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Hemingway and Wilde: What did they have in common? / Hemingway and Wilde: Što su imali zajedničko?

Today outfit is all about neutral and warm colours. We might talk about wearing neutral colours in Autumn because lately I've been warming up to a warm earthly colour palette. We might, but we won't. Instead of that we're going to talk about Hemingway. Ernest Hemingway. The importance of being Earnest. Actually, I could draw some parallels between Hemingway and Wilde, for example both of them had a very recognizable writing style. You could take a sentence from any of their works- and know their style immediately. Wilde was famous for his word play, Hemingway for the simplicity of his writing. You might be surprised to learn this, but there are some claims about Hemingway's homosexuality. Yes, the ultimate macho guy might not have been entirely straight.

One of my professors, had this theory that Hemingway committed suicide because of his homosexual experiments. Personally, I don't believe it. You can never really know why someone committed suicide.Hemingway, like his father, suffered from a serious health problem that made his depression worse (a condition that prevents iron absorption). In addition, Ernest was a heavy drinker for most of his life.  There isn't any real proof of Hemingway's possible bisexuality (I think we can rule out homosexuality on account of him being married so many times). Earnest (or Ernest) might be considered a fortunate name, but Hemingway seems almost a cursed last name. As all you might know, many individuals in Hemingway's family committed society, from his father to his siblings and himself to the most recent case- the suicide of his granddaughter who was a famous model.

Današnja odjevna kombinacija je u neutralnim i toplim bojama. Mogli bismo pričati o neutralnim bojama u našoj jesenjoj garderobi, jer u zadnje vrijeme sam nešto zagrijana za ovu toplu, zemljanu paletu boja. Mogli bismo, ali nećemo. Umjesto toga, pričati ćemo o Hemingway-u. Ernest Hemingway. Važno je zvati se Earnest. Zapravo bi čak i mogla povući neke paralele između Hemingway-a i Wilde-a. Možete uzeti bilo koju rečenicu iz bilo kojega njihova djela i odmah ih prepoznati po njihovom stilu. Wilde je bio poznat po svojoj igri riječima, a Hemingway po jednostavnosti svoga pisanja. Možda će vas to iznenaditi, ali postoje neke indikacije o homoseksualnosti ovoga mačo pisca. Da, toga ultimativnoga mačo tipa. Možda i nije bio potpuno heteroseksualan.

Jedan od mojih profesora imao je teoriju da je Hemingway počinio samoubojstvo radi svojih homoseksualnih eksperimenata, ali ja u to ne vjerujem. Ne može se nikada zasigurno znati zašto je netko počinio samoubojstvo. Hemingway je kao i njegov otac, patio od ozbiljnoga zdrastvenoga problema ( nemogućnosti željeza da se apsorbira u krv),  što je pogoršavalo njegovu depresiju, a uz to cijeli život je previše pio. Zapravo ne postoji nikakav dokaz biseksualnosti Hemingway-a (a mislim da zbog brojnih brakova i žena homoseksualnost možemo isključiti).  Earnest (ili Ernest) se može smatrati sretnim imenom, ali Hemingway prezime gotovo da nosi kletvu. Kao što možda znate, brojni pojedinci iz Hemingwayove obitelji su počinili samoubojstvo, od njegovoga oca, brata i sestre, njega samoga te (najnoviji slučaj) njegove unuke koja je bila poznata manekenka.

Hemingway and Wilde are both (at least occasionally) perceived as man who looked down on women in their writing, but I think this perception is false. I'm sure neither of them were ideal husbands, but their writing this suffer from it. Wilde is sometimes mistaken for a woman- hater, because of some quotes taken out of the context. In reality, Oscar Wilde supported the women’s right movement and suffragettes, he wrote for female magazines and advocated the rights of women. Hemingway is  criticized for being a misogynist/chauvinist, but if you have read ALL of his writing, you would have known him to be more complex than that. When it came to describing and examining gender roles, Hemingway was surprisingly bold for his time. Take for example,  The Garden of Eden, which also happens to be my favourite novel of his. There you have a women who enjoys pretending she is a guy. However, today I won’t talk about that one, instead I will talk about my first Hemingway.

Hemingway i Wilde su oboje (barem ponekad) viđeni kao muškarci koji su nepovoljno pisali o ženama. Mislim da ovo tumačenje i nema smisla. Sigurna sam da nijedan on njih nije bio idealan muž, ali to se nije odrazilo u njihovom pisanju. Wilde ponekad smatraju mrziteljem žena, na temelju nekih citata izvađenih iz konteksta. Zapravo je Oscar Wilde podržavao pokret za prava žena i sufražetkinje, pisao za ženske časopise i promicao prava žena. Hemingway-a također proglašavaju šovinistom, ali ako ste pročitali sva njegova djela onda ste vidjeli da je on puno složeniji od toga. Kada je u pitanju propitivanje uloga spolova, Hemingway je bio iznenađujuće hrabar za svoje vrijeme. Uzmite za primjer Rajski vrt, koji je moj najdraži njegov roman. Tamo imate lik žena koja uživa u tome da se pretvara da je muškarac. No, danas neću govoriti o njemu, već ću govoriti o prvome djelu ovoga pisca koje sam čitala.

The Old Man and The Sea was the first thing I've read by Hemingway. Hardly surprising, because it is a part of curriculum for 4th graders. Needless to say, I wasn't able to fully comprehend this story in fourth grade. Why? Because of the story itself? Because of some complex analogy? No, I actually don't believe there is a single analogy or symbolism in this story. It is a story about an old man catching fish, simple as that. What makes this story deep is not some symbol of analogy, but the  incredibly insightful psychological and spiritual portrayal of one old man. As a child, one is simply (and understandably) not able to relate to the experience of growing old- not in a way an adult can. As adults we can find new depth in this story. The story is only seemingly simple and straight-forward. The narrative composed of simple sentences makes you feel like you’re reading some simplified old fairy-tale, but that is only an illusion. There is a lot of profound sadness in this short novel. At the end of the story, you're either able to understand the old man or you are not.  You either get it or not.

Starac i more je prvo njegovo djelo koje sam pročitala. To i nije neko iznenađenje, jer je dio kurikuluma za četvrti razred osnovne škole. Mislim da ne moram naglašavati da nisam mogla potpuno razumjeti ovu priču u četvrtom razredu. Zašto? Zbog sam priče? Zbog neke složene usporedbe? Ne, zapravo ne vjerujem da u ovoj priču postoji ikakva analogija ili simbolizam. To je doista priča o starcu koji lovi ribu. Ono što čini ovu priču dubokom nije neka alegorija ili simbol, već nevjerojatno duboki psihološki i duhovni portret jednoga starca. Kad smo djeca, naravno da se ne možemo poistovjetiti s iskustvom starenja na način na koji to odrasla osoba može. Kao odrasli možemo pronaći novu dubinu u ovoj priči. Ova priča je samo na prvi pogled jednostavna. Pripovjedni slijed koji se sastoji od jednostavnih rečenica čini da mislite kako čitate neku pojednostavljenu bajku, ali to je samo iluzija. Ovaj kraći roman je ispunjen dubokom tugom. Na kraju priče, ili možete razumijete starca ili ne možete. Ili ste ga shvatili ili niste.

