A selection of articles by Dr. Tony Humphreys that were published in the Irish Examiner.
In the words of the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke it appears that 'for one human being to love another is the most difficult of all tasks', and this is true for parents and children, friend and friend, lover and lover and husband and wife. For the purposes of Valentine's Day I am going to focus on adult relationships. In the USA, 60 per cent of marriages breakdown and, poignantly and significantly, 80 per cent of second marriages end unhappily. Those statistics do not take into account the high percentage of intact unhappy marriages. It is a real conundrum that if, on the one hand, love is the greatest power on earth – the force that sustains human life – how, on the other hand, is it that many relationships are a near-certain prescription for unbelievable pain and emotional devastation?
Infants are born with hopes and expectations. Their need to be loved, nurtured and safe are innate and they can intuitively sense when their essential needs for love and security are being met or not being met. While these set of expectations lie at an unconscious level, the baby hopes her cries will be heard, that she will be fed when hungry, allowed sleep when needed, that her gaze will be lovingly returned and smiles reciprocated.
There is a notion I frequently encounter that to unconditionally love your children means letting them get away with murder! Actually, the opposite is the truth – to not unconditionally love children either means you let them get away with murder or you 'murder' (in the metaphorical sense of the word) them in order to keep them in line. To unconditionally love children automatically leads parents to model and guide their children step-by-step to taking responsibility for self and for all their actions. The difference between the parents who are unconditional and those who are conditional is the way they carry out their parenting responsibility to rear children to become separate and independent.
Experts frequently say and everyone goes along with it that relationships are hard work. That is certainly true when two people who are insecure, fearful, defensive come into contact. However, even though it appears that it is the relationship between a couple – and all relationships are couple relationships – whether that be lover with lover, parent with child, employer with employee, teacher with student – is what is hard work but the harder work within each individual is what needs to be done. The reality is that the difficulties in relationships mirror more serious emotional issues within each person and unless that inner turmoil is addressed the relationship will continue to be troubled. Whenever you find yourself working hard to resolve anything in your relationships – meanness, hostility, rigidity, irritation, disagreements, aggression, passivity – your work would be better placed within. When you work at resolving the conflict between you, you won't be relating, you will be negotiating. What needs to be realised is that relationships that are not hard work exist in the experience of wholeness within. When you are at peace with yourself you are at peace with another; when you belong to self you bring that belonging to another, when you inhabit your own individuality you embrace the individuality of another; when you experience a deep inner solidity you don't have to look for, demand or negotiate change in the other person. Relationships are best held by each person taking responsibility for self and his or her own actions. Once individuals commit to deepening their consciousness of their own unique being; their wholeness, their innate goodness, their power beyond measure to be responsible for their own lives, their individuality, relationships automatically improve, because they are sending new energy along the invisible strand that connects us all – unconditional love.


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Q: What should I do when clarifying updates to a question invalidate my first answer? I wrote an answer to this question that was a little vague.
The question was then updated to provide enough information to give a proper answer, and the actual solution is far different from the answer I had initially given.
Should I edit my answer or add a new one? The additional information in the question completely invalidates my answer.

A: Always edit your existing answer, never post a second answer.
It's your choice whether you think your original answer is worth saving and you want to just append the new answer to the end, or if you want to erase the whole thing and start over.

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Tour Divide Conquered
by: Claire Lavezzorio
Posted: Jul 4, 2018 / 10:14 PM CDT / Updated: Jul 5, 2018 / 06:02 AM CDT
This moment was a check off the bucket-list that Greg Gleason will never forget.
"It was kind of like, 'I'm just glad to be done, finally,' it was just, 'Ugh, done, finally,'" Gleason said.
Now that he's back in office, Gleason's co-workers are still re-living that moment with him.
"The support, amazing, I mean amazing, you can't even really put it in words, amazing," Gleason said.
A bucket-full of cards, each with personalized messages, to the man who conquered Tour Divide, the ultra-distance cycling ride that is an extreme test of endurance and mental toughness.
"Friends in the area that I haven't talked to in years, have reached out, and just kind of going through that process," Gleason said.
His ride started in Banff, Canada, and took him all the way to the New Mexico border-town of Antelope Wells.
But the 16-days of straight riding, didn't come without trials and tribulations.
"So what I did is I broke it down, day-to-day, town-to-town. So I would take my day and figure out how many towns I could get through," Gleason said.
Despite temperatures dropping below 20 degrees to miles of complete desolation, Gleason says he always knew he'd cross the finish line even after last year's failed attempt.
And in miles of complete desolation, he'll always remember moments like this one.
"I turned on my phone and I had 4G. I couldn't believe it. I was like what! I'm in the middle of nowhere, people don't exist anymore and I'm 4G, so I went on Facebook and I went LIVE," Gleason said.
Those updates kept all of his POET co-workers on the journey with him.
"Social media and Facebook, and with him being able to check-in, and actually see videos, so I don't know if we ever felt like he was actually truly out of the office," Ann Molstad said.
Gleason is Molstad's boss at the biotechnology company.
"Everyone is along on this journey with him. Especially this year, because we all knew how disappointed he was last year," Molstad said.
And each card Gleason takes out of the bucket truly shares that message.
A 30-pound-lighter-Gleason admits no one will truly understand his journey.
But there is one Tour Divide takeaway that everyone can relate to.
"And this is kind of that message to everybody out there. If you set your mind to something, you can do it. I guarantee it. You just have to be really committed to it, and dedicated to it, and just persevere," Gleason said.
It's the motto that Gleason lives by: Nothing that's worth anything is ever easy.
"And to me, this was worth something, this was worth fighting for," Gleason said.
Not only did Gleason become one of the few to ever finish the Tour Divide, he came in third place. Gleason says he has no immediate plans to train for another long ride, but as his coworkers say, he's always planning something.
Bishop Dudley Hospitality House not turning anyone away during bitterly cold temps
by Brady Mallory / Jan 16, 2020
Going outside for a few minutes in this sub zero weather is uncomfortable. Now imagine living on the streets when it's this cold. That's the reality for many men and women in the area. The Bishop Dudley Hospitality House where staff is making room to help the homeless to get out of the elements.
On Thursday morning, you could find Hashim Gabon reading a book at the Bishop Dudley Hospitality House. He would love to turn the page on this dangerously cold weather.
Man who wants to add father's name to birth certificate hits road block
by Angela Kennecke / Jan 16, 2020
For nearly a year, we've been following a local man's quest to determine his paternity and get his biological father's name on his birth certificate. This week, B.J. Olson hit another roadblock.
B.J. Olson's mother Linda knew her son's father was one of two men. A blood test ruled out one of them. Years later when the State of South Dakota tried to collect support and medical bills, a blood test also ruled out the other.
Flu in KELOLAND
by Sophie Heinemann / Jan 15, 2020
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) -- South Dakota has confirmed its first flu-related deaths of the season.
The health department says three people in their 50's or older have died.

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The final lesson is not so much about local government as it is about you, as a reporter or blogger: Will you report on results or just on process?
By process I mean the most public parts of government: city council meetings, press conferences, city hall events, public hearings, campaigns and elections. If you are invited to it or are legally entitled to witness it through open meetings or open records laws, then that's process.
Now, please don't misunderstand. Process is important, and you really should cover it. After all, elections hold governments accountable, open meetings cause them to be more inclusive and thoughtful, and fair processes keep them honest. But these things aren't the sum total of government; they're more like the visible tip. Most of government lies beneath. If these essays on covering city hall have done anything, I hope they've encouraged you to go below from time to time and give things a look.
Before doing so, though, let me ask a question: Why do reporters spend so much time on the process parts of government and so little examining results? Well, let's be honest: It's easy. When a council member goes on a rant at a city council meeting or a protest march is staged outside city hall, the stories practically write themselves. (I know. I wrote a lot of these stories myself.) Tracing ideas as they move through local government, mapping the compromises made and collaborations created, and measuring their impact on land use and city services? That's hard.
