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Pirates center fielder Andrew McCutchen finished third in the NL MVP voting last year. / Kim Klement, USA TODAY Sports
The Pittsburgh Pirates have not had a winning season in 20 years.
Fans and players around Pittsburgh are ready to start winning and they think this is the year it will happen.
With one of the most exciting young players in the game, Andrew McCutchen coming back to lead the offense, this team is sure to put up some runs. Pedro Avarez hit 30 home runs last year and is poised to hit even more this season. Newly acquired catcher Russell Martin brings excellent defense and game-calling ability that could vastly improve the Pirates' rotation.
The Pirates have so much faith in their new closer, Jason Grilli, that they let proven stopper Joel Hanrahan go in the off-season.
Will these new players and returning talent be enough to put an end to the losing ways in Pittsburgh?
Will the Pirates finally be a team to be feared in the National League?
Or will they sputter toward their 21st consecutive losing season?
Watch and find out.
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Recycled Bottle Caps EXTREME EDITIONApril 5th, 2009
The talented John T Unger, famous for his recycled Fire Bowls, also works his artistic magic in this fine Folk Art tradition with recycled bottle caps. This fish is made from a mixed palette of blue bottle caps with a white face of Becks caps. The fins and tale are cut from recycled roofing copper. Absolutely stunning! Dimensions: 12.5″ high by 44″ long
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St. George Condo for Rent: Las Palmas 3 bed 2 bath--from $129/nite-sleeps 10--* Free Green Valley Access * - Property 157854
Condo 3 bedrooms, sleeps 10
- Call Jim Wilson
- 801 358-6707
(International 801 358-6707)
- Property type:
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- Resort
- Highlights:
- accept credit card, wheelchair accessible, Resort, Communal Pool, Sauna, Balcony, Air Conditioning, Internet
Location of Condo 157854
St. George Condo Rates
Payment is usually accepted in the quoted currency unless the currency and the amount is specifically agreed in advance with the owner / advertiser.
- Stay Six Nights, Get The Seventh Night Free!
Jan 1-Jul 31, Oct...$149/night Aug, Sep, Nov, Dec..$129/night.
Premium Season $199/night (Holidays, Marathon, Sr Games, Parade of Homes, Spring Break).
Two-Night Minimum. $80 Cleaning Fee.
50% Deposit due at time of reservation; Balance due 30 days before arrival.
No Refunds on cancellations within 45 days.
Call For Last-Minute Bargain Rates ($20.00 PER NIGHT SAVINGS).
- * For The Comfort Of All Our Guests, This Is A Non-Smoking, No Pets Condominium*
St. George Condo Amenities
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- Internet
- Dialup Access
- Ceiling Fans
- Linens Provided
- Washing Machine
- Elevator
- Sofa Bed
- Fireplace
- Alarm Clock
- Basic Soaps
- Air Conditioning
- Towels Provided
- Parking for RV/Boat/Trailer
- Toilet Paper
- Gas Fireplace
- Clothes Dryer
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- Parking Off Street
- Telephone
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- Cooking Utensils
- Stove
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- Microwave
- Ice Maker
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- Blender
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- 2 BA
- Bathroom 1 - toilet, combination tub/shower, oversized tub
Bathroom 2 - toilet, combination tub/shower
- 3 bedrooms, sleeps maximum of 10 people
- Bedroom 1 - 1 king, 1 child bed
Bedroom 2 - 1 king, 1 child bed
Bedroom 3 - 2 twin/ single
Living room sofa sleeper - 1 sleep sofa /futon, comfortable
- *Sleeping Accommodations----, stereo clock radio, ceiling fan, private bathroom entrance * Third Bedroom - two twin beds, TV, VCR, DVD, ceiling fan * Family Room - new comfortable queen-size sleeper * Additional Beds - there is a twin trundle bed under each of the master beds (if used, there are sleeping accommodations for ten).
- CD Player
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- Outdoor Grill
- Barbecue
- Balcony
- 6 garden chairs
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- pets not allowed
- children welcome
- non smoking only
- wheelchair accessible
- Communal Pool
- Sauna
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Stowe House for Rent: Incredible Robinson Springs Home - Elegant Finishes Throughout (3075) - Property 3498578
House 5 bedrooms, sleeps 12
- Property type:
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- Highlights:
- Jacuzzi, Television, Parking, Fireplace
Details for
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Payment is usually accepted in the quoted currency unless the currency and the amount is specifically agreed in advance with the owner / advertiser.
- Rates subject to change.
Stowe House Amenities
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- 5 bedrooms, sleeps maximum of 12 people
- Sleeping Area 1 - 1 king, (Notes: King Bed)
Sleeping Area 2 - 1 king, (Notes: King Bed)
Sleeping Area 3 - 1 queen, (Notes: Queen Bed)
Sleeping Area 4 - 2 twin/ single, (Notes: 2 Twin Beds)
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Green Bar Web SiteA Resource For Scouts & Scouters
Welcome to Green.
Green Bar is divided into two main sections: For Adults, and For Scouts. The section for adults contains discussion of the Three Aims, and the Eight Methods of Scouting, some important adult leadership topics, and some details about troop building. The section for Scouts contains similar information about the Patrol, the Patrol Leader, and many details about building real Patrols in a troop. The discussion is directed toward the youth leader, but is presented for Scoutmasters as a resource for helping them train and develop the youth leaders in their troop.
In the Extras section you'll find a few resources that didn't fit anywhere else, or are referenced in both sections. You'll find a page containing official B. S. A. patrol emblems and some downloadable forms and documents. Very soon, this section will also contain additional resources submitted by visitors.
Finally, in the Site Info section, you'll find information specifically about this site. Much of the information isn't of much use to Scouts or Scouters, but it's included here in case anyone's interested. There's also a pretty in-depth description of the new design and the new features that go with it.
- Wednesday, July 16, 2003
- Added "The Patrol & The Troop" and "Patrol Meetings". | http://www.greenbar.ws/ | 2013-05-18T10:21:36 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
I have to admit that I only rented this to watch Yukio Mishima, a writer/actor/director/warrior, who had a very interesting history. And he doesn't disappoint. He's a very cool cat with a knack for overacting. However, his overacting skills don't ruin but rather enhance his campy character, "Takeo". A reluctant, and cowardly, Yakuza underboss/playboy. To which Mishima adds a certain James Dean-flair.
The biography section on the disc explains that Mishima, after turning down various scripts, stated that he would only play a character who wears a black leather jacket, and is a gangster. Need I say more? | http://www.greencine.com/webCatalog?id=18309&action=reviews | 2013-05-18T10:51:55 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Laura Ferguson and David Bengs of Milwaukee are planning an April 13, 2013, wedding at Wauwatosa Presbyterian Church.
Keara Lahiff and Sean Dill are planning a Dec. 10, 2011, wedding at St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church in Lake Geneva.
Katherine Derr and Nickolous Liesener of Erin were married Nov. 17, 2012, at the Basilica of St. Josaphat in Milwaukee.
Jennifer Lewandowski and Jonathan Mantes of Madison and Milwaukee were married June 2, 2012, at the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist in Milwaukee.
Al and Lucille Chabot will soon celebrate their 70th wedding anniversary.(2)
Gene and Kathy Feuling recently celebrated their 50: | http://www.greendalenow.com/neighbors/ | 2013-05-18T11:02:58 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Eugene A. “Mitch” Mitchell, age 82, of Madison, and a former Moulton, Iowa resident, died Sunday, February 27, 2011 at Lake City VA Medical Center in Lake City. He was born the son of Charles H. and Martha J. (Wood) Mitchell on July 27, 1928 in Dean, Iowa. He attended the Moulton Community School in Moulton, Iowa.
Eugene served in the Merchant Marine just prior to beginning his United States Army duty. He would serve his country during the Korean Conflict with the United States Army as an MP, from 1951 until his honorable discharge in 1953. He was first united in marriage to Dorothy Loop; they were later divorced. He was then united in marriage to Deloris Johnson, who would precede him in death. On June 9, 1979, Eugene was united in marriage to Josephine Bernett-Bagby in Des Moines, Iowa; she, too, would precede him in death. Later, on October 9, 1997, he would be united in marriage to Jeanette Hughes in Angola, Indiana. Prior to his retirement, Eugene worked all phases of construction including work as a drywaller and painter in the Detroit, Michigan and Blue Island, Illinois areas. He was also a member of the Methodist faith.
Eugene is preceded in death by his parents; wives, Delores Mitchell and Josephine Mitchell; brother, Ronald C. Mitchell; sisters, Marvel Vincent, Esther Janro and Iris Mitchell.
Eugene is survived by his wife, Jeanette Hughes-Mitchell of Madison, Florida; son, Larry Mitchell of Chicago, Illinois; daughter, Kathy McLaughlin of Peculiar, Missouri; step-sons, John Crosby of Chicago, Illinois, Robert Mlsna of Tennessee, and Gary Bagby of Waukee, Iowa, Matthew Truax of Kani City, Gifu, Japan; step-daughters, Dawn Miller of Menomonie, Wisconsin, Monica Faley of Pinon, Arizona, Wendy King of Jacksonville, Florida; and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren, nieces and nephews.
Memorial services will be held on Saturday, March 19, 2011 at 2 p.m. at the Lee United Methodist Church in Lee with Rev Richard Quackenbush officiating. Later, another memorial service will be held on Saturday, April 2, 2011 at 2 p.m. at the Schmidt Family Funeral Home in Moulton, Iowa with Rev. Ben Wheeler officiating. Internment of ashes will follow at the Sunset View Cemetery north of Moulton, Iowa with full military honors by the Burl McClure Post 280 of American Legion in Moulton.
The Schmidt Family Funeral Home of Moulton, Iowa is caring for the Mitchell family at this time and condolences can be sent at: schmidtfamilyfuneralhome.com | http://www.greenepublishing.com/?tag=eugene-mitch-mitchell | 2013-05-18T10:31:13 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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Calvin E. Hill, 65, of Greenfield, died on June 8, 2012. Born on October 3, 1946, in Decatur, Ind., he was the son of “Kit” and Ruth (Berry) Hill. He married CynthiaLee “Cid” Williamson on August 3, 1991, in Lawrence, Ind., and they were married for 20 years.
Surviving him are his wife, Cid Hill of Greenfield; his children, Anthony Hill of southern Ind., Eric Hill of Decatur, and daughter, Cara Hill; mother-in-law and father-in-law, Ivan L. and Phyllis Williamson; and eleven grandchildren.
Preceding him in death were his parents and grandmother, “Grandma” Berry.
Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. on Tuesday, June 12, 2012, at Erlewein Mortuary in Greenfield. Funeral services will take place at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, June 13, 2012, at the mortuary. Burial will take place at Park Cemetery in Greenfield.
Memorial contributions may be made to the American Heart Association at. Friends may share a memory or send a condolence at or email condolences to sympathy@erleweinmortuary.com. | http://www.greenfieldreporter.com/index.php/view/obit/9279 | 2013-05-18T10:33:37 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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Perth: socialist ideas conference planned.
Also featured will be Kiraz Janicke from the Green Left Weekly Caracas bureau. She will speak about the latest developments in the revolutionary movements in Latin America and the struggle for “socialism of the 21st century”. One feature of this is the push for a fifth socialist international.
Other topics to be addressed at the conference include: the campaign against the Rudd-Abbott “festival of cruelty towards refugees”; capitalism versus “Mother Earth”; and contemporary Aboriginal rights struggles, including the Ampilatwatija walk-off against the Northern Territory intervention.
Socialist Alliance WA co-convenor and Fremantle councillor Sam Wainwright told GLW the conference will aim to arm participants with the ideas that can be used to campaign against the policies of Liberal premier Colin Barnett and Labor PM Kevin Rudd.
“We’re aiming for this conference to be the most exciting socialist event in WA for quite some time”, he said.
For more information visit the Socialist Alliance WA website or phone 9218 9608 or 0413 976 638. | http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/44038 | 2013-05-18T10:40:13 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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Beer in the data center, it can't be. Drinking on the job documented
No liquids is a rule for data centers in many areas. And, what few are aware of how many times beer is in the data center.
KomoNews reports on construction workers caught drinking beer during the job.
Hidden camera investigation catches 520 bridge workers drinking on the job
Part of KomoNews shows is the fridge where the beer is.
Don't look for the beer in the fridge in the data center. The Beer is in the raised floor.
As temperatures are raised in data centers we may see less beer under the floor, but given the number of data centers users that still want 68 degree inlet temperatures there will be many data centers that are good chillers.
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M.S. in Education, Educational Guidance & Counseling major, Eastern Illinois University
B.S., major in Elementary Education, Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville
B.A. majors in Psychology & Religion, Greenville College. | http://www.greenville.edu/academics/faculty_staff/bio_detail.dot?id=91066 | 2013-05-18T11:03:17 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Teacher College's ESL program provides online courses to prepare you to teach English to individuals of whom English is not their primary language. You will also complete 100 hours of field experience needed to meet Illinois State Board of Education requirements for ESL approval/endorsement. | http://www.greenville.edu/admissions/adult_grad/esl/index.dot | 2013-05-18T10:53:19 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Hyster doctor's office or in an outpatient facility with local or no anesthesia required. More invasive therapeutic hysteroscopy procedures may be performed in the operating room under local, regional, or general anesthesia.
Because the doctor.
Hysteroscopy may be performed in women who have an abnormal Pap test, abnormal). Hysteroscopy is also used to place small inserts in the fallopian tubes that are a permanent method of birth control.
Therapeutically, hysteroscopy may be used to help correct uterine problems. For example, small adhesions, polyps, doctor to recommend a hysteroscopy.
As with any surgical procedure, complications may occur. Some possible complications of hysteroscopy may include, but are not limited to, the following:
Infection
Bleeding
Pelvic inflammatory disease
Perforation of the uterus (rare) or damage to the cervix
Complications from fluid or gas used to expand the uterus
You may experience slight vaginal bleeding and cramps for a day or two after the procedure.
There may be other risks depending on your specific medical condition. Be sure to discuss any concerns with your doctor prior to the procedure.
Certain factors or conditions may interfere with a hysteroscopy. These factors include, but are not limited to, the following:
Vaginal discharge
Inflamed cervix
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American Society for Reproductive Medicine
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
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Paganism: This festival, coming between autumn and winter, marks the Day of the Dead. For Pagans, it is a time for honoring departed spirits and reflecting on changes in their lives. BBC Description
Center for Religion, Spirituality, and Social Justice
Samhain
November 1, 2013 (All day)
November 1, 2014 (All day)
November 1, 2015 (All day)
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St Cloud Library Closed at 3pm Friday Due to Power Outage
Great River Regional Library - St. Michael
Library News
Friends of the Library Secure $1,000 United Way Grant
The Friends of the St. Michael-Albertville-Hanover Library have secured a $1,000 grant from the Wright County Area United Way. The Wright County Area United Way supports grants for shelter, food, health and education. The grant will go towards purchase of prize books for the St. » | http://www.griver.org/locations-and-hours/great-river-regional-library-st-michael | 2013-05-18T10:12:47 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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GrooveJob.com verifies all part time jobs and hourly jobs contained in our database but does not guarantee the validity or accuracy of information contained in the database. It is the job seeker's responsibility to independently review all posting companies and job opportunities. | http://www.groovejob.com/jobs/details/p_82/l_43195/ | 2013-05-18T10:33:30 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Israeli writer-director Ari Folman made his filmmaking debut in 1996 with the live-action feature Saint Clara, which made it to festivals around the world, including the US. As well as directing a second feature, 2001's Made in Israel, Folman has written for Israeli television, most prominently for BeTipul (In Therapy), the series that was the basis for HBO's In Treatment. Now Folman is raking in awards, including the 2009 Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film, for Waltz with Bashir, a groundbreaking animated documentary feature. At San Francisco's Prescott Hotel, we discussed the film and his planned follow up, a science-fiction hybrid of live action and animation based on Stanislaw Lem's The Futurological Congress.
Groucho: Having innovated with this film, what, I guess, is the first animated documentary—is that right?
Ari Folman: This is what they say, you know.
G: I was sort of surprised to learn that, having done that, you had no particular interest in developing the form or doing something else, but I suppose this is sort of the ultimate expression for you of that form. Is that why?
AF: I think I was stupid to declare it was an animated documentary five years ago, because it gave me so many problems. And the film establishment is so narrow-minded. It is unbelievable. And sometimes they just—you know, I try to raise money, documentary funds—they told me it can’t be a documentary if it’s animated, you know? And then I went to animation funds and fiction funds—[they] said, "Okay, go back to documentary, because it’s a documentary." So I realized how they’re really not open to any new dimension of film. Today I don’t care if it’s declared a documentary or not—it’s up to you. For me it’s just a film. And this is it. It doesn’t matter if it’s the first one like this.
G: To tell this story in animation, it seemed to me when I was watching it that it was the right approach fit to the right story, that it was the only way to do it, in a way.
AF: That’s right.
G: Of course, that’s easy for us to see in hindsight, but it’s kind of a stroke of genius to figure that out at the outset.
AF: I don't know. It was natural for me because I couldn’t do it any way else, you know? It’s like, do it like that or don’t do it. And if you look at all the dimensions you have there, which were reality and dreams and subconscious and lost memories and stuff like that—hallucinations and war, which is probably the most real thing on earth: how can you do it in live action?
G: Yeah. And that, to me, was maybe another reason why you wouldn’t do another film in this vein, is that that’s the experience that is surreal enough to justify moving to that—
AF: I’m doing it, but not a documentary.
G: Well, right, yes—we’ll talk about that [The Futurological Congress] later. But another aspect of the visual scheme of the film that maybe animation helps to serve is this perspective, this depersonalized perspective—it’s discussed in the film—of seeing the world as if through a camera. And maybe animation also helps to give that distance, maybe.
AF: Yeah, I heard it, but it was not my intention. On the contrary, I was really obsessed in the beginning that the audience would be attached to the characters and not feel far away from them. This is why we put so much effort in doing it—the designs and the realistic way of drawing and with a lot of details in the faces and contours and shades, which of course makes the animation much more complicated.
G: Yeah. Well, I want to ask you about that as well. The subtlety and realism of the acting in the film is very striking—the acting through animation. And because it isn’t rotoscoped—
AF: No, no, no, no.
G: That seems all the more remarkable. So can you talk a little bit about the process of the animators, or you working with the animators to capture that—
AF: Well, in each character, I tried to mark and define before we started what I [thought was] the essential movement in the face and in the hands that expresses feelings. Because we couldn’t follow everything. Because we did it from scratch. We just saw it and did it. So for one guy—the guy who swam back home, it was the eyes. He was looking to run away with his eyes. For the guy in the Netherlands it was whenever he felt stressed, he moved his hands more. So we just picked out the essentials for building the characters. We worked really hard on those essentials. And although we had only eight animators, which is pretty incredible, some of them were more talented in the action sequences, shooting and that, and some of them were really gentle and they could catch just small movements and motions that express feelings. So I used it. I tried to use it.
G: Yeah, capitalize on the talent of each animator. I’m sure there were some who were—
AF: Yeah. See, this is the advantage that you don’t have two hundred animators. You can pick stuff. That's right, you get to use them.
G: Yeah. I think of that moment very late in the film where the breathing—you don’t think of that normally when you watch an animated film—the breathing of the character that becomes somewhat more stressed or labored shows what he’s feeling.
AF: Yeah.
G: There’s several types of animation as well—the 3-D, the flash, the classic animation. In the same way that you had capitalized on an animator’s talent, I sure you were making specific choices about which type of animation was best for that scene or moment. Can you talk a little bit about how those choices fell into place—about what types you used for different scenes?
AF: Well, the main animation, of course, is just simple Flash animation cut out, but to the extreme point you can take Flash software. Flash software is basically a home software for six hundred US dollars you can buy. You’re not supposed to make feature films out of it—just tiny bits and pieces for the internet. And of course, websites. The basic flash is that you cut to surfaces—each space. But we cut it I don’t know how many times more. We had like eight spaces in the face for surfaces, so we cut each one of them to another fifteen—so it’s like fifteen times eight. And then they have to move them separately. And then it takes time to see the movement, if it works. So it takes time. And then I realized that we had problems with slow movement. Big action scenes, we don’t have it, but with slow movement we have it. Lower part of the body was done—only the lower part—with classic animation, frame by frame. And we used 3-D animation just for spectacular shots: going up from the forest and the snow down to the boat, you know?
G: Yeah—or what would be a tracking shot in a live-action film.
