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C major (or the key of C) is a major scale based on C, consisting of the pitches C, D, E, F, G, A, and B. C major is one of the most common keys used in music. Its key signature has no flats or sharps. Its relative minor is A minor and its parallel minor is C minor.
The C major scale is:
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On the piano, the C major scale can be played by playing only the white keys starting on C.
Twenty of Joseph Haydn's 106 symphonies are in C major, making it his second most-used key, second to D major. Of the 134 symphonies mistakenly attributed to Haydn that H. C. Robbins Landon lists in his catalog, 33 are in C major, more than any other key. Before the invention of the valves, Haydn did not write trumpet and timpani parts in his symphonies, except those in C major. Landon writes that it wasn't "until 1774 that Haydn uses trumpets and timpani in a key other than C major... and then only sparingly." Most of Haydn's symphonies in C major are labelled "festive" and are of a primarily celebratory mood.[1] Wilfrid Mellers believed that Mozart's Symphony No. 41, written in 'white' C major, "represented the triumph of light".[2] (See also List of symphonies in C major.)
Many masses and settings of the Te Deum in the Classical era were in C major. Mozart and Haydn wrote most of their masses in C major.[3] Gounod (in a review of Sibelius' Third Symphony) said that "only God composes in C major". Six of his own masses are written in C.[4]
Of Franz Schubert's two symphonies in the key, the first is nicknamed the "Little C major" and the second the "Great C major".
Scott Joplin's "The Entertainer" is written in C major.
Many musicians have pointed out that every musical key conjures up specific feelings.[5] This idea is further explored in a radio program called The Signature Series. American popular songwriter Bob Dylan claimed the key of C major to "be the key of strength, but also the key of regret".[6] Sibelius's Symphony No. 7 is in C major and that key was of great importance in his previous symphonies.[7]
Notable examples
See also: List of symphonies in C major
Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C major, BWV 564
Prelude and Fugue in C major, BWV 846
Cello Suite No. 3, BWV 1009
Cello Concerto No. 1 (1761–65)
Symphony No. 7, Le Midi (1761)
Symphony No. 60, Il distratto (1774)
Symphony No. 82, The Bear (1786)
String Quartet No. 32, The Bird (1781)
String Quartet No. 62, Emperor (1797–98)
Mass No. 10, Missa in tempore belli (1796)
12 Variations in C major on the French song "Ah, vous dirai-je, Maman", KV 265
Concerto for flute and harp, KV 299/297c
Piano Concerto No. 8, KV 246 ("Lutzow")
Piano Concerto No. 13, KV 415
Piano Sonata No. 1, KV 279
Piano Sonata No. 10, KV 330
String Quartet No. 19, KV 465 ("Dissonance")
Symphony No. 16, KV 128
Symphony No. 36, KV 425 ("Linz")
Symphony No. 41, KV 551 ("Jupiter")
Piano Sonata No. 3, Op. 2, No. 3
Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 15
Symphony No. 1, Op. 21
Rondo Op. 51, No. 1
Piano Sonata No. 21, Op. 53 ("Waldstein")
Triple Concerto for violin, cello, and piano in C major, Op. 56 (1803)
String Quartet No. 7, Op. 59/1 ("Rasumovsky")
Mass in C major, Op. 86
Wanderer Fantasy, Op. 15 D. 760
Symphony No. 6 (Little)
Symphony No. 9, D. 944 ("Great")
String Quintet in C major, D. 956
Wedding March from A Midsummer Night's Dream
Introduction and Polonaise brillante for cello and piano, Op. 3
Etude Op. 10 No. 1 "Waterfall"
Etude Op. 10 No. 7 "Toccata"
Mazurka Op. 67 No. 3
Toccata, Op. 7
Fantasie in C, Op. 17
Arabeske, Op. 18
Georges Bizet: Symphony in C
Symphony No. 3, Op. 52 (1907)
Symphony No. 7, Op. 105 (1924)
Maurice Ravel: Boléro
Igor Stravinsky: Symphony in C (1940)
Piano Concerto No. 3, Op. 26 (1921)
Symphony No. 4 (original version), Op. 47 (1930)
Symphony No. 4 (revised version), Op. 112 (1947)
Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7, Op. 60 ("Leningrad")
Terry Riley: In C
Duke Ellington: "C Jam Blues"
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^ H. C. Robbins Landon, The Symphonies of Joseph Haydn. London: Universal Edition & Rockliff (1955): 227. "In the course of composing his first symphonies, the tonality of C major became indelibly impressed on Haydn's mind as the key of pomp, the key of C alto horns, trumpets and timpani, the vehicle for composing brilliant and festive music, although at least during this period [the 1760s] he did not always reserve the tonality of C major for this particular kind of symphony: Nos. 2, 7 and 9, and possibly Nos. 25 and 30 ... are C major symphonies without the psychological manifestations inherent in most of the later works in this key. For the rest, however, the C major path is astonishingly clear; it can be traced from its inception, in Nos. 20, 32 and 37, through No. 33 and the more mature Nos. 38 and 41 to its synthesis in the Maria Theresia (No. 48) and No. 56. It continues with No. 50 and proceeds through Nos. 60, 63, 69, 82 and 90, reaching its final culmination in No. 97."
^ Triumph of Light, Wilfrid Mellers (2005)
^ James Webster & Georg Feder, The New Grove Haydn. New York: Macmillan (2002): 55. "The Missa in tempora belli ... in C features the bright, trumpet-dominated sound typical of masses in this key."
^ Fanning, David (2001). "Shostakovich: The Present-Day Master of the C Major Key". Acta Musicologica. 73 (2): 101–140. doi:10.2307/932894. JSTOR 932894. This essay includes an extensive survey of classical works in C major
^ "Affective Musical Key Characteristics", Western Michigan University
^ Jonathan Cott, ed. (2017). Bob Dylan: The Essential Interviews. New York: Simon & Schuster. p. 237. ISBN 978-1501173196. OCLC 975135582.
^ Philip Coad, "Sibelius" in A Guide to the Symphony, edited by Robert Layton. Oxford University Press. Sibelius's Seventh "is in C major, and a look back at the previous four symphonies [by Sibelius] will reveal how great the domination of C major has been [in his music]. It is the key of the Third, the relative major of the Fourth and the important 'neutral agent' in its Finale, the key which first forces away the tonic in the Fifth's Finale, and the principal opposition – the key of the brass – in the Sixth. Although it is now the tonic key, C major is also strongly associated with brass in the Seventh Symphony."
David Wyn Jones, "The Beginning of the Symphony", in A Guide to the Symphony edited by Robert Layton. Oxford University Press.
H. C. Robbins Landon, Haydn Symphonies, BBC Music Guides 1986 [1966] ISBN 9780563205159 OCLC 317594202
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Diatonic scales and keys
C a C a
F d G e
B♭ g D b
E♭ c A f♯
A♭ f E c♯
D♭ b♭ B g♯
G♭ e♭ F♯ d♯
C♭ a♭ C♯ a♯
F♭ d♭ G♯ e♯
The table indicates the number of sharps or flats in each scale. Minor scales are written in lower case.
Musical keys
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Hello, everybody. Today's is the ninth episode in a series called Handling Toxic Criticism. In this series we look at the terrible toll that criticism takes, how it interferes with your ability to live your life purpose, and what you can do to reduce the effects of criticism in your life. Today's episode is called "Silencing Self-Criticism." Let's begin!
What is the relationship between the criticism you receive and the criticism you inflict on yourself? Why do so many people inflict daily doses of self-criticism upon themselves in neurotic ways, that is, in ways that are patently unjustified, unhealthy and self-sabotaging? To what extent does a penchant for self-criticism turn uneventful episodes of minor criticism into toxic, wounding events? These are the tangled matters we examine next.
Criticism arises because human beings have opinions, make judgments, carry grudges, and act cruelly: you may get criticized simply because an angry shopkeeper needs someone to lash out at and, because you are wearing a turban, today it is you. Criticism arises because of supply and demand, competition, and for reasons having to do with survival and scarce resources: you may get criticized because a magazine can only accept one of the several hundred stories it receives and so rejects you in the natural course of doing business, which rejection you interpret as criticism. Criticism arises because human beings set up social systems and adopt roles: the policeman who stops you has to criticize you for going seventy miles an hour when you are supposed to be going sixty-five, even though he himself goes seventy all the time. The structure of human personality, the structure of human organizations, and Darwinian dynamics of competition and survival cause criticism to pour in.
