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Agreeing to direct the advertisement, David Lynch commented, "I like the Micra, particularly the headlamps. They are like jewels. And I like the concept of 'Do you speak Micra?' I like modern and retro put together to make modtro – that's a very good concept."
I guess the commercial is essentially lame, and the Micra doesn't look much different from the VW Beetle.Visually, though, that was beautiful.. you gotta admit it...
Oh, c'mon, the shifting cityscape was good. Reminded me of "Dark City."By the way, anyone who has not seen Lynch's Lumiere short (a very short short), go out and rent that video right now. (forgot the name of that video... ughh, what's the name of that video?)

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The origins of religion are thought to be rooted in animism and other primitive notions
which our pre-literate ancestors chose to accept as part of the explanation for our
very existence. Archaeological evidence demonstrates that early humans possessed a religious
consciousness going back to the Middle Paleolithic period. This predates agriculture,
writing, science, or civilization. Possibly before our use of tools, fire, or language.
Our early existence was predicated on interacting with nature at it's most rudimentary
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nervous system. This accidental ingestion of a hallucinogenic plant (a mushroom?) would
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/healing-power-numinosum] and could of possibly led to the formation of the concept of deity and the supernatural. This imaginary proposition was suggested by the ethno-mycologist R. Gordon Wasson during the late fifties/early sixties.
It does have a logical appeal in the sense that a person scanning nature for sources of
food would quickly single out the unusual shape and appearance of the lowly
mushroom. Given a couple thousand years of random experimentation our early ancestors
would eventually discover and ingest psychoactive fungi that would induce a
hallucinogenic experience and provide the spiritual connection to the numinosum.
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since before the time of the Conquest/Conquistadors. How long before is not certain.
Whether it was the ingestion of a fungus or other plant life there remains a distinct possibility
that the hallucinogenic experience/altered state of consciousness played a direct role in the
formation of transcendental thought. Perhaps the 'religious experience' has it's origin
in the consumption of psychoactive plants by our forefathers.
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I like that suggestion. So why is there such a lack of European (and other) tradition and written history about it? Was it censored? Was there a move away from psychotropics in pre-history, while religion/deism remained alive?
@ Pope Beanie
I don't have an explanation for the absence of psychotropics in today's religions. It was used by our ancestors for a long period of time in the Americas. A few Indian tribes still consider it an essential part of their religious experience. I believe the use of hallucinogenic substances probably facilitated spiritual thoughts about our existence and place in the universe. Their use, through accidental or planned ingestion,certainly could of been an impetus into the development of supernatural thought. As to why the use of psychoactive compounds would of fell out of use in many geographic areas I do not know.
I will check out the links you mentioned (Egodeath, etc) as time permits. You are certainly better read on the subject than myself. It is interesting food for thought.
@Ed Just curious. Are you deleting the posts I've left or is it the MODs?
I really don't mind, after all, it is your thread. I understand the post was a bit long, but if that's the case, I'll simply make another thread with the material so that you can have access to the links once again.
My two cents: I am actually interested in the subject and what you have to say about it - but NOT interested enough to spend all day reading it. A post has got to be REALLY interesting to me before I deem to read more than a screenful. Your posts are three, four, five screenfuls.
Consider sourcing the material elsewhere and then making you salient points here with links for those who want to pursue in detail.
Thanks for the feedback and advice, MikeLong. You're right. Some of my posts have ran quite long. I'll try and make it more concise. I know it's not simply the length that is cause for its deletion, because my other shorter posts on this thread have been deleted, too.
You'd think an atheist forum would be a latitudinarian area for discussion, but apparently that's not the case. It's sort of disheartening to realize that your freedom of speech is limited in a place like this especially when you're following the TA guidelines.
I'll go over it again and try and minimize it as much as I can, but I feel that some of these concepts cannot be expressed in a mere paragraph.
I got your message, Gallup. I'm not sure how MODs can view this as "proselytizing." If that's what they interpreted as, then I've obviously been misconstrued. I want to make one thing absolutely clear. I am not a Zen Buddhist (I know it reads Buddhism on my profile, but that's only because I couldn't find "empirical agnostic" and you're only given so many options to choose from), I am not advocating Perennial Philosophy, I am not trying to convert anyone to it. I have nothing to sell. I'm simply expressing concepts as Ed said, "Food for thought."
When primates evolved creativity, self awareness, and social relationships to the point of being able to hear themselves think and imagine hypothetical social interaction; I doubt drugs were needed to direct energy to some sort of more powerful being. Imaginary friends seem so natural to our species.
Agree. But here's why it's so natural - LANGUAGE.
