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MACEDONIO DE LA TORRE
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By Manuel Jesús Orbegozo
Allow me to return to the past to brush the dust off of a memory of a conversation held in Paris. A cold wind was blowing the golden leaves off the trees and five thousand painters participated in the world of the Autumn Room. It was 1928. Someone spoke: "Do you believe that if you can reach thirty without losing or tarnishing your austerity that your creative faith will be safe?" "I am afraid that at thirty- went the reply- you hang up the muse and make a landing."
This reply however was not completely satisfactory. The poet continued. "We Latin Americans- he said- are precocious by nature. Until the age of thirty, we believe, love, hate and laugh exclusively and cry exclusively. After...comes total or partial skepticism, sheltering, in the last case, our vital faith in good eating. We lose man's creative instinct, replacing it with, in the most innocent of cases, a conventional role as a husband and, more often than not, a social "tic" such as becoming a doctor, sub-prefect, decent individual, dandy or drug addict."
The pair took two steps to the right. Both fixed their sight on the "Landscape" Number 1965 of the Exhibition. The other repeated: "What do you think about Macedonio?" "Macedonio- answered Vallejo- has passed the age of thirty happily. He has not been considered a child prodigy and his work has not elicited sudden and universal admiration. The majority of the public has remained and remains indifferent to and perhaps ignorant of his work. And he- after the terrible alibi of turning thirty- has continued working and believing, loving and hating with a growing creative blaze. He seeks not to deceive or deceive himself. He, like Lenin, detests exports and imports through intermediaries: a complacent press, amenable friends or demagogic tricks or condescension of technique."
(Nothing more, Vallejo. We want to introduce Macedonio and there is no better person than you to do the job. There is no one better than you to judge him. Thank you).
The Cosmos Locked Between Four Walls.
It took me a long time to do this report. Macedonio, half fish and half bird, always escaped from my grasp. Half water and half light, he always escaped my eyes. I remember how one evening I surprised him in his studio on Mogollón street, number 200 and some. He was pacing like prisoner or monk. He went from a brushstroke of oil paint to the vertebrae of a lion, from a gray rock to the beak of a gannet. He went for the center to the periphery. From the back, he looked like I don´t know what in this asylum of rainbows and gray rocks. When an open door no longer provided sufficient light and I proceeded to stick my whole head in, I also felt the hallucinations. I accompanied him in his nervous contemplation. I went from here to there formulating questions with my eyes and my mind- signs of admiration. I went from his "tri-dimensional" painting, which had been rejected by a Painting Competition, to a sunflower set on cardboard. I went from his "Sinfonía de color" from 1910 to the "Gran Acorde" of 1954. I went by the "Port" raised on the shores of a blue moon, with its lighthouse that flew like a bird and its Martian caravels made out of a fish skeleton. I went from "Napoleon," sculpted in rock, to his "Maternidad" in rock, both bland in expression despite their medium. I went with Macedonio from the "Hágase la luz" to the disintegration of the "H Bomb," from a spore to Man. I entered the Maze of Subconscious Greece with him. I saw the genesis of the world. I watched as brushstrokes made nouns and the mortar combined. I saw time shape things and the ovum of life fertilized. From the soul- a piece of cartilage- to the body of a man- a mandrake- they were there. He makes the abstract concrete. Rocks and bones are his "plans, his volumes, his circles and his angles, uniting the purity of beings that are nothing more than his SHAPE working a miracle to give the artist the reason for and confirmation of his feelings, his cosmic conception, his human compression." The millions of people living on earth seem to be there, closed in between these four walls.
The Mystique of Nature
That afternoon, Macedonio, emphatically declared- in front of Sabino Springett, who arrived afterwards dressed in an aviator cap that covered a mortal sin- his baldness- that if he hadn't of been a painter, he would have been a farmer. " In Trujillo- he recalled- I had four rural properties that I worked with my own hands. I whittled away the hours caressing the corncobs and the cauliflower hearts. Plants were my passion. In front of my house, I made a monument out of mud to the "corn" god. This is how I lived in my world until I had a bad experience with water. The water dried up and my plantings died off. One afternoon, a friend found me painting an autumn scene. Afterwards, rumors went around that I had let the corn dry out on purpose in order to paint the golden tones of death. There was no truth to this at all.
Of course this wasn't true. Macedonio couldn't lie because he later told us that he loved plants. His mystique had no limits and on a daily basis, ever so religiously, he gave his personal fertilizer to a little tree that benefited from the kindness of his shadow.
Gypsy Violinist
One afternoon, I went with Macedonio to drink a coffee. I remember that I was tired and that I had even fallen asleep. Nevertheless, I heard him talk about his trip to Buenos Aires in 1915. "I studied the third year of arts in the city," he said. One night I met up with Alberto Sotero and Eulogio Cedrón. We agreed to take the "Aisen" steamer to Buenos Aires the next day. We bought tickets to Cerro Azul for 12 soles. On the high seas, we chatted with a steward who agreed to take us to Valaparaiso for 30 soles more. Sotero stayed. Cedron and I went on to Buenos Aires, but on foot. We covered 320 kilometers in 11 days and ate crackers for breakfast, lunch and dinner."
In Buenos Aires, adventurers starve. Macedonio, being the violinist that he was- in Trujillo he was part of the children's symphony- goes to a café in Constitution plaza and asks for work. The owner looked him over: short, skinny, clumsy, angular, black-eyed and black-haired. He hires Macedonio and hypes him as the gypsy violinist. From 6 in the afternoon to 2 in the morning for 18 pesos. His best piece was the second ballad of Zarazate. For obvious reasons, Macedonio was fired 20 days after he had begun.
The Madness of Necessity
The man speeds up. Macedonio goes back to Mendoza. Necessity reaches incredible heights. Now the madness is complete: Macedonio becomes the Minister of Government and Police's photographer.
Macedonio shows his mouse-like teeth. He laughs.
A stomping is forthcoming.
Macedonio is going to be upset when he reads this paragraph because he recommended that we not mention it. One day, Macedonio attended a large Catholic event in Mendoza. The multitude moved like an ocean. All of a sudden, Macedonio stepped on the toes of an ecclesiastic dignitary and had to ask for forgiveness. The priest responded with angelic goodness that our painter´s sins were forgiven.
Years later, Monsignor Paccelli would become Pope Pious the XIIth.
Down with Dadá!
Macedonio is now in Europe. It is 1924. He arrives in Paris and encounters the "Dadaist" movement. Macedonio is bewildered. He goes to listen to Tristán Tzara who is screaming across a theater: "All of you look at me. I am an ugly idiot. Look at me well. I am like the rest of you." Ramón Gomez de la Serna gives a conference on the back of an elephant. Another blurts out: "Dadá doubts everything. Everything is Dadá. Be wary of Dadá." And yet another: "Down with artists, anarchists, communists and the artists. Long live the concubines and the cubists." An authentic artist, Macedonio lives far from the racket of the "fauves." He goes to Caprena, an Italian village with 500 inhabitants. He lives there-happily- with his wife and two children. Happy until his third child announces his arrival. Macedonio flies to Brussels. He spends two thousand "reichs" on the trip. He goes to the hospital. He takes a taxi. The driver charges him 16 "reichs." He has no money left. "That's life, explained Macedonio as he finished his café.
Macedonio the liberal
Macedonio del la Torre was born in Trujillo at Gamarra No.13 on January 27, 1893. He is over fifty but doesn't look it. Macedonio doesn't age; he just gets sharper. He is timeless. Macedonio first studied the arts as a child at school. It was here that he was "submitted to feminine slavery" and to time because a huge wall clock hung above his desk. After, he entered the Colegio Semanario, where he learned about life's wonders through the liberal education he received from the Lazarist priests. He remembered Father Rouge, a great sportsman and champion of Basque ball; Father Goullon, an entomologist and naturalist who was friend to both insects and birds; Father Graf, a Russian who spoke of music; Father Standard, an authentic mystic; Father Puege, ever so industrious and possessing a strange understanding of the lives of bees and silk worms; Father Blanc, who enjoyed jubilant and historical readings.
