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Philippines set to destroy ivory tusks
The Philippines is set to destroy five tonnes of elephant tusks on Friday in a high-profile event aimed at shedding its image as one of the world's worst hotspots for illegal African ivory trading.
Environment department officials are scheduled to use a road roller to crush the so-called "blood ivory", becoming the first country in Asia to destroy its multi-million-dollar stockpile.
"We want to send a message to the world that... we are very much against the illegal ivory trade," the director of the government's Protected Areas and Wildlife Bureau, Theresa Mundita Lim, who will oversee the event, told AFP.
The five tonnes of tusks come from a total of 13.1 tonnes seized at Manila's port and international airport after being smuggled in from Africa in 2005 and 2009.
The rest of the ivory, worth many millions of dollars on the black market, was stolen over the years.
Most of it went missing while being kept by the customs bureau, a notoriously corrupt organisation in the Philippines, and a wildlife bureau officer is on the run after being charged with stealing about 700 kilogrammes.
The Philippines was in March named by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) as one of eight nations that was failing to do enough to tackle the illegal trade in elephant ivory.
The others were Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Malaysia, Vietnam, China and Thailand, and they were warned they could face international sanctions on wildlife trading if they failed to take action.
All countries have since submitted their action plans on how they intend to curb the trade, which is leading to the slaughter of thousands of elephants each year, although those reports have not been made public.
The Philippines was named because of its role as a transport hub for African ivory being smuggled into countries such as China, Vietnam and Thailand, where demand has skyrocketed in recent years.
The ivory is highly sought after for statues, trinkets and other items to showcase wealth.
Demand is also high in the Catholic Philippines, with the ivory used for religious icons.
Lim said the destruction of the ivory was one part of the government's action plan submitted to CITES.
She said another element was the imminent establishment of a multi-government-agency taskforce focused solely on the ivory trade.
The executive director of the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency, Mary Rice, praised the Philippines for taking the lead in destroying its stockpiles.
"This is a really significant event. It is the first time a consuming country and an Asian country has decided to dispose of its seized stockpiles," Rice, who is in Manila to witness the event, told AFP.
Rice said thousands of tonnes of seized ivory were sitting in storehouses in other cities around Asia and other parts of the world.
Some African nations have previously burnt ivory stockpiles, most recently Gabon last year.
The United Nations and conservation groups warned in a major report in March that African elephants faced the worst crisis since global trade in ivory was banned almost a quarter-century ago.
The report warned the risk of extinction was rising sharply in some nations.
Illicit trade in ivory had doubled since 2007 and more than tripled over the past 15 years, according to the report, which estimated that only about 420,000 to 650,000 elephants remained in Africa.
About 25,000 African elephants were estimated to have been killed for their ivory in 2011, the report said, and conservationists believe last year was even worse. | http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/afp/130621/philippines-set-destroy-ivory-tusks | dclm-gs1-056190002 | false | false | {
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Slash-and-burn a way of life on Indonesia's Sumatra
The ground was still hot and smoke hung in the air when Saparina set out to plant her spinach in the ashen remains of rainforest on Indonesia's Sumatra island, where raging fires triggered Southeast Asia's worst smog crisis in years.
The farmer waded through ankle-deep ash as she laid out her crops in fire-blackened earth among charred tree stumps on land cleared by the illegal method of slash-and-burn.
"I give thanks to God, now I can easily plant vegetables and oil palms," said the 36-year-old, who only gave one name, her feet still dirty after planting the crops in her half-hectare (1.2-acre) plot of land in Riau province.
While the blazes last month cloaked Singapore and Malaysia in toxic haze and provoked howls of outrage from environmental groups, many on Sumatra, from plantation workers to villagers like Saparina, are die-hard supporters of using fires to clear land.
It is the quickest and cheapest method of clearance for cultivation -- far less expensive than using mechanical excavators or bulldozers -- and the ash from fires is also a natural fertiliser.
As the haze clears, authorities are turning their attention from firefighting to trying to catch the culprits. For many, the focus remains firmly on big palm oil and pulp and paper firms.
Global demand in particular for palm oil -- used in everyday goods from soap, to lipstick to biscuits -- is booming, and rapid expansion of plantations is behind much of Sumatra's deforestation.
Nevertheless, the common acceptance of slash-and-burn clearances among smallholders suggests that blame is widely spread, even if big companies often buy the palm oil fruit produced on the smaller, private farms.
Small farmers clearing their own land, people paid to quietly flick a match onto a concession owned by a big company, and major companies themselves are all starting fires, activists say.
This year's fires pushed haze to record levels in Singapore, forcing residents to don facemasks and stay indoors. They also raised diplomatic temperatures, with both Singapore and Malaysia calling on Indonesia to do more to stop the problem.
But many on Sumatra see little alternative.
"Burning is obligatory," said Herman, the owner of a small palm oil plantation who declined to give his full name.
"Who would want to cut huge trees with their own hands to clear land? The trees are enormous."
Once the fires start they often burn deep underground in deposits of carbon-rich peat, and are notoriously difficult to put out.
Firefighters have had to resort to sticking hoses deep into the ground to douse blazes that have spread across thousands of hectares.
"It takes only a flick of a cigarette butt to create a big fire, especially in the dry season," Herman said.
"The fire travels like water flowing beneath our feet -- you have no idea where it might resurface and burn the land above."
The continued enthusiasm for slash-and-burn comes despite chronic health problems -- nearly 20,000 people in Riau suffered breathing difficulties in June due to the haze, according to a local health official.
Saparina, who insisted she does not start fires herself, conceded her children were "coughing at home" while she was out planting.
With the annual haze from forest fires on Sumatra the worst this year since 1997-98, Jakarta is under pressure to take action.
Police have so far named 24 small farmers suspected of starting the fires. Authorities have not said that any of them are from a major plantation company but they are looking into possible links.
Government officials have said some fires took place within the boundaries of concessions owned by big companies and are investigating eight firms.
Many companies have insisted they have strict "zero burning" policies and that any fires in their concessions must have crept in from outside.
But proving who really set the fires is a daunting task for police in a huge province where many plantation workers and residents seem to have a cigarette permanently dangling from their lips, 50 percent of the land is peat, and using fires to clear land is part of life.
Some now argue that the law banning land clearance by fire is unrealistic and should be replaced with government-regulated controlled burning.
"I believe law enforcement alone does not work," said Willem Rampangilei, the deputy minister for people's welfare in the national government. "We tried to stop the tradition but it's impossible."
Environmental groups such as Greenpeace insist the government must enforce existing laws banning slash-and-burn more effectively.
"The continuing practice of clearing land with fire is just the tip of the iceberg of Indonesia's flawed natural resources management," said Yuyun Indradi, a forest campaigner with Greenpeace Indonesia. | http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/afp/130704/slash-and-burn-way-life-indonesias-sumatra | dclm-gs1-056200002 | false | false | {
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Feb. 9, 2002
The Air Force Academy women's tennis team won the prestigious Gideon Cup for an unprecedented third consecutive season with a 6-1 victory over Army Saturday at the Cadet Gymnasium Indoor Courts.
The Falcons gained the doubles point by winning at No. 1 and No. 2 doubles. The duo of Brooke Parsons and Laura Nigro got things rolling with an 8-4 victory over Army's Annie Collier and Ali Rohr at the No. 1 position. AFA's Heather Shelby and Gina Black followed, suit, winning by the same score over Melissa Sentelle and Melanie Bundoc. The Black Knights captured the No. 3 match as Maelynn Bernosky and Marissa Limsiaco beat Kelli O'Bryant and Miclynn Crail, 8-2.
Parsons led the Falcons to five singles victories with a come from behind 1-6, 6-4, 6-3 decision over Collier at No. 1 singles. Shelby (No. 2), Nigro (No. 3), Black (No. 4) and Bryant (No. 5) recorded straight set victories for Air Force. Bernosky posted Army's lone singles win, defeating Kristen Jones, 6-3, 6-0, at the No. 6 slot.
The women's tennis equivalent of the Commander-in-Chief's trophy, the Lt. Gen. F.C. Gideon Tennis Cup is awarded annually to the winner of the Air Force-Army women's tennis match. The trophy is dedicated to preserving the good will and competitive spirit between the two academies.
Lt. Gen. Gideon graduated from West Point in 1940 and was commissioned in the infantry in 1941. He then became an officer in the Army Air Corp. He served the remainder of his illustrious career as an Air Force officer highlighted by commanding the 13th Air Force.
Air Force, which improves to 5-2 this season, returns to action next weekend with a match at the University of Denver on Saturday, Feb. 16 at noon.
Match Summary
Air Force 6, Army 1
1. Brooke Parsons (AFA) def. Annie Collier 1-6, 6-3, 6-4
2. Heather Shelby (AFA) def. Ali Rohr 6-4, 6-3
3. Laura Nigro (AFA) def. Melissa Sentelle 6-0, 6-1
4. Gina Black (AFA) def. Melanie Bundoc 6-4, 6-3
5. Kelli O'Bryant (AFA) def. Marissa Limsiaco 6-4, 6-4
6. Maelynn Bernosky (Army) def. Kristen Jones 6-3, 6-0
1. Parsons/Nigro (AFA) def. Collier/Rohr 8-4
2. Shelby/Black (AFA) def. Sentelle/Bundoc 8-4
3. Bernosky/Limsiaco (Army) def. O'Bryant/Miclynn Crail 8-2
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1 215 1st Ave S Kent, WA 98032
It's not easy to draw attention away from the belly-dancer that performs at Spiro's Greek Island on Friday and Saturday nights. But the aroma of tender gyro meat is up to the task, pulling diners' focus towards the kitchen. Inside, chefs labor over traditional Greek dishes, seasoning beef, lamb, and chicken with natural spices, sea salt, and housemade marinades. They also slice tender cuts from imported Greek broilers, and fry falafels before wrapping them in pitas, scattering them across salads, or dressing them in miniature togas. For dessert, warm honey drizzles onto flaky bougatsa, a custard-filled pastry lauded by reporters from Seattle Times Newspaper. Servers bear the plates out to the bright dining room, where paintings of Greek scenes adorn the walls.
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0.060556 | <urn:uuid:1e23c733-caac-4a07-89dc-14990ab73c5e> | en | 0.974814 | They used to say about Yitzhak Shamir that he conducted peace negotiations with our neighbors as long as they never ended - the negotiations and the sea, which in his mind was the same sea, because the Arabs were the same Arabs. To his credit, it should be said that he did not conceal his intentions - he admitted them, if ever so slightly. Nothing was urgent for Shamir until everything started to become urgent.
Every prime minister after him, with the exception of Yitzhak Rabin, behaved exactly like he did, though they added whistles and bells to the foot-dragging. If the rumors are true and history really does have a muse, he will one day convene a press conference and utter his verdict: Shamir, Shimon Peres, Benjamin Netanyahu, Ehud Barak, Ariel Sharon and Ehud Olmert are in fact the same dancer - one step forward, two steps back, and to the sides. Will Tzipi Livni also turn out to be a dancer in this troupe?
Each one loves to take but hates to give, becomes addicted to talks on condition that there won't be any results, plants the trees of life yet loathes the fruit of knowledge. This is how it goes. We set a table with the Palestinian side - Palestine first - because the Palestinian problem is "the heart of the conflict," as we all know. On the path to an agreement, we turn over every stone. This too is common knowledge.
Suddenly it becomes clear that the matter is not at all simple; it's quite complex for the most part. The negotiations are to this point advancing smoothly, 90 percent of the issues have been satisfactorily addressed, and it is already possible to see the end from certain vantage points.
They turn pale with this end. This end is our end, they will tell themselves and their confidants. Ultimately we will have to withdraw to the '67 lines, divide Jerusalem into two capitals and uproot settlements. And how will we bring about this end without a civil war, as Peres predicted recently from distant London, the things that are seen from there.
At this fateful stage, a moment before the disaster, they are abandoning the Palestinian track while being led astray, and they are urgently opening an alternative track; after all, Israel is a country that has naturally yearned for peace since its birth, its show must go on, and we mustn't close the gates to the theater of peace.
What do you know, they discover the Syrian track, which looks more comfortable and promising. Syria, after all, is a state and not just a gang. Oh my - quickly it becomes apparent that this ground is also treacherous, full of potholes. One hasty step and we fall into the chasm. But only one step lies between Israel and a complete withdrawal from the Golan Heights.
Thus there is no choice but to click away at the remote control and go back to Channel 1. Carefully, this time. No more talk of a final agreement on all the core issues, but measured, interim steps - baby steps. And if, God forbid, we once again get stuck, we can always go back to Channel 2, and back to the start, and God forbid we get an agreement.
Barak is just one typical example of the pre-signing cold-feet syndrome. When he was elected prime minister with all the hoopla - those were the days. The hopes of Israelis and Palestinians were rekindled that the Oslo process would be resurrected and implemented, after the miserable years of Bibi that did away with the light at the end of the Western Wall tunnel. It didn't take long for the hopes to fade. Barak revealed Yasser Arafat's true face, as well as his own. Without defacing precious time he skipped to the Syrian track, bottled that up as well, returned to the Palestinian track, got confused by the difference between interim agreements and final-status agreements, and his mind did not cool off like his feet until he bequeathed to us the second intifada.
What do we do when stuck on two tracks at once? Simple: Pull the Saudi peace initiative off the shelf, which became the pan-Arab "Beirut Declaration," which has become a hit of late. For over six years now it has been sitting frozen in the back of the kitchen, and suddenly it is put on the table as if it were warmed-up soup. Why it was forgotten for too long, why Peres and Barak suddenly remembered it - this is not important now. The main thing is that now it can be used to buy more time, to do as Shamir did and request a salary as Nobel Peace Prize laureates.
Until they find time for negotiations on a regional agreement, there will be more time-outs for the bizarre "economic peace" of Netanyahu and the "viable peace for generations," which will come upon us in the distant future only from "a position of strength" and after "a decisive victory" and a "searing of the consciousness" Moshe Ya'alon-style.
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Onigiri (japanese Rice Balls)
GETTING READY 1. Cook sushi rice and set it aside. MAKING 2. Put your hand inside a sandwich bag, and clump handful of rice. 3. Turn the bag over, squeeze and shape it into a triangle as shown in the video. Squeeze firmly but be gentle. 4. Remove bag, and... - 116.294
Oriental Onigiri
Black Gomoku Rice Balls
This recipe once became an actual onigiri product and sold at convenience stores nationwide in Japan. The rice is cooked with 5 black-colored ingredients: black pork (local specialty in Kagoshima prefecture), sliced kelp, black rice, black sesame seeds, and... - 98.0298
Rice Balls
MAKING 1) Prepare the rice. 2) In a bowl add 1/2 of the steamed rice, a pinch of salt and sesame seeds, blend well. 3) Shape into triangular rice balls by packing the rice in a bowl and shaping with hands. 4)... - 36.187
Dessert Rice Balls
GETTING READY 1) Rinse the rice well and soak in 1-1/3 cups of water for 2 hrs and then steam the rice, cool and shape into small balls. MAKING 2) In a saucepan with water add the azuki beans, allow to boil, drain and add 3 cups fresh water,... - 41.3675
Salmon Rice Balls
To prepare 1. Cook plain rice. 2. While rice is cooking prepare fillings. Salmon: Broil salmon until lightly browned. Remove bones and skin. Sprinkle with sake. Use about 2 tsps per rice ball. Bonito: Moisten bonito flakes with soy sauce. Use 1/2 tsp per rice... - 37.5444
Japanese Style Mochi Sweet Rice Cake
Add an oriental kick to your dessert with this luscious Japanese cake. The glutinous mochi sweet rice cake often comes stuffed with sweet, flavorful filling. Try replicating this dish at home as prepared by Anna Kim and we bet you will be stuck to this... - 92.0435
Here is a simple to make and absolutely delicious Japanese dish. Onigiri or rice balls is a Japanese dish that can be made with either precooked plain white rice or leftover rice. It is sometimes filled with fruits or fish or some preservatives and made... - 78.4706
Authentic Onigiri
Onigiri are rice balls wrapped in seaweed. They form a part of Japanese cuisine. Onigiri or rice balls are formed in different shapes like round, oval, triangular. Sometimes onigiri are filled with different fillings and flavors. You can often find one... - 87.567
Puree Of Rice
MAKING 1) In a pot, saute the onion in butter, until golden. 2) Stir in the carrot, rice and bouillon; bring to a boil. 3) Then simmer over a low heat for 30 to 40 minutes, or until the rice is very soft. 4) In a blender, whirl the rice and vegetables, until... - 38.0228
Onigiri are classic Japanese rice balls that are shaped by hand. This is a simple but delicious recipe that is ideal for beginners in Japanese cuisine. - 96.3172
Salmon And Rice With Green Tea - Yaki Onigiri Ochazuke
Everyone loves quick snacking, but it takes so much to make one, unless you know how to make this ochazuke. Its quick, easy, delightful and looks gaudy. Take a look at the video recipe for details. - 94.965
Coconut Rice & Fruit Sushi Dessert
Sushi doesn't have to taste like a fish tank, or be a main course. How about a dessert sushi made with mango and papaya? Check out this perfect party favor recipe. - 0
Black Rice Fruit Nori Rolls With Mango Sauce
I was thinking one day that black rice was just as sticky as sushi or short grain brown rice, so thought I’d try a colorful, non-traditional option for a sweet dessert nori roll. - 138.026
Bolas De Arroz Empanizadas (onigiris)
GETTING READY 1. In saucepan, add rice and water. Cook until done. Drain, and let it cool. MAKING 2. Take a handful of rice, and roll it with your hands, about a size of baseball. 3. Dig a hole with your fingers, until you reach the centre of the ball. 4.... - 103.817
#165 Ohagi
Ohagi is a classic Japanese dessert prepared using sticky rice, sugar, and beans. Sarah tells you how to make a quick Japanese dessert using easy-to-find ingredients that doesn't require more than 30 minutes to throw together. Delicious, sticky, gooey treats,... - 92.7808
Sushi In A Pouch
MAKING 1) Cook the short-grained rice. 2) In a saucepan, add the seasoning ingredients for sushi rice stir and heat until the sugar has dissolved. 3) Blend the seasonings into the warm, cooked rice, and sprinkle sesame seeds; cut and open 12 rectangular... - 41.9238
Happy Girls Day★hinamatsuri Kimono Sushi Dolls
GETTING READY 1. Peel and slice lotus root, shitake mushroom, carrot and snow peas. 2. In a bowl, combine water and vinegar. Dip lotus root in it. MAKING 3. In a pot, heat water and plum kelp tea. Add soya sauce, sake, sugar and mirin. 4. Now, Add mushrooms,... - 0
Smoked Fish And Rice Appetizer
GETTING READY 1) In a saucepan, put the rice and water, cover and bring to boil. 2) Simmer for 20 minutes or until rice is tender and dry. 3) Cut the salmon in half lengthwise. MAKING 4) In a bowl, stir in soy sauce, vinegar, sugar and salt. 5) Pat the rice... - 41.2117
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1. What is up with J-Bo' shooting? Did his girlfriend break up with him?
2. every downfall of an organization has its starting point. ARe we wittnessing that point? Or will we eventually see better athletes under bo's system .? Not since 98 have we seen 4 losses in a row
3. Wisconsin is the 10th best offensive team in the Big 10 they are definitely better than Indiana. On offense it seems they are playing as if they don't realize there is a basket and whatt they are suppose to try and do is put the basketball in the basket. Getting nothing out of Bohannon and Leuer. Landry is doing a great job of getting NBA scouts not interested in him. Why does Gullickson play? Is Wilson hurt?
Bo's starting lineup should be Taylor, Wilson, Hughes, Landry, and Krabbenhoft, with Bohannon and Leuer coming off the bench.
Big drop down this season not a good coaching job by Bo.
4. All good comments...Badgers are not a great team, which is why, Badger fan, they are NOT rated.
A lot of fans were crying that they get no respect, but really, they do NOT deserve to be rated.
This is a down year, but there is no guarantee they will be any better next year...and what's up with Gavinski??? Why was he ever given a full ride??? Must have had pictures of Bo???
5. You're right JIMBO, I too hope Bo see's the light about talent
sooner than later. He needs to look harder for the type of team
player he wants that has athletic talent too.
Today I thought the team played tougher at times, and they
didn't give up when down 15pts , after a bad start to 2nd
half. It was good to see Taylor playing with Hughes, that'll
be big next year. But where the heck is Wilson, with Leur
being too soft, and J-Bo's inconsistent play we need WILSON
in there.
And why the heck did J-Bo take those last two shots, when he
was off the entire game?? Those 2 shots killed any chance
we had to overcome. He needs to SIT!!!!!!!!
Krabby needs his number retired in the rafters, what a great
effort today. He's the only guy consistently showing up.
6. Everybody keeps harping for better athletes, yet they won the conference last year with one of their least athletic teams.... Where does everybody anticipate these "athletes" are going to come from?
7. come from looking beyond what your typically looking at. Every team except IN has upgraded their talent by recruiting harder than they ever have.
8. MSU is athletic, Purdue, Ohio St, Illinois and Minnesota are getting and will continue to get more athletic, if Bo doesnt change in a hurry the league is going to pass him by, if it hasn't already. Novelty offenses only last so long, Bo is a good coach but he better be willing to adjust or he will be looking for a job in 2-3 years.
9. This looks eerily like any one of a number of Steve Yoder's teams from the 1980s and early 1990s. In other words, it's not very good. But time will tell if this is a long term downturn or just blip on the radar. That will depend on how UW recruits. If the Badgers continue to think they can plug any old "role player" and "vanilla guerrilla" into the system and still win, we've witnessed the end of an era and it was fun while it lasted. If not, UW will rebound. It still takes athletes to win at this level.
UW wasn't as non-athletic last year as people think. This year, they are.
10. The team obviously needs a spark. Why not try and press in the 1st half, it was surprisingly effective at the end of the game today and even in OT against MN. Didn't Ryan's D-3 teams full court press?
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ItAintMeBabe (Inactive) writes:
I think part of the point of this article is that many of the retirees moving here aren't from the 'yard or the Navy. They're from Seattle or San Francisco--with $$ and professional skills. They're buying the houses in Hansville and Bainbridge, shopping at the higher end stores, basically bringing $$ to the local economy. And, many of them still work part time, telecommuting or running their own businesses.
The problem with local jobs, IMO, is that the really smart young people leave for college and never come back. The lower income kids that made some mistakes can't pass a security clearance and probably won't acquire the skills to get a high tech job.. The in between kids go to work at the shipyard.
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oscarfnmeyer writes:
in response to PotatoHead:
It all makes sense now. Republicans believe gay people can "fix" themselves and that raped women can "fix" themselves so they don't get pregnant.
This is what happens when you mix religion and Republicans with government - science gets thrown out of the window.
It is called counseling.
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thedrpete writes:
If five dimes is fifty cents, how much is a handful of nickels? Max Thompson's letter can't seem to find two coins to rub together. Whatever might have been going on in his head didn't translate to what got on paper.
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Mark-C (Inactive) writes:
Target practice is not a handgun's primary purpose. We build cars for use as transport, baseball bat are built for people to hit baseballs, tire irons to change tire, and knives are for cutting objects.
The 2nd Amendment says nothing about restricting guns from convicted felons and mentally ill citizens.
Why don't we defend the rights of all Americans? Surely we are not "interpreting" the 2nd Amendment.
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kelleysnyder#265259 writes:
I think Mr. Hodges' illustrates the answer to most issues in the telling of his life story: the desire to better oneself, the desire to learn, and then hard work to improve one's economic status. No matter male or female, black or white.
His beginning with a segregated education, culminating with his retiring as a professor from a large university, show just how far this country has come in the last fifty years.
It doesn't matter who you are or where you come from, as long as you are willing to help yourself.
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1voiceofreason writes:
in response to Axemanagain:
If they're debating it they're interested in it, having 14 & 15 year olds interested in science is a good thing.
Very little of the interest in climate change has anything to do with interest in science. Debating a topic with no knowledge of the building blocks behind it, or history of the past, is worse than useless and is not science, it's merely an exercise in who can parrot what they've heard. Give them the tools to have an EDUCATED discussion and then you have a point.
If these kids dont know history, have no clue what carbon even is, cant do a F* to C* conversion, dont have any idea of the volcanic process, dont know what solar radiation is or how it works, and dont know the process of photosynthesis, they have no business wasting class time discussing step 456 before they finsh step 5.
Any idiot can quote from one study or another. Knowing what is behind the studies is the key.
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progressiveliberal75#1417004 writes:
in response to Anon_2:
The questionaire is unfair. Either way it goes it implies guilt.
Do you feel bad about drug use? Yes. You feel bad about using drugs or No, You do not feel bad about using drugs. Its a trick question to trick all applicants into the drug test.
Now that said. What happens when every crack head in Knoxville is forced off of welfare? Where do they go? What do they do to get their crack?
Every action has a reaction. This reaction won't end up putting our money back in our pockets, but it will lead to us paying more money potentially.
When men pretend they are god and try to change the world they always loose. You cut the trees you loose oxygen. Its time we start looking at the results before trying to fix a problem. You 2nd Amendment advocates should know a thing about that.
I could give you my theory, but no body gives a sxxt about what I think.
So now you think we should be allowed to be held hostage based on what crackheads who get dumped from welfare may do?
How pathetic is that.
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egapollo writes:
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But it is ok for a 21 year old to be shipped overseas and fight for the freedom of America? It does not matter the age of the officer!! I feel for the family! What I wonder, who called to the 911 center?? If it was the home owner, he should have notified the police he was on the premises with a weapon and would be checking out the same!! When you call 911, they ask, " are there any weapons on the premises"?!
OK, just to clear some stuff up from the way that the story reads. There had been several calls in the past. Because of that, the deputy was doing a routine check of the property. There wasn't any 911 call that particular night. The property owner just happened to decide to do his own property check about the same time as the deputy. Apparently both of them were armed and neither of them was aware that the other would be there.
Two armed individuals at a place where crime had been reported in the past.