AF: Yeah. All the track shots. Those are 3-D. I’m not fond of current 3-D animation too much. So it’s a matter of taste. But it’s good for—we needed this break in the film with some 3-D shots. So we tried to be eclectic.
G: Well, drama is, they say, the art of change. So if you change it up, you’re grabbing the audience in a new way—like the use of the video footage as well.
AF: Yeah, definitely.
G: I wanted to ask about David Polonsky. I admit to ignorance about his work, and so I wonder how did the two of you come to work together, and what is it in his style that appealed to you?
AF: Well, I think he’s a genius, personally. We worked on a previous documentary project, The Material That Love Is Made Of, and I tried there for the first time animated scenes, documentary [scenes]: scientists talking about scientific aspects of love. So he designed that, and it was really basic flash but I loved it. It’s something really fresh, and this way I knew the next project would be a full-length feature animation. I think David in many ways—okay, he’s very realistic. This is why he was good for the film. And he’s very Russian. He’s very strict. And he doesn’t allow himself really big freedom. The more free scenes in this movie, he didn’t draw them. The giant woman coming out of the water Tomer Hanuka did. But there’s something really exciting in the way he draws. I mean, it really affects you emotionally very, very strongly. And I saw it in a lot of kids’ books that he was illustrating. And I saw my kids referring to it. It’s something that really touches you. And I needed that because I knew that I wanted the film to be beautiful—that although it’s horror, it’s beautiful—and he’s the guy.
G: Yeah. That beauty that you’re talking about—it seems like it relates to those things you mentioned before: the subconscious and dreams and like a drug trip or whatever, that our brain kind of creates beauty even out of madness or confusion. It seems your career has always come around to these psychological levels. I wanted to ask about the nature of the mind—it’s flexibility and it’s capacity to protect itself—all those things are kind of themes that come out in the film. Can you address how the film to you is an expression of the psyche?
AF: I think it's life—it’s not the film. I mean, life is a constant use of imagination. I met a very respectable psychiatrist, before I flew here, for my next project. And he told me something that I found so amazing because [the new film, The Futurological Congress] will deal a lot with drugs. And in the next project, it’s a Stanislaw Lem story. And the world is controlled by free manufacturers of psychopharmacology drugs. And they control all your feelings. Love, betrayal, guilt—anything you want, they can fix it. So I try—now I'm writing—and I’m trying to build a world that will make sense according to what we have. And he has this theory—he’s a big professor, and he’s now healing post-traumatized soldiers, with ecstasy. He got a—the government gave him—
G: A grant?
AF: Yeah. License to do it.
G: Oh right, yeah.
AF: And he got some probably very good stuff from here. And so he does it. And he thinks that the only breakthrough in psychiatric drugs will be when they start using drugs. But they ignore this world of drugs because they can’t license it...you know? This is their problem.
G: Right. It’s like a producer not wanting to fund an animated documentary.
AF: Yeah.
G: It’s outside of their frame of reference.
AF: No, no. But its [in] terms of money. Because if they—I may take use of ecstasy, and it’s good, it works, Pfizer does it, next time Fisher does it. Because they can’t list it as their thing, you know. It’s not like Viagra, you know what I mean?
G: Yeah, right.
AF: So this is the main problem. Otherwise they would have used it. And there would be a huge breakthrough in this world. So he said something strange, he said, "Listen, you think that if people use drugs, a lot of things from their subconscious will be out and it will be a great thing to draw. But most people are so shallow that it doesn’t matter what they would take, nothing will get out." And that was astonishing. I couldn’t understand why he said it. But I think that in my everyday life and most—the border between reality and hallucinations and fantasies is very narrow. And I walk on that border, because I think it’s the most interesting. And all filmmakers really big, you know: Fellini—
G: Sure.
AF: Lynch!
G: Yeah, yeah.
AF: Lynch: it's a different scale of time in Lynch. It’s not measured in the time we’re used to in many films.
G: Right. And it is. It’s very fluid from reality to—
AF: Easy. Easy-go.
G: Yeah. To hallucination to vision to—
AF: Yeah, but now he’s meditating, right?
G: Yeah.
AF: That’s what he does.
G: Right. Exactly. Yeah, he’s promoting that. I want to talk a little bit more on this same subject of psychology. I think some might be surprised looking at your body of work that you’re actually skeptical of—
AF: Psychotherapy.
G: Psychotherapy. Why is that? And why is it that you think that the Israeli reserve said, "We’ll release you, but first the therapy." What was their reasoning behind that?
AF: They were making an experiment.
G: Of you?
AF: Not me.
G: Of everyone.
AF: Yeah. They had this—they said, "Okay, now, in the next six months, we’re going to interview people and see what they remember. I don't know what they were thinking. But I was nothing special. Probably, they were using us for some experiment or something.
G: And had they not been on that whim, you might not have gotten your release.
AF: Definitely. They wouldn’t have given it to me. Only if I faked and pretended to be lunatic. You know, I didn’t want to do that. It’s cheap.
G: It’s a lucky break, I suppose.
AF: Yeah, yeah, it was great.
G: But, by the same token, you found it not useful for you, I take it.
AF: Psychotherapy, no. I think it’s a religious cult. And if you’re a believer, fine. It will work. But if you in a way don’t believe, you’re not there. It won’t help you if you don’t believe in this kind of relationship between therapist and [patient]. Making films is much more therapeutic. A thousand times more. Any kind of arts, I think. I went through therapy, of course, a few sessions in life—a period of time. I just—I can’t eat it anymore.
G: I want to talk a little bit too about working with actors. I know that, for you, that’s not really your cup of tea, I guess—
AF: No! No!
G: To work with actors.
AF: I did. I did. I had films. I did.
G: Right, right. But I read something you said somewhere about—what was it? "I don’t have any passion for actors."
AF: Not now. Not now. The next film will have an actor. I will put an actress.
G: Yeah, an actress, right.
AF: But uhhhhhh—
G: Is it—you find them high maintainance, or why is that?
AF: No, no, no! I just say "Some of my best friends—". No, no. Listen, I’m now hooked to the magic of animation. I think adult animation is something that I just can’t understand why it’s not being done.
G: Yeah.
AF: It is like so obvious to do it. And because my mind is running really fast, I feel that I can do it there. That’s for me. But I'll be back with actors, and you know, the next film’s gonna be with an actress, and she’s going to act. I mean, because the first twenty minutes are going to be—
G: Live action.
AF: Live action. Then we will jump to the future, and she will be animated.
G: Mm-hm. And you’ve used a similar technique of shooting—
AF: We want to adapt it. We want to do something real.
G: But you would still base the animation on live reference? Or not?
AF: Yeah. Yes, because what we did here [in Waltz with Bashir]—that going backwards in time with the characters—we will do there [in Futurological Congress] going to future time. So we will have to predict how she will look when she’s sixty.
G: Right. Right.
AF: It makes sense that if the world in the future is controlled by drug manufacturers, [animation is] strong. It’s obvious.
G: Yeah. In going back to friends in developing Waltz with Bashir, what were some of the most surprising or moving revelations that you discovered about your friends, by discussing these times with them?
AF: First, my best friends from childhood ran away. They got cold feet, and they didn’t participate in the film. All we had to bring actors to replace them. I live in a community mainly of filmmakers. We studied there together the same year in film school. And I learned that—I mean, we have a very intimate relationship. Our kids grew up together, did things together. It’s like living in a small community. But we never discussed the armed service, because it’s not very cool to be a filmmaker and a left-wing liberal extremist and then, you know, Friday night say, [adopts gruff voice] "I remember we were going out to capture this village, there's shooting here and there"—you don’t do that. You talk about Japanese mafia movies from the '70s, Kinji Fukasaku, and if Suzuki was better when he started in Japan—you’re not talking about your war experience. First time I heard what they did was after this film was released.
G: In one of the interviews that you did, I read that you said, "When you about this stuff, once it’s out, you have to deal with it."
AF: Yeah.
G: And for you, the years that you spent making the film were a process of dealing with it. Do you have a sense of how the others that you interviewed dealt with it after these things came up?
AF: Very different between one to another. I think the most tough experience was going over [with] Dayag, the guy who swam back home. He felt a lot of guilt because he stayed alive and everyone around him died, which is a common feeling that we diagnosed through the research from a lot of ex-soldiers. He took it hard from the very beginning, from the premiere—he couldn’t be there, he ran away. And the others, I mean, Ron Ben-Yishai, it's just another show for him, for the journalist. And [for most] it’s very personal.
G: Yeah. It seems to me that modern ground warriors share a common experience of what it’s like to live through that kind of warfare. Do you find that that’s true, that you hear from people who see the film or from other people who you’ve talked to who’ve been in different wars that it’s roughly the same even though the details were different of the conflict?
AF: Yes, definitely. I think it’s a very universal story. It could have been told by any ex-soldier. Someone who woke up and realized "What the fuck am I doing here. It has nothing to do with my life. This place here is a different country, different place. It has nothing to do—I’m not defending my sisters here," you know? And we went to the war, it was [adopts a gruff voice] "You gotta defend your little sisters there." You wake up in Beirut and say, "It’s a capital city somewhere." People sit and they eat in restaurants, you know, and you walk like stupid dung with forty kilos of armors, and why? You know? "I’m defending my sisters here." So think of how many soldiers are asking that question right now: "Why [are we] here in Iraq?" I heard Bush yesterday. I saw it. Did you see that?
G: Yeah.
AF: Isn’t it incredible?!
G: It’s embarrassing.
AF: [As Bush:] "Well, maybe we made a mistake. We were not ready for that. I didn’t plan that." [To Bush:] "What did you think?!"
G: Yeah, he’s able to be very disconnected and casual about it, isn’t he? I know we’re out of time here, but I want to ask one more question. I read that in developing this film, you did the video interviews and all, but you also did a ninety-page script right at the outset. How did that fit into the process?
AF: After the research, having read all the hundred interviews, I had to write a storyline. So basically what I did in the script, I predicted what the people would answer according to the research.
G: Sure.
AF: Some of them were really exact, and some of them, of course, gave completely different answers, but it was like a plan.
G: Right. Yeah, a scenario.
AF: More a plan than a script.
G: Very interesting. All right. Thank you so much. It was great.
AF: Thank you. | http://www.grouchoreviews.com/interviews/264 | 2013-05-18T10:32:12 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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With an in-depth collection of Victorian-era art and artifacts, Lightner Museum could find no better setting to house its works than the former Alcazar Hotel, built in 1887. Relics cover three floors of the intricately architected building, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and designed in Spanish-Renaissance style by the visionaries behind the New York Public Library. Inside the magnificent lobby, whitewashed pillars connect high ceilings bordered by intricate plastered molds with amaranthine-hued mosaic floors.
Wander into the Science and Industry room for views of a taxidermied crocodile suspended from the ceiling, mingling among cases filled with statuettes and antique globes. Moving into neighboring galleries, a carved and gilded neoclassical rocking chair and colorful, mosaic-like Louis Comfort Tiffany lamps provide insight into the daily lives of Victorian citizens. Other 19th-century paintings and statues showcase the era's artistic inspiration as well as its curious fashions, such as wearing Santa Claus hats year-round..
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Cajobri Comedy Walk
- Spanish Quarter
Walking tour guides impart fictitious historical tales dotted with magic and a murder mystery
Start Skydiving
Skydivers glide through 10,000–13,000 feet while safely strapped to experienced parachuting professionals.
Easton Newberry Sports Complex
- Newberry
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Sussex, WI Spa and Massage
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Sculpting Craze
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Aestheticians extend lashes one at a time to ensure a realistic, long-lasting look
Cosmic Touch Massage & Nails
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State-licensed manicurist tops groomed nails with Shellac polish that dries instantly and remains chip-free for up to two weeks
Oak Creek Relief & Wellness
- Big Bend
Wellness package with 60-minute personal-training session, far-infrared sauna, and wellness assessment with biometrics test
Sunset Massage
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Male and female massage therapists knead away aches with gentle strokes or pain-tackling deep-tissue techniques
Roots Salon
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Facial includes a personal analysis to determine skin needs; full-body massage reduces muscular tension and boosts circulation
Planet Beach Contempo Spa Milwakee
- Oak Creek
Fleet of machines administers any combination of nine massages, facials, and detoxifying sauna sessions, plus tanning for an additional fee
Mia Faccia
- Lake Geneva
DS laser’s noninvasive light and radio frequencies help remove unwanted hair
Bellasazi Salon & Spa
- Multiple Locations
Aestheticians deep clean and exfoliate skin during personalized signature facials using Dermalogica products
Craig Berns Salon Spa
- Delafield
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Stylists harness plant-derived Aveda products and stress-relief treatments as they create healthy ‘dos that complement face shapes
Euphoria Day Spa
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Skilled technicians carefully remove unwanted hair from the bikini region
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Washington, PA Outdoor Activities
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Splash Water Sports
- Dormont
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Experienced, certified team of divers introduces students to scuba diving in safety and familiarity of swimming pool
Washington Wild Things
- North Franklin
Independent baseball team features several strong players, including a stolen-base record-setter and one of the league's batting leaders
North Park Batting Range & Miniature Golf
- Multiple Locations
Batters return automatic pitches into open field & putters practice short game on par 40 putting course
Lakevue Athletic Club
- Middlesex
Counselors enthrall campers with tennis, flag football, paddle tennis, ice-skating, and other sports interspersed with arts and crafts
Robert Morris University Island Sports Center
- Neville Island
Putt-putt posses roll spheres across an 18-hole mini-golf course packed with waterfalls, streams, and slopes on shores of Ohio River
Pittsburgh Water Limo
- Strip District
The water limo stocked with beer, wine, and bottled water shuttles guests to and from Pirates games every half-hour
Rusty Wallace Racing Experience
- South Huntingdon
Professional drivers sate their need for speed in stock cars during exciting ride-alongs and racing experiences
Center Ice Arena
- Salem
Three NHL regulation-size arenas host beginner skating lessons as well as daily public skates
Maple Crest Golf Course
- Monroeville
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Players loop twice around 2,500-yard, 9-hole course that rewards deft ball control with wide-open fairways & spacious greens
Pittsburgh Paintball Sports Complex Pittsburgh
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Sup'Air, woods ball, and concept fields host teams as they tactically compete using high-tech rental markers and provided protective gear
The River's Edge
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Tubes & boats float along scenic waters of Kiskiminetas River while passing by habitats of deer, bald eagles & geese
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Gyms & Fitness Centers in Woodridge
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Oak Brook Racquet & Fitness Club
- Westmont
Beginners meet once a week to learn tennis skills in small-group classes; use your own racquet or borrow one from the club
HomeTown Fitness
- Plainfield
More than 20 classes, including Zumba, Pilates, and boot camps, are tailored to accommodate different fitness levels
True Health Studio
- Aurora
Expert, certified instructors lead groups of 10–20 students through no-nonsense classes that use kettlebells, ropes, or tires
BFit Fitness
- Oak Park
Dance classes, cardio kickboxing, and circuit training stave off weight gain and keep kids and adults fit
Get Fit, NOW! Fitness Studio
- Galewood
Flirty Girl Booty Beat and Zumba tone with music and choreography; Piloxing sculpts muscle with vigorous jazz funk
Southside Knockout
- Mount Greenwood
Punches swoosh and bodies thud against mats during boot camps, boxing classes, and other body-chiseling sessions
Velocity Sports Performance Chicago
- Tinley Park
Certified trainers help basketball and volleyball players hone their skills, or adults improve their fitness levels in small classes
Air Fitness Chicago
- Park Ridge
Certified trainers lead clients through customized workouts in a clean facility stocked with weights, treadmills, and fitness equipment
Ajrenaline Fitness
- Des Plaines
High-energy Latin music inspires students to perform hip-hop dance moves and incinerate calories in fitness classes held six days a week
North Shore Fit Pit
- Highland Park
Within a chainlink boxing ring, instructors lead small groups through cardio drills and strength training with focus mitts and heavy ropes
Midwest Training & Ice Center
- Dyer
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Olympic-sized ice arena hosts open-skate sessions or four weeks of lessons for beginner, intermediate, and advanced skaters
Advocate Condell Centre Club
- Multiple Locations
Expansive roster of group fitness classes complements exercise machines, therapy programs, indoor pool & track at spacious clubs
Crossfit Crystal Lake
60-minute constantly changing, high-intensity workout of gymnastic movements, Olympic weightlifting, and metabolic conditioning
Belvidere Family YMCA
- Belvidere
Community center helps improve individuals' well-being with fitness center and indoor pool and entertains families with free event nights
Underground Core Fitness Warrenville
- Warrenville
30 min. group boot camp for all levels employs short rests between an alternating circuit of high-intensity resistance and interval training
A Whole Lotta Class
- Lockport
High-energy latin beats create a party atmosphere as students burn calories with dance-inspired exercises
Patriot Boxing
- Elmhurst
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Learn offensive and defensive kickboxing techniques including punches, kicks, and strikes to the head, body, and legs
Top Notch Fitness & Boxing
- Villa Park
EF Bodywork- Oak Park
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With today’s side deal, $55 gets you three power hour classes and two circuit-training classes at One Mind, Body and Being (a $124 value). It should be made clear upfront that the power hours being offered at OMBB are not the kind you attempted that one night in the basement of Beta House. That said, you'll never know what to expect from a OMBB power hour; the workout changes every class. But whether it’s personal training, Pilates, yoga, or an hour of cardio, be sure to bring plenty of water and a towel or two. To boost your strength and flexibility, OMBB also offers circuit training, a fast-paced group workout that involves the studio’s props and equipment, blending strength training and cardio activity while increasing your flexibility and working all your muscle groups (note: requires a working knowledge of Pilates). If you feel like your muscle groups are just coasting by on their wit and good looks, OMBB will challenge them at their core... | http://www.groupon.com/local/woodridge-il/gyms-and-fitness-centers | 2013-05-18T10:35:04 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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Lifelong Learners
Josh Keller | August 4, 2010 | Comments (3)
Here at The Grove School, we believe in educating your children not just for 10 months each year, but for a lifetime. As a current student, I can definitely relate to this.
From a young age, I can remember my first days in school. I was enthusiastic to show up every day, and my teachers inspired me to be like them. As I grew older, my teachers proved to be an even bigger part in my life. In middle school, we were all taught to ask for their help if we needed it, a strange, yet big step for us teenagers. We became more independent, yet the teachers were still there for us. They taught us about high school, what to expect, the future, and prepared us for a lifelong journey.
As soon as high school rolled around, there was no messing around; this was the real deal. I took what I learned from middle school and used it to the best of my ability for this new experience. My teachers played an even bigger role in our school work (and our lives). I established relationships with them outside of the class room. I always had a favorite teacher each year (not to say that all of them weren’t my favorite)! I could see the relationships of the students to the teachers was getting stronger in high school. Students would talk after class, laugh with the teachers, even sit and have lunch with them. Most importantly, they prepared me for a college experience and instilled a sense of a lifelong learning experience for me.
Now that I am an incoming sophomore in college, the bond between student (and now professor) is still strong. Being on my own is a wonderful experience, although tough at times. Being in college has taught me to be independent and to look for help when I need it. The professors play a big role in the student’s lives, and no where else but college is the lifelong journey more present. After college, anything is possible. Medical school, Law school, a career, a job, anything. The professors have taught me, and will continue to teach me, valuable life lessons that will help me further down the road, and prepare me to be a lifelong learner. | http://www.groveschool.com/tag/education/ | 2013-05-18T10:31:33 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Appel Farms: 30 years of cheese makingOct 5th, 2012 | By Editor | Category: Food, People
by Cameron Deuel
Appel Farms has been creating artisan cheese at their family-owned 500-cow dairy in Ferndale for the last 30 years, offering a varied selection of flavors. Run by brothers John and Rich Appel, the farm offers cheddar, feta, fresh cheddar curd (squeaky cheese), fromage blanc, gouda, paneer and quark.
The history of Appel Farms starts with John and Rich’s father, a Dutch immigrant who dreamed of becoming a dairy farmer. “When he was in Holland he lived in a small city where is was common to have a room and board situation with a farmer,” John Appel said. “He found a farmer through his church and began working with him.”
After working there a short while, he found his second job with a Dutch farmer in France who specialized in making gouda. “That farmer made gouda six days a week,” Appel added, “By the time my father moved to North Carolina, he knew everything about how to make gouda.”
His father moved to North Carolina because his uncle was in the flower business there and started a farm nearby, which was unsuccessful. He ultimately relocated to California to pay off his debt, and later came to Whatcom in 1967 and finally purchased his own farm.
