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"Treasures from the Dream Factory" is the third collaboration of Turner Classic Movies and Bonhams auction house in presenting Hollywood memorabilia at auction. The past two auctions have sold at record prices the Maltese Falcon from the eponymous movie for $4.2 million, and the piano from Rick's Cafe in Casablanca for $3.2 million. This year's golden lair will be auctioned in New York on November 23, 2015, and many treasures are offered as the title implies.
Along with the five extremely lucky children that got a Golden Ticket to Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory in that famous movie, you could be a proud owner of a ticket too. The Golden Ticket at auction is from the 1971 Paramount classic starring Gene Wilder and Peter Ostrum. The ticket was owned by film set Construction Manager Hendrik Wynands. Estimate of $10,000 -15,000.
The Golden Ticket sold for $28,000
From the movie considered by many to be the best movie ever made – Citizen Kane, is the childhood "Rosebud" sled of Charles Foster Kane. It was given to the film's screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz. Estimate of $100,000 -200,000.
The Rosebud sled sold for $149,000
From the classic The Wizard of Oz comes the costume worn by Judy Garland throughout the entire movie. The blue and white checked pinafore and off-white blouse with rick-rack trim was designed by Adrian. Several "test" versions were designed before this final dress was used throughout the film. A solid blue "test" version was sold at the Debbie Reynolds auction in 2011 for $1.1 million, although the heavy promotion for the auction had much to do with that price. The pinafore being auctioned here is one previously owned by Kent Warner, the costumer who had "liberated" many costumes from MGM including several pairs of the Ruby Slippers. He always picked the most important items, with his rationale being to either preserve them, or in the case of the 1970 MGM auction, as payment for organizing costumes for the auction. Kent Warner first had this costume up for auction at Christies in 1981. Labels in this costume have Judy Garland's name and the number 4461, a sure way to trace its provenance. Estimate $800,000 – 1.2 million
The Judy Garland Dorothy pinafore sold for $1,625,000 including commission
Several great posters are featured in the auction. This one caught my eye and is significant as a symbol of early Hollywood – and also a symbol of silent films as the film it advertises is considered a "lost" film. This is a French version of the poster, besides the list of actors that featured in the vignettes were Charles Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, Gloria Swanson, Mary Pickford, and many others. Estimate $30,000 -40,000.
The poster sold for $37,500
Screen favorite Natalie Wood's Estate is being auctioned, with many significant items from her career going on the block. A few highlights include these:
A Golden Globe for "International Stardom" awarded in 1957, her first major acting award. Estimate $10,000 – 15,000
The International Stardom Golden Globe sold for $17,500
A Golden Globe for "World Favorite Actress" in 1965. Estimate $7,000 -9,000.
The "World Favorite Actress" Golden Globe sold for $12,500
Natalie Wood's "Director's Chair" stamped "From the MGM Crew 1959" She used this on several film sets, including This Property is Condemned and Love with a Proper Stranger. Estimate $500 -700.
The Director's Chair sold for $1250
This costume was worn by Marilyn Monroe in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, 20th Century-Fox, 1953. Dark gray wool jacket and skirt, jacket has cream-colored patterned-linen collar and lining., designed to show decollete. Designed by her regular designer at 20th Century-Fox, William Travilla. Estimate $350,000 – 500,000.
The Marilyn Suit sold for $425,000
A Judy Garland costume worn in Easter Parade, MGM, 1948. Designed by Irene. The gown was worn in the scene with Fred Astaire where they sing the number "It Only Happens When I Dance with You." Estimate $8000 -10,000.
The Judy Garland Easter Parade costume sold for $10,625
Steve McQueen's racing suit from the movie Le Mans, National General, 1971. This is one of three suits worn by McQueen during the car racing scenes in the movie. Estimate $200,000 – 300,000
The Le Mans suit sold for $425,000
Stephen Boyd as Massala's costume from Ben Hur, MGM 1959. Worn in the famous chariot race scene. With gold embroidery and gold leather applique on the black belt. Estimate $8000 – 12,000.
The Stephen Boyd Ben Hur costume sold for $20,000
Am original Mickey Mouse animation cel, circa 1940. Shows signs of wear. In the recent past a flood of reproductions and limited editions have been on the market. It's nice to see a vintage cel from the golden age of Disney animation. Estimate $800 – 1200.
The Mickey Mouse cel sold for $10000
A World War I photo of Walt Disney in Red Cross uniform, inscribed and signed to a friend. Estimate $25,000 – 35,000. A scrapbook that includes drawings from Disney during that period is also on the block for $150,000 -200,000.
This item was withdrawn along with several other Disney photos
Sam Spade's chair used in The Maltese Falcon, Warner Brothers, 1941.The chair was in the apartment used by Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade. This same chair was previously sold at auction by Christie's in 1997 for $32,200. Estimate $75,000 -100,000.
The Sam Spade chair sold for $87,500
Here is an interesting document, a contract signed by Barbara Stanwyck to borrow a 16mm film copy of Double Indemnity in 1945, the year after she made the film. In the days long before videocassettes, movies could only be screened in 16mm formats for home use. Ms. Stanwyck wanted to show the film to friends, a film she was particularly proud of, and had to sign a contract with her own studio Paramount to borrow it.
The contract sold for $812.
Frank Capra's Golden Globe Award for It's a Wonderful Life, Columbia, 1946. Awarded at the 4th Golden Globes held in 1947 for Frank Capra as Outstanding Director. This was for Frank Capra's favorite film and a seasonal favorite. $40,000 – 60,000.
Frank Capra's Golden Globe sold for $60,000
There are many other gems in this auction, a treasure chest of Golden Age Hollywood memorabilia. What is your favorite? I collect costume sketches, of which there are a few in the auction. But my favorite item has to be Judy Garland' s dress from the Wizard of Oz. Of all the items in this auction, this is the item that, for me, is the one most sprinkled with stardust.
I'll update this post with some of the prices realized after the auction.


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Dolores Gordon Smith
'I began my writing career with a love of reading. I love reading thrillers but found that so many of them are written by men with the male reader in mind. I wanted to write thrillers that would appeal to both sexes so with this in mind, I wrote my first novel and sent it off to Hodder with a warm glow of excitement. Wow, I was going to be an author!
By the time the inevitable rejection dropped through my letter box, reality had set in. But the letter gave me a spark of hope. Betty Schwartz, the submissions editor, commended me on my writing ability. She had enjoyed the story but it just wasn't quite right for Hodder. I remember dancing around the kitchen with joy. Okay, I'd been rejected, but a professional in the industry had told me I was good and that was the inspiration I needed to try again.

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The Producers has been credited with reviving the fortunes of Broadway and tempting jaded audiences back to the theatre. Now it has hot footed it to the West End for an eagerly-anticipated run at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane.
The concept of The Producers has a rich history and one that could so easily have faded away completely. Instead it has achieved a cult status which has lasted three decades.
It began life as a film written and directed in 1968 by Mel Brooks, himself a cult figure with a mixed film track record.
The Producers was one of his first forays into motion pictures and cemented his position as a risk-taker who defied the rules of Hollywood.
The film tells the story of Max Bialystock, a theatre producer who needs to make a quick buck.
Sure-fire flop
Roping in mousy accountant Leo Bloom they hatch a plan to stage a disastrous musical which will close early, robbing the backers of their investment.
But it backfires when everyone loves the show, seeing it as a ironic classic, and threatening Bialystock's ruthless plan.
The film earned Brooks an Academy Award for best screenplay, his one and only recognition from the industry during his movie career.
Gene Wilder was nominated for best supporting actor for his role as Leo Bloom. Bialystock was played by Zero Mostell who died of a heart attack in 1977.
Despite Oscar success it was not particularly well received critically or commercially in the US, but it continued to win over fans as a cult classic despite the somewhat controversial nature of the plot.
There was some ill feeling from some quarters towards the show because some saw it as trivialising the Holocaust and Hitler.
Brooks, who is Jewish, responded by saying that such were the atrocities carried out by Hitler the only way to get even with him was to hold him up to ridicule.
"It's been one of my life-long jobs - to make the world laugh at Adolph Hitler," Brooks once said.
More than 35 years later Brooks turned it into a musical bound for Broadway.
It was actually the idea of media mogul David Geffen to put the production on stage, approaching Brooks but thinking someone else would compose new music for it.
But the backers turned to Brooks to create new tunes for the stage production.
Automatic hit
There were of course reservations about whether a musical film about a musical would work as a real stage musical.
Although keeping the essence of the film, and the centre piece song Springtime for Hitler, Brooks updated it with new songs and gave some characters more prominent roles, including that of secretary Ulla.
Its overwhelming success was compounded by winning the most Tony Awards in history, picking up a total of 12 in 2001, including best musical and director.
But the production hit problems when Lane and Broderick bowed out.
British actor Henry Goodman was fired from his role as Max Bialystock after just 30 performances, with no notice.
The producers of the show said Goodman was right to feel angry at this treatment and that he was a fine actor but just not right for the part.
Eventually Broderick and Lane returned to their roles for a 14-week run in 2003, much to the delight of fans.
It success on Broadway meant there were calls for it to transfer to London as soon as possible.
The lead actors for the West End were announced as Lee Evans and Richard Dreyfuss.
It was considered something of a coup to secure Oscar winner Dreyfuss despite the fact his musical credentials were largely unknown.
Stepping into the breach
And the demands of musical theatre took its toll on the 56-year-old who parted company with the show just days before the curtain was supposed to rise in the West End for preview performances.
Luckily for the real producers, and the those who had already booked tickets, Nathan Lane was available to step back in the role.
It gave him the chance to team up once again with Lee Evans, with whom he had appeared in film The Mousehunt, and secure a bumper pay packet.
If he had not stepped into the breach, there was a real risk the show would not go on.
But the knock-on effect of Lane heading to London is the delay to filming a remake of The Producers - in which he will star with Broderick.
The film will be directed by Susan Stroman, who has made such a success of it on Broadway.
Nicole Kidman is slated to appear in the film as Ulla.
The remake continues the Hollywood revival for musical films such as Chicago and Moulin Rouge.
And it could bring The Producers to a new generation who perhaps will not pay the high West End or Broadway prices to see the musical.


