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DOWNINGTOWN Ś Over their last six games, and especially during their torrid four-game postseason run, the Red Raiders of Coatesville High have followed an impressive pattern Ś use their explosive offense to blow out to early leads, then coast to lopsided victories.
If La Salle (12-1) wants to avoid becoming another lump of roadkill under the RaidersÆ super-skilled squealing tires in Friday nightÆs PIAA Class AAAA Eastern final at Downingtown West High School (7 p.m.), the Explorers have to find a way to block the driveway.
ōTheir explosiveness is what jumps out at me,ö said Explorers head coach Drew Gordon, whose team is making its fourth straight appearance in the Class Quad-AÆs Final Four. ōThey come out ready to go. In the two games IÆve seen, theyÆve gotten off to fast starts, taken the ball right down the field and scored in the first 2:30.
ōWe cannot let that happen. You canÆt get into a 14-0 hole with those guys.ö
The Raiders (12-2) have used cannon-quick starts to put away all four of their playoff foes early, a roll that has even their head coach, Matthew Ortega, shaking his head.
ōIt is surprising,ö Ortega said, ōbecause of how much we struggled with running the football early in the season.
ōWe sort of put things together at the end of the year, and right now what we have are good players, who believe in each other, playing with confidence.ö
Those good players, however, did their share of head-scratching early in the year. In a story thatÆs been well-documented, the Raiders saw themselves as a power-running team at the start of the season, then went 2-2 while their ground game sputtered.
With opposition defenses bringing eight and nine defenders into the box to take away the run, Coatesville turned to quarterback Emmett Hunt and his primary receivers, Chris Jones and Dre Boggs, to open things up with the passing game. When Hunt and Co. began lighting it up, suddenly the Raiders realized their balance and their big-play ability were a lethal combination. And theyÆve run off 10 straight wins since.
Hunt has been amazing, completing 65 percent of his passes (130-for-201) for 2,696 yards and tossing 40 touchdown passes while being intercepted only twice.
The Explorers defensive staff have likened Hunt to Roman Catholic quarterback Michael Keir because of his quick release and laser-like precision. HeÆs also a threat to pull the ball down and run for key first downs.
As for Jones (62 catches, 1,400 yards, 23 TDs), Boggs (30 catches, 731 yards, 11 TDs) and Worley (185 carries, 1,459 yds., 17 TDs), Explorers defensive coordinator John Steinmetz said theyÆre a handful.
ōFast, fast and faster,ö Steinmetz said. ōThey have a lot of speed and they run a lot of plays. WhatÆs Coatesville averaging, something like 50 points a game over their last eight games?
ōWe have to prevent them from getting a fast start. It should be a real good challenge.ö
At the same time, Gordon is wary of the way the Raiders go about their business.
ōI havenÆt seen any weaknesses,ö the coach said. ōThey really execute, thatÆs whatÆs impressed me. They donÆt do a lot of crazy things, theyÆre pretty basic. But they do what they do very well.ö
While not as highlight-reel worthy as Coatesville, La Salle has been just as effective, if not as prolific.
The Explorers offense, led by quarterback Chris Kane (153-for-252, 2,259 yards, 28 TDs), can also score points in bunches. Sean Coleman (63 catches, 909 yards) and Jimmy Herron (32 catches, 573 yards) can produce the big play, while Herron (in the wildcat), Jared Herrmann, Mike Eife and Jordan Meachum have combined for nearly 1,400 rushing yards.
ōTheyÆre very deep, they play a lot of players,ö Ortega said of La Salle, ōand their front six is the best weÆve seen all year.
ōTheir offense is very sophisticated for high school football.ö
Just as the first quarter has been vital in each of the Raiders four playoff games, the early going should tell the tale in this one.
If Coatesville is able to score multiple touchdowns early, things could go downhill in a hurry for the Explorers. The RaidersÆ swagger and confidence will kick in, making the comeback road a rocky one for La Salle.
ōAssignments and discipline are important for us,ö Gordon said. ōAnd we canÆt come out and try and feel them out. We have to be ready immediately.
ōThey jump out 14-0 or 21-7, theyÆre in their game.ö
At the same time, if La Salle is able to move the ball, control the clock and score in the early going, the Raiders will be in the unaccustomed role of playing from behind.
ōThe biggest thing for us is moving the ball early,ö Ortega said. ōWe have to play good defense and control field position.ö
Defensively, itÆs important the Explorers are able to pressure Hunt, who has been protected extremely well all season. Taking him out of his comfort zone could disrupt the Raiders fluid offense.
Conversely, the Raiders defense needs to be able to get off the field. Eight- and 10-play La Salle drives, especially if they result in points, could rattle a team used to controlling tempo.


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The Hong Kong Morris (Chinese: 香港古代英國舞團, Cantonese pronunciation: Heung Gong Gwoo Doi Ying Gwok Mo Tuen, literally Hong Kong Ancient English Dance Platoon) is an English morris dancing team or side founded in Hong Kong in 1974. The side now has two chapters, the Hong Kong Morris in Hong Kong and the Hong Kong (UK) Morris, colloquially known as The Brackets, in the United Kingdom. In its heyday, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Hong Kong Morris was one of the largest Cotswold morris sides in the world. The side is committed to the principles of multiculturalism and inclusivity, and has always encouraged a multicultural membership and mixed dancing. The return of the former British colony of Hong Kong to China in 1997 has had no effect on the side's activities, and it continues to flourish as a notable example of the resilience of Western cultural activity in postcolonial Hong Kong.
- 1 Early history
- 2 Notable events
- 3 The Brackets
- 4 Constitution and offices
- 5 Costume
- 6 Dancing traditions
- 7 Music
- 8 Mumming play and rapper dancing
- 9 Singing
- 10 Oratory
- 11 Inclusivity and multiculturalism
- 12 Invention of traditions
- 13 Overseas tours
- 14 Visits to Hong Kong by overseas sides
- 15 Notes
- 16 Further reading
- 17 External links
Early history[edit]
The Hong Kong Morris was founded by Jim Carter in 1974. Many of its early members were officers of the Royal Hong Kong Police Force. One founding member, Tony Reynolds, was a Quaker who had driven ambulances along the Burma Road during the Second World War. The side met to practice at St John's Cathedral in Garden Road, Hong Kong Island. In the 1980s the side attracted British expatriates working in Hong Kong, teachers and engineers being particularly well represented. The side's numbers reached a peak in the mid-1980s, at around 50 dancers and musicians.