And, too, city hall reporting has long suffered from the poor examples set by reporters in Washington and in state capitals. In those places, public policy is often treated as if it were a performance and not a series of decisions with lasting impacts on states and the nation.
Am I being too hard on your colleagues? Well, think back to the torrent of reporting on health care reform in 2009 and 2010, the vast majority of which was about political maneuvers. Far less attention was paid to the reforms themselves: the ideas behind President Obama's plans, where they originated, and their likelihood of success. Since the Affordable Care Act was passed in 2010, there has been even less attention paid to how the reforms are working. No wonder we were so surprised in 2013 when the health care website crashed. Once the political drama had moved on, few reporters were still paying attention.
You can do better than this—and you should. For one thing, local government isn't nearly as large in scale or ambitions as federal or state governments. Want to meet the people implementing your city's projects and policies? That's easy. The results, too, can be seen and measured without much trouble. If you want to know how the downtown is doing, start with the business improvement district director, interview merchants and shoppers along Main Street, talk with a developer or two, and check a few statistics at the city planning department. You can do all of this in a day or two.
Not sure you know enough to judge a city's performance? The things local government is concerned with aren't hard to understand. (In fairness to those covering the Affordable Care Act, health care economics is harder.) Keep in mind the difference between strategy and services. As I've written, the big decisions in local government are about land use. But this is a subject you can master with a little reading and some time spent with city planners and urban studies professors. The other part of local government is service delivery. This, too, can be mastered by asking simple questions: What is the problem or need in this area? How have you tried to solve the problem or answer the need? What have been the results?
Whether it's public safety, sanitation, transportation, or water supply, those questions will usually get you started. Check what you hear with independent observers and experts (take advantage of a nearby university), find citizens affected by the issue, and then ask to see the numbers. You can do this.
Here's a final reason for taking the harder path of focusing on results. Process journalism, the kind that skims the surface of public policy, is rapidly becoming a commodity. Reporting that digs deeper and looks for results is, I believe, the journalism of the future. If you want a preview, check out news websites like Vox and FiveThirtyEight. These sites don't just report what politicians say is going on; they use data and other indicators to show us what's actually happening. At the local level, you can find similar results-oriented reporting on websites in San Diego, St. Louis, and Washington, D.C.
To repeat: Please continue covering city council meetings. That's important. But don't stop there. Examine how government works and what it produces. If you pay attention, it'll make for better government and a better city. And who knows? It might also make you a better reporter with a brighter future.
This is the last in a series of postings about better ways of understanding local government and writing about local politics. To read the introduction, please click here.
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Gurdwara Sri Guru Ka Bagh Ghukeywali
Location - Ghukeywali, Amritsar, Punjab, India
Associated with - Sri Guru Arjan Sahib Ji, Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Ji
There are 2 seperate Gurdwaras at this location.
Gurdwara Sri Guru Ka Bagh Ghukeywali relates to a sakhi of Sri Guru Arjan Sahib Ji.
It is said that Hari Sen, the Raja of Suket, was told by a Pandit that in his next birth he would be born in a chandal family. In order to get over this curse, the Raja, on the advice of a Sikh of Suket, approached Sri Guru Arjan Sahib Ji at Amritsar.
The Guru observed, "Likhya lekh na mite he sakhi jo likhya Kartar", ie. "what is willed by God cannot be undone".
The Raja was disappointed and was going to return home, but, on the Guru's persuasion, stayed on. The Raja fell asleep and, in his dreams, experienced a complete course of life from birth to death as a chandal.
On awakening, the Raja thought it was just reflection of his mind. On returning to Guru Ka Bagh Ghukeywali with Guru Arjan, the Raja was told that one of the chandals nearby, having the Raja's appearance, had died a day before.
The Guru, however, asked to see the chandal that died. When they found the buried corpse. The Guru told the Raja that his was the Raja's next life as a chandal that had been completed in his dream.
Ghukewali (Gurdwara Guru Ka Bagh).—The village of Ghukewali in the Ajnala Tahsil is situated 12 km to the east of Ajnala on the Harse Chhina-Fatehgarh Road. There are a Khalsa High School (co-educational) and a serai. The population of the village was 794 in 1961, as against 808 in 1951.
Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Ji is also said to have stayed at Gurdwara Sri Guru Ka Bagh Ghukeywali for 9 months and 9 days and raised an orchard at the place. As a result a seperate Gurdwara was built to remember Guru Tegh Bahadur.
A mela is held here on the Amavas day. The mela is largely attended, particularly on the Amavas of Chaitra and Bhadra.
1922 Guru Ka Bagh Saka
Gurdwara Sri Guru Ka Bagh Ghukeywali is also well known for the Guru Ka Bagh Morcha held at the place by the Akalis in 1921 during the Gurdwara Reform Movement. The following article just one of the many struggles Sikhs faced in the early 1920s, to seek justice and regain control of their Gurdwaras.
In the 1920's many Gurdwaras had been freed from mahant/ udasis/ hindu control without much of a problem, but Gurdwara Sri Guru Ka Bagh Ghukeywali would prove to be a bigger hurdle. Ghukeywali village, which is located about 20 km from Amritsar, has two historic gurdwaras located close to each other. One commemorates the visit of Guru Arjan in 1585. The other, laid out on the site of a bagh (garden), which gave it its name, is associated with a visit from Guru Tegh Bahadur in 1664.
Like most Gurdwaras, the management of these two had passed, long ago, during mid 18th century, into the hands of mahants (caretakers) who belonged to the monastic order of udasi Sikhs, an order started by one of Guru Nanak's sons. The order had once been closely associated with Sikhi with its members often spreading Sikhi at one time. This was when the brave Sikhs had prices on their heads, and the Sikh Warriors, were fighting against the mughals, during a period of chaos, and hardship, and also known as the period of Sikh Martyrdom, and the founding of the Sikh Misls.
In the same period, the mahants whose appearance was more like that of a hindu sadhu, were asked to take care of some Gurdwaras, ie. Nankana Sahib, Panja Sahib, Guru Ka Bagh, and some Gurdwaras, around Anandpur Sahib. After 1849 and fall of the Sikh Empire, the mahants started to grow apart from Sikhi and began wrongful rituals and ceremonies in the Gurwaras.
Many Sikhs found these acts as disrespectful and sacrilegious. The grant of jagirs to such sacred Gurdwaras in the times of the 18th century Sikh misls and the days of the many 19th century Sikh kingdoms, as well as the offerings of the Sikhs had made the mahants wealthy men who had become accustomed to luxury.
Like the hindu priests who passed the 'ownership' of a mandir down through their family, many of the mahants had begun to think of themselves as the owners of the Gurdwaras. The mahants had made Gurdwaras into their homes. At Gurdwara Sri Guru Ka Bagh Ghukeywali, the Sikh reformers capacity for suffering and their capacity for resistance was put to the test. Many Gurdwaras had been regained through peaceful resistance, this one would prove to be a far more challenging task.
The Mahant
In 1921, Sundar Das Udasi was the mahant of Gurdwara Sri Guru Ka Bagh Ghukeywali. He was indifferent to his ecclesiastical duties and lived a dissolute life, squandering the resources of the gurdwara. In an attempt to save the Gurdwara from being occupied by reformist Sikhs, he signed a formal agreement with them on 31st January 1921, promising to reform his ways and make a new start, as well as, agreeing to receive the rites of Khalsa initiation. Sundar Das Udasi even agreed to serve under an eleven member committee appointed by the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee. However, seeing how the British government was supporting the mahants in their efforts to retain the Gurdwaras, he repudiated part of the agreement and said that, though he had surrendered the gurdwara to the Shiromani Committee, the piece of land known as Guru Ka Bagh attached to the Gurdwara was his property.
