Managing and controlling your state is a conscious mind process akin to will power, If you have to manage your state or control it, you are not experiencing 'state choice'.
In New Code NLP we focus on 'state choice' so an individual is not consciously working at managing or controlling the biological processes inherent in sate. In New Code NLP we have patterns and formats that biologically create a different outcome when a person does not have choice with their state.
You may have read my previous articles on New Code NLP where I have written about 'New Code NLP' games which are designed to create a 'high performance state' to be utilised in any context where high performance is sought after. Prior to the intervention the client may have been having a challenge in a context hence the desire for a high performance state, or the person may be experiencing a level of success in the context but seek different choices which will emerge from a high performance state.
a/ A state which engulfs the client so quickly that they get stuck in the state due to the speed they entered into it. Rage and fear are examples of the fast moving state.
b/ A state that sneaks up on the client so slowly they do not detect the state shift until they are absorbed in it, and also get stuck. Depression is an example of slow state build which cumulates into a very strong unresourceful state.
The pattern called Sanctuary created by John Grinder and Carmen Bostic St Clair is designed to detect the earliest trigger point of the unwanted state and connect the trigger point to a sanctuary state designed and constructed by the client.
The outcome of the Sanctuary pattern will be when the client experiences a situation where they would have found themselves submerged in the unwanted state they will automatically access the sanctuary state. The steps of sanctuary are outlined below.
1. - From 3rd position, the client develops visual and auditory representation of themselves in the state that they wish to have choices about entering, independent of context. If the state is extreme you may have to do some extra work to help the client access a clean third.
2. - From third, locate a sanctuary space approximately two metres from the unwanted space. Sanctuary will be an impenetrable space where all resources that are missing in the unwanted state and more are present. The client can build their sanctuary how they desire, they include metaphors such as historical or mythological characters, animals, colours, music, mentors, armour, or of course themselves in an extremely resourceful position.
You now have two spaces (the sanctuary space and the location of the state that the client wants choices about) located on the floor.
3. - Step into sanctuary, build the sanctuary by intensifying VAK submodalities and anything else the client seeks to give him/her sanctuary from X. You build qualities and resources useful in Sanctuary.
4. - Step to the side of sanctuary and completely shake sanctuary off. The client sensitises his/her body so they are fully aware of the kinaesthetics they experience in their regular state, the state they are usually in prior to loosing choice to the unwanted state.
5. - From the position above the client slowly walks towards the unwanted state, and the moment they feel the first sensation associated to the unwanted state, they shake it off and jump to sanctuary.
A skilled Practitioner with advanced calibration skills, will usually detect when the client first experiences the first touch of the unwanted state before the client is aware. In this case the Practitioner rapidly instructs the client to jump to sanctuary.
It's important to recognise in the Sanctuary pattern the client does not walk towards the unwanted state with resources activated. They have to completely shake sanctuary off so they can detect the earliest kinaesthetic representation of the unwanted state. If they walk with resources activated, they will not be sensitised to the earliest trigger of the unwanted state which is the purpose of the intervention.
Also in this pattern the client will not enter the unwanted state, by pairing the earliest kinaesthetic with sanctuary the client will now have state choice.
To summarise, a key distinction in New Code NLP is 'state choice' compared to the 'will power' style of state control inherent in the Classic Code. We all know the limitations of will power. New Code games high performance states to be applied in specific contexts where a different performance is desired. Sanctuary is designed to deal with a state that is present across contexts and will provide the recipient with state choice, where they previously lost it as result of being engulfed due to the high speed they enter the unwanted state or a slow pace where they do not detect the state change until it's too late.


'#iLRN16_SFP' (Imagine 2016) opened the Immersive Learning Research Network annual conference (iLRN 2016) with a workshop that introduced the SF-Prototyping (SFP) methodology, exploring ways immersive-reality technology might change future education, stretching from formal education at college through in-situ industrial training to informal settings as part of our everyday lives. Attendees participated in group based ideation sessions, learning how to write micro-SFPs (µSFPs) before completing the day by helping their group write at least one µSFP (which are shown below). More information about µSFPs can be looking at descriptions on Wikipedia or the Creative Science pages.
We are also running a special track at this conference called the The Future of Education (click the link for details of this event). For more information on Outer Limits'events visit this page.
Attendees were invited to look over the presentation by Vic Callaghan prior to attending the event so as to give some thought to identifying areas of immersive education that are in need of innovation.
Conference attendees were invited to enter a competition to write an individual µSFP describing how they foresaw immersive learning technologies and pedagogies changing the nature of future education. Twitter was used to collect competition entries which restricted stories to 129 characters (around 20 words). The top 3 µSFPs (as voted by attendees) received a certificate and a prize (Amazon vouchers; $100 first price, $50 for 2nd and 3rd prizes) which were presented at the closing session of iLRN 2016.
Jon Richter (3rd place – $50).
µSFPs of 129 characters were submitted using Twitter by tweeting micro-fictions with the hashtag #iLRN16_SFP no later than midnight on the 29th June 2016.
All the stories were retweeted via our official Twitter account @CSciFoundation and posted to this page (when stories were retweeted µSFPs were officially in the competition!).
The mechanics of this online competition were organised by Anasol Peña-Rios (@prlosana). A useful guidance form for writing µSFPs was abalable from this link. More information about µSFPs is available from this page.
Brian David Johnson is a Professor of Practice at Arizona State University's School for the Future of Innovation in Society, and a Futurist and Fellow at Frost & Sullivan, a visionary innovation company that's focused on growth. He also works with governments, militaries, trade organizations, and startups to help them envision their future. He has over 30 patents and is the author of a number of books of fiction and nonfiction, including Science Fiction Prototyping; Screen Future: The Future of Entertainment, Computing and the Devices We Love; Humanity and the Machine: What Comes After Greed?; and Vintage Tomorrows: A Historian and a Futurist Journey through Steampunk into the Future of Technology. His writing has appeared in publications ranging from The Wall Street Journal and Slate to IEEE Computer and Successful Farming, and he appears regularly on Bloomberg TV, PBS, Fox News, and the Discovery Channel. He has directed two feature films, and is an illustrator and commissioned painter. His current projects include The Future of the American Dream and the 21st Century Robot.
It all began with a little robot named Jimmy. Jimmy was the product of a science fiction prototype. Over the next decade, working with an international collection of designers, engineers, scientists and intellectuals that little robot evolved into The 21st Century Robot Project. The project has one goal: to get as many people as possible to image, design and build robots. In Spring 2016 the project brought their robots and design process to three middle schools in Burbank, California (Luther Burbank, David Starr Jordan and John Muir Middle Schools). Working with the newly formed robot clubs they got the nearly 90 students imagining and building robots using science fiction to design, engineer and code. In his talk inventor of science fiction prototyping and Jimmy will chart the path of an idea and a little robot and how both changed the world.


