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Along with Every Thought - or Lore - Along come "i".

4thelegends — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:57:03 +0000

Thoughts

This is the 17^th Thought/Thoughts17

06/08/2008 00:23AM

I have made a note which link Thoughts15, Thoughts16 and Thoughts17 to one another to display to me, after 6 years of questioning, who it is that is giving me my information and organizing all the synchronicities.

05/08/2008 10:37Pm and 1 + 37 = 38, the CH from my dog Charlie, Chihuahua, China (Earthquake), Chinese People (Typhoon Myanmar) and Chile (volcano) – all happened at same time my dog died on 7/5 of 2008.

“The Rose”

That morning when I felt so terrible where I saw the head of the Sphinx being resurrected (as it was seemingly on the ground), I phoned a friend and told him about these “vision/insight” I got. But this friend is friends with the friend who phoned me 60km from Bloemfontein to ask about an aerial that has to be fetched for the White Lions of Timbavati.

But “The Rose” can be the one that rose from the ground – like that head of the Sphinx I saw being rose from the ground in my mind’s eye. And another word for this “rose from the ground” is that it has been “rise(n)” from the ground where “o” and “i” are in the same places and that “rise” only have an extra “n”. And “n” the 14^th letter of English Alphabet .

But “o” is naught (the symbol for naught – Thoughts15) and “i” is the 9^th letter of the English Alphabet and 9 the number where it all comes together (Thoughts15 and Thoughts16).

And see how Origin (0) and the point where all come together, the “whole point” or 9 or “i”, is one and the same.

So whether it “rose” from the ground by being pulled to “rise” from the ground with ropes (in my mind’s eye), it is the head of the Sphinx being resurrected – so “The Rose” is the Resurrected Head of the Sphinx.

05/08/2008 10:46PM and 1 + 46 = 47, the number associated with PI/8^th Thought and Golden Paved Middle Way. But the 4^th letter is “D” and the 7^th letter is “G”. So from PI (22/7 – from 4/7), we get that the 47 and 74 combination gives DG and GD. But as 0 is 0, we add that 0 and we get DOG and GOD.

When we look at our school years, we got the words the following way to learn how the present, past words looked like. Like for instance with “rise”, you would have learnt:

Rise and rose; walk and walked; or see and saw, etc. (Why do we get taught this way anyway? As if it did not happen this way, it would not have been possible to show the following):

So in this case the FIRST position is “rise”. But as we have that the past happened before the present, we get therefore that “rose” happened before “rise”, so it should be in the FIRST position as well.

But now “rise” and “rose” are in a FIRST position and “rose” and “rise” in the LAST position. So “o” and “I” both in First and Last position which makes them linked to the same thing and therefore they’re equal or share equality.

So the Origin (“o”) as well as (“I”) the point where everything comes together, share equality. So “origin” is also the point where everything comes together. So present and past share equality as one and the same thing.

And this besides the conclusion of Who and What is the Source of my information – the 0(ne) where present and past comes together in one point – the balance point or {0;0}, as these two, the “o” and “I”, share equality. So this 0(ne) is beyond the state of mind of the world of opposites – therefore from the NO-thingness. So the information are all coming from the NO-thingness.

So this Thoughts17 is just another confirmation that I am dealing with a once Dying God that is linked to be “The Rose” or then, the Resurrected Head of the Sphinx. And no information in Thoughts17 is new information – as all of it has been written down in another version in the Thoughts so far. But Thoughts17, just makes all the information in Thoughts17, the “whole” of it all.

And 1 + 7 = 8, and 8 is The Weaver of Fate.

This is the End of Thoughts17.

06/08/2008 00:43AM – and for some or other reason the 43 is coming up all the time lately – I will probably find the reason for that soon. And the minutes have now changed to 44 – which is linked to the number combination of 17 or 7

THE ROSE

mafee — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 15:28:55 +0000

เคยคิดเล่น ๆ ไหมว่า ถ้าต้องเลือกระหว่างตาบอดกับหูหนวก จะเลือกเป็นอย่างไหน?

ถ้าเป็นสมัยก่อนฉันเลือกได้ไม่ต้องคิดเลย เลือกหูหนวก ไม่ได้ยินเสียงไม่เป็นไร ยังมีตาไว้ดำรงชีวิตตามปกติได้ อ่านหนังสือ เล่นเกม ดูหนัง ไปท่องเที่ยวได้ (แบบเงียบ ๆ หน่อย)

แต่ช่วงหลังฉันชักไม่แน่ใจ ชีวิตฉันพึ่งพิงกับเสียงดนตรีมากขึ้นเรื่อย ๆ ทุกวันต้องฟังเพลง แค่ห้อยเครื่องเล่น mp3 ฟังช่วงเดินทางไปกลับจากที่ทำงานเช้าเย็นก็เพียงพอแล้ว

หลายครั้งที่ชีวิตย่ำแย่ เหนื่อยและท้อ ได้ฟังเพลงดี ๆ เหมือนต่อท่อน้ำเลี้ยงเข้าไปในร่างกาย จิตใจมันมีกำลังฮึดสู้อีกครั้ง

หลายครั้งที่เบื่อหน่าย เปิดเพลงสนุก ๆ ฟังก็แจ่มใสขึ้นได้

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ที่นึกขึ้นมาเรื่อง "ตาบอดหรือหูหนวก" ก็เพราะได้มานั่งฟังเพลงของพี่เคน ฮิราอิ อัลบั้ม KEN'S BAR ที่เป็น cover album ออกมาตั้งแต่ปี 2003 แล้ว มีหลายเพลงเก่า ๆ ที่ฉันชอบมานานแล้ว อย่าง Lovin' You, What A Wonderful World, Don' Know Why พี่เคนเอามาร้องแบบนุ่ม ๆ เบา ๆ ละมุนละไมดี

เพลงเก่าที่ฉันเพิ่งได้ฟังจากอัลบั้มนี้เป็นครั้งแรก The Rose รู้สึกจะเป็นเพลงที่แต่งและร้องโดย Bette Mitler มาก่อน และถูกนำมาร้องใหม่โดยนักร้องหลายคนแล้ว ที่ฉันชอบเกี่ยวกับเพลงนี้ เริ่มจากดนตรีที่เรียบง่าย ต่อด้วยน้ำเสียงของพี่เคน ที่เริ่มแบบนุ่ม ๆ แล้วมีพลังมากขึ้นตามเนื้อร้องที่หนักหน่วงไปพร้อมกับเสียงเดี่ยวเปียโน ที่ก็โหมขึ้นมาด้วยกัน และค่อยเบาลงในช่วงท้าย จนจบลงด้วยคำเดียวกับชื่อเพลง

Some say love it is a river
that drowns the tender reed
Some say love it is a razer
that leaves your soul to blead

Some say love it is a hunger
an endless aching need
I say love it is a flower
and you it's only seed

It's the heart afraid of breaking
that never learns to dance
It's the dream afraid of waking
that never takes the chance
It's the one who won't be taken
who cannot seem to give
and the soul afraid of dying
that never learns to live

When the night has been too lonely
and the road has been too long
and you think that love is only
for the lucky and the strong
Just remember in the winter
far beneath the bitter snows
lies the seed
that with the sun's love
in the spring
becomes the rose

