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Vladimir Unterfingher September 12, 2019 Entertainment Leave a comment 76 Views
On the 30th of April, the Star Wars fandom paid its homage to silver screen actor Peter Mayhew; Hollywood's gentle giant who portrayed the iconic Chewbacca.
Mayhew's acting career spanned at least three decades. Although he was most known for playing the charismatic Wookie mechanic in Lucas' saga, Mayhew starred in several other TV shows, including Donny & Marie, Glee, and, The Dark Tower.
Since Mayhew's destiny was to give life to Chewbacca, in wanting to honor his memory, we have prepared a list of 10 least-known facts about Chewie. Some of them are from the movie, others from the books. We also got a couple of tidbits from the canonical Star Wars saga.
So, without further ado, here's what Chewie's been up to when he's not fixing Han Solo's Millennium Falcon for another Kessel Run.
It is really old
Apart from Yoda, who, as we know, was around 900 years when Luke met him in the Dagobah swamplands, Chewie's also to be considered a senior. Well, at least by our standards.
In A New Hope, Chewbacca was around 200 years old. Still, considering that the average lifespan of a Wookie was 400 years, one could consider Chewie middle-aged rather than the senior.
Is it a dog? Is a walking carpet? No, that's a Wookie.
Did you know that Chewie's character was actually modeled after Lucas' pet dog? In a brief interview taken in the late 70s, George Lucas admitted that he got the inspiration by watching Indiana, his Alaskan Malamute pet dog, staring out the car's window while he was riding to the Star Wars set.
Where do Wookies come from?
The Star Wars series features various extraterrestrial life forms: Chagrians, Gands, Dugs, Devaronians, Gungans, Biths, and, of course, wookies. A least-known fact about Chewie is that his home planet is called Kashyyyk.
Chewie's a family man
For those of you who are still wondering, yes, Chewie's a male, although he could be anything considering his rich coat. Moreover, according to the Star Wars lore, Chewie has a spouse on Kashyyyk called Malla with whom he had a son called Lumpawaroo, which literally meant Limpy. As the story goes, Lumpawaroo and his mother spent most of their lives serving the Empire, after the fall of Kashyyyk.
Heeding the call of duty, Chewbacca, a fearsome warrior, and a skillful mechanic left his home planet and family behind to join the Rebellion at Han's side. He planned on returning home once the Empire's was defeated. Unfortunately, he never got around to keeping that promise, because he would pass away at the age of 225, right after the Battle of Yavin.
The truth behind Chewie's growling
George Lucas once declared that Chewie's voice was pieced together using sound effects from various animals such as tigers, bears, badgers, lions, rabbits, walruses, and, yes, even camels.
Chewie's a Wookie of many talents
Kashyyyk's society is tribal and led by strong warriors. Although most Wookies prefer a simpler way of life, Chewie proves that his species can outwit anyone in any field. Throughout the movies, Chewie's seen repairing the Millennium Falcon, pieces together C3PO, and even riding a mech! What can we say? There's more to him than a crooked smile and a bandolier.
Chewie's weapon of choice
Though Chewbacca would like nothing more than to punch and kick his way out of any situation, some cases call for another approach. In the movies, Chewie uses an odd weapon which kind of resembles a crossbow. His peashooter is called a bowcaster, a weapon design born on Kashyyyk.
Moreover, Chewie made his weapon from scratch while he was busy fixing C3PO. By the way, there are no armories on Kashyyyk or stores selling bowcasters. When a Wookie comes to age, he must prove to his tribe by facing several challenges, one of which is building a weapon.
How's he even holding stuff in his hands?
Many Star Wars fans have been wondering about Chewie's hands: does he have finger, tendrils, or what? Well, according to the Wookie Wiki, all the members of this species have very sharp claws. However, they are mostly used as tools, never as weapons. Of course, one wonders what would be the purpose of having razor-sharp talons when all you do is kick, punch, and shoot?
Well, according to Wookie laws, using claws in combat is a dishonorable act. Guess it's the proverbial knife brought to a gunfight. Anyway, those who are caught performing this act in public are banished from the tree city (yes, Wookies live in trees; the higher, the better).
What does Chewbacca even mean?
In Wookie tongue, Chewbacca's apparently a name as common as John or Jake. The name itself comes from the Russian word Sobaka, which literally translates as a dog. Lack of inspiration or pure genius? We'll let you decide on that one.
What is he even saying?
To use, Chewie's speech may be nothing that a dissonant collection of growls and roars, but, according to the lore that's not entirely true. Shyriiwook is called the dialect, and it's mostly used by Wookies tradesmen. Interestingly enough, Chewie and most members of his species can understand plain English (called Basic in the Star Wars universe), but they can't speak it.
No, it's not about cultural heritage. It has more to do with Wookie anatomy. Apparently, their vocal cords aren't flexible enough to articulate Basic. Yes, it's a wonder that anyone even understands them, let alone have a brooding conversation.
Chewie is indeed one of the most interesting characters in cult-classic Star Wars, and that's a fact.
However, Chewie's tinkering and growls would not have been possible without Mayhew's appeal and personal charm. Wherever you are Peter, give the Empire a run for its money!
We hope you've enjoyed our article on lesser-known facts about the saga's most iconic character.
Now, if you feel like there's anything missing from the list or some of the facts may be off, don't be a stranger and leave a comment.
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Back in familiar territory today, with yet another home WiFi security camera. It seems that all the big names have cameras available these days, meaning we all have a big long list to choose from when considering a smart-home security system. However, one name we've never taken a look at is EZVIZ (pronounced, we assume, easy-viz), yet their latest micro camera is pretty impressive. We review the EZVIZ Mini Plus Wifi Camera.
So why has this caught our eye when larger and better-known companies have similar products at similar prices? Well, the EZVIZ Mini Plus WiFi Camera is small – damn small, in fact, meaning it ca be installed in many more places than chunkier cameras. It also features a magnetic base, so mounting it in places other than a shelf or the top of a cabinet is possible.
Despite the small size (it's only 5cm across) the camera captures video in Full HD 1080p, at 30 frames per second. The lens has a 135 degree range, so no matter where you place it, you'll be able to see most of that room or location. As you might imagine it connects to your WiFi router wirelessly, allowing you to see the live stream via the EZVIZ app. The camera is powered via an included USB adaptor (no battery power, unfortunately), and also features a port for a Micro SD Card of up to 128GB. All good stuff.
The EZVIZ (iOS and Android) is delightfully clean and neat, and allows you to control the cleverer features of the Mini Plus. As well as viewing the live feed (which never had a longer than a two second delay for us, even when connecting via the internet and not the house WiFi) you can set motion activation whereby recording to the SD card (if you have one installed) will begin when movement is detected, and also how your smartphone receives notifications of incidents.
The EZVIZ Mini Plus Wifi Camera features two-way audio via the app, so you can both hear what's cracking at your home, as well as being heard by those there. You can therefore shout "Oi, sod off, burglar!" if you see that you're being burgled. Or just "BOO!" to scare the crap out of your housemates and family. Can you guess which we did to test it?
