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Shaped by WWII and the Resistance
Oriana Fallaci was born in Florence on June 29, 1929 to working-class parents. Her father, Edoardo Fallaci, was a cabinet maker in Florence. He was also a political activist who struggled to put an end to the dictatorship of Benito Mussolini. Her mother was intelligent but was not able to cultivate her ambitions since she was not given opportunities to develop her talents. She was forced to cook and clean for her husband’s extended family. (Fallaci often said she became a journalist, then largely a man’s profession, in part to vindicate her mother). Her upbringing was not unlike other girls of her age and family background. One difference, however, was her role in the anti-Fascist movement. As a pre-teenager and a teenager during World War II, under the guidance and encouragement of her father, she joined the Italian anti-fascist resistance movement Giustizia e Libertà (Justice and Freedom), which was part of La Resistenza (The Resistance). She became a courier for the resistance, smuggling hand grenades inside heads of lettuce, among other tasks. She was later awarded a certificate for valor from the Italian army for her efforts. She learned English by helping downed Allied fliers escape back to their lines during the war, and she described this time of “bombing, terror, hunger” as a pivotal influence on the way she spoke to the world’s decision-makers.
The indistinguishable temper that characterized her may have been formed during her early years, growing up in a society oppressed by a dictatorship and fighting for freedom along with her family. (In a 1976 retrospective collection of her works, she remarked in The New Yorker magazine: “Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon … I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born.”)
After she received her secondary school diploma, Fallaci briefly attended the University of Florence, where she studied medicine and chemistry. Discovering that science was not to her liking, she transferred to literature but soon dropped out of school and never finished her studies. At the suggestion and encouragement of her paternal uncle, the journalist Bruno Fallaci, young Oriana decided to pursue a career in journalism. Pressuring editors at Il Mattino dell Italia Centrale (The Morning of Central Italy) to give her a job, she began writing for the newspaper in 1946, at the age of 17, as a crime beat reporter, but she soon progressed to feature stories and interviews, which she enjoyed much more and did exceptionally well at. After 1951, her work also appeared regularly in a magazine called Epoca (Era) and later in another magazine, Europeo (European). In 1958 her first book, I Sette Peccati di Hollywood (The Seven Sins of Hollywood) was published in Italian with a preface by Orson Welles.
She Establishes Herself as a Unique Voice and Writer
During the early part of the 1960s, Fallaci traveled widely for Europeo as a special correspondent, and a collection of her articles appeared in 1964 as Il Sesso Inutile,Viaggio Intorno alla Donna (The Useless Sex: Voyage Around the Woman). She also wrote her first novel, Penelope alla Guerra (Penelope at War) in 1962, but she soon began to gain attention for her interviews. Her interviews were guerrilla achievements and global events. She was witty, well-prepared, and antagonistic; she often got people to say things they ordinarily would not. These have led some to describe her as the most famous – and feared – interviewer in the world during the 1970s and 1980s.
Her first interviews were with people in the world of literature and cinema. In 1968 several of her best were collected into the volume Gli Antipatici (The Unpleasant Ones), published in English under the title- The Egotists: Sixteen Surprising Interviews, in which Norman Mailer, Sean Connery, Ingrid Bergman, Nguyen Cao Ky (1965-67 Prime Minister of South Vietnam; 1967- 71 Vice President of South Vietnam), H. Rap Brown, Geraldine Chaplin, Hugh Hefner, Frederico Fellini, Sammy Davis, Jr., Anna Magnani, Jeanne Moreau, Dean Martin, Duchess of Alba, Alfred Hitchcock, Mary Hemingway, and El Cordobes were the subjects profiled. Later, she followed these with interviews of world leaders and important political personalities. A collection of 16 of these interviews were published in her 1973 book Intervista con la Storia (Interview with History). The breadth of the interviews of the various personalities and the sharpness of her questions show how broadly her interviewing skills had developed.
Fallaci’s writings and lengthy preambles to her interviews were always tinged with her own left-of-center social and political commentary, but in the latter half of the 1960s she was pulled further into world events and crises by her reporting. Beginning in 1967, she was the only Italian journalist in the field during the Vietnam War, often traveling there and back to Italy from 1967 until the end of the war in 1975. She also reported from the field during the Indo-Pakistani War, in the Middle East, and in Latin America. In 1968 she went to Mexico City to report on student unrest there. In the notorious Tlatelolco Massacre, she was shot three times when government forces fired on the student demonstrators; after which she was dragged downstairs by her hair, and left for dead. (Her eyewitness account became important evidence disproving the Mexican government’s denials that a massacre had taken place). She wrote about the experience in her 1969 book Niente, e Cosí Sia, (Nothing, And So Be It: A Personal Search for Meaning in War). It appeared in English translation in 1972). Her dispatches from Vietnam made up the bulk of the book, but the account of the Mexico City incident was more harrowing. Before she was shot, she and the other demonstrators were corralled by authorities. As she vividly described the experience of terror in the book: “In war, you’ve really got a chance sometimes, but here we had none. The wall they’d put us up against was a place of execution; if you moved the police would execute you, if you didn’t move the soldiers would kill you, and for many nights afterward I was to have this nightmare, the nightmare of a scorpion surrounded by fire, unable even to try to jump through the fire because if it did so it would be pierced through.”
During the 1960s, Fallaci also had the opportunity to report historic American events to the Italian public, such as the Detroit Riots after the assassination of Martin Luther King in 1967, as well as the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy in 1968.
Although Fallaci never married, in the early 1970s, she had a three-year love affair with the subject of one of her interviews, Alexandros Panagoulis, who had been a solitary figure in the Greek resistance against the 1967 military dictatorship. He had been captured, heavily tortured and imprisoned for his (unsuccessful) assassination attempt on the dictator and ex-Colonel Georgios Papadopoulos. Panagoulis died in 1976, under very suspicious circumstances, in a road accident. Fallaci maintained that he had been assassinated by remnants of the Greek military junta, and her novel Un Uomo (A Man), published in 1979, was inspired by his life and immortalized him. During the time of her love affair, she suffered a miscarriage—reportedly after Panagoulis kicked her in the stomach—and wrote of this in another work, Lettera a un bambino mai nato, 1975) (Letter to an Child Never Born).
In 1972, Fallaci had an important interview with Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. During the interview, Kissinger stated that the Vietnam War was a useless war, and that he felt he was like “the cowboy who leads the wagon train by riding ahead alone on his horse.” (Interview with History, pp. 40-41). Kissinger later said it was the most disastrous interview he had ever had with a member of the press.
Another memorable interview Fallaci had during the 1970s was her famous interview with the Ayatollah Khomeini published in Corriere della Sera (Evening Courier) on September 26, 1979. To do the interview, she was forced to wear a chador and this led to her memorable exchange with Khomeini. Constantly referring to him as “tyrant” in the interview, she pushed him on the treatment of women in Iran.
Fallaci: I still have to ask you a lot of things. About the “chador”, for example, which I was obliged to wear to come and interview you, and which you impose on Iranian women…. I am not only referring to the dress, but to what it represents, I mean the apartheid Iranian women have been forced into after the revolution. They cannot study at the university with men, they cannot work with men, and they cannot swim in the sea or in a swimming-pool with men. They have to do everything separately, wearing their “chador”. By the way, how can you swim wearing a “chador”?
Khomeini: None of this concerns you; our customs do not concern you. If you don’t like the Islamic dress, you are not obliged to wear it, since it is for young women and respectable ladies.
Fallaci: Very kind (of you). Since you tell me that, I’m going to immediately rid myself of this stupid medieval rag. There!
Interview quoted in Wikipedia
In the 1980s she spent time in Lebanon, which was then mired in civil war. She wrote a fictional account of the strife in a 1992 novel, Inshallah (If Allah Wills It), dealing with Italian troops stationed in Lebanon in 1983. During the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon, she constantly pressed for an interview with Ariel Sharon, then Israel’s defense minister, whenever he showed up at the Alexandre Hotel in Beirut, sometimes holding on to the door of his jeep to keep him from getting away from her. Reluctantly, Sharon eventually gave her an interview, telling her: “I know you’ve come to add another scalp to your necklace.”
After her interview with Khomeini, she continued to travel the world finding newsworthy people to interview, including among them the Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping and Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. However, she began to see her interviews becoming less frequent. Although political figures had at one time sought her out to be the subject of an interview, they had become increasingly reticent to sit with her for interviews, knowing her reputation for cornering her prey into making unwise statements.
During the 1980s and ‘90s as she continued pursuing stories around the world, she constantly saw the social disadvantages caused by gender inequality in all societies. She especially noticed that in the Islamic culture, extending from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean, women were restricted and unhappy compared to men, and not comfortably allowed to achieve their desires. She expressed her disagreement on women’s status in Islamic culture writing: “These veiled women are the unhappiest women in the world. The wearer gazes out at the sky and her fellow man, like a prisoner peering through the bars of her prison.”
She retreated from public view somewhat, producing the occasional novel. She had been diagnosed with cancer in the 1990s, and she divided her time between New York, where she was receiving various treatments, and Florence, her home town. The attacks of 9/11, 2001 in the US roused her ire; and once again she railed against Islam in two new nonfiction books, La Rabbia e l’Orgoglio, (The Rage and the Pride, 2001), and La Forza della Ragione (The Force of Reason, 2004). Both became bestsellers in Italy.
In La Rabbia e l’Orgoglio, she wrote of Islam’s centuries-long desire to conquer Europe, and asserted that the growing Muslim communities in major European cities were becoming a danger to the continent. The democratic, liberal ideals which granted such communities the freedom to practice their religion were, she argued, threatening the stability of the West. Muslims in Europe, Fallaci fumed, “demand, and obtain, the construction of new mosques. They, who in their countries don’t even let the Christians build a tiny chapel, so often slaughter the nuns or the missionaries.” Elsewhere in the book she wrote that “the sons of Allah breed like rats,” and she imagined a Europe of the future that was an Islamic colony she dubbed Eurabia. The book caused such a stir that she was even charged under an obscure Italian law that prohibited hate speech against a religion that was recognized by the state.
The controversy continued in La Forza della Ragione in which she penned a lengthy response to her public critics. In it, she defended her ideas against accusations of racism, and the lawsuits and death-threats that were launched against her after La Rabbia e l’Orgoglio was published. In La Forza, Fallaci states that Islam “presents a threat to the very existence of Western civilization, of conscience, of toleration, of liberalism” –a message which is summed up in an epigram she quotes from the 18th century philosophe Diderot: “Islam is the enemy of Reason.”
Fallaci is not most concerned about Islamic terrorism, but about “the cultural war, the demographic war, the religious war waged by stealing a country from its citizens…the war waged through immigration, fertility, presumed pluri-culturalism,” as well as “the refusal of European leaders to recognize what is at stake in this war, and their complicity in exempting Muslim immigrants from the first duty any immigrant has to his new homeland, namely, the duty to fit into his new culture, and to play by its rules.”
Final Year and Death
On August 27, 2005, Fallaci had one of the first private audiences outside of the Church hierarchy with the newly-elected Pope Benedict XVI at Castel Gandolfo. Although a life-long atheist (in La Forza della Ragione she claimed that she was also a “Christian atheist”), she reportedly had great respect for the Pope and expressed admiration for his outspokenness against Islamic militancy, expressed in his 2004 essay If Europe Hates Itself.
As shown by her books and interviews, Fallaci was a vocal critic of Islam, especially after the Iranian Revolution and the 9/11 attacks. When rumors of the construction of an Islamic center in the city of Siena intensified, she told The New Yorker magazine: “If the Muslims build this Islamic center, she will blow it up with the help of her friends.”
Oriana Fallaci died on September 15, 2006, in her native Florence, after a long battle with cancer. (She notoriously smoked up to 3 packs per day during most of her life until the very end). She was buried in the Cimitero Evangelico degli Allori (Evangelical Cemetery of Laurels) in Galluzzo, a southern suburb of Florence, alongside her family members and a stone memorial to Alexandros Panagoulis, her former lover.
Adapted by James J. Boitano, PhD from:
Alderisio, Alessandro. “Oriana Fallaci, the Most Influential and Controversial Italian Female Journalist.” Wanted in Rome website, May 17, 2021
Bernstein, Adam. “Reporter-Provocateur Oriana Fallaci, 77.” Obituary, Washington Post website, September 16, 2006
Fallaci, Oriana. “Intervista a Khomeini, Corriere della Sera, September 26, 1979
Fallaci, Oriana. Interview with History (English translation by John Shepley). Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1977
Garner, Dwight. “The Life of Oriana Fallaci, Guerrilla Journalist.” Book Review of Oriana Fallaci: The Journalist, the Agitator, the Legend by Cristina de Stefano. New York Times website, October 16, 2017


