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A look at Miami Heat's next challenge — the James Harden-led Rockets and their prolific offense
MIAMI — The NBA schedule shows no mercy.
That's why the Heat (11-30) — in the middle of a four-game losing streak and a stretch that's included 13 losses in 15 games — are now moving on to face the Rockets (32-11) and their prolific offense on Tuesday at AmericanAirlines Arena.
Houston has already made 644 3-pointers, which is the highest total in NBA history through the first 43 games of a season. The previous high through 43 games was 550 by Golden State last season, when the Warriors set the NBA single-season record for 3-pointers made that the Rockets should break easily at this pace.
Houston has also attempted 1,719 3-pointers this season, which is the highest total in NBA history through the first 43 games of a season. In fact, the Rockets have shot 392 more 3-pointers than the team with the second-highest total — Brooklyn — this season.
[Heat granted extra roster spot under hardship rule with plan to use it to sign Okaro White]
[Check out who Erik Spoelstra picks for his Dream 3-on-3 Team of retired Heat players]
All of these historic numbers are happening in Mike D'Antoni's first season as Houston's head coach. Coincidence? Definitely not.
"I think it's a perfect marriage for an organization with Mike and then the players they have," Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said after Monday's practice. "You've seen the results of that. Everybody is on the same page. There's no differing motives.
"When organizations get on the same page like that, it's sweet music. It's much more elusive and it's hard to find in this league. It doesn't matter what style or how you want to play or what kind of shots you want to get or what kind of defense. It's more important having a culture, having a system, a staff, a management and players that all believe in it. And that's what they've found."
The combination of D'Antoni's revolutionary pace-and-space style and the Rockets' numbers-driven philosophy that calls for taking as many shots as possible at the rim or from 3-point range has produced one of the most unique and dangerous offenses in NBA history.
And guard James Harden is thriving in the system. The 27-year-old is averaging 28.4 points, 8.2 rebounds and 11.7 assists per game, and he's already recorded 12 triple-doubles this season (second-most in the league behind Russell Westbrook's 20 triple-doubles).
"It's really challenging," Spoelstra said of defending Harden. "You have to make it as tough on him and the rest of them because it all works together. But you can't speed them up. It's very difficult to make him uncomfortable. He plays at his own pace and he's a basketball maestro. He sees plays one or two plays before they happen and that's probably his brilliance more than anything."
Harden ranks third in the NBA with 8.8 3-point shot attempts per game behind just his teammate Eric Gordon (9.0) and Golden State's Stephen Curry (9.5). In addition, Harden leads the NBA with 10.5 free throw attempts per game.
"He's a guy that's going to put a lot of pressure on you," Heat guard Dion Waiters said of Harden. "He's got the ball 95 percent of the time so he's a guy that likes to come down and pull up in transition, he likes to play in pick and rolls. But you can't be too aggressive when he's in pick and rolls because he's very smart in creating a foul. As soon as you touch him that slight bit, he throws his hands up and things like that and he gets the call. It's hard to defend."
But the Heat will try to find a way to defend Harden and the shooters Houston puts around him. The Rockets feature five players taking more than four 3-pointers per game this season — Gordon (9.8), Harden (8.8), Trevor Ariza (7.3), Ryan Anderson (6.9) and Patrick Beverley (4.1).
To put that into perspective, Tim Hardaway holds the Heat record for 3-pointers attempted in a single season with 590 in 1996-97. Hardaway attempted 7.3 3-pointers per game that season.
"It's not even just James, man," Waiters said of defending Houston's 3-pointers. "They can just shoot the hell out the ball. They're just coming down and shooting. You can't even run back to the paint and try to load up and then work your way back out. You got to find a man as soon as possible because if they see an open shot, even if they're 5 feet behind the three, it's going up."
The Heat just hope they aren't going in Tuesday night.
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Climate-Caused Blackouts Ahead, Warns DOE
Simply put, every source of power will be affected. Just as the climate will cause more strains placed on the power sector, e.g., from rising heat in West, the sector will be subject to numerous disruptions - the perfect storm.
Every corner of the country's energy infrastructure — oil wells, hydroelectric dams, nuclear power plants — will be stressed in coming years by more intense storms, rising seas, higher temperatures and more frequent droughts.
We don't have to wait, writes Broder. It's happening now.
The effects are already being felt, the report says. Power plants are shutting down or reducing output because of a shortage of cooling water. Barges carrying coal and oil are being delayed by low water levels in major waterways. Floods and storm surges are inundating ports, refineries, pipelines and rail yards. Powerful windstorms and raging wildfires are felling transformers and transmission lines.
Every region in the United States will be affected. In the West, "(t)he Energy Department's Argonne National Laboratory found that air conditioning demand will require 34 gigawatts of new electricity generating capacity by 2050, equivalent to the construction of 100 power plants. The cost to consumers will exceed $40 billion, the lab said."
In the Southwest, climate-caused water shortages will affect the cooling necessary for fossil fuel power plants as well as the production of hydroelectric power.
The report was overseen by Jonathan Pershing, deputy assistant secretary for climate change policy and technology. He said that "cities, states and the federal government must take steps to adapt and improve their resiliency in the face of more wicked weather."
The 82-page report (PDF) is composed of four chapters (in addition to executive summary and conclusion):
- Increasing Temperatures
- Decreasing Water Availability
- Increasing Storms, Flooding, and Sea Level Rise
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Roosevelt and Rockefeller were two of the Old New York families represented at last night's 25th Annual Winter Ball at the Museum Of The City Of New York. The guest list was a practical Who's Who of New York Socialites; the REAL "High Society".-
While some people, ahem, were downtown at SL peddling their reality shows with someone who calls himself Malik So Chic (which won't even air on Bravo but on the CW, for pete's sake!), the creme de la creme of the Upper East Side were air kissing each other hello, graciously agreeing to "alright, just one picture, but no more, please, I'm here to support The Museum", and feeling satisfied that, yet again, they'd managed to fulfill their family legacy of supporting arts and culture. If Andrew Carnegie came back from the dead to sign copies of "Gospel of Wealth", each and every one of these people would be in line at Barnes and Noble.
Real New York High Society would be loathe to appear on a reality show, hate to find their names in Page Six, and quietly go about their philanthropic endeavors without bothering to "brand" themselves. They've never been arrested, or poured champagne out of a limo, or gotten in screaming cat-fights at parties...or if they have, they're discreet about it.
Of course, if "High Society" the reality show was about New York's real "High Society", it would probably be stiff and boring, so we'll take the Tinsley Mortimer version any day. That's entertainment, and the reality is....not. But boy, have they got elegance.
Guests at the Ball included Dan Abrams, Lauren Remington Platt, Nanette Lepore, Melissa George, Amy Fine Collins, Stephanie La Cava, Alina Cho, Lydia Fenet, Badgley and Mischka, Sharon Bush, Imogen Lloyd Webber, Peter Davis (who yes, does appear in the show, but has maintained a relatively low profile about it) and Nicole Miller.


