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0.141905 | <urn:uuid:afef52f6-76c4-4f3e-bb50-dbc4438b3aa3> | en | 0.960983 | i've got a fool's urge to make everything wrong
a strong 'i hate you' echos from a distance
why was it ever my fault?
who were you really all those times?
i didnt believe you when you made your list
but i gave you what you wanted
why didn't you accept it?
you didn't give me a chance
i found your love stopped when your heart did
or changed beats rather, but still
you're jumping when you said you wouldn't
and i believed you
im not angry, i promise, believe me
eventhough you've changed your mind
maybe i'll be here when you change it again
don't leave me
maybe if i run my fingers along your skin
in just the right way, you see...
look into your eyes and find the right wave
maybe forever won't end so soon
if i cut every stupid story short and just save time
for your words that i'll soon never hear
you'll be lost in the ocean
you see, i'll never feel like this ever again
this blackhole of lonliness will swallow me whole
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Plugin framework
Its time to start the ball rolling with the new development. First up is the
plugin architecture. Let me explain a proposal and then we can discuss it.
To make the audit system more useful, we need to be able to pass events to
other software for realtime analysis and responding. We also need to be able
pass protection profiles which mean the audit system cannot be complicated to
explain its operation. We also cannot allow plugins to the audit system to
corrupt or crash the audit daemon.
The way that this will be accomplished is to add another configuration
parameter dispatcher. This will take the full path to a program that
dispatches audit events. The audit daemon will fork on startup and open a
The dispatcher will read from stdin to get audit events. The audit daemon will
use nonblocking writes to the pipe so that it can move on to process the
event itself. (We could make it configurable as to whether to use blocking or
nonblocking writes.) If the dispatcher parameter is empty, the audit daemon
will behave as it currently does. The dispatcher that is standard with the
audit package will be /sbin/audisp. By having the dispatcher specified as a
parameter, third parties can write their own.
The proposed architecture looks something like this:
[fd1] [fd2] [fd3]
I1 I2 I3
\ | /
event queue
/ | \
F1 F2 F3
| | |
O1 O2 O3
The different items along the top are input plugins. The audit daemon is one
of them. The user may have other sources of data that they want fed to the
dispatcher. Maybe IPTables events for example.
These events get queued where different filters examine the event. The filter
picks off the event, processes it and sends it to an output plugin. The
output plugin could be used to send the event out of the machine to an
aggregator. It might be arranged something like this:
C1 C2 C3
\ | /
I1 I2
\ |
event queue
/ | \
F1 F2 F3
| | |
O1 O2 O3
C1 - C3 are the output plugins from different computers. They come into a
listener plugin on the monitor computer. The monitor computer is running the
same audisp program and handles the other computer's events in its own queue.
This also lends itself to remote logging instead of alarm or IDS. The new
audit daemon will also have a new format option NONE, that tells it not to
log the events to disk. This means it depends on audisp as the transport
Now some specs going forward. What I would like to see is a framework that any
number of plugins can be developed for. There should be:
input plugins - These gather events and send them to event dispatcher.
filter plugins - these perform reduction of data. They may be used for either
input or output chains. For example, event dispatcher sends all events to
filter. The user may be using a plugin that filters all but AVC denial
messages. Only avc denial messages are output. The filter plugins can also
transform data. For example, maybe the user want the data changed to xml, or
python, or java friendly data. Perhaps they want some fields removed.
output plugins - These are assigned to filter plugin and write the data
received from its input. There can be a number of these. One for console, ssl
socket, af_unix socket, syslog, dbus, append to file, send email, or execute
a program passing the data.
The config file should let the user specify a chain of plugins that input
events. The config file should let the user specify the chain of plugins for
output. The order in which data moves is specified by the chain. It is
unclear how to specify configuration information for the plugins. Maybe the
command line. For example, the relay is going to need to have a destination
address & port. The filter plugins may need a list of fields to pass or list
of fields to suppress.
Threading - multiple threads may be used. They must be detached. They should
have cancellation points. It is unclear if the user should be able to specify
thread pool size.
auditd must be able to send sigterm and have all threads shutdown.
The audit daemon shall send a message type AUDIT_DAEMON_RECONFIG which will
cause audisp to re-read the configuration.
At this point we should open the discussion and determine what plugins we
would like to have. I can create the list if no one any requests.
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0.216559 | <urn:uuid:aff32a62-ba94-46d4-a0f3-f413618d3d16> | en | 0.969327 | 28 January 2013
Liberia Owes U.S.$200 Million
It has been revealed in Monrovia that over US$200 million dollars domestic debt owed by the Government of Liberia is untraceable.
Finance Minister Amara Konneh made the astonishing revelation while addressing the Ministry of Information press briefing Thursday, January 24, 2013.
"Our domestic debt is around 200milllion. We didn't know that. And the majority of it is with the Central Bank; contracted when the Central Bank used to be called the National Bank. And, in most cases you can't even trace the money," Minister Konneh disclosed to news men Thursday.
He did not say how the debt was accumulated, neither did he say why the government is committed to paying the money when, in fact, the money is not traceable.
Minister Konneh's revelation was in response to a question on why the government was reneging on paying its huge domestic debt but has instead chosen to credit more money.
"I have conducted a review, and all I can say to you is that there's no trace," Minister Konneh said. "We took it up to the Central Bank, and you cannot trace it to any project. But they say we should pay."
Minister Konneh could not say who's compelling the government to pay the domestic debt when, in fact, there are no records to prove that the government is indeed owing such amount.
Minister Konneh did not disclose how the domestic liability was accumulated, but however insisted that by borrowing more money, the country was on its way to relieving itself from more financial burdens whose practical realities he promised will come in the next three years.
His revelation now leaves many wondering as to why the government should commit itself to paying a debt with no records traced.
"If the international community will look at Liberia, after we inflicted harm on ourselves, and put us in the position we are in today, to the point where our economy collapsed, why can't Liberians themselves forgive their own country?" Minister Konneh said while also revealing a new US$65Million loan agreement signed between the Government of Liberia and the European Investment Bank (EIB).
"I can tell you this ... the loan agreement we signed today will help us (the government of Liberia) in about three to five years to clear our domestic debts. So, we're investing now, through borrowing, so that tomorrow we can settle our domestic debts.
"So, we've given debt forgiveness to ourselves. We will continue to harass the government on the issue of domestic debt, and I can tell you that the government is committed to meeting its obligations because the contracts are on track.
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0.121541 | <urn:uuid:cd3aa5e8-b383-46c1-9610-04ddd8d312f0> | en | 0.931858 | Earth's Poles Are Shifting to New Coordinates
Lava flows underneath the planet's crust show reasons for polar shift
Earth's enormous amount of magnetic lines
Recent researches in our planet's lava flows seem to indicate that the North Pole is becoming weaker and weaker, as the magnetic field Earth generates is decreasing in intensity. According to the September 26 issue of the journal “Science,” secondary magnetic sources, other than the constant, turbulent flow of molten iron and rock beneath the ground, exist under the crust. Apparently, they can, at times, influence the magnetic field generated by our planet's poles, usually when the main “generators” are dwindling.
Such seems to be the case in recent times, as Brad Singer, a geology professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has discovered that the streaming, molten iron core, which generates most of Earth's magnetic field capabilities, is currently becoming slower and weaker in its output. Apparently, Earth goes through this cycle at various intervals. The last all-time low registered by geologists was about 780,000 years ago, when the North and the South poles came dangerously close to shifting.
According to paleomagnetist Kenneth Hoffman, hardened lava from eruption sites in Germany and Tahiti may show us how Earth's magnetic field looked at various times throughout history. When molten rock swirls underneath Earth's crust, it orients metal particles inside towards certain stream lines, which determine the orientation of the magnetic lines, Hoffman explains. This means that, even after lava erupts and hardens, it still retains a sort of “memory” of its orientation while inside the crust.
Hoffman and Singer are currently trying to find out ways of determining when and how polar shift occurs. This is very important, because such a shift will have devastating effects on life as we know it. Communication breakdowns and ice ages are just two of the many catastrophic effects we should expect.
While analyzing the sites in Germany and Tahiti, geologists uncovered that, when the poles are weak, there is great potential for extreme anomalies on the globe, including massive storms, hurricanes, very high or subzero temperatures and so on. Though the next low in magnetic activities is still about 1,500 years away, scientists aim at being able to predict when a polar shift occurs and the possible implications it might have for humankind.
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0.072524 | <urn:uuid:4831cd02-638a-4bc5-ae6f-4dc0412e780e> | en | 0.983445 | San Diego Update
My friend in San Diego sends this update:
I’m sorry to have worried you guys. I was worried too, ’cause it’s been pretty wild around here. We had wildfires a few years ago where they shut down the city (because of smoke) but this year was much worse. The actual flames were blowing west toward us, pushed by high speed desert winds.
Baby and I are fine, and they got the most imminent (for me) fire under control late last night. Staying here was a good move, though I’ll admit, we got lucky. If they hadn’t, we would have had to flee in a hurry. I don’t have a tv so I didn’t know what was going on. But my landlord/neighbor is a dear friend, and he told me he wouldn’t leave us.
Yesterday the air was still fresh where I live, but it is now under smoke and ash. Baby and I are bouncing off the walls of my studio apartment, but at least we have a roof!
Since our air was still smoke free last night, I didn’t really realize how bad things were, and I decided it would be ok to drive down to have dinner with my boyfriend and his teens where they were staying in a hotel to escape the smoke. Not my wisest move, it turned out.
The first clue this wasn’t a wise move was when I was driving south. The freeway going north was packed, a parking lot. Going south was deserted. That was creepy. A few miles in and the sky was dark orange with smoke, and the sun itself looked like a blood orange. You could look right at it and barely see it. It was ominous looking, apocalyptic. Then I hit a stretch of freeway that runs across a large lagoon. It was as if I had driven into hell. The hot orange winds were blowing so hard that my small SUV blew sideways and skidded into the next lane, empty since hardly anyone else was going south. I slowed down, resisting the urge to get across the lagoon as fast as I could, and had to dodge a large chunk of a tree that skidded across the road, followed by some trash and a loose tire. I glanced up at the mirror to see my baby sleeping in the back, wondering if this was going to be one of those Darwin award nominations. We got through the high wind zone and entered the black smoke zone. Visibility not good. Finally we made it out of the thick smoke and into the area where people were staying in hotels to get away from the smoke. It was still smoky but not as bad as what I came through. We had dinner, and I have to confess, danger makes Chinese food taste even better. It was the best Chinese food I’ve ever had in my life.
Then someone at the restaurant announced they had closed the freeway I needed to get home on due to high winds. I dashed out of there (my poor old dog was home alone) and made it home ok. Since the sun went down the winds calmed a bit. The freeway wasn’t closed, but you get a lot of panic and misinformation at times like these.
My landlord/friend is hosting 5 displaced people (there are 7 adults, four dogs, and a baby in a two bedroom house). Today he went with his babymama’s dad to see if they could rescue anything more before the fires got her dad’s house and farm. First, they drove around to see if they could get in safely, and they saw firefighters at work. They would stand in front of houses and spray water at roaring flames that were four stories high, being whipped by the winds. They would follow the flames to the sides of the houses, letting the grass and trees burn but defending a circle around the house. When the fire truck horn blew, they would all scamper out of the last green opening back to the truck and race to the next house in line. So brave!
At the house, my friends turned on the avocado grove irrigation system, thinking it couldn’t hurt to have running just while they were loading up, as an added precaution. As they piled photos, quilts, and such into the van, they heard propane tanks exploding nearby. They looked out at the neighbor’s farm and saw flames coming up the hill. It was so hot the neighbor’s truck tires exploded before their eyes and the truck burst into flames. Time to go, they decided.
Hopefully the fire trucks were able to get to their house in time, but even if so, the land is scorched black and smells awful. I feel so bad for them. They’ve lived there since their children were little.
I feel like the danger has passed for us, and I’m ready for things to get back to ‘normal’ (a.k.a. hectic and chaotic). I remember last time the city shut down it was kind of fun to have refugee parties and watch the news, but as I mentioned, those fires weren’t as close and the winds weren’t as high. Plus, this time my regular schedule is so chaotic, this hasn’t been a welcome break from my routine. I long for routine.
Thanks for thinking of me!
And later:
I sat down (offering a bottle of tequila and some lime wedges) with the refugee dad tonight, and learned that it was worse than I thought- the house and farm that burned was the house he grew up in. His parents owned it and when they died he moved his family there, when his daughters were young. He’s 60ish, so it’s been around for quite a long time without being destroyed. Has California been living off of stolen water for 60 years? And if so, is it logical to assume things should revert back to their state in the early 1900’s and no one should be surprised? Just a thought.
Oh, and it gets even worse. My landlord and friend just knocked on my door and asked me if my daughter and I could move out of his guest house in a week so the parents could live here until they figure out their living situation. I am going to be looking for a place to rent tomorrow, with no income, during a time when 300,000 people are looking for a place to live. And I won’t qualify for any aid.
I’m gonna need more tequila.
Oh, sorry, according to the latest internet news it’s actually A MILLION FUCKING PEOPLE. WAITRESS! MORE TEQUILA!!!!
One thought on “San Diego Update”
1. The media seems to be painting a portrait of this California tragedy as a well run and organized “event”
The reality for your friend Mary, a renter will be difficult. The aftermath of the losses will be where the Rubber meets the Road in terms of comparing recovery.
I wish Mary well.
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0.202669 | <urn:uuid:fdc19da3-55a2-4ff3-9d01-14c768493397> | en | 0.937253 | What’s in a (mutation’s) name?
Cross-posted from UT postdoc Art Covert’s blog, Covert Science(ish)
Names are generally very arbitrary things. In the words of The Bard: “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” This may be true for roses, but for mutations, names carry a great deal of meaning. Beneficial mutations are good, they improve an organism’s chances for survival (i.e. raise its fitness). Deleterious mutations are bad, they reduce an organisms chances for survival (lower fitness). One type of mutation is distinctly sweet, the other distinctly wretched.
Mutations are assigned their names when they first appear in a population. A mutation that improves fitness is assumed to be good and a mutation that lowers fitness are assumed to be bad. These name assignments seem nice and neat and simple, but they are predicated on the assumption that a mutation’s fate is unalterable. Good mutations are kept, bad mutations are purged by selection, very neat and tidy just as we scientists prefer it.
The picture becomes murkier when you allow for a second mutation that appears on the same genome as the first. That second mutation has the potential to alter the effect of the first. Good mutations may become bad and bad mutations become good (Figure 1).
Figure 1: An example of the two mutation system described above (From Covert et al 2013). Both mutations A and B individually are deleterious, but A and B together are extremely beneficial.
So if a second mutation can alter the effect of the first then all bets are off, right? Classical evolutionary theory doesn’t think so, and has held that such infrequent occurrences are probably unimportant. Mutations are rare; getting two mutations is even rarer. Getting the right two mutations, close together, to not only ameliorate a deleterious mutation, but to actually open up new beneficial mutations that weren’t accessible before? Pishaw! You get better odds at the blackjack table! So the literature generally holds that bad mutations stay bad, and good mutations stay good, and that’s how it’s been in evolutionary theory for a long time.
Evolution isn’t about playing one hand of blackjack though, its about playing lots and lots of hands, over a very long period of time. On a long enough timescale, you will eventually see one of these rare chance events. Deleterious mutations are extremely common, a genotype with a deleterious mutation will persist in the population for a few generations before it’s purged. In that short time, if one of that genotype’s progeny acquires a second mutation their is a small chance that the two mutations together will actually be good. There is also a possibility that in addition to ameliorating the deleterious effect, the pair of mutations also pushes the population’s genotypes closer to other beneficial mutations. These super-compensatory mutations are rare, but have a huge impact when they finally emerge.
The question is not “if” or “when”, but of how important these super-compensatory mutations are. Until now this question has been open, but now my colleagues and I have begun to shed light on it. Using self-replicating computer programs (digital organisms) we examine the effects of deleterious mutations in two ways that are not possible with organic study systems.
In our first set of experiments, we replace all deleterious mutations with beneficial or neutral mutations making it impossible for deleterious mutations to appear at all. In contrast, mutations in the population normally occur completely at random with the vast majority of them having deleterious or lethal fitness effects. Surprisingly, when we compare the no-deleterious populations to normal populations we find that the normal populations have much much higher fitness. So, at least some immediately deleterious mutations in the long run are creating a net benefit. But is it all deleterious mutations that are important or just a few?
With our second set of experiments we undid every instance of a deleterious mutation on the lineage from the starting organism to the most successful genotype in each population. Undoing these mutations asks the question “what would have happened without this one mutation?” Throughout all of the populations with deleterious mutations we found rare instances of super-compensatory deleterious mutations, which also lead populations to previously inaccessible beneficial mutations. In other words, occasional steps that are not immediately beneficial may lead to huge rebounds.
This isolation of historically significant super-compensatory mutations is what sets our work apart from other works on the role of deleterious mutations. We actually identify which deleterious mutations are leading to higher fitness in the long run and we measure their impact on the long-term evolution of the population.
The most startling thing we found when we looked at individual super-compensatory mutations, is that they occur in minuscule quantities. Out of 50 replicate populations, each experiencing 45,000 generations of evolution, we found only 36 super-compensatory mutations. Of those 36, only 11 were found to be necessary for the populations’ continued evolution. But theses 11 super-compensatory mutations fundamentally altered the outcome of evolution. Without these extremely rare events the evolutionary process stalls out, possibly for very long periods of time.
So the story is not told by the name alone. Every once in a while, a deleterious mutation will interact with other mutations in a way that makes them more beneficial together; interactions such as these are known in the literature as “epistatic” mutations. These rare, but historic events are pathways to essential variation in evolving populations that may become evolutionarily stuck otherwise. Furthermore, it’s impossible to predict *which* deleterious mutation will be the lucky one. But one thing from my work is clear: deleterious mutations do provide essential variation needed by evolving populations.
Covert, Lenski, Wilke and Ofria (2013) Experiments on the role of deleterious mutations as stepping stones in adaptive evolution. PNAS doi: 10.1073/pnas.1313424110
About Danielle Whittaker
Danielle J. Whittaker, Ph.D. Managing Director of BEACON
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Wish me fortitude.
It's that time of year again--the pre-holiday systemic cleanse, otherwise known as Spa Week.
Last year I did this after an entire summer of vain fantasizing about winning a week at a chichi spa upstate in the NYC Public Library raffle. Oh, to do yoga every day, sit in saunas, get massaged, eat healthy gourmet meals, generally be peaceful and serene. Then I realized--hey, I can do this myself.
This year I have a Focus. I want to get my system clear enough so that my left ankle stops locking up, and lose enough weight and get strong enough so that I can, maybe, one day, run all the way around Prospect Park, or take flamenco lessons, or both. This is ambitious. More than one chiropractor has flatly stated that I would be wise to hang up my running shoes forever. I didn't even mention flamenco.
But in order to follow the directions that Caroline so kindly sent me, after she coincidentally called to tell me about the healing diet she's on, I need a motivating force. A strong one.
Because this is the diet:
Hi Baby!!
Here's the cleanse/detox info.
the idea is to eliminate sugar, salt, dairy, refined foods, proteins, grains-- anything you might be allergic to. You eat foods that demand little energy for digestion, allowing the body extra energy to cleanse.
So in the morning, from when you get up til 12, eat acid fruits with nothing else. As much as you want, but wait 2 hours after eating the fruit to eat again.
Acid Fruits:
acerola cherry
sour apple
sour grape
sour peach
sour plum
Peak digestion time is from 12pm-8pm. Eat non-starch/green veggies. Again, as much as you want, but wait 5 hours before eating again, and don't eat anything after 8pm. Herbal tea is ok after 8. You can eat the veggies with fat (olive oil, flaxseed oil, or Udos oil) and/or mild starch (see below), OR eat them with tomato and lemon.
Non-Starch/Green Veggies:
bamboo shoots
bell pepper
beet greens
bok choy
brussels sprouts
green beans
fresh peas
squash (not banana or hubbard)
swill chard (? what's that?)
turnip greens
Mild starch: (eat with non-starch green veggies, oil... wait 5 hours to eat again)
caladium root
You can have black strap molasses, maple syrup (grade B is less refined so it's better), and raw honey.
Substitute Braggs amino acids for salt.
Take 4 tbls. of flaxseed oil a day
You can use braggs apple cider vinegar in your salad dressings
Dont eat black pepper- use paprika or cayenne
Eat garlic and ginger
Let me know how it's going!
I love you!
Yargh. This sort of thing is easy for Caroline. I think she's a natural ascetic. She probably spent a former lifetime as Agnes of God, or something. Me, I'm a naturally self-indulgent mesomorph. I broke my Mastercleanse fast with a steak taco, forget the carrrot juice. I get cranky when subsisting on rabbit food.
But I am also cranky when I sleep to much because my body seems to require it, when I hobble out of bed every morning, when my brain is foggy and I can't seem to get motivated. So I will see if I can give it a jump-start.
Oriane has agreed to attend the Russian-Turkish Baths with me, later in the week. I will try to make it to yoga every day; I will get herb tea at the Tea Lounge, and work on my stack of Improving Literature. I will scrub my apartment with a toothbrush.
I may be blogging a lot; I may be bitching, whining, reminiscing, or hallucinating. I need your psychic support. Do not abandon me in this time of trial.
danonymous said...
In support of your diet/fast I commit to five days of strong coffee with half and half and sugar and nothing else (almost nothing anyway) then let's compare notes (and nerves).
Anonymous said...
I beg to differ! Grade B maple syrup is not less refined. It is just darker. The sap comes out of the trees later in the season.
No maple syrup is refined. Eat all you want, and enjoy it!
the tree-tapper's sweetie
serena said...
Dano, we will not be able to communicate at all by that point, unless you put maple syrup in your coffee instead of sugar. I will be communing with the Higher Vibrations, you will be losing a pitched battle with the lower ones.
And TTS, you would not believe some of the foolishness in the 'theory' behind that cleansing plan. There was a long treatise about why table salt is toxic. Well, it's half chlorine! The horror!
I'm only doing it because Caroline says it has taken away all her allergies, aches, pains, and tired feelings.
danonymoous said...
Hmmmmmm.....well ...I have been known to take Maple B swigs directly from the bottle....intense...and since the syrup is sticky, it has been a little harder to disengage meaning a bit more syrup cascading into the trough of my mouth. Oh well.
Misfortune...or is it Miss Fortune?
And as for the fast....these things are good to do. Giving the body a break from porcessed stuff is good. Even better is having the intention and carrying it out. That alone is very self-empowering.
I once did a five day fast ( with a half gallon of juice a day and water). By day two , I no longer had the patience for anything confrontational. It became very very peaceful. I don't know what came over me but I went some place (new wave was in at the time and I did some work on a night club so had in.....) and I broke the fast with 3 martinis. The fast was so good....I didn't even get drunk or high.
Well....another story
painterdog said...
Mr. D its called deficiency.
When you fast, your starving your body of nutrients and vitmins.
You can go for maybe 3, 4 days before you start to feel 'funny'.
I don't think anyone should fast more than 1 day the first time, its not good idea to shock your body that way.
Serena your describing a diet to clense the body which is full of vitamins and nutriants, its not a real fast, and it sounds very healthy to a point.
Where do you get your iron from?, I guess if you eat a lot green leafy vegetables you get a bit.
Where do you get protein from?
serena said...
Iron in spades, from all the green leafys currently choking my fridge.
Protein: None. This is beginning to be a problem.
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painterdog said...
how about miso soup, the Japanese recipe is made with fish broth and miso, dice some tofu and you have plenty of protein.
serena said...
Painterdog, you don't understand. The nature of this diet IS protein deprivation. Tofu and fish broth would be a complete violation of the principle. There's some theory behind it which is probably complete fantasy.
At any rate, the caffeine withdrawal headaches have abated, so I am proceeding.
painterdog said...
your body can't live without the amino acids that are in proteins for long periods.
You kind of need them.
Anyway it's great you have the discipline to do this.
I'm bad with diets.
serena said...
That's why I'm supposed to be salting everything with Bragg's Liquid Amino Acids. It tastes like too-strong soy sauce.
I don't have discipline, merely desperation. I am becoming addicted to Yogi Tea with honey, which I highly recommend.
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Best Tasting Menu in Seattle?
Did a quick search and didn't find much in the way of comparisons. What's your favorite one? I'm guessing the Herb Farm will come up. What others are there? For myself, I'm looking for something with lots of small, delicious (duh) courses but also just want to hear about what is out there.
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1. Rover's is very good, albeit pricy.
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1. le gourmand in ballard has a tasting menu always available and, if you like classic french food, you will enjoy chef naftaly's skills. with a day's warning, the kitchen at union (though chef stowell, with his new place doing well, is not always there these days) will do a grand tasting menu for you of whatever length and complexity you desire - for my last birthday, i took a vegetarian friend and we had one tasting menu for each of us - both were excellent.
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1. re: howard 1st
Just out of curiosity, how much was the tasting menu at union? I'd really like to try it, but I'm by no means wealthy.
1. re: vanillagorilla
cost was also a factor in the choices made for our tasting adventure - if you will discuss your needs honestly with (maitre d') hans, every effort will be made to meet them.
1. re: howard 1st
Did you inquire about the tasting menu when making a reservation, or just show up and ask for it?
1. re: vanillagorilla
best to inquire in advance so that they have time to prepare, or they may be too busy to put together one for you on the spot (I've done it both ways there)
1. re: vanillagorilla
the parameters (not the actual dishes) for the menu were discussed at great length when the reservations were made - as barleywino wisely states, one otherwise takes the chance that time will not allow the chef to shine
1. re: howard 1st
if you go during October, you migth be able to request (in advance) pumpkin risotto served in the hollowed-out little pumpkin, which is always fun
2. Mistral has a fabulous set tasting menu.
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A sub shop I liked to go to in college offered two kinds of cheesesteak: the "'regular' cheese steak sub" and the "Filet Mignon steak sub." The only difference between the two was the cut of meat used, with the filet being both better and more expensive.
I once went there for lunch with a friend and tried to order the filet sub. My friend stopped me, saying that there was no reason to spend the extra few bucks and that I should just get the regular. I don't remember his exact explanation why anymore, but it had to do with the cheesesteak preparation process, which involves chopping the meat up into very small pieces. I think he said that the breakup of connective tissue negated the advantage of using the filet.
Was my friend right? If so, why?
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If it's a properly done cheese steak, and it's not sliced in the same direction as the grain of the meat, he's probably right.
It's quite possible that a cheaper cut of meat would have a "beefier" flavor, just because many of the tougher cuts of meat tend to be more flavorful, partially because of the fat content.
All of that being said, it's really a matter of personal preference. Some of of the places near me use the equivalent of "steak-ums" and not everyone's a fan of the texture. If you want to find out if it's worth it for you, get a few friends together, order two subs with the same toppings, one with the upgraded meat, one without, and do a taste test. (and if you can, get one person to order it and label the packages, then hand off to someone else to portion it out, so it's at least closer to double blind, particularly if they use two different labeling schemes)
update : Unlike chicken, beef doesn't have the obvious distinctions between light & dark meat; the normal rule is that the further from the hoof and horn it is, the less that muscle group has worked, and thus the more tender it is ... but as with chicken meat, it's the working muscles that tend to be more flavorful (although tougher cuts). And as with chicken, it's the fattier meat that has more flavor.
Some cuts of beef have the grain run in one direction -- because of this, we can cut the meat across the grain, which tenderizes it. It can be done before cooking, as with philly cheesesteaks, or afterwards, as is done with fajitas. Common cuts used for this sort of treatment are flank steak and skirt steak, which may be difficult to find in all grocery stores as so much seems to be diverted for restaurants.
Besides cutting, other aspects of processing (eg, aging) can affect how 'beefy' the meat is.
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+1 for science! – Brendan Long Sep 13 '10 at 4:53
Thanks for your effort, @Joe. I don't care about those subs in particular; they were just a convenient example. My intent with the question was to find out more about what factors affect the flavor of beef, which you mention in your second paragraph; could you expand on that? – Pops Sep 13 '10 at 5:20
I think this is purely a matter of taste. Different cuts of meat do have different flavors and textures. Filet generally has very little fat or connective tissue in it, so it's very tender but loses some of the beefier flavors that you'll find in other cuts. A strip steak has a lot of fat around the outside and picks up more flavor. Short ribs are a very tough piece of meat that need to be cooked for long enough to break down the connective tissue running through the meat so that they are soft enough to eat (why they're usually braised), but are very flavorful.
So the question is two fold, what texture do you want and how do you like your flavor. I would think that for a Philly Cheese Steak, it would make little difference as the thin slicing makes both meats tender, and the cheaper meat may actually have a stronger flavor. However, for a steak sandwich, with large chunks of meat, the filet may be easier to eat as you can more easily bite through the meat. On the other hand, you're masking the flavor of the meat with the rest of the sandwich, so you might want a beefier flavor.