ปกติฉันไม่ค่อยชอบ quote อะไรมาใส่ในบล็อคเยอะ มันเหมือนไม่ใช่พื้นที่เรา เป็นพื้นที่ที่ก๊อปของคนอื่นมาเก็บไว้ แต่สำหรับเพลงนี้ต้องขอแปะทั้งเพลง โดยเฉพาะที่ใส่ตัวเข้ม มันโดนเหลือเกิน ฟังแล้วกระทบใจดำดังกึ้ก

จริง ๆ ถ้าฟังแต่ดนตรีโดยไม่สนใจเนื้อหา หรือถ้าอ่านเนื้อเพลงโดยไม่ได้ฟังเพลง ฉันคงไม่ได้รู้สึกอะไรเท่าไรนัก ดนตรีและน้ำเสียง บวกกับเนื้อหาของเพลง นั่นสิถึงส่งสารของเพลงเข้าไปถึงใจได้

ถ้าฉันเลือกที่จะหูหนวก ก็คงรับสารตัวนี้ไม่ได้แน่นอน

สุดท้ายนี้ ขอให้ทุกคนจงดีใจว่าตัวเองยังมีทั้งตาและหูนะคะ

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ข่าวฝาก - อาทิตย์ก่อนแวะไป B2S ที่เซ็นทรัลเวิร์ล เห็นมีห้องบันทึกเสียงอ่านหนังสือลงในเทปเพื่อให้คนตาบอดได้มีโอกาสสัมผัสกับหนังสือดี ๆ ด้วย ใครว่างผ่านไปแถวนั้นก็แวะไปทิ้งเสียงไว้ได้

หรือถ้าอยากช่วยเหลืออย่างจริงจัง ติดต่อได้ที่สมาคมคนตาบอดแห่งประเทศไทย อยู่แถวดินแดง อ่านรายละเอียดได้ที่เว็บคนใจดี

The Rose

zxvasdf — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 02:53:06 +0000

In the gray day the rose was perfect, studded with little rain jewels, that upon plucking fell like diamonds to the ground. He sang softly to himself through a small smile on the way home, dashing in puddles, the rain playing on his face. He burst in the front door and passed through the living room into the kitchen, where his forlorn wife sat.

He slid to his knees, clutching the green stem in his beaming smile. "O the dismal and dreary day brings bright tidings..." he drew the rose from his teeth with a flourish and lifted it to her upturned nose. She sniffed at it distastefully and turned away, revealing a pale neck luminous in the stuffy light. He longed to nuzzle its length, inhale her quiet musk.

She looked back at him with dark brown eyes.

"Did you get it at the market?" she said, averting her gaze again.

"No," he murmured tenderly. He smiled at her neck. He took her limp hand. It was cold. "I picked it out myself, by the pond."

"Cheap bastard."

The rose lay on the floorboards until the next morning when the maid was by to sweep it out.

Bloomsbury and St. Giles past and present. (1890)

majesticmole — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:27:43 +0000

The first of two by George Clinch

TITLE

Bloomsbury and St. Giles past and present. (1890)
WITH HISTORICAL AND ANTIQUARIAN NOTICES
OF THE VICINITY.

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George CLINCH (M: 1860 - 1921 Feb 2 or 5)

PUBLISHED

TRUSLOVE AND SHIRLEY, 7, ST. PAUL'S CHURCHYARD. 1890.

DESCRIPTION

INCLUDING NUMEROUS REPRODUCTIONS OF RARE ENGRAVINGS
AND MAPS IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM. The illustrations have been produced by The London Stereoscopic Company in their Photomezzotype process.

Rich as are the immediate environs of London in historical memories and associations, perhaps the ancient village which in the Middle Ages clustered around the Hospital and Church of St. Giles, and the aristocratic quarter which grew up in Bloomsbury in the eighteenth century, contain more features of antiquarian interest, were the scenes of more remarkable incidents in the history of England, and were the homes of more eminent men and women in the various walks of life than any other place of equal size, and equal distance from the heart of London.

In compiling the following account of the two parishes the author has found no lack of material; he has suffered rather from the richness of it. The work of selecting, with a due regard to the palates of his readers and the just demands of the subject he has undertaken to illustrate, has been no easy task.

