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Beasty Is Back——The lost souls of 'Black" Folks
""…In a traditional Yoruba village everyone your grandfather's age is called Babagba meaning grandfather and everyone your grandmother's age is called Iyaba meaning grandmother. Everyone your father's age is called Baba meaning father and everyone your mother's age is called Iya meaning mother. The words Babagba, Iyagba, Baba and Iya are considered titles of family relationships and in traditional Yoruba it is considered rude to call someone older than you by their name. You only call someone younger than yourself by their name. When you call someone grandfather, grandmother, father, or mother you are giving them permission to function as father and mother. This means everyone in the village you identify as a family elder will bless you and be critical in an effort to support your personal growth. In the Yoruba language there are no words for aunt, uncle, and cousin.As a diviner one of the most common and most difficult problems I encounter is the wound caused by a fatherless child. This wound is nonexistent in a traditional Yoruba village because there is no such thing as a parentless child. Everyone receives the blessing of support from mentors as part of an extended family'."" – Kenny Roosevelt
"…It takes a village to raise a child…."
"…..the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world…"
It is not hard to nurse a pregnancy, but it is hard to bring up a child. ~Swahili Proverb
The motherless child will suckle the grandmother. ~Bambara Proverb
Children will hate all those who give all things to them. ~African Proverb
A single hand cannot nurse a child. ~Swahili Proverb
Haste and hurry can only bear children with many regrets along the way. ~Senegalese Proverb
Train a child the way he should go and make sure you also go the same way. ~African Proverb
A child who is fearless is going to bring tears to his mother's eyes. ~African Proverb
The art of negotiating is acquired from childhood. ~Congolese Proverb
A child who has no mother will not have scars to show on his back. ~Nigerian Proverb
By crawling, a child learns to stand. ~West African Proverb
What the child says, he has heard at home. ~Nigerian Proverb
If a child is not well-behaved, she is not sent by the mother to go alone to the market to buy things for her. ~Nigerian Proverb
A child one does not instruct on return, one instructs him when going. ~Bantu Proverb
When a child knows how to wash his hands well, he eats with the elders. ~Tshi Proverb
An immoral father-in-law cannot advise his children well. ~African Proverb
As you do for your ancestors, your children will do for you. ~African Proverb
If your child is dancing clumsily, tell him: 'you are dancing clumsily'; do not tell him: 'darling, do as you please.' ~Twi Proverb
A child who is to be successful is not to be reared exclusively on a bed of down. ~Akan Proverb
When a woman has ten children, there is nothing that happens in the night that she does not know about. ~Nigerian Proverb
A child who is carried on the back will not know how far the journey is. ~Nigerian Proverb
What you help a child to love can be more important than what you help him to learn. ~African Proverb
A child brought up where there is always dancing cannot fail to dance. ~Nyanja Proverb
Respect a little child, and let it respect you. ~Bantu Proverb
When a man curses his own child it is a terrible thing. ~African Proverb
A child does not fear treading on dangerous ground until he or she gets hurt. ~Bukusu Proverb
When you take a knife away from a child, give him a piece of wood instead. ~Kenyan Proverb
It is the habit that a child forms at home, that follows them to their marriage. ~Nigerian Proverb
When you bear a grudge, your child will also bear a grudge. ~Rwandese Proverb
If a mother steals with a child strapped in the back what do you expect of the child. ~African Proverb
As you bring up a child, so he will be. ~Swahili Proverb
A child who fears beating, would never admit that he played with a missing knife. ~Nigerian Proverb
It is the duty of children to wait on elders, and not the elders on children. ~Kenyan Proverb
A child is what you put into him. ~Nigerian Proverb
One should punish a child the first time he comes home with a stolen egg. Otherwise, the day he returns home with a stolen ox, it will be too late. ~Ethiopian Proverb
A child is a child of everyone. ~Sudanese Proverb
Patience is the mother of a beautiful child. ~Bantu Proverb
When the child falls the mother weeps; when the mother falls the child laughs. ~Rwandan Proverb
Too large a morsel chokes the child. ~Mauritanian Proverb
We desire to bequest two things to our children — the first one is roots; the other one is wings. ~Sudanese Proverb
When a child is asleep a mother's attention is on the child's stomach. ~African Proverb
It's a bad child who does not take advice. ~Ashanti Proverb
The good mother knows what her children will eat. ~Akan Proverb
Parents give birth to the body of their children, but not always to their characters. ~Ganda Proverb
A child is an axe; when it cuts you, you still pick it up and put it on your shoulder. ~Bemba Proverb
Only a mother would carry the child that bites. ~Nigerian Proverb
He who fears the crying of a child, will cry himself. ~Swahili Proverb
A child doesn't breastfeed from a stepmother if its mother is still alive. ~African Proverb
Do not make the dress before the child is born. ~Tanzanian Proverb
You only understand the joys of parenthood when you have your first child, you only understand the mystery of death when in mourning. ~Bahaya Proverb
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Africans in science…a new jack swing!
From the late 1980's to the early 1990's Teddy Riley and Bernard Belle, hit up the dull and repetitive "pop" music scene with an explosive mix of old school jazz, smooth jazz, funk and rap (when it was good) and R&B. The new jack swing style developed as many previous music styles did, by combining elements of older styles with newer sensibilities. It used R&B style vocals sung over hip hop and dance-pop style influenced instrumentation. The sound of new jack swing comes from the hip hop "swing" beats created by drum machine, and hardware samplers, which was popular during the golden age of hip hop, with contemporary R&B style singing. Like all things African, the life essence of African sensibility is to have a symbiotic co-existence between art, artistic expressions and reality. This is why African music can never die because no savage breast can go for long without the beat of the heart…which is our music.
Wrecks-N-Effect – New Jack Swing
They say that art imitates life, therefore the life science or the science of life is as intricate to African essence and existence as any other discipline. It is mot accepted by the doers of Isfet that denying the African origin and influence in what is described as modern science is a waste of time and breath and the y just choose to co opt it, pay us to create for them, while continuing to fool the idiotic sheeples that Yurugu is and has been the creator of "science". Unlike the New Jack Swing, the African presence in modern science is not a NEW phenomena, even while it infuses old school essence with newer efforts to produce a wholly unique, distinctive and thoroughly refreshing presentation of a previously boring, white bread and flavorless entity.
At the Maker Faire Africa in Lagos, Nigeria, four teenage girls came up with a rather remarkable invention: urine-powered generator. These young Nigerian geniuses are Duro-Aina Adebola (14), Akindele Abiola (14), Faleke Oluwatoyin (14) and Bello Eniola (15), who with the help and encouragement of mentors that actually provide the kind of teaching that is lacking in western (white society) has produced the worlds first Urine-Powered Generator, which uses 1 Liter of urine which produces up to 6 hours of electricity.
The system works like this:
– Urine is put into an electrolytic cell, which separates out the hydrogen.
– The hydrogen goes into a water filter for purification, which then gets pushed into the gas cylinder.
– The gas cylinder pushes hydrogen into a cylinder of liquid borax, which is used to remove the moisture from the hydrogen gas.
– This purified hydrogen gas is pushed into the generator.
check out the video below:
Teenagers in Nigeria create a urine-powered generator
Respects to by Anne Mireille Nzouankeu, Yaoundé for bringin this story to the world.
In Cameroon a young engineer has built the first full touch screen medical tablet, that will soon save African lives. However at the time of the braking story, he was seeking funding to mass-produce the device. In a country that has only 30 heart surgeons for more than 20 million people, the dream of Arthur Zang, a 24-year-old Cameroonian engineer, is to facilitate the treatment of patients with a heart disease across Cameroon.
