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There are lots of articles and essays of interest to modern Pagans out there, sometimes more than I can write about in-depth in any given week. So The Wild Hunt must unleash the hounds in order to round them all up. This week? It's (almost) all about Halloween, and Pagans, and Witches, and how we celebrate (or don't) during this time of year. So pull up some of that leftover candy, and let's get started…
- Let's start with the New York Times, who decided that this Halloween was going to be about Druids. Quote: "How many folks will spend the next few days and nights worshiping the old gods? The 2008 American Religious Identification Survey put the number of American Druids at 29,000. But then, many Druids connect with the practice of paganism, and the survey counted 340,000 souls in this category. Add another 342,000 wiccans (fellow travelers), and Samhain starts to look like a pretty big party. Of course, that number would swell if you were to include the ancestors who have passed on — and Druids do, especially in this liminal season." Author Ellen Evert Hopman, and members of Ár nDraíocht Féin are quoted in the piece.
- CNN decided to go with Witches for Halloween, and found one who isn't fond of the secular holiday. Quote: "Trey Capnerhurst dons a pointy hat and doles out candy to children who darken the door of her cottage in Alberta. But she's not celebrating Halloween. In fact, she kind of hates it. Capnerhurst says she's a real, flesh-and-blood witch, and Halloween stereotypes of witches as broom-riding hags drive her a bit batty." Capnerhurst goes on to claim that "traditional" Witches are hereditary, and Wiccans are converts. Which is a new one on me, since "trad" Witches generally means Witches who are members of an established initiatory line. Anyway, the article also interviews sociologist Helen Berger, who shares some basic data on the number of Pagans in America. Amusingly, the American Spectator got their underwear in a bunch over this article, so there's that.
- Some Wiccans have no real problem with Halloween, it should be noted.
- While I'm making the rounds of the big-name publications, I can't not mention the Newsweek article on how Witchcraft and occult practices are becoming, like, super-hip among young people these days. Quote: "We're currently in the middle of an occult revival, says Jesse Bransford, a New York University art professor who co-organized an occult humanities conference earlier this month. He sees a connection between increasing interest in the occult and postrecession anxiety. Magic 'has always been a technique of the disenfranchised,' he says. 'It's something you do when the tools you have available don't seem like they're enough.' These people aren't just wearing black lipstick and watching witches hex each other on-screen; they're also experimenting with, well, sorcery." Let's hope this augers an uptick in the quality of Pagan music.
- Meanwhile, Paper Magazine interviews some event promoters in Bushwick, who are drawn to Witchcraft as an aesthetic oeuvre to operate within. Quote: "I think people just want to believe in something. But with Bushwick I think there is this underground movement, or a want to bring people together, that doesn't have any formality to it. It's just people who have their own rituals coming together. I think the social commentary aspect of it is there, but it's super-subconscious. And I do think there's a dark energy that people are now willing to talk about in a playful way. At least for us it's playful. We're definitely the entertainment side of Wiccan culture. Bushwiccans."
- For this Halloween, Reuters decided to focus on psychic scammers. Quote: "The law relating to such activities is not always definitive, Little said, noting that fortune-tellers and others who offer occult services often use a 'for entertainment purposes only' disclaimer to prevent legal problems. Even as people who sell occult services move online, some continue to run storefronts, offering psychic readings for a small fee and trying to talk customers into paying more to resolve problems." However, I suspect that most party-goers looking for a quick tarot readings are fairly safe. Just don't let anybody "cleanse" your wallet. Seriously.
- Well played Yorkshire post, well played.
- If you enjoy reading about Christians freaking out about Halloween, you've got your pick of the litter. Right Wing Watch, as always, picks a doozy. Quote: "Why am I concerned about the way Halloween, the media and our current culture encourage the celebration and trivialization of spiritism, occultism, Satanism, hedonism, witches, zombies and walking on the dark side with demons? Because the supernatural world is real, and no one is immune to it regardless of their education or worldview. God is real. Angels are real. Satan is real. Demons are real. Real gladiators and real Christians died in the Colosseum and circus even though many Roman leaders and citizens just considered their destruction an evening of entertainment." See also: Southern Baptists talking about the "theological complications" of Halloween, and the Christian Post runs an editorial about the dangers of Wicca. Fun stuff, if you're into that sort of thing. You know, feasting with Satan!
- The Christian Science Monitor debunks the Salem Witch Trials, while scholar Owen Davies notes that the suspicion of witches has lived on far past those infamous trials. Quote: "Two centuries on from Salem and many Americans were still living in an essentially similar social, cultural, economic, and religious environment. The vicissitudes of life on the edge were all too real, and so was the fear of witchcraft as an explanation for misfortune and envy. Over the last three centuries, thousands of Americans, mostly women, have been abused for being suspected witches. Hundreds of court cases arose from accusations of witchcraft. Most startling of all, it is clear now that we know of more people murdered as witches in America after 1692 than were legally executed before that date."
- At the Washington Post, Starhawk contributes a piece on the holiday, noting that on Halloween "the past and future live." Quote: "For us, Halloween is the time of year when we come together to honor our ancestors, to mourn our beloved dead and celebrate their lives. In this autumn season, when the year itself appears to by dying. As the leaves fall, and the harvest is gathered in, we celebrate the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain or Summer's End. The veil between the worlds is thin, we say, and those who have gone beyond can now return and visit us again, reminding us that death does not destroy our connection to those we love." Elsewhere at WP, playwright Jeffrey Stanley extols the freaky fun of the supernatural.
- UC Berkeley's blog focuses on Americans and the occult, noting its ongoing popularity throughout this country's history. Quote: "We have no polls, of course, to track occult beliefs before the mid-20th century, but, as I pointed out in a prior post, early Americans were deeply immersed in an enchanted world of spirits, incantations, and witches. Puritan ministers in colonial New England struggled to point out the contradiction between, on one side of salvation, pleading with God to shed His grace on an ill loved one and, on the doomed side, casting a spell to drive out an evil spirit that one believes caused the illness."
- The Los Angeles Times profiles Panpipes Magickal Marketplace, which is deemed "authentic in the way of a great London bookstore, yet with a glint of religion about it." Quote: "[Co-owner Vicky] Adams is not a witch herself, she says, merely a pagan who says there are thousands of others like her across L.A., and she's just here to help, no matter your chosen deity. 'It's hard,' she says at the end of a busy day. 'I had a customer who watched me work. When I finally got to him, he said, 'I'm a psychologist and I get $400 an hour to do what you do.""
