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"Philosophy and the Politics of Unreason"
Paul W. Kahn
Excerpts from Kahn's paper appear below.
Click here to read the complete paper with references.
Kahn's paper is a response to Stephen Holmes: "In Case of Emergency: Misunderstanding Tradeoffs in the War on Terror".
Once the state takes up the practice of killing and being killed, reason is not much of a guide to action, and law is not the boundary of political meaning. If the state performs its meaning through acts of sacrificial violence, it should not surprise us that it continues to fall into the pattern of "mistakes."
What seems counterproductive may be working in a different register of meaning. If the state is not trying to be reasonable in its pursuit of death over life, then we can understand why preaching reasonable reform rarely has much effect on state practices.
The response to an enemy willing to engage in his own acts of sacrifice is to humiliate, for humiliation is intended to break the sacrificial practices of the other. Mere violence is not a threat to the martyr; rather, it is an opportunity to realize meaning.
One wins in a sacrificial conflict only by moving the enemy from an experience of martyrdom to one of humiliation. A nation or people that experiences violence only as martyrdom and not as humiliation cannot be defeated, even if victory will take decades. This was the lesson the West should have learned from the wars of decolonization.
Stephen Holmes writes in praise of the rule of law, drawing our attention to the institutional wisdom embodied in our traditions of constitutional governance. Since these arguments all seem so reasonable, I always come back to the question: why does our government continue to act in ways that are so unreasonable? The answer, I will argue, is because reason is not the only measure of political action.
HOW RATIONAL ARE WE?
The fundamental assumption behind Holmes's analysis appears immediately in the example of his daughter, Alexa, in the hospital. The example works on the assumption that the ends of the state and the hospital are the same: to replace danger with security. For Holmes, saving his daughter's life is paradigmatic not just of rule-governed behavior, but of the appropriate end for the state. The story is straight out of liberal political theory.
Without rules, all of life would be a succession of accidents, for there could be no rational planning. The state tames nature and saves lives by enacting and following rules. In the hospital, these rules are protocols of treatment; in the state, these rules are laws.
Rules represent the presence of reason; adherence to the rules represents the commitment to reason over nature. Holmes wants us to see that deviation from the rules is irrational, since the consequence will likely be a return to a state of nature.
Hospital and state are two loci of a common project: to advance individual well-being. Thus, both hospital and state pursue a modern project of eliminating pain through the application of reason. Our paths divide at just this point, for I do not assume that the end of the state is to advance individual well-being.
I do not say that the state is indifferent to well-being, but that this is neither the sole, nor the most important, end for the state. If we were to look, without any theoretical presuppositions, at the histories of modern nation-states—including our own—I do not think we could say that the state is pursuing the same end as the hospital.
Regardless of its position on health care, the state is also an institution willing to deploy violence, death, and destruction. Our national narrative is organized around killing and being killed, at least as much as it is around the lowering of mortality rates or increasing gross domestic product. The federal government spends about as much on violent destruction as it does on health care.
Surely it has been a good deal easier to appropriate funds for the war in Iraq than it has been to extend health care to everyone. This is so even though everyone knows that we could have saved more lives by investing in health care the money that we instead spent in Iraq.
So what are we doing? Are we making "mistakes" or are we doing something else? If acts of violence are not merely the result of a failure of reason, Holmes may be applying the wrong measure. Liberal theory tells us that the state's interest is in advancing individual well-being—as if this end is the only common denominator upon which all can agree. If one takes this point of view, then one inevitably ends up arguing that the state often acts against its own end.
I approach politics as a set of practices sustained by beliefs. To use a term coined by Clifford Geertz, the state is a "web" of meanings. Its primary end is to sustain the world that those meanings constitute. The political is not an exercise in means-ends rationality, serving some extra-political end. Rather, it is a structure of the imagination that makes sense of experience by embedding it in narratives. To trace the web of meanings is to construct a narrative, failure of law, but must take up the question of how violence creates political meaning.
Too often, we succumb to a temptation to think that the violence of the state is merely aberrational or a burden imposed upon us by others—as if we really want to be something other than what we are. In a law school, we think that all state behavior should be measured by law, and that the object of law is security, not violence. But why do we think that? Are we confusing the state—the actual, not the theoretical state—with the hospital, which should indeed operate along the single normative metric of lives saved?
In the United States, the phenomenon of sacrifice remains at the very heart of political meaning. After 9/11, we chose war over law not because we judged it more efficient, but because we imagined a world populated by enemies, not criminals. Other states responded differently, not because they had different information—and not because they were more rational—but because they imagined the world differently.
In short, the state may not be pursuing the ends that Holmes assumes it to be pursuing. The economy of violence, of killing and being killed, may be one of waste and inefficiency from the perspective of our normal economy. Our ends may be mythical, not practical, as Holmes himself has recognized.
Speaking of national security may be just a polite way of speaking of the realization of meaning through the performance of violence. It may be the performance itself—not some goal outside of the violence—that is of most significance to us.
Holmes's account of psychological pathology blends easily into a partisan political narrative. Those in power failed, we are to believe, because they were not pure of heart. In America, to be pure of heart is to listen to the voice of reason, for our politics is surely to be understood as an Enlightenment project.
We fight our partisan battles through the rhetoric of public interest. The positions we oppose are always held by "special interests" or, to use the classical term, "factions." The party in power has failed to rise above personal circumstance; we, in the opposition, promise to reconstruct policy on the basis of reason alone. Accordingly, Holmes offers a platform of reasonable reform. Because he speaks in the language of reason, he can claim to speak for the common good.
Holmes pursues this ideal of a politics of reason down the predictable lines of American centrism. Reason will cure psychological temptation, whether grounded in individual failure of character or partisan ambition. The form of that cure will be procedural, and procedure is embodied in the institutions of legality. Not war, but law.
This deep belief in the intersection of reason and law is supported, in the American case, not just with the appeal to theory, but also by citing the founding fathers, who represent that miraculous moment at which reason and will were one.
All of this is an admirable demonstration of conviction on the part of Holmes: the conviction that the ends of the political community are to advance individual well-being, to secure a just order between individuals and the state, and to advance justice among states. Here, I choose my words carefully: this is all a matter of faith.
The term we often use for this faith is "the rule of law." I am not at all sure, however, that, standing alone, this describes the political faith of the American citizenry. I am quite sure that it fails as an adequate description of our political practices and beliefs.
Once the state takes up the practice of killing and being killed, reason is not much of a guide to action, and law is not the boundary of political meaning. If the state performs its meaning through acts of sacrificial violence, it should not surprise us that it continues to fall into the pattern of "mistakes" that Holmes identifies.
What seems irrational and counterproductive may be working in a different register of meaning. Politics in this broad sense is not a technical enterprise; it is not like a hospital. It is more like love: its end is to bring forth and sustain meaning in the world, and it is not necessarily moved by the claims of reason. To act counter to reason—that is, beyond the boundaries of reason—can be a measure of love.
If the state is not trying to be reasonable in its pursuit of death over life, then we can understand why preaching reasonable reform rarely has much effect on state practices. The sources of meaning at stake do not hold themselves accountable to reason. Affirming a lack of such accountability may be perfectly irrational but nevertheless wholly meaningful.
This is the starting point of religious faith for many: one does not test faith by reason. Setting ourselves the task of theoretical understanding, we may miss the phenomenon of political belief. People do not reason themselves to faith, whether in God or nation. They find themselves already entangled in a web of meanings.