Cooking method will also have some effect on this. If the steak is cooked well done, then I think the cheaper piece of meat is ok. Filet or other nicer steaks lose a lot of their flavor and nice texture when cooked well done. Cheaper meat is sliced thin and cooked well done to break down any connective tissue quickly and make a more tender piece of meat. If the meat comes out pink though, this really shouldn't make much difference.
Additionally, as food is fairly subjective, some people do or don't like the different flavors and textures. One cut may be too beefy or too grisly or vice versa. If you think it tastes better, who cares what your friends think!
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High-speed rail in China is creating new economic opportunities beyond just building and operating trains: it is stimulating growth in outlying cities.
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Philadelphia is 101 miles from Manhattan, and the current travel time between the two cities is about 1 hour and 50 minutes. Suppose that Amtrak could achieve the speed of China's bullet trains and move at 175 miles per hour. The one way commute time would decline to 35 minutes. Common sense suggests that home prices in Philadelphia would soar from their current median of $140,000 as businesses and households would come to view the city as a new Manhattan suburb, and the demand to live and work there would sharply increase. Philadelphia would benefit from the population increase and all the amenities that private enterprise would build to support it.
Also see: China's Bullet Trains Creating New Kind of 'Suburbia'
That is exactly what happened in China as a consequence of the country's enormous investment in bullet trains, as work that I did with Siqi Zheng of Tsinghua University shows. But the question is what level of public investment do the United States and other governments want to make to relieve congestion in mega cities and spur growth in second and third tier cities, especially at a time when many are questioning the role of government and pushing for fiscal austerity.
Here's China's story. Between 2006 and 2010, the Chinese central government spent billions of dollars on new bullet trains that connect second and third tier cities with the mega cities of Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou — but of course bullet trains don't connect every smaller city to a mega city. So my coauthor and I looked at the differences that bullet train connections wrought on "connected" cities by comparing them to similar cities that the bullet train had bypassed. Using data for 262 cities, we documented large home price increases for newly connected cities. Based on the ridership data for two major bullet train lines, we calculated that the average city house price growth per billion passenger-kilometers is 4.2%.
Effect 1: a capital gain windfall for land owners in second and third tier cities
High rents in the mega city also nudged the subset of households and firms with the lowest willingness to pay to locate there to consider relocating to the secondary cities. But these decentralized households can easily travel to the major cities for unique shopping and restaurant options.
Effect 2: dispersed population
What other changes can these lower tier cities expect? In our past work examining the consequences of new subways built in Beijing, we have documented that the private sector responds to major public transit investments through two different investment strategies. First, real estate developers respond by building new housing towers in close proximity to the new public transit stops. Second, commercial real estate demand is stimulated as upscale restaurants and shopping agglomerates close to these transit stations. The extent of this effect will depend on whether the area is zoned for residential or commercial activities, and also the density limits defined in zoning codes.
Effect 3: private investment in amenities to support the growing populations of the lower tier cities
The bullet train simultaneously alleviates some of the congestion costs associated with urban growth in the mega cities and triggers the growth of the nearby second and third tier cities. In this sense, the bullet train creates the possibility that the nearby lower tier cities become a "safety valve" for the mega city and this alleviates concern about such cities growing "too big." In the case of China, such investments strengthen center cities as the bullet train connects to downtown subway stations in the big cities. In this sense, this investment is a low carbon strategy that lessens the need for both in-city and cross-city car trips.
Effect 4: lower carbons emissions
There's even more to the story for companies. The bullet train has the potential to play a similar role as the Internet [PDF], attracting back-office activity and helping firms fragment so that they keep their deal makers in the expensive commercial real estate in the center cities while sending their routine activities to cheaper land at the periphery. The rapid transport will allow for a more efficient allocation of business activity across space, helping firms to control costs. It's a "win-win" as the scarce mega city's land is efficiently used and the secondary cities experience local growth.
Effect 5: more efficient use of space for private enterprise
In the United States, Amtrak seems unlikely to accelerate any time soon, so Philadelphia, Providence, and other cities on the Northeast Corridor will not enjoy the full benefits of their geographic proximity to Boston and New York City. In the west, though, California is going ahead with its High Speed Rail. And while our work quantifies some of the spatial consequences of investing in high speed rail, we cannot claim to have conducted a cost/benefit analysis of such irreversible investments. Our work suggests that cities with bullet train stations will offer new investment opportunities for cities such as Fresno and Bakersfield.
But bullet trains cost billions, and California is expecting the federal government to provide much of this money. Critics will note that it is easy (and quite tempting) to spend "other people's money." In this new age of fiscal austerity, public finance arrangements for major urban infrastructure projects will become an important topic for debate.
Matthew E. Kahn is a Professor at UCLA's Institute of the Environment, the Department of Economics, and the Department of Public Policy. He is the author, most recently, of Climatopolis.
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1) Suppose $X$ is a metric space equipped with an associative product and a unit element. Let $m: X \times X \to X$ be the product. Suppose also that $m$ is nonexpansive, i.e. $$ d\big( m(x,x'),m(y,y') \big) \le d\big((x,x'),(y,y')\big) $$ say when $X\times X$ is given the Euclidean metric with respect to the given metric of $X$. Is there a standard name for this type of structure?
2) Let $f : X \to Y$ be a map between metric spaces with the property that for all $x,y \in X$ $$ d(f(x), f(y)) \geq d(x,y). $$ So in a way this is the opposite of a nonexpansive map. Is there a name for such maps?
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2) Expansive. – Bill Johnson Sep 27 '10 at 18:01
2) noncontracting map – Anton Petrunin Sep 28 '10 at 0:06
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604 F.2d 1184
UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee,
Juan MARTINEZ-NAVARRO, Defendant-Appellant.
UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee,
Martin ENRIQUES-SANCHEZ, Defendant-Appellant.
Nos. 78-3445, 78-3446.
United States Court of Appeals,
Ninth Circuit.
Aug. 17, 1979.
Rehearing Denied Oct. 15, 1979.
Michael J. McCabe, Glorene Franco (argued), Michael S. Sideman, San Diego, Cal., for defendants-appellants.
Appeal from the United States District Court For the Southern District of California.
Before CHAMBERS, WALLACE and TANG, Circuit Judges.
Martinez-Navarro and Enriques-Sanchez assert that the district court impermissibly considered their testimony in a companion trial when fixing their sentences. We conclude that the trial judge, believing they lied while testifying under the grant of immunity, did not err when he considered that fact in determining, within the statutory limits, appropriate sentences.
Martinez-Navarro and Enriques-Sanchez were arrested by Border Patrol agents near the United States border along with a group of illegal aliens. A third person, Palomino-Figueroa, was stopped in the same area about an hour later. Martinez-Navarro and Enriques-Sanchez executed sworn statements that Palomino-Figueroa was "El Socio," the smuggler with whom they had been working.
On September 19, 1978, Martinez-Navarro and Enriques-Sanchez were found guilty at a court trial, on stipulated facts, of violation of 18 U.S.C. § 371, 8 U.S.C. § 1324, and 18 U.S.C. § 2. On September 20, 1978, the district court granted the government's motion compelling them to testify at the trial of codefendant Palomino-Figueroa under a grant of immunity, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 6002. During the jury trial, both Martinez-Navarro and Enriques-Sanchez denied making the statements contained in the signed statements. In addition, Enriques-Sanchez testified that Martinez-Navarro was "El Socio" and Martinez-Navarro testified that Enriques-Sanchez was "El Socio." Palomino-Figueroa was acquitted.
On October 30, 1978, Martinez-Navarro and Enriques-Sanchez appeared for sentencing. The district judge stated that a consideration in their sentencing was that he believed they had lied when they testified at the trial of Palomino-Figueroa.
A sentencing judge may consider a wide range of information in determining a defendant's sentence. Williams v. New York, 337 U.S. 241, 69 S.Ct. 1079, 93 L.Ed. 1337 (1949); United States v. Stevenson, 573 F.2d 1105, 1108 (9th Cir. 1978); United States v. Read, 534 F.2d 858, 859 (9th Cir. 1976) (per curiam). Indeed, Congress in 1970 enacted 18 U.S.C. § 3577, which provides that "(n)o limitation shall be placed on the information concerning the background, character, and conduct of a person convicted of an offense which a court of the United States may receive and consider for the purpose of imposing an appropriate sentence." Punishment should be individualized, fitting the offender as well as the crime. Williams v. New York, supra, 337 U.S. at 247, 69 S.Ct. 1079; King v. United States, 410 F.2d 1127, 1128 (9th Cir. 1969) (per curiam). A defendant's truthfulness while on the witness stand is probative of his prospects for rehabilitation and, therefore, is relevant in determining a sentence. United States v. Grayson, 438 U.S. 41, 98 S.Ct. 2610, 57 L.Ed.2d 582 (1978). Thus, an assessment by a sentencing judge that a defendant has perjured himself is a proper consideration in determining the length of a sentence within the appropriate statutory range for a particular crime. Id.; United States v. Lustig, 555 F.2d 737, 751 (9th Cir. 1977), Cert. denied, 434 U.S. 926, 98 S.Ct. 408, 54 L.Ed.2d 285 (1977), Cert. denied, 434 U.S. 1045, 98 S.Ct. 889, 54 L.Ed.2d 795 (1978); See United States v. Cluchette, 465 F.2d 749, 754 (9th Cir. 1972).1
In this case, however, the testimony involved was offered under a grant of immunity. Martinez-Navarro and Enriques-Sanchez assert that the use of such testimony to enhance their sentences was a violation of the immunity granted them under 18 U.S.C. §§ 6002, 6003, and of their Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination.
The protection provided by the immunity statute is coextensive with the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination. Kastigar v. United States, 406 U.S. 441, 453, 92 S.Ct. 1653, 32 L.Ed.2d 212 (1972). The object of that privilege " 'was to insure that a person should not be compelled, when acting as a witness in any investigation, to give testimony which might tend to show that he himself had committed a crime.' Counselman v. Hitchcock, 142 U.S. 547, 562, 12 S.Ct. 195, 198, 35 L.Ed. 1110 (1892)." Lefkowitz v. Turley, 414 U.S. 70, 77, 94 S.Ct. 316, 38 L.Ed.2d 274 (1973). However, the testimony of Martinez-Navarro and Enriques-Sanchez did not subject them to criminal prosecution because of incriminatory facts admitted during the course of that testimony. Nor were their statements used to prove their guilt of a criminal act. They had already been adjudged guilty of the offenses charged. The testimony was only another factor considered by the district court to determine their sentences. In addition, the immunity afforded an individual by the Fifth Amendment does not protect against perjured testimony. United States v. Wong, 431 U.S. 174, 178-79, 97 S.Ct. 1823, 52 L.Ed.2d 231 (1977); See United States v. Knox, 396 U.S. 77, 82, 90 S.Ct. 363, 24 L.Ed.2d 275 (1969). Martinez-Navarro and Enriques-Sanchez also argue that New Jersey v. Portash, 440 U.S. 450, 99 S.Ct. 1292, 59 L.Ed.2d 501 (1979), forbids the sentencing court from considering the immunized testimony. Portash held, however, that a defendant's prior immunized grand jury testimony may not be used to impeach his credibility at his subsequent trial. There is no indication that the Court intended to overrule the long line of cases which allow a judge to consider a wide range of information in sentencing.
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Sep 02, 2014
This map shows how researchers from UNSW divided the entire ocean into seven regions whose waters mix very little. The map could yield insights into the formation of giant ocean garbage patches, as well as ocean ecology. Credit: Gary Froyland, Robyn M. Stuart, and Erik van Sebille/UNSW
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is an area of environmental concern between Hawaii and California where the ocean surface is marred by scattered pieces of plastic, which outweigh plankton in that part of the ocean and pose risks to fish, turtles and birds that eat the trash. Scientists believe the garbage patch is but one of at least five, each located in the center of large, circular ocean currents called gyres that suck in and trap floating debris.
Researchers from the University of New South Wales (UNSW), in Sydney, Australia, have created a that could help determine who's to blame for each garbage patch – a difficult task for a system as complex and massive as the . The researchers describe the model in a paper published in the journal Chaos.
"In some cases, you can have a country far away from a that's unexpectedly contributing directly to the patch," said Gary Froyland, a mathematician at UNSW. For example, the ocean debris from Madagascar and Mozambique would most likely flow into the south Atlantic, even though the two countries' coastlines border the Indian Ocean.
The new model could also help determine how quickly garbage leaks from one patch into another, said Erik van Sebille, an oceanographer who collaborated with Froyland on the Chaos paper. "We can use the new model to explore, for example, how quickly trash from Australia ends up in the north Pacific."
At the heart of the researchers' work on the origins and fate of floating rubbish lies a bigger question – how well do the ocean's surface waters mix?
The anatomy of ocean currents
Froyland, van Sebille and their UNSW colleague, Robyn Stuart, divided the entire ocean into seven regions whose waters mix very little. Their approach borrowed mathematical methods from a field known as ergodic theory, which has been used to partition interconnected systems like the internet, computer chips and human society, and the new analysis revealed the underlying structure of the ocean without getting bogged down in complex simulations.
"Instead of using a supercomputer to move zillions of water particles around on the , we have built a compact network model that captures the essentials of how the different parts of the ocean are connected," said Froyland.
"The take-home message from our work is that we have redefined the borders of the ocean basins according to how the water moves," said van Sebille. The geography of the new basins could yield insights into ocean ecology in addition to helping track ocean debris. The researchers say their modeling technique could also be applied on a smaller scale – determining for example how much Canadian and American waters mix in the Great Lakes or how an oil spill might spread in the Gulf of Mexico.
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More information: "How well-connected is the surface of the global ocean?" by Gary Froyland, Robyn M. Stuart, and Erik van Sebille, Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, September 2, 2014. DOI: 10.1063/1.4892530
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0.029802 | <urn:uuid:7b9c0190-b6b1-485e-9ec6-fa251ec04602> | en | 0.990669 | There is a phenomenon called a "child prodigy." Perhaps you will see it in the form of a 7 year old Japanese girl who is already a World Class violinist, or maybe a 10 year old Russian boy, who has the abilities of a Concert pianist. I'm sure you've all seen one of these at some time on TV. I however, have had the pleasure of meeting one who does not play Vivaldi, Bach or Mozart, I was introduced to one who plays Rat Race Choir music. Perhaps "prodigy" is too strong a word, but "amazing" isn't.
He picked his first guitar up at age 5, and has been playing almost 13 years. I have never come across anyone who is so enthusiastic about our music, or anyone so adept at playing it, especially at his age. So, I would like to tell you how I came to meet this person, it is an interesting story.....
Way back in the late 70's, early 80's.......Rat Race Choir was playing almost every night. And, due to the constant abuse to our instruments being loaded and unloaded, kept in a truck during freezing winter nights, and normal wear and tear, our amps and other electronic instruments (synthesizers, etc) would sometimes break .When we needed our gear fixed, we brought it to a guy named Chip Weinberg, who is an electronic genius, in Long Island. He was a fan of the band's as well. Chip came to a lot of gigs, he taped the band, and he exchanged tapes with other people who had RRC tapes. He held on to these tapes and still has all of them. In October of 1983, Chip and Laraine had a son.
Their son's name was Craig...... Craig Weinberg.
I suppose Craig was a normal child, but instead of playing video games he developed a strong interest in music at a very early age. He asked for a guitar, and his Grandparents bought him one. Craig began playing this guitar constantly, and Chip started to notice that Craig had natural musical abilities beyond the normal 6 or 7 year old. Craig was always listening to Dad's tapes and CDs and one day he stumbled upon the Rat Race Choir tapes that Chip had kept. Craig was fascinated with RRC's complex, and progressive style. So, no challenge being too great, Craig decided to sit and learn all the RRC music he could. What happened was, Rat Race Choir became Craig's favorite music, and he sat for hours at a time figuring all of the RRC songs out that he could. Eventually Craig had obtained, and learned almost everything on the tapes. This was all before he was a teenager!
To make a long story short......Craig and Chip came to a show we did in Long Island. I was introduced to Craig and I was told that he knew every RRC song by heart.......(I was a bit skeptical)..... But Craig's enthusiasm in talking to me about certain musical passages, and questions regarding musical things in our songs that only the members of RRC would ever talk about really impressed me. I asked him if he'd like to come up and play a couple of tunes with us that night..... (I was curious to see if all I was told could be true, or if it was just a proud father trying to show off his son...) Well, Craig sat in on a few tunes, and nailed them all perfectly. Except for minor mistakes of a note or two, he DID have incredible knowledge of our songs. This prompted me, to learn more about him, because after all, here is a young man representing an entirely new generation of music listeners, who is telling me Rat Race Choir's music is his favorite, and that he was playing it to his friends, and they got into our music as well!
So, at the close of that evening, I invited Chip and Craig up to my house for a day, and I really got down to going over song after song testing Craig. I tried to give him the hardest tests I could, but he scored 100% on all of the music I tried to throw at him. He knew parts we had discarded years ago. He knew "link sections" we used for a couple of months and forgot about. He knew segments that we had experimented with and forgot... basically he was a walking RRC expert at 17 years old!
So this is the story of how our "once electronics tech," eventually has a son, who grows up to be the best "RRC interpreter" that I've ever heard. If you ever get a chance to see Craig play, the trip will be worth it......he had his own band "Epic Prequel", but it has recently broken up.
If you would like to read an Interview with Craig, so you can read about his interest in RRC's music, in his own words........just Click on the link below!
Thank You!
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Mr. Shaver's Lemurian Alphabet
A—Animal (used AN for short)
B—Be (to exist—often command)
D—(also used DE) Disintegrant energy; Detrimental (most important symbol in language)
E—Energy (an all concept, including motion)
F—Fecund (use FE as in female—fecund man)
G—Generate (used GEN)
H—Human (some doubt on this one)
I—Self; Ego (same as our I)
J—(see G) (same as generate)
K—Kinetic (force of motion)
N—Child; Spore; Seed (as ninny)
O—Orifice (a source concept)
Q—Quest (as question)
R—(used as AR) Horror (symbol of dangerous quantity of dis force in the object)
S—(SIS) (an important symbol of the sun)
T—(used as TE) (the most important symbol; origin of the cross symbol) Integration; Force of growth (the intake of T is cause of gravity; the force is T; tic meant science of growth; remains as credit word)
V—Vital (used as VI) (the stuff Messmer calls animal magnetism; sex appeal)
X—Conflict (crossed force lines)
Z—Zero (a quantity of energy of T neutralized by an equal quantity of D)
Some "English" Lemurian Words
ABSENT—Animal be sent (one was sent, therefore is not here)
ADDER—A der (the animal is a der. or deadly)
ARREST—Animal stops to rest (the ar syllable means is dangerously stopped)
BEGET—To cause to exist (command to generate the energy of inteorance)
BAD—Be a de (to be a destructive force)
BARD—Bar de (one who allays depressing de force, who over-joys us, decreases depression)
BIG—Be I generate (in the act of generation, as pregnant)
BILK—Be ill kinetic (to run away from ill, to dodge—K for movement)
DARK—Detrimental horrible movement (harrowing things we are apt to see "in the dark")
DECEASE—Stopped by de (disintegrated to the noint of ceasing to be—death)
DEVIATE—De vital ate (de has eaten the vital force. implicatiot. being the thing goes astray he-cause of destructive force)
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DEVIL—De vile (to be vile with de; completely destructive)
DROP—De ro power (disintegrance governs power, thus it becomes less, falls)
LADY—Lay de (allay depression; complimentary term)
MAD—Man a de (one who may de, be apt to destroy)
MEAN—Me animal (animal conscious only of self)
MORBID—More be I de (I don't want to be any more, I want to die)
NEE—Child energy (charm)
NEUTRAL—Ne you to ral (attracted by the charm of both parties)
OBSCENE—Orifice see charm (orifice meant source of life, thus the meaning is evident)
PACT—Power act (an empowered act)
PEAL—Power all (power and all combine to give a loud sound)
PRISON—Price on (to hold for ransom)
QUIT—Quest you I to (get someone else to do good)
VAN—Vital animal (the leader)
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Lush Beauty of Mathematical Cornucopia
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Wants to convert the SharePoint requests to Lowercase in the IIS processing pipe line, it should not invoke additional request to change/convert the requested URL into lowercase but the same request should be converted.
The below IIS Rewrite Rule converts the URL which needs an additional request:
< rules>
< rule name="Convert to lower case" stopProcessing="false">
< match url=".[A-Z]." ignoreCase="false"/>
< conditions>
< add input="{URL}" negate="true" pattern="*lb-live.aspx$"/>
< /conditions>
< action type="redirect" url="{ToLower:{R:0}}" redirectType="Permanent"/>
< /rule>
Is there a way to simply convert the case while the request is being processed in IIS pipeline?
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This requirement is very specific to your project. You can fulfil it by writing a HTTP Module which intercepts every SharePoint request, and converts it to Lowercase, see below:
public void Init(System.Web.HttpApplication Appl)
//Hookup the function that does the lowercase
Appl.BeginRequest += new EventHandler(Appl_BeginRequest);
void Appl_BeginRequest(object sender, EventArgs e)
System.Web.HttpApplication myAppl = (System.Web.HttpApplication)sender;
string requestUrl = myAppl.Request.Url.PathAndQuery.ToLower();
//additional checks on url
if (requestUrl.Contains("test"))
For addtional help, please see this link: Support for URL rewriting?
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Is that mean that we can simply change the case while the request is in the IIS pipeline?...have gone through many articles however seems that we can only change and place a new request using the "Rewrite" method...? – Karthikeyan Jun 4 '12 at 13:52
Every request goes through Application_BeginRequest anyway. You'll need to add some logic there. see my updated response. – Falak Mahmood Jun 4 '12 at 14:21
thanks for the code sample. Simply wants to convert the case on the IIS Request pipeline, how Could I achieve this without a redirection or placing another request... – Karthikeyan Jun 6 '12 at 11:35
AFAIK, it is not possible without placing an another request. – Falak Mahmood Jun 7 '12 at 6:59
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I'm working on a Chrome extension that allows a user to highlight text on a webpage. Simple, but it's to help me learn. Right now, I'm stuck and looking for how to best solve a problem.
Currently, I can highlight selected text that persists on the page.
function addHilite(color) {
var range, sel = window.getSelection();
if (sel.rangeCount && sel.getRangeAt) {
range = sel.getRangeAt(0);
document.designMode = "on";
if (range) {
if (!document.execCommand("hiliteColor", false, "#FFFF00")) {
document.execCommand("backColor", false, "#FFFF00");
document.designMode = "off";
I'm trying to get to a point where the user could select a highlighted range and use the same browser action to undo a highlight. I thought localStorage would be a good way to save the state between each click, but I can't figure out how to store multiple ranges as a string for reference. Is there a better way to do this?
localStorage Experiment
function sel() {
var getText = window.getSelection().toString();
localStorage.setItem('getText', JSON.stringify(getText));
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1 Answer 1
do you mean something like this?
var selections = [];
function sel() {
var getText = window.getSelection().toString();
localStorage.setItem('getText', selections);
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I see what you're going for, but it produces the same result as my original script. Unless, I'm not calling the array properly to display all of the stored data. – Brian Bennett Feb 7 '14 at 20:32
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How Waukesha Library Revamped Its Public Access Computers
Waukesha Library at night
Waukesha, Wisconsin might be most famous for being a "guitar town." It's the birthplace of Les Paul, music pioneer and inventor of the iconic Gibson Les Paul guitar. But the Waukesha Public Library also deserves fame for its innovative programs and dedication to its community. With the help of TechSoup's Refurbished Computer Initiative (RCI), the library is able to provide the valuable service of public access computers to Waukesha residents.
A Dynamic and Diverse Community
Located west of Milwaukee, Waukesha has a population of about 71,000. The library is the largest in a system of 17 libraries, and it serves about 100,000 people. The library supports a wide range of community members, everybody from tech-savvy students (the Waukesha school district has an iPad program) to manga-loving teens (who publish a biannual teen-created fanzine) to those who are homebound.
Waukesha has also increased its materials and services for non-English speaking people and English-language learners. The city has a growing Hispanic community that makes up more than 10 percent of the total population. The library works with local nonprofits, such as La Casa de Esperanza and the Waukesha Hispanic Collaborative Network, to provide Spanish-language programming, such as parenting classes and story times. The library works with the Greater Waukesha Literacy Council to mentor and tutor adults in English as a second language, reading, writing, spelling, and math.
Best Practices for Helping Patrons with E-Readers
E-reader assistance
"I love that I can check out e-books from you … but I have no idea how to make them work."
The other day, my friend and I had a work party at my local library. My friend had another agenda, however: to finally figure out how to check out e-books from the library on her iPad. Despite being tech-savvy, she was having issues getting through all of the different steps the e-books required to work on her iPad.
Turns out, this happens frequently. My colleague Jim Lynch wrote about his personal experience in Why Is It So Hard to Use E-Books from the Library?
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Did you know that 98% of public libraries offer some form of technology training? And 95% offer employment and workforce development programs? Of course you do.
Libraries know all about how libraries support access to and use of technology. Unfortunately, in many cases the same can't be said of your legislators, local voters, the mainstream media, and others who may influence public library funding and support.
Common Craft put together a snappy video to help libraries address this perception issue.
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Generally, I'm all for mobile apps or computer programs that support literacy. TechSoup for Libraries had a webinar a few months ago, in fact, on ways librarians can incorporate apps and technology into story time.
But when I heard about Clean Reader, the app that scrubs out "profanity" from books and replaces it with alternative words, I was offended. It's not explicit language that makes me grimace, but the fact that this app is a blatant form of censorship.
Your Library Can Support Makers Without Having a Makerspace
Some school and public libraries around the world are setting up makerspaces or creative tinkering spaces, but not every library has the space or budget to do so. How can your library support makers without having its own makerspace? There are lots of ways to do it. Here are a few tips to get you started.
Resources for Training Library Staff on Mobile Operating Systems
Can You Get Tech Advice from a Print Book?
I was scanning the ALA Store when a book caught my eye: Technology for Small and One-Person Libraries: A LITA Guide. Given how many of our TechSoup for Libraries members come from small libraries, I thought this book would be a great subject for our very first book review! Is this guide something that belongs on every rural librarian's shelves? Can you get technology tips from a printed book? Will even the tech-savviest of librarians get something out of this book? Yes, yes, … and yes!
A Quick Caveat on Books About Tech
I'm possibly stating the obvious here, but it's important to note that when you buy a book on technology, there is almost always going to be something out-of-date in it. Technology moves so fast that even if the publisher were to continuously release updated versions of the book, it still couldn't keep up.
Technology for Small and One-Person Libraries was published in 2013, and although the authors do a great job of keeping the descriptions and names of technology general, there is some information that isn't quite current. For example, the social media chapter lists a few platforms and tools to check out, but doesn't include Tumblr, Instagram, or Pinterest, which have become quite popular among libraries.
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Monday, December 12, 2011
Seven Things I Have Learned This Year
1. How to make tortillas from scratch. Bread making has always been intimidating to me, and cooking with lard has always been TERRIFYING to me. But sometimes, you just gotta do what you gotta do. Especially when you're pregnant and you're an ocen away from any good Mexican food. I found this lard-free on one of my favorite cooking blogs, The Homesick Texan, and how about that. I made tortillas! They were GOOD, too!
2.God doesn't care much about all the nit-picky details that Christians argue over. When my life is over, I just don't think that at the Pearly Gates, I will hear questions like, "Were you dunked or sprinkled?" or "Did you take communion sitting, standing or kneeling?" In my Bible reading this year, I came across this theme over and over, and I have decided that that stuff just doesn't matter that much to God. What matters is: did you, with a pure heart and honest intentions, seek to truely know and honor the Lord?
3. Cole Slaw is really good on pulled pork sandwiches. I don't know if this is a Hawaiian thing, a new thing, or if I have just been missing out all these years. But now that I know, I'll never go back!
4. If I ever have my own house, I do not want there to be a pool in the backyard. Talk about high maintenance! OK, so it wasn't so bad when we were enjoying the pool all the time. But then it got cold and we didn't go anywhere near the water, but I still had to clean it every week. That was kinda a bummer.
5. Real estate transactions are way more compolicated and involved than I ever imagined, and I would never want to be a professional realtor.
6. Home is with my husband. When Scott deployed last year, the kids and I moved back to my hometown, and I'm really glad we did. WE got to spend some good quality time with family and got to attend special events like birthdays and graduations. There's no place like home, afterall. Even so, home didn't feel quite right without Scott in it. When the deployment ended, we went back to Hawaii, and now that my family is all together under one roof, I am truely HOME.
7.Turning 30 isn't that bad. I have to admit, the first time I had to write my age as 30, I cried a little bit. Ha! But now that I'm on the other side of it...what was I so worried about? I am immensely blessed, and God has provided me with a life that I am so thankful for. :)
Sunday, December 4, 2011
Learning About Hawai'i
If you live in Hawai'i, it would be a shame not to learn about Hawai'i in school, right? Of course, our curriculum doesn't include anything state-specific, but the islands have such an interesting history and culture! I decided we needed to find some way to add a little bit of Hawai'i to our school day.