That beautiful red ball hanging from the tree (which, from experience, you know to be delicious and health) is reality. But when you give it a name ("apple"), you've created abstraction (and, BTW, consciousness).
Next step you become self-aware - you understand that you can be named and are separate from you environment (which, of course, you're really not). Language becomes something with which you can create a reality which is not present. You can TELL another where the apple tree is.
Next step, when words start coursing through your brain, language plays a trick - an illusion. Language, by its nature has a speaker and a listener. Naturally, then, when language occurs in the brain only, it is STILL necessary (by the nature of language) that there is a speaker and a listener. But you look around and you count only one. Where is the other?
Voila. God!
I still believe it was a HUGE leap of the imagination for us to create invisible beings. When it was recently discovered that there were isolated South American tribes who had no previous contact with the outside world it was determined that culturally they had no concept of god(s) or a word in their language for such supernatural ideas.
I can think of a lot of ways that someone can have a "supernatural" experience or "numinous experience" without ingesting any mind altering bio-matter. Walk through the burning savannah for a couple hours. Hyperventilate and fall down. Have disturbing reoccurring dreams about the same inexplicable subject. Stare too long at the sun. Getting hit really hard on the head. Seeing an enormous crashing misty water fall for the first time. Thunder and lightening setting a tree on fire. Having a very strong fever. Getting lost and separated from your tribe and suffering hallucinations due to social isolation. Giving birth to triplets. Witnessing an entire tribe of humans murdered by a stampede of animals. Going without sleep for three nights in a row.
These can all be experienced without language or many modern cultural constructs. I like the mushroom idea but I think this could be one of many many many experiences that would ignite the irrational in pre-language man.
Knocks on the head aside, I believe the hallucinogenic experience could of been one avenue for our early ancestors to ponder about a supernatural realm. I don't want to imply that it was the definitive starting point for religious concepts but it might have had an influence. As someone who has experienced, albeit many years ago, the effects of hallucinogenic compounds in the form of LDS and psilocybin I can attest to the 'creative juices' that flow when under their influence. The chemical imbalance of one's blood system resulting from these substances allows the mind to explore areas previously never considered.
The effects of psychoactive substances to stimulate our thought processes should not be underestimated. The question is whether any validity should be attached to those thoughts. Regarding the supernatural I think not; there always remains the need for verification


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China's import demand for soybeans and cotton has breathed fresh optimism into the markets and pushed prices higher. The question is, can it continue?
Analyst Rich Pottorff, Doane Ag Services, said this will depend to some degree on whether or not China is able to bring back lost grain acreage to bump up its production capacity and, of course, how South America responds to China's import demand.
"The growth in the soybean trade over the last decade has been driven almost totally by the growth in the Chinese market," Pottorff said, speaking at the National Alliance of Independent Crop Consultants annual meeting in New Orleans. "We've also sent a huge amount of our cotton crop there. So far, China remains a competitor in the corn market and is basically self-sufficient in wheat."
The result is that the outlook for U.S. agriculture is more positive than it's been in the last 25 years, according to Pottorff. "Chinese consumption of soybeans exploded in the mid-1990s and the country has now doubled its consumption over the last 10 years. All of the increase has been made up by imports, with a substantial portion of that coming from the United States.
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This also means that the Chinese, already in the market for U.S. cotton and soybeans, could soon be a market for corn as well. "Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, China built grain stocks to a little over 300 million metric tons in 1999. Since that time, stocks have plunged down to about 100 million metric tons. Either they have to bring land back into production or they have to go into the world market and buy grain.
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"We think China will import some wheat this year, to 4 million to 6 million metric tons over the next few years," Pottorff added. "We think they'll cut corn exports to about 7.5 million metric tons this year. Last year, they exported 15 million metric tons plus. As a result, the United States should pick up some significant marketshare. We think that by mid-decade, China could be importing both corn and wheat."
The big wrench in the machinery, of course, is export competition from South America, especially in soybeans, noted Pottorff. "Soybean output in South America is rising rapidly. Brazil could bring another 100 million acres or more into production. They will continue to be an extremely important competitor."
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The Republican Party's hawks are finally saying it out in the open: This aggression will not stand, Rand.
After three years of watching the GOP's non-interventionist wing gather strength, there are mounting signs that a more combative set of national security conservatives have reached their breaking point. Now, prominent conservative leaders in what used to be considered the Bush-Cheney mold are increasingly taking the offensive against their intra-party rivals.
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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie publicly challenged libertarian Republicans Thursday to explain their skepticism about government surveillance to the families of 9/11 victims, declaring at a Republican Governors Association event: "I want them to come to New Jersey and sit across from the widows and the orphans and have that conversation."
