As any human rowing machine will tell you, there is no such thing as eating in moderation. It is a concept as alien as throwing £50 notes out of a train window. For athletes competing in this endurance sport, life is one glorious food mountain, high, wide, and replenished several times a day. The licence to scoff is written in syrup.
Steve Redgrave's description of the body fuel he needed to get him through four training sessions a day in the run-up to his fifth consecutive Olympic gold medal is Bunterish in its amplitude, the drooling dream of any pudding-loving member of the human race who has ever grappled with a weight problem.
To keep up the phenomenal energy levels required for a typical day ploughing the water, Sir Steve Redgrave (as he was soon to become) needed to consume 6,000 calories, starting with a hefty four Weetabix for breakfast. Between the first two sessions on the Thames, he would down a bowl of porridge, liberally dressed with sugar, or scrambled eggs on toast and a large jug of fruit juice.
Refuelling between the afternoon sessions usually meant soup, followed by a large pasta dish, pudding and another flagon of juice. Back home to toast or malted loaf - even if on the way he may have stopped for petrol and picked up a chocolate bar, a packet of wine gums and a bag of doughnuts to keep his blood sugar levels up.
For the main meal of the day, spaghetti bolognese would ideally be followed by rice pudding or apple pie and ice cream. A bowl of cereal at bedtime and he would know he had done his bit for England. Arise, if possible, Sir Steve.
Redgrave in retirement is a rather different proposition. His relatively quiet, land-locked life of charity fund-raising, motivational talks and promoting London's bid for the 2012 Olympics is powered by 3,000 calories - which he may or may not bother to count. After 24 years of unremitting discipline, he is doing pretty much as he likes. But oh, the irony of freedom.
"The thing I used to hate about my life was the routine," he says. "Doing the same boring thing, day in, day out. You dream of the day when you can escape from all that. The sad thing now is that routine is what I miss most. In some ways, it would be nice to get up at 6.30am and be on the river at 7.30am knowing exactly what you have got to do.
"We knew our routines. Training out there every day, we only realised it was the weekend because there were more people on the water than there were during the week."
Perhaps it is a product of all those years of regulation, the necessary physical and mental rigour of an elite, competitive sport, or perhaps it is just an anarchic streak, but Redgrave today sounds like a man who makes his own rules. He doesn't like being told what to do. In a Chinese restaurant, for instance, 95 per cent of the dishes he orders will be exactly what he and his family ordered the last time.
They may even be almost identical to the £16.95 recommended Happiness Menu, but the Redgraves would rather starve than go for Happiness on a set menu. Why? "Because we're not going to be told what we're going to have, we want to choose," he says. "We may be creatures of habit, but we don't like to be."
In common with most of his fellow Britons, he doesn't like being nannied. The very idea, then, that this man - a bit bolshie and with no apparent need to punish himself any more - should be throwing his London marathon-trimmed 108kg behind a new "diet" is frankly preposterous. Yet here he is, extolling the virtues of the latest eating habit to uphold the health of the nation - Gi.
For those who have been too busy grazing to notice, low-Gi (it stands for Glycaemic index) is the condition to which all Atkins-exhausted, cabbage soup-sated groupies are being told they can painlessly aspire. Redgrave, who has never been on a slimming programme in his life, is a dedicated practitioner. Oarsmen, says Redgrave, are all disciples of the seafood diet - "see food and eat it".
"Everyone's under the misapprehension that a diet has got to be horrible-tasting and horrible-looking and a hardship," he says. "This one isn't so much a diet as a way of life. It's tasty and nice and it makes sense. The problem with most diets is that they're very boring. You have to be extremely well disciplined to stick to them and you tend to have very few options.
"With this, you've got flexibility, you needn't be hungry and you can eat something different every day of your life. I've found that if you can change your habits to good habits, then it doesn't have to be a sacrifice."
For Redgrave, however, there was another, more dramatic incentive. In 1996, just before he started training for the Sydney Olympics, he was diagnosed with diabetes and the diabetic diet he adopted then was close to what is known as the Gi diet today. The Glycaemic index is a medical term for measuring the speed at which carbohydrates (carbs) raise the levels of sugar in the blood.
Foods are ranked from one to 100, with glucose at 100. Low Gi carbs are digested slowly and cause a gentle rise in the hormone insulin, keeping you feeling full and helping the body to burn fat. Carbohydrates that are digested quickly, causing sugar in the blood to rise sharply, have a high Gi score and have to be treated cautiously.
Because the control of blood sugar levels is the key to managing diabetes, a low Gi diet is vital for people with type 2 diabetes - and a happy spin-off is that it helps weight loss, too.
When Britain's biggest supermarket chain, Tesco, started to mark its foods according to whether they are high, medium or low Gi, Redgrave cheered. "Knowing what you are eating is the biggest issue for me," he says. "If I know whether a food has a high, medium or low Gi, I can judge how much insulin I need. If it's low, I won't need as much insulin as if it's a high Gi. This makes it easier for me to take my own decisions."
Redgrave was 35 when he was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and he thought it was the end of his career. "I wasn't devastated," he says. "It was more: 'What am I going to do?' There was no Plan B. There was no real medical expertise on diabetes and rowing. If you're suffering from the one condition, you don't normally carry on with the other." Only the blind optimism of his diabetologist, Ian Gallen, kept him going.
Redgrave thinks the fact that he went on to win another gold against such desperate odds may have minimised the dangers of diabetes in the public mind. "Steve Redgrave was successful before diabetes and successful after - so diabetes couldn't be that bad," he says.
"You could still achieve your dreams. Yet it is a serious, potentially life-threatening condition. The biggest cause of loss of eyesight in the world is diabetes. It causes more amputations than anything else, including landmines. Forty per cent of heart cases are diabetics. The complications are huge. But if you can get your blood sugar levels under control, these are not an issue."
Attempting to do that by adhering to a Gi-type diet while training for the Olympics was like trying to square the circle and it very nearly scuppered his chances of competing at all. The problem was that Redgrave the rowing athlete needed 6,000 calories a day to keep his energy levels up while training - but Redgrave the diabetic needed a diet that provided only 2,000. If he had been a librarian, there wouldn't have been a crisis.
The inevitable happened. By March 1999, a seriously depleted Redgrave - already suffering from colitis - became ill, despairing and exhausted. In tests on the ergo (rowing machine), he would suddenly stop as if a light switch had been thrown. He had lost a stone of his muscle bulk and his strength was ebbing away. He was eating healthily, but, deprived of his usual mountainous fare, he couldn't function.
"The problem was trying to get enough energy inside me without it dangerously affecting my sugar levels," he says. "Intensive exercise brings blood sugar levels down considerably anyway. So it was a constant juggling act with my metabolism.
"We looked at my body like a Formula One car. You can have this fantastic engine, but if you are putting in a low-grade fuel, it is not going to perform. My engine, my body, had performed as a non-diabetic very well. So we decided to give it the same fuel as before and find another way to control the diabetes. We treated it as a refuelling issue."
So it was back to the four Weetabix for breakfast, the sugar-frosted cereals, the jam doughnuts - but with much lower quantities of injected insulin.
It worked, but as Redgrave admitted in his autobiography: "I was able to stay at the top of the sport, albeit hanging on by my fingernails by the time of the Sydney final."
When his rowing career ended, Redgrave was able to revert to a recognisably healthy regimen, based on Gi foods, and that has been his pattern ever since. "I started thinking about my own mortality," he says.
"I knew that being a diabetic meant that I would be slower to recover from illnesses, but I wanted to live to a healthy old age by controlling my diabetes. It was like starting all over again. I am not eating anything different from when I was an athlete - but I am just eating less."
Over the winter, his 6ft 5in frame was carrying nearly 18 stone. To run the marathon (which he did in four hours 21 minutes), he wanted to lose about a stone. But he did it through exercise and adherence to the broad principles of Gi, not conventional dieting.
"Gi helps people to work towards something realistic, rather than set impossible goals," he says. "It's better to have a level of expectation people can reach than a faddy diet that's going to last five minutes."
I suspect that part of the appeal of the flexible Gi plan is that Redgrave can occasionally fall from grace without it being a mortal sin. He is not ashamed to admit he has never eaten one of the low-Gi staples, bulgur wheat. At functions, he still can't turn down food that is put in front of him - "it's just not in my make up to decline" - but he just piles on less of it. Sweet-toothed and hungry, he can't open a packet of biscuits in the middle of the afternoon without finishing them - old habits die hard - but he will make amends with a simple pasta supper.
And what did Sir Steve have for breakfast this morning? Porridge without sugar? All Bran, perhaps? A low-fat yogurt decorated with five strawberries? "Sugar Puffs," he says with a grin.
Neither of us needs to consult the Gi rating to know that this is a Redgrave blip - but one that will probably be forgiven.
A Health & Wellbeing: Gi Special starts on Monday in The Daily Telegraph.