“He really started making cheese as a hobby,” Appel explained, “He would make it for family and friends, sometimes making more around the holidays.”
When he bought the farm, he imported vats and presses from Europe specifically to make gouda. “They’re in the store now,” Appel said. “They’re sort of a piece of our history.”
Though cheese-making was only a hobby, it wasn’t until a German immigrant named Heinz Langerfeld made a request for Appel Farms to produce quark that Appel’s father began to make cheese on a larger scale. “Heinz asked him to make a type of soft cheese called ‘quark,’” said Appel. “It was impossible to find in the United States but, because of European immigrants and American veterans, it was in high demand.”
Appel Farms makes a variety of cheeses, including (clockwise): sweet red pepper gouda, black pepper cheddar, garden herb gouda, smoked gouda, and bacon cheddar. PHOTO BY ASHLEY BENNETT / BENNETT BELKA PHOTOGRAPHY
Since the cheese has such a short shelf-life it could not be imported to the country, leading Appel to become the first quark manufacturer in the United States. Though he started making quark over 30 years ago, the quark that is sold from Appel Farms is produced from the same original culture.
John Appel had a similar experience recently with an Indian immigrant who asked him to make paneer. “I told him that, if I could learn how to make it and if it wasn’t a huge investment, I’d make it,” said Appel. “It’s really helped our business grow.”
Appel Farms has also started to produce yogurt specifically for the Indian market. “The recipe for our yogurt is very natural and has a short list of ingredients,” he said. “We only used milk and the started culture.”
The popularity of their paneer encouraged Appel to delve into another dairy product that’s integral to Middle Eastern cuisine. Appel has been making squeaky cheese, a type of cheese that is popular in the Midwest due to a large volume of cheddar manufacturers, for many years.
“We get people who grew up in the Midwest tell stories about their love of squeaky cheese,” he said, “We’ve also taken a few steps up in our production of gouda.”
Instead of relying on his father’s method of making six, nine-pound wheels of gouda, they have upgraded to a method of producing 85 wheels of the same weight.
The farm has been producing cheese for 30 years. PHOTO BY ASHLEY BENNETT / BENNETT BELKA PHOTOGRAPHY
John, who has been working at the farm since his high school graduation in 1980, manages all the aspects of cheesemaking. Rich manages the dairy and land.
“My brother Rich and I took over the farm in a few steps that included purchasing the cheese business as well as the real estate from my mother,” John said.
The distribution of Appel Farms Cheese spans the northwest, as well as the country, reaching as far as New Jersey.
Appel is grateful for the success of Appel Farms and is pleased with how he and his brother have undertaken his father’s vision. “We’ve been really blessed,” he said. “People sometimes say that we got lucky in some ways but we really feel that God has blessed us.”
Appel added that they will continue to produce quality dairy products while aiming to diversify their products to reach even more customers.
The farm is located at 6605 Northwest Road in Ferndale and can be reached at (360) 384-4996. Visiting and store hours are Monday through Saturday 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. For more information, visit appel-farms.com.
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Medusa: The Shipwreck, the Scandal, the Masterpiece
by Jonathan Miles
Jonathan Cape £17.99, pp334
If you've ever wondered what the shifty loner next door was up to, imagine how the neighbours of Theodore Gericault must have felt in the bitter winter of 1819. The 28-year-old French painter had recently rented a rundown studio in the workaday outskirts of northern Paris to immerse himself in his art and to take his tortured conscience off the scandal that was dogging him. As he lugged into his cramped digs sack after soggy sack of severed limbs and decomposing heads purloined from the nearby hospital, the shame of his illicit love affair with his uncle's beautiful young wife was scarfed under a thickening stench.
The grotesque ingredients for the painting that Gericault was assembling were crucial, he believed, to invest with unflinching realism the work on which he was determined to stake his name: The Scene of the Shipwreck or, as it was later rechristened, The Raft of the Medusa. Given the tattered, drifting state of his own consciousness at the time, it is not surprising that Gericault should have been drawn to the stew of incompetence and cruelty that left 146 men and one woman clinging to the raft for 13 days off the coast of western Africa. Details of the incident, which had happened three years earlier when a French frigate en route to establish a colony in Senegal beached on the Bank of Arguin, were on every lip following the sensational publication in 1818 of an account by two of the 15 survivors of the disaster and of the government's callous response to it.
By focusing on the intense friendship Gericault formed with one of the account's authors, Alexandre Correard, a brash, young engineer dodging scandals of his own, Jonathan Miles reconstructs one of the most riveting relationships in modern cultural history. Correard had been to hell and back, witnessing first the ineptitude of the Medusa's captain, a cowardly relic called de Chaumereys, then the selfishness of those who grabbed the inadequate lifeboats for themselves, the wanton cruelty of the cutting of the towrope that was the raft's umbilical of hope, the ensuing mutiny that threatened to capsize the cramped craft to which they clung and the cannibalism to which he and the few remaining men were driven.
Like all great works of art, The Raft of the Medusa transmits its deep truths through a tissue of local lies. Though Correard told Gericault only one black man had been on the raft at that stage of its depiction, the painter included three African figures who comprise a micro-drama within the larger tragedy. At the time of the shipwreck and the exhibition of the painting, France had resisted calls to extricate itself from the slave trade, generating the fog of moral failure from which the work summons much of its power. By depicting one of the three black men as dead, another frozen in anguish, and a third transfixed on a distant salvation, Gericault was advocating a social trajectory 'from despair and victimisation to an enlightened future'.
The painting's famous crescendo of clambering flesh was merely one among several compositions Gericault considered. Abortive sketches, helpfully reproduced in the book, show the artist toying with the possibility of depicting instead the unconscionable wretchedness to which the passengers had been forced to stoop. Study for Cannibalism, which imagines a scrum of smudged figures gnawing into each others' wasted bodies, reveals a zeitgeist linking Gericault to Goya, whose ghoulish Saturn Devouring His Son was being conceived at the same time.
In what is always the clearest sign of enduring genius, when the painting was first exhibited at the 1819 Salon, it was panned by critics. Many objected to its tapestry of filthy hues - the excremental browns and phlegmy greens - while others questioned the artist's competence in handling the human form. 'Nothing touching,' one hard-hearted halfwit wrote, 'nothing honourable.' The pummelling elbowed an already frazzled psyche to the verge of collapse. Insulted and unsold, The Raft of the Medusa was rolled up and tucked away.
Racked by debt and crippled by tuberculosis which spread from his lungs to his bones, Gericault wasted away in the scrolled-up company of the painting he failed to sell. 'His emaciation is dreadful to see,' his father wrote after a heartbreaking visit. 'Thighs no thicker than my arms and a hand like that of an ancient, dying man.' He was 32. The handsome young artist who, four years earlier, stealthily smuggled skulls and entrails had slowly, excruciatingly, become his masterpiece.
Jonathan Miles has a novelist's eye for intrigue and detail which keeps the narrative building from the squalid studio where Correard and Eugene Delacroix nervously posed for the famous canvas amid a smorgasbord of rotting flesh, to the grubby streets of Georgian London, where the painting was exhibited to the fanfare it deserved. Appearing as it does in the year in which we commemorate the heroic harangues of William Wilberforce, this crisp and telling biography of one of art's most powerful icons is a sober reminder that elsewhere the struggles for freedom were far from over. | http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/apr/22/art | 2013-05-18T10:52:36 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
When he pulled up at the start of the Sweden game, Michael Owen's injury looked innocuous enough. No collision, no obvious break, not even a contentious challenge. Now, however, we know that he's suffered a ruptured cruciate ligament, the bete noir of modern footballers.
Ouch! I feel for Michael, perhaps more than most. I've torn both of mine. Neither of them was in a World Cup, mind you, but I'm sure that whether you're in Hackney or in Hanover the agony is the same.
The first one was murder, and my fault entirely. I was wearing blades on astro turf. As I twisted to evade my marker my foot jammed in the ground while the rest of my frame lurched forward. Only four months later, thanks to our super-efficient and ultra-competent NHS, would I find out that it was a cruciate tear.
I was gutted. Forget about how I was going to carry on earning a livelihood as a freelancer or run for the bus without collapsing in a heap. The darn thing would keep me out of the game for nine months. How would I ever get back to my best?
That question must be plaguing Michael as he waits for the surgeons to operate. Unfortunately, the form book isn't much help on this one. Many other players have been in his boots. Some have come out the other side as strong as they ever were, others have struggled to regain their class.
Robert Pires lost a bit of his pizzazz after the injury also put him out of commission for the World Cup in 2002. Gazza was never the same after his somewhat self-inflicted tear during the 1991 FA Cup final, although the fact that he was the wrong side of 30 must have contributed to his decline.
On the other side Roy Keane came back from a horrific injury in the 1997/98 season to lead Manchester United to the treble. The injury didn't faze Alan Shearer or Ruud van Nistelrooy, who have both shone for club and country in recent years.
Owen has cause to be optimistic. At 26, he is still relatively young and will still be in the prime of his career when he returns. And as someone who has increasingly had to rely on a predatory penalty box instinct rather than pace, his game shouldn't suffer much.
For what it's worth I was 31 when I had my right anterior cruciate reconstructed and, against all advice, drifted back into the beautiful game. Three years later I was back on the operating table, this time with my left leg. To break one cruciate was a misfortune, to break both was definitely carelessness, in this case an ill-founded belief that I could turn the clock back to my glory years.
The chances of anybody doing that must be pretty slim. In fact I don't think I have heard of a professional ever suffering the same fate.
It's unlikely to get any worse than this. So as surgery takes you through the pain barrier, Michael, just keep focussed on the potential glory at the end of the tunnel. That should put a smile on your face, as I'm sure will the £90,000 a week you'll continue to receive from Newcastle United while you're on the | http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2006/jun/22/cheerupmichael | 2013-05-18T10:31:28 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
With long tapering blades sweeping more than 100 metres into the air, turbines are the visible part of offshore windfarms – below the sea, strong foundations are laid and thick cables to carry the power ashore. Similarly, when it comes to investment and jobs, the turbines themselves are just the small visible part of a far bigger machine.
At least 40% of the value of a windfarm project "has nothing to do with the turbine", says Keith Anderson, chief corporate officer at Scottish Power.
The knock-on effects of offshore wind, beyond building and assembling turbine components, are key to the long-term prospects for the industry.
As well as hundreds of miles of cabling to connect the turbines to the shore, fleets of boats have to be built, including heavy barges for laying the foundations and turbines, and smaller vessels to ferry workers for construction and maintenance – which needs to be carried out regularly for the 25-year lifetime of the turbines.
Divers, port workers, onshore transport companies, road-building, connecting up substations on land – all of these are needed.
Investments of hundreds of millions of pounds in factories to make offshore wind turbines are now under review. But the investment potential is multiplied many times over if the many related industries are taken into account – the Offshore Wind Developers' Forum recently pledged that British companies should provide more than half of the content of the UK's future windfarms.
If optimistic predictions for the sector are borne out, according to the wind trade association RenewableUK, offshore wind could spark £3bn of investment in the UK supply chain by 2022, supporting more than 45,000 long-term jobs.
Often, these jobs are in coastal areas where the fishing industry has diminished, where shipbuilding may have been a force in the past but is no longer, or where other industries have declined. Workers from these sectors are being gradually recruited to offshore wind projects – Scottish Power, for instance, is looking to retrain fishermen to be maintenance workers.
But this bright future is by no means assured. The owners of key assets in offshore industries are in danger of shifting their focus to other countries.
Gabriel Ruhan, chief executive of Global Marine Group, says offshore wind has hit a "hiatus" in the UK, leading him to start moving assets such as vessels, cabling equipment and personnel to overseas markets likely to take off more quickly.
"We are moving assets away from the UK, which is a shame," he said. "We're getting more contracts from Germany – we were expecting it to be the UK, but that has not transpired. It's because the government is reviewing the subsidies."
Global Marine Systems, formed from the marine cabling businesses of BT and Cable and Wireless, is one of the UK's biggest cabling companies, with £200m a year turnover. Despite its UK base, the company is now doing more offshore wind work outside the UK than within. As the company moves key assets abroad, it will be more difficult for offshore wind companies to fulfil their construction plans. "Only a handful of companies are capable of doing what we do," Ruhan says.
Demand from Germany for offshore wind development is increasing, even while there is uncertainty over UK government policy towards wind. These are key factors in Ruhan's decisions to focus elsewhere.
"I don't mind what sort of subsidy is in place, as long as it is something developers can have confidence in," he says. But uncertainty is putting off investment. "No bank will lend us the money to build [a big new vessel]," he adds.
Andrew Norman, chief executive of JDR Cables, says the company has already invested more than £30m in Hartlepool for its offshore business. "We are watching with concern to see which way the debate [over wind power] is going to go. We need to be working right now on infrastructure."
Some industries are seeing contracts come through. Andy White, chairman of a small boat-sharing company, CWind, says: "We are seeing a continuous growth in demand for boats, owner-operators and technicians to service the offshore wind sector." The company has grown to more than 80 employees since it was established in 2009.
Anderson of Scottish Power says his company holds meetings for potential local suppliers in advance of starting work on any of its windfarms. "We see [these meetings] as important in gaining buy-in, and we want to have a long term relationship – these turbines will be standing for 25 years," he says. "If you are building these offshore farms from now to 2025, that's at least a 40 year industry. These are jobs for life." | http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/feb/29/wind-power-british-industry | 2013-05-18T11:04:24 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Until 1991, unmarried men and women – including gay and lesbian lawyers – were excluded from entering the judiciary. Unsurprisingly, homophobia, or at least a strong perception of it, still lingers.. Last month, it began monitoring the sexuality of wannabe judges (it already monitors gender, ethnicity, age, professional background and disability). The JAC is also increasing its engagement with the gay lawyer community through talks at LGBT legal events and the publishing of case studies of gay judges.
The most recent of these talks took place at Interlaw's monthly September meeting, hosted by corporate law firm Field Fisher Waterhouse. Disappointingly, the JAC was unable to get any of the few openly gay judges – who include the court of appeal judge Sir Terence Etherton, the high court and international criminal court judge Sir Adrian Fulford and the circuit judge Jeremy Richardson – to come along and speak.
Instead Tan Ikram, a heterosexual district judge, shared his experiences of what it's like to hold a judicial post as a member of a minority group. Ikram's frank talk was useful in the respect that it demystified the judicial appointments process, but the attempt to conflate the obstacles facing judicial candidates from Asian backgrounds with those who are gay was perhaps not entirely successful.
Not that the 30 or so attendees seemed overly bothered. There may be widespread suspicion about the judicial selection process, and eye-rolling about the JAC's stuttering response, but the dominant mood among LGBT lawyers right now is optimism. Daniel Winterfeldt, a partner at CMS Cameron McKenna who founded Interlaw in 2008, said:
"A new generation of junior lawyers who are out and open about their sexuality, and expect it not to be an issue, have fundamentally changed attitudes, and will keep changing them as they rise through the profession."
The mood is reflected in the dramatically improved recent performance of law firms in the top 100 employers rankings compiled by the gay rights charity Stonewall – formulated on the basis of a 25-question workplace equality index. In 2007 no law firms made the list; this year six were ranked.
Still, law firms remain some way from being gay utopias. A potent undercurrent of unspoken homophobia exists at some of them – a problem illustrated by a handful of online comments made in response to an article last year advising young gay lawyers on how to come out at work. One read:
"I'm sorry but all of the gay men I have known … have been heavily into gay pornography, substance abuse and late night sexual encounters … I would exercise more scrutiny when deciding to hire a gay man just as I would someone with known addiction problems."
It's little wonder, then, that law graduate Adam Fellows, who is openly gay, was advised by a junior barrister not to publicly mention the fact he had a boyfriend during his hunt for a traineeship.
Another concern is how international corporate law firms increasingly apply anti-discrimination policies in their offices in countries where homophobia is the norm. Prominent gay City lawyers I spoke to were notably reluctant to be quoted on this thorny issue. "The 'What happens in Dubai?' question isn't something the big firms seem to like to focus on," said Andrea Woelke, a lawyer specialising in family law who heads the other main legal LGBT group, the Lesbian and Gay Lawyers Association (LAGLA).
Then there is the frequently bemoaned dominance of legal LGBT groups by a certain type of confident gay man. Just 30% of LAGLA's members are female. The majority of the attendees at September's Interlaw-JAC event were men, with most of the sprinkling of women, somewhat surprisingly, of straight sexual orientation. There was a similar demographic at a recent Interlaw "pop-up" charity club night in Soho, London, featuring several celebrity guests from the world of music, which I also attended.
One gay male lawyer I met there told me this was because "lesbians are a bit dowdy". This sort of attitude has led to suggestions that LGBT groups have lost some of their original spirit of mutual support.
"It's not unusual for LGBT to be dominated by gay men. There is always a danger that a professional networking event can become a dating agency," said Kevin Poulter, who recently helped found the specialist Gay Employment Lawyers Network.
But overall, in view of the huge strides made in recent years, it seems unfair to dwell too long on these negatives. And in fairness to the LGBT groups, they tend to be highly responsive to criticism. Interlaw, for example, has established a women's initiative, which holds quarterly meetings, organised a series of forthcoming events for transgender lawyers and is "seeking to make resources available" for LGBT lawyers employed by UK firms based in countries with homophobic laws.
It can only be a matter of time before the judicial appointments process catches up with this trend.
Alex Aldridge is a freelance journalist who writes about law and education | http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2011/oct/06/gay-lawyers-judiciary-homophobia | 2013-05-18T10:45:16 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
8.53am: Turnout was 45%. That's the first fact of the day. I was on the 6am train from Liverpool Street and I'm now sitting in a marquee in the Royal Norfolk Showground where the Norwich North count will be taking place. They start at 9am and the result is due between 11.30am and 1pm.
I haven't found anyone who doesn't expect the Conservative Chloe Smith to win, but the Tories are doing their best to stamp on all expectations. "It's going to be very tight. The turnout was very low and it's going to be a struggle, particularly with the smaller parties picking up votes from the major parties," said a party source.
In 2005 Labour's Ian Gibson won the seat with a majority of 5,459 with a 61% turnout. A 45% turnout is low, but not appallingly low. I sense that the Tories are laying the caution on a bit thick.
9.19am: Here's what they're saying in the Labour camp. These comments are from someone on the campaign team.
The Tories are going round desperately trying to downplay expectations, but we don't think anyone's fooled. The turnout may by 45%, but it wasn't 45% in our areas. I went out yesterday, in a polling district with about 2,400 voters, and by 9.40pm only around 600 had turned out. Our voters have just stayed at home, partly because of MPs' expenses and partly because of Gibo [Ian Gibson – many Norwich North voters thought Labour was being unfair when it banned him from standing as a candidate at the next election, triggering his decision to cause a byelection]. We're in a race for second place with the Lib Dems.
9.30am: They've started counting now (or, rather, verifying the vote, which is the first step in the process). Theresa May, the shadow work and pensions secretary who was running the Tory campaign, and the Mid Norfolk Tory MP Keith Simpson are the only MPs I've seen here so far.
The Lib Dems don't seem very optimistic. I've just heard their opening spiel, from someone on the campaign, and it suggests they're already trying to put a brave face on coming third.
This was always a difficult seat for us. We started in third place. For Labour even to come second would be a terrible result for. And if the Greens get anything less than 15% it will be a disaster for them, given that they were talking about winning the seat.
9.40am: In the comments section NeitherLeftNorRight has written:
I do not think the conservatives are overdoing their caution, as the vote counting seems to have been delayed from the usual eve after to the next day owing to an unusually high number of postal votes. Labour SEEM (there is no statiscally significant body of evidence I think) to get a disproportionate amount of postal votes in tight seats.
Actually, according to Broadland council, which is organising the count, there are other reasons why the count is taking place on a Friday morning. This is the explanation from Colin Bland, the council chief executive, as reported in the Eastern Daily Press.
The overwhelming imperative at any election is that the count should be transparent and accurate. One of the reasons that we count next day is the increasing number of voters choosing to vote by post.. This is a painstaking process and takes time. There are 7,991 postal votes in the Broadland for this constituency. Some people do take their postal votes to the polling stations and these have to be returned to the relevant council for checking after the polling stations close. Norwich North is a split constituency, so two councils are involved in the verification of postal votes. Avoiding an overnight count also means people counting the votes are fresh and less likely to make mistakes. There is a cost saving too and we always have to be mindful of providing value for money for public funds.