Macedonio showed me some albums full of cuttings and photographs marked with bile spills. I read some. When he and I came to a cutting that said that Macedonio belonged to "a distinguished family," the artist prepared his rifle and shot off a curse word.
A Sculpture by Vallejo
Macedonio de la Torre belonged to the "Northern Group" along with César Vallejo, Juan Espejo Asturrizaga, Francisco Xandóval, Alcides Spelucín (where could Spelucín be?), José Eulogio Garrido and Antenor Orrego (and where could Orrego be?) Memories of this group have forever penetrated the literary history of Trujillo, this Trujillo that is the synthesis of all of the towns where many of us first saw Liberty. What was Vallejo like?
Macedonio moved his thin fingers in the air. The steam from his "café express" wafted in the air. Macedonio seemed as if he wanted to make a smoke sculpture to represent the poet: "Vallejo was a good man. Organized. The "cholo" was spoiled. He was a man.(Manly but not humane, as he liked to say.) I don´t believe that he died from hunger like using a cliché to finish a phrase. Vallejo died with everything in its place. He had everything in order. Sometimes I asked him to be a guarantor when I wanted to pawn my rings.
Durrio´s ring
–Pawn Rings.
–Yes, pawn rings. You have never done this? (I had to think back to the "Gold Button" I had won in a poetry contest in Trujillo. I had pawned it at the "Savings Bank" in Lima four years before). Macedonio told me that Durrio, a famous Spanish potter, lived a poor lifestyle. He had a couple of canaries. He had a dog. He had two Renoirs and four Van Goghs, all of which were gifts from the artists. He had a cat named rigoletto and an oven to bake his art. On day, Macedonio arrived to visit Durrio. "Come in, he said. Take this ring and give me a few francs." Macedonio gave him the money and Durrio gave him this painful anecdote of a ring.
Social Art
No, I don´t know how this thing with Ruiz Rosas and his painting "Pan" came about. This painting won the "Manuel Moncola and Ordóñez competition that was recently held. When I tried to get Macedonio to speak about it, he pulled back. "I only believe in art with noble intentions. I don´t believe in scoreboards.".
–If I play the piano with intention....
–Of course you have to know how to play it, he interrupted me. And you also have to know how to be timely.
Later, risking it all, I told him that it seemed an opportune moment to engage in "Social Art" in our country. Macedonio was sensitive to political ideas but tired of petty politics; he chose to remain silent. We were silent.
Five days later we met again. He conducted himself like a soul that carries art within. He ..... He was always agile, nervous. His pointy shoes acted as a compass. We went into another bar. "In art no one can sell you a cat for a hare, he said. He then added that one's value is the work of others." He was nervous. He didn't want to tell me where he was coming from. When he calmed down, I asked him what he thought about our colleagues. Unfortunately, he absolutely refused to comment. I put away my pen and paper and we left. Along the way, he spoke of some painters. I took these mental notes:
Dávila: " Well intentioned. He will soon escape from his current slavery.
Grau: "Great painting technique".
Sérvulo: "I admire him a lot".
Szyszlo: "I refrain from comment".
Cristina Gálvez: "I don´t comment about ladies".
Sabogal: " I recognize his work and his conduct. His restlessness and effort have been laudable.
About Greco: "I had a San Francisco from Del Greco that I bought in Trujillo from an antique dealer. I put candles in it. They stole it from me. Who has it? I would like to know who has it."
About Vélazquez: "…Although he is the antithesis of Greco."
About Van Gogh: "Van Gogh dies when I am born".
About Leonardo de Vinci: "Oh, Leonardo de Vinci".
About Picasso: "I have to admire Picasso".
About Henry Moore: "Haven´t you seen my work: "El Reencuentro de lo Humano en las Formas Perdurables?".
Macedonio could never give an opinion about what art is. He was always dissatisfied with something. But this afternoon he was inspired. This was his definition: "Art is to make the changeable long-lasting. It is to make time eternal." He added: "The artist is responsible for carrying out what I have just defined." He also said that the artist works so that others will understand him.
–Do you believe that everyone understands your painting Macedonio?
–I think so; they have to understand it because it is sincere.
Macedonio said no more. It seemed like he had run to Vallejo to free himself. Vallejo gave his opinions in the "Mundial." "The majority of the public has remained and remains indifferent and still ignorant about it."
And Peru. What does it have?
Macedonio said: "the French have the Louvre; the Spanish, the Museo del Prado. He asked: and Peru, what does it have? After, he added: the rich amass all the works of art but the poor do not. "This is where the State steps in," he said. It ensures that the community at large has its own gallery."
The Bees and the Flies
The seventh time that I met up with Macedonio, he didn't want to talk about painting. Instead, he spoke about bees. He remembered Father Puerge and the beehives that he had in Trujillo and the study that he had begun when he was twelve. When I said that he had corrected Maeterlinck´s plan, Macedonio became very happy. See how he showed his mouse-like teeth again!
– Is it true that bees are more intelligent than ants?.
–No. Ants aren't more practical than flies either.
"One time I took the test by the Frenchman Jules Fabres. I put a fly into a bottle, covered it and left it in the dark. I put a bee at the other end of the bottle where light could penetrate. The collectivist bee, asexual and vagrant, was able to escape through the bottle's mouth. The individualistic, highly-sexed and logical fly died trying to escape."
Bourdelle´s Expressions
When I asked him if he believed that life ended after death, Macedonio said no. "When I heard that Bourdelle had died, I went to his mortuary home. He lived in something like a garage. Only his wife and a photographer were inside. When I approached the famous sculptor's body, I froze. I had never seen a dead man whose expression was as full of life as Bourdelle´s. I went to tell Ventura García Calderón about this, but at first he refused to accompany me because he felt uncomfortable with death. Finally, I convinced him to come have a look. We went. Once at the door, he said to me: "I am not going in." And he didn't go in. I did go in and I left a note that the French master's wife should still have."
The last evening, we had nothing to talk about. In his nervousness, Macedonio let the light from a neon tube spray brushstrokes of lime across his face. He looked like Eguren against the light. Well, at least the Eguren in the painting. It was the seventh time that he had cleaned his mustache off with a paper napkin. He was nervous. To distract him I asked:
- What is freedom to an artist?/p>
– It is everything. For an artist, "to love freedom above all else" should be the first commandment.
(This also applies to me, I said to myself.)
– Do you believe in peace?
–No I don´t because life is always a struggle.
– But Macedonio, you have painted pigeons!
–No, he answered. I have never painted pigeons. ("Pigeons are meant to be roasted." – saying on a roadside billboard that we once saw in Avignon.).
– Does love exist?
–Yes, it exists as a gift from God.
Outside of the bar, it was night. We stood up and left. The interview had concluded. But how could I end it? It is the right time to repeat the following: "Everything demonstrates that Macedonio de la Torre is the sovereign owner of a truly great and original esthetic."
Thank you Vallejo. You had to be the one to end this interview.
Lima, february 1955
Macedonio de la Torre ©. Official Site
Based on the work published by Luis Enrique Tord
Luis Enrique Tord
Daniel Gionnani


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Posted on 30/11/2019 by Crazy
Chelsea 0-1 West Ham: Report, Ratings & Reaction as Hammers Earn Much-Needed Victory
?West Ham got their first Premier League win since September as a second-half Aaron Cresswell strike was enough to beat a sub-par Chelsea side 1-0.
The Blues dominated the opening stages; with Pedro, Mason Mount and Christian Pulisic wasting good opportunities for the home side. But, as it looked like it was going to be another bleak afternoon for Manuel Pellegrini's men, they showed signs of life with Michail Antonio spurning two golden chances from fantastic Aaron Cresswell and Robert Snodgrass crosses in the first half.
The home side faded after an impressive start, as the Hammers started to get a foothold on proceedings.