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The Unicorn Children's Foundation Clinics at Nova Southeastern University's Mailman Segal Center for Human Development provide a comprehensive spectrum of services for children and caregivers. With extensive knowledge in child development, clinicians provide expert diagnostic and treatment services to guide caregivers in obtaining the most individualized and up-to-date information. Knowing that children are different helps clinicians understand and respect the uniqueness of each child. We provide the highest level of expertise in our fields and look to caregivers to provide invaluable expertise regarding their child, creating a dedicated team to assist the child in achieving success throughout diagnosis and treatment.
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The Unicorn Children's Foundation Clinics were established through a lead gift from the Unicorn Children's Foundation, which is dedicated to helping all children with communication and learning disorders.
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A Tea Party Blind Spot
House Republicans join the ACLU to weaken antiterror defenses.
Politicians love to feed media furies, and they may do so unwisely this week if House liberals and tea-party Republicans succeed in limiting terrorist detention as part of the 2014 National Defense Authorization Act.
Washington state Democrat Adam Smith and several House Republicans are back with an amendment to prohibit any terrorist captured on U.S. soil—no matter his nationality—from arrest and interrogation by anyone except civilian law enforcement. In other words, neither the military nor CIA could hold or question any...


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Samsung's enterprise-friendly KNOX service may not have got the expected reception, according to the Wall Street Journal report. Apparently, the Korean company is facing few hurdles to sell its service to businesses with bugs and unwanted delays standing on the way.
The KNOX was officially announced at Mobile World Congress in February but the service was pre-loaded only after the launch of Galaxy Note 3.
One of the major reasons attributed to a lukewarm response is Samsung's limited experience in serving the business community. "Samsung never really had a service business. It's pretty much a device-oriented business," said one of WSJ's source.
However, the company won't abandon its plans to get enterprise customers and will invest its resources accordingly, with expectations of "large scale success in 2014." We'll see how that goes…


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Beijing: The Beijing Environmental Protection Bureau has started soliciting public opinion about its sixth-phase emissions standard, the world's strictest, due to be implemented starting December 1, 2017.
The new standard, which covers light vehicles, heavy vehicles and heavy motors, was drafted according to the world's strictest emissions standards, Xinhua quoted the bureau as saying in a statement on Friday.
Currently, vehicles in Beijing need to meet the fifth phase emissions standard, which went into effect in 2013 and is equivalent to the Euro V emissions cap.
According to the sixth phase standard, light vehicles must cut emissions by 40 percent, and heavy motors must cut emissions by 50 percent.
Research shows PM 2.5 particles, which are emitted by vehicles, make up 31 percent of total pollutants.
International practice has shown that strict emissions standards are important for cutting pollution and improving air quality, the statement said.
The bureau estimates that pollutants emitted by vehicles will be cut by as much as 30 percent by 2022.
Smog has become a major environmental issue in Beijing. The central government has ordered the city to cut PM 2.5 by 25 percent from 2012 levels by 2017.


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Grouchy Blouse (I mean Slouchy Blouse)
Added Feb 18, 2011
by wzrdreams
Brooklyn, New Yo...
This project gave me major drama. The style wants to be cute so bad (just look at that mag picture and all the cute FOs!), but it just isn't on a chesty girl like me. There is no waist shaping at all (watch out for your hips!) and the instructions are pretty worthless. I started documenting my issues almost immediately after starting the project on the pattern project page and I've pasted those comments below since I don't care enough anymore to look at this from the bright side. I've never worn this shirt since finishing it. :(
1) The fact that the instructions state the width of the seam and hem allowances, but does not mention that the allowances are not included is contradicting, misleading, and frustrating.
2) Shirt weight fabrics often, nay, USUALLY come in 45" widths, not 55" as called for on this pattern. Therefore, fabric width and requirement information is also crucial to have in the instructions (which I print out and shop with), not just on the website. In order to use 45" wide fabric you must buy MORE of it and change the cutting layout.
3) The math for the sleeve tabs is WRONG. 2.5" does not yield a 1.25" finish width if you have 5/8" seam allowances… unless they also left off the seam allowances for this non existent pattern piece.
4) The instructions for the shoulder/sleeve seam are vague and as a result, incorrect. Flat felled seams are sewn with the wrong sides together so that the fell is on the outside. This is an important fact of the technique that should not be omitted from the instruction "Stitch seam. Press seam allowances onto front." The instruction should instead say "Stitch seam with wrong sides together. Press seam allowances onto front. ETA: as a result, all my flat felled seams are inside out. It doesn't matter that much since they are consistent.
…. then I got to step 7 "the Hem, self-facings, shoulder seams" instructions and I my brain exploded. I may have had a wee tantrum in my sewing room just before I grumpily re-wrote the instructions to the amusement of another frustrated member.
Here is my translation & re-write of these instructions. I added some finishing steps that I think might be helpful.
- Stitch back neck facing to front neck facing at facing shoulder seams. Press open.
- If desired, finish (zig-zag,overlock, pinking, etc) the entire edge of the front self facings and back neck facings.
- If desired, finish the bottom hem allowance.
- Fold and Press the hem allowance to the inside, 1.8 cm (a scant 3/4 in) wide.
- Fold the front self facing along the fold line so that right sides of the fabric are facing.
- Match the neckline edge of the facing to the neckline edge of the body.
- Stitch the neckline. Stitch the bottom hem edge of the front self facing.
- Trim the seam allowances and clip the curves as needed.
- If desired, under-stitch back neck facing to the back neck SA.
- Turn facing right side out. Press neckline & CF edges.
- Turn up the rest of the body hem allowance to inside and press. Top-stitch 2 cm (3/4 in) from hem edge.
- Tack neck facing to shoulder seams.
- Top-stitch right front as marked.
Further comments:
- The sleeve tab placement doesn't work for my size. Because the underarm starts to curve and widen I can't roll up the sleeve cuff high enough to make it sit right. Unfortunately, I am too peeved at this sad sack to reposition them.
- The lack of finished length measurement: I didn't pay attention to this and have now noticed that the HPS (high point shoulder) to the bottom finished hem on the size 44 measures 30.5 inches long. That's not a blouse, that's a dress! I'm 5'10.5" and this thing comes down way past my low hip. I have hack off at least 2 inches to make this thing wearable. (Yes, I checked my 4" square)
- Another thing about this smock-sack…. while it may be "slouchy" in the shoulders, the sides falls straight to the hem. The hem is straight, not shirt tailed, and as I mentioned the length is VERY long. So if you have curvy hips like me it is important to choose a size based on your hip measurement, not your bust measurement.
ETA: The side seam construction did not match the shoulder seam construction which I thought was especially odd since the inside of the side/underarm seam is likely to show at the turned back cuff (especially if the tab is not placed well like mine), so I changed that seam to also be flat felled.
Well, my verdict is that this pattern is a cute design (perhaps a drapey fabric tucked into something waist defining), but the instructions are worthless. They make what should be an easy/beginner pattern and turn it into a science project for intermediate/experienced sewers. I say chuck the instructions and go it your own way!
Material Notes
Cotton shirting – it was pricey, and I'm sad I wasted it on this pattern even though I bought specifically for this project. I barely fit the pattern on it width wise and then ended up hacking off 2+ inches at the bottom because of the crazy length. What a waste.
