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Hello Monday by LinkedIn
"octavia" Discussed on Hello Monday by LinkedIn
"Forward. That was Octavia Rahim, author of pause rest bee, stillness practices for courage in times of change. You can find it wherever books are sold. A few days after our conversation in Octavia invited me to a zoom session to rest with her, literally to walk through a brief guided meditation and just chill out. And I'll tell you, I almost canceled. In a terrible headache that day, my daughter had been up teething half the night. I was so behind an emails and everything else. But I showed up and the guided meditation in full rest took less than ten minutes. I left with a sense of clarity about how to spend my afternoon. And the headache completely disappeared. So I would just ask you right now. What are you doing to rest? Come talk about it with us on office hours. We'll share helpful tips and stories of our own journeys to rest. Join us for office hours on Wednesday afternoon at 3 p.m. eastern. You can find us on the LinkedIn news page or email us for a link at hello Monday at LinkedIn dot com. And as always, if you like the show, please rate and review us on Apple podcasts or wherever you listen. It really does help us so much. Hello Monday is the production of LinkedIn. The show is produced by taisha Henry with help from Wesley wingo. Joe digiorgio mixed our show Florentine as head of original audio and video. Dave pond is our technical director. Mikaela Greer and Victoria Taylor deserve a rest. But don't we all. Our music was composed just for us by the mysterious Sprague master cylinder. Dan Roth is the editor in chief of LinkedIn, and Sarah storm remains, our fairy godmother. I'm Jesse hemple, see you next Monday. Thanks for listening. You said your son is 5. My son is 5. And amazing. And wild. And he says he says outrageous stuff all the time. I'm like, wow, are you saying that out loud? You know they can hear you. And then he goes, why does it matter? Well, we can learn so much from kids in that way, I think. And also their exasperating in the same moment. Yeah
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"octavia" Discussed on Encyclopedia Womannica
"Hello. From wonder media network, I am constant Zimmer. I am an actor, director, and a board member of the environmental media association, and this is a manica. This month, we are highlighting eco warriors. Women fighting for conservation and ecological justice. Yes. Today, we are talking about the leader of the British open space movement. Inspired by Christian socialism, she channeled her belief system into the creation of the UK's national trust. Please welcome Octavia, hill. Octavia hill was born into a family of social reformers. Her grandfather, doctor Thomas southwood Smith, dedicated his career to improving the health of working class communities. When Octavia arrived in 1838, her parents, James hill, and Caroline southwood Smith were followers of utopian socialism. They founded one of the first infant schools in England in their cambridgeshire village. Though Octavia never had any formal education, she could read and write from an early age, thanks to her mother's instruction. In 1840, an economic depression swept across England. Octavia's family was not immune. By 1843, her father James had declared bankruptcy, fallen into a depression and abandoned the family. Determined to keep her family afloat, Caroline moved herself and her children to London. She got a job at the ladies guild, a Christian socialist cooperative, and Caroline encouraged her daughters to find work as well. Octavia took on her first job when she was just 14. She ran a work room at the ladies guild. Her employees, so to speak, were children who made toys and dollhouse furniture. Octavia still a child herself began organizing meals for the girls. Most of whom had experienced intense poverty. This instinct of Octavia's to improve the lives of those she felt were less fortunate would remain a driving force for the rest of her life. As a young woman, Octavia was introduced to John ruskin, a prominent radical thinker. Inspired by him, the Christian socialist movement and anti capitalism, she began exploring ways to improve the lives of working class people. John ruskin came to Octavia's aid. He bought a series of London residential properties for Octavia to manage, which she quickly realized were slumps. Octavia later said, the plaster was dropping from the walls on one staircase, a pale was placed to catch The Rain that fell through the roof, all of the staircases were perfectly dark, the vanisher were gone, having been used as firewood by the tenants. As the new landlord, Octavia's management style was definitely firm. She made it clear, she wasn't running a charity, insisting instead on what she called perfect strictness between herself and the tenants. Rent was to be paid on time, those who were late were evicted. More substantial repairs on properties were made only on the condition that tenants not cause damage moving forward. But tempering the perfect strictness was also perfect respectfulness. She organized an informal bank, helped find jobs for tenants began sewing classes and established gardens and playgrounds. Her methods were incredibly successful by 1874, Octavia managed over 3000 properties across London. She ushered in a wave of housing reform that took root across England, Europe, and the United States. Octavia's years navigating bleak treeless housing estates made her believe fervently in the power of nature. She turned her attention to cultivating green spaces for all, not just those wealthy enough to own property. She wrote we all want quiet. We all want beauty. We all need space. Unless we have it, we can not reach that sense of quiet in which whispers of better things come to us gently. Octavia began campaigning against development in green areas in London. Through her work, she met Robert hunter, a lawyer for a preservation society. Together, Octavian Robert continued to fight development of London's green spaces, and in 1895 the two, along with hardwick rons Lee, founded the national trust for places of historic interest or natural beauty. Their motto that green spaces be kept for the enjoyment, refreshment, and rest of those who have no country house. For the next 17 years, until her death in 1912, Octavia put her energy into the national trust. Today, it's Europe's largest conservation charity, and in 2020, its celebrated its 125th birthday. For more information, find us on Facebook and Instagram at will manica podcast. Special thanks, as always, to Jenny and Liz Kaplan, who invited me to guest host. As always, we'll be taking a break for the weekend, so talk to you on Monday..
Hello Monday by LinkedIn
"octavia" Discussed on Hello Monday by LinkedIn
"Create, learn more at IBM dot com. And we're back. Octavia understands the importance of rest. But she's human. And like us, she lives in 2022. She knows that the state of being isn't easy for most of us. We're all just trying to do too much too fast. Someone might go, well, it was only trying for 5 minutes, and I'm like, well, that might feel to your brain into your life into your schedule like a thousand minutes. So one way I really wrote this book. I didn't want to write a book that required a long sitting to read. I wanted to write a book that you could turn to any page, read a sentence or that one page, and be like, okay, I'm good. And so I invite people in terms of the book to reframe it from something to complete versus something to experience in journey through. And before we hit record, I was talking to you about this idea of scaffolding. If we are running a 100 mph to try to go to zero in any context, would actually create more stress. Yeah. Right. We all know that. We try to add something that's going to be so good for me to feel better. I'm going to be well when I do this, but now the thing I'm doing to de stress is creating so much damn stretch. Then I'm not going to do it. Yeah. I'm not going to do it. I thought, yeah, honor and acknowledge that this is the pitch of many folks lives, right? And I invite people to go, okay. I'm on one ten right now. I don't have a rest practice I need it because it's goodness knows I'm up to here. You know, what is the what's unnatural progression from the frenetic way of being? That's.
Workplace Perspective
"octavia" Discussed on Workplace Perspective
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NPR's Book of the Day
"octavia" Discussed on NPR's Book of the Day
"In 2021, good Rx users saved an average of 79% on retail prescription prices. As it begins this weekend in durban South Africa, the UN racism conference got us thinking, how would human beings know where they stood? If racism just vanished in short, imagine a world without racism. We took this notion to writer, Octavia butler. She has spent her career speculating about the future of the human species and are possible counterparts elsewhere in this universe. She has won every major science fiction award, as well as Macarthur fellowship, but they call the genius grant. We asked Octavia butler to imagine a world without racism, and like her stories, the results both surprised and disturbed us. Her essay is posted on our website at NPR dot org, Octavia butler joins us from the studios of member station, kuo W in Seattle, Washington. Thanks very much for being with us. Thank you..
The Breakfast Club
Octavia Spencer Apologizes for Prenup Joke
"All right. Now tabby taibbi spencer has apologized to britney spears and sam gary remember we were talking about the prenup situation and she made a joke. You know to make sure. You get a pre-nup wednesday announced britney spears announced that she was engaged. Whoa now she's apologizing for that. She apologized privately and she wrote an instagram posts. Y'all a few days ago. Sam britney announced their engagement and me being me. I made a joke. My intention was to make them laugh. Not cause pain. I restarted this lovely cup of privately to apologize and now wants to restore just a smidge of happiness. That they were robbed of. She said britney fans have seen her through a lot of pain and found happiness where thrilled for her seles. Show them love no negativity
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"octavia" Discussed on Throughline
"The world is full of painful stories. Sometimes it seems as though there aren't any other kind and yet. I found myself thinking how beautiful that clinton waterways through the trees. A.
