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Over time Bengt developed his own personal style. He was the first Swedish bowl carver to fully explore the concept of carving a bowl from the bark side of a halved log, rather than the traditional method of starting work by hollowing the split pith section. He also developed a very personal approach to doing decorative chip carving on the exterior of his bowls. And he went on to include a polychromatic decorative painting of the chip carving. Bengts work started with tradition, but then evolved into something that was truly unique.
For this video I approached Rick Mastelli to partner with us once again. (I was the producer for these projects, but Rick deserves full credit for the extensive creative work in each production.) I also asked Jogge Sundqvist to be our translator, and the organizer of the arrangement with Bengt. This worked out especially well since Wille Sundqvist (Jogges father) was a life-long friend of Bengt who was also one of Jogges craft super heroes.
In the video viewers watch Bengt working on both bark up and pith up oriented bowls. Bengts unique technique for large scale chip carving is also recorded, along with the final painting. (He primarily uses artists oil paints). For this video Jogge is occasionally on camera, and you hear a few comments and questions from Rick and myself. There are also several short sequences with scenes of the Lidströms beautiful lakeside property, including the house that Bengt designed and built, and a variety of finished carved bowls. 70 minutes.
Both videos are now available in DVD format, and we still have VHS cassette copies of Swiss Cooperage at a very reduced price.
Note: Neither of these are instructional programs. Some of the techniques shown are definitely not approved by safety authorities. Rather, they are documentaries of two extraordinary master craftsmen at work on their creations.
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Subject: [DNA] My Heritage
Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:16:43 -0600 (Central Standard Time)
Thanks, Jerry and Gregg. They have taken over the Stamper Project of which I
am a co-admin also. I am going to let Jesse Stamper the administrator handle
that one. They probably have other projects I am affilliated with.
It is going to be very hard to do anything to these people living in another
Janet Crain
It appears that they are sweeping the Internet for public family ancestry
files. In addition, they identify themselves as a "partner" to Family Tree
DNA, and are reselling the DNA tests from FTDNA.
On 2012-02-28, at 11:49 PM, Gregg Bonner wrote:
> Lack of hiding doesn't make one stink less. It smells to me a lot like
prior incarnations of the "wrapper" genealogy method.
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The Defense of Marriage Act and the Holder Letter
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Akron--Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students at Kent State University will benefit from a $2 million endowment targeted to them.
Harry Jackson, owner of the Odd Corner near the University of Akron campus, has bequeathed one-third of his estate to the school, and gave Kent the first $25,000 on April 17.
While he will donate more while he is still alive, the bulk of the endowment will come from his estate posthumously.
Jackson first established the fund at the University of Akron, but when the school went to court to seize his store through eminent domain to build a stadium and dorm, he moved the money to Kent, which he views as being a far more LGBT-friendly university.
The University of Akron and Jackson eventually came to an agreement which moves the store from 389 East Exchange Street to 360 East Exchange, and he has guarantees from the school that it will not displace him again, despite earlier plans to build intramural fields on his new location.
Jackson was finishing his undergraduate studies at the University of Akron 35 years ago when he opened the store, which has been a fixture of campus life ever since.
Tire company B.F. Goodrich put him through law school, and he enjoyed a successful career as a tax attorney with the corporation.
Successful professionally and being out as a gay man his entire adult life, he wanted to give back.
"I'm hoping this will help raise some good, educated gay men and lesbians," he said, advising them, "Get educated and get active."
The endowment can be spent not only on scholarships, but also on programming for LGBT students, speakers and travel to conferences and events. Use of the funds would be determined by a committee of students and employees.
After this first $25,000 installment, Jackson plans to contribute annually. The final value of the endowment may actually exceed the $2 million estimate, depending on the size of the annual donations and the ultimate value of Jackson's estate when he passes away.
"This is the first time there has been something specific for our LGBT students," said Brenda McKenzie, the interim director of the Center for Student Involvement at Kent State University in a media release. "It is a unique opportunity to provide for a population that doesn't always get recognized."
Kent State was one of the first colleges in the nation to have a gay group, founded in 1971 as the Kent Gay Liberation Front. The organization is now known as Pride Kent, with meetings every Thursday and other programs throughout the school year.
"Mr. Jackson's tremendous commitment to Kent State contributes to our goals of building diversity and providing an inclusive and welcoming environment," said university president Lester A. Lefton. "We are thrilled that he has selected us to bring his vision to reality."


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The Moon is made of cheese…no! Rice Krispies treats! Children ages 8 to 13 discover that the Moon, like Earth, is made up of layers of different materials through this 45–minute activity. They work in teams to make models of the interiors of the Moon and Earth. Common food items are used to construct the cores, mantles, and crusts of both planetary objects. An optional 15-minute investigation, Differentiation Demonstration: Moon, enhances this activity.
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The extreme turbulence of the financial markets in August resulted in a temporary rise in the Vix measure of US equity market volatility to levels that have been exceeded on only a few occasions since 2008. Markets have now settled down somewhat, but it is far from clear whether the episode is over. In order to reach a judgment on this, we need to form a view on what caused the crisis in the first place.
The obvious answer is "China". The response of the Chinese authorities to the stock market bubble, and the manner in which the devaluation of the renminbi was handled, raised questions about policy credibility that added to ongoing concerns about hard landing risk in the economy. The conclusion that a China demand shock was the main driving force behind the global financial turbulence was given added credence by the simultaneous collapse in commodity prices, and in exports from many emerging economies linked to China.
It would be absurd to deny that China had an important role in the crisis of August 2015. But was it the only factor involved? After all, China's growth rate does not seem to have slowed very much. Furthermore, standard econometric simulations of the impact of a China demand shock on the major developed economies suggest that the effects should not be very large, and certainly not large enough to explain the scale of the decline in global equity prices, or in the "break-even" inflation rates built into US and European bond markets.
It is conceivable that bad news from China triggered a sudden rise in risk aversion among global investors that exacerbated the shock itself. It also possible that markets were responding to the fact that the Federal Reserve apparently remained determined to raise US interest rates before year end, regardless of the new deflationary forces that were being triggered by events in China.
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JON GREEN will replace suspended front-rower Michael Weyman for St George Illawarra against Gold Coast tonight at Skilled Park. Ricky Thorby will join the bench, with Michael Lett dropping off it. Jake Marketo is the 18th man. Neville Costigan (arm) did not complete yesterday's training session but is still expected to make his first appearance for the season.