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Feb 20, 2011, 10.11 AMby Eleanor Thomas
Oh, you've finally uploaded this! I'm yet to get around to doing so with mine, and the fabric I used is getting pillier and pillier, which probably brings about a timely end to this whole sorry saga! Burda would do well to incorporate your instructions, 'cause what started out as a simple project became unnecessarily complicated. I'm so glad I was working on it at the same time you were and benefited from your technical expertise. I was quite happy with the end product, with the exception of the length, underarm seam (pattern faults) and the mismatched checks and pilly cotton (my faults), but would never bother with it again. Grrr!
Feb 18, 2011, 05.56 PMby wzrdreams
Thank you all for the positive comments. I think if I was going to try this again I would definitely use a drapier fabric, and I would either change the shape of the hem to a shirt tail or add side slits.
Feb 18, 2011, 01.01 PMby stefanisarah
This shirt is one of my favorite finished objects however I second the hip problem. I don't remember if the instruction was poor but when making it I felt that the project was more difficult than the rated 1 and a half. Probably it was due to my fabric as well. I used cotton/cupra blend that is thin but has slight body. I think yours looks like the one in the magazine and is very well-made. :)
Feb 18, 2011, 08.27 AMby emily-marie
I definitely hear ya. I have a similar body type to you (tall & curvy) and love slouchiness. Well, slouchiness in theory. I usually wear fitted high waisted pants, then tuck slouchy things into them. That's exactly what I'd do with this one… but you might be right about having to using a more fluid fabric. Anyway, I've always thought this was a super cute pattern and you did a great job executing it! Thanks for all your analysis, now I might actually try it!
Feb 18, 2011, 05.25 AMby petitejosette
I think you did a very good job, considering all the troubles you had. I think it suits you very well.
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Not being familiar with Q-switches, how's it work to give you the expanded sound options? Is it the same as a pick-up selector/blender switch?
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OSHAWA, Ont. – A southern Ontario man says he will fight the $5,400 bill he got after he was rescued when he went through the ice while fishing — both for his wallet and for the principle.
It's the first such bill issued in Scugog Township and Neil Robbescheuten, a 62-year-old retired teacher, plans to fight it at a council meeting March 4.
Robbescheuten was ice fishing on Lake Scugog earlier this month when a dense fog rolled in and he became disoriented trying to find his way back to the shore.
The Oshawa man said he went through the ice in a marshy area near some bullrushes, became stuck in the mud and lost his lantern underwater.
"I honestly thought I was going to perish because I just couldn't see anything and I was stuck so badly," he said in an interview.
"If I hadn't had the bullrushes I think it would have been the end of it."
He was able to pull himself out onto a tree stump using the bullrushes while he called 911. Three firetrucks responded to rescue him and the firefighters pulled him about 150 metres to shore using a raft, he said.
The fire captain told him to expect a bill, but when the invoice arrived and he opened it, Robbescheuten was in "utter shock," he said.
"They've given me 30 days to pay, but that's not going to happen because $5,000 is not a small amount of money," he said.
Scugog Fire Chief Richard Miller said it was calculated at $500 per firetruck per hour plus the cost of the firefighters.
The weather was warm and rainy the day Robbescheuten went through the ice and local conservation authorities had issued warnings urging people to stay away from bodies of water, Miller said.
"The choice was clearly the fisherman's to go out there," he said. "My personal opinion from living here all my life is that I would not have gone on the lake."
Robbescheuten has been ice fishing there for 30 years and said he checked the ice that day and it was in line with Ministry of Natural Resources standards.
He said he's now concerned that his bill will cause other people to think twice before calling emergency services and will put people in danger.
Miller said he didn't think that would be the case.
"Anybody that calls 911 for a heart attack or a car accident, they're not going to second-guess themselves in calling it," he said.
Miller said he couldn't comment on whether that would be the case in another ice fishing situation.
"If they can get off the lake themselves then they don't have to call 911," he said. "If they're in such a situation that they're under duress and distress, I guess they're going to have to call."
Miller said while this is the first such invoice in the township, it has had the ability to issue them for years.


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Join us for a Frenzy group run on Saturday, July 19. We will leave the dog park / Military Reserve parking lot at 6 am SHARP to carpool up to the trail head at Five Mile Gulch. The early start is our attempt to beat the heat 🙂 We will begin gathering at the dog park around 5:45 am. We will need to take enough cars to accommodate all runners back to the dog park.
There are a few mileage options for this training run:
- Option 1: Three Bears/Watchman/Five Mile = ~ 6 miles
- Option 2: Route below without the out/back on Ridge Road = ~ 15.5 miles
- Option 3: Route below with the out/back on Ridge Road = ~ 17.5 miles
From the parking area at Five Mile,
- Run a short way down Rocky Canyon to the trail head for Three Bears
- Take a right at the trail head and run up Three Bears to the junction of Femrite's. During the race, this is ~ mile 22 – 24 (probably a little less). DO NOT go left on Femrite's at this time.
- At this junction, look to the right, and you'll see a trail head sign for Watchman. Go that way – RIGHT on #3 Watchman (During the race, this junction with Three Bears and Femrite's will be ~ 6.5 miles from the beginning.)
Then you will follow these directions for the Frenzy. Note: during the race, there will be an 1-mile out/1-mile back on Ridge Road at the top of Five Mile. That is optional on this run. Most of us will not be running the out/back in this training run.
- Run on #3 Watchman to junction with #2 Five Mile Gulch
- Take LEFT on and go up #2 Five Mile Gulch to the junction with #7 Orchard Gulch
- Continue straight / LEFT on #2 Five Mile Gulch to Ridge Road
- Take RIGHT on Ridge Road
- OPTION for this training run (2 miles on Ridge Rd)
- Take LEFT on Ridge Road
- Run ~ 1 mile on Ridge Road
- Turn around after 1 mile and run back down Ridge Road
- Run down Ridge Road to Aldape Summit
- Take RIGHT on Rocky Canyon Road to junction with #7 Orchard Gulch
- Take RIGHT at trailhead of #7 Orchard Gulch (During the race, this is ~ mile 18.)
- Run on #7 Orchard Gulch to junction with #2 Five Mile Gulch
- Take LEFT on #2 Five Mile Gulch
- Run #2 Five Mile Gulch to Rocky Canyon Road (During the race this is ~ 22 miles.)
Bring plenty of water and fuel if you're planning to do the whole run. You may want to print out these instructions. We never know if we're going to have 3 or 13 runners join us on these group runs, nor do we know what paces people will be running. I know that I will be running the shorter 6-mile option b/c I have a marathon the next weekend 🙂 See y'all there!!


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Strange Weather, the new EP from the powerful British singer Anna Calvi, collects a bunch of covers, and some of those covers, including her take on Keren Ann's "Strange Weather," are duets with twitchy-music god David Byrne. (We also posted Calvi's solo covers of FKA Twigs' "Papi Pacify" and Bruce Springsteen's "Fire.") Byrne also sings backing harmonies on her version of "I'm The Man, That Will Find You," a queasy and creeped-out song from the New Zealand soft-rocker Connan Mockasin. Below, listen to Calvi and Byrne's cover of the song.
