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Oprah Winfrey's Butlers – Lee Daniels and Tyler Perry
August 21, 2013 by OUR COMMON GROUND
BY TANYA STEELE
I have a knot in my heart. It was in my throat, it moved along. Eventually, I am sure it will suffocate me if I don't get this out. Black women, listen, we've got to stand up. We need to be mad as hell and not take it anymore.
Please indulge me because I am, admittedly, angry. And, before anyone starts rolling their eyes, I am not an angry black woman (whatever the fuck that is). I put compassion and understanding at the center of all things. Having survived sexual abuse as a child. And, rape as an adult, I have a right to be angry. But, no, I have decided that compassion is essential if I am to walk amongst humans. Because human beings do some foul shit.
The first person I encountered outside of the theater, as I went in to see 'The Butler', was a young black woman with a dishrag in her hand. She waited, patiently, for the men to exit the toilets so she could clean the bathroom. People like this woman and the butler have not been on black folk's agenda for decades. So, why now? Is it simply a good story, provides a good arc and has potential for an Oscar run?
I watched Oprah's talk show, continuously, for many years. Struggling after film school, I watched one of her home makeover shows. On the show, a lamp was apart of the makeover. She said something along the lines of "If you can't afford this lamp, you are not doing something right." The lamp was $20. I couldn't afford it. And, I was one of those black people who had done everything right. I also thought about my family, in rural North Carolina, that lived in a trailer. At 23, I went to find my father's family. They knew nothing about me (this is a story for another day). Anyway, fearless, I wanted to know this side of my family.
One cousin lived in a trailer. Children were everywhere. I mean, everywhere. And, the women were, what is considered, dark, overweight and opinionated. At 4pm, all of the women and children gathered around the television. I wondered what was going on. I asked what was coming on. "Oprah", my cousin said. She then gave me a side eye and asked, "You got any children?" I knew a 'no' was going to bring harsh judgment. But, I gripped the couch and, barely, uttered the word, "No." Oprah's show began, thank goodness. No one in that room, in full support of and offering unconditional love to Oprah, could afford that lamp.
We cannot underestimate her influence on American culture. We cannot yet determine how her presence has impacted the landscape. Unlike my mother's generation, I grew up hearing conversations about child molestation, abuse against women, all of the things that remained in the shadows for centuries. Oprah brought all of that to the center of the conversation. She made it visible. In this regard, she is a heroine of the highest order. To speak, in spite of the shame that sexual violation rains upon you, is serious. And, she did it before the world. And, she did it in triumph.
I watched Oprah's performance in 'The Butler' and I thought about her 'lamp' statement. I wondered if the character she portrayed could have afforded that lamp. Would that lamp have been a priority for her character? And, yes, probably. The film is an homage to the middle class. It honors hard work, discipline, loyalty to family, black men who put family before "running the streets". Unfortunately, we are never inside of the Butler's head. We don't experience what he thinks or feels about the unique situation he is in. This is a script issue. The writer didn't see the world through his eyes.
I am not anti-'The Butler'. I do not feel that 'The Butler' is the male version of the 'The Help'. I do think Lee Daniels is thoughtful about his work. I do think he has an agenda. What that is, I don't know. I think the Butler's story is a moving one. Do I think Lee pulled it off in this film, no. I think it is Lee's best film to date. So far, he has directed 'Precious' and 'Shadow Boxer'. You can determine if this being his "best film" is significant in light of his track record.
I am, however, anti-Precious. The film was exaggerated horror and poverty pornography. Like Sapphire, I knew the population that she worked with. I, too, worked with girls in group homes. Girls that have survived unthinkable horrors. And, let me tell you, like Oprah, they are some of the most creative, complex and extraordinary girls on the planet. I have known girls that got their heads bashed into the sidewalk by their mother and could dress up in a fierceness that would shame a Parisian runway. Trauma does not equal despair, fatigue or isolation. Depression is not the only result.
In the interest of full disclosure, I was in consideration to write the screenplay for 'Push'. Ultimately, Lee made his choice. And, it would have been a much different movie had I penned it. But, I went to see it with an open mind and heart, hoping the best for Lee Daniels. Because, in my eyes, black representation trumps all. It is not about me, it is about the images that, ultimately, wind up on the screen. And, to me, Precious was beyond disappointing. But, you see, it received "the stamp" from Sundance, etc. A stamp that was misplaced because white liberals wouldn't know an "authentic" black narrative if it hit them in the face. It is easier to accept the idea that black people are depraved, grotesque and horrifying than to understand our nuance. But, Lee Daniels got what he wanted- a platform for his demons.
Where am I going with this? Here. And, perhaps you can help me. For the life of me, I cannot understand why Ms. Winfrey supports black filmmakers whose work denigrates black women. Yes, I am referring to Tyler Perry and Lee Daniels. Help me to understand this. Madea?! Madea. Really?!
Now, mind you, I have had to make sense of Madea for myself. Clearly, black people are underrepresented in cinema. Elderly black women, especially. Church going women as well. I get it. There is an emotional connection to the "idea" of Madea that black people may be responding to. Unfortunately, it is hyperbolic and exaggerated. Kind of like Precious, but, the opposite. I've watched Tyler Perry's stage shows on youtube. Only because I needed to understand what people were watching. Okay, I get it. Where in American culture, are you going to hear someone crooning Vandross or Phil Perry? There is an emotional connection, a validation of experience in Tyler Perry's work that folks can't get elsewhere.
And, I believe in freedom of expression. So, here's mine. We have to expect better. We have to do better. We have to stop making a joke out of black women. We have to stop looking at black women as the shrew. Which is what Oprah was in the butler. Oprah was in a Tennessee Williams play while everyone else was in the movie 'The Butler'. Oprah appears to be angling so hard for an Oscar that she cut off from the rest of the cast and did her own thing. The moments where she showed serious chops were when she was in step with the cast.
Oprah was in a film where the two lead black women were foul (although Yaya DaCosta was a beautiful representation of a black woman from that period). Lee, ultimately, maligned Yaya's character. He built up this amazing black woman only to undercut all that he had done in one, ridiculous, moment. The two women then go on to detest one another. The black men in the film, however, take care of each other.
Honestly, the best thing about 'The Butler', well, other than Forest Whitaker's sublime performance, was the camaraderie of the black men. That was a thing of beauty. And, it was good to see a relationship between a black man and a black woman that unfolded over time. But, honestly, for most of the film, I wondered why the butler was with such a, glaringly, haunted woman. It made no sense. Oprah's character could have been sister to the mother in Precious. Did Oprah and Mo'nique share the same acting coach? Oprah has gifts that are unique to her that were not called upon. Oprah's charm, wit and intellect are her light. Blinded by trinkets like 'The Oscar', we got regurgitated Mo'nique.
Why is Oprah supporting these "filmmakers" who have shown very little respect for black women? Is the dream of 'the Oscar' and the cash flow all that important? Perhaps it is. As Oprah stated, she still has dreams. One of them, it seems, is to get an Oscar. And, let me tell you, these black folks are going to get that Oscar if it kills them. Even if they have to pay for it. That's cool, that's the marketplace. But, in the midst of the journey, can we show some love to black women? Oprah knows our story. Oprah is aware of the particular pains that black women experience. Is it fair to burden her with "proper representation"? No, I am not asking for that. I love drama. I love haunted characters. I believe in exalted drama. It is possible to work with people who write the hell out of the black experience with sensitivity and depth. Find them! Ms. Winfrey, have a black woman write the Henrietta Lacks story because NO ONE, NO ONE, will write her life like a black woman writer. A black woman who understands what it is to be violated in the most intimate regions of our being.
Recently, a friend sent a video interview to me. In the interview, Oprah asks Tyler Perry (of all people), "Why is it, that you think, Hollywood doesn't see a consistent space for roles for black women?" The real question is, why don't you two see a consistent space for talented black women writers and filmmakers? That's the question. Why aren't you all employing and lifting us up?! Black women will flock to the theaters if Oprah began to create portraits of black women that sing us true. The way to make this happen is to hire black women to tell our fucking stories. And, if you don't know where to find us ask Lee Daniels, he knows.
As we prepare for the 50th anniversary of the 'March on Washington' let us all remember, ain't nobody cared about the butler or the woman cleaning the toilets -for generations. The Black 1% has to learn to lift up all black folks -not just the ones whose stories have the potential to garner an Oscar or a bright new shiny lamp.
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Q: PonyORM: how to get rid of "subquery uses ungrouped column"? Please assume this data model. This is a simplified model of what I really have here but all important fields are there. Database: Postgres. I want to calculate some stats on those models and I stumbled upon this problem:
c = Customer.select().random(1)[0]  # example
query = left_join(
        (
            p,
            count(i.order.customer == c),
            count((b.is_used == True) for b in i.bonuses),
            count(i)
        ) for p in Product
        for i in p.order_items)