Gold Coast have no injury concerns. Will Matthews is expected to drop off an extended bench, with Riley Brown getting the nod.
Both Wests Tigers and the Bulldogs are expected to be 1-17 tonight. There is some concern over Tigers interchange player Alan Schirnack (knee). Willie Mataka is on standby.
Newcastle centre Wes Naiqama has been ruled out of tomorrow's clash with North Queensland after injuring his back during a gym session. Keith Lulia will replace him. Halfback Scott Dureau is in doubt with a hip problem. The Cowboys are expected to be 1-17.
Roosters forward Jared Waerea-Hargreaves has passed a fitness test on his shoulder injury. The Roosters' opponents tomorrow night, the Raiders, are expected to be 1-17.
Micheal Luck (hand) will not be making a comeback for the Warriors against Penrith on Sunday, although Jerome Ropati (hamstring) could return. Penrith should be as named.
Brisbane lock Corey Parker (knee) could be a late addition to the line-up against Cronulla on Sunday. Prop Nick Kenny (back) is in doubt. Teenager Corey Norman, named on an extended bench, will play Toyota Cup. The Sharks should be 1-17.
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Focus on Economic Data: U.S. Gross Domestic Product -January 27, 2006
Real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) during the fourth quarter (October, November, and December) of 2005 increased at an annual rate of 1.1 percent. This is the first estimate of the rate of change in the fourth quarter.
This is also the first estimate of the growth in real gross domestic product for the entire year of 2005. Real GDP for the entire year increased at a rate of 3.5 percent.
This quarter's increase compares to annual rates of 3.3 and 4.1 percent in each of the first two previous quarters. For the entire 2005 year, real GDP increased at a rate of 3.5 percent. During all of 2005, real GDP increased by 3.5 percent. Annual growth rates in 2002, 2003, and 2004 were 1.6, 2.7, and 4.2 percent.
Definition of Gross Domestic Product
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is one measure of economic activity, the total amount of goods and services produced in the United States in a year. It is calculated by adding together the market values of all of the final goods and services produced in a year.
- It is a gross measurement because it includes the total amount of goods and services produced, some of which are simply replacing goods that have depreciated or have worn out.
- It is domestic production because it includes only goods and services produced within the U.S.
- It measures current production because it includes only what was produced during the year.
- It is a measurement of the final goods produced because it does not include the value of a good when sold by a producer, again when sold by the distributor, and once more when sold by the retailer to the final customer. We count only the final sale.
Changes in GDP from one year to the next reflect changes in the output of goods and services and changes in their prices. To provide a better understanding of what actually is occurring in the economy, real GDP is also calculated. In fact, these changes are more meaningful, as the changes in real GDP show what has actually happened to the quantities of goods and services, independent of changes in prices.
There are often a number of different measures of GDP reported. Nominal GDP, or simply GDP, is total output in current prices. Real GDP is total output with prices held constant. Real GDP per capita is the real GDP per person in the economy and is the best measure of well-being of all the other measures.
One approximate means of calculating real GDP per capita is to identify the increase in nominal GDP and then subtract the percentage increase in prices and the percentage increase in population. That would leave the percentage increase in real GDP per capita.
Why are Changes in Real Gross Domestic Product Important?
The measurement of the production of goods and services produced each year permits us to evaluate our monetary and fiscal policies, our investment and saving patterns, the quality of our technological advances, and our material well-being. Changes in real GDP per capita provide our best measures of changes in our material standards of living.
While rates of inflation and unemployment and changes in our income distribution provide us additional measures of the successes and weaknesses of our economy, none is a more important indicator of our economy's health than rates of change in real GDP.
Changes in real GDP are discussed in the press and on the nightly news after every monthly announcement of the latest quarter's data or revision. This current increase in real GDP will be discussed in news reports as a positive sign of the strength of the current economy.
Real GDP trends are prominently included in discussions of potential slowdowns and economic booms. They are featured in many discussions of trends in stock prices. Economic commentators use decreases in real GDP as indicators of recessions. The most popular (although inaccurate) definition of a recession is at least two consecutive quarters of declining real GDP.
Data Trends
During 2000 and 2001, the rate of growth of real gross domestic product slowed significantly. A recession was declared for March 2001 to November 2001. Growth increased in 2002, 2003, and 2004, reaching 4.2 percent in 2004. The most recent quarter's growth rate is relatively small. All of the quarterly growth rates in the previous 10 quarters were above 3 percent annual rates. We would have to go back to the fourth quarter of 2002 to find slower growth than in this quarter.
Long-run Trends
The rate of increase in real GDP was not only higher in the last part of the 1990s than in the first half of the 1990s, but also when compared with much of the 1970s and 1980s. Economic growth, as measured by average annual changes in real GDP, was 4.4 percent in the 1960s. Average rates of growth decreased during the 1970s (3.3%), the 1980s (3.0%), and the first half of the 1990s (2.2%). In the last five years of the 1990s, the rate of growth in real GDP increased to 3.8 percent, with the last three years of the 1990s being at or over 4.1 percent per year.
The upward trend in economic growth over the past decade has been accompanied by increases in the rates of growth of consumption spending, investment spending, and exports. Productivity increases, expansions in the labor force, decreases in unemployment, and increases in the amount of capital have allowed real GDP to grow at the faster rates. Figure 2 shows the history of growth since the 1970s. Figure 2 also shows the average annual rate of growth of 3.1 percent since 1970.
The price index for GDP increased at an annual rate of 3.0 percent during the fourth quarter of 2005, compared to an increase of 3,3 percent during the third quarter of 2005. It increased at an annual rate of 2.8 percent for all of 2005. See the latest inflation case study for a discussion of the recent increases in price levels.
Details of the Third-Quarter Changes in Real GDP
Real GDP increased at an annual rate of 1.1 percent, a slowdown in growth. The major contributors to the decrease in the growth rate of real GDP in the fourth quarter were a significant slowing in the growth of in personal consumption and a fall in government spending, with a decrease in national defense spending. Those factors slowing growth were partially offset by an increase in investment.