I work with my hands. Any given day may find them thrust into dirt, wrapped around a wrench, grasping boulders or feeding wood into machines with sharp, fast-moving parts. Hands slip. Skin flies. Since I've started on this road of DIY self-sufficiency, I've become well-acquainted with the first aid drawer – the second drawer of Big Red.
It held everything I needed for my near-daily ministrations to my flayed and battered hands – Band Aids, Neosporin, rubbing alcohol, hydrogen peroxide, tweezers – if I could find them. Band Aids were easy – they were always on top. The alcohol and H2O2 were also easy – they reside in large bottles. But the tweezers and the Neosporin – they could have been anywhere, hiding down in the cracks, laughing as blood dripped from my palm, snickering at the splinter sticking out from my fingertip. And then there was Handan.
Any time Handan needed to find something in that deep drawer of discontent, a lozenge or an antacid pill or some cortisone cream, she would fume that it was not there. I would come over and find her sought-after pill, ointment or tincture, but I couldn't leave without an earful about the state of the drawer.
"I know, but…" But I use the damn drawer every day, so of course it's going to get messy!
"Okay, my Babes. I'll keep it neat and organized from now on." Ha! Fat chance!
The last straw fell onto the camel's back not long ago when I ran out of large Band-Aids. I still had hundreds of those useless little ones – you know the ones that are so small, they can't even wrap around a finger – but I needed bigger. On my next trip to the supermarket, I stocked up. I felt like I hadn't bought bandages in decades. Who knows, maybe I hadn't. Maybe the box I'd been using was a gift. Anyway, I went a little wild and bought one of almost every type. Heavy duty fabric ones? Check. Ugly-but-functional plastic ones? Check. Invisible-but-weak shear ones? Check. And I got all sizes, too. I could patch up anyone, from the Jolly Green Giant to Tinkerbell. The problem was that all these glorious new boxes of sterile bandages would no longer fit in the first-aid drawer. I needed a first aid cabinet. But where to put it? My kitchen has no wall space. None. The only patch of wall is in the narrow transition from the mud room/laundry room to the kitchen. There, you see? Next to Big Red and above the dog bowls. But that space is so cramped. I blanched at the thought of something sticking out of the wall. Big Red was bad enough, but at least she held lots and lots of stuff.
Why yes, I AM aware that my microwave is greasy, thank you! Oh, and yes, I AM aware that it is covered in unsightly cleaning products. Why do you ask?
Well, if I couldn't go outward, perhaps I could go inward? I grabbed a tape measure so I could visualize. Yes. Sixteen inches between the stud center points – that gives me about 14 1/2 inches of width. Subtract another inch for the 1/2 inch plywood I would be using for the sides. Okay, so far so good…let's look at the length. I eyeballed the tape and came upon a number. Looks good! I grabbed my stud finder and went looking for studs.
I found the studs right where I was expecting to find them. But I found something else as well. Let's call it The Anomaly. In construction, studs are always set 16 inches apart. This makes it easy to remove pieces of drywall or screw heavy things into the studs. If you can find one, you can find them all. So my two sides were well established, but I kept getting an odd reading on the stud finder in-between the two studs. Back and forth I went, always the same anomalous reading. I decided to probe for The Anomaly with a small drill bit. I went across the top line I had drawn on the wall, drilling in every so often to see if I hit resistance.
Nothing! No resistance. Figuring my finder was more dud than stud, I whipped out my multi-tool and started hacking apart my wall. What could possibly go wrong? I had probed!
Hehehe – this silly drywall is no match for my multi-tool!
I cut out my pre-marked rectangle and pulled out a big slab of drywall. Success!
Wait, what!?! What the hell is that thing?!?!
My mind popped and sputtered as it tried to make sense of this thing. I had probed, dammit!
But what was it for? Couldn't be a poop pipe – it wasn't below a toilet. Couldn't be an air duct – it was way too small. And what was with that dinky brown wire? I decided to go down to the basement to see if I could find the pipe's terminus. Yup, there it was. And this pipe connected to….nothing.
I went up two floors to look for the other end, and there it was, just outside Barish's door at foot level.
I forgot that this house was plumbed for central vacuuming, but the original owners never had the vacuum unit installed. Excellent. I went back downstairs and cut through the pipe and the wire, as I have no desire for central vacuuming.
…then pulled out the pink stuff.
So I was back on track and ready to build. I went downstairs to my sawdust warehouse workshop and got to work on the cabinet.
I created a highly detailed and precise blueprint for my work.
I built the cabinet and shelves out of a mix of 1/2 inch and 1/4 inch plywood.
At this point, I brought it upstairs to see if it fit in the hole. It did. I left it there until Handan came home so she could see it and shower me with praise.
Handan walked in. "Are you sure it's big enough? Did you fill it with all the things from the drawer?" she asked.
"It's big enough." I said.
"But did you check if everything fits?" she asked again.
"No, but it's big enough!" I said.
"Fine!" I said and started cramming all the crap from the drawer onto the shelves. I got about halfway through the drawer, then the shelves were full.
She looked at me. "It's okay, my babes. I love you." She turned and walked away.
I retreated to a corner to lick my wounded pride. The cabinet sat in another corner for the next month.
When I was ready to restart the project, I made the hole bigger. I had put a thin layer of insulation back into the hole, thinking that I would be able to compress it with the finished cabinet, thus gaining a little bit of a barrier between the cabinet and the cold of the garage in winter. It didn't work out, so I ended up ditching the insulation.
My plan was to add three drawers to the bottom of the cabinet and have doors up top. I was winging it at this point: no blueprint, no measurements – just making it up as I went. I started to build the drawers, and since I wasn't using any sort of drawer slide, I decided that I would have the back sides of the drawer stick out a bit and make it so they would hit stop-blocks I would put in the front of the drawer cavity. Yep, that was my awesome plan. I started to glue the front stop-blocks in place.
And then my walnut brain figured out that if I put the stop blocks on, I wouldn't be able to insert the drawer. Yep, the old brain was chugging full-steam ahead that day! So I took out one of the blocks for each drawer, leaving one in place.
That way I'd be able to coax the drawer past the one block. When the time came, I'd somehow glue the second stop-block in place while the drawer was in its drawer-hole. Yep, that was the plan!
I put a divider in the next shelf up, so I could have two drawers there, side-by-side.
Then I started building drawers out of 1/4 inch plywood. I would leave the faces for later. I intended to use some scrap ship lap for the drawer faces, the doors and the face frame that would go around the whole cabinet.
Hey, neat! It fit! But it was such a tight fit that it compressed the air on the way in and created a vacuum on the way out. Three big holes took care of that problem!
I rubbed the bottom and sides with wax, figuring it would make it slide in and out easier. Not sure it did a damn thing.
And I built the small drawers.
Because I knew they would be forever trapped within the cabinet once I attached the last stop-blocks, I figured I ought to slap on some stain while the slappin' was still good. I mixed Minwax Red Mahogany stain into the the last of a can of Watco Danish Oil Medium Walnut. I liked the resulting color. Then I realized I wouldn't have enough to cover the whole project. Meh, I'd deal with that problem later.
For a Dummy you sure are smart! I love the cabinet. If you ever run out of projects I have a whole house full! Lol!
Cool cabinet but I added a central vac to my home and you couldn't take it from my cold dead hands! Crazy suction, no dust, no noise, and no dragging a cannister or pushing an upright.
Love the twists and turns you take us down in the tale of The Little Cabinet That Could! Clever idea and looks great. Still swooning over your basement workshop.
Thank you, Marie! Yes, I love my workshop…but I really should clean it more often!
I've always wanted to do a "between the studs" project! It's such wasted space.
Finding the pipe must have been awful, I'm so glad it wasn't needed and you could work around it.
thank you for sharing your fabulous tutotial at Talk of the Town.
Thank you, Gail! Yeah, my first thought was, Handan's gonna kill me! Fortunately it all worked out!
Oh man that pipe, it is amazing what you find when you open a wall!! This is just beautiful, I have always wanted to do this just like Gail. Amazing job and hilarious read!!
Pinning this, a very smart idea and a funny read!
Small between the studs cabinets like this could be so useful all over the house, and this one is perfect! thanks for sharing on craft schooling Sunday!
I LOVE IT!!! I do think in some areas you made it a little harder on yourself than you had to (And I'm not talking about the obvious areas… LOL!!!). That being said, are you also thinking that you should've made it just a little bit bigger? It appears that everything just barely fit!!! Also, I too have been dying to do this in many areas of my home…. I think it just makes sense to make use of that space!!! I'm just "gun shy" when it comes to actually chopping a hole in my wall!!! Even with a stud finder, you're nit guaranteed not to "run into" something!!! I also like that you show all through the project, and especially the "unexpected anomalies" that happen when you're doing a project!!!! Thank You!!!
This was great! I enjoyed reading about the project ALMOST more than the project. Y'all sound like me and my Honey when we work on projects. And we "fix" projects with a similar "on the fly" type remedy like you.
What an awesome project. I am walking around looking at all the beautiful storage I could add. Thanks for sharing your smart storage solution and your adventures getting it done!
I had a laugh at the phantom pipe! How funny! I love the built in you created. Looks like its always been there.
Thank you, Audra! It's always something when I do a project!
Great use of space! This sounds like my husband and I when we work on projects. Thank you for sharing at Ravenwould!
Love your cabinet. Greg, you crack me up. I love reading your take on your ahem, adventures. And might I say, Handan is a saint! 🙂 Thanks for sharing at the #ThisIsHowWeRoll Link Party.
Awesome job – and what a great idea! I have to admit that I LOLed at the "poop pipe" – we have those same weirdo, nonsensical things in our home too, that leave us scratching our head. This is a great idea and turned out beautifully!
Thanks for sharing for I DIYed that!
Yeah, Handan is the same way. Everything in Turkey is built of concrete. She thinks our houses are weird and flimsy, lol!
Greg when the earth is a shakin; it better be concrete that's holding everything together. Having grown up in NY I can never get used to the earthquakes. The cabinet was a smart idea in a very clever space.
Can I ask what color by red is? Looking for singing similar to paint my daughters bed frame.