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In the newest tweet from Kanye West, we see what's going on when it comes to the albums.
The full track list for Kids See Ghosts with Kid Cudi is on the dry erase board in front of him, as well as 2 of his own tracks. To the side, we see Pusha T, Nas, and Teyana Taylor's track listings.
KANYE WEST on Twitter
KANYE WEST on Twitter
Kanye also recently tweeted that he got rid of his phone to "work on these albums," so we wonder who's doing his Tweeting now.


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Midyat, Turkey, Sunday October 18
Greetings from a mid-size industrial city in SE Turkey where I have just come back from a three-day break from pedalling. More on that later, but first let me bring you up to date on the five days of riding it took to get here from Van.
I left Van early on a sunny day, although there was a definite haziness to the sky. I rode along the lakeshore all the way to the ferry dock for Akdamar Island. I waited around for the required number of tourists (all Turks, except for me) to gather and then we put-putted over to the small rocky island, looking like one of the Cyclades transported magically from the Aegean to eastern Anatolia. The entire region of Van was a major centre of Armenian culture for many centuries until 1915, and the island of Akdamar boasts the most famous single Armenian monument in Turkey, a spectacular church perched atop a ridge, visible from the mainland for many kilometres around. Restored two years ago, the church boasts even more stone carving than I had seen on churches in Armenia itself, with several bands of bas-relief showing a variety of saints and biblical stories. They looked particularly striking in the strong sunlight, and with fresh snow on the high peaks of the Taurus Mountains to the south. I sat and sketched and listened to choral music on the iPod and spent a wonderful hour and a half absorbing the historical and artistic richness of the island.
Leaving the island, I could have taken a long detour out onto a mountainous peninsula to see a second Armenian church at Altintas, but with the afternoon drawing on, I chose instead to have a pleasant lakeside lunch and then cut across the isthmus of the peninsula on the main road. Little did I suspect that there was a 550-metre climb ahead, over a spur of the Taurus Mountains. As I descended from the pass, the stream I was following suddenly turned south and I realized that it was flowing towards the Tigris river and ancient Mesopotamia; the watershed between Lake Van and the Tigris basin is only a few kilometres inland from Lake Van. I camped at dusk in a dusty field, not far from an encampment of horse-breeding nomads.
The next day I rode, largely inland and out of sight of the lake, to the city of Tatvan, the western terminus of the lake ferries from Van. I climbed up onto the volcanic dam that created Lake Van, had a relaxed lunch and then started a steep drop down the Bitlis River canyon. I passed through Bitlis, a historic old city founded by one of Alexander the Great's officers and dominated by an ancient castle. I admired a few pieces of fine Seljuk architecture, and then escaped the crowded chaos of the city centre. I had a wonderful moment as I left town. I had chatted briefly with a mailman before I left the kebab shop where I had bought a takeaway doner kebab for dinner. As I pushed my way through the thronged street, a young man came up to me, grabbed my handlebars and demanded money for the privilege of being allowed to go on my way. I had picked up a handy stick beside the road on the way out of Van, and so I pulled it out to convince the lout of the wisdom of letting me proceed unhindered. The youth turned away and started walking quickly back up the street I had descended. Unknown to him, his path led him right past the mail delivery truck in which my mailman friend was sitting, stuck in traffic. As my would-be extortionist came level with the truck, the mailman hopped out of the cab, grabbed the guy in a headlock and delivered a couple of stinging slaps to the head. A few passersby, who had seen the entire episode, cheered as the young man ran away, his ears, and head, presumably ringing. I flashed my rescuer a grateful smile and a thumbs up.
Leaving Bitlis, the road continued its steep descent of the canyon, but the pleasure of the downhill was cancelled by the enormous road construction project that blighted the valley for the next 50 kilometres. It also made it hard to find a campsite. Eventually I spotted something on the other side of the river, and ended up pitching my tent next to a centuries-old caravansaray that is now used as a horse stable by the family whose house sits atop the roof. It was much warmer at this low altitude, and I sat outside the tent gazing at the stars, refreshing my knowledge of the constellations, before retreating to the tent for some guitar. It had been a good day.
On October 13th, I sped downhill along the river, turned away from the main road to Diyarbakir, and made my way to the small junction city of Kurtalan, from where I hoped to make my way by back roads to the historic town of Hasankeyf. I changed my mind after being advised that the bridge shown on Google Maps didn't really exist and that the Turkish military police, the jandarma, probably wouldn't let me go along this route anyway. The jandarma and the army were particularly thick on the ground in this area, and I have the impression that the area south-east of Bitlis was (and maybe still is) a hotbed of PKK militancy. Certainly the Bitlis River canyon would be a perfect spot to ambush Turkish military convoys. At any rate, I turned east towards the town of Batman (really, that's the name!) and camped about 20 km short of the city, in a landscape utterly transformed since leaving Lake Van. At an elevation of only 700 metres above sea level, I had left the volcanic highlands of eastern Turkey and Armenia definitively behind me and entered Mesopotamia, the once-fertile but now parched lands drained by the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. The sky was hazy with desert dust, and the temperature rose to levels I hadn't felt since Iran. The terrain was now a brown, rolling plateau, bereft of high mountains and less interesting to look at, although easier for cycling. İ was excited, though, as İ really was entering one of the great cradles of ancient civilization, a place even older than the Silk Road itself.
My last two days into Midyat were easier cycling than usual, and richer in historical and cultural interest than I had become used to. The first day was a short 50-kilometre jaunt into Hasankeyf, a gorgeous old village on the banks of the mighty Tigris River. The ride there was pretty, particularly the last 10 kilometres as I dropped into the Tigris valley, lined on the far bank by steep cliffs pitted with man-made caves; the entire area is rich in troglodyte dwellings.
Hasankeyf itself was spectacular, a somewhat modern village near the waterline, below a huge ruined upper city which constitutes one of southeast Turkey's premier attractions. The citadel and upper city are completely uninhabited now, but must have housed a far larger population centuries ago than currently reside in the new town. There are extensive graveyards and mosques (a couple of which must have been Byzantine churches a millenium ago), and many hundreds of stone-built houses. Most of the houses have excavated underground sections, visible now that the soft limestone has weathered away to expose them. I sat atop the highest part of the citadel, watching the afternoon shadows lengthen across this deserted Escher-esque city, photographing and sketching and feeling much happier about being in eastern Turkey. The combination of huge abandoned cityscape and troglodytic houses was like a happy cross between Monemvasia or Mystras (both of which I was lucky enough to visit in Greece last summer) and Turkey's Cappadocia. If you ever find yourself in Turkey, you should make room in your itinerary for Hasankeyf before a planned irrigation dam completely submerges the new town and much of the old town, a fate already inflicted on many historic sites in the Euphrates valley further west. That evening I chatted with a Kurdish film-maker now based in the Netherlands about the situation of Kurds in Turkey and in his native Syria. He felt that the Kurds in Syria were far worse off than their ethnic brethren in Turkey, Iraq or Iran.
The next morning I was away from my cheap motel by 7:30, an almost unheard-of early departure, and rode back out of the Tigris valley and up onto a picturesque limestone plateau, the Tur Abdin, a historic hotbed of Syriac Orthodox Christianity. I got most of the way to Midyat, and then turned east to explore a few of the historic villages and churches that dot the plateau. I was glad that I did, as I loved the atmosphere of the area. It felt very timeless and Levantine, with old vineyards and olive groves carved painstakingly out of the rocky landscape, the removed chunks of limestone piled into ancient stone walls between fields. There was essentially no motorized transport, with donkeys and horses filling the gap picturesquely. The grape harvest was in full swing, and I was given bunches of grapes to munch on.
Atop the limestone ridges were ancient villages, full of fine stonework, some of which must have been Ottoman and others older, definitely Byzantine and maybe even Roman. I visited three Syrian Orthodox churches: Mor Yakob, Mor Kyriakos and Mor Izozoal. The first was founded in 419, and parts of the stonework in the early basilica-style church seem to date back to that time. I loved the atmosphere of tranquility in the surrounding monastery, and the Aramaic (the language used by Jesus, as well as by the Achaemenid Persian empire as its official language and by Parthian Silk Road traders as a lingua franca during the Roman period) inscriptions. The Aramaic script is interesting, a sort of pointy Arabic strangely similar to Manchu and ancient Mongol. The surrounding village of Baristepe is partly Christian and partly Muslim, with a priest still in residence at the church. Mor Kyriakos, in contrast, is locked up and guarded with a high wall topped with barbed wire. Almost no Christian families still live in the surrounding village of Baglarbasi, most having fled during the Kurdish-Turkish conflict in the 1990s. Mor Izozoal was locked too, but a local Christian family act as caretakers and opened the doors for me. The church has been extensively, and expensively, restored recently, and not as much original architecture is left as at Mor Yakob. I pedalled into Midyat in late afternoon happy with my church-architecture detour, and noted a number of church steeples poking out of the crowded old part of town. The Lonely Planet says that another monastery, Mor Hananyo, south of nearby Mardin, which İ will be visiting in a couple of days, was for many centuries the headquarters of the Syriac Orthodox church, and it seems that the church still puts a fair amount of resources into preserving these historic outposts.
I rather liked Midyat at first; nobody threw stones at me, and for the first time in Turkey, I had the feeling of being in a modernizing country connected to the rest of the world. Lots of locals chatted with me in a variety of European languages (German, French, Dutch) picked up while working abroad. The whole city had a more relaxed, civilized air than I had encountered further east, with less of an edge of tension, volatility and wildness.
I left my bicycle and most of my luggage in the hotel on October 16th and headed off on a little excursion to the south and east of town. Being an incurable country-bagger, I saw the opportunity to add an interesting entry stamp to my passport: Iraq. Now, before you, gentle readers, start hyperventilating or writing me off as a deranged lunatic, I should add that I only visited the relatively stable, calm and safe Kurdish autonomous area in the north. Backpackers have been making their way here for several years now, and Tony Wheeler, founder of the Lonely Planet, made a much-publicized visit a few years ago.
It was remarkably easy and straightforward to get from Midyat to the town of Dohuk: a couple of minibuses to the town of Cizre in Turkey, then a shared taxi to the border post, where I got stamped out of Turkey and into Iraq within an hour, unlike the trucks (laden with bags of concrete and other construction supplies) stuck in a ten-kilometre-long queue on both sides of the border. I spent a tedious while both at the border and in the nearby town of Zakho waiting for other passengers to share the cost of a taxi to Dohuk, but I was still in Dohuk before two o'clock, six hours after leaving Midyat.
So what is this corner of Iraq, only 65 km northwest of violent, volatile Mosul, like? The answer is....kind of dull, strangely enough. The main street and the bazaar are crowded with (predominantly male) shoppers, and the town itself is an overgrown village that has grown explosively since the end of the first Iraq war in 1991, and so is lacking in historic buildings although it is in the Tigris valley. I spent my time eating (much tastier, cheaper food than in Turkey), wandering the streets watching the older men, clad in traditional Kurdish overalls, cummerbund and kefiyeh headscarf, about their shopping, and relaxing at my hotel, catching up on rest and sleep after a long stretch of cycling since Yerevan with few rest days.
Quite a few people speak English or German from time spent abroad, or from working with American forces, and I have had some interesting discussions. I spent an hour drinking tea on a street famous for the trade in birds (ptarmigans, according to an older gentleman with impeccable English, although I suspect they may be another species) and guns (I saw a lot of pistols changing hands for a hundred dollars or so a pop). I watched lots of tennis on TV, and read lots of Shakespeare. Iraq may seem a strange place to come to unwind, but it did the trick for me. I would love to go back to Iraq someday when it's possible to visit the historic monuments further south, but that day looks pretty far in the future at the moment. İronically, on my way back through Turkey to Midyat, İ passed the site of a PKK bombing earlier in the day. Makes me wonder which side of the border is actually more secure!
My initial liking for Midyat has been dimmed; when İ got back from İraq, İ took a stroll through the old part of town, full of pretty stonework, but had to abandon it as İ was followed by a mob of feral children baying for money and throwing stones (for once, the girls were worse behaved than the boys). One thing that puzzles me about Turkey is that Turks are supposedly crazy about family and children, but then so many parents let their children run wild in Dickensian street mobs without any supervision or discipline. Out here in the east of Turkey, there are an awful lot of kids not going to school from a very young age, hanging around on the street begging for money and cigarettes. It strikes me that by allowing parents not to send 7-year-olds to school, the Turkish government is storing up problems for the future. A large group of uneducated, undisciplined young people with no prospects of employment in a modern economy would be a perfect recruiting ground for the next generation of PKK fighters.
So now the final leg of the bicycle journey begins; after spending a lot of time getting to the southern border of Turkey, I will now head more or less directly west along the border, diverting to see historic sites along the way, to Gaziantep, before diverting south to Antakya (ancient Antioch, the third-largest city in the Roman Empire and an endpoint of the early Silk Road) and north to Cilician Armenia and Marco Polo's starting point at Ayas. Within two weeks or so, my eight-month-long traverse of the Silk Road should be over!
Peace and (Iraqi) tailwinds.
Riding Day No.
From Bushehr
|Final Elevation
|Daily Destination
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If there's a better tune to come out of San Diego this year than Beaters' "Fishage," I certainly haven't heard it. Put blown-out keys over just about anything and you'll have me creaming for more, but throw in piles of sinister guitars and awesome gang vocals and I'm suddenly your biggest fan. Overcoming the notoriously difficult sound at the Whistle Stop about a month ago, the three ex-Sess members (and one Powerchord) tore the proverbial roof off the place. Most importantly, drummer Andrew Montoya laid an agile foundation, anchoring a band that seemed to be teetering on the brink of nihilism. That they're performing with intriguing gloom merchants Spirit Photography, New Jersey home-recording free-spirit Julian Lynch and improvisational sound artist Mark Lewis only gives more incentive to attend. At Soda Bar in City Heights.


