Hello and welcome to the Monday night home group page. We meet fortnightly for fellowship and bible study. We start around 7:30 with a cup of tea and a chat before we begin our study time. The host often provides some nibbles too! We usually meet in the same home but occasionally we move round to somebody else's house so please check where we are meeting.We sometimes study a book of the bible or maybe watch a video. We usually do a Lent course before Easter as well. We also meet for social evenings every now and again.


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package configure

import (
	"fmt"
	"testing"

	"knative.dev/kn-plugin-operator/pkg/command/testingUtil"
)

func TestGetOverlayYamlContentSource(t *testing.T) {
	for _, tt := range []struct {
		name              string
		resourcesCMDFlags ResourcesFlags
		expectedResult    string
	}{{
		name: "Knative Eventing",
		resourcesCMDFlags: ResourcesFlags{
			LimitCPU:      "2.5G",
			LimitMemory:   "1001M",
			RequestCPU:    "2.2G",
			RequestMemory: "999M",
			Component:     "eventing",
			Namespace:     "test-eventing",
			Container:     "eventing-controller",
			DeployName:    "eventing-controller",
		},
		expectedResult: `#@ load("@ytt:overlay", "overlay")
#@ load("@ytt:data", "data")

#@overlay/match by=overlay.subset({"kind": "KnativeEventing"}),expects=1
---
apiVersion: operator.knative.dev/v1beta1
kind: KnativeEventing
metadata:
  #@overlay/match missing_ok=True
  namespace: #@ data.values.namespace
#@overlay/match missing_ok=True
spec:
  #@overlay/match missing_ok=True
  deployments:
  #@overlay/match by="name",missing_ok=True
  - name: #@ data.values.deployName
    #@overlay/match missing_ok=True
    resources:

      #@overlay/match by="container",missing_ok=True
    - container: #@ data.values.container
      #@overlay/match missing_ok=True
      requests:
        #@overlay/match missing_ok=True
        cpu: #@ data.values.requestCPU
        #@overlay/match missing_ok=True
        memory: #@ data.values.requestMemory
      #@overlay/match missing_ok=True
      limits:
        #@overlay/match missing_ok=True
        cpu: #@ data.values.limitCPU
        #@overlay/match missing_ok=True
        memory: #@ data.values.limitMemory`,
	}, {
		name: "Knative Serving",
		resourcesCMDFlags: ResourcesFlags{
			LimitCPU:      "2.5G",
			LimitMemory:   "1001M",
			RequestCPU:    "2.2G",
			RequestMemory: "999M",
			Component:     "serving",
			Namespace:     "test-serving",
			Container:     "activator",
			DeployName:    "activator",
		},
		expectedResult: `#@ load("@ytt:overlay", "overlay")
#@ load("@ytt:data", "data")

#@overlay/match by=overlay.subset({"kind": "KnativeServing"}),expects=1
---
apiVersion: operator.knative.dev/v1beta1
kind: KnativeServing
metadata:
  #@overlay/match missing_ok=True
  namespace: #@ data.values.namespace
#@overlay/match missing_ok=True
spec:
  #@overlay/match missing_ok=True
  deployments:
  #@overlay/match by="name",missing_ok=True
  - name: #@ data.values.deployName
    #@overlay/match missing_ok=True
    resources:

      #@overlay/match by="container",missing_ok=True
    - container: #@ data.values.container
      #@overlay/match missing_ok=True
      requests:
        #@overlay/match missing_ok=True
        cpu: #@ data.values.requestCPU
        #@overlay/match missing_ok=True
        memory: #@ data.values.requestMemory
      #@overlay/match missing_ok=True
      limits:
        #@overlay/match missing_ok=True
        cpu: #@ data.values.limitCPU
        #@overlay/match missing_ok=True
        memory: #@ data.values.limitMemory`,
	}, {
		name: "Knative Serving",
		resourcesCMDFlags: ResourcesFlags{
			LimitMemory: "1001M",
			RequestCPU:  "2.2G",
			Component:   "serving",
			Namespace:   "test-serving",
			Container:   "activator",
			DeployName:  "activator",
		},
		expectedResult: `#@ load("@ytt:overlay", "overlay")
#@ load("@ytt:data", "data")

#@overlay/match by=overlay.subset({"kind": "KnativeServing"}),expects=1
---
apiVersion: operator.knative.dev/v1beta1
kind: KnativeServing
metadata:
  #@overlay/match missing_ok=True
  namespace: #@ data.values.namespace
#@overlay/match missing_ok=True
spec:
  #@overlay/match missing_ok=True
  deployments:
  #@overlay/match by="name",missing_ok=True
  - name: #@ data.values.deployName
    #@overlay/match missing_ok=True
    resources:

      #@overlay/match by="container",missing_ok=True
    - container: #@ data.values.container
      #@overlay/match missing_ok=True
      requests:
        #@overlay/match missing_ok=True
        cpu: #@ data.values.requestCPU
      #@overlay/match missing_ok=True
      limits:
        #@overlay/match missing_ok=True
        memory: #@ data.values.limitMemory`,
	}, {
		name: "Knative Serving",
		resourcesCMDFlags: ResourcesFlags{
			RequestCPU: "2.2G",
			Component:  "serving",
			Namespace:  "test-serving",
			Container:  "activator",
			DeployName: "activator",
		},
		expectedResult: `#@ load("@ytt:overlay", "overlay")
#@ load("@ytt:data", "data")

#@overlay/match by=overlay.subset({"kind": "KnativeServing"}),expects=1
---
apiVersion: operator.knative.dev/v1beta1
kind: KnativeServing
metadata:
  #@overlay/match missing_ok=True
  namespace: #@ data.values.namespace
#@overlay/match missing_ok=True
spec:
  #@overlay/match missing_ok=True
  deployments:
  #@overlay/match by="name",missing_ok=True
  - name: #@ data.values.deployName
    #@overlay/match missing_ok=True
    resources:

      #@overlay/match by="container",missing_ok=True
    - container: #@ data.values.container
      #@overlay/match missing_ok=True
      requests:
        #@overlay/match missing_ok=True
        cpu: #@ data.values.requestCPU`,
	}, {
		name: "Knative Serving",
		resourcesCMDFlags: ResourcesFlags{
			LimitCPU:   "2.2G",
			Component:  "serving",
			Namespace:  "test-serving",
			Container:  "activator",
			DeployName: "activator",
		},
		expectedResult: `#@ load("@ytt:overlay", "overlay")
#@ load("@ytt:data", "data")

#@overlay/match by=overlay.subset({"kind": "KnativeServing"}),expects=1
---
apiVersion: operator.knative.dev/v1beta1
kind: KnativeServing
metadata:
  #@overlay/match missing_ok=True
  namespace: #@ data.values.namespace
#@overlay/match missing_ok=True
spec:
  #@overlay/match missing_ok=True
  deployments:
  #@overlay/match by="name",missing_ok=True
  - name: #@ data.values.deployName
    #@overlay/match missing_ok=True
    resources:

      #@overlay/match by="container",missing_ok=True
    - container: #@ data.values.container
      #@overlay/match missing_ok=True
      limits:
        #@overlay/match missing_ok=True
        cpu: #@ data.values.limitCPU`,
	}} {
		t.Run(tt.name, func(t *testing.T) {
			result := getOverlayYamlContentResource(tt.resourcesCMDFlags)
			testingUtil.AssertEqual(t, result, tt.expectedResult)
		})
	}
}

func TestGetYamlValuesContentResources(t *testing.T) {
	for _, tt := range []struct {
		name              string
		resourcesCMDFlags ResourcesFlags
		expectedResult    string
	}{{
		name: "Knative Eventing",
		resourcesCMDFlags: ResourcesFlags{
			LimitCPU:      "2.5G",
			LimitMemory:   "1001M",
			RequestCPU:    "2.2G",
			RequestMemory: "999M",
			Component:     "eventing",
			Namespace:     "test-eventing",
			Container:     "eventing-controller",
			DeployName:    "eventing-controller",
		},
		expectedResult: `#@data/values
---
namespace: test-eventing
container: eventing-controller
deployName: eventing-controller
requestCPU: 2.2G
requestMemory: 999M
limitCPU: 2.5G
limitMemory: 1001M`,
	}, {
		name: "Knative Serving",
		resourcesCMDFlags: ResourcesFlags{
			LimitCPU:      "2.5G",
			LimitMemory:   "1001M",
			RequestCPU:    "2.2G",
			RequestMemory: "999M",
			Component:     "serving",
			Namespace:     "test-serving",
			Container:     "activator",
			DeployName:    "activator",
		},
		expectedResult: `#@data/values
---
namespace: test-serving
container: activator
deployName: activator
requestCPU: 2.2G
requestMemory: 999M
limitCPU: 2.5G
limitMemory: 1001M`,
	}, {
		name: "Knative Serving",
		resourcesCMDFlags: ResourcesFlags{
			LimitMemory: "1001M",
			RequestCPU:  "2.2G",
			Component:   "serving",
			Namespace:   "test-serving",
			Container:   "activator",
			DeployName:  "activator1",
		},
		expectedResult: `#@data/values
---
namespace: test-serving
container: activator
deployName: activator1
requestCPU: 2.2G
limitMemory: 1001M`,
	}, {
		name: "Knative Serving",
		resourcesCMDFlags: ResourcesFlags{
			RequestCPU: "2.2G",
			Component:  "serving",
			Namespace:  "test-serving",
			Container:  "activator",
			DeployName: "activator",
		},
		expectedResult: `#@data/values
---
namespace: test-serving
container: activator
deployName: activator
requestCPU: 2.2G`,
	}, {
		name: "Knative Serving",
		resourcesCMDFlags: ResourcesFlags{
			LimitCPU:   "22G",
			Component:  "serving",
			Namespace:  "test-serving",
			Container:  "activator",
			DeployName: "activator",
		},
		expectedResult: `#@data/values
---
namespace: test-serving
container: activator
deployName: activator
limitCPU: 22G`,
	}} {
		t.Run(tt.name, func(t *testing.T) {
			result := getYamlValuesContentResources(tt.resourcesCMDFlags)
			testingUtil.AssertEqual(t, result, tt.expectedResult)
		})
	}
}

