like a fantasy-adventure starting
off with a pop love song over the credits, and The Lost Continent sports a swinging theme by The Peddlers. But
once the credits end it plunges right in with bewildering images, first of a
shipwreck-strewn cove clogged with ships from a multiplicity of eras, and a
similarly rag-tag collective of people, clad in the apparel of jarringly
anachronistic fashions, arrayed on the deck of a tramp steamer for a funeral
service being given by the ship's captain, Lansen (the cast-iron Eric Porter).
His pondering of just how the hell he ended up giving a service with
conquistadors looking on segues into a flashback when he fled Uncharted Seas in his ship, the Carita, a jump ahead of the Coast Guard.
Trying to amass money to retire on before his rustbucket disintegrates, Lansen turned
to carrying illegal cargoes, and on this occasion took on a particularly nasty
explosive chemical, one that ignites in contact with water. The old rule of the
stage was that a pistol, once flourished, had to be fired by the end, and when
it comes to introducing a plot element like that, it's a fait accompli that
something's going to go boom by the end. Freetown
The ship has a motley collection of crew and passengers, and the first half of the film unspools familiar voyage-of-the-ship-of-damned-fools threads as these variously seedy, damaged, and desperate people are placed in close proximity in sweat-inducing circumstances. Exiled physician Webster (Nigel Stock) tries to keep his oversexed daughter Unity (Susanna Leigh), and her trust fund, on a short leash. Drunken entertainer Harry Tyler (Tony Beckley) sucks down the booze and charms the pants off anyone he targets, and internationally notorious dictator's mistress Eva Peters (Hildegard Knef), has, after her lover's downfall, absconded with a large amount of his ill-gotten fortune. Sleazy agent Ricaldi (Benito Carruthers) is on board to retrieve that fortune, but he proves open to bribery by cash and flesh. The crew sports a muscular Christian Chief Engineer Nick (James Cossins), an uptight first officer, Hemmings (Neil McCallum), and various, frantically spineless seamen including ever-familiar faces Michael Ripper and Victor Maddern. The film cranks up as calamities pile up, sending the narrative into incidental meltdown: as the ship veers into a hurricane's path, a loose anchor punctures the hull and water gushes into the hold where the drums of explosive are stored. Rather than aid in pulling out the drums, the crew revolt and try to flee the ship, Lord Jim fashion, but most die as their lifeboat is swamped. Instead, Lansen has to muster the passengers together to extract the explosives, and finally the remnant vote to abandon the ship when the storm drops, and face dying of starvation in the middle of the sea.
The Lost Continent presages the '70s pulp revival begun by the likes of Gordon Hessler and Kevin Connor and taken up eventually by mainstreamers like Spielberg and Lucas. But the first half seems closer in scope and tone to the run of '70s disaster flicks, with its focus on a collective of colourful personalities pressed into close quarters in a high-pressure situation, Rather than the showy blockbuster pretensions and celebrity roasts of Irwin Allen, the emphasis is on generating a serial-like pace and a miasmic mood of collective hysteria. Like Terence Fisher's similarly feverish Night of the Big Heat from the year before, The Lost Continent channels a fearsome charge of sexual frenzy abutting the familiar tropes of generic swashbuckling, just at the edge of the era when sex and gore would erupt into the still hitherto rather prim mainstream fantastic shenanigans. Erotic angst arcs between almost the entire cast: Lansen, Eva, and Ricaldi, Tyler and Unity and the definitely incestuous glint in her father's eye, all are enveloped in a roundelay of lust and loathing, particularly keen in the mutual recognition of rot evinced by Tyler and Webster, the former sickened by Webster's mouthy hypocrisy and the latter driven to explosive rage by Tyler's drunkenness. This has a tragic denouement when
smashed in the lifeboat and Webster, reacting with self-righteous rage,
provokes the pianist into slugging him. Webster tumbles over and in spite of Tyler 's attempts to save
him, he gets promptly chowed down by a shark. Tyler's subsequent decision to go
on the wagon inflects the rest of the film with an aspect of a recovering
alcoholic's DT-warped sense of reality as redemption and damnation are rendered
as trippy landscapes of slithering, man-entrapping weed, id-externalising
monsters, and religious dictators. For the lifeboat drifts into the fringes of
a huge Tyler Sargasso Sea which proves to cling to a
remote island, and the weed is a living, malevolent thing from which there
seems to be no escape.
