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Lambert & Dekker
By Digital in Berlin · On 12. October 2018
A connection sparked 10 years ago in a tiny Utrecht club has flickered into a cross-country collaboration and a disarming debut from Lambert And Dekker. That the pair never set foot in the same studio but wrote ‘We Share Phenomena’ via iPhone messages belies the beguiling atmospherics and bold tones that drift from the speakers. Berlin-based Lambert, a mask-wearing pianist at the fore of the neo-classical movement, and singer Brookln Dekker, one-half of acclaimed Anglo-American outfit Rue Royale, describe themselves as a ‘host’ duo who have fleshed into something beyond the sum of their parts.
1: Lambert: I was wrong about the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Dekker: I am blind in my right eye from a run-in with a dart.
2: L: The indian defense, is the best chess opening for black, just beware of f3!
D: Fig jam is my jam.
3: L: The bavarian ‘Weisswurst’ is the best wurst in the universe!
D: Chicago (where I’m from) is called the ‘Windy City’ not because of the late-effect wind but because the politicians who were ‘full of hot air’.
L: A good Sound and a good Instrument!
D: The feeling I get during and after making music. It’s like a feeling of completeness.
L: I was forced into it by the age of 4, slowly started to enjoy it by the age of 13. I had to take a lot of boring piano lessons. With 13 I wanted to quit and play the drums, my parents allowed me to plearn drums, when I continue piano lessons with a new teacher. That guy got me into improvisation and Jazz Music. My parents got annoyed of me doing music all day from that time on…
D: I grew up in a musical home. Not sure when I switched and began making it my own but looking back I can see signs as early as 9 or 10 years old.
L: Bill Evans – Explorations
Everything from Glenn Gould playing Bach
Fionn Regan – The End of History
Jan Johansson – Jazz på Svenska
Bon Iver – Bon Iver
L: I feel there is a certain tolerance among the people living here for understanding that it might be necessary to do whatever you feel like doing.
D: For me, Berlin is a collaborative city. I’m always there working with other musicians and writers.
L: My Studio in Neukölln and Flugfeld Tempelhof.
D: I’m always in studios or venues when I’m in Berlin.
L: I’d like to become a metaphysician.
D: Maybe study psychology.
L: The War on Drugs – Lost in the Dream
D: Hundred Acres by S. Carey.
L: Paul McCartney.
D: To collaborate with Judy Garland would’ve been wild.
L: Elbphilharmonie Hamburg (23.12.2017)! Epic!
D: Wilco at a small venue in St. Louis, Missouri in the 90’s.
L: I use it to record my music. So it is useful but the creation of my music is not depending on it.
D: Very.
L: I have innumerable many brothers. They think I am weird, but they always knew that I wouldn’t have succeeded as a metaphysician…
D: I have 2 younger sisters. They are both supportive and I guess they think I’m a little mad as well.
Catch Lambert & Dekker at Burg Schnabel on Wednesday, 14h November 2018!
Photo © Andreas Hornoff
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Seung Yun Lee
Seung Yun Lee initially started her career as a graphic designer before deciding to become a Pastry Chef.
Seung Yun Lee began her career as a graphic designer. She had always wanted to have a profession where she could use her creativity. Her inspiration to become a pastry chef came when she watched the film called ‘Chocolat’ and since then, she has never looked back.
Sueng Yun Lee has received several awards through Barry Callebaut competitions in Australia, where she was crowned 1st Place for the 2010 Callebaut Easter Egg Challenge and as the winner of the 2010 Edition of World Chocolate Masters Australia Selection.
Seung Yun Lee is currently a pastry chef at Savour Chocolate & Patisserie School in Australia. Prior to this she has worked at Java city Korea, Bakery section, Vanilla Bean Cake and Dalloyau in Korea. She was seeking Chocolate experience so badly and Australia was the only place where she could find a job and afford to live there. She had no idea that this is what she would end up doing when she first came to Australia, then she found Savour Chocolate & Patisserie School and the rest is history.
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WOMAN IN THE DUNES
SUNA NO ONNA
1964, Janus Films, 123 min, Japan, Dir: Hiroshi Teshigahara
Director Hiroshi Teshigahara made only a handful of films, and like this one, most were adapted from the elliptical novels of Kôbô Abe. Eiji Okada, an entomologist searching for rare insects in remote sand dunes, asks villagers for shelter. They bring him to a house at the bottom of a large pit, inhabited by a lonely woman (Kyoko Kishida). When he awakens the next day, he finds the ladder out of the hole has been removed, and he has been conned into becoming the woman’s new man, solely in order to help her remove the shifting sand that is continually creeping in, threatening to bury the structure. An astonishing, bizarre allegory about life’s routines and a thoroughly engrossing psychological drama. With a brilliant score by Toru Takemitsu. Teshigahara won the Jury Special Prize at Cannes for 1964. Oscar-nominated for Best Foreign Film.
Kiichi Ichikawa
Tadashi Ôno
Kôbô Abe
Hiroshi Segawa
Eiji Okada
Hiroko Itô
Kyôko Kishida
Hiroshi Teshigahara
1963, Universal, 120 min, USA, Dir: George Englund
John F. Kennedy was sufficiently impressed with the foreign policy insights of The Ugly American that he sent copies of the book to all his Senate colleagues; director George Englund and screenwriter Stewart Stern give the bestseller a potent adaptation. Marlon Brando stars as a U.S. ambassador to the fictional Southeast Asian country of Sarkhan, where the limitations of America’s anti-Communist crusade offer eerie parallels to that of Vietnam.
George Englund
Stewart Stern
Clifford Stine
Sandra Church
Bud Westmore
HIROSHIMA, MON AMOUR
1959, Rialto Pictures, 91 min, France, Japan, Dir: Alain Resnais
A one-night stand between a young French actress (Emmanuelle Riva) and a Japanese architect (Eiji Okada) brings back the memory of Riva's first impossible love in wartime France, her intense pain at the death of her German lover, and her punishment for sexual collaboration with the enemy. Brilliantly written by Marguerite Duras, director Alain Resnais’ first feature remains a high point in French cinema of the 1950s, and one of the most devastating love stories ever put on film. "Once you've seen HIROSHIMA it becomes impossible to make movies the way you used to." – Francois Truffaut. In French and Japanese with English subtitles.
Anatole Dauman
Samy Halfon
Michio Takahashi
Sacha Vierny
Emmanuelle Riva
Stella Dassas
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BOOK 6: YUDDA KANDA
After listening to Saranas words Shuka, pointing out all that army of Vanaras, spoke the following words to Ravana the Lord of Rakshasas. O, king! Do you observe those Vanaras resembling huge Elephants in rut, rising like banyan trees on the banks of River Ganga or Sala trees on Himalayas? Those warriors, able to change their form at will, are irresistible, equal to Daityas and Danavas, and in a battle, are endowed with the valour of the Devas.
There are twenty one thousand crores, a thousand Shankus and a hundred Vrindas of these Vanaras. These Vanaras, the attendants of Sugreeva born of Devas and Gandharvas, are able to change their form at will and always stay in Kishkindha. The two who stand there, who have the same resemblance and have the appearance of Devas, are Mainda and Dvivida. None can equal them in combat. These two, who ate ambrosion on due authorization by Brahma, are hopefully of destroying Lanka by their power."
As for that Vanara who you see there, resembling an intoxicated Elephant, who in strength and fury is able to churn up the ocean itself, it is he who came to Lanka to find Seetha and spy on you, O, Lord! See that Vanara, who was seen earlier and who appears here again. This Vanara, by whom the ocean was traversed, is the eldest son of Kesari. He is known as the son of Vayu and famously called as Hanuman. This excellent Vanara can assume any form at will. He is endowed with a good strength and form always moving like the wind god, having an uninterrupted mobility.
While yet a child, seeing the sun rise, he desired to eat it and took off to a distance of three thousand Yojanas (or twenty four thousand miles) reflecting: I shall seize hold of the sun and my hunger will not be appeased otherwise and they say, he leapt up (into the air) intoxicated as he was with his own strength. Without even reaching the sun, which is most unassailable even to Devas, sages or Rakshasas, he however fell on a mountain, where that radiant orb rises." One of the jaws of this Vanara who fell down on the head of the rock, was a little fractured. For this reason, because of his strong jaw, he is called Hanuma.
This Vanara is known to me actually through the words of my bosom friends. It is not possible to describe his strength or physical form or glory. He alone wants to destroy Lanka by his valour. How do you forget this Vanara by whom this fire was lighted and is still blazing up Lanka. Nearby is a warrior, dark of hue with eyes like lotuses, a chief warrior among Ikshvakus, his heroism is well known in the world, his sense of duty never wavers, nor does he ever transgress the righteousness, he knows to loose Brahmas weapon and is conversant with Veda, he is the most learned of the Vedic scholars, he shatters the firmament with his arrows, and rends even the earth, his anger is akin to that of Death, his valour equal to that of Indra his consort is Seetha who was taken away by you from a place called Janasthana, he is Rama who has come to wage war on you, O king! This man, having the radiance of pure gold, with a broad chest, having red eyes, with black and curled hair, standing at the right side of Rama, he is called Lakshmana, who is interested in the care and welfare of his brother, skilled in leadership of combat and excellent among the wielders of all weapons.
This Lakshmana is an angry person, difficult to be conquered, victorious, wise and mighty. He has always been the right arm of Rama and in outward moving life (of Rama). He does not indeed care for his life in the cause of Rama. He alone wishes to kill all the Rakshasas in battle. He who is standing there, taking guard at the left side of Rama, surrounded by a troop of Rakshasas he is the king Vibhishana.
He, who was consecrated as a king for Lanka by the illustrious Rama, the king of kings, is enraged really with you and is to attack us in the battle. The other whom you see as an unshakable mountain and standing in the centre of Vanaras as a Lord of all chiefs of Vanaras, with a boundless energy and who, like a Himalayan hill, very much radiating the other Vanaras by his splendour, glory, wisdom, strength and his noble descent, who occupies along with the chiefs of Army Generals, a secret place called Kishkindha, with its forests and trees and the place inaccessible because of its impassable mountains, in which is established a good fortune of Devas and human beings, whose charming and golden coloured garland with hundred lotuses is beautifying, that person is Sugreeva. This garland along with a lady called Tara as well as the permanent kingdom of Vanaras were presented to him by Rama after having killed Vali (Sugreevas brother). Wise men call a hundred lakhs as a crore. A hundred thousand crores is reckoned as a Shanku.
A hundred thousand Shankus are said to be one Maha Shanku. A hundred thousand Maha Shankus are called one Vrindam here. A hundred thousand Vrindas are said to be one Maha vrindam. A hundred thousand Mahavrindas are called one Padmam here. A hundred thousand padmas are said to be one Mahapadmam. A hundred thousand Mahapadmas are called one Kharvam here. A hundred thousand kharvas are said to be one Mahakharvam. A hundred thousand Mahakharvas are called one Samudram. A hundred thousand Samudras are said to be one Ogha here. A hundred thousand oghas are acclaimed a one Mahaugha. This Sugreeva, the king of Vanaras, having great strength and valour, always surrounded by a colossal army, is approaching you to make war, accompanied by the valiant Vibhishana and the ministers, as also a hundred thousand crores of Shankas, a thousand Mahashankus, a hundred Vrindas, a thousand mahavrindas, a hundred padmas, a thousand Mahapadmas, a hundred kharves, samudras and Mahaughas of the same number, and a crore of Mahanghas wholearmy as such is identical of an ocean. O, king! Carefully observing this army, which appears much the same as a blazing planet, prepare yourself for a great effort to get victory and take measures to avoid defeat from the enemies.
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Celebrity shoot with 2 Canon 5D MKII cameras.
The images above were from a celebrity shoot I did earlier this year as a part of Bloomingdale's October Breast Cancer Awareness Month. It was the second time I'd used the Canon 5D MKII and the results were excellent. It wouldn't be my first camera of choice tho, in general at least, and would rely largely on what I was shooting. The audio problems are solvable with a decent sound guy and I don't mind syncing things up in post like the old days but I do find shooting on a compressed format (H.264) annoying when it comes to grading the image in post. The color information is just not there and you feel like you are dealing with some 8bit image. When I first started using the camera I was transcoding it, as one must, to an editable format like prores422 but have since started using the prores422 (HQ) setting to ensure I take as much color information into the grade. There's no doubt that you'll pay for anything incorrectly exposed with this camera and it simply doesn't carry the same latitude to afford a "fix in post" mentality.
Having said all that, the big chip and a long lens produces a beautiful and very shallow depth of field that is wonderfully cinematic and makes going back to an EX3 or the like - without any film adapter - quite disappointing.
For this shoot I needed a two camera set up so that I could walk away with two angles out of each interview. As is often the case when filming celebrities we were not given long with each person so a big plus of the Canon 5D MKII is it's cost point, making a two camera shoot easily affordable.
I wouldn't want to shoot a "run 'n gun" styled documentary with one of these but in the right circumstance it's an amazing tool to have at your disposal. Did I mention it also takes great stills!
Please note: All photos above were taken by the wonderful Tim Greeson. (http://timothygreesonphotography.com/)
The following photos show how the interviews were used in the Bloomingdale's stores. These were taken at the flagship store in Manhattan.
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”The Long Cruise” - Celebrating 70 Years of the A.T. Thru-Hiking Tradition
by Brian King, ATC Publisher
The bit of Appalachian Trail history that was made in 1948 was the appearance of the first “thru-hiker,” Earl V. Shaffer of York Springs, Pennsylvania, who reported completing the entire 2,050 miles in an uninterrupted backpacking trip beginning April 4 and ending August 5. Shaffer had lost his closest friend while they were in combat in the Pacific Theater and was “walking off the army” by “walking with spring” — the title of his book about it — along the Appalachian Trail he had read about in a magazine.
While he was halfway to Maine, the already legendary Myron H. Avery was presiding over the Appalachian Trail Conservancy’s first postwar, regrouping meeting, at Fontana Dam in North Carolina — part of which was devoted to a discussion on how unlikely a thru-hike would be. The chairman was particularly disturbed that Shaffer had no official guidebooks and maps; Shaffer, “The Crazy One” as he called himself, said he wrote for but never received them so instead used oil-company maps and whatever he could pick up at parks and forests along the way.
Shaffer’s account is still accepted as the first reported thru-hike; the ATC neither investigates nor endorses such reports.
After he reported his feat to the ATC, Shaffer underwent at least one “charming...grilling,” as he would later put it, primarily by editor Jean Stephenson — place questions, people questions, photographic evidence, Trail-condition questions. After that, she and, through her, Avery would accept the report. Stephenson did note two “off track” sections, which Shaffer acknowledged and blamed on poor signage or unmarked relocations during that recovery period.
Shaffer hiked the Trail again in 1965, from the other direction, and once more as a 50th-anniversary trek in 1998 at age 79 — complaining bitterly all the way about route changes from roads up to mountaintops away from towns.
He was named president of the York Hiking Club after his first hike and, once he had satisfied Avery and Stephenson, was appointed ATC corresponding secretary, providing advice to would-be hikers of all kinds and taking a burden off Washington-based volunteers.
Although he had stayed away from Trail functions after a dispute with NPS land-acquisition workers in the 1980s, he resumed his involvement in the mid-1990s with standing-room-only shows of his slides (accompanied by his poems and songs) until a final, extended illness hospitalized him in 2001. He died in May 2002. He would have been 100 this fall.
Shaffer’s hike drew at least two lines across the story of the Appalachian Trail. Although then, as now, more than 99.9 percent of the users of the Trail are day-hikers and groups of two or four for a weekend or week — or club members out for an overnight — the notion was forever gone that a single backpacker could not walk that whole distance in a continuous hike.
The second break in pattern reflected that human recreational achievement. Shaffer garnered publicity throughout the country’s major news outlets and then a full-length article in National Geographic about him and the Trail. From then on, local and national publicity about the Trail shifted markedly from the achievements of the “recreational maintainer” to those of recreational thru-hikers, although their numbers would not be significant for another quarter-century.
The year after his iconic hike, he wrote in the Appalachian Trailway News:
“Now the one thing about the whole trek that caused the most comment — my traveling alone.... For my part, I preferred it so. Before the war, there were two of us who trailed together, and we had our dreams, as many others have had, of hiking the Appalachian Trail some day. But, Iwo Jima was the end of life’s trail for him, leaving me to travel alone. From him, I learned most of my woodcraft and my abiding love of all outdoors. Walter Winemiller was a pardner such as one may have only once in life, and no incentive could have been stronger to carry me over the long high Trail than remembering we always wanted to hike it together.”