In 2010, he created a digital tablet known as Cardiopad: "It's the first fully touch screen medical tablet made in Cameroon and in Africa. It's an invention that could save numerous human lives", explains Arthur Zang. In fact, Cameroon's thirty heart specialists are all based in either Douala or Yaoundé, the country's economic and political capitals. Heart patients often have to travel across the country for a consultation. Appointments sometimes must be made months in advance, leading to death of some patients.
Hassle of travelling
The Cardiopad solves this problem by enabling medical examinations to be performed remotely and the results transmitted electronically, saving patients the hassle of having to travel to the city.
Arthur Zang explains that the Cardiopad is above all a scientific project. He started his research three years ago and carried out several scientific tests that were validated by the Cameroonian scientific community. "The reliability of the Cardiopad is 97.5%", he says.
Distance consultation
In practice, the Cardiopad is a device that can perform tests such as the electrocardiogram (ECG). The medical tablet also makes it possible to wirelessly send the results of the tests from remote locations to the specialist who will then interpret them.
"The tablet is used as a classical electrocardiograph device: electrodes are placed on the patient and connected to a module that, in turn, connects to the tablet. When a medical examination is performed on a patient in a remote village, for example, the results are transmitted from the nurse's tablet to that of the doctor who then interprets them.
Digitalised and transmitted
Software built into the device allow the doctor to give computer assisted diagnosis", explains the young engineer.
Pointing out the differences between the Cardiopad and the classical electrocardiograph, Arthur Zang explains: "The Cardiopad has more functions. With the classical electrocardiograph, the results were usually printed on paper and handed to the cardiologist for interpretation.
It wasn't possible to send or save the results electronically. With the Cardiopad, the results are digitalised and transmitted. There is no need to print them, the heart surgeon can interpret them, even remotely, from his tablet and then send the diagnosis and prescribed treatment"
"The Cardiopad will cut down the cost of examination. We intend to sell the device for 1500 euros, while the current price for an electrocardiograph device is 3800 euros. If hospitals purchase the device at a low price, they will be able to lower the prices of medical examinations", Arthur Zang hopes.
However, there is still the issue of energy, as many of the country's remote regions do not have access to electricity. "The Cardiopad is equipped with a battery that can independently power the machine for more than seven hours", the engineer assures. He further explains that a prototype and sample of device is already available. "We are currently producing the first units of the device which will be available for hospitals before July", says the young engineer who is still looking for funding to mass-produce the Cardiopad. "Besides the funding, I am also looking to start a company to help improve the medical care system in Cameroon", he concludes.
Note: This year he has completed around 30 of them and still hopes to get funding to produce more.
Saheed Adepoju
Nigeria's Saheed Adepoju is a young man with big dreams. He is the inventor of the Inye, a tablet computer designed for the African market. According to the 29-year-old entrepreneur, his machine's key selling point is its price – $350 (£225) opposed to around $700 for an iPad. He believes that, because of this, there is a big market for it in Nigeria and elsewhere in Africa, particularly among students. The Inye is a mobile internet device. It gives you access to the internet; it allows you to play media files and watch movies"
Saheed Adepoju is also hoping to sell his tablet – which runs on the Google Android operating system – to the Nigerian government and plans to have at least one computer in each local government area. What we have is an 8-inch device, a device that is half-way between a laptop and a mobile phone," he said in an interview. "You have the standard software applications that come pre-installed and then you have the ones that we are working with various local developers to bundle on," he added.Among those local apps there is one designed to raise awareness about HIV and others related to water and sanitation.
"We work with local developers that have expertise in particular areas so that we don't end up doing so much work and we just have a collaborative way of doing things together," he said.
short biography:
Degree in Maths and computer science, The Federal University of Technology, Minna, Nigeria, 2005
Advanced Computing, Bournemouth University, UK, 2008
Worked briefly for a consulting firm
Cofounded Encipher Group with Anibe Agamah
Starting capital: $60,000
The Encipher Inye was released in 2010
Inye means One in Igala, a language in Nigeria
After doing a first degree in maths and computer science in Nigeria, he completed another one in advanced computing by research at Bournemouth University, in the United Kingdom.
Upon graduation in 2009, he returned to his home country and started working for a consulting firm.
"Within eight months I got fired, primarily because of differences in approach to doing business. In the middle of all this, the Apple iPad launched, back in January of 2010, which inspired us to actually look to build such [a] product within the African marketplace," . He said that, with that goal in mind, he borrowed money from friends and family, raising a total of about $60,000. According to him, all of that went on the devices and the logistics – there was no budget for marketing, so early advertising was "word of mouth" on social media.
The first 100 units of the Inye, which means One in Nigeria's Igala language, were built in China and, after receiving feedback from its users, a second version was launched in May 2011. Encipher Group, the company he co-founded with web developer Anibe Agamah, also offers customized IT services and products, including cloud computing, which are mostly based on open technology to keep costs down.
Fortunately the African genius is not only regulated to the hard sciences but to everyday activities, which is what the mind's creative process was all about.
At the end of the day, as they say you can't keep a good man down. Or in this case you can kill a revolutionary, but you can't kill a revolution. This is the African revolution of the 21st century. Not ask kissing for hand outs or sitting down and waiting for the government to steal your hard earned wages then give you pittance in return. Now if more scientific would leave NASA, and the other corporation and build viable, sustainable products that truly enhances the lives of every one on the planet instead of causing wars to profit the rich. Maybe…just maybe we may bot end up as casualties when the day of reckoning come for the planet.
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Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
Below is an audio book reading of compilations, from the memories of Nat Turner's contemporaries, by Sharon Ewell Foster. The truth has been buried more than one hundred years…
Leading a small army of slaves, Nat Turner was a man born with a mission: to set the captives free. When words failed, he ignited an uprising that left over fifty whites dead. In the predawn hours of August 22, 1831, Nat Turner stormed into history with a Bible in one hand, brandishing a sword in the other. His rebellion shined a national spotlight on slavery and the state of Virginia and divided a nation's trust. Turner himself became a lightning rod for abolitionists like Harriet Beecher Stowe and a terror and secret shame for slave owners.
In The Resurrection of Nat Turner, Part 1: The Witnesses, Nat Turner's story is revealed through the eyes and minds of slaves and masters, friends and foes. In their words is the truth of the mystery and conspiracy of Nat Turner's life, death, and confession. The Resurrection of Nat Turner spans more than sixty years, sweeping from the majestic highlands of Ethiopia to the towns of Cross Keys and Jerusalem in Southampton County. Using extensive research, Sharon Ewell Foster breaks hallowed ground in this epic novel, revealing long-buried secrets about this tragic hero.
"The Resurrection of Nat Turner, Part 1: The Witnesses" by Sharon Ewell Foster
"The Resurrection of Nat Turner, Part2: The Witnesses" by Sharon Ewell Foster
Contrast this with the assassination of Nat Turner by William Styron and his bottom bitch and homosexual traitor, James Baldwin that won the 1967 Pulitzer Prize for Styron and not his bottom bitch. A Pulitzer prize! In the book, and i confess, I have only heard excerpts these two faggots portrayed Nat Turner has an effeminate character who was open to a homosexual encounter. I say faggot because this twisting of a great man is intolerable and deliberately positioned to remove the masculinity from what African manhood is supposed to be. Not fucking Lil Wayne or 50 cents or any of those nick nacks they force on us as examples of manhood. So if you'all don;t like my use of that word… fuck off! This is why we have to tell our own story, because our oppressors will never tell the tale that benefit us.
This is the review from Amazon: "
The Confessions of Nat Turner is narrated by Nat himself as he lingers in jail through the cold autumnal days before his execution. The compelling story ranges over the whole of Nat's Life, reaching its inevitable and shattering climax that bloody day in August.
