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Going to California
I'm now committed.
On Friday my friend Pirooz, director of Shoplifting from American Apparel, signed a lease for an apartment in Los Angeles, California that he and I will move into in June, 2012. On that very same day — perhaps at the exact same moment — I signed a contract with New World Library to publish my next book There Is No God And He Is Your Creator. This could come out as soon as Spring 2013 or might be pushed back to Fall. We're not sure yet.
In the meanwhile, the audiobook of Hardcore Zen is on sale right now. Just in case you've forgotten.
And a new eBook collection called Hardcore Zen Strikes Again will be out any minute now. I think they're still working out some kinks in formatting. I realized I couldn't do it myself so the fine folks at Cooperative Press in Cleveland are handling that part. Up till now they've only done books about knitting. But Shannon, who runs the company, is a fan of my writing. So this will be their first non-knitting related title.
Hardcore Zen Strikes Again is a collection of essays I wrote for the old Sit Down and Shut Up webpage. Many of the articles I wrote for that page ended up reworked into chapters of Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth About Reality. Many did not. Others were so thoroughly reworked you wouldn't recognize them. It is articles from the latter two categories that I chose for Hardcore Zen Strikes Again. I've also included a chapter that was cut out of Hardcore Zen and an article I wrote for a Japanese monster fanzine consisting mainly of things I wrote about my work at Tsuburaya Productions that were also removed from Hardcore Zen. So the book is sort of like the bonus disc for Hardcore Zen. Hence the title. The essays are each accompanied by new introductions and afterwords talking about how my views on things have totally changed now and why the essays are shit.
Not really. But I am not nearly as loud in my writing as I was in 2001. I say pretty much the same stuff, just in a different way.
Those of you without Kindles or iPads or Nooks need not fret. There will be a print version as well. But the print version will be produced in limited quantities. Whether you'll be able to find it in stores or not is still an open question. Probably you will.
Going to California is a big move for me, and, in some ways a thoroughly stupid one. It's stupid because I could have saved myself a lot of hassle and just stayed in Los Angeles. But, really, things there at the time had become un-workable and I needed a change. It's also stupid because I'm now making way less money than I was when I moved away and am going to a place where the rent is more than twice what I'm paying in Akron.
But it's also a good move because I liked living in California. It's sunny. It's warm. It's L.A., with all the weirdness that means. I'm going to try getting a teaching gig out there or maybe work in the film industry. Pirooz has a company, which is mainly just him right now, called Sangha Films. Years and years before I ever met Pirooz I had the notion that maybe there could be a Buddhist sangha whose livelihood was supported by making movies. Lots of Buddhist sanghas support themselves with commercial endeavors. Some sanghas make tofu, some bake bread, San Francisco Zen Center runs a luxury tourist resort (Tassajara). So why not movies?
I'm hoping to talk Pirooz into moving in this direction with me. But every time I say something about it he just sort of grunts noncommittally. We'll see. I envision it as sort of a Zen version of Troma Films. Not in terms of the gore and splatter. But in terms of the way Troma is fiercely independent, knows its audience thoroughly, and makes its way in the world by producing movies that will never be big hits but always sell to its loyal core audience. Pirooz wants to make a zombie movie next. I'm trying to convince him to make it a Zen zombie movie. We'll see...
Every choice a person makes in life affects their future in ways large and small, foreseeable and unforeseeable. Even a smile or a frown can make a huge difference. But some decisions seem more momentous than others. Signing that book contract and committing to a huge move in the same day seem pretty momentous to me. To be honest, I'm scared shitless. Maybe a year from now you'll find me living in a cardboard box on Venice Beach trying to sell CD-Rs of my audiobook in order to buy burritos. But maybe not.
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An Evening with Susan Eisenhower: Discussion of her new book "How Ike Led: The Principles Behind Eisenhower's Biggest Decisions"
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Moderated by: Michael Flamm, Ph.D., Professor of History
Susan Eisenhower is the CEO and Chairman of The Eisenhower Group, Inc. (EGI), a Washington D.C. based consulting company founded in 1986. For more than twenty-five years, the company has provided strategic counsel on business development, public affairs and communications projects. EGI has advised Fortune 500 companies, not just in the United States, but also abroad—in China, Russia, Central Asia and Western Europe for such companies as American Express, IBM, Coca Cola, AES, Alcoa, and General Electric.
In addition to her work through EGI, Susan Eisenhower has also had a distinguished career as a policy analyst. She is Chairman Emeritus at the Eisenhower Institute of Gettysburg College, where she served as president twice. She has also been a Fellow at Harvard's Institute of Politics and a Distinguished Fellow at the Nixon Center, now called the Center for National Interest.
Over the years, she has served as a member of three blue ribbon commissions for the Department of Energy for three different secretaries: The Baker-Cutler Commission on U.S. Funded Non-Proliferation Programs in Russia; The Sununu-Meserve Commission on Nuclear Energy; and the Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future, which released its findings on a comprehensive program for the back end of the nuclear fuel cycle in the winter of 2012. She was also appointed to the National Academy of Sciences Standing Committee on International Security and Arms Control, where she served eight years. After as many years on the NASA Advisory Council, she served as a commissioner on the International Space Station Management and Cost Evaluation Task Force. She is currently a member of MIT's Energy Initiative Advisory Board and co-chairman of NEAC, the Secretary of Energy's Nuclear Energy Advisory Board.
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The threat from outer space gets quirky this week, thanks to Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet.
Section 8: Prejudice explores well-worn territory, but a smart campaign and volatile competitive mode make this shooter rise above its generic aesthetic.
The Frontier Colonies Map Pack for Section 8: Prejudice is now available on Xbox Live!
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This week we check out Let's Golf 3D, Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet, Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team, and Galaga Legions DX, among other titles.
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MONTREAL - Police in Quebec say intercepted BlackBerry communications were used to take down two alleged organized crime groups operating in the province.
The RCMP said Thursday more than one million private PIN to PIN messages were intercepted and analyzed as evidence as part of an operation dubbed "Clemenza" that led to 33 arrests on Thursday.
Officials from the RCMP and Montreal Police said it was the first time the investigative technique had been used on such a large scale in a criminal investigation.
"This is the most important interception of this kind performed as part of a major investigation in North America," RCMP Supt. Michel Arcand told a news conference.
"One million messages were intercepted between 2010 and 2012 (and) the investigation also included a complex analysis process."
The RCMP said it would not divulge whether the BlackBerry company aided in their investigation and the firm's media representatives said they were unable speak about "an ongoing police investigation."
Arcand said those intercepts make up the bulk of the evidence used to make the arrests.
PIN messaging allows BlackBerry users to send messages directly between devices over wireless networks, bypassing email servers.
The arrests were aimed at dismantling two cells which police said took over after Operation Colisee in late 2006, an operation aimed at their predecessors, the Rizzuto clan. Many of the top Rizzuto lieutenants were arrested during that sweep.
Police described the cells as linked to Italian-based organized crime in Montreal. One clan was led by now-deceased mob boss Giuseppe De Vito while the other had an association with a group known as the Bastone brothers, police said.
"We were dealing with very dangerous and well-organized crime groups, willing to do anything to achieve their goal and that has the means of their ambitions," said Arcand, who runs the organized crime unit for the Mounties in Quebec.
He said Operation Clemenza established a link between the two networks and a series of violent crimes that were committed in Montreal between October 2010 and February 2012.
De Vito died at the Donnacona federal penitentiary last July while serving a 15-year sentence for drug trafficking. A coroner's investigation determined he died of cyanide poisoning. But his clan continued to operate, police said.
Mafia expert Antonio Nicaso says the De Vito group, now apparently led by Giuseppe Fetta and Alessandro Sucapace and the other group headed by Bastone brothers, Antonio and Roberto, tried to capitalize on the vacuum created after by turmoil in the Rizzuto operation.
All four men were among those arrested on Thursday.
"They were extremely violent," Nicaso said, describing the two cells as "the next generation of organized crime," who were very aggressive and very sophisticated, relying on modern technology much more than their predecessors.