Explanations of GDP and its Components
Gross domestic product consists of goods and services produced for consumption, for investment, for government, and for export. The GDP accounts are broken down into consumption spending, investment spending, government spending, and spending on U.S. exports. To arrive at the amount actually produced (that is, GDP) our spending on imports is subtracted from those other amounts of spending. Thus,
GDP = Consumption spending + investment spending + government spending + export spending - import spending
Consumption spending consists of consumer spending on goods and services. It is often divided into spending on durable goods, non-durable goods, and services. These purchases currently account for 70 percent of GDP.
- Durable goods are items such as cars, furniture, and appliances, which are used for several years.
- Non-durable goods are items such as food, clothing, and disposable products, which are used for only a short time period.
- Services include rent paid on apartments (or estimated values for owner-occupied housing), airplane tickets, legal and medical advice or treatment, electricity and other utilities. Services are the fastest growing part of consumption spending.
Investment spending consists of non-residential fixed investment, residential investment, and inventory changes. Investment spending accounts for 16 percent of GDP, but varies significantly from year to year.
- Non-residential fixed investment is the creation of tools and equipment to use in the production of other goods and services. Examples are the building of factories, the production of new machines, and the manufacturing of computers for business use.
- Residential investment is the building of a new homes or apartments.
- Inventory changes consist of changes in the level of stocks of goods necessary for production and finished goods ready to be sold.
Government spending consists of federal, state, and local government spending on goods and services such as research, roads, defense, schools, and police and fire departments. This spending (19 percent) does not include transfer payments such as Social Security, unemployment compensation, and welfare payments, which do not represent production of goods and services. Federal defense spending now accounts for approximately 5 percent of GDP. State and local spending on goods and services accounts for 12 percent of GDP, while federal spending is 7 percent of GDP.
Exports are goods and services produced in the U.S. and purchased by foreigners - currently about 10 percent of GDP.
Imports are items produced by foreigners and purchased by U.S. consumers are equal to 15 percent of GDP. Net exports (exports minus imports) are negative and are about 5 percent of the GDP.
Revisions in GDP Announcements
Real GDP for each quarter is announced three times. The month following the end of the quarter is described as the advance real GDP; the second announcement or revision is described as the preliminary announcement; and the third month is the final. While labeled as the final version, even it will eventually be revised after the final data for the year are published. From 1983 to 2002, the advance estimates of the rate of growth in real GDP have been revised an average of 0.5 percent in the next month's preliminary estimate. The preliminary estimates have been revised by an average of an additional 0.3 percent.
Revisions in inventory investment and the international trade data are often the causes of changes in the GDP figures. Those data for the last month of the quarter are not available when the advance estimate of GDP is announced.
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Use this table to help answer the questions in the following interactive activity. (Measured in billions of current dollars.)
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All the answers I received made no mention of the fact there is no legal owner of record for the property. County records show no owner and a parcel # 777-77-777.
That would be because you are focusing on a fact that does not have the legal consequence that you think it does. You have to prove that you are the owner to obtain title, not that no one else is shown by the county to be the owner. Adverse possession is one way that you can prove ownership now no matter who owned the property before.


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Where can one find the reference to your mentioning on 10-17-10:
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By Pablo, January 4, 2011 at 4:09 am Link to this comment
I have read several articles written by Christopher Hedges and was particularly impressed by his book "end of literacy.." which exposes the superficiality not to say bestiality of our modern celebrity and consumer culture.I just have a little problem with this:he also seems to accept the global warming tale as if it is a given fact,when actually it is quite disputable wether global warming is happening at all.Just look at the people promoting this agenda.Or for that matter look at the actuall weather and what is indicated by that.And as we can see they have even stopped to call it global warming by now and have renamed it "climate change".Well as the really intelligent and obviously honest man he is i would like to hear what Chris Hedges has to say about this.
By Old Man Turtle, August 3, 2010 at 8:33 pm Link to this comment
Didn't mean to imply "samosamo" doesn't at-least recognize the Human need to be fully engaged in the Natural Living Arrangement. Being so pre-occupied with such a far-fetched hypothetical, however, as the one offered below as an "analogy" (I'm not clear about to what exactly the image of the last two crazed people 'standing' is meant to be analogous, though.), suggests an 'individual' paying a lot more of their precious attention to the make-believe pyramid-scheme of the economy, for instance, than to "what's left" of "nature," however much one claims to appreciate Her.
It's not unusual for our tame Sisters and Brothers to cling desperately to the notion they can somehow have all their comforts and conveniences and be sort-of "free" at the same time. A real crippling aversion to 'either-or' situations (with which Nature abounds) seems to've been bred into them, and the expectation of having their cake and eating it too bred-in, much to their detriment.
These are the general observations of an old man who's closely studied 'civilization' and its actual effects on our Living Arrangement for a very long time, and not intended to reflect specifically on "samosamo" or anybody else in-particular, but if the shoe fits…..
By Old Man Turtle, August 2, 2010 at 8:05 pm Link to this comment
Hanging-out exclusively among domesticated "individuals" can easily lead to the dark view of his/her own kind expressed below by "samosamo." It's lucky for everybody, I guess, that there are at least a few of us free wild Human Beings still around, just in case there are any pieces left to pick-up when that hypothetical doomsday pair do one another in, finally.
It's probably no use recommending to "samosamo" and others in the same condition that they lose their fake IDentity, step outside the suffocating confinement their pretend "self," and walk The Way into the Living Arrangement of our Mother Earth. Any who remember how to do that have likely done it already.
So it could be the only "option" available to the masses of remaining captives is vying to be one of those last two contestants in that "winner"-tale-all fight-to-the finish. No wonder they're all on drugs of some kind.
By Old Man Turtle, July 30, 2010 at 5:11 pm Link to this comment
"Night-Gaunt"'s mechanistic "cosmology" does indeed lead one down a one-way road to a dead-end, the alleged proof being that "99% of all species" have supposedly disappeared into oblivion already. No wonder the prospects for homo domesticus, with its daily demonstrated tendencies toward ignominious self-destruction, appear so unrelentingly grim to so many of its members.
That seems especially true if their only remedial option now is a sudden massive conversion, at the prompting of some unspecified agency, to behavior that is (atypically) beneficially cooperative instead of (habitually) suicidally competitive. If all that's going on here anyway is just a blind urge to "survive" long enough to propagate one's kind, in a dog-eat-dog world otherwise bereft of "sense and sensibility," it seems no wonder really that so many of those among its temporary residents who are cursed with only enough of those qualities to be painfully aware, of their meaningless "individual" and common fate, have fallen prey these days to despair.
