the e-magazine issue 10 / 2005 Editorial W When I was a kid there was a Greek film often shown on television with the hero having to go to a psychiat- ric clinic. It was a comedy alright. So the man walking around the hall he met a Napoleon, a Julius Cesar and a few more characters but the funniest one was a man sitting on a chair and moving backwards and forwards all the time. The hero asks the doctor what’s wrong with him and the doctor explains to him that he thinks he is a clock. The hero gets closer and says to the clock- man, you are two minutes late, and the man stops breathing for two minutes to get to the right time. Ok writing this it sounded very evil but watching it was really funny. But somehow that was the first time I fully realized the mean- ing of time and how personal time is and I try to explain that better in an article in the iformat sec- tion of this issue. Issue 10 of the Ovi magazine and nearly a year from our first issue. The first title and them was “3 men and a dead line” and it was just Asa, John and I trying to cover everything. From politics to environment. Be funny and serious, creative and complex the same time. And all that with John been on the other side of the ocean. It was fantastic time and be sure we had no idea what we were up to. Not that now we have, is just that we are more confident on what we are doing. And that thanks to all of you who reading the magazine wherever you are, from Europe to Japan and Africa, from Australia to Chile , thank you very much. The last few months the lay out of the magazine has been a big issue for us and from some mails we got we know that many of you didn’t like the frames. With this some- how anniversary issue we make the next step into a lay out without frames hoping soon to make the next one. And here a small com- plain, we have a forum where you can talk, criticize or tell us your opinion. Do join, is easy, you just have to register. Issue 10 is all about TIME. We thought that since we are near a year of our first issue, in front of a new year with all its promises and of course one year older all of us to write something about time or even better give every- body the chance to think about time. Asa, John and I like for the first issue we are in a short of a time machine. We have one year of experiences and shocks with two small daughter to change our lives gradually. When we started we were look- ing for guests’ writers, now a year after we have twelve people join- ing the Ovi every month and the number is gradually increasing. From this issue we are having a new cartoon as well, a friend of America who seems to be a real party animal with his ‘death of the party’ cartoon. Thank you all. Another new thing for this issue of Ovi is our new Ovi-Fiction section where you can contribute with short stories, poems, scripts and whatever else you want. We have many dream for this section and we are thinking that in the future we must be able to have books on line as well. As I said we have many dream with ovi magazine or better the ovi project since it is a whole project for us and we will try to have new things as often as we can. I hope you will all have nice holi- days, merry Christmas, and a very happy new year. Thanos o Editorial Ovi’s Ten Commandments: seems they have taken Ovi’s Ten After ‘Religion’ last issue, I find Commandments to heart. How 1 – Thou shalt believe in Ovi. my faith in Ovi stronger than ever can you not take this magazine to and it is leading Thanos and I into heart? We have given so much of 2 – Thou shalt read other online magazines, but not create others in our like- temptation. We want Ovi to pro- our souls to this project that we ness. vide us with our daily bread, we are emotionally void for the days want to forgive those who tres- after each new issue appears on- 3 – If thou take Ovi’s name in vain, email us your criticism. pass against us, but it will take line. more than a verse or two from the 4 – Remember to read Ovi daily. good book. Ten issues, ten voids and every single one worth it. Our style 5 – Honour the fathers of Ovi by informing your friends about us. This editorial opening would has developed over the year, the have been perfect for issue nine, site has begun the long-awaited 6 – Thou shalt add Ovi to your bookmarks. yet issue ten features the topic of change to single frame and it will ‘Time’. Personally, writing about continue to improve, until you are 7 – Thou shalt not cheat on Ovi. religion was far easier than jot- pouring your soul into Ovi too. ting down my thoughts on time 8 – Thou shalt not plagiarise. because it is such a slippery sub- If you don’t know by now, Ovi ject with little definition. Time is Finnish for ‘door’ and issue 9 – Thou shalt not lie about something you saw in Ovi. is an ambiguous fellow, whether ten takes us on the ‘Door-om- philosophically, astrologically or eter’ to 10 Downing Street. We 10 – Thou shalt not covet Ovi. Email us and join our writing team. chronologically, but we set our- are strange here at Ovi Magazine selves the challenge and we must but that is why you like us and we live up to its demands…or just ig- like you, in return…for Ovi is the nore it and write what we want. kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever and ever. Amen. Once again, we are joined by a number of guests and they have Asa each completed a sterling job writing, drawing or composing; it i fArt fArt By John Pederson By Asa Butcher A portrait Tick-tock Imagine sitting at your favorite Ten issues and nearly two years Time: A person’s experience café when—all of a suddenly— ago, Thanos and Asa taught me during a specific period or on a Time travel, Time Square, time an idea so original, and with so something that I’ll never forget. certain occasion; a number, as management, time is money, much potential pops into your Maybe it was the Guinness at of years, days, or minutes, rep- time of our lives, Father Time, head that you flag down the work, but it was a break-through resenting such an interval. Time Harry Lime, Justin Time, time waiter for a pen to scribble it epiphany at the time—and still can fly, time can drag, time can zones, chronological, philo- on your napkin. Pure genius! is: breakthrough ideas have to be measured and time can be sophical, Dali’s The Persist- How did you not think of this resonate on both the individual elusive. Pink Floyd sang, “Eve- ence of Memory, Rolex, cuck- sooner? A moment later, you and collective levels. They con- ry year is getting shorter, never oo clocks, reaction time, speed decide to recite your epiphany nect people through increased seem to find the time,” on the equals distance over time, to the entire table, fully expect- self-awareness. Connection track ‘Time’, which proves that timekeeping, Time magazine, ing a toast to your brilliance. through personal empower- ‘time is of the essence.’ London and New York Times, But somehow the thought has ment is the distinguishing mark prime-time, Daylight Saving already lost its luster. It sounds of most any breakthrough idea, Time can be timeless, but you Time and time out. as tantalizing and fresh as the whether it’s a musical phenom- must bide your time, especially wilted iceberg lettuces on your enon like the Beatles, a com- if you are ahead of your time all Timetables and times table, t club salad. munications revolution such the time. A whale of a time can time bombs and time delay, as the Internet, or a journalistic be had at all times, but we had Time Bandits and Timecop, Why do some ideas ignite our epoch like the Ovi. to make up for lost time at one time share and time will tell, imaginations. How do certain time in order to have a good Time in Norway and Time in concepts find their own mo- The tipping point is when the time. At this point in time, I am Illinois, time to go and we are mentum and change the world, big idea becomes a reference behind the times and have no out of time. Time’s up! while others are disregarded in point of public consciousness, time to take my time. the side notes of history? How giving a voice to something do you go from a glass of Guin- within each individual, while I am living on borrowed time ness with two friends to Fin- providing a way to carry this for the time being, although land’s hottest e-zine? self-knowledge out into the from time to time I play for world. This is exactly what Ovi time. Once upon a time, some- Idea: a realization of a possible has been to me: a connection to body served time, in at the same way of doing something or of and purpose in our lives. The change the lives of millions? the world and myself. To know time he had to kill time, pass something to be done form of an idea is what allows one, you must discover the the time and in it was crunch it to grow and travel from one Epoch: a significant period in other. Now I have been lazy in time less than no time; just in All big ideas—including the person to another building mo- time or in somebody’s life this pursuit, taking more from the nick of time, it was a long Ovi Magazine—have both a mentum, until finally; it real- this relationship than I receive. time no see. function and a form. izes its function and purpose in Great ideas serve a myriad of But the Ovi has always been our world. purposes and fulfill numer- here for me, inviting reflection, The function of an idea refers ous needs in our daily lives. introspection, and growth. And to its specific purpose. For ex- Every idea has both form and From salvation to silverware, it’s here for you too, for you to ample, the UN was designed function. So what? you’d be hard-pressed to find read, for you to contribute, for to promote world peace, elec- any continuity in the function you to love, and for you to hate. tricity to bring light into our The question remains: What of breakthrough ideas. But the It’s all here—and it will be here homes. makes a big idea a break- form of these ideas is another for many issues to come! Time through? What is the common story—a story that that, for me, is on our side! But ideas have form long be- denominator that allows cer- started in Finland. fore they find an expression tain concepts to take hold and a fArt iFormat By Asa Butcher By Thanos Kalamidas MMVI Time personal A marriage, seven milestone feature film. Hollywood has a Thinking about time I always add the chronic definition or birthdays, a Pearl wedding an- few birthday cards to buy with come to the conclusion that time not. The time arrow is certain niversary and my daughter’s Mel Gibson, Geena Davis and is something totally personal. A and absolute. first birthday are all scheduled Tom Hanks turning 50, James few years ago I had a very bad for celebration in my 2006. Six Earl Jones and William Shatner accident and I’m sure that after I base that on my knowledge in years have rapidly passed since turning 75, Mel Brooks is 80 one point time stopped. the European languages, but in the arrival of the Millennium and Kirk Douglas is 90. eastern languages, for example, and it is a shock to think that I could watch the other car again language identifies time. we are over half way to 2010; During 2006, we are scheduled coming towards me in real slow In Japanese, it is ‘I go to the I wonder if it will be anything to see Microsoft’s Windows motion and then I could see the cinema tomorrow’ or ‘I go to like the 2001: A Space Odyssey Vista, Estonia adopting the front of my car slowly smash- the cinema yesterday’. sequel. Euro as its currency, the release ing into pieces and the whole of the Sony Playstation 3 and front of my own car, includ- Day and night, seasons identify Following the Gregorian cal- Nintendo Revolution, plus the ing the steering wheel and all time, but the language is there t endar, the year begins and ends 51st Eurovision Song Contest the instruments coming slowly to make time part of what we on a Sunday, Easter (Western) held in Greece and the new closer and gradually hitting are. Returning to the beginning, is observed on April 16 (East- Wembley Stadium officially me in the chest. I could sort of time is something so personal ern, April 23), Christmas Day opened. When it comes to sport, see drops of blood coming out and illogical at the same time. on a Monday and the year has 2006 has both the XX Olympic from my direction and I could You see? Time again. been designated International Winter Games in Italy and the watch the other driver’s eyes in Year of Deserts and Desertifi- 18th FIFA World Cup, which total horror. You watch a film, which is cation - that is ‘deserts’ and not will hopefully see England win supposed to have ‘real time’, ‘desserts’, which would be a far the trophy for a second time. Again, another evening was the hero moves around for 24- better celebration. In addition, when my daughter was ill with hours while the film lasts only Chinese New Year marks the 365 days lay ahead of us, what a really high fever. We sudden- two hours and you have the arrival of the year of the Dog. they hold we do not know. We ly arrived at the hospital and feeling that you lived the hero’s can only hope that there will the doctor asked me how long twenty-four hours. Sometimes On the subject of dogs, 2006 is be no natural disasters, wars, she’d been unconscious and we wish the day had thirty- politically active from the first Japan will be marking the fif- pendence and Pakistan becom- famine, disease and riots, but without thinking I answered, six hours so we can do all the month. The Finnish presidential tieth year of United Nations ing the first Islamic republic. we know that they will make centuries. Later, the same night, things we were planning to do. elections, the 39th Canadian membership, Finland joined their appearance throughout the doctor explained to me that Strangely, my ten minutes of Oddly enough, the reason we federal election and Palestini- UNESCO fifty years ago and it It is 400 years since the birth the year. whatever I thought it could not fame lasted only a few sec- consider time as something To write this article took me ans Parliamentary Elections all is five decades since the United of Rembrandt, the 250th birth- have been for more than sec- onds while my most miserable totally measured is the lan- four hours thinking and thirteen take place in January. Elections Kingdom banned heroin and day of Mozart and MTV is - Don’t forget 20/06/2006, onds, maximum a minute. minutes lasted for centuries. guage. All the verbs represent minutes to write it, even though in Israel begin in March, the abolished the death penalty