The Confessions of Nat Turner is not only a masterpiece of storytelling; is also reveals in unforgettable human terms the agonizing essence of Negro slavery. Through the mind of a slave, Willie Styron has re-created a catastrophic event, and dramatized the intermingled miseries, frustrations–and hopes–which caused this extraordinary black man to rise up out of the early mists of our history and strike down those who held his people in bondage.
What Yurugu deliberately remove from the narrative was (a) there was an original book called the confession of Nat Turner by Thomas R. Gray in 1831
The irritated genie speaks on this travesty of ourstory
James Balwin and William Styron Lie to Make Nat Turner Gay
Perhaps the most feared, despised and greatest enslaved African hero outside of Africa, who didn't just talk about liberation but walked the walk.
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Bright Box using gaming and neural networks for its self-driving car platform
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Vodafone working with Skoda to connect new Kodiaq model
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In a short news alert, the telco confirmed the Kodiaq will be equipped with a specialised SIM card, which keeps the vehicle connected to the Vodafone network and enables the vehicle's driver to keep on top of various information, including whether the car is locked, its location, as well as automatically contacting the Skoda emergency call centre in the event of an accident.
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Connected car opportunities: Is self-driving leading us off course?
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Global connected car market revenue to reach $180.3bn by 2022
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Anyone played a DTS-HD disk on the E1 ?
Discussion in 'Blu-ray & DVD Players & Recorders' started by bboy-mass, Dec 27, 2006.
Anyone listened to DTS in HD yet? And will we be getting them over in the UK?
But ... at present there is no way to actually hear the DTS HD track, as none of the currently available Toshiba players can decode it. This may come with a future firmware upgrade. On the first generation US machines, DolbyTrueHD was added sometime after the initial launch.
What happens currently is that your player will extract "core" DTS out of the DTS HD soundtrack. This is still very good - giving you a quality DTS track at 1.5mbs.
DTS HD tracks on HD DVD are quite rare (it seems to me that Dolby is more aligned to HD, and DTS to Bluray). The DTS HD tracks on HD seem to be on some of the European (or other non-US) releases. I might be wrong. You've mentioned Rambo. I think The Pianist is another?
I think all the Studio Canal titles has the DTS-HD MA track. At least all the titles i've checked.
I think the english DTS-HD tracks on the german discs are only 1500Kbit. I played Running Scared on my 360 addon in PowerDVD and the german track was about 2500Kbit bitrate, but when i switched to the english track, it was only 1500Kbit (Same as DD+). Maybe only the german tracks are lossless (DTS-HD Master Audio) ?
Question 5.1.2 Dolby Atmos set up playing DTS-HD MA 7.1 ?


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Rhine Falls & Schaffhausen's Old Town
posted on December 1, 2012 | updated on October 29, 2015 | by Zuri Girl
Despite the way the name of the city sounds, Schaffhausen does not mean "sheep houses" and is anything but a place for livestock. Although founded in the 1045, one of Switzerland's most northern cities offers modern elegance with historical charm. It's home to Europe's biggest waterfall, The Rhine Falls, and was once the center of trade. Known for its fish, wine and water activities, Schaffhausen makes for a wonderful day trip any time of the year.
Rhine Falls and promenade
Getting to Schaffhausen by train is an easy and comfortable, 40-minute direct ride from Zurich main train station to Schaffhausen's main train station. Open farmland and industry don't offer much of a view on the ride up, but when you arrive in Schaffhausen you are greeted by an incredible view of the Rhine Falls. For a personal view of the falls, take Bus line 1 just outside the train station, direction Neuhausen am Rheinfall and get out at Zentrum. While looking at the Migros, turn left and follow the signs for the 10-minute walk down to the viewing promenade. Half of the falls are in canton Zurich with the other half in canton Schaffhausen. While the falls act as a natural border today, the river bed has rerouted itself three times over the estimated 15,000 years it has existed. The product of glacial movement and melting, the river's bed flowed through a large deposit of limestone. As the stone wore away, the more dense rock left behind formed the falls and the "island" we now see. When the water is really flowing, standing on this island means getting soaking wet! Not a bad idea in the Swiss summer heat.
Both cantons manage the area around the falls and the shops, restaurants and activities to do there. Some are open year-round, but the majority are open during high season, June-September. Schlössli Wörth, a fantastic restaurant with an impressive view of the falls and rainbow-colored playroom for the kids, was once the toll house during the heyday of Schaffhausen trade. The changes to trading that came with the Industrial Revolution paved the way for tourism and for the falls to become what they are today.
Boat tours with four different routes all starting near Schlössli Wörth offer the full experience of the falls or even a short trip down the river to Rheinau. Cruise around the falls' basin or visit the central rock island and be prepared to get more than a little wet. These tours typically take place April-October with additional options in peak summer months. Overlooking the falls on the canton Zurich side is Schloss Laufen. This newly refurbished castle and history museum was once an oil painting school. You can still find plenty of artwork from the students of this school depicting their view of the falls. Nowadays Schloss Laufen has hiking trails, a panoramic elevator to the river and back to the hilltop, holds concerts, parties and a medieval market throughout the year. The easiest way to get to Schloss Laufen is to take a the five-minute train ride with the S33 over the Rhine River right before the falls start and get out at Schloss Laufen am Rheinfall.
In the surrounding recreation area there is fishing (obtain a license first), Adventure Park Rheinfall and rope course for all experience-levels, a playground, and hiking and cycling paths. A park and monument to Europe's first industrial aluminium production plant lies north of the falls with a sculpture designed by Ernesto Hebeisen. Just after the park is a mill driven by the flow of the Rhine River that dates to 1052. A modern subterranean hydroelectric power plant next to the Rhine Falls produces some 40 million kWh of electrical energy per year. Some of this electricity goes to power the lights shining on the falls at night, creating an illuminated view of the rushing water. A special fireworks show is held over the falls on July 31 and is free to attend.
Along the river
The part of the river that runs alongside the old town has walking paths, the Rhybadi for swimming in the river and access to several boat tours from Schaffhausen to Lake Constance or Stein am Rhein. The boat ride can take up to two hours when traveling against the current (1:10 with the current), but the good news you can always take the train one way and the boat the other. Just where the boats dock is the Gueterhof Restaurant. Considered "the in restaurant", the Gueterhof is in an old warehouse where all the goods from arriving boats were stored during trade. They offer traditional foods and wines of the region alongside sushi. Try the Schaffhauser Rieslingsuppe mit Trauben (Riesling wine soup Schaffhausen style with grapes). The Kammgarn is a cultural center for music and modern art with a full program of events. IWC has their main office along the walk with a museum of their watches. On the hilltop you can spot the Munot Fortress. A watchkeeper still lives in the tower and rings the bell by hand at 9pm – curfew in former years and a reminder of former times today. The Children's Festival and folk dancing take place on the battlements every summer.
Walking through the old town
From the boat landing and Gueterhof, begin your walk through the traffic-free Old Town along the street Unterstadt. Our insider tip is that El Bertin Glace is the place to get a cold summer treat. Along the main streets of the old town you can count 171 bay windows. Known as the "medieval Television", women used to sit and watch the activities on the streets below and all the exotic imports being moved through the streets. Just off the main streets is Mosergarten and public space where many open air events and markets take place. Fronwagplatz, where goods were once weighed and checked for value, is another cultural center of the Old Town. The astronomic clock in this plaza is from the 16th century and can tell you the moon position, sunrise and set, the current zodiac sign and of course the time. While strolling among the shops, tearooms, noblemen's houses, guild halls, and restaurants, try to spot buildings with the inscription "Bombardiert am 1. April 1944". These buildings were bombed during World War II as allies misidentified Schaffhausen as their target. An official tour of the Old Town will give you additional insights to life in this medieval city.