In fourth grade, I was able to comprehend this short novel from a point of a way of a child. I liked it, but I failed to see the full tragedy of it. I couldn’t really feel Santiago’s pain. How could have I had felt it at that age? How could have I know how cruel life can be? Children don’t need to know that and this story won’t let them know because the tragedy of it is not really in the open. It is something that is left to our imagination. This is the kind of story that takes a particular reader- one that is ready to open its heart to it. In order to understand it, you need to have been Santiago in some point of your life- or rather you need to be able to fully emphasize with him.  However, that is only one layer of this story. This is one of those are stories that are equally rewarding to adults and children. This short novel functions well on different levels. The message it will carry on to a child is different from those it has instore for an adult.

U četvrtom osnovne, mogla sam shvatiti ovaj kraći roman samo iz kuta viđenja djeteta. Svidio mi se, ali nisam mogla shvatiti njegovu punu tragediju. Nisam mogla doista osjetiti Santijagovu bol. Kako sam ju mogla osjetiti u toj dobi? Kako sam mogla znati kako okrutan život može biti? To djeca ne moraju znati i ova priča im to neće otkriti jer ta tragedija nije na otvorenom. To je nešto što je ostavljeno našoj mašti. Ovo je vrsta priča kojoj treba određeni čitatelj- onakav koji će joj otvoriti srce. Da biste ju razumjeli, morate biti Santiago u nekoj točki svoga života, to jest morate moži potpuno suosjećati s njim. No, to je samo jedan sloj ove priče. Ovo je jedna od onih priča koje su jednako bogate poukama i za djecu i za odrasle. Ovaj kratki roman dobro funkcionira na više razina. Poruka koju će prenijeti djetetu različita je od one koju će prenijeti odrasloj osobi.

Santiago is a fisherman, that is who he is. He loves and respects the fish, and he even wonders whether it is a sin to kill it. However, if he didn’t, what would happen? People wouldn’t stop eating fish, would they? Is it better to love and respect the fish you kill or does that makes the killing worse? My older self would say- it is always better to love. We must love…and unfortunately we must also be human- that is imperfect. With our imperfect brains, our imperfect bodies, our imperfect hearts, we must go on and love and try to live our lives bravely and with style. We all kill what we love. It is the tragedy of life. It is not possible to live and not to hurt anybody. We all inflict pain to ourselves and o others. We kill- in one way or other- others, ourselves, dreams and memories.  We’re pressured to do certain things and sometimes all we can do is choose between the lesser evil. To do what we can, to do our best- and held our head high even as we know it might not be or is not enough. And we must love...and always love and respect.

Santiago je ribar, to je ono što jest. On voli i poštuje ribu, pa se čak pita je li grijeh ubiti ju. No, kada to ne bi učinio, što bi se dogodilo? Ljudi ne bi prestali jeli ribu, zar ne? Je li bolje voljeti i poštovati ribu koji ubijaš ili to čini sve gorim? Moje starije ja ( možda i mudrije) kaže da je uvijek bolje voljeti. Moramo voljeti, a nažalost moramo i biti ljudi...to jest nesavršeni. S našim nesavršenim mozgovima, nesavršenih tijelima, nesavršenim srcima, moramo ići dalje i voljeti i pokušati živjeti svoj život hrabro i sa stilom. Svi mi ubijamo ono što volimo. To je tragedija života. Nije moguće živjeti i nikoga ne povrijediti. Svi moramo nanositi bol i sebi i drugima. Mi svi ubijamo, na ovaj ili onaj način, sebe, druge, snove i uspomene. Svi smo pod pritiskom da radimo određene stvari, ali nekad je sve što možemo birati između manjega zla. Učiniti ono što možemo, dati sve od sebe i držati glavu visoko čak i kada znamo da to nije ili neće biti dovoljno. I moramo voljeti...uvijek voljeti i poštovati.

“You did not kill the fish only to keep alive and to sell for food, he thought. You killed him for pride and because you are a fisherman. You loved him when he was alive and you loved him after. If you love him, it is not a sin to kill him. Or is it more?” ― Ernest HemingwayThe Old Man and the Sea

“The clouds were building up now for the trade wind and he looked ahead and saw a flight of wild ducks etching themselves against the sky over the water, then blurring, then etching again and he knew no man was ever alone on the sea.”
― Ernest HemingwayThe Old Man and the Sea

turtleneck/ dolčevita: New Yorker
blazer/sako: Modna kuća Nebo
skirt/suknja: Moda in
boots/čizme: Peko
bag: old

  1. great post!xoxo

  2. The enutrals in your outfit all look lovely together! :)

    I hadn't read that story actually, it sounds interesting! It was good to know a little more about the writers as well. Although I've heard of them I didn't know the backstories. So sad about Hemingway and his family.

    Hope you've had a great weekend :)

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  3. Nice place and look!

    xx LL

  4. very nice
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  5. Amazing landscapes! I love everything from your outfit. xoxo

  6. Such a beautifully written post, hun! I actually remember reading the Old man and the sea at school as well - it was part of our curriculum when I was about eleven, I think? Back then, I feel like I was too young to fully appreciate it, and I don't remember much about the story. Perhaps I should re-visit it some day, as it does seem like such a powerful and wonderfully written novel. :) <3 I haven't read anything by Wilde, but his writing is of course very well renowned. I really love your outfit in these photos, by the way! It looks so cosy and comfortable, and definietly like something that I could see myself wearing during these chilly autumn months. :) Thanks for sharing! Hope you're well. xoxo

    1. thank you Kay:)...yes, kids are usually about 11 or 10 when they get to read it in school. It is surely too young to be able to understand its message.

      The outfit was very comfy, especially these boots...I love them!

  7. That place seems magic, I fell in love :)
    nice look too
    A sweet kiss
    Sara M.

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  8. You look so elegant in this look my dear :)

  9. great pics and this place is so magic.

    kisses dear

  10. Come sempre trovo davvero molto interessanti questi tuoi post su libri ed autori che ti capita di leggere, e quasi sempre mi trovo molto d'accordo su quello che dici.
    Anche in questo caso, Hemingway è uno scrittore che non amo molto credo soprattutto perchè mi hanno fatto leggere i suoi scritti troppo presto (credo alle medie)!
    Io "il vecchio ed il mare" l'ho trovato noiosissimo quando l'ho letto la prima volta (soprttutto se poi lo confronti con libri per ragazzi come Harry Potter che uscivano proprio in quel periodo)e non mi è piaciuto per niente, per cui mi è rimasto antipatico anche l'autore.
    Poi mi è capitato di rileggerlo per caso anni dopo per aiutare dei miei amici che facevano teatro e lo volevano portare in scene , e nemmeno mi è sembrata la stessa storia!
    Secondo me è un grossissimo errore far leggere a ragazzini libri non adatti alla loro età, per quanto importanti e famosi siano! Io credo che per questo motivo ho preso interesse per una bella fetta della letteratura italiana e straniera, e sono una che adora leggere!
    Per quanto riguarda il discorso sulle donne, sono assolutamente d'accordo con te: sia Hemingway che Oscar Wild, non erano misogini, erano semplicemente contrari allo stereotipo della donna del tempo, e di conseguenza non idolatravano quel tipo di figura.
    Infine due parole sul tuo look, sei deliziosa e perfetta per il periodo autunnale, mi piacciono molto come ti stanno i capelli così! :)

    1. grazie per il tuo commento molto interessante...sono d'accordo com te, e una errore grave far leggere a ragazzini libri troppo seriosi!

