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The Story of the Tin Man

Whitestone Motion Pictures is proud to present Heartless: The Story of the Tin Man.

Based on the backstory of one of the most beloved childrenʼs novels of all time comes the extraordinary love story between a simple woodsman and a beautiful maiden. Not having many possessions but wanting to marry his maiden, the woodsman sets his heart to build a large and beautiful cabin.

L. Frank Baum wrote the back story to the Tin Woodsman in his book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Heartless: The Story of the Tin Man is Whitestone Motion Pictures retelling this little known story of the tragic arc of a belovedcharacter who was once human, made of flesh and blood that turned into tin.

Download the music from Heartless below. We want to share these songs with you free of charge.

http://www.whitestonemotionpictures.com/oldsite/audio/Heartless_Soundtra...

- Brian Greene

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCfCrazfzUU

Great is the sun, and wide he goes
Through empty heaven with repose;
And in the blue and glowing days
More thick than rain he showers his rays.

Though closer still the blinds we pull
To keep the shady parlour cool,
Yet he will find a chink or two
To slip his golden fingers through.

The dusty attic spider-clad
He, through the keyhole, maketh glad;
And through the broken edge of tiles
Into the laddered hay-loft smiles.

Meantime his golden face around
He bares to all the garden ground,
And sheds a warm and glittering look
Among the ivy's inmost nook.

Above the hills, along the blue,
Round the bright air with footing true,
To please the child, to paint the rose,
The gardener of the World, he goes.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Marinated tofu salad with gingered fiddleheads

For a fresh oriental feel marinate your fiddleheads and firm cut tofu in the marinade below overnight and stir-fry quickly.
Marinade
1/3 cup soy sauce
2 teaspoons sesame oil
2 garlic cloves minced
2 teaspoons of minced fresh ginger
1 teaspoon of chilli paste
14 ounces of firm tofu- sliced into small cubes
14 ounces mixed salad leaves — organic
1/2 red pepper — diced and sautéed
1/2 pound of fiddleheads — sautéed in sesame oil
2 cloves of garlic — sliced and sautéed
6 ounces of cherry tomatoes halved
Dressing
2 tablespoons of mirin
3 tablespoons of sesame oil
2 teaspoons of minced ginger
1 teaspoon of chopped chives
1 tablespoon of sesame seeds

Mix marinade ingredients together, add fiddleheads and tofu; let stand in refrigerator overnight. Make up dressing as per instructions in separate bowl. Combine salad leaves, sautéed red pepper, drained and sautéed fiddleheads and sautéed garlic slices in a bowl. Add chopped tomatoes. Char grill the drained tofu on a medium high heat for 3 minutes, turning at midway point. Toss into salad with fiddlehead mixture. Pour over dressing.

For more information on fiddleheads visit www.mainefiddleheads.com/what.html; www.umext.maine.edu/onlinepubs/htmpubs/4198.htm

that sounds fantastic!

Our celebration of Moon Day continues with one of the oddest outsider-music artifacts I've ever come across - an entire album of music and narration from 1956 by someone claiming to be a UFO contactee. And I stumbled across it while perusing my local library.

In the 1950's, at the height of the flying saucer scare, a New Jersey sign-painter named Howard Menger not only had an abduction experience, but he claims that he later came across a remote building housing a piano with more keys then found on Earth pianos, and that he began to play music guided by alien hands.

Our resident expert in such matters, Greg "Spacebrother" Bishop, notes that "an attractive young woman named Connie Weber appeared at one of Menger’s gatherings. He thought that she was the reincarnation of a blond spacewoman that he had known (in the biblical sense) in a previous life on Venus. He soon left his first wife and family to begin a new life of lectures and touring on the Contactee circuit....Connie wrote a book entitled My Saturnian Lover about her previous interplanetary relationship with Menger." Gotta find that book!

Apparently the aliens were from The Planet Of Crappy Music, judging by the snoozy piano/accordion instrumentals found on this big 28-minute file. There's nothing spacey or futuristic about it, except for all the echo that drenches everything - music and narration. And despite his description of the alien piano, there's no microtonal sounds here. Maybe that's why the aliens came - to get better tuneage for those long interstellar road trips. The narration is priceless, however. Now I know what The Bran Flakes sampled on the first song on their "Hey Won't Somebody Come And Play?" album.

