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The St. Kitts and Nevis Olympic Committee/Commonwealth Games Association (SKNOC/CGA) has recently learnt that Mr. Kim Collins has retired from his active career as a Track and Field Athlete.
The SKNOC/CGA family, for its part, wishes to thank Mr. Collins for his exemplary, resilient and significant performances over a career which spanned the gamut from student-athlete through to professional athlete; from national to international icon. He captured, in the process,
several podium positions at the highest levels against the best and toughest of competitors under the most demanding and challenging circumstances and conditions.
Kim often defied the odds and put in performances that had the additional off-the-field value of inspiring and uniting an entire nation and region. His capturing the titles of World Champion (2003) and Commonwealth Champion (2002) are cases in point.
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The Stupid Sin
Posted by Censor Librorum on Sep 28, 2009 | Categories: Arts & Letters, History, Lesbians & Gays
I spent part of Friday afternoon poking around in an old marine salvage store in town. Along with time-crusted anchors, portholes sporting blistered paint, antique lanterns and knives, and leather bracelets sailors used to wear when they mended sails, the store has a selection of old books. That's where I head first.
A title caught my eye, "The Wreck on the Half-Moon Reef." It was written by Hugh Edwards, the Australian diver who found the wreck in 1966. The book was published in 1970.
I pulled it off the shelf and opened it to read the jacket. The book was the account of the wreck of the 38-gun Dutch East Indiaman Zeewyk in 1727 on the savage reefs around the Abrolhos Islands. "The lookout thought that the surf on the Half-Moon Reef was 'moonlight.' The result was a quick death for some, a slow death for others, and the torture and execution of two youths for the 'stupid sin' of sodomy."
It's rare a nautical history includes a full chapter describing a sodomy trial and execution. I bought the book.
Chapter 12, The Stupid Sin, begins: "The two sodomy-accused boys were doomed from the moment that the eager informants burst into the officers' tent with the news." The youths, it seems that they were not older than their mid to late teens at the most, had been accused of a homosexual act. The "stupid sin" as the Dutch called it.
One of the officers, Adriaan van der Grafee, kept a journal during the voyage and recorded their trial and punishment.
"December 1st, 1727: At eight o'clock in the morning the Petty Officers enter our tent and ask to see the Skipper, and inform him that two hands named Adriaen Spoor from St. Maertensdyck, and Pieter Engels, from Ghent, both boys, were found yesterday committing together the abominable sins of Sodom and Gomorrah."
The boys were spotted by several others having sex in broad daylight, around 3 o'clock in the afternoon according to the account.
The white-faced boys were brought to the officers' tent, "But they were not willing to make a confession. Wherefore we placed burning fuses between all their fingers. But being obstinate they would no more confess. So upon due consideration we resolved with the entire Council and consent of the Common Hands, to place these men apart on one of the northernmost islands."
Marooning, death by exposure or drowning. That is what the verdict meant.
The youths were rowed across to one of the tiny cays at the north-eastern corner of the island group, about eleven miles away from the wrecked Half-Moon, and set on separate islands. The boat, with an official party of two petty officers, a boatswain and six unnamed seaman, then put about and left them to die.
The place they were left is known today as the Mangrove Islands. Hugh Edwards describes them: "Mere nodules of coral slates and spikey bushes raised four feet above the surrounding reefs. There is no water on them. No food, Deep channels run between islets and if they youths could not swim they would have been prisoners, each on his own rock until they died from sun and thirst, or went mad with despair and flung themselves in the water. In any event, death must have overtaken them within a day or two."
Van der Graeff does not record in his diary whether the two boys were left any provisions when they were tumbled ashore, nor does he mention any conversation or pleas for mercy.
"In the case of the boys," Edwards opined, "emphasis was placed, on sentencing them, in the brazen nature of unnatural sexual intercourse in broad daylight. Perhaps it was the flagrant nature of the indiscretion that enraged their shipmates."
Despite the harsh punishments of the time, homosexual relations aboard ships were well-known.
Edwards notes that Engels previously appeared to be the object of bullying and persecution by some Zeewyk crewmen. He says, "it is interesting to note the modern psychological belief that those who are most condemnatory of sexual deviation are often those who sense the desire for such deviation in themselves."
Whether out of shame or conscience, the incident is never mentioned again in van der Graeff's journal, and the islands where the youths were marooned were not noted on the maps.
Edwards describes a sad postscript to the event: "More than a century later, in 1844, one of the party who had gone to the Abrolhos from the recently established Swan River colony to survey for guano and a fishing industry, laid his groundsheet down in darkness on the Mangrove Islands, and after a wretchedly uncomfortable night got up gumbling in the morning to find he had slept on a human skeleton. It may have been the pathetic remains of Adriaen Spoor or Pieter Engels."
After I finished the chapter I closed the book and thought of those poor boys. How horrible to imagine them left to die, alone, on a barren ledge of rock. Each knew he was going to die, and had several days to think about it, and how they had been abandoned without mercy or pity.
The author, probably unintentionally, had several rich metaphors in his story: two youths, punished for their audacity in having sex in the daylight; each consigned to an island to die alone. Some of their tormentors and judges were men who, while expressing fear of the Lord's punishment on their society for the sin of Sodom and Gomorrah, really wanted the lads dead and gone to kill their fears of homosexual desire and possibly cover their own involvement.
The best, though was the Dutch expression of homosexual sex as "the stupid sin." It is a stupid sin. It is stupid, how much time is spent on it, obsessing about it, to the point of murder.