Firewood For The Langar
Sundar Das Udasi objected to Sikhs removing dead branches of trees for firewood to be used in the Guru Ka Langar. The police, supported Sundar Das Udasi, and on 9th August 1922 arrested five Sikhs Bhai Santokh Singh Lashkari Nangal, Bhai Labh Singh Rajasansi, Bhai Labh Singh Matte Nangal, Bhai Santa Singh Massa (Nakodar) and Bhai Phula Singh on charges of trespass.
These arrests were not made by a complaint, but by a secret and confidential report received by the police. The following day, the arrested Sikhs were hurriedly tried and sentenced six months of harsh imprisonment. They were also fined 50 rupee each and FIR case number 1288. This sparked off a wider agitation, and the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee decided to send a daily batch of five Sikhs to use firewood from the grove of trees on Gurdwara land and court arrest if prevented from doing so. So undeterred by the action of the government, the Sikhs continued the old practice of hewing wood from Guru Ka Bagh for the daily requirements of the community kitchen.
British State Terrorism
From 22nd August 1922, police began to arrest the jathas on charges of theft, riot and criminal trespass. The arrests gave a boost to the movement as more and more Sikhs came forward to join the protest. On 25th August 1922, Amavas day, the gathering was so large that S.G.M. Beatty, Additional Superintendent of Police, ordered the police to disperse the Sangat by a lathi charge.
From about this time, as the process of arrests and convictions was proving of little effect, the police began trying a new technique of terrorizing the reformers. Those who came to cut firewood from Guru Ka Bagh were beaten up in a merciless manner until they lay senseless on the ground. With their Dastars ripped off they were then dragged by their hair and left contemptuously discarded by the fields when the police thought they had enough beating to be totally subdued. The Sikhs suffered all this stoically and arrived, each day, in larger numbers to submit themselves to this beating.
On 26th August the Deputy Commissioner of Amritsar issued warrants for the arrest of eight members of the executive of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee. A council of action, headed by Teja Singh Samundri, now took over charge of the Akali morcha. The government banned the assembly of people at Guru Ka Bagh, and police pickets were posted on roads and bridges to intercept volunteers coming into Amritsar. Yet jathas of black dastar Akalis singing Gurbani reached the spot every day, only to be mercilessly beaten by the police until they fell to the ground. This happened everyday. Political leaders, social workers and reporters came to witness what was described as an ideal non-violent protest. A.L. Verges, an American cinematographer, prepared a film of the proceedings under the caption, "Exclusive Picture of India's Martyrdom."
More Sikhs Arrive
From 31st August 1922, the number of Sikhs arriving at Guru Ka Bagh was raised to 100. Every day a batch of one hundred volunteers would start from the Akal Takht pledged to suffer their fate silently. The police would stop them on the way and slash them with heavy brass-bound sticks and rifle-butts. This punishment continued until the whole batch lay prostrate on the ground and none could stand any more. The Sikhs displayed unique powers of self-control and resolution, and bore the bodily torment in a spirit of complete resignation. None of them winced or raised a hand in defiance.
English missionary and educationist Rev. C.F. Andrews (1871-1940) who visited Guru Ka Bagh and saw as he put it, "Hundreds of Christs being crucified", gave a graphic description of the passive resistance of the Akalis. He sent to the Press a detailed report on what he witnessed on 12th September 1922;
The News Reporter
". . .when I reached the Gurdwara (at Guru Ka Bagh) itself, I was struck at once by the absence of excitement such as I had expected to find among so great a crowd of people..."
"Close to the entrance there was a reader of the Scriptures who was holding a very large congregation of worshippers silent as they were seated on the ground before him. In another quarter there were attendants who were preparing the simple evening meal for the Gurdwara guests by grinding the flour between two large stones. There was no sign that the actual beating had just begun and that the sufferers had already endured the shower of blows."
"But when I asked one of the passers by, he told me that the beating was now taking place. On hearing this news, I at once went forward. There were some hundreds present seated on an open piece of ground watching what was going on in front, their faces strained with agony. I watched their faces first of all, before I turned the corner of a building and reached a spot where I could see the beating itself. There was not a cry raised from the spectators, but the lips of very many of them were moving in prayer....."
The Gruesome Events
"... There were four Akali Sikhs with their black turbans facing a band of about a dozen policemen, including two English officers. They had walked slowly up to the line of the police just before I had arrived and they were standing silently in front of them at about a yard's distance. They were perfectly still and did not move further forward. Their hands were placed together in prayer and it was clear that they were praying. Then without the slightest provocation on their part, an Englishman lunged forward the head of his lathi (staff) which was bound with brass. He lunged it forward in such a way that his fist which held the staff struck the Akali Sikh, who was praying, just at the collar-bone with great force. It looked the most cowardly blow as I saw it struck...."
"The blow which I saw was sufficient to fell the Akali Sikh and send him to the ground. He rolled over, and slowly got up once more, and faced the same punishment over again. Time after time one of the four who had gone forward was laid prostrate by repeated blows, now from the English officer and now from the [Indian] police who were under his control. The others were knocked out more quickly."
Vicious Acts By British Police
"On this and on subsequent occasions the police committed certain acts which were brutal in the extreme. I saw with my own eyes one of these police kick in the stomach of a Sikh who stood helplessly before him. It was a blow so foul that I could hardly restrain myself from crying out aloud and rushing forward. But later on I was to see another act which was, if anything, even fouler still. " "For when one of the Akali Sikhs had been hurled to the ground and was lying prostrate, a police sepoy stamped with his foot upon him, using his full weight; the foot struck the prostrate man between the neck and the shoulder ..."
Nobility Of The Sikhs
"The vow they had made to God was kept. I saw no act, no look, of defiance. It was true martyrdom for them as they went forward, a true act of faith, a true deed of devotion to God."
"They believe intensely that their right to cut wood in the garden of the Guru was an immemorial religious right, and this faith of theirs is surely to be counted for righteousness, whatever a defective and obsolete law may determine or fail to determine concerning legality."
"The brutality and inhumanity of the whole scene was indescribably increased by the fact that the men who were hit were praying to God and had already taken a vow that they would remain silent and peaceful in word and deed...."
"There has been something far greater in this event than a mere dispute about land and property. It has gone far beyond the technical questions of legal possession or distraint. A new heroism, learnt through suffering, has arisen in the land. A new lesson in moral warfare has been taught to the world...."
"One thing I have not mentioned which was significant of all that I have written concerning the spirit of the suffering endured. It was very rarely that I witnessed any Akali Singh, who went forward to suffer, finch from a blow when it was struck. Apart from the instinctive and involuntary reaction of the muscles that has the appearance of a slight shrinking back, there was nothing, so far as I can remember, that could be called a deliberate avoidance of the blows struck. The blows were received one by one without resistance and without a sign of fear."
Beating Stopped
Sir Edward Maclagan, Lt-Governor of the Punjab, visited Guru Ka Bagh on 13th September 1922. Under his orders, the beating of the volunteers was stopped. Mass arrests, imprisonments, heavy fines and attachment of properties were resorted to. At the government announcement that preparations were being made to accommodate ten thousand Akalis in gaols, the Sikhs stepped up their campaign. Jathas grew larger in size.
The government at last gave in. The offices of Sir Ganga Ram. On 16th November 1922, he obtained the Guru Ka Bagh land on lease from the mahant.
In the first week of October, the Governor-General Lord Reading held discussions with the Governor of the Punjab at Shimla to find a way out of the impasse. The good offices of a wealthy retired engineer of Lahore, Sir Ganga Ram, were utilized to resolve the situation. Sir Ganga Ram acquired on lease, on 17 November 1922, 524 kanals and 12 marlas of the garden land from Mahant Sundar Das, and allowed the Akalis access to it. He also wrote to government that he required no police protection.