West Ham were quickly rewarded for weathering the early storm almost immediately after the break, as an overlapping Cresswell cut inside Reece James on the left before finishing expertly past Kepa with his weaker right foot.
The goal failed to reinvigorate the home side as West Ham started to look the more threatening – even having an Antonio goal chalked off because off handball after some brilliant work down the right by Snodgrass.
Even that couldn't rejuvenate a stale Chelsea performance, as a resolute West Ham backline shut out the home side – who failed to create anything in the latter stages.
Here's 90mins breakdown of this one.
Key Talking Point
The home side looked bright early on, with Frank Lampard using a similar ploy to what Spurs did against West Ham last weekend. He utilised Pulisic and Pedro as inside forwards to allow full-backs James and Emerson greater freedom down the flanks.
It was certainly effective to start proceedings, as the two inside forwards constantly drew West Ham's full-backs infield, which allowed Emerson, but especially James, to put in some wonderful balls into the box.
However, after the 20-minute mark, Chelsea were very poor. They lacked ideas in the final third and were void of any creativity in midfield. After they went a goal down, they never looked like getting back into it and it was the away side who always looked the more threatening.
It was certainly a worrying display for Lampard, with his side now losing two on the bounce. One thing's for sure though, the Chelsea boss will be desperate for Tammy Abraham to be back fit as soon as possible after Olivier Giroud's showing this afternoon.
Starting XI: Kepa (6); James (8*), Zouma (7), Tomori (6), Emerson (6); Jorginho (5), Kovacic (5); Pedro (5), Mount (5), Pulisic (7); Giroud (4).
Subs: Willian (5), Kante (6), Hudson-Odoi (6).
Come on Chelsea, you've got to start sharing the youth talent around because, in Reece James, you've got another gem on your hands.
Chelsea HT Thoughts:
• Reece James, best on the pitch
• Good start, became stale, though
• Nice movements, but passes just off
• Pedro not bad, but need more
• Hudson-Odoi, please
— Alex Goldberg (@AlexGoldberg_) November 30, 2019
Reece James is actually really good ngl. Extremely underrated.
— RiZzy? (@RiZzyUTD) November 30, 2019
??The 19-year-old dominated his right flank; he was brilliant in the air, cool in possession and lethal in the final third.
He has a crossing ability that looks eerily similar to that of Trent Alexander-Arnold, with Chelsea's forwards failing to make the most out of some fantastic deliveries from the right-back.
On what was a disappointing afternoon for the Blues, James can hold his head high after that display.
Well, well, well, could that performance be a turning point in West Ham's season?
Pellegrini, who was like a dictator from his dugout, will be immensely proud with his side's effort this afternoon. The Hammers were superb defensively, not giving the Blues' attack an inch after the opening 20 minutes – starting keeper, David Martin, was barely tested but looked confident throughout.
They were a completely different West Ham side this afternoon, a side who wanted to fight for their manager – they were intense, hungry and looked dangerous when they went forward.
Overall, a superb showing and a result that will ease the pressure on the Chilean for the time being.
Starting XI: Martin (8); Fredericks (7), Ogbonna (8), Balbuena (8), Cresswell (6); Snodgrass (5), Rice (9), Noble (6), Fornals (6); Anderson (5), Antonio (6).
Subs: Yarmalenko (6), Haller (5), Masuaku (N/A).
This could have gone to either of West Ham's centre-halves, who were both immense, but Declan Rice's display just about pips them.
The defensive midfielder, who impressed in the Spurs defeat, did an excellent job at shunning any Chelsea attack through the centre, therefore providing the West Ham backline with significant protection.
His tremendous reading of the game was on full display as he constantly snuffed out any passes into Chelsea's front men while being a driving force for the visitors when they tried to counter.
It's a quick turnaround for both sides as the Premier League hosts its first round of midweek fixtures this season.
Chelsea are back in action at Stamford Bridge against Aston Villa on Wednesday before visiting Everton in the Saturday lunchtime kick-off next weekend. West Ham, meanwhile, travel to Wolves on Wednesday night before hosting Freddie Ljungberg's Arsenal on Monday night football – with a new manager potentially in the home dugout as well for that one.
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Euro 2012 organisers hit back over racism fears
Organisers have called for a moratorium on negative information about the European Championships following last night's BBC Panorama documentary.
By Catchall Tuesday 29 May 2012, 3:33 PM
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A still from BBC Panorama's Stadiums of Hate documentary.
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EURO 2012 ORGANISERS on Tuesday hit back at claims that Poland and Ukraine were unsafe for travelling football fans, amid fears from competing nations, current and former players about far-right racism and violence.
Both Poland and Ukraine said the claims, made in a BBC television documentary aired this week and in travel advice issued by foreign governments, did not give the true picture of the joint hosts of European football's premier tournament.
Former England captain Sol Campbell, who is black, warned fans to "stay home, watch it on TV… don't even risk it" after viewing footage of football fans in Poland and Ukraine making Nazi salutes and taunting black players with monkey chants.
The programme also uncovered anti-Semitism and a serious assault on a group of Asian students.
In Poland, organisers PL.2012 said the warnings were "unjust" and had "nothing to do with reality", adding that instances of xenophobia and racism in stadiums were "a problem specific to the whole of Europe and not only to Poland".
They went on to invite former Tottenham Hotspur defender Campbell to Poland to see for himself. "Get to know us as we really are," they added.
In neighbouring Ukraine, Euro 2012 organising committee chief Markiyan Lubyivskyi told reporters that Campbell was entitled to his own view and was sure it was not reflected widely in England.
"But we are hurt by it and fail to see what the point of these comments really is. I do not think it is dangerous for people of different ethnicity to come to Ukraine," he added.
Ukraine is already facing a potential boycott by top European Union leaders over the alleged mistreatment of the opposition leader and former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko, who is in jail on what critics say are trumped-up corruption charges.
Lubyivskyi said media reporting the tournament should take a more balanced approach.
"I call on all media to declare a moratorium on negative information about the Euro. I would like to say that 80 to 90 percent of this information is false," he added.
Campbell's warning came after the families of two black England players — Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Theo Walcott — said they would not risk going to Ukraine to watch England's matches following public warnings from the British government.
"Although the vast majority of visitors experience no difficulties, foreign nationals have been the victims of violent crime in Kiev and other major cities," a Foreign Office statement in a fans' guide to the tournament read.
"In some cases, attacks have been racially motivated. Travellers of Asian or Afro-Caribbean descent and individuals belonging to religious minorities should take extra care."
The foreign ministries of Denmark and France have also issued similar warnings to fans about the risk of racist attacks.
In an apparent bid to pre-empt football-related violence, police in Poland on Monday arrested 42 people — including prominent members of football hooligan gangs — suspected of being involved in drug trafficking and extortion.
Since the fall of the Iron Curtain two decades ago, the far-right has found fertile ground among fan gangs in Eastern Europe's football stadiums.
Monitors from the UEFA-backed Football Against Racism in Europe (FARE) network have recorded dozens of shocking far-right slogans at Ukrainian league matches and plan to deploy at Euro 2012 games.
But they said that the Euro 2012 spotlight has helped tackle the issue.
European football's governing body UEFA remains confident that Ukraine can ensure the safety of the 800,000 foreign fans expected at the tournament, which kicks off on June 8 in Poland.
© AFP, 2012
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I thought today might be the day of getting a few sun salutations on the mat, as my fever broke yesterday, but alas, my body told me differently after I got out of the shower. The effort to do more than put on a fresh pair of pajamas and climb into bed, was too much. Anyone who knows me well, knows this is not my normal modus operandi, considering I usually have to tone myself back a notch. I haven't felt so completely exhausted with a flu bug, ever.
A few friends have kindly checked on me, and comically about half asked me point blank about the flu shot, had I gotten one? The answer is no, I didn't. I swear I don't understand why asking that helps, if I did get the shot, well, then what? It didn't work? Bummer. But if I didn't get the flu shot, do I deserve the flu? Is there less empathy for my lack of conformity? Do I have to defend my choices and the validity? Will my allergy to the ingredients to the shot make that ok again? Why do I feel so annoyed by this? Am I over reacting? We may all be human, but the medical aspects or choices are not one size fits all, nor is anything else except for being human, flawed and all. Where oh where is the tolerance and compassion over the dogma?