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Never Forget the 49
Never Forget. Those are the words I have carried with me every day since I woke up to the brutal murder of 49 mostly LGBTQ Latinx people at Pulse Nightclub 6 months ago. Never forget the lives lost. Never forget the hearts broken. Never forget the survivors. Never forget the trauma. Never forget the self-hatred and internalized homophobia of the killer. Never forget the impact of religious narratives on culture and on people's lived lives. Never forget. Never. Forget. And, don't let others forget either. This has been my mantra. This has been my way to honor their lives while working towards a world where this tragedy would never be repeated.
It should not have taken the worst massacre in modern US history to make people realize the dignity inherent in all human life — including LGBTQ lives. Yet, it did. Clergy across the country opened their eyes on June 12th to the harm caused by the words they preached from their pulpits, mosques, synagogues, and temples. Pulse transformed them. They realized that the neighbors they were called to love included LGBTQ people and families. They realized their words created an environment that caused parents to kick their children out to live on the streets, youth to commit suicide before they even began to truly live, and caused a man to commit mass murder on people celebrating pride in who they are at a nightclub. I've been working with several of these clergy over the past 6 months to provide support in transforming their ministries and their congregations. They are sincere in their commitment to create affirming and safe faith communities for LGBTQ people and to compel their parishioners to understand what it means to love ones neighbor as oneself.
I know that these transformations are not just happening in Orlando. Reactions like these are happening across the country — perhaps even the world. If any good is possible to be made — it may be the outpouring of love and apology towards LGBTQ people from the very same communities of faith that once exiled us.
Less than two weeks ago I cried with members of the National LGBTQ Task Force's National Religious Leadership Roundtable and local faith leaders at Pulse Nightclub as we recited their names and silently read the items left at the memorial in honor of those taken from us too soon. We apologized for any way that our religion had been used to cause harm and committed to take action individually and collectively to not let their deaths be in vain. I recommit to that vow every day. I will never forget…and I won't let anyone I know forget either. #ForThe49
by Victoria Kirby York, National LGBTQ Task Force, National Campaigns Director, Religious Exemptions and Welcoming Movements
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Compass Group, North America BARISTA (FULL-TIME, MONDAY- FRIDAY) at St. Cloud State University in SAINT CLOUD, Minnesota
We have an opening for a BARISTA position.
Location: St. Cloud State University; 720 4th Ave. South Saint Cloud, MN 56301 /Note: online applications accepted only./
Schedule: Full-Time, Monday- Friday, 7:00am-3:00pm.
Requirement: Prior food service experience preferred.
Perks: Free meal with a worked shift.
If you have a positive attitude and a love for learning, you may be interested in joining our team.
/Current Associates:/ /This position has a $250 Employee Referral Bonus! Know someone you would like to refer?/ / Have them apply to this posting via this direct link or at/ /http://www.altogethergreat.com// and/ /ask them to provide your name in the "If referred by current employee" section of the online application./
Chartwells Higher Education brings fresh ideas and innovative concepts to higher education foodservice. We have quickly established ourselves as the leading college and university foodservice partner in the industry, and were twice named the Fastest Growing Brand by Nations Restaurant News. While we reflect on a proud past, we keep a keen eye on what is yet to come, especially in the areas of culinary development and nutrition. We foster development in a setting where mobility, teamwork, and communication flourish.
Full time associates at Chartwells Higher Education are offered many fantastic benefits such as:
Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)
Commuter Benefits
Wellness Program
Employee Assistance Program
Life Insurance for Associates and Eligible Dependents
Short Term Disability (STD) and Long Term Disability (LTD)
Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D) Insurance
Discount Marketplace
And other voluntary benefits
Job Summary
Summary: Makes and serves coffee/espresso drinks and related food and beverage items. Handles food according to HACCP guidelines and standards for quality food-service operations. Interacts with customers and other employees in a friendly, courteous manner.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Prepares espresso orders for customers and catering using standard measures and recipes.
Enters orders accurately into POS device; accepts cash and charge payments.
Replenishes condiments, beverages and general supplies while maintaining cleanliness of service area.
Ensures proper presentation, portion control and maintenance of proper serving temperatures; follows HACCP standards.
Maintains sanitation and orderliness of all equipment, supplies and utensils.
Ensures proper food preparation by using approved recipes and following prescribed production standards.
Keeps display equipment clean and free of debris during meal service.
Cleans equipment and workstation thoroughly before leaving the area for other assignments.
Greets customers courteously and interacts in a manner to ensure customer satisfaction. Relays relevant concerns from customers to supervisors.
Serves customers quickly and efficiently, and prevents delays in serving lines.
Demonstrates a complete understanding of daily menu items and accurately explains them to customers.
Serves as an advocate of selling techniques to the customer by establishing good communication and assisting in the buying decision-making process.
Ensures all display foods are merchandised attractively per standards. Serves food neatly and attractively per standard.
Performs other duties as assigned.
About Compass Group: Achieving leadership in the foodservice industry
Compass Group is an equal opportunity employer. At Compass, we are committed to treating all Applicants and Associates fairly based on their abilities, achievements, and experience without regard to race, national origin, sex, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other classification protected by law.
Qualified candidates must be able to perform the essential functions of this position satisfactorily with or without a reasonable accommodation. Disclaimer: this job post is not necessarily an exhaustive list of all essential responsibilities, skills, tasks, or requirements associated with this position. While this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the position posted, the Company reserves the right to modify or change the essential functions of the job based on business necessity. /*Los Angeles applicants: Compass Group will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring (Ban the Box ordinance)./
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Vue Personal Video Network: Easy Home Security
It's always prudent to install some kind of security system in your pad or home. It's not just for rich or people with big houses. It's for everyone. For example, if you've got pets and you want to check up on them while you're at work, some kind of wireless camera would be great.
The Vue Personal Video network is comprised of a wireless video portal device and 2 battery-powered wireless cameras. They are easy to mount and install. The really great thing is that they can keep running for almost a year without needing new batteries, so they last really long. That's pretty interesting. Once they are installed, you can watch through them what's happening at your place, via any browser in real-time. The wireless cameras work within a range of 300 feet, so you've got a lot of places to install them. The batteries in the cameras are replaceable and you can schedule the cameras to work at specific times and intervals.
The kit will sell for $300. If you need extra cameras, they will cost you $100 each. That's expensive for the extra cams, but given the fact that they can last so long without any batteries, a lot of tech has to go in there to make this possible. It's an easy-to-use surveillance system that produces adequate video quality. What makes this system great is that it's really easy to install and configure. It's basically plug-and-play. You plug the base station into your router and you're good to go. If you know a bit about networks and port-forwarding, you could probably just hook up a few wireless webcams to your network and use those instead. The webcams would provide better video quality, however, for most of us, it's just easier to use a system like this. For this price, we would have liked it to come with more cameras, but it works well and has a long range, so it is pretty good.
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So, my endo is telling my GP to prescribe T3 and T4 combo. But, although my GP is prescribing it for me, he is upset at the cost and his parting shot at my last appointment, literally as I left his office, was, "there is no evidence that liothyronine offers any benefits"
Can anyone suggest a succinct and convincing document that I can print out and take to show him at my next appointment?
Thanks in advance.


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War of the Roses at EclecticPond
Shakespeare in Indianapolis
By: Melissa Hall - May 29, 2014
In a city that rarely sees a production of Shakespeare without an easily recognizable name, the EclecticPond Theatre Company (ETC) has become a welcome respite. The group, which was founded in 2010, has embraced some of the Bard's lesser-known works, with productions like "The Comedy of Errors" and "Shakespeare Wrote What? and "10x10." Now, about to close its third season, ETC decided to tackle something big.
Their latest endeavor is the most ambitious to date, "The War of the Roses" covers eight of Shakespeare's histories using on eight actors. The shows will be spaced over the course of four weekends with different batches shown on different days. Audience members will have the opportunity to see the shows all in one day, two at a time or four at a time. This unique experience, which has been in the works for more than a year, begins in June. The cast and crew are excited to see how this new challenge unfolds. There are three directors sharing the responsibility for the eight shows and each actor is taking on multiple characters, learning hours and hours of lines.
"I have absolute and total faith in the cast we've assembled," said Artistic Director Thomas Cardwell. "We had to make some tough decisions when we were casting, but we've got a great group."
Each play has been condensed into a single hour, allowing ETC to fit multiple shows in each night. The eight actors will start with a base costume and as they shift from character to character they add specific props and colored elements which will make them easy to identify. The goal of the festival is not to appeal only to aficionados of the Bard; it's to make the work accessible to anyone and everyone who is curious about it. The extensive cast of characters and warring nations should appeal to fans of "Game of Thrones" and "Lord of the Rings" as much as Shakespeare lovers.
"Audiences like to be challenged, they just don't like to know they're being challenged," said Thomas Cardwell. "They need to be actively engaged."
The goal of the shows, in addition to providing some incredible entertainment, is to give people a chance to experience these plays the way they were meant to be seen. Seeing Shakespeare performed instead of reading it breathes life into each play. Seeing them back-to-back, whether it's over the course of a few weekends or all in one day, is a chance to see the history unfold in the order it happened.
"We're still living these stories today," said Kate Homan, one of the eight actors in War of the Roses. "There's politics and war in the world and these shows teach you a lot about yourself and how you respond to those things."
EclecticPond's original mission was to breathe new life into classics. Founded by Polly Heinkel, Thomas and Catherine Cardwell, the organization came from a mutual love of Shakespeare the trio discovered while living in England. Catherine Cardwell and Heinkel were Midwesterners studying abroad and Thomas Cardwell was a Brit, acting in Stratford-Upon-Avon. Thomas and Catherine later married and moved back to her home in Indiana, where EclecticPond became a reality. The group focuses on education in addition to revamping the classics. They believe being able to perform Shakespeare for students in the midst of learning about him for the first time is crucial to igniting a lifelong love of his work.
"Shakespeare is one of the greatest writers of western civilization," Catherine Cardwell said. "You can see his work performed in so many different ways and it still feels fresh."
In the future the members of ETC would love to become more of a repertory theatre, with a full cast of actors on staff, but for now they are happy to be embarking upon some incredible new projects. They will continue to bring Hoosiers excellent productions of shows that have fallen by the wayside and The War of the Roses is sure to be a highlight for theatre-goers this summer.
"Live theatre is incredible because it forces people to use their imaginations," Thomas Cardwell said. "Anytime you can spark people's imagination you are encouraging their creativity as well!"
Performances run from June 6 to June 28. Tickets are only $10 per show or $40 for a festival pass, which allows you to see all eight shows. Each performance will be held at the Irvington Lodge, 5515 E. Washington Street, Indianapolis, IN, 46219. For more information, a complete schedule of the shows or to purchase tickets, visit ETC's site here.
Photos courtesy of ETC
Reposted courtesy of Melissa Hall and Stage Write.