func TestValidateResourcesFlags(t *testing.T) {
	for _, tt := range []struct {
		name              string
		resourcesCMDFlags ResourcesFlags
		expectedResult    error
	}{{
		name: "Knative Eventing",
		resourcesCMDFlags: ResourcesFlags{
			LimitCPU:      "2.5G",
			LimitMemory:   "1001M",
			RequestCPU:    "2.2G",
			RequestMemory: "999M",
			Component:     "eventing",
			Namespace:     "test-eventing",
			Container:     "eventing-controller",
			DeployName:    "eventing-controller",
		},
		expectedResult: nil,
	}, {
		name: "Knative Serving",
		resourcesCMDFlags: ResourcesFlags{
			Component:  "serving",
			Namespace:  "test-serving",
			Container:  "activator",
			DeployName: "activator",
		},
		expectedResult: fmt.Errorf("You need to specify at least one resource parameter: limitCPU, limitMemory, requestCPU or requestMemory."),
	}, {
		name: "Knative Serving with no component name",
		resourcesCMDFlags: ResourcesFlags{
			LimitMemory: "1001M",
			RequestCPU:  "2.2G",
			Namespace:   "test-serving",
			Container:   "activator",
			DeployName:  "activator1",
		},
		expectedResult: fmt.Errorf("You need to specify the component name."),
	}, {
		name: "Knative Serving with no container name",
		resourcesCMDFlags: ResourcesFlags{
			RequestCPU: "2.2G",
			Component:  "serving",
			Namespace:  "test-serving",
			DeployName: "activator",
		},
		expectedResult: fmt.Errorf("You need to specify the container name."),
	}, {
		name: "Knative Serving with no deployment name",
		resourcesCMDFlags: ResourcesFlags{
			LimitCPU:  "22G",
			Component: "serving",
			Namespace: "test-serving",
			Container: "activator",
		},
		expectedResult: fmt.Errorf("You need to specify the name of the deployment."),
	}, {
		name: "Knative Serving with no namespace",
		resourcesCMDFlags: ResourcesFlags{
			LimitCPU:   "22G",
			Component:  "serving",
			DeployName: "test-serving",
			Container:  "activator",
		},
		expectedResult: fmt.Errorf("You need to specify the namespace."),
	}} {
		t.Run(tt.name, func(t *testing.T) {
			result := validateResourcesFlags(tt.resourcesCMDFlags)
			if tt.expectedResult == nil {
				testingUtil.AssertEqual(t, result, nil)
			} else {
				testingUtil.AssertEqual(t, result.Error(), tt.expectedResult.Error())
			}
		})
	}
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


Author(s): Peeters, D.G.T. ; Hagoort, P. ; Özyürek, A.
A fundamental property of language is that it can be used to refer to entities in the extra-linguistic physical context of a conversation in order to establish a joint focus of attention on a referent. Typological and psycholinguistic work across a wide range of languages has put forward at least two different theoretical views on demonstrative reference. Here we contrasted and tested these two accounts by investigating the electrophysiological brain activity underlying the construction of indexical meaning in comprehension. In two EEG experiments, participants watched pictures of a speaker who referred to one of two objects using speech and an index-finger pointing gesture. In contrast with separately collected native speakers' linguistic intuitions, N400 effects showed a preference for a proximal demonstrative when speaker and addressee were in a face-to-face orientation and all possible referents were located in the shared space between them, irrespective of the physical proximity of the referent to the speaker. These findings reject egocentric proximity-based accounts of demonstrative reference, support a sociocentric approach to deixis, suggest that interlocutors construe a shared space during conversation, and imply that the psychological proximity of a referent may be more important than its physical proximity.


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package org.qfox.jestful.client.auth;

import java.io.Serializable;

/**
 * Created by Payne on 2017/10/20.
 */
public class Host implements Serializable {
    private static final long serialVersionUID = -4799044442174815412L;
    private final String protocol;
    private final String name;
    private final int port;

    public Host(String protocol, String name, int port) {
        if (protocol == null) throw new IllegalArgumentException("protocol == null");
        if (name == null) throw new IllegalArgumentException("name == null");
        this.protocol = protocol;
        this.name = name;
        this.port = port;
    }

    public String getProtocol() {
        return protocol;
    }

    public String getName() {
        return name;
    }

    public int getPort() {
        return port;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean equals(Object o) {
        if (this == o) return true;
        if (o == null || getClass() != o.getClass()) return false;
        Host host = (Host) o;
        return port == host.port && protocol.equals(host.protocol) && name.equals(host.name);
    }

    @Override
    public int hashCode() {
        int result = protocol.hashCode();
        result = 31 * result + name.hashCode();
        result = 31 * result + port;
        return result;
    }

    @Override
    public String toString() {
        return "Host{" +
                "protocol='" + protocol + '\'' +
                ", name='" + name + '\'' +
                ", port=" + port +
                '}';
    }
}


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Q: Vuetify 3 Gutters I'm trying to create a v-row without gutters (red background) in Vuetify 3 and it's driving me insane. I'd like it to contain the entire width of the screen so there are no spaces between. Can anyone help out?
<template>
  <v-container fluid>
    <v-main>

        <row no-gutters>
          <v-col>

Have a Showmax Festive

              <v-img :src="image"></v-img>

          </v-col>
        </row>

    </v-main>
  </v-container>
</template>

I've tried using the no-gutters props according to the documentation on Vuetify and container-fluid is still nogo.

A: I figured it out!!
I was supposed to use div class="row"
Instead of
Maybe its something wrong with my personal Vuetify setup though but this seems to work perfect for me.

A: You have a typo, instead of <v-row no-gutters> you have <row no-gutters>.
Just changes both instances of row, to v-row and you should be good to go :)
This typo was unfortunate, because <row> is still valid, if you had missed v and had <-row> your IDE/Browser should've let you know lol.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


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Q: Unable to SSH to a docker container from docker host I have created a docker host on openstack and launched a container with it's port 22 mapped to a port on docker host. Followed this link
Still i can't ssh from docker host to container. It gives this error:
$> ssh -v root@172.17.0.9 -p 32775

OpenSSH_6.6.1, OpenSSL 1.0.1e-fips 11 Feb 2013
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 56: Applying options for *
debug1: Connecting to 172.17.0.9 [172.17.0.9] port 32775.
debug1: connect to address 172.17.0.9 port 32775: Connection refused
ssh: connect to host 172.17.0.9 port 32775: Connection refused

Iptables rule is added by default when i used -P option in docker run. It looks like this:
$> iptables -t nat -L -n
Chain PREROUTING (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination
DOCKER     all  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0            ADDRTYPE match dst-type LOCAL

Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination
DOCKER     all  --  0.0.0.0/0           !127.0.0.0/8          ADDRTYPE match dst-type LOCAL

Chain POSTROUTING (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination
MASQUERADE  all  --  172.17.0.0/16        0.0.0.0/0
MASQUERADE  tcp  --  172.17.0.3           172.17.0.3           tcp dpt:80
MASQUERADE  tcp  --  172.17.0.9           172.17.0.9           tcp dpt:22

Chain DOCKER (2 references)
target     prot opt source               destination
RETURN     all  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0
DNAT       tcp  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0            tcp dpt:9090 to:172.17.0.3:80
DNAT       tcp  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0            tcp dpt:32775 to:172.17.0.9:22

And container looks like:
$> docker ps -a
CONTAINER ID        IMAGE               COMMAND                  CREATED             STATUS                     PORTS                   NAMES
46111bb52063        sshns               "/usr/sbin/sshd -D"      9 hours ago         Up 3 hours                 0.0.0.0:32776->22/tcp   TestSSHcontainer

I need to have ssh only for my purpose. I'm aware about docker exec option. Tried changes like PermitRootLogin yes on sshd_config and ssh_config on both docker host and container with no success.
bash-4.2# /usr/sbin/sshd -Dd
WARNING: 'UsePAM no' is not supported in Red Hat Enterprise Linux and may cause several problems.
debug1: sshd version OpenSSH_6.6.1, OpenSSL 1.0.1e-fips 11 Feb 2013
debug1: key_parse_private2: missing begin marker
debug1: read PEM private key done: type RSA
debug1: private host key: #0 type 1 RSA
debug1: key_parse_private2: missing begin marker
debug1: read PEM private key done: type ECDSA
debug1: private host key: #1 type 3 ECDSA
debug1: private host key: #2 type 4 ED25519
debug1: rexec_argv[0]='/usr/sbin/sshd'
debug1: rexec_argv[1]='-Dd'
Set /proc/self/oom_score_adj from 0 to -1000
debug1: Bind to port 22 on ::.
Bind to port 22 on :: failed: Address already in use.
debug1: Bind to port 22 on 0.0.0.0.
Bind to port 22 on 0.0.0.0 failed: Address already in use.
Cannot bind any address.

bash-4.2# netstat -anp | grep 22
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:22              0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      -
tcp6       0      0 :::22                   :::*                    LISTEN      -
bash-4.2# ps -eaf | grep ssh
root         1     0  0 19:17 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/sshd -D
root        26    16  0 22:58 ?        00:00:00 grep ssh

Is there something that i'm still missing?