Like most historical towns in Europe, there is no shortage of religious buildings in the Old Town. The All Saints Abbey with cloister, founded in 1048, is the most original example of a Romanesque church in Switzerland. The monks that once lived here grew herbs in this wonderfully peaceful courtyard to make homeopathic medicines for the poor. Although in the middle of the Old Town, the serenity of the abbey is extremely soothing. Other buildings on the site house a history museum of Schaffhausen from the beginning until today and government offices. Art exhibitions are typical for the summer months and attract international guests. The nearby St. Johann church has just as much historical heritage and is now a concret church with a huge organ and numbered seating for guests. The Bach Festival held every three years is one of Schaffhausen's most anticipated events.
Expat life in Schaffhausen
Living as an expat in Schaffhausen is considered by many to be a very rewarding experience. Apartments are easy to find and are within close distance to the city and international schools. Schaffhausen is very family-minded and offers several sports clubs and meets-ups for the expat community. Their business center is ideal for meetings of 30-40 attendees and the area offers beautiful sights and tours for out-of-town guests.
We hope that you will visit Schaffhausen soon and discover all that the town has to offer. Tell us what you find by leaving a comment below. Zuri Girl loves a hot tip!
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Written by Zuri Girl Ashley Ringger. Ashley regularly contributes fun and insightful articles about life in Switzerland. She might even know more about the country than her Swiss husband! Ashley splits her working life between an international school and Set Sails Media. In her spare time this California native likes to stay active by going to the gym, sewing, traveling, and cooking with/for friends. She also can't say no to a good book.
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That's me in my home office with Tabitha, one of our family of dogs. If you were here, she'd be tail-wagging and wiggling a welcome.
I've been off this blog for about a year, and was neglecting it for a few before that - largely because Facebook and Twitter took over my social media attention, and because the romantic comedy genre itself was in the doldrums. But as of this week, I may be leaving Facebook, for reasons that should be clear to anyone paying attention, while the romantic comedy - in the wake of Crazy Rich Asians and 80 million Netflix subscribers embracing a new crop of funny love stories like To All the Boys I've Loved Before - is back in force.
I like being where I can share interesting stuff and just sound off about whatever, while engaging friends and strangers in conversation about it. It does say "other topics apropos" above, under Living the Romantic Comedy, so I'll be here appreciating the world and analyzing the likes of anything from The Kissing Booth to Karl Ove Knausgaard and beyond.
Happy to have you aboard, first time visitors and returning readers alike. I'm currently working on the revised and expanded 20th Anniversary edition of Writing the Romantic Comedy, which Harper/Collins will publish in early 2020, so as I wrestle with putting the genre's last 20 years in perspective, all input welcomed! Please do comment, and I promise to reply.
November 19, 2018 in Books, Comedy, Culture, Current Affairs, Deja Vu, Fiction/Non-Fiction, Film, Food and Drink, Games, Gender, Industry, Men and Women, Movies, Music, Oscars, Pathologies, Poetry, Reading, Religion, Romance, Romantic comedy, Science, Screenwriting, Sex, Sports, Storytelling, Television, Top 10, Travel, Valentines, Web/Tech, Weblogs, Women, Writers strike, Writing | Permalink | Comments (10)
A Million Views
There was a fine white mist at the foot of the Santa Monica mountains as I biked up the path early this morning - my last bike ride on the beach as a resident of Venice: Tater and I are moving to the suburban wilds of North Hollywood tomorrow. It'll be quite a change, as I've lived in Venice for 23 years, but as we're trading a small two bedroom apartment in the over-traversed epicenter of West Side hipsterism for a three-bedroom house with yard and garage, etc. in a charming, quiet neighborhood... Well, I bought a bike rack for the car. I'll happily trek out here once a week.
Seems perfectly synchronistic that Living the Romantic Comedy is celebrating its tenth anniversary this weekend - end of an era, and all that - though not end, I hasten to clarify: I intend to keep blogging, for as long as it's still fun. But the blogger's landscape has certainly changed since I first moved into this neighborhood, ten years ago.
In June, 2005, Facebook wasn't yet as ubiquitous and Twitter didn't exist, let alone all the other platforms. And though I was late to a party that was still going strong - at the time, you could tell someone you had a blog without getting an eye-roll in response - it was a heady, stimulating community to join, especially in screenwriting site circles. These days, to have an active blog makes you feel a little... quaint. It's a bit like writing in longhand and sending an actual letter.
The most exciting aspect of it, inarguably, was and still is getting a response. These days we're all used to being liked, shared, favorited, and retweeted, but back then it was a more novel experience to blather on about something online, and suddenly get agreement, or disagreement about it from a total stranger. By the time Living RomCom was going strong, it wasn't uncommon for me to get 25-35 comments on a given post. That's astonishing, then and now.
The essential experience - reflected for me in the title of the blog - has been of growing up in public (I like to think I'm still growing), and when I looked back, digging up things to re-post this month, I saw all manner of momentous events annotated here: In my very first post, I was wondering how to write a dating site profile, and over the course of a decade, after seeking romance in all the wrong and nearly-right places, I found true love in my third and final wife; America elected its first president of color; my first novel sold to a major publishing house; and my beloved father passed away.
What I hadn't quite foreseen was a major sea change in my genre of choice. No, the romantic comedy is not dead, as I've exhaustively discussed in these pages, but in the past few years, a certain kind of formulaic chick flick (I call it the Career Girl Gets Alpha Guy movie) has finally lost its audience. I myself had dutifully supported the so-called formula of the traditional romantic comedy, but I lobbied fiercely here for more progressive fare.
One of the things that keeps me blogging about the genre, in fact, is that the rom-com seems to be morphing into something newly relatable, as such hits as Silver Linings Playbook and Her have demonstrated. I'll go out on a very short limb now to declare that when Judd Apatow and Amy Schumer's Trainwreck (which I did notes on for Universal) comes out in a few weeks and makes millions, you're suddenly going to hear - from the same people who danced on the rom-com's grave last year - that "romantic comedy is back!"
Such is the ever-cyclical nature of the industry. Meanwhile, what truly makes the blogging practice worthwhile continues to be the people I come in contact with by doing it, from my first-ever commenter Caroline Ferguson to the blog's most stalwart fan E.C. Henry. I'm amazed and gratified to talk with not just friends, but folks from all over the world on a weekly basis.
Probably the most humbling of such encounters occurred when a former consult client living in Eastern Europe informed me that having read a certain Living Rom-Com post had helped her to make a major life decision about when and how to have a baby. Her child is over a year old now, and the idea that something I wrote on this blog could turn me into a sort of cyber-godfather fills me with awe.
That's the thing, I guess: What I've mostly learned here is that when you write something and offer it to the world at large, you can never know what effect it may have, even on people you don't and may never know. And this is the best endorsement for facing one's fears and continuing to write that I can think of.
Thank you all, at any rate, for keeping me company thus far. And please comment to let me know what you'd like to see more (or less of) on this blog. Largely due to the efforts of blog colleague Scott Myers, whose promotion of a recent post currently has my total page view numbers at 999,690 and rising, I'm within 300+ hits of reaching one million by the day's end. You, my friend, may even be my millionth viewer!
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Kurt Vonnegut's Rules of Writing... for Screenwriters
[Today is Kurt's birthday and Veteran's Day, so this photo of Vonnegut in the Army seems apropos. Also seems a good time to reprint this earlier post.]