That's it for now! There are a lot more Halloween-themed articles that feature Pagans, Witches, or occult practitioners, out there, but I feel this is a representative sample of what's out there. Feel free to discuss any of these links in the comments, some of these I may expand into longer posts as needed.


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- Provisioning a Server
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From: Lasse Andersson <lasse.andersson@x???xx.xxx
Date: Wed Dec 15, 1999 4:54 pm
Subject: Fiberglass panel
My name is Lasse Andersson and I've been a member of the list just a few
weeks, lots of interesting stuff here!
Here is my question: A friend of mine offered me several dozens of
fiberglass panels to buy. They are made of
dense fiberglass and they are 3 cm thick, 59 cm wide, 119 cm height.
What is interesting about them is, that they are covered whith a metal
plate full of holes. I think they are originally made for isolating
machine rooms in a factory or something similar.
The plate is 1/2 mm thick, it covers the front and long sides and bends
to the back 1 cm.
The holes are 3 mm wide, and they are 4,5 mm away from each other when
measured from the edge of the holes.
What is the effect of the plate? Does it make the low end absorption
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Is it of any use in a studio I'm going to build? It is quite easy to
take the plate away if it works better that way.
Any comments?


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OK, so...
You can read about square peas on our ning hub - http://squareapeas.ning.com. We want a homepage for our domain - http://squarepeas.net - that then links through to ning, as it's confusing as a first arrival point.
What we do... square peas is 'something different'. Through email and our soon to be available mobile apps we send weekly tasks - 'square peas' - to our members.
These can range from cooking a new dish to watching a quirky film to attempting to learn a card trick - the possibilities are limited only by our imagination.
The idea is make people branch out, to deviate from their usual schedule and try new things. Break the tedium of their everyday lives.
They then go back to the ning hub to share their experience with other members of the square peas community.
Anyone really - square peas is good either for yourself, or as a gift, and is not age restricted. I guess around 30 would be the youngest market our product would appeal to.
We have a logo already (see attached) - now we want a holding page that makes it easy to see what we do, as the Ning page is too busy.
So an about us, contact us, space for preview of a couple of 'square peas' (tasks) - just a simple, composite design.
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Senior Aaron Radden of the Central Connecticut track and field team was named to the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Division I All-Academic team, the USTFCCCA announced Thursday. Radden, who holds several CCSU records, adds this prestigious honor to an impressive list of accolades collected throughout his campaign with the Blue Devils.
To qualify for USTFCCCA All-Academic recognition, student-athletes must have compiled a cumulative grade point average of 3.25 and have met either of the following athletic standards: for the indoor season, a student-athlete must have finished the regular season ranked in the national top 96 in an individual event or ranked in the national top 48 (collective listing) in a relay event on the official NCAA POP list; for the outdoor season, a student-athlete must have participated in any round of the NCAA Division I Championships.
Radden completes his outstanding career accumulating numerous awards both for his performances in the classroom as well as on the track. He is a five-time indoor NEC Individual Champion, a four-time outdoor NEC Individual Champion, a four-time New England Indoor Champion and a two-time NEC Indoor Championships Most Outstanding Performer and Most Valuable Performer. He has tallied eight NEC weekly awards and received the 2013 NEC Outdoor Most Outstanding Performer award. Radden also holds seven records in the CCSU record book.


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'Lady al-Qaeda': The US-educated PhD the Islamic State desperately wants to free
Amid the kidnappings, the demands for riches and the executions, a name of controversy and conspiracy has reemerged: Aafia Siddiqui. Once called the "most wanted woman in the world," she is now more widely known as "Lady al-Qaeda". And Islamic State leaders want their lady back.
They want her back so badly, jihadists said they would have traded James Foley for Siddiqui, who's in prison in the US. They said they would have traded Bowe Bergdahl for her. They said they would trade a 26-year-old American woman, kidnapped one year ago, for her.
"You were given many chances to negotiate the release of your people via cash transactions as other governments have accepted," the Islamic State wrote James Foley's family a week before his execution. "We have also offered prisoner exchanges to free the Muslims currently in your detention like our sister Dr Aafia Siddiqui, however you proved very quickly to us that this is NOT what you are interested in."
Then on Tuesday, the Islamic State said it wanted to exchange the 26-year-old American woman for $US6.6 million – and Siddiqui, who was convicted in 2010 of attempting to murder Americans and sentenced to 86 years in federal prison.
"The terror group has sent a laundry list of demands for the release of foreigners, starting with money but also prisoner swaps, including the liberation of Aafia Siddiqui, an MIT-trained Pakistani neuroscientist," the New York Times reported.
The repeated demands for Siddiqui's release revives one of the oddest tales to emerge out of the war on terror. At its centre is an enigmatic and extremely educated mother who apparently cast off a comfortable, successful professional life in pursuit of terrorism.
Since her 2010 conviction, her legend has, if anything, grown. Protests in Pakistan over her detention have fuelled a broader online movement dedicated to proving she was tortured by US soldiers and then wrongfully convicted.
To this day, the same questions that haunted Siddiqui at the time of her trial remain. Why would this mother, who spent a decade studying at the most prestigious US universities, scribble plans detailing a "mass casualty attack" on the Empire State Building? Was she a terrorist mastermind or a victim of an over-aggressive war on terror?
And what does the Islamic State, years after her conviction, want with her now? "We are aware of at least one entity in the Defence Department that has developed possible options to trade Siddiqui," a spokesman for US Republican Duncan Hunter, who sits on the House Armed Services Committee, told Foreign Policy.
Siddiqui's story begins in Karachi, where she was born in 1972. According to a Guardian profile, education and faith came first in her family – as did professional ambition. Her father was an English-trained doctor. Her mother was a pal of former Pakistani president and general Zia ul-Haq. Her brother became a Houston architect. Her sister was a neurologist.
And then there was Aafia. Precocious, brilliant Aafia. She got such good grades as a kid that she was admitted to MIT and later went on to earn a PhD from Brandeis University, writing her dissertation on the "effects imitation has on perceptual learning and memory," according to a forensic psychological profile prepared in connection with her trial. Soon after, at the age of 23, she married a young Pakistani doctor in an arranged marriage, a union that produced three children.
It was a tumultuous pairing. "There is evidence that this relationship was very abusive," wrote L. Thomas Kucharski of John Jay College in his psychological report. "Her husband admitted to only one incident of domestic violence ... but former professors at Brandeis have [seen] bruises on her face, suggesting substantially more abuse."