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Can the film make a box office comeback in 2022?
By Jonathan M. Lara on January 7, 2022 Movie rates
Halle Berry and Patrick Wilson in "Moonfall", Jennifer Lopez and Owen Wilson in "Marry Me; Ethan Hawke in 'The Black Phone', Jason Statham, Josh Hartnett and Aubrey Plaza in 'Operation Fortune', Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum in 'The Lost City'.
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Absolutely no one expects Universal The 355 ($ 350,000 in Thursday previews) to burst to some extent this weekend. Simon Kinberg's poorly rated and buzz-free ensemble actor, starring Jessica Chastain, Fan Bingbing, Penelope Cruz, Lupita Nyong'o and Diane Kruger, is earning lousy reviews and is frankly the kind of actor "women can too. kick ass' which is now almost its own subgenre in the streaming world. Why go to the theater to see The 355 when you can catch up with Karen Gillan Milkshake with powder, by Chastain Ava, Mary elizabeth winstead Kate, Kate Beckinsale's Shaking (with Maggie Q. in theaters but now on VOD The protected) at home? Nonetheless, it is the first example of a specific type of film that will attempt a return in 2022. It is an original, franchise-free, star-focused, high-profile theatrical release. In other words, it's just a movie.
We learned in 2021 that tentpole's preordained blockbusters, think Godzilla vs. Kong, A Quiet Place part II, F9, No time to die and Marvel films, remained safe values. The fact that Hollywood is hoping for a comparative return to normalcy (if not quite the more than $ 11 billion from the highs of the last few pre-Covid years) is due to the constant supply of predestined mega-movies (think Jurassic World: Dominion, Mission: Impossible 7, Avatar 2 and the various Marvel / DC movies) starting in March with The batman. Spider-Man: No Path Home ($ 635 million nationally and roughly $ 1.42 billion globally) shows that pre-pandemic gross revenue is still possible, which bodes well for action / fantasy franchises that were already threatening to monopolize industry. But has two years of home consumption, plus studios folding or shattering the theatrical window for short-term streaming gains, make the studio programmer obsolete?
As regular readers know, the commercial peril to the top-tier flagship vehicle and the fit new to you didn't start with Covid. Whereby audiences have already seen event films and other relatively commercial offerings in theaters, be they star vehicles, high-profile originals or never-before-seen adaptations, who "see a movie just for the sake of it. see a movie "have made a demographic transition, almost overnight in late 2015 / early 2016 to streaming. We have seen a wave of previously commercial 2016 releases (Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, 13 Hours, Le Boss, etc.) disappointing or downright bombastic as audiences showed up in droves to superhero movies (Deadpool, Batman vs. Superman, Captain America: Civil War, etc.) and talking animal toons (Zootopia, Find Dory, Secret life of pets, etc.). The door-to-door offerings included "premium" TV shows and streaming originals, often star and adult-focused rates, which offered production values and relative quality almost comparable to much of what Hollywood did. could provide in theaters.
Combine that with affordable home theater facilities, allowing more homes to purchase that 55 inch HDTV and sound bar, and a shorter "theaters to VOD" window. Nonetheless, the domestic box office reached $ 11 billion in 2015 (in part thanks to the outperformance of Jurassic World and Star Wars: The Force Awakens) and maintained that benchmark until Covid forced theaters to close in 2020. Even allowing for inflation, total ticket sales declined, but not disastrously. However, more money was being spent on a smaller and smaller number of annual theatrical releases, with more of these tickets being "premium" options (IMAX, 3-D, Dolby, D-Box, etc.). ). In 2011, the top six domestic revenues accounted for 16.9% of the annual box office. The top six films in 2019 accounted for 28.5% of a total of $ 11.4 billion. Last year, assuming No way home $ 750 million was 38% of the $ 4.5 billion total.
This "1/4 to 1/3 of the total box office spent on the top six movies" statistic represents almost any dark trend I'm complaining about. This is why the original films and the featured vehicles struggle. This is why the public would apparently want to watch more Harry potter instead of discovering the "next Harry potter. "That's why audiences claim to want and stand for diversity, but only show up when it's a movie they already want to see. The raw power of the stars used to enable high profile originals like Magic mike (Channing Tatum is a stripper), Coupling (Will Smith as a non-toxic pick-up artist) and Air Force One (Harrison Ford as President Kick Ass) to thrive alongside more explicit franchise / IP games. The hook "that person you love in an interesting-looking movie" moved on to streaming, where likely theatrical puffs like Red Notice and Spencer Confidential can become record Netflix originals.
Last year it was about proving the vitality of the franchise's successful tent pole predestined in this new normal. Right or wrong, this year will be, especially once Omicron infections have subsided, essentially the last chance to prove the "film "'s theatrical viability. Halle Berry and Patrick Wilson will save the world from the moon in Roland Emmerich Falling moon in February. Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum Go Cosplay Novelist the stone in The lost city in March. Brad Pitt and a cast of stars will try to make High-speed train a star + concept success in July. Olivia Wilde's Don't worry darling with Florence Pugh and Chris Pine, will try to be next Missing girl in September. The old-fashioned antics of Damien Chazelle Babylon will end 2022 by trying to prove La La Land was no accident. We have two roma from Jennifer Lopez (Marry me in February and Hunting rifle wedding in June).
There are plenty more, including the new Michael Bay remake Ambulance, the original action comedy Jason Statham / Aubrey Plaza by Guy Ritchie Operation Fortune, the metacomic The unbearable weight of massive talents (Nicolas Cage's first star vehicle since Left behind late 2014), biopics for Elvis Priestley, the Bee Gees and Whitney Houston, the semi-autobiographical film by Steven Spielberg The Fabelman, two Blumhouse originals (Scott Dickenson's The black phone and Jordan Peele's infallible smash no) and Kevin Hart / Woody Harrelson "an ordinary guy gets mistaken for a murderer" Toronto man. Some of these movies will be good, and not all of them would have been commercially foolproof, even back in the pre-release days. Some of them will end up being glorified loss leaders for their eventual debut as a Tier A streaming item. These are mostly old-school, star + concept movies, however, that aren't meant to be. start a franchise and do not rely on existing intellectual property.
Hope Sony's pay TV window deal with Netflix is a commercial safety net to make the next one Baby Driver. We can see a situation where Alley of nightmares Where Last night in Soho only exist in theaters to compete for prizes and use the prestige of a theatrical existence as a pre-release promotion, a notion Netflix seems to already understand. Nonetheless, I hope that this diverse and voluminous list of (mostly breakout) "just a great movie" offerings can be successful enough to convince studios to continue making them for theaters. It's easy to watch Warner Bros. ' IP focused slate or Marvel / Disney animation lineup and mourning. When Warner Bros. spend three years giving King Richard, the way home and The kitchen to empty auditoriums and Disney watches Tomorrowland, a wrinkle in time and Queen of Katwe (and most Fox 2018-2021 offerings) bomb, well, studios are not charities.
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Cultivated Playwright podcast episode 13 is up
In episode No. 13 of the li'l-podcast-that-could The Cultivated Playwright, I offer a little talk about Comedy as a genre of theatre and how the structure of it has changed through the centuries.
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For the last several years I've been using this website as a kind of portfolio to collect together my creative projects (really, that's pretty much the only reason I keep up this website). I have also been doing a little year-in-review sort of thing since 2012 (here's 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017). So, here's all the goings-on that happened in 2018...
I released the 10th episode of my podcast The Cultivated Playwright right at the beginning of the year. I would only produce three more episodes all year after that. The project is not dead, but it has become more ambitious than I have time to pursue consistently. There seems to be an expanse of time between each episode. I am hoping 2019 will see the creation of at least half a dozen more episodes.
Audacity Solo Salon, March 2018
In March I workshopped a bit of Roberts Eternal Goldfish at an Audacity Solo Salon (the only one of the year). I hosted the salon as well and Blake Henri and Shayne Larango presented pieces-in-progress.
In April I held a one-night fund-raiser at the Margo Jones Theatre for ther 2018 Dallas Solo Fest where I presented a full performance of Robert's Eternal Goldfish. The show was shakey, but I did raise about $160 in donations for the Dallas Solo Fest.
Robert's Eternal Goldfish at the Margo Jones Theatre, April 2018
In early June, I produced the fourth Dallas Solo Fest, after skipping last year due to new parenthood. It was held at the Rosewood Center for the Arts (home of the Dallas Childrens Theatre). It was a six person roster with only one jam-packed weekend of shows. It was mixed. The venue was both better and just as challenging as the Margo Jones had been. Audiences were enthusiastic, but not abundant. The shows were a bit uneven and the performers, though all pretty nice, ranged from stand-offish to immensely surly to, well, John Michael. The staff was great, though, with Shea Smith and Grant Knutson returning to help and Cain Rodriguez stepping in to handle social media stuff. I am determined to do one more before leaving he DSFs behind for good.
Working the box office for Dallas Solo Fest 2018
The summer was filled with travel. My family (my folks, my sister and her family as well as my wife and kiddo) all rented a cabin in early July for a long weekend in Pigeon Forge, TN. We went to Dollywood and whitewater rafted and ate well.
Rafting outside of Pigeon Forge, TN
A new play I have been developing for a while, Que Será, Giant Monster, was selected as one of three winning scripts for the Texas Playwrights Festival by Wordsmyth Theatre in Houston. The director, Cynthia Garcia, and cast did a fine job with it and it really did serve as a great workshop experience. Ruth and the kiddo accompanied me down at the end of July. My cousin Debbie came out to see one of the two staged readings over three days. I also caught up with my old friend Wes Copeland and his partner Tony who came to see the reading as well.
My show Robert's Eternal Goldfish was selected to be part of the Minnesota Fringe Festival in Minneapolis. Ruth and the kiddo and I drove up in two cars over two days. They stayed the first few days to see the show, even though I had to go up early to tech. Ruth did get to meet my old friend from College of Santa Fe days Phil Gonzales and his kids.
Ruth and the kiddo drove back after I opened my show. I was a bit sad they had to leave, but it was easier to concentrate on the show when I was finally on my own.
The Minnesota Fringe was much bigger than I had expected. My shows went well and were well attended, but I do not feel I did enough flyering and handing out postcards at other venues. I did get to catch up with my colleague Martin Dockery who was also in the festival (who is also a new dad). I was impressed with how he had videoed his old solo shows and was selling them on DVD as merch after his show. I got to meet a friend I had only known from the internet, Travis Bedard. I saw him play Cyrano in a funky little DIY, fringe-y adaptation of the Rostand play.
Phil and I got to hang out several times. Like my friends Will Harper (who is off making it big as a tv show actor on NBC's The Good Place) and Greg Romero (playwright and enviromentalist recently moved back to Austin), Phil is one of those people I genuinely miss in my immediate life and am so grateful when I get a chance to catch up with him in person. I even got to be a guest on his podcast about the Berenstain Bears books.
Directly after the Minnesota Fringe I flew to Seattle. My friend Jeff Hernandez came up to Minneapolis with his dad, Carlos, and they drove my car back to Texas for me, making a hilarious father/son road-trip out of it all the way back.
I stayed in Seattle with my friend Grant who was kind enough to drive me up to Canada so I could get to the Nanaimo Fringe. It is a small festival in British Columbia that I attended in 2015. This time I was performing Robert's Eternal Goldfish, which was by now becoming bullet-proof from the road-testing.
Robert's Eternal Goldfish at the Minnesota Fringe
The Nanaimo Fringe was experiencing a down swing with a turnover in administration and out of touch with their local audiences. I stayed with the same peeps who hosted me in 2015, the wonderful Val C. and Dave Read. They had been super into the fringe back then. Now, they didn't even know about it until I reached out to them to ask for a place to crash.
Everyone was hospitable, but the fringe was spotty on acts, with some performers with real chops and others who seemed like they were brand new to performing. In fact, this fringe was the first I've been to where not one other performer in the festival came to see my show ( I made it out to see about half the other shows in the fest).The organizers, to their credit, did catch my show and I had a chance to chat with them at the end of the fest. They are aware of improvements needed and seemed really enthusiastic to make them happen. I am hoping the Naniamo Fringe gets back on its feet in the years to come.
I did like reconnecting with Val and Dave. They are a super-artsy couple. Dave has a indie metal band and runs an indie record label. Val paints and spouts theories about devised art works. They are a hoot. This year they also opened an arts space which is awesome and they traded their boat that they had last time I saw them in for a #vanlife van, which they take when they tour for music gigs so they don't have to get hotel rooms. They definitely offer an aspirational glimpse of what I potentially want to work up to (performance space, running a profitable indie company, etc.)
I made a video of my time in Nanaimo.
Grant came up and got me, bringing along his wife Heather, who cam and watched the show, which was nice. They drove me back to Seattle and I flew back to Texas in late August to start teaching the day after I got back.
I taught Intro to Theatre at a community college again. I like that job, though I have hit the ceiling on pay there.
This is one of my 1MPF pieces, Rethinking Affordable in
rehearsal. Directed by Jeremy Wilson.
While I was traveling two of my one-minute plays were included in Kitchen Dog Theatre's One-Minute Play Festival here in Dallas. This was the third of fourth time I have particpated in it. I was told my pieces went over nicely, one directed by Jeremy Wilson and the other by Jake Nice.
In mid-September I attended the Elgin Fringe Festival. It was a small fest about 35 miles southwest of Chicago. Again, I performed Robert's Eternal Goldfish. I only had about 4 shows over a long weekend, but my li'l show became the sleeper hit of the fest. In fact, I won a "Spirit of the Fringe" Award on the last day (my birthday). I was hosted by the two main fringe organizers, Erin and Tanner, who were awesome. I had been wait-listed for this fest, but was called mid-summer to be put in and accepted. I'm glad I did.
Robert's Eternal Goldfish at Elgin Fringe
I got to catch up with magician Cody Clark (who had performed earlier in the year at the DSF) and see his new show. And, my friend and solo performing colleague John Michael made the trip out from Chicago to hang out and catch the show. So, huzzah!
Hey, look, John Michael is at the Elgin Fringe to catch my show.
After getting back to Texas, I went back to teaching and watching my toddler-age son during the days. I resurrected The Cultivated Playwright podcast for a single episode. I also arranged to perform Robert's Eternal Goldfish at a relatively new theatre venue in Dallas called Stomping Ground Comedy Theatre. It has been open only about a year or so. I actually helped spread the word and donated a small amount on Kickstarter back when they were getting the theatre off the ground. I connected with Chad Cline at Stomping Ground who got me set up, after an idea from fellow solo performer John S. Davies (hat tip to that good sir).
I performed 2 Fridays at the beginning of October. I had decent audiences, but my deal with the theatre meant that I paid nothing up front to rent, but they kept the first $200 in ticket sales per show (or, at $10 per ticket, the first 20 audience members). I never got the official counts back from Lindsay, the Stomping Ground person who served as my contact, but just from general observation, I think I came out around 20 folks per show. My friend Kris Noteboom came the first weekend and we got a chance to get some beers and catch up after. Tiffany Finan and her then-fiance Tiffer (they are now hitched) came out to see it. Even my friend Jeff Hernanez caught it.
I actually returned to Stomping Ground at the end of the year to play Santa in a play written by Greg Silva. They called me out of the blue to fill in for an actor who had dropped out. The play was called Deck The Halls... With Brains. It had a fun cast of folks I had not worked with before and the director, Jacie, and assistant director, Jonathan, were also pleasant. The piece was a light little "zombie Christmas play" and played three fridays in December leading up to just before Christmas. My folks came to see it twice and even brought my niece Kylie for one show.
The very end of the year was spent with family and friends. All in all, 2018 was a definite step up in activity - breadth and depth - over 2017. Not sure 2019 will be as active, but I am excited to get my strive back.


