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(Belgian Shepherd Laekenois, Chien de Berger Belge) The Belgian Laekenois is one of the four types of Belgian Sheepdogs. The breed's wiry coat gives the Belgian Laekenois a distinctive and unique appearance. The size and stature of the Belgian Laekenois is very similar to that of the other Belgian Sheepdogs. They are sturdy and squarely built with good proportions. Their chests are neither wide nor broad, yet they are very deep and reach to the level of the elbows. Their limbs are very straight and parallel and feature round, cat-like paws. They have a flat skull that is parallel to the plane of their tapered muzzle and their teeth meet in a level or scissors bite. Their noses are black, their small ears sit high on their head, and their almond-shaped eyes are dark in color. The Belgian Laekenois has a rough, wiry coat that measures over two inches in length. Fringe is present on the muzzle and head, and the long tail is bushy and covered in dense hair.
The Belgian Laekenois is a highly intelligent herding dog with a serious, watchful demeanor and passionate protective and territorial instincts. Dogs of this breed should be socialized from a young age to prevent the onset of excessive shyness. The Belgian Laekenois needs firm, patient training from an experienced and knowledgeable dog owner. They are terrific working dogs and perform very well on the competitive obedience circuit. They thrive on human companionship and make wonderful family pets. If socialized properly from a young age, the Belgian Laekenois will get along very well with children. Because of their high energy level, this breed is happiest with lots of open space and a job to do. They may exhibit instinctive behaviors like chasing, circling, or nipping.
General Health
The Belgian Laekenois has few major health concerns. Skin allergies, eye problems, and behavior fluctuations (such as excessive shyness or aggression) have been seen in some lines of this breed. Like many other large dog breeds, hip dysplasia and elbow dysplasia are occasionally present. The Belgian Laekenois typically lives for 12 to 14 years. This breed averages 6 to 10 puppies per litter.
Of the four types of Belgian Sheepdogs, the Belgian Laekenois is the rarest. In the United States, certain varieties of the Belgian Sheepdog have been distinguished as separate breeds. But the Laekenois is not yet recognized by any major kennel club. Developed by as a watchdog breed to guard the fields in Antwerp, the Belgian Laekenois was the favored shepherd dog during the reign of Queen Marie Henriette. Since that time, however, the Belgian Laekenois has become the least popular of the four varieties of Belgian Sheepdogs. All Belgian Sheepdog breeds have excellent natural herding abilities and a variety of talents. The Belgian Laekenois is heavily utilized as a herding, guarding, and rescue worker.
The Belgian Laekenois has a rough, wiry coat of hair that needs to be clipped and/or trimmed at least twice per year. Depending on the dog's quality of coat, grooming may be needed more or less often. All dead and excess hair should be removed. Cutting this breed's hair short will result in a ruined coat for several years. Owners of the Belgian Laekenois should use a coarse-toothed comb to get rid of mats. This breed should be bathed only as necessary to avoid removing the waterproofing of the coat. The Belgian Laekenois sheds little to no hair.
Ideal Environment
The Belgian Laekenois is an active working dog that is accustomed to having lots of room to run around outside and a job to perform. This breed needs a lot of exercise and time to roam without a leash. The Belgian Laekenois can live in a small household are apartment if it is sufficiently exercised. They are a moderately active breed indoors and are most content with at least an average-sized yard. They can adapt well to a variety of climates but prefer cool weather conditions.
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Sunday, June 06, 2010
It's Time to End the Blockade of Gaza
But instead, the Wall was dubbed the Apartheid Wall, despite the fact that there were about as many Arabs on one side of it as another, and that the Arabs on the other side of it claimed to be members of a separate Palestinian nation. And the Blockade was redefined as Israeli piracy and oppression against the not particularly starving "People of Gaza". The Obama administration along with Europe is now calling for an end to the blockade. And Israel has a choice between either fighting a continuous war against naval incursions from Turkey and Iran, with leftist "Human Shields" to provide cover for the terrorists-- or reclaiming control over Gaza and driving out Hamas.
The arguments for reclaiming Gaza are straightforward enough.
The situation as it stands cannot be settled through any form of negotiation, as Hamas has made it clear that under no circumstances will it accept any form of permanent peace agreement, only temporary truces. The world is no longer demanding that Israel negotiate with terrorists, as it had in the past with the PLO. Instead it is demanding that Israel stop interfering with the terrorists. Not because this will bring peace through negotiations, but because they have accepted the national claims of Hamas, a genocidal Islamist terrorist organization. This is obviously an unsustainable and unacceptable demand.
Despite numerous attempts to find "moderates" willing to negotiate, Hamas remains dedicated to working together with Iran for the planned genocide of the Jews. Its charter contains the quote: "The Day of Judgment will not come about until Muslims fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Muslims, O Abdullah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him" as its raison d'etre. And as the world is no longer willing to back Israel's passive approach to containing Hamas-- then the country has no choice but to move to active suppression.
Since the attempts by Islamist regimes in Iran and Turkey to aid Hamas now have the approval of the world, further attempts to maintain the blockade are futile. The blockade of Gaza was based on the idea that Israel could isolate Hamas and thereby peacefully remove it from power. Instead Muslim regimes and left wing activists have instead once again isolated Israel. The mistake that Israel made once again was to imagine that reasonable behavior would produce cooperation. Instead once again the world rewards Islamic terrorists and punishes their victims.
By leaving Gaza alone and only monitoring its borders and coastlines, Israel displayed superhuman patience and tolerance for terrorists. But if the world refuses to back a naval blockade, then Israel has no choice but to take control of the ground. If the Obama administration refuses to accept the understanding on which Israel's original withdrawal was based, then it is time to reverse that withdrawal. The ongoing imprisonment of Gilad Shalit, Hamas' own atrocities against fellow Arabs and the presence of Al Queda in Gaza-- are all additional factors that demand action.
The world's implicit endorsement of Hamas territorial rights leaves Israel with only two choices, to allow Hamas to function as a country, or to reclaim the area and shut Hamas down for good. Since Hamas is not willing to negotiate a permanent peace agreement and remains dedicated to terrorism and war, the former option is completely unworkable. Especially with Iran, Syria and Turkey being all too eager to arm and use Hamas as a proxy to justify a war with Israel. The latter option then is the only one that remains on the table. Either Israel will retake Gaza now, or it will have to retake it as part of a regional war. Retaking it now will mean less bloodshed on both sides. And possibly avoid a regional conflict.
Right now Hamas is playing the Volksdeutsche to Iran's Germany and Israel's Czechoslovakia. Spurious claims of civil rights are being used to carve Israel up in preparation for a full invasion. And the likes of Ahmadinejad and Erdogan are competing over who will play Der Fuhrer and who will play Il Duce in this scenario. A full fledged Hamas state in Gaza will be an Iranian barracks and naval base inside Israel. And once Israel concedes on the sea, it will have to concede on the air too. Because the same "activists" who sail ships, will be able to rent planes too. And Israel will not be able to board those mid-air. It will have to choose between shooting them down and creating more "martyrs" and world outrage, or letting Iran ferry weapons through the air directly into its territory.
