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Home » About » Our Faculty » Martha A.Q. Curley
Martha A.Q. Curley, PhD, RN, FAAN
Ruth M. Colket Endowed Chair in Pediatric Nursing, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Professor of Nursing
Professor of Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine
As a leading clinical researcher in nurse-implemented therapies for acute respiratory failure in critically ill pediatric patients, Martha A.Q. Curley's work has transformed many aspects of pediatric critical care.
Dr. Curley has served as principal investigator on more than $34 million in federal research grants and served as co-investigator on another $30 million in federally-funded research, including serving as the principal investigator on major clinical trials in pediatric critical care.
"It's really exciting to see the patient and family impact of my work in clinical settings across the globe."
PhD, Boston College, 1997
MSN , Yale University, 1987
BS , University of Massachusetts Amherst, 1985
Diploma in Nursing, Springfield Hospital School of Nursing, 1973
Email: curley@nursing.upenn.edu
Family and Community Health
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As a researcher involved with critically ill children worldwide, I strive to create equity in healthcare. Currently, my research strives to improve standards of care and identify the needs of all families and their critically ill children while in the hospital. We hope to help break down barriers that many families disproportionately face in healthcare in the pursuit of social justice.
Dr. Curley's passion for the practice of critical care, especially nurse-led therapies that contribute to improved patient outcomes, centers her research. PROSpect: Prone and Oscillation Pediatric Clinical Trial, Dr. Curley's current research, is a 45-site international study is to identify the best positional and/or ventilation practice that leads to improved patient outcomes in critically ill children with PARDS (Pediatric Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome).
Thanks to Dr. Curley's collaborative research, providers worldwide have tools to assess critically ill children. These include the Braden QD scale for predicting pressure ulcers, the State Behavioral Scale for sedation of infants and young children on mechanical ventilators, and the Withdrawal Assessment Tool for opioid and benzodiazepine withdrawal. Dr. Curley also developed the Individualized Numeric Rating Scale to assess pain levels in children with severe intellectual disabilities who cannot speak.
Environments for Healing in Pediatric ICUs
Currently, Dr. Curley is investigating how nurses can create environments conducive to healing in pediatric ICUs. Methods being studied include supporting parents of critically ill children, embedding a child's normal sleep patterns and circadian rhythms into his/her hospitalized day, and modulating light and noise in the ICU to help children feel comforted.
Dr. Curley helped to develop the American Association of Critical Care Nursing's Synergy Model for Patient Care, which bases nursing care on the needs of the patient and family. This model is now integrated into nursing curricula and the association's credentialing programs, linking evidence-based clinical practice with patient outcomes.
Opportunities to Learn and Collaborate at Penn Nursing
Undergraduates become researchers in Dr. Curley's Nursing 389: Clinical Inquiry. With her current research on recreating environments conducive to healing in pediatric intensive care patients, students learn to conduct systematic literature reviews on light, sleep, and circadian rhythms. They engage in research tasks such as testing a circadian rhythm questionnaire for families, because the first step in maintaining a child's normal routine is discovering it. They also visit the pediatric critical care unit at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia to collect data directly from patients and nurses.
Dr. Curley works frequently with doctoral students interested in pediatric critical care, including on cognitive follow-up related to post intensive care syndrome. In addition to advising Penn Nursing graduate students, Dr. Curley sits on doctoral committees for students at other U.S. and global universities. Her secondary appointment at Penn medical school allows Dr. Curley to work across disciplines, sharing data from her clinical trials on critical care and strengthening ties with providers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, whose work benefits from and informs her research.
Selected Career Highlights
Principal investigator, RESTORE, clinical trial funded by National Heart, Lung, & Blood Institute regarding resilience in critically ill children
Principal investigator, PROSpect, a pediatric prone and oscillation clinical trial funded by National Institute of Nursing Research
Marion Barrett Lecture at the University of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia
Elected a member of the National Academy of Medicine, formerly the IOM
Anna Reynvaan Lecture in Amsterdam, Netherlands
Distinguished Contributions to Nursing Research Award from the Eastern Nursing Research Society (ENRS)
Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame, Sigma Theta Tau, International Honor Society of Nursing
Claire M. Fagin Distinguished Researcher Award, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing
American College of Critical Care Medicine Distinguished Investigator Award, Society of Critical Care Medicine
Distinguished Research Lecturer Award, American Association of Critical Care Nurses
Selected as one of "90 Nurses for 90 Years," Yale University School of Nursing
*Watson, R.S., Asaro, L.A., Hutchins, L., Bysani, G.K., Killien, E.Y., Angus, D.C., Wypij, D., Curley, M.A.Q., (2019). Risk Factors for Functional Decline and Impaired Quality of Life after Pediatric Respiratory Failure. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. (PubMed: 31034245)
*Zuppa, A.F., Benitez, G.R., Zane, N.R., Curley, M.A.Q., Bradfield, J., Hakonarson, H., Gastonguay, M.S., Moorthy, G., Prodell, J., Gastonguay, R.R. (2019). Morphine Dose Optimization in Critically Ill Pediatric Patients with Acute Respiratory Failure: A Population Pharmacokinetic-Pharmacogenomic Study. Crit Care Med; 47:e485–e494. (PMID: 30920410)
Kachmar, A.G., Connolly, C.A., Wolf, S., Curley, M.A.Q. (2019). Socioeconomic Status in Pediatric Health Research: A Scoping Review. J Pediatr. 213:163-170. (PMID: 31300308)
*Barbaro, R.P., Xu, Y., Borasino, S., Truemper, E.J., Watson, R.S., Thiagarajan, R.R., Wypij, D., Curley, M.A.Q., for the RESTORE Study Investigators. (2018). Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation in severe pediatric acute respiratory failure – a matched analysis. Am J Respir Crit Care Med.197(9):1177-1186. (PMID: 29373797)
*Watson, R.S., Asaro, L.A., Hertzog, J.H., Sorce, L., Kachmar, A.G., Dervan, L.A., Angus, D.C., Wypij, D., Curley, M.A.Q., for the RESTORE Study Investigators* and the Pediatric Acute Lung Injury and Sepsis Investigators (PALISI) Network. (2018). Long-term outcomes after protocolized sedation vs usual care in ventilated pediatric patients. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 197(11:1457-1467. (PMID: 29313710)
*Curley, M.A.Q., Hasbani, N.R., Quigley, S.M., Stellar, J.J., Pasek, T.A., Shelley, S.S., Kulik, L.A., Chamblee, T.B., Dilloway, M.A., Caillouette, C.N., McCabe, M.A., Wypij, D., (2018) Predicting pressure injury risk in pediatric patients: the Braden QD Scale. J Pediatr 2018;192:189-95). (PMID: 29246340)
*Agus, M.S.D., Wypij, D., Hirshberg, E.L., Srinivasan, V., Faustino, E.V., Luckett, P.M., Alexander, J.L., Asaro, L.A., Curley, M.A.Q., Steil, G.M., Nadkarni, V.M. for the HALF-PINT Study Investigators and the PALISI Network. (2017). Tight glycemic control in critically ill children. N Engl J Med, 376:729-741. (PMID: 28118549)
*Curley, M.A.Q., Wypij, D., Watson, R.S., Grant, MJ.C., Asaro, L.A., Cheifetz, I.M., Dodson, B.L., Franck, L.S., Gedeit, R.G., Angus, D.C., Matthay, M.A., for the RESTORE Study Investigators and the Pediatric Acute Lung Injury and Sepsis Investigators (PALISI) Network. (2015). Protocolized Sedation versus Usual Care in Pediatric Patients Mechanically Ventilated for Acute Respiratory Failure: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA, 313(4):379-389. (PMID: 25602358; PMC4955566)
Curley, M.A.Q., Hunsberger, M., & Sion Kim Harris, S.K. (2013). Psychometric evaluation of the Family-Centered Care Scale (FCCS) for pediatric acute care nursing. Nursing Research, 62(3), 160-168. PMID: 23636343.
Siow, E., Wypij, D., Berry, P., Hickey, P.A., & Curley, M.A.Q. (2013). The effect of continuity in nursing care on patient outcomes in the pediatric intensive care unit. Journal of Nursing Administration (JONA), 43(7/8), 394-402. PMID: 23892304.
Faculty Publications »
Martha Curley CV 4-20.pdf (PDF)
Ten Ways Penn Nursing is Changing the World
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François Arnaud (* 27. Juli 1721 in Aubignan; † 2. Dezember 1784 in Paris) war ein französischer römisch-katholischer Geistlicher, Kommendatarabt, Journalist, Literat, Musiktheoretiker, Gräzist und Mitglied der Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres und der Académie française.