THE ENDS OF THE POLITICAL
Of course, the liberal state does protect life, property, and well-being. Consider this the moment of law. But, in a crisis, this same state takes life, destroys property, and causes massive injury. Consider this the moment of sacrifice. The state reserves the right to claim every life and to consume all material wealth—public and private.
This is exactly the meaning of the total wars of the twentieth century—wars that systematically ignored the distinction of combatants from non-combatants. The distinction failed again in the wars of decolonization, and was completely abandoned in the Cold War threats of mutual assured destruction. Unsurprisingly, it is failing once more in the war on terror.
Popular sovereignty expresses itself one way in the rule of law: democratic procedures of law-making are intended to ground the legitimacy of positive law. Popular sovereignty expresses itself another way in the democratization of sacrifice. The modern democratic state did not just extend the franchise universally, it extended the imaginative possibility of sacrifice.
We need to understand our political culture as maintaining a commitment to both individual welfare through law and to sovereignty through sacrifice. We should resist claims of priority: each sees the whole from its own point of view. Each can displace the other, but is subject to displacement in turn.
What we find when we trace the web of meanings constitutive of the political imagination is not theoretical coherence in support of individual wellbeing. We find no priority given to reason; we do not even find a commitment to the principle of non-contradiction. We find that waste can be as meaningful as efficiency, that violence can be more important than security, that acting outside of the law can be as much a source of meaning as staying within law, and that humiliation competes with dignity as a norm of political behavior. We find, if we are honest, that we have the same capacities for killing, injuring, and humiliating that we see in the enemy.
Forget, for the moment, the aspiration for individual accountability under legal norms. Think instead of the actual practices of Western politics over the last two centuries. Over and over, political identity has been a ground of life or death: one died because one was German, French, or American.
One killed for the same reason. For the most part, those who killed and those who died were both morally innocent. As individuals, neither had offended the other. In the American Civil War, relatives and friends found themselves engaged in political acts of killing and being killed. They killed and died even as they remained friends.
CONCLUSION: PHILOSOPHY AND 9/11
The practices of killing and being killed for the state must be explained. They should be at the center of any philosophical account of our political experience. This is just the imaginative construction within which the 9/11 attack was framed.
The response to an enemy willing to engage in his own acts of sacrifice is to humiliate, for humiliation is intended to break the sacrificial practices of the other. Mere violence is not a threat to the martyr; rather, it is an opportunity to realize meaning. One wins in a sacrificial conflict only by moving the enemy from an experience of martyrdom to one of humiliation. A nation or people that experiences violence only as martyrdom and not as humiliation cannot be defeated, even if victory will take decades. This was the lesson the West should have learned from the wars of decolonization.
The experience of the failure of sacrifice is exactly the experience of humiliation. It is to admit defeat, to confess that one no longer believes. The practice of humiliation is the practice of torture, whether it meets the legal standard or not.


The flag of Trinidad and Tobago consists of a red base with an off centered black diagonal stripe originating in the top left corner and running across the flag. The black stripe is bordered on both sides.
Meaning: The red base represents the vigor of the land in Trinidad and Tobago, the friendliness and courage of its people, and the sun. The black represents the unity and strength of the people, as well as the natural wealth of the country. The white represents the surrounding sea and the purity and equality of all people under the sun. Together, the colors represent earth, water and fire, which connect the nation's people to the past present and future.
History: The flag of Trinidad and Tobago was adopted on August 31, 1962 when Trinidad and Tobago gained independence from Britain.
Interesting Facts: The flag was designed by the Trinidad and Tobago Independence Committee in 1962 (source: worldflags101).


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Hannah Elias NYC casting complete!
AAPEX has put together a stellar cast of Broadway veterans for
The Players Club reading of
Nathan Ross Freeman's
Hannah Elias.
Because of limited seating at the legendary Players Club, seating is going fast.
RSVP now to gumsandals@yahoo.com
*Indicates member of Actors Equity
Leilani Bryant
as Hannah Elias
She has performed on Broadway in the musical The Color Purple. She has also performed in the Broadway musical Show Boat, a benefit concert for Carnegie Hall. Other accomplishments include featured vocalist for Music Under the Stars with the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra, as well as featured vocalist for the Florida Jasper Awards. Leliani is a native of Jacksonville, FL. *
Tobi Kanter
as Belle Marshall
After a spate of playing under-five and principal roles as Irish-heritage police officers on all the New York soaps, Tobi Kanter has graduated to the role of Irish maid. (Her Lithuanian and Hungarian grandparents are rolling in their graves, but Tobi's having the time of her life!) She was last seen as Tanta Rose in the WorkShop Theater Company's full production of Martin Sherman's Messiah and the Polish Snuff Film Victim in Loren Marsh's black comedy movie, Invitation to a Suicide, as well as roles in Woody Allen's Celebrity, The Jane Pauley Show, HBO's Earthly Possessions and Saturday Night Live. SAG, AFTRA, AEA. *
Jerome P. Bates
as Cornelius Williams
Jerome Preston Bates created the role of Floyd Barton in the world premiere of August Wilson's Seven Guitars at Chicago's Goodman Theatre. He has appeared in King Lear at Classical Theatre of Harlem and at the Folgers in Washington, DC. His television credits include NYPD Blue, All My Children, One Life to Live, as well as numerous appearances on NBC's Third Watch and Law & Order. He appeared in the remake of the 1970's classic Shaft, starring Samuel L. Jackson and HBO's original series Oz. He directed Eddy P, from the Oedipus Project as seen through the eyes of the Black Panthers Party. His play Electric Lady is about Jimi Hendrix. *
Stu Richel
as Andrew H. Green & John R. Platt
NYC theatre: Merry Wives of Windsor (Lion), Autoeroticism in Detroit (Blue Heron), The Lower Depths (Manhattan Ensemble Theatre), Slaughter City (WOW Café), The Philanderer (Jan Hus), East Village Chronicles (Metropolitan Playhouse), and Bag Fulla Money (Clurman). Principle roles in 22 indie films, including Death in Love (Sundance 2008; Jacqueline Bisset's husband), Sexland (with Dan Fogler) and Hiding Divya (Madhur Jaffrey's companion). TV: 30 Rock (Alex Baldwin's boss), As the World Turns and One Life To Live. In earlier lives...a corporate attorney...and combat photographer with the 1st Infantry Division.*
Liliane Klein
as Red Head Maid & Brunette Maid
NYC: Me and My Girl (McGinn/Cazale Theatre, Musicals Tonight!), I Wanna Be Rosie (La Mama, E.T.C.), The Greeks (MET, IMUA!), Narative Intervention (Here, IMUA!), Do I Hear $5? (St. Clements). National Tours: Titanic(Candlewood), Scrooge (NYSO), Cyrano De Bergerac (NTAE), The Little Prince (NTPA), Tikki Tikki Tembo & Friends (StorySalad). Liliane plays Terry the Turtle on Kid Fitness (PBS). Recording: Stage Stars Gypsy (Mama Rose). Training: Boston University (BFA). Member: AEA, SAG, CFS, NJ Rep, The Players.*
Jessica Fontaine
as Clara Elias-Hudson
Jessica Fontaine is blessed to be back on stage for her fifth production this year. After earning a BFA at Howard University, Jessica moved back to New York with one thing on her mind: becoming a working actress. Theatre credits include The Sanctuary, an Off-Broadway production at The American Theatre for Actors. She stunned people as little old Birdie Lee in Tambourines To Glory. Her debut lead role was in Antigone Assata Shakur. Jessica's consistency and determination for acting stems from her belief that "with God all things are possible" and gives thanks to her family for their unconditional support. www.nycastings.com/msfontaine.
