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Beware Of The Pits
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I waited patiently for the LORD to help me…He lifted me out of the pit of despair, out of the mud and the mire. He set my feet on solid ground…He has given me a new song to sing, a hymn of praise to our God.
~Psalm 40:1-3, NLT
He ruthlessly perfects whom He royally elects!
David was exceptional in so many ways, yet in others, he was incredibly average. A wise man learns by instruction; the average man learns by experience [trial and error] and fool never learns. David learned by trial and error. He made decisions based on instinct rather than moral conviction. With Bathsheba, he looked and he took and he did both without thinking about the long term consequences. Then, to make bad matters worse, he attempts to cover his tracks by taking another man's life. The first mistake was lame and the second one was just plain dumb. Taking a wife is one thing but taking a life is another. This sin not only produced horrible guilt, it almost destroyed David's entire family. Had it not been for God's mercy and grace; David would have been a goner.
In Psalm 40 David describes himself as being in a pit. It seems that this was self-induced. David prayed,
My troubles surround me— too many to count! My sins pile up so high I can't see my way out. They outnumber the hairs on my head. I have lost all courage. Please, LORD, rescue me! Come quickly, LORD, and help me. If you are looking for a sermon outline, there is one in the first three verses: [1] The LORD Lifted David Up {out of the pit of despair} [2] The LORD Stood Him Up {put his feet on the ROCK} and [3] The LORD Tuned Him Up. He gave Him a new song.
David's first mistake was inspired by his lust but it was pride that motivated him to have Uriah killed. We may not have made the same mistakes as David, but we have all been in the pit at one time or another. There are many pits, some caused by our sin but there are others like: depression, grief, loneliness, doubt and despair to mention a few. It doesn't matter what pit we are in, Jesus is the answer and we need to cry out to Him just like David,Please, LORD, rescue me! Come quickly, LORD, and help me.
I attended the DHS girls game last night in Priceville. They played hard but lost it in the last couple of minutes. We had a shot but we couldn't get or 3's to fall. Everyone played well. I enjoy watching Jordan Hinkle. She plays with heart and she gives 100%. She never leaves anything on the court. I think they may have one more game but I'm not sure. The DHS boys play tonight at West Limestone, Big Mama's Alma mater.
Big Mama is a Rick & Bubba fan. We were listening to their program yesterday and they mentioned someone I had never heard of…Quincy Jones. Sounds like a linebacker or a defensive safety but no, he is another idiot for Hollywood…this is what the moron said…
Legendary music producer Quincy Jones spoke candidly about his eight-plus decades on Earth, discussing a wide range of topics — Michael Jackson, the Beatles, Marlon Brando, Richard Pryor, racism, jazz.
TRUMP–Jones accused President Donald Trump and being an "uneducated rednecks" who is stoking racial tensions in America. Jones also said, "I used to hang out with Trump. He's crazy. Limited mentally — a megalomaniac, narcissistic. I can't stand him. A symphony conductor knows more about how to lead than most business people — more than Trump does," he added. "He doesn't know squat. Someone who knows about real leadership wouldn't have as many people against him as he does. He's an idiot."
Ivanka Trump–Jones claims he dated her 12 years ago. This idiot is 85 and trust me he has nothing to offer. Ivanka says she doesn't know what he is talking about: there was not date. It gets better…
Racism—"The racism in the North is disguised. You never know where you stand. That's why what's happening now is good, because people are saying they are racists who didn't used to say it. Now we know."
Oprah—"I don't think (Oprah) should run. She doesn't have the chops for it."
Michael Jackson—"He stole a lot of songs," Jones said, citing Donna Summer's "State of Independence," from which, he claimed, Jackson lifted the riff for his 1982 hit "Billie Jean." "He was as Machiavellian as they come. Greedy, man. Greedy!"
The Beetles–"The Beetles were horrible musicians, Paul was the worst bass player I ever heard. And Ringo? Don't even talk about it…he couldn't do simple things. It took him three hours to do things that a good musician could do in 15 minutes.
Biggest Problems–According to Jones the two biggest problems in America are injustice and oppression toward Blacks [racism] and women [feminism]. He didn't mention crime, Abortion or human trafficking.
I agree with him on one thing: Oprah is not presidential material. Have ever met anyone who keeps telling you they are over the problem but every time you are with them, they talk about the problem. The people who constantly talk about racism are the real racist. I will guarantee you that the man above {Quincy Jones} is a racist. The pic had bad language under it: I hope I got it all out. Jones has a filthy mouth and a feeble mind.
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Amanda Bynes is finally speaking out in PAPER's annual "Break the Internet" issue.
With no topic off-limits in the candid interview with PAPER, Amanda tackled the good, the bad and the very ugly -- with the 32-year-old reflecting on her drug-fuelled past which lead to her very public breakdown four years ago.
After finding fame as a 12-year-old on Nickelodeon's The Amanda Show, the star soon starred in mainstream movies like Big Fat Liar and What a Girl Wants.
However, she revealed that it was her role in 2006's She's the Man, in which she dressed in boy's clothes for the character, that led to an "interesting experience".
"When the movie came out and I saw it, I went into a deep depression for 4-6 months because I didn't like how I looked when I was a boy," she said adding, "I've never told anyone that."
She continued by saying that seeing herself with short hair and sideburns was "a super strange and out-of-body experience," candidly adding, "It just really put me into a funk."
Her body image only got worse after 2007's Hairspray, where Bynes said it was around that time she saw an ad for Adderall being advertised as the "new skinny pill".
"They were talking about how women were taking it to stay thin. I was like, 'Well, I have to get my hands on that.'" So she soon went to a psychiatrist and faked symptoms of ADD to get a prescription -- something Bynes said she regrets now.
"When I was doing Hall Pass, I remember being in the trailer and I used to chew the Adderall tablets because I thought they made me [higher that way]. I remember chewing on a bunch of them and literally being scatterbrained and not being able to focus on my lines," she confesses. "Or memorise them, for that matter."
She soon began to spiral, adding that while "literally tripping out," she saw a glimpse of the reflection of her arm "look[ing] so fat."
It was right then that she quit the movie (and was later replaced by Alexandra Daddario), saying it was a "mixture of being so high that I couldn't remember my lines and not liking my appearance," she said.
"It was definitely completely unprofessional of me to walk off and leave them stranded when they'd spent so much money on a set and crew and camera equipment and everything."
A few months later, she watched her appearance in Easy A and, after deciding she hated her appearance and performance, decided to quit acting announcing the news over Twitter.
"If I was going to retire [the right way], I should've done it in a press statement-- but I did it on Twitter," she said. "Real classy!"
This was around the time the star began making headlines for her wild Tweets, something she said she's "ashamed and embarrassed" about now.
"I can't turn back time but if I could, I would. And I'm so sorry to whoever I hurt and whoever I lied about because it truly eats away at me. It makes me feel so horrible and sick to my stomach and sad," she said.
"Everything I worked my whole life to achieve, I kind of ruined it all through Twitter..."
These days, though, the former child star is doing much better after being four years sober. She's studying at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising and will be completing a Bachelor's degree next year.
And as for her spiral into substance abuse, Bynes assures everyone that she's no longer interested in drugs.
But she issues a word of caution to anyone who finds them self in the predicament she did, saying, "Be really, really careful because you could lose it all and ruin your entire life like I did."
You can check out the full interview in PAPER's new issue.


I loved a boy and now I love another.
red tongue flicking my heart.
Soon I must learn to wake alone.
Tell me how to live in this burning world.
Fortunately at times ones thoughts do not turn to the burning world.
Oh, My. God. I love this one.
Wendy, I love the precision of your words, their startling trajectory and resonance.


