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This last weekend while everyone (in Utah at least) was watching the largest college football rivalry in the state, UofU versus BYU, we were watching the West Jordan Stampede Demolition Derby. Now that does not mean we weren't keeping a minute by minute updates on the score of the game (thank you smart phones!) so we could goad our BYU loving families! hehe
|During the National Anthem...unsure of why they have a Confederate Flag there...
It was the first time that Lady Hiva and Lucky Dragon had experienced a demolition derby. She came with us mostly because the only other option was sitting at home by herself. However, after the first 'heat' of intense smashing of vehicles they were both hooked!
Trevor used to participate in these when he was alive--an adrenaline junky at heart. At the beginning of each heat we would watch the cars parade in and all three of us would choose a car that was 'ours' and spend the duration of the heat cheering on our chosen vehicle. This made the experience more and more interesting as we seemed to have vested interest into which car was left running at the end of the heat.
|Uncle Beau-D would be SO stressed out that this truck had 4 mismatched tires, including one tractor tire
One of the most entertaining was the "Couples Match" where the female of the pair is the driver and has the brake while the male passenger has the gas pedal. As you can imagine there has to be plenty of communication going on to make that work. Not to mention it is so loud you cannot hear each other and there are 8 other cars ramming you from every direction! Talk about thinking in a tense situation. For this race Lucky Dragon chose a pink and black vehicle cheered joyfully and relentlessly for the duration of the heat, "Go Pink! Go Me!..." over and over and over! Lady Hive had chosen a team from Cedar City, UT and they won, but at the end their vehicle exploded in fire and both dove out the windows and rolled around because their pants were on fire!
|Putting out the fire
It was getting a bit late so Lady Hiva thought that we ought to take the Dragon home to sleep but he was having so much fun he refused to go! I am glad we stayed until the end. The final round had more like 12 or 13 vehicles in it, all looking like they were already on their last leg. But the experience did not disappoint! One truck was hit so hard it went clear over the cement barrier towards the crowd and Tau'aho could not stop talking about one of the trucks named "Junky" and how another truck hit it and went clear over it and both kept going! The meet ended in a huge plume of smoke and dust---the perfect ending.
|A fan favorite because of how aggressive he was
|Junky--the family favorite
So as we drove home our little guy recounted what he had seen in gory detail. His animated voice was full of the descriptions of the trucks and what they did including "boom, vrroom, bang" and other angry sounding sound effects to give us the full experience as if we had not been there with him. I am glad we took him, and I am glad that Lady Hiva decided to come with us. They were both so shocked at how intense it was they couldn't hide their smiles! We may just have to find another one to attend!


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The concept of blogging again is enticing and dreadful. We will see. Someone got me excited about a project today that was um, exciting.
Intro April 19, 2016
Some folks have been asking me to post my Lenny intros here, so here you go. This is from Lenny No. 30.
|Hi Lennys,
It's me! My name is Mikki Halpin, and I'm Lenny's new editor at large. And for my first newsletter introduction, I want to tell you about Neko Atsume. It is a daily source of joy for me, and a philosophical framework that reinforces some of my deeply held values. It is also a game about cats that I play on my phone. Laugh if you want. I am at peace.
Here is what happens in the game: You have a yard, where adorable cats come to visit. You feed the adorable cats, and in gratitude they leave you fish. You use the fish to buy more food and toys. The cats are delighted, and other cats join them. They leave you more fish. You buy them more toys and watch them play. It is an endless circle of gifts and toys and love and fish. No matter where you are or how stressed you may be, you can grab your phone, open the app, and see happy little cats playing in the sun and smiling at you. I don't meditate or anything, but I think Neko Atsume is really fucking Zen.
Ultimately Neko Atsume is about kindness. You give, and you get in return, and it's always beautiful. I try to bring the generosity and wonder of Neko Atsume into my daily life, but I wish Neko Atsume really were my daily life. I love this fantasy, and I believe fantasies are important, even if they can't come true. They are a map for changing the world you actually live in.
Speaking of worlds, I'm enchanted by the one where Lena's fantasy feminist band B.I.T.C.H. rocks Coachella. Let's make Dwörkin rock a real thing. We also have Jenn Romolini's clear-eyed account of her daughter C's struggles in school. The gendered ways that teachers and administrators responded to C's unconventional behavior are sharp examples of how early in life we are pressured to conform — but, told by a loving mother, this story offers a lesson on how to stay weird.
The vibrator industry still hasn't fully embraced its queer customers, reports Larissa Pham in her piece about the folks who design our buzzy little friends. C'mon, people, get it together! On a more serious note, Lenny deputy editor Laia Garcia spoke with an epidemiologist in Puerto Rico about Zika and discovered just how little we know about the virus — although we do know some good ways to keep yourself safe. Every woman needs to read this.
Singer Betty Davis's "He Was a Big Freak" has been one of my mixtape secret weapons for a long time, so it was a thrill to read Jess Rotter's account of Betty's life as the latest installment of Songbird Stories. "Freak" is off her second album, which Betty wrote and produced herself before retiring from the music scene.
I hope you enjoy the different worlds this issue has to offer, and that you honor your fantasies about what our world could and should be like. Probably it needs more cats.
Intro, June 3, 2016
Some folks have been asking me to post my Lenny intros here, so here you go. This is from Lenny No. 37.
Hello Lennys,
Over Memorial Day weekend, I spent a few days at the beach with a group of women (and one man!) I love and admire so much it almost hurts. We did every cheesy beach thing you can think of: running into the ocean as a group, drinking umbrella drinks in the middle of the day, making s'mores on the grill. We also enjoyed some more idiosyncratic activities: a candlelight memorial for a dead cat, several discussions about Anohni's recent concert, and a pizza night that included vegan, vegetarian, and gluten-free options. I came home exhausted and full of feminist light.
Though I appreciate a weekend of group bonding, I've also had wonderful solo trips — like a glorious trip to the Middle East several years back — which is why I appreciate this week's essay by Lisa Goldberg about traveling alone. She perfectly captures the anxiety, unexpected triumphs, and serendipitous joys of making your way through uncharted territory on your own. And I love that while Lisa is testing her limits, her mother — though worried — comes to appreciate the emotional stretch that such journeys can provide.
Robin Thede — head writer of The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore — has some sobering stats in her piece about the dearth of minority and women writers in the entertainment industry. A couple of examples: only 28.7 percent of television writers are women, and only 7 percent of film writers are minorities. (And it must be noted that the categories "women" and "minorities" are not mutually exclusive.) Happily, Robin brings news of a concrete policy solution that you can help support.
It's been almost three years since the #BlackLivesMatter movement launched in response to George Zimmerman's acquittal for the shooting of Trayvon Martin. Francey Russell traces a related project, one that documents the racialized murders of the past. Constructing memorials and markers for lynchings is a necessary step for us to remember and acknowledge these events, and let them inform our relationship to the present.
Our latest installment of Rumors I Heard About My Body has Jess dropping some Truth and Science about our old friend the pill. It definitely has the word mucus in it, and it's definitely worth a read, if you've got the body parts and the sex life that make the pill an option for you.
Finally, take a virtual vacation with the photographs of Melissa Forde. Melissa's work often appears on her best friend Rihanna's Instagram, but it deserves a stand-alone look. In addition to the many images of RiRi, there are also what feel like meaningful pauses in a nonstop adventurous life: a moment pulling into port, or a shot of an airplane soaring away, having dropped you onto yet another island. (Do they ever get sick of islands?) As Lena puts it, Forde "appreciates and captures both the natural world and the artifice of stardom."