Jonathan Marbelli
as Detective 1
Past theatre work includes: Mr. Bumble in Berkeley Repertory's Oliver Twist (understudy), Benjamin Cohen in the Contemporary American Theatre Co's production of The Underpants, Walter in Keely & Du,Williamson in Glengarry Glen Ross, Roderigo in Othello, and Yovan in Division Street. Television: Made-for-TV movie Skin Complex. You may also see Jon in the upcoming web-series pilot Penelope's Playland. Jon would like to thank his loving, devoted, and supportive family and friends. Above all he thanks God for-- well-- everything.
Nick Raio
Nick Raio is a Bronx born New York based actor/writer and member of SAG, AEA, AFTRA and the Dramatists Guild. Nick will be on the season premiere of Rescue Me as the AA group leader. Other TV credits include The Sopranos, Law & Order: CI, America's Most Wanted, numerous soap operas and commercials. Films presently available on DVD include One-Third, Invitation to a Suicide, Mob Queen and Unsavory Characters. He is Nick of Nick's Commercials and Guile in Street Fighter: The Later Years on the College Humor website. For links to Nick's work go to:http://www.nickraio.com/. Nick can be contacted at nickraio@rcn.com. *
Eric Bondoc
as Kato
Broadway: Pacific Overtures. Favorites: Rizal, a one-person play about the Philippine National Hero; Where Elephants Weep, the first known Cambodian rock opera; Road Dreams, a cabaret about his 800-mile solo bicycle trip from Arizona to California; Ariel in The Tempest; title roles in M. Butterfly and Peter Pan. Regional Theatres include: The Guthrie; Actors Theatre of Louisville; The Alliance, The O'Neill; North Shore Music Theatre, Bay Street Theatre; Flat Rock Playhouse, George Street Playhouse, Cincinnati Playhouse; Triad Stage, Sacramento Music Circus. *
Passion has directed more than 30 productions and has been critically acclaimed as "creative" and "stunning." As Artistic Director of the New Jersey Performing Arts Center Young Writers' Workshop, she recently directed Just Imagine at NJPAC's Victoria Theater. She directed Tony Award winner Melba Moore in Sweet Songs of the Soul at the Bermuda Festival and directed the cast of Real Black Men Don't Sit Cross-Legged On The Floor to rave reviews and standing ovations. Under her guidance both productions received AUDELCO Awards. She is a private coach, educator and new filmmaker. Passion is the producer and director of DramaMamas! The Film, Black Women Theatre Directors in the Spotlight and Remembered. She welcomes your support of her feature-length documentary at dramamamasthefilm.org.
(Playwright)
Author, Director, Producer of the Independent Feature Film, Mr. Bones, the Official Selection of the following festivals: San Francisco Black, National Black Theatre, Indie Memphis, Southern Appalachian International Film (Best Drama/Edit), Black Disapora (Durham, NC), Cackalacky (Charlotte, NC), Sweet Auburn International Film Festival (Best Feature), and NYC Festivals. Francine, Official Selection of the New York Short Film Festival. Hannah Elias screenplay runner up at the 2005 San Francisco Black Film Festival Screenplay Contest. Awarded the 1997 North Carolina Arts Council Playwrights Fellowship for Hannah Elias. Founder of Montage Showcase Ensemble and Assegai Film Group. Mr. Freeman also teaches professional acting. He was awarded B.E.S.T. Outstanding Faculty as a member of the Intensive Writing Faculty teaching screenwriting/playwriting at the University of North Carolina. Currently Mr. Freeman is a member of the NC Humanities Speakers Bureau and Co-Founder and Artistic Director of the Winston-Salem Youth Arts Institute. http://www.nathanrossfreeman.com/
Frenchie La'Vern
(Costume Designer & Cutter/Draper)
Frenchie graduated from North Carolina School of the Arts with a degree in Design and Production. During the last 10 years, Frenchie has worked in theater and film. She has enjoyed an ongoing professional affiliation with Nathan Ross Freeman since signing on as the Designer of costumes, hair and make up for Mr. Bones. Her most recent film credits are Lost Stallion: The Journey Home and Westerly, both do for release in 2008. Her most recent professional credits include Ethel Waters: His Eye Is On The Sparrow, starring Broadway veteran Jannie Jones, directed by Broadway veteran Mable Robinson and produced by the North Carolina Black Repertory Theatre. Regarding the NCBR, Frenchie has mounted the Black Nativity for seven seasons. Her work was also seen on productions by the Community Theater of Greensboro, Duke University, North Carolina Shakespeare Festival, and The Barn Dinner Theatre of Greensboro, the oldest continuously operating dinner theatre in America.
Thierry Saintine
(Stage Manager)
Thierry Saintine is a graduate of City College Theatre and Speech Program. He has made appearances on several New York City stages and screens and is determined to keep the arts and performing arts alive within and around him.
Labels: Hannah Elias, Liliane Klein, Nathan Ross Freeman
AAPEX Mixer at Playwright Tavern 6/12 (NYC)
AAPEX Mixer
7 - 10 pm
The Playwright Tavern
(Broadway/W49th)
There is more than one Playwright Tavern, so don't get confused!
Looking forward to meeting everyone. If you have a show going on, please bring your cast so that we can meet and know them. We can't do what we do without actors!
Also, Film Makers - I will have information on the Nashville International Black Film Festival and am honored to be on the staff of IBFF 2008.
I won't be checking emails while I am in New York, so if you can't make June 12, please be sure and email me your phone number so that I can contact you while I am there.
Labels: AAPEX Mixer
Henry Meyerson's JUMP JIM CROW opens 6/17 (NYC)
Michael Gnat
The following dates are currently available.
July 17th, 6:15
Tix purchased at the box office are $18/per.Tix purchased through the playwright are $15/per. For the discount, contact: hank@henrymeyerson.com
Labels: Henry Meyerson
James Gary, Jr. stars in FORGIVE ME? 6/6 (NYC)
Mr. Jimmy Gary, who did a stellar job for AAPEX in the reading of BILLIE'S BLUES, is doing a reading of what sounds like a really interesting new play on June 6th. If you can make it, I highly recommend you check it out.
Labels: Forgive Me?
GEORGIA THEATRE CONFERENCE 2008 ONE ACT PLAY COMPETITION 8/30 Deadline
The Georgia Theatre Conference, the official theatre organization for the state of Georgia, is now taking submissions for its annual One Act Play Competition. Plays may be submitted in two categories: Secondary and Post-Secondary. There is a $150.00 prize for the winner in the Secondary category. The winner in the Post-Secondary play category will receive a $250.00 prize and will also be performed as a staged reading at the Georgia Theatre Conference convention held in Albany, GA, October 16-19, 2008. Guidelines are listed below:
Plays submitted in the Secondary category must have been written before the playwright graduated from High School or while they were younger than 19 years of age. All other plays submitted must be entered in the Post-Secondary category.
Play submissions must be one act only. Full length scripts and musicals are not acceptable. Multiple submissions are allowed.
One act submissions must not have been previously performed or have received formal readings or staging.
Plays should be typed in size 12 font, approximately 50 pages in length, running-time no longer than one hour, and limited to 10 or fewer characters.
All entries must be postmarked by August 30, 2008.
Three non-returnable copies of each submission must be included for consideration. Please be sure to include current address, telephone, and email address.
