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Baking lessons have ended and its a good time to try something we always wanted to - The Hokkaido Milk Loaf. This bread requires milk and whipping cream, ultra rich and fattening stuff >.>
Initially dinner plan was to cook crab cakes, somehow cold storage doesn't sell that mustard..ZZZ~ So cooking plans changed drastically while we were strolling aimlessly in the mart. In the end, I decided let's make full use of the bread we make then, we shall have sandwiches for dinner...*Other pple's breakfast combi we eat as dinner*
Main course : Hokkaido Milk Bread with
- Honey Baked Ham
- Mushroom
- Gloucester Cheese
- Egg Mayo
- Shredded Chicken Thigh baked with Curry Powder, Garlic and Chilli flakes
Total cost = $36 , freaking cheese costs $9+ liao..zzz~
Putting the techniques learnt in the past one mth, this picture below shows the bread after first fermentation. The dough is now rolled and placed into the tin, to undergo 2nd proofing that is supposed to take abt 1hr. Remember this pic.
Chicken thigh marinated, ready for baking
Hard boiled eggs with their yolks 4/5 cooked.
Egg Mayo, I think its tad too sweet due to Kraft's Mayo. zZz~
There's the bread dough after 1 hr..see the difference in size? Before that they were scrawny, and didnt even fill half the tin.
Gently put on some egg wash before baking
Meanwhile, time to attend to other ingredients for the sandwich. Was thinking to make those mushrooms like mushroom swiss @ burger king but..hmm~too troublesome..-_-'
Finally the chicken is done (The bread was "anxiously" waiting for the oven to be ready =.=') whole kitchen smells like curry powder. Its amazing that the chilli flakes did it nicely..for spicyness.
After awhile, the top of the bread was becoming too brown too fast..because we are using a small kitchen oven. So~ we covered the top with aluminium foil, before it gets chao ta by the time the rest of the bread is cooked.
Finally done in 40minutes...
Btm view of hokkaido loaf
O man..look at the texture *pls forget abt the fats it contains*
Putting cheese, ham, mushrooms and egg mayo then baking the sandwich for another 10mins -> to melt cheese and make it more dry.
Complete dinner..somehow abit big in proportion. 1 whole chicken thigh was shredded and shared. Another was in stomach to curb the hunger pangs >.<
Look at the time on the pics..its about 10pm when we finished cooking.zzz~
Dessert : A&W rootbeer with 1 scope of vanilla ice cream. Talk about calories... =.='''
This last minute changed menu was pretty good, except mushrooms was not in mushroom swiss sauce else it would have been puurrrfect~
Bread : 8/10
Sandwich as a whole : 8.5/10 *except too big for my stomach -_-' *
Drink : 6.5/10 Too Sweet~
Chicken thigh: 8/10 *slurp*
Egg Mayo : 6/10 *Kraft mayo too sweet liao*

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Villa with 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms and swimming pool in Protaras, Cyprus
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This 3 bedroom villa with swimming pool is located in Protaras and sleeps 7 people. It has WiFi, barbeque facilities and parking nearby.
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Villa Elise is a brand new detached 3 bedroom villa with a large pool and terrace area surrounded by trees and plants. The famous Fig Tree Bay beach is a less than a few minutes walk away.
This larger than normal 3 bedroom villa is ideally located just minutes away from the end of the famous "Strip" in Protaras. The beach is just a short stroll away as are the shops, bars and restaurants. There is a driveway for cars with a gate for extra security and privacy. The pool area is spacious with 6 sun loungers, a garden dining table, parasol and dining table with 6 chairs. There is also a barbeque if you do not fancy going out to eat. As you walk into the open plan lounge area, there is a large widescreen television, dvd player and satellite television next to an open fireplace. There is a breakfast bar and kitchen area with every utensil you would need. Downstairs there is also a guest W.C. Upstairs there are 3 large bedrooms, the master bedroom has ensuite shower, another double bedroom and a twin bedroom. There is also a small balcony with chairs and a table. The family bathroom room with a shower is also upstairs.
The villa is in a fantastic location literally less than a minutes' walk to the beach. Protaras strip is also a few minutes' walk so there is really no need for a hire car or a taxi.
Nearest airport Larnaca 65 km
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Paris greeted us with a cold misty rain and cloudy skies. These were far from my ideal conditions for visiting Paris, but we weren't about to let some bad weather deter us from sightseeing. We dropped off our bags at the hotel in Madeleine and headed off to explore Paris.
We started our tour of Paris by the ferris wheel in Place de la Concorde. Although not the most famous ferris wheel in Europe, Roue de Paris is a very well-known site and well worth the visit. Each seat on the ferris wheel displayed a person's face painted with the flag of a different country. It was such a simple decoration but so powerful as well to see all of these countries united to form one great loop.
After wandering arWe continued on our way down the Champs-Élysées, but by this time our hair was damp with cold mist and our hands were frozen. In an effort to keep warm, we bought a ham and cheese crêpe from a small stand by Concorde. This offered a brief cloak of warmth and burst of energy to carry us towards the Arc de Triomphe.
It has always been my hope to get a picture with the Arc, but it's much easier said than done. The Arc de Triomphe stands in the center of the Place Charles de Gaulle and a large roundabout. You are able to access this inner circle, but because of the sheer enormity of the Arc it is nearly impossible to get the entire structure in the frame while standing there. We attempted to get a few shots from a nearby street corner that came out okay, but my favorite was our selfie while crossing the street! We got the camera ready, our smiles on standby, and anxiously waited for the walk signal. When the light changed we walked briskly to the center of the street, paused for a quick selfie with the arc, and casually walked to the other side. Selfie with the Arc de Triomphe? Check!
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*These photos are raw and unedited, because I feel it necessary to show these places as I saw them. Paris was not sunny and bright for me. It was cold, rainy, and sometimes even graced us with some sleet…but that didn't stop us from having an amazing time!


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Here is why Scotland is not a country:
- No one speaks English.
- They can't tell the difference between "soccer" and "football."
- They drink warm beer.
- They wear man-skirts.
- Trainspotting.
In fact, Scotland isn't even there anymore. The United States of Kingdoms call itself a "country made of countries," but who are they to decide? They're not even American! Have your heard how they talk? They can't spell properly and use the wrong words for things. We only allow them to call their bastard language "English" so they'll buy Big Macs and Starbucks coffee. Anyone who is educated like me knows this.
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A set of Congressionally mandated trucking rules are set to go into effect next month and the Livestock Marketing Association (LMA) says the rules don't work for the livestock industry. Chelsea Good tells Brownfield says Congress didn't take into consideration the welfare of animals when mandating the Electronic Logging Device (ELD) rule. "Right now you can drive 11 hours in a 14-hour time frame," she says. "If you're just 12 hours from the time you pick up livestock to your destination – it doesn't make sense to stop, offload that livestock, rest for 10 hours, and then reload that livestock, and then drive for one additional hour. That adds stress to the animals and there is the risk of injury to animals and humans."


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How Revenge Is Sweet
Just For My HubPages Friends,
I know what you are all thinking, oh dear whining, moaning Minnie is hear again to depress us with too much sentimentality. Too many tales of whoa, no sense of humour at all, and such a depressive nature. Well think again because this truthful and mostly ashamedly tale is of REVENGE.