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"octavia" Discussed on Throughline
"Something where she knew her own limitations. Yeah it's that's a good feeling. It's a good feeling. Wild seat doesn't pigeonhole itself by making absolute claims. Instead it gets you to question things that society pigeonholes and puts us binary his men and woman good and evil darkness and light but the darkness is really dark and it goes. It goes there. It goes where it needs to go but there's joy in. There's hope as well which is i think which is that valance is really important. A balanced octavia wrestled with in her own work and in her own life. I don't know how we're going to end up. Well the thing about my books is even. Bo is a lot of pessimism and bad feeling. There is always hope at the end..
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"octavia" Discussed on Throughline
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"octavia" Discussed on Throughline
"Why. I hadn't tried to defend myself. At least tried was getting so used to being submissive. She used to feel ashamed of her mother being made but then she also realized that her mother suffer those humiliations in order for her to eat their existence. And they're the things that they did in order to survive or very much present in who she was who she was becoming. I read something about how that was one of the most painful books for her to write because it dealt with this history that was so directly connected to her own family. Oh absolutely and i think octavia felt that her mother and her grandmother were really the archetypal heroines or heroes. That were not being written about that. They had a real heroics and real survival because they were still here she sang. I think that the past is not passed that its present and everything happening in the present simultaneously. Rooted in the past is not like you erased one. She knew that she needed to write it. And there's something really pressing on her soul to get it done..
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"octavia" Discussed on Throughline
"All the you touch. Change your listening to through line from npr. All your change changes. You won't go back in time. Only lasting truth is change to understand. The presen- god is change.
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"octavia" Discussed on SmartLess
"Of the by. No no no. We don't have yet. We don't have we don't have earned have it was good. No yours was terrible. That was one of the worst and we're doesn't him. We're keeping it in. We should cut that one. Nope no. We're not going to cut it. Are you out of your fucking mind. Thank you keeping it. But we're going to sit here. We're gonna keep talking until somebody comes up with an idea and tries to gently braided into the conversation. So so again so octavia fantastic fantastic incredible She's there in boston Throwing out options for you guys. Sean started writing ideas down. Yes i would say. That rhymes with high okay. Oh my god doesn't know we don't need help. He's home which is let us think so. Imagine what she's doing today she's up there. She's she's up there. she's enjoying her life. She's making a musical go. She's up there in boston. It's a nice sunny day. She might just get along the charles river and we'll just go on one of those beautiful by big trail your art. I shown you just went by terrible. Here's this. I'll tell you what this has been the worst attempt end to this show real sloppy ending really sloppy. And you know what it's left.
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"octavia" Discussed on SmartLess
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"octavia" Discussed on SmartLess
"So they're walking along and and they're going michael. Sarah michael sarah and he had no idea which way to look so we'll and you're telling you would say you're telling the joke backwards you. He's walking along and he says just just keep going as they call your name and he keeps hearing them. Go michael sarah anything. Oh my god. This is incredible. Michael sarah and then he looks on either side of in one side. Is michael douglas. The other side of sarah jessica parker. That's how you tell a joke. Go to a commercial fucking harassing fucking commercial. We'll take a breath. You're right you're right. You're right we'll well you're right. Hey it's great to be here on jason's first day job. This is fun. This is why. I don't write you know when you when you have something as big as the help and then you and then you start getting offers in your Your career starts opening up and and getting bigger and bigger and people are noticing. How talented you really are. And you're invited into that kind of status quo look at what's going on all pumped up because he loves being right now in this league of of of you know for lack of a grocer word legitimized as an actor you were before but for some reason people see you differently in this business and do you legitimate. Correct word is legitimated. I'm just going to try to be right and was gonna and keeping wrong. Go ahead. jim now navigate Making more difficult decisions as far as representatives dealmaking. There's the business side of that. Fire all your agents. That's how do you. How do you navigate up up that ladder. You know what. I've been very fortunate in that the majority of the people that are with me have been with me since the beginning of this whole journey from from us. Great obscurity to to you know people some people know a my name And so. I feel like i've had a good guidance. And have not felt the need because they know me and they know the things that excite me the things that i am too safe with that i need to push beyond and challenge myself okay. I'm doing that right now. Singing and dancing. Who really doing musical right now. I'm doing a musical guys during the movie. With with will and ryan yes. Oh that's right. We should just go to boston. Because they're all there. We literally interviewed everybody in that. Show us go up there. Guys and sean anders. I mean directing and i just feel very lucky that The reason i am not a one hit wonder and went out on a high note with the hell is that i have wonderful Partnerships and representation ballista cates on everybody at viewpoint. Just i feel like our publicist and i. Don't i feel like the guidance is there and they understand me. So i feel very lucky. You must feel. And i feel like you get all the attention shawn doesn't get anything because i would do that. If i was your publicist i would go you. All of my press kosdaq. Jv and then be look at my. I'd be like oh it's sean. Hey hey thanking allah So what is the. What is the role that you've always wanted that you didn't get the audition for you heard. That was maybe going to be offered. But you didn't get it or oh honey this. The absolute i have always been obsessed with kevin costner I he's one of those actors that i've seen everything he's done and how high played so many nurses in in in hollywood that there was a movie that he did call dragonfly and there is a nurse it was a a doctor and his wife was killed in a foreign country and he had to go he was going back to get her remains and found out that he literally had a child that you know he didn't know about and It was so amazing and they brought me back so many times to play his nurse. Who had all these things with kevin and it was after the fifth time thing i have it i have it. I honestly thought in those har- films when people are so afraid or they're so angst ridden that they're in the shower and they're just so upset that they cry and slide down the back of the shower. I when i found out. I didn't get that part i was like okay. Okay take a shower. And as i'm in the shower live down the back long. And what pulled me out of guys were pulled me out of it. Is that my towel. Got stuck in the drain and literally. The water was rising up and it snapping out of it because it was about to overflow a full time. One time i auditioned i had a call back with kevin costner. Every tell you guys this year not go and I was in new york for that movie. Did call the and So the night before had gone for some sushi and so you're a little puffy and No well that was the least of my problems back then and so i get home about three. Am i wake up. And i am throwing in going It's just a batch. I ended up going to losing water. Wait sorry keep going. Jason jason clasping half-full lucky so going to nyu medical center and they put me on. You know they give me sort of a you know. Put me on a on a bag gaining waterway. Keep calling so so. I can barely keep it together. But i've got this huge callback at the essex house hotel on central park south in new york and go up there and i remember dead of like the middle of summer super hot. I'm sweating and i'm like i can't be to more than five feet from the bathroom at this point and so i come in to talk to kim carson. I sit down really gingerly. Sure oh you're sore and there's more coming in. I'm like yeah he's to meet you really excited. He's like okay. Let's see we start to read and he goes out in speed. And i'm thinking oh i've torn something. Don't yourself in kevin costner. Diligent yourself through it. I barely i got through. It was terrible. Because i was just i was rack and i'd been hostile. Swing nice to meet you and of course not get the part anyway kevin. If you're out there. 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"octavia" Discussed on SmartLess