BRUSSELS — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo rebuked Russia on Friday for what he called aggression beyond its borders, and vowed to restore relevance to a badly demoralized State Department in his new role as the top American diplomat.
Attending a meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Brussels less than 24 hours after being sworn in, Pompeo criticized Russia for threatening the alliance's friends and partners in Georgia and Ukraine as well as for "an aggressive campaign to undermine Western democratic institutions."
Among other Russian misdeeds, Pompeo said, are the poisoning of a Russian ex-spy in Britain last month and its support for Syrian President Bashar Assad's government. Syria is accused of launching a chemical weapons attack that led three NATO members — Britain, France and the U.S. — to launch airstrikes on Syrian targets.
"In light of Russia's unacceptable actions, NATO is more indispensable than ever," the former CIA chief told reporters as he wrapped up the first stop on his first overseas trip as secretary of state. "NATO should not return to business as usual with Russia until Moscow shows a clear change in its actions and complies with international law."
Pompeo said that among the allies there was "enormous consensus of the risk that it poses to the West (and) a real commitment to work together to mitigate to those risks and to deter them."
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg agreed. "We are in a situation where we've not been before," he said. "We're not in the old Cold War, but we're neither in the strategic partnership we were trying to build after the Cold War. So this is something new."
Friday's meetings set the stage for a summit of NATO leaders in July at which they are expected to outline more specifics about their response to Russia.
Because of NATO's central role in pushing back against Russia, Pompeo said it was even more important that the allies, particularly Germany, the largest and wealthiest European member, meet their commitments to spend 2 percent of their gross domestic product on defense by 2024.
The commitment was made in 2014 and thus far only six of the 28 countries that made the pledge meet the goal. Nine have produced realistic plans for reaching it by 2024, but the rest, including Germany, have not.
"No," Pompeo replied bluntly when asked if Germany's efforts to increase defense spending have been satisfactory. "They should meet the goals that they agreed to," he said as German Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Donald Trump were meeting at the White House.
Pompeo arrived in Brussels about 12 hours after he was sworn in as secretary of state to replace Rex Tillerson, fired by Trump last month. His participation in the meeting so soon after taking office was noted by Stoltenberg and others who said it was a sign of U.S. commitment to NATO and its allies.
His arrival also appeared to have heartened some U.S. diplomats who had been discouraged by Tillerson's embrace of budget and staffing cuts and a perceived desire to reduce America's diplomatic footprint. Pompeo is known to be close to Trump while Tillerson and the president sparred frequently.
Pompeo alluded to the change.
"They may have been demoralized but they seemed in good spirits," he said of a group of U.S. diplomats he met at NATO. "They are hopeful that the State Department will get its swagger back, that we will be out doing the things that they came on board at the State Department to do."
"That's my mission set: to build that esprit and get that team on the field," Pompeo said.
One of Pompeo's other goals in Brussels was to convince Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu in a separate meeting to refocus on coordination in northern Syria, where Turkey has been attacking Kurdish rebels supported by the U.S.
That coordination was started by Tillerson but had languished in the absence of a new secretary of state.
Pompeo also renewed calls for the release of a jailed American pastor accused by Turkey of espionage, and encouraged Turkey not to pursue the purchase of an advanced air-defense system from Russia.
But as he walked into the meeting, Cavusoglu signaled that Turkey would not back down on the purchase, which the U.S. and other NATO members oppose.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said earlier this month that the production and delivery of the S-400 system is being accelerated and Cavusoglu told reporters on Friday that "Russia is speeding up the process."
From Brussels, Pompeo will travel on to the Middle East, visiting Saudi Arabia, Israel and Jordan, where the future of the Iran nuclear deal and the conflict in Syria will be significant agenda items. Pompeo, repeating Trump's pledge to withdraw from the deal unless it is significantly strengthened, said the U.S. was "unlikely" to stay in if that was not done.
Pompeo arrives in Riyadh on Saturday ahead of a series of events that could potentially plunge the region into deeper disarray, including Trump's decision by May 12 on the Iran deal, and the scheduled opening of the new U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem two days later.
The embassy move is deeply opposed by the Palestinians, who on May 15 will mark the anniversary of what they term the "nabka," or catastrophe, when they fled or were driven from their homes during the 1948 Palestine war.
Looming over Pompeo's trip is uncertainty over Trump's policy on Syria, which has shifted between a speedy all-out withdrawal of American forces from the country and leaving a lasting footprint to deter Iran from completing a land bridge from Tehran to Beirut.
Associated Press writer Lorne Cook contributed to this report.