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The good news is that eating a starch-based, low-fat, whole-foods, plant-based diet gives immediate results, from feeling better to losing weight. The bad news is that a lifetime of mental conditioning may drive you crazy when you pass by your favorite restaurants from your meat-and-dairy days. Sometimes the smell of cheeseburgers and barbecue can send any stalwart practitioner of a plant-based lifestyle into a momentary lapse in judgment.
It’s nice to be able to go shopping for a new pair of exercise leggings because you lost weight, and it’s true that your taste buds adapt pretty quickly to give you the full enjoyment of the greater variety of flavors you experience with well-seasoned whole foods. But how do you stay strong? Here are a few tips to help you on your plant-based journey.
Follow a Podcast
From the Rich Roll Podcast to Rip Esselstyn’s Plant-Strong podcast and beyond, there are weekly broadcasts for every plant-based taste. The measure of a useful podcast is whether it helps you feel inspired to keep strong with your lifestyle decisions. A good podcast will have awesome guests on a regular basis to discuss new ways of looking at the subject of diet and nutrition, and you will start to feel an affinity with the host over time. If neither of those measures are working out for you, it might be time to look for a different podcast to follow. Sometimes vegan and vegetarian podcasts are useful, too, although their practitioners often advocate a diet that is higher in fat consumption.
Subscribe to a YouTube Channel
There are so many YouTube channels out there today. And, anytime a segment of our culture begins to gain traction, there are people who will create a channel on the subject. The plant-based movement is no exception. In addition to channels for your favorite podcasts, there are venues for recipes, exercise, and the science behind diet and nutrition. If you’re looking for a plant-based YouTube channel to follow, try Plantiful Kiki for what-I-eat-in-a-day-style recipes, and Jane Esselstyn’s videos that she films with her mother Ann. For science videos, subscribe to Mic the Vegan or VegSource. An added bonus of watching plant-based videos on YouTube is that you will start to receive suggestions for other videos to watch based on your viewing history.
Read a Few Books
Books on the whole-food, plant-based diet are another useful tool to help keep you inspired. A few, like The China Study by T. Colin Campbell and The Starch Solution by John A. McDougall are foundational books that will help you understand why the diet is beneficial. Cookbooks build on these foundations; there are cookbooks from the McDougalls, the Campbells, and the Esselstyns to help you prepare and eat delicious plant-based meals. The variety of cookbooks is varied; while some are geared towards advanced-level cooks, others are designed to be easy for beginners to use. A great book for plant-based inspiration is called My Beef with Meat by Rip Esselstyn, who also hosts the Plant-Strong podcast and founded the Engine 2 brand. The first half of the book deals with the science of the plant-based lifestyle; the second half is a cookbook. You get science and recipes all in one convenient location – and this is not uncommon in books in the plant-based category. It’s almost like getting two books for the price of one!
When you eat a low-fat, plant-based diet, you benefit from losing weight naturally. However, regular exercise is recommended for all humans, even plant-based ones. The saying that you have to spend energy to gain energy is true, and regular moderate exercise will help you with your commitment to the lifestyle. You could try yoga, cycling or crossfit; however, if you preferred, you could just go for a long walk along the beach every day.