I was reading back over some of my hubs today and really thought 'would I actually spend my time to read these hubs?' and the answer was, 'Not without a box of tissues, a hot cup of tea, and some self pitying music to really set the scene.'
It is true to say that I have had many lessons to learn through my life, but I haven't always been such a saint that you mostly think I am. So I will spill the beans and bring you up to date with my dark side. Some of it anyway, don't want to scare you all away just this minute.
As a sad and lonely, single parent only child, ahhh, I did have friends to play with, so I am going back as far as I can recall. If I am to do this, I may as well do it right.
Lesson 1. Do not buy me an ice cream and ask me to share it with another little child, because this makes me push the said ice cream into the other child's face.
Lesson 2. Do not take me into the bank and make me sit quietly on a chair, because being very obedient, I stayed on the chair but moved it over to the counter to stand up and ask, "Will my money be safe in here?"
Lesson 3. Do not buy me a toy umbrella and tell me not to put it up in the store, only for me to find a lady with a short skirt looking into the freezer, for me to put the umbrella up as high as it would go, up her skirt.
It gets worse...
Well Ok that was kid's stuff, so I will progress a little further.
In secondary school, a friend of mine embarrassed me in front of the whole class. Being naive, wet behind the ears at the time, she encouraged me to ask "Miss what is an intercourse?" Class fell around in laughter, whilst I was marched to the headmaster for detention. Now not being very happy about this, in the following art class, I "accidentally" - actually, on purpose - knocked over a bottle of white spirit, taking the colour out of the green bias being used to re-cover the pool table; and guess who got the blame?
My first boyfriend, who I hasten to add was an angel compared to the one I married, would not take me to the outdoor pool after school on a Friday. Now this was a big issue to me as I wanted to get a tan! I later found out that on his night with his mates, where did he go? Yes, to the outdoor pool, so I dropped him like a tonne of bricks. Heartless.
Growing up certainly makes you change. As I mellowed, my moments of revenge got more serious. On one occasion, my ex husband was sitting in his car with a magazine and cup of coffee when my stallion, Blue, shouted excitedly to the visiting mares, making Glenn jump. Glenn, in temper, threw his coffee hitting Blue in the face, grrrr, no one hits my horse. Several hours later, Glenn found himself wheeled out to the front garden with a brush shaft straight through the wheels of his wheelchair, with nowhere to turn and no one apart from me to hear him shout, he he.
As for my beautiful Teal who was shot to prove a point, Glenn made a huge mistake there. Just when he thought he had gotten away with it, I took a sledge hammer to his car bonnet making quite a mess. Oh revenge.
I have worked in media publishing for most of my adult career and was taking a lovely young man under my wing, wink wink, to find that he had taken a girl into my office to show her his fine tools on my office desk. Wow very big mistake, as several days later he found his car with four flat tyres and a lovely remake of his paint job telling his neighbours what I thought about him. I really hope that the inspection of his tools was worth the hassle!!
Now if a couple of my confessions has made you take a sharp intake of breath, I am terribly sorry. I just wanted to prove that I do have a sense of humour; rather twisted you'd say. And I can stand up and be reckoned with, but not all the time. But more so, and I must convince myself of this, I must treat you all to a happy hub, mmm pigs might fly, but not today. Watch this space.
Netts you know that if I had Glen in eye's view... Star and Jp would be my co-conspiritors... That little worm should be grateful that you only did minor things like "smack his wheelchair tires"....Right??? Yes I thought so..
LeeLee recommended I visit your hubpage. Nice work.
Netts: I just realized that the picture of you and Glen at the start is just beautiful!!! You looked so pleased to have his head plastered to the table!!! Great Hub that is so funny, witty and something we can all relate to one way or another.
hey...very funny and interesting hub. I liked because everyone has a darker side and we all indulge in revenge taking acts once or twice in our lives...maybe 3-4 times...oh! no maybe many times!!!!
Wow!...and I thought I was the revenge queen! : ) Great read!!
What a great hub thebluestar..
I LOVE all your stories. A good cry is well worth it. Only use your sleeve to wipe your nose and have a shot of whiskey on stand by. Your wit is pricelss, I find it to be like Dean Martin's. You just crack up because of its perfect timing. Your love of animals is touching and filled with deep passion and the choices of Men you picked well we all have had a lemon or too. Trust me.. I know all too well. So now that you have told me about your devilish side, I already knew you had one... Although after what you know who did what... HIs behind would be on a plaque hanging outside my front door!!!! Love You Nettie and all your stories!!!!
Good article,thanks for sharing.
I must be as warped as you are, because I truly enjoyed your confessions...and could certainly add some of my own. Good One, Bluestar my Friend!
Good for you, bluestar! I always enjoy your hubs, and this one is no exception. :)
Funny, funny funny -- Great to get to know you a lil better!
Love this hub. I think getting mad is useless but getting even is a lot more fun. Good for you! Great piece. Voting you up.
When we come to Ireland, I'll want to look you up and hear more!


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The attention span refers to the amount of time you can focus on a task or activity without giving in to distractions. It greatly affects how you perform or complete a job. It's really interesting that as time goes by, your attention span actually grows smaller. The average amount of time an adult was able to concentrate in the year 2000 was 12 seconds, now it's only 8 seconds. Remember that this information is about adults so it may be an even shorter amount of time for children! We should all work on improving our ability to focus by following these tips.
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Sometimes when you are working on something you get to the point where you are just stuck. You can't move forward because you just can't focus. What you need is a little exercise, even a few stretches can help. Physical activity releases chemicals that allow better learning and memorization. It's an easy mental boost that helps you perform better. Instead of going for the caffeine, go for cardio. Plus, exercising is good for your overall health.
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We don't function properly when we're tired, no matter how much caffeine we put into our bodies. Our brains and bodies recover and strengthen some cognitive functions while we sleep. Irregular or interrupted sleeping cycles cut the recovering time, making it difficult for us to focus while we're awake. Try sleeping the necessary 7 to 9 hours a night and see if your concentration improves.
Take it One Task at a Time
Multitasking will make you finish faster, but the results won't be the same as if you did each task individually. It's better to do one thing at a time and really focus on doing a good job at it.
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When you're stressed or bothered about something, it will probably take a lot of space in your mind. Make a mental list of what is stressing you and imagine you are putting each of those stressors in a box or drawer far away from you, if only for a little while. Work hard at trying to distance yourself from the things that stress you out while you are trying to complete a job. You can also try meditation to help you clear your mind. At first it will be very difficult to sit still and relax, but over time you will notice how much better you are at it.
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Hello everyone,
I've asked this question on another forum already, but maybe you guys can help me. Is it dissociaton when you're using music to escape from reality? I'm listening to music a lot during the day and while I do it I kind of forget time and what's happening around me, I've always used music in this way.
Now I did have a traumatic childhood and I've been diagnosed with CPTSD and I do suffer from derealization as well, but about the music listening I'm not sure, I'm constantly…
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Welcome, Knox!