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This trade dispute could upend America’s boo...
This trade dispute could upend America’s booming solar industry. Here’s what it means for you.
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By Lenae Shirley / Bio / Published: September 29, 2017
If you work in the solar industry, want to buy solar panels or care about climate change, you may want to pay attention.
Two floundering solar manufacturers, with no concerns but their corporate bottom line, are about to pull the rug from under one of America’s fastest-growing industries and tens of thousands of well-paid jobs.
The manufacturers petitioned the U.S International Trade Commission this spring to take action against foreign competitors, claiming overseas rivals export products to America’s solar market at prices they can’t match. This at a time when the United States solar industry as a whole is booming.
In a decision that shook the industry and a host of free-trade advocates, ITC agreed with these single two petitioners and it’s now up to President Trump to decide whether to retaliate with an import tariff or other punitive options.
There’s a good chance he will – and this would be really bad news for American solar companies and consumers alike.
What a solar trade war would mean for you
If you’re thinking about installing solar panels or work in the solar installation industry, you’ll be hit the hardest.
The general consensus is that up to 100,000 American solar jobs are at risk, because placing a tariff or artificial floor price on solar products would make them more expensive for customers.
Prices could double and residential demand could dry up, almost overnight.
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Large commercial solar projects would also become less cost-competitive and demand would decline long-term. Solar installation companies – which had the fastest job growth of any industry over the last few years – would be forced to slash jobs.
And the pain would spread beyond solar customers and workers. It would ultimately affect us all.
Solar industry loss a setback for planet
The planet could suffer, because every kilowatt of zero-carbon solar energy that isn’t installed is a kilowatt that will likely be replaced by electricity generated by dirty, fossil fuel. Even though many utilities give customers carbon-free options today, net greenhouse gas emissions would certainly rise.
Indeed, tariffs or other options that Trump may now be mulling could kill nearly two-thirds of potential solar installations in the next five years, according to a recent analysis by Greentech Media. That represents 47 gigawatts of lost solar potential, more than all the solar ever installed in the U.S.
But really, would he want to be responsible for trading 100,000 jobs for a campaign pledge?
Those 47 gigawatts also represent carbon dioxide emissions that could be avoided, possible as much as 110 million metric tons, depending on what replaces the solar demand.
A remarkable coalition of groups that includes solar and environmental organizations, as well as conservative, free-market groups; are now urging the president to avoid a damaging trade war over solar technology imports. A bipartisan group of 16 senators, led by North Carolina Republican Thom Tillis and New Mexico Democrat Martin Heinrich, has also weighed in.
The president of the Solar Energy Industry Association put it this way: “This is a case about two companies bringing about a petition, with almost the entire rest of the solar industry in entire disagreement.”
Trump, however, campaigned on “fixing” U.S. trade and he may now view solar tariffs as a safe way to keep that promise. As recently as last month, he told his chief of staff, “I want tariffs. And I want someone to bring me tariffs.”
But really, would he want to be responsible for trading 100,000 jobs for a campaign pledge? Or for giving consumers fewer options because of two companies that couldn’t compete? We hope not.
This post originally appeared on our Voices blog.
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“…every kilowatt of zero-carbon solar energy that isn’t installed is a kilowatt that will likely be replaced by electricity generated by dirty, fossil fuel.”
Lenae, readers might blindly accept your premise if you didn’t naively confuse units of power (kilowatt) with units of energy. But also: 1) you ignore the potential of carbon-free, non-intermittent nuclear energy to replace dirty fossil fuel, and 2) by prioritizing employment, you seek to make society responsible for protecting the livelihoods of solar installers instead of protecting the environment.
Jobs are beneficial for society only when society gets something valuable in return.
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Lenae works at the nexus of technology, markets, and policy. She leads efforts with our demonstration partners to prove the benefits of clean technology innovations and identifies trends and market opportunities that can be leveraged to accelerate the transformation of the electricity sector.
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Odds of Getting By in NC 50%
Submitted by TarGator on Wed, 12/14/2005 - 04:47
From Yes! Weekly:
Half of North Carolina families with children don’t earn sufficient income to pay for basic expenses, according to a new report by the Raleigh-based NC Justice Center.
“Failing Jobs, Falling Wages: The 2005 North Carolina Living Income Standard,” authored by John Quinterno and Elizabeth Jordan and released on Dec. 8, found that a majority of North Carolina children, blacks, Hispanics and women — practically every demographic except white males — live in households where income falls short of the cost of living.
“What we’re finding is that families are carrying a heavier burden because childcare and housing costs are increasing,” Legislative Director Sorien Schmidt said. “Median incomes are falling and more families are in poverty.”
It is a sad state of affairs when only half of the families in our state are able to pay for basics. But the problems are not universal across the state:
The report states that rural areas have lagged behind economically as explosive growth in Charlotte and the Triangle has created good jobs for the well educated while escalating costs for low-income workers employed in the service sector. The Triad falls somewhere in between, Schmidt said.
“The Triad is where you’ve lost manufacturing jobs,” she said. “They’ve been replaced by service and retail. That means that people can be working the same or more hours for less money and paying about the same for the cost of living.”
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Still Not Getting By
Submitted by Doremus Jessup on Thu, 10/12/2006 - 06:06
things havent improved any since this report came out. The Dem cotrolled ESC still low balls the number of unemployed in NC
This is really sad
Submitted by Betsy Muse on Thu, 10/12/2006 - 06:59
One of the teaching assistants at the girls' old school had three jobs. After leaving her job as a teaching assistant she worked late afternoons and nights at an afterschool program that ran late for parents with second shift jobs. She also had a job on the weekends.
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Resilient Woman Defies Death with 10 Principles for Success in Life and Business in New Book, Unstoppable
Betsy Craig developed these tools beginning when she got sober at the age of 20 after years of alcohol and drug abuse, then beat the odds against the autoimmune disease scleroderma that wanted her dead, and on the heels of the economic downturn in 2010, Craig launched MenuTrinfo®, a menu labeling and nutritional help desk service, now a million-dollar business.
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Unstoppable book cover. By Betsy Craig
Through her determination and spirit, Betsy became a leader in the foodservice industry protecting lives and health through nutrition and food safety training showing all along the way what it means to be unstoppable.
Over the past 30 years, Betsy has lived by a set of 10 guiding principles that are the key ingredients in her recipe for success. They have helped her navigate through challenges and celebrate triumphs. In her book, Craig empowers the reader to not only cope but to create abundance out of trying circumstances.
Craig speaks from direct experience, with grace, humor, and humility. Alcoholism brought Craig to the brink
of death as a teen. When she got sober at 20, her spiritual quest began. Then, at 39, in the picture of health, Craig was diagnosed with scleroderma. She was given 18 months to live.
Scleroderma, translated from Greek as “hard skin,” causes tightening of the skin and connective tissues that provide the framework for your body. In many, such as Craig, it also damages internal organs and the digestive tract. Craig weaves lessons in overcoming fear amid graphic episodes from her ongoing battle with chronic illness.
“My hands felt like immobile claws,” said Craig. “I couldn’t button my own pants. My face was so tight that
Betsy Craig, author of Unstoppable
my ears were pulling away at the earlobe and blood would drip down the sides of my face daily. I walked around feeling like a leper. Not being able to hug my daughter or husband without it causing excruciating pain devastated me. I desperately wanted to give up but knew if I did that, I’d be dead.”
Considered rare, an estimated 300,000 Americans have the disease. Currently, there is no cure.
During a debilitating round of chemo, Craig pledged that if she survived she’d do something worthwhile in her life. Having reduced her scleroderma symptoms by avoiding foods that tend to cause inflammation, she formed a vision to challenge prevailing paradigms in the food industry. Craig committed to helping the 15 million people in the U.S. with food allergies, some life-threatening. Each year in the U.S., 200,000 people require emergency medical care for such reactions, according to Food Allergy Research & Education.
“This book is an inspiration to those impacted by scleroderma as well as entrepreneurs and businesswomen everywhere,” said Cyndy Besselievre, Executive Director of the Scleroderma Foundation, Rocky Mountain Chapter. “[Craig] is a true testament that anything can be overcome and that we can all achieve our goals in life with passion, integrity, facing our fears and persistence”
In Unstoppable, Craig opens her playbook. On the heels of the economic downturn in 2010, Craig launched MenuTrinfo®, a menu labeling, and nutritional help desk service. Today, her woman-owned company has grown into a million-dollar business. She’s developed services that include certification for allergen and gluten-free products and food allergy training.
Craig lays out road-tested, successful strategies deployed during her tenure at MenuTrinfo®. These include disciplined focus; learning when to pivot; self-belief and playing on your strengths; leading with love, kindness, and gratitude; building team culture; delivering on goals; and, nurturing clients.
“To me, the principle of persistence equates to being unstoppable,” said Craig. “It’s about facing challenges head-on and not giving up until you have succeeded or tried every avenue possible and once you have tried everything possible you dig a little deeper and try just a few more things.”
A portion of the proceeds from the sales of Unstoppable will be donated to the Rocky Mountain Chapter of the Scleroderma Foundation.
Unstoppable – scheduled for release Jun. 5 – is available for pre-order as an e-book and paperback on platforms such as Amazon, iBooks, Kindle, Nook, and Ingram. Links and additional information at betsycraig.com.
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Getting More Immersed with Indiewire
The Penske Media purchase of Indiewire has resulted in an expansion of my role as crafts and awards season contributor. Beginning this week, I begin Emmy coverage of below-the-line contenders along with my usual Oscar season crafts reporting, working closely
Immersed in Blu-ray: Hitchcock and Bogart
The WB Archive Collection gets Hitch and Bogie on Blu-ray and they've never looked better for home viewing. In Kent Jones' indispensable doc, Hitchcock/Truffaut, he reminds us that Truffaut was on a mission to correct misconceptions about Hitch as a lightweight
Immersed in Books: Farber on Film
For the first time, the complete writings of film critic Manny Farber is available from Library of America, edited by Robert Polito (Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson). Manny Farber (1917-2008) was the first modernist film critic to write like a modernist.
Bardem Emerges as Blond Bond Baddie
Posted on March 12, 2012 by Bill Desowitz in Below the Line, Books, James Bond, Movies, Production Design, Tech, VFX | Leave a comment
The Daily Mail caught the first glimpse of Javier Bardem as the latest Bond baddie, Silva, on the set of Skyfall in London’s Whitehall district, dressed inconspicuously as a blond police officer (recalling Red Grant and Max Zorin). In a continuation of a sequence shot last month, Daniel Craig’s James Bond runs through the vicinity with an ear piece after an underground explosion. Is Silva a master of disguise? The IMAX’d 23rd Bond film opens Nov. 9 in North America after an Oct. 26 bow in the UK.
The 5D | FLUX Schedule
Posted on March 8, 2012 by Bill Desowitz in 3-D, Animation, Below the Line, Education, Events, Movies, Production Design, Tech, VFX, Videogames, Virtual Production | Leave a comment
Immersive design consortium 5D | Institute will kick off their world-building design discussion series in Los Angeles on March 13-15 with 5D | FLUX presented in association with Autodesk and USC School of Cinematic Arts. 5D | FLUX will consist of three, 120-minute interactive sessions spanning three evenings aimed at encouraging in-depth conversations about world-building across disciplines. Each session will be held 7-10 pm at the Ray Stark Family Theater at the USC School of Cinematic Arts. Tickets are available for purchase here.
Sessions are $25 each or $60 for a three-day pass.
World-building refers to the iterative design process that creates and actualizes the story space across media, be that game, film, animation, theater or architecture. This process of developing a dimensional, fictional world created for that story to take place occurs before a specific narrative is locked down. Tuesdayʼs “Inception” session will cover imaging and developing of worlds; Wednesdayʼs “Prototyping” session will discuss testing the story space and visualizing the world; and Thursdayʼs “Manufacturing and Finishing” session will center on building and experiencing the world.
The collaboration with USC School of Cinematic Arts has been a vital component in bringing 5D | Flux to life as the school has been a steadfast supporter of the 5D | Institute. As an education facility, the schoolʼs importance to the film, television, and interactive community is undeniable, making it the perfect partner to host the design forum. The detailed schedule is as follows:
Tuesday, March 13: Inception: Imagining and Developing the World
“World-building for independent cinema: ʻUpside Downʼ”
Presentation By: Alex McDowell, 5D Creative Director, Designer (Man of Steel, Fight Club, Minority Report)
Opening Remarks: Tom Wujec, Design Software Innovator, Autodesk Fellow
Moderator: Peggy Weil, Adjunct Professor USC and Digital Media Designer
Panelists: Rick Carter, Production Designer (War Horse, Avatar, Jurassic Park)
Angus Wall, Editor (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Social Network)
Tom Wujec, Design Software Innovator, Autodesk Fellow
Michael Wilkinson, Costume Designer (Man of Steel, 300, Watchman)
Wednesday, March 14: Prototyping: Testing the Story Space and Visualizing the World
“Building Worlds in Animation: How To Train Your Dragon”
Presentation By: Pierre Olivier Vincent, Production Designer (How to Train Your Dragon, Flushed Away)
Patrick Hanenberger, Production Designer (Rise of the Guardians)
Moderator: Henry Jenkins, Media Scholar/USC Provost Professor
Panelists: Jerrica Cleland, Cinematographer/Animator (Arthur Christmas, Finding Nemo, Toy Story)
Jim Bissell, Production Designer (Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, 300, E.T.)
Alex McDowell, 5D Creative Director, Designer (Man of Steel, Fight Club, Minority Report)
Tom Meyer, Production Designer (Real Steel)
Thursday, March 15: Manufacturing and Finishing: Building and Experience the World
“Design for Virtual Production: ʻReal Steelʼ”
Presentation By: Andrew Jones, Art Director (Oz: The Great and Powerful, Avatar, Alice in Wonderland)
Jeff Wisniewski, Art Director (Tintin, Real Steel)
Opening Remarks: David Morin, Autodesk
Moderator: Mike Fink, VFX Supervisor (Avatar, TRON: Legacy, Blade Runner), USC SCA Faculty
Panelists: François Audouy, 5D Founding Committee, Production Designer
Ron Frankel, Previs Innovator (Fight Club, Minority Report)
Habib Zargapour, Creative Director (Microsoft Games Studios), VFX Supervisor (Twister,
A Perfect Storm, Star Wars: Episode I)
Chris Defaria, Producer, Warner Bros (300, Watchman, Harry Potter)
For more information about 5D | FLUX, please visit: http://5dconference.com/articles/824
Immersed in Blu-ray with Hitchcock and Preminger
Posted on March 3, 2012 by Bill Desowitz in Below the Line, Blu-ray, Books, Cinematography, Home Entertainment, Movies, Tech | Leave a comment
Now that the Oscar season’s over, I’ve had a chance to catch up on some recent Blu-rays. What’s caught my eye? Alfred Hitchcock’s To Catch a Thief (Paramount Home Ent.) and Otto Preminger’s Anatomy of a Murder (Criterion).
There’s been a flurry of Hitchcock activity on Blu-ray lately with more to come from Universal and Warner. Criterion released The Lady Vanishes, which epitomizes his British period of wit and suspense; Fox/MGM then followed suit with prime Selznick: Rebecca, Notorious, and Spellbound, which showcase his early American period, which is deeper and richer but not without its wit. To Catch a Thief serves as a leisurely respite — Hitch literally on vacation on the French Riviera with Cary Grant and Grace Kelly — before embarking on his most inspired work. It looks ravishing on Blu-ray in VistaVision — the colors pop in hyper real fashion. No wonder cinematographer Robert Burks won an Oscar. No matter that it’s lightweight: it fittingly evokes the mood and setting like a souffle. Archivist Robert Harris explains the particulars about the wonders of Kodak’s 5248 stock and why the movie looks so fine.
Meanwhile, Anatomy of a Murder is one of my favorite films and arguably the best courtroom drama ever made. Preminger was the master at constructing ambiguous behavior within institutional settings that could crumble at any moment, and here he subversively took on the judicial system. Nobody is what he seems. Every viewing deepens my understanding and appreciation and the Blu-ray is a technical marvel to behold, from the mutilated graphic design motif of Saul Bass’ opening credits (very similar to his work on Psycho around the same time) to the velvety shades of gray in Sam Leavitt’s black and white cinematography to Boris Leven’s lived in quality to the sleepy town of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula to Duke Ellington’s jazz score (Thanks to Sony’s Grover Crisp for overseeing such a great restoration/remastering with a new fine grain struck from the original camera negative).