Leben und Werk

Der gelehrte Geistliche
François Arnaud, dessen Vater Geiger war, wuchs im provenzalischen Carpentras, das zum päpstlichen Comtat Venaissin gehörte, in einem musikalischen Umfeld auf. Er besuchte das Jesuitenkolleg in Carpentras und das Priesterseminar in Viviers, hing aber vor allem am Griechischstudium und allgemein an der Gelehrsamkeit. Als Priester konnte er nach Carpentras zurückgehen und, gefördert von Bischof Inguimbert, dessen Bibliothek benutzen, die soeben um den Bibliotheksnachlass des Universalgelehrten Peiresc († 1637) bereichert worden war.

Der Journalist
1753 ging er nach Paris, wurde Bibliothekar von Ludwig Eugen von Württemberg, Mitarbeiter von Fréron und sorgte 1754 durch eine musiktheoretische Abhandlung in Form eines Briefes an den Grafen Caylus für Aufsehen. Er machte sich Jean Baptiste Antoine Suard zum Freunde und gab mit ihm zusammen ab 1760 das Journal étranger heraus. 1762 wurde er Mitglied der Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Lektor der Bibliothek des Grafen von Provence (später: Ludwig XVIII.) und Bibliothekar des Lazarus-Ordens. Er stellte das Erscheinen des Journal étranger ein und gründete 1764 unter der Schirmherrschaft des Herzogs von Praslin die Gazette littéraire de l'Europe, gab sie aber 1766 ab und übernahm die Leitung der Gazette de France, die er 1770, weil Praslin in Ungnade gefallen war, abgeben musste. Zur Aufbesserung seiner Finanzen verschaffte ihm ein Freund das Amt eines Kommendatarabts der Abtei Grandchamp.

Der Literat
1771 wurde er in die Académie française (Sitz Nr. 15) gewählt. Ab 1777 schrieb er für das Journal de Paris. In dem ebenfalls 1777 ausgebrochenen fünfjährigen Streit zwischen den Anhängern des Komponisten Gluck und denen von Niccolò Piccinni stand er auf Seiten Glucks gegen Marmontel und La Harpe. Dominique Joseph Garat nannte ihn den Paulus des Gluck-Kultes. Arnaud war gern gesehener Gast in den Salons der Madame Saurin, Ehefrau von Bernard-Joseph Saurin, der Madame Geoffrin, der Madame Necker, von Mademoiselle Lespinasse und des Abbé Morellet. Zu seinen Freunden gehörten der Maler van Loo, die Musiker Grétry und Duni, sowie der Graf Caylus. Er war bekannt mit Hume, Sterne, Garrick, Karl Heinrich von Gleichen und Gustaf Philip Creutz (1731–1785), schwedischer Botschafter in Frankreich. Vittorio Alfieri suchte seinen Rat. Seine zahlreichen kleineren Schriften wurden 1808, in drei Bänden gesammelt, von Léonard Boudou (1765–1809) herausgegeben und 1971 nachgedruckt. Sein durch Joseph-Siffrein Duplessis gemaltes Porträt war 1769 im Salon de Paris ausgestellt und hängt heute im Museum in Carpentras.

Werke
 Caractère des langues anciennes, comparées avec la langue françoise, discours de réception, prononcé le 13 mai 1771. (Antrittsrede in der Académie française)
 Oeuvres complètes de l'abbé Arnaud. 3 Bde. Hrsg. Léonard Boudou. Leopold Collin, Paris 1808. Genf 1971. (darin: Biographie durch den Herausgeber, S. 1–24, und "Éloge de M. L'Abbé Arnaud" durch Bon-Joseph Dacier, 1742–1833, S. 29–48).

Literatur
 Eugène H. de Bricqueville (1854–1933): Un critique musical au siècle dernier. In: Le Ménestrel 49, 1883, S. 337–338, 345–347, 353–354, 361–363.

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Römisch-katholischer Geistlicher (18. Jahrhundert)
Kommendatarabt
Gräzist
Musiktheoretiker
Autor
Journalist (Frankreich)
Mitglied der Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
Mitglied der Académie française
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New Haven, Connecticut has a rich history of sports and athletics at the amateur, collegiate, and professional levels. Below is a history of some of the teams the city has hosted, as well as significant sporting events that have taken place in New Haven.

Hockey

New Haven had been known for its blue collar fans who favor rough play, especially the "Crazies" who sat in "The Jungle" — Section 14 at the Coliseum, behind and adjacent to the opposing team's bench. These fans were renowned for being extremely tough on opposing teams, relentlessly screaming obscenities and taunts at opposing players (and sometimes at hometown players), making New Haven an intimidating place to play even though outright physical violence in the stands was rare. Section 14ers maintain a website called "Section 14 Online" which can be found at Section14.com.

Baseball

New Haven's first professional baseball team was the New Haven Elm Citys of the National Association, which played for one season in 1875 at the Howard Avenue Grounds. Although the National Association's status as a major league is disputed (particularly by Major League Baseball and the Baseball Hall of Fame), some historians and statisticians consider the NA a major league, making the Elm Citys New Haven's only major league baseball franchise.

New Haven has hosted 29 minor league baseball teams, dating back to the 19th century(A complete list of New Haven base ball teams can be found here). Greater New Haven's first minor league baseball team in modern times were the West Haven Yankees of the Class AA Eastern League, which played at both Quigley Stadium and Yale Field in neighboring West Haven from 1972 to 1979. Many future New York Yankees made their way through the West Haven team, including Ron Guidry. The West Haven Yankees finished first five times in their eight years, winning the Eastern League championship four times (in '72, '76, '78, and '79).

Minor league baseball returned to New Haven in 1994 with the arrival of the New Haven Ravens, an Eastern League AA affiliate of the Colorado Rockies. Like the preceding minor league teams, the Ravens played in neighboring West Haven at Yale Field, just across the town line. The team was very successful in its first few seasons before losing support. New Haven and the Ravens hosted the Double-A All-Star game in 1998. The Ravens won the Eastern League championship in 2000, giving New Haven proper its first professional championship since the New Haven Blades' championship in 1956. The Ravens moved to Manchester, New Hampshire in 2003, becoming the New Hampshire Fisher Cats.

In 1974, a little league team from New Haven placed sixth in the Little League World Series.

Football

With a capacity of 64,269, Yale Bowl is the second-largest stadium in New England (after Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts).

Basketball
New Haven has hosted a couple of minor league basketball teams. The city briefly was the home of an American Basketball League team named the New Haven Jewels in 1937, before the team moved to New York. New Haven gained an Eastern Professional Basketball League (the forerunner to the Continental Basketball Association) team in 1965, named the New Haven Elms, which played in New Haven Arena. In 1967, the Elms left New Haven, and split their season in Bridgeport and Binghamton, as the "Flyers." For the 1968-69 season, the team returned to New Haven, again calling itself the Elms. However, under the sponsorship of the Bic Pen Corporation of Milford, CT, the team moved north to Hamden the following season, now calling itself the Hamden Bics. The Bics played in the gym of Hamden High School for two seasons, before folding in 1971.

Soccer
Greater New Haven's oldest professional soccer team was the Ansonia F.C. which is believed to have begun play in 1887 before dissolving in the 1920s. Founded in 2017, the city has the Elm City Express of the NPSL. The team plays at Jess Dow Field at Southern Connecticut State University. The city is also host to many university soccer teams including Yale University.

Other
The New Haven Road Race has hosted the USATF 20K Championship every year since its inception in 1978. The race, which featured 1,200 runners in its inaugural year, has grown to include as many as 7,000 participants. Other annual road races which take place in New Haven include the WPLR ShamRock & Roll 5K, held close to Saint Patrick's Day every March, and The Christopher Martins Christmas Run for Children 5K, held every December.

New Haven was home to the New England Pilgrims who began play in the 1978 American Professional Slo-Pitch League (APSPL) season.  The team changed venues once during its existence, starting initially in 1978 at Blake Field in New Haven, where the Pilgrims remained through the 1980 (APSPL) season before moving to the Oakdale Sports Complex in Montville, Connecticut in their final season in the United Professional Softball League (UPSL).  The team was owned by Carlo Grande, a sports broadcaster and owner-operator of radio stations, who sold stations in New Haven and Westerly, Rhode Island to fund the purchase of the team.  New England began their 1981 and final season at Blake Field but were denied a permit by New Haven Mayor Biagio DiLieto due to complaints by local residents about noise from the Pilgrim games.  The team was granted a 6-game last-minute extension and would finish the season at the Oakdale Sports Complex in Montville, over 51 miles from New Haven.  The team disbanded at the end of the season.