  11. Earth tones and autumn really seem to go hand in hand and this outfit looks really stylish and coordinates nicely with the backdrop you've chosen. On the surface it would seem that Hemingway and Wilde would not have much in common so it was interesting to find out what they did share.

  12. Stai benissimo Ivana, i colori neutri ti donano moltissimo!

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  13. This is a really interesting read, Ivana as I would have never put Hemingway and Oscar Wilde together. I love your take on both of them too and I frown on your professor's theory on why Hemingway too his own life. Human mind are complex and the life we each lead are more complex so it's pretty hard to come to conclusion as in why someone who end their life.

    Shireen | Reflection of Sanity

    1. yes, those kind of sensational theories deserve frowning on...it is very hard to make definite judgements about any person we have not know personally.

  14. I unfortunately can't contribute to the literary material here because I am not as adept with literature, and I don't consider myself any expert in literature. However, I can contribute on the front of fashion, and I think you look great with this skirt, this blazer, and these boots. Fine smile and hairstyle as well.

  15. Lovely pics!

  16. hey ivana did u leave instagram? it was so good to come to your blog and see ur beautiful smile!

    1. yes, I had problems with my insta account, I think I fixed it now.

  17. Non avevo mai fatto una riflessione in questo senso su questi due grandi autori!
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  18. Great outfit, and the text is really interesting, I love it!

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  19. Wow, such a beautiful.I love everything in this outfit. You look so beautiful <3

  20. Such a lovely look from you my dear and what an interesting read is this!!! I know both authors as I have met their works in school. I have read the novel of Oscar Wilde entitled The Picture of Dorian Gray and it was definitely one of the best pieces of literature that I have ever read! Unfortunately, I haven't read Hemingway yet, though I plan to buy his book The Old Man and the Sea this December as a birthday gift to myself hehehe and I never knew that he was thought as somebody who is homosexual. But I know about Oscar Wilde being one and his ideas about homosexuality were also all over his written works. I am very surprise and intrigue about Hemingway. And sorry I didnt read the part where you wrote about him here because I don't to know what the book is all about so I won't have to deal with any spoilers like how it ended ahaha
    Thanks a lot for such wonderful and inspiring post my dear! I cannot wait to share what I know today to my friends as well <3

    love lots,

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  22. You are so right, dear Ivanna, the way we read a book when we are children and then when we are adults, is completely different - we will have two different perceptions. Even when we read a book for the 2nd time, our perception changes. I don't think Hemingway committed suicide because of homosexual experiences. Like you said, it is a disease, and he suffered from that, as well as some people in his family. I told you once, one of my Master exams was about Great Expectations. Some authors claimed that Pip had homosexual experiences, but others never mentioned that. And what if the characters or authors had? That is not our business, how someone will live life... as usual, I love your posts, so much food for thought! Hope you have a nice week, dear Ivana!

    1. yes, when we read it for a second time, our perception often changes too. You're absolutely right about that!

      Personally, I didn't see those homosexual refrences when it came to Pip...I think that literary critic sometimes run off imagination or they don't want to sound like everyone else so they invent scandal even where there is no scandal to be found.

  23. I'm not a huge fan of Hemingway's writing style, but Dorian Gray is one of my favorite books. Oscar Wilde was such an interesting and charming individual!

  24. un look davvero molto bello Ivana, mi piace il mix di colori
    buon mercoledì, un abbraccio
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  25. I am glad that you are doing what YOU LOVE, Ivana - combining your passion for fashion and books in one post! The photos of Autumn are beautiful. The one with bare branches against blue sky demonstrates your point especially well, deeply touching! I have a great respect for both writers, and an especially soft spot for Oscar Wilde.

    And you look SO BEAUTIFUL in these soft warm color palette, your gorgeous figure is just a perfect canvas for this type of outfit!

    1. thank you dear:) it is fun to combine our passion for fashion with other things, isn't it?

  26. You look amazing dear

  27. This is a lovely read. The images looks amazing too.

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  29. Četvrti razred? Stvarno je prerano. Kad bi ta lektira bila bolje prilagođena uzrastu, verujem da bi više ljudi volelo da čita. Ovako mnogi vuku "traumu" pa i dalje veruju da to nije za njih. Ja se ne sećam kad smo tačno to imali za lektiru ali verujem da je bila srednja škola. Ja volim Hemingveja i mogla bih uvek iznova da ga čitam. Način na koji je završio sa životom je kranje tragičan i besmislen, ali opet, on možda ne bi bio tako čuven danas da je živeo dosadnim životom...
    Divne su mi ove jesenje osunčane slike i tebi zemljani tonovi jako lepo stoje :) I sama nešto naginjem neutralnim bojama. Nekako moja ljubav za šarenilom polako popušta. Makar za sad :)

    1. da, ipak je malo prerano za shvatiti priču. Mogla bi se lektira malo bolje prilagoditi...da, možda i ne bi toliko čuven, ali u njegovom slučaju iza slave je stvarno talent.

      Hvala...možda je nas ljubav za šarenim napušta zbog godišnjega doba? Nekako me u jesen više privlače ti zemljani tonovi, jedino možda mo se još te zlaćane nijanse nose.

  30. Jao jeste, citali smo je kao jako mladi i nedovoljno zreli da razumemo poentu price. Cak mi se cinila i dosadnom u tom uzrastu. Ali, sada svakako prepoznajem njenu vrednost.
    Interesantno mi je citati i o zivotu samih pisaca, a tragicna sudbina Hemingveja svakako budi paznju, a pogotovo cinjenica da je toliko ljudi iz Hemingvej porodice stradalo od samoubistva pa cak i unuka. Strasno!
    Divna si mi u zemljanim tonovima, bas ti lepo stoje.
    Lep pozdrav

    1. da, izgleda da je kod njih to i nasljedno (mentalni problemi), a nažalost djeca samoubojica imaju više šanse i sama počiniti samoubojstvo...strašno je to zapravo.

  31. Dearest Ivana,
    neither Hemingway nor Wilde are well known to me as authors. From Hemingway I read "The Old Man and the Sea" during our Cuba trip, because it just fit well. But I can not say I liked the book. I'm not a friend of sad stories, it just felt depressing. And as far as Wilde is concerned, I know only the filming of his works - e.g. The importance of being Earnest and The Picture of Dorian Gray... The first thing I found quite amusing, the second has a fascinating idea, but I felt nu urge to read something of Oscar Wilde afterwards. (Very briefly, one can put it this way: I think that books written a long time ago can not really bind me very much. They obviously contain too many thoughts that have nothing to do with the world in which I now live... )

    On the other hand, your outfit is very contemporary and attractive - it is wonderful to you, I like the colors and the mix!

    Hugs from Traude (just returned home from vacation)

    1. thank you Rostrose, I know what you mean. Sometimes it is easier to connect with more 'up to date' things, but I usually read literature from all time periods.