Due to the increase in the team's numbers the practice venue was moved in the early 1980s to South Island School. In 1985 the side was featured in the Morris Ring publication The Morris Tradition, as an example of the spread of morris dancing beyond its traditional home in England.[1]
Notable events[edit]
The side has typically danced either at open-air venues in Hong Kong such as fetes and festivals or in air-conditioned shopping malls. During the mid-1980s the Hong Kong Morris performed on most weekends, though in recent years performances have been less frequent.
In 1987 the side danced on top of a decorated shipping container swung out over Kwai Chung Creek on a crane to mark the opening of a new berth at Kwai Chung Container Terminals.
In 1988, in order to benefit from the waiver of fees granted by the Urban Council to charitable, religious and educational groups for the use of its premises, the Hong Kong Morris successfully argued that it was a religious group on the grounds that morris dancing was a survival of a pre-Christian fertility rite. This myth was exploded with the publication in 1999 of A History of Morris Dancing, John Forrest's magisterial study of the historical roots of morris dancing (no earlier than the fifteenth century), and is no longer an argument that the side could make with a good conscience.
In 1990 and 1991 three four-person teams from the Hong Kong Morris took part in the annual Trailwalker competition, an event that involves walking the 100 kilometres of the Maclehose Trail within a period of 48 hours. On both occasions the walkers changed into morris kit near the end of the trail, danced across the finishing line, and took part in a vigorous display of morris dancing afterwards.
In 1991 the side danced at Hei Ling Chau refugee camp. Its audience consisted of several hundred Vietnamese boat people who had fled from Vietnam and had been interned upon their arrival in Hong Kong.
In 1994 the side celebrated its twentieth anniversary in Hong Kong. A large number of former members returned to Hong Kong from the UK and Canada to take part in the celebrations.
In 1997, shortly before the handover of Hong Kong to China, the Hong Kong Morris held The Last Ale of the Empire.
In 2004 the side celebrated its thirtieth anniversary. Again, several former members returned to Hong Kong for the anniversary. The celebrations included dancing in Hong Kong Park, in Stanley, and outside the Cultural Centre in Tsim Sha Tsui.
In 2008 and 2009 the Hong Kong Morris celebrated May Morning by dancing next to the Wishing Tree in San Uk Tsai, a locally celebrated banyan tree believed to bring good fortune to its devotees.
The Brackets[edit]
In 1984 China and the United Kingdom issued a Joint Declaration providing for the return of Hong Kong to China in 1997. In the late 1980s, largely due to localisation policies implemented in preparation for the 1997 handover, many of the side's members returned to the United Kingdom. These members met for a weekend of dance at Wimborne, Dorset in 1991, at which the decision was taken to form the Hong Kong (UK) Morris, colloquially known as The Brackets. Initial Brackets gatherings took place at the annual Sidmouth Folk Festival in Devon, normally held at the end of July. In January 1993 a recently returned Hong Kong Morris member organised a weekend of dance for The Brackets and the Brackley Morris Men in Northamptonshire. The idea of a January gathering in addition to the July Sidmouth reunion caught on, and The Brackets now regularly meet and dance together in the first week of January as well as at Sidmouth.
Many of the Brackets became members of local morris sides after their return to the UK, but all retain an allegiance to the Hong Kong Morris. Throughout the 1990s members of the Hong Kong and UK sides met up annually at the Sidmouth Folk Festival, and links between the two sides remain strong. Many members of The Brackets returned to Hong Kong in 1994 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the foundation of the Hong Kong Morris, and several Brackets members also helped to celebrate the side's 30th anniversary in 2004.
A strong side of Brackets visited Hong Kong in October 2008, and the local and UK sides danced together in Stanley, on Lamma Island and in Macau.[2]
Constitution and offices[edit]
The Hong Kong Morris is registered under the Societies Ordinance (Cap. 151 of the Laws of Hong Kong), a local ordinance introduced by the Hong Kong Government to counter the threat of subversion. The ordinance allows the government to monitor the activities of political parties, pressure groups and other potentially-undesirable combinations, and under its provisions the side is required to furnish the government every year with copies of its accounts and the minutes of its annual general meeting.
As with many other morris sides, the officers of the Hong Kong Morris include a squire (president), a bagman (treasurer) and a foreman (dance teacher). In 1989, in recognition of the wish of the women members to develop their own dance traditions, the office of foreman was replaced with a men's foreman and a women's foreman.
The men's side of the Hong Kong Morris wear white trousers and shirts. Their baldricks, red and yellow with green highlights, are decorated with a badge, which was designed in 1976 by Sue King, representing a Chinese dragon behind a rapper sword knot. All three colours, but particularly red, are considered lucky in Chinese tradition, and drew attention away from the men's white shirts and trousers. White is the colour worn at funerals in China, and is considered inauspicious. This costume was lightly modified in 1984.
The Hong Kong Morris colour palette (red, yellow and green) influenced the costume of the Vancouver Morris Men [1], one of Canada's most illustrious morris sides. Graham Baldwin, one of the earliest members of the Hong Kong Morris, founded the Vancouver Morris Men in 1982, and chose the same colours for the costume of the Vancouver side.
The costume of the Hong Kong Morris women's side has undergone changes over the years. The first women's costume consisted of a white blouse and a skirt available in light green, russet brown, or pink. In 1984 this early costume was replaced with a uniform costume designed by Annette Frizell, consisting of a red skirt, a white blouse and a green waistcoat. At present many of the women dancers continue to wear the costume introduced in 1984, though some dancers prefer a modified open-neck version of the 1984-model white blouse. Other dancers wear the same costume as the men.
The sticks used by the side in its dances are wrapped in tape in three broad bands of colour: red, white and green. The green end of the stick is always held uppermost, so that any blood shed in an incautious stick clash is disguised by dripping onto the lower red band.
Many morris sides include one or more members dressed as animals, typically horses. The Hong Kong Morris has its own hobby horse named Horace, normally represented by Martin Samson.