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Perioperative Myocardial Ischemia: Pathophysiology and Does it Really Matter
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CARDIOVASCULAR, PULMONARY, AND RENAL EFFECTS OF MASSIVELY INCREASED INTRA-ABDOMINAL PRESSURE IN CRITICALLY ILL PATIENTS
D. J. Cullen, M.D.; J. P. Coyle, M.D.; R. Teplick, M.D.; M. C. Long, M.D.
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EFFECT OF LABETALOL ON THE HEMODYNAMIC RESPONSE TO INTUBATION; A CONTROLLED RANDOMIZED DOUBLE-BLIND STUDY
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Anesthesiology. 1987; 67(3):A31. doi: https://doi.org/
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MAC ADDITIVITY: REALITY OR ANALYTIC ERROR?
Editorial Views December 1983
Perioperative Myocardial Reinfarction: A Glimmer of Hope—A Note of Caution
Edward Lowenstein, M.D.; Salim Yusuf, M.D.; Richard S. Teplick, M.D.
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To (PA) Catheterize or Not to (PA) Catheterize — That is the Question
EDWARD LOWENSTEIN, M.D.; RICHARD TEPLICK, M.D.
BENEFIT OF ELECTIVE ICU ADMISSION FOR CERTAIN OPERATIONS
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Q: Limit of measurable functions is measurable? Suppose $(\Omega, \cal F)$ is a measurable space and $(X, \mathcal B_X)$ is a topological space with its Borel sigma algebra.
If $f_n: \Omega \to X$ is a sequence of $(\cal F , B$$_X)$-measurable functions and if $f_n \to f$ pointwise, then is it true that $f$ is $(\cal F , B$$_X)$-measurable?
Of course, we know it is true if $X = \Bbb R$ with the usual topology. This is just a standard result in real analysis which can be proved easily using the order structure of $\Bbb R$.
I am more interested in what happens when $X$ is not some Euclidean Space.
I claim it is still true for metrizable $X$. Indeed, supposes $d$ induces the topology of $X$, and $C \subset X$ is closed. For $\varepsilon >0$, let $C_{\varepsilon} = \{x \in X: d(x,C) < \varepsilon \}$, which is open. Then $$f^{-1}(C) = \bigcap_{n \in \Bbb N} \bigcup_{N \in \Bbb N} \bigcap_{ k \geq N} f_k^{-1}\big(C_{2^{-n}}\big)$$ which is in $\cal F$. Since preimages of closed sets are in $\cal F$, it easily follows $f$ is $(\cal F, B$$_X)$-measurable. I guess the crucial thing here was that any closed set in a metrizable space is $G_{\delta}$.
Does the result still hold for any first countable Hausdorff space? What about uniformizable spaces? I guess the answer would probably be no if $X$ is not Hausdorff since the limit function wouldn't necessarily be unique.
I doubt this would be a useful thing to know, but I'm curious nonetheless.