Personally, I'm hungry for more island life — dead-cat rituals and all. Please pass the candle.
Mikki, Lenny's editor at large
Intro, July 12, 2016
Some folks have been asking me to post my Lenny intros here, so here you go. This is from Lenny No. 42.
Hi Lennys,
I feel like I usually write "Hi Lennys!," but that feels weird right now. I don't think anyone could possibly be feeling OK, or feeling like using exclamation points right now, except to say "What the fuck!" or something like that. A horrible thing about horrors is that we witness them, experience them, survive them — and then we have to live with them. Not only that, we need to protect our brothers and sisters and do all we can to stop the horrors and the injustices, and that can feel like an insurmountable problem that we just throw anger and grief at and nothing ever changes.
There are two kinds of things that help me in times like this, and I will share them with you. I show up to the rallies. I go and I scream and I shout and I march and I feel a connection with all my activist friends and those who are outraged along with me. I hope that everyone "watching at home" will realize that there is a fight they can join. I support Black Lives Matter in every way I can. As a straight, cis, white person, I shut up on social media and support the voices of those being targeted and those whose lived experiences should be heard.
The other thing I do is connect with my neighborhood. I went down to the community garden to sign up for a plot and got to talking with a lady who also has a bad back and helped her out with her weeds. Just working side by side, not talking, was incredibly hopeful. I'm also joining our local Copwatch Patrol Unit, a group that teaches people their rights in police interactions — as well as techniques to survive those interactions. Cop Watch Patrol Unit documents police interactions with civilians and holds the police accountable for their actions. I've worked with them before, when the police were harassing the black students at a high school nearby. Honestly, I am not in much danger of being shot by a cop, but I do have the ability to support people and movements, and there is no better place to do it than in your own community. If you want more ideas, writer Ijeoma Oluo has strong suggestions on what those who feel helpless should be doing — give her impassioned list a read and some thought.
Many of our stories today are about comfort and healing and self-care. Pearl Gabel, herself an adult thumb-sucker, spoke to others who practice the same self-soothing technique long past childhood. Just realizing she was not the only one was a healing moment. Lenny contributing writer Kaitlyn Greenidge spoke to Chirlane McCray, the First Lady of New York City, about McCray's efforts to destigmatize mental-health issues and make access to mental-health care simple and affordable for all New Yorkers.
Emily Rapp Black's relationship with her grad-school mentor began as a professional one, but it grew into an ecosystem of mutual nurturing, especially when Black's son died at age three. Black writes of mentors: "They observe and accompany the darkest despair, the wildest sorrow, and the most unexpected joy." We all need that in our lives.
We also have the story of Gillian McCain, the co-author of Please Kill Me — and a woman who got very little credit for her work on this widely known, influential book. Restoring lost history rights wrongs we didn't even know were there. Finally, feel the power of the women in Jenn Woodall's Fight! zine — superheroines who are ready to throw down for what they believe in. I'm ready to do that, in all the ways that work for me. I hope you find your way as well.
Mikki, editor at large
Intro, August 16, 2016
Some folks have been asking me to post my Lenny intros here, so here you go. This is from Lenny No. 47.
Hello Lennys,
I'm writing to you in a GREAT MOOD because I just finally got my air conditioner fixed after five straight days of near-90-degree heat in my apartment. It did not feel good, as anyone who follows me on Twitter can attest. My ability to withstand this trial is on point, though, because, as Jenni said in an email: "There's a real physical/mental endurance theme this week, and I'm into it!" I'm into it too.
Ottavia Bourdain kicks the issue off, telling us about her jujitsu training. Years of practice have given her incredible mental and physical toughness, as well as the quiet confidence of knowing she can take down an opponent twice her size. Another athlete, Olympic runner Alexi Pappas, shares her story about the pain that athletes endure and the way she has learned to parse that pain in her head. Pushing our bodies can bring great rewards — but that doesn't mean it doesn't hurt.
Other trials are not chosen ones. Megan Kelly and Claire Typaldos recount their time working at a refugee camp in Greece where migrants, having survived a treacherous sea journey, were often left in political limbo, at the mercy of international tribunals made up of the very countries that persecute them. The people living in camp Moria, despite being stateless and in constant peril of forced repatriation, nonetheless found moments of happiness, beauty, and even hope — until they were made to leave their temporary haven.
Also in this issue, our contributing writer Kaitlyn Greenidge interviews the writer Natashia Deon, and our deputy editor Laia Garcia talks with Tabitha Soren about her photography. (Yes, that Tabitha Soren.) What I like about these pieces is not only the opportunity to hear from two complex female artists, but also that both have used their storytelling and observational skills to excel in many ways. Deon is a novelist and a defense lawyer; Soren is a photographer, a documentarian, and was once the journalist from MTV News that I, for one, dreamed of being.
My Great Air-Conditioning Struggle of 2016 does not compare to the challenges any of these women have conquered, by a long shot. It did bring me perspective, though, which is the very least any shitty experience can do. If you, Lenny readers, are going through a thing right now, I'm sending you my very best thoughts for cool air on the other side.
Road Maps
Also this is in the Nussbaum profile and it is amazing:
Nussbaum is currently writing a book on aging, and when I first proposed the idea of a Profile I told her that I'd like to make her book the center of the piece. She responded skeptically, writing in an e-mail that she'd had a long, varied career, adding, "I'd really like to feel that you had considered various aspects of it and that we had a plan that had a focus." She typically responded within an hour of my sending an e-mail. "Do you feel that you have such a plan?" she asked me. "I'd like to hear the pros and cons in your view of different emphases." She wasn't sure how I could encompass her œuvre, since it covered so many subjects: animal rights, emotions in criminal law, Indian politics, disability, religious intolerance, political liberalism, the role of humanities in the academy, sexual harassment, transnational transfers of wealth. "The challenge for you would be to give readers a road map through the work that would be illuminating rather than confusing," she wrote, adding, "It will all fall to bits without a plan." She described three interviews that she'd done, and the ways in which they were flawed. Among other things, they hadn't captured her devotion to teaching and to her students. One of the interviews, she said, had made her "look like a person who has contempt for the contributions of others, which is one of the biggest insults that one could direct my way."
Central Capabilities
I was reading the intense profile of Martha Nussbaum in the New Yorker and it says this at one point:
In an Aristotelian spirit, Nussbaum devised a list of ten essential capabilities that all societies should nourish, including the freedom to play, to engage in critical reflection, and to love. The capabilities theory is now a staple of human-rights advocacy.
I was intrigued so I went and looked up what is on the list—it's pasted below. I don't agree with all of it but it's really interesting.
Core Rights Within an Ethical Society
1. Life. Being able to live to the end of a human life of normal length; not dying prematurely, or before one's life is so reduced as to be not worth living.
2. Bodily Health. Being able to have good health, including reproductive health; to be adequately nourished; to have adequate shelter.
3. Bodily Integrity. Being able to move freely from place to place; to be secure against violent assault, including sexual assault and domestic violence; having opportunities for sexual satisfaction and for choice in matters of reproduction.
4. Senses, Imagination, and Thought. Being able to use the senses, to imagine, think, and reason—and to do these things in a "truly human" way, a way informed and cultivated by an adequate education, including, but by no means limited to, literacy and basic mathematical and scientific training. Being able to use imagination and thought in connection with experiencing and producing works and events of one's own choice, religious, literary, musical, and so forth. Being able to use one's mind in ways protected by guarantees of freedom of expression with respect to both political and artistic speech, and freedom of religious exercise. Being able to have pleasurable experiences and to avoid non-beneficial pain.