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This little boy was caned to death...by his parents
A little child was just caned to death. Is caning children justifiable? How can parents control the urge to cane their kids?
Sad, sad news, this. A young boy has just been caned to death, apparently by his own parents.
How many strokes of the cane did it take to break his little body and soul? We shudder to imagine.
Little boy caned to death
The shocking incident happened in Malaysia, and a couple has been charged for caning their son to death.
Apparently, the boy's parents took him to a clinic after the torture, where he was pronounced dead. The doctor was stunned to see his body filled with bruise marks, on the face, hands, legs and buttocks; he got suspicious, and immediately contacted the police.
Subang OCPD Asst Comm Mohammad Azlin Sadari has been quoted by The Star Online as saying, "The injuries are believed to have been due to the victim being punched and beaten with a cane."
ACP Mohammad Azlin further revealed that both parents had prior criminal records, "The father, 33, has one drug related record while the mother, 36, has records for cheating and house break-ins. She is also wanted for a theft case in Kuantan."
The cause of death was later confirmed as being due to blunt force trauma.
According to The Straits Times, on June 5, Aaron Teoh Eng Wan, 34, and his wife En Sit Mooi, 36, were charged with 'murdering' their son, 9-year-old Adrian Teoh Wai Kit between 2pm and 3.30pm on May 26. They have also been charged with physically abusing him repeatedly using two canes at the same place, time and date.
No plea was recorded from them, and the duo were unrepresented in court. The Deputy Public Prosecutor did not propose bail for them either.
Our heart breaks to think of the torture this child had to go through...may his soul rest in peace.
How can parents control the urge to cane their kids?
Parents, we understand that the primary objective of caning is discipline. We feel that the reason caning works, is because of its shock value and the clear, deterring message that it sends across almost instantly. We all want our kids to mend their ways, and grow up to be sensible, responsible adults tomorrow.
But what if there was no tomorrow? What if today's rage just destroyed your child's future?
Can we shift to a more non-violent method of discipline instead? Here are some tips:
Get Calm: You have probably had a really rough day and feel like you are on the verge of losing your mind. When you feel like you are getting out of control, try to leave the situation. Maybe go to another room, but do not leave the room in anger or defeat. You could say, "I'll be in the next room if you want to talk to me."
If you really can't leave the situation, try the reliable 'count to 10' method for some much needed release.
Never hit a child when you are angry: You are merely releasing your own frustration, and hitting a child in such a situation will merely lead to physical harm and undesirable consequences. If you can feel that mad rage getting to you, take a time out and ask yourself these questions:
Why am I going to hit my child?
What am I trying to teach him?
What will he really learn?
Is hitting the only option that I have? Am I going to hit my child to help him reduce the behaviour or am I simply releasing my own anger?
Can he learn that lesson without me hitting him?
You will find that by simply taking some time out to think about these questions, you have calmed yourself a bit and are now thinking more rationally.
Be kind but firm: An effective way of discipline is to get down to your child's level, make eye contact, touch him gently and advise him, in a kind but firm manner. Getting down to your child's eye level automatically makes you less intimidating.
Another alternative to hitting is giving your child a choice between rectifying her mistake and a 'bad' alternative. For example: "Would you like to stop playing with your food or would you like to leave the table?"
Explain the consequences: Instead of punishing by hitting, aim for making the child accountable for his mistakes. Punishing might merely lead him to be very scared and he may try to cover up or hide his mistakes in future. Instead, emphasise on what the child has learnt from the mistake, and how he can make amends for it. This does good for the child's self esteem.
Also READ: Singapore parents cane child in public, cops arrive
(Source: The Straits Times, The Star)
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- An exclusive look-book of hand-colored sketches and personal photographs from the archives of Japanese fashion designer Kenzo Takada- Includes hundreds of sketches and personal photographs which offer an insider's perspective on his career, creative process, and vision- Features a stunning cover design by KenzoIn 1970, the young Japanese designer Kenzo Takada opened his first boutique, Jungle Jap, in Paris and revolutionized the fashion world. His colorful, ethnic, and nomadic- influenced collections, made with luxurious and vibrantly patterned textiles, tweaked the conventions of haute couture while maintaining the quality of traditional European clothing houses. He was influenced by Parisian fashion and Japanese kimonos, boldly mixing colors and prints, cuts and materials. His vibrant palette and pattern combinations were joyful and whimsical, and very different from the subtle tailoring of the traditional Paris couturier. In his inspired blend of the opulent and the exotic, he developed a signature style and found early success. With stunning photography, and over 300 sketches from Kenzo's private collection, this book traces more than forty years of his creative output. It includes photographs from his high-energy runway shows, in addition to personal photographs, and a behind-the-scene look at the creation of a spectacular wedding dress, opening a window on the creative process and capturing Kenzo's energy, vision, and presence. Superbly illustrated throughout with penciled and hand colored sketches, swatched drawings, and previously unpublished archival photographs, the authors explore Kenzo's career, tracing the evolution of his cult label in a look-book of visual exuberance.
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Patriots head coach Bill Belichick addresses the media during his press conference at Gillette Stadium on Wednesday, October 13, 2010.
BB: We're definitely deep into the Ravens this week. As usual, [they're] a real good football team. Coach [John] Harbaugh has done a real nice job with them. They're strong in every area: good in the kicking game, good on defense, good on offense. They cause you a lot of problems and they execute very well. They're a tough football team. They play hard. They make you earn everything. We're just going to have to do a lot better job than we did against them last year in the playoff game to be competitive. So I hope we can do that on Sunday.
Q: When you were scouting Brandon Tate, he didn't have a ton of receiver snaps. How much did you get to scout him as a receiver as opposed to just a returner?
BB: He played half the year down there in a pro offense. It was basically a pro offense at UNC, so it wasn't - I think you could see him do some of the things we ask our players to do. And he [also] did a very good job returning it. It was half a season, but I think the games you saw were good competitive games. High level of competition and he was doing things more like an NFL receiver would do them than I would say a lot of other guys you would scout. So it wasn't that bad, just unfortunately he got hurt.
Q: Can you describe the skill set of Haloti Ngata?
BB: [He's] big, explosive, a good technique player, uses his hands well. He's big and strong and explosive, but he's also a good football player. He plays with good technique both in the running game and the passing game. He's a pretty instinctive player and he's a hard guy to handle. They use him in all situations [and] try to mismatch him in the running game and the passing game. He really can play across the board. You see him on the center, on the guard, on the tackle, so I think he can play pretty much any place and play well.
Q: How does his skill set complement a guy like Ray Lewis, if at all?
BB: Well, it's great. I'm sure that Ray is glad to have him in front of him and I'm sure Ngata is glad to have Ray behind him. It's hard when you've got to block a guy like that on the line of scrimmage and then you have to get another player like Lewis behind him. It's like when Pittsburgh had 'Mean Joe' Green and Jack Lambert. The sooner you got to Lambert, the more you left Green. The more you hung on Green, the more you freed up Lambert. A little different scheme, but that was always the problem in playing the Steelers: how do you get both guys? You're lucky if you can get one of them.
Q: Even though it's only been a few months, how different in the team with Anquan Boldin and T.J. Houshmandzadeh?
BB: Good. They've got more weapons. They're well-balanced. They've two good backs; all three of those guys contribute for them and [Jalen] Parmele on kick returns. They've got a couple of the rookie tight ends to go with [Todd] Heap. [They've got] a good receiver group, good quarterback, good offensive line, so they're solid across the board. They've got a lot of guys. They use different formations and all their skill players have been productive for them, I think they've got, what is it, 5 guys, who have all caught long passes. [Joe] Flacco has spread the ball around, they've gotten good production out of their backs running and catching. They give you a lot to defend. It's a good scheme, they're well coached and they've got a lot of good players.
Q: Their secondary was a big question mark entering the season due to injuries like Ed Reed, and yet they have the best past defense in the league. What stood out to you about their secondary?
BB: I think the thing that stands out about Baltimore is just their team defense. I don't think you can just isolate it to one guy. They have a lot of great players, a lot of good individual players. They play very well as a team. Everything is well-coordinated. They complement each other well. There's good communication on defense. There're not many easy plays; you've got to work for everything you get. You make a few plays against them, but you've got to really work hard and execute well. They don't make many mistakes and give up easy plays. As usual, any part of a good team defense is really the entire unit. I don't think it's just one guy or one particular thing. As outstanding as any of those might be, it still takes all 11 players and a good coaching staff and a good scheme and a team that communicates well. I think they do all those things.
Q: Depending on the week, I think you've used two or three first-year starters in your linebacking group. How do you see those guys kind of come together around Jerod Mayo as a unit?
BB: I think our defense is coming together a little bit each week: better communication, guys getting more experience, more playing time together going through different situations. Even though we talk about them and walk through them and practice them, it's always a little bit different in the game. We've learned from each one of those situations, each one of those experiences. We have a long way to go. We need to keep getting better. We need to accelerate the pace, but I think they are gaining experience as a group and individually. Hopefully we can continue to head in the right direction and play better defense.
Q: How different does it look with Tom Zbikowksi in there instead of Ed Reed?