A: I think I can confirm your suspicion that this doesn't necessarily hold if the target space is non-Hausdorff, assuming I haven't made a mistake somewhere...
Let $\mathbb{R}$ be the real line in its standard topology. Let $\mathbb{R}_0$ be the real line with the topology whose non-empty open sets $U$ are precisely the standard open sets $U \subseteq \mathbb{R}$ such that $0 \in U$. This topology is non-Hausdorff. It is not too difficult to check that the Borel $\sigma$-algebra of $\mathbb{R}$ and $\mathbb{R}_0$ are actually the same. I used this observation previously here.
Fix a non-Borel measurable set $S \subseteq \mathbb{R}$. Let $f_n : \mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{R}_0$ be identically $0$ for all $n \in \mathbb{N}$. Let $f:\mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{R}_0$ be the characteristic function of $S$. Clearly each $f_n$ is measurable, while $f$ is nonmeasureable. Furthermore, $f_n \to f$ pointwise (because the sequence $0,0,0,\ldots$ converges simultaneously to every point of $\mathbb{R}_0$).

A: To me it seems that there are two crucial factors for your proof. First is the  space being regular, by which I mean just that any closed set and an outside point can be separated by disjoint neighbourhoods, without requiring $X$ to be $T_0$. Second, that any closed set has a countable neighbourhood base.
Given the above assumptions, we can use the same argument. If $C\subseteq X$ is closed, let $\{V_j\}_{j\in\mathbb{N}} \subseteq \mathcal{T}$ be its neighbourhood base. Now we prove that:
$$ f^{-1}(C)=\bigcap_{j\in\mathbb{N}}\bigcup_{k\in\mathbb{N}}\bigcap_{n\geq k}f_n^{-1}(V_j) $$
If $\omega\in f^{-1}(C)$, then $\{f_n(\omega)\}$ is eventually in any neighbourhood of $C$. Hence for all $j\in \mathbb{N}$, there exists $k_j \in \mathbb{N}$, such that $$\omega\in \bigcap_{n\geq k_j}f_n^{-1}(V_j)$$ implying that $\displaystyle{\omega\in \bigcup_{k\in\mathbb{N}}\bigcap_{n\geq k}f_n^{-1}(V_j)}$. $\;$ Hence we obtain:$\;$ $\displaystyle{\omega\in \bigcap_{j\in\mathbb{N}}\bigcup_{k\in\mathbb{N}}\bigcap_{n\geq k}f_n^{-1}(V_j)}$
Conversely, if $\displaystyle{\omega\in \bigcap_{j\in\mathbb{N}}\bigcup_{k\in\mathbb{N}}\bigcap_{n\geq k}f_n^{-1}(V_j)}$, then for each $j\in\mathbb{N}$: $\;\displaystyle{\omega\in \bigcap_{n\geq k_j}f_n^{-1}(V_j)}$ for some $k_j\in\mathbb{N}$, meaning that $\{f_n(\omega)\}$ is eventually in $V_j$. Suppose now that $f(\omega)\in C^c$ and let $W_1$ and $W_2$ be some neighbourhoods of $\omega$ and $C$ respectively. Since there exists some $s\in\mathbb{N}$ such that $C\subseteq V_s \subseteq W_2$ and since $f(\omega)$ is a limit of $\{f_n(\omega)\}$, it follows that eventually $\{f_n(\omega)\}$ is in both $W_1$ and $W_2$, meaning that $W_1 \cap W_2 \neq \varnothing$. Since the neighbourhoods are arbitrary, it means that $f(\omega)$ cannot be separated from $C$, contradicting regularity. Therefore $f(\omega)$ must be in $C$.
Interestingly, the above assumptions do not imply that $X$ is Hausdorff, unless it also happens to be $T_0$, in which case the countability condition will also be stronger than first countability.
EDIT (Weaker assumption)==========================================
Let $\mathcal{B}_X$ be the Borel sigma-algebra of a topological space $(X,\mathcal{T})$. In what follows $\varphi(\mathscr{C})$  denotes the filter generated by a subbase $\mathscr{C} \subset \mathcal{P}(X)$ and $\mathscr{N}(A)$ - the neighbourhood filter of a subset $A$
Assumptions:

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*$\mathcal{T}$ is regular (not assuming $T_0$)

*For any nonempty closed $C \subseteq X$ there exists $\{V_j\}_{j\in\mathbb{N}} \subseteq \mathscr{N}(C) \cap \mathcal{B}_X$, such that any convergent filter containing  $\{V_j : j\in\mathbb{N}\}$ contains $\mathscr{N}(C)$

Note that such $\{V_j : j\in\mathbb{N}\}$ is necessarily a filter subbase, since it has the finite intersection property, so there do exist filters that contain it. However it is not necessarily a base for $\mathscr{N}(C)$.
As before, since each $V_j$ is a neighbourhood of $C$, we have
$$f^{-1}(C) \subseteq \bigcap_{j\in\mathbb{N}} \bigcup_{k\in\mathbb{N}} \bigcap_{n\geq k} f^{-1}_n(V_j)$$
On the other hand
$$\omega \in \bigcap_{j\in\mathbb{N}} \bigcup_{k\in\mathbb{N}} \bigcap_{n\geq k} f^{-1}_n(V_j) \implies \{f_n(\omega)\} \text{ is eventually in each }V_j \implies$$
$$\implies \mathscr{F}_\omega =: \varphi \Big( \Big\{ \{f_n(\omega) : n\geq k\} : k\in\mathbb{N}\Big\} \Big) \supseteq \{V_j : j\in\mathbb{N}\} \implies$$
$$\implies \mathscr{F}_\omega \supseteq \mathscr{N}(C) \quad \text{ since } \mathscr{F}_\omega \text{ is convergent}$$
$$\implies \forall \quad U\in\mathscr{N}(C), W\in\mathscr{N}(f(\omega)): \Big( \{f_n\} \text{ is eventually in } U\cap W \implies U \cap W \neq \varnothing \Big)$$
$$\implies f(\omega) \in C \quad \text{by regularity assumption}$$
$$\\$$
The sets $\{C_{2^{-n}}\}$ in Shalop's proof satisfy the second assumption (which can be verified using continuity of $d(\cdot, C)$), while not necessarily being a neighbourhood base at $C$.