A: You're using the ip of your container but the host port mapping of container. Try either ssh -v root@172.17.0.9 or ssh -v root@localhost -p <port_mapping_on_host>(Your docker ps -a shows your porting mapping on host is 32776)


J.J. Abrams has praised Carrie Fisher's performance in 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' as "crazy brilliant".
The 49-year-old filmmaker has confessed that although he was initially hesitant about casting the 'Star Wars' veteran in the upcoming next instalment in the franchise, he was blown away by her talent.
Abrams said: "She is crazy brilliant ... It's an amazing thing, her sort of free-associative mind, her ability to find humour in anything - she's like a divining rod for wordplay. She's incredible."
Explaining why he'd been unsure about having her reprise her role as Princess Leia, he continued: "She'd been writing more than she had been acting. So I think that for her, it was a bigger adjustment, which she made beautifully."
However, the 'Star Trek Into Darkness' director explained that Fisher's character is no longer referred to as a Princess.
He told Entertainment Weekly: "She's referred to as General. But... there's a moment in the movie where a character sort of slips and calls her 'Princess'."
Meanwhile, Fisher, 59, joked about reuniting with Han Solo actor Harrison Ford, 73, for the film.
She said: "I think we're pretty sick of each other by now, so we pretend to be interested in each other between takes. And we fail. I'm mostly interested in how [Ford] stays in such good shape. I can talk to him about that for a long time."
'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' is set for release worldwide on December 18.


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National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster
McMaster Blasts Russia in Final Comments as National Security Adviser
H.R. McMaster, in his final remarks as National Security Adviser, blasted Russia for its acts of aggression, warned that President Vladimir Putin believes he is winning a new form of warfare, and said Russia was one of several "revisionist and repressive powers" seeking to undermine America's "values, institutions, and way of life."
John Hayward
4 Apr 2018, 10:41 AM PDT
Klein: Six Lowlights from Globalist, Pro-Islam H.R. McMaster's Career
Amid widespread reports National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster is expected to lose his job within days, it is instructive to recall the troubling ideology and concerning connections of the man who has been serving in one of the most powerful U.S. national security positions.
Aaron Klein
16 Mar 2018, 1:34 PM PDT
Gaffney: After Tillerson's Ouster as Secretary of State, 'Next Order of Business Is H.R. McMaster Must Go'
Center for Security Policy President Frank Gaffney joined SiriusXM host Matt Boyle on Wednesday's Breitbart News Daily to talk about the sacking of Rex Tillerson as secretary of state. Gaffney proposed that if President Trump wants more top officials who truly support his policies, National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster should be the next to go.
14 Mar 2018, 9:15 AM PDT
Iran's Rouhani Demands End of Turkish Invasion of Syria 'At the Earliest Time'
Speaking at a press conference on Tuesday, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani called upon Turkey to end its military incursion into Syria as soon as possible because Turks, Kurds, and Syrians alike are being killed. He also chastised Turkey for failing to seek permission from the Syrian government before launching the operation.
6 Feb 2018, 9:46 AM PDT
Gaffney: Donald Trump Must Restore 'Peace Through Strength' in 2018 After Obama's 'Malign Neglect'
Center for Security Policy President Frank Gaffney joined SiriusXM host Raheem Kassam on Wednesday's Breitbart News Daily to look at America's foreign policy and national security priorities in 2018.
27 Dec 2017, 12:19 PM PDT
White House Sets Preconditions: Open 'Dialogue with North Korea' Absent 'Provocations'
The White House and State Department issued statements on Wednesday clarifying the Trump administration's position on talks with North Korea, following Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's unconditional offer of talks at a forum on Tuesday.
14 Dec 2017, 11:31 AM PDT
Gaffney: North Korea a 'State Terrorist Operation,' China Is 'State Sponsor of Terror' For Supporting Them
Center for Security Policy President Frank Gaffney joined SiriusXM host Raheem Kassam on Wednesday's Breitbart News Daily to discuss conflicts between the State Department and White House, as well as President Trump's decision to return North Korea to the list of state sponsors of terrorism.
22 Nov 2017, 8:16 AM PDT
Limbaugh: McMaster Is a 'Swamp' Elitist Who Wanted to Get Rid of 'Pure Trumpist' Like Bannon
Tuesday on his nationally syndicated radio show, conservative talker Rush Limbaugh said White House National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster, who reportedly criticized the intellectual depth of President Donald Trump, was a part of the so-called "swamp." He claimed McMaster wanted
Pam Key
21 Nov 2017, 1:09 PM PDT
Frank Gaffney: 'Insubordinates' Around President Trump Pressing Him to Stay with Iran Nuclear Deal
Center for Security Policy President Frank Gaffney joined SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Wednesday's Breitbart News Daily to discuss the possibility that President Trump will withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal. He also offered some observations on the Catalan independence movement in Spain.
4 Oct 2017, 11:14 AM PDT
McMaster on Bannon Leaving WH: 'There Were Some' Advancing Their Own Agendas
On this weekend's broadcast of "Fox News Sunday," host Chris Wallace asked National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster if the administration is better off without Steve Bannon. McMaster said, "The administration is better off when we can serve the president by
17 Sep 2017, 9:06 AM PDT
H.R. McMaster on North Korea: 'We've Been Kicking the Can Down the Road, and We're Out of Road'
Responding to North Korea's latest missile launch, which once again sent an ICBM soaring over Japan, White House National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster said on Friday: "We've been kicking the can down the road, and we're out of road. So for those who have said and have been commenting about the lack of a military option, there is a military option."
15 Sep 2017, 5:07 PM PDT
McMaster Defines 'Winning': 'Allowing Afghanistan to Be Afghanistan'
U.S. National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster told reporters that President Donald Trump's administration will win in Afghanistan by allowing the country to "be Afghanistan" rather than trying to "create a state in the U.S. image."
25 Aug 2017, 12:45 PM PDT
Erik Prince: McMaster Wanted 70,000-80,000 Troops in Afghanistan
Former Navy SEAL and former Blackwater CEO Erik Prince said President Trump has "signed up for what he'd been opposing" in Afghanistan on Tuesday's edition of Breitbart News Daily.
22 Aug 2017, 10:27 AM PDT
Trump's Afghanistan Address Echoes Previous War Speeches by H.R. McMaster
TEL AVIV — In his address last night outlining a new strategy for the war in Afghanistan, President Donald Trump seemed to channel key sentiments previously expressed in policy speeches delivered by embattled White House National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster about the goals of military conflict.
22 Aug 2017, 8:34 AM PDT
North Korea Threatens Nuclear War if Joint U.S.-South Korean Military Exercise Proceeds
The United States and South Korea began the first stage of their regularly scheduled joint military exercise on Monday. This was followed by North Korea's regularly scheduled threat of nuclear war if the drills proceed as planned.
21 Aug 2017, 1:09 PM PDT
Frank Gaffney: McMaster Has Been 'Insubordinate' to President Trump, Worked to 'Subvert His Policies'
Center for Security Policy President Frank Gaffney joined SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Wednesday's Breitbart News Daily to discuss the media's attempt to frame all criticism of National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster as a conspiracy orchestrated by none other than Marlow's predecessor as Breitbart News Daily host, Steve Bannon.
EXCLUSIVE – Terrorism Expert: H.R. McMaster is Endangering U.S. National Security
TEL AVIV — H.R. McMaster, the embattled National Security Adviser to President Trump, is threatening U.S. national security by refusing to recognize radical Islamic terrorism, a top terrorism expert told Breitbart News.
John Bolton: Inexplicable to Say Iran in Compliance with Nuclear Agreement
Former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton warned Breitbart News Daily on Friday that North Korea's nuclear missile technology will soon find its way into Iranian hands. He proceeded to criticize Trump administration officials, like National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster, for protecting the Iran nuclear deal despite Iran's clear violations of the agreement.
Frank Gaffney: National Security Adviser McMaster 'Disqualified' by 'Rank Insubordination to the President'
SiriusXM host Raheem Kassam asked Center for Security Policy President Frank Gaffney on Wednesday's Breitbart News Daily about National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster, who has been criticized for firing opponents of the Iran nuclear deal and being out-of-step with President Trump's security policy in several areas.
9 Aug 2017, 9:04 AM PDT
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Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large Peter Schweizer, president of the Government Accountability Institute, talked about the purge of "America First" members of the National Security Council on Thursday's Breitbart News Daily.
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2 Aug 2017, 10:20 AM PDT
Frank Gaffney: McMaster, Tillerson, Mattis Desperate to Preserve Nuclear Deal Despite Iran's Lack of Compliance
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19 Jul 2017, 9:37 AM PDT
White House Warns Syria May be Prepping Chemical Attack
Syria has denied White House allegations that it may be preparing a new chemical attack, insisting again that it has never used such arms.
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27 Jun 2017, 4:12 AM PDT
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24 May 2017, 7:33 AM PDT
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2 lb (1KG) of rabbit (jointed), 10 rashers of streaky bacon, 4 oz (115g) dry, fine breadcrumbs, 1 onion (peeled and chopped fine), 1 tbsp chopped parsley, 1 tbsp chopped thyme, 1 tbsp butter, salt and pepper, ½ pint (300ml) milk.
In a bowl mix thoroughly together the breadcrumbs, onion, herbs and seasoning (make sure everything is cut or grated fine). Cut the rabbit meat off the bone into small strips. Butter the base of a heat-proof oven dish, sprinkle in a thin layer of breadcrumbs. Fill with alternate layers of rabbit meat and breadcrumbs. Cover over the top with the streaky bacon rashers, then pour in the milk. Cover the dish and bake in an oven at 325F (170C) for 2 hours, add in a little more milk at the end if needed and uncover the dish for the last 20 minutes to brown the top layer.
2 lb (1Kg) rabbit (jointed), 1 lb (500g) pork sausages (cut into quarters), ½ lb potatoes (sliced into medium thick rounds) ½ lb (250g) carrots (finely sliced in thin rounds), ½ pint (300ml) milk, ½ pint (300ml) chicken stock, salt and pepper to season, 1 tbsp flour, 1 tbsp chopped parsley, 1 tbsp chopped thyme.
In a large saucepan (or casserole dish) layer the rabbit joints, sausages, potatoes and carrots – season each layer with the herbs and spices. Add the milk and chicken stock. Cover and cook on a gentle simmer for 2 hours on the hob, or in the oven for 2 hours at 325F (170C). Blend the flour with a little water and stir into the casserole after two hours, cook for a further ½ hour (30 minutes) uncovered.
This dessert is so called because all the main ingredients are all weight out with a tea cup – equal measures go into the mixing bowl to make the batter for the steamed pudding.
1 teacupful of the following: flour, shredded suet, fine-dry breadcrumbs, mixed dried fruit, honey, milk. Also 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda, 1 tsp ground cinnamon.
Dissolve the bicarbonate of soda into the milk and then in a mixing bowl mix all the ingredients together. Beat thoroughly with a spoon so that everything is mixed without lumps. Spoon the batter into a small greased pudding basin. Cover with baking parchment and foil, tie off with string, and steam for 3 hours. Serve with warmed, runny honey (and custard if preferred).
Peel and core the apples, slice, and stew in a saucepan gently with 2 tablespoons of honey for 7 minutes. In a buttered pie dish or tart tin lay the stewed apples evenly over the base. In a small mixing bowl beat together (cream) the butter and sugar, then the remaining two tablespoons of honey, until white and fluffy. Beat in the eggs, then fold in the flour and salt. Pour this batter over the apples in the dish. Bake in an oven at 350F (180C) for 25 minutes. Serve with cream.
8 oz (225g) flour, 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda, 1 tsp cream of tartar, 2 oz (60g) butter, ½ pint (150ml) buttermilk.
Sift the flour, bicarbonate of soda, and cream of tartar into a mixing bowl. Rub in the softened butter with your finger-tips, until a breadcrumb like consistency in the flour is made. Add the buttermilk and mix into a light dough – knead this dough until smooth and silky (add extra flour if needed to stop it being sticky). Flatten out the dough to an inch (2.5 cm) thick. Using a pastry cutter cut out small rounds and place them on a buttered baking sheet or tray. Bake in a hot oven at 425F (220C) for about 10 minutes, until the scones are well-risen. Remove from the oven and when still warm split them in half and serve with butter (or cream) and jam.
1 lb (500g) flour, pinch of sea-salt, 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda, 1 tsp cream of tartar, 1 oz (30g) butter, 4 oz (115g) currants, 4 oz (115g) caster sugar, ½ pint (300ml) buttermilk.
Sift the flour, bicarbonate of soda, and cream of tartar into a mixing bowl. Rub in the softened butter with your finger-tips, until a breadcrumb like consistency in the flour is made. Mix in the currants and sugar then add the buttermilk and mix into a light dough – knead this dough until smooth and silky (add extra flour if needed to stop it being sticky). Flatten out the dough to just over an inch (3 cm) thick, square it up, and place it on a buttered baking sheet or tray. Bake in an oven at 350F (180C) for about 35 minutes, until well-risen and golden brown. Remove from the oven and serve with thick cream and a little jam.
12 oz (340g) flour, 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda, 2 tsp ground cinnamon, 6 oz (170g) butter, 4 oz (115g) sugar, 12 oz (340g) mixed dried fruit, 4 oz (115g) chopped candied peel, 1 tbsp golden syrup (corn syrup), ½ pint (300ml) buttermilk.
Sift together the flour, bicarbonate of soda and ground cinnamon into a mixing bowl. Rub in the softened butter with your finger-tips, until a breadcrumb like consistency in the flour is made. Mix in the sugar, dried fruit and candied peel. Stir in the golden syrup (corn syrup) then the buttermilk, and beat well into a loose batter. Spoon into a greased loaf tin and bake at 350F (180C) for 1 and ½ hours (90 minutes) or a little longer until done.
These are thin, oblong (rectangle) shaped griddle cakes, very popular on the Isle of Man.
1 lb (500g) flour, 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda, 1 tsp cream of tartar, 4 oz (115g) lard, pinch sea-salt, 3 oz (85g) sugar, 3 oz (85g) currants, 1 egg, 1/3 pint (200ml) buttermilk.
Sift the flour, bicarbonate of soda, and cream of tartar into a mixing bowl. Rub in the softened lard with your finger-tips, until a breadcrumb like consistency in the flour is made. Add the salt, sugar and currants, stirring them in. Mix in the beaten egg and enough buttermilk, gradually, to make a soft dough. Gently knead the dough until soft and silky. Roll out the dough thinly on a floured work-surface and cut out oblong (rectangle) shapes. Place them on a buttered griddle to cook (or large frying pan) – cook on each side for a few minutes. Place on a plate, sprinkle over sugar, and serve. A ground cinnamon and sugar mix is sometimes sprinkled over, or the slim cakes are served with a thin coating of jam.
Tanrogans are scallops, and this is a simple first course which is popular on the Isle of Man.
Scallops: 4 large scallops, ¼ pint (150ml) milk, 1 small onion (peeled and chopped), 1 bouquet garni (bag of herbs) salt and pepper to season. Cheese Sauce: 1 oz (30g) butter, 1 oz (30g) flour, ¼ pint (150ml) milk (reserved from the tanrogans), 3 oz (85g) grated Cheddar cheese. To Serve: ½ lb (250g) potatoes – boiled then mashed with 1 oz (30g) butter and 1 tbsp milk, chopped parsley.
Remove the tanrogans (scallops) from the shells, trim them, and put them in a pan with the milk, onion and boquet garni and seasoning. Simmer very gently for 7 to 10 minutes depending on the size of the tanrogans – make sure they are soft and tender. Clean, wash and drain the scallop shells. When the scallops are done strain everything out and reserve the milk. Cut the scallops into bite sized pieces and replace them into the cleaned shells. To make the mash peel, slice and boil the potatoes for twenty minutes, then mash with the butter and a little milk. Using a piping bag fill it with the mash and pipe an attractive border around the scallops in their shells. To make the sauce melt the butter in a small saucepan, blend in the flour and cook this out for a minute or two. Gradually add in the reserved milk on a low heat making sure there are no lumps. Bring the milk to a boil, reduce and stir all the time until it starts to thicken. Reduce the heat, season with salt and pepper and add in the grated cheese. Sir this until it is all melted, then remove from the heat. Spoon a little of this cheese sauce all over the tanrogans in their shells then bake under a hot grill or in the oven until golden brown. Garnish with a little chopped parsley and serve.