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"The record reflects that the respondent was admitted into the United States as a T1 D entrant, pertaining to legalization applicants denied temporary resident status (Respondent's Brief, Tab 5). Inasmuch as admission under that provision is a lawful admission, the respondent is not precluded from adjusting his status under section 245(a) of the Act, as an entrant into the United States having not been admitted. In addition, the record does not reflect that the respondent is or was a lawful permanent resident. Consequently, he appears to be eligible for a section 212(h) waiver of inadmissibility. The record will be remanded to provide the respondent an opportunity for a hearing on his application for adjustment of status." - Matter of X-, Dec. 2, 2011, unpub. Hats off to Kevin Dixler! | http://www.lexisnexis.com/legalnewsroom/immigration/b/insidenews/archive/2011/12/05/unpub-bia-victory-t1d-entrant-can-adjust-under-245-a-with-212-h-waiver.aspx | dclm-gs1-056750002 | false | false | {
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0.02667 | <urn:uuid:d7ffad71-ed77-479f-991b-768fe7c6a0a5> | en | 0.921299 | Greenleaf Chickens free ranging chickens good enough to eat 2013-09-15T04:29:09+00:00 Apache Roller (incubating) White meat the clear favorite Sigo 2013-09-15T04:28:52+00:00 2013-09-15T04:29:09+00:00 <p>According to WATT Poultry magazine, white meat -- including boneless/skinless breat meat, bone in skin on breasts and breast halves and wings -- is the clear favorite of American poultry diners. Twenty eight percent of US households admit that they are buying more white meat now than they have in the past and that they are also eating more of it as well.</p><p>White meat is most popular in the Midwest and Western states by the way while dark meat is more popular with wealthy Easterners. Rotisserie chickens, from take outs and restaurants, have actually over time been trending downwards while the supermarket cooked trade is up.</p><p>People who eat dark meat, like myself, say that they like the juiciness of dark meat and notice that the price is lower as well which for many is an added bonus.<br /></p> The French Say No to GMOs Sigo 2013-07-21T11:04:21+00:00 2013-07-21T11:04:22+00:00 <strong>A polling agency survey last year concluded that nearly </strong><strong>80 percent of the French are afraid of eating genetically-modified food which makes me wonder why in this country the anti-GMO crowd is in the minority. I really don’t understand it other than Agribusiness has both parties locked under their thumb.</strong> <p style="text-align: left;">One anti-genetically-modified-food poster in France shows a man with his eyes shut tight, his mouth pursed, a gun pressed to his temple. It is made of an ear of GMO corn.</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><strong></strong><img width="384" height="275" src="" alt="A French anti-genetically-modified-food poster." id="100000002106272" class="aligncenter" /></p> <p>This isn’t new in France. They have been locked in a battle with the European Union since 2008, when the EU food safety authority ruled that there was no “specific” scientific evidence that genetically modified crops were unsafe. </p><p>The French were up in arms and many French environmental activists routinely destroy genetically modified foods imported and used for animal feed. An example is last November,, 100 protesters climbed a grain silo and poured the highly toxic RICIN oil over the GMO soy feed.</p> <p><b>Ricin</b> is from the <a href="" title="Castor oil plant">castor oil plant</a> and is a highly toxic, naturally occurring <a href="" title="Protein">protein</a>. A dose as small as a few grains of salt can kill an adult human. Oral exposure to ricin is far less toxic and a lethal dose can be up to 20–30 milligrams per kilogram.</p><p> I think that's rather extreme and don't support the destruction of private property though it should be noted that there are some US-based bioterrorists like the Osho group in Oregon as well. <br /></p> Teflon is Toxic to Chickens Sigo 2013-07-21T10:57:30+00:00 2013-07-21T10:57:30+00:00 <h2>from the Healthy Chickens Bulletin.</h2><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border="0" class="mceItemTable"><tbody><tr><td bgcolor="#EDEDED" align="left">WARNING: Teflon Coated Light Bulbs Toxic to Chickens</td></tr><tr><td align="left"><p> I live in New Hampshire and keep a small flock of chickens, and have done so since 1980. </p><p>On February 6, 2011, GE's light bulb Rough Service Worklight 100 killed my flock. It has a Teflon coating. Teflon is toxic to birds.</p><p> The University of NH Extension Service veterinarian, Dr. Inga Sidor, did an electron microscopy of lung tissue from the sample four birds I gave her, to show they were <u>gassed to death.</u> She called them all "otherwise healthy."</p><p> I never had birds die before en masse.GE's insurance company paid me $780 to cover the cost of the vet's testing and also for some of my birds. But what I want and need them to do is to label their bulb. I did find that Sylvania with a similar Teflon-coated bulb labels theirs.</p><p>I want to be sure other chicken owners will know not to use GE's Rough Service Worklight (some are 100 watt bulbs, but 75 watt bulbs also exist) with birds.</p><p>The idea of a bulb that won't shatter when it falls was very appealing; but this GE bulb is a killer, and they are not moving to label it according to any communications I can find.</p><p><em>-Lynn R. Chong</em></p><p><em>New Hampshire</em></p></td></tr></tbody></table> Rin Tin Tin, the Book Review Sigo 2013-07-21T10:52:23+00:00 2013-07-21T10:52:23+00:00 <p>WE had a German Shepherd but she died. Still having grown up with them I enjoyed this book review very much. I really liked the 2nd paragraph that says "there is something uniquely noble...about the look of the German shepherd dog". Yes I have found that to be true. They are loyal creatures...and to some degree we have seen that with our chickens. </p><p> The roosters are like guard dogs, telling us about intruders (namely the construction workers and the mailman), warning us of predators (a raccoon) and not really wandering all over the place -- though one did once, apparently having gotten lost, but his Speckled Brothers called him home. So I would have to say, the chook is a poor man's watchdog.<br /></p><p> </p><p><img data-mce-src="" src="" alt="The Rin Tin TIn book Review" class="size-full" /></p><p>from the Economist</p><p> </p> Bees Save America Sigo 2013-07-21T10:46:51+00:00 2013-07-21T10:46:51+00:00 <div><div><dl><dt><a data-mce-href="" href=""><img width="300" height="496" data-mce-src="" src="" alt="A Fourth of July fireworks display at the Wash..." title="A Fourth of July fireworks display at the Wash..." /></a><br data-mce-bogus="1" /></dt><dd>Image via Wikipedia</dd></dl></div></div><p><strong><br /> </strong><strong>This fictional story was originally written for a publication called <em>The Sunday School Advocate</em> and was reprinted in the September, 1917 issue of the <em><a data-mce-href="" rel="historycom" href="" title="The States">American</a> Bee Journal</em>.</strong></p><p><strong>It has since been reprinted by several authors in articles detailing the history of American beekeeping.</strong></p><p>While obviously a fictional account of how our honey <a data-mce-href="" rel="wikipedia" href="" title="Bee">bees</a> "Saved America," it<br /> makes for entertaining reading for this <a data-mce-href="" rel="historycom" href="" title="July 4th">4th of July</a> weekend. Enjoy!</p><div><img width="300" border="0" height="372" data-mce-src="" src="" /></div><p>The brave patriots of the American <a data-mce-href="" rel="wikipedia" href="" title="American Revolution">Revolution</a> were having a particularly hard time of it in the summer of 1780. <a data-mce-href="" rel="biographycom" href="" title="George Washington">General Washington</a> and his ragged, half-starved <a data-mce-href="" rel="wikipedia" href="" title="Soldier">soldiers</a> were in camp just outside of <a data-mce-href=",-75.17&spn=0.1,0.1&q=39.9533333333,-75.17 (Philadelphia)&t=h" rel="geolocation" href=",-75.17&spn=0.1,0.1&q=39.9533333333,-75.17%20%28Philadelphia%29&t=h" title="Philadelphia">Philadelphia</a>, where it was certain that the enemy was getting ready to make an important move.</p><p>Man after man had risked his life trying to get their secret, but so far no one had been able to give Washington the important news without which he dared not risk his small force in battle.</p><p>But the great Washington, himself, scarcely took the independence of the colonists more seriously to heart than did little Mistress Charity Crabtree. Despite her prim <a data-mce-href="" rel="wikipedia" href="" title="Religious Society of Friends">Quaker</a> ways, no eyes could spark with greater fire at the mention of freedom than those that smiled so demurely above her white neckerchief and plain gray, dress.</p><p>Charity was a soldier’s daughter, and though his patriotism made her and her brother John orphans, when the boy also left to fight for his flag, Charity did not shed a tear, but handed him his sword and waved him godspeed. Though she was all alone now and only twelve years old, the little maid kept a stout heart.</p><p>“If I hold myself ready to serve my country, I know the time will come,” she said, as she walked back from the gate through the fragrant lane, honeycombed with beehives. “Meanwhile, I must keep my bees in good order.”</p><p>Charity’s father had bee a bee farmer, and he kept all these hives at the entrance of his lane, so the bees could search the highway for wildflower sweets. One of his last acts was to send a beautiful comb of their honey to General Washington, where-upon the General had smacked his lips and said: “Those bees must be real patriots. They give the best that is in them to their country.”</p><p>Charity stopped now to notice how well the bees were swarming. They seemed particularly active this morning, but she was not afraid of these little creatures who do not sting unless they are frightened or attacked.</p><p>“I shall have a great many pots of honey to sell this fall,” she thought. “It is good <a data-mce-href=",-71.4222222222&spn=0.1,0.1&q=41.8236111111,-71.4222222222 (Providence%2C%20Rhode%20Island)&t=h" rel="geolocation" href=",-71.4222222222&spn=0.1,0.1&q=41.8236111111,-71.4222222222%20%28Providence%2C%20Rhode%20Island%29&t=h" title="Providence, Rhode Island">Providence</a> who inspires the bees to help me keep our <a data-mce-href="" rel="wikipedia" href="" title="Little White House">little white house</a> all by myself, until brother John returns.”</p><p>Then suddenly the little Quaker maid turned pale. She stopped for a second with her hand to her ear, and then she ran quickly to the highway. These were terrible times, when, at any moment, bullets might whizz about like hailstones, and every good colonist lived tensely, in fear <a data-mce-href="" rel="rottentomatoes" href="" title="The Little American">the little American</a> army would be captured and their brave fight for independence lost forever.</p><p>It was a man in citizen’s dress who galloped down the road. His hat was blown off and he pressed his left hand to his side. When he saw Charity he just was able to rein in his horse and, falling from his saddle, draw her close so she might catch the feeble words he muttered between groans.</p><p>“You are <a data-mce-href="" rel="wikipedia" href="" title="Patriot (American Revolution)">Patriot</a> Crabtree’s daughter?” he murmured, and the girl nodded, as she raised his head on her arm.</p><p>“I am shot, I am wounded,” he gasped. “Leave me here, but fly on my horse yonder to General Washington’s camp. Give him this message: ‘Durwent says Cornwallis will attack Monday with large army.</p><p>’ Do not fail him!” cried the man. “Be off at once! The enemy is pursuing close.”</p><p>Poor Charity had just time to repeat the message and assist the fainting man to a grassy place under the elm tree’s shade, when the air thundered with a thudding of hoof beats, and before the terrified girl could gain her horse, a dozen soldiers leaped over the garden wall at the back of the house.</p><p>“For my country!” the plucky maid cried, and leaped to the saddle. But even then she realized that if once the British saw her they could easily remount their own horses, evidently left on the other side of the wall, and so capture her and prevent her from reaching Washington. As it was they discovered the unconscious soldier, whom they quickly surrounded by a guard, then spied the fleeing girl and immediately gave chase.<br /> “Ho, there!” they cried. “Stop, girl, or by heaven we’ll make you!”</p><p>They crowded after her into the mouth of the lane, while Charity cast about hopelessly for some way of escape. Suddenly, with the entrance of the soldiers, the bees began to buzz with a cannon’s roar, as if to say, “Here we are, Charity! Didn’t Washington say we were patriots, too? Just give us a chance to defend our country!”</p><p>Like lightning, now, Charity bent from her saddle, and seizing a stout stick, she wheeled around to the outer side of the hedge that protected the hives like a low wall. Then, with a smart blow, she beat each hive until the bees clouded the air. Realizing from experience that bees always follow the thing that hits them rather than the person who directs it, she threw the stick full force at her pursuers.</p><p>As Charity galloped off at high speed she heard the shouts of fury from the soldiers, who fought madly against the bees. And, of course, the harder they fought, the harder they were stung. If they had been armed with swords the brave bees could not have kept the enemy more magnificently at bay.</p><p>While Charity was riding furiously miles away, down the pike, past the bridge, over the hill, right into Washington’s camp, her would-be pursuers lay limply in the dust—their noses swollen like powder horns. When the little maid finally gained admission to Washington’s tent, for to none other would she trust her secret, the great general stared at her gray dress torn to ribbons, her kerchief draggled with mud and her gold hair loosened by the wind. But Charity had no time for ceremony.</p><p>“I have a message for thee, sir,” she said, standing erect as a soldier beside the general’s table. “I have ridden these many miles while a dozen of the enemy have been kept at bay so I might bear it.”</p><p>When she gave Washington the message he sprang from his seat and laid his fatherly hand upon her shoulder.“</p><p>The little Quaker maid has saved us,” he said, and his voice rang while he looked deep into her gray eyes, lighted with honest loyalty.</p><p>“I brought the message only as I was directed, sir,” she said. “It was my bees that saved their country.” You can imagine Washington’s surprise and that of his officers who crowded in with warm praise for the girl, when Charity told them of the story of the patriot bees.Washington laughed.</p><p>“It is well done, Little Miss Crabtree,” he cried, warmly.</p><p>“Neither you nor your bees shall be forgotten when our country is at peace again. It was the cackling geese that saved Rome, but the bees save America.”</p><p><em><a data-mce-href=";id=05338e2494&e=201f9be374" target="_blank" href=";id=05338e2494&e=201f9be374"> </a></em><br data-mce-bogus="1" /></p><h6>Related articles</h6><ul><li><a data-mce-href="" href="">Some interesting facts about bees</a> (</li><li><a data-mce-href="" href="">Bee Curious</a> (</li></ul> Free Sample of BioNutrients Sigo 2013-07-21T10:45:17+00:00 2013-07-21T10:45:17+00:00 <p>I received in the mail a coupon for a free sample of BioNutrients AG 8-1-9 which is for grass and such. <a href=""> I went to their websit</a>e and it seems it is totally organic. While I got the flyer, anyone can ask as well. </p><p>I guess I will, as reading the information about the product one 8 oz packet covers an acre which is good.</p> The Pterodaustro and Grit Sigo 2013-07-21T10:37:22+00:00 2013-07-21T10:37:23+00:00 <p>One prehistoric flying reptile, the Pterodaustro guinazui, has been found with a cargo of gravel in its guts. For most bird owners, budgies, chickens, guinea fowl, this is grit. <br /><br />For reasons unknown to me this gravel eater has gotten a lot of attention. Since birds are one of the few survivors of the the Mesozoic era, the other being the incredible alligator/crocodile, I would have figured that flying dinosaurs did the same. Perhaps all dinos did that? I honestly haven’t figured that far and the article I saw this tidbit in, New Scientist, did not postulate that far either. Well, it’s something to chew on.<br /><br />Back to the P. guinazui. It seems that this flyer is a reptilian version of the flamingo because its unusually long skull gave it a beak-like snout head down and bill underwater, stirring up organic matter with their webbed feet and instead of the flamingo's ridges which run along the sides of its beak, the P. guinazui is thought to have hundreds of long, thin teeth to do the same.<br /><br /> Now here's the grit part. Luis Chiappe, the researcher from the Natural History Museum of LA County, who published this in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, DOI: 10.1080/039.033.0508 , (the original link is no longer valid) says that the pterosaurs may have used the stones to help grind up the tiny crustaceans it ate just like " modern filter-feeding birds like flamingos" or, I may add, chickens who use grit to break up their food in their gizzards. <br /></p><p><br /></p> WebRing Sigo 2013-03-08T02:03:48+00:00 2013-03-08T02:04:06+00:00 <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src=";y=greenleaffarms18421;u=defurl1"> </script> <center>Powered by <a href="" target="_top">WebRing</a>.</center> <!--optional--> <noscript><center><table bgcolor=gray cellspacing=0 border=2><tr> <td><table cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr><td align=center> <font face=arial size=-1>This site is a member of WebRing. <br>To browse visit <a href=";y=greenleaffarms18421;u=defurl1"> Here</a>.</font></td></tr></table></td></tr></table> </center></noscript> Weather Sigo 2013-02-23T03:57:14+00:00 2013-02-23T03:57:14+00:00 <p>Today was actually rather warm; we broke freezing and despite the snow on the ground and the chill in the air, there was a rather balmy feel to the place. Of course once the sun set, all of that changed and snow began to trickle down again, but during the day, while the sun shone, it was a bright and cheerful.</p><p>Yesterday OTOH was a horror. It was cold, extremely windy and while the sun was bright and shone, one step out of the house led to a quick retreat homeward. The only one that I could see actually enjoying the weather was our winter lover, Gusto, the family Borzoi. He stood on the hill, sniffed the wind and looked eagerly about for passerbys. None of course were to be found and he seemed somewhat found.</p><p> When it is windy, like yesterday, even the cockerels won't really walk about. They hover towards to the hen house and look leeward for respite. The hens though seem not to care and yell and squeal for release-- let me out of here. 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By: Melanie Dee
Break Studios Contributing Writer
Attending a wake can often times be a very difficult thing to endure, and sometimes figuring out what to wear is the very last thing on your mind, to make things easy we have provided a list of what to wear to a wake.
1. It is customary for the immediate family to weak all black clothing, but it is not really all that necessary. While dark clothing is the most common you can wear other colors, but just make sure you do not show up wearing summer colors, or bold bright colors. Neutrals are acceptable.
2. You can still wear black if you like to keep things traditional. Black suits, or dresses are acceptable even if you are not immediate family of the deceased.
3. Men can wear black suits, as women can wear black dresses, or neutral colors such as grays or dark blues.
4. Slacks are also acceptable. Just be sure to avoid khakis unless they are darker in color.
5. Shorts are not really all that acceptable for men or women to wear to wakes. Granted no one will say anything to you at the time being, it is not very presentable.
6. Men will sometimes wear sunglasses inside during wakes. This is acceptable as those around you realize you are crying but do not want others to see.
7. Keep things respectable. Women should not have their chest hanging out in revealing tops or dresses. We are not at a club, it is a wake, to show respect for the family members of the deceased.
8. No matter what you wear, always be sure to express your condolences to the immediate family of the deceased.
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Critic score distribution:
1. Positive: 0 out of 6
2. Negative: 3 out of 6
1. While EA has done an OK job of turning quidditch into a video game, the sport itself doesn't have enough depth to it to headline a stand-alone product.
2. Potter fans may like the game because it lets them experience Quidditch first hand, but this isn't the kind of sport you play for hours on end. [Spring 2004, p.42]
3. Multi scrolling levels give the game a 3D appearance which will fool some gamers for a while but it's hard not to get bored playing on the same plane.
User Score
Generally favorable reviews- based on 9 Ratings
User score distribution:
1. Positive: 5 out of 6
2. Negative: 0 out of 6
1. JackB.
Mar 2, 2004
2. MatthewK.
Feb 29, 2004
It is hard but fun.
3. CaseyJ.
Dec 30, 2003
This is a so so game. The graphics are OK, the gameplay is not very good when your chasing the snitch. but it is kind of fun.... | http://www.metacritic.com/game/game-boy-advance/harry-potter-quidditch-world-cup/critic-reviews?dist=negative | dclm-gs1-056950002 | false | false | {
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 8 Critics
Critic score distribution:
1. Positive: 6 out of 8
2. Negative: 0 out of 8
1. The title suite on this two-CD set is the Tree's finest hour: a mounting drama of memoir and real-news trauma, animated with slicing guitars, ghost-song electronics, mile-high harmonies and smart pop bait.
2. Stellar 12-minute opus 'Time Flies' teems with Pink Floydesque arrangements and moving lyrics, while 'Octane Twisted' offers up massive guitar riffage that you can bang your head to.
3. That said, unlike early proggers who favored meandering instrumental doodling over succinct songwriting, Porcupine Tree always favor the importance of memorable songs over flashy solos, which certainly makes the group one of the top modern-day prog rock bands.
4. The Incident is an incident in music that must be acknowledged.
5. He is a very, very good songwriter, which keeps Porcupine Tree afloat even when they aren’t really pushing the envelope.
6. 60
With these less-then-cutting-edge elements Wilson manages to conjure that's diverse and full of drama. [Oct 2009, p.97]
7. It's sprawling beast, but for all its occasional spots of indulgence it's a towering achievement. [Oct 2009, p.115]
8. 76
It's a bit like Lance Armstrong placing second in the Tour de France--not the finish one is accustomed to, but still a remarkable achievement. [Fall 2009, p.98]
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Universal acclaim- based on 32 Ratings
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1. Dec 22, 2011
Sorry Porcupine Tree, I didn't really get it. Sure, for the most part it's great, but it can get boring. The biggest disappointment however is the sound quality, something of which Porcupine Tree has always been excellent at, I don't know, it just sounded a little muffled. Full Review »
2. Aug 5, 2011
The follow-up to "fear of a blank planet" by Steven Wilson's prog. rock/metal band porcupine tree is a very good album although it isn't as brilliant as the aforementioned album. For me, the best song is "time flies". Full Review »
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Oct 2, 2009
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Stoner doom delicacy - 97%
Doominance, October 17th, 2013
I think this is one of Electric Wizard's best releases. I don't get the "average at best" opinions at all, but like they say, "to each their own". In my opinion, this is stoner doom sexiness. Pure stoner fucking doom metal!
Jus Oborn's riffs might be a bit monotonous on this release, but they are heavy, bluesy, and most importantly; catchy. Another thing is that you won't hear the fuzziness you'll hear on later albums, but this isn't a bad thing at all. The riffs on this album wouldn't work as well with the same sound as the riffs you'll find on releases such as Come My Fanatics... and Dopethrone.
Electric Wizard's opus proves us that Jus Oborn is more than a capable vocalist and lyricist. Here, you will find some of the wizard's finest moments when you think of vocals and lyrics. But Jus Oborn alone doesn't make this album as good as it is. The rhythm section is most excellent! Mark Greening's drumming is what true stoner drumming should sound like - tight as a nun's cunt. Tim Bagshaw's basslines are solid and work well with Greening's drums, and at the same time, complementing Oborn's guitar work.
Like I said earlier, the riffs aren't the most creative ones, but they're damn strong. As soon as Stone Magnet starts playing, you're hooked. While Stone Magnet is a good song, it's not as good as what you'll find later on. In fact, this album just gets better further you travel into it. What truly stands out in this release of hazy riffage is Mountain of Mars. This is a very trippy psychedelic instrumental song which takes you on a journey through the vast cosmos. Black Butterfly is one of my favourite songs by Electric Wizard and is definitely a strong point in this release. It's a bit more diverse than the rest of the songs. It's the "doomiest" song, in my opinion. The lyrics are great, main riff is good and it features a decent solo followed by a fast bit, working as a breath of fresh air.
I don't know why this album isn't rated higher by fans of this music genre. I think it's very overlooked and perhaps overshadowed by Sleep's Holy Mountain. I think Electric Wizard's opus is as good as Sleep's Holy Mountain. While Black Sabbath's Master of Reality might have been the first true stoner metal album, the genre itself didn't grow popular until bands such as Kyuss, Sleep and indeed Electric Wizard released albums such as Blues For The Red Sun, Holy Mountain and Electric Wizard in the 1990s; over two decades after Master of Reality's release in 1971.
If you're just getting into Electric Wizard, you've probably listened to songs off Dopethrone and Witchcult Today, maybe even Come My Fanatics..., but by all means, don't leave this album out. This is a great, great album!
To me, this is one of Electric Wizard's best, and one of the best within the stoner doom genre, so for that, I give this amazing album a score of 97%.
How Electric Wizard began as Sabbath worshippers - 75%
NausikaDalazBlindaz, December 27th, 2012
Modestly self-titled, Electric Wizard's debut album ushers in what has come to be an institution in the UK metal scene. Fittingly, the band's name is detailed in the same font that Black Sabbath used for their eponymous debut album. Anyone launching a doom metal band with similar ambitions of becoming a household name in the future, take note ... The artwork by Dave Patchett (best known for his Cathedral album covers) is stunning too, depicting a woman astride a bat-winged seahorse flying through clear waters over a city of colourful yurts and giant statues, one of which recreates a statue of the Graces of Greek mythology.
The foregoing tells you, if you hadn't guessed already, that Electric Wizard's inspirations are bands like Black Sabbath and Cathedral and that their music is steeped in retro or traditional doom metal with stoner influences. Listening to the debut the first time, I can definitely hear the old doom style combined with slower, sludge metal touches and a more psychedelic stoner influence; the surprise is that the music doesn't sound all that dated for its time and still sounds quite fresh even 17 years (17 years!) later. Part of the reason must be that recording and production methods have improved a lot since the late 1960s when the Sabs launched their career and had to make do with whatever studio recording facilities were available to them (and we have to remember too that Tony Iommi and Co faced a lot of prejudice and discrimination in their early career); another reason is that EW use lead guitar solos quite sparingly and don't over-indulge in them to the extent that a lot of old 70s hard rock and metal bands did.
Hearing the album a second time and then a third, I find that it improves with each hearing and there are few filler tracks. For me, the best tracks are fairly sludgey ones like "Black Butterfly" which is a slow foot-dragging affair with long droning guitar chords and an unexpected dive into a change of key for the lead guitar solo, enhanced by reverb which takes the listener into a different dimension of consciousness for a brief time; another such track is "Devil's Bride" with its steady-state motorcycle-at-rest chug alternating with more active and sinuous riffs, and sinister vocals. Nice touch at the end where it all goes completely berserk.
For something very different, the instrumental "Mountains of Mars" has a beautiful and quite spooky space-ambient atmosphere hovering over the bass-dominant rhythm loop. I like the track as it is though I have to stop my mind from thinking (as usual) of all the zillions of ways EW might have worked it into other as yet to be written songs: whatever I think could be done with it, "Mountains ..." certainly shows some potential for the band to pursue a more ambient direction if the musicians had so desired.
I get the impression that EW are finding their feet and not quite sure how to integrate the slower, bass-heavy sludge metal elements into their brand of Sabbath wannabe retro-doom. Songs near the beginning of the album sound quite fresh and enthusiastic. There are still some surprises in trad doom yet to be discovered. This is not a bad album for people new to EW to start with: it shows the band's influences in music and lyrics and demonstrates that even household names often follow in the footsteps of their inspirations - a little too closely perhaps.
No Hope, No Future, No Fuckin' Job - 94%
dystopia4, December 8th, 2012
Electric Wizard's debut is often cast aside as a mere Sabbath clone. While doom metal certainly has it's fair share of Sabbath worship, it would be unfair to disregard this as a half-baked Sabbath duplicate. While the Sabbath influence is certainly there, just as it is on countless other doom records, Electric Wizard add their own flavour to a traditional sound. Saying that this is no more than a Sabbath clone is just as silly as saying the majority of modern black metal is no more than Burzum and Darkthrone rip offs. It has been often asserted that with their debut, Electric Wizard had not yet found their sound. This is only half true at best. While they do have their signature sound, it manifests itself in a more traditional setting the first time around. Their drugged-out vibe and slow infectious riffs are there, they just aren't pushed to the extremes that they would be in subsequent records. This isn't quite as heavy and sludgy as they would later become. Make no mistake, this still is damn heavy for a more traditional doom sound.
This album is pretty straightforward stoner doom, while they have their own unique subtleties, this certainly isn't far from what you'd expect when the name of the genre is mentioned. It should be kept in mind, however, that at this point the genre wasn't as well established as one might think. Sure, Sabbath had certain songs that exemplified the stoner doom sound back in the seventies, but it was only in the 90s that the stoner strand of doom started to really blossom as a sub-genre. Many people seem to forget how influential this album is for the time it came out. Every little subtlety on this album exemplifies a laid-back stoner vibe. This sound has become somewhat of an archetype for the genre. While taking some queues from Iommi's riffcraft, they take a preexisting sound and adapt it into something new.
This album is much more accessible and straightforward than any of their other records. While this does feature some relatively long songs, the songwriting remains to the point. These songs are catchy without coming off as overtly melodic. "Black Butterfly" is a prime example of the heights their songwriting can reach. Definitely the best track of the album, this song is one of the most memorable in Electric Wizard's discography. Although the album is almost always slow, a faster section is thrown into this song. This provides an interesting shift in dynamics and is quite a surprise upon first listen. "Stone Magnet" is also a track that stands out, featuring top notch songwriting and general all around badassery, something that is magnified greatly by the song's lyrics:
"Looking all around, the world's a dream
Traveling to places that I have never seen
High up here is where I'm really free
Listen people, you've got to free the weed
Yeah, you knew the deal
You knew I would make you feel
But look around you, what you got
No hope, no future, no fuckin' job"
The riffs are simple, but do much more than merely get the job done. They're the type of riffs that refuse to leave your skull after the album's duration has come to an end. The riffs have a nice groove to them, which is an occurrence that remains throughout the album. The solos aren't really that much a far cry from what they are on later albums. Spaced out and bluesy, they often start slow and crescendo to lightning fast pull ons and pull offs. This release does have occasional tinges psychedelia, with "Mountains of Mars" being the most prominent example of this. Otherworldly free-floating psychedelia is rooted by deep bass notes. This is something to drift off to in a daze.
Often looked over as that Sabbath worship album they did before they found their sound, this record rarely gets the respect it deserves. The riffs are 100% killer, the songwriting is great and the overall vibe is something worth hearing. It's one of those albums you can really tune out to. This is much more than just a decent starting point for the band, it successfully achieves everything it set out to do. Sure, it isn't as experimental or crushing as some of their later works, but this album does a spectacular job at creating an outstanding sound in a more traditional framework.
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As good as it's going to get but not bad - 70%
marktheviktor, July 24th, 2010
Apparently, Electric Wizard's music are the "must have" thing for doom metal but I'm not buying that. If you ask me-and that's only if you ask- there are better doom metal bands than this. They try, I'll give them that. And succeed at what they do. They specialize in pulverizing you back to the stone age with heavier than thou riffs stuffed with bass lines augmenting for even more weight. And if you smoke a lot of weed well, this is the band for you. I am a reasonable man however. I will give them more credit in that they pick and stick to their formula. This self-titled debut album though is more straight forward classic doom than their more popular Dopethrone record; an album I just did not care for. And so this is the album of theirs that I have come to prefer. And when I say it's more straight forward, it's relatively so for them as I found it isn't completely different than their others. Every bit of their elephantine heaviness of sound is here as the others; just not as protracted with that self style of theirs. And this one can get boring at times too but there are some parts of it that I enjoy. I would still take Cathedral on their worse day over Electric Wizard on their best twenty-four seven and three hundred and sixty-five days a year. Just so you know!
I got a sense of deja vu when Stone Magnet opened the album. I could have sworn I heard this song before on another EW album. But really, that was just because of the familiarity of it all. After awhile it starts to sound the same but once I reorientated myself, I could make it out as a bit different. The vocalist delivery for instance, captured quite a lot of Pentagram as well as a nice guitar solo. Mourning Prayer had a pretty nice smooth bore riff of what I look for in doom that transits well into another sensible rhythm that flows with the Bill Ward style hits. But if I hear another song by these guys where Jus moans "politician..." I think I'm gonna hurl. Again, I've heard this same thing before on other albums by them and so it starts to become tired after awhile.
Mountains of Mars is a very cool song for all the right reasons. Maybe the title alone will hint exactly what those reasons are. No prize for guessing that it's a pastiche of Planet Caravan by Black Sabbath. It's got the quaint cosmic aura and lunar isolation. The only discernible thing about it is that it has no vocals and it's more bass driven. The easy thing to have done would have been to just do a cover of Planet Caravan but I'm glad the band went all out and did something much like it instead. Behemoth is played to live up to its name. It's big and steeped with cumbrous dimension where there's room for classic Sabbath solos in and all around. This is a favorite song of many Electric Wizard fans and that's understandable but I much prefer Devil's Bride because it's more up to speed with the time structure allowing more room to operate to do other things like change up for another retro type solo. That's been a criticism of mine for this group. On a lot of other albums it seemed they were too busy dooming for the sake of dooming and there was never any space to put in anything else that could go with it in an interesting way. That's why I like this album better because the band is more economical with their sound.
The highpoint of this record is easily Black Butterfly. It does start out in the usual predictable way but things get interesting when the riffs go from colossal to epic. The bass proves to be more useful when it rears back into a more conventional purpose of setting the tone for that wonderful guitar solo that soars like a mythical dragon sprung by Saruman. The last song is Electric Wizard. I felt it's a good track to end things on. This is a very heady number with it's length and stoner grooves that conjures up uncanny psychedelic classicism that we would expect from old Black Sabbath.
I haven't heard every full-length album that this band has released. This eponymous record by them was my first. It was good enough to make me go out and buy Come My Fanatics...(which was interesting but too avant-garde) and of course the Dopethrone album that I have made clear my opinion on. I think I will remain with this record right here if I want to listen to Electric Wizard. It might be the least liked LP by EW enthusiasts but I'm not out for anything more than what I heard from this record. I'll stick to this and be just fine.
Why so misunderstood? - 95%
ProjectileZombies, August 12th, 2009
It may have something to do with this being my first Wizard album. It may have something to do with my love of stoner doom. But fuck this 60 percent shit. I've been listening to this for over a year, and I still do, because it is superb. Superb execution, stellar performance, and overall a true slab of stoner metal art. If I were asked to introduce a metalhead to stoner metal, I would hand them Holy Mountain and this bad ass mother fucker. Ooooooh, the guitar isn't all fuzzy wuzzy like on CMF and Dopethrone! Well, go have a cry. If you're going to let the production, which is pretty damn good, turn you off listening to these brilliant, classic tracks, then you're a fool for it.
When I saw this beast only had one review a little while ago, I took a crack at a review. It never showed up here. Luckily, a positive one showed, but now I feel some fighting must be done. Did you say the drumming was bad? The drumming? Bad? God damn son. It's jizz provoking. From the opening of the classic (The word 'classic' sums this album up so well) Stone Magnet, to the end of, well, Wooden Pipe I guess, I've never gotten bored, I've never needed to complain. The riffs, MY GOD, the riffs are just covered, COVERED in that magic fucking green leaf. But on the subject of drumming, this can be considered a learning tool for how to play stoner doom drums well. I've always liked - Wait, the mega slow end riff to Stone Magnet came on..... Fuck, that's brilliant!
"But look around you, what ya got?
No home no future, no fucking job"
I'm not pointing out some kind of poetic brilliance, it's just incredibly catchy. I sing that part every time I hear it.
As Witchcult_Reverend pointed out, I do not understand the complete lack of love for this album. Well, you want to hear the flaws? The riffs aren't uber creative, and they're repeated. But fuck, I can safely say there are worse riffs on Witchcult Today, and that album is about five times more repetitive than this one. So shut your noise.
Mourning Prayer is actually quite the opposite of this so called flaw, as it is diverse and incredibly good, definitely a good option for 2nd best song on the album. I had to learn how to play this song after hearing it a couple of times, it's very, very good. I want everyone, everyone in the world, to listen to it. I can't even say that about any song on Witchcult, and I think Satanic Rites of Drugula is really good. Mourning Prayer beats that song. I think the best thing for all the Witchcult lovers would be to listen to this album, because you'll find it's a little bit better.
Look, honestly, lyrics aren't incredibly important to me. If they're really good, it improves the song. If they're really bad, they make the song worse. This album contains good, but not amazing lyrics. I think the Wizard has always had good lyrics, and this album isn't an exception.
Behemoth! What can I say. Fucking Behemoth. It's slow, it's heavy (although missing the extreme fuzziness of Dopethrone). My god, it's really good. It tops Mourning Prayer. It's full of so many headbanging, DUN DUN DUN moments. And very good lyrics too, as pointed out before.
The performances are actually really good for british stoners. I like Mark Greening's style, I love Jus' riffing (I mean, this album competes for best classic stoner doom with Holy Mountain. That's a big, but fair call), he really thought of some excellent stuff to do with the fairly recent concept of stoner doom. This album is consistantly slower and a bit more bluesy, and definitely a bit more versatile than Holy Mountain. Yet why do you ask, Sleep's Holy Mountain is praised as a stoner doom classic and this album isn't? The Wizard have never sounded like they do on this album. Never ever ever. People loved CMF and Dopethrone, and when they come back to this, the Wizard they know and love just isn't there.
This album is one of my prized possessions, and a true salute to the spirit of stoner doom. I recommend you listen to it if you like Holy Mountain or if you've never listened to Electric Wizard.