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Doctor. Doctor. Glad I'm not sick.
Spoilers for the latest episode of "Doctor Who," plus some brief heretical thoughts on a bit of vintage "Who" coming right up...
So, on the recommendation of people here and elsewhere, I Netflix'ed the Tom Baker-era "City of Death" to see an example of the original series at its height. But what it mostly accomplished was to remind me of how terrific the modern series is.
Don't get me wrong: Tom Baker is a riot as The Doctor, and an obvious inspiration for David Tennant's performance, and with a pseudonymous Douglas Adams on the script, the dialogue is absurd and absurdly witty. (My favorite moment: when the dumb lug of a private eye smashes the sonic screwdriver into functionality, and The Doctor asks if the guy wants to be his scientific advisor.)
But I had a hell of a time trying to get past just how cheap the old show looked, not even the special effects, but the low-quality videotape, the minimalist sets and, most of all, the clumsy blocking. The modern show may not have the slickest production values, but it moves, you know?
Now, I understand that the old show had to operate on a shoestring budget, and in the context of both that and the era in which it was produced, I understand why the whole endeavor resembles a cross between a live TV show from the '50s, public access, and a Saturday morning puppet show. But having seen the Eccleston/Tennant version, I've been spoiled. And if I got so frustrated sitting through what many have claimed is the height of classic "Who," I don't know that I'll have the patience to go back and watch more. And I say that as someone with a healthy appreciation for old movies and TV shows that are even stagier than this. Sorry.
For me, "City of Death" stood in especially awkward contrast to Friday night's "The Girl in the Fireplace," which also had The Doctor dealing with historical figures, paradoxes and malevolent aliens. Even though I don't believe The Doctor would be dumb enough to not remember the different rates time passes on each side of the fireplace, his unconsummated love story with Madame de Pompadour moved me at least as much as last week's reunion with Sarah Jane.
I know it's not fair to compare an emotionally heavy episode to a four-part light romp, but I'm more engaged on every level -- including the comic -- by the newer series. If I had started watching the original as a kid, I would no doubt feel differently, would let nostalgia allow me to ignore the clumsiness of it all the same way I like to go back and re-read fairly primitive superhero comics from the early '80s. But like The Doctor and Reinette, I can't go back and rewrite my own past. It is what it is.
Posted by Alan Sepinwall at 1:30 PM
Labels: Doctor Who
Toby O'B said...
I started out in the late 70s with the Tom Baker episodes and I used to feel the same way going back from there to the even earlier years with even worse production values. So I can see your point as one coming to the series with Eccleston and Tennant, and then making the attempt to go back to how it used to be.
I even expressed my fears about this to some friends, that new viewers wouldn't be able to go back and enjoy the old series once they were spoiled (and that was my term too!)by the new version.
I'm still catching up on many of the old adventures that I missed, some even from the post-Baker years and it can be hard to accept the look, the dialogue, the pace once you've wallowed in the new production. But I look past that and let it all focus down to the portrayal of the Doctor. And there I find something enjoyable from every one of them.
For the record, Patrick Troughton is my favorite version of the Doctor, but his stories are sometimes pathetic. (Even worse - most of them were destroyed long ago by the short-sighted BBC, trying to save money on tapes!)
It's probably the best sci-fi gimmick that ever came out of TV - the regeneration of the character which doesn't have to depend on the characteristics of the previous actor.
Perhaps one day you'll be able to look beyond the shoddy production values for the earlier years and see the show for what's most important - the Doctor himself. Because he has a rich history and it'd be a shame not to get all the background which can help towards the enjoyment of what we get today.
(For example - the use of "James MacKrimmon" as an alias when he met Queen Victoria. For those who know the history, that brought a smile of recognition, I'm sure. It did for me.)
All in all a fair assessment of your particular viewpoint and I'm sure there are plenty of others out there who feel the same. I'm just glad that it seems enough people like the new version, so it can stick around for a while and add even more to the history.
Taleena said...
I love Dr. Who and this is one of my favorite episodes of the season. David Tennent became my favorite Doctor at the end of this season, with the conclusion of Rose as the Doctor's companion.
He does a fabulous job of portraying the Doctor's ultimate loneliness.
Odd -- I guess my earlier comment didn't make it. But: You're right. It hasn't aged well. Even considering that the originals were made to be viewed as 22 minute eps, even with nostalgia factored in, the old show crawls and looks like crap.
Davies brought, among other things, a late-20th-century sense of pacing and the character arc. Not quite fire and the wheel, but perhaps a Trivection oven and a self-parking Lexus.
But I still have fond memories of watching those old shows on PBS. And I still have my scarf, somewhere.
I am glad I watched classic Dr who as an impressionable teen and nerdgirl in her 20s. It did creak at times, but I was able to overlook it. And Baker made that easy.
Personally, I LOVED the Girl in the Fireplace and the reunion with Sarah Jane and K9 (even though Sarah Jane was my least favorite companion back in the day -- she's sure toned down the overacting).
I thought the Mme de Pompadour ep had just the right balance of humor and heart. It was nearly as good as the Empty CHild 2 parter of last season, which was the new era's high point to date.
I am still frustrated with the silly, thin plots that the current show tries to paper over with cheeky dialogue. I love Tennant as the Doctor, but when story and dialogue and his performance all are at the top of their game, that's when it's magic.
I wish we'd get a return visit from the Master or a meaty ongoing plot as in the Baker-era Key To Time story.
OK, I just outed myself as the biggest nerd ever. (anyone else remember Adric? My first TV crush.)
>>Adric? My first TV crush
And Lalla Ward was one of mine.
Didn't The Master run out of regenerations or come down with EricRobertsitis or something?
Ross Ruediger said...
Boo!!!! (Who?)
For whatever it's worth Alan, CITY OF DEATH has plenty of detractors amongst WHO fandom (granted, they're not people with whom ~I'd~ associate...but that's neither here nor there).
Don't give up entirely, though. I'd think it'd be quite jarring to go from the new to the old, especially when the new is just so damn watchable. Maybe when the current season draws to a close, if you're gettin' itchy for some WHO, you can try another one.
(Still reeling at the idea of Adric being someone's first TV crush. I can honestly say, in all my years of DW dealing, that was a first, Mo.)
>>>Didn't The Master run out of regenerations or come down with EricRobertsitis or something?
Waaaaay back in an untold story after the Delgado Master. Remember the skeleton Master? Then he took over Nyssa's fathers body and was Anthony Ainley for the 80's. The he was a snake in the TV Movie.
And tonights Cybermen...ugh Lets hope the 'real' universe has better looking and sounding ones. the new series has been good, but it's still a bit bumpy for an old Who fan. Drop Rose's mother entirely, I assume she's gone in the third season...
Screw the cheerleader. Screw your friend.
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The Wire, "Unto Others": Getting better all the time?
Stadium 60
Battlestar Galactica: Airlocks for everyone!
30 Rock: Is it because she's a lesbian?
Lost: A tale of two islands
Logan + Logan = ????
NBC brings the funny back to Thursdays
Studio 60: Try not to be funny, we're doing a TV show
It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a... guy in his pa...
Speaking of Massive Attack...
Great moments in scratch music
Monday morning links
Binging and purging
Battlestar Galactica: Let's get the hell out of here
Grey's Anatomy: Can you eat Reese's Pieces at an M&M?
The Office: Pretzel Day is here!
Lost: Pantsless pot-growing polar bears!
A world of pain
Old business: Doctor Who, Ugly Betty and Survivor
New business: Heroes & HIMYM
Studio 60: Better?
The Wire, "Margin of Error": Primary color
Battlestar Galactica: We few, we happy few, we ban...
What'd the mama tomato say to the baby tomato?
The Office: On the wings of love
Lost: They're gonna need another boat
30 Rock: Plugs within plugs
Sitcoms by the numbers
Veronica Mars: When both Marses failed
Friday Night Lights: Eatin' good in the neighborhood
Studio 60: The man who shouldn't be there
The Wire, "Alliances": Dead is dead
Battlestar Galactica: Eyes for an eye
'Smith' is kaput
What the frak?
Behind my back
Getaway day
Lost: The Others side
Shufflin' along
Gilmore Girls: A step in the right direction
The Nine: Great start, but what's next?
Veronica Mars: Boom goes the dynamite
It's time to light the 'Lights'
Studio 60: Really, I ask you, is that all there is?
Psychic cops, flying Stop signs and convertible pants
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Doctor Who: Don't you think she looks tired?

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'Manfred' an animated short by Arjen Klaverstijn
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Manfred is an animated short that I made for my graduation project for my Bachelor of Art & Technology, as part of my 3D computer animation and visual effects studies at the Utrecht school of the Arts. Manfred is the eponymous character in a concept for an animation series of the same name. Each episode features Manfred experiencing an everyday frustration and how he deals with it.
With this film I not only wanted to make a humorous character-based animation but also tried to showcase my knowledge of Maya (modeling, texturing, rigging, lighting, rendering), compositing in nuke, and my ability as a designer to bridge the gap between 2D and 3D animation design. I hope you'll enjoy the animation.
At the moment I'm available for freelance work and always on the lookout for interesting jobs.
Manfred is selected for the 2010 Children's film festival 'Cinekid' in the category 'Nederlands kort', October 20-29.
Additional artwork & consulting director: Lois van Baarle - loish.net
Music composition & sound design: Thilo Schaller - myspace.com/thiloschaller


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This past week presented a unique opportunity for me to go home to Ilocos Norte after several months, staying and working here in Makati City.
Anticipation mounted as the days grew closer to my departure from Laoag City, the capital city of Ilocos Norte, knowing that I would soon be together with my extended family and friends I had not seen for months. I eagerly packed my bag and was clearly excited about the prospect of seeing my loving grandparents.
For the first few moments, I felt like stranger, not recognizing roads, buildings or the shifting landscape. But as I approached home, the surroundings became increasingly familiar and comforting.
The family reunion is usually a sweet moment, and there was no exception at all. Many hugs, few tears, and much laughter and joy. It was wonderful to awaken the next morning to the aroma of tea and the delicious pandesal (local term for bread) served on the table.
The food was heavenly -- vegetables from the backyard and fresh fruits at every meal. I had even the chance of picking these fruits and vegetables one late afternoon in my Dad's garden.
Over the next few days, family and friends dropped in to visit and welcome me. Wow. I felt like I'm really a stranger, totally new to their eyesights.
The last day was difficult, with tears, goodbyes, and the pain of physically separating from loved ones. As I journeyed back, I remember mentally shifting gears, and preparing for re-entry into the busyness of life here in the Makati City.
It took but a few days to ease back into work, commitments, and responsibilities that are part of this season of our life. A few friends and neighbors enquired politely about my trip, but then moved on to topics of everyday life in the Metropolis.
The transition between homes was far easier physically than emotionally.
Indeed, there's no other place than home!