But their ultimate goal was the same.
"Their goal was to control the territory, to extort money from restaurant owners and to sell narcotics, but they were using an extremely violent strategy," Nicaso said.
Nicaso also said it was "very likely" there would be another turf war after the latest arrests, as new groups move in to fill the void.
The organized crime expert also warned there could be trouble when people arrested under Operation Colisee are eventually freed.
Thursday's arrests took place in Montreal, Quebec City, Laval and Gatineau. Police said one suspect remained on the lam.
Some 200 officers took part in the operation under the guidance of the RCMP's Quebec detachment.
The accused face different charges that include gangsterism, conspiracy, drug importation, trafficking, possession, kidnapping, forcible confinement, possession of weapons and explosives, arson, extortion and assault.
In total, police say more than 80 charges were filed in court and police said they were to appear on Thursday.
Police also seized more than a dozen high-powered weapons that included several submachine guns, shotguns and semi-automatic pistols.
Montreal police say they discovered the weapons and explosives during a search of a warehouse just east of the city in 2011 while acting on an anonymous tip.
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BERLIN - A German aid worker abducted in Pakistan 11 months ago was seen alive in a video broadcast Saturday urging authorities to fully meet his captors' demands, warning that otherwise they could kill him within days.
The undated video — probably recorded under duress by his captors — was broadcast Saturday by Pakistan's Dunya TV. The German Foreign Ministry in Berlin said it "knows the case" and is aware of the video. A duty spokeswoman declined to elaborate.
Aid organization German Agro Action declined to confirm whether the video indeed showed one of its two staffers abducted in the central Pakistan city of Multan in January. Spokeswoman Simone Pott only acknowledged "we know the video."
The aid worker, identifying himself in the video as 59-year-old Bernd Muehlenbeck, said he was captured by mujahedeen — a generic term for militant Islamic extremists — but didn't specify who they were or what their demands were.
In the message — whose content is likely to have been dictated by the captors — he said he was kidnapped "by mujahedeen because of the bad policies of the German government."
In January, gunmen seized the two foreign aid workers, Muehlenbeck and an Italian colleague, from just outside their office in Multan and bundled them into a car, according to Pakistan security officials. The men were working for a development project helping victims of the 2010 floods, the officials said.
Muehlenbeck did not name or explicitly mention his Italian colleague, but repeatedly used the plural when speaking about his situation.
He appealed to authorities not to attempt freeing them by force. "I would like to live and I would like to see back my family alive," he said, speaking in English with a slight German accent.
In the video lasting just less than a minute, Muehlenbeck is heard speaking calmly in front of a white wall, wearing glasses and a dark hoody.
He said he could be killed by his captors at any time. "We don't know when. Maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe in three days."
Pakistan, a poor predominantly Muslim nation of about 180 million, is struggling to fend off an insurgency fueled by Islamic extremists, many of whom are believed to hide in the lawless provinces bordering Afghanistan.
Kidnappings for ransom are common in Pakistan. Islamist militants have also abducted people. Several aid workers have been targeted over the past years.
This week saw a gruesome series of deadly attacks on Pakistanis working on a polio vaccination campaign. Six of the aid workers gunned down were women, three of whom were teenagers. Two other workers were critically wounded.
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Sweet Florals Are Breaking the Rules of Fashion
This resort season, designers are throwing out tired rules like "no white after Labor Day" and ushering in the era of the woman who wears what she wants, when she wants. And they're doing it with florals. Ray Smith explains on Lunch Break. Photo: Oscar de la Renta.
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Nicole Minson of Paramus died on Friday, Feb. 16 after an aggressive battle with cancer. She was 17 years old.
Visitation will be Thursday, Feb. 22 from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Vander Plaat Memorial Home.
Funeral Mass will be Friday, Feb. 23 at 11 a.m., at Our Lady of the Visitation R.C. Church.
Nicole, Affectionately known as Mini Nikki, was a senior at Paramus Catholic High School. She was accepted on early admission to Pace University and was planning to attend this fall.
She attended Our Lady of the Visitation Academy elementary school and was a member of the Our Lady of the Visitation parish.
Nikki was a creative soul. She had a passion and talent for performing arts and felt most at home on stage.
She is survived by her parents, Edward and Nancy Minson; brother Frank; grandmother Jennie Tassiello; step-siblings Tim and Betsy; along with many more friends and family members.
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COVER- Pedal power: Can Robert Randolph 'steel' success?
Aside from his affinity for stylish hats, not much about Robert Randolph says "rock star." In fact, he didn't hear so much as a note of rock music until he was in his early twenties.
But it's his instrument that poses the biggest problem– the pedal steel guitar has all the sex appeal of a picnic table. It's a bizarre mutation of the electric guitar, with twice as many strings and often multiple necks, supported by four legs. And since one hand is working a metal slide as the other picks the strings, chord and key changes require foot pedals and knee levers, so the player has to be seated. That pretty much rules out stage diving.
The good news? The pedal steel is a rare bird in rock music, so its few practitioners stand out anyway– even when they're not stage diving.
Charlottesville is, in some ways, a surrogate home for Randolph, a relatively new client of Coran Capshaw's Red Light Management.
After getting his start playing in church in New Jersey in the 1990s, Randolph began making a name for himself when the Family Band began playing club dates in New York City. That attracted the attention of perennial rock savior Eric Clapton, but it was when the Dave Matthews Band took him under its collective wing four years ago that things really began to take off.
"We came down here and played at Starr Hill. That was the first time Coran Capshaw heard us, and I think Boyd Tinsley was at that show too," recalls Randolph.
"When I first saw Robert, what struck me was this beautiful sincerity in what he's doing," says Matthews.
That was December 2001. The following spring, DMB took them out on tour.
"We had some magical moments touring with them– we had crowds giving us a standing ovation before they came on," Randolph says. And while several DMB tour guests have been tapped for the solo spot on the band's arrangement of "All Along The Watchtower," Randolph's guest appearance at their May 29, 2002 show at Madison Square Garden is one of the standouts.
"Some people," Randolph says wryly, "think that's the best version out there." Some of those people include Dave Matthews.
More recently, the DMB connections have strengthened even further. Randolph and the Family Band are recording an as-yet-untitled album out at Haunted Hollow, DMB's ultra-private Albemarle studio. And in September the Family Band will open both DMB shows to inaugurate UVA's John Paul Jones Arena.
Matthews is even sharing his music.
"Dave had this song. He said 'Man, I've been doing this tune, but it's got you and the Family Band written all over it,'" says Randolph. So "Love Is The Only Way," with contributing vocals by Matthews, is in the works for the new album.
"All these guys had some kind of say in the next record," Randolph continues. "Dave, Boyd, Carter... they all had input."
That spirit of collaboration stretches beyond the band members; the forthcoming album includes the handiwork of multiple producers, including Mark Batson, the man who was behind the mixing board for DMB's last studio album, Stand Up.
"Not one guy steered the ship, and that's by design," says Bruce Flohr of Red Light Management. "Robert's so unique that if you get with one guy, you end up with a whole album that's exactly that."
He's right. Randolph's debut, Live at the Wetlands, did have a single pronounced theme: relatively simple jams of eight, ten, or even 13 minutes filled to the brim with just two or three chords, more technical prowess than substantive composition. Consider "Tears Of Joy," the album's closing track: "We totally just made it up on that day," admits Randolph. "That's why it goes on so long. We didn't know how to end it."
"I think the biggest issue Robert's band has is that every song sounds exactly the same," says 50-year-old pedal steel player Tony Prior. "That's why I'm not a buying fan."
"Robert has more fans than his album sales would indicate," says Flohr– insightfully, it would seem. And he has a plan for narrowing that gap: "Another thing we wanted to do," he continues, "was find Robert's voice as a singer."
The upcoming album, shared with a reporter, is slated for public release in late July. It's loaded with poppy rock- and hip-hop-influenced compositions that showcase Randolph's pipes more than ever before, pitting them against the stunning falsetto of Family Band bassist Danyel Morgan and the sultry soul of guest vocalist Leela James.