Interestingly enough, the origin of dogma, from Ancient Greek and Latin, came to use in the mid 16th century: via late Latin from Greek dogma 'opinion,' from dokein 'seem good, think.' Seem good, think. Just look at it, 'seem good, think,' also regarded as opinion. I'm too sick to really go off on the tangents I'd normally explore without getting lost or sidetracked. However, I think the concept, in line with Plato's quote of Socrates, "I know that I know nothing" or "I know one thing: that I know nothing," are much better starting points for life, for practice, for asana, for everything, than a perspective of black and white irrefutable dogma. The more we judge,assume we know, claim to be wise or elevate ourselves against the differences or choices anyone else has made the more we open ourselves up to sensations of different than, anger, distain, fear, disgust, and detest, instead of love. I recently read a speech given by a favorite author and poet, Sherman Alexie, something he said in it, resonated with me. "I'm going to approach everything I do with as much love as possible. I fail impossibly like most of us, but I still try." I think that's the secret when we don't get to caught up in ego, start with love, it really does make everything easier, maybe even kapotasana.
Art work by Rachel Giannascoli, I love this drawing, it's from an album cover, for Alex G. Beach Music, take a listen!
What's your motivation? Like most people I vacillate between various states, I'd say there are really just two underlying everything, love and fear. When love is in charge, all is good, even when it's not, because there is empathy, compassion, clarity, understanding, among other positive points, however, fear, though at times helpful, brings out worry, anger, irrational thoughts, impulsive choices, and stress. Firefighters are helpful when needed but they break doors and windows to get the job done…in other words you don't need to pull out the cannons to get rid of the anthill, keep perspective!
I went into denial on the outside. I wrapped my right hand for support, went back to practice and teaching the next day popping a couple of Advil. But I wasn't ok, I was afraid. Afraid of losing control, and as a recovering control freak, this was unpleasant at best. I haven't always been so kind to myself, everyone is their own worst critic usually, and I can admit, my self loathing had been a consistent piece of who I was, until I found peace on the mat and forgiveness in my failures. I clearly remember the first moment that sensation of compassion filled my heart, ( yet even as I write that statement, I hear Arnold Schwarzenegger in my head from The Terminator talking about skynet becoming self aware..lol) it was overwhelming in the best way…yet as a human being, I forgot to remember it's ok to still fail at times in things we don't usually fail. Oh the joys of a monkey brain!
The most remarkable part of this is I didn't figure out why I was being such a crazed impatient psycho until I was quietly suffering from a massive panic attack during intense turbulence on a flight down to the Caribbean for a family vacation last week. I was breathing through it, knowing the competence of the pilot, knowing the logic of the safety of air travel, when it dawned on me, I wasn't in control of the plane, just like I felt I wasn't in control of my illness. I had forgotten to have faith because I had let fear be my motivator for the past few weeks in just about everything, instead of love.
I think you know the answer to your own questions. But just in case you need to hear it from someone else…. Modify as necessary when you're flaring. More importantly, work on the inner judge who is having a problem with the modifications when they're necessary. Look at the frustration, which of course is anger. Be compassionate to yourself.
The asanas themselves are not that important, but how you relate to doing them is critical for growth.
Yes, how I relate to doing them. In other words, motivation through love of trying not fear of failing. Thank you David!
The week away of vitamin D did me well to soothe my soul, relax and let go of the fear…the view didn't hurt either!
As for practice on vacation? Everyday, nice and smooth, I'm happy to say, with the toughest part in picking where…the tile floor of the hotel room or the "sanctuary" room off the gym, that had the uncanny ability to blast Party Rock Anthem while attempting kapotasana:) I went for the music distractions over the cement floor.
Yesterday was a tough day for me, but I know worse for many. The 13th anniversary of such horrific loss as 9/11. I lived across from the World Trade Center in Battery Park City for years. I had moved out soon before, but not willingly. I loved living in Manhattan, but with three children, it had become hard to afford. We had such a vibrant community tucked on the water, an esplanade and parks galore at our doorsteps and the World Financial Center and Trade Center were our rainy day indoor stomping grounds. Great friendships and a really nice family community were a truly special part of the enclave. Stolen nights away from young ones were spent across the street at the Marriott in the Trade Center, while my mom watched them. Our view from the apartment was a glorious corner of trade center and north city views with the Hudson River to the left.
My family and I had just been down there Sunday the 9th, for a child's birthday party. I so missed my friends and neighborhood. I was lamenting the decision to move out to the suburbs, trying to guilt my husband into the possibility we had made a poor decision by leaving. Just two days later a piece of fuselage incinerated the inside of my old bedroom.
I was already in a panic before it happened. I was rushing to the hospital the morning of 9/11, I had gotten a call my father had collapsed at his pulmonary exercise class and was being rushed by ambulance, with no idea how he even was, as I headed out. My husband called me on my cell, very disturbed, telling me, that he had just seen a plane hit into the side of the building. I didn't want to believe him, it seemed so improbable. I told him to head home. I called a dear friend from the old hood right after to ask if she was ok, as we were speaking, she watched and screamed in terror as the second plane was coming in, we were cut off the moment it hit, taking out the cell connection from the top of the tower. So many people I loved were there in the midst of hell, and I could do nothing but pray and hope, make sure my dad was alright for the moment, than rush home to get my kids from kindergarten and preschool to be safe with me. As the second building went down, I watched a mom from preschool collapse to the ground in front of me knowing her husband was gone. It was all so terrible, and I was in shock.
I lost two close friends that day amongst all the victims, but knew many others. My old neighborhood was decimated and my family and friends living and working there, were in pure survival mode. My husband did not get home for an excruciating and harrowing 16 hours. It wasn't just an iconic symbol of America to me, but a home where I had worked and my kids played and read books in the Borders book store with an incredible tree inside the children's section on the ground level of the Trade Center, where I walked my dog and let her off leash to run around when it was quiet at night. It was gone.
There were plenty of moms and dads and nannies and young ones at home in Battery Park City when this happened. I had breakfast this morning, post practice, with my sweet friend I had been on the phone with as the nightmarish events played out. She and I were reminiscing some of it as the day just brings it flooding back to the surface. She didn't realize she and her younger son were part of the footage in a short documentary, The Boat Lift. It's how they escaped. She's an amazing woman, resilient and was crying and laughing about her bossiness in getting people on to the boats, saving not just their lungs from the thickness of the death and debris in the air but possibly their lives. Her older son, just five was in kindergarten in Brooklyn, his dad walked across the bridge to get him and until he saw his mom, that poor innocent boy thought she was dead. It's most definitely worth watching if you are capable. My husband still can not watch any footage, it just brings too much of the emotions of everything he went though.
Like so many, my friends were homeless afterwards. Months and months of hotel and temporary housing, before they could go back and pick up the pieces. Though the acts of terror, murder, and destruction hold much in memory, there were also countless acts of courage and kindness that day and in the weeks and months that followed.
I feel guilty even wanting to mention my yoga practice in the midst of this, and in all honesty, it was hard to practice today, even, with a rare opportunity to do led intermediate with Sharath, more so than yesterday. On top of this background of samskaras, I had dinner last night with two childhood friends, one is fighting brain cancer right now, while the other is watching her mom suffer through the last stages of COPD. It's sometimes only possible to just offer love and and ear to listen or a shoulder to cry on. Life can change in a flash for any of us.
