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Why "Don't Be a Dick"?
January 19, 2021 • Marc Godfrey-Murphy
A year ago, I made an IGTV explaining why I use "Don't Be a Dick" in my product range. For me, it's quite personal, so I wanted to share with you.
Back in 2016, I was working for a very high profile animation studio. The culture of the studio was fun, vibrant and professional, but there was always a strange, underlying tension of favouritism. Sometimes it felt like maturity in the workplace didn't matter and any behaviour was fine (...I mean, one kid in there used to occupy half his screen with youtube and watch TV whilst animating. I meeeean, really?). Anyway, the studio was truly wonderful, so this isn't a piece to disrespect their legacy, I just want to create perspective and set the scene for you.
One of the directors was off to a HUGE animation festival, to showcase the studio's exciting portfolio and offer advice to anyone looking to get into the industry. He asked all of us in the studio what our advice would be. I shared some insight from when I graduated from Aardman, where the head of animation said to us "Don't Be a Dick". So, I shared this in the big group email. Everyone started sharing their own thoughts and insight too. It was lovely. Someone mentioned they were told not to smell bad at work and as a joke, someone replied with "they told me not to smell and not to be a dick".
Aaaaayway, the director went with the "Don't Be a Dick" sentiment, and an image of his final presentation slide, with those words in big, huge letters, to a packed auditorium, was shared across the industry. Our director shared the picture with everyone in the studio (see pic) then thanked the person who repeated what two of us had already said (he, incidentally, was one of the studio "favourites")... When. It. Was. Me. Who. Should. Have. Been. Thanked. Was I bitter? Hell, yes! I wanted and craved that recognition, goddammit. Then to add insult to injury, this person who got the praise, didn't correct him and give me the credit... like, any kind and decent person might have done. Let it go, Marc. Let it go!
The studio takes people on for contracts per project, there are seldom full-time jobs on offer. For me (and others, I'm sure), there was constant anxiety of "will I have a job in three months". It was a lot to carry on our shoulders...so for me, that teeny tiny piece of recognition might have given me a better sense of value that the studio wanted me. It would have been a boost to my self-esteem, without a doubt. With so many artists, and so few jobs, the sense of competition and comparison was always immense. Looking back now, I wish I could have told myself to relax. Even so, I'm not sure I would have been in a place to listen. I find today, not having that pressure on me, is a feeling I'm glad I don't have in my life anymore. The only judging I feel is just from myself, haha.
So, long story long, "Don't Be a Dick", is not just my message of treating other people with kindness, it's also about doing unto others as you would have them do unto you.
So, this anti-valentines collection, expands upon my initial "Don't Be a Dick" print, in reclamation of the celebration I really needed to feel at that time, all those years ago. I'm calling it my "Anti-Valentines" collection, because to me, Valentines Day is too commercial and highly problematic. It makes single people feel inadequate and increase their sense of loneliness - when being single IS NOT a symbol of inadequacy or loneliness at all. We are force fed that narrative by commercial outlets telling us to buy romantic gestures for the ones we love. But in reality, we should be celebrating love EVERY DAY, not just once a year.
So, my message to commercial enterprises who align themselves with this archaic narrative: "Don't Be a Dick". Treat everyone fairly, with love and kindness.
You can find my DontBeADick collection here.
To see some of the animations I made at the studio, you can find them on my MarcoLooks Youtube channel here.
Marc xx
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Today's correspondence:
Q: "what are your feelings about g.love and special sauce? my son (four-yrs-old and LOVES your music, by the way) recently thought that one of their songs was one of yours... and there is a similar feel if not a similar sound (to what you and Camo laid down on Until the End of Time)... . they are more blues influenced which is what i'm getting around to... i've never ::heard:: you mention the blues in anyway and i'm wondering if that style of music has had any influence over you at all..." M
A: G. Love came out at the same time as Beck. I didn't like either of those guys for awhile since I felt they were invading my "territory"... but like you said, as it turned out G. Love was a bluesman and Beck was more punk/new-wave, and I, folk/country. So, I wouldn't say I was influenced by him, but we had the roots music thing in common. We both liked Dylan, Robert Johnson, Led Zep, Hendrix. Blues hasn't directly influenced me that much, but definitely some--in particular unreleased stuff from around '92, '93.
From last week...
"Driving to different cities to visit Humane Societies, looking for my dog that died from cancer 2 weeks ago. Ended up listening to your Long Walk Home that I bought from you at Erin's Missoula sleepover in January. So I felt like I knew, a little bit, who was singing to me. The plaintive, lost feeling this album gives me really suited my mood today.." A
That, to me, is the blues.
Now, check this out!!! Timezone LaFontaine (aka Giles O'Dell) has finished the artwork for: (return to) the blackhole... (of outerspace).
It will be released on Crunks Not Dead the flyest label of 2005.
Revisit my May 27th post if you can; I made it kindler and gentler. More of a solemn plea for help.
Today is Memorial Day. Dad and I took a tape recorder up to the mountain and recorded Gramps and Uncle Chris as they talked about their experiences in WWII.
Afterwards, he and I rode up to the beaver dams. Peanut was full of electricity and I had to really hang on. As soon as we mounted it began to rain, and by the end we were soaked and chilled. Nevertheless it was magical up there with the lichened buttes and foggy hollows. The dams are overflowing and the oaks finally unfurling.
I rode bareback, so the crotch of my jeans is plastered with wet horse hair.
I'm now able to shrink photos. Scroll down to see edits.
There is a puppy next door that wails whenever its humans are gone. They're gone a lot, like right now, and the dog's constant, high pitched grieving is irritating me to my core. I confronted my neighbor about it last week. He defensively said that the animal will soon outgrow its cry. It's been two months, though, with nothing changed. I've even talked to the animal itself and pleaded for mercy. S/he seemed to ask, "What's in it for me?" I didn't have an answer.
I look forward to finding my own place.
I know why I've been a little uninspired to write of late--it's the 40-hr. work week. My job is great and all, but it requires me to go to bed early so I can awaken early. But midnight is when my peak creative hours are. I was sacrificing sleep for a while, and it caught up with me. I still want to write daily, though.
I'm driven to write. To create. To entertain. To endure.
There's no telling what my motives are, and I'm not sure if they're healthy either. It sometimes feels like I'm avoiding certain things so I can do other things. Why do some people, like Arnold S., constantly work out physically? Why do others, like Buddhist monks, pray all day? Why does my father keep building houses and my mother study and read? (These feels like lyrics to Prince's "When Doves Cry." Maybe I'll rename it "When Dogs Cry.")
Yesterday I performed at the 19th annual Dakota Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Medora, ND. Medora is only 113 kilometers (70 miles) away. It was fully unexpected. Farmor introduced me to the founder of the gathering, Bill Lowman, yesterday morning and offhandedly announced that I knew some poems. Without hesitation he asked if I'd like to be added to the bill. I stammered "uh, well, I...sure!" and it was thus written. Lowman, it should be noted, has one of the most incredible and famous moustaches ever. In fact, I saw more bizarre handle-bar moustaches in that one room, yesterday, than I've seen in my whole life. No shit! But Mr. Lowman probably had the most original. I won't even try to explain it.
Lowman the Cowman from Bowman. Sandman the Ranch Hand from the Bad Lands. Hmmm...
Anyway, my time in the spotlight, along with 20 other novices, was brief. I was obviously not a main attraction. It was still an amazing experience. A lot of these novice poets/singers are legendary cowboys. Take for instance Dean Armstrong, who sang a couple songs from his wheel chair. Dean was part of the "Six Pack"--a group of six western North Dakota bronc riders who traveled together and won championships throughout the U.S. and Canada during the 1950s. After the show I helped him put his wheel chair in the back of his pickup. He and his wife, Fran, invited me to visit their Diamond Bar Ranch someday to swap songs.