The Morcha Succeeds
The government had the excuse not to interfere with the Sikhs who could now go unmolested to Guru Ka Bagh to cut wood in the jungle for their Langar. The Sikhs gain was not confined merely to the immediate point involved. The moral implication of the issue was far more important.
On 27th April 1923, Punjab Government issued orders for the release of the prisoners. Thus ended the morcha of Guru Ka Bagh in which, according to Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee records, 5,605 Sikhs went to jail.
However, the Sikh's trials had not ended. For protesting against the deposition of the Sikh Maharaja of Nabha, known for his sympathy with the Akalis and other nationalist elements, the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee was, on 13th October 1923, declared an unlawful organization. The next morcha in this quest for freedom was infamous Jaito Morcha.


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Fornication Police, non-Screaming Brains, and Muffin Man Killers!
This week, we have a contest for free dvd's. Who can resist that? Listen for a chance to win Cinderella 2000 and Sinful. I review Bruce Campbell's Man With the Screaming Brain and Jeff reviews Evil Clutch. Listen, or else the Fornication Police will get you!


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The Film about Fieldwork by Pat Collins
By Henry Glassie
Pat Collins makes the most beautiful documentary films in all of Ireland. A patient, compassionate man, Pat has a nimble eye and a deep appreciation for traditional art. Those virtues come clear in his film Song of Granite about the great Irish singer Joe Heaney. Once when he was driving through the country, Pat chanced to hear on the radio a conversation between me and my dear friend the poet and playwright Vincent Woods. We were rambling about my fieldwork in Ballymenone on the Irish border in the time of the Troubles.
Pat and I met later in Dublin. I liked him immediately, and he had a film in mind. I wasn't interested until Pravina and I had finished our book Sacred Art. We had to return to Brazil, in 2018, to give copies of the book to all the artists in it, and I thought how good it would be to have patient, professional footage of the artists at work.
We met up in Salvador. Pravina and I had gone earlier to explain the film to our friends, the artists. Pravina was raised in Brazil, speaks Portuguese like a native, and she and I fade easily into the crowd. Pat arrived with his crew: his cameraman Colm Hogan, Colm's assistant Roman, and Bob Brennan the soundman. With their van and cumbersome, abundant machinery, they created a conspicuous presence. All was unfamiliar, the heat, the vast city of beautiful black people, but they were brave, unflustered, quick to adapt, and always good company.
The film begins in Maragojipinho, a pottery town beside a calm river in the interior of Bahia. A flurry of work is followed by slow, close attention to Rosalvo Santana shaping clay into an elegant image of Nossa Senhora Desatadora dos Nos. The scene shifts to the city, to Nilo dos Santos making a woodblock print of Orunmilá, the Yoruba god of wisdom. Then, in my favorite bit, Samuel welds junk into a statue of Oxóssi, the Candomblé lord of the hunt. Salvador ends with our close friends, Edival who carves and Izaura who paints statues of the saints that are carried in processions through the streets and placed on the high altars of baroque churches.
Later that summer we met up in North Carolina, where I had a field project in progress, so Pat and his crew could film the potters, our friends Mark Hewitt and Daniel and Kate Johnston. The crew caught Mark at firing time and they filmed Daniel making a robust big pot with the technique he learned in Thailand.
Communications swept back and forth across the Atlantic. The film kept getting better. Pat used my photographs and snatches of a video by Tom McCarthy so Turkey, where I had done a decade of fieldwork, could be part of the story. Ahmet Şahin, one of the greatest ceramic artists of modern times, makes a touching appearance. Young women from the Öztürk, Balcı, and Kurt families in the mountains bring color to the film with their magnificent carpets.
For the final filming we were back in Ireland in March of 2019. We walked the lanes of Ballymenone, and I sat in Blake's of the Hollow in Enniskillen to remember my hero Hugh Nolan. Then Pat worked hard to finish the film that had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September of 2019.
Pat couldn't make it, but Tina O'Reilly, the producer, came, and she and I and Pravina did the best we could with all the interviews. After the screenings, we weren't congratulated by elderly folklorists but by youthful filmmakers who, certain they didn't want their own films to look like television or Hollywood, found in Pat's film an inspirational alternative.
Before it is released, the film has to roll through the cycle of film festivals, a cycle the pandemic has interrupted. Screenings planned for the spring at the RiverRun festival and in Indiana University's cinema series were canceled. Pat Collins, as I write, still hopes for an Irish premiere at the festival in Galway, to be followed by an Irish tour, screenings in small communities to provoke discussion about local tradition. But, considering the usual fate of the best laid plans of both mice and men, who knows?


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The opening of The Kyiv International – Kyiv Biennial 2017
The opening of The Kyiv International – Kyiv Biennial 2017 will take place during three days and will include the opening of "The Festivities Are Cancelled!" exhibition and lecture performance by Philip Rizk on Friday, October 20, the opening of the "Dead Souls" exhibition on Saturday, October 21, the screening of the film "Ceremony" by Phil Collins, and a live performance by Pharmakon on Sunday, October 22.
The Kyiv International – Kyiv Biennial 2017 will start on the 20th of October at 19:00 with the opening of the exhibition "The Festivities Are Cancelled!" at the Biennial's main site, Institute of Scientific, Technical and Economic Information ("UFO", 180 Antonovycha St., metro Lybidska) along with the lecture performance "TO GO VISITING – an agitka by Philip Rizk" (Egypt) at 20:00 at the same location.
The exhibition "The Festivities are Cancelled!" is dedicated to the memory of revolution and the phenomenon of censorship. This exhibition is necessitated not so much by the centennial of the revolutionary events of 1917 – as by the relevance of a conversation about revolutionary impulses, the writing of history, and the formation of collective memory. Among a wide spectrum of phenomena related to revolution and the formation of memory, the Hudrada curatorial group will focus on the topic of censorship.
Soviet censorship – authoritarian, restrictive and deadly – took the place of revolutionary ideas, using as cover the mission to protect against counterrevolution. Its expansion to all areas of public life meant an end to paradoxical foresight and attempts to freely design a new society. A democratic revolution allows for the most diverse, and sometimes contradictory, ideas and interpretations of the past and present to enter the public space. Its expansion to all areas of public life has meant an end to paradoxical foresight, and attempts to freely design a new society. Censorship – street-level, grassroots and state-sponsored – destroys the public space, making discussion pointless. After all, its goal is not only to eliminate undesirable opinions, but to embed self-censorship as a pre-emptive practice.
Exhibition Participants: Emanuel Almborg (Sweden), Yana Bachynska, Babi Badalov (France), Yevgenia Belorusets, Nikita Kadan, Zhanna Kadyrova, Volodymyr Kuznetsov, Lesia Khomenko, Pavel Khailo, Vasyl Lozynski, Larion Lozovoy, Yuri Leiderman, Lada Nakonechna, Deimantas Narkevičius (Lithuania), Vlada Ralko, Oleksandr Ranchukov, Р.Е.П. group, Andriy Sagaydakovsky, Sergey Shabokhin (Belarus), Olia Sosnovskaya, Alexander Ugay (Kazakhstan), Leonid Voytsehov, Yana Volkova, (Belarus), Elena Vogman (Germany), Clemens von Wedemeyer (Germany), Anna Zvyagintseva.
The second part of "The Festivities Are Cancelled!" exhibition will open on October 25 at the Pavlo Tychyna Literary-Memorial Museum-Apartment.
The exhibition will last October 25–November 26. Hours: Tuesday – Sunday, 12:00 – 20:00. Monday – closed.
On Friday, at 20:00 the lecture performance "TO GO VISITING – an agitka by Philip Rizk" will take place at the "UFO." Philip Rizk (Egypt) will present his text in the form of diary of the fictional character Aleksandra Berkman (her prototype is a Russian anarchist – Alexandr Berkman, 1870 – 1936) for the first time in Ukraine, the location of some of the historical events it references. In the summer of 2017, Philip Rizk undertook a journey following in the footsteps of Berkman's fictional travel route along the former Berlin-Baghdad railway line to the Turkish-Syrian border, in the process continuing Berkman's travelogue.