As of now, Egypt does not want Gaza. Fatah is not prepared to retake Gaza. Hamas is absolutely unwilling to negotiate a permanent peace agreement. The only thing left for Israel to do is retake Gaza, drive out Hamas and reassert control over the area. This will lead to short term violence, but long term peace. As opposed to the current scenario adopted by the Obama administration which leads to both short term violence and long term catastrophe.
The blockade of Gaza has failed. Not because of Israel, but because the world could not make the right choice between a democratic country and a genocidal terrorist group that is second cousins with Al Queda. The blockade was Israel's concession to terrorism, a passive enforcement of its borders and interdiction of arms smuggling. The passive response is dead now. It's time to retake Gaza or face the consequences.
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- Arius said...
You present the possibility that Israel may decide to retake Gaza in light of the irrational response of the world. The delusional Muslims don't surprise me; that is what they are. But the West, what a bunch of blockheads. Their actions for 'peace'
always seem to cause more war.
- 7/6/10
- Anonymous said...
@Daniel ,
We share the same vision
But after retaking gaza, "the obamination "and "the holocaust denier" will demand a permanent crossing between gaza and Judea Samaria ....
A less acute problem will turn into a major one !
Thanks for your awesome reports,
Trumpeldor from Belgium
- 7/6/10
- Anonymous said...
And you think the Netanyahu gov't. has the balls to do this?
Face it, the Israeli political elite is paralyzed, on the defensive, reactive, not proactive.
- 7/6/10
- dee said...
I do see your point, Daniel, but something is missing. Israel drives out Hamas at great cost to herself in terms of both life and another PR disaster that offers a virtual free pass to the global Jihad. Then she presents Gaza to the PA, which is prepared to tolerate Israel's existence until it is strong enough to destroy her.
Hmmm...this sounds like a non-smoker taking up the offer of a last cigarette before being blindfolded.
- 7/6/10
- joe six-pack said...
Sorry, misspelled justice.
- 7/6/10
- Mike Elmore said...
The more I read of these changing events of history the more I think I must be the crazy one. Has the whole world turned into Dimmies? I get it from the Muslim point of view but how is it that the Western world dosen't see that this is just one more step to the next country on Islams march for world dominates. The religion of peace that has been hijacked by a few radicals we are told and here we have those same radicals being given legitimacy, ah democracy in the middle east it really, kinda, does work. If Israel doesn't have U.S. support will it then not have to make worthless peace agreements and go ahead and do what's right of Israel, and say f--- all of you or will the worlds reaction be to much for Israel?
- 7/6/10
- Anonymous said...
I understand the frustration, but
whats the point of taking Gaza? All that will mean will is Israel will be responsible for everything that goes wrong in Gaza -and the Gazans will make sure that there is plenty to go wrong. And in the usual manner they will ascribe all terrorist activities to 'occupation'. The UN, EU and the US, will stop financial support ( they would love to hit Israrl this way), and Israel will be left holding a real poison snake in its hands.
Its not Gaza that is the problem but Gazans, or the Egyptians or whoever that populate Gaza. So yes, re-take Gaza, but in a manner or in a circumstance that is to Israel's advantage -- for good.
Israel absolutely needs to start acting real tough. In this world, all the good, and the accolades, flow to the those who are strong and willing to to act so. The weak or the weak-willed, will be shown contempt.
- 7/6/10
- Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog said...
Israel is already responsible for all that goes wrong in Gaza, without being able to control what goes on in Gaza.
If Israel is to be held responsible, it should be allowed to be in control of what it is being held responsible for.
- 7/6/10
- Anonymous said...
I strongly disagree.
The Gaza blockade is a good place to draw a line. Easy to defend at low cost to Israeli risk of life.
Gaza does not lack food or any other need of the populace so no video of suffering.
If we give in there, then Hamas is the new standard for acceptable behavior.
Time to put maximum effort to counter the information war. Media, communications, internet.
- 7/6/10
- Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog said...
It's not easy to defend at all, because by turning over the area to Hamas, Israel cannot control what happens on the ground, and now the territory is being treated as implicitly belonging to Hamas forcing Israel into naval battles
you have to win the war on the ground, you can't win it in the media
- 7/6/10
- Anonymous said...
I theory I agree that Gaza needs to be retaken. However, I would advocate a holding action until Obama is out of office. Winning is losing without the right backing in Washington - a la Operation Cast Lead. (As an aside, can't they pick a better name -- something like "Defending the Puppies!")
Take the fight to the media and try and link-up up with common themes that are resonating in America -- boarders, immigration, extra-territorial violence. Certainly there are orders of magnitude difference between Gaza and Arizona, but a large and increasing fraction of the American people understand the importance of these issues. Polls say something like 70%.
- 7/6/10
- Stan Tee said...
As an alternative - or, perhaps, a prelude - why doesn't Israel simply shut its borders with Gaza completely and wash its hands of the territory. Let all aid go through Egypt. Gaza is enemy territory and should be treated as such. Then, when Gaza attacks, as it surely will, Israel can retaliate as forcibly as possible. The world will still scream, but it will be obvious what happened.
- 7/6/10
- Anonymous said...
"you can't win it in the media"
Sorry, Daniel, but I have to disagree. Arafat, Obama, et al, have done nothing but completely "exonerate" themselves thanks to a sycophantic media.
Israel needs to change its PR image. It was seemingly hawkish from the 50s to the 70s. When it started appeasing, thanks to the Carter administration, like the US, it became pliable. I believe that if it took a more aggressive defense, akin to the Russian offense as in Chechnya and Somalia's pirates; the Arab street would shut up.
- 7/6/10
- Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog said...
Israel has never gotten backing from Washington, and it's an open question as to when there will even be a Republican President in office, and how pro-Israel he will be.
Israel cannot make calculations based on waiting Obama out. It won't work.
As for the media, the media hates Arizona. The only people won over by such an argument already support Israel.
- 7/6/10
- Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog said...
Because Israel will still be faced with the shouts of apartheid, the Iranian fleets, and any attack that doesn't result in Israel retaking Gaza just means more of the same
- 7/6/10
- Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog said...
Israel's image isn't determined by it. What Israel can do as you've suggested, is go aggressive, which will end the perception of weakness, and the idea that Israel can be backed into making concessions through international hate campaigns
- 7/6/10
- Keli Ata said...
I am probably getting this all wrong, but I think Israel should retake Gaza for a number of reasons.
They'd be in a better position to squash Hamas. They could also redevelop the land and turn it into an amazing resort or beach front community. It would be gorgeous similar to Italy, the Greek Isles etc.
Call me crazy but waterfront communities are always in high demand. Giving Gaza to the Palestinians seems such a waste of a natural resource:(
Why should waterfront property be used as a base camp for terrorists and their sympathizers?
Idealistic I know and doesn't really address urgent conditions in Gaza but down the road Gaza could be wonderful but only under Israeli rule.
- 7/6/10
- Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog said...
exactly right
- 7/6/10
- Tracy W said...
I agree with commentators who say the retaking of Gaza would only serve to facilitate its reunification with the PA.
It would cost IDF lives and would unleash a vicious wave of anti-Israel actions from governments, NGOs and terrorists.