Dancing traditions[edit]
Most of the dances performed by the Hong Kong Morris are from the Cotswold Morris tradition. Cotswold traditions danced at various periods in the side's history include Adderbury, Ascot-under-Wychwood, Bampton, Bledington, Bucknell, Fieldtown, Headington, Lichfield, Stanton Harcourt and Upton-on-Severn. At periods in its history the side has also performed longsword dances, garland dances, rapper dances and mumming plays.
While the Hong Kong Morris has always regarded Lionel Bacon's classic work A Handbook of Morris Dances[3] as a most valuable source of information on the form and historical development of particular morris tunes and morris dances, it has never felt the need to adhere slavishly to the particular form in which a dance or tune was collected several decades ago. The side has therefore contributed to the development of the morris tradition by adapting a number of existing dances to local circumstances. In the early 1980s the Hong Kong Morris developed a variant of the Lichfield Morris tradition, designed to be viewed from above when being danced on the circular ground-floor stage of the multi-storey shopping mall The Landmark. Instead of the conventional set of eight dancers, the Hong Kong Morris danced Lichfield with twelve dancers arranged in a cross formation. This formation enabled spectacular effects to be achieved, particularly in the complex Lichfield Hey. Other dances similarly adapted include the Upton-on-Yangtze stick dance, a version of the Upton-on-Severn stick dance performed in traditional Chinese costume with chopsticks, and Governor's Gallop, a dance developed in the early 1990s in honour of Chris Patten, Hong Kong's last British governor.
The main musicians for the Hong Kong side are Sue Ellis and Sue Papper (melodeons), and for the Brackets Steve Butler/Hall, John Bacon (both piano accordions), John Rowlands (button accordion) and June Rowlands (fiddle). The squeezebox and fiddle players normally carry the main burden of the tune, while attractive decorative effects are produced by supporting musicians with less powerful instruments. Bill Crump and Dave Ellis, for example, use the tin whistle to counterpoint and harmonise with the main melody. While most of the side's musicians play traditional morris instruments (the piano accordion, the button accordion, the melodeon, the concertina, the fiddle, the guitar, the bodhran and the tin whistle), the Hong Kong Morris has never refused less conventional instruments. The late Mike Cowley's inimitable performance on the trombone (Mike died on 18 November 2010) will be particularly missed, as it gave the side's music a depth and volume that considerably enhanced the performance of the dancers and at times reduced them to tears of laughter.
Mumming play and rapper dancing[edit]
The Hong Kong Morris has for many years performed an English mumming play. Texts of a large number of medieval mumming plays have survived, and the play performed by the side is in the mainstream mumming play tradition. It contains the characters Father Christmas, Saint George and the Turkish Knight. In the late 1980s and early 1990s the mumming play actors also included a display of rapper sword dancing in their performance. The impact of these performances was considerably enhanced by the striking costumes produced for the actors by side member Chris Baldwin, a devotee of amateur dramatics.
Singing (mostly of English folk songs) has always played a role in the apres-morris conviviality of the Hong Kong Morris. Jim Carter, Hilary Blythe and Phil Pimentil, three of the side's early members, were noted singers on the local folk scene as part of the group Mulled Ale, and launched a tradition of powerful singing. Several other regular singers have maintained this tradition, including Mary Read and Amy Hughes (romantic ballads), Mike Greenhalgh (sea shanties), Dave Wilmshurst ('Death to the French' songs), Steve Ford (folksong parodies) and Dave Ellis (drinking songs). Kyoko Fukuda has recently widened the side's singing repertoire with two songs sung in Japanese: one about an elephant, known as The Elephant Song,[4] and one about something else, known jokingly as The Not-the-Elephant Song.
Phil Pimentil used to sing one of the few English folksongs known to have mentioned Hong Kong, about an Irish navvy who found work in the British colony in the late nineteenth century: 'I'm off to be a Chinaman, to Hong Kong I'm bound.'[5] Another song with a China connection, The Chinese Bumboatman Song,[6] also known as The Ballad of Wing Chang Loo, has become a side favourite, and is sometimes delivered with 'an horrible oath' (as the song requires) in Cantonese, depending on the company.
An important aspect of any morris side's performance is rapport with its audience, and good speakers can make all the difference to a side's reception. The late Jim Carter was one of the side's most effective orators in its early days, and his baton has been passed on to Roger Pope, who brings to his task the humour and gravitas won in his chosen career as a school headmaster. When dancing for Chinese audiences in Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Morris always tries to make its announcements in Cantonese. Several of its expatriate members have enough Cantonese to make themselves understood on such occasions.
Inclusivity and multiculturalism[edit]
The Hong Kong Morris attracted its first women members in the late 1970s, at a time when there was opposition to women's morris dancing in the United Kingdom. Women and men have always danced together in the Hong Kong Morris, either in mixed sets or in separate sets. By the mid-1980s the side's growing numbers enabled strong men's and women's sets to develop, and each set began to specialise in certain Cotswold traditions, while retaining a large common core of dances for mixed dancing. In 1989 a women's foreman was added to the side's officers. The Hong Kong Morris was briefly a member side of the Morris Ring, but was asked to leave the Ring because of its inclusive policy on women's dancing. It is now a member side of the Morris Federation. Two of its members, John Bacon and Chris Butler/Hall, have played an influential role respectively in the development of the policies of the Morris Federation and Open Morris, two organisations in the United Kingdom committed to the principle of mixed dancing.
The side has also welcomed dancers and musicians of all nationalities. Although most of its members have been English, it has also had Hong Kong Chinese, Scottish, American, Australian, New Zealand, French, South African, Thai, Ukrainian and Japanese members.
Invention of traditions[edit]
A number of traditions were invented by the Hong Kong Morris in the early 1980s, some of which have survived. These include an adaptation of the Oxford custom May Morning, a ritual that includes dancing on The Peak at dawn followed by a hearty breakfast and still more dancing; Macau trips, including evenings of singing and dancing at the Pousada da Coloane hotel and lunch at Fernando's restaurant on Hac Sa Beach; junk trips to the Lamma Island Wan Kee Seafood Restaurant; Boxing Day dancing; and a send-off 'ale' for departing members of the side.