CONTENTS.
ST. GILES-IN- THE- FIELDS.
CHAPTER I. Early history—Condition in Roman times—Defences of London—Blemund's Ditch—Condition of St. Giles's in the Middle Ages—The paving of High Oldburn—Fox-hunting at St. Giles's—St. Giles's in the time of Queen Elizabeth and King James the First—Rural condition—St. Giles's at the Restoration—Population—The Lepers' Hospital; foundation, charters, abuse of the charity—The Lepers' Chapel—Parish Church—Wealth of the hospital—Dissolution of the hospital, and spoliation of its possessions—Ancient custom connected with the hospital—Jack Sheppard—The manor of St. Giles
CHAPTER II. Demolition of the chapel of the Lepers' Hospitals—New tower—Building of a new church, 1624—Consecration of the new church by the Bishop of London—Account of the church in 1708—-Ornaments and fittings—The church tower—Dimensions of the church— Pulpit—Painted glass—Puritanical objections—Petition to Parliament against "Popish reliques "—Removal and sale of church ornaments—Communion cup—Dilapidation of the church—Proposal to build a new church, 1715—Petition to Parliament, 1717.— Design for the new church, 1731—Henry Flitcroft, the architect.—St. Giles's Churchyard —Resurrection Gate—Rectors of St. Giles's Church—Curious epitaphs
CHAPTER III. CELEBRATED OR REMARKABLE CHARACTERS :—Lord Herbert of Cherbury—Alice Duchess Dudley—George Chapman—Andrew Marvell—James Shirley—Sir Roger l'Estrange— Oliver Plunkett—Richard Pendrell—Isaac Ragg—William Wrench—Simon Edy—Old Jack Norris—Anne Henley—John Mitford
CHAPTER IV. PARISH INSTITUTIONS :—The Gallows—Execution of Lord Cobham, and of Babington—The Pound and the Cage—The Round House—The Watch-house—The Stocks and the Whipping-post—Fire-engine.—INNS . AND ALEHOUSES :—The Black Bear—The Black Jack—The Black Lamb—The Bowl—The Cock and Pye—The Croche Hose—The Crooked Billet—The Crown—The Fortune Tavern—The George and Blue Boar— The Hampshire Hog—The Horseshoe—The Maid in the Moon—The Maidenhead Inn—The Rose—Le Swan on le Hop—Toten, or Totten, Hall—The Turnstile Tavern —The Vine—The White Hart
CHAPTER V. CHARITIES*:—Skydmore, or Scudamore's, Gift—Holford's Charity—Shelton's Charity School —Gifts of Sir W. Coney and the Hon. R. Bertie—M. Boswell's Gift—E. Cumming's Gift—F. Batt's Gift—Edward's Gift—Atkinson's Gift—Charity given by an unknown donor—Leverton's Charity—Almshouses—Danvers's Charity—Bailey's Charity —-Earl of Southampton's Gift—Duchess Dudley's Gift—Carter's Gift—Wooden's Gift —Houses in Charles Street—Shakespeare's Gift—Mrs. Gregory's Gift—Leverton's Gift—Charities lost or expired—B. Ivery's Gift—Sowerby's Gift—R. Hulcup's Gift— Bloomsbury Parochial Schools—Lying-in Hospital, Endell Street .
CHAPTER VI. Cock and Pye Fields—Seven Dials—Evelyn's account—Gay's lines on the Seven Dials— Stone Column removed to Sayes Court, Chertsey, and afterwards to Weybridge— Inscription—Moral character of the Seven Dials—Literature of the Seven Dials—James Catnach—Song and ballad printers—Broadsides relating to St. Giles's Workhouse— The Great Plague—French Refugees—The Rookery of St. Giles's—Dudley Street— Lewknor's Lane—Sir Lewis Lewknor—Social condition of Lewknor's Lane—Short's Gardens—Nell Gwynne—The Cockpit Theatre—Drury Lane—Dickens's reference to Drury Lane—Ancient Bath, Endell Street .
CHAPTER VII. LINCOLN'S INN FIELDS :—Gay's account—Roman remains—Fiket's Field—Improvements in Lincoln's Inn Fields—Execution of William Lord Russell—"The Night-walker of Bloomsbury"—Eminent inhabitants of Lincoln's Inn Fields—Robbery of Lord Chancellor Finch's mace, etc.—The Duke's Theatre—Newcastle House—The Fifth of November—Sloane Museum—Egyptian sarcophagus—Hogarth's pictures—Royal College of Surgeons: the Museum; the Library—"The Old Curiosity Shop"—Anecdote of Kneller and Radcliffe—Freemasons' Hall—Great Queen Street Chapel .
CHAPTER VIII.
LINCOLN'S INN:—The Gate-house—The Old Hall—Tancred's bequest—Cromwell and Thurloe at Lincoln's Inn—Discovery of the Thurloe Papers—The Chapel—The Preachers —The Crypt—The Stone Building—The New Hall and Library—The Gardens—Gray's Inn—The Manor of Portpoole—Early history—Accommodation at Gray's Inn—The Hall—Painted glass—The Chapel—The Library—Gray's Inn Coffee-house—Thackeray —Red Lion Square—Cromwell, Ireton, and Bradshaw—Obelisk—Celebrated inhabitants —The Foundling Hospital—Captain Coram—Hatton Garden premises—Institution of the Foundling Hospital—Hogarth—" March to Finchley "—Pictures at the Foundling Hospital—Raphael's cartoon—Handel—West—Tokens
BLOOMSBURY.
CHAPTER IX.
Bloomsbury—Origin of name—Early condition—The Manor of Bloomsbury—New parish of St. George, Bloomsbury—Nicholas Hawksmoor—St. George's Church—The steeple —List of Rectors—Bloomsbury Market—Southampton House—Bedford House —Montague House—Robert Hooke—Fire at Montague House—The gardens of Montague House—Environs of Montague House—" The Brothers' Steps "
CHAPTER X. THE BRITISH MUSEUM :—Sir Hans Sloane—Museum in Bloomsbury Square—Foundation of the British Museum—Regulations for the admission of the public—Duties of the officials—Donations to the British Museum—The King's Library—New buildings— Panizzi's scheme for a new Library and Reading-room—Opening of the new Library and Reading-room—Description of the Reading-room and Library—Bust of Panizzi— Electric light—The White Wing—Principal Librarians—Department of Printed Books—Sir Hans Sloane's Library—Old Royal Collection—Mr. Cracherode's Library —Sir Joseph Banks's Library—Library of George III—Rt. Hon. Thomas Grenville's Library—Bookcases—Arrangement of books—Shelf-space—Hanging presses—Department of Manuscripts—Sloane, Cotton, Harley, Royal, Lansdowne, Hargrave, Burney, King's (George III.), Egerton, Arundel, Additional, and Stowe Collections of Manuscripts—Department of Prints and Drawings—Department of Antiquities—Greek and Roman Antiquities—Elgin Marbles—Lycian Marbles—Mausoleum of Helicarnassus —Antiquities from Ephesus—Nollekens' visit to the British Museum—The Portland Vase—Department of Egyptian and Oriental Antiquities—Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities—Department of Coins and Medals . . . .
CHAPTER XI Gordon Rioters at Bloomsbury—John Scott, Earl of Eldon—Dr. John Radcliffe—Bloomsbury Square—Isaac d'Israeli—Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfleld—Russell Square —Statue of the Duke of Bedford—Sir Thomas Lawrence—Literary Associations of Bloomsbury—Mrs. Griggs—Modern Buildings—The Duke of Bedford
CHAPTER XII. Bedford Chapel—The Protestant Episcopal Church of the Savoy—Bloomsbury Chapel— The Swiss Protestant Church—Christ Church—St. Giles's Christian Mission—National
Refuges for Homeless and Destitute Children—The Pharmaceutical Society—The
Hospital for Sick Children—The National Hospital for the Paralyzed and Epileptic—
The Alexandra Hospital, Queen Square—French Hospital and Dispensary—The Italian
Hospital .
CHAPTER XIII. The London Homoeopathic Hospital—The Russell Institution—Mudie's Select Library— Theatres—The Royal Music-hall—The Holborn Casino—Messrs. Combe & Co.'s Brewery
—Horseshoe Brewery—Messrs. Pears' business offices—Holloway's—Bloomsbury and
Inns of Court Volunteers—The Royal Toxophilite Society—Sir Ashton Lever—Grounds
of the Royal Toxophilite Society at Bloomsbury—" Holborn Drollery "—" The Holborn

Maps and illustrations.
1. MAP OF ST. GILES'S AND ITS VICINITY, FROM MORDEN AND LEA'S PLAN OF THE CITY
OF LONDON, 1732 .
2. MAP OF ST. GILES'S AND ITS VICINITY IN 1591, FROM AGAS'S MAP OF LONDON
3. CONJECTURAL PLAN OF ST. GILES'S AND THE VICINITY IN THE 13TH CENTURY, FROM
PARTON'S " HISTORY OF ST. GILES'S HOSPITAL " .
4. ST. GILES'S CHURCH AND THE " RESURRECTION GATE " .
5. SKETCHES OF OLD HOUSES IN ST. GILES'S
6. BROAD STREET, ST. GILES'S, ABOUT 1830
7. STONE COLUMN WHICH FORMERLY STOOD IN THE SEVEN DIALS,
TO THE DUCHESS OF YORK AT WEYBRIDGE .
8. BIRD FAIR, SEVEN DIALS .
9. THE ROOKERY, ST. GILES'S, ABOUT 1800 .
10. PORTRAIT OF NELL GWYNNE, AFTER THE PAINTING BY S I R P,
11. TRIAL OF LORD WILLIAM RUSSELL
12. VIEW OF LINCOLN'S INN, 1755
13. VIEW OF THE NEW HALL AND LIBRARY, LINCOLN'S INN
14. BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF GRAY'S INN, ABOUT 1750
15. PORTRAIT OF CAPT. CORAM, AFTER THE PAINTING BY HOGARTH
16. PLAN OF PART OF THE MANOR OF BLOOMSBURY IN 1664-5, FROM A MS. IN THE
BRITISH MUSEUM
17. ST. GEORGE'S CHURCH, BLOOMSBURY .
18. VIEW OF SOUTHAMPTON (OR BLOOMSBURY) SQUARE, ABOUT 1746 .
19. MONTAGUE HOUSE FROM THE COURTYARD, 1714 .
20. PORTRAIT OF S I R HANS SLOANE, AFTER THE PAINTING BY KNELLER .
21. THE BRITISH MUSEUM, 1853 .
22. ENCAMPMENT OF TROOPS IN THE GARDENS OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM, AT THE TIME OF THE GORDON RIOTS, 1780 .
23. VIEW OF QUEEN SQUARE, 1787 .
24. " BEATING THE BOUNDS," FROM AN OLD PRINT .