Here's a good link to read more about him with some good photos, too.
While in Medora I visted the ND Cowboy Hall of Fame, which is still in the process of being established. Dean was one of the first to be inducted. Last year my great uncle-in-law, Walt Neuens, was posthumously inducted.
At day's end I was cowboy'd out. As Dad and I drove back to Killdeer I cranked a CD compilation of African songs to help me unwind. The funny thing, though, is African music fits better than Country in this arid, ancient, grassland region of west Dakota. If I ever get a chance to act or direct a "Western" movie I'll be askin' Habib Koite or Lobi Traore for help with the soundtrack.
By the way, the crowd received my poem ("Jack Potter's Courtin'") and song ("The Cowboy's Life is a Very Dreary Life") very warmly, and it felt strangely natural to be in their company. In fact, almost too natural for comfort. I'm more used to acting a fool in front of college kids. That could change, though.
It's possible to impeach G. Walker Bush
I'll always like him as a person (I like everyone), but not as King. I'd try to fire Jay Leno, too, if he attempted a hostile takeover of the Constitution. (Instead of the Downing Street Memo, it'd be the Leno Memo.)
Some of you might think I'm beating a dead horse, but George is not a horse, of course. Nor a cowboy. And on top of that, he's alive. He's the most powerful ex-cheerleader in the world. To our extreme misfortune, he's confused Imperialistic Psychosis w/ Christianity.
Fully forgivable, but...
Let's impeach him anyway. Seriously.
Last night I brought Margi and her friend, Kylie, up to G & G's cabin for s'mores. Kylie's Australian. Her name means "Whistling Boomerang" in Aborigine. She's a biologist who studies skinks. Skinks are a type of lizard. Good times on the mountain.
I'm glad Summer's coming. It's still below 50 F, though.
I'll be playing a show in late June at the Hilltop Elder Care Center. Apparently they appreciate the sing-a-long type cover songs like "Home on the Range." I've never been good at those sort of songs, but I'll soon be learning. My over-the-top raps will be shelved temporarily.
I'm running out of inspiration... maybe I should take a break from blogging and see what kind of mischief gets stirred up.
Talk to you in a few.
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From yesterday:
"See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda."
-- George W. Bush, Greece, N.Y., May 24, 2005
The block of cds you see below are finally, after three years, listed on this website. What kind of a dot.com takes three years to update their merch page? Click on the homepage for more details.
Don't let my scary, moustache face intimidate you. It's just me. No more moustache. No more scowl. I'm friendly again...
Gramps called this morning at 6 a.m. to say that since I'd have to borrow one of the Voight's horses if I was to help with the round-up, he didn't feel comfortable bringing me along. Thus, I went back to sleep--partially grateful and partially disappointed.
After a leisurely morning, I made it down to the post office where I picked up a most welcome package from Giles O'Dell. He sent nineteen almost finished tracks from the CD we're co-creating: (return to) the black hole...(of outerspace). I've transcribed part of the letter he enclosed:
Well sir, pardon the interminable delays if you can, but at last here are some rough mixes of our epic collaboration, soon to be the theme music to a million collegiate smoke-outs, the album known as "(return to) the black hole...(of outerspace)." . . .The entire progression could be said to follow the archetype known as "the hero's journey."
It is with some measure of. . .anticipation that I am beginning to speculate that this record might have what it takes to provoke strong responses amongst your fans. Some may shed tears of joy, while others will cry foul. . . Some will. . .smile. . .To some, this record will be the awaited follow-up to Slippery G--to others, it might be an unwelcome detour. . .the polarities of the responses do not matter--what matters is the GUSTO of them. . . And it will be up to you to summon the MOXIE to ride the GUSTO to a new dawn.
We got old binders, threshers, combines, balers, seeders, reapers, disc ploughs, sickle mowers, horse-drawn walking ploughs, harvesters, swathers, you name it! You really should plan a visit to the Dunn County Museum this summer.
Today I created a space for children to chill in. I want adults to be able to absorb all the curios and not have to worry about their kids getting bored. Plus, we have all these signs that say "Don't Touch," and so it makes sense to have at least one place where young ones can touch stuff: two broken phones, a vintage calculator, crayons and paper, an oatmeal container, a cow's thigh bone, a shark stencil, two pencils, a cigar box, a wooden truck, a troll w/ a koosh ball afro, and some children's books.
Tomorrow (and all Mondays) the museum is closed. I'll probably help gather cattle for the Voights. They might be branding as well. Good chance I'll get bucked off again if I ride Peanut, so stay tuned...
Here's a joke:
A married couple were attending a rather long church service. The husband leaned over and whispered, "My butt is going to sleep." "I know," replied his wife, "I heard it snore three times."
So anyway, in unrelated news, tomorrow will be my parents' 36th wedding anniversary.
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY, PARENTS!
Notice the lilacs on the table.
My friend Alex Mahan's blog has a kindly write-up of my journal in his May 18th entry.
Dusky evening
Off to the east, the most misshapen rainbow
I've ever seen
Bolts of MonDak sun
On a fresh poplar
Above the tree,
that yellow bird!
Dad's back from Montana.
My uncle Chris Sand is back, too. He spends his winters in California. He's eighty-eight. I haven't visited him yet, but apparently he's not doing too well. Rumour has it that he has cancer. He's not telling anyone about it, though. His kids called and reported it.
Here's a picture of me and him from last year. He's a cowboy poet and L.A. Dodgers baseball fan. In high school he was a star basketball player. His hands are huge and thick.
This is looking out the gate from my Grandparent's Lazy E-Four spread. Dad is building his and my mom's straw bale house on this land.
This one is on the neighboring Diamond C. The grass is thriving from all the rain, snow, and sun. The horse is in rough shape, though. Old age.
In 1972, four years before his death at 84, Norman Rockwell admitted, "I was doing this best-possible-world, Santa-down-the-chimney. . .sort of thing. And I liked it, but now I'm sick of it." He told his son, "If I could start over again, I'd paint like Picasso."
Picasso had more sex appeal. So what? Both were masters. Both were millionaires. Both were "sell-outs." Both were geniuses. One drew portraits. One was a rebel. Pizza pizza.
It's what's for dinner.
This morning I drove to Dunn Center to scope the available housing. I talked to City Hall, as well as to the area's only real estate agent. They said that in spite every other house being abandoned, nothing's currently for sale or rent.
I accidentally took matters into my own hands when I drove up to a tiny house that's always intrigued me. No car was parked there and I wanted to peek in the windows to see if it, too, was abandoned. I was surprised to be greeted by a burly, gruff-looking character who must've thought I was a salesman, 'cause he asked sharply, "Whadya need?" When I told him my purpose he warmed up and we ended up chatting for over an hour. He's a Gulf War vet who's into big game hunting and fishing. He grew up in Montana and moved out here to avoid the yuppies. He's also one of the most eloquent philosophers I've met in months. He confided to me his opinions on the Gulf War and the current Iraq War, and let's just say he has more in common with Michael Moore than Dick Cheney. His name's Kirk.
At the end of our talk he said that it's possible he'll be moving to the northern border of Minnesota sometime this summer. He prefers to be surrounded by trees, and elk. He said if he decides to sell he'll let me know first.
It's strange to think of myself as a potential home owner. Only three months ago I was defaulting on all credit card payments. I couldn't pay rent or loans. Now I'm thinking about buying a house! Only out here, though, where the economy is so depressed. Guess how much he'd be selling it for? $6500. That's ten times less than some of those used horse trailer/RVs they sell.