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January's recipe is a fresh and wild masterpiece by executive Chef Ned Bell of Vancouver's Four Seasons, brought to us by Skipper Otto Community Supported Fishery. Chum is a delicious, affordable and abundant BC salmon. If you check out not only the recipe but the video below, Chef Bell will guide you through cooking it to perfection. Served warm on a bed of fresh salad this is beautiful, light but still comforting dish that’s a fantastic choice for the still dark and chilly post-holiday, pre-spring months.
Pan Seared Wild Chum Salmon Fillets
Two 5 oz chum salmon fillets
1 tbsp kosher salt
Half a lemon
1 tbsp Canola oil
Knob of butter
Seasonal Salad, Example
The great thing about salads is that you can make them any way you want – with whatever veggies you have on-hand. The ingredients listed below were what Chef Ned used in the video recipe. A lemon vinaigrette is a nice compliment to the citrus-glazed salmon.
Canned chickpeas, rinsed
Roasted red pepper hummus
Black olive tapenade
Dried olives for garnish
- Bring a cast iron or stainless steel pan to high heat, add the oil.
- Sprinkle the salt over the salmon fillets on both sides.
- Lay the salmon fillets in the pan – be careful not to splatter yourself.
- Cook 2 to 3 minutes on the first side.
- Flip the fillets and add the knob of butter.
- Squeeze the lemon juice into the pan and continue cooking for about 2 minutes.
- Tilt pan and using a big spoon to glaze the salmon with the lemon and butter… mmm, you’ll be salivating at this point.
- Put together a seasonal salad using the veggies and ingredients your family enjoys. Add the vinaigrette.
- Serve the wild chum salmon fillets over a bed of the salad you made, and finish with your favourite garnish.

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Some of the more jaded members of NASCAR Nation have spent the last 48 hours bemoaning what they saw as a non-competitive “Sharpie 500” at Bristol Motor Speedway Saturday night.
David Poole, the esteemed and generally grumpy co-host of Sirius NASCAR Radio's "The Morning Drive," spent four hours on his soapbox this morning, calling the race one of the worst he has ever seen at Bristol. He lamented the fact that there was just one pass for the lead Saturday night -- that coming when a dominant Carl Edwards took over from an almost-as-dominant Kasey Kahne on lap 371 -- conveniently ignoring the veritable smorgasbord of side-by-side racing that took place throughout the field, throughout the night.
If you're interested, you can get Poole's side of the story HERE. If not, suffice it to say that my friend Poole (and others like him, judging from the Monday morning internet chat rooms) somehow missed all the two and three-wide battling that took place at Thunder Valley Saturday night, apparently unable to concentrate without the constant sensory bombardment of a multi-car pileup every 8-12 laps.
They went to Bristol expecting the WWE to break out, as it usually does. Instead, they were forced to watch a darned good, side-by-side stock car race. And they're none too happy about it, believe me.
For all its volume, however, the "boring race" argument doesn't hold any water.
A quick look at NASCAR’s Loop Data -- compiled and released to the media after every Nextel Cup race -- reveals that a total of 2,147 green flag passes took place Saturday night. That compares to just 991 passes in the "Food City 500" there earlier this spring. For the mathematically impaired like myself, that's a 108-percent increase in green-flag passing from spring to fall.
108 freakin' percent.
Back in the spring, Kevin Harvick started 40th and finished fourth at Bristol, passing a race-best total of 52 cars along the way; more than anyone else on the track. That total would have tied him for 18th Saturday night, far behind J.J. Yeley's race-high total of 107.
Sorry folks, but the facts don't lie. Saturday night's race was a good one, despite offering up "only" eight caution flags for the demolition derby set to enjoy. The packed Bristol grandstands may not have had a dastardly "dump and run" winner to boo when it was over, but that does not mean they didn't see a good race.
Fourth-place finisher Tony Stewart -- frequently second only to Poole on the list of NASCAR insiders most in need of a bran muffin -- said of Saturday's race, “It’s the most fun I've had at Bristol in my career. I can't give it a better grade than an A-plus."
If it's good enough for Tony, it's good enough for me.

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Iran has accused the United States of using espionage to compile a report about Iranian nuclear activities.
The official news agency, IRNA, quotes Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki as saying his government sent a protest letter to the Swiss Embassy in Tehran, complaining about the U.S. National Intelligence Estimate report published this week. The Swiss Embassy handles U.S. interests in the absence of U.S. diplomatic representation.
Mottaki is quoted as saying Iran is demanding an explanation for the alleged espionage.
The report says Tehran halted a nuclear weapons program in 2003.
Saturday in Bahrain, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Iran remains a threat to the Middle East and the United States. He told a security conference that countries in the Persian Gulf must work together to demand that Iran clear all ambiguities about its past nuclear activities and openly pledge not to develop nuclear weapons.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday in Brussels that the United States and other world powers have agreed to keep up pressure on Iran for refusing to stop enriching uranium - a process that can be used in developing nuclear weapons.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told reporters that Moscow wants more talks in dealing with Iran's disputed nuclear program.
Iran has never acknowledged having a nuclear weapons program and says its nuclear activities are for peaceful purposes only.
Some information for this report was provided by AFP, AP and Reuters.
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This isn’t a great season for Fox Searchlight Pictures.
Wasn’t it only yesterday that they commanded the Oscars with “The Shape of Water” and “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”? Why yes, it was 2017.
All that must seem like a long time ago to the “literary” arm of what was 20th Century Fox. Back then, in the peculiar cyclical world of movie making and releasing, Fox Searchlight was protected by their bosses if they had an off year.
But this year, Fox Searchlight is owned by Disney, which makes comic book movies, cartoon movies, and science fiction movies. Or a combination of all those things. They aren’t good at making movies with people in them, which is how Fox Searchlight survived the purchase of Fox by Disney.
But this weekend, Fox Searchlight’s “Lucy in the Sky,” starring Oscar winner Natalie Portman, made just $55,000 at 37 theaters. Panned by critics, “Lucy” is DOA. There is no support for it.
FS also has “Ready or Not,” a horror thriller (I think, I’ve never seen it) in theaters. It’s made $28 million over 7 weeks, which is pretty good since it only cost $6 million. And it’s made $22 million abroad so far with more countries to go.
Coming up next are two tricky releases. The first is “Jojo Rabbit,” a satire about Hitler and the Nazis. Critics (not me) were keen on it, and give it a 79. “Jojo,” starring Scarlett Johansson and two child actors, is directed by the very ‘in’ Taika Waititi. But it’s a roll of the dice. What film festivals made adore, the public may be surprised by. To me, it was a daring idea that didn’t work. It’s hard to imagine audiences in the Northeast, in heavily Jewish areas, appreciating it. But I could be wrong, and maybe “Jojo Rabbit” will hit a bullseye.
Then there’s Terrence Malick’s “A Hidden Life.” Malick was once a cutting edge director. His “Days of Heaven” is one of my favorite films of all time. But his recent films, from “Tree of Life” to “Knight of Cups” and “To the Wonder” have been incredibly self-indulgent, sleep-inducing, and money losers. Plus, Malick hides from the public, refuses to do publicity, doesn’t do interviews or come to premieres. I’ll say this: that FS chiefs Nancy Utley and Steve Gilula still show faith in him is to their credit. They love good films and auteurs.
But will that love keep them alive in Disney’s world of blockbusters? The pair does have a really terrific comedy in Armando Iannucci’s “Personal History of David Copperfield.” It won’t be released for a few months, but when it does– I sure hope it gets Disney-esque treatment. That’s a film that will turn them around, and fast.

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After breast cancer, pilates helped Ann Marie Turo, OTR/L, regain her strength and independence after breast cancer — and now she is helping others do the same, one pose at a time.
Turo, a yoga and Pilates instructor with the Leonard P. Zakim Center for Integrative Therapies and Healthy Living at Dana-Farber, teaches six classes a week for patients and survivors. First diagnosed with breast cancer in 1991, when she was 31 and a full-time OT, Turo had a lumpectomy and partial mastectomy. Eleven years later, while fulfilling a longtime goal of becoming a trained Pilates teacher, she learned the cancer had returned to the same breast. Another partial mastectomy left her with such extreme chest and shoulder pain that she could not lift her arm to comb her hair or take milk from the refrigerator.
She got the OK from her surgeon to resume her Pilates training, and as she describes in her book, “It was the best thing for me then. It helped me regain my strength and the confidence to navigate the world after undergoing life-changing surgery and treatment … the opportunity to regain control over a body that had betrayed me as well as providing a safe and nurturing space to relax and focus on healing and recovery.”
The experience gave Turo a new life’s mission. She opened her own health and wellness studio in 2004, where she gears her yoga, Pilates, and other classes to people recovering from cancer and other medical challenges. In January 2015, she also began teaching at the Zakim Center, where she has quickly attracted a dedicated group of students.
“Ann Marie has a quiet way about her that helps people stay calm and focused,” says Diana Stork, a breast cancer survivor who regularly attends Turo’s classes at Dana-Farber. “She is an inspirational teacher whose students feel better and stronger — because of the classes she teaches and the person she is.”
Turo’s offerings are designed to help people at different stages of treatment and recovery. Chair yoga and chair Pilates are best for patients who are weak or dealing with balance issues caused by surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy, while mat Pilates and hatha yoga are typically for stronger patients. Turo also teaches a hybrid class called “Yoga-Lates” and another for “energizing the feet.”
“Many patients make a natural progression through my classes as they progress through treatment,” says Turo, who also has more than 35 years of experience as an occupational therapist (OT) and is trained as a wellness advocate and Reiki master. “Often I will have several different people in the same class working at different levels. There is no competition like you sometimes see at health clubs; it’s a safe environment filled with camaraderie.”
Turo says she has become so familiar with the different challenges patients face that she can often accurately assess an individual’s treatment stage by how they walk into class, put down their gym bag, and get down into a pose. She may be quiet, but she is always watching – and watching out – for her students.