for 25-years-old. In March, the 20:06 I’m sure that since that night I time. Go, I will go, I went, I I feel that I have been in front Mexican presidential elections murder. Other notable fiftieth 78th annual Academy Awards Then there are some other mo- had to run to the hospital hold- had gone! Saying, I’m going to the keyboard writing for ages. are held in July, October sees a anniversaries in 2006 include are held and they should mark ments. My first party, my first ing my daughter I got more the cinema, I went to the cin- Just imagine how much better Brazilian general election and Urho Kekkonen becoming the hundredth anniversary of kiss that was so brief and the white hair. Isn’t that a message ema and I will go to the cinema use of time we would have if the US Mid-term elections are President of Finland, Morocco the release of The Story of the day I won something very im- for time passing? Don’t you identifies precise time. I went we could control time. in November. and Tunisia gaining their inde- Kelly Gang, the world’s first portant for me lasted only sec- get more white hairs with the to the cinema yesterday. I will onds and everybody said that it years? I got them in only a few go to the cinema tomorrow lasted for hours. seconds. and I’m going to the cinema tonight. It doesn’t matter if we Photo by Linda Lane a iFormat iFormat By Eva Biaudet By Louie Parsons Forthcoming presidential Time - a fine line elections As the race for the forthcom- What do we really know about Also a factor of time is self re- ing presidential election is at its During the time before an elec- time? Hands up if you own an alization of your time here on toughest, the main theme in the tion the average citizen tends to alarm clock? planet earth, how many billions discussion so far has been the be more interested in politics of people spend their time rush- president’s powers. The Green and will probably learn more Time is a perception, a man ing from A to B without expe- League’s candidate Heidi Hau- about vital political issues made view on something we riencing the real value of time, tala has suggested that the pres- than during any other election only think we know and under- which is that this time is your ident be stripped from her de- or period of time. It is a great stand. time every moment every hour jure position, as foreign policy opportunity to make citizens every day. co-leader, but this thought has involved in politics. The presi- We know the calendar we use met with fierce resistance from dential election is by far the now was introduced by the Ro- One part of Buddhist philoso- the the rest of the candidates most popular election in Fin- man Emperor Julius Caesar and phy is realization of the mo- - Tarja Halonen, Matti Van- land. This year nearly 4.3 mil- later changed to the Gregorian, ment, wither you believe in hanen, Sauli Niinistö, Henrik lion persons are entitled to vote the reason for the change an a reincarnation or not the truth is W Lax, Bjarne Kallis, Timo Soini and more than 80 % of these problem we still have today is that your time here on earth in and Arto Lahti. will almost certainly give their it’s not 100% accurate if we earths huge time scale is very vote on the 15th of January. had a perfect system we would small, so take the time for your Even though the powers of the not have leap years. self very seriously its not being president systematically have My greeting to you is to read, lazy that is another misconcep- been reduced since the Kek- investigate, consider, make a Which brings me to the theory tion of time. konen-era, compared to most decision and vote! if we were all in sync with the of the other countries in the earth’s natural time we would Take the time for being with European Union, the president Merry Christmas! have no use for alarm clocks? family and friends enjoy a sun- of Finland still possesses, both The Mayan people had a far set and a sunrise. Enjoy the in practice and in an ideologi- Eva Biaudet has been a Member superior mathematical system beauty that Mother Nature pro- cal sense, influence. The Presi- of Finland’s Parliament since concerning astronomy and time vides for us and try getting your liamentary approval. The hot portance. Even though a candi- dent conducts Finland’s foreign March 1991, she is the former how come we know it exists an self in sync with her time. topic for the moment is the date from a small party does not policy in co-operation with the Minister of Health and Social we don’t use it, ok asking the president’s position in the crisis have the same realistic chance Government and decides upon Services and is a member of the people of the world to adapt to Sweet childish days, that where management decision-making. to be elected s/he can make an her relations with other states Swedish People’s Party. a new system would be almost as long as 20 days are now. - The proposition of the Govern- important input in bringing up and her actions in international impossible but it may help us William Wordsworth ment which gave the president topics that are not habitually negotiations. to understand the world we live a veto is found inconsistent discussed. Henrik Lax from my with the constitution. party has on several occasions in a little better and maybe re- Dost thou love life? Then do However, all international ob- spect it more as our forefathers not squander time, for that is had the opportunity to raise is- ligations that affect legislation did. The Mayan calendar also the stuff life is made of. - Ben- Furthermore, the debate before sues such as tolerance and non- or are otherwise of significant took into account the time cy- jamin Franklin the actual presidential election discrimination towards people importance are subject to par- cle of the moon, sun and Venus, is, in my opinion, of great im- with foreign background. which we have only been able Take care in your minutes, and to calculate accurately in recent the world now for a couple of We think like the first aviators the hours will take care of them- years. hundred years and because of that we are flying and in real- selves. - Lord Chesterfield this we have abused the planet ity we are in freefall and apart One important factor of time we live on, repercussions are from a few we don’t seem to is time its self, lets use the mu- coming and we are too blind to have noticed that the ground is sical term “tempo”. Humans see. getting closer. have been out of tempo with Photo by Linda Lane a iFormat iFormat By Dean Esmay Bbohdan Yuri Left/Right Dichotomy The Inevitable A common left-wing view- ain’t so awful” or “one sin does We keep hearing calls for a if the Bush Administration point is that human beings are not necessarily lead to anoth- solution to the nation build- would condone such a change innately, inherently, naturally er”). You also say a lot of things ing efforts of the United States in its policy, because that would good, and that to the extent that that make the Rousseauians say Forces in Iraq so that our troops mean admitting a mistake -- they are bad it is because of the “right on!” but then say some- can finally exit the quagmire of - and aren’t they all infallible dysfunctional nature of their thing that utterly infuriates false pretenses. --- in their own words, in their society or of civilization as a them (like, “boys and girls are own minds. whole. Most of what is wrong innately different, exceptions The Bush Administration keeps in society can be viewed as the notwithstanding” or “capital- stating that “we” cannot leave “Stay the Course” has been fault of hidebound tradition and ism is imperfect but works far Iraq: until the votes for democ- their eternal mantra. Too bad dysfunctional or outdated pat- better than socialism”). racy are complete; until the the Captain is below deck terns of living. Some date this Iraqis can set up a democratic snoozing (or hiding) while the thinking with the philosopher Some call this thinking “third government and govern them- fanatical First Mate steers a Rousseau, but I think it’s prob- way,” and point to politicians selves, until the Iraqi forces course towards a waterfall. ably far older than that. Still, like Tony Blair and Bill Clin- can protect their citizens, not let us for the sake of discussion ton (and the more astute among until.......... Ironically, many of the greatest call that the Rousseauian view. them add George W. Bush), but Well, not until we realize the victories in history, both mili- w it would be nice if we had a phi- inevitable will the true Iraqi tary and political, have come A common right-wing view- losopher-figurehead to which solution come forth. What is through leadership that was point is that human beings are to attach this line of thinking. that solution you ask? The so- able to improvise, to see the innately wicked and wretched. Although it may be gauche to lution is the one that should need to change strategies, even Only by careful inculcation of suggest a living thinker, would have been sought from the very if doing so it meant admitting the proper spiritual mindset Pinkertonian perhaps be a good beginning, the obvious one, the mistakes. Daring moves re- and rigorous teaching can we label? Or is there someone dead one that Iraqis are in the midst quire Courage, while Strength be made anything other than to which we might better attach of forming themselves through requires character, and Wisdom depraved. Even to the extent this line of thinking? violence instead of diplomacy. usually ensures a final, lasting we succeed in raising people victory. above the level of savages, we Suggestions will be cheerfully Has it occurred to the Bush Ad- are always on a slippery slope, ciferous, most of them seem inherently depraved nor inher- entertained in the comments, ministration that this secular Now, does anyone in the Ad- and should we slip too much to stem from people arguing ently enlightened, neither in- as well any serious contempla- and non-secular warfare is not ministration have the Strength, then the result will be savagery (whether consciously or not) herently selfish nor inherently tions of the related concepts going to end until the most im- Courage, and Wisdom to fully and depravity and madness. from one position or the other. selfless, a lot of people are sim- discussed in this missive. portant lines are finally drawn. understand the future --- and Although this view predates ply puzzled when they argue (and tragically at the cost of in- not use the excuse of, “...no- Hobbes, let’s call this the Hob- Which is rather frustrating for with you. You wind up agree- http://www.deanesmay.com/ nocent lives,) --- the lines are body could have predicted, no- besian view. those of us who consider both ing a lot with the Hobbesians, posts/1134212164.shtml boundary lines, separating each body could have imagined.” positions innately flawed. If but then you say something that “tribe” into their own ruling I think that if you look careful- you believe there is indeed makes them suddenly turn and domains. Seems I’ve heard Republicans ly at a lot of political arguments such a thing as human nature, look at you like you’re from use that excuse frequently in today, especially the most vo- but that human nature is neither Mars (like, “looking at porn It’s all a matter of econom- Mankind has always and will their past, from the fall of the always fight to the end for their Anyway, even after the United ics and equality in sharing the Berlin Wall to the insurgency country, their territory, their re- States withdraws from Iraqi country’s wealth. I’m sure that in Iraq . It has now become an ligion, their everything. civil wars are inevitable. Just can easily be hammered out to idiot’s excuse to the very end of That is a Truth of any country, look to the secular, and non sec- the satisfaction of each party. time. any heritage. Call it national- ular lines drawn presently; lines Then and only then can true na- ism call it anything you want that mark territories guarded by tion building take place. That except an untruth. If put to a numerous militias that answer should have been the goal from If they only saw the vote of the Iraqi people, they only to their own leaders. the beginning. Truth.................. then they too would choose their own do- could predict the future! main instead of sharing it with So why not do the most logi- I don’t know if that approach “enemies”. Does Israel/Pales- cal thing --- divide the country is past its time, I hope not, but the end tine come to mind, --- Chech- into three: Kurds, Sunnis, and perhaps it’s worth diverting our nya ...? Shites. The only disagreements efforts towards that solution. there would be the resources. Unfortunately here too I doubt Photo by Linda Lane w iFormat iFormat By Asa Butcher By Thanos Kalamidas Vote for Arto Lahti No belief in Superman Who will become the twelfth confusing even the candidates, Understanding Finnish poli- that they have to resign their president of Finland, will Pres- True Finns Party candidate tics has become a very diffi- position. The Greek PM chose ident Halonen keep the keys Timo Soini emphasised the cult concept for me. It brings an elected MP for the position to the Presidential Palace or view that the president should to mind Socrates - the more I of the president of the national will anybody without Finnish defend the nation’s citizens. Up learn, the less I know or under- energy organization, the MP citizenship actually care? The steps my hero Professor Arto stand. In January, Finland has to had to resign his seat to take 2006 Finnish presidential elec- Lahti, who explains that this is face presidential elections with over his new commission. In tion campaign is raging – that not within the realm of presi- candidates from all the political Finland, half of the MPs hold is ‘raging’ Finnish-style – and dential duties, since the presi- parties with more chances given seats on the board of directors the candidates are beginning to dent’s main job is cooperating to the now president, Halonen; in a series of companies, ener- look vaguely interested…or is with the cabinet on foreign the prime minister Vanhanen gy, banks or communication. that interesting? policy. Nicely done…and with and a former minister and now your own money. an EMP Niinistö. Whose rights do they defend? The first televised debate be- The people they represent and tween all eight presidential can- Thankfully, all the candidates Till now everything is fine, I elected them or the companies didates