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The Hot Spring City of Kaminoyama
Resting at the base of Mt. Zao right next to Yamagata City is the quite hot spring city of Kaminoyama whose healing waters have made it a major tourist destination from the Edo Period.
Famed for its unique crystal clear hot spring water with highly moisturizing properties, the waters of Kaminoyama are said to have divine healing properties and that were favored by the samurai of the Tendo Clan who would bath in these waters to rejuvenate their bodies during the harsh winters and after rigorous training.
Today guests can enjoy the traditional luxury of Kaminoyama's onsen ryokan (Japanese inns) that are congregated around the castle at the center of this city. This city is also famous for its beautiful sakura in the spring, rich bounty of fruits, and free foot baths where you can relax after strolling through the streets of this city.
We especially recommend bathing in Kaminoyama after visiting Mt. Zao as the hot spring waters there have a strong defoliating effect that the waters of kaminoyama can help rehydrate and heal. Visiting both of these onsen regions has been an ancient form of skin treatment for centuries that is still popular to this day.
One of Yamagata's famous onsen destinations alongside Ginzan Onsen.
Located roughly 20 minutes south of Yamagata City via train or car.
Onsen Ryokan range from about 10,000 to 80,000 yen per person.
One of the Onsen Inns of Kaminoyama
The Divine Springs of Kaminoyama
Natural Hot Spring Water in Kaminoyama
Local legend has it that the Kaminoyama Onsen hot springs were discovered in the mid-1400s amidst a traveling monk's journey across the frozen Tohoku frontier when he caught sight of a single wounded crane tending its injuries in the steamy waters of a natural hot spring.
He took it as a divine sign that this was a place of healing and rest and thus the Kaminoyama hot spring town was born.
Historically Kaminoyama Onsen eventually developed into a prosperous Onsen village during the Edo period as samurai serving the nearby Kaminoyama castle would flock to the hot springs during the winter months as a desperate attempt to find a warming solace among the unforgiving chill of northern Tohoku.
Today much of this historic charm still flows through the city as many of the notable samurai residencies and old houses still line the streets, leaving a faint taste of the snow-imprinted footsteps of the samurai that once inhabited the town.
Today visitors can rest their weary bodies and soak away all their troubles in one of the seven main public bathhouses that serve as the pride and heart of the city itself.
Some bathhouses such as Shima-Oyu Onsen have been in continuous operation since the 12th century and take incredible prestige in providing exemplary services and inviting local cuisine.
Kaminoyama even has a free hot spring foot bath at the base of Kaminoyama Castle.
While a stay at one of the historic bathhouses can range anywhere between 10,000 - 80,000 yen per night depending on the individual Ryokan and the season, many ryokan open their baths during the daytime to non-staying guests for a fee of around 1000 yen so that visitors just passing through may still experience the historic bathes in all their majesty.
The private baths in Sagiya Sansorai's rooms.
Most of Kaminoyama's hot springs are centered around the foot of Kaminoyama Castle which was erected in 1535 by the Tendo clan before falling under the Kaminoyama Domain during the Tokugawa Shogunate.
Today a reconstruction of the castle completed in 1982 serves as a museum of which is open to visitors daily for an admission fee of 410 yen. While the dead of winter is traditionally the most popular time to visit Kaminoyama, the romantic cherry blossoms that illuminate the castle grounds in the spring also bring a steady flow of visitors around mid-April.
Kaminoyama Castle in the Fall
For those looking to venture out to Yamagata in the summer months in order to take advantage of the region's stellar hiking and striking views of Mount Zao's Okuyama Crater, Kaminoyama is well renowned for its fruit farms where you can go fruit picking for local produce.
While cherries are the local delicacy of Yamagata Prefecture, grapes and La France pears can all be enjoyed from June to mid-July.
Additionally, the crisp northern air and pristine untouched environmental conditions invoke the perfect growing conditions for konnyaku, a type of jelly made from devil's tongue root. The konnyaku's firm texture and subtle flavor allow for a number of interpretations of the root in many local dishes such as pulled into a noodle or as a meat substitute. Paired with the sweet wine brewed from local grapes, you really can't go wrong!
You may also see our full list of experiences here in Yamagata Prefecture here.
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Center affiliates are population researchers who pursue independent research with the support of Center staff. PSC supports a large portfolio of both domestic and international research in several key areas of demographic research: Health and Social Inequalities; Social-Biological Interactions; Population Health and Well-being; Families, Fertility, and Children; Population Dynamics; and Methodologies and Data.
The Center provides pre- and post-award research support services to affiliates through four core units. Administrative Core staff provide management and administrative support for research affiliates and their funded projects. Computing Corestaff provide a state-of-the-art social science computing environment to support the Center's research and training missions. Information Core staff provide resources and services in three areas. Data Services assists in the acquisition, organization, and management of data for PSC research projects. Library Services maintains a collection of local holdings and offers a variety of bibliographic and references services in support of research. The Communications Office provides editorial, design, website, and database services to researchers, and disseminates research results through the working papers series. The Methodology Core, jointly operated with the Survey Research Center, provides guidance for research issues arising in survey design, implementation, and data analysis.
PSC provides apprenticeship training and fellowship support to graduate students in Sociology, Economics, and Public Health who choose population studies as a field of specialization. The goal of the graduate training program is to produce social scientists, fully trained in their discipline, with broad knowledge in population studies and specialized skills in statistical and demographic techniques. Although the Center does not award graduate degrees, all PSC student trainees gain practical research experience under the supervision of an affiliated researcher. The Center also provides postdoctoral training to demographic researchers in a variety of fields.
The Center also administers the Michigan Center on the Demography of Aging (MiCDA), funded by the National Institute on Aging (NIA).
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Web of the Castle of Santa Florentina in Canet de Mar (Barcelona)
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St.Florentina's Castle was built on the place of so-called Domus, the type of old Roman house occupied by the upper classes. Domus represented not only the centre of winemaking in the region but also one of the first centres for ancient settlements. In the 11th century the building functioned as fortification in order to defend from frequent pirates' attacks. Remains of this building are still a part of St. Florentina's Castle. According to the first documentary mentions Guadimir de Canet and Gilabert de Canet were the owners of St. Florentina's Castle in the 11th century. But only in the 14th century under Ferrer de Canet – Gilabert's great-grandson – Domus reached its fullest flower. Ferrer de Canet was a gentle knight, held a post of advisor of King Alfonso V the Magnanimous, and also acted as an ambassador on behalf of the Pope. It was Ferrer de Canet who got the permission for fortification and building of two towers in order to protect the Castle from pirates of the Mediterranean.
After getting married his son Arnau expanded the belongings with the help of the Besors and the Monteskis. During this period Domus was under protection of St. Maria. In this connection in honour of St. Maria was erected a chapel, which situated in one of the towers. After marriage between Arnau's daughter Antonia de Canet and Guillem de Peguera Domus the territory expanded. At the beginning of the 16th century Huan de Perega assigned the right of possession to Miquel Spano, whose daughter Ana got married to Felipe Dimas de Montaner, the lawyer from Barcelona. Thanks to this event the Montaners strongly bounded themselves with the history of Domus.
At the end of 19th century Ramon de Montaner i Vila, the owner of Domus and «Montaner and Simon» – large publishing house in Barcelona, which territory is now occupied by Tàpies Foundation – placed an order with his nephew, a famous modernist architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner to renovate and to expand Domus.
Lluís Domènech i Montaner was highly influential on Modernisme and thoroughly designed every room in St. Florentina's Castle with a total area of 3000 m2. With the help of his team consisted of the most talented specialists he created bright stained-glass windows, depicting religious subjects, large rooms with marble floor and inlay, painted carved wood ceilings, paving tile, sculptures – everything fitted bright and colorful space of the Castle.
The final project was realized in accordance with modernism in style of a palace which air was filled with the spirit of the Middle Ages and Romanticism. Thanks to this reorganization the Castle of Saint Florentina became widely known.
St. Florentina's Castle got its name in honor of the relic, which was presented to Ferrer de Canet from the Pope as a symbol of protection, and also in honor of Florentina Malatto Suriñach, Ramón de Montaner's wife.
In 1908 King Alfonso XIII of Spain accepted Ramón de Montaner's invitation to visit the Castle and spent there a few days in company of his court and other famous people of the time. During his visit the King gave Ramón de Montaner the title «Graf de Vall de Canet».
After Ramón de Montaner's death in 1921 his daughter Julia, who was married to Ricardo de Campany, inherited the Castle. Julia and Ricardo's son Ramon de Campany i de Montaner was a famous artist.
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Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure
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One hundred years after the birth of Ernest Hemingway, Michael Palin sets out to discover the man behind the legend: a hard-drinking womaniser who liked cats and shooting – but wrote like a dream and left an indelible impression on the twentieth century through his work.
Fuelled by intensive reading for his best-selling novel, Hemingway's Chair and, as always, driven by a desire to discover new places, Michael Palin attempts to put himself into Hemingway's World. The past and the present intertwines, sometimes to startling effect, as Michael travels from Chicago to the forests and lakes of north Michigan, and from the First World War battlefields in Italy, to Paris, and Spain where he pauses to learn about the art of bullfighting and to experience Pamplona during the feria and the famous running of the bulls.
He visits Venice at Carnival time and samples the infectious madness of the unique Fallas festival in Valencia with its burning effigies and ear-splitting fireworks. Hemingway's wanderlust draws Michael to the island of Key West in Florida, once unspoilt, but where the Hemingway industry now flourishes and a look-alike competition is the high point of the centenary celebrations. It takes him …
In the autumn of 1988 Michael Palin set out from the Reform Club to circumnavigate the world, following the route taken by Phileas Fogg 115 years earlier. The rules were simple. He had to make the 'journey in 80 days and never use aircraft, only forms of transport that would have been available to Fogg.
But if the rules were simple, nothing else was. Palin's Passepartout was not a loyal French manservant but a 5-person BBC film crew, there to record his every move. The golden age of sea travel with regular timetables and ocean liners was, he discovered, long since dead. State cabins and deck quoits were replaced by crowded Red Sea ferries, mattresses of date sacks on an open dhow, hospital beds on a Yugoslav freighter and bunks on eerily creaking container ships.
He discovered, too, that the days are past when a signed photo of Queen Victoria was enough to admit an Englishman anywhere. Passports, visas, customs forms, carnets delayed him at every frontier – and there were 17 of them.
Whether seeing Venice from the back of a rubbish barge, riding round the Pyramids on a camel called Michael, drifting helplessly in the …
The Body In Question
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Jonathan Miller, co-author and a star of the world-famous revue Beyond the Fringe, director of films, plays and, most recently, of operas, qualified as a medical doctor in 1959 and has held a research fellowship in the history of medicine at University College, London. In his remarkable new book, as in the 13-part B.B.C. television series with which it is linked, Dr Miller considers the functioning of the body as a subject of private experience. He explores our attitudes towards the body, our astonishing ignorance about certain parts of it and inability to read its signals.
We are mystified to experience pain in internal organs like the heart or the liver when neither the quality nor the location of the sensation gives a coherent indication of what is going wrong. And to complicate matters we feel the pain in some spot other than the seat of the mischief. But pain, he says, is not the only thing that prompts a person to go through the elaborate social process of 'falling 111'. It might be finding something-not intrinsically painful, but alarming-like a lump in the breast, or embarrassing, like a drooping eyelid, or inhibiting to efficiency like a …
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The ideas of economists and social philosophers shape actions and events even when we are unaware of their sources. They have a decisive influence on the great rush of revolution and change through which the world has passed in the last two hundred years.
Professor Galbraith traces these ideas and their consequences from Adam Smith, through Marx and Lenin, to Keynes and to the thinking that gave shape to the concepts of the Cold War, the corporation and, now, the conflicts and concerns of the Third World.
It is a notable book, written with Professor Galbraith's accustomed wit, clarity and high professional competence – the qualities that have made him one of the most widely admired and widely read writers of the time, not only in English but in a full dozen other languages. But this cool and amusing volume is also written for a yet wider audience than his earlier books – it is for all, in fact, who wish to know and understand the sources both of their own ideas and of those that shape the world.
The first chapter, which examines the ideas of the prophets of classical capitalism, leads on to one …
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In the early 1960s the BBC embarked on one of their most important and ambitious series ever. It was to be the definitive history of the First World War, complete in twenty-six 40-minute episodes. An inspired account of the world-shattering events of 1914-1918, The Great War is narrated by Sir Michael Redgrave and employs the voice skills of many other leading actors of the day including Sir Ralph Richardson and Marius Goring.
The series includes authentic archive footage and stunning photographic images gathered from 37 separate sources around the world. It also features interviews with many veterans of the war (by this time most were still only in their 60s), as well as almost 150 separate extracts from diaries, letters and reports from the war.
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My desktop computer always restarts when I connect any USB media – Pendrive, External ROM and External Hard drive. Can you tell me the cause of my PC restarting?
I'm not trying to be annoying about it; it's just that from the description you've given it could be one of any of hundreds of different reasons.
The best I can offer is to walk through some of the most common causes to help you further diagnose – and perhaps repair – the problem.
Continue reading: How do I fix my USB port crashing my machine?
What are the benefits of a partitioned hard drive, or some practical uses of a partition?
Disk partitioning is one of those things where you find many conflicting opinions. Some will swear that proper partitioning aids performance, makes backing up easier and is just generally "better".
Others just opt to let Windows sort it all out, believing that improper partitioning might well prevent the file system – already optimized for both safety and performance – from operating in an optimal way.
The truth is somewhere in between; I'm certain.
While I tend to fall into the latter camp, I'll look at some of the pros and cons of partitioning your hard drive, and make a recommendation if, after all is said and done, you're still not sure.
Continue reading: Should I partition my hard disk?
I get variations of this question a lot since Microsoft made the decision to remove Outlook Express – or any email program for that matter – from Windows 7.
Unfortunately, Outlook Express is not available for Windows 7.
That means it's time to migrate to a different email program.
In this (lengthy) article, I'll show you how to move from Outlook Express to Windows Live Mail (the easiest moving option), step by annoying step. With lots of pictures.
Continue reading: How do I move my Outlook Express email from Windows XP to Windows 7?
Can my employer track what I'm doing on the internet?
Your employer owns the computer, with all its capabilities, you use at work. Therefore, your employer has every right to monitor it for any reason or no reason at all.
It may be a PC, but it's not your personal computer.
I feel if your account has been compromised and you decide to change the password, you must also look deeper into your profile settings and see if any FORWARDING is being done.