"Edward primal fear. Primal fear auditioned for that. Well they had a cast big huge casting calls in new york and chicago and everything and so. You obviously auditioned for that. And i helped in the catacombs in new york but you must have seen some horror story auditions before. Do you have any because this. I'm going to take this taking page out. Shawn's one of his books from the back that he hasn't read And say what was your worst casting nightmare that you were witnessed to man worst impair like like cringe-worthy where you're just felt like. Oh gosh i wish i was while you're thinking of when i have one i. I played the piano for dishes for musicals. And i play the piano for anne right for all the kids coming in to audition and to play. I play tomorrow over and over again right and there's a song called. There's a song called. i know i'm going to like it here. do you know that's on. I know i'm gonna like it here. In the whole the the beat right and this girl comes in and she says she stands there and she goes counts the numbers under her breath while she's holding the note so she goes. I know i'm gonna like gets here to the her highs as she must have been like six years old so i wish i would have seen you back sean. What let me know. What was the hair strategy when you were playing piano and auditions. My hair strategy was just cut as close to a bowl as i possibly. Could you abol cut absolutely how. How much were you giving to the company. The dep that made depp gel. How much money your money. I know lori l. spritz loyal sports all the way and what about moose what happened to move where did hold didn't hold. Did it wait so so so so so we we've gone through the thing so so then so you working in casting. What's the moment is one of those great miracle stories. Are you reading and the directors there and says hang on a second. The reader is the best actor. We've had in here today. Is that what happened. Please tell me what happened. It made me want to act because on most of the jobs that we worked on whenever we doing this smaller roles director would say you know. I i want somebody with a personality or david. So i would always eat offered these parts and i would politely turn down because i was a professional. I couldn't mix it up. I mean what you more. Well exactly what do you call that. Yes sexy indifference sexy indifference. Yeah so i'll bet you having seen everyone come through the door it It made you feel a little bit more confident Each time you were on the other side right because you know the the the imagination goes to a place where like everybody is better than me. in in general in life but then when you see people come through like oh i can compete with that you know. I wish more actors could be on the other side and see that. You're plenty talented honey. I have to tell you that. I would recommend it but now with everything being the way that it is. People are putting themselves on tape and won't ever get that experience but totally demystified. What happened in the room for me. So i i would say to anybody that can help cast a student film just to see what different actors do. Because here's the interesting thing when it's written out in the breakdown in the script enough description all of that people come in and a lot of people make the exact same choice. Because it's it's worded that such and such does this. We're looking for a thirty to forty year old. Who has this well heights and weight or whatever and this look and it has to act this way to fulfil that instead of just bringing themselves. They're unique quality of choice. Make a choice. And i i find myself sometimes. I thinking when. I'm reading something now to make sure to make choices that it may be maybe wrong choice but just to have something completely unique that no one else will do you own that you're able to to to execute. Yeah now. when is the last time you auditioned Oh man it's it's been. I feel like every day dishes honestly but it's been it's been ten years. I'm going to start making choices. Like imagine a scene where you've got to deliver some bad news. But i'm just like well. We just got the report back. It looks like i'm not gonna who different. There's a song from les mis hold on. That's called empty chairs empty tables where my friends are dead and gone and you just think with a huge smile on my face. So wait octavia. You said casting made want to start acting. You had no interest before that and you just got that as a job or what was it like as a kid. Well i always wanted to be a producer honestly and i love acting but you know. I'm from a very practical household. And my mom would have been supportive actor but You know she really liked. Wanted me to be a doctor or a lawyer. And i'm a germaphobe so i knew doctoring was not in my future because everything anybody came into the room with. I would probably didn't get it your home. I got catching salesman sean. Just describing describe it. And i get it. You know you're talking to a couple of world class djerma folks. Here with me so octavia. What's tell me your. Let's let's let's let's open up. This germaphobe thing. What is because Because i've got an answer for me. We'll go around the horn. What is what grosses you out. What will you not do because there's too much germ potential most start with mine. Uh so you know what i'm talking about. I will never walk barefoot on a hotel floor. Look good ever ever. I will never go to very famous. Theme parks Do you want even entered the grounds. I don't think i need to go. Got it That's aggressive octavia. I will never sit at a on a plane without wiping. And i've been doing this year's wipe it everything down so definitely the headrest right. Yeah ooh head resident anything that my hand has to touch has to be wiped down the seat crack button. You gotta really get that one touch point touch point. I will never. I will never have gazpacho soup in october after october. Now barry won't do it even now. No even if i'm even if i am in the south of france do it even be know what you gotta do. Is you got to do because it's cold. So all the bacteria can lip hano. This is more. No it's just more out of a sense of decency. Yeah now so. I wipe down the plane i wipe down the planes the seats to as well. That's that's kind of a newer thing to me. I remember like january twenty twenty. I flew to london right before the lockdown. And i went back and i looked at my Search retirement search history before. I looked at my Amazon order history ordered masks in january. Twenty twenty. I was so nervous about everything coming to re seeing on the news and had to fight london and i wiped my area down and wore a mask and everybody looked at me like i was like look at this nut job..
Encyclopedia Womannica
"octavia" Discussed on Encyclopedia Womannica
"About a woman who forever changed the science fiction genre. The one and only octavia butler octavia is still butler was born on june. Twenty second nineteen forty seven. Her father lawrence james butler a shoeshiner died when she was very young swat. Tv was raised by her mother. Octavia margaret guy. They lived in pasadena. California octavius mother worked as a maid to support the family as a young child in the nineteen fifties stories. Were octavius escape from reality. America was in a period of transition amidst the post world war. Two boom the rise of the cold war. And the start of the civil rights movement octavia was very shy tall child who kept mostly to herself. She loved books and started writing her own stories. From the age of ten her love of reading was unhindered. By the fact that octavia was dyslexic. Though money was often short to support her daughters interests. Octavius mother picked up books. Wherever she could and helped octavia get a library. Card when octavia was twelve years old. She discovered a genre that would change her life. Science fiction she later said it appealed to me more even than fantasy because it required more thought. More research into things that fascinated me octavia dreamed up alternate universes drawing from sources including astronomy and botany after graduating from high school octavia enrolled at pasadena city college where she earned an associates of arts degree in nineteen sixty eight. She later also studied at california state university los angeles and continued her education via writing programs. She took a course through the screen writers guild. Open door programme with award-winning sci. Fi writer. Harlan ellison and while attending the clarion science fiction writers workshop. She sold her. First story octavia always focused on writing but she also took on other jobs to support herself. She was a telemarketer a dishwasher and even chip inspector in a factory. She would often wake up at two in the morning to right. After five years of rejection octavia sold her first novel. The book entitled pattern master is set in a distant future when humans are equipped with telepathic. Powers it was published the following year and critics applauded the well-built plot. And well developed characters. Soon after octavia published two more novels. Mind of my mind and survivor. Using the money earned from advances on her previous novels octavia took a trip to maryland to research her next award. Winning book kindred she wrote the first and last chapters of the book during a three hour. Wait at a bus station. Kindred is about a young black woman who travels back in time to the nineteenth century us-south to save the life of her white ancestor in a new york times interview. Octavius said she drew inspiration from her. Mother's job she said. I didn't like seeing her. Go through back doors. If my mother hadn't put up with all those humiliations. I wouldn't have eaten very well or lived very comfortably so i wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure for some science. Fiction is way to escape problems. In the real world for octavia via science. Fiction was away to shine a light on those problems. She used other worlds to examine real human experiences and address issues facing humanity. Her works touch on the environment race. Theory black feminism queer theory and disability studies. She was a pioneer in the development of africa. Future azam octavia had a powerful certainty and drive in her writing career evidenced in the archives of her work at the huntington library she wrote. I shall be bestselling writer. And i will find the way to do this. So be it. See to it. She was right octavia won many awards including the nineteen eighty four hugo award for best short story and hugo award for best novel. Let in nineteen ninety-five. She received a genius grant from the macarthur foundation. Becoming the first science fiction writer to do so with this grant. She was able to buy a house for her mother and herself. In two thousand five octavia was awarded a place in chicago state. University's international black writers hall of fame by that point. Her books had been translated into at least ten languages selling more than one million copies a year later. In two thousand six octavia died after taking a fall in her washington home. She was fifty eight years old. Since her death octavia butler's writing has become even more popular. Her work is featured on college campuses and there are plans for some of her stories to be adapted for film and television one of her books parable of the sower feels particularly prescient. Set in the twenty twenties. Parable of the sower is based in a world that's largely collapsed due to climate change class inequality in corporate greed. In her work octavia exposed flaws of this world by creating others her uncanny ability to see understand and reveal deep-seated problems continues to inspire and provoke readers today all month. We're talking about storytellers for more on. Why we're doing what we're doing. Check out our newsletter. We'll manica weekly. Follow us on facebook and instagram at encyclopedia manica special. Thanks to lose kaplan my favorite sister and co-creator talk to you tomorrow..