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I had the Tippy Earl Grey tea, which is basically Ceylon tea with bergamot and a sprinkling of blue cornflower. It was really gorgeous and had an amazing aroma. When it was served, it came with these little hour glass timers to brew it to perfection! It was so cute! As well as tea, I also had red velvet cake. I heard about the rainbow angel cake from my parents and wanted it, but it had marzipan on so I had to pass (stupid nut allergy). I'm not complaining though, that red velvet cake was delicious! Here are some pictures:
|The table was quite crowded with tea!
|Not a great photo, but the cake was so pretty
After tea, we visited this really cool art and craft store that had three floors! I also went looking for books in old book shops. I know it was a long shot, but I was trying to find the English version of Les Amitiés in Paramount Books. Needless to say, I didn't find it, so I'm going to try my best to get it on Ebay.
Right now I'm really interested in electro-swing music. It reminds me of the 1920s and 1930s, which also reminds me of my favourite books and films at the moment. My favourite artists are Waldeck and Kormac. As for favourite songs, I like; 'Why Did We Fire The Gun' and 'Memories' by Waldeck, 'Scratch Marchin'' and 'Jubilee' by Kormac, 'Hello Joe' by Vono Box, and 'Puttin' On The Ritz' by Fred Astaire.


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Next door to the Amtrak train station on the San Francisco waterfront, a 40-foot retro rocket sculpture has been created by Five Ton Crane, a group of Burning Man associated artists for a year-long installation, and it's stunningly playful. The retro rocket's placement next to the Amtrak station is an unintended bit of irony since rail travel is experiencing a back to the future moment right now, although the United States is falling behind the rest of the world in that arena with each passing day.
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Talk show host Wendy Williams has courted controversy after slamming Beyoncé for her apparent lack of intelligence.
The 48-year-old pundit made the comments during a recent show while discussing Beyoncé's directorial debut in her forthcoming HBO documentary.
She told the audience: "I am a Beyoncé fan. I'm gonna be watching this documentary cause fortunately one of the TVs in our kitchen has closed captioning so I'll be able to understand what she says.
"You know Beyoncé can't talk. Beyoncé sounds like she has a fifth grade education. She can't talk. Honestly. We really do have the closed captioning for times like that."
After receiving a barrage of boos from the appalled studio audience for making the digs at the Single Ladies hitmaker, Williams reacted defensively by insisting: "Excuse me, I just said I was a fan. But we have to call a spade a spade."
The internet quickly erupted with complaints as outraged fans headed online to defend Queen B.
One unimpressed fan wrote: "Haters come in all shapes and sizes and those that can not do talk about it. Wendy can not be satisfied with her fame she has to slam another person doing great things. That tells you a great about Wendy and her character."
This is not the first time that Williams, who is known for her bold, no-holds barred take on the stars, has slammed the 31-year-old mother-of-one.
Last year she tackled the theories that Beyoncé, who is married to Jay Z, faked her pregnancy. During one show, she even used pregnant women to try and prove her theory by comparing them to the infamous video of Beyoncé sitting down while pregnant.


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Flickr photo by Stuart WebsterWhat better way to finish our cream-filled week than with a nice creamy cocktail -- the White Russian.
It's the ultimate drink where east (vodka) meets west (us westerners love our coffee). Ah yes, the White Russian, unifying hemispheres.
Here's how to make it:
- 1 fluid oz. coffee-flavored liqueur (like Kahlua)
- 1 fluid oz. vodka
- 1/2 cup cream (you can substitute milk if desired)
In a mixing glass, combine the coffee-flavored liqueur, vodka, and cream. Pour over ice in a highball glass. Keep in mind that once the ice melts, it will taste more like drinking skim milk. If you're nursing sipping your cocktail, you might want to pour it into a chilled highball glass instead, minus the ice.
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Velvet spider webs on a black taffeta ground, how was I supposed to resist this fabric? Not even the fact that it is a stiff polyester or acetate of some kind could deter me, I had to make something from this glorious novelty textile! Joann's festive collection this year was really quite good, go snatch up whatever is left (I'm sure it's on sale by now too!).
Of course another circle skirt won out, I do love a circle skirt these days. Even if they do take hours to hem; this one and its fall leaf cotton cousin from earlier this week took me half a day just to finish the hems! Still, it is always worth the effort once I slip this skirt style over a petticoat and get to twirl around for a bit feeling like a princess. I paired the finished skirt with an emerald green sweater to match the sparkling green eyes of my spindly rhinestone spider brooch. Topped off with my trusty black velvet hat, I was ready to stomp around the local castle (okay, its not a real castle but it does the job) before heading out to run errands. And yes people do look at me funny when I push my cart around Target dressed like this, but it doesn't matter when I feel like a spider queen.
I am all kinds of busy this week and all I really want to do is sleep in! I'm dreaming of the weekend, though I still will have a bunch to get done then on the sewing front, at least I can have a lazy morning (or two) ;). I hope you are all having a wonderfully spooky week as we draw closer to Halloween!
|Sweater: Forever 21
Skirt: Made by me
Shoes: Modcloth
Hat, Jewelry, & Handbag: Vintage


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British firm to buy 30% in RIL's oil & gas fields, investment may touch $20 bn.
In the biggest foreign direct investment (FDI) into India, BP, the world's fourth-largest energy company, will pay $7.2 billion for a 30 per cent stake in 23 oil and gas blocks of Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL). The fields include the most prolific KG-D6 off the east coast.
RIL Chairman Mukesh Ambani said this could possibly be the single-largest FDI into any emerging market.
The companies said BP would pay RIL $7.2 billion, and completion adjustments, for the interests it would acquire in the 23 production sharing contracts. Future performance payments up to $1.8 billion could be paid based on exploration success resulting in development of commercial discoveries. The two will also enter into a 50:50 joint venture for sourcing and marketing of gas. These payments and the combined investment could amount to $20 billion, BP said.
At a press conference in London, Ambani said the deal would go a long way in strengthening India's energy security, as the country depended on imports for 70 per cent of its energy needs.
Ambani said the deal was signed after intense talks over two years and with an eye on technology that would come to India. Later, he said, "These guys are the best (in exploration). If you want to climb Mount Everest, make sure you have the best Sherpa with you."
The companies said in the particular field they had agreed to work together, it would be an exclusive arrangement. Neither was able to clarify if this exclusivity was part of the signed deal. BP has a tie-up in India with Tata for solar power and an interest in the lubricant business through Castrol. BP CEO Robert Dudley said the company's current interests in India would remain intact.
The 50:50 joint venture would endeavour to accelerate the creation of infrastructure for receiving, transporting and marketing of natural gas in India, the companies said.
"The partnership will combine BP's world-class deep-water exploration and development capabilities with Reliance's project management and operations expertise," said a joint statement.
Ambani said: "This partnership combines the skills of both and will be focused on finding more hydrocarbons in the deep-water blocks of India and significantly contribute to India's energy security."
Dudley said in the coming decades, two-thirds of world energy consumption would be in emerging markets such as India and China. "BP being a global energy company, we need to be part of this growing opportunity," Dudley said.
Ambani said the initial payments would start flowing into RIL's books next financial year. BP is funding the deal from its own cash reserves and expected cash flows from sale of some non-strategic assets. The company recently announced a $22 billion disinvestment plan. Another $8 billion is expected from sale of more assets. Dudely, however, said the new "look east" policy did not mean BP was moving away from the US.
The 23 oil and gas blocks cover approximately 270,000 square kilometres. This will make the partnership India's largest private sector holder of exploration acreage. Reliance will continue to be the operator under the production sharing contracts. The blocks lie in water depths ranging from 400 metres to over 3,000 metres and produce about 1.8 billion cubic feet gas per day, over 30 per cent of India's consumption and over 40 per cent production.