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Q: how to update tastypie cache in normal view function? tastypie api does't support upload file, so I have to use normal view function,check out my other question
this is my image resource
 class ImageResource(ModelResource):
     album = fields.ForeignKey(AlbumResource, 'album')
     upload_by = fields.ForeignKey(UserResource, 'upload_by')

     class Meta:
         always_return_data=True
         filtering = {
                 "album": ('exact',),
                  }
         queryset = Image.objects.all()
         cache = SimpleCache(timeout=100)
         resource_name = 'image'
         authorization = ImageAuthorization()

now suppose I upload an image in normal view function, because I set the cache timeout to 100 sec, the browser won't update the query in 100sec.
what I want is browser update the query immediately after the image uploaded, and keep cache timeout to 100 sec if nothing changed.and this have to be done in normal view function.
How can I do this?

A: You can clear the cache manually if you like. Tastypie's cache key looks something like this (if You're using simpleCache)
def generate_cache_key(self, *args, **kwargs):
    """
    Creates a unique-enough cache key.

    This is based off the current api_name/resource_name/args/kwargs.
    """
    smooshed = []

    for key, value in kwargs.items():
        smooshed.append("%s=%s" % (key, value))

    # Use a list plus a ``.join()`` because it's faster than concatenation.
    return "%s:%s:%s:%s" % (self._meta.api_name, self._meta.resource_name, ':'.join(args), ':'.join(smooshed))

(Thats straight from the code currently at line 1031)
You can play around in the shell to make sure you've got an exact hit on the object you're looking for. Once you've got that, simply delete the entry when you're uploading a file.