A car accident injury can happen anywhere, even in your own home. For example, a family in Houston were in their apartment when a multi-car accident outside caused one of the cars to crash through the wall and into their apartment. Fortunately no one was injured in the accident but this case is a good example of how a car wreck can affect you even if you're not driving. Pedestrians and bystanders who are injured by car accidents are entitled to compensation just like drivers. If you have been injured in a car accident by another driver or as a pedestrian, call the car wreck lawyers at The Berry Law Group today.
Car wreck injuries can be serious. Like in this example, a car can do damage to your home and cause serious injury. The family in the story had to relocate to a hotel until the damages to their apartment are fixed. It is important in these situations to make sure you're going to get reimbursed from the driver for the cost of your relocation as well as the repairs to your home or apartment. It is important to get a Georgia car wreck lawyer in these situations to help you get the compensation you deserve.
Whether you were injured in a car accident, as a pedestrian, in a truck accident, or in any other type of auto accidents, the Georgia car wreck attorney at The Berry Law Group are here to help you. We will work with the insurance companies to get you the compensation that you deserve for medical bills and damages. In some cases we can even get additional pain and suffering compensation. Even if you don't suffer injuries but experience property damage it is important to speak to a GA car accident attorney.


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Duck eggs
Duck Eggs and Gluten free cooking….memories
Duck eggs by taliesin @ morgueFile free photos. With thanks
Duck eggs and Memories.
Duck eggs are fantastic for Gluten free baking according to a friend because the eggs are so rich!
Google "duck eggs" and you will find that there is an abundance of information from how to keep and raise ducks to cooking with duck eggs and Gluten free cooking.
Jamie Oliver the down to earth very popular cook gives a lot of cooking information. My mother too used them and a favourite of mine was her tray of Streusel cake which was a layer of plain cake topped with a thick layer of lumpy delectable streusel. Mother used the duck eggs for general baking because they were so large and given to us for free. I don't think we ever ate them as scrambled or such, yet some people do like them.
A glance at a photograph of Duck Eggs sent to me some time ago on Facebook set off an avalanche of MEMORIES from my primary school years during the 60′s.
Photo by phaewilk@morgueFile free photos. With thanks
Living at "Bradley House" in Stirling in the beautiful Adelaide Hills.
Our old landlord Mr Voden. A Scotsman with a rumbling burr, his accent hard to understand at times.
He lived next door on a long property with the house near the top of the hill. There was a very narrow twin track drive way of white crushed limestone going from Mt. Barker Road all the way up to their house. Then a small narrow bridge linked the two properties near the main road. This is where my father would enter to park his motor bike (brought with us from Germany when we migrated). That narrow plank bridge went over a tiny creek which was an overflow from a spring.
In winter dad would have to be careful pushing his bike across as the wood became slick with frost….starting that bike six mornings a week was the local alarm clock for 7am . It was also our family's mode of transport when dad put the sidecar on.
These were the days before town water was connected for the house and garden. We depended on rain water tanks which in summer sometimes needed to be filled by the fire Brigade with water from elsewhere. Also two wells, one of which ran dry in summer. All watering was done by hand with a watering can. Mr Voden I seem to recall had a small dam with some sort of small generator pump.
Thinking back now and wishing that I could wander along with Mr Voden because he had the most amazing array of fruit and vegetables. Also bees, chicken, Bantams, ducks and geese, and possibly pigeons. It was like a huge market garden and he was always out there with his battered hat on his head…I suppose like a Highland Crofter in his home country….and he always brought us something. In retrospect, none of the above I really appreciated as a child.
Red currants, black currants, goose berries, blackberries, apples, quince, rhubarb, spinach,salads. We even ate the darker green leaves of the lettuce; good for iron our mother said as we dutifully swallowed it
Photo courtesy morgueFile free photo by Marcin-Modestowicz
But the most memorable were the RASPBERRIES. Fresh, plump, sweet and soft. Bejewelled Red fruit in a glazed bowl. A bowl that us three girls shared oh so carefully.
The red currants were nice with sugar, but black currants…none of us girls really liked them! Though now I know they are very healthy and I suppose we got our dose of Vitamins. The motto was waste not, and when, as now, families have a lean purse all good foods are used thankfully.
So, back to the present again and an observation.
Homesteading, growing Organic Foods, Sustainable Living, back to basics. These are the modern names given. But for us as children it was a way of life and we knew no different. It was a great way to raise children. There was that sense of adventure, fresh air, open space, simple rural living…then we grew up, moved to the city and life carried on. Nevertheless the love of gardening was entrenched….and I have my tiny patch of herbs and such to give me joy.
Now over to you dear readers. What memories have you recently been taken back to.
Till next time, and to be continued…
Joining in with Essentially Jess for IBOT
Thanks to Self Sufficient Home Acre for this link providing some interesting reading about duck eggs and much more…happy reading
http://www.theselfsufficienthomeacre.com/2013/10/how-to-use-duck-eggs.html
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Inauguration over, world reacts
by The Poly Post January 24, 2017
By Olivia Levada Lenoir
Approximately 750,000 people attended the Women's March in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday, according to organizers, and Cal Poly Pomona students, faculty and staff joined in the efforts.
Just one day after the inauguration of President Donald Trump, the mission statement for the Women's March called upon "all defenders of human rights" to "stand together in solidarity for the protection of our rights, our safety, our health and our families."
"People who were there were people who were interested in making America what we all dream of it being- a place where everyone does have the opportunity and we can speak to each other," said Victoria Bhavsar, director of faculty development and e-learning and lecturer from the plant science department.
The L.A. march began at Pershing Square at 9 a.m. and concluded at City Hall.
Attendees were equipped with signs, pink beanies and pink clothing.
Bhavsar carried a sign that read, "God bless everyone, no exceptions."
Other sign messages addressed underlying themes of Planned Parenthood, immigration, LGBTQ rights and more.
Alina Rasa, a fourth-year civil engineering student, described the march as great but felt that not every experience was represented across the country during the marches.
"There were people there " different races, different classes, and like cisgender and trans women and there were even kids there," said Rasa. "So that was really beautiful, but I think there wasn't enough acknowledgement of every experience."
For Bhavsar, participation was about unity.
"The political situation in our country is very tense right now, and I've traveled enough to know that we have something extraordinary here. America, the United States of America, is extraordinarily special and we need to protect it," said Bhavsar.
There were protests in all seven continents and in more than 600 cities across the globe, according to CNN.
Over 1 million people joined worldwide.
Krista Martino, a fifth-year English literature student, had never attended a march before but described her experience at the march in Riverside, California as rewarding.
"There is kind of this uproar that we feel cheated, almost, of not just our rights but of what we wanted out of a democracy and what we wanted out of our next president," said Martino.
Martino hopes that the march will make a difference because of the amount of people who joined.
"I think it's going to stick around as something that mattered," said Martino.
According to Rasa, more efforts will have to be made for real results.
"Even though it was a really amazing thing" I don't think change can happen overnight," said Rasa.
In response to the march, Trump tweeted the following day, "Watched protests yesterday but was under the impression that we just had an election! Why didn't these people vote? Celebs hurt badly."
Madonna marched in Washington D.C. and said, "Good did not win this election, but good will win in the end."
Celebrity appearances in L.A. included Miley Cyrus, Barbara Streisand, Russell Simmons, Natalie Portman, Vanessa Hudgens and others.
Trump also shared in a tweet on Sunday, "Peaceful protests are a hallmark of our democracy. Even if I don't always agree, I recognize the rights of people to express their views."
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'Tovah Feldshuh in Conversation With Linda Winer' (a LPTW, NYPL for the Performing Arts Oral History Event)
(L to R): Linda Winer, Tovah Feldshuh in NYPL for the Performing Arts and LPTW 'Tovah Feldshuh in Conversation With Linda Winer (Carole Di Tosti)
Monday evening, 6 May the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts and the League of Professional Theatre Women presented Tovah Feldshuh in Conversation With Linda Winer. The event produced by Ludovica Villar-Hauser with Sophia Romma was held at the Bruno Walter Auditorium at Lincoln Center.
Linda Winer was chief theater critic and arts columnist of Newsday (1987-2017). She has taught critical writing at Columbia University's School of the Arts since 1992 and hosted the "Women in Theatre" series on CUNY-TV from 2002-2007. Recently (2018) she was given a special award from the League of Professional Theatre Women for her contributions to women and theater.
Tovah Feldshuh's illustrious career spans decades. She is a six-time Emmy and Tony nominee. She has been awarded three honorary Doctorates of Humane Letters. Her prodigious career in theater has garnered her four Drama Desks, four Outer Critics Circle awards, three Dramalogues, the Obie, the Theatre World and the Helen Hayes and Lucille Lortel Awards for Best Actress. Noted Broadway performances include Yentl, Cyrano, Rodgers & Hart, Dreyfus in Rehearsal, Saraval, Lend Me a Tenor, Golda's Balcony, Irena's Vow and Pippin (the show stopping trapeze artist, Berthe).
Here are a few excerpts from the conversation Linda Winer held with Tovah Feldshuh who entertained the audience throughout the conversation by performing the role of her grandmother and her mother and others with heavy Bronx or European accents, while discussing her life and career. The piece has been generally edited to remove infelicities in grammar.
Linda Winer: So you're a serious actress, with a life-time career, a cabaret star, wife, mother of two. You climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro, you hung from a trapeze without a net in Pippin. You appeared in a lot of my favorite Law and Order Episodes. You've appeared in Walking Dead and in lots of TV and movies. You've said your career reflects your personality. Which one? (audience laughter)
The greatest advantage about growing older is the wisdom and perspective it gives you about life. And it's taken me into my 60s to recognize and deal with the general existential fear of death…or dwelling on the idea that one day I won't be here. The most important word in a successful career is the word "yes." So when people ask me if I can do it? If it interests me, I say, "yes."