On Saturday, October 21, at 19:00 the exhibition "Dead Souls" by Marina Naprushkina (Germany) and Oliver Ressler (Austria) will open at Visual Culture Research Center (44 Hlybochytska St., trams #14, #18 from metro Kontraktova Ploshcha).
In the exhibit "Dead Souls" Marina Naprushkina presents a wall painting depicting the enlargement of the borders of the EU as well as key provisions within EU asylum and migration policy. The European Union has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for six decades of successful reconciliation policy. But what kind of peace is the EU brokering? The EU's failed asylum policy often leads to serious economic and social inequalities. Winning over the marketplace in refugees' countries of origin takes precedence over the free movement of persons. The borders are so sealed, in fact, that asylum seekers are oftentimes hardly able to reach "the safe shore."
Oliver Ressler focuses on struggles to obtain citizenship while, at the same time, questioning the implicitly exclusionary nature of the concept. "The Right of Passage" film (2013) is partially constructed through a series of interviews with Ariella Azoulay, Antonio Negri and Sandro Mezzadra. The title of the film refers to the stages, or "rites of passage" that mark important transitions on the path to selfhood. The exchange of "rites" with "rights" suggests that freedom of movement must become a right granted to every person – regardless of his or her place of birth. In his "Occupy, Resist, Produce" (2014) film series Ressler investigates the rare cases of occupied factories, which have become a means of workers' struggle against the closure of a production site or company, or the relocation of production to another country.
The exhibition will last until November 26. Working hours: Tuesday – Sunday, 12:00 – 20:00. Monday – closed.
On Sunday, October 22, at 16:00 the screening and discussion of the film "Ceremony" (2017) by Phil Collins (Germany) will take place at Institute of Scientific, Technical and Economic Information, "UFO."
In July 2017, the almost 4-meter-high Soviet statue of Friedrich Engels was removed from public view in Maryanivka village (Poltava region) as part of the process of decommunization. Phil Collins, a director and playwright, initiated the relocation of the monument to Manchester and its permanent installation in the city where Friedrich Engels had lived for over 20 years. During the Manchester international festival the crowded opening of the Engels monument took place. The "Ceremony" film by Phil Collins depicts the opening and relocation of the statue to Great Britain.
Admission to the exhibitions and screening is free.
On Sunday, October 22, at 21:00 the live performance by Pharmakon (USA), rising stars in the contemporary experimental music scene, will take place at the Institute of Scientific, Technical, and Economic Information ("UFO") concert hall – a late modernist masterpiece, built to synthesize acoustic and visual perception in the arts. Admission by ticket.
Organized by Visual Culture Research Center (Kyiv, Ukraine).
Emblem and Biennial Design: Experimental Jetset (Amsterdam, the Netherlands).
Institutional Partners: Avtonomi Akadimia (Athens, Greece), BURSA GALLERY (Kyiv, Ukraine), Columbia Global Centers | Paris (France), DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program (Berlin, Germany), De Balie (Amsterdam, the Netherlands), Depo (Istanbul, Turkey), Depot (Vienna, Austria), documenta 14 (Athens/Kassel, Greece/Germany), European Alternatives (Paris, France), Forum Transregionale Studien (Berlin, Germany), Hromadske TV (Kyiv, Ukraine), Institute for Human Sciences (Vienna, Austria), Medusa Books (Kyiv, Ukraine), National Oleksandr Dovzhenko Center (Kyiv, Ukraine), Political Critique (Warsaw, Poland), Shedhalle (Zurich, Switzerland), Studio 14 (Athens, Greece), Transeuropa Festival 2017 (Madrid, Spain), tranzit.cz (Prague, Czech Republic).
Partners: British Council / Delegation of the European Union to Ukraine, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, ERSTE Foundation, European Cultural Foundation, International Renaissance Foundation, Robert Bosch Foundation.


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New Biden Covid-19 plan will reimburse home tests
The variant was first spotted by scientists in southern Africa and is now known to be found in more than 30 countries, including the United States. It has mutations that scientists say could allow it to spread faster and cause more infections in people who have been vaccinated or previously infected, although none of these characteristics have yet been confirmed.
In the United States, home coronavirus tests have been relatively difficult to obtain due to supply shortages, and they are expensive – up to $ 25 each. Dr Carlos del Rio, infectious disease specialist at Emory University, said that instead of letting people go through the tedious process of claiming insurance reimbursement for testing, "we should just subsidize them and pay them. make it incredibly cheap ".
The coronavirus pandemic: what you need to know
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Biden's Winter Covid Plan. As Omicron arrives in the United States, President Biden is set to announce a strategy that includes reimbursement of insurance for home tests. His plan will also require international travelers to show proof of a negative test taken 24 hours before leaving for the United States.
Changing views on boosters among experts. For months, many public health experts have opposed plans to roll out Covid booster injections to all adults. But as Omicron gains traction, researchers are changing their minds and now believe that shots may offer the best defense against the new variant.
In Britain, he noted, rapid tests are free and in Germany they cost consumers around $ 1 each.
Reimbursement for home tests in the United States will not take place immediately and will not be retroactive, senior administration officials said, adding that federal agencies would issue guidelines by Jan. 15 to clarify that the insurers should reimburse people for home tests during the Covid-19 public health emergency. It was not known how many tests a person could be reimbursed for the purchase.
Private insurers are already covering the cost of coronavirus tests administered in doctors' offices and other medical facilities. At least eight home tests are in the US market.
Looking to the future, experts envision a world where people will test themselves as soon as they show symptoms – then, if they test positive, go into quarantine and get treated with new antiviral drugs in development. The White House said it was taking action to secure 13 million antiviral treatments.
Mr Biden's new strategy will extend the mask's current tenure for people on planes, trains and buses, as well as in terminals and transit centers, until mid-March.
Only six states now require people to wear masks in indoor public places, regardless of their immunization status. Three others – California, New York and Connecticut – require indoor masks for unvaccinated people.
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In my previous post on understanding data for analysis, I described the common approaches for the analysis of single variables. In this post, I'll summarize the common approaches for analyzing the relationships between multiple variables in your data. Why is an analysis of the relationships important? Let's start with a paradox.
An intriguing effect is sometimes observed when the analysis of single variables leads to a trend that reverses or disappears when the variables are combined or the effect of confounding variables are taken into account. In the fall of 1973 at UC Berkeley, there were allegations of gender bias in the graduate school admissions. It was observed that men had a 44% admission rate against 35% for women, a difference that was unlikely to be caused by a random anomaly.
However, a breakup of the admission rates by all departments revealed that the allegations were not true. The conclusion from the new data was women tended to apply to competitive departments with low rates of admission while men tended to apply to less competitive departments with higher rates of admission. The moral of the story is it is important to analyze the relationships between variables.
Covariance is rarely used in summary statistics because it is hard to interpret. By itself, it does not provide a sense of how much the two variables vary together, but only their 'direction' (if you consider each series to be a vector). The unit of Covariance is also confusing because it is the product of two different units. Pearson's Correlation divides the Covariance with the product of the standard deviations of both series resulting in a dimensionless value.
Pearson's Correlation is bounded in [-1, 1].
Sx, Sy are the standard deviations of the X, Y series respectively. Standard Deviation (σ) is a measure of the spread of the distribution.
Crosstabs (short for cross tabulations) are counts of the intersection of two categorical variables (while Covariance and Correlations hold true for continuous variables). For example, if you have two categorical variables – X with values (1, 2, 3) and Y with values ('A', 'B', 'C'), a crosstab will be a 3×3 matrix that counts the number of times each value occurs together in the data set.