We exist in a sea of criticism. Advertisers subtly criticize us for the smells in our house (which their product will eradicate), for the yellowness of our teeth (which their product will eliminate), for toying with the lives of our children by not buying their "safe" tires or their "safe" car. For a full twenty years (if we do some graduate work in addition to elementary school, middle school, high school, and college) teachers are there to criticize us by grading us as imperfect and by kindly or caustically pointing out our lack of knowledge and our lack of ideas. Parents often do little else but criticize their children, noticing their children only when they are making noise, not eating their peas, wasting hard-earned money, or not doing their homework. This is the human psycho-sphere, the psychological bubble that surrounds our every move, one saturated with criticism.
Many of the reasons for this rampant, ubiquitous criticism are sinister. Millions of workers in sweatshops worldwide are criticized for "going too slow" or for "taking too many breaks" so that they will feel coerced to do the work of three people rather than the work of two. To exert their power and maintain their control, clerics mercilessly criticize their billions of parishioners as sinners or potential sinners, criticizing them for everything from eating unblessed pizza to facing in the wrong direction while praying. To maintain their authority, conscience-less politicians criticize their citizens for rightly criticizing them. An enormous amount of the criticism that human beings receive is calculated criticism arising from the self-serving needs of tyrants who operate openly in every sphere of life.
There are two basic reactions (with a million variations) to this avalanche of criticism. One child who is repeatedly told "You are too loud!" will internally respond with "F**k you!" A second child will respond with "I must be too loud." The first child runs around like a madman, being as loud as he can be, and the second child becomes meek and quiet. The first child grows a lax conscience, if he grows a conscience at all, and becomes the next sweatshop magnate, ruthless politician, ambitious clergyman, or mass murderer. The second child grows a punitive conscience, becomes a self-critic, and, in the natural course of events, is meekly bullied and controlled by the first child, who is now his pastor, boss, or President.
In this over-simple model, one person becomes relatively conscience-less and another person becomes a fierce self-critic. By virtue of the interaction between the criticism she received in her formative years and her particular personality, each individual more inclines toward sociopathy or self-flagellation. If she has become even just a mild self-critic, she will continue to criticize herself in the absence of any new criticism from the world and she will take the information she receives from the world as new opportunities to criticize herself.
In order to eliminate self-criticism, it has to make sense to you to eliminate self-criticism. As long as you hold it as sensible to criticize yourself for making this or that big mistake or for failing yourself in this or that big way, you will continue to criticize yourself. The alternative to self-criticism isn't denial or a merry relinquishment of power and control. You don't say "I never make mistakes" and you don't say "Yes, I haven't done the things I wanted to do, but that must be what the universe wanted of me." The first is denial and the second is slavishness. You say, "I haven't done the things I wanted to do" and you end that with a full period. You name the truth, feel the pain if there is still pain, but refrain from criticizing yourself. Then you continue with, "And?"
You name the truth and then you ask yourself what you want to do. What if the truth is just too awful: that, by failing to carefully watch your child, she was run over and killed; that, by acting out for one split second with a choreographer, you ruined your chances for a dance career; that all the writing you have done for the past fifteen years has been irredeemably bad; that your miserable personality has cost you a lifetime of love? Even if the truth is this horrible, self-criticism adds on nothing of value. "I acted out and ruined my chances" is bad enough. How are you helped by adding "And let me beat myself up about that until the end of time"?
The truth is bad enough. The truth about the situation in Africa, whether you want to look at poverty, malaria, AIDS, famine, drought, warfare, or somewhere else, is bad enough. To add on, "And I am a bad person for not doing anything about that situation" does not add on anything of value. Saying "And?" and meaning it does. The "And?" means, what do I want to do about this hard truth? Your answer might be, "I want to do this." Your answer might be, "I don't know precisely, but I will think about it." What it can't and shouldn't mean is, "And I will continue to beat myself up about it, and about the failing ozone layer too."
It is important that we separate the pain we feel because something happened from the activity of criticizing ourselves. If your child was run over and killed because for too long a moment you chatted with your neighbor and failed to notice your daughter drifting out of the front yard and toward the street, you will have to endure the pain of her absence forever. But that is entirely separate from having to blame yourself forever. The pain is unlikely to go away. The self-criticism must. If, every time you experience this pain, you mentally move to guilt and self-chastisement, you are making a mental mistake of the most horrifying kind.
Our job is to keep a thought, any thought ("How horrible a time Africa is having!" or "I am fully forty pounds overweight") from turning automatically into self-criticism; and also to keep a feeling, any feeling (pain, anger, envy, resentment, disappointment) from triggering self-criticism. We are so used to moving from a certain kind of thought and a certain kind of feeling directly to self-criticism that separating them at the hip may feel impossible. But until you can do that, you will live a half-incapacitated life.
You eliminate self-criticism by not turning thoughts and feelings into self-criticism. No matter how accusatory the thought, no matter how dreadful the feeling, you do not allow that thought or that feeling to glide into self-criticism. You can see why committing to eliminating self-criticism necessarily returns you to the six keys we discussed in earlier episodes:
• You refrain from criticizing yourself because self-criticism does not help you achieve your meaning-making goals or aid you in leading an authentic life.
• You refrain from criticizing yourself because self-criticism does nothing to help you appraise situations.
• You refrain from criticizing yourself because self-criticism is in conflict with the philosophical, phlegmatic attitude you have decided to adopt.
• You refrain from criticizing yourself because you recognize that self-criticism is maladaptive self-talk that only serves to weaken and incapacitate you.
• Your refrain from criticizing yourself because you conclude that self-criticism is a shadowy part of your personality and one of the ways you avoid facing up to life's challenges.
• Your refrain from criticizing yourself because you understand that self-criticism is not a motivator but a disincentive to act.
It is hard, verging on impossible, to effectively handle criticism if you regularly turn information from the world into self-criticism. Insofar as you are prone to criticize yourself, you will also be prone to interpret innocent or neutral comments as criticism, magnify the importance of mild criticism, and in a variety of ways pile criticism on your own head. Honesty and self-criticism are two different things: an honest appraisal of a flaw leads to useful action, self-forgiveness, or some other beneficial outcome; criticizing yourself for the flaw leads to inaction and depression. There is nothing noble or righteous about self-criticism. Let it go.
That ends today's show. I hope that you enjoyed it and I hope that you'll tune in next week for another episode of Your Purpose-Centered Life. If you subscribe to your Purpose-Centered Life, you won't miss a single episode!—to subscribe, please visit personallifemedia.com or look for Your Purpose-Centerd Life in iTunes. You might also want to visit my blog, where many guest correspondents write about issues of interest in the secular-humanist, skeptical, free-thinking, existential and atheist traditions. My blog is available at the personallifemedia.com website. If you'd like to drop me an email, I'd love to hear from you. My email address is [email protected]. And I hope that you'll visit my website to learn more about my books and services, including my annual Taos workshops. To visit, please head over to ericmaisel.com—that's e-r-i-c-m-a-i-s-e-l.com. Thank you for listening!