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The Rose

thennakoon — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 03:53:27 +0000

The rose is very beautiful. It smells sweet. The rose has many petals. They are soft.
Roses are in many colours. There are red yellow, red and white roses in our garden.
We offer roses to lord Buddha. My sister puts roses in vases. Butterflies fly around the roses.
Bees also buzz near them. We all like roses very much.

My email address:- lakshan27@gmail.com
tharindu.lakshan@yahoo.com

Divine M

stayinggold — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:12:21 +0000

I just heard this song from so you think you can dance and im totally in love with it. as in to the point of listening to it over a hundred times in a day hahaha...but its just so beautiful, so heart achingly tender...enjoy :)

The Rose

Some say love it is a river
that drowns the tender reed
Some say love it is a razer
that leaves your soul to blead

Some say love it is a hunger
an endless aching need
I say love it is a flower
and you it's only seed

It's the heart afraid of breaking
that never learns to dance
It's the dream afraid of wakingthat never takes the chance
It's the one who won't be taken
who cannot seem to give
and the soul afraid of dyingthat never learns to live

When the night has been too lonely
and the road has been too long
and you think that love is only
for the lucky and the strong
Just remember in the winterfar beneath the bitter snows
lies the seed
that with the sun's love
in the spring
becomes the rose

Who was Edward Alleyn?

stevejslack — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 05:57:13 +0000

Wander anywhere around Dulwich and the name Alleyn comes up again and again. On street signs, house names, schools and even a park.

This Alleyn chap has links with so much of our area so he must be famous. But who was he?

Here’s the three minute guide to the life of Edward Alleyn.

1566 – Born in Bishopsgate, London, son of an innkeeper.

1584 – Edward shows promise as an actor early and is listed as one of the Earl of Worcester’s players at the age of 14.

1592 – Marries Joan Woodward and becomes business partner with his new step-father-in-law. Together they act as proprietors of bear-pits, brothels and playhouses (including The Rose).

1590s – Edward is considered one of the finest actors in London. He becomes the head of the Admiral’s Men, a respected playing company of actors. He takes the leading role in Christopher Marlowe’s four great plays - Edward ll, Tamburlaine, the Jew of Malta and Dr Faustus.

1604 – Now well-respected by the monarch as an actor Edward is appointed ‘Chief Master, Ruler and Overseer of all and singular of his majestie's games, of bears, and bulls, and mastive dogs, and mastive bitches'. (He possibly even baited a lion himself in front of James I at the Tower of London.)

1605 – Alleyn purchases the Manor of Dulwich (the area between Sydenham Hill to the south and Herne Hill, Denmark Hill and Champion Hill to the north) from Sir Frances Calton for £35,000.

But Edward is then presented with an immediate problem. He’s childless. How on earth is he going to get rid of this enormous piece of land when he dies? And how will his famous name live on?

1610s – Everyone wants a piece of rich, famous, generous, landowning Edward Alleyn. And more importantly they all want a piece of his land. There’s much jostling for position from the powers that be.

1613 – Work begins on Edward’s gift to the area of a school – the College of God’s Gift at Dulwich (better known to us as Dulwich College). He plans to supplement the college with alms-houses for the ‘poor scholars’ and a chapel for the students and the people of Dulwich.

1616 – Christ’s Chapel (today sandwiched between Dulwich Picture Gallery and residential accommodation) is consecrated.

1619 – All the paperwork is complete and the College is founded. Edward’s land becomes set in mortmain, which means that he left it to no particular person, but it is vested toward a corporation. Cunning. Strangely, Edward insists that all headmasters have the surname Alleyn. (Take a look at the board of names behind the altar in the chapel.)

June 1623 – Edward’s wife dies.

December 1623 – He marries John Donne’s daughter, Constance.

November 1626 – Edward dies. He is buried in his own chapel in Dulwich.

1850s - Act of Parliament allows people other than Alleyns to become head of Dulwich College.

1882 – The Dulwich College foundation creates Alleyn’s School in East Dulwich.

1998 – Edward Alleyn crops up as a self-loving character in the movie Shakespeare in Love, played by Ben Affleck.

2005 – a new statue of Edward Alleyn is erected to mark the 400th anniversary of his purchase of the Manor of Dulwich.

2008 – Dulwich College (founded to educate 12 poor boys for free) is now a fee-paying school of some 1450 boys.

Photo: 1) author’s own. 2) with thanks to Simon Scott (with CCL).

The Rose

luvme0rdie — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:03:15 +0000

This is a video I found on YouTube and I really like it. And no, I DID NOT MAKE THIS VIDEO AND I TAKE NO CREDIT FOR MAKING IT!!!

Stay with me baby...

Morgan Wolf — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 22:38:36 +0000

Bette Midler - Stay with Me Baby
(from The Rose)

tx to LassVegas

This performance will make you weep. OMG.

SYTYCD Top 6: They Are All Winners

zennifer516 — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 15:29:30 +0000

We're down to So You Think You Can Dance Season Four Finale--what a whirlwind of a season. Tried to get tickets to the SYTYCD tour coming to Toronto on Oct 26, but no luck. They sold out in 25 minutes. As an aside, what is with these online ticket (re)sellers who now have them ... and are selling $56 tickets for $350? I see a centre floor ticket for $1,500. Isn't this illegal?

Ah well, tilting at windmills is not on the agenda until later in the day. For now, let's look back at Top 6 week, and say a fond farewell to Chelsie and Mark. They came in to the show together, so it was only fitting (if a little surprising) that they leave together.

Mark and Chelsie became one of my favourite couples starting at their "Tim Burton's Wedding" performance in Top 20. That a ballroom dancer could do--so well!--the contemporary and hip hop routines she was given is truly a testament to her skill and versatility. Chelsie's magnetic personality and energy shone so brightly in any Latin or ballroom routine she was given, that she never failed to upstage her partner. She was charisma personified.

Mark's quirky musicality grew on me each week, and when Gev left, he became the dancer I most looked forward to just to see what he would do with the choreography and the character he was given. His warmth and charm showed through in each routine. His final pairing with Courtney was almost as magical as when he was with Chelsie--in fact, can you imagine if Mark/Courtney had been together from the start, what we would have seen from them?!?

Well, we would have seen stuff like this (after the jump):

This was astounding. Earlier in the night, Adam Shankman had called Tyce DiOrio, Joshua and Katee "The Holy Trinity of SYTYCD", but for my money, I'd say Sonya Tayeh, Mark and Courtney are equally as powerful a trio: albeit, a darker, quirkier and edgier one. These two contemporary dancers are so well-matched in technique and genre, in personality and style, that we are only left to wonder what they might have done had we seen more of them together. Add an unusual musical choice (Mirah's The Garden), and you had magic.