I'm much pickier than I used to be because time has shortened. My mother lived until over 103. I'm in the last third of my life. But nonetheless, I'm clearer about what I want to do. I see it and I grab it when it comes my way. And if it doesn't come my way, I've learned from my betters to create it. Dustin Hoffman didn't just get Tootsie, he produced Tootsie. Jane Fonda didn't just do her workouts she couldn't get hired because she was considered a traitor by the U.S. congress and she created the workout program because she was physically fit. I did the pregnancy workout and was most grateful that I worked out up to the day that I delivered.
Tovah Feldshuh, NYPL for the Performing Arts and LPTW in 'Tovah Feldshuh in Conversation With Linda Winer' (Carole Di Tosti)
That is the explanation for a lot of the work you do?
I write and collaborate with various individuals. (An example of this would be her one-woman show Tovah is LEONA!) I went into one-woman show business for a reason, not only to fulfill my dreams. One of my children didn't learn to read and I was so involved with my career, I didn't catch it. My beloved sister-in-law said, "This child is not reading." My sister-in-law is a reading therapist. I said, "What are you talking about, of course this child is reading." "No!
she said. "This child is memorizing the sounds. He's not coding right."
Don't worry. The child went to Harvard. So when I didn't catch it, I stopped doing Broadway for 13 years. When one child went to Switzerland, and the other was accepted to the college of his choice, then I went back. There's no free lunch here. People came up to me and would say, "How are you? Where've you been?" There's no understudy for a parent. Here we're supposed to be talking about theater. But when you bring human life onto the planet, it's your responsibility to nurture those lives.
You like great titles. I have these scribbled down and they all have your name. You were smart about branding before it became the thing.
Well people had to know what they were coming to see.
A Touch of Tovah, Tovah Out of her Mind. Tovah Crossovah! Aging is Optional.
The roles I choose, particularly the one-woman shows I construct, I love playing multiple characters. And even when I don't write the piece, for example, William Gibson wrote Golda's Balcony, there was still the decision to work on it. The playwright gave us permission to put in all the verbs in the present tense, so we could retain the reportage which it was and turn it into an experience which it is. And that's why the piece has persevered. The version of the piece that we do is not published.
I'm doing The Prompter now by Wade Dooley directed by Scott Schwartz (May 28–June 16 at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor). When I was in my 50s I was cast as Golda who was 80. I'm in my 60s now, I am playing Irene Young in The Prompter who is 90. So if I keep going when I'm 80 or 85 I'll probably play Methuselah.
How about your grandmother? Was she in shows.
Grandma Ada. She's the jewel in my crown. Ada is actually a compendium of my family. It was my father who said, "Reach for the stars, you may land onto the roof. If you reach for the roof, you'll never get off the ground." My grandmother wanted to be an actress and she had this career in the Music Hall in London. So when she tried out, they said "Ada, show us your ankles." She showed them her ankles. They asked, "Ada show us your knees." She said, "Nobody sees my knees except Grandpa, and then not so often. (Tovah Feldshuh lays on a thick accent as she says these lines.)
So it's a compilation of all my beloved forebears. They came across the waters from England in 1902. They came from England, Russia Germany Austria. I'm a real American mutt. Relating to Austria and Germany, if you say Feldshuh, it's as familiar as Smith. When you were in Napoleonic times before we had last names, you were "Samuel, son of David." But they needed last names for taxes. If you paid, you were Montifiore, "Mountain of Roses." If you didn't pay, you were named Feldshuh, "field boots." That's my proud name.
You were Terri Sue.
So I fell in love with a boy who was not of my tribe, not of my religion. He encouraged me to change my name. And he said what kind of a name is "Terri Sue?" You're from the North. What else were you called? I said I was called Tovah in "Sunday School." Actually, it was Hebrew School. I used to say "Sunday School" to fit in. I was embarrassed to say Hebrew School. By the way in Hebrew School, they give you a prayer book, it's exhaustive, like Suzuki Judaism. In this prayer book, you can pray wherever you are in the world.
I was called Tovah in "Sunday School." This was the 1950s. Jews were assimilating. There were no Mercedes in Scarsdale. To assimilate Jewish men men were going to Brooks Brothers to get their blazers and beige pants. These were the boys that made it, the GIs that came home from the war. They were Jewish. To get back to how I changed the assimilation name to Tovah, it was because of Michael Fairchild. May he go down for the ages. He became a photographer for National Geographic. On his encouragement, I changed my name from Terri Sue to Tovah. And I didn't know the entire state of Israel would fall on my head. I had no sense of what would happen.
So what was the consequence?
It changed the whole landscape of my life. Juliet says what's in a name. A rose by any other name is as sweet. Not necessarily so. A name characterizes. "Tovah" characterized me. Bobby De Niro is immediately characterized as Italian. Dustin Hoffman is something else. So a Tovah Feldshuh is a Danish name. So in Minneapolis when I worked at the Guthrie, they thought I was Danish (she imitates a Danish/Swedish accent). That was the one place in Europe that saved the Jewish community. So when I got to New York, my name, Austrian Jew, from Vienna? They said to me, "It's a ridiculous name! You must change your name! (heavy accent). And 18 months later my name Tovah Feldshuh was on the marquee (applause).
Your parents in Scarsdale sent you to Sarah Lawrence. You were a philosophy major. You studied languages…and were/are a pianist. Did your parents think that changing your name to Tovah and becoming an actress was a mistake?
They thought being an actress was a mistake. When I told my mother I wanted to go to Julliard, my mother said, "You're not going to a trade school." (laughter) My older brother who is an MD, Ph.D. Dr. Dr. David Feldshuh, my mother called him Doc. My older brother went into the theater first. He went to Dartmouth and was a Reynolds scholar and was a McKnight Fellow at the Guthrie. He was the one who said, "Don't go to law school. Why don't you apply for a McKnight Fellowship in Acting?"
So I applied to law school, got on the wait list, got the McKnight Fellowship and went to study at Guthrie. And again, this changed my life. Sarah Lawrence was fabulous. My mother came to see Renard the Fox by Stravinsky. I think I had green hair and purple feet. She took one look at me and said, "Why didn't you go to Vassar?" (Tovah Feldshuh imitates her mother with an accent) I applied and got in to Vassar but was encouraged to go to Sarah Lawrence by my mother. What I didn't know at the time was that the Taconic Parkway had the highest mortality rate for car accidents. The road to Poughkeepsie was a long, dangerous road and she was preserving and protecting her young. I guess she wanted me near home. Then they sent me abroad. When I went abroad, I finally did my own laundry, otherwise I brought my laundry home to Scarsdale.
I was sent to Paris. At 13, I was sent to the Cote d'Azur. My father's client was in Lyon. All their children spoke French and they had a summer home in the South of France. My brother and I were sent to the South of France for the summer. My mother said, "She's not going." My father said, "She's getting on the plane, Lillian." I had one parent who spoke like he was always in a courtroom. He dressed with the winged tipped shoes and the whole nine yards with the Paul Stewart suit. So I would ask, "Dad, was this the way you spoke when you were a baby?" (laughter) On the other hand, my mother was born in the Bronx on the dining room table, 1534 Charlotte Street (Tovah Feldshuh imitates where and how her mother was born). She had elocution lessons. The immigrants gave their children elocution lessons.
I had elocution lessons and it didn't do me a bit of good. How is it that, not to use a cliche, how is it you have it all? I was at a women's journalism luncheon. Barbara Walters said, "Women, you can't have it all. You can have two of the three." It's very unusual to have three. You can have children or a husband or a career, but you can't have all three. The thought she conveyed was if you try to "do it all,"you will suffer.
That must have been her experience. And I'm sorry it was. I never think of having it all. There are people in this audience who know darn well there are two sides to every coin. I have a great mate. Andrew Harris Levy who did originate Tovah Out of Her Mind. He's very clever and he's clean and I don't just mean in the shower. I got the right mate. His mother was a concert level pianist who gave up her ultimate dream to marry Arnold Levy. She became a piano teacher. I was a classical pianist because my mother was shy and quiet and a classical pianist. And I wanted to be near my mommy. So I took piano; interesting we never did a four-handed piece. That was a bit of a heartbreak for me.
You were going to be a concert pianist.
I couldn't do the concertos. I could only get to the Finals. I even played for Van Cliburn. It was very hard for me. "Mozart in D Minor," "Rhapsody in Blue." And I thought to myself, "You're going to be an also ran. You better try out for something else." So I did plays with music and I was immediately cast as Cousin Hebe in H.M.S Pinafore. I thought then…there are three girls singing in this operetta, and I am one of them. So that gave me hope. The next year I got Little Mary Sunshine in Little Mary Sunshine. And I thought to myself, hey maybe this might be something that I can do really well.
But the man I married and I were brought up on the exact same music, the same love of opera. (Tovah imitates her mother.) "If you're gonna marry someone, marry someone of your race, your religion and your social class. You wanna fight? Fight at the opera." The woman's speech patterns that were fancy, devolved as she got older.
Tovah Feldshuh, LPTW Co-President, Catherine Porter, Empire Hotel Rooftop, after 'Tovah Feldshuh in Conversation With Linda Winer,' (Xanthe Elbrick)
I have a certain sized bosom. You really can't see it because there isn't a breast pad left in Manhattan that isn't in this bra. Anyway, I have a very small chest. My mother and my beloved daughter have a very ample chest. My mother looks at my daughter and looks at me and she says, "Well, I guess it skips a generation." (laughter)
So why do I have it all? I had great parents, but I had the great luck of choosing a man who didn't begrudge me my work. And his love for me had to do with him not stopping me. We've been married 40 years and it's taken me decades to realize that. There's times he comes in and he's working on his law. He's a fantastic lawyer, the head of a department of huge law firm and now he's an accountant for the biggest law firm in the world. I will not let him retire. I do not believe in retiring, so I can go to Florida and do my nightclub act. Tovah Feldshuh segues to a joke. So I'm down there and I tell them. I'll change the opening. I'll change the closing. And they say to me, "Ms. Feldshuh, you don't have to change anything. They're all dead." About retirement? No. In my experience you have to live for a purpose that is beyond yourself. Children are usually the easiest solution to that.
So I had these good parents. I loved my father deeply. He was a Harvard lawyer. I married a Harvard lawyer. My father-in-law was a Harvard Lawyer. My mother-in-law was a classical pianist. My mother was a classical pianist. I was a classical pianist. So we had enough synchronistic coincidences, that had nothing to do with each other until will met each other. That made vast areas of the marriage easy. And that's why it was possible in my life, to "have it all."