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Characteristic of the historic center of Pavia is the presence of medieval noble towers that survive in its urban fabric, despite having once been more numerous, as evidenced by the sixteenth-century representation of the city frescoed in the church of San Teodoro. They were mostly built between the 11th and 13th centuries when the Ghibelline city was at the height of its Romanesque flowering.

History
The first urban towers of Pavia are documented from the year 1018, also here as in much of northern Italy, well before the spread of the noble castles in the countryside, which makes us understand how the spread of these buildings was not dictated by urbanization of the aristocratic classes of the district in the city, but they were a city creation, influenced by the turreted residences of lay and ecclesiastical power, in turn inspired by the royal palaces (such as the Royal Palace of Pavia) of the Carolingian and Ottonian age. In Pavia, as in other cities, the towers were not built with defensive intentions, the size and height in fact made them unsuitable for such purposes, but for representative and propaganda tasks, they were in fact the most direct expression of greatness and power of the various family clans.

Most of the towers were built in the corners of the blocks into which Pavia was divided, often flanked by a vault, which guaranteed the structure the effect of counterthrust. Within the first urban walls (Pavia at the end of the twelfth century had three circles of walls, the first of which dates back to the Roman age) most of the main urban factions had palaces and houses close to each other, to symbolize the political and social solidarity of the nucleus, these buildings were flanked by a tower, while the same families enjoyed the patronage of at least one, or even more, of the churches in the neighborhood.
An emblematic case is the tower, still existing today, albeit reduced in height, of the tower of the Pavese family of Catassi, located at the corner between piazza della Posta and via Galliano, near which stood, in addition to the houses of the family group, also the churches of Saint John of the Catassi and San George of the Catassi. Often the same families had similar artifacts built, of smaller size, on their farms and possessions in the countryside, such as the Torti, who at Porta Pertusi (based on the estimates of 1254) controlled a district, where in fact there were the churches of Santa Onorata dei Torti and Santa Maria dei Torti, while in the countryside they held the fortified farm of Torre de 'Torti, mentioned for the first time in 1259 and still existing today.

With the affirmation of the Visconti lordship during the fourteenth century, the symbolic value of the towers lost meaning, so much so that many of them were reduced in height, while the terminal part of others was transformed into a loggia. The following centuries saw the decline of the building model; concerns related to the stability of the buildings, especially between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, decreed the demolition or lowering of most of them.
Pavia, church of San Teodoro, view of Pavia, detail (about 1522) some of the numerous towers still present in the first half of the sixteenth century can be seen. The noble towers present in Pavia, on the basis of historical and iconographic documentation, must have been about 65, of which about twenty survive.

Architecture
The impressive surviving noble towers are built on a massive foundation block, made up of river pebbles bound with mortar, even more than 2 meters high. These are buildings with a square plan, long, on average 5 meters per side (although we have examples of larger towers). The base of the towers is reinforced with large stones, often thickened only in the corners. The most used stone materials are granite, gneiss, sandstone and, to a lesser extent, limestone and, in particular, Veronese ammonite limestone, these are often reused materials, generally coming from buildings of the classical age. The shaft of the towers, on the other hand, was made of exposed bricks, laid with an accurate masonry texture and with dimensions of about 27.5 x 6.5 cm, for a height of 13 cm. The thickness of the walls is about 2 meters, formed by a layer of conglomerate of pebbles, lime and shards, strengthened inside by wooden chains and encased between two brick walls, a construction technique already illustrated by Vitruvius. The openings of the towers are rare, in fact, in addition to the pontoon holes, only small single-lancet windows remain, while access was generally allowed through doors located on the upper floors and connected to the adjacent buildings. Although most of the noble towers are now reduced in height, so much so that most of them are equated to the level of the houses and palaces nearby, still today some buildings of considerable height stand out against the sky of Pavia, such as the Maino tower, high 51 meters, or the tower of San Dalmazio (41 meters), real skyscrapers for the time.

List of surviving towers
 University Tower, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci.
 Clock Tower, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci.
 Torre del Maino, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci.
 Tower of San Dalmazio, Via Luigi Porta.
 Belcredi Tower, via Luigi Porta.
 Tower of Santa Mostiola, Via Luigi Porta.
 Torre dei Catassi, corner of Piazza della Posta- Via Galliano.
 Tower of Casa Beccaria May between Piazza Borromeo and Via San Giovanni in Borgo.
 Tower of Piazza Borromeo.
 Tower of Via Scarpa, corner of Via Pedotti.
 Tower of Via Capsoni.
 Tower of via della Rocchetta, corner of Via Capsoni.
 Tower of Via Sant'Ennodio, corner of Corso Garibaldi.
 Tower (base only) of Via Ressi, corner of Via Corridoni.
 Tower of Via Siro Comi, corner of Corso Garibaldi.