    2. and I hope you enjoyed your vacation:)

  32. This is such a lovely look to see you on Ivana, it's sophisticated and serious, yet feminine at the same time - funnily enough, similar to how some of the most well known female character depictions have been in the greatest works of literature! It's always interesting to hear your thoughts on this topic, as you clearly know what you're talking about :)

  33. Oh, dear Ivana, you are also so well-educated in the context of literature! I never thought about what Hemingway and Wilde could have in common but your thougts are convincing. I think neither that Hemingway commited suicide because of his sexual preferences - for me it seems as the reasons are really in his family (inheritance) and I think furthermore it was not easy for him being that heavy drinker ...
    I love your loo, you look so elegant in these shades!
    xx Rena

  34. The old man and the sea was also my first book by Hemingway and until today I don't like Hemingway. I've read some more of his books but I couldn't warm to them, his books really got my back up, if you know what I mean. While Oscar Wilde is one of my favorites. I just love his writing, his wits, his books. And I love you look today, Ivana. Love the earthy tones of the outfit.

    1. I know what you mean, he is just not your cup of tea. Oscar is one of my favs too.

  35. Very interesting, that you write about Hemingway and Oskar Wilde in one post. I´ve read some books of both of them a long time ago. I liked them both at that time. I think, the old man and the sea was also my first novel I read from Hemingway. Your analyses is very accurate.

    Now I have to say a few words to your georgeous look. I like these warm colours and the contrast of the bright skirt and the dark tights. It´s a very sophisticated, feminine and chic outfit. You look beautiful!

    Love, Nadine

    1. we do seem to have a similar taste in books dear Nadine. I'm happy you like my outfit as well.

  36. Stvarno mi nije jasno zašto je ta knjiga uvrštena u kurikulum za tako maldu dob, ali da...i ja se sjećam da sam je čitala kao dijete i da mi je bila toliko dosadna da sam mami plakala kako ja to ne mogu čitati (što je bila rijetkost jer se meni gotovo sve sviđalo) a ona me silia jer je bila lektira :) Poslije sam je opet čitala negdje u srednjoj gdje mi je opet bila grozna, ali mislim da je problem ležao i u ovome o čemu pišeš (da trebaš imati određene kilometre na satu da shvatiš neke autore) ali i u tome što je meni Hemingway bio strašno odbojan jer sam u to doba bila strašno u zaštiti životinja i feminizmu, a on je bio strastveni lovac (ukoliko se ne varam) i imao šovinističke izjave plus žigolo i alkoholičar...hahaha :) He didn't stand a chance! :D Što reći osim da bi on i ja možda mogli pokušati zakopati ratnu sjekiru...

    1. da i meni je na temelju svoga javnoga ponašanja bio odbojan, ali je pitanje koliko je toga bilo i preuveličavanje medija, a koliko i možda neko njegovo provociranje. Meni se zapravo percepcija njegovih djela promijenila kada sam pročitala The Garden of Eden koji me podsjetio na Tender Is The Night od Fitzegeralda ( a navodno je sličnost namjerna, neko natjecanje između njih dvojice).

  37. Nice combo of look! I like also the place and the big tree :)) You look great hear Ivana!

  38. i love the play with the sun and shade by all those pics. i love your oufit, specially your nice jacket - this looks superb and elegant!
    you know always to wear the right stuff my dear.

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Have you noticed the “new” trend in thinking about schools?

I put “new” in quotes because, of course, it really isn’t new at all. In fact, you might call it a renaissance of the thinking that we’ve always known to be true about bringing kids together to learn with adults in shared spaces.

Maria Montessori knew it. John Dewey knew it. Seymour Papert knew it. Deb Meier has known in for half a century: Learning happens more deeply when kids are in charge, when they have choice, when they have freedom and agency.

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The Albemarle Tech: The Center for Creativity and Invention, a new school in Virginia this fall, is a:

Full time experience without learning time limitations, curricular divisions, or traditional grading practices. Students will have the opportunity to imagine, design, collaborate, and complete projects both within their own school community but also with community partners through internship opportunities. These experiences will meet the needs of each individual student, and by writing their own learning contract with support and guidance of educators, students will declare their goals, decide what they want to do, and even how many credits they should earn. When complete, students will report to the school community on their accomplishments.

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Is a student-led, independent and tuition-free high school that makes students better leaders and the world a better place. The school was designed by a small group of students with the belief that students could make a real difference if empowered to follow their passions.

Or, a school that came up recently in a discussion in Change School, the Candlebark School, which runs on the premise that:

The rigid authoritarian structure of schools, which extends to, inter alia, curriculum, timetables, behaviour management and subject choices, is at odds with the kind of world today’s young graduates will enter.

Everywhere you look, it seems, schools built on principles that differ from those of what we might call “traditional” schooling are becoming more and more in vogue to write and talk and think about.Yet despite the growing numbers of these types of schools where kids are “successful” by all the traditional metrics (except, perhaps, for stellar test scores which are becoming increasingly irrelevant anyway,) the rhetoric from most educational leaders remains “it’s not an option.”

Case in point: Recently, I was invited to speak at a statewide school boards convention where I got the chance to talk at length with a number of superintendents and board members about the state of learning, schooling, and education. To a person, as much as they agreed (to varying extents) with the premise that schools need to be rethought, they shook their heads and waved away any possibility of real change occurring. They cited all the usual suspects: state standardized tests, parent pressure, fearful teachers, college admissions, and on and on.

I get it. Lots of barriers. Lots of reasons to be pessimistic about making it happen. So?

If you really do think schools could use a refresh, why start with why not?

I mean, what if, as a school community, you came at the problem like this at the outset: “We’re not changing anything. But we need to talk.” I mean, if you don’t think you can do much else, but you’re feeling like all these other schools might be on to something (which they are,) start talking.

That might let you create some space to dream, to get out of the box, and to start a conversation about what you’d want to create if those seemingly intractable barriers weren’t there. It might let you get to a discussion about what really, really, really matters, and let you start to imagine a new vision to work toward. (If you haven’t noticed, it’s hard to make change happen without an end goal in sight.) It might get you to a point where some of those barriers won’t seem as big as they used to.

Granted, just talking won’t make change happen on its own. At some point, talk has to turn to action. And no doubt, should you decide to go past the discussion stage, I’m not saying the work won’t be excruciatingly difficult. (If it isn’t, you’re probably not really changing much that matters.) No one is suggesting that the barriers those folks cited (and more they didn’t bring up) aren’t real and difficult.

But the fact is, other people are talking and dreaming and creating and solving the problems of the barriers. Fact is, there isn’t a single barrier that anyone has ever thrown out there as a “why not” that someone, somewhere hasn’t overcome to create a more powerful learning environment for the students they serve. (Let me know if you think I’m wrong about that.) Fact is, it’s easier to start by saying no, but no one is required to start there. That’s a choice.

The irony is, of course, that as much as we love touting the fact that our kids need to be curious, creative, problem solvers who can adapt in a fast changing world, we’re not really owning that ourselves very much as school communities. I mean, would we ever take a student aside and tell her that the important, relevant problem that she has a real desire to solve is just too hard and then encourage her to move on to something easier?

So why is it that’s what we tell ourselves?

Five More to Read This Week:

How the Startup Mentality Failed Kids in San Francisco – A somewhat brutal but important read if you want to know what not to do to create great learning environments for kids.

Learning in the Fourth Industrial Revolution – I’m always interested in those who attempt to make sense of change while in the midst of it. While a bit long, this is a good attempt by Jesse Martin that educators should understand as a context for their work.

More States Opting To ‘Robo-Grade’ Student Essays By Computer – Not surprising, but raises some important questions about what we’re asking our kids to create.