The camera is mounted on swivel head connected to a magnetic base, which is awesome. Because of it, you increase where you can place the cam, as long as you are in range of a power supply. If you live in a nuclear bunker with metal walls, you're laughing - but we found some unique places to experiment with, including the top of a sliding patio door (the metal rim that doesn't slide, that is) and also a metal light fitting. It doesn't mean the camera can go anywhere (especially due to that power cable requirement – for a truly wireless camera you might want to look here), but the magnetic base is a big help and does away with the need to screw anything into the wall.
The image quality is great, especially when recorded directly to the SD card. However, even the live feed was clean and crisp, allowing you see a lovely clean and smooth stream whenever opening up the app. Also, as you only need your phone to set this thing up, installation was a breeze and we could view the feed after only a couple minutes after opening the box.
A great quality camera with a very user-friendly app. Good stuff, all round.


Sydney are confident Kieren Jack has escaped injury after an episode which has re-established Greater Western Sydney's Tomas Bugg as one of the best nigglers in the competition.
Bugg again raised the hackles of Swans players on Saturday night after bowling over Jack with a bump that was described by former Collingwood legend Tony Shaw as "pretty ordinary". The incident, likely to come under the scrutiny of the AFL's match review panel on Monday, sparked a skirmish, not entirely captured on broadcast footage, which resulted in Sydney giving away a rare free kick and goal for indiscipline.
The fuse was lit deep in the third quarter after Jack overran a ground ball and turned around to re-follow play only to be felled from behind by Bugg.
Footage then showed Jack and Bugg squaring off with each other as the ball was kicked away from their vicinity. Seconds later Bugg was given a free kick after himself being knocked over.
Although it was not apparent which Swans player was the culprit umpire Troy Pannell was heard explaining to Craig Bird that "you can't push him to the ground".
Shaw, who was commentating on Fox Footy and whose nephew Heath plays for the Giants, was not impressed by Bugg's actions. "Kieren Jack was not waiting for any contact and shouldn't have got contact at the contest 30 seconds ago," Shaw said. "He was blindsided. Kieren Jack kept going at him [Bugg] because it was pretty ordinary off the ball."
Only moments before the blue with Jack, Bugg collided with Heath Grundy, who had been backing into a marking contest.
It is not the first time Bugg has irritated the Swans. He enraged Ben McGlynn in the first round of 2013 when he asked the midfielder where was his premiership medallion. McGlynn missed the 2012 grand final through injury after playing in all but three games.
The Swans say Jack has avoided damage to his shoulder and ribs but brought him off the field for the final few minutes of the game as a precaution.
Sydney are aiming to post their 11th consecutive victory this week when they head to Perth to tackle West Coast but Ted Richards said they needed to improve from their 46-point win over the Giants.
The Swans are two wins short of matching their record streak of 12, which they last achieved 79 years ago in 1935 when known as South Melbourne.
"Parts of our game was really good, contested footy - we were really good at that," Richards said. "But at times when we had the opportunity to work on the counter attack just costly kicks, fumbles, dropped marks and missed handballs - just at times - cost us easy forward entries."
Richards, a 220-gamer, believed the windy conditions, which he described as being as blustery as he had played in for a long time, had contributed to some of Sydney's basic skill errors. "I'm sure the conditions played a part in that because it's not something that has been recurring," Richards said.
Lance Franklin is closing in on Coleman Medal leader Jay Schulz after his five-goal bag against the Giants but it's his defensive work which is winning plaudits from coach John Longmire.
Longmire joked he would find an area of improvement for Franklin in his match review though their star signing is currently doing little wrong. "He's just moving really well around the ground. Some of his tackles tonight I thought were outstanding," Longmire said.
"There's very few stats as effective as a chase down [tackles] from behind because it lifts you as a team and knocks the wind out of the opposition. His goals are really important but we're pleased with both sides of the ball with Lance - his ability to hit the scoreboard and his defensive work has been really good.
"We always thought he could chase and put pressure on. He's got such a big presence and wing span when he's up and going."
In another positive for the Swans, Longmire said he was pleased with Mike Pyke's improved showing against Shane Mumford in his second senior game back from injury.


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The fire, mostly in a pile of wood products, burst into flames, including some skidder tires.
Thunder Bay Fire Rescue firefighters were on scene battling the blaze.


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Razihel is an eclectic young Italian producer. Coming to EDM out of his worldwide success in the Screamo / post-hardcore scene, where he toured the world gaining performance experience as a singer and front-man, he already surpassed that success with his solo efforts in barely 2 years.
"I think being in punk-rock, metal and hard-core bands from when I was just 14 and touring a lot helped me to grow up as a musician for sure but also as a person. You can really hear the difference between a producer who is also a real musician and can play real instruments and one who is just a producer and worked only with digital stuff," and he's probably right when he says this, in fact, his official remix for "Come And Get It" by Krewella, which starts with a brilliant melodic live recorded guitar arpeggio, reached 2 millions+ views in 8 months on YouTube, and has been regularly dropped by big names like Adventure Club and Krewella.
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Razihel first burst onto the scene with his official remix for Benny Benassi "Perfect Storm" [Ultra Music] which has been played to massive effect by Benassi himself at major festivals like Ultra and Coachella. Ever since then, and in the space of just a few months, he released a plethora of new original tracks signed to Monstercat Records, collabs with some great names like Savant, Varien and Virtual Riot and official remixes for Krewella, I See Stars and more.
"I love collaborating with other producers! You can learn a lot of great things from these super talented people. It's just an incredible feeling to share your knowledge in music production with someone else you respect", he explains. His collab with the Norwegian genius Savant reached the #3 on the Beatport dubstep chart and his track with the great composer Varien has been #1 in the glitch-hop Beatport chart for over a month. Same thing happened with his track with Virtual Riot, strongly influenced by retro videogames music, which reached the first position in the beatport dubstep chart just after 2 days from it's release.
Razihel seems to be making a habit of dominating charts, in fact, his original track "Falcon Punch" is #1 in the "all time chart" by House.net and his Krewella remix is #2 in the "all time chart" by Glitchhop.net, not to mention all his other remixes/bootlegs who count 300,000+ downloads on the web.
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First Lady Carol Mead is a Reading Ambassador for the Scholastic Summer Reading Challenge. This is a continuing venture with Scholastic, Inc. The Scholastic Reading Challenge is a free online program encouraging children to read over the summer and giving them a chance to set a new world record for summer reading. The First Lady wants to reinforce the importance of reading for all children in Wyoming.
This is the fourth year Mrs. Mead has served as a Reading Ambassador. She has donated 2000 books to students across Wyoming. This year the First Lady donated 500 books to several groups - the Boys and Girls Club, STRIDE Learning Center, as well as the Cheyenne and Rock Springs Eat. Read. Grow. organizations.
Wyoming students logged 123,616 minutes in the Scholastic Summer Reading Challenge in 2013. Students at Pronghorn Elementary School in Gillette earned the number one spot for Wyoming logging 62,308 minutes. Students across the globe logged 176 million minutes in 2013 – a world record.