Enter A Visit to Hawaii coloring book. Each page has a short paragraph explaining some part of Hawaiian culture, including anything from the formation of the islands (I find it very interesting that a single volcano produced all of the islands. It continued to flow as plates shifted, producing the 8 different islands) to fun facts about surfing. We read a page once a week, and then Child Thing #1 gets to color. She is sooo into coloring (and any artsy craftsy thing, really) lately.
I'm really glad I came across this coloring book. It is a great addition to our curriculum because it's fun, easy and both of us learn a lot from it!
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
In Texas, I'm a gringo (or is it gringa). In Hawai'i, I'm a haole. That's the Hawaiian word for "white guy," and it isn't necessarily a derogatory word. Just depends on how you use it, I suppose. But if you learn the history of the word, it really is not so flattering. :P
Basically, haole means "one with no soul." That's a loose interpretation, you understand, so let me explain. Everyone knows what "aloha" means, so I will start there. "Ha," in ancient Hawai'i, was the breath of life, what I understand to be the soul. "Alo" means to face, so the word "aloha" means to face another person and breathe the breath of life, to open your spirit and your soul to that person. So, to greet someone in old Hawai'i, you would face them and say "haaaaa," breathing into each other.
When the first Europeans came to Hawai'i, you can imagine they were not so comfortable with this way of greeting. Those prim and proper British people... So, instead of sharing the breath of life with the native Hawaiians, they did things like stand at arms length and offer their stiff hands. The Hawaiians thought this was weird and so called the Europeans "one with no ha."
This is the way I understand the meaning of the word; I hope it's accurate. I'm just a haole, of course, so maybe I don't know what I'm talking about. :)
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
What Should I Do?
I don't know...what should I do?
Friday, November 11, 2011
My Favorite Websites
This month's 7 on the 7th topic (or as it happens, 7 on the 11th for me) is the websites you visit the most frequently. Here are mine.
1. Facebook. Yes, I'm addicted, I visit multiple times per day. How many? I'm not sure. I don't keep track, and I'd probably be embarassed to admit it anyway.
2. Friends' Blogs. I love that I can keep up with what's going on in the lives of friends who are spread out across the world.
3. CNN.com. Gotta know what's going on in the world around me!
4. Pioneer Woman. Love this blog! It's got hilarious stories, great recipes and even a homeschooling section.
5. Hostess with the Mostess. This website has awesome party ideas and themes with tons of pictures. Most of the parties are planned and designed by professionals, so they are a little out of reach for a regular mom like me, but I still love browsing the featured parties, getting inspired, and trying to make my parties look as fabulous as the ones on this site.
6. Homesick Texan. A food blog featuring awesome recipes from back home.
7. Yahoo. It's where I get my e-mail, do a lot of searching and sometimes check out news stories.
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Hobo Dinners. Fun fun!
When I was a kid, I loved going to my grandparents' farm. Especially if it was a bonfire weekend. Anytime there was any clearing of property, all the debris was piled up and set on fire. That meant we kids got to roast hotdogs and marshmallows outside. We would search the woods for the perfect marshmallow roasting stick. One that was forked on the end--and not just one fork--maybe 10 or so so that we could roast a whole bag of marshmallows at once. And one that was at least 5 feet long so that we wouldn't have to stand with our backs to the fire, arms extended behind us holding out the stick so the heat wouldn't scorch our eyebrows off. :P
There's definitely not room for a bonfire in our little backyard, but we did recently acquire a fire pit. And not long ago we cooked "hobo dinners," a meal my grandmother would prepare for us on bonfire days. It's basically a layer of sliced potatoes, carrots, onions, a ground beef patty, another layer of onions, carrots and potatoes, all salted and peppered and wrapped in foil. Then you stick the foil package directly in the bed of the fire and let it cook for 30 minutes or so.
Then when you open it up, you have a simple, hearty, super fun meal waiting for you! Everything about hobo dinners is fun. I sliced up the potatoes, carrots and onions then let everyone assemble their own packet, which was fun. Of course, anytime we get some good family time outside with no electronics on, we have lots of fun. But the very best part is probably the dessert. :) The Child Things used a single spear from our hibiscus bush instead of a multi-tined, extended handle marshmallow roasting stick, but from the looks of it, the results were just as good!
I'm Still Here!
Well, I haven't fallen off the edge of the planet. I'm still here. I have just been having some issues that have left me too exhausted for blogging after the kids are asleep at night. Issues like extreme fatigue, low blood pressure, nausea, lack of appetite, heartburn, occasional insomnia and an overall "blah" feeling. Ahh...the joys of pregnancy.
Yes, if you haven't heard Child Thing #3 is on the way and due in May! I am, of course, very excited, but to be perfectly honest, I am not the type that "glows" during pregnancy. No, I'm more the crabby miserable type, and this pregnancy seems like it's worse so far than my first two. I don't know if it really is worse or it just seems worse because with two at home I don't have much--or should I say any--down time during the day to recuperate.
But the first trimester is almost over, and I'm slowly starting to feel better and have more energy. Plus, I can't feel too sorry for myself, because my friend Amanda just gave birth to her third after spending the last half of her pregnancy taking care of her two boys by herself because her husband deployed. But then again, she was always more the "glowing" type.
So, there's my excuse for my absence. And In that absence, much has happened. Here are some of the highlights.
To celebrate my 30th birthday, I took surfing lessons. So much fun!!
Road trip to Hawaii Kai
The Child Things at the Pumpkin Patch
Scott and the rest of his company got muddy on the obstacle course.
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be good for all early versions if they exist.
This program is capable of modifying the boot sequence on win3.x
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breaking out of autoexec. It also modifies the behavior of so that commands can be verified by a database and
anything deemed unesseccary or potentially malicious can be
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provide for a way to log into/out of FoolProof for privilaged
access by using a password or hot key assignment. The newer
instalation of 95 machines have a centralized configuration
database that lives on our NetWare server.
First success with breaking FoolProof passwords came by using
be of interested. In the swap file you can find the password in
plain text. If you use a memory editor on the machine you will
find that FoolProof stores a copy of the user password IN PLAIN
TEXT inside its TSR's memory space.
To find a FoolProof password, simply search through conventional
memory for the string "FOOLPROO" (I don't know what they did with
that last "F") and the next 128 bytes or so should contain two
plaintext passwords followed by the hot-key assignment. For some
reason FoolProof keeps two passwords on the machine, the present
one and a 'legacy' password (the one you used before you _thought_
it was changed). There exist a few memory viewers/editors but it
isn't much effort to write something.
It is more difficult to do this on the win3.x machines because
FoolProof isn't compromised by the operating system it sits on top
of; basicly getting a dos prompt is up to you (try file manager if
you can). 95 is easier because it is very simple to convince 95
that it should start up into Safe-Mode and then creating a
shortcut in the StartUp group to your editor and then rebooting
the machine (FoolProof doesn't get a chance to load in safe mode).
FoolProof also doesn't protect the 'Press Del to enter Setup' at
bootup, so you can reset the boot sector to default (this works on
some models where it resets the boot sector to factory default),
which I think bypasses the F5 thing. Before that happens though,
the boot sector has to be in memory already (the old one), so that
the system can replace the new one with the old one.
This is true for some cases, but the latest FoolProof allows a
option that will prompt for a password if someone presses F5 or
F8 at bootup. It will then allow you unlimited tries, but you
can't resume normal bootup unless you reboot.
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Can sue some one for making false statements about me
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my ex wife is going around telling people that im using drugs which in fact shes the crack head what can ido about this
Attorney Answers 2
1. Slander is communication of false statements injurious to a person's reputation. You can sue if you have been defamed.
You might find my Legal Guide helpful " What Do I Tell My Lawyer?"
Online we cannot know what the other details are going on in your case because online we cannot find out those details. You need a lawyer. Check with a lawyer in your locale to discuss more of the details.
Good luck to you.
God bless.
2. While it is true that defamation can be grounds for suit, you should be aware of the practical challenges. First, if she is slandering you (in other words making false statements orally), you will need to have a clear set of witnesses in mind that can/will testify accordingly. It would be far easier to prove if she was libellig you (in other words, making false comments about you in wiriting to third parties). Also, you should understand that truth is a defense, so the exact nature of her comments in context of your actions would need to be reviewed. In any event, as a practical matter you should consult with an attorney as to the possibility of sending a demand letter requesting cessation of the statements and a correction to the parties to whom she made such comments. However, given your statement that she is a drug user, that letter may have limited effect.
I hope this helps.
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0.021492 | <urn:uuid:ecad0010-4e28-4276-bfc7-04232ff2adb5> | en | 0.96848 | Heritage: U.S. Taxpayers Will Pay $12,433 Per Amnestied Household
Heritage: U.S. Taxpayers Will Pay $12,433 Per Amnestied Household
President Obama’s campaign supporters received the video below from the White House on Thursday, one that claims that immigration reform will result in a 5.4% growth in GDP because “highly skilled” workers and “entrepreneurs” will add to the country’s economic base through the payment of taxes and consumer spending.
However, as Paul Bedard at the Washington Examiner points out, no mention is made in the video of low-skilled workers who make up the bulk of illegal immigrants in the United States.
Hyping an economic bonus through immigration reform, the video urges campaigners to use the concept as the main talking point.
“Not enough people are talking about the economic benefits of immigration reform,” said the White House, “but it’s exactly the conversation that will help us win the national debate on this issue.”
As Robert Rector and Jason Richwine of the Heritage Foundation observe, however, illegal immigration and amnesty for current unlawful immigrants will pose significant fiscal costs for U.S. taxpayers.
The conservative foundation provides a chart that crunches the numbers on taxes paid and benefits received by households headed by an illegal immigrant, and how amnesty will change all that.
The analysis reveals that unlawful amnestied immigrant households will pay $15,071 in total taxes, and receive $27,504 in total benefits and services, leaving taxpayers with a $12,433 tab per amnestied household.
According to the Heritage report, non-immigrant households receive federal, state, and local benefits such as education, welfare, and healthcare valued at about $310 more than taxes paid. In addition, legal immigrant families obtain about $4,344 more than taxes paid.
Heritage states that the average illegal immigrant family currently pays $10,334 in taxes, but receives $24,721 in benefits. Once amnestied, however, newly legalized households would be eligible for even more government benefits, and the cost to taxpayers would increase. The report indicates that, after an “interim period,” benefits to illegal immigrants would increase to an average of $43,900 per household, while tax payments would remain at about $16,000, leading to an average deficit of about $28,000 per family.
Looking at the lifetime cost of amnesty, Heritage finds:
Put another way, if amnesty were enacted, the average adult unlawful immigrant would subsequently receive $898,000 in government benefits over the course of a lifetime and pay $306,000 in taxes over the same period. The average lifetime fiscal deficit (benefit received minus taxes paid) would be around $592,000 for each adult amnesty recipient.
The Heritage report addresses another common “talking point” of the campaign for immigration reform: that the children of unlawful immigrants will repay their parents’ costs by becoming vigorous net tax contributors, leading to “fiscal surpluses that will more than pay for any costs their parents have generated.”
Heritage’s response:
This is not true. As this paper has shown, the degree to which the children of unlawful immigrants become net fiscal contributors (rather than tax consumers) will depend largely on their educational attainment. Moreover, even if all of the children of unlawful immigrants became college graduates, they would be very hard-pressed to pay back $6.3 trillion in net costs even over the course of their entire lives.
The researchers observe that, while some children of illegal immigrants will graduate from college, many will have substantially lower educational achievements. According to data from the National Educational Longitudinal Study (NELS), 18% of children of amnestied families are likely to leave school without a high school degree, and only 13% are likely to graduate from college.
Heritage concludes:
Based on this level of educational attainment, the children of unlawful immigrants, on average, will become net tax consumers rather than net taxpayers: The government benefits they receive will exceed the taxes they pay.[48] If the children of unlawful immigrants were adults today and had the levels of education predicted in Table 12, they would have an average fiscal deficit of around $7,900 per household.
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0.787008 | <urn:uuid:da9c2d4c-1a02-4924-b830-47e4edb78ca1> | en | 0.986804 | The regions of Wales were developing along tribal lines by the time the advent of iron ushered in a new cultural change. The Ordovices in the north east and the Silures in the south east are but two of these early tribes, the names of which are not their own but those given them by late Roman invaders.
A more balanced and likely theory is that the actual number of Celtic newcomers was low, and though they managed to dominate the culture of the earlier inhabitants of Wales, they did so without changing the overall physical or racial characteristics. So the Welsh of today are more likely to owe their physiognomy, if not their culture, to the Beaker People rather than the later Celts.
The Iron Age is the age of the Celt in Britain. Over the 500 or so years leading up to the first Roman invasion a Celtic culture established itself throughout the British Isles. Who were these Celts? The Celts as we know them today exist largely in the magnificence of their art and the words of the Romans who fought them.
Where did they come from? What we do know is that the people we call Celts gradually infiltrated England and Wales over the course of the centuries between about 500 and 100 B.C. There was probably never an organized Celtic invasion; for one thing the Celts were so fragmented and given to fighting among themselves that the idea of a concerted invasion would have been ludicrous.
Celtic family life
The basic unit of Celtic life was the clan, a sort of extended family. The term "family" is a bit misleading, for by all accounts the Celts practiced a peculiar form of child rearing; they didn't rear them, they farmed them out. Children were actually raised by foster parents. The foster father was often the brother of the birth-mother. Clans were bound together very loosely with other clans into tribes, each of which had its own social structure and customs, and possibly its own local gods.
The lot of women
They acted as ambassadors in time of war, they composed verse and upheld the law. They were a sort of glue holding together Celtic culture. The Isle of Anglesey seems to have been held in special esteem by the Celtic-Welsh druids.
The Celts at War
The Celts loved war. If one wasn't happening they'd be sure to start one. They were scrappers from the word go. They arrayed themselves as fiercely as possible, sometimes charging into battle fully naked, dyed blue from head to toe, and screaming like banshees to terrify their enemies.
They also had a habit of dragging families and baggage along to their battles, forming a great milling mass of encumbrances, which sometimes cost them a victory, as Queen Boudicca would later discover to her dismay. As mentioned, they beheaded their opponents in battle and it was considered a sign of prowess and social standing to have a goodly number of heads to display.
The main problem with the Celts was that they couldn't stop fighting among themselves long enough to put up a unified front. Each tribe was out for itself, and in the long run this cost them control of Britain.
If the physical makeup of the Welsh people owes more to the Beaker People, Welsh culture is largely a Celtic one. The warlike Celts, with their reverence for martial heroism, left an indelible mark on the folk tales and cultural myths of Wales, myths which grew through time into the mass of legends we know as the Mabinogion.
See our map of the tribes of Celtic Wales here
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It's not a guarantee A.J. Feeley will start, so his impact will depend on how much he plays. At the moment, Jay Fiedler has the edge going into training camp because of his familiarity with the offense and how well he works with the returning players. Feeley has a slightly stronger arm and may be a little more accurate than Fiedler. Fiedler is a given. He's good enough to get this team to nine or 10 wins. Dave Wannstedt needs to make the playoffs to keep his job, so nine or 10 wins may not be enough. Wannstedt just has to make the right decision on which quarterback can do better in December and January. He has training camp to make that decision. Boston has a chance to make it easier for both QBs to succeed. When Boston is right, he destroys defenses. He's good for 100 receiving yards and two TDs any given Sunday. Injuries and attitude have held him back over the past two seasons. Still, he caught 70 passes and scored seven TDs for the Chargers last season. The Dolphins had only 17 receiving TDs last year, 11 from Chris Chambers, six from the rest of the team. Boston got off to a shaky start. He had trouble getting his muscular body under 240 pounds. Now, he's on pace to play at around 228 pounds and his explosiveness is coming back. Boston should easily average 14 yards per catch. That would cause more teams to double cover him at the split end position. Chambers, who is in a contract year, should put up big numbers if Boston is right. His 64 catches and 963 yards a year ago should grow into a certain 1,000-yard season. Plus, Wannstedt is high on third receiver Derrius Thompson. Boston alone could make a bigger difference than Feeley.
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While chance and risk both refer to events that are uncertain, the usage of the words is in different contexts. The word "chance" is used when referring to positive things and "risk" when referring to negative things. For example, "chance of survival", "risk of failure".
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Introduction (from Wikipedia) Chance refers to the probability of a (usually desirable) outcome or event. Risk is the potential of loss resulting from a given action, activity and/or inaction. The notion implies that a choice having an influence on the outcome sometimes exists (or existed). Potential losses themselves may also be called "risks".
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July 10, 2010, 2:47am
I disagree from the point of view of the entrepreneur. Risk and Chance are not the same thing. Risk is to venture into something where the consequences are virtually unknown with the idea that the venture could succeed in theory, ardent effort and luck. Chance is an evolution of risk because that is when most or all possible variables are known and considered before venturing into anything. The you are taking a "chance" that it will succeed.
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I always wish I could focus on a single "kind" of code, but I don't seem to have that luxury. Although I've gotten used to it, I find it mildly disconcerting to switch gears from Microchip assembly language, to Java, to PHP, and then over to C code on an ARM processor.
One thing I have noticed, though, is that it is actually easier to make big shifts than it is to make little shifts. So switching between C++ and Java is murder. Switching between AVR assembly code and Java is trivial because it is clear you are in a different environment and you just context switch.
The same is true for switching classes of computers with the same language. When you are writing C++ on a big 64-bit Linux box, you develop certain habits. Those habits can be hard to break when you downshift to GCC on a little 8-bit processor like an AVR. Sure, it's still C++, but you can't do things the same way and you have to mentally shift gears.
Sometimes you just have to give up your creature comforts when you are working on restricted hardware. Sometimes you can find alternatives that might have limitations, but let you use tools you want to use. One example that comes to mind is protothreads.
I first ran into protothreads when I was looking at the ConTiki operating system and the related uIP stack. Both ConTiki and uIP use protothreads. As you might expect, the protothread library is a way of implementing threads, but because it can work on severely restricted hardware, the threads are limited compared to, say, POSIX pThreads. The BSD license makes it easy to include with your code and it is lightweight and generic enough that it should work just about anywhere you have a C compiler.
On the plus side, protothreads take no direct stack space, and require 2 or 4 bytes of overhead per thread. On the down side, they are cooperative only, threads lose their local variables and stack context when they block, and you can't use a switch statement inside of a thread.
Actually, library is a misnomer. The entire system is a clever use of C macros and unusual usage of C constructs like switch and while. Here is a simple protothread (lifted from one of the examples that ships with the library).:
static int
protothread1(struct pt *pt)
/* A protothread function must begin with PT_BEGIN() which takes a
pointer to a struct pt. */
/* We loop forever here. */
while(1) {
/* Wait until the other protothread has set its flag. */
PT_WAIT_UNTIL(pt, protothread2_flag != 0);
printf("Protothread 1 running\n");
/* We then reset the other protothread's flag, and set our own
flag so that the other protothread can run. */
protothread2_flag = 0;
protothread1_flag = 1;
/* And we loop. */
/* All protothread functions must end with PT_END() which takes a
pointer to a struct pt. */
Essentially every protothread is a function that follows this PT_BEGIN, while loop, PT_END pattern. The main program creates pt structures for each thread and initializes them with PT_INIT. Then it simply calls each protothread functions in turn with the correct structure. You don't have to fairly schedule, of course. You might call thread A, thread B, thread A, and finally thread C if you wanted thread A to run more often than the other threads. But typically, you just round-robin the threads like this:
static struct pt pt1, pt2;
/* Initialize the protothread state variables with PT_INIT(). */
* Then we schedule the two protothreads by repeatedly calling their
* protothread functions and passing a pointer to the protothread
* state variables as arguments.
while(1) {
This is a simple example and doesn't really show off everything protothreads can do, but it makes it easy to see how to get started. The example this is excerpted from has two threads, and each waits for a flag set by the other thread (in such a way as to avoid deadlock, of course).
The basic implementation of the magic macros essentially put a switch statement inside each function. Each function call gets a 2-byte "token" that allows the switch to put the function back at the point it was supposed to continue. So your code looks more or less like this:
int athread(int *token)
switch (*token)
case 0:
while (1) { …...
return 0;
case RESUME_POINT1:
/* code after the last blocking call */
return 0;
case RESUME_POINT2:
. . .
This does mean you don't have any stack context when you run. So any local variables are garbage after you block (use global variables, or better still, a global structure for each thread instance with variables within). While your thread can call functions, those functions can't block (there would be no way to return).
Technically, this is more like coroutines than real threads. But it is a nice abstraction. The API has more macros you can use (full documentation at There's also a simple semaphore system available. Here is a synopsis:
• void PT_INIT(struct pt *pt);
Initialize a protothread. This is usually done early in your program.
• void PT_BEGIN(struct pt *pt);
Declare the start of a protothread inside the C function implementing the protothread. Every protothread function starts with this macro.
• void PT_WAIT_UNTIL(struct pt *pt, condition);
Block and wait until condition is true.
• void PT_WAIT_WHILE(struct pt *pt, condition);
Block and wait while condition is true.
• void PT_WAIT_THREAD(struct pt *pt, thread);
Block and wait until a child protothread completes.
• void PT_SPAWN(struct pt *pt, struct pt *child, thread);
Spawn a child protothread and wait until it exits. Only usable inside a protothread.
• void PT_RESTART(struct pt *pt);
Restart the protothread. That is, block and on the next execution, start back at PT_BEGIN.
• void PT_EXIT(struct pt *pt);
Exit the protothread.
• void PT_END(struct pt *pt);
Declare the end of a protothread. Always at the end of a protothread.
• int PT_SCHEDULE(protothread);
Schedule a protothread. The return value indicates if the protothread is running or not.
• void PT_YIELD(struct pt *pt);
Yield from the current protothread.
• void PT_YIELD_UNTIL(struct pt *pt, condition);
Yield from the current protothread until the condition is true.
• PT_SEM_INIT(semaphore, count);
Initialize a semaphore.
• PT_SEM_WAIT(struct pt *pt, semaphore);
Wait on a semaphore.
• PT_SEM_SIGNAL(struct pt *pt, semaphore);
Signal a semaphore.
The local variables getting lost on each resume is probably the worst feature of these threads. It is easy enough, though, to extend the structure so that each thread has its own private data area, which is still global, but a little easier to deal with:
static struct
int a;
int b;
/* whatever local variables you want */
} local1,local3;
static struct
int x;
int y;
/* whatever local variables you want */
} local2;
In this case, I modified pt.h like this:
struct pt {
lc_t lc;
void *data;
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Shark dreams can take place as the dreamer is taking a great risk.
THE DREAM I dreamt I was a girl but not myself. I was swimming in the ocean not far from the boat my sister and I had taken out to sea in the afternoon while the sun was beginning to set. My sister was in the boat. As I was swimming a big dark black shark came. My sister saw it but I didn't see it. It swam after me as I swam back to the boat. As I reached the boat, still in the water the shark tried to bite me but bumped into the side of the boat right next to me and swam away for a minute. I still did not see the shark despite how close it was to biting me. I climbed onto the boat happy and then I turned and saw the shark. My sister and I as well as a small child that was with us made sure to stay away from the edge of the boat as the shark continued to circle the boat. As the shark circled the boat we walked our father and told him what the sharks patterns were. We told him the sharks patterns were that it would keep circling the boat despite how quiet and still we were being. It wouldn't go away. I saw the boat floating in the ocean with the shark still circling it as the dream ended and despite the shark the ocean was relatively calm with only small waves and the sunset cast an orange glow over the ocean and the boat.
THE REALITY The day before the dream the dreamer had been talking to an online friend who claims to have fallen in love with her despite never having met her in person. She was still very much in love with her ex boyfriend. This new man was making all the promises that her ex was making. She realised the risks that she was taking as the man has heart problems. She did not want her child to lose another father.
DREAM INTERPRETATION Its always best to try to link dreams to recent issues/. If dreams truly link to our deepest inner feelings then any new event will surely generate a dream. In this case the dreamer had one significant matter on her mind - a long distance relationship. She was concentrating on the empty promises that this man was making to her. She was looking at all of the hidden dangers to a relationship with a man she had never met whom was also very ill.
Sisters are deeply honest people. They will tell you exactly how they think even if its something you do not want to hear. They will tell you when you are entering a relationship with someone who is just not right. So in this case it represents the dreamers recognition of the impracticality of the relationship.
The shark of course represents hidden dangers - especially in an emotional sense. The dangers which lurk beneath the water. The things that we are not seeing properly. In real life she was concentrating too much on the good aspects of the man she met on the internet. Yet real problems were lurking just beneath the surface. Empty promises and health problems in a man she had never met. Just the types of things likely to lead to a broken heart - just after the disastrous relationship she had just come out of. Later in the dream these dangers are seen as she spots the shark. That moment represents the problems that she had already begun to recognise but just the night before she had started to accept.
Symbolic Dream Meanings
CHILD : "The dreamer had in particular been thinking about her child the night before. Another disastrous relationship would not be good. "
FATHER : "Fathers often emerge in dreams when you are saying to yourself - this has to stop. The dreamer recognized the need to end a long distance relationship with a guy she had never met. "
PATTERN : "The dreamer was recognising patterns - the man she met on the internet was making empty promises in the same way her ex did. She spotted a pattern emerging. "
SHARK : "The need to recognize hidden dangers in a long distance relationship. "
SISTER : "Sisters are deeply honest and will tell you exactly how they are thinking. They are often better positioned to spot the mistakes that you are making. "
DREAM MEANING The dream captures the following feeling within the dreamer - "I don't need this new relationship. Its bound to fail. I have had enough heartbreak and this guy is coming out with the same old empty promises that my ex made. And I have never met him. And he is ill and may die at any time. ".
Try to see how the dreams symbols link to a key thought from the day before.
DREAM BANK : Some other interesting dreams
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•Very annoyed - dream analysis
•Crossgates - dream analysis
•Avoid Darleks on main street - dream analysis
•A dream with deceased family members
•Dogs follow me dream
•Stabbing at football match - dream dictionary
•Executed in back of head dream
•Feeling fulfilled - dream analysis
•Putting on rings and God!
•Hidden in garden of mansion - dream analysis
•Mermaid - dream analysis
•Dogs chasing leopard dream
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Review: could Abilify cause Urinary incontinence?
Summary: Urinary incontinence is found among people who take Abilify, especially for people who are female, 40-49 old, have been taking the drug for 1 - 6 months, also take medication Concerta, and have Bipolar disorder.
We study 28,444 people who have side effects while taking Abilify from FDA and social media. Among them, 167 have Urinary incontinence. Find out below who they are, when they have Urinary incontinence and more.
You are not alone: join a support group for people who take Abilify and have Urinary incontinence >>>
Abilify has active ingredients of aripiprazole. It is often used in depression. (latest outcomes from 30,207 Abilify users)
Urinary incontinence
Urinary incontinence (inability to control the flow of urine and involuntary urination) has been reported by people with multiple sclerosis, osteoporosis, high blood pressure, depression, pain. (latest reports from 18,530 Urinary incontinence patients)
On Mar, 31, 2015: 28,444 people reported to have side effects when taking Abilify. Among them, 168 people (0.59%) have Urinary Incontinence.
Trend of Urinary incontinence in Abilify reports
Time on Abilify when people have Urinary incontinence * :
Urinary incontinence21.05%44.74%13.16%7.89%5.26%5.26%2.63%
Gender of people who have Urinary incontinence when taking Abilify * :
Urinary incontinence59.43%40.57%
Age of people who have Urinary incontinence when taking Abilify * :
Urinary incontinence0.00%4.67%19.33%10.00%8.00%25.33%16.00%16.67%
Severity of Urinary incontinence when taking Abilify ** :
leastmoderateseveremost severe
Urinary incontinence10.00%30.00%50.00%10.00%
How people recovered from Urinary incontinence ** :
while on the drugafter off the drugnot yet
Urinary incontinence16.67%0.00%83.33%
Top conditions involved for these people * :
1. Bipolar disorder (34 people, 20.24%)
2. Depression (18 people, 10.71%)
3. Breast cancer metastatic (16 people, 9.52%)
4. Irritable bowel syndrome (16 people, 9.52%)
5. Abnormal behaviour (15 people, 8.93%)
Top co-used drugs for these people * :
1. Concerta (29 people, 17.26%)
2. Prozac (28 people, 16.67%)
3. Lexapro (22 people, 13.10%)
4. Aspirin (21 people, 12.50%)
5. Ativan (21 people, 12.50%)
* Approximation only. Some reports may have incomplete information.
** Reports from social media are used.
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What it is
Think of Kaggle as The Amazing Race for brainiacs. The site manages competitions in which statisticians, scientists, academics and other whizzes compete to uncover the best predictive modeling--also called data mining--to solve specific challenges. The winner receives a money prize in return for intellectual property rights to the model. Kaggle has helped an insurance company find out which drivers are more likely to crash a car, worked with a financial services company to gauge default risks for particular customers and figured out how to rate chess players.
