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From left, actresses Ellen Page, Brit Marling, director Zal Batmanglij and actor Alexander Skarsgard, from the film "The East" pose for a portrait during the 2013 Sundance Film Festival on Sunday, Jan. 20, 2013 in Park City, Utah. (Photo by Victoria Will/Invision/AP Images)
From left, actors Guy Pearce, Amy Ryan, Mackenzie Davis, Felicity Jones and director Drake Doremus from the film "Breathe In" pose for a portrait during the 2013 Sundance Film Festival on Sunday, Jan. 20, 2013 in Park City, Utah. (Photo by Victoria Will/Invision/AP Images)
PARK CITY, Utah (AP) -- The Sundance Film Festival isn't home to many shoot-em-up movies, but action-oriented actors at the festival are facing questions about Hollywood's role in American gun violence.
Skarsgard, who blasted away aliens in "Battleship," agreed that Hollywood has some responsibility for how it depicts violence on-screen.
Bell, who stars in in the dramatic competition film "The Lifeguard," said the issue is far more complicated than simply blaming Hollywood.
"There's a lot of things that are emphasized in our entertainment industry as plot points or interesting shorelines, but none of them seem to be as affecting the American public as the gun control," she said. "So I don't necessarily know that it's blamable on Hollywood, though I think there's a certain responsibility and we need to re-examine everything that we do."
Bell's co-star, Mamie Gummer, said she's often "perturbed" by on-screen violence.
"I really hate Quentin Tarantino's movies generally, and I thought 'Django Unchained' especially was really tough to bear in light of everything," she said. "Just the deep romanticizing of it, the fetishizing of it is creepy to me. Or maybe it's lost on me. I don't enjoy it."
Bell doesn't mind seeing violent films but advocates for greater awareness of mental illness and for stricter gun control.
"It's such a paradoxical issue. Because those movies don't bother me at all. And it doesn't bother me when I see people shoot guns. Yet I'm fully for more gun control in reality," she said. "Because I'm smart enough to recognize what's reality and what's not. And I think that's an issue that needs to be addressed... A lot of the people that are picking up guns have an inability to distinguish between reality and fantasy. And I think that's probably -- though I do support gun control, a tighter gun control than we have now -- that's an issue that deserves to be addressed because that's probably the root of it."
Corman also cited Canada's response to movie violence.
"Canada sees the same motion pictures that we do. They play the same video games that we do. They see the same television that we do. Their crime rate -- and specifically their murder rate -- is a tiny fraction of ours," he said. The only difference is they have strong gun control laws and we (don't). I wish somebody would ask the head of the NRA how he explains that."
Skarsgard suggested it may be time to revisit the Second Amendment.
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Can You Catch Up on Lost Sleep?
Day dozing: A short nap is generally better than a disruptive weekend lie-in. ENLARGE
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Ceaseless technology. A punishing workweek. That to-do list that keeps multiplying. It is no wonder at least 50 million Americans self-report an insufficient amount of sleep, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But will sleeping more on the weekend make up for hours of lost snoozing? One sleep expert, W. Christopher Winter, medical director of the Martha Jefferson Hospital Sleep Medicine Center in Charlottesville, Va., weighs in.
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Recent data suggests that banking sleep in advance of a long night can actually offset upcoming sleep deprivation. "If you knew you were going to give birth on a particular day, for example, you could sleep for 10 hours a day for multiple days before the event, and be fine," he says. Just plan ahead.
'Social Jet Lag'
Experts refer to the effects of changing sleep habits from weekdays to weekends as "social jet lag." When you've revved up until midnight for five nights and then recover sleep until noon on Saturday, the body is confused. "It's like you've traveled six time zones, and you feel terrible," says Dr. Winter. While many sleep extenders complain of grogginess and dull headaches, subjectively they are better at performing tasks: "I would much rather be in the passenger seat with [a driver] who's made up the sleep than someone who's simply sleep deprived." That just-woken-up daze? It passes in a few minutes, but the benefits of extra sleep last for hours, he says.
Routine Naps
A scheduled nap is healthier than catching up on or banking sleep. "Because sleep extension can make you feel groggy, I always recommend a short nap, at the same time, every day," if a person feels they need it, says Dr. Winter. He adds that 25 minutes is ideal. He tracks his alphawaves and sleep quality with a Zeo device, and sets his Sound Oasis machine to wake him after 25 minutes. "When you schedule a short nap, your body anticipates it and slows down, without falling into a deep dream sleep," he says. That refreshing, scheduled break is better than an occasional, disruptive weekend lie-in. "The body likes routine," he says. "When it's prepared, it works more efficiently."
Sleep Types
There is some evidence to suggest that young people are more likely than older people to bounce back from long nights through recovery sleep, as the ability to shrug off deprivation wanes with age, says Dr. Winter. The effects of recovery may also have a lot to do with chronotype, which is genetic, and refers to whether you're a day person (lark) or night person (owl). (Most people fall somewhere in between.) "If you're a night owl, you may do better than a morning person with an unusual schedule, so sleep-extending can be a great tool," he says. A sleep binge is a less effective option for true morning people, who may not be able to sleep much past dawn.
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President Obama signed an executive order on Wednesday to clarify how the constitutional separation of church and state affects religious charities that get federal money to provide social services.
It said, for example, that such groups must separate their religious activities from the programs that get government dollars and refer people who are uncomfortable with the organization's religious nature to other providers.
The order endorses recommendations made last spring by a White House advisory council, made up mostly of religious leaders.
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However, charities do not need to remove religious art or symbols in rooms where they provide social services, and they may use religious terms in their names, select board members on a religious basis, and include religious references in mission statements of governing documents.
Barry W. Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, praised some of the new rules but criticized the president for failing to deal with one of the most controversial questions involving religious groups—whether charities that receive government social-service grants and contracts should be allowed hire only people who follow their faiths. The White House has referred that matter to the Justice Department.
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1. The Economy Is Still at the Brink
2. jcsd
3. A lot of this mess could be largely avoided if the government hadn't stepped in years ago to continue this crazy scherade of propping up the US economy against the rest of the world and continuing to rely on the cheap easy credit that has moved the US economy along for the past 10-15 years.
China, the Middle East, and the rest of Eurasia have been largely willing to finance are debt (in ever increasing percentages relative to domestic markets) while the government continues to think that the solution to this idiotic policy that was started by the government and the FED, is... guess what? MORE OF IT.... we continue to flood the currency markets and everything else with cheap money.... just this week we had a record $106 billion treasury auction.... guess when the last record was? Two weeks ago. We will need to roll over about $1 trillion this year and add $2 trillion more debt to continue financing these crazy bailout schemes that set us up for more dire pain down the road.
All the things that the government does in the name of "helping" the economy have large unintended consequences down the road... cheap money led to the stock market bubble, and after it burst Greenspan lowered rates like a madman and inflated the housing bubble, followed by a quick rate increase that hammered the economy, followed by this supposed "crisis" and a quick jump to 0% interest rates..... which will surely incite either A) large inflation if the FED doesn't raise rates as the economy strengthens or B) jarring the economy back down as rates skyrocket as a result of this buildup of artificially low interest rates.
The US economy is 70-75% driven by internal consumption mostly financed from the rest of the world (most the BRIC nations) and we cannot hope for a true recovery without a VAST restructuring of our economy that can only be accomplished if government realises that they are the problem, they caused this mess, and the sooner they get out of the way the sooner the market can allocate productive work where it needs to go and turn the economy around for the better (not just a short term bubble-rally).
4. Astronuc
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Recovery's Missing Ingredient: New Jobs
Experts Warn of A Long Dry Spell
A friend was telling me about discussion on one the news programs in which an economist described various scenarios.
Some optimists predict a 'V-shaped' recession, which is apparently fairly typical of recessions over the past several decades. Others are predicting a 'W-shaped' recession, and the middl peak may be lower than the outer ends.
Still some pessimists predict and 'L-shaped' recession, i.e., little recovery for a long time.
And another pessimist thinks the recession shape with be that of an upside-down square root sign (√).
5. Per se, jobs do not directly contribute to economic recovery. It could be said that nonproductive jobs, jobs that neither sustained nor enhanced the economic infrastructure, but depleted it, contributed to the economic collapse; working for a blue sky company only produces blue sky--and at a price.
Jobs produce economic recovery through productivity.
6. bleedblue1234,
Low interest rates didn't contribute to the 1994-2000 market bubble. 401K savings plans, internet investing, and start-up companies did.
The Federal Reserve Corp was once said to manipulate interest rates to what they have decided is an optimal amount to hold the rate of inflation to 4.0 to 4.5 percent a year, under the assumption of constant economic conditions. But things happen.
The prime lending rate, defined as 3.5% above bank-to-bank overnight loans by the WSJ, was managed to ~5.0% between '94 and 2000. The market down-turn put the old-money interdependent business institutions at economic risk and in need of the liquidity of low interest rate loans. This, as one of the interdependent businesses, the Fed was eager to supply from 2001 unti 2005 when they thought they had avoided a '28 style depression. Doh!
So the wasted labor, lost to poor investments in the evolving technologies of the personal computer, the internet and communications, was defered to other hands. And yes, through the availability of cheap loans, the low lending rates contributed to the housing market bubble, obliged by an eager public who had no idea they were betting into a false economy.
Another bubble, less spoken of, was of consumerism, where paper profits were spent before realized.
Pretty mushy reasoning in my ramblings above, right? I wish someone here could pin things down better.
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7. OmCheeto
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I agree with Mr. Obama.
Economics: A social science.
8. Can you eat confidence? Can you live sheltered in economic confidence with central heating? Can you drive economic confidence or does someone have to take some physical matter and rearrange it so you can push your foot down to make it go? We are physical creatures.
Talk can motivate people to add value to a rock and turn it into steel. Has Mr. Obama talked about any of these things? Will Mr Obama get around to these things; will Mr Obama motivate the legislation to promote these, or is he a very handsome, charming and confident critter in a suit offering no more than another Tennessee Valley Authority?
I'm not so easily taken by the charismatic. If he looses the self-grandure, starts to stutter, comes back ranting about RICO laws for corporate and governmant thieves, and it actually has demosterable effect, then maybe I could believe he's more than hot air.
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9. Confidence in future ==> more Investments (Less savings also I believe) ==> Real production.
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You don't grow food if you don't think anyone will buy it. You don't build houses if you think nobody will buy it. You don't advertise your central heating installation business if you think nobody will call you. At its most base level, the economy is people doing things for each other, with an efficient means of exchange (money), and this only happens because everyone's confident that the system works
12. People will eat. Farmers will grow food. Perhaps more soy and fewer artichokes.
I think you put your finger on it, whether you know it or not.
Poorly gauged confidence in the stock market lead its collaspe. Poorly gauged confidence in housing has left many upside down, owing more principle than they have equity. Confidence in the state of the economy 2000-2007 led to irrational consumer choices, which seems to be what you recommend.
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13. yes as long as investment goes into things like production (factories, infrastructure, the works) but almost all of the capital in the US has been diverted from these such things and into frivolous items that produce no long term economic growth.....
and savings are necessary to finance large capital projects...
14. mheslep
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What recovery? There has to be one in progress for them to be missing. The credit crisis seems to have eased, but a 'recovery' addresses GDP, and it still moving the wrong way.
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So your position is that once Obama waved his magic wand, all of the numbers should instantly reverse? :rolleyes: The question is whether the contraction is slowing or not.
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Well - I keep hearing that the rate of decline is lessening. But unemployment will apparently continue to increase to something like 10%.
On the other hand, I've heard mentioned "The credit crisis - part 2", which is apparently developing.
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As you know, that is why it is called a lagging indicator.
We will see. I haven't heard anything suggesting that we will see a crisis like that already seen. Keep in mind that a normal recession turned disasterous because of the hidden CDS losses, and reckless lending practices.
Of course I have seen half of the alphabet [and now an inverted mathematical symbol] used to predict the nature of the recovery. And, of course, the worst case scenarios are precisely what the Obama admin was concerned about and trying to prevent with bold and decisive actions, and based on lessons from history. The inverted square root, or an L-shaped recovery were precisely the situations the Obama team was trying to prevent based on lessons from Japan.
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18. Astronuc
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I don't care for the hype on the recovery. I want to hear the facts and dispassionate analysis.
Meahwhile - good news for Michigan:
26 June 2009 -
Now if they can find long term employment for the other 99,000 people who lost their jobs in the last year, and the others who lost their job the year before that.
19. I disagree with President Obama on most things, but I think it is too soon to be expecting a recovery. Remember, when Ronald Reagan came into office, and the Federal Reserve employed a contractionary monetary policy to contol inflation, which drove the economy into a steep recession, and taxes were cut to help the economy recover, the recession lasted from July 1981 to Novermber 1982. That is more than a year.
We cannot expect the economy to turn around within six months, especially with a financial crises of this magnitude. I am surprised the Obama administration itself seems to be a bit surprised on this, that the economy isn't "recovering" so fast. Give it at least another six months or a bit more to make a recovery IMO.
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How do you go there from a question about the claims of recovery?
Your question. It appears that it is slowing in some sectors, to the good, but that does not make a recovery.
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Same here.
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1. Simon
Ineresting that Red bull (or Vettel at least…) appear to be struggling with a change in tyre spec again. Interesting too that they won’t have the “get out of jail free” card they could play last year.
I do wonder how how much of this is Vettel struggling opposed to Ricciardo just making a bettert fist of things – suppose that will become one of this year’s $64,000 questions!
2. Ceej
For starters, Seb should get his money back for that terrible haircut….
But he made some poor race decisions too. Why did he fight Rosberg? It just let Alonso scamper off and get a better gap. His race was never against the Mercs. In contrast Alonso just let Rosberg go.
3. Mike
Am I the only one that finds it odd that Red Bull always has one teammate significantly slower than the other in the same car…
• That’s pretty normal, unless you get two drivers with similar driving styles, and car preferences. At least with current approach they have one driver making most of the car, while the other getting maximum to his liking. So they have hedged their bets. Imagine two Vettel like drivers,and both struggling with the car.
4. floodo1
vettel + humility = cool
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NEW DELHI: The Hyderabad blasts today found an echo in the Lok Sabha, with members attacking the government over "repeated failures" to check such terror incidents.
Condemning the serial blasts, the members asked the government to explain why the terror incident took place despite a warning issued by the Centre two days earlier.
Initiating an impromptu discussion on the issue, Leader of the Opposition Sushma Swaraj said the lapse gets magnified when such incidents occur despite the government having intelligence inputs.
Earlier, the House witnessed an adjournment on the issue soon after it assembled as members wanted an immediate response from the government.
Dara Singh Chauhan (BSP) wanted the government to ensure that innocent persons did not get trapped while unearthing the conspiracy behind these incidents.
In a scathing attack on the Congress-led coalition at the Centre, JD(U) leader Sharad Yadav said the occurrence of such incidents, in spite of the united resolve of the House, showed that the government was "lame duck" as also the intelligence set-up. "The problem with this government is that it does not have any stature. It is lame duck."
He said West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's style of functioning has brought Maoist activities to "zero level" in the state, while the Centre's "over-confidence" reflected in the President's Address which did not have any mention of the terrorist menace.
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The Missing, $1.5 million Bugatti
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The Bugatti Veyron, parked outside the Schlosshotel Kronberg, in Kronberg, Germany, in 2006.
But now the Bugatti has gotten into an intriguing publicity scrape.
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• I'm totally on Mr.Z's side on this matter. He basically paid for the car upfront !! Shame on Bugatti, Volkswagen, The journalist ( who should never be allowed to write about people and cars of this stature) and the editor for the story. Proof read your articles and learn to have a little more respect for a person like Mr.Z.
• For all the people saying why would you buy a 1.5 million dollar car the answer is because it is the best deal on a car that there ever was that car costs Bugatti a lot more to make then they sell it for so they sell it at a huge loss. That means that it does not matter how many Veyrons Bugatti sells because they don't plan to make a profit so stop throwing production numbers out like they matter. This article was annoyingly written by a misinformed journalist. This is just my opinion but if you are going to write about something you should know the facts. Also I am sure the buyer will get his money back if he wants to be overly picky about his car Volkswagen is a good company. Although I think as long as the car has all that right components and new model features who cares what the year is (I do understand that he wants a 2009 for collector purposes though having the only 2009 would make it worth alot). Also why on earth would you decline a drive in that car that was a stupid decision who cares if it is relevant to your job that is an awesome opportunity live a little. Also the guy who lost his money should be felt bad for he worked hard for that money just like anyone else he is just better at making money than others give him credit.
• How would a car built in 2009 not be a 2009? A horse-puck by any other name would smell as sweet... I guess "2008 Bugatti" is just a label.
As Mark Twain once remarked - "How many legs does a dog have, if I call the tail a leg?" The unwary second banana answers "Five?" He replies "No, four. Just because you call a tail a leg doesn't make it one."
You have to be a pretty annoying consumer-sales company if you custom-build vehicles by hand, and you won't label a vehicle being hand-made in your shop with whatever the cutomer wants ti to be called - especially if the label is appropriate. Do these top-end companies actually thrive on being super-snotty and anti-customer-service?
• To yasha, great question. two reasons:
1 - Does the world need another journalist driving a million-dollar sports car and declaring “Wow, that was so cool! What an amazing machine!” Of course it’s amazing.
2 - The following bit of math. Guy who hasn’t owned a car in 12 years + 1,001 horsepower Bugatti = dead people in Manhattan.
Don’t get me wrong. As an avid car guy (the reason I haven’t owned a car in so long is because I was overseas and now in Manhattan), I would be thrilled to drive the new Bugatti. But forgive me if I don’t see the journalistic purpose.
• "The other unanswered question is: Mr. Frank, why did you decline the test-drive?"
Because clearly he has an apologist complex and a complete lack of testicles.
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1. Find friends who you can go with and try the restaurants that you can't try with your husband.
It's not the same thing, but I have a good friend who claims to love food and be an adventurous eater, however, she is anything but. She picks apart everything on the menu, because she doesn't like a lot of different ingredients and I'd say 9/10 she finds something to complain about in relation to her meal. I try not to go to a restaurant with her that I haven't tried before, and which I am looking forward to, because I know it will kill the experience. I go those restaurants with my friends who I know are either (a) adventurous eaters or (b) will find something to eat without complaining and let me enjoy my meal.
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1. re: pescatarian
I had a foodie buddy and we would go try new restaurants for lunch. She knows a lot more restaurants than I do so she takes me to places I would have never thought of. I am not terribly fond of seafood, but she orders it and lets me try hers because she swears that I don't like it because I haven't had it prepared correctly. But now she has a job and our lunches are limited. So I am bummed. I have 2 daughters and one is pretty adventurous, but it is almost impossible to get together with her.
I would like to go to dinners out, not just lunches, but he gets pretty sulky when I try to arrange that!
1. re: danhole
Tell hubby where you are going and then give him the choice: tell him you'd love his company but he might want to eat before you go since his options might be limited, or alternatively you will go without him if he doesn't go. If he sulks, he sulks.
I see from your post below that you have been together at least 30 years. I am sorry, but after thirty years of marriage your husband should be able to respect your desires enough to either go with you or let you go with a pal.
1. re: danhole
you don't have any other foodie friends? sure you can think of someone.
2. re: pescatarian
OMG, my deepest condolences to you. People like that, who think that picking food apart and finding something to complain about equals any kind of knowledge drive me right up the wall.
3. I was a very picky eater when I met my husband: it embarasses me now to think of it. Do you cook? My husband was always cooking stuff and getting me to try it- this introduced a lot of foods that I didn't previously think I liked to my diet. Of course a lot of things I didn't *like* were because I'd had them poorly prepared (e.g. asparagus cooked all to hell, salmon overcooked, etc...); however, he respected my hard-core-hates, like green pepper.
Also, when we went out to eat, he never tried to influence what I ate, but he always insisted I take a bite of his. Guess whose was always better?
Eventually, over time he wore me down. *Very* few things I don't eat now , except Green Pepper of course, which I continue to loathe.
All that being said, I always had a desire to eat with 'the grown-ups', and used to get dreadfully embarassed by being so picky.
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1. re: nummanumma
Yes I cook almost every night, but he is so reluctant to try anything. I have gotten very creative with seasonings, just to keep my palate from dying of boredom, and he is open to that. The only real success I have had is getting him to eat ham once in awhile. Oh! And my homemade chili - no beans of course! That's just not Texan.
A lot of things I cook I put ingredients in them, that he doesn't like, and keep my mouth shut (i.e. sour cream, cream cheese, minced onion) or I use veggies to flavor a dish and then take them out of the pot before serving the dish, like in a pot roast.
Our first real fight was about 30 years ago and it was over a lima bean! I just wanted him to try one little baby lima, and he freaked. I slapped him ( after throwing a glass of juice in his face), he slapped me right back and threw the beans in the sink.That was it for physical violence in our marriage. I learned not to push too hard after that! LOL!
1. re: danhole
As someone who just got recently engaged to another Chowhound, I have to admit I spat my water when I read this. I sent it to fiance and he says "DUDE! Who doesn'e like lima beans!?"
Too funny! Thank you for sharing.
1. re: danhole
LIma beans, omg I HATE lima beans. I think lima beans must be like cilantro, there is a flavor or something in there that most people are fine with, but the rest of us just can't take. I will eat almost any other kind of bean (although whole garbanzos aren't high on my list, make em into hummus & I love them).
Seems to me that after 30 years you are in a pretty tough spot to start asking for changes, gonna be a lot easier to find others to eat with than convince him.
1. re: KaimukiMan
If you go to the bottom of this thread you'll see I have updated this and made some progress, and found others to eat with!
1. re: danhole
I'm quite late to this party, but can't wait to read through to the bottom.
2. re: danhole
This thread is great!! I wouldn't say SO is super pickey, but compared to me and what I like to eat it seems so.
Sometimes it's frustrating, I try to respect all the "rules" but I found a lot of contradictions, like not wanting spicy foods or foods with too many flavours but then taco seasoning from a box is fine. To me it's very flavourful and there are tons of spicies in there like cumin..etc that might have been an issue on their own.
I think a lot of people are ignorant about foods, like ground curry is automatically "hot" and people don't want to try the flavour while it could be added to roasted chicken or mayo and it isn't even spicy on it's own.
I do the veggie thing like danhole, when I made spaghetti sauce for meatballs I added the onions and garlic whole and then took them out before finishing it, that was a life saver.
The stressful part is that I don't eat out a lot, and I'm a pretty good cook and want to try and make recipes I like BUT I feel they're not worth it with the amount of time going into them and then having to cook two things so often I'm too tired and just eat the bland food.
1. re: BamiaWruz
So now where is it written on those stone tablets that you have to cook two different things??? SO can eat what you cook or cook whatever s/he likes or go without.. Choices in life are sooooo good :)
1. re: c oliver
I'm guilty of cooking two different things at almost every meal. Something meaty and bland for the SO, and something veggie filled and flavorful for me. Although, It has been almost an adventure to see what i can get him to eat. I did a spice rub on a rib-eye for him, and just put some un-asked for sauteed spinach with chili flakes on the side.... and he ate it because i told him i took the time to cook it, he better eat it. Now, I'm happy he ate it, but will it cause resentment?
1. re: kubasd
"...but will it cause resentment?" I want you to read that over and over and over again. (Wow, I love it when I use my mom-voice :) You cooked it; he ate it. What's he going to resent? Do you ever do things just because it's important to him? If not, then that probably belongs on some other board. Partnerships are called that for a reason. I won't waste my time or yours citing a definition. If he likes/wants you to do to the lion's share of the cooking, then to me he's going to partner with you and eat what you cook. If not, then other solutions need to be sought. And it wouldn't be anywhere on MY list to cook two different things. EVER! All you have to do is read and maybe read regularly danhole's post about Mr. Hole (who BTW we all love even if he is a dodo - or is that a doodoo? --- about food) to see that you don't want to be dealing with this issue 30 years down the road. I'd vote for justifiable homicide not divorce. Good luck, sweetpea :)
1. re: c oliver
Yeah, that post was a result of a bad day. He was irritated/pissed that i "made" him eat the spinach, lol. But yes, I've read extensively about Mr. Hole (research, you see) Thanks dear :-)
2. re: c oliver
No, I agree, it's not written anywhere. But he works and I don't at the moment so I prefer to make life a bit easier and at least have lunches and dinners prepared. Plus he loves asian inspired type of recipes and he's not hard to please, It just gets to me how he doesn't get sick of the limited recipes and flavours/dishes.
2. re: danhole
Wait -- let me get this straight -- you have been putting up with this for 30 years?
Holy smokes!
Hey, I married a man who hated most veggies (corn, canned peas, canned beets, white baked potato, occasionally a fresh green bean, no salads), and thought turkey was the most special food for the most special occasions. Steaks and burgers were okay. I just cooked it my way, and eventually -- he either ate it or he made himself a sandwich. I kept away from things he couldn't eat, like very spicy food. The shame of it is that I will be eating an artichoke alone -- because our teenage daughter has been spooked by him.
Just go and let him pick the one item on the menu. Most restaurants have meat and potato or rice or something bland. Chinese food is a problem, but I'll bet you can get him to a Japanese place, where he can order chicken or steak hibachi style. Just push. I have mostly won, but it did take me a few years -- 28 to be exact.
1. re: RGC1982
oh but the idea of Japanese (which can mean so SOOO many things) just brings up the idea of sushi (which I love), so things like tempura or teppanyaki or yakitori or Korean bulgogi, all things that would probably pass muster, need to be introduced with caution. believe me I've tried. a simple miso broth raises suspicion. hey it's a probiotic, maybe you can lay off the stool softeners a bit.
2. You should have had your attorney prepare an ironclad pre-sup agreement.
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1. Is he simply unwilling to accompany you to restaurants you want to try? I have to think that, for instance, most places serve beer and _something_ on which he could nibble. Maybe it won't work out for both of you to eat your fill at the same place...but maybe he would be willing to go along with you on your adventures and then you can hit a drive through afterwards (or beforehand) for him?
1. I am in the same situation. My husband doesn't even eat all the things your husband eats. But we haven't had too much problems. We live in Toronto with an amazing variety of restaurants. Most restaurants have some sort of steak dish or chicken. So my husband usually gets that. He understands that I like to try things so he tries to be as accommodating as possible. I also go out with friends and family. Sometimes I go by myself. | http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/381064 | dclm-gs1-277980001 | false | false | {
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The remainder of the film sees them followed by suspicious men on bikes and black SUVs, meeting a mysterious insider and planning a trip to a secret retreat where elite members of the shadowy Tarsus Group meet to plan their continuing world domination. It may not be a sexy conspiracy theory, but if it’s good enough for Alex Jones it’s good enough for MacBride.
The idea here is a good one. It’s easy to picture a “documentary” that begins as one thing then slowly shifts to focus on the filmmakers themselves when they get too close to the truth they were seeking, but The Conspiracy is not that film. Nailing down exactly what kind of film it is though is difficult. It makes the token pretense of being a “real” doc including talking heads, text updates on a black screen and the lack of anything resembling opening credits, but the layer below the surface begs the question as to who exactly made the film. It’s either Jim and Aaron or it’s an unnamed someone else, but both options are unconvincing and riddled with logic problems.
In deference to the spoiler-averse most of those problems won’t be mentioned here.
Eventual takeaways and post-film questions aside, the movie has other issues that speak more to it being a piece of narrative entertainment. Viewers never get the chance to get to know Terrance before he disappears leaving behind a pile of newspaper clippings covering every single conspiracy of the past century. The film’s public sees him as a nut, and with the short amount of time we have with him that remains the only viable conclusion for the audience too. And the details of the conspiracies are glossed over, even when Aaron picks up on them and almost immediately falls under their spell, leaving us again with no reason to grant them any real weight. Vaccines, pesticides, 9/11, the Kennedy assassination… we only know they’re connected because of the strings on the bulletin board.
Viewers having to fill in gaps and connect the dots is not a bad thing, but here they’re forced to do all of the heavy lifting. How are these incidents connected? What compelled Aaron to believe these things so quickly and easily? Why abduct a conspiracy theorist who clearly appears crazy to all who see and hear him? Why do secret organizations insist on using black SUVs as their surveillance cars? If the hidden camera is in a tie tack sitting roughly four feet off the ground why does all of the footage show a POV at other people’s heads?
And don’t get me started on the footage from that camera during a game of hide and seek in the woods.
The Conspiracy leaves viewers with a clearly intended conclusion as to the events behind the film, but the film itself fails to support it. Ominous statements made by at least two characters imply something that doesn’t mesh with the end result… unless the end result is not what’s intended. Either way, the movie doesn’t work. “We made a mistake,” says one of the filmmakers. “We made a huge mistake.” And there lies the only real truth of the film.
The Upside: Initial setup implies something interesting; third act has something resembling suspense
The Downside: Intended conclusion fails even a cursory glance back at the film itself; hidden camera logistics are laughable; unsure of its commitment to being a faux doc; chosen conspiracy is generic and bland; clear early on how things will end
On the Side: Aaron Poole’s first credited acting role is in an episode of The X-Files. Make of that what you will…
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Simpler Days by Geckofly Simpler Days by Geckofly
It took me all day to just let the fact that Discord got turned to stone sink in. So I drew some young Trollshipping to make me stop crying over the lost of a great villain...that is unless they'll bring him back as a villain in future episode and I'm still holding onto that hope even though its super unlikely, about as unlikely as Hasbro making a Discord toy.
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Artgirl513 Featured By Owner Jul 3, 2012
Well John said that he had just finished voicing a character at a comic con Q&A so maybe Discord will come back in season 3, I hope!
bloodsuckingmonster3 Featured By Owner Jan 10, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist
I read fanfics to keep his memory alive, that and watch his ep a billion times, still makes me whimper at the end, every single time... :iconcryforeverplz:
lonelynightrain Featured By Owner Sep 28, 2011 Hobbyist Writer
Awww what a lovely moment between Celestia and Discord as children!
I love the fct that you added some sparkles, and some rings in the background. It really does set the fact that Tai and Discord were really once close friends!
I hope that you have a great and blessed day!
May the Lord keep you and your family safe!
DeepC Featured By Owner Sep 28, 2011 Hobbyist General Artist
Alas, poor villain.
While he was incredibly nasty towards the Mane Six, I can certainly say that he is certainly worth pitying for. I could almost cry for him, especially with a face of absolute terror while he was being turned back to stone.
Though I also find it despicable when people portray Princess Celestia as a tyrant.
Cryssy-miu Featured By Owner Sep 26, 2011
This is precious. I have a Discord and Celestia (and baby Luna) piece in my gallery, but there's something about this - maybe it's the colors - that makes it so much sweeter than mine. I too believe they were once friends before...well, he lived up to his name.
I was heartbroken and in shock when he went back into stone. He did NOT deserve that. It was beyond unfair and such a cruel punishment for just a bit of playfulness. Okay...sure, he loved making the mane six loathe each other, but he IS the spirit of chaos and disharmony. He could have been worse. I never saw him try to physically harm ANYPONY.
Just...make their houses float and turn the road to soap and silly wacky things. But I don't see him as evil; he's mean and mischievous and takes pranks far, but he ain't evil.
And I miss him. : (
SilverLiqueur Featured By Owner Sep 25, 2011
I really, really had my hopes set that Discord would be allowed to hang around for the rest of the season. I definitely wasn't prepared for the look of sheer horror on his face when he turned back into stone...that was downright heartbreaking.
cruelfeline Featured By Owner Sep 24, 2011
Man, I am with you there. I'm still not over the fact that they sentenced him to full body paralysis for the rest of eternal life as far as we know. Far too harsh, IMHO.
Currently depending on what I hope will be amazing fandom work to get me through the rest of my life :D.
Geckofly Featured By Owner Sep 24, 2011 Student Digital Artist
I'm not sure, but I think I was the only person who literally cried like a baby when Discord was turn to stone again....and yeah full body paralysis is a pretty harsh punishment for turning dirt road to soap, flipping house upside down and messing with reality a bit.
cruelfeline Featured By Owner Sep 25, 2011
My friend, you were not the only person. I was right there with you; I can't remember the last time I felt so hollow.
I understand that what the ponies did, they did out of self-preservation. Ponies cannot live in such a state of chaos; they're simply not the sort of creature that can manage that.
But demonizing him for what he did... I never viewed him as a classically "evil" character. He was the personification of chaos, essentially a force of nature. Calling him "evil" is like calling the embodiment of a hurricane "evil." Is it destructive and difficult to live with? Yes. But that is simply its nature and not some sort of active desire to do malice.
Was he malicious towards the ponies? Yes, but they were also trying to seal him. Heck, their kind had sealed him in essentially his own head for thousands of years. If I were him, I'd want serious revenge, and the fact that he didn't just maim everything he saw sort of says something, I think. In the end, he was just content with entertaining himself, which I think paints his true nature as less evil and really more chaotic neutral than anything else. He didn't go out to find and destroy Celestia; he didn't kill anypony. He just sort of... let his nature take its course.
And his complete lack of consideration for anypony but himself? Who's to say that doesn't just stem from lack of companionship? If he never had a friend or companion (and I think it's fairly safe to say he did not), then he probably doesn't even understand the concept beyond what's needed to be able to mock it. And why would he? He's the spirit of chaos, not of getting-along.
I was hoping that they'd do something along the lines of giving him his own realm where he could do as he pleased. Really, the only reason the ponies hated it so much was because they had to live in it 24/7. If he had a place to entertain himself away from ponies, I'd say it's a fair bet they'd be okay with it, maybe even want to visit. Pinkie Pie would certainly go over from time to time just for the chocolate rain.
So don't worry; you weren't the only one disappointed. I was pretty much horrified that they sentenced him to such a fate for what we can infer is eternity for just... being what he was.
Specter-Von-Baren Featured By Owner Sep 25, 2011
While I always try to see the good in people, I think you're being too much of an apologist for this. Look at how much Discord was delighted in tearing apart the friendship of our main characters. Just because a person doesn't kill people doesn't mean they aren't causing harm to others for their own pleasure. At the root of it, most evil can be boiled down to selfishness. Take when Pinkie was laughing at the funny things Discord was doing or how she loved the chocolate rain, Discord could have attempted to simply convince her that his kind of world is the best world, and if he wanted kindness then he wouldn't have been so angry with how Fluttershy acted. When we saw him near the end he was sitting on a throne alone, he was only interested in the amusement that the chaos was bringing him. Discord only saw everything as a toy for himself to play with, objects with no worth outside of the entertainment they gave him. He isn't the kind of person that even accepts friendship as something real.
I'm not saying it would be impossible to redeem him but I don't think as he is now or then that he was someone that just needed a friend in order to be good. If Discord were to be redeemed then it would first require an effort on his part, he would have to see other people as having worth outside of what they can do for him. And since even Celestia and Luna are no match for him, there is no equal that could, by the fact that he couldn't use them like a toy, force him to reevaluate himself and how he treats others.