Teachers and parents can register children for the free Scholastic Summer Reading Challenge program by visiting www.scholastic.com/summer. From May 5 through September 5, 2014, kids can log their reading minutes, earn virtual rewards and help set a new reading world record. The site also offers free resources for parents and teachers including booklists, expert advice and a free Scholastic Reading Timer mobile app to log reading minutes on-the-go.


Nystagmus simply means involuntary eye movement. Here's the almighty Wikipedia article that goes into more detail about the different kinds of nystagmus. I'll try to summarize a little more succinctly here.
Just a note, as you can already probably tell by my reference to Wikipedia, I am in no way an expert, medical or other, on this topic. I am simply someone who lives with the condition and has done some research. If you or someone you know has nystagmus, you should see a medical professional for accurate information.
Congenital nystagmus is when you are born with the condition (or it's diagnosed shortly after you were born). Most people who live with nystagmus (like me) have this kind.
It can be pendular (smooth movement) or jerky, horizontal or vertical, and sometimes even circular.
My particular nystagmus is pendular horizontal, so that means it's mostly a smooth movement from side to side, though it's quite fast.
The short answer to this is no, there is no cure.
That being said, there are a lot of current studies and research about nystagmus, its causes, and possible treatments. People can have nystagmus for a variety of reasons (albinism, genetics, certain diseases) so treatments that may work for acquired nystagmus won't necessarily work for congenital nystagmus.
Think of it this way: if someone has a cough, trying to get rid of it will depend on why they have a cough. If it's a common cold, maybe they take cold medicine. However, if they have tuberculosis, cold medicine won't make their cough go away.
Most people with nystagmus have a null point, or a position in which they hold there gaze that reduces the movement. This position varies from person to person. Many times, rather than the eye movement itself, it's an awkward null point that will cause a lot of difficulties in the classroom or social problems. Though there is no current cure for nystagmus, there is a surgery that can slightly adjust the null point to a more manageable position.
My null point is a gaze slightly to the right, which means many times in order to reduce my eye movement, I'll turn my head slightly to the left to look at something in front of me. I'm lucky, because most people wouldn't even know that I'm using a null point.
A nonprofit organization founded in 1999 to serve the needs and interests of those affected by nystagmus. It is an outgrowth of the Nystagmus E-Mail List introduced on the Internet two years earlier to provide information on a wide variety of topics pertaining to nystagmus.
Both of these organizations have great websites where you can learn a lot more about nystagmus and find specific support. There are a lot of other good resources too, but these will get you started. I'll try to post a more extensive list later.
Well, that pretty much gives you a broad idea of what nystagmus is. If you have any questions, always feel free to ask!
Welcome to the Shifty Eyes blog!
Helloooo out there! I'm Jo, the founder and sole blogger (so far) for the Shifty Eyes blog.
You can always check out my About page, but for those who don't feel like clicking the link, I'll just tell you again. I'm a young person who is trying to navigate through newly acquired adulthood. By trade I'm a corporate paralegal, by night I'm a superhero. I also happen to live with a condition called Nystagmus.
Ok, I'm not really a superhero.
The most basic definition is "involuntary eye movement." There are many different forms of Nystagmus, of which I will not go into great detail here. Mine is called "Congenital Nystagmus" which is a fancy term that means I've had it since I was born or shortly after. My particular eye movements are pendular; they move in a smooth horizontal motion, very quickly back and forth. The condition is permanent. There is currently no cure or even effective treatment. It's difficult to explain Nystagmus and what it's like to live with it in a paragraph, which is why I have dedicated a whole blog to this particular aspect of my life.
Turns out, there's not a lot of shifty-eyed love out there. Only in the past 15 or so years have there been any organized support or information out there for people living with Nystagmus and their loved ones. While these organizations are great when it comes to learning about the physical condition, there is not a lot out there that explains what it's like to live day to day. Most shifty-eyed people live their entire lives without meeting anyone else who knows what it's like.
This blog is for all of those people who have Nystagmus but who don't know anyone else going through the same experiences. It's also for parents of children with Nystagmus who want to know what it's like to grow up with the condition. And for everyone else out there, who knows? You may know and love someone with shifty eyes, or you may in the future. I'll probably also insert my opinions about life and the world in general here and there, because hey, it's my blog.


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This Hillsborough home site is located in a private development off Orange Grove Road in Orange County. The carriage house has two double parking bays with a workspace and storage area on the lower level. The bays are separated by an entrance that leads upstairs to an apartment with a full kitchen, living room, breakfast area and separate bedroom with a full bath and closet space. The siding of the carriage house will be cedar shake and Hardi Trim with a matte black metal roof.
The foundation will be Superior Walls and the roof system will be timber frame with spray foam insulation. The Pella windows will be a mixture of casement and double hung. This home is based on the highest efficiency building techniques and products. The short and long term environmental impacts will be minimized by creating a High Performance Smart Home.
The entrance to the private development and the meandering drive to the secluded home site.
Groundbreaking began the morning of January 7. The first scoop of dirt was dug at 8:58 am.
The foundation is in place and rough-in plumbing complete.
Upon entry to the home site, a storage shed has been constructed several hundred feet from the driveway.
Progress has been made installing the cedar shake and stone accents on the foundation of the garage apartment.
Installation of the black matte metal roof has begun.
Interior framing of the upstairs apartment and lower level garage bays and workrooms is complete. Rough-in plumbing and electrical work is now in place.
Completion of the black matte metal roof and the exterior siding.
The exterior stain of the carriage house is the environmentally friendly water based 'Harbor Mist' by Sherwin Williams, and the trim is a single coat Sherwin Williams lifetime warranty duration paint 'Griffin'.
The exterior walls of the garage bay have been covered with T1-11.
Drywall is complete in the living room, kitchen, breakfast nook and bedroom with bath.
Excavation and installation of pipes in the septic field is complete and the septic tank has been buried.


The Heart of the Holidays Succulent Garden is a festive and modern way to send your holiday wishes across the miles! A collection of succulents in a variety of shapes, textures, and shades of green are brought together to create a stunning holiday look, bedecked with sprigs of holiday greens, holly berries, and white tipped pinecones. Presented in a rustic birch container to give it a cozy look your special recipient will love, this succulent garden is a merry way to celebrate the Christmas season.


Community Games teams up with The Irish Independent as Official Press Partner!
Irish Independent and Media are delighted to announce their new commercial partnership with Community Games in association with the HSE as Official Press Partner with immediate effect.
Community Games is part of the fabric of Irish society with over 160,000 active participants taking part in over 500 areas all over Ireland. At the core of the organisation are over 10,000 volunteers who give up their time freely to promote the ideals of the organisation.
This is a key time for the partnership to commence as 2017 is the Jubilee celebration of the founding of Community Games. 2017 will see great celebrations and events take place all over the country and all through the year with great joint promotions in The Irish Independent.