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The King Is I
I have several axioms of business. One is "poor systems generate more systems." Another is that usually the person who makes the policy is the first to break the policy.
When you're in charge, it's very tempting to change the policy when you make a mistake.
Recently, our president had us change a policy because he wasn't sure what the policy was last year. He had been in a discussion with an employee, who was about to retire. She asked if she'd still get the bonus distributed at the end of January even though she wouldn't be here. Thinking that the policy was to prorate the bonus for retirees, he told her that she would get one.
Unfortunately, that was not the policy. We hadn't given a bonus to anyone who wasn't here at the end of January, and employed at the end of the previous year. Because the president said that we would give her a bonus, we have to go through extra work, system gyrations, to cut her a check. And give her a W-2 at the end of this year.
If another staff member had made a "promise" like that, the president would have made the person admit the mistake. We wouldn't be going through the extra work.
However, if you're the king, you can change the rules when you want. If you're not the king, you gotta suck it up and apologize.
That's not right.
No one is above the law. Anyone who makes a mistake has to make amends. Not change the rules so that it's not a mistake anymore. Whether you're the head of the company or a middle manager, admit the mistake. Move on. Be accountable. Everyone has to. Why should you be less mature than those at the bottom of the organization?


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Benjamin von Block, auch Benjamin Blok (* 1631 in Lübeck; † 1689 in Regensburg) war ein deutscher Porträtmaler.

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Block ging wohl bei seinem Vater Daniel Block in die Lehre, genauso wie seine Brüder Emmanuel und Adolf. 1653 lebte er im belgischen Halle und ging von dort aus nach Wien zu seinem Bruder. Dort lernte er den ungarischen Grafen Franz Nádasdy kennen. 1653 ging er auf dessen Einladung mit ihm nach Ungarn und lebte dort drei Jahre. 1659 ging er nach Rom, wo er als Porträtist des Adels arbeitete und besuchte auch Florenz, Venedig und Siena. Anfang der 1660er Jahre ließ er sich in Nürnberg und Regensburg nieder. Für Kaiser Leopold I. schuf er eine ganze Gemäldegalerie. Block war einer der ersten, der die neue Technik der Schabkunst anwandte. Schon bald wurde er zu einem der beliebtesten und meistbeschäftigten Porträtisten seiner Zeit.

Block war mit der Blumenmalerin Anna Catherina von Block verheiratet.

Literatur

 Martin Krieger: Benjamin von Block (1631–1689). Ein Porträtmaler des 17. Jahrhunderts in seinen Beziehungen zu Ansbach. In: Jahrbuch des Historischen Vereins für Mittelfranken, LXXXV, 1969/70, S. 77–103

Weblinks

 Benjamin von Block bei sandrart.net

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SLEEP IN LATE! Bring your clothes for tonight's performance-you are going straight to THE WHISKY from camp!!
That's what it said on the Day Four itinerary. Somehow I blew it on Day 3 as we did the same thing and I almost went to the gig wearing my shorts and polo shirt "out-for-a-day-of-golfing" costume. Fortunately, I had grabbed the black rock and roll T-shirt the camp handed out. I wrote my Saturday night look off as "suburban Angus Young."
The shuttle was picking us up at 9:30 and since I am unable to sleep past 6 am these days, I did what any right-minded person would do who bought the breakfast ticket – tackled the buffet. (Shoutout here to Steven Green who was not in my band but was a guy for whom going to these things is now somewhat of a cottage industry and who I ran into all the time.)
The shuttle picked us up for our last day. You might think that was sad, but no, I'd been there since Wednesday and four days of camp feels just about right. We got there in time to see the great Steve Morse give a Q&A. Morse is one of three guitarists (the other ones being Steve Howe and Eric Johnson) who are in Guitar Player mag's Hall of Fame. I've been following Steve off and on since the Dixie Dregs first appeared in the Seventies and in fact, saw and wrote about that band a while back.
Steve's talk was open to all in attendance and was funny and insightful. He told us that if you're a guitar player and you're too loud in the mix, the sound guy's gonna cut your volume down. He told us to, essentially, find a space that's not being filled in the band and make some interesting noise there.
He also told us to let solos breath by playing two bars, then not playing. And lastly, he advised that we guitarists are something like 75% rhythm and 25% melody. (Not sure if those were the exact numbers but close enough for rock and roll.) In other words, we're not soloing all the time so we'd better be good at rhythm.
I went back to our room for a little while to see if I could get "that sound" out of the amp. Satisfied that I had I went back and caught the last 15 or so minutes of Ian Paice and Steve's joint Q&A.
After that, we had more band rehearsals but we eventually hit the usual "these-are-good-enough-but-we're-running-out-of-steam" mode. If you're in a band for any length, learning a song requires so much rehearsal that you can reach a point where you never wanna hear it again. I think we stopped just short of that.
We then went back to Studio A for our last pre-Whisky jam with Steve and Ian. This is the first time I've ever played with two drummers and it is a very powerful thing when you have two excellent drummers behind you. Ian hits the skins like he's using sledgehammers and it really added a (literal) thump to the band.
Ian and Steve at the Whisky.
We were scheduled for a 5:30 ride to the Whisky and if memory serves, for that last hour or so we just hung out in the open area and shot the breeze. It was nice that the campers were all around a "certain" age. We talked about all kinds of music that we loved from Karen Carpenter's "Superstar," to Rita Coolidge, to Delaney and Bonnie. "God," one guy said, "it's nice to talk about music and have people know what you're talking about." Amen.
And so 5:30 arrives and what do they send for us? A bus! It says that on the itinerary but it didn't really register with me. A freakin' rock star bus. Nice touch.
We got to the Whiskey after someone – again – thoughtfully pointed out that we were passing the world-famous Hollywood Bowl. Check. I don't recall exactly what time we got there but it was relatively early and we had some time to kill. The stage there is pretty big, way bigger than the Viper which, BTW, is about a one-minute walk across the street.
I decided to grab a pre-show bite and needing some alone time, walked up the hill "looking for soul food and a place to eat." I ran into David Fishof who advised me that the (world-famous) Rainbow Room was just up the street.
So the Roxy, Rainbow Room, Whisky A Go Go, and Viper Room are all within shouting distance of each other. These are legendary places and, I dunno, somehow I was expecting more of a vibe or a scene around this area. It wasn't by any means dead but it didn't have that jacked-up "feel" I usually get from a scene in, say, New York. Has this changed over time? Is it me? I don't know.
I sat at the bar at the Rainbow Room and had a steak and a salad. There was nobody else there so I talked to the woman behind the bar who was maybe my age – more or less – and who complained about the lack of good music these days. Tom Petty came on the radio. "Never much cared for his stuff," she said. I did. When he last came to Boston a friend said, "Let's go see him." Next time I said. Life is short. If I smoked, this would have been a great time for a cigarette.
Vesuvius – name of our band BTW – was scheduled to come on about halfway through the night, so 8 o'clock or so. Our set list (Viper, then Whisky) looked like this: ("Smoke on the Water," and "Space Truckin'" if you can't see it.) My post on the story behind "Smoke" is here BTW.
We were going to do two songs but then at the last minute they said, "Hey you can do three." So we added in "Gimme Shelter." So, good news and bad news. The good news is we now had another song to play. The bad news is that our guitarist Seth had been playing the song using a second guitar tuned to an open E chord. Which then had to be dropped down another half-step as we had been asked to tune all instruments down for all songs. (Easier to play and/or sing I suppose.)
Alas, the guys who tuned our guitars for us had to work on this for a bit and so we had a good 5-minute+ delay while they sorted that out. Fortunately our counselor Gregg has the gift of Chicago gab and was able to keep the crowd entertained while we all hung around. (For the record, all the campers were introduced by Britt Lightning. She told me we were "amazing." I hope she wasn't just being polite. Such a sweet gal.)
Finally, we got Seth his correctly tuned guitar and launched into "Gimme Shelter." I guess the other good news is that I got to solo on this one. The sound guy didn't have me turned all the way up and in the commotion, I did not have the foresight to point at the sound guy to jack me up. So when you hear it, you'll have to strain to hear my stuff. But that's ok because I think the band was pretty damn hot and as Steve Morse reminded us, it's all about the band not any one of us.
By now you wanna hear this shit, right? Ok, so quick explainer – the camp sent all the Whisky videos out to all the bands a day or two ago. One of our guys, Alan, works at a studio. So he took the original "Gimme Shelter" and sweetened it so, frankly, we all sound better. I am the other bespectacled, white-haired dude wearing the Duane Allman t-shirt, soloing in the back throughout the tune. (Right behind Cathy.)
Be kind when you hear these. We are a band who had been together for two days.
As one of my fellow campers said on Facebook, "Whether you were turned down in the mix or not, it's partially about whether you thought you played well. A lot of people would freeze in that position. You rocked, give yourself a hand." Point taken.
Next up – "Smoke On the Water." Originally didn't wanna do it but what the heck. Fun to play:
The Deep Purple guys join us on the last number, drums, and guitar for "Space Truckin'. The reason those sound guys come running on stage at about 18:00 is that the thunderous drums knocked over the bass cabinet. Or something like that. Shit happens. Seth nails the Blackmore solos.
So how, you might ask, was it do this? Are you fucking kidding me? What do YOU think? It was the bucket list event of a lifetime. It was all I could ask for and more. I jam with guys from Yes, Stones, Allmans, Deep Purple, Buddy Rich's band, Buddy Rich's daughter! I meet a lot of great people who really love music and enjoy playing? Fuck me, it was incredible.
The bus was heading back to the hotel at 11:30 but I had a 6am flight back to Boston, leaving about 4 hours of sleep so I grabbed an Uber. We managed to get a group picture but I'm not sure where that is. Everybody hugged everybody, I walked out into the night, jumped in the Uber and sailed off into the night down Sunset Boulevard. (I think. I've been to California, like, four times.)
And then, sadly, it was over. Not all things come to an end, says Elvis Costello, now it is only a chosen few.
So, the question you're asking is, Would I do it again? If you'd asked me the very next day I would have said 'no,' simply because, well, been there, done that. Plus this was a $5k trip. The next time I'm able to come up with that kind of cash, I think it would somewhat behoove me to take Mrs. Music Enthusiast someplace nice. Plus that amount of money buys a lot of equipment and/or guitar lessons. Maybe in five years. And maybe Carlos Santana and Peter Green are there. Or I get in a time machine and jam with Becker and Fagen.
I haven't picked up the guitar once in the week I've been back. Why? Two reasons – one is that I was playing night and day for months prior to this camp. I felt a little carpal tunnel coming on so I'm giving it a rest.
Also, frankly, I'm not quite sure what to do next. I'm not going to form a band. I don't know too many guys my age willing and able to rehearse and jam out regularly. Plus, who would book us? The Elks Club? So I see my band future as maybe an occasional pick-up jam and not much more than that. I know a guy who wants to play some jazz with me. Ok, but let's lean towards the blues side of it and not so much the bebop side.
But as far as a return visit someday, well, as the song says, Never. Say. Never.
And. Dare to Dream
Oh, and be sure to check out Homer at rock fantasy camp. Now that's the shit.