Now trying to show results (in reality I have some more filtering on the aggregations to do)
query.show()

yields this:
ProgrammingError: subquery uses ungrouped column "i.id" from outer query
LINE 4:     WHERE "i"."id" = "b"."order_item"

What can I do to correct this?
Resulting SQL looks like this:
SELECT "p"."id", COUNT(case when "order"."customer" = ? then 1 else null end), (
    SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT "b"."is_used" = 1)
    FROM "Bonus" "b"
    WHERE "i"."id" = "b"."order_item"
    ), COUNT(DISTINCT "i"."id")
FROM "Product" "p"
  LEFT JOIN "OrderItem" "i"
    ON "p"."id" = "i"."product"
  LEFT JOIN "Order" "order"
    ON "i"."order" = "order"."id"
GROUP BY "p"."id"

EDIT:
My real models are made to fit a db used by Django, so I have _table_ in each class and column=something_id in all foreign keys. But aside that everything looks OK to the point I can make any simpler query with ease.
EDIT2:
Here's the gist with my test data.

A: It appears that I needed to rephrase the code to this form:
query = left_join(
    (
        p,
        count(i.order.customer == c),
        count(b.is_used == True),
        count(i)
    ) for p in Product
    for i in p.order_items
    for b in i.bonuses)

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High yield farming may be better for biodiversity
The way forward is here
Public Domain USDA NRCS Montana
Some years ago, it became trendy to favor high density living, with less sprawl and more urban-apartment-lifestyles, due to ecological benefits. By keeping people together in less space, more space is available for the non-human species. Evidence also suggests a lower environmental footprint, although Lloyd points out that the movement must target a Goldilocks density (not too much, not too little, just right).
But common lore in the green community still holds that modern agricultural techniques increase pollution run-off, greenhouse gas emissions, and soil loss. Now researchers are turning common sense about the sustainability of traditional farming methods versus high-yield farming on its head. Existing studies may have overstated the benefits of traditional methods by evaluating the impact relative to the acreage in use rather than to the unit of food produced.
A team of researchers led by Andrew Balmford of the University of Cambridge - and including scientists from 17 organisations in the UK, Poland, Brazil, Australia, Mexico and Colombia - analyzed key environmental aspects of farming methods. A co-author from the University of Sheffield, Dr David Edwards, notes:
"Organic systems are often considered to be far more environmentally friendly than conventional farming, but our work suggested the opposite. By using more land to produce the same yield, organic may ultimately accrue larger environmental costs."
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In addition to the finding that high-yield agriculture may offer more benefits than merely profit and volume, the team reports two critical admonitions. First, we need more and better science on the give and take from farming approaches. Second, if their science is used only to support more intensive farming methods without equal weight given to protecting wildlife habitats and biodiversity, the wins from high-yield farming cannot be realized.
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The full article is behind a paywall: The environmental costs and benefits of high-yield farming
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As I mentioned in my previous blog post, Melbourne Gastronome has been quiet for the last fortnight because I have been on holiday over in Japan. すばらしい!! I just got back yesterday, and am feeling pretty woozy and spaced out today (very little sleep on the overnight flight). Because I had only intermittent internet access over there, I'm afraid I haven't had the opportunity to write a proper Fortnightly Round-up filled with news, photos and Links of Note in time for today's scheduled post.
But rather than publish nothing I thought I'd create a blog post listing all the tips and recommendations that lovely Melbourne Gastronome readers sent me for my trip to Osaka, Kyoto and Tokyo: I figured that it could be a useful resource for those of you planning a trip to Japan in the future (do it!). Huge thanks once again to those of you who provided me with tips! I will of course be writing a blog post or two about the trip highlights - spoiler alert: IT WAS AMAZING - in the near future.
In the meantime I leave you with this very short video I made of a silly little something that caught my eye in Tokyo (if you can't view the embedded video below, here's the link).
As a native Japanese, I have a lot of places to recommend!
In Tokyo, Tsukiji Fish market is a 'must visit' place as a food lover - not only seeing famous Tuna auction in the main wholesale market area (you may have to register), you can enjoy shopping and dining in the JYOGAI market area. There are lots of eateries and specialty shops. Tsukiji is surrounded by old and new tourist places, so it will be a good fun to walk around on a nice day.
Also, visiting gourmet sections in Department stores will be fabulous experience -you can buy and sample all sorts of Japanese delicacies, lunch boxes, and gorgeous sweets etc., like shopping at Gallary Lafayett in Paris.
Try variety of restaurants - from top end Japanese restaurants to little eateries. Especially small eateries, majority of them are cheap and good quality, just believe your gut feeling!
it's been ten years since i was in japan. my recommendation for food to seek out is kyoto style 'yuba' or tofu skin. texturally, it's similar to buffalo mozzarella - so fresh, layered and delicious. in some restaurants, yuba is made on the table - a pan of soy milk (yuba milk) with a piece of orange rind (or other fragrant ingredients) sits on top of a burner and the you watch the yuba (fine film) form on top. if you can line up a japanese foodie to take you through it, i would highly recommend it. sorry i can't be more specific.
many thanks for your amazing insights and discoveries.
You should check out Koyasan, a Buddhist mountain retreat totally worth the train and cable car ride from Osaka. You have to stay the night there but you could easily do away with a day or night in Kyoto or Tokyo to take in this incredible, unique experience.
Once on the mountain, you stay in beautiful traditional accommodation in Buddhist temples. The monks will make you a blow your mind vegetarian Buddhist meal for dinner, and any other meals that you're there with them. It's incredibly delicious and different.
The architecture in the town is amazing and very old and the cemetery is the permanent home of some of Japan's most important Shingon Buddhists. When I went it was covered in a blanket of snow and looked so beautiful.
The monks ask you if you want to join them pre breakfast for early prayer - unfortunately I accidentally slept through this but I have heard it's quite fascinating.
As a foodie, I believe Japan is the best place in the world to visit. It's non stop excitement. Make sure amongst everything else you have, you get some takoyaki at Kyoto train station's food hall - to die for!!! And sashimi is amazing wherever you have it. Melt in the mouth. It's exciting to stay in the Gion district of Kyoto which is both beautiful and traditional Geisha territory.
The best food I've had in Japan had been home cooked, so time to tap in to all those Japanese friendships and invite yourself over for sinner, haha!
Hope you have an amazing time. Looking forward to reading all about it!
I'm a massive fan of your blog, you always seem to be completely on the mark!
it is a very informal restaurant but definitely one of the most memorable, I went there about 3 times, the california roll is amazing, try and get there early or you might have to wait a little. Also try and make it to the Tsukiji fish markets an amazing experience the amount of fresh fish and variety, try and have sashimi breakfast there, it is expensive but amazingly fresh! Apart from that I just wandered around, be sure to have heaps of ramen, soba and yakitori you can grab that around any train station. I loved Kyoto and had a great degustation meal on tatami mats overlooking the river, they definitely have more traditional restaurants, it's absolutely beautiful there. I really enjoyed a day trip to Nikko which is just out of Tokyo, they have great temples and really nice national park, hiroshima is good as well and specialty down there is Korean/Japanese BBQ which is always great fun. The bullet train makes travel so easy, just make sure you get a ticket online while still in oz as you save $$$ compared to paying while there.
I hope this is helpful, feel free to shoot any questions you have through and I will do my best.
My Japan tip is that the massive department stores on the big main road -Ginza- have awesome food halls-two floors, no less, and the sushi bars in the food halls are excellent value for money.
Not sure if you remember, but I sent you a bunch of recommendations when you were planning your US trip a couple of years ago. Thought I'd email you Japan recs rather than post a really long comment on the blog.
I went to Japan a year and a bit ago, so I'm sure heaps of good stuff has opened in the meantime, but these were my faves.
Anyway, these are the places I loved. They're a bit ramen-centric - I was traveling on a budget!
Sushi Dai at Tsukiji Fish Market was the best sushi I've ever had. And it's quite reasonable priced. Something like $50 for 11 pieces of sushi, made for you one at a time. The queues are insane - I think we waited two hours to get a spot, but it was totally worth it. http://www.ededition.com/sushi-dai-tsukiji-fish-market/ . If you can't deal with the line, I think Daiwa Sushi is widely regarded as the second best at Tsukiji.
In Tokyo, I also loved the bars of the Golden Gai in Shinjuku. I also had a really great okanomiyaki in The Golden Gai, but I have no idea of the name of the restaurant. I think it's just fun to wander the lanes and pop into any bars that take your fancy. I know a bar called Albatross is friendly to English speakers.
The food basement of Isetan department store is just mind-blowing. It features every sort of over-packaged indulgence you can think of. And you can get Pierre Herme macarons there, which is always a good thing.
The ramen street on the top floor of Kyoto station has a number of good ramen shops. I had a really great tsukemen from a place called Tetsu. Tsukemen, or dipping ramen, was very much in fashion while I was in Japan.
I also had a great ramen at this place http://kyotofoodie.com/takaraya-ramen/.