Overseas tours[edit]
The first overseas tour by the Hong Kong Morris was to Manila in 1980. In 1984 a strong Hong Kong Morris side visited Perth (Australia) and danced with the local ladies' side The Fair Maids of Perth.
Subsequent tours have included the 1986 Guangzhou Tour, the 1987 North American Tour to Seattle, Victoria and Vancouver (a tour in which the side danced with the US sides MossyBacks and Misty City and the Canadian Victoria and Vancouver Morris sides); the 1988 Brisbane Tour to Maleny Folk Festival, at which the side's musician was asked to accompany an Australian women's side of practising witches; the 1989 Taiwan Tour, whose participants enjoyed the unfamiliar experience of being cultural ambassadors for British education; the 1990 Bangkok Tour; the 1995 Kuala Lumpur Tour, which doubled as a honeymoon for recently married Steve and Myra Ford; and the 1997 Canberra Tour, where the Hong Kong Morris provided a visual history of morris dancing as a specially-invited side, performed its mumming play and led a session of chorus singing.
Visits to Hong Kong by overseas sides[edit]
The Hong Kong Morris is the only morris side in Hong Kong, and has therefore welcomed visits from other morris sides. Teams that have danced in Hong Kong as guests of the Hong Kong Morris include the Australian side The Fair Maids of Perth (1985, in return for the 1984 Perth Tour), the American sides MossyBack Morris Men and Misty City (1988, in return for the 1987 North American Tour), and the UK clog dancing side Kettle Bridge Clogs (1989).
Several former members of the Hong Kong Morris now dance with other sides, and occasionally revisit their old haunts. Peter and Christine Baldwin, now with the Cyprus Morris, danced with the Hong Kong Morris in November 2010 in the village of Tai Hang in the Lam Tsuen valley.
- ^ The Morris Tradition (Morris Ring, 1985): 'The work of collecting and interpreting the dances has been continued today by Roy Dommett, Lionel Bacon and many others, and the fruits of their labours can be seen in towns and villages all over England, and indeed in Europe, America, Australia and even Hong Kong.' The feature was illustrated by a photograph showing the Hong Kong Morris dancing the Upton-on-Severn stick dance at a District Board performance in Sha Tin in July 1984.
- ^ Macau Daily Times, 3 November 2008
- ^ A Handbook of Morris Dances 1974
- ^ 象さんの歌 zou-san no uta
- ^ Hong Kong is also mentioned in a variant of the English sea shanty Blow the Man Down. The word "Chinaman" is replaced with "flying-fish sailor" in the version of "Blow the Man Down" collected by Clive Carey (1883–1968)
- ^ Lyrics The Chinese bumboatman Words & music (c) Harry Nelson & Tim Drake. Registration Number / Date: EU0000464898 / 1957-02-06
Further reading[edit]
- Bacon, L., A Handbook of Morris Dances (The Morris Ring, 1974)
- Forrest, J., The History of Morris Dancing, 1483-1750 (Cambridge, 1999)
External links[edit]
- Hong Kong Morris old website [2]
- Hong Kong Morris new website [3]
- Kettle Bridge Clogs web site


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Wealthy Victor is living the expatriate's dream in 1960s Europe, but he's very, very sad, nonetheless: His mistress Louise has just refused his offer of marriage. So he has come to the elegant cafe he owns in Paris intending to starve himself to death. The staff is horrified. They suggest feeding him an imaginary banquet, plate by luscious plate, in hopes of changing his mind. As Victor in the Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company's production of An Empty Plate in the Cafe de Grand Boeuf, John Arp sampled each imaginary dish judiciously (Arp is actually a trained chef), and while he did, he dictated his obituary to the distressed waiter. This is a character who could easily seem tedious and narcissistic, but Arp played him with such warmth and intelligence that you couldn't help hoping Louise would accept him — and that he'd have a bite to eat.
9 Circles, which had its regional premiere at Curious Theatre Company, is based on a real-life atrocity in Iraq: an incident in which a United States soldier entered a family home, raped and killed the fourteen-year-old daughter, killed both her parents and her six-year-old sister, then attempted to burn her body. Taking us into this man's mind is a serious challenge. As Daniel Reeves, Sean Scrutchins needed to be twitchy and almost blurrily out of focus at first, and then, by turns, difficult, belligerent, humorous, unaware and in a state of deep denial. Scrutchins was all this — and then he took us by the throat for the play's terrifying final scene, shaking us out of our complacency and then setting us back down again, forever changed.
The character of Coalhouse Walker towers over the musical Ragtime, a panoramic take on the history of the early twentieth century based on the E.L. Doctorow novel. We are shown Walker's patient and ultimately victorious courtship of Sarah, the mother of his child; his pride, the insults he endures, and then his violent radicalization. When the actor scheduled to play Walker developed throat problems, understudy Tyrone Robinson took over the role of Walker a short time before Ragtime opened at the Arvada Center for the Arts. Tall and imposing, cocky and vulnerable, he gave full expression to the character's fierce tenderness and ambiguous morality, and his powerful, expressive voice commanded the stage.


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ACLU report documents widespread inmate abuse in LA county jails
A year-long investigation by the American Civil Liberties Union uncovered pervasive inmate abuse by sheriff deputies in Los Angeles county jails.
"Many attacks [against inmates] are unprovoked. Nearly all go unpunished: these acts of violence are covered up by a department that refuses to acknowledge the pervasiveness of deputy violence in the jail system," according to the ACLU's report, "Cruel and Unusual Punishment: How a Savage Gang of Deputies Controls LA County Jails."
The severe deputy-on-inmate beatings documented in the report have prompted an investigation by the FBI. Meanwhile, the ACLU is circulating an online petition calling for the resignation of Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca. (Click here to sign the petition.)
"Sheriff Baca bears ultimate responsibility for the horrific details we uncovered compiling this report and must step down," said Peter Eliasberg, ACLU Southern California's legal director.
"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster." – Friedrich Nietzsche
Many attacks on inmates were allegedly carried out by deputy gangs. Like street gangs, the deputy gangs demand violence against inmates as a rite of passage and consider brutal beatings as "badges of honor." A recent lawsuit filed by two LA sheriff deputies, who were allegedly beaten by a gang of deputies, accused the sheriff's department of cultivating "gang-like activity" among jail deputies, fomenting violence against and between inmates."