"Sonya, you are such an exciting new presence in the SYTYCD landscape. That dark energy ..." - Adam, about Sonya Tayeh

"I love you individually, but together you are unbelievable." - Adam, about Mark and Courtney

Incidentally, the earlier waltz they had done didn't impress me as much, although I could recognize the skill in delivery, especially the "rise and fall", and there were some lovely, idiosyncratic upper body moves, which I think is what my PBP buddy and co-host, Debdee, was referring to as the "closed hold". Now that I research this a little, of course what we see and what is called a "Viennese Waltz" on SYTYCD isn't the formal Viennese Waltz that would be allowed in international dance competition--it is variations on the theme. And it is those variations that show us both the dancers' styles and skills, and even more, the choreographers'. In this case, Jason Gilkison choreo'd this routine, and compared to others we have seen, it wasn't, at least for me, the best waltz (I still remember Comfort and Thayne's, believe it or not). Where were the lifts to give this dance more visual appeal? But my bigger problem with it: brace yourself, all you Cookie Monsters out there--was the use of David Cook's Time Of My Life.

As I said a couple of weeks ago, I understand but do not condone SYTYCD's use of AI music. This show is, for me, a cut above in just about every respect to American Idol, as a TV show and, even more, as a vehicle for showing dance and music to a mainstream audience who would not normally see it. SYTYCD has--in most instances--shown courage in presenting edgy, non-mainstream art and music and personalities that we simply do not see on American Idol by virtue of the latter: a) being on Fox; and b) needing to appeal to the American masses (votes -> ratings -> advertising dollars. Blech).

The repeated use of American Idol music on this show, when there is so much more choice out there, is obviously for one purpose only--and that is to promote what is already over-promoted (and particularly, David Cook) and what is, in my opinion, contributing to the dumbing down of American popular art and culture. As soon as SYTYCD succumbs to becoming a tool for the homogenization of dance in the same way that AI is to music, I will be turning off my TV once and for all. As it is, SYTYCD has been a bright oasis in the barren landscape of all-pervasive reality TV, and I for one am cherishing it. It proves that reality TV can be made that is NOT about pandering to what will sell in the red states. The constant AI reminders and references taints it for me. But enough on that rant.

Let's return to the second routine choreographed by Gilkison, the Aussie who's made the Australian SYTYCD franchise #1 in that market (Nigel must have enough money to eradicate third world debt by now. Perhaps we'll see an SYTYCD Gives Back initiative next year, or something similar?)

There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that Joshua and Katee will win this show. I don't know who will place first, and who second, but these will be the two dancers left standing. The fluke of them ending up reunited in Top 6 and both of their performances last Wednesday cemented the win for them. This paso doble showed off their strengths, together and individually. In particular, have a look at:

0:54 - incredible flip over Josh's back
1:20 - the "pull together and push apart" tension of the cape and matador
1:30 - the change-up in the music and the quick footwork to the front of the stage (remember! this is a hip hopper and a contemporary dancer. These are not ballroom experts! It's unbelievable.)

Also, this is the characterization that I love from Katee. Instead of being squeezed into the narrow confines of a clichéd femme fatale character, she became the angry cape: all coiled passion, intensity and swirling heat. She is not so much acting a character, as she is expressing an emotion. Incredible artistry. And Josh's matador matched her note for note, step for step. I loved the ending, with them staying in character as he pulled her across the floor to be judged. Incredible!

"Joshua, I feel like you're making me believe in the impossible." - Adam

"If you keep dancing like that, Joshua, you're going to steal this show, there's no question about it." - Nigel

Plus, the music--“Filet” from Le Reve (soundtrack)--talk about building to a perfect crescendo. Another fabulous musical find courtesy of SYTYCD, and the choreographer/artists on it. Josh and Katee were one with the music. This might be my favourite routine of the year! But I keep saying that about at least one a week hehehe (Next week, after the finale and including the performances we will see next week, I will select my Top 5 from this year. It is going to be tremendously difficult to pick just five, and this one is definitely a contender.)

A quick recap of Josh/Katee's contemporary routine: I loved it, it was classic Josh/Katee and there were innovative and unique movements that only the two of them can pull off together: he with his strength, she with her technical skill and sense of drama. Totally in love with the move at 1:16, the over-the-back lift and then her elevated walk forward. There are about a dozen moments like these, one after the other, in what we now see as distinctively Katee and Josh, and the magic that emerges from their special chemistry.

Final notes: loved NapTab's conductor routine for Chelsie and Twitch. Very, very clever--but again, too much with the prop, and not enough dance in there! Still, the final six have emerged not just as the best dancers, but as the best actors in the bunch. I don't think it was coincidental that Adam chose this night to announce the extra prize of the feature role in one of his upcoming films. Any of these top six have the dance and acting skills to pull that off.

Mandy Moore's "Rose" routine was just gorgeous. Elegantly performed, sad and hopeful at the same time--beautifully matched to the lyrics of the song. The all-white, very simple costuming and the dancers, starting planted in the three spotlights like roses on stems, with bended knees suggesting thorns, was so powerful, and so ... right. Notice how constrained but lyrical the movement was for each pair throughout the routine. They were each living a full cycle of life in their own little worlds: the suggestion of blooming, life, death and rebirth--all performed within two minutes, and in a six-foot radius (and no props required!). Just phenomenal. More Mandy Moore, please. More, more, more Moore.

Next week: My Top 5 routines and Top 3 choreographers of SYTYCD 4. And, of course, our winners.

The Rose : LeAnn Rimes

watchithere — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 20:26:52 +0000

The Rose LeAnn Rimes music video clip

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Video Clip : The Rose

Singer : LeAnn Rimes

The Rose

chinhuatw — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 07:21:36 +0000

This blog has never been about truly personal matters. It makes an exception today for two friends, an activist and a journalist, who have made valuable contributions to Malaysian public life.

"The Rose" (by Bette Midler)

Some say love it is a river
that drowns the tender reed
Some say love it is a razer
that leaves your soul to bleed

Some say love it is a hunger
an endless aching need
I say love it is a flower
and you its only seed

It's the heart afraid of breaking
that never learns to dance
It's the dream afraid of waking that never takes the chance
It's the one who won't be taken
who cannot seem to give
and the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live

When the night has been too lonely
and the road has been too long
and you think that love is only
for the lucky and the strong
Just remember in the winter far beneath the bitter snows
lies the seed
that with the sun's love
in the spring
becomes the rose

Typography and Horse Rustling

galefraney — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 02:57:45 +0000

This is a piece that I recently made, inspired by the Old Masters paintings. I tried to create that old style. I've made the dress entirely in Photoshop. It went through countless versions before I finally arrived at this one. The woman is also a figment of my imagination, comprised of so many bits and pieces right down to eyes from one source, eyebrows from another, lips from another and so on.

The Rose

I attend three Vancouver Meet Up groups: Graphic Design, Web Design and Flash Developers. Last Monday I had been debating all day whether to attend. It was a blustery, cold, rainy day and I had been up all night working on a digital illustration for a children's book. I fought the urge to be lazy and remain at my computer in my comfy living room.

The meeting was organized by Steven Luscher, whose wit, charm, intelligence and mild eccentricity is a perfect match with the Waazubee Cafe's laid back atmosphere. I spent the evening comfortably wedged between a young 3D animator and a brilliant German coder and Flash Programmer. On my right was a Graphics person who runs a Graphic Design and Branding company. His wonderful stories glided so easily, from stories about Second World War concentration camps then winding back again to the topic of typography. I found it so envigorating listening as these topics wove their way around and around and back again to graphics.