If "Night-Gaunt"'s superficial analysis was even moderately correct, then the topical palliative he recommends ("working together") might've proven somewhat effective by now. The fact is, after all, that many of his Kind are genuinely convinced already of such being (and having been virtually "forever") the actual "case," and are trying (and have always been trying) desperately to devise and deliver some 'incentivizing' nostrum to address it.
Since this effort has been on-going for literally ages now, maybe it would be in-order, finally, to ask its advocates how well it's working, for themselves and all the rest of us?
By Night-Gaunt, July 30, 2010 at 8:32 am Link to this comment
Well Old Man Turtle I am speaking not just in microcosm of nation-state civilization, but the totality of our species is threatened this time. Viruses splice into our genome and leave to voyage and then return with new DNA & RNA to add to our genetic complement. It doesn't need some alien or other intelligent force to do the splicing. also enviromental pressures play an important part in both the long term phylogeny and short term epigenetic expressions latent in our DNA. We are at a crossroads rather similar to the explosion of the super-volcano "Toba" some 70,000 years ago that removed all human habitation from the other continents leaving the original stock in Africa to spread out again some 20,000 years later. We may not be so fortunate again. We are creating, through neglegence and short sightedness, a Permian extinction kind of change in our entire biosphere.
Even if it were proven that some well advanced human civilization(s) from that time had existed they didn't make it. Some of my fiction (unpublished) deals with that item. The war depicted in the "Maharabata," among others may have been a civil war in an empire that spanned continents including our own and used many weapons, both bioforms (like the Baital), fission nuclear and directed energy fighting from under the sea to outer space. Such a society ended its war but it was too exhausted to survive the Mt. Toba explosion that covered the earth in a blanket of ash for hundreds of years. [The Yellowstone Caldera is threatening us now, it is overdue too.]
Evolution operates directly related to what the species has in the way of flexibility and what the enviroment dictates. 99% of species are extinct. Intelligence that we have isn't essential to survival, just to give something more to an impersonal universe—appreciation and inspection and self awareness. We should not waste these gifts given to us by evolution.
But that kind of galvanization of the entire species to benefit from working together is a sign, that I see, of our behavioral part of our evolution. It is a hurdle where selfishness is replaced with Mutual Aid and working together for a different kind of profit you can't find in a bank or a balance sheet. If we fail the best that could happen would be billions dead and dying from the climate change effects or those countries who would then defend themselves from the hoards that would come to get at the precious resources like food and fresh water. It will be an ugly dark time. Humanity just might not survive it. We mush and need to change our group behavior now. Wait too long and we won't be prepared. [The oligarchs will though.]
By Old Man Turtle, July 28, 2010 at 8:50 pm Link to this comment
Who exactly was it said, on the record, "Let us make man in our own image and likeness," and to whom? "Night-Gaunt" suggests that the still "scientifically" tentative evidence of artificial "gene splicing" in Human DNA, if confirmed, will be traceable to "the Annunaki." Googling for 'evidence of "splicing" in Human genome' will get you a raft of references, some actually tying what is presently believed (among many orthodox investigators) to be mostly spontaneous "spicing" by the helix itself, to the "intelligent design" theories put forward by some adherents of certain religious doctrines. That the Human genome is in-fact full of "splices," however, in whatever way they've occurred, is essentially settled "science" these days.
Among our People, whose Living Memory extends to and beyond those singular events that've since been mostly mythologized and religiossified by homo domesticus, it is equally "settled" that retro-viral beings from elsewhere have been attempting to degrade all the Natural Vitality here into the degenerate energy they themselves subsist-on. It is also known that these entities used their ability to manipulate nervous systems to capture many Humans, then operated on them, turning them into the self-replicating sub-species of handicapped "individuals" without which the invasive quasi-organisms were themselves physically incapable of propagating their "civilization" disease.
"Night-Gaunt" seems to feel Humanity must somehow 'save' itself from, well, apparently from itself. That rather common homo-centric solipsism ignores entirely the obvious fact Humanity, as such, does not actually exist and is not even remotely viable by-and-as itself. We abide within an entire Living Arrangement, as one expression of our Mother Earth's Vision. She in-turn abides within and is a Living expression of the great Song 'n' Dance of Life Herownself.
The dramatic romanticizing of "US-against-the-world" has been a staple of the captive peoples' escapist fantasies for ages, but it's all really just kid-stuff. It isn't so much unprecedented levels of "work(ing) together" that's needed now, as it is essential for the masses of Humans stagnating in a kind of illness-induced immaturity to finally get free of their illusory (but nonetheless effective) confinement by finally growing-up together.
Us surviving free wild Human Beings, along with All Our Relations and countless concerned Life-forms, will be more than happy to help out. What's more, our tame Sisters and Brothers are gonna need a lot of it.
By Night-Gaunt, July 28, 2010 at 9:00 am Link to this comment
Be more specific on this "splice" you say has been found. By whom, where, any links? Annunaki would be the ones blamed if indeed such is actually found and verified.
There is some evidence that before long range forms of communication were created some humans seemed to get information from others over long streaches by telepathy. It hasn't been verified.
It is in our hands, not god or alien or other will pull our fat out of that fire. We will need to work together like never before—a chance to evolve or die. Literally.ac
By Old Man Turtle, July 27, 2010 at 9:25 pm Link to this comment
Part of the "civilization" disease's "process" transforms Humans subjected to it from broad-and-deep-spectrum Sentient Beings into obsessively mono-dimensional "rational" ones. This in-turn subjects them relentlessly to the degenerative effects of that ubiquitous 'vicious-cycle' phenomenon so well described below by "Jaime Cadle."
There is evidence uncovered of-late by the "human genome" unravellers indicating an artificial "splice" has been made in it (by some so-far unspecified agency at some so-far undetermined point in the "past"), the effect of which has been to short-circuit (which is to say, bluntly, it is to cripple) much of the orders-of-magnitude greater natural aboriginal Human perceptual faculties (especially their intuitive features) and to thereby render the hapless "recipients" extremely over-reliant on an actually quite necessarily limited capacity to "reason."
