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Vanessa Hunt

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Status: Freelance

Personal Websites: Wanderlust Crew

We are a family of 6 traveling the world and worldschooling our 4 kids. We began our journey somewhat by accident after attempting to settle down and buy a house like normal people. In a whirlwind of events and after plans A through Y fell through, we decided we were being guided to pursue our dream of traveling the world with our family. Plan Z (which was really always plan A in our dreams) finally feels right! We love connecting with families worldwide and sharing all we have learned along the way!

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This is such an overdue post I can’t even. That’s probably gonna be the intro for the next ten posts since my backlog is getting pretty insane, but anyway, we visited Bluetrain when my Japanese friend was here, because her and her mum came here for dinner the day before and loved it.

I absolutely loved the interior of Bluetrain, with the windows allowing plenty of sunlight in, a view of the river, and graphics scattered around, it had a hip yet comforting vibe. Oh and the toilet’s amazing, make sure you visit it at least once when you go!

B.T. Seasoned Chips w/ Aioli – $8.00

We ordered some chips to share, because, well, chips are chips, and they make any meal better. I couldn’t really taste the seasoning on the chips, but the aioli was creamy and delicious.

Pumpkin Salad – $18.00

My friend’s mum loved the inclusion of zucchini ribbons – amongst other things – in the salad. The walnuts and sunflower seeds gave the salad texture and added a nutty flavour, whilst the goats cheese made the pumpkin extra creamy.

Prawns, Scallops, Calamari and Crab Meat Linguine – $30.00

The pasta was absolutely amazing. The linguine was cooked perfectly al dente, and all the seafood elements were cooked just right too, something that’s definitely worth praising. However, what I loved the most was the sauce that tied the whole dish together, the simple combination of herbed olive oil, chilli and garlic had such a depth of flavour, and really took the dish to the next level.

I don’t have much experience dining around the Southbank area of the CBD, but I thoroughly enjoyed my experience at Bluetrain! The food was delicious and the setting was beautiful, definitely somewhere I’d return to!

How to get there:
Bluetrain is located inside Southgate Landing, a short 10 minutes walk from Flinders St Station.

Bluetrain Menu, Reviews, Photos, Location and Info - Zomato

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I Love Paris

Paris 1A city I’ve never been to and dream of going there someday. In the meantime, I was so happy to see we have an Eiffel Tower now. It stands 14 feet tall inside the Cambridge City Hall, Ontario. (The city where I teach dance 5 days a week.)

paris-21.jpgParis 3Paris 4Paris 5

I happened to be wearing my Paris top on this particular day (and my little Eiffel Tower necklace) without knowing about this artistic display made entirely with over 10,000 vintage Meccano parts!

Eiffel Tower necklace and topVersion 2Paris 7

Our home has a Paris theme

The Centre for the Arts had an Attic Art exhibit where they sold previously own art at very reasonable prices. I met Rosemary who had a little purse with an Eiffel Tower.

RosemaryMeccano Eiffel TowerI love Paris

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Beauty is only skin deep, but health goes deep to the bones. Money can buy designer clothes, but it can’t buy health. https://fashionableover50.wordpress.com/
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21 Responses to I Love Paris

  1. Joni James says:

    Carmen, this outfit shows off your perfect shape. So cute! I love a beret with everything too. I’m wearing one right now!

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  2. You look like a teenager !!! How do you do that??? Fantastic !!! And Paris – well it’s a great city, I hope you’ll be able to visit it one day – you’ll love it to bits :))))
    Kisses – Margot
    Carmen, I had some problems with my blog and due to certain changes one of your comment got lost. There is however my answer to it – sorry about that :)))

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    • carmen says:

      Oh, you’re so kind Margot! Dancing every day keeps me in shape and my vegan life-style is very healthy and makes me happy! 🙂 So, you’ve been to the Eiffel Tower? I’m sure it’s as magnificent as I imagine.

  3. Patti says:

    Your beret says it all! What a great photo shoot – be sure to have a cup of espresso at the Tower : > xox

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  4. josep-maria says:

    My favorite French girl … You know how much I like this skirt and how much I like that you get this French look, a bit romantic, a bit bohemian that suits your personality beautifully. The shirt is also cute and the game of black and white, always, always works on you. The look is perfect for you, the outfit is perfectly combined, and your image with it is perfect, so delicate, so attractive, so feminine, so seductive … Paris is the city of love, you are love made woman!

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    • carmen says:

      Thanks so much for your wonderful review and kind words Josep-Maria! Paris has always impressed me with it being a romantic place, to view the city from the Eiffel Tower must be spectacular. I have a huge picture of Paris hanging on our wall, perhaps you remember it?

  5. finbarsgift says:

    Your Paris-little-Eiffeltower is gorgeous together with you!!
    Liebe Grüße zur Nacht vom Lu

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  6. utesmile says:

    You look very French with your hat too. Paris is lovely and the Eiffel tower is impressive, I find. It is closer to us in Europe. You do indeed have lots of Paris related soft furnishings, beautiful!

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    • carmen says:

      Thank you Ute! I feel a little French in this outfit. For now it’s only a dream, someday it could become reality. I’ve only shown a few of my Paris things, perhaps a bit of an obsession, but I blame it on my hopelessly romantic personality! 🙂

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  7. Tres magnifique Carmen! You are gorgeous in your cute outfit! I love the skirt and top with the tights and boots. You need to get to Paris as soon as possible, you will fit right in. Au revoir for now my friend, Terri xo.

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  8. Maggie says:

    Paris is one city I have never visit and would love to go someday ! A very romantic city ! But married to a unromantic husband, guess I definitely will not go with him, haha ! Love your black and white outfit!

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Where to stay in Krakow

Visitors from the Polish and the world often ask which resort in Krakow is the best as well as which are worth visiting. In case you expect to have in this entry answer this question, then you tend to be wrong, because there’s no solitary answer for everyone. Everyone should choose the hotel in Krakow Poland, according to your preference and according to their own needs. One person likes to live in the city center and therefore choose something which is located in the most important place, while the other prefers peace and quiet as well as decides to stay on the sidelines, away from the hustle and bustle from the city.
However , no matter which place we choose, we should usually try to be it for our requirements. Therefore , before checking the web site of the hotel and select the one that we think we have anything that we need. Due to the fact that each person has different preferences, you have to be really detailed in checking the offer. Best bed and breakfast in Krakow is a choice that will decide on how it will be our stay in Krakow and the time that people consider fruitfully spent. In case you select the wrong place, then look for the next can be so difficult that we give up and we prefer to stay where we are. Regardless of what you choose accommodation in Krakow balice, ask the room with interesting views and a higher standard, eg. With more bathroom or even bed that has a massage function, whereby you relax after a long day. Such small aspects are sometimes very important and determinative of our overall evaluation.

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‘Growing Communities’ Dagenham Farm

Less than five years ago Dagenham Farm was a site of concrete and glass, designed to produce municipal plants for the borough. Today it is a highly productive centre of salad and vegetable growing using sustainable and soil enriching practices throughout. The site is leased by Growing Communities, a not-for-profit organisation based in Hackney.

Growing Communities started out in 1996 by setting up a veg box scheme to provide a practical, viable and sustainable alternative to the damaging, supermarket-led food system. It wanted to enhance awareness and understanding of the need for a sustainable and resilient food system to meet the challenges posed by climate change and resource depletion and to prove that such a system could work and thrive.

A number of key principles were articulated such as food farmed and produced ‘ecologically’, food sourced locally, seasonally and directly, food production which is both economically viable and independent of corporate interests, and food production which fosters community. With these principles enshrined in Growing Communities, the result is a project which is a resounding demonstration of how community-led trading projects can create real change.

Not only was interest generated in local food, but that interest was at a level which enabled Growing Communities to set up new growing activities within Hackney. The Growing Communities office now not only manages a weekly fruit and veg bag scheme with almost 1000 members alongside a weekly, highly successful Farmers’ Market – both of which are sourced from its own farms or local organic and sustainable growers – but also directly oversees salad and vegetable production from its own Patchwork Farm across Hackney and its newer Dagenham Farm.

Growing Communities took over the Dagenham site in 2012 when it was closed as a plant production centre by Dagenham Council. Costing a fortune to demolish, even though worth a fortune no doubt for housing development, the council took the innovative route of offering the site on long-term lease to the enterprising people of Hackney! It now produces about five tonnes of veg every year. In the spring, there are significant quantities of leeks, spring greens, spinach and other greens. Then in summer and autumn, salad and tomatoes, as well as chillies, cucumbers, squashes, beans, aubergines, courgettes, strawberries and melons.