Anatomy marked a turning point for Jimmy Stewart after Vertigo in which he no longer played romantic leads. He comfortably slid into senior character types, but still utilized his folksy charm to great effect and never more sly than here. Stewart plays as a former prosecutor-turned defense attorney in a murder case involving flirty Lee Remick and her volatile husband, Ben Gazzara, who passed away two weeks before the release of the Blu-ray. Naturally, I paid particular attention to Gazzara, whose army lieutenant is on trial for murdering a local tavern owner after he supposedly raped Remick. Gazzara’s Manion is a study in pretension and manipulation. You underestimate him at your own peril. But then the same holds true for Stewart’s jazz-loving backwoods lawyer. You marvel at every character turn, including Arthur O’Connell’s once glorious attorney turned drunken disgrace, Eve Arden’s wisecracking bookkeeper, George C. Scott’s slick Lansing prosecutor, and Joseph N. Welch’s plain spoken judge. Welch is the wild card: the famed Boston attorney from the Army/McCarthy hearings, who grounds the film in pragmatism.
Special Godfather 40th Anniversary Screening
Posted on March 1, 2012 by Bill Desowitz in Below the Line, Blu-ray, Books, Cinematography, Home Entertainment, Movies, Oscar, Tech, Trailers | Leave a comment
Paramount Pictures is presenting a special 40th anniversary screening of The Godfather today on 55 Cinemark XD auditoriums across the country. The film was meticulously restored using 5.1 digital surround sound and re-mastered using state-of-the-art technology, then transferred to files making it available to be seen on Cinemark XD screens.
“There is no greater iconic film than The Godfather, states James Meredith, VP of marketing and communication at Cinemark. “It has set the standard for story-telling, launched a generation of great actors, and provided movie-goers an unparalleled experience. Cinemark is excited to give fans of this movie the opportunity to now see it like never before in our extremely popular XD auditoriums, which offer a complete entertainment environment featuring enormous wall-to-wall and ceiling-to-floor screens, plush seating, and custom JBL sound systems with higher end components and 7.1 capable digital surround sound.”
The Coppola Restoration of The Godfather 40th Anniversary Edition as a project began in 2006 between Paramount Pictures and the director. Archivist Robert Harris joined the project, followed by the original cinematographer of the film Gordon Willis, to complete the team who worked arduously on the film for over a year going through the original prints, re-release prints, and negatives, shot by shot, foot by foot, frame by frame and even sprocket hole by sprocket hole.
Cinemark plans to also show The Godfather Part II on XD screens on April 19. A full list of participating Cinemark XD locations, advance ticket purchases and show time information can be found at www.cinemark.com.
5D, USC, Autodesk Present Worldbuilding Summit
Posted on February 28, 2012 by Bill Desowitz in 3-D, Animation, Below the Line, Education, Events, Movies, Production Design, Tech, VFX, Virtual Production | Leave a comment
FLUX: Digital Design and Worldbuilding for Narrative Media is a three-part exploration into design as the backbone of digital narrative media, addressing the changing role of the designer in storytelling through world building practices. Presented by The 5D | Institute, the USC School of Cinematic Arts, and Autodesk, the Summit — curated by Alex McDowell (Creative Director, 5D | Institute) and Peggy Weil (USC SCA Interactive Media Division) — will be held March 13–15 at USC’s Ray Stark Family Theatre in Los Angeles, and will include panel discussions, audience participation, and networking receptions.
Worldbuilding is the new metaphor for the creation and actualizing of the story space in narrative media and will be the theme of the Summit. It addresses narrative design thinking, the immersive process and the experience of creating new worlds. It expresses the full arc of the role of design in storytelling.
The evenings will be divided into Inception (imagining and developing the world): “World Building for Independent Cinema: Upside Down” with McDowell and moderator Peggy Weil (digital media designer); Prototyping (testing the story space and visualizing the world): “Building Worlds in Animation: How to Train Your Dragon” with production designers Kathy Altieri and Patrick Henenberger and moderated by Oscar-winning VFX supervisor and USC SCA faculty member Mike Fink; and Manufacturing and Finishing (building and experiencing the world): “Design for Virtual Production: Real Steel” with art directors Andrew Jones and Jeff Wisniewski and moderated by media scholar and provost professor at USC, Henry Jenkins.
With this first in a series of Worldbuilding Summits, the 5D | Institute and the USC School of Cinematic Arts will use their unique access to frame an investigation into the language and practices of digital design methodologies, applying learning from thought leaders in core media industries to an interdisciplinary discussion space within and across media.
FLUX: Digital Design and Worldbuilding for Narrative Media
March 13–15th, 2012 | 7–10 pm
The Ray Stark Family Theatre (in the George Lucas Building)
USC School of Cinematic Arts, SCA 108
Backstage at the Oscars with Hugo and Rango
Posted on February 27, 2012 by Bill Desowitz in 3-D, Animation, Below the Line, Cinematography, Events, Movies, Oscar, Tech, VFX | Leave a comment
Here are some backstage comments gathered from Hugo’s cinematographer Bob Richardson and VFX supervisors Rob Legato and Ben Grossmann (pictured above with Alex Henning [l]) along with Rango director Gore Verbinski:
Can you talk about working in 3-D? This is not the first 3-D film to win, but it’s unusual to get recognized with 3-D.
Bob Richardson: You’re right. I think the odds of winning are extraordinarily small. I was the crystal ball didn’t work this way. I know it worked that way for Mark Wahlberg, but for me, I didn’t see it.
Where do we go now, dramatically, with 3-D now that you’ve paved the way?
BR: That’s a huge question, but I don’t think there’s any limits for it. 3-D is a very solid step. I believe it’s 15, 20 percent, give an arbitrary percentage. The advantage is a tool towards what filmmakers can use, if used, as just that, as a tool, not as a gimmick. There’s an end. I do believe it will alter that, but, technically, I don’t believe we can go into that here, ’cause I could go on for an hour…
This was a marriage of visual effects and 3-D. Talk about that marriage.
Rob Legato: What we are trying to do with the 3-D of the movie itself is to basically extend the art form of cinema by using the depth that you get and every shot was designed to take advantage of the depth that we would enhance the model of the story. So, every shot was literally made to be in 3-D and designed to give you some depth or emotional response from it.
Ben Grossmann: And there’s a lot of science behind it, but we try to take the science and distill it down to something that is so simple that it doesn’t interfere with your instinctive creativity, so you can hear Marty or Dante or Bob, and say what they feel the shot should emote.
What does this win mean about the state of visual effects and the appreciation of visual effects at least by the Academy?
RL: There’s a perfect blend and ours does not stick out but assists that and becomes part of the art form that the Academy sort of growing up with the visual effects world, and saying, we are now going to also appreciate the art of what you tried to achieve, what’s literally on screen.
Talk about the unorthodox approach of putting all the actors in one room.
Gore Verbinski: I don’t know any other way to direct actors. I want them to act and react. I suppose it I think it made it feel like it was occurring and we encouraged line overlaps and we encouraged people to be out of breath. So we really were kind of paranoid of the computer making things clinical, and it so lends itself to perfection. So suddenly you had the feeling I guess in the soundtrack that there was a tortoise talking to a lizard, because Johnny was talking to Ned Beatty and they were actually playing the scene together. So I think there’s there’s something in there. There’s some sort of DNA underneath it all. But ultimately it was just a fear of having somebody sit with a bit of text in front of a microphone. I mean, I haven’t done that since I was selling sugar water, Budweiser, you know, or whatever, doing commercials, but that’s so distant from getting a performance.
What is the take away now that you’re back to live action?
GV: They’re two completely different hats. I suppose underneath all of it it’s just finding a story you want to tell in the same way you would if you were sitting around a campfire or something. But completely different. I mean, there are no gifts in animation. We have to fabricate everything, including the anomalies, and yet now I’m two days into shooting a live-action picture. I actually go back tomorrow to shoot, and there’s chaos and you can’t orchestrate things exactly how you want them, but when events happen, they’re set in stone and you’re done. I don’t know how else to explain it. It’s just every aspect of it is so different.”
Exploring the Oscar Retro Vibe
Posted on February 24, 2012 by Bill Desowitz in 3-D, Animation, Below the Line, Books, Clips, Events, Movies, Oscar, Shorts, stop-motion, Tech, Trailers, VFX, Virtual Production | Leave a comment
On the eve of Sunday’s Oscar ceremony, I look at the interesting retro connections between many of the contenders in my TOH column at Indiewire. William Joyce (The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore) rejoices at the hand-made greatness of Hugo and The Artist, while Grant Orchard (A Morning Stroll) ties in the lost art of urban myths.
Klyce Talks Dragon Tattoo Sound
Posted on February 23, 2012 by Bill Desowitz in Below the Line, Books, Clips, Editing, Movies, Music, Oscar, Tech, VFX | Leave a comment
I spoke with Oscar-nominated sound designer Ren Klyce about The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo for my TOH column at Indiewire. The underlying soundscape is a freezing, unsettling horror that perfectly complements the creepy, graphic imagery. The feeling of melting snow was prevalent everywhere and so your ear accepted it as being the same place because it’s freezing. But it’s the surreal sounds that were most intriguing, including the mugging of Salander in the subway, culminating with her beating up her assailant on the escalator. Fincher wanted the sound to carry the violence with a screeching terror.
Mendes Debuts Skyfall Videoblog
Posted on February 22, 2012 by Bill Desowitz in Below the Line, Cinematography, Clips, James Bond, Movies, Tech, VFX | Leave a comment
Skyfall director Sam Mendes introduced the first of his videoblogs today on the 007.com website. Not much of a debriefing on the 23rd James Bond film and Daniel Craig’s third as 007, but then he’s just getting started in introducing his ties to Bond and providing behind-the-scenes tidbits.
“The roots of my doing this Bond movie start way before anybody approached me because, like everyone else, I have my own personal relationship with Bond which began when I was I suppose about nine or ten years old. I’ve always been a fan of the movies,” he says.
In fact, Mendes told me a decade ago that he was first approached to direct Die Another Day. He was very flattered but it just wasn’t the right Bond for him. Little did we realize that Craig would eventually become the sixth Bond and that he’d be engineering the film that will likely define his legacy, now that the rite of passage is over.
Naturally, Casino Royale pulled Mendes in: “Here was a real man in a real situation and it reminded me of when I was watching Sean Connery…I think it is still possible to make a big, entertaining, fabulous, glamorous movie and yet at the same time to say something about the world that we’re living in.”
And, ironically, Skyfall marks Mendes’ first English movie.
UPDATE: Skyfall will get an IMAX release for the first time day and date with the Nov. 9 bow.
The Descendants, The Artist, Rango Take Eddies
Posted on February 19, 2012 by Bill Desowitz in Animation, Below the Line, Editing, Movies, Oscar | Leave a comment
The Descendants, The Artist, and Rango took top editing honors at last night’s 62nd Annual ACE Eddie Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
The Descendants, (edited by Kevin Tent, A.C.E.) and The Artist (edited by Anne-Sophie Bion & Michel Hazanavicius) won Best Edited Feature Film (Drama) and Best Edited Feature Film (Comedy or Musical), and Rango (edited by Craig Wood, A.C.E.) won Best Edited Animated Feature Film.
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Why Feed What Isn’t You?
The Art of “Flipping.”
Rumi’s Field (part 2 of 2)
I'll Meet You There - (Part one of two)
Inside / Outside - The Two Places Where We Live
Tale for a Winter Holiday Evening
Anonymous Benevolence
“Until Life’s Work is Done”
Iron Lines in the Wilderness
Becoming Zusha
The Space In-Between
“The Burning Bed”
Always More Choices
Dividing the World in order to Save It
Ashes, Roses & More Dead Children
New Year 2018 - A Better Year? Yes, at least Some
Between a Rock and a Fruitcake
To Care or Not to Care
The Thin Cord
The Man with a Church on his Back [A poetic whimsey-bit]
Ships Passing in the Night
Another Pattern of Hope
The Harpist in the Doorway
“Honor Everything - Despise Nothing”
An Anatomy of Hope for 2017 (Part Three)
An Anatomy of Hope for 2017 (Part Two of Three)
An Anatomy of Hope for 2017 (Part One)
Gratitude - an Antidote to Despair
The Holidays’ Dark Side - Holiday Time in a Therapist’s Office
Innocence and Wisdom
All Journeys Intersect
Oh No! Not Again!
If Angels could be Jealous
My House - an Homage
Sorry to Interrupt, but I’m not Listening
A Second Door
The Fable of the Two Shoulders
The Human Condition (Part 3): Hope
The Human Condition (Part 2 of 3)
Autumn Thoughts
The Suitcase Packed in the Closet
Narcissists and Empaths
The Night before the Beginning of my 75th Year
Right Thinking or Real People
Peripheral Vision (Psychological)
The Magic of Marital Conversation
The Blarney Stone
Overseeing (upon entering 2015)
Nature and Human Nature - a differentiation
The Fear of Going Down (Part II of “The Space In Between”)
Robin Williams - Ambassador for the deeply human
The Space In Between - Pt I (Blessing)
Right Nearby
Engage - Release - Move on. The Rhythm of Life
Into The Belly of the Beast
Responding to the Narcissists’ Women
The Second Half of Life
Journeys Up and Journeys Down
The Hidden Holiday Gift
Kennedy Time - and a world at odds with itself
Life is Difficult, but it is Good
When in doubt, Flip It!
Moving On - or playing by the rules
Personal Responsibility - and its pitfalls
The Age of the Autoimmune
Who’s Telling Me Who I Am?
The question “Why?”
Communicating with Men
Listen to her, Don’t Think!
The Small Places
The Law of Hospitality - The High Road
Hearing My Name
Giving and Caring
Words Are Cheap, Or....
Institution or Person
Seeing Clearly?
The Vulnerability of the Loving Heart
As If No Tomorrow
Gollum’s Pool
No More Status Quo. Occupy!
Creative Conversation
Where is Hope?
Watching the Grass Grow
The Third Act
Enter The Bitch
The Narcissist and His Woman
Secondary Gains
It’s Easier to Divide
The Choice to Succeed
The Small Space Between
The Ascendency of Narcissism
It’s the Relationship
Telephone Vampire Etiquette
The Log at the Dam
Doing Something Stupid
Why can’t you be that nice to me?
After Depression
The Holidays
Don’t Stir Things Up
The Old Orchard Road
It’s Easier to Divide than Unite
The Grass is Greener - or Living from the Inside Out
Fear (and its silence)
Thirteen Options
Cinderella’s Stepmom
Coin Toss Divination
Protecting the Therapist (musing with Stephen King)
The Leveling Question
Scaffolding - and the New Year 2009
Be Not Quick to Forgive
Alone on an Island
Sandbagging - how small is your circle?
STRESS! - it's not just the economy
The Basement Wedding
Having One's Own Voice
The Demise of Intimate Conversation (Communication in Marriage)
Life or Living? (and New Year's Resolutions)
The Holidays: Shadow and Light - and Stories
The Third Wish
Givers and Takers in Relationships Part 4 of 4 - Resolving the Issues
Givers and Takers in Relationships Part 3 of 4 - Givers
Givers and Takers in Relationships Part 2 of 4 - Takers
Givers and Takers in Relationships Part 1 of 4 - Introduction
To Fight Crazy - A Reflection on 9/11
The Empty Spaces
On Talking Politics and Religion
Making a Decision to Change - Part 3: The Risks
Making a Decision to Change - Part 2: The Choice
Making a Decision to Change - Part I
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October 2012 - Volume 12, No. 10
When we have injured someone, there’s a common assumption that it’s up to the injured to make restitution, or at least a first move toward reconciliation. That makes a certain sense. And if I assume that you might be a danger to me, I have a right to protect myself and that which is mine (my family, my property, my possessions). Wealth itself must be protected. The purpose of power in our culture is primarily to defend ourselves and our belongings, even when that defense is used preemptively. The laws of our legislatures increasingly agree.
Children are taught, when they have done something “wrong” they need to apologize for it. How often does a parent insist “not until you apologize.” To parents it makes sense. To children, an additional pattern is being established - lording it over is OK when you are superior.
When the lesser is in debt to the greater, we assume it’s the duty of the lesser to rebalance the relationship. That’s why apology is generally up the ladder. “You need to apologize to me.” A cruel extension of this in times past was the debtors prison, the debtor was incarcerated until the debt is paid. (In many ways this illogically cruel philosophy is returning today.) Many times the debtor us unable, whether at fault or not, to redeem the “debt.”