5. Emotions. Being able to have attachments to things and people outside ourselves; to love those who love and care for us, to grieve at their absence; in general, to love, to grieve, to experience longing, gratitude, and justified anger. Not having one's emotional development blighted by fear and anxiety. (Supporting this capability means supporting forms of human association that can be shown to be crucial in their development.)
6. Practical Reason. Being able to form a conception of the good and to engage in critical reflection about the planning of one's life. (This entails protection for the liberty of conscience and religious observance.)
7. Affiliation.
Being able to live with and toward others, to recognize and show concern for other humans, to engage in various forms of social interaction; to be able to imagine the situation of another. (Protecting this capability means protecting institutions that constitute and nourish such forms of affiliation, and also protecting the freedom of assembly and political speech.)
Having the social bases of self-respect and non-humiliation; being able to be treated as a dignified being whose worth is equal to that of others. This entails provisions of non-discrimination on the basis of race, sex, sexual orientation, ethnicity, caste, religion, national origin and species.
8. Other Species. Being able to live with concern for and in relation to animals, plants, and the world of nature.
9. Play. Being able to laugh, to play, to enjoy recreational activities.
10. Control over one's Environment.
Political. Being able to participate effectively in political choices that govern one's life; having the right of political participation, protections of free speech and association.
Material. Being able to hold property (both land and movable goods), and having property rights on an equal basis with others; having the right to seek employment on an equal basis with others; having the freedom from unwarranted search and seizure. In work, being able to work as a human, exercising practical reason and entering into meaningful relationships of mutual recognition with other workers.

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|Jerry Baines
|Pauper's Drop
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So here it is, Merry Christmas - and everybody's eating meat. Except you.
At least that's how it can feel as the multitude of family feasts, Christmas meals out and festive buffets provide even more opportunities than usual for vegetarians and vegans to become the focus of intrigue, ridicule, and down right irritation.
Throw in difficult relatives, ignorant colleagues, and annoying friends you usually manage to avoid, and things won't seem so merry and bright.
If you want to be kind to a vegetarian this Christmas, here are 23 things you should avoid bringing up:
1) Can you not just have some turkey since it's Christmas?
2) Do you eat chicken?
3) I know you're vegetarian, so I've done some salmon...
4) Is your whole family vegetarian?
5) I don't know if it's gluten free...
6) Can you not just pick the bacon off the sprouts?
7) I don't eat very much meat
8) I only eat organic meat
9) Where do you get your protein from?
10) Do you not just ever fancy a bacon sandwich?
11) But pigs in blankets taste so good!
12) It must be very hard to eat out
13) Hi, I'm James Martin
14) The gravy is just the meat juices though...
15) The potatoes are cooked in goose fat, but there's no meat in them
16) What are you having for Christmas dinner? Nut roast?
17) My friend was a vegetarian but had to give it up because it made her ill
18) But the turkey is free range...
19) Hitler was a vegetarian
20) What if plants feel pain too?
21) You're vegan? But the cows like being milked
22) Are you a Buddhist or something? I didn't think they celebrated Christmas
23) If you were marooned at Christmas on a desert island with a turkey, would you eat it?


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It is rewarding, personally and for film culture, to compare Mark Peranson's editor's note in Cinema Scope issue 42 with Positif's March 2010 editor's note. In Positif's, Franck Kausch pits Positif's decade review list against the one by Cahiers du Cinéma and Film Comment while Cinema Scope opposes specifically me, David Davi(d)son from Ottawa, Ontario. This acknowledgment re-emphasizes Cinema Scope's interest in film culture esoterica and it expresses the generous personality behind the magazine that is willing to extend itself to mention one of its keen readers. This interest in the esoteric is demonstrated anew with each issue with its up-to-date content that brings to attention upcoming trends on obscurantist art films that do not get enough coverage in mainstream press.
Cinema Scope's strategy is simple: to have an in depth analysis on relevant filmmakers and global cinéphilia while effusing a frontal attack on world cinema's fraudulent and pundit attachés who easily fall prey to journalistic shorthand's. Their eclectic film reviews are a formation in the avant-garde, artistic, intellectual, humanistic, and political cinema of the present day. Cinema Scope's championing of these films has to do with their quality not their cultural presence, which is something that is usually based on "apparent" mainstream importance (i.e. advertising budgets), which is accentuated by a megaplex cultural conformism. In a Hollywood driven North American film-industry market, economic privilege, for Cinema Scope, is usually a factor to negate a film. Mr. Peranson describes his position in Cinema Scope (N.06) "Being contrarian – never a be all and end all – means giving more slack and more coverage to alternatives to multiplex fare." Unlike other contrarians like, lets say, Armond White or Pauline Kael, you can actually agree with the films and filmmakers Cinema Scope champions as they provide an overview and insight on exciting world-cinema that otherwise might be overlooked.
Some of Cinema Scope's preferred directors include: James Benning, Jia Zhangke, Pedro Costa, Guy Maddin, Corneliu Porumboiu, Apichatpong Weerasethakul et al. These filmmakers are not too common in mainstream Canadian-American press, which leads to Cinema Scope's side-taking of the position of you-don't-like-us-and-we-don't-like-you. Their feuds can get pretty nasty and their tone certainly aggressive. Cinema Scope's use of polemics and attacking the exterior is worth saluting as their contrarian stance and rivalry choices have a cathartic quality.
The magazine's interviews with directors showcase a convergence of the technical, personal and social aspect of films; and the film reviews come from the film festival circuit, which includes Cannes, Toronto, Vancouver, Venice, Sundance, Rotterdam, and Berlin. This immediacy, fresh from the festival screens, is maintained by a critical analysis - something that is usually missing in the writing of rushed bloggers. The magazines book reviews can lead to interesting spinoff readings, while the documentation of installation art provides a better perspective of the visual context surrounding innovation with sights and sounds.
There are similarities between the wide-screen anamorphic process CinemaScope and the magazine Cinema Scope. The CinemaScope process arose from Hollywood's search in the early 50s for a product to counter the threat of television, which it did with its two and a half times wider image (an aspect ratio of 2.35:1). This is similar to the magazine's subtitle "expanding the frame on international cinema." The first film made with CinemaScope, Henry Koster's biblical epic The Robe (1953) expressionistically utilizes the new medium, with similarities to the approach of the magazine Cinema Scope, that includes attentiveness to fine detail, an attuned sense of art history, innovation, context, politics, role in cult-cinéphilia, (techni)color, and the ability to spread people apart.
Cinema Scope tries to answer the Bazinien question of "Qu'est-ce que le cinema?" which André Bazin's talks about categorically: ontology and language, an art form distinguished amongst others, sociological, and a realist aesthetic. In a global film culture, Cinema Scope projects itself as a cinema and the reviewers are actors in its flickering. It creates an unseen cinema in the mind, that is imagined through its readers image-reservoir; a cinema of amour fou. The reviewed films become real through their description and analysis. These films present alternative narratives while simultaneously providing a means to explore and understand another culture.
In the "Decade in Review" issue (N.42) the centerpiece is a panoptic address on cinema in the first decade of the third millennium. The word "cinema" is derived from the Greek word for movement and it is the ancient Greek mathematician Ptolemy who invented the precursor apparatus that would latter me referred to as the Zoetrope; the cylinder with related pictures that during rotation gives the impression of succession. The moving-pictures have gone a long way since Edward Muybridge's series on racehorses and it now shows itself to be ever changing within an international context in a period of new possibilities with new technologies like 3D films, performance capture, digital, and celluloid; and mutating methods of production, filming and distribution.