It is yet to be "discovered" (by "science," anyhow) that surviving free wild Human Beings do not carry this "scar," and are effectively and naturally immune from even the "modern" industrial-strength, armed-force vectors of the "civilization" disease. It is well-known in some wannabe controlling quarters, however (but kept desperately out-of the "public domain" for fear of obviously drastic consequences to their already disintegrating "global" pyramid scheme), that this immunity is in a certain way communicable. That is to say, sufficient (in 'time' and intensity) exposure of "spliced" domesticated human "individuals," by actual face-to-face interaction with Natural Human Beings, can have the mutually beneficial effect of prompting the formers' damaged nervous-systems to "patch-around" the bio-engineered short-circuit, thus recovering for them at-least some of their once altogether natural ability to avoid (and even to escape-from) the heterodyning positive-feedback-loops in which they've been trapped, by the wannabe self-perpetuating "habit" which the Sentient "Jaime Cadle" exposes for us here.
So maybe all is not lost, after-all, if only homo domesticus will just take their Medicine.
By Jaime Cadle, July 24, 2010 at 9:30 am Link to this comment
The dehumanizing tendencies of civilization are rooted in the rational mind, not as an obscure defect, but as a direct implication of rational minds doing what rational minds do, conventionalizing. This means that we are all circuits of a dehumanizing cultural matrix (analogous to the imagery in The Matrix in which a bloodless, non-human entity, which is, nonetheless, of human creation, enslaves humans to its own self perpetuation), and thus, are feeding the beast not only by such obvious means as paying taxes and filling your car with gasoline, but merely by having conventional thoughts. We've known for 2350 years that whole structures possess additional properties which are not attributable to the collective sum of their parts. Yet we've failed to follow this simple philosophical insight to its logical conclusion regarding rational conventionality. By internalizing conventional agreements we give rise to emergent entities (possessing the property of being MORE THAN the sum of their parts) which then divert the human will to their own needs by way of possession of consciousness. As our consciousness is driven by the genetic human drive to replicate (that's what the genome does), that which possesses the human mind will thus be replicated, as when the mind of a politician possessed by the financial incentives provided by lobbyists representing (or replicating) the interests of Lockheed Martin instills in the public a sense of urgency in invading a sovereign nation for the purposes of national security. Strangely, this replication event follows a long chain of human conventional levels all the way back to some of the first agreements ever made by Homo sapiens. Our culture is feeding on us as it, by possession of consciousness, replicates itself. Without those minds which are proprietary to such high level organizational conventions as corporate entities, there is no Lockheed Martin. Yet, so long as the lower level cultural agreements, upon which the corporate state rests, remain, Lockheed Martin is inevitable. It's not "us against them." It's us against us, or at least us against our perception of what "us" is. We are not the entertainment we consume, the birthday party we throw for our kids, or the sociopolitical commentary with which we may thoroughly agree. We are not our culture (if we possess the psycho-emotional agility to differentiate the two). Yet, so long as we continue to identify with those aspects which we hold dear or consider to be harmless we remain proprietors of a cultural matrix from which these homogenizing mega conventions are rising up and gathering us into ever larger pools of helpless, impotent human populous. Few of us actually realize the extent to which our culture, and thus our collective psyche, is rotten to the core. Everything has to change, and most of us are just too comfortable to accept that. Chris Hedges touches on this reality when he tells us that we have to "opt out" (of consumer culture, or whatever). And he is aware of the unlikelihood of a sufficient number of people choosing this option, as we, generally, are hopelessly entranced. But I don't think he has grasped that the dehumanizing tendencies of culture are born of fundamental human characteristics, namely, that it is the very nature of the rational mind which, by giving rise to such complexity as it does, is subject to falling systematically into place within such emergent structures which so become the dominant modes of organization as to perpetuate beyond the grasp of human rationality, without regard to their usefulness or detriment to the organic realm of existence. Often, Hedges commentary is followed with questions like, "what do we do," or "how do we fix this," to which, understandably, he has little to offer in the way of solutions. The picture is grim. But I think that an understanding of this human characteristic is the missing element.
By Night-Gaunt, July 23, 2010 at 8:51 am Link to this comment
The problem is big. All the insturments of gov't and many of the people are taken over by the elite rich oligarchs and run by their minions. It was deliberate & now I heard on Democracy Now (7/23/10) that the local police in Nevada are saying for the local and national press to imbed with them in order to function. They test overseas for what they will ulitmately do here. Drones first unarmed (secret) then official and next time a terrorist act they will be armed. Believe it. Increamental crytpo-fascist creep will strangle what is left of our Republic. As they planned. Failed in 1934 but since the slow death coup started in 1980, they have been winning. Democrat or Republican it does not matter. Corporations so deeply entwined in our gov't it can't function without them. Also part of the plan.
They are well aware that with the last local climate crisis in Europe (1200-1800 AD) caused wars, imposition of theocracy and dictatorship smothering free thought. (The USA was an aberration at least in thought, but not deed.) They can use it on a global scale with GCC going on now. Read "Eaarth" by Bill McKibben to see just how much is going on now. While media organs and corporate spokesmen like our president talk about effects on our grand children it is happening to us now.
There are also minor ELE like the end of the Pliestocene for example. Humanity is the wave of the 6th extinction as in majore planetary types. No other force is ongoing both directily and indirectly to eliminate not just species but whole ecologies. Some scientists want to call our present time the Anthropocene. I agree.
Working individually is good but not enough. We need to pool our resources and chuck corporate profits in a global sized Manhattan project to literally remake how we live. End use of all fossil fuels. I just don't see us as a species doing it. It means lowering our standard of waste and upping the poor's standards to frugal healthy livable. Or else they will die in t their hundreds of millions. That is a fact. I see the worst kind of scenario where the rich enclave against the teeming poor battering at their boarders to get in. Mass slaughter with high tech mass kill weapons will be used our of "necessity" to accomplish it. Any who fail will be overrun and obliterated. Also a sad fact to come. It won't even count any pandemics that will assert themselves. Also in the area of population genetics and survivability must happen if we don't use our intelligence and compassion to alleviate it another way.
Rollzone read "Collapse" by Diamond and you will be informed in your blind areas. The Greeks were taken over by the Romans who lasted for nearly 2,000 years in various forms and splitting toward the end.
There are experts in fields one can draw on to use what they have learned. No one is expert in everything so one must rely on them to use their knowledge.