Tovah Feldshuh in Conversation With Linda Winer was a delightful presentation. Though I didn't include all of the lengthy conversation here, you may find it is at the NYPL for the Performing Arts. Tovah Feldshuh, did mention that she wanted to get this "on the record." She has not had any plastic surgery!
I would credit her youthful appearance to her peace inside, her brilliance, cleverness and her luck in choosing the right partner, and of course, her obvious joie de vivre!
You can see Tovah Feldshuh in The Prompter May 28–June 16 at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor. Tovah is LEONA! is on its way to San Francisco's Feinstein's at the Nikko from September 20-21. You can find her on https://www.tovahfeldshuh.com/
Posted in Interviews, League of Professional Theatre Women News, Theater News, NYC
Tags: Bruno Walter Auditorium Lincoln Center, League of Professional Theatre Women, Linda Winer, Ludovica Villar-Hauser, NYPL for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, Sophia Romma, Tovah Feldshuh
'Phylicia Rashad Receives Lifetime Achievement Award at 2018 LPTW Theatre Awards'
Phylicia Rashad during her standing ovation upon receiving The Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2018 LPTW Theatre Women Awards, TimesCenter (Carole Di Tosti)
On Friday 16 March The League of Professional Theatre Women held their awards for outstanding accomplishments of women in the theater. With the #metoo movement in full swing and the entertainment industry highlighting the paltry showing of sterling women who have yet to be represented in parity and equity with men, the LPTW shines a special light on the tremendous capabilities of women in the industry. They have been doing this for years beginning with their pioneering efforts championing women in the theatre since their inception in 1984.
(L to R): LPTW Co-President Kelli Lynn Harrison and VP of Programming Ludovica Villar-Hauser, Artistic Director of Parity Productions. Opening remarks, 2018 LPTW Theatre Women Awards, TimesCenter (Ashley Garrett)
The importance of this organization at this time is not to be underestimated. The pernicious nature of male chauvinism, paternalism and the preeminence of patriarchy is deeply entrenched in the folkways of our culture and has risen its ugly head politically, indicating that only lip service had been given to women's inclusion in the power game. Indeed, men have been dragged along with the arc of progress and justice continues to be flogged by men in power under cover of darkness. Meanwhile, all is smiles and compliments by men for women when the spotlight is on.
2018 League of Professional Women Theatre Awards pictures in the poster (L-R bottom row): Rohina Malik, Emily Joy Weiner, Cricket S. Myers (L-R top row): Linda Winer, Phylicia Rashad, Adrienne Campbell-Holt. On stage (L to R): Emily Joy Weiner, Jocelyn Bioh, Phylicia Rashad, Shelley Butler, Cricket S. Myers, Adrienne Campbell-Holt, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Roma Torre (Carole Di Tosti)
Well, women are bending the arc of progress toward their inclusion. It is enough that they are more than half the population, yet have been relegated to the back of the line when the golden rings of power are bestowed by other men. Indeed it is enough!
For years LPTW members identified the under-representation of women in positions of power and importance in the entertainment/theatre industry. And this ironically was not because women demonstrated a lack of creative talent, leadership abilities or phenomenal skill sets. It was because of surreptitious discrimination and a network of mores supported by men AND women wittingly and unwittingly. The concept that "boys will be boys" and women were less than "all that" reigned supreme in the competition for employment. Outstanding women had to push diligently, subtly and prodigiously to get a "place at the table" where men ultimately dominated. Women compromised their behaviors, attitudes, intelligence and creativity to meld into a preeminent male world of directors, playwrights, and design directors and assistants. Because of these pioneers, progress has been moving forward. But we have a long way to go before reaching parity and equity. Thankfully, "the whole world is watching."
LPTW VP of Communications Kimberly Loren Eaton, Playwright Kate Hamill, Broadway Producer Catherine Adler on 2018 LPTW Theatre Women Awards Red Carpet (Ashley Garrett)
Thus, The League of Professional Theatre Women cannot be praised or recognized enough because they have been at the forefront of supporting women in the theatre world in the US and globally before there was creditable appreciation for womens' indelible contributions. Over the years their numbers have grown. Their mission has thrived and gained critical mass especially in the current noxious political atmosphere. Now, more than ever their work, their efforts are a beacon to the international theatre community and entertainment industry because their values indicate there are no inconsequential roles, no "little" players. All are integral and vital if live theatre which makes a difference in the minds and hearts of citizens is to continue in its goal to uplift, instruct, unify and promote understanding between and among global communities.
Producer Brian Moreland with 'Eclipsed' Producer Danai Gueirira, Red Carpet at 2018 LPTW Theatre Women Awards, TimesCenter (Ashley Garrett)
The theatre community receives strength in its diversity of gender, ethnicity, religious beliefs and international participation. As a maverick organization their force and presence are unmistakable. It should be shouted from the rooftops. Thus, it is with gratitude to this organization for what they have accomplished in solidarity over the years that I enumerate the women and the awards the LPTW bestowed last Friday at The TimesCenter.
Florencia Lozano, Host
Florencia Lozano, 2018 LPTW Awards Host, TimesCenter, (Carole Di Tosti)
Florencia Lozano (@ilovelorca) actor, writer and performance artist with a multitude of TV, theatre and film credits is one of the original members of the LAByrinth Theater company and currently serves as LAB's literary manager. Host of the LPTW Theatre Awards, Florencia Lozano introduced the presenters who then bestowed the awards.
The Lee Reynolds Award, Co-presented by Marshall Jones III & Wayne Maugans to Rohina Malik
Marshall Jones III, Co-presenter of The Lee Reynolds Award to Rohina Malik at the 2018 LPTW Theatre Women Awards, TimesCenter (Carole Di Tosti)
Wayne Maugans Co-presented The Lee Reynolds Award to Rohina Malik, 2018 LPTW Theatre Women Awards, TimesCenter (Carole Di Tosti)
Rohina Malik, recipient of The Lee Reynolds Award at the 2018 LPTW Theatre Women Awards, TimesCenter (Carole Di Tosti)
The Lee Reynolds Award is given annually to a woman or women active in any aspect of theatre whose work has helped to illuminate the possibilities for social, cultural or political change. Producing Artistic Director of the Crossroads Theatre Company and theatre professor at Rutgers University Marshall Jones III (#MarshallKJonesIII) and Wayne Maugans (@WayneMaugans) the Founding Artistic Director of Voyage Theater Company presented the Lee Reynolds Award to Rohina Malik (@rohina_malik). Her plays have been produced all over the country at various venues, and globally at two South African Theater festivals. She worked with Marshall Jones III and Wayne Maugans with their companies and has formed vital ongoing connections with them continually spurring on new works.
The Ruth Morely Design Award, Presented to Cricket S. Meyers by Shelley Butler
Shelley Butler presented the Ruth Morley Design Award to Cricket S. Myers at the 2018 LPTW Theatre Women Awards at the TimesCenter (Carole Di Tosti)
Cricket S. Myers, recipient of The Ruth Morley Design Award for Sound Design, 2018 LPTW Theatre Women Awards, TimesCenter (Carole Di Tosti)
The Ruth Morley Design Award, established in 1998 to honor leading film and theatre costume designer Ruth Morley, is given to an outstanding female theatre designer of costumes, scenery, lighting, sound or special effects. This year's winner presented by director Shelley Butler (#ShelleyButler) was given to Cricket S. Myers (@sound_myers) for her award winning efforts in Sound Design.
The LPTW Special Award, Presented by Roma Torre to Linda Winer
Roma Torre, presented the LPTW Special Award to Linda Winer at the 2018 LPTW Theatre Women Awards, TimesCenter (Carole Di Tosti)
Linda Winer, recipient of The LPTW Special Award, 2018 LPTW Theatre Women Awards, TimesCenter (Carole Di Tosti)
A LPTW Special Award, presented to a remarkable theatre woman for her service to the League and to her field was given to award winning Linda Winer (#LindaWiner) by NY 1 theater critic, the award winning Roma Torre (@NY1 #RomaTorreNYC). Linda Winer was Chief Theatre Critic for Newsday from 1987-2017 and she has taught critical writing at Columbia University's School of the Arts since 1992. Both women quipped about the idea that a theater critic might receive an award when in the past, "critics" were looked upon with skepticism and sometimes fear. Certainly, both of these women have provided a wealth of information about productions and have placed them in the historical record revealing the development of theater in this nation.
The Josephine Abady Award, Presented by Karen Kandel to Emily Joy Weiner
Karen Kandel presented the Josephine Abady Award to Emily Joy Weiner at the 2018 LPTW Theatre Women Awards, TimesCenter (Carole Di Tosti)
Emily Joy Weiner recipient of The Josephine Abady Award at the 2018 LPTW Theatre Women Awards, TimesCenter (Carole Di Tosti)
The Josephine Abady Award honors the memory of LPTW member Josephine Abady. The award goes to an emerging director, producer or creative director of a work of cultural diversity who has worked in the profession for at least five years. Emily Joy Weiner, Co-Founder and Artistic Director of Houses on the Moon Theater Company received the award presented by award winning Karen Kandel, Co-Artistic Director of NYC based theatre company, Mabou Mines. The Houses on the Moon Theater Company was founded in 2001 with the mission of telling untold stories in the interest of social justice. Emily Joy Weiner has been creating developing, performing, producing and directing new works with the Houses on the Moon Theater Company that address the sensitive issues of our time with community organizations and the talented company of artists.
The LPTW Lucille Lortel Award, Presented by Celia Keenan-Bolger to Adrienne Campbell-Holt
Celia Keenan Bolger presented the LPTW Lucille Lortel Award to Adrienne Campbell-Holt, 2018 LPTW Theatre Women Awards, TimesCenter (Carole Di Tosti)
Adrienne Campbell-Holt, recipient of The LPTW Lucille Lortel Award at the 2018 LPTW Theatre Women Awards, TimesCenter (Carole Di Tosti)
The LPTW Lucille Lortel Award is an award from the Lucille Lortel estate endowment to fund an award and grant. The award is given to "an aspiring woman in any discipline of theatre who exemplifies great creative promise and deserves recognition and encouragement." This year's award was presented to director Adrienne Campbell-Holt (@adriennecolt, @Colt_Coeur) by award winning actor Celia Keenan-Bolger (@celiakb). The grant was awarded to Ms. Campbell-Holt's company, Colt Coeur. Adrienne Campbell-Holt inspired the women in the room with her remarks and encouragement to women playwrights to tell women's stories. Women, above all are storytellers and she suggested that we must continue to push each other and the culture forward into a new day of acceptance and unity.
The Lifetime Achievement Award, Presented by Jocelyn Bioh to Phylicia Rashad
Phylicia Rashad receives a standing ovation for her well-deserved Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2018 LPTW Theatre Women Awards, TimesCenter (Carole Di Tosti)
Jocelyn Bioh presented the Lifetime Achievement Award to Phylicia Rashad at the 2018 LPTW Theatre Women Awards, TimesCenter (Carole Di Tosti)