Then the terrorist strikes on the World Trade Centre happened. It appeared not only to precipitate the collapse of her marriage but stirred a profound change in Siddiqui. She excelled in her studies, at home, and when organising charitable activities. But anger simmered. "Following the attacks of 9/11, Dr Siddiqui informed her husband that she wished to return to Pakistan," the psychological report stated. "One of the reasons given at that time was that she believed … Americans were intending to abduct Muslim children and were converting them to Christianity…. It represents a very paranoid idea," said the report, which described her as delusional.
She soon divorced and resettled in Pakistan with her kids. Though her family denied it, she then reportedly married a nephew of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the Guantanamo detainee said to be a mastermind of the attacks on New York and Washington, DC on September 11, 2001.
Shortly thereafter, she disappeared for five years for reasons that remain uncertain. The Pakistani doctor claimed she had been kidnapped by US personnel, imprisoned and tortured for five years. The US government, however, denied that, saying she was really "the most wanted woman in the world," as reported by the Los Angeles Times. She posed a "clear and present danger to the US," one high-ranking American official said.
The narrative clarified on July 18, 2008, when Afghan authorities captured her carrying handwritten notes detailing a "mass casualty attack" on several New York City spots.
US officers were invited to question her and were ushered into a room without being told by their Afghan hosts that Siddiqui was "unsecured" behind a curtain that divided the room, according to an FBI criminal complaint. She grabbed an Army officer's M-4 rifle that was on the floor next to the curtain and screamed, "Allahu Akbar!" and, in English, "Get the f— out of here!" the complaint said. She opened fire, but missed the officers, who returned fire and hit her twice in the abdomen.
Two years later, following her recovery, she was convicted in Manhattan federal court of the attempted murder and assault on Americans for that attack and sentenced to 86 years in prison. She's currently incarcerated at a federal prison in Fort Worth, Texas and slated for release on August 6, 2083.
And there, most perhaps believed, would be where Siddiqui's story ended.
But the Islamic State wants otherwise. It wants Lady al-Qaeda back.
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By Tim Mullaney
A previous version of this March 10 column misstated a sales estimate for Castlight. The column has been corrected.
OK, laugh. But if you're laughing at the prospect of Castlight Health asking for a $1 billion IPO valuation coming off $13 million in 2013 sales and a $62.2 million net loss, will you laugh last?
Don't bet on it. Instead, Castlight's IPO is shaping up as a winner — maybe a big one. The 6-year-old San Francisco company blends a half-dozen buzzwords that mean high stock multiples and big money: cloud computing, software-as-a-service, health-care information technology.
Most of all, Castlight's /zigman2/quotes/201298689/composite CSLT -3.75% products are a private-sector complement to Obamacare. Just as the new law uses policy to contain health-care costs, in part by measuring costs and quality, and pushing patients and hospitals toward more cost-effective choices, Castlight's products help companies that pay for employees' health care do the same.
And everyone knows that has to be done.
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"Health-care spending is a huge problem for the American enterprise," Castlight CEO Giovanni Colella said in a roadshow presentation. Castlight "basically makes health care an efficient marketplace like every other thing [that companies buy]."
That could be a huge business. Self-insuring U.S. companies spend $620 billion a year on health care for 70 million workers and their dependents, according to Colella. There aren't independent estimates of the size of the market for what Castlight does because it's so new. Castlight's estimate is $5 billion in annual sales if all 70 million patients used Castlight or its competitors. Most of Castlight's competition comes from insurance companies, leaving Castlight as the best-known independent.
Here's the kicker, Renaissance Capital analyst Will Preston says: That $5 billion represents only $71 per person with company-paid health care. With the average cost of employer-provided insurance at $16,351 for a family, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation, a service like Castlight's would have to be a nearly complete cost-containment failure not to be worth it.
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It's early days, but Castlight can already point to clients who save as much as 13% on health spending. Studies from the Institute of Medicine, among others, argue that 30% of U.S. health-care spending is wasted. That's $750 billion in waste, making the $5 billion estimated market for cost-containment technology a pennies-on-the-dollar bet. That's why many more companies are likely to join Castlight's 106 clients, which already include Tesla /zigman2/quotes/203558040/composite TSLA -0.30% , Safeway , Microsoft /zigman2/quotes/207732364/composite MSFT +0.35% and Wal-Mart /zigman2/quotes/207374728/composite WMT +1.19% .
"Any time you see $13 million in sales and a $1 billion valuation, there's a disconnect," Preston said. "But for investors who know the industry, it's not hard to see what this can be in two or three years." (The $1 billion assumes a $10 IPO price — the estimated range is $9 to $11 a share — and includes all options.)
The first sign of that potential is the $120 million backlog of contracts Castlight had signed by the end of last year. With the average term of the contracts at 2 1/2 years, Preston figures Castlight could hit $100 million in sales two years out, he said.
Even that might not completely justify the valuation — but, then, cloud-computing companies tend to grow faster than early forecasts. It happened to Salesforce.com /zigman2/quotes/200515854/composite CRM +3.53% ; happened to Workday /zigman2/quotes/201157610/composite WDAY +8.20% last year (Workday shares jumped 72% in their first day of trading); and happened to AthenaHealth , the cloud-based electronic medical-records company that popped 97% on its first day in 2007.
By now, the market knows this kind of company is likely to grow very fast and command a high sales multiple. The most recent IPO comparable, online employee-benefits-enrollment manager Benefitfocus /zigman2/quotes/204534086/composite BNFT -1.42% , has zoomed to $68 since its $26.50-a-share IPO last September and trades at about 12 times expected 2014 sales. If you think Castlight will zoom past $100 million in revenue, you should think it'll zoom past a $1.2 billion valuation.
Colella co-founded Castlight with Todd Park, who went into the Obama administration in 2009, and emerged last fall briefly running the team fixing the troubled Healthcare.gov insurance exchange. Before that, Park and Bryan Roberts, the lead venture-capital investor in Castlight, were among the group that created AthenaHealth.
After doubling on its first day, Athena was worth about $1 billion — and it's worth $7.43 billion now. Nothing is certain, especially for a company coming public as early as Castlight is. But Athena's path is the best evidence that there's money to be made building tools that bring U.S. health care under control.
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Never be bullied into Silence
Silence Hurts is a form for Tuckahoe Elementary School students to report information anonymously. It is designed to keep students safe from bullying, drugs, suicide, gangs, violence, and any other threats to student safety. Silence Hurts is not monitored in real-time. If this matter involves the risk of injury or is life-threatening, you should call 911.


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Paradise High School athletes are good, but football coach Rick Prinz wants to give them a competitive edge and proposed an athletic conditioning and weight training course to the Paradise Unified School District board Tuesday night.