We are a Zero Level Civilization by some standards. Technology without the wisdom to use it still keeps us in this cesspool we created. The prospects aren't good for the next 1,000 years.
By ProfBob, July 23, 2010 at 5:35 am Link to this comment
I'm surprised that the major problem in warming, overpopulation, is not mentioned more. Certainly it's a hot topic and nobody wants to tackle it—although China did and look what it's done for their economy! I see so many deniers of climate change that I am appalled that so many people have so little evidence.
By Richard Nixon, July 22, 2010 at 7:18 pm Link to this comment
I checked the blog. Your doing some good stuff. Congratulations.
By Richard Nixon, July 22, 2010 at 12:25 pm Link to this comment
I would assume Chris will vote Nader if he runs again or Green Party just based off
By Old Man Turtle, July 22, 2010 at 12:10 pm Link to this comment
Maybe what "ofersince72" means by "leadership" is actually Guidance. The problem with the former has always been its apparently unavoidable deterioration into various cults-of-personality. The latter, however, needs no "face" or even a "voice" to be effective, just the capacity of The People to recognize it.
Of course the hapless "individual" is quite prone to seek-out and fall-for some charismatic member of his or her own subspecies. Us surviving free wild Natives prefer taking our cues from our given place in the Living Arrangement, which has never once steered us wrong. It looks like our domesticated Human relatives could sure use some of that Native Guidance, for a real CHANGE!
By Richard Nixon, July 21, 2010 at 1:43 pm Link to this comment
This was a great conversation. I hope he does more of these. Excellent questions
I was a little surprised to hear that he heats his home and isn't as environmentally
If Chris reads this: thanks for being the past 3 Adbusters. The articles in there
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Among a number of potential scientific heroes, Simon Singh stands out for me. This is because of the way he — with his brave stand against defamation actions from those who make dodgy health claims — galvanised the science community to pursue reform of libel laws.
While most writers back down in the face of financial risks, Simon decided to take up the cudgels against the British Chiropractic Association and helped to create a popular movement, Sense about Science. He turned out to be not only a brilliant writer (Fermat's Last Theorem stands out) and performer, but also a tireless campaiger.
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After he was traded, and the deal was vetoed, and the rumors wouldn't stop, and he flamed out in the playoffs, and more chatter started, and he stayed with the Lakers, and he led Spain to a silver medal in the Olympics, Pau Gasol finally took a break.
"I needed to breathe," he said. "Just breathe and forget about the stress."
Gasol fled the summer heat and the frenzied pace of Barcelona.
It was cooler and quieter in the mountains, far from the bustle of his hometown.
"I disconnected as much as I could," he said.
The Pyrenees Mountains serve as a natural border between Gasol's native Spain and France, just to the north. The range might as well have been a barrier between Gasol and the rest of the world for four restful days last summer.
"It helped me to go to the mountains and connect with nature," Gasol said. "I enjoyed every single minute I was there in the Pyrenees."
It was the perfect spot to prepare for the first days of the rest of his life.
After eight days in the African nation of Chad in his role as an ambassador with UNICEF, after a few more days of rest and relaxation at home, after the seemingly endless flight to Los Angeles, Gasol rejoined the Lakers for training camp.
Gasol looked the same as when he was last in El Segundo. He wore the same welcoming smile and the same unkempt mop of brown hair. He greeted teammates, friends and visitors alike with a hearty, "Hey!" and a firm handshake.
He chatted in English and Spanish and then English again.
He seemed to be happy to be back in Southern California once more.
He was a changed man, however. He was older, wiser, maybe a little wary, too.
"It's been an experience," Gasol, 32, said of his life since the Lakers tried and failed to trade him to the Houston Rockets in a multi-player and multi-team deal that would have brought Chris Paul to them from the New Orleans Hornets in December.
"I've learned a lot of things from it," he added. "I've learned how to deal with it and how to not let it affect me too much and how to go on with my daily life as normally as possible. There has been a lot going on. It's not been an easy situation to deal with. -
"Now I can focus on playing basketball."
The game was his refuge last season. No one could pester him about the latest trade rumor while he was playing power forward for the Lakers. It was the one time in his days and nights he wasn't thinking about his future, about his next possible destination.
When he wasn't traded, when Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak acquired point guard Steve Nash from the Phoenix Suns and center Dwight Howard from the Orlando Magic in a pair of blockbuster trades, Gasol could exhale again.
Forget about the past
Forgive him, but in London, at the Olympics, in August, Gasol wasn't thinking about the Lakers. National pride was at stake. He led Spain to the gold-medal game against Kobe Bryant and the United States for the second consecutive Olympics.
Winning gold was on his mind at that moment.
It wasn't until Bryant wrapped him in a bear hug for the world to see after the buzzer sounded Americans' victory and whispered words of consolation and encouragement in his ear that Gasol returned his focus to the Lakers.
"Rest up because we've got work to do," Bryant told him.
In other words forget the past, focus on the present, on winning an NBA title.
"The pieces fit," Bryant said recently of the new-look Lakers. "We just have to go out and do our jobs every day. We haven't won it as a group. The only guys left from the last time we won it are myself, Metta (World Peace) and Pau."
Of Gasol, Bryant said, "I don't know if he's changed. He seems a little bit more comfortable. He doesn't seem as on edge. If you don't know where you're going to be tomorrow, you might be in a completely different state of mind. It was a little weird.
"It was difficult, obviously, but he handled it like a professional. He's one of the best players we have in the league. You're not going to get value for him (in a trade) anywhere, you know what I mean? There's really no point to (trading him).
"One of the things Jimmy and I talked about was seeing if we could make this happen (overhauling the roster) and still keep Pau. That was really, really important. That was way before everything went down, before I left for the Olympics."
Bryant referred to Jim Buss, a team executive and the son of owner Jerry Buss.
Buss and Kupchak sent four draft picks to the Suns to acquire Nash.
The deal for Howard was far more complex, with center Andrew Bynum going to the Philadelphia 76 ers and backup forwards Josh McRoberts and Christian Eyenga and two picks heading to the Magic to complete the four-team swap.
"It was a feather in ownership's cap that they would give the basketball people the option to make the best deal possible," Kupchak said of completing the two blockbuster trades without giving up Gasol. "It was something everybody was trying to do."