Broke nightly fast via mac & cheese, then walked three blocks to Killdeer arena for high school rodeo action. Gramps was there with some buddies. I withdrew to the west hill with a can of Red Bull and $2 burger, and squatted on the dirt to watch it alone. Rodeo is concentrated cowboy culture and it's been years since my last one. I've never liked seeing animals/people get hurt: necks snapped, legs broke, ribs cracked, etc.
As I studied the scene, though, I started to feel ashamed that I've ever called myself a "cowboy." I grew embarrassed thinking about the baggy Carhartts and Adidas sneakers I've often performed in. I consider myself a Neomodernist with anarchistic/hip-hop tendencies (how pretentious, right?), which oughta give me psychological leeway to wear what I want and be who I am. But for a couple hours on a hill, the feelings of fashion failure kicked dents in my chute.
But enough with that. I found Gramps who broke it down for me. He's a rodeo afficionado but never rodeoed himself because it's hard on family life and costs thousands and thousands of dollars. He was handy with a rope. His son Josh became a pro roper for awhile. His daughter, Christi, was involved with rodeo pageantry. My dad was more of a horseman, like Gramps. Grandpa said he might try to find me a lariat to practice doing tricks with.
Anyway, I drove Grandpa to the nursing home to find Farmor who was making the rounds. Alice and Orris Bang now stay there as does Dot Pelton. I was only going to stay for twenty minutes and then leave before the Sunday live entertainment started, but auspiciously the week's scheduled singer didn't show up, and so I offered to fill in. I did four cowboy poems and three songs: "Saddle Bum," "The Old Chisholm Trail," and "The Cowboy's Life is a Very Dreary Life." Grandpa sang "Frankie and Johnny." The nurses liked it and want me to be a regular! I'll bring a guitar next time.
P.S. Neomodernism = "the paradigm of free and undistorted communication leading to mutual understanding, coordination of actions, and consensual resolution of conflicts."
Today was for mowing. Reuben Benz helped me repair the museum's riding lawn mower. Good timing, too. With all the melted snow the acreage was verdant. Amidst dandelions, broken tumbleweed stalks, and grass, were tufts of alfalfa and sage. There's no aroma sweeter to me than mingled sage and alfalfa.
The sounds around the museum are "western," too. The windmill creaks. The doves coo. And meadowlarks! They reign supreme with their supernatural, fence post arias. I want a ringtone like that someday in case I get trapped back in Nashville or Seattle.
Reuben Benz, the mechanic, is one of my favorite Dunn Center old-timers. He walks, or rather, scuffles, hunched over. He purrs as he moves, which must help him transcend certain physical pains. He can't hear well, so I have to yell. He has some of the most smiling eyes, like an elf's. With arthritic fingers he can still fix a lot.
In the last decade so many Dunn Center elders I knew as a kid have passed on. For that reason, I sometimes regret not moving out here earlier. On the bright side, a lot of them are still alive and healthy. I need them around so I can buggle carrots from their gardens at night. No one I know grows carrots like those of the sons and daughters of pioneers. I like their dill, currants, and rhubarb, too. Choke cherry syrup is my farmor's specialty, but choke cherries are a wild fruit that aren't to be found in gardens.
When I got home I pulled out my parent's push mower and mowed our yard. Dad will be home in three days. Here's a picture of him (pink) and his moustache (white):
Last and most, my mom's graduation ceremony happened today and she received her Doctorate of Education from the University of Montana. She's worked tirelessly for months. Here's a photo of her thirty-two years ago:
"Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes you can do these things. Among them are [a] few other Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or business man from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid."
- President Dwight D. Eisenhower, 11/8/54
What's up, Ike?
4" of snow today.
If you haven't viewed the "home page" lately, please take a gander. I've posted links to view all cds that aren't yet listed on the "merchandise page." These are the ones I've been predominantly peddling during my most recent tours.
Dominic, from Fargo, sent this regarding the final project that he and three others just completed for their Poetry of Rock class at NDSU:
"...We tried to show your music from different influences of different generations of music... we played 'Radio Works Fine' and two others and I talked about the formal distinctions of a post-modernist voice. Irony, tragedy, politics etc... the blurred line between high art and kitsch... Our professor thoroughly enjoyed the presentation and the freshness of your music..."
Dominic's the guy who met me at the Fargo train yard at 3:55 AM to purchase four cds while I was enroute to Stanley, ND (from St. Paul).
This picture is of me and my first inamorata, Heather. I hear that she lives in Pittsburgh and has a nineteen-year-old daughter, but I haven't seen her in twenty-five years. We were close friends for three years and I imprinted on her like a fluffy duckling. Every woman I've ever gotten close to has been filtered through my Soul memory of Heather Dietz. I was definitely heart-broken when she disappeared from my life.
"Hez" blossomed so early and brightly; I still wait to take off Kemo Sabe's black Mask.
Here's Dunn County Museum's quasi-website: http://www.dakotawestadventures.com/member_detail.asp?ID=86
Does anyone have any tips on shrinking photos?
I wrote the oddest song today called "Mama Took the Laptop Away." I missed my italics, etc. However, Dad's iMac does have one thing that makes up for that--I can post pictures!! I can only rock the small ones at this point, though, 'cause otherwise it blows the picture up too big.
Today's picture is of Marie and me from 1992. She was my first post high school true love. I asked her to marry me and she said yes. We never did tie the knot, but we were engaged for over a year. I met her when I was nineteen at the University of Montana. I was a mountain guide working for the U of M outdoor program, and she signed up for one of my trips.
After we broke up I only saw her one time. I don't know where she lives anymore or what she's doing...
Here's to sweet Marie:
Marie was a dancer, actress, & singer; what theater people called a "triple-threat."
Happy Mother's Day, Ma! Give my love to Grandma, too.
Check this website out:
http://beta.indieclectic.com/artistroom.aspx?gid=10156.
It's my meal-ticket. Look at the company I'm in--Branford Marsalis, Alison Krauss and Union Station, Cowboy Junkies, Alanis Morissette, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Robbie Robertson, Jane Siberry, and Bruce Hornsby.
(My mom took her PC laptop to Montana, so I can't do hyperlinks anymore. Gone too are italics, bold, and color.)
Mom's gone to Montana for six weeks. Dad'll be back in 8 days. (Let's party!) Actually, I'm hoping to find my own house in Dunn Center this week...
Ate three bowls of ice cream.
Farmor's 85th birthday party was tonight at the Buckskin. "Farmor" is the Norwegian word meaning father's mother. "Farfar"= father's father. "Morfar"= mother's father, etc. "Jeg elsker deg"= I love you. My dad's siblings, and their spouses, cruised up from SoDak and Colorado for the event. I kicked off the evening with my new song "Farmor." One of the verses goes like this:
She's pretty as Medora, and tough as Teddy Roosevelt
When she walks by, all the cowboys they swoon and melt
The Sun gets jealous of her, that's what I said
'Cause all the sunflowers would rather follow her instead
At the end of the night I sang a couple more, and recited the poem "Jack Potter's Courtin'." It's groovy to do cowboy poetry in front of ranchers and ex-rodeo men. Dig?
Now I should sleep. Ice cream poisoning has taken grip, and my basal ganglia are freaking out!
Five / five/ five . . .
(Does this mean we're one year, one month, and one day away from armageddon?)
My grandma, Edna Nupen Sand, turns 85 tomorrow. I'm writing her a song tonight.
Ten years ago, for my mom's mom, Vi Sullivan Herak, I wrote a song called "Dear Grandma." She's also 85.
So is my grandpa Bob Sand. I have three living grandparents who have lived a combined total of 255 years.