Prinz said a similar course was proposed in 2007 but was never adopted at PHS, though the 2007 proposal's format was used for the current proposal.
"The reason I want to do it is I think our athletes are at a disadvantage. Every high school in our league has an athletic physical education class," Prinz said, listing rival high schools like Chico, Enterprise, Shasta, Red Bluff, and others. "I want to put some of the effort that I put into football into other athletes at our school."
He said PHS has several three-sport athletes and used John Dixon as an example.
"He plays three sports, he never really gets to train," Prinz said, noting that now PHS is in basketball season, Dixon plays two or three games a week as a center. "Right now John's not even in a weight training course because of a full schedule," he said.
An athletic conditioning and weight course would give students like Dixon an opportunity to train during the school day, Prinz said.
"(Dixon) is busy with practice after school and he needs time to do homework. He's not able to go to a gym," Prinz said.
Board member Mike Greer wanted to know how the proposed course would impact existing classes, and Prinz said there would be no impact because it would take the place of one of the existing weight training periods. Prinz said there are currently six periods of weight training classes available to all other students.
He added that students need to qualify to be in the class and students are prioritized by seniority and by their sport. For example, seniors and juniors playing multiple sports would have first dibs before seniors and juniors playing a single sport, and on down. There is also a teacher's discretion clause that could be used in special circumstances, such as if a student is going into the military and wants to train, Prinz said.
Board President Judith Peters was concerned about the teacher's discretion clause.
"I really hate to see a class where the teacher says, 'You can be in my class, but (another student) can't.' I don't see that as being fair to all students," she said.
In answer to board member Tom Conry, Prinz said there are athletes already taking one of the existing weight training classes.
Ultimately, the proposed class would take those athletes and consolidate them into one class, while still giving non-athletes five other sections of weight training to choose from. Prinz said the idea is for the proposed course to address each individual student's sport. For instance, the class my have a mix of soccer, basketball, football and track athletes.
"We would take them and design the day for what's going on in their sports for this day," Prinz said. "For basketball players, today was a game day so they would have a game day routine."
Greer was also concerned that students who take the proposed course may let their grades slip, though still be allowed to be in the class, effectively keeping a more deserving student out of the class. It was tentatively agreed that instead of a year-long course, the program could be administered semester by semester.
Conry wanted to make sure the proposed course would be a relatively even split between boys and girls, and Prinz agreed. The proposal was for information only and will be brought back in February to flesh it out during a second reading.


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The inner workings of the SCA Board of Directors remain a mystery to many SCAdians, even as late in the game as Pennsic XL. Fortunately, the members of the Board are eager to change that.
The Board holds a town hall meeting every year at Pennsic in an effort to be accessible and gain feedback from the populace. This year's meeting will be held in AS10 on Tuesday, August 9 from 1-3 PM. SCA Chair Leslie Vaughn will be flying to Cooper's Lake specifically to attend this session.
Corporate officers, Society officers and Board members will be present at the meeting and ready to answer questions from the populace about any issue within the Board's purview. Some topics expected to come up are matters of SCA governance such as e-newsletters, membership fees, the recent SCA census, coming changes to the organization, and the growing advocacy in some kingdoms to allow same-sex consorts. However, any question may be raised.
"This is a real way to talk to the BoD and get instantaneous feedback," said Board member Tim Jennings, (Master Garraed Galbraith, OL,) who began his three-year term earlier this year. Many SCA members assume that the Board are aware of all that is transpiring on kingdom email lists, and do not realize that there are only seven Board members and three permanent staff to do all the top-level management work of the Society. "I think a lot of people assume somebody else has written in or that we've clearly heard about it and are dealing with it." In fact, a posting to a kingdom or baronial list is unlikely to reach the Board members, who are eager to hear directly about matters requiring their attention. Decision-making priorities are set partly by how much email is received on a topic.
"There are a lot of myths about what Corpora does or does not say," Jennings said. He added that the Board would welcome a chance to address those questions.
One of the persistent myths is that one must be a lawyer—or an accountant—or a peer—or an expert in medieval history—to become a member of the Board. In fact, any SCA member may be nominated or may nominate himself or herself. But be warned: in accordance with the law governing non-profit corporations, the job is unpaid.
Any SCA participant wishing to communicate with a member of the Board of Directors may email their kingdom ombudsman, listed on sca.org/BOD/, or may send a message on any subject to email@example.com. To apply to join the Board, contact Tim Jennings at email@example.com. The Board has recently adopted the target of a 48-hour turnaround time on all emails received.
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The burial of the Count of Orgaz View of the painting by El Greco in the church of Santo Tomé today.
Who was El Greco? Without question, one of the most universal artists in history. A pioneer in his time, whose paintings revealed an astonishing modernity and came to influence the avant-garde movements of the 20th century. Originally from Greece, El Greco reached the pinnacle of his artistic splendour in the city of Toledo where he lived for years. Thanks to this, his masterpieces can now be seen in various places all over Spain. Would you like to find out where? Then accompany us on this pictorial journey.
Doménikos Theotokópoulos was born in Crete in 1541. In 1577 he travelled to Madrid and then on to Toledo where he lived and worked for the rest of his life, leading him to be known as "the Greek (El Greco) from Toledo". Although after his death his work appeared to fall into oblivion, in the 19th century he was "rediscovered" by the Romantics, and his paintings are today on display in museums throughout the world. Once you've seen a few works by El Greco, you'll soon realise that his style is unmistakable. When you stand in front of one of his paintings, you'll notice his use of bright colours, his shadows, his imagination and his strength in representing religious themes. You'll have the impression of being in a world full of unreal elements. In Toledo The first essential stop for learning more about this artist is the city of Toledo (in Castile–La Mancha). If you're planning a trip there you should on no account miss a visit to the El Greco Museum itself in the heart of the Jewish quarter. You'll have a chance to see some of his best-known paintings, including "The tears of Saint Peter", "The altarpiece of San Bernardino" and "View and plan of Toledo". Once you're in Toledo, you're bound to want to stroll around this World Heritage city with its own special charm, and its abundance of monuments and museums. Some of them also contain works by El Greco, such as the church of Santo Tomé, the convent of Santo Domingo el Antiguo, the Tavera Hospital, the Cathedral sacristy, the chapel of San José and the Santa Cruz Museum. They are all well worth a visit.