The prevailing ‘ethic’ that emerges has become, whenever in doubt, protect yourself. You never know whom to trust. (That’s the work of the primitive part of our brain, often called the 'reptile brain' - fight or flight.) It has most recently morphed into “when in doubt, kill first.”
However, the awareness of a particular incident in my old family history has led me to revise my thinking about these matters.
The specific incident, which took place in the heart of the Scottish Highlands, is known as the Massacre of Glencoe in the deep winter of 1692. The population of Clan MacDonald of Glencoe who dwelt in that isolated valley, was wiped out under orders of the English King William at the hands of a regiment led by Captain Robert Campbell and his clansmen. The story is too complex to describe here, but the offense was greater than the murder of an entire family of small villages, thirty-eight MacDonalds murdered in their homes, and about 300, including the women and children who fled their burned-out houses were slaughtered or perished in the cold of a harsh Highland winter. Those that did survive escaped by stealth (to avoid death by the Campbells) and hardship, but few ever returned to Glencoe. The House of MacDonald of Glencoe is no more, except in fierce Highland memory.
My son and I have visited that enclosed valley, and hiked in the surrounding hills. To my knowing, there’s no place in the world that feels and looks like that place. You can see some of its stark beauty at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IXebqFyj0A
You see, in Celtic lands, as in many other ancient worlds, the Law of Hospitality supersedes all other considerations.
Many will recognize this tradition from reading the Old Testament - the foundation of three great world religions. I know that in Native American tradition, the tribal chief becomes by default “a poor man” because he will be approached by many in need.
By this ancient tradition, wealth is judged by what one gives, not what owned owns. Even if an enemy arrives at your door, you feed and house him, if only for the night. By custom (and often by law), the stranger is always given “the protection of the house.” Any ‘political’ considerations will be dealt with in the morning, or at a later time.
From this later arose the community supported ‘public house,’ the foundation of a hospitality tradition that flourishes even today.
That’s what happened in Glencoe that cold winter morning of February 13. A regiment of 120 Campbells upon arrival asked for quarters, and were taken in, fed and given bed for ten days. That was the high tradition. The high offense was that the Campbells, by a secret signal, arose in the middle of the eleventh night to slaughter their hosts. As I have noted, thirty-eight MacDonalds were slaughtered in their beds, while 300 fled to the hills, where many died simply of cold and starvation.
Under Scots law there was a special category of murder, known as "murder under trust," which was considered to be even more heinous than ordinary murder. The Glencoe massacre was a clear example of such. Hence it is etched in the memory of MacDonalds to this day.
When I attend Scottish events, my own favorite being the Highland Festival each Memorial Day weekend in Alma College (Michigan), that memory is alive. At Alma, in the Clan Tent area, the Campbell tent is frequently beside the Clan (Mac)Donald (of which I am a life member). As I understand it, this is by courtesy and invitation of Clan Donald.
This is where I began to understand there is a “necessary courtesy” from MacDonald to Campbell. Campbells have no right to equal fellowship since they cannot redeem that ancient heritage, it is therefore incumbent on MacDonalds to offer that courtesy in order for current fellowship to be restored. I call it the “Duty of Courtesy.” In the high order of things, it is not even a choice, but a social necessity as a MacDonald. It’s what I call The High Road. We have to do it again and again and again, as long as the memory of Glencoe remains, which will be well nigh forever.
A client brought to my attention a similar situation. A neighbor had made a pass at my client’s wife, who in turn brought it to her husband’s attention. Now he had to decide how to deal with the neighbor. There were choices how to deal with it, but it became obvious that to do nothing here was not a choice.
As we discussed the options, it became clear that the neighbor, being the offender, would and could do little or nothing to redeem the situation. My client’s wife had some choices of her own, and chose to tell her husband. The right person to act was my client. There was The High Road or The Low Road.
The Low Road would involve anger, and perhaps retribution, as well as consequences for the neighbor and perhaps the neighbor’s marriage. It would feel right at first (retribution usually does); but what would it do for future relationships, as well as for the well-being of the larger neighborhood?
So we examined The High Road. We realized his neighbor could not undo what he had done. My client, whose wife’s disclosure had placed on him the necessity to do something, had to act; and the results would effect the specific interrelationships of four people living in near proximity.
After much inner deliberation, he decided to write his neighbor a private letter, within which he shared his awareness of what had happened, and the gravity of its consequences, including the impossibility of undoing the situation. Nor was it a matter that could be just “forgotten.” He invited the neighbor to meet and speak with him privately; for this is something that must be spoken about. He also added that he did this, not in anger or retribution, both of which he of course had considered, but “because I believe in you.” These last words, which could only have been spoken from my client’s position, represent the epitome of The High Road - the Duty of Courtesy. (I didn’t coach him in this, they came directly from his heart.)
These words are also actually words of blessing, the granting of favor. It is not quite the same as forgiveness, which only levels the relationship. It adds something new, which is why I use the word favor or blessing. In like manner, it is the sacred duty of a MacDonald to bless a Campbell, to offer favor to him, a favor that otherwise cannot exist due to the history of the families. It’s a favor that returns to a Campbell a higher right of fellowship and its benefits. Nor is it a matter of deserving, it is by nature a gift.
The Campbells are blessed because MacDonalds bless them. It is the natural order of things remaining true to the ancient Law of Hospitality. My client’s neighbor is blessed because my client blessed him, not just returning him to the status of neighbor, but adding something new - “because I believe in you.” Nobody else in his situation could have done this. It’s a singular act.
I like to use the word “Courtesy” although others may prefer the term “grace.” A favorite Anglican theologian, Charles Williams (1885-1945) had the habit of referring to God as “the Divine Courtesy.” This does not simply level the relationship, but involves an act that over-redeems it. There’s a difference, and an important theological difference. God has not just erased our sins, but has acted in a way to overlook them as only He can do. (It’s a curious fact of theology that our ‘sin’ becomes itself a means of ‘higher grace.) It’s the same with the MacDonalds. It’s the same with my client. Fellowship is restored through an act of Courtesy, of invitation back to favor and more.
The Law of Hospitality is more than an ancient social courtesy. It involves a radically different sense of identity and personal wealth than is present in our culture. As I noted earlier, wealth is here measured not by how much we have, but by how much we give. What a great antidote to our problems today with greed, hostility, mistrust, anger, retribution, “What's in it for me?” and gated communities. It’s an antidote to “the natural man” within each of us. (I consider many of you will leave me here.)
My own ancient heritage gives me this gift, this Law of Hospitality, this duty to bless those who have done us wrong. So the stranger at my door is at that moment more important than anything else - it is my sacred duty to welcome him or her. Any other matters become secondary and can be dealt with later. It’s a radical idea, and of course not without its risks and dangers. Yet is it any more dangerous than the way we live now, where each of us must protect what is ours from “others”? Security for us is a balance of power. Security within my ancient heritage is a balance of Courtesy, centered upon the ancient Law of Hospitality.
When I consider it, I’m honored to live under this Duty of blessing. It’s a blessing that is a dynamic, not just a static law. It’s a blessing that affirms a higher balance, and reopens for each of us a possibility of life lived to the fullest.
Pay attention.
Note - A word about spelling:
McDonald and MacDonald are essentially interchangeable. In my own case my Grandfather changed the name from MacDonald to McDonald, and the ‘a’ in the former is hidden in the dash (originally like a tilde) that underlines the elevated ‘c’. In the world of the typewriter and now the computer, the ‘a’ is reduced to a memory.
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"Bless those who curse you."
Bill, as a neighbor you were always so gracious and kind to me when I would knock on your door for whatever reason or stop you in your yard to chat. Now I know why and I have to say “Thank you” for being the wonderful man you are. I enjoy your insights and history.
There is nothing more humbling to someone who has wrong another than being shown not only “mercy” but also “blessings”. I have had people treat me mean for no reason known to me and I do the “killing them with kindness” and the next thing you know I have a loyal friend. I do believe that God knows what He’s talking about when he says “Bless those who curse you.”
Barbara Davis, 10/1/2012
What an eloquent posting! It brings together some very deep cultural understandings, and I resonated to it, as Scottish descendant (Urquhart), as a student of Native American philosophy, and as a child of this wild and wooly world. Thank you so kindly (and hospitably) for your thoughts!
-Mickey
Mickey, 10/1/2012
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Nice try, Marvel. 'Dr. Strange' casting is still whitewashing.
Because when you think "really old mystical Asian man," you think... Tilda Swinton?
Marvel has been hard at work expanding its cinematic universe, with plans for a Doctor Strange to hit theaters later this year. Fans were pretty stoked when the first official images emerged of star Benedict Cumberbatch as the Sorcerer Supreme. But we're still scratching our heads over the casting of Tilda Swinton as The Ancient One. Because when you think of a really old mystical Asian man, you think Tilda Swinton.
We haven't seen any character images, so I can't quite call it yellowface. But more likely there's some serious racebending going on here. And as usual, in painfully typical Hollywood fashion, it's an Asian performer who gets racebent off the screen. The Ancient One, traditionally depicted as an Asian man, is now a British woman.
Created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko and first introduced in 1963's Strange Tales #110, The Ancient One plays a significant role in the Doctor Strange mythos. Short version: born over five hundred years ago (hence, ancient) in Tibet, he was a Himalayan farmer who discovered magical powers, did the whole combatting evil thing, and later was a mentor to Stephen Strange, who became his successor as Sorcerer Supreme.
If you know anything about the origins of the character, yes, it's steeped in a lot of old-school exotic stereotypes and Oriental mysticism. Washing out the Asian-ness of The Ancient One of appears to be Marvel's attempt to sidestep some of the character's more racist undertones for a contemporary audience.
In a recent interview with EW, Marvel Studio president Kevin Feige attempted to explain how The Ancient One got magically turned into a white lady for the Doctor Strange movie.
"We're never afraid to change. In the comic books, Jarvis is an elderly butler. In the movies, he's an A.I. system which becomes Paul Bettany's Vision. We are always looking for ways to change. I think if you look at some of the early incarnations of the Ancient One in the comics, they are what we would consider today to be quite, sort of, stereotypical. They don't hold up to what would work today. Also, within the storyline of the comics, and our movie, 'the Ancient One' is a title that many people have had. We hit very early on on, What if the Ancient One was a woman? What if the title had been passed and the current Ancient One is a woman? Oh, that's an interesting idea. [Clicks fingers.] Tilda Swinton! Whoah! And it just hit."
Oh, these old stereotypes just will not do for a movie in 2016. Marvel is not having it. So how do you fix it? Just add a white woman! Can't you see? This whitewashing is happening in the name of progress.
That's some kind of lazy bullshit.
Do they intend on scrubbing out the other orientalist elements from Doctor Strange lore? In the name of progress, I mean. I'm willing to bet the movie still involves Stephen Strange journeying to Asia, learning some secret ancient Asian magic shit, and fighting bad guys with said secret ancient Asian magic shit. But now, it'll be a white lady teaching the white guy the secret ancient Asian magic shit.
How about working a little bit harder and finding a smart way to address and revise an Asian character's stereotypical elements, instead of just trying to fix this shit through casting? This is not a knock on Tilda Swinton, who is a phenomenal performer. But this is not creative or progressive casting. It's whitewashing.
More here: Tilda Swinton says her Doctor Strange character's gender is 'in the eye of the beholder'
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Housing Bubbles: America vs. Japan
The Economist compares Japan's real estate bubble with America's:
AS FALLING house prices and tightening credit squeeze America’s economy, some worry that the country may suffer a decade of stagnation, as Japan did after its bubble burst in the early 1990s. Japan’s property bubble was also fuelled by cheap money and financial liberalisation and—just as in America—most people assumed that property prices could not fall nationally. When they did, borrowers defaulted and banks cut their lending. The result was a decade with average growth of less than 1%.
Most dismiss the idea that America could suffer the same fate as Japan, but some of the differences are overstated. For example, some claim that Japan’s bubble was much bigger than America’s. Yet average house prices nationwide rose by 90% in America between 2000 and 2006, compared with a gain of 51% in Japan between 1985 and early 1991, when Japanese home prices peaked. ... Japanese home prices have since fallen by just over 40%. American prices are already down by 20%, and many economists reckon they could fall by another 10% or more.
What about commercial property? Again, average prices rose by less in Japan (80%) than in America (90%) over those same periods. Thus Japan’s property boom was, if anything, smaller than America’s. Japan also had a stockmarket bubble, which burst a year earlier than that in property. This hurt banks, because they counted part of their equity holdings in other firms as capital. But its impact on households was modest, because only 30% of the population held shares, compared with over half of Americans. ...
John Makin, at the American Enterprise Institute, a think-tank, argues that monetary and fiscal relief were necessary but not sufficient to revive Japan’s economy. The missing ingredient was a clean-up of the banking system, on which Japanese firms were more dependent than their American counterparts. ...
One advantage over Japan, says Mr Jerram, is that America is spreading the costs of its housing bust across other countries. ...
By learning from Japan’s mistakes, America can avoid a dismal decade. However ... experience in other countries shows that serious asset-price busts often lead to economic downturns lasting several years. Only a wild optimist would believe that the worst is over in America.
The worst is over in America. ;-)
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The Audio Guide to Babylon 5
Discussion Threads
Earhart's: Spoilers allowed
Earhart’s: “Severed Dreams” Spoiler Space
May 23, 2016 Chip 33 Comments
David Sheridan: What was the first lesson I ever taught you?
John Sheridan: Never start a fight, but always finish it.
(Keep your spoilers here!)
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33 thoughts on “Earhart’s: “Severed Dreams” Spoiler Space”
Earl Green says:
Just wanted to say that one of my favorite little moments of Severed Dreams is Ivanova getting so caught up in the enormity of what’s going on around her that she nearly gets taken out by a collision with another fighter. It’s a really small moment, but I can totally identify with that.
My fave detail about this ep is the ISN anchor, and how we meet her again 30(!) episodes later and get just tiny hints that she had her own story happen over that year or so. Not to mention how much more likeable she is than her smarmy replacement. It really sells it as a coherent, continuous universe.
Come to think of it, she’s not the only character to go away here and come back in S4E21…
Akrovah says:
Oh yeah. The clear emotion on her face when she comes back on the air. My heart aches for what she must have been put through. The continuity with the ISN anchor is just one more beautiful little detail that could have been meaningless but B5 got oh-so right and made her memorable.
When I think of stories like in Turkey, where they raid opponent news papers and TV stations, or in Russia or elsewhere, I always have this scene in my head. It’s so wham on it’s own, I guess I could even use it in communication science classes as a perfect example of oppressing the press.
Voord 99 says:
Spoilers, but actually for Deep Space Nine.
I can only speak for myself, but I think the alleged hostility between DS9 fans and B5 fans was sometimes a little overblown at the time, and maybe is now also a little overblown in memory? I suspect that many, maybe even the large majority, of aficionados of this sort of thing were watching and enjoying both shows.
I certainly was – it’s a large part of my personal memory of my media consumption in the mid-90s was observing how the two shows handled similar themes in similar settings in different ways. Probably the most striking, if not the most compelling (it’s good-but-not-great DS9 at best) is Homefront, the episode of DS9 that Foxworth did instead of this, where he plays an inverted General Hague: a Starfleet admiral who conspires to overthrow a benevolent liberal democracy.
I think the hostility might be overblown, but I know in certain circles it was kind of one or the other. Fo rmy part, I was unimpressed with the first couple seasons of DS9, but was completely hooked by B5 from word “go.” So I ended up kinda dropping DS9 by the wayside instead of continuing to watch both. I had friends though who never gave B5 a chance and continued to watch DS9 (the Trombone line of my High School band was clearly divided between B5 and DS9, and we had lively debates while the director worke withother sections), and they would repeatedly tell me how good the show had gotten, but I failed to listen, having missed so much already by that point.
I have since watched all of DS9 on DVD, and while I consider it the best Trek ever made, I also feel like it only became that after taking “B5 Lessons.”
Bed says:
I think the hostility came from that fact that JMS pitched B5 to Paramount before WB picked it up – and the rumours of IP theft were rampant. Interesting article on it here http://www.tor.com/2013/02/26/is-this-the-smoking-gun-proving-deep-space-nine-ripped-off-babylon-5/
But I was the same, as Akrovah, I was a huge TOS and TNG fan, had watched The Gathering but was too young to get it. I found DS9 uninspiring, and then Voyager down-right terrible – then rediscovered B5 (by way of this Trilogy!) and immediately stopped watching any Trek because the writing of B5 showed me how good scifi tv *could* be.
