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KTTP MAG ISSUE 1
FEMALE IS FOOTBALL: ANEESHA DEWSHI
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Aneesha "Neesh" Dewshi is a self-proclaimed jack of all trades. A creative based in London she has been working in the fashion PR industry for more than 8 years. Born and raised in the UK, football and sneakers have been a part of her life since primary school. Neesh also is a co-founder of the creative football collective called Romance FC. The collective located in Hackney, East London is a female football club created out of the love of the beautiful game and a desire to find like-minded womxn.
Follow Neesh: @crayfish8
Photos: @richimpossible
Tell us a little about where you are from and you and your family's background.
I grew up in a city called Nottingham, which is located in the heart of the East Midlands in the UK. Although my parents are Indian, they like many others were born and raised in East Africa and came to the UK in the late 1970s when my grandparents decided to make the move.
Where, when, and how did your connection with the game of football begin?
I was first introduced to football through my dad, as he'd always have it on the TV. Whether it was MOTD (Match Of the Day) or the Champions League, it would always be on in the house. We were quite a sporty family growing up, so football was always a game we'd be playing at family gatherings.
When I went to primary school, my parents used to have a car share system in place with a couple of other families. Which meant that each parent took it, in turn, to drop and collect the kids from school. So I'd play with the boys during school breaks and then after school on the street in between parked cars, whilst we were waiting to be picked up.
Talk to us a little about what you do for work.
I've been working as a Fashion & Lifestyle PR for the past 8 years across a number of global clients. It can be quite demanding at times but every day is different. I always say to work in the PR, you must be a jack of all trades because you never know where certain projects will take you.
When did your love for sneakers and streetwear begin?
I would say my earliest memories of my love story with sneakers started at primary school. We had to wear a school uniform but there was no rule for footwear, which meant we could wear sneakers. So from my early years, I was stunting on the playground in the freshest kicks – the other kids didn't know what hit them!
The first pair of kicks that I recall I had were a pair of Fila basketball high tops, they were all white with the iconic navy and red branding. After that I had a pair of adidas Galaxy with pops of orange and navy, I think this is where my love for running silhouettes came from. Then came the most memorable sneaker of my younger years, mainly because I had to really work the charm on my parents for them. It was my first pair of Nikes, so it was a big moment and also a big shock to my parents when they had to part ways with their hard earned cash. As soon as I saw the Nike Air More Uptempo in the store, I knew I had to have them. They were the OG black/white colourway with the big "AIR" across each side panel side, they were big, brash and bold—and I wanted them more than anything. I have so many fond memories stomping around the playground and attempting to run around in those chunky basketball sneakers. So much so, that when the retro came out a few years ago, I had to cop.
Working with clothing, footwear and fashion how do you see those three things merging with the game of football on or off the pitch?
I think fashion, footwear, and football have always gone hand in hand from the early days of terrace culture with people consciously seeking premium Italian fashion brands such as Stone Island and CP Company to team up with their Adidas to now, where you see many fashion brands adopting football culture and style such as the last Off White x Nike football collaboration, which saw a range of shirts and even boots adorned with the unmistakeable Off White branding.
Another example of this is when Nike launched the Nigeria kit last Summer ahead of the World cup, there was so much hype built around the launch, similar to that of a sneaker release and of course the kit was straight up fire, so unsurprisingly it sold out within seconds.
So, I have to ask, what professional team do you support in the UK? If that team is not your hometown team, then why?
My team has always been and always will be the Red Devils aka Manchester United. Now, I know what you may be thinking.. but she's not from Manchester! Well, my love for United started when I was a young girl watching United play in the early/mid-'90s. It was Eric Cantona who really drew me to the team, I loved his energy on the pitch, always creating chances, scoring goals with such flair and creativity, it had me in awe. I always thought that there was certain arrogance to the way he played, obviously, he did get into a bit of trouble but I liked that bad boy streak in him.
We had a good run when Cantona joined and had other young top class players on board like; David Beckham, Paul Scholes, Ryan Giggs, Roy Keane, and Andy Cole who all made watching United play so mesmerizing.
I want to talk about Romance FC. For those that don't know, give us a little background.
Romance FC is a creative football collective that we built in Hackney, East London out of the love and frustration of the beautiful game and the lack of spaces where you find like-minded womxn. When we started the team in 2012 we were originally called Boiler Room Ladies FC where we met at the early Boiler Room nights, shared a love of music and trained alongside the guy's team. When we first started playing, we noticed that there weren't many other casual womxn's grassroots football teams around London and we struggled for a few years to even find any that we could play friendlies against. Then over the years, we started to see more womxn's teams cropping up in London and were playing against them in tournaments, which was fantastic. However, we were left consistently frustrated in the way these tournaments were executed as we always came across misogyny and tokenism, which left us feeling pretty deflated.
So in 2016, we decided that enough was enough and we hosted our own womxn's football tournament called—Playing For Kicks. We created a safe space for womxn and non-binary folk to come to play and enjoy a day of great football and music all designed and executed by ourselves.
Now coming into its fourth year, we've seen the tournament grow from strength to strength, with teams participating from key cities in the UK and even France. Each year we take on more teams, splitting them into groups based on their ability levels to ensure that all teams feel confident and encouraged in their groups. We want to lead by example and encourage young womxn and girls to take up spaces and continue to play sport, therefore we always include a junior football match within the programming of the tournament where they can experience all the elements surrounding the game. Football is there for everyone.
In the lead up to the World Cup, we will be hosting a very special Spring Kicks womxn's tournament on 11th May in London—this will be our biggest tournament to date as we will have a total of 28 teams participating. Expect some amazing football, DJ sets from some of the best womxn in London and strictly good energy only. Head over HERE for more details.
What was the process like working with Nike to create the capsule collection?
Nike has followed our journey from the early days of Romance FC. At the end of 2017, we were contacted and asked if we wanted to design a kit for the team. This had been a dream of ours since the beginning of Romance FC's journey. Before getting overly keen on the idea, we asked how much creative freedom we would have—we think big and create with the heart so it was key to know where we stood.
Luckily we were given complete freedom to design what we wanted, excluding the cut of the top. Founding Manager Trisha Lewis and Design Artist Aimee Capstick designed the kit and typography, which took inspiration from classic geometric print football shirts of the 80s/90s and a gradient colour fade to recreate the evening sunset over our favourite park to play in during the summer evenings in Hackney.
Following the submission of our design, we were approached with an opportunity to then work on a global project with Nike Football for the Nike By You program. This would be the only womxn's jersey included in the launch, which would then be sold on their site.
From the get-go, we expressed that in order for this to work and be authentic, we would have to have creative control to tell our own story. This was a lengthy process, communicating with multiple teams within the company but finally, we got the sign-off and the rest is history.
We then honed all our skills and fields of expertise together to create our own shoot photographed by Striker Stephanie Sian Smith. This imagery was then used by Nike to accompany the product being sold online.It was a great opportunity to work collaboratively with a global brand in this way, whilst still retaining autonomy. As I am sure you can see, we are really happy with the outcome and proud to wear our kit on and off the pitch.
From your perspective, is the perception of women's football changing in the UK and Europe and do you think projects like the one with Romance FC and Nike are helping?
Football is the most watched sport in the UK, with the Premier League being the most prestigious league in Europe. Growing up all I would see on TV and hear would be men playing football. I had played football at primary school with my friends and briefly picked it back up again in Secondary school when we had a women's team, which lasted all of three games. Unfortunately, that's where my experience playing football stopped until I picked it back up again in 2012.
I believe that the perception is changing, slowly but it is changing. We see more coverage in the media of the women's games, the level of the professional women's teams has propelled due to financial backing enabling these players to solely focus on football like their male counterparts.
I feel that projects like the Romance FC collaboration with Nike Football helped to generate awareness but it is the hands-on approach of local communities, grassroots projects and local initiatives like Hackney Laces #lacesfamily and East London Ladies that are really making a difference.
What are 3 go to sneakers for you right now?
Converse x Brain Dead (can't take these off!)
Mizuno Wave Rider OG
Nike Air Max 95 x Atmos
What are you listening music wise at the moment?