It's no secret that I have a certain love for newborn sessions. The newness, innocence and those tiny baby yawns and movements are so special. This family welcomed baby Knox to the crew and he is such good little guy! His big sister is just as sweet. I feel so thankful that families allow me to document such a significant time in their lives.


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text: August is such a beautiful month for a wedding, and Tim and Kaitlin could not have asked for a better day! The sun was shining allowing us to take some great outdoor photographs! Kaitlin beamed with joy the moment she started getting ready; she definitely was a gorgeous bride! Tim couldn't choke back his emotion reading the letter Kaitlin wrote from him, you could tell this was a relationship that was built to last! The ceremony was at the beautiful Holy Family church in Fond du Lac which was the perfect backdrop for the morning photos, and for ceremony pictures, you could not ask for a better location! From there we went to the Marion University campus to take pictures at Kaitlins alma mater. The sun was at just the right angle to capture some stunning photos in front of Marion's iconic circular chapel. The reception was at the Oshkosh Convention Center and as you can see, everyone there was having a great time! Tim and Kaitlin had a great day for a wedding and the love they share was fun to be in the presence of!


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I've finally discovered the Rough Trade Shop!
And it's quite incredible, after walking aimlessly round Covent Garden with no luck on my last visit to London, this time I went armed with the address, and it still took me ages to find. But it was well worth it
Could have spent hundreds but in the end came away with
Deerhunter - Cryptograms
Paavoharju - Yha Hamaraa
Pan Sonic - Katodivaihe
Fennesz - Venice
All pretty ace and highly recommended
I'm pretty sure
the covent garden shop is closing when the new shop near Brick Lane opens.
Took me ages to find when I went
Shouldn't have got off at Notting Hill I s'pose.
But yeah, I just bought a load of stuff that I wouldn't have bought on the internet. Like the first Joanna Newsom album on vinyl.
i finally went last
week, got nothing but it seememd nice enough. looked better for vinyl than cd though.
i really need to buy a record player...
i went in there this weekend
i was looking for that deerhunter lp. i guess you got there before me.
not that good?
I admit its not particularly cheap, but it's still reasonable and the selection is brilliant. My third fav record shop, after Sister Ray and Selectadisc
But but but
selectadsic is now sister ray...
There's still selectadisc in nottingham
and obviously it's ace
isn't it just like fopp?
or like, mailorder?
all the music's indie, and people go there knowing what they want, so it's like just a indieman's virgin or hmv
jon davies
you have solved it
it IS just an indie man's virgin
with just good records
the CUNTS
let's burn them>?
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Thursday, May 26, 2011
Best Ocarina of Time preorder bonus ever
A real ocarina?! With two sheets of music to play with it? And it's exclusive to Australia too. Ocarina of Time fans will change continents (or just raid eBay for the things) come launch day.
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CASE 425 - The Brookings Institution
The Brookings Institution funded by many corporations is a nonprofit public policy organization based in Washington D.C or government think tank, closely linked to the roccafella family. One of Washington's oldest think tanks, Brookings conducts research and education in the social sciences, primarily in economics, metropolitan policy, governance, foreign policy, and global economy and development. Its stated mission is to "provide innovative and practical recommendations that advance three broad goals: strengthen American democracy; foster the economic and social welfare, security and opportunity of all Americans; and secure a more open, safe, prosperous, and cooperative international system". Brookings states that its scholars "represent diverse points of view," but as an institution it does not take positions and describes itself as non-partisan. Its scholars are responsible for their own research and views are considered their own
Brookings was founded in 1916 as the Institute for Government Research (IGR), with the mission of becoming "the first private organization devoted to analyzing public policy issues at the national level".
The Institution's founder, philanthropist Robert S. Brookings (1850–1932), originally financed the formation of three organizations: the Institute for Government Research, the Institute of Economics, and the Robert Brookings Graduate School affiliated with Washington University in St. Louis. The three were merged into the Brookings Institution on December 8, 1927.
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Responsible dog owners in Kirkcaldy have hit out at those who don't clean up after their pets when walking them in Beveridge Park.
Bill Allen, who owns The Dog Shop in St Clair Street, says he was appalled by the amount of dog mess he saw in the park when walking his dogs with his young son.
He says he's "sick to death" of responsible dog owners being tarred with the same brush as those who don't pick up.
"With the better weather there's a lot more kids here playing on the rugby and football pitches," he said, "So I bring my son down here because in the summertime especially it's great place to bring your kids.
"We came down recently and we were kicking a ball about and the place was an absolute state with dog mess everywhere.
"In the half hour that we were here we witnessed two owners letting their dogs mess and just kept on walking."
Bill says that owning a dog means you should be responsible for clearing up after it.
"A lot of the problem seems to be that if a dog is walking along behind you, you can't see what it is doing so you can't pick it up.
"What we need is a lot more awareness which will help lower the percentage of owners who are just letting their dogs foul up the parks, sometimes ignorantly.
"If we can just get more people thinking about it, so when their dog does go they'll think to pick it up.
"It's not a major difficulty to pick up the poo. "
Mark McCall, service manager (Safer Communities), at Fife Council said its aim is not only to catch owners who do not clean up after their dogs, but also to provide a visible presence to deter the irresponsible behaviour.
"We undertake high visibility foot patrols in a variety of areas known for high levels of dog fouling and utilise our CCTV van to undertake surveillance in an attempt to catch perpetrators and issue fixed penalty notices," he said.
"Another part of our challenge is to educate people so that they understand that this is not acceptable behaviour.
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Surprise 30th Birthday Party [for one of our own].
Our dear Jen, one of the CookingThyme team, turns 30 today, so we knew we had to do-it-up big! We surprised her with a party Sunday afternoon, and even though she was a little under the weather, we think it was quite a success.
|Blissini is one of our favorite drinks, and also one of the easiest to make.
It's a simple mix of equal parts orange juice, pomegranate juice and prosecco.
|Guests tested how well they knew Jen with some JenTrivia.
|We used simple, easy-to-make decorations, like this doily garland and a string of old [adorable] photos of Jen.
|Coconut cupcakes always seem to be a hit! You just can't beat cream cheese frosting!
|And allow us to introduce a family favorite: Frango Cakes. A little nutty cake with a chocolate mint topping and a
generous dollop of whipped cream. Divinity.
|What's better than crisp shortbread cookies with raspberry jam inside? We're not sure.
|Our sign of success: an empty bowl.
Happy birthday Jen! We'll throw a party for you any day!


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Consumer Confidence Falls Slightly in April
Wednesday, April 30, 2014
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The Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index®, which had increased in March, declined slightly in April. The Index now stands at 82.3 (1985=100), down from 83.9 in March. The Present Situation Index decreased to 78.3 from 82.5, while the Expectations Index was virtually unchanged at 84.9 versus 84.8 in March.
The monthly Consumer Confidence Survey®, based on a probability-design random sample, is conducted for The Conference Board by Nielsen, a leading global provider of information and analytics around what consumers buy and watch. The cutoff date for the preliminary results was April 17.
"Consumer confidence declined slightly in April, as consumers assessed current business and labor market conditions less favorably than in March," said Lynn Franco, Director of Economic Indicators at The Conference Board. "However, their expectations regarding the short-term outlook for the economy and labor market held steady. Thus, while sentiment regarding current conditions may have slipped a bit, consumers do not foresee the economy, or the labor market, losing the momentum that has been building up over the past several months."