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How Octavia Butler Used Science Fiction to Address Social Injustice
"For some science. Fiction is way to escape problems. In the real world for octavia via science. Fiction was away to shine a light on those problems. She used other worlds to examine real human experiences and address issues facing humanity. Her works touch on the environment race. Theory black feminism queer theory and disability studies. She was a pioneer in the development of africa. Future azam octavia had a powerful certainty and drive in her writing career evidenced in the archives of her work at the huntington library she wrote. I shall be bestselling writer. And i will find the way to do this. So be it. See to it. She was right octavia won many awards including the nineteen eighty four hugo award for best short story and hugo award for best novel. Let in nineteen ninety-five. She received a genius grant from the macarthur foundation. Becoming the first science fiction writer to do so with this grant. She was able to buy a house for her mother and herself. In two thousand five octavia was awarded a place in chicago state. University's international black writers hall of fame by that point. Her books had been translated into at least ten languages selling more than one million copies a year later. In two thousand six octavia died after taking a fall in her washington home. She was fifty eight years old. Since her death octavia butler's writing has become even more popular. Her work is featured on college campuses and there are plans for some of her stories to be adapted for film and television one of her books parable of the sower feels particularly prescient. Set in the twenty twenties. Parable of the sower is based in a world that's largely collapsed due to climate change class inequality in corporate greed. In her work octavia exposed flaws of this world by creating others her uncanny ability to see understand and reveal deep-seated problems continues to inspire and provoke readers today
Influence
Nichelle Tramble Spellman on the Writers Responsibility and Representation in Hollywood
"Nichelle. Very nice to meet you. Thanks for making the time. Thank you so much. Maybe you could help us understand. What a show runner is to the people. Have a bit of an idea as to what it is that you do well. It's the person who's in charge of both the creative and the production. It's a big title for one person. You sit in writers rooms for years with different show runners and you sit there and you think yeah. I wouldn't do that that way. And then you get into that seat and you understand the reasons why some choices were made because it can be very overwhelming job. Usually as a writer. You're focused on the rioting focused on pending deadlines writing something that people respond to but now you're bombarded with questions about the construction of the sets casting the budget props you know whether this paint color looks good on the ceiling of this one room that they might not show on camera and i came home after the first week and i said to my husband. I didn't know that. So many questions existed in one day. So it's kind of like you're the general you're in charge of all the troops. Would it be fair to say the sort of the for that project. yes yes. So you're the series. Could truth be told if those you listening having watched it you should do. And it's about a journalist turned. Podcast played by incredible octavia spencer who revisits a murder case. And there's a medication that she covered as a young journalist. I just wanna ask octavia spencer. She everything that you'd hoped she'd be. She's amazing she's she's the best. She's the best actress and she's a wonderful human being. So i got so lucky with my first. Show that number one on the call. She is just a diamond and season to kate. Hudson joins us and she was perfection. So i just you know almost want to end the show. Because i don't want to risk it now. The character played by otavio. Spencer as podcast. Obviously that's relevant for us. As of this project you went out and raise the money. You pitched it to apple an apple board. So why podcasting. What's the unique power of this medium. A couple of things. This is based on a book called. Are you sleeping. And i went to a meeting with a producer who had worked with in the past as i was getting ready to leave. She said oh yeah. We got the spoken that hasn't been published yet. But i think there's something there do you wanna take a look at it and maybe read it over the holiday. This was maybe three christmases
This Day in History Class
"octavia" Discussed on This Day in History Class
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The Pulse
When DNA Research Doesn't Benefit All of Us
"When pulse reporters journal. A heavy has a question about her family history. She knows exactly where to turn her. Mother and some of that history is on display in their house. In fact at the entry of our home we you come in. Our home is all the ancestors on the wall. That's my mom octavia mcbride. She got her knack for sleuthing when she was a news reporter in the late eighties and every time i had an assignment for school that involve family history. Choose the person i went to. Yeah i was excited. Because i felt like i was passing the baton to you because i was always sort of liked the person collecting the pictures and the stories. So i i get great strength and pride from knowing my family stories sharing them and passing them along to my own children and my nieces and nephews and sojourner does your mom do her research with paper records or how does she go about it. Yeah it's been a mix of paper records and story. She's heard over the years from relatives so for example. My mom was able to piece together. The story of her grandmother della mae. She had my mother. Sally by a white man and of course nineteen thirty one those types of relationships and the children that came from them. You know they were legal. So the white family who was pretty prominent place. My mother and the home of a sort of fair skinned family where my mother would would not stick out
WBZ NewsRadio 1030
"octavia" Discussed on WBZ NewsRadio 1030
"More Hyeon aware of how easily germs can spread. They are returning to using real salt and pepper shakers on the tables, which is being allowed. Again. We do not have the disposable ones. We actually have physical salt pepper shakers, but those are sanitized after each shoes at bar Louise. They're using real utensils again. We are allowed to serve with metal utensils. We individually roll everything because it does need to be in its own self contained kind of thing. Front of House manager Samantha Charpentier says They're also continuing the pandemic requirement of cleaning tables between each use. Kempton, a cliff WBZ, Boston's news radio officials are keeping close. Tabs on the Indian variant of the virus in the U. K. Another deadly variant, more concerned about its spread and how effective current vaccines might be against it. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson anxious about it, it has been spreading now at the moment is a very wide range of scientific opinion about what could happen, but we want to make sure that we take away the cautious steps now that we that we could take. The variant is just appearing in England as the country prepares for the Next big easing of lockdown restrictions next week. Tom Rivers, ABC News London, and it looks like five years vaccine is still effective against variants of Cove it on Wednesday, The New England Journal of Medicine reported that experiments on multiple strains like the UK variant and its mutations show that finds hers vaccine had high effectiveness. However, scientists did note That test still need to be done in real world situations. They also added that new variants of the illness will be discovered, and those will need to be kept track out. And that was correspondent Mark Mayfield with that report. 7 48. Other news We're watching tonight in active duty service member under arrest is in connection to the insurrection of the capital's We hear from ABC s Aaron Carter. Ski Marine Major Christopher Juan Aguirre's is the first active duty service member charged in the January 6th insurrection. The Marine Corps said it has no place for racial hatred or extremism or rigorous was arrested where he's stationed in Quantico, Virginia and now jailed in Alexandria On January 6th. The allegedly attacked an officer trying to hold back riders from the capital's east rotunda doors. And also tonight a split decision from the state appeals court after a black bouncer to Boston Strip club said he was racially discriminated against an update now from WBC's Carl Stevens, Massachusetts Commission against Discrimination. M C A D found that Derek Simms was fired from his job at the glass slipper and 2011 because he was black and awarded damages. Club appealed, saying they were not given fair notice that Simms was making a race discrimination claim in the appeals court agrees with the club. However, the court did find Sims should be awarded damages for emotional stress because he was subjected to a hostile work environment, a place where one of the managers used the N word run, referring to the black dances at the club, and Simms was treated differently than the white bounces. He was the one who worked outside. He was the one ordered To take out the trash. Carl Stevens, WBC Boston's news radio, 7 50, The state trial for the three officers accused of aiding Derrick Show been in the murder of George Floyd has now been delayed. During a hearing in Minneapolis Judge Peter Cahill decided to move the trial for officers to tout Thomas Layne and J. Alexander King to March 2022 saying that he believes there needs to be some distance between the trial of Derrick Show Vin and his sentencing. And the trial of the three other officers. He also indicated he wanted the federal trials to proceed First. This is as all four officers are facing federal charges of violating the civil rights of George Floyd, Marco Malard ABC News and before we check traffic, the Christmas movie spirited Is set to be filming this summer in Braintree that, according tonight to the Patriot Ledger, it is a musical remake of a Christmas Carol when we all know in Love, starring Will Ferrell, Ryan Reynolds and Octavia Spencer. Film crews, apparently starting to show up at the South Shore Plaza right to the North, struggling in early July, and if you want to check it out, the movie is coming out on Apple TV plus When you wake up and when you get home, give us five minutes and we'll keep you in the loop. And following this.