Tucked into the grab-bag collection of loose ends that is Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction, you will find eight rules for writing a short story. Shortly after Vonnegut's passing, I passed these out to a classroom full of screenwriters, because it seemed to me that the rules applied to the crafting of screenplays as well. Herewith, Mr. V's rules, and a little commentary to make clear their connections to movie work, using quotes from movie folk to show that Great Minds Think Alike (GMTA).
1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.
Oh, but that more writers observed this golden rule! We-the-readers always know when we are bored. Just take note of how the lead sentence of a given screenplay can instantly stop you from reading further, unless it somehow grabs your attention with a "you need to know this!" subtext. What does not waste a stranger's time is something that can take writers years of learning on the job to master, but the point is that simply thinking about this issue -- i.e. will this hold someone else's attention? -- is a worthy pursuit, indeed. GMTA: I'm reminded of screenwriter Callie Khouri's immortal quote, "If you have information on the screen that doesn't move the story forward, you are taking moments away from people's lives."
2. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
Save the cat or pet the dog: screenwriters have a protagonist perform a simple act that embodies a positive value, so that the audience can identify with him or her. They also apply the principle of "unearned suffering": If a little girl loves her dolly, and a bully snatches it, don't you want to see the little girl get her dolly back? This holds especially true for characters who are seemingly unsympathetic. As (GMTA) screenwriter Richard LaGravenese said: "All destructive people have an inner side to them, and the more three-dimentional your characters are on screen the more compassion you can open up in an audience... To me, that involves the audience more, it stimulates them and asks more of them."
3. Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
Time and time again, I've addressed the rewrite of a given scene, my own or a client's, with this same simple question: What does each character want? Failing to define this is nine times out of ten what leads to fuzzy and unfocused writing. Put two characters in a scene with unclear actions to achieve and you risk losing your audience. If the characters don't care about getting something while they're in it, why should we? Billy Wilder's maxim (GMTA) "Develop a clean line of action for your leading character" speaks to this; "I want to get a glass of water" suggests one clean and powerful line of action.
4. Every sentence must do one of two things -- reveal character or advance the action.
Because what else is it doing there, describing scenery? Fine, if the scenery is speaking to character ("His furniture was as cheap as he was") or moving the story along ("The woods are quiet tonight -- too quiet!"). Otherwise? Zzzzzzz... A good story, lyrical though it may be, functions like a shark: it must keep swimming forward to keep breathing. GMTA: Here's producer Lindsay Doran on the subject -- "Scheherezade was a woman who had to make her stories so interesting she didn't get killed that night. That's exactly how I feel. We all have to keep our stories so interesting that... if the reel suddenly broke, everybody would rather die than leave that theater and not be able to find out what happened next."
5. Start as close to the end as possible.
Screenwriter's credo: Come in late and leave early. The awful truth about most screenwriters' exposition is that it's for them -- for them to know. The audience doesn't need all that. In the opening scene of The Godfather, the Godfather is the Godfather. Period. And the movie's story begins when his successor-to-be enters the story: Michael Corleone comes home. Everything we need to know about everyone in the story gets dealt out to us, economically, as events irrevocably move towards the crisis that will cause the passing of the torch from father to son. GMTA: Two rules from Mr. Wilder again -- "Grab 'em by the throat and never let 'em go" and "Know where you're going."
6. Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them, in order that the reader may see what they are made of.
I love this rule. It's so cruel-but-true. "What's the worst thing that could happen?" is such a time-honored screenwriters' maxim that it even became the title of a bad movie. We don't want to see characters have a sort-of blah day, we want to see the most horrible day of their lives. As Vonnegut shrewdly points out, calamity and crisis is the fastest, most powerful route to revealing character. GMTA: Screenwriter Audrey Wells told my romantic comedy class, "Steep your characters in pain--make them miserable. Then after they've really suffered, make them happy."
7. Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.
Re: the movies, this is obvious, yet many a screenplay has fallen on this sword: trying to please "them." There is no Them. Half the time They -- e.g. the studios, who sometimes can't see a hit when it smacks them in the face (see: everyone who turned down Star Wars) -- don't even know what Them (i.e. that ever-elusive fickle "mainstream audience") wants to see. Vonnegut told NPR that he wrote to please his late sister Allie. You may write to please yourself or any other one person, but it's this choice -- your own personal "ideal audience" -- that will focus your work and cohere its voice, not trying to be all things to all people. GMTA: As Paramount's Kathie Fong Yoneda noted in an on-line interview, "Frequently, the writer who tries to add 'something for everyone' ends up pleasing no one."
8. Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To heck with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.
This last one is tricky to translate, in that often suspense is exactly what a screenwriter is (and should be) after. I think what Mr. Vonnegut is speaking to is the issue of clarity. Many pre-pro screenwriters waste a reader's time by being coy and cagey with the simple and necessary facts of who, where, when, what and why. There's a difference between withholding -- which too often promotes confusion -- and dealing it out slowly. The audience needs to be oriented in time and space, and quickly involved in a character's issues to stay with a story. GMTA: He wasn't a screenwriter, but he was an idol of Kurt's who surely had the definitive take on this. "The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug." -- Mark Twain
(All typewriter photos from Laineys Repertoire)
November 11, 2014 in Fiction/Non-Fiction, Screenwriting, Storytelling, Writing | Permalink | Comments (4)
Due to confusion at the front desk, when they're supposed to be connecting me to the management to clear up the problem with the restaurant bill, they connect me instead with my own hotel room, and inexplicably, a woman answers. I'm so confused by this that in the moment, I ask for myself by name. "Just a second," she says. Then she puts me on the phone.
And so there I am. Immediately I don't trust myself. It's not that I suspect this me is an imposter. On the contrary, it's irrefutably myself on the other end of the line. But while I'd have expected to feel relief, anticipating welcome acceptance from the one person who truly understands me, what I'm feeling is the opposite. I'm fully prepared to disbelieve anything that comes out of my mouth.
So, okay: interesting. My first impression of myself is that I'm a liar. Except that's not it – it's that I'm fully aware in a way I've never been before that the me who's answering a phone, who's prepared to engage with an unknown human being, is not going to be the authentic me. There's a cloud of consciousness made up of bits and pieces of my myriad selves hovering there.
The true me cannot possibly emerge from this matrix of half-me's, pretend me's, me's that used to be, me's that want to be other me's, the me's my mother has implanted in me, the me's I've artfully constructed to disguise my childhood me's, the various me's that are always assembled, like an endless row of shirts upon the hangers in an infinite closet, prepared for interaction with the world.
The realization that there are so many choices for me to make is so mortifying that my next impulse is to get off the phone right quick. But as if paralyzed (all of this transpiring in the smallest portion of a second), I hang there in the interstitial crevice of the yet unanswered greeting: "Hello?"
I can sense that the other me is calculating, is wary, on the defense. That me is incapable of simply meeting this moment with the many masks discarded. I know that no matter who I might be – wife, brother, best friend, idol, my grandfather's ghost – the me who's wondering who's calling won't be capable of expressing the truth of who I am.
There's something so sad about this, more absurd than tragic but nonetheless painful, that if only I could reach through the virtual telephone line and grasp myself by the shoulder, I would give me a shake as if to say give it up, let it go – I'd like to think that if I did know it was me I was talking to, I could be honest.
But the specter of the days, months, years of energy already expended in this useless occupation, the creation of an acceptable social self is so overwhelming just now that I, the me who's yet to answer, can't bring myself to even invite the conversation.
If truth be told, I can't be entirely sure that I'm not still on that phone, listening with a curiosity that transcends terror to the silence on the line.
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When someone says things like this, I imagine they think they need to start getting in shape by hitting the elliptical, lifting some light free weights or maybe begin jogging. I think these are all great ways to get into fitness. The problem is you are doing these alone.