I listen to a wide cross-section of music across a number of genres, but it if I look through my most recently played we have; Noname—who I recently saw on her Room 25 tour, Slowthai—one of the best sounds coming out of the UK right now, Koffee—because the Rapture EP is sensational and Rosalia—whose voice is so unusual and captivating that I forget that I actually can't understand Spanish!
Who are you rooting for in the world cup this summer?
England of course, the Lionesses are on really good form!
For someone visiting London for the first time and that wants a more "lifestyle" tourist experience, give us your must dos/visits for:
Too many to list but below are some of my all time favs:
Sneaker Shop: Sneakers n Stuff and Pam Pam (great selection of women's kicks in both)
Clothing: Goodhood
Food: Troy Bar (Shoreditch) for some of the best Jamaican food in East London, BBQ Dreamz(various locations). incredible Filipino inspired street food in London and The Shoreditch Stop, which is an unassuming off license that sells delicious homemade curries to take away and is always mad busy.
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VINTAGE | A BEHIND THE SCENES LOOK AT CLASSIC FOOTBALL SHIRTS
We had the enviable opportunity to peruse the colors and crests on the racks of the Classic Football Shirts warehouse. Nestled in the shadows of Etihad Stadium in Manchester, England, the aisles upon aisles of shirts and gear worn on the hallowed football pitches all over the world spark vivid memories tied to these historic pieces.
Each strip from the classic patterns down to the blood stains bring to mind moments cherished by footy fanatics far and wide. Moments that evoke a simpler time before every football fan had virtually every match from every corner of the globe streaming in their hands.
For Gary Bierton, preserving the moments and history before cell phones filled the stands, has been the mission for the passion project that first began in 2006 with the inception of Classic Football Shirts, founded by his older brother, Doug and friend Matthew Dale.
"It takes you back instantly, you know," recounts Bierton as he sits in a warehouse with over twenty thousand kits ranging from the most loved to the most loathed, from well-known to the most unknown clubs around the world. "I'm looking at that France '98 shirt. I can remember where I was when I watched the World Cup final in '98. It puts you back in the room instantly."
With Classic Football Shirts, Gary has been instrumental in buying, documenting, and providing the biggest collection of football shirts online in the world for fans and teams alike.
Looking for the 1999 kit worn by the treble-winning Manchester United squad? Take your pick: David Beckham. Paul Scholes. Roy Keane. It's all there on their website.
The digital gatekeeper of football relics began in student housing his brother Doug and his partner, Matt, finished university studies in Manchester. More so a clubhouse with a few rails carrying product for passers-by, with the first pop-up shop happening in 2018.
Not long after starting Doug and Matt got things started, Gary found himself working holidays cataloging shirts as he followed his own path at the Manchester Business School.
"I don't think any of us expected to be here in 2019," laughs Bierton as he recalls moments from the store's infancy.
As the de-facto leader of marketing and brand growth, he has leveraged the collection into pop-up stores across the UK and exhibitions showcasing kits from brands such as Nike, adidas, Umbro and Kappa.
Classic Football Shirts created their first exhibits under the brand 'Fabric of Football'. The cataloging the shirts online had already started years before and the catalog just kept growing.
Around the same time the team at Classic Football Shirts was expanding their online presence they got ready to dive into retail pop-ups.
Bierton's mother raised concerns about the uncertainty of a career choice as a glorified second-hand merchant. Friends too wondered about the sustainability of the idea and where this side project would take them next.
Bierton continued to see the growth even those around him questioned the career choice. The doubters turned into believers when they saw the hundreds of people clamoring to get a chance to purchase a shirt at a London pop-up.
"A lot of my friends live in London and they come to see what you're doing. Then they're like, 'Why are people queuing down the street to look at this stuff,'"
His friends might have been slow to catch his vision but it did not take long for them to realize the influence Classic Football Shirts has on the culture.
The impact of companies like Bierton's has been far-reaching. Today tastemakers and fashion-centric individuals outside of the game and culture are choosing to rock classic football kits with growing frequency. Players have cross-pollinated their influence into different avenues. Seeing Drake or Kylie Jenner showoff their favorite football shirts on the 'Gram is commonplace.
Brands like adidas and Nike have geared their campaigns and collections to fuse fashion with sports as a way to be more inclusive of the audience they are marketing to.
From the avid fan to the casual enthusiast of the game entrenched in everything fashion, leveraging the influence of designer juggernauts such as Virgil Abloh and Gosha Rubchinksiy has blurred the lines of ready-to-wear runway designs for the pitch.
That wasn't always the case. Bierton recalls the moment that his type of inventory transcended the hardcore football fans. "Not until maybe 2013, 2014 did it become a fashionable thing," he says. "The moment we realized it had gone a little beyond from what we thought, was a post with Kendall Jenner wearing a Juve '98 Kappa jacket."
Celebrity influence has turned shirts that might otherwise be forgettable into hype-fueled items. The aforementioned Italian club Juventus donned rose pink Adidas kits for the 2015-2016 campaign. As soon as Drake and Snoop Dogg were captured wearing the shirts across social media, fans pillaged retailers to ride the trend.
But for Bierton, the affinity and passion for shirts will never fade. Beyond the trends and influence driven by the who's who of music and design, he knows there's someone looking for that vintage kit from his beloved Manchester United or the local Macclesfield Town football club shirt.
Regardless of the buyer, he's thankful to play a part in connecting with fans and new aficionados."It's bigger than football. And we've come from the perspective as football fans, but then it becomes more than that. You can keep it quite rigid or open up to anybody."
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NIGEL SYLVESTER VISITS PSG & MORE IN LATEST 'GO' VIDEO
Pro BMX rider Nigel Sylvester continues his 'GO' campaign, a point-of-view video series that sees the Queens, NYC-native traverse the globe, hitting up spots synonymous with all facets of creativity, from music to art to sports and then some. For his 5th installment, Sylvester travels from the foggy city of London town to the romantic city of Paris, all the while stopping off at a number of hot spots including Pompidou Centre, Somerset House, Parc des Princes, Pigalle Basketball Court, and Thorpe Park. We're also happy to admit that we played a small part in getting all this set up by helping connect the BMX pro with PSG, which set the ball rolling for his latest captured adventure. So without further ado, hit play in the video above to enjoy the full Nigel Sylvester's 'GO – London to Paris' video.
Images by Harrison Boyce
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SCOUTING REPORT: FOKOHAELA UNITES SPURS AND ARSENAL?
What is one thing that Tottenham and Arsenal have in common? The only thing, in my opinion, is probably that they are both teams and eternal rivals from north London… and nothing else. Fans of each team have despised each other for decades, and honestly, forget about winning the EPL, they have as much pride against one another on who finishes on top in the table! But at the end of the day, soccer is and should always be about unity. Putting all hatred aside and coming together for the beautiful game – at least off the pitch. soccer fashion brand Fokohaela is leading the way with this in mind through its immense talent in apparel design to unite the two rivals in a supreme way (pun very intended). Keep in mind Jason Lee, founder and designer of Fokhaela, is a die-hard Arsenal fan as well. I present to you the one and only "Spurs '91 to Supreme '18 to Arsenal '19" jersey (long name) by Fokohaela.
Overall Design: Are you kidding me? This thing is ridiculously bad. And by bad I mean good, and by good I mean it's supreme! Supreme probably thought they were being slick and edgy by taking direct inspiration from the '91 Spurs kit, but Fokohaela took it to another level by using the design as an Arsenal kit. The red colorway sits perfectly with the traditional Arsenal home kit and it's fresh to see some of the subtle jabs at Supreme by honoring Barbara Kruger and more blunt typeface logos which reads "it's our pleasure to disgust you" in the famous "Supreme font." My favorite part of the overall design is that at a first glance you would think that this might be a Supreme x Arsenal jersey breathing more hype to the hypebeasts, but when you look closer to the details, one can interpret it as a smack to the face to those that ride waves to only follow trends…
Score: 5/5
Functionality: This jersey seems to be a cut and sew piece by taking the actual Supreme jersey that was released in '18 and cutting off its sleeves to sew white polyester long sleeves with red cuffs. My reasonable and educated guess tells me that this piece wasn't really made to function on the pitch, but rather it was made to perhaps stunt off the pitch as well as send a message to those that care to pay attention to the details. So, in conclusion, would I wear it on the pitch? Probably not, but I don't think that was its intended purpose!