New York Rep. Peter King said this week that he will explore a 2016 presidential run to wrest control of the defense debate from small-government advocates such as Sens. Rand Paul of Kentucky and Ted Cruz of Texas, and warned that an America-first candidate would stand little chance of defeating Hillary Clinton.
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"I want a strong national defense and I don't want Rand Paul to be the face of the Republican Party," King said in an interview. "I've felt this way for a while [and] once it gets out there, people say, 'God, this is wrong, we're killing ourselves. This is not the Republican Party.'"
Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, who was a vocal and at times caustic critic of Rand Paul's father, former Texas Rep. Ron Paul, during the 2012 primaries, called it a welcome development that "people are starting to push back."
"There was a lot of talk, particularly during the Republican primary last year, of, 'Well, we don't want to alienate these voters," Santorum said, recalling that he'd been criticized as "too bellicose" and "too warlike. "I can tell you, the Paulistas who were active on the state level in 2012 were not interested in the Republican Party as it now exists. They are interested in a very different kind of model."
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King acknowledged that public opinion has turned against some Bush-era security policies, such as the ongoing war in Afghanistan. But he suggested that it doesn't take much to jolt voters from their sense of complacency.
"I see every time there's a terror attack, or even a thwarted terror attack, people's views change dramatically," the Long Island lawmaker said, conceding: "They want out after 12 years in Afghanistan, and really after President Obama not explaining for the last five years why we're there."
For the emboldened phalanx of defense-minded conservatives, it remains to be seen how difficult a task they'll have in turning the tide of the GOP's national security conversation. Republican hawks say they are firmly confident that the party is, in its heart, more sympathetic to the George W. Bush agenda of expanding freedom and fighting terrorism, than to the Rand-style focus on limiting the government's security powers that many congressional Republicans have recently embraced.
That's certainly true of most national Republican elites. In some Republican donor and operative circles, there's active talk of whether the GOP's strong-on-defense wing may need new infrastructure and organizations to promote their priorities during primary season in 2014 and beyond.
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Zack Greinke traded from Brewers to Angels
(AP) ANAHEIM, Calif. - Zack Greinke has been traded by the Milwaukee Brewers to the Los Angeles Angels for rookie shortstop Jean Segura and two minor league pitchers.
The Angels also sent right-handers Ariel Pena and RHP Johnny Hellweg to Milwaukee in the deal announced Friday night before Los Angeles played Tampa Bay.
By landing Greinke, Los Angeles acquired perhaps the most prized pitcher available before Tuesday's trade deadline. The 2009 AL Cy Young Award winner is 9-3 with a 3.44 ERA in 21 starts for Milwaukee this season.
The 28-year-old right-hander can become a free agent after the World Series.


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Sugarhill Gang Share Story of Betrayal, Theft in 'I Want My Name Back' – [Exclusive Video]
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'I Want My Name Back,' a new documentary available on DVD June 11, tells the rich and compelling story of the Sugarhill Gang members Wonder Mike and Master Gee, who are considered to be among the originators of hip-hop. In an exclusive clip from the DVD, the rap pioneers explain the trials and tribulations they faced during their rise to fame.
These artists were on the road to stardom when they were screwed over by a record company that jacked not only their earnings but also their name!
This clip, which is exclusive to TheDrop.fm, encapsulates the rebirth period in 2005, when Wonder Mike and Master Gee started doing new music together. The footage features a mix of interviews and studio sessions. We'll let them tell the story, since they lived it.
However, we'll offer up some history and context, too!
The threesome of Wonder Mike, Master Gee and Big Bank Hank introduced the world to the genre with their hit 'Rapper's Delight' back in 1979. The trio saw their career derailed, and they were left broke when they were robbed of the Sugarhill Gang name, adding insult to injury. Their fight to reclaim their name and their legacy is a story that hasn't always been told, but they reveal it in their own words in 'I Want My Name Back.'
So watch this clip from the film. It'll certainly leave you wanting to know more, as it documents an important time in rap music history.


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Sourdough Wheat Panmarino9 08 2010
I've made panmarino before using Peter Reinhart's recipe from Bread Baker's Apprentice, this time I kept the concept the same and used my own recipe. I'm submitting some breads to the LA County fair this year and was looking for something interesting to make in the whole wheat category, and the panmarino seemed like a good choice. It also seemed like it would be a good bread for a hike, two birds with one stone! I should also note, I bumped the salt content up slightly for the hike, I'd suggest .4 or .5 of an ounce instead of the .6 of an ounce. It tastes good with the .6 though it may be a bit salt for some peoples' taste, however that salt tastes yummy on a sweat inducing 7 hour hike!