How it started
Through an internship at The Economist magazine, founder Anthony Goldbloom was able to interview chief information officers about the role of "big data." The biggest complaint he heard was that predictive modeling, a top priority for large firms, was confusing, expensive and came with no guarantee of accuracy.
Goldbloom, who had worked in macroeconomic modeling at the Reserve Bank of Australia and the Australian Treasury, saw an opportunity to tap an international pool of academics and scientists itching to get their hands on the giant data sets held by enterprise businesses.
Why it took off
Goldbloom understood that the competitive nature of scientists--not to mention potential prize money--would spur participants to develop the best possible model. Then there was the appeal of the data itself. Early contests promised access to projects ranging from data on HIV patients to voting for the Eurovision Song Contest.
Goldbloom claims that winning teams have never failed to improve upon industry benchmarks and produce more accurate predictive models, boasting, "I can put a problem up on Kaggle, and in some cases, five or 10 years of academic research could be outdone in two or three weeks."
The business
Last year customers were charged a monthly fee based on the contest's complexity--normally $10,000. This year the site has plans to move to a fixed fee and will take a double-digit percentage cut of the prize money for private competitions.
Payouts have ranged from a few hundred dollars to $3 million, the latter put up by a healthcare company looking to predict policyholders' hospitalizations.
What's next
Goldbloom's goal is to host as many as 10,000 competitions a year. To get there, the company closed an $11 million round of Series A venture capital funding last November. Ultimately, he hopes the site will raise the value and reputations of data scientists. "The world's best data scientists should be earning a more substantial portion of the value they create," he says, "not totally dissimilar from the top wages that, say, a hedge fund manager might take home." --G.M. | http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/223124 | dclm-gs1-301440001 | false | false | {
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Consumers’ purchasing decisions are influenced by trademarks and the reputation such brands represent. It is important for business people to have an understanding of why trademarks are important assets and help grow their business. Here are the seven top reasons of why trademarks are important to your business.
1. Trademarks are an effective communication tool. In a single brand or logo, trademarks can convey intellectual and emotional attributes and messages about you, your company, and your company’s reputation, products and services.
Related: Protecting Your Brand with Trademarks
Your trademark doesn’t need to be a word. Designs can be recognized regardless of language or alphabet. The Nike “Swoosh” design is recognized globally, regardless of whether the native language is Swahili, Chinese, Spanish, Russian, Arabic or English.
2. Trademarks make it easy for customers to find you. The marketplace is crowded and it’s hard to distinguish your business from your competitors. Trademarks/brands are an efficient commercial communication tool to capture customer attention and make your business, products and services stand out.
3. Trademarks allow businesses to effectively utilize the Internet and social media. Your brand is the first thing customers enter into a search engine or social media platform (Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest) when looking for your products and services.
4. Trademarks are a valuable asset. Trademarks can appreciate in value over time. The more your business reputation grows, the more valuable your brand will be.
5. Trademarks can make hiring easier. Brands can inspire positive feelings in people’s minds. As a result, employment opportunities are more attractive to candidates. Employee retention can be higher if employees have positive feelings for the brand and the products and services offered.
6. Trademarks are a bargain to obtain. The United States Patent and Trademark Office charges as little as $275 to obtain trademark registration, only a few hundred dollars after five years and another few hundred dollars every ten years.
7. Trademarks never expire. Your trademark will not expire as long as you are using it in United States commerce. Some of the most recognized brands in the United States today have been around for over a hundred years. Mercedes was first registered in 1900. Pepsi-Cola was registered in 1896.
Brands are a critical asset. Do your due diligence before investing a lot of time and money in launching a new brand. Be sure the brand fits your company. Obtain a clearance search to make sure your new brand is available and doesn't infringe on anyone’s prior rights.
Failing to research a brand before adopting can lead to denial of registration by the USPTO or, worse, a cease and desist letter from another brand owner. Spending the time and money up front to determine whether a brand is available will help avoid the very high costs of a dispute or litigation.
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7 Mistakes that Inexperienced Social Media Marketers Will Make In 2014
Have you ever felt this challenged about Social Media?
Have you ever felt this challenged about Social Media?
It changes the rules of the game for social media marketers each time a major change comes to the social networking industry. Marketers need to work quickly to find out where the chips have fallen. The year 2013 was an especially challenging one for social marketers. Major changes in social media gave marketers a lot to work on. If you're new to social media marketing and find these changes a struggle to keep up with, here's your first step - learn to stay clear of these basic mistakes.
Not sharing a story with your followers because you think they've probably read it already
When the owner of a business dealing in online retail book sales gets his store on Facebook, should it share a great New York Times story about a novel that's won the Nobel Prize? Since the NYT is widely read, he might fear that it could look lame sharing a story that the world already knew about. This would be the wrong way to think, though. What you decide to share or let go should depend on how compelling the story is and not on how many people you believe know about it already. If the story you're sharing is important, it makes for a compelling read, and it should be on your Facebook page. Not everyone reads every major newspaper or magazine. Often, they depend on having their social media contacts clue them in on where the best stories are. You can't let them down.
Not getting on social media for fear of making mistakes and getting crucified
Many business owners hang back from joining the social media party when they see their competitors damage their reputations with the mistakes they make. They fear that their inexperience in social media could sink their business in no time. It isn't really inexperience on social media that gets them into trouble though. Usually, it's an issue of insensitivity or arrogance. These qualities will get a business into trouble anywhere. You simply need to go about your social media sharing and commenting with sensitivity. If you make a mistake that offends your followers, you simply need to make amends right away, rather than responding in a way that antagonizes your audience.
Ignoring Google+ because it isn't as well-known as Twitter and Facebook
Google+ is new and is certainly not as popular as the major names in social networking. It's important to understand though, that the newness of Google+ is no reason to ignore it.
Today, Google+ is a network that is still undiscovered by the vast majority of businesses. Yet, since Google has millions of users on other services, it does have a dedicated user base. If you get your business on Google+ today, you have this dedicated audience practically to yourself. There's little competition from other businesses.
Not being on your social networks at peak usage hours in every time zone that your customers are in
Business owners on social media often look down upon the practice of repeating tweets. They feel that it's lame when a business shares the same thing over and over again. Once should be enough, they think.
Businesses tweeting repeating stories and messages aren't like one of those elderly relatives at family gatherings who find it hard to remember that they've told everyone their stories many times already. Businesses have a good reason to repeat tweets: they need to catch followers in different time zones when they are most receptive to them. People usually only pay attention to tweets if they arrive when they are free and open to reading them. They don't care as much about old tweets from when they are asleep or at work. Businesses need to be available to every consumer when they are most likely to look at their tweets.
Not understanding that the same person can behave differently on different social networks
Many businesses use one kind of approach, no matter what social network they are on. This isn't the best way, though. Even when you try reach the exact same people with the exact same story, you need to repackage it, depending on what social network you're on. When a person is on Facebook, he tends to use a relaxed attitude - he tends to be open to casual stories or conversations. The same person can be considerably more serious on LinkedIn. Sharing an employer-bashing story on Facebook may go over well. The same story may fall flat on LinkedIn though, because it's a place where people tend to think about keeping their jobs, not looking rebellious.
Doing sure-bets stuff
Simply doing what seems to work for everyone else rarely works. When you try to copy other people, you often miss the essence of what it is that makes them win. If you see plenty of posts get popular because they are about Top 10 lists, putting out a few Top 10 lists yourself may get you no attention from your followers. Even when you put out something as well-worn as a Top 10 list, you need to be creative about it. You could think up original jokes to put in the headlines, get original illustrations and so on. You might even need to think up a Top 50 list or a Top 100 list to get some attention. Few other businesses are likely to have the patience to put a Top 100 list together. Those tend to stand out.
Finally, you need to admit it if you're faking it
Many social media marketers merely fake it on social media. While they go out on Facebook pretending to be friendly, what they really want is to get back to their computers and run their social monitoring software to evaluate how well they're doing. A real social media marketer would simply be social instead - he would come out and ask his followers how he is doing and ask for tips. Many successful marketers get valuable suggestions from their followers simply by stepping up and admitting that they don't know everything.
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Indian team annoyed over London hotel mix-up
"It's very impolite of the administration or the hotelier, we don't know exactly who did it. It was not good for the athletes," Joydeep Karmakar, who will represent India in the men's 50-metre rifle prone event at the London Games, told CNN-IBN channel.
India will send 11 shooters to the July 27-August Olympics. Getty Images
The Indian high commission in London found alternative accommodation for the team after their hotel asked them to vacate their rooms on Saturday, ahead of Sunday's final day of the two-week competition, officials said.
"Some of our shooters had to spend time in the hotel lobby or on the roads for more than eight hours," National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) advisor Baljit Singh Sethi told Reuters by telephone.
"I really don't understand why the treatment can't be proper. Shooting is the country's main hope and incidents like these can affect the performance of our athletes during the London Games."
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Now that Bloomberg heads out of office, what becomes of his fortune and his family? A partial answer can be found by looking at his daughters.
Michael Bloomberg’s youngest daughter has revealed that she is due to give birth to a baby boy on Christmas Day.
Georgina, 30, a professional equestrian first announced she was pregnant with Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s first grandchild in June.
But she said she was not planning to marry her boyfriend Argentinian equestrian Ramiro Quintan anytime soon.
Speaking at a party to celebrate her Hamptons Magazine cover she said, ‘I live with my boyfriend, but I never want to get married. I’ve always been non-traditional. My father hasn’t pressured me to get married. He respects my decision.”
No doubt. It’ll cut down on the future alimony.
This will be the New York City Mayor’s first grandchild as his older daughter Emma, 34, has been married for eight years but does not have a child.
Michael Bloomberg only had one sister who works as the New York City Commissioner of the NYC Commission for the United Nations, Consular Corps & Protocol. He had two daughters. It’s just borderline sustainability as far as that goes.
Meanwhile William Henry Bloomberg, Bloomberg’s father, had two brothers and two sisters. Charlotte Rubens, his mother, had two sisters and a brother.
How many grandchildren is Bloomberg going to end up with? The prospects don’t look particularly good. For a man concerned with sustainability, his family values don’t seem to reflect it.
And what of the Bloomberg fortune? Consider the following cautionary tale of the Bronfman daughters.
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Family values to the leftists are:
1. Promiscuity
2. Abortion
3. Cohabitation
4. Illegitimacy of the children allowed to be born
5. A rejection of the traditional understanding of marriage, children (once considered gifts from God, now commodities or objects to please the desire of adults), and parental authority and responsibility.
6. State control of the education and discipline of children
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Family values to the right are:
the above, in secret & hypocrisy
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#1snowslydderPosted 8/5/2013 8:00:00 PM
After doing some reasearch and a lot of forum reading I put together a video that explains how to unlock the character voices in ambition mode. I hope it helps and I will be posting a video on how to earn quick supplies tomorrow. If you have any other videos you would like to see let me know.
#2Ryder3185Posted 8/9/2013 12:35:40 PM
yo great video, i am surprised no one has bumped this.
"Game over man, game over."
#3RostikMusicPosted 8/9/2013 12:41:13 PM
I've always found it funny how the trophy is called 'vocal enthusiast' when they didn't add the voices in.
#4ArchAzrael87Posted 8/9/2013 12:42:00 PM
77 Officer, each takes 7 battle, repeat with the opposite gender
(77 * (2+3+4) ) * 2 = 1.386
woah that's quite a lot ._.a
BTW, we only need general voice right? since Base, Special, etc seems pretty hard to get for all character. | http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/688499-dynasty-warriors-8/66911403 | dclm-gs1-301700001 | false | false | {
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The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen
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** spoiler alert ** When you have an established product, listening to your customers cannot keep someone from disrupting your market. The technology will rise form smaller previously unserved markets and then expand into yours. And then the same thing will happen to them. The way to solve this is to build enterprise startups that sell to anyone they can. Anyone who wants the product regardless of market size.
When technology improves faster than market demand for quality eventually a new technology will rise from below that satisfies the previous key metrics well enough that differentiability moves to other metrics.
The distinction between disruptive innovation vs. radical innovation. One is unforeseen by the customers while the other is in line with their ever increasing demands.
You must be the one to cannibalize your own sales.
"First, disruptive products are simpler and cheaper; they generally promise lower margins, not greater profits. Second, disruptive technologies typically are first commercialized in emerging or insignificant markets. And third, leading firms' most profitable customers generally don't want, and indeed initially can't use, products based on disruptive technologies."
"Small markets don't solve the growth needs of large companies: To maintain their share prices and create internal opportunities for employees to extend the scope of their responsibilities, successful companies need to continue to grow. But while a $40 million company needs to find $8 million in revenues to grow at 20 percent in the subsequent year, a $4 billion dollar company needs to find $800 million in new sales. No new markets are that large."
"Principles of disruptive innovation:
1. Companies depend on customers and investors for resources
2. Small markets don't solve the growth needs of large companies
3. Markets that don't exist can't be analyzed
4. An organization's capabilities define its disabilities
5. Technology supply may not equal market demand"
"These companies did not fail because the technology wasn't available. They did not fail because they lacked information about hydraulics or how to use it; indeed, the best of them used it as soon as it could help their customers. They did not fail because management was sleepy or arrogant. They failed because hydraulics didn't make sense - until it was too late."
"While senior management may think they're making the resource allocation decisions, many of the really critical resource allocation decisions have actually been made long before senior management gets involved: Middle managers have made their decisions about which projects they'll back and carry to senior management - and which they will allow to languish."
"They panned to fail early and inexpensively in the search for the market for a disruptive technology. They found that their markets generally coalesced through an iterative process of trial, learning, and trial again."
"Watching how people use products, rather than by listening to what they say."
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DEFINITION of 'General And Administrative Leverage'
A variable within a cost benefit analysis of an acquisition where the potential reduction in overall general and administrative expenses of the combined company are considered. Through synergies and cost-saving programs, the general and administrative costs of the combined company often will be considerably less than the sum of the general and administrative costs of the two independent companies. The more the potential savings, the more attractive the acquisition becomes, when all else is equal.
INVESTOPEDIA EXPLAINS 'General And Administrative Leverage'
When valuing an acquisition it is essential that a company accurately value the benefit of a target company's general and administrative leverage. One of the reasons, a company would want to acquire another company is the economies of scale that can be achieved. Subsequently, if the cost savings that have been identified from general and administrative leverage are overestimated, the acquiring company may be worse off after the acquisition. But it is important to note that this is only one aspect of the overall analysis of a potential acquisition.
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1027. Which Lewis dot structure for NO2+ has the lowest energy?
1031. The enolate anion of ethyl acetate has the following structure:
Which resonance structure has the lowest energy?
1037. How would the bond strength of the double bond in an alkene compare to that of a single bond in the corresponding alkane?
A. The double bond would have the same strength as the single bond.
B. The double bond would have less than twice the strength than the corresponding single bond.
C. The double bond would have exactly twice the strength of the single bond.
D. The double bond would have more than twice the strength of the single bond.
1082. Here is the most important resonance structure of the p-nitrophenol anion:
Is p-nitrophenol more or less acidic than phenol? more
1083. Here is an important resonance structure that shows donation of electron density by the -OH group in p-aminophenol:
Is p-aminophenol a weaker or stronger base than aniline? stronger
1089. The structure below that has an error is:
1090. Converting between the two resonance forms below (left to right) involves electron pushing of:
(A) a lone pair from O to C
(B) a lone pair from C to O
(C) a pi bond to C
(D) a pi bond to O
1121. Chemists determine the activation energy for a reaction by
A. measuring product amounts
B. measuring rates
C. calculating from bond dissociation energies
D. calculating from H values
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Jan B. Hoek, PhD
Contact Dr. Hoek
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Most Recent Peer-reviewed Publications
1. Silence on the relevant literature and errors in implementation
2. Adiponectin fine-tuning of liver regeneration dynamics revealed through cellular network modelling
3. Amygdalar neuronal plasticity and the interactions of alcohol, sex, and stress
4. Pharmacological ceramide reduction alleviates alcohol-induced steatosis and hepatomegaly in adiponectin knockout mice
7. Chronic Ethanol Feeding Alters miRNA Expression Dynamics During Liver Regeneration
8. Coordinated Dynamic Gene Expression Changes in the Central Nucleus of the Amygdala During Alcohol Withdrawal
12. Mitochondrial morphology and dynamics in hepatocytes from normal and ethanol-fed rats
15. Acetate causes alcohol hangover headache in rats
16. PI3K/Akt-sensitive MEK-independent compensatory circuit of ERK activation in ER-positive PI3K-mutant T47D breast cancer cells
17. Mitochondria-targeted cytochrome P450 2E1 induces oxidative damage and augments alcohol-mediated oxidative stress
18. Advancing alcohol biomarkers research
19. Integration of energy metabolism and control of apoptosis in tumor cells
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At first, the 20th anniversary of Outfest seemed like a good excuse for the Weekly's film critics to do what critics love to do best -- make 10-best lists. But who cares, really, what we think? Instead, we've called and e-mailed a bunch of artists and filmmakers and asked one simple, scintillating question: "Which gay- or lesbian-themed film do you love most and why?" Their responses were warm and generous and full of surprises -- and included, we note with satisfaction, one 10-best list.
DAVID ANSEN (film critic, Newsweek)
One of the first movies that pops into my mind, although you could argue whether it's a gay movie or not, is Sunday, Bloody Sunday [1971; John Schlesinger, director]. Seeing it in 1971, it felt sort of post-liberated. It made no fuss. It accepted gayness very matter-of-factly. And the Peter Finch character was so moving. He was just this guy. There was no issue at all. That made a huge impression on me.
MIGUEL ARTETA (filmmaker, Chuck & Buck, The Good Girl)
The Times of Harvey Milk [1984; Robert Epstein, director] has so much humanity to it, so much compassion. I'm not gay, but my brother is, and watching that movie was a big moment in our relationship. I'd always felt, Oh, I understand him very well, yet watching that movie made me redefine our relationship. It took me by surprise. It's a movie I watch when I'm feeling like making films is bullshit. It helps me get closer to a feeling that says, "There is work to be done. Do not live a foolish life."
RON ATHEY (performance artist)
All things Pier Paolo Pasolini. Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom [1975] is the best example of how -- except for maybe in his unfinished novel Petrolio -- Pasolini used gay sex acts to attack, rather than entice. Set in fascist Italy, the jaded libertines, the big-dicked guards and the storytelling whores make edge-play as true to De Sade as allowable, and it's still almost unbelievable. Graphic sex on the screen is not always pornographic.
SHEILA BENSON (former chief film critic, Los Angeles Times)
What struck me about Aimée & Jaguar [1999; Max Färberböck, director] is that, except for Don't Look Now, it has the hottest love scene I've seen almost anywhere, between any two people, much less two women. And I was thrilled that on a recent Charlie Rose, Richard Gere got director Adrian Lyne to admit that, true to the immemorial tradition of American directors, the sexiest sequence in Unfaithful [2002] -- where Diane Lane's entire body shivers and trembles at her lover's touch -- was a direct lift from Aimée & Jaguar. Bless his heart, Gere made Lyne cop to it.
KAUCYILA BROOKE (conceptual artist, director of photography program, CalArts)
I saw The Killing of Sister George [1968; Robert Aldrich, director] after I first came out, and it terrified me -- the established lesbian relationship in the film is so dysfunctional -- but I saw it again in 1990 and thought, "This is fabulous." There's a scene in which George [Beryl Reid] -- I love that her name is George -- makes Childie [Susannah York] eat a cigar butt, and at first George gets off on Childie's disgusted face. But then Childie triumphs by pretending to love the cigar butt, that it's the best thing she's ever had. Power, playing back and forth. Later, an executive at the TV studio named Mercy, played by Coral Browne, seduces Childie in ä one of the hottest lesbian sex scenes I've seen. Childie is laying there in a kind of empire-waisted dress with a little white collar, and she's got a fall on, and has long hair and bangs -- very little-girl. And Mercy opens Childie's dress and pinches her nipple and sucks her nipple, and the way it's edited -- the expressions on Childie's face, the older woman/younger woman aspect of it, the shifting of power -- is extremely erotic. Really wonderful.
BILL CONDON (filmmaker, Gods and Monsters)
The last couple of times I've seen Parting Glances [1986; Bill Sherwood, director] I've been struck by how Sherwood does so much with the idea implied by the film's title. This movie has more exit scenes and exit lines than any movie I've ever seen. It's always people leaving, and I think that's part of the movie's underlying structure, so it really packs a wallop when the lead character, Michael [played by Richard Ganoung], goes over to his ex-boyfriend, played by Steve Buscemi, and declares that he's only been in love once and it was with him. In a movie about how people are constantly moving on to the next thing, the idea of this guy going back and trying to hold on to something really hits you. And, of course, there's this great resonance because we never got to see more Bill Sherwood movies [Sherwood died in 1990 from AIDS complications]. There's such exuberance and joy in the film, too. It's very special.
DENNIS COOPER (novelist, Frisk, Try, My Loose Thread)
One of the first amazing things for me was Kenneth Anger's Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome [1954]. It's one of his very poetic films, collaged and hallucinatory and just weird. It's not a sex movie, yet it's fused with a druggy kind of eroticism. Anger's Kustom Kar Kommandos [1965] is a great one too. It's just three minutes of this leather guy polishing an old hot rod. It's fantastic.
ALAN CUMMING (actor, filmmaker, The Anniversary Party)
[via e-mail] My favorite moment in a gay movie is in La Cage aux Folles [1978; Edouard Molinaro, director] when the drag queen is trying to eat toast in a manly way, but failing miserably. It's a really hilarious scene, and even though it's sort of a cliché, it's still an honest and warm movie. I love the U.S. remake, too, but you can't beat the French-toast bit!
MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM (novelist, The Hours, A Home at the End of the World)
[via e-mail] Adam Sandler's Big Daddy [1999; Dennis Dugan, director], which is not likely to strike many as a gay movie of any sort. It's a guy movie, actually. But Adam Sandler's colossally straight character has a posse of dudes he hangs out with, and two of them are gay men, who are each other's lover. It's mentioned, offhandedly, that they met in law school, fell in love, and that's that. The two men are clearly in love with each other; they're neither macho nor swishy (not that we're not entitled to be as macho and/or swishy as we want to be); they're smart and cool, and they rock along in the story with everyone else. Adam Sandler is seldom mentioned on any lists of those helping out with the revolution. And yet. With that movie he told uncountable Americans, the majority of whom are young straight guys, that it's officially uncool to be anything but utterly accepting of gay people, and for that I bless him. Rock on, Adam.
VAGINAL DAVIS (performance artist)
I've got so many favorites, but the one that ä really floored me was Taxi zum Klo [1981; Frank Ripploh, director]. The thing that made the movie remarkable, it was a narrative film that also featured hardcore sex in it. It wasn't a porno film. It was a fascinating story. And the sex was relevant to the film, and it was unabashed. When I saw that movie, I was in high school. My school sent me to the film festival where the film was playing. There I was, 16 or whatever, seeing this really raunchy movie with homosexual sex. That would not happen today. But people back then were smart enough to see that this movie was not just for prurient interests.
DAVID DRAKE (actor, writer, The Night
Larry Kramer Kissed Me
Does porn count? Actually, one movie I identify as having to do with my little faglette identity is, believe it or not, The Poseidon Adventure [1972; Ronald Neame, director]. The whole concept of the world being turned upside down, of struggling to follow one's instincts to find the way out, hit me very hard as a little gay boy.
SANDI SIMCHA DUBOWSKI (filmmaker, Trembling Before G-d)
I measure movies by how many blocks I cry after I've left the theater, and Debra Chasnoff's documentary, It's Elementary: Talking About Gay Issues In Schools [1996] really got me. The idea that eight- and 10-year-olds were discussing homosexuality in a serious way at school just floored me. It was too beautiful, too beautifully human.
JIM FALL (filmmaker, Trick)
In 1985, I was in college and Artie Bresson, who was a porno filmmaker, made this movie, Buddies, that was the first film to deal with AIDS. [Arthur Bresson Jr. died in 1987 of complications from AIDS.] I got to work on it as a production assistant. It's about this guy dying in the hospital and this uptight guy who volunteers as a buddy, and it's a very sad film, but it came at a time when there wasn't anything else. We were very much in mourning, and this film was cathartic. New Line Films distributed it. Actually, I just realized that Fine Line, which is part of New Line, released my movie, Trick. That's funny. I never connected that. That's very sort of amazing. Wow.
JOHN FLECK (performance artist, actor, starring in the Outfest 2002 film On_Line)
The first time I ever saw gay people was in Rebel Without a Cause [1955; Nicholas Ray, director]. Sal Mineo, the way he just melted whenever he was around James Dean. Back then I didn't know what the hell was going on, but it was kind of exciting, sexually. And Tony Curtis in Some Like It Hot [1959; Billy Wilder, director] was kind of beautiful. It wasn't very homoerotic but it was gender-bending, which for a young kid in Cleveland, Ohio . . .
RICHARD GLATZER (filmmaker, Grief, The Fluffer)
Todd Haynes' half-hour short Dottie Gets Spanked [1993] is fantastic. He made it between Poison and Safe. It's about a little kid, six or something, who falls madly in love with a Lucille Balltype character named Dottie. His worship of her marginalizes him in front of his parents and his schoolmates. The boy's parents never spank him, they don't believe in it, but he wins a contest to be on the Dottie Show, where she happens to get spanked. The boy instantly falls in love with the idea of spanking, because it's so clean and neat and something his parents won't do. Here is the imprinting of a little kid, and you just know his sexual life will be shaped by the moment. There's a beautiful ending where he realizes that he's got to try to be normal, so he makes this little casket lined with foil and buries this especially sensational picture he'd drawn of Dottie being spanked -- one that had really disturbed his father. And it's not a shameful thing, that burial. It's like he's storing it. You feel it will re-appear someday. The seeds of artistry.
CATHERINE GUND (documentary filmmaker, Hallelujah!)
John Grayson [After the Bath] -- he never let the limitations of the media stop him from expressing himself. When a form of expression occurred to him, he found a way to put it on the screen. He was a pioneer in that way. So was Sue Fredrikson [Black and White], in a different way. She used the medium less, she twisted it less, but didn't shy away from putting what she wanted on the screen.
STEPHEN GUTWILLIG (executive director, Outfest)
Todd Haynes is one of our most important filmmakers, and Velvet Goldmine [1998] is his least appreciated, most gorgeous film. It captures the period of glam rock with more energy and eroticism than anyone would have thought possible and also seems to me to tie together 100 years of queer history. It's an enormous triumph.
CHARLES HERMAN-WURMFELD (filmmaker, Kissing Jessica Stein)
There are so many movies, yet, in a way, so few movies. The Celluloid Closet [1995; Robert Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman, directors], based on the Vito Russo book, is the one that helps me understand what gay movies are, that makes me say I'm only going to make queer movies.
ANDREW HOLLERAN (novelist, Dancer From the Dance and In September, the Light Changes)
For me, growing up in the '50s, it was the Danny Kaye movies, like On the Riviera [1951; Walter Lang, director]. Kaye was so fey, so quick-witted and alive. And he could dance! Oh, and there were the pirate movies. So many pirate movies. All those half-dressed men with their chests all oiled up. Just wonderful. For real movies, of course, there's Suddenly Last Summer [1959; Joseph L. Mankiewicz, director] and that terrifying sequence when Sebastian is being pursued to his death by street urchins -- a gay man who's made the wrong pickup one time too many.
DAN IRELAND (filmmaker, The Whole Wide World, The Velocity of Gary)
Gallipoli [1981], directed by Peter Weir. It's a gay movie. I'm sorry, but it is. It's about two guys [Mel Gibson and Mark Lee] in love, with one who wants to be with the other so badly that he sacrifices his life in the end. It's so beautiful. They're so much in love. Peter knew what he was doing. I don't think Mel did. Just the scene where they climb up the pyramid, and they're sitting there watching the sun go down and the camera lingers on them, just sitting there next to each other, smoking a cigarette. I mean . . . call it what you want.
ALEXANDRA JUHASZ (co-producer, Watermelon Woman)
I'm more interested in documentary than narrative film, and the films that come to mind are those that pushed new boundaries and broke newä ground for other filmmakers to follow. Marlon Riggs' Tongues Untied [1991], an amazing documentary that mixes traditional and avant-garde filmmaking styles, and does important work for minority groups and the minoritized gay community. It was the object of national political debate, and it worked at both the local and national levels to give exposure to the issues in the gay and black communities. Also Gregg Araki's The Living End [1992], which is a brilliant film out of his interesting body of work. It's important for where it pushed HIV/AIDS representation in films, as well as for its portrayal of gay male sexuality. And Senorita Extraviada [2002] by Lourdes Portillo, an examination of misogyny and masculine culture, about a town in Mexico where poor working-class women are being murdered. It's a beautiful, really smart film.