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What to Look for in a DVD Writer
Thursday Mar 18th 2004 by Wayne Kawamoto
If you've outgrown CDs to back up and share data, a DVD writer may be a viable and convenient solution. And besides offering lots of data real estate, you'll be able to work with video as well. Learn all about the ins and outs of DVD writers.
Mention "DVDs" and most people immediately think of their movie collections. But beyond movies and videos, DVD technology offers reams of data storage for PCs — a solid method to archive, back up and share data. Even if you have no plans to work with video, there may be a place for a DVD burner in your office.
At their core, DVD discs are great for distributing and playing movies. They serve high-quality video and good sound on multiple tracks and display menus that let users access the features that they want. A DVD disc is based on technology that's similar to that in CDs, but can hold far more data.
DVD Flavors
You would probably expect DVD formats to be complicated. After all, the technology supports video and data. At the most basic level, a DVD-ROM disc holds up to 4.7 GB of data and may be read by DVD-ROM drives in PCs. DVD-ROM discs are commonly used to distribute games, software, encyclopedias and other references and data, and almost all DVD-ROM drives can play DVD movies. These days, many DVD movies come with extras that may be accessed only on a PC's DVD-ROM drive.
DVD-RAM, the least compatible and least popular of the DVD formats, works like a large floppy disc to read and write data. DVD-RAM is useful for businesses that want to use DVD discs to back up data or as a way to take a presentation on the road without over burdening a hard drive (DVD-RAM discs have capacities of between 2.6GB and 9.4GB). On the down side, DVD-RAM discs require specific and proprietary DVD-RAM drives, are not compatible with DVD-ROM players, can't handle DVD video and can't write to CD-R or CD-RW discs.
The Format Wars
Other popular DVD formats support computer data and burn video onto DVD discs that may be played on home DVD players. The competing formats are mostly a result of battles between different companies and their technologies. The two main formats are DVD-R/RW — "minus" read and read-write — and DVD+R/RW —: "plus" read and read-write — each of which supports its own version of write-once ("R") and rewriteable ("RW") discs. The two formats are incompatible with each other.
A DVD-R/RW disc holds up to 4.7 GB of data, may be read by a DVD-ROM drive, and may be played on a DVD player. Data may be written to discs in multiple sessions. However, once an RW disc is finalized — a process during which a disc is prepared to be used by read-only devices — it cannot be written again until it's reformatted, which erases the data. For this reason, DVD-RW may be less suitable for data applications than DVD+RW. DVD-R/RW discs are supported in drives manufactured by Pioneer, Toshiba and Panasonic.
A DVD+R/RW disc also has a capacity of 4.7 GB and may be read by DVD-ROM drives and home DVD players. DVD+RW discs don't require finalization to be read by other DVD drives, which makes them good for data storage and retrieval. DVD+RW features background formatting, which saves time by formatting a disc when a drive is doing nothing. DVD+R/RW is supported in drives made by Sony, Philips, Hewlett-Packard and Ricoh.
Is either format better suited for use in PCs and home DVD players? In my research, I found no studies to indicate that one format is being used more than the other, or has stronger compatibility with DVD-ROM drives or home DVD players. According to TDK, DVD-R/RW media is compatible with approximately 90 percent of today's DVD-ROM and DVD video players. DVD+R/RW media is compatible with approximately 70 percent of today's DVD-ROM drives and DVD video players.
In general, the newer the DVD player and DVD-ROM drive, the more likely it is that it can read a DVD disc burned in either format. Also, the R versions of both technologies usually offer more compatibility with stand-alone DVD players than the RW versions. In my experience with various drives and players, I found DVD-R and DVD+R discs to have an equal acceptance rate (my observations are based on a very limited sample set). The acceptance rate you experience will depend on the hardware that you use. To help, some manufacturers list players with which their drives are compatible.
When DVD-R/RW and DVD+R/RW discs became available a couple of years ago, DVD-R discs cost less than DVD+R discs. These days, however, there is little difference in price. In my online research, I found disc prices to be comparable, although you can purchase slower-speed DVD (1X, 2X and 2.4X) media at lower prices.
Shopping For That DVD Burner
While early buyers of DVD writers had to choose between DVD-R/RW and DVD+R/RW, dual-format DVD recorders are now available from manufacturers such as Sony, TDK, I/O Magic and many more. For all of you who were waiting for the standards to settle, you can now purchase a drive that supports both, and use the media format that best supports your needs or hardware. With a dual drive, you won't be left holding the bag should one standard eventually fade from the market.
Currently, the fastest DVD-R/RW and DVD+R/RW drives are 8X drives, which are faster than earlier 2X DVD-R and 2.4X DVD+R drives. DVD-R/RW and DVD+R/RW drives can also write to CD formats, including CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW and CD-Audio at speeds of 8-40X, slower than the fastest (52X) CD burners.
When buying a DVD drive, you'll have to choose between an internal and external drive. Internal drives are less expensive. On the plus side, external drives do not require you to open your computer to install them. You connect them with a cable to a PC's USB 2.0 (define) or Firewire port (define), plug the drive into power, install the drivers, and you're usually read to go.
Finally, all DVD recorders come with basic video DVD-authoring and video-capture and editing software, and some feature software that helps to automate the task of backing up data files. Definitely look for accompanying software that best supports your needs.
Future DVD standards promise higher capacities, and yes, more proprietary and incompatible formats. But still, with dual DVD-R/RW/DVD+R/RW drives on the market, it's a good time to get into DVD.
Over the last ten years, Wayne Kawamoto has written over 800 articles, columns, and reviews about computers, new technologies, the Internet, and small businesses. Wayne has alos published three books about upgrading PCs, building office networks, and effectively using and troubleshooting notebook computers. He may be contacted through his Web site at www.waynewrite.com.
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The Robbe / Astra Stearman PT-17 from Hobby Lobby.
Wings straightened out using hair dryer for heat.
The wings are two pics pasted together.
Finally finished painting, Ready to start building!
Eight tiny neodym magnets hold on the dummy motor, four on the fuse and four on the motor.
New bulkhead and landing gear. Part with T shape opening is original bulkhead and thick wire is original landing gear.
Moved battery hatch to bottom of fuse, going to use 8 cell 1000 mah NiMH flat packs.
Lower wing mounts before painting.
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photo by Corryn Brock
by Corryn Brock, Reporter
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A coach and her star. Coach Denna Williams coached Doyle through high school and is now a good friend and one of Doyle's biggest fans. Williams' message to Doyle is: "I'm so proud of you. I love you."
2009 Meridian graduate, Lauren Doyle, set out to compete on the Olympic field August 5, 2016 in Rio.
For a small town like Macon, Illinois, having students go to state championships: big news. Students going to play for a college: bigger news. Playing in the Olympics: unheard of. That is until Meridian High School met Lauren Doyle. Doyle was a star athlete in high school, earning medals at state competitions and setting records still to be broken by the students following her. Lauren's mother, Jenneth Doyle, says her daughter's games growing up were "always exciting." Though nobody saw rugby as a possible future for Doyle in high school, her former coach and current friend, Denna Williams, "knew she could play a contact sport and was awesome moving around defending."
Rio has not received the best reputation for being a safe place to be so there was a concern about the safety of the USA teams and their families. They were informed to keep their cellphones away and carry purses in front of them, as well as making sure to not be out after dark. Even the crime rate in the city couldn't have stopped
No end to the support. Meridian came together August 26, 2016 to show their love for Doyle with a band number, a balloon release, and many more events set in motion by Coach Williams who put an incredible amount of time and effort to make the night as special as possible for the return home of the school's favorite Olympian.
Doyle and her supporters from having a wonderful time together on the journey to Rio De Janeiro . The hardest part for Ms.Doyle? "I would say getting adjusted to the food," she chuckled. "But really it was a great experience all around and I'm very grateful that I got to go."
Rugby has not been offered as an Olympic sport since 1924, and Doyle went up against some fierce competitors from all over the world, and met Matthew McConaughey. Both Mrs. Doyle and Williams can agree with all of the excitement going on around them, one of the best parts of the trip for them was seeing Lauren on the field playing. Ms. Doyle called the experience "awesome" and "overwhelming."
Throughout Doyle's success she has had a community of people to stand behind her and cheer her on from home. "It was felt. Especially while I was in Rio, I felt the support from everyone back home. I got emails, Facebook messages, text messages, everything. I felt it and it is so appreciated that I have this town behind me," she says with gratitude in her voice.
Say cheese! Doyle was asked to participate in several photo ops with fans. The fans shown in the picture above carried spray-painted hula hoops out to the field during halftime to form the Olympic logo.
What's in the future for Doyle? Her mother hopes it is "whatever makes her happy. If it means living in California and playing rugby [she] supports her." With the Rugby World Cup many people are hoping for Lauren to help bring home a win to the United States. No matter what Ms. Doyle decides to do after such a major part of her life, the adults of the community will stand behind her while the children look up to her. Lauren has brought excitement and pride to a small town and we hope she continues to do so .
Doyle will continue the rugby season in December while in Dubai.
Comment below your hopes for Lauren Doyle's future plans!
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THE much talked-about Qua Iboe Power Plant (QIPP) which is to be sited in Akwa Ibom State, and which would add about 540 megawatts of electricity to the national grid, may not take off anytime soon because of mounting debts and decaying infrastructure, among other things, Reuters is reporting.
The facility which is owned by Qua Iboe Power Plant Limited (QIPPL) is expected to gulp about $1.1 billion.
QIPPL, whose chairman is the former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria and current Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi, is a joint venture between Black Rhino, an energy infrastructure company, and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).
The Reuters report quoted NNPC sources as saying that the QIPP "will not get a green light by the end of 2018 as planned and it was unclear when the deal might close".
One of the obstacles against the project is the series of challenges being experienced with the Azure-Edo power plant with regards to finance.
Azure Edo plant is Nigeria's first privately-financed independent power project. It was launched in February 2018.
How the Nigerian power sector operates is that the Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading Company (NBET) buys power from GENCOs (Generating Companies), such as Azure, and passes it on to DISCOs (Distribution Companies) who then collect money from customers and reimburse NBET.
But the DISCOs have always complained that the amount being paid as tariffs by consumers are too low; hence their inability to pay NBET in full, and consequently NBET cannot pay the GENCOs.
However, the GENCOs are partly reimbursed from an emergency central bank loan fund created to keep the sector afloat, Reuters reports.
Some other partners in the QIPP project, like the Dangote Group, have pulled out because of the huge debts and the inability of the DISCOs to meet their obligations.
"The huge debt level, and, the fact the IPPs are not making profits, is another reason for prospective investors to be deterred. Further, collecting revenue from the distribution companies is also becoming a mirage," a top official with Dangote told Reuters on condition of anonymity.
Many agreed that if the Central Bank was not paying part of NBET's commitment to the GENCOs, the system would have collapsed.
Azura's experience, according to an expert who also asked not to be named, "was damaging international investors' view of Nigeria," the report noted.
"There has to be some understanding of how the sector is going to be able to afford new electrons coming into the grid. (Those involved) do not want QIPP to build a project that could just end up in a default situation," he said.


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Cryptophagus pilosus is een keversoort uit de familie harige schimmelkevers (Cryptophagidae). De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort werd in 1828 gepubliceerd door Leonard Gyllenhaal.