In order to achieve this output the basic structure of the site – glass hothouses set up on plinths of concrete – had to be transformed with concrete being taken up and replaced by compost and heating pipes removed. Crops now take advantage of the season extension offered by the solar gain in the greenhouses, a sustainable method of growing, using no fossil fuels. This conversation and the subsequent development of productive growing schemes have all been overseen by head grower Alice Holden, a farmer of amazing tenacity!

The farm not only aims to produce organic food close to where people actually live, but it also aims to help local residents to gain skills in food growing, preparation and selling. In January 2016 it became the home of Grown in Dagenham, a project training local residents in food-growing and preparation skills and helping young people to learn about where their food comes from. A key part of the project from the outset was the monitoring and evaluation of the work in order to track the impact on local young people and residents against the overall aim to increase physical and mental well-being. In 2014 the farm was also part of the Grow Wild project, helping children learn about growing and biodiversity by visiting the farm and planting native flowers.

Dagenham Farm, along with its partner Patchwork Farm across Hackney, shows the potential for growing – and selling – significant amounts of produce from farms on the outskirts of cities such as London. Corporatised, globalised, monocultural food production is not a necessity to feed a modern population but a monstrous anathema which is undermining the future. We need to build local production and use of land which is otherwise going to dereliction. Healthy soil and local food underpins a good future. Hackney’s Growing Communities is a wonderfully bright beacon of hope.

The Dagenham project was funded by the Local Food Fund, part of the Big Lottery, from March 2012 to March 2014, when it also became fully certified as organic. The grower’s salary is now financed through sales of produce and she is supported by a team of highly committed volunteers. On the day I was there I met Alice, the grower; Hannah, who now also oversees Food Activities within the Grown in Dagenham project; Ken, water dispenser extraordinaire; Sue, master of fork and hoe, along with Dave, expert packer of Dagenham Salad – the rapidly growing rival brand to Hackney Salad!

For more information on Growing Communities and the Patchwork Farm see Growing Communities website

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  1. Cllr Anne Jones

    Former Dagenham resident here. Great project. Also, this brings Dagenham full circle back to when veg was produced for the markets at Covent Garden on a large scale. In those days (and on the site of Morrison’s, among others, the Rainham cabbage was produced. I love the idea of the Dagenham salad!
    We have a similar project in Southend called Trust Links. Cllr Roswell does a community visit to Southend each year, you should tag along and meet the team!

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They’re buff, they’re beautiful, they’re bruised and broke! The American Lingerie Football League moves north

What the what??  That’s right, a new sports franchise is making its way to Toronto this fall and it’s a women’s league, to punt…. I mean, to boot!

Easy now, let’s not get too excited.  Although it would be phenomenal to have a professional women’s sports team in Toronto, I am not quite about to give this team my 100% support.  This new league, the American Lingerie Football League, is far from the ideal female success in the field of professional sports.  Instead, with its contradiction of sexy garters, girlie bows, girl-on-girl action, sexualised hikes, and its cutesy-seductive team names like Baltimore Charm, Cleveland Crush, Los Angeles Temptation, and Chicago Bliss, I struggle to see it as more than a  satisfaction of superficial  (mostly) male fantasies and a mockery and outright devaluation of women in sports.

Occupational hazard or occupational requirement?

It isn’t so much the lingerie-inspired outfits that I take issue with; I am all for women’s right to express their sexuality and autonomy through their dress.  Apart from these tired and contorted plays on femininity what bothers me more is the purpose of the game, the intended audience, and what these male-centred interests may mean to the athletes who participate.  Most of all, what concerns me is the serious lack of basic security awarded to these players, specifically the double-standard in safety and compensation.

If you’ve ever seen one of the many Youtube videos of the game, you’ll note that unlike the daintiness of the uniforms and team names, this game is really actually quite rough; the players are tackling to the  same extreme that they do in the NFL.  They’re even throwing punches.  However, because an excess of equipment would take away from the thrill of ogling female bodies, many components of the traditional footballer’s equipment have been foregone.  For instance, while regular male football leagues require protective padding and gear for collar bones, chests, thighs, shins, and ribs, the LFL provides for little more than some loose shoulder pads, knee pads, a helmet, and tape for joints.

A simple Google search finds accounts from current players citing multiple injuries, especially of collar bones.  One potential player I interviewed after the Toronto try-outs speculated about the possibilities of extreme rug burn that the artificial turfs might cause when one crashes to the ground in her underwear.

But does that really matter to the coaches and managers when players only compete once a month?

This was the case for a former player for the Seattle Mist, Natasha Lindsey.  She tore her ACL early in the season last year.  Natasha’s surgery costs have exceeded the $10,000 cap the league put on insurance for players and she is left stressed out and seriously bruised.  The league’s founder, Mitchell Mortaza, isn’t at all apologetic.  He claims that the players all know what they are getting into when they sign their contracts.

Photo by former player for the Seattle Mist, Natasha Lindsey. Her injuries were not covered under the leagues minimal insurance policy.

That brings me to my second concern, compensation. Just as the LFL invokes traditional and conflicting stereotypes of feminine ideals, it also reproduces the historic patriarchal devaluation (low pay/no pay) of female labour – another reminder that the devaluation of women’s work is not a thing of the past (I say this acknowledging that when we look at labour through the lens of a highly racialised and highly exploitative global capitalist system there are an abundance of examples of unpaid and indentured female (and male) labour).

Unlike professional male football players, who earn upwards of $320,000 a year, the female players in the LFL earn only a percentage of ticket sales – and this  rests on the game score.  Some American players  recently took the league to court when they found that their paid was less than California’s $8 per hour minimum wage.  In Canada, as the league gets established, players should only expect to get compensation for travel.

But, that’s “the best part”, right?  Mortaza certainly thinks so.    He claims that by paying only a percentage of the ticket sales and in basing  the amount it on whether a team wins or loses, players will be incited to play harder – a standard that would be completely unacceptable in professional male sports, not to mention the encouragement of female violence.

So let’s get this straight, the women are dressed by men, coached and managed by men, work their asses off for the entertainment of a mostly male audience, and don’t get paid for any of it!?

To me this screams of the use of women’s bodies to satisfy the sexual and violent appetite of a certain group of persons – largely, but not exclusively, masculine.   Audiences can sit back and laugh about women playing “girlie football”, drink beers, and fantasize, while the players – beautiful, fit, and talented women – play a sport the audience loves and in a ruthless way the audience loves.   There is also the added bonus of catching a wardrobe malfunction or two; it’s hard to avoid when you’re tackling and being dragged to the ground in bikinis.

I’m not suggesting that these women don’t have agency, clearly these athletes are exercising their own will by joining the teams (in fact, many of the players I interviewed saw it as a stepping stone to better careers or they were motivated by the idea of participating in something novel).   However, we can’t fully understand this choice without situating it within the larger patriarchal society where women’s bodies are exploited as objects for the satisfaction sexual desires and where subjugation is often disguised as empowerment.  In the case of the LFL, the safety and fair compensation of the players is quite clearly forfeited in order to fulfill a  superficial macho agenda.

Despite how exciting it would be to see a professional female sports team based in Toronto, this game is sadly not what I hoped for.

And so it begins….

I know, I can just imagine the look on your face.  You’re rolling your eyes, throwing your arms up, and thinking, “Oh sh*t, another feminist blog… how flipping original!   Yet again the wonderous, rolling infiniteness of the world-wide web is just that much smaller and all because of feminist blogs.  Who are these broads, anyway?”

Alright, so first things first, let’s be upfront about who we are and what makes this site different from the rest.

Well, we are, for the most part, from that wide-open space north of the 49th parallel.  Although, that is hardly original since there are lots of great feminist bloggers up here (see blog roll).  I guess another exciting difference is that I get to write here.  I know!!  It just seems like so much more work having to appeal to others to publish your thoughts.  Nah.

Ok seriously now, the real difference with this blog is that our aim is to unite folks who are feminists (or feministy), activists, writers, artists, community members and bloggers.  This blog is a space for us to come together and to share experiences and opinions, while discussing issues that are relevant and current to our lives and our feminisms.

Our vision in creating this blog is to create a space for building dialogues across experiences and recognizing that feminist dialogues and work are happening in all spaces, outside the walls of academia, across generations, race, class, genders, abilities, and ways of knowing.  It is about connecting with each other, learning, growing, and supporting each other as we strive to build healthy and equitable communities.

Please feel welcomed to send us your comments, stories, critiques and rants.  We are looking for your take on local or international politics, sexuality and health, activism, arts and culture, current events, etc.  Or subscribe to the blog and share your perspectives through the comment threads.

Thanks for looking.  We are excited to see where we can take this!