was broadcast recently did agree on something in their suppose there is nothing wrong for which they work? The com- u and the principal disagreement first televised debate, I’m not with their names, must be all munication companies need was over the President’s right sure whether it was maintain- the good old traditional Finnish higher charges and lower sala- to deploy Finnish troops in EU ing a Nordic-style welfare state, names, but…there is always ries, but the workers elect these crisis management operations. supporting entrepreneurship or a damn ‘but’ following. The people to the parliament. If this Yes, you read that right. This having the chance to squander prime minister is a candidate! is not cheating, what is it? huge issue affects every Finn large sums of taxpayers’ money The prime minister was a can- and gives many a sleepless on t-shirts, badges and woollen didate for the local municipal- There is another thing, ethics night, be sure of that. caps…except Professor Arto ity elections last year as well. say that you are not using your Lahti. And he was elected. So here position to promote yourself in Mocking the presidential elec- we are with a prime minister a new place when it comes to tions should make you feel Voting begins on Sunday 15th who is a member of a town hall elections that’s why in most of guilty because it is so easy. January at 0900 and will hope- council and now he wants to be the democratic countries there One of the latest news stories fully result in a winner gaining a president as well. is an acting government during was Halonen making a big over half of the votes cast. If well the man has put three, four, financially comfortable, espe- the elections period. Mr. Van- deal about the president’s role one candidate fails to obtain I mean the man is spending all five and I’m sorry I don’t be- cially the ones coming from the hanen, as a prime minister, is as Commander-in-Chief of the over fifty percent of the votes, morning taking care of the na- lieve in Superman, even though far north borders of the coun- constantly on TV so he doesn’t Defence Forces, which only a then a second round between tion, planning the foreign poli- I still believe in Santa Claus. try. They have tremendous ex- need any TV advertisement, the ceremonial role anyway. Un- the top two candidates is sched- cy and the defense, then he has penses and the knowledge that same counts with the president, less I am mistaken and she is uled. The winner formally en- a vegetable sandwich – he is a Since I’m mentioning Greece when their time in the parlia- but what about the rest of the planning to lead Finland into dent of the Republic is elected ceeded €1 million, while good ters office on 1st March. ‘back to nature’ life freak – runs let’s get a bit serious. In Greece ment is over, they have to re- candidates who have to pay to another war, in which they lose directly by the people, meaning old Prime Minister Vanhanen to a small village out of Helsin- anybody who holds a political turn to a more normal life that advertise themselves. But this again - two wars and two losses that non-Finns should butt out has a projected budget of €1.5 There are eight candidates bat- ki to check if there are roads for position PM, MP or anything includes a career and a job. A is just ethics. in 88 years of independence. and pay their taxes. You’ll love million. Back up a moment. tling it for the six-year job and the disabled and enough toilet else is not allowed to prac- lot of them sacrificed their ca- this part, the Presidential cam- The current Prime Minister is they are as follows, Tarja Halo- paper in all the daycare plac- tice another job. They have to reer in the name of the good Talking about ethics, something Meanwhile, Halonen and Van- paigns of Parliamentary parties running for President while nen (Social Democratic Party), es, and then he campaigns for choose and a few months ago of the nation and they’re very else that makes me a bit angry. hanen incurred the wrath of come to a total of approximate- still in office, plus he is serv- Heidi Hautala (Green League), president. In the meantime, he there was a big question about aware of the difficulties they All these candidates are using the other candidates when they ly €2.4 million and this comes ing on municipality council. Arto Lahti (independent), Hen- has a nap, breakfast, lunch and an MP who gave some advice are going to face in their future state money; call it taxpayer’s suggested amending the con- from the taxpayers. I am not al- Correct me if I am wrong, but rik Lax (Swedish People’s dinner, says a bedtime story to to an old customer from his law away from the parliament. Yet, money for their campaigns, in- stitution to safeguard the presi- lowed to vote in these elections in almost ay other country you Party), Bjarne Kallis (Chris- his young kids and watches the practicing days. The certain still they do it. cluding my money, since like dent’s powers. Would that be funded in part by me, so I will would have to resign from your tian Democrats), Sauli Niin- last replay of the Sopranos on MP was forced to explain what all the residents of this country the power to solve unemploy- support Professor Arto Lahti. post before seeking another job istö (National Coalition Party), TV. He’s not a bird, he’s not a kind of advice he gave and if he In Greece , when some of them I pay my taxes. But of course, ment, protect the environment, Professor Arto is not endorsed at this level. The job of Finn- Timo Soini (True Finns) and comet, he’s Superman! was paid for that. chose to work either in one of they can have their big party curb crime and fight poverty? by any Parliamentary party, ish PM can’t be that hectic if he Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen the state organizations or be with my money and I have Or is it deciding the colour of which means he has had to find has time to campaign, maybe (Centre Party). In Greece we have a very old Becoming an MP doesn’t mean candidates for another elected no word to say since I cannot the invites for the Independ- all of his own funding. he is also Stockmann’s grotto saying, you cannot put two wa- that you have a job for life and position, as a major or EMP or vote!!! Once more another ob- ence Ball every December 6th? Santa. termelons under the same arm, a lot of MPs are not exactly something else, the ethic says ligation without any rights. Halonen and Niinistö’s cam- Let’s not forget that the Presi- paign budgets have both ex- Well, the role of the president is Photo by Linda Lane h iFormat iFormat By F. A. Hutchinson On Xinjiang time 10 November 2005 The Daily floors. They can’t even put the personal safety and food qual- ‘clock time?’… In the next issue Dosage Iceland looked like you could cork in the thermos tight. They There’s so many good things ity. of Ovi Ezine (out of Helsinki) is buy most things there, espe- don’t clean my room, you have here too! The adventure of dis- about ‘time.’ Kashgar, Xinjiang Province, cially lighting fixtures and to ask. ‘No good hotel!’ I’m go- covery for me! I just got bored Here in China capitalism is still China… warm clothing! Although I ing to say when I depart! ‘No in the U.S. With me familiarity to new, with a ‘gold rush’ men- Thus, about ‘time’… don’t think you can buy a water good hotel!’ breeds contempt, and I couldn’t tality (like in the U.S. in the 19th Gosh, there’s just mountains of purifier (as in Iceland you can stand seeing, hearing, experi- century). This doesn’t have to do An interesting situation here stuff, food, things to eat, wear still drink water right out of the Then there’s the unexpected! encing the same things every with intelligence, as they’re just in Xinjiang Province , China (from pantyhose to stocking river untreated). This morning I discovered one day in the same way. Now, to as intelligent here as anywhere, . There is the official Beijing caps, to three-piece suits), use of the workmen in the basement, some people, this is Nirvana, it has to do with consciousness Time all of China is set to, but in your house (TVs and rice Walking around Kashgar this where I keep Ms. Fiets, had put but not to me. I’m too curious (Jim). This a ‘state of knowing,’ out here the locals (most Uyghur cookers, stoves), things for afternoon, I took a photograph his hands (covered with plaster) about what’s on the other side or awareness, growth, evolu- and Kazak) go by what they every thing (comforters, up- of a young boy eating a slice of all over her—now I have white of the hill, the mountains. What tion, mental development (not call ‘Xinjiang Time,’ two hours lift bras, running shoes, hiking watermelon. All the children smudges on the bags, the pump, does that taste like? I need new physical). China is just as physi- early. And actually this makes boots, jewelry, sophisticated yell, ‘hello’ to me! my helmet! Terribly annoying aromas, to see the light in dif- cally developed as the U.S., but more simple sense, as it’s closer posters framed for your wall)! as I can’t explain why this is un- ferent countries, hear the birds they’re behind in terms of mental to the actuality of the sunlight. Gosh, I thought I was coming I met a 19-year old woman acceptable. They’d laugh, these of different places, watch them development. Material wealth, o to some exotic outpost where working in a stationery store. ‘children!’ I guess I should feel fly in a different sky! Basically however, should bring that in China, from east to west, is very you could buy a camel (plenty She spoke English to me! I’m sorry for them. learn about the world we live in, time… The realization, that it’s much like the U.S., some 4,000+ in the hills). Unfortunately, going to get her to the ‘Eng- not just that familiar patch of not all that great, that there are kilometers from the Pacific modernity has even taken over lish Corner.’ Her name is ‘Ry- Asians want to share, touch and ground. other things, like preserving the Ocean to the western border of here! You can buy Camel ciga- hangul.’ Different name right? feel, ride your bicycle and even Panda bears, rather than cutting Xinjiang (Krygyzstan). rettes! Uyghur names are definitely fuck your wife (I’m sure). And But, the earth, the soil, the down the forests they live in, different than any I’ve come they can’t understand the idea of plants, rocks are pretty much that’s more important. In the U.S., which has a simi- I’ve just walked around Kashgar across before. I bought a glue ‘personal space,’ as they have the same every where, maybe lar distance from the Atlantic to to discover there’s everything stick and a pen there, both for a none! slightly different, but basically When we preserve a species, we Pacific Oceans, has four ‘time here to buy you can get any- total of 6 Yuan or .80 cents. the same. The brown, desolate are preserving ourselves! zones,’ the time decreasing by where in the U.S. (or Europe), So, I’m going to have to be more mountains of Xinjiang, could one hour, roughly every 1,000 except one… I need a new bulb Today I offered Shou Shu (the careful about Ms. Fiets, protect- be transplanted to Big Bend , Man is basically consuming the kilometers going west (as the for my Maglite ‘torch,’ and they Chinese man who runs the In- ing her from such nonsense. Texas ( U.S.A. ), and no one earth, and himself with it! If he sun travels—actually as the don’t have any! Of course, I ternet Café in the Xinibagh Ho- The offender (covered in plas- would recognize any difference. ever wakes up to this fact, there earth rotates)! There’s Eastern could buy another flashlight, tel) a deal… Take everything ter dust), with his son, wanted Vice versa. Maybe the wild life may be hope that he will stop in Standard Time, Central Standard and probably will. No use hav- (all the furniture) out of his a drink out of my large juice would be different, but I’m sure time. Otherwise, we are simply Time, Mountain Standard Time ing something whose parts you apartment, clean it and I’d pay bottle I keep on the bicycle. I one species could survive in ei- doomed as a species. (Colorado where I’m from), can get in Asia. Other than that him 600 Yuan / $ 80U.S. per gave him the entire bottle, hop- ther place. I know the camels and Pacific Standard time, four there are ‘mountains’ of al- month (he’d wanted only 500) ing I’d make a friend. That’s of Xinjiang could survive in the But, I always ask this question… hours difference from the ‘east monds, oranges, pomegranates, - Note: this for a 70-meter, five- all you can do. If you get too Big Bend National Park. The When the last homo sapien suc- coast’ to the ‘west coast’ (we dates, apples, sweet potatoes. room apartment. What would snotty with them, they retaliate. wild cats of the mountains there cumbs, will we have been here call them). If it’s 10P.M. (2200 But, probably not turkey for that cost in the U.S. He said, You’re dealing with Neanderthal in BBNP, in the mountains here at all…? Think about this, be- hours) at night in New York City, Thanksgiving[1]! On the other The Chinese are fascinated There’s an underground mall ‘Why?’ People can’t believe it mentality. in Xinjiang Province. fore you say yes! Doesn’t it it’s 9 P.M. (2100 hours) in Chi- hand, there’s roasted duck, and with automobiles too! I just with stall after stall of clothing when you want to be fair! If take human consciousness to cago, and 8P.M. (2000 hours) in ice cream, candy, kites, ‘hacky saw a Citroen taxi cab! I’ve of every kind (silk long under- he does all this, and I get hot Gosh, what a hard lesson Asia Although, they’d have to be pro- perceive…? The rocks and ani- Denver, and 7P.M. (1900 hours) sacks,’ the children play with seen every expensive American wear), shoes, and everything water, I’m duty bound to rent is… So, different than the West, tected here, like they are there in mals that might survive… They in Los Angeles. This better (now a rubber-stranded looking and other manufactured SUV. else! I’m amazed! I thought I the place. But, it’s better than at least how they think. But, in the U.S. (and other more enlight- don’t care if we were ‘here’ or approximates having sunlight thing like a dread-knot wig). The Chinese, in particular, love was getting away from it all! a hotel! many other ways, it’s exactly ened countries). This is an ex- not, and probably, if they could when needed: when children You can buy the latest Japa- big black power machines! No like—the material level! ample of consciousness (Jim)… think about such, be glad that wait for buses in the morning, to nese/Canon 3-chip digital cam- wonder, they’re powerless! I wonder if there’s any place on The Seman Hotel… Ugh! No There’s more consciousness in we’re ‘gone!’ when dad returns home at night. corder for $2,500 U.S. There’s What has always sold automo- earth where you can? Maybe hot water for bathing, Karaoke We are coming together! Eve- the U.S. about preserving ani- nothing you can’t buy in China. biles is the illusion of power the ‘Artics,’ and maybe Green- all night long keeping me up! rything, everybody, everywhere! mal species than here. Just like Time, as subject, the concept The U.S. also adjusts to the sea- And of all places, Kashgar! and freedom! land ? Incompetent women on the We are coming together! there’s more in the U.S. about of ‘time’ (I assume they mean sons, and in the summer when Continues in the next page Photo by Linda Lane a iFormat iFormat By Thanos Kalamidas Germany’s surprise The US Secretary of State the angle of the earth to sun is ‘time’ we’re referring to. If we Understand?’ ------------------------------------- Condoleezza Rice had to face Last year the American admin- less, we ‘Fall back one hour, say 3 P.M. (1500 hours) we al- ------------------------------------- a small surprise when the new istration started losing allies in and Spring forward the same.’ ways state ‘Xinjiang,’ or ‘Bei- Thus recently when I taught over ------ German chancellor Angela a speed rhythm, first was Spain Of course, some people don’t jing.’ And if unsaid, we always 400 acting classes at John Rob- Merkel referred to the CIA’s followed slowly by Italy . Sil- like this idea. I tell them… Put ask, ‘Is this Beijing or Xinjiang ert Powers (U.S.), I was never [1] This in America, not one of suspicious flights over Europe vio Berlusconi had to be more your watch on whatever time time?’ Of course, all official late once in four years! How my favorite holidays. This a day in a well covered interview. critical towards the American you like, I do! and government offices (banks) can this be? My students would of gorging on fatty food, rather Somehow Mrs. Rice was ex- policy under the threat of los- are on Beijing time. So, you’re drag in, mostly late, and always than being ‘thankful!’ The orig- pecting a warmer welcome ing the government. Next came Albert was right… It’s ‘rela- constantly having to figure out with an excuse that usually had inal idea great of course, cele- from the new conservative Hungary, France was lost any- tive!’ Clock time was ‘in- when to depart to get to the to do with the ‘traffic,’ parents, brating survival because of the chancellor who had passed the way despite the conservative vented’ by man to synchronize bank when it’s open. or boy/girl friends. I use to pose bounty of the earth and loving message that the new German government and the hope was (coordinate activity), making this question… ‘How can I al- kindness friends (the indigenous administration would be far Germany’s new chancellor, it more ‘efficient.’ I think the I set my watch on local or ‘Xin- ways be on time riding a bicy- people). The newcomers called more American friendly. who had emphasized the need Swiss or English can be blamed jiang Time.’ Thus, I add two cle, when you’re late driving an ‘pilgrims,’ survived because the of good relations with the Unit- for this, and most likely the mil- hours when figuring when to automobile?’ More excuses. indigenous people were kind Perhaps Mrs. Rice got the ed States. itary had something to do with catch the train to Uremqi. enough to help them (showed message that there is a new it! If you’re going to ‘attack,’ It’s simple, and I can teach them how to plant corn, for sense of unity in Europe, at Old allies in Europe, or the t you want everyone at the right This would be a perfect situ- you how to always (or mostly, one thing). So, what did ‘we’ least regarding the main stem ‘New European’ as Secretary place at the right time! ation to have the Omega wrist sometimes I’m a little late) be (I include myself as my ances- of the European community of Defense Donald Rumsfeld watch I owned in the Sixties. It on time: First of all, set your tors were apart of the newcom- including France , Germany , had called them, depend more Here in China, the entire coun- had two ‘hour’ hands. I could watch ten to fifteen minutes ers.) do to show our thanks. We Belgium , Spain and Holland . and more upon financial sup- try is on Beijing time. That set one to Beijing Time, and one ahead of the ‘official’ time. Of killed them! Now, we celebrate Mrs. Merkel had emphasized port from the European Com- would be O.K., or better if Bei- to ‘Xinjiang Time,’ and then course, you know this, but af- such with ‘Thanksgiving!’ in many ways during her cam- munity, which is something that jing was located in the center of I’d always be ‘on time!’ Well, ter a while you forget and go paign that the German-Ameri- gradually changes their stance the country, but it’s not. It’s lo- maybe… I have an idea to pro- by your wrist watch (fooling can relationship was going to towards the USA . The idea cated in the far northeastern part duce watches with two ‘hour’ yourself). Additionally, when change after she became chan- that some of these ‘New Euro- of the country. Thus, making hands in Xinjiang. We’ll call it figuring how long it will take cellor and it has. peans’ are actively involved in for an interesting situation in the ‘Xinjiang Watch!’ to travel some where, or to ac- these Guantanamo Bay-clone Xinjiang Province some 4,000 complish a task… Always dou- However, it seems that Mur- camps will only bring more merely warned Mrs. Rice that much these acts will cost the kilometers west of Beijing . The One final note on ‘time.’ I’m ble the time you first estimate. phy’s Law works constantly embarrassment to them and if that’s true it would be against American administration in sunlight versus clock time… a person that’s rarely late to You’ll be surprised how often against the American adminis- their American ally. the European laws and the Eu- the future. We are not going to a meeting, and always early you show up on time (now), or tration and every time they do ropean Charta of human rights. add anything if we talk about it Here in Kashgar, in November, catching public transportation. are a little early. It’s easy! As something wrong, especially This warning was enough to here, what we can emphasize it doesn’t get light on Beijing How can this be…? Well, for ‘time,’ really… It’s relative! something that will anger their make Mrs. Rice miss the good is that, except Tony Blair, even time until 0900 (9.A.M.), and it one thing I grew up with the European allies, just about eve- old days, when she was just a the closer allies of the USA are stays light until 2000 hours (8P. discipline of ‘live’ television, Albert also said this, ‘That im- rybody has to find out. National Security Advisor and keeping their distance from M.). Somehow this doesn’t feel and the military. Two situations agination is more important a hawk, ignoring delicate di- acts like that, and not only are right to the locals, who have where you’re simply not late, or than knowledge!’ Nobody admits that these plomacy and having the always they keeping their distance but created what is popularly called big trouble. flights are happening, but eve- smiling Colin Powell to deal they remind and warn that this ‘local’ or ‘Xinjiang’ time. This F.A. Hutchison (who’s got to go, rybody seems to know and even with the difficulties. has to come to an end. In the some two hours earlier than Be- I’ll never forget my boss (‘Doc. or be late meeting someone!) though nobody wants to ad- case of Tony Blair, the reaction ijing time. This more approxi- Hamilton) at KVOA/4 (Tucson, mit it, names of countries with All the media agencies have from inside his very own party mates nature (as most of them Arizona), my first job in tel- On Xinjiang time Guantanamo Bay-clone camps analyzed what these flights is enough to warn him and his are farmers). evision back in 1958. When I have come out. Mrs. Merkel or the camps mean and how American pal. started directing the ‘new strip,’ www.cyclingpeace.org But, in the cities this creates an he told me this, and I’ve never interesting situation when try- forgotten it, He said, ‘The News hutch@cyclingpeace.org ing to meet someone… Thus, goes on at 5:00:00! That’s not we always ask, or state which 5:00:20, or 4:59:10, it’s 5:00:00! Photo by Linda Lane g iFormat iFormat By Thanos Kalamidas By Tony Butcher An e-dictatorship ECB & office parties Growing up in a country suffer- had bad communists coming to The time for change has arrived in her stockings that Chris tmas. ing from a ruthless dictatorship Greece with only one mission, in the Euro zone. The President My friend was an absolute gent left me with a lot of memories, to kidnap young children and of the European Central Bank and covered her modesty with not many good ones. Dictator- take them back either to Bul- (ECB), Mr Jean-Claude Tri- a napkin from “Pret a Manger”, ships have the habit of think- garia or to Russia. These kids chet, has finally decided that which I think has a touch of iro- ing that everybody is ready to were going through all kinds of risks to inflation are increasing ny about it. Enjoy the holidays do something against them and hell, hunger, thirst, torture, but and that a pre-emptive rate rise and have a Happy New Year. that’s one of the reasons they in the end with faith in God and would ease some of the build- have to control everything. By the nation they were returning ing pressure. This nominal one everything, I mean even the to the home country winners. quarter of one percent increase people’s thoughts. will have a very negligible ef- Tony Butcher lives, works and Now imagine how I felt when fect on economic activity but breathes in London, England . Post that was something that I read the other day in the its more important effect is Following the completion of an scared them; actually terrified newspapers that due to the war psychological. Economics Degree, he found them. They were afraid of mes- against terrorism all the govern- his dream job as a STIR Trader sages passing through the post, ments of the EU were allowed It signals the ECB’s intent in the City of London, the heart they were checking everything. not only to check our mails but to maintain price stability by of the world’s financial system. t They were keeping copies to keep them for six months!!!! keeping inflation expectations He studies the world stock and of everything and since they Bad memories? Did it happen under control. The recent oil bond markets on a daily ba- could not forbid posting a letter something one night when I price rise and increasing de- sis, while monitoring world or receiving a letter they were was deep asleep? Did the tanks mand for credit were threaten- economic and political events putting black stripes over sus- roll out on to the streets again ing to filter into the major econ- which affect his markets. picious sentences. and I didn’t realize? omies of Europe in the form of second round inflationary ef- My grandmother lived in the To make it worse, the EU de- fects. This would fuel higher USA during that period, so as cided that because the cost is so wage demands by industrial a good grandson I used to often big, they’ll ask for the help of unions, such as the forthcom- write a letter to her with my lat- the private sector with the ex- ing IG Metall negotiations in est news that included my im- change of the mail addresses! Germany . provement in the first years at Wow! Talking about protection is an amusing time of the year lights of Surrey . My friend school and news about my new of my private life, talking about as Managing Directors mingle and I were swaying down the The ECB has raised rates for friends, things like that. Once protection from the bulk mail. with the post room and secre- carriage full of the merriment the first time in around five on the telephone, my grand- Why the governments made so taries. We had our party in the our local boozer had to offer, years as Europe enters a new mother asked for an explana- many laws to protect us from first week of December and when we passed a young lady interest rate cycle. Mr Trichet tion about something I wrote the bulk mail if it was to violate sadly it ended with very few who had obviously started her has been quick to deny that this in my last letter, something that make much sense. Or at least else other than communism. To it themselves? Should I start embarrassments. An incident journey from Waterloo sitting increase will be the start of a obviously made her worry and, not enough sense to make my give you an idea how bad that thinking what I write again or of someone giving a friend of comfortably in the upright seats series of rate increases, a policy between hysterical laughs, my grandmother worry. boogie man was, there was a warn my little daughter that mine some fifteen minutes of offered by British Rail. approach which has been fa- father managed to explain to radio program every evening there are certain words she can continual verbal abuse and lev- voured by the Federal Reserve me that the bowdlerization had By the way, like all kinds of around seven for young chil- not use when she’s asking for a elling some dubious allegations However, as we rocked down in America. Instead, he is con- black striped my letter so what dictatorships they had their bo- dren, it was called “Under the present from her favorite aunt? in his general direction until the line, the effect of the Mar- fident that the ECB will react was visual in the end didn’t ogie man which was nobody Spider’s Web” and the stories it was pointed out that he was tini Cocktails she had probably when necessary to any risks to talking to the wrong person. consumed through the evening increasing inflationary effect. It I have to admit I did have a had taken their toll and she had is widely expected that another chuckle and wasn’t surprised to not only drifted off to sleep, quarter or half point move will see him skulking to the exit. but drifted off her seat. Now happen in the first quarter of do you remember when you 2006. One very fond memory of a do that on your sofa? You slide Chris tmas Past was a journey down, but most of your clothes, Well, that was the news of ‘in- home after some post-work through the wonder of friction, terest’ for the month. In the drinks. We were on a sparsely stay where they are. In the most City, we have been enjoying packed