 Tower of Via Mentana, corner of Via Galliano.
 Tower of Via Sacchi, corner of Via Spallanzani.
 Torre degli Aquila, Strada Nuova.
 Tower of Via dei Liguri, corner of Vicolo del Torrione.
 Tower of Via Pessani, corner of Via Maffi.
 Tower of Via Frank, corner of Via Cardano.
 Vicolo Novaria Tower.
 Remains of two towers in a basement in Via Luigi Porta.

References

Bibliography
 Marta Brambati, Architettura civile nel Medioevo: le torri "minori" di Pavia, in "Annali di Storia Pavese", XXVII (1999), pp. 61- 72.
 Marialuisa Sacchi, L'architettura civile del Medioevo in Pavia: analisi di alcune torri private, in "Bollettino della Società Pavese di storia Patria", XLIX (1997), pp. 59- 115.
 Donata Vicini, Lineamenti urbanistici dal XII secolo all'età sforzesca, in Storia di Pavia, III, L'arte dall'XI al XVI secolo, Milano, Banca del Monte di Lombardia, 1996, pp. 9- 81.
 Peter Hudson, Archeologia urbana e programmazione della ricerca: l'esempio di Pavia, Firenze, All'Insegna del Giglio, 1981.
 Aldo A. Settia, L'esportazione di un modello urbano: torri e caseforti nelle campagne del Nord Italia, in "Società e Storia", XII (1981), pp. 237- 297.
 Crisanto Zuradelli, Le torri di Pavia, Pavia, Fusi, 1888.

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Home News Costa del Sol Language school struggles with places
Language school struggles with places
THE official language school in Marbella has launched an advanced English level course, but is struggling to fulfil its obligations.
The language school cannot introduce Russian as requested and must wait for new installations in order to expand the available places.
Marbella not only has a very big deficit of school infrastructures that affects courses on different school levels, but the official language school is still waiting to be helped by the city administration.
The obsolete building located in front of the municipal stadium, will begin a new academic year with the same lack of installations and cannot cope with the oversubscribed demand. The current capacity at the Centre for teaching C1 LEVEL English is 25 places and there are 90 students applying. Last July they were a total of 300 applicants turned down for the English courses taught.
Likewise, in spite of demand from residents, the Centre will not be able to teach the Russian language as hoped. The response by the Junta de Andalucía (regional government) was against the proposal made by the director Fernanda Gonzalez, which initially involved crash courses that were necessary for employment in the hotel sector. At the moment only the language school in Malaga offers Russian language courses.
The only increase in course availability this year are part-time home learning courses in French and English. The number of places has increased by 120 places in English and 60 in French.
The language school in Marbella has 1,600 students inscribed so far.
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For the first time since 2007, the USA mens soccer team captured the CONCACAF Gold Cup championship. And they did so in stunning fashion.
Brek Shea, entered the game as a sub in the 69th minute, and found the net for the Americans only goal in the 1-0 defeat of Panama. Shea's goal came just less than a minute after he entered the game. Landon Donovan had missed on a shot but Shea found it and knocked it home for the game-winner.
It was the 11th straight win for the US Soccer team and it should help them improve when the next FIFA rankings come out on August 8. More than likely, the U.S. will surpass Mexico as the top team for CONCACAF. It comes at a great time too as the next round of World Cup qualifying comes in September.
Jurgen Klinsmann the USA Mens Soccer Coach, was forced to watch the game from a suite in the statnds while serving a suspension, won his first international title as the American coach. Klinsmann received the suspension for his outburst over a call during the semifinal game. He had won the 1990 World Cup and the 1996 European championship as the head coach of Germany.
Donovan, the men's national team's all-time leader in scoring and assists, was named the tournament's MVP. He wound up with five goals and seven assists, even though he did whiff on a perfect scoring opportunity that Shea turned into a goal.
Mexico was expected to be the American's opponent in the final, but they were upset by Panama. Panama used a very stingy defense to beat the Mexicans in the semifinal and continued that in holding the U.S. scoreless for 69 minutes.
Holding the USA mens soccer team to a single goal was no small task. They outscored their opposition 20-4 throughout the tournament. No other team scored more than 11 goals.
The USA's next step in qualifying for the World Cup takes place on September 6. The Americans will face Costa Rica.