There was one particularly brilliant moment when three guys were speaking emphatically about typeography and fonts. One fellow with a burly Aussie-sounding accent was discussing "his relationship with a particular font" This struck me as just so comical and brilliant all at once. Sitting beside him was another guy with a wide brimmed hat that looked as though it would be just as comfortable on the head of a horse rustler. For a brief moment it was as though time was frozen while I sat marvelling at this odd, yet amazing combination of talent and diversity. This was completely inspiring to me.

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the rose

lauianny — Fri, 30 May 2008 02:05:16 +0000

I like Bette Midler’s ‘The Rose’, but did not pay attention to the lyrics until recently.

These lyrics are worth pondering over..

The heart that’s afraid of trying never learns to dance

The dream that’s afraid of waking never takes a chance

The one who’s afraid of being taken never learns to give

The soul afraid of dying never learns to live

Le Mot Juste: River Rising

erc2008 — Wed, 21 May 2008 22:37:05 +0000

A completely new poem I just wrote today. Based on the myth of Narcissus, it is narrated by the river in which he drowns.

"A mirror becomes a knife when it's broken.
A stick becomes a flute when it's loved."
-Yoko Ono, "Grapefruit."

He would come to me each morning. The sun would rise behind him casting his shadow before me. He would lean over me and smile down into my face, then touch me with the tips of his fingers. Each time I was reborn. My old self discarded like a pebble. My body was no longer my own. My vision no longer crystalline or pristine as it was before. His eyes were my anchor, his voice my compass. Through the forest, he called me back to him. Where? Where? Here. Here. When he would leave me, there were no levies strong enough to hold back my tears.

There have been others who have come and gone. Most return with the summer suns. I recognise their voices. Their laughter disturbs the monotony of my days. Still, I lye unmoved beside them. Their words are words in a bottle, dying inside their mirrored prison.

Then one day he returned, blood on his hands. I wept, myself, to see him cry. He opened his arms and leaned down to kiss me. And, like a good wife, I welcomed him home at last.

Part of the inspiration for this poem (the title, for example) comes from this song:

"I heard the river rising
rising up over my head.
Heard the river rising
This is what it said,
'I don't need the live ones
I just take care of the dead' "

CLM: Vanessa Fisk

TheBraveandtheBlog — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 19:50:01 +0000

For the most part Crime Lords seem to enjoy being Crime Lords. The Red Skull doesn't spend a lot of time regretting the life he leads, nor do The Enforcers. That isn't to say these characters are lacking in depth, but in almost every case they have made a concious decision to be a criminal, so there is little internal conflict.

Today's Crime Lord is a much different story. Whereas most villains are motivated by greed or some self-imposed sense of righteousness, Vanessa Fisk acts out of love for her husband. In fact, if it weren't for her marriage to The Kingpin she probably would have ended up living a happy, normal life.

Vanessa Fisk has been around nearly as long as The Kingpin himself. For years she was portrayed as a doting, if not saintly, wife who was eager for her husband to leave his life of crime. After Wilson Fisk's numerous encounters with the law this all changed, and it became clear to Vanessa that the two would never be able to escape the empire that they had created for themselves.

She discovered that she was pregnant, and on at least one occasion she attempted to abort the child personally. Vanessa was terrified by the idea of raising a child in the criminal underworld, and eventually those fears would become fully realized when their son, Richard Fisk, would return to New York City after completing his education. Whereas Vanessa was more passive in her discontent, Richard grew up to openly despise his father. Wearing a mask and now calling himself 'The Rose,' Richard attempted to destroy The Kingpin and his empire from within.

By this time Vanessa had separated from Wilson, but returned to New York once she learned of her son's plan. Richard was about to murder Wilson when she confronted her child. After a heated argument she shot her son to protect The Kingpin, killing him. Vanessa blamed both Daredevil and her husband for Richard's death, and refused to take responsibility for her actions.

Several years later The Kingpin was once again defeated by Daredevil, and subsequently arrested. Vanessa orchestrated an elaborate plot to free her husband, resulting in both Daredevil's arrest and his eventual escape from prison. Vanessa offered Daredevil a chance to clear his criminal record, but to do so he would be required to defend her husband in court. After losing her son, she could not allow her husbad to spend the rest of his life in prison, and knew that Matt Murdock was the one lawyer who could save him.

Daredevil refused Vanessa's offer, but he soon learned that she had already set the chain of events in motion. Soon both Daredevil and The Kingpin would be free of their criminal charges, allowing the vicious cycle that had destroyed Vanessa's life to continue. However, by the time Wilson Fisk was free Vanessa had already passed away from an unspecified illness. He has been in Japan ever since, still mourning the death of his lost love.

Vanessa has already made an appearance in UDE's VS. System, and she stands out as one of the most underrated cards from her set. Her ability to give ail hidden characters you control +1 ATK can be devastating, especially with the proper abuse. She plays a prominent role in my MK/Crime deck, and no doubt I'll be looking into finding some other interesting uses for her as the month progresses.

Given her prominence in recent Daredevil stories, it would make a lot of sense to see her in Marvel Universe. Here's hoping that Vanessa will end up in card form once again.

Martin Luther King: A Remembrance

disembedded — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 17:52:32 +0000

Martin Luther King: A Remembrance

The Nobel Peace Prize, 1964

This past Friday marked the date of the death of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who was assassinated in Memphis 40 years ago. By 1968, King was under harsh assault not only from white racists but from the black power movement, which regarded his tactics as outdated and anodyne. His effort to stage a Poor People’s Campaign in Washington was in disarray. He was often sleepless and depressed. He had come to Memphis because of a sanitation workers’ strike. The garbage men were paid so little that they could work full time and still qualify for welfare. When two workers were killed because of unsafe trucks, the rest struck.

The strike had been dragging on and tensions in the city had risen. The workers staged a march on Feb. 23, 1968, and the police had responded by using mace and billy-clubs. The second rally, on March 28, was a microcosm of America at that moment. King stood at the head of the march, looking dazed. Around him in the front were the sanitation workers, with their concrete demands. But in the back of the crowd there were more radical and anarchic elements.

The looting and the rioting began almost immediately. King was whisked away. Hundreds were bloodied. One was killed. The authorities were driven both by the desire to restore order and by their own racist demons. That march was a pivot. In both the white and black communities, the forces of order and reform vied with the forces of hatred and anarchy. The latter grabbed the upper hand.

The atmosphere deteriorated. The National Guard was sent in. There were weapons everywhere. Everyone sensed that this was heading toward disaster. King expressed premonitions of his murder in the “Mountaintop” speech. City officials worried about his assassination to reporters. The K.K.K. stayed out of Memphis so it wouldn’t get blamed if he was killed.

The next day, in the privacy of the hotel room, he has been described as being happy and domestic. He had a brief pillow fight, talked about soul food and what tie to wear. Then King walked out onto the balcony and the forces that were swirling outside intervened. James Earl Ray’s bullet sliced the knot of his tie. Riots commenced, and in the ensuing years, crime rates skyrocketed, cities decayed and the social fabric was torn. Dreams of economic opportunity and racial integration were swallowed up by the antinomian passions and social disorder.