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Those familiar with the phrase "Keep Calm and Chive On" probably knew that the music festival Chive Fest was headed to City Park on Aug. 16. But that news came as a surprise to many residents of the surrounding neighborhoods, and they are anything but calm about it.
Chive Fest will bring eight bands to two stages throughout a 10-hour festival that has patrons shelling out $77 per ticket.
Organizers will block off a portion of the park for the estimated 7,500 people who will come out to see national acts such as Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Cold War Kids and Talib Kweli. Chive Fest — started by the creators of thechive.com, a website for viral videos and photos — began this year and has had shows in Chicago and Seattle, with an upcoming date in Dallas.
Several residents in the area have concerns that they will lose access to parts of the park for up to four days — including set-up and tear-down time. They are also worried about trash the event might create, traffic, parking, alcohol consumption and that noise from live music could impact homeowners as well as animals at the Denver Zoo.
"You would think somewhere, someone, in some administration would realize we want it to be a quiet park in what is left of it," South City Park resident Tom Morris said.
Morris and others who are upset about the event say they have nothing personal against Chive Fest, just that the city will rent out a portion of City Park for an admission-based event.
Brandon Barrett , director of partnerships for Chive Live, said the group will be paying for additional portable restrooms, parking options and security as well as adhering to the Denver Revised Municipal Code regarding noise.
"We have been working closely with the the parks department to follow all procedures and to address any legitimate concerns made by residents," Barrett said.
Denver does have an admission-based event policy for its parks that dates to 2010.
"This event brings public awareness once again to the policy on allowing private business to close public property and require people to pay admission to an event that takes place on public property," said Dave Felice, a parks advocate and Park Hill resident.
Inter-Neighborhood Cooperation president Larry Ambrose said this event highlights the need for a festival park in Denver. The groups sent a letter to the mayor's office objecting to admission-based events in city parks. Ambrose clarified he is not anti-Chive Fest but said it would be better suited at a place like Sports Authority Field at Mile High. The Chicago Chive Fest was held at Soldier Field, home of the Chicago Bears.
"We are in favor of an admission-based festival park in which to hold these kinds of events. Our parks should not be venues for rock-and-roll concerts," Ambrose said.
Even though tickets are being sold and the event is being promoted, Denver Parks and Recreation spokesman Jeff Green said the permit for the event is not yet approved. However, residents hoping to move the festival shouldn't get their hopes up, as Green said it is unlikely the permit will be denied and the group has already obtained a liquor license.
"It's really how the applicant fills out an application, and as long as they meet their obligations," he said. Green added that the city receives 15 percent of the gross ticket sales.
City Park is or has been home to other large-scale events such as City Park Jazz on Sunday nights and the Cultivate Festival put on by Chipotle. Felice said the main difference is that those events don't charge admission and don't block off parts of the park.
However, Felice added that if the city is going to allow Chive Fest at City Park, it should make sure the noise ordinance is enforced, trash is picked up and no problems spill over into the areas bordering the park.
"If the city is going to allow this event to take place," he said, "the city could use this as an opportunity to show people it can be done properly."
Joe Vaccarelli: 303-954-2396, email@example.com or twitter.com/joe_vacc
Neighborhood meeting
When: July 30
Where: Denver Museum of Nature & Science
Who: Chive Fest organizers along with Denver Parks and Recreation


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My analysis of today's new Bureau of Labor Statistics July data on state employment and jobs suggests that current labor market weakness could be far worse than believed.
The BLS sample survey of business and government Establishments shows 31 states, D.C. and the U.S. as a whole added (seasonally adjusted) jobs in July. The more reliable two-month totals shows 34 states, D.C. and the U.S. added jobs over the two months of June and July with Indiana, Illinois and Virginia suffering the worst losses while Alaska, North and South Dakota enjoyed the strongest percentage gains.
The BLS Establishment survey has shown overall job growth to have been quite weak over the past three months but continuing to grow overall.
However, the BLS sample survey of Households—the survey that produces the unemployment rate—suggests a very different and quite disturbing story. As I've pointed out for many months now, the overall U.S. unemployment rate would be over 15% rather than the current, official rate of 9.1% in July if the number of people counted in the labor force had continued to grow with population as usual rather than decline for the first time on record over the past three years.
In July the (seasonally adjusted) number of people counted in the labor force as either working or looking for work DECLINED by 193,000, and this was after a decline of 272,000 people in June—a two-month decline of 465,000 people. My analysis of today's new state data show that the number of people counted in the labor force also declined in 44 states and D.C. in July and in 45 states and D.C. over the past two months, limiting the rise in the unemployment rates that nonetheless rose in 28 states and D.C. in July, fell in nine states and the U.S., and remained unchanged in 13 states.