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Jin Jin's Birth Story - 'Fast & Furious' Malaysian style
During my first birth, I would say Alex and I were prepared but not that prepared. We bought all the necessary baby stuff but did not attend any of the ante natal classes. The one good thing I did for my first pregnancy was to read "Ina May's Guide to Childbirth". I had no regrets reading the book as it helped me understand that there were alternatives to childbirth and prepared me somewhat i.e. no episiotomy required, opening blossom to speed up the dilation etc. The only thing it did not prepare me was the "level of pain of the contractions"
While my first childbirth was not difficult, I ended up being induced, strapped down, pressured to take epidural ("It's a Saturday, anesthetist will be off half day, if you don't take it now it will be too late") and had an episiotomy which lead to secondary tear and stitches. It left me wanting more. My oxytocin didn't kick in so the lovey dovey feeling with J wasn't there till later. Of course, my birth experience also delayed my breastfeeding journey too.
Two years later, reflecting on my birth journey, I decided that for my next birth it had to be different. It was also during this time that I chanced upon "HypnoBirthing" and read many wonderful stories. Learning that birth could be calm and natural without the interventions sounded real and this further cemented my belief from reading Ina May's book. Reading about Lotus Birth also piqued my interests. Hmmm something to consider from a spiritual aspect?
Fast forward 2 years later and I found out I was pregnant. The first thought that came to mind was to register for HypnoBirthing classes. I was only about 8 weeks when I first contacted Bee Ting and I asked myself was I overly anxious in contacting so early to ask for classes? I was worried that Bee Ting would laugh at me for being so 'early'. Luckily, Bee Ting did all she could to make me feel comfortable in choosing her as our mentor. Also the distance from our house to her place was an added bonus!
Classes were casual and we met new friends and shared experiences. Each of us had our stories to share and our expectations of our birth experience-to-be. The classes dispelled myths, hearsay and gave both mum and dad the real picture. For Alex, going through the classes gave him a different perspective and prepared him for this birth. Whether it is for the first time dad or an experienced father, the things that we learned from the class was enlightening.
My initial EDD was on 24 April but I had told myself and baby that I would prefer for her to come out on the 28th instead. For various reasons including work and also because 24.4 didn't sound nice. As the pregnancy progress, my line of work also became hectic (January to April would usually be my busy work season), that's when I probably gave baby conflicting ideas. While I preferred 28th, work made me feel that I wanted to get off earlier. So it came that fateful morning of our 39th week visit to the Dr that things happened.
On oxytocin 'high' in the early hours after birth
Baby A sleeping with a smile, perhaps thinking of her fast and furious birth?
At 3am, had a toilet break and to my surprise I found birth show. It was a red birth show which caught me by surprise as I had read earlier that it was usually pink to brown. It also got me worried as to whether baby was ok. (Also had the workaholic feeling that there was still so much work that I had not completed before delivery) Woke hubby up to let him know but still didn't feel any surges. Did a little research online and since it was not bleeding, I just went back to bed. Surges started after that but was still bearable and I did my surge breathing, visualization of the flower blossoming and that baby was coming closer to meet me with every surge. Managed to get some sleep through it all. Timed the surges about 6ish and noted that it was 15 mins apart.
In the morning, we went about our daily chores to get J ready for school and our Dr appointment. At the clinic, surges continued but was still bearable. Went in to see the Dr and told him about the birth show and the surges. We did a VE and he confirmed that I was technically in labour and if he swept the membrane, I would probably be able to deliver then. He respected my birth plan to keep it as natural as possible but had to break the news to me on my wish for a full lotus birth. Due to recent happenings, the hospital would not allow for full lotus birth. The best I could have was a delayed cord clamp. Upon hearing it, I was pretty devastated as I wanted a spiritual birth for baby. However, while the Dr was not an advocate of home birth, he mentioned that home birth was an option if I wanted to have the spiritual birth. Unfortunately, home birth had lingered in my mind but I was very clear that it would not be accepted in my household and neither of us were physically and mentally ready for it. So we ruled home birth out. Honestly, I was more confident in a hospital birth rather than a home birth since it was my first time using Hypnobirth. Next one? Perhaps.
The only person I could speak to was Bee Ting so I called her. While I could continue to insist on having a full lotus birth with the Dr and the hospital, I am not the type who wanted to force things and cause unnecessary problems for everyone. So Bee Ting suggested for us to seek other options ie Dr Paul Ng or Dr Tan Ee Peng. Dr Paul was probably out of the question since it was such a last minute request so we decided to consult Dr Tan to see whether she was comfortable to accept my case. Bee Ting helped us communicate with Dr Tan and spoke on our behalf.
While waiting for Bee Ting's reply, the only thing left for us to do was to spend some time together before baby came out. So we head on over to Sunrise for some roast duck and had a feast. After which we picked J from school and headed to my office to pack my laptop, sent out instructions to my teams and spoke to the bosses. I am very blessed to have understanding teams and bosses who stand by me. Thus, I was shooed off after staying for an hour or so. Back home, I continued to work while managing the surges. At 3ish, Bee Ting replied that Dr Tan was ok with us but we were still not sure whether to head on over then or wait till later. Bee Ting called to check on us and I told her the surges were still manageable. I could still hold a proper conversation so we were expecting the baby to come out either late that night or early the next morning. While we had settled the part of Dr Tan, my biggest worry was that Pantai Cheras was very far from us. Would we reach in time especially with Friday evening traffic and threats of rain appearing? It seems baby had other plans too.
At 4ish , I decided that I had enough of work and started walking round the house. This was short lived as my membrane ruptured and the water came gushing out (same as the first birth). For the next 10 mins, I didn't feel the surges grow any stronger and told my mum that I was not due to deliver. My mum on the other hand was very worried and encouraged us to go to the hospital and continue with the current Dr. I thought it was still early but in the end agreed with her. While I changed into clean clothes, I suddenly felt the surge getting very strong. I had to brace myself for each surge and adopt my most comfortable position which was the all four position either on the bed or leaning against the bed. As I walked to the car, I suddenly felt the urge to poo and rushed back to the toilet. Spent about a good 10 mins in the toilet yet again. This time the surge was so strong but the urge to poop was not satisfied. Also, had the hallmark feeling that I wanted all this to go away and wanted epidural when I reached the hospital. Alex helped me relax by doing the light touch massage. That felt extremely good and relieved me of the hallmark feeling. Without having satisfied my urge to poo, I dragged myself out of the house into the car. It was 5pm when we started the 15 min journey to the hospital and it was drizzling as we travelled. Traffic on the LDP was building up so the journey was still slow. It didn't help that the surges was strong and J was seeking for attention. So hubby distracted J by asking J to tell me to relax. That helped a lot as it gave J a chance to be part of the birth process and allowed me to use J's voice to breath through the surges.
As we reached the emergency center of the hospital, hubby went in to get the nurses to bring a wheelchair and take me in. It took a while for them to locate a wheelchair to take me in. I believe the nurse was skeptical that I was in labour as she asked Alex to confirm that my membrane had actually ruptured. Perhaps, I appeared to calm? Anyway, while the journey to the labour room was excruciatingly long (nurse walked pretty slowly to the lift, a lot of people in the lift etc). Yet again my calmness did more harm than good, the nurse wheeled me to the maternity ward instead of the labour room. There, another nurse asked me to visit the toilet before doing the CTG scan to which I told her I wanted intermittent scanning but I doubt she heard me as I was wheeled to the toilet. Fine, I said to myself, I will just try to poop again. But this time, it felt different, I actually felt the baby's head crowning. So I called out to Alex and told him I could deliver, the nurse who wheeled me into the toilet heard and that started a frenzy in the maternity ward. A head nurse came over to try to confirm whether I could deliver but sitting on the toilet bowl didn't help so they picked up the pace and finally sent me to the labour room.
In the labour room, 4 nurses stood guard and there was an atmosphere of chaos and clatter. Luckily, I still managed to stay calm through the mess and zoned all the noise out. One of nurses wanted to administer laughing gas for me which I gently denied. The head nurse wanted to do a VE for me but decided against as she could probably see that I was fully dilated.
All wanted me to wait for the Dr to arrive before I delivered but we had other plans and I couldn't wait any longer so I told them I had to deliver. I turned into an all 4 position and asked for the head of the bed to be elevated to 45 degrees. This I felt was the most comfortable position for me. While waiting for the surges, the head nurse asked for our birth plan (I believed the Dr must have told them about it when they called him). Unfortunately, I left my birth plan at the office so we pulled out the only birth plan sample in Bee Ting's folder and shared with the nurses. It was not exactly the same but better than nothing. The nurses were very accommodating and respected our 'wishes'. Thus, allowing me to birth freely and calmly.
I started to do my J breathing as I could feel the baby's birth dance. It felt so long and I thought I was not breathing the right way. In the next surge, I told myself that I would breath down strongly and push baby's head out. With that surge, I felt the so called "ring of fire". The next surge didn't come as quickly as I wanted and it was difficult having to feel through the ring of fire. Finally, the surge came and with the last breath, I felt baby come out all at once. It felt like a minute before the nurses announced that baby was out and baby started to cry. When I held her in my arms, I felt very emotional and the feeling that I had for her was so strong. It was the feeling of being able to bring her into this world in a safe and gentle environment. That meant a lot to me and perhaps created a stronger bond for me with her.
I was asked to gently and slowly flip over to receive her and we started our skin to skin bonding. Hubby asked the nurses how long did we take to deliver and the nurses said not long. We came in at 5.30 and baby was out by 5.49. (Really? Wow, they told me the 2nd birth would be fast but I never imagined it would be this fast!)
Dr came around 6, allowed us to birth the placenta first then clamped the cord. In the end I had my lotus birth and I took baby's placenta back to have a burial for her placenta. Dr checked and noted a small tear which was stitched up subsequently. The Dr did joke that I could have done a home birth but I was still comfortable with the environment that I was in. Other than that, all was done and I could continue bonding and breastfeeding her. We continued to bond for the next 3 hours and she breastfed like a champ.
Overall, for Alex and I, we both felt this birth was very different from our first birth. I felt more comforted on the decisions that I made for her, while Alex felt that it was not as gory as the first.
On reflection, would we have done anything differently? The only thing I would change is to have practiced my breathing more. Other than that, I would not have done anything else differently. To every mum or mum-to-be out there, birth can be a very enlightening feeling, it is just finding the right person to take you on that journey. For us, that person was Bee Ting. Thanks once again to Bee Ting for her guidance and help throughout our birth journey, without her, we wouldn't have done it.