It was my very first Led intermediate. My nerves were a bit shattered and this was nerve cleansing to a count. I decided to dedicate my energy to my sick friend. I had no expectations of success or failure, just trying. Eddie Stern stopped me before my normal end of pinchu, at bakasana b…I dragged my left big toe jumping into it. It was fine. I was overwhelmed from my own PTSD of 9/11 and how I was feeling about the awful illnesses my friends had thrust upon them as well as the backlash of not normally drinking, yet having more cocktails than usual as I hadn't wanted to squash my friends imbibing with my nerdy teetotaler yogi ways. Watching the rest of it until joining back in for closing was amazing. I was emotional afterwards, not because I was stopped, but because of everything else. As I've processed it more, I'm just impressed I made it through the back-bending sequence and kapo in one attempt (only reaching my toes) without losing my breath completely, as there were no extra pauses. It was my best for today and that's all any of us can ever do. As for tomorrow? Who knows, but I'll try again.
While studying in India, part of the after morning practice routine was a well needed stop at the coconut stand. Most mornings I was just spent and blissed out greedily quenching my thirst, not taking in much around me other than the fact that there were others in the same transfixed state of needing to replenish some lost fluids with this amazing gift of nutritious coconut water gloriously and skillfully machete chopped open right before my eyes.
This morning, my son was telling me a story of his experiences doing community service in Sicily two summers ago. He was working with a group of teens helping build and refurbish a community center and orphanage. As they were only there for two glorious weeks and all aspects of this work was done in stages, his stage was part of some of the finishing touches around the main home. The home was already completed but a courtyard still needed to be made and construction debris, which was basically stone, that had to be moved to a safer place or where it could be used. So much of their work involved literally picking stones up from one side of the road and bringing them to the other side. One of the other boys, my son explained, complained that this work was boring and didn't seem as grand or noble, to just pick things up and put them down again. The counselor in charge shook his head laughing stating it might not seem like much, but that each facet was just as important to making the project a success. I was thrilled my son understood this. That all the work to make this project safe and welcoming was needed, that the cherry on top came from the effort and the process may not always be glamorous but that the little things matter.
Who will come from that home? Who will be raised there? Will they change the world? Will they have a better life? Will my son? Will I? I have no idea, but I will try to appreciate and love this journey of life. With everything, it's about the process, not the product. The Bhagavad Gita states in 12.12 "Give up the belief that inner peace depends on results of action. That result-renouncing state is pure inner peace." So lovely to think, yet I know how hard that is to maintain, hence 99% practice!
Did you know the coconut is a drift nut?
My pie was inspired by the new Honey Maid graham cracker campaign. I highly suggest you watch to see the response to ignorance, it's quite beautiful. I made a graham cracker crumb topping for the pie, indulgent and homey at the same time. Worth trying!
Mix together and crumble on top of pie filling, feel free to make more topping to your tastes. Bake on a baking sheet for about 40 minutes until bubbly and edges golden. Serve warm with vanilla ice cream.
So, here I sit, in Mysore India, it's 90 degrees. My family is home in Connecticut sleeping as there is ten and a half hours and 80 degrees cooler(brrr!) between us. I'm gone from their daily routines for a total of 38 days while I immerse in study, in my yoga practice at the Shri K. Pattabhi Jois Institute. I adore my family, yet left, albeit briefly in the large scheme of things, and they can't quite understand why, and better yet, I have an extremely difficult time putting it into a coherent rational explanation.
They all see me going to practice six days a week. I hope they feel the peace and grounded mindfulness it brings me and ideally my interactions with all of them. They have even all at minimum tried it! My husband has been going with greater regularity and though he states it makes him feel good, he still doesn't grasp my spiritual connection to the practice. That's ok, because I do, and he respects that. It's not a cult, I'm not worshipping a new diety, but I do pray each and every time I get on the mat, grateful for life, contentment, love, joy, and wonder. My practice is not always picture perfect, far from it, sometimes I'm stiff, in pain, annoyed, sad, impatient, frustrated, possibly even in tears, but I always feel better for the attempt, for the realization of my best effort of that day and that moment. Grateful for the energy and heat the sun salutations ignite all the way till the end of practice cooling down in rest where I'm ready to start the rest of my day.
I first felt a calling or whisper in my head saying go study a few years ago, I felt it was a pipe dream. Mysore is about as far from home as I could go. Eighteen hours of flying time( I abhor air travel), 6 hours of driving and a 3 hour stopover in Frankfort. My knowledge of India up to this point had been watching Slum Dog Millionaire, Magnolia Hotel, and Monsoon Wedding. As a recent addition, friends had recommended reading Culture Shock India and Shantaram: A Novel. I'm not a jet setter, though I have travelled, just no where in the Far East, it always had seemed a world away, too far off my comfortably beaten path. I should also add I'm somewhat of a homebody and have never, not once in my life lived alone, or been alone for more than a week, and that week was a tough one.
So why, why would I choose to leave my happy, stabile life for this? Why for missing my husband, my children, my dogs, my bed, fresh water, and a hot bath for a bucket shower, distilled water, and cow dung in the streets? To study ashtanga yoga Mysore style with Sharath at KPJAYI, to chant, to study the yoga sutras, take Sanskrit classes, to immerse without the daily minutiae, without any distractions and face my demons without the excuses that are all too easy in the life of a busy bustling family, because they are the most important pieces of my world. They are the people I love and cherish and live to be with and desire to be happy and healthy. Weather, homework, chores, running around, cooking, work, emotions, effect all of us all day everyday. I'm not running away from them, I desire all of it, and right now a big piece of me has a painful void missing it, yet I'm here, because another piece of me has been begging inside to delve deeper into my practice, to seek and understand those moments on the mat of what yoga truly brings, a stillness of the mind, exploring outside the comfort zone of security, structure, love, and home, no distractions just focus.
My husband worries about non-attachment, will I come back uncaring or cold? I don't view it that way, non-attachment is not indifference nor does it mean that I would ever relinquish my very loving blessed life at home, but maybe it means I'll learn to not stress as much about how everything turns out, maybe the negative emotions of worry and fear will fade away to allow me to be completely present, enjoying this moment without attachment to what comes or doesn't come next. Knowing that all I can ever do, regardless of what happens is my best effort of that day and that moment. I do experience that at times before my brain starts on the list of what ifs, and yes thankfully I've added some decent tools to my inner toolbox to try and let them go as they arise inside, but hey I'm human like everyone else and it's all just practice. For now, I hope and pray my family, who I miss beyond words, will be ok without me for this small period of time, because I know, that their days are longer in missing my presence. I send them loving thoughts and feel tremendous gratitude that they are doing the daily grind without me until April 5th.


OK, I'm doing pretty good with the study, and I'm starting to feel more confident. The mood is high but I am, omg, so restless!
My mp3 player broke. I cannot go for walks without music. I know it sounds ridiculous, but it's true. Anybody know where I can get a good deal on a new player? I'd break down and get an iPod, but I doubt the budget would bear it.
The point is, I've had virtually no physical activity since the holidays. Haven't been to the gym. Haven't been out dancing. Just utterly sedentary, and it feels awful. Week after next, I will be back in the gym regularly, but in the mean time, I've got that "cooped up inside" feeling that is such a major contributing factor to winter yuck.
I may be doing some good old manual labor on Saturday morning (digging holes, in fact! yay!) but that is only if it isn't too freezing cold, or raining or snowing a lot. Sigh. I want to get my hands in some dirt and play with seedlings, already!
Sigh. 39 days till spring. 8 days till exam.
i don't know what you're looking for (and i've done no price comparisons) but i have been very happy with my creative mp3 player (even dropped it a couple of times with no adverse effects). the best buys around here have the nano (which comes in 1 gig and something smaller) on sale periodically for right around $100 (with rebate). you have to endure the best buy experience, but it could be worse.
Thank you! Good advice. And I can use all the luck I can get.
Target (and other places I'm sure) have a bunch of MP3 players in the $40 to $60 range. I've got one about the size of a memory stick...the only drawback is that it only holds a little more than an hour's worth of music, but an hour is a decent time for a walk I think.
I've got one that citizen_ken gave me that I plan on using at the gym just as soon as I can find some decent headphones for it! Am I the only person who hates those earbud things? Yuck!