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Eurocopter EC 225 Super Puma fleet 'solution' approved
Super Puma helicopters which were grounded after two offshore incidents have been given the all clear to fly again, if they pass new safety checks.
The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) said it approved a proposed gear box technical solution from manufacturer Eurocopter.
Super Puma EC 225s were grounded in the wake of two incidents off Aberdeen and Shetland last year.
The Civil Aviation Authority said they could fly again when they complied.
Cracks had been identified in the main gear box in both cases.
EASA said: "The objective is to fix the unsafe condition created by the shaft failure of two EC 225 helicopters in the North Sea in 2012.
"The Eurocopter solution comprises of a set of modifications and inspections which aim at monitoring and detecting vertical shaft crack conditions and reducing the likelihood of any shaft crack initiation.
"When complied with, this solution ensures safe and airworthy operations of the EC 225 type.
"EASA will continue to work closely with Eurocopter, with the relevant National Aviation Authorities and the accident investigators to ensure that the fleet is operated safely, and may update its directive based on further investigation results."'Major milestone'
The Civil Aviation Authority said: "The CAA will subsequently amend its operational restriction on the helicopter type, allowing each aircraft to return to service once the requirements of the EASA directive are met."
A Eurocopter spokesman said: "This is a major milestone to ensure that the first EC 225s of the suspended fleet can be ready for a return to flight in July."
He added: "Safe operation is Eurocopter's main priority."
Jake Molloy, of the RMT union, urged all employers to consult with their workforces about resuming flights.
And he called on companies to be sympathetic towards those workers who still feared flying in the aircraft, despite industry assurances.
All 14 people on board a Super Puma were rescued when their helicopter came down about 30 miles off the coast of Aberdeen during a flight to an oil rig in May last year.
In October, all 19 people on board were rescued safely after the Super Puma put down in the sea off Shetland.


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Among the titles released in the official Sundance line-up recently was this little gem -- 'Interior. Leather Bar,' a film from and starring James Franco that recreates the 40 minutes of footage excised from William Friedkin's 'Cruising.'
For those unaware, director William Friedkin had to cut 40 minutes of footage from his 1980 film 'Cruising,' starring Al Pacino as a cop who goes undercover in the underground gay culture of New York City to catch a serial killer with a proclivity for S&M who is murdering gay men.
The footage that was cut involved gay S&M, obviously, and Friedkin had to let it go in order to avoid the dreaded X rating from the MPAA.
James Franco and his filmmaker friend Travis Matthews used this idea as inspiration to create 'Interior. Leather Bar,' which imagines what that 40 minutes of cut footage might have been. You can view the official trailer below, following the appropriately meta-sounding synopsis:
Amid the backdrop of a frenzied film set actor Val Lauren reluctantly agrees to take the lead in the film. Val is repeatedly forced to negotiate his boundaries during scenes on and "off camera," as unsimulated gay sex happens around him. The film itself is constructed as a play with boundaries remaining queer in subject and form. As much a film about filmmaking as it is about an exploration of sexual and creative freedom, "Interior. Leather Bar." defies easy categorization.
And here's the trailer, which features some great quotes from John Cameron Mitchell ('Hedwig and the Angry Inch,' 'Shortbus') and Andrew Haigh ('Weekend'), whose own films have explored similar ideas about the social acceptability of sexuality and identity:
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These little cakes achieved almost legendary status in an online foodie group I am part of. And with reason: these beauties are the stuff of dreams. They have a (deceptively) light texture, a perfect, delicate lemon flavour, and even though they look and taste like someting Marie-Antionette herself would not have sniffed at, they are not hard to make. The basic ingredients are ground almonds, egg whites, butter and icing sugar, in this case flavoured with lemon zest and lemon icing.
Before my friend Thanh posted the recipe for these almond cakes on her gorgeous blog I had never heard of friands. That all changed, because after making these once I knew I had to have the baking equivalent of the Holy Grail, a 'proper' friand tin. Of course you could easily make these in a muffin tin but the oval, flower-emblazoned tins (individual or as a 12-hole tin) are the real deal. Although they are French in origin, for some reason friands are very popular in Australia, which means the tins are widely available over there, as opposed to over here, where they are more of a lucky find.
The reason I am posting about these friands now is that I was given 6 individual friand tins (avec flower) by my lovely friend Kelly-Jane last week, and I have a 12-hole tin winging its way to me all the way from Adelaide, sent by my equally lovely aunt and uncle. I did not plan it like this, I am just surrounded by great people. 🙂
The first time I made lemon friands I baked them in a silicon financier 'tin', which turned them into rectangular bars, and they were gorgeous even then. Baking them in a metal tin makes all the difference, though. Now that I have these tins, and more on the way, I am going to have to get creative with friands but I am sure these lemon drizzle friands will remain a firm favourite.
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It's told from the idiot's point of view, and his panic and frustration are well done. Lest you be confused, the rats don't get buried.
On of the most suspenseful short stories out there, and one of Stoker's best. A terrifying pursuit through the fetid rat-infested marshes outside Paris, where the garbage pickers live.
The Burial of the Rats by Abraham "Bram" Stoker (18471912) is a truly suspenseful tale of a young man who finds himself in a very bad part of Paris and must flee for his life.
And the rats are the least of his worries.
That this has never been made into a movie, especially with today's taste for thriller and "slasher" films, is quite a surprise.


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A Paradigm-Changing Time
Dharmagaians come from many fields of learning and endeavor: science, philosophy, art, literature, psychology, spirituality, activism, and – yes, astrology. Astrology, one of my own symbolic systems of learning, offers some of the most fertile insights into our time in human history because it is the study of time – or, perhaps I should say, timing. There are several excellent astrologers writing about the process of paradigm change in relation to socio-political and ecological events in the world as they relate to archetypal astrological influences in the sky. (Paradigm change is a major theme among Dharmagaians and on Dharmagaians.org, where it is also called The Great Turning.)
I will not mention astrology in all my posts on this blog, but this particular summer brings some of the most potent astrological influences in my lifetime, and it happens that some of the astrologers writing about this time are Dharmagaians. The Dharmagaian astrologers whose writings I appreciate and enjoy the most are Richard Tarnas, Eric Francis, and Jessica Murray, who all provide critical commentary on Western culture along with astrological interpretations.
Richard Tarnas is one of the people from whom I learned the most about paradigm change. He wrote The Passion of the Western Mind, a 500-page book on paradigm changes in Western history, which I used as the primary text in a course on the history of Western thought at Naropa University in 1999. His next 500-page book was Cosmos and Psyche, a rigorous study of the archetypal astrological influences reflected in historical events and paradigm changes. He spent 30 years writing Cosmos and Psyche, including the ten years he spent writing The Passion of the Western Mind. They have both been described as "magisterial" works of scholarship. Because they are masterful, they are convincing.