Examples of deputy-on-inmate violence include:
- slamming inmates' heads into walls and windows;
- pushing inmates to the ground and kicking them repeatedly with steel-toed boots;
- shooting unresisting inmates with Tasers;
- and forcing inmates to beat or sexually assault each other.
Notably, the violence was inflicted on non-resisting inmates in all the examples cited by the ACLU, including attacks witnessed by civilians. While it may be difficult to sympathize with criminals, the level of brutality and widespread abuse of power documented in the report are reprehensible and inexcusable. As one inmate explained to the ACLU, "I understand I pled guilty to a crime and I needed to serve my sentence, but I did not sign up to being beaten by deputies. Nor did I sign up to have deputies arrange to have me beaten and sexually assaulted by other inmates."
Learn More:
- ACLU Southern California: Cruel and Unusual Punishment: How a Savage Gang of Deputies Control LA County Jails – September 2011 (PDF)
- ACLU Southern California: Online petition calling for Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca to resign
- LATimes.com: FBI investigating reports of beatings in Los Angeles County Jails


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Awesome response from Philip Roth to the assertion that he is considered to be a Jewish American writer:
'An American-Jewish writer' is an inaccurate if not also a sentimental description, and entirely misses the point. The novelist's obsession, moment by moment, is with language: finding the right next word. For me, as for Cheever, DeLillo, Erdrich, Oates, Stone, Styron and Updike, the right next word is an American-English word. I flow or I don't flow in American English. (...)The American republic is 238 years old. My family has been here 120 years, or for just more than half of America's existence. They arrived during the second term of President Grover Cleveland, only 17 years after the end of Reconstruction. Civil War veterans were in their 50s. Mark Twain was alive. Sarah Orne Jewett was alive. Henry Adams was alive. All were in their prime. Walt Whitman was dead just two years. Babe Ruth hadn't been born. If I don't measure up as an American writer, at least leave me to my delusion.


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Hi,I am using an embedded DirectoryService instance from trunk. If I start the service and inject my test data with ACIs they work correctly. E.g. users can access the data allowed by the ACIs. If I stop the server and start it again they can't. If I connect to the server as the admin user I can see that my data is still there and the subEntries are visible they just don't seem to be being interpreted.
I remember seeing a message on these forums that this was a bug in 1.5.7 but had been fixed on trunk. I am using the following code to start the service: InstanceLayout instanceLayout = new InstanceLayout(workingDir);
instanceLayout.mkdirs(); initSchemaPartition(instanceLayout.getPartitionsDirectory()); directoryService = new DefaultDirectoryService(); directoryService.setSchemaManager(schemaManager);
directoryService.setInstanceId(instanceId); directoryService.setInstanceLayout(instanceLayout); directoryService.setAccessControlEnabled(true); directoryService.setAllowAnonymousAccess(false);
Partition systemPartition = createPartition("system", ServerDNConstants.SYSTEM_DN); directoryService.setSystemPartition(systemPartition); directoryService.setDenormalizeOpAttrsEnabled(true);
Partition ratPartition = createPartition(partitionId, partitionDn); addIndex(ratPartition, "objectClass", "ou", "uid"); SchemaPartition schemaPartition = directoryService.getSchemaService().getSchemaPartition();
schemaPartition.setWrappedPartition( schemaLdifPartition ); schemaPartition.setSchemaManager( schemaManager ); directoryService.startup(); directoryService.addPartition(ratPartition);
Is there something more I need to do to reload the ACI cache?Thanks,Mike Adamson


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According to New York Times reporter Yamiche Alcindor, the outcry over Donald Trump's hot-mic audio has something to do with race. After the presidential candidate's lascivious comments went public last week, many Republicans rescinded their endorsement. But some journalists claim that the reason was not the mogul's vulgar words, so much as the target of those words: a white woman.
At a contentious impeachment hearing conducted by the House Judiciary Committee Wednesday, IRS Commissioner John Koskinen admitted that his agency targeted Tea Party groups looking to obtain tax-exempt status. "They were totally improper criteria used to select organizations, applying for c-4 designation for further review," testified Koskinen before the committee, "Those organizations predominantly were conservative organizations." This stunning abuse of power went unreported by the "Big Three" networks Wednesday evening and Thursday morning.
Although demonstrators have been sparking police action by throwing rocks and bottles, blocking major interstates, and disrupting everyday life in cities across the country, the lefty media narrative last week was all about the "peaceful" protesters and the evil cops that kept arresting them. Now, three Baton Rouge police officers have been killed.
As of Tuesday morning, ABC, CBS, and NBC's morning and evening newscasts have yet to cover the Monday afternoon stabbings at a Canadian military recruitment center in Toronto. During the attack, the suspect, Ayanle Hassan Ali, shouted, "Allah told me to do this, Allah told me to come here and kill people." According to an AP report on Tuesday, Ali first targeted a "uniformed Canadian Forces member at the front desk before slashing him on the right upper arm. He said the suspect then attempted to slash a female member of the Forces before he was subdued."
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June 18 (Reuters) - Oil and gas companies will increase exploration and production (E&P) spending by 6 percent to $712 billion this year, despite a slight pullback in spending by industry majors, Barclays said.
Spending by major oil companies is expected to remain flat this year, Barclays said in a report on Wednesday. The bank earlier said it had expected spending to rise by nearly 3 percent.
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So far this post has shown the types of inpatient service that people are in, their levels of security, and the legal status of people within them. All of these show a very diverse picture. Are there any clues about whether services that are more secure/forensic are clearly different from services that are less secure?