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Getting food is no longer a problem for the general population, especially if you are able to push aside healthy eating. When going on the road, a quick and cheap option is usually the one people go with to keep them moving.
Last week I rode on the bus with our men's and women's basketball teams to a doubleheader about three hours away. I work in college athletics and my job keeps me in the office for about 40 hours a week and working games for a number of other hours throughout the week, often on the road.
Just like anyone else, college athletes are usually looking for quick and cheap calories. When the coaches provide the food, they usually don't complain about where it comes from. Since switching to a plant-based, whole food diet last May, I've had to pack in my own food when going on road trips.
Usually I ride a company car with a couple other people. Being on the team bus, I had no choice but to sit there last week and watch them eat. On the ride out there were donuts (their way of carbing up?) and on the way back, each player and coach got their own large pizza delivered right to the bus as we left the arena. I passed up a few offers to share in their pies but the smells and sights took me back to when I too would enjoy the convenience of quick and dense calories. Pizza is one of those things that's hard to duplicate in the plant-based world and I guess last week helped me accept that.
I brought fruit and trail mix for myself and had a salad at the sandwich shop where we stopped for our pregame meal. Since going plant-based, I haven't splurged at all and I wasn't about to give in that day.
Is it hard for you to turn down people offering you food, especially when you're with a big group? What are your secrets to keeping up your diet when traveling?


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[In this 47 minute audio interview Dr. David Duke gets straight to the point with Dr. Andrew Joyce, a British historian and regular writer for the Occidental Quarterly and the Occidental Observer. He discusses the role of organised jewry in pushing multiracialism, multiculturalism and its drive to exterminate the White race through such organizations as the EU. Also discussed is the Brexit result and Andrew's opinion on UKIP and Nigel Farage — KATANA.]
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Today Dr. Duke had as his guest the promising young scholar, Professor Andrew Joyce. Professor Joyce discussed the Brexit vote, quoting numerous major Jewish sources stating that Jews overwhelming voted to remain in the EU. One such source decried the possible loss of a "multicultural paradise" in which she barely saw a white face.
Dr. Joyce explained that white interests and Jewish interests are fundamentally different. He went into the history of both immigration and censorship in Britain, and stated that he has documented that Jews were the ones who were behind these policies, and nobody who checks his sources will be able to deny it. He also gave his impression of the UK Independence Party and its leader Nigel Farage.
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David Duke: Ladies and gentlemen, friends and open minded people wherever you live in the United States of America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and, of course, my ancient homeland of Europe. This is David Duke and I'm also speaking to the whole world, because the problems that Europeans face is causing a huge problem. The enemy, the globalist enemy that controls this planet, the international finance, the global politics and the global media are truly an enemy of all humanity, of all peoples, of all independent peoples everywhere on the earth and the unique expressions of those people in their own homelands. That's the true diversity of the earth that is worthwhile to preserve. Biologists talk about diversity all the time in terms of nature, the animal kingdom and the importance of the fact that we have different species and subspecies, races if you would, because that's another name for subspecies and the truth is that the diversity of nature is only maintained through what you call a gene pool, or a group of people, or a group of organisms, living things, that share a common series of genes and traits that create that very diversity. And our diversity is being destroyed, obviously, all over the world.
I always come up with a little bit of thought like that to begin a show. I also want to mention the fact that I just came off the Don Black Show and he interviewed me today and we had a very good discussion about the attacks in Sacramento and we had a very good discussion about the Trump campaign and why the Trump campaign, or the Trump candidacy for president of the United States has been a very powerful encouraging event, not only in the United States, but all over the world. Because of the fact that he's addressing issues that, what we call the jewish agenda is not confronting. That it's addressing and bringing to the forefront the immigration issues and the realities of immigration to our own lands and the realities of foreign trade and the whole realities, in some ways, that have been encapsulated in Great Britain with the recent Brexit vote. A great victory for those people want to preserve Great Britain and really preserve Europe. My hash tag, my most recent hash tag on Twitter is "Smash the EU and save Europe". Sounds almost like an oxymoron or misnomer. But that's the reality, "Smash the EU" is not Europe, the EU today is an organization that's destroying Europe and the European people.
I've got a very special guest today. Honored guest, I must say, because I've been reading his writings for quite a while. He does a lot of stories in the Occidental Quarterly. He's a good friend of Dr. MacDonald as I am. He is also a professor, he's Dr. Andrew Joyce. He's a young man, very young man and he is totally dedicated to the preservation of our heritage, our freedom and he recognizes the international globalist power that's dedicated to destroying our people. That sounds pretty radical to say that, just out, but that's exactly what they are doing. He's also done a lot of research recently in the Brexit case. Brexit, excuse me. Excited today, had a very exciting time on the Don Black Show. By the way, if you don't listen to the Don Black Show I'd tune it in every day before mine. Anyway, I'm going to go right to him today, because I want to get his thoughts. He's been doing a lot of research on Brexit.
First of all, welcome Dr. Joyce, welcome to the program.
Dr. Andrew Joyce:Thank you very much Dr. Duke, it's a pleasure to be here. I'd like to thank you especially for that terrific introduction. I would also like to say, just a little introduction of my own. That I was sixteen years old, a young sixteen year old boy, when I first heard about you and your work. And over the last decade and a half, or more, I've been following my own journey of sorts, but always with you in the background putting out your very valuable content and contribution to our cause. So, that journey that really began when I was sixteen, now seems to be coming full circle in a lot of ways and it's a real honor to be here and to be able to discuss with you today some very, very pressing and some very, very important topics. So, I just want to say that I'm excited too!
David: Thank you so much, that was very kind of you to say those things and, but, let's go right into your research.
So, first of all, before we go into the powers behind the EU and the powers that control the EU and the effect of the EU organization on Great Britain and Europe. In terms of who's behind it and who is opposed to the Brexit or the exit of the UK from the EU. Why don't you give us your view of the EU and how it affects Great Britain and how it affects Europe and a little bit of analysis, from your point of view, from that first, and then we'll talk about your exciting and very interesting, fascinating research into the powers and the forces behind the EU and behind the opposition to Brexit. So let's start with that.
[Image] The Sun made the claim that the Queen backed Brexit. The official position was that the Queen was neutral on such issues. No doubt many of The Sun readers where swayed by such headlines.
Give me your basic impression for our listeners not only in Europe, but all over the world, because we have an awful lot around the world, on the EU itself and why the EU has become an institution, or how it's become an institution that is not only dedicated to denying the rights of individual countries and it's hurting our economics and hurting our well-being in so many ways, but it's also, now seems to be an act of force that's ultimately trying to destroy the European people. Could you give us an analysis, please?


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A football fan who admitted racially aggravated threatening behaviour at Norwich City's match with Watford last month has been sentenced.
Bronson Sims, 18, of Longwick, Princes Risborough in Buckinghamshire, was arrested in the away fans' section at Carrow Road during Norwich's 3-0 victory on 16 August.
He was conditionally discharged for nine months by Norwich magistrates.
They were asked to impose a football banning order but declined to do so.
Sims was ordered to pay £85 costs and a £15 victim surcharge.
David Bonner, 46, of Byron Road, Wealdstone, Middlesex, also appeared in court charged with racially aggravated threatening behaviour, having been arrested in the visitors' section at the same match.
He did not enter a plea and his case was adjourned until 2 October.


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Was Bradshaw's TD The Strangest In Super Bowl History?
New York Giants running back Ahmad Bradshaw scored the final go-ahead points of Super Bowl XLVI. Sounds like a dream right? What makes the play especially memorable was Bradshaw's awkward reluctance to reach the end zone. Was it the strangest score in Super Bowl history?