Eric Francis, whom I quoted in Discoveries of the Week ending 7/31/10, is also an admirer of Richard Tarnas and a former environmental journalist. He frequently comments on ecological issues and events from a depth-psychology perspective. I wrote at length about depth psychology from a Dharmagaian perspective in Psycho-Spiritual Evolution, where I also quote Tarnas.
Jessica Murray is another Dharmagaian astrologer influenced by Tarnas (and Jung) whose cultural commentaries I enjoy. In At Her Service, dated July 19, 2010, Murray says,
Big truths are afoot — truths that we have collectively failed to process, or even admit to — about the kind of world we've created for ourselves. It's a world where humans have given up their power to nonhuman profit-generating entities: corporations. It's a world where addiction to soon-to-be-extinct dinosaur ooze is almost universal. It's a world where newborns have 180 man-made chemicals in their umbilical cords. It's a world where life-and-death realities like these are still pushed to the margins of media discussion, ceding the stage to unending expostulations about money and politics…. It is an approach to collective life that is insufficient to the point of fatal.
Pluto's square to Saturn in Libra is making clear that most of the political and economic ideologies now in use are anachronistic. This shouldn't surprise us, given that they date from a pre-ecological mindset… Even the most sacrosanct ism of all — nationalism — will have to be reexamined if Earth is to survive….
The corner of the Cardinal Cross that involves Jupiter (ideology) and Uranus (acceleration) suggests that we don't have time to spend a few decades tweaking our favorite old belief systems. For there to be a shift to new beliefs there must be a shift in collective thinking about what it means to hold beliefs in the first place….
The level of consciousness that has allowed humanity to tolerate ecocidal insults … has reached a dead end, and so have the ideologies that allow us to ignore them….
Those of us who were born into these years were meant to use the creative minds and the wise hearts Nature gave us… in Her service.
Murray has an "America in Transition" monthly astrological commentary series. In this month's No More Normal, she says,
Financial shocks are probable under skies like these. Economies all over the world are in turmoil, and government infrastructures are creaking and crumbling like old houses in a storm. It is very important this month to keep our heads about us and watch the flow of events for big-picture trends. The bigger our perspective, the more we will be able to respond creatively to what is happening.
The Timing and Intentions of Dharmagaians.org
A major intention behind creating the Dharmagaians.org site is to provide the largest possible perspective on the significance of our time in order to help readers shake off anachronistic belief systems, for doing so enables people to respond creatively to what is actually happening in the world. By seeing opportunities and possibilities in the instabilities, we can turn danger into opportunity. The gift that is offered by this potent time, as described by astrologers, is that the evolution of consciousness is receiving energetic support from the cosmos. This opportunity won't last forever, and the stakes have never been higher for our species or the planet. If we realize the urgency of the need to grab the opportunities to 'change our paradigm' and do things differently, we stand a better chance of surviving the next few decades – physically, psychologically and spiritually.
It is a strange and ironic synchronicity that I am finally ready to "unveil" – that is, "launch" or announce – Dharmagaians.org to my networks right on the New Moon of August 10, 2010, the astrology for which is a particularly potent announcement of the Grand Cardinal Cross. I did not plan the timing of this. Creating and getting this website ready to launch has taken almost three years, much longer than I anticipated, and it has unfolded in a direction that I also didn't anticipate. And it isn't even "finished." I have yet to complete two more essays and their two links pages.
I also have yet another essay that is germinating in the 'greenhouse,' which will be posted in Dharmagaians.org, but I may also serialize it in this blog. However, it will take considerable research, for it is on the myth of Atlantis, the history of Western civilization's patriarchal Predator Culture, and the re-emergence of the feminine principle in our time. Richard Tarnas, Jessica Murray, and many others have already written on aspects of this theme. For a hint, see Murray's Coming Back Home to the Cosmos: Humanity's Re-embrace of the Feminine.
But I am interested in digging a little deeper into the psychological and historical origins of the West's predator culture, the concept of which I introduced in the two long essays Psycho-Spiritual Evolution Beyond the Predator Archetype and The Animistic Soul Re-Emerges. These essays and their subject matter are for those who are at least potentially psycho-spiritually literate and also capable of sustained attention, which I realize is not everybody.
So, in a sense, Dharmagaians.org is still a work in progress, definitely not finished. But feeling the urgency of this time, I want to make what is already on the site available to those who may be in need of it to explain the weirdness and uncertainty of our time and to prepare for more of it; for helping people to prepare for what's coming is another major part of the site's intention. In Murray's The Cardinal Cross Years: 2010-12, she describes the significance of the current configuration of planets in this way:
Much has been written about the upcoming cardinal configurations, and this article will confine itself to just one piece of it: the square between Pluto and Uranus. The most enduring and most potent of the assembled forces, this aspect forms the backdrop of the planetary dramas of the first half of the decade to come. The relationship between Pluto and Uranus will function as a main plot does in a well-told story, anchoring the meaning of the subplots that surround it.
Uranus represents the unstoppable force of ideas whose time has come. Pluto represents the raw power and inevitability of breakdown and renewal. Together they force consciousness changes in the collective that are – relatively speaking — explosively sudden. Already we can see the accelerated speed that will characterize this next phase of human evolution. When we consider the normal snail-like pace of changes in entrenched collective consciousness, it is nothing short of astounding that a massive shift in popular awareness about global warming has happened in no more than a couple of years' time….
The meaning of outer-planet aspects derives from their roles in unfolding macrocycles. Thus the best way to begin to understand the upcoming Pluto-Uranus square is to consider the last time these two planets conjoined, forty-odd years ago. It was then that these two were in their New Moon phase and the seeds for the current transit were planted.
In the mid-1960s, Uranus and Pluto occupied the same location in the zodiac for a few mind-blowing years; a period that those who lived through them will never forget. This was the transit that made the sixties The Sixties: Uranus, governor of revolution, and Pluto, governor of social decay, conjoined in the sky while opposing Saturn: status quo thinking — and KABOOM: the counter-culture was born. Taboo-busting cultural ideas raced around the globe like an uncontained wildfire, changing the mores of the generations extant and the ones not yet born.…
From 2010-2015 Uranus and Pluto will take the next big step in their relationship, analogous to the First Quarter Moon. The heady revelations of the hippies and yippies will be ready for post-millennial application. The winsome flower-child vision will have developed into a set of responses – or reactions, depending on the level of consciousness involved – to the crises the globe is facing at present.
This Grand Cardinal Cross has particular significance for me not only because my website is ready to launch today after three years of intensive, grueling work, but also because this astrological configuration is bearing down on a major aspect in my natal chart that is significant in relation to this website. (FYI for astrologers, I have Saturn at 3 degrees Cancer in the 9th house, square Neptune at 1 degree Libra in the 12th house. That aspect, which is directly aspected by the Grand Cross today, could be interpreted symbolically as the "author" of the entire Dharmagaians concept and site.) It's a little bit unnerving for me to realize all this, because this cosmic Grand Cross implies a dimension of crucifixion on the collective as well as on the personal level – the sacrifice of comfortable but outdated beliefs, habits, behaviors and ways of life.