Andy Luke says:
“Interesting” indeed, Bed. The analogy between TDoFS and Trek is a good one.
I imagined hygienically moral Trek touted as as ‘how things are on B5’ by the SE2 Clark administration, believing they’d a yes-man in Sheridan
a retcon
When TNG was on, I (slightly) annoyed a friend who was more into Star Trek than I was with my theory that the show was best viewed as propaganda produced by a totalitarian and militaristic future about how wonderful everything was. I remain pretty committed to the idea.
Professor Headbutt says:
@voord99:
I LOVE that theory.
I had very few friends who would flatly refuse to watch one or the other. For context: the real glut of syndicated SF didn’t really kick in until 1995 or so with Hercules and Xena; in ’93, you had TNG, DS9, and B5, and It Was Good. Maybe you watched Highlander: The Series too. There wasn’t exactly a vast field of shows competing for eyeballs. Hercules and Xena widened the field around ’95, and then in ’97 you had Earth: Final Conflict, Team Knight Rider, Honey I Shrunk The Kids, Psi Factor, and shows like Stargate SG-1 and Poltergeist The Legacy went into syndication, having been on cable for a couple of years. X-Files and Voyager were on Fox and UPN at the time; most other network SF was very short-lived. Sci-Fi Channel was just starting to venture into “original” (i.e. imported from Canada) programming. Long story short: in B5’s early years, there wasn’t so much SF on TV out there that you could only track 2-3 shows. I think the hostility in fandom is overblown in retrospect. I do know a handful of “franchise fanboys” who are dead set against one or the other…but not very many. For my part, I was happy to watch both Trek shows and B5 in the same week.
Sami-Pekka Haavisto says:
Back in the day we were watching both B5 and DS9 in the university’s science fiction club. Someone got VHS tapes in the mail as soon as the episodes aired in the US (it was years until any of them aired on Finnish TV). There was never hostility between the fans of different shows, but it was definitely B5 that was driving the club’s popularity, many showed up only to see B5, not because they hated other shows (mainly DS9 and Voyager), they just weren’t interested. As soon as B5 ended the club quickly lost more than a half of its members. It’s obvious that B5 was seen as something new and refreshing, and once the word got out people wanted to see it.
I saw most of DS9 episodes, but never really got into it, possibly because I was watching B5 at the same time. There were just too many similarities and DS9 paled in comparison, B5 was doing everything so much better. First two or three seasons of DS9 were downright bad, but it did improve significantly once they started taking lessons from B5. I remember DS9 as the most dull of all the Star Trek shows (haven’t seen a single episode of Enterprise, though), and being entertained more by even Voyager after B5 ended. Voyager was often stupid or bad or both, but at least it didn’t take itself too seriously after a couple of seasons.
I’ve always loved TOS and liked a lot of TNG. Perhaps if I watched DS9 now I could see more than just a show trying to copy B5 formula without vision or consistency, and it might finally get a real chance.
Dan Carlson says:
I was one who watched both! Well, sort of. I was a DS9 fan from the very beginning (it was my intro to Trek as a whole), but due to limited time to watch TV growing up, I didn’t discover B5 until the 4th season, by which point I had no idea what was going on, so didn’t stick with it. It sure looked cool, though! So when they started airing the entire series on TNT in early 1998, my family watched it religiously.
I’m fascinated by the thought of someone who’s intro to Trek was DS9, which I think of as the “anti-Trek Trek.” Would you be willing to expand on how you’ve come to view Trek as a whole?
Maybe I shouldn’t say this here, but: DS9 is not so much my favorite Trek as the only Trek that I really care about at all, and I liked it a *lot* in the ’90s. So much so that there are ways in which I like it more than B5. Akrovah will probably withdraw my true fan membership at this point 🙂
It’s probation for you.
You’re not wrong though that DS9 is kind of an “anti” Trek. It does a lot of things Roddenberry was adamantly against, like conflicts, relationships, and moral ambiguity among the primary cast. Not to mention a later focus on conflict and war over exploration.
However given that to this day B5 remains my favorite television series ever made obviously those things appeal to me, despite my formative childhood years spent watching the moral righteousness of Picard on TNG. So after I finally did watch all of DS9 it became easily my favorite Trek.
As far as better than B5 in some ways, I will concede that in some respects DS9 takes things further. The morality of the commander is of particular note. While in B5 sacrifices must be made for victory, Sheriden always continues to remain a moral character, always doing the right thing, even if it is not the easy thing. Sisko on the other hand steps over the line a couple times where you get a creepy sense that our hero might not be much better than our villains. B5 lacks a “In the Pale Moonlight” or a “For the Uniform” for example.
I enjoyed all the Trek series; DS9 was just my introduction to the universe, and remains my favorite. But I appreciate that DS9 couldn’t tell some of its stories (especially its moral uncertainty) without the rest of the Star Trek back story to contrast against.
I also like to paraphrase a quote from late DS9 to sum up my sci-fi preferences: “I love Star Trek, I just like some other shows more.”
Both shows had their good points. Thing was, I actually loved DS9 before it started trying to do the “war arc” thing; I adored the Bajoran politics-intermingled-with-religion stuff *before* it became mixed up with full-on spiritual possession stories (i.e. the pah-wraiths, etc.). Apparently I was the only one, as they devised the Dominion War to replace it as the running concern of the show. 😀 I think both DS9 and B5 have gained huge amounts of relevance with time, in different ways. Both are, naturally, underappreciated.
Where I live it took time to get all the new shows. We saw TNG only years later we did see DS9 early but not the full seasons.. In luck we got Babylon 5 close to the US time it took us time to love it but when we do it was full love that couldn’t be broken.i remember seeing the episode I couldn’t sleep later lol
. We did get to see DS9 later on and it did improve when they did the arch but IMHO even tho it wasn’t bad Babylon 5 had more depth and it was more character driven show .
DS9 from the outset for me. I could tell it would get good from the pilot, quickly being apparent I would have to wait around. I wasn’t disappointed much; I drifted away sometime in SE6. One other disappointment with DS9 was I would have liked to see the return of the Borg there, but fairly, it would have presented challenges, not least doing away with the reset button following any encounter.
B5 I only came to at end S3/start S4. Certainly by the time I saw Cartagia on screen I was laying down my B5 VHS floor snake, which sounds problematic, and indeed it was.
My favourite moment of this episode is Delenn’s “Only one Human captain has survived battle..” That’s the finest “I’ll mess you up” in B5, possibly in any fiction, anywhere, or something.
Chris Nielsen says:
I love this episode but I made the mistake when I watched b5 for the first time of going onto the net and searching for b5, I ran across Delenn’s ‘get away with you’ speech and spoiled myself so horribly…
One thing I forgot to mention is that What I love about this episod is the dialogue, there are so many strong lines that stayed w/me as a fan I think many of B5 fans knows this episode by heart..my fave is of course Delenn be somewhere else and I love Sheridan dad lesson don’t start a fight but always finish it.. He taught his son so well and I love that Sheridan stayed w/it and told it to his son..who knows maybe it became one of the Rangers teaching lol
Well, they really tried hard in getting the Hugo this time, as they lost really thin to Star Trek DS9 the year before, because they had four horses in the race and the votes got splitted (which tells much about the average quality of B5 episodes). This time the whole episode says: “you have to vote for me” 😀
If I recall Year prior to this episode the show that won the HUGO award was Babylon 5 for the episode “the coming of Shadows”.. I maybe wrong tho
Shannon in Durham says:
No, you’re right. “The Coming of Shadows” won the 1996 Hugo and “Severed Dreams won the 1997 Hugo. I *think* I remember correctly that after “The Gathering” was nominated in 1994, B5 failed to get a nomination for any Season 1 episodes because multiple ones were nominated and split the vote. So the following years they made sure to only have one episode nominated. Hence the two wins in 1996 and 1997. They were nominated for “Sleeping in Light” in 1999 but didn’t win.
Thank you I knew I was right about something lol I wish they did win for “sleeping in light” but two awards is fine too ..
Mira Furlan as Delenn is seriously scary in this episode. Her character achieves more with just words than any of the Earthers do with combat 🙂
IIRC, she never again is this intimidating. Maybe JMS thought he’d better tone her down a bit, otherwise the Clark dictatorship of Earth would have ended two episodes later under the guns of a Minbari fleet?
I think part of this is that, with the exception of the Minbari civil war arc in S4 (where Delenn has some great moments), the heroization of Sheridan tends to exclude such moments for Delenn.
One reason why this is such a great moment is because it’s both about the overall crisis and about the Sheridan-Delenn relationship. But it’s only able to combine those two elements because Sheridan is actually utterly defeated here and on the point of surrender: JMS will never again have Sheridan be this helpless again – even when captured and tortured for an entire episode…
Some of this is not JMS’s fault. Sinclair/Sheridan is the central character of the story. The show gives a disproportionate amount of attention to humans for obvious reasons. The compression of the story in S4 means that the Minbari civil war has to be disposed of early and quickly in comparison to its Earth equivalent. There are points where you can see JMS push against this problem and try to give Delenn more to do than the story really has for her.
Most notably, her conversation with the Shadow representative in Into the Fire is rendered a little less than elegant by the fact that Delenn hasn’t really had much to do with the Shadows. It should really be Sheridan having that conversation, calling back to Z’ha’dum.
But JMS is committed, I think, to having that be an equal moment for Delenn and Sheridan. This is important, as their equality and co-operation here represents the humans and Minbari coming together, overcoming the past, etc. (what the Delenn-Sheridan marriage is all about), counterpointing the failure of the Narn and Centauri to do the same.
At the same time, because Sheridan is Sheridan, Delenn can’t really be equal. Because Delenn could have that conversation with the Vorlon representative. Delenn/the Minbari defying their mentors and a thousand years of everything that she/her people have been taught to believe – that has a lot of possibilities, and underpins the “order vs. chaos” stuff a lot better than having Sheridan do it. But the Vorlons have been reserved for Sheridan since S2 as a mark of how special he is, so that’s off the table.
Coming into this very, very late. Just discovered this podcast.
I think the mistake JMS made with Delenn was not either keeping her as Sheridan’s co-equal, or killing her some time around Sheridan’s trip to Z’ha’dum as Sheridan’s rise to godhood made a co-equal into unwanted baggage.
As JMS did neither, Delenn withered into a zombie character who ineffectually shambled on without purpose because JMS couldn’t give her anything important to do without compromising Sheridan’s godhood.
Being forced to sideline one of the series’ strongest characters (and one of its strongest actors) to make the narrative work as intended speaks to a serious error in story planning.
Frankly I think the series would have been served if Delenn had stayed as Sheridan’s complementary co-equal instead of being turned into his Mary Magdalene. The Delenn of Severed Dreams is an interesting character; the Delenn of Deconstruction of Falling Stars, or even (heresy warning) Sleeping in Light is not.
So, there’s an iconic Babylon 5 Earthforce space fighter that’s been buzzing around defending the station since the pilot. Sinclair, Sheridan, and Ivanova have all flown in one.
A “gunship” according to Stephen.
And he was doing so well this season 🙂
Not to be to nit-picky, but not only were Starfuries not in the pilot, but neither were thier launch bays. In the original, airing version of The Gathering you can clearly see in several shots that the arms containing the Cobra Bays are just blank grey slabs.
Any shots with the proper red border paint scheme in the TNT edit of The Gathering are new shots from the series added in.
Kurt Eh says:
(MOVED from spoiler-free space due to proximity to too many other spoilers.)
Debated putting this into the Spoiler Space Zone, but people deserve to see the line in its full splendid awesomeness asap.
There is an infamous outtake in the Season 3 gag reel featuring Bruce “McGyver’s Friend” McGill telling the crew where General Hague went at the 5:44 – 6:02 time-marks in the video below. I wish I had the mad editing skillz to tweak out that one bit, but the best I can do is try to post the link at the correct timestamp. The gag reel contains out-takes, goofs, gaffes, and gags from across season 3, and I believe can be found as an Easter egg on the DVD set. ( Find it via http://www.eeggs.com/items/44580.html )
WARNING: Contains gag reel “SPOILERS” from ALL OF SEASON THREE!!! (as seen on B5 Season 3 DVD set)
For the Severed Dreams gag, watch 5:44-6:02 only!!
Video copied at time-mark set to SD gag:
Final SPOILER warning. Watch 5:45-6:02 only!
https://youtu.be/ftzgcfG7uHE?t=345
PS. Admins: Please edit/remove this post as you see fit. I debated posting this in the spoiler thread (as I had it for PoNR), but thought that the unspoiled fans deserved to see /that/ gag. I hope I had sufficient warning (and that the timestamp link works properly).
Surprised this doesn’t entirely come up: what if the General Hague actor HAD been available? How would that affect things, having a leader of the independent outposts and later the coup that isn’t Sheridan?
Would Hague have died in Severed Dreams or some other episode? Would Hague have had a leadership battle with Sheridan, with Sheridan winning because – perhaps – the League of Non-Aligned Worlds side with him after his sacrifice Z’ha’dum?
I have to wonder what JMS had planned for Hague originally.
Brad Alexander says:
That is one of the best Delenn scenes to date, and arguably in the entire show. Babylon 5 was beaten down, allied ships were destroyed, and a new batch of Earthforce ships come through the jump gate. Then Lt. Corwin announces that four more jump points were opening on top of them. The expression on Sheridan’s face was complete and total brokenness. When 3 Minbari battlecruisers and the White Star come through and face off with the Earthforce cruisers, and seeing Delenn staring daggers out of the viewscreen was priceless…And JMS gave her some awesome lines:
This is Ambassador Delenn of the Minbari. Babylon 5 is under our protection. Withdraw or be destroyed!
Earth Force Officer: Negative! We have authority here. Do not force us to engage your ship.
Delenn: Why not? Only one human captain has ever survived battle with a Minbari Fleet. He is behind me. You are in front of me. If you value your lives, be somewhere else!
Squeeeeeeee!
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Parenting Tips: Talking To Children About Tragedies
12/14/2012 Unfortunate update: It's time to talk about this again. My heart is broken, as is yours. Feel free to connect with me here or on Twitter to ask about how you can approach this in your family. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Colorado shooting has come and gone -- and now the Connecticut school shootings, and we're left trying to explain things to The Littles. One well-meaning mom criticized me on Twitter for even suggesting we talk to young children about violence. "Why even bring it up?" she wondered. Her life is much more insular than many of ours -- I have a 2 year old. But I also have a 6 year old. And a 9 year old. And an 11 year old. And those kids have completely different levels of awareness and understanding of these situations -- and they talk. In front of The Littles. So parents like us need talking points for those tricky situations. So here are my thoughts about how to navigate these unavoidable conversations. Let's be ready, because unfortunately, it won't be the last time. I was also quoted in Newsweek/The Daily Beast about the issue. I hope I made the point that parents taking their young children to movie theaters aren't the problem. Untreated mental illness and widespread availability of guns ARE. Aloha,
In In-Depth Parenting Advice, Older Kids, Popular Digging Deeper Tags dealing with tragedy and trauma, emotions, parenting tips
"Crying It Out": Acceptable -- or Abuse?
One of the most primitive, innate reactions any mom has is to comfort her crying child. But as we've talked about here before, many babies can tolerate -- and thrive -- with some crying, when their parents thoughtfully decide why and when that might be necessary.
That's why articles like this leave me mystified -- especially when they come from one of my shrink colleagues. Her bottom line is that CIO is dangerous. She trots out all the old arguments, hailing the Dr. Sears "science" behind her claims, and providing one of the most common misinterpretations of infant research. She makes the mistake that clinical research findings about abused and maltreated babies -- babies who were pervasively denied their needs over the long-term -- should be applied to NORMAL babies in NORMAL families.
The fact is, there is no evidence whatsoever that occasional CIO in typically developing babies causes any damage. PERIOD.
More importantly, there IS evidence that severely sleep-deprived mothers are at much higher risk of developing an already common --and dangerous -- condition: postpartum depression. And PPD certainly CAN lead to long-term damage to both baby -- and the entire family. CIO is a method that, when implemented thoughtfully, can often lead to improved sleep (and health and happiness) for everyone.
Firebombs like those thrown in the Psychology Today article only make the burden heavier on moms. What a shame.
Aloha as always,
PS: Wow, what a response! After commenting here, please also see the comments developing over at the Fussy Baby Site.