New Haven is home to both rugby union and rugby league teams, the New Haven Old Black RFC and the New Haven Warriors, respectively. Both teams play at 'The Boulevard" on Route 34. The rugby union team won the US DII National title in 2002. The last few years they have regularly qualified for the Sweet 16 in DI national championships.  The rugby league team plays in the top level championship of the USA. They are the reigning 2008 champions.

New Haven has a very large cycling community, represented by the advocacy and community group ElmCityCycling. Group rides are held several times per week.

There are two golf courses open to the public located within New Haven proper: The Course at Yale and Alling Memorial Golf Course. Dozens more are located in Greater New Haven and the New Haven metropolitan area; a list can be seen here.

Tournaments and championships hosted
The Connecticut Tennis Center hosts the Pilot Pen International, a professional men's and women's tennis event, every August. Recent winners have included the likes of tennis stars Lindsay Davenport, Venus Williams, and Steffi Graf. The 15,000-seat Tennis Center Stadium at the Connecticut Tennis Center is tied as the fourth largest tennis venue in the world by capacity.

From July 1–9, 1995, New Haven hosted the 1995 Special Olympics World Summer Games. Then-President Bill Clinton spoke at the Opening Ceremonies at Yale Bowl.

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It's impossible for words to describe what is necessary to those who do not know what horror means. Horror... Horror has a face... and you must make a friend of horror. Horror and moral terror are your friends. If they are not, then they are enemies to be feared. They are truly enemies! I remember when I was with Special Forces... seems a thousand centuries ago. We went into a camp to inoculate some children. We left the camp after we had inoculated the children for polio, and this old man came running after us and he was crying. He couldn't see. We went back there, and they had come and hacked off every inoculated arm. There they were in a pile. A pile of little arms.
Horror is the central tenet of Standing on a Floor of Bodies' grisly grind. Not the cheap corn syrup spray of lazy goregrind and generic slasher films, but the soul crushing starkness of naked terror and unsettling atmosphere. Musical mastermind Mike Stitches wants to be that adrenal itch beneath your epidermis, the prickling hair at the back of your neck as you walk down an unlit street on a moonless night.
"The atmosphere in any convincing horror film is so undeniably massive and encompassing and I've always wanted to capture that in another way," Stiches said. "Whether I've been successful at this is rather subjective. Depends mostly on the listener and what s/he considers scary. I've always been drawn to movies like Carrie (original), Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original), House of the Devil, Calvaire and The Conjuring, where the mood is centered around isolation, darkness, tension, claustrophobia and hopelessness. You just know when Leatherface appears for the first time in Texas Chainsaw that his first victim is beyond fucked at that point. Or when Jack Torrance starts whaling at the bathroom door with his axe. Those moments beg to be matched musically."
Die! Die! My Darling!
There's something undeniably cinematic about Standing on a Floor of Bodies' unique blend of bass-driven grind and the perfectly matched murder scene visuals, which look like they were swiped from the cops' cold case files or an Unsane photoshoot. Stitches and his wife, musical accomplice and all around survivor girl Bvnny specialize in 45 second fright fests that run the gamut of fight or flight responses on albums like the nightmarish Sacrilegious and Culturally Deficient. It's a match made in matrimony and the sanguinary aisle of your local videorama.
"In terms of working on a project like this, it's good to work with someone who understands the overall intention and purpose, which she definitely does. So, I don't have to spend all this extra time throwing movies, records and books at her. She's seen all that stuff, which is a relief," Stitches said. "Now every time we experience something new and interesting, it's usually together. Or if I find something on my own, I usually show her right away. I'll never forget when we watched You're Next. We were at this theater in the desert in the middle of the day and there were probably like 20 people in the place. We laughed our asses off the whole time at these yuppies just getting decimated. Before, I'd usually have to wait for a movie like that to come out on DVD, rent it, watch it by myself and then sample it after a long day at work because nobody I knew at the time would be into it. With Bvnny, she'll usually grab me and be like, 'Dude, when this comes out, you GOTTA sample that part' or 'that would make an awesome album cover.'"
Adding Bvnny to the mix on Sacrilegious and Culturally Deficient gave Stitches an extra sounding board for the music as well as let him farm out the lyrics, something he'd tackled in prior band thousandswillide but never really considered his strong point.
The Sound of My Voice
While she's the band's dedicated lyricist, Bvnny gets extra assistance from the duo's choice taste in samples to bolster their aesthetic. The samples are integral to developing Standing on a Floor of Bodies' creepy crawly vibe and Bvnny and Stitches have been known to abuse their Netflix privileges in search of inspiring sounds.
"Samples are an on-going process and can be totally random. Bvnny and I will be watching a movie and sometimes won't send back to the DVD to Netflix until I've picked through almost every scene, if it's a really good source," Stitches said. "The manipulation process is more dependent upon the song writing, of course. It just takes time to figure out what's going to work well. What usually happens is I'll suddenly come up with a few ideas out of nowhere, finally get home and program the drums, record bass tracks over them, throw them on my iPod and listen to my own demos for months before actually recording anything officially. This give me a chance to think things over and make adjustments where needed. Most of these demos don't have any sampling involved until I'm just about ready to record, others will be written around samples. It all kinda depends on what we're working with at the time."
Given that he puts that much thought an effort into the sound of Standing on a Floor of Bodies, it's no surprise that Stitches is equally meticulous about finding a visual that perfectly matches the racket.
"Music and artwork on an album can work so powerfully together. I think if you're an intelligent musician that doesn't make the effort to merge those two somehow, you're not really applying yourself. Because a record can have a huge impact the listener, even more so than most people you meet," he said. "There's always going to be some shithead who hassles you to digest 50 brand new bands that all want to musically, lyrically and visually recreate Napalm Death's Scum. Nobody needs to listen to that guy. The desired result should be 'holy shit, this is interesting. Where do I get more?' Not, 'okay, cool, I got yet another punk by numbers record with a landfill or mass grave on the cover.' Find what fucking knocks the wind out of you musically and enjoy it for yourself and with anyone who likes it as much as you do."
And it's not like Stitches will ever lack for inspiration.
"I've still got probably hundreds of samples from movies that haven't ended up on any song on any release (yet)," he said. "There's some days where all I do is sample movies and play around with layers and layers of noise."
Labels: grindcore, interviews, standing on a floor of bodies
Good Reads: Two Thumbs Up
The book: Zeroville by Steve Erickson
Cinema has always haunted Steve Erickson's best work from the stuttering movie critic protagonist of Amnesiascope (a doppelganger of the author) through the lost film masterpiece that lurks at the fringes of the narrative of Days Between Stations. But Erickson never gave himself over to the silver screen as wholly as in Zeroville, the story of film editor Vikar Jersome, who wanders into Hollywood with Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor from A Place in the Sun tattooed on the side of his head. His eventual rise to cinematic prominence parallels the advent of New Hollywood and the book is filled with veiled allusions to artists such as William Friedkin, Robert Deniro and John Milius. Vikar is described as "cine-autistic" by one of the other characters. Awkward and detached in social situations, he's prone to repeating other people's opinions verbatim when at a loss for something to say, but Vikar is completely steeped in the glamour of Hollywood's golden age and his journey across Los Angeles is a pilgrimage that pays homage to the city's movie landmarks from the hotel where Clift once lived (and supposedly where D.W. Griffith haunts) to the graveyards of nascent Hollywood's most prominent stars.True to the Hollywood spirit, it's only fitting that Erickson be the first Good Reads author to get a sequel.
"Fuck continuity," says Vikar
Silence falls over the meeting. This is the first thing that anyone in the meeting has heard Vikar say.
"The scenes of a movie," Vikar says, "can be shot out of sequence not because it's more convenient, but because all the scenes of a movie are really happening at the same time. No scene really leads to the next, all scenes lead to each other. No scene is really shot out of order. It's all a false concern that a scene must anticipate another scene that follows, even if it's not been shot yet, or that a scene must reflect a scene that precedes it, even if it's not been shot yet, because all scenes anticipated and reflect each other. Scenes reflect what has not yet happened, scenes anticipate what has already happened." Vikar rises from his chair. Los Angeles is the City of the Real, whose stories are as old as time, where people go to hide from God, unlike the more hopeful, childlike people of New York. "Scenes that have not yet happened," he explains to those around the table, "have." New York makes sense to Vikar now—as he leaves the room, everyone staring after him –in a way it never did when he was there.