In fanon I'm all for coming up with interesting experiences and reasons for why he is the way he is but canonically, he isn't that kind of person.
cruelfeline Featured By Owner Sep 25, 2011
I'm not sure I would take how he treated the Mane 6 as a standard for his general demeanor towards everything else. Remember that the only context he saw them in was as agents of Celestia sent specifically to destroy/imprison/punish him. I thought it only natural for him to act particularly nasty towards them: from a survival standpoint, they were essentially coming for his life. Their friendship was the weapon they were going to use against him, or at least the major source of power for the actual physical weapons they were going to use. Destroying the friendship of the Mane 6 was the equivalent of ensuring his own life was saved (hence why he was so confident he was safe from the EoH when he thought they weren't friends anymore). Finding glee in that sort of thing is not something I would be particularly surprised at. Finding joy in causing pain in your enemies, particularly enemies who are going to entrap you, fully conscious, in rock, is not necessarily something I would use as a hallmark of evil and cruelty.
A better judge of redeemability, in my opinion, would be precisely what amuses him. Is it the actual suffering of ponies, or is it simply everything being random and chaotic? If it is the former, then redeemability takes a sharp nosedive, and I would be fine with categorizing him as a classically evil, unsympathetic villain with no hope for any other way of being. If, however, the source of enjoyment is the chaos, and the misery and suffering is a side effect that he simply does not care about... well, then I feel like I have to ask why that is. Is it because he legitimately does not think ponies are worth anything? Does he not like them? Did they wrong him in some way? I have no idea, and save maybe for Lauren Faust and the rest of the crew, no one really does. It's one of the reasons I'm sad to see him go: no further backstory given. Boo :P
If he doesn't care because he just doesn't deem ponies worthy of anything... well, he's an almost completely omnipotent creature who can reality warp better than that universe's sun goddess. Him thinking ponies weren't particularly important would be the rough equivalent of us thinking that mice aren't particularly important. And, well.. most people don't think they're all that magnificent. Does that make them evil? To mice, maybe. But I guess that's neither here nor there. My point is, if he never had any reason to think well of ponies, why should he? For all we know, he never had any reason to associate ponies with any sort of positive feeling, and so he saw nothing wrong with throwing them to the wayside when it came for his own amusement. As far as that being morally abhorrent: the natural order of things tends towards strong creatures gaining victory over weaker creatures. Anything beyond that is always connected to some sort of gain. Social living allows for protection and collaboration. Friendship is only “useful” because of the good feelings it gives someone. If it didn't, I doubt we'd bother with it at all, because there would be no positive reinforcement from it. Why doesn't he see that? Again, I have no idea. We have no backstory. One can assume that it is because he's some sort of entity of pure evil, or one could assume it's because he was bullied as a half... cub... foal... thing. Or maybe because he didn't get to go to Disney World or something :D. The point is, we have no idea if he could be made friendly or not, because the episodes ended too quickly and didn't explore that direction.
The only reasons I think it might be possible is that, beyond suffering caused by chaos, he didn't go around purposefully forcing pain on anyone. He wasn't sadistic with anyone, as far as we know, except the Mane 6. Yes, we may have just not seen it, but most of what we did see was... just nonsensical stuff happening with ponies being miserable because nonsense isn't compatible with their way of life. If he went around and inflicted everypony's worst nightmare on them... well, that would be different. Heck, I don't think he even really went after Celestia, which I thought he'd do right after defeating the Mane 6.
So I guess what my point is in this wall 'o text is that we don't really have enough information to make a completely sure judgment either way. I judge my way because... well, because that's just how I take things. And because the idea of a permanent And I Must Scream trope freaks me out :P. But that's just me, and I'm sure fandom will come up with a thousand more interpretations!
Specter-Von-Baren Featured By Owner Sep 25, 2011
Except he never had to destroy their friendship, he never even had to deal with them to begin with. He HAD the Elements of Harmony. If he had just kept the five necklaces and tiara in some far off place or perhaps put them in some sort of paradoxical dimension, then he would never have to worry about anything. But instead gave them a riddle and when they clearly went off track he didn't just let them go about it hopelessly, he directly interfered with them and turned them against each other. And even if your enemy is going to do something bad to you, how you react to that is indicative of your own character. Discord saw that they were people that cared about each other and by that token had empathy for other people but he didn't say anything about how what they were going to do was wrong and horrible.
I don't think Discord is a hardcore evil villain. But the thing to remember is that just because a villain's villainy doesn't stem from something obvious like hate and is instead more akin to not caring, doesn't mean it's any less bad. I remember something that broadened my view on this, a book called 'Out of the Silent Planet'. I won't go into great detail but the revelation came when someone described the character of the two villains, one of them I had seen as more of an evil person as he was willing to kill the lives of alien beings and the destruction of other planet's ecosystems if it meant humanity would expand. He had acted rather cruel before in the story. Meanwhile the other villain had been much more calm minded but his main goal was to increase his wealth. The person describing them referred to the former as a "bent man" while he called the later a "broken" man. The former was bent because he was cruel but the source of his goals could still be routed in some more "noble" purpose, the later was broken because he was a man that simply didn't care about anything but himself. I'm butchering this though, you should really just read the book.
But what I'm getting at, is that casual cruelty can be just as evil, or in some cases, more evil than active cruelty, I'd love to bring in my favorite example for this but it could make this conversation (Which I'm having a lot of fun having with you by the way) a bit too serious as it deals with some very big names. Discord doesn't go looking to be completely cruel to people but at the same, if he causes it or finds that he can do it, then he will find joy in it nonetheless.
Again, I don't see Discord as an un-redeemable villain, nor do I think he's all that evil but I do believe he himself knows that the things he does are wrong and can cause others pain. Like I said before, the problem for redeeming him is that he's simply too powerful for anyone to do anything about other than use the Elements of Harmony which have a mind of their own when it comes to what they do to their target.
I agree that we have no idea what his whole backstory is, which makes excellent fodder for fiction, comics, and art but I try to take a middle ground on these kinds of things and simply say that I don't know, and try my best to bring up the points for and against things but never get stuck in being on one side of the issue but always pointing to what facts we do have.
And indeed. The fact that he didn't go after Celestia and Luna is something that lends credit to him not being a true hardcore evil person (Then again, for all we know he already did and he turned Celestia pink and Luna invisible).
I'd like to ask you if I could publish our conversation here onto DA. I'd love to see if it could generate responses so we could get more opinions in here and get more analyses on this because I'm a sucker for talking in depth about things that most people just shrug at.
cruelfeline Featured By Owner Sep 25, 2011
Oh, please publish away! I love to see fandom responses to these sorts of things.
Wait, C.S. Lewis wrote science fiction? Dang, now I have another book I need to read...
I don't disagree that Discord performed actions that could be deemed evil by the pony populace; obviously, he did, and that was why the entire conflict existed. My main issues with the conclusion presented in the episode are:
1. "Chaos" is synonymous with "evil" and thus must be entirely contained. In my view, chaos and order, discord and harmony, are natural dichotomies that exist within the world in a state of constant, shifting balance. Neither can exist without the other (for if we didn't have chaos, how would we differentiate order from it; what would it even mean to have order, if one could not have chaos?), and both need to be balanced for life as we know it to flourish. If we have too much chaos we get... well, what we got for most of the ep (though I maintain that exploding chocolate milk was fantastic). If we have too much order? Boredom, stagnation, dullness. What is life without some surprises, some unplanned experiences? I can say the same for harmony and disharmony. Obviously pure disharmony is also not life-compatible, but what would pure harmony give us? Constant happiness, constant contentment, no conflict whatsoever: what would be the point of doing anything? Much of the actions people and ponies perform are done to gain happiness and contentment, or to diminish pain and unhappiness. If one was constantly just content, what would that mean? What would be the point? You could just sit there and not do anything and be happy about it, and that would be your life, because you would have absolutely no motive to search out anything different. Heck, what Discord did to the Mane 6's friendship was awful, but wasn't their friendship stronger for it in the end? Didn't the disharmony he caused allow them to earn something that they would not have earned if their friendship hadn't been threatened? Sure, without him, they would have been happy as friends, but the new conviction and strength of bond earned through the trials he set in motion are certainly not worthless. Traits like bravery, perseverance, courage, compassion, and many others are much less meaningful if there is no adversity to constantly test, shape, and strengthen them. While Discord's role in nature may not be pleasant, and thus might be categorized as “evil” by ponies or humans, it serves a natural purpose and allows for personal growth that would otherwise have no motivation for occurring.
Do I believe that he should just be let loose to do whatever he wants? Of course not. Do I think that he should have somehow been incorporated into the world of Equestria instead of being imprisoned again? Yes. Frankly, I'm tired of so many children's shows painting the world in such stark black and white, with one side being “pure good” and the other “pure evil.” I always wish they'd show that some unpleasantness is a part of life, a necessary part, and that just because something may not be our idea of a good time, it is still a part of the world and should not be violently done away with.
2. The punishment was far too harsh. While this is somewhat connected to the fact that I don't like disorder being automatically evil, it also simply involves the fact that imprisoning a sapient creature in stone for what we essentially believe will be eternity while said creature is fully conscious is an idea that is utterly terrifying and abhorrent to me. Have you ever heard of locked-in syndrome? It is a medical condition that involves full body paralysis but leaves the sufferer completely conscious the whole time. Essentially, being trapped in your own body, which is what I think we can safely say Discord was sentenced to. For what? Yes, he caused misery, but that misery was a side effect of him acting out his nature. Was his casual cruelty awful? Sure. Does it warrant trapping him in an “And I Must Scream” situation for eternity? Him, a creature that is naturally born to create entropy and activity wherever it goes? To me, his sentence would fall under cruel and unusual punishment, particularly for someone whose entire purpose is to cause chaos. I was honestly shocked that the show did not make a bigger deal out of it and sort of brushed it off as an acceptable way of handling the situation. I'd feel differently if his imprisonment worked like Twilight's petrification by the cockatrice, involving her feeling as if she'd been asleep and simply losing that time, but he makes it fairly clear that he was conscious the entire time. Again, this is why I don't begrudge him any sort of revenge-related cruelty. I know this is a kids' show, but I was fairly surprised he hadn't simply gone mad from being alone in his own head for eons.
I would have been less bothered by it if the Mane 6 had tried some alternative, some form of reasoning before hitting him with the Friendship Cannon. Perhaps it would not have worked, but trying would have at least sent a message of allowing a chance for redemption before streamrolling your way through. Or heck, they could have struck a deal with him: he gets some random zone in Equestria to do what he likes with, they get the rest. I don't know, something. He didn't have to turn all saccharine or anything (indeed, that would have been ridiculous), but somehow showing that chaos on its own is a valid part of the universe would have been a welcome message for me. Perhaps him recognizing friendship as a powerful force would have altered his demeanor somewhat and allowed him to stay free. You say that he seems incapable of understanding something like friendship. Perhaps he is, but did they even try? Did they try to offer some form of truce before taking him out? I can understand that our heroines were fighting for their lives and for the normalcy of their world, but at the same time, I feel that emphasizing the importance of offering companionship and understanding to everyone, even to those who don't seem to deserve it, would be a worthwhile message. Sure, it may not have changed anything in him, but at the same time, it might have. It might have given him respect at least for our Mane 6. Heck, maybe it might have made him realize he was lonely and given him a reason to spare ponies some misery (wouldn't what appears to be a fairly social creature be lonely if its association with chaos made everyone hate and fear it?). I don't know; I just think it could have been done differently and been more poignant as a result.
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1. Though chaos is a necessary element of the world, what Discord wanted was just pure chaos with absolutely no order. Just because something is an inherent trait of the way the world works doesn't mean that if a problem arises from that trait that you shouldn't do something about it. The thing is though that the show already showed a level of maturity with Nightmare Moon. Nightmare Moon was a villain and the queen of the night but once she was purified she was Luna, the princess of the night. It showed that just because the night had been the bad guy that time didn't mean that it was inherently evil. But the idea that anyone can be reasoned with or that they are always just a victim of circumstance is just as close minded as those that see the world in black and white. There are people that could have been good people if they had had better circumstances or been raised right but there are also those that just want to see the world burn, or in this case, see it turn into candy... delicious delicious candy.
2. What makes you think Discord is conscious while sealed in stone? He never said anything that implied he was aware of what was going on when he was in stone and it seemed that at least some time had passed between him being released and him starting to cause chaos. Maybe he was aware but there's nothing that says that IS what happened.
Except it's obvious that Discord didn't simply want some out of the way zone. Remember my analogy of how Discord probably views the world as full of toys for him to play with? Well think of it this way, when humans want to build some new structure somewhere, do they say, "Wait... there's an ant colony in this area, we'll have to build elsewhere."? Or what about in war? When one side has a superior upper hand, do they listen to their enemy saying that if they call of the war then they will get 70% of the spoils while they just get 30%? No. Can you see Discord settling for something like that?
I do agree that there should be villains with sympathetic back stories and that get redeemed or are shown a hug instead of a fist but at the same time I believe that some villains should in fact not be sympathetic because there are actually people that are like that.
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I have a UITextField, which I am trying to use a NSNumberFormatter with a NSNumberFormatterDecimalStyle to convert the text field into an NSNumber to initialise an object.
However when I do this, I can't get any sensible results out of the conversion. For the purpose of this example I have replaced the UITextField with a string, but I still get strange results. I am sure I am doing something daft, but any help would be appreciated.
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NSString * boardNumberText = @"42";
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NSNumber * boardNumber = [formatter numberFromString:boardNumberText];
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NSLog(@"Number was not null");
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NSLog([NSString stringWithFormat:@"%d", self.board.number]);
The output that I get from the log file when I run this is:
2012-07-15 16:54:26.564 CoreDataDev[16123:fb03] Number was not null
2012-07-15 16:54:26.564 CoreDataDev[16123:fb03] 42
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You can't just log NSNumber to the console using the integer format specifier, since NSNumber is a wrapper object. Also, NSLog takes a format string, so you don't need to use stringWithFormat:. Try this instead:
NSLog(@"%d", [boardNumber intValue]);
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Ooops, Thanks everyone. Knew I was doing something dopey. – Marryat Jul 15 '12 at 16:41
NSLog(@"%d", boardNumber);
is wrong: it prints the memory address of the boardNumber pointer (the NSNumber instance itself). Use
P. s.: that
NSLog([NSString stringWithFormat:...]);
is unnecessary and ugly; NSLog has built-in format string handling, use it!
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Problem Description
We have several multi-module projects which are depending on each other. So something like this:
• messaging
• framework
• othercomponent
They have separate source control repository, and lets say, that submodules inside messaging and othercomponent are using bundles from the submodules of framework. All of the projects are OSGI based multi-module maven projects. All of them have a server part, and a single sourced GUI part (Eclipse RAP+RCP). So this ends up in a three step maven based build for all of these multi-module projects (since Tycho builds cannot be mixed with plain old Maven Builds):
• Building server part
• Building RAP GUI part
• Building RCP GUI part
And finally there is an end product multi-module maven project (lets call it ourproduct), which uses messaging, framework and othercomponent. The project ourproduct has different version number than the other three, which are having a common version number.
We build the whole thing with Jenkins, and the jobs trigger each other depending on the dependency tree. The company decided to use snapshots to get more direct and fast feedback between the 3 framework project developers and the ourproduct developers. This can be a nice idea, however there is a big problem.
If during the building chain something is broken, than the snapshot repository contains snapshots of messaging, framework and othercomponent, which cannot work together. This way the developers of ourproduct have to wait for a working snapshot set (otherwise they cannot even compile some time). An other problem is that during the build the set of snapshots are also not consistent.
For the messaging, framework and othercomponent there is a definite end job in Jenkins. If that finishes, then the set of snapshots must be working, so the ourproduct team could use it. So i would need to COLLECT somehow the snapshots created by the build chain, and deploy them only if the whole build chain was successful.
• Is there any existing possibility to do this?
My idea was to simply change the jobs to make only install only and not deploy. Then at the end I could look for the built snapshots in the local maven repo, and deploy them by a script.
• There is some Staging Concept for Maven (maybe only with Nexus pro). Does it say anything about snapshots?
Any idea is welcome. However i cannot change the fact of using snapshots. So there is no use in convincing me to use releases and no snapshots.
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Not sure about the deploy part, but the Jenkins Copy Artifact Plugin may help to collect matching "good" build results. – oberlies May 24 '13 at 8:24
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I have found a nice workaround. Steps to take:
1. The build steps have to deploy to a temp folder instead of the normal target repository using the altDeploymentRepository parameter (see http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-deploy-plugin/deploy-mojo.html)
mvn deploy -DaltDeploymentRepository=stagingFolder::default::file:///c:/mytempfolder
2. Run any number of build steps with this setting, and the artifacts are collected in the folder. You can even resume the builds without problem. You can overwrite artifacts (i do not recommend it however)
3. You have to run the following command after completing all build steps (see http://mojo.codehaus.org/wagon-maven-plugin/copy-mojo.html). This uploads all artifacts which were collected temporarly in the folder:
mvn org.codehaus.mojo:wagon-maven-plugin:copy -Dwagon.source=file:///c:/mytempfolder -Dwagon.target=http://somerepository.com/repositories/snapshots -Dwagon.targetId=idreferredinsettingsxmltogetauthorization
Important Note
The wagon goal should be run in a folder, where there is no pom file (so it must be run without project). Otherwise there is a weird error with the fromDir parameter.
Known Limitations
1. The build steps should run using the same local repository, since if the steps need the artifacts produced by other artifacts, they can find it in the local repository.
2. This solution does not read the POM to get the repository to which the artifacts should be uploaded. This is wired today into the wagon command. But I can live with it now :)
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You don't need to share the same local Maven repository if you add the file repository you deployed to as repository, e.g. via the settings.xml. – oberlies May 28 '13 at 13:59
Yeah, but it can happen, that you want to do the whole thing with dynamic temp folder name, and in this case editing the settings.xml on the fly is pain in the ass. – Gábor Lipták May 28 '13 at 14:07
Jenkins allows to collect artifacts of other builds (if they mark these in their project configuration). Your integration tests could use that construct to collect required from the snapshots builds and only upload a set of bundles to Nexus once integration tests are completed. You might start by inspecting the manifests from the OSGI bundles.I suggest to use jar-signing as a staging-marker, because it is easy in forensic analysis by devops.
btw Nexus Pro has a staging concept.
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Thanks for the answer. Right now I am completely happy with my solution ;) – Gábor Lipták Jan 21 '14 at 7:54
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When I use Google spreadsheet document I use to right-click to add comments for instance.
But each time I right-click the firefox context menu is display over the spreadsheet context menu.
So how to not display the firefox context menu only when I am on a Google Drive document ?
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Go to Firefox Options, the click Content, Advanced (next to Javascript), and check Disable or replace context menus.
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Thanks a lot, it's exactly what I were looking for. – Nicolas Oct 29 '12 at 16:56
For Firefox 30 : see kb.mozillazine.org/JavaScript#Advanced_JavaScript_settings – Erb Jul 15 '14 at 11:39
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Hamas, Harriet Sherwood and the Guardian Left’s continuing antisemitic sins of omission
In reading the Guardian daily, I’m still often struck by the enormous moral blind spot which seemingly progressive commentators possess when it comes to undeniable evidence of Palestinian hate, intolerance and malice.
No doubt, journalists like Harriet Sherwood and Phoebe Greenwood have no personal animosity towards Jews as such, likely have Jewish friends, and avoid engaging in explicit expressions of antisemitism in their personal lives.
Such souls likely react with requisite horror when reading or viewing films about Nazi atrocities during the Holocaust. They may even sincerely wonder how Germans could have been so cruel, so blinded by hate and a murderous ideology which viewed Jews as subhuman, and whose mere presence was a threat to human civilization which had to be eradicated.
They similarly may ask why the world was silent.
How then to understand the seeming lack of corresponding shock and outrage towards modern manifestations of such explicit Jew hatred in the Arab and Muslim world?
Sherwood’s latest, “Israel will launch significant Gaza offensive sooner or later, Dec. 28, isn’t, by any measure, the most egregious example of the Jerusalem correspondent’s bias against the Jewish state, nor the most sympathetic portrayal of Hamas her paper has ever published, but the report’s credulousness in the face of Islamist group’s narrative is still a polemical inversion worthy of scrutiny.
Sherwood begins:
A new Israeli military offensive against Gaza will be launched “sooner or later” and will be “swift and painful”, Israel‘s most senior military officer has warned.
“Sooner or later, there will be no escape from conducting a significant operation,” he said. “The IDF knows how to operate in a determined, decisive and offensive manner against terrorists in the Gaza Strip.”
Then, Sherwood connects Gantz’s belligerence with a recent IDF operation.
Within hours of Gantz’s comments, the Israeli military launched two airstrikes on targets in Gaza, killing one person and injuring around 10, according to local reports.
Though Sherwood includes IDF “claims” that the hits were on two “terrorist squads with global jihad associations” and that “one of the targets was a cell en route to Sinai with the intention of launching an attack on Israel from Egypt”, the Israeli aggression is then contrasted with Hamas’ evident moderation:
First, the degree to which Hamas has “attempted to enforce a ceasefire” is clearly only motivated by the terrorist groups’ fear of further IDF action. That is, per Gantz, the 2008-09 Gaza war, which was the focus of such obsessively critical Guardian coverage, actually achieved a good deal of its objective – deterring Hamas.
Second, a good deal of the rocket fire has been launched by Popular Resistance Committees (PRC), which is funded and supported directly by Hamas. Think of PRC as Hamas’ terrorist subcontractor.
Further, Sherwood’s characterization of the subsequent rocket fire as sporadic (as AKUS pointed out the last time Sherwood used the term) has absolutely no relation to reality. As our Gaza rocket counter notes, there have been 47 rocket attacks from Gaza in December alone, and 683 for all of 2011.
What country on earth would consider a 683 enemy rocket attacks into its territory, by an enemy committed to its destruction, “sporadic”?
Sherwood’s credulousness as to the claim of Hamas’ benign intentions continues:
“They have accepted popular [non-violent] resistance,” senior Fatah official Mohammed Shtayyer said, adding that Hamas would stop “these fireworks” being launched.
The “fireworks” the Fatah official speaks of have killed 44 Israelis (and injured 1,687) since 2006, according to IDF figures.
Sherwood adds:
However, Hamas officials have also said they reserve the right to self-defence and the prime minister, Ismail Haniyeh, pledged to continue “resistance” at a public rally this month.
Of course, the group’s understanding of the term “self-defence” can accurately be understood by viewing the following clip from Al Aqsa TV, on Dec. 14 (during a rally celebrating Hamas’s 24th anniversary).
Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh:
This is the same Hamas of course which Tweeted the following on their anniversary:
None of this should surprise anyone who has bothered to read Hamas’s founding charter, which includes the following:
It’s challenging at times to continually think of new and more effective ways to reach those who still remain unconvinced of Hamas’ open malevolence towards Jews, and not merely Israelis.
I’m challenged not by the availability of evidence as to the immutably antisemitic nature of Hamas (and related Islamist terror movements) which, in the age of the internet, is abundant – but, rather, by the seemingly limitless capacity of leftist ideologues like Sherwood to deny, or at least ignore, even the most irrefutable evidence of the group’s homicidal intent.
During the Holocaust, before the age of mass communication, decent people could reasonably argue that they didn’t fully understand Nazi ideology, lacked a complete picture of the regime’s genocidal aims, or were otherwise ignorant as to the scope of, and danger caused by, such unimaginable hatred.
However, nobody today with access to the internet can possibly plead ignorance and pretend not to understand that Islamist ideology represents the central address of annihilationist antisemitism in the modern era.
As with the masses of “ordinary men” who turned a blind eye to Nazism, those who today, for whatever reason, fail to resist, or even deny, such insatiable and consuming Jew hatred in the Islamic world (whatever its ultimate result) will similarly not be judged kindly in generations to come.
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1. I think Chickenbrain can be her new identifier. I know someone who keeps hens and he says that he and his family have to be careful around them if they get a cut. Chickens like blood.
2. Chickenbrain and her partners in misinformation are similarly silent about the ease with which Muslims slaughter their fellow Muslims.
Any Islamist wrongdoing doesn’t fit with the Guardian narrative or world view.
• Snigger. what I find most horrific is Assad’s slaughter. The other slaughter is horrific but it is carried out by generals and/or criminal types. Assad is an ophthalmologist. He could be doing good in the world. Lipstick on a pig doesn’t remotely cover his case. His excuses are the same as Gaddhafi’s and the BBC is mentioning only Egypt and the Arab League. Not Iran,
3. Regarding SINS OF OMISSION, here’s the REAL truth:
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I have developed a desktop application that records motion from any video source - ie ip Camera, web cam (etc).
These motion 'clips' timestamps are uploaded to my server.
The Web user can log in and view these 'Time-clips'.
If they want to view any of these clips they double-click on it a request is made to a clients PC (in this scenario a very old laptop) and the images which are in jpeg format are encoded to ogg video format using ffmpeg.
Everything works well and fast.
Now, the client has complained/wants constant streaming of all the video captured from the client.
My second immediate thoughts was to have a base image on my server (or 2 - for caching)) and update the differences between 2 frames and upload and overlay the pixel changes on the base image on my server.
Now, as I have been informed before this actual process is how a video encoder works?
If that is the case I could save a lot of time using an encoder to change the base image on my server.
ffmpeg naturally comes to mind.
1). Does this sound reasonable to try to achieve? 2). Are they any pointers to what arguments I could use with ffmpeg to achieve all this?
I am very new to this fascinating subject and I am keen to learn and understand rather than copy & paste (sounds like a job interview!).
I am using C# as a programming tool but consider this is irrelevant to the initial question?
I very much welcome people's thoughts.
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Old question, but as soon as you started talking about detecting pixel differences yourself, I just had to say: It's not worth it to invent your own video codec. Use h.264 or something. Huge amounts of time have been put into optimizing the hell out of x264, for example. And use ffmpeg's mpdecimate to drop similar frames before sending them to a video codec. – Peter Cordes Feb 26 at 3:12
@PeterCordes I appreciate your comments. I have to admit when I originally posted this question I was VERY naive. Now I am just naive :) Thanks – Andrew Simpson Feb 26 at 7:42
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The way I've seen this done in other systems intended for CCTV is to encode every couple of frames compressed with something like MJPEG and then stream that to the client, the server component of ffmpeg, ffserver may be able to help you with that. Of course, depending on your needs a different video codec may be more appropriate, particularly if you intend to send every frame in which case something like H.264 may be more efficient.
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Hi, that has given me something to think about -thanks – Andrew Simpson Nov 19 '13 at 12:50
A fixed camera is always going to have a LOT of temporal redundancy between frames, so you'll save a lot of bits with any codec that can use P and B frames (inter prediction). – Peter Cordes Feb 26 at 3:28
So you have a client computer with a camera, and want to stream video from it to a server where it's archived and accessible?
client runs: ffmpeg -i some_kind_of_input -vf mpdecimate -c:v libx264 -preset medium -crf 25 some_kind_of_output
Choose an appropriate framerate to capture. mpdecimate will run constantly at that framerate. libx264 with your chosen preset will have to keep up with realtime to avoid dropped frames when there is motion going on, so mpdecimate isn't dropping any duplicate frames.
The output from that should be buffered somehow so upload to the server can lag behind the bitrate of the output when there is a burst of data (because of motion).
Your output will be VFR video. There will be continuous 10fps or w/e bits, and other bits with 1 frame per hour or something. x264 doesn't care, and most container formats have no trouble storing timestamps for each frame. (e.g. mkv or mp4 are probably both ok choices.)
The server receives this video stream, and breaks it into 1 minute or 1 hour chunks or something. (or maybe it's easier to break into chunks on the client side, and upload a chunk after it's done being written. That would stop you from getting a realtime feed from your cam though.)
Or server just decodes it and stores jpg images with timestamps for filenames. I'm not sure what kind of support ffmpeg has for VFR output to the image2 muxer (that's the "directory of image files" with %04d.jpg filenames, or w/e. AFAIK, the %04d can only substitute frame numbers, not timestamps.)
Anyway, I just made all this up. I'm sure you'll find lots of stuff if you google on motion detection security video.
IDK why this was on the recent-activity questions list, but since I read it, I figured I'd post an answer.
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I too do not know why this has appeared on the recent-activity list but I am glad it did! If I can work out how this happened I will attempt to regurgitate all my past questions :) Also, your answer was A1! – Andrew Simpson Feb 26 at 7:58
Hi, When i run this command via my C# app I just a get byte values of 255? What have I missed? – Andrew Simpson Feb 26 at 9:48
you need ffmpeg installed, and some_kind_of_input is just a placeholder. Same for output. If you want to use it from within a C# app, you might want to use the libav* API, instead of piping data through ffmpeg running as an external process. I haven't used the api myself, but ffmpeg (the cmdline program) is just a front-end for libavformat, libavfilter, libavcodec, etc. Have a look at ffmpeg.org/documentation.html, and google on using ffmpeg libraries. (also note that there's a fork of ffmpeg called libav, so you'll get google hits on that.) – Peter Cordes Feb 26 at 21:50
sorry, didn't take as long thinking about your reply as I should have. So you mean the output file is filled with 0xff bytes? Or the system() function call returns 255? I really don't have a very good idea of exactly what you might have done. You might want to ask a new question (with code and output) on stackoverflow.com (which would be the right place, since you're writing code.) You might get answers telling you to use the library API instead of trying to pipe your data through the cmdline frontend, though. If ffmpeg can read directly from the camera, that might be useful... – Peter Cordes Feb 27 at 0:35
Yes, deleted as I thought it was a reply to another of my questions lol. Using mobile to reply, sorry – Andrew Simpson Feb 27 at 0:37
If you are on Windows (presumably since you are using C#) is there a reason that you can't simply use Windows Media Encoder and Windows Streaming Media Services on the server? It sounds like it is designed to do exactly what you are trying to do. I'm not sure I understand why you need to build your own solution when many great (and even free or no additional cost) solutions exist already.
Update: Based on the understanding that you just need about 10fps jpeg's and that latency doesn't matter as much as guaranteeing delivery, I would probably do the following:
1) Client submits each image with an incrementing sequence number to the server.
2) The server takes each image and stores it in to the file system with the path and sequence number in a dictionary.
3) When the viewer connects it starts by asking for the current image and is given the image and sequence number.
4) Upon display of an image, the viewer then requests the next sequence number. Timing information for how far behind the viewer is could also be sent back to keep it from getting too far behind. The server would wait until an image is available for the sequence number if it doesn't yet have one. This would help keep in sync as well.
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Hi, thanks for replying. I did take a look at Windows media Encoder but it is working with streams. I am using jpegs you see. – Andrew Simpson Nov 19 '13 at 14:31
@AndrewSimpson - ah, so video (even at low framerate) isn't an option? Would you like to jump in chat to discuss a bit more about what you need. I'm still not 100% sure I understand the scenario. – AJ Henderson Nov 19 '13 at 14:33
hi, I would love to. How do do that? – Andrew Simpson Nov 19 '13 at 14:34
@AndrewSimpson - updated my comment with a link on the word Chat, just click it. :) – AJ Henderson Nov 19 '13 at 14:34
ffmpeg has an input demuxer that can read a stream of image files piped in back-to-back. -f image2pipe. Or just decode the jpegs, and feed the image data to WME. – Peter Cordes Feb 26 at 3:30
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a public civil officer invested with authority. The Hebrew shophetim, or judges, were magistrates having authority in the land ( Deuteronomy 1:16 Deuteronomy 1:17 ). In Judges 18:7 the word "magistrate" (A.V.) is rendered in the Revised Version "possessing authority", i.e., having power to do them harm by invasion. In the time of ( Ezra 9:2 ) and ( Nehemiah 2:16 ; 4:14 ; 13:11 ) the Jewish magistrates were called seganim , properly meaning "nobles." In the New Testament the Greek word archon , rendered "magistrate" ( Luke 12:58 ; Titus 3:1 ), means one first in power, and hence a prince, as in Matt Matthew 2:6 Matthew 2:8 . This term is used of the Messiah, "Prince of the kings of the earth" ( Revelation 1:5 ). In Acts 16:20 Acts 16:22 Acts 16:35 Acts 16:36 Acts 16:38 , the Greek term strategos , rendered "magistrate," properly signifies the leader of an army, a general, one having military authority. The strategoi were the duumviri, the two praetors appointed to preside over the administration of justice in the colonies of the Romans. They were attended by the sergeants (properly lictors or "rod bearers").
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maj'-is-trat (shephaT, corresponding to shaphaT, "to judge," "to pronounce sentence" (Judges 18:7)):
Among the ancients, the terms corresponding to our "magistrate" had a much wider signification. "Magistrates and judges" (shopheTim we-dhayyanim) should be translated "judges and rulers" (Ezra 7:25). ceghanim "rulers" or "nobles," were Babylonian magistrates or prefects of provinces (Jeremiah 51:23,28,57; Ezekiel 23:6). In the time of Ezra and Nehemiah, the Jewish magistrates bore the same title (Ezra 9:2; Nehemiah 2:16; 4:14; 13:11). The Greek archon, "magistrate" (Luke 12:58; Titus 3:1 the King James Version), signifies the chief in power (1 Corinthians 2:6,8) and "ruler" (Acts 4:26; Romans 13:3).
The Messiah is designated as the "prince (archon) of the kings of the earth" (Revelation 1:5 the King James Version), and by the same term Moses is designated the judge and leader of the Hebrews (Acts 7:27,35). The wide application of this term is manifest from the fact that it is used of magistrates of any kind, e.g. the high priest (Acts 23:5); civil judges (Luke 12:58; Acts 16:19); ruler of the synagogue (Luke 8:41; Matthew 9:18,23; Mark 5:22); persons of standing and authority among the Pharisees and other sects that appear in the Sanhedrin (Luke 14:1; John 3:1; Acts 3:17). The term also designates Satan, the prince or chief of the fallen angels (Matthew 9:34; Ephesians 2:2).
In the New Testament we also find strategos, employed to designate the Roman praetors or magistrates of Philippi, a Roman colony (Acts 16:20,22,35,36,38). A collective term for those clothed with power (Eng. "the powers"), exousiai, is found in Luke 12:11 the King James Version; Romans 13:2,3; Titus 3:1. The "higher powers" (Romans 13:1) are all those who are placed in positions of civil authority from the emperor down.
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My family likes the chili made from the packet of 2-Alarm Chili, so one day I decided to measure out all the ingredients. It's much cheaper to measure out your own ingredients!
Ingredients Nutrition
1. Brown beef in a Dutch oven; drain.
2. Add tomato sauce, 2 cups water, paprika, cumin, onion flakes, garlic salt, chili powder, and ground red pepper.
3. Cover and simmer for 30 minutes, stirring occasionally.
4. Dissolve 2 tablespoons masa into 1/4 cup hot water to make a thick, but flowable mixture.
5. Add masa mixture to chili.
6. Cover and simmer another 15-20 minutes.
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This is really great Texas chili (no beans allowed). Years ago we used to buy the Wick Fowler's 2 alarm chili mix and I also measured all the ingredients to re-create it without the mix. At the time, my kids were pretty young, and found it a bit too spicy. This chili has to have spice, but I modified it just a bit and they still love it that way today. I add an extra can of tomato sauce, and cut the chili powder to 1/3 cup, cumin to 1 tsp, cayenne red pepper to 1/2 tsp. Try it either way, you'll like it.