In Madrid In the capital of Spain (only 70 kilometres from Toledo and with very convenient transport connections by train and bus) visitors should on no account miss a trip to the Prado Museum. This museum has an enviable collection of paintings including several works by El Greco, such as the world-famous "Nobleman with his hand on his chest". What other museums are there where you can continue to learn more about this genius in Madrid? The Thyssen-Bornemisza, the Cerralbo, the Lázaro Galdiano Foundation… All over Spain Although Madrid and Toledo are the main stops on this pictorial journey, remember that you can also find works by this artist scattered around various places in Spain. Here are just a few. The Cathedral Museum in Palencia, the Seville Museum of Fine Arts, the Diocesan Museum in Sigüenza, the Valencia Museum of Fine Arts, the National Art Museum of Catalonia (MNAC), the Cathedral Museum in Avila, the collegiate and parish church in Pastrana, the Municipal Museum in San Telmo (in Donostia-San Sebastián)… Why not come and enjoy the creations of the "Greek from Toledo" for yourself?
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Williams will star alongside Alan Cumming as he reprises his role as the flamboyant Emcee, following on from his Tony Award-winning run in the 1998 version of Cabaret.
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Stop! Don't throw your kitchen scraps away; put them to work. I've got some brilliant ideas for your fruit and vegetable peels, so prepared to be amazed.
Why use peels and scraps you may ask; because you are conscious about wasting food and because the peels of fruits and vegetables,specially organic grown, are filled with vitamins, flavors, aromas and other beneficial elements, it is almost a crime to throw them away. Some people are peelers, some people aren't. Some people swear by the nutrients and fiber found in produce skins, others prefer removing the outer layer to reduce pesticide load. Regardless of your peeling preferences and beliefs, citrus rinds, potato and other root peels, and even scooped-out avocados all have more than one life.
Now that you are into this let's see what you can do with your peels and scraps.
1. Homemade Broth
Celery tops, onion and garlic skins, carrot peels, and other food scraps are great for flavoring your vegetable broth. Just save the scraps in a freezer-safe container until you have enough to cook them up. When the broth is done, strain out the solids and toss them into your compost bin.
2. Veggie Chips
Instead of throwing out those potato, beetroot, carrot and courgette peels when you are finished with them, save them for making your own veggie crisps. You just have to mix the peels with enough olive oil to coat them evenly and then spread on a baking sheet in a single layer. Bake at 400 degrees for about 10 minutes or until they are nice and golden brown. Add salt and dried herbs to you liking and enjoy a perfect homemade snack
3. Infusions
lemon or orange peels in liquor
Lemon brandy is a fabulous way to use up the lemon peels after making lemonade. It is a tasty drink and can also be used for a variety of baked goods and cooking flavoring purposes. It also makes a great gift. Find the full recipe here. You can use the same method to infuse vodka or tequila as well.
flavored oils
Remove the pith and pound your citrus peels, adding some olive oil to create deliciously flavored lemon oil.
infused vinegar
You can also infuse vinegar or honey with your leftover citrus peels to create great tasting dishes.
4. Aromatic Tea
Fruit peels are perfect to make aromatic tea. Just add the peels in simmering water, remove pot from heat and add the tea of your choice. Here you can find the recipe for the perfect aromatic tea.
5. Spice up your Recipes
lemon pepper
Mix lemon or orange dried peels with freshly cracked pepper. Store in jar and use to add lemony flavor. Perfect for meat and fish.
aromatic sugar
Make citrus extract powder and add it to sugar, or you can use fresh twists, put them in a jar with sugar, let the oil from the peel infuse the sugar and remove. If you use fresh vanilla, after scraping the bean, add the pod to sugar to make vanilla-infused sugar.
If you don't need the rind from your citrus fruits right away and you are planning to use the inside or the juice, take a few minutes to grate the outside before you begin using the inside. By making your own citrus zest, you will have it on hand for when you need it later. Just scrape off the outer later, avoiding the white inside. You can freeze zest or let it dry completely and then store it in the cabinet in an airtight jar.
6. Potpourri & Natural Aromatics
Instead of throwing out those peels and spending money on store bought potpourri, you can simply make your own. Any citrus peels, pomegranate skins, apple peels or other fruit trimmings can be dried completely and then set about to help your home smell wonderful. Keep it in an airtight jar if you don't need it right away and then display your homemade potpourri in a glass dish.
7. Beauty Recipes
refresh you face
Peaches are very high in Vitamin A and Potassium, which is great for your skin. The next time you enjoy fresh peaches, save those peels. You just have to add a little white sugar to the inside of the peach skin and then use this as a gentle scrub for your face. It will help to keep your skin hydrated and make you feel revitalized as well.
Rub the fleshy part of an avocado peel on your face for a rich moisturizer.
relieve tired eyes
Potato peels are great for relieving puffiness and tiredness around the eyes. You just have to gently press the inside of the peel onto your eyes and leave there for about 10 to 15 minutes. The vitamins in potatoes are great for relieving slight inflammation and there is no need to rinse afterward.
8. Fabric Dye
Pomegranate and onion peels are great for dying fabric. Just add the fabric to a large stainless steel pot and then fill with hot water. Add your pomegranate or onion peels and allow them to sit overnight. In the morning, you will need to simmer the water and peels and then remove the peels to add your fabric. Make sure that the fabric is wet when you add it to the pot. Simmer the fabric very lightly for about an hour and allow it to cool overnight.
9. Natural non Toxic Cleaners
shine metals
Citrus fruits like lemons, grapefruits, limes and others are perfect for shining metal. The high citric acid will do wonders for your copper, brass and other metals so use those leftover peels to clean pots and pans or anything else metal that you have lying around. Just sprinkle a bit of baking soda on the object in question and then scrub with your citrus peels.
clean coffee pot and tea kettle
Lemon zest or rind is great for cleaning the stains off your glass coffee pots or carafes. You just have to add a bit of salt and ice and throw in your leftover lemon rind. Then just swirl the pot around for a few minutes and empty it out. Rinse with warm water and your coffee pot will sparkle like new.
clean away grease
Citrus zest is great for a lot of things, not the least of which is cleaning up grease. Lemon peels can help you to do away with greasy messes. Just sprinkle your stove-top or anywhere else where there may be grease with baking soda or salt and then rub the lemon peel over it to remove the grease.
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For this Friday I have a cozier look again - on the day I took the photos it was actually raining all day so I was glad that my coat kept me warm and dry. I bought the vintage coat on Etsy.com a few months ago, it comes straight from the 60s/70s and it's such a beautiful piece! I love embroidered clothing so much, especially when it comes to jackets or coats. They look like art and are always real eye catchers. I combined it in a casual way with my printed woodstock tee from Urban Outfitters and my favorite blue denim shorts which look really nice together. Added my favorite platform boots and the outfit is complete.