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Without hummingbird’s gravelly persistence,
behind and to the left,
red-shouldered hawk’s cries
atop bending cypress
would have spread sound
into shared broad-winged flight.
But I miss that
to turn
and find coyote beside me.
Announcing myself, he looks.
Iridescent ones flit through shadow.
Adjusting his snout,
and partially lowering his haunches, he negotiates
whether to have a seat or trot away.
Hummingbirds scatter as he heads southward.


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Friday, October 19, 2007

Theater Reviews: SLAMMER / The Shadowbox

Every once in a while, I get to see some good theater, which is all the more special when a friend is involved.

SLAMMER: A New Women-in-Prison Musical, New York Fringe Festival, Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, September 2007
Previously, I had never attended the New York Fringe Festival. For those who don’t know, it’s the chance for independent playwrights to have a forum to get their works staged and noticed. My interest was definitely piqued when I had learned that “SLAMMER”, was one of the entrants.

While I haven’t met co-author Chan Chandler, the other half of the co-, Steve Adams, has been a good friend for over a decade. Hey, I even had the pleasure of reading a very early draft.

At the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, part of the NYU complex, I waited on line next to a couple of theater “critics” who were, at best, obnoxious, saying things like, “They BETTER have my tickets ready,” and sighing “This is the X Fringe show I’ve seen, and I STILL have to see X more.” Generally they were loud (“Look at me, I’m privileged.”) and abhorrent. I’ve been a performance reviewer for years, and have always taken it with graditude, acknowledging the graciousness of a free entrance. But I digress…

It was a Monday in September, opening night for the show. The theater was surprisingly large, with a good crowd; the stage was filled with bunk beds and moveable “bars”, on which held the “SLAMMER” logo on a banner.

Considering they had about two weeks to mount the play, the stage setting looked sparse, and very professional. As it was basically set in a women’s prison, a sparse set was intended and appropriate.

The initial set up of Tabitha (Merrill Grant), the main character, being wrongly sent to prison is summarily set during the early moments, so the action can get started. From this point, the play is like a sandwich; on one side, there is a vicious warden, a rapacious guard, and various levels of prisoner tension, and the other is the corporation and sponsorship of the privatized prison, and Tabitha is the fresh meat between.

Now, women-in-prison is a sub-genre of exploitation films popular in the ‘60s (e.g., “The Big Bird Cage”, “Terminal Island”, “Red Head”, “Reform School Girls”), and anyone familiar with the style knows that there are going to be fights, death, lesbians, and shower scenes. Yes, SLAMMER Has them all, though the shower scene is more implied than gratuitous.

From the start, we’re introduced to the key players, such as the uncaring, hard-nosed and sexually ambiguously warden, Eva Danka (Lannyl Stephens) and avaricious guard, Smiley the Screw (Saverio Guerra, aka Bob, lately of the TV show “Becker”). Then there is the protective Reverend Mama (the excellent Sandra Reaves-Phillips), her helper/protégé Caramel (Tammi Cubiette) who plays tough but with a heart-o-gold while doing what she can to survive, rival Cat (Tess Paras, who I’m guessing has some serious dance training), and lovers Tina (Courtney Wissinger) and Spike (Ariela Morgenstern). Of course, it will take newbie fish Tabitha to bring them all to the same side.

I know Steve and Chan have been writing for years, both together and individually, but musicals are something that is somewhat unfamiliar territory. However, one would never know that listening to the memorable tunes played here, such as “I Refuse to Live Without Love”, the powerful “What Country Is This?” (which could be a powerhouse with the right singer), “Different on the Inside”, and especially Reverend Mama’s moment to shine: “Along the Road,” which is a solid gospel raver.

Reverend Mama’s Sandra Reaves-Phillips is a gem, and a real coup for this production. She has a long history of performing at the likes of the Cotton Club, the Supper Club, the Village Gate, and other highly touted venues. Courtney Wissinger and Ariela Morgenstern are also standouts as inmates who start out being scary, but end up being a touching and heartbreaking focal point.

I’m not going to go deeply into the story because it is such sheer fun (and at times scary) so I am hoping the play gets into a regular theater run (perfect for Off-Broadway) once it is out of workshop mode.

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The Shadowbox, Matthew Corozine Theatre, October 2007
Not too many years ago, my friend Joe, a Boston-based music publicist, sent me a CD of chanteuse/Broadway-flavored songs by actress Ingrid Saxon. I wrote a favorable review of it, and somehow, we ended up seeing Lesley Gore at Joe’s Pub together (my photos of the show: Recently, I saw on her MySpace page ( that she was going to be appearing Off-Off- in Michael Cristofer’s “The Shadowbox” at the Michael Corozine Theatre, on 8 Avenue and 43rd Street, NYC. An invite soon followed.

In a nutshell, the play takes place in a hospice on the West Coast, with three concurrent stories that take place in three cottages in 1977. Interestingly, the cause of dying is never discussed.

In one story, Maggie (Ingrid Saxon) is a wife who comes to visit her dying husband, Joe (Jacob Mirer). She is in denial, and refuses to enter the cottage because it would mean acceptance. Ingrid give a sensitive, strong and textured performance, howling against the darkness, sometimes literally, in contrast to Joe, who has an almost meditative quiet, though Mirer aptly conveys a fear and anger beneath the surface. They both play their roles as a dance between trying to maintain normalcy and what is lurking. JD Brookshire plays their young, guitar-playing son.

A second story concerns Brian (Lee Barton), his lover Mark (Ryan Link) and his high-strung/-maintenance party-girl ex-wife, Beverly (Robyn Kay Pilarski). Brian is close to both, but Mark and Beverly because, in their own way, they both love the dying Brian. And you know that there is going to be an explosion, and then some understanding between Mark & Bev, with some respect growing in the process. Barton plays the emotionally frail artist type with assurance, bouncing back and forth between trying to accommodate the two most important people in his life, and his own egocentricity. Link plays ex-hustler Mark as smoldering, torn between his distaste/jealously of Bev and his own feelings toward Brian. His slow emotional breakdown is played well with great restraint. Equally, Pilarski could easily let her character turn to caricature, but she admirably makes Bev into a sympathetic full-flushed person. Her training in comedy gives an additional inflection.

The final story focuses on a semi-senile elderly woman, Felicity (Heidi Zenz) and her overburdened caretaker daughter, Agnes (Jillian Prefach), who is pretty much ignored by her mom, who is waiting for a visit from her prodigal daughter. Zenz doesn’t have much to do in the play other than call out for her other child, but Zenz does convey hope and fear mostly through her eyes, thereby giving more substance and depth to her role. At first, the role of Agnes is subdued, much as is her character, but as the play progresses, her part becomes one of the strongest, including a powerful centerpiece monologue that Prefach absolutely nails.

The lynchpin to the three stories is an interviewer/therapist (David Lipman, who is also known as the arraignment judge on “Law and Order” – Ta-DEM), who at various times talks to the various characters. All of this is from the back of the theater, but his presence is also strong to the events.

Showcases can be iffy as actors try (and sometimes over-try) to impress, but none of that happened here, as every single member of the large cast in the small, cramped – yet intimate – theater was in top form. Much credit for this should be given to the director, Matthew Corozine (who employs the Meisner Technique, FYI) for getting such strong work out of his group, ably helped by AD Mark J. Paynter.

After the show, I stayed around to congratulate Ingrid for her fine performance, and had the opportunity to say hello to a number of the actors, including Ryan Link. He gave me a CD of his band, Kill the Camera, which will be reviewed at another time. Also Jacob Mirer and director Mathew Corozine were quite generous with their time and were gracious with their company.

Now, let’s see this play make it from Off-Off- to Off-.