Caves of Eternal Midnight...Aren't Quite Open Yet - 60%
The_Evil_Hat, August 11th, 2009
Electric Wizard’s familiar to most metalheads. They’re primarily known for albums like Dopethrone, long, hazy, dark and monolithic. As such, it’s a bit of a surprise to some that their first album only hits the first of those. This is an album from the Wizard before they were really the Wizard; it has undeniable similarities but could just as easily be another band for the vast majority of its run time.
Black Sabbath has always been a large influence on the band, but on this album they go from a primary influence to being pretty much the only one. This is fairly conventional stoner metal, bearing more than a few traits in common with records like Sleep’s Holy Mountain. The guitar tone is far cleaner than it would ever be again, and the sound as a whole is near crystal clear, compared to some of their later works, at least. Going hand in hand with this is a totally different atmosphere. The music is far more light hearted than ever before, and about half the lyrics reflect the wonders of weed far more than they do tales of eldritch horror. Even when the band sings of terrors and wrongs, with the notable exception of the lyrically superb Behemoth, they generally portray far too cartoonish a vibe for there to ever be a true sense of malice.
The guitar here is the crunchiest that it’s ever been, but it’s also the lightest without the slightest doubt. The riffs are generally interesting, and the highly prevalent lead work is often quite well done. The bass is far weaker here than on subsequent albums, content to merely follow the guitar for the entire thing. The drumming is utterly unremarkable here, laying down an adequate beat and nothing more.
The vocals are totally clean on this release, not to mention more up front than they would be again for nine years. Oborn doesn’t sing with the guitar, but rather over it in a more traditional style. He isn’t nearly as powerful, nor as hypnotizing, as he is on later releases, although he’s probably the highlight of the album anyway. The lyrics are, as always, very well written. They have the surreal feel that they would always maintain, though the subject matter is, as previously mentioned, quite different, focusing on the new vistas opened by dope, rather than on the horrors of outer space and the like. The second verse of Stone Magnet shows this theme quite well:
“Looking all around, the world's a dream,
Traveling to places that I have never seen,
High up here is where I'm really free,
Listen people, you've got to free the weed,
Oh yeah!”
The main flaw on this album is that the band’s later structural ideas are already firmly in place, while the actual riffwriting lags far behind. The songs are generally over five minutes, three of them breaching the eight minute mark. Like on later albums, riffs are played again and again, but the riffs themselves simply don’t have the charisma to sustain such repetition. As a result, more than a few songs grow old long before they start to wind down.
The album opens with Stone Magnet. It’s one of the strongest songs, primarily due to its relatively modest length. The interlude Mountains of Mars is one of the most realized songs on here, and is also the only one in which the bass actually acts on its own. Behemoth is probably the strongest lyrically. It shows large similarities to their later work, even if they would never be quite this didactic again:
“His blackened wings shadow the Earth,
This age of fire is his rebirth,
Awakened now in these troubled times,
He's come to judge us for our crimes,
So change now, before it's too late,
Or life in servitude will be your fate,
Be free, do as you will,
Love and happiness, you take your fill.”
The music, unfortunately, isn’t even close to being able to successfully bear the lyrics. It’s far too light hearted and repetitive. Devil’s Bride, the following track, bears a similar but worse fate. It describes a satanic ritual, designed to indoctrinate Satan’s bride. Unfortunately, the song is far too broad in its descriptions, more a summary of what’s to happen rather than specific images. The music itself is some of the weakest present. It’s sufficiently heavy at first, but soon grows painfully tiresome and lacks the mystique necessary to pull off a convincing ritualistic feel.
The concluding title track is a relative standout. The lighter tone works better here, and the lyrics depict a humorous dragon-born journey throughout the universe in the company of a wizard. It’s one of the few tracks where the long play time actually shows evolution, and some of the later developments are quite interesting.
Electric Wizard’s debut is a proficient, if not particularly exemplary, stoner doom debut. It’s far too one track for its own good, playing riffs until they’re utterly worthless and carrying far too many of the same ideas across superficially different songs, but it’s not a bad album. Worthy if you’re interested in charting the band’s evolution, or if you’re a large fan of the genre, but don’t expect anything too revolutionary.
Electric Wizard is more than just distortion... - 95%
Witchcult_Reverend, July 9th, 2008
I do not understand the complete lack of love for the first Electric Wizard album. I guess too many people have listened to Come My Fanatics and Dopethrone to dismiss this album as second rate doom. On the contrary this is what doom metal is all about. Yes albums previously mentioned are awesome there is no denying it. The clean vocals and straight sounding guitar work is simply perfection by Jus and the boys. This was the first Electric Wizard album I heard from a friend who only likes this album. I knew I was hooked from the opening riff of Stone Magnet.
Every single song is well thought out and plays perfectly from start to finish. There is no excessive amount of feedback, distortion, or other noise to take away from this 47 minute opus. And why should there be? It is great to chart the progress of this band as they are one of my all time favorites but to cast this one off as inferior is complete nonsense.
The highlights are as follows: Stone Magnet (what’s not to love about it – seriously), Behemoth (another solid slab of doom), Mountains of Mars (quite possibly the best 90’s doom metal instrumental – spaced out psychedelic metal at its finest), Devil’s Bride and Mourning Prayer round out the best of the best on this album.
Electric Wizard, Black Butterfly, and the blink you’ll miss it Wooden Pipe round out the rest of the album and it does not disappoint.
Every band has a beginning and Electric Wizard started out in the traditional doom metal vein which is where every metal band is rooted in (Black Sabbath). Listen to it, Love it, and most importantly recommend it.
Average At Best. - 50%
Perplexed_Sjel, July 5th, 2008
Dorset, South West England is the birthplace of Electric Wizard, a now infamous crossover band with huge popularity. Dorset and the South West of England is known for being a popular holiday spot for foreigners and Britons who wish to stay within the country and explore their own backyard. It’s a region of the country that offers a lot of natural beauty and since the year 1993, an adrenaline pumped band by the name of Electric Wizard. It took the band two years from their formation to record and release a debut full-length and in the opinion of many, perhaps the least appealing full-length the band have released to date. In my opinion, 1995’s self-titled debut is the most lacking in terms of character, creativity and performance. Originally formed under the moniker Lord of Putrefaction, Electric Wizard played a different style of crossover music than they do now. It consisted largely of death and doom metal influences. Electric Wizard, on the other hand, fuse the doom and stoner genres together to form a largely uninspired sound by this stage. Fortunately, with the benefit of hindsight, I and many others can state that the band have come on in leaps and bounds since the self-titled snooze fest. I’m not familiar with the works of Lord of Putrefaction, so I cannot state what the work of the band was like in comparison to this new breed. However, I feel that comparisons would probably be inane as the band had obviously taken a drastic new direction at this point in time. A new name, a new brand of music and a new set of fans were what was to come from this change.
The self-titled debut, to me, isn’t a patch on later works. There are several main issues which I have with this work and the few redeeming qualities that there are, aren’t enough to act as a saving grace for this particular piece. Considering the fact that the line-up, bar Jus Oborn, had completely changed, the multiples differences in this band aren’t as surprising as they might have been if the line-up hadn’t altered so drastically. As with Lord of Putrefaction, Jus Oborn takes control of Electric Wizard on guitars, but more importantly, on vocals. The vocals, which aren’t as hypnotizing as they later become, are the best feature of this rather lacklustre effort. One must contribute the fact that this piece isn’t as good because A) The line-up is different. The band needs time to readjust and truly find their sound and B) This is a new style of music for the evolved Lord of Putrefaction. Perfection takes time. As I said, the vocals are the best element of this self-titled work. Take songs like Stone Magnet, for example. Songs such as this clearly show the tremendous ability Jus has on vocals and indicate the beginning of what does turn out to be a very hypnotic career as the leading man behind the microphone. His performances do go from strength to strength, so the fact that his standard of performance isn’t as high on this record as they later become is, in some ways, important. The record is essential listening because it shows the roots of a very talented band.
Whilst the instrumental sections don’t do as much as they could to help Jus in his quest to bring Electric Wizard to the foreground of the metal scene, there are some positives to take. Having said that, one has to remember that Jus himself is on guitar duty, so he cannot be redeemed entirely due to his vocal performance, which is the only outstanding quality of this record. The atmospheric nature of Electric Wizard isn’t, by any means, at it’s peak. The guitars sound laboured and, as they later do, don’t build themselves around the hypnotic nature of Jus’ vocal abilities. The soundscapes sound lazy, which is something that stoner music isn’t unfamiliar with. To me, the vast majority of stoner music sounds lacklustre and lazy. The slow nature isn’t appealing to everyone and whilst I do like a lot of slow music, there needs to be some form of outstanding creativity on guitars, especially and there isn’t. The guitars are poor. The solos do come thick, in particular, and fast, but they’re nothing special in comparison to later material. The bass seems to struggle too. We later learn that the bassist was to be replaced, but not until long after the release of this record, so we do get to see Tim Bagshaw’s performance enhance as time goes on. The bass is often lost in the sea of mediocrity which is spawned by the guitars. The drums aren’t as powerful either. As I said at the beginning of my review, there is no edge, this ultimately turns out to become a snooze fest even though Stone Magnet suggests it might be an inspiring and powerful debut by the Britons. It isn’t until the instrumental song, Mountains Of Mars do we gain some respectability back. The sonic soundscapes caused by mesmerising guitars lead the audience into a corridor of false sense of hope. The underlying tones of beauty are immediately washed away as Behemoth proves to be the opposite of what the title suggests it is. Instead of Electric Wizard putting up the monstrous wall of noise with super sonic sound waves they later become best friends with, they whimper alone and slowly induce the audience into a coma. Lyrically however, Electric Wizard have worked up the type of beauty and rhythm the music can only wish it produced.
“His blackened wings shadow the Earth
This age of fire is his rebirth
Awakened now in these troubled times
He's come to judge us for our crimes
In conclusion, the self-titled debut doesn’t pack quite the same punch as latter records do. Vocally and lyrically, this album begins to show what becomes of the band, but instrumentally Electric Wizard are lacking in true greatness. As disappointing as this album is, I don’t consider it anything other than the beginnings of what went on to be a successful band.
The Beginning of Greatness... - 77%
IrishDeathgrip, March 11th, 2008
...wasn't really that amazing. I first heard the second full-length by Wizard and loved it immediately. But everyone needs to see the beginning for a band they love, and for me, it wasn't the best experience.
That is not, by any means, to say the album is bad... it's just not that fucking good either. The riffs are low, dropped, and crunchy... but also monotonous on many occasions, and not distorted enough to fit the implications of "mind-crushing heaviness."
Jus Osbourn is an effective singer, and his style will be altered throughout the years, but on this album it can easily be described as "fledgling," because he obviously hasn't yet decided how he wants to sing. Are the vocals bad? No. Are they great? At some points, yes. Are they weak? At more points, yes. The singing is inconsistent a lot of the time, and it's hard to get INTO it.
We've hit the vocals, we've hit the guitars. Let's hit the bass. Oh, wait, nevermind, you don't know there's a bass unless you listen to the instrumental. It's groovy... that's all I can say about the bass on this album, cause there's damn near none of it.
The drums... there's nice little fills, consistent sound. I only have a minor bone with the drums that I must pick... the ride. When he's hitting the ride, it overshadows the rest of... well, everything. The ride will come through your speakers like a blaring reminder of what happens when you neglect a volume knob on your mixing board.
As far as the songs go, there are a couple that stand out... Mountains of Mars is a great little instrumental, and definitely the musical high-point (which stands to reason). Behemoth showcases the best vocal performance on this record, and will not grow tiring. Although its not the strongest song musically, the riffs can hold their own. Finally, the title track... a great song, fairly amusing content, and full of compelling music, from start to finish. Nice little clean segment, with a bluesy little feel to it. All around good one.
I would suggest that no one judge the band solely on this album. For a complete converse check out Dopethrone, but this is still a good buy for anyone's doom catalogue.
Decent Sabbath-worship with glimpses of the future - 70%
Fungicide, February 7th, 2005
Before they became one of the leading lights of a vibrant English stoner/doom scene, Electric wizard were a run of the mill Sabbath-worship band. Whilst their earlier output will be of little interest to those without a special interest in the band or the Sabbathesque trad-Doom they played on their first record, the bands self titled debut is not without a certain charm in its own right.
The lyrics touch on the same themes Ozzy’s did in the early 70’s: corrupt politicians, occult ritualism, personal struggle against malign forces, drugs. Whilst the themes are as old as Heavy Metal itself, Jus Osborn (coincidence?) writes slightly more coherently than his predecessor, the dove munching brummy, and (as can be expected from a writer operating within the milieu of a more mature genre) his verses feel more authentic to the modern listener, although they lack the power to shock or subvert that Ozzy’s often fairly naive attempts had when they were still young.
Whilst Osborn’s lyrics surpass those of his heroes on this album, his riffing doesn’t stand up to that of Tommi Iomi, which is not to say that it is poor, but it less consistent in terms of the quality of individual riffs and the manner in which they are arranged. Nor is his riffing style so varied, especially in terms of tempo, with the album chugging away at standard trad-Doom speed throughout. Still, when he is on top of his game, Osborn is a master of the crushing riff, and there are plenty of those scattered through the album, as well as some groovier sections that remind one of Cathedral’s ‘disco doom’, though these are rare and tastefully used. Ocassional a riff gets old for the listener before it does for the band, and some riffs are too monotone, but these are minor complaints and for the most part solid guitar parts are intelligently arranged to good effect.
The bass is surprisingly anonymous, especially for a Doom album, mirroring as it does the movements of the guitar for the most part. However, the instrument does serve to add the requisite weight to the sound, and on rare occasions it even sets the pace of sections providing an interesting counterpoint to the predominantly guitar driven body of the album. The drumming on the album is equally unremarkable, but competent and functional. Neither instrument will draw your attention for long.
Osborn delivers his lyrics in a far cleaner voice than on later albums, which suits the style of the music better than a more abrasive approach would. His vocal lines interact nicely with the instruments, rather than just being there for the sake of it without really relating to what’s going on around, as vocals too often are especially in this sub-genre. However, their lack of variation, and largely subservient role in the compositions might dissatisfy some listeners.
Overall, the album is basically solid, and at times Jus Osborn’s guitar work is excellent, but the lack of inspiration in three of the four instruments (if one includes vox) and the dependence of the album on guitar work with such a small, if eloquently used, musical vocabulary, makes for a record that is not as engaging or as accomplished as the band’s later work. | http://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/Electric_Wizard/Electric_Wizard/1528/ | dclm-gs1-057010002 | false | false | {
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Tell me about birthing a big baby vaginally!
post #1 of 51
Thread Starter
I'm measuring quite large and am having an u/s tomorrow morning to get an estimated fetal weight. Now, I know that u/s are notorious for being inaccurate when it comes to guessing weight, but I want to prepare myself for every possibility.
I asked my midwife this morning what would happen if the u/s says he's big, and she hinted that if he's big already (I'm 37 weeks) that they would recommend a surgical birth. I absolutely do NOT want a c-section, and I'd like to hear stories of women who birthed 10+ lb. babies vaginally, especially if you did it drug-free. Give me encouragement that it can be done!
post #2 of 51
My oldest wasn't that big (8lbs,2oz) but her head was 14.75" around and she had a nuchal hand. I pushed for 1hr,10 min. I only had a 1st degree tear and hd no drugs.
post #3 of 51
My DD was not over 10 lbs (9 lbs, 3oz), but I figured she would have felt the same coming out at 6 or 7 pounds...! She was 13 days "past due", but I insisted we not even discuss induction until 42 weeks. She cut it nice and close. I did have two very small tears, but I refused an episiotemy. And I've heard plenty of stories of babies over ten pounds without any tearing. I would suggest staying of your back and trying different birthing positions to make it easier. Also, if water birth is an option that might make it easier (I'm opting for a birth center water birth this go round).
My DH cousin had her baby the same day as we did, only she was not due for several more weeks. The ultrasound showed that her baby was getting to be "too big" and she had a c-section. THe baby turned out to weigh only 8 pounds.
If you're healthy and prepared for a non-augmented birth, don't let anyone scare you. research your options and educate yourself, that's your best defense!
Good luck
post #4 of 51
Honestly, I would skip the scan completely. Why set yourself up for a battle? Is the only concern that the baby is "too big"? It doesn't matter that u/s are notoriously inaccurate, the docs still treat them like gospel, and if yours is already telling you you need a c/s for a big baby, then you're in for a battle.
Of course you can birth a big baby vaginally. Size is not as important as baby's positioning and having an unimpeded labor.
Now, vaginally birthing a "big" baby while you are being artificially induced, on you back, with an epidural, is basically a recipe for a c-section. So, since that is the majority of births docs see, of course they think women "can't" birth big babies.
post #5 of 51
I was EXACTLY in your shoes a few months ago. Measuring 2 weeks ahead. My ultrasound said he was 10.5 lbs. I didn't believe it. I went in and tried tried tried to give birth naturally. It didn't happen for me. He WAS 10.5 lbs exactly. So if you have a good ultrasound tech, I would give it a little more credit. I wasn't upset about the c/s. I had a good 21 hours of labor. I pushed in a dozen different positions and tried everything I could, but he just wasn't coming out. I wouldn't have changed what I did. My DS benefitted from the pushing and I know that I did everything I could to give a vaginal birth a shot.
Good luck to you. It will be fine whichever way it ends up happening. I *know* what my state of mind was - I am NOT getting a c/s. The ultrasound is wrong. Etc. Etc. - but if it comes down to the baby not coming out and you need a c/s it will be fine. I didn't think it was as bad as everyone said.
post #6 of 51
Even ACOG doesn't recommend c-section or inductionfor perceived "big babies".
I birthed my 10 lb. 2 oz. son in my kitchen. No shoulder dystocia, no tearing, and no, the earth did not open up and swallow us whole. I've had an 8 lb. 12 oz. baby, a 9 lb. 1 oz. baby and 8 lb. 4 oz. baby and by comparison I had a faster, easier labor and birth with my 10 lb. baby than I did with my smaller babies.
post #7 of 51
Both of mine were pretty big: 9lb 11oz and 10lb 4oz respectively. No drugs and no tearing. I just took my time with the pushing (about 2hrs for each). They crowned for quite a while which I think really helped to ease them through. It totally can be done!!
post #8 of 51
My last was 9.5 lbs, a good deal bigger than either of my other children. I fought through a natural, drug free, intervention free hospital birth. Literally, including signing an "against drs orders" thing to refuse pit more than once in the course of my 20 hours laboring there.
My labor was longer, delivery more painful, and baby had a more difficult time getting into postion, despite my doing all the things i know to do. i would have delivered sooner had i been allowed my choice of posions after baby began crowning but thats another story.
She came out, and was my ONLY STITCH FREE delivery. I had over 30 stitches with my 6.5 lber.
Yes you can do it, and i agree with another poster,
you are better off to skip the scan. It is only asking for the medical model to jump all over you.
post #9 of 51
My first was 8.5lbs, head in the 98th %ile, posterior, nuchal hand. I had him vaginally. My 2nd and 3rd were over 9lbs, ds2 was asynclitic.
post #10 of 51
Thread Starter
That was my first thought, to skip the scan, but that nagging little voice in the back of my head won't let me skip it. I had 2 miscarriages before this pregnancy because of MTHFR, just barely passed my GTT, and am swelling like nobody's business. My midwife ordered it because I gained 10 lbs. in 2 weeks and went from measuring 3 weeks ahead to measuring 10 weeks ahead in that 2 weeks as well. They're actually more concerned about too much fluid than they are about him being big. With all that, I just don't want to take the chance on something being truly wrong, you know?
Thank you so much for your stories! I'm on a mainstream board and I don't know of anyone there who has NOT had a c-section for a 'big baby'. I'm fairly confident that my midwives won't push me into doing something I'm not comfortable doing, and I'm very informed as to what my options are and all that, but a little extra encouragement never hurts, KWIM? Keep the stories coming!
post #11 of 51
I'd just skip the scan (or if you feel you need it for peace of mind, take it with a grain of salt). Why worry unnecessarily? Both of my boys were 9.5 pounds. A scan with my first put him at about 10 pounds at 36 weeks (he was born at 44-45 weeks). A scan with my second put him at about 7 pounds at 40 weeks.
There will be no scan for me this time around.
Both were natural unmedicated births - one 28 hours, one 4 hours.
A good friend of mine had her 11.5 pound baby in 3 hours on her sunporch.
I firmly believe that the vast majority of women will not grow a baby they can't birth.
post #12 of 51
I have to be blunt. Your MW is not using evidence-based practice. In my book, that's not just incompetent. It's unethical.
in your shoes, I would run, not walk, to another provider. if nothing else, get second and third opinions from providers of your choosing (not just your mw's buddies). we get multiple opnions abt other forms of surgery. caesarean (major ab surgery) should be no different.
there's also a slippery slope to consider. if she's opting against the evidence on this (pp mentioned ACOG's stance on not delivering suspected big babies by c-section), what other aspects of your care are going to go south? will they end up finding an excuse to cut you open any way?
sorry to go on like this. the issue is deeply personal to me, (i had a 10-pounder naturally and normally out of hospital), as it is to a lot of mamas.
best of luck to you! :
post #13 of 51
My DD was only 8lb 5 oz, but my husband's cousin had a 10 lb 3 oz baby girl a year or so ago. It was her second and she barely made it to the hospital in time and gave birth 15 minutes later, vaginally of course! I don't know exactly if she had to have a few stitches or not.
That being said, I understand why you might want the scan anyway. Sometimes it's hard to ignore that voice. But maybe if the scan shows the baby is 'too big' you can argue to come back in 2-3 days for another one. I would have to think that having two different scans (especially if there are two different techs - and especially if the 2nd tech doesn't know what the first tech said for the weight!) then you might get a more accurate idea of the real weight.
Good luck!
post #14 of 51
When I was pregnant with Nicholas I had a US done about 2 weeks before he was born. They thought he weighed 8 pounds. He came out at 10 pounds even. He did rip me and they cut me. I did ask for demerol which didn't help anything. He did break my tailbone. I would still rather do his birth again (without the demerol) than the horrible time I went through with Melody.
post #15 of 51
I have seen a 9lb 13oz baby born vaginally -- a med-free VBAC!
post #16 of 51
I let them induce me because they THOUGHT Nathan was 10 lbs He was 9lb 8oz I went from 4 to 10 in 4 hrs pushed kinda 2 x had a few sutures. His head was 14 3/4 and born face up.
My friend just birth a 10lb 1 oz in about 6 hrs /w minimal tearing and another friends u/s showed a 10lb10oz u/s weight and he weighed 9lb on the dot.
Big babies do come out like they are supposed to Im sure my next baby ( 10/08) will be a 10lber and Im not worried
post #17 of 51
Originally Posted by DreamsInDigital View Post
This isn't exactly how I interpret ACOG's statement. They say that macrosomia isn't a good reason for induction. But... if you suspect macrosomia (over 4500 grams), and the mother has a prolonged second stage or arrest of descent, you should consider surgical delivery (presumably instead of vacuum/forceps). This is a level B recommendation--meaning that the science backing it up is inconsistent. ACOG also says that they recommend considering surgical delivery in case of a baby being more than 5000 grams (and 4500 grams in a diabetic mother).
Now, the 5000 grams is a level C recommendation--that means that there is no evidence to back it up. It's just "expert opinion", whatever that means. But, in my interpretation, in our current litigious society, it does mean that providers are going to be reluctant to support a vaginal delivery in a woman whose baby is estimated at more than 5000 grams.
This is something I've been reading a good bit about, because my first ds was over 5500 grams. (read: huge ) My provider options this time are limited because of my VBAC status, and my current provider wants a scan near the end of pregnancy to estimate fetal weight. I'm planning on having the scan at 37-38 weeks pregnant to hopefully avoid the dreaded "5000 grams" tag.
Oh, and this is where I get the ACOG practice guidelines for macrosomia. http://www.aafp.org/afp/20010701/practice.html
so to the OP: if you decide not to skip your scan, you have really good reason to question an induction or scheduled c-section if your baby isn't 5000 grams (cause it goes against what ACOG recommends). Even if your baby is over 5000 grams, the science really isn't there to support induction/section, and you can make a good case for laboring on your own.
post #18 of 51
Originally Posted by LacieD View Post
what is interesting about this comment, is that even going into the hospital could cause something to go wrong, that otherwise wouldn't have been.
Your midwives are apparently CNM's(my guess) and are not used to big babies(or they are working under protocols that won't allow anything bigger than 10 lbs or so). Anything under 10 I don't consider a big baby. I personally know of 3 11+ pounders born safely at home, and one lady I know has birthed a 12 lb, and 12.6 lber at home waterbirths... so big is relative. The pelvis moves and so does the baby. And upright positioning helps the baby move to the best location for birth. I think part of the current section rate is "training of expectations" by the medical staffs the moms are relying on. If one gets "trained" to think a 9 lber is big, then the staff has an easier time talking her into an abdominal operation if the baby is 9 lb 3 oz...and the worst shoulder distocias I have seen(not many) were from babies less than 8 lbs(and the moms were on thier backs)....You might want to wait to go to the hospital til the contractions are 2-3 min apart or less, and 60-90 seconds long...and stay upright(standing, perhaps?) the entire time you are there...
post #19 of 51
10 pounds 2 ounces in the water at home with nada for pain relief (unless you consider the water pain relief, which I do.) Didn't feel any different than birthing my 8 pound 12 ounce baby. They just have more fat padding and maybe a little more length. Fat squishes....
You can totally do it. I would skip the scan. It could mess you up mentally even if the babe isn't that big.
post #20 of 51
My mother had a quickie birth with my brother who was almost 12lbs. She started pushing in the car on the way to the hospital. Minimal tearing...not so minimal stretch marks!
My own 3rd child was 9lbs 3oz with huge head and shoulders. I birthed him quickly in a tub. When he started crowning, I held him in with my hands for about 30 seconds until I could handle it and then I pushed him out into my hands. I was on my knees.
Our bodies make babies that we can birth.
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Three Questions To: Dirk, Andy and Jorg
Three BMW men arrived in Dubai as the only drivers still running for the FIA European Touring Car Championship title: Dirk Muller (BMW Team Deutschland) the current leader, Andy Priaulx (BMW Team Great Britain) who is 12 points behind, and Jorg Muller (BMW Team Deutschland) who is third, with a 17-point gap.
Q: The final shoot-out is on a brand new circuit, on which no one has tested before today; could this affect the title fight?
DM: "Sure, it's new for everybody. It's a completely different situation from all the other races. The outside temperature is incredibly high, so it' s a matter of how the drivers will cope with this. It will be very important to get a good rhythm from the beginning."
AP: "No, because at this level every driver is good everywhere. The circuit does not make the difference anymore; the times of taking advantage from the home circuit are gone."
JM: "I don't think so. The current situation in the points is more important. Dirk is in the best position, and I'm in the worst. The track is not going to change that."
Q: If you had the possibility to change something about the season so far, what would you change?
DM: "My double zero score in Donington. This is all, I had a good season so far, and I hope I can close it as a very good season--"
AP: "The driving standards. Full stop!"
JM: "I should have kicked Dirk and Andy off the track a couple of times!"
Q: How would you split the chances of becoming champion between you and your two rivals?
DM: "Theoretically Jorg has not many chances, but you never know what's going on in the races. Andy has good chances, so I have to concentrate and don't think that I'm already the champion. I need to fight for it and score points despite the 40 extra kilos I'm carrying. For me it's only another race weekend--"
AP: "The odds are in Dirk's favour. I had a very competitive season, winning five races, more than any other driver. And I had a bit of bad luck. If Dirk has a bit of bad luck here, then is possible for me to win the title. I'm here to win it and I'm not going to give up until the chequered flag of the second race."
JM: "I have to be realistic. I don't stand a chance, unless both Dirk and Andy do not score points. I will probably be out of contention after the first race. As for Andy, even if Dirk does not score here, he has to collect 12 points in two races. With the Alfa Romeo and SEAT cars around it is going to be tough."
Because the Dubai Autodrome is a brand-new racetrack, the FIA authorized the competitors of the FIA European Touring Car Championship to run a 30-minute official testing session this afternoon.
With very hot temperatures -- more than 35C -- the 22 drivers had their first taste of the 5.4 km track. They started very cautiously, and then improved their lap times consistently.
Late in the session Andy Priaulx set the fastest lap at 2:12.617, at an average speed of 146.42 kph. Three Alfa Romeo men were placed behind him: Fabrizio Giovanardi (2:13.224), Augusto Farfus (2:13.290) and Gabriele Tarquini (2:13.408).
The best SEAT drivers -- Frank Diefenbacher and Rickard Rydell -- clocked the fifth and sixth fastest lap time in 2:13.585 and 2:13.726; they ranked just ahead of Dirk Muller (2:13.937) and Jorg Muller (2:14.110). Dirk only completed five laps, before stopping at his garage with power-steering problems.
Oregon Team's Michele Bartyan emerged as the fastest of the Independent drivers, setting the 10th fastest time with a lap of 2:14.723.
"It's always difficult going on a new circuit," Priaulx said, "as you don't have parameters for the set-up. We have discussed and it turned out that the set-up we needed was exactly the same one suggested by my engineer. I like the track, it's very technical. You've got corners that need a lot of camber and others with no camber and low grip. It's going to require some serious thoughts. You've got a new circuit, a very long lap, and difficult conditions; there's a lot to learn. There will be a lot of opportunities, for overtaking, everywhere. The circuit is wide enough, and I think there will be a lot of changes in the positions. Also, with the sand, drivers can make some mistakes during the races. And this is going to turn things around as well." | http://www.motorsport.com/general/news/etcc-dubai-eve-of-the-battle/ | dclm-gs1-057160002 | false | false | {
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steppemum Wed 12-Dec-12 23:11:15
Heard someone on radio 4 (probably women's hour) a few months ago. He was talking about growing vegetables that are expensive to buy/unusual instead of growing common veg which are cheap to buy (eg potatoes)
He has written a book, about growing unusual veg and then includes recipes.
I have no idea who he is, just remembered him because I want to buy the book for my mum for christmas, can't find where I wrote it down, and too vague to google
can anyone help?
DonkeysInTheStableAtMidnight Thu 13-Dec-12 01:26:49
Could that have been James Wong, and his Homegrown Revolution? I didn't see him but Googled it blush.
steppemum Thu 13-Dec-12 19:32:17
Oh might be I will have a google later, thanks donkeys
Allalonenow Thu 13-Dec-12 19:54:54
Could it be Nigel Slater!!!?
His book Tender Volume I is about his vegetable garden.
DUSTIN Fri 14-Dec-12 15:08:04
I think this was James Wong. Someone else asked the same question a few weeks ago. I am going to try and grow some of his ideas such as Cucamelons. He has a seed range with Suttons.
steppemum Fri 14-Dec-12 21:47:00
thanks, I will google James wong. I have been nusy with 10 year olds birthday party (now recuperating with mn!!)
EssieW Fri 14-Dec-12 21:50:58
It's mark diacono - Has a farm in Devon and I think a blog - Otter Farm or similar
steppemum Fri 14-Dec-12 22:30:20
It is James Wong!
Found a video clip, where he pretty much said word for word what I remember from women's hour
Thank you everyone!!
DonkeysInTheStableAtMidnight Fri 14-Dec-12 23:36:59
I'll check out Mark Diacono Nigel Slater AND James Wong thanks for putting them into my head smile.