Always beware of unintended consequences. At the very least, the Palestinian state now would extend across Israel thanks to the land corridor promised to them by Olmert and Bush, and Israel would end up divided in two.
The only solution with a long-term vision is to simply annex the territories, offer residency rights to non-terrorist Arabs (no more occupation, no more Apartheid), and those unhappy with the arrangement can be assisted financially to relocate elsewhere.
The Arab demographic threat has been exaggerated. Read Ettinger's columns on the subject.
The PR results of annexation would not be pretty either, but it would all be worth it in the long run.
The status quo whether in the PA or Gaza has brought nothing but grief. It's time for a bold move. Annex the land. Israel has the right to the land under international law (League of Nations Mandate agreement adopted by the United Nations).
- 7/6/10
- Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog said...
annexation of course is the only reasonable solution, and retaking it is the first step to annexation
- 7/6/10
- Anonymous said...
DG wrote: Israel is already responsible for all that goes wrong in Gaza, without being able to control what goes on in Gaza.
It is and it isnt. Israeli forces are not inside Gaza. They are not responsible for the day to day life of Gaza -;aw and order, food, hospitals, eduction(??).
If Israel gets sucked in to Gaza, that would be a real calamity. Let them be, let them stew in their own juice - and wait for an opportune moment to change the strategic position - that is real prize.
- 7/6/10
- Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog said...
Israel is being held responsible, regardless of whether it is actually responsible. Which means that Israel might as well take control, if it's going to be held responsible anyway.
Israel has already been sucked into Gaza. The last week's events, Gilad Shalit, the rocket attacks all prove that. Israel can take control and control what goes on in its borders, or deal with the provocations of an Iranian rump state in its territory
- 7/6/10
- No Apology said...
Retake Gaza.
- 7/6/10
- Keli Ata said...
BTW: LOVE the new masthead for the blog!!!!!
- 7/6/10
- Anonymous said...
And what will Israel do once it reoccupies Gaza at whatever ridiculous cost in lives and treasure is dictated by the ruling elite's unwillingness to use proper military means? Piss away money and men with no end in sight while IDF soldiers play pop-up target for Hamas and al-Qaeda snipers and bombmakers? Continue to supply its enemies with food, funds, electricity and war materiel at ever increasing rates? Re-establish Gush Katif so it can be demolished once again when the pain and expense of endless, pointless pseudo-warfare gets to be too much while the lessons of the last "disengagement" fade from the collective memory of the addled Israeli public?
Lets be crystal clear here. Israel cannot reoccupy Gaza because it is unwilling to fight. Israel is unable to blockade Gaza, either. Also because it is unwilling to fight. If you want to see what a REAL blockade looks like, go google "siege of Leningrad".
Medinat Israel cannot win because it is unwilling to fight. It is unwilling to fight because it does not believe in its own right to exist. The only thing Medinat Israel is able to do is die. Its only choice is whether to die quickly or by slow stages.
Only Medinat Yehudah could plausibly defeat Islamic terror. So this is your choice: Medinat Yehudah or Emirat Filistini Islami. Choose!
Vienna Mike
- 7/6/10
- Anonymous said...
I dont agree. Its one thing to be held responsible when Israeli soldiers and civilians are not in Gaza, another thing when they are on the ground in Gaza.
How are you going to protect soldiers and civilians from each and any Muslim who wishes to stab or shoot them. Going into Gaza on an occupation basis, will hand Islamics the opportunity of close access to Jews to murder them - precisely what they want to get into paradise.
Patience, and Gazans will hand Israel the opportunity to acquire real strategic value.
- 8/6/10
- Shiloh said...
Annexation cannot work unless there is the followup of transfer. The same goes for Judea and Samaria. Will the Frankists do it, absoulutly not. So as Vienna Mike states, we die slowly. Sad we can't wake up.
Daniel, when are you going to escape the galut while we can still land at Ben Gurion. It's not going to remain this way for long. We are packing as I type.
- 8/6/10
- dee said...
Israel is a nation destined to fight for survival against those that exist to fight. When she loses the will to fight, that is the beginning of her end.
I believe Israel may not have quite lost but is certainly losing the will to fight. Now she clings to a fortress mentality, which is a politically correct form of slow and painful suicide.
It has been said that no army can win by fighting on two fronts. Israel has fought a 60-year war on three fronts, and her enemies have just last week opened the 4th.
- 8/6/10
- Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog said...
well then make a Medinat Yehudah, but right now there isn't one. And I don't see a remotely realistic plan for making one.
- 8/6/10
- Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog said...
the same way they were protected before. If you have boots on the ground, you can control the situation and drive out organized terrorist groups. You can cultivate a network of informants. You can control the movement and flow of people.
Right now Israel can't do any of those.
And Israel is being held responsible anyway. That's the point. The world will blame Israel regardless of what it does, it might as well defend itself.
- 8/6/10
- Anonymous said...
Daniel, do you know who Vienna Mike is?
Google "Virtual Medinat Yehudah". Whether or not he is a lunatic remains to be seen. But he definitely has a plan.
- 8/6/10
- Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog said...
I did say realistic, as in A to B to C to D, with A being something doable
- 8/6/10
- Tracy W said...
The notion of transfer of the Arab population is not feasible. Lots of reasons. Here are just two:
1) The world would equate it with genocide and you'd have UN troops taking over the country.
2) Jews cringe at the very thought of hurting non-Jews (we, who have suffered so much), and at what the world might think of us.
Forget about transfering Arabs. (Where, by the way? No other Muslim country wants them.)
There are more humane and more effective options:
- Do not give automatic citizenship to them or their offspring, but set up conditions for citizenship as it's done everywhere. Good behavior is one of them.
But allow equal rights for all. Actually, equal rights for Arabs and Jews would be an improvement.
At the present Arabs seem to have more rights: they can build wherever they want without permission, while Jews can't. They control Temple Mount and are allowed to pray openly, while Jews can't. They have wider freedom of speech and can utter racist comments and make threats against others - while Jews can't. And so on.
- Upon annexation, implement a policy that offers adequate and even generous financial aid to Arab families willing to relocate abroad.
A peaceful, humane annexation of the territories needs to be tried.
As far as taking over Gaza first and annexing later, I just don't trust this or any other Israeli government to stand firm to foreign pressure to hand over Gaza to Fatah.
So here's the plan:
1) Annex Judea, Samaria, eastern Jerusalem, Golan. Put forth all the appropriate legal arguments. The documentation exists. The UN is bound by League of Nations agreements.
2) Once Israel has a firm and legal hold on the WB, proceed with Gaza.
The demographic shift would soon be righted with a wave of new Aliyah.
Why there is so much trepidation in Israel to even discuss this option among Israeli leadership is a mystery. The window of opportunity for annexation is closing fast.
- 8/6/10
- Shiloh said...
Daniel, listen to this if you can.
- 8/6/10
- Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog said...
Israel is already being accused of genocide and we're on a path to having those troops there anyway.
That said I agree with your plan.
- 8/6/10
- Shiloh said...
Tracy, you don't understand the 'invented people' in Israel. Being nice to them only makes them beleive we are weak. I know them well, I was raised around them. Kahane was right.