After the Education Wars: Book Review – Since I mentioned Deb Meier above, I’ll urge you to read her latest post regarding a new book by Andrea Gabor. (Looks interesting…)

In These Divided Times – One of my favorite teachers and bloggers offers some profound thoughts on technology and privilege. A really powerful and important read.

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    Will, I like the idea of asking “why not?” I think by starting the conversation with “why not?” you free people to consider alternatives. However, I have had the unfortunate experience of talking with school administrators/superintendents who told me we can’t have those conversations about school change with teachers, students or parents because once they hear about or talk about those options they will want them. Their fear is once that Genie is out of the bottle they won’t be able to get it back. Sad.

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    I agree. The message is “start talking”. In 2017 we invited Laura McBain (HTH) to our school to host a viewing of MLTS for Ps, Ss, Ts and board members. This sparked conversation that led to the creation of a new HS program called IDEATE. Definitely a step in the right direction.

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i am playing along with the weekly senses photo feature from Mary Catherine’s blog this week.

i am a dreamer. i think big and dream bigger. the problem with this is that i find myself not being satisfied in whatever moment i’m in. i’m living in the future or the past too much. i feel that focusing on this photo exercise put some perspective in my day: if i’m experiencing something nice pertaining to all 5 of my senses in one day then i’m doing alright. i have it pretty good no matter what my ambitions are telling me. I was able to find all these little gratitudes in a span of about 60 minutes:

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i’ve been making more of an effort to thoroughly use our fruits and veggies before tossing in the compost. the smell of grapefruit after scrubbing the sink with the leftover peel and the smell of fresh veggie stock helped me connect to our blessings in the nourishment department. (yeah, the pot boiled over. so much for the morning stove wipedown.)

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darla and i have a little ritual of scooping out the cream from the top of our freshly opened milk jugs. we get them every other week so it’s a treat to each have a spoonful once in a while. the taste of this week’s spoonful helped me connect to this small part of our life that i hope darla will remember when she is older. just she and her mama sharing fresh cream and feeling it’s a treat every single time.

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a touch of warmth is back in the sunshine. so that means it is real sunshine now. the kind that you can feel warm your skin. you can see my pasty white skin drinking in the vitamin d. the feeling of warmth connected me to the promise of springtime and brighter days to come.

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the fiendish look of accomplishment my girl makes when she’s sneaked a treat. it’s impossible for me to be irked by her cookiesnatching ways. the sight of this smile makes me grateful time and again.

this one was a given. mike won tickets to Father John Misty & The Walkmen this week. it has been quite a drought since my last concert so i was feeling very thankful to get back to some live music. also, i am grateful to have a husband that has calling in to radio stations to win tickets down to a science. i missed most of father john misty due to a birthworkers meeting but made it just in time for 2 of my favorite songs so it was ok. have a listen to my fave above.

that’s all friends. hope you continue to have a grand weekend!!!! xoxoxoxo

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Eugene Atget: The Eternal Inspiration is the record of an exhibition at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum that ran from December 2017 till January of the next year. It is part three in a series of exhibits held by TOP about Atget, the previous two showing in 1992 and 1998 respectively. This show specifically highlights Atget’s influence in America and Japan in the 20th and 21st centuries, and collects work from Atget himself as well as Americans Alfred Stieglitz, Man Ray, Berenice Abbott (as well as her prints of Atget’s work), Walker Evans, and Lee Friedlander; Japanese photographers Moriyama Daido, Araki Nobuyoshi, Fukase Masahisa, and Seino Yoshiko; as well as Atget contemporaries Henri Le Secq and Charles Marville. In addition, the book contains supplementary essays by Suzuki Yoshiko and Yokoe Fuminori.

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Eugene Atget “Saint-Cloud” 1904

Yokoe’s essay walks the reader through the history of Atget’s life and work, in the process debunking common misconceptions, including a background to his methodologies, context for his work, and details of his complicated relationship with Berenice Abbott as well as Man Ray and the surrealists. Atget did not see himself as an “art photographer” or a surrealist, yet many saw in his work something beyond mere documentary. In the posthumous 1930 book Atget: Photographe de Paris, Pierre MacOrlan writes that photographs can contain “sentimental knowledge” and “a truth that can serve as a point of departure for our own interpretations”. In some ways, truth was not quite as solid as Atget perhaps trusted it to be in his life’s work: the project to photograph the disappearing Old Paris.

Seino Yoshiko “Everywhere – Gather Yourself – Stand” 2009

In her posthumous, second photo book, Everywhere – Gather Yourself – Stand (2009), Seino Yoshiko echoes MacOrlan, “Today…We cannot focus on anything and the present gets diffused for everyone. What, then, do we try to find in the images of photographs? I do not believe that photography is a medium that represents memory, history, story, or sentiment alone. I do not like such photographs anyway. It has become clear to me that photographs that just consume our “hope” eventually fail to reach us. Photography makes sense only when it manages to find a narrow passageway; it becomes valid only when the photographer manages to create a “passage”. The passage opens up before the viewer and what lies ahead is left for [them] to decide.”

Seino Yoshiko “Everywhere – Gather Yourself – Stand” 2009

Atget did not wish to make any sort of imperative statement with his images yet at the same time didn’t see himself as an artist creating open-ended works either; his self-image was that of documentarian whose work would speak for itself in its neutrality. However, this precise lack of added narrative in his work is what attracted impresario gallerist Julien Levy, and Man Ray, to him. Suzuki Yoshiko writes of Julien Levy: “Drawn to the idea that the principal appeal determining whether a photograph is good or bad is concealed within an elusive ambiguity, Levy was preparing the groundwork for passing on the aesthetics of straight photography, which originated with Atget, to the next generation.” Ironically, what is named here as the defining characteristic of something “straight” is that mysterious and slippery quality called imagination. In trying to achieve an impossible objectivity without qualifiers, Atget opened up a new space for a genre of photography in between literal documentary, staged fiction, and figurative abstraction. Straight photography would come to define the 20thcentury even though its inspiration was largely unintentional. The Eternal Inspiration leaves no doubt in the readers mind that ambiguity is indeed central to photography’s ephemeral and sometimes mysterious power, even beyond the realm of straight photography.

Eugene Atget “Versailles, Parc” 1924-25

It’s this assistant librarian’s opinion that the photography that inundates us: advertisements, ‘non-fiction’ documentary and news, “Instagram friendly photography”, this is to say photography without history, or photography that “just consumes our ‘hope’” is artistic photography without this crucial yet unnamable ambiguity that Levy saw as the foundation of the now-anachronistic idiom of straight photography. The resulting void is replaced with commodity fetishism and spectacle – thus ambiguity in the age of digital advertising is a political and anti-capitalist quality. TOP’s volume on Eugene Atget may at first seem like an unnecessary rehashing of “old masters”, however the value of ambiguity cannot be overstated, and The Eternal Inspiration makes an absolutely convincing case for its title.

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House nation: Interview with Joey Negro

In this climate of reissues and retromania it’s easy to turn your nose up at major labels wringing pennies out of dormant rock acts with best-ofs or anniversary releases full of leftovers. Retrospectives in dance music generally aren’t as cynical.

With far fewer heritage acts, it’s a chance for an artist to take a bow, fill two CDs with gems, draw a line and move on. After 25 years as captain of the good ship UK house, it’s Dave Lee aka Joey Negro’s turn to blow his  trumpet. He’s sifted through hundreds of releases for his new compilation on Defected’s House Masters series — a house hall of fame with the likes of Kenny Dope, Masters at Work and Derrick Carter on the roster.