Uniqueness: Fokohaela is probably one of the top soccer brands out there known for its uniqueness and this one is no different. I invite you to take a look at its other releases in the past and every one of their jerseys will kill this criteria through the roof. What makes this jersey so unique? Well, it pretty much unites Spurs and Arsenal – a once unthinkable concept – in a strange way by using Supreme to shed some spotlight. I have not seen anything like this from any other brand with a cut and sew approach while integrating it so well with the aesthetics of the overall theme, both in colorway and details.
Details: Details in this kit is what makes this jersey come to life and spew emotions to those looking at it. The first thing you will realize is the "Don't Fly Emirates" sponsorship logo on the front of the shirt. That typeface already tells you that this isn't just a shirt to look dope in the eyes of a hypebeast, but it's trying to send a message. Then you look at the left sleeve with the wordmark of "It's our pleasure to disgust you" which is derived from one of many Kruger's famous works. A very strong and aggressive message. Then in the back of the shirt you see a middle finger in the #9 vinyl press and right below it is "Kruger" in her original font that was famously used by Supreme. But Fokohaela is not stopping here. Pop the collar and a simple "fuck off" is written, and if you read the whole back of the shirt with said collar popped, you would read "fuck off supreme" from up-down. I'm not sure if that was the intended purpose, but once you really pay attention to the details, this 1 of 1 shirt seems to be made to honor Barbara Kruger and not Supreme as the initial impression might suggest. Crazy.
Unfortunately this piece is not for sale to the public as it is a 1 of 1 release. Feel free to check out the rest of Fokohaela's collection from their website.
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I am in the habit of writing one line per sentence because I typically compile things to LaTex, or am writing in some other format where line breaks get ignored. I use a blank line to indicate the start of a new paragraph.
This replaces empty lines with some text I am confident doesn't appear in the file: NEWLINE and then it gets rid of all the line breaks with awk (I found that trick on some website) and then it replaces the NEWLINEs with the requisite two linebreaks.
This seems like a long winded way to do a pretty simple thing. Is there a simpler way? Also, if there were a way to replace multiple spaces (which sometimes creep in for some reason) with single spaces, that would be good too.
I use emacs, so if there's some emacs specific trick that's good, but I'd rather see a pure sed or pure awk version.
A following action is only executed if the pattern matches the current line.
And the ^$. characters have special meaning in regular expressions, where ^ matches the beginning of line, $ the end and . an arbitrary character.
Use Awk or Perl's paragraph mode to process a file paragraph by paragraph, where paragraphs are separated by blank lines.
Of course, since this doesn't parse the (La)TeX, it will horribly mutilate comments, verbatim environments and other special-syntax. You may want to look into DeTeX or other (La)TeX-to-text converters.
Note, that in this solution :a is creating a label and not using the a command.
If I've understood correctly, an empty line implies two consecutive newlines, \n\n.
If so, one possible solution would be to eliminate all singular occurrences of newlines.
This seems to be exactly what fmt and par are for - paragraph reformatting. Like you (and also like many programs) they define paragraph boundaries as one (or more) blank lines. Try piping your text through one of these.
fmt is a standard unix utility and can be found in GNU Coreutils.
par is a greatly-enhanced fmt written by Adam M. Costello which can be found at http://www.nicemice.net/par/ (it has also been packaged for several distributions, including debian - I packaged it for debian in Jan 1996, although there's a new maintainer for the pkg now.).
sed will append any line to Hold space which contains at least a single character. It immediately thereater deletes all of those excepting perhaps the last. The only lines which can remain are blanks, and it is on these lines when sed exchanges the hold and pattern spaces and deletes all accumulated \newline characters.
This script considers blank lines to be blank even if they contain whitespace.
Multiple spaces in the text are condensed to a single space.
Trailing whitespace is removed from the text lines. Consecutive blank lines are collapsed to a single line. The script leaves top and bottom blank lines intact.
For anything more than the most trivial scripts, sed can be written much more easily in a structured form, as a separate script file. Here is such an example.
Note: flush, in the comments, means: send the pattern-space to sed's internal stdout handling. It does not mean a definite print to stdout. The output is dependent on sed's -n option. eg. the q command means flush and quit... Compare these two snippets: echo x |sed -e q prints x, echo x |sed -ne q prints nothing, whereas using the p command would print 'x' twice or once, depending on the -n option.
Here's yet another sed solution that concatenates all lines into sed's "hold space" so that we get one long string that finally gets copied to the "pattern space" for pattern matching.
As newlines will be preserved in the final long string in sed's "pattern space", empty lines in terms of double linebreaks [^\n]\n\n[^\n] can be matched and modified to [^\n]\n[^\n].
For more information see, for example, sed and Multi-Line Search and Replace.
This will output your text left aligned (.ad l), with line length of 80 (.ll 80). The page length option (.pl) tells the text processor to do page padding for page length of 1, so no page padding.
man 7 groff for more formatting options.
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The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors
Written by Dan Jones
Narrated by Dan Jones
An instant international bestseller, this major new history of the knights Templar by the bestselling author of The Plantagenets is "another triumphant tale from a historian who writes as addictively as any page-turning novelist." –The Guardian
Jerusalem 1119. A small group of knights seeking a purpose in the violent aftermath of the First Crusade decides to set up a new order. These are the first Knights of Templar, a band of elite warriors prepared to give their lives to protect Christian pilgrims to the Holy Land. Over the next two hundred years, the Templars would become the most powerful religious order of the medieval world. Their legend has inspired fervent speculation ever since. But who were they really and what actually happened?
In this groundbreaking narrative history, the bestselling author of The Plantagenets tells the true story of the Templars for the first time in a generation, drawing on extensive original sources to build a gripping account of these Christian holy warriors whose heroism and depravity have so often been shrouded in myth. The Templars were protected by the pope and sworn to strict vows of celibacy. They fought the forces of Islam in hand-to-hand combat on the sun-baked hills where Jesus lived and died, finding their nemesis in Saladin, who vowed to drive all Christians from the lands of Islam. They were experts at channeling money across borders. They established the medieval world's first global bank and waged private wars against anyone who threatened their interests.
Then in 1307 the Templars fell foul of a vindictive King of France, whose lawyers built a meticulous case against them. On Friday October 13, hundreds of brothers were arrested, imprisoned and tortured, and the order was disbanded amid lurid accusations of sexual misconduct and heresy. They were tried by the Pope in secret proceedings and publicly humiliated. But were they heretics or victims of a ruthlessly repressive state? Dan Jones goes back to the sources tobring their dramatic tale, so relevant to our own times, in a book that is at once authoritative and compulsively readable.
Publisher: Penguin Random House AudioReleased: Sep 19, 2017ISBN: 0525524487Format: audiobook
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San Carlo ai Catinari, officiellt Santi Biagio e Carlo ai Catinari, är en kyrkobyggnad i Rom, helgad åt de heliga Carlo Borromeo och Blasius. Kyrkan är belägen vid Piazza Benedetto Cairoli i Rione Sant'Eustachio och tillhör församlingen Santi Biagio e Carlo ai Catinari. Tillnamnet "catinari" syftar på de hantverkare som tillverkade skålar i trä, catine, och som hade sina bodar i grannskapet. Kyrkan innehas av Barnabitorden.

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Kyrkan uppfördes mellan 1612 och 1620 efter ritningar av Rosato Rosati, medan fasaden i travertin är ett verk av Giovanni Battista Soria 1638. Kardinal Giambattista Leni (1573–1627), ärkepräst av San Giovanni in Laterano, testamenterade 40 000 scudi för kyrkobyggnadens fullbordande. Hans namn och årtalet 1635 anges på frisen, vilken åtskiljer fasadens bägge våningar:

Då interiörutsmyckningen drog ut på tiden, kom inte kyrkan att konsekreras förrän år 1722. Domenichino har på kupolens pendentiv framställt kardinaldygderna. Det tredje sidokapellet på höger hand är invigt åt den heliga Cecilia och har en elliptisk kupol, ritad av Antonio Gherardi.