I think the most significant mistake people make when getting into fitness is starting by themselves. Anyone who has begun alone knows that a week or two into hitting the gym by themselves to face the elliptical gets to be a bit boring, and motivation to show up starts to fall off.
Some will go out and find a friend to hit the gym with. This is usually the solution to the problem, but again, anyone who has had a workout buddy knows that at some point they'll miss. Then you'll miss. Then the schedule you guys have put together no longer works, and now you are back to working out alone.
So to the person who is looking to start a fitness routine at a CrossFit gym (at least at BayWay CrossFit), you will never be alone. You will always have a trainer there leading you through your workout from start to finish. You won't have to worry about coming up with a workout, how you are going to warm up for it, how to do certain movements, if you are doing them safely or how to cool down after a workout. All of these things are taken care of for you; all you have to do is show up.
Some people may think that they are not capable of what CrossFitters do, and that is without question false. CrossFit has a fancy way of saying this in that our program is universally scalable. Which means that no matter what the workout is we can make it fit for you, and not just by lowering weights but by making it fit in such a specific way that you are receiving the same stimulus from the workout as anyone else is.
Many people who do not like our program, for whatever the reason, and they like to show videos and pictures of two types of people doing CrossFit.
The first is the person who fails and fails miserably. I am not saying these things do not happen but it is scarce, and at a gym that only does instructor-led classes like ours, it happens even less. If you are with a trainer, they are not going to let you attempt something where you could hurt yourself.
The second type of CrossFit person that those who dislike the program show are the CrossFit Games athletes. These are the 1% of 1% — the top athletes in the world. No one should compare themselves to these people. Their bodies look and perform like no other humans in the world. Here is what you can take away from these athletes though. They are proof of how effective the CrossFit program can be. Yes they do it in an extreme manner and I think this is a turn off to the everyday person, but just as 40-year-old former high school quarterback can watch what Tom Brady does and understand the work he puts in to be the best in the world, an everyday CrossFitter can understand what these top people are doing as well.
The point is if you are starting a fitness journey you need a trainer. You need people around you that are going to push you. Find a place that has both, and you will be successful.


There are various ways in which a financial dispute during divorce can be negotiated and overcome. Here we explain the primary methods.
The solicitors enter into negotiations with a view to reaching a financial settlement. At any stage either party can make an application to the court, for example if they do not feel the other party is being frank in their disclosure or is not adopting a reasonable stance in negotiations. If an application is made to the court then the case becomes managed by a court process which ultimately culminates in a final contested hearing. However, a case can settle at any stage and most cases do settle before the final hearing. Clearly a court application increases costs and so it is sensible to consider at the outset if a court application is warranted.
Both parties are referred to an independent mediator who arranges a series of meetings. Usually it follows after initial meeting with their own lawyers who will agree on the mediator. A mediator is usually a trained lawyer by background. However, their role is to facilitate discussion but not to advise the individual parties in dealing with finances. Both parties would be required to fill out financial statements used by the mediator, which are usually very similar to the court-style Form E. The mediator would facilitate discussion between you with a view to allowing parties to find their own solution.
Parties can mediate on individual issues such as finances or children or indeed on all issues. Mediation can reduce legal costs and help in preserving a good relationship between you and your spouse. However it is not a panacea and often can be drawn out and fruitless. It is not recommended where one party is fearful of the other or susceptible to being bullied or pressured into an agreement. It is of course possible for the parties to consult with their solicitors throughout the mediation process and in any event once agreement is reached in mediation it would have to be referred back to lawyers to formalise into a legally binding order.
This is a relatively new process initially developed in USA. It is in many ways like negotiation between solicitors. The lawyers arrange a series of 4-way meetings with a view to dealing with all the issues and reaching agreement. All parties have to sign up at the outset to a 'participation agreement'. This would mean that you would both agree not to go to court unless or until the collaborative process failed. Further if the process failed i.e. did not result in resolution, then neither party is allowed to continue to use the same solicitor for the court process. Reference can be made to the Resolution website for more information.
This is collaborative law but where the solicitors are not precluded from further acting. It is difficult then to see how it is anything other than a trendy name for negotiation between solicitors.
In the final analysis the courts are here to achieve a just outcome. The court process encourages negotiation in any case, so if your dispute is not getting resolved by another means, you can and should first get on with putting the matter into the court process. Only the court process can impose a conclusion regardless of the other party's refusal to reach an agreement. Therefore time spent on alternative dispute resolution can delay a conclusion, and you only achieve a reliable timetable if you issue a court application.
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Meet the Upstarts:
Three Fresh-Faced Painters Who Are Changing the Game
Torey Thornton. Photograph by Jason Frank Rothenberg, via the Albright-Knox Art Gallery.
Last week, we took a close look at some of the oldest painters from Phaidon's Vitamin P3, whose works today are as lively and immediate as anyone's. Here, we've turned the tables, focusing on three of their youngest contemporaries (all still in their 20s) who nevertheless represent some of the most vital artistic voices of their generation. Their works prove that an excited, still-seasoning eye can contribute startling innovations, even when rexamining (and reinterpreting) classic movements like Cubism, Expressionism, or art history itself.
TOREY THORNTON
Born 1990, Macon, GA. Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
You Say Militia I say Melissa, Or Something. Mostly About Striping, 2015
Torey Thornton's paintings exude a laid back oddness that belies their formal and structural complexity. The artist lowers the viewer's expectations from the outset with goofy, absurdist titles such as Swamp Pee Fem Shreck (2015) or You Say Militia I say Melissa, Or Something. Mostly About Striping (2015) or, as with the puzzling title of a 2015 exhibition, "Kneed a Sea Ware Groin." The paintings, too, like to act dumb, such as Some Traces of Vanity Only for the Sake of the Picture (2014), which features a faceless, cartoonish figure parodying the convention of the artist's portrait. Thornton prefers paper or plywood panels to canvas, so his large works can appear slapdash or homespun.
All these qualities, however, simply set the tone for an enjoyable succession of small epiphanies that flow from his paintings. Thornton clearly takes pleasure in painting, and wants his viewers to as well. That is not to say that he makes things easy. Much of his work—like his titles, which can sound like cryptic crossword clues—present as riddles to be solved. Take First Cynthia (2014), for example, which at first glance appears to be an arrangement of abstract shapes on a pink ground, redolent perhaps of a roughed-up Jonathan Lasker (b.1948) painting.
One of the last things we notice is the small bunch of pale green grapes, with shadows, on a patch of white that must, logically, represent some kind of platter. The loosely brushed brown area beneath then becomes a table, but soon the picture begins to break down, as different elements refuse to conform to the same representational conventions. (A rough spidery form is incommensurable with a soft, spray-painted green shape nearby.) And surely those yellow lines on the dark grey area in the foreground can't designate a car park, can they?
First Cynthia, 2014
Thornton is fond of such problems. He is assisted in his mischievous willingness to perplex his viewers by the human mind's hard-wired inclination to ascribe meaning to form, to project representational content onto abstract shapes and to attempt to resolve those shapes into a three-dimensional space. Of course, the cards are stacked in Thornton's favor because the paintings insist on their own flatness. By adding collaged elements to his work—often pieces cut from his existing works on paper, but occasionally three-dimensional objects like wooden planks—he further demonstrates that this pictorial space is really only a vertical, depthless plane.
In some works Thornton paints directly onto panels of wooden slats, emphasizing that the picture is merely a surrogate wall. His use of spray paint, along with his street-smart wit, reinforce this association with marks that look like graffiti, as in the huge It's Late Now, Stores are Probably Opening Up (Queens) (2014). However Thornton's work owes as much to Henri Matisse (1869–1954) as it does to Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960–88). Is that a tiger in the living room, next to the fruit on the coffee table? Or is it a tiger-skin rug? Thornton isn't telling.