9.44am: The word is that we'll get the result nearer 11.30 than 1.].
10.19am: They've finished verifying the votes. We've just been told the precise turnout: 45.88%.
10.24am: There's not much urgency here. The counters have stopped for a tea break!
10.46am: Labour are saying that the Tory share of the vote is up "but not by much". The party has got some provisional numbers, but I can't find anyone yet who will tell me what they are they are. All they will say is that their vote (45% in 2005) is definitely down and that the Tories (who were on 33% last time) has increased, but not dramatically. Last year, in Crewe and Nantwich, the Tories went up from 33% in 2005 to 49% in the byelection.
10.58am: The Tories won't discuss the figures they've got. (By now the parties have got a provisional sense of what the share of the vote is, based on what their agents have seen on the papers coming out of the ballot boxes). One Tory said it was impossible to say whether Labour or the Lib Dems would come second. Another told me that the Greens and Ukip were doing well. It's starting to feel as if the Tories will win but by a relatively modest margin.
11.03am: On the subject of the battle between Labour and the Lib Dems, I found this wonderful line in one of the Labour party's election leaflets in Norwich North.
Today's Lib Dems are not the party they were under Charles Kennedy. They have no principles or values.
That's Labour trying to protect the progressive, lefty vote. But I don't remember them saying that about Charles Kennedy when he was leading the Lib Dems.
11.11am: There are some other Norwich North live blogs on the go.
This is from the one that Jonathan Isaby is writing at ConservativeHome:.
This is from Iain Dale's Norwich North blog:
UKIP reported to be getting lots of votes in the city wards in Norwich North. LibDems not doing as well in the Broadland wards as expected.
And this is from Daniel Finkelstein's Norwich North blog at Comment Central.
So with the turnout known, we can do some maths. If Norwich swung to represent the average national opinion poll, the Conservatives would only just squeeze out Labour. They would get 11k to Labour's 10k.
But if the by-election result looked more like the local election result the Tories would get 12k to Labour's 5.5k.My guess is somewhere at the top of this range. With the Tory "tight" claim making me only a very teensy bit nervous of this prediction.
11.14am: Chloe Smith, the Conservative candidate, will be here in five minutes, I'm told.
11.18am: Chloe Smith has arrived. Her jacket is "shocking pink", a colleague tells me. Opinion about it at my press table seem to be mixed. Still, I'm sure that's not going to stop her becoming the MP for Norwich North - and probably rising very far in the Conservative party. She's 27, she's remarkably able and, with David Cameron committed to getting a decent number of women into his government, she now has a good chance of becoming a minister before she hits 30.
But that may not work to her advantage. Andy McSmith wrote a good profile of her in the Independent yesterday and it included this line.
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11.44am: Chris Ostrowski, the Labour candidate, will not be here today because he's still at home recovering from swine flu but his wife, Katie, is representing him and she's just arrived.
She has already been playing a role in the campaign since Chris fell ill on Tuesday. When I was here on Wednesday the Labour party was handing out a leaflet from her, in her own handwriting, urging people to support her husband.
She said:
Chris is not a career politician …
There's no danger of that changing today.
Another interesting thing about it is that in the letter, that covered two pages of notepaper, Katie did not Chris mention Labour at all. The only clue as to which party her husband represented was the smallprint at the bottom saying that the leaflet was published by the Labour party.
11.45am: Labour has come second, on with 19.5% of the vote, according to the conversation I've just overheard. It was a Labour activist calling someone on his mobile..57am: We're expecting the result now between 12.15 and 12.30.
12.02pm: If the figures I've been given are correct, the Tories are on course for a majority of around 6,700. That seems very high and I may well have mucked up my maths. We'll know for certain very soon.
12.13pm: The Tories think my figures are way off. "More like 4,000, perhaps between 1,000 and 2,000," said a source when I asked about the size of the Conservative majority.
12.15pm: But a hack colleague has told me that the figures produced by the parties are less reliable than normal because Broadland council has limited the number of party agents allowed to observe the count. Apparently that's because they did not want too many BNP figures floating around..23pm: Apparently the parties are also finding it hard to assess the results because the bundles of votes aren't being stacked up in piles party by party in the way that they normally are at counts like this.
12.26pm: The Tory figure I mentioned earlier - Norwich North being 162nd on the list of target seats at the next election - is based on boundary changes that will come into force at the general election and which will make the seat harder for the Tories to win. This byelection is being fought on the 2005 boundaries, which are more pro-Tory, so the 162nd figure is not strictly relevant. When the boundaries change, the Tories will lose about 1,500 voters.
12.30pm: Nick Robinson has written a jolly blog explaining how you should interpret the spin the political parties will put on the result, which we should be getting any minute now.
12.36pm: There's been speculation about Ukip beating the Greens. But the Tories tell me that the Greens are in fourth place, with Ukip behind them.
12.39pm: The broadcasters have been told that David Cameron is definitely coming up to Norwich to do a lap of victory at some point this afternoon.
12.45pm: The agents have been summoned. The returning officer is about to give them the result.
12.45pm: I've just had one of those very peculiar conversations with a Tory spin doctor who's in London. "Well, officially we're still saying it's very tight," he said. I could hear him smirking.
It sounds as if David Cameron is about to renew his demand for an immediate general election.
12.48pm: The candidates are coming up to the stage now.
12.50pm: The Tories have won by around 7,000!
12.51pm: Here are the key figures:
Conservatives: 13,591
Labour: 6,243
Lib Dems: 4,803
12.54pm: Ukip beat the Green and were only around 700 votes behind the Lib Dems
12.55pm: Chloe Smith is speaking. She starts with best wishes to Chris Ostrowski. And she pays tribute to Ian Gibson, saying she will represent the consituency with "the same honesty and conviction" that he did. She mentions the contract she offered to the voters. If she does not keep her promises, the voters should kick her out, she says.
The voters have voted for change. People have not just voted against Labour. They have voted for the Conservative party, she says.
It's now the Conservative agenda that is setting the pace in national politics, she says.
But local issues matter too. Smith mentions various local campaigns she will champion.
It will be an honour to serve Norwich North. "I will not let you down."
12.58pm: Katie Ostrowski, the wife of the Labour candidate, is speaking now. She thanks NHS Direct for the advice it gave when he collapsed and for the ambulance and hospital staff who looked after him. And she thanks all those who sent messages of support after Chris fell ill, including the prime minister.
"I can assure you that's not the last you've heard of Chris Ostrowski," she says.
1.01pm: April Pond, the Lib Dem candidate, says this has been a "disastrous result for Labour".
1.08pm: Here are the full results now, from the Press Association:%)
1.09pm: The Ukip candidate, Glenn Tingle, said in his speech that the result showed that Ukip was now the fourth party in British politics.
Rupert Read, the Green candidate, gave the most substantial speech from the platform. He thanked the Labour, Ukip and Conservative candidates for signing the "clean campaigning" pledge championed by the Greens and had a dig at the Lib Dems for not supporting it.
It seems to us that dirty politics is exactly what the electorate do not want. Any party that campaigns dirty has no credible agenda of cleaning up politics.
Read also said that Ukip and the Greens were the only parties in the byelection that actually gained votes. That showed that Britain was entering "a new era of true multi-party politics", he said.
Read feels strongly about clean campaiginng because the Lib Dems issued an election leaflet quoting this sentence from a letter Read wrote to the Independent after the 7/7 bombings in 2005: "We in Britain have quite simply had this coming." The headline on the leaflet said: "Does he speak for you?"
Read may also have a point about multi-party politics. Between them, Ukip and the Greens got more than Labour.
1.53pm: Just some final thoughts:
1. The Tory candidate who came second in 2005 got more than 2,000 votes than Chloe Smith needed to win today. This is not like Crewe and Nantwich, where the Tories collected 6,000 more votes than they did at the general election.
2. That said, a majority of 7,348 is significant by any standards and, at 16.5%, the swing from Labour to Conservative is pretty good too. At Crewe and Nantwich the swing to the Tories was 17.6%. Some people argue that, in an election with a low turnout, swing is not relevant. I suspect that, if the turnout is low, it becomes even more relevant.
3. But swing is a concept that belongs to the era of two-party politics. Here the Lib Dems, Ukip and the Greens all came within 1,500 votes of each other. Rupert Read's point about this being an era of multi-party politics is a good one.
4. The MPs' expenses scandal may have depressed turnout. But, even in an election with a low turnout, someone's got to win. Smith showed that that the main parties can win elections in this anti-politician environment if their candidates adopt the right stance.
5. Labour is right to say that there was an Ian Gibson factor here. Voters were angry about his treatment. But it was the Labour party that was to blame for this. Labour may need to reconsider the way it conducts its internal politics.
That's it. I'm finished now. Thanks for all the comments.
6.53pm: Rupert Read has sent me an email about the quote from his letter about 7/7 used in the Lib Dem leaflet.
One important correction, that I would be grateful if you would make: the 'sentence' you quote from me, "We in Britain have quite simply had this coming" is of course nothing I ever wrote. It is a butchered version of a much-longer sentence that I did write, that made the obvious common-sense point (made among others by MI5 since) that going to war illegally in the Middle East made us more vulnerable to non-state terrorism. The LibDems' deliberate butchering/misquotation of the sentence in question in order to make me sound like I was excusing or even applauding terrorism is one of the main extremely dirty campaign tactics that they employed against me, and they should not be allowed to get away with it. | http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2009/jul/24/byelections-norwich-north-byelection | 2013-05-18T10:13:39 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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Places for experiment
I'm a little puzzled by the rash of articles declaring that in British theatre the avant has fallen behind its guard – particularly as many of these pieces seem to concentrate on the West End. When was the West End ever experimental? It is a commercial enterprise whose ultimate purpose is to make a return for its producers and investors. It may sometimes produce wonderfully entertaining and high-quality work along the way, but it's not the natural home of the new and the challenging. It would be great to see the Pacitti Company or Nic Green and Kieran Hurley at the Apollo Shaftesbury Avenue, but that seems unlikely. Although the news that LIFT is bringing New York's Elevator Repair Service's Gatz into the Noël Coward for five weeks in the summer suggests that anything can and will happen.
When will it be the age of the writer?
As anyone who has seen any theatre on mainland Europe will know, they do things differently there. Not necessarily better or worse – just differently, particularly when it comes to new writing. Many British playwrights have had their careers sustained by productions abroad, particularly in Europe, where writers such as Simon Stephens, Mark Ravenhill and David Harrower are as well-known as any German playwright. We seldom return the compliment to German writers, although companies such as ATC and theatres such as the Gate have a more international outlook. One of the differences in our theatre cultures is over the role of the writer: much more important here, much less so there. All this is perhaps best summed up by playwright Charlotte Keatley, whose first play for 20 years, Our Father, is currently at Watford Palace. She recently told me that she was at a European theatre conference not so long ago when it was confidently declared: "The 20th century was the century of the director and the 21st century will be the century of the dramaturg." So much for the person writing the script.
Paths, not careers
I heard somebody talking about the upcoming artistic director vacancies at the Royal Court and RSC the other day and describing them as "top" jobs. I guess that getting to run the National Theatre is like getting to run a big corporation or bank but without the financial bonuses. But most people working in theatre don't aspire to run the RSC or the Court, seamlessly progressing from starting out at the Edinburgh fringe to becoming boss of the NT. (Some wouldn't even see that as a progression.) Choosing to work outside of the mainstream or to practise on the outside is an honourable and often artistically rich choice, as artists such as John Fox have proved. Chris Goode, whose thoughtful new show God/Head I saw over the weekend, put it beautifully recently when he said in an interview, "I have a path, not really a career."
Thinking theatre
The annual Devoted and Disgruntled Open Space was held at York Hall in Bethnal Green, east London this weekend and was full of interesting sessions, ranging from discussions about the point of the fringe and working for free to debates about how theatremakers can win the funding arguments with government and local authorities – even a session asking whether acting makes you mentally unwell. You can follow the Twitter feed as it happened at DandD7#; reports from all of the sessions will be posted online over the coming week. From 21 June – the first day of the London 2012 festival – D&D is going out on the road starting at Leicester's Curve and travelling across the country to Dundee, Liverpool, Bangor, Winchester and many other places before ending up in the RSC in Stratford-upon-Avon on 7 October. It's worth checking out. | http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/theatreblog/2012/feb/27/monday-theatre-roundup-thoughts-debates | 2013-05-18T10:54:32 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Luc Sante
“Cats,” I said, “Let’s get real, real gone”–and the rest is history. Or it should have been. Because no one outside my immediate family has ever heard this legendary performance, recorded in a rickety booth on the Rockaway midway on August 16, 1952. My sidemen, Carl Jr. and Bip, were sadly caught in the eye of a multi-vehicle pileup on Cross Bay Boulevard on their way home, and their talents were claimed for the choir eternal. And neither my family nor myself have heard the recording since the evening of that fateful day. The minute the tone arm came down on its grooves we trembled, realizing its revolutionary significance. We knew that if anyone were to release its contents, the course of history would be altered and the youth of America–nay, the planet–would never be the same again.
Aghast at what I had wrought, I immediately arranged to meet with an agent, a fancy man from one of the Sixth Avenue talent farms. He summoned me to his office steam room, where he smoked a panatella while one sleek beauty buffed his toenails as another marcelled what was left of his hair. He didn’t want to hear the recording; he wanted to hear my pipes. I tried to explain; he waved away my concerns. He wanted me to sing “Silver Threads Among the Gold,” there and then. And I could have, you know. I could have capitulated, and warbled right there in the steam room, and signed a lucrative contract, and endured a career as the next Danny Kaye or Mario Lanza. But I gagged at the prospect. He was not a man with a vision. I left, dejected, and went to sit in a booth at Jack Dempsey’s, barely able to choke down my double order of banana cheesecake.
Oh, I tried other agents, with similar results. I called record companies cold and was offered a typing test. I called radio stations and was taken for a subversive and visited by government agents and compelled to sign a loyalty oath. I called a legendary all-night disk jockey whom I will not name, and he was amenable to meeting me and hearing my recording. He even sounded enthusiastic at the prospect, and arranged for me to come to his table at the Hotcha Room, in the Hotel Murray on 44th Street. When I presented myself, though, his face fell. Perhaps it was because I was over forty and a slight bit out of shape. He abruptly gave me the gate, with no apology or even a drink. And so it went, a veritable calvary, a trail of tears. I could not get anyone in a position of power and influence to so much as listen to my recording. Eventually I gave up. I faithfully went to work each day in the mail-sorting facility in Woodmere and tried to forget. My family was sympathetic, and plied me with baked goods to assuage my sorrows.
Now, however, I am at peace, living here in quiet comfort, gently swaying in the sea breezes not very far from the beach in Palm Shallows, Florida. I’ve been traveling every day to my self-storage facility nearby and sorting through eighty years of precious memories. I’ve found many, many irreplaceable relics from a life rich in love and laughter and have systematically sold them on eBay, gradually assuring further monthly payments on my trailer lot. Then, just yesterday, I turned up my history-making record. I had actually managed to forget it; for a few minutes I wasn’t sure what it was. Then the memories came flooding back. Reconstructing the events of that day, I could hear its unprecedented sound in my mind’s ear. I instantly knew that even today, after so many rotations of the earth and so many changes in fashion, my recording would still sound like nothing else. And so I will be listing it on eBay, with a modest opening bid 0f $10,000, with free shipping, insurance included. The buyer should beware, though. Should it be released to the wider world, thrones will topple, beliefs will be scrambled and the very conduct of life will be upended. I will retain copyright. And if you leave me positive feedback, I will do the same for you.
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Surprised, Thieves? It is I, Tentral! Tinkerer extraordinaire, almighty alchemist, explosives expert and leader of the AETA! Do not worry about your precious Wormwood, no harm has befallen him…to my knowledge. He has foolishly decided to thieve away my thunder in the Engineer spotlight, so I’ve decided to return the…favor.
After trying (and failing some time in, I might add) at blending into the Thief ranks with good old Tentral, I decided to recreate myself using the modern marvels of Asuran plastic surgery! One disguise and change of my name later, I was ready to make my infiltration. I presented myself to your kin, and they seemed oddly reluctant to take me in.
Thieves Guild Guard: “Hold, Asura. How does the night welcome thee?”
Bubblegum Mash PhD (a.k.a. “me”): “Uhm…coldly? What an silly question. At any rate, I’ve come to join the ranks of the Thieves.”
Thieves Guild Guard: “You cannot be serious. Look at your clothes!”
Bubblegum Mash PhD: “This is a tactical choice! I choose to blind my foes with outrageous color rather than sneaking up on them. I’m told it works for the Engineers, those handsome devils.”
Thieves Guild Guard: “Hmm. As much as it pains me to allow you entry, you do have two daggers and at least half a brain. Thievery may not be your calling, as it requires a steady hand and a tactical mind, but we need more bodies for our efforts regardless. You’re in, now begone from my sight!”
Bubblegum Mash PhD: “I’m going to go ahead and thank you instead of stabbing you. Lucky you. Be glad I don’t have any freeze grenades on me.”
Thieves Guild Guard: “What was that, scrub?”
Bubblegum Mash PhD: “I said ‘I prefer my cheese homemade.’ Open your ears, Thief!”
Newly accepted into the ranks of the Thieves, I began to learn their craft. After days of watching and waiting, without the slightest scratch of my itchy trigger finger, I’ve finally seen what makes you all tick. Here today, I will publish my findings so that you Thieves may prepare yourselves for the upcoming conflict that will undoubtedly erupt between us. Learn well, because while Engineers may lack subtlety, we more than make up for it in our knowledge of all things explosive, alchemical, gadgetry, and soon…Thievery.
The Idea of the “Thief”
When I thought to myself, “This weekend, I’m going to be a Rogue.” I must’ve had a completely wrong idea of what it was that Thieves do and what they’re about. The classification of “Rogue” just doesn’t fit. I think words like “Swashbuckler” for their fighting style, or perhaps “Planar Assassin” for their mystic Shadowstep and Stealth abilities are much more accurate.
What Works
So the basic idea of sneaking around and attacking from behind don’t really do justice to how a Thief fights. You Thieves have your share of stealth options, but I can no longer say that you’re afraid of a direct fight. You all aren’t a group of assassins, but rather you’re a band of sticky-fingered mercenaries!
What Doesn’t Work
Why call yourselves Thieves? This idea that you steal and that’s all that you associate yourselves with is not accurate at all. Real Thieves are never seen, heard, and never engage in direct conflict. The only skill that relates to your namesake has a ridiculously long cooldown and limited use. I think it’s time for a name change. Something that reflects who you actually are. I’m thinking… “Swashbuckler.” Another good name could be “Fashion Disaster.” Very descriptive…and true. Ahhh! I’m kidding! No stabby-stabby, please!
General Combat
Thief combat, as much as I hate to admit, is rather fast and exciting. We Engineers prefer to invent things that do most of the work for us, but you Thieves really get right into the middle of the fight!
What Works
Jumping. Boy do you guys love jumping. In a world where movement is key, you move even more than the rest of us! Many skills propel you right into the center of the fray and then back out again, or vice versa. It’s part of what makes combat so fast, and undoubtedly effective.
You Thieves also have many skills to choose from, and many weapons as well. I have no love of slicing instruments, but your shortbow’s Cluster Bomb was especially intriguing to myself, as someone with…explosive interests. Your other weapon abilities seem to promote that eternal movement as well, with all the Shadowstep abilities.
I think that having the Initiative system instead of cooldowns really adds a lot to your profession. You wait for the bar to fill, then engage. Use 3 heavy hitting abilities to apply Bleed and Poison, then just distract them with the sheen of your blades as the effects do your work for you. That way, instead of using all of your abilities in some sort of rotation, you can pick which effects work best against certain enemies, then use only those effects against them. Enemies drop like flies.
Water Combat was dirty and effective. I only used the spear for my time underwater, but the ability to control where you were in relation to your enemies with a pull line and evasion techniques was amazing.
What Doesn’t Work
Your profession-specific mechanic, Steal, is nowhere near as useful as my trusty Utility Belt! The use of this skill usually amounted to an extra stun that I had every 45 seconds, among other less common effects. I usually just used it for its Shadowstep effect. The mechanic is useful, but only situationally, from my weekend experience with it.
Thieves are not as sneaky as you claim to be. Most stealth effects only last a few seconds (3 seconds to be exact…take note Enigneers). While this may be enough time to lose your foe’s attention, or to make a veiled attack, it is not enough to retreat. While I am a novice Thief, I don’t think I’m wrong in saying that if that Flame Shaman wants me dead, no amount of invisibility would help me. I proved this several times over the course of an hour.