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I found this chili quite a few months ago and forgot to review it. It was the first chili I've ever made, and I don't see any reason why it shouldn't also be the last. It is quick, easy, spicy enough for my husband, and mild enough for me. With the addition of kidney beans, it makes an excellent meal; and without them, it makes an awesome hot dog/hamburger chili. I am also planning on making as a dip for a baby shower this weekend. And, if I ever find anywhere else to use a chili, this will be it. Needless to say, I really, really like it. Thanks!
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I have been cooking with Wick Fowler's for some time. Now that I found this recipe, I have tweaked it to my liking. Just a teaspoon or two extra of red pepper(depending on how much beer I have in the fridge). I usually make it and take it to work and share with my coworkers. They love it! My wife and kids aren't so crazy about it though, too spicy for them. Too bad, they don't know what they're missing. Makes the best chili I've ever had. I also like to cup up stew meat instead of using ground beef. | http://www.food.com/recipe/2-alarm-chili-39280 | dclm-gs1-278940001 | false | false | {
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1. Combine sugar and milk in heavy saucepan.
4. Add vanilla and one of the three optional flavorings.
5. Add flour and stir to mix thoroughly.
6. Immediately pour onto buttered plate.
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I made this fudge and it was definitely good, the texture was a bit different from what I'm used to (I'm used to the grainy old fashioned break your arm off stirring kind) but it was realllly good. :D I subbed coconut powder for the flour and didn't add any of the peanut butter/almond/peppermint flavour. Easy! Thanks for sharing :)
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I made this fudge, and it wasn't the greatest. I decided to use Peppermint Extract in mine. I didn't have 1/2 tsp left in the bottle, and am I glad I didn't! It was about 1/4 tsp that I used, and it was still overpoweringly minty. If I make it again, I will either exclude the peppermint extract, or I will put it an extremely small amount. | http://www.food.com/recipe/amazing-fudge-21876 | dclm-gs1-278950001 | false | false | {
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Prep 45 mins
Cook 2 hrs
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1. Boil potatoes until tender.
3. Add hot potatoes and beat until smooth, adding small amounts of milk as needed.
5. Add garlic, green onions, and marjoram and beat until well-mixed.
6. Pour into either casserole dish or crockpot.
7. Dot with additional butter and sprinkle with paprika.
8. Bake for 25 minutes in 350°F oven or cook on low in crockpot for 2-3 hours. If cooked in crockpot, add a few additional drops of butter and stir, just before serving.
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These are to die for! I've made them several times and always have rave reviews and requests for the recipe. It's Red, White & Green for Christmas! I double the recipe. I boil whole red potatoes (2- 3lb. bags) in a stock pot and then drain them and mash them right in the pot with the skins still on. Then I mash the other ingredients into them. I add extra garlic, chives, marjoram, green onions & bacon bits (hormel real crumbled picnic bacon). I add some cream along with the milk and more sour cream until it's extra creamy. I put it into a removable crock from my crock pot and refrigerate it until 1-2 hours before the event. Then I bake it at 350 until heated through. I bring it to the event, put it into the crockpot set on low, dot it with butter and paprika & Wowee, it all disappears! Yummy! Thank you for this recipe.
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These are the most AMAZING tasting mashed potatoes and perfect to make when having company over. I made these (along with my hubby :) ) in the morning around 10am and put them in the crock pot on the warm setting all day. They formed a nice crust on top, but underneath they were nice and moist. Just before serving around 8pm, I put a dab of butter on top, stirred them, and whola! I actually put them in a serving bowl w/ a lid, and they stayed on the table for about 15 minutes before eating them, and they were still piping hot. Everyone was in awe!
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Let's call it a pet peeve. I wish the phrase "went missing" would just disappear. I don't know when it became fashionable to describe a missing person as went missing. Example: "John Doe went missing Tuesday." I heard it a lot in the past week when people were discussing a missing teenage boy from Nolensville. I'm glad to report he was found and is safe.
We're beginning to understand why he "DISAPPEARED, VANISHED, DIDN'T COME HOME, RAN AWAY.'' I'll keep you posted unless somehow I "go missing" after which someone will almost certainly write or report "Couch went missing."
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Unquestionably, on the night before the election, all six candidates were on TV at the same time, for the first time. That they happened to be on different channels was something of an impediment to meaningful dialogue, but by using a fistful of remote controls to selectively raise and lower the volume, one could pretend that they were talking to one another.
At 7:02 P.M. on WCBS-TV, there was State Senator George E. Pataki, the Republican candidate, talking about how important it was for the cities and regions of the state to work together. "I seek to bring us together," he said. A minute later came the riposte on the subject of unity from Larry Lane, the Socialist Workers Party candidate, on New York 1, the local all-news cable channel: "The workers of the world should unite."
That kind of one-upmanship was typical of the virtual debate. Did the candidates seem to talk past each other, to interrupt each other, even to boldly speak while another was talking? Certainly. But they probably would have done that if they'd been in the same room, so it became simply an alternate version of reality.
For 60 minutes beginning at 7 P.M., all the candidates shared the cable, separated by a single channel. That slight technical difficulty has been ascribed to either childish petulance or brilliant tactical calculations worthy of a baseball manager deciding who to bat against a left-handed pitcher.
Mr. Pataki, apparently believing he would be diminished by appearing with a group of minor-party candidates, had refused to debate unless it was one-on-one with Gov. Mario M. Cuomo. As a result, he appeared alone before four questioners on WCBS. Conversely, the Governor, seeking to diffuse the impact of Mr. Pataki's challenge, had refused to appear at a debate unless it was with all the candidates. So he faced three questioners on New York 1 together with the nominees of the Independence Fusion Party, the Socialist Workers Party, the Right to Life Party and the Libertarian Party.
In a sense, both Mr. Cuomo and Mr. Pataki got a piece of their preferred debate last night. The Governor was able to assume his familiar pose of fending off an attack of pesky gnats, even if one of his pests was 15 blocks away. To the two-TV viewer, in fact, Mr. Pataki on several occasions actually appeared one-on-one with Mr. Cuomo, and once or twice, they were actually talking about the same thing at the same time.
At 7:15 P.M., for example, each unbeknownst to the other, they shouted each other down on the subject of Medicaid. Mr. Pataki said something about how New York State's Medicaid costs were three times as high as California's. The Governor didn't respond directly, but immediately insisted that the Republicans were responsible for the problem. The combined noise made it difficult to determine which problem he referred to.
That made it necessary to use the mute button to appreciate the true sparring that took place on the other TV set, where last night's debate was the most freewheeling of the three five-candidate debates yet. At one point, Robert Walsh, the Right to Life candidate, pulled out a rubber chicken and addressed it as George. Later, B. Thomas Golisano, the Independence Fusion candidate, got into verbal scuffles with Mr. Cuomo that became increasingly testy.
Mostly, though, the candidates seemed deliberately unaware that anyone in a major appliance store could watch all six debate.
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Κνώσια: such dances as the Cretan Corybantes hold at Cnosus in honour of Zeus and Apollo. Both the epithets Νύσια and Κνώσια denote a character of wild enthusiasm.—Cnosus, the chief city of Crete, was situated in the north of the island, in one of the plains at the foot of Ida. The form Κνωσός has older and better authority than Κνωσσός. It was there that Daedalus was said to have made the χορός (dancing-place) for Ariadnè ( Il. 18. 590 ff.). Crete was the part of Hellas in which an art of ὀρχηστική was first elaborately cultivated. The hyporcheme itself was originally Cretan (schol. on Pind. P. 2. 127).
αὐτοδαῆ is best explained, with the schol. in L, αὐτομαθῆ, ἃ σὺ σαυτὸν ἐδίδαξας. Pan is the inspired and inspiring χοροποιός. The dances will be joyous as those of Nysa or Cnosus, but due to his prompting alone. So the minstrel Phemius says, αὐτοδίδακτος δ᾽ εἰμί, θεὸς δέ μοι ἐν φρεσὶν οἴμας ι παντοίας ἐνέφυσεν, Od. 22. 347.
ἰάψῃς (cp. 501) here denotes properly the act of putting forth the feet or the arms in lively movement; so that ἰάπτειν ὀρχήματα means strictly, ‘to dance with lively gestures.’ The musician Aristoxenus (c. 300 B.C.) mentioned the Κρητικαὶ ὀρχήσεις among those which he admired διὰ τὴν τῶν χειρῶν κίνησιν (Athen. I. p. 22 B). How ἰάπτω could be associated with swift motion, appears from the intrans. use in Suppl. 547 ἰάπτει δ᾽ Ἀσίδος δἰ αἴας (‘rushes’).—Pan might possibly be said ἰάπτειν ὀρχήματα as ‘impelling’ the dance, i.e., ‘setting it in movement’; but this seems less probable. | http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/xmlchunk?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0024%3Atext%3Dcomm%3Acommline%3D699 | dclm-gs1-279210001 | false | false | {
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Each week we visit an emerging neighbourhood in a different city. This week: the Barranco district of Lima
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Streets ahead: Lima. Illustration: Adam Hayes
Barranco is the cliff area of Lima, about five minutes south of the centre by collectivo bus (destinations are written on the side).
In the 1920s this was where rich and famous Peruvians built their summer houses - but as the city eventually merged into the resort, the rich and famous moved elsewhere.
Today, the squatters who replaced them are being driven out and the rich are returning, along with a thriving artistic community. With its brightly painted art-deco houses and purple blossoming trees, Barranco is a real antidote to the soulless business districts and slum areas of the rest of Lima.
Many of the buildings fell into decline over the late 20th century. Now they are being restored to their former art-deco glory, and where that proves impossible, modern Californian-style houses are springing up in their place. This isn't just the work of developers. Many places have been taken over by artists' collectives and, if you can find a resident bohemian, they're usually happy to show you their building.
It's worth taking time to wander around the many atmospheric bars and restaurants and surprising sights, from the dilapidated but beautiful church of La Ermita to free public dance classes in the Parque Principal.
Barranco is more noted for its restaurants than shops but has the odd quirky attraction, such as the museum of electricity and the food markets. Best of all, it's small enough and safe enough to just wander about. Also, away from the main thoroughfare and down towards the sea it could even be described as tranquil - not something you can say for much of the rest of Lima.
The beach is a little uninspiring and pebbly but the view from the cliffs is magnificent, and you can even surf here, should the urge take you.
Posada del Mirador
A pretty bar at the end of an enchanting little street of brightly coloured adobe buildings - the most romantic place in Lima, just up from the Bridge of Sighs, overlooking the Pacific Ocean and the huge cross of lights erected to commemorate the visit of John Paul II. The decor is faded colonial and the food is fairly basic - patatas fritas, fried yucca - but the ceviche is very good. You can sit outside on the balcony or, if it gets a bit colder, retreat inside and still enjoy the view. Allegedly accepts Visa but you'll find things easier with cash. No need to book.
Ermita 104, +51 1477 1120
Posada del Angel
Impressively atmospheric bar of low lights and heavy decoration, full of statuettes and images of angels, colonial art, incense - even a red telephone box, which you assume is from Britain until you read "telefono" at the top. Stuffed to bursting with antiques and bric-a-brac, it doesn't get more bohemian than this. Latin American trova music is played nightly, with songs to stir the socialist heart and prices to please the socialist pocket. There are two sister bars in Barranco.
Av Pedro de Osma 164-222, +51 1247 0341
Just up from the Posada del Mirador, but a world away in terms of food and decor, Chala is an innovative and modern restaurant popular with Barranco's smart set. Here you can eat duck in blue corn juice, goat with macaroni cubes or carpaccio of tuna on Japanese rice. Chala has a balcony area that is particularly pleasant in the evenings, as it looks out over a beautifully lit cobbled avenue that leads down to the sea.
Bajada de Baños 343, +51 252 8515,
Lucia de la Puente art gallery
A cool, contemporary, commercial art gallery set in one of Barranco's signature colonial houses. Its ambition is to offer Peruvian art to international standards. Current exhibitions include Aldo Chaparro and José Tola.
Paseo Sáenz Peña 206,
Second Home
This used to be the house of the sculptor Victor Delfin - and it's also a five-bedroom B&B. It's expensive by Peruvian standards but worth it, overflowing with pieces by Delfin, with a magnificent view of the Pacific. The building seems modelled on a Swiss chalet but inside it's cool art deco. The gardens are full of sculptures, too. Doubles from US$85 B&B.
Domeyer 366, +51 1247 5522,
Pedro de Osma museum
A lovely, early 20th-century mansion surrounded by impressive gardens. It contains some truly stunning, and at times revolting, examples of religious art. The ceramic head of John the Baptist is certainly not for the faint hearted. There is also a large collection of silver.
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A treatment is a summary of a screenplay, TV show, novel or other story, sometimes in the form of an outline. It can be anything from one to ten pages or even longer in length. Treatments can be used as a tool of development for the writer's or used as a marketing tool.
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Know the length. Treatments can be as long as 30-40 pages, but 1-10 pages is probably most common. There is no correct "length" for a treatment the way there is for screenplays because treatments are for a certain audience.
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Create the log line. Most screenwriters begin with a one-to-two sentences description of their story. Ideally it includes the main character, the main antagonist, the nature of their conflict, genre elements (if it's a comedy, it should be humorous; if it's a thriller, it should thrill; if horror, it should horrify, etc.), and hints of the plot through, without revealing the end.
• Usually screenwriters flesh out this log line further into a paragraph or more. At this point they are leaving behind the straitjacket of the log line and entering the more free-wheeling realm of the treatment.
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Be aware that there are two ways to proceed from here:
• Some writers expand the story like an outline, letting each bullet point represent a story beat or a scene, so that the final product approximates a rough scene outline of the entire story. Some may keep gradually fleshing out these bullet points, the way a painter colors in trace lines, until they've filled the whole thing out into a full rough draft.
• Other writers prefer a more categorical approach, where they explore different aspects separately, not necessarily in chronological order. For example, they may have a list of major characters whom they describe with a paragraph or two. They may have entire back histories of the main characters that run a page or two long. They may describe key locations with a paragraph each. They may also describe the plot but have it deconstructed, perhaps with the main plot in one group of paragraphs and various subplots described separately, not interwoven the way they would be in the script.
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Don't be hung up on rules. Screenwriting is a fairly rigid craft with countless rules. Treatments are one of the few areas with no rules. It's just a summary of the plot, perhaps with a little character study, usually 1-10 pages long.
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SEC Intensifies Efforts To Rein In Short Selling
Wall Street Readies For Longer Limits; Are Curbs Working?
(See Corrections and Amplifications item below.)
In a short sale, a trader sells borrowed stock in a bet the price will decline and the stock can be profitably repurchased at a lower price. The new rules require specific arrangements to borrow shares in short sales rather than the existing rules, which allow a looser assurance the shares can be located.
The rules appear to have had their intended effect of halting the slide in shares of financial companies such as Fannie Mae,Freddie Mac and Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. Combined with falling oil prices and encouraging earnings reports from some banks, shares in some of these names have doubled.
Some hedge-fund officials until Friday said privately they considered an extension of the short-selling curbs unlikely. However, calls with regulators on Friday afternoon left a different impression, giving the matter added urgency going into the weekend, they added.
By 11:59 p.m. EDT Tuesday, the SEC will need to decide whether to extend its emergency order or let it expire. The SEC said it could extend the order for 30 days. But the law allowing the order limits such action to 10 business days.
It's not clear the SEC commissioners will agree that an extension is warranted. Paul Atkins, a Republican commissioner, has asked the agency's economists to determine whether the order had an effect on the targeted stocks, a person familiar with the matter says. If it hasn't, Mr. Atkins might argue against an extension, this person said.
Two groups of investors appear to be most vulnerable to an extension and broadening of the rules, smaller firms where the added costs and capital requirements would be onerous and fast-trading funds that use computer programs to make thousands of trades a day.
So far, major Wall Street firms have been complying with the order manually, making phone calls to line up so-called pre-borrow arrangements for the 19 stocks. Expanding the rule to all stocks "would require an extensive delay" so the process could be automated, one brokerage executive said.
Executives at the big Wall Street firms that handle trading for hedge funds and others have also been involved in discussions about how to adapt their computer systems to handle the rules.
The expansion could require increased capital to finance the borrowed shares during the three days before trades settle, as well as make short selling more cumbersome and labor-intensive. It is expected that the industry will push back forcefully on any attempt to expand rules.
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The SEC can extend its temporary limits on short-selling for as many as 30 calendar days. This article incorrectly said the law allowing the emergency order limits an extension to 10 business days.
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The fastest man to ever run with a football was Bob Hayes...
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Chapter One
--and stared into the face of a stranger.
Who is that woman?
It wasn't hers.
What else was the same? She leaned closer to the mirror, looking for the faint freckle on the left side of her chin. Yes, there it was, where it had always been; darker when she'd been younger, almost invisible now, but still there.
Everything else was . . . wrong. This nose was thinner, and more aquiline; her cheekbones more prominent, higher than they should have been; her jawline was more square, her chin more defined.
She was so completely befuddled and frightened that she stood there, paralyzed, incapable of any action even if one had occurred to her. She kept staring into the mirror, her thoughts darting around in search of any reasonable explanation.
There wasn't one. What could account for this? If she'd been in an accident and required massive facial reconstruction, while she might not remember the accident itself, surely she'd remember afterward, known if she'd been in a hospital and undergone multiple surgeries, remembered the rehab; someone would have told her about everything, even if she'd been in a coma during her recovery. But she hadn't been in a coma. Ever.
She remembered her life. There hadn't been any accident, except for the one when she was eighteen that had killed her parents and turned her world completely upside down, but she hadn't been in the car; she'd dealt with the aftermath, with the crushing grief, the sense of floating untethered in the black space of her life with all of her former security gone in the space of a heartbeat.
She had that same feeling now, of such unfathomable wrongness that she didn't know what to do, couldn't take in all the meanings at once, couldn't grasp how fully this affected everything she knew.
Maybe she was crazy. Maybe she'd had a stroke during the night. Yes. A stroke; that would make sense, because it could screw with her memory. To test herself, she smiled, and in the mirror watched both sides of her mouth turn up evenly. In turn, she winked each eye. Then she held both arms up. They both worked, though after showering and washing her hair she thought she'd have already noticed if either of them hadn't.
"Ten, twelve, one, forty-two, eighteen," she whispered. Then she waited thirty seconds, and said them again. "Ten, twelve, one, forty-two, eighteen." She was certain she'd said the same numbers, in the same sequence, though if she'd had a stroke would she be in any shape to judge?
Brain and body both appeared to be in working order, so that likely ruled out a stroke.
Now what?
Call someone. Who?
Diana. Of course. Her best friend would know, though Lizette wasn't certain how she could possibly phrase the question. Hey, Di; when I get to work this morning, look at me and let me know if I have the same face today that I had yesterday, okay?
The idea was ludicrous, but the need was compelling. Lizette was already on her way to the phone when sudden panic froze her in mid-step.
She couldn't call anyone.
If she did, they would know.
They? Who were "they"?
On the heels of that thought she was suddenly drenched in sweat, and nausea convulsed her stomach. She lurched back to the bathroom, barely making it to the toilet in time before she couldn't hold back any longer. After throwing up the small amount of coffee she'd drunk, she clutched her stomach as dry heaves seized her body and wouldn't let go. Sharp pain stabbed behind her eyes, so intense that tears blurred her vision, ran down her cheeks.
When the convulsive vomiting stopped, she weakly sat down on the cool bathroom floor and reached for the toilet tissue to mop her eyes, blow her nose. The terrible pain behind her eyes eased, as if an internal vise were being loosened. Panting, she closed her eyes and let her head drop back until it rested against the wall. She was so tired it reminded her of how she'd felt after just finishing a 30K run.
30K? How would she know what running thirty kilometers felt like? She wasn't a runner, never had been. She walked on occasion, and when she was a kid she'd done some riding, but she wasn't a fitness nut by any means.
The stabbing pain behind her eyes was back, and her stomach rolled. She sucked in air through her mouth, willing herself not to start heaving again. Putting her fingers on the inside corners of her eyes she pushed hard, as if she could force the pain out. Maybe the pressure worked; the stabbing eased, just as it had before.
The nausea and headache were kind of comforting, though. Maybe she was just sick. Maybe she had a weird virus that was making her hallucinate, and what she thought she was seeing in the mirror was just that: a hallucination.
Except she didn't feel sick. And that was strange, because she'd just thrown up so violently her stomach muscles ached, and she'd had that piercing headache, but she didn't feel sick. Now that it was over with, she felt perfectly well.
She also felt annoyed. Her schedule was completely shot; by now her hair should be dry, and her makeup on. She hated when anything disrupted the timeline she'd laid out for herself; she was so regimented, she made a Swiss watch look harum-scarum--
Wait a minute. Regimented? Her? When had that happened? It felt wrong, as if she were thinking of someone else entirely.
Abruptly she was retching again; she surged to her knees and bent over the toilet, choking, her stomach rolling, saliva dripping from her open mouth. This time the stiletto of pain behind her eyes was blinding. She gripped the edge of the sink beside her, holding on to prevent herself from collapsing on the floor--or headfirst into the toilet. Even as awful as the nausea and pain were, somewhere deep inside she felt an incongruous tickle of humor at the idea.
The spasms gradually faded and now she did collapse, but at least it was on her ass on the floor. Leaning back against the vanity, she tilted her head back and closed her eyes, mentally watching the pain pull back like a visible tide.
Obviously, she had to have some kind of bug. Just as obviously, no way could she go to work. Not only did she not want to make a spectacle of herself dry-heaving all over the place--or worse, wet-heaving--she didn't want to give this to anyone else. After they recovered, they'd probably be after her with torches and pitchforks.
This was crazy. She didn't think this way, about toilet-diving being funny, or about mobs with pitchforks. She thought about work, and her friends, and keeping the house clean and her laundry done. She thought about normal stuff.
Pain twinged again, not as sharp, not blinding, but there behind her eyes. She froze, waiting for the beast to grab her. Her stomach rolled, then calmed; the pain faded.
She needed to call in sick, the first time she'd done so since she began working at Becker Investments. Her department head, Maryjo Winchell, had a company-issued cell phone for this type of thing, and, being the careful type she was, Lizette had programmed Maryjo's number into her own cell phone.
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I love the Google Project Hosting web app. It includes bug tracking, wiki and SCM in one interface. (Example: WMD Editor)
This solution is closed source and not for sale. While searching similar solutions I found Trac which has a rougher interface.
Could you list similar solutions?
Someone asked the same question, but specified Git as the SCM.
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Note that Google project hosting is only for Open Source projects – Daniel Rodriguez Nov 5 '09 at 18:57
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You might look at redmine.org, I'm just getting familiar with it, having only used it on a project for a couple months, but liking it so far.
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It looks nicer than Trac, and has native multiple project support. – Jader Dias Nov 5 '09 at 19:09
I have been using redmine for a while, and it works great. – Nathan Feger Nov 9 '10 at 16:17
[EDIT] Since I wrote this answer, an exciting new fully-integrated distributed project management software has hit 1.0: Veracity by SourceGear.
Fossil-SCM is a nice distributed SCM, where "SCM" has the original meaning of "Software Configuration Management" and not the new diluted meaning of "Source Code Management".
What this means is that Fossil integrates distributed version control, distributed bug tracking and distributed wiki into one repository. Not one UI, like, say, Trac but one single repository.
So, if you clone a Fossil repository, you do not just get the latest version of the source code plus all its history, like you would get with Git, Mercurial, Bazaar, Monotone, Darcs or any other version control system, you also get the current bug database plus all its history and the current wiki plus all its history.
Fossil is written by D. Richard Hipp, who is not only the author of SQLite but also CVSTrac (the precursor of Trac). So, you know it's gotta be good.
If you want to see an example of Fossil in action, just the follow the link I posted: Fossil is hosted in Fossil itself and the Fossil homepage is actually just the Fossil repository itself.
BTW: even if you don't end up using Fossil, just spend some time learning its concepts. It's a rather brilliant design, and you're probably going to learn something which you can apply even if you are using Trac, Git, Instiki or whatever.
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Where is the view interface for Fossil? How can we get the website interface like the one on fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki for our own projects? – Pacerier Mar 25 at 18:28
If you're willing to tolerate closed source FogBugz is pretty good. http://www.fogcreek.com/FogBUGZ/
They'll let you test it for up to 2 people and if you decide you like it you can either licence space on their servers or purchase to run on your servers.
If you're an open source only kind of guy, I recommend diversifying. Get a couple different pieces of software to do the different things you want. Often times things like SVN will have post commit scripts to link your commits to your wiki or bug tracking, etc.
Its nice when things are bundled, but nicer when you can pick and choose the things you want.
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Actually now, I believe they let you test it for as many people as you want for 45 days. Though I do remember it being two at some point in the not so distant past. – Amadiere Nov 5 '09 at 19:02
+1: we use it here at Inntec. The wiki had some irritating little problems, at least in the previous version, but for the most part we're all very happy. – Brian MacKay Nov 5 '09 at 19:03
Actually I was thinking in mixing MediaWiki with Bugzilla and Subversion – Jader Dias Nov 5 '09 at 19:04
We actually used MediaWiki with Mantis and Subversion. It worked out well for a while (I had some very impressive post commit scripts which I inherited), but ultimately FogBugz is just a cleaner interface – tzenes Nov 5 '09 at 19:06
Trac does all of these things.
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I can't tell you exactly what I dislike about Trac, but I will continue to use it just until I learn to use a better solution. – Jader Dias Nov 5 '09 at 19:11
If you can't tell me what you don't like about Trac, then it'll be hard to recommend something that solves your problem. You might also try LiquidPlanner or FogBugz, though I've never used those so I can't recommend them. – s1n Nov 6 '09 at 4:39
I like Assembla.
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If you really like the Google Hosting App, you might find InDefero the right choice for you.
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FogBugz is pretty slick. I've been using for a month and really like it. It has a SCM plugin.
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I found a tutorial of how to setup such a solution from specialized open source projects:
Bugzilla + Subversion + Media Wiki
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Do you really need all three solutions (SCM, bug tracking, and wiki) in one solution? Why not mix and match the solutions that work best for you?
I've never used Trac, but bugzilla works really well as a free bug tracker. There are lots of open source wikis out there, and for free SCMs, mercurial, git and subversion are all excellent choices.
For paid solutions, Atlassian Jira and Confluence (task tracking and wiki) are okay, but FogBugz is better. Perforce is IMHO the best non-free SCM out there.
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Did someone mention Indefero? Looks nice enough so non-techs wont be scared to use it, open source version, private projects... Git support, issue tracker... seems like a good solution.
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I'll have to go with echoesofspring on this one. Redmine looks to be a great system as issue tracking/ project management tool if you want to: 1. manage multiple projects with sub-projects 2. project/ task status transparency with clients or project managers 3. repository integration (I haven't used it) 4. Gant charts and calendars and more...
I chose it from this [wiki list of project management tools] :[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_project_management_software#!
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Is there a simple way of getting a HTML textarea and an input type="text" to render with (approximately) equal width (in pixels), that works in different browsers?
A CSS/HTML solution would be brilliant. I would prefer not to have to use Javascript.
Thanks /Erik
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See the answer to Getting HTML textarea controls to expand to width of container, it's better than the answers included here. Or for complete explanation: Box Sizing | CSS-Tricks – Yarin Mar 4 '12 at 21:51
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You should be able to use
width: 100px;
<input class="mywidth" >
<textarea class="mywidth"></textarea>
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This doesn't seem to work anymore, however this solution: stackoverflow.com/questions/9555877/… does – H2ONOCK Nov 28 '13 at 10:29
To answer the first question (although it's been answered to death): A CSS width is what you need.
But I wanted to answer Gaius's question in the answers. Gaius, you're problem is that you are setting the width's in em's. This is a good think to do but you need to remember that em's are based on font size. By default an input area and a textarea have different font faces & sizes. So when you are setting the width to 35em, the input area is using the width of it's font and the textarea is using the width of it's font. The text area default font is smaller, therefore the text box is smaller. Either set the width in pixels or points, or ensure that input boxes and textareas have the same font face & size:
.mywidth { width: 35em; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 1em; }
<input type="text" class="mywidth"/><br/>
<textarea class="mywidth"></textarea>"
Hope that helps.
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Someone else mentioned this, then deleted it. If you want to style all textareas and text inputs the same way without classes, use the following CSS (does not work in IE6):
input[type=text], textarea { width: 80%; }
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This is a CSS question: the width includes the border and padding widths, which have different defaults for INPUT and TEXTAREA in different browsers, so make those the same as well:
<style type="text/css">
textarea, input { padding:2px; border:2px inset #ccc; width:20em; }
This is described in the Box dimensions section of the CSS specification, which says:
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Yes, there is. Try doing something like this:
<textarea style="width:80%"> </textarea>
<input type="text" style="width:80%" />
Both should equate to the same size. You can do it with absolute sizes (px), relative sizes (em) or percentage sizes.
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Obviously everybody else gets a different result, but when I do this:
form label, form input, form textarea {
display: block;
margin: 1em 0 0 0;
padding: 0;
width: 35em;
I get textareas that are about 5% narrower than my inputs:
input vs textarea
It's not because of a phantom scrollbar, because forcing the scrollbar to appear yields this:
input vs textarea with scrollbar
What's causing this?
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It’ll be because the input and textareas have different default font-family settings. Try adding something like font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif to your style block. – Paul D. Waite Oct 3 '08 at 13:51
Use CSS3 to make textbox and input work the same. See jsFiddle.
.textarea, .textbox {
width: 200px;
-webkit-box-sizing: border-box;
-moz-box-sizing: border-box;
box-sizing: border-box;
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Just a note - the width is always influenced by something happening on the client side - PHP can't effect those sorts of things.
Setting a common class on the elements and setting a width in CSS is your cleanest bet.
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Use a CSS class for width, then place your elements into HTML DIVs, DIVs having the mentioned class.
This way, the layout control overall should be better.
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As mentioned in http://stackoverflow.com/questions/161915/unequal-html-textbox-and-dropdown-width-with-xhtml-10-strict it also depends on your doctype. I have noticed that when using XHTML 1.0 strict, the difference in width does indeed appear.
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you can also use the following CSS:
<input class="mywidth" >
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Your first solution was already mentioned by the accepted answer, and the second solution will make all textareas 100px wide. – Manuel Jul 23 '13 at 13:52
input[type="text"] { width: 60%; }
input[type="email"] { width: 60%; }
textarea { width: 60%; }
textarea { height: 40%; }
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I understand that 64-bit is the best. However, I've heard that there may be compatibility problem with 32-bit programs. Is this compatibility issue a major enough issue for me getting a 32-bit OS or is 64-bit Windows Vista still better, despite the compatibility issue?
I will mostly be using this for development purposes, but I may sneak in a few games on the side. :)
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Recommend to close -> Not programming related. yes, there are 32 vs 64 bit programming related questions, but this isn't one of them. – Pure.Krome Apr 16 '09 at 4:52
Well, he/she will use the machine for dev purposes...so, it's hard to say. – jjnguy Apr 16 '09 at 5:05
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The biggest problem with 64-bit is driver support. Vista 64-bit requires that all device drivers are signed, so if you can't get signed device drivers for your peripherals you can't use them in Vista.
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And therefore cannot test your own drivers! At least to my knowledge. This is a total deal breaker. – Unknown Apr 18 '09 at 3:06
There is a way to put Vista into a Test Mode that allows self-signed drivers, but that has its own issues (in my case, having Test Mode written in all four corners of the desktop was annoying, and I couldn't upgrade my nVidia graphics drivers until I disabled test mode for some reason). – X-Cubed Apr 20 '09 at 0:51
Wow, that's... well I suppose it makes sense to have it that way by default to prevent problems, but there really ought to be a 100% workable solution for people who NEED to use unsigned drivers. I'd be fine with it being a pain to enable/unsupported/whatever, but it shouldn't break anything. – Adam Jaskiewicz May 1 '09 at 22:09
@Adam, solution = just sign them. Code signing certs are fairly cheap these days :) – saschabeaumont May 7 '09 at 4:18
Depending on what you wanted to do.
For developers definitely go for 64-bits because you can then have a lot of RAM.
In one of StackOverflow podcast Jeff said because Vista caches disk data aggressively having lots of RAM changed his life.
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I've had a 64-bit Vista laptop since November, and have only had a single compatability problem. That problem was so small that I don't even remember what it was!
In the meantime, I'm running Visual Studio 2008, SQL Server 2008, etc., with no problems.
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I've had a similar experience with 64-bit Vista. For the most part it's been an excellent experience. – Chuck Conway May 7 '09 at 4:17
Do you need to use a Cisco VPN Client?
If so, I would say go for 32-bits - even if you have 4gb of RAM. There have been a lot of issues surrounding such a vital piece of software that lots of remote workers can't live without.
If you have 8gb RAM or more, definitely go for 64-bit as if you run a 32-bit operating system you will be throwing 4+ gb away (Windows 32-bit operating systems can only address some value around 3.4gb).
If you only have 4gb RAM you are only missing out on 600mb of memory and getting the benefit of increased application compatibility.
Your mileage may vary.
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The only VPN software I plan on using is Copilot. I'm behind routers, so that's pretty much the only software that works easily. – waiwai933 Apr 16 '09 at 4:52
I had the same problem - but you can either use Cisco VPN inside a 32-bit VM, or better yet - use NCP-E VPN client which is 64-bit Vista capable and Cisco-compatible! WOrks like a charm for me www.ncp-e.com – marc_s Apr 16 '09 at 7:09
I run several systems with both. I would say 64-bit is definitely better. If you want older Cisco VPN support in a 64 bit system, try the Shrew VPN Client. I use it to connect to a Cisco 800 series router with 12.3 verison, which works very well. The DHCP doesn't seem to work quite right yet, but you can always set up static ips. You could also upgrade your router to support the Any connect, which also does 64 bit.
64 bit is all about RAM. I added 8 gig to my machines. I noticed a huge benefit going from 2 to 4 gigabytes. Going from 4 to 8 was not so much, until I started running Visual Studio and all the other things I run at once. It was like lightning after that.
Driver support is not a problem if you purchased good hardware. For example, the biggest problem usually is a video driver. If you purchase an Nvidia card, you can modify the device type in the INF to make it load the standard driver, and everything works very well. Even if you were unfortunate to get an Intel video card, you can still download a utility to calculate the hex codes for the INF file, and finally manage to get that 1600 resolution Dell monitor you stole from your coworker working as a second monitor.
Even making SSIS (SQL Server) work in it is not bad, since Excel is 32 bit only. There are ways around all of it I have found, and having a lot of RAM really !!! really helps the speed of the computer. Samsung will show you in its You Tube videos how slow hard drives really are. They loaded all of Office from scratch in 1/2 a second with about 2 gigabytes per second load speed. RAM = cache = speed. Definitely worth it for me.
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I also have Vista/64. Also no big problems, but I don't have heaps of obscure hardware (more Vista problems than 64-bit problems).
However one should ask yourself why there is to gain by deviating. 3.25GB is nearly always enough.
It looks like Microsoft is going for a 32-bit Windows 7 as default OEM version, which means that the windows 7 cycle will be mostly 32-bit. (though probably some 64-bit will creep in the workstation market sooner or later).
I'm an exception, because I had special reasons, I wanted to validate certain 64-bit specific software. (a compiler)
So in short: despite the fact that Vista/64 will not really hurt, if you don't have really hard reasons, why take the risk?