Alongside Other Film Editorials
The Toronto-based international film quarterly Cinema Scope is ahead of most trends relative to other well-worth reading film criticism editorials that include Positif, Cahiers du Cinéma, 24 Images, Film Comment, Sight & Sound, Cineaste, and Film Quarterly. Cinema Scope is also readily accessible as the magazine can be easily found at local (upscale) newsstands unlike other film-criticism rarities like Trafic, Video Watchdog or Framework. A lot of these magazines share the same writers and there is a charm to follow their idiosyncratic taste. Cinema Scope has an underdog quality as it is a relatively new publication and its contrarian stance reacts, though sometimes builds upon, the tastes of these other magazines.
The French magazines Cahiers du Cinéma and Positif usually review the more interesting foreign films before the English language magazines. This is partly due to distribution, as their headquarters in Paris - the "unofficial" film capital of the world – receives these films earlier then their North American counter parts. Cinema Scope's content competes with their proficiency while being more accessible to a western hemisphere audience, due to the fact that it is an English publication.
Canadian Cinéphilia
Cinema Scope has a tendency towards a nationalist Canadian cinema with reviews of the Can-Con and the Can-Cult, and content varying like the Toronto Images Festival and Montreal's social-documentarist Donigan Cumming. This is done without falling prey to isolationism unlike many of the other Canadian film criticism magazines. Some of the strongest vocationers for Canadian cinema can be found within Cinema Scope's archives and it should be considered among other Canadian film publications like CineAction (which was co-founded by Robin Wood) as well alongside Canadian film book-publishers like TIFF, University of Toronto Press, Canadian Film Institute, and Caboose Books.
The moving images - particularly the newsreel and the documentary - are part of a long tradition in Canadian identity that goes back to the National Film Board's (NFB) inception by John Grierson in 1938. A running theme of Canadian national cinema is its citizen's sense of identification with its country, made even more eclectic by the diversity of its ingrained multiculturalism. Cinema Scope extends the notion of film as part of Canadian identity by positing that cinéphilia is part of the Canadian experience. This idiosyncratic cinéphilia is part of a tradition, I think, of an unleashed cinéphilic repression caused by an isolating landscape - that consists of ten provinces and three territories - which for approximately four months leads to hibernation due to the snow and coldness. This sense of hibernation – which itself is similar to the film-going experience – is accompanied by extraneous free time which accentuates these outlier cinéphiles.
Though an easy word to throw around, what exactly is a cinéphile, the implications of classifying oneself as such, and its relevance? The suffix –phile specifies an attraction to something, and cine being an abbreviation for cinema. It implies a holistic passion for film and its relevance arriving from a threefold illumination: (1) a source of pleasure, (2) psychological development (akin to Jacques Lacan's mirror phase), and (3) in its political quality in portraying subtleties and viable social options.
The omnivorous-cinephile's scopophilia - Freud's psychoanalytic term for those that take a general pleasure in looking – accentuates the viewing of the esoteric, which includes, lets say, 1920s Italian diva films, the somber world of Robert Bresson or the soft-core erotic Emmanuelle series. I would classify Mr. Peranson into this category alongside other idionsyncratic Canadian cinephiles including the Winnipeg-based prairie fabulist Guy Maddin, who appropriates a silent-film syntax and whose experiences and thoughts are so anxiously and passionately confessed in his book "From the Atelier Tovar: Selected Writings"; James Quandt, the senior programmer at the TIFF Cinematheque, who is from a village in northern Saskatchewan where he grew up with no television; and Lee Demarbre who grew up outside of Ottawa and as a youth went to New York City to see exploitation films; his professional history in Ottawa includes filmmaking, running a film radio-talk show Drunken Master Revue on CKCU-FM on Wednesday evenings, and he has worked at the repertories Bytowne Cinema, the CFI and is currently the programmer at the Mayfair Theater.
Cinema Scope's History
Cinema Scope's history starts with its venturesome chief-editor and publisher Mark Peranson creating the film-review periodical as a zine in 1999 – the first issue consisted of over 100 reviews of films from the 1999 Toronto International Film Festival. As Mike White writes "It boasted reviews of nearly all of the entries to the Toronto International Film Festival and proved to be among the most valuable possessions of folks attending the fest that were lucky enough to score a copy." The magazine headquarters initially begun in Vancouver and then later moved to Toronto. The format of the magazine has not changed too much (at least since the 6th issue, the earliest one I have encountered) and the small noticeable change is in the title, as earlier magazines were entitled cinéma scope (with an é and the o is flanned between two lines). Other then that Cinema Scope's proportions have remained consistent. Jonathan Rosenbaum's indispensable Global Discoveries on DVD must have been added somewhere between the 6th and the 21st issue. And the invaluable website - that had major renovations in the last year - provides a wonderful database of archival features, spotlights, columns, and currency and is interweaved with facilitating keys to share pages on Facebook and Twitter.
Cinema Scope's film critics present tastes and choices with an absolute enthusiasm, brilliance, provocation, and erudition. It is a breath of fresh air to read they're blending of research, intelligent journalism and criticisms - and there are many of them - especially in an oversaturated journo-advertising industry. Some note worthy Cinema Scope forum colleagues and contributors include film critics Tom Charity, Jason Anderson, Robert Koehler, Scott Foundas, Andréa Picard, Christoph Huber, Andrew Tracy, Michael Sicinski (though his review of Philip Hoffman's All Fall Down is unfair; Phil's independent imaging retreat "Film Farm" in Mount Forest, ON is a considerable force in grassroots Canadian experimental cinema), Olaf Möller, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Quintín, Geof Pevere, Kent Jones, Liam Lacey, Jerry White, James Quandt, Noel Vera, Don McKellar, James Benning, Richard Porton, Adam Nayman, David Walsh, Tom McSorley, Serge Daney, and David Borwell.
On Cinema Scope's Editor Mark Peranson
Cinema Scope's publisher Mr. Peranson's - born in Canada in 1968 - career history includes being an industrious film critic (e.g., The Believer, Moving Image Source, Film Reference Library), director of the film Waiting for Sansho (2008), actor in Albert Serra's Birdsong (2008), writer on the Canadian TV series "On Screen" (2005), and worked as the programming and promotions associate for the Vancouver International Film Festival. Mr. Peranson's Waiting for Sancho is about Albert Serra's filmmaking process during the shooting of Birdsong. Mr. Peranson himself stars in Birdsong as the Hebrew-speaking Joseph, Jesus's Father, from the tale of the Journey of the Magai. Mr. Peranson is insightful about Birdsong when he highlights in Cahiers du Cinéma's (N.634) the films use of varying ethnicity, religion and dialects; and when he cites Albert Serra from a Catalan television interview that Birdsong consist of "filming people that I like, the ways that they move, their gestures, and the way they talk" a comment Mr. Peranson appropriates as also a definition of the essence of cinema.
Mr. Peranson's editors notes includes social-politics as he provides his support to director and program manager Quintín and Flavia de la Fuente of the Buenos Aires International Film Festival against getting fired by government bureaucrats, he stood behind Barack Obama in the 2009 American presidential elections, and he wrote a heart-felt eulogy for Alexis Tioseco and Nika Bohic after their brutal murders.