In Attachment Parenting, Baby Behavior Problems, BabyGeek: Child Development Research, Popular Digging Deeper, Popular: Baby Solutions, Post-Partum Depression, Sleep & Nap Issues Tags baby sleep advice, crying it out (cio), sleep
Sudden Fears in 12 to 15-Month-Old Babies
Let me tell you about a cool conversation I had the other day with my Infant Research/Rock Star Guru, Professor Joseph Campos (at UC Berkeley). He helped me understand more about a funky phenomenon I've written about here before: The Weird, Wacky, Sudden Fears of the 12 -- 15-month old. You know: Crazy fears of the bath, bizarre fears of mustached men, and other kooky things like Fear of Flowers (I kid you not -- I've heard 'em all -- many from my own kids). As I've said before, these sudden fears are NORMAL -- but now I understand a little more about WHY.
It's a combination of what I've already written about here -- adjusting to the exciting (and scary) new world of mobility, as well as an inborn fear of sudden, unexpected unfamiliarity. Babies this age tend to freak when they see something that looks out of place -- a man with facial hair (if they're used to clean-shaven guys), dogs that suddenly bark loudly, or things that move in unexpected, uncontrollable directions (like flowers in the breeze). Turns out that adult chimpanzees also have similar fears. Interestingly, our toddlers grow out of these fears -- chimps do not. Rapidly developing baby brains are starting to compare "familiar" to "unfamiliar". It's likely protective -- which is especially needed now that the baby is toddling around, away from parents.
Sudden baby fears are also related to a similar parent frustration at this age: Resistance to car seats, strollers, changing tables, high chairs, or any similar baby-jail. Why? Because they remove the element of control from your little one -- and CONTROL is what helps to decrease baby's fears.
So here's how to cope with those intense and sometimes inexplicable fears in your young toddler: Give her as much control as possible (given safety factors, and of course your need to do other stuff, too.) Fear of the unknown and unexpected is always best soothed with CONTROL. Let baby approach (or avoid) fascinating/scary things (or people) at her own pace. Explain to her when it's time to get into the car seat -- and let her try to negotiate herself into it, if possible. (She just might do it, if you give her a minute to think it through.) Take the pressure off if she's feeling shy or fearful. And most of all: DON'T WORRY. Weird toddler fears mean nothing about future psychological adjustment (and the more YOU freak out about her fears, the more SHE'LL freak out about them.)
But on the flip side: If baby needs to get into the car seat NOW, or if she MUST have a bath tonight -- that's OK, too. Explain it to her. "I know you don't want a bath, but you have enchiladas in your hair, honey. I promise to make this as fast as possible, then we'll be all done." Be supportive and understanding -- but shampoo away. You won't do any psychological harm. The trick is to give her the general message that, WHEN POSSIBLE, you'll give her as much control as you can. But sometimes the grown-ups have to be in charge (and that's a good lesson, too).
The good news is this: These fears almost always dissipate by 18 months of age. (Then you'll be on to bigger and better things -- like Full On Temper Tantrums.) Whee!
Dr. Heather The BabyShrink Mom of Four and Parenting Expert
In Annoying Toddler Behavior, Baby Behavior Problems, Childhood Fears, Developmental Grab-Bag, Popular Digging Deeper, Popular Parenting Advice, Popular: Baby Solutions Tags babies, fears
1st and 2nd Graders: Is It Bullying Or Not?
Recently, a parent stopped me, worried about a 6-year-old "bully". The child in question -- in my opinion -- wasn't a bully, but rather a fairly typical little girl, testing out her pretty advanced verbal skills in more complex ways. Did she hurt her friends' feelings? Probably. And did the friend reciprocate by saying something mean right back? She sure did. The parent was very upset about the impact of this "bully" in the classroom -- and wanted to know what could be done to stop her. But was this truly "bullying?"
No, it wasn't. And I worry about the little girl being labeled "bully", because the word has such negative connotations. So, what IS the definition of bullying? There are many definitions, but all involve the bully being intentionally, repeatedly cruel and belittling to smaller or otherwise less powerful kids. 6-year-old girls telling each other "you can't come to my birthday party", or saying "you don't get to talk!" don't qualify as bullying. And defining normal social "sparring" as "bullying" does everyone a disservice.
Bullying has been getting some much-deserved attention in the media, and as a shrink I can attest to the terrible damage that TRUE bullying does to kids. But as an Early Childhood specialist, I know that little kids -- especially girls -- "practice" their social skills quite a lot with their classmates, and those skills need quite a bit of refining -- in 1st and 2nd grades. Teachers in those grades know that this is pretty common behavior, and gives the kids the opportunity to do some social "sparring" in a fairly safe situation. Do they need limits, structure, and guidance in the process? You bet. But labeling them "bullies" is a major overreaction.
If you have a kid in these grades (as I do -- with 4 kids, it seems someone is always going through this) -- here's what to keep in mind:
Kids this age need to "try out" their peer-to-peer social skills. Like lion cubs, they need to practice -- but they don't really mean any harm.
"Victims" at this age tend to shrug off the insults with no problem. Don't jump in to protect your cub until you see she's truly struggling.
Talk early -- and often -- about the little social struggles among your kids' friends. Make it a point to ask about all the details, not to get anyone into trouble -- but to help your cub think through the next incarnation of the battle. We're building "social muscle" here.
Role-play regular situations that crop up. Cutting in line, saying "mean" things, and "who is best friends with whom" are typical arguments. Walk through these issues with your child frequently to try out new approaches and solutions. Ask, "What might you say instead next time?"
Be interested, open, and empathic -- and try to hold back your parental protectiveness, unless there's something more serious going on.
And of course, if your child is truly being bullied -- or is, in fact, the bully -- please step in immediately to involve the teachers and other parents. This is an age where this kind of behavior can -- and should be -- nipped in the bud.
With some practice (and a little luck), you're setting the stage for your child to come to you with social problems in adolescence and beyond -- for help and support in solving ever-more complex social dramas and situations.
In Developmental Grab-Bag, Older Kids, Popular Digging Deeper Tags bullying, child problems at school, fears
Psychological Development: Why Your 6-Year-Old Is So Awesome
I recently wrote about 4-year-olds, and why they're so awesome. No longer toddlers, but not yet "big kids", they still snuggle like the baby you miss, but have enough independence that they're fun to hang out with.
Not to dis on the 5-year-olds, but SIX is an amazing age. I learned this when our oldest child's first grade teacher turned me on to a classic, fabulous book about early childhood development -- with an educational focus. It's a little technical and geeky, but if you like this stuff you'll LOVE this book. The upshot is this: Something magical happens in first grade. At some point during the year, each kid will go through an amazing transformation. She'll start out like a kindergartener -- still a little clingy and whiny, and living in the magic world of imagination -- ponies, princesses, and fairies. But she'll end up the year like a KID -- an honest-to-goodness Grade School Kid -- who can be swayed by logic, her peers, and the rules of the world.
Schools in many European countries understand this developmental fact, and that's why they don't do serious academic work until age 7. But their outcomes are much better than ours -- because they're working WITH development, not AGAINST it. You can use this to your advantage by not falling for the ubiquitous pressure to force younger and younger children to do "academics". Having realistic expectations for the behavior and learning of your preschooler and kindergartener will potentially save you a lot of worry when you're told they're not performing up to "standards". The "standards" of most school systems weren't created with normal development in mind. But that's another big topic for another day.
Read this lovely description of the 6-year-old mind here, and promise me you'll come back to read another article I've written about first graders -- and why yours probably doesn't have ADD, too.
In Older Kids, Popular Digging Deeper Tags child development, child problems at school
Parenting Tips: More Thinking Points
One of the reasons I produce BabyShrink is that I've had to learn the hard way with my own 4 kids -- what works, what doesn't -- and why. Those of you who know me know that my doctorate in Psychology, and a license to practice in two states, didn't get me much closer to answers. Doing a ton of research -- practical and applied -- has gotten me to this point. Why should YOU have to go through all that effort to reinvent the parenting wheel? Believe me, people -- it CAN be easier -- and a lot more fun. Keep these things in mind as you confront the seventy bazillion or so parenting challenges you face each day:
TEMPERAMENT makes a big difference. Your child's inborn nature: whether he's irritable, easy, shy, or bold (among other things), will shape the way he deals with your guidance -- especially when he's young. Pay close attention and figure out his temperament -- it will help you decide what's best for him. For instance, an "easy" baby might be pressed to give up his Binky at 6 months. An irritable, easily overstimulated little guy might be given a pass until age 2 or even 3.
AGE makes a big difference. Sleep issues (among other things) change dramatically over even a few weeks. A newborn isn't a 3-month-old, who isn't a 9-month-old, who certainly isn't a 3-year-old. You shouldn't expect your newborn to put himself to sleep -- nor should you try. But it's very reasonable to work on it with your 12 or 15-month-old. Vary your approach based on age.
FAMILY NEEDS make a big difference. Culture, style, the state of the parents' relationship, and personal preference matter. If you don't mind co-sleeping -- if it works well for your family -- great. But if the baby keeps you awake, interferes with your relationship, or you just don't wanna -- then DON'T. Your baby takes his cues from you, and he'll be fine either way. It's the "trickle down" theory of family happiness.
And now I hope you browse around for specific tips on your questions -- potty training, bath time fears, sleep issues, behavior, sibling stuff and more.
Here's another Thinking Points article, if you're interested.
(And I hope you like some of the new changes here at BabyShrink!)
In Popular Digging Deeper, Popular Parenting Advice, Popular Tips and Tricks Tags emotions, parenting tips
Child Development: Why Your 9-Month-Old Baby Is So Difficult All Of A Sudden
I had an amazing conversation with one of the world's foremost infant researchers last week, Dr. Joseph Campos. He's at Berkeley, where he's churned out tons of scientifically rigorous studies about the developmental changes in infancy. He's come up with some transformative ideas about babies, the upshot of one being that crawling causes your baby to become your little social partner, for the first time. No longer just a passive lump in the social world, now she's able to start to understand some of what's going on inside your mind. She understands how important you are to her, and seeks your emotional support, presence and encouragement as she starts to scoot out into the world under her own power. She now gets reassurance from your presence and your emotions -- your facial expressions and body language -- not just from physically holding her.
The flip side of this is that it also causes clinginess, fussiness, and sleep problems -- some of the major complaints of parents at this stage. Turns out, crawling out into the wide world is fascinating -- and terrifying. Your little adventurer gets it now -- that as much as she wants to venture out on her own, she desperately needs you, and is panicked that she'll lose you somewhere along the way. As Dr. Campos said to me, the baby's drive for independence is equally matched by her fear of it.
So to you fellow parents of 9 to 12-month-old babies out there: I know it can be a challenging, difficult stage. Your little bug seems content to scramble around the house one minute, then wails in panic the next. What used to be stable sleep habits are now in a shambles. Feeding --and nursing -- has become an unpredictable struggle -- and separations are exceptionally difficult. And forget diaper changes! What a wrestling match! Immmobility is the enemy to her now -- being restrained in any way is bound to be a fight. High chairs, strollers and car seats are demon baby torture devices. They keep her from exploring her brave new world.
What to do? Re-think your daily tasks with this knowledge in mind. Everything will take a little longer, as your baby goes through this unpredictable (but temporary) stage. Some days she may need you constantly. But don't worry -- when you've finally reached the end of your rope with your little Clingon, she'll start to feel "refueled", and venture out again -- allowing you to catch up on that laundry and email. And make sure you get some help with nighttime wakenings -- you'll need extra rest too, since you're up again with a fussy baby -- but don't forget to reinforce the sleep routines that have worked well in the past. She'll eventually remember what her job is, at night -- and now that her memory is better, she can hold on to her internal image of you a bit longer, giving her some comfort, despite being away from you to sleep. Feel some reassurance knowing that the earlier -- and stronger -- your baby shows separation anxiety, the sooner it resolves. Lots of parental support and understanding help her get through this challenging -- but remarkable -- stage.
Dr. Campos was generous and encouraging in my BabyShrink book-writing project, and I had a blast geeking out with him, picking his brain about the amazing new developmental capacities in normal 9-month-old babies. What a great experience! Now, please excuse me -- I've got a 9-month-old baby clinging to my leg.
In Baby Behavior Problems, Developmental Grab-Bag, Popular Digging Deeper, Popular Parenting Advice, Popular: Baby Solutions, Separation Anxiety, Sleep & Nap Issues Tags babies, child development
Attachment Parenting: Is It Bad for the Child?
Dear Dr. Heather, Does breastfeeding past 2 years of age encourage dependency? I know a child who is still breastfeeding and has become very whiny and attached to her mother. The mother is making no effort to wean the child. Is this type of emotional attachment healthy for the child? She still wakes up to nurse during the night and sleeps in the parent’s bed.
Concerned about a child
This is a polarizing issue that tends to bring out strong opinions. There is a community that promotes an approach called "Attachment Parenting", based on the work of well-known pediatrician and author William Sears, MD, and one of they key tenets of this approach says that "extended breastfeeding" (past the age of two years) is recommended and important to the development of a child to promote a solid sense of safety and security. However, their key tenets are only based loosely on well-known child development research, and Attachment Parenting certainly has it's critics.
One of the things I do like about Attachment Parenting (AP) is it's understanding of the cultural differences that exist in families around the world, and the promotion of various ways of raising a family that can resonate more fully with various non-Western cultures. For instance, many Asians traditionally -- and happily -- share a family bed, or a family bedroom, as is suggested by AP. I also like the fact that AP promotes the reliance on the family's own resources to know what is best for their children; we don't have to rely on outside "experts" for everything. AP is also well-known for it's insistence that the attachment between infant and mother is essential to the development of a healthy baby, both physically and emotionally. That message sometimes gets lost, or diluted, in Western cultures.
The problem I have with AP is that it's adherents often tend to be quite orthodox in their beliefs. I myself have been sternly lectured for simply using a stroller (as opposed to "baby-wearing", another AP belief), as well as for using a bottle to feed my baby in public. Of course, this is the opposite of the intolerant demagogues who criticize breastfeeding in public -- it's their shared judgmental strictness that bothers me most.
The other concern I have is that it takes a blanket, "one-size-fits-all" approach to all children. Some babies don't want to be held all the time. Some babies need time without physical contact to "decompress" from all that physical stimulation. Some babies don't do well breastfeeding either, and many babies sleep better when they're not disturbed by the direct physical contact of their parents. And your approach to raising your babies has to be dependent, at least partially, on the unique constitution of those babies. You've seen me write about sensory differences here at BabyShrink, and I know far too many babies who have these quirks and preferences to be comfortable giving a blanket statement about "baby-wearing", breastfeeding, or co-sleeping. In our family, only 1 of our 3 children enjoyed being held all the time; the other two needed "time-outs" from direct physical contact in order to look around and "process" all of that physical contact. They (and I) both felt better for a little break now and again, and I used bouncy seats, strollers and cribs regularly for these breaks. It simply isn't fair to criticize parents who accurately judge the needs of their babies to include a little "down time", or to make them afraid that they risk their child's optimal development if they use a stroller or have their crib in their own room.
If you've read other BabyShrink posts, you won't be surprised to hear me say that I strongly support the uniqueness of each individual family to best decide the individual needs of each of their unique babies. And to that end, I say that if it works for a family to have a family bed, or for mom to breastfeed for over two years, I'm not going to criticize that. However, I have met many families who suffer negative consequences of making those decisions, but stick with them in the false belief that it's what's best for their children. Often, an AP family will come to see me for a problem related to the development of their toddler. When I start to gather more information, guess what? Mom is exhausted, usually because she has been unable to sleep through the night since the day her baby was born; she's often still nursing several times a night. And her husband is grumpy because he can't get any "alone time" with his wife, and he's sick of being kicked through the night by a toddler who gets bigger by the day. So mom is beyond exhausted, dad is frustrated and distant, and the toddler becomes the focus of the problem. Everyone suffers in this scenario. In this situation, my advice often includes the suggestion to transition the toddler into his own bed, in his own room, to restore some balance in the lives of the couple. The relationship needs attention, too! If the parents don't have a strong relationship, the development of the child will surely suffer. And if the child needs to sleep in his own bed, and be weaned from breastfeeding, that is a small price to pay if it serves the purpose of bringing the parents back into a more harmonious relationship.
So, "Concerned" reader, I can't say that "extended breastfeeding" will hurt the development of the child, without knowing all the other factors in the family. It remains the responsibility of the family to determine what's best for them -- and for their child. But I certainly don't promote Attachment Parenting as the "be-all, end-all" guide to what's best for your child. Only you can decide that!