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- DescriptionThe BBC biopic BYRON recreates the life and times of early 19th century scribe Lord George Gordon Byron (Jonny Lee Miller of TRAINSPOTTING), widely considered one of the finest English-language belletrists in history. Though Byron culled enormous repute for the scandalous, taboo-breaking lead characters in his novels, the author himself led a life so rebellious that it rivalled anything in his fiction - meanwhile sinking ever quickly into a mire of dissatisfaction and lack of fulfilment as he flittered from one escapade to another. And yet Byron personified the zealous spirit of the Romantic Era, with his unapologetic political radicalism and multiple lovers. Here, director Julian Farino and scriptwriter Nick Dear dramatize Byron's experiences onscreen. Vanessa Redgrave and Natasha Little co-star.
- Leading Role 1Jonny Lee Miller
- Director 1Julian Farino
- Leading Role 2Vanessa Redgrave
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Byron's life in less than 3 hours ...sadly not!
It's incredibly difficult, nee impossible, to do justice to Byron's life in such a short period of time. I found this production well meaning, but ultimately somewhat lacking on all counts... To that end, I'd recommend anybody who has a real interest in who I consider the first rock star of his generation, and those that followed, to instead read the truly excellent 'Byron: Life and Legend' by Fiona MacCarthy. Regards M.
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I decided to buy this as I missed it on the BBC. I had studied Byron @ University and knew he had had a colourful life. If you like period drama, you will really enjoy this. You don't even have to have read any of Byron's work to appreciate the drama. It is quite shocking in places and covers Byron's life from his early twenties. The film is in 2 parts, which makes viewing a little easier, as it is quite long. Jonny Lee Miller plays Byron and Natasha Little (from This Life) plays his sister ans both put in strong performances.

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The Washington Nationals have one of the best records in baseball, and on Thursday night, they proved that they also have one of the league's most cautious grounds crews.
Thanks to rain in the forecast, workers rolled the tarp out over the Nationals Park infield at around 7 p.m., just prior to the scheduled start time. Two hours later, the number of pitches thrown still equaled the number of raindrops that had fallen: zero.
That's right: the Nationals forced those in attendance to wait through a marathon rain delay, but the only rain that came was a light sprinkle around 9:30. The game didn't start until around 10 p.m.
Baseball players play up to 162 games per year, but this was still a new experience for those in last night's contest, including Braves outfielder Ender Inciarte.
—José (41-43) (@BravesScorer) July 7, 2017
—Ender Inciarte (@enderinciartem) July 7, 2017
Inciarte didn't seem too broken up about the delay. From the tweets, he seems more bemused than anything else.
Media members, on the other hand, were decidedly unhappy, especially the local beat writers who work on tight deadlines. Some of them took to Twitter to voice their displeasure.
—David O'Brien (@DOBrienAJC) July 7, 2017
—Chelsea Janes (@chelsea_janes) July 7, 2017
—Mark Bowman (@mlbbowman) July 7, 2017
And, of course, there were the fan reactions.
—Chip Caray (@kapaya1234) July 7, 2017
—Morgan Massaker (@TheMrDawg) July 7, 2017
The Nationals attempted to rectify their mistake, giving away free Skittles, hot dogs, ice cream, and drinks at various points throughout the game and thanking fans for their patience. The game ended around 1:30 a.m. Washington ended up losing 5-2 but still sits 8.5 games ahead of Atlanta in the National League East.


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"Travel offers the opportunity to find out who else one is, in that collapse of identity into geography I want to trace."
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An appeal court has given two independent forensic experts 90 days to carry out a review of controversial evidence used to convict Amanda Knox.
Knox, 23, is serving 26 years for the murder of British student Meredith Kercher, 21, who was found partially clothed and with her throat cut in her bedroom, in the house they shared.
The American's former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, 25, was also found guilty at the original trial and given 25 years.
Key to their conviction was a 30cm kitchen knife found in Sollecito's apartment. The court heard DNA from Knox was found on the knive's handle, while Miss Kercher's DNA was found on the blade.
Sollecito's defence team are also disputing a clasp from Miss Kercher's bra on which DNA from him was said to have been found, and in both cases lawyers say the results were so low they should not have been used as evidence.
At the hearing in Perugia, Judge Claudio Pratillo Hellman formally appointed Stefano Conti and Carla Vecchiotti, from the forensic medicine department of Rome's La Sapienza University, to carry out the review.
While the review is being carried out the trial will also hear from other witnesses.
Among them will be the prosecution's key witness Antonio Curatolo, a homeless man who during the original trial put Knox and Sollecito at the scene of the crime -- the only person to do so.
He had told the court he remembered the night "clearly" as he saw student revellers queuing up to catch buses to nightclubs. However, defence lawyers have established that he could not have done so as the night Miss Kercher was murdered was a bank holiday with venues being shut and no buses running.
Prosecutors are also appealing at the hearing and are looking to have the sentences against Knox and Sollecito increased to life.

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Although IDI-RJL Development LLC hoped the Fairfax City Council would green-light its condo project in June, both the Council members and local residents voiced many concerns. The applicant hopes to replace offices planned for the Mantua Professional Center with 80 condos in two, four-story buildings, but not everyone’s happy about it.
“When we bought our property next to the development, we didn’t know it would be changed from commercial to residential,” said Catherine White. “My biggest concern is the water and rain coming off two, 75-foot buildings and going into [nearby Thaiss] Park, which gets flooded now, as do the neighbors adjacent and down the hill.”
Amy Barwani, who lives near the Thaiss ballfield, said, “Seven months of the year, that hill is full of children playing. My cul-de-sac has 15 families, and we’re worried about construction traffic and our children’s safety. The water issue also needs to be addressed before this moves forward. After it rains, I’m already shoveling mud and clay from the park, from our cul-de-sac.”
Besides that, she said, “These buildings would be a tremendous eyesore for us and tower over the trees, so we’re concerned about our property values. Parking is already an issue, and people will try to park in the Mantua community.”
OUR DAILY BREAD Executive Director Lisa Whetzel said her organization values affordable housing for all income levels. She then told the Council to make its approval contingent upon the applicant contributing $372,806 to affordable housing, based on the City of Alexandria’s plan.
“With other affordable units being demolished, VOICE [Virginians Organized for Interfaith Community Engagement] wants a one-for-one replacement and an Affordable Housing Trust Fund established,” said Whetzel. Agreeing, resident Judy Fisher urged the Council to ask for “the maximum contribution from every developer.”
Jan Harrod, president of the Mantua Citizens Assn., said the condo buildings are “out of proportion to the adjacent streets in size, bulk, scale and density and will be an eyesore to us. It’s already on a 38-foot-high hillside, and there’ll be 70-foot-plus buildings. We requested a 40-foot maximum height, but received no response from the developer.”
She also wondered how tree buffering would be addressed to the east, where the condos would abut her property. And she said the project needs adequate stormwater controls so there’ll be no adverse impacts.
Allison Ingram said nearby Santayana Drive already has noise from vehicles on Pickett Road and “without the tree barrier, it’ll get even worse. And there’s no justification for a 75-foot building. It’s only four stories, and City Code only allows 60 feet maximum for five stories.”
Mantua’s Roberto Obando told the Council members the “traffic problems that’ll come with this development haven’t been adequately addressed. And the loss of property value in Mantua will reduce this project’s financial benefit to the City. Withhold approval until there’s more research and discussion and the citizens’ concerns are addressed.”
Longtime resident Bill Rakow noted that “the more surface parking you have, the more water runoff. And how do you insure that people don’t migrate from there to park in Mantua?” Regarding the building height, he asked the developer to fly a balloon so people could see just how tall the two buildings would be.
Meanwhile, Eric Fleming said stormwater already comes down his drive and he’s concerned, as well, about “the short tree line and no fencing to make it safe.”
Called to the podium to respond to all the residents’ concerns, Cecchi said, “Many of these are new comments to us. We made a presentation to Mantua months ago and only four or five residents came. And there was no formal request for a balloon-flying. We’re not bordering the Mantua community; we’re adjacent to Pickett Road. And two of the five buildings originally planned and approved would have taken out trees and green space, [too].”
As for the stormwater issue, Eric Spencer, a project consultant on that matter, told the residents, “We’re required by state, county and City code to improve the existing stormwater management.”
AFTER A BRIEF RECESS, Mayor Scott Silverthorne asked Cecchi, “Based on the residents’ comments you’ve heard this evening, do you have any positive changes to your proffers?”
However, IDI attorney David Houston replied, “Rather than commit to anything tonight, maybe we need more time to work on this.” The Council then deferred action on this issue until its Sept. 8 meeting.
“I think you’ve gotten quite a bit of new information tonight, so I encourage you to do some community outreach, hear their problems directly and see if you can address them, head on,” Silverthorne advised the applicant. “I and my colleagues would be glad to join you, if you’d like. We look forward to seeing you again in September.”