It also features more bona fide chord changes. The duet with James, for instance, is a twangy ballad ripe with the sort of harmonic games typically reserved for meticulously crafted pop-country. This in turn reveals another major switch: for the first time in Randolph's career, the album features co-writers.
While that might be a bit nerve-wracking for fans comfortable with the status quo, Flohr says he can explain the decision to bring in outside songsmiths.
"It's still true to what Robert is," he says, "It's not like we brought in Fergie from the Black Eyed Peas to sing all the songs."
"A lot of people are afraid to do co-writes," Randolph says, "because they say, 'I don't want to work with a producer or a songwriter who doesn't tour with us and doesn't know what we're about.' I tell them, 'You don't know what you're missing.' I was in a room with Rob Thomas one week, Dave Matthews one week, Kid Rock one week..."
And even with those who aren't stars yet, Randolph was getting help from the sorts of professionals typically employed by Eric Clapton, Sheryl Crow, Tim McGraw, Kenny Chesney, and Toby Keith. Add that to the producers, and you have a pretty diverse bag of... well, "influences" seems a bit too dismissive, since they all were having a direct, tangible impact on the album.
Robert, now 27, has been getting such a warm response from touring audiences for the past five years largely because of his friendly, accessible brand of funk rock– and the fact that the Family Band may just be the most monstrous rhythm section ever put behind the pedal steel.
"I think it's very innovative," says Prior. "He took the instrument that everybody kind of equates with country music and stuck it out front in a more bluesy, funky kind of atmosphere."
But it's not the first time the steel guitar has ventured past its typical stomping grounds. "Paul Franklin did it back in the '80s with Dire Straits, and David Lindley played a lap steel on Jackson Browne records," Prior continues. "It isn't the same style, but the argument came because people were saying that Robert was the first person to play rock on a steel guitar, and that's not even close to true."
Steel guitars have also been used in swing and traditional Hawaiian music. More recently, Ben Harper brought the lap steel back into the spotlight on a number of successful activist hippie rock records. Randolph is proof positive that there's more to this instrument than meets the eye.
"Robert is a challenge because he fits into so many different genres– gospel, funk, rock, jamband, and country," says Flohr, "not to mention the guy on stage– it's a party."
Indeed, Randolph seems to wear his trademark fedora just so he can fling it across the stage in convulsive improvisatory fits. His head bobs wildly, inevitably building to a full-fledged boogie attack during which his chair gets kicked away like stray cigarette butt.
"I ache a lot," says Randolph, lying atop a table in the Red Light Management conference room. "My back is killing me right now from playing shows, because I get wild and rowdy."
Will Anderson, lead vocalist for Sparky's Flaw, opened for Randolph at UVA's annual Springfest concert in April 2005, and was instantly hooked. "The steel guitar is just standing there," says Anderson, "but he's running circles around it."
Against all odds, Randolph is a remarkably engaging stage presence, and therein lies his most indisputable claim to fame: he's the first musician in history to play frontman while wielding this traditionally second-banana instrument, and he does so with enough panache to command even the most demanding spotlights. Like the Grammys, for example, where the Family Band played two months ago.
The distant melancholy of Dire Straits was an appropriate home for more traditional steel licks, but the Family Band has a groove as crushingly danceable as anybody on the market these days– in other words, not too far removed from the funky exploits of Sly and the Family Stone, to whom Randolph dedicated his tribute performance at the Grammy Awards in February.
"Not a week goes by that I don't listen to Sly and the Family Stone," says Randolph. Given the soul and funk flavors of the Family Band, that much is obvious. But some of the influences he cites are more surprising, and even further detached from pedal steel tradition: AC/DC, Aerosmith, Rage Against The Machine. Led Zeppelin.
"Zeppelin, to me, is the greatest band of all time. I get into arguments over that a lot," says Randolph, juggling a few other rock and metal favorites in the same breath. "But you can't win a battle with the Slayer kids."
The lasting legacy of the Family Band may eventually prove to be the reintroduction of a marginalized instrument to a mainstream that was inclined to ignore it– or forget about it outright, depending on who you ask.
"Randolph brings it to a whole new audience that doesn't even know what it is," says Charlotte-based pedal steeler Joe Smith. "I've played gigs where people think it's a keyboard."
Nevertheless, the reception from other pedal steel players is not always so warm. Many seem to be thrilled about the exposure he's giving the instrument, but there are also those who want to see it represented by music more typical of its Americana roots.
"There are a lot of idiots who will say, 'He's not playing country, I won't even listen to that,'" says Prior. "That's just ignorance."
"A lot of those guys in Nashville hate my guts," says an emphatically disappointed Randolph. "All these redneck dudes calling me every name in the book."
But that tension may help explain why Randolph has succeeded where 50 years of other players have failed. He's disconnected from the conventions of genre because he doesn't hail from the same lineage as the rest of the steel guitar world. Randolph got his start playing a unique brand of gospel called "Sacred Steel" in predominantly black churches.
"I started to get into playing pedal steel guitar when I was about 15 or 16," he recalls. "I wasn't serious about it at first. When I did get serious, I was only serious about wanting to be a really good church player, and nothing more than that."
Now, he's not only accomplished more, he's created something entirely his own. If the meaning of the pedal steel guitar changes in the next few decades, history will likely remember Randolph as the instigator. "With any instrument, it has to change," he says. "Look at Miles Davis, look at Hendrix."
Whether that will happen is anybody's guess; after all, his current success is testimony to the fact that he's still unique. But that may not be the case for long: he says he can see a growing interest in the pedal steel in the next generation of musicians, largely as a result of his work.
"There are a lot of them. I get emails all the time, so many that I can't even answer," he says. "You'll see in the next five or ten years, some wizard coming up."
Maybe so. But in the meantime, even the established artists are taking notice.
"I was listening to the sacred steel stuff before Robert hit," says Derek Trucks, himself a revered bottleneck slide player with the Allman Brothers Band. "It's nice to see a younger guy."
There's a local analogue to this, too: about a decade ago, the Dave Matthews Band brought the electric violin to mainstream rock audiences. And then, two years ago, there was Sean Macklin of Yellowcard prancing around with one on the Warped tour, playing to hordes of suburban tweens.
It's April 2 in Charlottesville, and the last remaining Trucks fans are beginning to wander away after his concert at Starr Hill Music Hall. Randolph is downstairs at the bar throwing back tequila shots when he's approached by an inquisitive fan.
"Aren't you Robert Randolph?" asks the admirer.
"Who's that?" answers Randolph, stifling a small smile. "I got a little shudder when you walked in," says one of the concertgoer's disappointed friends.
How many other pedal steel players have to pull that one?
Vijith Assar is the music editor of the Hook.
Robert Randolph hammers his pedal steel guitar
"All these guys had some kind of say in the next record. Dave, Boyd, Carter... they all had input."–Robert Randolph
"With any instrument, it has to change. Look at Miles Davis, look at Hendrix."–Robert Randolph
"A lot of those guys in Nashville hate my guts. All these redneck dudes calling me every name in the book. I don't pay any attention."–Robert Randolph
Robert Randolph & the Family Band played two nights at Starr Hill back in 2001. They'll play here again April 20 at the Charlottesville Pavilion [There was an error in the printed version of this caption; it has been corrected in this online version.]
Jason Crosby (organ and violin), Danyel Morgan (bass), Robert Randolph, and Marcus Randolph (drums)
SIDEBAR: Big time: Robert Randolphs family affair
The Hook: You're pretty wild on stage. Were your performances at church that... enthusiastic?
Robert Randolph: No way, you can't goof off like that in church. But when the crowd is rocking, it gets good, and you just want to move. It might be a spiritual thing. It sucks because I'm sitting down playing. I'm playing a lot more regular guitar at shows, too. Sometimes I get carried away and do five straight songs on guitar, and people will be screaming, "Please, can we get the pedal steel?" And I'll be like, "No!" regular guitar is so much fun.