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Tataki (Japans: たたき) is een bereidingswijze uit de Japanse keuken waarbij vlees of vis bijna rauw wordt opgediend. Het vlees of de vis (meestal tonijn) wordt dan korte tijd boven een vlam of in een pan geroosterd. Hierna wordt het in azijn gemarineerd en in plakjes gesneden. Vervolgens wordt smaak toegevoegd met gember en/of sesam.

Deze methode is mogelijk bedacht door de 19e-eeuwse samoerai Sakamoto Ryoma. Hij had het grillen afgekeken van de Europeanen, die hij in Nagasaki had ontmoet. Het woord Tataki betekent in het Japans: In blokjes gehakt.

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St. Luke's University Health Network to Acquire Easton Hospital
EASTON, Pa. – St. Luke's University Health Network will acquire Easton Hospital on July 1, including affiliated physician practices and two physician residency programs with 36 physician residents. This acquisition will preserve the 125-year-old hospital for future generations, ensuring future jobs and bringing St. Luke's world class health care to the citizens of the greater Easton-area community.
St. Luke's and Steward Health Care of Dallas, the current owner of Easton Hospital since May 2017, recently signed an asset purchase agreement that will allow for the transfer of ownership to SLUHN effective on July 1.
"Integrating an existing hospital into a health network can be challenging, even during the best of times, let alone during a global pandemic. However, St. Luke's has always welcomed challenges," said Richard A. Anderson, President & CEO of St. Luke's, a regional health network and major medical academic center with 11 hospitals and more than 325 outpatient sites serving 11 counties in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. "We stepped away from discussions with Steward in early March to appropriately focus on the epidemic and the treatment of COVID-19 patients. After careful consideration, we again re-engaged in discussions with Steward in late April. After diligent evaluation and thoughtful discussion, our Board of Trustees felt that the acquisition of Easton Hospital was the right thing to do for the health and wellbeing of the Easton community in spite of recent media reports and predictions of Easton Hospital's demise.
"Over the years, St. Luke's management team has established a highly successful record of working collaboratively and forming successful partnerships with other hospitals that have joined our Network. We have extended our nationally recognized quality programs to all of our locations, providing patients with cost-effective care and superior quality second to none as measured regionally and nationally. St. Luke's will replicate at Easton Hospital the success it has achieved at its other campuses, resulting in a 'win-win-win' for all. The community wins. Easton Hospital wins. Our Network wins."
Today's announcement comes nearly two decades after St. Luke's and Easton Hospital first explored the possibility of merging. The two organizations engaged in extended discussions in 2001 before Easton Hospital's Board of Trustees decided to sell the hospital to for-profit hospital company Community Health Systems of Franklin, Tennessee. Community Health Systems sold Easton Hospital to Steward in 2017.
Linda Grass, President of Easton Hospital, said: "Steward entered into this asset purchase agreement with the long-term interests of Easton Hospital, its patients and the community in mind. St. Luke's long history of enriching the hospitals that join its network make it the ideal partner for Easton Hospital. This collaboration will ensure that Easton-area residents will continue to receive the quality, compassionate care that has been the mainstay of Easton Hospital for over 125 years."
The acquisition, which was approved by the St. Luke's Board of Trustees, is subject to certain conditions, including review and approval by various regulatory agencies.
"St. Luke's is preserving the hospital and jobs for the community by right-sizing the hospital," said St. Luke's Board of Trustees President, Luanne B. Stauffer. "Easton Hospital is not at the end of the road. Quite the contrary: It is on the path to a bright future with St. Luke's!"
Additional comments from prominent community members:
"I am thrilled, and our community is very fortunate, to have as fine a healthcare provider as St. Luke's acquire Easton Hospital and expand its presence in our area." – Easton Mayor Sal Panto, Jr.
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Founded in 1872, St. Luke's University Health Network (SLUHN) is a fully integrated, regional, non-profit network of more than 15,000 employees providing services at 11 hospitals and 300 outpatient sites. With annual net revenue greater than $2 billion, the Network's service area includes 11 counties: Lehigh, Northampton, Berks, Bucks, Carbon, Montgomery, Monroe, Schuylkill and Luzerne counties in Pennsylvania and Warren and Hunterdon counties in New Jersey. Dedicated to advancing medical education, St. Luke's is the preeminent teaching hospital in central-eastern Pennsylvania. In partnership with Temple University, St. Luke's created the Lehigh Valley's first and only regional medical school campus. It also operates the nation's longest continuously operating School of Nursing, established in 1884, and 34 fully accredited graduate medical educational programs with 263 residents and fellows. St. Luke's is the only Lehigh Valley-based health care system with Medicare's five- and four-star ratings (the highest) for quality, efficiency and patient satisfaction. St. Luke's is both a Leapfrog Group and Healthgrades Top Hospital and a Newsweek World's Best Hospital. In 2019, three of IBM Watson Health's 100 Top Hospitals were St. Luke's hospitals. St. Luke's University Hospital has earned the 100 Top Major Teaching Hospital designation from IBM Watson Health seven times total and five years in a row. St. Luke's has also been cited by IBM Watson Health as a 50 Top Cardiovascular Program. Utilizing the Epic electronic medical record (EMR) system for both inpatient and outpatient services, the Network is a multi-year recipient of the Most Wired award recognizing the breadth of the SLUHN's information technology applications such as telehealth, online scheduling and online pricing information. St. Luke's is also recognized as one of the state's lowest cost providers.
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As a teacher and educator, Randi has a private vocal coaching and audition prep studio. She is proud to be on staff of the music organization We Sing For The World as a piano teacher. In addition to her career as a collaborative pianist, she performs on violin, harpsichord, voice, and organ, and continues to expand her musical knowledge and study other instruments in her free time. Recently, Randi learned the Indian harmonium and performed at the world premiere of the opera Monticello Wakes in Los Angeles.
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'The Stooges' turns 50; a look back on the album that helped birth punk
Punk as we know it started 50 years ago today in Detroit, when a band called The Stooges released their groundbreaking debut album. It's a true classic, and it sounds as good today as it ever did...
Stooges drummer Scott Asheton, RIP
Scott Asheton (the Stooges) @ Baltimore Virgin Fest 2008 (more by Bao Nguyen)My dear friend Scott Asheton passed away last night.
Scott was a great artist, I have never heard anyone play the drums with more meaning than Scott Asheton...
Greg Cristman's favorite live music photos (that he took) of '13
Iggy & The Stooges @ The Mohawk Austin, TX 3/13/13
2013 has come and gone but we still have a couple year-end posts to go. Greg Cristman shot a whole lot for us last year -- everything from metal to synthpop and all points in between -- and he picked his 25 favorites from '13 which are in th…
watch Iggy and the Stooges' entire Le Poisson Rouge concert; they'll be on 'The Colbert Re…
As mentioned in yesterday's (4/28) What's Going On? post, Iggy and the Stooges came to NYC for a tiny show at Le Poisson Rouge, which was being taped by Soundcheck and NPR...
What's going on Sunday?
Vampire Weekend at an ACL taping in March (more by Tim Griffin)
* J Rome @ Joe's Pub
* ASSSSCAT 3000 @ UCB
* Olivier Manchon @ Barbes
* Stephane Wrembel @ Barbes
* Tower of Power @ BB King's
* Cheap Trick @ John Varvatos
* Jonathan Toubin @ Glasslands
* Kendra Morris @ The Ace Hotel
* L…
Lee Ranaldo Band touring; Thurston Moore w/ Lou Barlow & others on Joyful Noise 7″ series,…
Lee Ranaldo on stage w/ Dinosaur Jr. in 2012 (more by Gretchen Robinette)
The Lee Ranaldo Band, which features Lee along with his Sonic Youth bandmate Steve Shelley, Alan Licht, and Tim Luntzel, are about to head to Spain and Portgual for a short tour this month, and upon returning to NYC they'l…
Iggy & the Stooges played Mohawk @ SXSW (pics, review)
Photos by Greg Cristman; words by Andrew Sacher
Iggy & The Stooges @ Mohawk, 3/13/2013
Iggy & the Stooges announce new album for Fat Possum
Iggy & The Stooges, who had three classic albums during their first run as a band (1967-1971) and returned with Iggy, Rob Asheton, and Scott Asheton in tow for 2007's The Weirdness, are now ready to release another new album, Ready to Die (I guess they didn't feel Illmatic was fitting.…
Kurt Cobain's 50 favorite albums
Via Buzzfeed & Laughing Squid, comes this handwritten list Kurt Cobain made, as published in Journals in 2002. Read the whole thing typed, below...