Consumers' appraisal of current conditions pulled back moderately in April. Those claiming business conditions are "good" edged down to 21.8 percent from 22.6 percent, while those claiming business conditions are "bad" rose to 24.4 percent from 23.5 percent. Consumers' assessment of the labor market was also slightly more negative. Those stating jobs are "plentiful" declined to 12.9 percent from 13.8 percent, while those saying jobs are "hard to get" increased to 32.5 percent from 31.4 percent.
Consumers' expectations held steady in April. The percentage of consumers expecting business conditions to improve over the next six months was unchanged at 17.4 percent, while those anticipating business conditions to worsen increased marginally to 10.3 percent from 10.1 percent. Consumers were slightly more optimistic about the outlook for the labor market. Those expecting more jobs in the months ahead increased to 15.0 percent from 14.1 percent, while those expecting fewer jobs edged up to 17.9 percent from 17.5 percent. The proportion of consumers anticipating their incomes to grow increased to 17.1 percent from 15.3 percent, but those expecting a drop in their incomes also increased, to 12.9 percent from 11.5 percent.
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A Very Honest Conversation About Dance Music With Chippy Nonstop
It's time to spill some tea.
Most people in dance music give boring interviews.
In any given chat, you're likely to hear how the DJ in question doesn't prefer clubs or festivals, "they're just different". They'll tell you that they've never pre-planned a set in their life, "it's all on fly". That they're not complaining, but touring is "harder than it looks". More often than not, questions about bigger themes or the issues facing the genre are dodged with media-trained savvy, in favour of a shopping list of clichés.
It's no coincidence that most of those artists are straight, white men. As other creative industries have started to face up to their gender imbalance and ingrained sexism — especially in the last couple of weeks — progress in dance music has been frustratingly slow.
The genre is still dominated by men. Misogyny runs rife and unchecked. Looking at the same few names at the top of every festival line-up can inspire the feeling of living in an endless Groundhog Day, one where you're never not standing in a pile of confetti watching Hardwell ask the crowd to make some noise.
But Chippy Nonstop isn't afraid to talk. And she's definitely not boring.
Chippy — born Chhavi Nanda — broke into the dance music scene just as it was taking off in the US. Living in LA, she was in the right place at the right time to have a front row seat to the EDM explosion. Twitter infamy connected her with Diplo and led to to her working on the Major Lazer track 'Wind Up'. She alternately wrote articles about blagging your way into the VIP section for Vice and kept company with A-list DJs. She led a life she describes as "comfortable" — partying, DJing, working in songwriting and releasing her own rap videos.
Then everything changed.
In 2015, Chippy landed at LAX after an 11-hour flight from Japan, excited to go home. She never made it out of the airport — customs officials detained her for close to 12 hours then put her on a flight to Canada, where she'd spent some of her childhood. She was deported and banned from re-entering the US for ten years.
Chippy had lived in the US since she was 10 after her Indian-born parents relocated, most of time legally under their visa. When she left for an Asian tour, she believed her visa papers were more or less in order. They weren't.
With no friends, family or possessions, Chippy was faced with building her life back up from scratch in Canada. Instead of letting it break her, she ended up founding Intersessions, a series of workshops teaching women, gender non-conforming and LGBTQ+ individuals how to DJ, in the hopes of changing the straight-white-bro face of contemporary dance music.
It's been a hit — so much so that next month Chippy Nonstop will come to Australia for the first time, speaking at and running Intersessions workshops with Face The Music. In the lead-up, we got on the phone for a very honest conversation about all of dance music's bullshit.
It seems like when you were living in LA you probably were in close proximity to some pretty awful EDM bros, even just by virtue of being in North America.
Yeah. I worked with Diplo, I was on the Mad Decent trajectory when I was 19, I was in that scene.
Not to say that there's not good people within that scene, it's just they don't think about [other people] at all. And there's a lot of shitty people, too. But there's just a lot of people who grew up rich, grew up in Hollywood, became an EDM bro and then lived their life with their other bros and didn't really think about it.
"When you don't grow up with any obstacles, you don't think about other people's obstacles"
Some people want to be aware, but when you don't grow up with any obstacles you don't think about other people's obstacles. So I think a lot of it was obliviousness. And even for me, I would be struggling and crying at night being like, "Why are they like this? Why are they treating me like this?"
Even I wasn't self-aware to realise that, a lot of the time, it was sexism. I was just like, "Oh, this is just what the industry is." And it took having time to step back, and step out of that scene, to realise that it's like that.
Now that I'm older and away from it I understand that they were fucked up. They were sexist, they didn't treat me right. I obviously succumbed to using my body for certain things, because that's the industry. And now looking back on it I'm like, "Woah". There was a lot of fucked up shit that happened. I was super young and didn't realise what was going on.
So yeah, I dealt with a lot of bullshit. There's so many things that made me aggressive and made me passionate about Intersessions, and I didn't realise then until I just started doing it.
Now that you're out of that scene you like — thank fucking god?
Yeah, I mean, I still hit up people that I'm friends with. I don't want to put anyone's name on blast but I'm friends with people that would be quote unquote "EDM bros" in the bro culture, and they have a lot to learn. Even if they're still assholes, I talk to them say "You're a fucking asshole. What are you doing? Step out of your own lives for a second and see the other side."
Even if they won't do it now, maybe they'll book a woman to open for them on tour later on. These big EDM DJs should be saying, "If I'm playing this festival, there should be at least this many women playing, or this many queer people playing, or this many people of colour playing." If you're fucking Tiesto, you have the power to say no. If you're that big, you can say that, or make it your rider requirement. But a lot of people in EDM just don't want to think about it.
But I don't like to say that I'm happy to be out of that scene, because I still want them to understand our perspective.
What was your experience of working with Mad Decent?
I was just really excited. M.I.A. was one of the first English speaking brown pop stars that I knew of. So I was just on Twitter shooting the shit and saying random shit, and for some reason Diplo followed me when I was really young. I got all involved in that scene and I was just really, really excited.
I was really loud, really vocal, said whatever the fuck I wanted. For the Major Lazer album, I didn't know but it took so long to get paid — I barely got paid for what I did and I posted about it. And I was 19. I would probably do that in a smarter way now, because I didn't realise that being that much of an aggressive, assertive woman was really intense for them.
Me and Diplo don't get along now. He messaged me like, "After all Mad Decent has done for you, this is what you do?" and I was like, "You know what? I was just speak what is happening to me and what is going on, and it's nothing against you or Mad Decent."
What's the vibe generally in North America now with EDM? Are people still into it? It feels pretty dead here in Australia.
Well in Toronto it's dead, pretty much. There was this one venue called The Hoxton that had all the EDM events and it got shut down.
Every now and then I love going to an EDM concert, getting fucked up and trolling and stuff, but it's definitely a troll. I'm not like, "Woah, this is fucking amazing music." But as far as my friends go, they don't listen to EDM anymore, I don't think. It's just kids that listen to it. It's died down a lot.