Monday, October 8, 2007

CD REVIEWS: Deadlier Than the Male

[ffoto: Tony WofMann, Donna SheWolf at Hanks in Brooklyn]
Anyone expecting a replay of the SHE WOLVES’ first release are in for a surprise. On 13 Deadly Sins (, they have added bad-ass bassist Gyda Gash, and they have mutated into a grinding metal machine. Listening to this is like trying to hold onto a handful of ball bearings: it slides around, screeching metal-against-metal to an ear-piercing degree. This is powerful shit, with titles like “Vicious Tit”, “Ghost Boyfriend”, “Kill Something”, and the song-title-of-the-year “I Kill With My C*nt” (asterisk theirs). One of the heaviest metal power trios I’ve heard, it is sort of a cross between walking in a sandbag and getting hit by one. Donna She Wolf’s vocals grind and growl more than ever, and is pure scary. Gyda’s near-lead bass-work pushes them further, and Tony WolfMann’s drumming sums up all those years of his work with the likes of Dee Dee Ramone and G.G. Allin. This was recorded live on stage (sans audience) at some ungodly early hour at CBGB. Do not listen unless you are strapped in, because you’re in for a ride. – Robert Barry Francos

I love the SHE WOLVES, both their music and as people. Funny thing is, I’ve never been a metalhead, but they touch a place that wants to rock, much as Slade did, I guess. Sadly, I’m missing them play at one of their “homes,” Otto’s Shrunken Head, even as I write this. Get me my hairshirt! Anyway, they have this release of early material called “Mach One: The Early Years”. Hmm, actually, I would think this should be called “Mach One-point-Five”. Before evolving into the chrome melting metal goddesses (and god…haven’t forgotten you, Tony), the band was a heavy punk outfit with Laura Sativa on bass. After her departure, the ever-eloquent Gyda Gash took over and enabled the metal-tude. Most of the material here is post-Laura, hence the “1.5”, as I would consider Laura the “1.0”. Either way, the music sometimes smolders, other times grinds, but it always grabs the listener by the scruff of the neck to say “pay attention!” There are self-covers of some fun songs like the killer “Art of War” and Ramonesesque “Hundred Bucks” and other originals (happily, including drummer Tony WolfMann’s very fun/strong “Chainsaw”. Thing about the She Wolves is that they are musician’s musicians. They usually have some kickass guests at their shows, ranging from Thin Lizzy to Love Pirates, and onward. Here, they do numbers with powerhouses such as Sylvain Sylvain (“Sheena is a Punk Rocker”), Jayne County (Dead Kennedy’s “California Uber Alles"), and the Fuzztone’s luscious Deb O’Nair (yes, Rudi, you’re luscious, too). From one end to the other, this will not only tear out your heart with it’s buzzsaw sound, but it will heal you back with it’s solid rhythm. ( – Robert Barry Francos

I came across vocalist Sarah Paolini on My Space, which led to me getting the opportunity to hear this CD, "Despite the Battle" (1661 La Presa Ave, Spring Valley, CA 91977), by her band, COLPORTER. I was already impressed by their clever name. Rather than Tin Pan Alley, Sarah fronts and plays bass for this metal trio who are more Iron Skillet Over the Head Highway. Unlike the standard guitar-fueled studio-clear sound of hair metal bands, Colporter are not afraid to get down and dirty as they sludge and grind out their sound, like humans rubbing rather than hitting. The only ting really “crisp” is Sarah’s vocals, as she strides the metal monster. The song topics range from warriors (“Despite the Battle”) to emotional angst (“My Darkest Hour”). Definitely a sound that works for them. – Robert Barry Francos

Last time I reviewed THE MARIANNE PILLSBURYS, I was mistaken to put them under singer-songwriter genre. I had the pleasure to see them play in Brooklyn on their home turf, and they were so much fun pop rock’n’roll. They continue to show a “girls” perspective on The Hot EP (Average White Girl, c/o, but the music is rougher, and yet retains its charming pop rock oeuvre with incredibly catchy songs. This is highly recommended. All three cuts are killer, dealing with disingenuous friends (“Girls Night Out”), being pressured by /trying to change the person she loves (“Fixer-Upper Lover”), and a girl-power cover of Cyndi Lauper/Prince’s “When U Were Mine.” – Robert Barry Francos
My photos of the show with the Marianne Pillsburys:

On “Batten the Hatches” (, JENNY OWEN YOUNGS has a style that’s somewhere between Rickki Lee Jones and Martha Wainwright. It’s a little bit jazzy, a little bit rock, and full-on complex singer-songwriter. Her voice alternates between a whisper and a soaring creak with a flinty element has is both idiosyncratic and lovely to hear. Whether she’s second-guessing past dalliances (“Fuck Was I”) or wondering what to do next (“There’s no one I can think of I can stand less than you/Don’t you want to touch my hand before you go/I think I’m confused” from “Coyote”), there’s a spirit of honesty always present. Sometimes the lyrics are somewhat cryptic, but still the overall sound is quite accessible. “Keys Out Lights On” reminds me a bit of kd lang’s “Constant Cravings” (melody line, not vocals). This finishes up with a “child-friendly” version of “Fuck Was I”, which I find more humorous, like a kid isn’t gonna know what those blank spots are. Certainly an admirable effort. – Robert Barry Francos

Knowing it’s a cliché, judging a book – or in this case an artist – by her “cover” is a pleasant surprise. LAURA CHEADLE is a young white woman with a big guitar, and on her self-released “Falling In” ( she shows that she has just a big a voice, with a solid R&B, bluesy, jazzy, soulful sound. She applies her voice well, in a way that would makes the likes of Bill Withers or the Reverend Al Green smile. Very ‘70s blue eyed soul with sexy inflections, soaring from a blast on one cut to a breathy whisper in another. Now that the cover has been removed, I now think, of course, Laura is playing what is natural to her, and a pleasure to listen. – Robert Barry Francos


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Relax, it’s a meatball, you will love it.

This versions adds pine nuts and currants. Another popular Sicilian variation is more about the lemon. It adds lemon zest and wraps the meatball in lemon leaves for moistness. The lemon meatball is a summertime favorite and I will get to it for sure.  Tonight I make the classic way I know how to make a meatball.

Did I mention how I love meatballs. I love them because they are chock full of flavor. They make a great appetizer and leftovers are a no brainer. Can you say meatball sandwich? And, you make them with whichever meats you like best. The real kicker though with meatballs are they don’t even have to be meat! Eggplant meatballs are wonderful so are veggie meatballs and fish meatballs. You get the idea. I make my meatballs FODMAPish. They are gluten-free, onion free for those of us with Celiac or ibs and so on. Adapt a meatball today, lol.

I never make a small batch of meatball, that’s just sacrilegious.

1lb ground beef

1lb ground veal

1lb ground pork

6 slices gluten-free bread (Udi’s millet chia)

2 eggs

Fresh  parsley

1 or maybe 2 minced garlic cloves (depending on my mood)

Sea salt/pepper

1/4 cup chopped basil

1/4 cup pine nuts

1/4 cup currants

1/4 cup or more of fresh grated Pecorino Romano cheese (I probably actually use 1/2 cup)

Olive  oil/vegetable oil

In a large mixing bowl mix all the different meats together. Soak Bread  in water for a few minutes. Then squeeze dry and crumble into bowl. Add all other ingredients and mix well. Roll the meat in your hands forming balls the size you choose. Heat the oil in large fry pan and fry meatballs until crisp. I use half olive oil and half vegetable oil in fry pan.

Serve just fried or add to a sauce. Tonight I poured a chunky marinara over the meatballs with a gluten-free pasta. Mangia!

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Princess Spring

Another spring morning lured me out into the back yard, where the newborn green is surging up- and outwards. Time for my garden shears to jump into action.

First I attacked a herb that grows fast and relentless. Its roots crawl into every direction just under the soil, usurping all in their path. I don’t know the name, but the smell is delicious. These are the youngsters that have now the freedom to roam again.

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Next to these enthusiastics is this thoughtful modest bush. The dry old seeds had to make way…

for the new growth.

To my surprise the Spanish daisies made it through winter! How about that! Must have been an exotic winter here in the Netherlands.

And if by any chance you feel sorry for the oldsters who bravely fought to survive the cold months, take a look at what happened under their own eyes.

How green can it get? 🙂

Warmest welcome to you, Princess Spring.

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Walter Salles produces Santiago Mitre’s second film – a remake of the controversial “La Patota”

By contributing blogger Benjamín Harguindey

Dolores Fonzi (left) takes over diva Mirtha Legrand's (right) legendary role.

Dolores Fonzi (L) takes over Mirtha Legrand’s (R) role.

Walter Salles’ production house VideoFilmes will be co-producing Santiago Mitre’s second film “La Patota”, a remake of Daniel Tinayre’s classic 1960 social thriller. The international co-production is a result of a 2010 film fund intended to finance four co-productions a year between the countries of Argentina and Brazil.

Salles, the director of The Motorcyle Diaries (2004) and more recent mainstream movies like Dark Water (2005) and On the Road (2012) is a self-proclaimed admirer of Mitre’s first movie The Student (2012) and has called him “one of the most talented young directors in Latin America today”. Shooting will commence in August in the jungle province of Misiones, Argentina – also the shooting location for recent co-productions The Ardor (starring Gael García Bernal) and Red Soil.

La Patota will see the return of The Student’s protagonist Esteban Lamothe in a secondary role next to Oscar Martínez, but the star is Dolores Fonzi, who’ll be taking the role originally played by Mirtha Legrand’s. The 1960 movie – a controversial story about a woman who is brutally attacked when she returns to her homeland – competed at Berlin and everything’s pointing towards another hefty film festival contender, backed by a strong international co-production structure.