By the way, if you are wondering why I am posting pictures of crop circles here, notice the mysterious symbolism of them and the dates they were reported in relation to the astrological commentaries above. To me, they speak of the weirdness and inexplicability that we can expect in this time of change, but also the beauty, if we are willing to see it. Crop circles are invitations to paradigm change. They appeal to the meaning-making animistic soul, which we all possess and can discover beneath the anachronistic prejudices of our culture. They invite the contemplation of mystery – that which lies beyond the boundaries of human comprehension and control. We could say that the mysteries of the cosmos are the ultimate source of the symbolic systems – such as astrology, the Tarot and the I Ching (Book of Changes) – that have been devised by animistic souls throughout the cultures of the world. And I think we are going to have many more opportunities to contemplate – and appreciate – the mysteries of the cosmos in the years and decades ahead.
Afterthought: See Murray's acerbic blog commentary on the astrology of the WikiLeaks story, Law of Cure.
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Greetings from the McAdventurers!
It's been a looooong time since I made my last blog post–did ya wonder what happened to us?? My next two posts are a quick summary of the last few months to get you all caught up. There are A LOT of pictures in today's post, but I tried to keep it short on words. I hope you like it!
From Northern CA to the Jersey Shore in 8 Days
Yes, we are nuts. No, we didn't stop to explore anything. Yes, we were sad to have to pass by so many cool places.
But we were on a schedule to join my extended family for our annual vacation at the beach house in NJ, and onto MD for the church youth retreat, so we did not have the luxury of meandering.
We had lovely weather and very little traffic on Route 80 as we zoomed from Walmart to Walmart, taking advantage of their free overnight parking policy for RVers. On the way across the states, we took pictures out the windows. I have posted some below so put your seatbelt on and enjoy.
Scroll quickly for the best effect 😉 Just kidding. Please read the captions.
Stay tuned for more posts over the next few weeks as I get back to writing! Please say "hello" in the comments section. We'd love to know who is following our adventures!
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The Turung and the early Melayu Muslim Sama women
…for my Inah, on her 79th birthday on April 14 2011.
My earliest and most vivid memories of my maternal great grand-aunts would be of three beloved matriarchs of Laminusa island of Sulu: Omboh Dindu', Omboh Ua', and Omboh Saning, who in the late 1960s upto early 1970s were then ushering into their ripe late mid-life age. These three sisters, my mother's grand-aunts, would come to our home and spend some days with us as soon as my mother entered the onset of her last trimester of pregnancy. The great grand-aunts would be midwives and surrogate mothers to my three infant younger siblings until my mother had regained her health, gathered her strength and was back on her feet. While maintaining an embarrassed distance, I would always observe them in complete awe, these tiny dainty women like delicate china-dolls, who seldom raised their voices nor left their cloisters except for social functions and life-till-death ritual cycles that they would lead with confidence and dexterity, taking care to prescribe the right kind of food and the proper propitiations for both the living and the dead, satisfying the requirements in both the lair and batin worlds (i.e. seen and unseen worlds) in the specific rites and rituals of birthing, passage to pubescence, marriage and death. In the midst of their duties and social functions they were well disciplined and strong-willed and led the community firmly as a ship captain.
Before my young eyes, their elegance and nobility in the Chinese brocade silky loose pants knotted at the waist, called kantiyu, and the matching loose blouses made of Spanish lace or soft voile called sablay raised them above all esteem. Their tiny feet, that their mothers must have tried to impose into the pakkal , some sort of foot-binding sometime in their early age, were encased in delicate pairs of identical but different shades of sequined slippers still smelling of camphor and naphthalene, items that used to be supplied and carried by the junks that frequented our shores, journeying all the way from China, an endless odyssey and tales that my grandfather would love to tell us. These early Muslim women would often don a tube-like hand-woven silk cloth on top of their kantiyu and sablay, this piece of pakayan or walking garment was called ho's tinahi-an, and was woven from silk thread imported from India. Otherwise, the ho's would be of the highly-prized kain batik that, together with the particular brand of tea from Ceylon and the Lucky Strike and Dunhill filter-tipped cigarettes that my grandmother was famed to have fancied, and the air mata dhojong perfumes, a familiar scent that my mother wore to school, were smuggled in from Borneo and Indonesia. The Samarinda or Javanese batik, whose alleged tests of authenticity the women could ascertain and I watched them literally 'taste' a genuine article by licking. The ho's they wore as one would a shawl today, in such a fashionable way was called a saklay or salendang, it was casually draped over one shoulder, to the right, as both Omboh Dindu' and Omboh Ua' were once married and were now widowed while Omboh Saning would wear it on her left, announcing her then unmarried status.
On unusually warm and sunny days, while walking to the pasar (i.e. marketplace) or strolling down the dirt roads after a visit to the ancestral tombs, the ho's or tube cloth would be transformed from the shoulder sling into a bungkus, a body tent, spread-out with one end or upper seam of the cloth pulled higher and raised above the head like a canopy hoisted with the left arm slightly bent on the elbow, the cloth covered the arms, the head and hair, and left hanging loose over the right shoulder and arm that were left free and bare. The cloth thereby covered most of the women's back and front, the pliant cloth hence let to fall over the bosom just above the knee. Thus was to be the earliest form of veiling or turong that these southeast Asian Melayu women would sport as part of the ensemble reserved for the formal public wear, mainly to ward off the bitter elements, rather than to discourage the male gaze as veiling is generally intended these days. When talking to distant acquaintances or strangers in the streets, married women would sometimes gather the left edge of the ho's and gently pulled it across to graze the lower half of the face. Otherwise, when settled inside the house or within private spaces, the cloth was pulled back, wrapped around the waist or slipped under an armpit or slung to one shoulder as a shawl should go, and the women would freely socialize, with men and fellow women, their hair and face bright and lit – fully uncovered.
In the mid-70s I also got to meet more of my maternal grandaunts on the side of my Tausug grandfather. Omboh Assa and Omboh Ka'i, and the four cousins of my mother, Babuh Gim King, Babuh Gim Hong, Babuh Gim Sai, and Babuh Gim Hua. All these early Muslim women were ethnic Chinese and of mixed Sama-Tausug and Melayu descent from Bongao of Tawitawi, the farthest island southern tip of Sulu (i.e. 'Moro' was not yet popularly used as identity referent for Suluan ethnics then). They also wore the same kantiyu and sablay, but instead of the shoulder sash, Omboh Assa and her four daughters would wrap around their head, covering most of the hair and hugging a big bun tightly knotted at the nape but leaving both ears exposed, a long and narrow strip of transparent and soft lacy cloth, dyed a light patina or lungbus poteh, i.e. virginal white, sometimes embellished with tiny gems or gold dusts or sequins so much similar to present-day shawl, trailing from both ends were jazzed-up tussles, these were wound crosswise once or twice around the head just above the forehead and tucked in behind the ears. My curious queries were satisfied by my mother who informed me that Omboh Assa and one of her daughters had just came back from Makkah and were hadjas, hence, the cleverly made-up fashionable head-dresses. The hadja's sulban (literally, head-scarf), as it was called, was worn all throughout the day whether in private or public spaces and was only shorn away on retirement to bed.