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After watching the news, reading the paper, having conversations with people all over this great Country of oursand reading these comments, it's time all of us beware! It's a very scary time in America! Are these people paying any attention to what they are saying? I don't know what happened to our two political parties. But things aren't the way they should be within them....I used to be a registered Independent and more often than not voted for the Republican candidate. But no more. It seems like the majority of 'Republicans' are mean spirited, my way or the highway, racist, fear mongering bunch of lunatics! What is so wrong with ANYONE talking to children and urging them to do well in school? As mentioned previously, I guess if it's a Republican President it's OK, but if it's a Democratic President it's not OK??
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How a teacher preparing to go back to school is like a mom preparing for a baby
As a teacher you are often mistakenly called "mom," "grandma" and sometimes even "dad." I know everyone has to already know how much teaching is like parenting, but as I have been setting up my classroom these last few weeks I've been pondering the comparisons between an elementary teacher preparing to go back to school and a mom preparing to have a baby...
ONE: You have to get your rooms ready. Everything has to be washed and everything new has to be wiped down. You spend countless hours debating what should go where and how high to hang things with your future children in mind.
TWO: You start rampantly trying to cross things off your list before the big day because you know you will have no time once the day arrives when your kid(s) come. You think about preparing meals in advance and even planning out clothes you will be able to wear when the kid(s) come because your style is about to change.
THREE: You start planning out events that you will do with your soon to be family. Songs to sing, games to play, activities and things to do on your first days together.
FOUR: You set out books and toys that are your favorites to share and you hope your children love them as much as you did as a child.
FIVE: They are under your complete control and supervision for a solid 9 months.
SIX: You go out and get your haircut, nails done, eyebrows waxed, etc. knowing you won't be getting pampered for quite a while since you will have people besides yourself who take priority.
SEVEN: Once the kid(s) finally arrive it's all about firsts and you document it all in pictures to put into a slide show to document the year. Routine also plays a big role and if a routine is offset your children will let you know!
EIGHT: When your new children arrive you are nervous, but excited. Your heart is full knowing how much they will love and adore you even if they don't always appreciate all you do for them at the time. It is worth it!
Good luck to all the new teachers starting another school year (and all the mom's starting their new journey). You DO make a difference!
*And no I'm not pregnant...at least not that I know of. :)
Brittany Kyte said...
I would imagine teaching is a LOT like parenting!! The beginning of the school year is always the most exciting!
Erica said...
Aww this made me miss teaching! So sweet, and so accurate! :)
Ashley R said...
This is perfect. :)
Susannah said...
This is so great! There definitely are a lot of similarites! Also, I love the adendum you added. ;-)
Amanda said...
I agree with you 110%!!! It's exactly like that :) I'm loving being in my classroom getting it all set up :) Good luck with yours!
alison said...
I never thought about it that way, but you are so right! all 742 of my "children" arrived 2 weeks ago! ;)
Amanda said...
Ha! This is hilarious. I never thought about the 9 months thing before!
adesertgirl said...
Love it! There are a ton of teachers in my family - including my mom, so I whole-heartedly admire and respect the teacher. Shaping lives! It's an amazing task.
Best of luck with your upcoming school year.
Rach @ This Italian Family said...
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Cool Heat
Caetano Veloso makes a rock album.
by January 29, 2007
Veloso is a singer of almost paralyzing grace and sweetness.
Veloso is a singer of almost paralyzing grace and sweetness.
In 1983, Bob Hurwitz, who worked for a jazz and classical label called ECM, attended a performance at the Public Theatre, in New York, by the Brazilian musician Caetano Veloso—his first show in America. “The audience was probably ninety per cent Brazilian,” Hurwitz recalled. “Caetano played with a band, and then, in the middle of his set, did six or seven songs by himself, which was a rare thing for a Brazilian to do here. He sang in English once—a Cole Porter song. Then he brought out his son, Moreno, who was ten or eleven, to sing. It was magical.”
The following year, Hurwitz took over the classical label Nonesuch and signed Veloso. In September, 1985, Veloso returned to New York and recorded thirteen songs, using little besides his voice and a nylon-string acoustic guitar. He chose pieces that Brazilians knew by heart: “O Leãozinho” (“Little Lion”), a lilting ode to, as Veloso has described him, “a beautiful young man whose sign was Leo”; also “Terra,” a long, melodically complex song inspired by photographs of the earth taken by astronauts. In addition, Veloso included a cover of Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean,” converting Jackson’s tense dance music into a quiet, confident bossa nova and making the anxious denial of the original (“the kid is not my son”) sound like a carefree dismissal. (Veloso’s version also incorporated a snippet from “Eleanor Rigby”; it was as if he wanted Americans to know that he was not cowed by pop music’s greats.) The resulting album, the glowing and precise “Caetano Veloso” (1986), was the first record by a pop artist to be released by Nonesuch. Veloso was forty-four years old.
Covering a Michael Jackson song with a classical guitar for a label associated with modern composers and recordings of Javanese gamelan players is the kind of counterintuitive act for which Veloso is famous. This week, at the age of sixty-four, he will release “Cê,” a brisk, spare record that sounds more like indie rock than any of the other, highly varied music that he has made in the past forty years. Veloso’s stylistic range and influence on his peers have earned him comparisons to Bob Dylan, but the two men could not be more different. As Veloso put it in an interview, Dylan “is an artist who hides his personality behind the art he is creating. He would never ever touch his work with explanation or analysis. And I am the opposite. I am almost not an artist.” Veloso is a public figure in Brazil, appearing on Carnival floats and collaborating with local musicians. His lyrics tend to be poetic—on “Cê,” he describes himself as a “rattlesnake bristling in the bushes” and his muse as a “coppery panther”—but he can be straightforward when his subject matter demands it. The title track of his 2001 album, “Noites do Norte” (“Northern Nights”), sets a passage from a book by the nineteenth-century Brazilian abolitionist Joaquim Nabuco to elegant music that could have come from a nineteen-sixties Frank Sinatra ballad, except that Nabuco’s text begins, “For a long time, slavery will remain the national characteristic of Brazil.”
A singer of almost paralyzing grace and sweetness, Veloso is also a high-minded rebel—a fact that is apt to be lost on listeners who don’t understand Portuguese and are lulled by the preternatural calmness of his voice. One way around these obstacles is through Veloso’s best-selling 1997 memoir, “Tropical Truth,” which was recently translated into English and contains knotty ruminations on Brazilian history and the author’s sexuality. “As a public figure I came close to what Andrew Sullivan called the ‘ubiquitous, vaguely homoerotic’ climate of the ‘male pop groups of that period,’ ” he writes. “And today I surmise that those suggestions of androgyny, polymorphism, and indeterminacy that colored the post-Beatles (post-Elvis?) pop-music scene still threaten the conventions that underlie many acts of oppression.” Veloso was jailed by Brazil’s military dictatorship for fifty-five days in 1968-69—he was never charged with an offense, though an officer told him that he was disturbed by his use of the word “deconstruct” in interviews—but his music is rarely aggressive or bumptious. His early inspirations were the whisper-soft bossa-nova patriarch João Gilberto and the placid, crystalline recordings made by Chet Baker and Miles Davis in the fifties. As a teen-ager, Veloso found Elvis Presley “a bit disgusting”; he claims that he began to like rock and roll only in 1966, when he was twenty-four. (Like many significant Brazilian songwriters of the last half century, Veloso occasionally makes music that verges on the soporific. When he embellishes his songs with a soprano-saxophone run or a polite drum shuffle, they lose their glimmering gentility and slip into passivity.)
“Cê” resists the anodyne charms of Brazilian pop, favoring loud, blocky rhythms more common to American garage bands. The album was produced by Veloso’s son Moreno and the guitarist Pedro Sá, and performed by Veloso—an able acoustic-guitar player—with the help of Sá and two other young Brazilian musicians, a bassist and a drummer. It consists of twelve songs—most involving sex and anger—which Veloso taught to his three-piece rhythm section, and recorded quickly, adding few overdubs. The music can only loosely be described as rock. As with almost any genre that Veloso tackles, he has transformed it; the term doesn’t apply at all to some of the quieter, more syncopated numbers. “Cê” is tightly focussed and austere, especially compared with the lush, cool jazz arrangements of his 1997 album, “Livro,” or the robust Afro-Brazilian drumming on “Noites do Norte.”
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0.018452 | <urn:uuid:e21bfcd9-dddf-408c-9c91-2a17c1adb267> | en | 0.938874 | Environmentalists Warn Olympic Games Will Harm Sochi
OK. Environmentalists also have their eyes on Russia. The country is nearing the homestretch of a more than $50 billion race to prepare for the 2014 Winter Olympics. The games will be held in and around the southern Russian city of Sochi. President Vladimir Putin is promising a world-class show next February, but environmentalists say the region will suffer ecological damage for decades. NPR's Corey Flintoff reports.
COREY FLINTOFF, BYLINE: A seaside resort town seems an odd choice for a Winter Olympics, but once a new railroad line is finished, Sochi will be just 30 minutes from a spectacular mountain valley. The Olympic village in the mountains is mostly complete, with brand-new hotels and restaurants that follow a quaint, vaguely 19th-century design, like a theme park conception of Switzerland.
At the base of one of the newly installed gondola lifts that will take visitors up the mountain, there's a big plaster model of the mountainside. Alexander Belokobylsky waves his pointer enthusiastically as he describes the various runs and race courses.
ALEXANDER BELOKOBYLSKY: (Foreign language spoken)
FLINTOFF: Belokobylsky is the managing director of the mountain part of the games. He says everything will be to the highest international standards, including the snow. Because the snow isn't always reliable in these mountains, the race courses and snow-boarding venues will have the biggest artificial snow-making system in the world.
Water from two reservoirs will be pumped up the mountain and vaporized by snow-making cannons that will blast world-class powder onto the runs. Officials have even figured out how to stockpile snow from the previous winter to fill in any gaps. Today, much of the real mountainside is invisible, shrouded by a thick, spring fog.
A winding, newly built road takes visitors up to the top of the bobsled and luge track. It's a steel-and-concrete tube that uncoils down the mountain like a snake, a mile long, with 17 banked turns. The course was tested in February by racers from the various world bobsled and luge federations. Valentin Getmanov is not a bobsledder. He's a 25-year-old employee of the track who got a chance to ride with a team on a test run.
VALENTIN GETMANOV: (Foreign language spoken)
FLINTOFF: He says it was the longest minute of his life. In the fog, the building at the top of the bobsled run looks industrial, rather than sporty, like an oil-drilling platform anchored into the stone of the mountain. The construction of the Olympic venues is overseen by a state-run company. Its promotional material boasts that all these engineering marvels are done in a way that protects the environment. Local environmentalists disagree. Yulia Naverzhnaya belongs to the Ecological Watch of the North Caucasus.
YULIA NAVERZHNAYA: (Foreign language spoken)
FLINTOFF: In the mountains, she says, the developers have destroyed the landscape, adding that what they have done is senseless, because most of it is built in landslide zones. Although the region has a long history of geological study, Naverzhnaya says the Olympic developers ignored local expertise and used engineers who are unfamiliar with the terrain.
The proof, she says, can be seen in problems with the ski-jumping facility, which ran up huge cost overruns when officials had to contend with unstable ground at the building site. President Putin personally sacked the official in charge of the project when the cost ballooned by six times, from $40 million dollars to 265 million.
NAVERZHNAYA: (Foreign language spoken)
FLINTOFF: Naverzhaya says the costly Olympic venues are unlikely to last over the long term, because landslides and shifting ground will take their toll. Environmentalists say the damage isn't limited to the mountain venues, either. The arenas for ice hockey and other skating events were built near the Black Sea shore.
FLINTOFF: Natalia Kalinovskaya stands on a beach, where local people plant long surf-fishing poles among the stones.
NATALIA KALINOVSKAYA: (Foreign language spoken)
FLINTOFF: She's an environmental activist who says construction for the venues, housing and support facilities is destroying habitat for rare plants and wetlands that served as a resting place for migrating birds. The price, she says, is too high for Russia. The financial cost of the entire project is estimated at more than $50 billion dollars - the most expensive Olympics in history.
President Putin, who has a palatial home near Sochi, has invested his personal prestige in making this Olympic dream come true, as a way of showing the world a Russia that's worthy of international respect. Some three billion people are expected to watch the 2014 Winter Games on television, and most observers have no doubt that the show will be spectacular. Environmentalists say the true costs won't be known for years to come. Corey Flintoff, NPR News, Moscow.
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0.114644 | <urn:uuid:04b472aa-ddc9-4517-88a0-9ae4689fe0f5> | en | 0.971005 | Protests Turn Violent In South Africa
South Africa is quiet this morning after a wave of riots and protests erupted last week. The demonstrators called for improved basic services for the millions of people still living in the country's townships. Host Liane Hansen talks to BBC reporter Jonah Fisher about recent protests and violence in South Africa's townships.
South Africa is quiet this morning after a wave of riots and protests erupted last week. The demonstrators called for improved basic services for the millions of people still living in the country's townships. Some feared the riots could turn deadly, like the widespread attacks that broke out last year against foreigners and killed more than 60 people.
The unrest also increases pressure on newly-elected President Jacob Zuma to deliver on election promises. He pledged to do more for his country's poor and provide basic services like water and electricity. The question is how much can Zuma and his party, the ANC, do in the middle of a recession?
We're joined now by the BBC's Jonah Fisher in Johannesburg. Welcome to the program.
JONAH FISHER: Thank you.
HANSEN: We mentioned the attacks last year against foreigners. Have last week's activity in any way mirrored the way that those other attacks started last year?
FISHER: Well, they have in some ways. I think people look back at last year and they see that there were demonstrations last year, which were associated with service delivery, which is what we're seeing at the moment. And then they mutated as frustration grew in the townships into attacks on foreigners living within those townships.
In the last couple of weeks, most of the protests have remained about service delivery in the townships here. In one instance, foreigners were targeted, foreign-owned shops were looted, and about 100 foreigners had to take shelter at a local police station. I think that's the reason why that specific township, which is in one of the provinces which neighbors on Johannesburg, was prioritized by the government.
They sent a minister straight out there because that's really the big concern here, that this frustration - which at the moment is about basic services like electricity, water, lack of housing - might end up being targeted on those foreigners, basically fellow Africans who've come to South Africa for economic reasons.
HANSEN: You mentioned a government representative. Has there been any sort of crackdown on these demonstrations?
FISHER: Well, the police have been active in the last couple of weeks. They've been in the townships. They've fired plastic bullets, they've fired teargas on the demonstrators. There have been clashes, police cars have been stoned and on one occasion set on fire. So, yes, the government has taken a pretty strong attitude.
This country has a fairly active history of demonstrations, but the government's making it pretty clear that the minute those demonstrations turn violent, then the police will respond decisively against them. And that's really what we've seen in the last couple of weeks.
Jacob Zuma, the new president here, has made it pretty clear that while he does understand to a certain extent people's complaints, the minute things turn violent, the minute they start blocking roads and burning tires in the streets, that's when it becomes unacceptable. And he backs the police 100 percent in their efforts for them to stop them.
HANSEN: In the few months that President Zuma has been in office, has he been able to make any progress on his promises?
FISHER: I think the simple answer is no. He's come into power two months ago in very trying circumstances - the first recession, I hear, in South Africa since the end of apartheid. His first promise was to create half a million jobs. In the last week or so, he's admitted that he's getting nowhere near that. In fact, South Africa has lost 200,000 jobs since he came to power.
At the moment, though, the demonstrators aren't pointing their finger directly at Jacob Zuma. The blame seems to be being put on local administrators, counselors in the townships who, for the most part, are still ANC, Jacob Zuma's party, but are a few tiers below him.
Now, Jacob Zuma has promised to try and address these concerns about local officials, about corruption, about nepotism, which exists at that level. But I think everyone accepts that it's going to take quite a long time to tackle what has become quite a deep-rooted problem.
HANSEN: Jonah Fisher is a BBC reporter in Johannesburg. Thank you.
FISHER: Thank you very much.
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0.46781 | <urn:uuid:9765e3fa-c149-4d53-b332-432c2f090c5d> | en | 0.961821 | Remote Falkland Islands Back In The News
The Falkland Islands are back in the news, now that Britain has allowed the first oil wells to be dug in the South Atlantic island nation. So host Guy Raz checks in with Stephanie Pearson of Outside magazine, who profiled this remote land of quirky sheepherders, dangerous minefields and one of the largest albatross populations on Earth.
GUY RAZ, host:
Roughly 700 miles north of Antarctica, the British overseas territory known to them as the Falkland Islands is back in the news.
Britain has started to drill for oil around the archipelago, and that's infuriated Argentina, which never gave up its sovereignty claims over the islands. The two countries, of course, went to war over the Falklands, which Argentina calls the Malvinas, back in 1982. Buenos Aires is now calling on the U.N. to intervene and stop the British oil exploration.
Back in January, 2009, writer Stephanie Pearson explored the Falklands. You can read her article in the March issue of Outside magazine.
Here's an excerpt.
Ms. STEPHANIE PEARSON (Writer, Outside Magazine): (Reading) With all due respect to the war, the Falklands are where Monty Python meets the wild kingdom. Life in Stanley, home to 2,115 of the islands' residents, takes on a rogue British flair: The brightly colored tin roofs, the red phone booths and flapping union jacks are a quirky, cheerful antidote to the raw surroundings.
RAZ: There's even a Thatcher Drive, named, of course, after Margaret Thatcher, a hero to many of the people who live on the islands.
Stephanie Pearson joins me from Santa Fe, New Mexico. Welcome to the program.
Ms. PEARSON: Thank you.
RAZ: When you were there, what sort of signs and remnants from the 1982 war did you see? Are they still present?
Ms. PEARSON: They're very present, actually. You drive from Mount Pleasant, which is the big military base, to Stanley, which is the capital city, and basically, it's all cordoned off with barbed wire, with signs that have, you know, warning, landmine signs, and all of that has been land-mined by the Argentineans.
And apparently, they planted 30,000 landmines, and they were plastic, and so they're hard to find. And so you really don't want to go beyond the barbed wire.
RAZ: I should mention that the Falklands are made up of 740 islands, and you describe how difficult it actually is to get to some of these islands. There's a sort of an inter-island plane service, and there's a place you visited called The Neck. Can you describe what you saw there?
Ms. PEARSON: It was amazing. It's this mile-and-a-half-long, I would say, isthmus, and it's this beautiful stretch of sand, and all these different penguin colonies are there. So these magellanic, gentoo, rockhopper penguins, king penguins, they're all basically just standing on the beach, and they're -you know, some are just looking into the water, standing. You know, some are molting, some are going to the bathroom, some are mating, and it's like, I think I described it in the article as like people-watching on a beach in Rio. It's just fascinating to watch these different species intermingle.
RAZ: And because there's no real sort of long-standing, well-developed tourism industry, you can literally walk up to these animals.
Ms. PEARSON: You can, and I'd like to add the caveat that you need to be careful because that's part of the beauty of it, that they are unspoiled, but it's one of those places like the Galapagos where the animals really have no sense of humans, and so they're very curious, and, you know, they'll come right up to you. And, you know, that's a blessing and a curse.
RAZ: From the photos in the article, they really look in a sense like the Scottish highlands. Does it sort of feel like this odd British outpost?
Ms. PEARSON: It had this surreal British feel to it but out in this raw, ravaged, windswept island. You know, there were shipwrecks in the harbor, but people are very - they keep to their British tradition in a lot of ways in terms of having tea. In Stanley, they have, you know, red phone booths and the Globe Tavern and Thatcher Drive and...
RAZ: And double-decker buses.
Ms. PEARSON: And they have a double-decker bus for tourists.
RAZ: What about politics? I mean, are the people you met pretty hard-line when it comes to any Argentinean claims on the islands?
Ms. PEARSON: My sense of it was that they went through a very frightening experience when Argentina invaded in 1982, and it was terrifying, and...
RAZ: Terrifying because some of them were sort of imprisoned temporarily.
Ms. PEARSON: Some were imprisoned and, you know, cut off. Like, these settlements on the outer islands, they were completely cut off, all communication, and they literally had no sense of what was happening in the rest of the world, other than maybe seeing a fighter jet fly over. And they don't want that to happen again.
RAZ: That's Stephanie Pearson. She's a contributing editor for Outside magazine. You can find her article on the Falklands, also known as the Malvinas, in the magazine's March issue.
Stephanie Pearson, thanks so much.
Ms. PEARSON: Thank you.
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0.089233 | <urn:uuid:89bc3ead-cbc1-4a8f-829c-26418cedbc29> | en | 0.980011 | 'Infidel' and an Argument for Intolerance
Author Ayaan Hirsi Ali talks about her new book, Infidel, and discusses her life as a fugitive, how to fight radical Islam, and the need for what she calls legitimate intolerance.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali is best known for what she did after she arrived in the Netherlands. The Somali-born refugee became an outspoken critic of Islam, won election to the Dutch Parliament, and collaborated with filmmaker Theo Van Gogh on a controversial movie called "Submission," which showed bruised, naked women with passages from the Koran painted on their bodies. It made them both targets for terrorists. And in 2004, Van Gogh was murdered on the streets of Amsterdam by an Islamic extremist.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali's early life is less well known, but perhaps just as remarkable. In her new book "Infidel," she writes about growing up in Africa and Saudi Arabia and the events that led to her ideological transformation. She was born in Somalia, but her family fled to Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia and Kenya because of her father's opposition to the government in Mogadishu. Much later, she fled to the Netherlands to escape an arranged marriage.
Later in the program, the good, the bad and the underwhelming. Your reviews of last night's Super Bowl telecast and the $2 million commercials.
But first, "Infidel." If you have questions for Ayaan Hirsi Ali about her life and what led to her rejection of Islam and her departure from the Netherlands, give us a call. Our number here in Washington is 800-989-8255. That's 800-989-TALK. The e-mail address is talk@npr.org. And Ayaan Hirsi Ali joins us from NPR's bureau in New York City. And it's nice to have you on the program today.
Ms. AYAAN HIRSI ALI (Author, "Infidel"): Thank you very much. It's good to be here.
CONAN: You begin this book with a vivid account of your grandmother demanding that you recite your Somali lineage. Why did you choose to begin the book there?
Ms. HIRSI ALI: There's no difference more remarkable with being a citizen in a liberal society than being a member of a clan. Being a member of a clan, that's your passport, your bloodline. That's your welfare state. That's your identity. That's what you need to know. That's what you need to defend with your life and with your property and with all that you have.
When I arrived in the Netherlands, the contrast couldn't have been bigger. Strangers were loyal to me. They were giving me money, food, shelter. And when I kept on asking why are they doing this…
CONAN: Mm-hmm.
Ms. HIRSI Ali: …it was like, you know, we all pay taxes. When I'm in need or when someone else is in need and you are capable of working, then you will be the one - it's from your taxes, taxes that you pay, that other people will be served. So I was amazed by this system that was built by the Dutch off strangers helping other strangers and all feeling citizens equal before the law. This amount of civilization, I wasn't used to that. So I had to explain where I came from and how that looks like, how we survived, compared to the country that I had come to and the system which they employed.
CONAN: And there's - part of your exile, your family's exile, when you were living in Kenya where, for example, there was a clan member, a wealthy merchant who you said, but his money was not necessarily his own. It was his obligation to help people like your family.
Ms. HIRSI ALI: Yes. As a clan member, your money is never your own. It's not (unintelligible). If you are well off, then it's your obligation to help all other members of the clan, starting, of course, as close as possible. So he would help his immediate brother and then his immediate clan mates, and then as the group grows larger. So coming to the United States, going to Australia or Canada or Europe, I'll have to go and say who is Osman Muhammad(ph)? Are there are any Magans? And once I find someone close enough to me, they will take me in.
CONAN: Hmm. You also describe a space of three generations, from your grandmother to you, during which you - your family has - you say that your grandmother lived in a world that was really the Iron Age, and, of course, you now live in a world, the 21st century, the West, the computer age. This has been an unbelievably fast transition.
Ms. HIRSI ALI: Yes, and I'm saying this in hindsight, after having lived for 14 years in the Netherlands. Back then, I would not have differentiated between Iron Age, Stone Age, or whatever age.
CONAN: Mm-hmm.
(Soundbite of laughter)
Ms. HIRSI ALI: Yes, but after - I mean it - trying to see this from the perspective of Europeans and Americans, I just have to say, look. Globalization is something that we really talk about now and we are fascinated with, but for some of us like my grandmother, it's been - globalization has been going on now for some time. They've - my grandmother has made this transition. I remember the fascination with - she talks about seeing the first radio…
CONAN: Yeah.
Ms. HIRSI ALI: …talking on the telephone, you know, using what you in America call the bathroom…
(Soundbite of laughter)
Ms. HIRSI ALI: …and her complaining about, but someone else has been there before me. For example, the relationship towards property. I mean, from - if you look at things from my grandmother's perspective, property doesn't exist. If you're, you know, if there's no grass and if it doesn't rain and if there's no water for your animals here, then you just move to somewhere else.
And if there are other people living there, other tribes, and you're stronger than them, you conquer them and you take their land and you take their men and you - you kill their men and you take their women, and that's how life was. And if you're weak or you get decadent, then someone else will come and take your property and your women, and so that's how life was. That's what she told us. And that's why it was very, very important to know your bloodline…
Ms. HIRSI ALI: …yeah, to defend it and to feed on it.
CONAN: The radio you talked about - we want to move onto other things in a minute - but you, of course, described your feelings. You're looking at it as sort of a magic box when you were just a little kid, five or six years old, but you say the name for the radio was - some people called it the device that scares old people.
Ms. HIRSI ALI: Yes, because suddenly, this box - a male voice came from the box saying this is Radio BBC, five o'clock, from (unintelligible) in London -saying this in Somali, and the older people were startled. Of course, they didn't know where London was. But it was far more important than the Imam, far more influential than probably even the Prophet, because what came out of that radio was believed to be the truth, and it was only there at 5 PM.
And as we were in conflict with - in my case, my family was in conflict with Siad Barre and his - the dictator. Having, you know, breaking that device was kind of cutting off the lifeline to information - most important information -for all these older people.
CONAN: We're talking today with Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali-born former member of the Dutch parliament. Her latest book is called "Infidel." It's her autobiography. And you are also well known as someone - a champion of the rights of women and Muslim women in particular. And you've been very outspoken in the past about female circumcision, yet in this book you write - you describe your own circumcision. It must have been - what was it like to describe - terrible thing?
Ms. HIRSI ALI: It is terrible, and as someone who has undergone that, the most important thing that you want to do is to forget it, to put it behind you. But again and again, I was convinced by people that I've been lucky. I'm now in a position where it's not - I mean, I shouldn't only be angered by the sexual immorality within the Islamic world and with those women who were in my position, but I should speak up. And by describing what happened to me, it's not to groan and moan about, oh, this is what my parents did to me and maybe I should go in therapy. But it's to say, look, this is why it was done. These are the circumstances under which it was done.
What I tried to explain in the "Infidel" is there's no - zero tolerance against female genital mutilation will not help unless you really discuss the sexual morality on which it rests, pretty much like the veil. You have to tackle questions such as virginity. You have to tackle the fact that for example my grandmother thought we would never find a husband if we were not mutilated. And in that context, it was true. She was doing me a favor. The superstition that if you don't cut off the clitoris, it might grow into something very big that will then go in-between your legs, that - those are the root causes that we have to address before we start to look at the symptom which is female genital mutilation.
CONAN: As you point out in the book, not all peoples who practice female circumcision are Muslims, and not all Muslims do this. Nevertheless, it is an element of part of an attitude towards women in Islam that, well, you saw other examples of this in Saudi Arabia, a society that does not necessarily practice female circumcision.
Ms. HIRSI ALI: Exactly. This is an age-old - I've heard some records saying that it was 1,800 years before Christ, so it was way before Islam came about. But if you look at the countries that practice it today, most of them are Islamic. And one of the things that makes it very useful for Muslims is their attitude towards virginity and premarital sex. The Koran is very clear and says those who engage in premarital sex should be flogged a hundred times, both men and women. But it's of course much easier to prove that a woman has had premarital sex. And Islam like some of the other monotheistic faiths tries to control the sexuality of the woman first.
Now you can't guarantee this virginity all the time. Saudi Arabia has a lot of money and has brought about a segregation of the genders. But in nomadic societies like my grandmother's, female genital mutilation, which was probably already a practice, is quite useful because you cut off the clitoris to diminish the sexual - at least that's what people think...
CONAN: Mm-hmm.
Ms. HIRSI ALI: ...the sexuality of a woman. But you also seal the opening of the vagina so that on the wedding night you can prove that no one has been there before you. And again and again I'm trying to say, you know, this is what you should tackle first, this whole obsession with virginity and equaling the human being to whether her hymen has been pierced or not.
CONAN: Hmm, we're talking with Ayaan Hirsi Ali about her new autobiography "Infidel," and she talks a great deal in the book about the importance of women's issues in Islam and the centrality of resolving those issues to modernizing faith that she deeply criticizes. When we come back, we'd like to welcome listeners into the conversation. Give us a call: 800-989-8255, 800-989-TALK. E-mail us: talk@npr.org.
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Our guest is Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Many of us are already familiar with her criticism of Islam's treatment of women and the controversy and the death threats that brought her and her work in the Netherlands, as both a member of parliament and a writer of the film "Submission," to international fame. She's now written about her ideological transformation in a new autobiography called "Infidel."
If you have questions for Ayaan Hirsi Ali about her life and what led to her rejection of Islam, give us a call: 800-989-8255, 800-989-TALK. E-mail is Tucson, Arizona.
MOGEE (Caller): Good afternoon. I initiated recently a project on culture and conflict, and one of its - at the University of Arizona - and one of its main foci is the relationship between modernity and religion, specifically Islam. And I have a question for your guest and a comment before the question. The comment is there is a phenomenon that I call colonial feminism, by which I mean when colonial forces, either in their old form or their present new form, use women's issues not to advance women's issues in Islamic countries, but to advance colonial agenda or neo-colonial agenda. And I am afraid whether Ms. Ali, you know, is being used for that purpose. And my question of your guest is whether she's - she feels she's being used. And it's very difficult to see how a person in her position is being used. Also I'm sure she - I hope - I'm hoping she knows that Siad Barre was a Western colonial puppet.
CONAN: The Siad Barre, the former dictator of Somalia.
MOGEE: Right.
CONAN: Let's get a response from Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
Ms. HIRSI ALI: Yes, I don't think that I'm being used. I would not allow anyone to use me. Regarding colonialism, I belong to the generation that was born right after independence in many of the African countries. I do remember that there was a lot of oppression and persecution, but fortunately or unfortunately, my generation cannot blame outside forces: white, Jewish, black or whatever. The people whom I saw who threw my grandmother onto the ground were Somalis like us. The people who were doing, you know, part of the persecution - in fact, but it was even a clan mate - and so I'm not in the luxurious position of blaming external forces.
What fascinates me about the West is not its history of imperialism, it's its history and the amount of value it attaches to individual liberty, to life itself, to rationality, to learning as opposed to dogma, to (unintelligible) as opposed to the value system in which I was brought up and which I was not allowed to ask questions, experiment, trial and error - and that's what fascinates me about Western culture.
And I know that Western societies and - have had a terrible past, from the burning of women as witches, all the way to what happened in the Second World War, and even engaging in enforcing dictators in Third World countries. That's one part of the West. But there's the other part, which is really developing institutions that safeguard the life and freedoms of the individual. And it would be a huge pity to confuse the two and to, you know, lump them together and describe the West only as a source of evil.
CONAN: Mogee?