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The USS Iowa recently arrived in Los Angeles, completing the last voyage of its storied career. Now the ship will be transformed into a museum. We know what you're thinking: borrrring. Not so! There are plans to create a crazy-sounding, multiplayer game room that recreates the ship's history.
The USS Iowa is a very important ship in naval history. She fought in both the Atlantic and Pacific theaters during World War II and served all over the world until she was decommissioned in 1990. Wargaming America—maker of historical MMOGs—is developing a number of interactive elements to recreate this history in the new museum. By far the most interesting of these is the game room we mentioned before. According to the release:
Wargaming is developing a game room on board the ship that will put visitors in Grumman F6F Hellcat warplanes to defend the USS IOWA from attack by Japanese Zeros. There will be 15 stations to defend from.
If we understated this correctly, that means that you and fourteen other people can (virtually) get behind the turret of a Hellcat and protect the ship from enemy planes. Yes, please. Mom! Can we go to the museum with the awesome fighter jet simulator? Finally, the curators of the world are starting to get it: You can get people to do almost anything—including learn—if you turn it into a multiplayer action game. [PR Newswire]


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Markel Starks scored 20 points and Otto Porter took over down the stretch as No. 20 Georgetown defeated Rutgers 69-63 on Saturday.
Porter had 15 of his 19 points in the second half and grabbed 14 rebounds for the Hoyas (17-4, 7-3 Big East), who have won five straight and seven of their last eight. Mikael Hopkins had 12 of his 14 points after halftime and D'Vaun Smith-Rivera scored 13.
Eli Carter had 23 points for the Scarlet Knights (12-10, 3-8), who lost their sixth straight.
After a string of nine straight scoring sequences produced either a lead change or tie, Porter scored on a fast-break layup to make it 62-60 with 4:44 left to give the Hoyas the lead for good.
With Georgetown leading 62-61, the Hoyas came out of a timeout and got a critical three-point play from Porter off an entry pass from Starks to lead by four with 1:15 remaining.
Rutgers got a basket by from Carter with 55 seconds left before Porter hit both ends of a 1-and-1. The Knights missed two straight shots at the other end and Hopkins made two free throws with 14 seconds left put it out of reach.
After both teams shot well in the first half, Georgetown maintained its pace in the second while Rutgers cooled off.
Georgetown shot 57.4 percent overall (27 for 47) and hit 60.9 percent (27 for 47) in the second half. Rutgers shot just 38.9 percent (21 for 54) for the game and the Scarlet Knights were 10 for 33 (30.3 percent) after intermission.
Neither team could take control as the game featured 11 lead changes and four ties. The biggest lead by either side was seven points by Georgetown in the first half.
The first half, which ended in a 33-33 tie, was back and forth with each team pulling ahead before the other rallied back.
Trailing 13-7, Rutgers rallied to tie it 15-15 and 18-18 before Georgetown scored seven straight points for a 25-18 lead. With the score 27-21, Carter and Jerome Seagears hit 3-pointers to spark Rutgers to a 29-27 lead.
A foul shot by Judge to make it 33-33 forced the half's sixth tie to go along with four lead changes.
Starks and Smith-Rivera each had 12 points in the half while Starks was 3 for 4 from 3-point range. Carter had 14 points for Rutgers including three 3-pointers. Both teams shot well with Georgetown hitting 54.2 percent (13 for 24) and Rutgers shooting 52.4 percent (11 for 21).


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Clinical audiologists are healthcare professionals who measure and evaluate a person's ability to hear sounds, and specialize in the treatment of people with hearing disorders. Audiologists often study and provide guidance for patients and families on the following topics:
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I suppose the fact that Williams-Sonoma, popular peddler of covetable cookery accouterment, is now selling handcrafted chicken coops to the tune of $900, backyard beekeeping starter kits (complete with fashionable veiled helmet), and shiitake mushroom logs is a definite sign that modern day homesteading isn't just an au courant movement amongst the hip 'n' thrifty foodie set and a way of life for more serious backyard farmers — it's officially mainstream and available soon at a mall near you.
Launched just today in the wake of some serious hype, Agrarian from Williams-Sonoma is a collection of nearly 300 DIY tools and supplies catering to customers who, according to an official press release, "want to go beyond cooking by cultivating a healthy awareness of where their food comes from." Or, as pointed out by market analyst Laura Champine, the new line will also appeal to the surprising number of six-figure earners with second homes who are "open to bee-keeping." Alrighty then.
In addition to the aforementioned chicken coops, beekeeping kits, and shiitake mushrooms logs, Agrarian includes heirloom seeds courtesy Beekman 1802 and Fire Escape Farms, gardening tools from Brit cookbook authoress and designer Sophie Conran, European canning and preserving supplies, Kombucha-making paraphernalia, and vintage Hungarian bathtub planters. And in addition to the wide selection of relevant literature for sale, there's also a robust selection of online gardening and homesteading resources — "Guides to help bring the homegrown and homemade to your everyday table" — that Williams-Sonoma shoppers can consult in the event that they need the low down on growing zones and egg yields.
And just wait … there's even an MNN connection: Atlanta-based Farmer D, friend of MNN and host of the "In the Field" video series (definitely worth checking out if you didn't catch them when they were first released), is behind the collection's cedar raised planter beds and planters. Farmer D (aka Daron Joffe) also appeared as one of MNN's "40 Farmers Under 40."
Of course, the fact that Williams-Sonoma is now offering cheese-making kits and vintage trowels alongside La Creuset cookware and prohibitively priced kitchen gadgets has garnered a diverse array of reactions ranging from pleased-as-punch over at Edible Brooklyn ("… nothing warms our hearts like somebody learning to grow their own tomatoes or make their own ricotta") to reliably snarky over at Grist where Sarah Laskow writes: "I'm all for backyard agriculture. But if you're spending hundreds of dollars (I'm guessing at the price point here) on a chicken coop that's then shipped across the country, you should probably assume you're doing more to shore up the powerful forces of consumerism than to help the local food movement or the planet."
I'm not entirely surprised by the move, considering that West Elm, the Williams-Sonoma-owned home furnishings retailer, has been mighty successful in upping its indie cred the past couple of years by collaborating with an assortment of rising designers and eco-minded artisans. The whole thing reminds me slightly of Urban Outfitters' similarly well-curated foray into outdoor living/gardening land, Terrain, except Agrarian is both more utilitarian and self-conscious.
What do you think of this new venture from Williams-Sonoma? Would you buy, let's say, organic fertilizer or a garden allotment kit from the same place where you salivate over high-end blenders and Wüsthof knives? I'd love to hear what you think in the comments section. The full Agrarian range is now available online and will be hitting selecting Williams-Sonoma stores within the coming days.