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"Is this because there aren't enough medium/high secure inpatient services and they are desperately needed, or is it because less restrictive options are possible (most importantly, outside inpatient services altogether)?" yes and yes. There is a grave shortage of specialist and secure hospital beds in certain parts of the country (eg the south west) and therefore people are being sent for appropriate care and treatment many miles from their home area. Also, the closure of many local specialist hospitals after the Winterbourne scandals did not coincide with an increase in good community provision for people with highly complex needs and so again, more people have ended up in out of area hospitals, both secure and non-secure. stats and graphs produce a number of questions but rarely provide answers.ReplyDelete


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Pav bhaji, a Mumbai street item which is relished by each and everyone throughout India. This is another street food like the pani puri, bhel puri etc.Normally it is made with almost all the vegetables along with the main ingredient potato. You can find the recipe of theauthentic Mumbai style pav bhaji here
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So first of all, I realize that I haven't posted in forever. I am very sorry about that. My only excuse is the ungodly amount of classwork I have. But I promise, as soon as it is all done for the semester (which will only be a couple more weeks) I will be back, posting like a fiend. In the meantime, I thought some of you might find a paper I just wrote for class rather interesting. It is a review of a book by a philosopher/neuroscientist titled Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness. Obviously, it is about philosophy of consciousness/perception. I highly recommend it. If you're interested, read on; if not, no hard feelings. If you have any questions about anything in the paper, feel free to comment like usual. I'll be back with my regular posts (and the completion of the series I started long ago) soon. Stay tuned.
Philosopher, cognitive scientist, and neuroscientist Alva Noë's recent book Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness purports itself to be something of a game-changer in the world of neuroscience and the philosophy of perception. Says Noë in the preface: "I am writing the book to change the world. Or at least to shake up the cognitive science establishment. I am aware that that's a tall order and that in some ways it may seem presumptuous even to try" (Noë xiv). Presumptuous indeed. I will suspend judgment on whether or not he succeeded for now. But there is no doubt that what he proposes here would certainly require a rethinking of what philosophers and scientists in the related fields have taken for granted for some time: namely that consciousness, whatever else it may be, resides in our heads. This Noë denies repeatedly and with conviction, arguing instead for what he calls variously an "ecological," "embodied," "enactive" approach. Here I will examine the main ideas and arguments of the book and provide some brief critical comments. As it turns out, Noë is an entertaining writer and illustrates his points well, and so I will be quoting from him extensively.
In chapter one, "An Astonishing Hypothesis," Noë sets forth the establishment view as epitomized by Nobel laureate Francis Crick:
you, your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules…This hypothesis is so alien to the ideas of most people alive today that it can truly be called astonishing (5).
Noë disagrees. Not only is this view not "astonishing," it is what has been assumed unquestioningly since Descartes himself, if not longer. "It isn't surprising to be told that there is a thing inside each of us that thinks and feels and wants and decides," says Noë (5). The only difference between this view and Descartes' is that the "thinking thing" is now supposed to be physical rather than immaterial. But far from solving the problem of consciousness, Noë says, this distinction merely restates it in new terms. Instead, he proposes what he thinks is "a really astonishing hypothesis":
…to understand consciousness—the fact that we think and feel and that a world shows up for us—we need to look at a larger system of which the brain is only one element. Consciousness is not something the brain achieves on its own. Consciousness requires the joint operation of brain, body, and world. Indeed, consciousness is an achievement of the whole animal in its environmental context. I deny, in short, that you are your brain…To have a mind…requires more than a brain. Brains don't have minds; people (and other animals) do.
In essence, consciousness is not something we have somewhere inside us; it is something we do (24).
To illustrate his point, he critiques the classic "brain in a vat" line of thought experiment, pointing out that such a thing could never amount to what we would call real consciousness without many adjustments. For one, brains don't have faces, or any of the other markers by which humans are used to identifying consciousness. Also, in order to achieve an even remotely analogous situation to real-life brain processing, what might the vat have to look like? Says Noë, "If you actually try to think through the details of this thought experiment…it's clear that the vat would have to be, in effect, something like a living body" (13).
Just in case we might think the current discussion one for the academy, Noë brings it a little closer to home by highlighting direct clinical application in cases of patients diagnosed with persistent vegetative state (PVS) and locked-in syndrome. In the former, the patient is thought to be "brain-dead," often permanently, even though the body will still often respond to external stimuli. In the latter, the patient is by all appearances vegetative, but she remains fully conscious, though unable to communicate. Patients with locked-in syndrome can sometimes learn to communicate by elaborate systems of blinking, and some have even written memoirs describing the experience. Noë asks us to imagine having a family member with such a diagnosis. Would we be content with the brain scan which tells us that our loved one has PVS rather than locked-in syndrome? Is neuronal activity as measured by positron emission tomography (PET) or functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) a reliable indicator of consciousness? Reliable enough to make a life-ending decision? Of course Noë is not denying the usefulness of such imaging technology, but he is careful to remind us that it does not actually provide us with a direct picture of consciousness in action, as is so easily assumed:
Brain scans thus represent the mind at three steps of removal: they represent physical magnitudes correlated to blood flow; the blood flow in turn is correlated to neural activity; the neural activity in turn is supposed to correlate to mental activity (24).
In chapter two, "Conscious Life," Noë offers something of a solution to the age-old philosophical problem of how we arrive at and justify the widespread belief that there are minds other than our own. Rather than attempting to solve it logically as so many before him, Noë denies the need to raise it to begin with. This is because "our commitment to other minds is…not really a theoretical commitment at all," but rather "a presupposition of the kind of life we lead together" (32-3). The knowledge that there are minded beings other than ourselves just comes with living in the world we find ourselves in. It is not an abstract knowledge to be arrived at by inference, but rather a necessary feature of our experience, a natural element of our relationships with other persons. As Noë puts it, "I cannot both trust and love you and also wonder whether, in fact, you are alive with thought and feeling, just as I cannot dance well if I am counting steps and trying to remember what comes next" (33). Noë sees the consciousness-contained-in-the-skull establishment view as promoting a "detached, mechanistic attitude to human beings," which essentially denies the relational nature of consciousness and encourages an unnecessary problem. Instead, he suggests that the proper perspective from which to study consciousness is the biological one, viewing the organism as a unit that is bound up with its environment. For Noë, "the problem of consciousness…is…the problem of life" (41). He apparently means this quite literally; to live is to be conscious, and vice versa. And of course to be conscious is to be intentionally and actively engaged in one's environment. Noë grants that there are of course internal neural correlates of consciousness, but points out that "there are external correlates of consciousness too," namely the activities in which we find ourselves engaged on a daily basis (42). This is further supported by the observation that sudden, significant changes in one's environment, such as a move or the death of a loved one, are often devastating. This is not surprising when one considers the intimate relationship between consciousness and one's daily routine. Such a change is quite literally to lose a part of oneself, a theme to which Noë returns frequently later in the book.