Howard Menger "Authentic Music From Another Planet"

Sorry for the sound quality, and for the size of the file - I got this from a cd I found in the Los Angeles Central Library while looking for something else entirely. Much to my surprise, there's a whole shelf of UFO/conspiracy-related audio documentation. This track is from a collection called "Saucerology: Tales of Giant Rock (Contactees Vol. 2)," compiled by Wendy Connors as part of her Audio History of Ufology Series. She apparently used to have her own label, but the website's gone. I checked out a number of these Conners compilation disks from the Library Shelf O' Mystery, but there's little music to be found on them. Mostly just inaudible interviews and news reports.

Menger just died earlier this year.

to be turned into a controversial musical

"Love is always a protection, in a quite literal manner; in a biological and electromagnetic and chemical and psychic manner."

The Early Sessions, Book 4
Session 176, Page 184

Whenever a feeling of aversion comes into the heart of a good soul,it's not without significance.

Consider that intuitive wisdom to be a Divine attribute, not a vain suspicion: the light of the heart has apprehended intuitively from the Universal Tablet.

Hundreds of peace activists prevented the unloading of an Israeli ship at the Port of Oakland Sunday by forming a picket line.

Organizers said their goal was to delay the ship"s unloading for 24 hours in protest of the Israeli military"s May 31 open-seas raid on a humanitarian aid flotilla that had been bringing goods to Gaza. The raid ended in the death of nine Turkish citizens.

Several hundred people gathered at the Oakland port about 5:30 a.m. at berths 57, 58 and 59, which is operated by SSA Terminals. An Israeli Zim Lines ship was expected to arrive in the morning, but didn"t. So the crowd stayed until the afternoon, preventing workers from unloading a ship from China, according to SSA officials.

"Free, free Palestine! Don"t cross the picket line!" the pickets shouted, blocking the berths" entrances and preventing about 100 longshoremen from walking past.

The longshoremen"s union largely cooperated with the picket line. No workers tried to cross it.

Clarence Thomas, an executive board member of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 10 said, "We don"t want our members getting into fist fights or anything. We don"t want police escorting us to work. That"s unsafe."

Organizers had informed Oakland police of their plans for the picket, and police reported no arrests.

Richard Mead, president of Local 10, said Sunday night that SSA decided against ordering night shift workers to unload the Israeli ship, so employees didn"t show up and didn"t have to cross any picket lines.

"We can"t make them order a crew," Mead said. "It is what is."

"We consider this to be a huge victory and a historic moment," said organizer Richard Becker. "This is the first time this has happened, that an Israeli ship was blocked from unloading in a U.S. port."

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http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_15340836?nclick_check=1

That's what I like to see, now if we could only get around 10 million more people taking it to the man, in the streets, and get some coverage by the MSM we might start to see some changes.

It's a pleasant dream.

Hi Alice

Nice of you to visit and WRITE SOMETHING..

Boots, you say... hmmmm...yes. ;)

Barbican Art Gallery

...
Step inside a labyrinth of chambers, designed by acclaimed young architects Carmody Groarke, and experience The Surreal House - its haunted rooms, delirious forms, blasted architecture and cinematic dreamscapes - featuring a host of artists, architects and film makers including Salvador Dali, Marcel Duchamp, Alberto Giacometti, René Magritte, Man Ray, Joseph Cornell and Maya Deren through to more contemporary figures, among them; Rebecca Horn, Edward Kienholz and Rem Koolhaas.

At times enchanting, playful and at others, deeply disquieting, The Surreal House is a dwelling that is essentially everything that the rational, functional Modernist house is not.

Talks, performances and artists’ film in the Gallery every Thursday until 10pm.

http://www.phantasmaphile.com/2010/06/the-surreal-house-in-london.html

Neato. (Is that the wrong kind of interjection here? Somehow I don't think Dali ever said "Neato.")

"The Modernist house..." took me a minute to be sure that wasn't a real art place. (I really fear for me in this class...):}
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Graciela Iturbide (one artist I will be studying this summer...)

I swear they used this one, or something very much like it, on the cover of a book by Diamela Eltit but can't find right now if so.

works for me...

-Graciela Iturbide-

Cool...thanks...Looks like great stuff from what I have seen in the last few minutes...

Lets You Rap with the Founding Fathers for July 4th [VIDEO]

Oh, I can smile for you, and tilt my head,
And drink your rushing words with eager lips,
And paint my mouth for you a fragrant red,
And trace your brows with tutored finger-tips.
When you rehearse your list of loves to me,
Oh, I can laugh and marvel, rapturous-eyed.
And you laugh back, nor can you ever see
The thousand little deaths my heart has died.
And you believe, so well I know my part,
That I am gay as morning, light as snow,
And all the straining things within my heart
You'll never know.