The Hook: Yeah, you used bona fide distorted rock guitar for the first time on "Thrill Of It." I'm also noticing overdubbed parts on "Deliver Me." I don't recall hearing that on the last few records. Is that a new thing?
Robert Randolph: No, we've done that before. That's the thing about technology today– you can do that. Sometimes you can't replace the moment of you in the studio playing it live, but if you want different flavors, you can do that. Overdubbing is kind of a thing where you get lazy. Zeppelin used to have to rehearse a tune 50 times before it was recorded. Now you can say, "Let's just put it down. Let's make it as good as we can make it, and then go back and fix it up."
The Hook: Right, but I'm talking about the parts where there are multiple steel guitar lines going on at once. Is that new?
Robert Randolph: Oh, yeah. You try to open up different doors and you hear new harmonies.
The Hook: Is "Stronger" the first time you've stepped into the traditional country role of the pedal steel guitar?
Robert Randolph: I guess so. I don't really know what traditional is. I didn't really grow up listening to that.
The Hook: Why was Leela James the right choice for that song?
Robert Randolph: You know, we had Leela James do it, but when I wrote that song, I was actually thinking about doing a collaboration with Kenny Chesney.
The Hook: How did things work with Clapton when you brought him in for your cover of the Doobie Brothers' "Jesus Is Just Alright?"
Robert Randolph: It's me and Clapton going neck and neck– like, "Let's see what you've got." "No, let's see what you've got." We rehearsed it once, twice, so it's got that energy on it and whatnot. We had toured with him and played with him so much... just backstage jamming. When I met Eric Clapton, I had to tell him, "You know, I've never really listened to a whole CD of yours, ever." It's one of those songs where you hear the whole record, and you kind of feel religious, and you kind of feel like going to party.
The Hook: Are you out to do a more vocal-oriented album here?
Robert Randolph: I write songs and come up with melodies, and sometimes I'm not even sure I can sing them. I come from a whole family of singers. Talking to Clapton and Steven Tyler, all these guys say, "Focus on the songs, and you'll have a long career." The first time you hooked up with someone, you remember what song was playing. You don't remember the solo.
The Hook: Danyel's a very capable singer.
Robert Randolph: Yeah, Danyel has been singing since he's eight, man. I've been singing since I was 22.
The Hook: So if you were having trouble, why not just pass those duties to him?
Robert Randolph: Danyel only feels comfortable singing high falsetto. Me, I don't care. He sounds great singing anything, but singing is about feeling comfortable. It's like when you see a hot girl and want to hit on her– you know you've got the words, you know you can say it, but you think you sound corny doing it.
The Hook: You make a big deal about the fact that this is a family affair. How does that affect the music?
Robert Randolph: I could get any of my other brothers or a cousin or whatever and just throw them up on stage and they'd know what to do, because that's just how we do. It's like the Detroit Pistons– they've been together for a while now, the same starting five, so they know who everybody is.
The Hook: Which of the many producers was your favorite? If you had to make an entire record with one of them.
Robert Randolph: Oh, man. You know, I don't have a favorite. To tell you the truth, I wouldn't want to make one whole record with one producer. Unless it's Rick Rubin, because he's just the man. But Mark Batson is great. We could do a whole other record with him. Tommy Sims is one of the greatest musical minds out there. He's going to be huge in the next five years. He's nuts, just on a different planet musically. It's like he can become anyone he wants. Who's that X-man that can become anyone, with the blue skin? Mystique. Yeah, that's Tommy Sims right there.


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Shapleigh's Boston Post Cane holder, Florence Stanley, passed away on Friday, Nov. 16, at the age of 98. The town presented Florence with the cane during Shapleigh Community Day at Shapleigh Commons on July 21 of this year.
At the presentation ceremony, Florence was accompanied by Melanie Smith, with whom she was residing. Florence was at the zenith of her life; she was a delightful woman who had attained the rank of the oldest resident in town by virtue of her years. Selectmen Michael S. Perro, Mark R. Cobb, and Ruth S. Ham greeted Florence, presented her with a bouquet of fresh flowers, a commemorative personalized certificate and the Boston Post Cane.
Recipients are holders of the cane during their lifetime, after which the cane is returned to Shapleigh's selectmen to be presented to the next oldest resident in town.
The Maine State Treasurer has a website that lists the names and towns of individuals for whom the state is holding unclaimed funds. Several hundred residents now or formerly of Shapleigh are listed there. If you wish to see if your name is on the list, go to Maine.gov and click on "Agencies" and then "Treasurer."
Failure to claim what is yours will result in those monies being retained by the State of Maine for its own use after the period of redemption by law has expired.
What should the town call the 300 acres of pristine, undeveloped land that Roger Williams presented as a gift to Shapleigh and Town Meeting members accepted in 2011?
The Williams' Property Advisory Committee — comprised of Madge Baker, Mark Cobb, Nathan Gallant, Richard Goodwin, Michael Roux and William Sleight — has been pondering that very question.
Any Shapleigh resident with suggestions can complete a form at the Shapleigh Town Hall and place it in the slotted box. In the coming weeks, the suggestions will be reviewed and an official name will be determined.
In other news, the Boy Scouts of Troop 321 are working on a project to refurbish the benches that were previously at the Shapleigh Commons and to relocate them at various points along the trails of the Williams' property.
The advisory committee is considering placing the Williams property under a conservation easement with the Three Rivers Land Trust to assure the land will never be developed but will remain open space into perpetuity. The land is intended as a place where the beauty of nature can be found and peace and solitude can reign — a place where folks can connect to the land, glide on cross-country skis in February, and more.
To date, the committee has been working on determining the cost of maintaining the property, keeping the fields open, managing the growth of trees as needed, and suggesting the permitted uses to which the land can be put. Obviously, the need for funds for maintenance would be most palatable if it did not come from tax revenue; therefore, some consideration is being given to breaking off a house lot on the County Road section and placing the proceeds of the sale in a reserve fund for such maintenance as may be needed. There is also some consideration being given to adding the 22-acre parcel, shown as Tax Map 6, Lot 42, to the Williams parcel since in the future it would be beneficial for providing a parking area for those who wish to use the trails. No motorized vehicles are allowed within the gated area. Hiking and cross-country skiing are two seasonal activities which have been done in the past and will most likely continue.
A group of friends have been getting together for some time now to play guitars and to sing songs, most of which have been composed by local resident Ed Stubbs. It all started with a song that Ed wrote several years ago after he passed by the church at Ross Corner in Shapleigh. Ed has sung that song many times at various churches and venues, often accompanied by others.
One day, while sitting on a porch, Ed and the group were recording some of their songs to use for critiquing and improving them during a practice session. The idea came to them that they could record their songs and perhaps even sell some of them. The group consists of Ed Stubbs, who plays acoustic guitar and provides vocals; Roger Grondin, who plays lead guitar; Debbie Doe, who plays bass guitar; Russ Creteau, a vocal harmonist; and Gary Green, who plays backup guitar. After exploring the possibilities, they were able to sign a contract to produce 12 songs a year.
Songs included on their first recording, entitled "From the Heart," include the following: "Lord's Prayer," "Equity," "Whatever Your Cross," "Little Church on the Hill," "I Hope You Know Jesus," "Fourth of July," "He Cares When We're Lonely," "My Jesus, I Love Thee," "God Sent Jesus," "The Devil's Cheatin' Heart" and "I Am the Reason."
All the songs and melodies have been composed by Ed Stubbs. The "Fourth of July" lyrics were written by Joyce Johnson. The lyrics for "My Jesus I Love Thee" were written by R. Featherstone (1862). The "I Am the Reason" lyrics were written by Cara BoIsse.
For more information, contact Ed Stubbs at 793-2642.
Amanda Rizner, DVM, has applied to the Shapleigh Planning Board for a Conditional Use Permit to provide veterinary services at 14 Newfield Road, which is commercial property owned by Gordon and Anne Cutten.