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PFAS Contamination on Military Bases Is a Scary Reality—And For Me, It's Personal
By Charise Johnson, Union of Concerned Scientists
Across the country, families are exposed to dangerous chemicals in their water—and the families most at risk are those living on or near military bases. This threat concerns me not just as a researcher, but as the child of a military family.
PFAS, or poly- and perfluorinated alkyl substances, are a class of synthetic chemicals that are silently ubiquitous and persistent in the environment—and highly toxic. Their ability to repel oil and water and persist at high temperatures makes them attractive for use in everyday items like nonstick cookware and food packaging, in water-repellent gear, and in firefighting foam used primarily by the US military.
UCS recently released a factsheet that investigated PFAS contamination at US military bases, and the results were unsettling. A new report from the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) says that the threshold for danger from PFAS starts much lower than previously suspected—and that sites across the country are at risk. According to ASTDR, PFAS exposure studies have indicated certain PFAS may have negative health effects: developmental issues in infants and children, increased cancer risk, high cholesterol levels, hormone disruption, lowered immunity.
Unfortunately, this does not come as a surprise to me. Last November, I wrote about how appointing chemical industry apologist Michael Dourson to head the EPA Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention would be terrible for the public, particularly for military families, due to his conclusions that PFOA (perfluorooctanoic acid), a type of PFAS and a widespread drinking water contaminant on military bases, should have an even weaker safety standard than that already recommended by the EPA. Luckily, he withdrew his nomination, a victory both for science and public health. However, Dourson's withdrawal was one small victory in the fight to stop toxic contamination at military bases, a fight that began years ago. Under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), UCS obtained email correspondence between the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and Department of Defense (DoD). These emails suggested that the administration was interfering with the release of the ATSDR report on PFAS. An unnamed intergovernmental affairs aide at the White House said, "the impact to EPA and DoD is going to be extremely painful."
The impact will be painful, it's true—but for whom?
Me at age 12, when we were stationed in Schofield Barracks, Hawaii. My dad had me on Jeep detail.
Respecting the military
Every politician brags about their support for the troops, and trust in the military is high among the public. But what does that mean in practice?
For a long time, military personnel and their families have been exposed to heightened chemical risk. But this administration has added insult to injury and taken us further from solving the problem. Intentionally stopping a study from being published because it would be a "public relations nightmare" could be, instead, a nightmare for those affected.
As of August 2017, DoD identified 401 active and BRAC installations in the United States with at least one area where there is a known or suspected release of PFOS/PFOA.
In all, 25 Army bases; 50 Air Force bases, 49 Navy or Marine Corps bases and two Defense Logistics Agency sites have tested at higher than acceptable levels for the compounds in either their drinking water or groundwater sources. Additionally, DoD tested 2,668 groundwater wells both on and in the surrounding off-base community and found that 61 percent of them tested above the EPA's recommended levels.
Military communities deserve our support—but they've gotten insufficient attention in the conversation about water pollution, despite their elevated risk. Fortunately, the administration's attempt to bury the PFAS report has backfired, drawing more attention to the issue.
This issue isn't just scientific to me—it's personal.
I think of my father, getting stationed in Korea at age 19, a stone's throw from the Korean demilitarized zone (DMZ) – a place former President Bill Clinton called "the scariest place on earth." When I asked my dad about it, he said only three words – "it was scary." These are the realities many active members of our armed forces face, whether in training on US soil or deployed abroad. And while people join the service for many different reasons, I am positive none of those include "I would like to unwittingly bear the brunt of toxic chemical exposure."
I think of my grandfather. My uncle. My aunts. My cousin. All served in the military, putting themselves and their families at risk.
If we're not listening to science and basing our decisions on the best available information, public health and safety can be compromised and the public's ability to engage meaningfully suffers.
Members of the military and their families deserve better than having the risks they face concealed.
We can do better. Our leaders need to act on the information they have about the dangers of PFAS. Ask your elected officials to push EPA and DoD to do more to protect their constituents from toxic contamination.


No contact is so hard!
Thread: No contact is so hard!
I am on Day 6 no contact. We mutually broke up 2 months ago and had been in contact over Christmas. I met up with him briefly last week to collect my Christmas gifts, thinking that would draw a line under everything and closure would be mine. This week has been a lot better in the sense that I do feel I got a bit of closure and I haven't been thinking of him obsessively, but today is a different matter. I feel a mug for having confided in him about private things during our relationship, putting so much into him all for nothing now that we don't speak. This radio silence is absolutely deafening. When we met last week, he told me I wasn't a priority anymore. This hurt, and was an unnecessary thing to say (I would never say something so cruel to someone I've just broken up with, especially if they are sensitive). However, he also told me he missed me and that I deserve all the happiness in the world. It's confusing.
Don't run back to what broke you.
He was bad to you. Telling you that you're not a priority anymore, just proves what kind of jerk he is. You don't need someone like that.
Everyone goes through a period where they are sad and lonely after a break up and all you can remember are the good things and feel like you've lost someone great.
But he wasn't great and it's all being skewed in your mind due to you feeling lonely.
He was a jerk to you and even though you can't see it now, you are most definitely better off without him.
It will take time to heal, it does for everyone. The fact that he remains cold, again shows what kind of man he is. You don't want someone like that.
Now that you've closed that door, you've opened the possibility of opening a new door, a better door.
Things won't stay like this forever. You will continue to move forward and things will slowly get better.
Try to spend time with family or friends, listen to music that makes you feel happy, not sad music.
Be gentle with yourself. Take a warm bath, take naps when you need to, remind yourself that you're worth more than he could give you.
Argh no, please make this the very last time you're in contact with him again! Don't give him another opportunity to hurt you!
LOL (just like a really sick one, of recognition) at the 'not a priority anymore.' The ARROGANCE of that! Who gives a toss about what HIS priorities are?! Why do all these rubbish blokes say exactly the same things in exactly the same arrogant way when they are messing with us? There was absolutely no need to say that - it is cruel in an almost calculated way. Don't let him use you to prop him up for a second longer!
You WILL feel better, but you have to stick to No Contact - take comfort in it. I think of it like a big fleecy dressing gown, protecting me from someone who isn't very important anyway. I'm about to go into (London) town now, I am going to look out for your bloke and give him a great big slap if I see him, the arrogant tool!
Thank you Enn. I needed that. Like, REALLY needed that. It is Burns night tonight and as we are both Scottish, I was so tempted to text him to wish him a happy Burns night, but reading your message has convinced me otherwise. That moment of weakness has passed me by and I am grateful to you for that <3 Yes, you're right that rubbish blokes say the same sh*t all the time. There should be a rubbish bloke bingo card so that we could scratch off each of their inevitable phrases. I certainly called him out for saying something so nasty to his ex girlfriend who had moved her entire life 8 hours away just to be with him. Grrrr.
Dammit, I didn't see him, so was unable to deliver the slap. However, I put it OUT THERE in the universe and he WILL feel it, believe me!
I'm afraid I'm a Sassenach (though originally from very close to the border, which in my opinion should count as some sort of Get Out of Jail Free card ;-) ) but I have always loved Robert Burns so *I* am going to wish you a Happy Burns Night! He's not the only Scot, and not the only Scot in London either - he is just one human being who has said something VERY cruel. Something he more or less vocalised out loud because he ISN'T doing great but he wants to USE you as a prop to get to the next stage! Well you won't be that will you?
I'd go so far as to say he's an ugly, creepin, blastit wonner. How dare he?!!!
Haha, I know the universe will deliver an almighty blow to him! That's so sweet of you, and the first Happy Burns Night I have received (none of my Southern counterparts have ever heard of Robert Burns apparently!) If I ate meat I would be guzzling haggis and tatties just now, but alas, I will stick to pasta!