Crosstabs are suggested only when you suspect a relationship between two categorical variables as the matrices can become large and hard to analyze.
We know enough to analyze a wine quality data set, obtained from UC Irvine's archives. The data set has 11 input variables and one output variable – quality – that was assessed by expert testers. The input variables are: fixed acidity, volatile acidity, citric acid, residual sugar, chlorides, free sulfur dioxide, total sulfur dioxide, density, pH, sulfates, and alcohol.
It helps to have some domain knowledge of the data set as you can use this knowledge to avoid calculating correlations for known relationships and detect spurious correlations as well. This data set, however, is small enough to compute a correlation matrix for all the input variables.
A correlation matrix denotes the correlation coefficients between the input variables. Let's additionally add a dash of data visualization to the matrix so that we don't end up staring at numbers. This is called a Correlogram.
What can we decipher from the Correlogram?
Fixed acidity and pH are negatively correlated, as is pH and citric acid. This is expected and you can use expectations of such relationships to check the validity of the data.
Density and alcohol are negatively correlated. Is this a spurious correlation?
Total and free sulfur dioxide are positively correlated.
Scatter Plots are a simple way to visualize the relationship between two (or more) variables. For two dimensions, they plot the location of the data point. The more correlated the variables are, the narrower a band towards which the plot tends. Scatter plots can become confusing when there are a large number of points or outliers ; hexbin plots are used in these cases. A hexbin plot divides the graph into hexagonal bins and colors each bin according to the number of points in each bin.
The Anscombe's Quartet are datasets that have similar simple summaries but appear very different from each other on a scatter plot. The datasets were created to underline the importance of visualizations for the analysis of data.
It is tempting to deduce a slope from the scatter plots; however, this can be misleading. The Wikipedia page on correlations has a section on linear, nonlinear input variables and their scatter plots. They show it is possible to have a perfect correlation of 1 or -1, yet have very different slopes.
Single and multiple variable summaries provide you with a starting platform for a data audit strategy. You need to couple this with effective visualizations to understand your data and check for misleading summary statistics.


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B&B's Katherine Kelly Lang Dances The Salsa On Dancing With The Stars Italy, Then Gets Onslaught Of Rude Comments From Judges!
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This really upset us! The Bold and the Beautiful's Katherine Kelly Lang has been on hiatus from her role as Brooke as she competes each each week in the ballroom dance competition Dancing with the Stars Italy, or as they say in Italian: Ballando Con Le Strelle! In last night's live television broadcast, Lang along with her professional dance partner Simone Di Pasquale, performed the salsa to Whitney Houston's "I Wanna Dance With Somebody".
Lang was clearly suffering from an injury sustained prior to the broadcast as evident from her bandaged thigh on her leg. When the news of the injury was revealed earlier, Katherine also had received many positive vibes and support on Twitter including from her former B&B co-star Ronn Moss (Ex-Ridge) who had also gone through the DWTS Italy competition.
After Katherine and Simone completed their salsa, the judges critique was nothing short of offensive! They also gave her terrible marks. Even though they spoke to Katherine in Italian and she was trying to understand their criticism through an ear piece, and then as you will see, she speaks English back, and they interpret in Italian on the live broadcast, the judges seemed to intimate a bunch of things! Some shockers included: perhaps Katherine was out all night and didn't rehearse … and she's from Hollywood, so what is this dancing? And they were trying to compare her learning lines on B&B … to learning dance moves on Dancing with the Stars. It seemed that the judges put Katherine in a spot of having to defend herself! Later, when asked about how she felt about the judges, Lang said, "No comment" and received a standing ovation!
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After the jump, watch Katherine's performance and the judges harsh comments! (To make the video bigger and to see in full frame, click on the far right icon of the video itself) Then let us know what you thought of the onslaught! Was she being held to some higher standard than others who have taken their turn on the celebrity ballroom dance competition? Comment below!
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B&B Fan
The judges were too harsh with KKL. I still love her & will always root for her.
Yes the judges were harsh and very rude. I am Italian canadian, I live in vancouver bc Canada. The judges were also very pathetic and no class at all. I love Katherine she is a wonderful actress.
SZima
Since I have no idea what the judges were saying, I'll only say this…she wasn't good!
Kelly seemed very stiff and awkward, and she seemed to be counting her steps.
I'd love to hear how the American judges would score her performance…especially Len!
4ever DAYS
In other words…Her dancing was a lot like her acting!
I do not disagree with either one of you as far as her acting and dancing is concerned but the judges' criticism was way beyond the pale. NO ONE deserves to be ganged up and bullied like that in the public arena. It takes a lot of courage to get up there and dance when you have no experience as a dancer. Watching this American actresses' face emote feelings of hurt and humiliation was painful. Do I think Italians might be harder on an American woman, especially an attractive actress whom they erroneously perceive as being from Hollywood? Yes. We know Amanda Know did not receive a fair trial and she was found guilty in the Italian public court of law and they blasted her sense of morals or lack thereof. I only understand a little bit of Italian but I don't need a translator to convey to be that those judges were a bunch of cantankerous old bitches.
Who gives a flying rats behind what Len thinks the woman is 53 and has a body of a 35 year old that are simply jealous go Kelly!
They ! God I need to get off of here sorry this one made me blow a gasket. America is exceptional in everything we do and it is about dam time Americans including our politicians start screaming it from the rooftops!
I have to agree. She seemed so stiff but if she had an injury she may have been in pain so that would explain. I like K.K.L. so I really do feel bad for her but I think the judges could have been a little kinder. Her marks we're justified.
Wish I could understand what the judges say.
She did mess up quite a bit, but the judges should be helpful and give her things to work on. Was this her first dance?
Why did they bring up Antonio Sabato, Jr. and what did they say about him?
Good luck to her. She looks great.
Daisy Day
Some of the scores were way too low – the 1 was ridiculous. Factoring in her age and her lack of dancing background, a 5 or 6 would have been fair. The foot work, lack of hip movement, posture and arm extension need more input from the pro dancer.
I was there to watch it live and I can tell you that the judges were talking about everything but what she actually performed out there on the dance floor under with her injured leg. And it's ridiculous to compare what she's done perfectly well as a fulltime job for more than 27 years to something she's only done for a couple of weeks talking in a different language with someone she's never met before, surrounded by mean people who want nothing but to break her down. She was also trying to let them know that in the American version the participants get to practice for a few months before they go on air, but the judges didn't care about that and they kept interrupting her and not letting her talk, just assuming they knew what she was doing in Rome when they couldn't be more wrong. I think it's totally wrong for them to sit there and supposedly judge her dance routine when they know nothing about dancing themselves. In most other countries the judges are dancers who have competed themselves, but in the Italian version they are just ignorant people with a very arrogant macho attitude. I feel so sorry for Kelly to have to go back to that ridiculous so-called dance show next week. She is way too good for that show and definitely in a league of her own. The fact that she didn't even bring up her leg injury as an excuse speaks volumes of what kind of sweet loving person she is. They had already made up their minds that she was just there to spend time in Rome and not practice. She could have chosen to comment the judges' critique, but chose not to because she's sooo much better than even trying or begin to stoop to their level. It was definitely not worth it. And after the show ended she still took the time to talk to her fans and posed sweetly for pictures with a gorgeous smile on her face with everyone who wanted pictures. She's such a pro and was able to pull that off even though she was probably falling apart on the inside. I admire her so much for being such a classy lady.
A Baptiste
Here here! Well reported, good observations, thank you.
Karolina I am agree with you!!!You know!!!!
Thank you for that insightful comment, Karolina. I think she should get out of there.
It was like watching the Romans feed this woman to lions.
Agreed! I did not see it live, but the judges were clearly not giving Kelly the credit she deserved just for showing up on their (crappy) show. She is adorable and courageous.