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Shares of Scholastic (NASDAQ:SCHL) plummeted more than 20% Wednesday morning as the children's book publisher's sharply dimmed 2013 earnings outlook spooked Wall Street.
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Citing shrinking sales of higher-margin products and uncertainty caused by the fiscal cliff, Scholastic warned late Tuesday it now anticipates posting EPS from continuing operations of $1.40 to $1.60 for 2013, well off its earlier projection of $2.20 to $2.50.
Even the optimistic end of the new range would badly miss expectations on Wall Street for full-year EPS of $2.27.
Scholastic also downgraded its full-year revenue forecast to $1.8 billion to $1.9 billion, compared with $1.9 billion to $2 billion previously. Analysts had been calling for 2013 revenue of $1.94 billion.
Management said it now expects to generate free cash flow of $100 million to $120 million in 2013.
Scholastic pointed to a slew of factors for the gloomier view, including lower sales of curriculum products in its educational technology and services segment due to shifts in the deployment of school district financial resources.
The company also cited a delay in purchasing decisions caused by uncertainty on the federal budget ahead of the fiscal cliff.
Scholastic said its outlook for its children's book publishing and distribution business was slashed to reflect declining sales in its book club business, weaker-than-expected sales of The Hunger Games trilogy and the impact of Hurricane Sandy.
New York-based Scholastic, which is the world's largest publisher and distributor of children's books and a provider of education technology, is set to report its full quarterly results on December 10.


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Undocumented: the paperless Christmas
Three illegal Irish workers in the US, and three undocumented immigrants in Ireland, describe the harsh realities of living an unofficial life
Separation anxiety: a protester's T-shirt at an anti-deportation demonstration in the US. Photograph: Kevork Djansezian/Getty
"We need to get out from under the fear": Allan Danou, from the Philippines, who lives in Ireland. Photograph: Dave Meehan
Fighting Irish: campaigners after a protest in the US in 2007. Photograph: Douglas Graham/Roll Call/Getty
'I was torn apart," says Gerry, describing the morning his grandfather in Ireland died, in October last year, while Gerry spoke to him on Skype from Chicago. It was the toughest moment in the 18 years he has lived as an "undocumented" immigrant.
Gerry's grandfather had visited him in the US every year around Thanksgiving until his illness stopped him travelling. Gerry's family in Carrick-on-Suir, in Co Tipperary, initially weren't going to tell him that his grandfather was ill: they knew it would devastate him. Eventually they told him.
Every morning Gerry cried going to work as a builder after talking to his grandfather on his computer. He prayed for two things: that his grandfather would get better and that he himself would get a green card.
Eventually his grandfather's illness left him unable to talk, but Gerry kept calling, so his grandfather would recognise his voice.
He had travelled back to Ireland twice before, returning illegally both times through Canada. But if he travelled back for the funeral he risked not being able to get back into the US, where he has a wife and son.
"If I wasn't married and did not have a family here I would have gone home. I was really bad. I was so close to him." Instead his mother brought a laptop to the church so Gerry could watch the funeral via Skype.
Undocumented migrants in Ireland and in the US have much in common. They fear officialdom, are unable to access basic healthcare, welfare and educational services, and are vulnerable to abusive employers. They can't travel, for fear of being unable to return, and are often connected to loved ones only through technology.
Although they have escaped unemployment in their home countries, fill gaps in labour markets, stimulate the economies of the countries they live in, often pay tax and send a lot of money home in subventions, they feel trapped.
Irene lives in Dublin. On the day we speak her father, who lives in the Philippines and whom she hasn't seen for four years, is having an operation for throat cancer. She can't visit him because she wouldn't be able to return to Ireland, and her family need the money she earns here. "I'm the breadwinner," she says. She's crying as she tells her story.
Cancer has played a big part in Irene's life. When she was younger she fell in love with an Irishman she worked with in Manila. When he was diagnosed with colon cancer, in 2008, he returned to Ireland, and she came to help look after him. "He was a very lovely man. Very kind."
After he died, in 2009, she decided to stay here to earn money for her two children. "I'm a single mother, and I came from a very poor family. I send half of the money I earn to them."
Irene currently lives with and looks after an elderly woman. She likes the work and likes the woman – her employer doesn't know her status – but she hates the sense of isolation and fear that come with being undocumented.
Recently, she was sick for three weeks. "I was afraid to go to the hospital, because I know they would ask for a PPS number, and I don't have any ID to show. I collapsed. Luckily my circle of friends helped me."
She spends her free time talking to her children on Skype. Her elderly parents look after them. Her 12-year-old son is in a class for gifted children, and she is very proud. She's saving for her children's education. It's hardest, she says, when they're unwell. And her heart breaks when they ask her to come home.
Recently, after he was diagnosed with cancer, her father asked her to visit. Her voice cracks. "My family don't know I'm undocumented," she says. "I don't want them to worry about me. I just say I can't come, that I have to work. I'm the only one who can support them."
Mary, a 40-year-old Irishwoman, has lived just outside New York for the best part of two decades and has never been home in that time. She doesn't have a driving licence, because to get one you need a social-security number, which is a requirement to live a normal life in the US.
Mary – this is not her real name – never leaves the state of New York, because she has heard of so many undocumented Irish being caught while travelling around the US. She has no health insurance, which leaves her facing stratospheric medical costs if she ever gets sick. For that reason, if she is ever in an emergency, she is ready to give a false name or address.
Mary cannot get a bank account, because most banks want social-security numbers. She qualified as a hairdresser in Ireland but works as a carer for elderly people in the US. She needs a certificate in order to cut hair. "There is a roadblock on everything when you are illegal in this country," she says.
She mostly fears being stopped by a police officer doing a routine search. "You are always watching your back in case you are pulled over by a cop."
During her time in the US she has missed birthdays, weddings and funerals of family and friends in Ireland. Funerals are the hardest, she says. As an illegal immigrant Mary would not risk going home to Ireland and then not being allowed back into the US because she overstayed her time limit on a holiday visa 18 years ago.
"As the years go on, and as you get older and your parents get older, and you see how you cannot travel, that is when it hits you."
The stalling of a cross-party Senate bill in the Republican-led House of Representatives that would put an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants on a "path to citizenship" has left Mary disgusted by politicians and angry with President Obama.
"I was banking on everything that this would happen, hoping that it would happen, that they would pass the immigration reform this year," she says. "I don't know whether to stay or pack up and head back. If I head home I don't know what I am heading back to. It is a decision that a lot of us are going to have to think about."
A couple of years ago Allan Danou, from the Philippines, took a job as a housekeeper for an elderly man in a rural community in Ireland. "He needed someone to look after the house, to garden, cook and clean for him for €250 a week." The "garden" bit was misleading. "He brought me to this huge graveyard and told me to start [weeding]. I said, 'Are you sure about this?' He had a contract with the authorities to look after it . . . It was freezing. I didn't have the clothes for it." He left a few days later.
Allan has worked in low-paid caring jobs in Ireland since 2009. In the Philippines, he has two teenage boys; he was a dancer and had his own entertainment company. Being a carer, he says, is very different.
When his business failed he came to Ireland. At first he came to help his sister, who is a nurse, look after his nephew, who had leukaemia. He currently looks after an elderly woman. "They're a nice family," he says. He doesn't earn a lot, but it's significantly more than he could earn at home. He sends everything he can to his family.