Chapter three, "The Dynamics of Consciousness," provides additional argument for Noë's novel approach in the form of some very interesting experiments involving ferrets, phantom limbs, and video cameras, respectively. MIT researcher Mriganka Sur "re-wired," as it were, newborn ferrets, routing the connections between their eyes and brain so that the cells in the eye that normally made neural connections with the "visual" centers of the brain now made those connections in areas of the brain normally thought of as auditory. The result was both surprising and instructive: rather than hearing with their eyes, the ferrets developed vision, even though an entirely different area of the brain was involved. Clearly, the touted neural correlates of consciousness do not tell the whole story. What this experiment shows is that far from being sufficient for conscious experience as the establishment view would have it, "there is no necessary connection between the character of experience and the behavior of certain cells" (54).
Similarly, the phenomenon of so-called "phantom limbs" further illustrates the point. Sometimes after the amputation of a limb, the patient will report the persistence of sensations in that limb. It is not that the patient is having convincing hallucinations of feeling in the missing limb; when touched on the face, the patient actually feels a touch on the hand that is no longer there. This is presumably because the "face region" of the cortex somehow becomes entangled with the "hand region" (apparently they are next to one another), so that a touch on the face activates the hand region of the cortex (albeit by way of the face) and so produces the sensation of being touched on the missing limb. When contrasted with the ferret case, this shows that changes in the stimulation of brain areas do not always result in changes in the character of the resulting experiences.
In case we are still not convinced, Paul Bach-y-Rita's tactile-visual sensory substitution system (TVSS) ought to do the trick. The late Bach-y-Rita was actually able to devise a system which allowed blind patients to attain some level of what can only be called vision. Basically, TVSS involves mounting a video camera on the patient's body and wiring to it a system of vibrators that are in turn attached to the subject's thigh or abdomen. The vibrations correspond with the visual information presented to the camera, and, remarkably, when given a little while to adjust to the system (a matter of hours or even minutes), patients are able to correctly judge the size, shape, and number of objects across the room from them, pick up objects, and even successfully swat a ball with a paddle. It is important to note that the subject is not experiencing the feeling of being touched on the abdomen and then somehow correlating this with the location of spatial objects; she reports an actual visual experience, and apparently an accurate one. As in the ferret case, the areas of the brain usually devoted to touch are changing their function in order to allow for vision. But with TVSS, the brain is not exhibiting the same sort of plasticity we see in the ferret case; it is using fully matured neuronal connections in novel ways to achieve new ends. But how can vibrations on the abdomen allow one to see? Noë is very glad you asked:
We see with Bach-y-Rita's system because the relationship that system sets up and maintains between the perceiver and the object is, in ways that can be made precise, the sort of relation that we bear to things when we see them. What causes the effects for consciousness of neural activity in the touch-dedicated parts of the brain to change? Answer: the world and our relation to it (59).
"But," one may object, "can we really call what TVSS accomplishes vision? After all, doesn't seeing require the use of eyes?" In response to this, Noë points out that normal vision and what TVSS does "share a style." That is to say, sensory stimulation in each depends on movement in much the same way: things get bigger when they move closer; they disappear when you turn away from them, etc. More to the point still, this movement is what fixes the visual character of TVSS, not the neural activity in the somatosensory cortex. In short, conscious experience is not confined to the limits of the nervous system; it is actively engaged with the world around us. Noë likens the relation between brain and consciousness to the relation between a musician and her instrument, concluding that "the idea that consciousness is a phenomenon of the brain…is as fantastic as the idea of a self-playing orchestra" (64).
In the chapter entitled "Wide Minds," Noë elaborates on the influence of the external world on our conscious experience. We are, he says, "tangled up…with the places we find ourselves. We are of them" (69). He illustrates this with the "rubber hand phenomenon," in which a rubber, lifelike hand is placed on a table in front of a subject who is seated at the table, her own hands out of view under it. A second person taps the rubber hand repeatedly, while one of the subject's hands is simultaneously tapped in synchrony, under the table. Oddly enough, the subject experiences the feeling of being tapped on the rubber hand on the table. Alternately, we may consider how our visual experience affects our auditory perception. For example, we experience dialogue in a movie as coming from the actors' mouths, even though it is actually coming from speakers elsewhere. Similarly, the ventriloquist utilizes this phenomenon to make it seem as though her own voice is coming from the puppet. Clearly, the environment impinges heavily on conscious experience. In fact, the rubber hand case seems to suggest that "attachment or connectedness is not necessary for something to be a part of me," or at least to be experienced as a part of me (75). But just how far Noë intends for us to take this connectedness is not entirely clear. He says later, "there is no principled reason not to think of the wristwatch, the landmarks, the pen and paper, the linguistic community, as belonging to my mind" (82). Of course he is not advocating some weak solipsism here; he is merely stressing our involvement in the world and its involvement in our conscious experience. Nonetheless, it raises the question of exactly how far our selves extend. More on this later.
Chapter five, "Habits" expands on this theme with a thorough discussion of the role of habit—and how that habit is shaped by our environment—in our conscious experience. Noë utilizes the distinction between expert and novice, pointing out the interesting fact that for the novice, there is a positive correlation between the amount of deliberate focus on a skill and the success with which it is performed, but for the expert, the opposite is true: the correlation is negative. If an expert attempts to focus on the mechanics of a mastered skill, the performance suffers. If, however, the expert concentrates on something else, say the next pitch from the mound or the next movement in the piece of music being played, the performance improves. Noë draws the analogy between this and our being expert perceivers. Just as the expert musician is automatic and flexible in her performance, so we are with our perception. We are creatures of habit. And those habits are formed by our landscape.
Why then do researchers persist in the establishment view that our brains are somehow sufficient for our conscious experience? In the next three chapters, "The Grand Illusion," "Voyages of Discovery," and "A Nothing Reserved for Everything," Noë deals with this question. "The Grand Illusion" attacks those scientists who want to say that our perception of the external world is merely illusory, i.e. that our brain essentially creates for us a representation (and a crude one at that) of whatever may actually be out there. Noë calls this both "bad philosophy" and "bad science," pointing out that science in principle couldn't tell us such a thing if it wanted to, since our interaction with the world around us is presupposed by the scientific enterprise itself (146).