Mr. Peranson's writing is characterized by a joyful cynicism (similar to his defense of David Wain's Role Models (2008) in his analysis of a film of 00's) and is a pleasure to read. Hi shake-ups are equivocal to François Truffaut's early Cahier du Cinéma's polemic "Une certaine tendence du cinéma francais" (1954). Mr. Peranson's dismissive comments like "Cannes 2005 appeared as if Thierry Frémaux and string-puller Gilles Jacob were assembling a loosely organized community college Intro to Cinema 101 class," or ""you know, Loach-Almodovar-Campion-Giannoli-Ang Lee middlebrow, to which I now feel secure in adding the name of Michael Haneke" are refreshing to hear as they are an expression of an uncompromising dedication to a particular type of cult-art cinema as well it extends the magazines reputation of enraging and educating eager cinéphiles on opposing views.
To Conclude
Mr. Peranson's iconoclastic Cannes reviews are one of the quarterly publications highlights. In them, Mr. Peranson rebels against the mistrials in the international film community, sometimes with a dogged humorous undercurrent other times with a disappointed moodiness. Mr. Peranson writes in the 25th issue "The one thing that connects all the issues of Cinema Scope together is a focus on films that are overlooked, undeservedly—those films that fall through the cracks." It is always a pleasure to catch up with the films written about in Cinema Scope when they arrive in theaters or on DVD as they reveal surprises and unsuspected discoveries waiting ahead.
Cinema Scope is a fruitful magazine, ten years ago Mr. Peranson wrote, "The longer one is involved in this industry – and by comparison, I'm pretty much a child actor – the harder it is to avoid becoming jaded and/or cynical." Mr. Peranson might be sometimes cynical but it is with resiliency and enthusiasm. Cinema Scope is now a carrying symbol of cinéphilia and with its unchangeable unruly taste it contributes to an increased scope and discourse on a transnational film culture to the benefit of film enthusiasts everywhere.
My Introduction to Cinema Scope
In the latest issue of Cinema Scope "Decade in Review" Mr. Peranson mentions me, David Davidson, in regards to "editorial compromises of the greatest films of the last decade." In the previous issue (N. 41) Mr. Peranson writes "Perhaps an outpouring of support from the readership will sway things one way or the other, but I'm not holding my breath on that one either." After reading that I emailed Mr. Peranson with my support and I attached my own list. The title of that post is now, and has been for a while, "great films of the last decade", and the inclusion of the word "greatest" – an overgeneralization and an unproductive concept - was a typo that I shortly changed at the time. Either way, let me be clear, I am honored to be mentioned in Cinema Scope. Thank you Mark. I did not think my personal list would get much attention. My great film of the 00's list, which could be found here, is basically a reiteration of what a lot of other critics have been saying – that the decade is a reflection of the zeitgeist – except for a few highlights of mainstream Canadian filmmakers (e.g., Maddin, Egoyan, Kunuk) that were not mentioned other places.
I picked up my first copy of Cinema Scope in Berlin's central station Hauptbahnhof at a magazine store by the railway. I was on my way to Vienna, Austria on a 6 hour train ride. It was entirely by coincidence that I found Cinema Scope, I also picked up The New Yorker and the French Premiere. At the time I just finished reading Thomas Pynchon's behemoth Gravity's Rainbow and it was an appropriate book to anticipate finding Cinema Scope, as personally, I was sharing the book's German setting, and Cinema Scope's "Cannes 2009 Bloody Hell" issue was very unconventional, similarly to Gravity's Rainbow protagonist Tyrone Slothrop, as the magazine seemed like a mixture between traditional film criticism, paranoia, pot, and encyclopedic trivia with articles like "A Weave of his Stories Rediscovering Vittorio Cottafavi" or "Contact High A Stoner's Movie Journey from A to Z."
On the train-ride, in an experience that made me think of the trip in Jim Jarmusch's The Limits of Control [2008, (which the magazine reviews, and that I drove to Montreal to go see at the Cinéma du Parc)], reading the magazine made me well aware of the transcontinental context of "cinema" and where I stand within it as a bilingual Canadian somewhere between Germany and Austria. In my compartment there was a little girl making noise by banging on her toy piano as her elderly sun-burnt Teutonic parents were bickering in a language I could not understand.
In the Cannes spotlight Mr. Peranson highlighted Quentin Tarantino's Inglorious Basterds (2009) focus on language and semantics. Inglorious Basterds, though, should really be discussed with it's Nazi-occupied France French counterpart Robert Guédiguian's The Army Of Crime (2009). Anyways, I saw Inglorious Basterds at the Hackesche Höfe filmtheater in Berlin and even though I thought the killing was morally ignoble there was something about the films use of multiple languages and dialects, especially in a foreign context, which resonated. In Inglorious Basterds when the actor spoke either German or Italian (except for Lt. Aldo Raine and his minions) I had very little or no idea of what was being said, emphasizing an un-American context and the films international market. This also happened in Berlin when I saw Jim Jarmusch's Night on Earth (1991) at the Babylon Filmtheater, but at least there, luckily, I had a friend to translate some Italian, at least, when she was not laughing so hard with Roberto Benigni.
Personal Background
I am twenty-two-year-old and I have been running Ottawa Film Review since 2008. My writing has definitely improved as I have started to mature and find my own voice. My tastes have been refined from reading film criticism collections and anthologies (e.g., Rosenbaum, Sarris, Godard, MacDonald, Agee, Farber, Britton) from the University of Ottawa Morisset Library and through mulling about films over beers with friend Scott Birdwise - the assistant programmer at the CFI and who also got me a part-time job there; dropping by Invisible Cinema to chat with Wyatt, and the participation on the threads at davekerh.com. This has lead to perspective taking and evolving views. I have had an omnivorous diet of videos, some purchased from the used DVD store Tuning Point (411 Cooper St), Tony Daye's regrettably now-closed Sounds Unlikely (5 Arlington Avenue, the store that introduced me to films of the French-, and Iranian-New-Wave; Samuel Fuller and Michelangelo Antonioni), and bargain bins at chain music-video stores. I saw current releases and classic films projections at the Bytowne Cinema programmed by Bruce White, the new Mayfair Theater programmed by Lee Demarbre, and films at the Library and Achieves Canada programmed by the Tom McSorley from the CFI. And I have written for the student paper University of Ottawa's Fulcrum Volume 69 Issue 24, 20, 9, and Volume 70 Issue 14, 19, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27.-David Davidson


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Artisan Home Decor Tips to Styling on a Budget
Creative Design Tips for Artisan Home Decor Lovers Decorating on a Budget
Decorating is about being yourself and being creative. It's really that simple. When you get right down to it there are no rules for interior designing and renovating your house. There are standards that the home décor industry follow and consumers feel compelled to follow suite as well. However, if the place you call home is a reflection of your personality, aura and spirit then who can really say what's the right or wrong way to decorate. Now add the fact that you're on a budget and can't afford all the glamorous accessories you'd need to conform to the rues. Well designers and homeowners who have a passion for art, crafts and eclectic style never worry about facing this issue. That's one of the great things about being an artisan home decor stylist. You can truly create magic throughout your residence with fun, playful artistic accents. To all the crafty, artisan style home decor lovers who happens to be new to this type of decorating out there; we're going to show you how to decorate on a budget.
Regardless of what type of interior decorating personality you are you can make the vision come to life on a budget. Even upscale, elegant home decorators can create an impression effect while designing within a budget. However, for vintage artisan home decorators styling on a budget really fits their creative voice. Here are some chic, fantastic ideas and tips on how to transform your home into an artistic castle without spending a penny:
Old clothes can be recycled
Before you throw that t-shirt or sweater away that you'll never wear again think about why you brought it in the first place, how it made you feel and use it to bring that same feeling into your home. Maybe the t-shirt can be sewn into a pillow case. If it was once one of your favorite shirts, now it can become one of your favorite pillows. Sit it in the middle of a three count throw pillow set guaranteed to make that souvenir stand out. For that sweater you'll never wear again combine it with some other cozy fabric and make a warm quilt perfect for the winter out of it.