Preliminary site visits brought groups members together and determined which approaches would support the development of heritage animation in their community. The workshops, delivered by Peter Haworth, Ian Tamblyn, and Peter MacGibbon, focused on using local history as a tool for community engagement.
Cantley 1889 had a particular interest in publishing stories on the history of Cantley in the local newspaper, and on having a play developed that would capture character and spirit of life in the farming region through the last century. The TW animators conducted four research and writing workshops with Cantley 1889's amateur writers and community elders. Additional outreach to Cantley elders and community heritage experts was conducted to further the research on historical figures and events. This work has resulted in four stories that form the basis of Theatre Wakefield's heritage animation production, A Summer… A Fair, by playwright Ian Tamblyn. The play will premiere in Cantley on July 22, 2017 and then tour to at least 11 other communities around the Outaouais over the rest of the summer.
The Pontiac Community Players had a strong interest in developing new play scripts that reflected the history of their region. They have local venues and enthusiastic volunteers, and hosted TW workshops in writing, acting, and directing through the local high school. Local writers and actors worked with the Theatre Wakefield dramaturge to create a script on the historically notable "Women of the Pontiac", to be developed into a full production later in 2017. The Pontiac Players also received mentorship and support for organizational development and community outreach, and are now considering incorporating as a not-for-profit community group.
At St. Michael's High School, drama students interviewed local seniors, heritage experts, and elderly relatives for tales from the region's past. They shared their findings at workshops where TW animators demonstrated what makes a good story and how to turn a story anecdote into a song. Workshops then focused on skills development for animating this material for performance. Students developed their skills in writing the heritage stories as skits and songs and performing them. The resulting materials have been compiled as a book for the school library. Theatre Wakefield will work with St. Michael's to present A Summer… A Fair in the village of Low at the beginning of the school year in late August 2017.
The mobilization of new and existing group members in the creation of heritage animation stories through community engagement with elders and local history experts, and links established with performing arts groups (including a francophone theatre troupe).
The involvement of Outaouais groups in the development of heritage materials that enhance their presence in their respective communities and, through Theatre Wakefield, across the region.
the Department of Canadian Heritage, Government of Canada.