My friend Laurence often sends Bushisms. They're not as timeless as those of say, Yogi Berra. They're confusing. Weirder. Which is why they're funny. Here's today's:
"See, it's interesting, isn't it -- I can't tell you how good it is for the country to be sitting next to Cynthia Roberts, working right here at Nissan, and she's talking to me about watching her assets grow."
-- G-Dub, continuing his Social Security roadshow in Canton, Miss.
Ani DiFranco just played a song on Late Night with Conan O'Brien. I don't feel anyanienvy. She earns everything she gets. Go Ani! Also, I don't care for Conan O's show as much as I do Leno's. I do like Conor Oberst, though. Go Conor! (Envy is different than jealousy.)
Enough with that. I just dreamed I saw the ghost of Theodore Roosevelt! He spoke to me for two hours, shook my hand, encouraged me to body build, and then galloped into the badlands in search of a quadraped to murder. He had a voice like Mike Tyson--high and cocky. I'm inspired to live a more vigorous life.
I love Jay Leno and his nightly show. Jay's good. Tonight Wanda Sykes was on there. I like Wanda, too. At the end of the show Conor Oberst aka Bright Eyes sang a protest song basically calling the President a jack ass. He wore red cowboy clothes and a black cowboy hat. Just him, and his clothes, and a guitar. Leno compared him to Bob.
I am the man of constant envy.
Conor is 24, sells a lot of records, and gets good reviews in Rolling Stone.
I want to tell him, "I'm the rappin' cowboy, dude. Can you thrust your pelvis like this? Can you curate a museum in a town with the population of the moon? Can you make love to thin air with nothing but formaldehyde and a broken cattle prod? Can you remember Pong vs. Billy Beer?
Oh, I wish I was Conor Oberst. Then Wanda Sykes would see me for who I am.
Envy. Not sorrow, not pride, not anger, not greed, not sloth, not meth. But envy, envy, envy...
Last night I went to the Buckskin Bar & Grill to watch a local country band. Lots of little country buggers hugger-muggered the dance floor. For the first hour adults hung around the bar, and teenagers clustered near the back. Eventually, though, high schoolers and older folks danced, too. I didn't. A deep embarrassment took over my heart and I had to slip away into the safety of snow.
Reinserting myself here will be incremental. I need a year to thaw out. Otherwise I'll crack apart and people will see my grief-stricken core. I should take dance lessons.
Hard core, rural, White cowboy culture has many similarities to hard core, urban, African American culture. There is religion, poverty, and sports. There are differences, too--like dancing.
One little, blonde boy attempted to break dance. He liked the ground (the earth). Again and again he spiraled towards the floor. He sported a Spider Man t-shirt like one I used to wear. I didn't see him smile all evening. Break dancing can be lonely business in cowboy country.
Margi was there. She's a beautiful woman, same age as me, who looks good in her cowgirl boots and Levi's. Ironically, she has to scrounge to get guys to dance with her. Almost every guy is shy out here. Beer plays an important role. As the evening wore on, Margi found more men willing to take a chance.
Beni Paulson is the lead guitar player in the band. He's a 29-year-old professional bull rider who just broke his leg in a competition in New Mexico. His right leg is in a full cast. He's also a rancher and single dad. His dad, Dennis, plays harmonica for the band.
Dennis fought in Vietnam. He adopted a Vietnamese daughter, named Sady. Sady doesn't have a lot of muscle control, so she uses a wheel chair. She looks to be around 18. Her friend pushed her out on the floor so she could dance. Sady is also the name of the Japanese bartender in Dunn Center.
Alejandro, or Al, is a Chilean horse trainer. He's a genuine "horse whisperer"--can tame anything with hooves and a hide. He looked epic, clad in his black cowboy hat, black leather jacket, black jeans, and black cowboy boots. Black's also the color of his Hoxton Handle moustache. Black is not the color of his true love's hair, though. She's a blonde. I bought him a Coors Lite. We stood together listening to the band, but it was too loud to talk, so I sat back down and nursed my Miller.
Then I went home and slept, sad though I was.
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We continuously observe the technological development for the efficient and safe maritime transport of goods and passengers by investing in the design of increasingly efficient and environmentally friendly vehicles. The complex nature of the environment means this requires adequate and constant maintenance, and accordingly underwater inspections and maintenance help reduce costs and increase safety.
The maritime transport sector is one of the "cleanest", but the organisms that flourish in the submerged parts reduce performance, increase fuel consumption and in extreme cases increase corrosion, thus putting at risk not only performance, but above all, safety.
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The removal of the vegetative mass from submerged surfaces, with the use of brushes/abrasive discs, is prohibited in many European basins.
Since the '60's, technological development and awareness of eco-compatibility has led, to the use of more and an ever increasing range of anti-fouling paints. These are low in pollutants because they eliminate those metals in their composition, such as arsenic and mercury, so effective in the maintenance of a hull, but very toxic to the marine environment.
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2016 will go down as a year of tumult and astounding political upheaval; a year remembered for an unprecedented electoral rebellion on both sides of the Atlantic. The turmoil these shock decisions wrought has dominated the thinking of both the global elite and the masses; creating a daily political saga. Yet amid this atmosphere of jubilation, consternation, and the cautious optimism of new possibilities another 2016 unfolded. In the 13 months from November 2015 to December 2016, over 250 Europeans were killed in terrorist attacks; with hundreds more injured and traumatised. As the Western world was convulsed by political strife, it paid scant and fleeting attention to the savage campaign of bombings, shootings and vehicular slaughter that unfolded in its heartland. The total death toll for Britain's decade long involvement in the Iraq War was 179 combat troops dead. In a single year, Europe suffered more civilian casualties – often killed in crueller and more shocking ways – and scarcely more than a sheepish and insincere note of grievance has arisen from the political class. Why has this sustained attack gone unanswered?
It is certainly not that case we don't have the means to prevent these attacks. We live in some of the most heavily surveilled and policed societies ever to exist. The technological and legal means at the disposal of governments to track the individual are now greater than ever. To the freedom lover, this is a very worrying prospect. It is indisputably the case that governments have cried wolf on the issue of terrorism many times before in an effort to grab freedoms; not just in our own time but throughout history. The threat of terror both prior to and in the medium term aftermath of 9/11 was played up relentlessly. It was the PATRIOT Act (as well as comparable European laws such as the British 2001 Security Act) which allowed nationalistic sentiment to be usurped for neo-conservative foreign policy aims. And therefore perhaps it is simply that this display of transparent manipulation awoke a generation of citizens who are alert to government attempts to steal liberties, and determined to frustrate the use of anti-terror powers.
However, a cursory glance at the use of counter-terrorism powers proves that this is not the case. Under the doctrine of militant democracy, the German government infiltrated the far right NPD party and ensured the majority of its higher echelons were state agents. In the United Kingdom, fringe ultranationalist movements such as National Action have been banned under terrorism powers; and the state has consistently attempted to gather more surveillance power through legislation such as the Snooper's Charter. Spain and France ruthlessly prosecuted their war against the separatist terrorist group ETA, and ultimately prevailed in the struggle. So if the state has proved far from shy in exerting its legal and technological muscle to stop militant nationalists, why has it been so impotent against this wave of Islamic terror?
The answer is that the problem of Islamic terror in Europe is not a question of means, but of political will. And the political will to fight against this concerted attack has been undermined not by governments, but by an insidious and ubiquitous political philosophy: the cult of relativism. It is under this credo that when we view the blood soaked cobbles of grand European squares, we can be assured that terrorism in relative terms is much less of a danger than smoking or driving. It is this Job's comforter pseudo-philosophy that permits the timid and apathetic to view the carnage and proudly declare that terrorism, year on year, has decreased. It is this sizable minority of vocal collaborators who have allowed London Mayor Sadiq Kahn and French Prime Minister Manuel Vallas to nonchalantly declare that we must live with terrorism; that being bombed and crushed is an acceptable price to pay for modernity.