The detail piles on with remorseless skill in these scenes: the passengers forming a chain to extract the drums, intercut with the Chief trying to keep his engines from failing; Unity's crew member squeeze (Donald Sumpter) getting his brains dashed out against a pulley; Tyler driving everyone up the wall by pounding out the death march on the piano and reacting in a fury when someone takes his bottle of booze to use as disinfectant in a medical treatment; Eva firing a flare gun into a mutineer's belly as some of the crew try to prevent Tyler and Webster being rescued from the sharks. The survivors find to their luck that the Carita, rather than sinking or exploding, has also drifted into the weed. They soon find, however, that they're far from alone in this bizarre netherworld: other shipwreck survivors have formed colonies around the lost island, using a combination of cup-like shoes and inflated balloons tethered to their shoulders to traverse the weed without being snared by it (how they inflate their balloons, I don't know). One local, Sarah (Dana Gillespie, who would later return to such fare in The People That Time Forgot, 1977, playing practically the same role), comes to the ship and warns it of an impending attack by another hostile party. Sarah seems as much supported by her pneumatic chest, prominently displayed, as by any mechanical aids, but I digress. Sarah is the descendant of exiles searching for religious freedom, whilst the island is dominated, in the most dizzyingly weird and brilliant stroke, by the descendants of conquistadors, who maintain a repressive religious regime headed by an adolescent god-emperor El Supremo (Darryl Read), called El Diablo by those who won't bow to him, and his puppet-master, the Inquisitor (Eddie Powell). They maintain hegemony by raiding supplies of newcomers and offering them the choice to join them or die by being fed into the gruesome maw of the weed-beast which lives directly under the conquistador's galleon, anticipating the Sarlac in Return of the Jedi (1983).
The Lost Continent stumbles a little once it finally reaches this particularly odious fill-in for Fiddler's Green: Carreras, confident and careful in setting up the early drama and keeping the action on the boil, gropes a bit once in this new, delirious, but initially rather static setting. Carreras compensates by trying to keep up the breakneck pace, and as much as one hopes the filmmakers will build on the fantasy world into which the tale stumbles, Carreras keeps piling on incident, in the familiar Hammer rush to be over in an hour and a half. The special effects aren't clever enough to offer quality giant monster action on a Ray Harryhausen level, but the glowing-eyed critters that lurch out of the fog perfectly embody id-beasts from the psychosexually twisted, substance-abusing miasma. The atmosphere, and the integration of theme with visuals, nonetheless stands comparison with Mario Bava's similarly alchemic Terrore nello Spazio (1966). Carreras allows his characters to interact with surprisingly animated, aggressive depth, from Lansen and Eva tentatively romancing in spite of his repeatedly foundering on his misreading of her past, to the newly liberated Unity and the newly sober Tyler failing badly in communication: she takes aim at his shrivelled manhood and looks for someone who can service her over-revving engine. That turns out to be a ready and willing Ricaldi, but he's promptly swallowed by a gruesome tentacle monster from out of the deep. The island proves riddled with such beasties, also including oversized crabs and scorpions, crawling across the landscape like vengeful vagina dentata to eat men whole. The backdrop of the island with its perpetual lysergic-hued fogs and stony reaches seething with nightmarish life resembles, just a little, the alien vistas of Barbarella (1967), beautifully substantiating the psychic pressures of the characters. Whilst it's presented as a genuine physical space, this lost realm looks forward to the island limbo of the TV series Lost in portraying its cast of screw-ups stumbling into a zone where their metaphysical quandaries are made solid and they have to learn how to operate as human beings.