– Jonathan Griffin
NATHAN CASH DAVIDSON
Born 1988, London. Lives and works in London.
Your flee not fear cauldron stirring wounds, 2015
"Burlesque in which we've thrown it on its head" has proven to be a remarkably apt summary of Nathan Cash Davidson's paintings. The title, derived from Cash Davidson's exhibition at London's Parasol Unit in 2010, seems to capture the unsettling mixture of dark surrealism and melodramatic figuration that populates his recent works. Of course, the "burlesque" that Cash Davidson refers to here is not of the risqué faux Victorian sort, but rather burlesque as a "parody, or comically exaggerated imitation of something," in this case, history painting. In his theatrical style, Cash Davidson's approach tends to exaggerate, distort, and even pantomime history in a way that is both self-conscious pastiche and, in its strangeness, deeply psychological.
Cash Davidson has in the past painted urban pop culture subjects like Ernö Goldfinger's famous Trellick Tower in London and the comedian Sacha Baron Cohen's character Ali G, but the majority of his current work is concerned with the aesthetics and iconography of the Renaissance. This recent turn has brought out a certain similarity to the work of El Greco (1541–1614), legible in pieces such as Your sorrows have a name (2012) or Patrick (2014).
Looking for a more recent reference, we might also notice shades of Peter Doig (b.1959) in a work like Tormented with self-doubt and gripped a heart of gold (2013). But overall, Cash Davidson remains stubbornly idiosyncratic, using heavy blacks and heavily mixed color to frame areas of unexpected detail, accentuating light and shadow in a way that seems to warp the figures and encrust them in their surroundings.
Patrick, 2014
Although he draws inspiration from diverse sources including the Internet, mass media and his own dreams, he insists that his main objective is to "create the past but in the now." Rather than referencing the art of the Renaissance in any kind of systematic fashion, Cash Davidson is precisely interested in what we might call the second-hand circulation of historical imagery through the channels of mass media and his own psychological landscape. Thus, his bringing history into the present is not as simple as it first sounds, as he is not painting specific scenes from European history, but rather what he sees in the media, as representations of history.
In a sense, these paintings are recasting the circuitous ways that history has already embedded itself in the present through popular culture. If this is history painting, it is history that is found in YouTube clips, clearance sale videotapes, and used bookstores. These are authentically inauthentic renditions of Renaissance portraiture and allegorical scenes, capturing a kind of sleepwalking, schizo-history that continues to unfold in Cash Davidson's very own world of images.
– Timothy Ivison
AVERY SINGER
Born 1987, New York, NY. Lives and works in New York.
Happening, 2014
With one foot planted squarely in the digital present and another in painting's modernist past, Avery Singer uses computer modeling to create arch and lively canvases that explore (and satirize) the condition of the artist. Singer seems playfully self-aware of the figure of the artist caught within a web of enduring clichés, and it is within her minimal, yet complex, aesthetic, and exceedingly of-the-moment digital idiom that we can discover complex conceptual targets.
Singer attended the Cooper Union in New York but graduated in 2010 feeling let down by the experience. She moved uptown to join a few fellow artists in creating a bare-boned communal space in which to live and work, and began experimenting with Photoshop to create flattened digital images that she would then render by hand as graphite sketches. Dissatisfied with the process, she advanced to employing the 3-D modeling program SketchUp—used predominately by architects and engineers—to develop illusionistic constructions of people in virtual settings that she would then transfer to paint on canvas via an overhead projector. This approach, in addition to being strikingly novel, captured a sense of alienation from a more "natural," unaffected reality and is one that Singer has eagerly exploited since.
A favorite subject of Singer's is the artist's studio—nostalgia-infused spaces, full of clichés of romantic poverty, freedom, authenticity, and ambition that she uses 3-D modeling to parody mercilessly. Her blocky, kludgy style of animation seems to dehumanize her subjects, treating them like still lives or puppets that are defined within the logic of a grid, and whose every action is mordantly bathetic. Her black-and-white or muted palette places her subjects in an indefinite temporality—a quality that the artist exaggerates by playing up the multi-dimensional ambitions of Cubism in a banal manner. The ersatz performers caught within Singer's frame are not exactly revered: in paintings like Happening(2014), three nude women embrace each other while two others bend over and contort before an empty easel. The women wear high-heeled shoes (and nothing else), while elegant shadows atmospherically rake over them. In Director (2014), a long-haired flautist makes a preening appearance, as though art is a distant third priority—coming after posturing.
Across all of Singer's works, including studies and individual portraits, art history – and, in particular, European modernism—is a vital touchstone. For "Art Basel Statements" in 2015, she produced a room of immersive paintings that was inspired by both Fritz Glarner's (1899–1972) Mondrian-esque Rockefeller Dining Room at Zürich's Haus Konstruktiv and the grisaille trompe-l'oeil hallways in the Vatican City in Rome. An earlier series recreated Erich Consemüller's (1902–57) portrait of a woman in an Oskar Schlemmer mask seated on a Marcel Breuer chair, or the works of Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp and other canonical artists.
Despite the slightly cynical and satirical tone in much of Singer's work, what is remarkable is that the paintings achieve monumentality and an acute psychological presence. In combining her evident mastery of traditional painting with her synthetic mode of digital modeling, Singer has achieved a new approach to the portrait, the nude, and the interior.
– Andrew Goldstein
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Kenyan woman challenges tradition to transform lives in her country
in Africa / Inspirational / International / News —
Education is often taken for granted in the Western world, especially in an age where teachers are restricted by the national curriculum which allows very little room for independent thought or alternative ways of thinking.
Indeed one of the main criticisms of education in much of the Western world is that it is designed to produce obedient workers who will not question the system or the current status quo in any way.
But in some countries, education can be used to empower people – especially women – and give them the kind of lifestyle and independence that they may never otherwise have been able to acquire.
For Kakenya Ntaiya, education not only allowed her to fulfill her dreams as a woman growing up in a rural village in Kenya, it also enabled her to fulfill the dreams of hundreds of other women as well.
Ntaiya was a member of the Maasai tribe located in Enoosaen, a small village in western Kenya.
The Maasai tribe are a tall, proud people and travellers from all over the world come to visit them.
From an early age, they are taught to be warriors and they can be recognised by the special red cloth they wear which is called a Shuka.
But in the Maasai culture, only 11 per cent of girls ever finish primary school and none of the girls in her village were destined for an education or career. Instead from an early age, they are taught how to be good wives.
At the age of five, her parents informed her that she was engaged and that she would be married when she was older.
Often she was required to get up at five in the morning with her mother, sweep the floors, and help to rear the animals at the farm.
But her mother would always take pains to remind her that she should strive for an education and not to live the life she did.
Her mother, was the victim of domestic violence, and despite working hard to rear animals, her father on the times when he was home from his work as a policeman would often sell the animals and go drinking with his friends – women didn't have the right to own property.
As a child, Ntaiya dreamed of working in a school and teaching other young girls about the value of education and independence. At the age of 12 – sometimes younger – girls are often forced to undergo genital mutilation – as a rite of passage into womanhood.
This painful procedure is based upon religious and social customs designed to prevent premarital sex and marital infidelity.
Many die in the process. It was a process that Ntaiya was to go through, which left her bleeding for days on end.
After that ceremony, many Maasai girls are then made to leave school and marry.
But Ntaiya had other plans. She decided to negotiate with her father and agreed to go through the ceremony – only if she was allowed to finish school. Her father agreed.