BB: It definitely looks different. Ed Reed is Ed Reed. Zbikowski is a good football player. He's tough. He's a very physically tackler. They play him down in the box a little bit at times, as they did with Ed, but maybe a little less so. But those are two hard-hitting safeties. [Dawan] Landry and Zbikowski are both tough, physical guys that can both tackle well. They are impact players. They're hard-hitting guys.?
Q: When you still see Ray Lewis running around out there, what do you think?
BB: He's a tremendous football player. I have all the respect in the world for Ray Lewis since the first day I met him down there at the University of Miami and spent an afternoon with him watching film in their football offices. He's just really impressive in terms of his overall knowledge, understanding, passion, intensity. Just in one meeting you saw that, but you've certainly seen it through his career. He's good at everything. Good in the running game. Good in the passing game, very instinctive. The team really...he's obviously a strong component of that defense and everything centers around him as kind of the quarterback of the defense and the guy that makes calls and makes adjustments and is kind of the pulse of that unit. There are a lot of other good football players besides him; I'm not saying that [there aren't], but he's outstanding and is a true Hall of Fame player. I think the mark of a great player is a guy that makes all the players around him better and I think that Ray Lewis has certainly done that. As great as he's been, I think he raises everybody else's game up a little bit that plays with him. I think that's really a testament to how outstanding he is.
Q: You would have been scouting him for the Patriots then, in 1996?
BB: Yeah, I was with the Patriots, with Bill [Parcells].
Q: They took him with the pick you traded, right?
BB: Yes, that's right.
Q: So you messed up basically?
BB: Yeah, I was looking for him, but...yeah.
Q: Rice has obviously always been dangerous, but considering the passing options we just mentioned, how tough is it now even to key on Rice considering what can happen on the outside?
BB: He's a dangerous guy, and I think that's part of the problem with playing Baltimore is that they have so many weapons. They have a lot of good players. It's not a one-man band; you can't zero in on one guy or the rest of them will kill you. Heap is a great tight end, Boldin, [Derrick] Mason, T.J., Rice, [Willis] McGahee, [Le'Ron] McLain. They use all those guys. It's really a good group. [Ed] Dickson made a big play last week in the Denver game early in the game. It's a really good group. If you just zero in on one guy, you play the price with everybody else. Once again, it comes back to good team defense. Everybody has got to do their job. Everybody has got to take care of their responsibility. I don't think you can just set your defense all towards one guy or you just open it up for somebody else.
Q: In a game like this, do you tell the players to put the previous loss in the past or hold on to the memory of the playoff loss a little for motivation?
BB: We really try to focus on this particular game and do the best we can on that one.
Q: Do you think it's just specific to each guy as to how much he remembers the sour taste of the loss?
BB: Yeah, sure. Nobody feels good about the playoff game, but what happens out here Sunday is going to depend on how the players and the coaches and the teams execute between one and four Sunday afternoon. We've played a lot of games before this, good and bad. Each game comes down to its own individual battle there between those two teams and how they perform that day. It's not about who the better team is; it's who plays better that day. That's what it's always about. The team that plays better on Sunday, I'm sure they'll feel a lot better than the team that doesn't. I don't think that necessarily has anything to do with what happened in the past.
Q: How long do you personally hold on to those losses?
BB: I mean, I can remember games I lost in high school, so...I lost one game at Andover, football and lacrosse. I remember that one.
Q: What happened?
BB: We got beat by a Brown freshman at lacrosse. [I was] undefeated [in] football, but lost one game in lacrosse. Lost one game all year, but you remember those.
Q: You still hate Exeter?
BB: We did pretty well against them. Vernon Park bested us my senior year in high school. St. Mary's beat us at lacrosse in high school. I remember those games. I don't think you forget those if they were important to you. Maybe if that game's not important to you, you forget it, but if the game's important to you, I think you remember.
Q: What was it like seeing Deion Branch out there yesterday?
BB: Good. It's good to have Deion out there. I think he will help our football team. He's a quality player, a good person, good individual, hard-working guy who is a good, instinctive football player. I think he will be a good addition to our team.
Q: You talked about watching film with Ray Lewis in college. Was he above average then?
BB: I would say exceptional. Exceptional. I think when you watch film with players, like I did with Ray that day, you think back over the number of times I've done that and some of the guys that really stand out, there's a handful of them. You really remember those and how impressed I was coming out of Miami after spending the day with him. You watch a guy play, but you don't really know what's inside there, but when you sit down and talk to him and he can recall and tell you about things [like], 'This was what this play was.' 'This is this.' 'This is what I'm keying.' 'This is what happens.' 'This is the situation.' 'We check to this.' 'They did that.' 'This is the game plan.' 'We made this adjustment.' I mean, all those things. You really have an appreciation for this guy - who knows a lot more than what he's supposed to do on the play. He has a great concept of the defensive scheme, of the opponent, of situational football and all of those things. It was really impressive. There's probably a handful of guys like that that I can think back to but he's definitely one of them.
Q: A long time ago you mentioned Lawyer Milloy as being one of those guys. Who else?
BB: [Devin] McCouty was one for sure. Guys start telling you what the nose is supposed to do on a particular stunt when he's playing corner and stuff like that. Usually you don't get that. I'd say Devin was a guy, sitting down with him...and I know a little bit about that scheme from Coach [Greg] Schiano and what they do and so forth, so you kind of [say], 'What's this guy doing? What's that guy doing?' and kind of keep going and say, 'Well alright, so he understands what the linebackers are doing. He understands a couple adjustments. Ok, now what about this?'
Q: Do you walk out of a film session like that and hope nobody else asks the guy about that stuff, or do you know it's going to be out there?
BB: I think this league has got a lot of pretty good people evaluating personnel on every team: scouts, coaches, personnel people and so forth. I assume in the end, probably pretty much everybody knows [or] can find out whatever they want to know anyway.
Q: Why does that seem so rare for a guy to know what everybody else is doing? Is it that difficult?
BB: Let's just say a lot of players don't...some players just know what they do, which is ok. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that. You can talk to some guys and you ask them what the defense was and [they say], 'Well, here's what I do on that defense. Here's what I do on that play. This is what my assignment is. If this happens I do this. If that happens I do that.' 'Well, what does the linebacker do?' 'Well, I'm not really sure, but here's what I do.' I'm just saying it's different. When you're a middle linebacker it's certainly helpful - [Jerod] Mayo, Ray Lewis, guys like that that really have a good understanding of not only what they're doing, but what the line is doing, what the secondary is doing, why we can't play this coverage against this formation, why we can't run this line stunt against this type of blocking scheme. Then they'll never call those things. They won't put your team in those bad situations because they have such a good understanding of it. Or maybe it's something that you would do, but not in this particular situation. There are a lot of things in football that are good calls, but if they're done at the wrong time, they're really bad calls. It's not that the call is bad, but to do it at that particular time wouldn't be the right thing. Having an understanding of all that and having a feel for the game - Pepper [Johnson] is another guy. [To] just go through the whole game and not do something but then get to the one critical time in the game where it's really the right time to do it and then make that call and put your defense in an advantageous position, that's what good football players do. I would definitely put Ray in that category.
Q: As you game plan for this game, how much does the presence of Dean Pees on the Ravens coaching staff factor in?
BB: I don't think it's too big of a factor. We played them twice last year. I think they know us pretty well and we know them pretty well. Every game changes anyway because of dynamics of personnel and just the normal progression of your team from one period of time to another. Dean obviously knows us well. I'm sure he knows our personnel and can help their players and their coaches with some of the strengths and weaknesses of our individual personnel or maybe a particular scheme that we run that he's familiar with. But I think in the end it goes back to the players going out there and playing well and executing well. I think that's really the most important thing.
Q: With guys like McCourty who are so good when you're watching film with them, are you impressed with their instincts on the field, too, with how quickly they can recall that?
BB: That's right. When we're out scouting players, we're scouting players, not coaches. I think that's not really the process. I think, again the personnel evaluation process is a big one. It's a mosaic. You put a lot of stuff into the painting and it comes from a lot of different sources and the information is varied and then you have a composite and then you make a decision on what the composite is. I don't think it's based on one individual thing, but there are a lot of little individual things that all add up to the big evaluation. Absolutely part of it is distinctiveness and quick reactions. When you work a guy out on the field, you can do those same kinds of things in workouts. Make them react quickly to different situations. Create different situations for them and see how they react to them and respond to them. Do film study, watch them play, talk to their coaches. There are a thousand different ways to gain information. I don't think any one of them necessarily is overwhelming or overriding, but take them all into consideration and when all the arrows are pointing in the same direction then that's usually a pretty good sign.
Q: A little bit relieved that you don't have to face Ed Reed?
BB: Yeah, absolutely. Although again, I think this is a really good defense and I think Zbikowski has done a good job for them [and] Landry. But yeah, we're never in a big rush to see Ed Reed on the other side of the field.
Q: One of the players in the locker room said that with you leading the defensive meetings, the message has been a bit more clear. Have you noticed a difference in play on the field with them maybe understanding different schemes a little bit better?
BB: I don't know. I guess you'd have to ask them that. I just try to coach the team the best we can and get our players to do the things that we feel are important to playing good football and winning games. That's the way I've always done it and I don't think that will change.