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Deepak Chopra's Leela is an interesting proposition. Not exactly a game as such (although "Leela" roughly means "play" in Hindu), nor is it strictly fitness or educational software. It is, quite simply, unique and could well be the most inventive consumer-ready use of the Kinect so far.
Yes, Forza Motorsport 4 allows you use the Xbox 360 motion tracker to look around the cockpit of a car as you drive, but Leela uses the Kinect in all manner of ways, including the precise tracking of what part of your body you breathe from, or if you're fidgeting while attempting to meditate. In short, it sits in a category of its own, and is a welcome diversion from punching a virtual bad guy in the goolies.
The point of the "experience" is to, essentially heal and tend to your mind, body and spirit through tasks designed to balance the Seven Chakras, the energy centres in every human being. Each Chakra is positioned in and around the body, so each task in the "game" focuses on that body part.
In addition, each Chakra challenge is split into seven levels, so there's 49 different tasks to complete in total. Plus, there are extra sections in Leela that help teach you how to breathe properly, meditate (to the dulcet tones of Deepak Chopra, the mind-body expert himself), and more.
And, the best bit, is that there is no winning or losing involved, it's not meant to be competitive, just help you attain harmony with the world. Although, as certain tasks have a time counter, you can't help but wonder if you can do each section that little bit quicker.
Pocket-lint got to try out the red Chakra section, where you have to revolve a planet in order to pollinate it by waving our hips left and right. It was only afterwards that we found out that that's the Chakra for fertility. Needless to say, it was all over in the blink of an eye.
We also had a go at meditating, with the in-game Chopra taking us through a five minute session, and it was certainly relaxing. Or, as relaxing as it could have been in an office room with a glass panel in the door where passers by could gawp. This is definitely a section we'd like to try at home. Unlike many Kinect games or applications, it even allows you to sit down. Refreshing in more ways than one.
Even from our brief play (or Leela) with the not-a-game, we can tell that it could well be the ideal remedy to a long day at work. And, for that alone, it's got to be worth the cover price.
Deepak Chopra's Leela is available now for Xbox 360 (the one we tested) and Wii for around £40 and £25 respectively.
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Hommemaker Founder Orlando Soria is an interior designer, writer, and visual artist who lives in Los Angeles, California. He got his start on HGTV as Emily Henderson's on-camera assistant on the home makeover series Secrets From A Stylist. A graduate of Cornell's University's College of Architecture, Art and Planning and The University of Pennsylvania's School of Design, Orlando has been a staple of the design industry for years. His first book Get It Together! was released in Spring 2018.
Orlando has completed a range of interior design projects. Click here to see them!
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Homme: French Word For "Man"
Maker: A person that makes or produces something.
This site is a site for men who like to make stuff. For men who are creative. For men who like being home makers (henceforth referred to as Hommemakers). And clearly, a site for ladies who love to do those things as well. I mean, let's be real, it's a site for anyone who wants to read it, but the purpose for creating it was to emphasize that dudes, too, can be domestic.
The Hommemaker Mission Statement:
Dear World,
Hommemaker's purpose is to provide an inclusive space for male domesticity. This includes a fascination with interior design, art, great food, cultural experiences, friends, and family.
Hommemaker seeks to be humorous when appropriate and especially when not appropriate.
Hommemaker reserves the right to be serious when seriousness is in order.
Hommemaker believes in the "Dear _____" format. It's been with me for years and I still find it funny. I don't know why. In fact, I often recite letters verbally. As in "Dear Waiter, I'd like the ham 'n' cheese omelette, please! Love, Orlando."
A true Hommemaker is a feminist who loves women, even if he doesn't "love" women that way. You know what I mean. OK fine, I'll spell it out for you. I'm talking about the gays, alright! THE GAYS!
A good Hommemaker cares about the environment, preferring home furnishings that are long-lasting, repurposed, or recycled over cheaply made mass-produced pieces.
Hommemaker believes that quotation marks are annoying and best used as jokes (i.e. "thanks" for that "awesome" present you "bought" me). That being said we will use them when we're supposed to, begrudgingly.
Hommemaker believes that buying things at flea markets is a fun and exciting way to promote recycling.
Hommemaker believes in finding beauty wherever you can, whether it be in nature, in graffiti, or in a well-designed object.
Hommemaker believes that nature is the epitome of glamour, a hike through the woods one of life's most delightful luxuries.
Hommemaker believes that style is important and meaningful. Design is an art form.
Hommemaker cares about aesthetics, but thinks superficiality is stupid.
Hommemaker believes that things that are inexpensive and/or free are often more luxurious than things that cost a lot of money.
Hommemaker seeks to be humble whilst not being cloyingly "down-homey" and sophisticated without being pretentious. If we succeed at this it will be, like, a total miracle.
Hommemaker believes in inserting the word "like" into sentences as if it were 1992 in the San Fernando Valley.
Hommemaker seeks to inspire Hommeboys and Hommegirls all over the world to find excitement in making their spaces beautiful.
Hommemaker believes in doing it yourself. Painting your walls is good exercise! Making your own furniture, liberating!
Hommemaker believes in respect, cheap digs and snark have their place, but not in our house.
And, most importantly, Hommemaker believes that everyone is an artist. You just have to believe in your creative abilities. And if you don't I'm going to come over there and make you believe in your creative abilities. It wont be pretty.
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During Sunday's Critics' Choice Awards, the youngest winner of the night charmed the crowd with his adorable acceptance speech.
Jacob Tremblay, the 9-year-old star of "Room," won for best young actor/actress. Even standing atop a box, the microphone still towered over the young actor's head. Presenter Bradley James eventually held it for him.
"This is super cool," Tremblay said. "This is the best day of my life."
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Tremblay graciously accepted his award, complementing the critics and his competitors, then thanking "Team Room" and his parents.
"I first want to say thank you to all the critics who voted for me," he began. "It must be a super-hard vote because of all the other great actors in this category."
Tremblay starred alongside Brie Larson in the film about a mother and son held captive in a small, enclosed space. Larson also won that night for best actress.
"I think that us working together made this movie come true, and this award doesn't just go to me for that -- it goes to all of you guys as well," said Tremblay.
The Canadian actor said he knew the perfect spot to put his new trophy.
"Right on the shelf right beside my Millennium Falcon," he said with a big smile.
A self-described "Star Wars fanatic," according to Twitter, Tremblay's favorite celebrity encounter of the night was with BB-8, the droid from "The Force Awakens."