"The Irish Independent is delighted to be announced as official press partner to Community Games, in association with the HSE. Positive physical and mental health initiatives among young people are of the utmost importance and we are delighted to support the Community Games' continued and growing success in this area. We are introducing some exciting projects to celebrate the achievements of participants in Community Games this year and look forward to the continued partnership for next year's Jubilee celebrations."
Brighid Carson, Marketing and Sponsorships Manager, INM.
Make sure to watch out for our full magazine of results and picture gallery from Community Games National Festival taking place over two weekend in August – 12th to 14th and 19th to 21st in Athlone.
Miss Universe Ireland Joanna Cooper won gold in Community Games!
Thanks so much to Miss Universe Ireland Joanna Cooper for sharing her experience of Community Games with us. Joannna still has her Gold Medal from Community Games and keeps it in a very safe place. She is proof that with Community Games there are Endless Possibilities!


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Sharpening of Double Bevel Knives
When a blade becomes too dull to cut well immediately after honing, it is time to re-sharpen. The first procedure is to check the edge for nicks. If there are any, rub the edge on a coarse water stone (#220 grit) until the nicks are removed.
The angle used for sharpening your knife will depend on its intended purpose. This is why it is better to sharpen your own knives than to send them out to be sharpened. You know how you treat your knives and what you will be cutting with them. A knife that will see relatively hard use such as cutting through hard or frozen foods or cutting near bone, should be sharpened to a much stouter angle than a sashimi knife. Generally a knife should be sharpened at somewhere between 11¼° and 22½° to the surface of the stone depending on its intended use.
Hold the blade at the angle selected to the surface of the stone, and rub the blade up and down the length of the stone while at the same time sliding it across the stone, alternating sides of the knife. When a 'burr' or wire edge is felt, proceed to the next stone. If your angle to the stone is 11¼°, this will create an initial bevel on the edge with an included angle of approximately 22½°. If your angle to the stone is 22½°, this will create an initial bevel on the edge with an included angle of approximately 45°.
Transfer to a series of medium grit stones (#700 to #2000 grit) and complete the process on finishing stones (#4000 to #8000 grit). On each successive stone, sharpen as described above, removing the scratches from the previous stone and refining the wire edge. A nagura stone should be used in conjunction with all finishing stones (#3000 grit and above) to obtain an optimal polishing slurry. On the final stone, after sharpening as described above, increase the angle selected by 4-5 degrees for 8 to 10 strokes on each side of the blade. This results in a 'micro-bevel'. The resulting knife will have the performance of a thin blade with a slightly stronger edge than would otherwise be possible.
Honing the edge of your knife after use with a ceramic rod will double the longevity of the edge. After use, clean the knife thoroughly, rinse in warm water and dry well. Store the knife in such a way that the edge does not come into contact with other cutlery or utensils. Under no circumstances should any of our knives be sent through the dishwasher.
We have developed several waterstone sets that we have found to be ideal for sharpening. We highly recommend our standard sharpening set, which includes a #220 grit ceramic stone, an #800/#4000 grit combination stone, and an #8000 grit Kitayama stone. A stone holder and nagura stone is also included. If you are undecided as to which stones to select, please feel free to call or e-mail for our recommendation.
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Ron Baird, RCA, AOCA, has been regularly commissioned to create large-scale, site-specific sculpture installations across Canada and abroad for more than 40 years. Often his work has imaginative elements that move in the wind, are light-responsive or make sounds. Some pieces also include electronics, electronic sound, textile elements or creative light sources.
He has completed more than 150 public commissions with a variety of inventive concepts. These include fountains, sculptural landmarks for world fairs and civic parks, towers, murals, carillons and site-specific pieces for business, donor recognition, industry and private collectors.
A winner of numerous awards and medals for his work and member of the Royal Canadian Academy of the Arts, he is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art.


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Interpretations of American dream take form at South Philly school
Avi Wolfman-Arent
Margie Castejon immigrated to the U.S. three years ago from San Pedro Sula, an industrial town in Honduras once labeled the most dangerous city in the world for its epidemic of gang violence.
"Once I came here, when I was breathing, I was breathing free air," Margie said. "Like, it was a different air. Sometimes, I'm speechless about it."
Anyone who has taken a history class or heard a political stump speech recognizes this version of America, the America that shelters those fleeing persecution and seeking opportunity.
But is America still a sanctuary? And, if not, what does it stand for?
There may be no more appropriate group to ask than students at Eliza B. Kirkbride School, a K-8 school in South Philadelphia. Four in 10 Kirkbride students are English-language learners, and many more are children of immigrants from East Asia or Latin America.
Over the past year, the school's eighth-graders have mulled an enduringly complicated question: What is the American dream? With the help of artists from the nonprofit COSACOSA art at large, Inc. and funding from Public Citizens for Children and Youth, the City of Philadelphia, the National Endowment for the Arts and others, the eighth-graders produced poetry, essays, and visual pieces inspired by their interpretation of the American dream.
Some answers encompassed global values.
"My American dream is for everyone to be treated equally," said Don Vu, whose parents immigrated from Vietnam. "No one should be treated inferior to another individual."
Other answers focused on personal aspiration.
"My American dream is to be a pediatric surgeon," said Emily Duong, also the child of Vietnamese immigrants. "It's my dream job."
Those dreams are now preserved forever on a three-dimensional, ceramic mural that stretches across the building's third floor. Students contributed small, glazed sculptures to represent their American dreams — everything from peace signs to slices of pizza.
Students also recorded a podcast filled with poetry inspired by the project.
Jessica Gordillo recited a piece called "Migrants."
Qui Thach titled his poem "The Free Land."
"In case you forgot, the United States is supposed to be a free land, meaning you can do anything, be anything, so what part don't you understand," Qui's poem began.
'Try to cut out the noise'
Not surprisingly, politics was never far from the fore. Mayor Jim Kenney appeared at a Thursday unveiling of the American dream mural and delivered an impassioned, impromptu speech on the continent's immigration history, stretching back to Christopher Columbus' 1492 voyage to the Caribbean.
At one point, Kenney repeated his promise to keep Philadelphia a "sanctuary city," pausing for a moment to let tears pass.
"Try to cut out the noise," he told the eighth-graders. "Try to cut out the ugliness. And remember that, in this city, you are respected. You are wanted. And we love you."
Margie acknowledged the tense political conversation around immigration, and worries President Donald Trump doesn't value the country's cultural diversity.
"If I was president of this country, I'd be really happy to be president of the country, which is really diverse," she said.
On the balance, though, Margie's vision of America was unshakably positive. She raved about her school and her classmates.
"Trust me, in my life, I never tried Asian food. I came here, and my friend Philip gave me dumplings," she said. "And I'm like, 'Oooo this is so good! Like how come I didn't try this before?"
Margie even praised the country's politicians, saying in Honduras it's difficult to reach elected officials.
As part of the American Dreams project, students visited City Hall and met with Councilman Mark Squilla.
"That's the difference between being a country where your voice [doesn't count] and a country where the government really cares about you, even though you're not from here," Margie said.