The Lifetime Achievement Award presented to Phylicia Rashad (#PhyliciaRashad) needs no explanation and the honoree needs no introduction. The award was presented by Jocelyn Bioh (a Ghanaian-American writer/performer from NYC). Jocelyn Bioh (@Jjbioh) has carved a path for herself as an actor on Broadway and Off Broadway. She has appeared in film and TV. Jocelyn Bioh is also a playwright and is working as a staff writer on Spike Lee's She's Gotta Have it.
Phylicia Rashad, recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2018 LPTW Theatre Women Awards, TimesCenter (Carole Di Tosti)
Phylicia Rashad has appeared in all entertainment venues, TV, Broadway and film. She has made lasting contributions throughout her career with her prodigious body of work. An example of this includes performances on Broadway in August Osage County, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Cymbeline (Lincoln Center Theater), August Wilson's Gem of the Ocean for which she received a Tony Award nomination, A Raisin in the Sun (Tony and Drama Desk Awards), Into the Woods, Dreamgirls, The Wiz.
Phylicia Rashad recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award, 2018 LPTW Theatre Women Awards, TimesCenter (Carole Di Tosti)
Off-Broadway she has appeared in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Sunday in the Park with George, Head of Passes for which she won a Lucille Lortel Award, The Story, Helen, Everybody's Ruby, Blue, The House of Bernarda Alba to name a few. She has performed in Regional Theater and has also directed Ma Rainey's Black Bottom and Joe Turner's Come and Gone at the Mark Taper Forum to mention two directorial achievements. She has directed many other productions at numerous venues for example, the Goodman Theatre, the Long Wharf Theatre, the McCarter Theatre, Ebony Repertory Theatre, Kirk Douglas Theatre, Westport Country Playhouse, Seattle Repertory Theatre. And she directed Four Little Girls at the Kennedy Center. She is simply sensational, and as Jocelyn Bioh affirmed, she is "regal," she is "legendary."
Phylicia Rashad received the Lifetime Achievement Award at LPTW Theatre Women Awards at the TimesCenter (Carole Di Tosti)
At the end of the evening a champagne toast heralded to celebrate the award winners and their presenters. Until another year! We're looking forward to our members' and exploits in 2018-2019. If you are currently a woman working in the theater globally as an actor, playwright, director, designer, consider viewing the LPTW website to check out their online community. This organization will help you network, meet individuals to spur on your career. Above all it encourages inclusion of women before we even were aware to ask for an "inclusion rider" in our contracts in the entertainment and theater industry. JUST DO IT!!! CLICK HERE FOR THE WEBSITE. Tweet @LPTWomen.
Posted in League of Professional Theatre Women News, Theater News, NYC
Tags: Adrienne Campbell-Holt, Cricket S. Myers, Emily Joy Weiner, Florencia Lozano, Linda Winer, LPTW, LPTW Theatre Women Awards, Phylicia Rashad, Rohina Malik
'Paula Vogel in Conversation With Linda Winer'
(L to R): Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel, Linda Winer in NYPL for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, League of Professional Theatre Women collaboration, 'Paula Vogel in Conversation With Linda Winer at Bruno Walter Auditorium (photo Carole Di Tosti
The League of Professional Theatre Women's Pat Addiss and Sophia Romma again have successfully collaborated with Betty Corwin, who produces the New York Public Library's Oral History Interviews, to present an enlightening, joyous evening with one of Broadway's hottest playwrights, Paula Vogel. In conversation with Linda Winer, long-standing theater critic of Newsday, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright discussed her life, her work and the journey of her play Indecent from conceptualization through development, regional theater production and Off Broadway right up to its current run at Broadway's Cort Theatre. The immutably themed Indecent has been nominated for a Tony Award in the category of Best Play. It is not only a must-see, it is a must-see two or three times over for its metaphors, themes and sheer genius.
Paula Vogel, a renowned professor of playwriting (Brown-two decades, currently Eugene O'Neill Professor of Playwriting (adjunct) at Yale School of Drama, Playwright-in-residence at Yale Rep) generously shares her time and dynamism with global communities. She conducts playwriting "boot camps," and playwriting intensives with various organizations, theater companies and writers around the world. What is smashing is that Vogel not only is a charming, vibrant raconteur, she is an ebullient, electricity-filled advocate of the artist within all of us.
Pullitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel, a presentation by The NYPL for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center and League of Professional Theatre Women, 'Paula Vogel in Conversation With Linda Winer, Bruno Walter Auditorium (photo Carole Di Tosti)
In her philosophy and approach toward theater, we are all story tellers, we are all playwright,s and we must cultivate the citizen artist within to insure that the theater arts are accessible and relevant to all cultures and populations, not just the "haves." What she discussed about the current state of theater arts past and present was profound and prescient in response to why it took her so long to get to Broadway. Vogel reminded the audience that in the 1980s there were about 50 innovative, theme-rich plays on Broadway exemplified by The Elephant Man and M Butterfly. Such plays dealt with difficult issues that brought audiences together in a profound communal experience. Currently in 2017 there are a handful of productions that effect this. Commercialism has enveloped Broadway.
Hence, Vogel expressed a motivating joy that perhaps we should all entertain. We should roll up our sleeves to fight the good fight against philistine commercialism and consumerism and Byzantine gender and racial bias. Such dampening restrictions and discriminations parade behind the notion that film and theater are essentially liberal mediums. Vogel introduced the thought that they are the opposite. To her way of thinking there is a profligate conservatism akin to that of corporate America that hampers theater innovation and prevents provocative theater production to readily make it to Broadway.
However, she did affirm that the next generation of playwrights, whether older or younger, are seeing an explosion of work featured Off Broadway and Off Off Broadway which is where a lot of the innovation and experimentation has found a home. That aspect of the theater is thriving and in the upcoming years we can expect an elegance of defining work that will have an illuminating impact on Broadway.
A believer of reverse capitalism, that supply increases demand, Vogel's ideas and effervescence are contagious. She "spreads the word" and brings the community of theater wherever she visits, from Austin, Texas to Sewanee, Shanghai Theatre Academy in China, from Minneapolis to the neighborhood near the Vineyard Theatre in New York City. And together she and her audience of all ages across the communities (from 15-90), of seasoned writers and playwrights and neophytes alike, experiment, grow and enjoy writing and reading plays during her intensives.
Her current playwriting boot camps (they used to take a week to do) to make live theater a communal experiment much like its original creative form as a social, cathartic experience resonate today. They make complete sense especially at a time when artistic shallowness manifested in some entertainment forms has achieved a noxious superfluidity that really needs to die a death (my thoughts).
(L to R): Paula Vogel, Linda Winer, 'Paula Vogel in Conversation With Linda Winer, in a collaboration by The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center and the League of Professional Theatre Women (photo Carole Di Tosti)
Some of the highlights of Paula Vogel's discussion with Linda Winer, who was a wonderful interviewer, revolved around how she conducts her "bootcamps," culminating in bakeoffs to spur on a fountain of creativity. In response to how her Pulitzer Prize-winning play Learning How to Drive was produced Off Broadway but never made the transfer to Broadway, she repeated an incisive comment from the past, "How often do the girls get to play with the big expensive toys?"
Now that Vogel's Indecent and colleague Lynn Nottage's play Sweat also transferred to Broadway from the Public Theater, Vogel laughingly acknowledged that for both of them, the expensive toys are "a lot of fun." Vogel stated that when one acclimates to the house size, whether the play is in a 60 seat theater or a 200 seat theater, the effort and the intensity of the work process is the same. Vogel joked, "The only difference is I'm not sleeping on a sofa bed." Indeed, with Indecent, Vogel has graduated to a mattress and a bed, "more expensive toys."
Vogel discussed the evolution of Indecent which was fascinating. In her twenties she had read The God of Vengeance, by Sholem Asch, the play upon which Indecent revolves. She was mesmerized by the transcendent love scene between the pious Jewish father's daughter and one of the prostitutes who works for him in the brothel below their apartment. When the world renowned Yiddish play was translated into English and brought to Broadway in 1923, the cast, director and producer were arrested for obscenity, even though some of the love scenes were cut. The play received a greater following and lasted 133 performances, but there was a trial after the play closed. The Court of Appeals overturned the convictions of the director and producer in 1925.
Twenty years after Vogel read Asch's play, she learned that Rebecca Taichman was attempting to direct the obscenity trial for her thesis. Vogel learned of her work and pronounced her a genius. Vogel was inspired when she received a call from Taichman to collaborate on a play about the events surrounding the trial of Asch's play. During their conversation Vogel had a lightening-like vision seeing a scene from the play which she stated "always happens" (it happened with Learning How to Drive) when she knows she can write a particular play. Having read up on Yiddish Theater, she told Taichman, "I think this is a play way beyond an obscenity trial." Taichman was thrilled at her enthusiasm. Vogel admitted that this was around nine years and 40 drafts ago.
(L to R): Pat Addiss, Paula Vogel, 'Paula Vogel in Conversation With Linda Winer presented by NYPL for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center and League of Professional Theatre Women (photo Carole Di Tosti)
They workshopped at Sundance Theatre Lab (2013) and after many drafts and other workshops they put it on at Yale Repertory for the first time with the music, choreography and staging. Vogel joked the "flop sweat" was prodigious. Taichman's and Vogel's shirts were sticking to their backs. Since then it has moved on and was performed at La Jolla Playhouse in Fall 2015 and in May 2016 was produced at the Vineyard Theatre in New York City.
There is such enthusiasm for the production since Yale (2015) that the ensemble, the musicians, the stage manager and the assistants have remained together. As Vogel says, "We've all moved together as one." This never happens with a production that transfers to Broadway. If it does, it is extremely rare. Vogel laughingly joked they have become a family. When two children were born during the evolution of Indecent, Vogel commented she has become like a godmother to both.
What a memorable evening! Vogel is about fun, about community about connections, about living and creating whatever comes next. That spontaneity and flexibility is like jumping off into the darkness, knowing you will land on soft ground at sunrise. The moment you think about the jump, you stop yourself. Vogel is not about stopping. She's there already and beckoning us to join her. Why not?
Posted in Global Theater News, Theater News, NYC
Tags: League of Professional Theatre Women, Linda Winer, NYPL for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, Paula Vogel, Paula Vogel in Conversation With Linda Winer