Oh, I can laugh and listen, when we meet,
And you bring tales of fresh adventurings, --
Of ladies delicately indiscreet,
Of lingering hands, and gently whispered things.
And you are pleased with me, and strive anew
To sing me sagas of your late delights.
Thus do you want me -- marveling, gay, and true,
Nor do you see my staring eyes of nights.
And when, in search of novelty, you stray,
Oh, I can kiss you blithely as you go ....
And what goes on, my love, while you're away,
You'll never know.

Dorothy Parker

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Why mind over matter really works.
By David R. Hamilton, Ph.D.

Published: August 13, 2009

A lot of people are skeptical as to whether anything out of their mind-set is really possible, and you have probably heard them say, “I’ll believe it when I see it.” But people who have accomplished great things in life will testify to it being the other way around. Ability follows belief. As Dr. Wayne Dyer aptly titled one of his books, You’ll See It When You Believe It.

In 1993, a psychologist named Tony Lawrence at the University of Edinburgh gathered together the results of 685,000 ESP guesses by 4,500 people performed over a 50-year period from 1943 to 1993. They were called “sheep-goat experiments.” A “sheep-goat experiment” is one that compares the ESP ability of people who believe that ESP is possible with that of people who do not.

Lawrence’s analysis of the experiments showed that believers (“sheep”) were much better at ESP than nonbelievers (“goats”) and the odds against achieving such results by chance were a staggering one trillion to 1.

I have conducted a number of ESP experiments with participants at some of my seminars. Typically I will hold up 20 cards, one at a time, and the participants have to guess whether it is red or black. For a while the average score per seminar was about 52 percent correct guesses, where chance would be 50 percent. I wondered what would happen if the participants had a greater belief in ESP, so in the new seminars I began asking the participants to spend five minutes writing down on paper why they should get a good score and to present a case for ESP. The average score per seminar jumped to 57 percent.

This confirms that people who believe in ESP are better at ESP than people who don’t. So the placebo effect extends much further than taking empty pills. People who don’t believe in ESP obstruct their own connection, while people who are open to believe that everything is connected give themselves the ability to gain great wisdom and understanding of life through enhancing their connection. One of the by-products I have noticed is that they also tend to find meaning in their own lives and begin to recognize the contribution that their presence makes to the world.

Belief is a powerful thing. Imagine we believed that the world was a good place, populated by billions of kind and compassionate people. If we did that, we might collectively inspire more kindness and compassion in the world through the waves we created. In fact, as more of us begin to see the world in this way, focusing upon the goodness, our thoughts resonate with each other and multiply the power of the wave.

In the same way, a cynical view, focusing instead upon the smaller numbers of people who sometimes act differently, might inspire unhappiness. But whatever happens can be viewed as positive or negative. It’s how you choose to look at it that determines what you get out of it. We don’t all need to try to change the world. All we really need to do is change our minds about the world. If we view the world as a beautiful place, with beautiful people, and if we are willing to believe in the beauty that we see, then our faith will move mountains!

Excerpted from It’s the Thought That Counts by David R. Hamilton, Ph.D. Copyright © 2008 (Hay House).

David R. Hamilton acquired an honors degree in biological and medicinal chemistry, and a Ph.D. in organic chemistry before working as a scientist in the pharmaceutical industry for several years. He left the pharmaceutical industry and athletics coaching in 1999 and returned to Scotland as a motivational speaker. Visit: www.DrDavidHamilton.com.

;)

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

MMRules

MARCUSE'S COGNITIVE INTEREST: A PERSONAL VIEW*
by George Katsiaficas

Herbert Marcuse was not a famous man nor was his writing well known until late in his life.
When it became his fate to be blessed (or cursed) with public attention, fame quickly turned into
notoriety, and he became more well-known than many people might now recall. In 1968, students
and young radicals the world over read and discussed the three M's: Marx, Mao and Marcuse.
Wherever he went, he was attacked by both the left and the right--at least in terms of the Communist
left. In Germany, he was blamed for the wave of guerrilla attacks which has only recently subsided.
In the United States, then-Governor Ronald Reagan denounced him for complicity in campus
violence, and after a concerted campaign against him, one replete with pounds of hate mail, death
threats, vilification in the media, and an offer by the American Legion to buy his contract from the
university, he was retired unceremoniously and denied the opportunity to continue teaching courses.
In his own words, he was "lucky to still have a mailbox" at the University of California, San Diego.
On at least three continents, he was taken to task for subversion of the young--the same charge
leveled at Socrates. He was denounced by Pope Paul VI for "theory that opens the way to license
cloaked as liberty, and the aber