When the American Dream project began last year, students analyzed two pieces. The first, "America the Beautiful," spoke to the nation's ideals. The second, "Let America Be America Again" by Langston Hughes, examined the gap between those ideals and reality.
The final projects reflected glimmers of both — boundless optimism along with frustration and disillusion. Perhaps you'd expect pessimism to dominate in an era where mistrust of government and other institutions seems epidemic. But Margie Castejon, and many of her classmates, still believe.
"My American dream is to graduate from college and be the first one from my family to graduate from an American college," she said. "And I think that I'll achieve that."
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In 99 full-color maps spread over 175 pages, the Barrington Atlas recreates the entire world of the Greeks and Romans from the British Isles to the Indian subcontinent and deep into North Africa. It spans the territory of more than 75 modern countries. Its large format (13 x 19 ins or 33 x 48 cm) has been custom-designed by the leading cartographic supplier MapQuest.com, Inc., and is unrivalled for range, clarity and detail. Over 70 experts, aided by an equal number of consultants, have worked from satellite-generated aeronautical charts to return the modern landscape to its ancient appearance, and to mark ancient names and features in accordance with the most up-to-date historical scholarship and archaeological discoveries. Chronologically, the Barrington Atlas spans archaic Greece to the Late Roman Empire, and no more than two standard scales (1:500,000 and 1:1,000,000) are used to represent most regions. Since the 1870s, all attempts to map the classical world comprehensively have failed. This new initiative has finally achieved that elusive and challenging goal. It began in 1988 at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, under the direction of the distinguished ancient historian Richard Talbert, and has been developed with approximately $4 million in funding support. The resulting Barrington Atlas is a reference work of permanent value. It has an exceptionally broad appeal to everyone worldwide with an interest in ancient Greeks and Romans, the lands they penetrated, and the peoples and cultures they encountered in Europe, North Africa and Western Asia. Scholars and libraries should all find it essential, although it is not just for them. It is also for students, travelers and lovers of fine cartography, as well as for anyone eager to retrace Alexander's eastward marches, to cross the Alps with Hannibal, to traverse the Eastern Mediterranean with St. Paul, or to ponder the roads, aqueducts and defense works of the Roman Empire. For the new millennium the Barrington Atlas brings the ancient past back to life in an unforgettably vivid and inspiring way.--Publisher description. Read more...
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Winner of the 2000 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Multivolume Reference Work in the Humanities, Association of American Publishers "[The Barrington Atlas] is the best geography of the ancient world ever achieved... [I]t reveals the world inhabited or reached by the Greeks and Romans from 1000 B.C. to A.D. 640 in thrilling detail, and a color code lets us track changes through 16 centuries. The collective learning poured into this project is almost intimidating to contemplate, and the fact that it could be completed testifies to extraordinary planning, dedication and courage... [T]he cartography is luminous, the printing superb and the binding strong and supple... [T]his magnificent book is likely to become a powerful engine of learning and discovery for many years."--D.J.R. Bruckner, New York Times Book Review "I doubt that it will ever be superseded... [T]he clarity and sheer beauty of the maps in the Barrington Atlas, for which Princeton University Press and the printers in Palladio's Vicenza deserve the highest credit and praise, make the main volume a joy to handle. The fold-out of the entire ancient Mediterranean world, Map 1 'Mare Internum,' is to die for... [T]his remarkable atlas ... has made a major contribution to re-establishing cartography as one of the basic sub-disciplines within classical studies."--Paul Cartledge, Times Higher Education Supplement "This atlas is an indispensable tool for historians concerned with ancient times. But it is also a source of great pleasure for the amateur, the lover of literature."--Bernard Knox, Los Angeles Times Book Review "Beautifully produced with an exquisite combination of scholarly precision and the highest level of cartographic art, this atlas is one of the greatest achievements in 20th-century Greek and Roman scholarship--and it probably will never be superseded."--Publishers Weekly "[An] essential tool for anyone interested in classical antiquity... It provides, for the first time in recent history, a single bound volume that maps the entire classical world... Superbly edited."--Library Journal ("Best Reference Sources, 2000") "[A] wonderful guide to the wordless lessons of antiquity. Everyone who studies Greece and Rome owes [the makers of the Barrington Atlas] a personal debt."--Peter Stothard, editor of the Times Literary Supplement, naming the Barrington Atlas "My Book of the Decade" in the Globe and Mail (2009) "[A] remarkable achievement... This unique resource is the most comprehensive atlas published on ancient Greece and Rome."--Booklist "[A] vast achievement... Richard Talbert can be proud of his editorship: the collective effort, academic and technical, that has gone into the realisation of this gigantic project ... almost defies the imagination. It is even more impressive in that his teams had to work virtually from scratch. Their chief goal was to fill a notorious gap, and they have done so with exemplary skill."--Peter Green, London Review of Books "The Barrington Atlas is a major contribution to scholarship, extensive in scale, reliable and up to date, and so laid out as to be really helpful to the user."--Jasper Griffin, New York Review of Books "[N]o decent academic or public library should be without this marvelous work... [A] magnificent achievement."--Guy Halsall, New Scientist "[A] definitive work."--Peter Jones, BBC History "This atlas will be indispensable to scholars in classical studies. My only caution is that, at eight pounds, a sturdy coffee table is required for its use."--Judith A. Tyner, Geographical Review Read more...
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A 15-year-old boy has received a life detention order for stabbing a man to death in Chingford last year.
Additionally, the youth was subject to an antisocial behaviour order (ASBO) at the time, which he had breached six times prior to the stabbing.
At a trial at the Old Bailey held in July, the youth claimed to have acted in self-defence, but was found guilty of murder and having an offensive weapon.
Today (October 7), Judge John Hillen ordered the boy to be detained for life with a minimum term of 15 years.
#Breaking A 15-year-old boy has been detained for life at the Old Bailey for a minimum term of 15 years for fatally stabbing father-of-three Jamie Markham pic.twitter.com/hBydfuqIjV
— PA Media (@PA) October 7, 2022
In a statement, Judge Hillen said: "You had not responded to attempts to divert you away from crime and antisocial behaviour.
"You regularly went missing. You have a low attendance record at school.
"Your foster parents could not prevent your behaviour. You were out of control."
He went on: "Your unhealthy interest in knives, antisocial behaviour and violence against those who challenged you all came together on Chingford Mount on August 9 last year."
(James Manning/PA)
Mr Markham's mother Anita addressed the defendant, saying: "On August 9 2021 you stabbed my son Jamie Markham three times and murdered him.
"You had nothing to say, not even 'sorry, I did not mean it to happen'.
"You could not say it was an accident as you stabbed him three times. Taking my son's life has broken me."
Flowers left outside Jamie Markham's home
She added: "Jamie is in my thoughts all the time, seeing him lying there knowing I could not patch him up like when he was a kid.
"Wanting so much to help him, bring him back to us. You can never replace a child.
"When Candice (Mr Markham's partner) phoned and told me Jamie had been stabbed I had never thought that would be it and I would never be able to give him a hug and a kiss."
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BJJ Globetrotters | 10 year challenge revised.