Happily, the filmmakers remain solidly on their side: almost everyone, except for Ricaldi and Webster and sundry dangerous crewmembers, all active victimisers, wrestle within cages of shame and self-disgust, and emerge to effectively become warriors and survivors in a hell-hole run by would-be gods on earth. The ripe Sarah arrives purely like a balm for
's sapped and
self-conscious masculinity, and he sets out, when she disappears, to track her
down. When the Carita's crew captures
one of the conquistadors, Jonathan (Norman Eshley), he confidently predicts a
sticky end for them, and Lansen beats the hell out of him to extract vital
information from him, stirring Unity's empathy for the arrogant yet finally
servile, pathetic henchman. The film's tone remains remarkably anti-heroic in
the familiar late '60s mode with all of the characters presented as deeply
flawed, even disgraceful types, and yet there's a current of peculiar humanism
running through all of it. There's genuine substance, even in the film's heady
rush, to the notion of the island as an existential hole into which the
characters have all slipped, given voice at last as the clash of determinism
versus free will is personified, with the Inquisitor and Lansen arguing that
very matter in terms of struggling against the entrapping weed. Lansen counters
the prelate's vision of inescapable fate with his own plan to keep fighting, as
it's all that truly keeps the soul alive. The message is backed up by the
Chief, who bristles with good Protestant fury when El Diablo claims to be the
voice of God. Undoubtedly much of this comes from Wheatley, who took
metaphysical battles seriously (with a whiff of anti-Catholic prejudice). Tyler
The production design and conceptual intrigue finally reaches something close to the surreal in the candle-massed riot of colour and strangeness within the galleon, adapted into the throne room/torture chamber/cathedral of a petty empire, where the dress styles of the conquistador descendants have remained in stasis and their theology has become completely fascistic, and miscreants are stretched on the rack and fed to the weed beast for public edification. Theological debating gives way quickly to a riotous, rushed yet vivid finale in which that explosive finally gets used, catapulted onto the galleon, blowing up the weed-monster. El Diablo himself is finally revealed to be as much a prisoner of the Inquisitor's sensibility as anyone, pleading to join in the escape efforts of the newcomers only to get a knife in the back from the priest. The Inquisitor, unhooded in all his leprous glory, dies with what's left of his followers into a splendid auto-da-fe, making vengeful prayers whilst their organ player continues to drone on even as consumed by flames: it's a potent image of the repressive order and viciousness moralism ("Let them suffer the agony of their guilt!") refusing to relinquish a life-strangling grip until forcibly annihilated, and the last phase in the characters' release from self-imposed purgatory as even the evil weed goes up in flames. The final shot of the massed crews of the different ships giving funeral rites to the dead junior dictator now makes sense not merely on a plot level but also in its appreciation of the completeness the characters have found in tentative romantic partnerings – Lansen and Eva,
and Sarah, Unity and Jonathan. The excellent multinational cast, sporting in
particular the intriguing presence of former German starlet Knef and John
Cassavetes collaborator Carruthers does a lot to give the film the heft of
personality it all needs, with the familiar Hammer appreciation of realistic
types and actual acting talent even in the bombshells. From one angle the whole
affair will look like an absurd stew, and yet this could well be a
little masterpiece of the cinefantastique;
in any event English-language genre cinema hardly comes richer or stranger, and
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One of the great ironies of modern life is that when people are at their most emotionally intense, physically energetic, and intellectually flexible—when they are poised to develop ambition, to fall in love, to engage in political and social action, in short, to believe—they are compelled to spend most of their waking hours in classrooms.
Most of today's classrooms are hard, fluorescent-lit, crowded places where young people sit in rows of desks while an older person guides them through the contents of a large, heavy textbook. In this intensely bourgeois venue, above-average students find themselves doodling in the margins of their notebooks, below-average ones do not receive the attention they need, and almost all students keep a mobile communications device handy so that they can send and receive text messages to friends across the room and around the country. Today's high school classroom is a hardship to be weathered, dues to be paid on the way to college and career.
The modern classroom frustrates teachers, too, who are required to accommodate during every class period an average of more than twenty students with an impossibly wide range of gifts and interests. Teachers learn how to divide their courses' curricula into fifty-minute parcels, sharing a single seven-hour span with up to five other disciplines, several short "passing periods," and a rowdy lunch period. Add to that an extracurricular schedule packed with sports, performances, parties, meetings, and so forth, and it is no surprise that the kind of people who end up teaching for years, even decades, are not necessarily those who have mastered their discipline. They are those who are able to effectively manage time.
Perhaps, the only people involved with "Western" schooling who do not recognize the paradigm's inherent flaws are average administrators and school board members whose job it is to fund and to govern the existing system. For them, the status quo might be the only politically viable option—a way to stay out of trouble. But for students, parents, and most faculty members, the standards for schooling are barely viable and have been for decades. In 1928, H. L. Mencken wrote: "School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence . . . It doesn't take a reasonably bright boy long to discover that most of what is rammed into him is nonsense, and that no one really cares very much whether he learns it or not."