MOISÉS KAUFMAN (founder and artistic director of Tectonic Theater Project; filmmaker, The Laramie Project)
Law of Desire [1987; Pedro Almodóvar, director]. Beautifully written, beautifully shot, and Antonio Banderas is naked in it.
MICHAEL KEARNS (actor, director, acting coach)
I remember seeing Some Like It Hot [1959; Billy Wilder, director] as a kid and being completely entranced by the idea that these men were wearing women's clothing. And by Marilyn Monroe in her every scintillating moment. But it was the last line of the movie [spoken by Joe E. Brown to Tony Curtis], "Nobody's perfect," that really hit me, that sent out some sort of message that whoever you're attracted to is okay, as long as it's genuine. That's what went into my little head.
SHANNON KELLEY (director of programming, Outfest)
I finally saw Parting Glances [1986; Bill Sherwood, director] one night a few years after it was released, on a fuzzy, pirated cable station. I was still in the closet then. And even though the picture quality wasn't good, I drank in as much of it as I could. It was thrilling. Here was a social world that had its own beauty and its own way of absorbing pain, where people supported each other. It would be another several years before I finally did come out, but I think of that film as having been a personal resource for me. It gave me hope.
ROBERT LEE KING (filmmaker, Psycho Beach Party)
My favorite lesbian movie is Bound [1996; Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski, directors], because that scene where Gina Gershon is fixing Jennifer Tilly's sink actually gave me a movie boner, which I didn't think was possible in a lesbian movie. And, of course, Scarlett O'Hara remains a great inspiration.
RANDAL KLEISER (filmmaker, The Blue Lagoon, Grease, It's My Party)
[via e-mail] My favorite gay film of all time is Cabaret [1972; Bob Fosse, director]. I was in college and felt like I was living the life of the Michael York character, that he was going through the same conflicts I was experiencing. There's a montage where Liza [Minnelli] and Michael smile at each other across a room that inspired a sequence in Blue Lagoon [1980; Randal Kleiser, director] between Chris Atkins and Brooke Shields, and the near-three-way scene inspired a scene in Summer Lovers [1982, Randal Kleiser, director].
BRUCE LaBRUCE (filmmaker, Hustler White)
[via e-mail] The gay-themed film I love the most is The Boys in the Band [1970], because although it was directed by William Friedkin, who also directed The Exorcist and Cruising, it is much scarier than any other film he ever made.
GREG LAEMMLE (vice-president, Laemmle Theaters)
There was a time when one of my young sons was really into pink. He had a pink tutu, and he would dance around the house and say he was going to grow up and be a pretty pink ballerina. I didn't have a problem with it, really. Whatever. In this same time, I saw Ma Vie En Rose [1997; Alain Berliner, director], and there's that scene where they find the boy in the freezer, and I thought, "Oh, God, this is what can happen if you're not sensitive to whoever he is."
CHI CHI LARUE (adult-film director, drag queen personality)
Female Trouble [1975; John Waters, director] changed my life. I was living in Minnesota and was a fan of Divine's music and persona, but her movies certainly didn't play there. When it finally came to the video store, my friends and I rented it as a sort of perverse inquiry. I watched it over and over. It changed my look on everything freaky and brought me screaming out of the drag closet. I was always afraid to shave my mustache off, thinking that I was keeping a little of my masculinity, but Divine showed me I could be big and beautiful. And dirty!
EVERETT LEWIS (filmmaker, The Natural History of Parking Lots, Luster, featured in Outfest 2002)
One night in New York, over 20 years ago, when I was starting out on an architectural career, I went to see East of Eden [1955; Elia Kazan, director], which blew me away and made me want to make movies. I came out of that theater floating. It was like a drug. And for years I thought it was the movie, but recently I realized that the movie was nothing and James Dean was everything. And that I went into this whole moviemaking thing, in essence, in pursuit of a guy, led by desire for a guy.
CRAIG LUCAS (playwright, screenwriter, Prelude to a Kiss, Longtime Companion)
[via e-mail] Hi. I don't know if you can call it gay/lesbian-themed, but the movie that gave me the most pleasure with a gay leading character and storyline was The Opposite of Sex [1998; Don Roos, director]. It made me laugh and laugh and think that there may be hope for independent movies after all. Hope this helps.
MING-YUEN S. MA (experimental video artist)
The Japanese film Black Lizard, written by Yukio Mishima, is a wonderful, very campy '60s-noir over-the-top crime story in the style of Aubrey Beardsley, all decadence and deco illustrations, very twisty. Black Lizard, this beautiful female criminal mastermind, is played by an onnagata, one of the male kabuki actors who specialize in playing females. For half the film, Black Lizard is a real, convincingly beautiful glamour girl. The other half she looks like a bad drag queen.
TIM MILLER (solo performer, author of Body Blows)
I remember seeing Derek Jarman and Paul Humfress' Sebastiane [1976] at the old Four Star on Wilshire when I was in high school. Such an amazing movie, so full of heat and sex. It's a re-telling of the Saint Sebastian story, set on some remote Mediterranean island full of cute men whipping each other. I remember that the film kept burning up, literally, five or six times. I think of that melt, that explosion, as the movie's content eating through the celluloid.
JOHN CAMERON MITCHELL (actor, filmmaker, co-creator of Hedwig and the Angry Inch)
[via e-mail] I'm in a bit of seclusion now, writing. Let me be the gay Leonard Maltin. My favorite gay-themed movies, in no particular order, are:
Taxi zum Klo, a sweet 1981 tale of a German elementary-school teacher/leather queen that has the best narrative use of explicit sex that I've seen in a gay film.
Happy Together (1997), Wong Kar-Wai's best.
Dog Day Afternoon (1975), goes without saying.
The Naked Civil Servant (1975), John Hurt as Quentin Crisp!
Sunday, Bloody Sunday (1971), bisexual love triangle, John Schlesinger's best.
This Special Friendship (1964), love in a French boarding school.
Boys Don't Cry (1999), uh-huh.
Mala Noche (1985), Gus Van Sant's first and best, still not on video.
Entertaining Mr. Sloane, Joe Orton's 1970 black comedy.
Un Chant D'Amour, Jean Genet's 1950 prison poem, featuring a fine black-and-white hard-on.
The Hours and Times (1991), John Lennon's gay moment by the last of the true L.A. independents, Chris Muench.
Paris Is Burning (1990), Jennie Livingston's classic doc.
The Times of Harvey Milk (1984), genius history lesson.
Falconpac 1-15, porn from back when sex was in.
DAVID MORETON (filmmaker, Edge of Seventeen)
Head On [1998; Ana Kokkinos, director] is a great rush of a movie, so energizing that it made me want to make more movies. But I also want to name What's Up, Doc? [1972; Peter Bogdanovich, director] because I sometimes think it's the movie that single-handedly made me gay. With Barbra and Madeline Kahn and Ryan O'Neal in those boxer shorts -- for me, it was gay nirvana.
EILEEN MYLES (novelist, Cool for You)
My favorite lesbian movie is The Parent Trap [1961; David Swift, director] with Hayley Mills. I love that movie so much. I saw it when it was new, and I had a best friend who I was in love with, and this was our favorite movie. We studied it endlessly and got our hair cut like theirs and adored Hayley Mills, who was sort of an early-teen butch icon in 1961. Well, you have to understand butch from a 10-year-old perspective. She was as tomboyish as you got at that time, and she had a theme song, and she had a best friend/girlfriend who looked just like her. She had everything. And the double image played right into that place of imagining what it would be like to have sex with someone who was like you.
CASSANDRA NICOLAOU (filmmaker whose short Interviews With My Next Girlfriend screens at Outfest 2002)
It was way back in 1987 that I saw I've Heard the Mermaids Singing, Patricia Rozema's (When Night Is Falling, Mansfield Park) first feature film. I was on my very first date with my very first girlfriend, and to be honest I'm surprised I made it out of there alive, what with my sweaty palms, my heart palpitations and girls kissing on screen. Aside from the debut of Anne-Marie MacDonald (who's in my film at Outfest) and a magical use of the now-overused Delibes' Lakmé, the thing I most remember about Mermaids is that it proved to be great foreplay.
LAURA NIX (filmmaker whose feature The Politics of Fur screens at Outfest 2002)
Pee-wee's Big Adventure [1985; Tim Burton, director] is a movie that is so clearly gay without ever using the word "gay." At the end of the film, when Dottie asks Pee-wee if he would like to go to the drive-in with her, he falls down on the ground laughing. He isn't mature enough to date yet, but we also know that even if he was, he wouldn't take a girl to the movies. And then he explains to her "Dottie, this is about things you couldn't understand." When Simone asks Pee-wee what he dreams about, he tells her "a snake and a donut." A kid watching that doesn't get it, but a gay audience knows exactly what he means. Pee-wee's Big Adventure is one of the most gender-subversive films I've ever seen. I wish more films were like it.
KIMBERLY PEIRCE (filmmaker, Boys Don't Cry)
My first choice is La Dolce Vita [1960; Federico Fellini, director] because when I first saw it as a kid, I was totally obsessed with Anouk Aimée and Anita Ekberg, and didn't know why, then finally figured it out. I love that it celebrates desire and sex without apology, which is very homo to me. My second choice is Heavenly Creatures [1994; Peter Jackson, director] because I love those girls -- love their desire and love their rage.
JOHN RECHY (novelist, essayist, City of Night, Rushes, The Coming of the Night)
Howard Hawks' Red River [1948] stars two iconic but opposite gay figures -- John Wayne and Montgomery Clift. One very macho, one very sensitive, struggling against each other. I doubt that I thought so in 1948, but when I've seen the movie subsequently, I think, "This is a gay relationship." It ends up in a great fistfight between the two men, a fight that is very sensual, in a sense, because you just know, even if they don't, that they really want to do otherwise.
DAN SAVAGE (syndicated columnist, "Savage Love")
South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut [1999; Trey Parker, director]. It's the best gay movie in the last 20 years. The love scenes between Saddam Hussein and Satan were really moving, they really touched me. The movie had a queer sensibility that was completely thrilling, and the movie played like one long joke for musical-theater queens, because every song is a takeoff on a very specific number in another musical. It showed how thoroughly integrated into the culture gays and lesbians are -- that you could do this movie with Satan as a sensitive, thoughtful man in an abusive relationship. It's completely queer. And you know, who needs a coming-out film anymore? Thirty years ago it was a huge issue, because it was so much more scarring and traumatic. Now, it's nothing. Now, Satan's out.
DIRK SHAFER (filmmaker, Circuit, Man of the Year)
Longtime Companion [1990; Norman René, director] devastated me, really made me cry, because it brought back memories of so many friends I’d lost. Especially then, when so many more were dying. Even today, I can’t stand on the beach without thinking of all those characters who’d died coming back at the end, holding hands, coming across the beach — it gives me chills just to talk about it.
Jean Genet’s 1950 silent film Un Chant D’Amour ["Song of Love"] is smoky, grainy and erotic. The prisoners share cigarettes through some sublimated version of a glory hole. The trancelike state held me captive. I saw it someplace in downtown Manhattan as a teenager, maybe the Anthology Film Archive. There, I also saw the terrifying Vinyl [1965], Warhol’s early take on A Clockwork Orange. With its professional sadist torturing Gerard Malanga (I think) and its creepy "scenario" by Ronald Tavel (a real genius and hero of the underground), I was launched. It led me into a porn house, where I saw The Pledgemasters [1971; David P. Parrish, director], purportedly a documentary filmed at a real fraternity initiation/hazing. These films had a shared S/M behavioral-modification subtheme, linking sex, imprisonment, humiliation and (weirdly) freedom. They stayed in my imagination and created a whole pool of psychoerotic imagery that still haunts me.
KEVIN THOMAS (Los Angeles Times film critic)
Rosa von Praunheim’s It’s Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, but the Situation in Which He Lives [1970] is an extraordinary film. It’s about a young gay kid who comes from a small town to Berlin and gets a job as a waiter and falls in love with another waiter and finds paradise on Earth, and of course the whole thing falls apart in about three weeks. He gets used up, is reduced to hustling, and, finally, there’s a fanciful epilogue in which he’s rescued to a halfway house and nursed back to health by very handsome men. Wishful thinking! But the film suggests how gay society takes on straight views of youth and materialism and magnifies them many times over. And how destructive that can be. It’s rather crudely made, in Rosa’s inimitable semidocumentary style, but it’s very powerful and timeless.
GUINEVERE TURNER (screenwriter, actress, Go Fish)
Hedwig and the Angry Inch [2001; John Cameron Mitchell, director] blew me away. It represents to me a new wave of queer cinema. We've gone from "We're here, we're queer" to "Figure this one out." It's so much more complex, exactly the kind of film I want my mom to see.
TINA TYLER (adult-film star and director)
I was 15 and living on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, a tiny sports-minded town four hours from any major city. I was a social outcast in my teens, feeling lonely, not good enough, not worthy of love. And I saw The Rocky Horror Picture Show [1975; Jim Sharman, director] and thought, "These are my people. I need to be hanging with them. I need to move! I need to get to where there's people like this."
BRUCE VILANCH (humorist)
I’m tempted to say What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? [1962; Robert Aldrich, director], because it reminds me of so many gay relationships: One of them is always in drag, the other can’t get out of bed. But since I’m sure you’d like a serious, soberly considered answer, I’ll nominate the picture that moved me the most, an independent film called Parting Glances [1986; Bill Sherwood, director]. It’s an ’80s item about friendship and loss and fag hags and middle-class people living as bohemians and the beginnings of the AIDS catastrophe and commitment of many different stripes. And there’s a great show scene.
BILL WEBER (filmmaker, The Cockettes, screening at Outfest 2002 Awards Night)
I was going to Kansas University in 1972, and gay films pretty much didn’t exist, except The Boys in the Band [1970; William Friedkin, director], which literally scared me. I hadn’t come out of the closet, and I thought, "Oh my god. Are these my ancestors?" But then Tricia’s Wedding [1971; Milton Miron, director] came around. It was a movie of a play the San Francisco performance troupe the Cockettes produced that parodied Tricia Nixon’s White House wedding — they did it the night of the wedding — with bearded drag queens and people who looked like women but didn’t have breasts. Doing drugs and doing a send-up of the White House. I thought, "My god. These are my ancestors!"
YVONNE WELBON (filmmaker, Living With Pride: Ruth Ellis at 100)
I don’t have one that I love most, but I do have one that I loved first: Entre Nous [1983; Diane Kurys, director]. I saw it over and over again. It wasn’t explicit, but the two women in it were both beautiful. I was still in college and trying to figure stuff out for myself, and in the postscript it said it was a true story, that it was Diane Kurys’ mother’s story. I loved that. This was real, this had really happened to somebody. Maybe it could happen to me.
WASH WESTMORELAND (filmmaker, The Fluffer)
I chose for my special movie My Beautiful Laundrette [1985; Stephen Frears, director] because it was the movie my last-ever girlfriend took me to see. This was in the north of England. I was 19. She was very smart so afterwards, she sat me down and said, "Well, what did you think of that?" I was so shaken by the movie that certain images and ideas from it have stayed with me ever since. There's that famous scene when Daniel Day-Lewis and his Pakistani lover are making love in the back of the laundrette and he squirts champagne into his lover's mouth. It's so charged. I think at certain ages we go to the movies for explanation or identification and this film provided both for me. It was a doorway to a different way of looking at the world.
EDMUND WHITE (novelist, A Boy’s Own Story, The Married Man)
The first movie I ever saw that spoke to my condition was Rebel Without a Cause [1955; Nicholas Ray, director]. I was 14 or 15. Until then, it had never occurred to me that a movie could address me and my life. Earlier films had moved me (Two Years Before the Mast, because Alan Ladd was half-naked in it and severely beaten), but this was the first one that was about a gay boy who hangs out with a straight couple and is in love with them — which was exactly my case in high school. The aimless, apolitical rebelliousness of the ’50s and the covert homosexuality of Sal Mineo, which found an object of love in the covert homosexuality of James Dean — this was a life-changing experience for me.
MARY WORONOV (artist, writer, actress, Eating Raoul)
Wong Kar-Wai's Happy Together [1997] is very urban and terribly romantic. But not romantic in the way they try to put a happy heterosexual ending on so many of these gay affairs. No, this was terribly true to life, and it was so powerful how the main character accepted his fate and just went on. Very beautiful and tragic.
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Kody Brown and his four wives, stars of the reality show "Sister Wives," claim the law is unconstitutional.
The Browns did not attend the hearing Thursday in Salt Lake City.
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In a recent visit to China, I heard men referring to their wives as wode furen (my esteemed consort). The word furen is normally reserved for addressing ladies of distinction, such as Chiang furen (Madame Chiang Kai-shek). It is a far cry from the egalitarian airen (spouse, literally meaning "lover") in use since the Communist government abolished the feudal-sounding xiansheng (husband) and taitai (wife) some 40 years ago. I take this exaggerated formality as a yearning among urban, educated Chinese for old-time civility and decorum. NAILENE CHOU WIEST Ossining, N.Y. | http://www.nytimes.com/1991/09/08/magazine/l-chinese-relations-481191.html | dclm-gs1-302670001 | false | false | {
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Review: Unsatisfied Bride and Groom
• Margaret T
• Wedding Date: 04/02/2010
• Reviews Posted: 1
• A free photo by a guest.
• He had a bridesmaid and groomsman miss the bridal party dance because he left a camera at my home. His assistant chose to party and stepped on my dress while dancing which made me fall on dance floor.
• Album, video - WHICH HE NEVER PRODUCED leaving us with NO video, two photographers who chose to eat, drink and dance. Package had bride was to pay for 1 meal and I ended up paying for three. These people where also dressed like slobs. Very unprofessional service.
• Rushed and uncomfortable. I had to keep instructing him on what to take pictures of. He was very unprofessional as to how long it took to get pictures back. Also, purchased an 8 x 10 which when we picked up we noticed black specs all over our skins. I had the after 5 unshaven look. We paid for this but Gene Kellar never produced. He claimed he had to send it back out to be fixed and refused to credit our card and again never produced or returned our calls. Do not pay him in advance for anything. Can't believe he is still in business!
Overall Rating: 1.0 / 5.0
• Satisfaction : 1.0
• Creativity : 1.0
• Unobtrusive : 1.0
• Value : 1.0
Vendor Comment:
I first read this late last night when I was pretty tired. My first reaction was this is a mistake since I don't remember anybody in recent years being this upset with anything we have done. When I got up this morning, I looked through my records and I found who it was. We did her photography and video in July 1999.
I definitely need to respond to this venomous and vial misrepresentation of my business, my work, which I take a great deal of pride in doing, and my character.
1) Yes, I did leave a filter for my camera at her house. It happens when you are concentrating on the task at hand. I told her about it when we were taking outdoor photos in between the ceremony and the reception. It wasn't a big deal and I didn't need it the rest of the day and I would get it from her when they picked up their photos. But they volunteered to get it, I don't know what they were doing and why it took them so long to get back, but I never told them to go get it.
2) I had a new employee with me that day that I was training. They only hired us for a one cameraman video coverage and I told her that her video would be shot by one of my veteran cameramen. And I was going to bring along someone to shoot a second camera as a learning experience. And if the footage was good I would include it in her finished video as a thank you for allowing me to do this training ( there is no way to learn to shoot a wedding other than to shoot a wedding ). Everyone I know trains employees in this way since you can't very well stage a wedding for the purpose of training. And the client gets something for nothing if the training video is good. It's a win-win situation for everyone.
As it goes, my trainee was female, attractive and as the reception was winding down, she was done shooting and someone asked her to dance. I don't know what happened and how they collided on the dance floor, but those things happen sometimes when people are dancing. If it would have been anyone else she would have probably laughed it off, but she just added it to her collection of things that she perceived as wrong doing.
3) The video is not done because she has never given me the names of the wedding party, the music she wanted in the video, or instructions as to the style of editing she wants. I am not going to put the time into doing the editing without all the information and then have her not be happy because it wasn't done according to what she contracted for and then have to spend time redoing it. Besides, she only paid a minimal deposit, it is far from being paid for. I should be on her case to pay up.
4) As far as eating, drinking, and dancing. Our photography and video contracts stipulate that the client is to provide a meal for us if we are working for them for more than 5 hours. Even though we sit down to eat, we are still working and if something happens during dinner like cutting the cake, we stop eating and go back to work. The only other option would be to leave the wedding to get something to eat. We are the only vendor that is with the bride and groom for the entire day and unfortunately, we are not machines and need some nourishment. Yea, I have to admit we drank a lot of DIET COKE. It was a hot July day and you have to stay hydrated or you might be in trouble. I have never met anyone who would be that callus, heartless, or cheap as not to offer someone something to drink on a hot day. Most catering locations include unlimited soft drinks as part of the banquet package. We never, and I mean NEVER drink liquor on the job, period.
Neither myself or my video cameraman dance. We are both married and our wives can't even get us to dance. My trainee was asked to dance by one of her guests. She was done shooting and she probably didn't see any harm in it. Even though everyone is partying, we view the reception as work time.
5) On hot summer days, we don't wear suits because it gets very uncomfortable. We wear dress pants and comfortable shirts so that we can stay cool. Maybe we are not fashionable in her eyes, but by no means were we slobs. In fact most of their guests were dressed the same as us.
6) I had been shooting weddings successfully for 19 years prior to her wedding and continuously for the 11 years since her wedding. I could be wrong, but I don't think I would be shooting for 30 years if I was as bad as she is making me out to be. Most of my business doesn't come from any advertising, but rather from word of mouth from satisfied clients. Besides, after you have done hundreds of weddings over a course of 30 years and you hear something like this, you have to consider the source.
As far as her telling me what to take photos of, there are some people who are control freaks and feel that they are experts at everything and if they don't take control, it won't be done right. When I run into these people, it's easier to let them control things rather than fight with them all day. The way I look at it, they hired me as a professional to do what I do best, if they don't trust me and my experience to do the right thing, they shouldn't have hired me in the first place. If there are photos of special people the client wants that are not part of the wedding party or immediate family, I would expect them to point them out to me since I am not clairvoyant.
7) As far as getting the photos to her. My computer records show that the proofs were printed and ready 1 week after the wedding. I am not sure when they picked them up, but they were ready. They placed an order November 3, 1999 and my records show they were printed December 3, 1999 and again, I don't know when they picked the order up. I consider this a timely fulfillment.
8) As far as I know, all of the photographs she received were good except the one she indicated in her complaint (that's one out of three hundred). Again, for an entire weddings worth of photos to have only one photo with a problem is pretty good in my book and doesn't deserve this kind of damaging comments. The photo she is upset about was a 16 x 20, not an 8 x 10. As I tried to explain to her 11 years ago, what she was seeing is the normal grain in the film that you see with film on enlargements. A photo of that size is meant to be viewed from a distance where you would not even notice the grain. But, if you inspect it close up, you well definitely see it. The photo has been here for her ever since, but she refuses to pick it up.
9) Any time she had called me, I answered her concerns. Maybe she can't accept my answers, but I can't help someone who is not educated in photography but has all the answers.
Think about this for a minute. I have been shooting wedding successfully for 30 years and I can count on one hand the number of clients who have been unhappy for one reason or another. I'm not perfect, but I always try to remedy any problems, it's good business to have happy clients. And here you have someone holding some sort of vindictive grudge 11 years after the fact. The statue of limitations on some criminal acts would have run out by now.
I was unable to communicate with her 11 years ago and with her making comments like this now, I don't think there is any reason to make any attempt to try and talk now. If she wants her photo, she paid for it and she can come and get it. If she wants her video, she can pay for it and bring the information I need to complete it and I will surely finish it.
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Watch out, I have my pedal to the metal and you are in the way, Otter Tail County drivers.
Because of the consistent excellence of athletic teams in New York Mills and Perham, at the end of every sporting season, I am on the road all over the area and I see you thoughtless drivers.
I drive fast, but I also try to be considerate.
You've seen that car behind you while you're eating up space crawling in the left lane. Move over.
That way you'll avoid the vehemence of the person you are currently frustrating and maybe even avoid an unpleasant gesture.
Not that I would do that.
Well, maybe one time.
While New York Mills was capturing the section baseball title in Fergus Falls, it allowed me a couple routes to the county seat, once from Perham and the other trip from Detroit Lakes.
It did not seem to matter if I was on highway 59, 108, 78 or 210, there they were: The Oblivious.
On my tunes-cranked blast down 59, I was clipping along at a decent pace and a rogue Buick pulled out in front of me.
"As long as they speed up in time, I'm not going to have to get angry," I thought. "You wouldn't like me when I'm angry."
Sure enough, in seconds, I'm green, puffed up and just Hulkish behind the wheel.
This happened 11 more times on the 45-mile trip - a personal record. By the time I reached the land of otters and geese, I had shed all remnants of my former Bruce Banner self.
Another irritant amidst this brake tapping madness was the multiple times I witnessed the suicide signal flippers.
Flipping on a turn signal as the turn is being made, with no thought whatsoever to the person or people behind, is enough to get one sincerely flipped off.
It just baffles me, as a driving species, we can't embrace the process of thought while we drive.
It's 'slam on the brakes or be killed' out there.
But do not fret; I am not saying Otter Tail County drivers are the worst.
Naturally, because we have state contenders here every season, my OTC trips are typically followed by a trip to the metro for state tournaments.
I'll spare you the details of my wrath on the roads down there.
Needless to say, I'm happy that I won't see southbound 169 for another year and to be honest, now that I have returned, I'm sticking to the back roads around here. | http://www.perhamfocus.com/content/hulk-mad-otter-tail-county-drivers-bad | dclm-gs1-302870001 | false | false | {
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Ode Confusion Poems | Ode Poems About Confusion
These Ode Confusion poems are examples of Ode poems about Confusion. These are the best examples of Ode Confusion poems written by international PoetrySoup poets
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You said JCO
said you loved me.
cared, and wanted only me.
you crushed me.
everything you said you were, was true.
just once before eating that cake you so had to have.
Details | Ode | |
Welcome To My Life
I'm dying in this slow decay of the senses.
Senseless agony consumes my mind.
Eating my soul until I'm gray.
Gray like the leaves at your funeral.
The day the color faded and beauty went away.
The sky is falling,
But, only on me.
As the Heavens are calling,
They tell me to leave.
But don't put your faith, your faith in me.
Don't trust fate,
For nothing is meant to be.
The slow silent squeezing of my petrified soul.
I left my heart with the sugar,
In the bottom of the bowl.
The wounds of the mind,
Based solely on the knife.
Look for my flaws and you'll always find....
Welcome to my life.
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Cry of the Soul
Once, when my soul cried out in mournful pain;
I believed the Spirit, with me, wept.
When I felt that life was all in vain,
He lifted me from the drowning depth.
Now when flowing tears upon me fall,
and all seems hopeless in this life;
Does He hear my constant wailing call,
when I feel grief’s merciless cutting knife?
Where is my God when I need Him so,
when my soul is wounded and torn apart?
The One Who promised to never forsake nor leave,
does He see me here with bleeding heart?
Like the lonesome howling coyote, my soul does cry
in vain, it seems for peaceful relief.
And as the unfolding years go by,
will I forever be haunted with relentless grief?
Will there be answers which I will someday find?
Will my feet ever be back on the ground?
Unanswered questions riddle my weary mind,
as I feel and see the misery all around.
I was one of faith and considered strong,
but now am weak and a pitiful creature.
What I have become, I have pondered long;
and realize my need of the One True Teacher.
Once again, my howling, mournful wail cries out;
“Oh, God, my Master, hear my plea.
We need Your help, without one single doubt.
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First Love
First Love
Her eyes showed me a way,
Her unique smile let my tears go away,
Her Beautiful face made me to say,
Is this Love, or what???
Started to have feeling of love,
Started to behave nicely and different,
Started to smile when there was no reason to smile,
Still, Is this Love, or what??
Well still, Is this love, or what?
I can fix anything, why not this thing,
I can talk to any girl, why not this girl,
I can really convince anyone, why not this one,
Came before many girl, why not this girl.
Do please not tell me its just nothing,
Do tell me anything about this thing…Love,
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An Ode To My Beloved
I just wanted to let you know
That I have this love for you...
Although I'm not fast to show
For you, there's nothing I wouldn't do
And I can't control this love
No matter what I try to do...
While I know our lives are separating
Which has got me pretty blue
I just want you to know
How much I love you...
Because I was blinded by shyness
And now my heart's feeling rugged
So this here's An Ode To My Beloved
Oh how I still see you every night in my mind
You're the best girl I feel I'll ever find
And when my eyes would fall upon your smile
My heart would be put on trial
And so if nothing else, I want to let you know
That I'll always love you, that my hearts beat
For you, won't ever slow...
Because I was blinded by shyness
And now my heart's feeling rugged
So this here's An Ode To My Beloved
So I wish you happiness beyond compare
And sorry for the times I couldn't help but stare
Caring, passionate, smart, and loving
From my heart, to you, I'll never be shoving
You will always be in my heart
Goodbye My Love...