That's probably more than enough. Sorry for bombarding you - I just get excited when I hear people are going to Japan. It's an incredible food destination. I'm sure you'll love it. Can't wait to read your posts when you get back.
Tour 1a for my visitors is, assuming starting from Roppongi Hills, thru the back streets to Omotesando, passing both local housing and swish fashion label shops; up O-sando. Lunch at the gyoza place mentioned by one of your correspondents or at Maisen (tonkatsu, also so mentioned). Or go to that area for dinner, to a little place where various delicacies are grilled in front of one in a glass fronted bbq pit.
There are any number of side-tracks to go down as time allows.
But anywhere is fun in Tokyo! Ueno Park/area; Shinjuku shops/station; Shibuya shops/cafes; crossing; Ebisu-Daikanyama-Shibuya circle walk (old stomping ground).
I went on holiday to Japan last year for the first time and it was awesome. Would love to go back and it would be really interesting to see how things are now after the disasters earlier this year. The one tip that I would give for an amazing meal would be to visit the restaurant 'Okada, Tori, Umi, Yamano-sachi' in Osaka. My friend's sister was the chef there and provided us with the best meal (http://www.blueapocalypse.com/2010/08/japan-5-okada-chicken-ocean-and.html) that I had in Japan.
I just came back from Osaka, Kyoto,and Nara. Foods there are fantastic.
Personally, I like kyoto style sushi at Izuju. http://kyotofoodie.com/izuju-best-kyoto-style-sushi/ Dango stall (petit brown wooden stall) down Shijo dori road from Izuju toward Gion Shijo also memorable. It's roasted dango soaked with shoyu sauce and topped with kinako (soy bean flour).
Check out Dons de la Nature for the perfect slab of Japanese steak.
I spent a year in Japan and the best place I visited was Hakone, just getting there was an adventure, you get a train that zig zags up the mountain, then a tram kind of thing that has stepped floor as it's so steep, then a cable car and then an amazing boat across the lake. It's spectacular this time of year with the leaves changing colour. It's stuck in my head as one of my all time favourite holidays, I'll definitely go back one day. Have a great time!
Unless going to a really cheap chain restaurant where you don't expect much, we found it hard to go wrong anywhere in Japan.
We ate at places where vividly remember our experience, but would have very little clue of location or name. I've just dug out my trip diary, where I wrote down a lot of the restaurant names (using my very vague residual knowledge of hiragana) and listed everything we ate, but even this isn't helping now!
- if you pick a place based on the excellence of the smell, it will mostly turn out to be eel. The first place we ate exclusively served eel and it was mind-blowing.
- eat train station bento (when travelling between cities), for fun as much as taste.
- find a place that does handmade fresh udon noodle and order with a simple broth.
- if going to a Japanese burger chain, Mosburger is far better than Freshness Burger.
My metabolism is going crazy just writing this. Have fun!
Tokyo's famous tonkatsu (fried pork cutlets) restaurant, located in an unusually decorated former bathhouse.
Delicious Izakaya (Japanese drinking establishment) with a huge menu of drinks and food. Really fun and affordable!
A 200-year-old soba shop in the middle of Tokyo's gay bar district, serving a full selection of soba dishes. Their hoto (hoh-toh), a Yamanashi-style udon dish with lots of vegetables, makes a very filling wintertime meal. Another specialty is deep-fried natto (fermented soybeans) wrapped in nori.
Italian celebrities, politicians and sportsmen have all admitted that the Italian food at Elio's Calabrian restaurant is better than at home. And that's a big statement. Fantastic seafood dishes, most you would never find in Australia. Dinner is worth it and not too expensive.
I would suggest staying in Osaka for a few more days if you can... it is the home of Okonomiyaki which are quite wonderful. And there are excellent places where they are cooked in front of you on hot plates. Also the 'American Village' is quite a interesting place to go out in terms of bars/clubs and check out the japanese party culture. Just having a beer on the street there is pretty fun!
This will sound really dodgy but... There is a great sushi train in the Kyoto station precinct. A few shops up from the McDonalds and across from the shop with stuffed plastic loaves of bread in the window.
We went there a few years back and it was tasty and fresh. A couple of hefty Japanese guys ate their way through 30 plates whilst we were there.
Also, any of the sushi places around the Tokyo fish market close to opening time. The freshest and tastiest sushi lunch you will ever have!
One of my favourite Tokyo cafes is A to Z in Omotesando. It was partially designed by Yoshitomo Nara, and has a great rooftop garden and oh so delicious cocktails.
In Kyoto make sure you go to Nishiki Market. Worth it just for the sites & smells alone.
In Tokyo try Birdland in Ginza, hard to find but really good Yakitori.
Another good one is Ramen Jiro, its a chain, but still yum.
Also you have to go to a Depachika, the food halls of the big dept stores, they are AMAZING.
I just Noticed 'Naila' recommended Tonkatsu Maisen; I absolutely second that recommendation, been to Tokyo three times and always go there.
There is a magnificent, tiny specialty tempura restaurant in Tokyo. It's in an unassuming quite little neighbourhood but worth the search. The chefs cook the tempura directly in front of you and it's about 10 courses of individually prepared tempura. Amazing. Like the tempura version of 'Jiro Dreams of Sushi' (if you have seen that film).
Japanese-style (wafuu) pasta is delicious and underrated - try a chain called Pontoiru, which uses duck meatballs, fresh-grated yams and these zingy Kyoto herbs I've never had before.
Can't believe that no-one has mentioned it yet but the world famous Tsukiji Fish Market in Tokyo is a must for breakfast and a wander. It is stupendously wonderful.
Make sure you go to one of the little cafes a bit further down the strip away from the Metro station entrance though (towards the shrine)- will be much better value.
Skip Tokyo, it's busy and loud. Stay in Osaka which is brilliant and Kyoto which is sublime. There's a gorgeous Persian restaurant in the Geisha area.
I was in Japan this year shortly after the earthquake. The earthquake happened 2 days before our wedding and we were booked in to go 2 days later so we braved it out - in the end all this meant we had to forgo Tokyo and stay in the south but that was ok.
Visit Daimaru food section in Kyoto just for the experience!
You will love Le Bouchon in Kyoto if you'd like a change from Japanese fair - simple French food done well at a really decent price, we went during the week and the place was full with locals.
And also make sure you have a Kaiseki style meal in Kyoto - many restaurants do them, the one we went to was Manzara Honten, a little bit touristy but really good value for money and the quality was brilliant.
There are many great french style patisseries and bakeries dotted all over Kyoto, the only thing I did miss was decent coffee - that was touch and go.
This is in the main shopping / freak watching area Harajuku which is a must visit anyway! Enjoy!
If you are after a good melbourne style coffee , Dean and Delucca ( a number of sites in Tokyo and maybe elsewhere these days) are quite good.
Try to take in a ryokan in the hills outside Kyoto , and do the Kaseki thing..quite remarkable.
Obviously our Japan advice will be of only limited use for you, but I can't recommend Bon in Tokyo enough. Just an amazing experience - if you have only one veg meal on your trip, find a way to make it at Bon.
I defintely recommend checking out Omoide Yokocho in Shinjuku (AKA Piss Alley) for the most authentic Tokyo Yakitori experience. If you're interested, I'll send you a photo of the place there that I'd recommend. There's no names on most of the places, so you'll have to go by a photo to work out which it is!
In Osaka, there is an amazing Tsukemen restaurant, which puts a 300c red hot rock into your broth when you finish your meal. One of the best things I've eaten in Japan! I'll see if I can get their name for you if you're keen on that too - I kept their card somewhere.
Accomodation-wise, Citadines in Kyoto and Tokyo and SO damn good and cheap. It was recommended to me by michael from Provenance. We've stayed at both on both visits to Jpn. The one in Kyoto is literally next door to a famous SOBA noodle place, which is a great lunchtime visit.
Hire bikes to get around Kyoto. You can ride on the roads, footpaths, etc, and it's by far the best place to get around. It's relatively flat, so you dont need to be too fit.
A good day trip from Osaka/Kyoto is Nara, where you will see deer wandering the streets and the Giant Buddha.
Get to Gion whilst in Kyoto for some geisha spotting in the early evening. You'll also spot them wandering around the laneways of Pontocho. A must visit! I even got the Pontocho logo tattooed when I was in Kyoto - a Chidori bird.
Dont forget to check out the weirdos down at Harajuku on the weekends, on the bridge next to the station. There's also a cool temple to visit just behind the station, which is a nice shady walk, if it's warm.
If you have a spare day and want to visit an amazing spa town, check out Kinosaki. A long winding beautiful train trip up mountains, along rivers and waterfalls and rapids until you get to this magical little onsen town, where you can walk around in your traditional wooden thongs and japanese dressing gown wandering to and from the 7 onsen. The food here is primarily seafood and is famous for Crab.
If you need any other ideas, let me know!!
I studied Japanese for six years in high school, and found to my pleasant surprise once over there that I actually remembered much more than I'd thought I would. That said, I have NO idea what Snoopy is yelling about outside this izakaya - can anyone translate for me??
Not sure what the sentence on the left is, but the one on the right basically says "Drink up a storm!!"
i cant wait to see the post about japan!
snoopy is saying what japanese people usually do at izakaya ;) "drink spree! be noisy!"
I just got back from Tokyo on Easter weekend, I wont add any food related places! What I can add is, you can bring your smart phone (unlocked, just ask your provider), once in Tokyo, you can buy a data only sim for use in your smartphone. The most cost friendly is about 4000yen, in which you get 1gb worth of data, and it is valid for 1 month. I used this to update my foodspotting blog and for maps which is really useful for getting around. Dont know how I managed without this on my previous trips to Tokyo!!!!