What is to be done? Considering the weight of institutional practice, any practical solutions would seem pie-in-the-sky. Some are undoubtedly steps in the right direction, such as the Harkness Method, and some form of the Great Books curriculum, but let us go deeper into the realm of principle. The key to changing education, at least from the perspective of a former high school student and teacher, is to respect the person and dignity of the student. Almost all of the negative practices or habits connected with our educational system have to do with assailing student dignity.
The assault on student dignity begins in the very architecture of our buildings. Many of our schools' physical plants are purely functional, projecting the ethos of a suburban office park rather than that of a real human community. Our campuses are not carefully designed with gardens and water courses, quads and grottoes, places of social interaction and private contemplation. Most of our school buildings are not replete with nooks for reading and writing, clusters of carrels in unexpected places. They often do not have large, central assembly halls that reflect pride and heritage, but rather they most often meet in gymnasiums or, as they have come to be known, "multi-purpose rooms." These rooms have been satirized in recent movies such as Rushmore, Napoleon Dynamite, and Saved! How do students feel about them? One of the more memorable commentaries appears at the end of the movie Heathers in which teen angst becomes, literally, explosives detonated during a pep rally.
A second important site of the assault on student dignity is to be found in the student-administration relationship. In most of our schools, students do not trust administrators, and administrators do not trust students. Recently a former student of mine emailed me to ask whether I enjoyed teaching at a college after years of teaching high school. I replied positively without specifying why, and her response was: "Is it because you don't have a bunch of [expletive deleted] rules to follow? Or how about a bunch of teachers looking at EVERYTHING, including how you walk to class or go to the bathroom, from a Christian perspective? I swear, going to a private, Christian school my entire life has officially scarred me." Although this student lays blame on the "private, Christian" nature of the school and its teachers, her statement reflects a sentiment common to almost all high school students. As emerging adults, they resent being patrolled. All humans expect to be patrolled to some degree, but high school students resent behavior patrol that seems to be the primary objective of the adults in their community. They are right. In most of the faculty meetings I have experienced, student behavior features in the foreground. Teachers speculate about which students are doing what, report chronic problems with specific students, and even—dare I say?—"blacklist" certain students. As a result, students who succeed in high school are the ones who have learned to stand in line for the drinking fountain (both literally and figuratively), not the ones who have demonstrated high levels of creativity, innovation, and problem-solving. Many in this latter category are not even discovered by the adults at a high school. They tend to be, like Christian Slater in Heathers or Matthew Broderick in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, the troublemakers and wallflowers of the community.
What is wrong with a lack of trust? In an educational community, it is death. It narrows the frequency of teacher-student interaction to the conveyance of information, rote exercises, and evaluation of objective performance, and produces, at the high end, "grade mongering" and, at the low end, bald disinterest. Without trust, and even intimacy, teachers cannot inspire students, and students cannot take ownership of what they are learning. A culture of distrust produces a much greater propensity toward misbehavior even on the part of "good kids." If people believe that their government does not have their best interest at heart, or that it views them objectively, they will participate grudgingly or not at all. As Mencken also wrote, "The need to endure it makes actors of them; they learn how to lie—perhaps the most valuable thing, to a citizen of Christendom, that they learn in school." However, it is not just students whose attitudes and behaviors are affected by the culture of distrust. Teachers, too, begin to feel as though they are going through the motions. Vision wanes; jadedness sets in. In his famous 1978 address at Harvard, Alexander Solzhenitsyn observed of Western life in general: "Whenever the tissue of life is woven of legalistic relations, there is an atmosphere of moral mediocrity, paralyzing man's noblest impulses."
A third site of the assault on student dignity is in the actual coursework. I have already described what passes for pedagogy today: handouts, worksheets, heavy textbooks, and teachers talking or working through the information they contain. A world of ideas is dissected into exercises and fifty-minute periods, with the teacher acting as authority figure. There is little sense of transcendence or holism; there is almost no "negative space," no contemplative silence. Students engage in almost every classroom and homework exercise for no other reason than that they are required to. They write essays not because they want to be heard, but because there are a certain number of required essays in a given course, each with a set of criteria attached to it. Perhaps the most demeaning reality, although students are certainly used to it, is that all of their work, reading, writing, and so forth, is boiled down to a single letter or number. The creative, passionate, and spiritual engagement of a person with his world factors down to a number.