MOGEE: First, I'm not describing the West as the source of evil. I'm talking about history and I'm talking about in the past two or 300 years the forces of colonialism have, you know, plundered and exploited in so many different ways the part of the world where your guest comes from and also the Middle East. And if one forgets about that, if one forgets about hypocrisy and double standard that the Western neo-colonial forces use in that part of the world, I think it's an unfortunate fact of history and our many, many, many different kinds of victims. And although I, you know, your guest believes she is not being used, I respectfully disagree.
Ms. HIRSI ALI: I just want to respond to that by saying even when I read history, I read, yes, there was slavery. But the most passionate people who fought against slavery were whites, the British, and Americans - Americans fighting other Americans, some pro-slavery, others against slavery. The same goes for colonialism, which was abolished again by individuals living in the countries that were practicing colonialism. The same goes for apartheid.
Today in the world we live in, slavery is practiced only in Arab Islamic world, in the Arab Islamic world. Muslims are not responding to that. Islam, or a very radical form of it, is being spread all across the world to nations that are poor, and I would call that more moral colonialism. And it's not being stopped by other Muslims. When it comes to apartheid, what you see is gender segregation again being propagated by the wealthiest Muslim nations - Saudi Arabia and all the other Gulf states.
Hatred against Jews - I mean I know the Holocaust has taken place in Europe, but the Europeans who indulged themselves in that seem to be terribly ashamed of that past, whereas right now if we look at the anti-Jewish propaganda, it's coming from the Islamic world. So I think it's time that we Muslim look at ourselves, stop blaming external forces, and try and correct that, or we will destroy - in the attempt to destroy others, we will indulge in self-destruction.
CONAN: Mogee, thanks very much for the call. You just said we Muslims. You still consider yourself Muslim?
Ms. HIRSI ALI: I'm not a believing Muslim. I don't believe in Allah, the Koran, the Prophet, angels and so on, but I was born into that civilization, or if you can't call it a civilization, into that background. And I think that I - because of that and because I care about these issues, I have an obligation to speak up and to say at least I'm not a part of it and exactly respond to people like Mr. Mogee and say let's please stop blaming external forces. We've done that, and that only just serves to keep us stagnant and backward and in conflict with others. So I'm not a believing Muslim, but my parents are. I'm a part of that history, and in the world we are living now, I think it's everybody's duty to fight for whatever humans have reached - have achieved in civilization. And that's what's here now, and that's what under threat.
CONAN: Hmm, you describe in the book a meeting with I guess a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, a Bocal Saam(ph) - I'm not sure I'm pronouncing that correctly - but he's preaching total obedience. This is the rule in Islam. And you raised your voice, in a shaky voice, and said must our husbands obey us, too? There was nothing wrong with the question, but Bocal Saam's voice rose hard and dry, certainly not.
I dug my nails into my hand to stop myself from shaking. Went on, men and women are not then equal. Bocal Saam said, they are equal. But they're not, I told him. I'm supposed to totally obey my husband, but he is not totally obedient to me, and therefore we are not equal. The Koran says on almost every page that Allah is just, but this is not just. And then Bocal Saam's voice rose to a shout, you may not question Allah's word. His mind is hidden. Satan is speaking to you, girl. Sit down instantly. This and many other passages - were you born a troublemaker?
(Soundbite of laughter)
Ms. HIRSI ALI: I don't know. Maybe I was born - I think one of the things that my parents did was they sent me to school, and my father encouraged me to ask questions and then just kind of disliked some of the questions I asked. And when I came to the Netherlands and I just started to have informal conversations about religion and upbringing and so on with my Christian friends, and I would tell them about this.
They would say but we Catholics or Christians, we used to be like this until say 20 years ago. It wasn't such a long time ago that Christians did or Christians did that. And what fascinated me was not only that they had come past that, or most of them have, but that if you then ask those questions, you are not ordered to sit down. You are not threatened or, you know, any of that, but you're actually encouraged. And I thought maybe we could copy that, you know.
CONAN: Hmm, let's get another caller on the line. This is Kadia(ph), Kadia calling us from Oakland, California.
KADIA (Caller): Yes, hello. I read Nawal el Saadawi in English. And also Naguib Mahfouz who, to me, seems to be a feminist. I was wondering what feminist writers writing in Arabic your guest gets courage from.
Ms. ALI: I get courage from people like Nawal el Saadawi, of course, who doesn't agree with me on my pinpointing Islam as one of the sources of the subordination of women. I get support or at least courage from Bernisi(ph) and Mahfouz himself. Just after the attacks in Madrid, I think there was a Saudi Arabian man (unintelligible) outside Husaid.
Not all Muslims are terrorists, but almost all terrorist acts today are committed by Muslims. There was a Jordanian journalist who reprinted the cartoons - the Danish cartoons - in a Jordanian paper.
CONAN: The ones that made fun of the Prophet.
Ms. ALI: Yeah, depicted the Prophet. And so I know, and I have many other individuals who are born Muslims like me who sometimes agree with me, sometimes disagree with me. What we have in common is that we need to change the faith from within. We need to look at ourselves and stop blaming outside our external forces. And I derive a lot of courage from that.
And the only thing that's unrealistic is to expect all these people to agree on everything. And that's not the case. There are people who like Salman Rushdie. He and I agree on pretty much agree everything. But the whole idea is for 1.2 billion to 1.5 billion people living in the world to start thinking, at least, I mean, exercising some sort of intellectual activity, which we haven't been doing because in our own countries, in our own societies, if you do that, you run the risk of being killed.
And being here, in societies that protect the freedom of expression - I don't know for how long - but at least that's the case now. Then it's time to start that exercise for our - in our own self-interest.
CONAN: Kadia, thanks very much for the call.
KADIA: Well, I just wanted to say that I honor her courage.
CONAN: Thank you very much.
Ms. ALI: Thank you very much.
KADIA: Thank you.
CONAN: We're talking Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Somali-born former member of the Dutch Parliament. Her new book, her autobiography, is called "Infidel." If you'd like to join the conversation, our number is 800-989-925, 800-989-TALK. Our e-mail address is talk@npr.org. And you're listening to TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News.
This is Tony. Tony's with us from Houston, Texas.
TONY (Caller): Yes. Hi, how are you?
CONAN: Good, thank you.
TONY: My comment - I have a comment and, you know, and she can - your guest can take it as it is, and then I have a question. My comment is that her views - because I have done a lot of reading and a lot of research in this new so-called, you know, underprivileged women in Islam who have converted, and, you know, to me it's a typical one-sided and polarized view of the Islamic world that, you know, it's pretty prevalent in people of her, you know, of her following.
Now my question to you, to your guest would be that, you know, she's asking the Muslim world to open their eyes and open their brain and start, in her words, quote, unquote, "have some intellectual," you know, "activity" going on, which is very, I mean, extremely prejudiced as far as I'm concerned.
My question to her would be, like, for the children of Iraq, for example, today - 20 years from now, when they grow up, would it be close-minded of them and arrogant and an arrogant Muslim view of them to say that the United States came in and destroyed their world the way it was? I really would like to understand that and to say that, you know, terrorism is only being practiced right now by Muslims is also an incorrect statement because you're - she is looking at the individuals who commit the terrorist acts.
But what about state-sponsored terrorism? Or not state-sponsored, but the terrorism on the state level? The imprisonment of millions of Palestinian people by the Israeli government without any, you know, sort of benefits in their own land that these people owned, and such things?
And so what does she want? She wants to close our eyes to that and start, you know, picking her books and doing some research on - and being really intellectual and close our eyes to those things as if they don't exist? Injustices do exist. It's when we close our eyes to them, it's when people have the problems, and that's when they - you know, terrorism. And I really would like to…
CONAN: Let's give her a chance to reply, Tony.
Ms. ALI: Okay. Thank you. For empirical evidence on whether women in all the Islamic world is in a crisis, I would like to refer Tony to the Arab Human Development Report - which started to appear in 2002 and has been appearing since then - in which the fighters of that report say the Arab Islamic world is retarded when it comes to three forms - to three factors: the freedom of the individual, knowledge and the subjugation of women.
That's not something that I am inventing. This is something that I - being a part of that world - I am reacting to and saying, well, maybe one of - we need to start first and foremost by looking at ourselves instead of blaming outside forces. And I'm afraid that Tony is doing exactly the same by referring to Iraq, the Palestinians and Israel.
Iraq is - I mean, the Americans and the British went into Iraq with the intention to depose Saddam Hussein and give the Iraqis - and the same with the Afghanis - give them their own government. The execution of that hasn't gone as it should have been. Twenty years from now, that is what I would tell any Iraqi. There was a lot of optimism.
This is how Saddam's regime looks like. This is the intention with which the Americans came, and didn't work out that way. And as Thomas Friedman said in the New York Times, there are more and more voices going up and saying maybe Americans shouldn't be doing for the Iraqis what they themselves should be doing.
Regarding Palestine and Israel, I don't think that you can keep on using year after year by pointing to that tiny little place in the Arab Islamic world and blaming them for all the other things that go wrong there. There is no Arab Islamic country that is a true, liberal democracy. There are countries like Indonesia, Turkey and Pakistan that are referred to as democracies, but they are not fully functioning. You have radical Muslims disturbing the peace. There is a lot of corruption. Women are subjugated.
And all the other countries are dictatorships, and it's just pathetic to keep on referring to the Arab Islamic - sorry, to the Palestinian-Israeli problem as the root cause of that. It isn't, it's a distraction. And I'm a proponent of solving that, and I would (unintelligible) the first to say let's go for a peace - to encourage a peace process, but it's just not - I can't blame…
CONAN: I'm afraid - we'll pick this up after a short break, if you don't mind. Ayaan Hirsi Ali, I'm Neal Conan, and this is NPR News.
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Our guest right now is Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Her new book is "Infidel." She writes in it, people are always asking me what it's like to live with death threats. It's like being diagnosed with a chronic disease, she continues. It may flare up and kill you, but it may not. It could happen in a week, or not for decades.
And Ayaan Hirsi Ali, do you still travel with bodyguards?
Ms. ALI: Yes, I do. And referring to that question, I've been on a book tour now for six months. And I get that question again and again, regardless of talking about it in the book. And like people who are diagnosed with that sort of - you know, terminal disease, it actually makes you - it gives me more zest for life, because I realized how short it is and I realize - at least I've come to the conclusion for myself - I am not inputting to anyone - that there's no hereafter. So I try to enjoy it to the fullest and give it as much meaning as I can.
CONAN: Let's get another caller on the line, now. Now this is Ali, Ali calling us from Kansas City in Missouri.
ALI (Caller): Yes, thank you. Just a short comment. I can, you know, understand much of what she said, especially early there, when she's talking about her grandmother and how, you know, the first time she had a radio. I was in that situation. I remember when I was young and (unintelligible).
But I have a question. I have seen a number of lady Somalis who wrote books and publicized the issue of circumcision or mutilation, whatever you call it. And I have never seen a single one of them doing anything to help, you know, resolve that issue - an issue, really, is not an indication of whatever people (unintelligible) you want. Islam is not - it's just not an indication that people think that's the way it should be.
And, you know, my mother will be, you know, the biggest, you know, defender of that practice. And it's (unintelligible). But I see a lady - a Somali girl is (unintelligible) yeah, and others who wrote books and publicized, and they did benefit from it, but really do not do anything concrete to help other people, to educate girls and young women so that they will not - the practice will not continue forever. That's my question. Is she doing anything on that front? Secondly…
CONAN: Well, let's take one at a time here, Ali.
Ms. ALI: Ali says you can't do anything concrete to help any woman. Well, I'd love to go to Somalia, to Egypt, to Yemen and so on and tell the people please don't do it or interfere. But these are - for every 10 seconds, a little girl is mutilated. A little girl's genitals are removed. There 140 million women who are mutilated. It would be delusional to think that only one individual like me can do anything as to stop it immediately.
In the world we live, what we do is communicate about it and try and address the issue, talk about it, so as to persuade people who practice it to stop practicing it. For a long time, activists of - against female genital mutilation have been going on and going about the cutting itself. What I try to add to that activism, which I completely support, is let's address the root causes that have to do with will my daughter find a husband because she needs, for her own survival, someone to take care of her? In that case, I would say empower the women to be financially independent. Give your little girl education so she doesn't need someone in the future who would only accept her if she's a virgin.
Then there is virginity…
CONAN: And we've lost our connection to our bureau in New York. There may have only been booked until 45 minutes after the hour. In that case, that may be the reason it was clipped off. Our guest is Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Her new book is called "Infidel." We want to get back to her if we can to see if we can reestablish contact to finish this answer. We do want to move on to another subject later on in the program if we can. And she's back with us. Ayaan Hirsi Ali, can you hear me?
Ms. ALI: Yes.
CONAN: OK. I'm sorry. We were cut off there. You were saying - let me just wind up by asking you, do you know - are you still in touch with your family in Somalia? Do they know you've written a book about them?
Ms. ALI: I think my brother knows that I've written a book. The rest of the family doesn't. And if they do, they don't know it from me. We're not in touch. And the tension between me and my family - that's all the members of my family - find that I should not bring Islam and I should not link Islam with any of the issues that I discuss, the position of women, with terrorism, or any of that.
CONAN: So you don't talk to them?
Ms. ALI: They don't talk to me.
CONAN: They don't talk to you. Ayaan Hirsi Ali, we thank you very much for speaking with us.
Ms. ALI: Thank you very much.
CONAN: Ayaan Hirsi Ali, former Dutch parliamentarian, a native of Somalia. Her new book, "Infidel," is her autobiography. She joined us today from NPR's bureau in New York City.
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The judge, Clarkson Fisher of District Court, ordered that the man, Julio Vargas of Hoboken, be freed from the Hudson County Jail, where he has been held since Feb. 22.
He also ordered the indictment dismissed.
One court official called the granting of the writ of habeus corpus ''very rare.'' He noted that hundreds of state and Federal prisoners filed such writs each year in an attempt to win freedom.
Judge Fisher ruled that Hudson County prosecutors had violated Mr. Vargas's right to due process by failing to tell the grand jury that a witness who implicated him had later recanted his story. That witness was one of four men indicted with Mr. Vargas.
The witness later entered a plea bargain and testified against Mr. Vargas at his trial. The witness confessed to conspiring with Mr. Vargas to enlist the three other men to set fire to a grocery store owned by Mr. Vargas.
But when asked to sign his statement, the witness immediately recanted the story, saying it was not true.
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Here is a selective listing by critics of The Times of new or noteworthy art, design and photography exhibitions at New York City museums and art galleries this weekend. Addresses, unless otherwise noted, are in Manhattan. Most galleries are closed on Sundays and Mondays, but hours vary and should be checked by telephone. Gallery admission is free.
* denotes a highly recommended show.
''AHAB'S WIFE,'' Snug Harbor Cultural Center, 1000 Richmond Terrace, Livingston, Staten Island, (718) 448-2500 (through Oct. 4). The intriguing title of this six-artist exhibition was inspired by a reference in Herman Melville's ''Moby-Dick.'' Only Ellen Driscoll explores the possibilities of the theme directly in murky, expressionistic works on paper, enigmatic sculptures and props for a performance to be presented Thursday through Sept. 20. The painter Janet Gillespie offers finely made, surreal paintings of the ocean; Arden Scott fashions elegantly abstracted boat sculptures. Ahab's wife remains disappointingly unrealized as a character or a metaphor. Hours: Wednesdays through Sundays, noon to 5 P.M. Admission: $2 (Ken Johnson).
JANINE ANTONI, ''Swoon,'' Whitney Museum of American Art, 945 Madison Avenue, at 75th Street, (212) 570-3600 (through Nov. 15). Best known for performances and sculptures that often involved symbolic but grueling labor, like mopping the floor with her own hair, Ms. Antoni has made a largely successful foray into video installation. The sad, seductive final pas de deux from ''Swan Lake'' forms its heart, expertly danced by a ballerina and her partner, seen on a double screen that is partly obscured by a curtain on one side. They dance without music, so the sounds of their movements, footfalls and labored breathing provide an audible account of the effort, discipline and suffering behind ballet's breathtaking illusion. When Tchaikovsky's beautiful music suddenly fills the gallery, swooning is a definite possibility. For a few exhilarating moments, the dancing looks effortless and weightless, but the music quickly fades, and reality sets in once more. Hours: Wednesdays, and Fridays through Sundays, 11 A.M. to 6 P.M.; Thursdays, 1 to 8 P.M. (free after 6 P.M.) Admission: $9; $7, students and the elderly (Roberta Smith).
* ''BAULE: AFRICAN ART/WESTERN EYES,'' Museum for African Art, 593 Broadway near Houston Street, SoHo, (212) 966-1313 (through Jan. 3). Once again this exemplary museum proves that connoisseurship and anthropology do not make strange bedfellows. This assembly of 135 breathtaking objects includes elegant portrait masks, spirit spouse figures, feared and fearful animal masks and a range of objects for everyday use. Supplemented by an unorthodox, but effective use of dioramas and videotapes, they illuminate nearly every aspect of the Baule life -- private and public, religious and secular -- and belief systems, without ever stepping on the viewer's visual pleasure. The show has been organized by Susan M. Vogel, the museum's founding and former director, who has spent three decades studying the Baule, a people of the Ivory Coast; it forms a rare, sharply delineated cultural portrait. Tuesdays through Fridays, 10:30 A.M. to 5:30 P.M.; Saturdays, noon to 8 P.M.; Sundays, noon to 6 P.M. Admission: $5; $2.50 for children, students and the elderly (Smith). | http://www.nytimes.com/1998/09/18/arts/art-guide.html?src=pm | dclm-gs1-057450002 | false | false | {
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The Bush Family Dirty Tricks Play Book; Papa BushÂs modus operandi is clearly observable in all the dirty tricks weÂve seen in this election.
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The Bush Family Dirty Tricks Play Book; Papa Bush 's modus operandi is clearly observable in all the dirty tricks we 've seen in this election. Who 's the scumbag?
An interview with Robert Parry, by ROB KALL
I was reading Robert Parry 's new book, SECRECY & PRIVILEGE, Rise of the Bush Dynasty from Watergate to Iraq, and I realized that all the sleazy, dirty tricks I was seeing in the current 2004 election, perpetrated by Bush and his supporters were repetitions of the strategies of Bush 41, the elder. So I called Robert Parry, who I first heard about from Greg Palast, as one of the investigative reporters Palast most respected. Parry is perhaps best known as the former AP reporter who broke the Iran-Contra scandal that involved Oliver North and Ronald Reagan. This article is the edited transcription of the phone interview I did with Parry on Thursday, October 28th. My questions and comments are in italics.
Basically, I want to do an interview with you that talks about how Bush family history lends itself to what 's happening right now.
How do you see similarities. Today, I watched on the news as Bush attacked Kerry. What 's the history that goes into this?
For a number of years now, the conservatives, republicans have built up a very effective media machine which puts out often propaganda lines. And it 's become so powerful, it 's so pervasive, from Fox News to the Washington Times (owned by Reverend Sun Myung Moon) through a number of columnists and Rush Limbaugh 's radio shows and so forth that they can almost say anything and have a large number of people agreeing with them. It doesn 't even have to make sense, particularly. And right now we have this dispute about the 380 tos of high explosives that have gone missing in Iraq and the issue has sort of boiled down to when the munitions went missing. But the bigger point is now being missed, being missed not just on the campaign trail, but in the media, and the big question is if Bush decided to go to war to keep dangerous weapons out of the hands of terrorists and whenever these munitions may have disappeared the problem is They may have ended up in the hands of terrorists.
So, framing this debate this debate about what day it was, or if people know all the details about when the munitions went missing is a red herring. The question really is, was it really worth invading Iraq to keep weapons out of the hands of dangerous people like terrorists, when in fact invading Iraq may have helped put dangerous weapons in the hands of terrorists. But Bush has been able to reframe the debate.
Have you been watching the way Bush has been handling it in his stump speeches today? He 's basically attacking Kerry.
He 's attacking Kerry for not knowing all the facts when he has talked about the munitions going missing. It 's probably true. Kerry may not know all the facts. No-one knows all the facts. Bu the larger point is not in dispute that these kinds of weapons, which can have devastating consequences, when used by terrorists, were put into circulation because the Bush administration chose to go to war. Ironically, they chose to go to war to prevent the potential for dangerous weapons getting in the hands of terrorists.
The ability to sort of shift the debate to a point that isn 't that really that relevant --the details of exactly when something might have happened, and to attack somebody for not knowing those details, which at this point, are not know is a good example of this propaganda apparatus, which I write about in SECRECY & PRIVILEGE works.
I 'm very much aware of and have written articles on the "Echo Chamber " and the need for we on the left to develop our own group of policy advocacy think tanks like they have. I guess the other piece that I 'm looking for you to do --George 's father used the kind of strategy that George W. is using now. Could you describehow George Sr. has gone after trying to belittle and distract and take away the credibility of real news that comes out and hurts the republicans?
A good example is in 1992, in that election George Bush sr. was running for reelection, being challenged by Bill Clinton and Ross Perot was also in the race. It looked like Clinton was doing quite well. HE was pulling ahead. He had a very successful convention. There was that bus trip with Gore that was well received. His numbers were looking quite strong.
So Bush went around searching for what was called then, a silver bullet that would take Clinton down once and for all. And one of the plans was to spread a story about Clinton trying to renounce his US citizenship when he was in England at Oxford , when he was a Rhodes Scholar. ..... we now know from the documents that have come out that George Bush Sr. was adamant to his staff about getting something on this material That led, indirectly, to the whitehouse putting pressure on the state department and the state department sending a couple of operatives over to the national archive to search through Clinton 's Passport file, that was not supposed to be looked at this way. This was a political stunt, not something related to a legal situation.
They went through the file looking for the supposed letter renouncing his Citizenship. They didn 't find it. It didn 't exist. (this is like the Swift boat veterans, who revised history, in spite of no proof) They did notice that there was a tear in the corner of his passport application, likely for a check or a photograph or something like that. They used the excuse of the tear in the corner to put together a criminal referral to the FBI to suggest that Clinton may have had one of his friends go in and tamper with the file, I guess to supposedly remove this hypothetical letter renouncing his citizenship. That was then leaked to Newsweek and became an issue on the campaign trail. Now, George Bush Sr. jumps in with a number of public statements to bring attention to Bush 's patriotism and his loyalty. They made an issue out of Clinton making a trip to Moscow when he was a student (Dubya 's surrogates have made an issue of Kerry 's connection with " Hanoi Jane " Fonda.) and then later traveling to Prague Czechoslovakia to visit a friend from school. This became a big issue in the 1992 campaign and became something that the echo chamber used to damage Clinton 's chances of winning the Presidency.
It was really thwarted only because some really smart folks on the democratic side of capital hill realized how odd this was and they sent their own investigators to sort of follow the tracks of the state department investigators and found out that there really was no basis for this criminal referral --that it was a trumped up criminal referral --and that was exposed through a story in the Washington Post. So it boomeranged on George H. W. Bush. He was not able to make the headway he hoped in destroying Clinton 's reputation around the issue of whether Clinton was disloyal. But it does show how manipulative the process can get.
What happened when that boomerang happened? What did Bush do then? How did he handle that?
He actually tried to continue on with this line of inquiry. On the surface he said, well if there 's nothing to it, I guess there 's nothing to it. The FBI rejected the criminal referral as baseless, so it was somewhat dropped, But there was an effort still, we find out later. To get U.S. embassies abroad to search through their files about Clinton . that . .... There were also contacts made to the Czechoslovakian secret police to see if they could dig up damaging information on Clinton . The agencies in Czechoslovakia leaked a story to a Czech newspaper that tried to make Clinton look bad and that was picked up by the Washington Times as a way to sort of get it into the US media.
The attempts to destroy people, to damage their reputation and and in this casequestion their patriotism, shows how far this process can go. But it 's something that now we see almost routinely in campaigns involving the Bush family.
Frankly, I was reading your book yesterday, and watching Bush on TV today and George Bush is like following a Bush Family Play book. Do you have an idea in your head of how the Bush family attacks their enemies?
We 've seen repeatedly how their words are turned upside down, where Kerry said something about this global test, which, in the context, he clearly meant that if the United States is to engage in a preemptive war it needs to explain to the American people and the larger world community. It sounds like a routine, basic standard --that if you 're going to go to war you ought to be able to explain why you 're doing it --preemptive or otherwise. But that was turned around to mean the opposite of what Kerry had meant-- that we could only go to war if some global test were passed. That 's not what he meant and clearly not what he was saying. But by turning it around and repeating it and having it go through this (right winga) media machine, pretty soon, this false impression has been good.
Another strategy is to have surrogate groups damage people 's credibility and attack people 's reputation, much as we saw the Washington times running stories about Bill Clinton possibly being a KGB agent, or working with the Czech communists as a student --baseless charges, but things that could get into circulation. We saw with Kerry the swift boat veterans for truth, basically challenged his heroism and basically called him a liar, traitor and a coward. When the facts were later ascertained, it turns out that the original report that had been used to justify giving Kerry his medals, were supported by the facts. There was even an ABC, Nightline investigation that involved going to the Vietnamese village where the incidents occurred and they found the Vietnamese who were still there saying, "We didn 't know that Kerry was here but we did had this battle and there was a lot of shooting. "
You often see the use of themes the media put into play and that are then highly distorted, and attribute them to the enemy they are attacking. We saw that in the Gorec case, back in 2000. Some of the press allied with Bush. His comments were simply taken out of context, as well. Quotes were invented even. He never said he invented the internet. But that became a stock phrase to be used by his opponents. The stories about him and the Love Canal case were completely screwed up. That was a mistake made by the NY Times and the Washington Post. They got the quote wrong. They refused to correct it and by the time they grudgingly corrected it a week later, Gore had been damaged because this false quote had been spread by the republicans, by the Bush campaign and by their media allies all over the country. So people, when they went to the polls in 200, one of the major reasons they gave for voting against Al Gore was they thought he was a liar.
In your book you talk about how Bush Sr. was running defense for the Watergate situation. How did he do it there and how are there comparisons with now?
-Use Connections to Suppress unfavorable news.
Things were much more rudimentary in the 1970 's than they are today. They are much more sophisticated today than in the days of Watergate. What happened in the Watergate scandal is Richard Nixon turned to George H. W. Bush to have him be the Republican National Committee chairman. The idea then was that Bush, because he was so well connected both in the east coast wall street crowd and the Texas oil money crowd that he could pull strings and get people to back off from the Watergate scandal. And this was somewhat successful. Bush was able to work with Bob Strouse, who was the chairman of the Democratic committee in an effort to put the Watergate scandal behind the country, behind both parties and Strouse was willing to do it. They weren 't able to succeed because there were enough other elements --the press corps, some of the court, judges, that the story kept going forward and broke out. But you could see how this idea of using connections to suppress unfavorable news was already something they were pushing for and developing means to do it. We saw it again in '76 when Gerald for picked senior Bush to be the CIA director at a time when there was a lot of negative news coming out about the CIA. Bush was brought in to, as he put it, get the CIA off the front pages. At this point, Ford was trying to win the election in '76 and Bush was more successful there, even concealing a very devastating story about what the CIA knew of a terrorist incident in Washington in which the Chilean secret police had assassinated, blown up a dissident named Letellier and an American woman riding in his car named Moffat. The case should have more effectively brought to justice but Bush able to steer investigators away from the Chilean government by insisting that they had nothing to do with it and using the CIA 's intelligence to that effect, while it turns out that the truth was the opposite.
The Willingness to Twist or Hide Information from inside the government --to hide information that the that the Public Should have if it will redound against your political position and manufacture information at times, or try to pretend that something is there that will help you.
What do you mean redound?
Redound-- to your advantage, that it would bounce to, would work to your advantage. And that 's what we saw with the Letellier investigation, that it was being stonewalled in 1976, right before the election. And we 've seen that in other cases, like the case of Clinton 's passport file being searched. Information is thrown out, even if it is not entirely accurate.
How about recently, with Kerry and George W.?
The whole issue of Kerry 's war record in Vietnam is a good example of people trying to put out information that is harmful to the opponent that turns out not to be correct. And Bush, while pretended he wasn 't involved, he certainly did not specifically attack that information. He took it as an advantage and allowed it and allowed to spread and his media assets, his allies, helped spread it. So it was something that worked to his advantage quite a bit.
Also containing information. Some of the information of Bush 's own Viet Nam era experiences have come out in little dribs and drabs in such a way that they have not really had much impact. And plus there hasn 't been the kind of amplification of Bush 's national guard problems where he either didn 't show up or failed and didn 't take a physical, was suspended from flying and then wrote a letter when he was in Massachusetts, saying he didn 't have adequate time to continue on and wanted out and was allowed to leave.
Things have not been focused on with nearly the intensity that we saw around Kerry 's war record, where Kerry, the only question was how many bullets were flying around while he was engaged in trying to pull people out of the river.
There 's an article in the Philadelphia Daily news reporting that several of the workers at the WTC site were witness to the recovery of three of the four black boxes from the jetliners that hit the World Trade Center, and the FBI reports that there were never any found. They found one of the terrorist passports. It survived, but none of the black boxes from the jetliners the terrorists hijacked survived. This, which just hit the paper, seems to be a major piece of news that I haven 't seen on any of the networks yet.
We do know that there have been efforts to hold back the findings of government reports of who was responsible for some of the failures of intelligence that occurred around the Iraq war. That information is out there. It 's just not going to be released until after the election. It 's probably embarrassing for the administration. We 've known for a while that there 's a second report that has been held up until after the election 's over.
What do you expect in the next couple days. Any predictions or observations on how their end game is going to go, given how they 've done things in the past?
Any prediction of how t heir endgame is going to go given their history
Most Troubling is how they will suppress the vote clearly the polls have tightened. The internal polls of the campaigns have showed that they 've tightened. We 've seen more efforts by republicans to try to hold down the vote, especially in African American and minority community communities -- Ohio in particular --sending in teams of republican activists to challenge individual voters as they 're trying to vote, which will have two effects. One, it will intimidate those voters, but it will also gum up the system so you 'd have longer and longer lines. As you know, many Americans want to vote but they also have to get to work, or get home and get the kids some dinner or pick them kid up at daycare and they may not be able to stay in line for two hours. So this idea of trying to hold down the vote by those kinds of means is certainly a troubling picture that most Americans are not proud of.
The queston has become, really, if there can be an election that will allow the people to pick the president. We 've some of this in the past, so organized at this stage, where there was even open discussion of this. It is not hidden. It is a plan to take these action especially into battleground states, like Ohio and Florida, where there are efforts to challenge voters, especially new voters and to make sure if they show up at the wrong polling place they don 't get a chance to vote --to hold down the vote as much as possible.
What about Bush ...any media strategies or October suprises that he might pull?
The key thing for the Bush campaign is to maintain as much as they can the image of some success in Iraq . We 've seen this digging in the heels, insisting that there 's more good news than bad news, that the US authorities have been painting some schools and trying to focus on those kinds of points rather than the killing and destruction that 's going on for close to two years, since the war was launched.
The key is, can that image hold. In SECRECY and PRIVILEGE a big part of the book is to show how an apparatus was created, following Watergate, following those calamities for the republicans, an apparatus was created to put out favorable stories and to get them to the American people in a consistent way. And what we 've seen from that growth of this infrastructure, from the seventies, through the eighties and nineties until now is a tremendous success. Literally hundreds of millions of dollars have been poured into these operations, so there is kind of a propaganda machine, if you will,that is able to sustain images even when the facts don 't support them. And that 's going to be key. Will the American people become more skeptical in questioning those points, they don 't want to continue down the road they are on, sort of the exit ramp question. Or, will they say, no things are going OK. We have to stay with it and push ahead, and that 's what Bush is hoping and that 's what his campaign is hoping.