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Are you lonely this friendship day? Do you crave companionship? Are you perfectly content in your relationships?
Loneliness is very very over rated. The need for companionship is a good thing. It makes you only human. But, what if you are alone, by circumstance? Will you stop living as a result of it?
Acknowledge and love the friends in your life today, but first and foremost acknowledge and love YOU!
What about you? Are you your own best friend or are you still looking for YOURSELF? Please share your wisdom and thoughts in the comments below. Thank you for stopping by!
True and wise advice, Zeenat. I, like you, was uncomfortable with myself and, as a result, made a lot of mistakes, especially in relationships. We truly have to learn to like who we are when we are completely alone. It is the sure cure for lonliness.
HAPPY Friendship day, dear! Who can be lonely with positiveprovocations filling the lives of many with happiness, smiles and positive thoughts!
I completely agree with you – if we befriend our own selves, no negative feelings can ever haunt us because loving our own self, leads us into the vast vistas of our heart…we can understand ourselves so well, we can analyse and make peace with our past and present. Loneliness can prove to be a blessing in disguise if we know how to utilise those hours of loneliness. In fact there is a very thin line between loneliness and solitude, which gets obliterated when we become our best friends.
I like this perspective and reminder to be my own best friend. Thanks Zeenat!
Thank you for this post and Happy Friendship Day!
I finished the evening off by having a water fight with my neighbors…its never lonely…or for the matter dull around here…I am blessed to have crazy fun loving neighbors that love me.
I am my best friend 🙂 I love your message today Z. We enter this world alone and we will depart this world alone. Along the way, we pick up fellow companions, loved ones, children, and bestest friends. But at the end of the day, it's just me, myself, and I.
Beautiful, it is simply loving and caring, beatiful. No other words to describe it. The article is eye opener. The basic cause of grief and sorrow is the loving the mortals. Those who are mortals can not give you piece and love.Love thyself . Only you can love or hate yourself truly. Nobody else.
I´ve been living alone for 9 years now. I basically do everything alone, go out, shopping, to the beach, to restaurants. I am so confortable being alone. Recently people start telling me that I should have a relationship and stop living the peaceful life I have. So, I subscribe myself into a relationship website. As people started talking to me. I´ve notice I was getting angry and to some of them even said I was reading or busy with something and that was my own moment. I realised that after so many years alone I can´t share time with people anymore. I stay with them for a while and I quickly want to go to my place. I realise I am not ready for a relationship.
Great! Your cure for loneliness is right on point! I am alone for one of the first times in my life. All my relationships have changed, because I have changed. At first I seemed to be plagued with feelings of loneliness and then I began to focus on me and embrace this time by myself to get to know myself. I am now my own best friend! Thanks.
Thank you for this article. It's been a very difficult day and the instant I got home loneliness hit me. I 're-read this article a few times and it came at the best time. I really need to enjoy being with me again and not let my happiness be dependent on someone else. Thank you again.
Thank you everyone for the lovely lovely comments here.
I love each and everyone of you, for sharing your beautiful energy here. I have been swamped with work and my little girls exams so have not been online much.
I'll see you'll next week with a brand new post.