It's not really a safe scene, it's not really relatable for a lot of people of colour, other than Jersey club or Baltimore club. Some music is still really vibrant, but not EDM EDM.
On the note of EDM not being safe for people of colour — have you seen the "All Lives Matter" shit Ghastly has been tweeting lately?
Yeah, even Lido jumped to that. But those guys were a little bit after my time. I was more in [the era] when Dillon Francis and all those people were popular. I guess he's in the same scene. They're all the same.
Wait, Lido's been posting that stuff as well?
Yeah, Lido posted "All Lives Matter", and there was huge fight because he posted something dumb and then all Jersey club artists weren't speaking with him. Then he started posting about all the Jersey club artists that he respects. Right after his rant about Jersey club he posted "All Lives Matter".
What do you think the biggest issue facing dance music right now is?
This is personal, but a lot of the time when I do Intersessions, I get a lot of hate messages from guys, like — "why is this workshop just for women?" Or "why is this for LGBTIQ people, and women, and people colour? Why is this necessary? I don't get it."
This is even an issue in the world in every form. But basically people don't realise that when we were young, women weren't the ones people would ask for help with technology. When the computer was broken, my mum would go to my brother. If the teacher in class needed help with the projector, they would look at a boy. Women were not supposed to be the fixers of technical stuff, and music is really technical.
"They think that they're on that stage because they're the best. That's just not the case."
Guys don't understand that we can't be at the same level right away because we've grown up this whole time thinking that we're not the one who can do this.
I think that's the main issue — that guys just don't understand. They're always saying, "why can't you just do it?" The answer is because they got a head start.
That's the thing that white dudes, especially, will never understand. Especially in a scene where suddenly white dudes are playing mainstages, and they think that they're on that stage because they're the best. That's just not the case.
You got deported from the US a couple of years ago. That must have been a super low time for you.
Yeah. For six months I was in a really dark place and I was just like, "What am I gonna do? What the fuck?" But when bad shit happens you tend to want to bring yourself up even higher than you were before, you know? So I took the bad and made it better.
I was going to say that it seems like things have really taken off for you since then. Was it a blessing in disguise?
Yeah, definitely. I was in LA, and I was in a comfortable position, and whenever you're comfortable you don't work as hard. So when I came here I had literally nothing, I didn't know anyone, all I had was one carry-on bag. All my possessions were in California.
Starting from scratch really makes you want to just work even harder. It was a blessing in disguise, but definitely it was a lot of myself seeing that I had to change and do something different. I had to figure out what I was gonna do from here, because I knew I couldn't do the same shit I was doing in California.
Do you mind talking through what actually happened when you didn't get let back in to the US, what it was like, and how you were treated by customs officials?
So basically I was in Japan, I had played a show, and then when I got off the plane to the US they took me into this room and I didn't really know what was happening.
I still am kind of iffy on all of the details, but basically there was something wrong with my visa paperwork. I had gone back and forth from different visas several times. But I had no idea that this is happening, because I'd grown up in America since I was 10 years old, so I just thought that was my home. I never really looked into my paperwork like that, I was just kind of oblivious.
I was with other people at first, then I was put into a smaller room and told to wait there. They took away all my possessions. I was wearing a jacket that had a drawstring in it, and they took away that and my shoelaces, and anything I could hurt myself with, because I was pretty hysterical.
Then I was sitting in the room for a few hours and still had no idea what was happening. They took away my phone, but I saw it in a hallway and grabbed it — because I was like, at this point no one knows where I am, none of my family or anyone. I had just enough time to text my mum and my boyfriend at the time to say "I'm not coming out, I don't know what's happening."
Then they found out that I took my phone and took me into questioning. They were super rude. At first, they were calling me my real name — Chhavi — then they came out and started calling me Chippy. They were laughing and looking at all my social media, reading it out loud and watching my videos. I was just still hysterical, I was in a mess and didn't know what was going on.
They told me "Well, you're not going to go home, so where do you want to go?" They told me I should go to Canada. I was at LAX, so I went to Vancouver because that's the closest city.
That's after 10 or 12 hours, I think. I'm still not 100 percent sure because I was all confused. I had to pay for my flight, they escorted me to the plane, and I flew to Vancouver. And I don't know really anyone there, and I just had to post on Twitter like, "Can anyone in Vancouver help me?" And this girl that I vaguely knew on Instagram messaged me, she came to my hotel because I didn't feel like being alone after all of that.
I haven't even tried to re-enter but apparently I'm banned for 10 years, so eight years to go.
Do you think you even want to move back to the US in eight years?
I don't plan on living there. I plan on being in Canada, but I'd definitely love to still play there and tour there. My mum and dad still live there, and my brother lives there, so it's still my family home.
Can you tell me about how you started to rebuild you life in Canada?
Honestly, I had a following online already. So a lot of people helped me out and were insanely helpful. And then all these articles came out about my deportation and people just wanted to help.
My good friend Brittney Scott was going to Paris to chill and do some work stuff, and I didn't have a social security number in Canada at that point, so I couldn't work there. Now I do, but at that point I didn't. So she was like, "Just come to Europe, work here for a bit," so I did that. I played a mini-tour in Europe and just fucked around for a while, and then I realised I had to find a home and be from somewhere so I went back to Vancouver to figure shit out.
"I wasn't happy with the scene there, and there's just not a lot of diversity in sound"
And then I wasn't getting paid what I deserved for gigs and a lot of older dudes just ran the scene there. I wasn't happy with the scene there, and there's just not a lot of diversity in sound.
Coming from LA, I could play whatever music I wanted when I DJ'd and people understood it but in Vancouver it just wasn't the same. So I was unhappy with that. Me and my friend Rhi Blossom started Intersessions because of that — our unhappiness with the scene there.
And then I pretty much couldn't take it anymore so I moved to Toronto, which is a lot more diverse than Vancouver. And now I've just been working in Toronto and still travelling a lot.
So the scene in Canada is very male dominated?
In Vancouver, not really in Toronto. In Toronto, bands and women run shit. But in Vancouver it was a lot of older men that were guarding the scene.
It's changed actually a lot in the last six months or year. Even just since we started Intersessions about a year and a half ago, it's changed so much there. I mean, I don't want to take credit for all of that, but a lot of women have come forward and started throwing parties.
Can you tell me more about what you guys do with Intersessions and the workshops that you run?
So basically one of the dudes who runs a venue in Vancouver hit up Rhi, and was like, "Hey, we have this space, do you want to do something here?" We had both talked about wanting to do workshop things or mentorship programmes, but we just didn't have the resources. There's very limited spaces in Vancouver, and limited access unless you're rich.
So basically we were like, "How do we go about this?" We kind of just begged, borrowed and asked people for equipment, and threw together really, really DIY workshops. But with the help of a bunch of other teachers there we put together this workshop and it just went really well. The energy in the room was amazing and all the students just were really inspired, and it was amazing to see.
So when I moved to Toronto I knew I needed to continue doing it. I came here and the workshop went well, and then people just kept hitting me up to do more and more workshops, so we moved it to all different places. I've done a few Europe ones, and now I'm coming to Australia to do them within touring.
We've talked a lot about bad people in dance music, but are there any good people in dance music that you want to shout out?