A bonus representative passage:
Vikar is wholly consumed by film. That is until he's working on a film in New York City in the late '70s and comes across a seedy bar in the Bowery that exudes a raucous rock 'n' roll noise he only knows as the Sound.
It's not just a music, rather it's the Sound, the real Music everyone has tried to tell him over the years that all the other music was when it wasn't.
Vikar is standing on the Bowery outside what seems to be a tunnel cut into a bunker. The sidewalk is crowded with more kids like he saw in St. Marks Place, as well as old people sleeping under newspapers and drunks stumbling through the crowd asking for money. A dirty barefooted woman shivers under a yellow awning in nothing but the paper-thin gown that patients wear in hospitals.
The address on the awning is 315. There are nonsensical letters on the awning that spell nothing. A mystifying hand-written cardboard sign on the black glass doors that says
MAXXI MARASCHINO
SIC FUCKS
and while nothing about this is comprehensible to him, the illicitly narcotic Sound is irresistible and he goes inside, the doorman eying him with wonder.
The album: Los Angeles by Graf Orlock
Obviously, no other grind band is as equally enraptured by the power of cinema as Graf Orlock. Where other bands are content to sample bits of dialogue here and there to set off their songs, Graf Orlock are wholesale remixers who spin new stories out of repurposed dialogue and samples jailbroken from the context of their original films. Like Erickson's Zeroville, the Los Angeles EP is their love letter not just to films but to the city that births them. It's a tribute to the ways film reflects the glorifies the city and the way the very streets and architecture have given birth to the movies themselves, an Oroborus of influence and mutual reinforcement that just can't happen anywhere else.
A representative song: Just listen to the whole damn thing
Labels: good reads, graf orlock, grindcore, los angeles
G&P Review: Daggra
Daggra
Grindcore Karaoke
There's a sweet spot, a musical Lagrange point precariously poised between the twin gravitational tugs of Cellgraft's slingshot sweep past the sun and Priapus' bulldozing gas giant mass (yes, that means it kinda sorta sounds like Circle of Dead Children). That's where Daggra chose to set up shop, in the relatively stability between speed and mass.
Now Daggra won't be knocking any of the aforementioned trio of grinding greats from their laureled perches just yet, but this is a band that shows some promise once they grow into their sound. Daggra keep the fundamentals of their attack simple. Their songs are a full bore charge into your face that seeks to overwhelm with brute force rather than muck about with messy strategy. To that end, they keep the riffs concise and catchy. Songs follow that comfortable formula of short, punky build up into grind explosion, all executed in 100 seconds or left. Six originals and an Insect Warfare cover are enough to convey what Daggra are all about. But that simplicity and familiarity also mean Daggra won't be blowing you away with originality. This is squarely in the comfort food category of grind, familiar and filling but none too challenging to the palette.
If there's one other knock on Daggra's attack it would be the percussion. I can't tell if it's an issue of performance or production, but the drums seem divorced from the other instruments at times. It's like the drums are chasing the song when they should be diesel-spewing engine that powers the whole spiel. A more robust performance there may have been just enough to jump Daggra up from faithful followers of grind's finer traditions to a band able to inject new blood into a well worn formula.
Labels: daggra, grindcore, grindcore karaoke, reviews
Good Reads: Children of Men
The book: Akira by Katsuhiro Otomo
If all you know of Akira is Otomo's own (admittedly awesome) anime adaptation of his masterwork, then you've only scratched the surface of the story. The film version barely touches on the events of the first volume of his six phone book-sized tomes, chronicling the plight of psychic street punks in decaying Neotokyo. The film ably captures the body horror aspect as Tetsuo's newfound power rips his body apart, but it doesn't quite capture the same sense of social horror as Otomo addresses the fraying ties that unite a country and the uneasy alliances that are left over when rigid hierarchies fall away and people are forced to shift for themselves. There's certainly a lot more going on with Akira than bike punks on a rampage. Check out the books and widen your scope on an anime classic. Like Gojira before it, Akira starts with a thinly veiled allusion to the atomic bombing of Japan, bifurcating of the country's history and casting aside the rigid ordered past in favor of something new and unsettled. The unease that accompanies all sudden social upheavals strongly informs Otomo's tale as the cross section of complex characters each try to grapple with the unknowable power represented by the titular, godlike Akira and his insane chamberlain Tetsuo.
"Ours is a young nation, and some might say it's vulnerable! It is true we are yet weak, without laws or a constitution… …But a glorious future awaits us if we remain steadfast in our will and in our faith! Interference from the outside world will not be tolerated! We will repel all attacks whether from the United States, Russia… .. or even from Japan herself! … This land is our land!"
The album: Orphan by GrindLink
Orphan is a good theme because Otomo's Neotokyo is a culturally isolated city full of people who have been disconnected from their past and their culture by the power of Akira. Cast adrift from its history and social institutions, Akira's world is full of people who are forced to make compromised choices out of ignorance and necessity just to get by. GridLink's freneticism and Far East fascination perfectly pair with the dizzying, neon-fried landscape that dominates Otomo's masterpiece.
A representative song: "Orphan"
I never wanted this distance
This distance between myself and the rest of the world
Unanswered voicemails the cursor hangs anxiously
Waiting for words that never come
Pages filled with scraps of life imagined
Reconstructed like the act of a murder scene
I don't want the baggage of things that are left unsaid
Somewhere in between we've lost ourselves
Keep our cards close it's how we wear our lies
Together but we are alone
Bridge of memories, that ends in death cycling like cover flow
Why are we trapped where only shadows fall?
How do we belong?
Punching holes in myself when there's no holes left to cut and regret does not absolve
It's all falling apart in my hands
It's all I have
Bled out
Waiting for tears
Will they come?
Further our hearts
Our rendered voice
Still the tears won't come
Labels: good reads, gridlink, grindcore, orphan
G&P Review: Slavestate 641A
"It was you who inoculated me with selfishness, pride and cruelty, and you shall be their first victim. I now literally enjoy having a human being that thinks and feels and desires like myself in my power; I love to abuse a man who is stronger in intelligence and body than I, especially a man who loves me.
"Do you still love me?"
"Even to madness," I exclaimed.
"So much the better," she replied, "and so much the more will you enjoy what I am about to do with you now."
"What is the matter with you?" I asked. "I don't understand you, there is a gleam of real cruelty in your eyes today, and you are strangely beautiful—completely Venus in Furs."
Without replying Wanda placed her arms around my neck and kissed me. I was again seized by my fanatical passion.
"Where is the whip?" I asked.
Ritter von Leopold Sacher-Masoch
Venus in Furs
Slavestate 641A
Masochist
Grindcore Karaoke/Name Like His Master
There's a very limited subset of humanity that wants to hear their shitty, repetitive, inconsequential lives recreated in a droning, stumbling, implacable audio form. Even noted musical bummers Mike Gira and Justin Broadrick had to take decade-long vacations into the realms of the ethereal and more upbeat (relatively speaking, here) before diving back into the broken pavement misery of daily survival.
That's all an elaborate way of saying the Slavestate 641A is probably not for everyone, even in the target demographic of people primed to hoover up anything that boasts 66 percent of Robocop as its creative nexus. Masochist is unrelenting in its repetitive slow motion negativity. It just wears you down through sheer heft and indifference that take the most antagonistic output of artists like Swans and Godflesh as a starting point then beats them into submission.
The product of a 24 hour recording process that involved homebrew DIY recording tech, lashes from belts and near drowning while trying to scream underwater, Masochist lives up its name, grinding away at two songs carved from endless waves of slow motion repetition that soundtrack a lifetime of organs slowly failing and machinery sputtering to a half from routine wear. It's an audio diary transported from the realms of Stephen King's Dark Tower, the sound of a tired world that's "moved on," its technology and very reality wearing out and decaying in its wake. The keening "Screwdriver" stumbles and throbs like a cyborg angina, a congestive heart failure of faltering components and broken down circuitry. The slithering "Reptile Enclosure" is more organic, the suffocating throes of an animal too weary to even flail at the prospect of death. The song is attenuated droning near the point of stasis (think Khanate at their most dessicated), which probably makes it the more difficult of the two to truly appreciate as music. But it does get across its fundamental musical mission.