This "10 year challenge" had me rubbing my hands at all the glorious memes online, laughing away as people took it both very seriously and very much tongue in cheek. I saw a post that a friend had made and I was in the photo as well, it made me realize that my first grappling event I had ever been in was actually 10 years ago! It also confirmed for me that I was old (and already had a receding hairline back then).
BJJ has come a long way in 10 years, both globally and locally. Now there are a tonne of people doing it and also a lot of the pioneers or people that tagged into it when it first started gaining traction are still there, a bit older, slower and maybe grey-er but they are still there, passing on knowledge and grinding out those mat hours to this day.
I started to look back at a few of the videos that I could find from 2008/2009. I had some from the original All Styles Grappling Competitions (ASGC events) in 2008, some from 2009 but I also saw a few on YouTube. There were the classic grappling match ups with judo players against the jiu jitsu players, the second event we saw a lot of the Olympic wrestlers come into the foray and really fire in some huge take downs and very impressive intensity.
These were the first competitions I had been involved in for grappling, and it really fueled my fire for watching, competing and just training.
The 10 year challenge I think is to really look back at photos, videos or any other media that you choose and just see who is still around from those days and really appreciating anybody who inspired us back in that time to make us who we are today. , All of the coaches I have had the pleasure of meeting and forging a friendship with are all still involved. There is Hayden Wilson, Geoff Aitken, Karl Webber, Dean Brewer, Heydan Bucknell, Roney Da Silva, Marcelo Lopes, Stuart Marks and Graeme Spinks to name only a few. We even had the pleasure of Johnny Gui at the original comps in Christchurch, dazzling us with his extremely fast submission wins by flying armbars! These coaches have all since brought up many people through the training ranks who have opened their own clubs but I would be here all day naming them!
Competition is an important part of jiu jitsu and grappling. This is the time when it is not frowned upon to "roll to win". I was so pumped up for my first competition, I went hard training, I put in a lot of work on and off the mats so I would the best I could be at under 70kg and it paid off. I won all my fights and took home a gold medal for both gi and nogi. I felt pretty elated at the time. I went back to training and the people who I had competed with and against were all there, back on the mats working on the greater journey. Martial arts is a marathon, not a sprint race. We are all on the same journey but take different paths. These paths cross over at times and these are the times we share. I lost all my fights in my second tournament the following year but we all still went back to training together the next day, nobody is anybody from winning and none of us are nobody from losing.
In every tournament, half of the competitors will be eliminated after their first fight/match/draw or whatever you want to call it. It is just another day and a chance to test your training against others on that day. I beat people I have never beaten before that day and then the next year, I lost to people who I hadn't yet lost to previously.
What matters is that you learn from mistakes or successes and we all make new friends out there on the mats. Medals fade and new champions get crowned every year but friendships last the test of time and the more we roll together, the stronger the bonds and the more stories we have to share when we next meet!
I have the upmost respect for all those people who compete and win, I also have the same respect for those who compete and do not win. It is hard to walk out on the mats against someone who has defeated you in training many times before, this is the mental battle that grappling teaches us. I wish I was the person out on the mats winning every competition, even the person at the gym who dominates every roll! The reality is that we all have different paths like I said before, I train as often as I can to learn as much as I can to then pass on the knowledge through teaching. I will not be a World Champion in any division but I want to say I was the best I could be and I helped connect many people to jiu jitsu to become the best they can be.


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Donald Trump Jr. Calls Alec Baldwin 'Piece Of Garbage' After Actor's Arrest For Allegedly Punching Stranger
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Donald Trump Jr. wasted little time going after Alec Baldwin after the actor's reported arrest in New York City.
Baldwin was taken into police custody on Friday afternoon in New York City after allegedly punching a man in the face in a dispute over a parking spot. Within minutes of the report coming out, the eldest son of President Donald Trump weighed in on Twitter, calling Baldwin a "piece of garbage."
"Is anyone shocked at this piece of garbage anymore? As if the phone calls to his daughter weren't bad enough," wrote Trump Jr.
"He's a lib so he gets chance after chance to be decent but always fails!"
The dispute reportedly took place near Baldwin's home on East 10th Street in Manhattan's East Village. As ABC News reported, Baldwin was taken into police custody over the fight and expected to be charged with assault.
Witnesses told the New York Post that the attack on the 49-year-old man appeared to be unprompted. They said that someone had been holding a parking spot for Baldwin when another driver swooped in to take the spot. Baldwin grew furious, a nearby construction worker said.
"Alec was yelling, 'Shut the f**k up!'" the worker said.
Police said Baldwin punched the victim as soon as he stepped out of his car. The victim was taken to a nearby hospital to be checked out, but did not have serious injuries, authorities said.
Alec Baldwin has been arrested for punching a driver over a parking spot https://t.co/7BOLUhPbjR pic.twitter.com/eWPhFtWPF0
— New York Post (@nypost) November 2, 2018
Alec Baldwin is one of the most vocal critics of President Donald Trump, playing Trump on Saturday Night Live and often mocking the president on Twitter. Earlier this year, he trolled Trump by saying that his wife, Melania Trump, was pestering Baldwin for tickets to the show.
And Mr President...
please ask your wife to stop calling me for SNL tickets.
(Hey, Melania...we've got Charles Barkley this Saturday!)
— HABFoundation (@ABFalecbaldwin) March 2, 2018
Later, Baldwin told The Hollywood Reporter that playing Trump on Saturday Night Live was "like agony," prompting an angry and error-filled response from Trump on Twitter.
"Alex (sic) Baldwin, whose dieing (sic) mediocre career was saved by his impersonation of me on SNL, now says playing DJT was agony for him," Trump wrote. "Alex (sic), it was agony for those who were forced to watch. Bring Back Darrell Hammond, much funnier and a far greater talent!"
Trump deleted the tweet after about 10 minutes and replaced it with correct spelling, but a number of outlets including the Huffington Post caught the error-filled version and saved it for posterity.
Donald Trump has not yet weighed in on Alec Baldwin's arrest.


Gold was discovered in Atlanta, Idaho in 1863. Over the years, Atlanta has witnessed gold rushes, busts, fires, engineering feats, triumphs, misfortune, tragedy, abandonment and rebirth. Contemporary Atlanta is on the National Register of Historic Places and is home to 19 full time residents. The town is a refuge for artists, historians, individualists, miners and naturalists. Atlanta is situated at the gateway to the Sawtooth Wilderness area. Resting near the origin of the Middle Fork of the Boise River, Atlanta boasts excellent fishing, hiking and natural hot springs in spectacular settings.


So I'm sitting on the loveseat with Honey while eating quinoa chips. Otto wanted some so I decided to use them as reward for a training exercise and told him "down." Honey, who was already laying down next to me, promptly got in this position to show me she could lay even more than Otto for the treat. She actually did it again on command. What a goofball.