Doing Interessions just gave me so much hope, because everyone's always saying how women are catty towards each other and it's really not the case.
Almost every single woman, and queer person, and person of colour has asked to [volunteer for] Intersessions. It's a free event. I give them what I can, but they've all also volunteered three hours of their time to teach other friends, other queer folk, other people of colour. They donate all their time. Honestly, a dude wouldn't do that. Most guys wouldn't do this for other guys because they'd be like, "oh well I did it on my own, so they should be able to do it on their own too."
"Most guys wouldn't do this for other guys"
But for the majority there have just been so many women that have taught at Intersessions, all over the world, pretty much for free. That gave me a lot of hope, especially in us supporting each other.
I just want to shout out the women, because there have been so many. The list goes on forever. There's been over 40 workshops and there's been at least three to five teachers in each workshop.
You started out making a bunch of rap tracks and videos. How do you feel looking back on them now?
I still like them. I don't take myself that seriously. There's serious things that I do take seriously, but music at the end of the day is fun and it's about having fun. I'd had so much fun in the process of making all of that. So I look back on it and sometimes I'm like, 'oh my god', but at the same time it was so fun.
And all my music videos have close homies in all of them. The production is mostly me and really close homies, so it was always a really good experience when I was doing my solo project. It was just when I was working with other people's music that there was darkness.
You were one of the first wave of people to become Twitter famous. What's your view on self-promo, and do you think it's a necessary evil for creative people?
I started off when I was 16 I was lying about my age and writing for magazines, going to concerts, and tweeting. Funny shit, dumb shit. So I just started using it as a diary and I don't know how, but it just picked up. Now I'm just so used to it. I still use it as a diary, when I'm drunk or when I'm pissed off. Only now I have a little more of a filter than I used to. I don't think of it as self-promo because I grew up doing it, so it's just an innate thing that I do.
What's the future hold for you? What's your game plan from here?
I'm working on making music, vocals and production. I would like to eventually do a whole project that I produce myself, write myself, sing myself and rap myself.
Right now, I'm working on a few new vocal projects with a few different producers and myself also. I just want to get better at production and tour it. Because of Intersessions I've met so many talented people and I feel like, eventually, we could start a roster of a booking agency and help a lot of people get gigs. So I might want to do something like that.
But yeah, travel a lot, help culture grow, learn about culture in different place and have fun. I'm not trying to be a giant popstar or anything.
Do you know much about Australian electronic music? Are there people you want to link up with while you're here?
I know the main people. I saw that Mallrat was on the line-up. So I hit her up and we talked about making a song. I'm making music already ready with Mall Grab. He's gonna be there, in Australia. I hit up Nina Las Vegas and some other people.
Chippy Nonstop will appear at Face The Music on November 23-24. Find out more here.
Katie Cunningham is the Editor of Music Junkee and inthemix. She is on Twitter.


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This gorgeous terra cotta building in Auburn Gresham was constructed in 1925, designed by architect Edward G. McClellan (designer of a number of gracious homes around the South Side). It holds down the busy corner of 79th & Halsted – or rather, held: as reported by the Tribune and others on January 31 2012, four people were injured when a significant portion of this building collapsed. It was vacant at the time it decided to come tumbling down on passersby, but here's the real kicker: the City of Chicago owns this building, and has since around 2000. I'm not great at deciphering county property records, but it appears that the City acquired the building from the web of organizations surrounding the Nation of Islam (which was and is quite active in the neighborhood). Presumably some of the blame for the demise of this building falls to the NOI, as the City would not likely have taken it off their hands if everything had been rosy. Still, if this is the end result of a decade of municipal ownership, then the City's boneheaded rush to demolish a comparable building near Midway seems like a mercy killing in comparison. These amazing terra cotta corner buildings are not a renewable resource, and the city needs to quit treating them as such.
Sadly, I only have the oblique and partial photo at the top from a bus tour I took several years ago. The photo immediately above is from the Cook County Assessor's website, taken in 2008. Here's a better view of the whole corner.
Update: The building was immediately demolished. More from Lee Bey.


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You are here: Front page Plans for towns and settlements Subarea plans Adopted 0902-E02
0902-E02 Night soil
Location – town/settlement
Technical supply plants and other infrastructure
Specific use
Technical supply plants
The area is to be used for technical purposes in the shape of night-soil facility
Current conditions
The area covers an area of some 0.1 ha
Building provisions
New building is not permitted in the area.
Remaining available space
No special provisions
Traffic service and utilities
From the area, access is to be provided to the other areas and functions in the settlement by means of the existing system of wheel tracks and paths
Listed, protected and preservation-worthy features
No special provisions
Regulated zones
The area is located under the obstacle limitation surface at the heliport (overflight area and transition surface). In the overflight area, buildings and other facilities cannot be higher than level 54.0 metres. Under the transition surface, the maximum ridge height is variable and depends on the distance to overflight area
Special provisions
Area allotments are to ensure that necessary measures be taken to prevent environmental impacts and ensure the possibility of extending the system of local roads


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What if we had behavior coaching through awareness augmentation. Our senses aren't acute enough to keep ourselves healthy. We see, hear, smell, touch, only a small piece of real, distracted by confabulations. Each day the loud consumerism elephant in the room overshadows the sensorial richness all around us and within our bodies, without our awareness. We need help as humans to listen to our bodies.
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I had a hard time sleeping last night with the to-do list that comes with Monday's usual custody swap and an evening appointment for the kids. That and my childhood asthma has been making it hard to breathe as an adult. In the early hours of this morning as I was contemplating all that would be coming with the sun, I started to think about my last blog post. I love myself and yet I'm still hiding behind my blog. I don't want to diminish the wonderful feeling that in my words, all you get is the voice in which I write. Aside from my last post, and maybe a random other post where I buried a picture of myself in a slideshow, you really don't see what I look like. Okay, so in recent months I may have shared pictures of me in my childhood or 15 years ago. But nothing too recent until really recently. You don't really know who I am. I'm hiding. Unless you're one of my Facebook friends and probably annoyed with the posts that link to my latest ramblings on a daily basis. I really don't even know how many of my friends read my blog and how many just like the pictures when a post comes with a visual. If you follow closely, you'll know that at one point about a year and a half ago, I couldn't even string together a whole paragraph. I still have a hard time getting lost in a book. Focusing on getting lost comes with the guilt from spending so many years escaping from my family in young adult paranormal romance. I've grown in ways that I didn't expect and yet, here I am, hiding in anonymity. I love myself, and yet, I'm hiding my identity like I'm not proud of the woman I have become.
I started writing under a guise because I was thinking of the damage my words could do to a job hunt. After a conversation with a friend today I realized I really don't party all that hard. I don't do anything that is extreme or dangerous that would label me a hire risk. I'm just not that exciting. Hiding my identity was supposed to be about potential jobs, but the reality is it's about protection and hiding. Loving myself means I get to own up to what I say. Not only is my face on my blog. I am in every single word. I don't hide behind a pseudonym on Instagram, Facebook or LinkedIn. I don't hide in other areas. In the most meaningful expression of who I am, I hide the most. This place is my playground and I hide from everyone even though I give the most honesty here. You won't see a feminist forward or a fur baby moment. This is me. Not borrowed or shared. Just me.