Use your hobbies/ personal likes to style a room
Take whatever sport, hobby, artist or color you love and design a room out of it. This is free, fun and absolutely reflects exactly who you are. If you're a music lover create a music theme dining room or den. Take that old keyboard or drum set stored in your basement and add it to your desired area. Style with other small yet powerful artisan home decor accessories around it. Take a written music sheet and frame it over the piano or drum set. If your a huge sports fun add a football or basketball to your newly designed sports theme living room. Paint an old stool or stand and sit it on there to make it the main attraction of the room. You can also add sports cards and a framed jersey to the layout.
Decorating with recycled items
One of the most popular ways to style on a budget is to simply recycle. Besides using old clothes and music instruments you can use old home décor items themselves. There are numerous ways to restore life back into a product. You just have to find an alternative to what it was originally used for. That old wooden chair that can no longer be sat in can be used as a display. Sit something light in it but make sure the light object is one of the main attractions. A grand, decorative throw pillow that is too gorgeous to get lost in a set can stand alone in that chair. The chair itself can be used for decorations. Add some tassels, ribbons or super glue some artisan jewelry beads to the chair and watch it come back to life. Large glass bottles can be saved and turned into elegant glass vases. Simply paint the bottles or glaze them with your favorite color, stick a bundle of flowers in them and you now have an exotic vase.
With these small yet distinct tips you can now have an entirely new designed home without spending any money or even leaving your house. You'll be surprised how these simple artisan home decor tips will make your house appear like a brand new place.


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A Todmorden-based start up specialist has been named as one of the top 10 businesses advisers in the UK, his second such award this year.
Adrian Ashton was shortlisted from hundreds of applicants in the Top 50 Business Advisers Awards, just weeks after being named 'Best in Sector - Social Enterprise Support Services' in the 2014 Sector Success Awards.
This second prestigious award recognises business advisers, who work behind the scenes with new companies to create action plans and learn how to run their business in the most effective way possible.
Enterprise Nation, the company behind the national shortlist, asked start-ups across the UK to nominate an adviser who has helped them build and grow a sustainable business.
The entries were judged by a distinguished panel of representatives from professional bodies such as the ICAEW; the Department for Business, Industry and Skills; StartUp Loans and James Layfield, founder of Central Working.
Adrian, who was shortlisted by The Egg-Factory, a co-working space based in Hebden Bridge, runs his operation from his Burnley Road office.
The company nominated him for his work with start-ups, social enterprises and disadvantaged people across the UK, including ex-offenders.
Adrian said: "Good advice can help you put simple systems and practices in place to make sure that the business stays on track and does what you wanted it to,"
"The Egg factory is a new co-working space for entrepreneurs in the creative industries. Through a nationally funded programme I was able to spend a few days with them, bolstering their confidence as a group of designers, who'd never done anything like this before that have meant that they've secured premises, partners, and initial investment."
Adrian, who has over ten years experience as a freelance consultant, started out with one of the top 100 PR consultancies in the UK and has since worked in a number of management roles across various social enterprises and community organisations. He is now eyeing a 'hat-trick', having recently been shortlisted in the Corporate Liverwire Innovation and Excellence Awards 2015.
He said: "It's all too easy for an early stage business to get distracted and lose sight of what's important to its founders and what they're trying to achieve - there's a strong risk that without good strategic advice you can wake up one day with a business that doesn't bring you pleasure and you resent."
Emma Jones, Founder of Enterprise Nation said: "Research shows that firms that take advice do better than those that don't – and it stands to reason that good advice can help avoid some of the damaging, early mistakes entrepreneurs can make that can often force them to give up.
"These business advisers are the unsung heroes behind Britain's booming small business culture."
For more information visit www.adrianashton.co.uk


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Since a few moms have asked me about it, I thought I'd further share my enthusiasm for a specific type of baby carrier, the Ellaroo wrap. But, first, I admit this is not the only carrier I own. I carry my little one every day and I've found that different occasions call for different carriers. When Liberty (my girl of 11 months) was a newborn, she was cradled in a pouch, which is snug and secure because it does not slip. Now that she's older, we love the ring sling I borrowed because my hands are mostly free and she is up front and can see what I'm doing. And when we go for a walk, I strap her on my back in the Boba and I am totally free while she is so content she might fall asleep there. Yes, that means I use four different carriers. In fact, I would love to try a Mei Tai and make it five.
But when someone asks what kind of carrier they should get, I always suggest a woven wrap. If you are going to own one carrier, it is the way to go. A wrap is an amazing carrier because it distributes the baby's weight evenly and is therefore the most comfortable. It is very easily adjusted to a snug fit once you have it on. And it is the most versatile in terms of carrying positions. I originally bought mine so that I could nurse Liberty in it. I also keep it in the diaper bag because it takes up the least amount of room and it's versatility means I am prepared for any occasion. It's a plus that it looks good with just about anything I am wearing! And it's the lightest, most breathable one I own.
I decided to go with a woven wrap because I've tried the stretchy one and did not like it: I had to adjust it every few minutes because it kept stretching and stretching as I moved until Elijah (my firstborn) was hanging down past my hips – so frustrating! A woven wrap is more secure due to the force being distributed in the different directions of the threads. It works not just for babies up to six months but for toddlers. Since my babies apparently tend to grow really quickly in the first year and I found myself at times carrying my son up until he was three years old, I knew this attribute was a must.
Why the Ellaroo wrap? It mostly came down to pricing. The Ellaroo is in the mid price range, which is where I tend to go when purchasing things, if I can. Here is a chart of the woven carriers I found, along with their pricing and other features.
The Bundleboo isn't a traditional wrap; I wanted a wrap that could be put on without fussing over where the middle is. The Mamaroo company does not seem like a reliable company. The Ellaroo has all the features that are a necessity to me, it comes from a company that other businesses deal with, is available in different sizes – so you know it will fit – and looks beautiful. When it arrived at my home, I was very pleased with how it felt, especially after I washed it. (You do have to treat the fabric so the dye won't run but it's very easy to do. The only downside is that you can't put the Ellaroo in the dryer or it will shrink.)
I got mine from Joven-kids.com. This online store had the best selection for the best price at the time. My wrap came quickly and was enclosed with a friendly little note.
Did I forget to mention something? Ask me a question. Have something to share? Tell me which carrier you love!
Other Resources
How to wear your wrap: http://www.wearyourbaby.org/Default.aspx?tabid=89 (See the links on the left.)


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So there we were praising Huawei for its £180 quad-core Honour 2 when along comes ZTE and blows it out the water with its own new cut-price Android superstar, the U950.
And when we say blow out the water, we mean this: a 4.3in Tegra 3-based smartphone with 1GB of RAM going for a ridiculously low £99.
Those waters, of course, are Chinese waters for the time being, where the first wave of 100,000 ZTE U950s will be made available on November 11 priced at 999 yuan (£99).
There's no indication whether that means only this first batch will be sold at that price, or whether ZTE is simply just stoking the anticipation fires. It's an approach that seemed to work well for the record-setting Xiaomi M1 earlier this year.
In terms of the spec, aside from the quad-core Tegra 3 processor it's understandably a fair bit more basic sounding than the Huawei Honour 2 we heard about earlier today.
Aside from that 4.3in display, which is housed in a 9mm-thick chassis, the ZTE U950 also dishes up 1GB of RAM as we mentioned, plus 4GB of internal storage, a 5-megapixel camera plus front-facing VGA cam, 2,000mAh battery and Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich – a disappointment despite the price.