The July unemployment rates in Texas and Wisconsin, for example rose from 8.2% to 8.4% and from 7.6% to 7.8%, respectively, but these jobless rates would have risen even more were it not for for sharp declines in the number of people counted in each state.
But my most disturbing finding in the July state data is that the number of people claiming to be employed (including self-employed) declined in all 50 states, D.C. and for the entire U.S. Over the two months of June and July employment declined in the U.S. and in 49 states and D.C. Only in Alaska did 19—yes, 19—more people indicate that they were employed in July than in May.
Although both surveys have suffered from smaller sample sizes and other issues in recent years, readers of this note know that I routinely emphasize the establishment jobs data over the household employment data. But there is no question but that the economy has grown much more slowly this year than many (including at the BLS) expected, which almost certainly led them to overestimate in their birth/death model the number of net new businesses and jobs in recent months.
This raises two very important questions for understanding the condition and prospects for the economy now and in the near future: by how much is BLS overestimating the number of jobs being created and how severely is the slowdown affecting entrepreneurs and the self-employed? The answers to these questions are very different for each state, region and metro area, but today's data make the answers important to pursue.


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TEST YOUR ideas for a building or building site at a Web site that offers a free interactive building design tool. FBi Buildings, a post-frame construction company in Indiana and Illinois, is making a user-friendly Web-based building design tool available to anyone.
The tool, called FBiPlanner, lets a user create a building; add, delete, move and rotate building components; and include icons of farm equipment, animals and shop items. Text and area measurements may be added. The final design is a detailed, blueprint-style plan that may be saved, printed and e-mailed. The tool may be used to design floor plans for almost any type of post-frame agricultural facility — from a machine shed to an agribusiness facility.
FBi Buildings offers the free online building design tool to help customers properly plan buildings before construction begins. The FBiPlanner is available at www.fbi buildings.com


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Exclusive: It's the Holliday season
We've had great expectations for rising starlet Holliday Grainger. And as the lead in this winter's must-see movie, she doesn't disappoint
'I don't have any massive ambitions to be a movie star. I'd like to continue acting as long as I enjoy it'
Holliday Grainger is juggling three mobile phones, and an air of furious concentration pervades her doll-like face as she sets them into rest mode. 'They're for different countries,' she sighs without a hint of swank, leaving the phones to pulse unheeded. While she is a thoroughly modern girl, insisting that Skyping from film locations is the solution to the perils of long-distance love, she has spent the past three years being laced into – and in some cases helped out of – corsets, bustles and bonnets.
As the irresistible Estella with Pip (Jeremy Irvine) in the forthcoming Great Expectations
Appearing in films of Jane Eyre, Bel Ami and Anna Karenina, and playing Lucrezia Borgia in the Sky Atlantic hit The Borgias, Holliday has clearly become the go-to girl for period drama. 'It's weird: people have started asking me recently if I'm worried about being typecast. But actually I started on contemporary TV series when I was little, so in my head that's what I am. Still,' she concedes modestly, 'my career has stepped up to a new level since I've started this costume drama lark.' Now the 24-year-old Mancunian will, I predict, become an 'overnight'
star – after 18 years as an actress – when her luminous performance as Estella is seen in a new film of Dickens's Great Expectations later this month.
I arrive at YOU's photo shoot to find Holliday sheathed in an incredible black Louis Vuitton dress cut dangerously low at the back, being encouraged to arch her spine and work it like a cat on heat. With her hair dyed blonde for The Borgias (she is currently filming the third series in Budapest) and the light glinting off her fabulously broad cheekbones, she has the look of a young Michelle Pfeiffer.
Later, perched on a chair and wearing jeans tucked into Dr Martens and a Mango jacket, Holliday brims over with the helpfulness of a school's newest prefect, her earnestness broken up with regular fits of giggles. She has the kind of face you want to stare at: slanted eyebrows, a snub nose, a rosebud-shaped mouth. And she looks much younger than she is, which slightly blinds you to the fact that she can weave an air of mystery around herself.
Meeting the sweet-natured Holliday is a shock after seeing her play emotionally damaged Estella, the adopted daughter of jilted bride Miss Havisham who rears her to be the conduit through which to avenge herself on men. Directed by Mike Newell and with a script by One Day's bestselling author David Nicholls, the film is full of huge names: Helena Bonham Carter as a comically tragic Miss Havisham in a puffball wedding dress; Ralph Fiennes, haunting as Magwitch the convict; Robbie Coltrane as the pragmatic lawyer Jaggers; David Walliams milking the comic potential of Pip's uncle Mr Pumblechook; and War Horse lead Jeremy Irvine as Pip.