Stealth also doesn’t work well to set up attacks. There is no lurking while running around as a Thief. You watch from a distance, then Shadowstep in for a surprise attack. This might not have made its way onto the “What doesn’t work” list for its effectiveness, except that if the enemy sees you, no amount of Shadowstep can weave that element of surprise back in!
PvP
I didn’t spend as much time PvPing as I might have liked, because the afro was really starting to itch. I did observe that Thieves are currently in a better state than Engineers, as far as tournament PvP goes. Several reasons for that, but the biggest one is the tactical advantage of poison. Basilisk Venom has so many offensive and defensive applications, and I doubt I’ve even scratched the surface.
What Works
I was very capable in single combat. I can only imagine the kind of damage one could bring who had practice and experience on their side. Between Basilisk Venom, Signet of Shadows, Haste, and Spider Venom, I had absolutely zero issues taking down someone with my daggers, when it was just the two of us.
Power and other professions stacked well to make taking down armored opponents a cinch. This was a concern of mine, because I was afraid that stacking a specific stat would be necessary to be effective with non-element damage (i.e. – Stabby-stabby daggers). Oddly enough, Guardians and Warriors (who wear heavy sets of armor) had more trouble against me than highly movement-oriented professions, such as Rangers and other Thieves.
Map mobility was excellent! Most other professions have a 10% speed boost, which is borderline mandatory. The Thief’s Signet of Shadows gives a whopping 25% movement speed while not on cooldown, and a free blind on activation! That must be traited, because the wiki says 10%. I was able to cross the entire Forest of Niflhel to help quell a scuffle that broke out over the Henge, after I had finished capturing the Mine before any of my allies had fallen.
The downed Teleportation skill was especially useful (and you’d better believe I got a lot of practice with this one). On certain maps with more vertical aspects (such as Khylo and Niflhel’s Keep) you could cast the ability in such a way that opponents would have to scale structures to reach you, giving you a chance to escape. As an added bonus, the ability didn’t seem to leave any discernible trail, so if you play your cards right the enemy might have no idea where you’ve teleported to!
What Doesn’t Work
I always had to hesitate hopping into a team fight because of how delicate I am as a Thief. Whenever I saw a team fight start, I retreated a bit and switched to dual pistols. While I’m not exactly looking out for you guys or anything, but if I were a Thief, I might try to get some petition going to rally a survivability boost against multiple enemies….you’re gonna need it!
Steal didn’t help me at all. Once I started remembering to use it, I started noticing just how…underpowered the ability is in PvP. Maybe I’m just not doing it right, and I’m not sure what I’d do to fix it, but my opinion is that the ability needs tweaking.
So there you have it, my infiltration was a success! I must say, I had you Thieves pegged all wrong. I thought you were dirty, skulking, cowardly-shadow dwellers! This is wrong though, and you are all, in fact, capable fighters and cunning strategists. I have come to respect you all a bit more…but with that respect comes new hatred. I know how dangerous you all are now.
It’s time to start taking you Thieves seriously, lest I end up with sand in my eyes and a knife in my back. My time with you has been informative, and even fun, but my hatred for Thieves isn’t sated! If anything, I’ve renewed my ambitions to rid the world of you sticky-fingered scallywags. Watch your back, Thieves. With this new intel I’ve gathered, I will put together a plan to show you just how similarly…tactical we Engineers can be, too!
This was a great, hilarious post, thank you Tentral!
You made one mistake, the sigil that provides you 25% movement increase is not traited, the wiki is just outdated in this case. Last beta, it provided 10% movement increase and an immobilize, which I personally found more useful.
I also highly disagree with Basilisk Venom. It used to be very strong (verging on overpowered if traited), but now it's actually pretty lackluster. The cast time it takes to apply to your weapon is longer than it's overall effect. That's just sad.
However, quarrels aside, this article was quite enjoyable to read.
Hmm. I am genuinely suprised that you did not find stealth and stealing effective.
I do speak from a purely PvE perspective, but the two-second stealth we get on our base healing ability has never failed me when it came to fleeing from a bunch of angry centaurs, bees or charr: vanish, dodge behind an obstacle or tumble off a cliff before your brief spell of invisibility runs its course and you've fooled your wannabe executioners to abandon their pursuit.
Steal may not be predictable, but I find the random element to be a lot of fun. Unexpectedly stabbing someone with a rusty nail practically guarantees victory in the fight in the next few seconds, and I will forever cherish that one memory of stealing the antlers off a stag and stabbing him to death with them shortly after. Also, stealing whirlwind axe makes me cackle like a madman.
@Lawrence_Growe
It's not perfect, and I understand some of the complaints around the internet regarding the thief profession's mechanic, but I agree with Lawrence_Growe here... some of the fun associated with "stealing" is the impromtu nature of it.
@Lawrence_Growe I have a begrudging resentment towards randomized effects after my experiences with Elixirs on the Engineers.
I can see how stealth would be beneficial if you think tactically like that, though! I usually just cut and run after stealth.
@Lawrence_Growe Stealing a Stag's antlers, and then stabbing him to death with them? I award you +1 "Badass Thief" Points!
@Wormwood Much obliged, good sir, much obliged.
Curses! I must have the name of the Gaurd! He won't hear the end of this for letting you in Tentral!
..though I do like the term "Swashbuckler"....
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Shocking as you may find it, I am at a loss for words on this one. Our Guitar of the Day is the Larrivee D-60 Brazilian. I am to busy oogling the back of this thing to come up with any metaphor or pop culture references. So on with the show.
The Larrivee D-60 Brazilian features:
All solid wood construction
Brazilian Rosewood Back & Sides
Single Piece Mahogany Neck (S. American)
Canadian Sitka Spruce Soundboard
African Ebony Fretboard & Bridge
Canadian Flame Maple Body Binding
Herringbone Purfling on Soundboard
Enlarged Soundhole w/ Herringbone Rosette
Shifted Symmetrical X-Bracing
Flat top Headstock w/ Valute
Mother of Pearl Diamonds on Fretboard
Mother of Pearl Headstock Logo
Rosewood Headstock Overlay
Open-Back Style Tuners (18:1 Ratio)
Traditional Angled Nut
Tortoiseshell Pickguard
Gloss Finish Body w/ Satin Finish Neck
Strap Buttons
Specifications
Lower Bout: 16″
Upper Bout: 11.875″
Waist: 10.875″
Depth: 5″
Scale Length: 25.5″
Nut Width: 1 & 11/16″ (43mm or 1.6875″)
Fretboard Radius: Compound (16″ to 21″)
Setup for Medium Gauge Strings
Frets – Nickel/Silver
Frets – Width: 2.5mm (0.0985″)
Frets – Height: 1.0mm (0.0394″)
Gloss Finish is UV Cured Polyester
TUSQ Nut & Saddle
Extras Included in Price
Deluxe Arch-top Case
Polish Cloth / Care Booklet / Warranty Card
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Debra Rowe is the President of the U.S. Partnership for Education for Sustainable Development, Co-founder/Advisor to the Higher Education Associations Sustainability Consortium, Founder/Facilitator of the Disciplinary Associations’ Network for Sustainability, and Senior Advisor to the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education. She chairs the Technical Advisory Group for the Sustainability Education and Economic Development Center at the American Association of Community Colleges and is a U.S. Designee to the World Federation of Colleges and Polytechnics’ international sustainability group. Debra completed her Ph.D. in business and her M.B.A. and M.A. in psychology at the University of Michigan and her B.A. from Yale University. She has been professor of energy management and renewable energy for 30 years at Oakland Community College and has a mechanical contractor’s license. | http://www.guninetwork.org/guni/portal_memberdata/debrarowe | 2013-05-18T10:51:53 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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Sunday, December 28, 2008
U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson has signed onto the Pickens plan.Two weeks ago, the Georgia senator agreed to oilman T. Boone Pickens' energy independence pledge, agreeing to help Pickens in his campaign to reduce the country's dependence on foreign oil. "America is spending billions of dollars every month on foreign oil, money that we need to be putting into our own economy right now," Isakson said in a press release. "It is imperative that the new Congress move quickly to enact an energy plan, and I am committed to making sure that happens. This is an economic issue, and it's also a national security issue." Earlier this year, Isakson joined a coalition calling for increased domestic oil production through offshore drilling, increased conservation, a commitment to nuclear energy and an effort to use cars fueled by something other than gasoline or diesel. "Right now, America is importing 70 percent of its oil - Sen. Isakson understands the threat this has on our economy and national security," Pickens said. "America can no longer afford to move forward without a plan that addresses our dependence on foreign oil. I am proud to have Sen. Isakson's support and leadership as we push Congress to enact an energy plan within the first 100 days of the new administration." During 2008, Isakson co-sponsored the Domestic Energy Production Act and the Gas Price Reduction Act, and he voted numerous times to explore oil," Isakson said. For more information about Picken's pledge, go to. Camie Young can be reached via e-mail at camie.young@gwinnettdailypost.com.
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Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Atlanta Falcons' Rafael Bush holds his hand up to give a high five to a Meadowcreek Elementary School student as he crosses the finish line during an obstacle course on Tuesday morning at the school's gym as part of the First Down for Fitness program. Meadowcreek Elementary School students get warmed up during the Atlanta Falcons First Down for Fitness program. Atlanta Falcons' Stephen Nicholas celebrates as a member of his group crosses the finish line during the team's First Down for Fitness program which kicked off at Meadowcreek Elementary School on Tuesday. Atlanta Falcons player William Moore gets all his group together as they wrap up a drill during the team's First Down for Fitness program which kicked off at Meadowcreek Elementary School on Wednesday.
NORCROSS -- For 10-year-old Robbie Randall, it was a big day. Not only did the Meadowcreek Elementary student get to meet one of his favorite athletes, he got to toss the pigskin with him.Atlanta Falcons Wide Receiver Harry Douglas said he remembers what it's like to be a young man like Randall looking up to the pros. "Back when I was in their shoes, I would have loved it if somebody from the NFL came to my school," said Douglas, who with several other Atlanta Falcons and cheerleaders, stopped by Meadowcreek Tuesday as part of a fitness program sponsored by the team. Douglas, Safety William Moore and other Falcons players and cheerleaders, visited with students like Randall in the school gym to kick off the fifth year for the Atlanta Falcons First Down for Fitness Program. "I really enjoy this," Douglas said. "Interacting with the kids, it's great." Randall agreed. "This is amazing," the student said as he watched fellow students catch and throw passes to Falcons players. Mascot Freddie Falcon also arrived to get the kids excited about fitness. Students danced to music thumping throughout the gym. Physical Education Teacher Cindy McIver said she was happy to have players arrive at the school. "It's getting them into the groove," McIver said. "It's good for them to get so excited about fitness like this. The school is part of the three-month program sponsored by the NFL team designed to challenge students in third through seventh grades to participate in fitness activities and live a healthy lifestyle. Randall was sold on the idea. "It's a good program," the young man said. "Lots of fun." For more information about the program, visit
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LAWRENCEVILLE -- The driver of the truck believed to have caused a fatal wreck Friday on Interstate 985 has been arrested and charged with two counts of vehicular homicide, Gwinnett County police said Monday.
At about 3:20 p.m. Friday, the white box truck being driven by 38-year-old Stephen Wadell Scott collided with a Nissan Altima on Interstate 985 South under the Ga. Highway 20 bridge. After being rear-ended, the Altima collided with a pickup truck and then a minivan towing a small trailer.
The driver and passenger of the Altima -- identified Monday as Donna and John Keese, 60 and 62 years old, respectively -- were killed in the wreck. They were a married couple from Lawrenceville, police spokesman Cpl. Jake Smith said.
Three people in the pickup truck were transported to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries. They've since been released, Smith said.
"Speed and alcohol do not appear to have been factors in this accident," Smith said.
Traffic was backed up for much of Friday's afternoon rush hour as emergency crews worked the scene.
Gwinnett County jail records show Scott, a Lithonia resident and driver for Royal Food Service, was arrested Friday and charged with two counts of misdemeanor vehicular homicide, as well as following too closely.
He was released the next day on $12,700 bond.
Royal Food Service is an Atlanta-based company that bills itself as "the Southeast's premier distributor of fresh produce and dairy products." A company spokesperson could not be reached for comment Monday.
Scott was driving a company truck during the accident.
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R 1 year, 1 month ago
WOW speed not factor with such metal compression?
ACC12_SEC13Booster 1 year, 1 month ago
Well, the speed limit on that section of highway is 70 miles-per-hour and as is custom for most Metro Atlanta police departments, one is usually not cited for speeding on a four-lane highway until they are at least 10 m.p.h. over the speed limit, usually 15 m.p.h. over the posted speed limit for most departments and even 20 m.p.h. for some. So it is absolutely conceivable that the guy could have been going well over 80 m.p.h. when he caused that fatal collision and still not been cited for excessive speed as is the custom of most Metro Atlanta departments.
notblind 1 year, 1 month ago
Big trucks are heavy and have a lot of kinetic energy. When they hit a car they do a lot of damage even if they are doing the speed limit. Aggressive driving and not maintaining following distance is far too common among truckers. I also see far too many car drivers jumping in front of trucks and slowing down causing chaos.
Nobody here knows what really happened so don't jump to condemn like what is happening in FL.
fbiMom 1 year, 1 month ago
It was a gruesome scene and a tragedy no matter what the cause. A family has lost their loved ones and this man will have to live with the fact that he took two lives and hurt others for the rest of his life. Not an easy burden for anyone to bear. The ripples will go on for a long time. I hope and pray that this was truly an 'accident' and not because someone cut the truck driver off or because he was distracted by his cell phone. He has a lot to live with. My heart goes out to all involved.
gabuci 1 year, 1 month ago
As I was traveling north on 985, I saw all of the congestion due to road work and thought, people are driving 70+ mph and when they get to the curve by the Buford exit, they have to stop on a dime. Not sure why they were doing road work on a holiday weekend and I question if there were signs letting people know. The road is not flat or straight enough to be 70MPH and then to have traffic backed up from merging on 85 to the Buford exit was crazy. My prayers go out to all involved and all who witnessed this horrible accident.
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Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Staff Photo: Jason Braverman Atlanta Falcons' Dunta Robinson (23) and Sean Weatherspoon (56) put a hit on New Orleans Saints' Jed Collins (45) during Thursday's game at the Georgia Dome., you know what I mean?" receiver Roddy White said. "When coach said, 'Congratulations,' nobody was woo-wooing or nothing like that, which is good.
"We've got our eye on the big prize."
First among those goals is to earn the top playoff seed and secure home-field advantage through the conference title game.
The Falcons are mindful, however, that their 2.5-game conference lead is no guarantee, particularly after earning the No. 1 seed two years ago and collapsing in a second-round blowout loss to Green Bay at the Georgia Dome.
Linebacker Sean Weatherspoon believes the entire team knows that there's too much at stake to feel complacent.
"You have to be happy with where you're at right now, but ultimately it's all about finishing it," Weatherspoon said. "We set our goals high. That's just part of the step, so now it's on to the next part."
Smith did his part to keep players energized by giving the team four days off following last Thursday's home win over New Orleans. The mini-bye week, as Weatherspoon calls it, marked the second time this season that Smith rewarded his team for winning.
After an Oct. 14 home victory over Oakland that improved the Falcons to 6-0, Smith gave the players an entire week off. Center Todd McClure, now in his 14th season, credits the fifth-year coach with having a good feel for knowing when to motivate his players and when to back off.
"Smitty knows this locker room," McClure said. "He's down here a bunch. He knows how everybody's feeling physically. He knows when we need rest. He knows when we need to turn it on and when we need to go harder and keep the pads on in practice. He's got a great vibe of the locker room, and I think that's what's making him successful as a head coach." today."
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July 1, 2010
Atlantic 10 Commissioner's Honor Roll List
WASHINGTON, DC - A total of 79 student-athletes from The George Washington University have made the Atlantic 10 Commissioner's Honor Roll for the Spring 2010 semester, as announced by A-10 Commissioner Bernadette V. McGlade Th and the women's rowing team led the way with 10 members each qualifying for the league honor roll. The Colonials women's lacrosse team also 2010 A-10 Commissioner's Honor Roll is comprised of 1,180 total student-athletes from the 14 member institutions of the conference.
GW's Breakdown (By Class):
Seniors: 20
Juniors: 8
Sophomores: 23
Freshmen: 28
By Sport:
Baseball 5
Women's Basketball 1
Cross Country (M+W) 6
Golf 4
Lacrosse 9
Women's Rowing 10
Men's Soccer 5
Women's Soccer 10
Softball 4
Swimming (M+W) 8
Men's Tennis 4
Women's Tennis 6
Volleyball 7
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by Raima Amin
“Where are you from?”
I sigh, exhausted. I am not tired physically; my shift has only begun, but I’m worn out by these persistent four words, posed as a question, which seem to follow me everywhere without reprieve. Where do I begin this time?
“Oh, I was born and raised here.” I try to appear as if the question surprised me, to make them doubt whatever prompted them to ask. Sometimes, if I say these words just right, or if the patient is already disoriented due to age or illness, I’ll catch a look of embarrassment cross their faces.
“Oh, I’m sorry,” they’ll say. “For some reason, your skin just looked a little dark to me.” I smile sympathetically, as if I have no idea what they’re talking about. I hope that my response will let the moment pass, that it will allow me to do my job without entertaining any follow-up questions of what a brown, hijabi girl like myself is doing here in Montana.
Most of the time, however, I’m not so lucky. “So what nationality are you?” is almost bound to come next.
“American.” I raise my voice slightly and look them directly in the eye to ensure my words are clear. This is typically the forking point in the conversation. Some will find it an appropriate moment to end their inquiries, but most are left unsatisfied. What I have suggested is unthinkable, and their minds simply won’t allow them to accept it. The idea that I am an American. That I was born and raised in Bozeman, and thereby, also qualify as a Montanan, even a Bozemanite. No, somehow this idea is too foreign to allow. After all, this is Montana. Rural, under-developed, Montana. There may be diversity in places like New York or California, but Montana? No, this place is for 3rd and 4th generation cowboys and ranchers, with skin that is as white as white can be. I’m often amazed by how this deeply ingrained idea can allow people to supersede the most basic pretenses of common sense.
“So…how long have you been here?”
I’m tempted to frown and raise my eyebrows. Didn’t I just say I was born here? Now you take a guess. Instead I respond calmly. “Well, I’ve lived here my whole life, so…it’s been about twen-ty…”
My audience watches anxiously. I realize they won’t be satisfied until I spell it out completely. “Twenty years.” I smile again, for that is all I can do to hide my frustration.
“Wow, that’s longer than I’ve been here!”
Yup, that’s what I figured. It is so often the case.
“Great place to live, huh?”
“Yeah, I love it! Anyway, I’m here to draw some blood from you…”
“Oh that’s right. Sorry about that.”
Finally. I am allowed to do what I came here for. Draw some blood, perhaps do an EKG, and promptly get out of their way. I am not paid to display my brown-ness, my hijab, or entertain questions from curious patients. Those come unsolicited. It’s not that I don’t mind answering. I could not be more proud of who I am, and I’m honored to be an ambassador for my faith. But sometimes, I just wish I could go unnoticed. It grows tiresome to constantly be the center of attention. Sometimes, I want only to elicit the same feelings of dread and discomfort that is prompted at the sight of other phlebotomists, my coworkers. Instead, my presence seems to trigger unending curiosity and a long train of questions. The “Where are you from?” questions are often followed by another series, with the related theme of “Why do you look that way?” It usually goes something like this.
“So, if you’re an American, then why do you dress that way?”
“Oh, that’s because I’m Muslim.” I want to tell them more, but phlebotomy is not the most ideal setting in which to engage in long theological discussions. I glance down at my hand-held “Mobilab”, displaying several other room numbers spread across the hospital where blood draws are due. I know if I don’t move quickly, my pager will begin beeping incessantly. I really don’t have time to stand here and play 20 Questions.
“Does your husband require you to dress that way?” I know they’re trying to be polite, but these questions are shocking nonetheless. Now I feel obligated to answer, to correct their misconceptions, to show them how far off they are.
“Well, I don’t have a husband,” I begin, as I tell them about the true motivations behind my choice of dress. I try to explain, in as few words as possible, the wisdom behind my modesty and the free will in all my choices. When I’m finished, I’m glad I took the time to share. My audience, often times consisting of the patient and several family members or friends, have a look of new-found respect. They finally understand, Alhamdulillah.