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Acupuncture for Pregnancy and Anxiety and Depression is a difficult and unfortunately all too common condition. Due to the changing chemical and hormonal balance in the human body during pregnancy it's common for women to experience mood swings of some nature. Moving from laughter to tears and laughter again is a well recognized complaint, but equally pregnancy shifts a woman's emotions to irritability, irrationality, weepiness, unexplainable fear and apprehension and so on.
However, for some women they can be overwhelmed by such feelings and can fall into a period of deep anxiety and depression. There is often a family history, or emotional problems that often are a precursor to such feelings. First of all it's important that no blame is assigned to such feelings, and you should never feel guilty for not feeling good. What is most important is that if these symptoms and feelings of negativity persist for more than two weeks you seek out help, support and advice from a trained professional, be it a midwife, counselor, doctor, specialist or via Acupuncture for Pregnancy and Anxiety and Depression treatments.
There are often additional symptoms in cases of pregnancy induced anxiety and depression and they can include, a loss of appetite, exaggerated mood swings, alternating and prolonged periods of high and low energy, and an extended loss of interest in normally enjoyed activity.
From a Western Medical view point, treatment often involves counseling or pharmaceutical drugs. While I always approve of talking and communication to resolve many problems, I am always cautious of any pharmaceutical solution – in particular during pregnancy – but then I am biased as I've seen astounding natural recovery from many cases of anxiety and depression using natural remedies such as Acupuncture for Pregnancy and Anxiety and Depression, and this has been supported by empirical medical evidence as well.
For instance a study published in ACUPUNCTURE IN MEDICINE 2007;25(3):65-71, conducted by Joao Bosco Guerreiro da Silva, focued on the effects of Acupuncture for Pregnancy, Anxiety and Depression treatments under real life conditions, for the emotional complaints experienced during pregnancy.
In this study a group of 51 conventionally treated pregnant women (with counseling by their physicians and nurses) was allocated by chance into two groups to be either treated or not by acupuncture. Both groups (28 in the study group and 23 in the control group) presented emotional complaints such as anxiety, depression and irritability. They reported the severity of symptoms using a Numerical Rating Scale (NRS) from 0 to 10; and they rated how much the symptoms disturbed five aspects of their lives: mood, sleep, relationships, social activities, sexual life and joy of living.
They used traditional Acupuncture for Pregnancy and Anxiety and Depression and in order to facilitate protocols they used pre-programmed points. Up to four points were permitted as optional points.
Over the study period, the NRS scores of intensity of emotional distress decreased by at least half in 15/25 (60%) of patients in the study group and in 5/19 (26%) of those in the control group (P=0.013). The impact of the distress on three out of the five aspects of life was significantly less in the acupuncture group when compared with the control group (P<0.05).
"Emotional complaints are very common in pregnancy and medication is always a risk. In this study, acupuncture seems to be an efficacious means of reducing symptoms and improving the quality of life of women with emotional complaints during pregnancy".
I've seen the benefits of Acupuncture for Pregnancy and Anxiety and Depression treatments first hand in my own practice and have had the pleasure of seeing expectant mothers who had lost the joy of life return to full enthusiasm and energy, eagerly awaiting the arrival of a new member of their family.
I was 33 weeks pregnant and unable to sleep, I also suffered from heartburn and as a result was anxious and stressed. I had previously attended Paul and knew he was the solution. I felt immediate relief, felt relaxed with this natural treatment.
I looked forward to my weekly treatments – I would define them as a "treat", the equivalent to a "Spa treatment" as I would come out rejuvenated and relaxed. I would definitely recommend him 100%.
These treatments have improved my life because I can now sleep better. I am enjoying my pregnancy again and looking forward to the impeding birth of my child in the next few weeks.
In future I would always consider acupuncture as a method to cure conditions that previously may not have chosen to explore with traditional medicinal options. I would highly recommend him to friends and family.
6 weeks ago I panicked and felt I was anxious and I could not eat at a critical stage of my pregnancy (33 weeks). I suffered from post natal depression after the birth of my 1st child and all of my symptoms were similar.
I knew acupuncture was a safe way to relieve the symptoms that I was feeling.
I contacted Paul immediately who reassured me that what I was feeling was normal, set up a session and within days I was feeling "human" and could sleep again.
6 sessions later I felt great, I am sleeping well and most importantly I am looking forward to the birth of my child.
I would highly recommend Paul O'Brien and acupuncture to anyone who is feeling like I was. I also consulted my GP and consultant who fully endorsed acupuncture as an aid/cure to assist me.
In Traditional Chinese Medicine, as I have mentioned in many of my published articles there is a direct correlation between the physical function (Yang) of an organ in the body and the mental emotional aspect (Yin). As such when treating an emotional disturbance Chinese medicine looks to treating the physical organs – as the emotional state always relates to the physical state and vica versa.
This being the case in Acupuncture for Pregnancy and Anxiety and Depression treatments it's important to look at the organs related to the dominant emotions expressed. For instance a simple overview would be to look at the Heart in cases of Joy, Liver in cases of Anger, Lungs in situations where sadness and worry are dominant, the Spleen if over thinking and pensiveness is present and finally the Kidneys if fear and fright are the most strongly felt.
It is important to note however that emotions are a vital part of a healthy life – and that there is no "good" or "bad" in TCM, they're simply is and it is up to each of us to make the best of what we are given. For instance frustration and anger are often seen as "bad" emotions – however these powerful feelings can be excellent motivators to strengthen us and fuel us in making long lasting, impacting, positive change in our lives.
Problems arise when emotions and our organs become imbalanced, when one or more is weakened, or too over bearing and this in turn impacts our health. Using an TCM understanding of the body a good acupuncturist can use Acupuncture for Pregnancy and Anxiety and Depression to directly effect the balance and health of the organs and thus the mind.
If you are pregnant and are suffering from anxiety or depression I strongly encourage you to undergo Acupuncture for Pregnancy and Anxiety and Depression treatments to help encourage both of physical and mental emotional state of well being and thus help you to achieve balanced health.
If you have any questions or concerns regarding the Acupuncture for Pregnancy and Anxiety and Depression treatment protocols that I provide or wish to start a course of treatment then please feel free to contact me or make an appointment where we can discuss any specific concerns or questions you may have.
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Klaus Freiherr von Mühlen (* 26. September 1909 in Schwäbisch Gmünd; † 6. Juli 1985) war ein deutscher Politiker der FDP/DVP.