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Google uses a mathematical construct called an algorithm to compare and assess the different pages relating to a specific keyword. Therefore, while most site owners do not need to be very math orientated, it is important to remember that you are publishing according to some best practices and guidelines.
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Reacting to thousands of lawsuits filed against small businesses in the East Valley, the Arizona Attorney General's Office took the unusual step of intervening on the behalf of a defendant accused of violating the Americans with Disabilities Act.
The goal is to get all similar suits consolidated into one case and eventually dismissed by a Maricopa County Superior Court judge, according to the Attorney General Office's website.
The ADA, passed in 1990, enjoys widespread support among small business owners, who agree with its purpose of ensuring that the disabled have access to public buildings through requirements for parking spaces and other accommodations.
But East Valley businesses, particularly those in Mesa, have been hit by a blizzard of 1,850 lawsuits since June 2015. They've been filed by attorney Peter Strojnik, who says he's a champion for the disabled, on behalf of Advocates for Individuals with Disabilities.
The blizzard turned into a hurricane starting in February 2016, with 1,500 lawsuits filed against mostly Mesa businesses about parking lots alone. An additional 200 suits have been filed against bars and restaurants since October 2015.
The Attorney General's Office would normally be responsible for bringing actions against business owners who violate the Arizonans with Disabilities Act, which is similar to the federal civil rights law.
But the serial suits prompted the state's top prosecutorial agency to take a different tack.
"Plaintiff Advocates for Individuals with Disabilities LLC is flooding this court with lawsuits, apparently as part of a concerted effort to improperly use the judicial system for its own enrichment," the motion said.
The Attorney General's Office said it takes no position on whether Strojnik has cited evidence of actual violations in the suits he filed.
John Moore, president and CEO of Marc Community Resources, a social service agency that helps people with many types of disabilities, said that he strongly supports the ADA and that there is no excuse for someone who knows the law and violates it. But he opposes the heavy-handed tactics used in the serial lawsuits.
"I think lawsuits should be the last resort. It does create a negative perception about a good law and individuals with disabilities,'' Moore said.
Moore said organizations such as Marc have been working for decades to break down negative public perceptions of people with disabilities.
But Strojnik said in an email that his client, the foundation, decided to enforce the ADA because of indifference by government agencies.
Strojnik said he volunteers his time in representing the association, which allowed it to recently donate $85,000 to the disabled community.
Leavitt, the attorney, has talked to hundreds of business owners and represents many of them. He said many of the suits cite relatively small violations, such handicapped parking signs that are two inches shy of the ADA's requirement of 60 inches, or six feet tall.
Suits also have been filed in error against the owner of a dirt lot that is not used as a parking lot, and against 11 business in a strip mall. Because the businesses were members of a condominium association, they were not responsible for the parking lot.
The suits seek out-of-court settlements with businesses owners. Form letters require payments as high as $7,500, and follow up with a slightly smaller offer in exchange for dismissal. The ADA, a civil rights law, does not allow plaintiffs to seek damages in suits alleging violations but it does allow them to seek attorney's fees.
When asked if he thought the suits were a shakedown effort against businesses owners, Leavitt declined to answer.
Sharon Olsen, a Mesa business owner, also chose her words carefully and several other business owners were reluctant to give their names for fear they would be targeted if they appeared in a newspaper.
"I think he's unethical,'' Olsen said, referring to Strojnik.
Olsen was one of more than 118 businesses owners and other interested people who attended a briefing on serial lawsuits presented by Leavitt and other speakers Tuesday at the Phoenix Marriott Mesa in downtown Mesa.
Sally Harrison, president and CEO of the Mesa Chamber of Commerce, which sponsored the event, said an additional 130 people attended a July 12 forum. She said the forums have attracted business owners from Mesa, Apache Junction, Gilbert, Tempe, Phoenix and Scottsdale.
Leavitt presented an overview of the lawsuit problem and explained the law in detail. He said he represents a group of 17 businesses that are fighting a suit. One potential defense is that the alleged ADA violations had been corrected, making legal action moot.
Sharon Olsen, owner of Y-Knot Party Shop in Mesa, was sued over not having a large enough parking space to accommodate a van for the handicapped. Van spaces must be 11 feet wide, while a typical handicapped parking space must be eight feet wide.
Leavitt's presentation said that there must be one handicapped parking space for every 25 parking spaces available for the public at large. One out of every six handicapped spots must be the wider space for the vans.
Olsen said she operates mainly a telephone business, with customers picking up supplies. She said her parking lot has only 15 spaces and is never full.
"If someone had come to me and said, 'Sharon, you are not ADA compliant,' I would have done it immediately,'' she said.
Noting that she has two artificial knees and a handicapped parking pass herself, Olsen said she is a big supporter of the ADA and would never intentionally violate the law.
"If it was the ADA, I would bend over backwards to help them,'' Olsen said.
– Reach Jim Walsh at 480-898-5639 or at jwalsh@timespublications.com.
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Letter to the editor from former Androscoggin County District Attorney Janet T. Mills, in response to the March 17, 1995, Maine Times article about the Kelly Galligan case.
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Leading from the piano, Paul's sing-along workshop will take you on a journey to the heart of the world's favourite songs from Frank Sinatra, Neil Young and the Beatles and if you're lucky, a little Leonard Cohen.
What a heartwarming way to spend a winter's Sunday morning.
This year Paul's workshop will be a complete contrast from those he has presented at previous festivals.


The Barrhead opticians held a weekend of celebrations to mark its fifth anniversary in the town.
Staff at Specsavers, on the Main Street, marked the milestone with a cake which was shared with customers.
A hamper of goodies, including chocolates, bath bombs, biscuits and lip balm, was also up for grabs for customers to win.
Anyone who made a purchase on the store's birthday was entered into a draw to be in with a chance of winning the prize.
Since it opened its doors five years ago, the store has lent its support to several local sports teams, donated high visibility vests to local schools and nurseries and provided 20 large print books to the local library in Barrhead Foundry.
The opticians is also leading the way in developing the next generation of eyecare specialists, with regular work placements for post-graduate and pre-registered optometrists, as well as local high school and university students.
Gail continued: 'We are extremely proud of our achievements over the past five years.


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Enugu 2023: Frank Nweke Jr Assures Enugu Workers Of Pensioners Welfare, Promises Micro-health Insurance Scheme
Enugu State Governorship Candidate of the All Progressives Alliance, APGA,says his administration will prioritise welfare of pensioners by clearing the existing backlog of unpaid pensions and ensuring subsequent payments are made when due.
Nweke said this while responding to the concerns and requests of the people of Onicha Agu ward, Amagunze community, in Nkanu-East, Local Government Area.
Addressing a cross-section of residents that included elderly pensioners, he noted the importance of ensuring senior citizens receive the respect and reward they deserve for their years of service.
"Senior citizens will receive the attention they deserve under my administration. Their pensions and gratuities will not end up in the pockets of thieves and we will ensure that facilities like healthcare centres are easily accessible.
"We will also partner with Health Management Organisations to provide Micro-Health Insurance and guarantee access to good healthcare"
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Addressing further complaints about the unavailability of a Maternity Hospital, electricity and access roads, Nweke reassured the people of his commitment to ensure residents enjoyed access to basic amenities.
Also on the tour were the APGA Deputy Governor Candidate, Dr Edith Ugwuanyi, the House of Representative Candidate for Nkanu East, Dickson Orji, the House of Representative Candidate for Enugu North and South, Nonso Nnamani, the House of Assembly Candidate for Nkanu East Constituency, Hon. Samson Okereke, the APGA State Woman Leader, Hon. Ngozi Ugwu, amongst others.