But Allan can't visit them for fear that he couldn't then return to Ireland. He gets upset talking about his older sister, who was recently diagnosed with advanced breast cancer. The day before we meet was his younger son's 16th birthday. Allan sent a message saying, "I wish I could spend this special day with you."
They talk regularly on Skype. "I'm always thinking, Is this the right way to raise my kids? But I'm doing this for them."
And, beyond the separation anxiety, life here is stressful. He avoids hospitals and the Garda. He has friends – some documented, some not – but it's a world of paranoia. Rumours go around about deportations. Certain areas, he says, seem to become "hot spots" for immigration officers.
He hopes for some sort of regularised status. He would like to be able to open up to people, but in the past people have threatened him with exposure. "They were . . . " He pauses to choose his words. ". . . Power-tripping."
In giving his full name and agreeing to be photographed for this story, Allan is risking his anonymity. His is doing it because "we need to get out from under the fear". This will be his fourth Christmas here. "The first two were most difficult. But I'm getting used to the loneliness."
Gavin, who is 26 and from Co Kildare, has been working as a carpenter in Boston for just over two years. He moved to the US when work dried up in the construction industry at home.
He earns about $1,000 (€740) a week, roughly double what he earned in Ireland when there was work here. He doesn't reveal to employers that he is illegal in case they try to take advantage of him or refuse to pay him. His limbo status means he cannot sue.
"A lot of the people around me are Irish, and they are in the same boat, so I never feel like a second-class citizen. You get the odd slur now and again, and you can do nothing about it."
Gavin knows he takes a risk driving outside Massachusetts to states where he is unfamiliar with the traffic laws. He can't get a US licence, so he still uses his Irish one.
Several months ago he was stopped by a police officer for a traffic offence. He lied to the officer, saying he had not got around to getting a US licence. He received a citation but so far has not received notification of a court date. He thinks he has been lucky this time.
"When I was stopped I didn't panic. I was thinking that I would either get home to south Boston or home to Ireland. It wasn't a nice feeling," he says.
Gavin worries about the high cost of medical care without health insurance. He also has worrying thoughts, such as what would happen to him if he were beaten up outside a nightclub.
During his time in the US his illegal status has prevented Gavin visiting home. He missed his father's 50th birthday, his only niece's Communion and the funerals of friends' parents. A number of his pals have married and had children, making him feel even more removed.
"The risk at the end of the day is I will never be allowed back in here . . . It is opening a door coming out here, but as soon as you overstay your visa it is closing a door."
Seventeen-year-old Isabella comes across as a well-spoken Irish schoolgirl. But she is different from her classmates. Isabella is too scared to apply for a driving licence. It is unlikely that she will go to university, because she would have to pay the fees for non-EU students.
Isabella has been in Ireland since she was nine. As we talk she helps her Brazilian mother, Maria – these are not their real names – find English words to explain the furtive, underground life they've lived since coming here, at the height of the boom.
Maria and her husband, Daniel, came in 2004 and began to work in a string of low-paid jobs. "We came to work," says Maria. Employers rarely asked for documents in those days, she adds, although they often do now. The following year Isabella joined them, because "being apart was too difficult", and then Ireland became home.
They both managed to get student visas, but in 2009 they were questioned at the airport. "We told them we had a daughter here, and they said, 'Students can't have dependents.' " The immigration official told them they needed to enrol Isabella in private rather than public school. Hoping this would help them get their visas renewed, they did so. "We used all our savings."
Their visas were not renewed. Worried about deportation, the family moved. Since then they have lived in the shadowy world of the undocumented. Daniel, a lawyer by training, is a cleaner. Maria works as a childminder.
Her employer is lovely, she says – it was she who first put her in touch with Migrant Rights Centre Ireland – but they are constantly worried. They worry about being stopped at police checkpoints and about getting sick, because they can't afford hospital fees and are not entitled to free healthcare.
The most difficult thing, however, is being separated from their family. "My grandad passed away two years ago," says Isabella. "We couldn't visit him, because we couldn't come back here."
They have good friends, but few know about their undocumented status. "They don't ask," says Isabella. "What are they going to say? 'Are you illegal?' " She feels as if she has two identities. She feels Irish at school and Brazilian at home. "But when we say we might have to go back to Brazil, she cries," says Maria. "That's not a Brazilian. That's a little Irish girl."
Back in Chicago, 38-year-old Gerry describes how he has not been back to Ireland since 2000. Like others interviewed here, he knows that if he returns to Ireland, he risks not being able to get back into the US. He would face a 10-year ban for overstaying a visa and re-entering illegally.
Gerry would love to bring his wife and three-year-old son back to Ireland, and to attend his brother's wedding in Australia in 2015. He reckons he would be the only member of his family to travel – it is too far for those at home – but he would need Congress to put the undocumented on a path to citizenship first.
Running a construction business and coaching children's soccer in the evenings, Gerry drives more slowly than he used to, and leaves himself extra time when driving out of state for work or for soccer games. The last thing he wants is to be pulled over for speeding.
"You would always be watching your back," he says. "You mightn't think you are, but you are."
Migrant Rights Centre Ireland estimates that between 26,000 and 30,000 undocumented people live in Ireland. Some are children and families. Others are separated from their families.
People from outside the EU have a limited number of ways to work in Ireland. If they have student visas they can work up to 20 hours a week. Alternatively, an employer can apply for a work permit for a specific employee. In recent years these have been granted less readily. This system "gives the employer a lot of power" over undocumented workers, says Edel McGinley, the deputy director of the centre. To gain long-term residency rights, people need to work here with a permit for five years – or, if they are in high-skilled jobs, for two years.
Migrant Rights Centre Ireland is running a Justice for the Undocumented campaign that includes, from 9am next Wednesday, a 24-hour vigil at the Dáil. It would like to see a system of "earned regularisation" whereby people who have been here without documentation can come forward, pay a fine and earn residency over a five-year period.
The Government has stepped up lobbying efforts in Washington during the past year, raising with Democrat and Republican politicians the plight of an estimated 50,000 undocumented Irish people in the US.
Irish politicians and diplomats have pressed for legislation that would make citizens of about 11 million illegal immigrants in the US, including the Irish.
Here, the State every year deports or forces the voluntary return of hundreds of foreigners who have arrived illegally in Ireland from countries outside the European Economic Area.
There is a stark contradiction in the Government's policies towards the plight of migrants, foreign nationals in Ireland and that of the Irish people living illegally in the US.
McGinley says successive Irish governments have ignored undocumented people living in Ireland while lobbying for the undocumented Irish in the US.
"It is a hypocritical situation," she says. "We need to clear up our own system and look after people at home to give credibility to our efforts in the US."
Ireland and the US continue to deport migrants, though at sharply different rates. Three hundred and two people were deported from Ireland last year, at a cost of €578,000, according to the Department of Justice.
The US department of homeland security says there were 409,849 "removals" – deportations – last year, the most in five years, including 51 to Ireland. Relative to their populations, the US deported about 22 times more foreign nationals than Ireland did last year.