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2895 University Avenue, San Diego
Around the middle of the meal at West Coast Tavern, I realized that I’m really getting into the gastropub craze. They’re multiplying in nearly every neighborhood, offering an easy way to eat out with friends (or solo) in a recession. The food is typically inexpensive but often creative and playful. You can wear whatever you like, as long as it’s street-legal, and order as little or much as your appetite and budget allow. These eateries let the diner do the driving.
At West Coast, we lucked out and even got to choose our table. The restaurant replaces Hawthorne’s at the front of the North Park Theatre but is apparently aimed at a younger, more casual crowd than typical playgoers or light-opera patrons. We’d reserved for a Thursday and been assigned an interior table — but it was next to a group that including a running, yelling, out-of-control wild child. (“Valium now!” I muttered. “Not for me, for him.”) And while the interior is dark and handsome in sports-pub fashion, we hated the blasting music, which sounded like…oh, no…disco! (Please don’t tell me there’s a disco revival! My hair, barely staying alive, won’t stand another bout of those tight, swingy Jewish cornrows I used to wear.) And we didn’t want to watch TVs tuned to sports, even muted. It took only a word to the server and — presto change-o — we scored a prime patio table with a cozy fire pit in the center, sheltered by an overhanging roof. (Tables without fire pits have heat stanchions.) Later, the DJ must have come on, switching to a more poetic, quietly agonized music genre (is that emo?) — it still played loudly.
Sam, Jerry, and I agreed about which dishes sounded best, and our server was accustomed to group-grazing, no explanations needed. We began with the very generous portion of five-spiced Jidori chicken wings. The Chinese five-spice blend was obscured by a sweet, tangy, sticky glaze, but still, it was a sweet beginning. Also sweet but more soul-satisfying was a quartet of hot bacon-wrapped dates stuffed with chopped nuts, tasting like spectacular, highly unkosher rugelach, minus the pastry. They came with a charming creamy dipping sauce based on mild goat cheese, with perhaps a squeeze of lemon juice and bits of other tiny, mysterious food entities. I loved every part of this combination.
A crab napoleon offered a trio of crisp wonton skins stacked with chilled Dungeness crab shreds, dressed in a mango vinaigrette, scattered with a few chopped green beans. Although two months too soon for prime Dungeness season, it was cute and fragile and vanished before any of us could pin down where we’d eaten a similar dish (happy hour at Mr. A’s, perhaps?). An ultra-healthy baby-spinach salad with strawberries (loaded with folates and many longer nutritional words) also seemed elusively familiar. Sam nailed it: it’s the signature salad of nearby Café 21, a terrific little Azerbaijani restaurant that does a better, more ebullient version. Here, the quartered strawberries, local but past prime season, were sour.
Then the larger dishes started to arrive. A plain mac ’n’ cheese is available, but you can also venture on the “chef’s daily creation.” Again, we were in luck: the du jour was blue-cheese based, with chicken and plenty of frizzled onions. This was not only a sophisticated change from the standard melted yellow and orange cheeses, but lighter, creamier, more interesting, especially with the exuberant textural contrast of the crunchy-crisp onions. It’s a new rendition a world apart from your mom’s (and Stouffer’s) and all the better for that.
Tavern Chicken ’n’ Waffle revisits the Southern favorite with partial success. The problem is that, Jidori or no, the chicken is all skinless, boneless breast tenders. (What happens to the good parts, like the thighs?) “This chicken is bland and dry — it has no taste,” said Jerry. What buys it off is that the unevenly cooked waffle, which includes bacon, is soaked with warm maple syrup. It makes everything on the dish and in the world seem all right.
Za’atar-spiced white shrimp are crusted with sesame, thyme, perhaps sumac, and something spicy. Dryness was the problem again — the shrimp were overcooked. Alongside was a pleasant citrus-touched mound of cold couscous garnished with a horde of cut chives, chopped parsley, minced hot red pepper, and hulled pumpkin seeds, along with a charred lemon. Alas, lemon juice won’t restore moisture to overcooked shrimp.
We didn’t try any of the four flatbreads but couldn’t resist the sliders. These are $8 for two sliders per order, but $4 more gets you one extra, and you can mix and match. The lamb slider with feta and caramelized onion jam, with garlic aioli bedecking the brioche bun, was the one that called out to us. Answering the siren song rewarded us with meat patties done to a nice pink inside, juicy but greaseless, with just-right garnishes. (The onion jam rocks.) For our extra slider, I chose the Niman Ranch pulled pork with “Abe’s famous BBQ sauce” and slaw on an aioli-garnished bun. The BBQ sauce pervading the meat was very spicy but lacking the sweet touch of the mid-South. A skimpy portion of slaw is on the bottom bun (and what good is that?).
The reasonable prices of the wine list made it easy to order by the glass, so we could each try our own first choice. Globetrotting Sam’s about to head off to Argentina, so we both started with the Aguijón de Abeja Torrontés white — big, sunny, a fine match for the food flavors, even the meats. Jerry began with an Argentine Malbec. It’s certainly better than Malbecs used to be (when I was there in the Jurassic era, even in Mendoza wine country, Argentines usually drank them with a spritz of seltzer) but still a tad tannic and macho. Sam’s second glass, Cab 337, was more mellow. “They’ve done a good job assembling this wine list,” said Sam, a habitué of wine bars, as is Jerry. “These are mainly about $10 retail, but they’re interesting to explore.”
The dessert list, which apparently changes often, held several temptations, not least of which was a bittersweet chocolate bread pudding. But we wanted something lighter and chose the bourbon-mascarpone tart on a nut crust. It arrived in a ramekin, its thick texture buoyed by gelatin, with not much bourbon flavor. It looked so much like panna cotta that I realized that panna cotta, though not on the menu, was really what I wanted. This was plenty heavier. The espresso machine was broken, but our good server Paris delivered my Caffe Calabria coffee as requested, right along with dessert.
Our food-only costs were just $78 for three people overeating (and doggie-bagging several nights’ worth of grazes) — can’t complain about that. West Coast also offers just about everything “to go” until midnight, ready to take with you when you just want to head home, change from that white polyester suit into flannel PJs, and refuel in comfort after your hot night at the disco. ■
West Coast Tavern
★★½ (Good to Very Good)
2895 University Avenue (front of North Park Theatre), North Park, 619-295-1688; westcoasttavern.com
HOURS: Monday–Friday 4:00 p.m.–2:00 a.m.; Saturday noon–2:00 a.m.; Sunday brunch 10:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m.; Sunday dinner 4:00 p.m.–2:00 a.m. Takeout until midnight.
PRICES: $6–$14 for everything; desserts, $7.
CUISINE AND BEVERAGES: Gastropub grazing, playful and fun. Well-edited affordable international wine list, everything available by the glass, bottles under $30. Full bar with classic and slightly creative cocktails, many bourbons, craft beers.
PICK HITS: Five-spice chicken wings; bacon-wrapped nut-stuffed dates; chicken ’n’ waffle; lamb sliders. Good bets: interesting dessert list.
NEED TO KNOW: Pricey parking garage behind theater, street parking painful but possible (better on weeknights). Interior very noisy (loud music) with live DJs. Sports-bar atmosphere (including TVs), but front patio (about six tables) sheltered, heated, two tables with fire pits. Handicapped cut-out at curb in front. Plenty for lacto-vegetarians, somewhat less for vegans. Happy hour 4:00–7:00 p.m. daily.