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Nativity of Our Lady Catholic Church
Mass Schedule & Sacraments
The 7 Sacraments
At the loss of a loved one
Ministries & Activities
Prayer at Nativity
First Communion Preparation
Catholic Tweens
Confirmation Preparation
For New Catholics
PROTECTION OF CHILDREN
NINE DAYS OF PRAYER, PENANCE AND PILGRIMAGE
Churches in the United States observe Respect Life Sunday this Sunday, January 19, 2014, marking the anniversary of the Roe vs. Wade decision of 1973. Roman Catholic and Orthodox bishops in the United States ask the faithful to join in Nine days of Prayer, Penance and Pilgrimage to end abortion. This Novena can be observed privately or collectively. It is also a spiritual support for the March for Life on Washington, held this year on January 22.
The bishops have published a Novena Booklet, which can be downloaded from http://is.gd/egotof
You can also ask Rita Bell (roseritabell@yahoo.com) or Fr. Bob (fr.bob.nativity@gmail.com, 952-290-6767) for a copy.
Here is more information from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
PRAYER SERVICE ON JANUARY 26 AT 1:00 P.M.
St. Francis Xavier and Nativity of Our Lady will hold a PRAYER SERVICE FOR LIFE on Sunday, January 26 at 1:00 p.m. in SFX church. Please join us as we ask the God of Life to help us nurture a culture based on a true respect for life.
(The prayer service is organized by the St. Francis Xavier/Nativity of Our Lady Culture of Life Group in keeping with the guidelines set by the U.S. Bishops Conference.)
Diocese has audited Nativity
The Diocese of Savannah is trying to improve its stewardship of resources. As part of this, several parishes and Catholic schools will be audited each year. Nativity of Our Lady was one of the first to be looked at by the new diocesan team, together with St. Francis Xavier Parish and St. Francis Xavier Catholic School in Brunswick.
The auditing team spent three days in August in Darien, looking over everything. They spent several weeks in Brunswick, where most of Nativity's records are stored. This was a "structural and procedural audit", looking at how we do things. The Draft Report was sent to the Finance Council on December 18. The Council held an initial meeting on December 19 with Mr. Jon Bokina, Diocesan Audit Manager. We have held several meetings since.
Here are some highlights from the report.
Among our strengths:
Nativity has a dedicated staff and many dedicated volunteers.
The parishioners of Nativity support their church in an exemplary fashion. There is great participation in fund raisers, etc. The parish bested its BAA goal.
Nativity actively supports St. Francis Xavier Catholic School.
Nativity Mission has a functioning Finance Council, Pastoral Council, Liturgy Commission and Building & Maintenance Committee. Minutes are kept and summaries are published online and in the bulletin.
Financial information is made available to the parishioners.
All accounts are balanced every month.
There were found no "hidden" or "off the record" accounts.
All disbursements are carefully recorded by the parish secretary Gloria Whatley, approved by the pastoral administrator Fr. Bob, and made in a timely fashion by the SFX Finance Office Maggie Shafer.
The offertory counting team meets every Monday and counts each Mass seperately.
Among our weaknesses:
There is inadequate physical security: some doors have no locks, some locks are too simple, some windows are too easy to break into, the safe too exposed. etc.
There have been many ups and downs these last several years, making it hard to have a clear picture of Nativity's real situation over a 5-year period.
Communication between Nativity Mission and St. Francis Xavier Church is bad.
There is unacceptable uncertainty about how Fr. Bob is expected to divide his time between the two parishes or how his salary is to be paid.
There is a great discrepancy between how many members the diocesan office thinks Nativity has, how many members the St. Francis Xavier parish office thinks Nativity has, and how many members Nativity's own staff thinks we have.
The Nativity Finance Council has not been granted adequate oversight over Nativity's investments.
The audit made many concrete suggestions. The diocese suggests, among other things, that:
We look at using an envelope system for the collection
We improve the security of how we handle the collection after Mass
We streamline the way we do the counting on Monday
We make a three year plan (extended budget)
The Finance Council look at all Letters of Employment and ensure compliance with all laws and policies
Written policies be developed and published
In the coming weeks, the Finance Council volunteers will be working extra hard to digest the audit report, write our response and implement any improvements. We will present a much better picture of things at the Nativity Town Hall Meeting on February 15.
The Finance Council
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Former Call of Duty: WW2 dev says Activision is pushing for a darker, more controversial Modern Warfare
Michael Condrey, Sledgehammer Games co-founder and studio head, is torn on the new Call of Duty: Modern Warfare.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare developer Infinity Ward has a clear intent to make players feel uncomfortable dealing with the horrors of modern war.
This made the game's recent behind-closed-doors presentations divisive, as some found what was on display to have gone too far, whereas others were excited to see if the game can handle such mature themes.
"I maintain that video games are the most important art form of our time," Michael Condrey, who is currently building a new studio for 2K Games, told GamesBeat.
Though he's supportive of the team's right to create something they believe in, he feels the push to make it more controversial is the result of Activision's influence.
"[Modern Warfare] seems like a tough challenge for any studio, especially if they are being pushed by publishing to be more controversial and 'darker' for the sake of headlines."
On a more personal note, Condrey suggested that working with fictional conflicts in Modern Warfare 3 put some distance between them and real-world events. In Modern Warfare's case, however, the game seems to be more directly inspired by them.
"Our efforts on MW3 were focused on storytelling in a universe that dealt with intense conflict but was also very clearly fictional. And with WW2 our team strived to pay tribute to a conflict like no other," he explained.
"But the world has changed a lot in the last decade and events like Sandy Hook, Las Vegas, and Christchurch are real and heartbreaking. So, I'm torn, to be totally honest.
"The creative challenges of realistic 'modern warfare' are complex. Western 'heroes' killing 'villains' in the Middle East simply isn't good enough."
It'll be interesting to see how far Infinity Ward pushes it, and how nuanced the studio's take is going to be when Call of Duty: Modern Warfare launches on October 25 for PC, PS4, and Xbox One.
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And here I am, back on the blog after the holidays, for the first recipe of 2015!
And what's better than kicking the year with a great French classic?
The lemon meringue tart ("tarte au citron meringuée") has the perfect balance of flavour: the lemon curd is tangy and creamy, but on the other side, the browned Italian meringue is soft and sweet and everything is packed in a crunchy shortbread crust.
As a reminder, the meringue is not a crunchy baked meringue: in pastry, any mixture of egg whites and sugar is called meringue. And this Italian meringue is a specific type where a sugar syrup at 118°C is added while whipping the egg whites. Finally the Italian meringue is great to be browned with a pastry torch!
But of course, you can pipe any decoration you like on top of the tart (I like using a star tip for my piping bag and I usually leave the centre of the tart with no meringue, so the cream shows), and you can also spread the meringue in a random pattern with a spatula.
Finally, if you don't have a propane torch, no worries: you can put the fridge-cold tart with the room temperature meringue for a few seconds in a pre-heated oven at the maximum temperature with the grill/broiler on.
Add the remaining ingredients and mix by hand to obtain a homogeneous dough. Do not overmix.
Raise the excess of dough by pressing it against the ring and so that the dough is half cm higher than the ring. Refrigerate for several hours. Place a piece of parchment paper inside the tart and fill it with beans (or other cereals or pastry weights, to prevent the dough from rising) then blind bake at 170°C. After 15 minutes, remove the tart ring and the weights (and optionally brush the side with egg wash) and bake for 5-7 more minutes.
When the mixture is warmer than 50°C, start whisking constantly and vigorously and bring to a boil for one minute. The mixture will thicken like a pastry cream.
When the syrup reaches 118°C, pour it slowly on the inner side of the bowl after decreasing the whipping speed of the mixer to medium-low.
Move a propane torch quickly over the meringue to give it a browned look (but not a burnt black!). I usually keep the torch always in the same position and turn the cake of 90° when I'm done, to continue on another side.
My girlfriend's parents loved it!
Hello.help me please.when I do an Italian meringue the sugar and water don't pour in eggs. They become like a caramel candy. How should I pour to haven't a stiff piece of crystallized syrup.
If one does not have a hand held propane torch, how long should the tart go in the over for and at what temperature?


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Read the 'Interstellar' Prequel Written By Christopher Nolan
Like so many major films released these days, 'Interstellar' has a comic book tie-in. But unlike most comic book tie-ins, this one is actually written by the original film's director and is premiering online. And yes, you can read the whole thing right now, free of charge. We're going to jump straight into spoilers right at the end of this sentence, so if you haven't had a chance to see Christopher Nolan's science fiction adventure yet, you may want to consider turning around.
Okay. Let's go. About halfway through 'Interstellar,' we meet Dr. Mann, played by Matt Damon in an extended cameo. A seemingly heroic explorer, Mann is eventually revealed to be a coward, a liar and a murderer who faked his planetary test results so he could be rescued by future astronauts. Eventually, he and Matthew McConaughey have a big 'ol fistfight when the truth starts to come out. The character has already proven controversial among nearly everyone who has seen the movie, so this seven-page comic may also ruffle some feathers: it's all about Dr. Mann before the events of the film, back when he was stranded with his robot companion, KIPP.
Written by Nolan and drawn by the seriously great Sean Murphy, the comic is a character-driven piece, establishing the motivations and mindset of Mann. There's no action to be found and it doesn't stand on its own in any way, so it's a bit of an odd project. However, anyone wanting to know more about the universe of 'Interstellar' and the characters who live in it will find much to enjoy. Those who were already frustrated by the film and the character of Mann will probably find something to grumble about every few panels. However, the mere fact that it is so closely tied to the film's main creative force makes this the rare tie-in that actually feels worth inserting into the greater conversation. In comic book terms, it's fully canon.
You can preview the one page of the comic above, but make sure you head over to Wired to read the whole thing. 'Interstellar' is currently in theaters. The conversation about 'Interstellar' is everywhere you look.
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hello all, yesterday i bought a MA2 gateway laptop from a pawn shop. they told me it had a virus on it so i thought i could just use my windows xp disc and reboot it but i have tried several disc windows vista 98 95 and xp to no avail. most disc try to load then a screen comes up no operation system found. is there anyway to resolve this problem.
Looks like you have double-posted the same problem in two topic folders. This is against the rules of our Forum. Your query would be best answered if posted in the 'general' topic folder. But a Mod may see fit to move the posting, so leave as is.
Regarding your problem, it is advisable to post all info about the unit, such as CPU type, memory, OS type and other pertinent info. This will help to better diagnose the problems.
There are many helpful hints in the 'stickies' at the top of forum topics, to get you back in operation.
As to "no OS found", likely the previous owner or the retailer has deleted the files from the hard drive, as it is required to sell the OS with the system on which installed, or the installation must be deleted. If you are able to get into the BIOS pages, the settings for a boot record search must include other than the hard drive. If an optical drive or other is part of the system, that path must be included.
If the system is reputed to have a virus, it is advised to delete any partitions on the hard drive, and then shut down with none formed. Then restart, boot to the OS install disk, and create new partition(s) as needed. Otherwise, the viral infestation will remain.
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Sounds like its booting off the hard drive, before booting from the optical drive. It was likely erased before it went to the pawn shop.
Hit F11 on boot, see if that loads the restore utility.
Either F1 or F2 should get you into the BIOS so you can change the Boot Order.