Leben und Beruf
Nach dem Abitur 1929 auf dem Realgymnasium in Schwäbisch Gmünd und Sprachkursen in England und Frankreich studierte von Mühlen ab 1930 in Tübingen und Leipzig Rechtswissenschaften und Volkswirtschaftslehre. Während seines Studiums trat er der dem süddeutschen Liberalismus nahestehenden Tübinger Studentenverbindung Akademischen Gesellschaft Stuttgardia bei. Nach dem Studium war er als Verleger und Journalist tätig. Unter anderem war er von 1934 bis 1944 in Rom, Budapest, Bukarest, Sofia und Ankara tätig.

1947 gründete er einen eigenen Auslandskorrespondenzverlag. In den 1960er Jahren war er stellvertretender Generalbevollmächtigter der Deutschen Delegation bei der Weltausstellung 1967 in Montreal. Anschließend arbeitete er für den Ausstellungs- und Messe-Ausschuss der deutschen Wirtschaft.

Partei
Nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg schloss sich von Mühlen der DVP in Stuttgart an. Von 1957 bis 1960 leitete er das Büro Maier in Stuttgart, quasi eine Außenstelle der FDP-Bundesgeschäftsstelle am Wohnsitz des Bundesvorsitzenden Reinhold Maier. Von 1979 bis 1985 war er Mitglied des Beirats der Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung.

Abgeordnete
Von Mühlen gehörte vom 6. Oktober 1959, als er für Reinhold Maier nachrückte, bis 1965 dem Deutschen Bundestag an. Er kümmerte sich dort vor allem um die auswärtige Kulturpolitik und den Kontakt zu den sozialistischen und den arabischen Staaten. 1964 wurde er zum Stellvertretenden Mitglied der Beratenden Versammlung des Europarates und der Versammlung der Westeuropäischen Union gewählt.

Veröffentlichungen
 Ein Weg nach Europa. Werden und Sein des neuen türkischen Staates. In: Das Neue Universum. Band 65, 1948, S. 97 ff.

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Journalist (Deutschland)
Bundestagsabgeordneter (Baden-Württemberg)
FDP-Mitglied
Korporierter (Studentenverbindung)
Politiker (20. Jahrhundert)
Träger des Großen Bundesverdienstkreuzes
Deutscher
Geboren 1909
Gestorben 1985
Mann
Mitglied im Beirat der Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung

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Heinrich Leopold Wagner (Estrasburg, 19 de febrer de 1747 - ?4 de març de 1779 Frankfurt am Main), escriptor alemany del Sturm und Drang. Després d'haver estudiat dret a Estrasburg, va ser preceptor a Sarrebruck. Va residir després a Deux-Ponts, Giessen i per fi a Frankfurt. En 1776 reincià els seus estudis de dret a Estrasburg i els va acabar doctorant-se. Des del 21 de setembre de 1776 va exercir en aquesta població com advocat però va morir encara molt jove, el quatre de març de 1779, a l'edat de 32 anys, sens dubte de tuberculosi pulmonar.

Va estar en contacte amb nombrosos escriptors del Sturm und Drang, en particular Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), Friedrich Maximilian Klinger (1752-1831), Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz (1751-1792), Christoph Kaufmann (1753-1795), Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart (1739-1791) i Johann Friedrich Müller, comegut també com a Müller el Pintor (1749-1825). Al costat de Klinger i Lenz, va ser anomenat goethià, perquè els tres van pertànyer al cercle íntim d'amics del famós escriptor. Wagner va escriure un famós drama, La infanticida (Die Kindermörderin), 1776, on presenta, sense excusar-lo, l'assassinat a un nounat a conseqüència de les irreconciliables diferències socials. Per mitjà d'intrigues contra la jove burgesa seduïda es pretén salvar la carrera d'oficial del seductor, que vol complir la seva promesa de matrimoni per sobre de les barreres socials. Massa tard es desemmascara la intriga, la infanticida, que havia actuat en una arrencada d'alienació, està amenaçada per la pena de mort; posteriorment, Wagner va donar a l'acció un desenllaç feliç: l'infanticidi és impedit, els amants legalitzen socialment la seva relació mitjançant el matrimoni.

Obres
 Prometheus, Deukalion und seine Rezensenten, 1775.
 Der wohltätige Unbekannte, 1775
 Die Reue nach der Tat, 1775
 Neuer Versuch über die Schauspielkunst, 1776, traducción del ensayo Du théatre ou nouvel essai sur l'art dramatique de Louis Sébastian Mercier
 Leben und Tod Sebastian Silligs, un fragmento narrativo de novela.
 Die Kindermörderin, 1776
 Briefe, die Seylersche Gesellschaft betreffend, 1777
 Evchen Humbrecht oder Ihr Mütter merkts Euch!, 1778.

Escriptors alsacians en alemany
Escriptors francesos en alemany
Persones d'Estrasburg
Escriptors alemanys del segle XVIII
Alumnes de la Universitat d'Estrasburg
Morts a Frankfurt del Main
Escriptors alemanys en alemany
Naixements del 1747