'It's so much easier to draw on emotions in acting when you can understand them better. I find it much easier to cry in a role than when I was younger'
Holliday mesmerises every time she is on screen as Estella allows Pip close enough to fall in love with her and then, as she has been programmed to, cruelly breaks his heart. 'The first time I read the novel I was only 15 and I didn't quite get Estella because she's complex and has gone through a lot, which you won't understand until you're older. I hadn't gone through heartache myself then. In the novel you see Estella from other people's perspectives and it is only at the end, when you learn her history, that you can piece her together as a person. So it takes a second reading to really enjoy who she is.
'As an actor, I found those complexities fascinating. A lot of people hate Estella. In my university seminars, people would describe her as cold or a coquette, but when Pip falls in love with her in the novel there are lots of instances when she's genuinely laughing.' Holliday pronounces 'laughing' as 'laffing' in a soft Mancunian accent which further distances her from the cool, assured Estella.
'Her natural joy has been sucked out of her by her upbringing. She believes she can't love and so she is tragic.' Holliday confides that she herself is 'single at the moment'. Has she been in love or had her heart crushed? 'All of those things. It's so much easier to draw on emotions in acting when you can understand them better. I find it much easier to cry in a role than when I was younger.'
Holliday, right, with Tamzin Merchant in Jane Eyre, 2011
Holliday worked with Helena Bonham Carter in 2005, playing one of her children in the BBC drama Magnificent 7, 'so I knew she was great. She has this reputation for being eccentric but she's actually down-to-earth and easy to get on with. We spent a lot of time texting each other the Strictly Come Dancing results. That's about as mad as it got. Chelsee Healey was in it last year when we were shooting and I know her from working on Waterloo Road.'
As Estella, Holliday models a sexy, gothic look with lavish gowns, a red wig teased into curls and loops and studded with jewels, and catwalk-style chokers and earrings piled on in a more-is-more philosophy. 'I enjoy flitting around between hair colours. I find it fascinating when people think I'm naturally blonde as I've only been blonde for about two seconds. People pay more attention to you as a blonde; it's also easier for people to assume you're a ditsy young actress. Of course, I am a ditsy young actress – well, maybe not ditsy.'
So, apart from 'not ditsy', who is Holliday Grainger? The detail which seems to define her early life is that she was brought up by a single mother, Jan, a graphic designer, although she has contact with her father. 'I was so tiny when my parents split up that I can't remember them ever being together. That was never an issue as I guess I never went through the trauma of them splitting up. I admire my mother for being a single mum. It's ridiculously hard. When you're a child, you take things for granted. For instance, my mum didn't have a lot of money but I went to piano, ballet and gymnastics lessons, and tae kwon do.
Alongside Robert Pattinson in Bel Ami, 2011
'I wasn't spoilt in a material sense but I was completely spoilt by her and my grandparents in what they allowed me to do. I felt that my childhood was very lucky and that I was nurtured and always had the belief that I could do anything if I wanted to.' Holliday has long trotted out the story that she was named after the blues singer Billie Holliday. 'Then my mum said it wasn't really true,' she gasps. 'They'd been throwing around names like Mollie and Billie and it was word association.'
Her first acting role was at six years old in the BBC comedy drama series All Quiet On The Preston Front. Even then, Holliday did her research. While ill with chickenpox, she drew pictures of the scenes her character was in and impressed the director when she turned up with them for the audition. A stream of roles followed in series such as Casualty, Doctors, Dalziel and Pascoe, and she signed to an agent. 'I never felt that acting was a big deal or got nervous. My only training was doing GCSE drama.'
Although she has said in the past that other children would shout her lines at her, she now says her career was mostly ignored at her comprehensive school. 'Even my friends didn't watch my programmes. Occasionally there'd be jibes but nothing that affected my life. My mum was freelance so she chaperoned me and liaised with school so I kept up with the syllabus.'
She went to Leeds University to study English as 'I wasn't sure how acting would go'. Her career really took off during her first year of studies and she was forced to make a choice. She opted to act and transfer her studies to the Open University, and she has just been awarded a first.
She was always the one with her nose in a hefty tome on set or listening to an audiobook classic on her way to the studio. 'In fact, I was doing a module on the 19th-century novel when I got the audition for Estella. I was writing an essay on Dombey and Son and I'd flicked through other Dickens novels I'd previously read, including Great Expectations. So my head was in Victorian literature at the time.'
The film of Maupassant's Bel Ami, opposite Robert Pattinson, was one of her first period roles.
She played 'an evil little witch' out to get R-Patz's character, while the Budapest set was under constant siege from his Twilight fans. 'What I learned set me up fantastically for other roles. To be a Renaissance princess or Victorian lady, it's all about the etiquette. A lady would only ever pick up her skirt with one hand. When I see one of the extras on the set of The Borgias use both hands, I want to go over and say, "NO!"' Does she? 'Of course not,' she says, aghast.