A friend of mine is going to start training Honey as a special project and favor to me. She has 2 dogs she is competing in obedience and rally with and wants to do more training so Honey will be great experience. Honey already knows all the basic commands and is fine at home with no new stimuli. Out in public, though, Honey becomes a crazy dog trying to jump on and hug every person she meets around the neck. So Tammy is going to start by standing in the parking lot at the dog training club with dogs going in and out until Honey can control herself in that environment before starting a class inside. She is optimistic and likes Honey alot. The feeling is mutual so I am absolutely thrilled for all of us. Honey really needs this. And, btw, Honey is a big girl so when she wants to do something or go somewhere and throws her weight into it...hmmm...just like her dad...she will literally take you out.
Honey getting as close to the quinoa chips as possible.


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POEMS & PIECES, #4, July/August,2008 : In Memorium, Kathleen Raine
EARL LIVINGS
KATHLEEN RAINE: AN APPRECIATION
This year marks the centenary of the birth of Kathleen Raine, the English visionary poet and scholar. In 1991 Britain's Royal Society of Literature named Raine one of the 10 greatest living writers and the following year she received the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. Raine's reputation extended beyond her native country, with her poetry, autobiographies and studies of William Blake and W B Yeats read from Sweden to Spain to India and the USA. In 2000 she was awarded the Commandeur de L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and was honoured as a Commander of the British Empire. Raine died in London in July 2003, having seen a new Collected Poems published in 2000 and her 1968 classic study of William Blake, Blake and Tradition, reprinted in 2002. She was a remarkable woman who devoted her life to poetry.
Kathleen Raine was born 14 June 1908 in Ilford, Essex, to a Scottish mother who sang border ballads to her and a Durham father who was an English teacher and a Methodist lay preacher. From an early age Raine was convinced she would be a poet and this led to her to Cambridge, where she trained in the Natural Sciences and Psychology. This conviction also led her to a lifelong exploration of the Romantic poets and the Platonic and Neoplatonic traditions, as well as Gnosticsm, Hermeticism, Alchemy and the Kabbala. Nurtured in memory and imagination by her childhood Northumbrian countryside, Raine constantly followed what she called her Daimon, her creative and intuitive principle, to the point she decided she would never engage in paid work unless the activity was one she would gladly do for free. Raine's life became a vigorous exploration of poetry as 'the language of the human soul, through which the spirit speaks'.
In a letter to the Indian poet and Aurobindo devotee K D Sethna, Raine stated that the task of the visionary poet is to reveal the 'daily miracle and mystery' of Being. She worked at this task, producing, what Philip Larkin noted in his review of her 1956 Collected Poems, poetry of the 'vatic and the universal'. Here are some sample lines:
From 'The Hyacinth':
Time opens in a flower of bells
The mysteries of its hidden bed,
The altar of the ageless cells
Whose generations never have been dead.
And from 'The Poet Answers the Accuser':
A note struck from the stars I am,
A memory-trace of sun and moon and moving waters,
A voice of the unnumbered dead, fleeting as they—
What matter who I am?
In her autobiographies she gave an account of who she was and had become, and of her growth towards the perennial tradition that would inform her writing and her activities for many decades. As a scholar she wrote a large number of books tracing the 'golden string' of that tradition and exploring its manifestations in the works of Yeats and her acknowledged master, William Blake. And as a champion for this tradition during its conflict, its Great Battle, with a secular materialist age, she helped establish the Temenos Academy of Integral Studies and edited the journals Temenos and Temenos Academy Review, the goals of these institutions being the preservation and presentation of what she came to call 'the learning of the Imagination'. The following lines can be seen as a summation of her life and the theme of her writings:
From 'Soliloquies'
To make the imperfect perfect
It is enough to love it.
Contrary to Raine, I came to the vocation of poetry quite late. Before this, I had studied higher order mathematics at university, played guitar in a band, and practised martial arts. I was looking for my authentic creative outlet, and I eventually discovered a direction when I started writing speculative fiction, which I had been reading since a child. I had also dabbled in teenage love poetry and song lyrics, but had never thought of poetry as a way of life until I met a practising poet. I fell in love with poetry and went back to university to study English Literature. One day I was walking down an aisle of the Borchardt Library at La Trobe University, idly running my fingers along the spines of books, when the gold lettering on burgundy background of a title caught me: Defending Ancient Springs. The book, published by Raine in 1967, was a collection of essays about symbols, the Beautiful, the mythological, about the influence of Blake on Yeats, and about the life and works of poets such as Edwin Muir and Vernon Watkins. I took it home and read it non-stop. Here was what I was looking for, the poetics I needed for my true work.
When Raine mentions in her essay 'On the Symbol' that 'poetry in the full sense is symbolic discourse' and that the symbol has 'as its primary purpose the evocation of one plane in terms of another', that one plane being of a reality and consciousness 'other than that of the sensible world', then, even though I had once been a scientist of sorts, with interests in the laws of the physical universe and in the power of reason, I took notice. I too felt that poetry was more than, as she said, the 'description of sense impressions or personal emotions, or the evocation of group emotions'. I could understand the assessment given in her essay 'The Use of the Beautiful':
Imaginative poetry alone has a real function to perform; for the pseudo-arts of realism perform no function beyond that of endlessly reporting on the physical world...true poetry has the power of transforming consciousness itself by holding before us icons, images of forms only partially and superficially realized in 'ordinary life'.
Raine's book was a revelation. It was as if I had suddenly found the overlapping terrain of all my experiences in mathematics, music and the martial arts, of my reading of Eastern philosophies and the practice of meditation, and of my shift in interests from the rational to the emotional to the spiritual. I had found a tradition in which I could feel comfortable, enthused and inspired, that of the Perennial Philosophy, which holds 'that not matter but mind—consciousness—is the ground of reality as we experience it'. Here was a tradition that had an enabling power for my poetry writing and for my quest for wisdom:
Imaginative knowledge is immediate knowledge, like a tree, or a rose or a waterfall or sun or stars…Imagination as understood by the Romantic poets is nothing less than the fundamental ground of knowledge.
I read everything of Raine's I could find, and was led to many poets, philosophers and practitioners for whom 'True imaginative learning is a search for truth and reality, not for information as such or in the service of some theory or ideology'. My poetry became even more metaphysical and mythological. I was able to complete a book project I had been contemplating for almost 20 years, a metaphysical verse novel of over 8,000 lines, which formed the major part of my PhD. I joined the Temenos Academy and appeared in the journal.
After I published my first book of poetry, I sent a copy to Kathleen Raine, along with my thanks for her influence and inspiration. Her reply I will always cherish. In it she said:
It seems to me that Australia is experiencing a renaissance—or perhaps a naissance—of the arts of the Imagination. You have already produced Patrick White and Sydney Nolan, and the fine poetry of Judith Wright...I also think of your musician Nigel Butterley...Not to mention the wonderful art of your Aboriginal people...It is a spirit that moves through many...
This spirit she invoked and expressed in numerous poems, for example, 'Storm-Stayed':
Holy, holy, holy is the light of day
The grey cloud, the storm wind, the cold sea,
Holy, holy the snow in the mountain,
Holy the stone, the dry heather, the stunted tree,
Holy the heron and the hoodie, holy
The leaf and the rain,
The cold wind and the cold wave, cold light of day
And the turning of earth from night into morning,
Holy this place where I am,
The last house, it may be,
Before the wind, the shelterless sky, the unbounded sea.