What do you think I meant about transfer. Pay them to get out. The other Arab nations will not bat an eye. They want the problem solved. Many Esav countries would take them in without a problem except for the 'known' terrorists. For those, send them to Saudi, they know what to do with them.
In a Torah Jewish state, democracy does not exist. Let the rest of the world continue with their 'democracy' with equal rights to all. See how they fall. HaShem said we are to be separate from the goyim. I agree, we don't fit and they don't fit with us. If they want to visit the Temple when it's rebuilt, great, but they won't live in our Land. Simple. Goyim won't like it, but it's our promise, get used to it.
- 8/6/10
- Tracy W said...
Shiloh, I don't dispute that Jewish decency and generosity are regarded as weakness in the ME. But Israel's options are somewhat limited right now due to the way the world has ganged up against you. You really have to be careful now.
Israel was transformed from a hero nation in 1967 into a pariah state in just a short time.
Aside from the Israeli leadership's huge share of the blame in this, Arabs did an excellent job in destroying your standing in the world. And they had the eager help from the usual suspects in the West and from Israeli leftists.
Arabs proceeded slowly, cunningly and methodically.
For Israel to go now from pariah state to a strong Torah state, you also have to proceed in stages.
First you have to secure the borders through annexation.
Next, slowly empower the religious nationalists and disempower the left. There are multiple ways of doing this, and you can use every political, legal, psychological (PR) method available.
Shiloh, there are things that are within your reach right now that would empower Jewish Israel. I'll name two:
1) Stop foreign infiltration into Israel, particularly from Africa. Set up a UNHCR camp and let the UN take care and relocate every one of them.
2) Limit some of the Supreme Court powers. You need only a majority vote in the Knesset.
There is a proposal that would change a Founding Law to state that the Supreme Court does not have the final say on "security matters directly relating to the preservation of human life." Founding laws can be altered via a simple majority vote.
Israel must not give the UN and Obama justification for an invasion. But a lot could be accomplished in the meantime just by using national and international law to your advantage.
- 9/6/10
- im2sloe4u said...
There should never have been an agreement to divide Israel, to begin with.
This is disobedience to God.
The expulsion of Israel's own people from their homes, to make "peace" was horrificly worse than injustice. Those people should be always kept in the public eye. (What happened to them, & the land, is its' own large topic. People abandoned by their own country. and what formed for the USA that week? Hurricane Katrina. A nation judged immediately for Bush's error.)
ENOUGH of palestinian whining, already!
Former Tunisian president Habib Bourguida said "The only way to destroy Israel is through "Peace".
SK/DG: in your article The Liberal Betrayal Of Israel (one of your more zealous works, and a fantastic read) you talked about the Left hating Jews because of all the things referring back to scripture. and "They want us to forget, because A PEOPLE THAT DOES NOT KNOW IT'S OWN POWER IS ALREADY ENSLAVED. ... In the last century, we remembered that we were the descendants of kings and warriors..." etc, etc.
Your point is true, albeit IMHO still just a bit shy of Dead Center. (this is not meant as criticism. I just wish to focus directly on Gods' already revealed Intent, for that is Truth & safety.)
We must always remember "The Lord did not set His love upon you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all people: But because The Lord loved you, and because He would keep the oath which He had sworn to your fathers...."
The whole world rages against Israel, that little sliver on the map. WHY? Can they not find any more obscure, tiny little nation to revile- and yet SO covet Jerusalem at the same time?
God's math is unique. Before His victories were (and shall be) multiplied, there is subtraction of human capacities and strength. So that only HE can be glorified, not people He uses or saves.
II Samuel 7:23 .." who is like your people, like Israel, the one nation on earth whom God went to redeem for Himself as a people, TO MAKE FOR HIMSELF A NAME- and to do for Yourself great and awesome deeds for Your land." .
ALWAYS the purpose is to reveal to man The One True God.
The battle cry of wretched souls have always been that they will not be ruled by God.
The time of Zechariah 12-14 is at hand.
"Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling to all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem........ though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it....In that day shall the Lord defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem....it shall come to pass in that day, I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem...."
So it is true A PEOPLE THAT DOES NOT KNOW IT'S OWN POWER IS ALREADY ENSLAVED.
Israel, therefore, must remember His Intent: to "MAKE FOR HIMSELF A NAME".
If Abraham had not caved in and tried to "solve" the problem of God's IMPOSSIBLE Promise, then the Arab nations would never have existed.
So let us learn from history, that it is dangerous to meddle in God's Promises.
Believe God.
Act accordingly.
- 9/6/10
- Shiloh said...
Tracy, there are many who know exactly what to do. Until haShem puts them in place we will be in a difficult situation, truly to become dangerous over the next while. Don't worry, we will be invaded. We are in an interesting time as you probably are very aware. Just remember this even if you don't understand it today, that haShem has sent the answer before the problem exists. Most, if not all but a handfull don't know it either. Thanks for your support.
- 10/6/10
- A Jew With A View said...
Israel is in a lose-lose position. And surely whatever she does re Gaza, nothing good will come of it while The Great Dhimmi is in the White House...?
That said, I definitely think Israel should stop sending aid etc in and leave it all to Egypt. Let the world see what happens to the Gazans without Israel helping them. Egypt couldn't give a damn.
Smart new blog header, by the way :)
I've always believed and still do that Israeli PR could be a million times more effective - and it DOES make a difference. The Pallies have wonderful PR and it hoodwinks virtually everyone. Israel needs better counter measures. Yes, I know that Israeli 'shouldn't care what people think, but I've seen here in the UK how Brits are swayed by the anti Israel coverage and the pitiful Israel response to that bad coverage, and how they then pressure MPs to sever ties with Israel.
A sobering article and very thought provoking, Sultan.
- 11/6/10
- Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog said...
thank you, I'm not saying abandon PR entirely, but don't treat it as individually winnable either
- 11/6/10
- A Jew With A View said...
The problem is that Israel is always on the defensive, with the PR.
That cannot work.
It's time to start playing by the same rules as the Pals - time to start running footage of Israeli children and women being slaughtered by Pallies.
Yes - it's not our way.
But I view it as a necessary evil.
- 11/6/10
- Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog said...
I think it has to go well beyond that and address the narrative. The world has seen Islamic violence, but it attaches justifications because of an underlying narrative that places them in the right.
- 11/6/10
- TBS said...
Step 1 a la Sultan:
Retake Gaza.
Step 2, 3, 4, 5 a la me:
Get back the Sinai.
Keep the Golan.
Allow embassies ONLY in Jerusalem.
Leave the UN.
Well, I can dream...
- 30/9/11
- TBS said...
Daniel, that's all very well about the narrative, but remember that the narrative came well after the settlement of the EurArb Dialogue.
First the EU agreed to betray Israel for Arab oil and markets - THEN came the cultural antiIsrael push.
That is what gives the antiIsrael stuff its push. The campaigning is the fur on the body of the Arab-European bloc wolf.
- 30/9/11


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On August 1, 2009 Shannon arrived here as a hitchhiker with Flash Gordon. Her story about being a Pet Store Inmate can be read on this blog.