And many relativists are not simply acquiescing in the terror sweeping across Europe; they are welcoming it. To them – our years of marauding in the Middle East, the burning husks of Basra, Baghdad, Kabul and Aleppo justify these retaliations on our soil. We do not simply suffer these attacks, but we deserve them. In their eyes we are all guilty and therefore warrant this secular biblical punishment for our foreign policy sins. In the view of a relativist human life is shorn from all context; and the lives of people who we can neither know nor ever ensure the security of are just as important as our own. When confronted with these views it is clear that Europe has not been set aflame by the conflagration of Islamic terrorism, but is instead rapidly drowning in a sea of subjectivism.
It is now up to true patriots to forge our own salvation. The relativists' prescriptions of inaction and self-flagellation will not save us. While even if it is true that the amount of terror fluctuates, the goals of today's terrorists are fundamentally different to that of the past. The IRA, ETA, even the Red Army Faction and Al Qaeda had aims linked to territorial ambition, foreign policy, and governmental changes. The foot soldiers of ISIS' Jihad have terror as both a means and end in itself, and seek to destabilise and overthrow our entire civilization, powered by a metaphysical zeal. While the relativist will continue to argue terror is atypical and remote, current events will pile many more bodies on its ideational altar.
In turn governments will continue to ignore these bodies as politically inconvenient. It is now high time for the patriot to take up the mantle and view them as a righteous rallying cry, because if we fail to do so, we could share their fate. We cannot allow these atrocities to fade from the public imagination as the government and relativists eagerly hope they will. Our task is thus two fold, firstly to wrestle the narrative from the hands of the relativists who are driving us off an ideational cliff; and secondly to safeguard against malicious governments who wish to use this crisis to seize powers without preventing it. It is our duty to speak out firmly and loudly, and above the political din to forever remember the year that Europa wept blood.


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Why The "Compromise" Foreign Surveillance Wiretap Legislation Pending in Congress Is No Compromise The Bill, and Senator Specter's Strange Reversal on the Issue
Why The "Compromise" Foreign Surveillance Wiretap Legislation Pending in Congress Is No Compromise: The Bill, and Senator Specter's Strange Reversal on the Issue
By EDWARD LAZARUS
Thursday, Jul. 20, 2006
that would rewrite the rules governing foreign surveillance wiretaps is making its way through the Senate Judiciary Committee. The legislation's content is predictable: The GOP-controlled Congress is giving the President essentially what he wants, by approving his NSA wiretapping program.
What's surprising, however, is that it appears Committee Chairman Arlen Specter - previously a critic of warrantless wiretapping - is fully on board with the legislation. Based on his public statements, the key to Specter's support is his belief that the legislation sets up a meaningful judicial review of the whole wiretapping program, as well as of the President's authority in this area.
But as I'll explain in this column, the proposed legislation seems to do the opposite of what Specter says he intends. Far from ensuring meaningful judicial review of the President's power to engage in warrantless wiretapping, it seems the proposed legislation all but ensures judicial approval of the NSA wiretapping program -- even if the President continues to ignore the FISA court process that he now claims he is willing to honor.
Of course, the proposed legislation raises a host of profound questions. But for present purposes I will limit my consideration to the way it subtly (or perhaps not so subtly) changes the basic constitutional questions that will face a court when the program, under the new statute, is ultimately reviewed.
The Controversial Program, and Specter's Prior Position
The Bush Administration's program of secret warrantless wiretaps has been controversial ever since it was first revealed. Critics charge that the Administration violated the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) by bypassing the secret FISA Court -- which Congress established more than 30 years ago as the exclusive vehicle for authorizing foreign surveillance wiretaps.
In defense, the Bush Administration has claimed that the President's inherent constitutional power to fight the war on terror justified the bypass of Congress' legislation, and thus of the FISA Court.
Specter put himself on record long ago as a skeptic when it comes to such claims. Indeed, as recently as last week, Specter continued to hound the Administration over its handling of the warrantless wiretap issue. Though sharp questioning, Specter got Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to admit that President Bush had personally intervened to scuttle an internal Department of Justice review of the controversial program.
The "Compromise" Legislation That Is Really No Compromise
The legislation that's pending in the Judiciary Committee - touted as a compromise - is meant to resolve the issue, and to quiet those who would make an issue out of Bush's aggrandized view of his own power. The proposed law has been touted as a compromise between the Administration and its critics - one that purportedly has Bush acquiescing in the need to have the FISA Court approve foreign intelligence wiretaps.
In fact, this legislation is no compromise. It aims to render the Executive's compliance with FISA voluntary - and that's Attorney General Gonzales's interpretation, not just my own. It also aims to ensure that no meaningful judicial evaluation of the Bush program will ever take place.
Under FISA, as noted above, the FISA Court is the one-and-only authority for granting permission for foreign intelligence wiretaps; circumventing the FISA Court is illegal, and indeed, a federal crime.
But under the new legislation, this would no longer be the case. Instead, the Executive branch could authorize its very own wiretapping, of its own accord.
To this effect, the proposed legislation adds an explicit disclaimer that the legislation "shall not be construed to limit the constitutional authority of the president to collect" foreign intelligence. And it expressly permits foreign intelligence wiretapping not only as authorized by FISA, but also "under the Constitution" - a clear reference to the President's purported independent power to surveil, which the Administration claims stems straight from our founding document.
This language does something anyone who's been reading the news can see: It incorporates and restates the President's argument regarding warrantless wiretapping - that he has the right to do it, and that this right comes from the Constitution -- instead of in any way backing off from it.
Is it really in any sense a "compromise" if the President can bypass the FISA Court any time he feels like it? Separately, Bush has pledged to seek the FISA Court's permission for future wiretaps. But that pledge is not part of the law, and thus it's a pledge that can be broken or reversed without public notice. What if the President changes his mind - and does so secretly? Surely the Administration may be tempted to route its slamdunks to the FISA Court, and keep its dicey surveillance, in close cases, for in-house authorization, purportedly under the Constitution.
In addition, this language also does something that only those who follow constitutional law may fully appreciate: It tries to control the reviewing court's view of the issue (as well as making sure that this review is not that of the Supreme Court, which recently has been clear about the limits to executive power, but of the FISA court instead).
Here's how the legislation tries to stack the deck in favor of the President's program, ensuring it gets upheld when it gets reviewed in court:
A Naked Attempt to Convince the Court to Rule for the Administration on Warrantless Wiretapping
In both Hamdi v. Rumsfeld and this year's Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, the Supreme Court has rebuffed the Bush Administration's claims to broad inherent Executive Power to decide how to treat detainees from the war on terror. And - crucially for our purposes -- in both cases, the Court has reaffirmed the time-honored thinking governing claims of Executive authority in the field of foreign affairs: the analysis that Justice Robert Jackson laid out more than fifty years ago in the "Steel Seizure case," Youngstown Sheet & Tube v. Sawyer.
In Youngstown, the Court invalidated President Truman's attempt to nationalize the steel industry to avoid a potentially crippling labor strike during the Korean War - on the ground that Truman's plan was contrary to Congress's expressed view of Executive Power to intervene in labor disputes.
Jackson concurred in the decision - but the Supreme Court has since enshrined his concurrence into law, most recently in Hamdi and Hamdan. (Some boosters of the Administration thought that in these cases, the Court might back off from, or reframe, the Youngstown test. But they were dead wrong; instead, the Court embraced it - and embraced it generally, not only in the context of detainees.)
Under the Youngstown analysis, the President's powers over foreign affairs fall into three categories, depending on the actions of Congress:
First, when the President acts "pursuant to an express or implied authorization of Congress," his power is "at its maximum."