Dean Richards' Sunday Morning
Melissa McCarthy and Octavia Spencer Team Up in 'Thunder Force'
"You of the pleasure of chatting with a couple of long time pals. Listen. McCarthy, who hails from the Plainfield area, starting bridesmaids, and ah, number of really funny movies and actually also gave us a great dramatic turn in Ah movie a couple of years ago. Was nominated for an Academy Award. Octavia Spencer, You know from the movie help, as well as a number of other motion pictures, she actually won the Academy Award for best. Supporting actress the year that the help came out. She and Melissa McCarthy are best friends. They are longtime best friends in real life. And for the first time Collaborated on a brand new movie that is called Thunder Force. It's kind of Ah SciFi superhero spoof. I guess you might say comedy. About 2 40 something longtime friends. Childhood friends get together again later in life. One of them is very successful. One of them is, you know Melissa's character is, you know, down on her luck and always failing, and everything that she does comes to her friend for some help and discovers that her friend had developed a serum. Which gives people extraordinary powers she accidentally gets injected with this serum and winds up with extraordinary powers s O. They both wind up. With extraordinary powers and take on the take on the task of reading the their city of crime happens to be the city of Chicago, which you know, normally, I would be very happy to see the city of Chicago in a film. But what they did was they came into the city. They shot some exteriors of the buildings and you know some of the outside scenes. But they did not shoot most of the movie here, so ah, lot of the movie that they're pretending is Chicago clearly is not you see the skyline. You see the You know some of the buildings and things like that, but that's
Black History Year
How To Bend Reality with adrienne maree brown
"What does black liberation look like to you and out is your work. Contribute to that. One of the books. That i i wrote on the came out. Two years ago now is called pleasure activism and i bring that in because my vision of black liberation has shifted over the years. It used to just be like. I just want to be free. I want us to be free. But now i want even more than that. I want us to be able to really touch into our joy and our sense of belonging and our sense of connection and safety without having to look over our shoulders without having to wonder if anyone can see us at. The police are about to stop us. Harm us I really want that level of a black resilience to be something we're not holding against the hardest cost to us but something that's just able to be so that's one of my big views of like what i want. Black liberation to look like and a lot of it is measured by the children in my life in the children in the world. I want children to be able to look at adults. See liberated and joyful black adults around them who compared the while and love them while and caretake for them while because we're not under duress of trying to survive system is constantly trying to kill us and my work on that you know. I wrote pleasure activism. I've studied dodgy. Lord i studied octavia butler Concentrating trying to write an invite people into conversations where we talk about. What's the future we actually want in not. Just what's the best. We can negotiate from people who have consistently oppressed us But what do we actually want for our people. What is our vision. What is the vision for black people. In african diaspora people the predates our trauma in that will take us beyond our trauma. What is after a few tourism as it was originally articulated. The idea after future like black people thinking about projecting themselves into writing ourselves into the future and it was actually named by scholar. Who was not black. Mark dairy Was looking at the pattern. That was emerging of this particular kind of writing from a bunch of black authors in the time and i wanna name netti a core for who is a nigerian american science fiction writer and she talks about african futures that there's also other ways other places to look at the future that are not rooted in the us experiment which i always find comforting to just remember that. There's so many people who share lineage had different experiences and what we're trying to write as a future that's broad enough for all of us but that's the basics of effort futures. You know when. I talk about africa futures. I mean is there are black people in the future and we are self determining what that means like how we will occupy the future in a way. That is powerful for us.
Space Nuts
Another Busy Week on Mars: Perseverance Rover Update
"Talk about perseverance. Fred wears it up. I actually saw the other day that were trying to map out a journey for it and they come up with two paths life but the other one was more likely to give the results they were looking for now trying to choose which way to go option to better data probably much more dangerous so i don't know way went. They have. they started moving. I don't know the answer to that. But i do know yourself started moving cooks. They've put six point five meters on. Its odometer worked now half the price and so what they did. Was they rolled forwards. Full beta four maters then one hundred and fifty degree turn on this pictures that show you the fact that within the wheels the turn because with a six wheeled rover each independently controlled you. Can you can just turn on the spot. So they turned hundred and fifty degrees and then drove backwards to two and a half meters. So it's now got six and a half meters on the clock exactly as you said it will be worth the price. But if they drove backwards rewind the odometer. I suspect that doesn't work. In positive cases probably a lot of its travel will be back backward. In fact i remember. I think it was opportunity outta damage wheel and for a long long time many years it could only go backwards to drag the wheel. That were stuck one other bit of news is that's my interest you know. But they've nasa has announced the the name of the landing site because these when you land rover united side. And it is called the octavia e butler landing and octavia e. Butler apparently was an award. Winning american science fiction writer who died in two thousand and six very young. He was only fifty eight so about thanking on. She was only fifty. I do beg your pardon. Sorry i should have recognized up with a on the end. Yes she was an award-winning americans. Fictionally as as i said she died in two thousand and
Innovation Hub
Perseverance rover makes tracks on Mars
"A short drive two weeks after touching down to seek signs of past life on Mars. As an engineer on a saree FIA shared photos with reporters during a teleconference the wheel tracks that we left on Mars. I don't think I've Never been happier to see wheel tracks that I've seen a lot of them. And this is just a huge milestone for the mission. Mission managers say. The six wheeled rover called perseverance put just over 21 ft on its odometer during a half hour test drive this week as the scientists have also announced that they've named the site where the rover touchdown. And honor of the late sign fit science fiction writer Octavia Butler. The stock market came roaring back on Friday
Inside Europe
Perseverance Rover Makes Tracks on Mars
"Has taken its force first, a short drive two weeks after touching down to seek signs of past life on Mars. As an engineer on a saree FIA shared photos with reporters during a teleconference. You can see the wheels fact that we left on Mars. I don't think I've Never been happier to see wheel tracks that I've seen a lot of them, and this is just a huge milestone for the mission. Mission managers say. The six wheeled rover called perseverance put just over 21 ft on its odometer during a half hour test drive this week as the scientists have also announced that they've named the site where the rover touchdown And honor of the late sign for science fiction writer Octavia Butler. The stock market came
Miss Information: A Trivia Podcast
The Brave New Worlds of Octavia Butler
"Hello and welcome to misinformation a trivia podcast for ladies and gents who love cool trivia and sticking it to anoint teams. Have pop quiz where your hosts. I'm lauren and i'm julia hate y'all lowered. Are you full of cheese. Still i am still full of cheese. I want to tell you that the were recording on the day that the cheese up came out and my husband came home and ate an entire block of gouda because apparently he was like that. She's episode really maybe hungry for cheese so we ate a lot of our cheese in our fridge. So did its job. Did what it was supposed to do that yet. We hope you guys enjoyed that. It was something a little different than normal but Somebody else mentioned that like they're not a big fan of cheese but they would love to do another dash along episode with its point. So we'll brainstorm. We'll come back to that. Yeah maybe we'll be eating. Maybe it'll be something else. You know who. That's interesting. Mike along with juliet tandem bike. Listen to me. We get a tandem bike and a couple of layers. Listen or and we bike around rochester and talk about the of bicycling and also talk about the history of rochester. How great with did you just come up with this disraeli. I literally just came up with this first of all key. Imagine what people would they. They saw on a tandem bicycle goalie. I attached to us. Like a yeti microphone at like yup. Yup and josh is right a lot riding alongside of us and then our in car bike so i didn't mean this bird. I'm like no it's fine. He's gonna drive next very slow with the with the cords running into the car. I love this so much. Okay that's our next thing called ride along with julian lawrence as they get hit by multiple cars because the worst almost ill-advised thing but you asked for it. Everybody so get ready. It's on your hands. Our blood is on your hands. Basically is what we're saying. Get ready for that man. Speaking of blood oh man. I am very worried now so for this. I decided that i was going to cover An author that. I'm not super familiar with a genre of literature but i'm also not super familiar with. I've really learned a lot. And i hope you all will too. I hope i will. Are you ready. Lauren i'm has ever i'll ever be this week. We're entering the brave. New world of octavia butler. Oh you know what i have. Been meeting to read some octavia butler. But i have now. I have not read in a very long time. And i feel like i don't know if i'm ready. You know. I do bet that you would like it. Okay probably a little more. So than i would i. I'm willing to give it all a try great love i think maybe a lot of people have heard her name but they're not totally familiar with her work. Or unless you are like a sci fi reader maybe maybe her name is like completely foreign to you. So here's what you should know. So i was a groundbreaking american writer. She was one of the few women of color publishing an agenda dominated by white men Butler won the coveted hugo award which is considered the premier award in science fiction as well as the nebula prize which are which is given to the best works of science fiction or fantasy in the. us She won those twice each and that was loud. She all the time she was also the first science fiction writer ever to receive the macarthur fellowship. Wow wow that's interesting. I didn't know that octavia butler was born in pasadena. California in june nineteen forty seven. The only child of her mother's name was also octavia octavia margaret guy who was a housemaid and loris james butler. Who was a shoe. Shine man So octavius father died when she was seven and to support the family. Her mother worked as a maid She was extremely shy. As a child in octavia found an outlet at the library reading fantasy books and also in writing She did have a mild form of dyslexia but she didn't let this challenge deter her from developing a love of books She started creating her own stories early on and she decided to make writing her. Life's work around. The age of ten octavia wrote reams of pages in her big pink notebook and at first she was enamored with fairy tales and also horror stories but she quartz came interested in science fiction magazines. Such as amazing stories and galaxy. Science fiction so octavia did do a lot of interviews later in life. And so i've gotten some really great information right from her own words that i'm going to ask throughout this so to an mit class on the media in transition in one thousand nine hundred ninety eight butler told this anecdote. It's impossible to begin to talk about myself. And the media without going back to how i wound up writing science fiction and that is by watching a terrible movie. Movie was called devil girl from mars. And i saw it when i was about twelve years old and it changed my life. It was one of those old nineteen fifties movies in which the beautiful martian woman arrives on earth to announce that all the martian men of died off in there are a bunch of men. Hungry women up there and the earth. Men don't want to go. As i was watching this film i had a series of revelations the i was cheese. I can write a better story than that. And then i thought gee anybody can read about our story than that. And my thought was the clincher. Somebody got paid for writing. Not awful story. Yeah so often. Writing and a year later i was busy. Submitting terrible fiction to innocent magazines.