What helped me in moments like this was to view this much like an addiction. Much like abstaining from alcohol, the cravings get worse before they get better.
Consider yourself in detox mode. Take extra care of yourself as if you were sick. At the same acknowledge that what you are going through is what it takes to get the other side. You can also choose to embrace it and know that you are right on track for where you should be, having suffered this kind of disappointment.
It's also probably not the first time you went through this and may not be the last. We've all been through it and survived.
If you choose to challenge yourself you can come out the side a better, stronger version of yourself for having experienced it.
Just know it's normal. . and it will pass.
Exactly. It's much like getting this far and taking another drink. All the work is wasted and you get to start all over again. That and the self shaming you do when you regret your actions. It's just not worth it.
AND it takes you just that much longer to get over it. I don't know about you, but I want to lesson the amount of time it takes, not add to it.
Just go through it once, a straight line and your eyes on the horizon. No looking back.


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La chiesa parrocchiale di San Barnaba è un edificio religioso che si trova a Bidogno, frazione di Capriasca in Canton Ticino.

Storia

Venne eretta nel XV secolo sulle fondamenta di un edificio più antico. Nel XVII secolo vennero aggiunte tre cappelle laterali. Il campanile è del XVIII secolo.

Descrizione

La chiesa ha una pianta ad unica navata suddivisa in tre campate e ricoperta da una volta a crociera. Il coro è invece sormontato da una volta a botte.

Bibliografia
 Bernhard Anderes, Guida d'Arte della Svizzera Italiana, Edizioni Trelingue, Porza-Lugano 1980, 295.
 AA.VV., Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana, Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, 381-382.

Capriasca
Barnaba


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I Believe, from The Book of Mormon
Video February 26, 2013 Thomas Pluck Music, Song in my Head This Week	musicals, The Book of Mormon
BBC World News reviewed the London stage show of The Book of Mormon this morning, and played the showcase song of the show. I saw it last year with Firecracker, and we loved it. I gave it a full review.
The song does pick on Mormon beliefs, but the show in total is essentially a comedic anthropological take on religion itself, as stories we tell to make tragedy bearable, and is one of the funniest shows I've seen in a long time.
August 9, 2012 August 8, 2012 Thomas Pluck Broadway, Uncategorized	Book of Mormon, Firecracker, musicals, South Park
My first anniversary present (paper) to Sarah was tickets to The Book of Mormon, and we saw it last night in New York. (my present was tickets to midget car racing, which was awesome). I've been a fan of South Park since before it existed, when I first saw the videotape of "The Spirit of Christmas" that was commissioned as a video Christmas card. I had some friends in the Disney and animation community who'd got their hands on it, and is still one of the funniest Christmas parodies ever made. The show has had its ups and downs, but the movies Trey Parker and Matt Stone have made are mostly terrific. South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut can still make me crack up. Team America: World Police is one of the few satires of the post-9/11 landscape. And The Book of Mormon is perhaps the most popular musical to say that in general, religion is just crazy shit someone makes up to distract people in horrible situations.
Now, the Mormons get poked fun at in this, but I don't think their religion is singled out in particular, except to make the audience think why they are laughing at some of the off-the-wall beliefs of strict Mormons when their own beliefs are only slightly less 'out there.' Mormons are hardly the only target. American consumerism, symbolized by Orlando Florida, gets a heavy ribbing. The characters are sympathetic, but there is a lot of brutally cynical humor about the dire situation in some areas of rural Africa, such as the AIDS epidemic, violent warlords, and female circumcision. The performers are fantastic, and the humor works on many levels. I don't know if many Mormons are going to see it, but I don't find it malicious. In the end, the missionaries are flawed because they are human and entitled Americans, not because of their religion.
All the Broadway shows I've seen in order, from childhood are… Cats, Show Boat, Avenue Q, Spring Awakening, Spamalot!, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Hair, Young Frankenstein, Hairspray, and You're Welcome America: A Final Night With George W. Bush. Not counting Will Ferrell- which was a one-man show and not a musical- I'd say Book of Mormon is hands down, the funniest, with Spamalot second. The best all around? I really liked the revival of Hair, and think the Hairspray musical was damn good (and better than the movie musical).
Tickets are still crazy expensive, but this one will be running for a long time. I hope they make an insane movie out of it. It is incredibly filthy, absurd, hilarious, endearing, and daring.
And speaking of Mormons, to read a free story of mine about two Mormons who ring the doorbell of the wrong man, check out We're All Guys Here, at [PANK] Magazine.
long beautiful hair…
January 7, 2010 May 26, 2012 Thomas Pluck Broadway	Dirty Commie Pinkos, Firecracker, Hair, musicals, Politics, Smelly Hippies
Firecracker took me to see a bunch of naked dirty hippies on Broadway the other night. The revival of 1967's controversial show Hair is especially prescient now that we've finally gotten out of the '60s- President Obama was born in 1961 and therefore too young to be a baby boomer, and politics is all the better for it. 1968 should now be officially over, 40 years hence.
It's still an excellent musical, full of energy, even if it's no longer shocking. But it's a reminder that 40 years ago, you could get beat up over your hairstyle. The country was gripped by fear whipped up by the military-industrial complex, which after World War 2 was ravenously hungry for the war economy that funnels most of our enormous GNP into their coffers. So, Korea. Vietnam. The Cold War. The "peace dividend," which never materialized because a tiny country named Kuwait was invaded by Iraq. The Global War on Terror, the war that must never speak its name, as we send 30,000 soldiers to the graveyard of empires, Afghanistan, while we shake hands with Saudis, who make the Taliban look a little moderate.
What struck me were the protest songs, when they spoke of tear gas, dogs, and water cannons; at least that's changed. Now we use sonic weapons, like in Pittsburgh during the G20 summit. The right to assemble for a petition of grievances may be explicitly in our Constitution, in a country born of revolt, but there is something implanted in our nature since the '30s that says, if you speak up, you're breaking the law and deserve whatever you get. As if pointing out the mote in your brother's eye means you should be clubbed with the beam in your own. Miraculously, those protesting the G20- where the decisions affecting the world are made- are considered criminal, but the Tea Party tea-baggers preaching violent revolution because a Democratic President- who's not even particularly liberal when compared to Clinton, or hell, Richard Nixon- is in power, are coddled by the powers that be. Funny how that works. People show up with guns when the President speaks, they're okay. Some organic food proponent with a sign, targeted for snatch & grab arrest. Follow the money.
Sonic weapon truck at Pittsburgh G20
But I digress. The musical is only dated by the bell bottoms and the free love, but it hearkens back to a New York where the cool parts of town had rebels in them, not trust fund kids. We got a good peek at this briefly in Julie Taymor's ambitious Beatles musical Across the Universe, but it seems that we want to forget how free we used to be; that we once mocked the drive to provide, provide, and now the closest Hollywood will get to it are tepid dramas like Revolutionary Road, where the shackles of pursuing wealth are too hard to shake.
The closest Hair gets to what it must have felt like in '68 is the audience participation, which begins with Berger, the Abbie Hoffman-esque jester-satyr, thrusting his loin-clothed loins at an (un)lucky first row audience member, stroking their hair, and practically tea-bagging them in the John Waters' Pecker fashion (hitting them on the forehead with his sack, if you haven't seen that movie). This continues with other cast members kissing folks in the aisles, handing out flowers, and pretending to lock all the exits while they fire up fake joints. What I found most amusing was how the audience suddenly started coughing as the fake cigs- it's illegal to smoke a cigarette on stage in New York- smoked up the stage. I didn't smell smoke, but the most protest you'll get out of most of us is an instinctive clearing of the throat when someone dares to even faux-smoke these days. You breathe worse in when you walk across city traffic for 5 minutes, idiot.
Admittedly, the best parts of the musical for me involved the more famous song numbers- Aquarius, good morning Starshine, and Let the Sun Shine. They did include the infamous nude scene after they burn their draft cards, but it felt shoehorned- as if it were much longer originally, like a bacchanalian rite of dancing around the steel drum bonfire- and our modern Puritan sensibilities would be shocked by more than a few seconds of dimly lit unshorn pubes bushing out at us from hippie crotches. But the best part was that the show never gave a condescending wink to the material or the time, as if to whisper to us "remember when we were flower children? Aren't you glad the Lower East Side is all gentrified now?" And it didn't shy from the dated songs like "I'm a Colored Spade," probably because now, he is the President of the United States … of Love.