Dr. Rizner and her husband, Todd Chrisman, attended the board's Nov. 13 meeting and provided a comprehensive summary and business plan for what she is proposing. Dr. Rizner stated she presently wants to open a small-animal, single-veterinarian practice. She also has experience working on horses, and she is a licensed chiropractor.
Dr. Rizner is planning to offer general medicine, surgery, and wellness visits. She intends to pursue her acupuncture certification in the springtime. She plans to provide both traditional and non-traditional medicine. At the planners' meeting, Chrisman indicated that there is a pair of buildings at 14 Newfield Road near Ross Corner Church. He stated the interior of the larger building would be the vet hospital and the smaller would be an employee break room. Dr. Rizner and Chrisman plan for their office to be open regular hours Monday through Friday, with a half-day on Saturday. Emergency appointments would be available, 24/7.
Dr. Rizner has been practicing for 10 years. She is currently working at the emergency clinic in Manchester, New Hampshire, and worked in Arundel for several years. She and Chrisman are Shapleigh residents, who purchased the Robinson property several years ago.
Boston Post Cane holder Florence Stanley passes away
Shapleigh's Boston Post Cane holder, Florence Stanley, passed away on Friday, Nov. 16, at the age of 98. The town presented Florence with the cane during Shapleigh Community Day at Shapleigh Commons on July 21 of this year.


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The weather was near perfect too, dry and sunny, so the spectator numbers were particularly high which kept us all very busy from setting up at 06.30 to knocking down again at 17.30 on both days. Apart from providing some great drifting, accompanied by our resident DJ and regular commentators and judges, we also had the pleasure of answering endless questions from the often stunned audiences, most popular of which was (of course) 'where can I buy one of those and how much are they?'. The HPI banners were much in evidence so it was easy to suggest they visit the HPI website but it didn't end there, with the inevitable 'can I have a go?'. We really must get a couple of more robust and budget Sprints or E10s to hand - a project for the future maybe. Apart from the impressive looking formation drifting sessions, we ran four competitions over the weekend, qualifying and finals, and the HPI Cyclone TC proved a winner, taking 3 of the 4 wins, two in the hands of Ben Moore and one down to myself, the other win going to a multi-brand hybrid special of Tom Walton, all going home with a HPI prize. HPI prizes were also won by 'Man of the Meet', Richard Lincoln-Smith who went that extra mile helping out over the weekend. Given the dominance of the Cyclone TC at the season opening D1RC Shakedown at Colchester just a couple of weeks ago in the hands of HPI driver Pete Gray, it looks as though it could be another good year for the HPI drivers - though I shouldn't speak too soon! Round 1 of the D1RC National Drift Series will be at Colchester on 8 May but we will be displaying at Oulton Park for the Modified Live European Drift Championship and Time Attack event on 24 April, full details of which can be found on the D1RC forums at DRCCentral.com/forums. So from me, John Turner and the team, hope to see you there!


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Jessie Oleson (aka Cakespy) drops by every Monday to share a delicious dessert recipe. —The Mgmt.
If you really want to see something horrifying this Halloween season, try shipping a cupcake. Trust me, it's not pretty.
However, if you want to share some sweetness with friends and family who may be far away, there is a solution: bake your cakes in jars. Yup, that's right: bake up some delicious pumpkin cake directly in jars for contained, easy-to-ship parcels which can be topped with whipped cream or frosting when they've reached their destination, making for a sweet and thoughtful treat.
Note: You can choose your own adventure when it comes to the size of your jars. I tried a variety, including 8-ounce, pint-sized, and even baby food jars (smaller jars will require less baking time). The key is to choose jars with a fairly wide mouth, so that the cake will be easy to scoop out with a spoon when it's time to eat.
When it comes to frosting or whipped cream topping, I don't suggest topping the cakes before shipping, but you can frost or top them and then put the lids on for short-term transit (for instance, if they're packed in a lunch).
- Yield:8 to 24, depending on jar size
- 2/3 cup butter, at room temperature
- 1 1/4 cups granulated sugar
- 1 1/4 cups brown sugar, packed
- 4 eggs
- 2 cups fresh or canned pumpkin
- 2/3 cup water
- 3 cups flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
- 1 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon allspice
- 1 cup chopped walnuts (optional)
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The Imagine No Religion conference in Kamloops had darn well better be good (OK, it will be), because it's scheduled for the very same day as the Women in Secularism conference — and every time I look at the speakers' list, I want to go.
"It is a clash between a mentality that belongs to the Middle Ages and another that belongs to the twenty-first century."
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You are all aware that, while the speakers are all women, men are allowed and encouraged to attend and contribute, right? And that the topics are all relevant to every human being on the planet, not just the ones with vaginas? It's just that women are in the forefront of the conflict with the patriarchal religions that have poisoned our cultures for centuries, and it's about time they had a forum to tell their stories.
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(Vatican Radio) Those who approach the Church should find the doors open and not find people who want to control the faith. This is what the Pope said this morning during Mass in the Casa Santa Marta.
The day's Gospel tells us that Jesus rebukes the disciples who seek to remove children that people bring to the Lord to bless. "Jesus embraces them, kisses them, touches them, all of them. It tires Jesus and his disciples "want it to stop". Jesus is indignant: "Jesus got angry, sometimes." And he says: "Let them come to me, do not hinder them. For the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these." "The faith of the People of God – observes the Pope - is a simple faith, a faith that is perhaps without much theology, but it has an inward theology that is not wrong, because the Spirit is behind it." The Pope mentions Vatican I and Vatican II, where it is said that "the holy people of God ... cannot err in matters of belief" (Lumen Gentium). And to explain this theological formulation he adds: "If you want to know who Mary is go to the theologian and he will tell you exactly who Mary is. But if you want to know how to love Mary go to the People of God who teach it better. " The people of God - continued the Pope - "are always asking for something closer to Jesus, they are sometimes a bit 'insistent in this. But it is the insistence of those who believe ":
"I remember once, coming out of the city of Salta, on the patronal feast, there was a humble lady who asked for a priest's blessing. The priest said, 'All right, but you were at the Mass' and explained the whole theology of blessing in the church. You did well: 'Ah, thank you father, yes father,' said the woman. When the priest had gone, the woman turned to another priest: 'Give me your blessing!'. All these words did not register with her, because she had another necessity: the need to be touched by the Lord. That is the faith that we always look for , this is the faith that brings the Holy Spirit. We must facilitate it, make it grow, help it grow. "
The Pope also mentioned the story of the blind man of Jericho, who was rebuked by the disciples because he cried to the Lord, "Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!"
"The Gospel says that they didn't want him to shout, they wanted him not to shout but he wanted to shout more, why? Because he had faith in Jesus! The Holy Spirit had put faith in his heart. And they said, 'No, you cannot do this! You don't shout to the Lord. Protocol does not allow it. And 'the second Person of the Trinity! Look what you do... 'as if they were saying that, right? ".
And think about the attitude of many Christians:
"Think of the good Christians, with good will, we think about the parish secretary, a secretary of the parish ... 'Good evening, good morning, the two of us - boyfriend and girlfriend - we want to get married'. And instead of saying, 'That's great!'. They say, 'Oh, well, have a seat. If you want the Mass, it costs a lot ... '. This, instead of receiving a good welcome- It is a good thing to get married! '- But instead they get this response:' Do you have the certificate of baptism, all right ... '. And they find a closed door. When this Christian and that Christian has the ability to open a door, thanking God for this fact of a new marriage ... We are many times controllers of faith, instead of becoming facilitators of the faith of the people. "
And 'there is always a temptation - said the Pope - "try and take possession of the Lord." And he tells another story:
"Think about a single mother who goes to church, in the parish and to the secretary she says: 'I want my child baptized'. And then this Christian, this Christian says: 'No, you cannot because you're not married!'. But look, this girl who had the courage to carry her pregnancy and not to return her son to the sender, what is it? A closed door! This is not zeal! It is far from the Lord! It does not open doors! And so when we are on this street, have this attitude, we do not do good to people, the people, the People of God, but Jesus instituted the seven sacraments with this attitude and we are establishing the eighth: the sacrament of pastoral customs! ".