Second, when the President acts "in the absence of either a congressional grant or denial of authority," the Executive acts in a "zone of twilight" in which Congressional silence may, in effect, "enable, if not invite" independent presidential action.
And third, when the President "takes measures incompatible with the expressed or implied will of Congress, his power is at its lowest ebb."
Under the current state of the law, it is readily apparent that Bush's warrantless wiretapping program fits into this third and most problematic category - where the President's power is at its "lowest ebb." After all, in FISA, Congress gave the FISA Court the exclusive power to authorize foreign intelligence wiretaps and it made it a federal crime to circumvent the court's exclusive authority.
The proposed legislation, however, brazenly attempts to catapult warrantless wiretapping out of the third category, and into the first (or, at worst, the second) - with a little sleight-of-hand. After all, the new law expressly authorizes the President to act outside the FISA framework to the extent he can do so "under the Constitution."
The idea, then, is that if Congress says in the legislation that the President can violate FISA, then a Congressionally-forbidden action is neatly flipped -- converted into an expressly-Congressionally-permitted action under Youngstown.
There is an exquisite circularity to all this. Under Youngstown, the President's authority depends on Congress's expression of its will: Has it spoken to permit him to act, kept silent, or spoken to forbid him to act? Under the new legislation, Congress expresses its will by saying it is not limiting the president's constitutional authority - an authority whose force is, under Youngstown, itself defined by Congress's expression of its will!
Will the sleight-of-hand work with the FISA Court (assuming the legislation's bid to designate the FISA court as the exclusive court here indeed works)? Perhaps, and perhaps not.
On one hand, Congress will surely have spoken to this issue, if this bill has passed - and Youngstown says federal courts must listen when Congress speaks, giving Congressionally-blessed Presidential action only weak scrutiny.
On the other hand, though, on matters of constitutional law, the Supreme Court's opinion, as expressed in its precedent, trumps that of Congress - and thus the FISA Court may give little weight to a Congressional attempt to enshrine in a statute what is, in light of Supreme Court precedents like Hamdi and Hamdan, as well as Youngstown itself, a misreading of the Constitution.
Put another way, even if Congress says in a statute that surveillance comes within the President's constitutional powers, that doesn't necessarily make it so.
Specter's Spin on the Bill: Unconvincing, and Contrary to His Prior Position
That brings us, finally, back to Specter.
According to Specter, the beauty of the new legislation is that the Administration, in a supposedly monumental concession, has agreed to let a federal court "consider the [secret wiretapping] program as a whole and make a decision on" its legality.
But what good does federal court consideration do, if the legislation itself has rigged the Youngstown analysis decisively in the President's favor?
Specter, by all accounts, is a very smart man. Is he betting that the reviewing court will simply put Congress' constitutional judgment aside, and look to precedents like Hamdi and Hamdan instead? If so, he may be untroubled by the carve-out for constitutionally-grounded secret surveillance powers, simply because he's confident the Court will hold the President has none.
Or does Specter read the bill as what it purports to be - a rubber stamp of the President's program, and an attempt to force a federal court to rubber-stamp the rubber stamp? If so, is he simply reversing himself because of some kind of political calculation, or re-calculation?
My point is simply this: If Congress wants to endorse what Bush has been doing, it should do so honestly and not pretend that it is setting up a genuine judicial evaluation of the President's power to do what he's been doing. And if Specter has changed his mind, he ought to say so.
The principle at issue here could not be more fundamental: It is that of our Constitution's system of checks and balances. If Congress is going to indeed allow the President unilateral surveillance powers, and if it is even going to try to stop any federal court from standing in the way, then the public should know.
Edward Lazarus, a FindLaw columnist, writes about, practices, and teaches law in Los Angeles. A former federal prosecutor, he is the author of two books -- most recently, Closed Chambers: The Rise, Fall, and Future of the Modern Supreme Court.


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Children at MLK Center day camp take bus to enjoy day at Whiskeytown as RABA starts service to the National Recreation Area.
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Andreas Fuhrmann/Record Searchlight Christina Massey, recreation coordinator for the Martin Luther King Jr. Center, watches as children head to Brandy Creek Beach in Whiskeytown National Recreation Area Thursday after riding the first RABA bus on the new route that goes to the park.(Photo: Andreas Fuhrmann)Buy Photo
Andreas Fuhrmann/Record Searchlight RABA bus driver Brian Hopper, a trainer with Transdev, welcomes people Thursday aboard the first bus ride on RABA's new route to Whiskeytown National Recreation Area. (Photo: Andreas Fuhrmann)
Desi Dickinson quietly contemplated the tall trees and swung her legs back and forth during her bus ride to Brandy Creek Beach.
Desi, who is 8, clutched her purple backpack, emblazoned with the faces from her favorite band, One Direction. Neatly packed inside were a towel, water bottle, lunch, floaters and four inflatable beach balls that she proudly declared her mother had purchased for 69 cents each.
She was one of more than a dozen children who hopped on the first bus that departed Thursday morning from the downtown terminal for Whiskeytown National Recreation Area.
This was a big outing for the youths, who are part of the Martin Luther King Jr. Multicultural Community Center's summer camp program. As far as Desi knows, the last time she came to Whiskeytown was 'a long time ago. I think I was 5, but I really can't remember.'
The Redding Area Bus Authority is testing the route this summer. If it proves popular, the Thursday-through-Saturday service may return for summer 2017.
'We're doing what we can to make it convenient and we're doing our best to market the service in a short amount of time,' said Chuck Aukland, assistant public works director.
The seasonal route, estimated to cost $7,000 for an eight-week run, got a financial boost when Friends of Whiskeytown received $3,000 in grants from Dignity Health and Redding Rancheria.
Thursday morning, RABA staff rushed around the Downtown Transit Center, setting up the bus schedule, white and blue balloons, beach ball and small inflatables to inaugurate the ride from Gate 1.
Accompanying the youths were Christina Massey, the center's recreation coordinator, two camp staff members and two lifeguards from the Redding Aquatic Center.
Three other riders boarded the bus at 10:20 a.m. Ginny Williams and Loretta Root each said they wanted to scope out the ride.
Children with the MLK camp ride the bus at least twice a week for different programming. There is a lesson for them, Massey said.
'The kids learn to navigate using our bus system, which is important for them especially because some of (their families) don't have a car,' she said. 'They learn to ride the bus with other people and be respectful
The bus leaves downtown Thursday through Saturday at 10:20 a.m., 12:20 p.m. and 5:20 p.m. It returns from Whiskeytown's Brandy Creek Beach at 10:45 a.m., 12:45 p.m. and 5:45 p.m.
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So just how do you pronounce Pokemon
Today it was announced that Pikachu, the small, yellow Pokemon (who closely resembles a friend of mine) will be captaining the supporters for the national team at the World Cup in Brazil in a couple of months. That the announcement was reported to have been made by adidas raises an interesting question. Just exactly how do you pronounce Pokemon and while we're at it, it's addi-das, not adee-das by the way.
Around the world Pokemon seems to be pronounced po (as in "poke") ki (as in "key") mon (as in "mon"). Actually, its not too easy to write pronunciations but I hope you get the gist. This is actually a little off base. As with many western words adopted into Japanese "Pokemon" is a contraction of its original English phrase. This is common in Japan so for example a car navigation system is called a "navi" and an air-conitioner is called an "air-con". Interesting the reverse is also occasionally true, for example "bra" and "flu" are always referred to as "brassiere" and "influenza" in Japanese.