Aloha, Dr. Heather The BabyShrink Mom of Four, Parenting Expert AND MAKE SURE YOU CHECK OUT THE COMMENTS TO THIS POST FOR AN EXTENDED, INTERESTING DISCUSSION AMONG READERS!
AND DON'T MISS ANOTHER ONE OF MY ATTACHMENT PARENTING POSTS HERE PLUS THIS POST AS WELL -- IT'S BECOME A POPULAR TOPIC!!
In Attachment Parenting, Breastfeeding & Bottle Feeding, Popular Digging Deeper, Popular: Baby Solutions Tags Attachment Parenting, Dr- Sears, parenting tips, science and research
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The Netherlands announces selections for European Championships
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Jumbo-Visma's Dylan Groenewegen is set to lead the Dutch men's team at the European Road Championships of Alkmaar. The women's selection will play with several strong cards in the competition.
The Dutch national coaches Koos Moerenhout, Loes Gunnewijk, Adriaan Helmantel and Peter Zijerveld have made a selection to compete in the European Championships that are set to be held between the 7th and the 11th of August in Alkmaar, the Netherlands. "With this balanced and strong selection we can start with confidence in all the competitions," said Moerenhout. "For the road race, Dylan Groenewegen will be the main man."
"We will be at the start line with a strong team of riders who can finish in the leading group or in a mass sprint," added Gunnewijk. "We are going to do everything we can to become European champions in our own country."
While Fabio Jakobssen is not going to start in the European road race to show off his new colours of champion of the Netherlands, Lorena Wiebes will be showing off hers at the women's race.
The Netherlands' roster for the European Championships men's road race (11th of August):
Dylan Groenewegen
Tom Leezer
Niki Terpstra
Ramon Sinkeldam
Mike Teunissen
Sebastian Langeveld
Elmar Reinders
Dylan van Baarle
Men's Individual Time Trial (8th of August):
Jos van Emden
Women's road race (10th of August):
Lucinda Brand
Ellen van Dijk
Chantal Blaak
Amy Pieters
Demi Vollering
Lorena Wiebes
Kirsten Wild
Women's time trial (8th of August):
Mixed time trial relay competition (7th of August):
Koen Bouwman
UEC ROAD EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS
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HomeNews and EventsDepartment NewsParry-Giles Authors Book on Hillary Clinton and the News
How the media helped construct political gender norms--and critiqued Hillary Clinton for violating them.
The charge of inauthenticity has trailed Hillary Clinton from the moment she entered the national spotlight and stood in front of television cameras. Shawn J. Parry-Giles's new book, Hillary Clinton in the News: Gender and Authenticity in American Politics(University of Illinois Press, 2014), shows how the U.S. media created their own news frames of Clinton's political authenticity and image-making, from her participation in Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign through her own 2008 presidential bid.
Using theories of nationalism, feminism, and authenticity, Parry-Giles tracks the evolving ways the major networks and cable news programs framed Clinton's image as she assumed roles ranging from surrogate campaigner, legislative advocate, and financial investor to international emissary, scorned wife, and political candidate. This study magnifies how the coverage that preceded Clinton's entry into electoral politics was grounded in her earliest presence in the national spotlight, and in long-standing nationalistic beliefs about the boundaries of authentic womanhood and first lady comportment. Once Clinton dared to cross those gender boundaries and vie for office in her own right, the news exuded a rhetoric of sexual violence. These portrayals served as a warning to other women who dared to enter the political arena and violate the protocols of authentic womanhood.
"Shawn J. Parry-Giles has written an insightful, exhaustive, and historically rooted analysis of Hillary Rodham Clinton's numerous media permutations. The book will be useful to non-academics as well as academic researchers as we seek to understand the role news media play in constructing the public personae of women."--Mary Douglas Vavrus, author of Postfeminist News: Political Women in Media Culture
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Nettle Root Extract -
The leaves, seeds, and roots of the nettle plant are very high in minerals as well as vitamins A & C. Research has shown nettle to be beneficial in its effects on the male genitourinary system - which includes both the urinary and reproductive organ systems - due to its support of gentle cleansing of key organs like the liver, intestines, and kidneys.
Nettle root is often combined in herbal formulations along with testosterone boosting herbs. It seems to be either additive or synergistic with bioactives such as Ginseng, Ashwagandha, Maca and Pine Pollen, for its actions as a natural aromatase inhibitor, promoting the circulation of free testosterone in the body.
Tribulus Terrestris Fruit Extract -
Tribulus is an annual flowering plant, in the Zygophyllaceae family. Both the roots and fruit have been used as a traditional fertility herb for centuries, both in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and Ayurveda, for male health including vitality and virility. Research indicates that Tribulus can aid in sex hormone production. For men specifically, it has been shown to support healthy luteinizing hormone (LH) and testosterone production, both of which play a key role in proper sperm production. This makes it useful for increasing sperm count, motility, and health. It has also been shown to help reduce the effects of some men’s higher sperm antibodies which could weaken and inhibit sperm movement.
L-Carnitine -
L-Carnitine is an amino acid (a building block for proteins) produced naturally in the body. L-carnitine helps the body turn fat into energy. It is important for heart and brain function, muscle movement, and many other body processes including male fertility.
Since sperm requires high concentrations of carnitine for energy metabolism, it is seen as a nutrient necessary for sperm cells to function normally. Studies indicate that the level of free carnitine in seminal fluid directly correlates with sperm count, morphology and motility.
Pine Pollen -
The richest pine pollen is sourced in the pine forests of the Himalayan Highlands near Tibet. Once a year, the pollen catkins can be collected by hand from the trees, screened and cleaned.
Pine pollen is rich in vitamins, minerals and a multitude of useful enzymes. It offers one of nature's most potent sources of androgenic substances known in the plant kingdom, composed of the bioidentical steroid hormone testosterone, along with lesser amounts of other steroids including androstenedione, dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) and androsterone which can contribute to increased sperm count.
Pine pollen also contains a substance called phenylalanine, an L-dopa precursor which helps to stimulate dopamine levels in the brain, which could help with elevated will and mood, and act as a natural antidepressant.
Goji Berry Extract -
Originally native to the Mongolian region of China and known as wolfberries, the lush red Goji berries are traditionally harvested when ripe and sun-dried. A powerful antioxidant, Goji has been used in TCM for thousands of years to treat male infertility, enhance libido, restore strength, endurance and energy. Goji contains antioxidants deemed helpful for male infertility through protecting DNA, elevating sperm health, increasing sperm count and optimizing motility. Goji has a known additive synergy when combined with Maca.
Diindolylmethane (DIM) -
Surprisingly, DIM is an organic nutrient isolated from cruciferous vegetables like broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage and kale. DIM becomes available to the body after the digestion of Indol-3-carbinol (I3C), present in those foods just mentioned.
The human body utilizes DIM as an activator of estrogen metabolism. The male body does produce and require estrogen, but heightened levels can positively affect sperm count and volume, libido and to prevent enlarged prostate. DIM promotes the metabolism of excess estrogen.
Vitamins & Minerals Blend -
Riboflavin B2, Niacin B3, Pyridoxine B12:
The B vitamin complex are co-enzymatic and contribute to healthy hormone regulation, cell growth and replication, sperm count and seminal quality.
Vitamin C has been shown to improve sperm quality, prevent sperm from clumping or sticking together, and protecting sperm from DNA damage; Studies have linked vitamin C deficiency with poor sperm count, motility and morphology.
Selenium is also necessary for the creation of sperm and sperm motility. Selenium is naturally available in tuna, nuts and sunflower seeds. It seems to increase the action of antioxidants. Studies have shown that men with low sperm counts have also been found to have low levels of selenium.
Zinc is considered one of the most important trace minerals for male fertility. Increasing zinc levels in infertile men has been shown to boost sperm levels, improve the form, function and quality of male sperm, and decrease male infertility.
What Concepta does NOT use:
No magnesium stearate, no silicon dioxide, no soy, no gluten, no fillers; just clean, pure and organic ingredients for optimal health and well-being.
Note: Because of the purity of our supplements, in rare situations ingestion may cause upset stomach or headaches as your body adjusts to them. If these feelings are too intense, please contact us for a full refund. Before taking this or any other supplement, please consult with a medical professional to ensure there will be no adverse interactions with existing medications. Do not use if seal around cap is broken or missing.
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7.5.1 — If a debtor disputes the overpayment, the only right of review is against the decision to retrospectively reduce a rate of pension and the date on which that retrospective reduction takes place. There is no right of review against a decision of the Commission to recover an overpayment or to deny waiver, write off or deferral request.
7.5.2 — Where the pension variation or termination is the result of an automatic provision such as section 56B VEA, there is no right of review on the outcome, even in relation to the date. Similarly, the only rights of review in respect of decisions relating to disability pension are contained in section 31 VEA and section 135 VEA, and these refer to decisions regarding claims for pension or application for an increased pension and not recovery of overpayments. A request for review should not delay the recovery process.
Note:For full details regarding a client's right of review, refer to this manual's Chapter 9, Clients Right of Review.
URL: http://clik.dva.gov.au/compensation-and-support-reference-library/overpayment-management-manual/ch-7-recovery-and-other-methods-finalising-debts/75-right-review
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Favorite Quote Friday & 2 Great Sales
Happy Friday! I'm not feeling well today (I think I've picked up whatever flu is going around), so this will be brief. I have two great sales to share with you.
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Rendezvous with Yesterday, The Gifted Ones Book 2, is currently on sale in ebook for $1.99! The sale lasts through Saturday, December 2nd. :-)
Winner of the GraveTells Readers Choice Award for Best Historical Romance
Modern-day bounty hunter Bethany Bennett helps her brother track two fugitives to a forest outside of Houston, Texas. But what should have been a routine apprehension of two bail skippers spirals out of control and ends in violence. After Beth and her brother are both seriously injured, a mysterious figure suddenly looms over her. And, when the smoke clears, Beth finds herself not only in another place, but in another time.
As Lord Robert, Earl of Fosterly, attempts to identify and track down the nameless enemy who has been plaguing his lands and people with violence, the most peculiar woman stumbles into his path. Small, vulnerable, yet possessed of a bold, fiery spirit and wicked sense of humor, she persists in dubbing Robert and his men members of something called a medieval reenactment group . . . until she sees his castle and labels herself insane. It seems bounty hunter Bethany Bennett has come to him from the future, bringing with her laughter and chaos, swiftly winning the hearts of his people and inspiring within him a love he thought he would never experience again. But when Robert discovers a way for her to return to her time, will the love they share be enough to keep them together?
Blade of Darkness on Audible
Good news for audiobook lovers or those who are thinking of giving one a try for the first time: Blade of Darkness is on sale for only $7.49 on Audible! (Reg. price— $22.04!) I have no idea how long the sale will last, so snap up a copy today if you like paranormal romance with a lot of action, passion, humor and romance!
Return to the “utterly addictive” (RT Book Reviews), "fast-paced and humorous" (Publishers Weekly) world of New York Times bestselling author Dianne Duvall’s Immortal Guardians.
Dana Pembroke has been able to glimpse the future of those she touches for as long as she can remember. But she never saw Aidan coming. When the tall, dark Celt with the charming grin yet world-weary eyes walks through her door, the future she sees for him is one full of violence, danger, deception… and passion. Because amidst the terrifying battles that unfold in her visions, she also sees herself in Aidan’s arms and in his bed. Dana knows she should keep her distance, but the tender moments and laughter they share entice her even as she finds herself thrust into a world of vampires, immortals, and other preternatural beings.
Immortal Guardian Aidan O’Byrne has been hunting and slaying psychotic vampires for nearly three thousand years, so visions of bloody battles don’t trouble him. The battles Dana foresees, however, show Aidan’s brethren turning against him, so he can’t help but feel alarmed. While he spends as much time as he can with Dana, struggling to decipher her dire predictions, Aidan finds himself utterly smitten. Hope rises that he has finally found a woman who can banish the darkness and loneliness that plague him. But when vampires begin targeting Dana and a powerful enemy spawns chaos, will fate grant them time to find happiness together?
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It's time once more for Favorite Quote Friday! Today I thought I would share a snippet of Blade of Darkness with you. Aidan and Dana are the hero and heroine. :-)
Ethan, Heather, Brodie, and Ed all smiled when Dana and Aidan joined them in the living room.
Brodie crossed to Dana. “I don’t know how much you know about Seconds, but our job is to arm and protect the immortals we serve. In this instance, that job extends to protecting you, so if you don’t mind?” He held up a shoulder holster and weapons.
“Oh.” She had thought she would just be observing. “Okay.” While she held out her arms, Brodie fitted her for a shoulder holster he packed with 9mms.
Aidan’s brows drew down as he watched them.
“Is he not supposed to arm me?” she asked. “You look a little pissed.”
Heather laughed. “He just doesn’t like Brodie touching you.”
When Aidan didn’t dispute it, Dana smiled at him. “It’s not like he’s trying to feel me up or anything.”
Aidan’s frown deepened. “He’d lose a hand if he did.”
His Second laughed, unperturbed by the threat.
When Brodie reached both arms around Dana to secure a belt with a thigh holster around her waist, Aidan strode forward and elbowed him aside. “Let me do that,” he grumbled, taking the belt.
Brodie stepped back with a good-natured grin. “Yes, sir.”
Dana watched Aidan as he buckled the belt around her waist, then knelt and went to work, tying the bottom of the holster around her thigh.
He was jealous and didn’t like that he was jealous. Dana didn’t need be telepathic to glean that or to suspect that that was why he wouldn’t meet her eyes.
When at last he did, she grinned. “You are too adorable.”
His soft lips turned up in a sheepish smile. “Sorry about that. Jealousy is new to me. I vow I’ll work on it.”
Dana combed her fingers through his soft, thick, wavy hair. “I don’t mind. I think it’s cute.”
Labels: Aidan, Audible, audiobook, Blade of Darkness, Dana, Favorite Quote Friday, historical romance, paranormal romance, Rendezvous With Yesterday, sale, time travel romance
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Grammy-nominated producer Kevin “Khao” Cates talks “Bad Brains” hip-hop album
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In hip-hop, producers have become just as famous as the rappers. Multi-platinum, Grammy-nominated super producer Kevin "Khao" Cates is one of the producers who is making his way from behind the scenes to the limelight. After years of producing for heavy-hitters in the game such as T.I., Jay-Z, Lil Kim, Busta
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Daughter of late rapper Camoflauge uses hip-hop to advocate for social issues
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Photo: Billboard In hip-hop, sometimes it’s the youth that uses their talent to bring awareness to social issues. MC Flau’Jae is using her passion for hip-hop to speak out against gun violence. The 15-year-old made her debut on the hit television series “The Rap Game” Season 3, executive produced by Jermaine
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Recap Friday: Annual march keeps MLK’s dream alive
(Photo: Citizens march along historic Auburn Street in downtown Atlanta) The annual Martin Luther King Jr. March and Rally celebrated the life and legacy of the late Civil Rights leader on Monday, January 21. Several organizations such as the National Pan-Hellenic Council or D9, Teens Against Justice and more joined thousands
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Investigations, public withdrawals follow the aftermath of ‘Surviving R.Kelly’
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Former Police Officer Jason Van Dyke sentenced for the shooting of Laquan McDonald
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Update: Alleged shooter of Jazmine Barnes denies involvement
Photo: Insider An attorney for Larry D. Woodruffe, one of the two men charged with capital murder in the Dec. 30 shooting in Houston that killed 7-year-old Jazmine Barnes denies Woodruffe's involvement. According to KRPC of Houston, Woodruffe told police he was not involved in the killing of Barnes and the only thing connecting
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Future talks ‘Future Hndrxx Presents: The WIZRD’ project with Genius
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Flashback Friday: Willie Dee X “5th Ward” (1989)
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Founders of the Rap Plug app talk entrepreneurship and technology
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[Press Release] Youth and Digital Peacemaking | Digitalk #29
Fri, 05 Apr 2019 || By Admin CfDS
Semarang, 4th April 2019 – As another series of ‘Center for Digital Society (CfDS) Goes to Campus’, CfDS collaborated with Siberkreasi’s School of Influencer and Universitas Diponegoro to hold Digitalk #29 with the theme of “Be Social Media Peacemaker” on Thursday (04/04) at Auditorium Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Diponegoro. Four speakers were invited: Ika Riswanti Putranti, P.hD (lecturer of Universitas Diponegoro), Yosi Mokalu (Cameo Project), Fajrul Falah (founder of Saintif) and Shafira Gayatri (activist of Search for Common Ground); all presented to promote digital literacy and peacemaking via digital technology. Aside from seminar, the event also offered workshop on digital marketing and contemporary content creator.