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#TheDarkKnightRises IMAX (2012)

Saw it on IMAX after hearing that part of it was shot using IMAX camera, so it means it is supposed to be watched this way with its original source! In other words, digital recording is best played back with digital uncompressed transfer…So I digress, and so is the beginning of the film. I mean who the hell is Dr. Pavel (Alon

Gotham City as shown in Batman Begins.

Gotham City as shown in Batman Begins. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Aboutboul) and those hooded guys in sacks? Then there are the CIA agents, two planes, blood transfusion(for DNA identification of the substitutue)?! Mid-air stunts … Well, everyone dies, except Dr.Pavel and Bane (Tom Hardy), who wears a muzzle of sort.

Our attention is now turned to the new Gotham city‘s mayor, Nestor Carbonell, immortalising Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart) of the last instalment The Dark Knight (2008), and the Dent’s law that has kept Gotham city safe post-Dent. Commissioner Gordon (Gary Oldman) is still here.

Bruce Wayne is pretty much in retirement, and Wayne’s enterprises is in the red. Perhaps as a reflection of the financial crisis in 2008, there is a short-selling board member, Daggett, who wants to defraud the market and get rich… Bane is involved with his scheme, and causes chaos in GSX. Alright, back to Bruce with a cane, who gets startled or excited when a service-girl being nosey in his room, who escapes jumping out of the windows, landing on her feet, and into the congressman’s car who she flirts with earlier in the party. You guess it, only one type of animals that can jump from a 10 storeys building and lands on their feet: Catwoman (Anne Hathaway). Well, I have to say, after seeing this, this is the probably best Catwoman rendition among the other two, Michelle Pfeiffer in Batman Returns (1992), and Halle Berry in Catwoman (2004). I will definitely watch if there is another spin-off of Catwoman or a sequel. The greatest thing is to see how Catwoman matches up to Batman in every way in this film! (Now that’s a relationship that will last, cause they agree they are equals).

I think the main actor of this film is not Batman(Christian Bale), but Joseph Gordon-Levitt as a rookie cop turns detective, Blake. (Joseph Gordon-Levitt is someone to watch out; mark my words, he could be the next Leonardo DiCarpio!). As said in one of the scenes, a hero can be anyone! with mask or no mask, known or unknown…I think Robin Blake will become one of those?! We will have to wait and see how he turns out.

Now since I do like the campy Batman and Robin (1997), not because of George Clooney‘s Batman and his nipples armour, but because of Uma Thurman‘s Posion Ivy, hence, I remember Bane! Bane is a criminal, in that version, who is injected with posion, which gives him strength, and he also has a head-gear to keep the poison gas going. I guess it is the same here, just that we don’t know what Bane is getting high on in this film. The counterpart for Dr. Pamela Isley I guess will be Miranda (Marion Cotillard), perhaps. Miranda is hot for Bruce too, and she sits on the board of Wayne’s enterprises. Talking about conflict of interests. Nonetheless, she is probably the only 1% that can bail out Wayne’s enterprises plummeting stock price.

Yes, the story, where am I? Bane! he becomes the warlord, the 1% are being kicked out of the upper-east-side’s apartments, their homes being ransacked, Gotham city is now ruled under anarchy, and to top it off, a nuclear-steel-ball will wipe the city out in 60 days-ish. However, Batman is broken literally, and incarcerated in Bane’s prison, where there is a stone-well-wall that anyone in there is allowed to climb out. Legend has it only Bane climbed out of it alive.

Batman is Gotham city! and vice versa, he either dies in that hole and let the city be nuked, or climbs out of the hole and saves Gotham city. Which one will he choose?! I guess you will have to see it yourself.

Finally, here is a summer blockbuster that is up to par! (Unfortunately got tainted by that horrific incident in Colorado…RIP!)

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Movie Review: The Skin I live In (2011)

Spanish director and writer, Pedro Almodóvar, always delivers something shocking in his films, or at least unexpected. His films not only have strong female characters, but also some are intertwined with gender issues. Perhaps you remember some of his more known works: Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown(1988), Talk to Her(2002) , Bad Education(2004), Broken Embraces (2009) and his latest, I’m So Excited!(2013).

The Skin I live In definitely was original and would stay in your memory for a long time. I think it was smart for the production company to include Hollywood A-List actors to boost sales in North America: Antonio Banderas and Penélope Cruz

Dr. Robert Ledgard (Antonio Banderas) is a famous surgeon and researcher. His research involves DNA engineering and skin cultivation. His obsession of developing skin in petri dish began after a car accident, where his wife received 80% burned to her body. Miraculously she recovered, but it was short-lived, she jumped to her death when she saw her disfigured face. Tragedy always ringed twice, when the mother jumped, she landed right in front of her daughter, Norma Ledgard(Blanca Suárez), who was playing with her toy cooking set in the garden.

Vicente(Jan Cornet) works at his mother second-hand clothing store, he does window displays and sometime makes dresses as well. A twenty something gets bored easy, he rides his motorbike in the middle of the day, and he likes to party and get high.

At a party where Dr. Legard and Norman attend, she is standing across Vincente, smiling. A group of young people go into the garden, getting high, and start frolicking. Vincente and Norma are on their own, taking a stroll down a path with tall trees…

Dr. Legard is looking for her daughter, and he finds her lying on the ground fully dressed, but unconscious. He sees a guy running and leaving with a motorbike. He follows him in a van, and catches up…

Vincente is now kept hostage in a basement/dungeon, hands cuffed by steel chains, a water basin is beside him. At the same time, Norma is back to the psychiatrist hospital she was in before the party. Shortly after, her fate mirrors her mother’s.

Dr.Legard has his own operation theatre in his castle, he has private clients that visit him. Vincente is now on the table, a group of surgeons enter, and they start operating on him.

In the kitchen runs by the housemaid, Marilia(Marisa Paredes), two monitors are showing every movement of a woman, Vera Cruz(Elena Anaya), kept in a room. Dr. Legard also uses a monitor to see her, except his is 70-inch in full colour. You can tell he is in love with Vera. Is it because of her natural beauty? or because he creates such beauty?

Vincente’s mother is desperate to find his son.

The science looked impressive, especially the lab Dr.Legard worked in, and the procedures he ran, but to achieve what he had done, I don’t think it was possible, not even in 2014.

Banderas didn’t play to the stereotype of Dr. Frankenstein, instead he transformed Dr.Legard as caring, loving, and intelligent. Anaya’s Vera was perfect in every sense, pretty, emotional, and with a drop dead gorgeous body. The final scene is worth every minute of this film you spend watching.

WATCH…the ultimate revenge of, and punishment for, a woman abuser. Imagine how the world would change, if the science were achievable!

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Mr Amit Shukla: General surgery

Mr Amit Shukla

General surgery

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Specialises in

  • General
  • Lower GI surgery
  • Upper GI surgery

About me

Amit Shukla underwent his medical and surgical training in India. In the UK he began his training at the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle and after completion of basic surgical training in the North East of England, he undertook a period of research at the University of Edinburgh into stem cell derivation from the liver.

His interests lie in medical education and development of colorectal surgical techniques. Since joining as a consultant at Lincoln County Hospital in 2011, he has continued to develop his surgical skills and add more procedures to the range of operations that he carries out.

Hi is the lead clinician for the colorectal MDT (Grantham to Lincoln) and the principal investigator for the trust on the national EPOCH trial.

Areas of interest

Laparoscopic procedures ('keyhole surgery'); Colorectal surgery; abcess drainage; appendicectomy; Cholecystectomy; hernia (epigatric, femoral, inguinal, umbilical, incisional); bile duct exploration; skin lesion removal; chrones disease; anal fitula surgery and botox injections; colonoscopy; colostomy; haemorrhoids; halo; haemorrhoidectomy; ileostomy; colectomy; pilonidal sinus surgery (limburg); ingrown hair; Hartmanns reversal; sigmoid colectomy; sigmoidoscopy; lateral internal sphincterotomy; rectal prolapse

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  • H2502

    Diagnostic flexible sigmoidoscopy (including forceps biopsy and proctoscopy) - (1-5)

    BMI The Lincoln Hospital (1-5)

  • H4130

    Perianal excision of lesion of rectum (including sigmoidoscopy) - (1-5)

  • H5510

    Laying open of low anal fistula (fistulotomy) +/- insertion of stitch, +/- video assistance, (including sigmoidoscopy) - (1-5)

  • H5100

    Haemorrhoidectomy (including sigmoidoscopy) - (1-5)

  • L7032

    Haemorrhoidal artery ligation operation (including image-guided) +/- recto anal prolapse repair - (1-5)

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    Proctoscopy (+/- biopsy) - (1-5)

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Ms Stella Neocleous: Counselling , Psychotherapy

Ms Stella Neocleous

Counselling, Psychotherapy

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Specialises in

  • Counselling
  • Psychotherapy
  • Short Term Psychodynamic Therapy
  • Solution Focused Brief Therapy

Bupa specialist

  • Video & Telephone remote therapy sessions

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Bereavement; Depression; Anxiety disorders; Individual therapy; Work-related stress, Childhood sexual abuse; Relationship issues

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Spring Rise Physiotherapy Clinic: Physiotherapy

Spring Rise Physiotherapy Clinic

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Specialises in

  • Acupuncture (MSK)
  • Back pain (MSK)
  • Domiciliary
  • Musculoskeletal
  • Sports injuries (MSK)

About me

Highly experienced and motivated physiotherapist with a good record (over 30 years)and wide knowledge in the field of musculo-skeletal injuries (with a preference for spinal problems and sports injuries) and also with a high level of managerial skill.