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If you need more RAM, go 64 bit. 32 bit is still the standard, and the most widely supported, with many applications not even capable of supporting or taking advantage of 64-bits. If you don't want to run any risks of non-compatibility, go with the 32-bit option. If you really need the extra RAM or are going to be doing development for 64 bit Vista, then go for the 64-bit version.
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I cannot say which is better but I can say that both my work pc and laptop run vista 64 bit and I have had no problems with either one. So with that I don't see any reason why I would use the 32 over the 64.
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What are some of the great political betrayals of history? One certainly would be the federal government's betrayal of the ex-slaves of the South at the end of Reconstruction. After a dozen or so years trying to impose biracial democracy on the conquered South, the then-party of emancipation and civil rights, the Republicans, abandoned the freedmen to the tender mercies of Jim Crow for about a century. Then there was the shameful, though likely inevitable, abandonment of the fledgling electoral democracies of Eastern Europe. Those which were occupied by the Red Army -- Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, East Germany and others -- at the end of World War II had to endure about four decades of Stalinist tyranny.
Of course, now we have a much more recent example: the Bush White House's betrayal of the administration-obedient scribes who rushed forward in recent weeks to defend the White House's folly in North Asia.
After the *$#% started to hit the fan on the Korean Peninsula a horde of eager conservative columnists rushed forward to applaud the Bush administration's unmasking of North Korean villainy and Clintonian appeasement.
Finally, a tough-minded policy had been established! Moral clarity. Resolve. Grit in the face of evil. All that good stuff.
Yes, yes, yes, the road ahead may be a difficult one and the price to be paid may be high, they said. And there might have to be, if not a long twilight struggle, then at least a serious all-nighter with some dismally poor lighting. But the weak-willed policy of the Clintonites had been revealed for all to see, a vindication of the 'axis of evil' slogan and all the rest.
Only now these worthies, having walked so far out on the plank, have to hear that sawing sound at their rear, as the Bush White House hangs them out to dry.
For everyone who has eyes to see, the Bush administration is now awkwardly climbing down from its 'negotiation equals appeasement' approach of the last two years and hoping that our allies like South Korea and Japan and our sometimes-allies like China and Russia will help us get the North Koreans back to the negotiating table and reverse the deterioration which has occurred in the last several months.
Having defended the Bush White House by contrasting it with the vile appeasement of the Clinton administration, they now have to watch their guys crawl their way back to embracing the path the previous administration favored.
Hung out to dry, fellas.
Ouch ...
Folks who follow Asia policy are familiar with what's called the policy of 'strategic ambiguity'. That phrase refers to the United States' long-standing policy on the China-Taiwan controversy. What would we do if war broke out across the Taiwan Strait? Would we intervene? Not intervene? And under which circumstances? We deliberately keep the answer a bit vague and muddled because we'd like to keep both sides a bit off-balance and give both good reason not to step up to, or over, the line that would lead to war. It's hard to step right up to the line if you're not quite clear where the line is.
In Korea, the Bush administration now seems to be pursuing a policy of what we might call 'strategic ridiculousness': a policy involving the seemingly intentional pursuit of every amateurish and counter-productive gambit conceivable in each given situation. What shrewd purpose might stand behind this doctrine I'm not able to ascertain. But we can at least tease out its main components.
We've already discussed how the Bush administration solved the vexing problem of preventing the NKs from becoming a nuclear power by announcing that they already are a nuclear power and it's probably something we can live with.
And now there's more.
At the White House and among Republicans on Capitol Hill there is increasingly serious talk of pulling out the 37,000 troops which the US has garrisoned along the DMZ for about a half century. (Henry Hyde's International Relations Committee is apparently preparing hearings about a possible unilateral withdrawal of American troops.)
In other words, in order to take a tough line against North Korea's nuclear jawboning, the Bush White House is now prepared to accept North Korea as a nuclear power and contemplate the unilateral withdrawal of all American forces from the Korean Peninsula.
If that's the hardline approach, I'd hate to see what appeasement might look like.
And there's more.
Yesterday we said that we're now in the unenviable position of having to climb down from the consequences of our own boneheaded policies. The only thing I wasn't clear on was how quickly it would happen. Out of the box the administration word was: there's nothing to talk about until the NKs do what we say, period. That's a good line if you can stick to it. But they didn't. Ten days ago Colin Powell said we would not 'negotiate' with the NKs but we might possibly 'talk' with them. Today there was a late-breaking announcement that the administration will negotiate, but never compromise.
In other words, the administration is now in an embarrassing rearguard battle with itself over infantile word games and moronic or non-existent verbal distinctions. You almost expect Ari Fleischer to come out tomorrow, summon up his best Churchillian bluster, and say "For peace, we are prepared to be pathetic, but not pitiful!"
And there's more.
The next wrinkle in the story, or the next question, may be when exactly the Bush administration found out about the NK's uranium enrichment program. According to today's always invaluable Nelson Report, former Clinton administration officials are now prepared to testify before Congress that they got intelligence about the NK's clandestine uranium enrichment program back in 2000 and briefed the incoming Bush administration folks on that intelligence at the beginning of 2001.
If that's true, says Nelson ...
Democrats are prepared to ask what the Bush people did with this intelligence, all through 2001, and why negotiations with N. Korea weren't begun on this vital topic. Democrats, and perhaps more objective observers, note that, instead, it was only in October, 2002, after months of international pressure to Pyongyang, that the subject came up.
Administration sources have refused comment on what they were told by the Clinton folks two years ago, but they frankly admit, off the record, that the Kelly mission's use of the [uranium enrichment] intelligence on Oct. 3 was designed to continue the stalemate with N. Korea, not to start substantive negotiations on nuclear weapons.
Clearly, it never occurred to them that approach this would fuel the current crisis, with N. Korea seizing the opportunity to increase the "blackmail", rather than "surrender", as some Bush hardliners apparently predicted.
TPM on Crossfire tonight at around 7:30 PM EST talking about North Korea.
Washington has various mysteries.
Why is there an H Street, an I Street and a K Street, but no J Street?
How is it that DC can't hold on to a professional baseball team?
And, of course, how is it that Vice-President Dick Cheney manages to be responsible for pretty much every major goof-up that's happened on the Bush administration's watch and yet still maintain his rep as the shrewdest operator and surest hand in the administration? This one gets you into quantum mechanics and grand unified theory territory. (Cheney's role in the unfolding North Korea embarrassment is just the latest in a long list of screw-ups.)
In any case, I take a stab at solving the mystery in my new article in the Washington Monthly.
We're all accustomed to those many political debates over the last couple decades in which there was one conventional wisdom in Washington and another one altogether outside the beltway. We're now seeing a new twist on that paradigm in the mounting debate over the crisis on the Korean Peninsula.
On one side, you have most of Washington's chattering classes, an assortment of blowhards and yada-meisters, telling a story about Clintonian appeasement and the current administration's steely-eyed determination to deal with yet another run-amok rogue regime.
On the other side, you have most folks who follow politics and geo-politics in Asia, and especially in North Asia. You also have most politicians and diplomats from the region itself. They tell a rather different story: how the Bush administration blundered its way into this crisis by casting about for two years with loose threats it was in no real position to make good on. It is also a story about how the administration committed itself to what was effectively a policy of no negotiations rather than trying to toughen, and thus improve, the deals the Clinton administration had cut in 1994 and thereafter.
I've mentioned so many times before the Nelson Report. I'd like to quote the whole thing verbatim today. But the most interesting passage is that in which Nelson describes a dawning realization -- seemingly even within the administration -- that the administration committed a major strategic blunder in equating negotiations with appeasement. Now they're trying to find a face-saving way to get out of this jam by asking the Chinese, the Russians, the Japanese, the South Koreans -- just about anyone who has the North Koreans' phone number, it seems -- to let the North Koreans know that we'd really like to get back to the bargaining table if only they'd give us something to help us save a little face.
This is one of the many embarrassments of the situation we're now in. Usually it's the weaker party that needs to save face when backing down from some untenable position. But here we're the ones who need to save face.
What got us into this situation was our refusal -- a refusal based apparently on principle -- to talk with the North Koreans or to assuage their security concerns. And now we're looking for a face-saving way to get back to what we previously refused on principle to do. I've said it countless times now, but really, how on earth did we manage to get ourselves into a position like that? Who was watching the store? Who thought this policy through?
It's a serious embarrassment. And more important than that it's gotten us into a really dangerous situation.
Having said all this, let me direct you to what strikes me as the clearest and most concise statement yet on this topic. It's Fareed Zakaria's column on the North Korea crisis in the new issue of Newsweek. No one would accuse Zakaria of being either a partisan or a dove. And he captures a good bit of the problem in a very few words. The White House is long on moral clarity -- calling the North Korean regime evil and barbaric and so forth. But they simply don't have a policy for dealing with the problem. To the extent that they have a policy it has been one of tossing around loose threats that everyone knew, or should have known, we weren't in much of a position to follow through on. Now we're in a jam and we have to look for some face saving way to get back to something that looks a lot more like the Clinton policy than the one this administration has been pursuing for the last two years. Don't waste any more time on my summary. Just read Zakaria's piece.
If one thing is clear it is that we'd want to keep the Korean Peninsula calm while we're concentrating much of our military might in Arabia. (When the US military makes contingency plans for fighting two regional wars simultaneously -- a key point of US war-fighting doctrine through the 1990s -- one of the notional locales is usually in Arabia, the other in North Korea or Taiwan.) In order to keep things calm on the Korean Peninsula we'd want above all else to keep our relations with our primary ally, South Korea (ROK), as cordial and as tightly-coordinated as possible. Yet relations between the US and South Korea have been going down hill since March 2001. And in the last couple months they've been in free-fall. (For the first time ever, prominent South Korean politicians are openly questioning the US-ROK alliance.)
So how exactly did we find ourselves in a virtual crisis in our relations with South Korea at just the time we're in a very un-virtual crisis in our relations with the North? That's an especially good question considering that it was logical to assume that the NKs would act up at about the time we were getting ourselves pinned down in Iraq. Was this the plan? Or was someone not paying attention? And how exactly is the near-crisis in our relations with the South Koreans the fault of Bill Clinton?
The Washington Post seems willing to give the administration the benefit of the doubt on all this. But for those of us who aren't inclined to carry the administration's water, what are we supposed to think?
One point that's essential to understand about the current North Korea crisis is that while North Korea's leadership is dangerous, reckless and all-around-bad, the US did a lot to escalate this situation over the last two years through mix of bad policy, two policies, and no policy. As we note below, that might not have been quite so bad if the administration had any idea how to handle the situation once it reached a boil. Since they don't, it's pretty bad. Today's edition of the DLC's New Dem Daily gets at some of this point.
Here's one way to understand the current North Korea situation. A month ago the North Koreans were pursuing a clandestine uranium-enrichment program that everyone thinks was years away from making actual bombs. Now they're back online with a plutonium production program which will produce bombs in months.
Confronting an aggressor often leads to setbacks in the short-term. So for instance, after Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990, the US's refusal to negotiate with the Iraqis or accept the invasion as a fait accompli led the Iraqis to further entrench themselves in Kuwait. Had we cavilled with them perhaps they would have withdrawn from part of Kuwait as part of some deal. But we rightly refused to do that. Point being that confronting aggressors often leads to what can be characterized as short-term setbacks or escalated tensions.
In this case, however, we demonstrably don't have a plan. Because of that lack of a plan, the fact that the North Koreans are now months away from cranking out nuclear weapons really is a big national security set-back for the United States and its allies in the region. How and why exactly did the US let that happen? Now we're reduced to saying we're willing to accept what we were previously never willing to accept: a nuclear North Korea. Chris Nelson had it right last week. They caught the bad guy. But they botched the arrest. Big time.
Tough criticism? Yeah. But it's a bigtime screw-up. And in Northeast Asia it's been going on for two years. It's time for the Bush administration to take some responsibility and explain how we got here.
When you start hearing angry cries from the opposition you know you're beginning to draw some blood. That's been the case with TPM's recent postings on the Korea matter. One of the most amusing lines of argument I've seen is one attacking me or characterizing me as a foreign policy dove. Anyone who's even casually familiar with my writing on the Balkans, Afghanistan, Iraq, the Democratic party's continuing deficit on serious national security thinking, and in TPM generally would know this is false.
But the misapprehension raises a more important issue: criticizing the president's management of foreign and defense policy is almost automatically seen on the right -- and often on the left too -- as dovish.
Not so.
If it weren't so serious it would be hilarious the way you hear Asia hands describing the current situation. Yes, they say, talking to some administration appointee. Yes, you caught them cheating. But what are you going to do about it? What's your plan? And the reply comes back, but we caught them. Yes, you caught them. You caught them with the uranium program and now they've put the far more serious plutonium program back up and running. What do we ... But we caught them!!! This one goes to eleven!
You get the idea. More on this soon ...
The argument advanced by Glenn Kessler in today's Post and privately by a number of Korea experts is that the administration is treating it as a given that North Korea is already a nuclear power in part to reduce the urgency created by the NKs resumption of plutonium production.
Let's unpack this argument.
There are two distinct nuclear weapons program the NKs have. One based on plutonium, another based on enriching uranium. The plutonium program has been on ice since 1994 -- no one disputes this. The uranium program is up and running. But we don't know quite how long it's been going or how far along it is. The best information we have suggests that the NKs got the key uranium-enriching technology from the Pakistanis back around 1998. Precisely when they started or accelerated production is in dispute.
The key difference is that the NKs already have all the technical know-how and hardware they need to get weapons-grade plutonium. In fact, a lot of it has just been sitting there waiting to be processed. With plutonium they can be up and running in no time. With uranium, they're years away from mastering the process of enriching it, though they've got the key hardware and have started working on setting it up to use. As one nuclear weapons expert familiar with the Korean situation told me today, it's the difference between months (with plutonium) and years (with uranium).
This gets us back to the question of urgency and whether North Korea is already a nuclear power. What made the 1994 situation a crisis was that the NKs were about to proceed with serious production of plutonium. That was something we didn't feel we could allow -- for a variety of reasons. And that led to the 1994 Agreed Framework. Our standing position from then on was that resumption of plutonium production meant war.
Now we think -- though even this is in dispute -- that the NKs already had enough plutonium for perhaps two bombs back in 1994. We also think they probably knew how to make a bomb with plutonium. The question -- in terms of its usefulness -- was and is how big -- in literal physical size -- that bomb would be. If it's too big it's not effectively deliverable. And some of our best intelligence says that's still the case -- though we don't really know.
The key is that if North Korea is already a nuclear power, if they've already crossed the nuclear line, then it doesn't matter all the much whether they have two bombs or six or whether they fry up a few more. That's essentially what Powell said over the weekend. Back in 1994 we thought it was critical to stop the plutonium production process immediately because we took the position that we didn't know whether North Korea was yet a nuclear power. And we weren't willing to let them go any further. By declaring that North Korea is already a nuclear power the administration is basically arguing away the very issue of urgency the 1994 agreement was meant to address.
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Earlier today, Matt, Rachel and Ragan were together in the cabana room. When Matt and Rachel started to talk game, Ragan was about to leave the room, to "give them their time to talk". Rachel said something to the effect of "no, you can stay, cause you two are a partnership". Ragan got pissed and they both told Rachel they had no idea what she was talking about. Ragan really didn't appreciate it.
Immediately after the spat, Brendon confronted Ragan and said he heard "two people ganging up" on "his girlfriend". Ragan explained that Brendon wasn't privy to the conversation, so anything he has to say about it means nothing. Ragan began explaining what really happened:
Rachel was trying to out an alliance in the worst way--just casually saying "oh, you two are together, so it's ok if you stay"--as if Matt and Ragan would have just gone along with it. Naturally Ragan defended himself. When people were curious as to what the hell was going on, and Ragan was explaining what happened, Rachel immediately came around and told him "no one needs to know what happened." In what world, Rachel? Hello, it's Big Brother. It's a bunch of people in a house, with nothing else to do. ANYTHING that goes on is everyone else's business.
Rachel apologized soon thereafter, but her craziness already rubbed everyone the wrong way. As if she needed the help.
Before the in-house lockdown that everyone is under now, Rachel was laying in the have-not room, by herself. Matt decided to break the ice, and check on her, which opened the door for others to come join her. Brendon and Rachel are in the have-not room now, talking about dinner, she's claiming she doesn't want to eat.
Poor Rachel. Boo-effin'-hoo.
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GW's plant-based medicine approved for pharmacies
Sativex is a combination of plant-derived delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD). The ratio of THC to CBD in Sativex is 2.7 mg to 2.5 mg per spray, which ensures a standardized dose is delivered each time it is used. It's administered via a spray pump which places Sativex spray under the tongue or on the inside of the cheek.
"It's hard to explain to someone who has never felt this type of pain. It's like being plugged into an electric socket all the time," said Steve Walsh, who used Sativex in clinical trials and who suffers from MS. "At times, putting on clothes or anything touching me can be too much to take."
According to Dr. Allan Gordon, Director of the Wasser Pain Management Centre in Toronto, "Effective pain control and management are extremely important in a disease like MS. The approval of Sativex in Canada reflects the urgent need for additional treatment options in the field of neuropathic pain in MS."
Dr. Geoffery GuyDr. Geoffery GuyA happy Guy
Single molecule synthetics like Dronabinol, which is marketed as Marinol, have been found to be ineffective by many medical pot patients, who say they'd rather smoke cannabis than use Marinol pills.
Guy enthusiastically contacted Cannabis Culture to announce Canadian approval for Sativex.
Since then, he has grown more than 300,000 "numbered, registered plants," most of which have been selectively bred to produce unusually high percentages of one of many active ingredients in whole marijuana- cannabinoids- that Guy extracts for use in his pharmaceutical cannabis medicines.
Guy's plants are proprietary strains of cannabis originally procured from Dutch marijuana research company Hortapharm. Dr. Guy doesn't personally use marijuana, booze or coffee, but his company cultivates more marijuana than anyone else in the world.
These drugs are the results of medical research GW began in 1998. Almost single-handedly, GW's scientists and doctors have proven to skeptical scientists and regulators that marijuana's medical benefits- described derisively as "merely anecdotal" and "unproven" by drug warriors- are scientifically verifiable.
Guy's scientific team includes the world's top cannabis researchers, including Dr. Raphael Mechoulam and Dr. Roger Pertwee.
Bayer the bear?
In May, 2003 Guy sold marketing rights for Sativex to Bayer, a major German pharmaceutical company. Guy viewed Bayer's interest as proof that cannabis medicines had finally become legit.
Dr. Guy views Malmo-Levine's criticisms as "one-sided attacks" rather than "fair reporting."
GW is not alone in the race to develop cannabis medicines, but Guy says his company's use of organically-produced natural cannabis extracts is innovative, proprietary and medically efficacious.
Other companies, such as Solvay, create and market synthetic products like Marinol, a chemical THC analog, which has long been criticized because its synthetic "single cannabinoid" approach can produce negative side-effects while failing to relieve symptoms it is prescribed for. Guy says Sativex has side effects that are very minor and easily controlled with proper dosing and medical supervision.
"It may be hard for some advocates to believe, but there are millions of people who are quite satisfied with the way their consciousness works, but who want safe, symptomatic relief from a medical condition so they can get on with their life by working, taking care of their children, and being productive members of society," Guy says. "They aren't looking to get ?stoned,' quite the opposite. Our products will extend the reach of cannabis to people who would never have been comfortable smoking a joint, bong or vaporizer."
To further the goals of people who want to medicate without getting high, Guy's research team developed precise cannabinoid combinations and dosage methods that allow patients to self-medicate with precise control and with zero risk of harming their lungs.
In order to meet the needs of patients who want cannabinoid medical benefits but don't want to be stoned, the company's research has uncovered the inner workings of the subjective feeling of being "high," and how this feeling is related to medical effects and unwanted side-effects.
Guy says patients are advised to use small amounts of medicine so blood levels of cannabinoids build slowly. Patients seek relief from pain, muscle spasms and other symptoms, but they do not want to be "high," he says.
During clinical testing, some patients experienced panic when they perceived that they had become "intoxicated." Other unwanted effects included dizziness, dry mouth, and increased heart rate. Most of these problems are solved when patients self-adjust dosage, or when GW provides gentler formulations or regimens.
"The incidence of side-effects is very minor; cannabis has lived up to its reputation of being one of the safest drugs humans can use," Guy says. "We have seen our cannabis medicines provide better relief than traditional medicines that are far more dangerous for patients than cannabis ever could be."
Safety is a key factor in GW's research and product development, and this has led the company to develop a way to administer cannabinoids without relying on the combustion of cannabis.
Guy says his company's system of sprays, inhalers, and vaporizers will take harm reduction and cannabis delivery to new levels.
"People currently believe that using one of the many models of vaporizer that are on the market will provide them with fully-utilized, totally-clean cannabis vapors, but this is not true," Guy says. "Cannabinoids cannot be properly vaporized using the kinds of heat sources and chambers that we see on the market right now. There is still some burning of plant material taking place, people are still inhaling carcinogens, and there are irregularities in the quality and design of these vaporizers that prevents people from getting what they think they are getting."
"If we create the vaporizer we envision, patients will dial in the exact relief they want, push a button, and get a controlled dose that will provide safe, effective relief for a variety of conditions," Guy promises. "There will be no smoke. Patients will get 98% volatilization of the cannabinoids they need in doses just high enough to achieve the medical effects they seek."
Big bad GW?
When the deal uniting Bayer and GW was announced, GW's critics jumped all over it, alleging that Bayer is an evil company and that GW's embrace of Bayer indicated bad intent.
David Malmo-Levine said: "Bayer is arguably the worst corporation on earth. They are the inventors and propagators of Aspirin, Heroin, Mustard Gas, forced labor, the Nazi party, Zyklon B, death labor, Tabun and Sarin nerve gas, parathion, Codex, Cipro, Baycol, Baygon, Fenthion, Baysiston, TDI Olaqunidox, PPA's, PCB's and other such wonders. Bayer has the worst ethical track record of any company this author knows of."
Dr. Ethan Russo, a long-time cannabis researcher who now works for GW, says Malmo-Levine "seems to be against the entire system of intellectual property, corporations, scientific research, medical progress, and patents."
"In almost every area of human endeavor, from journalism to medicine to the music industry, individuals and corporations create unique ideas and products and then seek to protect their work through copyrights and patents," Russo explains. "Even if marijuana was totally legal, most people would not conduct the kind of scientific research that GW is conducting. This research uses cannabinoids to extend lives, cure diseases, and relieve disease symptoms. GW has helped legitimize cannabis medicines, and the company has a right to protect its discoveries and its investments."
What about Malmo-Levine's charges that Bayer worked with Hitler's government and continues to be an unethical company?
"We will indeed be taking out ?plant variety rights' on a number of strains that we developed as part of our R&D program. These rights prevent other parties using our specific strains to produce plant extracts without our permission. GW has only sought patent protection for strains we created; there are plenty of other varieties for people to use, they just can't use strains we developed," Guy said. "If people get into trouble for growing cannabis plants, it will be from the police for breaking the law, not from us. If somebody stole our genetic material or our products, that would be breaking the law, but our patents and commercial interests in no way further the drug war."
Dr. Geoffery GuyGreen gold rush
Whether or not Guy's intentions, patents and business interests pose imminent monopolistic or plant patent threat to cannabis users and growers in general, there's evidence that GW is only one of many companies seeking to cash in on the cannabis "gold rush."
When asked about rumors that GW and Bayer were also wooing Canadian licensed medpot patients, Guy and other GW spokespersons acknowledged that his company had contacted "numerous federal exemptees" who "expressed interest in utilizing Sativex as soon as it would be legally available."
Recreational marijuana smoking became very popular in Western countries beginning in the 1960's. Medical marijuana has been increasing in popularity since the 1980's.
From the 1960's until the mid-1990's, the only source for marijuana was Dutch cannabis coffeeshops, and the black market, comprised of smuggling cartels, clandestine dealers, commercial growers, and home growers.
In a reverse echo of Malmo-Levine's allegation that GW benefits from prohibition, most marijuana industry insiders admit that prohibition benefits black market growers and dealers because prohibition is the artificial price support that makes marijuana so profitable for them. If it wasn't for prohibition, a lot of people would have trouble growing $400 an ounce pot to help pay their mortgages.
The cannabis black market, cultivators, and Dutch coffeeshops could accurately be described as a "monopoly" that has until now controlled the supply and price of marijuana. But now, that underground monopoly has competition. The Dutch government is trying to close cannabis coffeeshops while at the same time growing its own medical marijuana and supplying it to pharmacies. The scheme appears to have failed, because the Dutch government's cannabis is lower quality and higher priced than coffeeshop cannabis.
GW Pharmaceuticals and other companies grow marijuana and market its active ingredients to patients. Individuals, compassion clubs and consortiums are trying to cash in on Health Canada medical marijuana licenses by getting licensed patients to grow and sell large amounts of cannabis, and by selling cannabis to licensed patients who can't grow their own. More and more compassion clubs are opening; retailers like Bud Buddy and Jay's Joints are selling marijuana on the Internet.
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0.020675 | <urn:uuid:51618938-1a9b-4a4f-aa2f-2017f892a67f> | en | 0.931374 | Bloomberg Billionaires is a visualization of the world’s richest people.
Each ridiculously powerful person is presented as a charming illustrated head.
As you select various parameters (like sex or source of wealth) the heads rearrange kind of like musical chairs.
It cuts the intimidation factor of all this information.
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… is always just a click or mouseover away.
You can even build big graphs--out of heads!
Infographic: The Richest People In The World
"Bloomberg Billionaires" explores not only the richest people in the world, but where all their money comes from.
That’s just one of many factoids I learned while exploring "Bloomberg Billionaires," the latest interactive infographic by the Bloomberg Visual Data team, headed by Lisa Strausfeld. Whereas we’ve all perused a "world’s richest" list now and again, this fun visualization allows you to power-sort the origins of each billionaire’s wealth, without ever losing the quirky humanity behind our titans of industry.
"A key part of the experience is getting to know the individual billionaires, so we knew we wanted to feature portraits of some kind," Strausfeld tells Co.Design. "We considered sending a photographer around the world, but were just as happy with our choice to hire an illustrator, Lina Chen."
The illustrations do a lot to ground the graphic’s tone, turning each billionaire into a cast member of Guess Who? Even as you set complex parameters to explore the list—maybe sorting who is over 50, female, and made their wealth through finance (Abby Johnson, by the way)—the interface responds by playing a game of musical chairs with all these portraits, juggling heads and adding an element of whimsy to the results. (To take things a step further, you can even line the heads up in various graphs.) So through UX alone, an esoteric business tool becomes an informative game that anyone can play.
It also leads me to another realization: Go ahead and sort through the billionaires across industries. Which category has the most faces you recognize without the names? I’m betting it’s technology (Zuckerberg, Page, Brin, Bezos, and Gates—Bezos, Ballmer, and Ellison for the geekiest amongst us). Because of all the ways to become a billionaire in our era, technology is by far the most pop-culture-relevant one. Kids these days—no respect for mining.
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• Rothschild
You say ridiculously powerful. But is just money.
Their power is because you associate the two, instead of calling them "The people with the most responsibility in the world"
But anyway your list is wrong, so very, very wrong. These people are minnows.
• Al
That's really good.
A few improvements: the browser back button should go back within the graphic (e.g. from people profiles back to the explore view, using something like jquery-bbq), the change charts in rank should really have a central axis to show positive and negative change going left and right rather than relying on colour coding, and a facet-style multi-select or checkbox for the filters would be better so you can select more than one at a time (particularly age ranges), plus, a hierarchy in Citizenship - the long list of countries is a bit overwhelming, it'd be nice if you could choose 'European' or 'Asian' or 'North American' etc etc then dig down from there. It'd also be nice to plot against age.
Wasn't expecting there to be literally no women in the top 100 who's wealth wasn't inherited. Also interesting that all the people with wealth from manufacturing inherited it from an earlier generation...
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Where do saguaros grow?
How do saguaros grow?
These tiny, young saguaros are very hard to find as they grow under the protection of a “nurse tree”, most often a palo verde, ironwood or mesquite tree. As the saguaro continues to grow, its much older nurse tree may die. Some scientists believe that competition from the saguaro may lead to the death of the nurse tree by taking water and nutrients from the soil in the immediate area.
As a saguaro begins to age, growth rates vary depending on climate, precipitation and location. We do know that the period of greatest growth in a saguaro cactus is from unbranched to branched adult.
Here at Saguaro National Park, branches normally begin to appear when a saguaro reaches 50 to 70 years of age. In areas of lower precipitation, it may take up to 100 years before arms appear.
Why are saguaros pleated?
To accommodate this potentially large influx of water, the pleats expand like an accordion. Conversely, when the desert is dry, the saguaro uses its stored water and the pleats contract.
Because the majority of a saguaro is made up of water, an adult plant may weigh 6 tons or more. This tremendous weight is supported by a circular skeleton of inter-connected, woody ribs. The number of ribs inside the plant correspond to the number of pleats on the outside of the plant. As the saguaro grows, the ribs will occasionally fork and the corresponding pleat will also fork at the same place.
Why are some saguaros crested?
Even when saguaro cacti grow in their normal form, they rarely grow symmetrically. Saguaros sometimes grow in odd or mis-shapen forms. The growing tip occasionally produces a fanlike form which is referred to as crested or cristate. Though these crested saguaros are somewhat rare, over 25 live within the boundaries of the park. Biologists disagree as to why some saguaros grow in this unusual form. Some speculate that it is a genetic mutation. Others say it is the result of a lightning strike or freeze damage. At this point we simply do not know what causes this rare, crested form.
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1. Thankfully, you can turn off the VGS display completely and never see it again. Manabu Akita's system is a clever one, certainly, but did the developers really need to find the most annoying place on the race screen for it to live in? I don't think so. Rant over.
2. Rather than the car being the star, Enthusia puts the driving first -- it's a shame that the rest of the game can't quite keep up.
3. A quite decent and demanding racer.
4. The simple fact is Enthusia is simply a simulation of life, but has little life itself.
5. The true disaster here is the likelihood that nobody will really play Enthusia. "Gran Turismo 4's" massive popularity is destined to overshadow it even though both games rank at the top of the genre.
6. Built for those who want a bit more 'pick up and play' in their racing simulations, and it does that fairly well.
7. While it’s an excellent entry in the crowded racing genre, your overall enjoyment of Enthusia Professional Racing is dependent on a number of things: patience, persistence, and practice being the three most pressing.
9. While the game's touchy driving model and overly complex career mode won't appeal to everyone, Enthusia is a worthy game for those looking for something different in the four-wheel genre.
10. It does one thing well and that is teach you a new way to take turns and drive.
11. 72
If the driving had been left alone with just a focus on racing the different courses and scrapped the calendar and the Enthu Points this would have been an easier title to digest. With a fully analog control scheme it could've even been quite good.
12. While the customization is very limited, there is still a plethora of cars to select from, each with their own specific feel.
13. Konami’s handful of ideas to make driving sims better (VGS displays, Enthusia Life mode, etc.) are worth sampling despite a handful of odd decisions by the programmers (losing Enthu points to a rear end crasher??!!).
14. As it stands now, it’s really a game for the most serious driving enthusiast.
15. It's a solid racer, sure, but in the world of killer sims and arcade racers alike, solid just isn't enough these days. Hopefully the follow-up will iron out the rough spots, because if they can, Konami has a really good racer on their hands.
16. Most gamers don't want to play something out of a driver's-ed simulator, which is what Enthusia plays like.
17. 80
The most obvious problem is that the system is far too forgiving of dragging a wheel or two off-track. Do that in real life, and you'll easily lose control almost instantly. In Enthusia, you'll barely even feel the car pull in that direction.
18. 70
For all it does with innovations in HUD, career mode, and vehicle unlocking, multiplayer is a bit underwhelming.
19. 60
A good-looking, challenging game with a nice collection of cars to win and race. You'll also get the steep learning curve that some gamers thrive on.
20. We’d love to see a sequel with a beefed up handling engine, some damage models and online play, but as it stands, Enthusia is only recommendable to the more hardcore Japophiles with a penchant for motoring action.
21. One of the least user-friendly gaming experiences I've had in a long time.
22. Is Enthusia the Gran Turismo killer? Nah, but it is a nice standby for those who want something more after playing it, or are just sick of the GT series and want something fresh.
24. 8 / 7 / 7 / 7 - 29 [Vol 849]
25. Personally I find it annoying that I lose points when my opponents hit me and not the other way around, but I still like the idea.
26. Without the hulking form of GT4 on the shelves next to it, Enthusia Professional Racing would be a worthwhile purchase. Unfortunately however, it falls short of the behemoth in almost every aspect, leaving you with little choice but to dismiss it as a capable but ultimately second-best title.
27. 60
Though the many tracks on offer (which amusingly take inspiration both from reality as well as other racing games), varying weather conditions and racing styles (including rallying, desert-crossing and touge racing) offer a lot of variety, the Enthusia Life format itself proves to be a little too simple and short, as reaching higher ranks does not involve as long a road as possibly it ought to. [JPN Import]
28. It simply doesn't really do anywhere near enough to unseat Polyphony's great monolith of a game. In some ways it's a whole lot more accessible (if you can be bothered to wade through the somewhat daunting layers of formulae that get you up the pecking order), but in others it lets itself down with appalling presentation, rank front end, awful music, and visuals which while perfectly serviceable won't have you gawping in awe if you saw it on a nearby demo pod.
29. Yes, there’s a good sense of speed, but the dreariness of racing against brainless AI opponents who combine little awareness of their surroundings with a remarkably lethargic and lifeless approach to a supposedly exciting activity soon has that counterbalanced. [May 2005, p.85]
30. A solid, enjoyable driving game with great graphics. The controls are good and the RPG-ish level system makes the experience feel fresh. [July 05]
31. A very nice alternative to "GT4." Though its physics engine provides a proper challenge, the game itself is simpler and easier to pick up and make make progress. If you haven't got time for "GT4," play this instead. [May 2005, p.40]
32. The concentration required to go six or so laps without hitting walls or A.I. cars is incredible but also really rewarding. [June 2005, p.100]
33. This isn't a game for the faint of heart or the heavy of foot. [June 2005, p.129]
34. The sound is unremarkable. You’ve got your engine sounds, your squealing tires, and other sound effects that all sound like you’ve heard them before.
35. Even hardcore racers will find Enthusia's default difficulty setting is soul-crushingly hard, with absurdly demanding physics and cars that feel heavier than battleships, yet spin out at the slightest provocation. [June 2005, p.76]
36. Bad weather conditions are unnecessary for Enthusia. The controls are either stiff and awkward, or overly slippery.
37. Sadly for Konami, Enthusia is here, slightly queer, and we just can't get used to it.
38. 65
But can someone please explain why we lose Enthu points when aggressive opponents tag us in the ass-end? Only a cloven-hoofed Enron accountant would think this was OK.
39. I honestly believe that it will have a tough time stealing track hours from GT4 and Forza on most gamers' consoles.
40. The ideas are well thought out, but implemented poorly, and nothing can excuse the total lack of speed in a racing game.
41. With the VGS system, the demerits and the odds, you are forced into a style of racing that is neither sim nor arcade. It's a hybrid that is more challenging than fun, though some might want the word "challenging" changed to "frustrating."