Slavestate 641A do not make feel good music to soundtrack your humdrum life. This is something a little more challenging that maybe deserves some additional thought but is admittedly targeted to a very narrow demographic set. If audio self flagellation is your thing, you can do worse than Masochist.
Labels: ambient music, drone, power electronics, reviews, slavestate 641A, sludge
Six, Six, Six
Happy sixth birthday, G&P, you gigantic time sink in my life.
Just a couple months ago I couldn't imagine reaching this milestone. I was burned out, lethargic, my writing sucked ass and I was ready to just chuck the whole damn thing. But here I am marking the sixth anniversary of the blog. Funny how things change in the course of a couple of weeks.
So once again, I want to take stock of it all so I never get complacent and forget what an amazing privilege this has all been. I just want to take the time to thank every one of you for stopping by and reading, indulging me in all of this. Thank you for chipping in and making this fun. I wouldn't be here and I couldn't do any of this without your support.
Thank you to every awesome band that's ever sent me stuff to listen to. I apologize again for taking so fucking long to get around to writing about you. I know it's only gotten worse lately. I'm working on that, I promise.
Thank you as well to everyone who's ever done an interview. Those are definitely my favorite parts of this. I wish I had the time and energy to do them more often. I'm working on that too. I especially want to dive back into the long, in depth band histories again, provided Lil Grinder will give me the time.
After six years, I kinda feel like I just now really understand what I want the blog to be and where it should go. It's taken half a decade to maybe figure out what my niche is. Hopefully you guys dig it and stick around.
A couple months ago I gave serious thought to packing it all in because I was tired and burned out. Nothing was really exciting me. I found my inspiration again just before I was about to pull the trigger. I can still envision shutting it all down one day. But then it will be on my terms and not in a fit of pique. Until then, I'm just going to enjoy the opportunities the blog has opened up for me and take it all as it comes.
Thanks everybody for making it happen.
Labels: blogaversary, your blog is bad and you should feel bad
G&P Review: Blurring
Blurring
Jan. 26 2013 Demo
The garbage plate is Rochester's culinary gift to the world. It's a gut-busting catchall of fried potatoes, baked beans, hotdogs, chili and whatever else is at hand. It's also a pretty convenient metaphor for Rochester's resident metal scene, an omnivorous blend of hardcore, grind, death metal and related musical roadkill that managed to be fast and burly while still cramming in enough bent technicality to keep things aslant without ever sliding into music nerd math dissertation territory. The ground zero of the city's musical mayhem was the almighty Lethargy, a circus-souled calliope of grind blitz, death metal intensity and just plain oddball time signatures. That unique collection of cavemen with calculators later spun out Rochester's roster of signature bands including Kalibas and Sulaco (also something called Mast-O-Don, whatever that is).
If that specific sound sets your limbic system aflame, please allow me to direct your attention to Blurring, which boasts the services of Rochester institutions Matt Colbert (Kalibas) and Erik Burke (Kalibas, Lethargy, Sulaco, Brutal Truth and plenty of others). Blurring sound exactly as you imagine given that cast of characters, the perfect way station between Lethargy's balls out insanity and Kalibas' chunk/skronk dumpster diving, all overtopped by Burke's instantly recognizable howler monkey yowl . [Burke is actually the drummer. I apologize for the mistake.] Blurring appropriate just about every offshoot on the metal tree in pursuit of pure heaviness. There are only three teasing tracks to be found on their demo, but it's enough to get the salivary glands a-drooling like one of Pavlov's hounds. Hopefully Blurring pile that garbage plate high with a second helping soon.
Labels: blurring, death metal, demos, grindcore, hardcore, reviews, technical metal
Good Reads: Oedipus Wrecks
The book: The Dead Father by Donald Barthelme
Don't be alarmed. The loud buzzing and the flashing lights you're experiencing are simply the Very Important Metaphor Early Warning System kicking in. You see, Thomas has a problem with his Dead Father. Thomas, along with his lover Julie and a host of underpaid, alcohol-deprived malcontents, is dragging the city-block sized corpse of his Dead Father across the country in hopes revivifying him. But the Dead Father is not, strictly speaking, dead. The Dead Father can still speak, hand down pronouncements and generally tries to order around everyone's life. When he doesn't get his way, the Dead Father has been known to run off into the woods and put various tiny woodland creatures to the sword to vent his rage. The metaphor seems almost insultingly obvious, and in the hands of a lesser craftsman, it would be. But Donald Barthelme wrote the way Monet painted. He steamrolls you with waves of sentence fragments that individually reveal little but taken together weave a pointillist tapestry of vivid, obsessive detail in the mode of David Foster Wallace. Barthelme was a master of ribald absurdity and telling anachronism. He turned Snow White into a farce of sexual mores and inverted King Arthur into a parable of the Cold War. Sure, he was working out some fairly Freudian issues with The Dead Father, but like poor beleaguered Thomas, it's all about what the journey reveals.
I don't like this, said the Dead Father.
What? asked Julie. What, dear old man, don't you like?
You are killing me.
We? Not we. Not in any sense we. Processes are killing you, not we. Inexorable processes.
Inexorable inapplicable in my case, said the Dead Father. Hopefully.
"Hopefully" cannot be used in that way, grammatically, said Thomas.
You are safe, dear old man, you are safe, temporarily, in the mansuetude of our care, Julie said.
The mansuetude that is to say mild gentleness of our care.
I am surrounded by creepy murderous pedants! the Dead Father shouted. Unbearable!
Thomas handed the Dead Father the pornographic comic book.
Now now, he said, no outbursts. Read this. It will keep you occupied.
I don't want to be occupied, said the Dead Father. Children are kept occupied. I want to participate!
Not possible, said Thomas. Thank God for the pornographic comic book. Sit there and read it. Sit there with your back against that rock. Thank the Lord for what is given to you. Others have less. Here is a knapsack to place between your back and the rock. Here is a flashlight to read the comic book by. Edmund will bring your Ovaltine at ten. Count your blessings.
The album: The Jester Race by In Flames
Jumping off the grindcore track briefly, The Jester Race is an album that's chained to the past and struggles with the way our histories come to define our futures. Each song seems to contain some nugget of the same thought from the backwards looking "Artifacts of the Black Rain" through the inability of mankind to learn from its prior mistakes in "Graveland" or the way "Dead Eternity" promises that "time will be your master in this laborious part of human subsistence." And perhaps too on the nose for our purposes, there's "Dead God in Me."
A representative song: "Dead God in Me"
To slit the grinning wounds
from childhood's seven moons
the palette stained with the ejaculated passions
(of forbidden, hedonistic colors...)
Strike from omnipotence; all-seer, all-deemer
and haunt my severed country with your
dripping, secret games
You pick the unripe lilies
deflored and peeled the bleeding petals
made known to me
the grainy stains, the crimson lotus
of the Black-Ash Inheritance,
the semen feed of gods and masters
The worms still in me,
still a part of me,
racing out from leaking rooms,
swoop from broken lungs to block the transmission
to put an end to the nomad years
you are the
dead god in me
Labels: death metal, good reads, how swede it is, in flames, melodic death metal, the jester race
G&P Review: Sacridose
Sacridose
Anxiety Tremors
Financial Ruin/Bandcamp
PROTIP: plunking a sweet Rudimentary Peni cover ("Only Human") in the middle of your EP will put a big coprophagic smile on Andrew's face, predisposing him to shower oodles of wordy praise upon your efforts. I get that no band wants their slaved-over recording judged solely on their deft handling of someone else's music, hacking out covers like some garage denizen. I'm just saying it greases the critical skids around these parts.
Because Sacridose have so much more going for them than excellent interpretations of choice cuts of psycho British punk classics. For starters, you may recognize the name and riffs of guitarist Ryan Zell from a little band called Cellgraft. But Sacridose is not just a victory lap rerun of a band that fizzled too soon. While there's a nod back to Zell's old stomping grounds, Anxiety Tremors rumbles along like Repulsion crossed with His Hero is Gone and its XX chromosome presence at the mic creates some aesthetic and attitudinal overlap with Cloud Rat. There's not a single word in that sentence that shouldn't trigger the pleasure centers of your little grinding noggin.
In a whisker under nine minutes, Sacridose are not interested in belaboring the point. Each song snags a central riff or a vocal quirk, builds around that and politely steps aside once it's made its point. In fact, the 93 second "Only Human" cover is the album's longest track by a good 20 seconds but more often by nearly a minute. That fact makes repeat performances a must. Each fragment from the floor-punching "Faceless" through the energy drink shot of the introductory "Poison Design" are models of songwriting economy that can be unpacked to reveal a plethora of little tricks that each contribute to a model song. All that and a great Rudimentary Peni homage. What more can you ask?
Labels: anxiety tremors, financial ruin, grindcore, hardcore, reviews, sacridose
Hostile Carbon Units: Standing on a Floor of Bodie...