"Jesus is indignant when he sees these things" - said the Pope - because those who suffer are "his faithful people, the people that he loves so much"
"We think today of Jesus, who always wants us all to be closer to Him, we think of the Holy People of God, a simple people, who want to get closer to Jesus and we think of so many Christians of goodwill who are wrong and that instead of opening a door they close the door of goodwill ... So we ask the Lord that all those who come to the Church find the doors open, find the doors open, open to meet this love of Jesus. We ask this grace. " Listen to Lydia O'Kane report
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Just because it's easy to shoot fish in a barrel doesn't mean it's not fun. With "Celebrity Autobiography: In Their Own Words," creator (and participant) Eugene Pack, Rachel Dratch and a full complement of New York's funniest read excerpts from, yes, celebrity autobiographies, aiming at barn door-sized targets from Burt Reynolds to Ivana Trump. Some bits are cleverer than others — a dramatic reading from Mr. T's memoirs is handicapped by the suspicion that the man himself probably gets the joke — but overall, the performers seem to have had no trouble finding personal reflections both awesome and hilarious in their self-indulgence.
"I will be reading from the early poems of Suzanne Somers," beams Andrea Martin, mysteriously omitting the "if you don't do what I say" that usually follows this declaration. Sure enough, the verses are everything you could have hoped or feared: "If anyone has any extra love/Even a heartbeat/Or a touch or two/I wish they wouldn't waste it on dogs."
Eat it, Elizabeth Bishop.
Somers is probably the worst stylistic offender, but she's hardly the looniest. There's Neil Sedaka, for instance, who lists everything he ever ate in one memorable section (amusingly dragged out by Pack himself), and there's noted woman of letters Star Jones, who confuses even reader Bruce Vilanch with her geographically uncertain tales of "downtown Hollywood."
As one might suspect, given the Vilanch/Jones pairing, a lot of this show works because none of the hapless writers' self-portraits look much like the actors giving them life. Will Forte milks the disparity for all it's worth as Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee, earnestly explaining that Heather Locklear "wasn't the kind of chick I could take back to the van like Bullwinkle, or have group sex with like Honey." Locklear wanted a bad boy, explains the clean-shaven, happy-looking Forte, who reads the f-word like he's afraid his mother will hear.
In fact, "Celebrity Autobiography" works best when the jokes are on the performers as well as the writers. Martin really appears to be enjoying Somers' awful poetry, Forte really looks uncomfortable describing Tommy Lee's sex life, and when Dayle Reyfel frankly claims Marilu Henner's lust for Danny DeVito as her own, audience members start to hyperventilate.
The show climaxes with a couple of dueling banjos-style movie-star breakups, as the actors read from competing accounts published in different vanity projects, including Burt Reynolds' "My Life," Reynolds' former flame Loni Anderson's "My Life in High Heels," and Reynolds' P.A. Elaine Blake Hall's "Burt and Me: My Days and Nights With Burt Reynolds." Is there anyone who hasn't published an autobiography?
"Celebrity Autobiography" lives or dies on the strength of its performances, none of which can come from anyone too well known. So Pack and his producers have kept the cast stacked with a not-too-starry, not-too-plain balance of comics, keeping a pointed emphasis on jokers who are both funny and funny-looking (sorry, Bruce).
As long as the Mondays-only show keeps talent this impressive on its weekly roster, it should lead a long and happy life.


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Be Strong
1. When the world and its temptations seem to call you by name, be strong. Be strong.
When they question ev'rything you put your faith in ev'ry day, be strong. Be strong.
And when your trials seem like they're too hard to bear,
remember someone else stands by you who's already been there.
Be strong and of good courage!
Be not afraid. Stand firm in the faith.
For the Lord will be with us wherever we go.
Be His. Be one. Be strong!
2. When the world tries to convince you to make the wrong choice, be strong. Be strong.
If in the noise that's all around you can't hear the Spirit's voice be strong. Be strong.
And when you stand for something right and stand alone,
remember someone else stands by you in our heavenly home.
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We have learned much about our bodies through old wives' tales handed down from our moms and grandmothers and even in school, but not all of it is correct. Here we look at 10 misconceptions that might surprise you.
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10. Sleepwalkers should never be woken
Sleepwalkers are often confused and/or disoriented when awakened but this is far better than the danger of injuries that are common from tripping over things, walking into dangerous areas and more. Thus, wake them gently and help them get back to bed.
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9. You will catch a cold if you go out in wet, freezing weather
Winter swimming championship in Latvia
There is no evidence to support this misconception at all. Viruses are more common in the low humidity time of winter and of course, people are gathered indoors more, so they spread easily but the only thing that going out in the cold does is perhaps lower your resistance to an infection you already have, starting some temporary sneezing and coughing.
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8. Fingernails and hair continue to grow after death
Neither continue to to grow. What does happen is that the cuticles and skin shrink after death, making it appear as if the nails and hair were lengthening.
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7. Your hair grows back thicker and darker after shaving
Shaved legs
Another falsity: Uncut hair is tapered, so doesn't appear as thick as cut hair. Also, uncut hair has more exposure to the sun, which lightens it a little, making cut hair appear darker at first.
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6. Conditioners and shampoos can cure split ends
Split ends
Not so, there are no cures for split ends beyond cutting them. Good conditioners and shampoos might help prevent them in the first place but anything purporting to heal them should be looked at with the same eye as you would look at snake oil.
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5. Men think of sex every seven seconds
James Dean
It would make it hard to concentrate on needed things such as work if this were true, so good thing it isn't. Even though there is no way of measuring this properly, studies scientists have done show this is a huge exaggeration.
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4. Different areas of the tongue taste different things
The idea that taste buds in different areas of the tongue correspond to sweet, sour, savory and salty has been floating around for decades but is false. Every area of the tongue can taste every type; the idea that there was a tongue map came from a mistranslation by a Harvard professor, of a badly written and discredited German paper.
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3. We use only 10% of our human brain
Human brain
William James, a psychologist in the 1800s, once metaphorically used the idea of 10% of the brain being all that was used at one time. This grew into the rumor that it was all the brain was overall and most of the rest was not understood or used as far as we know. Actually, the inactive neurons are just as important at any given moment as the ones actively firing at a point in time, and the 10% comes from varying areas at different times.
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2. Sugar makes children hyperactive
False! Twelve controlled, double blind trials have shown that there is absolutely no connection between children's behavior and their sugar intake. One thing was found, namely that parents rate their child's behavior as more hyper when they thought they had been given a sugary drink. "The studies included sugar from sweets, chocolate and natural sources. Even in studies of those who were considered "sensitive" to sugar, children did not behave differently after eating sugar-full or sugar-free diets," said Vreeman and Carrol who undertook the retrospective study.
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1. Warts can be caught from other animals like toads
Eyelid wart
Human warts are caused by a virus that affects only humans, the human pappiloma virus. They cannot be caught by animals with warts and certainly not by toads whose bumps are not warts but glands.
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Toad warts
As we see here, what we think we know is not always accurate! So don't worry about your child having that extra cookie, at least from a hyperactive point of view, and don't spend a lot of money on products that supposedly cure split ends!


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Three new pointers toward the Jewish future have recently been published, and caused a stir: the book on Jewish Megatrends that Rabbi Sidney Schwarz edited/compiled/wrote; the book about the neo-Hassidic community of Jewish renewal by Rabbi Shaul Magid on American Post-Judaism (a most peculiar title since it's about a new paradigm of Judaism); and the Pew survey on a generation of "non-religious" Jews.
Each of the three is valuable; each has an important lack that the others might fill.
There are two major problems in Schwarz's book. One is that it ignores the spiritual roots and spiritual flowering of the new universalist orientation of an increasing number of Jews—an orientation away from "What's good for the Jews?" to the question, "What in Judaism is or can become good for the world?"