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Modern Mizoram: History, Culture, Poetics
P. Thirumal, Laldinpuii and C. Lalrozami
ISBN: 978-1-138-55963-9 (hbk)
Mizoram is situated at a unique cusp in Northeast India, in terms of both physical and social contexts. It shares its borders with Myanmar and Bangladesh, while cultural influences range from the indigenous to the Western. This book offers an alternative understanding of the modern history of Mizoram through an analysis of its cultural practices through language, music, poetry and festivals. It explores the roots of modern cultural works not just in Christianity, but also in pre-colonial Mizo traditional practices. The authors closely examine text, performance and sculptural images, including the first handwritten newspaper Mizo Chanchin Laisuih (1898) and the Puma Zai festival (1907–11) from the early colonial period along with a contemporary sculptural image. They argue that cultural works open up to new forms of interpretations and responses over time. The book indicates that the Mizo creative sensibility enmeshed in theological, capitalistic-material and political/ideological regimes informs its modern enclosures be it region, religion or nation.
This book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of cultural studies, literature, media, history, politics, sociology and social anthropology, area studies, Northeast India studies and South Asian studies.
P. Thirumal is Professor at the Department of Communication, S. N. School of Arts & Communication, University of Hyderabad, Telangana, India.
Laldinpuii teaches English at Government Aizawl West College, Mizoram, India.
C. Lalrozami is Programme Coordinator at the Directorate of State Council for Educational Research and Training, Aizawl, Mizoram, India.


What if you could easily create illustrated yoga sequences to use as teaching aids? Would having a ready-made set of yoga stick figures help you learn pose names? How cool would it be to have a simple way to make fun handouts for your students? Would having your sequences saved and organized help your teaching?
This set of yoga drawings is for you.
Download 108 yoga stick figures (like the ones featured on this page) to create your own home practices and class plans. Print out your plan to take to your mat as a guide.
Use the yoga pose images (high quality jpeg files) to create a great visual representation of your yoga sequence with your favorite software package (such Microsoft Word).
Take your printed yoga sequence with you to your mat and use it to guide your practice or teaching.
Afterwards, you can easily make any changes to your pose flow and save it to use again. Use the drawings to document yoga sequences, save them on your computer and print them out. No need to re-create each posture drawing or each sequence the next time you need it. Build a library of your own!
As you create sequences with the posture drawings and use them to practice your yoga flows, you will begin to recognize the poses and their Sanskrit names.
You may even wish to laminate a set for use as flash cards to learn Sanskrit and English posture names. The visual cue of the pose illustration plus the pose name written below, is a great way to learn posture names.
Use the yoga posture drawings to create handouts and learning materials for your students.
When I was in yoga teacher training, I was looking for a way to create reference notes that I could use to follow along as I taught my practicum classes. I tried written notes and found it was just too difficult to keep track of where I was.
My instructor suggested yoga stick figures and for the next class I taught, I created a series of drawings that illustrated my class plan.
With a series of pose images in front of me, it was easy to see at a glance where I was and what was coming next!
It worked so well that I wanted a set of poses that I could use over and over again. I worked with artist Alex McVey to create a set of beautifully illustrated gesture drawings that capture the essence of 108 yoga postures.
Set 1: All 108 yoga posture drawings by themselves (no text).
Set 2: All 108 yoga posture drawings with the Sanskrit name of the pose written below.
Set 3: All 108 yoga posture drawings with both the Sanskrit and English names written below.
A total of 324 high-resolution digital image files!
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Take a moment, check it over and when you're ready, BUY HERE.
In case you're curious ... why 108 poses?
The number 108 has spiritual significance across many different cultures and is considered a sacred number in yoga. Malas (meditation beads) have 108 beads plus a guru bead. Yogis sometimes do 108 sun salutations to honor something special (such as spring equinox). So in honor of our home yoga practice and in gratitude for the privilege of teaching, 108 yoga drawings it is!


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Myeongdeok (명동역 - 明德驛, Myeongdeok-yeok) è una stazione della metropolitana di Taegu servita dalla linea 1 della metropolitana di Taegu e gestita dalla DTRO. Si trova nel quartiere di Jung-gu, nel centro della città sudcoreana. Il sottotitolo della stazione è Centro del movimento del 28 febbraio (2·28민주운동기념회관 - 2·28民主運動紀念會館, I-Isibpal Minju undong ginyeom hoegwan.

Linee

In esercizio
DTRO
● Linea 1 (Codice: 129)

In costruzione
DTRO
● Linea 3  (apertura prevista per il dicembre 2013)

Struttura
La stazione è costituita da due marciapiedi laterali con due binari passanti sotterranei.