Please send all entries to:
Dr. Jimmy Bickerstaff
Assistant Professor of Theatre
Department of Communication Arts
1500 North Patterson Street
jbickerstaff@40valdosta.edu
Nathan Ross Freeman's MR. BONES wins Best Drama at Sweet Auburn Film Fest!
Nathan Ross Freeman, author of HANNAH ELIAS, won Best Drama for MR. BONES at the Sweet Auburn Film Festival in downtown Atlanta. Congratulations, Nat!
Seats are going fast for AAPEX's Hannah Elias reading at the legendary Players Club in NYC June 17th. Leilani N. Bryant, direct from Broadway's The Color Purple, is starring in the titular role. RSVP ASAP to jazmn47@aol.com.
AAPEX Writers Open And Close Downtown Urban Theater Fest 6/18-29 (NYC)
Jamal Williams' OSAGE AVENUE and Hershell Norwood's BILLIE'S BLUES open and close the Downtown Urban Theater Festival June 18-29th at the Cherry Lane Theater in NYC. Congratulations, Jamal and Hershell! For more information, click here.
Labels: Downtown Urban Theater Festival, Hershell Norwood, Jamal Wiliams
Von Washington's CONSPIRACY Premieres 5/23 (Kalamazoo)
Labels: Black Arts Cultural Center, Von Washington
Stranger In My Body 5/20 (NYC)
Brecht Forum
451 West Street, NY, NY 10031
(off the West Side Highway, between Bank and Bethune)
Stranger in My Body
A young black woman struggling with her own religion and sexuality must negotiate her love relationship with a female-to-male transgender person.
Ira Sharay-Kip
Chaelon Costello, Melissa Joyner and Tai Verley
A brief talk-back will follow the reading.Donations will be accepted for the wine and cheese reception followingthe talk-back. It is being sponsored by the Brecht Forum. Brecht Forum is located on the West Side Highway between Bank and Bethune (right behind the New School for Drama!) For more information on the Brecht Forum, visit them on the web: http://www.brechtforum.org/
THANK YOU!!! We look forward to your attendance! Contact: Garlia C. Jones garlia.jones@gmail.com. 586-747-2108
Labels: Garlia Cornelia Jones
Fredric Michaels
Acting career started in 1997 when he became a member of The American Theatre of Harlem (ATH). Since then Michaels has worked as actor and technician on such productions as A Street Car Named Desire, The Colored Museum, Bus Stop and Work Day. Michaels is also currently featured in the soon-to-be-released independent film Betrayal and webisodes of Live Mansion (to be released in conjunction with the film) and True Love.
STAGED READING TO BENEFIT HOWARD UNIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND 3/31 (DC)
The Essential Theatre's New Play Reading Series will present the final public reading of, King Willie, by Jamal Williams, on Saturday, May 31st at 3:00 P.M. The reading will be held at the historic H Street Playhouse located at 1365 H Street, NE, in the Capitol Hill area. A portion of the proceeds from this reading will benefit the Yvonne Olivia Lee Memorial Scholarship Fund for women studying Theatre Arts in the Department of Theatre Arts at Howard University. Admission to this and each presentation is Pay-What-You- Can. The suggested donation is $15. Adult language and themes! There will be a post-performance discussion for each reading with the director and Playwright.
Yvonne Olivia Lee, Esq. (1963-2007) Howard University Alumina is a graduate of the class of 1985. She originated the role of Aunt Mary during the development of, King Willie, under the aegis of the New Play Reading Series. The personification of university motto: Truth and Service, Attorney Lee originally arrived at Howard to study Theatre Arts in the College of Fine Arts. She later changed her major course of study to Broadcast Management. Continuing her education, she received a law degree and in 1998 began working as an Attorney for the United States Department of Justice. During the two years prior to her death she fought for her life against pancreatic cancer. Unaware of her condition we telephoned her the day before she transitioned to perform in the annual winter workshop reading of, King Willie. Despite her pain she indicated her interest and asked to be telephoned on the next day. On the Next day, November 24, 2007, Yvonne Olivia Lee departed this earth. While she and her characterization of Aunt Mary will be gravely missed, we celebrate her in a manner that will eternally inspire, educate and change lives.
The New Play Reading Series is created to give voice to the work of new and established playwrights. It is in substance an incubator that serves to nurture the work for a three-year period in a supportive and collaborative environment with other artisans, actors and directors. Further, it is a forum where audience members are welcomed to engage in an open dialogue with the playwright and director about the issues presented in the material as well as techniques used to present them. The New Play Reading Series was initiated in the spring of 1992. The first play that was presented as part of the process was Howard University Alumnus, Mark Green's Just One Time.
The Essential Theatre is a non-profit professional theatre dedicated, but not limited to producing theatre reflective of the African-American experience, that speaks distinctly from an African-American voice. It is also an objective of the theatre to produce programs for youth in the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan area that promote interdisciplinary education and positive levels of self-esteem.
Additional Readings:
Bluff Street
By Sarah Moon (first reading)
Saturday May 31st
H Street Playhouse
Admission: Pay What You Can
Stuck In Winnemucca
By Robert Alexander (first reading)
Sunday June 1st
For more info contact (202) 328-0569 or E-mail theessentialtheatre@40hotmail.com.
Labels: Howard University Scholarship Fund
The COALITION OF THEATRES OF COLOR Town Hall Meeting 5/18 (NYC)
Making Our Future & Honoring Our Past
WHO: The Coalition of Theatres of Color
Cordially invites you to
A TOWN HALL MEETING
WHAT: A Conversation with New York Theatres of Color
sharing concerns regarding the issue of sustainability
WHEN: Sunday, May 18, 2008 – 2:00 PM
Press Conference at 4:30 pm
WHERE: Little Shubert Theater
422 West 42nd Street (Between 9th & 10th Avenues)
Master of Ceremonies:
Bob Law, Entrepreneur/Activist
Guest Moderators: Gil Nobel, Host/Producer, "Like it Is" ABC-TV / Felipe Luciano, Journalist/Activist
Imhotep Gary Byrd, Radio Host, WBLS-FM and WBAI-FM
Panelists: Carl Clay - CTC Co-Chair (Black Spectrum Theatre) / Woodie King, Jr. - CTC Chair (New Federal Theatre) Dr. Barbara Ann Teer - CTC Co-Chair (National Black Theatre) / Lorna Hill - (Ujima Theatre) / Richard Marino (Teatro Sea) / Voza Rivers - (New Heritage Theatre) / Marjorie Moon -CTC Co-Chair (Billie Holiday Theatre)
Special Guest Celebrity:
2008 Oscar Nominee, Ms. Ruby Dee
Guest Performance: IMPACT Repertory Theatre, also 2008 Oscar Nominee
RSVP Required: 212-926-2550 ext 21 or
Register online at www.NewHeritageTheatre.org
Labels: New Heritage Theatre, Town Hall Meeting
Nashville International Black Film Festival Call for Films 7/31 Deadline
I am delighted that festival founder Hazel Joyner Smith has asked me to serve on the staff for this year's festival. I am forwarding information about this year's Nashville International Black Film Festival. Please forward this on to your film maker friends. For more information, please click here.
Labels: Nashville International Black Film Festival
THE BLACKS at Karamu House review (Cleveland)
Karamu's THE BLACKS is an artistic triumph!
Reviewed by: Fran Heller, Cleveland Jewish News
It was like nothing I had ever seen before.
I am talking about The Blacks: a clown show, Jean Genet's 1958 absurdist comedy-drama which took off-Broadway by storm in 1961. A story about race and a fierce indictment of classism and white oppression of blacks, it struck a nerve in the turbulent era of nascent Black Nationalism and civil rights.