Don't be expecting this one to arrive in the UK, but ZTE can't really be criticised for its attention to the entry-level Android market locally, so we'll not grumble too much.
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In re ELSIE ESTHER PAYN. DECEASED.
This is the last Will and Testament of me Elsie Esther Payn of 16 Chapel Street St. John's in the Island of Newfoundland made this nineteenth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty one. I hereby revoke all wills made by me at any time heretofore. I appoint my brother Ernest Abraham Payn of St. John's Newfoundland to be my Executor, and direct that all my debts and Funeral Expenses shall be paid as soon as conveniently may be after my decease, my funeral expenses to be as moderate as possible. I give and bequeath unto my three nieces Mabel Elsie Carnell, Janet Alice Mary Payn & Annie Lavinia Crawford all my personal belongings to be divided equally and peaceably between them by Janet Alice Mary Payn. To my niece Edith Elsie Payn my mothers wedding ring. To my niece Annie Lavinia Crawford one hundred pounds sterling. To my grandniece and godchild Esther Payn Carnell one hundred pounds sterling. To my niece Janet Alice Mary Payn the remainder of my money invested in Jersey, Channel Islands, in the hands of my brother Thomas Payn and any other monies I may be possessed of at my death. I leave my Silver Tea Service in charge of my niece Janet Alice Mary Payn to be given to my nephew Thomas Victor Payn when he marries, should he not marry it shall remain the property of Janet Alice Mary Payn. ELSIE ESTHER PAYN.
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City Hall negotiations would be nonbinding
What: City Council meeting on whetherto negotiate for a new City Hall
Where: City Hall, 202 C St.
When: 2 p.m. Monday
City Hall is trying to keep a low profile when it comes to negotiations for a new City Hall.
The San Diego City Council next week will consider approving negotiations with Portland, Ore., developer Gerding Edlen to build a $432 million city headquarters.
The goal is to make a new edifice cost less than staying in the old one at 202 C St., plus additional leased space.
Voters will probably have the final say at an election expected in November 2010. So to win confidence in the process, Mayor
"When you're doing a deal of this magnitude, you obviously want professional negotiators who really know what they're doing," Sanders said. "I certainly think a public vote is important, and by having some people from outside the city be on that team, it always helps out in terms of public trust."
Sanders said he doesn't yet know who will be on the team or how many people he will tap. The talks aren't binding, so either side can walk away if the proposed deal isn't to its liking.
The negotiating window will be 12 months, but city officials and the developer say they hope to reach a consensus by early next year so the proposal can be placed on the ballot as soon as possible.
The city plans to spend up to $705,000 for the negotiations. The majority of that money will pay for environmental experts, construction consultants and financial gurus.
"There's a lot of moving parts, but we feel like it's still very doable and is potentially a real good cost-saving mechanism for the city budget," said Brent Gaulke, vice president of Gerding Edlen.
The project calls for a 34-story City Hall with an underground garage at C Street and First Avenue, just west of the current building. It would consolidate city offices now spread throughout downtown and eliminate several city leases.
What need to be negotiated are the specifics. For example, the proposed building would have 1 million square feet of offices, but the city is facing a $179 million budget deficit and possible cuts to its work force. City officials may want to scale back the size to account for potential layoffs.
Also at issue is whether the city will sell or lease nearby properties to the developer to help offset costs. Gerding Edlen wants to build retail, housing and a parking structure on those lots.
The project's most prominent critic, Councilman Carl DeMaio, calls the negotiations a waste of taxpayer money and a tool to trick the public. He said the city would be better off using a negotiating team to haggle with the city's current landlords.
DeMaio said the previous analyses of potential cost savings didn't reflect the down market for office space, making the option of new construction look better.
"This is a setup just to build a brand-new building," he said. "There is absolutely no integrity or honesty in the process that they've laid out."
Earlier this year, a consultant's analysis showed that the "hold steady" plan would be slightly cheaper over the first 10 years but would cost more in the long run. In 50 years, the hold-steady plan would cost up to $790 million, and a new complex would cost about $558 million.
Council President Ben Hueso, who supports entering negotiations, said the process will allow city leaders and the public to know exactly what they're getting into.
"It doesn't sign away the future. It doesn't commit the city to anything other than to sit down and negotiate in good faith," Hueso said. "If we do not get what we need, we will not move forward with this project."


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Vigilante Coffee Is Now A Full Service Cafe
- On March 25, 2017
- DC coffee, Full Service, Hyattsville
By: Austin Redington
In our short time as a company, we've certainly learned a lot. One of the most important things we've learned about in trying to curate an excellent coffee shop experience, is that it isn't only about the coffee.
In today's world of specialty coffee, we've managed to get completely wrapped up only thinking about the coffee. How can we source higher quality green? How can we roast this coffee better? How can we improve our brewing process? How can we make our drinks taste better? These are all very important factors that we consider each day, and factors that must continue to focus on. Coffee is, afterall, the central tangible product that we sell. If it's in our company name, we'd better get that part right. But an experience isn't solely based on quality of the product.
On this note, I've had countless visits to cafes where the coffee itself is great, maybe even exceptional, but the overall experience was horrible. From rude service and confusing menus to the 'too hip' ambiance and 'is this place seriously even clean enough to sit in?', I've experienced it all. And each and every time, the overall experience I walked away with completely overshadowed the quality coffee. Regardless of how delicious your coffee is, it matters how you present it, how you make it available to the customer, and how you serve the coffee, and how you talk to your customer about it.
What is it then that makes for an amazing coffee experience? This is a question I've obsessed over for the last couple of years and has led me on a quest to cafes all around the world. I've researched books, read article after article, and spent countless hours observing on this quest (consuming obscene amounts of espresso all the while). In the end, it's not a simple 'one-size-fits-all' answer, but more so a balance of dedication. This balance is easily illustrated by the following formula:
Experience = Product Quality + Presentation + Service + Environment
Using this, it's easy to see why my negative experiences left me overall feeling negative, even though the product may have been awesome. When the other elements lack dedication and focus, the overall experience suffers. In contrast, I have found that the best experiences are so flawless and make it so easy for the customer that you don't realize that the whole thing is being intentionally orchestrated.
This is the type of experience i discovered in my travels throughout Australia and New Zealand. Melbourne, viewed by many as the capital of the specialty coffee world, delivered incredible experiences at nearly every cafe I visited. What is it that made these experiences so special? The coffee was, of course, impeccably roasted and brewed. But, the experience began before that ever arrived at my table.
I first entered each cafe and was greeted by warm, vibrant energy – from the employees as well as the design and plant elements integrated throughout (check our our plant life blog for more about greenery in cafes[link]!). But what came next, was vitally important. I was greeted by a friendly smile, brought to a table, and given a menu clearly describing the coffee and food offerings.
I was actually being given full service – at a coffee shop!
Over the course of each visit, everything I wanted was ordered from my seat and delivered directly to me. When items would arrive, they'd be beautifully presented, with coffee and espressos frequently accompanied by information about their origin, tasting notes, and stories. I never had to listen for my name to be shouted out, or wonder if an impatient patron would take my drink by mistake. I didn't have to leave my seat. I didn't even have to wait in line. It was like all of the sudden, I'd walked into a cafe and then was treated like royalty! This is how I want our customers to feel.
Cafes throughout Australia and New Zealand are nailing every part of the Experience equation.The product is nearly perfect, the environment is comfortable and well appointed, the service is unparalleled, and the presentation is engaging and memorable.