As Lucrezia in the hit Sky series The Borgias
It is The Borgias – a hyperbolic mix of seething lust, power politics and religion – that has done the most to erode her anonymity. 'In Canada for the Toronto Film Festival recently, I got recognised in bars and restaurants more than ever before. I was, like, "Oh! Hi!"' Lucrezia was said to have indulged in incest, adultery and murder. 'I don't think anyone is just good or evil. She was a great patron of the arts, as well as acting Pope when her father was away.' He became Pope Alexander VI and is played by Jeremy Irons.
'Jeremy is eccentric and you can tell he lives in a pink castle in Ireland. He's very passionate about the series and will give you notes but not in a diva, actorly way. He's very free to play and take notes from you. Not that I would give notes to Jeremy Irons. He's very tactile. A shoulder rub from Jeremy is the best way to start the day.'
Holliday actually starts the day by gazing at David Beckham in his underwear. 'I ripped the H&M campaign with David out of a magazine and pinned it on my hairdresser's wall on the set of The Borgias. So when Stefano does my hair, we're both staring at David's torso.' Another good torso, she agrees, belongs to Jeremy Irvine who, as Pip in Great Expectations, works for a while as a blacksmith, shirt off, sweat streaking his muscles. 'He's so lovely and even better looking in the
flesh than on screen.'
Holliday recently worked on Anna Karenina with Keira Knightley, although they only really met in the make-up trailer. 'She has this youthful, bubbly energy that comes across on screen, and – I sound like Louis Walsh now – that likability factor.' But Holliday isn't necessarily lusting after a Keira level of fame. 'I'd like to do more theatre.' She was lauded when playing a suicidal girl in Athol Fugard's Dimetos at London's Donmar Warehouse in 2009, in which she lowered herself on a rope in her underwear, causing apoplexy among some front-row critics.
'I don't have any massive ambitions to be a movie star. I'd like to continue acting as long as I enjoy it. I'm grateful to be where I am but maybe at some point I'll be ready for the next stage in my life when there isn't acting.' She could be waiting a very long time before she is required to exit stage left.
Saver or spender? I spend money on food, drink and airport shopping. I live with my mum in Manchester but mostly I live where I need to be for work. I'd love to do the home making, settling down stuff. I don't want to be a nomad at 40.
Top ipod track? Alt-J's 'An Awesome Wave' at the moment.
Haute couture or high street? I get my inner girl out on shoots, wearing designer. I don't spend a lot on clothes. I tend to be middle range: All Saints, Diesel, Mango and H&M. I shop a lot at Cos.
Self-restraint or indulgence? My guilty pleasure is dark chocolate and I'm not good at restraining myself. Then I go for a jog.
Favourite book? Jane Eyre. But I don't fancy playing her. Mia Wasikowska was too good too recently and I've got too much energy to play Jane.
Career girl or stay-at-home mum? I would love to have children one day. I'm not in a relationship now but I think there's hope, although I'm often away. You can talk to each other over the internet.
Style icon? My old flatmate, The Borgias actress Ruta Gedmintas.
City or country? Suburban, so I can hop to both.
Great Expectations will be in cinemas nationwide on 30 November
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The final week before Christmas has a bounty of holiday music.
The final week before Christmas has a bounty of holiday music.
It begins today, when Conductor James Ogle returns to New Bern for the 30th anniversary performance of George Friderick Handel�s �Messiah.�
The performances feature the Craven Messiah Chorus � a 120-member chorus from the surrounding area, including Craven, Carteret, New Hanover, Pamlico, Jones and Wayne counties. Accompanying the singers will be an orchestra composed of members of the North Carolina Symphony, many of whom have returned to New Bern each year for this occasion. An open rehearsal is at 3 p.m., with the performance at 7:30 p.m., both in the sanctuary at Centenary United Methodist Church. The Craven Messiah Chorus was originally founded by Centenary United Methodist Church, Christ Episcopal Church, First Baptist Church, and First Presbyterian Church. Tickets are available by credit card, cash or check from the Craven Arts Council and Gallery, 317 Middle St., and Fuller Music, 2310 Trent Road in New Bern. For information, phone 866-292-4192.
The orchestra this year features 18 members of the North Carolina Symphony.
On Sunday, the Craven Brass Quintet invites all brass instrument players to participate in the third annual Christmas Brass at Union Point.
The gathering is at 3 p.m.
The purpose is to create and continue a Christmas tradition for New Bern for all brass players of all skill levels and ages to meet at the gazebo at Union Point and play traditional Christmas music, according to Dan Jones, trumpet player.