Stazioni adiacenti

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Myeongdeok


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Palestine and More: the 66th UN General Assembly
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Full house this week: the UNGA during its General Debate, courtesy of UN Photo/flickr
September marks the beginning of term not only for students but also for hundreds of UN diplomats in New York. Taking over the role of Assembly president from Joseph Deiss (Switzerland), Nassir Abdulaziz al-Nasser (Qatar) opened the 66th UN General Assembly last Tuesday. After having had a couple of days to deal with organizational matters, the GA started its substantive deliberations today:
High-Level Meeting on Prevention and Control of Non-communicable Diseases. Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are non-infectious illnesses such as cardiovascular and chronic lung diseases, cancer or diabetes. The high-level meeting will discuss methods to help prevent and control such diseases, which kill three in five people worldwide. The GA will especially be focusing on NCDs' economic and social impacts, particularly on developing countries.
Following this, tomorrow (Tuesday), a second, lower-key, High-Level Meeting on Desertification will take place. Participants will address the issues of desertification, land degradation and drought in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication. The meeting is being held under the auspices of the 1996 UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD).
The General Debate, which is what the media mean when they say 'General Assembly', starts on Wednesday 21 September and will continue through next week. The topic of debate will be "The role of mediation in the settlement of disputes by peaceful means", an item which was, for the first time, also included on the agenda of the GA (§ 54). Despite debate supposedly being limited to this theme, many heads of state, heads of government and foreign ministers will nevertheless use the occasion to communicate their views on the state of the world and how to best solve its problems.
On Thursday 22 September, the GA will commemorate the 10th anniversary of the World Conference Against Racism in its High-Level Meeting on the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action. Commemorating the Declaration will be a delicate affair, as the conference ended with the withdrawal of Israel and the US and a controversy over Zionism and racism.
These are the meetings of the GA scheduled so far: The real work at the UN will only begin once world leaders have left New York at the end of the month.
Who Follows After Gaddafi?
For the next two weeks, however, New York City will be the center of world politics. Many who keenly follow the goings-on in the General Debate will miss Muammar Gaddafi, whose appearances at the General Assembly for the last forty years became synonymous with lively and passionate tirades against the West and revolutionary speeches on the world's various injustices.
The representation of Libya at the UN by the Transitional National Council (TNC) led to some controversy last week as the GA had to vote on whether to recognize the diplomats of the TNC as officially representing Libya. Angola, Cuba and other countries questioned the legality of this recognition; however, in the end, a large majority of votes were placed in favor of the TNC.
Will Palestine Become a UN Member?
The question of Palestine's international status – be it as an independent country, a UN observer state or something else – will undoubtedly dominate the 66th General Debate. Benjamin Netanyahu announced that he will present Israel's stance on Palestinian statehood during his speech at the GA and many Arab states are expected to do the same.
President of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas is believed to be filing the official request for UN membership with Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon today. Many countries, the US above all, have tried to stop him, but Abbas is likely to remain as stubborn as he did with a resolution condemning Israeli settlement earlier this year, when he forced the US to use their veto in the Security Council. The US will no doubt do the same this time – and the Palestinian membership request will therefore not make it to the General Assembly. Should this happen, there is a good chance that a resolution will instead be passed that would make Palestine a UN observer state, a further upgrade from the status of observer organization the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) had has to content itself with.
Whatever the outcome, the UN will receive much attention over the coming weeks – attention it rightly deserves. While the glare of the media spotlight may fade, the 66th General Assembly will continue to meet – with decreasing intensity – until 17 September 2012.
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Q: How to import and use .webp images in react I'm trying to use webp images in react. I do it as follows:
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Profiles in PC courage: Brave millennials slam 'Friends' over show's 'homophobia & misogyny'
© Supplied by FilmStills.net / Global Look Press
Hyper-sensitive Millennials watching the 1990's sitcom Friends on Netflix have been emotionally triggered by what they perceive to be the show's homophobia and misogyny.
America is under attack. Just read the headlines, we are surrounded by vicious enemies intent on destroying our way of life. There are imaginary missiles being shot at Hawaii. Vladimir Putin is hiding under every American's bed. And now Friends, that cornerstone of the 1990's Must See TV craze, has been revealed to be the enemy within, working to destroy our politically correct American values.
Friends, which ran from 1994 to 2004, followed the travails of Ross and Rachel, Chandler and Monica, Phoebe and Smelly Cat, and Joey and every woman in New York. Americans, myself among them, watched it with a religious fervor. Friends was so ubiquitous in the 90's, you simply couldn't escape it or its relentless earworm of a theme song "I'll Be There For You." Even star Jennifer Aniston's haircut "The Rachel" became a cultural craze.
So, how can a benign, mass-market, corporate network television show like the 90's beloved NBC sitcom be anything but mild entertainment? Well, little did we know at the time, but Friends had a dirty little secret that, due to some very delicate and sensitive millennials, has been exposed twenty years later.
Not groovy, baby! If Friends is 'problematic,' here are 6 more things we should ban from the '90s
As I and the rest of America were mindlessly enjoying the shenanigans of Friends as they hung out in their ridiculously oversized New York City apartments and drank coffee at Central Perk, their absurdly welcoming coffee shop, we were actually being conditioned to hate women, homosexuals and fat people! I know it is hard to believe, and I am just as shocked as you are about this whole turn of events, but it is true. I know this because a bunch of millennials took to Twitter to alert me to the error of my Friends-watching ways and the malevolent evil infecting the show.
This whole situation started because all ten seasons of Friends are now available on Netflix, and millennials have been checking out the show. As they watched, some of the more fragile millennials got "emotionally triggered" when they noticed something sinister, namely that Friends is homophobic, misogynistic and fat-shames people…well…not all people, mostly just Monica, who, let's be honest, was shamefully obese as a teenager.
These emotionally-triggered millennials then took to the internet in a tizzy of Friends-fueled outrage to share their disgust at discovering all of the insensitive jokes about Chandler's sexuality, Monica's girth, and empty-headed lothario Joey's lust-fueled womanizing.
When I think of these brave young millennials forcing themselves to sit through the politically incorrect nightmare of Friends just so they could inform me of its evils, I'm reminded of another generation of selfless young people who, at a similar age (18-20), stormed the beaches at Normandy under a torrent of Nazi machine gun fire and were sacrificed by the thousands in order to help the Western Allies get a foothold in Europe against Hitler's war machine.