Hair on Netflix
Spamalot!
December 18, 2008 May 26, 2012 Thomas Pluck Broadway	Comedy, Gay, J-E-W-S, Monty Python, musicals, Spamalot
It is generally a rule that any young nerd must adore Monty Python; I was no exception. I haven't watched the comedy classic Monty Python and the Holy Grail for over ten years, even though it's had several special edition DVD releases. I was just burned out on it, so I avoided Spamalot on Broadway when it first came out. And boy do I regret it, because this is one hilarious show.
Clay Aiken is the only "big name" singing this time around, in what will be its final run. David Hyde-Pierce and Tim Curry were in it, but Clay does a fine job as the cowardly Sir Robin. He doesn't play the gay one? What a lost opportunity. King Arthur is played by Michael Siberry, and he has a sort of Jack Sparrow slur to his voice but none of the effeminacy, and manages to make the role his own and not a pale shadow of the late great Graham Chapman. That's a worthy achievement, and nearly as difficult as Roger Bart stepping into Gene Wilder's shoes for Young Frankenstein.
The plot is much the same as the movie with a few twists thrown in, some new songs that play on favorite scenes, and plenty of Broadway in-joke humor. Arthur and his "horse" Percy are seeking knights, and eventually hunt up Galahad, Bedevere, Robin and the homo-cidal Lancelot (more on that later), and God (voiced by John Cleese) tasks them with finding the Holy Grail. The new songs are more Broadway than Python, but have the same biting humor- for example, Clay Aiken sings "You can't have a Broadway show without any Jews," and they get in on the Mel Brooks act with a Star of David themed number; the movie's one-off joke about Lancelot being gay (when he "rescues" a fellow knight from the perils of Castle Anthrax and its sexually rapacious nuns) becomes a big dance number with riffs on the Copacabana and gay '70s disco culture.
There's still plenty of original Python songs and humor- Sir Robin's song, and the fantastic "Knights of the Round Table" song is extended. The Lady of the Lake is made into a major character to give the all-male story some female interest and songs, and she even has a "What Happened to My Part?" song gag in the middle, done Vegas style. They keep things topical with the Taunting French Knights, who not only farted in their general direction, but also threatened to throw shoes at them.
For old Python fans like me & Milky, it was a blast- and even Firecracker, who'd only seen Holy Grail once and wasn't a huge fan, still loved the show and laughed quite a bit. I found a few of the Broadway song gags a little on the long side, like "The Song That Goes Like This," but there was never a dull moment. The set design is incredible, and even the nosebleed seats- which we got for a mere $20 from Broadway Offers- gave a great view. Seeing the Killer Rabbit, the Knight who keeps fighting as he's delimbed, and the cow catapult onstage was a blast. The humor swings from absurd to risque in classic Monty Python fashion, and there's plenty of swag- from coconut halves for your "horse," to Killer Bunny slippers- to fill up on. They also have a Karaoke CD (link at end of post)
The show ends on January 11th, so see it while you can. Do the Broadway economy a favor and see it on the cheap. Go to www.broadwayoffers.com and use coupon code SPBAL20 to see it for $20, or $28.50 with ticket fees. Vhat a bargain! We ate at Five Guys Burgers & Fries (a mere 10 block walk) to avoid Broadway crowds, and as always it was a fresh, inexpensive, quick and tasty meal.
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1776 – the purfuit of happineff
July 8, 2008 Thomas Pluck Broadway, Movies	1776, History, John Adams, July 4th, Movies, musicals
Despite George Washington's fervent wish that he not be deified, we have put our Founding Fathers on such pedestals that their humanity comes into question. Even calling them Fathers or Framers seems to impart a distant and mythic quality to them, when surely they were just ball-scratching, beer-swilling men like the rest of us; no doubt they were infused with a fiery gumption deserving our respect, and a witty intelligence that makes them endlessly quotable. To our great misfortune, this essence has rarely been distilled into an easily consumable art form.
Oh, people have tried. Most recently HBO made a mini-series about John Adams, which was actually pretty good- a bit on the long side, and it sidesteps most of the American Revolution because Adams was often in France trying to curry diplomatic favor. Hopefully we'll get a mini-series covering most of the war someday. 1776 covers the signing of the Declaration of Independence, and manages to run nearly 3 hours to show us how the bickering delegates of 13 very different colonies managed to agree upon the need to rebel from the empire from which they sprang.
Originally a Broadway musical, it was a huge hit and was turned into a 1972 film by Warner Brothers, who hired practically the entire Broadway cast, including the director, to reprise their act on the silver screen. Part of me wishes they simply sat a camera in front of the stage, because many musicals suffer when converted into films; the energy is gone. And I'm afraid that's what happened here.
Martha misses Tommy's "violin."
It's rather like 12 Angry Men: The Musical, with a cast cooped up in the stifling meeting room of the Continental Congress; it begins with a bland political joke about the ineffectiveness of Congress that was tepid when Will Rogers said it, and is just as milquetoast here. And but for a few humanizing moments here and there, that's as good as it gets. The problem is the music; it's resolutely dull. I'm not a huge fan of musicals, but by this point stuff like The Sound of Music, The King and I, and My Fair Lady had come along and shown how to masterfully blend witty dialogue with equally witty and enjoyable songs. Unfortunately this has none, and feels like a Marx Brothers movie that gets rudely interrupted so the two lovebirds can sing their hearts out.
As dated as this poster design.
"The Egg" was the most memorable of the songs I can recall, and is about Franklin, Jefferson, and Adams arguing about which bird should symbolize this new country: the dove, the eagle, or the turkey. Franklin famously did favor the turkey, for it was a native bird, notoriously wary and difficult to hunt. Most of the humor is of the old hindsight is 20/20 variety– ha, ha, they don't want the eagle to be our bird? Pshaw. Or worse yet, the custodian who spouts "Sweet Jesus!" any time he's asked to open a window, to shock us into imagining our illustrious forebears saying such uncouth things. The film was even banned from being shown in a Virginia because Jefferson says that he "burns" for his wife. I guess in Virginia, Paul Giamatti porking away at Mrs. Abigail in the HBO miniseries of John Adams precludes it from being a valid historical document.
Go fly a kite.
William Daniels plays Adams here; he's since become more famous for playing a Doc on "St. Elsewhere," and the voice of K.I.T.T. from "Knight Rider," so hearing him as John Adams was hard to swallow. He's also kind of a meek voice for a character who's chided for being so boisterous. Every half hour or so, he sings to his wife Abigail, who appears in a ghostly window to sing back to him. Harder to take was Howard Da Silva's Ben Franklin, who seemed played for laughs throughout. I certainly don't mind a story humanizing the man who wrote "Fart Proudly," and coined the motto "beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy," but he's almost buffoonish here.
f.u. k1ng ge0rg3!
On the other hand it's rather beautifully filmed and has a few chuckles, and if I didn't know that "Cool, Considerate Men" was cut as a favor to Nixon, I'd think it was cut to reduce the 3 hour running time to a tolerable level. The song's not even that good, and seeing men in wigs practically goose-step while singing "always to the right!" isn't too subtle. If you like flowery reconstructions of our past where the arguments over the Declaration involved passionate pleas to end slavery, when in actuality the biggest obstacle was getting Quakers to agree to war, you might like it. I expected a lot more from this. The director does a good job transitioning to screen, but the attempts at injecting romance are clumsy, and any real drama is lost; these men were agonizing over whether to commit their constituents to a long and bloody war with the greatest military power of the time, and the frequent and frivolous songs seem like window dressing, artifice meant to rouse us when the spirit of Adams, Franklin and Jefferson should be doing it on their own.