The Importance of Cyber Resilience
“There are 3.2 billion internet users out of 7.53 billion of total population on earth. When we talk about cyber resilience, we don’t only talk about digital technology. We are talking about human”, as Ika Riswanti opened the seminar. Cyber resilience are often seen as a strategy for national security against cyber-attacks, meanwhile the meaning is so much more than that. It defines how individuals should react against daily cyber-attacks including hate speech. “Vulnerabilities are roaming against specific group such as people with disabilities, minority groups and women. They are twice more likely subjected to bullying and online sexual harassment. People with low literacy is at risk as well, as they are prone to difficulties to find information to seek help,” said Ika. She suggested some tips to become resilience as digital savvy: 1) Emotional awareness and regulation (avoid writing online in anger); 2) Impulse control (think before sharing content); 3) optimism (reading various sources before comes to conclusion); 4) casual analysis (analyze news content accordingly); 5) self-efficacy and reach out (seek help when having complex problem such as cyber bullying).
Youth as Active Peacemaker
Talking about the human aspect on cyber resilience, there are 89% of human population age 10-24 labeled as youth according to UN. With those huge number, youth has enormous potential to spread peace and harmony. UN Security Council Resolution 2250 on Youth, Peace and Security (2015) declared youth as active peacemaker. Young generation has important roles on peace building in digital era. Shafira Gayatri, also a young peace activist herself, encouraged the audience to be an active peacemaker by carrying positive messages on social media. She works with Search for Common Ground, a global NGO whose mission is to encourage peace within society. “These are what youth can do: using social media as tool to spread peace, promote peace in a catchy and trendy way, and encourage more youth to be agent of peace. Together, we cultivate harmony for the world,” Shafira said. On her explanation, she showed many peace initiatives coined by young people in Indonesia such as Sabang Merauke, Young Interfaith Peacemaker Community, Ngobrolind, etc. She commented on people’s doubt to spread positive contents. “It doesn’t have to be viral,” she said. “It doesn’t matter that we don’t have thousands of followers or subscribers. Start small and start now. If we can make a little difference to people around us, that counts.”
Fajrul Falah might be an example of young generation who actively promotes positive messages through online platforms. He is founder of Saintif, an online media creating educative scientific content in relevant and interesting design. Saintif chose Instagram as their main platform and now has 45.000 followers. Fajrul said his team chose topics which were relatable to daily life such as why chilies are spicy or fun facts about rain. “False news and hoax are easy to spread because they’re narrated in most fascinating way and very reachable. We should battle hoax with positive content. To win, we use fascinating design and relatable topics as well,” he said. Their website is accessed by 400.000 readers online. They even had launched two books related to misconception about flat earth and investigative approach to moon landing. The platform had just won WSIS Prizes 2019, an international recognition towards individuals, governments, civil-societies, research institutions and private sectors for their outstanding success in leveraging ICT as an enabler of development. Fajrul and his team was expected to receive the award in Geneva this April.
Everybody is born as an influencer
Yosi Mokalu or known as Yosi “Project Pop” has deeply involved in content making and digital literacy initiatives these past years. With fellow Youtubers, he created Cameo Project and Kreator Nongkrong in hope to combat fake news with positive contents while spreading digital literacy to netizen. He started with powerful motto. “We all are born an influencer,” he began. “During our lives, we influence each other one way or another, big or small. Now, we associate influencer with big followers. We never realize people behind powerful figures like Soekarno is the real influencers.” He pointed out that speaking up for what matters to us is easier than ever with social media in the tip of our finger. Everybody is a content creator because daily we create content, whether it’s an Instagram story, pictures or articles, and send them to online world. However, people are using digital technology to express themselves, but hardly for the bigger cause. They become so full of themselves and forget the bigger issues. Yosi underlined the importance of empathy to start spreading positive messages on social media. “When it comes to what matters to you and matters to everybody, don’t be silent. Speak up! More often than not, we are afraid to start due to fear of judgments or critics. Why would we be afraid to share something positive?” he asked.
However, Yosi warned the audience use freedom of expression with caution. Many people use freedom of expression to voice anger and hate. He said to start with saying positive things in order to spread positive message. Positive people never side with anything but neutrality and put first wisdom and knowledge when interacting with anyone. Another thing he emphasized was the importance of reaching out. Reaching out means having discussion with people against us with intention to understand their perspectives and let them know it’s okay to have different opinion. Discussion is not meant to find out who’s right and who’s wrong, like what happens these days in comment section on social media. He encouraged audience to start using social media from now on to speak up for unity of our Indonesia.
Written by: Nabiila Nurfitri
CfDS (Center for Digital Society) UGM is a multi-disciplinary research center that is established under the Faculty of Social & Political Sciences University of Gadjah Mada. This research center is built upon the concern over the contemporary dynamics of socio-political condition of the world that is accentuated by the impeccable influence of information technology. The phenomenon triggers the new patterns and complexities in the society, and thus requires new approaches in managing such complexities. Our research and other activities are based on spirits that is aligned with our motto, productive, innovative, & influential.
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Indonesia under Japanese Occupation
JapanSoutheast Asia February 20, 2014 - No comments
A review of Outlasting Colonialism: Socio-political Change in the Javanese Principalities under the Japanese Occupation of Indonesia during World War II, by Frank Dhont.
In Outlasting Colonialism, Frank Dhont examines the socio-political transformation the four principalities in Central Java underwent during the Japanese occupation, between 1942 and 1945. From mere symbols of Javanese hegemony under the Dutch, the Yogyakarta Sultanate and the house of Paku Alam gained significant influence in post-independence Indonesia, while the Kasunanan and the house of Mangku Negara receded into the background. By addressing the extent of authority “these traditional elites … retained … to manage their domains under the Japanese occupation” and the extent of their capability “to alleviate the negative impact of the occupation on the ordinary pribumi (indigenous Indonesian) population living in their lands,” (p. 1) Dhont traces the subtle but decisive processes that altered the balance of power among the principalities. Their disparate acumen in responding to the devolution of administrative and governance authority by the Japanese and the access—or lack thereof—to the Indonesian nationalist networks were proven crucial in gaining relevance during these tumultuous three years. With his dissertation, Dhont restores the principalities’ position in the Indonesian historiography of the Japanese occupation.
Outlasting Colonialism consists of five chapters, an introduction and a conclusion. In the introduction Dhont situates the four principalities in the socio-political context of the time. In the late-colonial Indies, the Dutch kept the principalities merely as a symbol of Javanese indigenous hegemony. The principalities’ kings—the Sultan, the Sunan, the Paku Alam and the Mangku Negara—used their wealth, network of marriages, and network of family members occupying colonial offices to sustain some form of informal clout. But the Dutch limited their public presence to performing rituals and ceremonies, severely distancing them from their subjects. In time, communist-leaning groups, secular nationalists, and Islamic-leaning associations gradually overshadowed their socio-political relevance. It was in this social setting that the Japanese found the principalities when they arrived in Central Java.
In chapter 1, Dhont shows how the Japanese reversed the Dutch policy and restored the principalities to their original socio-political standing. Deciding that retaining rather than abolishing the principalities worked best for their war strategies, the Japanese skillfully used ceremonies and rituals to elevate the principalities’ ruler in the eyes of their subjects and to portray them as important partners in the liberation from colonization. At the same time, the Japanese gradually devolved limited authorities to the principalities, by now referred to with the Japanese word Kō, to enable them to govern and run day-to-day administration. The Japanese wanted to convince the local population of their intent to “liberate” their junior brothers.
Chapter 2 discusses the Japanese strategies to persuade the principalities and the local population to accept their war-time policies. Through “enticement” and “enforcement,” i.e. propaganda and the use of force, the Japanese aimed to gain support for their ambition: to win the war using all of the Indies’ resources that were now accessible to them. The Japanese effectively used the Kōs in their propaganda, particularly by publicizing ceremonies involving the Kōs and making visible the rituals of receiving Japanese dignitaries. However, by late 1943, as the local population became aware of the Japanese actual intent to exploit Javanese labor and resources, the Japanese had to resort to coercion.
In chapters 3 and 4, Dhont narrates the exploitation of Indonesian women and men by the Japanese military government: women were recruited and forced to provide sexual services to Japanese soldiers as “comfort women,” while men were deployed to provide hard labor within and outside Java. Dhont underlines how the principalities were almost powerless in avoiding the demand for “comfort women,” proven by a number of deliveries from the principalities. The deployment of Javanese men for hard labor, on the other hand, were mitigated for a couple of reasons. The most significant was the Kōs’ initiative to set up a number of large infrastructure developments in their own areas, which enabled them to claim that able-bodied men were needed at home.
Dhont uses chapter 5 to demonstrate how the political space opened up for the Kōs to skillfully use the limited administrative and governing authority they were granted. The unexpected death of the Surakarta and Mangku Negara Kōs and the crowning of the young, inexperienced heirs who lacked in political acumen cost the two houses the opportunity to gain a stronger political standing. The Sultan of Yogyakarta and the Paku Alam, on the other hand, seized their opportunity well. They created two major canal works, which sizes and demand of labor powers offered visual testimony of their administrative prowess to the people, who in turned granted them respect, acknowledgment, and political capital. The Mangku Negara and the Surakarta principalities fell short in doing the same, and consequently failed to gain as influential recognition as the Sultan and the Paku Alam. After the Japanese occupation, the two Yogyakarta rulers re-emerged as effective political leaders able to recapture some of the real hegemony lost during the Dutch rule. They did so by transforming themselves into modern leaders, skillfully using the large and small opportunities given to them. These provided them with political capital to use in the turbulent years of post-war Indonesia.
Unlike conventional approaches that look at the Japanese occupation in Indonesia from the top down, or micro-history approaches that focus on one small area as a case study, Dhont offers a re-examination of this important historical period from the point of view of the four principalities. Drawn from an extensive archival collection in five languages—Japanese, Javanese, Indonesian, Dutch, and English—Dhont’s meticulous research allows him to follow minute details, almost day-to-day accounts of the ongoing events to reveal the way the principalities’ rulers used symbols, network of family members, and pragmatic infrastructure projects to grab the opportunities that unfolded between 1942-1945. To capture these is no easy feat. Outlasting Colonialism contributes a fresh insight into Indonesian historiography of the Japanese occupation period, and restores the position of the principalities in the socio-political constellations of those tumultuous war years.
Upik Djalins
Sajogyo Institute, Bogor, Indonesia
Surakarta Sunanate Archives
Mangkunegaran Archives, Mangku Negara VIII files
Yogyakarta Sultanate Archives
Pakualaman Archives, PA files
Bōeikenkyūjo, Tokyo, Japan
Waseda University, Nishijima Collection
Nationaal Archief [National Archives], Den Haag, Ministerie van Koloniën
National Archives Collection of World War II War Crimes Records (USA)
Various Dutch, Indonesian, Japanese periodicals
Dissertation Information
Yale University. 2012. 353 pp. Primary Advisors: Ben Kiernan and James Scott.
Image: 1943 World War II Japanese Aeronautical Map of Java. Wikipedia.
Tags:2012 Dissertation, Ben Kiernan, Indonesia, James Scott, Java, Yale University
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BATTERY K , 1 S T N . Y . ART'Y,
RESERVE ART'Y , 4th Brigade,
Friend Webster: Within the last month the Army of the Potomac has marched over 250 miles, defeated the rebels in several sanguinary engagements, and chased them out of Pennsylvania and "My Maryland" most effectually. We have opened our harvest work in good earnest, with plenty of " help" and hot weather, but no whisky.— At present the Grand Army is feeling its way cautiously down the London Valley to Warrenton, and thence to Richmond, I presume, although we may meet some vexatious delays on the road, such as another Fredericksburg or Chancellorville in store for us.
On our march through Maryland, we found a magnificent country, abounding in wheat fields almost ready for the harvest, and the evidences of thrift and comfort on every hand; the people are loyal, and greeted the appearance of the Union Troops enthusiastically. Arrived in Pennsylvania, we found that the Rebs. had plundered and devasted generally-—determining it seems, to make their brief stay as destructive as possible.
In the three days' engagement at Gettysburg our battery was only in action on Friday afternoon; but it was when the battles raged fiercest and hottest. Three hundred pieces of artillery were belching forth their thunder from both lines, and the din and destruction were truly awful. If the artillery fire ceased for a moment, it was only to be relieved by heavy volleys of musketry and the cheering of our boys as they hurled back the rebel lines in desperate hand-to-hand conflict. The lines of battle were something like two arcs of concentric circles, our array occupying the inner arc, hence it was easier for us to mass troops at any exposed point than for the Rebs. although they had better opportunity to run away or alter their line. In the brief space of one hour, I saw them make two separate charges on the batteries of our center, which were repulsed with great slaughter, and about 3000 prisoners taken. We took over 12,000 prisoners, besides having to bury several thousand of their dead, and attend to multitudes of their wounded which fell into our hands. The battle ceased on the going down of Friday's sun, and the rebel army was in full retreat. They kept up a line of skirmishers on Saturday as a decoy but Lee was off with the main body of his army in in a hasty retreat to the Potomac to the tune of "Carry me back to Old Virginia," receiving as a parting requiere, whilst the green hills of Maryland were fading from his view, the dirge of "My Maryland."
We had some half dozen wounded in the battery, all of the 11th N. Y.; none of them so seriously as to endanger life or limbs. I regret to say that Solomon Goodbread, our cook, was wounded on Saturday whilst serving coffee and beef to our exhausted boys on the battle-field. --The ball was sent by a rebel sharp-shooter, and entered the loins near the back-bone, passing out through the abdomen. I fear he will not survive, even if he is not already dead. He was a good soldier, and much esteemed by every one who knew him.
Contrary to custom, I venture no comment at this time on the "Conduct of the War," but only suggest that you send me a REGISTER occasionally; and as soldiers are only blessed with treasury notes at very long intervals, and then only in: very small quantities, I would only have thanks to reward you with at present.
J. Q. A. Grounse
We are glad to again hear from our friend J. Q. A. Crounse and Battery K, and print his letter elsewhere. In acknowledgement of 'the corn' on his well taken point in the concluding paragraph of his letter, we have forwarded him several back numbers of the Register, and w ill endeavor hereafter to reciprocate his favors.
A Private Soldier's Account of the Feeling in the Army - Determination to Conquer an Honorable Peace- The Rebels in Close Quarters.
Fort ETHAN ALLEN, Va., Sept 27th, 1864.
To the Editor of the Syracuse Journal:
Having seen several soldiers' letters in your paper, I thought it might be interesting to you or your readers, to know the state of feeling in the army about the coming election, and matters and things in general. I cannot speak for the army at large, although I have had very favorable reports from friends in several different departments, and there is no doubt but that the sentiments here are a fair sample of the whole army. There is getting to be quite an excitement here about election, which is kept alive by arguments with about half a dozen of the rankest kind of Copperheads. They comprise all of that kind of reptile attached to our battery. I am happy to say that there is not a man in the company, of any education or intelligence, who sides with them. It makes my blood boil to hear them argue in favor of an armistice and peace on any terms. " Armistice," forsooth! When we have them " on the hip," in every quarter, and all we need is to have our armies filled up, (as they are now being filled, rapidly,) to crush the rebellion. I don't know what a man can be thinking of, to enlist to fight for his Government and then use his vote and influence against the cause he is fighting for.
I have no doubt at all that if Mr. Lincoln is elected, (and he will certainly be elected,) that the war will be ended before the close of another summer. The rebel armies are depleted by sickness, desertion and death, and the rebel authorities have already conscripted all able-bodied males from sixteen to sixty-five years of age, and are putting cripples and sick men into the ranks. To use the language of our brave Lieutenant- General: "They have robbed the cradle and the grave, to fill up their shattered ranks," and where men are to come from to fill up their armies for another campaign, I can't see. There is, no doubt, a great deal of heavy fighting to be done yet. But I hope to live to see the rebellion put down, and that arch-traitor, Jeff Davis, hung. But if I do not, a man can die in no nobler cause. My motto is: "No compromise with armed traitors!" And, although I leave a home, and those who are dear to me in my native State, I would sooner stay here and fight until I am grey than see peace on any other terms than a union of the states and unconditional surrender of the rebels. I began this letter to tell you the feeling in the army, but have allowed myself to get a trifle excited, and have told you my own feelings instead. But I honestly think they are also those of at least nine-tenths of the army at large.
Yours, E.F.C.
Battery K, 1st N. Y. Light Artillery.
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