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$30 million data highway to link Reno, Las Vegas
RENO, Nev. — A $30 million all-fiber link under construction between Reno and Las Vegas was inspired by a need to provide telemedicine services to rural hospitals.
But the fiber link — essentially a high-capacity pipeline to carry data — is likely to be even more important as a critical piece of infrastructure for the data-heavy industries upon which Northern Nevada is staking its economic future.
“We have big plans for this network. It’s going to be a big deal,” says John Clayton, senior vice president and general manager of Nevada Broadband Networks.
Its pitch: the fastest service, perhaps twice as fast, to transfer files among Reno, Carson City and Las Vegas. Both areas already are seeing development of big data centers such as Apple near Reno and Switch in Las Vegas.
Potential customers of the new line range from those large data centers and state offices to cable television operators in small communities along the route of the 571-mile link, says Clayton. The data-heavy development of unmanned aerial vehicles also is likely to generate traffic to fill the new pipeline.
It will be the first public-use network along the route.
“There is a good bit of interest in the market for it,” says Clayton.
The key to development of the line, however, was the need of rural hospitals for better links to Reno and Las Vegas, allowing development of telemedicine links between small towns and big-city hospitals.
The Nevada Hospital Association won a $19.6 million grant from the federal government in 2009 to finance construction of the telecommunication network, and engineering design was completed two years later.
The association partnered with privately held Nevada Broadband Networks to finance the project. Nevada Broadband Networks is 90 percent owned by Nebraska-based Pinpoint Communications and 10 percent owned by Nevada investors.
Construction began in late June at Goldfield, with crews working north toward Reno and south toward Las Vegas.
The construction is relatively simple, Clayton says, as the fiber lines will use existing NV Energy and Valley Electric Association poles along about 90 percent of the route.
The remaining portion of the route — notably, the stretches from Reno to Carson City, and from Carson City east to Silver Springs — will be underground.
But while construction is expected to be a relatively simply matter for Nevada Broadband Networks, the permits the company needed before it could begin work were anything but simple.
The company began working on permits in April 2012 — some 26 months before construction began — and it began negotiations with landowners for right-of-way permission to string lines over their properties.
“It’s taken longer than we thought,” Clayton acknowledges. “A lot of route changes brought delays.”
As crews work their way north and south from Goldfield, inspectors will be traveling in front of them, looking for endangered species of plants and animals.
The project is expected to be completed in March or April of 2015.
Bill Welch, president of the Nevada Hospital Association, said the fiber link improves the ability of hospitals to deliver state-of the art data.
“The goal of our member healthcare facilities has always been to provide patients with the best possible care using the latest technology available in the healthcare industry,” Welch said in a prepared statement. “We feel this network is the next step in living out that goal.”
The completed network will be operated by Nevada Broadband Networks under a 25-year agreement, and it has an option to operate it for an additional 25 years.
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MUSCATINE — If you are driving on Muscatine’s Hershey Avenue near the former Beach Lumber Yard company this Saturday and see a large plume of smoke and many emergency vehicles, no need to call 911 – it’s just a training exercise.
The Muscatine Fire Department is holding a large-scale training burn involving between 70 and 80 firefighters from multiple area departments that will start with a road closure around 7 a.m. Saturday, March 25 in the 1000 block of Hershey Ave. Instructors for the training exercise come from the Blue Grass, Durant, Muscatine and West Liberty fire departments.
“This is an opportunity to facilitate inter-agency cooperation and conduct hands-on training in a more controlled environment than we would have at an actual fire,” Muscatine Fire Department Captain Gary Ronzheimer said. “Safety is our primary concern, for the firefighters, for the equipment, and for the public.”
Local residents and business owners will have access to their property until the time of the fire, which firefighters say will likely be started around 1 p.m.. The area will be cleared and a space for residents to view the training fire will be established at the intersection of Green Street and Hershey Avenue.
The fire department distributed door knockers this week to alert residents in the surrounding neighborhood of the upcoming training exercise.
“Weather conditions will play a large part in how the smoke moves up and out from the fire,” Ronzheimer said. “Anyone that lives in the area and could be affected by the smoke should find somewhere else to be until the burn is completed.”
Muscatine Fire Department will also have units standing by in case embers from the fire would spread and cause unintended fires.
The detour for the training exercise will be the same as a typical flood detour, with signage posted around the affected area to direct motorists. Traffic will be diverted to Main Street, to West Eighth Street, and to Iowa Avenue.

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The staff at Northern Orthopedic Laboratory would like to congratulate our sponsored Watertown City League 13U Baseball. Although it was their first year in the league, the team had an exceptional season, finishing with a 4-0 record against the other city league teams. Not only did the players demonstrate outstanding skills on the baseball diamond, but they also represented Northern Orthopedic Laboratory well by displaying outstanding teamwork and sportsmanship.
The teams 4-0 record earned them a first round bye in the City League Playoffs. They will be playing in the championship game on July 28 at 6:00pm at North Elementary (Field One).


PHILADELPHIA – Philadelphia officials voted to close 23 schools after a massive rally at system headquarters at which more than a dozen people were arrested on disorderly conduct charges.
The School Reform Commission spared only four schools Thursday night in their closing plans after hearing pleas from some of the hundreds of people who packed the meeting room and an overflow space.
Officials in one of the nation's largest and most problem-plagued districts have insisted their financial situation is dire.
The commission had to borrow $300 million this year, and projections show the district will accumulate a nearly $1.4 billion deficit over five years without a radical overhaul.
The district says it should save about $24.5 million annually through the downsizing.


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The New Jersey Chapter, American Academy of Pediatrics Healthy Spaces program offers this webinar to provide strategies for health care providers to provide trauma-informed care during virtual patient encounters. Drs. Nicole Leopardi and Ruth Gubernick will share guidance on outreach messaging, stress management, and positive discipline. Participants will also engage in thoughtful reflection on how to implement small tests of change to adapt patient care and support connections with families in these uncertain times.
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I feel like I’ve been waiting forever to say this, but it’s finally time. Alpha House comes out tomorrow! Look for it on Netflix!
In case it wasn’t obvious from the trailer, this isn’t a family movie. If language, sexual content, nudity, partial nudity, and “crude humor” are your thing, awesome! If not, I will not be offended if you skip this one (but you might be if you don’t).
Either way, I hope everyone has an awesome March 11th! I know I will!
Thanks so much to everyone I worked with on this one! Thank you Jacob Cooney, Julien Ari Bensimhon, Rebecca Violet Schroeder, Laura Beth Love, Derek Van Valkenburg, Jean-Louise O’Sullivan, Alistair Duff, Brian Glenn, Heather Paige Cohn, Jon Kondelik, Kyle Behling, Mariah Kraft, A.J. Rivera, Jacquelina Cardinale, Eli Bildner, and D.C. Douglas (just to name a few) for making it such an amazing, fun shoot!
Of course, thanks to all my friends and family, and all of you, too! This is just one step on my journey as an actor, but your first lead in a feature is a big one and I’m excited about it! Thanks!
I star in Alpha House from The Asylum (Sharknado) - On Netflix, RedBox and maybe WalMart? MARCH 11th!
On Christmas With The Karountzoses, the B Cam team are my buddies. They really like it when I look directly in the lens and make unnerving faces. It’s kind of our thing.
Say “hi” to Nadya and Ezra, everyone. They’re hiding behind the camera because they’re not used to anyone pointing one back at them.
Suite For Two Bands Geeks got accepted to the Portland Oregon Women’s Film Festival! If you live in the area, go see it!
I play Austin, the teenage, band geek, oboe playing heart throb (kind of) to Lynn’s (played by Heather Pasternak) shy, but lovable self-conscious underachiever.
If you know what the “male gaze” is in film, then maybe you’ll think it’s cool and stuff to know that there is some pretty heavy “female gaze” in this one. Even better, it’s on me. With a reed. In my mouth. Seductively.
It’s a funny movie featuring a lot of cool ladies, written and directed by a really cool lady (Lizzy Iverson), and I am proud to have been in it! Whether you can make it to this fest, another, or you can get a hands on a DVD at some point, give this one a look!
My First 16 Months in LA
It’s been a lot of fun so far! I knew I’ve been lucky, but I didn’t realize how lucky I was until last night when I counted up all the projects I’ve worked on in my first year and a half (give or take) in Los Angeles.
The surprising total?
If nothing else, that means I owe a big thank you to all my friends and family supporting me back home, every new friend I’ve made here in LA, and every amazing and talented person I’ve worked with on every one of those projects. Thank you!
I’m ready for the next 33!
Had a meeting with a really great theatrical agent today! Went well and I performed one of my favorite monologues from one of my favorite movies by one of my favorite actors for him. He seemed to enjoy it!
Oh you want to know what it was?
Just for you, I’ve recorded my own special 2014 version of a classic. All I have is my computer camera right now, so I have lazily/conveniently re-framed this monologue with the question, “What if Navin was skyping his future wife that night?”
I can’t tell you how much fun this is to do. I could say these lines over and over again all day.
All writing credit due to Steve Martin, Carl Gottlieb and Michael Elias. From The Jerk, Universal Pictures 1979.
A bunch of new projects coming up!
(Photo from Barely Pet Parents with Colleen Ballinger)
Unfortunately, I can’t say all that much about a lot of it yet, but I finished my first feature this fall, I’ve been cast in two more, and I’ve also got more webseries coming up.
The feature I finished is titled Alpha House and it’s a college dorm comedy by the Asylum, the same company that produced Sharknado. It’s going to be pretty hilarious if I do say so myself (and I definitely do). There will also probably be some boobs in it. Maybe a lot. So if you’re into comedy and boobs, well, look for that movie to be out on Netflix and Redbox in the spring!
Looks like 2014 is going to be just as fun as 2012. Check back for updates about these projects and news about when they’ll be coming out!
To all the friends I made at LBCC looking for my tumblr, you can find it here -
It was great meeting you! Thanks for stopping by.