The public and non-brass players are also invited to attend and help celebrate the season.
Players should bring their instrument, a chair if needed, music stand and clips to hold music to the stand.
The Quintet includes two trumpets, Dan Jones and Joe Brinson; French Horn, Christine Mele; Trombone, Max Mascia; Tuba, Brad Pino.
For more information, contact Dan Jones at firstname.lastname@example.com or 671-9791.
Here is a sampling of some other events this week:
A Community Carol Sing-Along is Thursday, beginning at 6 p.m. in the 300 block of Pollock Street in New Bern.
The street will be blocked off around 5:45 p.m.
Trent River Coffee Company has pre-Christmas programming scheduled this weekend.
It presents �The Moon and You in Concert� on Friday at 7:30 p.m. at the Craven Street venue.
Tickets are $5 in advance or at the door, beginning at 6:30 p.m. Call 514-2030.
According to organizers, �the concert showcases thoughtful and unusual string arrangements, thought-provoking songwriting, and gorgeous vocal harmonies.. The Moon and You is rooted in the extremely happening music scene of Asheville.�
It features Melissa Hyman, a sassy cellist from New York and Ryan Furstenberg, a masterful and whimsical finger style guitarist from Eastern North Carolina.
On the web: Reverbnation.com/themoonandyou
On Saturday, the show is sponsored by Spare Change and Fuller's Music, who present Crystal Coast Quartet�s �Carols and Cocoa� from 4 to 6 p.m.
Tickets are $5 in advance or at the door.
The Crystal Coast Quartet offers afternoon of Christmas Carols, Cocoa and Candy Canes. New Bern area�s resident string quartet is comprised of four talented musicians with diverse backgrounds and years of experience.
Tickets are available at Fuller's Music and Trent River Coffee Company.
On the web: Crystalcoastquartet.com
Bear Hands Art Factory & Framing host �Paint a Gift Drop-In Day� Saturday.
It is from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at the Middle Street studio.
It is for ages 4 and up, featuring small canvas painting.
The cost is $10 per painting.
The Christmas Lights Tour is Saturday from 7 to 8:30 p.m. on the Crystal Coast Lady at the docks behind the Doubletree by Hilton on the New Bern waterfront.
Tickets are $20 for adults and $10 for children. Call 728-7827.
Charlie Hall can be reached at 252-635-5667 or email@example.com.


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Each year we strive to bring in the most relevant, up to date, informational speakers possible to Manitoba Ag Days. This year is no exception: the program has been finalized for the 2019 show and you are in for a really impressive line up of speakers. We could not put on such a world class speaking event if it were not for our partnerships with FCC, MNP, Manitoba Agriculture, Manitoba Canola Growers Association, Manitoba Wheat & Barley Growers Association, Manitoba Organic Alliance and the presenters themselves. We thank you for partnering with us for our 2019 Show! We were approved for 26 CEU Credits at our show! CCA's make sure you plan your day so you can take in these sessions! Nutrient Management: 1 Soil & Water Management: 2 Integrated Pest Management: 3 Crop Management: 11.5 Professional Development: 8.5 Manure Management: 0 Sustainability: 0
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Philosophers study everything. Philosophy is a critical approach to all subjects, a comprehensive vision within which all other subjects are contained. To be critical means to examine carefully and cautiously and to be willing to change one's own beliefs. "Philosophy", from the Greek
Aphilein and Asophia, "is the Alove of wisdom."
Philosophers examine critically the most important questions in life: Does God exist? What is the meaning of life? What is truth? What is just? What should we think about the "tough" moral questions or abortion, euthanasia, capital punishment and animal welfare?
We challenge our philosophy students to REACH HIGHER...
Our philosophy faculty has special expertise in discussions of the ethical issues in health care, business and public policy. We have specialties in philosophy of law, science, existentialism, American philosophy and symbolic logic as well as the logic of ordinary language.
Because of its special connection with the Religious Studies program at Saint Francis University, and because of its Franciscan heritage, the Philosophy Program is a good place to study issues of peace and justice as well as the ethical issues of the environment.
Because we honor Saint Francis of Assisi, these studies emphasize simplicity not technicalities. We respect faith while keeping an honest, humble, and humorous attitude toward the limitations of our minds. We maintain a positive vision of human nature, a profound respect
for the background and destiny of each person and the respect for all living things which Saint Francis of Assisi taught us.
Increasingly, business and industry are seeking thoughtful generalists who can analyze and reason. Philosophy graduates often go to various graduate programs or enter administrative or management training programs for careers in government or industry.
Look at the wide variety of occupations Philosophy Majors have accepted:
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