Schwarz affirms this universalist orientation of the Jewish outlook that not only draws strongly on Jewish teachings from the past but also strongly enriches Jewish wisdom for the future. So I am startled that he did not include among the authors he invited to respond to his initial essay on this more richly universalist Judaism several of our own folks: Rabbi Michael Lerner, Rabbi Tirzah Firestone, and—full disclosure, for good or ill—me. The three of us have strongly taken into the world a Torah-rooted, spiritually nourished vision of a universalist Judaism, a world-transformative Judaism.
Yet somehow this vision of the unification of "spirit" and "politics" is missing from Schwarz' book.
The second problem with the book is that there is another blank space in its analysis of how we have gotten to this universalist place. It seems to me that the explosion of Havurah Judaism, Jewish renewal/ neo-Hassidism, feminist Judaism, Eco-Judaism, contemplative/ meditative Judaism all happened because of a series of crises in the broader world. In God's world.
The crisis was named by Martin Buber in 1921 in I and Thou and surfaced much more broadly in human and American consciousness in the 1960s and '70s. Our world shook as we questioned whether democracy could coexist alongside racism and the disempowerment of women; as we faced the Vietnam War and threats to U.S. domination of the world as well as efforts to reinforce U.S. power; as we trembled before the dangers of nuclear holocaust and the transformation of violence; as we were awed by the rise of effective nonviolence; as we began to grow concerned that the State of Israel might be transforming itself from a refuge for the desperate into an occupier of the subjugated; as we hungered for the intimate connection of human beings with each other and the Earth (adam with adamah) that had been severed, alienated, by the rise of hyper-industrialism.
All these brought forth both deeper spiritual search and deeper political exploration among Jews who began to draw on Torah in new ways to create what Reb Zalman called a "new paradigm" of Judaism.
Not only does Schwarz avoid grappling with how the bubbling social crises forty years ago led to the spiritually rooted universalist Judaism that is addressing these crises; he is silent about the boiling-over social crises of the present and future that will affect Judaisms of the next forty years. The worsening climate crisis and its threat to the web of life on our planet, together with worsening extremes of inequality in wealth and power, are already being experienced as calls to a new renewing of Judaism. Yet none of this future crisis and the "megatrends" it may create are visible in Schwarz' book. The word "climate" does not even appear.
The reverse blank-space is "visible" in Magid's book: spirituality is present but social commitment is absent. He expounds and explicates Reb Zalman's Neo-Hasidism but ignores the more sociopolitical elements of Zalman's own thought and ignores even bigger chunks of Jewish-renewal thought. For example—Michael Lerner's book actually named Jewish Renewal addresses powerfully the issues of world transformation, as do Michael's other books and his journal Tikkun—as (to repeat the triad) do Tirzah and I in our own works.
Indeed, in Magid's book there is not even a hint of the feminist and gay-positive Judaisms that have transformed "neo-Hassidism" and that were infused into the early B'nai Or/P'nai Or kallot by Barbara Breitman, Rabbi Phyllis Berman, Rabbi Julie Greenberg, and others.
Just to be clear, I don't mean only the full visibility and equality of women and of gender-minority folks. I mean changes in theology, ritual, practice, and midrash that arose and keep arising as part of the deeper meaning of feminist and gay-positive thought.
For example: the whole notion of a "field of rebbetude" beyond the traditional "Rebbe" and not restricted to a single charismatic figure but also not smoothed out into an anodyne "rabbi as facilitator" was infused into our movement by the cross-fertilization of feminist Judaisms with neo-Hassidism.
As for the third "sacred text"—the new Pew survey: it identifies a spurning of "religion" and (along with a recent study of rabbinic attitudes toward Israel) a spurning of State-of-Israel-centrism and of Shoah-centrism among many younger Jews as well as some older (even elderly!) Jews. Pew seems not to have asked questions like "Do you see yourself as a spiritual person?" alongside the "Non-Religious" category. Nor has it asked follow-up questions such as: "If so, what practices embody your spirituality? Are any of them Jewish in your awareness? Are you committed to or troubled about changes in the social definitions of gender roles and sexuality? Are your approaches to those issues related to your understandings of Jewish values? Are you concerned with the crisis in planetary life, and if so do you see this as related to Jewish values? Are you concerned with eco-kosher practice, with the Earth as Holy Temple, with organic farming as a Jewish path?"
Each of these three jagged-edge explorations of the Jewish future might be seen as pieces of a jigsaw puzzle that could with care and commitment be brought together to make a harmonious and instructive whole. But that will take a serious effort at raising the questions that each leaves unasked, and fitting the pieces together.
For more on this topic, see Arthur Waskow's piece "Jewish Environmental Ethics: Adam and Adamah," in the Oxford Handbook of Jewish Ethics and Morality (Elliot N. Dorff and Jonathan K. Crane, eds.; Oxford University Press, 2013).


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I am getting a bushel of crabs tomorrow morning for football and dont know how many people to invite over. How many people do you think would all be able to have a good amount to eat out of a bushel of crabs?
also , the crabs are mixed... not a specific size.


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Deep in the western Amazon rainforest, salt is especially scarce. It's far from the Atlantic ocean and cut off from windborne minerals by the Andes Mountains.
Carnivorous animals, like turtles, have little trouble getting enough sodium because meat contains plenty of salt. But herbivores can have a harder time. Monkeys, for example, eat dirt while parrots lick clay.
And Amazonian butterflies drink the tears of yellow-spotted river turtles.
Geoff Gallice, a graduate student of entomology at the Florida Museum of Natural History, says the butterflies can also get salt from animal urine, sweaty clothes and even sweaty people.
Scientists aren't clear whether the drinking butterflies help or harm the turtles, saying their vision could be impeded, but noting that they don't seem to mind.
Bees also like to drink turtle tears, but bees seem to annoy the turtles more than butterflies with all their buzzing.
Scientists plan to test the turtle tears to see if there are any other minerals and nutrients the butterflies are lapping up.


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The more I learn about the many ways a good broth/stock can improve my health, the more excited I am to share this information with you, as well as the proper way to prepare a stock (your next Monday Mission). Plus, it's really yummy!
Homemade vs. Store Chicken Stock
Before I even begin sharing the facts, it's important that you understand we're not talking Swanson here. The food industry has all but taken the nutrition out of broth by cutting corners and adding…well, additives. Fake food. Here's an example to prove my point: if you Google search "health benefits chicken stock", your results are just that.
You'll learn what is in chicken stock that will make you healthy. If you then click on a recommended search "chicken broth nutritional value" you get sites detailing the calories, carbs, fat etcetera in various chicken broths. You get numbers. The food industry loves to slap a number on everything instead of explaining exactly what you're eating.
I don't know about you, but I'm pretty confused about what to DO with all those numbers. I'm ready for someone to tell me how to make something healthy and then put it in my body. Maybe tell me how it will help me. But don't make me do math! (The difference between "stock" and "broth", by the way, isn't much. They are often used interchangeably, but sometimes "broth" means made from meat and vegetables, while "stock" always includes the bones. From here on out, I'll use stock, because it's the bones that make the meal, as you'll soon learn.)
What do I Get Out of Chicken Stock?
The health benefits are incredible, really. Here are just some of the advantages to preparing homemade stock:
- Boosts immune system
- Aids digestion
- Increases efficiency of protein use
Provides easily digestible minerals, including calciumSee the update on minerals that I learned in this post… 🙁
- Can improve symptoms of: joint pain, common cold, peptic ulcers, tuberculosis, diabetes, muscle diseases, infectious diseases, jaundice, cancer, food allergies, colic, maldigestion, inflammatory bowel disease, osteoporosis, pain and inflammation, cramps, muscle spasms, delusions, depression, insomnia, irritability, hyperactivity, anxiety, palpitations, hypertension, high cholesterol, allergies….
(This is starting to feel like a list on a "too-good-to-be-true" supplement infomercial. I'll stop listing them…but aren't you amazed?)
What makes Chicken Broth so great?