I also hate earbuds. They're really uncomfortable. Until I can get a nano-speaker implanted right into my zygomatic process, it's old fashioned headphones for me.
I hate most earbuds too, but I've found that the tiny ones (which I need 'cause I have tiny ears) that are ear-plug style, specifically the Sony Fontopia headphones, are SIGNIFICANTLY more comfortable than the ones that sit just outside of your ear canal. I don't even really feel them once they are in-place, and they reduce much of the ambient noise of the "world around us".
You are welcome to try mine sometime if you like. My sister was also an earbud-hater, that is, until she tried my little in-ear ones.
Thanks for the suggestion, hon. I'll looks for those.
I'm also anti-ear bud! I always wondered if my ears were miss-shapen or something, because they never, ever stay in. When I work out, I use my iPod (*must* have tunes!) mini, an armband, and I have really old headphones that go over the head. They are ancient, I've had them forever, but the still work, and feel the most stable IMO.
HEY! Her HEAD don't come off! What you doin' goin' round with a HEAD like THAT?
...never mind, your icon just makes me happy.
I have a old Creative Nomad (30gb) sitting in a drawer if you want it, it was spray painted black (couldn't stand the silver/white combo) and might need a touch up, but it should work still.
Ooh, I just checked and it even has music on it still so you can rock out to 45 Grave.
that reminds me... do we know yet what time we should oughta be aiming to show up on saturday?
*hugs* good luck with the music issue. i feel your pain; my portable cd player died yesterday, so i have to dig up *GASP!* tapes to use in the car again.
Hey, can you bring some oils with you? I figure your knowledge of aromatherapy is waaaaaaay beyond the teensy bit I know!
Have you checked Craig's list? With the frequency that Apple and it's competitors introduce new models, there's probably deals to be had if your patient and haggle.
How're you guys? I think I may be transferring to our Europe offices. Will you come visit if we move to Amsterdam???


Friday, September 28th and Saturday, September 29th.
We'll have prizes, crafts, demonstrations, samplings of our freeze-dried foods, music, book signings with local authors, and many of our Owl Creek Gazette writers will be on hand too. PLUS Elizabeth Gombos of Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage fame will be speaking on Saturday from 2:00-3:00pm, sharing her ecovillage experiences with interested folks!
Will be there! Looking forward to meeting my column readers.
We're looking forward to having you share the Open House weekend with us, Roxanne!


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Photo of 22′ dome kit assembled.
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Photo of some of the 22′ AS IS kit panels.
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If you give Ai your properties tax ID number or site address, at no cost to you Ai will call your building department, show them our web site, email set of building plans if needed and find out what is required to obtain a building permit. Do they require an engineer licensed for your state to seal the plans? Do they require an Energy Report? If so both items can be purchased from Ai.
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All panels are premarked with numbers and letters to match the building plans and the Assembly Manual. The assembly process consists of stacking the panels on the temporary wooden rib system overlapping and locking the steel mesh of adjacent panels, filling the seams with special formulated concrete and concreting of the entryways and dormers. Finish the interior wall board seams with fiberglass tape and joint compound. This process produces the structural components, completes the finished exterior surface, installs the insulation and all the interior shell wallboard. Seam areas between panels concreted on site and average two inch thick concrete. To view kit assembly, click on Assembly. Independent consultant can be hired to supervise kit assembly.
The concrete applied in the seams and on the entryways and dormers is sponge finished to match the pre-finished texture of the concrete panels. The dome is primed with concrete primer and then painted with two coats of exterior concrete paint to achieve the color you desire. To blend the DensArmor interior drywall seam finish to the drywall, skip trowel joint compound over all the dome shell drywall.
The following describes why American Ingenuity switched to DensArmor versus DensDeck. (Both DensArmor & DensDeck are Georgia Pacific moisture resistant/mold resistant gypsum drywall). To obtain building permits, more and more building departments require the insulation be protected by 15 minute thermal barrier material. The noncombustible ¼" DensDeck does not have the 15 minute thermal barrier test. The ½" DensArmor Plus High Performance gypsum drywall has the tests to prove it is a 15 minute thermal barrier. All Ai dome kits are now shipped with 1/2″ DensArmor adhered to the EPS using the Enerfoam (drywall adhesive). The Enerfoam adhesive is being shipped at no cost with this AS IS kit if you are adding ½" drywall on site. The Plant utilizes the hinge method that is described below to affix the wallboard to the Eps using the Enerfoam. If you choose to remove the ¼" drywall and apply the free ½" drywall, you will use this same method to affix the ½" DensArmor to the panels on your site.
The following describes how to remove the ¼" DensDeck and adhere the ½" DensArmor.
Flip the panel over and pry the ¼" DensDeck off the panel with good metal snow shovel or use large putty knife. Some cement perlite which was used to adhere the DensDeck may come off when the DensDeck is pried off.
Select the appropriate pieces of precut ½" DensArmor and lay on the panel.
Lift up DensArmor one piece at a time and spray Enerfoam in S pattern on EPS around edges & middle where DensArmor piece will lay.
Lay DensArmor piece down. Slide back and forth a few times to make the foam tacky and not swell up.
Then when you are sure the piece is in correct location, leave in that position.
Install next piece until all pieces are installed for that panel.
Place another flipped panel on top of this panel and complete same process.


6 second take: When I first tried to sell on eBay, I messed up big time. But the mistake taught me some valuable financial lessons.
The most humiliating moment of my life happened during a recent attempt to be thrifty. My sister often sells old or unused items on eBay, and so I figured I would give it a shot.
I had two Lily Pulitzer dresses that were no longer my size or style, and so I decided I would put those up and see what I could get for them. I estimated that I could sell each of them for around 50 dollars. That would give me a nice cushion for my monthly budget.
For those of you who have never forayed into online selling, here's a tip: Read the fine print.
I didn't. I clicked a few boxes, uploaded my pictures, then sat back and waited for the money to pour in. A few days later, I received an email that both items had sold! Huzzah!
I basked in my superior budgeting strategies until I read the details of the transaction. My dresses had been sold to the same user, who had bought both of them for 99 cents each.
A dollar ninety-eight for two Lilly Pulitzer dresses. That's not even the best part, though. The kicker? I had to pay for shipping.
At the end of the transaction, I had lost three dollars and essentially paid another person to take these dresses off my hands. How could anybody be so incompetent? I amaze myself. At least I could make someone's day while ruining my own.
It took me a few hours of shameful sulking before I pulled together the text message to my sister asking for some eBay tutorials. She got a substantial laugh from it as she drove me to the post office to mail the two pieces of clothing that I hoped would pay for two Friday nights out.
Since then, I have learned some handy tips on how to sell on eBay successfully.
If you want to make money on eBay, you should first make sure that your items are worth selling. Are they in good condition? Would you let your friends use them and still be okay being seen with them in public? If the answer to either of these questions is no, then maybe these clothes shouldn't be put on the digital market in the first place.
If they're fabulous clothes that you've just outgrown, then these methods will help you get the best possible price for them.
Don't Be Lazy. Use high-quality photos (and lots of them!) and in-depth, well-written descriptions to assuage people's fears. No one's going to spend big money lightly. Make them trust that you're giving them exactly what they're looking for.
Labels Matter. Designer clothes will sell better, dresses are easiest to sell, and pants seem to be the hardest. Think about it — the fit for jeans is much more specific than it is for a dress. Be clever.
Time It Right. A wool coat is unlikely to sell in the middle of the summer. Be smart about when you sell.
Be Informed About Price. Research what similar items sell for, and raise your price only if your clothes are in pristine condition. Wear and tear mean that you'll need to adjust the pricing accordingly.
Prepare Your Items for A Photoshoot. Remove dangling threads from clothes, find an uncluttered, uniform background, and use natural light for your photos. And de-wrinkle your items!
Show What You Would Want to See. Snap pictures of the front, back, label, flaws, and any unusual details. Decide if an on-body shot makes sense.
Keep Original Tags and Receipts. Photos of these a must, though obvs don't include personal information. Also make sure your title is exact with the brand name, color, and size.