The only other time when women were required to cover their hair and face were during the five prayers, where they would wrap themselves in the white luku, a biased-cut piece of round cloth like a parachute with a hole at the pointed tip, just big enough for the face to pop out. The luku is worn as an outer garment on top of traditional clothing, it reached upto the calf or ankles covering the designated woman's cleavages there as hidden parts or 'aurat' which were not supposed to be displayed during prayer. The white veil was a sign of purity and reflective of the cleanliness of our hearts and intention as we faced and communioned with the Great One, said my godmother, Inah Ka'ching – mother's elder sister, who was also my guru or tutor in Qur'an and religious initiation. She never mentioned to me though that the luku or similar female veiling where to hide an atrocious and offensive sexuality that was lurking inside and within my body. I spent most of my childhood fetching water from the well or from a common tap; watching the earthen stove and making sure that the roasting fish or a dish in progress would not get burnt; tending her small shop or, practically the handy girl-Friday, running other petty errands for my guru from five to seven in the morning and from three to five in the afternoon for more than five years while I was at the same time multiple-tasking and doubling time inching to finish my basic public education, that is, in between fleeing from wars and living in evacuations. My guru released me when she decided that I was good enough and have mastered, meaning, read the entire 30 juz of the Holy Book without her coaching, whence she publicly confirmed me a 'tammat' (i.e. graduated); and that had been when I reached the age of puberty when I could now be qualified to publicly recite some verses during the tahalilan; adult and woman enough to properly mourn and honor the dead. My aunt who was my guru, then and until now in her old age, wore no head scarves except during her prayer yet she has never been regarded as less religious or diminished in faith and piety by the island youth who have graduated under her tutelage and prospered, as they continued to pay their respect to her.
My mother, named after the Trojan queen Helen, was in her mid-30s then, and as public school teacher, she wore her hair short and spent quite some time teasing it with a long narrow comb and sprayed it stiff with hairspray. Most of the lady teachers in the island who were her contemporary also wore their hair that way or sported longer permed cut that was the latest of hair-do and came to school in their cheerful balloon and pleated skirt that skimmed their calves, paired wit three-fourth sleeved and sport-collared eyelet cotton blouses, that they either tucked into the wide band of the skirt or sometimes knotted at the mid-rib; or smartly dressed in their mini-skirted one piece, an A-line that was called a 'straight-cut', that my mother herself cut and sewed for herself and her sister, that was popular among young professionals during the time. On special community gathering and ritual occasion, these educated ladies brought out their best sablay and kantiyu or donned the gleaming silk blouse called badjuh sigpit with matching ho's bat-tik or tinahi-an or tinen-nun and the sequined slippers.
Those were the days when Muslim women were not questioned about their intentions or suspected of immodest motives in pampering themselves and spending time to take care of themselves or engaged in beauty rituals to improve their looks and increased their self-esteem. These young Muslim women, who had high level of education, were gainfully employed and equally bore the family burden with their husbands and brothers, in case they were single, and were treated with the same respect and honor by their peer, both men and women.
Those days, too, women in my village equally shared with men the langgal – our village prayer hall – literally meaning 'a meeting place' where people discussed things of communal importance – that was open to everyone seven days of the week, in all of five daily prayers, and especially during the Jama'at or Friday congregations and during special occasions of Eid that were the sambahayang Hari raya Puasa and Hari raya Hadji. Taking their places behind a thin white lace curtain separating them from men, women entered through a common entrance with men. On Ramadhan nights, after the Tarawi prayers I fondly remember planked by my mother and my father on either sides and guided on both hands, we joined in the merriment, as with the rest of the evenings around the year, women and men folk used to linger around after magribh and waited for 'isha to be performed, and took that brief evening break as occasion to socialize. The women formed an outer circle to the men's inner circle in the tahalil and dhikr before or after congregational prayers, and seated, we gently danced and swayed to the rhythm of a dabbana, a drum, while reciting the shahada, i.e. declaration of faith. Then, later after 'isha was said, we, young children, kissed the perfumed hands of every adult that we could catch, that we always exclaimed and swore 'smelt of Makkah!' or some argued it was the 'smell of paradise!' and freely mingled with them to share in the light snacks and refreshments that village men and women who were not able to join in the prayers would prepare and offer to the langgal.
No one could exactly date it, but I believe, it was only in the late 1980s or the nineteen nineties when the male population in most Muslim societies, seeming to have awoken from a bad dream, started taking a backglance and spent longer and hard second doubtfilled looks and saw with different eyes their female counterpart and, apparently alarmed by what they saw, or rather, at how they 'felt' about what they saw, hastened their wives, mothers and sisters to cover themselves up in veils and to lurk behind dark and drab Arabian cloaks and oversized dresses. At about this time, too, the mass exodus of skilled labor to the Middle East have peaked so that pilgrimage to Makkah to perform the hajj was no longer the exclusive privilege of the elite and the rich. At this time, the conflict between government and Moro nationalists would have heightened, forcing many young men into the hills and jungles to join the insurgents or go into self-exile and to migrate to less troubled cities or seek education abroad, usually in Egypt or Saudi. Upon their return, these young men who have turned into Allah's soldiers or trained to become moral policemen would introduce a new theology that put much emphasis on the recitation and memorization of the revealed texts and less and less value given to the embodied celebrations of faith and the acted and ritualized devotion and remembrances of Allah [i.e. dhikr] that the Sufi teachers taught the folk Muslims. Banning altogether indigenous ceremonies as bida'a (i.e. innovation), they declared the rituals in reverence of ancestors as idolatrous. The modern Muslim religious leaders then privileged the literate and the well-travelled. The old imams and fakirs whose unarticulated and non-scriptural discipline of mysticism and indigenised Arabic incantations that the new religious men would find faulty were forced to retire and, relegated to the margins, retreated to old chores and devoted full time to their crafts – the fish-traps and bush gardens. Later, even the old langgal, would not be spared by the ruthlessness of the new-found religious authority and self-righteousness. Uprooted and demolished, in the langgal's takas (i.e. shadow) was constructed a newish religious architecture of Arabian inspired masjid, complete with the big minaret, the Madinese posts and the upraised mimbal (pulpit). To a sleepy island, the new mosque that rose up literally over night came sneaking almost like a new conqueror in the dark cloak of night that folk called this monument of modernity as having 'dropped from heavens' or masjid jatu .
In the meantime, in most big prayer houses and grand mosques in the migrant lands and big cities, one would seldom find thin curtain that used to mark where women should sit behind the men and performed their prayers in full sight of everyone, as in the old village langgal, in its stead, a mezzanine or loft was built into the structure, or a wall was erected as division, where women would now have to face a solid wall there or a blank space, to keep them out of sight and to restrain these supposedly dangerous species who were now considered seductive and overpowering devils themselves, preying upon helpless and innocent pious men.