Of course, any administrator or school board member with a pulse understands that these forces are at work. All of us in schooling understand to some extent what we are up against. However, in my experience, school principals and boards do not take them seriously enough. They are not willing to make radical changes that risk giving too much control to young people. Instead:
In summary, students must be treated as intellectuals, heirs of a great legacy of human culture. "How will we keep them in line? After all, they are adolescents." To which I reply: By knowing your students as friends and colleagues. By mastering your subject. By reflecting, in everything you say and do, that you are on an important mission, and your students are, too. After all, the main problem at any high school is not substance abuse, although that is the message our students unfortunately get. It is not sex, either. It is a lack of belief that what is being done is important, and students and teachers are both culpable.
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Belton holds Confederate Memorial Day service
BELTON - Music and songs rang out and a wreath was laid at the Veteran's Memorial at Belton Veterans Park in observance of Confederate Memorial Day. The observance ended with group singing "Dixie Land."
Flags were placed on graves of soldiers across the street at the Belton Cemetery.
The event was hosted by members of Belton Chapter, Number 1843, South Carolina Division United Daughters of the Confederacy.
Members from the Palmetto Sharpshooters and Sons of the Confederate John Thomas Ashley Camp 43 attended the event.
This year brought the 150th anniversary of the first shots being fired to start the War Between the States.
Dr. Julia Barnes, the Piedmont director of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, spoke about doing a memorial for the Confederate soldiers on the 150th anniversary.
Barnes said the UDC has the responsibility of remembering all veterans along with promoting education, benevolence and history.
"We have a great many people understanding the war now," said Barnes said.
The UDC also gives out Military Service Awards to veterans.
Mike Barnes was one of the veterans who received a medal.
"It's nice to be recognized as a veteran. You have to give up a lot to be one," said Barnes.
The Palmetto Sharpshooters will participate in another event in Anderson County this week. The group will hold a Confederate memorial service Saturday at 11 a.m. on the steps of the new courthouse in downtown Anderson.
The event will include the recognition of about 250 county residents who lost their lives in the war.
H.V. Booth of Hartwell, a son of a Confederate soldier, is scheduled to attend.Martha Van Schaick, national president of the UDC, will be the main speaker.
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Too much firepower?: Exercise caution with celebrations
Fireworks on the Fourth have the potential to be more dangerous than dazzling, at least the homegrown variety of entertainment does. Even the innocuous sparklers, long thought to be the "kiddy" kind of celebratory item, carry safety precautions — and they should.
To a young child, the heat from a sparkler is equivalent to the heat from a welding torch, according to the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents. Some of its hints for sparklers include:
- Never give them to children under 5. (www.fireworksafety.com says restrict sparklers to children 12 and older.)
- Always wear gloves, preferably leather ones.
- A sparkler should be held at arm's length while someone else lights it.
- Sparklers should not be waved about, especially near another person.
- When the sparkler has sparkled its last, put it into a bucket of cold water and leave it there for later cleanup.
As far as organized events go, there are at least four coming up.
Clemsonfest is sponsored by the Clemson Area Chamber of Commerce. It is Thursday starting at 5 p.m. at Clemson's YMCA Beach.
The Celebrate America Festival is Friday, from 11 a.m. until dark, at the intersection of Main and Pendleton streets in downtown Easley.
You might find your way to the Homeland Park Fire Department on Friday, also starting at 11 a.m. Events include a children's fun zone, music, a fireworks display and barbecue.
Seneca will be lighting up the sky on Friday, with music, food vendors, children's games and fireworks after 9:30 p.m. The event at the Gignilliat Civic Center starts at 2 p.m.
But for any location where fireworks will be used, whether organized or in someone's backyard, leave your pets at home. Make sure they are in a safe place at home, either indoors or in a sheltered, quiet area while you are off enjoying the fun.
According to the Humane Society of the United States, pets panic when they are scared, and the loud noise of fireworks can send even the most docile pet into a frenzy. This is especially true if you have a pet that has demonstrated problems during thunderstorms.