1981 Los Angeles Dodgers personal World Series Championship trophy presented to first baseman Steve Garvey in recognition of their 4 games to 2 defeat of the rival New York Yankees. Garvey had 10 hits good for a .417 average in the series, following up on a .330 average with 3 home runs and 6 RBI in the National League and Western Divisional Play-off Series. 12" tall trophy features brass pennants with team names around the perimeter of a large brass circle with a crown finial. Yankees and Dodgers enameled World Series press pin facades adorn the center area. A brass band on the base reads, "Los Angeles Dodgers World Championship Trophy Presented by The Commissioner of Baseball October 28, 1981 Steve Garvey" in black lettering on the front. Desirable trophy belonging to one of, if not the key player commemorating the Dodgers first World Series title since 1965.


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Portfolio Archives: Childrens' Hospitals
Health Sciences Centre Winnipeg Women's Hospital
388,500 ft² | 36,090 m² | 173 Beds
The new five-story, 388,500 ft², 173-bed Winnipeg Women's Hospital was constructed to replace the existing women's hospital and allow the Health Sciences Center Winnipeg, the main provider of hospital-based pediatric care and acute gynecologic surgical procedures in the province, to offer in-patient and…
Childrens' Hospitals, HospitalsBy Emily Sikma December 1, 2019
Jim Pattison Children's Hospital
376,000 ft² I 34,930 m² I 176 Beds
The 376,000 ft², 176-bed Jim Pattison Children's Hospital, constructed at Royal University Hospital's main campus, became the province's first maternal and children's hospital offering tailored care for the unique needs of children and families, including neonatal intensive care, pediatric intensive care, general pediatrics,…
Childrens' Hospitals, HospitalsBy Emily Sikma October 1, 2019
Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford
Palo Alto, California, USA
Stanford Children's Health, with Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford at its center, is the Bay Area's largest health care system exclusively dedicated to children and expectant mothers and a leader in providing world-class, nurturing care and achieving extraordinary outcomes in every pediatric…
Childrens' Hospitals, Hospitals, Teaching HospitalsBy Emily Sikma July 3, 2018
ErinoakKids Centre for Treatment and Development
Oakville, Mississauga, Brampton, Ontario, Canada
304,025 ft² | 28,245 m²
Located in Oakville, Mississauga and Brampton, this was the largest Redevelopment Project in the history of the Ministry of Children and Youth, and the first multi-site construction of a Children's Treatment Centre in the province. The project enabled ErinoakKids to consolidate its patchwork of…
Childrens' Hospitals, HospitalsBy Emily Sikma January 25, 2018
British Columbia Children's Hospital
The BC Children's and BC Women's Redevelopment Project was an initiative to improve care at BC Children's and BC Women's hospitals by providing a newly redeveloped campus that provides patient-centered care and operates in an environment of quality, excellence and innovation.
Childrens' Hospitals, HospitalsBy Emily Sikma October 30, 2017
Sainte-Justine Hospital
Montreal, Québec, Canada
HCR partnered with Sainte-Justine Hospital, the largest mother-child center in Canada, and one of the University of Montreal's leading hospitals, to assist them with transitioning all staff, patients, equipment, and research lab into two new buildings, which were constructed as a part…
Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal Children's Hospital, Montreal Chest Institute, Portions of Montreal General Hospital, MUHC Research Institute to McGill University Health Centre, Glen Site
2,500,000 ft² | 232,250 m² | 500 Beds (160 Children's Beds)
HCR forged a successful working partnership with all MUHC Redevelopment Project stakeholders involved in this very significant P3 project. Our 2 years of detailed planning led to the ultimate flawless execution of the massive redeployment of numerous legacy sites…
Childrens' Hospitals, Featured, Hospitals, Research and Clinical Labs, Teaching HospitalsBy Tracy McAllister June 1, 2015
Mercy Medical Center
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
70,000 ft² | 6,500 m² | 82 Beds
As part of the continuing services provided by Mercy Medical Center (Baltimore), the Family Childbirth and Children's Center opened its doors to patients on Sunday, June 10th, 2012. Health Care Relocations provided the planning, management and physical relocation of equipment, supplies and contents. A…
Childrens' HospitalsBy Emily Sikma January 19, 2012
Columbus, Ohio, USA
Health Care Relocations involvement with Nationwide Children's Hospital, as they moved into the largest pediatric expansion in US history, included four phases that spanned over a 9 month period. HCR provided detailed planning for all phases in addition to the physical relocation of…
Children's Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA)
This project required the relocation from the existing acute inpatient facilities to the most technologically advanced paediatric and adolescent 7 storey inpatient tower – the Marion & John E. Anderson Pavilion – located at the same site. Health Care Relocations created a…
Childrens' HospitalsBy Emily Sikma June 22, 2011
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Houston theaters have only just packed up their holiday blazers and put away the Dickensian costumes, but they're already raring to deliver some sizzling drama, comedy, and musicals for the dark winter months. From Latino fairytales to wedding hijinks to seniors on the lam to the wisdom of dying eccentrics, January and February bring a flurry of staged stories for all our imaginations.
Here's a guide to all the live theater we can't wait to experience this winter.
The outrageous show that converted Broadway and later the world by offending absolutely everyone makes another Houston stop on this latest U.S tour. Elder Price, Elder Cunningham and the whole missionary gang sing the Tony award winning good (though somewhat blasphemous) word about the redemptive power of storytelling.
This two player comedy about modern conspiracy theory culture got major critical acclaim when they world premiered this play back in the fall. This "micro" show with an under hour run time is performed in the living room of local homes. Then February 7-17 Landing presents another commissioned work by the same local playwright, Brendan Bourque-Sheil. The world premiere Uncharted depicts the relationship between two half-sisters who recently found each other.
This Texas-set world premiere farce from Cypress, Texas-born playwright Robert Askins takes a wedding party, long lost relatives, angry strippers, a DYI gazebo building, and mistaken identity to the ultimate comic extremes. The Carpenter had an early workshop production in 2017 as part of the Alley All New play reading festival and helps launch this year's fest, which also begins January 18.
In 2017 the innovative video and production company Dinolion presented the beautifully creepy and provocative site-specific immersive theater experience Red House. That ambitious production resembled the kind of immersive theater like Sleep No More and Then She Fell, usually only found in New York or London.
Now, they're back with a new production involving the creative work of 40 artist collaborators and inspired by and using the music of local composers Merel van Dijk and Anthony Barilla who wrote the songs for Catastrophic Theatre's world premiere Small Ball last year. This project is so mysterious we only know that it will occur at a secret Midtown location, but we do know we'll be there.
Only the second production of this new offbeat comedy by Austin playwright Kyle John Schmidt tells the story of Ruby who runs a small-town gun company, manufacturing products like "The Bridesmaid," "The Babysitter," and "The Mallwalker." But what happens when guns start going off all over town — and no one's pulling the trigger?
This world premiere from Texas playwright Patricia Barry Rumble is billed as a a geriatric "Thelma and Louise plus One" comedy about two best friend who break out of their retirement home in Texas heading for Florida and their freedom. Queensbury executive director Marley Singletary directs with an all-female producing team.
An unusual partnership between Austin's Hyde Park Theatre, Catastrophic, and the University of Houston School of Theatre and Dance brings this acclaimed production of Will Eno's latest work to the UH José Quintero Theatre. A sometimes bewildered but always charming dying man takes the audience on a meandering journey through his past, present and quirky perspective on the world.
Playwright Jiréh Breon Holder, a writer on the NBC show New Amsterdam, sets this drama in rural Tennessee at the height of the Civil Rights Movement. Two young couples struggle to understand justice, love, and their own responsibilities. As a young man becomes a Freedom Rider and joins the fight against racism in the Deep South, he might need to leave his obligations as a husband and friend behind.
Part of playwright Marisela Treviño Ortaat's cycle of fairy tales inspired by Latino folklore and mythology, two sisters in a Brazilian fishing village struggle to find their own happily-ever-after while bound to family honor and tradition. This production is the anchor show for Stages' second annual Sin Muros (Without Walls): A Latinx Theatre Festival running January 31 – February 3. Several of the other play readings and events of the festival are free to the public, but tickets should be reserved in advance.
The stage play based on the bestselling nonfiction book tells the story of sports journalist Mitch Albom (played by Broadway veteran and A.D. Players executive director, Jake Speck) making a visit to his old college professor, Morrie Schwartz who is dying of ALS. That obligatory meeting becomes a life changing series of lessons on the art of living, dying and the human ties of friendship.
This comedy from Japanese-American playwright Leah Nanako Winkler gives the family grievance genre a casting twist, as an upper class white family gathers together to divide an estate while drinking and airing grievances. However, the actors in the show are people of color, and societal concepts are comically challenged.
Eliza Clark's comedy exposes the shaky foundations of the wellness industry, the fleeting nature of 21st century fame, and the relationship between the powerful men who dole out advice and the women who are supposed to receive it with a smile. The Alley brings in Tony Award-winning stage and television actress, and Texas native, Judith Ivey to direct.
This rarely produced Renaissance drama from Shakespeare contemporary Thomas Heywood tells a swashbuckling tale on the high seas about lady pirate Bess Bridges. With the closing of their theater at Chelsea Market, Classical Theatre will move outside the Loop to Queensbury for the rest of their season.
While the subject matter might be for mature audiences and not be safe for work, we're betting this satirical look at the cut-throat media world where jobs are scarce, beauty standards are savage, and personal integrity is a luxury will be in safe hands at Stages.
TUTS artistic director Dan Knechtges revives this audience fav for the 50th anniversary season. No doubt they'll be some audiences members singing along to this simple story of a mother, daughter, three possible long lost dads, a big, fat Greek island wedding, and enough ABBA music to satisfy all the dancing queens in the Hobby Center house.