After last night's post, I realized I was holding onto old fears. I had a blog years ago that focused on being an autism mom. My ex didn't want me writing about him or the boys and I realized it was hurtful to put my kid's lives on display for my therapy. I write about my family now as they're relevant to my exploration of who I am, but I try to be mindful in keeping this about me. I get to be selfish here.
There was a short while where my latest crush and I would talk about writing. I haven't seen or talked to him in a long while. He is a dedicated writer that will spend time in creativity every single day. He crafted his words for hours at a time in a way that I don't. My writing comes out in spurts of inspiration. I scribble out a thought and hammer it out in moments before dozing off. I wake to finish my posts. I don't treat it like a job and he always did, encouraging me to write because he's just a really great person. He was really uncomfortable with my observations of him. I saw him in a way that was intense and writing about him made me happy with an equally taxing cost to him. In all of the ways a conversation with him made me want to write, he never once discouraged me from what I wrote or how I wrote or even the times I wrote about him. I realized today I was hiding from my words based on a situation with my ex, when my latest crush showed me that the censorship imposed on me was based on someone who no longer matters to me. He didn't say anything to persuade me of anything. He simply existed as he was in a way that shifted my perspective while healing old hurts. Talented and special.
Here I am.
I was named Yessica by my Dad. He was studying Hebrew at the time of my birth. In honor of the Hebrew alphabet missing a "J" sound, he named me Yessica. It was a name he's always translated to "God's Gift." That's what I get for making the 7 year old baby a middle sister. I get to be his gift from God.
My Mom chose my middle name, which is Ruth. It's biblical and I held onto my namesake for so long as I stood in prayer and hope for my marriage. It was the belief that no matter what kind of husband my ex was being, I could choose what kind of wife I would be. It was over 11 months before I realized I was more attached to my role as a wife than I was to the man I married. I get to be someone else's wife one day.
My paternal heritage gave me a typical Egyptian name and it blends into the legacy of a woman brought into the United States on a slave ship from Africa. Her name was Americus Starks and I'm almost certain it wasn't a name given to her at birth. I have educators and preachers in my lineage. There was a State Senator. We are Choctaw Indian, English, African American, and Mexican. When my divorce is final, I'm reclaiming my birth-name.
On my maternal side, there is a family that is strong enough to rely on each other through extreme developing country poverty. We are from Thailand and my Dad just informed me we are also Burmese.
I married and gave my children their father's name. It comes from his Irish side, although the family remembers his Dutch side most. Taking his name was the first fight I lost. I wanted to hyphenate my name or just add his name after mine, but taking his name was important to him. It identified me as his wife. It bound our family under a single name that I adopted as mine with a history to claim as my heritage and a future to forge in the legacy of our children. It was a blessing that became a curse in shame. It is a burden that daily reminds me of the road I've traveled and grown strong through. I'm happy that I get to let it go. When I think of the day I had his name covered on my arm with a tattoo of my son's names, I can easily recall feeling so free and empowered. I imagine my name change will feel like that except getting a tattoo of his name was always my choice while the name change never was. I'm sure it'll feel better once I get past the paperwork.
I am Yessica Ruth Maher.
I made a contract with myself a few weeks ago: I am a brave, courageous, heart led leader. Whether I lead only myself, or my children, or a horde of people ready to reclaim their voices in the shadows of an experience they share with me, I choose this identity. I am brave through fear. I am courageous through discomfort and pain. I lead from the heart, choosing what is right over what is easy.
I am a daughter to the parents that raised me and the parents that claim me. I am a product of their contributions to my identity and the support they never cease to offer. I am a child that knows love that looks like duty and feels like honor.
I am a sister. We are a combination of blood relatives, step siblings, adopted siblings and siblings through marriage. Our gatherings are huge, but we know that family is bound by duty and we'll always be there for you, even if we don't like you at the moment.
I am a Mom. I'm an autism mom. I'm the mother of a sensitive but neuro-typical child. I'm the mother of boys. My firstborn and I survived the baby blues. My youngest saved me from my deepest depression while in my belly. I was a surrogate mother and helped families grow in ways that healed parts of motherhood that ached in painful shadows of comparison that I could never touch in ways that I wanted to.
I am a woman that lived in constant depression from 1992 until I was pregnant with my youngest child in 2006. He saved my life with every tap and jab to my womb at precise moments when our lives were hanging in a precarious balance.
I'm Yessica. You can call me Yessie. Just make sure you don't forget to call me for dinner.


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- icdesignsAsked on February 03, 2011 at 11:42 AM
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The correct process of inducing a response is through the senses. He [the actor] tries to remember where he was. Say he was in the yard. The actor cannot simply think in generalities. The yard is composed of many objects that he sees, hears, touches, and so forth, to which he assigns the word yard. Only by formulating the sensory concreteness of these objects can the emotions be stimulated. It is not sufficient to say, "It was hot." Rather, the actor must define precisely in what area he experienced the particular heat he remembers; the actor localizes the concentration in that area to create not just a memory but a reliving of that particular moment. The actor remembers what he had on: the sight, texture, or sensation of that material on the body. The actor tries to remember the event that caused the emotion, not in terms of the sequence of the story, but in terms of the various senses that surrounded it.This feels to me so much like the process of writing a poem! It's all about imagining the texture of the fabric one is wearing, the feel of the wind on the only spot on one's neck uncovered by the scarf, the color of the bench at the bus stop—and not just the important details but the unimportant, because, as Strasberg says, "In the midst of severe crisis, an individual's attention will often register the smallest details related and unrelated to that crisis."
Again, Strasberg makes the connection to writing and says the task is the same: "Affective memory is a decisive element in most artistic creation. The only difference is that in other art forms, the affective memory is created by the artist in the solitude of his own environment. … The link between affective memory and creativity has been a constant presence in poetry."
The phrase "a dream of passion" is taken from Hamlet's speech about acting, and it captures, I think perfectly, the artist's balancing act: the need for art to be passionate, but it's not exactly passion—rather, a dream of passion. A dream without passion is not poetry, but it must be a dream. As Hamlet says, "What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, that he should weep for her?"


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Scientists probing hormone-disrupting chemicals say politicians should not wait until it is too late to act. Robert Allen reports. As health workers, mothers and baby milk manufacturers debate the controversial findings of a Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food study that found chemicals in infant formula milk, one of the scientists working on the threat to human health from hormone-disrupting synthetic compounds believes it is nearly time to start taking political action.
Physician Carlos Sonnenschein argues that "we should wait a little bit longer" until more evidence is gathered but after that politicians should act. "I personally believe it will neither be very efficient nor effective to wait until all the evidence is in. There are hundreds of thousands of compounds. We cannot study them one by one and when all of them are in say 'I told you so'. This would take decades. Therefore at some point political authorities will have to take decisions."
The MAFF survey (on 59 samples of 15 brands of powdered baby milk) found levels of phthalates - synthetic compounds which soften plastic - insufficient to damage human fertility, according to Richard Sharpe, who led the research, Yet the average levels in formula milk exceed EU precautionary limits and are close to levels known to cause reproductive problems in wildlife. The concern arises because toxological information on the estrogenic effects of phthalates is only available for a fraction of the known phthalate compounds used in industry. Scientists believe phthalates leach from plastic packaging and are absorbed in fatty foods.