Speaking to me from his studio in north London, Lee says: “I could’ve easily put out four or five CDs but at some point you have to realise, ‘This is enough’. I’m not fed up with all those songs, but I don’t really think about them anymore. I end up just thinking everyone’s heard them but I forget there’s a whole new audience of younger people who listen to Defected and house music now who were probably about nine when these records came out, or younger even. I guess when you’re putting out old tracks that did well at the time, you’re generally less worried that people will think, ‘Well this is a load of shit.’”

Since he first started tinkering with drum machines and samplers in the late 80s, Lee has flitted between 30 or so aliases, including Raven Maize, Jakatta, Doug Willis and Akabu. The one that’s stuck is Joey Negro — an on-the-spot mash-up of obscure New York house don Pal Joey and proto-hip-hop pioneer J Walter Negro, when pressed for a name for his 1990 12-inch Do It Believe It. He has also dipped plenty of toes in the pop charts, with remixes for Lionel Richie, Diana Ross, Pet Shop Boys and Sugababes — and even produced Take That’s disco smash Relight My Fire.

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His biggest underground alter-egos are all on House Masters, as well as his killer disco remixes for Martin Solveig, Kevin Saunderson, Blaze and Masters At Work. It’s a scatter graph, joining the dots between snappy piano rave on Raven Maize’s Forever Together, the Sunburst Band’s loose jazz-funk and the sleek polish of Jakatta’s American Dream, a UK No3 in 2000.

Lee straddles the retro/futurist divide well — a house trailblazer still in thrall to the disco and soul that mutated into house in the mid-80s. This love of flamboyant US music didn’t spring up in a vacuum. Before Dave Lee cut his first EP, before he got his first synth, before he started working as the first dance music distributor for Rough Trade, he was a normal 70s kid in Essex, glued to Top of the Pops.

“I was buying glam rock and the odd chart record, then from ’77 to ’79 I was into chart disco like Shalamar and Heatwave and the Jacksons and those sort of things,” he says. “Then around 1980, my other hobbies, which were Scalextric cars and skateboarding, fell by the wayside and music became my main thing. I’d go to the local second hand shops and listen to the specialist soul dance show on the radio. They’d play an old record and I’d think, ‘I’ve seen a copy of that in a second hand shop in Ipswich or something, then I’d go back a month later and it’d still be there for 30p. So I bought lots of things like Roy Ayers albums and BT Express, and 70s jazz-funk.”

In 1987, Lee was recommended by a fellow record collector for a job in Smithers & Leigh vinyl store in London, and he recalls: “The first week I started Jack Your Body had come out that week on US import. There was a point where it really took off, with Bomb the Bass and Cookie Crew’s Rock Da House, the first S-Express single, and Pump Up the Volume. The graph then went off the chart. Anything with ‘House’ in the title. Shops would say, ‘Is it house? Yeah I’ll take 30’. There literally wasn’t enough of it to give them.”

Lee admits we can all be armchair cultural historians and gush about the acid house second summer of love, but was harder to grasp at the time. He says: “It’s like that Woody Allen movie Midnight In Paris. Owen Wilson goes back in time to these different golden eras in Paris and all the people are harking back to another age. He’s saying, ‘This is it, this is one of the best times in history’. And they’re like, ‘Ah it’s a bit boring isn’t it?’ I think that’s the human psyche.

“I could see there was a big change when house music came along, and early rave stuff, and big parties like Sundance. — but I was bloody working at Rough Trade all the time. Rough Trade was hard work. I was just permanently worried they were gonna sack me because my job wasn’t really secure — and they didn’t really know what my job was. When I started my label Republic I was doing that during the week, using an old studio with an old friend from school. In retrospect, if I was to go back I wouldn’t mind renting a nicer flat than the shithole I was living in and enjoy what was going on in London more.”

Through the ’90s and noughties, Lee released scores of 12-inches on his own Republic and Z labels, as the soulful house UK counterpart to Chicago’s Derrick Carter and DJ Sneak. An underground champion, he’s also landed  a “bucket list thing” on Top of the Pops a few times, as Jakatta (American Dream) and Taka Boom (Must Be the Music). “I Suppose as a kid I’d imagined myself in a spandex silver suit and a star-shaped guitar but I sat behind a keyboard dressed as an alien instead,” he says.

He reckons his TOTP slots were outliers, and he’s not ready to get his hands too dirty in chart politics and try to write another hit. He says: “Only the very odd dance track crosses over now with club play, but back in the late ’80s and early ’90s, most of the cooler records that crossed over were big club records. You could press up a couple of thousand white labels, all the DJs had got it, everybody was playing it but the punters couldn’t buy it. Then two months later you released it and everyone went out and bought it — in the charts with no radio play. Now to go in and make it a hit, unless it’s a huge fluke you have to make it cynically, but then you’ve even got to practice making it sound not cynical to pull it off.”

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Whether he’ll be bothering the charts or not, Lee is buzzing about current projects, rhyming off around 10 different tracks or compilations he has on the go, from “80s Hi-NRG stuff”, a rerun of an under-wraps “favourite old Detroit house record” with the original singer, and volume 2 of Remixed With Love — adding his groove to The O’Jays, Grace Jones and Robert Palmer.

He laughs when the to-do list throws up the same word over and over: “I guess I’m gonna use that disco word again.” So what is it about disco that makes it his one constant? “They were just really good songs. The musicianship and production was amazing, with budgets for the top orchestrators. A lot of the disco wasn’t with proper bands but session players, but they were bloody good,” he says.

A big disco revival was predicted when Daft Punk’s Get Lucky earworm bored into our skulls for over a year, and their Random Access Memories album a throwback to live session players and pristine prog rock production. But aside from the odd blog reappraisal list and more disco club nights, it hasn’t translated into many new productions, and Lee reckons this is down to simple practicalities.

“I wish that had meant there were a few more records like that croseed over,” he says. “But more of the hits have been EDM and deep house rather than disco. Get Lucky was a massive hit but there weren’t a load of other tracks that sounded like Get Lucky. I think that whole Daft Punk album was one of the best marketing exercises ever. A fantastic job of pushing that sound to people. but I honestly think if Get Lucky wasn’t by Daft Punk and didn’t have that campaign behind it, it wouldn’t have been a  big hit. I just think it was the amount of money and having those very famous people on board. Having Pharrell singing on your track is going to increase its profile by hundreds of percent — the same with Nile Rodgers.

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“I don’t think there’s been anyone who’s managed to copy that or emulate that. Let’s face it, unless you’re just sampling a disco record it’s harder to make than deep house. When you sit down in front of your laptop there isn’t a guitar player or brass section. It’s much easier to come up with a house piano and sound 90s than it is to sound like a 70s disco record.”

Maybe after years of disco being mocked as house music’s daft uncle, it’s been hiding its sophistication in plain site — and Lee reckons the music that’s kept him in a job for 25 years is here to stay: “It was derided as worthless music for idiots who went to nightclubs and would be forgotten soon — but it’s maybe the most influential, sampled, rehashed music of the time. I love kraftwerk and other bands who arent anything like disco, but I guess I’m loyal in a way. I don’t just move with what’s in vogue.”