In some ways, this seems so simple and so obvious. We experience great service in restaurants all the time (depending on the restaurants you visit, of course). So why aren't we doing this with coffee in our country?
Upon returning from this journey, I began plotting. How can we roll this out in our cafe? What will it mean for our business? Can we replicate this type of experience? Can we improve upon this experience?
Over the last few months, our team has been working through the challenges and began developing our new service plan. We've been honing in the details, strategizing, role playing, and really just setting the rules for what defines the Vigilante Coffee Experience. In the process, we've adapted our menu to include some new food items and combos. We've revamped our coffee presentation to be more appealing, informative, and educational.
And we also trained ourselves on how to interact and engage with our customers about coffee at the table, and continue to think and re-think how we approach service. No more name shouting, lots more relaxing. All this, of course, is done from the viewpoint of making a visit to Vigilante Coffee one that is easy, special, unique, and memorable.
While we continue to hone in and improve the Vigilante Coffee Experience, we hope you enjoy the new service style and really take advantage of your ability to come in, feel at home, and be served an amazing cup of coffee in a welcoming and enjoyable atmosphere.


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We used terms like aggie, cat eyes, keepsies and biggies.
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Losing My Marbles
We used terms like aggie, cat eyes, keepsies and biggies.
20 comments:
- Jeannelle said...
Nice post! Yes, I remember drawing a circle in the dirt and playing a marble game.
- November 13, 2011 at 3:47 PM
- Hilary Melton-Butcher said...
Hi Teresa .. lovely story - I'll use it in the conversations I'm having with the residents up at the Nursing Home - something I've started doing recently - every Tuesday.
I remember marbles and loved their colour and feel .. we used marbles for noughts and crosses and/or solitaire .. a round board with a cross of holes in it - each 'column' 3 holes across .. and 3 deep I guess .. to the centre square .. actually can't quite remember - maybe someone will put me out of my misery!
Marbles - interesting history though .. and childhood memories ..
Thanks - loved the story - Hilary
- November 14, 2011 at 4:06 AM
- Elizabeth Spann Craig/Riley Adams said...
I remember having a marble collection, for sure. I think I may have played once or twice. My sister and I played Tiddlediwinks (sp?) more often, though. Fun games!
- November 14, 2011 at 4:13 AM
- Jules said...
I sure did and I still have my marbles! Besides everyone needs back-up marbles. :)
Jules @ Trying To Get Over The Rainbow
- November 14, 2011 at 7:15 AM
- Hart Johnson said...
I love marbles, too, though never lived anywhere that people formally played. I had a bunch as a kid--the favorites were those I got from my grandma's house. I think they'd belonged to one of my uncles, but the old ones were far more unique and pretty than the more standard fare you could just buy.
- November 14, 2011 at 10:38 AM
- Alex J. Cavanaugh said...
I didn't really play any games, but I did have marbles as a kid.
I think I've lost them since then...
- November 14, 2011 at 12:53 PM
- Nezzy said...
Sure shootin' I still adore the uniqueness of each and every marble.
I had more fun as a young chicklett swappin' marbles than actually playin' marbles.
God bless and have yourself a fantabulous week sweetie!!!
- November 14, 2011 at 3:07 PM
- Carol Kilgore said...
I didn't play marbles, but I liked to look at them. My dad had a jar with old marbles he had when he was a boy.
- November 14, 2011 at 3:44 PM
- Maryann Miller said...
I played marbles a lot as a kid. Thanks for the trip down memory lane. I think the name of the game was simply Marbles. My husband says that sometimes he called it Agates.
- November 14, 2011 at 10:20 PM
I used to collect and play marbles. I sometimes lose them too. Usually I find them under the sofa when I vacuum..
- November 15, 2011 at 10:01 AM
- Julie Dao said...
I didn't play with marbles, but reading your description of the game you played reminds me of how I used to play with Pogs. We had "slammers," not shooters, and traded our Pogs for others. So much fun!
- November 15, 2011 at 12:27 PM
- Arlee Bird said...
I used to have marbles but never actually played with them. I did like to look at them though.
My parents would both talk about how they played marbles when they were kids and according to them they were both quite good and won a lot of marbles off the other kids. My father was like a marble champion in his neighborhood--at least to hear him tell it.
Growing up during depression times their games were pretty simple. Not a bad thing really.
Ann Carbine Best visits Wrote By Rote on Saturday 11/12/11
- November 15, 2011 at 5:55 PM
- CM said...
No, I never played marbles but I always have wanted to. I never knew how to play. Thanks for explaining it. What a great gift for your grandkids!
- November 15, 2011 at 6:58 PM
- Elizabeth said...
Oh my goodness...I love your blog.
Awesome header....and the paneling background is terrific.
NEW FOLLOWER...going to subscribe as well.
- November 16, 2011 at 4:14 PM
- Mary Aalgaard, Play off the Page said...
We played it a little, I think. My dad said that he liked to play marbles. I love looking at them.
- November 16, 2011 at 9:19 PM
- Hilary Melton-Butcher said...
Hi Teresa .. just to add about marbles .. I came across a note about a garden and house in Sussex, Nymans, willed to the National Trust in 1953 - see Wiki for more info.
The NT magazine has a note saying that some regular visitors describe their favourite object as "The 18th C Chinese frog in the Garden Hall, which is actually an earthquake detector - delicately balanced marbles fall into its feet at the first sign of a tremor!! Rare here fortunately ...
Loved the idea of this and the story ... I did read your post out to the residents and we talked about their memories of marble games - much the same as yours ..
Cheers Hilary
- November 17, 2011 at 1:21 AM
- Betty Manousos@ Cut and Dry said...
yep! i did! that's for sure.
wonderful post! thanks for posting this.
- November 18, 2011 at 3:31 PM
- Konstanz Silverbow said...
I love playing marbles! I still play with my younger siblings whenever I get the chance.
Thanks for the post, you have inspired me to go play marbles when I get home. :D
- December 3, 2011 at 10:41 AM
- Hold my hand: a social worker's blog said...
I'm visiting this blog for first time, and I find it so delightful. I love the stories, well, I may be a bit biased considering that I work with elderly population, and reminiscing is a very important part in their lives.
I did play marbles, I loved it, but especially, I loved the beautiful colors. I remember the cat eyes... :-))
- December 18, 2011 at 6:46 AM
- Nicole said...
I kept my marbles in a coffee can. I still have it and them, which is VERY UNUSUAL for me. I throw pretty much everything away and I don't think I have anything else from my childhood. I'd play with my dad mostly. I learned a new marble game when I lived in Ecuador. I currently use marbles in two mason jars to represent the pounds I need to lose and the pounds I have lost. I love marbles!
- February 17, 2012 at 12:49 PM


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These are the gates to the Royal Botanic Gardens when entering from the forecourt of the Sydney Opera House.
If you recall, last week I went to an exhibition at the foundry of Wrought-Artworks, down at the Australian Technology Park in Eveleigh, the old Railway Loco-workshops. I showed you a video of their work, and in it Guido spoke about their commission to 'renovate' the wrought iron in these gates.
On Sunday, I deliberately entered the Botanic Gardens via this gate, not through the forecourt, but up and over the Tarpeian Way at the rear of Government House. It is a glorious walk. And lo and behold, the workmanship in these gates is a joy! The little red 'engine' is a free service to move visitors around the Botanic Gardens. The water in the final shot is Sydney Harbour, specifically Farm Cove. There can be few better walks in Sydney than from these gates around to Mrs Macquries's Chair at the tip of The Domain.
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