Sonnenschein has, with his colleague Ana Soto, been at the forefront of scientific research into hormone-disrupting chemicals since 1987 when they both discovered, during a controlled experiment on cell growth at their laboratory in Tufts Medical School in Boston, United States, that something estrogenic was contaminating their blood serum samples. After two years of painstaking detective work they found the culprit - a synthetic chemical called p-nonylphenol which was leaching from seemingly benign plastic test tubes.
Sonnenschein and Soto quickly learned that p-nonylphenol is one a family of synthetic chemicals known as alkyphenol polyethoxylates - used by manufacturers to stabilise and strengthen plastics such as polystrene and PVC. The plastic test tubes used by Sonnenschein and Soto were made from polystrene to which some manufacturers add nonylphenols. Alkylphenols have been implicated as environmental estrogens - man-made chemicals capable of mimicking the sex hormone estrogen. In 1990 there were more than 600 million alkyphenol polyethoxylates in use globally.
This discovery set the pair on a new course of research - into synthetic chemicals. They teamed up with two Spanish researchers and began to learn of other hormone-disrupting synthetic chemicals, significantly Bisphenol-A, which they found in the saliva of dental patients and in the plastic lining of food cans.
Aware that many in the scientific community believe that phytoestrogens (found in plants and vegetation) can also disrupt hormones in wildlife, Sonnenschein and Soto have begun research to determine the impact on humans from the man made kind. "We can take human blood, and probably in the future human fat, extract everything that is there and separate three components - man-made estrogens, ovarian estrogens and phyto estrogens and we can make a nice micro-study," says Soto, explaining that they can then determine, for example, whether the incidence of undescended testicles "correlate with environmental estrogens, ovarian estrogens or phytoestrogens".
But Sonnenschein and Soto are more concerned about the synergistic effect of hormone-disrupting chemicals - that the estrogen problem is the result of a combination of chemicals. "We combined ten chemicals at one tenth of the active dose and we found a cumulative effect; we started removing one at a time and we realised we still had activity by the time we had removed four or five; now we are trying to understand what is the relationship among them. Apparently at low doses they act in an additive synergistic way," Soto explains. She says that they are being very careful with their research because "it seems now that we get more than the sum but we are not convinced because the study is not finished".
So is there a problem? While Sonnenschein is sure, Soto can't say. "I am a member of the [US] National Academy of Sciences committee that is reviewing data in an attempt to find out whether or not there is a problem so I cannot tell you. We're bound to keep cool. I can only talk about my research. Ana Sota cannot think as a citizen for a while. I can't talk about policy. I can tell you we have no idea what is the relative risk of natural [phyto] estrogens versus environmental estrogens."
But she adds with the same caution as her partner: "You cannot even start with anything unless you change the approach. You can't check everything under the sun. If you start doing what has been done with breast cancer you can keep doing this until the cows come home and you won't find anything because humans are not bound to a small area."
Individual exposures and environmental backgrounds differ for every person, she explains.


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Patients with exercise-induced bronchoconstriction are best managed with an inhaled short-acting beta agonist 15 minutes before exercise, according to new guidelines from the American Thoracic Society.
Those patients also can benefit from daily inhaled corticosteroid, daily leukotriene receptor antagonist, or a mast-cell stabilizing agent before exercise, the ATS wrote online in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.
The ATS estimates that exercise-induced bronchoconstriction (EIB) may be prevalent in 30% to 70% of elite and Olympic athletes, and is also common in the general population.
For patients with continued symptoms the ATS recommended:
- Daily inhalation of corticosteroid (ICS)
- Daily leukotriene receptor antagonist
- Before exercise, a mast cell stabilizing agent
The ATS issued a strong recommendation against daily use of inhaled long-acting beta-agonists (LABA) as single therapy, noting "a strong concern for serious side effects."
Additionally, the ATS included as a suggestion "administration of an inhaled anticholinergic agent before exercise."
"In our clinical practices, we generally add a daily inhaled ICS or a daily leukotriene receptor antagonist first, with the choice between these agents made on a case-by-case basis depending upon patient preferences," Jonathan P. Parsons, MD, of Ohio State University, Columbus, and colleagues wrote. "Mast cell stabilizing agents and inhaled anticholinergic agents play a secondary role."
Patients with EIB and allergies might benefit from antihistamine. However, non-allergic patients should not add antihistamine, the society stated.
Patients may also benefit from warm-up exercise and masks in cold weather, the guidelines stated.
"The ideal protocol to detect EIB involves a rapid increase in exercise intensity over approximately 2 to 4 minutes to achieve a high level of ventilation," the guidelines stated.
Because EIB has been reported in up to 20% of subjects who have not been diagnosed with asthma, ATS suggested abandoning the term exercise-induced asthma.
While EIB symptoms are variable, nonspecific, mild to moderate, and may impede athletics, severe episodes and even death can occur. Typically, EIB recovery is spontaneous with FEV returning to 95% baseline value within 30 to 90 minutes.
Ice rinks and indoor swimming pools may be trouble environments, the statement cautioned. About 30% of EIB reported in ice-rink athletes has been linked to inhaling cold dry air and exhaust from ice-resurfacing machines. The 11% to 29% of asthma and EIB in competitive swimmers has been associated with high levels of trichloramines in the air of indoor pools, it said.
EIB is more prevalent in distance runners than the general population, attributed to exercise among allergens and high ozone.
ATS cautioned that "many of the standard therapies employed to treat EIB have restricted use in competitive athletes." Except short-acting inhaled albuterol, most beta agonists are banned in competition, it stated.
Parsons reported lecture fees from AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline, Merck, and Schering Plough. Co-authors received fees from Genentech, GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer, Medical Graphics Corp., Alcon Labs, Teva, Amgen, and Sunovian, Strategic Biosciences and Strategic Pharmaceutical Advisors, CompleWare Corp. and numerous others.
- Reviewed by Zalman S. Agus, MD Emeritus Professor, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and Dorothy Caputo, MA, BSN, RN, Nurse Planner
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American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care MedicineSource Reference: Parsons J, et al "An official American Thoracic Society clinical practice guideline: Exercise-induced bronchoconstriction" Am J Respir Crit Car Med 2013; DOI: 10.1164/rccm.201303-0437ST.


text: Writer-Director Oliver Stone received two Writers Guild of America screenwriting awards nominations Thursday. His screenplays for "Platoon" and "Salvador" (co-authored with Richard Boyle) were among nominees for best screenplay written directly for the screen. Others nominated were David Lynch ("Blue Velvet"), Woody Allen ("Hannah and Her Sisters") and Neil Jordan and David Leland ("Mona Lisa"). Nominated for best screenplay adapted from another medium were Hesper Anderson and Mark Medoff ("Children of a Lesser God"), Paul Mazursky and Leon Capetanos ("Down and Out in Beverly Hills"), Howard Ashman ("Little Shop of Horrors"), Ruth Prawer Jhabvala ("A Room With a View") and Raynold Gideon and Bruce A. Evans ("Stand by Me").