Calculate Shipping. Don't offer free shipping if it's going to cost you twice the asking price. If you're selling a shirt for $15 and it costs $25 to post it, it's not worth it.
Get PayPal or Venmo Verified. When you make a sale, make sure you can receive your money safely.
Ship Quickly. Don't leave your customer waiting two weeks for their purchase because you're lazy and forgot you left the package by the door multiple times. To save yourself a headache, use a tracking number so you know where your package is at each stage.
Also don't forget that eBay will charge you an insertion fee, which will vary depending on how much you list your product for, as well as a final value fee, which runs at a minimum of 12 percent of the final selling price.
The eBay failure, though tough to swallow, was a serious learning moment for me. The biggest takeaway was that you need to be careful in the how you attempt to save or make money. Buying the cheapest, crappiest cut of meat at the butcher may not be worth the three dollars in savings.
I was so excited to gain a hundred dollars that I was careless and ended up losing money. (Seriously though, how did I do that?) Another takeaway for me was the importance of being careful with how I engage with the internet. The best deals can often be found online, for sure. Digital tools like Ebates can even help you get discounts when you shop.
But still, it's important to always read the fine print and know what you are signing up for. I learned that you can pay dearly for trying to get creative with your frugal living.


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Give students these sentences to write after hearing them spoken by you. Show just the picture to scaffold. Use as jumping off point to talk about the differences between use of "must, have to, want to, and need to"
This printable, downloadable handout is recommended for adults at Beginner (pre-A1), Elementary (A1) and Pre-intermediate (A2) level. It is valuable for revising MUST or HAVE TO (obligation) in English, and can be used for working on your pupils' Listening, Spelling and Writing skills. It features the theme of Shopping.
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Jeon Woo-chi may refer to:

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German series Dark-Netflix
By UpperWestside,
May 20, 2020 in Movies and TV
UpperWestside 1,980
UpperWestside
Certifiably Surly
I am nearing the end of season one and this series lives up to its name. A friend had recommended this series to me and he told me it had been suggested to him by friends back in Europe. These people are all kinds of screwed up. There are two seasons so far and the 3rd one will be the last one for it. The biggest thing I think I would say to anyone watching it is try to keep up with the characters when they show different time periods. My friend told me to do this or things would have gotten confusing at first. Ulrich Nielsen is my favorite character so far. I highly recommend watching this series.
blacklab 4,718
blacklab
So good, I can't recommend enough.
Started watching and blasted through both seasons in a couple of days. Amazing how they got different actors that looked so alike for the different ages. Thought for sure a few of them were the same actor in age make up but then watched the credits to find out they were different actors.
RomaVicta 7,682
RomaVicta
Not sure if I saw season 2. Is season two where the young man...
comes out in future where there has been some sort of apocalypse?
I think that's where I left the story. I loved it, but with the way series get spread out, I forget a lot of things. Seems like it was longer ago than last summer that I watched it.
14 hours ago, blacklab said:
The actors and actresses looking so similar was something my friend and I talked about. Both version's of Ulrich, his wife Katharina, and Aleksander Tiedemann all look remarkably the same. Just started season two and that ending to season one was crazy to think about after watching it. The writers for this show are just superb.
Edited May 21, 2020 by UpperWestside
ernest_t_bass 934
ernest_t_bass
Martha hot AF
52-80 3,927
Super bingeable show
Hank Scorpio 10,412
Hank Scorpio
I watched 1/2 a season and then came back a couple months later to finish it and ended up going insane trying to remember who the fuck all the characters are and what they are doing.
On 5/21/2020 at 2:44 PM, Hank Scorpio said:
This show really bends the mind following the characters, but the twists in what happens in that town and the people who live there make the show so amazingly good. I am past the halfway point of season two and hoo boy Winden is one really crazy place.
PilotsError 1,274
PilotsError
I binged both seasons in two days, and while I thoroughly enjoyed it, it's starting to get convoluted. Now they're introducing another world? I hope they've tightened up that script for season three.
When those two ladies touched hands and she had that reaction with that music playing...I thought at some point we were going to see an epic girl on girl scene. Nope, how udderly disappointing.
kurioster 16
kurioster
my favorite show on Netflix rn
Finished season two a couple of days ago. There are a couple of characters who need to get the axe, but I understand why they are still around. I'm glad season three is less than a month away because this show is all kinds of awesome so long as you can keep up with all the varying timelines. That is actually what makes the show for me to be honest.
maybe the most well-done Time Loop movie/tv show ive ever seen
On 6/2/2020 at 6:09 AM, 52-80 said:
I was talking last week with a friend out in LA that is a successful screenwriter who is from Germany and still does a lot of work in German film and television. We were talking about this show and I asked him if he knew the writers. He said they are friends of his and that he was impressed with what a superb job they have done putting everything together with all the varying timelines. I told him that whenever he sees them to tell them thank you for making such a great series.
Edited June 3, 2020 by UpperWestside
PantsTent 717
PantsTent
Started this one. You guys do English audio or German with subtitles? The dubbed is not bad but I switched to subtitles.
Neonmoon 12,883
Neonmoon
4 hours ago, PantsTent said:
Always go subtitles. Dubbed takes away from the delivery
staboner 1,859
staboner
i liked it for a while but i think i was just impressed with the story telling and complexity. but it faded on me fast and i lost interest. it was just a complex joy ride that can never end.
that will be 9.95 please.
Mappable 31
Mappable
can't wait for season 3. Just rewatched s1 & s2.
love the storyline complexity, the dark cinematography, and brooding audio.
Watching with subtitles is the best way to go.
Subtitles for me.
Like I said earlier, the script needs to be tight or it could quickly go off the rail.
15 hours ago, Neonmoon said:
burntorangebongos 2,709
burntorangebongos
Season 3 is fucking confusing as shit.
UTGrad98 511
UTGrad98
Wife and I are surprisingly enjoying season 3 so far. I was a bit skeptical about what would happen after the end of season 2 but the first episode this season was really thoughtful and intriguing. Can't wait to finish it.
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On 6/29/2020 at 11:20 PM, UTGrad98 said:
I definitely felt the same way about the end of season 2. I wasn't sure how they were going to tie it all together in the end, but season 3 delivered.
Way too many fucking timelines in season three right now. Good grief.
pyrohornIII 1,784
pyrohornIII
Season 3 really gets so much crossover from time to time, place to place, it really got to the point where I felt it wasn't worth finishing about episode 5. But I hung in there, and glad I did. The last episode really ties it all together nicely, the next to last episode sets up all that up. They didn't rush the series, nor fill it with fluff just to stretch 6 episodes into 8. Nor did they try to cram 12 episodes into 8 either.
I could not imagine being the guy who had to describe this story to sell it to the studios. It's as interwoven as a Clive Barker novel with all the twists and turns, the interplay.
I have a few questions, but I will wait until more of you folks finish.
I've watched Season 1 twice, and may need to rewatch this entire series. What a mind fuck.
Just finished episode five of season three and this isn't even fun anymore. I'm going to finish it probably today but I'm not enjoying trying to keep up and differentiate anymore.
I think I have to call the conclusion a fumble.
They seemed a little lost about what to do in the early episodes. It was hard to keep things straight although my beloved wondered if the confusion was perhaps intentional because you don't really need to know exactly how people are related and interelated to follow the main story.
Certainly a worthwhile series. A stronger finish would make it elite.
The whole thing about the cause and solution of the situation being tied to Jonas and Martha's enduring love was a time wasting red herring. Then the vague notion of cutting the knot and closing the loop was something of a let down. I wanted something smarter.
I was okay with the realization that the cause was actually founded in a character kept mostly on the sidelines. When they revealed why the time hole had been made, it made sense. I don't see how destroying the loop would destroy the people created. They are not illusions.
A lot of good stuff.
I know why they would make an eight episode season instead of four, but this should have been four episodes. Drop the shit that absolutely was irrelevant. It's called Dark, so I was hoping for a darker ending, like Jonas and Martha appear and cause the guy and his wife to still crash his car.