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Why So Many Hip-Hop Producers Are Putting Business Before Beats
Graphic by Patrick Jenkins
by Cherie Hu
"If y'all knew the amount of f–king money I give up just to make sure a song comes out, 'cause people are so f–king stingy, you would not believe it."
These are the words of Kenny Beats—a producer who has worked with rappers like Rico Nasty, Key!, and Freddie Gibbs—as cemented in a fiery 15-second video that the producer uploaded to Twitter from his car recently. But if we're being realistic about the harsh demands of hip-hop's loose, rapid-fire release culture and haphazard record-keeping that comes along with it, Kenny Beats' words may as well have come from any other producer in the genre.
Going back as early as when budding rappers and entrepreneurs were selling cassette tapes and CDs from the trunks of their cars, fast money from moving physical product has taken precedence over long-term revenue from royalties that said artists might never see. Of course, the industry landscape is much different today; fans are effectively renting access to music via streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music, previously unprofitable catalog now has a longer lifespan, and rappers are coming out on top.
According to the latest HITS Daily Double Song Revenue Chart, the top 20 rap songs are generating nearly $1.8 million in streaming revenue in a single week. Label bidding wars are heating up as a result, with record deals ranging from $1 million for Lil Xan to a reported $15 million for BROCKHAMPTON. But producers, who are often forced to stay behind the scenes both culturally and financially, are still paying the price—and speaking up about it.
Last year, "Pull Up Wit Ah Stick" producer Lil Voe revealed that Warner Bros. Records sent him a mere work-for-hire contract for the song, and took all his publishing and wiped his official credit from the track in the process. Atlanta producer DJ Burn One then confirmed that he never got paid for producing two tracks on A$AP Rocky's 2011 debut mixtape LIVELOVEA$AP, which the rapper is still monetizing and currently performing for global audiences on tour.
"You can blame the business and say it's dirty—which it is—or you can put one foot forward at a time, hire a lawyer to look over your contracts, arm yourself with knowledge, and help others in your arena," says Burn One, who is currently forming a nonprofit organization called Fast Forward United to educate and empower producers with business resources. "I think it starts with baby steps."
Recorded music might be the only type of product that one can release and distribute at global scale without being able to verify who the owners are. Unlike with film and TV, music data is much more fragmented and siloed across multiple sources, including but not limited to labels, publishers, performing rights organizations (PROs), and recording studios.
"The way many of these companies are trying to match and verify their data? Hundreds of emails," says Dae Bogan, founder and CEO of TuneRegistry, a rights management platform for indie artists. "Many labels are still using old software and systems to manage their digital catalog, and their rights department is different from the one responsible for metadata, which is different from the one responsible for collecting royalties. There's a lot of bureaucracy involved."
On the corporate level, inaccuracy around ownership leaves billions of dollars on the table. Spotify has faced two copyright infringement lawsuits over the past three years, adding up to $1.75 billion, for allegedly failing to secure the necessary licenses for certain songs. An estimated $2.5 billion is currently sitting in pools of "black box" royalties, some of which are collected when streaming platforms are unable to identify who owns a song.
While who exactly is "responsible" for this problem remains an open debate, one indisputable fact is that artists and producers aren't capturing as much ownership information during the creative process as they used to. Even the phrase "at the source" itself has diluted in meaning, as collaborators are increasingly recording verses in hotels or bedrooms while on tour on opposite hemispheres of the world, rather than together in the same studio.
"Producers need to take initiative in the studio from the beginning and say, 'I think what I've added has X value to this project,'" says Deborah Mannis-Gardner, owner and president of DMG Clearances, which has handled global music rights clearances for clients like DJ Khaled and Eminem. "The problem is that once you have six to eight writers or producers on a track, everyone has their own opinion on what percentage everyone gets. I don't think people are being intentionally combative, but it's hard to get that many people on the same page."
In addition, remote work norms often put indie artists at a disadvantage in contract negotiations. "If you're an indie producer working with a major label and not everyone's in the same room to sign a split sheet, you don't have a lot of leverage," adds DJ and artist manager Adam Golden, who manages emerging producer Yung Skrrt. "Labels will get the sound they want, regardless of whether the original producer is willing to cooperate with them."
As a result, securing the proper credits for songs is often retroactive, even at the major-label level. Lawyer sources say that many major rap albums, including Drake's Scorpion and Migos' Culture II, are still securing the proper clearances weeks or even months after release.
The credits problem is also arguably a chicken-or-egg dilemma with respect to producers' business models. Industry sources say that producers today can command four- to six-figure upfront checks per track. At those rates, producing even just three songs a month can already lead to substantial annual income, to the point where said producers might not necessarily be prioritizing proper credits or metadata.
That said, "if you're getting an advance, you should also be getting a contract with details about how many points, mechanical royalties and other basics you're getting on the backend off the song," says Burn One. "If someone tells me they have an advance but no royalties, that's telling me they didn't get the proper deal in place."
Given the amount of money at stake, building a solution for these enduring issues around credits is potentially big business—and a growing number of music-tech companies are jumping on the opportunity. In April 2018, Spotify acquired Loudr, a startup using machine learning to streamline licensing and royalty payments. Later in August 2018, City National Bank, which has several high-profile clients in Hollywood, acquired Exactuals, which similarly trains algorithms to match ownership data across disparate sources to ensure the proper rights owners are paid.
Both Spotify and YouTube have also added sections for songwriter and producer credits to their platforms. The one big catch: because they're still ingesting these credits primarily from labels, much of the output is still incomplete or erroneous for now—a classic case of "garbage in, garbage out."
There is also a burgeoning, if not overcrowded, startup ecosystem around credits: at-the-source solutions like Auddly and Sound Credit, publicly-searchable databases like Jaxsta, and even a handful of blockchain-based initiatives like JAAK and DotBC. While each of these startups is tackling a different, necessary piece of the gargantuan credits puzzle, there's a lot of politics involved in positioning a new startup to labels as an authoritative data source—and a given major label cannot realistically work with all of these startups at once.
Amidst this complex tech landscape, many producers are realizing that the solution they can control most directly is simply elevating the value of their own brand. A-listers like DJ Khaled and Benny Blanco are no longer relying solely on advances or residual royalties for income, but are also tapping into other revenue streams such as merchandise, brand endorsements, and even touring, altering public perception of producers in the process. The underlying argument is that producers are no longer just "secret weapons" for artists, but are also creative leaders and backbones for hip-hop culture that deserve the proper value and recognition.
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Q: Modify all integers in 2d list and make them even When I run this through the visualizer it only modifies the first element in the 2d list. How do I make it so that the it runs throught the entire list.
     def make_even(xss):
        for i in range(len(xss)):
        for j in range(len(xss)):
            if xss[i][j] % 2!= 0:
                xss[i][j] += 3
            return xss

    xss = [[1,2,3],[],[4,5]]
    make_even(xss)
    print(xss)

A: So first off you need to correct your indentation in your code:
def make_even(xss):
    for i in range(len(xss)):
        for j in range(len(xss)):
            if xss[i][j] % 2!= 0:
                xss[i][j] += 3
    return xss

However, because both your loops use len(xss), they expect an array of 3 lists each with 3 elements. If you'd want each list to have variable numbers of elements you should do this instead:
def make_even(xss):
    for i in range(len(xss)):
        for j in range(len(xss[i])):
            if xss[i][j] % 2!= 0:
                xss[i][j] += 3
    return xss

Which returns: [[4, 2, 6], [], [4, 8]]
However, there are two obvious changes I would make:

*

*Your if statement should be if xss[i][j] % 2 == 1, since it's more readable.

*You can make a number even by adding 1. (If 3 is required for your specs that's fine).

Also, this is totally doable in a single line (any line would work):
# List comprehensions only
xss = [[(x + 3 if x % 2 == 1 else x) for x in row] for row in xss]
# map and lamdbas (returns lists)
xss = list(map(lambda row: list(map((lambda x: x + 3 if x % 2 == 1 else x),row)), xss))
# map and lamdbas (returns iterables)
xss = map(lambda row: map((lambda x: x + 3 if x % 2 == 1 else x),row), xss)

Although personally, I think the list comprehensions is the easiest to read.