"Voyages of Discovery" treats the work of David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel, who in 1981 won the Nobel Prize for their research on the neurophysiology of vision. Suffice it to say that Noë is far less impressed with their work than the Nobel committee must have been, since its usefulness and relevance to visual perception essentially depends on their assumption that the mind is a product of events in the brain. Part of this assumption is the still-popular "information-processing" view of the brain, advanced by Marr and others, in which the brain and nervous system are likened to a computer. Detailed analogies are drawn between how a computer processes information and how the brain might do it. Noë does not deny that there are interesting parallels here; he merely highlights what ought to be obvious: that none of this locates seeing in the brain. In fact, it doesn't even make sense to say that the brain is entirely responsible for seeing. "Computers can't think on their own any more than hammers can pound in nails on their own…In any case, brains don't think: they don't have minds; animals do" (169).
"A Nothing Reserved for Everything" examines the final holdout of the establishment scientist: what Noë calls the "Foundation Argument." The Foundation Argument is roughly that since we can generate experience by direct stimulation of the brain, the brain itself—and the brain alone—must be the basic ground of experience (173). For Noë, this amounts to one big non sequitur. First, being able to produce some perceptual experience in no way amounts to being able to produce anything like our full, regular experience. Second, even if we could do this, it still wouldn't follow that the brain alone is sufficient for all of our consciousness, or even for those hallucinations (a manipulating scientist at least is required). And third, producing these experiences by direct stimulation actually involves altering already existing conscious states, not creating them out of nothing (174). Noë concludes, persuasively,
There is no empirical or philosophical justification for the idea that the brain alone is enough for consciousness…there is something perverse about the very idea that we are our brains, that the world we experience is within us. We don't need to have the world within us: we have access to the world around us; we are open to it (181).
In the end, Noë makes a very compelling case for an enactive approach to neuroscience and biology of consciousness. While some knowledge of the orthodox view he criticizes is assumed and helpful, his representations of it are fair and balanced. And his criticisms of it are, in my view, devastating. There just is no convincing reason that I can see to continue with the assumption (or to posit it to begin with) that the whole of our conscious experience lies within the confines of our skull. However, with the admittedly liberating insight that we are actively involved and co-determinate with our environment, the concern arises that it will now be a bit more difficult to define what exactly the limits of consciousness are, and what are the boundaries of "self." Of course, this is no reason to abandon the paradigm shift Noë is proposing; we should not run from difficulty, after all. But if the obvious boundary of my skin is not in fact the edge of "me," then where to draw the line after that point is not at all clear and may in fact be arbitrary. Unfortunately, Noë does not address this criticism in the book. But this is not an argument against anything he says; it is merely a concern regarding the application of his model—a model we can hope is developed and employed more widely very soon.
Noë, Alva. Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness. New York: Hill and Wang, 2009.


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Yourquestion begs the larger questions: Why are you thinking about doing a plea anyway, and why in this forum? What you should be thinking about are 1) "How am I going to afford to hire a lawyer and know which one to commit to?", 2) "Even if I can't afford one, but will need a court appointed attorney instead, how do I BEAT this case?". 3) Why am I thinking about a probation - which IS a (FELONY) CONVICTION and will weigh me down like a battleship anchor (and chain) for the rest of my life?" and 4) "How did I arrive at this position, and what am I going to do to fix it?"
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He wishes he had, though. "I didn't keep one because I didn't think anyone would be interested in my life," he says. "But now I look back, maybe people would be. I know I am."
McKenney is raking over his teenage years for a special autobiographical project presented at the Ensemble Theatre as part of this year's Spectrum Now Festival.
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Though he lacks the documentary proof, McKenney says he has a good memory. "I've been whittling the stories down to three or four landmark anecdotes. There will be a lot to laugh at. I wonder if it will be a bit like therapy? I have one humiliating story from my ballroom dancing years, one poignant story about the gay issue and one feel-good story about finally knowing it's OK to be flamboyant and a boy and wanting to dance as a career."
McKenney, now 50, was a "goodie two-shoes" as a teenager at school. "I was the one that sucked up to the teachers and carried their bags to their cars and all that crap. I can't believe I did it. I was that guy. The brown-noser. And I was so straitlaced, too. My shoes were sensible, my jeans were sensible, my shirts were sensible. My hair was ridiculously sensible. A side parting."
Looking back at his young self, McKenney says the idea was to blend in. "I didn't want to make any waves whatsoever. I didn't want to be noticed or draw attention to myself at school. Boy, did that change."
At about the same time McKenney was evading attention in Perth, Georgie Parker – Georgina, then – was at school in St Ives on Sydney's North Shore. Unlike McKenney, she did keep a diary, though not diligently.
"I think most people go through that stage of wanting to write things down," Parker says. "I had times of angst but mostly I was pretty high spirited and very strong individual. I was free to be me."
Parker says she hasn't changed a great deal over the intervening years. "I was then pretty much what I am now, just younger and unable to drive. I was lucky because I knew I wanted to be an actor from about the age of eight. Having seen so many people who haven't found their passion or are unable to pursue it, I now realise how lucky I've been."
She will share a story about having a back brace fitted when she was 13 years old to correct her scoliosis. "I talk about that because it was quite a big moment. You have to buy a ticket to hear the full story."
The young Taylor kept a journal rather than a diary. He had no choice. It was compulsory at his school.
"The teacher would read them to check we were doing the work," Taylor says. "I always felt this cut into the core idea of the journal being a private document. But we arrived at a compromise: the teacher would read them upside down. That way, he said, he wouldn't be able to see into our innermost thoughts. But we were all convinced he developed the skill to read upside down handwriting."
Taylor's contribution to Confessions will include what he describes as "the most morally reprehensible thing I have ever done in my life".
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Looking back through his journals has reminded Taylor of the happiness he experienced in his teenaged years. He now wishes he'd had a more dysfunctional youth to share.
"When you read David Sedaris and other writers like that you envy them their miserable childhoods because they have so much more to write about."
Confessions of a Teenage Diary is on March 6 (2pm) and March 8 (7.30pm) at the Ensemble Theatre, Kirribilli, as part of the Spectrum Now Festival; $39-$49 at spectrumnow.com.au.