The components of a healthy stock mostly come from the bones. In a properly prepared stock, the bones are allowed to sit in water with a bit of vinegar for an hour or so before heating. Have you ever done the experiment where you put an egg in vinegar, and after a while the shell gets completely soft? The vinegar, an acid, acts like our stomach acid and breaks down the calcium in the egg shell.
In a stock, this calcium and other minerals from the bones are transferred directly to the water (which becomes broth/stock), and therefore into you. The best part is that it's a more easily assimilated form of all the minerals than many other sources, including your supplements.
Nutrition found in bone stocks:
Calcium Magnesium (use the coupon KS10 for 10% off!) Phosphorus Other trace minerals
- Gelatin (use the coupon KS10 for 10% off!)
- Collagen (use the coupon KS10 for 10% off!)
- Glycine
- Well, isn't this sad…bloggers all over shared the "mineral-rich" part of bone broth, but it's not even true. 🙁 See the update here – but some great news on protein too!
- Added: great source of protein!
Here are some of our favorite benefits of bone broth!
Happy Feet: Benefits of Gelatin
A good broth/stock will congeal as it cools because of the presence of gelatin, found in cartilage and connective tissue in the bones. The best parts of the animal to include in your stock are heads, feet, knuckles and skin. (That's why we're tackling chicken stock, not beef!) Gelatin has a long list of health benefits, including:
- aids digestion, especially of milk, meat, beans and grains
- "protein sparer" – helps our body use the protein from meat most efficiently
- improves treatment of peptic ulcers, tuberculosis, diabetes, muscle diseases, infectious diseases, jaundice and cancer
- treats malnutrition and improves bone density
Short cuts on process equal short on nutrition.
Bouillon cubes have no gelatin, and canned broths have no standard that says they have to use the vinegar soak, or even use bones at all. They may impart great flavor and taste (MSGs, anyone?) to your meal, but they won't aid in digestion.
They won't build immunity against colds, either! The old Jewish grandmother's chicken soup remedy has real research behind it – and the aid is actually in the fat. Those yellow globules floating in your soup (that I always used to avoid like the plague) carry immunity defense to rival the best over-the-counter pill you can get. "When it is considered that 80% of the immune system lines the gastrointestinal tract, the role of cartilage gains importance, since it can nourish both the gut and the immune system." Source
Unfortunately, many caged chickens (what you buy in the grocery store) have little gelatin because of their lack of exercise. You can tell if your stock has good gelatin content if it gels after cooling. Mine used to struggle, but now I know how to make bone broth with serious gel. Amazing! You can find allll my best tips for making homemade stock in one handy place: The Encyclopedia of Chicken Stock
Making homemade stock is super easy and something I do all the time, even when I was in labor with my 3rd child (for real), but if you are still intimidated by it, good news: You can purchase gelatin and collagen that has almost all the health benefits of stock, especially those for hair, nails, skin and joints.
If you're interested in more information, please go on to read the excerpts below from two great sources. If you're interest is piqued and you can't wait to see an example of how to make a good stock, please come back Monday for your mission (plus a cute picture of "Daughter-in-Pot")!
RELATED: Homemade gelatin recipes.
Looking for other Food for Thought?
Quoted information on Stock
"Stock contains minerals in a form the body can absorb easily-not just calcium but also magnesium, phosphorus, silicon, sulphur and trace minerals. It contains the broken down material from cartilage and tendons–stuff like chondroitin sulphates and glucosamine, now sold as expensive supplements for arthritis and joint pain." Broth is Beautiful UPDATE: Apparently the published broth book by Sally Fallon says the opposite about minerals. 🙁
Everything below is from here:
"Gelatin (broth) can be considered for use in the following conditions: food allergies, dairy maldigestion, colic, bean maldigestion, meat maldigestion, grain maldigestion, hypochlorhydria, hyperacidity (gastroesophageal reflux, gastritis, ulcer, hiatal hernia) inflammatory bowel disease (Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis), irritable bowel syndrome, leaky gut syndrome, malnutrition, weight loss, muscle wasting, cancer, osteoporosis, calcium deficiency and anemia."
"Collagen (broth) can be considered for use in the following conditions: poor wound healing, soft tissue injury (including surgery), cartilage and bone injury (including dental degeneration)."
"Glycine (broth) can be considered for use in the following conditions: anemia, fatigue, detoxification, blood sugar dysregulation, muscle wasting, wound healing, pregnancy, infant and childhood growth, asthma, hypochlorhydria, jaundice and liver support."
"Deficiencies of minerals can be acquired, similar to vitamin deficiencies. Generally there are two ways this can happen, lack of intake in the diet, or lack of absorption in the intestines. Broth can be an excellent remedy for both of these causes of mineral deficiency because it provides easily absorbed extracted minerals, plus promotes healing of the intestinal tract."
"Calcium (broth) can be considered for use in the following deficiency signs, symptoms and conditions: pain and inflammation, cramps, muscle spasms, delusions, depression, insomnia, irritability, hyperactivity, anxiety, palpitations, hypertension, high cholesterol, allergies, brittle nails, periodontal and dental disease, pica, rickets, osteomalacia, osteoporosis and any situation that creates bone loss such as aging, immobilization, postmenopause, and caffeine, tobacco, and alcohol use."
"Phosphorus (broth) can be considered for use in the following phosphorus deficiency signs, symptoms and conditions: decreased attention span, fatigue, weakness, muscle weakness, celiac or sprue disease, rickets, osteomalacia, primary hyperparathyroidism and seizures."
"Magnesium (broth) can be considered for use in the following magnesium deficiency signs, symptoms and conditions: loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, fatigue, nervousness, anxiety, restlessness, confusion, hyperactivity, insomnia, muscular irritability and weakness, allergies, immunodepression, kidney stones and heart attack."
"Broth can be thought of as a protein supplement, and a calcium supplement. The chemical ingredients extracted from broth are glycine and proline (collagen/gelatin), calcium and phosphorus (minerals), hyaluronic acid and chondroitin sulfate (GAGs), and other minerals, amino acids and GAGs in smaller amounts."


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As the tragic news of the tornado near Oklahoma City keeps pouring in, the prayers from country stars keep pouring out. Artists are on Twitter and Facebook sending out condolences — and getting the word out about ways we can all help — to everyone affected by the devastating storms on Monday (May 20).
Miranda Lambert, who lives about two hours south of where the tornado hit, was one of the first to tweet her simple thoughts: "Pray. That's all we can do. Pray for peace for Oklahoma." Her husband, Oklahoma native Blake Shelton, had completed a flight to the West Coast when he heard of the tragedy. "Just landed in LA and hearing about all the tornados in Oklahoma right now," he tweeted. "Get somewhere safe!!!"
Other Oklahoma natives offered messages.
"All my prayers go out to the folks in Oklahoma dealing with these tornados," Reba McEntire wrote. "Stay safe everyone!!!!"
"Hometown got hit for the gazillionth time," Toby Keith observed. "Rise again Moore, Oklahoma. Godspeed. Prayin — T."
Carrie Underwood took two tweets to share her concern.
"Growing up in tornado alley, you always know what could happen," she tweeted. "It doesn't change how devastating it is when something does happen. #pray." She later wrote, "I'm thinking about and praying for my beautiful home state and the people in it tonight."
Other stars who have sent out thoughts and prayers:
Dierks Bentley: "heart goes out to the folks in moore and oklahoma. #prayforoklahoma."
Sara Evans: "Oh Dear Lord! My heart is broken for Oklahoma! I'm praying for you. Words cannot even begin to say how sorry I am for you."
Darius Rucker: "Everybody pray for and do what u can for the folks in Oklahoma."
Ronnie Dunn: "We got out just before it hit. Those poor people. We will help when and where we can."
Martina McBride: "Watching this Oklahoma footage. So sad and scary. #prayersforoklahoma"
Joe Don Rooney: "My thoughts & prayers are with my home state of Oklahoma. May God's love & grace be with all affected by these horrible storms."
Willie Nelson: "Add'l ways to help & donate to OK text STORM to 80888 for Salvation Army REDCROSS to 90999 FOOD to 32333 for Regional Food Bank #OKTornado."


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