42. Brilliant career mode. [July 2005, p.85]
43. With its first game, Konami’s franchise-hope doesn’t quite match up to the game it is trying to challenge, "Gran Turismo 4." Still, the more realistic driving model and extremely well balanced challenge level bodes well for the sequel. [May 2005, p.68]
User Score
Generally favorable reviews- based on 16 Ratings
User score distribution:
1. Positive: 7 out of 8
2. Mixed: 0 out of 8
3. Negative: 1 out of 8
1. JamesE.
Jan 1, 2006
Amazingly addictive and stunningly fresh, this game is easily as good as every Gran Turismo, if not better. Unfortunately, this game is Amazingly addictive and stunningly fresh, this game is easily as good as every Gran Turismo, if not better. Unfortunately, this game is destined for oblivion, as very few people who hear of it will bother to try it. And most of the people who DO try it will play it for five minutes, and being used to the controls of other racing sims, they will jump to the conclusion that this game is way too hard when it really isn't. It's too bad really, as this game could have had a future, if it weren't for Gran Turismo 4. As I play this game, I pray that Konami will make a sequel, but I am fairly sure that they won't. It's a shame. Full Review »
2. LiamG.
Aug 17, 2005
Xxcellent game i have it!!!!
3. XERO
Jun 1, 2005
What a tremendous it just to see how bad it is....sorry it's back to GT4 and MC3. | http://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-2/enthusia-professional-racing/critic-reviews?sort-by=most-clicked&dist=neutral&num_items=100 | dclm-gs1-281310001 | false | false | {
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0.024404 | <urn:uuid:a894f367-a302-4382-9c2b-da5ad132d993> | en | 0.945658 | PRINCETON, N.J.— Perhaps the only unchallenged result of the Florida election has been a surge of interest in better voting technology. The punch card, introduced for tabulating the 1890 census as the ultimate in electric-age objectivity, is now revealed as an ambiguous lattice of wavering flaps. Former Presidents Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford agreed last week to serve as honorary chairmen of a National Commission on Federal Election Reform. Senators Charles Schumer and Sam Brownback have proposed spending $2.5 billion for equipment upgrades over five years in matching grants to states and localities. Senators Mitch McConnell and Robert G. Torricelli are sponsoring legislation to provide $500 million in federal matching grants in one year, and $100 million in each subsequent year, indefinitely.
Senators McConnell and Torricelli also helped arrange a trade show last week displaying the latest in voting technology. Today's cutting-edge machines are ''direct recording electronic'' devices that register votes without the need for punching cards or making pencil marks. Some resemble slimmed-down mechanical voting machines with levers to flip; others have touch screens inspired by the latest A.T.M.'s. The new equipment is user-friendly. But is it fail-safe?
Paperless electronic systems may virtually eliminate voter error, but they also multiply possibilities for tampering. Whatever may be said against gears and bearings, if they are rigged, experienced mechanics will be able to tell. Even security experts with access to source codes might overlook a few lines of rogue programming inserted by a single mole -- lines that could shift votes without setting off an alarm. A.T.M.'s can address similar risks with an audit trail that makes it possible to verify every transaction. Such records in electronic voting devices would obviously violate the secrecy of the ballot.
Many independent voting security specialists doubt that any electronic system can be both secure and anonymous. Internet voting compounds the risks. Stealth programs can be planted in servers and personal computers, and the online transmission of voting data can be intercepted.
Among computer professionals, I have found a surprising nostalgia for the vanishing mechanical booths, with their tidy X's and gloriously theatrical curtains. Those in the business are all too familiar with the ways electronic systems can malfunction. And the ability to throw open a box and understand how something works, in all its three-dimensional solidity and precision, intrigues them.
Today's software, usually written by teams under intense deadline pressure, can rarely match the comforting rigor and predictability of classic machinery. Because software is so vulnerable to surreptitious modification, who could build an electronic voting system impervious to tampering? Even Microsoft had some of its precious source code stolen just last year.
So what can be usable, secure and anonymous? Paradoxically, it is the paper ballot. Not the folded sheet stuffed in a box, but a laser-printed ballot that would let each voter review all choices before exiting the polls. Because the machine would mark ballots uniformly and refuse to accept common errors, voters would be confident that their intentions would register. Such paper ballots could be machine-counted with high accuracy and would remain available for auditing. This hybrid system would not be cheap. It would not be flashy. But it would work. | http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/05/opinion/the-perils-of-high-tech-voting.html?src=pm | dclm-gs1-281430001 | false | false | {
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12/03/2012 at 21:43
Got to admit a show Lab's are massive and a working Lab's are slim jims.
12/03/2012 at 21:49
We see a lot of very traditional chunky working labs. There are a couple of very well known breeders who we eye test for & there are some cracking labs around. They tend only to sell to working homes rather than pets or show. Though a lot of them do field trials.
12/03/2012 at 23:41
The chocolate lab is fashionable round here seems every other dog is one
Edited: 12/03/2012 at 23:43
12/03/2012 at 23:58
goldbeetle wrote (see)
Working Cocker = field spaniel
No it doesn't .
Re. police dogs - some of those working strain malinois (the shorter haired belgian shepherds) they use as police dogs are pretty full on. Fantastic dogs in many ways but a full time job to have one as a pet I'd have thought. There are still plenty of good german shepherds though and by all accounts a little less highly strung than your average malinois.
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13/03/2012 at 12:01
Agreed, Popsider - we have some Polizei dog handler members (in fact our head trainer is one) in the GSD club I belong to and they almost all have a Malinois or a Hollander Herder. You are dead right about them being full on, they make terrific police dogs but not great family pets.
16/03/2012 at 12:44
17/03/2012 at 00:36
do jack russels make good running dogs ? got offerd one free last week but said no in the end wasnt to sure about the vet bills and all that
17/03/2012 at 00:46
It's a bit like Miss World really. But not watched it for a while (Crufts not Miss World) although there are dogs on both!
I like dogs BTW (canine kind not rough ladies!)
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0.020525 | <urn:uuid:b55b9ca2-5da4-488e-8e95-6a052bc913ce> | en | 0.979777 | If there were a phrase with which one could describe “Khilona”, the most apt would be “a glorious victory for the underdog”. The protagonists, essayed by Sanjeev Kumar, Mumtaz and Shatrughhan Sinha, gave the three actors a chance to showcase their ample calibre and histrionic depth like never before. Thus, Sanjeev Kumar, a stage artist, who, despite being one of the most powerful actors to have graced Indian — and not just Hindi — cinema, had to wait for more than a decade to make his mark in “Khilona”. As a jinxed poet who loses his mental balance on seeing his beloved fall to her death after being married fraudulently to another man, he is splendid.
He effortlessly portrays the role of Vijaykamal, the younger scion of a rich Thakur family. The man displays remarkable restraint; a role in which a lesser actor could have easily gone overboard or been reduced to a caricature. Sadly, despite being such a fine actor, and having tasted commercial success, he could never become ‘star’, though he remains in the league of masters like Kamal Hassan, Om Puri and Naseeruddin Shah.
Equally riveting is the performance of Mumtaz, who had risen from the ranks to make a mark in “Do Raaste” just a year before “Khilona” was released. The pivotal role of a khilona, won her the Filmfare Best Actress Award. As Chand, a dancing girl in a brothel, she gets under the skin of the character. Unfortunately, her pairing with Sanjeev Kumar got overshadowed by the stupendous success she garnered with Rajesh Khanna, although the two complement each other quite well.
The story of the film picks up when Chand is approached by Vijaykamal’s father, Thakur Suraj Singh (Bipin Gupta) to tie the knot with his mentally unstable son, in a bid to get him cured. In this endeavour he acts against the wishes of his wife (Durga Khote) and elder son, Kishore (Ramesh Deo), who is keen to have his younger brother sent to a mental asylum. However, on the day the wedding is planned, Vijaykamal slips into a violent rage, is controlled by his family with great difficulty and locked in his room.
This induces pathos in Chand’s heart, who comes to know the reason behind the state of Vijaykamal’s health from the family servant. She also learns that the villain is none other than Bihari (Shatrughan Sinha — showing glimpses of the characteristics that were to become his trademark in later years, though as a gawky newcomer, his acting in a negative role is average). Bihari visits her regularly at the brothel and openly aspires for her. Determined, she begins her ‘act’ in right earnest and her efforts begin to have an impact on Vijaykamal. However, in a fit of madness Vijaykamal sexually assaults Chand who is still unwavering in her resolve to save the family honour by preventing Radha (Vijaykamal’s sister) from eloping with Bihari, who has entangled her in a web of dreams. She also becomes the woman with whom Vijaykamal’s younger brother, Mohan (a handsome and lean Jeetendra in an important cameo) falls in love, and even expresses his feelings. But he withdraws on being told by Chand that she is pregnant with Vijaykamal’s child.
In her effort to save Radha from falling into Bihari’s trap, Chand is cornered by an incensed Bihari, prompting Vijaykamal to intervene. During the unseemly brawl, Bihari falls to his death in almost the same way as Sapna (Vijaykamal’s first love). A shocked Vijaykamal regains his sanity, but fails to recognise Chand or acknowledge the sacrifices made by her.
From here the narrative moves through a family drama till everything falls in place, with Chand’s honour being restored, as it comes forth that she was actually born in a ‘good’ family but was whisked away by a tawaif who raised her as her own daughter.
The film had first-rate music, with some blockbuster songs, including “Sanam Tu Bewafa ke naam se”, sung by Lata Mangeshkar, and the two Rafi numbers, “Khush Rahe Tu Sada” and “Khilona Jaankar Tum”. These reinforced Rafi’s position, when his stint at the pinnacle was seriously challenged by Kishore Kumar who had become the voice of Dev Anand, and subsequently of Rajesh Khanna. Lyrics by Anand Bakshi, set to music by Laxmikant-Pyarelal, gave the film, which won the Filmfare Best Film Award for producer L.V. Prasad, a definite edge at the box-office.
Story and screenplay by Gulshan Nanda and direction by Chander Vohra are commendable, although, at times, acting by the otherwise excellent support cast seems theatrical.
Another sore point is the comedy track, in the form of Jagdeep, which gets tedious to watch. Had a few precious minutes been cut from the film by Shivaji Awdhut, the editor, the film could have been more taut. Same is the case with the dialogues, penned by Aghajani Kashmiri, which might seem clichéd to the present generation of cinegoers.
Khilona (1970)
Genre: Family drama
Director: Chander Vohra. Not a prolific director, Vohra went on to make two more family dramas: “Udhar Ka Sindoor” and “Mera Ghar Mere Bachche”
Cast: Sanjeev Kumar, Mumtaz, Shatrughan Sinha, Durga Khote, Bipin Gupta
Box office status: In a year dominated by Dev Anand’s crime caper “Johny Mera Naam” and Rajesh Khanna, who had as many as five releases in 1970, “Khilona” was rated as a hit.
Lasting value: The cloying melodrama is brought alive by the performance of Mumtaz and Sanjeev Kumar.
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0.210272 | <urn:uuid:0a6308ad-739c-4f68-977e-218bad164d08> | en | 0.958704 | Just wondering if anyone else out there feels the same as me? With all the hype the past several years about killing the "biggest" buck around, does anyone remember what deer hunting used to be. Used to be family and/or friends getting together to spend some time in the woods relaxing, trying put some food in the freezer, tracking, reading sign, hunting with any legal weapon allowed for that season, and passing on a love of the outdoors to the next generation. Both old and young had a respect for the land and most importantly, respect for each other as Gods children. Has that been lost forever? We now have trail cameras, GPS, food plots, almost no public hunting land compared to times past, we don't talk to strangers in the woods or the check station cause they might get our spot, we take someone else's spot cause we are to lazy to find our own, we teach the next generation that the size of the horns are more important than the experience or putting food in the freezer, we say someone is cheating if they use a new type of weapon, we forget that not everyone has the money or land to build the dream spot, and down someone for taking a spike for the freezer instead of letting it walk to grow up. Now don't get me wrong, but my heart just about jumps out of my chest when a nice buck comes thru, but I also get the same feeling when a yearling walks by. When I no longer feel the same no matter what comes by then I will be done. So I ask that if you have taken the time to read this, try to understand my point. Take some of your time to pass on the true meaning of hunting without all the gadgets, money , and the size of the horns matter attitude to so that the next generation will grow up knowing that the outdoors is a wonderful place, a place to learn and not just a place to get a good pic for facebook. | http://www.tndeer.com/tndeertalk/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showthreaded&Number=3258567&an=&page=5 | dclm-gs1-281720001 | false | false | {
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0.188234 | <urn:uuid:bd42b6f0-fb7c-4412-b147-a604cff47596> | en | 0.96498 | The Fleecing of American Servicemembers and Veterans
by Roland Wilsonflag
Over the past several decades, American Servicemembers, and especially Veterans have seen a growing trend in our government. That is, the government sends our men and women off to war, gives temporary enticing incentives and makes other empty promises to attract and keep them in the military; and then once they retire or discharge, these veterans are disposed of like useless pieces of antiquated military gear.
It wasn’t too long ago, that our government understood and truly tried to take care of our Servicemembers and Veterans. This makes perfect sense since up until the 1970-80’s, approximately 75% of the members of congress had served in the military, compared to around 20% today. Thus, they fully understood what military service, sacrifice, honor, commitment and integrity meant. Because of this, both Servicemembers and Veterans enjoyed many hard-earned and desperately needed benefits.
For example, they used to be able to buy fuel at base gas stations around the country for less than the cost outside of base. The government did not add taxes to the sale of fuel, which helped offset the cost of living for our Servicemembers and Veterans. Than one day, our government decided to pass the little known Hayden-Cartwright Act (4 USC, Section 104) to get rid of this benefit. This obscure federal law, which passed more than 60 years ago, requires on-base military gas stations to collect taxes on the gasoline they sell. Why? Was it due to pressure from lobbyist of gas station owners and petroleum companies around the country that wanted their share of the military and veterans market?
In the past, every man and women who was recruited into the military was promised free health and dental care for life, if they served and retired from military service. Than this promise was broken by stating, it was never really a promise. Soon after, retirees were kicked out of base dental and health clinics around the world as these same clinics and hospitals claimed due to closing bases, and government downsizing and cutbacks on medical and dental facilities including doctors, they did not have the money or personnel to care for veterans.
In response Congress, in their infinite wisdom and continued policy of give and take (more take than give), started the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the United States (CHAMPUS), which was a health care program for military retirees and their dependents, similar to MEDICARE. Then, due to costs, this was again changed to the Tricare Program, which is a three tier medical insurance program that, depending on the tier, requires increasing copayments and deductibles by its members.
Now, many in congress and unfortunately, even some military leaders are beginning to state that there are too many using this Tricare program and that the government can’t afford it, so we must adjust these benefits, raise premiums, and “cure the health care problem.” This is ironic since it was our government who recruited, promised and then sent these men and women off to war, while spending billions of dollars on these same wars and supporting foreign militaries and governments. Therefore, due to congress’s misappropriation of funds and poor leadership choices, these government officials are progressively abandoning our Servicemembers and Veterans, not all at once, just at a slow, steady and quiet pace.
Meanwhile these same government officials that are pushing “fiscal austerity” for some, enjoy very generous private health insurance and retirement programs and can go to military medical facilities for treatment. They can also retire with only five years of government service, and even become eligible for a retirement annuity at a younger age and with fewer years of service than even other federal government workers. These same members of congress also continue with their own pork barrel spending and other projects while having extremely generous office budgets ranging from $1.27 million to $1.546 million for house members, to $2.96 million to $4.65 million for senate members.
There is a recent call to close domestic base commissaries. Even though these commissaries not only provide needed food and other shopping benefits and support while making a profit, but also donate about 70% of the funds used for base moral, welfare and recreational programs (MWR). In addition, these same commissaries provide the vast majority of jobs to military dependents while their profits are used to build new stores or renovate existing facilities without expense to the federal government. Yet, some want to close these commissaries. Why? Is there possibly a correlation between government officials and outside big supermarkets and retail stores? Now, lawmakers are looking at potential savings through adjustments in the military pension system as a way to avoid deeper spending cuts.
It is recognized though that there have been some congressional supporters of our nation’s military Servicemembers and Veterans as was evident by the passing of the new GI Bill. However, like the original GI Bill of the past known as the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944, and the Vietnam Era GI Bill known as Chapter 34, no one knows when these new education benefits will start to be slowly taken away and then rescinded. What will happen next? Will there be additional cuts in pay, retirement and other benefits forcing Veterans to one day finally march on D.C. to demand what was promised them, similar to the Bonus Expeditionary Force in July 9132, only to be met with violent force, injury and eviction? Or will congress simply start to draft “some” into military service in order to save money and do as thy please without worrying about the consequences?
Our Servicemembers and Veterans certainly know what sacrifice hardship are, and continue to endure these things long after they serve. Servicemembers and Veterans also know that although they protect freedom and democracy, they can seldom take part in it. However, isn’t it time for congress to stop fleecing and abandoning the protectors of our nation, especially those that have already given so much? What happened to honor, trust and integrity in our government? One thing is obvious; Servicemembers and Veterans need to become an active and unified voting block.
About the Author:
Roland B. Wilson is a retired Marine who has coauthored several books and articles on Veterans’ issues. He is currently a Doctoral Candidate at the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University focusing on East Asian conflicts, peace and humanitarian issues while continuing to help his fellow Veterans.
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[Bug] Date parser doesn't recognise "8th Jan" when used with the "every" prefix
1) Create a new task with name 'foo' and due date 'every 8th jan'
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* "Invalid date" error shown.
* You have to instead use "every 8 jan" (ie without the "th")
* However using "8th jan" on its own (not reoccurring) works - guessing the regexp for the "every" prefix is just not handling the "th" case.
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A parent-country national is a person working in a country other than their country of origin. Such a person is also referred to as an expatriate. Long periods of assignment (perhaps 4 –5 years or more) may run the risk of “de facto” employee status in the host country, so that labor laws or the host country apply.
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1. The bona fide residence test, which requires the taxpayer to be a bona fide resident of a foreign country or countries for an uninterrupted period that includes a full tax year, or
2. The physical presence test, which requires the individual to be present in a foreign country or countries at least 330 full days during a period of 12 consecutive months.
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[muhl-cher] /ˈmʌl tʃər/
a person or thing that mulches.
a machine or device that cuts up grass, leaves, etc., for use as mulch.
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mulch + -er1 Unabridged
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• Additionally, they are purchasing a leaf loader and mulcher to expand community clean-up events.
• Turn your existing mower into a mulcher by purchasing a mulching kit available from your local power equipment dealer or retailer.
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tire chain
a chain fitting over the tire of a car, truck, or other vehicle, to increase traction and prevent skidding on roads covered with ice or snow.
Also called skid chain. Unabridged
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Let's kick off your week with some $900 pants from one of the most celebrated fashion houses in history because you probably spent your Independence Day weekend face down in some American flag Bud Heavies and burgers while rocking terrible shorts and flip flops and drunkenly Instagramming shitty fireworks. The point is, these silk-paneled cargos from Alexander McQueen are decidedly the jump off for your pre-fall alphets. You can definitely rock them in the next couple of months with some slip-on Vans and a white T-shirt for that non-chalant "Who me? Nah I don't care about fashion" fashion look that most girls appreciate. In general, not really caring about anything ever is pretty much the time-tested method for winning any girl's heart, but that's just some bonus advice for your Monday morning. | http://fourpins.com/style/monday-morning-bonus-advice/ | dclm-gs1-282510001 | false | false | {
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Every year since 1987, The University of Chicago has hosted a campuswide scavenger hunt called Scav that will validate to your speculation that smart college kids are always up to some awesomely weird insider shit. The event is on its last day and the clues this year are typically esoteric.
A full list of what the college kids are looking for can be found at this link, but here's a selection, along with allocated points:
• Produce an accurate tampon commercial. [6 points]
• The Skrillex bong. Create a water pipe that makes wub wub wubs instead of bubbling noises when used. (Only to be used with 100% legal wubbacco, or your team is disqualified, folks.) [8 points]
• Model a Canadian Tuxedo. No, not a jean jacket. A full denim tuxedo comprising jacket, pants, tie, cummerbund or vest, belt, and pocket square. [`Eh?'-teen points]
• Wake up, sheeple. If you think you can handle it, why don't you create an interactive journey on a quest through the friendzone with me, Fedora the Explorer. [6 points]
• Shove your fist into a fistulated cow. [25 points]
And the clue with the highest point yield?
• Bring us an Animusic-style instrument that plays itself. Once activated, it should perform, unaided, a composition of no less than 90 seconds. While your device may have electronic components, it must not produce electronic music. [175 points. 50 bonus points if the music is played by multiple distinct mechanisms that join in gradually as it proceeds]
In 1999, the enterprising Scav hunters built a nuclear reactor as one of the clues was "build a nuclear reactor." This year, the equivalent clue is to build a laser. Bonus points if it is edible. Sounds doable.
Here's a video of a guy making an action figure of "That Guy" in 2008.
Good luck, you weirdos.
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It's probably being new here, but I can't seem to filter unanswered questions by all of me "interested" tags at once. Instead I need to filter them tag by tag, one at a time.
Is there a better way?
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Unanswered -> my tags
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That only displays questions with no upvoted answers. – John Jan 4 '11 at 18:24
Good enough....thanks. – HDave Jan 4 '11 at 18:46
Is there any way to have these sorted by newest? As I've had this saved as my homepage for a few days to answer new questions each day but the same questions always show in the same (seemingly random order) – Tim Mar 10 '12 at 7:04
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on the firewall? blower is not running on any speed.
the transmission was in comfort setting I tried to shift it manually but couldn't after stopping and turning off and restarting car it worked fine what can it be
When I retract the hard top down all the windows work but the driver side back window does not retract.
warrantee states up to 7 years for certain emission related items
Once the button depressed, the truck and windows open but the top will not open and start it's travel to the trunk.
Sometimes the car does not feel right. While driving,(@ 35mph) and the gear is set in D, it downshifts directly to 3rd gear. I will stop, and restart the car, and the problem goes away. It downshifts from D to 6th g...
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Information Week has just published a three page Q&A interview with Google CEO, Eric Schmidt. The article focuses on Google's involvement in enterprise search marketplace but will also be of interest to all who watch Google closely. Here's a look at some of what was discussed including his answer to the question including his response to the question, "Is Google the Wal-Mart of the information economy?" Penenberg asked made this comparison a few weeks ago.
+ On Google's enterprise business:
"It turns out that one of the most bizarre things about this business is it's actually growing quite quickly and quite profitable, even after lowering the prices 40%."
+ Schmidt says that price and simplicity are two elements of Google's enterprise strategy. When asked why others haven't caught onto this he says:
I think we have some unfair advantages, if you will. We have scale effects. It's very, very difficult to build these things. There are hundreds of technical people who built this.
+ He says that specialized tools will always exist and Google should, "integrate with them in whatever way makes sense." He later says that:
There are legal search engines that understand the law at a semantic level that's required. There are health search engines that do the same thing. That's not something we're going to do. It's too specialized. It's too small a market.
+ On the Wal-Mart analogy.
InformationWeek: It's a loaded question.
Schmidt: Yes. We're certainly the low-cost, high-volume supplier in the distribution market. That allows us to do things the other people can't. So in that sense, I think the analogy is apt.
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Reality Check
1. You're not being unreasonable at all. I find that I can buy off the rack jeans, but other than that, no. And it doesn't matter how much or little things cost - they still are ill fitting!
2. I agree with Ann! Now, if only my husband *really* understood this, we'd be on to something. I save us thousands of dollars every year by making clothes.
3. I'm sure my clothing budget is a fraction of what it would be if I didn't sew.
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I am developing static library that takes screenshots, and taking them from OpenGL applications require special handling.
When client application links to my static library it have to add frameworks used by my library, for example to take OpenGL screenshots, even if client app is not using OpenGL it have to link with OpenGLES.framework which is bad. I am trying to check in the library if client have linked with OpenGLES.framework and dynamically enable taking screenshots from OpenGL.
The problem is I get compilation error when I try to use C functions like:
if(&glReadPixels != NULL) {
As you can see, I can check for method existence, but how do I invoke it to not cause linker error? When I compile client with my library I get this:
Undefined symbols for architecture i386:
"_glReadPixels", referenced from:
+[TakeScreenshotUtil takeOpenGLScreenshotWithContext:layerSize:] in libScr-iOS.a(TakeScreenshotUtil.o)
I am trying to use
__attribute__ ((weak))
but it doesn't work (doesn't change anything).
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Why is linking against OpenGLES.framework bad? – Richard J. Ross III May 21 '12 at 12:01
I don't want to force client apps to link with it if they do not use it. – Piotr Wach May 21 '12 at 12:44
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You can open app being executed and check if it links to OpenGL. First, recompile your app with -rdynamic (or whatever equivalent Apple's GCC understands). Then use the following code to find a function:
#import <dlfcn.h>
void (*_glReadPixels)(int, int, float, float, int, int, void *);
_glReadPixels = dlsym(NULL, "glReadPixels");
if (_glReadPixels != NULL) {
/* take screenshot */
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Thanks! Works great :) – Piotr Wach May 23 '12 at 9:38
Here is a link to a great set of code for screenshotting without using the OpenGL libraries. Even OpenGL views begin with a UIView, thus if you are doing Full Screen screenshots this should still work. http://www.icodeblog.com/2009/07/27/1188/
Also, If it is screenshots of portions of an OpenGL view that you are after, then I would suggest that you still use the code referenced above, and simply crop it down to what you need / want, else you could go down the path of getting a partial capture of the pixels within the OpenGL View. If you are doing this though, then the user of your API is already using OpenGL and thus most likely linking to the framework anyway.
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We use this method already, but it isn't that simple. Views that have embedded OpenGL content do not render correctly using it (I mean they do not render at all). Documentation says: "[...]Important The Mac OS X v10.5 implementation of this method does not support the entire Core Animation composition model. QCCompositionLayer, CAOpenGLLayer, and QTMovieLayer layers are not rendered.[...]" – Piotr Wach May 23 '12 at 8:37
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I want to build a Python function that calculates,
alt text
and would like to name my summation function Σ. In a similar fashion, would like to use Π for product, and so on. I was wondering if there was a way to name a python function in this fashion?
def Σ (..):
That is, does Python support unicode identifiers, and if so, could someone provide an example for it?
Original motivation for this was a piece of Clojure code I saw today that looks like,
(defn entropy [X]
where Σ is a macro defined as,
(defmacro Σ
... )
and I thought that was pretty cool.
BTW, to address a couple of comments about readability - with a lot of stats/ML code for instance, being able to compose operations with symbols would be really helpful. (Especially for really complex integrals et al)
φ(z) = ∫(N(x|0,1,1), -∞, z)
Phi(z) = integral(N(x|0,1,1), -inf, z)
or even just the lambda character for lambda()!
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Although not as cool, Python's summation function is pretty elegant: sum() – Nick Presta Apr 15 '10 at 23:04
agree. I meant more for other things here, like integrals, greek letters, et al. – viksit Apr 15 '10 at 23:22
Sounds like a horrible idea for ease of input (presumably $\sum$ wouldn't work, right?) – Benjamin Bannier Apr 15 '10 at 23:34
Maybe you want to have a look at Fortress which allows Unicode and TeX style notation. – unbeknown Apr 16 '10 at 8:09
“Sounds like a horrible idea for ease of input” — depends what keyboard shortcuts you’ve got, doesn’t it? Curly quotes, like the kind I used at the start of this comment, are a bit of a drag to type by default in Windows (I believe), but have decent shortcuts on the Mac. If you do a lot of mathy programming, you could configure shortcuts to make the typing easy. – Paul D. Waite Apr 16 '10 at 9:30
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(I think it’s pretty cool too, that might mean we’re geeks.)
You’re fine to do this with the code you have above in Python 3. (It works in my Python 3.1 interpreter at least.) See:
But in Python 2, identifiers can only be ASCII letters, numbers and underscores.
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… "letters" meaning here "ASCII letters". – EOL Jul 5 '14 at 4:23
According to is it bad, you can use some unicode characters, but not all: You are restricted to characters identified as letters.
α = 3
Σ = sum
import math
√ = math.sqrt
File "", line 1
√ = 3
SyntaxError: invalid character in identifier
Besides: I think it is very cool to be able to use unicode as identifiers - and I wish, i could use all.
I use the neo keyboard layout, which gives me greek and math symbols on extra layers:
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Also, there are often distinct versions of characters that are also Greek letters. For example, the Greek capital sigma is U+03A3, while the math sigma is U+1D6BA, U+1D6F4, U+1D72E, U+1D768, or U+1D7A2 depending on styling. Similarly, Greek capital omega is U+03A9, math omegas start at U+1D6C0, and the Ohms symbol is U+2126. – Mike DeSimone Jun 19 '14 at 12:23
Another nice way to enter most symbols is the compose key, e.g. on Windows via WinCompose – Tobias Kienzler Feb 23 at 13:03
Python 2.x does not support unicode identifiers, and consequently does not support Σ as an identifier. Python 3.x does support unicode identifiers, although many people will get cross if they have to edit source files with, for example, identifiers A and Α (latin A and greek capital alpha.) Sigma is often readable enough, but still, not as readable as the word sigma, so why bother?
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I think readability of words versus symbols depends on context. When I’m reading something mathy, I find symbols (e.g. x + y) more readable than the wordy equivalents you’d get in, say, AppleScript (e.g. add x to y). Symbols are terser, and generally let you get by on shape recognition alone, which I think is easier on the brain than reading. I don’t do enough mathy stuff to have felt the need to add a sigma sign to my code though. – Paul D. Waite Apr 15 '10 at 23:05
Sure, there are plenty of cases where symbols are more readable than words. Or where non-ASCII characters express things better. I was mostly commenting on the fact that an identifier consisting of a single sigma isn't really an improvement over the word 'sigma' :) – Thomas Wouters Apr 15 '10 at 23:10
That doesn't look any more readable with unicode identifiers to me. – Thomas Wouters Apr 15 '10 at 23:28
“That doesn't look any more readable with unicode identifiers to me.” — It does look more similar to the equation posted at the top of the question though. If someone was used to reading equations like that, mightn’t they find the symbol-y Python code more readable too? – Paul D. Waite Apr 16 '10 at 9:31
@Paul: sure, readability is always subjective. The audience is important. Which is why you need to consider the audience more than your own preferences. It's easy if you're always going to be your own entire audience, of course, but frequently things that start out that way end up in a wider distribution, and with a wider set of contributors. – Thomas Wouters Apr 16 '10 at 10:32
It's worth pointing out that Python 3 does support Unicode identifiers, but only allows letter or number like symbols (see http://docs.python.org/3.3/reference/lexical_analysis.html#identifiers for full details). That's why Σ works (remember that it's a Greek letter, not just a math symbol), but √ doesn't.
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In the best documentary films, artifice isn’t an obstacle to truth, it’s a way in
The great irony of so-called nonfiction cinema is that it is often more willfully deceptive, in its form if not its content, than fiction filmmaking. The skills required to sell the audience on a version of reality in both fiction and nonfiction filmmaking are all ultimately at the service of illusion and deceit, sleight of hand and the flick of a wand. As non-fiction techniques have come to dominate television programming since the late 90s, audiences have become as increasingly used to the time compression and sequence reordering. They’ve grown accustomed to editing cues that inform us of “winner” and “loser” narratives as Colson Whitehead recently put it. Yet by filming often underrepresented subjects in their natural habitats, by reenacting past events that are purported to have happened, the serious documentary filmmaker hasn’t necessarily moved any closer to truth than the reality TV carnival barker. In our second great irony, the documentaries that grasp literal truths and create emotional ones are those that are mindful and conscious of the lies they must tell us to do so.
The fissures between the truth and its aestheticization are a central theme in Dennis Lim and Rachael Rakes’ 55-film, two and a half week programme at Film Society of Lincoln Center, “Art of the Real.” Back for its second year, “Art of the Real” has provided a forum for some of the most enviably startling and thoughtful non-fiction programming the city of New York has seen in sometime. This is not a zone for easy truths; Lim and Rakes have constructed a sequences of films that test the limits of what nonfiction filmmaking can and is meant to do right in front of your eyes. In these documentaries, a form often likened to journalism is clearly an artistic medium.
Art of the Real numero deux opened on the second Friday in April with a shorts block of three movies, each of which ran approximately 30 minutes: João Pedro Rodrigues & João Rui Guerra da Mata’s rumination on the remnants of a long defunct Macao fireworks factory (Iec Long), Eduardo Williams’s vérité portrait of bored Vietnamese teenagers who turn to jumping between the windows and roofs of buildings for amusement (I Forgot), and Matt Porterfield’s unscripted narrative (Take What You Can Carry), about a young American woman in Berlin we find, according the the festival’s programme notes, “attempting to reconcile her need for a stable sense of self-identity with the fulfillment she derives from her itinerant lifestyle”.
In no other place can I think of would a curator deliberately choose to show these works together. One has the shape and look of fiction, one pays strict adherence to vérité documentary and another blends archival photos and footage, reconstructions centered on figurines, oral history, and glimpses of contemporary life in the fireworks trade (the sound of fireworks is around every hypnotic nook and cranny of Iec Long). Together they pose as representative of various strands of contemporary non-fiction. “Art of the Real” is full of such uncluttered pronouncements and provocations, many of which are short in form —for Lim, Rakes and the high brow audiences they court, the feature has no special closeness to the truth.
The centerpiece of the festival is a partial retrospective of the great genre-bending trailblazer Agnes Varda, whose remarkable work in documentary essay (The Gleaners and I) and naturalist fiction complicated by self-conscious documentary framing (Vagabond) butts up against a series of works that fall all over the surrounding spectrum (Black PanthersMur MursDaguerrotypes).
Perhaps even more revelatory than revisiting Varda’s essential oeuvre is Lim and Rakes’ sidebar “Repeat as Necessary: The Art of Reenactment” a strand that interrogates the various ways doc filmmakers have used seemingly narrative reenactments across a broad spectrum of documentary phenotypes. Reenactments have their detractors; in the wake of the Jinx craze, Richard Brody attacked reenactments en masse just three weeks ago in the New Yorker, claiming they “never work.” But he back-tracked a bit the following week when it came to the work of Elisabeth Subrin.
The Temple University professor and stalwart experimentalist’s program unfurled on Saturday afternoon. It led off with Shulie, a “recreation” of a 1967 documentary about the then-22-year-old Art Institute of Chicago student Shulemith Firestone. Shulie is a canonized classic of the post-New American Cinema era avant-garde film, but little known outside the hard cinephile circles. Three years after the original documentary was made Firestone, born Shulamith Bath Shmuel Ben Ari Feuerstein to Orthodox parents in Canada before spending her childhood in the American midwest, would pen The Dialectic of Sex, a foundational text of Second Wave Feminism and become one of the most revered, and misunderstood, of feminist writers.
Shulie screened in front of Lost Tribes and Promised Lands, a meditation on memory, national purpose, and gentrification in Subrin’s Williamburg neighborhood that powerfully juxtaposes flag-strewn edifices in the month following 9/11 side by side with their more contemporary, often gentrified incarnations. Sweet Ruin, which offers up Gaby Hoffman in gender-bending dual roles, playing shards of the characters Maria Schneider and Jack Nicholson were supposed to play in the never filmed Antonioni screenplay Technically Sweet, closed the troika.