Coach Mike Brown leaped to his feet and hugged Buss and Kupchak when they entered his office to deliver the news that they had acquired Howard and kept Gasol. "I almost pulled my hammy," Brown joked, retelling the story the other day.
"I thought he came through it great," Brown said of Gasol's season of tumult. "He did a terrific job of handling all that stuff. You give him credit for the kind of person he is. His name, for some reason, was always involved in rumors out there."
'I'm my biggest critic'
So, now that Gasol knows he's not going to be traded anywhere in the immediate future - his contract with the Lakers runs out after next season, however - there are new pressures to be overcome, starting with his game.
His scoring average dipped to 17.4 points last season and he wasn't selected to the Western Conference All-Star team for the first time in four seasons.
Most disturbing, his average fell to a career-low 12.5 points on 43.4 percent shooting during the playoffs.
The Lakers lost to the Oklahoma City Thunder in five games in the second round last May, one year after they tumbled to the eventual NBA champion Dallas Mavericks in four games. Their back-to-back titles in 2009 and '10 seemed like ancient history.
"A lot of things have to happen for you to rise above everyone else, and the last two years haven't gone that way," Gasol said of the Lakers' early playoff exits after they advanced to the NBA Finals in three consecutive seasons.
Naturally, some of the blame fell heavily on Gasol's shoulders.
"People have high expectations of us," he acknowledged. "People on the street have been nothing but supportive. I can't recall one guy coming to me and making a negative remark, so that tells me I'm doing things right."
One way to keep Lakers fans cheering rather than jeering is to play more forcefully with the ball in his hands. He has been hammered again and again for playing too passively in the past, too willing to defer to his teammates.
Gasol was once the Lakers' second option behind Bryant. Last season, he dropped to the third spot behind Bryant and Bynum. This season, it's likely he'll be the No. 4 option after Bryant and newcomers Howard and Nash.
It's a role Gasol is willing to accept and one at which he plans to excel.
"I'm my biggest critic," he said. "I'm always very demanding of myself. I want to give nothing but the best at all times. When I don't, it affects me and it upsets me and frustrates me. Last year was just a year with a lot of difficult challenges.
"You don't have to dwell on those tough moments, though. You have to go through them and you digest them. You have to understand why it happened and then you try to put yourself in a position so you don't have to go through it again."
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This series was designed after having visited Horseshoe Bend in Arizona. Its where the Colorado river, after millions of years of erosion, has carved a perfect semi circle into the surrounding sand stone. The impact of the scene made such an impression I wanted to create a series that would carry this theme of "earth's time" throughout.
The resulting collection reflects this theme as an underlying principal along with the contrast of texture vs reflection, smooth vs rough and light vs dark. Using materials like glass to represent water and wood to elude to stone the end result is a subtle nod to the rivers sculptural statement while remaining modern, commercial and utilitarian.
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Harrods boss Mohamed al-Fayed has failed in his latest court battle for a British passport.
The Court of Appeal ruled on Wednesday that Home Secretary Jack Straw was not being unreasonable when he decided Mr al-Fayed had a "general defect in his character" and refused him UK citizenship.
Mr al-Fayed had argued that Mr Straw had been biased when he refused him a passport in May last year and said that his decision should be quashed.
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The richest 7 percent of Americans got richer between 2009 and 2011, while average net worth declined for the other 93 percent, a report says.
Obviously, the well-to-do enjoyed a good couple of years. Still, we can only imagine how even greater things would have been without all that socialism from Obama.
Tap this: In an effort to curb distracted driving, traffic safety regulators want automakers to put stronger limits on how long drivers can use in-car touch screens while cars are moving.
With the growing complexity of touch screen systems, The Buzz awaits the day when we'll have to stop the car in order to turn up the heat or turn off NPR during pledge drives.
Green fleet: The state will convert the ferry Hyak to a hybrid propulsion system that runs on batteries part of the time.
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Emile Heskey's goal-scoring run came to a halt as Perth Glory secured a pulsating 3-2 A-League victory over Newcastle Jets at nib Stadium on Saturday night.
Heskey entered the match in red-hot form after scoring four goals in his previous three matches, with the Jets winning each of those.
The former Liverpool star was barely sighted in the first half as goals to Steve McGarry and Nick Ward gave Perth a 2-1 lead at the break, the Jets' lone goal coming courtesy of Tiago Calvano.
A clever header from Heskey in the 73rd minute gifted a goal to Josh Mitchell, but Glory substitute Chris Harold ensured the home side would take all three points when he slammed home the winner from close range in the 85th minute.
Glory's defence was caught napping in the sixth minute when former Perth midfielder Mitchell headed a dangerous ball across goal and Calvano kneed the ball into the back of the net.
But the home side levelled in the 11th minute when McGarry nailed a perfectly-timed low drive from 26 metres out.
Ward was causing Newcastle's defence plenty of problems and the Glory midfielder was on hand to poke home a crucial goal in the 38th minute after Jets goalkeeper Mark Birighitti palmed away Dean Heffernan's goalward-bound header.
The home side should have entered the half-time break with a 3-1 lead, but Scott Jamieson's goal on the stroke of half-time was controversially ruled offside.
Heskey shot to life in the second half, with his hard-fought header to the feet of Mitchell helping the Jets get back on level terms.
But former Gold Coast midfielder Harold, who went on in the 76th minute, found himself in the right place at the right time when Newcastle failed to clear a corner.
Harold, stationed at the far post, made no mistake with the finish, with his right-foot strike finding its way through a number of bodies to send the 9293 crowd into raptures.


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Said the Guests: Eleanor Meredith
by Sean
Please note: MP3s are only kept online for a short time, and if this entry is from more than a couple of weeks ago, the music probably won't be available to download any more.
Eleanor Meredith's work all but waved to me. I don't quite remember: perhaps it was a solitary mer-man, winking on his rock. Perhaps a mess of line & colour, like that dizzy moment just before you fall in love. She's an artist and illustrator who lives in Scotland and makes whimsy feel like something you could be serious about. Nothing makes me happier, she writes, than drawing people without them realising.
I asked her to choose two or three favourite songs, and make pictures for them. She did. We've had many artists share their work with us, but I'm not sure if any have captured the spirit of a song quite as precisely, quite as agilely, as Eleanor Meredith. These are three different images for three different songs, and it's like each illustration was made by a different hand. And each - I swear to you, do listen, you'll see, - is perfectly suited. It's like the picture manifested the song, not the other way around.