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Tying up loose ends: The unfinished official record of the Commonwealth of the Philippines
Tita Chitang
Filipinos and Freemasonry
Talk for the Annual 2010 Multi-District Convention for All Masonic Lodges in the Philippines
Plaridel Masonic Temple, San Marcelino St., Manila
FREEMASONS, n. An order with secret rites, grotesque ceremonies and fantastic costumes, which, originating in the reign of Charles II, among working artisans of London, has been joined successively by the dead of past centuries in unbroken retrogression until now it embraces all the generations of man on the hither side of Adam and is drumming up distinguished recruits among the pre-Creational inhabitants of Chaos and Formless Void. The order was founded at different times by Charlemagne, Julius Caesar, Cyrus, Solomon, Zoroaster, Confucius, Thothmes, and Buddha. Its emblems and symbols have been found in the Catacombs of Paris and Rome, on the stones of the Parthenon and the Chinese Great Wall, among the temples of Karnak and Palmyra and in the Egyptian Pyramids -always by a Freemason. —Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
Today Masonry is viewed as a civic organization not very different from the Rotary Clubs and Kiwanis to which these Masons may, in fact, belong to as well. And yet there was a time -not so distant at that, as we will soon see- when Masons and Freemasonry were viewed with alarm in certain quarters, not just in the Philippines, but throughout Europe as well.
The Catholic Church, for one, has, since the 18th century, condemned Freemasonry, and subjected Masons to the most severe ecclesiastical sanctions. The latest revision of Canon Law undertaken during the reign of Pope John Paul II retains the penalty of automatic excommunication for any Catholic who becomes a Mason. This is a relic of the acrimonious relationship between Catholicism and Freemasonry which continues to have repercussions up to the present.
Other groups have persecuted Masons in their time: Napoleon detested them (although his brother Joseph was a Mason). Hitler loathed them; indeed dictators in general have displayed an aversion if not outright hostility to Masons.
For Freemasonry carries with it a mystique accumulated over the centuries, historical baggage which has amused skeptics like Ambrose Bierce, and delighted aficionados of conspiracy theory and mysticism verging on the occult. The phenomenal success of Umberto Eco's novel, Foucalt's Pendulum , an intricate tale of secret societies, from the Knights Templar to the Rosicrucians to the Ilumminati and (naturally) Freemasonry, attests to this. The only other organization which has as strong a grip on the popular imagination are the Jesuits, the traditional nemesis of Masonry.
The traditional view is that Freemasonry is a global conspiracy, which has taken on an antireligious character. It is viewed as a shadowy organization which aims to infiltrate the corridors of power, all the better to facilitate the rise into prominence of fellow Masons, to the exclusion of all others. The governing elites of entire countries -France, the United Kingdom, to name just two examples- are said to be dominated by Masons, and the same thing used to be said of the Philippines.
No wonder then that Freemasonry remains a favorite subject for speculation, from the alleged murder of Pope John Paul I in the book In God's Name , to a journalistic expose of Masonic domination of the British police and legal system in The Brotherhood. But speculation as to whether Masonry is a "secret society" -or "a society with secrets"- overlooks a central fact, which should rapidly demolish any attempts to portray Masonry as a global conspiracy. Masonry is not an organized global movement. There are individual Masons who belong to autonomous Masonic lodges which may be linked to other lodges within the same country; but there is no world-wide super body that gives orders to the different national lodges.
So what is Masonry? Is it what the Masons claim it is -a fraternal society with secrets, a civic entity with benevolent aspirations? One among civic organizations which undertake philanthropic tasks? You would find it impossible to convince conspiracy theorist sthat this is so. The truth is that the average citizen pays no more attention to it than it does to the fraternities that are so prominent in the public's consciousness. No one pays more particular attention to Masonic symbols, the ubiquitous compass-and-straight-edge, displayed on the vehicles of some Masons, than they to to say, a Rotary International sticker or Toastmaster's sign.
This nonchalant attitude is, after centuries of hysteria, quite welcome, but it is as misplaced as the paranoia that used to accompany the mere mention of the word "Mason". For what sets Masonry apart from other fraternal organizations -indeed, what made it worth the while of various governments to expend energy arresting Masons- are ideals it espouses, best summarized by the glorious motto of the French Revolution: Liberty, Equality and Fraternity. The Enlightenment ideals of our very own Propagandists and Revolutionaries. Over the past two centuries Masons have been the proponents, and then the guardians, of Enlightenment thinking; Rationalist, Deist, essentially Democratic and always stressing Political Compromise. No surprise then that it has often been at the vanguard of resistance to absolutist regimes, including the totalitarian regimes of the recent past. Masons were active in the French and American revolutions; they were prominent during the long process of the reduction of the governing powers of British sovereigns; they were central figures in the attempts to establish a more liberal regime in Spain, and were still persecuted during the time of Generalissimo Francisco Franco; they helped undertake the Risorgimiento which finally united Italy and which, ironically, forced the Catholic Church, through the elimination of its temporal power, to reassess itself and make itself once more a potent force in word affairs because of its strictly religious prestige. And Masons were central figures in the long campaign to secure independence for the Philippines in war and peace.
Freemasonry's origins in the Philippines are traced to Spain, but masonry as it exists today owes little to Spain, its present-day characteristics and existence being linked to American freemasonry. After the defeat of the First Philippine Republic by the forces of the United States, and the "pacification" of the country, restrictions on peaceable assembly and private associations were relaxed; Masonry was allowed to flourish since the American regime imposed retained the separation of Church and State accomplished during the Revolution.
The surviving Filipino Masons decided to revive their links to the Gran Oriente Español, the mother lodge which had been headed by Miguel Morayta, and with which most Filipino lodges had been affiliated with during the Spanish regime. The Regional Grand Lodge of the Philippines was created on September 14, 1907, with Felipe Buencamino, Sr. as the first Grand Master.
But there were American Masons, too, and the promptly set up their own lodges; in 1912 the three American lodges united to form the Grand Lodge of the Philippine Islands -which promptly provoked a protest from the Filipino Masons, who pointed out that they had priority of jurisdiction in the country. The result was the decision to fuse the Spanish-oriented Filipino Grand Lodge with the American Scottish Rite Grand Lodge, creating the Grand Lodge of the Philippine Islands. This was in 1917. By 1918, the unified Grand Lodge was headed by a Filipino, with Filipinos and Americans alternating as Grand Masters thereafter.
The Japanese Occupation was marked by the suppression of Masonry by the Japanese Military Government, while Masonry contributed its own martyrs to the cause of the war effort, most notably Chief Justice Jose Abad Santos, a past Grand Master. The Scottish Rite Temple on Taft Avenue, which had been confiscated by the Japanese, who had destroyed the Masonic paraphernalia and records kept there, was heavily damaged during the Battle of Manila in 1945, resulting in the loss of even more documents.
Freemasonry was reestablished, however. In 1950, the Grand Lodge of the Philippine Islands became autonomous from Scottish Rite Freemasonry in the United States. The Supreme Council for the Philippines was recognized by the Supreme Council, Southern Jurisdiction of the United States, which had formerly had jurisdiction over the Philippine lodges. Soon after the Supreme Council for the Philippines was renamed Grand Lodge of the Philippines.
These were the antecedents of Scottish Rite Freemasonry in the Philippines today; but as to the origins of Masonry itself…
It is ironic that what began as a medieval Catholic guild eventually became the object of Catholic ire. Masonry is called masonry because it was once a Catholic trade guild for the stone masons who were engaged in building the great Cathedrals of the Middle Ages. Stonemasons were considered an elite with special skills, who lived an itinerant existence according to where projects were available; it is said that part of the mysticism and mysteriousness of Masonic institutions was derived from the stonemasons' efforts to keep their guild exclusive.
These stonemasons gathered in "lodges," a word which has been traced back to the year 1277. But by the late 16th century, the age of the great Gothic cathedrals had passed; stonemasons' lodges became an anachronism, representing a dying craft.
Then, in Scotland, non-masons began to be accepted in the lodges. The name of this first non-mason, accepted into a lodge, is known -as is the year he joined. He was John Boswell, Laird of Auchinleck, who joined the Edinburgh lodge in the year 1600. By 1646, the English lodges had also begun to accept gentlemen, the first being Elais Ashmole, of Oxford's Ashmolean Museum fame. This was in 1646. By 1670 it seems non-stonemasons outnumbered the masons in the lodges. Soon after that gentlemen began establishing their own lodges, and Freemasonry as we know it now began. The thirty years that followed, leading up to the foundation of the Grand Lodge of England in 1717, saw the development of the characteristics that distinguish Masonry to this day. The secrets of the society were laid down, as were its rituals and initiations. Its fraternal ideals, which cut across class divisions, emerged, as well -a remarkable development. It also had its political foundations which would endure and contribute to its appeal, in that many of the first gentlemen-masons also supported the rapid reduction in the governing prerogatives of the Kings of England taking place at the time.
Masonry was reorganized along British lines soon after, and then it began to spread to other European nations. Members of the aristocracy became Masons, as did some sovereigns, following the lead of members of the British Royal Family who became Masons. Freemasonry had already entered France in 1718, and the Austrian Empire by 1726 -with the Emperor Joseph II and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart being two prominent early Masons. Spain had lodges by 1728, the American Colonies had theirs by 1731, and within the next six years Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and parts of Germany had Masonic lodges too. Between 1743 and 1776, Masonry would be established in Scandinavia, the Canadian colonies, Finland and Luxembourg.
In Protestant countries, Masonry flourished, as it continues to flourish, there being no incompatibility in the views of Protestant clergymen, between the tenets of Masonry and their religion -to this day many members of the Anglican church are Masons.
But in Catholic countries the Catholic Church and Catholic principalities eventually opposed Masonry. While a Catholic, the Duke of Norfolk, had had no problem in becoming the tenth Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of England, by 1738 no Catholic could become a Mason without incurring condemnation by the Church -partly as a response to the number of Catholic prelates who had joined Freemasonry.
In Countries where the union of Church and State was particularly firm, it was inevitable that Church policy would be adopted as the policy of the State. This is what happened in Spain -and as Spain went, so did its little backwater of a colony, the Philippines. Even more virulently so.
On December 2, 1956, during the Second National Eucharistic Congress in Manila, President Ramon Magsaysay read an act consecrating the Philippines to the Sacred Heart. He simply reiterated the consecration of the Philippines to this popular devotion undertaken by then Vice-President Fernando Lopez in 1950 -but his action provoked a storm of protest.
One of those who objected to Magsaysay's action, an Evangelical leader named Dr. Gumersindo Garcia, said, "In accordance with the principle of the separation of Church and State, the President of this country should not give preference or favor to any particular Church." Two young leaders came to their President's defense. Senator Soc Rodrigo said the President was acting as a private individual, while Raul Manglapus maintained that it was wrong to take the separation of Church and State to mean that a private individual was not entitled to publicly display his faith.
The protest to Magsayay's act was joined by the Philippine Independent Church and the Philippine Federation of Christian Churches. But a citizen's group, called "The Spirit of 1896," headed by Judge Guillermo Guevara, joined the fray. As the lines of battle were drawn, another thing became apparent: this was as much a fight between generations as anything else. The point of separation between the views of elder Filipinos, as represented by Judge Guevara, and the perspective of outstanding young leaders such as Soc Rodrigo and Raul Manglapus, was the proper role of the Catholic Church in a secular state.
Judge Guevara's generation would have remembered that less than twenty years earlier, President Quezon had deliberately absented himself from the country in order to avoid participating in the International Eucharistic Congress held in Manila in 1937, explaining that "as President of the Philippines, I am not in a position to do what your program calls for." He also declined to petition the Pope to appoint a Filipino archbishop of Manila (the Archbishop then was Michael O'Dougherty, who would prove to be the last foreign archbishop), saying that this would constitute a violation of the separation of Church and State.
They would have remembered, too, that a campaign begun by the Catholic Church, to allow religious instruction in public schools, bore fruit when the National Assembly passed an Act authorizing religious instruction -by any denomination- as an acceptable alternative to a new course on character building, good manners and right conduct mandated by the same Act. The bill was promptly vetoed by Quezon, resulting in a pastoral letter criticizing the executive action, and something of a tiff between the Palace and the bishops.
Memories of the squabble over the Religious Instruction bill certainly could account for the alacrity with which the restoration of religious instruction in public schools was met. In 1953 administrative charges were filed against Secretary of Education Cecilio Putong and three others "for allegedly intending to sabotage the religious instruction provision" of the Administrative Code. During the investigation that ensued (Putong would be absolved after a presidential inquiry), it was maintained that religious instruction in the schools was being "sabotaged" by, among other things (as stated in one complaint), religion classes were being held beside the room where the school band was practicing. Not a good way to keep the students' attention, particularly when the rooms were divided by a sawali wall.
It was alleged that Putong was part of a committee aimed at "the elimination of religious instruction in public schools." Grandmaster Emilio P. Virata was quoted as having said that,
"At present we have a law permitting religious instruction in public schools. There is a strong movement to make this instruction compulsory. This I take as a violation of our Constitution and I urge everyone of you to use all your power and influence to not only to frustrate this movement but also to have the religious instruction law repealed."
For the next couple of years it seemed that the Propaganda Movement was alive again. Cries of Masonic conspiracy were raised, for it was true that Masons figured prominently in attempts to enforce a strict definition of the separation of Church and State. But it was also true that the issue was also important to non-Masonic groups, such as the Evangelicals (the case of the Philippine Independent Church was a special one, for it had always had friendly ties with the Masons as some of its clergy were Masons themselves).
Then in the summer of 1955, Secretary of Education Gregorio Hernandez issued Department Order No. 5 which allowed religious instruction to be carried out during the school session of public schools, instructing religious instructors to hand in their grades to school principles, and furthermore giving principals the discretion to take the grades into consideration in appraising the conduct of children. The order was challenged by a parent, who challenged a principal's request for his child's grade in religious instruction. The case reached the Supreme Court, which dismissed the case because, it pointed out, the parent had authorized his child's taking religion classes, thus making the option requested in writing by the parent obligatory -you could not request something and then wriggle out of its consequences afterwards. Nonetheless, the case did result in a further clarification of the implications optional religious instruction in public schools had on this Constitutional principle.
More skirmishes lay ahead; The famous fight lead by Claro M. Recto (not a Mason) and Jose P. Laurel (a Mason) to make Rizal's novels mandatory reading in all schools; also Recto's reaction to what he perceived to be illegitimate religious pressure exerted on the electorate by the Catholic clergy in the elections of 1953 and 1955. Recto even suggested, in an article in The Lawyers Journal (1958) that a Constitutional amendment be passed to further clarify the definition of the separation of Church and State in the Constitution.
You may be puzzled over all this hubbub over religious instruction, and may wonder about its significance today in an age when the Filipino people gave John Paul II the biggest audience in history, and when Filipino leaders and politicians regularly invoke religious authorities to support their candidacies; never before, it seems, has religion played such an important role in national politics -with the implication that the old, strict definition of the Separation of Church and State is obsolete.
But just as Masonic influences are evident everywhere -from the equilateral triangle in our flag and the seal of the president of the Philippines- so are the anticlerical feelings of the Propagandists deeply ingrained in many people's psyches.
But from the grand vista of our political history, let me focus on the emerging crisis confronting all organizations built on fraternal ties and a strong civic sense. Many Freemasons are also members of fraternities; the Craft may be preeminent in their lives but it is also an aspect of their membership in clubs.
Clubs are one of the few institutions that have an institutional memory, and which cherishes traditions. They are organizations that serve, for their members, as part of the bedrock of society. I've long pointed out that our society, at least for the upper classes, and the middle class which tries to copy the upper class, is defined by three institutions. They are, church, club, and school.
All these institutions require a rite of passage. For Christians, your initiation into the religion begins with baptism. For schools, you have ceremonies to mark your passage from grade school to high school and when you finish college. For clubs, they invariably mark the acceptance of new members with some sort of ceremony, which at times requires some sort of hazing.
There's a reason behind the existence of clubs, and their rituals. And it has something to do with a freedom Filipinos take freedom for granted. The freedom of association. As well as associations being a means to exercise not only freedom, but gain influence.
Filipino Sociologist Randy David has long been arguing, that our society is undergoing a crisis of modernity. The crisis comes out of our traditional values turning out to be incompatible with our aspirations to be modern. Modernity, as David pointed out, means institutions that operate according to impartial rules.
For example, what should matter more, merit or connections? What happens, when connections end up putting a few people ahead of the interests of everyone else? You have the crisis in modernity David was referring to.
Knowledge is power. Not only what you know, but who you know, confers power.
This crisis has actually been there for some time. Even if you try to establish a modern institution, the people who make up that institution, often operate to age-old values, and demonstrate behavior drilled into their minds by society.
The comfortable bonhomie of a Lodge is far removed from the days when membership could, literally, cost someone their life. The networking that characterizes much of the interactions that take place in Lodges and in clubs, is, itself, under threat: by new standards of modernity where connections are actually viewed as challenges to meritocracy; and by changes in the behavior of young people.
How many Rotarians, for example, do you know, who find it increasingly difficult to recruit new members, because their children and grandchildren find it more useful to network through FaceBook rather than attend a weekly Rotary luncheon; or who say, they aren't interested in the Craft because they no longer see the advantages of a fraternal organization in an increasingly globalized world?
These are the challenges ahead: where, on one hand, the sense of civic pride, of historical obligation, both strong motivations for excellence and dedication, are confronted by new notions of what constitutes not only admirable, but useful, behavior. I cannot pretend to know how these challenges will be resolved. I can only say that to confront these challenges is the first step. And one, I am confident, organizations like the Freemasons have the integrity, brainpower, and love of country and of people, to successfully meet.
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In the great state of Alabama, there are hundreds of roadside rib joints clamoring for that country money. Some good, some bad, and some utterly majestic like Archibald's in Northport.
George Archibald puts out the finest smoked pork I ever put in my mouth. His tiny (seats 6) cinder block meat house butts heads with Jim n Nick's in round 1 of Alabama's Quest For The Best Barbecue competition that kicks off Monday March 11th 2013.
Here's the bracket. We'll post updates as warranted.
Turns out the fix was in. Archibald's, the barbecue joint that in-the-know connoisseurs believe to be the finest smoked meat shack in USA was unceremoniously ousted in round one by Jim n Nicks, the chain that got its start in Birmingham.
I lived one block from Jim n Nick's Clairmont Road location for 2 years back in the 90s. It was serviceable…barely.
Jim n Nick's moves on to round two where they square off vs Full Moon, formerly Pat James Full Moon. It's chain vs chain as Full Moon locations are scattered all over central Alabama.
More than 50k people have cast their votes in this competition and now the bracket has been reduced to 4 restaurants: Big Bob Gibson in Decatur, Jim `N Nick's in Birmingham, Sam's BBQ in Montgomery and The Shed in Mobile.
Let's face reality. The fact that Archibald's in Northport is not in the final four renders the entire contest a farce-a dog and pony show-little more than flexing amongst restaurants that have staunch social media skills.
Interestingly Jim n Nick's moved into the final four via beating Dreamland by 19 votes with over 7k cast!
More than 75,000 votes have been cast so far in this tournament. Now we're down to the final 2 combatants: Jim n Nick's of Birmingham, who bested Big Bob Gibson's of Decatur, and Sam's Bar-B-Q who beat the Shed Barbeque & Blues Joint of Mobile.
Meanwhile George Archibald continues putting out the finest barbecue in the Deep South at his little 6 seater down in Northport Alabama.
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Army-Duke is overshadowed among marquee college football season openers this season. Michigan-Notre Dame, Louisville-Alabama and Miami-LSU are the luminous matchups.
Nonetheless, Army-Duke is one of the more intriguing games pairing two teams that are looking to build on last year's momentum.
ESPN recognized this when the network moved the opener from the crowded Saturday afternoon schedule to a highlighted Friday night slot. The Aug. 31 game will be aired on ESPNU under the lights at Duke's Wallace Wade Stadium.
Last season Army won the Commander-in-Chief's Trophy for the first time since 1996 with wins over Air Force and Navy. The Black Knights also beat San Diego State in the Armed Forces Bowl to reach the double-figure wins column with a 10-3 season. One of their victims during a six-game winning streak was Duke, 21-16, at West Point's Michie Stadium.
Army must replace quarterback Ahmad Bradshaw, who led the team in rushing, but the guy that wins the job has a deep cast around him. The next six backs in rushing yards return.
Walker was third with 648 yards and led it with 7.3 yards per carry. Senior fullback Darnell Woolfolk was second with 812 yards and tied Bradshaw for the team lead with 14 touchdowns. Sophomore Fred Cooper only ran for 72 yards and two TDs in a backup role, but he was one of the stars of the spring game with a 37-yard touchdown run.
Duke won its final three contests in an injury-plagued year to finish 7-6. The Blue Devils, who beat Northern Illinois in the Quick Lane Bowl in Detroit, return 16 starters, including NFL quarterback prospect Daniel Jones, and 48 lettermen.
"There are so many people that return," Duke head coach David Cutcliffe said. "I think the end of the year, the way we finished, that the practices for the bowl game were even better than what we played. That's why we played so well.
One of the keys for Duke is better protection for Jones, who played the second half of last season banged up by undisclosed injuries.
"Daniel's been healthy for one thing," Cutcliffe said of his progress in spring drills. "He's really matured. I would say he dove into the spring. I mean, he's really put a lot of heart and soul into it. He's had a really good spring. I've seen almost every area of his game improve; his understanding, just every approach.
For Army, now that the Black Knights have won the CIC Trophy for the first time in two decades, the next step is to flirt with Top 25 rankings. That's something Navy and Air Force have done when they put together their CIC championship teams.
For Duke, it's getting back to the top of the ACC Coastal Division. The Blue Devils won the 2013 ACC Coastal title before losing to eventual national champion Florida State in the ACC title game. The Blue Devils followed up their 10-4 record and No. 23 national ranking with a 2014 record of 9-4 that was second in the Coastal to Georgia Tech.
Army-Duke falls outside the attraction of a Top 25 matchup to open the season, but both teams are flirting with the rankings. That's what makes it such an intriguing Friday Night Lights showdown.