6 Super Close-Ups of Crazy Bug Eyes

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They may not seem like creatures worth admiring when they are buzzing around your head or landing on your lunch, but under the microscope they can be truly spectacular. Especially their eyes. For the past 35 years, Nikon has held their Small World photomicrography competition to recognize excellent images of really tiny stuff. Of the many photos of bug eyes they’ve received over the years, these are the ones that caught the judges’ eyes. (I was on the judging panel this year, so I happen to know that there may be an addition to the list coming soon.) And yes, I know the shrimp in the third image is not a bug, but it is buggy, and its eye is awesomely crazy-looking. Metallic Beetle 2004 6th Place Image
Charles B. Krebs
Issaquah, Washington, USA Thorax, head and eye section of Chrysochroa fulminans (6.25x) Image: Nikon Small World
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Everything I Need to Know About Business I Learned from Roller Derby Posted on Monday, June 28, 2010 by Shanna

Roller derby may seem like a crash-em, smash-em sport, but it is actually rather strategic. The mechanics are simple: 1 jammer and 4 blockers for each team. Jammers try to score points, blockers try to prevent the opposing jammer from scoring. But the strategy and communication involved is paramount. Taking a number of competitive people and wrangling them into a functioning team is as hard as it sounds, but worth the effort when your team turns into a well-oiled derby machine. From all of that, I’ve learned a number of things that apply equally well to business:

• Make a plan before you go out on the track.
• When your plans fail, be flexible.
• Make your teammates look good. When they look good, so do you.
• Always be aware of where the competing team is.
• Listen to your teammates’ ideas even if it might not be your approach.
• The team with the best endurance wins.
• Play offensively, not defensively.
• Competition is not personal, and you shouldn’t make it that way.
• Playing dirty only gets you put in the penalty box.
• Ask for feedback about what you did right and what you need to improve.
• Always work on learning new skills.
• When you are learning, you will probably fall down a lot.
• People make mistakes. Let them know, and then drop it.
• Don’t make excuses for your own mistakes. Make the changes you need to.
• Always tell your teammates when they did something awesome.
• Your hits are most successful when you follow through.
• Ask your teammates for help when you need it.
• You rise and fall on the strength of ALL of your teammates’ efforts.
• Listen to your coach. She can see the whole track and has a broader view than you do.
• Communication is the most important skill you can have.

Check out this photo for a real understanding of what playing with a good derby team is all about. If you don’t have your mouth open telling your teammates something, or aren’t listening for them telling you something, you’re doing it wrong.

"Framework 2 is not neutral, but automatically inclined toward what we will here term good or constructive developments. It is a growth medium. Constructive or positive feelings or thoughts are more easily materialized than negative ones, because they are in keeping with Framework 2’s characteristics."

The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events
Session 826, Page 126

Others taught me with having knelt at well-curbs
Always wrong to the light, so never seeing
Deeper down in the well than where the water
Gives me back in a shining surface picture
Me myself in the summer heaven godlike
Looking out of a wreath of fern and cloud puffs.
Once, when trying with chin against a well-curb,
I discerned, as I thought, beyond the picture,
Through the picture, a something white, uncertain,
Something more of the depths--and then I lost it.
Water came to rebuke the too clear water.
One drop fell from a fern, and lo, a ripple
Shook whatever it was lay there at bottom,
Blurred it, blotted it out. What was that whiteness?

Truth? A pebble of quartz? For once, then, something.

Robert Frost

rachitseth | December 07, 2008

This is one of the rare videos available to see Mahatma Gandhi speaking

Child of the pure unclouded brow
And dreaming eyes of wonder!
Though time be fleet, and I and thou
Are half a life asunder,
Thy loving smile will surely hail
The love-gift of a fairy-tale.

- Lewis Carroll

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tii8pSI6wFQ

The girl I used to be

My tree will know it all
the tree of my childhood
with the endless branches
and the many whispers

My tree remembers
the girl with the wind in her hair
the girl with the crazy laughter
the girl with the fear of living
the girl I used to be
before

In my tree
everything I want to be
will be

In my tree
I can see the world
but no one can see me

My tree remembers me
the girl I used to be
before

Pia Andersson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDsqpeiTqg8&feature=fvw