Tremblay posted a video to Instagram of him celebrating his big win by busting a move to Bruno Mars's song Uptown Funk.


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Character actor, musician and comedian – quite a combination! We need more artists like Matthias Matschke. And look: he even moonlights as a model!
Reading through Matschke's list of theater, TV and film work is almost exhausting – you catch yourself thinking that the man must have superhuman powers.
First, a plethora of small roles, then progressively larger ones, culminating in his present appearances in the "Helen Dorn" series, as the supremely unsettling "word of honor" peddler in "Der Fall Barschel," his role as Claudia Michelsen's exasperating new colleague in "Polizeiruf 110" and perennial appearances in the middling comedy show "Sketch History." Matschke seems to have an enormous appetite for work.
So how about his stint as a model today? It is taking place against the crazily serene backdrop of St. Agnes, a former church where each concrete wall amply illustrates why this style is called Brutalism.
"Yup, it was great fun!" he says, adding that he only models twice a year, but with immense pleasure. "I am crazy about photography, so this is great! I sneak looks to see which exposure the photographer's using, how he's metering – it's like a mini internship. Today, I was really proud of myself because Gregor used the same camera and lens as I have. That has to mean I'm making progress."
Six years ago, I had a date with him and Kurt Krömer, the anarchic Berlin comedian who comes across as being spontaneously combustible, but who in reality targets his punch lines with the surgical precision of a fighter pilot – bam!
Our topic was friendship. Krömer sat there spouting yobbish quips. In contrast, Matschke – as yet beardless – was gentle, almost shy, super-alert, an elastic, hilariously funny butt for brief moments, a loyal sidekick hiding behind a thick-witted persona whose idea of a great evening's fun was board games. Already an emerging actor, he appeared in theaters in both parts of Berlin: at the Volksbühne (east) and the Schaubühne (west). He wasn't famous yet, and that didn't seem to matter, it wasn't his main objective.
The masses will recognize someone from TV, or not at all. Back then, they knew Matschke from "Ladykracher" (where he had to endure plenty of ignominy) and as Hagen, the younger brother in the TV show "Pastewka" (ditto).
Matschke's specialty was the stunned straight guy. Matschke's problem: many people considered him a comedian who got lucky with the right scriptwriters. His consolation was that he is a fantastic comedian. And an excellent accelerator, capable of going from zero to one hundred in three facial expressions.
The man is a high performance actor. High speed, no quarter given, and straight to the point. "I feel like an athlete: Either you go for the long distance or you become a sprinter. Some films are like a 100-meter dash, others are like 800 meters, 5000 meters or 10,000 – and next up is the marathon. It's all a question of how you apply your energy. If you know you're running 100 meters then you use your strength differently than if you've still got 42 kilometers to go." Sounds like a tried and tested pattern: actors, athletes, divas.
So tell me, Matschke – you slippery sprinter – are you particularly fond of sporting metaphors and comparisons? A look of perfect innocence crosses his face. "No, I just thought that up on the spot!" Grin.
"But it's apt. You need stamina as an actor, and there are similarities in the discipline you need for rehearsals or training. In both, you need to be fit: A film shoot or a performance are like a tournament." And in both, the audience has no interest in how well the athlete performed during training, how brilliant the actor was at the rehearsal…
Once upon a time, near Darmstadt, there was a restless pupil who grew up to become a clueless young college student. He liked books, had an interest in religion, didn't have an awful lot of self-confidence. He felt he had several talents, but had no idea how to shoehorn them all into a profession.
Take, for example, his musical talents: cello, violin, guitar, mandolin, double-bass. "I have continually astounded myself, ever since I first started. I always want to go forward. There's an old folk song, 'My soul in my traveling shoes burns – to leave and travel – so what shall we do now – in front of so many clever people?' by Joseph von Eichendorff, which my German teacher wrote down for me in high school. My classmates got Goethe and other famous poets; I just sat there and couldn't relate to the verses. Today, I think: Yes, he nailed it – there's a lot of me in those lines."
Now he wants more, to see what else he's capable of now that more and more people know him, and many like him. "I believe that my deliberate aimlessness has given me a certain imperturbability," he self-analyzes, "I am naturally restless because I am an ambitious person – without ambition you wouldn't get anywhere in this profession. But it is an inquisitive ambition, it has no predefined goal."
But when he does have a real, concrete goal, for example getting a role (even a tiny one) in Wes Anderson's majestic film spectacle Grand Budapest Hotel, then he pursues it relentlessly.
And is delighted if he succeeds. And touches discreetly on what the industry has been whispering loudly: that many other, bigger names had wanted the role. Matschke got his role, as a dodgy prison guard: small, but indubitably a role.
He has a beard, the kind of in-your-face beard that says: I am an adult now. He seems more determined, less a teddy bear, more a dude. But still mind-blowingly charming – especially when he expresses silent agony, like Buster Keaton.
It all happened at the right time.
When he cleverly or foolishly tears around, romps, jumps, twists and turns, like a rubber ball. He is obviously delighted at his gradually rising fame, he is ready. "It all happened at the right time. Had I been a young shooting star I probably simply wouldn't have known what to do. I loved the situation – the theater as a lab, as a school and testing ground. This period taught me humbleness. Because whether you deserve it or not, you always start from zero, evening after evening. Nobody claps today for yesterday's performance."
Let's get things straight: He's not saturated, and he rarely settles into a rut. Even as a master of his craft, his mind is open to new ideas. "I sometimes feel that I am continually learning new, small parts, like extracts, and my job is to fuse these parts to form a whole."
He remains an imp waiting for the perfect moment to ambush and tease his audience, as befits an apprentice of the great Groucho Marx. He dives into happiness. "You could say that my motto is to absorb, embrace, experience as much as possible – I constantly want to see, feel, and soak up more. And that is how I almost inadvertently became an adventurer, something I would never have thought possible."
This curiosity drives him repeatedly to photography, almost as if he has the urge to split into separate parts. "If I didn't have to act, I would grab my camera, set off somewhere, walk around, take in what's happening. I still love acceleration. What's changed is that once I would have dashed off without thinking; now, I make sure that I warm up first."
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FYI, the way PM and Barca2 handles this is very similar to how Ourlook 2003 and 2007 work. It is also how Becky2 manages the "to" field in these cases. Now I do not know how all other E-mail clients work, but I assume that this is a standard method.
our suggestion is interesting...
It is that way because it always has been...
It is true that other clients don't get it right either. It is also true that this way of doing things can be very annoying. So it is a chance for Poco to excel.
There are times when you really do want to send yourself an email, so this should remain possible. How about a Continue button?


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