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URGENT! Against Criminalization, Surround Those That Struggle With Solidarity
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brazil/guyana/suriname/fguiana | repression / prisoners | press release Thursday October 26, 2017 16:53 by FAG - Federação Anarquista Gaúcha
We learned a few hours ago of a civil police operation against an alleged group responsible for several attacks on police vehicles, a bank, car dealers, police stations and political party headquarters.
According to news published on G1 crimes of gang formation, use of explosives and attempted murder will be attributed to this alleged group. The premises of our former public headquarters, located on Travessa dos Venezianos, was invaded by police who seized computers, telephones, books and other items belonging to the cultural group that maintained the space. We have learned that the warrant was addressed to our Organization. Other political-cultural spaces were also 'visited' by civil police.
This is yet another FACTOID that aims to create a scarecrow, a scapegoat, to criminalize and repress all social movements, the non-electoral left and our ideology in particular. In a context of eroding of rights, austerity, intensification of exploitation and domination over all the oppressed classes, the heavy hand of the criminalization against the anarchists comes into play.
Our public space has not been invaded yet, but we believe it will only be a matter of time. We alert all of the social fighters about this and about the need for SOLIDARITY with everyone who struggles!
YOU DO NOT INTIMIDATE US!
AGAINST THE CRIMINALIZATION OF THOSE WHO STRUGGLE!
RESISTANCE AND SOLIDARITY!
Federação Anarquista Gaúcha - FAG
http://www.anarkismo.net/article/30618
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Have the CDDS optional tool been updated recently? If they haven't been I can write up some quick tutorials on what they do and how they work. Those were all tools I had asked "was it possible to" and you did your magic and created them, so I know what they were created to do.
That would great. No, none of the tools have change.
Where/how is the category data stored in the DIM? Is it something I could open a DIM and insert a snippet of text? Like opening 20 or so DIMs using Notepad++ insert <some text to assign a category> and then save the files? Or is this something that would have to be done using the Update DIM utility? Could it even be done using the Update DIM?
I'm not thinking of something to be added to CDDS, I'm just looking for a fast way to bulk add a category to some DIMs. I'm hoping to avoid having to have to recreate the DIMs lol.
The category data is stored in the support.dsx file. Chances are the DIMs you made don't have that file so you would have load them into CDDS one at a time to set the category data as each support.dsx will be different.
Thanks RDM! I'll have to let my OCD stew over it for a bit and see if it's gonna be worth it to my sanity go update all those pre-CDDS DIMs lol.
@Akkaal wrote: Thanks RDM! I'll have to let my OCD stew over it for a bit and see if it's gonna be worth it to my sanity go update all those pre-CDDS DIMs lol.
99.9% of the time OCD wins.


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Die Geschichte des Islam in den Niederlanden beginnt im frühen 17. Jahrhundert, als die Vereinigten Niederlande einen Freihandelsvertrag mit Marokko unterschrieben. Im 19. Jahrhundert erlebten die Niederlande eine sporadische muslimische Einwanderung aus Niederländisch-Indien, als diese südostasiatische Region eine niederländische Kolonie war. Das Wirtschaftswachstum zwischen 1960 und 1973 veranlasste schließlich die niederländische Regierung dazu, eine große Zahl von Arbeitsemigranten anzuwerben, hauptsächlich aus der Türkei und Marokko, und die Migration setzte sich auch danach in Form von Familienzusammenführungen und Asylanträgen von Menschen aus instabilen muslimischen Ländern fort.

Zahlen aus dem Jahr 2009 zeigen, dass in den Niederlanden zurzeit ungefähr 825.000 Muslime leben, darunter 327.000 Marokkaner und 325.000 Türken. Die meisten von ihnen leben in einer der vier Großstädte des Landes: Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Den Haag und Utrecht.

Geschichte

Vertrag mit Marokko
Im frühen 17. Jahrhundert besuchte eine Delegation der Vereinigten Niederlande Marokko, um über ein gemeinsames Bündnis gegen Spanien und die Korsaren zu beratschlagen. Sultan Zaydan an Nasr (auch Zaidan el-Nasir oder Zidan Abu Maali) ernannte Samuel Pallache zu seinem Gesandten, und 1608 traf sich Pallache mit Statthalter Moritz von Oranien und den Generalstaaten in Den Haag.

Am 24. Dezember 1610 unterzeichneten beide Länder einen Vertrag, der den freien Handel zwischen den Niederlanden und Marokko anerkannte und dem es den Sultan gestattete, Schiffe, Waffen und Munition von den Niederländern zu kaufen. Es war nach der Franko-Osmanischen Allianz von 1536 einer der ersten offiziellen Verträge zwischen einem europäischen und einem nicht-christlichen Staat. Als Folge kamen wiederholt marokkanische Gesandte und Kaufleute in die Niederlande.

Im 17. Jahrhundert konvertierten zudem einige der niederländischen Korsaren, die schon am Unabhängigkeitskrieg gegen Spanien teilgenommen hatten, zum Islam und ließen sich dauerhaft in Nordafrika nieder (bekannte Beispiele dafür sind Simon de Danser, Süleyman Reis, Jan Janszoon).

Niederländisch-Indien
Im 19. Jahrhundert verwalteten die Niederlande eine Inselgruppe, aus der später der Staat Indonesien wurde – ein hauptsächlich muslimisches Land mit der weltweit größten muslimischen Bevölkerung. Die ersten Muslime, die sich in den Niederlanden niederließen, flüchteten vor dem indonesischen Unabhängigkeitskrieg, der von 1945 bis 1949 dauerte.

Immigration im 20. Jahrhundert
Die muslimische Einwohnerschaft in den Niederlanden ist unterschiedlicher Herkunft. Während der 1960er und 1970er Jahre benötigte das Land mehr Arbeitskräfte. Der Staat schloss Anwerbevereinbarungen mit Ländern wie der Türkei und Marokko ab, und Menschen von dort wurde es gestattet, sich zeitweise in den Niederlanden aufzuhalten (eine kleinere Zahl von muslimischen Migranten zu dieser Zeit kamen aus Tunesien und Algerien). Im Jahr 1973 wohnten ungefähr 22.000 Marokkaner im Land.

Die offizielle Arbeitsmigration endete 1973, dennoch nahm die Zahl der Marokkaner und Türken stetig zu, da die Einwanderer begünstigt durch Familienzusammenführungsgesetze ihre Familien nachträglich ins Land holten.

Schließlich kam eine Anzahl von surinamischen Muslimen vor und nach der Unabhängigkeit von Surinam 1975 in die Niederlande, und in den 1980ern und besonders seit den 1990ern kommen Muslime als Flüchtlinge und Asylbewerber in das Land, hauptsächlich aus Bosnien und Herzegowina, Somalia, Iran, Pakistan und Afghanistan.

Demografische Situation

Laut dem CBS, dem niederländischen Amt für Statistik, sind 5 % der Einwohner des Landes Muslime (24. Oktober 2007). Frühere von dem CBS vorgestellte Statistiken zeigten eine größere Zahl auf, aber jene Informationen basierten lediglich auf Ethnizität und nicht auf den religiösen Glauben.

Im Jahr 2006 bekannten sich 850.000 niederländische Staatsbürger zum Islam. Davon waren 38 % türkischer, 31 % marokkanischer, 24 % asiatisch-afrikanischer und 4 % europäischer (ohne Niederlande) Herkunft; 1 % waren einheimische Niederländer. Unter den niederländischen Muslimen waren 40.000 Pakistaner, 34.000 Surinamesen, 31.000 Afghanen und 27.000 Iraker.

Einer Untersuchung der Universität Amsterdam zufolge bezeichnen sich 53.000 der niederländischen Muslime als streng orthodox, davon waren 24.000 marokkanisch- und 12.000 türkischstämmig.

Die Zahl der Zwölferschiiten, die einen niederländischen Pass besitzen, betrug am 1. Januar 2005 108.728, darunter Iraker, Afghanen und Iraner.

Niederländische Konvertiten
Bis zum Jahr 2007 sind rund 12.000 autochthone Niederländer zum Islam konvertiert. Es wird geschätzt, dass jährlich 500 Niederländer zum Islam konvertieren. Niederländische Konvertiten sehen sich vielfach mit sprachlichen Problemen konfrontiert: in der Moschee verstehen sie oft den Inhalt der Predigt nicht, da diese häufig auf Arabisch oder Türkisch gehalten wird.