Props to her 🙂
Interesting how her dance segment seemed double or triple the tighter length in the US, perhaps we have shorter attention spans or again, keep things tighter and geared to excellence. The judges went on and on and each of them including the host and Kathryn's dancer looked haggard and unattractive, some puffy and most cigarette & wine- aged. Must be jelousy on their parts, and poor Kathryn to be put in such a bargain basement costume on such a taudry, static set. Seems the Italians–and that is my descent as well as African-American, an eclectic mix, don't sue me–are bitter. Such grumpy paisanos…this is why I'm told never to visit. They make the Show Time at the Apollo audience look like angels. Poor Kathryn, she kept it classy amid some very low-brow, threatened, cranky people…praise her for not walking off for good. May this stengthen her in every way.
TKfanalways
I'm truly shocked and appalled on how RUDE the judges were to Katherine, talking over her, not letting her speak; and this is without knowing what the first judge actually said!….Shame on them!!
Completely agree. As Susan Banks from DOL would say, "Those judges were mean, mean, mean!"
Yes I Agree with you, mean mean mean. Lol. you tell them susan banks.
ItalianBoy
1) Kelly Lang was one of the worst dancer last night and she deserved to be eliminated from the competition. Her second dance was awful, really awful.
2) The judges weren't too nice, but they avove all noticed she was not passionated and charismatic as her character in B&B. She seemed aloof and bored most of the time, not really interested in going the extra mile.
3) Other competitors are injured and they danced better than her.
4) Kelly Lang was paid very well, her complaints sound silly.
5) Ronn Moss 4 years ago behaved in a different and more positive way, danced well and the audience really loved him (he almost won the competion).
You have no idea what you are talking about she was nervous plain and simple! If you do not what. Americans over there then do not invite us!
Correction :want Americans ! Should not be posting I am so angry!
Those judges are harsh to everybody (believe me, I'm Italian and I know what I'm talking about). They were to Ronn Moss and Sean Kanan, too. The difference is that Ronn and Sean danced better than Kelly, had different and more positive attitude, more chemistry with their dance partners and they didn't seem aloof and bored all the time.
Kelly Lang is a nice person, always treated like a superstar here in Italy. This time she is judged in a competition. If she doesn't dance well… there are no escuxes to accept her complaints or to speak badly about Italy.
Italian Boy, please. If the judges' criticism stayed in the arena of a critique, it would be fine, but this was a public flogging. One judge kept sharply cutting her off while another suggested she was out boozing it up the night before like a cheap floozy. Ultimately, they embarrassed themselves.
Americans are a lot kinder and gracious to our Italian guests. Except for the crow attack on the roller coaster, we treated Fabio like a king. But that crow was not an American.
@harry she is having the last laugh! I have not always been a big fan of her acting but she does give 100 percent and I respect thar
She did not dance well and that is just about it. Doesn't matter who she is. If you are not good enough to compete you should not participate or accept it. Her dance before was even worse.
That is not the point, Louisa. The point is those judges engaged in personal attacks which had nothing to do with critiquing her dancing.
They were rude, disrespectful and tacky.
she is not a good dancer..
I give her kudos for trying, but she was not good..
(embarrassing for her)
SU00, dear.
The point is not about her dancing. I think even she would agree she wasn't very good. However, that does not necessitate those judges mortifying her over and over in such a cruel manner.
I am not even a fan of this actress, but that was really painful to watch and watching it assaulted my sense of humanity. Embarrassing for her you say? I beg to differ. That was embarrassing to the judges.
Harry,,
The rude voicetress judges are part of Dancing with the Stars Italy, that is part of the show,, their sarcastic remarks.
there is site called Rude Tube that has some of the Dancing with the Stars Italy judges rude remarks to contestants..
If you can't dance it is best not to dance on Dancing with the Stars Italy, they will make some type of a sarcastic mention..
WOW.. I bet they did not do that to Ron.. At first glance I thought this was a SNL skit.. that last guy look just like Fred Armisen…..
It takes a lot for a person to go out if his/her comfort zone and do something like what KKL is doing, especially knowing how people live to judge and belittle her on a daily basis! I give her mad props for throwing herself in there.
For the judges to suggest she isn't practicing
Seems ridiculous to me. She is a Triathlete, she isn't lazy or a slacker, or she could never compete in a Triathlon! There is no reason for the judges to be nasty. Haha! I would love to see any of them get out there and try that thing! (Sorry, my initil post posted before I was finished so I had to finish with this reply).
She is in great shape works her heart out! kudos Kelly
their comments were extremely rude and unprofessional.
She doesn't feel the music therefore her body looks stiff. Scores were too low but as I don't know what the judges were saying it appeared as they don't care for her personally.
Dancing with the Stars in any country should be about taking people who have never danced before in their lives and throw them into a competition to learn and grow. The judges were down right rude and ignorant. First, her name is not Brooke. Her name is Katherine or Kelly as she likes to be called. That right there is insulting enough. No she isn't a good dancer. But she is trying and working on a torn muscle in your leg when you have to plant and pivot is not easy. It hurts people! Good for her saying "no comment". The judges were rude beyond talking about her dance itself. If they didn't want an American (who loves her Italian fans) to dance, why did they even invite her to do it? They had it out for her since day 1.
She was nervous but you know what how dare they insult her like that! You can take your italian bullshit and stick it and KKL do not worry you can buy and sell these a/holes for a dime a dozen. Gosh this makes me so angry inside who comes to the fore front on every crisis in this country America how dare you insult one of our own! Sorry but this makes me soo angry KKL come home where you belong! So mad I can not describe in words how this makes me feel you invite the woman over for ratings then you tear her apart.
Jean Boyd
I believe in America, the pros and stars practice for three weeks before the first show, not months.
I have also noticed that the scores given on DWTS are much higher than the scores given on other versions. That is probably why Jessie J gave Antonio a 6. Although, I think the 6 was deserved and Carrie Ann's 8 was very generous.
I don't think it was right to question if she had been out on the town. Unless they had seen photos, leave it alone. Are they this way with all the contestants?
I would like to see her on DWTS, but since she is on a CBS show, I doubt she will be. Now that Michelle Stafford is on GH, maybe she'll be on DWTS. They've got to pick better people than this season.
davlestev1
A favor to B&B's large European audience. WHO CARES???…That video should have had captions instead of rushing it on the website and it would have had more of an impact. SO WHAT!! Who in the HELL were all those judges and people sitting at a little round table..and the music just playing and playing into the intro before one step was taken…we see why AMERICA does reality much better than it's European counterparts..and can take their shows and make blockbusters out of them. KKL…hightail it out of the rathole with the QUICKNESS..
Bottom line when you attack an actress from my country I will personally kick your ass!
Soapy Diva
Doesn't matter if she danced well or not those judges were rude and talked about everything other than dancing, they knew she was hurt before the show started, there was no need to say what all they did, its a damn TV show, those judges are not really as important as they think they are,
If I offended anybody I am sorry I just go batshit crazy when I feel someone is attacking my country/citizens you will just have to deal with it!
If people did their homework they would know;
the judges are that way, not only to her..
they are like that comedian who insults people for his comedy..
the judges are known for their sarcastic comments, it how it is ..
Rude Tube has clips of their comments.. sheesh..
Why would I not expect that from you if it was an actor from your precious GH you would be going nuts with comments about how rude they were.
KKL knew what she was signing up for and so did Brad Bell…They knew it would garner more publicity for B&B! They succeeded in what they set out to do…B&B will probably get the red carpet treatment by Italy officials…more money lining the pockets of Brad Bell and another trip/location shoot for B&B in Italy…at no cost to B&B!!!