Really good point.
On 7/2/2020 at 3:27 PM, Jojen said:
Season three was great. I really enjoyed the ending. The season is harder to follow at times than the prior two due to all the jumping back and forth through time, but it delivered. I usually do not like shows like this, but it was so well written and the acting was exceptional.
Edited July 12, 2020 by UpperWestside
We finished last night. I enjoyed the last episode. With how complicated everything was the ending was both satisfying and realistic (for Dark). S3E5 and S3E6 were slog fests imo but 7 and 8 were top notch. I really stopped trying to follow all of the time jumps even as early as season 2 and I think this helped my enjoyment. You arent going to get every single thing on a first run through anyway. My wife and I are thinking about at least watching the first season again to see more of how things all tied in together. Good show. 8/10 overall
The Earl of Texas 1,192
The Earl of Texas
Just finished it. Surprised they were able to end it so coherently with how absurdly complicated it seemed, right up until the end of the second to last episode, even.
But I really liked the ending. Really solid show, enjoyed it.
Edited July 13, 2020 by The Earl of Texas
If you haven't finished the show don't click on the link below. It explains the timeline in-depth and what happened in the years between the 33 year intervals. That a show has to be explained like this is honestly pretty cool. I tried not to focus on every little detail and just enjoy the show, but the link fills in gaps for me.
https://www.tvguide.com/news/features/dark-timeline-explained-netflix-season-3/#link={"role":"standard","href":"https://www.tvguide.com/news/dark-timeline-netflix/","target":"","absolute":"","linkText":"Dark Timeline: The Netflix Show, Explained"}
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BonzoMontreaux
Started Season 3 yesterday. Wife tapped out. I will say, It is worth Watching the Ep. 1 of Season 1 and then watching Ep 1. of Season 3. I am in it for the duration but dang this getting into GOT level of introducing new characters, worlds and timelines.
Prepuce of Doom 3,799
Prepuce of Doom
We just finished this after bingeing all three seasons at once. I can't imagine having to wait for the next season and picking it all up again once, let alone twice.
I really liked the whole thing, but my wife found the multiple worlds aspect more tedious than engaging.
I recommend getting baked and watching it with someone who isn't baked.
Hornius Emeritus 2,534
Hornius Emeritus
This really helped me to understand it.
I look forward to examining that graphic from a desktop computer with a large monitor rather than from my phone.
About halfway through, I wondered whether it would be helpful to have a printable booklet (or app) with the known family trees and multiple "identities" that you could consult at all times, or if that would take away some of the enjoyment.
It would be pretty easy to just have a small number appear in the corner of the screen to indicate which diagram is most current (maybe a brief tone to alert to a new update?), and as long as the viewer has some self control, they could keep it pretty keyed into when you turn the page depending on on-screen revelations while avoiding spoilers. Those of you who had film strips in school can imagine what I'm thinking of.
In reading One Hundred Years of Solitude, I took extensive notes on the family tree in the preface (as someone had recommended) and it was very helpful. I felt like this show could have benefitted from a little bit of a cheat sheet somehow. That way the viewer could concentrate on the story rather than spending time working a puzzle instead.
Edited July 21, 2020 by Prepuce of Doom
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BradInATX
Just finished this bad boy. I had the benefit of watching them all pretty close together - finished s1 and s2 a few months ago and just ran through s3 in a couple of weeks. I agree with most of the takes on s3 that it wandered a bit. I found myself playing on my phone a little bit in s3 where I didn't in the past. And it some of the early episodes for s3 were a little hard to follow. But I thought the end-game of the story was really well done and made sense in the big picture. It wasn't cheap at all and it fit with everything else.
What a story. Only Germans could engineer something that complex and still consistent and earned. I thought the whole series was great.
Spoilers:
The two timelines was a little clunky early on, but they did a good job of tying it all together in the last 2-3 episodes. And I thought the two "new" worlds being sort of a cancerous offshoot of the "real" world was clever and fit the entire story pretty well. I'm also glad we got a reasonably happy ending. The show edged into misery porn a bit too much to also end miserably or on an incredibly dark note, which is what I was expecting. Pleasantly surprised.
Great show. Sad to be done with it.


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Деревня располагается на левом берегу реки Нейва в устье Таборки в 30 километрах на северо-восток от города Алапаевск.

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Articles on parasitology
Leafcutter ants are in a chemical arms race against a behaviour-changing fungus
Sarah Worsley, University of East Anglia
New study shows parasitic Escovopsis fungus attacks the bacteria leafcutter ants use to protect themselves.
What causes diseases? Why the answer is complicated, and contentious
Adamson S. Muula, University of Malawi
Understanding what causes diseases is a life-and-death matter. It is a complicated issue that has generated a great deal of debate in the medical community.
How mind-controlling parasites can get inside your head
Alex Ford, University of Portsmouth
Cat-borne parasites that may affect human aggression aren't the only microscopic freeloaders that influence their hosts' brains.
Bill Campbell was awarded a Nobel Prize for medicine for this role in the discovery and development of the drug Ivermectin to treat river blindness. Brian Snyder/Reuters
Meeting Bill Campbell, the Nobel Prize winner for medicine
Peter C. Doherty, University of Melbourne
Back in 2012, I had the great pleasure of meeting with William (Bill) Campbell at Trinity College. We were among a group of five receiving honorary doctorates from the University of Dublin.
Can you spot the crop? ShutterStock
The cutting-edge science taking on some of the world's most notorious parasitic plants
Caroline Wood, University of Sheffield
Little is known about how parasitic plants live side-by-side with their hosts. But new genetic techniques may help scientists gain further insights.
Unless you're a schistosomiasis parasite. Wayan Vota
Prehistoric parasite egg suggests early disease spread through human technology
Piers Mitchell, University of Cambridge
We are used to the idea that modern technological inventions can have unforeseen consequences on health. Infamous examples include the anti-nausea drug thalidomide, which caused limb defects in unborn…
Bow before thy master. dadbhawala
Parasitic wasp turns roaches into zombie slaves using neurotoxic cocktail
Sana Suri, University of Oxford
For decades, scientists have tried to understand the complex and gruesome relationship between the parasitic emerald wasp Ampulex compressa and its much larger victim, the common household cockroach Periplaneta…
'Kiss me under the parasite' doesn't have quite the same ring … Schnobby
Good parasite, bad parasite: nature has a job for everyone
Tommy Leung, University of New England
Parasites are thought of as free-loaders, but many contribute as much as they take. They service the ecosystem. From an ecological perspective, they are more like tiny, hidden architects that are overlooked…
When microbes cause ants to become zombies. Tommy Leung
Meet the enemy of killer fungus that turns ants into zombies
One of most famous fungi in the world is the "zombie ant fungus". It takes over the mind of an ant, causing it to climb up a branch and cling to the underside of a leaf before mummification. Once locked…
Hairworm target. haquintero
The parasite a cricket's nightmares are made of
The hairworm is a long, thread-like parasite that sits bundled up inside the body of its host. It grows so large that it takes up most of the room inside the host's body, waiting for the right moment to…
AIDS denialism
Mind-controlling parasite
Tommy Leung
Lecturer in Parasitology and Evolutionary Biology, University of New England
Peter C. Doherty
Peter C. Doherty is a Friend of The Conversation.
Laureate Professor, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity
Alex Ford
Professor of Biology, University of Portsmouth
Sana Suri
PhD student, University of Oxford
Piers Mitchell
Affiliated Lecturer in Biological Anthropology, University of Cambridge
Caroline Wood
PhD researcher in Plant Biology / Food Security, University of Sheffield
Adamson S. Muula
Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Malawi
Sarah Worsley
PhD student molecular microbiology, University of East Anglia


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We are all concerned what happens when we are gone.
We want to go green, using merchandises which will disappear in time.
A time capsule was buried underground and dug out on the anniversary year after year.
The following pictures show what has happened to these baskets.


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