On November 11, 2009 I received an email from Sherry Lee expressing an interest in Shannon. Even though I clearly described Shannon as a high-drive herding dog, and indicated that Shannon was not considered a family pet, many families emailed me weekly wanting to adopt her. Those families were denied, and other dogs were offered in Shannon's place. But this email was different. It read in part:
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Saw your posting for Shannon, and am writing to inquire if she is still available. If so, I would be interested in learning more about her and possibly taking a look at her.
I am a retired veterinarian and have a 70 acre sheep farm. I have one Border Collie, a 3 yr old male who is well-trained and works with the sheep, and am interested in another working dog. I also have 2 Shelties and a young Akbash dog.
Please let me know about Shannon's availability, and I can provide you more information about the home I would be able to provide for her.
Thanks, Sherry Lee"
My immediate response to Sherry's email was that she had answered all of my prayers, and she had me at "hello!"
Yesterday, Sherry came to meet Shannon, and she brought her Border Collie Shane with her. Shannon of course was shy, and confused, but it didn't take long for her to sit by Sherry's side.
I have had Shannon for 167 days. She has been in my care as a foster longer than any other dog. There were times I felt that I would never find her the right home. I refused to try to make Shannon conform to being a housepet. Clearly, she has always been a herding dog, and this time, this very shy and misunderstood Border Collie, who nips at my children, and herds everything in a tight circle all day long, Takes the Prize.
Sherry and I agreed that she will work with Shannon for 2 months to see if Shannon has got the right stuff. If she doesn't perform well as a sheepdog, she will be returned to me sometime in January. I'm confident that Shannon won't be coming back. I hope to visit Sherry and Shannon in a few weeks and take some video of her training Shannon to share with everyone. I hope my dream for Shannon comes true.
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These are my favorites! A mix of AB Labradorite, AB Indicolite, Czech crystals in multi blue and black...Sterling Silver.
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Sketch-a-day 055
9 comments:
- Thom Glick said...
Awesome! That should be on a t-shirt. And, I know what you mean about weird stretched skin - great fun!
- April 22, 2009 at 11:22 PM
- Mike Puncekar said...
If I knew how to get it on a t-shirt... I would be up for that.
There's a few sketch-a-days on here that I think could work, but I've yet to look into it. Although, a cafe press thing may be an option or something. With a calendar... so I could cut it up for awesome poster board prints that conveniently hangs on a nail.
I must say Mr. Glick... this sketch-a-day thing was quite an idea.
- April 22, 2009 at 11:35 PM
- mo said...
this is awesome! keep up the great work mike!
- April 23, 2009 at 2:39 AM
- Thom Glick said...
Maybe check out www.skreened.com... Daniel Fox, a local Columbus feller runs an on-demand apparel printing service. His system allows artists to set up their own 'shop' featuring their own designs. Just a thought.
- April 23, 2009 at 7:32 AM
- Bernadette said...
Looks great! I love the teeth, clenched teeth creep me out.
- April 23, 2009 at 10:14 AM
- Alex Lyon said...
I'm glad that you didn't add the worms in the neck. Looks great man.
- April 23, 2009 at 1:58 PM
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- D.Marciniak said...
Like the use of the halftone over the rendering, and that, with the offset orange and blue really makes it look like some kind of screenprint. I totally like that t-shirt idea. Lookin' super awesome.
- April 24, 2009 at 3:01 PM
- Dave Groff said...
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Jazz Impressions of New York is a jazz album released by Dave Brubeck. It developed out of Brubeck's association with the CBS television show Mr. Broadway starring Craig Stevens.
Brubeck's theme music was written to convey the "urbane personality" of the main character, yet be "a signature immediately recognizable as Brubeck." The tune has the urgent, polyrhythmic feel of many of Brubeck's other adventures in 3/4 time.
Other themes were developed from this waltz-time concept, as well as from specific program-related needs.
The personnel is the "classic" Quartet: Paul Desmond on alto saxophone, Eugene Wright on acoustic bass, and Joe Morello on drums. However, there are some unexpected (and amusing) changes and additions on the final track, Upstage Rumba, as Brubeck explains:
The Quartet version of this piece actually evolved in the studio when each person upstaged the other by unexpectedly doing something quite out of character. Paul Desmond surprised us first by making his debut on a bass marimba which had been left in the studio from a Latin band session. Then, people came running out of the control booth and, in quite an uncontrollable manner, grabbed the nearest percussion instrument and began to play. My brother Howard was shaking some sort of cylindrical drum with BBs in it; John Lee, a drummer friend of Joe Morello, played on Joe's tom-tom; and Teo Macero, our producer, was master of the claves until he dropped them at the end of the piece (which I consider a final stroke of upstage chicanery).
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3 Autumn In Washington Square 5:28
4 Something To Sing About 3:54
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6 Spring In Central Park 2:27
7 Lonely Mr. Broadway 4:19
8 Summer On The Sound 2:41
9 Winter Ballad 2:43
10 Broadway Romance 5:50
11 Upstage Rumba 4:20
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Bass – Gene Wright
Drums – Joe Morello
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Family Reunion Forum
Re: Considering a Family Reunion
In Response To: Considering a Family Reunion ()
Hello Mr. or Ms. Simmons,
That's a great idea to send out an introductory letter to family members just to get a feel of what they think about having a family reunion. After you send the letter, you may find several family members who are willing to assist. However, just prepare yourself if the response is not what you want. For some reason, we are typically slow to respond via letter. The interest may still be high, but not many people take time to send back a response or survey. Therefore, you may have to do some calling as well. But an initial letter will definitely get family members thinking. Also, it would be a great idea to set up a website for your family members to see, just to reiterate how serious you are, the research you've done, and to get other family members to assist in the reunion planning. It doesn't have to be fancy, but websites have been good in increasing interest in the family.
Suggestion: When you send out your letters, it's a good idea to collect any addresses of family members that they may have. You may want to include a blank address form and ask them to send it back to you with contact info for other family members. Since this is your first reunion, building up your address/phone/e-mail directory will be important for future letters once the reunion is being planned.
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I've had this record for a few weeks now, and really should have posted it sooner, but taking decent pictures has proven problematic. I guess I just need to lower my standards a little and get on with it.
At the start of this year Revelation released the debut LP by World Be Free. I've posted pictures of the first press colours (green vinyl and orange vinyl) previously. But the version that everybody was (and most still are) after was the tour press, which was sold back in February on some tour they did where they sold about ten copies per show. It came in a special sleeve, inspired by the Chung King LP:
It seems that somebody forgot that the Chung King LP came on white vinyl. Unfortunately, the orange vinyl doesn't look quite as nice. However, it really doesn't matter. This thing is all about the sleeve.
I was real lucky to have someone pick one of these up for me from one of the shows back in February. However, I then got hit by the worst luck in the world as the parcel it was sent to me in went MIA. I had a lot of good records in that missing box, but for some reason this World Be Free tour press was one of the three records I was most looking forward to receiving. I just loved the look of the front cover. So I was devastated when it was lost and vanished into the ether. I knew that I would really struggle to find another, especially at a good price.