Organisationen

In den Niederlanden existieren mehr als 430 registrierte Moscheen, darunter über 220 türkische, 140 marokkanische und 50 surinamische. Es existieren islamische Buchhandlungen und Verlage sowie muslimische Frauen- und Jugendorganisationen. Im Rahmen des in den Niederlanden geltenden Rechts der Bildungsfreiheit gibt es etwa 45 islamische Grundschulen sowie zwei Hochschulen dieser Art (die Islamitische Scholengemeenschap Ibn Ghaldoun in Rotterdam sowie das Islamitisch College Amsterdam). Seit Ende der 2000er Jahre existiert außerdem ein islamischer Rundfunksender, der Nederlandse Moslim Omroep (NMO, niederländischer Rundfunk für Muslime).

Einige muslimische Dachverbände:
 Contactorgaan Moslims en Overheid (CMO) – "Kontaktorgan Muslime und Staat", gilt als die wichtigste Vertretung der Muslime in den Niederlanden
 Contact Groep Islam (CGI)
 Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Netherlands
 Nederlandse Moslim Raad (NMR)
 Federatie Islamitische Organisaties Nederland (FION)
 Federatie van Moslimorganisaties Nederland (FOMON)
 Nederlands Islamitische parlement
 Islamitische Raad Nederland (IRN)
 Raad van Moskeeën Nederland

Muslime in der Politik

Politisch fühlen sich ungefähr zwei Drittel der Türken und Marokkaner "vorwiegend mit Angehörigen der eigenen ethnischen Gruppe verbunden", die Wahlbeteiligung sowie generell politische Mitwirkung unter ihnen ist verhältnismäßig gering. Statistiken zeigen, dass niederländische Türken hierbei überwiegend (90 %) türkischstämmige Politiker wählen; bei den Marokkanern wählen nur halb so viel Politiker mit dem eigenen ethnischen Hintergrund. Trotz der mangelnden politischen Teilnahme eines Großteils der niederländischen Muslime befinden sich immer wieder muslimischstämmige Personen im Parlament; einer der ersten war 1994 Mohamed Rabbae. Nach den Wahlen 2003 gab es mindestens 10 Abgeordnete mit muslimischen Hintergrund im niederländischen Parlament: Nebahat Albayrak (PvdA), Coşkun Çörüz (CDA), Fatma Koşer Kaya (D66) und Fadime Örgü (VVD) sind dabei türkischer Herkunft; Khadija Arib (PvdA), Naïma Azough sowie Ali Lazrak (GL) sind marokkanischer Abstammung. Ebenfalls in der Zweiten Kammer waren damals Farah Karimi (GL), Nirmala Rambocus (CDA), und Ayaan Hirsi Ali (VVD). Seitdem gab es immer neue Parlamentarier mit muslimischem Hintergrund, wie Ahmed Marcouch, Samira Bouchibti, Nihat Eski und Nevin Özütok.
Im 2007 gebildeten vierten Kabinett von Ministerpräsident Balkenende befanden sich mit Ahmed Aboutaleb und Nebahat Albayrak erstmals zwei Muslime im Amt des Staatssekretärs.

Aboutaleb ist seit 2008 Bürgermeister von Rotterdam, die Stadt ist somit die erste westeuropäische Großstadt mit einem muslimischen Bürgermeister.

Zurzeit gibt es mit den Islam Democraten und der Nederlandse Moslim Partij zwei islamische politische Parteien in den Niederlanden; beide konnten aber bislang keine nennenswerten Wahlergebnisse verzeichnen.

Kontroversen

In den Niederlanden gibt es vielfach kritische Positionen zum Islam, bis hin zu einer offenen Islamfeindlichkeit; zu den bekannteren Islamkritikern und -gegnern zählen Politiker wie Geert Wilders (PVV), der 2002 ermordete Pim Fortuyn (LPF), Ayaan Hirsi Ali (VVD) und Ehsan Jami (PVV) sowie Wissenschaftler wie Afshin Ellian. Hirsi Ali bekommt seit 2002 Morddrohungen aus islamistischen Kreisen, auch Wilders erhält solche Androhungen regelmäßig; Jami wurde mehrfach gewaltsam von Muslimen attackiert.

Der Mord an dem Regisseur Theo van Gogh durch Mohammed Bouyeri, einen marokkanisch-niederländischen islamistischen Terroristen, am 2. November 2004 hat, ebenso wie die Verhaftung der Hofstad-Gruppe wegen des Vorwurfs des Terrorismus, eine Vielzahl von Diskussionen über den Islam und seinen Platz in der niederländischen Gesellschaft ausgelöst. So wurde über ein Verbot der Burka im Kabinett diskutiert. Nach dem Mord an van Gogh tauchten einige Webseiten auf, in denen die Tat gepriesen und weitere Morddrohungen gegen andere Leute gemacht wurden. Zur selben Zeit wurden am Wochenende nach dem Mord vier Brandanschläge auf Moscheen verübt, es folgten eine beträchtliche Anzahl von offensichtlichen Vergeltungstaten. Am 8. November wurden im Gegenzug christliche Kirchen ins Visier genommen. Ein Bericht der Anne Frank Stichting (Anne-Frank-Stiftung) und der Universität Leiden zufolge gab es im November 2004 insgesamt 174 gewalttätige Vorfälle; dabei wurden Moscheen 47 mal und Kirchen 13 mal zum Ziel der Gewalt.

Zwischen dem 23. November 2004 und dem 13. März 2005 verzeichnete die Korps landelijke politiediensten (KLPD), die niederländische Landespolizei, 31 Fälle von Gewaltakten gegen Moscheen und islamischen Schulen. Der Fall, der am meisten Aufsehen erregte, war der Brandanschlag, der im Dezember 2004 zur Zerstörung einer muslimischen Grundschule in Uden führte. Die Periode von stärkeren Spannungen zwischen Niederländern und der muslimischen Gemeinde wurde auch bezeugt durch Konfrontationen zwischen den so genannten "Lonsdale-Jugendlichen" (niederländische Jugendliche, die bevorzugt Kleidung der Marke Lonsdale tragen) und türkischen und marokkanischen Jugendlichen in ländlichen Städten wie Venray.

Scharia
Im Jahr 2006 rief der damalige Justizminister Piet Hein Donner eine Protestwelle hervor, als er vorschlug die Scharia, also das islamische Gesetz, in verfassungsgemäßer Weise in den Niederlanden zu akzeptieren. "Es ist für mich von sicherer Gewissheit: wenn morgen zwei Drittel aller Niederländer die Scharia einführen wollten, dann muss diese Möglichkeit gegeben sein. Könnte man es legal vereiteln? Es wäre auch ein Skandal zu sagen 'das ist nicht erlaubt!'. Die Mehrheit zählt. Das ist die Essenz der Demokratie." Diese Aussage wurde von Parteien jeglichen politischen Spektrums grundsätzlich abgelehnt, ebenso wie von einem muslimischen Führer.

Wilders und die Muslime
Der von vielen Seiten als Rechtspopulist betrachtete Geert Wilders wurde mit seinen polarisierenden Ansichten zum Islam in den Niederlanden und in Europa, sowie mit den Reaktionen darauf, wiederholt zum Mittelpunkt des öffentlichen Interesses, und somit zu einer zentralen Figur in der Debatte um die Rolle des Islam in der westlichen Welt. Wilders verlangt vorrangig einen Einwanderungsstopp für Menschen aus muslimischen Ländern; weitere Forderungen seinerseits waren eine Steuer auf Kopftücher, die Schließung der muslimischen Schulen in den Niederlanden sowie ein Verbot des Koran. Der von ihm im März 2008 veröffentlichte Kurzfilm Fitna, in dem eine Collage aus Surenzitaten und Szenen islamistischer Gewalt zu sehen ist, rief international starke Kritik hervor. In den Niederlanden selbst waren die Reaktionen, auch von muslimischer Seite, gemäßigt. Zwei Jahre später rief der libanesisch-australische Hassprediger Feiz Mohammed, wie im September 2010 bekannt wurde, in einer Internetkonferenz offenbar zur Enthauptung Wilders auf, da dieser "den Islam verspottet habe".
Ab dem 4. Oktober stand Wilders auf Grund seiner islamfeindlichen Aussagen (u. a. der Islam sei "faschistisch", Prophet Mohammed ein "Barbar") in Amsterdam wegen Volksverhetzung vor Gericht. Dort berief er sich auf das Recht auf Meinungsfreiheit. Das Gericht hingegen empfand Wilders Aussagen als "strafbare Anstachelung zum Hass auf Anhänger einer Religion". Im Oktober 2010 bedrohte Taliban-Führer Sabjullah Mudschahed die niederländische Regierung: sollte sie die anti-islamischen Forderungen von Wilders umsetzen, werden die Niederlande "mit Sicherheit zum Ziel von Dschihadisten werden".