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THE MARCH ON WASHINGTON: "I HAVE A DREAM"

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KING'S FINAL ADDRESS: "I'VE BEEN TO THE MOUNTAINTOP"

DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING: BIOGRAPHIC NOTES

One of the most visible advocates of nonviolence and direct action as methods of social change, Martin Luther King, Jr. was born in Atlanta on January 15, 1929. As the grandson of the Rev. A.D. Williams, pastor of Ebenezer Baptist church and a founder of Atlanta's NAACP chapter, and the son of Martin Luther King, Sr., who succeeded Williams as Ebenezer's pastor, King's roots were in the African-American Baptist church. After attending Morehouse College in Atlanta, King went on to study at Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania and Boston University, where he deepened his understanding of theological scholarship and explored Mahatma Gandhi's nonviolent strategy for social change. King married Coretta Scott in 1953, and the following year he accepted the pastorate at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. King received his Ph.D. in systematic theology from Boston University in 1955. On December 5, 1955, after civil rights activist Rosa Parks refused to comply with Montgomery's segregation policy on buses, black residents launched a bus boycott and elected King president of the newly-formed Montgomery Improvement Association. The boycott continued throughout 1956 and King gained national prominence for his role in the campaign. In December 1956 the United States Supreme Court declared Alabama's segregation laws unconstitutional, and Montgomery's buses were desegregated.

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Rosa Parks: The Montgomery Bus Boycott

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Barack Obama Speaks at Selma, Alabama (2007)

Seeking to build upon the success in Montgomery, King and other southern black ministers founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in 1957. In 1959, King toured India in order to further develop his understanding of Gandhian nonviolent strategies. Later that year, King resigned from Dexter and returned to Atlanta to become co-pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church with his father.

In 1960, black college students initiated a wave of sit-in protests that led to the formation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). King supported the student movement and expressed an interest in creating a youth arm of the SCLC. Student activists admired King, but they were critical of his top-down leadership style and were determined to maintain their autonomy. As an advisor to SNCC, Ella Baker, who had previously served as associate director of SCLC, made clear to representatives from other civil rights organizations that SNCC was to remain a student-led organization. The 1961 "Freedom Rides" heightened tensions between King and younger activists, as he faced criticism for his decision not to participate in the rides. Conflicts between SCLC and SNCC continued during the Albany Movement of 1961 and 1962.

In the spring of 1963, King and SCLC led mass demonstrations in Birmingham, Alabama, where local white police officials were known for their violent opposition to integration. Clashes between unarmed black demonstrators and police armed with dogs and fire hoses generated newspaper headlines throughout the world. President Kennedy responded to the Birmingham protests by submitting broad civil rights legislation to Congress, which led to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Subsequent mass demonstrations culminated in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963, in which more than 250,000 protesters gathered in Washington, D. C. It was on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial that King delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech.

King's renown continued to grow as he became Time Magazine's Man of the Year in 1963 and the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. The Presidential Medal of Freedom was awarded to Dr. King by President Jimmy Carter in 1964. However, along with the fame and accolades came conflict within the movement's leadership. Malcolm X's message of self-defense and black nationalism resonated with northern, urban blacks more effectively than King's call for nonviolence; King also faced public criticism from "Black Power" proponent, Stokely Carmichael.

King's efficacy was not only hindered by divisions among black leadership, but also by the increasing resistance he encountered from national political leaders. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover's extensive efforts to undermine King's leadership were intensified during 1967 as urban racial violence escalated, and King's public criticism of the U. S. intervention in the Vietnam War led to strained relations with Lyndon Johnson's administration.

In late 1967, King initiated a Poor People's Campaign designed to confront economic problems that had not been addressed by earlier civil rights reforms. The following year, while supporting striking sanitation workers in Memphis, he delivered his final address, "I've Been to the Mountaintop." The following day, April 4, 1968, Dr. King was assassinated.

To this day, King remains a controversial symbol of the African American civil rights struggle, revered by many for his martyrdom on behalf of nonviolence and condemned by others for his militancy and insurgent views.

Clayborne Carson, Editor
"Martin Luther King Biographic Note"

Stanford University

CORETTA SCOTT KING

After her husband’s death in 1968, Coretta King emerged as an important activist in her own right. She founded the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change and led the fight to make her husband’s birthday a national holiday. Yet she also was known as a loving mother who reared four children alone. She instilled in them a reverence for the ideals their father espoused, as well as an independence to chart their own courses, even if it challenged long-standing ideals of who or what they should be.

She became an international advocate for peace and human rights. She met with presidents and world leaders and was arrested fighting against apartheid. And well into her 70s, she traveled the globe to speak against racial and economic injustice, promote the rights of the powerless and poor, and advocate religious freedom, full employment, health care, educational opportunities, nuclear disarmament and AIDS awareness.

Coretta Scott King, 78, of Atlanta, died on February 4, 2006, at a holistic hospital in Rosarito Beach, Mexico, about 17 miles south of San Diego. Despite her physical struggles, friends and family members said her last days were painful, she had made a surprise appearance the previous month during The Martin Luther King Center’s annual "Salute to Greatness Awards Dinner" in downtown Atlanta. She was wheeled into the ballroom of the Hyatt Regency Hotel, triggering an admiring standing ovation. She smiled, waved and kissed family members, but she did not speak. It would be her last public appearance.

A Musical Tribute to Correta Scott King:

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On January 31, 2006, National Public Radio broadcast "A Musical Tribute to Corretta Scott King." To honor Mrs. King's memory, the program drew upon music from a long-standing tradition in Atlanta. From the 2005 edition of the annual King Celebration concert, the tribute to Mrs. King included Lift Every Voice and Sing, performed by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and the glee clubs of Morehouse and Spelman colleges. The tribute also included a 1998 interview on National Public Radio, during which Mrs. King had reflected upon the importance of music to the Civil Rights Movement.

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A Tribute to Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement

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Bette Midler Sings The Rose: 1984 Martin Luther King Tribute

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The rose

zenuria — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 09:37:06 +0000

Once upon a time a man visited a woman in her new home and brought her the first rosebud from his garden.

That day he told her he wanted her.

The red rosebud opened and bloomed during the first week of their relationship. The petals were tipped with red, but opened to reveal a yellow core. Ten days later, the rose died, and so did the relationship. Yellow roses, it turns out, mean the end of an affair.

The man and woman stayed friends but things had changed between them.

Then, soon after, the man gave the woman a beautiful rose bush for her garden. It was another variety that grew in his garden – a beautifully scented deep red rose.

She planted that rose bush where she could see it from the window. Soon it produced its first pale pink rose. The man and the woman continued to meet as friends.

A while later, it produced two further blooms – dark pink this time.

Then the summer heat set in and the man went away overseas. The woman continued tending that rose bush but it bloomed no more and the leaves shrivelled and died.

All that long, hot summer the woman nurtured the rose bush. During that long, hot summer she didn’t hear from the man at all.

Then, one day, months later, the rose bush started to grow new leaves – tentative at first.

After many months of silence, the man then contacted the woman again. The rose bush began to thrive with lots of new growth and new leaves.

But still no new flowers – yet.