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Untitled #237 / Or
Or is he heartless?
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Love feast
Love feast by Steven Hudson
This ship has run its course, sleepless, tossed about,
Every port and harbor, sea and foreign land.
You’re smile, piercing eyes, and silky long hair,
To gaze at you now is a love feast to behold,
And from now and forever you will always be…..
The most captivating golden retriever I have ever seen.
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Untitled #264 / Christian girl
Oh Christian girl
oh regal queen
so lost and happy
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one more lonely dream
the thoughts that rest here deep
I’m laying low and waiting
as those bullets whiz past me
it’s those little things that wound
those moments I can’t see
can we reach the pinnacle
or all that we can be?
imagination covers
too heavy in this heat
you try to pull the blanket off
I sit in the hot seat
the gash that will not stop
my mind continues to seep
nothing stops the heartache
of a heart that will still bleed
we lay down here together
as usual I don’t sleep
your hand rests on my body
there’s no comfort there for me
it flows out with the current
a bottle floating at sea
coming back to haunt this room
just one more lonely dream
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My promise to you JCO
There are moments I still wonder why.
Question everything I gave, and every action
I blamed myself for you not wanting to try
But came to realize you never gave a fraction.
I bled my heart out for you
Cut even when the scar would heal
The wound in love was cruel
Hope in selfishness you chose to steal
You found me in a thousand bits
Picking them up one at time
Instead of glue it was a temporary fix
To make the shattering affect more define
Now that the tears have all fallen
I promise you only of this
Your face I will have forgotten
But mine will haunt your every first kiss
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Untitled #43 / Centripetal force
Centripetal force of a
whirling waterbottle, captured in it
the tornado of our youth
and reflecting a goofy smile.
Dare you say centrifugal?
Dare you graze the edge of a sharpened sword?
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Poem To the Boy Who's Ruining My Life
You said you were my best friend...
Lying sonofa*****
Best friends don't frame each other for drug distribution!!!
I'm going to jail and it's YOUR FAULT!!!!!!
I'll never forgive you for this!!!!
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A Feeling Called Love
I'm trying to fight the force of gravity,
But it seems the more I fight
The harder it pushes back.
I'm trying trying trying
To make this feeling go away.
The more I fight the stronger it becomes.
Every time I see you;
My heart beats wildly,
My mind goes blank,
All I seem to know
Is how cute you are when you smile.
What's this feeling,
That's making me go crazy?
I can't seem to focus on anything else.
I find my eyes constantly searching for you.
When you gaze at me,
I feel like you know everything.
What's this feeling,
That won't leave me all alone?
I'm trying trying trying to forget,
But I can't.
I can't I can't I can't
Is this the feeling they call love,
'cause its driving me crazy?
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Sleep, sleep
Sleep till another day
For another sunny god
Sleep sleep sleep
Find your own peace
Your black midget maid
Had disappeared
Your sandwich is on
Its way
The dirty blood
Was washed away
They brushed your hair
Sleep sleep
For the love of god
For the mother mary love
They already put a spell
The holy sky
Will save your heart
So please try to sleep
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what do I do
what do I do with what I know
thoughts overgrown with thick, green mold
ghosts of those who once stayed close
black and whites now overexposed
they hang still, on hallowed walls
what do I do with what once was
portraits blurred, out of focus fuzz
you say forget them, just because
too many that caused me such a buzz
they know more than they will tell
what do I do with what's within
to the sea I confess most sins
all these waves could do me in
will I drown or will I swim
they wash still on sandy shores
what do I do with constant thought
all the pain and tears it brought
is it for real of just for naught
my heart ensnared and tightly caught
they matter not, they matter not
Details | Ode | |
I fell in love with a liar JCO
I sat with you and listened to your heartbreak stories
I fell in love with you.
You sat there and listened to the horrors of my past
I fell in love with you.
You said you weren’t ready, but you were never gone
But you belonged to another undeserving soul that crushed you
She cheated on you, you cheated on her
She doesn’t want you and you don’t want me
You used me to get to her, why?
You said I was perfect, and too good for you
Why did you do this?
Why did you not see me?
Why did you punish me?
I was in love with you.
Details | Ode | |
our children dacing
dacing at the sight of lighted bulbs
like when the eclipse occured
but their hope dashed
but his wealth is intact
for his greatest grand children
children that are more equal
more equal than the others
our mouths now salivates
on seeing mere nuts
like dogs for bones
bones of our lost sons
sons last seen on april
april of the pools
pools of ballots
ballots of inec
our stomach now speak
speak like the dogs
dogs that came beyond the sea
but they have learnt
learnt to look
look since their demands were not meet
our youths now play in moonlight
play games in the sand
games out of fustration
fustration due to lack of job
our graduates now employed
employed in barrow pushing company plc
with first class honours
obtained from war front
our universities now battle fields
our wards soliders
only to come home
with paper to prove it
all their hopes in it
in the designed paper
paper that cannot feed
even the fetus in the woman
they made him believe them
them that are beyond the sea
that his wealths are safe
though they beautify their land with it
he knew not that the value of
his wealth has been used
used to tare their roads
used to build schools
used to build hospitals
used to make things better
used to empower their people
used to make them what they claim
those beyond the sea
though his wealth are safe
it have generated hundred times
to say the least, its worth
he claims to be rich,
the cock that crew
the dogs that bark
the cricket that creaks
the youths that riots
the children that cries
all are saying in Unison
wake up and behave
like a black though are
for our blood flows in you
let them know that we have an origin
our origin so strong
our strenght so wisely use
our wisdom cannot be decieved
wake up and take from them
the wealth they took from us
wake up and suprise them
and make our homes the dream land
the dream land of our fathers
those that fought till sleep came
and those that still wait for sleep to emerge
wake up and let them know
that our wealth we can manage
to make our homes eden
the eden our fathers lived in
For our tribes are stong
as strong as the lion
the lion accros the equator
our home the heart of Africa
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Ode to the Moon
In the night sky there she smiles
Watching lovers from distant miles
After Mr, Sun neglects the world
The gracious moon starts to unfold
Joyful hearts wait the chance
To see the moon spread romance
She’s radiant, sensual, glowing bright,
A witness to bodies fused at night
To lonely hearts, warmth she gives
To broken souls, light she leaves
Could this sparkling jewel in the sky
Be afraid to fall that high?
Oh lovely maiden up above
Does she weep she cannot love?
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Why Did I
A few days past, at a stop sign
Eager to hit the road,
Waiting at the back of the line
And obligated to return by nine.
To my hypocrisy, this is an ode.
See, I hope for a world of giving
Where needs are always met
Where sins can find forgiving
And all are peacefully living
Though I’ve done something I regret.
For, as I pulled up to the street
I was approached by another,
Who wore no shoes upon his feet
I thought a thought of pure conceit,
How could I call you, brother?
He raised a soiled hand to wave
His weary eyes found mine
If I’d had cash I might’ve gave
But sit and talk, I wouldn’t brave.
Certainly, he’d be fine.
See, I hope for a world of giving
Where needs are always met
Where sins can find forgiving
And all are peacefully living
So how did I forget?
I hit the gas and sped away
And watched in the rear-view
Why I did it, I can’t convey
And in the mirror he faded away
A scene I’ll ever rue.
If anything within my mind
His form is amplified
Hauntingly, the thing I find,
within guilt’s prison, now confined
I nurse remorse unsatisfied.
See, I hope for a world of giving
Where needs are always met
Where sins can find forgiving
And all are peacefully living
So why did I forget?
Why did I forget?
Details | Ode | |
Who am I to you JCO
When you hear the sound of my voice,
does it make you happy inside
Or does it even phase past those blue eyes?
Does the taste of my kiss cloud your judgement?
Or do you think of my lips at all?
When you hear another speak my name
Does your pulse race and hand shake?
Or pretend we've never met?
When you see me smile at you
Does everything in the world disappear?
Or do I even make that moment special?
When you reach for the phone
is it my name you call out to?
Or do you remember my number at all?
When you see your future
am i standing beside you?
Or have I already disappeared?
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Ode To Innocence
Of heavens and glories past stories were told
Of heroes and knights fairy tales and dreams were made
With delight and pure passions strings of gold and silver were weaved
Into thoughts of beauty much too great
In enchanted palaces over pearl filled seas
We prayed to live out the glory of our dreams
Though we were once kids to whom the stories were told
We are now old and towards the same stories we grew cold
Blind to the fairies in the tales our eyes used to see
And to the beauty of grace we used to seize
We helplessly lay caught in the web of life as it takes place
Grieving we wonder when did our sweet innocence fade away?
But then with hope at night when lights are turned down low
We reminisce how we once were innocent a lifetime ago
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If only she could see
She's constantly a dreamer,
Fantasy is where she lives,
Reality is non existant to her,
If only she could see.
She only cares about superficial things,
Popularity is her sport,
Boyfriends are the cheerleaders,
If only she could see.
Her mind is put to waste,
A head as empty as a flower pot,
Education is lost on her,
If only she could see.
She makes fun of the "weirdos",
She cannot stand the "geeks",
But those "geeks" are worth knowing,
If only she could see.
The world is 3-D,
It has depth underneath,
There is beauty under the surface,
If only she could see.
Beauty is not just skin deep,
It runss all the way through,
It's not just looks that matter,
It's how you think and see.
Details | Ode | |
My Idealism(or so I think)
I got my idealism Follies
From our Mass Media that
seeks to show the ultra-modern
extravagances of today's super hip society
Too much Politics that is overtly fused
into my dimming Brain
Not interested in fighting the tide
There is nowhere to turn
Nor a sanctuary for myself to hide away
Dreams were simpler in my day
Let the Hair hange down and
to the wiser but Elder generation in our times
It is not so easy now
A few years back
I have lost the angst
The youthful rage
This gap is becoming ever quite small
Turn to the children,
let them have it for now
The older we become
it is inevitably for certain
where to eventually travel
Beyond this frame of sphere
To believe in our culture's turmultuous lyrics
Put down the parents so we could party all the way
Jesus is a gentle man and a woman
They are not, untidy rock band,looking for the gold
Some times,
When or wherever I compose my poetry
Thoughts will linger on the meaning meant for us all
Shocking realization to notice
We are adults now
in a world where the controls are getting slightly out of hand
The time is now to straighten out this quandry
Clean up our room
Get rid of our dirty laundry
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Indeed A Friend
Fear grips me up in my cradle,
highly appreciating having been chosen,
by you as your friend.
Indeed a Friend.
Fear drops a stream,
of tears down my chick;
for loss of your cuddle;
coz, am lost in you.
Fear rolls through my veins
for the uncertainty of pleasurable moments;
cut-causing disequilibrum.
Could it really become an unfortunate attempt?
Fear ignites my emotions,
turning it into a fearless substance;
Oh! how the mind could wonder,
Could it really become an unfortunate attempt?
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Without You
My soul is crying as despare from my heart drowns
my spirit with tears of loneliness.
I am forsaken in our bed as the cold sheets
next to my skin remind me of your absence.
In desperation, my mind wonders into memories far reaching days gone by.
Only to darken the hopes of ending a lingering weariness
Heavy eyes burden the concentration of silence
surrounding the room we once shared.
Sleep evades its destination once more
as I am reminde of the rooms emptiness.
I weep tears of silence alone in the bed I made.
Come home to me my love.
Life shall escape me without you here.
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Love notes
Has my heart been so blind?
Oh sweet lies set me free
Have I been mislead?
Does the sun not rise every morn?
Am I daft so?
Have I misinterpreted your sweet tokens?
Does the moon not shine with the sprinkles of stars?
To flee from this misgiving praise you so effortlessly set me a blaze with
I have become the jester at the king’s table and you the fable teller
Such childish games you play with ones fragile heart
Oh speak my divine conquest please I implore you seek out the blade you so
cunningly stab me with when I was not looking
I am the fool’s errand, you bested me, and now I shall die forever in my lonely
desperate time
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my surroundings have no meaning now
in the midst of nothingness
my aggression is aroused somehow
confused about nothing else
a prison of hate increasing
this gap needs to be filled
an uncontrollable emptiness
lies in my head still
i have been exposed to all
as i hang my head in shame
helpless,dependant, yet unique
an individual in every way
i am unable to come to terms with
my own aggressive drive
ill turn this pressuare inwards
it seems on this i thrive
i cant escape bereavemant
ill heap this blame upon myself
im no longer fit to live
recognise my cry for help
how can i admit my own anger
when the words are hard to find
convinced i am a failure
to you so damn unkind
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I Am Missing My Baby Girl
Everyday I awake to the softness of the sun rays, shining brightly through my window
panes, I wonder to myself as I wipe the sleep away, from my eyes, before I get on my
knees to pray. I bow my head and close my eyes, to speak the words that comes from my
hearts, forming into sentences that goes up toward the skies,
Lord hear me now for I am about to cry,
I am missing my baby girl,Lord I am so tired,
I am missing my baby girl, Lord help me I am feeling a little wired,
I am missing my baby girl, Lord my soul feels like it's on fire.
I feel her soul passing through these rooms, giving life to every flower as I watch them
bloom, I smell her scent past through these walls, like a fire leaving behind it's
fumes,I see her smiling as if she were in front of me, listening to me, clapping for me,
as I sing the blues.
I am missing my baby girl Lord, and I don't know what to do,
I am missing my baby girl, Lord I am so confused,
Heavenly father help me, clear my mind so I can just get through,
these terrible times as I lie hear listening to this priest read from the obituary at my
ten year old's funeral.
Lord I am missing my baby girl, oh Lord I need you
so please, please, hear my prays to help me make it through.
By N. McCoy
(To Maria, In Loving Memory of Markita Weaver)
RIP Baby Girl We Miss You
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Untitled #40 / A pair of spectacles
A pair of spectacles
an unsharpened pencil
an eraser, pink, shaped like Tennessee
Which of these is truth?
Answer quickly or fall to hell!
Details | Ode | |
Passionless I see each new day arrive and depart.
I shall not falter upon any deed.
I betray not
Why is this feeling plaguing my mind and spirit?
I was never insensible to my deity.
Or ever will be.
Listless I lay upon the life before me and beyond.
Apathetically I continue with a plea.
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Editor's note: "The Summit" was not previewed for Pittsburgh critics.
If you can accept its extensive use of reconstructions, you're likely to find "The Summit," a documentary examination of an August 2008 mountaineering disaster, to be intense and sometimes painful viewing. Eleven climbers from several international expeditions died during a two-day period on the side of K2, the world's second-tallest mountain.
Located on the Pakistan-China border, K2 has a terrifying reputation. The film tells us that for every four climbers who have reached the top, one has died.
'The Summit'
Rating: R for some language.
"The Summit" uses footage shot by climbers, supplemented by interviews with survivors and re-creations of events, the last of which are effective but sure to put off documentary purists.
Even if the film can't answer every question about exactly what happened during that horrific 48-hour period, it creates a growing sense of dread as we watch events start to go badly awry, especially on that part of the mountain appropriately called the Death Zone.
The events depicted raise ethical issues, complicated by the fact that at least some climbers have a kind of "soldier on" mentality that might prompt them to leave behind injured fellow mountaineers. First-time director Nick Ryan brings these questions to a head by focusing on the Irish climber Ger McDonnell, who was thought by some to have abandoned an injured climber, although the film argues that he actually lost his life trying to aid three badly hurt Korean mountaineers.
The movie offers conflicting accounts of what happened on K2, and viewers looking for detailed and definitive answers may find that frustrating. But those who can tolerate a degree of mystery will find "The Summit" hard to forget.
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When Randi was fifteen, he heard of a preacher in his hometown of Toronto who claimed he could read minds. Randi had been reading every book he could find on magic and illusions, so he figured he could figure out what trick the preacher was using on his flock.
One Sunday morning, Randi watched the preacher use a classic "one-ahead" scam. The preacher used information obtained ahead of time to trick the crowd into believing that he could read minds. Randi took the stage as he imagined his hero Harry Houdini might have done and preached to the congregation about being duped, explaining the trick the preacher had used. He was immediately run out of the church.
Randi visits the "Isaac Asimov Library" at the James Randi Educational Foundation.
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Connie Sonne flew from Denmark to Las Vegas to try for James Randi's $1 million. Magician Banachek administered the dowsing test.
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Dissidence would become a regular reaction to Randi, who was born Randall James Hamilton Zwinge in 1928. He describes himself as a quick learner but a bit of a rabble-rouser — he was once kicked out of his Sunday school class for heresy.
When he was twelve, he stumbled into a matinee performance by famed magician Harry Blackstone Sr., who made a lady float in the air just feet from the stunned boy. "That got me," Randi says. "That grabbed me, and it never let go. It's still got a hold of my head right now."
A year after the church incident, Randi was in a bicycle accident that left him in a full-body cast for thirteen months. Randi figured that even confined to the cast, he could still perform at nightclubs as a mentalist. "In those days, they were paying me 70 bucks a week," he says. "Now that was a lot of Canadian dollars, I can tell you." He decided he would make it clear at the end of every show that he was simply using illusions. But he was disturbed when audience members would insist he had paranormal powers — ironically ignoring the only bit of truth he'd spat out all night. People seemed to want to believe in the supernatural.
Before he graduated high school, Randi left town with the carnival, performing as "Prince Ibis." At age 22, he pulled off a highly publicized escape from a Quebéc City jail cell, a trick Houdini used to perform. A local newspaper dubbed him "L'etonnant Randi," The Amazing Randi, "with an i at the end," he says, "like Houdini." For three decades, Randi toured the world by train, plane and ship, headlining marquees from the Deep South to the Far East. He was bound in straitjackets and dangled over waterfalls, buried alive, handcuffed and locked in an oversize milk jug.
But Randi could never shake the need to educate the naive. Working at nightclubs in East Asia, he learned new con-man techniques, and when he came back, he had a bug for debunking. In the 1960s, he hosted a radio show in New York in which he would, among other things, argue with astrologers ("complete woo-woo," he says) and confront chiropractors ("three chiropractors, three completely different diagnoses").
The height of his fame came when Johnny Carson invited him to The Tonight Show. Carson had him back 37 times, and the two became good friends. "Johnny was a very skilled magician, very accomplished," Randi says.
Living in northern New Jersey, Randi befriended other great American thinkers like astronomer Carl Sagan and science fiction writer Isaac Asimov. Randi and Asimov would sing Gilbert and Sullivan tunes deep into the night. "He had such a wonderful voice," Randi remembers. Randi and Sagan would discuss their shared love of astronomy. Sagan helped name a comet after Randi.
Randi even played himself on an episode of Happy Days — he levitates Mrs. Cunningham, and in the final shot of the episode, Randi steals Fonzie's patented "Ehhh." At one point, Randi toured with Alice Cooper, cutting the rock god's head off with a trick guillotine at the end of every show.
In the '70s, America developed a new fascination with all things paranormal — crystals, tarot cards, astrology parties. Randi found the trends disturbing, and he was particularly irked by a young Israeli named Uri Geller, who said he could bend spoons with his mind and read the thoughts of total strangers. He appeared on countless television shows and was featured in magazines in dozens of languages.
The degree to which people took Geller seriously bothered Randi. Reputable scientists from several labs studied "the Geller effect," how brainwaves affect pliable metal. Those scientists no longer discuss those experiments. Sen. Claiborne Pell of Rhode Island, former chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, invited Geller to the floor of Congress to send positive brain waves to Mikhail Gorbachev. The senator and the psychic later claimed at least partial success.
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Heritage Immigration Study Under Assault
RUSH: There's also a move out there -- understandably in the Democrat Party, but within certain elements of the Republican Party -- to go after, discredit, and basically blow up the Heritage Foundation study on immigration and the cost of amnesty. Remember, we made this available to you. If you wanted to go to the Heritage Foundation website the other day, earlier this week, they were giving you the report free. The website was AskHeritage.org. You could go there and you could get the whole thing downloaded, and the five-page summary was really pretty much all you needed to read.
If you didn't want the detail, the summary was just powerful, and it talked about $6.3 trillion of net cost. Well, all kinds of people -- predictably from the Democrat Party, but some in the Republican Party now -- are coming out to discredit this whole thing. They're trying to discredit the scholarship, the math. One of the criticisms is, "Those guys at Heritage, they analyze this in a static way! They didn't calculate any of the dynamics." What they mean by that is, "Wait a minute! Yeah, some of these new arrivals may end up on the welfare rolls but some of them are gonna be paying taxes, too, and that's gonna wash out whatever benefits they get."
That was the theory.
But that doesn't quite wash.
Anyway, that's just what out there.
Now, USA Today in a story here by Alan Gomez. "One of the authors of a Heritage Foundation report that panned a Senate plan to overhaul the nation's immigration laws argued in his doctoral dissertation that immigrants generally have lower IQs than the 'native white population' of the United States." Uh-oh. Uh, uh, uh, uh, oh. You see now, the long knives are out for anybody at Heritage who had anything to do with this.
"Jason Richwine, who received his doctorate in public policy from Harvard in 2009 and joined the conservative Heritage Foundation in 2012, wrote in his dissertation titled 'IQ and Immigration Policy' that immigrants in the U.S. have lower IQs than native Americans, and that that difference 'is likely to persist over several generations.'
'The consequences are a lack of socioeconomic assimilation among low-IQ immigrant groups, more underclass behavior, less social trust, and an increase in the proportion of unskilled workers in the American labor market,' Richwine wrote, in a story first reported by The Washington Post. 'Selecting high-IQ immigrants would ameliorate these problems in the U.S., while at the same time benefiting smart potential immigrants who lack educational access in their home countries.'"
So now it's trash the messenger time. There is no argument in this piece about whether or not Mr. Richwine's doctoral dissertation is right. They don't even raise that question. They are attempting to discredit Mr. Richwine and the Heritage report by pointing out that this guy, in his doctoral dissertation, suggested that immigrants to America have lower IQs than native Americans and that the difference is likely to persist over several generations. And it's something that we ought to consider when analyzing and coming up with immigration policy. You're not supposed to bring that kind of stuff up. You're just not supposed to talk about it. That's not politically correct. Even if it's true, you are not supposed to bring it up.
So the entire Heritage report on immigration that disagreed with the Senate Gang of Eight plan is under assault now, because one of the authors in his doctoral dissertation wrote that immigrants have lower IQs than native Americans. They don't dispute that in the USA piece, as far as I read, they don't dispute that. Snerdley is asking, "If it's true, shouldn't it have an impact?" Well, maybe in a different era, yeah. But not today. It mighta mattered policy-wise in a different era, but today, no. You're not even supposed to talk about this. We're supposed to reach out. In fact, the lower the IQ, the more welcoming we are to be to show how good we are and compassionate and how understanding. The lower the IQ, the more welcoming we should be.
"Richwine was one of two co-authors in a report released Monday by the Heritage Foundation that predicted a $6.3 trillion economic loss for the U.S. if a Senate immigration bill that would legalize the nation's 11 million unauthorized immigrants and bring in more foreigners on work visas becomes law. On Thursday, the Heritage Foundation said Richwine's doctoral thesis did not factor into it's report and emphasized that the data used in the study is sound."
So Heritage says, "Whatever he wrote his doctoral thesis on had nothing to do with our report. Our report's about money. The IQ of arriving immigrants is not part of our study. It's not part of our report." Doesn't matter. His doctoral thesis was written about this, and as such, he's automatically discredited as a bigot and a racist and whatever else, and therefore the entire Heritage report is disqualified. That's what's underway in the Drive-By Media.
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Browns bad QB history can actually benefit Manziel, Hoyer
Before Johnny Manziel was drafted 22nd overall by the Cleveland Browns last month, he made his case back in February for why they should take him.
“I don't care if they've had 20 starting quarterbacks since 1999,” Manziel told the Houston Chronicle then. “I'm going to be the 21st and the guy that brought them the Super Bowl."
Brian Hoyer and Johnny Manziel are battling to be the Browns' starting QB in 2014. (AP Photo)
Manziel is right, at least about the first part. That’s exactly how many passers who’ve been No. 1 on the Browns depth chart since their franchise rebirth 15 years ago. That’s a total 241 games, including one playoff appearance.
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Manziel's quest to win the starting job over Brian Hoyer (No. 19 of those 20) has already begun. But before moving on to starter No. 21, here are the 20, ranked by passing efficiency, who've already held the job:
1. Kelly Holcomb (13 starts): 84.0 rating, 4-9 record
2. Thaddeus Lewis (1 start), 83.3 rating, 0-1 record
3. Brian Hoyer (3 starts): 82.6 rating, 3-0 record
4. Trent Dilfer (11 starts): 76.9 rating, 4-7 record
5. Jason Campbell (8 starts), 76.9 rating, 1-7 record
6. Jeff Garcia (10 starts): 76.7 rating, 3-7 record
7. Seneca Wallace (7 starts): 76.6 rating, 1-6 record
8. Ty Detmer (2 starts): 75.7 rating, 0-2 record
9. Tim Couch (59 starts) 75.1 rating, 22-37 record
10. Colt McCoy (21 starts): 74.8 rating, 6-15 record
11. Brandon Weeden (20 starts): 71.8 rating, 5-15 record
12. Charlie Frye (19 starts): 71.2 rating, 6-13 record
13. Derek Anderson (34 starts): 69.7 rating, 16-18 record
14. Brady Quinn (12): 66.8 rating, 3-9 record
15. Jake Delhomme (4 starts): 63.4 rating, 2-2 record
16. Doug Pederson (8 starts): 56.6 rating, 1-7 record
17. Luke McCown (4 starts): 52.6 rating, 0-4 record
18. Spergon Wynn (1 start): 41.2 rating, 0-1 record
19. Ken Dorsey (3 starts) 26.1 rating, 0-3 record
20. Bruce Gradkowski (1 start) 2.8 rating, 0-1 record
Although the Browns’ consistently sub-par recent QB history won’t affect the outcome of Manziel vs. Hoyer, it provides a few key takeaways.
— The Browns have recently made the best of a bad situation. It’s weird that Hoyer and Campbell, who combined for 11 starts in their first year with the team in 2013, each jumped into the top five in rating. Lewis’ one chance came the year before. That’s positive momentum they can keep riding with Kyle Shanahan.
In a defensive-minded division, that improvement has them closer to their division foes’ QB situations than we think. Consider the rating of Ravens Super Bowl MVP Joe Flacco dropped to 73.1 last season. It also means if Manziel starts as a rookie, he wouldn’t need to be spectacular to show that he could be better than rest. Producing the kind of passing numbers Robert Griffin III just did in his Year 2 (82.2 rating), along with some dynamic running, is enough for Manziel to make his Year 1 a success.
— Johnny Weeden or Johnny Quinn? This is the third time in eight drafts the Browns have targeted their franchise QBs in the late first round. On the stat sheet, there wasn’t much difference between the past two, Quinn and Weeden. Still, throwing Weeden into the fire was a better decision than sitting Quinn early. Quinn lost to Charlie Frye and Derek Anderson in his 2007 rookie battle, and was left always chasing his opportunity to get settled. Given Manziel’s competitive psyche, they may want to avoid making it “too open” with Hoyer and Tyler Thigpen.
— Tim Couch deserves (a little) more credit. Only one of those 20 quarterbacks can sympathize with the pressure on Manziel. As a rookie quarterback for a unique expansion team that already had a rich history and demanding fan base, Couch wasn’t set up to do well. What he did over almost a full four seasons wasn’t bad for a team that was still putting things around the QB. There's more of a support system now for a rookie such as Manziel, even without top wideout Josh Gordon. Few can rival what they have at left tackle (Joe Thomas), center (Alex Mack) and tight end (Jordan Cameron) now.
— But wait, there’s also a lot of Holcomb in Hoyer. Holcomb (6-2, 212) is the only one who’s played in the playoffs for the new Browns (and played well back in ’02). Hoyer (6-3, 215) is the only one with an unblemished record. The Cleveland native does what Holcomb did — play more as a distributor than gunslinger. In the past, between Holcomb and Hoyer, the Browns have just had aging retreads as their fallback. Just in case Manziel isn’t ready, they can lean on a viable veteran backup plan they haven’t had in a while. | http://www.sportingnews.com/nfl/story/2014-06-06/johnny-manziel-cleveland-browns-brian-hoyer-quarterback-history-couch-weeden-quinn | dclm-gs1-303520001 | false | false | {
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• How 5-Minute Phone Calls Could Make You Rich
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Most of us haven't made a personal phone call in a while.
Why would we, when we could text or email and deal with our friends and families at our convenience (it got lost in my inbox!)?
Well, finds Thomas Corley, maybe we should do it because it could make us rich.
One of those rich habits is simply making phone calls.
According to his research, 80% of wealthy people make birthday calls, hello calls, and life event calls, compared to 11%, 26%, and 3% of poor people, respectively.
These numbers are in line with one of Corley's larger findings: Wealthy people value their relationships, and think those connections helped them get where they are. In fact, 88% of rich people agree with the statement, "Relationships are critical to financial success," and 68% of them say they love meeting new people.