And this spirit that moved through her moved others. Because of her I found a tradition and a community. Because of her I found a framework for my own intuitions and experiences of the sacred. Because of her I came to understand a little of that dynamic she calls, following AE (George Russell, that mystic friend of Yeats), the politics of Time and the politics of Eternity. Because of her I began to understand the power of such images and symbols as the 'world-tree and its fruits, the birds of the soul, sun, moon, river, loom, dragon, gate, and dark tower'. Because of her I became more acquainted with Imagination, with Divine Vision, that power, that one thing, as Blake says, that makes a poet. Through her I found my place in the thread that unites the entire European tradition of imaginative poetry:
Yeats and Shelley, Blake and Milton, Dante, Virgil, Ovid, Spenser, and Coleridge all speak with the same symbolic language and discourse of the immemorial world of the imagination.
And, like her, I am content to play my part in keeping, as she once said, quoting Blake, 'the Divine Vision in time of trouble'.
In the Forward to her Collected Poems, Kathleen Raine stated she wished her work to be judged in the light of the perennial wisdom she had discovered through the works of Blake and Yeats: 'Better to be a little fish in the great ocean than to be a big fish in some literary rock pool'. She may have thought of herself as a little fish, but the significance of her works and endeavours are considerable. Even in Australia there is much interest in her activities, as shown by the establishment in 1997 of The Barbara Blackman Temenos Foundation, which annually brings Temenos speakers on a lecture tour of Canberra, Sydney and Melbourne. And of course there are those poets and scholars who continue to explore and express 'the learning of the Imagination', that 'great ocean' of the soul.
Below is a poem I wrote after her death. It is called, naturally enough,
Defending Ancient Springs
i.m. Kathleen Raine
If she had never crossed
From Eternity through water
With ache to reveal our Eden
Always everywhere, in storm,
Colour of wild hills, skeins
Of bird song, each flower's
Benediction to sun, the genius
Of spirals in rock pools.
If she had never explored
The learning of the Imagination
Through vision, through rendition
Of other pioneers of presence
And return, cave, loom, tiger,
Rose and gyre, fourfold holy cities,
Open secret to all who listen
Past the mechanics of bird's flight.
And if I like others had never
Stopped in a library aisle, fingers
Tracing her defence of symbol
And light upon the spine—
No deep recall of kinship,
No wisdom fountaining of grace.
[An earlier version of this paper formed the basis of a talk given to celebrate the life and works of Kathleen Raine, at Evensong, Christ Church Anglican Church, Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia, 2 March 2008.]
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Santo y Blue Demon contra Doctor Frankestein
Santo y Blue Demon contra Doctor Frankestein 1974
It's time to finish out Hispanic Heritage Month with the last Santo movie from my local library. Now I only have like 49 more of these movies to go if I ever want to completely finish them. It's been an interesting trek, none of them are really that great. I've fallen asleep (albeit watching late at night) twice out of the four movies. But each one is different enough from the other to keep things interesting. The fights were interesting to a point and I'm glad to be taking a long break from the movies but each one had something interesting about it to make it different from the rest of the movies while still having the same Santo charm.
This is the first movie covered here that could potentially have a connection to an earlier movie. Even though it's never explicitly stated within the movie, the Doctor Frankenstein in this movie is quite possibly the son of la Hija de Frankenstein in an earlier movie. She was the daughter while he is the grandson. He is 113 years old while she doesn't mention her age but was older than her minions who were over 100. And they are both knowledgeable in de-aging techniques. Where the daughter was more interested in bringing corpses back to life, the grandson's interest is in swapping brains between two bodies as well as controlling them. He's become a serial killer as his experiments are on unwilling hosts and are typically unsuccessful.
This movie also brings the most connection between the wrestling matches and the story itself. Similar to Frankenstein's daughter the opening match is initially tuned into via the cold open as Doctor Frankenstein turns to the match on TV. But not only that, the match that ends the movie is actually Doctor Frankenstein's monster Golem and the Doctor himself in disguise. The fight goes outside of the match and onto the roof where Santo and Blue Demon end up knocking the two villains over the edge of a catwalk to their deaths.
Similar to all of the rest of the Santo movies, there's a mix of romance, horror, and wrestling. There's an old family friend that's Santo's love interest even though they're not technically dating. She becomes the woman of interest and the bait to lure Santo to Frankenstein's clutches as he wants Santo's brain to make his giant into not just a strong tank, but an athletic powerhouse. There's also the comedic element like with Frankenstein's daughter as the woman's boss is an absentminded professor who doesn't remember if she was dating Santo or Blue Demon or neither of them. Besides that, there's also a slight bit of a feminist bent as there are two detectives on the Frankenstein case and they're both women investigators. They don't really do much besides ask a few obvious questions and hang around, but it's the thought that counts. But at least they also don't ever make them into damsels, they just keep them on the sidelines for the most part.
One of the oddest things about Santo in general is that overall he doesn't really have a secret identity. He has the mask to conceal his identity, but throughout the movies he's always just Santo the superhero wrestler. He goes on dates and does other somewhat mundane things throughout the movies, but it's never as a regular person. It's as the masked Santo, just in regular clothes rather than his wrestling outfit. And at least in the five movies reviewed on this site, it's never really commented on, it just is what it is. It quite possibly has to do with the wrestler/actor Santo's actual secret identity as he is always credited in these movies as Santo rather than as his real name. It would just be an odd parallel to see a more well known superhero like Batman wearing a business suit and the Batman mask seated at a restaurant with a Russian supermodel.
Aside from all that secret identity stuff, this was a decent entry into the Santo series. The mystery had a decent build to it and it actually tied into the wrestling matches quite well despite them being filmed on a colored backdrop without any visible audience during the actual match. There were at least some cut aways to a live audience and it was nice to see the match actually go outside the ring. The fights outside of the ring were also fairly decent and Doctor Frankenstein as a villain was quite entertaining as well. He had a standard mad scientist plan but he presented it well. The only downside is that nothing really stood out as being incredibly well done or entertainingly bad, it was Santo hitting its groove but after watching three of these movies previously it left a little something to be desired. Until next time, this has been Bubbawheat for Flights, Tights, and Movie Nights.
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I've tried quite a few but none seem to format it in this way.
I went to that site and didn't see anything like what you describe - all I found there were a couple of links to Instagram which opened the Instagram page.
Apologies, it was the bit down the side of the right hand side of the page that looked like the attached graphic. This takes the first five instagram images, makes the latest one the large image, and the next four all smaller.
Sorry if I didnt explain myself well.
I wish I could help you, but i don't know of anything available for WordPress that will do that exact layout.
The site you use as an example is a Squarespace site and they may have their own widgets for that kind of thing.
EDIT: The closest I can find id this one Alpine Photo Tile for Instagram - in the Gallery configuration. I hope this is of some help.
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