  • Joey Negro’s House Masters is out now on Defected

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Hit The Deck

Wednesday, July 11th, 2012

As we cruise along the river (oh so pleasant) we have 66 locks to traverse as the river level changes, we encounter small hydroelectric dams and different rivers. Our boat slides into the lock and the gates close behind it and the lock fills with water and we exit out the front at a new level.Pretty slick, and can you tell there are no rivers in San Diego?

We also find some very low bridges! The Captain’s pilot house hydraulically lowers into the ship and those of us on deck must decide where to be. Tho’ the deck chairs are low, today I threw myself onto the deck in order to keep my head!

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JAMA and Pharma Freebies: Same Slander, Different Day

Much ado about pharma freebies to physicians. Much ado about nothing medically, and everything politically.

A new study published by JAMA Internal Medicine (Pharmaceutical Industry–Sponsored Meals and Physician Prescribing Patterns for Medicare Beneficiaries) makes it sound, as Meagan McArdle has written for Bloomberg, that your doctor is “willing to sell you out for the price of a sandwich.” It’s not that simple…or true.

The JAMA methodology:

  • Cross-sectional study of 279,669 physicians that received industry-sponsored meals (retrieved from Open Payments program) and wrote Medicare part D prescriptions in any of four drug classes: statins, cardioselective blockers, angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors and angiotensin-receptor blockers (ACE inhibitors and ARBs) and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs)/serotonin norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs)
  • Prescribing rates of promoted medicines were compared with in-class alternatives adjusted for volume, demographic characteristics, specialty and practice setting

It’s important to note that “The findings represent an association and not a cause and effect relationship.” But you won’t find that in the media coverage. Also, the Open Payments data and Medicare Part D prescription data are not temporally linked. As John Adams points out, “Facts are pesky things.”

Mechanism of association cannot be extrapolated from the methodology of the study; systematic confounding variables such as physician self-selection to attend the educational event and the effect of education itself obscure interpretation of the results. The study design is cross-sectional, only 5 months of payment data may not be representative of a full year and beyond. And, importantly, branded medicines that are often newer may represent advances over older generic agents with regard to efficacy and tolerability.

This is not a new debate nor is it new to the pages of the Journal of the American Medical Association. A widely cited 2000 JAMA article in summarized 29 published studies critiquing the interaction between doctors and drug reps. Notable feature of these articles, as quoted in the summary paper: “No study used patient outcome measures.”

Absent in 2000 and in 2016 was any discussion of how diagnostic and dispensing decisions are often influenced by external cost-control measures. Both JAMA articles allowed politics to trump the public health. The polite term for this is “normative bias.”

Studies and commentary that discuss alternative findings are generally ignored. In the February 7, 2009 edition of The Lancet, Richard Horton points out that the battle lines being drawn and between clinician, medical research and the pharmaceutical industry are artificial at best — and dangerous at worst.  Dangerous, because all three constituencies are working towards the same goal — improved patient outcomes. His main point is that we must dismantle the battlements and embrace of philosophy of “symbiosis not schism.”  It’s what’s in the best interest of the patient.

Information is an important lubricant for markets and yields numerous benefits to market participants. Open, honest, and regular communication is critical for alerting both doctors and patients as to what medicines are available, and for what diseases. No single person, especially a general practitioner, can keep up with all of the information available on drugs, let alone health care.

By one estimate every year some 1,700 articles are published in each of 325 professional journals on the 25 top medicines. Drug producers use a variety of promotional efforts to stand out in this information flood. One may like or hate the industry’s tactics, but there is nothing illegitimate about them.

From a strictly free market perspective, if there were only one drug company, there would be for that entity to speak with physicians. But who marketed anything in the Soviet Union? Imperfect though the process might be, marketing promotes price competition and lowers prices.

According to Paul H, Rubin, Professor of Law and Economics at Emory University and former Chief Advertising Economist at the Federal Trade Commission and Chief Economist at the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission:

Drug company reps offer overworked doctors useful, lifesaving information in an efficient manner. The drug companies are of course motivated by profit, but economists have known since Adam Smith that the profit motive is the best way to induce someone to do something useful. Marketing and research are both information activities; they work together to get effective drugs to patients. The two activities are not in competition for resources. The denouncers of drug companies don’t understand this. One of the senators sponsoring the bill suggests that “the millions of dollars these companies spend on marketing … could be put into research.” In fact, drug companies would not switch money from marketing to research. If they cannot market drugs in the best way, they will reduce spending on research. What’s the point of inventing a new drug if doctors and patients don’t know about it?

This is crucial — in all of the medical literature on drug sales, there was no evidence of harm to patients caused by doctors and drug reps sharing a few slices of pizza. Physicians who, by their oaths put patient welfare first wrote these articles. Yet they were critical of the industry based on analyses that totally ignore the only measure that really counts – patient outcomes.

“Good for sales” and “good for the public health” are not mutually exclusive.

A valuable takeaway from the new JAMA study should be that wide adoption of Open Payments reporting has led to transparent interactions and value exchanges of education, money and meals between the pharmaceutical industry and prescribers. These data are now available to inform and improve educational efforts to meet the treatment needs of patients using the latest advances in medicine and science. However, such data must be cautiously interpreted with full acknowledgement of study limitations and author bias.

In summary, the new JAMA study is devoid of any data regarding patient outcomes; omits all the variables physicians consider when treating their patients; assumes pharmaceutical sponsored meals are purely social gatherings in which no educational information is shared; and reduces complex prescribing decisions to a simple transaction.

Peter J. Pitts, a former FDA Associate Commissioner, is President of the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest

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Fifth Third Names Jay Plum EVP and Head of Mortgage

Fifth Third Bank has hired Jay Plum in the role of executive vice president and head of mortgage, tasked with helping lead the bank’s digital mortgage initiative and the growth strategy for the bank’s mortgage business.

“We’re excited to have Jay join us,” says Howard Hammond, head of consumer banking for Fifth Third. “His expertise across so many areas of banking and the markets that we serve will help us continue to improve our customer experience and grow the business. Jay brings a deep understanding of our communities and a commitment to our purpose.”

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The ‘L’ Word

By Elizabeth Speth

Love hurts.  Love scars.  Love wounds.

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Love is a many-splendored thing.

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All you need is love.

Love is the moon, jealous of the stars.

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Scientists have confirmed that both good and bad things happen to our brains when we love.  Or when we think we love, but maybe we just want to have sex.  We produce dopamine and ocxytocin, which make us feel pleasure.  They are the biological reward for mating.  Cocaine addiction, of course, does much the same thing to us chemically.

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The early stages of romance are linked with diminished levels of the neurotransmitter serotonin and of a serotonin receptor, which, to some degree, mimics the chemistry of obsessive-compulsive disorder and anxiety.

It’s wonderful and magical, and makes us write songs and sonnets.  It also makes our stomachs hurt, soaks our palms in sweat, dries out our mouths and makes us do stupid things.

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Love is agony and ecstasy.  We know all this.

We know that love takes up both spectrums of human emotion, but, as a society, have we allowed it to lay claim to everything in between?

Do we love too much?

I’m talking about the fact that ‘love’ may have become a useless concept, stretched and strained, overused and flabby.  Because we love everything.

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We love coffee and fast internet connections.

My son loves pickup trucks and old movies.  I have lots of friends who love cats.  I have even more friends who love cat videos.

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These days we love food trucks, but we still love restaurants.  We love social media.  If something is ‘trending’, that means we briefly love it.