train rolling out of delicate way I can, let me just the Festive Fun mainly in the Waterloo towards the homely say we knew exactly what was form of Chris tmas parties. It Photo by Linda Lane i iFormat iFormat By Thanos Kalamidas By Thanos Kalamidas Parisian fires continue Golden worries In last month’s Ovi magazine, They changed art and they be- Thinking about time I always go to the cinema tomorrow like others, we had an article came the beginning for some- come to the conclusion that time and I’m going to the cinema about the French riots and the thing bigger and better. To read is something totally personal. A tonight. It doesn’t matter if we nights of burning cars in Paris. articles from Andre Gliksman few years ago I had a very bad add the chronic definition or Even though it seems that the supporting the invasion of Iraq accident and I’m sure that after not. The time arrow is certain youngsters have calmed down and from Alain Finkielkraut one point time stopped. and absolute. in France, at least at the mo- becoming the Sarkozi of the in- ment, there are new fires burn- tellectuals is at least shocking. I could watch the other car I base that on my knowledge in ing around Paris. coming towards me in real slow the European languages, but in They go so far as to suggest motion and then I could see the eastern languages, for example, It is a pity that while Pinter to the state to take the French front of my car slowly smash- again language identifies time. gave a dramatic Nobel Prize citizenship from the rebel- ing into pieces and the whole In Japanese, it is ‘I go to the speech that talked about truth, ling youth and have lessons at front of my own car, includ- cinema tomorrow’ or ‘I go to art and politics trying to wake school explaining how much ing the steering wheel and all the cinema yesterday’. up the intellectuals of this good the colonies policy did in the instruments coming slowly world and make them the edge Africa, something that has hap- closer and gradually hitting Day and night, seasons identify of the spear against any kind of pen before only during the time me in the chest. I could sort of time, but the language is there t oppression, the intellectuals of of the Nazi-friendly regime in see drops of blood coming out to make time part of what we France were responsible for the France and these are the short from my direction and I could are. Returning to the beginning, new fires starting in Paris. of opinions the National Front watch the other driver’s eyes in time is something so personal represents in France. total horror. and illogical at the same time. The battlefield this time was You see? Time again. the pages of the newspapers It’s like the new-republicans Again, another evening was and the magazines. From one in the USA that surround when my daughter was ill with You watch a film, which is side there are titles like “the George Bush’s administration, a really high fever. We sudden- supposed to have ‘real time’, barbarians are in front of the as a wave of new- Gaullists ly arrived at the hospital and the hero moves around for 24- gates” with French Minister of try to inject French politics the doctor asked me how long hours while the film lasts only Interior Nicola Sarkozi as the with many similarities to their she’d been unconscious and two hours and you have the representative of the worst rac- American cousins. without thinking I answered, feeling that you lived the hero’s ist nightmare and from the oth- centuries. Later, the same night, twenty-four hours. Sometimes er side a group of writers who The truth is that all these argu- the doctor explained to me that we wish the day had thirty- follow George Bush’s idea that further using the word minister These people are not an excep- ments, which are not new in whatever I thought it could not six hours so we can do all the this is a conflict of civilizations Sarkozi used to describe the tion, the number of intellectu- the French reality, deepen the have been for more than sec- things we were planning to do. and it all starts from ‘Euro-Ar- youngsters ‘scum’, adding that als supporting things like that differences between the social onds, maximum a minute. fame lasted only a few sec- abs’ in a ‘pogrom against Eu- hate was their only motive for is big and when you think that classes in France . If they add onds while my most miserable Oddly enough, the reason we To write this article took me ropean way of life and democ- starting the riots. most of them were there in May racial polarization nothing good Then there are some other mo- minutes lasted for centuries. consider time as something four hours thinking and thirteen racy.’ ’68, when the whole of Eu- will come out of it. By standing ments. My first party, my first I’m sure that since that night I totally measured is the lan- minutes to write it, even though The French-Jewish philosopher rope changed, is scary. Nearly by, waiting and watching, it is kiss that was so brief and the had to run to the hospital hold- guage. All the verbs represent I feel that I have been in front Surprisingly, these don’t come Alain Finkielkraut said that all forty years ago, these people not exactly the best reaction. day I won something very im- ing my daughter I got more time. Go, I will go, I went, I the keyboard writing for ages. from old conservative analysts about unemployed youth is with their street fights in Paris portant for me lasted only sec- white hair. Isn’t that a message had gone! Saying, I’m going to Just imagine how much better from the extreme right media nothing more than ‘rubbish ex- demanding better education, onds and everybody said that it for time passing? Don’t you the cinema, I went to the cin- use of time we would have if but from philosophers like An- cuses from masochists’; sociol- work for the young and free- lasted for hours. get more white hairs with the ema and I will go to the cinema we could control time. dre Gliksman, a true represent- ogists who have no connection dom didn’t just change their years? I got them in only a few identifies precise time. I went ative of the May ‘68 genera- with reality. small university world, they Strangely, my ten minutes of seconds. to the cinema yesterday. I will tion in France; who goes much changed the whole of Europe. Photo by Linda Lane & iFormat By Thanos Kalamidas Oops, he’s done it again! I had decided to stop bothering raving Islamic revolution in with Iran and its clown presi- Iraq ? Aren’t they going to be dent, but history has taught us responsible for another civil that when you stop bothering war in that poor country? or ignore a threat it becomes bigger and bigger till one day Mr. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is you find it difficult to control. nothing more than a puppet in If more people had read what the hands of the blood thirsty Hitler wrote before the war mullahs of the Islamic revolu- perhaps more people would tion, the very same mullahs that have been aware of what was supported the Afghan fanatics coming; unfortunately history and the Pakistanis. The scariest has taught us that Hitler’s case part about these people is that was not the only one and that they have or they are ready to there are equal or even worse create a nuclear plan. You see, monsters all around the world, that’s the scary difference with even today. It just happens that Iraq, Saddam kept threatening they are so far away from our and it needed a whole world modern and democratic west- conspiracy and endless lies to ern world. demolish a country. In Iran’s case they have the proof and The stories of Amin Dada of they are still thinking how to Uganda and his cannibal hab- negotiate. its are still there for many of the African nations and the Finally, something I hear lately mystery of what’s going on be- was that Iran has the highest tween the warlords in Liberia percent of educated people, no is something we still have to unemployment and all the citi- find out. When you have clerics zens adore the government. In- or holy men, or whatever else deed. In Germany 1938, there you want to call them, and their was no unemployment either servant threatening genocide and all the citizens loved the of a nation that’s a crime and state and education was really the international community is high. The only thing was that guilty for not answering. the ones who disagreed with these statements were placed in the leader of the French nation- keeps both possibilities open. A Mr. Mahmoud Ahmadine- concentration camps, in exile al front and neo-Nazi, Le Pen. few months before he warned jad, the so-called president of or dead. And we talk about mil- Israel that when he is finished Iran, said last week that he had lions. What’s the best witness Do all these things ring a with them, they won’t exist and doubts if the holocaust against other than the Iranians in exile bell? Adolf Hitler had warned now he’s sending them to Ger- the Jews really happened dur- in Europe! the world 12 years before he many or Austria. I can under- ing WWII, and if Germany and started putting into action his stand the shock of the German Austria were feeling so guilty final solution that there were and the Austrian chancellors, they could always let a couple only two ways to deal with the but I cannot understand the non of areas in their territories to Jews, either send them back to reaction from the UN. host the Jews and leave Israel their homeland, then Palestine, for the Palestinians. How odd or just kill them. Obviously he What’s next to come, the de- that Mr. Mahmoud Ahmadine- chose the latter. mand for a living space? Aren’t jad agrees with the modern rep- the Iranians already involved resentative of Hitler in Europe, Mr. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad behind the Shiites and their Photo by Linda Lane i HORIzONES HORIzONES By Asa Butcher By Satya Prakash Spare change New Year Resolution If your currency is the euro, benefit has been the unfortu- ‘To maintain Honesty & Integ- The result of honesty is not take a closer look at the coin- nate shape that Sweden and rity’ always fruitful in materialistic age. It may surprise you to see Finland resemble on the euro terms, the reason why it is not such a variety of different coun- coin amusing the inner child Once again we are at the thresh- always acted upon. It needs the tries represented on the reverse within us all. old of a new year and ready to courage of one’s conviction, the of the coins. In my own collec- say goodbye to the year gone conviction which comes only tion, I have a natural majority of Estonia will be the next to en- past. The month of January, when a person is convinced Finnish coins, but there’s also a joy this childish observation named after the double faced by conscience of the propri- German 2€, Spanish 1€, French when they bid farewell to the Roman king Janus, who could ety of the act, then only there 10 cent, an Italian 5 cent and an Estonian Kroon in the com- look into the past and future, will be conduct of integrity. It Australian cent, although I’m ing months. Estonians chose symbolises the resolutions that requires belief in one’s values, not sure how that got there. Lembit Lõhmus’ design for all we make every year. it requires being fearless of the eight coins, which simply por- consequences, it may require to The circulation of the euro has trays the outline of the coun- There are different kinds of sacrifice the comfort of short reached its third year, it is used try. It joins the heraldic lion of resolutions, to learn some- term worldly pleasures for the in 12 European Union member Finland, the German eagle, the thing new, to spend more time sake of the larger principles states and Estonia will be adopt- Colosseum in Rome, the Irish with family, to be successful of life. It might be difficult to i ing the currency in 2006. It ap- harp and many more, but what in our work or to enjoy life maintain our integrity but one pears as though the euro is here it will highlight is the price dif- more. There are many limita- deed of integrity is way much to stay, even if people believed ference with its neighbour Fin- tions which, when factored, satisfying than partying many that about the Lira, Deutsche land. in would decide whether we evenings. Dishonesty may be Mark and Drachma. There is a would be able to carry out our quite enticing but it will never hope in England that the British Hopefully, Estonia adopting resolutions or not? So is there a appeal to our conscience. Pound will not succumb to the the euro will bring greater price simple resolution? A resolution ‘dark forces’ of the Euro and transparency between the two which is easy to keep and yet Now since we know what become another member of the countries and eventually ben- so powerful that it transcends ‘Honesty & Integrity’ is, I feel Eurozone. efit consumers on both sides our personal life and makes it would be easier for all of us of the Sea of Finland. Unfortu- this world a better place to live. to have one New Year Resolu- However, a report in 2004 re- nately, I believe there is a great- I can think of one such reso- tion - ‘to be a better person’. vealed that Tony Blair has set er chance of a finding a €1000 Can you be honest without do so. Some were not able to lution, the resolution to ‘be a a target of 2007 to take Britain banknote in the street than Fin- having integrity, can you have withstand the pressure of do- better person this year’ and the Visit Satya Prakash’s blog: into the euro, but I doubt that ish krona looks to be safe until opment of the Single European land lowering the cost of goods integrity without honesty? The ing the things in the right way, most important aspect of it is to www.greensatya.blogspot.com the general public will be see- 2013 at the earliest following Market, facilitates free trade or services. If you don’t agree, answer to the former is ‘yes’; or not able to bear the result of maintain our ‘Honesty & Integ- ing the Queen’s head on the their referendum. and is regarded as an integral then let’s flip a coin…heads I you can be honest without hav- honesty. The reason most of us rity’. reverse of Luc Luyckx’s design component of European politi- win, tails you lose. ing integrity. This can happen take both honesty and integrity anytime soon, while the Swed- The euro has aided the devel- cal integration, but the greatest when you are not able or willing as synonym is because it is the The question is: Do we re- to act in a manner as demanded integrity which tells about the ally understand