Areas of interest

My areas of special interest include:- Assessment and timely treatment of acute and chronic low back; Thoracic and neck pain; Personal injuries post road traffic collision.

Also have vast experience in managing musculo-skeletal problems affecting the peripheral joint e.g. post operative total knee and hip replacement, cruciate ligament reconstruction, shoulder resurfacing and replacement and carpal tunnel decompression to mention a few.

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    Follow on musculoskeletal session (physiotherapy) - (5-50)

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    Initial musculoskeletal session (physiotherapy) - (1-5)

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Mr Nadim Noor: General surgery

Mr Nadim Noor

General surgery

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  • Vascular surgery

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Endovascular Surgery

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SIMULTANEOUS INTERPRETER Meetings, conferences, seminars, presentations, speeches. GOVERNMENTS, EMBASSIES, INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS, international events.
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Certified interpreter by the local authority of Botkyrka (Justice- Welfare), Sweden Embassy, Consulate, government work and United Nations High level professional with impeccable references Reliable, confidentiality guaranteed EXPERIENCED, EXCELLENT PRESENTATION

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Dans les secteurs d'activités suivants:
International organizations NAFTA EU Peace institute Education PR Information Politics

Domaines de compétences:
Legal, International trade, International security

Directions concernées par les interventions:
International Management Litigation

Types d'interventions:
Short-term and contract

Formations suivies:

- Master of Science degree in economics, with a major in macroeconomics and a minor in political science
- Bachelor of Science in International Relations
- Studies in Social Policy and Political Economy
- Graduate studies in Social Policy
- Doctoral studies at the Nordic Institute for Asian Studies in Copenhagen, Denmark.

- A- University Course Linguistics French
- A - University Course in Theoretical Philosophy

- University degree in French
- University degree in Spanish
- University degree in Swedish

-Proficiency Diploma United Nations English
-Proficiency Diploma United Nations- Spanish

Born in France from diplomat parents, was raised and educated in South America, traveled to Sweden to complete University education in the Law, Political science, political economy and languages.

Works to and from ENGLISH - FRENCH - SPANISH- SWEDISH without any difficulty.

-Worked several years at the United Nations, last at the Information Division, English conference section.
-Extensive travel to the US/Canada, South east Asia, Australia, South America, Scandinavia and Europe.
- Worked as in-house translator and interpreter for an Investment banking institution in Hong Kong; Senior legal interpreter in Singapore and Montreal (Quebec);
- Worked as Press Attache at the French Embassy in Sweden and as an interpreter at the Delegation of Sweden in Geneva (Switzerland);
- Interpreter at the Parliament of Sweden for visiting foreign delegations, last with a parliamentary delegation for whom I had to interpret from Swedish to Spanish and Spanish to Swedish; from French to Swedish and Swedish to French at the same time;
- Interpreter at the International Conference on Tourism held in Goteborg (Sweden), speeches and presentations from Swedish to French and French to Swedish
- Personal assistant to delegates at several International Conferences on Security held at the SIPRI Institute in Stockholm, Sweden.
- Interpreter NAFTA region: French, English,Spanish

Formations animées:
When I do not travel, I am a high-school teacher in English, French and Spanish; I also teach Art History and Oils and Watercolors Painting to adults at the ABF Centre in Sweden

Outils informatiques maîtrisés:
Mac and PC user
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A couple of pretty, but unusual views of the fairgrounds, turn-of-the-century-ish. The message on the postcard at the top: “Carrie the fair was real good this year better than it has been for years. Edna”

And then there’s this view, “Fair Park Scenery.” Same period as the top one? Later? It shows the “Vehicle Exit.” “Vehicles” meaning buggies and wagons?

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I think the top postcard shows the entrance — I have another view of the entrance that looks like this, from around 1900 (see it here). And the bottom card? “Scenery” near the Vehicle Exit. So … a parking lot? Or a road leading to the exit? Whatever it is, it’s not really all that “scenic.” Both postcards are fairly odd choices for picture postcards of the Texas State Fair, as neither one shows anything of the actual fair! But if people had fond memories of driving into or out of the State Fair, these were the postcards to buy!

Postcards from eBay. The second one (with photo by Clogenson) is currently available, here.

Top postcard’s 2-cent stamp was issued in Nov. 1903, per Wikipedia.

Photo in link showing the Main Entrance to the fairgrounds is from The Bohemian magazine, Autumn, 1900; from the Fort Worth Public Library Archives. (It was included in my post “The Fair Is In the Air — Let’s Go!”)

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Posted in Comandău, Romania by folkestonejack on October 2, 2015

The hoped for good weather had not materialised by the time we headed to Pension Mara for breakfast. If anything, the skies looked cloudier than ever with no hint of a break coming our way. Nevertheless, we made our way down to the station so that we could be ready to pounce on any change in circumstances. Our steam locomotive, 764-243, was ready and so were we.

Although the long wait for a change in the skies left us with much time to kill we it also offered plenty of opportunity to look around the commune and the part-derelict complex at its heart. One of the buildings here contains four locomotives (three steam locomotives and one diesel) that had been used on the system in the past and Georg kindly arranged for the doors to be unlocked so that we could take a closer look.

The commune has appeared quite isolated to us as visitors but I wonder if it feels the same to the locals, or indeed, if that could be a good thing in its own way. If the roof of one building is to be believed there is a disco in town, which is quite impressive with a population of around one thousand. I guess that steam is still only a very occasional sight here as the locals seemed quite interested in our little photo-charter.

With no sign of a break in the clouds above us, or in the far distance, I set about photographing some of the abandoned buildings. In one empty window frame a chicken stood, surveying the strange sight of photographers wandering all over his territory. It was a measure of our boredom that the answer to the question “Are you going for the chicken at the depot shot?” was yes. It was soon suggested that this would make its way on to a slide show in 20 years time, but until then this rather naff shot is available here!

One last shot at Comandău

One last shot at Comandău

In the end we tried a few half-hearted photo-stops in the cloudy conditions, though it wasn’t long before we cut our losses and re-boarded our bus ready for the long drive to Brad. Frustratingly, we learned that the sun had been shining at Vișeu de Sus and Moldoviţa for the past two days!

Going Kommandó

Posted in Comandău, Romania by folkestonejack on October 1, 2015

Our day in the commune of Comandău (or more accurately, Kommandó, to use the Hungarian name) began with the sight of our locomotive (0-8-0 tank locomotive 764-243, built by MÁVAG of Budapest in 1911) on the back of a low loader. Astonishingly, the lorry had come up the same twisting road as us and was now ready to be unloaded along with a load of planks (our freight for the morning’s loaded run towards Siclau). It was certainly impressive to see her steam down the ramp and onto the tracks at the terminus.

The moment of truth

The moment of truth

The origins of many of the forestry railways in Transylvania can be traced back to the arrival of the standard gauge railway and such is the case here where the branch line of 1891 spawned two very different lines that climbed 1000m to reach Comandău – one by means of a spiralling track slowly gaining height and the other by a much steeper inclined plane. It is well worth reading The Railway Age in the Carpathian Forests: A Study of Romania to appreciate the full story.

Unlike most forestry systems, the centre of operations on this system was at the highest point rather than down in the valley (including administrative buildings, a sawmill and loco depot). At its peak it was the largest forestry railway system in Romania, if not the Carpathians overall.

The remnants of the logging complex at the heart of Comandău

The remnants of the logging complex at the heart of Comandău

The system at Comandău fell into gradual decline following the damage caused by flooding in 1974, but repairs ensured that the railway staggered on to the 1990s. However, the system never really recovered from a dramatic reduction in felling to help the forests recover after the wild storms of 1995. The sawmill closed in 1999 and railway operations ceased with immediate effect. The restored sections of line available to us today give just a little flavour of what a marvellous system this was in its time.