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Q: Write a matrix to a txt file without getting extra 0 values I'm trying to write a matrix to a txt file. I've managed to do that but I don't want to include any 0 in my txt file.
My matrix looks like this:
5 0 0; 1 2 28; 1 3 60; 1 4 100; 1 5 108; 2 3 48; 2 4 83; 2 5 90; 3 4 41; 3 5 46; 4 5 12

And I would like the output in my txt file to look like this:
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How could I do that?

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%Given matrix is:
matrix= [5 0 0; 1 2 28; 1 3 60; 1 4 100; 1 5 108; 2 3 48; 2 4 83; 2 5 90; ...
    3 4 41; 3 5 46; 4 5 12];

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fprintf(fid, out(2:end));  %Writing data to the text file (excluding the added space)
fclose(fid);               %Closing the text file

Read the documentation of mat2str,  regexprep, fopen, fprintf, and fclose for details of these functions.

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Tag Archives: The Smithereens
Can't say it better than Jack White:
"I think it's high time the mentors, big brothers, big sisters, parents, guardians, and neighborhood ne'er do wells, start taking younger people that look up to them to a real record store and show them what an important part of life music really is. I trust no one who hasn't time for music. What a shame to leave a child, or worse, a generation orphaned from one of life's great beauties…"
It's National Record Store Day – good things are happening all over. Hell, the event is so grand that it even has an Official Ambassador.
The Smithereens have a new album!
The Grip Weeds released a hi-def version of Strange Change Machine!
The dBs have a new single and an album on the way!
And check out this list of special releases – many with limited availability.
You can find your local participating record store here. Now get your ass to a record store…and bring someone along with you!
National Record Store Day!
Filed under Editorials, Film/TV, Music
Tagged as Announcement, Coalition of Independent Music Stores, Editorial, Film/TV, garage rock, Jack White, Music, music industry, New Album, Power Pop, Record Store Day, The dbs, The Grip Weeds, The Smithereens
Meet The Beatles, Sorta
Time once again to pay homage to Angelo over at Power Pop Criminals, whose mixtapes (will someone please come up for a less cumbersome word for mix disc?) are always first-rate works of art. And that includes the art, by the way – original work always created with affection, humor and great skill.
Over the past couple of years I've tipped you to many of his powerpop anthologies, Beatle album tributes and collections of tribute songs. This weekend I'm recommending you check out two of his more eclectic tributes, starting with Meet The Beatlesque. We've all heard bands and songs that make you think of The Fab Four; pretty much any pop band around has some Beatle DNA in their bloodstream.
So where many bands cover Beatle songs outright, here we are talking about bands who are channeling their influence or building off their foundation. Angelo describes the selections as those "who have had a Beatlesque moment, whether consciously or not. Beatlesque means bearing a definite resemblance, often to a specific Beatle song. To be truly Beatlesque,a record must wear that influence openly."
So who does that? Hmm…how about The Raspberries, Utopia, The Rutles, Marshall Crenshaw, The Smithereens, ELO, 20-20 and The Flamin' Groovies? That's only a small sampling…from Disc One! Disc Two features Badfinger, Klaatu, Matthew Sweet, Cheap Trick, Emitt Rhodes, The Gurus, The Jam…fifty tracks of fab between the two discs!
So click here to visit PPC and download this great collection. Enjoy!
Tagged as 20-20, Announcement, Badfinger, Beatles, Cheap Trick, ELO, Emitt Rhodes, garage rock, Klaatu, Marshall Crenshaw, Matthew Sweet, Meet The Beatles, Meet The Beatlesque, Music, Paul McCartney, Power Pop, Power Pop Criminals, The Beatles, The Fab Four, The Flamin' Groovies, The Gurus, The Jam, The Raspberries, The Rutles, The Smithereens, Utopia
Having A Wild Weekend
A very fab foursome
No, not the Dave Clark Five movie. But even more fun.
Jumped in the car with my friend Bill and drove through Pennsyltucky to the wild plains of Northern New Jersey to visit pop bands in their natural habitat. Enjoyed Pat DiNizio's Fifth Annual Halloween Party and Smithereens Fan Fest, which this year featured a long day of great music and all the food and drink you could ingest (which is a good thing, since you can't get a beer in Jersey after midnight if your life depended on it!).
"It's my fervent wish and desire to help you feel better for a few hours," DiNizio said. "All of us need to get away from the six-foot plasma television, shut off our phones and start talking to each other with our breaths, smiles and laughing, and enjoy some rock 'n' roll music."
Mission accomplished, sir.
I'll tag the full magazine feature I'm writing when it posts online. For now let's just say that I had more than my moneys' worth by the time The Scotch Plainsmen (DiNizio fronting a band of eight wonderful musicians) finished playing their Beatles set, which was Let It Be in its entirety – including dialogue from the movie and cuts from the sessions. Two other bands had already performed, and a wonderful steak and pasta dinner accompanied by open bar was in full swing. Had that been it, I would have been satisfied that the drive and expense was well worth it.
But then The Grip Weeds blasted an explosive set featuring their new album (and Best of 2010 contender) Strange Change Machine.
And then the inimitable Graham Parker – voice, guitar playing and wit all in top form – played a career-spanning yet eclectic set that brought the packed house to its feet.
And then The Smithereens – sounding fresh and vital – played a selction of their hits, a medley from their Tommy tribute album and a brand new song from the upcoming record before inviting Parker back onstage to recreate one of my favorite collaborative musical moments – "Behind The Wall of Sleep". The evening was capped by a jam session with various group members jumping in and out.
Eight hours of great fun. Met one of the DJs from KFOG in San Francisco who was headed home to get his station manager to add a couple of these artists to their playlist. Ran into Reigning Sound organist Dave Amels who tipped me to the new project he and Greg Cartwright worked on, The Parting Gifts. And then Bill and I laughed our asses off all the way home listening to great comedy albums, none funnier than Jim Jefferies.
Pete Townsend was wrong. I'm glad I'm still here.
Filed under Comedy, Music, Reviews
Tagged as Announcement, Behind The Wall of Sleep, Comedy, Dave Amels, Dave Clark Five, garage rock, Graham Parker, Greg Cartwright, Happy Birthday, Jim Jefferies, KFOG, Let It Be, Music, New Album, Pat DiNizio, Power Pop, Smithereens Fan Fest, stand-up comedy, Strange Change Machine, The Beatles, The Grip Weeds, The Parting Gifts, The Reigning Sound, The Scotch Plainsmen, The Smithereens, Tommy
New Album! Mondo Topless
Named after the 1966 Russ Meyer film, Mondo Topless has released five albums of garage punk surf music over the past eighteen years. Influences range from such primal American bands as The Sonics, Paul Revere and the Raiders and The Stooges to the British Invasion flash of The Animals and The Kinks.