“That’s beautiful,” they say. “How long is your hair?” I think they realize that this isn’t entirely appropriate, but they take a chance anyway. “Oh I don’t know. Medium, I guess,” I have no idea what that means, and I hope they feel the same way. What I really want to explain is why they should never ask that of a hijabi, but I leave the message to be understood by my body language, my unspoken words.
“Well, it was nice to meet you!” I wave and dispose of my gray gloves now sticking to my hands with sweat, an indication that I have already been here too long. I close the door as I exit. I sigh, this time with satisfaction.
In all honesty, I’m glad they ask. I’d rather answer them myself than have them seek out answers from other sources that are untruthful or misleading. But at the same time, it feels like a cumbersome task, and I don’t know if I’m equipped to handle it. I’ve always been a quiet person, much more comfortable as a listener than a speaker. And yet, more and more, I’ve found that my commitment to Islam has increasingly pushed me into the spotlight. I thought wearing hijab would be a personal journey, part of a larger struggle to follow my religion as it was prescribed, in hopes of benefiting from its infinite wisdom and blessings.
However, I soon realized that practicing Islam, although a personal experience, requires many outward involvements. Unless I choose to become a hermit, I cannot expect to follow Islamic principles and go unnoticed by others. It’s impossible to pray five times a day, every day, all within the privacy of my own home. As a result, I’ve grown accustomed to praying behind bookshelves in my school library, where fellow patrons unknowingly come upon my location. During the month of fasting, I am often offered food during the day, obliging me to explain myself, explain Ramadan, and educate others about Islam. Considering this, it seems foolish to expect that I can wear hijab and not be questioned for it. Not in Montana, where strangers wave to each other in the streets and pass friendly greetings to those they have never met before. Perhaps I am lucky. I’ve never had the option of “blind faith,” because even if I don’t question why I practice Islam, there will always be others around me who will ask, compelling me to seek out answers to explain my faith. I don’t believe Montanans are unusually ignorant about Islam. Maybe they are just unusually curious. They are not satisfied to accept the rampant stereotypes when presented with the perfect opportunity to find out for themselves. When I knock on patient doors to draw blood, I present such an opportunity, and they embrace it. Instead of being frustrated for standing out, perhaps I should be grateful for their good nature. Instead of feeling overwhelmed by their questions, perhaps I should appreciate their curiosity for having helped me to further understand myself.
Thank you for wondering, for demanding the truth, and thank you for asking. I’m happy to answer.
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Steve Sailer reports that Michelle Obama failed the July 1988 Illinois bar exam.
The bar exam is extremely easy. I just passed the New York bar exam again this summer, despite having not studied any law for more than a decade. So I’ve taken three bar exams, and passed all three of them.
This information indicates that Michelle Obama was either (1) woefully underqualified to be admitted to Harvard Law School (no doubt being black helped); or (2) exceptionally lazy; or (3) both. It should be pointed out that she had a job lined up at Sidley Austin (BIGLAW), and those jobs don’t start until after the summer bar exam, so she had the opportunity to study full-time for the bar exam and thus she has no excuse for failing it.
This type of stuff really pisses me off because I was clearly more qualified than Michelle Obama to work at a firm like Sidley Austin, but she got the prestigious high-paying job and not me because of her blackness.
Sigma,
Do you see why I like qualification testing in various fields?
Its not fair or right or just in any sense of the word to give someone an advantage just because they graduated from Harvard or Yale. Alot of kids enjoy themselves in high school man. They chase girls or boys, go to parties, play sports, and enjoy being young in general. Alot of these same kids dont buckle down until they are in college. Many of these kids are the genetically gifted amongst us. Some almost despicably so as they will be large, nice-looking, happy, and smart all in the same package.
Some nerd who studies his butt off from the time he is 13 might do better on the SAT at 16 years of age, but he might have already reached much of his potential by that time. That nerd deserves to get into Harvard, but it does not mean that nerd does not get "passed up" in college by that secretely smart jock who was dating cheerleaders during the early years. A good standardized test for various professions and trade schools can seperate the wheat and the chaff. Just imagine the deliciousness of seeing all those critical theorists, sociology, psychology, and art history majors fall on their ass when they take it----letting them know in no uncertain terms that "yes, you are kinda dumb as compared to others". I'd enjoy knowing that they were MADE to know this as I still resent having to sit through some of those lefty-professors classes all those years ago. I think that people's scores on these occupational-exams should be made public, so that everyone knows if you are really a dumbass despite your degree. It would bring so many lefties down six or eight notches, that it would be worth it no matter the cost.
At our company we have a few folks from some prestigious places and a few from some very unprestigious places and a handful from some podunk colleges nobody has ever heard of. Guess what? There really is not much of a difference in them at all, and the all time screw up that I can think of came from Vanderbilt (he's fired), and a couple of our very best came from directional schools (ever heard of Eastern Kentucky University? me either for the longest).
Once one throws in racial-scholarships in this mix.............it equates with the Ivy league not meaning what the name implies anymore.
Posted by: miles | February 23, 2008 at 04:14 PM
You were also born with brainy Jew genes and she wasn't. In what way is that fair??
Anybody that thinks black people got dealt the unfair upperhand in the life lottery is crazy.
Posted by: Rain And | February 23, 2008 at 04:14 PM
Actually, Sailer was speculating re whether Michelle Obama failed the bar exam because she was admitted to the bar in May 1989, but graduated law school in May 1988. There are many reasons why her admission date may appear "late" -- she may have submitted her bar application late or signed up for one of the swearing-in ceremonies late. One cannot reasonably infer that she failed the bar the first time (i.e., in July 1988), without actual proof of that fact.
Posted by: Republican Patriot | February 23, 2008 at 04:16 PM
"Illinois bar exam"
Half Sigma...I'm pretty sure you know different states have different difficulty levels for their bar exams correct?
Did you pass the "Illinois bar exam" without studying?
What is the pass rate difference between NY, CT, NJ, and IL?
Have you looked? Are you being "lazy"?
Where you equally as outraged and upset when JFK JR kept failing his law exam...I believe 4 or 5 times? I doubt it.
Posted by: Dragon Horse | February 23, 2008 at 04:57 PM
"This type of stuff really pisses me off because I was clearly more qualified than Michelle Obama to work at a firm like Sidley Austin, but she got the prestigious high-paying job and not me because of her blackness."
If you feel that way then why don't you take advantage of your "Jewishness" and go to Hollywood and become a entertainment lawyer or agent. I've been to L.A. a couple of times and I can't count the Goldbergs, Steins, etc that are out there.
Don't pretend like they don't have internal affirmative action either, I know better. I have a cousin in the music industry who is a record producer and he has seen it over and over and over again...
I guess Jewish old boy networks are fine, as long as the government is not involved though right?
Posted by: Dragon Horse | February 23, 2008 at 05:01 PM
"Where you equally as outraged and upset when JFK JR kept failing his law exam...I believe 4 or 5 times? I doubt it."
No, HS is only outraged when blacks get a head up.
Posted by: Zeek | February 23, 2008 at 05:03 PM
81.4% of applicants passed the July 1988 Illinois bar exam, so that was not a difficult bar exam.
JFK, Jr. never pretended to be a great legal scholar. He got a job at the DA's office, not BIGLAW. Everyone knew he was a lazy rich kid.
Everyone in the legal community knows that New York has one of the more difficult exams.
And finally, there's no such thing as a Jewish old-boy network. Jews have no loyalty to other Jews.
Posted by: Half Sigma | February 23, 2008 at 05:05 PM
Everything I've read about Michelle Obama convinces me she was an affirmative action admit to college and law school. My guess: had she gone to Stuyversant or Bronx Science in NY, she would have been intellectually humilated.
Posted by: Independent Accountant | February 23, 2008 at 05:15 PM
"And finally, there's no such thing as a Jewish old-boy network. Jews have no loyalty to other Jews."
That's a lie. I know better. You don't have loyalty to other Jews, but I know Jews with plenty of loyalty and solidarity on key issues even if they argue about what it is to be "Jewish" among themselves.
Michelle Obama said she was a legal scholar?
She should have turned down a good paying job? LOL Your a working class girl from the Southside and someone offers you 6 figures in the late 80's...uhm...what would you do..."oh I don't deserve this position because I failed the bar once (if she did)"??
Yeah George W. Bush deserved to go to Harvard Business School with his "C" average and Kerry deserved to go to Law School with is "C" average right?
Did that upset you? Did you feel cheated?
Posted by: Dragon Horse | February 23, 2008 at 05:16 PM
"I know Jews with plenty of loyalty and solidarity on key issues"
Jews vote the same on certain issues, but they have no loyalty to other Jews when making hiring decisions.
Your buying into conspiracy mumbo-jumbo, assuming that because Jews are successful, they must be helping each other. They are not.
I wish it were true, then I would have gotten a good job because I was Jewish.
Posted by: Half Sigma | February 23, 2008 at 05:22 PM
Truth is Michelle Obama is the wife of the candidate. She is not running for anything. She doesn't want to be co-president like Hillary did.
What is Cindy McCain's education level?
"Cindy Lou Hensley grew up in affluent circumstances[4] in Phoenix, Arizona,[1] the daughter and only child[5] of James and Marguerite Hensley,[6] who founded Hensley & Company in 1955.[3] She attended Madison Meadows Elementary and was a rodeo queen in 1968.[7] She went to Central High School[5] in Phoenix. She graduated from the latter in 1972,[8] having been a cheerleader there.[9]
Hensley received her undergraduate degree in education[10] and a masters in special education from the University of Southern California.[11]S"
She grew up rich and that is the best she could do?
Yep...typical blond. Gonna post about that Sigma?
I also would like to see an article on the Affirmative Action George W. Bush and John Kerry got, because they definitely got some from someone. Michelle Obama's grades (at Princeton) according to her professor were quite good.
If you bothered to read the Newsweek article on her and not the Steve Sailer guessing game.
Michelle got into Princeton, not due to racial AA but due to being a legacy candidate due to her brother...
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Posted by: Dragon Horse | February 23, 2008 at 05:22 PM
"Your buying into conspiracy mumbo-jumbo, assuming that because Jews are successful, they must be helping each other. They are not.
I wish it were true, then I would have gotten a good job because I was Jewish."
Nope, no conspiracy theories. I have Jewish friends. I have all my life and I have heard their parents talk.
I will admit the ones I've heard talk this way were very liberal and were often the type who say "Never Again" and complain about antisemitism and send money to the Anti-defamation League...but I have seen this more than once, and my cousin I has definitely seen it.
Reality is there is no way there would be such a high concentration of Jews in the Entertainment industry in 2008, with the lack of antisemitism (which initially drove many of them their) if someone was not looking out for someone.
If the entertainment industry was disproportionately Italian-American to the point ever 4 people had an Italian name no one would even question what was going on.
The fact Jews may be innately more intelligent does not explain the concentration in one industry to such an extent.
Posted by: Dragon Horse | February 23, 2008 at 05:27 PM
Dragon Horse,
Careful - while being a race realist is welcome here, being a Jewish realist will get you tarred and feathered. While Hispanics and Blacks and WASPs engage in ethnic nepotism, Jews are atomistic and don't engage in such behavior. And if you don't think Israel should get billions a year in US aid, you are an anti-semite.
See how it works?
Posted by: hugh go naught | February 23, 2008 at 05:58 PM
HS - I agree with 90%+ of your material, but disagree with your assertion that Jews have not loyalty to each other. What about Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz?
Posted by: SirTallRem | February 23, 2008 at 06:02 PM
"What about Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz?"
In 1965, the old firms discriminated against Jews, which is why four Jewish guys had to start their own firm.
This is not an example of a Jewish old boys network, but rather an example of how the gentile old boys network kept the Jews out.
There's absolutely no evidence that their current associates are any more Jewish than any other NYC BIGLAW firm.
Posted by: Half Sigma | February 23, 2008 at 06:18 PM
HS,
Next time you ride the subway look at the ads for personal injury lawyers. You'll see plenty of them. With the notable exception of Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald ("We fight for brain damaged kids!") they're basically a collection of Jewish names.
Posted by: Peter | February 23, 2008 at 06:45 PM
Peter, PI is the slimy end of law, for people who couldn't get BIGLAW jobs.
I'm not sure how it proves a Jewish conspiracy if there is an over-concentration of Jews in the least desirable area of law.
Posted by: Half Sigma | February 23, 2008 at 06:54 PM
This type of stuff really pisses me off because I was clearly more qualified than Michelle Obama to work at a firm like Sidley Austin, but she got the prestigious high-paying job and not me because of her blackness.
And she's resentful, in spite of all the breaks she's had, to boot.
Posted by: tommy | February 23, 2008 at 07:01 PM
Anybody that thinks black people got dealt the unfair upperhand in the life lottery is crazy.
Who is suggesting that? I hear some arguing that maybe Michelle Obama got the upperhand in the life lottery, not blacks generally.
Posted by: tommy | February 23, 2008 at 07:06 PM
re: ""Michelle recalls things differently. A campaign spokeswoman says she had an edge getting into Princeton not because of affirmative action, but because her older brother was there as a scholar athlete. She was a "legacy," just like any other applicant with family ties to Princeton."
Legacy admissions at the IVYs for white males has been suspect in my experience since the mid 1960s. A good friend of mine at that time had a Grand father who had been the Head of the Rockefeller Institute went to Yale as did his father and Uncle, both of whom were full professors at an IVY ( not Yale ). He had brothers and cousins who went to Yale as did he. One day we met and my friend was visibly in an emotionally depressed state. His younger brother had been turned down by Yale. The boys SATs were circa 1350 ( if I remember correctly ) which gives an IQ estimate of circa 140. All of the legacy grease did not help him get in. This was over 40 years ago. Over the ensuing years I have seen similar fates meted out to legacy connected bright white boys ( some Jews at that ) who did not get in to their parent's IVY.
However, it may work for girls. My wife's breast surgeon, a Yale College graduate not Yale Medical School, just had her daughter accepted to Yale. I did not ask the surgeon what the SAT scores of her daughter had been but asked her what major is she taking as a surrogate for the SATs. The answer: Drama! The surgeon has two boys neither one got into Yale although they tried.
Dan Kurt
Posted by: Dan Kurt | February 23, 2008 at 07:21 PM
"This type of stuff really pisses me off because I was clearly more qualified than Michelle Obama to work at a firm like Sidley Austin, but she got the prestigious high-paying job and not me because of her blackness.").
A SINGLE AA hire can not explain why you did not get that job. It can't even explain 0.1% of why you didn't get that job!.
Posted by: Vim | February 23, 2008 at 07:46 PM
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Half Siggy just likes to whine. He went to ASU Law School (and basically wasted 3 years) and is bitter about it.
What I don't understand is why he didn't get a good job out of college (he did get an bachelors degree from Wharton). I guess HS is proof that a high IQ is not a ticket for success.
Posted by: Zeek | February 23, 2008 at 08:01 PM
Envy is not a useful emotion.
Posted by: Gannon | February 23, 2008 at 08:05 PM
I made it through the Michelle Obama thesis. She sounds really angry, but the poll results are interesting if I read them correctly (appendix).
One finding was that when blacks went to college, their intellectual comfort level with whites dropped by two-thirds, and never recovered. Social comfort with whites dropped by 90%. Political comfort with whites dropped by half. General comfort with whites dropped by 93% after attending Princeton.
Her conclusions section did not touch these findings.
Posted by: Bill | February 23, 2008 at 08:22 PM
My second problem with this line of thinking is he wants to blame a black woman because white people like to give black women jobs. Why don't you go find the Jews and Whites that like to give black women jobs and highlight them. Name and shame them. By all means, go right ahead.
If I get offered money, I'm going to take it! In a capitalist society, how exactly is Michelle wrong to take a job offered to her? Why are you criticizing her and mentioning her by name (seems unfair to me) for doing what any other American would do ie taking a prestigious job if offered?
Or do black people secretly control the hiring at majority white and Jewish firms?
Posted by: Vim | February 23, 2008 at 08:22 PM
"Or do black people secretly control the hiring at majority white and Jewish firms?"
According to white supremist sites, Jews are the enforcers of political correctness and multiculturalism.
I wonder how HS feels about this? He never seems to comment on how exactly black people have all this power to control affrimative action and political correctness, despite being a "low IQ" minority (to paraphrase his thinking).
Posted by: Zeek | February 23, 2008 at 08:35 PM).
Yes, because Michelle Obama is, after all, the only person to have ever benefited from racial preferences. In any event, Miss "Thank-You" almost certainly got a job at the expense of someone in the United States who was more qualified than her. But such obvious injustices have never bothered liberals in quite the same way many nebulous claims of "institutional racism" have.
Posted by: tommy | February 23, 2008 at 08:36 PM
You were also born with brainy Jew genes and she wasn't. In what way is that fair??
Anybody that thinks black people got dealt the unfair upperhand in the life lottery is crazy.
But the brainy Jew thing isnt an end unto itself. The hot job is the goal. HS is pointing out a clear case where someone less qualified than himself (and I dont know anything about his qualifications so lets assume its true) got what might be a 'plum' position.
I dont think her failing the bar exam has anything to do with her being First Lady, but why shouldn't HS be entitled to feel some resentment that he has spent a career having to use a tiny monitor instead of getting a Sidley Austin job just because of his skin color.
Posted by: Turambar | February 23, 2008 at 08:38 PM
tommy:
"Yes, because Michelle Obama is, after all, the only person to have ever benefited from racial preferences."
He named her in particular.
"In any event, Miss "Thank-You" almost certainly got a job at the expense of someone in the United States who was more qualified than her."
This is unproven. If she really was such a crappy hire then she couldn't have possibly done the work of a 'real' lawyer. Therefore, it is logical to think they actually hired a real lawyer to pick up the slack. So basically her whole paycheck might have just been some cash they were willing to throw away on public relations. If they didn't hire blacks for PR reasons, there perhaps would have been no job. White people can't fill the job of "token black woman" so that job would just be lost to the ether.
Posted by: Vim | February 23, 2008 at 08:53 PM
You were also born with brainy Jew genes and she wasn't. In what way is that fair??
Yes, Rawls Jr., better we compound the injustice by (a) denying a better qualified person the job on grounds unrelated to ability and (b) reducing the quality of lawyers the rest of society can select from.
You see, the question can easily be reversed: why shouldn't the brainy, studious Jew get the job because he was born with the right genes? And why should the rest of society to have to suffer along with him to make way for an incompetent?
Rawls should have dubbed his theory "Collective Injustice as Fairness."
Posted by: tommy | February 23, 2008 at 08:57 PM
This is unproven.
Hardly, unless you seriously want to argue that someone would not have been hired at all for the positions she got. Otherwise, there is exactly a 100% likelihood that someone else didn't get the job that Michelle Obama got.
If she really was such a crappy hire then she couldn't have possibly done the work of a 'real' lawyer.
That's ridiculous. It's like arguing that if she was really such a crappy student then she couldn't have possibly been admitted to Princeton. What's to stop her from doing the same mediocre work, aided by her skin color, that got her through college? As any employer knows, the choice isn't always between having a terrific employee or an incompetent who must be fired immediately.
Posted by: tommy | February 23, 2008 at 09:06 PM
If they didn't hire blacks for PR reasons, there perhaps would have been no job. White people can't fill the job of "token black woman" so that job would just be lost to the ether.
Yes, and I'm sure the money they paid her would have just disappeared into the ether along with her. Good God, you can't be serious?
Posted by: tommy | February 23, 2008 at 09:16 PM
Another thing that occurs to me is: Does HS really want to be saying he's competing with the AA hires for jobs? He is basically saying he is worse than EVERY white who managed to get a job which is pretty sad.
tommy:
"Yes, and I'm sure the money they paid her would have just disappeared into the ether along with her."
Maybe they would have put it to advertising to achieve the same goal, maybe put a picture of a black guy smiling and hugging his Jewish lawyer. You know the ads I mean. ;)
"Good God, you can't be serious?"
Haha. NO. Not as serious as you. This kind of complaining comes from a bunch of guys that claim that black people should stop complaining and just accept their bottom rung in society like it was nothing. However, they think not getting a single job is a huge personal wounding. It's amusing to me.. At least in this version, we have less chance of race wars.
Posted by: Vim | February 23, 2008 at 09:35 PM
From Catalyst Award. ....