In truth, if you want to celebrate the Fourth with fireworks, the best advice is attend a show where professionals are taking charge of the charges. That advice won't make the vendors who sell fireworks happy.
But if you've ever spent the holiday (and the two days preceding it and the two days following it, especially if it falls near a weekend) at home hosing down your roof and other property to protect it from negligent neighbors' bottle rockets, you know what we mean. Cautions are especially important during a drought. Oconee and Pickens counties are among five in the Upstate now upgraded to extreme drought status.
It isn't a fireworks vendor's fault if customers don't use the products properly. Those who sell fireworks are abiding by South Carolina laws.
But perhaps our laws aren't strict enough in this regard.
In North Carolina, there is a limit to the firepower of the fireworks a consumer can purchase. And you won't find fireworks that "move or project," Donna Daniel of TNT Fireworks in Greensboro, N.C., told the News & Record.
"Those can be found in South Carolina," the newspaper reported, as well as that Daniel said, "The fireworks in the Palmetto State might as well be bombs."
Not a pleasant thought, is it?
One last piece of advice: If you hear anybody yell something like, "Hey, you guys, watch this," run for the hills.
It won't end well. We can almost guarantee it.
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I often feel sick lately, and I am pretty sure that I have some systemic inflammation going on. How can I know if it is the food I am eating that is making me feel this way?
I'm going to explain how foods can lead to issues anywhere and everywhere in the body. It is easy to tell when a specific food—ice cream let's say—leads to digestive symptoms like bloating and gas within an hour or two of eating it. Or when a peanut causes anaphylactic shock and a trip to the emergency room. But often our unrecognized responses to foods tend to come in the form of delayed inflammatory reactions.
It's not so easy to figure out which foods are causing delayed reactions, especially when they cause symptoms in locations other than in the digestive tract, and when those symptoms are experienced every day. The food reactions begin to look like our normal way of feeling, or we may think of it as part of aging. But I say you deserve to feel good every day, so it's well worth it to track down those specific delayed reactions and choose different foods in order to feel your best.
Symptoms from delayed reactions to foods can be anything from fatigue to low mood, bloating, weight gain, joint pain, frequent infections, and decreased focus. Are you wondering how you can start crossing off the symptoms on your list?
Step 1: Get an IgG food intolerance panel done
Getting an IgG food intolerance panel done is an important first step. If you've already done one, it may be time for a recheck if you've been avoiding your reactive foods for a while.
There are many ways to check for food reactions now. Some cost over $1,000, and some check every type of immune response to food. I find that the most cost-effective and health-efficient way to figure out which foods to cut is with an IgG food panel because it identifies those delayed reactions to food.
IgG stands for "immunoglobulin G." IgG is one of the antibodies that our bodies produce in response to "foreign invaders" like viruses and bacteria as well as any food that sneaks past the intestinal lining. The key is that IgG is produced two hours to several days after exposure, so it signifies your specific delayed reactions to food.
And just like an infection, IgG antibodies lead to inflammation that can spread throughout the body to where you are susceptible. For one person that might be the sinuses, for another it might be the bladder or joints.
You can do an IgG panel with a finger poke and a few drops of blood sent to a lab that specializes in identifying the way the IgG antibodies respond to 96 different foods.
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I designed the Hamptons Cleanse to help guide people to a new way of eating. It can also be helpful for those of you who've already been avoiding reactive foods but maybe got a little off track during the holidays, or who just need to freshen up.
If you have already eliminated lactose and had an allergist check for the immediate response IgE reactions to food—and even if you've tested negative for celiac disease—it may still be food issues that are making you feel sick and tired. Finding out your IgG reactions to food will give you the information you need for choosing foods that don't trigger a whole body inflammatory response. These will be the foods that allow your body to heal.
Though the IgG panel is not considered diagnostic and is not covered by insurance, over the past 13 years of helping people feel better (including myself), I've found it to be a key factor in turning un-wellness into wellness.
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According to Brazilian news outlet "Globo" ticket sales for UFC 162 are not doing well and the event has only sold 25% of the tickets available.
Wrestling and MMA journalist Dave Meltzer seems to be throwing cold water on that idea, though. Via his "Twitter" account, Meltzer has stated that he believes the card is on pace to do better than the last two UFC shows held at the MGM grand, which would be UFC 160 (Velasquez / Bigfoot 2) and UFC 155 (Velasquez / JDS 2).