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What's it's like making the transition from being a child actor to an adult actor?
To be honest, it's not even something that I was that aware of until I was already into my adulthood. There's no real equation there. Thinking about it, I was very lucky at a young age to never work on anything that made me a recognizable name really quickly, really early on. I think that had a lot to do with it. I had the gradual growth in terms of people being familiar with who I am.
I never really worked on films that were specifically made for families and kids, and I think that helped as well, so I was never typecast as a young person. I think I was only interested, and I became increasingly as I grew into an adult, in being a part of different kinds of films and playing different kinds of roles, and I think that really helped. And also on a personal level, humility was drilled into me from a young age from my family, I had a really strong family dynamic at home and a major sense of normalcy, so as a person I was always very grounded and had a relatively realistic perspective as to what I was doing in the world around me, so that helped.
But I don't know that there's any way to really say. I've also just been simply lucky. I've had great opportunities to work with wonderful filmmakers and to work on a relatively diverse group of films, and I always thought as I became an adult, well, as long as I can continue to work and to work on different things I'll hopefully still have the opportunity to continue.
I'm 31 now, which I can't really believe, and I'm still working. I was actually just in Baton Rouge and I did two days on a film called Pawn Shop Chronicles that's going to be ... amazing, I think. It's a big ensemble piece. I was working with Matt Dillon for two days, which was a joy, and Wayne Kramer, who directed The Cooler and Running Scared, directed it, and I just had these two days, it was an absolute joy and we did some ridiculous things that I think are going to be really exciting.
It just reminded me what a gift it is that I get to do what I do. I'm very lucky to still be working and I never take that for granted. Transition, I suppose I have made that transition, but I don't really think about it. I just think about the here and now and what I'm doing and hopefully what I'll get to be doing in the future.
Were there any lessons you learned as a child actor that you've been able to carry with you?
I think when I was young, one of the better pieces of advice I was given, and I suppose this applies to almost anything in life that you do, was "You can always do better." It was actually Mel Gibson who told me that. It made me recognize that even when we think we're achieving our greatest, that there's always something more to achieve. It keeps us striving to be better, to continue to grow, and I think that applied to me as an actor as a young person, but also applies to me as a human being, so that's been with me the entire time.
When did you first feel successful as an actor?
I think I recognized as a young actor, probably in my teens, that I was able to continue to perpetuate my career and continue to work and there was one job which would lead to the next job, so I was lucky to have that at a young age. I was consistanly working, so I thought of that as being successful. I think there's a version of that which is being a part of something like Lord of the Rings, I think getting that job to me, was a measure of success. Obviously, the movies coming out and being the world-wide phenomenon that they were is a very easy measure of success too and that was the case. I rememember the moment I got that job, and to me that was a moment of personal success. It was the greatest career opportunity I ever had, at that age.
When did you realize how vital it is to diversify your portfolio as an actor?
I think I realized that probably as a teenager, where I was kind of cognisant of it. Probably realized that less as a kid... As a teenager I was more aware of the notion of a career and a sense of the possibility of longevity in the industry. It was upon realizing that and sort looking at the horizon line and hoping that I would continue to work as an actor and have a career. I think it was at that moment that I was aware of being pigeon-holed into a category or being typecast and that was something I didn't want.
I think I recognized that longevity was also related to a career that was relatively diverse. I was probably fifteen or sixteen when I recognized that. I think I felt that more intensely after Rings because Rings was so predominant in people's minds that I felt even more responsibility to myself to continue to work on films that were very different and characters that were very different. I suppose not only to continue to further my career along, but also as an actor to continue to challenge myself.
When you reach a certain level of fame, is it hard to not be guarded with who you let into your life?
I think people reveal themselves and their interests relatively quickly. So I don't feel like I've ever really led a guarded existance. It's funny, I was just having a conversation with a friend of mine about trust and the notion of trust, and I think I've always been a very trusting person but I think the older I got, the more I recognized that you become discerning with what you give to who and who you let in and who you don't. I feel like I manage to do that without compromise or without lessening the degree for which I do share and for the openness for who I am as a person.
So I don't feel guarded, I feel incredibly open and I'm open to the people that I can trust, but like I said I think people's intentions are pretty clear. I think people reveal themselves quickly as to who they are and the truth of who they are. At least I feel that way. I feel I can read people relatively well. Not to say I can't be fooled, I'm not perfect. As someone in the public eye, I don't really feel overly guarded.
I go about my life in a very normal way and I'm happy I can do that. Also, I'm not Brad Pitt either. There are people that have public lives or a level of fame that far exceeds mine and are in the public eye far more than I am. So that question might have a slightly different answer coming from someone of that level of fame or that digree of worldliness.
What's your favorite role you've portrayed?
I think one of my favorite experiences in my life was obviously doing the Lord of the Rings because there's nothing really that compared to that. It was such a unique opportunity and a unique experience, and there will never be an experience quite like it in my life. So that was extremely special to me, for a variety of reasons. I was eighteen at the time, I was twenty-two when it was all over, and it was a huge growing period in my life, and living in New Zealand was an extraordinary experience. And playing the role was a unique challenge.
Because everyone was so familiar with the Lord of the Rings books and it being such a big story, was there a lot of pressure to live up to people's expectations for the character of Frodo?
Sure. But I think at the same time, we had the benefit of being far away in New Zealand and slightly outside the of awareness of people's expectations. We kind of felt like we were in Middle-earth and felt like we were far away from the rest of the world. It almost felt like we were making the film in a bubble because we were so far away. But I was certainly conscious of people's expectations and didn't take that lightly.
Portraying a character that is as loved as that, and has as many fans in the context of the book, I was aware that people would have certain expectations in terms of how that character would be portrayed, so I took that seriously, but at the same time we also kind of dove head-first into the work and into that world.
I think after the initial work of preparation and getting ourselves into the mode of being in those characters and feeling that we were attacking it from a place that was strong... I feel like once we started we really started and the process for me worked. We had full belief in what we were doing.
What was your most challenging role?
I think a turning point in my life as an actor was probably The Ice Storm. I was fifteen when I did the film, fifteen or sixteen, and I had never had that kind of challenge as an actor before with that sort of material. All of the actors that worked on the film were given packets of information on the 1970s as research, and we each had a questionnaire for our characters to fill out. It was really immersive and a different approach to the craft than I'd ever had before and it felt like a massive growing experience. I always cite that.
And another favorite experience of mine was working on Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. I think the character was interesting and dark and a bit skeevy, but the joy of that film was just simply being a part of a piece of art that I was in love with. In some ways I remember getting the script and thinking I would just as almost happily be doing catering on the film. I just wanted to work with Michel Gondry and with Kaufman. I was such a huge fan. That was a particularly special experience for me.
Most of my work on the show is reacting to Wilfred and playing against that character. Half of my work is working with Jason (Gann) and the scenarios Wilfred puts me in. It's the character that he's created and the two of us bouncing off each other which really defines the situation that rises at any given time.
I never really did a whole lot of preparation beyond just understanding where the character was coming from. And sort of trying to play him as truthful as possible, even though it's a comedy show and at times can be quite absurd and broad in terms of the scenarios that we get ourselves into, but my main reposibility as an actor for the character is to try to be truthful to him and make sure that there's an emotional truth. He's relatively damaged and in a place of insecurity in his life in terms of defining who he is and finding his own personal strenghts and sort of rebuilding himself. Just understanding those things and trying to be as truthful to that as possible.
Are you finding the show works with your schedule and do you see yourself doing it long term?
Yeah, it's only three months. Unlike an hour-long drama which takes about seven to eight months to shoot, we shoot it in a three month period of time, so it's relatively quick and it frees up the rest of the year and the time prior for any number of other jobs, which is great. So I actually feel like it's sort of ideal and in regards to how long I want it to carry on, as long as the show has a story to tell is how long I want it to carry on.
I love the show and I think that it's a very unique show and the story telling is relatively layered and interesting and not always overly reliant on the comedic, and that's something I love about it. I feel as long as there's a steady progression of the characters and we're not simply repeating the same scenarios over again or just settling on jokes, I would love to continue doing it. But I'm not sure what the shelf life is, it can be seven seasons, it can be five seasons, I'm not really sure. It kind of depends on the writing and the progression of these characters. So as long as the show has integrity and there are stories to tell that don't feel like we're retreading the same ground, I'd love to continue.


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