the meaning of by the standards of honesty. honesty. ‘Honesty & Integrity’? What is Honesty is the concept and in- the difference between ‘Hon- tegrity is the realization of the A person is judged by the ac- esty and Integrity’? concept. The answer to latter tions, so that goes for honesty, question is ‘no’; you can’t have reflected by the actions of integ- Almost all the dictionaries list integrity if you are not honest; rity. So whoever has integrity them as synonym. According it is simply out of question. You will carry honesty along with. to me, ‘Honesty’ is the concept can’t realize a concept without There is no use of such honesty of being truthful, adhering to having the concept. which can’t be acted upon; at ethics, refusal to lie, steal or best, it can be used to deceive deceive. ‘Integrity’ is the con- Do both ‘Honesty & Integrity’ oneself. The saying “something duct, in terms as demanded by go together? I have seen peo- is better than nothing” does not honesty, while having holistic ple who were always honest, fit here - it is useless to be hon- approach to both the require- having right and ideal views, est when you can’t act in terms ment and result of the conduct. but when the time came to act of it. Is there any difference? upon it, they were not able to Photo by Linda Lane m HORIzONES HORIzONES By Asa Butcher By Thanos Kalamidas Dumping Tallink Back in the ‘70s In November, a ferry passenger gal or not, the planet’s oceans company that operates between are not an industrial dustbin be- All the demonstrations back in actly the same excuses, so how Helsinki and Tallinn announced cause can Tallink, or anybody, ‘80s, all the serious talking that does it come now that the UK is that it will stop dumping sew- confidently state the long-term ended up signing international saying exactly the same things? age into the Gulf of Finland. effect of this procedure? The agreements for alternative en- How suddenly do the excuses The catalyst for Tallink’s deci- recent news that killer whales ergy resources and all the pres- to avoid nuclear power and sion was not due to a twinge of have become the most contami- sure and anger against the USA lead to more alternative energy conscience at polluting the en- nated mammals in the Arctic is to sign the very same agree- solutions work for North Korea vironment, it was not because one more sign that our seas are ments has led to what? Tony and Iran, but don’t work for Mr. they were in violation of inter- sadly poisoned. Blair announced last month Blair? Doesn’t all that leave a national regulations, it was be- that we should reconsider the bitter taste of hypocrisy in the cause somebody found out and The Norwegian Polar Institute use of nuclear power because it mouth? there was a public outcry. tested blubber samples and is clean and cheap. found chemicals, such as pes- Britain, as an established nucle- There’s nothing like doing a ticides, flame retardants and I’m not going to analyze once ar power with nuclear weapons, good deed and this is nothing PCBs. The Institute was par- more why we should not use doesn’t care or is it above the like it. Tallink have promised ticularly concerned about the nuclear power as an energy re- laws and the rules she helped t to dispose of their waste into flame retardants because some source or how many other ways establish? And then comes the the sewage system of Helsinki are still legal - legal, just like there are to create energy, liter- next natural question: Are they in the future, but forgive me dumping the sewage in the sea. ally clean and cheaper. The only going to increase their nuclear for not fully believing them. The World Wildlife Fund says thing I can think at the moment, armory with more sophisticate Despite the act being legal, the Arctic has become a chemi- and I know that it sounds like a nuclear weapons as their west- Tallink’s competitors discon- cal sink and they want EU min- conspiracy theory, is that there ern allies? tinued the practice many years isters to agree on stronger leg- are other reasons for Mr. Blair ago, so they obviously saw islation. to remember again the good old It definitely sounds like a con- something wrong with dump- days of the ‘70s. spiracy theory but then it was ing sewage into international Naturally, the WWF suspects a conspiracy theory that led to waters. that any new laws will be influ- Going back to the ‘70s is fine, a war in Iraq, with the cost of enced by the chemical industry so long as it stops at the mini thousands of lives and a civil If Tallink were doing no wrong, and will protect neither the en- skirts and flowery shirts but war that is still on going. then why not defend their ac- vironment nor human health. bringing back nuclear power tions? Tallink’s immediate re- The public may be helpless to doesn’t sound very good at all. treat was a sign of the outrage a degree, but every so often There are victims of nuclear shown by the public and the somebody uncovers abuse and waste all around the world and encouragement of boycott- we have the power of outrage it has been emphasized many ing the company. It appears as and boycott – Tallink will never times that it takes three to four ficial channels, will cost them The idea that an inconsequen- millennia for the damage to companies, have huge finan- Over the last three years, the though the money that Tallink through a loss of passenger tial ferry company can treat our see my name on a reservation disappear, so why do we start cial interests. Of course, there European Union, with the UK saved dumping their waste in revenue. environment in such a cavalier list. again? was the laughable argument leading, made every possible the sea, rather than through of- manner should scare us all. Le- that there will be more jobs, but effect, even using threats, to There is only one answer. Pow- this is where the answer comes stop Iran and North Korea from erful industries, which include naturally, no thank you. their nuclear program, even constructors and chemical though both countries used ex- Photo by Linda Lane f fArt fArt By Asa Butcher By Jan Sand Time to read Old Boxes Fleming, future, family, Foucault, Finnish, funny, flam- You’re Pregnant Too, Mate! by boyant, French, fictional, fac- Gavin Rodgers (2002) tual, fatherhood, far-reaching, fawning, faith, frivolous, Faus- Past Mortem by Ben Elton tian and fantastic are some of (2004) the words that encompass my reading list over the past year. The Gemini Contenders by Twenty books were completed Robert Ludlum (1976) and The Adventures of Sher- lock Holmes still has a book- Goldfinger by Ian Fleming mark between the pages, but (1959) what has happened on this lit- erary journey? Christ Recrucified by Nikos Kazantzakis (1948) I travelled to the distant future with H.G. Wells and undertook The Scarlatti Inheritance by m a subterranean journey with Ju- Robert Ludlum (1971) les Verne. I saw David Copper- field grow up, followed seven David Copperfield by Charles generations of Buendías and Dickens (1850) witnessed Finland’s independ- ence. Asimov explained the Deception Point by Dan Brown Robot Laws and Gavin Rodg- (2001) ers reassured me about becom- ing a father. Katy made me Foucault’s Pendulum by Um- emotional, Dorian Gray made berto Eco (1988) me gay and Bond made me worship him even more. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (1890) My old Christmases are packed away Kazantzakis’ characters were In the dusty corrugated boxes of my memory. fantastic, Ludlum was Ludlum Journey to the Centre of the Their glossy paints of red and green are chipped and cracked. oids, a delivery room and many below and see which ones you and The Lonely Dead was a Earth by Jules Verne (1864) A bent and twisted tinsel star that once shone more within these twenty-one haven’t read because I recom- disappointing sequel. Doug- From the high promontory of a bushy fir books. mend all of them. The one ques- las Coupland and Ben Elton One Hundred Years of Solitude Now peeks from one broken corner. tion that now remains is: What did what they do best and Dan by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Glass balls in there, some cracked, but many still I have enjoyed the penmanship am I going to read in 2006? Brown proved he is no Umberto (1967) Perfect mirror spheres nest together like unhatched eggs. of seventeen different authors Eco, while Holmes is currently Long thin strands of glossy crumpled tin strew amongst these baubles, and one authoress from a host Live and Let Die by Ian Flem- proving his brilliance as the fa- The Lonely Dead by Michael Once hung in glittering cascades in the dark recesses of the tree. of nationalities - Finnish to ing (1954) mous consulting detective that Marshall (2004) The candy canes, the cookies with their bright icing Italian, Greek to Colombian, takes cocaine. Are long ago consumed. But strings of colored tinsel disks French to Russian-born Ameri- All Families Are Psychotic by What Katy Did by Susan Weave amongst the other decorations. can Jews. Whether it has been Douglas Coupland (2001) I am currently residing at 221B Coolidge (1872) Christmas is a children’s time. literature, pulp fiction, factual Baker Street, London, which Their world is still abundant with mystery and wonder, or fictional, my literary year I, Robot by Isaac Asimov has brought me full circle from The Time Machine by H.G. And with delicious things to eat and surprises. has been one that has inspired (1950) British Secret Service’s HQ, Wells (1895) But, holding my ear close to these old boxes, and shaped my written work. also in London. During the I can still hear The Man with the Golden Gun year, I have been to New York The Adventures of Sherlock The clack of tiny hooves against the clouds. Each of these books was en- by Ian Fleming (1965) , Colombia , Iceland , Greece Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan joyed in different ways, as you , Finland , Paris , Milan , the Doyle (1891) can see from my iKritic re- Under the North Star by Väinö Arctic Circle, England in many views. Have a look at the list Linna (1959) different decades, two aster- Photo by Linda Lane s iKritic iKritic By Jan Sand Time Of the four dimensions within nomic rhythms have donated which we all consciously oper- to human perception of time a ate, time is the most difficult cyclic quality. But these cycles to deal with. It is so intangible are purely local to planetary in- that some people deny its exist- habitants and do not exist in the ence altogether. universe in general. A dimension is, at base, some- Modern technology requires thing measurable. A line is one temporal precision far beyond dimensional because, once a the gross regularities of astro- base point is established any nomical effects and thus has other point on the line can be reached down to atomic pertur- located with one measurement bations characteristic of light of their opposites and the con- fact that electrons can be in two processes might appear in that tended but the path is as rigid as from that base point. In like frequency to gain accuracy. siderably more intricate func- places at the same time. Nev- reversal but, after all, it would ever. manner it requires two meas- Therefore the clocks which tions in the brain involved in ertheless, we each must make not offend us if this was all we urements to locate a point on abound in modern life have thought are also timed so that choices, even if we are insane, knew. Perhaps Groucho Marx charac- a plane, three measurements to become more and more precise sensation, evokes subsidiary based on our past experiences terized best the confusion time r locate a point in a solid. in order to perform their func- responses calling upon not only which dictate an optimum out- It has been offered that quantum generates in our limited minds tions. And by clocks I mean automatic reactions but learned come. If we discover choices physics presents the possibil- when he said, “Time flies like When trying to locate some- not only time notification de- chains of informational feeds of equal beneficial outcome (a ity that, just as a succession of an arrow but fruit flies like a ba- thing in our universe, we must vices but the bulk of gadgets, in order to accomplish even the condition which is exceedingly points can generate a line, and a nana.” measure three times from a base gizmos, and whatchamacallits most elementary task. rare) then we access other non- succession of lines side by side point plus one measurement to that make modern life possible. logical prejudices to persuade can generate a plane and a stack determine when it exists at that They range from the automo- But, to return to the fundamental ourselves as to the proper deci- of planes can generate a solid, so spatial measurement since our bile engine whose internal ex- nature of time and how we per- sion. This is a process we each the fourth dimension of time is a Jan was born in Manhattan, universe is irretrievably jig- plosions must occur when the ceive it, it contains, at its center, must conform to or we will ul- stack of static three dimensional New York, grew up to the age gly and there are times when it components are in optimum a great mystery. If time is to be timately not survive. Evolution objects. Beyond that a stack of of 12 in Brooklyn, and resided might not be there. position to transfer energy to conjoined to the three obvious demands this. I do not claim that four dimensional objects (which until the age of 36 in Manhat- the wheels through manufac- spatial dimensions, it presents we each make the best decision. comprise our universe) could tan. He took a degree in indus- It is evident that we must real- turing lines where moving parts a static structure in which we Merely that we make the deci- generate a fifth dimension of trial design at Pratt Institute and ize these measurements with must be in precise place to be are all embedded. No one seems sion that seems the best to us ac- multiple universes. Science-fic- worked in New York until he standard measuring modules. properly processed to the home to want to argue that the past is cording to our capabilities. tion has explored these multi- was designated field man for a English measurement started computer whose very heartbeat mutable. Yet almost everybody ple universes and what it might New York firm for an exhibition with the length of the final depends upon subsidiary infor- except, perhaps, Calvinists, Time is puzzling, not because of be like to explore them from by the US Commerce