The Best way to order Robert Parry 's book the book SECRECY & PRIVILEGE, Rise of the Bush Dynasty from Watergate to Iraq, is to go to the website www.secrecyandprivilege.com It is also available through amazon.com Parry also publishes the website www.consortiumnews.com It 's definitely worth bookmarking.
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New Research on Why Circumcision May Help Prevent HIV
April 17, 2013
New Research on Why Circumcision May Help Prevent HIV
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Although the AAP's latest stance on circumcision leans in favor of the procedure, many parents view it as a personal choice to make for their sons.
New research reported by the Los Angeles Times, however, adds to the mounting evidence of the medical benefits of circumcision, and explains why it can reduce the chances of contracting AIDS. The procedure could prevent the collection of bacteria on the foreskin, which is less taxing on the immune system and leaves it better at hindering HIV.
Plus: How to Make the Circumcision Decision
Cindy M. Liu, the author of the study, which was published in the microbiology journal mBio, said that removing the foreskin of the penis is similar to "rolling back a rock and seeing the ecosystem change." The idea is if you remove a shelter for bacteriaespecially anaerobic bacteria, which needs to be fought off with HIV-prone T4 cellsthere won't be a need to bring those T4 cells out, leaving the immune system better equipped to resist HIV.
Plus: Why I Circumcised My Son
The Times also referenced studies on circumcision in the past twenty years, which have shown circumcision decreases a heterosexual male's chances of contracting HIV by 50 to 60 percent.
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Here's where we actually try to make money at this site. Patton $ Online 2012, featuring Peter Kreutzer's stat projections, can be downloaded at
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Love and Knowledge
Margaret Edson won the Pulitzer Prize drama award for her play "W;t." It is about a professor of 17th century poetry and her fight against ovarian cancer. Edson is an elementary school teacher in Atlanta, Georgia.
Love and Knowledge
JIM LEHRER: The second in our conversations with this year's winners of the Pulitzer Prize. It's with Margaret Edson, who won the drama award for her play "W;t," which is about a poetry professor's fight against cancer. This is her first play. And in the interest of full disclosure, I have known Margaret for many years, since she was a junior high school classmate of one of my daughters. She joins us tonight from Atlanta, where she works as an elementary school teacher.
JIM LEHRER: Margaret, congratulations.
MARGARET EDSON, Pulitzer Prize, Drama: Thank you, Mr. Lehrer. It's nice to see you again.
JIM LEHRER: It's good to see you. Tell us, how would you describe your play?
MARGARET EDSON: It's a play about love and knowledge. And it's about a person who has built up a lot of skills during her life who finds herself in a new situation where those skills and those great capacities don't serve her very well. So she has to disarm, and then she has to become a student. She has to become someone who learns new things.
JIM LEHRER: And she was a very strong teacher of 17th century poetry, correct, a professor?
JIM LEHRER: And why that? Why did you choose your main character to be a poetry professor?
MARGARET EDSON: I wanted her to be someone very powerful and I thought she could be a senator or a judge or a doctor even. But then I wanted her to be someone who was skilled in the use of words and skilled in the acquisition of knowledge but very inept and very clumsy in her relations with people on a more simple level. So the play is about simplicity and complications.
JIM LEHRER: And of course wit comes from of course she's an expert on the poetry of John Donne. Now, where did you get that? Where did that come from? Is that an interest you've had that you brought to the play, or something that you adapted for this play?
MARGARET EDSON: No, it's something I learned about as I was writing the play. I remembered my college classmates saying that they thought John Donne was the most difficult poet that they had to study so I made a point of not taking any classes that involved John Donne in any way.
MARGARET EDSON: I slithered to the History Department at that point.
MARGARET EDSON: And I studied about John Donne for this play.
JIM LEHRER: And you did that because you wanted to make your point that this professor had taken on something very tough and she was very strong so when she got -- she gets into this situation, obviously, where she has ovarian cancer. Now, where did that come from -- based on an experience of yours, correct?
MARGARET EDSON: Mr. Lehrer, we haven't spoken in about 20 years -
JIM LEHRER: Right. Exactly.
MARGARET EDSON: So I want to fill you in.
JIM LEHRER: All right. Tell me about your life and how it relates to this play.
MARGARET EDSON: I'm keeping up with you better than you're keeping up with me.
JIM LEHRER: Okay. All right.
MARGARET EDSON: I worked on the cancer and AIDS inpatient unit of a research hospital. And so that's where the medical part comes from.
JIM LEHRER: And what did do you there?
MARGARET EDSON: I was the unit clerk, which is a very low-level job in a hospital. But for anyone who spent time in the hospital, you know that that's the center of the action. My job was like a stage manager. It was the most like Radar on "Mash" -
MARGARET EDSON: -- to keep everything going and to keep things moving smoothly on the unit. But since it was such a low level job, I was able to really see a lot of things first hand. I was sort of unnoticed because I was so insignificant. And so I was able to witness a lot, both the actions of the care givers and reactions of the patients.
JIM LEHRER: Now, when did you start working on this play, Margaret?
MARGARET EDSON: In the summer of 1991.
JIM LEHRER: Why? How did it happen?
MARGARET EDSON: I really wanted to write this play. It sounds strange, I know, but I just felt like doing it.
JIM LEHRER: I remember from high school that you were always interested in drama. Did you study it in college?
MARGARET EDSON: No. I didn't, and the director of the play, who's also a classmate of ours, Derek Jones -
JIM LEHRER: Right. Derek Jones.
MARGARET EDSON: -- continued in drama. But I didn't.
JIM LEHRER: Yes. Okay. You first wrote it in '91. Now, when did you first hear people actually speak your words? When was that and how did that happen?
MARGARET EDSON: The first time I heard people speak my words was around my mother's dining room table. I organized a reading of the play.
JIM LEHRER: It was in Washington?
MARGARET EDSON: Yes. So Derek was Vivian Bearing; he played Vivian Bearing for the first time - at that very first reading.
JIM LEHRER: And Dr. Bearing is the lead character?
MARGARET EDSON: And my mom played the older professor and my brother played the young doctor and his wife played the young nurse. And another friend of ours from high school, Calvin, you remember him.
JIM LEHRER: I remember Calvin.
MARGARET EDSON: Played the role of the doctor.
MARGARET EDSON: That was the first time I heard it. Then I sent it to every theater in the country and they all rejected it, except one theater, and that was South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa, California. And they did the world premiere in '95 and then it was performed at Longworth Theater in '97, and now -
JIM LEHRER: That's up in Connecticut, right?
JIM LEHRER: Now it's off Broadway in New York.
JIM LEHRER: All right. For those who don't understand about play writing, the play that you first read around your mother's table, how similar is that to the one that people can go see now off Broadway in New York? What changed?
MARGARET EDSON: That play cost 50 cents more to mail than the final play. I had to cut it a lot. And that was the most difficult part but that was mainly my work over the next couple of years was just to agree to cut syllable by syllable until it got down to about 90 minutes. At the very first reading it was two and a half hours.
JIM LEHRER: Wow! Now, it's 90 minutes?
JIM LEHRER: And it's produced without an intermission, correct?
MARGARET EDSON: That's right, because we feel if there were an intermission, people would leave and we want them to stay till the end.
JIM LEHRER: Why did you think they would leave?
MARGARET EDSON: Well, in the middle it's very hard to take. It's -- it has a lot of talk about language and punctuation and complicated words, and then the medical parts are very graphic also, very realistically presented.
JIM LEHRER: I have not seen it but I read it today. I would agree with you. Margaret, you're teaching school there in Atlanta. What grade do you teach and where do you teach?
MARGARET EDSON: I'm teaching kindergarten this year at Centennial Place Elementary School.
JIM LEHRER: Why are you teaching?
MARGARET EDSON: I love teaching. I love teaching. This is my seventh year at teaching. I taught first grade last year and then English as a second language for five years before that. And I like everything about teaching. So, if my students are watching, turn off the TV and go read a book.
JIM LEHRER: Did you tell them you're going to be on TV tonight?
MARGARET EDSON: Yes. I said, I'm going to be on the news part of the same channel that has "Sesame Street".
JIM LEHRER: Okay. Now, what are you going to do now? You've won the Pulitzer Prize. Are you working on another play? Are you going to write another play?
MARGARET EDSON: No. No. I wanted to write this play. And this is the play that I wanted to write and I'm committed to teaching now. This is what I'm doing. And if there's something else I want to say in ten years, then I'll think about it, but I'm not interested in leaving teaching for anything.
JIM LEHRER: And has this -- you know how few people win the Pulitzer Prize, it's a really big deal Margaret, if you didn't know that, let me tell.
MARGARET EDSON: I appreciate that insight. I count on you for this.
JIM LEHRER: Okay. This is not going to change your life at all?
MARGARET EDSON: Once the day starts in the classroom, the affairs of the outside world really do not come into it at all. The day in the class has its own momentum. And New Yorkers find this very hard to believe, but the intricacies of New York theater are not part of what we're doing down in kindergarten.
JIM LEHRER: Describe a day. Tell me about a day. What did you do today, for instance, in your kindergarten class?
MARGARET EDSON: Well, today we had a great time counting by twos to the tune of "I Feel Good," a James Brown song. Then I've been receiving several bouquets of flowers, and we're studying about insects; we're doing a big project on insects called Six Legs over Georgia.
JIM LEHRER: Six Legs over Georgia.
MARGARET EDSON: There are bouquets of flowers all around the room. So, I took that opportunity to teach about the bee dance and how bees communicate with each other about the source of different types of nectar by flying around and then doing the dance to communicate to the other bees about where the good nectar is. So we had a very experiential lesson thanks to all the flowers that people have been sending.
JIM LEHRER: Do your student know you won the Pulitzer Prize?
JIM LEHRER: Do they care?
MARGARET EDSON: Well, we talk a lot about manners and feelings and courtesy and thoughtful gestures. So, they all came up to me and said congratulations. And I said thank you. They said you're welcome.
JIM LEHRER: Okay. Well, Margaret, let me say congratulations to you again. And as somebody who has known you for a long time, I think I speak for everybody who has known you for a long time, nobody is surprised you'd do something like this. We might not have predicted this prize for this particular play, but nobody is surprised. And, congratulations to you, my friend.
MARGARET EDSON: Well, thank you very much and give my regards to your daughter.
JIM LEHRER: I'll do it.
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It's claiming that roles don't support array references for around method modifiers... i.e. Moose stuff. It's saying that this doesn't work...
use v5.14; package Local::Role { use Moose::Role; around [qw/ a b /] => sub { say "constant access" }; } package Local::Class { use Moose; with 'Local::Role'; use constant { a => 1, b => 2 }; } # Should print "constant access" twice Local::Class->a; Local::Class->b;
On my machine, the above does work though, so it's likely that you're running a very old Moose/Class::MOP. Judging from Moose::Manual::Delta this may have been introduced in Moose 0.95; current version is 2.0604.
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But it doesn't have a (native) switch.
No fair, picking on explicit design decisions. :-)
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What's wrong about the warning? It's there to prevent the common pitfall of expecting things like this to work right:
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Update: I didn't realize the warning would trigger with one and only one space. That does seem kind of peculiar. But if that was the crux of what the OP was talking about, it wasn't exactly clear.
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Why does the coderef point to the old block?
That's not a code reference, it's a scalar reference.
$string_ref is a reference to the scalar, $string. Doing a print $$string_ref; will print out whatever's *presently* in $string.
Update: Oops ... looking at Freezy's post in the context of the entire thread, I think I might've missed the point somewhat in my reply.
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But wait, if you print the value all at once, then why do you need the complicated incremental radix conversion routine? Why not just generate the whole binary representation at once, then convert it to decimal all at once, using the built in bigfloat or bigint operations? (Sorry, I won't write that in code now.)
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Rolling up so neatly,
in doing so, completely,
pushing out the paste.
Hints of minty taste.
Do not touch the middle,
Females might just quibble.
You do not want to waste.
Roll it back post haste!
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The impact of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) on society and people with disabilities is far reaching. The ADA has reshaped public perception of individuals with disabilities and the roles they can assume in the workplace and their personal lives. The ADA also has influenced how people with disabilities perceive themselves and is a powerful statement that their contribution to society is valued. That statement is made every day, every time someone uses relay services or wheels through a wide doorway in a wheelchair.
Outside the United States, similar legislation is extremely limited. Does that mean other countries do not value people with disabilities? Not at all. In some cases, it means that accessibility is defined and provided in a different way.
Recently, I had the pleasure of talking with Hilde Haualand, who currently serves as the Powrie V. Doctor chair at Gallaudet University. Her research centers on how technology shapes peoples' perceptions and how perceptions shape the use of technology. Our discussion reminded me of a fascinating book, The Axemaker's Gift, by Robert Ornstein, Ted Dewan and James Burke. The book argues that the way our minds work is shaped, at least in part, through an evolutionary process by which technologists - the "axemakers" in Neanderthal times gained prominence in society and, by virtue of their innovation, shaped their society's value systems and leader's choices. Our perceptions and values have been shaped over millennia by the choices that members of society and our leaders make.
During our conversation, we discussed how different countries address accessibility as well as the responsibilities different institutions have to people with disabilities, which, in turn, shape how they view themselves and their role in society.
For example, in the United States, the ADA makes accommodations the responsibility of the employer. If a place or event is not job related and does not use federal funds, it may be more difficult for a person to obtain accommodations. An illustration might be a monthly non-profit board meeting or a weekly small-business staff meeting in which the organization may not have the funds to bring in an interpreter, CART or related services.
In Norway, the government contracts directly with the disabled person for services. When a deaf employee needs services for a meeting, that person schedules it with the appropriate government agency. The employer does not have to address the cost issue. Even if the situation is personal, such as a cocktail party, the government will provide services when available.
Depending on your perception, this could be a good or bad thing: does the free interpreter reduce the incentive to develop a more independent lifestyle or does the interpreter enable the individual to focus on being a productive citizen, free from the struggles of having to communicate ineffectively with hearing people?
The role of cultural values is powerfully illustrated in a recent Volta Voices article by Felicia Foinmbam (July/ August, pp. 22-24). Foinmbam, the mother of three children with hearing loss, moved from Cameroon to Kenya to obtain education, therapy and hearing technology for her children. Foinmbam's story highlights some of the negative stereotypes associated with hearing loss and how persistent societal barriers in various countries can hinder understanding and options for individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing. In the United States, we would consider that abhorrent,
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45 98%
Silent Souls (2011)
"The performances are pitch perfect. The culture is fascinating. See it. See it. See it. "
Tara Brady
46 63%
The Five-Year Engagement (2012)
"Somewhere, buried in The Five-Year Engagement, is a sparkling screwball comedy fighting against a turntable running on long play."
Tara Brady
47 35%
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012)
"It's rather a shame that yawning voids occupy the places where we usually expect to find characters."
Donald Clarke
48 19%
Lay the Favorite (2012)
"You can see the veins standing out on the heads of Rebecca Hall and Catherine Zeta-Jones as they strive to make sense of a script that has no time for logic or consistency. "
Donald Clarke
49 93%
Amour (2012)
"If we were previously in any doubt, Haneke is confirmed as the premiere European director of his generation."
Donald Clarke
50 86%
Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)
" Few more brazenly cinematic pieces will come our way this year."
Donald Clarke
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0.089132 | <urn:uuid:e940c996-6bd8-4f40-8926-460fd292b352> | en | 0.942694 | Lazio vs. Chievo, Final Score 0-1: Chievo sucker-punch sets Lazio further back
Paolo Bruno
Chievo emerged victorious at the Stadio Olimpico, despite Lazio dominating for long periods. Alberto Paloschi's simple finish gave the flying donkeys a victory built on frustrating their more illustrious opponents.
Lazio are set to fall further behind Juventus at the top of the table after conspiring to lose a match they dominated against Chievo Verona.
Lazio left out Hernanes and Stefano Mauri, bringing in Cristian Brocchi and Antonio Candreva. Following Stefano Sorrentino's walk-out in the week to force a move to Palermo, Chievo gave Christian Puggioni only his second start of the season in goal.
The first half quickly settled into a routine of Lazio dominating possession and passing it round the Chievo area, and Chievo breaking up the field when they won the ball.
Despite Lazio's dominance, genuine chances were few and far between as the Flying Donkeys were successful in stifling the creative Lazio players. Antonio Candreva fired over the bar after a good exchange between Sergio Floccari and Senad Lulic.
It's sad to say that the main story of the first half had little to do with the football itself. Alberto Paloschi's audacious attempt from inside the centre circle went narrowly over, and in his attempt to backtrack to cover it, Federico Marchetti inadvertently brought down the entire goal net, meaning a five minute stoppage whilst it was replaced.
The match continued largely in the fashion it had began, with Abdoulay Konko stinging Puggioni's palms from distance and Andre Dias' header from a corner the only notable chances for Lazio, whilst the best Chievo could come up with was a weak Cyril Thereau header following a counter-attack.
After the break, Lazio still looked sluggish and uninspired, still having most of the ball but still unable to create much in the way of meaningful chances. Stefano Mauri and Hernanes were introduced in an attempt to inspire some kind of fire in the Lazio ranks but despite their introductions the biancocelesti were still unable to break through the resilient Chievo defence.
After Lazio's travails in front of goal, the most predictable thing occurred: Chievo went ahead. Cyril Thereau got away down the left and his pullback from the bye-line was met by Bojan Jokic. His shot cannoned off the crossbar and Alberto Paloschi was on hand to finish from close range, despite the protestations of the Lazio players that he was offside.
Thereafter, Lazio huffed and puffed but couldn't find an opening, their best chance of the match coming when Sergio Floccari could have pulled the trigger in the penalty area, but passed for a better-positioned Stefano Mauri who then ballooned his effort way over the bar when it looked easier to score.
Thereafter, Chievo were able to hold on and despite intense pressure from Lazio, they never looked particularly dangerous and could find themselves eight points off the top of the table should Juventus win later on.
Lazio: Marchetti; Konko, Radu (Kozak 74), Biava, Dias; Ledesma, Brocchi (Mauri 46), Gonzalez (Hernanes 62), Candreva, Lulic; Floccari
Chievo: Puggioni; Sardo (Vacek 30), Jokic, Cesar, Dainelli, Andreolli; Rigoni, Cofie, Guana (Seymour 68); Thereau, Paloschi (Stoian 74)
Goals: Paloschi 61 (C)
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I don't really know where to begin. Cujo is really a simple story at it's core, but Stephen King adds dimension to it making it a truly terrifying novel. I read it slowly over the course of the week (though I could have burned right through it in a couple of hours time,) and it gave me nightmares all week!
Cujo is a realistic story that could take place in your town or mine, with your friend's or my neighbor's dog, and I think that's what makes it so frightening. Stephen King is a master of writing real characters, I truly believe that is why he is such a popular author. The stories he writes are so believable, making you want to peer into that dark closet or under the bed, looking for the lurking monster.
If you've never read any Stephen King, you should give him a try. Cujo would definitely a good novel to start with. Disturbing as it is, Cujo is a shining example of excellent writing that can really move the reader.
Susan wrote this review Saturday, October 2, 2010.
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From Baghdad to Laramie
Ali Hamodi
Ali Hamodi
An Iraq native and University of Wyoming student will be speaking tonight at Sheridan College as part of their 3rd annual Festival of Cultures. Sheridan Media's Betsy Love has the details
Ali Hamodi is one of UW's med students. Though tonight he will not be talking of medicine, but of a different way of survival. He will be sharing his life journey, beginning, in war-torn Baghdad:
That was Claudia Colnar, who is the International Student Recruiter for Sheridan College and also one of the Festival's organizers.
She says Ali was slated to speak at last year's festival, but a spring blizzard unfortunately shut down the town the night he was to speak:
Claudia lived in the Middle East for a number of years. She, like many who lived or traveled there, say there is often a difference between our perceptions of the region and people, and the reality:
And if the educational element isn't enough to entice you, afterwards there is a reception, where you can sample some Middle East sweets:
Ali's talk is at 7 o'clock tonight at Sheridan College in the CTEL Hall.
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Now that it is officially summer, my friends and I like to go to the mall a lot. And I know that this isn’t just us being weird; a lot of people actually do go to the mall. Shocker. But what would happen if the mall were under lockdown—and you were in it?
This is the plot of No Safety in Numbers by Dayna Lorentz. And the mall isn’t just on lockdown; there is actually a biological bomb in the parking garage. Now, no one in the mall knows about it at the beginning, except Marco, who found the bomb; the people who have been called in to investigate; and the senator, who was at the mall with her family. Eventually, other people start to find out, but by then it’s too late. Cue horror movie music.
The prospect of a bomb is enough to make you not want to go to the mall, but this mall is nothing like the University Park Mall here. Lorentz’s mall has an ice-skating rink, a Pancake Palace, and many more department stores with beds, pillows, etc. than we do. I’m impressed with how Dayna Lorentz has created a mall that I want to go to and, yet, want to stay as far away from as humanly possible. Well done, Ms. Lorentz.
Each chapter is written from the point of view of one of the four teenagers trapped inside the mall: Shay, the poetry lover; Ryan, the popular boy’s little brother; Lexi, the senator’s daughter; and Marco, who you remember from the second paragraph. Yes, this writing format is confusing at first, but halfway into the book, you should understand what’s going on. Each character develops his or her storyline just slowly enough that you want to keep reading and find out how they’re going to get out of the mall, because you really do like them.
The development of the story keeps the same pace, moving along at a speed that Goldilocks would appreciate. And the developments themselves? Well, they have just enough science fiction in them that they aren’t recognized as anything near to truth, but they are completely believable within the limits of the story.
I don’t want to spoil any part of this book, so I’m just going to borrow some words from my friend Abi, who recommended this book to me: “At the end, you’re expecting it to happen, but it happens differently, and you don’t want it to happen.”
There. That should be vague enough that you’ll want to read the book. It worked on me.
Enjoy your summer, and have fun at the mall.
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Just a quick word of advice: skip this post. No, really, skip it. It’s about people doing things with body parts and… well, it’s not so much a body part as a body by-product. And no, not poop. Or pee. I’d rather write about someone like Juan Manuel Marquez drinking his own urine. Honestly, that’s more appetizing. If you read ahead and are thoroughly disgusted, it is your own fault. We warned you.
Robin van Persie
(He’s not clutching it in pain, he’s making sure nothing disgusting gets rubbed onto it.)
A couple days ago, Arsenal lost striker Robin van Persie to a nasty sprain in a friendly between the Netherlands and Denmark. See, it’s ironic because getting your ankle exploded isn’t friendly at all. Anyway. Now comes the healing process, and while that’s expected to take 4-6 weeks, van Persie’s wanting to get back sooner. So he’s pursuing “alternative treatments,” which probably just means he’s getting some acupuncture and–wait, what? Oh sweet Jesus, that’s not it at all, there’s afterbirth involved. Oh God no.
After a chat with PSV/Holland buddy Dante Lazovic, it appears the fleet-footed striker has been inspired to try the same methods that helped his friend come back from injury:
“I will fly to the Balkans to meet with a female doctor who helped Lazovic. She is vague about her methods but I know she massages you using fluid from a placenta. I’m going to try. It cannot hurt and if it helps, it helps. I’ve been in contact with Arsenal physiotherapists and they have let me do it.”
Yes, somebody has convinced him to rub a uterine wall all over his injured ankle to help it recover. The odds of this having any real medical benefit, of course, are precisely dick - which is probably why the “therapist” was so vague in her “methods.” Where does she even get the placentas? Doesn’t it seem weird that you have to travel to a substantially poorer country in order to get a type of medical therapy? Aren’t alarms going off like crazy here?
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0.384892 | <urn:uuid:9403469b-ed5d-4793-b52c-dcf96b4653a8> | en | 0.97488 | Ambient Lighting & Its Effects On Eye Colors - Or What Color ARE Tom Hiddleston's Eyes?!
Whenever there are Tom Hiddleston fans, there is always confusion about the man's real eye color, and whether or not he was wearing contact lenses. Are his eyes blue or green? Was he wearing contact lenses part of the time?
As near as I can tell, Tom Hiddleston's eyes are most probably blue-green. Depending on the ambient lighting, blue-green eyes can appear blue or green - and if you pay attention to the photos, they always look green when there's a yellow tint and blue when there's a bluish tint.
To demonstrate how this works, I took some photos of my own eye so you can see just what ambient lighting can do to eye colors like that. Observe:
The first picture is taken in cool light, which makes the iris look blue - even almost gray. The second picture is taken in neutral light, which makes it pretty close to the actual color. The third picture is taken in warm light, so it appears green.
Remember when Loki's eyes looked green? That was when he was in the palace of Asgard, which had a golden cast to it. It probably wasn't that they "forgot" to give him contact lenses in other scenes; most likely it just the differences in lighting.
So whenever you're trying to determine someone's eye color in the future, remember to take ambient lighting into account.
Addendum: I have been told that at some point Tom Hiddleston actually said something about the color of the eyes being manipulated. However, I have never been able to locate the exact quote. My suspicion is that if he did indeed say this, he may have been talking about the promotional poster with Loki, which definitely were manipulated.
Addendum 2: More on the topic of Loki, many fans agree that Loki's eyes were totally green in the scene where Thor nabbed him at Stark Tower and got a knife in the side for his troubles. Still, no cigar. Here are the irises of Loki's eyes from that scene transposed over his cape in the same scene. (His cape, being unequivocally green, makes a good reference.)
This is actually a very good scene to refer to because the lighting here is pretty natural - no tinting effects, no special light colors. And here it's really visible that if you compare Loki's "green" eyes to something that's actually green, they don't quite make the emerald cut. "Okay, but the Tesseract futzes with peoples' eyes!" I can hear some of you saying. Let me reiterate: this is the scene where many fans agree his eyes are green. Plus, people taken over by the Tesseract have their pupils clouded over, whereas Loki's are clearly visible.
But if that's still too ambiguous for you, here are Loki's eyes after he's been Hulk-smashed (at which point, allegedly, the scepter's control wore off) transposed with green from his clothing from the same screenshot.
Finally, compare with someone who does have green eyes in this movie - Scarlett Johansson/Natasha Romanoff. Let's put her eyes through the same tests we've put Tom Hiddleston/Loki's.
See the difference? Now that's what I'm talking about. These right here are some green peepers. But on the odd chance you're still not convinced, here's a comparison of Loki/Hiddleston's and Romanoff/Johansson's eyes next to each other.
Hiddleston/Loki's eyes are greenish, yes. But they're a few alleles short of a proper green.
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0.434316 | <urn:uuid:ba79bbeb-ee06-45a8-8363-1a98589ed05c> | en | 0.961703 | 'Tis the season to be jolly!
So, did you wake up this morning to a gift of four colly birds from your true love? Probably not, but if you did, my advice is to liberate them if they're still alive. If the birds are at room temperature, try to discreetly dispose of the evidence. The possession of colly birds is illegal.
And you thought Christmas was over four days ago. The fact is, today you're only a third of the way through the Christian season of Christmastide. That's why the carol exhorts you to deck your halls with boughs of holly to commemorate a jolly season. Christian Christmas starts of Dec. 25 and concludes on Twelfth Night, the evening of Jan. 5.
Christian Christmas? Well, we now have two Christmases. Christian Christmas is a sacred celebration of the mystery that the One, Creator God of the universes became human in the baby in Bethlehem. Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant Christians all refer to that Nativity mystery as the doctrine of the Incarnation, God became flesh. For Christians the Incarnation is an event that merits a festival.
Then there's the other Christmas, the annual materialistic orgy characterized by tinsel and trees, reindeer and wrapping paper, carols and candy, and the annual spike in credit card debt.
Both Christmases are jolly, at least until you have to pay for the latter.
What's not jolly are the annual "Christmas wars." There's always the tedious annual nattering of bigoted atheists. But they are topped by the fulminations of touchy and uniformed religious types.
In their ignorance thepious zealots don't know that the "X" in "Xmas" is the Greek letter "chi" and a legitimate abbreviation for "Christ." They take offense at the jolly but secular-sounding valediction "Happy Holiday," because they haven't figured out that "holiday" is "holy-day."
And I haven't yet met a staunch defender of the true Christmas who was aware that Christmas is a season, not a day.
There's always a few skirmishes about when Jesus was born. I don't think anyone seriously considers Dec. 25 as the correct date. It was just a convenient and symbolic time of year. After all, what better time of year to celebrate the coming of the Light of the World than after the winter solstice when the days start to get longer?
Besides, among the probable correct dates for Jesus' birth was already taken with the celebration of Michaelmas (late September). Christmas isn't the only "mas" on the Christian calendar.
For my own part the least jolly degradation of Christmas is the loss of the true meaning of the carol. It's the Protestant's fault.
Among the unfortunate innovations of the Protestant movement was the introduction of the pew, seating in worship areas. The purpose of the seating was to give church-goers relief during the long-winded sermons that used to be standard Sunday morning fare. You have to remember that they didn't have television. By contrast, many Orthodox Christian churches to this day don't provide general seating, just a few benches for the elderly or infirm.
But the pew also meant you couldn't dance in church.
You see, a carol is technically dance music, specifically for circle dances accompanied by vocalists. That's why even most religious carols are frisky compared to other selections in your hymnal. If you check religious carols you will find a concentration of 3/4 and 6/8 metrical rhythms with tempos brisk enough for holy cavorting.
I've attended a particularly festive church (Saint Gregory of Nyssa, San Francisco) where they relocate the worshipers from pews to the open space around their altar with congregational line dancing accompanied by carols. One line of dancers is led by a priest beating a conga and another dance line by a priest swinging a censor with bells on the chains. They dance every Sunday to non-Christmas carols until they form up a circle around their altar. It's very jolly indeed.
The point being, the religious fanatics who huff and puff about the true meaning of Christmas also don't know that they're supposed to dance to "In Dulce Jubilo" -- "Good Christian Men, Rejoice." Alas, they may not dance at all.
At any rate, get rid of the colly birds before you're caught, but tomorrow you can keep the five gold rings.
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Winners of American Music Awards are determined by music buyers, or in other words, public opinion. Let's harness that same power and determine who dressed best for the occasion.
Which celeb dressed better?
Good luck!
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Standard merino wool sweater...will it stretch over time?
Don't they usually have a sale in november as well? How does that compare to the after xmas?
brooks would be good for you. If you plan on spending more than that, look into thomas pink or RL black label
lord and taylor F&F sale going on now...
Do they usually have any major sales in october/november, or should I just take advantage of the 25% corporate membership going on right now?
Quote: I hate to ask this again but can anyone attest to the fit of Theory pants. Are they true to size...again say I'm wearing a 33 in Banana Republic monogram should I get 33 Theory? Are the BR monogram slimmer...
any decent slim fitting brands
Slim shirts, 14.5 neck!
^I always run searches, but not every question has been answered or there might have been very few responses to a particular question Even if I did repeat a question that has been answered in another thread, I don't see what the big...
Is there some pre-sale with 40+15% off? How does that usually work, and what's the difference in terms of selection between that and the regular "private" sale?
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rightiswrong writes:
in response to nyuk_nyuk_nyuk:
Somehow I don’t believe you’d be this gracious if the people you seem to be defending were just a little different.
Perhaps if they were Eastern European, Asian and South American who were handpicked to come into this country for the skills they possess.