So, to pronounce it correctly, it's important to go back to the origins of the name itself. And the origin of "Pokemon" is "Pocket Monster" and pronounced with a short "o" (as in "pocket") rather than a long one (as in "poke"). At some point someone outside Japan read it, mispronounced it, and it stuck. Same for adidas really, but the guys have given up the fight on that and get on with playing sports instead of worrying about a name. Good luck to the Samurai Blue! - Now if only we could get the rugby team to change its name from The Brave Blossoms....
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Girlfriend: "you know, capsizing"
Me: "What??"
Girlfriend: "I gotta go. My ship is sinking and I need my last beaths of air".
Me: *blink* *confused*
Girlfriend: "It's my Titanic"
I….have no idea. She snapped out of it when she heard me gasping for my own air from laughing so hard.
Fiance: "I, I don't like that. *points* The king is back there."
Me: "Why?"
Fiance: "Because I'm going to sell him"
Me: "Why are you going to sell him?"
Fiance: "I don't know. It's genuinely like, what, what happened."
Fiance: *giggles* "But it's not my problem."
Girlfriend: "you'll just have to wait and see. And I'm fully awake and in between the state where I know what's going on and where I make blankets for invisible mary"
Fiance: "You okay?"
Me: "Yea. My eye itches"
Fiance: "So it's ok now?"
Me: "Yep"
Fiance, in a mocking voice: "How does that happen? Whoop, my eye's all better now. *giggles*"
Me: "Don't laugh, that can happen"
She fell back asleep at this point
Fiance: "Oh, oh great"
Fiance: "It's stuck up in the ceiling fan"
Me: "What is?"
Fiance: "Wait, maybe it's a shadow from your head"
Me: "There's no light to make a shadow"
Fiance: *asleep*
Wife wakes up in a panic and covers her head with her pillow, yelling.
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Plenty of awards are given out to movie makers in India. These are distributed across a wide range of subjects in film making, ranging from best film to the best art director and other technical awards. Such awards are recognition of the hardwork that these people have put into, towards the making of the movies. Movie awards also spread across a large number of film industries in India, starting from the one at Mumbai, which is known as Bollywood to the various regional centres of movie production. After Bollywood, the largest film industry is supposed to be found in the South India. But, Bollywood is the one which is recognised across the geographical boundaries of states because of the large number of audiences watching these movies.
Movie makers produce films at a huge rate, some of which become extreme hits, while others are not able to garner any attention. Movie celebrities act out their roles in these movies, but not everyone is a hit with the masses. Sometimes, people do watch these movies, but there are some oddball reactions. In many cases, it is only after watching the movies from Bollywood that people realise that these have been ripped off from other films or the watching of the movie was a sheer waste of time and money. To target such movie makers, who have supposedly wasted the time and money and the films, which had the worst of different aspects, the Golden Kela Awards were initiated in the year 2009. It has the tagline of the Best of the Worst of Indian Cinema. These awards are selected through online poll conducted by Random Magazine every year, hence reflecting the populist mindset of the masses.
Golden Kela Awards was started by Random Magazine in 2009 for the first time. This is a spoof and satire magazine with its take on various matters of the country, celebrities and movies. Random magazine along with the Sundaas Film Institute declared the Golden Kela awards for the first time and the awards were distributed in Indian Habitat Centre in New Delhi for the worst movies and roles in 2008. It was an idea mooted by the Random Magazine to start something which would be a contrast to the popular awards of various categories in Indian cinema and be entertaining, something in the line of Hollywood's Golden Raspberry Award. The primary aim was to create a fun filled environment and entertainment, without ridiculing anybody personally. Philosophically, it also aimed to give the awardees, a moment to think about the things which went wrong in their choices during the making of these films.
When the Golden Kela Awards were started in 2009, the organisers of the events, as well as the general public, were sceptical of the success and acceptance of such ridicule. But, from 2009, till the year 2013, the five years have been quite entertaining from the side of the Golden Kela Awards. Gradually, some actors and award winners actually came to receive their Golden Kela Awards. Prominent among these celebrities is Abhisekh Bachchan who was given the Dara Singh Award for speaking in an American accent in his movie Delhi 6. In the 4th Golden Kela Awards, Arunoday Singh received the Anti-Kela award for the saving graces of 2011 for Yeh Saali Zindagi on behalf of Sudhir Mishra. In 2013, in the month of April, the 5th Golden Kela Awards were announced and revealed in a glittering ceremony in Delhi, which was attended by Anvita Dutt and received the Worst Lyrics Kela awards herself. This was the first time for the Golden Kela Awards, when an awardee in the worst category, actually visited the occasion and received the award. Advaita Kala, the writer of the movie Kahaani was also present, but he received the award for the saving grace of 2011.
As the years passed by, newer awards were also added to the list. Also, some special occasion awards for different features in the movies were also given in some years in Golden Kela Awards. Not only do these names sound quite interesting, but they also reflect the hard truths of the successes and failures of the movie makers and actors in different categories.
With 5 years having gone by with much fanfare and entertainment, Golden Kela is going to enter into the 6th year. It is to see if these awards are attended by the awardees in more numbers in coming years. Golden Kela Awards has but cemented its place as a critical ceremony, where different types of Bollywood celebrities are faced with some facts about the way their movies are seen among the fans.


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House bill creating assistant teachers clears committee
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CHARLESTON, W.Va (WDTV) - Legislation that calls for the hiring of 2,500 assistant teachers in West Virginia has cleared the House Education Committee.
House Bill 2003 provides early childhood assistant teachers to help students achieve grade-level literacy by the end of third grade.
The bill requires an early childhood classroom assistant teacher in first, second and third grade classrooms that have more than 12 students.
Requirements already exist for pre-kindergarten and kindergarten classrooms with more than 12 students to have an early childhood classroom assistant.
The bill has advanced to the finance committee.
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From decadent medieval popes to modern televangelists with private jets, religion and money can make for an unsavoury mix. But why do we think of charity – care for the poor and the sick – as a good in the first place? The Graeco-Roman world didn't think so: they mostly thought the poor and suffering deserved what they got. This segment traces how Jewish thought, turbocharged by the teaching of Jesus, transformed the way we think vulnerable people should be treated.
JOHN DICKSON: Long before Jesus, the laws of ancient Israel called on people to care for the poor, regardless of citizenship.
ACTOR (DEUTERONOMY 24:20): When you beat the olives from the trees, do not go over the branches a second time. Leave what remains to the foreigner, the fatherless, and to the widow.
JOHN DICKSON: It's an amazing thought. The Creator has given me more than I need, not just so that I can enjoy more, but so that I can share it with those who have nothing. The surplus of the rich actually belongs to the poor.
It is no exaggeration to say that the ancient Jews invented what we call charity.
MARTIN GOODMAN: What drove this is part of the tradition as the way in which the community should act as a community. And it's clearly seen as a "mitzvah" – a requirement – rather than something optional, as something you can do if you wish to be altruistic. It's very distinctive within the ancient world.
IAIN PROVAN: In the Old Testament, that really counts as a very serious imperative – that you must allow the poor access, that the poor are stakeholders. And so, even if you own land, you are supposed to allow some access to the poor to that land because in the end of the day you don't have absolute ownership of that land. You are only looking after it on behalf of God. You're a tenant of God. So again, the theological perspective directly impacts the moral duty that you perceive.
JOHN DICKSON: Christianity inherited the Jewish emphasis on using resources for the poor. The innovation of the church was to open up this charity to the world – to Jews, Samaritans, Greeks and Romans, believers and unbelievers alike.
The church's reputation for charity was so strong, that in the year 329 imperial officials decided that churches should be exempt from taxation. This was no special treatment – plenty of civic associations were also tax exempt. The reason in this case was entirely practical. Who else was going to look after the destitute? The legislation itself explains: "The wealthy must be there to support the obligations of the secular world, while the poor are maintained by the wealth of the churches." Long before anyone had thought of state-sponsored welfare, charitable services in the Western world were entirely the business of the church.