Dept in joint of the thumb which is ers and start habitation on other a heartbeat to divide time but mation to move through it in seem to feel that humans are this seemingly inflexible proc- H.G.Wells’ “Men Like Gods” Helsinki, where he met his wife. very handy and a reasonable planets in earnest the origin the thumb is somewhat more timed logical chains. accorded the privilege of deter- ess, but that we are aware of on to many stories in modern Since then, he has worked in approximation to an inch. The of the centimeter may appear reliable than the heartbeat. An mining our own future amongst, this process at all. Why do we fiction and it has been suggested Berlin , Paris , Tel Aviv and in length of a centimeter is de- somewhat parochial although eyeblink is also occasionally What most people don’t real- perhaps, a large multiple of pos- sense ourselves moving in point that freedom of choice could the USA . rived from a division of the still useful. useful but none of these could ize is that their own internal sibilities. This is a privilege we fashion from the past to the fu- be explained by the possibility Earth’s circumference and is vie with the astronomical ef- machinery is equally precisely deny all other physical bodies ture? Physics has indicated that of slipping through other uni- far easier to work with than the As with space, time must be fects of the spin of the planet timed. So simple and basic a in the universe. According to we could, equally as well, sense verses to gain mental independ- inch but elusive if one has no divided into small pieces to be and its annual progress around function as walking requires modern physics Newton’s uni- ourselves as moving from the ence. But a closer look at this handy measuring instrument. If usefully apprehended. We have the Sun. Although time is as that some muscles contract pre- verse of absolute determinism future into the past. A brief con- proposal indicates that, from a humans ever become spacefar- a thumb joint to slice space and seamless as space these astro- cisely in time to the relaxation is no longer acceptable. Quan- sideration of this reveals how multidimensional point of view, tum computation is based on the disgusting some of our natural the volume of movement is ex- Photo by Linda Lane t iKritic iKritic By Asa Butcher By John Ray Eloi & Morlocks Postmodernism decon- The Time Machine, 1895 opening chapters were a little Explaining Postmodernism: would be rapidly rediscovered doubt through political expedi- Academic books and papers boring, with descriptions of Skepticism and Socialism from under those circumstances. ency. He seems to think you can very commonly end with the By H. G. Wells scientific explanations, but the Rousseau to Foucault be of the political Right and also conclusion: “More research is story held my interest once the I was triggered off into this be a socialist! That enables him needed” and Prof Hicks is no ‘Upon that machine,’ said the Time Traveller had arrived in By Stephen R. C. Hicks little tirade by a book I have to avoid upsetting the applecart exception. He feels that post- Time Traveller, holding the the future. just been having a look at. It with regard to Hitler. He admits modernists have been allowed lamp aloft, ‘I intend to explore Scholargy Publishing, Inc. is called Explaining postmod- that Hitler was a socialist who to flourish by the fact that re- time. Is that plain? I was never The novel is dissimilar to both (2004) ernism and is by Prof. Stephen differed only in detail from the alist and empiricist philoso- more serious in my life.’ None movie versions and I personally R.C. Hicks, who undertakes the Communists but still calls Hit- phers have not given final and of us quite knew how to take believe that it is a far stronger I rarely read philosophy these heroic task of trying to make ler a Rightist! Calling Hitler a incontrovertible answers to it. story. It is written through the days. I went into the basic some sense of postmodernism Leftist would in academe cause the puzzles that they consider. point of view of one of the Time philosophical questions in my and trace its historical roots. As Prof. Hicks to be consigned to He seems to think that if real- I suggest taking The Time Ma- Traveller’s friends who has student days and shortly there- irrationality has always figured outer darkness, of course. The ists and empiricists had done a chine as the Granddaddy of all joined some others for a dinner after had published my conclu- largely in human experience, it only sense I can make of Prof better job then postmodernists time travel adventures and as a party, in which the possibility sions about the nature of mind, is no surprise that he finds the Hick’s usage is that he is using would not have flourished. novel that will not fail to dis- of time travel is announced. the nature of ethics, the nature sources of postmodernism to be “Right” to be synonymous with appoint even a century later. The majority of the narrative is of cause and the nature of self. many and varied and to go back “Nationalist” but that is pretty I think however that such a con- e Herbert George Wells’ science through the form of a story be- I have never seen any reason a long way. He traces postmod- sloppy when one considers clusion runs counter to his own fiction story has been made ing told by the returning Time to alter my views about any of ernism back to Kant but he that, at least from Napoleon on, observation that postmodern- into two films, been the base Traveller and, like the dinner the questions concerned in the could have gone back much there have been plenty of Left- ism fulfils a psychological need for countless time travel stories guests, you are captivated by many years since but I have at further if he had wished to look ist nationalists. Perhaps he just rather than having any real in- ever since and entertained me his story. times elaborated a little more at lesser-known writers. has not read Friedrich Engels, tellectual function. I cannot see until three in the morning. fully my views about moral who was as fervid a German that a completed program of Unlike the movies, the book philosophy. His conclusions are in general nationalist and racial suprema- realist philosophy would have In issue eight of Ovi Magazine, describes everything in detail also mine, though he is more cist as Hitler was. stopped the absurd tantrums I reviewed Journey to the Cen- and allows you to scare your- And for me any philosophy that polite than I would be. In my of the postmodernists. And the tre of the Earth and ended by self with your own imagination. fails to give an account of mind, view postmodernism is simply And, yes, the Engels I am talk- day that there cease to be ques- saying that ‘my next step should cises of the imagination in a brings them to mind immedi- One of the best passages of the ethics, cause and self is quite a juvenile tantrum about how ing about is the co-worker of tions in philosophy, it will no be patriotic and read the Brit- quite different field. ately. The relationship between book comes as the Time Trav- simply failed philosophy. And uncooperative reality is with Karl Marx. Or were Marx & longer be philosophy. ish Jules Verne, H. G. Wells.’ the working class Morlocks eller explores the Morlocks’ a philosophy that denies that socialist thought. Socialism has Engels not Leftists? I think in It wasn’t quite my next step, The Time Machine is certainly underground and the lethargic underground lair and realises any of those things are real is of course long had big appeal this matter I have to say that Another review of the book but I got there eventually and it an exercise of the imagination Eloi above are clearly class dis- his matches are running out; it therefore fit only to be ignored. to intellectuals because it offers Prof. Hicks gets himself into claims that Hicks does not de- seems fitting for the ‘Time’ is- and yet remains disturbingly tinctions, plus Wells, a Social- sent chills down my spine as I As it happens, however, there the simplifications that intel- absurdities as big as those he scribe the thought of the phi- sue. Wells couldn’t help being contemporary in many parts. ist himself, makes good use of imagined that the hands of nu- are lots of failed philosophers lectuals tend to seek. The only enumerates among the post- losophers he covers in enough compared with Verne and he Wells’ vision of the future, albe- the ideals in the few humorous merous Morlocks groping at about and they have somehow trouble is that the simplifica- modernists. Or perhaps he just depth. My own view of that wrote in a preface to a collec- it in the extremely distant year parts: him in the darkness. conned the taxpayers into pay- tions don’t work. does not know his political his- is that Hicks is a hero to have tion of his work in 1933: A.D. 802,701, echoes some of ing them a lot of money. They tory. He reads this blog, how- waded as deeply as he did into the events happening today. ‘Then there is the future,’ said Wells’ use of fantasy is far call themselves “postmodern- From the French revolution ever, so I suspect that he knows such dog’s vomit. There is no literary resemblance For example, the Time Trav- the Very Young Man. ‘Just more interesting than Verne’s ists” and, as far as one can on through Stalin and Hitler to it better than he can afford to whatever between the anticipa- eller describes the agriculture think! One might invest all technological forecasts, or as make any sense at all of what Pol Pot we all now know of the admit, which is a bit sad. But My own essay on postmodern- tory inventions of the Great of the future to his assembled one’s money, leave it to accu- Wells said himself: They aim they say, their essential credo horrors that it regularly leads he has to survive in academe ism is here: http://jonjayray. Frenchman and these fantasies. dinner guests and highlights mulate at interest, and hurry on indeed only at the same amount seems to be “nothing is real”. to. So having had their child- after all and he is only a young netfirms.com/pomo.html His work dealt almost always the eventual outcome of se- ahead!’ of conviction as one gets in a ish simplifications taken away man yet. with actual possibilities of in- lective breeding, “The air was good gripping dream. They When I come across such gar- from them by reality, Leftist in- vention and discovery, and he free from gnats, the earth from ‘To discover a society,’ said I, have to hold the reader to the bage I tend to be overcome by tellectuals stamp their foot and In most normal usage, Right- made some remarkable fore- weeds or fungi; everywhere ‘erected on a strictly commu- end by art and illusion and not the wish that I could hit the so- say that it is reality which is at ism would be identified with casts. The interest he invoked were fruits and sweet and de- nistic basis.’ by proof and argument, and the called philosophers over the fault. By denying reality they conservatism and if anybody was a practical one; he wrote lightful flowers.” moment he closes the cover and head with a baseball bat and are in some insane way able to wants to know what history and believed and told that this or Moving away from politics and reflects he wakes up to their then say to them: “Don’t worry. hang on to their faith in social- shows about the nature of con- that thing could be done, which The story has obvious politi- contemporary issues, the first impossibility. Nothing is real so I didn’t re- ism. servatism, I have just updated was not at that time done…But cal connotations; they are so surprise of The Time Machine ally hit you over the head with my account of the matter here: these stories of mine collected apparent that for somebody was its length. It was very short a baseball bat. 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It is only on the the moment we started talk- third transformation that we see ing about an Ovi issue special ‘Hot Summer Day’ is a soft Universal Pictures his face transform from were- about time I had a certain song rock atmospheric ballad that wolf to Larry in 17 dissolves in mind, ‘Child in Time’. It was seemed to have the lazy breath “Even a man who is pure in and, despite its crudeness, it written and first played by the of a hot summer day, while heart and says his prayers by was smoothly performed. rock group Deep Purple, but the ‘Wasted Union Blues’ becomes night, may become a wolf catch is that it wasn’t the Deep harder rock. This is followed when the wolfbane blooms and The film suffers through some Purple version I had in mind. It by the fantastic ‘Girl with No the autumn moon is bright.” of the dialogue and the continu- was a cover version by a band Eyes’, a journey through music ity is painful, such as why Bela called It’s A Beautiful Day. with a harpsichord and violin. Blooming wolfbane, a bright Lugosi is an actual wolf, while autumn moon, silver canes, Larry becomes a Wolf Man, or One day, the two groups met For the ones who know Deep gypsy incantations, sinister the gravedigger just gives in in an airport while changing Purple’s ‘Child in Time’ and woods, a permanent ground to the wolf attack, while a girl t planes during tours around the the unbelievable intro with mist and another Universal Pic- manages to fight him off for USA . After all the pleasances Blackmore’s guitar, just wait trol and avoids the blood fest who knows who his next victim tures monster that appears to a minute. However, as I men- and a lot of beer, they decided until you hear the violin intro of a Wolf Man massacring the will be when he sees the sym- have an aversion to razors. The tioned at the beginning, there to exchange a song and it hap- in a Ravel’s Bolero style. The small population of the village. bol of a pentagram (i.e., a star) Wolf Man became the bench- are some exciting scenes, such pened that the song ‘Child in notes are repeated louder and The film has a strong cast for on them. mark for all Hollywood were- as when he is trapped in the Time’ was included on the self- louder until they are joined by a B-movie, featuring Claude wolf movies that followed and mantrap and the men and dogs titled first album It’s A Beauti- a fantastic drum solo, followed Rains, Ralph Bellamy, Bela Lu- Lon Chaney Jr.’s portrayal it still has the power to enter- are closing in, which hooked ful Day. by an electric piano. gosi and Maria Ouspenskaya, of Larry Talbot trying to deal tain after sixty years. me. and there are some enjoyable with his new surroundings and