Personally, I would find it hard to believe that this fight would not be a sell-out event. Not only is it the first title defense of the middleweight bout in a year, but it is also (by all accounts) a fight that caries with it serious threat (Chris Weidman) to Anderson Silva's belt.
Weidman is as convinced that he will beat the Champion, as the Champion is convinced that he will retain his belt. This is a classic case of an unstoppable force meeting an immovable object. How could UFC fans resist this bout? Impossible, would be my answer.
As a re-match bout has already been guaranteed by Dana White and assured by Chris Weidman should Silva lose, the table seems to be have been set for the Champ's possible loss. The importance of that should not be lost on anyone, as there has never been any talk of re-matches in the past for Silva previous to one of his fights, as it's generally been a foregone conclusion that he would always win. Apparently, that is not the case for UFC 162. Even the boss seems to be preparing himself for the possibility of a new champ at 185.
We shall all get to see come Saturday night and to, what I am sure will be, a full house.
@James13rown @BloodyElbow @SaintMMA @bryanalvarez Didn't get number, but was ahead of pace for previous two MGM shows.
— Dave Meltzer (@davemeltzerWON) July 2, 2013
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Farewell to an Old Tapestry Friend – John Talleksen
It is with deepest regret that we share with you the passing of a friend and community member. At Tapestry, there are many friends and acquaintances of John Talleksen & Linda Olson, active on the Tapestry board and who also played Cajun/Creole fiddle at the Eagles, Homestead, and at many other old-time music venues. John was a lover of music and published the monthly newsletter, Cajun Spotlight Notes & Steps, for more than 22 years.
John passed away on September 27, shortly after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Linda reports that he received excellent care and support throughout his brief illness. An obituary with more details of John's life can be found in both large papers this week.
A memorial service is planned for this Friday, October 2, at 6:30, with a gathering at 5 pm at Washburn-McReavy Funeral Chapel, 2610 19th Ave NE, Minneapolis. There will be time for people to share remembrances as well as songs together.
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- Sunday brunch (open to all) 10- 11 am
- Sunday workshop, 11 am – 2 pm
A native of Turkey, Ahmet Lüleçi is an accomplished folkdance teacher, performer and choreographer who teaches Turkish culture and dance around the world. Since 1988, he has been the artistic director of Collage International Dance Ensemble in Boston.
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April 8 – 10, 2016: CALL OF THE LOON is back! We're excited to announce two very special bands: Wild Asparagus with George Marshall, and Contratopia, with Sue Hulsether.
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As I update this narrative in early 2009, I ask whether I still feel as optimistic toward Goddard College as I did when I was completing my BA in 2003. Without hesitation, I answer that the IBA Program profoundly affected me and continues to have positive impact on my life. I studied creative writing, women's history and feminism. I could not have been happier with the school, from its administration, to the campus, to the advisors and fellow students. Even those advisors with whom I did not formally study were helpful to me when I had questions that pertained to their particular interests and expertise. The residencies were busy and productive. I always looked forward to them. Even with the busy schedule, I made time to write and to explore the campus, the library and downtown Plainfield. My final IBA product was a novel with a creative process paper. Often, when I talk to prospective Goddard students, they express concern about having time to "go to school." Here is my answer. If you want to make the time, you will have the best times of your life because you will be involved in a program that has far-reaching and long-term impact on the way you act and react, on the way you go about living. When I did the IBA, I was a single mother, full-time employee and freelancer. It all worked out and I was able to get the packet work done. In fact, I enjoyed the packet work. The Goddard community taught me to how to engage with the beautiful and limitless possibilities that result from rigorous, critical engagement and experimentation, from reaching beyond one's current ideologies and practices to experience personal and professional growth. Please, if you have questions or concerns send me an email.


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I really don't have much more to add to this topic than what Maddox already said about it. I mean really, if you don't like it, don't buy it.
But that's not good enough for those people who just want to be pissed about something. The thing about this that I don't get is, have all of those people been blind to the women in comic books thus far? Apparently, and that is why I also feel that these idiots aren't comic book readers at all, or they would have been complaining about this shit for a long time.
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