So imagine how stoked I was then when someone GAVE me this copy here. I wasn't even expecting it. When I opened the mailer, it simultaneously put a smile on my face and brought a tear to my eye that someone could be so kind, thoughtful and selfless. If my parcel going missing back in April was the low point of my year, then this was probably the high point. THANK YOU!


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Rosalie G. Riegle is on the national committee of the War Resisters League and is associated with Su Casa Catholic Worker in Chicago. Her latest oral histories are Doing Time: Resistance, Family, and Community and Crossing the Line: Nonviolent Resisters Speak Out for Peace.
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Now More than Ever
DO WE LIVE in a post-Christian era? Catholic monk Thomas Merton thought so, back in 1962, when his anti-war book Peace in the Post-Christian Era was banned by monastic censors.
He would surely come to the same conclusion today, when we hear a pulpit Christianity still identified with war and nationalism and listen in shock to a new U.S. president woefully ignorant of the peril of nuclear war. Our deeply divided nation holds scant promise for peace in our streets or in the world, despite the growing chorus of Christian peacemakers.
This new book by Jim Forest adds both deep compassion and timely advice to that chorus. The wise words of Merton, who served unofficially as "pastor to the peace movement" during the Vietnam War, are needed now more than ever. Clearly titled chapters quote from Merton's published writing as well as his letters to Forest and other peacemakers.
In October 1961, The Catholic Worker published Merton's essay "The Root of War is Fear," and Merton ran afoul of monastic censors. He was eventually silenced publicly but fortunately was allowed to circulate Peace in the Post-Christian Era in mimeographed form and to continue writing letters, although for several years everything passed through the censor's hands. One of the delights of this book by Forest is the first publication of an uncensored and scathingly sardonic letter Merton wrote under the pseudonym "Marco J. Frisbee."
What Sister Maura Learned
EILEEN MARKEY'S story of the life of Sister Maura Clarke reads like a Greek tragedy, progressing inexorably toward darkness. Many of us know the ending: In 1980, four churchwomen were murdered in El Salvador by national guardsmen, led by a sergeant who had been trained at the U.S.-based School of the Americas. The men raped and executed two Maryknoll sisters—Maura Clarke and Ita Ford—Ursuline sister Dorothy Kazel, and lay woman Jean Donovan, ambushing them on their way back to the people they served in Chalatenango.
Clarke is the last of the four women to be memorialized with her own book, but Markey has created the most complete work. Her beautifully sourced research ranges from family to Maryknoll archives to conversations with many people who worked with the sisters in Nicaragua and El Salvador.
An 82-Year-Old Nun Did What?
DAN ZAK WAS FIRST struck by the absurdity of it all. As a reporter for The Washington Post, he was fascinated to learn that Sister Megan Rice, Michael Walli, and Greg Boertje-Obed had crossed forested hills in the middle of the night in Oak Ridge, Tenn., and reached the center of a government complex where possibly the most dangerous material in the world is enriched and stored.
Then Zak was captured by what was behind their action—the dramatic secrecy in the development of the first atomic bomb, the tragedy of its testing on U.S. soldiers and on the unsuspecting inhabitants of the Marshall Islands, the bungling bureaucracy surrounding the entire nuclear industry, and finally the hope and resilience of the resisters who work to eliminate these perilous weapons. His book Almighty: Courage, Resistance, and Existential Peril in the Nuclear Age (Blue Rider Press) is the result.
Rice, Walli, and Boertje-Obed called their action the Transform Now Plowshares, following a tradition of serious faith-inspired nonviolent actions dating back to 1980, actions often successful in reaching their nuclear targets and resulting in prison terms.
In July 2012, the trio cut through several fences—aided by malfunctioning motion sensors—at times moving through bright floodlight and past signs warning, "Deadly force authorized." They hung a banner on one fence that proclaimed the words that were the source of their action, the injunction from Isaiah to "hammer their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks" (2:4).
They arrived at Y-12, a building that stores 800,000 pounds of weapons-grade uranium, the material that undergoes fusion when a nuclear bomb is detonated. Using traditional Plowshares action symbols, they streaked the white walls with the blood of activists, spurted from baby bottles they carried in their backpacks. They painted the building with the phrases "Woe to the empire of blood" and "The fruit of justice is peace." They chipped away at the concrete walls with small hammers, and they waited.
Living and Learning Nonviolence
WHAT LIVES THESE two authors have lived and what lessons they can teach us! Reading David Hartsough's lively memoir immerses us in the great peace and justice events of the last several decades. Colman McCarthy's fascinating interchanges with high school and university students propel us into a hopeful future as we see how young minds are stretched and carry lessons learned into the world.
Hartsough's FBI file started when he organized his first anti-nuclear protest at age 15, and it may be growing still as he directs Peaceworkers, a nonviolent training and accompaniment NGO based in San Francisco. In between are 60 years of peace work in the U.S. and the flashpoints of the world, always bringing the message of the necessity and efficacy of nonviolent direct action. In Waging Peace he relives the adventurous life of a professional peaceworker as well as the silent efficacy of his family's tax resistance and tradition of simple living.
Whether disarming with words a knife-wielding segregationist opponent at a Virginia lunch counter, blockading with a canoe a weapons ship bound for Vietnam, or traveling to war zones, Hartsough has faithfully carried forward his commitment to nonviolence. Sometimes visiting conflict sites before they reach the radar even of other peace people, he writes of going to Cuba, Russia, Yugoslavia, and the Berlin Wall while still a college student, to Central America during the '80s, and later to Gaza and other war zones.
In 1999, after trying unsuccessfully to persuade the world to support nonviolently the beleaguered Kosovars and thus avert a Serbian bloodbath, Hartsough attended a peace conference in The Hague. There he met Mel Duncan, and together they founded the Nonviolent Peaceforce, now the largest of several worldwide movements of accompaniment for nonviolent activists.
In California, Hartsough worked to launch the huge Abalone Alliance against the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant and campaigned against the development of nuclear weapons at the University of California's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. In this century, Hartsough was one of the first to be arrested for protesting drone warfare at Creech Air Force Base.
Leading with Wisdom
MANY KNOW Benedictine Sister Joan Chittister as a prophetic spiritual writer and an engaging speaker; others call to mind her sister-leadership, her feminism, and her defiance of the Vatican. What Tom Roberts' startling new biography uncovers, with the full cooperation of Sister Joan, are the horrors of a childhood filled with violence and poverty and the vivid details of her growth as a spokesperson for women's equality in the Catholic Church.
The book's three parts each deal with a phase in Chittister's spiritual growth. The early years, with harrowing accounts of protecting her mother from a brutal and alcoholic stepfather and entering an Erie Benedictine community still steeped in old-world traditions, conclude with Chittister receiving her Ph.D. from Penn State, a first for her order.
Part two chronicles the tumultuous middle years when religious communities everywhere were adapting to a radically changing world. Chittister grew in critical consciousness about the role of women in the church and served three terms as prioress of her order, helping her community to move from its traditional vocation of teaching to serving a changing neighborhood. Their projects, under the umbrella term of peacemaking, took the form of urban gardens, art workshops, afterschool programs, peace centers, houses of hospitality, and soup kitchens, and eventually to the formation of online communities of monastic spirituality. For those who haven't read Chittister's own writing on these years, Roberts could have included more information on pre-Vatican II convent life here.