Q
Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker
"100 years ago, Madam C. J. Walker was the richest, self made woman in America. She battled both racism and sexism in a post abolition world. She created an empire of hair care products for black women, and she also employed an empowered thousands of black women across the country. Her story is the subject of a Netflix series called Self Made. Inspired by the Life of Madam C. J. Walker. The show stars Octavia Spencer as Thie, tenacious businesswoman, and Blair Underwood plays her husband. You see him struggle to live in the shadows of his wife's massive achievements. You might know Blair from L. A law dear white people or sex in the city. He also starred in the Broadway production of a Soldier's play. I talked to Blair right around the time. The play had to shut down early because of covert 19 back in mid March, and I started off by asking him why Madam C. J. Walker story is so important. She accomplished something that was just a monumental An extraordinary at the turn of the century in the late 18 hundreds and building this hair care empire Ah, woman. An African American woman, um, during that period of time to to earn that kind of money she did, And as you as you said, she employed and empowered thousands of African American women all over the world, So she was really you know, before Mary Kay or Avon or M Way she was creating distributors. People could have their own businesses and be their own business people at the time, So it was really extraordinary. It was amazing what she created, especially given the times in which she did it. Yeah, the early 19 hundreds. Incredible. So let's take a listen to a clip from the new Netflix series Self. This is you. Yeah, This is you and Octavia Spencer as husband and wife. New hotel downtown. The iron figure you will meet wouldn't go down. There could be a bell half you could do laundry. You don't just plant a seed and expect fruit the next day. Color women here. Just gotta get used to that idea. Somebody was doing ahead as all you know. I always love you big ideas, but I'm not going back to long enough. Now. Wait a minute. No way. Don't all made sacrifices You won't do was best for this family. Yeah, so there's definitely some tension. Attention that we hear that Cliff. How would you describe the relationship between your character CJ Walker and his wife, Madam C. J. Walker. Oh, loving but strained. I say, loving first, because I think that's the most important thing to know about. These two people is that they have great had great admiration for each other and affection. They came together and fell in love before she became successful before she became Madam C. J. Walker. Her name was Sarah. Breedlove. And my character's name is Charles Joseph Walker. So she's known in relationship to him. Mrs. CJ Welcome, Madam C. J. Walker, Um and then when she because of because for intellect and her driving her tenacity and her persistence. She as the brand became more famous, and she built. She was the driving force behind the empire that she built. And it was ah, a lot for him to swallow in tow handle into process on a day to day basis and There's alcoholism involved, and there was a womanising involved. And you know he himself was a man of his times on did not want to be defined by the woman in his life, no matter how much he loved her. It was very hard for him to just find his equilibrium in the midst of all of that. Yeah, and to figure out how to play second fiddle and still, I guess, maintain his masculinity or maintain the image of masculinity at that at that time, that's right and still feel of worth in a value. How did you get yourself into into that head space? That sounds like a really intense head space to get into. Well, you got nothing with acting you just Ah, In the simplest terms, we we played from people and we believe it A cz long as you believe more specifically that that you want this woman to win this woman that you're in love with that you want her to when you want her to succeed. And if you live in that space, and then all these other dynamics coming to play her becoming more successful, who are becoming more famous for becoming more well known, and then her ideas are the ones that really work more than your own. And then you you feel less diminished. But if it's rooted in the fact that you bonded and you came together as a team because of the respect and admiration and love for each other. Everything else kind of falls into place. You've been married yourself for 25 years. Did you draw on any of your own experiences in figuring out the power dynamics of a partnership for this role? Uh, yeah, I think you know you draw them everything you've got, because I was sorry. I should be more specific. I guess I'm wondering like you're a famous person, and I'm wondering if there's anything for you not even in terms of like gender roles. But just just just what it is to be a person who is in the limelight and and also trying to make sure that they're there. Partner comes along. With them and shines just as brightly. Wow, you know, Tommy, That's that's really great question. I I do think what What I've learned is that it's important to make. I find everybody around. You feel of value, but you're asking specifically in relationships. But I think that's important, too. You know that your spouse in that marriage or relationship that has a kind of dynamic Where one person maybe more known to the public. And it's more public facing that that person is aware Of how your mate might feel. My my wife doesn't care doesn't look for it, which is great, So it's a part of its part in parts of what I do as a professional is part of my profession. So there's no conflict in that respect, but But there is a sense of you know that it's important that she knows that she is valued in her world and heard her desires and her passions. And I think that's true for any relationship, so I definitely you know. Use that and this character just understanding that
This Day in History Class
Octavia E. Butler born - June 22, 1947
"June twenty, second, nineteen, forty seven. Science fiction author Octavia e Butler was born in Pasadena California. Butler addressed themes of gender sexuality and race through her speculative fiction over the course of her writing career. She received several awards, including the Hugo and Nebula awards. Butler's mother was a domestic worker in growing up Butler recognised racism and economic inequity that affected her family. By the time she was ten. She was already writing her own stories anti. She was interested in science, fiction, magazines and stories. As a young adult Butler pursuit pass besides writing and work temporary jobs, but she wrote when she wasn't working. Through the open door program at the writers guild. Butler was able to attend a class taught by science fiction author Harlan Ellison. He encouraged her to pursue writing further by attending clearing and science fiction writers workshop in Pennsylvania. Though Ellison had offered to publish one of her stories in an anthology. That anthology was never published. When she left Clarion, she began working on the novels that became part of the pattern EST series. The book in this series published by Doubleday. Nineteen, seventy six was patterned master in the book. telepathic people known as pattern EST are dominant over mute spor, non telepathic humans as well as over mutated humans call Clark's. The next two books in the series mind of my mind and survivor or published, nineteen, seventy, seven and nineteen, seventy eight. The books sold will, but she took a break from the series to right kindred. In the novel, a Black Woman named Dana travels back in time to slavery era Maryland there she meets a white ancestor, whom she has to repeatedly rescue to make sure that he survives. But her trouble, placing the book with the publisher, because it didn't fit neatly into the science fiction category, but in one thousand, nine, hundred ninety nine doubleday published kindred as fiction. The book was received well when it was published, and it became a text that students read in high schools across the US. After kindred Butler continued to publish books in the pattern master series, including wild seed and clay's Ark. Many of her characters were black women, and she explored themes like control and post colonialism in dystopia settings. In one, thousand, nine, hundred four, she won a Hugo Award for the short story speech sounds and blood child when the Nebula Hugo and locus awards. But worked on Zeno. Genesis trilogy in the late Nineteen Eighties and in the one thousand, nine, hundred ninety, she published parable of the sower and parable of the talents, which followed the protagonist Lauren Amina as she escapes a walled community in Fouls Inoue. Butler once said quote I don't write utopia science fiction because I don't believe that imperfect humans can form a perfect society. Fledgling a science fiction vampire novel published in Two Thousand Five. Was Butler's last publication. She died of a stroke in two thousand and six.