After watching the shunting around the terminus we set off in mid morning’s for a short run in the direction of Siclau that would take our train along a re-built section of line across the bridge over the Râul Cuțan. The sun even deigned to make an appearance!

On the move at Comandău

On the move at Comandău

In the afternoon we set off for a run deeper into the forest with some empty logging trucks, travelling around 7km towards the end of the line at the old loading point of Cumpana. Here a TAF forestry machine was waiting to load a pile of logs on to our train ready for the return to Comandău. However, nothing about this was as straightforward as it might have seemed to the casual passer by.

You might think that obtaining logs to create our authentic looking logging train would be quite easy in an area entirely surrounded by forests and where logging is the primary industry, but no, by some strange logic the local companies would not supply the logs we needed out of a ridiculous fear of competition from the railway. Instead, the logs would have to be transported from a forest 60km away!

As if this wasn’t already complicated enough, there was now the added complication of the rather extreme, if understandable, bureaucratic processes brought in after recent scandals over illegal logging in Romania. In order to transport logs by road you need a transport number from a central authority in Bucharest. Any transport without this number risks confiscation if stopped. Needless to say, this system hadn’t quite anticipated photo-freights! Thankfully, a solution was reached and everything could go ahead as planned.

Building a bridge for the delivery of lunch!

Building a bridge for the delivery of lunch!

On arrival at Cumpana we still had the small matter of our lunch delivery to attend to. A minor technical detail emerged at this point – our lunch was on one side of the river and we were on the other! No problem at all it turned out… the TAF forestry machine picked up a couple of logs and built an impromptu bridge over the river. Ingenious.

I’m glad that we were not made to savour the delicious combination of schnitzel, gherkin and mash potato from afar! It was well worth all the construction of the log bridge, as were the two superb home made liqeurs (made from cranberries and blueberries respectively) that it was all washed down with.

After everyone was suitably fed and watered the crew got on with the job of loading our wagons. The process was interesting to watch at first, but after the second wagon was fully loaded I joined the rest of the British contingent on a pleasant walk down the track back to the bridge where we spent an hour, maybe two, before the loaded train arrived (it had derailed twice on the way, necessitating re-railing with jacks).

Crossing the river with a loaded train in late afternoon

Crossing the river with a loaded train in late afternoon

It was certainly worth waiting for our train as the four runpasts with the loaded train over the bridge were probably the best photographic opportunities of the day – even if we didn’t quite manage to get the colour in the sky that we hoped for.

The opportunity here was a significant improvement on the spot by the river further up the line (from earlier in the afternoon) where I was reminded of one of the essential commandments of railway photography – if you are going to risk getting your feet wet, the shot better be worth it. Needless to say, I only remembered this as my feet plunged into the icy water and my soggy socks made sure I didn’t forget it in a hurry. And no, the shot wasn’t worth it!

All in all, it had been an interesting and rewarding day. It seemed only right to have a beer to celebrate with Hungarian-style Ćevapi and pancakes in the evening! Tomorrow we will try again and hope that the forecaster’s promise of blue skies and sun delivers…

The long drive to Comandău

Posted in Comandău, Romania by folkestonejack on September 30, 2015

The long drive south to our accomodation in Comandău was something that most of us had been dreading with Georg’s prediction of a nine hour slog. I didn’t know whether to be cheered or alarmed at the prospect of our would be racer in the driving seat, but it did seem likely that we would be able to shave something off that time by dicing with death in the traffic.

Our driver’s secret turned out to be divine assistance, crossing himself at every church that we passed along the way, though this didn’t make his overtaking attempts any less terrifying! On one occasion he committed us to an overtaking move with a lorry heading straight for us and no place for us to go. Thankfully the lorry driver pulled over to the side of the road to let us complete the move. Occasionally his efforts (such as a pass of two lorries and a police car) received a round of applause, though I don’t think he needed any encouragement from us…

Although it was a long drive there were plenty to see along the way. Inevitably this included no shortage of churches, ranging from beautifully decorated parish churches to big, ugly monsters (such as the Catedrala Înălțarea Domnului that we saw under construction as we threaded our way through Bacău). Other sights included abandoned mills, a MiG-21 plinthed at a roundabout outside Bacău airport and signs from the old Austro-Hungarian border.

Around 7pmish we made our way across the Oituz Pass (inevitably accompanised by hair-raising overtaking moves on lorries on the zig-zagging roads with no margin for error) and started to see signs for Covasna, near our destination.

Unfortunately, the main road to Comandău was closed so we needed to take a detour up 20km of unpaved road (not shown on maps) to get to the hilltop town. The road used to be the steep and dangerous forestry line (running from Brateş to Comandău) which closed in 1945, probably requiring two locomotives to cope with the steep incline, though no-one around today has seen it to confirm the detail.

A crashed van in a ditch at the start of the road looked ominous, but our progress through the pitch darkness was not too eventful with only the occasional logging truck coming the other way. However, it was really hard to believe that civilization lay at the other end of this! Finally, we arrived at 9.10pm. Our drive had taken 7 hours and 20 minutes.

A hot dinner awaited us in a hunting lodge with a memorable selection of interior fittings (deer skulls and antlers decorated with shiny baubles!) and then we were taken by taxi to our pension near the station. Along the way our driver explained that Comandău is a little pocket of Hungary in Transylvania, with a population of about 1000, all of whom are Hungarian rather than Romanian. It’s hard to see much of the place in the darkness, so tomorrow will give us our first proper view of the place.


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Today: Make like Executive Editor Kristen Miglore and keep blanched vegetables in your fridge at all times -- you'll be halfway to lunch.

Blanched Veg

Over the weekend, needing to move some sacks of greenmarket produce forward in their life journey or lose them to compost, I just blanched everything in succession -- green beans then broccoli in one big pot, baby potatoes then a few eggs for dinner in another. (Or, rather, I ignored most of the rules of proper blanching, and just squeezed as many vegetables into pots of salty water as would fit, boiled them till they were just tender, then scooped them out into a colander to drain. No time for small batches when you're hungry.)

That night, I ate the 8-minute eggs and piles of warm, relaxed vegetables dipped in a really mustardy homemade mayo -- I didn't have lemon or garlic, or it might have been lemony or garlicky -- as I believe Canal House would do. All week I'm carrying the leftovers to work and pouring our nice olive oil, flaky Jacobsen salt, and spice blends over it (today was a La Boîte Moruno N. 21 day -- cumin, coriander, and saffron!). I already feel better than the days I just eat salad for lunch (and the days I just eat cake).

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Hawaiian Turkey Sloppy Joes

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  • 1 tbs vegetable oil
  • 1 cup diced onion
  • 1/2 cup diced green pepper
  • 1/2 cup diced red pepper
  • 1 cup crushed pineapple in juice
  • 1/2 cup ketchup
  • 2 tbs hoisin sauce
  • 1 tbs teriyaki sauce
  • 1 tsp fresh ginger, minced
  • 1 pint prepared deli coleslaw
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  • Preheat a large nonstick pan over medium-high heat.
  • Add the vegetable oil, onion and peppers . Cook for 2-3 minutes or until softened.
  • Meanwhile, mix together the crushed pineapple, ketchup, hoisin sauce, teriyaki sauce, and minced ginger. Set aside.
  • Add the ground turkey to the pan, break apart into small crumbles, and cook until lightly browned and fully cooked, about 4-5 minutes.
  • Add the pineapple mixture to the pan and bring to a boil, then reduce heat to medium-low.
  • Simmer for an additional 5 minutes.
  • While mixture cooks, lightly toast the buns.
  • Scoop the meat mixture onto the buns, followed by a large spoonful of slaw.

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See, the kiddies at Wall and Broad tried to be petulant and stupid yesterday, but once they were put into timeout overnight, things didn’t look so scary.

Right now, it’s like the banks are playing “old maid”, except the old maid is a plague-ridden corpse and you can’t trust your neighbors at all. The economy is by no means safe or fixed or whatever “mission accomplished” euphemism one might apply here. But the sky is absolutely not falling. If the regulators would simply take action to increase transparency (and kill “mark to market“), things might ease up.

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Ayon CD5S Tube Replacement

I I have recently purchased the above in excellent condition and very happy with the outstanding performance.
The improvement over all my previous CD players is amazing with drastic improvements to resolution, imaging and superb mid/range with another octave of bass!

This player allows streaming via USB and the results are equally impressive highlighting the performance of an exceptional DAC.