Corley himself even credits a windfall of $60,000 to getting into the habit of making a few simple phone calls, after these check-ins secured him the job of rolling over a wealthy new client's 401(k) funds in his accounting business.
Does calling your friends on their birthdays guarantee an influx of cash? Of course not. But on the other hand, it certainly couldn't hurt.
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That's the deeply ambivalent message from the latest Allstate/National Journal Heartland Monitor Poll exploring the public's perception of what it means to be middle class in America today. Fully 56 percent of those surveyed said they believe they will eventually climb to a higher rung on the economic ladder than they occupy now. But even more said they worry about falling into a lower economic class sometime in the next few years. Reaffirming the results in earlier Heartland Monitor polls, most of those surveyed said the middle class today enjoys less opportunity, job security, and disposable income than earlier generations did. And strikingly small percentages of American adults said they consider it "very realistic" that they can meet such basic financial goals as paying for their children's college, retiring comfortably, or saving "enough money to ... deal with a health emergency or job loss."
In all, the survey suggests that after years of economic turmoil, most families now believe the most valuable--and elusive--possession in American life isn't any tangible acquisition, such as a house or a car, but rather economic security. Asked to define what it means to be middle class, a solid 54 percent majority of respondents picked "having the ability to keep up with expenses and hold a steady job while not falling behind or taking on too much debt"; a smaller percentage defined it in terms of getting ahead and accumulating savings. "It seems like that class of the people just live from paycheck to paycheck," said Dale High, a trucker from near Idaho Falls, Idaho, who responded to the poll. "Everything is going up, but wages are staying the same. And people can't live like that."
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In this poll, as in earlier surveys, whites were much more likely to express fears that opportunity for young people has already peaked, even for those with a college degree. "I feel sorry for my kids--they're just getting out of college--because they have nothing to look forward to," said Tim Cooper, a logistical equipment salesman who lives in the Chicago suburbs. "They're not going to have the ability in the near future to buy a home. There are thousands of people who are going to be stuck with their student loans."
On a Tightrope
People who responded to the Allstate/National Journal poll reported a substantial amount of economic churning in their own lives--showing, again, a close balance between upward and downward mobility in American life. Exactly 30 percent of those surveyed reported they had risen from a lower economic class, and 27 percent said they had slipped down from a higher class. Forty-three percent had seen no movement at all.
This resilient optimism about rising was matched by a widespread fear of falling. Fully 59 percent of respondents voiced concern "about falling out of [their] current economic class over the next few years," including 28 percent who were "very" concerned. Only 40 percent said they weren't concerned about losing ground. Veronica Tovar, a food-service worker in Los Angeles, said she "absolutely" worries about slipping. "Here, you used to work 40 hours a week and you had enough to pay your rent, your utilities, your car," she said. "And you could even spend some money to go eat out two or three times a week. And that kept the money moving around.... It's not that way now. Now you only buy what you need."
The results suggest that Americans' mood is teetering. One-fourth of respondents are consistently optimistic; they expect to rise and aren't worried about falling. Roughly an equal share of people are consistently pessimistic--concerned about falling and not expecting to rise. Another one-sixth expect stasis: They doubt they will either rise or fall. That leaves one-third who believe they are living on a tightrope: They consider it likely they will rise but also worry they will slip instead.
Not Only Fear Itself
Not surprisingly, when asked what would put them at the greatest risk of falling into a lower economic class, respondents most often mentioned losing their job or other source of income (52 percent). Another 25 percent cited an unexpected illness or injury--a measure of continuing anxiety about meeting the costs of health care.
This fear of losing ground is rooted in the conviction that, in the past few years, downward mobility has become much more common than upward movement. Asked whether more Americans recently had "earned or worked their way into the middle class" or had "fallen out of the middle class because of the economy," almost eight times as many respondents took the bleaker view.
Myesha Carter, a speech pathologist in Washington, has weathered the storm herself, but she has watched her mother, brother, and boyfriend all struggle to find steady employment in recent years. "Because of the downturn, I know too many individuals who are in the hole--and just trying to survive," she said. "A lot of people lost financial security over the past decade and are just starting from the ground and having to rebuild."
The survey also captured a grim view of generational change in middle-class life. Respondents were twice as likely to say the middle class has less, rather than more, opportunity to get ahead today than in their parents' generation. They were three times more likely to say today's middle class has less, rather than more, expendable income after paying for expenses. And they were four times as likely to say today's middle class has less, rather than more, job security than the previous generation. Pessimism was again especially intense among those in their 40s and 50s. And whites offered a particularly dreary assessment on all three measures; in their responses on job security, pessimistic assessments outnumbered optimistic ones by more than 5-to-1, a disparity far greater than among minorities.
This widespread sense of slippage may help explain the premium on economic security that showed up in the survey again and again. In one question, asked about the best indicator of membership in the middle class, many more people identified measures of stability than signs of getting ahead. A plurality of 38 percent picked as the best indicator "having long-term financial security by staying out of debt, balancing spending with income, and saving for the future," and 34 percent named the ability to afford basics "like a house and a car and education for yourself or your dependents." Just 21 percent picked "being able to afford nonnecessities like dining out, leisure activities, and annual family vacations." These proportions held across demographic groups and also for the nearly half who identified themselves as middle class.
Presented a more focused choice, almost three-fourths of those polled said "having a secure and reliable income, benefits, and safety net" that allowed them to live "without the risk of facing severe financial hardship" was more important than being able to buy nice things.
Security trumped advancement again in a final question that required a choice between two definitions of what it means to be middle class today. Just 43 percent picked the definition that articulated the traditional American Dream of gaining ground through life ("having the opportunity for financial and professional growth, buying a home, and saving and investing for the future"). A solid 54 percent majority picked a definition that revolved less around getting ahead than about not sliding back ("having the ability to keep up with expenses and hold a steady job while not falling behind or taking on too much debt"). Once again, the results were the same for those who self-identified as the middle class and the sample as a whole.
"I think the middle class has become a treading-water position," said Loren Cowdery, a graduate student who delivers pizzas in Bellingham, Wash. "I think, ideally, it would be where they are always trying to move up. But I think those opportunities have been stifled in the past 20 or 30 years."
'Values Have Changed'
The survey also probed what Americans believe are the most important actions they could take as individuals to avoid sliding down the class ladder as well as the best strategy for society as a whole to follow to enlarge the middle class. The personal answers revolved around fiscal prudence. One-third of those surveyed said the most important thing they could do to ensure they would not drop into a lower class was to focus on "spending wisely and saving and investing for the future"; another 22 percent cited "paying off debt and not taking on new debt" as most important.
Those results hint at a moralistic strain in public thinking that attributes part of the squeeze on average families today to inflated expectations and insufficient personal discipline, especially compared with previous generations. "I think [people] spend a lot more money on going out to dine than our parents' generation did when they were our age," said James Johnson, a small-business owner in Roseau, Minn. "They probably borrow to have luxury items, toys, things they don't necessarily need. I think the values have changed." Bill from Birmingham, Ala., who works in investments for an insurance company (and declined to give his last name), wasn't alone in decrying Americans' lack of financial understanding in recent years. "We do know how to make a paycheck. We unfortunately don't know what to do with one once we've made it," he said.
Respondents deemed other options for personal action less important: 14 percent picked continuing to work hard, an equal number identified "gaining new skills and education," and 12 percent spoke of "improving or maintaining your health." A quarter of minority respondents focused on bolstering their education, compared with only a tenth of whites.
Another question offered a different set of choices for the broad social strategies that would best help people stay in or reach the middle class. Half said the best approach would be to help people attain "a higher level of education"; only 30 percent said the key was for people to work "as hard as possible," and 12 percent named "starting a business" as the most promising strategy.
Once again, minorities were more likely than whites to rank education at the top (although the gap was much smaller than on the question about personal actions). Ashley Canal, a young Hispanic in Merced, Calif., is on a waiting list to pursue a community-college certificate that will train her as a medical assistant, a job she thinks will provide more stability and resources for her three children than her current position as a cashier. "We're just living off each paycheck," she said. "I want to [go to college] because I want to get better pay."
Strikingly, however, large numbers of those surveyed thought it infeasible for them personally--and for anyone who isn't affluent--to afford a child's education or to achieve other goals of financial security. Just 21 percent said it was "very realistic" that they could save enough to pay for their children's college education; nearly twice as many thought it wasn't. Cowdery, the graduate student, who is funding his education with "a lot of loans [plus] scholarships and working," said his experience suggests "the population of undergraduates is coming more and more from richer and richer families. People in the middle and lower classes are having a harder and harder time getting their children educated."
A meager 22 percent thought it was "very realistic" to expect regular increases in income or the ability to accumulate "enough money to be able to deal with a health emergency or job loss"; only 24 percent thought they could realistically "save enough to retire comfortably"; just 32 percent thought it realistic that they would ever have "job security." Dale High, the 54-year-old Idaho trucker, is fatalistic about his ability to afford retirement. "Good luck," he snorted. "By the time I retire, I hope I have Social Security, because other than that I've got nothing." Larger proportions thought it "very realistic" they could afford quality health care or afford to dine out (37 percent each); pay their bills without accumulating debt (47 percent); balance work and family time (49 percent); or own a home (57 percent). Those who called themselves middle class weren't appreciably more optimistic than respondents overall about their ability to meet any of these financial objectives.
No Shelter From the Storm
Those polled were only slightly more optimistic about the ability of the middle class overall to meet financial challenges that require the ability to save. Asked again about paying for children's college education, 49 percent said it was realistic for "only the upper class" to afford it, 37 percent said it was achievable for the middle-class and up, and 12 percent said "almost anyone" can afford to pay for college. Similarly, 46 percent said only the upper class could realistically accumulate enough savings to withstand a health emergency or job loss, and 45 percent said only the affluent could save enough to retire comfortably.
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When asked about income and possessions--owning a home, eating out, getting raises, paying bills without sinking into debt--respondents saw the opportunities distributed more evenly. Surprisingly small proportions thought that only the upper class could obtain job security or good health care.
Yet, the overall message is of pervasive, entrenched vulnerability--a sense that many financial milestones once assumed as cornerstones of middle-class life are now beyond reach for all but the rich. That sense is often most powerful for those confronting these challenges directly. For instance, fewer than a fifth of self-identified middle-class Americans ages 40 to 59 said it was "very realistic" that they could save enough for retirement. Fewer than a fourth of middle-class respondents with children under 18 considered it very realistic that they could pay for college education. And fewer than half of full-time workers who call themselves middle class said it's very realistic that they'll enjoy job security.
In the catalog of losses this nation has suffered in its economic turmoil since 2000, the survey suggests, this stands out: For many average families, gone is the comfort that comes from believing they have built some shelter against life's storms. "Our kids aren't going to have [the security] that we've had," said Cooper, the Chicago-area salesman. "And we don't have what our parents had. There is no job security. Your job security is your ability to work."
Paddling Alone
What could government to do buffer Americans from this financial insecurity? Given a choice of four public policies, a 38 percent plurality picked "making higher education more affordable and accessible." Smaller groups wished to make health care more affordable (26 percent), make retirement benefits "more secure and reliable" (16 percent), and make home loans and refinancing "more affordable and accessible" (12 percent). Asked what steps private-sector businesses could take to improve conditions for the middle class, the leading preference was "hiring more people and paying higher wages and better benefits" (40 percent), followed distantly by "investing more in their local communities" (20 percent), and lowering prices for consumers (14 percent).
But there's a problem: Most Americans lack confidence that the nation's leaders, public or private, will respond to their worries. Like earlier Heartland Monitor surveys, this poll sends the unmistakable message that average Americans believe they are navigating more turbulent financial waters than earlier generations did--and that they are paddling alone, with little support from institutions or leaders.
Assessments of Obama's economic agenda have also suffered since last year. Just 29 percent said the administration's actions will "increase opportunity for people like you to get ahead," while 43 percent expect their opportunities would diminish (21 percent saw no effect). That's also a nosedive since Heartland Monitor polling last fall, and the worst showing for the president since December 2011. Only 21 percent of all whites (and 18 percent of noncollege whites) said they believed Obama's agenda would improve their opportunities. Obama slipped noticeably on a broader question the survey has tracked since 2009: Just 40 percent said his policies "helped to avoid an even worse economic crisis and are fueling economic recovery," while 47 percent preferred the negative view that his policies had "run up a record federal deficit while failing to significantly improve the economy." Three-fifths of nonwhites agreed with the positive statement, while 55 percent of whites echoed the negative.
In this survey, completed before the Boston bombings, Obama's overall approval rating tumbled as well, with just 46 percent offering a thumbs-up to his performance (his worst showing since late 2011) and 49 percent giving a thumbs-down. Among minorities, he retains a solid 73 percent approval rating, but just 36 percent of all whites--and a paltry 32 percent of noncollege whites--gave him positive marks. Only 38 percent of independents approved of the president's performance.
Yet Obama still looks tall next to Congress: 76 percent of adults say they disapprove of Congress's performance, and just 17 percent approve. Obama remains more trusted than lawmakers (by 41 percent to 33 percent) to develop solutions to the country's economic challenges. His 8-point edge is only half as large as it was in November, but his advantage over congressional Republicans remains decisive among the mainstays of his national electoral coalition--minorities, young adults, and college-educated white women.
These skeptical assessments of Washington's performance are a single strand in a broader skein of disenchantment with the nation's leadership. When the survey asked whether the policies and actions of a long list of individuals and groups were helping the middle class, just one group generated a strongly positive response: 49 percent said "business owners in your area" were making things better; only 16 percent said they were making things worse (29 percent saw no impact). Almost all other choices fared poorly. Just 13 percent said major financial institutions were helping, while 55 percent said they were making things worse. Chief executives of major U.S. corporations faced a similar verdict: 15 percent positive to 54 percent negative. For Republican elected officials, the numbers were 17 percent positive to 46 percent negative; Democratic elected officials (28 percent to 40 percent) were not much better.
Congress as an institution ranked lowest of all: Just 8 percent of respondents said Congress was helping the middle class, compared with 64 percent who found Capitol Hill lawmakers a hazard. But "the member of Congress from your district" wasn't so bad: 30 percent positive and 26 percent negative, while 31 percent saw their member as having no impact at all. Obama's review tilted toward the negative: 45 percent said he was making things worse for the middle class, 36 percent said he was a help; the other 16 percent shrugged. Whites were almost twice as likely to say Obama was making things worse as making things better; members of minority groups felt almost exactly the opposite.
In a summary question, the survey asked respondents to choose between three competing explanations for the increasing struggles average families face. Just 17 percent picked the impersonal structural dynamics that many economists cite--"the economic impact of technology and globalization." Twenty-three percent pointed their finger at "business leaders not paying their employees enough." By far the largest group, at 54 percent, blamed "elected officials making the wrong policy decisions." Government may absorb the most criticism, but the disenchantment and anxiety that radiates through this latest Heartland Monitor Poll suggests that most Americans believe that when it comes to the middle class's tenuous position, there is plenty of blame to go around--and no quick solutions in sight. | http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/04/meet-the-new-middle-class-who-they-are-what-they-want-and-what-they-fear/275307/ | dclm-gs1-303640001 | false | false | {
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Among the SNCC members to reject that path, were Shirley and Charles Sherrod. Shirley Sherrod had every reason to follow Carmichael. Her cousin Bobby Hall had been lynched. Her father had been killed in cold blood over a land dispute with a white neighbor. Neither killer was punished. Instead, white supremacists regularly visited Sherrod's home intent on terrorizing her widowed mother in silence. But when SNCC split, Sherrod, and her husband, rejected violence and nationalism, despite having every reason to embrace revanche.
When Andrew Breitbart died yesterday, it was natural to turn to the effort he led to injure Sherrod's career and reputation. We all know that in the specific case of the Spooners, Breitbart's facts were wrong. But I want us to consider a greater truth. Sherrod had not simply helped the Spooners, but that she had -- since the days of Lester Maddox -- lived as the exact opposite of the racist Breitbart portrayed. Thus Breitbart did not simply get the facts of an incident wrong, he got the broad facts of an entire human life wrong. Confronted with such a deed, the person who lives in empathy, who sees an aggrieved party as human, must necessarily embrace a firm and full-throated contrition. Instead Breitbart chose, to look for ways to make himself right.
He claimed that the video showed NAACP members cheering for discrimination against whites:
What this video shows ... is not just that Shirley Sherrod, what she said was wrong, but that the audience was laughing and applauding as she described how she maltreated the white farmer. ... The point is that the NAACP, at a dinner honoring this person, is cheering on a person describing--describing a white person as the other.
This was a lie.
He questioned the identity of the very people he claimed to be vindicating:
You tell me as a reporter how CNN put on a person today who purported to be the farmer's wife? What did you do to find out whether or not that was the actual farmer's wife? I mean, if you're going to accuse me of a falsehood, tell me where you've confirmed that had this incident happened 24 years ago. [...] You're going off of her word that the farmer's wife is the farmer's wife?
This was another lie
In short when confronted with his participation in an immoral act, Brietbart doubled down on immorality. Accused of deception, he elected to deceive further. He took many with him down that path, and by the end we were left with writers parsing the term lynching so as to further malign Sherrod. That their redefinition would have remanded Emmett Till out of the category mattered little. Anything for the home team.
When I heard that Andrew Breitbart had died, I was saddened. It is natural to think of the damage Breitbart did to people like Sherrod by embracing lying as a weapon. But I found myself thinking of the great injury he must have ultimately done himself, for by the end of the Sherrod affair, he was a man lying only to himself and other liars.
By embracing that deception, by neglecting to research Sherrod before putting up a clip of her talking, by electing to see her as little more than a shiv against the hated liberals, he deprived himself of knowledge, of experience, of insight, of enlightenment. That he might learn something from Sherrod, that he might access some power from her life, and pass that on to loved ones and friends, never occurred to him. Publicly, he lived to make himself right -- a tradition that is fully empowered in our politics. Breitbart didn't invent the art of making yourself right. But he embraced it, and then advanced it.
That is what took me to sadness. I have experienced curiosity as a primarily selfish endeavor. It originates in the understanding of the brevity of life, and the desire to see as much of it as possible, from as many angles as possible without doing too much damage to my morality. The opposite of that -- incuriosity, dishonesty, the opportunistic deployment of information -- is darkness. Breitbart died, like all of us will, in darkness. But as a media persona he chose to also live there, and in the process has impelled countless others to throttle themselves into the abyss.
I have heard it said by some fellow liberals that Breitbart was in fact a good person, that his public persona was not the same as his private. This kind of praise is so broadly true of most controversial public figures as to be meaningless. And it is irrelevant. Breitbart may well have been an excellent father and a great friend but that is not why we are talking about him. We are noting his death because of the impact he had on our politics and our conversation. It must be said that that impact was for the worse. Any talk of his private life, is an attempt to change the subject and avoid discomfiting truths.
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Glen Keane!!I think in the not-too-distant future (if it’s not already happening today), there will be animators who will refer to Glen Keane in the same reverential tones reserved today for Disney’s legendary “Nine Old Men.” His career at Disney began in the 1970’s on The Rescuers, and his resume contains some of Disney’s greatest animated achievements. Animation fans are no doubt familiar with his work as the character designer and lead animator for Ariel in The Little Mermaid; the Beast in Beauty and the Beast; and the title characters for Aladdin, Pocahontas, and Tarzan.
His latest achievement was in melding the world of hand-drawn and CGI animation for Disney’s 50th animated feature film Tangled. Toonzone News was able to participate in a virtual roundtable interview with Keane just prior to the release of Tangled on Blu-ray and DVD, with the following text re-arranging and combining some questions and answers for improved coherence and flow. The question we submitted that was answered is marked below. Note that this interview contains spoilers for the movie.
QUESTION: How did you get your start in the entertainment industry? Was animation always your passion?
GLEN KEANE: I sent my portfolio when I was 18 to CalArts to the school of painting. I wanted to be a fine artist. My portfolio was sent by accident to the school of film graphics, an artsy way of saying animation. I was very disappointed but ultimately discovered animation as the ultimate art form. I liked to think that if Da Vinci or Rodin was alive today they would chose animation as their metier.
QUESTION: I’m told that you took a run at developing an animated version of Rapunzel in the mid-1990s, before you started work on Tarzan. What was it about this Grimm’s fairy tale that grabbed and then held your attention?
GLEN KEANE: While I was working on Tarzan I was simultaneously developing Rapunzel. This story captured my desire to animate characters that have this burning desire inside of them to do what seems impossible. I was attracted to the story because of what I imagined to be Rapunzel’s irrepressible nature, so I developed it with that idea and I believed with all my heart that Disney had to make this fairy tale. It went through many changes of management and often times great doubts and efforts to change the story into something other then what I believed. Ultimately it was a joy to work with John Lasseter and Nathan Greno & Byron Howard who caught the original vision and allowed me to focus my efforts into bringing hand-drawn into CG.
GLEN KEANE: Back in the early stages of Rapunzel, there was a desire to portray the fairy tale in a very modern twist, thus the title Rapunzel Unbraided. Ultimately, I wanted to embrace the classic fairy tale and set that title aside, as well as that story.
GLEN KEANE: On John Lasseter’s first day at Disney Animation as president, he came down to my office and gave me the choice to animate Rapunzel in 2D or CG. I told John if he had asked me three years ago I would have said 2D for sure but for the last three years I had been building a team around me with the idea that there was a better synthesis of the best of 2D and the best of CG possible. We had a new vision of what animation could be and I really wanted to pursue that goal. So I told John, “Let’s do it in CG.”
QUESTION: Which do you prefer, the 2D traditionally hand-drawn animation or 3D computer generated animation?
GLEN KEANE: I love to live in the skin of the characters I animate. I find the pencil the most intimate connection to my heart in terms of communicating what is inside. There are artists today who don’t draw with the traditional pencil. Instead they express themselves with a much more expensive pencil, a computer. One of our top animators on Tangled used to be a plumber and discovered that animation was his true calling. So I have to say I have enormous respect for the pencil and the computer. Personally I prefer to draw with the pencil, but I chose to stand in the middle of the computer world and use everything in my power to make the computer more artist-friendly. Tangled is a result of those efforts.
QUESTION: Do you plan to do more computer animation, or do you see yourself returning to traditional hand-drawn?
GLEN KEANE: I see myself continuing on the path of bringing more of hand-drawn influence into CG. However, this project has been a long, long journey. I can’t wait to get back into animating in 2D. So I suppose I will be running down both paths at the same time.
QUESTION: Why was it decided to make Tangled a musical? It seems every Disney animated theatrical release is a musical; why is this?
GLEN KEANE: Music brings an enormous amount of freedom in storytelling. You can advance a story in fun ways and also in extremely emotional, dramatic ways. Howard Ashman used to say, when you have tried to say something through acting, through dialogue, in every way you possibly can and there is nothing left to do to communicate those feelings, your character has to sing. And there is something about music in fairy tales that go together like peanut butter and jelly. It just seems to taste better.
GLEN KEANE: The development of a character for me is a very personal journey. For me the joy of creating a character that I believe is real is at the heart of creating a memorable character. I use people I know as inspiration. It’s a very intimate personal process and I will do hundreds, sometimes thousands, of drawings in finding that design. There is a great “aha” moment when I finally recognize the character on my paper as someone I know. And that happened with Rapunzel. I look at her and I can say with confidence that’s her.
I have an odd belief that the character already exists before I start to draw them. Similar to what Michelangelo describes in setting a figure free from the marble that surrounds it. This liberation may happen quickly or slowly but there is definitely a moment when the character rises out of the paper and I recognize them. It’s a wonderful day when that happens.
Wheeeee!QUESTION: How did you reach the amazing “organic quality” in terms of the character animation? Did you have any special tools/techniques to improve that effect, or is it in the end just the hard work of the artists?
GLEN KEANE: For me it was very important to find what I call “bridge people.” These are people who understand computer and hand-drawn animation. They are translators in a sense. John Kahrs and Clay Kaytis where my partners as supervising animators. I call us “the triumvirate.” They found ways to pull me in so I could do what comes naturally to me: draw. We installed a Cintiq tablet in our dailies screening room and I would watch the animators’ recent animation. I could draw over the top of every frame if necessary and the animators would see it large on the screen and those drawings would then appear on each animator’s computer back in their offices. That way it was a constant natural mentorship throughout the making of this film bringing the appeal of hand-drawn into CG.
QUESTION: How developed were the main characters of Rapunzel and Flynn Rider before you went looking for the right voice talents? Can you talk about how the casting of Zachary and Mandy influenced your drawings, if they did at all?
GLEN KEANE: We had the characters very clearly defined before we found the voices. So Mandy and Zac were the perfect match for what we envisioned. However, when you are about to animate a character, the voice has a huge impact on the look of that character. For example, if you are speaking to someone on the phone who you have never met, that voice immediately conjures up images of what that person looks like. Maybe when you meet them they don’t look like that but that voice carries the visual DNA in it.
I had been listening to a lot of different actresses and Mandy Moore has that irrepressible quality in her voice. And that was the specific word we were using to describe Rapunzel, irrepressible. Zac has a very carefree irreverence in his personality and voice which affected the way the character moved and also the design. For Rapunzel that irrepressible quality came out in the large eyes that are so expressive and for Zac, this wry smile, the expression that we put into the character really came from listening to Zac’s voice.
QUESTION: You’ve said in interviews that you modeled Ariel after you wife, Tarzan after your son and the Beast after yourself. Who was Rapunzel modeled after? Is she in anything like Ariel or Pocahontas?
GLEN KEANE: Using my family for inspiration is really a part of my own creative DNA. It’s what my Dad did when he created The Family Circus, the syndicated cartoon which he based on his own family. Dad said that I was Billy in The Family Circus. Dad always told me to draw what you know and there is nobody that I know better than my wife and children.
With Rapunzel, she has this irrepressible spirit and right away in thinking through this story I thought, “How does she survive in this tower for 18 years?” I surmised this creative energy in her would have to come out in the form of artistic expression. I figured Rapunzel would have painted on every square inch of her walls. As I was developing this idea, I realized this was my daughter Claire. When she was 7 years old she was telling my wife that she wanted to paint her bedroom walls and ceiling. She had all sorts of ideas of images to paint. My wife said, “I’m not going to let a 7 year old loose with a paint brush painting the walls of the house.” Jump to 13 years later, Claire was attending Academy Julian in Paris, an art school. When it came time to hire someone to create Rapunzel’s artistic style, Claire was the perfect choice. So she started working with me on Rapunzel. When you see Rapunzel paint on the walls you see Claire paint and actually fulfill her dream.
Then, during the making of the film she gave birth to our first grandchild, a little girl named Matisse. I used Matisse as an inspiration for designing little baby Rapunzel. It all goes back to taking what you know and using that as a source for inspiration. I believe the audience connects to the sincerity that inspired those characters.
Don't sweep under THAT rug, RapunzelQUESTION: What effect did seeing yourself as a comic strip character have on you or the way you approach animation?
GLEN KEANE: When I draw, I become the character that I draw. Perhaps I owe that to seeing myself portrayed in my dad’s comics as a child.
QUESTION: How has your father influenced your work in animation?
QUESTION: What was it like to work with Ollie Johnston and Eric Larsen? Did they give you any advice that you still use today?
GLEN KEANE: It’s funny, when I started at Disney 37 years ago I was a 20 year old artist who knew nothing about animation. I had the privilege of working with Walt Disney’s “Nine Old Men.” Frank Thomas, Ollie Johnston and Eric Larsen were my mentors. The things they told me were deeply implanted in my mind and throughout the whole process of this movie I repeated those. I felt like I was passing on the baton. I remember when I was 20 years old, Ollie taught me, “Don’t draw what the character is doing, draw what the character is thinking.” It was very important in Tangled that the animators would crawl into the skin of the characters and live in them. You can feel it when an animator believes in what he is animating. Eric Larsen used to say all the time, “The key to Disney animation is sincerity.” That translates for an actor to mean take something real in your own experience and put it up on screen. So besides the drawing and design elements, this was more of the intuitive or spiritual element I was trying to bring to the animators, the idea of living in the characters we animate.
QUESTION: Rapunzel is such a “real” teenage girl, especially when it comes to that sequence in the film where her emotions whipsaw back and forth. Given that Disney Princesses tend to be so optimistic and upbeat, was it hard to convince the Studio that a Disney Princess whose emotions were kind of all over the place would play better with today’s audiences?
GLEN KEANE: There was a time when Disney princesses were neatly packaged and always pristine and pretty. Ariel was the first to break from that box. I remember my mentors Frank (Thomas) and Ollie (Johnson) said after the opening of The Little Mermaid that they would never have animated Ariel that way. I said, “Why?” “Because you drew her face with ugly expressions at times when we were very careful to only draw our princesses with prettiest of expressions.” At that time, I realized that this was a new generation of acting. Anytime we had a choice to choose pretty or real we would always chose real. The authentic emotion is our goal.