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Photographer Alex Amorós has put his skills to good use documenting some of London’s most loved music venues that have unable to welcome visitors due to the pandemic.
“Live Music has shaped so much of my life from working in the venues to playing myself. I wanted to give something back & show support in whatever way I can.” – Alex Amorós
His photo project ´40 Music Venues´ was carried out during lockdown 2.0, with Oval Space, the Electric Ballroom, and Oslo amongst the spaces to be featured.
Talking about what inspired him to undertake this project Alex said: “I started this passion project to depict the regulatory impact on 40 Live Music Venues across London.
“The music industry not only employs a huge amount of people but is the heart & soul of this city; giving joy to many & bringing people together. This project is proudly in support of the ‘Save Our Venues’ campaign.”
In the coming weeks, a photobook of the eerily cool images will be released (pre-orders available here ). There will also be an exhibition.
“The experience of being in an empty venue caused me sadness and I moved back to many good moments that I have spent in them.” – Alex Amorós


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This week we had a fantastic breakthrough with the garden. A friend with a garden (or an actual FARM when its size is compared to our garden) offered us some of their leftover seedlings. SCORE. Husband picked up two kinds of tomatoes, japanese eggplant and musk melons.
I must admit, the musk melons were a surprise and I forgot about them. So when I planted everything I thought the tomatoes and eggplants were JUST tomatoes and the musk melons were eggplants. I was so proud I got everything in the ground. I called Husband to tell him I'd finished. He asked where I put the musk melons (bc their vines grow about 10 feet long!)
I couldn't leave about 8 vines that are going to grow about 10 feet long in the garden. They had to be moved to the berry garden. (Which reminds me, I need to get new pumpkins seedlings started. I accidentally pulled up the last one yesterday!) So I carefully dug them up and replanted them with the berries.
This also meant I could move around the tomatoes and eggplants a little so they'd have more breathing/growing room.
I'm so excited. The tomato plants already smell fabulous and they've just started blooming. This gives me a new excitement about the garden.
this is the view from one end of the garden. Onions are at the bottom. The first three squares that look empty actually have the onions that I started from seeds instead of bulbs. they are small, (compared to the bulb ones, but they're growing). Those crazy huge plants in the middle are potatoes.
This is the box formerly known as the strawberry box. They were definitely dead and I needed the space for these plants. I took this picture BEFORE I realized the 8 plants in the front were musk melons and NOT eggplants. After I dug them up, I spread the tomatoes around and planted 6 garlic between them. (add a little basil and we've got our own spaghetti sauce box. sadly, the basil is in the main garden)
I was secretly relieved about having to move 8 plants bc I knew I'd planted things too close together. but I felt bad about the possibility of not being able to get everything in the ground.
My summer manicure. I think the lady said the color was garden dirt. ;-)

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In response to Graeme Bell’s letter (DW 14 August), I can only imagine that he had just been seriously let down by a local Audi garage.
Over the past five years the TT has been an example of design excellence and for this reason alone it has been copied by other manufacturers. On reviewing the model, the only thing Audi could change in the soon-to-be-released new model is the engine. However, I’m not a fan of the back spoiler, it ruins the clean lines of the car.
Seymour Powell’s Richard Seymour and ex-F1 driver Damon Hill both drive TTs by choice. They think they are great cars and feel they make very strong personal statements regarding the design and style of a car.
I’d be interested in what car Bell thinks is worthy of high praise from the design industry and why.
Creative Action Design
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You may remember a book that we published back in 2011 that then went on to win an Eisner Award — Vera Brosgol’s excellent spooky supernatural YA story Anya’s Ghost.
This winter, our parent company’s paperback imprint, Square Fish, will be putting out a new edition of it!
But the first edition of Anya’s Ghost was already paperback, you may say. Why does there need to be a new edition?
First Second trade paperbacks tend to be something called (in our super-professional industry nomenclature) ‘deluxe trade paperbacks.’ They have very high quality paper stock, they have flaps, sometimes they have effects (like embossing or debossing or spot gloss) on the cover. And that’s all great — we want the books we publish at First Second to be physical objects that you’d want to own, and all of those effects are a part of that.
But! Sometimes when we’ve had a book that’s a success (especially when it’s a book for kids), we think, hey. Let’s see if we can work with our parent company’s paperback imprint to put out a lower cost edition that small and medium-sized children will be able to afford on their own and also that will be more affordable for teachers buying classroom sets! (You may remember that there’s also a Square Fish edition of American Born Chinese.)
So how is this new Square Fish edition of Anya’s Ghost different from the original?
We have some pictures to explain!
Here are the covers of the two editions together — the Square Fish edition is on the left. See how it looks a little smaller? It is! The original First Second edition is 6 x 8 1/2 inches. The Square Fish edition is 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches. (Looking at these two books, you might think the color is different, too — that’s just what happens when you send the same files to a different printer, not an actual change.)
Here are the two back covers. You can see that the design of these two is basically the same; they just have some different copy.
Why do they have different copy, you may ask?
The Square Fish edition has no flaps, which you can see from the picture of the inside front cover below. Generally, at First Second, when we’ve got a book with flaps, we leave the cover very design-y and put content like the book summary and an author bio on the flaps. But you can see with the Square Fish edition of Anya’s Ghost (below on the bottom), they’ve taken off the flaps and replaced the half title page (which in the top book says ‘Anya’s Ghost‘) with a page of praise.
From there, the First Second edition goes right into the book — which you can see in the picture below. But the Square Fish edition (on the bottom) continues on with praise (this book got kind of a lot of praise — it took two pages to fit it all in)! Only then does it go on to the half title page.
Here’s what the title page of the Square Fish edition of Anya’s Ghost looks like. Two logos!
The Square Fish edition also includes an author Q&A (with a charming picture of the author).
And here’s the inside back cover, which also has no flaps. You can see in the top First Second edition, the book has an author bio — in the bottom Square Fish edition, that author bio has been printed right on the cover. Plus there’s an Anya and Ghost cameo on the final page!
And: spines! This is probably the best picture to demonstrate how different the size of these two books is.
The Square Fish paperback edition of Anya’s Ghost will be in stores in March. If you haven’t checked out this book yet, this is the perfect opportunity!
(Thanks to MacKids publicist Mary Van Akin for the book-holding assist!)