The year is 1969, Vietnam War, It’s A Beautiful Day by It’s A interactions between them. then his fate are marvellous to In the context of 21st century My favourite character in the San Francisco and Berkeley Beautiful Day is a classic al- watch. He joined the ranks of filmmaking, the movie is quite film is Mr. Twiddle (Forrester University , strawberries and bum that should not be missing The story begins when Larry Lugosi and Boris Karloff, with poor, but when watching a clas- Harvey), who is the chief con- blood for the older ones who from any self-respecting dis- Talbot (Chaney Jr.) returns his performance as the Wolf sic such as this you should en- stable’s assistant), not only might remember and psych- cography. It doesn’t matter if from America upon the death Man and went on to play the joy it as a foundation for the does he have the best surname, edelic. Jim Morrison, Janis you are from the sixties, punk of his brother. He begins to character four more times, plus horror movies that followed. but also some of the funni- Joplin and a magic violin from or the X-generation, the sound pursue an engaged girl (Eve- he is the only person to have It cemented many of the myths est scenes in the film. Maria David LaFlamme, who com- is there and you will definitely lyn Ankers) and accompanies played all four of the classic and legends that surround Ouspenskaya’s role as Maleva bined classical music with jazz find it. her and her friend to a gypsy movie monsters. Lycanthropy (werewolfism) the gypsy is haunting, as she and rock far before the likes of camp one night. The friend is and does have the occasional mourns her son’s death, coun- ELO or Queen. fatally attacked by a wolf and Universal were saved by the dramatic scene that holds your sels Larry and casts charms Bullets flying taking toll And wait for the ricochet Larry kills it, but not before it spectacular horror series and attention. over the dead. Sweet child in time you’ll see If you’ve been bad, lord I bet bites him. It emerges that Larry this was thanks, in part, to the the line you have It’s A Beautiful Day is a pret- killed a gypsy (Lugosi), but the studio’s genius make-up art- It wasn’t the first werewolf The Wolf Man is a masterpiece The line that’s drawn between And you’ve been hit by flying ty moody album and it starts gypsy’s mother (Ouspenskaya) ist Jack Pierce. He was their movie, but Curt Siodmak’s that horror and movie fans the good and the bad lead with the classic ‘White Bird’, tells Larry that the bite will legendary monster-maker and screenplay, a great perform- should watch to understand See the blind man shooting at You’d better close your eyes a song that became a jingle for cause him to become a were- his work on The Wolf Man is ance by Lon Chaney Jr. and ex- the foundations of Hollywood the world and bow your head many radio stations all around wolf at each full moon and his impressive for its period. Six cellent make-up by Jack Pierce . The Wolf Man may never be nightmare begins. hours on and three hours off, combined to leave audiences the face of Gillette, but this is according to the documentary, ‘howling’ in delight. In today’s film that be described as short, Curt Siodmak’s script created and Chaney Jr. hated every horror movies, we are treated to sweet and hairy. many of the myths that future minute of the make-up process, the character’s transformation werewolf films would utilise. but the results on screen were early on in the film, but The “The way you walk was thorny In the ‘Monsters by Moon- worth the animosity – except Wolf Man holds back until the through no fault of your own, light’ documentary, Siodmak the wolf’s dreadful haircut. 40th minute, which in a movie but as the rain enters the soil explains that the script was in- of 70-minutes is along time. the river enters the sea, so tears fluenced by his experiences in Watching the film today, I was run to a predestined end. Your Nazi Germany. The Wolf Man interested in the actual transfor- The gradual build-up of the sto- suffering is over. Now you will is a metaphor for the Nazis: a mation and how it was achieved ry and the delay of the transfor- find peace for eternity. good man who is transformed without the use of CGI and oth- mation are frustrating, although Photo by Linda Lane into a vicious killing animal er technological developments. it does give the story some con- t Flash Flash By Asa Butcher By Thanos Kalamidas A World Cup Good employee/bad employer The draw for the FIFA World plus Iran put the boot in, before I suppose being in the middle Cup Germany™ finals was Mexico finally kick them out at of the season for most of the To make it worse, when the made at the beginning of De- the first stage. European teams the conversa- Italian coach arrived in Athens cember and it is exciting to see tion about ‘correction’ transfers he said that he knows what the that the competition will be a Ghana’s debut World Cup fi- begins. The main ones hap- name Panathinaikos means and true World Cup. Each of the nals match will be versus three- pened in the summer but after he was determined to win at inhabited continents has rep- time champions Italy, which four months the coaches know least one cup a year. Half way resentation, six new countries will certainly test their metal. better what’s missing and they through the season the team is have reached the finals and Alongside Italy and Ghana in are out there looking for ways hardly ninth in the league. England’s group looks reason- Group E are second-time debu- to cover their gaps. ably easy. tants Czech Republic and the Again it might not be his fault; USA, who managed to reach As a principal, all the football he’s just the easy victim to Trinidad and Tobago, Angola, the Quarterfinals in 2002. Fa- teams want to lead their nation- blame. Even in big businesses Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Togo vourites Brazil head Group al league and win every single you give at least six months to and Ukraine are all first time F and they will be terrifying cup and it would be wrong if it any manager before starting qualifiers, while the Czech Re- the likes of Croatia, Japan and was any other way. The foot- judgment. Perhaps the inter- i public are making their second Australia, who have not quali- ball players depend a lot on national football associations debut, each is hoping to make a fied since 1974. the system the coach plays. So must realize that it is time to mark on the competition, in the France will be desperate not the coach is mainly responsible make some changes in the way style of Greece at the European to be knocked out at the group for these transfers. Then you somebody becomes a coach. Championships in 2004. Unfor- stage and actually score a goal have another kind of transfers, Perhaps it should be some kind tunately, the European champi- this time, while English fans coaches. of higher school for coaches ons failed to qualify with their will want the opposite. In Group and not just some camps and defensive football, so 32 other G, the teams to upset the French You get that more often lately courses. That would work countries will be battling it out and please the English include in the middle of the season successfully, Frank Rijkaard. Panathinaikos is seriously suf- both ways because a first fail- from June 9th. Switzerland, Togo and South and you get it mainly from the fering from this disease. They ure costs sometimes a whole Korea, who finished fourth in teams that started the season In business they say that a good hired a coach investing in his career, which nobody knows Aside from the usual partici- the last World Cup. Group H determined to get a title and employee doesn’t necessar- name as a great football player, where it would lead. pants, such as Argentina, Italy, features Spain , Ukraine , Tuni- they find they are in the middle ily make a good employer, so the coach disappointed them Brazil and France, the eight sia and Saudi Arabia , who will of the table in the middle of the why would a good player make half way through the season, Another thing is why it is nec- groups have an eclectic mix of be hoping to avoid a meeting season. The coach is always the a good coach? Is the name of changed him for another former essary for former players to minor footballing nations hop- with Germany after losing 8-0 easy victim to blame. an international player enough player who had no chance to become coaches? The coach ing to destroy the dreams of the in South Korea 2002. to guarantee a successful career prove what he could do be- needs to combine knowledge major players. Group A features The 2006 is set to be an excel- What really happens with foot- as a coach? Obviously not. But cause he had to work with what of the game, sense of strategy the hosts Germany , Costa Rica lent tournament and will ex- ball coaches nowadays? The the teams have to try and the he had. He was fired by the end and management because they who reached the second round hibit the skills of some of the majority are former football players themselves have to try. of the season and followed by have to totally control over in 1990, Ecuador in their sec- best footballers on the planet, players who have followed But then what happens when a young ambitious one and by twenty individuals. The former ond ever finals and Poland who along with other players not some coaching courses before the team has invested all the the third season eight different football star Lajos Detari was a came third in 1974 and 1982. and have never beaten England, strongest teams of Group C, but from England. Football is one the end of their career as play- hopes on the good name of the people are coaching the team. real troublemaker for most of Trinidad & Tobago have never they should not underestimate of the games from which we ers. With a lot of help from the player who became a coach? the teams he played and now he England, the 1966 World Cup had the honour of facing the Africa’s Les Éléphants or Ilija can all learn equality because fame they have already achieved The truth is that nobody has any has become a coach. How? winners, are in Group B and Three Lions and Sweden will Petković’s Serbia & Montene- in very few areas of life we see as players they become coaches What happens when you idea what the hell is going on are hoping to improve on the be out to embarrass their fellow gro. All England fans will be men treated equally. Roll on often in big teams. change this coach in the middle with the team. The one coach Let’s hope that in the middle of Quarterfinals reached in 2002. countryman and England man- praying that first-timers Angola June 9th! of the season? There is always had the system of 4-3-3 bought the season not many team will They are joined by Paraguay ager, Sven. comprehensively embarrass There are a lot of examples. Jo- the excuse that the owners of the right players to practice it decide to change their coach who reached the second stage Portugal and Cristiano Ron- han Cruyff was one of the best the team don’t want him to do but then the new coach who and that the management of the in their two previous attempts Argentina and Holland look the aldo in their Group D match, football players in the history any more damage to the team played the 3-5-2 system had to team will realize that hiring a of football, probably one of the but is the new coach able to fix practice it with the same play- coach is like hiring a new GM top ten but then he decided to the team, excuse their hopes ers. After four years not even for their company. His good become a coach of Barcelona and lead the team next year or the players know what the hell reputation as an employee is something that didn’t end up will nobody understand that the they should do and all that un- not the only reason you trust a very well. But then you got new coach will need time and der the pressure of fans who new manager. another Dutch player who’s this time doesn’t include the are used to their team being a coaching the very same Span- other half of the season. protagonist in all cups, national Photo by Linda Lane ish team just now very, very and European. iBite Collected by the Ovi Team The Italian authorities refuse to give more information about the rotten eggs. What? Are we going to have egg flu now? ****** Is anybody worried about bird flu while preparing the Christmas turkey or is just me? ****** The Iranian president said that the European imperialism created Judaism to destroy the Arab world. Yeah! 4,000 years before Mohamed!!! Europeans could predict that Mohamed and Bin Laden were coming!!! ****** Slobodan Milosevic asked the international court for a break due to Christmas holidays. Is he going to dress up as Santa Claus? Bringing presents to small Croatian kids? ****** Aries: Good times heading your way! Shit, that’s not my horoscope!!! Asa that’s yours.****** Taurus: Your hard work will be appreciated if you can avoid letting your stubborn attitude take over. Yeah! All my life I hear the same thing! ****** Gemini: You may feel emotional this year about personal issues or a partnership you are currently involved in. The whole year? ****** ****** Cancer: Don’t look at the negative when you have so Sagittarius: Everyone’s eyes will be on you. much going for you. A change in your location or making Full of hate? I bet that’s either George Bush new friends will give you a new lease on life.Are you sure or Tony Blair.****** you have any friends left? Capricorn: It’s time you started believing in ****** yourself again.Why? Who did you believe in Leo: Someone you are close to will not interpret things before? Your neighbour’s God?****** the same way you do. Focus on a creative project. Aquarius: You may want to question your Damn how many Ovis do I have to make to get some holi- motives. If you are doing things because you days? are avoiding a dispute, face your situation ****** head-on. Virgo: Stay in the background. Not much will go your That was tough!!! way if you are outspoken or reveal your true feelings. ****** No comment. Pisces: Focus on work, money and getting ****** ahead. Libra: Take a different approach to your friends. The Well at least we got a winner? Hillary? chance to try new things will expand your outlook and ****** your friendships. Happy New Year everybody!!! Wow! That’s how they call it nowadays? Different ap- proach?****** Scorpio: Make some changes to your living arrange- ments. Like what? Change house once a month?
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