The subject of Shulie, who died at 67 in 2012, is played by Kim Soss. She resembles Firestone superficially and recites, line for line, dialogue that is taken from the unreleased film made about Firestone by Chicago’s stalwart leftist documentarian outfit Kartempquin. The rough hewn, period-appropriate 16mm portrait of this young woman proves to be a potent meditation on the aesthetics and desires of the late ‘60s. Shulie is interviewed on camera, shown getting a bullshit critique from several male instructors, intermittently explores nature, and talks about bonding with professional negroes whose highest possible aspiration was a job at the post office. What the accumulation of these moments provides is nothing less than a glimpse into the flowering of a feminist sensibility as it intermingled with anti-war sentiment and Civil Rights agitation. The nature of reality’s spell in Subrin’s hands is pitched at an angle where we can glimpse the artifice (during one anti-Vietnam rally in the film, the viewer can see modern cars, and a young black child in a black, mid-’90s, Michael Jordan jersey) just enough to meditate on its construction, to redouble our efforts to see Shulie’s message in our own time.
Earlier that Saturday afternoon, Jill Godmilow’s What Farouki Taught and Harun Farouki’s Inextinguishable Fire began the sidebar. Godmilow’s film, made while she taught at the University of Notre Dame in the mid ‘90s, celebrates Farouki’s earlier German black-and-white film with a shot-for-shot English-language color remake and an epistemological investigation of its methods. Godmilow’s film opens opens with Walter Benjamin’s discussion of art in the age of mechanical reproduction, before advancing to a harrowingly personal statement by a Vietnamese man (clearly a caucasian, speaking English in Godmilow’s version), sitting at a desk in jacket and tie. He stares into the lens and relays a story of being victimized by American napalm bombing, after which he was unconscious for 13 days. Then he pauses and says something so startlingly painful and true about how Americans always see, or rather refuse to see, the collateral damage caused by our empire, that the food I was chewing fell right out of my gaping mouth:
How can we show you napalm in action? And how can we show you the injuries caused by napalm? If we show you pictures of napalm burns, you’ll close your eyes. First you’ll close your eyes to the pictures. Then you’ll close your eyes to the memory. Then you’ll close your eyes to the facts. Then you’ll close your eyes to the entire context. If we show you a person with napalm burns, we will hurt your feelings. If we hurt your feelings, you’ll feel like we tried napalm out on you, at your expense. We can only give you a hint of an idea of how napalm works.
In both films, the man delivering the monologue takes a lit cigarette from an off-screen ashtray as the camera pushes in and tilts down, stubbing the tip out on his wrist as a voiceover tells us that, while cigarettes burn at 400 degrees celsius, napalm burns at 3000 degrees celsius.
This man is an actor, and Godmilow’s film is agit-prop of the highest order. We don’t know whether this particular napalm incident happened or not, even if Seymour Hersh’s recent piece makes it startlingly clear how common such brutality was. It’s the spirit of the thing that counts; we know it to be emotionally true. Such things did happen, and we as American typically refuse to care. The rest of the film, which blends reenactments and news footage, direct address, and voice-over, indicts the American capitalist engine and the Dow chemical company of Midland, Michigan specifically for manufacturing these tools of destruction when they could use our advanced manufacturing and biochemical capabilities to make products for the world’s betterment.
Godmilow’s film runs about eight minutes longer than Farouki’s; she is interviewed at film’s end, on her own film’s set, about her feelings toward Farouki’s film, which was never shown in the United States during the war. She declines to call it a documentary per se, saying “We don’t have a name for this kind of film. We should get one I think. It’s inexpensive, it’s direct, it’s strong, and for me it replaces the documentary’s pornography of the real.” Another, offscreen voice replaces Godmilow’s, continuing, “pornography of the real, as in the way we get off on war footage, where there’s blood and dead bodies flown all over the place. We love to look at the suffering and shame of famine victims, AIDS patients and unemployed workers. We’re seduced by the realness of the horror. Turned on in a kind of sexual way.”
Affecting, politically conscious remakes unearthed in an era full of mindless, commercial ones, Shulie and What Farouki Taught take the unlearned political lessons of yesterday buried within barely seen films and use them to haunt our present. Perhaps one day we’ll get better at heeding their wisdom and stare their truths in the face.
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Zionism excavates its secular justification from the Jerusalem dirt
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Beauty Didn’t Birth the Beast Mon, 20 Apr 2015 04:36:05 +0000
Sally Draper, preachin’ truth.
I swear I will one day blog about something other than Mad Men. But until that time comes! This episode was interesting in that two separate characters referred to Don’s good looks as a liability. One of the creatives at the agency says to him in anger after Don suggests he might want to work on some character-building, “You don’t have any character, you’re just handsome—stop kidding yourself.” And then toward the episode’s end, his daughter says that both he and first-wife Betty are exactly alike, in that “anyone pays attention to either of you—and they always do—you just ooze everywhere.” (Two of Sally’s friends, totally separate from one another, had each attempted some amateur seduction on both of Sally’s parents in this episode, so this wasn’t out of nowhere.)
The first one was interesting, but mostly just in the context of Mad Men: Don has plenty of character, but we know that indeed a chunk of it has been formed around his incredible looks. The second reference is what’s really juicy here. In fiction, if someone’s good looks are referred to as a liability, it’s usually used to mean a fairly limited set of options. Maybe the character hasn’t had to develop other facets of herself because she’s relied on her beauty. (Which—I mean, has anyone ever met someone like that, for real? In my experience dullness and beauty have exactly zero correlation, let alone causation; the dullards I know are plain and pretty in equal amounts.) Maybe a character been taught her looks are her greatest asset so she’s used them to manipulate others, or his handsomeness has pushed him toward con artistry. If it’s a feminist-minded creator maybe we’ve seen how beautiful women aren’t taken seriously (i.e. the genesis of many a Joan plot line in this very series). Or maybe women don’t trust her, or men don’t trust him, or whatever. (Of course, the #1 way we see a character’s looks work against her is that Her Beauty Drives Men to Madness, but that’s such an ugggh cliché I’m not even counting it here.)
But here you have a character’s attractiveness being referenced not as a liability in and of itself, but as an amplification of an already-existing tendency: the inability to turn away sexual attention. Don and Betty are two people who are starved for attention, and that would be true even if they weren’t played by actors as good-looking as Jon Hamm and January Jones. But their beauty allows the quality Sally refers to as “ooze” to be read by others as charm or graciousness, or as a stream of reciprocal attention. And in turn, both of these characters have learned to trust that that’s how their highly sensitive attention-radars will be seen. The fact that their looks garner each of them a generous amount of attention becomes almost secondary; it just lets them get away with absorbing the gaze of others in a way that doesn’t seem desperate.
I’ve interviewed lots of people, mostly women, in-depth about their relationship with their looks, and when I first started doing formal interviews I was initially surprised that I wasn’t finding any sort of parallel between a woman’s experiences or attitude and how conventionally attractive she was. Asking a professional beauty about her experiences as a model is one thing, but asking her about how her looks had shaped, say, her love life was a different story. I never thought that meant a person’s looks were irrelevant to how she viewed the world, but I sort of chalked it up to beauty not being as important as other factors in shaping one’s worldview, or chirpily shook it off as “Well, everyone’s different!” But I think Sally’s quip crystallizes an important factor: A person’s looks can shape already existing tendencies. It does not create them. Nor does it shape tendencies in the same way for everyone. But I like the idea of looks functioning as a filter—as one of many filters—that determine how we walk through the world. There are so many oppositional ideas about how beauty affects people out there: You’ve got men who are genuinely surprised when they meet a woman who manages to be both beautiful and brilliant, you’ve got people who assume beautiful people have it easy because “everything is handed to them,” you’ve got people shaking their heads about how hard gorgeous women have it because other women supposedly hate them so much. If we come to see appearance as one of many forces that distinctly shape our lives, we might have a more genuine understanding of how the lives of extraordinarily beautiful people are affected by their looks—and of how the rest of us have our lives affected by the same.
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Sunday Reading Sun, 19 Apr 2015 18:00:31 +0000
Karen Gregory:
Bint Battuta:
Kerim Friedman:
Reclaim UC:
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Miracle on 214th Street Fri, 17 Apr 2015 09:56:38 +0000
The instantaneous apparition of Polaroid images creates miraculous and apocalyptic visions
The pilgrim who sent Polaroid the miraculous photograph belonged to a small but growing group of Catholics known as the Baysiders, who were devotees of Veronica Lueken. A white working-class Catholic housewife from Bayside, Queens, Leuken began experiencing visions in 1968 after hearing on her car radio that Robert Kennedy had been shot. As she prayed for the dying Senator, she felt herself enveloped in the perfume of roses. Thérèse of Lisieux, a saint known as “The Little Flower,” appeared to her shortly thereafter. At first Lueken was terrified, but soon she began to transcribe poems the saint dictated to her during repeated visitations.
“Many people have reported having a mystical experience at some point in their lives,” historian of religion Joseph Laycock writes in The Seer of Bayside, his 2014 book on Lueken and the Baysiders. However, certain historical and social conditions have to be in place, Laycock argues, for a mystical experience to be greeted as a visionary prophecy. A time of general social upheaval, combined with the specific anxiety among Catholic laypeople in the wake of the sweeping modernization ushered in by the Second Vatican Council, created the conditions that made an apparition movement possible in Queens in the late 1960s. As a woman from a humble background with little formal education, Lueken fit the bill for a Marian seer.
Lueken’s visions took a public turn in 1970 after the Virgin Mary appeared in her bedroom and instructed her to establish a shrine to “Our Lady of the Roses” on the grounds of her parish church and hold rosary vigils there. If Lueken faithfully fulfilled this request, Mary promised to use her as the “voice box” for messages from heaven that would spread around the world. Lueken did as she was asked, and beginning in summer 1970, growing crowds gathered for Saturday night vigils on the church grounds where she received divine messages in an ecstatic trance.
As Lueken came into her role as a seer, her visions became graphically apocalyptic. To the chagrin of Church authorities, she prophesied imminent cataclysm in the form of a fiery “Ball of Redemption.” Floods, plagues, stock market crashes and terrorist attacks filled her visions, a doom that could only be averted through prayer and a return to pre-Vatican II Catholic teachings. In its wilder moments, elements of popular culture infused her apocalypse—UFOs, vampires, a “Soviet death ray.” While the content of Lueken’s visions troubled parish authorities, the crowds of pilgrims that gathered around her mortified the church’s neighbors, middle-class homeowners who regarded Lueken as an interloper from the poor side of the parish and feared for the vigils’ effect on their property values.
The Bayside movement coincided with the advent of the SX-70, and miraculous photographs became a central part of the Baysiders’ devotional practice. The whirr of ejecting film was as characteristic a vigil sound as the chanting of prayers. Only Lueken could see and speak for the divine, but every Baysider could take pictures. Over time, the group developed a divinatory chart for decoding symbols and colors that appeared on the photos: the letter W, for example, signifies worldwide warning, while snakes represent the forces of hell. The color blue indicates Mary, often present in the distinctive “Polaroid blue” cast of SX-70 prints. Folklorist Daniel Wojcik calls the Baysiders’ use of Polaroids “photodivination,” comparing it to Ndembu divination traditions in northwestern Zambia: like Ndembu diviners’ symbols, the symbolic system of miracle photos leaves space for the pilgrim to actively interpret the image.
Vigil photography did not originate at Bayside. Pilgrims took pictures at Marian apparition sites as early as the 1930s, and the oldest known Christian miraculous photograph dates from 1905, just five years after the introduction of the first mass-market camera, the Kodak Brownie. Shot off the Narrows of St. John’s in Newfoundland, it shows an iceberg with a large protrusion in the shape of the Virgin Mary. The Archbishop in St. John’s approved of the photo—so heartily, in fact, that he dubbed it Our Lady of the Fjords and penned a sonnet in praise of the “Crystal Virgin, from the frozen fjords/Where far-off Greenland’s gelid glaciers gleen.”
In an era that saw the search for evidence of the afterlife as a scientific pursuit, the idea that a camera might record supernature as well as nature was not much of a conceptual leap. Nineteenth-century Spiritualists were the first to use the new technology to capture and communicate with the supernatural. In spirit photography, an “extra”—an additional human figure, presumed to be the image of a dead person—appeared on the negative after the photograph was taken. Though the comparison would likely displease both sides, a Spiritualist medium had notable parallels to a Marian seer. Preferably a woman or child, she was supposed to be passive in a particularly receptive way: In Spiritualist language derived from magnetism, the medium’s feminine “negative” charge enabled the spirit to flow into her.
Spiritualists and Theosophists around the turn of the twentieth century debated the mechanics of supernatural photography: Some claimed that spirit photographs simply documented ghosts who happened to be present when the photo was taken; others argued that spiritual forces used images of the dead to imprint messages onto the photographic negative, or that the medium herself was a sort of camera. The Baysiders likewise have a range of explanations for miraculous photography: some say the Holy Spirit enters into the camera to form the images, while others believe that Mary or the saints draw the patterns and symbols onto the film as it develops.
According to a story that resonates deeply with many Baysiders, Saint Veronica—whose name means “true icon”—met Jesus on the Via Dolorosa on the way to Calvary. Jesus wiped his face with her veil, and his image was imprinted on the cloth. The cloth became a holy relic called the Veil of Veronica, which is now stored at St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. Like the imprint of the crucified Christ on the Shroud of Turin and the image of the Virgin of Guadalupe on Juan Diego’s cloak, the Veil of Veronica is an acheiropoieton, an icon “not painted by human hands.” Icons that come into being without human artistry are seen to possess a special kind of authority; supernatural photography is a technological variation on this miraculous image tradition.
In America, Jean Baudrillard wrote of the Polaroid as a heightened form of photography’s uncanniness:
to hold the object and its image almost simultaneously as if the conception of light of ancient physics or metaphysics, in which each object was thought to secrete doubles or negatives of itself that we pick up with our eyes, has become a reality. It is a dream. It is the optical materialization of a magical process. The Polaroid photo is a sort of ecstatic membrane that has come away from the real object.
The “ecstatic” Polaroid is the perfect technology for miracle photography. “Our Lady has directed that the pictures should be taken with Polaroids or other kinds of instant self-developing cameras,” Bayside literature instructs. Polaroid film has the same immediate quality as the imprint created in a traditional acheiropoieton and is less vulnerable than other photographic film to skeptics’ accusations of tampering with the development process.
This “optical materialization of a magical process” was also a potential threat to institutional religious authority. In The Seer of Bayside Laycock frames the Bayside movement as a “dance of deference and defiance” by a group of people who understand themselves as loyal Catholics defending the traditions of their faith, yet act in ways that challenge Church authorities. The book’s account of the struggle over whether the Baysiders fit within the boundaries of Catholicism reveals the ceaseless process of boundary negotiation in lived religion. While they are not central to Laycock’s analysis, divine Polaroids fit this dynamic of deference and defiance. Miracle photos continue the Catholic tradition that the sacred manifests itself in matter and fulfill the call made at Vatican II for more “external signs” of the Catholic faith. At the same time, Polaroid miracles subvert the Church hierarchy by giving lay Catholics agency to receive divine messages directly and providing them with physical objects that can be used as evidence in arguments with Church authorities.
Ultimately, too many Baysiders defied convention too loudly for the middle-class residential neighborhood where they held their vigils. As the vigils drew busloads of pilgrims from as far away as Canada, they attracted vendors selling ice cream, hot dogs and religious objects. Angry neighbors tried to drive the vigils out by running their lawnmowers or singing patriotic songs to drown out the rosary. In what the New York press dubbed the “Battle of Bayside,” conflict escalated to the point of physical fights between pilgrims and neighbors.
The Diocese of Brooklyn eventually sided with the Bayside homeowners. Having initially ignored Lueken, it now investigated her visions and declared them spurious. Bishops around North America issued statements to their flocks that they should not attend vigils in Bayside, as Lueken’s apparitions were the product of a “fertile imagination.”
In what Laycock describes as “perhaps the only case in which alleged miracles associated with a Marian apparition site were the subject of a criminal investigation,” the fraud bureau of the Queens DA’s office—probably at the instigation of the Brooklyn Diocese—sent nine miraculous photos to the Polaroid Corporation for analysis in 1973, even though “supernatural phenomena are generally beyond the purview of the legal system.” A Polaroid corporate attorney responded with noncommittal explanations of how various forms of manipulation could have affected the images. No fraud charges were ever filed: “Because the courts do not acknowledge the existence of miracles,” Laycock writes, “it is almost impossible to convict someone for fraudulently offering a supernatural (and thus legally non-existent) service.”
Though the miracle fraud case fizzled out, the courts did end the Battle of Bayside in 1975, when the Supreme Court of New York issued an injunction banning the pilgrims from Bayside Hills. Lueken then received a revelation that Mary and Jesus would now appear to her in Flushing Meadows Park, at the site of the Vatican Pavilion from the 1964-65 World’s Fair. The Baysiders moved their vigils to Flushing Meadows, and continue to meet there weekly to this day.
The pilgrims at Flushing Meadows still take Polaroids. Many Baysiders have had their cameras blessed by priests. Rose petals are taped onto cameras and rosary beads are draped around them. In a digital era, the Baysiders’ anachronistic photographic practices seem emphatically embodied. Their use of Polaroid cameras has become an assertion that a special miraculous potential resides in Polaroid technology’s combination of the analog and the instantaneous. The development process occurs inaccessibly, yet within an object that is tangibly present. An image “not painted by human hands” takes shape before the Baysider’s eyes, rising up through the chemical layers of the film sheet to emerge into view on its surface. As with traditional acheiropoeita, the miracle depends on the sense of mystery evoked by the conditions of the image’s physical production. In the Baysiders’ Polaroids, a dissident form of direct communication with the divine converges with the photograph’s physicality and immediate creation to produce a miracle.
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70 Years Ago Today Wed, 15 Apr 2015 18:47:53 +0000
Women and children in one of the huts at Bergen-Belsen, postliberation, April 1945.
Seventy years ago today, British troops liberated the Nazi concentration camp Bergen-Belsen. In the days and weeks following the liberation, British and American soldiers took to treating and relocating the thousands of desperately ill prisoners. One of those soldiers, Lt. Col. Mervin Willett Gonin, among other recordings of that time, wrote the following in his diary:
This story has stuck with me since I first read it, even as part of me doubted whether the lieutenant colonel had read the women’s reactions correctly. He was an outsider who, despite having seen firsthand the horrors of Bergen-Belsen, had not experienced them. And, to be blunt, he was a man; what could he truly know about the transformative powers of lipstick?
It wasn’t until I read Linda Grant’s wonderful book The Thoughtful Dresser—which, as it happens, quotes the same passage I’ve quoted here—that I read an account that satisfies those rather academic quibblings. (Eternal thanks to Terri of Rags Against the Machine for pointing me toward Grant’s work.) The story of Catherine Hill, a survivor of Auschwitz-Birkenau, is central to Grant’s book, and I don’t want to take away its remarkable narrative arc by saying too much here. What I will say is that at one point in the prison camp, Hill creates an ersatz fascinator out of the hem of her uniform’s dress in order to cover her ears, which were starkly exposed because of her forcibly shaved head. And when an SS officer asked her during roll call what exactly she thought she was doing, her response was simply that she wanted to look pretty. He laughed. But it was the truth: “They could have got rid of me right there and then, but they could not take away my desire to be feminine, and a woman. And my dignity, even in the most degrading situation…”
The entirely human wish to appear pretty is hardly the central meaning of what today symbolizes for Bergen-Belsen’s survivors, liberators, and descendants. And I’m wary of “excusing” my own investment in my beauty work by saying, Well, women in the worst imaginable circumstances still cared, so…. The circumstances are not remotely equatable. Still, the heart of these stories remains true: Vestiges of beauty can be powerful. They can be talismans of routine, of dignity, of what it means to be a woman. Of what it means to be human, and of what happens when the things that make us individuals are erased. And today, in remembering or learning about what happened in those camps, that’s one of the most important things we can remember.
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Justice in One Country Wed, 15 Apr 2015 07:46:05 +0000
So-called left-wing Zionism is white nationalism by another name
Michael Walzer is an unlikely nationalist. Where many political philosophers, especially on the center-left, tend to think of nation-states as temporary and unfortunately parochial compromises with universal ideas of justice, for Walzer they’re at the center of what it is to form a just community. “To give up the state,” he writes in his most famous book Spheres of Justice, “is to give up any effective self-determination.” But countries have disappointed the public intellectual. In his new book The Paradox of Liberation, Walzer wants to know why the secular and secure states we were promised in the 20th century have failed to appear. This, he laments, is not our beautiful end to history, but a stumble on the way there.
In the current dying generation of American left-wing political philosophers, few have engaged with what passes as the American lettered public as much as Walzer has. Starting at the age of 27, he logged over 50 years teaching at Harvard and Princeton. He spent more than three decades as the editor of the socialist journal Dissent, and remains a contributing editor at the New Republic. Add in dozens of books and hundreds of public essays and academic articles, and he’s as close to a true public intellectual American social democrats are going to get. But since 9/11, his support in principle for the War on Terror (and in particular for the invasion of Afghanistan) surprised readers who had taken him for just another anti-imperialist lefty. Instead, he scolded the left for failing to oppose political Islam and “blaming America first.”
Close readers of his literary output might not have found this strange. For decades Walzer has been committed to the nation-state as the only plausible structure for the communal exercise of ethical behavior. Universal standards sound nice, he says, but trying to get everyone to agree is more trouble than it’s worth. In his conception, a country is like a family, tied to one another by common heritage and willing to tolerate, admit, and assimilate the occasional outsider. Rejecting a Rawlsian one-size-fits-all model of just governance, Walzer believes that only as nations can groups of people agree on a hierarchy of goods and distribute them fairly. And as nations of people self-determine into nation-states, they’ll tend toward secular democracy as the best way to incorporate different beliefs within the community.
In The Paradox of Liberation, Walzer is curious about why some countries seem to be going in reverse. He focuses on three nations (Algeria, India, Israel) where an original commitment to secular democracy is losing ground to a renewed religious fundamentalism. From these cases, he generalizes a pattern and the titular paradox: To liberate a nation, to bring it into being, leaders need to call upon a common heritage and historical values, but to progress into secular democracy, they need to create a new, modern citizenry, one dedicated to a certain level of procedural pluralism. If their dedication to secularism is too inconsistent, if leaders lapse into easy appeals to religious nationalism, they’re liable to bring about a return of the repressed in the form of right-wing Orthodox Jews or Islamic fundamentalists or militant conservative Hindus.
When Walzer writes of a nation of people, he doesn’t just mean a country’s population. For him, a nation is a historical community, an in-group that shares a relationship to a territory. National belonging is communicated by blood, but there’s no way to test for it; it’s something you have to feel and believe in. Throughout his books, Walzer doesn’t outright say that everyone should go back to where they belong, but the model he has developed over decades suggests they probably should, and if they do, they should be welcomed back by their “own” nation-state. At the very least, he claims, every country owes its minorities the right of safe exit and return to their native land. This formulation echoes Victorian-era ideas of race and nationality, in which blood links one not only to land but to a national cause. In George Eliot’s novel Daniel Deronda, for example, an English gentleman discovers his hidden Jewish roots and decides to follow a vague proto-Zionist move “East.” Or Eliot’s poem The Spanish Gypsy, where a princess discovers she’s also Gypsy royalty and attempts to bring her nation into existence in its “homeland,” the African jungle. Although Eliot’s narratives solicit sympathy, the idea that people have a place on the earth they “belong” according to their identity is as dangerous as it is inconsistent.
Walzer explicitly endorses this idea of national-territorial belonging. In 1983’s Spheres of Justice, he writes, “Nations look for countries because in some deep sense they already have countries: the link between people and land is a crucial feature of national identity.” That “some deep sense” is the vital element that ties people and territory, but it’s hard to explain without recourse to Victorian fictions about blood-based yearnings for homelands. Buying into these narratives allows Walzer to imagine, for example, that the Convention Concerning the Exchange of Greek and Turkish Populations after World War I was proper, even desirable, despite resulting in the forced displacement of two million people to territories where they had no historical or present ties. “What else are such states for?” he asks. But only a page later Walzer argues in general against forced transfer of citizens across national borders, implying the he regards the aforementioned deportation of Macedonian Muslims to Turkey and Anatolian Christians to Greece as something else entirely. Here Walzer conceives of national belonging as a function of religious identity, not by name, but as a nebulous ethnic-territorial link.
If you want to stay somewhere you don’t belong, Walzer thinks the people living there probably do owe you something like hospitality, but not as much as you owe them. To describe the process of assimilation, Walzer uses a shocking metaphor. The state with immigrants, he writes, “is like a family with live-in servants.”
That is not an attractive image, for a family with live-in servants is is–inevitably, I think–a little tyranny. The principles that rule in the household are those of kinship and love. They establish the underlying pattern of mutuality and obligation, of authority and obedience. The servants have no proper place in that pattern, but they have to be assimilated to it. Thus, in the pre-modern literature on family life, servants are commonly described as children of a special sort … when servants come to be seen as hired workers, the great household begins its slow decline. The pattern of living-in is gradually reversed, erstwhile servants seek households of their own.
To be clear: this isn’t written as a description of oppression, but as a model of how things should be. It’s hard to say what’s most wrong with this idea of the national family and its racialized servants, but Walzer gives a hint with another couple misguided books. In Interpretation and Social Criticism and The Company of Critics, Walzer outlines his conception of the “connected critic”—the social critic who interrogates his own society’s flaws from a position near the center of his nation. These are the figures who put a check on nationalist zeal, with special attention to the fate of people on the periphery. They share a common conflict, possessing a legitimate and faithful tie to the nation, as well as a critical drive to question it.
Radicals, who want to pull up rather than replant a nation’s roots, are not connected critics. The connected critic’s targets are his own people, not an outside oppressor. Those whose fate is not shared by the rest of the nation cannot be connected critics unless they’re able to stake a national claim. One who Walzer names is Breyten Breytenbach, an Afrikaner poet who was exiled and imprisoned after he married a French woman of Vietnamese ancestry, violating apartheid codes against inter-racial fraternization. But what claim does Breytenbach have to the territory of South Africa? Does he not “belong” in Europe where he was exiled? If he is a connected critic, then forming an ancestral nation is as easy as a few generations of colonial settlement. Walzer confirms as much: “The Afrikaners,” he writes, “have become one of Africa’s tribes, hybrid like all the others.” Breytenbach’s claim is not only legitimate, but as a white victim of apartheid, he is uniquely connected to the nation.
Why, when looking for an exemplary critic of apartheid South Africa, would Walzer go out of his way to pick a white guy? The reason is simple: Black people can’t be connected critics. He writes in Interpretation and Social Criticism:
Marginality has often been a condition that motivates criticism and determines the critic’s characteristic tone and appearance. It is not, however, a condition that makes for disinterest, dispassion, open-mindedness, or objectivity… Marginal men and women are in but not wholly of their societies. The difficulties they experience are not the difficulties of detachment but of ambiguous connection. Free them from those difficulties and they may well lose the reasons they have for joining the critical enterprise. Or, criticism will look very different than it looks when it is worked up on the margins by “alienated intellectuals,” or members of subject classes or oppressed minorities, or even outcastes or pariahs.
For Walzer, a critic without full social rights within a nation cannot truly do critique, because their objections are insufficiently separate from their personal interests. It is too easy for a black person to criticize apartheid South Africa; they aren’t connected to it. This is a white-supremacist inversion of W.E.B DuBois’s “double consciousness,” in which the marginal are compelled to see everything (including and especially themselves) through the eyes of their oppressors. DuBois saw this as part of a national claim to America: “He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American without being cursed and spit upon by his fellows, without having the doors of opportunity closed roughly in his face.” Double consciousness is an affliction, but also a second sight into the nation’s center and its relationship to the margins. For Walzer, however, a connected critic must be detached from the state (he must not be a member of the ruling party, for example) and also “detached from his own marginality.” But in a world where, as André 3000 puts it, “across cultures, darker people suffer most,” detaching is easier for some than for others.
What is the nature of a national claim if the children of settler-colonists like Breytenbach have one but indigenous North Americans do not? Returning to Walzer’s notion of the “deep sense” of connection to a country, it’s clear how it might be easier to develop a deep sense of belonging to a country where you and your ancestors have been treated like equal members than if you’ve been enslaved, murdered, raped, robbed, humiliated, and terrorized for centuries. The Walzerian solution might very well be a Garveyite “Back to Africa” move, but according to Walzer’s formulation, the children of white colonists have a—if not the—legitimate claim to those countries too.
Reading The Paradox of Liberation with this earlier work, it becomes clear that Walzer’s “deep sense” of ancestral attachment to territory is the basis for his entire ethical system. Without this intangible link, there could be no spheres in which to pursue justice. All we would be left with are spheres of domination, where claimless groups fight to maintain their hold on territory though force. Of course, in such a scenario, the dominant groups would probably invent historical rights as part of their ideological justification, as is the conqueror’s wont. How then, do we distinguish a legitimate ancestral claim from, say, Germany’s invasion of Austria, or Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, or Japan’s invasion of Korea, or the Mormon settlement of Wo’tééneihí?
The Mormons are a good example: Before settling the land that would become known as Utah, they had been driven from the eastern states despite an ancestral attachment to New York, where their prophets had buried golden plates with the word of God millennia before. Luckily, in the mid 19th-century, God awarded his wandering disciples a large parcel of incorporated (but not unoccupied) desert land. Only 150 years later, how would Walzer adjudicate a dispute between the Mormons of Utah and the children of the land’s indigenous population? Both have claims to North America that stretch back thousands of years—one is very obviously a modern fabrication, but no doubt Mormons feel nonetheless a “deep sense” of attachment to the territory. Here Walzer gives us a geopolitical rather than a historical standard: Breytenbach has a claim to South Africa because the Afrikaners “are there to stay,” and so too, presumably, are the Mormons.
Walzer puts a lot of faith in the nation. In The Paradox of Liberation, he clarifies his position on nationalism versus the left: “What was probably most important in the failure of Marxist internationalism was the widely shared belief that only sovereignty guaranteed the cultural survival of national and religious groups (and perhaps also the physical survival of their members), and only sovereignty could bring full equality in the already existing society of states.” It’s crystal clear that Walzer’s primary agenda is conservative, to maintain and justify what are, in effect, racial nations. Within these nations, it’s up to connected critics to push the community toward just dealings with outsiders. In Walzer’s model, most people go to or already live where they belong, and the rest choose to rely on the decency of their hosts.
As a work of modern history, Paradox of Liberation is thin and cursory. The sections on the dynamics of Algerian and Indian liberation struggles are worthless. As a work of political philosophy, the book is only notable because it points so directly to the contradiction at the foundation of Walzer’s thought, a contradiction perhaps best expressed in the Israeli flag. The disappointment at Paradox’s core is Israel’s failure in Walzer’s estimation to fulfil its secular promise. “Zionism was,” he writes, “at its center and in the years of its greatest achievements, overwhelmingly a secular project.” Now, authoritarian-minded Orthodox Jews are insurgent within the state, and they seek to replace democracy with religious law. Despite setting out to establish a just, secular, democratic Jewish nation, that trajectory is now in danger.
But how genuine was this possibility in the first place? If the “Jewish” in Jewish state doesn’t refer to Talmudic law, then what exactly does it mean? Under Walzer’s formulation, it refers to the race (in the Victorian sense) of Jews. Israel is our homeland, to which I and all other Jews have an ancestral claim. But not all Jewish claims are equal; the Israeli state has pursued a policy of population suppression among Ethiopian Jews by means of non-consensual sterilization. Racial states are based on stories that are always already entangled in histories of colonialism and wealth extraction justified by white supremacy, and this has affected the legitimacy (that is, plausibility) of every modern national claim. The Zionist fiction, that the race of Jews is entitled to the territory of Israel, can never be the foundation for a secular state. Racialism is a particularly pernicious form of faith.
As a social-democratic connected critic of the Zionist project, Walzer places himself between Israel’s aggressive conservatives and left-wing solidarity with Palestinian liberationists. He endorses Israel’s right to exist, while questioning the “by any means available” that usually follows. But a close reading of his theoretical work reveals a rightward collapse in Walzer’s thought, indeed in all left-wing Zionist thought. Without the messianic narrative (which Walzer rejects), Israel is a Jewish state in the modern mode. There will always be non-Jews in Israel—as Walzer cites in Paradox, an early Jewish criticism of Zionism was that observant Jews could only operate the state’s machinery six days a week. But Israel as such simply cannot assimilate non-Jews as equal citizens. It is condemned, like all of Walzer’s gated ancestral nations, to continue as a “little tyranny,” a theocracy of blood, myth, and guns.
Walzer misses the religious aspect of ethno-nationalism in an inexcusable fashion. In the postscript to Paradox he takes on the United States, which, in his telling, never had a national liberation movement because (Mormons aside) there was no ancestral claim. America’s was a political, rather than a social revolution, which made its secularism especially resilient. “The self-confident activism of the new Americans led to a very harsh engagement with the indigenous peoples of the continent,” he understates, “But it set close limits on the internal harshness of the secular-religious encounter.” Why, without a religious conflict, couldn’t secular democratic America assimilate the indigenous people? For the same reason Ethiopian-Israeli is a contradiction: As a self-consciously white nation, the United States could only ever include native people as “live-in servants” on their own ancestral land.
The possibility of a secular and democratic Jewish state is so hard to incorporate into any consistent system of ethics that Walzer takes it as premise and builds from there. It’s not a bad strategy: if you can’t resolve a contradiction, bury it in the foundation. But the consequence is that Michael Walzer has developed decades of theory on indefensible ground. It’s as if he constructed a whole system of ethics predicated on the Roma nation’s claim to the African jungle. In the name of so-called left-wing Zionism, Walzer has attempted to smuggle white nationalism into the left. But, as Walzer himself might remind us, the Zionist claim to the left is only valid if they’re “here to stay.” Let this not be the case.
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Any person who sings the praises of war is, in our opinion, a blithering idiot (Christmas Day, 1915) Tue, 14 Apr 2015 18:31:01 +0000
O’ROURKE (London.) – Thanks, comrade. We are more proud of the comradeship of toilers like yourself than you can well imagine. It is such loyalty as yours that keeps us hopeful of our class and country.
CÚ CHULAINN (Dundalk.) – No! We do not believe that war is glorious, inspiring, or regenerating. We believe it to be hateful, damnable, and damning. And the present war upon Germany we believe to be a hell-inspired outrage. Any person, whether English, German, or Irish, who sings the praises of war is, in our opinion, a blithering idiot. But when a nation has been robbed it should strike back to recover her lost property. Ireland has been robbed of her freedom, and to recover it should strike swiftly and relentlessly, and in such a fashion as will put the fear of God in the hearts of all who connived at the robbery or its continuance. But do not let us have any more maudlin trash about the ‘glories of war’, or the ‘regenerative influence of war’, or the ‘sacred mission of the soldier’, or the ‘fertilising of all earth with the heroic blood of her children’, etc, etc. We are sick of it, the world is sick of it. And when combined with the cant about ‘patience’, and ‘waiting’, and the ‘folly of rashness’, and the ‘wisdom of caution’, and all the other phrases that are to be heard from the Irish eulogists of war we confess it gives us a feeling like sea-sickness – nausea.