Freaking Out is their first album in four years; a twelve-track collection of psychedelic chestnuts primed for the dance floor. Featuring the ever-present Vox organ and fuzz guitar riding the lockstep snap of bass and drums, it's impossible not to get your frug on. Gotta love their sense of humor; credits say "All songs by Mondo Topless except…" and then list all twelve tracks on the album.
Yep, this time around the band decided to go the all-cover route. The most recognizable track is probably Cream's "SWLABR", which gets a superior workout here. But Freaking Out rocks from start to finish; standouts being the Who-like "Left In The Dark" and "Mystery Girl", which sounds like a grittier version of The Smithereens. Even the closing "Little Clown" radiates the same simplicity and essence that great bands slip onto a b-side of a cool single.
Much like fellow tastemakers The Detroit Cobras, when they cover other people's songs, they truly put the their own stamp on them. It's a tribute to the band that they can forge an identity through such widespread material, but they've been living and breathing garage soul for a long time. Although they went through band members like tissue paper in the early days, the current lineup is stable, with drummer Steve Thrash the newest addition. Lead singer and Voxmaster Sam Steinig has been on board for the entire ride while guitarist Kris Alutius and bassist Scott Rodgers have logged over a decade apiece.
If you're a fab of bands like The Lyres, The Cynics, The Love Me Nots…you should be all over this. Grab a copy and play it loud.
Mondo Topless on MySpace
Get Hip Records
Tagged as British Invasion, Cream, Freaking Out, garage rock, Get Hip, Kris Alutius, Mondo Topless, Music, New Album, Paul Revere and the Raiders, psychedelic, punk rock, Reviews, Russ Meyer, Sam Steinig, Scott Rodgers, Steve Thrash, surf rock, The Animals, The Cynics, The Detroit Cobras, The Kinks, The Love Me Nots, The Lyres, The Smithereens, The Sonics, The Stooges, The Who
T.G.I.F. – Let It Beatle!
I've tipped my sizeable cap to Angelo at Power Pop Criminals before; he is an amazingly creative guy with an encyclopedic knowledge of the genre. He's gone to great lengths to assemble some intriguing virtual tribute albums over the years. Recently he launched the last of his Tribute To The Fab Four series that he started in 2007 – reassembling the original albums with cover versions of each track. As he says, without the Beatles, there would be no powerpop music.
Of course, there are quite a few Beatle tributes on the market, everything from reggae to bluegrass to avant-garde interpretations to straight-ahead homage (like the recent efforts from The Smithereens). But these truly are a labor of love, and although you might not be a fan of every track, I promise you will be rewarded if you check them out. I think album-to-album they're as good or better than the commercially assembled releases.
Sure, some of the bands are extremely obscure, even to powerpop fans who dig deep. But you'll also find a ton of great Beatle covers from famous artists like The Hollies, The Flamin' Groovies, Aerosmith and Roger McGuinn, and even a couple from one (or two) hit wonders like Moon Martin and The Cyrkle.
Best of all, you'll hear from many great bands that aren't household names but are revered by powerpop fans, and rightfully so: Cotton Mather, Ross Rice, The Blow Pops, The Quick, Walter Clevenger and The Shazam to name but a few. (And if and when you do get turned onto some new bands in the process, maybe that album or two you purchase from them – you will, won't you? – makes their day too.)
You'll need Windows RAR software to unpack the files, you can download that here. And you'll need the password, which is listed on each tribute page.
So pay it forward…and Thank God It's Friday. Here's a ten-spot, thanks to Angelo:
1965 / Beatles For Sale
The White Album
Filed under Features and Interviews, Music
Tagged as Abbey Road, Aerosmith, Beatles, Cotton Mather, Feature, Hard Day's Night, John Lennon, Let It Be, Moon Martin, Music, Paul McCartney, Power Pop, Power Pop Criminals, PPC, Revolver, Roger McGuinn, Ross Rice, Rubber Soul, Sgt. Pepper, TGIF, The Beatles, The Blow Pops, The Cyrkle, The Flamin' Groovies, The Hollies, The Quick, The Smithereens, tribute album, Tribute To The Fab Four, Walter Clevenger
Blast From The Past: The Montgomery Cliffs
I believe "Andiamo" means PLAY THIS LOUD!
"If I were in a band and had to follow these guys onstage, I'd demand to have the room hosed out and a fresh audience brought in. Nuff said."
First of all, that name…The Montgomery Cliffs. How cool is that? When I reviewed Andiamo, the Cliffs' debut album – my #1 Record of 1997, by the way – I proclaimed it "a low-budget, high voltage masterpiece" and I wouldn't take back a syllable of that today. If anything, my opinion has been validated by the passage of time. Produced by the great Andy Bopp (Myracle Brah) and released on the small RPM label, this three piece NYC band understood that The Who were both power and pop, and having a a sense of humor didn't hurt either. Joey's voice is occasionally reminiscent of Pat DiNizio (The Smithereens) or Elvis Costello (Ol' Declan would be smart to cover "If I Were You"), and the songs on Andiamo aren't far off from the early records by either.
But more importantly, the band and album were pure unadulterated impact. We've all been knocked sideways by a great band when we weren't expecting it…meeting someone at a bar, arriving early for a concert and not knowing the opener, and then… POW…floored! When recapping 1997's best later that year I added "The Cliffs parlay the guitar-bass-drum formula into something much greater. Great songs, whip-crack musicianship and a sense of humor that rocks your world and still makes you think. And the best part? They're better live. This disc kept getting back in the player all year long, and how better to measure your favorite?"
They were better live. They were amazing live. When I saw them at Fletcher's in Baltimore later that year, I was absolutely gobsmacked and wrote this. (And yes, I know Patsy Cline didn't write "Crazy"…) It wasn't just Salvia's charisma, although the guy had buckets of it; Wayne Thomas Kurz was the only guitar player but sounded like two, and Dennis Carollo mastered the art of propulsion without ego. Truly a power trio.
Joey Salvia might now be better known to some NYC area fans from his work on The Michael Kay Show (along with various appearances on FOX Sports and ESPN). Salvia engineers and helps produce the show as well as singing songs for guests, wreaking sonic havoc and bantering with the host. He also wrote the theme song and the other original/parody tunes you hear each day. Salvia continues to record under his own name; his latest album Long Lost Weekend features a song that Bostonians will surely hate…"Derek Jeter". (And to Dennis and Wayne, wherever you are…isn't it about time for a reunion??)
Maybe this video was recorded for ten dollars, who knows…but I think you'll get the point.
The Montgomery Cliff's MySpace page. "Wednesday Girl" rules.
CD Baby features several Cliffs and Salvia titles here… I also highly recommend the self-titled Cliffs record.
Tagged as Andiamo, Andy Bopp, Blast From The Past, Dennis Carollo, Derek Jeter, Elvis Costello, ESPN, FOX Sports, Joey Salvia, Long Lost Weekend, Michael Kay, Montgomery Cliffs, Music, Myracle Brah, Patsy Cline, Reviews, The Jam, The Smithereens, The Who, Wayne Thomas Kurz, Yankees