Fast forward to Karamu Performing Arts Theatre, where almost five decades later, a new production of The Blacks has lost none of its sting or sardonic humor under the fiercely intelligent and creative direction of Terrence Spivey. It runs through May 10.
It is a tribute to artistic director Spivey that his all-black cast of 13 non-Equity actors have not only met but surpassed the challenge of putting on this fiendishly difficult and demanding show. This ensemble acts its heart out and is a pleasure to watch.
In his preface to the play, Genet wrote: "One evening an actor asked me to write a play for an all-black cast. But what exactly is a black? First of all, what's his color?" For Genet -- and a key to understanding his play-- any notion of color is absurd or meaningless.
Written as a play-within- a-play-within- a-play, the theater piece is a surreal mix of allegory, fantasy, symbolism and fragmented language and, like expressionism, more felt than fully understood. A running time of three hours, including intermission, requires some tenacity.
The bawdy in-your-face dramedy lampoons stereotypical attitudes on both sides of the color divide, namely the sexual attraction between whites and blacks. It takes us into the very heart of darkness, which is Africa, where colonialism, racism and hatred all began.
John Konopka's fabulous set is a cross between a funeral parlor and a courtroom, with audience members situated on both sides of a thrust stage, like a jury. In the center is a catafalque, or coffin-like structure, covered with a white cloth and a bouquet of lilies.
First to enter are the members of the Court. They are the whites (black actors wearing white masks), their smug superiority evident in their courtly airs and arrogant behavior. Next to arrive are the rowdy Negroes, who will re-enact for the Court the ritualistic murder of a white woman, of which they have been accused.
Bathed in Richard H. Morris Jr.'s fiery red glow, the Negroes file in like prisoners on a chain gang. It's a stunning tableau, the first of many that make this production unique.
Harold Crawford's sensational costumes and masks are a riveting study in black and white. Nothing has been spared in his rapturous designs, from the Queen's snow-white wedding gown and cascading mop of blonde curls to the prostitute's black bodice and the ringmaster's tux.
The intimate setting of the Arena theater, the smaller of Karamu's two performance spaces, is ideal for the kangaroo court setting in which the whites are situated on a platform above the stage, with the blacks placed below. The Negroes interact with audience members, pulling them into the entertainment.
The cast, individually and as an ensemble, reflects the discipline and hard work such physical theater requires. Jason Dixon is outstanding as the malevolent leader of the Negroes, Archibald Absalom Wellington. With his face painted like a clown and his manic grin a cross between a sneer and a smile, Dixon summons an image of the decadent master of ceremonies in "Cabaret."
Joseph Primes is equally memorable as the hotheaded Village, who loves the prostitute Virtue (the fetchingly seductive Andrea Belser). Neal Hodges impersonates a man of the cloth called Diouf, whose turn it is to play the white woman about to be raped and murdered.
The rest of the Negroes (fine performances all) include Michael R. Brown Jr, Janelle K. Tate, Erin Neal, and Saidah Mitchell as Felicity Trollop Pardon, an African prophetess who augurs an idyllic future when "everything gentle and kind and beautiful and tender will be black."
Members of the Court are Vernon-Reed Bulluck as the lascivious Governor, Jason Walker as the hypocritical Missionary, Dwayne Owens as the prejudicial Judge, Doug Pratt as a whining Valet, and Morris Cammon as the vulgar Queen who knits a pearly white sweater or strokes her snow-white dog when she isn't snoring.
In a production in which pantomime and movement play a key role, director Spivey's rampant imagination and inspired choreography are boundless. Though long and disorienting (as much a function of the play as written), the circus-like atmosphere keeps one's attention from flagging.
Genet wrote The Blacks as an indictment of French colonialism in Africa. But the parallels with the African-American experience, including slavery, racism, class prejudice, and a biased judicial system are unmistakably clear. While the historic injustices Genet rails against have been addressed in part, his play is a reminder that the color of one's skin is still very much a divisive issue.
Karamu Performing Arts Theatre is at 2355 East 89th St., Cleveland. 216-795-7077 or http://www.karamu.com/.
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As a parent I have strived to foster my children's learning in anyway possible. My husband and I have been reading to them since they were infants! They are learning something new everyday. Recently, I have been thinking more about how much teaching and learning has drastically changed throughout the years. When I was younger almost everything we learned was from books, teachers and parents. Now our children live in a society where knowledge is abundant and the internet is one of the biggest tools for education. The internet can be a blessing and curse and it is a parents responsibility to reign in that knowledge by utilizing the best way we can for our children's development.
With our world changing so rapidly, the way we soak in knowledge is changing as well. Smartphones and iPad devices are a newer concept and companies have been taking a new look at how our children learn and develop. Although learning apps for kids have been out for years they were not greeted warmly by pediatric groups. For most of the existence groups like the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) state that children should not have screen time at all. However more and more studies are showing that screen time can actually be beneficial for children and pediatric groups are becoming more relaxed with the rules they first set. Currently the AAP recommends families to develop media plans for your family that takes into account their health, education and entertainment needs. You can develop your media plans here for your family. Depending on your child's age they also have limits on how much screen time your child should be taking in each day.
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Thirty-seven South Carolina communities have passed smokefree ordinances. Now Smoke Free Lowcountry Coalition (SFC) and the South Carolina African American Tobacco Control Network (SCAATCN) are working to ensure that Summerville workers have the same protection from secondhand smoke exposure on the job. A successful smokefree ordinance in Summerville will bring the total to 38 municipalities and cover more than 1,400,000 South Carolinians. Locally, Charleston, Sullivan's Island, Mt. Pleasant, Isle of Palms, Hollywood and Ravenel are covered by smokefree laws.
Dianne Wilson, Executive Director of SCAATCN, announced: "The proposed ordinance would prohibit smoking in indoor workplaces, including restaurants and bars." Currently, 74.1 % of Americans are covered by some kind of smokefree workplace ordinance. There are 3,173 municipalities that have passed laws that restrict where smoking is allowed, and 22 states have a law in effect that prohibits smoking in workplaces, restaurants and bars.
"I do not believe it is an employer's right to put his employee's health at risk, neither do I think an employee should have to choose between their health and their job," said Dawson. "Any other business practice that involves toxic substances or dangerous health conditions must make accommodations to protect their employees. This is no different."
Health officials have blamed secondhand smoke for approximately 45,000 deaths each year among adult nonsmokers in the United States1, and for more than 46,000 heart disease deaths yearly2.
The first reading of the ordinance will take place at Summerville Town Hall (200 South Main Street) on Wednesday, December 8 at 7:30 p.m., during a town council meeting. A second and final reading is slated to take place Wednesday, January 12.
The non-profit Smoke Free Lowcountry Coalition is comprised of various organizations including the American Cancer Society, The America Lung Association, SCDHEC and concerned individuals dedicated to reducing the toll of tobacco use in the tri-county area, providing public awareness and education and effecting policy change. For more information, visit www.smokefreelowcountry.org or call 843-364-2635.
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Achille Corona (1914–1979) was an Italian socialist politician, lawyer and journalist. He served at the Italian Parliament and Senate. He was the minister of tourism and entertainment in the first, second and third cabinet of Prime Minister Aldo Moro between 1963 and 1968. He was the first socialist politician who held the post in Italy.