Mon., Jan. 4, 2016, 3:01 p.m.
Sat., Jan. 2, 2016, 8:21 p.m.
The rest of the West Coast Conference is getting the message: Gonzaga is emphatic about defending its title.
Thu., Dec. 31, 2015, 8:59 p.m.
Gonzaga closed out the old year by clamping down on San Francisco.
Tue., Dec. 29, 2015, 9:17 p.m.
Shelby Cheslek is having another growth spurt.
Tue., Dec. 22, 2015, 3:34 p.m.
The Gonzaga women haven't won five out of their last six games without making a few adjustments.
Mon., Dec. 21, 2015, 11:13 p.m.
Fri., Dec. 18, 2015, 1:32 p.m.
Sophomore center Emma Wolfram is lost for the season with a knee injury, Gonzaga women's coach Lisa Fortier said Friday.
Tue., Dec. 15, 2015, 7:19 p.m.
Sun., Dec. 6, 2015, 7:07 p.m.
Homecomings always should feel this cozy.
Mon., Nov. 23, 2015, 9:20 p.m.
Sun., Nov. 22, 2015, 5:33 p.m.
Sun., Nov. 15, 2015, 7:45 p.m.
If Gonzaga women's basketball fans were looking at Sunday's game against Stanford as a measuring stick, the Bulldogs met them almost 90 percent of the way.
Thu., Nov. 12, 2015, 10:28 a.m.
The Gonzaga women's basketball team isn't looking past Air Force. Honest.
Fri., Nov. 6, 2015, 8:56 p.m.
UPDATED: Mon., Oct. 26, 2015, 4:24 p.m.
The Gonzaga women's basketball team has won 11 straight WCC titles and coaches don't see a change at the top this season.
UPDATED: Thu., July 23, 2015, 10:11 p.m.
Highly recruited women's basketball player Chandler Smith will transfer to Gonzaga after playing one season with Nebraska, the school announced on Thursday.
Tue., June 23, 2015, 11:31 a.m.
Jessie Loera of Moses Lake, regarded as one of the best guards in her class in the nation, has given Gonzaga an oral commitment.
Mon., March 16, 2015, 9:23 p.m.
Fri., March 6, 2015, 4:03 p.m.
Locked in a tight battle with No. 8-seeded Loyola Marymount early in the second half, Gonzaga coach Lisa Fortier went to her bench and a full-court press.
Thu., March 5, 2015, 3:12 p.m.
The Gonzaga women got back into the win column last Saturday, prompting the return of a few other important items.
Sun., March 1, 2015, 10:21 p.m.
UPDATED: Sat., Feb. 21, 2015, 9:59 p.m.
Two nights after being fitted for the conference crown, the Gonzaga women's basketball team was upset 71-59 Saturday by visiting Pacific in the final home game for four senior Bulldogs.
Tue., Jan. 20, 2015, 11 p.m.
The Gonzaga women's basketball team faces a pair of games this weekend that will go a long way toward deciding the conference championship.