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Paramount winner of Best in Dividend Yield in Focus Malaysia's Best Under Billion Awards 2018
Paramount Corporation Berhad (PCB) won the Best in Dividend Yield in the category of RM500 million to RM950 million in Focus Malaysia's Best Under Billion Awards 2018 on 9 November 2018. PCB Chairman Dato' Teo Chiang Quan received the award on behalf of PCB
The entire judging process for the Awards, in its fourth year, was vetted by KPMG. Winners must have good financial performance and display a high level of corporate governance standards. The Awards, supported by Bursa Malaysia, were created to recognise small to mid-capitalisation companies listed on Bursa Malaysia.
From left: Charles Raj, editor of Focus Malaysia, Dato' Tajuddin Atan, CEO of Bursa Malaysia, Dato' Teo and Dan Loh, CEO of Focus Malaysia.
Some of Paramount's team members at the dinner: Wang Chong Hwa (Paramount Property COO), Jeffrey Chew (Paramount Group CEO), Datin Esther, Dato' Teo, Beh Chun Chong (Paramount Property CEO) and Prof. Hiew Pang Leang (KDU UC VC).


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I am having a book giveaway at Goodreads, 5 copies. paperback, signed, of Recovering From the War. I am in the process of bringing it out as an ebook through bookbaby.com with two new introductions for the new vets, one by me and one by the mother of one of the new vets. I thought some people would like to have an actual book even though it won't have the new introductions.
Bob and I went down to the Sun N' Fun Fly in and hung out with the guys talking helicopters all Saturday afternoon. I love hearing helicopter talk. I think that makes me weird, because the other wife who was there was rolling her eyes and sleeping when she could.
My cousin Kevin came by yesterday with his buddy whom he's known since kindergarten. They are driving back to Quincy, MA from Ft Meyers, FL. I made spinach with garlic, summer squash, and a salad to go with the potatoes Bob mashed and the chicken Publix roasted. They left this morning at the crack of dawn. Last night, we treated them to a double feature, Galaxy Quest and Moon, neither of which they had seen. We were screaming with hysterical laughter over Galaxy Quest and Moon didn't piss me off quite as much, although the idea of leaving clones of yourself to die on the moon one after another makes me furious.
Today Bob started the lawnmower for me and I mowed the path so I won't get chiggers. I also mowed the back yard except for my wildflowers which are naturalizing across the back yard. I started with one I pulled up and put in a pot... so seeing the thick clumps makes me happy.
I am also transplanting a bunch of small succulents I got at Wal-Mart. I like to mix them in a biggish pot and git them to grow over the edge. Hope it works. Last year's is still alive!!!