Biography
Corona was born in Rome on 30 July 1914. He received a degree in law. He joined the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) in 1933. Corona became editor-in-chief of Avanti! newspaper during the Nazi occupation of Rome. He was active in the Roman Resistance. He was arrested by the Nazis and imprisoned in Regina Coeli. After the Liberation he and Tullio Vecchietti together with others formed the group of Proletarian Unity in Rome. Corona was elected deputy for the PSI in the 1948 elections. From 1951 to 1958 he was also socialist municipal councilor of Pesaro.

Corona served as the head of the Local Authorities Office and of the International Office of the Directorate of the Italian Socialist Party. He was re-elected deputy in the years 1958, 1963 and 1968. He became a senator in 1972. He was appointed minister of tourism and entertainment to the cabinet led by Prime Minister Aldo Moro which he held between 1963 and 1968. Corona was part of the cabinet of Prime Minister Mariano Rumor as minister of environment in the period between 6 July 1973 and 13 March 1974. He died in Rome on 23 November 1979.

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Malangen är en socken (sogn) och tidigare kommun i Troms fylke i norra Norge, på östsidan av fjorden Malangen. Den tidigare kommunen omfattade 372 km² och hade när den upplöstes  invånare.

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Den 1 januari 1873 överfördes en mindre del av kommunen (med 287 invånare) till Tromsøysunds kommun och 1891 överfördes en annan mindre del (några fastigheter i Målsnes med 30 invånare) från Målselvs kommun till kommunen.

Kommunen upplöstes och delades den 1 januari 1964 när större delen (med  invånare) fördes till Balsfjords kommun medan området väster om Aursfjorden (Naveren og Målsnes med 118 invånare) fördes till Målselvs kommun.

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On April 9th, 2021, beloved Prince Philip died at the age of 99. The announcement was made at the official age of the Royal Family at 13.05. saying
'It is with deep sorrow that Her Majesty The Queen announces the death of her beloved husband, His Royal Highness The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
His Royal Highness passed away peacefully this morning at Windsor Castle.
Further announcements will be made in due course.
The Royal Family joins with people around the world in mourning his loss.'
Deeply saddened by the news of the passing of Prince Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh, here are some of the most memorable moments of his life.
● Prince Philip was born in Corfu, Greece on June 10, 1921, as Philip, prince of Greece and Denmark. He was born into the Greek and Danish royal families, his father being Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark and his mother Princess Alice.
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● After he served in World War II, King George promised Princess Elizabeth's hand. Before the announcement of their engagement, Prince Philip abandoned his Greek and Danish titles and became a neutral British subject.
● The night before their wedding, Prince was granted the style His Royal Highness and became a Knight of the Garter, Baron Greenwich, Earl of Merioneth, and the Duke of Edinburgh.
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● When his wife became Queen Elizabeth, after her father's death, the Duke left active military service and started working as a Royal member.
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● The Prince and the Queen have 4 children, Charles, Prince of Wales, Anne, Princess Royal, Prince Andrew, Duke of York, and Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex.
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● The Royal couple has eight grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren up to this day.
● Prince Philip was the busiest working Royal, having around 22,000 solo engagements since he became the Prince. That is why he retired on August 2, 2017. He would still accompany the Queen to some Royal engagements.
● On January 9th, 2021, the Prince and the Queen were vaccinated against Covid-19.
● On February 16th, he was admitted to King Edward VII's Hospital.
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The Devil Wears Prada Review
Every third movie or so, Meryl Streep does something swell - and effortless, which isn't one of her defining qualities - to renew her membership in the Great Actress pantheon. "The Devil Wears Prada," a surprisingly sharp adaptation of the Lauren Weisberger bestseller, features Streep as Miranda Priestly, monstrously self-centered editor of the Vogue-like Runway magazine. It's an occasion for Streep to play against a stereotype, and win. It's a rout, in fact.
Lowering both her voice and her destroy-the-minion gaze, Streep adds lethal dashes of imperious nastiness as well as subtle pathos to a potentially monotonous gorgon. No "potentially" about it on the page: Weisberger's popular 2003 plane-and-beach title went on to claim awards for "the whiniest book set in Manhattan publishing world ever" and "whiniest book in history, period." The young author based her tell-all on an unhappy stint as underling of Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour. It came out at the tail end of America's "Sex and the City"-fed obsession with Jimmy Choo pumps, which I may look into someday if our old sump pump ever gives out.
Weisberger treated Miranda as a fashion fascist version of Tom, of "Tom and Jerry" cartoon fame, with less overt violence. The character we were supposed to be rooting for, personal assistant Andrea "Andy" Sachs, was Jerry the mouse, her innate good cheer ground into powder by her newfound, eating-disordered environs, but triumphant in the end. "The Devil Wears Prada" had no sex, scant zingers and only its hiss-the-boss and roman a clef angles to push it through to bestsellerdom.
Wisely, screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna and director David Frankel have retained the book's title and premise and scrapped most of the rest. It's a loose adaptation and far better as a result. Anne Hathaway makes an ingratiating Andrea, who yearns for a career as a writer but decides in the meantime to accept the personal-assistant job at Runway. Hathaway knows how to get an audience on her side - she's likable and funny. Upon hearing she is to accompany the silver-haired meanie Miranda to Paris for the annual fashion show, Hathaway delivers a quick series of sputters and snorts that make sense in character terms and make you, the viewer, smile.
Stanley Tucci dines out on the role of Andrea's mentor and sounding board, Nigel. (Like Miranda, this originally British character has been Americanized.) Tucci times every predictable gay-confidant jape so unerringly, even the scenes that go nowhere in particular have a nice tang to them. He accomplishes in his role what Streep accomplishes in hers, cutting a human being out of the cloth of cliche. Early on, Streep has a scene with Hathaway wherein she explains where Andrea's unfashionable turquoise sweater fits in the overall fashion food chain, and why. (All credit to screenwriter McKenna for her finesse here.) The movie works because of this speech, and the way Streep underplays it. And for proof of what a wily performer can do simply by casting a line so it arches downward before hitting its target, listen to how Streep's Miranda tosses off the insult: "It's just baffling to me."
As Andrea starts changing her image, wardrobe and priorities to suit her heinous new job, she dresses more and more like a Cher-hair drag queen. The film doesn't quite have the perspective to make fun of this. The film does, however, find a way to integrate one-third of its romantic triangle - rich, bad-boy writer Christian, played by Simon Baker - into the plot more effectively. (The other third of the triangle, Andrea's live-in boyfriend, is played by "Entourage" regular Adrian Grenier.)
Director Frankel's movie is piffle, but it's piffle with a lively sense of humor. "Don't make me feed you to the one of the models," Nigel threatens at one point. Consider "The Devil Wears Prada" an attractive makeover of the original.
"The Devil Wears Prada"
Directed by David Frankel; screenplay by Aline Brosh McKenna, based on the book by Lauren Weisberger; cinematography by Florian Ballhaus; edited by Mark Livolsi; production design by Jess Gonchor; music by Theodore Shapiro; produced by Wendy Finerman. A Fox 2000 Pictures release; opens Friday, June 30. Running time: 1:46. MPAA rating: PG-13 (some sensuality).
Miranda Priestly - Meryl Streep
Andrea Sachs - Anne Hathaway
Emily - Emily Blunt
Nigel - Stanley Tucci
Christian - Simon Baker
Nate - Adrian Grenier


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After an accident almost a decade ago, I had rib and intercoastal damage that other health professionals had not diagnosed. Tlahui not only identified the issue, but helped me down a path of rehab, healing, and ultimately becoming a stronger, happier me.