RODNEY STARK: The key factor I think in the growth of Christianity was community. In a world that had no social services, a world which had many slaves and very poor people, here was an organisation in which people took care of one another, which in a sense provided social services that weren't there for anyone else. I'm not sure that, you know, I'm not suggesting that people joined Christianity for ulterior motives or just because they got a free meal. But there were enormous advantages and that certainly didn't hurt.
JOHN DICKSON: As the church got on with the serious business of charity, one emperor panicked.
Emperor Julian was a devout student of Greek philosophy and religion. He studied for a time here in the Academy of Athens. And he despised the new religious upstarts.
Julian left us a collection of almost humorous letters to various imperial officials complaining that the Christians cared for everyone. He was worried that they were going to take over the Roman world by the stealth of their good deeds. In one letter, he wrote: "The Galileans have devoted themselves to philanthropy. They have their so-called love-feasts, or hospitality, or service of tables – they call it by many names because they have many ways of carrying it out – and the result is that they have led a very many others into their atheism." He calls Christianity atheism because it denied the Greek and Roman gods. But perhaps the most interesting letter is one he wrote a few years later to the pagan high priest of Galatia, named Arcacius. In this letter, he gives the equivalent of millions of dollars of the imperial purse to establish a welfare system in the pagan temples modelled on the one he saw in the Christian churches. He wanted to beat the Christians at their own game!
JOHN DICKSON: Julian died the next year, and so did his welfare program. But the churches went from strength to strength.
DAVID BENTLEY HART: Pagan culture didn't have either an organised moral language or the institutional will or the personal will to do what the Christians did. And so, in the early ages this is the first great change, is this special concern for those who occupied, not just the margins, but lay beyond the margins of society – those who were not important, those who were part of the steam that would have been dissipated in each generation, the leftover.
MARKUS BOCKMUEHL: Many of these values – the values of welfare, of care for widows and orphans, of the support of those who are weak – are I think one could say difficult to imagine if it had not been for the impact of Christianity and indeed Judaism where these things were regarded as essential and in a sense a response to God's grace and a response to God's reaching out to humanity.
Is it your impression that the Church is more focused on giving or on getting?
Write your definition of the word "generosity".
Describe a time when you've been generous to another person or group of people.
Describe a time when someone has been really generous to you.
Write down good and bad reasons to be generous.
Make a collage of four images that symbolise the word "charity", and explain why you chose those images.
Imagine you have been given a magic wand that allows you to help one group, in one place, at one time. Which group would you choose to help, and why?
What were the "older foundations" that the Christian commitment to charity was based on?
What is your reaction to the Old Testament idea that "the surplus of the rich belongs to the poor"? What might this show us about the character of God?
How did the early Christians expand the Jewish idea of caring for the poor?
Evaluate how the values of community care and generosity may have contributed to the growth of Christianity.
Why did Emperor Julian panic? What did this cause him to do? Re-enact a conversation that Julian might have had about this with one of his advisers.
What was ironic about Julian's response to the Christians' welfare program?
Markus Bockmuehl says that "the values of welfare, of care for widows and orphans, of the support of those who are weak" are "in a sense a response to God's grace and a response to God's reaching out to humanity".
Brainstorm what you know about what "God's grace" means.
Brainstorm what you think "God's reaching out to humanity" is referring to.
In what ways could the actions of these early Christians be seen to be motivated by the belief in God's grace and the belief in the value of every human person?
How might these values have shaped the way modern society cares for the poor?
What does God command the Israelites to do in these verses?
What would have been challenging about this?
How could someone sell all their possessions and give to the poor, and not be afraid of the future?
What do you think Jesus means when he says, "For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also"?
Draw an image to reflect the description of the early church in this passage. What strikes you about this?
Do you show generosity to others? How could you show more?
Imagine you are given a grant to create your own charity. Make a poster with the key information about what your charity would be for, and the principles behind it.
How could you apply the principle from Deuteronomy in today's society? Are there any modern examples of this?
What principles guide their work?
Do you think they have been influenced by Judeo-Christian values? If so, in what ways?


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Reviewed March 8, 2019
Low grade pizza slice
My advice is to skip this pizza spot. There is no love put into this pizza... go to Sal's up by the Fat Cat on George Street for a really good late night slice.
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Daughter grad from MUN
Fantastic tasting pizza...great location...fast service.....took it back to our hotel room as was a long day of site seeing and getting to know St Johns.....I love pizza but am fussy as well so was unsure where to get it....glad we chose this place as more...More
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Late night here to get some Pizza
Great spot to get your late night snack before you get a ride home. at the middle of George Street its a great location to poeople watch.
Date of visit: February 2017
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The crust is home made bread, the sauce wonderful and it gets better from there. After a night on George Street this is the natural spot to round out the night.
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Skip this slice....
The poutine is the highlight of this place in my opinion. The service is poor - the ladies there do not seem to ever want to be there either. The pizza is average in my opinion - and prices are average.
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Earlier this year, Te Puea Marae in Mangere Bridge, Auckland, implemented a programme called Manaaki Tangata (to support or take care of people), which extended an invitation of shelter and general care. As a result of the programme, Te Puea Marae supported 187 people who have been without homes over a 3 month span. The initiative was undertaken to address the area's alarming homeless levels and raise awareness in the process.
A 15 minute drive from Te Puea, Manurewa Marae were inspired by the work done by their neighbours and opened their doors to at-risk members of their community on August 15. "When Te Puea Marae in Mangere put the call out for other marae to help we knew we had to get involved. We have been able to take some of the processes and lessons from Te Puea and build them into our Whakapiki Ora project [for those] people sleeping in cars or roughing it in these freezing conditions," said Rangi McLean, Manurewa Marae board member. Whakapiki Ora, which means to 'revitalise', is in its last week of a 12 week campaign this week.
This inspired a contingent from Jasmax to make a regular journey to Manurewa Marae on Wednesday evenings to help with general housekeeping duties required in housing over 100 people. The Jasmax studio has been a collection point for food and clothing donations, with general support extending beyond co-workers to friends and family. There has also been an opportunity to stay on the marae to act as kaitiaki (guardians); to help look after children and provide emotional support for families.
During this time, Architectural Graduates Gwena Gilbert and Nick Johnston, signed up to host a design charrette as part of Architecture Week 2016, and were presented with an opportunity to develop a brief that aligned with the challenges that these Maraes are both facing and working to address. Gwena and Nick worked with the New Zealand Housing Foundation to encourage their peers to devise architectural solutions for a real life community site that upheld Maori values of Papakainga, or traditional communal housing.
"Ehara taku toa i te toa takitahi, engari he toa takatini… Success is not the work of one, but the work of many" - Manurewa Marae Chief Executive Lorraine Byers. To find out more, visit Manaaki Tangata and Whakapiki Ora.


In an ideal world this is where you'd search committee transcripts; however, public transcripts are only available for Committee of the Whole (and are included in the regular Hansard/Debate section).
For other committees we will publish schedules, attendance or agendas as they are made available but, for the most part there's no public record of specific committee meetings.
Visit this committee on the Legislative Assembly's site.


Well done, director Duncan Jones (son of David Bowie). From it's inception, this film knows it must have a target audience with high expectations. It's essentially catering to film tourists. Despite the apparent clash, the titan who traverses the continuum through the darkness of one night only to tread the dawn of an uncertain next day, Jake Gyllenhaal heroically sleuths like a true Holmes from moment one without forcibly satisfying the classic need to tell the background details right away. They unfold these truths in tandem with the plot – how refreshing! Exciting, intriguing, and true to code: Sci Fi action at it's best: See it.