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2008 Lane County High School Culinary Arts Competition Awards Show
The Lane Education Service District (ESD) announced the winners of the 6th Annual Lane County High School Culinary Competition Monday May 5th at the Lane Community College Center for Meeting and Learning.
Eleven teams of high school students, working with local professional chefs, prepared and presented entrées featuring chicken breast and a dessert featuring chocolate. The chicken was donated by Tyson Foods, produce was donated by Organically Grown Company, and the chocolate was donated by GloryBee Foods. A team of 12 judges, comprised of local celebrities and professionals in the culinary arts field, rated each team in a variety of categories ranging from how they prepared the food to how it tasted.
Over 250 people, including many event sponsors, were present for the awards banquet, with a menu prepared with the same basic ingredients used by student teams in the competition.
“If there is one thing I would like all you students to hear tonight, it is that you are all winners for taking this event on. I want you to feel honored for your dedication, commitment, and quality of your performance throughout this competition.” said awards banquet emcee Mark Wreath of the Lane ESD. The Lane Education Service District (ESD) announced the winners of the 6th Annual Lane County High School Culinary Competition Monday ... more -
Creating a Non Violent World - Is it Really Possible?
Introduction—Confronting the Ideological Beast
America is desperately searching for heroes! If this were not true we would not see the incredible success of blockbuster action movies featuring mostly males with superhuman powers who fight for the underdogs by battling greed, injustice, and corruption of power. We have all seen time and again, story after story, encounters between the forces of good and the forces of evil; and we are constantly being challenged to take a side and fight. The emphasis of popular culture in mass media is a perpetuation of violence as the primary solution to the problem of enforcing the American Dream—“The Myth” (Hedges); like Superman fighting for “truth, justice, and the American way of life.” This portrayal of violence as a necessary judicial tool works inevitably to subjugate the most vulnerable people of our planet, namely women and children. It accomplishes this by portraying unrealistic ideologies and distorting and exaggerating differences among race, class, gender, age, sexuality, and especially religion. The media uses images that “shock and awe” our sensibilities—causing us to constantly react—deflecting our attention away from resistance and away from collective empowerment. “One of the most obvious signs of widespread acceptance of violence is the amount of it that routinely appears in media.” (Wood 314) Violence has become a pervasive part of our reality causing us to react with fear—a state in which we can be easily controlled and manipulated.
The media is a multinational enterprise—an “Eminent Domain”—which is the luxury of a privileged few who influence our popular culture and control the mechanism through which the mythologies of popular culture are transfixed. Its primary existence serves to preserve their control of global socio-economics in posterity by bombarding us with so much violence that we scarcely have time to be aware of the fact that we are being manipulated. However, there are those subtle geniuses who emerge from the frontlines and through personal experience have concluded that the status quo is a never ending merry-go-round leading to the annihilation of both sides. In other words, they have come to realize that hero fixation is a sickness that symbiotically—Ying Yang, 69—enforces victimization. These geniuses work behind the scenes influencing the media content, often changing its’ focus or challenging accepted norms. Although there are many people who are actively participating in efforts to transform the socio-economic landscape on many different fronts whether through academia, media, or politics, the most effective means to communicate ideas is through writing. Introduction—Confronting the Ideological Beast ... more -
What about the children?
This film explores a few different themes. Couples with hidden behaviors, children allowed to play violent video games, father drinks and ... all » plays with his gun, the kids imitate him, a gun goes off, how will it affect the father? How will it affect the kids?
Will the merry go round continue? This film explores a few different themes. Couples with hidden behaviors, children allowed to play violent video games, father drinks ... more -
My experience with America's Most Wanted
This is a long story so I will keep it short. Basically I turned a guy into America's Most Wanted and the FBI when I discovered who he was. This man had been hiding out at my parent's home in Florence, Oregon for four years. This link is to the capture story on AMW's website. His parent's, Lawrence and Delores Weaver, were charged with aiding and abetting him. My father and I are suing his parents to hold them accountable for the damage they did. They took out a credit card in his assumed name of "David Carson" and regularly called my parent's home to inquire about Gordon, but his mother Delores pretended to be an imaginary aunt named Rita.
Gordon murdered his wife first by shoving her so that her head hit a concrete wash basin in the basement of their home then he set her still alive body on fire. The family dog died in the fire because he had been locked in a closet upstairs.
Gordon's now deceased wife, Jean Weaver, was remembered by her family and friends as a very loving and wonderful woman. Gordon cut her life short after she announced she was divorcing him. Gordon is a control freak and he exercised the ultimate act of control over her life by taking it.
His arrest devastated our family and resulted in my parents getting a divorce. My mother has now moved to Iowa to be closer to her sisters and to Gordon who is in Prison and so she can be near his parents to look in on them from time to time. Gordon's adoptive parents are in their eighties and his father is suffering from Alzheimer's.
There are numerous stories floating around on the internet, just search for Gordon Weaver or Jon Jaramillo.
Dateline NBC just shot a series of interviews about this story and the show will air sometime in December 2007 or January 2008. This is a long story so I will keep it short. Basically I turned a guy into America's Most Wanted and the FBI when I discovered w... more -
Faust [Faustus] in Deptford
What would you do for the last 20 minutes of a 500 year life?
Conceived and created by the Creative Material Group, and this version of the film was edited by New Milenium Productions. This was the original version and is not the one that ran in film festivals several years ago. This version was exhibited in connection with a live stage performance in Eugene, Oregon. I worked on the project as the editor and assisted with the multimedia equipment for the live performance which was called "Re-membering Wilde."
I wanted to share this with you all. It is a dark and compelling creative vision that centers around the archetypes of Faustian characters; two men spending their final minutes together remembering their over 500 year lives, the deals they brokered with the power that would extend their lifespans and save them from the black death that was sweeping all of Europe.
This is an incredibly beautiful bit of film making on the part of Leon Johnson who shot and directed this incredible piece of work. I humbly worked on the editing of the early stages of this work contained in the video here; exhibited for your enjoyment.
Lets us know what you think. What would you do for the last 20 minutes of a 500 year life? ... more
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