Movement trainer: the movement training was an amazing experience. Tlahui explained to me in a very good way the complexity behind the human body and thus made me aware of my own body and how to observe it. He was very attentive to me and managed to help me in a short period of time. I strongly recommend him. The movement training helped me better understand my body and improve issues I was experiencing.
Life coach: As a life coach Tlahui listened always very carefully to me and shared in a very frank way his opinion. This made the communication open and full of trust. He assisted me in understanding situations and people better. At the end I was with better awareness about myself. I strongly recommend Tlahui.
I met Tlahui last September (2017) and we were talking about working out and different types of exercising.
He then asked me to "stand up with the best posture I could", so I did (according what I thought was correct and to the best of my abilities), at that moment I realized that I couldn't even stand properly.
So I decided to train with him because I have tried so many things before but I was still overweight and my posture was terrible to say the least.
He started by explaining his method to lose weight and working out. I couldn't believe it what he was telling. It was the opposite of everything I believe and thought to be "right". I thought "this guy is crazy" but why not to try something new?
So I decided to trust him and trained with him for 6 months straight. With his diet and intermittent fasting I'm having a new life style. I was able to lose 14 kg in only 3.5 months, without any suffering!
I really wanna thank Tlahui, because more than a coach he became my friend, brother and mentor in life.
I lost weight but that wasn't the only good thing. My posture improved a lot. His method movement is so good for our body!
We started from the basic things, such as learning how to breathe. Follow up by his movements that at first I said to myself how on earth this will improve my mobility and strength, but well the rest is history. When I saw my before and after pics after only 3 months I was floored by the improvements!
My lower back, neck and knees always hurt due to the long hours standing while teaching, were soon gone.
Ar first I could hold a seating squat for around 30 seconds of squats but after a few months I was able to stay in deep squat for up to 15 min of squats without having any pain. I was able to stretch for longer time and with more range of mobility.
It is really impressive how the human body is.
THANK YOU Tlahui for everything. If you guys want a really good coach he is the one. 90% is how you eat and 10% of exercise. Not everyone can make you lose weight and improve in a holistic way. We haven't finished yet, there is more to come.
I had the pleasure to meet Tlahui during some health workshops (Movement – Animal Walks, Nutrition, Acroyoga, Healthy Drinks) that we were lucky to organize in my company (international insurance group). not only my colleagues were extremely happy and satisfied with the workshops, but also i have changed my dietary habits, challenged my own beliefs on food, and made some decisions on daily products that, the way i see it, are going to reproduced for life. What i like more about Tlahui is that he is always inspiring us to take our body and our nutrition serious, and to research and challenge every statements until we find the perfect balance. We will be very happy to welcome him again with more workshops this year. Its just amazing!
Everyday I meet people who are far wiser than I in some,(usually many) aspects of life, there are a lot of brilliant people out there. Today I will talk a little about one of them (and a little more about myself, surprise surprise).
Obviously we are not what we own, who we know, or what we think we know. Perhaps, we are better defined by what we do, and the way we do it. By the way we move, the way we influence and the way we feel, in other words, the way we relate.
25 years ago I sold my beloved motocycle to begin funding 2 years of full time training as a remedial massage practitioner. Later I trained and worked as a personal trainer in Sydney, neither of these things really grabbed me and I ended up falling back on my trade as an electrical contractor. About 14 years ago I entered the health industry again when I began running a watersports center in Thailand with my wife and former world champion Windsurfer.
All through these happy accidents, I remained fascinated with the mind/body connection and the way emotion shapes not just world events but our own personal desitinies. The tensions of repeated emotions shape our bodies, effecting the way we digest food and ingest ideas. Our expression and our movement can be seen as one thing.
Though I continue to learn much from helping people to move and have fun with the gentle waters in gulf of Thailand. It was not until I began to work with Tlahui Calva that I truly came to understand that through attentive movement the mind and the body are one and no longer at war with each other. We can not think peace, connection, love, respect, we can only ever feel these things. Sense and express, through our biology, through our bodies. We are only ever in relationship with reality or with our thoughts, never both. One is fun the other creates conflict.
What Tlahui teaches is not Feldenkrais, not yoga, it is not animal movement and it is not counseling, while it resembles some of these things it is his own evolving way of helping others to fully inhabit their bodies and their lives with less fear and more honesty. More peace and the calm certainty of acceptance that comes when we stop trying to guess or control the future. Putting our attention back into our bodies again and allowing functionality to replace the build up of micro-traumas that come from living in a noisy world.
If your in Thailand and are interested in exploring healing through movement, through deeply owning the fears and passions that shape you, your choices and your relationships, I totally recommend you book some time with him.
After years of suffering from too much desk & computer work I was so happy to try Tlahui's personal training. He is a genius in seeing and fixing what is wrong with your body. I have been literally pain free after 2 weeks of training. Even better: I finally understand why my body hurts. Please keep on the amazing work!


competitors that reads like a "Who's Who" in dirt late model racing.
a tough 1/3-mile clay oval."
schedule on SPEED Channel will be announced in the coming weeks.
MO, who will compete at East Bay Raceway Park on Monday and Tuesday nights.
has one XDCS win at East Bay in 2000.
Rocket/Stanton Intrepid to a third-place finish in XDCS points last season.
four seasons, but the championship has eluded him.
his Warrior chassis. Smith finished sixth in the 2002 XDCS point standings.
Mid-Continental Fuels Rocket by Shaw/Pro Power Grand Prix.
competition. Cook finished eighth in XDCS points last season.
from off-season non-racing related injuries with two broken heals.
McCullough Motorsports/LoTemp Racing Rocket/Russell Baker Grand Prix.
Miller has one career XDCS victory coming in 2001.
championship last season at MHR Speedway in Unity, WI.
history with 89 victories, and over $1.5-million in XDCS career earnings.
Pontiac Grand Prix to a Ford Taurus with a Keith Craft-built engine.
victory in the XDCS Hardee's Shootout at Dixie Speedway in Woodstock, GA.
Winternationals driving the Petroff Towing Rayburn/Rayburn Monte Carlo.
October. Arp will drive the Charter Communications GRT/Gaerte Grand Prix.
his first career XDCS win.
Dan Schlieper of Pewaukee, WI also has an EBRP win in XDCS competition.
Schlieper had to man-handle the car to the winner's circle.
and Bobby Alexander Jr. of Tampa, FL.
Winternationals, visit the EBRP web site at www.eastbayracewaypark.com.


Hey, wonderful readers! See over in the sidebar that book cover image with the title "Revenge"? Well, that's the first in a collection of six short stories that I published to the Kindle store about a month ago.
The title of the collection is Surprise Shorts, Volume 1: Six Short Stories With Eyebrow-Raising, Smile-Provoking Twists.
Speaking of purchasing each story separately, if you'd rather pick and choose the stories rather than buy all six in a collection, I have published two more individual short stories. The first is "Gone".
Click on the images above to get to the respective product pages on Amazon. Each individual story from the collection is $0.99.
Do you enjoy contemporary women's fiction? If so, you'd probably like to know that I have begun a series in that genre entitled "Pine Mountain Estates." It will contain three or four volumes and I have completed the first one in the series.
A couple of weeks ago, I thought I had. Even went through the first proofreading. Then, after taking about a three-week break from novel writing, I started in on the second book in the series.
No, that shouldn't be the first chapter. I should start the story with this other character's point of view, earlier in the day.
No, that's not working, either.
Frustrated, I just stopped. My muse obviously needed some more time on this one.