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Matthew 25 Bible Commentary
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1. Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.
[Ten virgins.] The nation of the Jews delighted mightily in the number ten, both in sacred and civil matters: A synagogue consisted not but of ten at the least: which we have observed before, when we spoke about synagogues. This also was current among them, An order or ring of men consisted not but of ten at the least. The text is speaking of a company to comfort mourners: which the Gloss thus describes, "When the company was returned from burying a dead body, they set themselves in order about the mourners, and comforted them: but now such an order or ring consisted of ten at the least." To this commonly received number there seems to be an alluding in this place: not but that they very frequently exceeded that number of virgins in weddings of greater note, but rarely came short of it.
[To meet the bridegroom.] To go to a wedding was reckoned among the works of mercy.
"The shewing of mercy implies two things: 1. That one should assist an Israelite with one's wealth, namely, by alms and redeeming of captives. 2. That one should assist him in one's own person; to wit, by comforting the mourners, by attending the dead to burial, and by being present at the chambers of bridegrooms." The presence of virgins also adorned the pomp and festivity of the thing. Marriages are called by the Rabbins receivings, &c. The introducing of the bride, namely, into the house of her husband. There were no marriages but of such as had been before betrothed; and, after the betrothing, the bridegroom might not lie with the bride in his father-in-law's house before he had brought her to his own. That 'bringing' of her was the consummation of the marriage. This parable supposeth that the bride was thus fetched to the house of her husband, and that the virgins were ready against her coming; who yet, being either fetched a great way, or some accident happening to delay her, did not come till midnight.
[Took lamps.] The form of lamps is described by Rambam and R. Solomon, whom see. These things are also mentioned by R. Solomon: "It is the fashion in the country of the Ismaelites to carry the bride from the house of her father to the house of the bridegroom before she is put to bed; and to carry before her about ten wooden staves, having each of them on the top a vessel like a dish, in which there is a piece of cloth with oil and pitch: these, being lighted, they carry before her for torches."
2. And five of them were wise, and five were foolish.
[Five wise; Five foolish.] A parable, not unlike this, is produced by Kimchi: "Rabban Jochanan Ben Zaccai saith (as he hath it), This thing is like a king, who invited his servants, but did not appoint them any set time. Those of them that were wise adorned themselves, and sat at the gate of the palace; those that were foolish were about their own business. The king on a sudden called for his servants: those went in adorned; these, undressed. The king was pleased with the wise, and angry at the foolish."
5. While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.
[They all slumbered and slept.] "If some sleep" [while they celebrate the paschal supper], "let them eat; if all, let them not eat. R. Josi saith, Do they slumber? let them eat. Do they sleep? let them not eat." The Gemarists inquire, "Whence a man is to be reputed as a slumberer? R. Ishi saith, He sleeps and doth not sleep, he wakes and is not awake. If you call him, he answers; but he cannot answer to the purpose." The Gloss, "If you speak to him, he will answer yes, or no; but if you ask any thing that hath need of thinking; as, for instance, where such a vessel is laid up? he cannot answer you."
15. And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to every man according to his several ability; and straightway took his journey.
[And unto one he gave five talents, &c.] You have a like and almost the same parable, Luke 19; yet, indeed, not the very same; for, besides that there is mention there of pounds being given, here of talents,--that parable was spoken by Christ, going up from Jericho to Jerusalem, before the raising up of Lazarus; this, as he was sitting on Mount Olivet, three days before the Passover. That, upon this account, "because he was nigh to Jerusalem, and because they thought that the kingdom of God should immediately appear," Luke 19:11, and that he might shew that it would not be long before Jerusalem should be called to an account for all the privileges and benefits conferred upon it by God (see verses the fourteenth and seventeenth); but this, that he might warn all to be watchful, and provide with their utmost care concerning giving up their accounts at the last judgment.
27. Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.
[Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, &c.] The lord did not deliver the talents to his servants with that intent, that they should receive the increase and profit of them by usury; but that, by merchandise and some honest way of trade, they should increase them. He only returns this answer to the slothful servant, as fitted to what he had alleged; "You take me for a covetous, griping, and sordid man: why then did you not make use of a manner of gain agreeable to these qualities, namely, interest or usury (since you would not apply yourself to any honest traffic), that you might have returned me some increase of my money, rather than nothing at all?" So that our Lord, in these words, doth not so much approve of usury, as upbraid the folly and sloth of his servant.
Exchangers, answering to the word trapezita very usual among the Talmudists: "An exchanger (trapezita) sells money; and because a table is always before him, upon which he buys and sells, therefore he is called mensarius," one that stands at a table.
Of the same employment was the shopkeeper of whom is as frequent mention among them. He exercised the employment of a usurer in buying and changing of fruits, as the other in money: for in these two especially consisted usury: of which you may see, if you please, the tract Bava Mezia.