Part three finds Chittister moving beyond the community of U.S. sisters to worldwide leadership, ably assisted by her lifelong friend Sister Maureen Tobin. Chittister traveled on peacemaking journeys to Palestine and Israel, worked in Haiti and the Philippines, and took part in several worldwide conferences, including the 1995 U.N. World Conference on Women in Beijing and an ecumenical conference in Nairobi. All this while still plagued by the ravages of childhood polio!
In 2001, Chittister was invited to speak at the first international conference of Women's Ordination Worldwide, to be held in in Dublin. Vatican officials ordered her prioress, the late Christine Vladimiroff, to "forbid and prohibit" Chittister's participation. Roberts details the courage of Vladimiroff and the community as they collectively resisted the Vatican in support of Chittister.
When Chittister addressed the Dublin conference about discipleship, she asked "What do the people really need?" answering that "they need the sacred, not the sexist ... more prophets of equality, not more pretenders to a priesthood of male privilege. They need discipleship, not canonical decrees." In her assertion that Christian discipleship will, sooner or later, "tumble a person from the banquet tables ... to the most suspect margins of both church and society," she foreshadowed some of Pope Francis' wisdom. She begged that the question of women as priests be seriously considered in papal circles, lamenting that it had not yet happened. (It still has not yet happened.)
A Resistance Leader
VATICAN II attempted to change the Roman Catholic Church from an insular and defensive purveyor of 19th century religious practices to one with an incarnational theology and a vigorous recognition that the laity are called to be holy and to participate actively in the Church. Archbishop Raymond Hunthausen tried to live this out in his Seattle archdiocese, making changes that empowered both men and women and trying to build a diocese that was indeed "the people of God."
A record of this important work and its devastating fallout are at the heart of A Still and Quiet Conscience. Hunthausen's early years growing up in a close and very Catholic family, attending an old-school seminary, serving at Carroll College and as bishop of Helena, Mont., and now living in prayerful retirement, are interesting bookends. However it is a fearsome Vatican investigation into Hunthausen and its ambiguous result that are the center of this well-researched and helpfully indexed book.
I was angered when I read of the duplicity, divisions, and cover-ups within the Catholic Church in the last years of the 20th century. The "irregularities" cited as the reason for the investigation into Hunthausen were practices also found in other (uninvestigated) U.S. dioceses, such as letting people discuss the ordination of women, allowing unleavened bread at Communion, and allowing the gay rights group Dignity to worship on church grounds.
Incubating Peaceful Revolution
Pursuing the Spiritual Roots of Protest. Cascade Books.
A Reign of Terror
Thermonuclear Monarchy: Choosing Between Democracy and Doom. W.W. Norton and Company.
Schema For Peace
In "Critical Mass" (January 2012), Karen Sue Smith's summary of changes in the U.S. Catholic Church since Vatican II, I was dismayed not to see any mention of the profound influence of the sections on peace in "The Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World."
A Life in Letters
All the Way to Heaven: The Selected Letters of Dorothy Day, edited by Robert Ellsberg.
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Here's the setup: There's a luxurious, full-size RV. It weighs 11,000 lbs, it's got a full interior (including a fridge and sink), and it's converted to run on propane. Your job is to drive it approximately 900 miles, basically untested, through the treacherous, boulder-strewn trail between Esenada and La Paz. The year is 1969, and the RV is named "Debbie," and the challenge is to finish the Baja 1000 alive and in one piece.
The man for the job was off-road legend Bill Stroppe, and this is the tale of how he turned a recreational vehicle into one fully-fledged, coulee-conquering, dirt-slinging, 400-hp off-road racing machine.


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SHY ROBOT FILMS is a profile of the work of Danny McCarthy,
a Chicago producer, editor, and filmmaker.
Danny McCarthy has split time creating commercial and creative work. He has worked in the commercial space as a producer, editor, and stop motion animator in advertising and marketing since moving back to Chicago from Madison, WI in 2009. He has worked with clients ranging from local mom and pops to international corporate clients. The goal always being to get the highest quality work out the limited time we have, ideally with smiles on faces.
On the creative side, Danny has also written, produced, shot and directed his own short films as well as worked in various roles from grip to AD on others. In 2016, he served as the Location Manager on an independent feature film, and directed a web series set for an early 2017 release. Being involved in creative work is an important part of his life as it not only allows personal expression, but it in turn affects his professional work.
The name Shy Robot is shared with a comedy team in Chicago, with Danny as one of the founders. It is based on irony of the name vs. the teams extroversion, "Shy" being an homonym for "Chi", as well as a general soft spot for robots.
Shy Robot Films is a filmmaking collective based in Chicago that creates commercial and creative film content. It originated from a comedy team sharing the same name. "Shy" being an homonym for for the city in which it originated, and "Robot", comes from, well, a general soft spot for robots.


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Pinup December – Miss Mollie Tov
Next up on Mumpty's Pinup December is local Glamilton gal, Miss Mollie Tov. Watch out for her in 2015 …
What Miss Mollie Tov is most proud of this year (in her own words) … "For me the biggest achievement this year is having some of whom, I consider, the biggest names in the pinup and burlesque world recognise me … especially Von Vonski when she recognised my name when I attended Pin Up Bootcamp in September – that just made my day 🙂 Also, getting to do a mini shoot with Miss T Pinups which is something I have always wanted to do."
Christmas memories and traditions … "for me I love Christmas and the one thing I must have is a real Christmas tree with all the special decorations that I have been given by my family over the years – it's a tradition for Mum & Dad to give me and my siblings a new decoration each year."
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Interview by Bjřrn Hammershaug
Translated and abridged by Christian Lysvĺg
Tafjord has made her name known through a string of avant-garde constellations, such as Fe-mail, SPUNK, Agrare and Trinacria. Now the release of her solo debut "Kama" is imminent. Issued by fellow sound deconstructeur Lasse Marhaug's new label Pica Disk, it is a 40-minute incessant colossus presenting us with an artist that transgresses the boundaries between noise, improvisation, electronica and defined composition.
The sound of Brass
At what point did you start approaching improvisation and noise music?
-I started improvising on the horn at the age of around fourteen I guess. At first I was playing blues and standard jazz. And when I enrolled at Tonheim musical college, where I met Maja Ratkje, we would sing and play standards together. But we also started disfiguring the material; toying with timbres and trying to find other, hidden qualities. The collaboration with Ratkje has become polymorph over the years, counting several different projects such as SPUNK, Fe-mail, Agrare and Trinacria. SPUNK has been a decisive musical hearth for me, says Tafjord. Other constellations are Slinger, Lemur and Unni Lřvlid Ensemble.
You were the first ever student at the NMH's (Norwegian academy of music) jazz program to take your exams on the horn. Why did you choose this instrument?
-The sound of brass was pretty much moulded into my system due to family and family traditions. The horn isn't exactly over-exposed in my field of music, so it is a fair question. I think that there was something about the warmth of the sound that exercised a pull on me from the start. I'm of such a make-up that I need to be able to influence what I do to a large degree; communicate, mould and create. And in line with this, it was only to be expected that improvisation was to become my major focus by and by.