Sidley partners are required to, among other things, annually account for their personal efforts to improve the diversity of the firm. This accountability—along with a strong, inclusive culture, leadership, and innovative programs and policies—ensures that the firm’s diversity efforts are sustained.
On the other hand, their New York offices were in the world trade center so, HS's life would have been in danger if he had gotten the job.
Posted by: Turambar | February 23, 2008 at 09:56 PM
Rain And and others pretend that:
Anybody that thinks black people got dealt the unfair upperhand in the life lottery is crazy.
The reality is that blacks are perfectly selected (well, except for the introgression of white genes here in the US) for a life in sub-Saharan Africa.
In that sense, they did get an upperhand in the life lottery, just not for competing in these complex societies that white people have created here in the US and in most of Europe nor those created by East Asians in certain corners of the world.
Posted by: Tiger Woods (I am mostly Thai and Chinese, Damn it!) | February 23, 2008 at 10:03 PM.
The compelling reason is competence. As I mentioned earlier, there is no reason why everyone should have to suffer so that a single token incompetent of any race can get ahead. Even blacks not named Michelle Obama don't benefit from inferior legal representation in this country.
At least in this version, we have less chance of race wars.
We need affirmative action to prevent race wars? Good grief! I guess I need to hang out at Stormfront.org and VNN more frequently to find out what's really going on. ;-)
Posted by: tommy | February 23, 2008 at 10:29 PM
Heh, tommy, in dispatches from China it seems that White power is so great that it has managed to get the Chinese (practically every one of them) discriminating against people of color, well, NAMs at at least.
Posted by: YellowFeverDude | February 23, 2008 at 10:34 PM
At the risk of pissing off some of you black-apologists, here's a link to stroy about a black woman who graduated from Harvard, was given a great job, and basically "F"'d it up by being an "angry black woman", sort of like Michelle Obama:
Judge Rejects Race Bias Suit Against DLA Piper
I do believe that it provides a good example of what HS was hinting at in this post.
Posted by: slwerner | February 23, 2008 at 10:48 PM
"We need affirmative action to prevent race wars?"
Hyperbole my friend. I have a weakness for rhetorical flourish! I was more thinking the French style riots of late. Culturally distinct people who have no social mobility tend to revolt over time. I also think interethnic crime is more vicious in relation to the extent of social isolation. I think if you are going to get robbed by someone from the lower class, you would hope that they would just take your watch and leave because all they want is money. What you probably don't want is for them to have so much seething resentment that they get something out of tying you up and torturing you for three days before killing you. I think increasing numbers of the second sorts of incidents are the price we pay for dehumanizing the poor and reducing open dialogue and connection between classes.
YellowFeverDude:
China is definitely not a democracy. Saying what is done in China is what 'the Chinese' want is a bit much. It's what the unaccountable ruling class wants.
Besides everybody wants to manufacture products in China. Very few non-Chinese want to live in China. Neither the Taiwanese, the Tibetans nor the Uighurs want to live in China.
But more importantly, the Chinese don't claim to aspire to racial harmony while the US rides around the world on a perpetual high horse raving about how commited they are to it. It is completely valid to critique the US on its stated ideals.
Finally, your argument is an argument to pay more attention to racism in China not to reduce attention paid to racism in America.
Posted by: Vim | February 23, 2008 at 10:50 PM
slwerner:
There is nothing for which to apologize. From the 'race realist' perspective people of low IQ are driven to crime by forces out of their control. Yes?
Posted by: Vim | February 23, 2008 at 10:59 PM
Thus spake vim:
China is definitely not a democracy. Saying what is done in China is what 'the Chinese' want is a bit much. It's what the unaccountable ruling class wants.
I think you missed my sarcasm. There seems to be plenty of NAMs who think that their treatment in China is all whitey's fault.
Don't get that job they want because it went to someone white, it must be discrimination.
Posted by: YellowFeverDude | February 23, 2008 at 11:07 PM
YellowFeverDude: Oh I see. My apologies. Sounds like an interesting phenomena.
Posted by: Vim | February 23, 2008 at 11:29 PM
"There is nothing for which to apologize. From the 'race realist' perspective people of low IQ are driven to crime by forces out of their control. Yes?"
Vim,
I take it from your off-subject reply that you didn't bother to read the article.
What I was hoping that the article would elucidate is the way in which some people (and I certainly limit it to any specific group) become convinced that they are entitled to not only getting a good job, but also entitled to be made to feel that they are doing a good job and to remain free from any criticism.
As with the example of Charlene Morisseau, I believe that what we are seeing with Michelle Obama is a deep seated resentment of whites - the "angry black woman" complex. With Morisseau, it seems that she didn't believe that she should "accountable" to the whites in positions of authority, nor that it should be required of her to actually perform her job functions. She didn't feel gratitude towards them for being given a chance to an associate.
If you'd have bothered to read the items that I provided you links to a couple of ays ago, you'd have learned that Ms. Obama has a similar deep-seated resentment towards whites because she felt as though they were entirely responsible for making her feel inferior. Now, today, she still bears a grudge for not being made to feel as though she was only at Princeton as an AA/Legacy.
She has been given a great opportunity in life beyond her natural ability, yet she has no gratitude to those who provided her that opportunity nor to the nation which gave rise to her being extended such privilege in life.
It has no bearing on her ability to be a candidates wife, nor even a first lady; but it does show the low-quality person that she is.
I say the same thing to rich-privileged white Ivy legacy entrants who are just as inclined to be handed great positions due to family connections, and who proceed to do a half-assed job, yet demand that people treat them with great respect and deference for regarding their poor efforts. Chelsea Clinton and JFK, Jr. pop quickly to mind.
Posted by: slwerner | February 23, 2008 at 11:38 PM
Thus spake slwerner:
She didn't feel gratitude towards them for being given a chance to an associate.
You know, where I work I don't feel gratitude for being given a chance to work their either.
However, you can bet I work hard and am constantly looking for ways to add value and justify my existence.
This is because I early a lot and have shares in the company, but also because I know we have let whites go who did not perform, we have let Chinese go who did not perform and we have let Indians go who did not perform. What we have left is people from four groups and these people all perform.
No one had a sense of entitlement where I work.
Posted by: YellowFeverDude | February 23, 2008 at 11:57 PM
Jews have no loyalty to other Jews.
Sure they do. Jewish scientists are 40% more likely than non-Jews to cite papers with Jewish authors.
Posted by: Rain And | February 24, 2008 at 12:10 AM
Getting cited is important for tenure decisions:
Posted by: Rain And | February 24, 2008 at 12:13 AM
slwerner:
Why be so hard on Michelle? At least she doesn't have a blog where she complains about white people stealing jobs from black people and advocates policies like reducing white immigration. Even if she did, do you think that would make her a racist? Maybe she's just a 'race realist' and she knows whites and blacks just can't get along. Wouldn't it be great to have a 'race realist' in the white house?
Posted by: Vim | February 24, 2008 at 12:16 AM
"Why be so hard on Michelle?"
Vim,
I gone on the record (on this forum) as pulling for Obama to be president. I've also pointed out that I am fully aware that he is certainly a race realist.
My point is merely that Michelle Obama represents a personality type which I have had the misfortune to have had to deal with in my own life - the angry black woman. She the woman who blames whites for anything and everything.
In every day life, blacks are far more frequently quite obvious in expression of their resentment and hatred of whites than is seen in the reverse.
For the record, I don't buy whites "crying" about how the system has "cheated" them. I'm quite certain that I've lost out to lesser qualified persons at times. It's something that one must find the character to move beyond.
I feel the same way to black "whiners".
As for Michelle, if see was of any "quality" at all, she'd simply come right out and name some of the obvious things that she could be proud of her country for, rather than have her PR folks awkwardly and ineffectively trying to finesse her statements. Her actions and attitudes scream, "I hate this country because it full of white people, who I hate".
I'm still pulling for Obama though. I'm counting on the Great Black Messiah being a Carteresque failure in office - swooning bimbo admirers notwithstanding.
Posted by: slwerner | February 24, 2008 at 12:37 AM
re: "Jews have no loyalty to other Jews."
This is IMHO unlikely to be true. Jews are boosters of Jews as much as ROTARIANS boost ROTARIANS and Masons boost Masons. ( Note: the RAISON D’ÊTRE of ROTARY and MASONRY is boosting each member! ) Below I will give a true story as an example.
I am 2nd Generation German both sides and Catholic to boot. Talk about a background where no helping hands can be expected.
While in college my father, an industrial engineer, was fired as he was just completing the construction of a new manufacturing plant. Years later the company begged him to return and fix the plant which had been screwed up by incompetent managers ( not engineers ) hired as a cost saving ploy after my father departed. My father declined the offer. My father who had built two plants and revised a number of other older plants vowed never to work for a company again. He decided to find an equity position instead. What he did was after many months of searching take a 50% stake in a company and attempt to rescue the company from bankruptcy. It was touch and go but he succeeded and eventually sold his 50% ownership for enough money to have a comfortable retirement. His co-owners were Jews and the banker involved in the rescue and other businessmen involved were all Jews. My father has only good stories of his dealings with Jews even with him being a Goy.
Well the son of the Jewish co-owner at some point after my father joined the business graduated from high school. He wanted to be an engineer. His SATs and high school transcript were not of high order expected for admission to a first rank engineering school. The next door neighbor of the Jewish co-owner was a professor of engineering at a high ranked engineering school. This professor managed to get him admitted and shepherded the boy through 4 years of Engineering to the point where the boy graduated, at or near the bottom of his class, but did graduate with a BS in Mechanical Engineering. My dad's business associate bragged to my father that his neighbor, the professor, made possible his son making it through with a degree being awarded.
Goys in my experience don't do this for other Goys. I am using the term Goy as meaning a non Jewish white.
Well how did the boy do? He was given a job by G.E. in Cincinnati, OH and managed to keep the job for 3 or 4 years at which time he was let go. Currently, according to my father who still is in contact with his ex-business associate the boy, now a man, is doing well selling antiques.
Dan Kurt
Posted by: Dan Kurt | February 24, 2008 at 04:38 AM
The thing you guys are missing is that ethnic favoritism works through social networks like any other kind of favoritism. So, yeah, there's a Jewish social network just like there's an Italian social network, a WASP social network, etc. Being a member of the appropriate group is a necessary but not sufficient condition for entry, particularly if the group in question is dominant in the area; i.e., you might get a job from the only other Jew in Plano, but good luck using your Jewishness alone to get a job in Hollywood. For that you have to be the director's cousin, etc. HS probably wasn't tied into the Jewish social network (maybe he wasn't too popular in Hebrew school; who knows?), so for his purposes, it might as well not exist.
Posted by: SFG | February 24, 2008 at 07:43 AM
Half Siggy just likes to whine. He went to ASU Law School (and basically wasted 3 years) and is bitter about it.
He's entitled to some complaining. It's not as if he went to some obscure law school. Arizona State is a well-known, perfectly legitimate university. One would think than an ASU Law School diploma would be more than (very) expensive toilet paper. Apparently not.
Posted by: Peter | February 24, 2008 at 10:42 AM
"For the record, I don't buy whites "crying" about how the system has "cheated" them. I'm quite certain that I've lost out to lesser qualified persons at times. It's something that one must find the character to move beyond."
I'm somewhat ambivalent about AA for this reason and because I think that it may be the best a heterogenous, democratic society can do under the circumstances. However, I see absolutely no reason to exacerbate the policy with a stupid immigration policy- but that is another issue.
Half could have overcome his ASU law experience if he wanted to. He would have probably had to become creative and initially work harder than the minority candidate, but his IQ would have shown through in the end. I have read enough of the WSJ blog on law to see how people took unconventional routes to become established in law (joined JAG, got an LLD like Half is doing now, joined a government firm first...). I think a big reason he didn't do law is because he realized how uninterested he was in the career. He should just admit the obvious.
But, how can I not be suspicious of a Black or Latino candidate with even top tier credentials given the disparity in national, standardized test scores and anecdotal stories like this? Vim is probably a good test taker and AA unfairly stigmatizes people like him and Thomas Sowell. Sowell has written about this issue extensively, in fact. There is an absolute cost to AA- even for minority candidates. This isn't discussed much by anyone here. If a minority candidate wants to impress me academically, I really want to clearly see his/her scores on the standardized exams, more than his/her degrees from whatever institution.
Posted by: retard | February 24, 2008 at 11:35 AM
Affirmative Action is the law! Any employer can be arbitrarily hauled into court and assessed big fines if even suspected of not complying with AA.
No wonder US firms are outsourcing overseas! If all the world had to abide by US regulations, the US would be creaming the lot of them, by Jove.
Posted by: Zim | February 24, 2008 at 12:25 PM
Dan Kurt, the idea that the only people who ever do favors for other people are Jews doing favors for Jews is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard.
If Jews are doing favors for other Jews, it's because they are kept out of the WASP country club where WASPs do favors for other WASPs.
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Retard, law is a profession in which if you don't get on the right career track when you graduate, no one gives a crap how smart you are or how hard you are willing to work.
Posted by: Half Sigma | February 24, 2008 at 12:31 PM
HS:
"Retard, law is a profession in which if you don't get on the right career track when you graduate, no one gives a crap how smart you are or how hard you are willing to work."
Then WHY is it so hard for you to understand what racism is or that it still exists in America? It's not that you couldn't work hard and overcome it but other factors come into play psychological and practical ... but I am sure you know what I'm saying ...
Anyway, so now you are admitting that intelligence and hardwork aren't as important as having the right degree. So lets look at Michelle's qualifications:
1. Intelligence - Low (according to HS)
2. Work ethic - No idea but lets say Low
3. Right degree - Yes!
So she has the number one qualification for the job! So it's not because she's black that she got the job over you. It's because she had the right degree from the right place. Please feel free to mention the other tens of thousands of white folks who got jobs that you didn't get because they did law at an Ivy league school.
Anyway, Ivy league degree isn't a ticket to a perfect life. You know that since you have one. You still have to work it.
Posted by: Vim | February 24, 2008 at 01:53 PM
Vim: "Then WHY is it so hard for you to understand what racism is or that it still exists in America?"
Huh? My post made it clear that I understand that society is racist against whites. And it's even more racist against Asians, the most discriminated-against race in America.
Posted by: Half Sigma | February 24, 2008 at 02:03 PM
"Then WHY is it so hard for you to understand what racism is or that it still exists in America?"
Vim,
I'm not clear if you're referring to the (largely imagined) conspiracy of whites to keep blacks out of the good-paying jobs (you know, like those nefarious souls who've kept those multi-million dollar NFL and NBA jobs ALL to whites); or to the hate and vitriol of blacks who despise white people for each and every time that their black skin color didn't get them everything they wanted?
Posted by: slwerner | February 24, 2008 at 02:07 PM
For what it's worth, Hillary Clinton failed the Washington, D.C. bar exam, but passed the Arkansas bar. Of course, she began her private legal career at the Rose Law Firm in Arkansas.
Posted by: DAJ | February 24, 2008 at 02:34 PM
Few people would care about M. Obama if she weren't she wasn't constantly out stumping for Obama and if he hadn't referred to her as his closest adviser.
No one cares about Mrs. McCain because all she has said on the campaign trail is that she is proud of her country.
Posted by: Roy | February 24, 2008 at 02:57 PM
Retard, law is a profession in which if you don't get on the right career track when you graduate, no one gives a crap how smart you are or how hard you are willing to work.
That's because law is a grossly overcrowded field, which in turn is because law school is easy (no math, no science, no computers). There's no need for such worry about "proper career tracks" in fields like electrical engineering and pharmacy, because those offer opportunities for everyone. Of course it takes a lot more brainpower to qualify in those fields.
Posted by: Peter | February 24, 2008 at 03:14 PM
HS:
"Huh? My post made it clear that I understand that society is racist against whites."
That's cool man. Don't let logic mess up your thing. :) You haven't responded to my pointing out that you are basically saying you were in competition for worst lawyer at every important firm to which you applied. If not so, then there is no way an AA hire would be taking your job. *Bottom* whites lose out to AA hires.
slwerner:
You read this website same as me. QED.
DAJ:
No. no. She's white.
Posted by: Vim | February 24, 2008 at 06:25 PM
AA hires take jobs of more qualified non-AA applicants. Happens everywhere, everyday. Meritocracy takes a holiday. Competence lost.
Posted by: Zim | February 24, 2008 at 08:16 PM
Anyone who has read that abortion she claimed for a senior thesis knows she was unqualified to go to Harvard Law. She was unqualified to go to Princeton also.
Michelle Obama's crowning academic acheivement has been released. Read it here:
Groundbreaking stuff...
Posted by: | February 25, 2008 at 11:07 AM
”You haven't responded to my pointing out that you are basically saying you were in competition for worst lawyer at every important firm to which you applied.”
Vim,
I may be miss-reading HS's point in making this post, but as I see it, it really isn’t so much about him complaining that Michelle Obama has cheated him out of an opportunity, but rather to point out that he, not she is the person who has a right to complain about the “unfairness” of the system.
It’s kind of a “common sense” understanding that in order to have the “right” to complain, one must have been the one aggrieved. In the example of Michelle Obama, she has not been aggrieved in the least, but HS can at least make a case that he might have been.
If we were to consider the case of a white person, who based on merit alone (grades, test scores – not legacy) made it into an Ivy League school, and ended up in a prestigious position afterward, we would surely dismiss any claims that such a person might then make about how unfair the system had been to them. We would right demand, “WTF!?!?”.
This would hold even more true if a rich-privileged legacy Ivy grad were to make such claims of unfairness against them. And, the same holds true for AA-privileged individuals who whine about the system having been unfair towards them (when the obvious reality is that it has been unfair towards others for their own personal benefit). This is where Michelle Obama comes in.
And, there’s more to this story…
In general, anyone who has spent any time in the adult worlds has no doubt encountered the angry black racist woman. It’s easy to dismiss the non-achievers who loudly grouse about the government (aka predominantly white taxpayers) not providing them a Mercedes to drive and a big-screen HD TV to watch while waiting for their welfare checks as the clowns that they are. We pretty much come to expect such ridiculous behaviors of under-class blacks.
However, when one encounters an educated, well-paid angry black racist, it quite another thing. As we all think of them, let me ask you directly, just what is it that they have to complain about? They’ve been privileged beyond their innate abilities, provided opportunities that other equally qualified people can only dream of, and enjoy protections afforded to them by virtue of their skin color that their working peers will never have. They ought to be overjoyed, but they prefer to bitch.
As one who has never enjoyed the benefits of the fantasy of “white privilege”, I’ve had to work my butt off to get where I am. I know the score. There are compelling reasons why those of “protected” minority classes will be advantaged above me. Life is simply unfair. The institutionalized racism of Affirmative Action is inherently unfair. But, one must move on, and not dwell in the past perceived grievances if one is to succeed. We white men are mostly just happy to live in a country that provides us the chance to get ahead on our merits. We know we have much to be proud of in out country. WTF is Michelle problem?
Posted by: slwerner | February 25, 2008 at 11:26 AM
Jewish medical students and resident get most ethnic favoritism on east coast. There were jewish residents who got all kind of award and honor in my program, who could not find job after training. In real life, the private practitioners know how to detect bullshit.
Talking about unfairness!
Posted by: MD | February 25, 2008 at 11:29 AM
Michelle Obama's problem is that she is a professional blacktivist. Her entire being revolves around herself as a Black Person. It doesn't matter that she went to Princeton and Harvard(notice she didn't tell those White Devils to get bent and enroll at historically black college though). If she didn't get in she'd be whining about racism(although, we'd never hear it except if we had to deal with her at the DMV, at diversity training for work, etc...) I think deep down she knows that she, like the vast majority of black people who went/go to elite schools, are in reality "charity" cases. They are a people that can't really do for themselves and will always be wards of the state and always have their hands out for more, more, more! If it isn't AA for school/jobs it is welfare or easier loans that they can't pay back, etc... Same thing really.
Posted by: | February 25, 2008 at 11:57 AM
slwerner:
The idea that Michelle benefitted from AA is pure speculation. It's something about which you have no idea. We don't have the admissions information. This is just pure stereotypical speculation. It's grasping at straws to defame a successful black person solely because she is black.
If you can be white, in a white dominated country and manage never to benefit from the fact then I am sure she can manage to never have benefitted from AA. Some black people actually don't put their race on admissions papers on principle for instance.
"In general, anyone who has spent any time in the adult worlds has no doubt encountered the angry black racist woman."