THE ROSE - Bette Midler

Some say love it is a river
that drowns the tender reed
Some say love it is a razer
that leaves your soul to bleed

Some say love it is a hunger
an endless aching need
I say love it is a flower
and you its only seed

It's the heart afraid of breaking
that never learns to dance
It's the dream afraid of waking
that never takes the chance

It's the one who won't be taken
who cannot seem to give
and the soul afraid of dying
that never learns to live

When the night has been too lonely
and the road has been too long
and you think that love is only
for the lucky and the strong

Just remember in the winter
far beneath the bitter snows
lies the seed
that with the sun's love
in the spring
becomes the rose

(with thanks to the Divine Miss M who says it perfectly)

Under the rose : Hopes

bossara — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 22:54:32 +0000

Bette Midler Las Vegas Extravaganza - Reserve Your Seats now at: BetteMidlerReservations.com

bettemidler — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 17:09:58 +0000

Bette Midler’s Vegas Extravaganza: The Showgirl Must Go On

Bette Midler: The Showgirl Must Go On

It’s been four long years since Bette Midler last dazzled audiences on the stage in the United States. But next week, she’ll open at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas with what looks to be a knock-out crowd-pleaser in The Showgirl Must Go On. The stage is sure to display the admired diva’s well-known reputation for extravagance. The set has taken more than a year to construct and has pieces that were created in Los Angeles, New Jersey and New York before being shipped to Las Vegas. The pieces include three 45-foot-tall trees and curtains that were created out of hundreds of thousands of individually painted gold coins.

Pink clouds compose one of the many electronic images that will glide across a video monitor the size of a movie screen, which serves as a backdrop for the stage. Bette’s headdress is made of 63 pink silk feathers, nearly 20 feet tall and weighing 3,200 pounds (no, she will not actually wear it). To amplify her on-stage frolicking, Midler will have a wealth of visual props on hand, along with a 13-piece band, 20 female dancers, 4 backup singers and 5 changes of costume.

The Showgirl Must Go On

Bette Midler: The Rose, Las Vegas (1997)

Bette Midler: The Showgirl Must Go On, tickets available now at: BetteMidlerReservations.com

El duro pasado de los famosos #1 - Joe Cheng

kokoni — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 23:27:12 +0000

Zheng Yuan Chang, más conocido como Joe Cheng (It started with a kiss, Summer x summer), abre este nuevo espacio sobre la dura vida que han tenido alguno de nuestros artistas preferidos.

Jamás hubiera imaginado a este actor trabajando de tantas maneras diferentes antes de hacerse famoso en su país.

Sus padres se habían divorciado cuando tenía 8 años. Tras graduarse en el instituto, cuando tenía 18 años decidió cambiar de aires, cogió un tren y viajó solo a Taipei. Trabajó como barman en un club nocturno, fue camarero, modelo a tiempo parcial, dependiente en una tienda de ropa masculina… Lo había probado todo.

Después de eso coincidió con un par de amigos que vendían accesorios de plata, así que decidió probar como vendedor ambulante. Para esllo sólo contaba con una esterilla de plástico y la calle. Casi no podía cubrir sus gastos de vida. Además, al estar prohibida la venta ambulante, siempre estaba alerta por la posible llegada de la policía. Hoy afirma que eso le sirvió para aprender a valorar el dinero. Incluso le hizo "tacaño", ya que no hacía más que pensar en cómo doblar sus ingresos.

Poco después se unió oficialmente a una agencia de modelos, y pudo dejar su "prometedor" oficio de vendedor callejero. Consiguió una audición para un Tw-drama y fue elegido. Fue su primer trabajo, The rose, que le abrió las puertas a la actuación.

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Bette Midler's Vegas Extravaganza: The Showgirl Must Go On

disembedded — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 14:39:28 +0000

Bette Midler: The Showgirl Must Go On

It's been four long years since Bette Midler last dazzled audiences on the stage in the United States. But next week, she'll open at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas with what looks to be a knock-out crowd-pleaser in The Showgirl Must Go On. The stage is sure to display the admired diva's well-known reputation for extravagance. The set has taken more than a year to construct and has pieces that were created in Los Angeles, New Jersey and New York before being shipped to Las Vegas. The pieces include three 45-foot-tall trees and curtains that were created out of hundreds of thousands of individually painted gold coins.

Pink clouds compose one of the many electronic images that will glide across a video monitor the size of a movie screen, which serves as a backdrop for the stage. Bette's headdress is made of 63 pink silk feathers, nearly 20 feet tall and weighing 3,200 pounds (no, she will not actually wear it). To amplify her on-stage frolicking, Midler will have a wealth of visual props on hand, along with a 13-piece band, 20 female dancers, 4 backup singers and 5 changes of costume.

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The Showgirl Must Go On

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Bette Midler: The Rose, Las Vegas (1997)

Bette Midler: The Showgirl Must Go On

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Nikita — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 22:57:58 +0000

"To be in love is to love an ideal within yourself. To love is to love no ideal but love within itself." James Stephen Cathcart
"Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists". Anita Brookner
All goodness in the world comes from love. Simon Soloveychik
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"Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it". Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Stunning Beauty: The Rose from Avilion Mist

tresbelle — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:49:25 +0000

Avilion Mist has made some new releases, and of course as always they are delivering some of the best creations in SL. With sumptuous new jewelry by Malakh Giles (to be featured in another post) to this exquisite gown by the absolutely gifted Serenity Sieyes, my heart went pitter patter upon wearing. Delicious!

'The Rose' comes with 17 peices total and can be worn in a nearly endless number of ways. As with almost all Avilion Mist gowns, this one considers the Gor inclined, including modest options and veil (speaking of which the veil is just fabulous!).

The set is sold as copy/mod/no trans, though like all Avilion Mist items, it seems to fit most AVs like a dream on first wear. The included scripted cape may need -slight- resizing, but that's a snap with the wonderful scripts, just click and resize in small increments until satisfied.

One of the options to be noted with this set (and part of why there are so many peices) is that you can choose whether to have red or black flex sleeves, red or black head peice, etc. In the picture I elected to wear the black headpeice. I think it looks so gorgeous that way, especially with the lovely black section on the front of the skirt. But as always that's my own opinion. How you wear this set is completely up to you!

Romantic Medieval styling you can wear anywhere, 'The Rose' from Avilion Mist is it!

Credits after the cut.

Gown: The Rose from Avilion Mist

Hair: Elsa in Midnight from Calico Ingmann Creations

Skin: LF Chai Vedette in Sugar

Eyes: Ooleel Lightseyes in Ocean

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Under the rose : Hopes

Bette Midler Las Vegas Extravaganza - Reserve Your Seats now at: BetteMidlerReservations.com

Bette Midler’s Vegas Extravaganza: The Showgirl Must Go On

Bette Midler: The Showgirl Must Go On

The Showgirl Must Go On

Bette Midler: The Rose, Las Vegas (1997)

Bette Midler: The Showgirl Must Go On, tickets available now at: BetteMidlerReservations.com

El duro pasado de los famosos #1 - Joe Cheng

Bette Midler's Vegas Extravaganza: The Showgirl Must Go On

Bette Midler: The Showgirl Must Go On

The Showgirl Must Go On

Bette Midler: The Rose, Las Vegas (1997)

Bette Midler: The Showgirl Must Go On

Happy Valentine's Day!

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