LJB
Say what you want about KKL, she is a very hard worker. I can't believe the judges accused her of being slack. I watched some of the other performers, and their scores I think were also way off the mark. These judges are incompetent. I have Italian heritage usually they are lovely, hospitable people, so this is disappointing to see. Did they pick on KKL because they think she is a pampered Hollywood princess? Being on a soap is harder work than it looks – tons of lines, having to get it right in one or two takes, plus she is a businesswoman, producer and a triathlete. Maybe a cultural clash here, idk. But k/kay you don't help with your comments – that's exactly why some people have a negative view about Americans, which KKL does not reflect when she travels. She's a positive ambassador for her country and she did her best, as a non professional dancer having a go. That's the best she could do. She's not a natural dancer but I give it to her, I'm in my early forties and not half as fit as KKL.
And what might that be? That we step up to the plate for anyone who needs us that our military helps fight for countries that need us without question. What do I believe in God, family and country! I believe we should still have prayer in school I believe we should pledge allegiance to the Flag every morning in school. Sorry that those values might offend some but that is how I was raised I stood up for KKL because she was being attacked /bullied when they invited her to help their ratings! I am passionate about these things and sorry if it offends you but we are a great country We have nothing to be ashamed of. This is a soap board & I apologize for getting off topic. My husband is right I need to hang up my spurs it has become too personal for me.
Does Kelly's partner speak English? I would think it would be hard to communicate and learn if he doesn't.
How many judges do they have? Seemed like a lot and also seemed like they didn't want to let Kelly speak.
She had to do two dances? On DWTS, the stars don't do two dances in one night until there aren't that many left.
I hope Kelly is getting paid a lot of money for doing this. I think she also wanted to do it for the experience and her Italian fans. It's a shame that the judges seem to be taking the fun out of it.
Mo, she did two dances because every show in Italy lasts FOUR hours (from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.)! 😉
Her dancing was just not that good. It could have been 10x better. I understand that she had an injury but those judges should have not ganged up on her like that. Kelly needs to call Kelly Monaco, to learn some moves
Donna Moore
Also, Kelly took a leave of absence from her job to concentrate on the dancing and has relocated to Italy. I think the judges need to remember that. She is taking it seriously. I hope she can bounce back next week. She does have things to improve on. Hopefully her partner can help her with that.
Iakovos
Um… She may rock it as Brooke Logan but not as a ballroom dancer.
Apologize for getting off topic way out of line soapy fans! I guess I am just tired of hearing for 6 years that America sucks we do not we have a lot of loving people out there willing to lend a hand. I have been blessed to have a great business and my husband a great job we try to help our family and friends I guess I get tired of hearing no one cares in America. Please accept my apology for any insults I might have made!
WTF OK first of all, I get this is an Italian show but why can they not have subtitles instead of that woman speaking over her?! Second of all, no it wasn't a good performance BUT that doesn't give therm the right to be so rude. I understand they have to be honest with their criticism but suggesting that she just didn't take this seriously enough and spent the night partying??? And comparing learning lines for a soap opera to ballroom dancing on LIVE television, are you kidding me?! I think they were being far to harsh on her, I mean this was the first show of the season right? And she obviously had an injured leg and if I got it right they don't get a lot of time to practice like in the US show. Those scores and more importantly those comments are absurd IMO.
The more I learn about the judges, the more I understand just how jealous they are of Kelly. Carolyn Smith is 53 too, just like Kelly, but up close in person she looks like she's in her 70's and even when you watch videos of her dancing when she was in her 20's and 30's she didn't have the body of a dancer, but she was pretty heavy so her dances were never that elegant or fast. She let her dresses do all the movements she couldn't do due to her body shape and lack or elegance and ability to move quickly. No wonder she is green with envy now. Without make-up Kelly looks like she's in her 20's and she has a perfect body to match, but Carolyn looks like she's in her 70's and she was never that good of a dancer anyway, no matter what age. She's supposedly British, but she's the only British person I've ever heard of who's absolutely terrified of speaking more than a couple of words English at a time. Given her upbringing and background in dancing, although she wasn't that good at it, she should know better than the Italians and actually do what all of them are supposed to do – judge the dancing, NOT bully the contestants they're jealous of. She's a total disgrace to the English speaking world. And she refused to call Kelly by her name for some strange reason. The other judges actually believe that Brooke is a real person. Maybe they still believe in Santa too. It wouldn't surprise me. They all seem to be at the same intellectual level of a not very smart three-year-old. I have no idea why they would want Kelly to be on their show for years to get the ratings up, and when she finally comes and takes months off from her job at home they do nothing but try to bury the show completely so it's not even sure if it will last this season or they'll have to cancel it early. Way to go, trying to get the ratings up! And what a way to conduct themselves when the entire world is watching to see their only real international star. Shame on all of them for doing everything but judge the dancing and get the ratings up. To the rest of the world it doesn't seem like such a brainer, but then again we're not grumpy, ignorant old Italians with a very arrogant attitude or very jealous old-looking former dancers. There's only one man for Kelly and I guess the Italians can't get over that. Even if she had been single they wouldn't stand a chance anyway so they should just get over themselves. There's no hope for Italy until their entire generation dies out and let educated smart people with a vision take over.
Arleen Denis
Having worked and been to Italy over 30 times I am shocked at how rude the judges were ….ok so Kelly is not the greatest dancer, so what, she tried and is a wonderful actress and athlete…you can't do everything perfectly but really enough…hope she'll enjoy being off the show and still having some time in Italy!!
I really don't see what the big deal is about the judges coming down on Lang. It's a television show meant to draw in ratings and viewership and the judges acted much like Simon Crowell on American Idol did, they were brutally honest. Even Lang's most dedicated fans admit her dancing was rather bad. Were they hard on her? Of course. Did anyone expect them to act like Paula Abdul and be all "lovey dovey" to a bad dancer?Viewers don't want to see that, viewers want to see bad dancing given bad reviews. Lang is gorgeous for a woman her age, very fit and should be proud of her body, but let's face it, she had no rythem and couldn't find the beat.. To say her dancing was hard on the eyes is being nice. Going on her Twitter account and bashing the judges and asking her followers to do the same wasn't exactly mature, either. Lang's no teenager with sensitive feelings, if twenty five years of people saying how bad her acting skills are hasn't dented her ego, judges simply pointing out that her dancing was horrible sure shouldn't.
Katherine you are so admired for your courage to embark on something different other than acting. You are so extremely beautiful and talented. You deserve to be respected and in my opinion the judges owe you a huge apology. I am not impressed at all with the Italy version of DWTS even without their rude remarks. The Italy version is like a cheap shot at trying to be as classy as the American version of DWTS. The show is a miserable failure in comparison. You have way too much class to be associated with that show. Forget that show and come back to B&B where you are terribly missed by all your fans who adore you. B&B is not the same without you.
will Katherine return to B & B some day soon?…maybe after the dance thing?…I sure hope so:):)
Sharyl
I think they were jealous and mean. Katherine Kelly Lang is beautiful and a wonderful actress. She always looks amazing and is very classy. You go Katherine and never mind what they said. They were tacky and have no class. Love Katherine Kelly Lang always have.
Where can we see her other dances?
Sue Genest
Katherine Kelly Lang is a recognized star internationally and her participation in DWTS in Italy can only bring attention to this show! Judges should be made aware of any existing injuries and offer a critic of the dancing and motivate the dancer with suggestions on improvement and what they would like to see! Not throw vicious criticisms at her! She is there to participate and learn from the experience! Judges can bring negative or positive reactions to this show! I am disappointed with the rudeness and lack of professionalism presented! I had not heard that DWTS had an Italian show had it not been for Katherine! Someone had their own agenda going on here! I would like to see her dance again after six shows to see how her dance teacher brings her to a more defined and polished dancer! Judges you should be ashamed of yourselves!!!
Yes, she croaked on this one, but I thought Lang's other dance number to "My Everything" was outstanding! She did a cart wheel in stilettos, and the splits at the end of the number. To me, that displayed her talent and athleticism. Her rhythm looked to me like it was on the mark too. Check it out online! Very entertaining!
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