They would then be perhaps close to those 1%’s in income and not be too fond of money being confiscated from them. They would most likely be Republican voting non-resident immigrants.
Not that it would ever happen, but would you still be OK with that?
You have written many stupid posts which show that you have the intelligence of a gnat, but this one takes the cake.
All people who come into this country are hand picked for the skills they possess. Now, you came in by birth and you should count yourself lucky, you would never meet the criteria for entry that Mexicans and Romanians have to meet.
And no non resident immigrant can vote Republican because non residents cannot vote.
And most of the people who come here do not come with money they come with skills and that does not make them part of the 1%. Again, that makes them different from native Americans like you senile oafs, they have skills and you need them to survive.
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0.022825 | <urn:uuid:2e862acf-cc56-44b3-99c5-8fe1d598022c> | en | 0.961977 | 2 Republicans depart House immigration group
ERICA WERNER Associated Press Published:
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Two Republicans have announced plans to leave a bipartisan House group that's been working in secret to write a comprehensive immigration bill.
Texas Reps. John Carter and Sam Johnson say they can no longer be part of the effort because they don't trust President Barack Obama to enforce any legislation they write.
It leaves Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart of Florida as the sole Republican with four Democrats in the group. It's the latest sign of the difficulties of reaching any deal on immigration.
However, the House group had delayed its bill for months, raising questions about its relevance. House Republican leaders have said they plan to proceed with immigration legislation on a step-by-step approach, not with a single big bill like the group has been trying to produce. | http://www.the-daily-record.com/ap%20washington/2013/09/20/2-republicans-depart-house-immigration-group | dclm-gs1-058210002 | false | false | {
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0.01882 | <urn:uuid:ae19d4f4-ed19-460b-8c72-46a1a64ac17c> | en | 0.953286 | Chinese paramilitary troops began conducting round-the-clock patrols on Sunday in the north-western region of Xinjiang following a series of bloody clashes that have killed at least 56 people over the last several months.
Police in the region also released new details about a clash Wednesday that authorities said left 35 people dead, including 11 attackers, blaming it on a violent gang of Muslim extremists.
The order for the patrols by the People’s Armed Police was issued by the ruling Communist Party’s top law enforcement official, Meng Jianzhu, at an emergency meeting late Saturday in Xinjiang’s regional capital, Urumqi. The action came just days ahead of the July 5 anniversary of a 2009 riot between Xinjiang’s native Uighur people and Han Chinese migrants in the city that left nearly 200 people dead.
Troops must patrol in all weather conditions, “raise their visibility, maintain a deterrent threat and strengthen the public’s sense of security,” Mr. Meng said, according to a notice posted to the Public Security Ministry’s website.
While the region is basically at peace, “the determination of the ‘three forces’ at home and abroad to create chaos in our Xinjiang remains alive and they are taking every opportunity to devise and carry out activities to make trouble and sow destruction,” M.r Meng said. The three forces is China’s standard term for anti—government foes representing separatism, terrorism and religious extremism.
Bordering Central Asia, Afghanistan and Pakistan, Xinjiang (shihn-jeeahng) has long been home to a simmering rebellion against Chinese rule among parts of the Uighur (WEE’-gur) population opposed to large-scale Han Chinese migration, and angered by strict communist restrictions on Islam and their Turkic language and cultural institutions.
In Wednesday’s incident, assailants attacked police and government offices in the town of Lukqun in the region’s usually quiet east in one of the bloodiest incidents since the 2009 Urumqi rampage. Authorities searching for suspects have sealed off the area. Other independent reports put the death toll as high as 46.
According to a police statement posted on the Xinjiang government’s official website, the attackers were members of a 17-member extremist Islamic cell formed in January by a man identified by the Chinese pronunciation of his Uighur name, Aihemaitiniyazi Sidike.
The statement said the cell regularly listened to recordings promoting violence and terrorism and from mid—June had been raising funds, buying knives and gasoline, and casing various sites in preparation for an attack.
On Tuesday, however, authorities captured one of the members, and fearing they would be discovered before they could act, Sidike ordered the gang to assemble before dawn Wednesday and attack, the statement said. They attacked and burned a police station, patrol cars, township government offices and a building site, along with shops and a beauty parlour, it said, adding that their 24 victims included 16 Uighurs, eight Han and two women.
Police shot to death 11 people at the scene, wounded and captured four others, and seized the final member of the gang on Sunday following a search.
Following that incident, more than 100 knife-wielding people mounted motorbikes in an attempt to storm the police station Friday in Karakax county in southern Xinjiang’s Hotan region, where the population is overwhelmingly Uighur. Elsewhere on Friday, an armed mob staged an attack in the township of Hanairike, according to the news portal of the Xinjiang regional government. Few details were given about the incidents and there was no official word on deaths, injuries or arrests.
The recent wave of violence began with a deadly clash on April 24 in western Xinjiang that left 21 people dead, including police officers and local government officials. The government said the violence broke out after neighbourhood security inspectors uncovered a bomb-making ring that was planning a major attack in the city of Kashgar.
In that and other incidents, the attackers were reportedly inspired by jihadist teachings and literature smuggled into the country or downloaded from the Internet. China has accused Uighur activists based overseas of orchestrating the 2009 violence in Urumqi and plotting other incidents, charges the groups have denied, saying they are merely advocating for Uighur civil and religious rights.
One overseas group, the Washington, D.C.-based Uyghur American Association, which uses a different spelling of Uighur, has called for an independent investigation into Wednesday’s incident in Lukqun and questioned the government’s claim that it was an act of terrorism.
While the loss of life was “extremely upsetting,” China is worsening tensions by ratcheting up security and treating all Uighurs with hostility, the group’s president, Alim Seytoff, said in a statement.
“The way the Chinese state has managed this incident follows a pattern familiar to others that have happened in the past. After imposing a blackout of news and maintaining tight control of information, the state then uses its propaganda apparatus to label the incident ‘terrorism’ without presenting any evidence that can be independently proved,” Seytoff said.
State-run newspapers reported Sunday that Xinjiang was calm, and state broadcaster CCTV ran interviews with pro-government Muslim clerics and residents of Urumqi, both Chinese and Uighur, who denounced violence and expressed confidence in the government’s ability to maintain security.
China has also sought to enlist other countries in the region in the fight against violence in Xinjiang, and on Saturday the national legislature ratified a pair of agreements on anti-terrorism cooperation and joint drills under the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, a Chinese and Russian-dominated grouping of Central Asian states.
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Dr Jonathan Rowson is Director of the Social Brain Centre at the RSA.
After degrees spanning a range of social science disciplines from Oxford and Harvard, Jonathan’s Doctoral research was an examination of the concept of wisdom, including a detailed analysis of the challenge of overcoming the psycho-social constraints that prevent people becoming 'wiser', similar to what the RSA terms the 'social aspiration gap'. He writes a weekly column for the Herald newspaper, has authored three books, and is a chess Grandmaster and former British Champion (2004-6).
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Forward-backwards compatability with BTX/ATX
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I'm about to build a new system, and there's one thing that worries me; the BTX form factor.
My problem is that I was planning to use a Lian-Li V1100, a quite costy case at over $300 where I live, I am willing to spend that kind of money, but with the emergence of the btx form-factor I’m afraid it’ll be obsolete in a few years, and I would like to use it for at least my next two systems. How soon do you think BTX will take over, and how long will it be before you can’t get ATX motherboards anymore?
I have thought about solving the problem by using my current case (Chieftec Dragon midi-tower) for my next system until Lian-Li makes a BTX-case, and then switch. I want a new case as well, but I could wait if I have to. My first worry with that solution is when I can expect that case to be available, and my second is whether a BTX-case will be backwards compatible with an ATX-motherboard – anyone know anything about that?
As far as I can see BTX makes sense, having a large air-intake just beside the CPU seem like a good solution, and it looks to me like the standard generally gets more control over the air-currents in the case.
I haven’t seen any tests but Anandtechs ( and that one only covers mini-BTX.
BTX is DYING. I'm not sure if OEM players will breath new life into it, but BTX is the last thing I'd be concerned with. The whole point of BTX was to help the Prescott deal with heat, but Intel is killing the Prescott.
Hmm, are you sure about that? As far as I can see BTX is a sensible step, Prescott or no Prescott, optimising airstreams and cooling doesn’t stop making sense in my book, even if you don’t have a processor quite as hot as the Prescott. As far as I can see BTX makes cooling more efficient and thereby quieter, I don’t understand how anyone but the case-manufactures (who have to redesign) can be against that…
When that’s said there’s a point that things have been strangely quiet about BTX, as far as I know Intel have only released a test-bundle for mini-BTX and apart from that nothing has happened at all. Still, might we just be seeing a slow transition here, as far as I have heard ATX took some time catching on as well…
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Hmm, it says about the same as the anandtech article; that btx makes sense, at least in the micro-btx form that's tested here. The way the thermal module lines up with the gfx-card (that is when the gfx-card will fit) looks pretty sweet, though as far as I have understood it's only the desktop-models working with risers, I'd like to have seen a more unified gfx-cpu cooling scheme.
It seems very odd to me that it's been so quiet about btx, frankly I don't understand all the people criticising it, nor that it hasn't caught on among the enthusiasts yet.
There is no demand for btx so companies are not going to waste money implementing it. A change over like that will not be cheap so there is no way it will happen if companies aren't going to make major bucks off it.
It is an interesting idea but even if it was realeased on a large scale I wouldn't buy it. With liquid cooling that new airflow doesn't really do anything for ya so it really isn't worth the cost of changing form factors. Liquid cooling is slowly becoming the norm so new airflow ideas aren't really needed.
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How many times can I use a Widnows 7 cd on a computer like i want to use it on mutiple computers but how many times can I.
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Use can use the DVD on as many computers as you wish, but you'll need a separate CD key for each additional installation. Microsoft's User Agreement/License allows installation on one PC per license (the CD key). OEM versions die when the original system to which it was installed dies. Full and Upgrade versions allow the OS to be transported to another computer, but it must deleted from the the earlier computer.
a c 208 $ Windows 7
When you buy Windows, the valuable part of your purchase is the license key - THAT's what lets you install and activate Windows. You need a different key for each computer (except for a few special cases that you pay extra for). | http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/11946-63-general-question | dclm-gs1-058460002 | false | false | {
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Serious Help.....Glitch / Games Crashing....?
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1. I'm having problems with my games crashing during play. For instance, while playing call of duty2, the game will crash, or should I say, "Minimize", and flip back to Windows XP? After that happens, I simply click on the Call of Duty2 button, and it comes back up and I keep playing again. This has happened with other games as well. It usually happens ever 2 - 5 minutes? Any ideas what's causing this to happen? I've scan and scan my computer for viruses, and registry problems. Several bugs, but they were fixed. Hmmmmm?
2. Another issue....that maybe related. Whilel typing emails, or this message, every so often I'll loose my cursor, it disappears. Almost like something in the background popped up! But, no pop up appears. So, I click with my mouse and my cursor appears, and I start typing again.
3. Another....after I reboot, and I reach the desktop, I click on Mozilla Icon, MS Word/Excel/Pwrpoint, or I click on a game to uninstall under Programs, nothing happens! The program won't open? But, after about 4 minutes, or so....finally the programs open! So, basically I keep clicking and no programs execute, and then finally all of them open!?
I've scanned for spam as well, nothing?
Any advise is appreciated... I use System Mechanic6 Professional as a tool for firewall (& XP Firewall), and for scanning for spam and viruses. I went into Sys Mech6 and added the game to the "Okay", or "allow" status but that didn't seem to help the problem.
Overall, my system seems to run fine, other than the above malfunctions! I
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That really sounds like there's some program running that takes focus away from the foreground application. It can be as simple as a little program in the background trying to get your attention (but it seems unlikely in this case), or it can be a trojan/virus/malware.
Since no AV or spyblocker does a 100% job, I use a couple so that hopefully the overlap will get it all.
I like:
Spybot Search & Destroy
McAffee's online scans.
Also can try downloading Hijackthis and posting a logfile to one of the hijackthis forums where the regulars will find things that nothing else can find, and they'll give you instructions on how to fix it. | http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/229632-45-serious-help-glitch-games-crashing | dclm-gs1-058470002 | false | false | {
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Blue screens from portable hard drive?
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Hi guys im new to these forums so please help me! i recently formated a western digital elements protable hard drive and ever since ive for mated it seems liekw hen its plugged in my computer gets blue screens is this because the hard drive how do i got about fixing this problem or if its something else please help thanks!
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Generally when ya get a blue screen there is some white text on that same screen on top of the blue. If indeed there is text on that screen, what does it say?
is there a way to go back and see what it says cause i only read the first three or four words i think it may have mentioned hard disk or memory not too sure sorry
It blue screens when the hard drive is plugged in, right? Simply plug the hard drive in and let it blue screen. Also, does it blue screen immediately after you plug it in? Or is it triggered by something or happen at a specific time?
i juts got a blue screen while it was plugged in this is what it said i just tried to replicaate it and it didnt happen KERNEL_DATA_INPAGE_ERROR
Well that error can be caused by a number of different things, most commonly hard disk errors, conflicting drivers, or fritzy hardware. Sometimes these things resolve themselves. Ain't that convenient? If the problem occurs again though, let us know and we'll attempt to hold your hand through the whole thing.
okay so i got a blue screen on boot up today right after i installed ncleaner to try and get rid of some registry.. it found something like 1746 registry errors so i didnt trut it deleting all that so i backed up the registry and on the boot up i got a blue screen it said something like process1 with some other stuff... then it did a memory dump so i restarted the comp and it seemed to boot up a bit faster then normal and its been fine now. all try restarting it and see if ig et the blue screen again would u reccomend using the abck up for my registry? or keeping it like this ?
If no new problems occur, and all your programs run fine, than you may as well leave the registry as it is now. If you got the blue screen before modifying the registry than restoring it won't do much to fix it.
it juts booted up fine took about a minute and 10 before i touched anythign and everything had popped up and all the icons were normal so id say its fine ? but could u give me a step by step to run chkdsk thing ? i think i want to try it now...
okay now im having some troubles with firefox.. when i go to facebook it looks really wierd its not normal and then here on toms its almost as if there no flash or animation now this is just on fire fox on internet explorer its perfectly fine i tried reinstalling firefox and nothign changed what could it be.. :s
so its definately a firefox problem now ! ive installed chrome and it works perfectly as does internet explorer ive reinstlalled firefox all try uninstaliing then reinstalling see if that makes a diffrence all report back | http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/265604-32-blue-screens-portable-hard-drive | dclm-gs1-058480002 | false | false | {
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Alright, lately I've been getting hardware BSOD's on my work box running Win 7 Enterprise. The issue is that the BSOD's happen at least daily, usually at the worst time (duh), and have literally 0x0000 signature. What shows up in the crash log is literally "unknown error". Additionally, a new symptom is that now it boots up, displays nothing (monitor goes to sleep), and dosen't do anything till another BSOD appears (wakes up the monitor to display the BSOD then shuts down). Therefore I know it's not the graphics card, since it shows up, but I can't even see the boot menu (even with another monitor and using a different connection (DVI as opposed to DP). I literally was working on something, went to dinner, came back, watched it blue screen, and now it doesn't boot :fou: .
This is driving me nuts, it's under warranty until next year so that's not an issue, but I would like to get this fixed sooner rather than later. I have removed the nic cards and the Kingston RAM from the equation as the machine still has issues with those removed. From what I can tell it's likely the graphics card (under warranty fortunately) or the power supply. The machine in my signature is a clone of this one, but more powerful for those wondering. They are not in the same location however, and I do not have spare parts at hand to test this machine out, other than ruling out the monitor/cable.
OS - Windows 7 Enterprise
Processor - Xeon W3520
RAM - 2 x 1 GB Non-Reg ECC Samsung OEM
2 x 2GB Non-Reg ECC Kingston (same timing)
Hard Drive - Samsung 830 120GB SSD
Video Card - Quadro FX 580 (Top x16 Slot)
Display - HP ZR24W connected via Displayport
Misc - 2 x Intel 1000/PT Dual Gigabit LAN Cards (Middle x8 and Bottom x16 slot).
Ironically I'm typing this out on my Macbook Air while putting in a support ticket about a Lenovo Workstation that is ISV certified. Since it's a combination of issues, BSOD and possibly graphics card, I'm sticking it the Win7 forums unless a mod deems it would be better suited somewhere else.
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Well, 0x00000000 is undocumented, so that by itself is very unusual. Basically, an unhandled exception within the NT kernel...
Just for kicks, download/run memtest86 to confirm if RAM has failed.
Anything updated video card drivers?
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i own a 2010 mac book pro and recently got infected with a mac virus. did a scan mcafee and removed it and recommended a reboot to completely uninstall it. as soon as i logged on i checked to see the if it was successfully removed but it won't open. now whenever i go on the inter net a pop-up related to mcafee says that 1 have 15 trojan droppers and a root kit. i tried to find the mcafee uninstall so it wouldn't continuously pop up. but can't find it i also tried terminal too. so if anyone could please help that would be nice.
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You want to disable your virus protection so it'll stop telling you about the viruses you have? I think you're going about this the wrong way. Worry about getting rid of those trojan things.
What version OSX? and what Viruses/Trojans/RootKits are being identified?
Unless you have a very old copy of OSX, there aren't any active viruses or RootKits; Trojans do exist but would require Administrator access to install.
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So you want to unistall your anti-virus so it'll stop telling you your infected? LOOOL
That's like removing the brakes on your car because they won't stop squeaking.
dan macduff said:
the thing is its not letting me remove the trojan
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• Whoever thought of making him ring-announce for a week needs to be fired....... Or worse.
Honestly, Todd Grisham sounds like he's always sick or something. He tries to lower his voice to sound more manly, but it only made it worse. WAY worse. He really got on my nerves after that. And what's worse is his facial expression after all of his interviews. He looks so dumbfounded, like he's gonna throw up. He's one of those little things which makes a big difference people. The backstage promos are worse because of him. They should just fire him and make Michael Cole interview wrestlers.
• Please quit talking already
Why some people like this guy is beyond me. He will never become a great announcer, so thats why WWE should get rid of him while they can. Seriously every interview he does is complete boredom, hell I could do better to get fans to be interested, Get rid of him WWE.
• Todd gets on my nerves
Todd gets on my nerves he went from hardly being showen to always on your screen he gets on my nerves he acts like he is the best Interviewwr in the WWE and when he was the host for Byte This! it was terrible I hated it he got my nerves so bad he thought he was so funny dude your not that funny he now thinks he is the best and it gets on my nerves he has such a big head now if the WWE knew what to do they would release him fast because he is not real good I rate Todd a 4.3
• Todd is God!
Todd Grisham is the most amazing person to exist. He has mad robot skills. Mad announcing skills and mad backstage skills. Todd is my favorite person in the WWE! Todd amazes me he cannot do anything wrong and will win the WWe championship soon beacause even I am afarid of the Great Todd. He is great with the ladies and even can out do Val Venis, Viscera, and Cuck Norris combined. Todd is my hero. Chuck Norris wears Todd Grisham pajamas. Todd Grisham is my hero. I think he is the greatest person to ever walk the earth.
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Any girl who dresses everyday like she is going to some concert doens't matter what kind of music it is (rock, techno, whatever) as long as fits into some stereotype. Although heterosexual, these girls don't like dating guys. Thay are tomboys but they are not butch. Unlike metro sexuals they are not high maintenance. (Thats where there is role reversal: Metro sexuals are high maintenance as you would expect a girl to be. Alternachicks are not they are more like guys.) I don't know if they can be labeled as a whore because you can't say they go sleeping around with everyone but it seems that they prefer flings over dating. It seems that both metro sexuals and alternachicks seem to lead the lifestle of the opposite sex, only without being masculine or butch.
Tom: Who is was that hot eccentric girl at your party?
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Tom: Whats that?
Jack: You know: A girl who pursues her own fashion sense that is her own making. She is always on some sort of diet. She can't date one guy. She drinks beer and takes shots. She rarely wears makeup and thats why she can't geta job as a bertender, but can easily get a job at Hot Topic. She always hangsout with guys atsome live music event and occasionally makes out with girls at parties.
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1. :L
This is the "smiley face" that can be used in any scenario. Most commonly known as a "laughy face", can be used when someone says something funny or awkward! In all cases, its the face of a thousand meanings!
John: Hey are you going to the cinema? :L
Kate: no :L but i hear the film is really funny!! :L
John: i hope so, or ill die of boredom!
Kate: hahaha :L
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1. antagignostic
1) A merging of the words antagonist and agnostic
2) Someone that does not believe in religion but has read various religious works so they can better irritate and argue with door-knockers about why they are deluded
Had the Mormans knock on my door today. Spent an hour arguing with them because I'm an Antagignostic.
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1. Ass Kickin
Total restructuring of a negative way of thinking.
Usually delivered in a decisive way.
Most are delivered directly from Detroit Michigan.
see:Free Therapy
I was just walking by Canfield and Cass Ave. and I got a mean Ass Kickin.
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5. Thumbs Down
8. Thumbs Down
A thumbs Down is a way of showing displeasure of something. It does not necessarily involve using your very own thumbs. But more of a virtual dislike.
It doesn't always involve similar things on different social networking sites or websites. On some websites it just means "I did not enjoy that" or "There's is a problem with it". But, on Urban Dictionary it means "Where is the penis?" or "Not sexual enough".
Whilst some perverted 50-year old is on this website, he is looking for a cheap thrill in what 'tea-bagging' means. So he types it in, but contrary to what he wants he sees:
Tea Bagging:
The act of putting a teabag in a mug (Requires placement and desire for tea).
You get a Thumbs Down from him.
No wonder
9. thumbs down
What every "Urban word of the day" has more of than "thumbs up".
UD should pick words that have more thumb up than thumbs down.
10. thumbs down
When Roman gladiators received the thumbs down signal, it meant that a he was to live. It signified that the guards were to put their swords into the ground.
Although I do not remember the name of the program, it was on the History Channel hosted by Peter Weller and he explained that thumbs down has been misinterpreted by Hollywood.
11. Thumbs Down
Certain assholes on this site that give your definition that you made a thumbs down for no damn reason. For the people that do give thumbs down, my message for you all is:
Go fuck yourself. Really long and really hard...Until you die. :D
Some asshole on Urban dictionary just gave my definiton a thumbs down!
*Tracks down IP address of that person and shows up at their house the next day with a 50 caliber shot gun.*
12. thumbs down
A rating that asses give other peoples definitions for no fucking reason!
Definer: A lamp is an object that can light the dark.
Reader:*Gives thumbs down just cause hes a fucking ass*
13. thumbs down
The voting option on that people click without really thinking.
Ok, I have to say I have read so many hilarious things on this site, that even if they are politically incorrect, they are too damn funny to be given a thumbs down.
People with a sense of humour do not use this option as often as the more stuck up individuals.
Damn this site gives me jokes!
14. thumbs down
An action of ridicule. However, if there are enough thumbs down, they don't count.
Yea boi! I gots me some thumbs down!
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43. boobs
a womans best argument.
she: could you do <insert whatever> for me? *leans forward and shows cleavage*
he: okay! (thinks: oh, nice boobs.. but what did she say?)
44. boobs
What most girls call their breasts.
And of course he was staring at my boobs!
Don't bump into me, my boobs are aching today.
I don't know if I should show off my boobs at this event or not.
Is that a boy or a girl? I don't see any boobs..
I don't like those breast pumps, they hurt my boobs. I'd rather just breast-feed even when it's inconvenient.
45. Boobs
If you have seen one pair, you want to see them all
"I just got to see Janets boobs, I can't wait to see more"
46. Boobs
Proof that there is a god.
Boobs are proof that god loves us and wants us to be happy.
47. Boobs
Big,juicy,beautiful things usually found on women but occasionally on men.
Her boobs were SO big!
48. boob
The part of a female body that hurts a lot when it's hit.
*football kicked*
OUCHH!! My boob *sniff*
2 minutes later 'can you stand up now? sorry'
Yeah, *sniff* that hurt so much.
49. Boobs
1: Lumps of squishy gooodness.
2: Fun
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1. Crapweasel
Who's that crapweasel and why is she making out with him?
2. crap weasel
Used in TV sitcom, Friends, as Ross describes Paolo.
Ross: "Do you know the word crap weasel?"
Paolo ~ Shakes head ~
Ross : "You.., are a crap weasel"
3. Crap Weasel
Any worthless induvidual who tries to steal credit for someone else's work; also someone who tries to pass blame on others.
J.T. erwin is a fucking crap weasel; he got a letter jacket for being towel boy on the basketball team.
4. crapweasel
1. One who skillfully cheats, usually a board games.
Why did you make play that game with you?
I knew I'd win.
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5. crapweasel
I got my Shoei for $120 less from after i found out that i wear an XL from eastside. i'm such a crapweasel.
by noonan January 06, 2005 add a video add an image
6. crapweasel
Harry Reid, you are such a crapweasel!
7. Crap Weasels!
An expression of displeasure. Something you could substitute for Oh shit!, if there are chitlens present.
Franny: 'Hey Zoey I just found you ipod-guess where it was?'
Zoey: 'Where?'
Franny: 'In the toilet....'
Zoey:'Crap Weasels!'
Chitlen: hahaha aunt Zoey just said crap weasels!
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1. german valentine
when on valentine's day a love is given what seems like a box of chocolates but instead of chocolate it is filled with frozen turds.
"I gave Sandy a German valentine"
"Did it have nuts?"
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1. huha
exposed vagina; non-neutered female dog
ladies with short dress/ skirt with no panties on stepping out of vehicle exposing their "huha" to bystanders.
2. hu ha
Form of greeting between members of a small Ankurist group (not terrorist, Ankurist), often said while clapping hands together. Group seems only to exist to greet in this way.
Hu ha *clap hands together* my fellow Ankurist.
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3. huha
Universal term for any expression.
HUHA! Huha? Huha you. Have a huha day. That's some fine huha.
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1. murderer
a misguided sociopath who wouldn't harm a fly; however you are not a fly, you are a human being who he is plotting to cut up with a chainsaw in his basement; he usually kills the black person first, then the people who have had sex, then the males that aren't very important.. the virgin girl usually escapes his wrath, however..
The murderer is my friend because I'm a virgin.
2. murderer
a person who kills other people
that person is a murderer
3. murderers
People, who as a result of their actions, cause the untimely death of other people, who did not deserve to suffer an untimeley death. They also cause the untimely sanctioning of other innocent people, not associated with them, by some stange obscure default.
Murderers - People who wore the red shirts of Liverpool and attended a certain football match, in which 39 Italian supporters died, at their hands. These same people never appeared as remorsefull over the incident, yet want us all to remember the tragic events of Hillsborough, every other day. As a result of their actions they barred everyone from competative football. Murdering Twats.
4. murderer
A word that sounds cool when said by Gollum.
No, no.
by El Fredo November 02, 2004 add a video add an image
5. Murderer
Someone famous for killing someone else.
Day 1:
Driver gets in car accident and survives, but passenger dies.
Day 2: ________ is now friends with +396 other people on facebook.
Me: That guy is such a murderer.
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2. sounds good
Another word for yeah right, uh huh, sure.
Terrance always says Sounds Good when he knows he is wrong about a certain incident.
1. Sounds good
"Sounds good" is the perfect response - to any particular question/suggestion/opinion - that a man can give.
It could mean nothing; and it could mean everything:
"Sounds good."
You know, like it "sounds good" when you slap a girls face with your cock.
3. sounds good
when a person says sumthing boring or something hes not going to do
yea son im bout to start getting that paper........sounds good
by tajh April 16, 2004 add a video add an image
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Discussion in 'Watercraft' started by toadthedry, Jun 12, 2004.
1. toadthedry Member
Posts: 207
bainbridge island, wa, usa.
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I am thinking of getting an inflatable boat for the purpose of taking one of my kids at a time (age 9,9,7) to fish in some lakes that require a short hike in. I have seen some advertisements for boats from sevylor and sea eagle and know there are other brands too.
Can anyone recommend a make and model.
Also are the boats safe-ie do they flip easily and can they be rowed around in a moderate wind?
2. luv2fly2 Active Member
Posts: 1,533
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the watermaster! they are a sponsor of this site, but that is not the reason. i have had mine for about 15 years. my grandkids have oared them since they were 3 or 4 years old and they still love them. when several kids go i need to bring my old creek u-boat for myself. if you are ever in the othello area let me know and i will meet you at a lake and you can take one for a spin.
3. Old Man self portrait.
Posts: 20,528
Dillon, Mt
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If you get one of these get it in a bigger size. If it says it's for two persons get one that says it is good for three. The two person size is for midgets. I got one two man boat for me and my granddaughter and both of us didn't fit. So get the bigger size. But if you need a little room for all your gear and extra stuff get the four man. THey are easy to row and you can also get a motor mount so you can mount an electric on it.
I've had three of them. Easy to blow up and handle very good.
4. luv2fly2 Active Member
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they have an anchor system for them now. i have a holder for my buddy 2 depth finder and 2 rod holders that are attached. i have floated a lot of rivers with ease.
5. worldanglr Member
Posts: 786
Duvall, Washington, USA.
Ratings: +6 / 0
I'll back the suggestion for a Watermaster on that, it's light enough to throw it on your back and hike it in a decent distance, (weighs 40 pound for the kodiak and fits in a backpack), and is very bouyant. Owens floated two other people on a half day float on the Chimehuin River in Argentina, nothing technical but a few class twos and he had no problem. The most I've carried is four people when I ferried a group of lost Argentinian college girls across a river. Solid boats. Nice idea for the depth finder holder :)
Unique one on one fly fishing classes...
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Pucker Up: Kissing Secrets Revealed
How to make a kiss memorable -- and avoid kissing mistakes.
Make It Memorable
Two keys to a memorable kiss are pleasing your partner and pleasing yourself.
"Put your whole body into the kiss," says Marilyn Anderson, author of Never Kiss a Frog: A Girl's Guide to Creatures from the Dating Swamp. "Without words, your lips should say, 'Baby, there's more where that came from!' There are ways to keep it fresh and new all the time."
She suggests starting with gentle kisses on the neck, move up to the ear, then go to the lips. Take some small breaks and then come back to the lips.
"Here's my kissing tip: Put a hand on your kissing partner's neck," says Pamela Weiss, marketing director in Los Angeles. "It adds passion, like 'I can't get enough.' And let's be honest, that's what makes for a great kiss."
Don't get hung up on what a kiss might lead to. Enjoy it for its own sake.
"A good kiss is deep and soulful and you should feel each other's love through the kiss," says Dan Landau, an engaged graduate student in Bridgewater, N.J. "A great kiss is an adventure in itself, not a stepping point to something else."
Falling Off the Kissing Wagon
Steamy make-out sessions usually happen early on in a relationship, or the honeymoon period.
But later on, when people are in a long-term relationship, they too often stop kissing and lose that intimate connection, says Anderson. In a Redbook poll, 79% of women said they don't kiss their husbands nearly as much as they'd like.
"You've got to keep kissing in the game," Anderson says. "The emotional importance of a kiss is where it all begins and you shouldn't let it go just because you've known someone for a long time."
"When my wife kisses me, it's like she's telling me, 'I love you' without words," Desmond says.
Time hasn't made kissing ho-hum for Landau and his fiancee, either.
"If anything, our kisses are better now than they were initially," Landau says. "We know each other on a much deeper level after two and a half years together. When we first kissed, there were sparks. Now, there are fireworks."