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Legendary actor, Zeppo Marx, was born Herbert Marx on Feb 25, 1901 in New York City, NY. Marx died at the age of 78 on Nov 30, 1979 in Palm Springs, CA and was cremated and his ashes scattered in the Pacific Ocean.
Zeppo, the youngest of The Marx Brothers, was born Herbert Manfred Marx on February 25, 1901 in New York City. Although older brothers Groucho, Chico, Harpo and Gummo would get their start, in varying degrees, in vaudeville between 1905 and 1910, Zeppo did not appear with his brothers on stage until 1915, when, at age 14, he appeared in a skit called ?Home Again? in a Flint, Michigan show ? probably the only instance when all five Marx Brothers appeared on the stage together. Shortly thereafter, when Gummo left the act to serve in World War I, Zeppo officially joined the troupe, performing through their final vaudeville years, then on Broadway and during their early Paramount films.
After appearing in five Marx Brothers? feature-length films, Zeppo left the act to join brother Gummo as a theatrical agent. Always adept with mechanics, he later became hugely successful as an engineer/inventor, achieving multi-millionaire status; he owned Marman Products which machined parts for our World War II efforts, and he invented a wristwatch that could monitor pulse rates of cardiac patients.
Marx was never nominated for an Academy Award.
His company, Marman Products, marketed and produced what came to be known as the Marman Clamp, which proved to have numerous applications in aircraft and aerospace, and is used to this day. The company eventually grew to two factories employing more than 500 workers. Marx would often hire studio prop men and unemployed big band musicians.
At the time of his death, he was the last surviving of The Marx Brothers.
Throughout his life, he had many careers including inventor, talent agent, manufacturer, commercial fisherman, and grapefruit grower.


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While home owners in regional locations often make a choice to go off grid, particularly those who have to pay a high connection fee for new homes, it is becoming increasingly clear that taking some towns and villages off the grid may also be a better solution.
That possibility has even been raised by the network owners themselves. They face the choice of having to either upgrade extended networks of poles and wires, or help the local community to cut the wire altogether, or at least reduce its size. In South Australia, the local network owner says it would make sense for many communities to look after their own energy needs – perhaps with a "thin" connection as an emergency back-up.
Nic Jacobson, a renewable energy engineer with consulting group IT Power, says it is clear that many communities are already considering their options, and the falling cost of battery storage is making this possible.
He notes that communities in the Northern Rivers region of NSW are looking at creating community-owned retailers, which could conceivably include owning the poles and wires. The city of Lismore, for instance, has already declared a goal to be zero net energy within a decade.
Ergon Energy, meanwhile, says it may install "hundreds" of battery storage units across its network – so avoiding costly upgrades of poles and wires that have few customers. As the cost of battery storage falls, and many think that will happen quickly in a short time, then battery storage may be able to replace the wires altogether.
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At Mission Point, we believe in caring for orphans and vulnerable children through family-based care. We partner with agencies and numerous resources to care for these children through education, training and tangible support.
We are so grateful for how our people are responding to God's invitation to care for the millions of unwanted, unclaimed and uncared for children in our world. It is humbling to be part of a church that is already so eager and committed to taking up the cause of hurting kids everywhere. For those of you who long to be a part of God's passion for the orphan, but are not sure how, check out the opportunities listed below to get started!
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OSC is a group that meets to provide encouragement and resources to households who find themselves on the orphan care journey. Whether you are considering or actively involved in foster care or adoption, you are invited to attend! The group meets once a month on Sundays from 4:30-6:30 p.m. at the Warsaw Performing Arts Center (1 Tiger Lane, Warsaw). Childcare is provided.
Questions? Please contact Jamie Koser: jamie@missionpoint.net. The group's next meeting is February 24.
At Mission Point, we don't want finances to come between a loving family and adoption. So, we're partnering with Lifesong for Orphans to help fund adoptions among Mission Point families! Lifesong helps us steward our adoption fund wisely, and they match funds, provide fundraising resources, and support families throughout the entire adoption process.
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Babysitting for Foster & Adoptive Families – We want to provide encouragement to families who have accepted additional children into their homes. Sometimes these parents would benefit from a window of time to pour into a previous children who may feel overlooked when a new child enters the home, or they might need a few hours of adult-only time to regroup as a parenting and marital team.


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Hey, Rob here. For a long time now, there's been the awareness that what happened to the dinosaurs – an extinction-level event caused by an asteroid impact – could happen again. In fact, it doesn't seem to be a matter of if, but of when. A hundred years? A thousand years? A hundred thousand years? In the movies Armageddon and Deep Impact (both strangely released in the same year, 1998), we triumph over the threat by nuking a huge asteroid into pieces. In reality, a nuclear explosion as a planetary defense is potentially unpredictable. What if the asteroid doesn't break into the pieces we'd like it to? So… fast forward to yesterday, November 23, 2021, and NASA launched a different kind of test: slamming a spacecraft into an asteroid to deflect its path, just a fraction of a percent, but enough to make a difference. The asteroid they've chosen is, unsurprisingly, not on a collision-course with Earth, so it poses no threat. I repeat: it poses no threat.
Happy Halloween! So a friend of mine texted me and he's like, "Dude! Do a story about this creepy island I'm working on!" Usually I'm like okay, great, thanks, whatever, and then I do what I want. But this time he got me. See, his job is to map areas, and he told me about Hart Island. It's a tiny island off the coast of the Bronx in New York City, in the Long Island Sound, and it's basically a giant mass grave…
We did it! Flew an aircraft on another freaking planet! In celebration of this first flight, I've got a brand-new short story about the Mars rover and the Ingenuity helicopter. Even cooler than the fact that they STRAPPED A HELICOPTER to a rover going to Mars — they fastened an actual swatch of fabric from the original Wright Brothers Flyer to the underside of its solar panel! (Okay, maybe not cooler, but additionally cool.) So that got me thinking: I know they're super careful about not letting bio material contaminate the moon or Mars, but what if, for this tiny swatch, they sort of forgot to check? What might happen?…
Hey, Rob here. Have I got a treat for you! I've finally branched out and collaborated with some great folks on a story. Wendy Mass, NY Times bestselling author, reached out to me last year to co-author a short sci-fi story to submit to the talented Alex Shvartsman, who was publishing the latest in his anthology series Unidentified Funny Objects. So we came up with a story in correspondence, from an alien liaison to the U.S. President, about the impending colonization of Earth and how wonderful it would be. We were just having fun, but it turned out pretty damned good, so Alex accepted and published it. And now, with myself and the narration of Audie-award-winning Khristine Hvam, I present… "The Other Ted."
Hey, Rob here. I've been sitting on this Bloomberg Businessweek article for a couple of years, not knowing what to do with it. It's the true story of the Chinese government's spy infiltration of major companies and government agencies in the U.S. through the use of a tiny, undetectable chip placed on computer motherboards. I couldn't even believe it when I read it. Anyway, I started thinking, "What if they could make that technology even smaller? Even more undetectable? What would the limit be? Would there even be a limit…"
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Hey, Rob here. So you know how it goes, I get myself down an Internet rabbit hole, and I wind up on this thought problem called The Ship of Theseus. I won't tell you what it is, it's in the story, but it reminded me of that factoid that every seven years all of our cells are replaced, the old ones dying and the new ones growing, and we're essentially a new person. Now, we humans don't notice it, but…
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Hi guys, Rob here. This story's been bouncing around in my head for a loooong time. I hate to do this, but once again I can't tell you much about it up front, other than it's about a heist with two long-time professional thieves, and that their mission doesn't go as expected.
August's FREE audio sci-fi short, "FutureHeist," posted to Listen To The Signal Podcast
The Audible Bestselling trilogy comes to a close! (Or does it?) Listen, having kids is great, my little Gigi Collins and Pete's daughter Hannah are sweet little fluffs of cotton candy, spun from the silk of fairy spiders who live in the clouds. But MAN, can they cause...
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It's a sci-fi odsyssey. Comedy. Love story. And of course… it's got Nikola Tesla. Through two adventures — Where the Hell is Tesla? and Don't Touch the Blue Stuff! — you've followed Chip, Pete, Nikola Tesla, Bobo as they try (and mostly...