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Title: Diginatin
CAS Name: (3b,5b,12b,16b)-3-[(O-2,6-Dideoxy-b-D-ribo-hexopyranosyl-(1®4)-O-2,6-dideoxy-b-D-ribo-hexopyranosyl-(1®4)-2,6-dideoxy-b-D-ribo-hexopyranosyl)oxy]-12,14,16-trihydroxy-card-20(22)-enolide
Literature References: Cardiac glycoside from Digitalis lanata Ehrk., Scrophulariaceae: Murphy, J. Am. Pharm. Assoc. Sci. Ed. 44, 719 (1955); Angliker et al., Ann. 607, 131 (1957); von Wartburg et al., Experientia 14, 439 (1958). Acid hydrolysis yields 1 mol diginatigenin + 3 mols D-digitoxose. The sugar residue is attached to the hydroxyl group at C-3 of the aglycon.
Properties: Prisms from acetone, mp 251-253°. Somewhat hygroscopic. [a]D20 +20.5 ±2°; [a]20546 +26.3 ±2° (c = 0.6 in methanol). Absorption max (98% w/w H2SO4): 230, 310, 390, 480, 560 nm (E1%1cm 185, 175, 315, 230, 120). Sol in alcohol, dil alcohol, dioxane; slightly sol in acetone. One part sol in 1000 parts water and in 2000 parts chloroform at 25°.
Optical Rotation: [a]D20 +20.5 ±2°; [a]20546 +26.3 ±2° (c = 0.6 in methanol)
Absorption maximum: Absorption max (98% w/w H2SO4): 230, 310, 390, 480, 560 nm (E1%1cm 185, 175, 315, 230, 120)
Derivative Type: Acetyldiginatin-a
Properties: Flat plates from methanol + chloroform+ ether, mp 199-202°. [a]D20 +30.1° (c = 0.6 in pyridine). uv max: 218 nm (log e 4.1).
Optical Rotation: [a]D20 +30.1° (c = 0.6 in pyridine)
Absorption maximum: uv max: 218 nm (log e 4.1)
Hydrocortisone Azidamfenicol Glycobiarsol Nickel Sesquioxide
Trimoprostil EMPA Bismuth Chloride Barium Oxalate
Chlorothalonil Methylthiouracil Phytochlorin Fluoroform
Nipecotic Acid Phenolphthalin Resorantel Rapacuronium Bromide