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HeART to Art with Angie
About Me
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Heart of the Matter
Book-Art Gift
Book-Art Gift Processes
The Cabinet Journey
The Terrarium Adventure
Studio Mapping
Miniature Steamer Trunk
Curiosity #1- A Paper Theater
Travel in Miniature
Traveling Artist Wagon
Gallery Let it Snow
Winter Works Gallery
Gallery Winter Wonderland
Gallery Woodland Trail
Gallery Winter Park
Gallery Home for Christmas
Gallery The Toy Shop
Winter-Works Gallery Show
Room 3- "Woodland Trail"
Lantern World
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Using raw materials from my own woods, I worked to portray a natural scene that deer would likely meander through.
Woodland Trail
This was a commission piece.
Every natural habitat needs a fresh water source. This one features a small frozen spring pond near the deer trail, such as I have seen on my walks.
Detail view.
There are three window pane views in this lantern. One shows the young deer and spring pond. One (not shown) shows the entrance of the trail.
The last shows the top of the ridge from which the buck peers out to see what is beyond the woods.


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Rainfall has been going strong all night and into the morning. The soft gentle patter like bad things breaking apart and washing free has been my steady companion while I sleep. I've been discarding the old and creating the new. Not creating from scratch, but from what I already have with some new things thrown in there for good measure. It's a cathartic process. Of course, a little moon music is helping the morning transition. Perhaps the pumpkin coffee is an aid as well. There is something incredibly vulnerable about bare feet in the rain that rejoices in the weather just warm enough to warrant such adventures.
There is something lovely about rainy days teat permeates even the indoors. The light is softer, the sound is soft, the feeling is soft and calming. Perhaps that is why we associate rain with cleansing, with strong emotions, with a meditative contemplation often mistaken for sadness.
They are my favorite days. Gentle days are often my favorite days. As much as I love those days where you run at top speed whiling away the hours at something you love, there isn't much time to take stock. These special soft days allow us to take stock. It repoints, sharpens, and clarifies our purpose; it comforts, calms, and slows us down immeasurably.
Water, itself, is a healing element. Water has many mercurial properties. Water is persistent and works around us with seeming gentleness, but is secretly a mighty force. That in itself is what it summarizes to work at things with a feminine energy. While we have the ability to force things, most of what the world desires of us requires nurturing.
It is important to nurture oneself most of all.
I once had a lecture from a producer about how if we don't nurture ourselves first, we will never be able to take care of those around us. He used an example of breathing masks on an airplane (air sign) but as I'm in a watery mood today let's modify that story to one with some relevance: if you are drowning and the person next to you is drowning, do you help them to stop drowning or take care of yourself first? Naturally, we are inclined to help others, but if you don't stop to take stock of your own situation and find something to cling to in the water you have nothing to offer them in the way of true help. You two will end up clinging to each other as you both go down, but if you stop to find something floating nearby that you can cling to so that you are no longer drowning, you can then pull them over and help. You simply cannot help someone if you have nothing to offer if you yourself are in distress.
As a mother, self care is essential. I can feel myself slipping on the health aspect now and full plan to spend as much time possible this week drinking tea and taking naps whenever the little goddess goes down. I've created my own drifting float by staying far enough ahead of everything I need to do to be able to take this week to calmly focus on what is necessary and no more.
Everything else, let it go.
oXo kisses xOx,