Please leave Eleanor your comments, and visit her website to see, talk, buy more.
[Eleanor Meredith lives and works in Edinburgh. I'd really like to know anyone's comments on the pictures, she writes. If anyone's interested in getting hold of some work, do email me. I should have prints for sale from my website soon, and have shows in the pipeline for the summer, so watch that newspage...]
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Holy God, Sean, you're right.
"Making Snow" reminds me of the cover of a Pearl S. Buck paperback I used to have.Posted by Mark at February 28, 2007 3:48 PM
Lovely illustrations and song picks and they do sound great together (as a matter of fact I think I'm using those illustrations for the mp3's tags as if it were their original album covers)
Fine guest, as usual.Posted by Moka at March 1, 2007 2:27 PM
eleanor. your art is a chair in a toddler's classroom, state mandated and unusual and powerful in its smallness. it could be easy to trip over, and hope you do because the pain in your shin will help you value the absurdity and beauty in a chair that is knee-height.
your use of white space i like very much, particularly the squares of netting in 'otter', the empty checker holes in 'trees', and even more particularly the distance between action and thicker right border in 'snow'.
thank you for making me these very much.Posted by colin at March 2, 2007 12:28 PM
For the trees is just fantasticPosted by Matt at March 2, 2007 4:52 PM
Hi, Eleanor, I usually save my music listening to the blog for a Saturday night treat. Your whimsical drawings matched the music to perfection. I don't know if I got more out of the music because of the drawings or more out of the drawings because of the music! Each pair took me to a different place. Thanks!Posted by Moominmamma at March 3, 2007 11:24 PM
'Swingball Otter' should be on my wall.Posted by Savannah at March 5, 2007 6:55 PM
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With the last Twilight movie looming over our heads this year, Lionsgate teased that Twilight Saga may not be over after Breaking Dawn: Part 2!
"It's hard for me to imagine a movie that does $700 million-plus doesn't have ongoing value," the CEO of Lionsgate told the Los Angeles Times. "It's an amazing franchise that they have done a great job of maintaining with absolutely no deterioration. So the simple answer is 'Boy I hope so.'"
Jackson Rathbone also sees the possibilities: "Maybe go back into some of the back stories. There's been talk of shorts and different new media, too."
So what do you think, Twihards? More movies after Breaking Dawn? Or should it stay canon?


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A toddler with an extremely rare genetic condition has captured the heart of a community.
People have donated about £3,000 to help buy specialist equipment for Melody Luckman, who is unlikely to walk or speak more than a few words.
Melody, just 19 months old, is one of only five children to be diagnosed with CASK gene mutation in the UK since its discovery in 2010.
It severely affects parts of her brain, balance and learning ability.
Her mother Karen, 39, from Parsonfield Road, Nork, thanked everyone who had donated towards a lycra suit, a beanbag seat, wheel chair buggy parts and a portable support seat.
She said: "We are overwhelmed by the support and so, so very grateful. It's difficult to accept help sometimes, but you live each day and deal with it."
The family were told about the diagnosis when Melody was eight weeks old.
Mrs Luckman said: "It turns your world upside down. You grieve for the life you thought you were going to have.
"As much as you love your child whatever, you have hopes and aspirations before they arrive. When that is taken away from you, you have to re-evaluate your life."
Mrs Luckman said: "It's a massive life change for her and us. We are just after awareness."
She said they have had held a couple of events including a collection and face painting at Asda in Burgh Heath on Saturday, February 8.
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Margaret Maugenest, perhaps known best for her laudable court case legalizing her rent free occupancy in her Gowanus loft, is coming to Binghamton University's Rosefsky Gallery. Her translucent painting installations live beautifully in her spacious loft, which you can tour here, and will be on exhibit beginning this Friday March 15, when Maugenest will give a presentation at 5pm, through March 22nd. Don't miss it!
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Visiting artist Margaret welcomes spring at the Rosefsky Gallery with an art installation of large diaphanous paintings on silk and other smaller works. She will give a presentation on her evolution from large paintings to small and then to painting on silk at 5 p.m. Friday, March 15, in the gallery. The colorful large silk paintings on display are from a series she calls "Painted Light." The panels are hung from the ceiling. Because of their translucence, they interact with light as well as their surrounding environment. The smaller pieces in the exhibition show some other materials Maugenest likes to work with, such as watercolors on cigarette papers and on Japanese Shikishi Paper Boards.
Maugenest was born in Indonesia of Asian and European descent. One of her Dutch forebears, Abraham Toorop, came to Indonesia in the 1700s. He was an indigo maker. Another relation, also a Toorop, was a batik artist in Central Java. Maugenest dedicates her silk installation to their memory.
The Rosefsky Gallery is open from noon-4 p.m. Monday through Friday. The show will run through March 22.


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Fennel With Apples and French Vinaigrette
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I am a huge fennel fan, and just saw this recipe on the Aish.com website. I am hoping to try it soon, but am posting it here so I don't lose it, with a few changes for clarity. Let me know what you think.
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Ingredients Nutrition
- 2 large fennel bulbs
- 1 tart green apple
- 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
- 2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
- olive oil
- 1 fresh lemon, juice of
- salt and pepper
Directions See How It's Made
- Cut the leaves off the fennel, and thoroughly clean the stalks and bottom of the bulb. Cut into 1 inch pieces.
- Peel and cut the apple into thin 1 inch pieces. Add to the fennel.
- Drizzle with olive oil.
- In a small bowl, mix the lemon juice, vinegar and mustard. Season with salt and a bit of black pepper to taste. Add to the fennel mixture, mix and serve.


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Clint Mini Task Lamp - Antique Bronze/Marble
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Retro redux. The Clint Mini Task Lamp brings mid-century style to the table. Its small scale is ideal for desks and bedside tables, and the head swivels to shed light wherever you need it.
- 7.4"diam. x 9.9"h.
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- Antique Bronze-finished shade; Antique Brass-finished accents.
- Head swivels.
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- Overall product dimensions: 7.4"diam. x 9.9"h.
- Cord length: 8'.
- Accommodates a 40W incandescent bulb (not included).
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- UL listed.
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