During school, she met a man who had travelled to the USA to study and was inspired to do the same. He gave her advice on how she could follow in his footsteps. That inspired her to work as hard as she possibly could to get a scholarship to study in the US – which she did. There was one problem however…in order to raise funds she had to convince not only her father but her entire village to let her go. In the Maasai culture, a village in an extension of the family. It was not just a question of convincing her parents – but her 15 village elders – all men.
One by one, she visited them all and promised that she would give something back to the village if they helped her to raise enough money to travel to America.
They agreed, and she then went on to become one of the top students in her year. But she wasn't finished yet. Determined to fulfil her promise to give something back to the village, she returned to negotiate once again with her village elders. After speaking with the women about what they needed in her village, she decided to build a school – for girls. The idea was initially rejected by her elders who thought that it would be more practical and "less of a waste" to build a school for the men in the village but after pointing out that this should be the responsibility of the men who had travelled abroad to get scholarships, they agreed to give her the responsibility of building a girls school.
The result was that hundreds of girls have been educated at the school since 2009. The school caters to 125 girls at any one time.
Ntayiya has since gone on to do motivational talks all over the world, and has inspired both men and women everywhere.
One of the most famous speeches she did was at the TEDtalk in California – a global set of conferences designed to spread innovative ideas and concepts.
At these talks a range of ideas are often presented on science and culture, among other topics. Past presenters of the talks include Bill Clinton, Jane Goodall, Malcolm Gladwell, Al Gore, Gordon Brown, Richard Dawkins, as well as Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, plus many Nobel Prizewinners.
The current curator of the talks is British former computer journalist and magazine publisher Chris Anderson.
As Ntaiya says: "A new dawn is happening at my school. A new beginning is happening. 125 girls will never be mutilated. 125 girls will not be married when they are 12 years old. 125 girls are creating and achieving their dreams. This is the thing that we are doing – giving them opportunities. Women are not being beaten because of the revolution we have started in our communities."
Not only has she managed to fulfil her own lifelong dream of becoming not just a local teacher – but in many ways, a global one, she had one last final bit of inspiration to offer others.
At the TEDtalk She said: "I want to challenge you today. I want to challenge you to be the first because somebody will follow you. Be bold! Stand up, be fearless, be confident and move out. As you change your world, as you change your community, and believe that you are impacting one girl, one family, one village in the country, at a time, we are making a difference. But if you change your world, you are going to change your community, you are going to change your country, and think about that. Think: Can I do that? Aren't we going to create a better future for our children, for your children, for our grandchildren? Then we will live in a very beautiful world."
While female circumcision and child marriage are now illegal in Kenya, new laws banning genital mutilation have contributed to a decline in the practice, although it still occurs in some rural settings. Women also have the right to own property in the country – and many do go on to get an education, although for many of those living remotely in the country, cultural traditions are still dominant.
But stories like Ntaiya prove that when given the opportunity to thrive, and fulfil their dreams, it is possible to bring about change in the face of adversity with intelligent negotiation and give hope to others who may not be privy to the same opportunities.
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Just a short note to let my blog readers know that I still have a blog and intend to post regularly. This past month, I have been exceptionally busy, personally and professionally. But I see daylight and have found the time to make an important change.
I now have a new Twitter account and it is associated with this blog. I will publicize posts to Antipandemonium there and the content will be associated with people and issues I blog about here. The new Twitter is @Antipandemonium.
For those who enjoy my tweet and posts about "The Vampire Diaries" at BiteOnThis.net, you can continue to follow me on Twitter using @bonniejpreston.
Thanks for your patience and your continued support.


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Love and Hip Hop: Atlanta'S Stevie J has let it be known that he has an issue with his baby mama Mimi Faust coming out as a lesbian. The producer says that he has a problem with Mimi and another woman raising their 6-year-old daughter.
Stevie tells TMZ he doesn't condone Mimi's new relationship with GF, Chris. Mimi came out on Monday night's episode of "Love & Hip-Hop: Atlanta." He says he doesn't want his little girl being raised in a lesbian household, and thinks that's only a job for a dad and a mom.
My problem with Stevie J criticizing Mimi's relationship is that he's being hypocritical. On one hand it's ok for Mimi to have sexual relations with him and his wife Joseline, but it's not ok for her to be in a relationship with a woman when he's not involved.
Whoever a person sleeps with is entirely THEIR business. It's nobody's place to judge a another person's sexual preference. As long as everyone involved is a consenting adult, who a person chooses to sleep with doesn't bother me at all, because it doesn't affect me personally. Everyone is entitled to live their life however and with whomever they choose to.


LONDON (AP) Before Serena Williams moves on from completing a second ''Serena Slam'' to pursuing tennis' first true Grand Slam in more than a quarter-century, it's worth pausing to appreciate what she's done.
- She's won 21 Grand Slam titles; only Steffi Graf, with 22, has more in the Open era of professional tennis (the all-time record is Margaret Court's 24).
- Her 6-4, 6-4 victory over Garbine Muguruza in Saturday's final gave Williams six Wimbledon titles; only Martina Navratilova (with nine) and Graf (with seven) have more. Williams also has a half-dozen trophies each from the U.S. Open and Australian Open, along with three from the French Open.
- At 33, she is the oldest woman to win a major title in the Open era, nearly a month older than Navratilova was at Wimbledon in 1990.
It's all impressive. And it all helps Williams believe she can continue this remarkable run at the U.S. Open, which begins in late August in New York. A trophy there would give Williams a calendar-year Grand Slam, which no one - not even Roger Federer - has accomplished in tennis since Graf did it in 1988.
Only two other women (Maureen Connolly in 1953, and Court in 1970) and two men (Don Budge in 1938, and Rod Laver in 1962 and 1969) have pulled off the feat, and none of them had to deal with the intense media scrutiny of this day and age.
Her best is the best there is, and might ever have been. But her story is about so much more than the numbers associated with her greatness. There's the resilience she's shown away from the court, too, dealing with various injuries, none more worrisome than what happened in the aftermath of her 2010 Wimbledon championship.
A few days following that final, Williams cut both feet on broken glass while leaving a restaurant in Germany. She needed two operations on her right foot. Then she got blood clots in her lungs, and needed to inject herself with a blood thinner. Those shots led to a pool of blood gathering under her stomach's skin, requiring another procedure in the hospital.
She would be off the tour for 10 months, and go two years between major titles. Since then, though, she has won eight of the past 13 Grand Slam tournaments.
On Saturday evening, hours after admiring the gold letters of her name on the board in a hallway of the Centre Court building listing Wimbledon's champions, Williams sat with a small group of reporters for one final interview.
As she picked at the remnants of ankle tape near a jagged scar on her lower right leg, Williams was asked whether, as she looks back on her career, she divides it into phases.


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Tales from a tribble: Taking the Rest of the Year Off?
Taking the Rest of the Year Off?
White House advisor, David Plouffe was on all the Sunday talk shows saying this: "it's amazing the Republicans seem to be saying, we do not want to do anything the rest of the year that might help president Obama, so we will take the rest of the year off."
In spite of the fact that I have never heard one Republican actually say that, one might wonder why Plouffe had to make that statement and not president Obama. Oh, yeah, Obama couldn't make that comment as he was very busy. Yes, president Obama was not taking the year off like those evil Republicans. He was very busy...on the golf course.
From cbs news online president Obama was playing his 100th round of golf at the same time Plouffe was saying how the Republicans were taking the rest of the year off.
You can accuse president Obama of being a demagogue, of being a socialist, of being divisive. Yes, those things are all true. But one thing you cannot accuse president Obama of is not being a hard worker...100 rounds of golf in just over three years. I'd call that a pretty hard worker.
Amen and Amen! I actually hope Obama golfs as much as he possibly can until the elections.
A hearty ditto to that comment!!!