The Mindful Minute
Responding Creatively to Fear
"Welcome y'all as many of you know at Sacred Chill West. We create a community tension every month for all of our classes to focus on as we teach meditation. Yoga Yoga and this month's community intention for the month of May is awake to the transitions awake to the transitions. Now this phrase really stems from teachings that we my business partner Octavia and I received from one of our teachers Tracy Stanley and she continually uses this phrase as the reminder not to go back to sleep when we wake up when we learned something about ourselves. Don't let yourself get pulled back into old habits or old ways of coping just because things get hard or scary even in the midst of a pandemic. So I've been reflecting on this. How do we stay awake to the transitions? How do we stay awake as the moment to moment shifts under our feet and right in line with this thinking? I listened to episode of Radio. Labs podcast you'll know. I Love Radio last. And in this episode they were reflecting on a question posed by famous physicist Richard Feynman. And he asked this question all the way back in nineteen sixty one he asked. If in some cataclysm all of scientific knowledge were to be destroyed and only one sentence was passed on to the next generation of creatures what statement would contain the most information in the fewest words and then of course he went on to answer this question in his own brilliant physicist way but radio lab took this a step further and they went out and asked a myriad of artists musicians scientists creative thinkers this very question and what was so interesting to me about the response was the vast majority responded in some way with the word fear. Fear is the thing that most people want to tell other people or other creatures or other beans. This is the thing that limits us that holds us back that paralyzes us that keeps us from our potential and that we must have a willingness to respond creatively to fear. And so this whole talk. Today is based on the question. What do I do when I feel? I can't handle what's going on. What do I do when I feel? I can't handle what's going on and I'm willing to bet all of you have an immediate answer because how many of us have been sitting at home for weeks on end feeling like we can't handle what's going on and so we do the thing right. We all have these coping mechanisms. Maybe it's shopping maybe it's TV watching. Maybe it's eating or drinking or drugs or talking on the phone too much. Who knows we all have these mechanisms and we use them to avoid feeling uncomfortable? We use them to go back to sleep rather than stay awake to the unknown and of course the problem with this is this is fake control coping mechanisms. Are Pseudo control. That becomes actually like a prison. Boxing us into our neurosis. We couldn't possibly wet go of our beliefs. We couldn't possibly let go of the actions or escape mechanisms that we've created because what is left would be way too scary. We become increasingly terrified of the possibility of freedom. Now happily meditation does tell us. There's another way. Meditation reminds us. That freedom doesn't come from resisting or blocking our fears but it comes from getting to know these fears well so today. We're going to get to know our fears and in many traditions. The teachings within a meditation practice are that there are three main ways. We protect ourselves from this fear of the unknown from the fear of uncertainty. The first one is the one. I already referenced. This is the method of escape that each of us has so someone shops someone uses alcohol's food drugs sex. Tv books walking in nature being social. You know some of these are completely benign. Some of these maybe a little bit more dangerous but all of them can be methods for stain asleep. No matter how we escape. Our normal response is not one of curiosity. Meaning were not normally going. Oh look at me escaping the moment by calling a friend. No we're just calling the friend and were numb to what we're escaping. We don't explore it and our practice now is to get curious. This is step one right. Gay Curious what am I relief from when I engage this escape mechanism? What am I feeling relief from as I engage this escape mechanism the second way that we avoid fear our beliefs the beliefs that we used to give us a sense of certainty these might be political beliefs or social justice beliefs or religious beliefs? A scientific beliefs right any belief that gives us the person a sense of rightness or correctness. Now the problem of course is not the beliefs themselves but rather the problem is. How do we use these beliefs to make us feel steady to feel grounded or in control? How do we use these beliefs to avoid feeling the discomfort of not knowing? What will happen next? This one has been particularly potent for me in this moment. You Know Georgia beam the first state to reopen anything and my personal belief surrounded are that that's way too soon and sponsor and I could go on for hours and so the act of curiosity is to really pay attention does what does that righteous anger prevent me from feeling the right when. I get all up on my soapbox and outraged an angry and yelling. My opinions is it trying to make me feel more in control of a moment. That's totally out of control. And I'm not hear me say this. I am not saying you should not get outraged about certain things and speak up and not discounting the need for justice and standing up for what's right by any means that is a talk for another day but what I am talking about. Today is the curiosity of how we use those beliefs to make ourselves feel better the last way that we avoid fear is perhaps the most tricky this form of protection comes to us by seeking altered. Mind states some might do this through drugs. Some might do this through exercise highs or extreme meditation through falling in and out of love anything that takes us out of the mundane the ordinary and feels special right. These special mine states can be so powerful because we feel above or removed from the discomfort of the every day. So like if you have a really powerful meditation experience and you get some kind of clarity or visit or you hear voice or something magical happens in that meditation and in the next time you meditate you expect the exact same thing to happen but what really happens you write the grocery lists for twenty minutes. Now were feeling disappointed in our practice or upset with our practice. We can clean to those special experiences as a way to avoid life. And what we're not trying to do is avoid life. What we're trying to do is be in our
The Mindful Minute
Wayfinding: Remember the True Self {Part 3 of 3}
"You know every week Rather than record this podcast in my live Monday night class as I normally do now. I am sitting at home in my closet recording these episodes and as I do I try to picture the thousands of people across the world that are tuning in to this podcast and each of those little threads of connection keeps me going brings me truly joy in my days and lets me feel less lonely. I really hope as you listen. You feel those threads of connection to and if you're looking for more connection I'm really excited to share with you guys and offering That I am putting into the world alongside my business partner at our studios sacred chill West sacred show. West is a yoga and meditation studio here in Atlanta and as of now it is also a virtual studio. This is something we have been working on for the last few months. With the intention of launching in June of twenty twenty in the pandemic we find ourselves in now has asked demanded of us that we release the sooner and so we have. I'm really excited to share with you. Guys the series of videos that we've created this is Meditation with me. Of course there's Yoga classes with myself. And my partner Octavia Yin restorative flow. You'll gonNA drop every week. More videos are being added every month. We're doing a live virtual call to introduce the intention of the month the meditation series of the month to connect and talk and share with you. So if this feels like something that might bring you a little bit of joy and a little bit of connection in these days of being at home. I hope you will take a look visit. Sacred WEST DOT COM. Click on classes and look for the at home link. Take a look. We'd love to see you there. Be Sure you let us know if you're signing up from the mindful minute I would love to know where you are in the world when you sign up and I look forward to with you virtually. Thanks welcome I am so happy to Get to connect with you. So last week's episode. Which was the second installment of the way finding series that episode was recorded in my closet? Because you get really good sound quality in your closet However it was very lonely and so I'm really happy to get to record today's Podcast episode and offer this class zoom to our members at sacred. Shell and to record it out in the open. If you're listening to the podcast so this is our third installment this week. Three of the way finding series and this whole series was actually inspired by a quote. This is a quote that I heard in an episode of on being which is another podcast and the woman Krista Tippett. Who Does that? Podcast was interviewing a civil rights activist named Ruby sales and in this interview. One of the things that Ruby sales says is I think that one of the things that theologies must have is hindsight insight and foresight that is complete site and I think that fragmentation really shatters that site. It says that it's not an eyesight. It's a waste site and when I heard that something about that terminology and the structuring of complete site as all of these pieces hindsight insight foresight. Immediately I just knew that this directly relates to meditation practice. And as you've heard me say already in a way finding really it's hard is just a series of elements that come together to provide guidance in some way and our meditation practices offering these little forms of guidance. So we looked at hindsight right. We look to this idea of tracing our way backwards