Present in the moment
You have played with Zeena Parkins, Fred Frith, Birchville Cat Motel, Wolf Eyes, Ikue Mori and Matmos –to mention a few. How do you re-level between all your different projects, and what are the challenges of relating to such an array of diverse constellations?
-I have found it important to pursue a balance between playing in fixed ensembles over longer periods of time and instantaneous, ephemeral meetings with other musicians and artists. The regular constellations give me the chance to probe deeply into musical forms of expression and communication, whilst performing with strangers means that one finds oneself in new contexts which entails that the language becomes alive in a different way. Gradually one gets a hang of working with subject matter that comes into being in the moment.
It is a finely tuned kind of apparatus, and it has to do with being present in the moment and handling the situation with delicacy and intuition. It requires a large degree of openness and firmness at the same time. No situation is alike of course, but one brings along a set of tools and experiences. It is like a language; the interlocutors decide the content and form of the conversation, it was not planned ahead.
Sound Anarchist
The transition from playing live to studio recording can be difficult, especially for an improvisational musician who is so often immersed in the moment. How does one make this work on record?
-Most of the records I have contributed to have been based on live recordings from concerts of from the studio, which then sometimes are subjected to meticulous composition work. The recorded format is completely different from the live situation, in which the music is experienced in interplay with several other factors: the space, other people, light etc. And of course the interplay between performer and audience is decisive. Hence it is necessary to relate to recorded material as a completely different aural situation.
You've said once that you have a pretty anarchic relation to sound, can you elaborate on this?
-I think that any sound whatsoever can be used as a musical building bloc, as long as it has the character one is after. My horn is often processed and distorted beyond recognition, in order to unveil a new character.
Incessant drones
Your hands have been completely untied with the work on your solo debut "Kama". What are your thoughts around the making of this record?
-It was Lasse Marhaug who approached me when he had instigated his new label. On "Kama" I've focused on the part of my expression that concerns duration and continuation, and I've made one unbroken piece of music that last for 41 minutes. I've worked a lot with droning lately and I wanted to create long motions in multiple layers: active, contemplative and meditative.
Tafjord relates that she has been pondering the piece for a while, but that it was only now that she had the time and the wish to put it out.
-I started out in my living room by recording a layer of horns, which I extended to a total of 14 tracks superimposed on one another with or without live effects. On this foundation I composed the piece over a six-month-period. The foundation of "Kama" is very played, and largely based on the horn as sound source.
"Kama" is out now on Pica Disksd
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Reviewed by Tilly 9yrs tween book Reviewer and Sometimes Writer.
Bunnicula is a book about a dog named Harold, a bunny named Bunnicula and a cat named Chester.
About the main characters...
Harold - Dog, dumb and likes to go into Toby's (one of his owners) bedroom.
Bunnicula - Vampire bunny who looks adorable, was found at picture theatre (during the movie Dracula of course). Also sleeps at day and is awake at night.
Chester - Cat who likes to read and probably is the only one in that house who can answer Harold's dumb questions (also enjoys insulting Harold a lot).
There are 3 books in the audiobook collection of Bunnicula. The 1st one is called Bunnicula, once the family finds and adopts this bunny, Chester suspects he is a vampire! Chester tries all sorts of ways to get rid of Bunnicular (even a stake/steak through the heart!). The 2nd is Howliday Inn, Chester and Harold are sent to a boarding kennel for pets, while they're there a poodle goes missing and Chester suspects she's dead. There's a mystery to solve. The 3rd book is The Celery Stalks at Midnight, in this book, it's Bunnicula that goes missing and there might be evil vegetables! The books all have an editors note which is quite weird to me, I've never seen this before, the editor tells how he got the books from Harold (the dog).
Bunnicula is an average bunny? but he's a vampire. So he's an average vampire except he doesn't drink blood he drinks VEGETABLES!
Harold is a typical dog? but he can write (and he loves chocolate cupcakes with a cream middle).
And Chester is an average cat? but Chester is smart and he can read.
These stories are kind of horror stories (but not too scary) and funny at the same time.
I really like these books especially the the second book, Howliday Inn but they are all good.
The cover at the top is for the book for the first story, the other two are:
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Bankers only listen to laws KINGSTON, WILLIAM (Cato Institute, 2009)The Banking meltdown is explicly traceable to the granting of the privilege of limited liability to financial institutions
Chance and Irish Involvement in Two Scientific Revolutions KINGSTON, WILLIAM (2007)By two sets of extraordinary chances, Ireland has been involved at the outset of both the antibiotic and molecular biology revolutions.
The Dogs that Didn't Bark: Auditors and the Banking Fiasco KINGSTON, WILLIAM (2010-10)It was a mistake to allow dealers in money to escape from their traditional discipline of unlimited liability, and a further mistake to permit their auditors to have a quasi-legislative role in respect of standards.
'Genius', 'Faction' and Rescuing Intellectual Property Rights KINGSTON, WILLIAM (2005)Intellectual property rights have been driven relentlessly towards a unitary system for the entire world, originally through passive copying of flawed United States arrangements, but more recently as a result of determined ...
Improving Patents for Smaller Firms: Insurance, Incontestability, Arbitration? KINGSTON, WILLIAM (2007)
Intellectual Property in the Lisbon Treaty KINGSTON, WILLIAM (Sweet & Maxwell, 2008)Article 118 of the Lisbon Treaty empowers Brussels to set up "centralised Union-wide authorisation, co-ordination and supervision arrangements" to provide "uniform intellectual property rights protection throughout the ...
Intellectual Property's Problems: How Far is the U.S. Constitution to Blame? KINGSTON, WILLIAM (2002)
Intellectual Property, the Banking Crisis and the Public Interest KINGSTON, WILLIAM (Thomson Reuters / Sweet and Maxwell, 2011)The UK Hargreaves inquiry is one more testimony to the failure of intellectual property laws to deliver the innovation that is their only justification. This parallels numerous similar investigations of the worldwide banking ...
Limited Incontestability for Small-Firm Patents KINGSTON, WILLIAM (Sweet and Maxwell, 2006)The remarkable success of the US 1983 Orphan Drug act might be replicated for small-firm patents by adopting its provision of a limited term during which the protection cannot be questioned.
Property rights and the making of Christendom KINGSTON, WILLIAM (Hamline University School of Law, 1992)The benefits of efficient laws of property are obtained by altruism in their formulation, which is able to deal with self-interest in action within them.
Repairing incentives to invest in plant breeding KINGSTON, WILLIAM (Thomson/Sweet & Maxwell, 2007)Several factors have been eroding the value of protection for the results of efforts to breed new plant varieties. A series of possible improvements is evaluated.
Schumpeter's Concept of 'Vision' in Economics: A Response to Professor Andersen. KINGSTON, WILLIAM (2006)
Schumpeter, Business Cycles and Co-Evolution KINGSTON, WILLIAM (2006)In Business Cycles (1939) Schumpeter took up empirical data which had been produced by Kondratieff, and made the ``clustering?? of innovations into the actual cause of long economic cycles. The book was a failure, largely ...


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