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Massachusetts AG proposes tighter regs for fantasy sports
Published on November 19, 2015 in Sports/Top Headlines by Associated Press
Daily fantasy sports companies like FanDuel and Boston-based DraftKings would be allowed to continue operating in Massachusetts, but with age and advertising restrictions, disclosure requirements and other new rules proposed Thursday by the state's attorney general.
Maura Healey announced what she called an aggressive, first-in-the-nation plan to regulate the websites after her office spent several weeks reviewing whether the contests were legal in the state.
"This is an industry that cries out for transparency and robust consumer protection," she said. "These are games you carry around with you in your pocket and lose money at the touch of a button."
Among the regulations would be a ban on anyone under 21 participating and a ban on advertising or promotion of the contests at schools or college campuses. Professional athletes and others connected to pro sports would also be banned from entering contests in their particular sport.
Most players would be limited to depositing $1,000 per month on games, and the companies would be required to identify "highly-experienced" players on all contest platforms and offer "beginner" games that would be off limits to the more experienced players.
Contests involving college sports would also be banned in Massachusetts, and daily fantasy sports would be prohibited from extending credit to players.
FanDuel, in a statement, said Healey's proposals made "a tremendous amount of sense," while adding that they would offer more feedback on them in the coming weeks. The company said it also welcomed the opportunity to work with attorneys general and lawmakers in developing "fair regulations" in other states.
DraftKings also said it planned to issue a statement.
Several states have been scrutinizing daily fantasy sports recently, considering whether the games should be treated like other forms of gambling. The sites drew attention earlier this year with an ad blitz ahead of the NFL season — football is by far the most popular fantasy sport — and scandal after a DraftKings employee won $350,000 in a FanDuel contest. The companies say there was no wrongdoing, but lawmakers on several levels began questioning whether the games are or should be legal.
Nevada restricted daily fantasy sports there to those with gambling licenses, while New York's attorney general is challenging DraftKings and FanDuel there by calling the offerings illegal games of chance. DraftKings and FanDuel disagree and are arguing in the state's Supreme Court to stay open in one of their biggest customer bases.
Supporters of fantasy sports have long argued that a provision in a 2006 federal law allows them to operate freely in 45 states that don't have specific prohibitions on the contests.
Healey, a Democrat, has taken a more measured approach than her counterpart in New York, despite her past opposition to gambling. She supported an unsuccessful effort last year to repeal a state law that allows casino gambling.
While she considers fantasy sports a form of gambling, the attorney general has repeatedly said that it is not necessarily a form of illegal gambling.
Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker, a Republican, has said he believes fantasy sports is a game of skill, and legal under state law.
The rules proposed by Healey would not take effect immediately — they require a two-month comment period and a hearing before they become official. But Healey said she hoped the companies would move to immediately adopt the regulations, which do not require legislative approval.
Healey said she wants to level the playing field for average fans.
"There is a very small subset of professional players who use sophisticated software and algorithms and through their experience, through their expertise, are in fact able to win the vast majority of these contests," said Healey, who said she has not tried the games herself.
FanDuel and DraftKings say that the ability for professionals to win consistently shows daily fantasy is a game of skill.
Healey, a one-time Harvard University basketball star, said she called for the ban on contests involving college sports because she did not believe that contests should be based on games involving amateur student athletes.
Republished with permission of the Associated Press.
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Ruff Kid
Masautso Nkhoma (born March 17, 1986) better known by his stage name Ruff Kid is a Zambian hip hop and Christian hip hop recording artist[4] and 2012 best international act winner at the Beffta Awards.[5] He debuted in 2000 with the his single Wekatemwikwa. Ruff Kid is also the chief executive officer of his own label imprint, Kang'ono Records. He claims that the name Ruff Kid depicts his background
Born in Lusaka and raised on the Cooperbelt Ruff Kid's career initially started in 2000. In 2014 Ruff Kid launched a controversial album The Naked Truth.[3] The album received a lot of criticism over the cover photo.[2] At the launch of his album he made dramatic entrance when he came out of a casket received a lot of mixed reactions from his fans but however he was defended by Petersen Zagaze saying that "A primitive mind is no place to get advice…." he went on say "Everyday you watch movies with people in coffins, some even acting as Satanists, presidents, bishops, killers, sex workers, pilots, ghosts etc and you don't complain, call [them] names or conclude, You see Ruff Kid do a coffin stunt stage entrance you talk shallowmind talk. Why? Is it because it wasn't Ukwa in a Nigerian movie or Nicolas Cage in the coffin?".[7] After the successful launch of The Naked Truth, said: "I feel amazed by how some people can be shallow-minded and go to the extent of saying things such as Illuminati."[7]
Currently he is signed to Effycom Productions in the UK.
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For a guy trying to make it as a screenwriter, it takes a lot for me to go out and pay to watch a movie. I think it's, at least in part, because I don't deal well with disappointment and particularly when I've had to pay for it.
Luckily, my friends had some luck dragging me out of the house this year, so below, I offer one-line critiques of the various films I saw in theatres (with hyperlinks to longer reviews I've written).
Taken 3: When the hell did I see this, and more importantly, why?
Paddington: Charming and a lot of fun.
Kingsman: A rollicking good time.
Ex Machina: Oh My Deus, was this written by a robot devoid of emotions?
Age of Ultron: Miss a movie, lose a thread; think I am out of this series.
Mad Max Fury Road: You will believe a man can drive…that is all.
Inside Out: Underwhelmed, but appreciate I am only one.
Spectre: Good movie with a stupid ending…am I outgrowing Bond?


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British Airways Offers Carbon Removal Scheme
byKarina Anandya
British Airways offers a carbon removal scheme and makes new discoveries to help the environment. Starting this year, the British airline is inviting its passengers to support carbon dioxide elimination projects. You do this by buying carbon removal credits, either before, during, or after flying.
Announced in a British Airways press release, the carbon removal credit aims to support projects aimed at preventing or eliminating emissions. This initiative is different from emission-oriented carbon offsets.
In the early stages, there are two projects listed as donation targets for British Airways, namely planting mangroves in Pakistan and "capturing" the remaining carbon from a biomass power plant in the United States.
In order to maintain quality, these two projects are claimed to have been certified by an independent institution. The mangrove project is certified by the VCS (Verified Carbon Standard) and CCB (Climate, Community, and Biodiversity Standards), while carbon is captured by Puro.
Passengers must first open the CO2laborate portal and compute their flight's emissions in order to purchase carbon removal credits. After that, passengers can buy credits according to the emissions they produce.
"In 2019, as we committed to achieving our target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050, we found carbon removals to be vital to meeting that agenda," said Carrie Harris, British Airways Director of Sustainability. "
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The solution to redeem the "sin" of tourism
The aviation industry is one of the biggest contributors to carbon emissions. According to the Air Transport Action Group (ATAG), airlines exhaled 915 tons of CO2 in 2019. This figure decreased slightly from 2018, partly due to improvements to modern jet engines. Many fleets are now more efficient, and because of that, emission levels can be reduced even though the number of passengers increases.
In the transportation category, aircraft represent about 12 percent of total global modal emissions. The proportion is much smaller than land vehicles, which spray 74 percent of emissions. Even so, 12 percent remains monumental for a warming earth. That is why many airlines are committed to being more environmentally friendly.
There are many initiatives taken by airline operators to reduce their impact on nature. In addition to purchasing more fuel-efficient fleets, some airlines have banned plastic cutlery, used amenity kits made from recycled materials, and advised passengers to pre-order their in-flight meals to reduce waste. Specifically for emission problems, one of the most popular solutions is carbon offsets.
What is the definition of carbon offset?
In its technical translation, "carbon offset" is an act of compensating for emissions by supporting activities that reduce emissions. To use a loose analogy, after you commit a "sin," you pay someone else for the "merit."
Carbon offset funds come from two sources. First, set aside airline operating income. Second, it is collected from passenger donations—and this is what differentiates it from other "green" initiatives: the public can get involved.
In history, carbon offset was initiated in the 1970s. Realizing that the earth is increasingly precarious, this scheme was standardized in the Kyoto Protocol in 1997 and confirmed by the 2015 Paris Agreement. In essence, countries are asked to set targets and methods for reducing emissions. Its big mission is to maintain a maximum increase in the earth's temperature of only 1.5 degrees in 2030.
Specifically for the world of aviation, carbon offsets began to be implemented in the early 2000s. NatureAir was one of those who did this in 2004. This Costa Rican airline bought carbon credits from the government, where the funds were used for forest protection. Three years later, Delta launched a carbon offset program.
From the passenger side, the biggest problem with carbon offsets is the lack of interest. © shawnanggg
How do passengers compensate for emissions?
Specifically for the aviation world, the prospects for carbon offsets are still bleak. This program, according to IATA, is only offered by around 30 airlines. Carbon offsets still depend on the concerns of each airline, even though conditions will change in the future. Referring to the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA), international airlines are encouraged to start carbon offsets in 2021. Starting in 2027, the majority of countries are required to apply this to all their airlines.
That's a problem from the airline side. From the passenger side, the biggest problem with carbon offsets is the lack of interest. According to IATA estimates, only one to three percent of passengers are willing to compensate for their emissions voluntarily. The root of the problem may not be ignorance or skepticism, but rather that many airlines simply do not offer a practical way to do good.
Until now, airlines have not integrated the carbon offset donation method into the ticket purchase process. You have to find a special carbon offset page to do this. On many airline websites, it is easier to find hotel or rental car recommendations than emission compensation channels.
A practical solution to promoting carbon offsets is to include an emission cost component in the ticket price. Global warming is difficult to overcome by relying on voluntary donations from passengers, let alone airline imagery. Perhaps merit must be forced.
British Airways Offers a Carbon Removal Scheme
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