Those young men who fought World War II have been branded the "Greatest Generation", but after being "woke" by these anti-Friends activists, I have now come to realize that the true "Greatest Generation" of American heroes are actually the millennial multicultural couch warriors, braving the savage horror of watching Friends on Netflix. These courageous heroes and heroines have survived a fate much crueler than anything seen on D-Day, they've had to survive being exposed to the most brutal weapon of all ‒ indelicate humor!
Tolerance preachers fail to see irony of their own glaring intolerance
Friends' homophobia, in particular, is an atrocity that is utterly shocking to behold in hindsight. I wish there had been some intrepid millennials around back in the 90's so they could have notified GLAAD (Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) about the horrific gay bashing comedy of Friends. In case you were unaware, GLAAD is a watchdog against homophobia in the media and they surely would have held a vile show like Friends to account for their anti-gay and hate filled humor.
Oh wait…I just looked it up and it seems a non-millennial did inform GLAAD about Friends back in the 90's - and the organization swiftly responded by nominating the show three times (1995,'96,'97) and awarding them once (1995) for their prestigious GLAAD Media Award, to "recognize and honor various branches of the media for their outstanding representations of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and the issues that affect their lives."
I am flabbergasted that GLAAD was so easily duped by Friends!! I hope some millennials valiantly take to twitter to do battle with GLAAD for this Chamberlain-esque appeasement!
Having had the scales torn from my eyes regarding Friends, I now look with a jaundiced eye to the other sitcoms of my past. With the true nature of Friends revealed, the whole house of Must See TV cards now crumbles and we are left with some very ugly truths. For example, Seinfeld wasn't just a witty show about nothing, it was a piece of propaganda meant to uphold the patriarchy and white supremacy. Cheers was not an amusing little romp about a rag-tag group of fun-loving friends in a Boston bar, but rather a vehicle to demean the working class as drunk and stupid while fat-shaming Norm in the process. The Cosby Show wasn't a good-humored program about a kindly upper middle class African-American doctor and his family, but rather was a vehicle meant to uphold a veneer of normalcy that obfuscated the truth about a man and his serial sexually predatory behavior. (OK…that last one actually IS true.)
I was initially skeptical but have now been thoroughly convinced by the emotional millennial outcry against Friends. I believe with all of my soul that my once-best Friends, Rachel, Monica, Phoebe, Chandler, Joey and Ross, and even Ross's funny little monkey Marcel, have most egregiously overstepped the bounds of decent human behavior and political correctness with their homophobia, misogyny and fat-shaming.
I, for one, admire our newest "Greatest Generation," the millennials, and applaud them as they mount their revisionist history offensive against the scourge of past comedy that in hindsight may be considered slightly questionable and that makes them feel ever-so-mildly uneasy.
When I think of these brave young men and women and the long fight that lay ahead for them, I am reminded of Winston Churchill's famous rallying cry for the British as they faced down the Nazis. If Churchill were alive today I'm sure he would tell Millennials…"We shall go on to the end. We shall fight Everybody Loves Raymond, we shall fight on against Frazier and The Golden Girls, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength against The Simpsons, we shall defend Political Correctness, whatever the cost may be (as long as it is minimal and requires no effort greater than tweeting). We shall fight Who's the Boss from the 80's, we shall fight Mary Tyler Moore and M*A*S*H* from the 70's, and we shall fight The Dick Van Dyke Show from the 60's and I Love Lucy from the 50's; we shall never surrender!"
In closing and as thanks for enlightening me to the pernicious villainy of Friends, I want to share with my new millennial "friends" these sage words of wisdom that struck a chord with me when I was a young man and might do the same for them as they make their way in the world. So rouse yourself from your parent's couch, put down your energy drink, your vape and your iPhone 8, and lose yourself in the insipid, banal brilliance of The Rembrandts "I'll Be There For You"…and try not to get too offended.
"So no one told you life was going to be this way.
Your job's a joke, you're broke, your love life's D.O.A.
It's like you're always stuck in second gear,
when it hasn't been your day, your week, your month, or even your year, but…I'll be there for you (when the rain starts to pour)
I'll be there for you (like I've been there before)
I'll be there for you (cause you're there for me too)!"
Michael McCaffrey, for RT
Michael McCaffrey is a freelance writer, film critic and cultural commentator. He currently resides in Los Angeles where he runs his acting coaching and media consulting business. mpmacting.com/blog/
The statements, views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of RT.
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We interrupt your regularly scheduled broadcast of ALL DRAGON*CON ALL THE TIME to bring you this guest post I did on the Durham arts scene for my friend Jamie's blog, The High Heeled Traveler.
Jamie and I met in the undergraduate art history program at the University of Florida, where we bonded over our shared fabulousness and love of shoes and Fragonard.
Lookit us, we were definitely in college.
Since college Jamie has lived in NYC and D.C., working at places such as Sotheby's and the Corcoran Gallery. Nowadays she's a freelance writer and blogger, and she chronicles her love of fashion, food, art, and travel on her blog. So, go check out my article, and then stay awhile to read more about Jamie's adventures, I promise you'll have a good time!
Thanks, Jamie, for letting me have some space on your blog!
Dragon*Con might only be once a year, but I try to get my weird kicks in whenever I can. Halloween's an obvious choice, but Durham–being its fun, funky self–provides plenty of opportunities to nerd out a bit. This past weekend my college friend Nora was visiting, and I did my best to show her all the quirks that Durham had to offer. Luckily the Scrap Exchange, our local non-profit creative re-use center that provides aisle after aisle of stuff that you can turn into crafty fun, was having its annual Scrap a Go-Go benefit at Motorco, and the theme was 60s science fiction and space. The night promised food trucks, bands, a make and take station, and a silent auction. Also, costumes were encouraged. I'm a huge fan of Scrap Exchange (sort of a crafter's dream, really), and also space, and also food trucks, so to Scrap a Go-Go we went!
None of us really had any costumes, so I just threw on some green eyemakeup and green lipstick and a Star Trek pin and loaned some Star Trek earrings to Nora. We figured we'd make some space accessories once we got to Motorco.
The Scrap Exchange had set up a number of tables and barrels with tin foil, plastic lab equipments, cut up pool noodles, scissors, tape and many other weird, "spacey" things with which one could make a space accessory. Nora made a space bonnet of awesomeness, Jon made these rocket shoulder things that at one point ended up on his head. I just made a head band because I am bad at crafting things like this and also I had green lip stick, so I felt like I was representing. We spent an inordinate amount of time crafting, because making things is awesome.
Hey guys. So the reason I've been so busy at work? I'm planning the Durham Art Walk, which is this weekend! 10-5 on Saturday and 1-5 on Sunday and if you live in the area you absolutely must come! I'll be at the Durham Arts Council most of time, but there are tons of great events all over downtown Durham! So check out the website and come to downtown, and stop by the DAC and say hi, I'll be the freckled girl trying not to panic!
I'll post more about my NYC trip next week, I promise! In the meantime, I hope y'all have a great weekend!