Or…not. The next day, I started wondering if a particular character in the first novel should have his own point of view and show up earlier in the story. In the original manuscript, he doesn't show up until quite late and has no point of view. But he turns out to be quite pivotal, and it started to feel wrong not to give him more prominence in the novel.
I thought about a while. No, the novel is fine the way it is. But the idea that the novel needed to be longer via adding a few more chapters from this character's point of view persisted.
After a few days of this back-and-forth in my head about it, I realized that this is why my muse wouldn't let me start the second book. Because I wasn't finished with the first one.
As soon as I started writing a chapter with said character's point of view, all conflict vanished. It felt right. So, ladies and gentlemen, I am currently revising Pine Mountain Secrets. I believe once I do, getting the second book in the series will be much easier.
Interested in reading it? Have patience. It will probably be at least the end of the year before I publish it. I want to have at least the second, if not the third, novel in the series completed before I publish the first one.
At any rate, there you go. You have officially been updated.
NEW UPDATE AS OF OCTOBER, 2018: I'm not called to write novels. Maybe will publish the first of what was supposed to have been a series, maybe not. Will have to pray about it.
Now you are free to check out my short story collection. Thanks!
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Memorial Day weekend hearkens us to enjoy time with our families, break out the barbecue, go shopping, and maybe catch up on that yard work or home projects we never seem to get to. Kind of like Christmas, we often forget the true meaning for this holiday.
I am guilty like many of us, but this year I was blessed to be part of two very meaningful activities that reminded me – Our Vets deserve our heartfelt appreciation and love. Our departed Vets deserve recognition and remembrance as well as deep respect for their ultimate sacrifice and the fruits of their efforts.
On Sunday, the Boy Scouts of Port Townsend invited me to accompany them and help place flags on the graves of our departed soldiers. To be honest, I was surprised by the gravity of this activity. It was with solemn respect that the troop meandered over the two graveyards we visited, planting flags at the graves of every service person they could find. There were many.
I found myself reading the gravestones as I placed the flags, and wondered what it was like for them. The many veterans of the two World Wars lay at rest in these hallowed grounds. They take these secrets with them into their peaceful repose. How can we ever thank them for saving us from the fascist dictators that threatened our good country? In prayer I shared my thoughts with many of these fine people, and asked the Lord to bless their families.
Boyscouts placing flags on the graves of fallen soldiers.
They also took time to sweep off the gravestones if needed.
Grave stone of a torpedoman – note the image of a torpedo below the name. Big thanks to Boy Scout Troop 1479 and Sea Scout Ship Falcon for making this day possible, and thank you to all of our veterans for your service through the years.
Big thanks to Boy Scout Troop 1479 and Sea Scout Ship Falcon for making this day possible, and thank you to all of our veterans for your service through the years.
I met his wife Joan, who was in her early 20's with a small daughter at the time of her husband's death. There is not a more gracious woman than Joan. She took me under her wing and introduced me to many of the veterans and friends who were there.
As we greeted one another, I learned there was a small group of volunteers who cared for this small cemetery. There was also a contingent of men from the "SeaBees" acronym for C.B. or Construction Battalion. These men were responsible for construction projects that were integral to our military forces, both abroad and at home.
I will always remember this ceremony, I admit it was the first of its kind for me – other than my uncle Pete's funeral so many years ago. But that was to honor him, and this was to honor Marvin Shields and all of his fallen brothers and sisters. It was a very moving experience.
I want to thank everyone who made this Memorial Day weekend so special for me. It has changed my perception of this holiday forever.
Our Veterans saluting the grave of Marvin Shields.
The graveyard looks lovely, decorated in Red, White, and Blue.
Jim McEntire in a quiet moment.


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Osaka reaches Miami Open final; Hurkacz upsets Medvedev
Online News EditorMarch 31, 2022
Sports Desk, Mar 31 (EFE).- Naomi Osaka powered past Belinda Bencic 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 on Thursday to reach the Miami Open final and move within one victory of her first tournament title since early 2021.
Earlier in the day, Polish defending champion Hubert Hurkacz thwarted world No. 2 Daniil Medvedev's bid to get back to the top spot of the rankings by securing a 7-6 (9-7), 6-3 victory in quarterfinal action.
Osaka's serve was the difference in her semifinal match against the Swiss world No. 28, as she fired a whopping 18 aces and won 79 percent of her first-serve points.
The Japanese player also did plenty of damage from the baseline, using potent forehands and backhands to break Bencic's serve to go up 3-2 in the final set. A double fault by the Swiss later gave Osaka a double-break lead.
Although the four-time Grand Slam champion squandered one of those breaks, she was able to nail down the victory with one final service hold.
Osaka, now ranked No. 77 after a frustrating period of more than a year in which she has not won a singles title and was forced to take a hiatus from the WTA Tour to deal with depression and anxiety, will move back into the top 50 when the next rankings are released on April 4.
In Saturday's final, she will face either American Jessica Pegula or Poland's Iga Swiatek, who is currently riding a 15-match winning streak.
Swiatek will rise to world No. 1 when the new rankings are released due to reigning Wimbledon and Australian Open champion Ashleigh Barty's surprise decision last week to retire from the sport at age 25.
In Thursday's first match on the stadium court, Hurkacz evened up his career record against Medvedev at 2-2 with an assured performance.
The 10th-ranked Pole finished off a close first set with a forehand winner.
He then broke Medvedev's serve once early in the second set and then again to clinch the victory.
"I think the return was crucial. I was able to make a lot of returns and get some free points on my serve, because having rallies with Daniil is fun but they get long," Hurkacz said in an on-court interview. "It is good I was able to get some free points.
Medvedev would have taken back the No. 1 ranking from Novak Djokovic by reaching the semifinals. EFE
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Major General (Retd.) Engr. Abdul Matin is the Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Islami Bank Securities Limited. He was the Principal Staff Officer at Master General of Ordinance, Army Head Quarter. He completed his B.Sc. (Engineering) from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET).
Mr. J Q M Habibullah, FCS is the Director of Islami Bank Securities Limited. At present he is Deputy Managing Director & Company Secretary of Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited. Earlier, he served as Company Secretary in First Security Islami Bank, NRB Global Bank and Premier Bank. He worked in Dhaka Bank and GSP Finance Limited in different capacities. He is a fellow and adjunct faculty member of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries of Bangladesh (ICSB). In a long career, he attended different meetings and trainings at home and abroad. He obtained Masters Degree in Statistics from Dhaka University.
Mr. Taher Ahmed Chowdhury is a Director of Islami Bank Securities Limited. At present he is Deputy Managing Director and Head of ICTW of Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited. He was born in 1961 at Sandwip, Chittagong in a respectable and most educated Muslim Zamidar Family. He obtained his Master in Information Technology from Jahangirnagar University, MBA (Finance and Banking) from International Islamic University, Chittagong. He obtained the Professional Degrees of Master Project Manager and Certified International Project Manager from American Academy of Project Management. He obtained the Professional Online Global Certifications of Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP), Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE), Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA). He is the First Microsoft Certified Professional in Bangladesh. He is also Online Global Certified on LAN/WAN Communication, Networking Concept, Computer Technical Support, Network Technical Support, Windows 2000 Server Administration and Windows 2000 Desktop Administration. Recently he obtained a prestigious Online Global certificate on Cyber Security as CISSO(Certified Information Systems Security Officer) from Mile2 USA. He participated and conducted various training, seminar, conferences and workshops at home and aboard. In these connection, he visited, USA, South Africa, Italy, Malaysia, Bali (Indonesia), Sri Lanka, Nepal and India.