The CD5s came  boxed and with the Ayon User Manual  - that did not provide any useful information regarding tube replacement.  I expect the 6x4 rectifier tubes may need to be refreshed - as I notice after turn on the display pulses for a while but becomes stable after about 15 minutes.  I am not sure how many hours this machine has done so I would prefer to simply change the rectifiers_

Can anyone explain how to remove the top plate of the CD5s  to  enable tubes to be replaced as this is NOT obvious and secondly which brand of tubes work best for the power supply and signal path (6h30)?

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It looks like you're going have to open this one from the bottom. First see if you can remove the door on top where the CD goes in. If it does come off, flip the player over. If not, rest in on one of the sides.

The top should come off in one of 2 ways. Start by removing the bottom cover. (You may have to remove the feet to access all of the fasteners). Once the bottom is off, you may see a rod in each corner that runs from the bottom of the player and connects to the cover itself. If you do have the rods, there's a good chance you've already removed the fasteners that hold them in. If you have the CD player resting on its side, you need to be very careful because if it you removed the rod bolts in order to take the bottom off, the top will just fall out. I know this sounds complicated, but once you see it for yourself, its a very simple procedure.

Here's the other option. You need to remove the bottom for this way, as well. Once your inside, get a flashlight and start looking. You should see some type of rails that run around the inside permitter of the case. Those rails support the top cover, and they should also have some screws in them. Those are the screws that hold the top on. Remove them and it should come off. As with the above method, if you have the CD player on its side, make sure you are holding the top plate so that when you remove the last screw, it doesn't fall out.

If you're confused about the rods in my first example, do a google search for a Wadia 850, 860,861,27. (The case is exactly the same on all of them). If you look through the pics, you should have no problem finding one with the top cover off and the rods visible. But like I said before, its an easy job.

If you want a manual, call The Cable Company. They sell the entire line, and may actually be the importer (I'm not 100% on that, though). Either way, they'll help you get one. They also have a big selection of tubes. Ask them for a recommendation on what will work best. I can't vouch for them, but I can tell you that I've been dealing with them for 20+ years, and they have my complete trust. That's saying a lot because I don't trust anyone.
This is a late post but may help anyone with the same question. I have the CD5s and certainly agree it is spectacular! It opens from the bottom with a special long Allen Wrench that reaches through holes in bottom. Call USA Tube Audio and they can send you a short video of opening the unit. Bets tubes to Replace the 6H30's are Russian Reflectors NOS from the mid 70's to 1980, they will take sounds to new level. The power supply tubes are good to go as the stock ones. These are all 10,000 hour tubes but I would consider replacing them when they are about 5 years old depending on use. Hope this helps!
It is best to watch the video that Gammajo mentions. It is not just removing the screws from the bottom, but also how the machine needs to be handled to prevent damage to the internals. I have a CD5s also and agree that it is a really nice player.
I am an owner of  AYON CD-5 (bought used, but prob had very little hours on it, looked brand new), and it is really an amazing player (or DAC, as it used 80% of the time). I had the same question, and found on AYON S-3 manual on page 40 instruction on opening the unit, which has the same case as CD-5. But video indeed will be better.
Now I am thinking what tubes I should (and should I) replace. What tubes are actually inside - is it known?
It specifies (4) 6H30 and (4) 6Z4 in the manual. The 6Z4 are Chinese made tubes with very few substitutes. They are pretty inexpensive. I was experiencing some tube noise in mine and changed them all out. I used Electro Harmonix gold pin 6H30s, so the complete tube change out was less than $200. I can't say if NOS 6H30s would be an improvement over the EH, but I am satisfied with the result.
Thank you for this info!
When you replaced tubes, what 6H30 were originally in? Sovtek?
It has been several months ago so I am not 100 percent certain, but I believe they were Sovtek. They were certainly nothing special (i.e. pricey NOS tubes). Knowing how it sounded with the inexpensive factory tubes, I had no problem going with the EH to replace them.
@csmgolf  thank you again! Did you use regular EH 6H30Pi, or "selected by vendor" (i.e. matched triodes, low microphonics, etc)?
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I haven't used them for a while. I remember there were
problems with inventory before they reorganized. How are
they now? Has anyone used them since they have started
the 99 cents per item shipping? I'm planning to make a
purchase of 4 dvds, and only one is in stock. Is this a bad idea?

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I just made a purchase for them for 3 DVDs from their Bargain Basement selection. I got my DVDs in great order in about 4 days. I never got any email confirmations that they had sent out the order or had received the order but I still received them without any problems. IMO, they're still pretty sketchy when it comes to selling items that they don't have stock for. If you do order, they might also charge you first even though they don't have the items yet because they call it a point of sale, ie, they made the sale so they can charge you.

01-15-02, 11:16 PM
I've ordered from them a couple of times since they "came back from the dead" and have been pretty happy. (I've gotten a couple of amazing deals in their "Bargain Basement".)

In general, I think if the web site says they have something in stock, you can be comfortable ordering it and knowing that you'll get decent service. But they don't seem to be back on their feet yet in the sense that I would feel comfortable using them as a "primary" e-tailer and preorder stuff there.

I use Amazon, CDNow, DeepDiscountDVD, or DVDPlanet for my main purchases and preorders. I use DVDExpress to hunt through the virtual bargain bins. Maybe someday they'll be a bit more reliable as an online store, but they aren't there yet. Just doing a search on their site for random titles will show you that their inventory is pretty low and sporatic.

And, yes, ordering out-of-stock merchandise there is a bad idea. Lately, it's best to assume that if they don't have something, they ain't gonna get it.

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I just ordered some bargain basement stuff a few minutes ago. I was really disappointed the last time I ordered from them and I still have orders from over a year ago showing as "pending" that I have tried to delete. I think there are still problems, but I am intrigued with their Bargain Basement. It seems that they are trying to reduce inventory of less-popular titles. There are good bargains there sometimes, but once they sell out of a title, they do not restock it and it shows up as "unavailable". This sort of indicates to me that they are trying a new business strategy by stocking and selling more mainstream & new release stuff, which means they are planning on being around a while. I figured I would take another shot at it and see what happens.

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Does anyone stream a clearchanel radio station with iheartradio through xbmc? Im struggling to find the best solution. I run xbmc on win7. I found some information on streaming via the command line on linux. Ive modified it to run on windows using Mplayer. I also have a python script that finds the current rtmp url for a given station (they change occasionally) so I can stream a station using mplayer simply by inputting the station Id, "keey-fm" for example. But Im having trouble getting xbmc to play the stream. Does anyone have a working solution for this integrated into xbmc? or should I just use the launcher plugin to open the normal stations flash player in a browser?
You can play RTMP streams in XBMC using an STRM file. See http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=HOW...io_streams for the details.

If you have a stream that plays in mplayer but won't play from an strm file post the mplayer command line here, i.e. the command to play the stream with mplayer, and we can tell you what to put in the STRM file. There are a few differences e.g. "--live" in mplayer becomes "live=1" in a stream file.
Have you done a search on youtube recently?

There is a tutorial showing iheart radio on XBMC.

I have found a plugin here: https://code.google.com/p/divingmules-re...ip&can=2&q=

It is working perfectly fine for me in the Frodo build. The application is not very featured, but it got the job done for what I needed.
Since I installed KODI, I can't get iHeart to work at all, does anyone have a solution?
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Coach Experts! I need help with a vintage one!

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    It has alacantra lining!

    I posted it in the Authenticate this thread, but really I don't think it is a fake. I really just wanted to know what year it was from. Decade? I think its really cool but I want to know just How Vintage it is...

    Mods please please please don't get mad at me for posting about this purse twice :flowers:
  2. dang i saw this on eBay last week.. it is not fake... i think it may be a madison or something like that???
  3. This is from the Grammercy Collection, which has a cross-hatching texture to the leather, Made in Italy. While the Madison was tight pebbled leather. If I recall correctly, it was from the 80's-90's? Please correct me, if someone knows the correct dates. The bag is authentic!


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Shop Tangerine close out sale!!

  1. shop tangerine is clearing out their old inventory to get ready for new stuff. Use code FINALSALE to get 35% off:
  2. Thank you sooooo much for posting this!!!! Those of you who like splendid tops...this one is for you. A lot of there stock has been liquidated, but I was able to get my hands on a dozen great splendid tops for dirt cheap!:yahoo:
  3. oh I wanted to get some splendid tops but they are out of size large in all the tops I wanted so no new shirts for me. I could get a med but I like to have room to wash and dry my shirts w/o worrying about them shrinking and these don't shrink that much but still I hate tight shirts.
  4. No purses, but cute site. :p
  5. t4p!
  6. thanks for the post!
  7. thank you