Short history about Fishing Club Radovljica!
The Radovljica fishing club was founded in 1953 as an offshoot of the Gorenjska regional fishing company. There were ten founding members. The Radovljica fishing club currently has 160 members, among them 10 honorary members and 9 youths. The club is a registered taxpayer operating in accordance with the law. The fishing club's members breed indigenous fish species, protect the waters and emphasize the fun of sport fishing. The Radovljica fishing club realizes the importance and value of indigenous fish species in Slovenian rivers. We are proud to say that the quality of our waters is still sufficient for successful and economically viable breeding and releasing of river trout. Our fishing club also owns several breeding streams where we breed high-quality river trout. They have their own fish farm where they breed brook trout. These young fish are then placed into breeding streams.


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Obtaining high sequence coverage in matrix-assisted laser desorption time-of-flight mass spectrometry for studies of protein modification: Analysis of human serum albumin as a model
Chunling Wa, Ronald Cerny, David S Hage
Several approaches were explored for obtaining high sequence coverage in protein modification studies performed by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS). Human serum albumin (HSA, 66.5 kDa) was used as a model protein for this work. Experimental factors considered in this study included the type of matrix used for MALDI-TOF MS, the protein digestion method, and the use of fractionation for peptide digests prior to MALDI-TOF MS analysis. A mixture of α-cyano-4-hydroxycinnamic acid and 2,5-dihydroxybenzoic acid was employed as the final matrix for HSA. When used with a tryptic digest, this gave unique information on only half of the peptides in the primary structure of HSA. However, the combined use of three enzyme digests based on trypsin, endoproteinase Lys-C, and endoproteinase Glu-C increased this sequence coverage to 72.8%. The use of a ZipTip column to fractionate peptides in these digests prior to analysis increased the sequence coverage to 97.4%. These conditions made it possible to examine unique peptides from nearly all of the structure of HSA and to identify specific modifications to this protein (e.g., glycation sites). For instance, Lys199 was confirmed as a glycation site on normal HSA, whereas Lys536 and Lys389 were identified as additional modification sites on minimally glycated HSA.
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Wa, C., Cerny, R., & Hage, D. S. (2006). Obtaining high sequence coverage in matrix-assisted laser desorption time-of-flight mass spectrometry for studies of protein modification: Analysis of human serum albumin as a model. Analytical Biochemistry, 349(2), 229-241. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ab.2005.11.015
Obtaining high sequence coverage in matrix-assisted laser desorption time-of-flight mass spectrometry for studies of protein modification : Analysis of human serum albumin as a model. / Wa, Chunling; Cerny, Ronald; Hage, David S.
In: Analytical Biochemistry, Vol. 349, No. 2, 15.02.2006, p. 229-241.
Wa, C, Cerny, R & Hage, DS 2006, 'Obtaining high sequence coverage in matrix-assisted laser desorption time-of-flight mass spectrometry for studies of protein modification: Analysis of human serum albumin as a model', Analytical Biochemistry, vol. 349, no. 2, pp. 229-241. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ab.2005.11.015
Wa C, Cerny R, Hage DS. Obtaining high sequence coverage in matrix-assisted laser desorption time-of-flight mass spectrometry for studies of protein modification: Analysis of human serum albumin as a model. Analytical Biochemistry. 2006 Feb 15;349(2):229-241. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ab.2005.11.015
Wa, Chunling ; Cerny, Ronald ; Hage, David S. / Obtaining high sequence coverage in matrix-assisted laser desorption time-of-flight mass spectrometry for studies of protein modification : Analysis of human serum albumin as a model. In: Analytical Biochemistry. 2006 ; Vol. 349, No. 2. pp. 229-241.
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Why the Variety Show 'Resilient' Is a Monthly Must-See
We live in an extremely complicated world, more complicated than any individual is really capable of comprehending. We are also in an age where we are forced to stare straight into the face of the many broken machinations of that world. And this, simply put, is exhausting. So in order to wake up and feel alive, to march down the hill and start pushing the boulder back up again, we need good art to motivate us.
But then, what kind of art? Sad art? Crying can feel good, but too much sadness and you get exhausted and depressed and you're back at square one. Happy art? Certainly; art that comes from a place of joy can make you feel nice and warm and fuzzy — but if the joy is dialed up too much it can feel naive, ignorant, even disingenuous. These days, I find that my favorite art reaches for both of these two extremes — art that makes you feel warm and fuzzy, but not at the expense of ignoring the injustice and pain in the world. Something that strikes that perfect funnybone of melancholic, hard-won optimism.
Resilient is a monthly variety show, which takes place on the last Friday of every month, at 8pm, at the Playground Theatre (although they'll be moving to the Crowd Theater come November). It usually runs about an hour and a half, and the only requirement for performers is that they be self-identified survivors of sexual violence. It was founded by co-producer Freddy-May AbiSamra back in 2017, and is now hosted and co-produced by Kathleen Kinlin. Tickets are $10, and proceeds are donated to a charity called Resilience which provides help and services to survivors of sexual assault.
In my opinion, Resilient is the perfect encapsulation of what I want from art in this oft-depressing world — but unfortunately, I have not yet seen this show get the attention it deserves. So today, I'd like to briefly explain why I think Resilient is one of the most unsung triumphs of the Chicago theatre scene, and why you should come and see it with me.
Resilient is a bit like a box of chocolates, in that when you go see it you rarely know what you're going to get. A good chunk of the show is usually stand-up comedy, a format that I usually don't enjoy all that much. But perhaps unsurprisingly, when you get rid of all the entitled twenty-something white guys who think they're hilarious, stand-up comedy can positively soar. Performers also bring poetry, personal essays, music, group improv, puppetry, dance, burlesque, visual art, or whatever they like.
Sometimes, the art directly relates to abuse or sexual assault. Other times, however, it's about something completely different. This freedom, of giving the performers the choice of whether to talk about their trauma or simply enjoy themselves, makes each act feel like a gift to the audience. Now, I won't try to tell you that every act will blow you away; at Resilient, straightforward quality plays second string to the fostering of a safe space for the performers (and often people will workshop new material to improve upon later). Even when the material isn't working for me, the dynamic is compelling to watch.
For this reason, the show avoids becoming depressing despite the unfortunate reason it even exists. It becomes about reclaiming one's own space in the world after trauma, certainly. But it is also a reflection of the universal struggle of eking out a human life. It is a show defined by contrasts; escaping from the dark and reaching towards the light, never quite grasping either one.
I end up seeing Resilient as often as I can, and I think it's because the show is perfectly tailored to assuage some of my darkest thoughts and fears. Like many of us, I have anxiety, and a great deal of that anxiety involves imagining how my life could be utterly ruined by things beyond my control at a moment's notice. If you ever feel like you're drifting, like you're just a bubble on the tide of empire, an object in the world at the mercy of its circumstances — Resilient is a remarkable reminder that you have more control over your life than you think you do. These folks have gone through some shit, but you know what? They're here, and they're performing; the ultimate expression of self-control. So maybe, just maybe, with a lot of hard work and a little bit of elbow grease, you'll be okay too.
The next 'Resilient' show will be this Friday, October 25th, at 8pm at the Playground Theater. Tickets are $10, available at the door. If you identify as a survivor of sexual violence and would like to perform, or you want to know about future shows at the Crowd Theater, you can keep up to date on Resilient's Facebook page.
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