There's a lot of love for this film, but I did not feel compelled by it. I think it will be forever colored by the time it was released- it was very difficult to feel roused to patriotism during the "peace with honor" campaign of the Vietnam War, when crime and urban decay rose to such a degree that Nixon won in a landslide on the "law and order" ticket. It just didn't feel very passionate, and it seems like they left out the Quaker's pacifist dilemma because we were currently fighting a rightfully unpopular war. It's not terrible, just largely unmemorable; if you watch it enough it might become so, but I don't think I'll be putting forth the effort. I might give it a shot if a local theater company performs it.
80's Trash of the Week: Earth Girls Are Easy
July 3, 2008 Thomas Pluck 80s Trash of the Week, Movies	80s, Boobies, Comedy, Geena Davis, John Waters, Julie Brown, Little People, Movies, musicals, UFOs
I'll admit it. I'll watch anything with Geena Davis in it. Let me qualify that. Any movie with Geena in it. In that "Commander in Chief" TV show she had a forehead like Andre the Giant's, which terrified me. But since her first role in Tootsie I've had a crush on her (probably because I was 12 and she was in her bra & panties). I've always thought she had an adorably cute face with that big wry grin of hers. I even watched that superflop Cutthroat Island, which is actually pretty bad. But she's hot in her pirate outfit.
Geena's on the left
Before Beetlejuice, The Fly, and The Accidental Tourist made her a star, she was still taking projects like Julie Brown's Earth Girls Are Easy, as quintessential an 80's movie as ever there was. It's silly and over the top, garishly colorful, has campy special effects and a ludicrous plot, and tries to make some sort of comment on the dating scene, so yeah, late 80's trasharama. Imagine Casual Sex? with Jim Carrey, Jeff Goldblum and Damon Wayans as aliens instead of Dice Clay, throw in a bunch of campy Valley references and songs by Julie Brown of "The Homecoming Queen's Got a Gun" 15-minute fame, and you've got it.
Do you think we'll ever regret these hair-dos?
It's surprisingly watchable for being such a silly concept, because it never takes itself seriously. It teases you a few times, with a serious romantic subplot, but it's all played for a gag with a decent payoff, so don't let that bother you. Geena is Valerie, a hairdresser engaged to doctor Ted, which should be every gal's dream of landing a rich chiseled Ken doll of a man, but like that Ken doll, he is too disinterested in sex for her liking. She tells her co-worker Candy (Julie Brown), who gives her an awful frosty blonde make-over that screams '88, but when she tries to surprise him at home, he opens the door with a nurse in tow. She kicks him out and trashes the house in a "music video" scene, in her lingerie. While it's sort of a chick movie, the producers were wise to insist that we get plenty of bikini action.
I ran out of Kleenex.
Valerie spends her weekend moping by the pool, while in the cold reaches of outer space, we see a Flash Gordon-like ship observing Earth. Inside are 3 guys covered in bright fur, like they skinned muppets and made catsuits out of them. They've been alone too long and after watching a holographic porno, turn their scopes toward our planet, where of course they see Geena sprawled by her pool, tantalizing them with a little side boob.
Late 80's invention- the side boob.
They crash-land in her swimming pool and the fun begins. They're goofy and good-natured, after all they're Jim Carrey and Damon Wayans from the late-80's super-skit comedy "In Living Color," and Jeff Goldblum, who every went to for a studly nerd back then. She tries to hide them in the house but they want girls, so she ends up taking them to the hair salon for a make-over, which goes surprisingly well. Then we get an interlude for Julie Brown to sing "Cuz I'm a Blonde," which is actually still pretty funny.
More proof that Cheez Whiz came from space.
From then on the movie involves trying to hide them from her hubby and her stoner pool man (Michael McKean), while taking them out to the L.A. party scene. They go to a club at Griffith Park Observatory, where Zeebo (Wayans) wows the ditzy Valley girls with their crazy dance moves, and Wiploc (Carrey) gets a following when he grabs an ice cube with his 8 inch tongue. Mac (Goldblum) is the most reserved of the aliens and has a thing for Geena, not surprising when the two actors married shortly after. They have a romantic scene and then skedaddle home where he shows her his magic "love touch," which would be re-used in Cocoon.
"You guys were easier to wax than Robin Williams."
In every movie where she bumps uglies with Jeff G, she has a nightmare afterward- in The Fly she had the infamous maggot baby, but here she just imagines all her neighbors as weird aliens, and other bizarre stuff like a midget with a beehive hairdo in her fridge. Now I know why Peter Dinklage's character in Living in Oblivion was so pissed off about being in a dream sequence, it seems like half the roles for little people are in freaky dreams.
They give each other knowing nods at parties for enduring this.
The last part of the movie is a little confused and involves Ted trying to get back into Valeries good graces, and the alien boys getting into trouble with Woody the pool man. Zeebo and Wiploc wanna go to the beach because unlike Mac, they haven't gotten any space booty. While Woody is gassing up, they manage to accidentally rob a store, trash Angelyne's Corvette, drive through a car wash and then backwards down the freeway. Who's Angelyne? I only recognized her because John Waters wrote about her in his book Crackpot! , but she's a self-made celebrity in L.A.– by driving around in a pink Vette and buying billboards of herself modeling, she managed to get her 15 minutes.
Angelyne in all her skanky glory.
The boys crash into the giant sign of Randy's Donuts, another L.A. landmark; I'm surprised they didn't stop at Tail o' the Pup for hot dog. Of course the cops haul them in and they end up under Dr. Ted's care- could it happen any other way? How they unravel this conundrum, and whether Val ends up with her fun-loving alien or Dr. Dork I'll leave for you to learn. The movie is good fun and an overdose of late 80's nostalgia, with the B-52's on the soundtrack. Before Carrey was making millions per picture he was in stuff like this, and Once Bitten. I liked him better as a goofball. And Geena fans, she's never looked better.
Oh, it's in the hole!
Beers Required to Enjoy: One
Could it be remade today? No way
Quotability Rating: Low
Cheese Factor: Off the charts
High Points: Smokin' hot Geena, early Jim Carrey
Low Point:Things get serious with Ted
Gratuitous Boobies: Side only, but lots of cleavage.
July 3, 2008 Thomas Pluck Broadway	Beast, Firecracker, John Waters, musicals, Spring Awakening, Zee Germans
Firecracker's been wanting to see this for a year, and we finally got to it. I took her to see Rufus Wainwright for Valentine's Day instead. While Rufus is entertaining, I wish we'd gone to see this musical instead. It's pretty funny and very hot. For a show based on a play from 1890 that's a surprise. There's sort of a dearth of bawdiness in that era, and that's what the story is about- it's a morality tale about sexual repression, the kind of thing John Waters should be making a campy movie version of.
Sure it's a little emo, but it's a good show. I was thoroughly entertained and titillated. We had on-stage seats, which gives you a unique perspective; I'd probably want to see the show from the audience before I did it again. You miss a lot of the dialogue and lyrics because the actors are projecting away from you. You get the best view imaginable, and get bumped around sometimes as they bounce around the stage. The stage seats are incorporated into the show, actually- the backup singers sit with you, and occasionally the cast is standing right next to you.
Moritz, Melchior, Wendla
The story begins with young Wendla, a German girl who asks her mother about the birds and the bees. Our Prussian-Puritan background shows in that I said "birds and bees" instead of "the penis and the vagina." We've got a thousand euphemisms for it. Anyway, her mom is too embarrassed to tell her not to let snakey into her no-no, so you know she's going to get in trouble later on. From there we cut to a strict Prussian schoolroom, where mussy-haired Moritz (Blake Bashoff, Alex's boyfriend on "Lost") has fallen asleep during recitations of Latin. His friend Melchior (the lead, Kyle Riabko) defends him and becomes the rebel of the show, questioning the schoolmaster's methods.
I'll only put it in a little
He's the one who gets in trouble with Wendla. Moritz falls asleep in class because his wet dreams are keeping him up all night, and he asks "Melchy" to write him an essay with illustrations because he's read about sex in those forbidden books. Wendla finds him by the lake scribbling his naughty essay and eventually succumb to their throbbing hormonal urges. From the stage seats you get subjected to Mr. Riabko's ass-crack, which delighted Firecracker. I got a look up Wendla's skirt, and can tell you Alexandra Socha wears tighty whities. Besides being appropriately cute, the actresses and actors are all quite good. Beast said Melchior overacted, but he's playing a rebellious teenager, and he played the part of the "Angry Young Man" from that Billy Joel song perfectly.