As a pre-teen I loved disco, and I tried to love all of the Bee Gees equally.  Even though everyone knew Barry was the cutest. The first time I ever tasted prosciutto, I thought:  What wondrous love is this?

I know words mean things.  I respect the power of words.  As a writer, I try not to use the same one twice in a paragraph.  I agonize over exactly the right, the best, the most effective selection.

But I invoke the word ‘love’ a lot.

How can this be?  Can I truly love as many things as I say I do?

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If I love my children, can I also love dry martinis?  Is it okay that I love my husband, religious and political freedom, the great outdoors, and also Sriracha sauce?

Do I really love Downtown Abbey?  Actually, I don’t.  That family is exhausting.

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Am I lying when I say I love, at least a little bit, every one of my friends, a number of my co-workers, and also the fellow at the grocery store who gives me such good advice about wine?

I remember when I was in second grade, huddled with my best friend on the outskirts of a Catholic school playground, sneakily splitting a Snickers candy bar, despite the fact that Sister Joseph Adrian wielded a yardstick in the cloak room for such offenses.  Even then, a girl had to have her chocolate.

I told Felicia, around a mouthful of chocolate and peanuts and caramel, that I loved Snickers, and I was shocked when she sneered:  “Well, why don’t you marry it?

Though I was offended at the time, I got over it.  I realized she was repeating something she’d heard.  But the admonishment stuck with me.  The message she’d received from someone at some point, and passed along to me, was:  Hey!  You there, with the chocolate dribbling down your chin! It’s not okay to love too much! Rein it in, Nougat Breath!

The thing was, though, that I really did love that contraband candy treat.  I was passionate about it at that moment.  I cared about it as much as I cared about anything in my tiny life.  It was a real high point, and I’m not sorry I said so, Felicia.

I mean, if we have to avoid over-loving, who gets to decide what is love-worthy?

Where do we draw the line?

What if you are only allowed to love, say, the person you can legally marry?  And nothing else is allowed to be called love?  Ugh.  What a tragedy.

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If the list of things I love is miles long, albeit ever-changing, it would follow that I will neglect the list of things I hate.  There are only so many hours in the day, and I have a lot less energy than I used to.  Isn’t that a good thing?  In my case and also in the larger picture?

Ah, you say.  But the absence of love is not hate.  It’s indifference.

Well, maybe so.  But I still think love looks better.

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If I do a kind thing for a stranger on the street, I’d rather feel that small, temporary bridge of love than indifference between us.

“Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.”  Mother Teresa said that.  Are you going to argue with Mother Teresa?  Don’t, because I love her.

Historically, hate and indifference both get us into trouble.  And trust me, you won’t have mass sales on discounted chocolate the day after a holiday celebrating either.

I’d rather have a world full of shallow, shifting, transient (or deep, passionate, lasting) love than the alternative.  I really would.

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I think you were right, John Lennon.  All you do need is love.

Vincent Van Gogh was kooky, but he was right when he said:  “The best way to know God is to love many things.”

Happy Love Day, my friends.  I think you know how I feel about you.

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  1. I LOVE this. I heard about Felicia. She is rather ordinary and watches a lot of television. That we all love the life we live, down to the smallest lovely things.

    • Ironically, Felicia’s love life was a Rocky Road. Ha ha! Get it? Rocky Road? Like, the candy bar? Not a Snickers, but rather a Rock — oh…..never mind. Love you more than words can say, my sweet sister. Thank you for always slogging through my words.

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12 Monkeys: 4x10

The Beginning Part 1

The final battle against the Witness as the fate of time and mankind hangs in the balance. All the pieces finally come together to mark the end of the beginning.

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12 Monkeys: 4×10
Jul. 06, 2018

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Hannie Caulder is that rare female-led Western with the added rape-revenge angle which would come to more prominence in the 1970s with the likes of I Spit on Your Grave. However, while the “scene” is troubling, the performance from Raquel Welch was fantastic with honorable mention going to Robert Culp.

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Maleficent Mistress of Evil 2019

118 min

Quality: HD

IMDb: 7.1

Several years after discovering why Disney’s most famous villain had such a hard heart and what had led her to cast a terrible spell on Princess Aurora, “MALEFIC: THE POWER OF EVIL” continues to explore the complex relationships between the witch and the future queen, as they form other alliances and face new adversaries in their struggle to protect their lands and the magical creatures that populate them.


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Street Kings

Street Kings really only started to lose me after, say, the 10th twist…

Genre(s): Action, Crime, Drama

Director: David Ayer

Actors: Keanu Reeves, Forest Whitaker, Hugh Laurie, Chris Evans, Cedric

Year: 1951

MPAA Rating: R

Country: United States

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Street Kings is a bizarre and admittedly kind of fascinating cop movie. It suffers from what on the surface (and well, not so surface) is an “all cops are corrupt, even the good guy” plot that has been done before. It suffers from the limited range of Keanu Reeves in the lead role as the one not-so-clean cop that is trying to unravel the corruption within his own department. And it suffers from giving John Corbett a potty-mouth (which is truly snicker-inducing… nice try to break out of your nice-guy persona, John).

But there are several things that Street Kings has on its side. The film was co-written by James Ellroy, he of the modern film noir, who shook up detective dramas with his award-winning tale L.A. Confidential. The film is ably directed by David Ayer. And the film is filled out with a surprisingly solid supporting cast, including Forest Whitaker, Chris Evans, Hugh Laurie, and Cedric the Entertainer.

Keanu plays Detective Tom Ludlow of Los Angeles’ Vice Special Unit. Not sure what that unit does, but what Tom seems to do is crack important cases through, well, unorthodox means. He thinks nothing of shooting first, and asking questions later. He states at one point, “We’re the police. We can do whatever the hell we want. It doesn’t matter what happens… it is how we write it up.” At the beginning of the film, Tom gets media notoriety for solving the case of a couple kidnapped twins. His way of “solving” it is to get his ass kicked by thugs, strap on a bullet-proof vest, and go into a house alone, obliterating four armed men. Well, the police report polishes the story a little differently… but you get the idea. His ways are kind of dirty, but he gets the job done.

But when Tom’s ex-partner Washington (Terry Crews) gets mowed down super-violently (as in double-machine guns) in a convenience store right in front of Tom, well, he’s out to avenge the murder of a guy that wasn’t really his friend. By the time all is said and done, it is practically Shakespearean, not because of Keanu’s acting skills, but because almost every major character is dead from some super-violent means.

Street Kings really only started to lose me after, say, the 10th twist, which arrives late in the game at about an hour and a half in. I just about threw up my arms in frustration, as yet another seemingly good character turns bad, and Tom continues on his vigilante ways. The finale, regardless, is still kind of vaguely satisfying, so the film is worth sticking with for the long haul. You could certainly do a lot worse than with the creative folks behind such films as Training Day and L.A. Confidential. You could do a LOT worse.

The DVD of Street Kings includes feature commentary by director David Ayer, deleted scenes, alternate takes, and a few featurettes, including L.A. Bête Noir: Writing Street Kings, which does not live up to the potential of its name. I was hoping for James Ellroy, but he is nowhere to be seen as others, including co-writer Kurt Wimmer, talk a little about the writing of the film… the most interesting tidbit being that it was originally written to take place during the era of the Rodney King trials (explaining the particular explosiveness of the racial tension).

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