In your many travels, have you ever encountered the angry white loser? You know they type? (If not, go to stromfront.) As I mentioned previously, affirmative action can't explain even 0.1% of the reason why HS isn't at a top law firm.
"We white men are mostly just happy to live in a country that provides us the chance to get ahead on our merits."
"We pretty much come to expect such ridiculous behaviors of under-class blacks."
Yes, only the white men have the right attitude about life ... are you even reading what you are writing? Yes, Michelle is the racist ...
Posted by: Vim | February 25, 2008 at 12:12 PM
In general, anyone who has spent any time in the adult worlds has no doubt encountered the angry black racist woman.
That type certainly exists, but other than her more-than-20-years-old college thesis there's no real evidence that Michelle Obama is among its ranks. She might be one of the many people whose personalities and outlooks change after college.
Posted by: Peter | February 25, 2008 at 12:27 PM
"It's grasping at straws to defame a successful black person solely because she is black."
Vim,
Where have I defamed Michelle Obama? I've simply pointed out that she has no right to complain because she HAS been given advatages over others. Even if she did get into Princeton on merit (highly dubious, given the information already relaesed), she has still enjoyed a privileged life. SHE HAS NO REASON TO BE WHINING ABOUT THIS COUNTRY! She should be greatful to this nation for the good life she's enjoyed. If she cannot be gracious enough to be greatful, she should at least shut the "F" up!
Black "loser" types should come to recognize that most of their problems and failures are of their own making, and quit whining about others "holding them down". Same goes for white "loser" types as well.
Posted by: slwerner | February 25, 2008 at 12:29 PM
So successful people can't complain because they are successful. Unsuccessful people can't complain because they deserve whatever they get.
But it makes sense to you that HS, who is, as we speak, wealthy enough to be spending tens of thousands of dollars on a degree when he already has a good job should complain. Interesting.
Posted by: Vim | February 25, 2008 at 12:48 PM
"...there's no real evidence that Michelle Obama is among its ranks."
Peter,
While her remarks about not being proud of this country may not represent "real evidence" of her racially resentful persona, there's also nothing to suggest that she isn't just the angry black racist that her remarks make her sound like.
Cindy McCain has clearly laid down a challenge to Michelle in proclaiming that she, for one, is proud of her country. If Michelle is not the angry racist black woman that she now appears to be, why does she not come right out and say so?
Since her faux paux, she has been very guarded in her speech. Her PR people are trying to spin her comments into meaning that she was only referring to the “politics” of this country. But she says nothing of it. How hard would it be for her to rattle off a few achievements in this country since 1980 that she can point to with some measure of pride?
Despite Vim’s claim that I’ve defamed her, I have no reason to suspect that she is incompetent – she did graduate from both Princeton and Harvard, and one can assume she’d been doing a good job through her years of employment. I have no gripes with her regarding her professional success. Other than her racial resentments (which I believe are deep-seated within most blacks in this country), I’d give her high marks as wife, mother, and woman. She’s taken good advantage of opportunities extended to her to make something of herself. Good for her! (I can think of any number of people give great opportunities who “F”’d them up.)
And, perhaps I am projecting onto her the persona I’ve seen reflected by a number of well-paid blacks who clearly benefit from their skin color (even if the only benefit they enjoy is the race-based protection from criticism/dismissal, it is still a benefit NOT enjoyed by whites), who don’t even try to conceal their contempt of whites. Even though they have no “real evidence”, they still insist they are victims of discrimination. Even though they’ve personally flourished in this country and in this society, they still decry it because it is “white dominated” – as if that’s something bad or undeserved. Outside of white/western societies is there an example one might provide where those not of the dominant group have the kind of opportunities to rise and to succeed?
If I am projecting and undeserved persona onto Michelle Obama, I will gladly acknowledge that I have so – once some evidence emerges to show that she isn’t what she appears to me to be.
Posted by: slwerner | February 25, 2008 at 01:13 PM
"So successful people can't complain because they are successful. Unsuccessful people can't complain because they deserve whatever they get."
Vim,
In as much as this is a deliberate misreading of my words, good job!
Just to be clear, what I've said is that those who've enjoyed success should be suspect when they complain that the "deck was stacked" against them. Those who've made it on merit should not complain that it was "too hard", and those who've had either race or wealth privileges are fools when they complain that a "rigged system" has denied them their due.
Further, I've suggested that those who are not successful need to look at themselves as the source of their failures rather than seek to blame others. Plenty of blacks succeeded in times of over racism and discrimination. For people who will make no efforts to better themselves, nor even make an effort to find gainful employment, it is ludicrous to make claims of “the man” holding them down and invoke the excuse of a “legacy of slavery”.
Likewise, whites who blame their failures on minorities (I’ve never actually visited Stormfront, nor do I intend to; so I’m assuming this is what they do there) are lying idiots. This nation is full of opportunities for anyone willing to make an effort. There are plenty of examples of people who weren’t handed plum positions at prestigious firms right out of school who never-the-less managed to make something of themselves through hard work (there’s this guy named Gates; Bill, I think it is).
Frankly, Vim, I’m pretty much just tired of the whining from all corners about how oppressed and cheated they perceive themselves to have been. I’m not meaning to single out blacks alone. The world isn’t “fair”. It’s never going to be. Deal with it! Hate with get one nowhere – it’s as true for blacks as it is for whites.
Posted by: slwerner | February 25, 2008 at 01:30 PM
HS,
Michelle Obama has plenty of excuses for failing the bar(as well as courageously speaking truth to power about how horrible life has been for her, etc...). She's black, and probably many of the questions were unfair because they referenced white people's stuff like regattas, cotillions etc... You know, culturally biased and not taking into account the legacy of slavery, etc... She didn't get a pre-Bar exam orientation like she did before she went to Princeton so that she could make friends with other oppressed minorities who ended up thrown into the bigoted plantation that is the Ivy League. This undoubtedly caused low self-esteem. I wouldn't also doubt that those who scored the bar exam were closet racists(and sexists) who took the first chance they got to fail a black woman. It was a racist set up, clear and simple. I bet the white men who oversee the bar exam are regular posters on Stormfront as well. And as Vim can tell us, racism is everywhere in America.
Posted by: ? | February 25, 2008 at 01:52 PM
SlowLearner said:
There are plenty of examples of people who weren’t handed plum positions at prestigious firms right out of school who never-the-less managed to make something of themselves through hard work (there’s this guy named Gates; Bill, I think it is).
I suspect that Bill is a poor example of what you are saying. The other guy, the one from Oracle, Larry or something, is probably a better example.
Posted by: Slim Dusty | February 25, 2008 at 02:44 PM
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Dear Jerry and Vim:
My nephew did not get into Harvard as well although he did get on the waiting list. He currently is in his second year at Colgate after turning down Yale, Cornell and Penn. Now why did he not get into Harvard? He had the following qualifications: (1) since 7th Grade has been followed by the Johns Hopkins IQ study with his IQ of over 160; (2) SATs of 800 math, 800 verbal and A+ essay, (3) Nearly perfect GPA in high school ( A half white half Japanese boy had a slightly higher GPA and he did not get in to Harvard either but is now at Stanford. ), and (4) was Editor of his high school newspaper as a junior ( as well as a senior ) because the editorship was the reward for the highest score in a competitive exam given to candidates. ( He is also 6' 1" , a good golfer, has travelled the world, at least Europe and Asia many times, and has a winning personality, that is, is not a NERD. ) That he did not get into Harvard is insane if Harvard is a meritocracy. Given this, Harvard sure does not appear to be a meritocracy.
Now who got into Harvard? One girl in his high school got in with SATs more than 175 points below my nephew and a B on the Essay. Also, two Blacks got also in to Harvard who were from high schools near my nephew's high school. These two blacks had SATs circa 1200 combined according to his guidance counselor. Harvard is playing dice with its future. The future of its reputation of being the best is doomed to decline if it does not admit the best.
The so called by Vim "bottom of the white/asian pile" has no reality in actuality. No, the pile is not ranked top to bottom but is a stacked deck designed to break the future of high potential ( especially white ) males. These males who have been passed over ( unless they understand how they have been gamed ) will forever have doubts as to their worth. They will remember that they have been turned down by Harvard--as if, a mark of Cain.
Dan Kurt
Posted by: Dan Kurt | February 25, 2008 at 11:52 PM
These males who have been passed over ( unless they understand how they have been gamed ) will forever have doubts as to their worth. They will remember that they have been turned down by Harvard--as if, a mark of Cain.
So what? Back when I was applying to colleges I got rejected by Amherst. If that has created everlasting doubts as to my self-worth, it's news to me.* And it's no "mark of Cain."
There's something else. Getting rejected from Harvard is not like getting turned down when applying for a job. If you don't get the job you're still unemployed. In contrast, anyone who was a strong enough candidate so that a rejection from Harvard came as a surprise almost certainly will have been accepted at other very good universities.
* = of course I have enormous doubts about my self-worth, but that's because I don't worship The Most Important Sport in the World.
Posted by: Peter | February 26, 2008 at 09:29 AM
Wow you must have gotten really "pissed off" when you found out Hillary failed her bar exam also.
You can't catch a break anywhere, can you?
First Michelle Obama gets your job at Sidley Austin and now Hillary might steal your job as the president.
Posted by: SayWhat | February 28, 2008 at 07:40 PM
They haven't proved Michelle failed anything. This is just a guess based on taking the test late and being black.
We do know it's a fact that Hillary failed the bar the first time around. Personally, failing a test means nothing to me. Passing says something about your ability but it's tough to prove a negative and failing an exam definitely can't prove you are not a smart person.
However, just out of fairness, it is also confirmed that McCain finished almost last in his year in military school.
Finally, Michelle Obama is not running for president. She doesn't deserve to have her credentials attacked unless you think she's not qualified enough to stand next to Barack and wave when he becomes president.
Posted by: Vim | February 28, 2008 at 10:17 PM
"That nerd deserves to get into Harvard, but it does not mean that nerd does not get "passed up" in college by that secretely smart jock who was dating cheerleaders during the early years"
I am agree with you and am like you, I went to "University of Phoenix", and am way more smarter than those ivy league schools.
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Posted by: anonymous | July 29, 2008 at 04:53 PM
In addition to sounding highly uneducated and extremely bitter, your comments are highly presumptuous considering you are basing your conclusion, that Michelle Obama failed the Illinois bar exam, on the fact that she was admitted to the bar in 1989, rather than in 1988. There could be a number of explanations as to why this is so and I am not even going to bother list the plethora of possible reasons (use your imagination, since you seem to have a very vivid one). First of all, you are highly naive if you think that Harvard is in the business of admitting students that are not highly qualified–black, white, brown, yellow. And who cares that you passed three bar exams; so did I (including New York), big deal. You think that that alone makes you more qualified than the next to work at “Sidley Austin (BIGLAW)”.
Why didn't you land a Big-firm job? I mean, there are only a small percentage of African-Americans hired at large law firms--the majority of summer associates being white. You may want to consider the real reason(s) why “BIGLAW” didn’t want you. You are either: (1) woefully under qualified to work in a large law firm (especially since being white wasn't even enough to help you get the job); or (2) exceptionally lazy; or (3) incapable of applying basic legal principles of logical and reason; or (4) so shockingly ignorant and racist that you’re essentially unemployable; or (5) all of the above.
Food for thought.
P.S. Hillary Clinton, a Yale Law School graduate, failed the D.C. bar exam her first try. I guess this information must indicate that she was either (1) woefully under qualified to be admitted to Yale Law School (no doubt being white helped); or (2) exceptionally lazy; or (3) both. I am sure you were clearly more qualified than Hillary Clinton as well.
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I came across the following infographic and the author gave permission to use it in HSB.
LK describes the infographic as “These are the views of two graduate students suffering from excessive amounts of assignment and lack of sleep and who share a common yearning for good food, some noise on the streets and a dirty road.”
Note – This was written for those who can understand Tamil. It would be great, if someone can translate it.
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Final Message – Life is tough in USA. But, greatness, better life, better education doesn’t come without sacrifice and suffering.
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ha yaar u r totally confused me i prefer to go us , what i do i went there or it is better to stay there for my post graduation
Dear HSB
Recent posts suggest that the idea of pursuing Masters in US seems a waste. In fact your readers have forgot about the bright side of such education, the skill set one acquires and the opportunity to make your dreams come true. Its a request to set aside such sarcastic (demotivated…whatever) for the time being and post something useful! (I don’t know, maybe someone’s success story after lots of struggle!)
Someone is not going to be successful without going through all the struggles listed above.
he he really cool!!!!! there was smile on face for every cartoon and could easily recall yes, man this was i thought n simultaneously happening here
Kewl post! True in every sense….But thats life in US and it can be enjoyable too…….:)
Everything in US is costly compared to India except gas….People who like long drives can enjoy a lot there
every drive is a long drive here. go 5 miles to get bread, milk etc.
Thanks for sharing.
Awesome dude… you depicted the every moment of a day…!! It’s 100% correct…
guys. check out tambrahmrage.tumblr.com
along the same lines..
haha, damn awesome!! poor fellas!!!!
Ammmmaazzzzzzzzzzzing post……… Love every bit of it while reading….. Though i fail to fall in few categories but its almost the same way here. All ya people sitting in India dreaming to come to US, Don’t panic at all…. You’d love being here, it just take a Max of 3 months to fit to the situations… that’s it…. later on …Hahahahah You Will Get Used To
………. All the Best everyone
Felt really pity for me while reading this post. Shocked on the very first point itself and that’s the one which hurts me a lot. Each and every point is against me. Lolz !!!
Great yaar thanks a lot its really good thank q for posting n telling the difference between india n usa
Kickass stuff..!!
Thanks a lot HSB, for providing the above information. I were knowing some rules of living style in USA but not all of these.
may be its truly written for me
Awesome post!! I can translate it,
Sumaar- Moderate
Pulisadam- Tarmarind rice!!
Mor kuzahmbu, usili- These are all authentic south Indian Dishes
Suprabatham- morning prayer song!!
Brilliant!!!!!
Although I can understand the gist of most, but translations needed badly
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I will mail HSB the translation ASAP. Thanks for posting this on the site.
Oh, someone has already commented the translations.
I would just like to add that Saravana Stores is a shop in Chennai, well known all over TN, where people throng to buy cheap stuff. It is like Big Bazaar in that it sells clothes, furniture, jewellery, electronics…everything. It is cheap, sub standard and crowded beyond imagination.
Awesome stuff. Few have already posted translations.
Maybe you need to translate “Lady Kedi” too
Ok, KD means Known Defaulter or Known Depredator.
Wiki link:
So Lady Kedi actually means a female small time criminal.
I use a lot of Tamil on my blog. I will provide translations whenever and wherever necessary the next time I write
As a tamilian, i could understand it very clearly. In my view, things which needed some translations are:
1) SUMAAR- ordinary, not a great one.
2)SARAVANA STORES-place to buy items with cheap price but of no quality, usually perceived to be a place visited by lower income group
3)KUZHAMBU, PARUPPU USILI, JEERA RASAM-typical south indian brahmaniac foods.
4)SCENE POTTUFYING-just showing off themeselves as a nerd with foreign author books.
5)PULI SADHAM-again a typical southIndian food, can be called as tamarind rice.
6)SUPRABATHAM-usually a bhakthi song played in southIndian households to wake everyone.
I hope i have clarified most of the doubts which might arise for people who don’t understand TAMIL….
It’s bcoz lots of words are given in Tamil bro. Looks like HSB’s origin is from our great TamilNadu!! (is it so HSB?
). Hope atleast you can guess those words. Lolz !!
This image was created by Lady Kadi (see other comments below). I just posted it here.
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- Practice of Functional Programming is a Russian electronic magazine devoted to promoting functional programming, with both theoretical and explanatory articles as well as practical ones (FP success stories). Much of the material is often related to Haskell.
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- R. F. C. Walters. Cambridge Computer Science Texts, 1991, 176 pages. ISBN 0-52141-997-2 (USD $95.00 (hardcover), USD $34.99 (paperback)).
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On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 11:29:56AM +0100, Ketil Malde wrote: > Tomas?) No, I think you are right. Best regards, Tomasz | http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2004-December/008056.html | 2013-05-18T10:43:14 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 04:53, Rogan Creswick <creswick at gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 8:50 PM, Tom Hawkins <tomahawkins at gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Thanks. I tried this, but it appears cabal-install ignores the >> Setup.hs file. The only way I could get it to take is if I run >> 'runhaskell Setup.hs configure' directly. I always assumed >> cabal-install runs Setup.hs under the hood, but apparently not. Why >> is this? > > I believe you must set > > Build-type: Custom > > in your cabal file to use user hooks in Setup.hs. I don't fully > understand the implications of using Custom, though. I am successfully using hooks with the following in my .cabal file: Build-Type : Simple and my main in Setup.hs looks like this: main = defaultMainWithHooks $ simpleUserHooks { cleanHook = profileClean , runTests = runTestsBuild } /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org identi.ca|twitter: magthe | http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2010-July/080658.html | 2013-05-18T10:16:47 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
On 22/09/2010 02:18, Mitar wrote: > Hi! > > On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Simon Marlow<marlowsd at gmail.com> wrote: >> So rather than admitting defeat here I'd like to see it become the norm to >> write async-exception-safe code. > > This is also what I think. You have to make your code work with > exceptions, because they will come sooner or later. So if you handle > them properly, once you have this implemented, then you can easily use > them also for your own stuff. > >> It's not that hard, especially with the new mask API coming in GHC 7.0. > > Not hard? I see it almost impossible without mask. You cannot have > arbitrary long cleanup functions in for example bracket because > somebody can (and will) interrupt it even if you block, because some > function somewhere deep bellow will unblock. | http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2010-September/083937.html | 2013-05-18T10:45:56 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
On 18 February 2011 01:28, Johan Tibell <johan.tibell at gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 4:19 PM, Bas van Dijk <v.dijk.bas at gmail.com> wrote: >> Why is it not public? It is listed in the base API docs: >> >> > > Because it's not explicitly designed to be. Ok, that will make changing it a bit easier. Thanks, Bas | http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2011-February/089436.html | 2013-05-18T10:17:18 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
simonmarhaskell: > Casting boxed types to unboxed types or vice versa is pretty much > guaranteed to end in tears. Ah, you forget the 2004 IOHCC ;) module Main where{import GHC.Base;(&)=unsafeCoerce#;main=print(tail ((\(!)->map(\(?)->C#((&)(indexWordArray#((&)(?))4#)))(!))([106,117, 115,116,32,97,32,115,105,109,112,108,101,32,102,117,110,99,116,105, 111,110,97,108,32,108,97,110,103,117,97,103,101,(0x11)]::[Int])));} $ ./a.out "just a simple functional language" Admittedly, I took about 3 days to find an example that didn't end in segf^h^h^h^htears.. :) -- Don P.S. And it seems this only ever compiled with a snapshot of ghc 6.3. | http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/libraries/2006-November/006366.html | 2013-05-18T10:32:41 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Simon Peyton-Jones <simonpj at microsoft This makes a lot of sense to me. I think it is also time to admit that we are not the first trying to solve this problem. For example, Scala has the sbt tool: I am sure, it is not perfect, but it seems much more flexible and versatile than Cabal. Interestingly, the Scala guys were smart enough to avoid re-inventing the wheel and are using Apchae's Ivy to do their dependency management. Manuel | http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/libraries/2012-November/018922.html | 2013-05-18T10:13:40 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Mike GradyHere is a profile on Mike Grady, who is challenging Tony Alongi:
I’d like to start with a short introduction. My name is Mike Grady, and I was born and raised in Roseville, MN. I have a degree in Media Arts and have been working in the technology support field for the last 16 years. My wife Erin and I have lived in Hastings for the past 9 years, and moved into Ward 1 just over three years ago. We have three beautiful children and a couple of wonderful dogs.
I know what I want in a City Council Member, but what is it you want? I know what I want in this person; 1) fiscal responsibility, 2) financial accountability, and 3) respecting people’s civil liberties. Also, I want someone that will stand up for what they believe in and fight for those beliefs.
I am not a Republican and I am not a Democrat, I am a Libertarian. That means I support freedom of individual choice, and less government involvement in our households and daily lives
A new set of ideas needs to come to the Hastings City Council. I believe that the budget can be balanced, our City should be financially accountable to the taxpayers, and we can still preserve our beautiful, historic City of Hastings, with less government involvement.
Editor’s note: Mr. Grady did not answer the questions mailed to him and instead sent in this response.
Mr. Grady did not supply a photograph.
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