We'd be in those chairs on stage left
Emma Hunton was my favorite- she plays Ilse, a girl who was kicked out by her parents and now lives on the streets, posing for the Bohemian painters to live, usually wandering barefoot or in one of the artists' shirts. She's got great pipes and has a touching scene where she comforts inconsolable Moritz, who besides suffering the cruel injustices of the schoolmasters, can't tell when a girl likes him. They sing a duet together that was the best song of the show, "Blue Wind." The real crowd-pleaser is "Totally Fucked" when Melchior finally rebels, but it was loud and heavy on percussion so I couldn't understand any of it from the stage seats.
Moritz channeling Amadeus
Overall Spring Awakening is a good show and worth seeing- the current cast is excellent, and while the story might appeal more to teenagers than adults like me, who wanted it to be campier or even more daring, it is never boring. The set design is spartan and efficient, with no big set changes- it's not showy like Hairspray but it was clever and impressive. Check out the soundtrack on Amazon:
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Lent begins with the temptations story of Jesus in the wilderness. Temptations come to everybody and we know this because they came to Jesus. There is a poster on the notice board in the vestry which says, "Oh Lord, lead me not into temptation because I can find it myself". We must understand that the reason the devil was trying to lure Jesus into particular sins was because he was trying to distract Jesus away from his Messianic mission. Had Jesus given into the temptations he faced in the desert he would have failed in his life's purpose. And this would have had dire consequences for humankind and the world.
And so Lent is not a time for giving up chocolate. It is far more serious than that. It is the time we are invited to go into the desert with Jesus to do battle with the temptations and distractions that demand our attention and seek to control us. But most importantly it is the time we recognise that the temptations and distractions we give ourselves over to ultimately prevent us from achieving our life's purpose and from becoming our true selves. The people God created us, knows us and calls us to be.
In today's world of IPhones and Twitter, many of us are living lives which are constantly distracted. Fewer and fewer of us know what to do if we are not distracted. This is why we spend so much time on our phones texting, chatting with friends, using social media playing video games, surfing the web, watching TV. Without these distractions we can soon start to feel fidgety and bored and the longer we go without these sorts of distractions the more lost and cut off we feel and eventually it dawns on us that we might just have to face ourselves. But modern media is not the only distraction. We are also distracted by behaviours which are fun but often destructive, giving in to cravings, addictions, or negative emotions like fear, hate, anger, worry, or guilt.
For many of us, to simply sit quietly alone with ourselves feels uncomfortable to the point where our trueself is almost like a stranger. Indeed, if we are constantly distracted, our true self IS a stranger, because our choice to be distracted has disconnected us from our true selves.
And so Lent really is a gift to us. The season of Lent invites us to sit quietly alone with ourselves and to reconnect. And to use the time we would have otherwise spent being distracted by something to do this.
But first we need to recognize what our own particular and personal distractions are. A distraction takes energy away from us, a distraction seeks to control us. And it diverts our attention away from ourselves and directs it instead toward an outside person, event or activity. And when we give in to this kind of distraction, when we yield to its temptation, we can be left with all sorts of negative feelings.
Things which support our energy are not distractions, they are messengers that are there to encourage and help us to be our true selves. The former will be aggressive in its effort to distract us, and it will use temptation while the latter will be passive. It will wait for us to turn to it freely.
Once we have recognised the distractions in our lives, we can begin to reduce or even eliminate their impact.
Most of us will not be able to simply cut all of our distractions loose at once. In many cases our distractions have evolved over long periods of time, and it can take time to rid ourselves of them.
Removing distractions does not happen overnight and often requires some fundamental changes to our lifestyles and making different choices in the future. Forty days is not long enough. But it is a good time to start. But we need a blue print, a road map. Jesus triumphs in the desert, not as God but as a man. He uses the tools we can also use. In this way, he gives us a model of how to deal with temptation and fight the devil in our own lives. Jesus sets a model for conquering temptations and overcoming distractions through prayer, fasting, and reflection on scripture. Only through this trinity of spiritual practice can we unlock the power of the Holy Spirit we need to fight and overcome temptation and distraction. Prayer and fasting, reflection on scripture, not entertaining temptation —those are the tools Jesus demonstrates for fighting temptation. When Jesus emerged from the desert, the shape of his Messiahship had been hammered out. He achieved his higher and true purpose. He faced the temptations of the Tempter. And he rejected them in favour of his Father's plan. Later he told his disciples, "I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven". By following his example, we can begin the process of warding off temptation, and overcoming the distraction and sin which prevents us for achieving our higher purpose. We too can see Satan fall like lightning from heaven. Brothers and Sisters, I wish you all a very holy Lent.


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Sub for club, sub for country - Rooney doesn't deserve England start
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Sam Allardyce might not have had the time to do much of anything in his 67 days as England manager, but one thing he did champion during his curtailed spell as national boss was the need for international players to be regulars at club level.
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"If he is out of the team for a longer period it's difficult to select them, based on how they feel, never mind from the training point of view," he said of Joe Hart after the goalkeeper's exclusion at Manchester City had raised concern over his England standing. An eventual loan move to Torino solved that particular problem, but Allardyce's replacement Gareth Southgate now finds himself in a similar quandary with captain Wayne Rooney.
With 116 caps and 53 goals to his name, Rooney should in many ways be a no-brainer when it comes to inclusions in an England starting XI. But Southgate's first game in charge against Malta on Saturday arrives three matches into Rooney's spell as a Manchester United substitute under Jose Mourinho.
The main worry for Rooney right now is that he is unquestionably out of the Portuguese's lineup on merit right now, with United's sharpness and vibrancy having been raised a number of levels since the 30-year-old was overlooked for a resounding 4-1 victory over Leicester City in September. Even in Sunday's 1-1 draw against Stoke City, United was dominant and difficult to handle as an attacking force, descriptions which have gone unused with Rooney in the side over a period of some months.
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Rooney was naturally bullish about his chances of regaining his United place when speaking at a St George's Park press conference on Tuesday. "Of course you want to play. As a football player you want to play," he said. "It is my job, I love football and I love being involved with the team.
"Obviously I am not starting at the minute with Manchester United and I have to work hard to try to get back in the starting XI, which I am doing, and when I get my chances I have to take them. But again I am fully supportive of the team, of the players and of the manager at Manchester United. Of course I want to be involved but the most important thing is that we win."
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But the truth is that Rooney's stock at Old Trafford has fallen, and this time it may be for good. And, if he cannot reclaim a starting shirt, then Southgate also has a decision to make, even if his reign only lasts for the planned four-game interim spell which will see him in charge until the end of the year. Because, if Allardyce got one thing right in his short, ignominious time as England manager, it was that players can only play on merit.
England may not have the likes of Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Juan Mata, Paul Pogba et al to choose from in Rooney's stead, but the decision should be no more favorable to the skipper at national team level than it is at Old Trafford. Rooney's form has not been good enough for some time, with Harry Kane and Jamie Vardy principal among those who made his switch from the front line to midfield for Euro 2016 as much a necessity as a choice.
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His regular losses of possession due to a heavy first touch and lack of awareness of those around him are turning him into a liability in the final third. He may still have an explosive shot and the ability to deliver cross-field passes over distance, but whenever pressured he seems to take the wrong option more often than the right one.
In selecting Rooney, Southgate would be advertising his unsuitability for the permanent job. Rooney is no more worthy of a starting shirt now than Roy Hodgson was of staying in the manager's role following the disaster that was the Euro 2016 finals.
For too long, big-name England players have seen their careers elongated artificially entirely because of their reputations. But now that Rooney's fading star has been acknowledged by his club manager, Southgate needs to follow suit. It is the only way to prove he is strong enough for the job, the only way to send a message to other under-performing national hopefuls, and quite possibly the only way to get the best out of the current England squad.
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