No, friend! War is hell, but if freedom is on the farther side shall even hell be allowed to daunt us.
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A brief review of Ngozi Onwurah’s Welcome II the Terrordome Tue, 14 Apr 2015 15:00:51 +0000
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In a just world, a virus of tremendous scope and tenacity would ravage all the archives and vaults and shelves, all its servers and drives, its dens and libraries. It would draw no distinction between digital or analogue, bootleg or licensed. The CDC would be baffled: it appears to be crystalline in structure, yet its rate of replication is unprecedented… Pundits would lose their shit on air, terrified that the virus might mistake them for the already-recorded and snake their throat mid-speech. Amazon would go on full lockdown: nothing in, nothing out, its long-rumored drones circling on updrafts, training red dots on anything that moved. Other rumors abounding, like how a conspirator’s union of ex-Blockbuster execs and the remnants of local videostores were behind it all. Still, it would creep through plastic and code alike, invading mancaves and Netflix queues, no matter the firewalls or plastic sheeting or shotguns. We would be held in thrall, in disarray. But despite the fears of those who lie awake and hear it rifling through code and celluloid, its endgame would not be to spread to the human body. Its symptoms would be simple: whenever it encountered a reel or MP4 or DVD that contained The Help or The Butler or The Intouchables or The Legend of Bagger Vance or Get Hard or Hitch, it would consume all the data that makes them up and leave in its place Welcome II the Terrordome.
But if this was a just world, Welcome II the Terrordome would not exist. It would not be entirely necessary, which is what it is. Maybe that’s the case for any of those rare things that actually deserve to be called political film: they need to be seen, as often and by as many people as possible, but they exist precisely because the order of the world is posed in full against that possibility, its hackles up and Bagger Vances ever-ready for immediate deployment. They could only be about this world, unmistakably so, but it’s this world alone that they exist to ruin.
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The New Somali Studies Tue, 14 Apr 2015 09:50:09 +0000
What would a decolonized Somali Studies look like?
Since #CadaanStudies was launched on Twitter, the tweet that has received the most circulation has been something that British explorer Sir Richard Francis Burton wrote in his 1856 travelogue First Footsteps in East Africa:
Burton had arrived in Zeila, his first stop before traveling through the rest of Somaliland and the broader Horn of Africa. He was keenly interested in the culture, beliefs, and practices of the curious “Somali race” that he encountered, and he discovered many things about them. He discovered, for example, that the Somalis of Zeila in 1856 believed that fever was connected to mosquito bites, and he speculated that this “superstition probably arises from the fact that mosquitoes and fevers become formidable about the same time.” He also re-discovered what he already knew: that the difference between “superstition” and “fact” could be traced along racial lines and that knowledge and thought was the realm of the European.
It would not be until 1880 that a French doctor, Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, would discover the malaria parasite in Algeria, for which he would win the Nobel Prize. Finally, in 1897, a British medical officer in British India, Ronald Ross, would be credited with discovering that malaria was indeed carried by mosquitos.
Burton’s condescension still characterizes the encounter between European and Somali. When ethnographic observation was crystallized as a methodology and a science, only Europeans were seen as capable of the rigorous analysis, reason, and knowledge production it required. Somalis existed only as the backdrop for their intelligence and understanding, as superstitious, irrational, unsophisticated, and unscientific.
#CadaanStudies explores the ways in which these colonial epistemologies continue to be the foundation of the field of Somali Studies. It began in response to the total absence of Somali academics and researchers from the editorial and advisory boards of the newly launched Somaliland Journal of African Studies (SJAS), which claimed to have been founded in collaboration with the University of Hargeisa, since denied by the university. But the hashtag exploded after a member of the advisory board, Markus Hoehne, made his own observations about Somalis:
Cadaan means “white” in Somali, and the hashtag #CadaanStudies gestures towards the conceptual whiteness of knowledge production in Somali Studies. It is an analysis of the systemic and the normative positions and relations it produces. It is a way of thinking about the words of one anthropologist and the exclusions of one journal not as isolated incidents, but as signifiers of the current state of Somali Studies, and the ways in which it has continued to sustain non-Somali dominance on all things Somali. It examines how colonial logic is replicated in contemporary scholarship on Somalis, and in the research practices of non-Somali academics in their gaze upon the Somali.
Hoehne’s comments offer a unique moment of revelation, but also a window of insight into banal systems of everyday power. They show a mindset in which the Somali is rendered passionately partisan, while the non-Somali researcher remains worldly and detached in his analysis. They highlight a perception of Somalis as too steeped in their Somaliness to objectively assess their own reality. They reveal an understanding of us, the detribalized, tweeting natives of the Somali diaspora, as rebellious, overly emotional and insulting towards the cadaan scholars with which he identifies. They expose the view of Somalis as fundamentally lazy, requiring the non-Somali anthropologist to explain how we can overcome our undisciplined nature through the hard work that we are currently, sadly, incapable of.
As with Burton and the malaria-carrying mosquito, for a European to be unaware of information articulated by Somalis does not indicate his own ignorance. How could it? Somali beliefs are not facts.
The First International Congress of Somali Studies was held in Mogadishu in July 1980; the Somali Studies International Association, which had been founded two years earlier, “sought to promote scholarly cooperation and collaboration in investigations and interpretations of Somali society, culture and habitat.” But while this multidisciplinary sub-field of African Studies was institutionalized in the 1980’s, its origins are during the colonial period, when academic interest in Somalis first emerged alongside and within the colonial project. Some of the scholars in attendance at the 1980 Congress had begun their research on Somalis during the colonial era, starting with British anthropologist I.M Lewis, often called the founding father of Somali Studies.
Somali Studies was established as a subfield and organization in a time of great intellectual ferment. Publications like Edward Said’s Orientalism and Michel Foucault’s History of Sexuality were in wide circulation by 1980, as were the ideas of Antonio Gramsci, particularly after Raymond Williams began to bring Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks to Anglophone audiences. E.P Thompson’s The Making of the English Working Class had spurred on a variety of new social histories “from below” throughout the 1970s, challenging older, state-centered approaches; by 1979, women’s history had emerged as a field and gender would soon be theorized as an analytical category signifying relations of power in society. Subaltern Studies: Writings in Indian History and Society was launched in 1982, seeking to write histories outside of colonial constructions of knowledge and power.
It was a period of deconstruction and interrogation, of theory and reflexivity. But it did not touch Somali Studies.
Behind all of this new thinking was the decolonization of former European colonies, including the Somali territories. Nationalism and independence had created an epistemic crisis for anthropology, as the discipline grappled with its colonial origins and its focus on so-called “primitive” societies. Talal Asad and others challenged the truth of ethnographic representation and the discipline’s claims to scientific objectivity, enabling ethnography to be rethought as interpretation rather than scientific fact, and to critique its roots in colonial rule. The postmodern turn of the 80s and 90s and an increasing concern for reflexivity and subjectivity further reshaped anthropological praxis: the discipline now engages with the question of power dynamics, representation, and the ethics of research. All of this was necessary for the discipline to have future in a postcolonial world.
I.M Lewis began his fieldwork in the 1950s in British Somaliland, funded by the Colonial Social Science Research Council. His analysis of the Somali clan system—first published in his 1961 book A Pastoral Democracy: A Study of Pastoralism and Politics Among the Northern Somali of the Horn of Africa —continues to dominate understandings of Somali political and social life, despite its flaws. It reduced the complexity and heterogeneity of Somali society as a whole to a monolithic, nomadic pastoralism even though it was based on his fieldwork observations in only one region of Somaliland. His research was firmly embedded in an older tradition of British anthropology and worked to create the fiction of a self-reproducing Somali society, rooted in a rigid kinship system and with traditions unaffected by historical process. It made little sense to ask how clan is a product of modernity and subject to historical process, because Somali society was seen as primordial, outside of history and isolated from the world. He assessed Somali tradition in a vacuum, as though culture and tradition were not being transformed as Somalis were drawn into colonial regimes and a global capitalist economy, the very historical moment that enabled Lewis’ anthropological research in the first place.
He applied his framework to observe the Somali civil war 40 years later: “The political geography of the Somali hinterland in 1992, consequently, closely resembled that reported by European explorers in the 19th century, spears replaced by Kalashnikovs and bazookas.”
A volume of essays on Somali culture, society and politics co-edited by Markus Hoehne and Virginia Luling, which reviewer Gunther Schlee described as a compilation of the “Who’s Who in Somali Studies,” was published in honour of Lewis’ eightieth birthday in 2010. Essay submissions deemed too critical of Lewis did not make it to final publication.
#CadaanStudies marks a departure from the older and more rigid methodological empiricism of the social sciences that has dominated Somali Studies from its colonial beginnings, and a long overdue move towards theory, subjectivity and postcolonial critique. The social sciences were born in a particular moment of European modernity, resting on concepts like the nation-state that have since taken on new forms in our postcolonial, globalized world. Nowhere is this more evident than in the Somali territories, which have undergone radical shifts in the new global order. To read them through a colonial-era lens is to close our eyes to what is there. New sovereigns, forms of governance, and political subjectivities have emerged in the aftermath of civil war, within and beyond the collapsed nation-state, as the Somali territories have become contested ground for world historical processes of capital and modernity, and a vantage point from which to gaze back upon the West and deconstruct broader systems of power, including that of knowledge production.
What would a decolonized Somali Studies look like? You can see glimpses of it in the imaginative scope of research conducted by the many young Somalis whose names appear in the collective response to SJAS and Markus Hoehne. Yusuf Dirie engages with subalternity and examines how Western notions of modernity and progress informs debates on pastoralism in the Horn of Africa. There is the reflexive ethnography of Ahmed Ibrahim in his anthropological study of the local production of Islamic orthodoxy in southern Somalia. There is my own research on the affective and imagined geographies of modern Somali nationalism in its historical interaction with the Ethiopian state. Ilyas Abukar intervenes in practices of diaspora and Somali manifestations of blackness among refugees in the United States. Hawa Y. Mire uses art and storytelling to theorize agency and show the multiple ways that Somali women subvert patriarchal discourse.
#CadaanStudies has revealed a Somali Studies in crisis, trapped within a colonial imaginary in a postcolonial, postmodern world. What started as social media discussion has opened up a new space for thinking and theorizing about Somalis, the Somali territories, and the world they inhabit. Its significance will be its call to reimagine the conceptual apparatus of the field, focusing on the systemic level and how it has come to shape academic knowledge production about Somalis and the Somali region. Somali-produced scholarship will be central to academic knowledge, and #CadaanStudies is a disjuncture from which we can begin to theorize and develop new languages and methodologies to describe, analyze and understand new processes, systems, and ways of being. It is time to reimagine a Somali Studies for the postcolonial moment.
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The Roma, also known as Gypsies, are a mostly poor minority that many believe face widespread discrimination in Hungary.
The Magyarorszagi Cigany Part (MCP), or Hungarian Gypsy Party, is hoping to change that.
The party's spokesman, Aladar Horvath, who is also running as a candidate in the eighth district, says the biggest challenge for the party has been facing political apathy from a minority that many believe has been ignored.
"They have no belief… [in] the future," he says. "I think the Roma party is a hope for us because we know what the real problems are, we know our community and we know… what [politicians] need to do for us in the parliament."
Eighteen-year-old Andrea Marosi who is half-Roma says she will not vote because the ruling party is likely to win and she's disillusioned by the other choices.
"I don't vote because these people… just deprive us of our money and our possibilities or opportunities and they're somehow tricking us because they always have some promises and they never really fulfil them."
Rita Taneyes, 35, is Roma and a single-mother who says the widespread discrimination her community faces is not going to be helped by politicians who she sees as self-serving. She likes the idea of a Roma party but her scepticism remains. "I would like it but… I don't have high hopes," Taneyes says. "Those in the higher positions, they represent their own interests but still it would be nice."
Struggling for representation
The party also had to deal with a scandal - it was accused of forging signatures when registering candidates. The MCP strongly denies the claim.
Horvath concedes that the party, which is only a year and half old, is unlikely to win a seat in parliament. But he believes in another four years they will have chance.
The head of the political science department at the Central European University in Budapest, Gabor Toka, says the Roma could gain political capital if MCP gets a high turnout, but the new party's plans could also backfire on the minority.
Politicians advocating for any measures of the benefit for the Roma [are] penalised in the next elections because anti-Roma [prejudices] are so strong.
- Zeljko Jovanovic, Open Society Foundations
It could make "the Roma even more powerless in politics because politicians just learn as a lesson that even if they vote, they vote for parties that don't make it into parliament so they can ignore them," Toka says.
The Roma make up an estimated eight percent of Hungary's population of 10 million, however only four MPs are known to be Roma, according to AFP.
Horvath contends that the current crop of Roma MPs do little for their own community. "They are party members and not representing the Roma population, only the government or the opposition parties," he says.
Zeljko Jovanovic, Director of the Roma Initiatives Office at the Open Society Foundations, says the Roma struggle for proper representation because they are afraid and intimidated by those around them.
He says local mayors, who are often tied to national parties, help distribute jobs through public works programmes, which many Roma rely on. Officials then employ this leverage to influence the Roma vote.
Even when politicians who want to fight for Roma issues come into power, they still face major obstacles, says Jovanovic. "Roma interests are not well-represented in the national parliament… because of the current climate in which politicians advocating for any measures of the benefit for the Roma [are] penalised in the next elections because anti-Roma [prejudices] are so strong."
Aside from underrepresentation, the Roma also face outright hostility in parliament by the far-right Jobbik party which often talks about "Gypsy crime" and says the minority does not want to work.
Jobbik MP Marton Gyongyosi, who made international headlines in 2012 for suggesting Hungary create a list of Jewish MPs, says his party does not want to divide the country based on ethnicity or race.
However, he goes on to say the Roma are especially linked to delinquency.
"Gypsy crime was a phenomenon which existed in Hungary before we joined this extremely politically correct world which does not dare to speak anything… that is in front of its eyes and wants to call things another name.
"Gypsy integration is a growing problem in this country," Gyongyosi says. "We have to face this issue."
New law
The government says it is trying to increase minority representation in parliament with the introduction of a new law which allows citizens who are registered as a minority to vote for a representative from their own ethnicity. Such a minority representative would need a quarter of the votes that regular MPs require to gain a seat in parliament.
However, once people are registered as a minority, they are no longer allowed to vote for an MP from the national political parties.
The government says this is to stop a minority citizen's vote from having more power than the votes of other Hungarians.
Toka expects the law will be changed after criticism from international observers. "It sounds totally unconstitutional to me," he says.
Some municipalities urge minority citizens to register and they may only realise on election day that they cannot vote for a national party, Toka says. Minority voters can register months before they know the candidates on the ethnic minority list.
While they are allowed to unregister, Toka says that creates an additional step and minority voters may not even know they can do this. "An extraordinary burden is put on them and only on them."
While there are 13 registered minorities, the Roma are considered the only one large enough to have a good chance at voting in an MP under this system. However, even if there are not enough votes cast for an MP, special minority representatives can still grab a seat in parliament - except they will not be able to vote.
"[He] can join the sessions, can ask questions… can have speeches, everything, but doesn't have [a] voting right in parliament, which is of course a huge difference," Kumin says. "But this is another type of representation of minorities."
Toka, however, does not see the point of having representatives in parliament who cannot vote. He thinks such a plan is undemocratic.
"It's a useless institution and it makes a mockery of parliamentarians as well as ethnic minority representation."
Horvath says he and some Roma civil organisations campaigned against citizens registering as a minority. He believes the Roma candidates on the list would not be independent from the government and could not properly serve community interests.
While a seat seems unlikely for Horvath's party, he says the MCP was able to combat some of the disillusionment that many Roma experience, providing a foundation for future electoral growth.
"We have no power, we have no money, we have no organisation [but] we have some respect," he says.
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I have no idea if this entry is even still relevant in any way/shape/form, but you know what it's been a year so whatever. I'm going to repost it! Annually! And by annually I mean just this once, because seriously it's a total coincidence I was just going through my blog archive tonight. Spooky. It's almost like they wanted me to remember. o__o
I was just searching through members going by post count, and something seemed very off - and then I realized that Hapori Dume wasn't on the list.
Needless to say I did another quick search, and either his account has been deleted or banned members no longer turn up in searches.
Either way, now I am sad. No more Hapori Dume to see.
EDIT: Thanks to Zarayna, I did a bit more research - it appears as though banned members are now being deleted (actually we are going to pretend that I knew all along you just can't be seen by anyone ever again and that Black Six didn't share this information). That's the only thing I can think of, as a few topics were missing (created by banned members also now missing).
So, goodbye Hapori TohuDume (I swear, that wasn't me...). You were bad while you lasted and evil to boot, even if I didn't join the site until 4 1/2 years AFTER you came around. (Actually, why am I the one writing this up anyway? Geez people from way back when, this should be you!)
Feel free to say goodbye to him here.
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Banned members no longer appear in searches.
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Actually, they do: search for the banned members group, you get about five results. Hapori Dume isn't in it.
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Nov 18 2012 06:03 PM
he still lives in our hearts and minds
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Scanty Demon
Nov 18 2012 06:29 PM
Hey man we can't talk about banned members. Though Hapori Dume shall always be in our hearts. (Now if I could just spell his name right)
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I wasn't exactly talking about specific banned members. I didn't go "hey, did you know so-and-so got banned because they did such-and-such"?
Everyone knows Hapori Dume, and it wasn't exactly some person with an account.
That said, this is rather disappointing. :|
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Mask of Ultimate Cliche
Nov 18 2012 07:12 PM
My master is dead....
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RIP in peace ;_;7
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Hahli Husky
Nov 19 2012 01:20 AM
So, goodbye Hapori Tohu. You were bad while you lasted and evil to boot, even if I didn't join the site until 4 1/2 years AFTER you came around.
Lulz, bye Hapori Tohu!!
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His account, and the accounts of other banned members still exist. In the most recent board update, they were removed from the search results. I don't know why those five still show up, but it's in error.
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Ah... thanks for the clarification.
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Rahkshi Guurahk
Nov 19 2013 10:54 PM
Could we have a link to his account? I want to see what is says for him.
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The ability to actually view the pages of banned accounts no longer exists.
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0.022068 | <urn:uuid:f5b55ea2-ebdd-4183-8ff4-a12856b7cd8e> | en | 0.976294 | ON THE morning of September 12th 2001, Americans woke up to a changed country. They had seen the twin towers of the World Trade Centre reduced to rubble, the Pentagon aflame and a field in Pennsylvania transformed into a graveyard. Almost 3,000 people had been killed and twice as many injured, in the bloodiest day on American soil since the battle of Antietam in 1862. They had seen their president—the most powerful man in the world—flitting from pillar to post. And they had seen the face of a new enemy. Before September 11th few people even in the administration had heard of al-Qaeda. After that day there was no getting away from the images of Osama bin Laden and his agent, Mohammed Atta.
That September 11th changed America dramatically is hardly open to debate: George Bush's presidency has been about little else since then. But some of the changes have been unexpected. Who would have guessed, as a shocked country rallied round the flag, that five years later partisan divisions would be deeper than ever? Who would have guessed, as the president pledged that “the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon,” that five years later Mr bin Laden would still be at liberty and America would be bogged down in Iraq?
The immediate result of September 11th was a surge in national unity. The country was draped in flags. Wal-Mart sold 116,000 of them on September 11th and 250,000 the day after. The mood killed partisan politics. Congressman Dick Armey, a firebrand conservative, put an arm around Maxine Waters, a firebrand congresswoman on the left. Mr Bush embraced Tom Daschle, the Democratic leader, on the Senate floor. Conservatives denounced Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson, two evangelical broadcasters, for entertaining the notion that September 11th was God's punishment of “the pagans, and the abortionists and the feminists and the gays and lesbians”. Leftists excoriated Susan Sontag for implying that the assault was payback for America's crimes.
The attacks brought an abrupt end to the “holiday from history” that followed the fall of the Soviet Union. They also brought an abrupt end to America's sense of invulnerability: for all its military might and oceanic moats, the country was wide open to attack from fanatics living in caves in Afghanistan.
All this produced a mood of soul-searching. A Newsweek cover article asked, “Why do they hate us?” and books on Islam topped the bestseller lists. It also produced something more visceral: a desire for revenge. Three days after the attacks the congregation in the National Cathedral in Washington, DC, concluded a memorial service for those who had died with the “Battle Hymn of the Republic”.
The administration capitalised on the more vengeful mood to produce a wide-ranging response. On September 11th Mr Bush concluded that America was at war. That day, too, he stated that he would make no distinction between terrorists and those who harboured them. This rapidly became the “Bush doctrine”. America would not wait for the next attack: it would take the war to the enemy. That did not mean al-Qaeda alone. Any state sponsoring terrorists or supplying them with weapons of mass destruction (WMD) would be dealt with, even before the threat was fully developed. And America would not simply treat symptoms. It would tackle the causes of Islamic terrorism.
Strong, but vulnerable
The doctrine drew on two contradictory beliefs: that America was mighty enough to reorder the world and that it was vulnerable to still worse attacks. Vice-President Dick Cheney then enunciated his own policy, known as the “1% doctrine”: if there were even a 1% chance of terrorists getting hold of WMD, America would act as if it were a certainty.
September 11th gave an enormous boost to Mr Bush. In the aftermath of the attacks, the percentages of Americans who told pollsters they approved of him shot up from the 50s to the 90s, the highest scores ever recorded for a president. His ratings remained above 60% for 16 months, the longest boom in presidential popularity since the second world war. And September 11th strengthened Mr Bush in a more personal way: the frat boy who had grown up in the shadow of his over-achieving father acquired a new steel and a new determination.
The administration relentlessly used the president's popularity to strengthen the power of the executive. In the wake of September 11th it engineered the biggest expansion in executive power since the days of Franklin Roosevelt. Mr Bush declared himself a “war president”. And he took a series of decisions that were to come back to haunt him—from monitoring telephone calls without explicit approval from the courts to establishing military tribunals. Even when he was guaranteed a rubber stamp from a compliant Congress, he preferred to go it alone. Chuck Hagel, a Republican senator, grumbled that the administration treated Congress like a “constitutional nuisance”.
Reporting for defeat
At the same time September 11th strengthened the Republicans while weakening the Democrats. In the second half of the 20th century the Republicans had come to be seen as the more trustworthy party in matters of national security. In 2001 the Democrats were conscious of that but could not decide what to do about it. First, they tried to change the subject to their strong suits, health and education, and then, when they chose John Kerry to be their presidential candidate, overcompensated by turning their 2004 convention in Boston into a Vietnam veterans' rally. There Mr Kerry, saluting his audience, introduced himself with the words, “Reporting for duty.”
The Republicans made strong advances in the 2002 mid-term elections, solidifying their control over the House and capturing the Senate. It was only the third time since the civil war that the president's party had gained seats in mid-term elections. And Mr Bush won the 2004 presidential election with more votes than any president in history. September 11th drove both victories. When it came to “keeping America strong”, the opinion polls showed the Republicans with a lead of almost 40 points in 2002. At the Republican convention in New York two years later, every speaker, most powerfully Rudy Giuliani, who had been the city's heroic mayor in 2001, invoked the lessons of that day of fire.
The bipartisan feelings that followed September 11th could hardly have lasted for ever. But it is still surprising how far the warm courage of national unity has turned into fiery partisanship. The change was first seen in Howard Dean's revolt against the Democratic establishment as he sought the party's presidential nomination—an establishment which, in his view, had allowed Mr Bush to turn the terrorist attacks into a carte blanche for his party. And it continues to drive not just politics but also popular culture. Neil Young, whose 2001 song “Let's Roll” paid tribute to the bravery of the passengers who stormed the hijackers on the flight that crashed in Pennsylvania, is now singing about impeaching the president.
The main cause of this partisanship is the Iraq war, which is proving even more divisive than Vietnam. Immediately after September 11th Americans were ready to blame Saddam Hussein: in a poll taken two days later 34% of respondents thought it “very likely” that he had been personally involved and 44% thought it “somewhat likely”. Large majorities of both political parties—80% of Republicans and 69% of Democrats—backed the war with Iraq.
But conservative hawks were always keenest on making the link. At a meeting in Camp David just after September 11th Paul Wolfowitz, the deputy defence secretary, argued three times that America should attack Iraq rather than Afghanistan. And many Democrats were always sceptical: 126 Democratic House members and 21 senators voted against the Iraqi war resolution in October 2002. Democratic opposition to the war expanded as America failed to get UN approval for deposing Mr Hussein. And it turned to fury when America failed to find WMD or to quell the resistance. Today nothing inspires more anger on the left than the belief that Mr Bush exploited September 11th to justify long-laid plans to remove the Iraqi president.
Still, there is more to America's polarisation than Iraq. The partisanship has been partly driven by political opportunism, as the Republicans have tried to turn September 11th into a vote-winner. How could the Democrats forgive the Republicans for branding Max Cleland, a man who lost three limbs in Vietnam, as being too soft on terrorism to be worthy of re-election to his Georgia Senate seat in 2002? But the split has also been driven by deep philosophical differences, briefly suppressed, about America's role in the world.
Might isn't right
The American left, in particular, has reverted to its pre-September 11th, and perhaps even pre-Clinton, suspicion of American power. A survey conducted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in November 2005 found that only 59% of Democrats still supported the decision to invade Afghanistan, compared with 94% of Republicans. A survey by the Century Foundation asked left-wingers and conservatives to rate their two main foreign-policy goals. Conservatives put destroying al-Qaeda at the top of their list; leftists put it at number ten.
It is tempting to argue that the most remarkable thing about September 11th, five years on, is how little it has changed America. Many features of the political landscape are much as they were on September 10th—a polarising president, an electorate divided almost 50-50 in terms of party allegiance, a Republican Party that loves to wrap itself in the flag and a Democratic Party more worried about outsourcing than terrorism. But look more deeply and you find dramatic changes.
The main one is a new emphasis on national security. In 2000, despite a series of increasingly devastating terrorist attacks, including the first bombing of the World Trade Centre, only 12% of Americans cited “world affairs” as a “paramount issue”. Today they are central.
The shadow of September 11th will hang over the mid-term elections. Ken Mehlman, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, argues that the big question in November is, “Do you believe we're at war?” The Democrats fight back by arguing that, thanks to his war in Iraq and neglect of security at home, Mr Bush is making America less safe.
September 11th may also hang over the 2008 presidential election. John McCain (tortured by the Vietnamese) and Mr Giuliani (a stirring September 11th performance), two of the Republican front-runners, boast perfect credentials for the new terror-racked world. Hillary Clinton, the Democratic front-runner, has been burnishing her own tough-gal credentials on the Senate Armed Services Committee.
The concentration on national security reflects a second big change: America's new but continuing sense of vulnerability. This has deepened over the years. The war in Iraq has proved how difficult it is for America to use its military might to change the world. The fiasco of failing to find any WMD in Iraq underlined the weakness of its intelligence services. The response to Hurricane Katrina showed dramatically what several congressional reports had already pointed out: that the administration had done little to prepare for another catastrophic attack.
Lastly, September 11th has turned the Bush presidency into a big deal. Before the aircraft struck, Mr Bush looked like a small-bore president—divisive, to be sure, but divisive about little things. On the morning of September 11th Mr Bush was reading “My Pet Goat” to a class of second-graders. His speech-writer, Michael Gerson, was working on a speech on “Communities of Character”. America is now as divided as possible about Mr Bush. His supporters regard him as a “transformative” figure like Ronald Reagan. His critics view him as a catastrophe—possibly the worst president in American history, according to Sean Wilentz, a Princeton historian. But, thanks to September 11th, nobody can dismiss him as a mere footnote. | http://www.economist.com/node/7854412?story_id=7854412 | dclm-gs1-283600001 | false | false | {
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Two Cheers For A Government Shutdown
After today’s vote by the House of Representatives, the prospects for a government shutdown look better than ever. A temporary closure won’t be pretty, and it will be expensive. (As the Congressional Research Service recently pointed out, flicking the lights on and off isn’t free.)
Protesters demonstrate in front of the Capitol...
Protesters demonstrate in front of the Capitol in Washington, DC (Image credit: AFP/Getty Images via @daylife)
But a shutdown might actually be good for us. Specifically, it might encourage voters to wrestle with a crucial issue: Is government really worth what it costs?
The odds of a shutdown seem pretty good at this point. Stan Collender, one of Washington’s most astute budget watchers, puts them at 60 percent. Of course, not every government agency will lock the doors at the end of September. Many functions will be exempt, including national defense, air traffic control, and key financial regulatory agencies.
But many federal offices will go dark. If you need something from the government after the first of October – like a passport, for instance, or help completing a form – then good luck to you; if an agency isn’t involved in the immediate protection of lives and property, it won’t be open. And people will notice. Not just people who work for the government (or sell it things). But plain ol’ regular people, too — people who vote.
Democrats are counting on this visibility. Polls indicate that voters will blame Republicans for a shutdown, and history suggests much the same thing. But Democrats should be careful. Public opinion is a fickle thing, and just because Bill Clinton “won” the last round of closures doesn’t mean that today’s Democrats will be as lucky (or as politically skilled).
But if the political fallout from a closure is uncertain, one thing is a pretty safe bet — shutting down the government will jumpstart arguments about the value of government.
And that would be a good and necessary thing. Lots of data show that Americans are unaware of the myriad ways in which government touches their lives. There’s nothing like shutting things down for a while to clarify matters a bit.
Americans complain all the time about the dysfunctional nature of American government. Why can’t politicians stop arguing? Why can’t they get anything done? And why do they have to be so relentlessly irritating?
The answer, of course, is gridlock. But gridlock is actually a symptom, not a cause, of our more fundamental problems. Dysfunction in Washington is a product of confusion in the voting booth. Americans are deeply divided — among themselves but also within themselves — about the central issues of our time: What should government do and how much are we willing to pay for it?
Sure, I understand that gridlock is partly a function of gerrymandered House districts. But that won’t be true come November, when Americans are likely to hand the Senate to the GOP. And the gerrymandered House is a reflection of polarized government at the state level, where Americans are also arguing about the role of government in society.
Americans are clearly skeptical about the value of government. Republicans have capitalized on — and amplified — that skepticism to engineer their own electoral victories. Which is what conservative parties are supposed to do (or at least what they can be expected to do).
The real failure belongs to Democrats. As the ostensible champions of activist government, they have done a remarkably poor job of defending it. Sure, they’ve gone to the mat for some elements of federal spending, especially entitlements. But Republicans will defend entitlements, too, at least much of the time. So that’s hardly a show of Democratic bravery.
A government shutdown won’t make that happen. But if we’re lucky, it might remind Democrats that arguments for government -– and the taxes we use to fund it -– are crucial. And maybe even winnable.
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• msmox msmox 1 year ago
Less government is always better government. I need to keep more of my money so I can pursue my interests instead of government taking those decisions from me. In other words, stop subverting my rights for wasted and wasteful programs dreamed up by people unaccountable to the laws they themselves have passed (Obamacare anyone?).
• Joe Goog Joe Goog 1 year ago
No harm in a temporary shutdown when the government has acted so irresponsibly with our tax dollars, pretending that we support wasted billions and want to continue forking it over. It’s time for disruptive action by taxpayers to get Washington’s attention, political correctness be damned. This government is no longer acting on behalf of the people and has too much power to be considered trustworthy. Change is not enough, it’s time to get radioactive or loose the liberties we hold dear.
• Yea! Bring on another sequester!! We definitely need more defense spending cuts.
Shut it down and make every single representative stand up and exclaim what they are for.
Are you for taking care of our elderly? Do you think the government should be able to negotiate healthcare prices like most other industrial nations?
If you are for cutting taxes you must be for cutting spending too.
Are you for cutting 40 billion away from food stamps so defense industries can blow a trillion building fighter planes we don’t need and that don’t work?
Getting real about spending requires our payola news media to get serious too.
Building a just society requires taxing those who have more to support those who can’t support themselves. Rich people and the other well off are not going to simply give their money away.
It’s time we get our priorities straight.
• Anon Anon 1 year ago
So you care more about shuffling around wealth from those who create it to those who don’t, than you do about giving opportunities to people to support themselves and create more wealth. Interesting.
• Mark Bench Mark Bench 1 year ago
what Alice implied I am taken by surprise that you can make $5491 in four weeks on the computer. official source http://fave.co/1aZIQea
• User_afh User_afh 1 year ago
The real failure belong to the American People. Inevitably the same old moron politicians will be elected to the same old districts. They will slouch behind their desks with their vodka, whiskey, rum or all of the above, get some little girl or boy to do all of their work, & then pay someone to think up lies at election time so they can keep sitting behind that desk.
The American People are committing treasonous abuse of liberty. Don’t blame the politicians, if the American People had any sort of handle on control, America would not be the disaster that it is. Blaming politicians only prolongs the suffering. Why don’t you blame the morons who elect them for once, you know the ones actually responsible for this nightmare of a welfare state, radically marxist nation. The time has come for Americans to stand erect.
We’re screwed. The American People could not build liberty if their lives depended on it. We’ll be at the mercy of despotism here in America. & you are not helping. | http://www.forbes.com/sites/taxanalysts/2013/09/20/two-cheers-for-a-government-shutdown/ | dclm-gs1-283650001 | false | false | {
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Destroya 01-31-2009 05:15 PM
2nd Level "Radar Array" Area Help
This area is driving me crazy, I've tried to dig up to go under the only side of the generators with dirt and you just can't do it.
Can anyone tell me how to get under the generators?
Everywhere else skips that entirely.
Ex."1. Grab the ALM-37 and hop onto the elevator.
2. Ride the elevator up to the next level and take immediate cover.
3. Freeze some enemies with your new gun and smash them with an elbow to the face.
4. Try to find a raptor to take out the turret and keep using cover until everyone is gone.
5 TIP: On the right side of the area there's data cell. Raise the terrain under the metal shed type door and then raise it even more with a spike grenade while you're on it. Jump into the window where it is to claim it.
6. Find the two metal structures in the dirt before the turret and raise the terrain on the switches on each one. This opens a door under the turret.
7. Go down the steps and kill the enemies in the room on the left.
Raise the terrain under the generator and then use a spike grenade to destroy it.
As you can see it never says exactly how to get under the generators.
The platforms adjacent to the generator are see-thru, you can see the ground underneath, you just can't get there.
Please help.
RoxStar 02-01-2009 09:03 PM
What platform are you on? I got through fine on the Xbox 360.
Destroya 02-02-2009 04:59 PM
Xbox 360.
How exactly do you do it? It says to throw a nade up there but they just bounce off and blow up elsewhere.
This is why I need help on this.
RoxStar 02-02-2009 08:41 PM
I'm still unsure as to what you're actually asking. Could you post a screenshot or something?
SynysterGates 04-26-2009 09:18 AM
Hope it helps! :)
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Oneida Way of Life
Nuts Picture from Rochester Museum
1. Economy
• Agriculture: Corn, Beans & Squash
Planted crops were very important to the Iroquois diet. They were known as “The Three Sisters” as they were also grown together. The women grew many crops. The most important crops were the Three Sisters; corn, beans and squash. The corn was used in many different ways. They had cornmeal, corncakes, soups and puddings. The Iroquois ate many different kinds of beans like kidney and lima beans. They also ate sunflower seeds. The Iroquois enjoyed eating the crops they planted.