In the modern cities, where Qur'an and the hadith books were hungrily read and its tafsir (i.e. meaning and interpretations) discussed, transmitted and shared around among the modern Muslim religious men, new regulations and 'teachings' spread and were imposed saying that it was better for women to stay at home and performed their prayers in the closed quarters of their rooms. Sayings and traditions [i.e. hadith wal sunnah] allegedly attributed to the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, the beloved messenger who was also known as lover of women, of perfumes and of horses, and whom his young wife A'isha lovingly remembered his gentle moments swapping jokes and laughing with the women and thoughtfully advising them on sensitive issues such as taking care of their health, on their feminine hygiene and their fertility is alleged to have made a very chauvinistic and macho remark demeaning women, namely, that women were lacking in intellect and religion and would be the interns of hell. Others would say that the Prophet was heard uttering that Muslim community who entrusts its affairs to women were doomed to fail; and that woman, however faithful and pious, would not be able to fulfill her religious duties and gain the mercy of Allah and enter paradise unless she has fulfilled her 'ta-at' (i.e. obeisance) to her husband, whose satisfaction of his physical needs, if she refused or failed to deliver, she would be cursed by all the angels in heaven all through the night; and whose duties to her husband would not in fact be fulfilled by her even if she licked all his wounds oozing with pus, and that therefore she should immediately come to his bidding and satisfy his demands for intimacy even on the back of a camel. And so on and so forth.
Soon, the same virulent fever would catch up in the island villages as well, where, worse than the poison of rumor and fitna, less educated and illiterate folk, most vulnerable and prone to be struck with fear of the unknown and of the ambiguous, would bow in blind submission. The tahalil and dhikr were considered to be optional, if not, completely written off and so were the late evening 'rabbana' sing-and-dance rituals with its lively drum accompaniment. Henceforth there was no longer socialization or unnecessary lingering or public meetings of men and women to be allowed after evening prayers, to avoid falling to temptuous zina. Such that the mosque and everything religious it symbolized have now virtually turned into exclusively male property. Children no longer find the prayers as exciting and playful occasions as we used to look forward to in the past, of the dancing and singing of dhikr , of the warm family bonding and especially of the snacks and refreshments. And since grandmothers, mothers and sisters no longer walked to the masjid, the children, too, stayed home and stopped tailing adults and left them and their prayers alone. Soon, new idols and baby-sitters took on where the swirling rabbana dancing and singing and communal merriment have left, television and video games, like the pied pipers, have come to lure and enchant the children.
By the late 1990's especially when the local social movement led by the Moro nationalists have forged peace with the State and were given the chance to run 'our own' form of autonomous governance, more and more women of my generation became active part of civil society, of public life and of politics. Now having replaced our mothers as community adults, most of us have been educated and moved into up-class and affluent villages in the cities and, there, started taking to the hijab as official attire for the elite, educated and the cultured and, mostly following the dresscode of women of Iran, Pakistan or Malaysian, we favored the shawwal ghamis and long dressy gowns and folded away our mothers' kantiyu, badjuh sigpit and sablay. Many of the modern women would have never distinguished an imported batik cloth from the locally loamed hinablun or tinen-nun and tinahi-an and having lost the classic aesthetic sense, would not know on which side of the hip should the sarong's punsa' be oriented, nor would they even care a sliver. And still many would boast with pride of this ignorance of the past and of having rid off of cumbersome tradition as a fact of imbibing modern virtue and a sign of having moved up-stairs into civilization and having been 'fully islamized'. Instead, as modern women we would invest on the new and foreign wardrobe, not a few of us wore the new dresses under a black 'abaya', with dark globes and black socks, drew the veils closer over the face, letting out only an eye or both eyes through a hole or a slit, as though to drown it in the dark shroud was to kill and annihilate the flesh and body that was so much dreaded and hated for its sinful beauty and sensuality.
But the older women in my village, mostly of my mother's generation, who by now have become the octogenarians, continued to let out and left drying in the breeze their long cocomilk-groomed hair that had thinned but not grayed, and in public gatherings wore only the loose conventional turong of ho's or sulban, as prescribed for the hadja, the way Omboh Dindu', Omboh Saning and Omboh Ua' and the rest of the grannies from the islands used to do.
On auspicious dates and social occasion, we took the opportunity to visit and renew ties with the folk, but with the prohibitive cost of journeying to the islands and the risk of being caught on the road in the raging conflict, less elaborate ceremonies have been mostly preferred and conveniently conducted in 'instant and quickie' rituals in private homes in migrant communities called 'subdivision' in the cities. Seated around cushioned sofa and cozy living rooms where a large LCD flatscreen TV took most of the space, we sometimes listened with half an ear to the droning sound of a duwa'a dryly mumbled by an imam, while one ear and eyes are transfixed to the television noontime show. Thereafter, McDonald crispy fried chicken and bland cold sandwiches were drowned with Coca Cola. Such poor replacements, I declare, to the sumptuous panya'm , baulu and ja', and the scalding native black brew, kahawa. Where memories of these happy reunions were now recorded in compact disks and spun around the globe faster than the speed of sound through the internet, instantly made available to share with relatives abroad while still sitting in the convenience of your living room; the fancy bakery killer confections and inflated cakes laden with poisonous bromate and artificial sugar have arrogantly substituted the mounds of medicinal yet delicious turmeric coconut steamed rice or buwas kuning perfectly molded into a sampul or the sticky wajit naturally sweetened with honey that was manually extracted from sugarcane and laced in thick coconut milk – such loving preparations concocted by the same women now cheerfully chatting by the dirty kitchen.
Nonetheless, the solemnity and sacredness of these rare occasions seemed to have remained extant and hoping to linger on for as long as there were still daughters who pledged to a'ngentan [i.e. hold on]. In one such occasion, I and my sisters, who had come home for a vacation from their employment in the Middle East, would instinctively and self-consciously remove our tarha or hijab following the older women's cue in an almost silent tableau of re-initiation, re-admission and re-unification with the mother coven. To insist on wearing the veil would have made us stand out like sore thumbs and made us feel like outsiders, for we were in supposed intimate spaces where, as once missing pieces of jigzaw among our folk and now back among our women, it was the same homing instinct that confirmed to us once again that we belonged to that almost forgotten village, was nurtured in its rustic traditions and had sprung from to the loving wombs of the matriarchs. [14April2010 for Inah, on her 78th birthday]


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Nizpharm, a subsidiary of German pharmaceutical company STADA, has closed a deal to buy 100% stakes in Russian pharmaceutical companies Makiz-Pharma, Skopinpharm and Biodyne Pharmaceuticals for 125 million euros, Nizhpharm Chief Executive Dmitry Efimov said at a news conference Monday.
As a result of the acquisition, Nizhpharm is expected to get a 1.4% share of Russia's pharmaceuticals market, he said.
Nizhpharm's sales rose 27% on the year to 72.2 million euros in 2006.
Makiz-Pharma, Skopinpharm and Biodyne Pharmaceuticals were affiliated before the deal. The combined sales revenue of the companies doubled on the year to 51.5 million euros in 2006.
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The Mail on Sunday says his future does not depend on a top-four finish. Instead, it rests on the potential he shows in the hot-seat until the end of the season.
Sherwood, who takes his fifth-placed team to Norwich this afternoon, could finish no higher than in a Europa League place in May yet still start next season in charge at White Hart Lane.
A review will be carried out by the board this summer, based on how well they feel Sherwood has grown into his role.
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