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Video prompts probe of possible bullying at Lancaster High School
[Screenshot from the now-deleted Facebook video]
LANCASTER – The sheriff's department Friday was investigating a possible case of bullying after an incident involving two Lancaster High School students was posted to Facebook.
The now-deleted video shows a girl mocking and then slapping a boy, said to be a special needs student, as other classmates look on.
The encounter occurred Thursday morning, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.
"Our school resource deputy was on campus at the time of (the) incident and handled the situation immediately," according to a sheriff's department statement. "Our investigation is currently ongoing."
The person who posted the video said the boy who was slapped is autistic.
"We became aware of this matter shortly after it occurred and responded immediately," Antelope Valley Union High School District Superintendent David Vierra said in a statement released Friday afternoon. "This type of behavior is not tolerated at any of our schools. Appropriate action has been taken with the parties involved by the both the school and law enforcement.
"Due to privacy, we are not able to disclose specific details about the actions taken," he said. "We appreciate the community's concern for our students, and continue to work with our law enforcement partners to ask that when you see something that threatens the safety of our school community, you say something."
Filed Under: Crime/ Safety, Lancaster
32 comments for "Video prompts probe of possible bullying at Lancaster High School"
F__k the AV says
The kid being bullied needs to learn how to handle a baseball bat-if you know what I mean. That typically gets the point across in a very clear manner.
AdolphOliverMuff says
I prefer Aluminum. Wood tends to crack or break when it hits something solid.
And as I recall the last time it happened the kid got sent to the California Youth Authority until he turns 25. Might want to rethink how good an idea that is.
once bullied says
I would love to wait for this girl as she is walking out of the school and show her just what bullying is. The school needs to take responsibility and do the right thing. Things like this can cause a meltdown for the victim and God forbid anything worse like shooting up the school. School officials need to stand up and take action.
Unfortunately, bullying bullies can have those same negative consequences. It would be great if the solution was that simple, but I'm afraid that it isn't.
Telling students not to bully to prevent a mass shooting is like telling a wife to be nice so her husband won't beat her.
Sure she should be nice, but he's still a scum bag for beating her.
Cynic says
Rest assured that the school won't do much, and it's not really the school's fault. The edu-bureaucrats in Sacramento and Washington DC have determined that suspensions and expulsions are bad and part of some supposedly sinister "school to prison pipeline". I'm very familiar with the local high school district. You get caught stealing from the lunch line, then you have a chat with a VP and that's it. I know of cases in which students have told school security that they're going to shoot them and somehow they are not expelled. Students are no longer automatically expelled for having a knife on campus, which is beyond absurd. In 95% of the cases, bullying will just lead to a slap in the wrist. I do want to reiterate though, it's not the district's fault as these forms of "discipline reforms" are coming from the top.
Irena says
I see several posts asking why the schools aren't doing anything. My question is, why aren't the parents doing anything? This type of behavior is learned and often times encouraged by parents and older relatives. There should be more accountability for the adults and stiffer penalties for the minors.
BULLIES SUCK says
Why? Because it happens at school. I'm not saying the parents aren't responsible, but most times the school doesn't even acknowledge the bullying, and if they do, no consequences are seen. The kid stays in class. The kid continues to bully. Often times, the bully is only moved to another school, to start the cycle all over again.
Maybe we need an all bully school where bullies get bullied…. since the parents don't have any control.
Sad to see another incident with students at schools in the AV..This is not the 1st or the last..Bullying goes on at all the schools..Sad to say staff either ignores or they stand back telling kids yoi can't do that on campus and than students set up for jumping others outside of school..instead of blaming why not teach right from wrong at schools also.. I have a son in high school and a grandchild. In elementary school both with Autism and they tell us when they get home from school all the bullys that terrorize them or others.. Along with Staff doing nothing!! Even some of the bullying takes place by teachers..I also have to say this also includes physical and verbal assaults..I believe all schools need to be equipped with cameras everywhere along with holding people accountable for there actions.. Also this girl learned this behavior somewhere (Maybe she was bullied at some point)and I have to group other bystanders in this..Don't be afraid to stand up for yourself or others at your school.. You could be what stands in the way from situations escalating..Even a negative outcome..
WHAT ABOUT BULLYING IN OTHER SCHOOLS??? WHY CANT THEY DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT??? PALMDALE AND LANCASTER AND QUARTZ HILL SHOOL's DISTRICTS SHOULD BE ON THERE ASS's TO EN BULLYING, ITS HORRIBLE AND SCARY FOR US AS PARENTS AND OUR CHILDREN. PARENTS NEED TO LEARN HOW TO EDUCATE THERE KIDS.
Yessenia says
They're is another video that I seen where she's dancing and laughing
Ariel says
its disturbing to watch the students around the incident just watch. all of them… they even laughed, taunted in the video which encouraged the girl to hit him. I hope that kid is okay
Someone should figure out who she is and beat her dad up. Maybe then they'll try to parent there ghetto loser kid.
Who are you, and where can we find your dad?
Who are you, and where can we find you for bad parenting, Tim? Meet me in the parking lot at the Moose Lodge, and you name the time.
Drop me an e-mail address and we'll work that out. I've been wanting to check out the Moose Lodge. After you swallow your bravado you can give me a tour.
My dad is at the cemetary on 70th west. But if little Timmy boy wants to play …let me know.
As always, drop me a line at timshatemail@gmx.com and we'll set something up. I love meeting you heroes and watching you swallow all that bravado. Of course none of you ever take me up on it. Funny that.
☼Some Guy☼ says
Jack is right.. The only way to fix a bad parent is to beat them up. I think EVERY bad parent needs to be beaten up. Ok here is the plan.. Jack will go door to door looking for bad parents and beat them up.. he should start in east Palmdale and work his way toward Lancaster.
Meanwhile, me and Tim will be drunk in a bar somewhere.. Jack will meet us in that bar, at exactly at 1:20 AM… if he is still alive… :)
I don't drink though….
Lol. I wish I could pull that off. The valley is just to messed up. All the trash that moved up here. Time to find a new area to live that section 8 and the free money they get from popping kids out and being lazy that they cant afford.
Bye. Don't let the door hit you on your way out. You won't be missed.
Probably one of Tim's grandkids doing the bullying, it's generational.
Wow, you appeared out of nowhere and seem to have no intentions but to pick a fight. What's that about? This the Lancaster political machine's response to my meeting with Sellout Steve?
You seem to be cut from the same cloth, actually. Sellout Steve gave me a "meet me punk, make my day" Dirty Harry impression when he thought I wasn't a real person, then swallowed his bravado when I showed up. I'm guessing you would do the same, if you were actually willing to show up. But unlike Sellout Steve you can hide out in anonymity.
Madonna says
Sellout Steve. What a perfect description.
I hope they arrest her for assult on a other student so she learns her lesson and the parents learn how to better educate there child
This keeps happening and teachers keep acting as of nothing happens
Said someone in September of 1952…and every school day since.
Kevin W says
Boy you're old :-)
I prefer "weathered." :-)
Truth is that the 1952 thing is hearsay. I hadn't quite been born yet, much less started paying attention to what was said about school bullies.
Old, bitter, and a bully.
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Northern Iowan • October 31, 2019 • https://www.northerniowan.com/11515/showcase/current-war-electrifies-history/
'Current War' electrifies history
Benedict Cumberbatch (other attached picture) stars as Thomas Edison and Michael Shannon (right) as George Westinghouse in historical drama "The Current War," directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon.
In the late 19th century, Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse were the two titans of American innovation. With the country modernizing at a rapid pace, both realized the need for a better way to power society beyond candles and gas.
After some years of development, they both discovered different ways to transmit electric current. Edison stood behind his Direct Current (DC) and Westinghouse championed his Alternating Current (AC). They were similar designs, each with their unique benefits and costs.
But the country wasn't big enough for both of them and only one method could prevail. Out of this situation sprang a fierce competition between the two men, a rivalry labeled "the war of the currents." This war lasted years as they battled endlessly to see whose technology would be the one to forever power and illuminate America.
After having a tumultuous time getting to theaters (that's a whole other story to look up), "The Current War" finally arrives two years after intended.
Directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, the film moves like electricity, zipping from scene to scene. The use of sharp camera work and montages oozes kinetic energy that keeps everything moving at a frantic pace, never ceasing to slow down or end. You're gripped within the race and linked to the main characters as they tirelessly persist to be the one on top.
If you're not a natural history lover, this technique will keep you endlessly entertained without boring you with historical details. If you are a fan of history, this technique will still entertain you, but leave you disappointed as moving the film at the speed of light (or current, for that matter) doesn't allow for deeper learning about the events or people attached to them. Anything that is learned is only surface level as there just isn't enough time to develop any factual depth.
It also doesn't help that these shallow details become increasingly difficult to keep straight, especially as the years go by in minutes and characters are split up into several intertwining storylines.
While a mini-series would be the better way to tell this story, "The Current War" is an exciting way to convey history for the screen.
Just like Gomez-Rejon's use of rapid pacing, writer Michael Mitnick's screenplay is expeditious and Sorkin-like. The rivalry between our two main giants is fierce as they snap dialogue to beat each other in the labs and the presses.
And just like the outcome of the directing, the writing here is entertaining but difficult to follow. Mitnick tries to do too much in too little time as he crams the script to the brim with historical facts. As more information is heaped on, it becomes an information overload that is increasingly impossible to keep straight. By the end, you'll feel like you've read a Wikipedia page and will only be able to remember fragments here and there.
Also, Nikola Tesla shows up in the story and participates in the race. While Tesla does deserve to stand with Edison and Westinghouse in the history books, he doesn't belong in this already overly-stuffed movie.
Starring as the brash Thomas Edison is Benedict Cumberbatch, whose American accent isn't as convincing as one would think. Like most of Cumberbatch's performance, you can see the genius of the character within his speech and mannerisms. Thankfully, the genius he plays here isn't as cold as Sherlock Holmes or Alan Turing. There's some warmth under Edison's surface that you can sense through Cumberbatch's performance.
Michael Shannon plays the opposite of Cumberbatch as he is calmer and calculated in his performance of George Westinghouse. He's the more businessman-like of the two as he carries himself more professionally.
Nicholas Hoult plays Nikola Tesla. Just like Cumberbatch, Hoult's eastern European accent isn't on point, but it's fine enough to pass. Hoult does well at making you see the frustration within Tesla as his brilliant ideas are never allowed to flourish.
Lastly, Tom Holland does supporting work as Edison's secretary. As it was filmed before his star power ballooned from Spider-Man, Holland's role is minor and doesn't give him much to work with.
"The Current War" is the most entertaining and needlessly confusing movie of the year. All the talent involved makes a great effort, but their good intentions just come up short of making a great movie. But it's still quite good and deserves to be seen, even if you'd be hard-pressed to absorb and remember most of what it's trying to teach you.


According to Ayurveda, the lymphatic system (or the rasa dhatu) is the first system of the body to be treated. It acts as the body's major plumbing system to drain waste and carry the body's immune response to and from every individual system of the body.
A new study has discovered that when people sleep, special lymph channels in the brain called the "glymphatic system" actually open up and drain dangerous neurotoxins from the brain into the cerebral spinal fluid. (1-4) The study suggested it takes about 6-8 hours of sleep to complete the brain drain plumbing process, which is compelling evidence that getting the correct amount of sleep matters.
The study found that the glymphatics are like hidden caves that open during sleep, and, much like the body's lymphatic system, they drain toxic waste and proteins out of the brain. The study found that copious amounts of neurotoxins are drained during the natural sleep cycles.
According to Ayurveda, these glymphatics are an understood system and called "tarpaka kapha," which is the aspect of the kapha dosha that literally drains toxins from the brain into the cerebral spinal fluid. If these channels become congested, the mood can shift, memory can become compromised, and the brain can become foggy. The cause of this imbalance can be emotional trauma or the cumulative impact of stress, lack of sleep, and digestive weakness.
Is your brain draining properly?
Who can diagnose what may be wrong ,where does one go to get help?is there a doctor in Montreal Quebec,Canada?
Thanks for the info Dr. John. After dealing with Lyme for a few years I have been doing a lot to help my body detox. I just ordered some Bacopa so will see how that helps.
I have battled breast cancer for 8 years. Now that some of my lymph nodes were removed or treated ,I have to do lymph drainage exercises. It really does drain from my body and I feel better not congested. I was wondering if this could be the reason the elderly get memory loss. Maybe their lymph nodes get clogged and can't release toxins. Plus, the elderly sleep much lees as they age which sounds like a direct connection with this new study. Thank Dr. Douillard !
Yoga sun salutations and deep nasal breathing can be wonderful for moving the brain lymphs, be well.
Thank you so much John for always willing to share your knowledge and in doing so helping us to pay it forward. reading this makes sense since we know that at certain times during the night our organs rejuvenates: why not our brain.
Do you not think that one cannot practice true ayurvedic medicine nowadays anymore, as way back, in India, people had a different consciousness? They also used mantras…even the atmosphere was different?
Why the romantic picture of the castle, the moon, etc?
Thank you, John, for not only expanding my grasp of tarpaka kapha, but deepening my whole awareness around the importance of each part of the dinacharya ! Plus, you include your references!! That is so important to me! I am planning to offer a course in 'Home Care: the basics of Ayurveda' when I return to my Florida home in October. Those references help spread the credibility of this precious system.
I might add: I absolutely LOVED your NAMA presentation!! Is there a form of it with references that I could purchase??
Very useful informations on an essential health question and probably a precious solution for many discouraged people!Thank you Dr.Douillard!