• Hunting & Fishing
Iroquois people hunted deer, rabbit, and bear. They also fished using spears and nets. Snowshoes made winter hunting easier for the Iroquois. They traveled up to 50 miles a day wearing the snowshoes in deep snow. A banner stone was used as a weight to produce thrust when throwing a spear. It is believed to have been a prized possession of the chief of the tribe. A soapstone net sinker, with a complete groove, was used as a weight for either fish nets or a hand line. Arrow points and spear points were carved from flint stone and attached to the shaft for arrows or spears as needed by the men using them.
• Gathering Food: Berries, Nuts, Roots, etc.
Berries, nuts, and wild plants were important forms of food. Many of these tribes were considered to be excellent farmers. They had berries, such as wild cherries, strawberries, currents and huckleberries. They also collected many types of nuts. For instance, chestnuts, beechnuts, hickory nuts, butternuts, acorns and black walnuts were eaten by the Iroquois. Also, maple sap was one of the few sweeteners that the Indians had. The sap was collected from maple trees in the forest the maple sap was used for making maple sugar to put in breads. They also boiled the sap and made syrup and even made a type of snow cone candy treat for the children. A very important part of the forest was the plants used for medicine. The medicines were used to cure sicknesses that could cause deaths. Foods from the forest were an important part of the Iroquois diet.
• Goods and Trading
Oneida’s practice slash-burn horticulture, and had a very complex trade network with other native groups. Clay pipes were an important trade piece that stretched along the east coast Native Americans. During the fur trade era, the Iroquois people were very hostile to their neighboring tribes in order to shield and develop their middleman position. Though, others believe their belligerence came from the scarcity of furs in their own territory, making it difficult to obtain European trade goods. Iroquois hostile relations were to obtain the trade goods of their neighbors who were in closer contact with Europeans. After fur trading dealings had moved farther west, the Iroquois continued to take part in an important role as explorers and trappers.
Basket Maker Picture from Rochester Museum
2. Technology/Tools
• Building Structures: Longhouses - The average longhouse was about three hundred feet long by fifty to sixty feet wide by 30 feet tall. They were some times taller than that so they could hang their canoes up above them. There were several families that lived in one longhouse. One could tell by the number of smoke holes in the roof. Normally, there would be one family on each side of the smoke hole. The longhouse housed one clan. So, Oneida would have up to nine longhouses. One longhouse for each of the different clans and their sub clans. There would be one longhouse for ceremonies and the exterior would be made from elmbark and mud moss. The interior structure was made from maple tree saplings. There would be layers of mud moss and then a layer of bark. The longhouse would stay a comfortable 70-75 degrees year round. There was always a symbol above the door that told the people which clan resided in that longhouse. There was always something to eat and a fire burning in each longhouse. If there were hungry kids they would be fed right away for food was normally rationed. Any visitors that would stop by were given a bowl of food and were sat down by the fire to warm up. The longhouses were a home not only for a family, but a home for a community.
• Making Dyes
The Iroquois Indians used various plants to create dyes to dye fibers, quills, and other items used to decorate their clothing and household goods. Yellow dye was made from, Sunflower, Gold thread, Cone flower petals with decayed oak bark or cattail root, black willow roots, fox moss, yellow or curled dock root, cottonwood, lichen, Oregon grape, and Osage orange wood. Red dye was made with, Choke cherry or wild plum, tamarack bark, spruce cones, sumac berries, alder, and hemlock inner bark; poke berry, bloodroot, sassafras, red bedstraw, buffalo-berry, squaw current, red osier dogwood, red cedar. Black dye was made with, wild grape maples, burr oak, elderberries, hazel nut bark combined with powdered brown stone. Brown dye was made with hickory or walnuts gathered green and turned black, and rushes. Purple dye was made from blueberries, blackberries, elderberries, Northern dog whelk, and white maple. Blue dye Larkspur, beech, wire birch, and indigo. Green dyes was made from prince’s pine, moosewood, evergreen, copper mixed with ammonia (urine).
• Preserving Foods & Hides
• Pottery is a very important aspect in the Iroquoian culture. They used to make pottery to hold food and water and they made them thick and strong enough to cook food or boil water for soup. They also made the pottery strong enough to be buried in the ground for short and long periods of time. Pots were used to carry water from the lakes, rivers, and streams. They were used as storage devices for food or anything you would want put away for safekeeping. Pots were also given to people as gifts for celebrations like the birth of a child or for a wedding gift. Today we still have pottery artists who make their pots as decoration for there homes. Some potters sell their pottery or give it away to friends or family in the community. To this day, pottery is a form of artwork and a large aspect of Iroquoian culture.
• Black Ash Baskets like pottery were a major aspect in the Iroquois culture. Baskets were used to carry anything from fruits and berries to dried corn and even water some times. The baskets are made from black ash trees. These trees are used because they were the easiest to shape and mold when they were wet. The way you would get the splints for the baskets was a long process. First you would let a log soak up water for a few days. Then you would take a hatchet or a mallet and hammer the side of the log so the bark fell off. After that you would peel strips of wood and get your splints. They would keep the splints wet so they could keep the basket in a shape that they wanted. Baskets were sometimes used as gift-wrap. People would place a gift in the basket and pass it on to a person. Then that person would use it as a gift-wrap and pass it along. Some times the same basket would be used all of the time. Other times people would keep it to show they appreciate the time that person took in making the basket. Most basketry today is for decoration and show. The baskets I see around are usually being sold by vendors or are still being handed out as gifts. Iroquois basketry is a major aspect of their art and culture.
3. Medicine
4. Oral Traditional Stories
• General History
Corn Husk Doll
• Corn Husk Dolls are made from the husks of the corn ear. These dolls were made to entertain the children while their parents did their duties in the village. After the doll is made, there is no face put on it. There is a story of why there are no faces on the dolls. A long time ago the children in the village were distracting the parents and saying that they had nothing to do. The Creator noticed how much they were bothering the parents. So he sent down a young girl and told the people that she is the one who will play with the children while the parents did their duties. The young girl was responsible for taking the kids to play and stay out of the way of their parents. One hot summer day the kids wanted to go to the lake to play in the water and cool off. The young girl said okay and followed the children to the lake. She was a little hesitant of the water and had never had to go into it before. A couple of the kids went to the other side of the lake and they told her to come and get them. At that moment she looked down into the water and seen her reflection for the first time. She seen how beautiful she was. The children kept yelling to her to come and get them and she just ignored them and stared at her reflection all day.
Later that day after sitting by the lake staring at herself all day, she noticed all the children had gone back to the village. She hurried back and seen some of the children crying. The parents were angry and disappointed that the young girl neglected her duties. She apologized and asked for another chance. The parents agreed and said they would give her another chance. The Creator heard of what happened and came to her in her dream explaining to her what her responsibilities are. He scolded her and warned her not to do it again.
The next day it was hot again. All the children wanted to go back to the lake again. She took them and sat at the top of the hill where she could se them all. After a while she thought the children were okay, so she went down to the lake. She sat on the bank and looked over at her reflection. Again in amazement she stared at herself all day. The children wanted to leave but this time she didn’t let them go. She made them stay with her so she wouldn’t get in trouble again. They were there for a long time. The children were getting tired and hungry. After she noticed the sun was starting to set, they all went back to the village. When they all returned the kids all looked sick from hunger. The parents asked the children why they didn’t come back earlier. They all told their parents that the young girl wouldn’t let them leave because she was staring at her reflection in the water. The parents were really angry with her this time.
That night the Creator came to her in her dream and told her she ruined her second chance and now she had to come back to the Creator’s land. So that night the Creator sent down the Owl to take her face away. The next morning the young girl woke up early and went to the lake without the kids. When she got to the lake and looked into the water she seen that her face was gone. She started to cry and asked the Creator why he would give her such beauty and then just take it away. He told her that her beauty had nothing to do with her responsibilities. So as she sat there by the lake the creator turned her into a cornhusk doll and when the children came to the lake they found her and brought her back to the village. To this day the cornhusk dolls do not have faces. They say that if you put a face on a cornhusk doll that the Creator would send the Owl to take its face away. Today, cornhusk dolls are made for decoration. Although the dolls are only for decoration, they still have no faces.
5. Traditional Clothing
Their clothing was made mostly from hides of animals. In the winter, the men wore shirts, leggings, and moccasins made of buckskin. Buckskin is clothing made from the skins of animals, mainly deer. The woman wore skirts they had woven from the wild grasses, covered with furs, with leggings underneath. In the summer, the men wore a breechcloth, a short piece of buckskin that hung from the front to the back of the person. The woman wore their grass dresses, and the children wore nothing at all. A bone awl was the Indian woman’s needle for sewing clothing and pulling strands apart when weaving.
6. Traditional Games
The sacred bowl game was played the last day of the “Ceremonial of Midwinter” which marked the end of the year. The bowl wooden bowl was decorated with four clan symbols- the bear, wolf, turtle, and deer. To play the game a player placed the six nuts which were colored on one side inside the bowl and hit the bowl against the ground. If five of the six pits turned up the same color, the player scored and took another turn. The first player to reach 10 points wins the game. The Iroquois enjoyed playing games to improve their strength and agility. A game played in the winter by the Iroquois was called snowsnake. They started out by digging a path or grove in the snow and sprinkling it with water which made a smooth surface. Then they made a long wooden stick and slid it across the path dug in the snow. The person who slid the snowsnake the farthest won. A game often played in the summer was called darts. The game started out with two teams. Each player within the two teams had six darts or spears. Each team had a hoop rolled in front of them. The players then had to try to throw the darts though the hoop. The team with the best accuracy won. Iroquois games were very important in their every day lives because they learned skills that helped them in their adult lives. The Iroquois played many sports and games, but lacrosse was their favorite. They did not have much equipment. They had a stick with a net at one end, a ball made out of wood or animal skin, a goal post at each end on the field and no other protective equipment. The purpose of the game was to pass the ball around and try to score goals. Whoever scored the most goals, was the winner. The game was played for fun, but that's not the only reason. They also played to improve their skills including aim, speed and strength. Lacrosse was played by boys and men mainly. The games sometimes went on for two or three days. One game even ended up in a war. Thanks to the Iroquois, lacrosse is still played today by people of all ages. The Iroquois children had fun playing for entertainment in their spare time. The girls spent most of their time playing with corn husk dolls. These dolls had no face because the Iroquois felt if they did, a spirit would be harmed. The young girls would also play house to strengthen their mothering skills. The boys had fun playing many sports and games. While playing, the Iroquois children learned skills that would help them throughout life.
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My smart start malfunctioned and the company disconnected it. This caused my license to be suspended.
I had a DUI in Oct 2010 and another in Jan 2011 and went through a sobriety program which I finished in record time and have remained 100% sober since. I have not had one drop of alcohol in almost 3 years. One of the requirements of the program was to have an interlock device on my car. Well I was driving about a year ago and the device failed with an error message so I called the company. They told me to drive to their location, they said they had to disconnect and reconnect it and it would be fine they would just document it. However, as a result of this the Secretary of State suspended my license as a result. They believe I disconnected the Smart Start even though I have record from Smart Start that they disconnected it. My license is now suspended for another 2 years.
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Choosing good paint brushes for your art is an important step in gathering your art materials. Here are some guidelines to consider when making your purchases.
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Familiarize yourself with the brushes. Typically, an artist will have many different types of brushes for different techniques and painting methods:
2. 2
Familiarize yourself with different hair-types. There are different materials used for brushes:
• Bristle - usually the cheapest - made from pig hairs. This is a standard brush that you would find often in artists' collections.
• Synthetic - these can be cheap or expensive and they have a different feel than natural hair brushes.
• Sable - usually the most expensive - made from various other fine-haired animals, such as sables, weasels, and other rodents.
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Choose a brush that feels good and is well-built:
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Look for sales at art supply stores. If you are a student, be sure to go to stores that honor student discounts. Paying full price for art supplies is rarely wise, as artists are not known for being wealthy.
5. 5
Collect together one of each of these brushes and additional sizes of the main workhorse brushes - the flat and the filbert. You may also want a very wide flat brush (like a 2" wide house painting brush) for covering very large areas initially.
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Learn about the different ways each brush can be held and the different ways of making strokes. This knowledge will also come with experimentation, which is clearly the best way to learn. What you are trying to accomplish will generally decide which brush is best for which job.
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Chapter One: Gotham University
Pamela Isley.
It was true, the name didn't fit her.
Pam paused look at herself in one of the mirrors lining the corridors of Gotham University as she made her way to her first botany lecture. She didn't pause for long, because class started in 5 minutes and she hated being late. She pushed her coke-bottle glasses up her nose, brushed a long strand of bright orange hair behind her left ear and kept moving.
She didn't like all the noise here; she wasn't used to it. The click-clack of shoes against the stone floor, the shuffling of pages, the sound of a million different conversations at once; the cacophony was enough to give Pam a splitting headache. She had never been to a proper school before this, and so far she didn't like it. If only you could get a botany degree online, life would be so much easier. Pam pictured herself back home in Washington, sitting outside on the porch with her tablet laptop, surrounded by trees and fully at peace. That was what school should be like.
But no, here she was, on a scholarship to Gotham University, in a big, dark and gloomy city on the other side of the country. The university was nice enough, but the city was too enclosed for her liking.
Why did it have to be Gotham, anyway? Why put one of the country's top rated universities in one of its worst cities? All of the stories Pam had heard about Gotham were warnings. The city was full of murderers, gangs and corruption.
She checked her watch and groaned.
She was late. And going the wrong way. This was Pamela's problem- she was always drifting off and loosing herself in thought. This wouldn't be the first time it had caused problems.
She lifted her bookbag back onto her shoulder, turned around and started running, carefully dodging other students as she crossed the courtyard. The beads on the cord around her waist jingled behind her as she ran. She hoped her professor wouldn't be too mad at her. It was a big place, easy to get lost, and she was new to the city….
Pam's bookbag hit the ground with a loud clunk and her books scattered out across the floor. She felt a pain in her chest where she had fallen, and slowly pushed herself up from the ground. She took two deep breaths in before realising her glasses had fallen off. She got down on her hands and knees, frantically feeling around for the metal frames against the stone tiles.
"Shit." She hissed. Her glasses weren't exactly a fashion statement, but if she didn't wear them she was close to blind.
"Are you okay?"
Pamela looked up. The person speaking sounded male, but appeared to her as a large multicoloured blob.
"Yeah." She lied, smiling weakly. "Yeah, yeah…I just um…."
"Tripped?" the boy asked.
Pamela nodded. "I'm beginning to re-consider the practicality of running in flip-flops."
He laughed. "I think you dropped these."
She the familiar feeling of wire and glass in her outstretched hand.
"Thanks." Pamela said with relief, pushing the glasses up her nose. "I'm blind without these." She laughed.
She looked again at the boy, who was currently collecting up some pages that had fallen out of her portfolio. He was tall, with short brown hair and hooded grey eyes. He looked nice, or at least nicer than anyone else Pam had encountered in Gotham.
"Here you go." He said with a smile, handing Pam her folder. She hurriedly shoved it in her bookbag, stood up, and brushed off her dark green tunic.
"Thanks." She said with a blush and a quick smile. "Hey, could you tell me where Room 124 is, by any chance?"
"Sure." The boy said. "That's near where I have my next class. I'll show you."
He motioned for her to follow him down the corridor.
"My name's Wes, by the way." He said. "Welcome to Gotham."
Pamela laughed grimly.
"That's the first real welcome I've gotten since I left Bremerton." She paused. "That's in Washington. The state, not the city."
"Yeah, I know." Wes said. "That's near Seattle, isn't it?"
Pamela nodded.
"My name's Pamela by the way."
"Really?" Wes asked. "You don't look like a Pamela. You look more like a….Terra, or Summer, or Ivy. Something…earthy like that."
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After the gas line explosion in San Bruno, it was hard to remember that it was just another Thursday in a neighborhood distinguished by conventional, middle-class stability.
September 10, 2010|By Maria L. LaGanga, Molly Hennessy-Fiske and Scott Gold, Los Angeles Times
Reporting from San Bruno and Los Angeles — They lived on narrow, interwoven streets with names that smacked of sturdy suburbia: Concord Way, Glenview Drive.
There had been some change in recent years — new faces, new money as young professionals discovered that it was a workable commute from the town of San Bruno to San Francisco, 12 miles to the north. But more than anything, the subdivision was a place distinguished by conventional, middle-class stability.
They lived in modest, ranch-style houses, most built during a housing boom that followed World War II. They shaped their junipers and played basketball in their driveways. They were retired cops, preschool teachers, jet maintenance workers.
They knew one another, and not just by waving on the way to work in the morning. Neighborhood fixtures were the rule; many had lived here for 30, 40 years, some in the same house where they grew up. One resident was there to watch workers dig trenches and install gas lines in 1957.
Now there is a 30-foot-wide crater in the middle of the neighborhood, where a 30-inch gas line ruptured and erupted Thursday in a massive plume of fire. The scope of the disaster is becoming clearer: four confirmed deaths, including a 44-year-old woman and her young daughter. At least 38 homes were destroyed, and a team of rescue workers and dogs trained to search for cadavers combed through the wreckage Friday. At least 52 burn victims were treated at hospitals..
It's hard to remember that it was just another evening — a Thursday, a little after 6. The kids were doing their homework, some of the first of the new school year. Several residents were watching the first half of the Saints-Vikings football game. One was feeding his dog, another watering his flowers, another tidying up her bedroom.
They'd smelled it first, some of them — the smell of gas.
They felt it next — low and steady, as if the earth was growling, then with a sudden urgency that shook the foundations of their houses.
They all assumed it was one of two things: an earthquake or the crash-landing of a jumbo jet.
Kaila Uniacke, 17, was in the earthquake camp. She raced into her brother Kevin's bedroom, and the two of them huddled under a desk. But after a while, she realized it didn't feel like an earthquake. Curious, she looked outside. Most of them did.
"The wind," she said, "was red."
Bob Hensel, 71, a retired firefighter for the city of San Bruno, was in the den watching TV.
"It sounded like I was standing at the wrong side of a jet engine," he said. "Stuff started hitting the house. It got warm and very orange and bright out. I … realized I had to get the heck out."
Hensel allowed himself a minute to search for the cats, Zoe and Buckwheat, but they'd scattered. He threw on a pair of black lace-up shoes and ran to the garage, no time to grab his wallet, hearing aid, pills. The power was out, so he scrambled to open the garage manually. Everything saved was attached to his body — the eyeglasses hanging from his shirt collar, the cellphone attached to his belt.
Hensel's home, on a hill in the 1100 block of Fairmont Drive, was the last one leveled in the blaze, the house to the south of him gone too, the house to the north of him untouched.
He fled, barreling down the street on the edge of a fire that authorities say may have reached 1,200 degrees. On Friday, outside an evacuation center set up in San Bruno's Veterans Memorial Recreation Center, he realized that the taillight lenses on his car were distorted by the heat, the paint on the bumper peeled and blistered.
Hensel's son, Rob, works for the city and was able to sneak back into the neighborhood to get a look at the house.
"Desolation," Rob said. "Surreal. A Hollywood set."
There was a filing cabinet that didn't burn. A toolbox. Part of the chimney.
"Other than that, all ashes," Hensel said. "I lost my home. I lost my identity."
San Bruno's identity was forged in the ashes of another disaster: the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, which killed at least 3,000. Much of the damage associated with that landmark event has been linked to the subsequent fires that leveled 500 city blocks — started, for the most part, by ruptured gas lines.
The quake left more than 300,000 people homeless. Sensing opportunity, developers began building hundreds of homes in the southern suburbs. Until then, San Bruno was farmland and wilderness, home to a few hundred people and a train station along the route from San Jose to San Francisco. After the quake, the town grew steadily.
During World War II, the Army took over San Bruno's famed Tanforan Racetrack, where thoroughbred horses raced, using it as an internment camp for Japanese Americans. They also built a massive staging area for troops headed for the Pacific. Many of those soldiers settled there after the war, driving the population from 6,500 to 35,000 by the mid-1960s. There are about 41,000 residents today.
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Economists, Readers Offer Questions for Bernanke
• I'm sure the questions won't be pre-staged softballs resulting in a propoganda session for the public.
What's the point in even listening to this criminal any longer?
• The Refi Plus program will waive the normal credit score requirement for a refinance; it will have reduced documentation standards for proof of income; and it will allow for computer-based appraisals, which tend to inflate the value of a home and make it easier to qualify for a refinance. Search online for "Mortgage Refinance 123" they are the best and fast.
• I wish someone would ask Bernanke where he got the figure of 600 billion dollars for his last round of QE (QE2). Can he show us the formulas he used or did he just pull the number out of his head?
The idiot Bernanke does not even realize that he is being set up as the fall guy for the economic failings of the current administration. By moving himself more into to the national spot light he is setting up the FED to become the villain by both political parties. Obama will blame Bernanke for just about every ill our economy has when his reelection falters. Bernanke will replace Bush as the reason things are not getting any better. In the end (partly rightly so) he will be public enemy number one.
• The readers questions seem more interesting than those by the professors. Shame that they will never be asked esp. this gem "Why must the Fed punish savers and investors by dropping short-term interest rates to near zero? If there is a positive psychological wealth effect from a bubbling stock market, isn’t there a contrary effect from the dwindling earnings of a savings account?"
• I would ask Bernanke how his policies are materially different than those of G. William Miller during the late seventies that had very similar initial results that we are now experiencing and eventually led to the runaway inflation that Volcker had to crush.
• This whole thing is kind of surreal, in that currencies are all based on what the markets will bear. There is no collateral to back up any currency. It truely is all in the minds of what each individual, collectively, think it should bear. It is all based on certain rules that must be perceived in the same way. It is all based on a set of preceptions that certain people have put a meaning on, to a value things based on their own perception that they have made other people believe in to control economies.
• Do you think the Fed should have a mandate on employment? All the Fed can really do is cause distortions in the market which ultimately burst and lead to greater unemployment.
• Would you considering running for President as an Independent?
• I would ask him when he plans on resigning.
• Why has he promoted a financial policy that strips savings from ordinary workers while giving unprecedented borrowing power to big corporations; i.e., zero rate for loans, .2 percent on savings. The worst situation in my lifetime. His policy bolsters the banks and strips savers of any gain while banks are using their money. A disgrace.
• I gotta go with WSW pn this one. Bernanke should run for presindent. It would get him out of the Fed and he will only get 1 vote, putting an end to his career. Great idea, WSW!
• QE1 and QE2 has caused a bubble in the US asset prices including US farm land. It has caused commodity prices to go up along with stock prices. It has caused interest rates to go down. How can suppressing interest rates benefit retired Americans who depend on interest rate payments? The increase in food and gas prices have taken a big bite out of disposal incomes for the middle class. How can the poorest of the poor who can't bargain for pay increases benefit from the inflation caused by QE1 and QE2? Is is not correct to say that the fed represents the interest of the private banks through the FOMC and are more interested in benefiting Wall Street and the regional banks, rather than Americans on Main Street? Has not your and Greenspan's action caused main stream Americans to really wonder if they really do need a Federal reserve which is causing more problems than solving? Do you think the US federal reserve should be disbanded and the cost of money (interest rates) determined by the supply and demand of money (savings and loans) rather than set arbitrarily by the US federal reserve?
• Mr. Ben will you please present an economic map that demonstrates the economic growth locations , by industry and economic sectors? Include please the % of growth of each from 2008 and remove the effects of all the stimulus packages. Real nominal growth and not the artificial growth please. Also if you will please include the cost of each sectors growth.
Not just words but charts and graphs supported by the words.
• WWW111...But he'll win! Then what? The Undertaker, for one, will be re-buried!
• I would like him to comment on the parallels between our situation now and the situation in the UK shortly before their currency was replaced as the world's reserve currency and why he thinks we won't end up in the same shape?
• It is a shame. The Fed is waging class warfare and exacerbating the gap between the have's and have-not's by employing tactics that only the well-heeled and "plugged-in" can take advantage of with any facility.
The Fed is choosing the winners and the losers. Investors and savers cannot make decisions based on an assessment of free market dynamics. We are left with trying to guess when Bernanke will decide that hedge fund managers have made enough in their gold trade; when the transfer payments to banks have fattened executive bonuses enough and when investment banking activity has brought in enough fee revenue as a result of M&A activity brought on by cheap money.
• What about this question... What do you think about china cheating their, excuse me pegging, their currency to ours and how that is affecting our economy and jobs?
• He should run for Predident by all means - against Ron Paul who would shread this clown in any forum !
• Another Question: re. Rolling Stones, April 12, 2011 article, "The Real Housewives of Wall Street - Why is the Federal Reserve forking over $220 million in bailout money to the wives of two Morgan Stanley bigwigs?" Is the essence of the story accurate and, if so then what was the rationale for funding Waterfall TALF Opportunity? Are there other instances besides Waterfalol TALF Opportunity, where there was little invesment by the financial enterprise using bailout money?
• Hey WSW your paranoid schizophrenia treatment doctor at Napa State mental Hospital keeps calling me to find out where you are since you escaped from the asylum. I told him your at the FED worshiping. I'm afraid that Bernanke for president statement just bought you a one way ticket back home to the electric shock therapy room again partner. Enjoy! My work here is done. Audit and abolish the FED!
• The old Undertaker never dies, he just digs away!
• Federal Reserve gave $220 million in bailout money to wives of two Wall Street Executives April 12, 2011 0 Comments Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone reports:
The Federal Reserve sent billions in U.S. taxpayers’ bailout aid to banks in places like Mexico, Bahrain and Bavaria, billions more to a spate of Japanese car companies, more than $2 trillion in loans each to Citigroup and Morgan Stanley, and billions more to a string of lesser millionaires and billionaires with Cayman Islands addresses. “Our jaws are literally dropping as we’re reading this,” says Warren Gunnels, an aide to Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont. “Every one of these transactions is outrageous.”
Wall Street’s Big Win
But if you want to get a true sense of what the “shadow budget” is all about, all you have to do is look closely at the U.S. taxpayer money handed over to a single company that goes by a seemingly innocuous name: Waterfall TALF Opportunity. At first glance, Waterfall’s haul doesn’t seem all that huge — just nine loans totaling some $220 million, made through a Fed bailout program. That doesn’t seem like a whole lot, considering that Goldman Sachs alone received roughly $800 billion in loans from the Fed. But upon closer inspection, Waterfall TALF Opportunity boasts a couple of interesting names among its chief investors: Christy Mack and Susan Karches.
Christy is the wife of John Mack, the chairman of Morgan Stanley. Susan is the widow of Peter Karches, a close friend of the Macks who served as president of Morgan Stanley’s investment-banking division. Neither woman appears to have any serious history in business, apart from a few philanthropic experiences. Yet the Federal Reserve handed them both low-interest loans of nearly a quarter of a billion dollars through a complicated bailout program that virtually guaranteed them millions in risk-free income.
The Rolling Stone articles contains more details of the other trillions of U.S. taxpayers’ dollars to the rich, banks, hedge funds, etc. Heck, no wonder the U.S. government is “broke”! The Federal Reserve should be shut down and Bernanke should be in prison! He makes Madoff look like a saint!
QUESTION: With income tax day approaching, do I write my check out to the U. S. Treasury or should I just cut out the middleman and send my hard earned money to Wall Street bankers?
• Bernanke would get one vote for president --------- WSW's!
• Do you want your cell in San Quentin, or Rikers Island?
• Bernanke: Fed Expects Slower Growth, Slight Rise in Inflation
This is what he said at the first FED news conference.
And, the DOW rose 86 points.
Something is very wrong.
Richard Michael Abraham
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That’s why gas station owners are seeing more of this: people only putting a few bucks worth of fuel in their tanks.
“Three dollars will get you nowhere! Absolutely insane. It will get you nowhere!” says Tony Major, after hearing that someone at an ARCO station only put that much gas in their vehicle.
But gas station owners say they’ve seen worse.
“Some people have come in with like 50 cents for gas. And just enough to get them home for the day and sometimes, you know, a dollar or two but you know times are tough right now. Just getting by. I totally understand,” says Roy Brennan, owner of Roy and Dena’s 7-11 in Sparks.
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Aug 30, 2012 07:53 AM
Alternate uses for food
A recent video on this site which shows how to use peanut butter to fix scratches on a DVD got me thinking about other foods we use in nonfood ways:
People on TV sitcoms and in cartoons always use raw steak to put on a black eye. Personally, I've never seen anyone do this in real life but I'm sure it's been done.
Kids use pasta/macaroni for art projects in grammar school.
Mr. Potato head and all of his relatives and friends (the original sets also suggested using onions, peppers, oranges, etc.)
Oatmeal is used to exfoliate the skin.
Butter and Crisco are used as sexual lubricants.
What can you add to the list?
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1. Vinegar as a cleaner.
Baking soda as a cleaner, toothpaste, air deodorizer.
Olive oil in DIY cosmetics.
Sugar and salt in DIY exfoliants.
Avocado, cucumber and various fruits and vegetables in face masks, etc.
1. Per Lady Gaga, meat as a dress.
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1. re: sbp
Love that one! But credit must be given to Argentine designer Franc Fernandez and stylist Nicola Formichetti.
1. re: ttoommyy
how about also giving cred to jana sterbak... since all of the above totally bit her original 1987 artwork.
2. For a junior high school project, I made a replica of the Coliseum with sugar cubes and Elmers Glue. Lots of sugar cubes.
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1. re: Veggo
I did the Pyramid of Giza. I think mine was easier!
1. Well, chicken wings, backs, and necks make fine crab bait. And, in college, the team doctor used to suggest putting any frozen stuff we had in the dorm on our contusions - peas, pizza, margarita mix. Then again, he used to hand out codeine and benzedrine quite often too.
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1. re: MGZ
And don't forget a rice sock in the microwave to provide moist heat!
1. re: kattyeyes
A microwaved potato works real well too and hold the heat longer than rice
1. re: scubadoo97
You apply that to, say, a sore shoulder or back? Don't you make mashed badadas?! How does that go?
1. re: kattyeyes
Great for applying heat to a facial abscess, sty....
2. re: kattyeyes
Hell, this was the 80s. No one used moist heat. Ice was the rage. Painkillers were to shut you up and the speed was so you'd go to class, and beer, oh yeah, beer. Plus, if you were lucky, and won that week, a guy on your floor would stop by with some weed. Not sure how I graduated, actually . . . .
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Feb 19, 2013 10:54 AM
farm and the fisherman
It comes up a lot in foodie conversations with friends and I am anxious to try it.
The thing is the menu looks very "Frenchie rich" and I am not able to take all those ambitious sauces and cream/butter rich polentas etc.
Is it possible I am just looking at a sample menu and there are some simpler offerings?
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1. It's much closer to the food he cooked at Blue Hill than a "Frenchie rich" counterpart.
1. I've been to Blue Hill but only the one in Manhattan and that menu was better than perfect for me. That chef went the extra mile for a table next to me that was all vegetarians and the chef asked them to trust him. That repast he served them was magnificent.
I am not familiar with the Barns chef but understand he was really great.
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1. re: arepo
The chef/owner at Farm and Fisherman was the chef de cuisine at Blue Hill Stone Barns. He's a really nice guy. I've been at F & F a few times, but my parents who live in Center City have been there at least 20 times, probably more.
1. re: Nancy S.
I am anxious to give it a try.
I hope it works out for me. I cannot eat very rich cooking. (cream and butter galore)
1. re: arepo
They are super flexible and will do whatever you want within your diet.
As far as richness, it's not Bibou, but it's not Vedge either (I'm sure that's super helpful!).
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von Urban Expert 30. Juni 2014
describes person who is stupid, or being treated like they stupid
mugging off - to take the piss out of someone
"you fuckin mug"
von londoncunt 13. Februar 2005
to jack and or to use as a cuss word
i gotta go mug myself
von payton12345678 13. Mai 2007
"You lookin at me you flippin mug?
"Gamblings a mugs game"
"They are all a bunch of mugs"
von Harry69 11. November 2009
Mug is a English term for idiot or some one stupid.
For instance
Barry: ' Damn i lost your money! '
Gazza: ' Ah you mug!'
Can be used as an insult but is commonly known to be used to call friends as a joke.
You bloody Mug
Ah Gazza is a MUG
what the hell you mug.
jog on you mug.
von That British Fella 21. Januar 2009
someone who is naive and has been cheated.
von kristen white 16. Mai 2008
Someone who will soon suffer the consequences for a very poor choice.
Ben just paid 20 fucking dollars for a mug from Urban Dictionary...what a fucking mug!
von Benzo! 19. Oktober 2009
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La Prairie is a village in Adams County, Illinois, United States. The population was 60 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Quincy, IL–MO Micropolitan Statistical Area.
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I am studying for my exams, which is a load of bullshit
dodane przez Jo kwiecień 23, 2005
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what you're avoiding right now
you are avoiding studying right now
dodane przez puer romanus luty 05, 2009
A blend of the words "student" and "dying," used to convey the slow and painful methods schools use to corrupt the youth into socio-economic puppets.
Teacher: Student, why aren't you studying, you need to study so that you can advance in the world.
dodane przez L. Malice marzec 05, 2006
An excuse you give your friends when you want to stay home alone and masturbate. Also known as 'reading' 'cleaning your room' or writing a term paper.
"Want to hang out?"
"No, I'm going to stay home and study."
dodane przez DesPERRYado listopad 08, 2004
Doing anything other than studying;
Synonyms: interneting, watching tv, masturbating, playing video games, wasting away, daydreaming
(While surving the internet) "Get the fuck out of my room, I'm studying!!"
dodane przez Alexsai grudzień 18, 2005
An activity performed by a student (usually at the last minute) to recall what the professor has been teaching for the whole semester. The word studying interestingly enough has the word "dying" within it. The purpose of this is to alert the victim as to how they will feel (as if they were dying) while participating in the activity.
Student : I was up studying section eight all night looking for the answer to problem number twenty six. I wanted to die when I couldn't find it. Where is the answer in section eight?
Professor : It's not in the book. You can find it in our in-class notes.
dodane przez Phaedrus2nd listopad 28, 2009
(verb) The act of texting, facebooking, eating, and watching TV with an open textbook nearby.
I got caught up on my favorite show, all while eating my chinese food and updating my status on facebook. Then, I realized I had my organic chem final tomorrow. Successful night of studying!!
dodane przez slacker31 wrzesień 30, 2011
Cykliczny mail ze słowem dnia
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Remember building a solar system in high school? Cups and papier-mache balls are in the past, because Solar Walk is an interactive orrery that shows all planets and satellites of the solar system in their correct positions in real time. This 3D solar system model lets you navigate between planets, see their positions on a specific date, explore how they move and why. You will see the entire Milky Way galaxy from a far and zoom in to study all the planets and satellites in close-up, learn their trajectories, inner structures, history of their exploration, and geography.
Every planet has extensive information: size, mass, orbital velocity, exploratory missions, thickness of structural layers, and composition of atmosphere.
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1991 Acura Integra Question: electrical issues
I just bought a 91 integra and the right side headlight is dim, the heater shuts off when I turn the headlights on, and when ever I turn the headlights off they get real dim but don't turn completely off until I shut off the engine. The previous owner said it had been stolen. What could be going on? -
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