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Dr. Rudy Tanzi explores new discoveries in neuroscience that maximize the potential of the human brain in practical and actionable ways. Dr. Tanzi crosses the next horizon in brain functioning where every person can reach a higher level of fulfillment and achievement by harnessing the brain’s hidden potential for change, creativity and intelligence. He demonstrates techniques for keeping the brain youthful and retaining mental acuity as we age, and dispels long-held myths, including “aging in the brain is irreversible” and “the brain’s hard wiring cannot be changed.”
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This simple and savory appetizer is a snap to assemble and will quickly become an essential recipe for any cocktail party.
These refreshing hors d'oeuvres are equally delicious made with salmon, trout, shrimp or crab, so pick a seafood that's best for your budget. For vegetarians, a slice of baked tofu is a perfect substitute for the seafood.
The fall flavor combination of pears and blue cheese brings a seasonal element to an otherwise simple chicken dish. Great for a dinner party!
A sprig of rosemary turns this sparkling cocktail into an herbal treat.
Turn extra cranberry sauce into a delicious (and impressive) breakfast treat. Fresh or frozen store-bought pizza dough makes this pastry a snap to pull together. Remember to stash frozen dough in the refrigerator to defrost overnight.
Turn a bit of leftover Brie (that is if you actually have any leftover) into a rich and creamy fall soup with the combination of sweet and tart apples.
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0.019509 | <urn:uuid:76c3a3a7-6911-4a0e-a116-8d780d45b3d6> | en | 0.951008 | By gaining insight into the relationships between water, sunlight, yield, and taste, Fruition Sciences is showing the way for farmers of all stripes to increase productivity and quality in a world of shifting weather patterns and decreasing supplies of freshwater. …
The Vine Nerds
Data From Vines
To monitor a grapevine’s water needs, Fruition Sciences uses sensors to measure sap flow. Here’s how it works.
Victoria Tang
1/ Heater
Held in place with Velcro, this orange sleeve applies heat to the stem.
2/ Thermocouples
These take temperature readings at the stem surface just before and after the heat is applied. The differential in the readings reflects how much water is pumping through the vine.
3/ Aluminum bubble wrap
Shields against external sources of heat (mostly sunshine) that could interfere with accurate measurements.
4/ Uplink
This wire connects to a solar-powered data logger, which transmits real-time information anywhere in the world.
Photo: Joe Pugliese
Fruition charges a grape grower $10,000 a season for two monitoring stations, analysis, and upkeep (or as little as $1,000 for tests and consultations without real-time monitoring). Ovid, with eight stations last year, is one of its biggest customers. Ovid’s second-generation winemaker, Austin Peterson, is one of Fruition’s most vocal supporters and attests to changes the sensor arrays can produce. “Before, irrigation management was basically done by our vineyard foreman looking at next week’s weather forecast and at leaves that were starting to fold or tendrils that were drying,” Peterson says. “But visual cues can be misleading. As we started to see the data, it started to explain some things.”
Before becoming a convert, Peterson needed to see proof. In 2007 he divided Ovid’s 15-acre property in half, using the visual method on one side, sensors on the other. Following traditional visual cues led to a regimen of shallow irrigations, which required more water and resulted in unintended side effects, like shriveled grapes and elevated alcohol levels. It also may have helped slow the ripening process and delay the harvest, which is always risky in Northern California, where early autumn rains can destroy a crop in a matter of days. Meanwhile, data gathered from the sensors dictated a near-opposite approach: fewer, deeper irrigations, primarily later in the season. After two years, the result was substantial water savings and earlier harvests. For Peterson, the experiment shed light on how profoundly irrigation affects fruit quality as well as a wine’s flavors and bouquet. “It was like going from having an undergraduate degree in something to a PhD, where you have a deep understanding of why vines behave the way they do,” Peterson says. “As a winemaker, you understand different flavors. But now you start to understand why the differences exist.”
Napa Valley’s oldest wineries were established in the mid-1800s. Its pioneers took their cues from the finest French producers, like those on Bordeaux’s famed Left Bank, where winemaking dates back to the 12th century. There, frequent summer rains provide ample groundwater and allow vineyard managers to pack their fields tightly with vines. So the early Napa farmers planted their fields in a similar manner. “They assumed that if you copied and pasted the best vineyards, they would produce the best fruits,” Scholasch says.
But Napa isn’t Bordeaux. Soil composition and sunlight differ, and it typically rains very little in Napa between May and October. Certain grape varieties in certain parts of the world are dry-farmed, meaning the only water supply is Mother Nature. But not Napa’s famed cabernet. Here farmers have historically hacked the climate to make it resemble France’s, faking early rain to provide vigor, trimming the leaf canopy to gain sunlight, and packing the vines closely together. “We could go without irrigation entirely if we had been smarter about configuration and planting density,” Scholasch says. “Applying the wrong sets of rules set up a need for irrigation.”
Over-irrigating a vineyard isn’t just wasteful; it’s counterproductive. To understand why, there are a few important things to remember about grapes, especially the varieties used to create high-quality wine. First, they grow on vines, which require support to reach sunlight. Once the vines encounter light and water, they enter the so-called vegetative state and sprout leaves. But when resources are scarce, the vines become stressed and rush ahead to the reproductive state, ripening berries in hopes of escaping to a more resourceful area by way of a bird. That’s why many of the finest wines are produced by vines planted in rocky, nutrient-poor hillsides with good drainage. The desperate vines focus much of their energy on the berries from the get-go and so reach optimal ripeness more quickly. The last thing to know: Unlike elsewhere in agriculture, bigger fruit isn’t the goal. Water provides girth—and that’s bad. Since the skin provides most of the flavor, it’s far better to have pea-sized berries with a high ratio of skin to flesh.
This is why Fruition may advise clients to deny water early and irrigate deeply once ripening is well under way. At that point, the vine focuses its nutrients on flavoring the fruit. The Frenchmen also sometimes recommend not irrigating before heat spikes or at the first sign of wilting; this advice can be especially hard to take. We all see a droopy leaf and conclude that the plant must be thirsty, but watering at that point actually undermines the complex mechanisms a vine uses to conserve resources and can even cause shriveling. “People think that the plant kingdom behaves like us,” Scholasch says. “But plants aren’t designed to tell the human eye what they need. They have over 400 million years of evolution on us and very subtle ways of coping with heat and water regulation.”
Vineyard managers often bristle at how the Frenchmen say a farm should look. “A lot of the vineyards, it’s like pretty dresses. They look perfect, not one leaf out of row and it’s all green and beautiful,” Payen says. “But most vineyards that are making quality wines are going to have yellow leaves later in the year. They’ll look like they’re suffering.”
For some clients, like Daniel Baron, winemaker for the renowned Silver Oak Cellars, the counterintuitive advice has been a revelation. “As farmers, we tend to baby our plants in the early season. The farmer tends to irrigate too soon, cut it off too soon, and pick too early,” Baron says. Despite having more than 40 vintages to his credit, using the data-driven system has given him new confidence. “Anything that tells us the vines are going to be OK is a tremendous tool.”
None of Fruition’s customers signed on expressly to save water, but it’s a common side effect. Many of the wineries pump from unmetered wells, aquifers, or lakes, so they don’t know precisely how much water they use, but everyone claims that it’s far less now. “We’re down maybe as much as 75 percent,” says Kale Anderson, winemaker for Cliff Lede Vineyards in Napa’s Stags Leap district. Another client, Dana Estates, uses sensors on five 2-acre parcels. On one of those plots, the winery reduced irrigation from a range of 36 to 64 gallons per vine annually to 0 to 10 gallons. Dana’s director of production, Cameron Vawter, sees the potential for dramatic overall cuts. “We could save 5.8 million gallons a year,” he says.
Payen gets even more specific while charting Ovid’s results for the 2008 and 2009 seasons. “From bud-break to harvest, the plants saved about 25 millimeters of water on a one-acre block. That’s roughly equal to 26,700 gallons,” he says.
According to a survey by Wine Business Monthly, 68 percent of North American wine-grape farmers don’t use equipment to monitor their irrigation, implying that they rely largely on observation to make watering decisions. Of course every farmer’s instincts are different, and no two face the same geographical conditions. But if Fruition’s conclusions are to be believed, it’s safe to assume that anyone relying on intuition is wasting water. Some back-of-the-envelope calculations suggest just how much: There are roughly 500,000 acres of wine-grape vineyards in California. If 68 percent are being watered based on instinct alone, that’s 340,000 acres. According to Payen, Ovid is saving 26,700 gallons of water per acre. Multiply those two numbers and you get 9.1 billion gallons of wasted water per season.
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Plunging into the Ganges River, this man joins millions washing away their sins. Up to 30 million Hindus are expected to bathe in the river to mark the day they believe the universe was created. Devotees offer sweets to the gods and observe silence before entering the chilly waters. Sunday is also the holiest day of the Kumbh festival. Once every 12 years, tens of millions of pilgrims stream to Allahabad for the Maha Kumbh Mela at the point where the Ganges meets two other rivers.
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Old School
Offshore cruising tips for the weekend warrior.
By George Sass, Jr. / Published: October 1, 2009
I have a standard prep list-that I developed after various Caribbean deliveries-which I review before I go out and follow while I'm offshore. Many of these tips also work for summer cruising in my local waters. They can help you be safer and feel more comfortable, wherever you're cruising.
Walk Around
After you're underway, give up the helm and walk through the boat to make sure everything is where it should be. I don't know how much money I've spent in restocking condiments I've lost by not latching the refrigerator door. Also, today's stylish push button latches on drawers look great, but if you don't push them in, they can open up in a seaway. Then take a walk around the deck. Did you put the fill caps back on the diesel or water tanks? Is the swim ladder up? Don't forget to stow the fenders and lines. If you anchored, double check that the anchor is secure. If you are in any type of head seas, and have the anchor mounted on a bowsprit, take an extra line and secure the anchor back to a bow cleat. If you've anchored for the night, take another walk around the helm and/or bridge before you turn in. I've lost more paper charts or cruising guides to late night showers and morning dew than I care to remember.
Under The Hood
Check your engine fluids before every outing. This should become habit. Your piece of mind is improved and it's a lot easier adding coolant at the dock to a cool engine than on the water to a hot engine. And just because the yard serviced your boat before you picked it up, does not mean you should take a leap of faith. I was out with a friend this summer, a guy who is religious about checking his engines, who decided not to since the yard changed the oil the day before. On our way back from a raft-up his oil pressure alarm went off. The yard changed the oil, but left the dipsticks and fill caps off of both engines! He was angrier with himself for not following his typical routine than he was with the yard.
Flip the Switch!
Make it a habit to periodically check the boat's electrical breaker panel. Breakers can be hit by accident or items can be left on by mistake. A water pump that is running dry may not be heard over the rumble of your engines, and I make a point of checking the panel in the morning, to ensure I turn off anchor lights and any other breakers. The navigation lights are also easily left on after you anchor if you don't check the panel. I was going into a tight channel one night and could not figure out what a boat ahead of me was doing. I called him on the VHF, but got no response. One second I would see green, then a green and a red, then just a red. It was a mind twister. As I crept up on the sailboat, I realized the captain had anchored in the channel with his running lights on and was blowing all around the place.
Log It
I've written before about the importance and fun of keeping a running log. You should also keep a fuel log. I make a point of writing down how much fuel I take on in each tank every time I fill up. Fuel gauges don't always provide an accurate reading, in my experience. Sight gauges are a big help, but you still need to consider that 10 percent of the capacity often cannot be used. Therefore, if I know precisely how much I took on, and have a good idea of my burn rate, I'll have peace of mind about my consumption.
Creature Comforts
There is an entire article to be written on how to make your boat more comfortable and create a pleasant atmosphere. However, I've learned a few tricks from cruising as well as living on board. One of the worst things I heard, while on a date many years ago, was that I smelled like diesel. There is nothing in the date manual about a proper comeback after you're told you smell like oily fuel. Needless to say, though, I became relentless in the pursuit of a fresh bilge and boat. One tip I learned was to put sheets of Bounce fabric softener in between linens and folded cloths that will stay on board for any period of time. Another trick that my sailing friends taught me, and it works equally well on a powerboat, are bean bag chairs. Yep, good old bean bags. They're great to throw out on the helm deck or cockpit, and they make a great perch for small kids, keeping them closer to the ground. A trick learned from hours of cooking while underway-one of my favorite pastimes-is to use the rubber non-skid pads that go under area rugs. I cut these down to a few manageable sizes, and plop them on the counter so that when I'm plating food, or cooking, things will not slide around. Once I'm done, they're stowed and out of sight. These pads are also good as shelf and locker liners and keep items from sliding around too much. | http://www.yachtingmagazine.com/article/Old-School | dclm-gs1-059020002 | false | false | {
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"The Chateau de Bellevue was Yvrac's pride and joy," said former owner Juliette Marmie. "The whole village is in shock. How can this construction firm make such a mistake?"
"I'm in shock ...I understand the turmoil of the community," local media quoted Stroskin as saying.
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Rohtak: Police on Tuesday arrested six persons, with criminal antecedents, after two separate shootout incidents in Jhajjar district.
Aman, Arjun, Pradeep, Sachin alias Bhola, Sumit and Yogesh were arrested while they were planning to murder two persons, a police spokesman said.
"The first shootout occurred in the fields of Badli village where Amar, Arjun and their accomplice Neeraj started indiscriminate firing upon the police party which had gone there to arrest them," the spokesman said.
Amar and Arjun were nabbed while Neeraj managed to flee from the spot under the cover of darkness, he said.
In the second shootout near Jakhoda village in the wee hours today, police team succeeded to arrest Pradeep, Sachin, Sumit and Yogesh, whereas their three accomplices managed to escape, the spokesman said.
A car, two motor-cycles, a pistol, four countrymade guns and a dozen live cartridges were recovered from the possession of the arrested persons.
"They were produced in court, which sent them to judicial custody," he said. | http://zeenews.india.com/print.aspx?nid=796348 | dclm-gs1-059050002 | false | false | {
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Mumbai: With the Supreme Court upholding the death sentence of Ajmal Kasab in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks case, Pakistan should now expedite the trial in their court, special public prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam today said.
"Death sentence awarded to Kasab should be executed as soon as possible so that it gives a strong signal to the terrorists that law takes stern action against such acts," Nikam said.
The prosecution against perpetrators of the 26/11 terror strikes should now be expedited by the prosecuting agency of Pakistan, he said.
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Jabber, Jabber, Jabberwock
Lewis Carroll
(from Through the Looking-Glass
and What Alice Found There, 1872)
`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"
He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought --
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.
And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!
One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.
"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.
`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
I love the Jabberwock. It sounds like complete nonsense, but theres fun to be had squinting between the lines. I found the poem at this website. A dusty place last I looked.
What started this was my purchase of the Tremors Attack Pack, a 4 movie DVD set. I knew and loved the first two movies, but didn't even know about the later two till then.
As I first watched Tremors 3; Back to Perfection, the flying morph of the Tremors creatures first came on screen and I pointed at it, snapped my fingers twice, popped my forehead with my palm and yelled; "Jabberwock!" and I hadnt read the poem in years. Then it launched itself with it's butt on fire! Haw, rocket powered flying Jabberwock! A natural boost glider.
There are many examples of evolved chemical warfare in nature. Webbing, irritants, venomous bites and stings are only the most obvious ones. The plant world, both land and aquatic dont just compete for light but modify the medium in which they live, sometimes in exclusionary ways. The sessile ocean reefs are practically a warzone rife with other examples.
The prime example for this blogpost would be the Bombardier Beetle, with its caustic binary chemical defense spray. From there its not such a big step to evolve a rocket propulsion system, improbable in a higher life form though it be.
For centuries we humans have made oxidizers for blackpowder from our own urine, as well as the excretions of other animals. Consider how history wouldve changed if we had had rocket powered Jabberwocks as an example.
A short BTW: I googled the Vorpal Sword. Another nonsense word at the time, but now its become a popular weapon in gaming and comics. Ran acrossem a few times myself.
A longer BTW: In Tremors 2; Aftershocks, when the first Shrieker comes into view it presages its' entrance with much bashing and crashing, louder and louder. Earl and Grady are getting increasingly nervous and are pointing their rifle barrels higher and higher. Around the corner steps this little 3ft tall spud, they start to let their guard down, then it charges It reminds me so very much of the old WB Merrie Melodies cartoon; Inki and the Mynah Bird. The jungle thrashes, the jungle crashes, one imagines terrible things; rabid rhinos, a constipated elephant or even worse! Then out steps the Mynah Bird, tiny and totally blasé. Do not be fooled, DO NOT let your guard down!
BTW to the BTW; You're not likely to see Inki and the Mynah Bird on TV anymore due to racial censorship.
3rd BTW to the second BTW; I cheered back when Warner Brothers Channel brought back the singing frog as its' mascot. I think it would be really cool if WB's New Looney Tunes brought back the Mynah Bird, at least as a cameo appearance, or six. The main characters have to pause the dialogue or chase for pedestrian traffic. The kind of gag Looney Tunes is well known for. Or; Wylie Coyote thinks a Mynah Bird might be easier pickins' than Roadrunner...NOT!
Now the tune is stuck in my head!
BTW the fifth; I've been sitting on this draft for a long, LONG time because it's a real rambler. It never gets any shorter though, and it still defies any attempts to divide and conquer.
Sunday, May 26, 2013
Quiz Time
I don't remember where I found this online, or for that matter where I put my Star Fleet book with documents including fold-out blueprints for the ship...
Where is the transporter room?
Monday, June 18, 2012
25 Years in Tripoli
I was puzzled when my recent Tripoli renewal came back in a small bubble wrap lined envelope instead of a standard correspondence envelope. I open it up and out comes this shiny pin, WOW. I hadn't given it much thought, but I've been a member of Tripoli Rocketry Association for 25 years now! I'm temped to get all cliche and say; time flies when you're having fun, but mostly it just flies.
Needless to say, I have a very low membership number, in fact they had to add two zeros to the front of it over the years. What is surprising is that due to attrition over the intervening centuries there are less than 50 members now with lower numbers. For my part, I don't consider this any kind of elitism, just hardcore rocketry.
My brother Keith composed this photo, and it was his idea to add the rocket motor. It's a 38mm Vulcan I250 Smokey Sam and nearly that old itself.
Monday, November 7, 2011
Rockin' with Fizzie-Rocs
Fizzie powered toys rocked!
I consider one of these to be my second flying rocket after the Korny-7 but my first real thrust powered rocket.
A recent web search yielded several similar rockets of this type and most look close enough to my recollection so as to make no never mind. They operated as water rockets powered by water and a fizzie type tablet. Pour in the water with the provided funnel/measuring cup, drop in the pellet[s] and quickly insert the nozzle plug. Then turn the rocket upright and insert the plug assembly in the pad base which is attached to the ground with a large nail, back-away and pull the release string. No recovery system, thus the rubber nose tip.
Vinegar and baking soda would probably fly just as well but the fact that the fizzie is in pellet form allows time for insertion of the nozzle plug where a quick dissolving powder would not.
I don't recall what became of this rocket but I know I put it on the 2nd story apartment roof at least once.
About the same time, or not long after, there were a couple other fizzie powered toys, a squirt pistol and a submarine. The sub definetely used more than one pellet and would drive forward, dive, then resurface. I wanted that sub. I did have the gun one summer. Both were also red plastic.
These were toys that, like pump-up water-rocs were an idea that were ahead of the materials technology of the day. Polystyrene doesn't hold up well enough. Polycarbonate [Lexan], PET and similar plastics have allowed the reintroduction of such products
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Wig-Wag Monocopter
Ascent position
Descent position [almost]
The Wig-Wag is yet another monocopter with an adjustable pitch wing. Like the two Campitch MC's the wing automatically adjusts from ascent pitch to descending autorotative pitch.
The Wig-Wag employs a weighted arm mounted to the hub and a wire loop mounted to the underside of the wing leading edge which goes around the weightbar. Before ignition, the weightbar dangles down holding the wing down with it. As rpm increases centrifigal force swings the weightbar outward, thus upward, until it's horizontal, pulling the wing up to ascent angle. After motor burn out, as rpm decreases, the weightbar sags downward again, bringing the wing down into autorotation mode. Unlike the Campitch MC's, this pitch control system is more responsive in flight and doubtless more tunable on the ground since it's controlled by the mass [and length] of the weightbar alone rather than the interaction of wing weight and spring strength. This actually works like the weight ball governor on old steam engines [and some early petrol engines], particularly stationary units. So like them, at peak performance, the Wig-wag monocopter is literally running ball[s]-out.
While the Campitch MC's would've been difficult to design without serious drafting, preferably CAD, the Wig-Wag was cobbed together a part at a time with no drafting of any sort. It aint perfect, but it's a good first attempt and entirely functional from first flight on.
The wing and hub are used parts resurrected from the remains of the CP-1. This makes for a wing that is too small and heavy but it does turn in fair flights on C motors. The weightbar is made from an RC pushrod clevis and a piece of 2-56 all-thread with a lead fishing weight nutted on. My biggest conceptual stumbling block was coming up with a suitable weightbar pivot mount on the hub. Installation of an upright piece of G10 fiberglass was easy enough with my bandsaw followed by grinding access for the flybar with a moto-tool. What was actually more difficult was bending a suitable wire loop for the wing and then mounting it in the best spot. I bent two loops and then punched three pairs of holes in the wing before I was reasonably satisfied. I was glad to be utilizing used parts as I had no concern for cosmetic issues.
So far the Wig-Wag has made three flights. First on a C6, then on a D5, followed by a D12. While the two Estes motors were fine, the Quest D5 suffered a case burnthrough. While this is no big surprise anytime you spin one, that recycled undersized wing makes matters worse. This led to replacement of the motor mount tube.
After puzzling for quite a while over a name, I settled on Wig-Wag due to the resemblance between the weightbar and a wig-wag railroad crossing signal
Sunday, October 9, 2011
SpaceX Has A Pipedream
Spaceflight Now has a recent article [Reprinted from CBS Space] on SpaceX's vision of making their boosters reusable. The simulation video is sharp. The stated intention is for direct descent and landing under rocket thrust. Sounds simple enough on the face of it but I immediately saw some flaws in the plans.
First Stage; Slant range puts the booster a long way from the launch site and variable target orbits increase possible descent points over a large arc, typically well out over the Atlantic. The sheer height of the Falcon 9 booster makes me want to install much larger landing legs [and more of them]. This is why all flyback booster designs thusfar have wings, wheeled landing gear and sometimes jet engines.
Second stage, This might actually be a bit easier than the first stage. Because the 2nd stage is itself orbital [or nearly so], one can pick the reentry point and bring it down where desired. A reentry heat shield adds a lot of weight though. At least 2 motor restarts are needed, but restarts are not that uncommon here. Need a lot of spare fuel for both the deorbit and the landing. Second stage motor nozzles are typically optimized for high altitude/vacuum operations and will be inefficient back at sea level.
I believe it was NRL that was ground testing a booster 20 or so years ago that was low-pressure [no turbo pumps] and had a variable expansion thrust bell, kinda like the "turkey feathers" on a fighter jet engine nozzle. This allowed inflight expansion ratio optimization for any altitude.
Capsule and boosters are shown returning on thrust alone. Even with thrust for landing, parachute systems would still be more economical and probably lighter for slowing and stabilizing the vehicles in an upright position instead of relying on attitude thrusters and the mains alone. Parachutes would also add some safety in case of motor failure, or at least reduce the splat.
"We'll see if this works," Musk said. "But it's going to be certainly an exciting journey. And if it does work, it'll be pretty huge. If you look at the cost of a Falcon 9 ... it's about $50 (million) to $60 million. But the cost of the fuel and oxygen and so forth is only about $200,000. So obviously, if we can reuse the rocket, say, a thousand times, then that would make the capital cost of the rocket for launch only about $50,000. ... It would allow about a hundred-fold reduction in launch costs."
Was Mr Musk reading that off a script???
Nobody's gonna get 1000 uses out of any booster, even if there is that large a backlog of flight contracts. Divide flight contracts by; payload production rates, vehicle refurbishment rate, available ground support, optimal launch windows... I'm sorry but I would've scoffed at 100 flights per booster. How about 10 flights each on a 5-10 booster fleet. By then; if the economics are sound, you'll be building a few replacements and/or an improved new fleet anyway.
Note that Elon says a 1000 fold reduction in booster cost relates to only a 100 fold reduction in overall launch costs. That sounds reasonable as other costs go up drastically. Additional flight systems complication, booster retransport, refurbishment, range comm/nav systems, additional facilities...manpower, manpower, manpower.
I have great respect for SpaceX and what they have accomplished. In fact I'd like to work for them, and I can't say that about most of the aerospace industry or NASA itself.
Upgraded PC At Last
My friend Steve recently replaced my PC tower with a much newer one. Not precisely cutting edge as it was assembled from hand-me-down components, but it's a lot more advanced than my old one which I had for over 11 years.
There's a helluva lot of work to do yet, software and tools to transfer or download, and gigs of folders to transfer. Wherever practical, I'm downloading fresh copies or newer versions of software and tools just to be sure they're clean and up to date. Normally I cringe and start to break out in hives every time I'm faced with "Updated" or "Improved" software. Most of the time it has compatability issues or unresolved glitches, or will no longer do what I needed it to do beforehand [Quicktime comes to mind on that score]. Naturally, I totally object to automated updates and block them always. The learning curve is pretty steep, principally changing from Win 98 to XP, and Bobcad 17 to 21.xx. After using dialup all those years, having a hi-speed internet connection sure is nice too.
Steve is a computer professional and I cannot recommend him enough. You can reach him through the following link;
Thanks Steve.
Sunday, October 2, 2011
Don't Forget the Cheese!!!
One of the things I like best about living in south Texas is Mexican food. To be more accurate; Tex-Mex food. I aint talkin' about Taco Hell here. Above all else I love breakfast, I'll have breakfast for dinner even, this includes breakfast tacos. I usually ask for cheese on my breakfast tacos and from time to time the cooks forget to do so. Happens to burgers sometimes too. Over the last 30+ years this has added up to quite a bit of lost cheese. Brings a tear to my eye.
Today I was trying out a new restaraunt, ordered myself some coffee and two tacos; bacon, egg & cheese and chorizo, egg & cheese. When the order was ready the manager brought it out because my server was busy elsewhere. The tacos were large but they looked a bit thin, I peaked under the flaps and there was plenty of cheese but nothing else! No eggs, no porky bits. Without some grilling time, these weren't exactly quesadillas yet either. The manager was all apologetic but I had to laugh out loud, disturb the whole place loud. That was funny!
The Wheel of Cheese Turns Full Circle.
Sunday, June 19, 2011
Blog Annoyance
The previous blogpost has the wrong date.
It should've read June, not January.
The reason why is smart software that is dumber than I would've thought.
Instead of using the date when it was actually posted, the software used the date from when the post was first created and saved as a draft, this despite extensive editing and additions the day I actually posted it. While the draft date might be useful information to me in a nagging sort of way, it is totally useless to the reader.
There are a couple other drafts scattered in my Edit Posts section, and if I decide to use them eventually, I'll now have to remember to paste them into a new post rather than risk them posting with the wrong date, or worse, being inserted amidst older posts outright. I would consider that to be an example of revisionist history, albeit minor and unintended. Rereading my old posts, I've run across quite a bit of stuff that could use reediting, but most are of the typesetting or spelling variety plus a few phrases that could've been done better. Just not worth the effort. If I found some gross errors, that might be a different story
People can rip pages from books, but that leaves evidence of the fact. People can burn books, but there are always more books. Be wary of the web, because computer editing and manipulation are very hard, or impossible to detect, especially text. Anyone can post to, or reedit a Wiki entry.
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Beware of Rotating Parts!
At a typical modroc launch, any monocopter pads get set up nearby other pads in order to share launch control wires. I already posted about the [extremely] close call I had on the Pitchwing-2 first flight. This time it was another new monocopter called the Wig-Wag.
Right after takeoff the Wig-Wag drifted downwind slightly and the wingtip collide with an 1/8" stainless steel launch rod. The rod was mounted in the same launch rack that the Campitch-2 didn't hit. The launch rod was ruint [Texan for ruined, but with more finality], totally FUBAR! The only part of the rod that was still straight was the 1" section clamped in the pad base. One might expect the rod to be bent away from the direction of impact, or bent sharply toward DOI at the point of impact. Nope, neither. After the sharp 20-25deg bend away from DOI at the base the remaining rod length was bent in a continuous arc like a bow. quite strange really. I'm an old hand at straightening bent metal but this was scrap!
I owed Art Applewhite a new launch rod. Luckily I had some spares at home.
The monocopter wing was fiberglassed balsa and suffered only a 1/2" deep notch in the leading edge, and the MC went on to complete a nominal flight. That's right, it kept on flying.
Repairs were relatively easy. I sawed out and replaced a square of balsa, filled the gaps with Cya and micro balloons, then sanded the fill to shape and reinforced the area with a fiberglass patch. Since the wing is already a veteran of many flights on the Pitch Wing 1, I didn't even bother to touchup the paint.
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Using gunship helicopters and heavy artillery in densely populated areas, the Pakistani military expanded its operations today, approaching the headquarters of the local Taliban in the country's volatile northwest.
The military campaign, although not officially announced, has extended into the Swat Valley, where the Taliban and the army already have fought each other twice. Although the provincial government says it wants to salvage a peace deal it signed with the Taliban in February, that deal appeared to be in tatters, and the army gave hints it will unleash a large campaign in Swat in the near future.
The fight in Swat will help determine how serious and able the Pakistani army is to defeat a Taliban entrenched within the population, and whether the government has the will to take on a well-funded and well-armed Taliban.
The military campaign expanded as Asif Ali Zardari made his first official trip to the United States as Pakistani president. During a joint meeting with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Afghan President Hamid Karzai, Zardari promised that "we are up to the challenge, because we are the democracy, and democracy is the only cure to this challenge."
But the United States has expressed doubts about the government's will power and about the military's abilities. Many of the hundreds of thousands of residents who are fleeing the area also question the military's ability to defeat the Taliban. They do not support the militants, but many of the dozen people interviewed by ABC News today said they did not support the military either because it has caused heavy civilian casualties in the past.
"Ordinary people are leaving because they getting killed," said Noor Islam, speaking about the military campaign as he walked with his family from a district between Swat and Islamabad. "You never know where the bomb will fall."
The Pakistani government says it fears as many as half a million residents will be forced to leave their homes, pushed out by fear of the Taliban or fear of a heavy-handed military that has only recently taken up counterinsurgency training.
Fear Pervades Fleeing Swat Residents
Indeed, in the only battle in which the army fought and declared victory against the Taliban -- in the Bajaur tribal area -- it destroyed some 80 percent of the homes in the area, creating destruction that will take three years to rebuild, according to the local administrator in Bajaur. The provincial government opted for a peace deal over continuing a military operation, in part because it couldn't withstand political pressure caused by civilian casualties.
"It's history repeating itself," says Samina Ahmed, the Pakistan country director of the International Crisis Group. "This is not a military that is trained to do counterinsurgency or has the ability to understand how to deal with ... local dynamics on the ground."
The past two campaigns against the Taliban, both of which ended in the local government choosing to pursue peace deals, failed to dislodge the militants.
But this time, the military says it has more popular support following public incidents of the Taliban imposing particularly cruel justice, including the public whipping of a 17-year-old girl that was caught on camera. The military, this time, also promises to finish the job, and it recently asked the local government to evacuate the local population so it could enter the area with heavy weapons.
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