Siehe auch
 Submission, islamkritischer Kurzfilm von Theo van Gogh
 Fitna, islamkritischer Film von Geert Wilders
 Fawaz Jneid, umstrittener Imam einer Den Haager Moschee

Einzelnachweise

Migration (Niederlande)


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Susan Olsen – Gets Down with Her Bad Show
Posted on September 25, 2009 by popenterta	Leave a comment
Susan Olsen
Gets Down with Her Bad Show
By Ronald Sklar
"It was a spectactular turd," says Susan Olsen. She speaks of the infamous Brady Bunch Variety Hour, which inexplicably ran on ABC-TV for a very short time in 1976 and 1977. Olsen played Cindy Brady, the youngest of the clan, on the original series from 1969-1974, and in just about every reunion project since. But she harbors a certain horror for this first Brady reunion, a reincarnation that should have remained deceased.
If the original Brady series defied the boundaries of logic, this next series sank the seventies into an even deeper puzzlement. It featured singing and dancing Bradys (even though most of them could not sing and dance), cringe-inducing "comedy" sketches, a "fake" sibling, Rip Taylor, dancing mermaids, watered-down disco music and a leaking pool surrounded by jerry-rigged electrical wiring. The deadly shock of the show did not come from the live wires.
Coinciding with the fortieth anniversary of the debut of the original Brady Bunch sitcom, Olsen has co-authored (along with Ted Nichelson and Lisa Sutton) the new book Love To Love You Bradys: The Bizarre Story of The Brady Bunch Variety Hour (ECW Press).
"We're saying that, yeah, the show is bad; we're saying it's a turkey," Olsen says. "But we also don't want to put it down. The book itself is really a labor of love. There is nothing to apologize for now. The show is so spectacularly bizarre that it's something to be proud of."
In fact, applying the old standby "it's so bad, it's good," actually works here. Almost. The book refers to "good seeds, rotten fruit," in that bad things happen to good people.
Love To Love You Bradys
Brace yourself, however: if you are not familiar with this space oddity, it will change you forever.
"For me, a lot of the variety hour had been kind of blocked out," Olsen says, "but it's important for us to remember the variety hour because if we forget, something like this could happen again."
Vaudeville-type entertainment of this type, with tiresome guest stars like Tony Randall and Milton Berle, corny jokes and sequined jumpsuits, was already dying by the late seventies. It was laid to rest by the hip, young, racy, urban humor of NBC's Saturday Night Live. Nevertheless, a desperate ABC smelled ratings, and ordered the Bunch back.
At the time, Olsen was a young teen who had returned to "real life" after the cancellation of the original series. She says, "I figured I wouldn't be working again until I was eighteen. Once you get past thirteen, there are enough eighteen-year-olds who can play young. They'll get hired because [producers] don't want to deal with the child labor laws. The closer you get to eighteen, the less hirable you are. So I figured, I'll just kick back and have a normal teenagerhood, and go to high school.
"I always went back to real life. I always went back to regular public school when we weren't filming. I did not want to have some kind of weird sheltered life. I was really adamant about it when I was a kid. I think a lot of those [TV actor] kids did not know what it was like to be a teenager because they weren't living as regular teenagers."
Yet every time Olsen tried to get out, they kept pulling her back in.
"I figured, I'm only fifteen," she says. "Hopefully, I won't be held to this with too much scrutiny. I made my friends promise not to watch it. And, of course they watched it."
So did everybody else. The ratings were through the roof. Yet America's initial euphoria of seeing the Bradys reunite ("THE BRADYS ARE BACK!" screamed the ads) faded fast.
"I didn't love what I was doing," Olsen recalls. "I didn't love the way I looked or the way I sounded. We weren't called icons yet. The Brady Bunch didn't become cool until the [Brady Bunch satirical movies of the 1990s]. It was something I had felt mildly ashamed of, at least from an artistic perspective. It was not something I could say I was a part of with any pride."
The Brady Bunch Variety Show
The feeling became mutual. The boat sank almost as quickly as it was launched. Nine episodes and out. As Olsen has said, that's eight and a half too many.
"I was just hoping that they would concentrate more on the comedy," Olsen says, "because Saturday Night Live had just started. And I was thinking, if only we could move into that kind of material, wouldn't that be wonderful. Of course, we didn't."
The cast would get together for many Brady projects in the coming decades, with varied degrees of success. However, for this very first reunion, it was not the Bradys that made us recoil in mortification; it was the disco-fueled material that was thrown at them, and at us.
We're all victims here. All of us are Bradys.
TV Guide has since christened the series the fourth worst television show of all time, and if you think about it, that's really saying something.
"[Producers Sid and Marty Krofft] told us that we were going to sing and dance," Olsen says. "That's what made the whole thing awful to me. This was the kind of music that I hated with a passion."
The Bradys were doing the hustle, literally and figuratively.
"At the same time," Olsen says, "The Ramones are playing at CBGBs. Bob Marley was touring then. Right after we wrapped, I saw Led Zeppelin at the [Los Angeles] Forum for the first time. I was a die-hard fan of Emerson, Lake and Palmer. Disco was the last thing on my list. I hated it, and I hated The Donny and Marie Show, and I hated all Sid and Marty Krofft shows. Aesthetically and artistically, I could not have been in a worse place."
However, suffering brings family closer together. She remains tight with her cast mates to this day, including actress Geri Reischl, whom pop culture has deemed "Fake Jan."
"When Geri came along, it didn't feel like she was replacing Eve [Plumb, who played the original Jan Brady and did not participate in the variety hour]. Geri made Fake Jan her own. She really did. And I think that most of the audience felt that way too. She just created her own character."
As for Eve Plumb, Olsen disputes the widely held belief that she was not a team player.
"We really thought that Eve would eventually do it," Olsen says. "While we were working on the variety hour, I once said to Florence [Henderson, who played mother Carol Brady] 'Wouldn't we all be doing something else if we had something else to do?' And if looks could kill!
"As for Eve, I was happy for her and I was jealous of her, because she was moving on [she had recently appeared in the landmark TV movie Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway]. But she did consider doing the show. She did consider it quite seriously, but she could not commit to the number of episodes. When it finally came down to no, she felt bad, although I know that she felt positive about the choices she made. I know that she watched the show and was sort of glad that she didn't have to do what we were doing, but it also really bothered her to see us all together without her. There is the career, and then there is the family.
"She really gets a bad rap as being the bitter Brady. She's very much like a sister and very much a part of the family. Career wise, she's made other choices. My biggest sadness, probably, was the fact that she wasn't going to be on the show. Mike Lookinland [who played Bobby Brady] and Eve Plumb were the two people I was closest to. Eve and I would have been friends regardless of us doing the show together. We just have way too much in common."
On TV as in life, all bad things must come to a cancellation, some sooner than others.
"After a while, it stopped being fun," Olsen says. "The show probably ended when it should have. It was getting a little more painful."
They did give it the old Brady try, though, right up to the pulled plug. Florence Henderson, the only cast member who had a solid, professional background in song and dance, was the go-to Brady when it came to show time. But even Carol Brady could only be tested so much.
"It was sad to see Florence as frustrated as she was," Olsen says.
Also serious was Barry Williams, who played Greg Brady and was currently building a career in theatrical musical comedy.
"It was right up his alley," Olsen says. "He took it very seriously and he was very good. Barry was very much a perfectionist. He was very motivated to stay focused.
"I was not old enough to be paranoid enough to realize that I might not be doing this very well. There wasn't much desire to be that good. But I knew that Florence was good at it and I knew that Barry was good at it, and I knew that I wasn't."
Sometimes, though, even the worst experiences can produce a fond memory. The late actor Robert Reed, who played father Mike Brady and was infamous for making his disdain for the show known, seemed to be having a gay old time.
"It just goes to show you," Olsen says. "There he was, balking at everything on The Brady Bunch. I mean, he wouldn't participate in a pie throwing, because that would be too undignified for Mike Brady. But he wears a dress on the variety hour.
"He was a complicated man, but totally lovable and totally likeable. He actually was a very musical person. He was a brilliant piano player. And he was very serious about it. So doing this disco and dancing, it was very difficult for him. He felt very awkward."
Reed, who was closeted for all of his life, was the ultimate irony. America would be in for quite a shock when learning a bit more about its favorite dad.
Olsen says, "A part of me loves the fact that Mike Brady was gay, so it's okay. But it was never okay to him. So I was very upset to see [news of his death from complications from AIDS, in 1992] come out the way it did. Now, we finally reached a level of maturity where we can accept it. Back then, people may applaud you for coming out of the closet, but they would never hire you again.
"The saddest thing is that he didn't accept it in himself. The saddest thing about Bob is that he didn't allow himself to have a true love. He would have been the greatest partner. He had so many interests and such a love for life. Gosh, it would have been so great to see him settle down with another guy."
The Brady Bunch phenom in general, with its entire unlikely and unpredictable evolution, is what it is despite what it is.
"I think everybody loved the show because they got a feeling that we did love each other," Olsen says. "We literally grew up together. As kids, we went on concert tours together. We were traveling, and coming back for reunion after reunion. That bonded us. We have these feelings for each other because we generally grew up together. When Bob and Florence would walk on a reunion set, I would feel like everything is okay because mom and dad are here."
The universality filters down to a simple thought: living and making a living.
She says, "As much as I hated the show, and as much as I thought it was horrible, working is always good."
Also good is the badness of The Brady Bunch Variety Hour. When VH1 re-ran the series a few years back, here is how they described it:
We knew when they were on and why they were on. We just didn't know what they were on.
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