to look for those little hidden hints and whispers guidances as to our souls calling what we're here to do what we're here to feel and be in our supposed to move through the world and we looked at insight inside. Is the direct translation of mindfulness. Meditation when you translate the Pali Words. The original language that meditation came from when you translate those words it translates to incite this practice is directly turning us in words to see for ourselves. And today what we're GONNA do is. We're GONNA talk about foresight and foresight in my mind relates to what's called the Dharma and the Dharma is just another way of saying the teachings the teachings of Meditation What. I'm doing right now. This talk that. I do at the beginning of all of my meditation classes. This is called a Dharma. Talk Right so this is a talk that is designed to share teachings inspiration and insight for our journey really. What teachings are there like a map that people who are few steps ahead of us on this path have left for us? There little hints. And if you remember if you listened to last week's meditation class the way finding to episode I tell the story of Touching into this deep well of peace inside right and the short version of the story is is. I was meditating with a friend and about three minutes into the meditation. I realized that I have this. Tickle in my throat and all. I want is glass of water and a cough. Drop to sued this tickle but I don't WanNa get up because I don't want to disturb my friend I don't WanNa cough and I was kinda comfortable and so even though I was really feeling that discomfort of needing to get a glass of water. I was sort of equally in this place of wanting to stay in my meditation and see what happened and eventually where I landed in this meditation was what I call in. What many teachers called this deep well of peace inside meaning that no matter how much agitation was on the surface underneath it was really still. It was really calm and really quiet. I was able to stay. I didn't have to get up at the class of water and I wasn't suffering. It wasn't like I was choking back a cough and fighting to stay. I was really truly comfortable in the discomfort and so the idea that people who practice have experiences and then they share these experiences with others as little glimpses of what might happen if you keep practising and it's not to say that we have to buy into everything every teacher says or trust without question. It's not that at all but the teachings are really meant to be a hint at what's to come an invitation to see for yourself so you might hear me or somebody talk about this mythic deep well of peace or any of these teachings right any of the things that we say meditation does for us and you can just keep a beginner's mind and open curious mind. Is that true for me? What happens when I practice? That's the question that we ask ourselves and so I wanNA share an example of how this might unfold in terms of incorporating teachings into our practice. So what you're doing right now is incorporating teachings into your practice. You could really easily just sit down. Set A timer for ten minutes closure as a meditate but by carving out even once a week to sit with a teacher to listen to a talk and then practice. You're giving yourself that tool of foresight
The Frame
The Frame Oscar Special
"Are ready. Let's do it. Welcome to the frame Oscar special from KPCC in Los Angeles. Welcome to the one million breath and the Oscar goes to and the Oscar goes to and the Oscar goes to get anybody. I'M GONNA find you're GONNA give you. Massive snow snowed. Everybody who bought a ticket told somebody to buy a ticket. Thank you I love you if I may be so honored to have all all the female nominees and every category stand with me in this room tonight the actors Maryland you do it everybody else will come on all right all right all right. I'm John Horn host to the frame and joining me is Jacqueline coli editor at Ron Tomatoes Jacqueline. Thanks for being with us. Thanks for having me John so I know we're only a couple seconds in certified fresh so far. I think you're doing great. You're certified fresh and honestly I would say all the best picture nominees are also pretty awesome. It's probably the highest average on the tomato meter of best picture nominees. We've had in a while so I'm excited to talk about these phones. So let's start with probably the top story. I think of this year's Oscar race twenty acting nominees. One person of Color Cynthia Revo who stars as Surrey Tubman and Harriet. Yeah I'M NOT GONNA lie was extremely disappointed. When I watched each array and John Show read out the nominees few weeks ago? But I wasn't surprised actually just wrote an an article rotten tomatoes discussing this when you talk about the ninety two years of the history of the academy. There's only been thirty. Five Black Women nominated and twenty one of them have been for playing a slave a maid or woman in abject poverty it is an alarming and slightly depressing trend. I would say in the academy's Tastes And when you have performances from Octavia. CBS Spencer and loose Alfre woodard clemency. Jaylo in four inch heels giving us all she could for Hustler's and Aquafina further for well. It's really really alarming for you to say to yourself that this is where we are at the state of the academy. I'm going to hope that this year. We can have parasite as a moment if it wins. Best picture that we can say. We're moving forward. But again Cynthia being the only nominee it's It's a bit depressing parasite. I think has a legitimate chance to win the best picture. Oscar Oscar Think Bong Jun ho who directed and Co wrote. It could win director as well if it wins. The top prize the first foreign language movie in Academy History to take that prize. That is important in its own right regardless of the fact that none of its actors were nominated for performing in it. Yeah and it's also again a trend unfortunately with the academy there have been six previous best picture. Nominations from Asian cinema where none of the actors were honored with an acting nomination and unfortunately parasite kept with that trend this year here however We keep a track at our wars leaderboard and rotten tomatoes dot com of all of the winds of all of the films that are in the conversation and parasite has dominated with over a hundred in twenty five wins and to give you sort of a relative idea. The next winds is at seventy one. So parasite has been dominating with critics groups and with these these various guilds so it's poised to maybe take home the top prize but it really depends on the academy's taste and what those nine thousand members feel about the film later in the show. We're GONNA talk talk about the best picture race. We're also going to hear from some of the directors of some of the best picture nominees including Greta. Gerwig made little women was not nominated for best director. Sam Mendes from one thousand nine hundred seventeen and Bon John Hoult from parasite. But we'll start this Oscar party with some leading actresses three of the five nominees in this category had add the particular challenge of playing real people on Screen Cynthia Rio sharply staring and Renee Zellweger. Who Plays Judy Garland in Judy Yukon? There's an audience other ways. It hears you sing my mouth driving. It was judy takes place in the late. One thousand nine hundred sixty judy. Garland's career is floundering. She's struggling with sobriety. She goes to England perform at a London nightclub and Joplin one thing that surprised me. was that renee. Zellweger wasn't convinced that she could actually pull off as part. I wish I think is so crazy. That's Texas girls for you as a Texas girl I can say we're like deprecating on our talent and always like underestimate ourselves but she absolutely murdered murdered this role I remember. I woke up right in early at the tyrod film festival to watch. Her sort of embody. Judy Garland for this role and it was so I would say mesmerizing.
Mac OS Ken
Apple debuts featurette for upcoming Apple TV Plus original 'Truth Be Told'
"Apples giving viewers an extended. Look at truth be told that's the apple. TV plus series. That tells the fictionalized I story of a true crime. podcast apple insider says Cupertino Streamer has released a feature at for the show uploaded to apple's dedicated Apple Apple. TV Youtube Channel. The peace as the three minute feature at for truth be told has the stars of the show explaining their characters as well as hitting it where where the stories of each will go as the miniseries plays out two decades before the show starts influential journalist. Poppy are now used. The power of the pen to have a sixteen year old tried for murder as an adult. He was found guilty and went to prison now. PARNELL's not sure he was is guilty and start sticking back into the case. Actors featured in the feature at include Octavia Spencer. Aaron Paul Lizzy Caplan and Brett. Cullen a number of producers also turned up including producer and show Creator Michelle de Tremble the feature at is available now now on youtube the series hits Apple. TV plus on Friday the sixth of December
WIBC Programming
Hollywood Walk of Fame's 2020 Class Revealed: Julia Roberts, Chris Hemsworth and More
"Julia roberts chris hit after octavia spencer are just a few of the celebrities who will have stars on the hollywood walk of fame the hollywood chamber of commerce has welcome selection committee announced yesterday the list of celebrities who will soon receive stars on or near hollywood boulevard this video paint got her star daytime stars dr phil and wendy williams are also on the list the dates of their ceremonies have not been announced yet again can't believe join Doesn't have a
John and Ken
Octavia Spencer, Warner Brothers And Anne Hathaway discussed on John and Ken
"A man on Warner Brothers movie set in the UK has been stabbed in the neck cops call this afternoon to the set of the witches, the film stars Anne Hathaway, Chris rock, Stanley, Tucci, and Octavia Spencer. The injured crew member was taken to a hospital, a second man on the set was