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text: This is for a vocationally committed or strongly intrigued readership. It also has potential as a good book for this age level as avocational information. No reader will leave the book in the least doubt that being the man in control of an airplane is the best of all things to be. Mr. Richter's enthusiasm is personal and he shares his own training and experience as a pilot from his pre-flying days to his biggest jobs. There's an extra aid to learning at the end of the book in the author's you-are-there, motion-by-motion description of how the most complex planes of today are taken up, handled and brought down. These chapters make it very clear without lecturing that flying today's planes and commanding their equipment requires the pilot to make rapid calculations based on a thorough familiarity with advanced formulas in math and physics. The author slips this over without making it sound discouragingly difficult, but necessary and practical. This will get to the boys who don't get through or appreciate Wind, Sand and Stars until after they've held the controls.


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CTO at Gemr. Disney fan. Lego builder. Code wrangler.
Excited that the latest release of the web version of Gemr now supports rich content such as gifs, pictures and video. This will be released to the mobile versions of Gemr in the coming weeks - Enjoy!


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The month of May was a good one for me, with a crescendo of energy before the heat-beaten days of summer. Good oppurtunities presented themselves and I followed many of the avenues they led me to.
Before the weather gets too hot, Evelyn and I made an effort to do a long bicycle ride, ‘long’ being relative to Evelyn’s ability. We set out early in the month intending to at least tie our 15.5 mile record for longest ride. Not only did we break our distance record by one mile, but we made it all the way to Teddy Roosevelt Island! Bicycling to this National Park in the Potomac River has been a goal of mine since I moved to the area three years ago, and I had thought it would take Evelyn a season of riding to prepare for this endeavor. But we made it! Together we explored the hiking trails and boardwalk that traverse the perimeter of the isle (on foot, becausewheels are verboten there). The monument to T.R. was stirring, the inscribed stone monoliths standing amidst the cool green forest like an intact holy site from an extinct civilization, surrounded by the eternal energy of nature. It was then that I was disappointed that I had left my camera at home! At least we have a good reason to go back. (Note to self: have Natl. Parks passbook stamped for T.R. Island dated May 6, ’07).
The following weekend, we made a hasty road trip out to my boyhood home in northern Indiana, pictured above. My father intends to move soon, and I wanted to show Evelyn the place where I had spent my boyhood years, a place we Hackels call WilderHaven. Evelynhad been there before, but not during pleasant weather, and this seemed like our last chance. Once Dad sells WilderHaven, it’s either destined for ever-encroaching suburban housing or a farmer’s plow. Either fate will destroy one of my most special and endearing places on Earth.
My father purchased WilderHaven in 1987, which was a farm field at the time, presumably full of soybeans. We moved our house there, and started to piece together the country homestead my parents had always wanted. (Yeah, I grew up in a trailer. Laugh while you can, cityfolk.) Mom and Dad, both being Wildlife Management majors, spent the next twenty years crafting the six acre plot into a mini-arboretum, a personal refuge of nature. Mom’s garden gave us fresh tomatoes, sunflowers, cucumbers, green beans, Brussells sprouts and carrots year after year. Dad set us all to to the task of turning the weedy fields into our own personal forest. Elms invaded from the east, Maples from the west, and Sumacs and Mulberrys from the north. Ornamental trees stood in an arboreal courtyard around the house: Red Maple, many Oaks, Sassafras, Sweetgum, Hickory, Douglas Fir, and my Dad’s cherished Yellowwood. Others took root as planted saplings: Tulip, Black Locust, River Birch, Willow, Flowering Dogwood, Catalpa, Paw-Paw, Kentucky Coffeetree, and Persimmon. Forming the northwest wind and snow barrier were Red Pine, White Pine, Cedar, and Norway Spruce. Prarie grasses thrived in the southwest corner, gently waving in the wind. I grew up with these trees, my childhood friends, and I remember looking out over the nascent tops of them. Now they tower thirty feet over me, swaying in the wind.
Over the years my family added a birdfeeder, a wading pool, a tetherball court, a campfire pit, and a playground. Trails through the trees let us tour our engineered grove. My dog Alex was buried there, along with our numerous other pets, a long tradition of animal companions. So many animals came through our house that I now refer to it a the WilderHaven Zoological Society. I erected bluebird nesting boxes, did carpentry projects with Dad like such as the above-mentioned playground, and spent hours each summer mowing the natural green carpets of our lawn, a wide frolicing space. After twenty years of effort, turning a soybean field into a private park, Dad is now selling it. His winds of fortune have changed, and I wish him godspeed wherever his dreams may lead him. WilderHaven was, and will always will be, one of my favorite places on Earth. This visit may have been my last chance to say goodbye to this verdant sanctuary.
A few weeks later, Ian asks me if I’m going to Balticon A sci-fi con? Meh. I like sci-fi, grew up with the stuff. Dad would stay up late with me, and when the rest of the world folded into sleep, he would pull his timeworn paperbacks off the shelf. The imagination of Ray Bradbury would mingle in the air along with the dust of the yellowed paper. As I got older, I went through a three-year Star Trek phase, then bounced from franchise to franchise. I’m not a sci-fi fanboy, I’ve just hit many of the obvious stops along the way through.
But Balticon was a great place to demo Ferrball’s Mansion, my three-year-old card game prototype. The reaction from four sleep deprived gamers was positive, and they were definitely up for more if only it weren’t 4:00 a.m.. That session gave me many ideas on how to improve the game. On a more productive note, I also attended a helpful panel about publishing games, starring Kory ‘Zendo’ Heath, Gavin ‘Robot Martini’ Schmitt, and Jake ‘Play Again Games’ Davenport. Thanks for the info guys! I also got to play several games of EcoFluxx, Chrononauts, and some other designer’s prototype called Dazzle (which reminded me of Dominoes, only with 12-sided tiles).
The coolest thing I saw at Balticon? The Mace. Nice wooden handle, heavy stainless steel chain, and fist-sized D20s in place of spiked balls. Yeah, that’s right… really big dice on a stick.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to Houston!
Nifty Wikipedia Thing: the Darian Calendar of Mars
Movies I’ve Seen:
The Battle of Algiers
Twelve O’Clock High
What I’m Reading:
"Jack London: Sailor on Horseback" by Irving Stone
"The Confederate Navy" by Philip van Doren Stern


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Suresh Gopi to reunite with Joshiy for Paapan
Scripted by C/o Saira Banu-fame RJ Shaan, Paapan is Joshiy's follow-up to the hit Porinju Mariam Jose, starring Joju George and Nyla
Two Malayalam cinema titans are teaming up after a long hiatus. Director Joshiy will direct Suresh Gopi in a crime thriller titled Paapan.
Nyla Usha plays the female lead, with Sunny Wayne, Neeta Pillai (Poomaram, Kung Fu Master), and Gokul Suresh Gopi filling up the other integral roles. Kaniha and Asha Sarath are also part of the cast.
The title poster was released by the makers online. Scripted by C/o Saira Banu-fame RJ Shaan, Paapan is Joshiy's follow-up to the hit Porinju Mariam Jose, starring Joju George and Nyla.
Interestingly, Paapan has the backing of Porinju Mariam Jose's producer David Kachappilly. The latter's son, cinematographer Ajay David Kachappilly, is also returning along with composer Jakes Bejoy.
Suresh Gopi's previous collaborations with Joshiy were the blockbusters Lelam, Pathram and Vazhunoor. Paapan is expected to be a similarly fiery thriller.
Shyam Sasidharan will edit the film, while Vishnu Govind and Sreesankar will design the sound.


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JESSICA GILPINCONTACT TRAINER
Certified STOTT PILATES® Instructor.
During my last year of high school, I was placed at Create Balance as a Co-op student. Little did I know, this placement would solve the mystery of what I want to pursue in life and lead me to discover my deepest passion: PILATES!
Pilates was exactly the method of exercise I didn’t know I had been searching for. I found it fascinating how connecting the mind to the body and moving with control leads the muscles to work so much more efficiently. I was hooked from my first class…so a year later in 2016, I pursued the IMP and IR courses to become certified to step out from the desk and in front of the class! I have been teaching full time ever since, and have progressed my education by getting a Physiotherapist Assistant diploma, becoming a certified Canfitpro trainer, and taking the STOTT Pilates Stability Chair course.
In every session I combine my knowledge of physiotherapy with pilates, thus correcting any imbalances within the body so you can move better and feel better. My goal is to have each person tune deep into their body in order to push themselves to their fullest individual capabilities – while also having a few laughs at my corny jokes along the way!
Physiotherapist / Occupational Therapist Assistant (PTA/OTA)