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To ensure that persimmons are ripe, never pick them from the limb; wait for them to fall.
The lowly persimmon: underestimated, slandered, mysterious. The platypus of fruits, persimmons walk a fine line between delicious and caustic. Chuck Shuford reveals that the berry's secret ingredient is timing.
October brings so many wonderful things. My woodshed is filled with a winter's full of warmth. The hillsides, aflame with vivid colors, are as pretty as a mortgage paid in full. Post-season baseball reminds me each October that no matter how many games I see, I still haven't seen it all. And October is Eat Country Ham Month – honestly, it is.
But one of October's greatest pleasures is the wild persimmon that I grew up with and that we have in abundance here in southwestern Virginia. Unlike the larger Asian varieties, our native persimmons are about the size of a quarter with up to eight seeds about half an inch long, are more nutritious and possess a more intense taste.
Persimmons are not popularly considered to be berries, but in terms of botanical morphology that is exactly what they are, as is the tomato. Some variety of the native or common persimmon is found from southern Connecticut to southern Florida; westward through central Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, and central Illinois to southeast Iowa; and south through eastern Kansas and Oklahoma to the valley of the Colorado River in Texas.
Persimmons can be as tasty as an apricot, if they're ripe.
The first thing to do to make them edible is to wait until they are fully ripened. By that I mean, have fallen to the ground and are soft — squishy even. By then they have sweetened to a point that possums, raccoons, deer, wild turkey and some humans will stand under the tree and enjoy them raw. I relish eating them raw as I gather them. There is a widespread belief that the first frost is required to sweeten the persimmon, but frost has nothing to do with it. Nor can you always judge ripeness by the color. To be safe, don't pick them from the tree. Wait until they fall on their own or can be released with a gentle shaking of the limb. If you find them on the ground and they are soft, they should be sweet.
Admittedly, there is problem with eating a wild persimmon before its time, and this may also contribute to questions about its gastronomic worth. An unripe persimmon is severely astringent, and this has been documented for at least 400 years. Writing in his Generall Historie of Virginia in 1624, Captain John Smith of the Jamestown colony wrote of the persimmon "If it be not ripe, it will draw a man's mouth awrie, with much torment".
And I must add that the unpleasant experience doesn't subside with the rapid removal of the persimmon from the mouth. It takes a few minutes for the astringent reaction to subside. I liken eating an unripe persimmon to spreading alum powder over the inside of my mouth. If you aren't familiar with alum powder, it is used in the pickling process to remove water from the cucumber. Feeding an unripe persimmon to an unsuspecting cousin from the city has been a tradition in rural areas, providing as much fun as snipe hunts. Perhaps a friendly Native American played the same trick on Captain Smith.
In fairness to the persimmon, Smith finished his sentence with "but when it is ripe, it is as delicious as an apricot." I struggle with how to describe the taste to those who have never tasted one. Like the apricot, there is a faint tartness and maybe a slight musky flavor, but it is richly sweet as well. I guess they just taste like persimmons.
If you prefer not to eat them raw, there are many culinary options for persimmons. Native Americans and colonists used the persimmon to make breads, soups, beer, sweet puddings, cakes and candy. Dried persimmon seeds were ground to use as a coffee extender. The anglicized word "persimmon" comes from Algonquin dialects and means "dried fruit," since the nutritious dried persimmon was a valuable winter food source. Its biological name is Diospyros virginiana. In Greek, Diospyros means more or less, divine fruit or fruit of the gods. The gods knew a good meal when they saw it.
In our house when I was growing up, persimmon pudding was the exclusive use of the divine fruit. It can be a lot of work separating pulp from seed, but I find a food mill makes the process go pretty smoothly. Besides, the final creation of persimmon pulp, eggs, sugar, flour, milk, butter and spices cooked to a dark, creamy pudding is well worth the effort.
I recently talked with a cousin from my father's side of the family for the first time in many years, and she said "When I think of your mother, I always remember her persimmon pudding." My mother would be pleased with that legacy.
Persimmons attract a range of wildlife, including the opossum. Some folks refer to persimmon trees as possumwoods.
Add sugar to persimmon pulp –stir until dissolved. In a separate bowl lightly beat two eggs and add milk and vanilla. Pour the liquid into pulp and stir. Stir in flour gradually until well mixed. Pour in melted butter and stir in.
*This is more art than science. I add a little more than 2 cups of persimmons because, well why not?


TO CLARIFY – Kids living in ANY gang infested neighborhood are forced to do anything to survive. Their innocence is lost. ALMOST EVERY CITY has a pocket of gangs controlling a neighborhood, and almost every family living there has a heartbreaking story. We need to listen to their voices. Society must stop looking the other way. There are too many heartbroken families.
Milwaukee is another forgotten city. Kids living in gang infested neighborhoods are forced to do anything to survive. Innocence is lost. Yet, on July 25, 2016, everyone that attended DNC said: "This is the greatest country." Well, this is NOT the greatest country for kids living in Milwaukee. Shame on you!
"Where are all the high-spirited DNC speakers now? Where are all the opinioned celebrities? Where are all the big medias with their truthful investigative journalism? No one wants to say a word about Milwaukee?


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It was around the age of 11 when making beats won out over video games to become Oh No's most obsessive pastime. Over the years, as the Cali-bred b-boy honed his skills of rhyming and producing, it became obvious that – like his brother Madlib (iconic hip-hop maestro), his father Otis Jackson (cult '70s soul singer) and his uncle Jon Faddis (renowned jazz trumpeter) – Oh No would go on to pursue the family business of music.
Oh No debuted as a producer and MC in his own right with The Disrupt, his 2004 full-length on Stones Throw Records. With recent beat production on the albums of fellow Oxnard, CA-based MCs Wildchild, MED and new signee Roc 'C', Oh No has probably logged more beats on Stones Throw releases than anyone else besides Madlib. In recent years, Oh No has carved out a funky style related, but distinct, to that of his famed sibling, as magazines like XXL, The Source and URB have all attested. A landmark collaboration with jazz/funk legend David Matthews (arranger behind many of James Brown's finest albums) at last year's Red Bull Music Academy – where Mr. Matthews composed an orchestral piece based on a single Oh No beat – hinted at the scope of things to come from the young underground impresario.
The hip-hop world can now witness Oh No's musical vision with Exodus Into Unheard Rhythms, a unique concept album made of beats derived solely from Galt MacDermot samples. Known primarily as the composer of the late-'60s smash musical HAIR, Galt MacDermot distilled the essence of R&B rhythms and Broadway melodies into a unique and potent groove for the Age of Aquarius. After his breakthrough hits from HAIR, MacDermot perfected his sound throughout the following decades on his own imprint, Kilmarnock Records, backed by longtime collaborators, jazz/funk drumming legends Bernard Purdie and Idris Muhammad. MacDermot offered Oh No access to his huge (and still growing) catalog of music for his work on Exodus.
Once he put his own sonic stamp on the composer's inimitable material, Oh No pitched the 70-plus beats he made to the MCs in his network. A formidable cast heeded his call to lyrically bless – from veterans like De La Soul's Posdnuos and DITC legend A.G. to current indie powerhouses like Murs and Vast Aire. Longtime Oh No comrades like LMNO, M.E.D., Aloe Blacc, Wildchild and Dudley Perkins do their parts, while appearances from Buckshot of Black Moon and Wise Intelligent of Poor Righteous Teachers lend additional weight to the all-star cast. While he only touches the mic on three tracks here, Oh No's production efforts alone prove that he is one of those musical mavericks who – like Galt – hear the unheard rhythms first, and lead the way for the rest.
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