And such LOVEly hair it IS, sweetheart...QUESTION: Bringing Rapunzel to life had to be a big challenge, because she moves in one way but her hair, as another character, has its own life. Could you explain to us the process to animate her? Did you animate Rapunzel first and then her hair? Which steps did you follow?
QUESTION: Hair animation is still one of the most challenging parts in today’s CG animation work. Can you talk about the difficulties in drawing Rapunzel’s hair and how you overcome these?
GLEN KEANE: Rapunzel’s hair was 70 ft. long with 140,000 individual hairs. Animating and controlling thousands of hairs was at times like herding a thousand cats. The hair would often explode into a chaotic mess of strong willed pixels bouncing against one another and heading off in their own direction. The real miracle in this movie was Kelly Ward, a software engineer who had a PhD in computer generated hair. She was every bit as creative as I am with numbers, equations, concepts as I am with a pencil, and she has the vision to interpret those elements into beautiful, flowing, organic hair on the screen. She wrote software for 6 years starting in 2005 on how to control this gigantic beast.
We really thought of the hair as another character. I did many drawings to describe the esthetic look of the hair, the rhythm, twist, volume, etc. that needed to be incorporated into the animating of the hair. Drawing once again became the best tool for communicating ideas. A picture is worth a thousand words. But I discovered that creativity is not limited to pencils. Kelly proved that the domain of numbers and equations can be just as creative.
TOONZONE NEWS: How much video reference was done for Tangled and how did you use it?
GLEN KEANE: The animators had the habit of filming themselves. Sometimes in dailies we would critique the live action that they showed of themselves acting out the scenes. You could select key frames and build a very simplified version of their acting suitable for animation and then build on those poses, exaggerating. We would do that by drawing and pushing the curves of the CG figure, enhancing expressions. But the final effect still held its roots in that original performance that the animator filmed in his or her office. Some of the most amazing animators on the film were a team of female animators who really poured themselves into the character of Rapunzel.
GLEN KEANE: The brown hair developed in the process of telling the story. We needed to show that the hair died or lost its power. Color is the clearest way of doing that. It was difficult at first to imagine Rapunzel as a brunette, but ultimately it reinforced the theme that outward appearances don’t define who we really are.
GLEN KEANE: The healing tear was an important element in the original fairy tale. It always symbolized for me that the true nature of Rapunzel’s gift came from her heart, not her hair. This dramatic ending allows us to revisit a similar moment from Dumbo. When he loses his magic feather and can still fly, he can fly because that’s who he was, a flying elephant. Rapunzel finds that the healing power never left her and is actually released by love. Does she keep healing every time she sheds a tear? I believe that was the last of that power.
Have fun storming the castle! Whoops, wrong movie.QUESTION: What castle inspired you when drawing the one in Tangled?
GLEN KEANE: Mont St. Michel in Normandy, France inspired our castle in Tangled. It sits out in the bay surrounded by water and feels so very fairy tale like. When I visited it I knew this has to be the kingdom that Rapunzel will someday be Queen of.
QUESTION: Tangled is a film that often surprises, like how the thugs at the Snuggly Duckling actually turn out to be the good guys. Was this a deliberate choice while you guys were working on Tangled that you’d take the audience’s expectations and then flip them?
GLEN KEANE: Have you ever been on a dark ride at Disneyland? The goal is to make the audience think they are heading one direction and then surprising them with a 90 degree turn in a new direction. Suddenly a black wall opens and what once seemed to be a lovely forest turns into a scary witch and you are delighted and scared at the same time. Tangled is like a dark ride in that sense. We are constantly surprising the audience with a twist by playing with their expectations on stereotypes. Really underneath it all is the theme of following your dreams. Even the toughest thugs have dreams.
QUESTION: What was it like working with Nathan Greno and Byron Howard on this feature?
GLEN KEANE: Nathan and Byron are great actors. They would issue the scenes to the animators by relating moments in their own lives to what they were asking the animators to do. They would act and express very deep emotions, sometimes even with tears. The animators would watch and take notes, I would do drawings on the Cintiq tablet, all in an effort to capture Nathan and Byron’s performance. They were an engine for driving the subtlety, humor, and drama in this film.
GLEN KEANE: I don’t think of Tangled as a feminist or non-feminist movie. I think of Rapunzel as an example of the highest qualities of human nature, male or female. I see her as an illustration of every human being who is born with a divine spark, a potential to become something unique. And the walls that surround her, and hold her back, are symbolic of walls in anyone’s life, those things that hold us back from being who we really long to be. Yes, that is feminist and masculinist and humanist.
GLEN KEANE: The difficulty of animating crowds is monumental. When Rapunzel enters the kingdom and sees a world filled with people it put the fear of God into all of us at the studio. How in the world could we animate this crowd and maintain the integrity of everything we wanted in Rapunzel herself? The heroes of that sequence were John Kahrs and Clay Kaytis, my fellow animation supervisors. Typically animation supervisors give the task of animating crowds to the newest animators as quote, “dirty work”. Instead John and Clay took it upon themselves to organize, oversee, and animate those crowds. Those guys are awesome.
Pretty strong stuff here. Handle with care.QUESTION: Is there a sequence you’re most proud of, and why?
GLEN KEANE: The sequence where Flynn is dying in Rapunzel’s arms. It was the most difficult and the most rewarding because the acting was so extremely subtle. The expressions of someone crying are inherently ugly. All the muscles in the face fight each other. No one wants a camera in their face at that moment. But we challenged the animators to go for the ugly face and as Rapunzel fights and holds back tears, the emotions are so real and so true. And it’s so effective because when that tear comes from Rapunzel’s eye and heals Flynn, you believe there is enormous pain in Rapunzel’s heart. If you don’t believe that tear comes from a heart of love the movie doesn’t work. It was successful and emotionally gripping. I was never more proud of our animators then at that moment.
QUESTION: How are Ariel and Rapunzel alike and different?
GLEN KEANE: Ariel and Rapunzel both are being kept from living their dreams by a barrier. For Rapunzel it’s a tower wall and for Ariel it’s the ocean surface. They both share this irrepressible spirit . The joy in these characters is to watch them overcome impossible odds in attaining their dream.
GLEN KEANE: I would have to say The Little Mermaid because I discovered I love characters who have this burning desire inside that they believe the impossible is possible. Since then I have followed that path, now with Tangled. This character of Rapunzel has brought me to a new crossroads. How far can hand-drawn affect, or be integrated into, computer animation? I now try to see animation not as CG or hand-drawn but simply as filmmaking.
QUESTION: Which character has been your favorite to animate?
GLEN KEANE: Every character has touched on some real part of my life. I suppose Ariel really was that character that opened up my heart, that connection in me to animate characters who believe that the impossible is possible. I am a guy who sees life as a glass half full and I relate to a character’s optimism.
QUESTION: Your background is huge. How hard is it for you to step into that digital world now, and in which parts can you count on you massive experiences from the past?
GLEN KEANE: At first I was very tentative about how I could influence CG with my pencil. I have to say that I don’t know how to animate on the computer but I have never been afraid of the computer. John Lasseter and I did the very first computer animation test back in the 80’s in the Wild Things test. John eventually left Disney and started that obscure little company, Pixar. I continued down the path of hand-drawn but anytime the computer crossed my path I embraced it. Tarzan surfing down the branches, thanks to Deep Canvas, created a wonderful synthesis between 2D and CG. In Treasure Planet, Long John Silver was a combo of hand-drawn and CG in the same character thanks to his cyborg body parts. So it was not a big stretch to move towards computer animation for Tangled.
I have always seen computer animation wherever it crosses the path of hand-drawn, forcing me to draw better and to think more sculpturally. Drawing on the Cintiq over top of computer images was very natural and fluid. Drawing is an incredibly effective tool to communicate ideas. It really is true that a picture is worth a thousand words. The upward path of computer animation continues to approach the beauty and intuitive feel of hand-drawn. Eventually there will be a seamless marriage between the two.
If it WAS strange, they should be strange more oftenQUESTION: Was it strange — after being a pencil & notebook guy for all those years — to suddenly be drawing on a tablet?
GLEN KEANE: The Cintiq tablet at first was very slippery with the stylus pen on glass and it took a couple of weeks to get used to that, but I quickly found that there were benefits to it. I could animate very quickly moving from one frame to the next and have my drawings projected up onto the screen in our dailies screening room. All the animators would watch my drawings form and I could talk and actually give animation lessons to the young animators on our crew. I saw this as an opportunity to pass on the baton that had been given to me by Walt’s “Nine Old Men.”
QUESTION: What has been your favorite film to work on for Disney?
GLEN KEANE: It’s a little like who is your favorite child? Every film holds some very special moments in my life. Ariel was a character that launched a renaissance and that will always be perhaps the most special. Tangled in a very similar way is a launching pad for what I hope will be a new renaissance and someday in retrospect I hope to say the same thing about Tangled as I said about The Little Mermaid. I do believe the greatest moments in Disney history have been launched by fairy tales.
QUESTION: What´s your opinion about the Disney Animation evolution?
GLEN KEANE: Disney animation needs to continue to evolve, embracing both its hand-drawn heritage and the newest inventions of CG. It’s funny but hand-drawn animation at Disney has a look that was created out of technical limitations, i.e. painting on cells. CG can liberate us from this restrictive form. It’s a future I am anxious to be a part of.
QUESTION: Which is your favorite Disney character hairstyle of all time?
GLEN KEANE: The hairstyle is very important because it is like someone’s signature. Rapunzel and Ariel vie for that special honor of having the favorite hairstyle for me. They both have the distinctive swoop that I emphasize for the doll makers and the merchandise books to follow. Both hairstyles have rhythm and volume. There is a sensuality to hair that I am fascinated with, it’s movement, it’s feel and this softening effect it can have on the audience’s attraction to that character.
QUESTION: Given that you worked on the Disney Princess movie that helped kick start Disney’s Second Golden Age of Animation (i.e. The Little Mermaid), how does it feel to have been so involved in the creation of Tangled, the Disney Princess movie that proved that Walt Disney Animation Studios can make truly great films in the CG format?
GLEN KEANE: It seems that a fairy tale launches every important era of Disney animation. Snow White launched the golden age, The Little Mermaid a renaissance, and now it’s my hope that Tangled can launch this third golden age of Disney animation. I think the key is finding the synthesis between a new technology, CG and the roots of our heritage, hand-drawn.
Look, I'm just not a guy who likes to be tied down, you know?QUESTION: Who are your inspirations as far as family, friends, or even other artists go?
GLEN KEANE: Frederic Back is my favorite animator – a French-Canadian artist, in his 80’s now, who created The Man Who Planted Trees. It is a tour de force of personal expression. I dream of doing something so beautiful someday.
QUESTION: How do you keep the creative ideas flowing? How do you fight back against creative blocks?
GLEN KEANE: I find that when I hit a creative block, I see it differently now than I did when I was younger. I used to think of a creative block as proof that my creative journey had come to an end. That I just never really had it. Then I discovered it was not the end but a wall to climb, that really I had come to an end of a plateau and there were new ideas to discover and eventually another creative block to confront. So the way out of a block is to open yourself up to something new. The way I do that is escape from Disney, go to a library and randomly search through books of artists or writers and find some new wind of inspiration. Sometimes I head down the street not far from Disney to the Norton Simon Museum, and I always am reminded that this is my time to be an artist and to make the most of the opportunity like these artists before me did i.e. Degas, Renoir, Rodin.
QUESTION: What was your favorite part of working on Tangled?
GLEN KEANE: The very best moments for me were working with the animators in helping them dig down deep and find something real inside their own hearts to put into their characters they were animating. It was so rewarding to see people genuinely respond with laughter and tears and to know I had a small part in encouraging this new generation of animators to enjoy what i have enjoyed over my own career. Amen!
QUESTION: What advice would you give to people who want to break into the entertainment industry?
GLEN KEANE: I would say be yourself. The temptation is to give the audience what you think they want instead of opening up and being vulnerable and sharing who you are with them. It seems that every time someone takes that step of vulnerability they discover an audience ready to embrace them.
QUESTION: Any final thoughts on Tangled?
GLEN KEANE: Disney animation has been a home for me for 37 years and I have learned an enormous amount from the artists who I have worked with and the creative challenges in the characters I have animated. I have told the animators many times on this film that they are artists and had they been born five hundred years before, we would be talking about building a cathedral or painting on wet plaster and creating frescoes. But we are born at this time and our cathedral is animated filmmaking. This is their time on the planet to be artists and to be make it count. Open up what is inside of them and put all of their heart into moving this art form forward. That is the future for this art form of animation and Disney studios.
Toonzone would like to thank Glen Keane for taking the time to give his video presentation and talk with us, and to the usual suspects at Walt Disney PR and Click Communications for arranging it all. Tangled is available on DVD and Blu-ray disc now; read Toonzone News’ review of the Blu-ray combo pack here, and our virtual roundtable session with Tangled co-directors Nathan Greno and Byron Howard.
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In step with cabaret history, the Duplex's 50th anniversary was an extremely worthy get-together (see number 2) celebrating the Village spot that's launched as many superstars as it has drunks singing "Memory." To commemorate the event, talent booker Leah Sutton put together a fabulous variety show-benefit filled with people who've worked at and/or drunk at the Duplex. The tall and caustic Judy Gold was a riot, talking about her "Hadassah arm" (the flabby area no trainer can help) and saying, "I performed for President Clinton—and I did stand-up comedy for him too." And our MC—the campy, rubber-faced comic Mario Cantone—was manic, hilarious, and unstoppable, whether impersonating various famous women doing The Vagina Monologues ("My vagina is an oven," he said as Julia Child) or explaining that he turned down the meerkat role in The Lion King "when I realized there'd be a puppet pinned to my fucking scrotum." He even did Liza Minnelli jokes—this on the very day she was announced as having encephalitis—and made them work through sheer nervy sparkle.
The same principle lifts The Full Monty—a/k/a Broadway Bares—out of its middlebrow aspirations and makes Buffalo rock more than it seemed possible. Despite the ugly sets and uneven music and the fact that no lighting's pinned to the guys' scrotums when they're finally revealed, the show is extremely pleasing—a real winner—and it's especially hard to resist touches like veteran actress Kathleen Freeman demanding to see the black guy's dick. (I could certainly relate.)
If you want to get really fucked, try Game Show, which is an extremely authentic taping experience, right down to the utter torturousness. The faux program, replete with pseudo-backstage antics, is that rare satire that doesn't satirize anything! But hey, maybe the opening-night party was fun.
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Whether it's the clean curves of a 'Vette or the rugged muscles of a truck, about the only thing cooler than drawing a car is actually driving one. Okay, there are lots of cool things other than drawing a car. But learning how to draw a car is a nifty skill for any serious artist or car enthusiast.
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Draw a large quarter-oval. It should look like the nose of an airplane, or the blade of a butter knife. Add in a cross, as seen, to serve as guidelines for the car parts.
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Draw a half-oval for the top of the car and add in two quarter-ovals for the windows. It’s okay if any of the shapes overlap, or aren’t perfectly even; you can edit your lines at the end of the process. Make sure you keep your guidelines visible, as you’ll be using them later.
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Add in two circles for the wheels. They should be roughly the size of the windows (think of how a real car would look) and evenly spaced on either side of the vehicle. You can add in circles behind these to make your drawing a bit more three-dimensional, but it’s not entirely necessary to do.
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Sketch in more details. Add lines for the car door. Use patterns to really distinguish your car--make it utterly unique! For instance, instead of the flaming side shown here, draw stars or polka dots all over your car, or something else completely wild. It’s up to you!
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Outline your car. The wheels in particular should be darkened, with just a bit of shine to them, and be certain to emphasize the design you’ve chosen. Erase any leftover guidelines.
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Color it in. Have fun and be creative with your colors! Not many things come in such a wide variety of colors as cars do, so you can be a little more exuberant than usual.
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• Surprising as it may sound for something characterized by its metallic texture and need for speed, cars consist of lots of soft, rounded shapes. So don’t make your lines too harsh and take your time when adding details. You can put in shadows and highlights if you like, just keep the overall appearance of the car in mind and try to have it be as realistic as possible.
• Try sharp pencils as blunt ones make a sketch dirty and messy.
• When you are drawing, always use a good eraser and pencil.
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Obtain a cord set with the same electrical rating and number of slots as the receptacle. If purchasing a cord set by matching the electrical rating of the receptacle; remembering the slot pattern will not matter, as they are standardized. Most hardware stores and nearly all home supply centers offer cord sets for electric ranges and dryers with a choice of either 3 or 4 conductors for under $25 or so. These cord sets may look similar, but are not interchangeable due to different electrical ratings. Dryer cord sets are 240V/30A and range cord sets are 240V/40A for use in the U.S. & Canada.
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Connect the cord set to the terminal block at the rear of the dryer. The cord set selected should have only 3 wires (line 1, line 2 and neutral; no ground wire). The center wire of this cable is the neutral wire and the outer wires are the "hot" line 1 and line 2 wires. These hot wires connect to the outer 2 connections the power terminal block of the dryer, does not matter which is which as long as one hot is connected to each of the outer terminal connectors.
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Notice that the center wire (neutral wire) of the cord set goes to the center connector. Since in this case the neutral serves as a neutral and a ground connection, a jumper conductor (ground strap) is also connected to the center terminal and to the frame of the dryer. A green wire could also be used to connect the center connector to the frame of the dryer.
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• While an acceptable practice some years ago, as stated in the opening, this practice has been banned in the U.S. by the NEC. The only safe, legal way to connect 4 wire ranges and dryers is with a 4 wire cord set to a 4 wire receptacle fed by a four wire circuit. Adapters and 3 wire cord sets used to connect these appliances are not permitted. A new, four wire circuit and receptacle is the only safe, legal and accepted method to connect these appliances.
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How Health Costs Can Lower Tax Bills
With Unemployment Surging, More May Qualify for Medical Expense Deduction; Writing Off the Swimming Pool
This may be the year to take a tax deduction for medical expenses.
This write-off has long been one of the least useful for most taxpayers because medical costs have to be a significant percentage of income to be deductible. But this year the economy's convulsions have left an estimated 16% of the U.S. work force—25 million people—unemployed or underemployed. And many are digging into their own pockets to cover medical bills, insurance premiums or Cobra payments. Meanwhile health costs have surged, even for those with coverage. The upshot is that more people are likely to qualify to take it than in the past.
Accountants are paying attention. "With health-care costs rising, the medical deduction is worth looking at, especially if a taxpayer's income has gone down," says Danny Snow, an accountant with Thompson Dunavant in Memphis.
In the past, relatively few people have been eligible to take the deduction because it allows no write-off for expenses equal to the first 7.5% of adjusted gross income. (The Senate Finance Committee has voted to raise this hurdle to 10% next year.) So a taxpayer with $80,000 of AGI and $10,000 of medical expenses would have to disallow the first $6,000 before getting a deduction for the remaining $4,000. Unlike a tax credit that counts dollar-for-dollar against the amount you owe, a deduction simply reduces income. And you need to keep records.
Within these constraints there is good news, however. The medical deduction covers a wide range of expenses—everything from contact lens solution, physical therapy and acupuncture to home health care, medical travel and even part of the cost of some swimming pools.
Most important in this difficult year: Insurance premiums are deductible if they are paid with after-tax dollars. This may prove a boon to those like Stevan Currier, of Harriman, Tenn., who lost his job with a trucking company last February. He had been paying Cobra insurance premiums out of pocket at a reduced rate of $430 per month, but the cost recently rose to $1,290. These charges plus others, and his reduced earnings, may make him eligible for the deduction, however small.
"This year I'm going to need all the help I can get," he says.
Because the hurdle to taking this deduction is high, it pays to strategize. Experts often advise "bunching" expenses—say for several children having orthodontic treatment—so that as many as possible fall into one year rather than being spread over several.
For complete details see Internal Revenue Service Publication 502 at But here's a summary of the ins and outs:
Basics: To be deductible, a medical expense must be paid with after-tax, out-of-pocket dollars. The expense must also be for treatment of a medical issue, not just for maintaining good health. (There are a few exceptions, such as an annual physical or dental exam.) Costs are normally deductible in the year paid or applied to a credit card. Medical care does not have to be provided in the U.S., but drugs from outside the U.S. must be legally approved for import. Dental expenses qualify.
Insurance: Insurance premiums paid with pretax dollars aren't deductible, and neither are medical expenses that are reimbursed by insurance, flexible spending plans or health savings accounts. But insurance premiums paid with after-tax dollars, including Cobra and Medicare Parts B and D, do qualify. So do out-of-pocket co-payments for lab fees, doctor's visits, drugs, tests and the like. A portion of long-term-care premiums is deductible: The amount grows as the taxpayer ages, but for a 55-year-old it is $1,190 for 2009.
Covered treatments: In general, the IRS allows deductions for the sorts of things that insurance covers, and more. Allowable expenses include acupuncture, physical therapy, fertility treatments, psychiatric care and psychotherapy. Eligible devices and equipment include hearing aids, eyeglasses and contact lenses (plus solution), dentures, and wigs for hair loss due to disease or treatment. The cost of programs to treat alcoholism, stop smoking and lose weight can also be deductible.
What can't you deduct? Expenses for cosmetic surgery, baby formula or diapers (although pregnancy tests qualify), hair transplants, gym memberships and spa treatments, among others. The IRS also disallows costs for most over-the-counter drugs, which some Flexible Spending Plans reimburse. So a Stop Smoking program may be deductible, but nicotine chewing gum isn't. See IRS Publication 502 for a full list.
Home modifications: In the past, deductions have been allowed for a swimming pool prescribed for physical therapy and an air-conditioning system for someone with severe allergies. More common are deductions for lead abatement or modifications for disability. But if the modification leads to an increase in the value of the property, that increase isn't deductible. So if someone puts $30,000 into remodeling a home to make it wheelchair-accessible and those changes increase the value of the property by $10,000, then $20,000 would be deductible. Given the current housing market, this disallowance may be smaller than in the past. Get appraisals if you go this route.
Care for the elderly and disabled: Skilled nursing-home care is fully deductible. So is a portion of assisted-living expenses. Home-health-care services are often deductible if they involve care with so-called activities of daily living, such as helping with a shower. (Help with housekeeping isn't deductible.) The cost of respite care for an Alzheimer's patient should count as well. But all payments must be to qualified providers who are working legally.
The cost of buying and keeping a guide dog or other service animal is deductible, as is tuition for some programs for a child with special needs, such as autism. Tutoring for learning disabilities may also qualify.
Dependent strategies: Do you pay medical costs or insurance premiums for someone else? The IRS has a special rule that may help. If you provide over half the support for a person, then you may be able to deduct his or her medical costs if these exceed 7.5 % of your AGI. If this hurdle is too high, consider giving the person the money, then having him pay the bill and taking the deduction himself. Such gifts are currently tax-free up to $13,000 for individuals or $26,000 for couples, annually. Amounts above that limit are tax-free up to a lifetime limit of $1 million, but you must file a gift tax return.
Medical Travel: This is an often overlooked area that applies to many people. It can include expenses incurred to travel to everything from a doctor's office to an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. The rate for 2009 is 24 cents per mile if you drive. The full cost of other forms of travel such as airplanes, subways or taxis, is deductible, as are parking fees and highway tolls. If a relative or nurse needs to go with the patient, the travel costs of that person are eligible as well. Lodging counts if it is necessary and not extravagant. (A stay at a five-star hotel probably would not qualify.) Most meals are deductible only if they are part of inpatient care.
Recordkeeping: Although audit rates are low, be prepared to prove this deduction if you take it. Says Robert Meighan, an accountant and vice president of TurboTax, "That does not mean keeping every parking receipt. But you need to keep paperwork on large expenses, such as insurance premiums, and reasonable proof of estimates for smaller ones."
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Hi, I am a newbie to all of this and was wondering if someone could help me with a problem I am having. I am trying to dynamically change the command text for a data environment command that has been grouped. For some reason what I have tried does not work. Here is what I have tried:
I have a data environment with a command called command1 that is grouped. The grouped name is command1_grouped. The grouped command has the following fields: Summary fields has MealName. Detail Fields has MealName and IngrediantName.
I have created a data report that is grouped by the meal name and then lists the ingrediants for that meal. This works fine. However, I would like the user to be able to imput a list of meals and then get a print out. This requires me to build the command text dynamically. But when I try the following I get errors.
DataEnvironment1.Commands("Command1_Grouping").CommandText = (NEW SQL STATEMENT GOES HERE).
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When I run this I get an error telling me that Command1.IngrediantName cannot be found(this occurs when I try to open the data report). If I ungroup the command and then change the command name back to its original name it works fine, except I can no longer use the group heading in my data report. I.E. DataEnvironment1.Commands("Command1").CommandText = (NEW SQL STATEMENT GOES HERE).
It wont let me use the original command name if it is grouped. In other words if I tried the code above while the command was still grouped I get an invalid procedure or argument error.
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Never mind, I figured out an easier way to do this using paramaters in my SQL statements.
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Ireland, England and France all head into Saturday's final round of rugby's Six Nations matches with a chance of winning the title.
The three teams are level at the top of the standings on six points after each recording three wins from four matches.
The Irish are in pole position as they have a cumulative points difference of +81 and a points difference advantage of +49 over second-placed England.
Points difference is the initial tie-breaker if teams are level on tournament match points.
Ireland play France in the final match of the Championship - Saturday's kick-off times have been staggered to ensure the largest possible television audience despite criticism this creates an unfair advantage for the two sides playing last.
Realistically, any sort of Ireland win is likely to give them the title, but defeat or a draw - the result of their past two matches against France - could see them pipped at the post should England beat Italy in Rome.
The Irish have the added incentive of sending retiring icon Brian O'Driscoll out in style.
O'Driscoll, who will bow out with a world record 141 caps (including eight for the British and Irish Lions), will have struck fear into the French after his scintillating display in the crushing 46-7 win over Italy last Saturday, creating three tries.
"I feel we have the capabilities now of winning in Paris of course, more so now than other times we've gone over there," said O'Driscoll.
"But I realise how tough a challenge it is - we've won once there in 42 years, it's one win, and one draw in 42.
England are in the trickiest position of all three contenders given, as their match against Italy in Rome is the first of the day.
The first order of business for England is to maintain their perfect winning record against Italy as a shock loss would scupper their title hopes, with either France and or Ireland guaranteed to add their tournament points tally.
England currently have a +29 points difference advantage over third-placed France.
If England beat Italy, a subsequent narrow French win could see them take the title after two successive runners-up finishes in coach Stuart Lancaster's two previous Six Nations in charge.
Equally, an England win in Rome allied to a draw in Paris would see Lancaster's men lift the trophy.
France must beat Ireland as a draw won't be enough to finish on top, regardless of what happens to England in Rome.
If England lose, just beating Ireland will be enough to give France the title.
However should England, as widely expected, defeat Italy, then France will need to beat Ireland and beat them well to take the title on points difference.
France haven't lost to Ireland in France since 2000 and their previous defeat by the Irish on home soil was back in 1972.
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orange and blue compliment
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black text against a white
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One of the most controversial death row inmates in American history, convicted cop killer Mumia Abu Jamal is heading back to court to seek a new trial.
A folk hero to some and a cold-blooded murderer to others, Abu Jamal has been on death row for 24 years. Today his case gets a new day in court, as a panel of judges in Philadelphia decides whether to strike his death sentence and grant him a new trial.
Abu Jamal, an outspoken journalist and active member of the Black Panthers, was convicted of killing a Philadelphia police officer in 1982. On a cold December night in 1981, Officer Daniel Faulkner was found dead, shot once in the back and once between the eyes. When police arrived at the scene, Abu Jamal was sitting on the curb a few feet away from Faulkner's body.
Crime scene witnesses testified that they saw Abu Jamal fire a shot at Faulkner's back. Next to Abu Jamal was a gun prosecutors say they linked to the bullets that killed Faulkner. Together, the collective physical and testimonial evidence led a jury to find Abu Jamal guilty after a few hours of deliberation.
Abu Jamal proclaimed his innocence from the start of the investigation. He and his lawyer, Robert Bryan, say there were substantial flaws in that trial. Bryan, an expert in death penalty litigation, argues that the trial was poorly run and that the jury was tainted by racial bias.
At today's hearing a panel of three judges will consider those arguments, along with allegations that the trial judge was racially biased.
The NAACP Legal Defense Fund will also present arguments on Abu Jamal's behalf, claiming that prosecutors unfairly excluded black jurors from the 1982 trial.
Depending on the court's decision Abu Jamal could get a new trial or a new execution date.
'Free Mumia' Movement Supports Abu Jamal
Since his conviction Abu Jamal has been prolific, writing a handful of books and recording a radio show from prison. He speaks of resistance and freedom, closing each broadcast with the tag line, "From death row this is Mumia Abu Jamal."
Few, if any, cases have garnered as much passionate attention as Abu Jamal's. It inspired the "Free Mumia" movement, a global protest of activists, movie stars and scholars mobilizing for his release. Though his popular support peaked in the 1990s, fans continue to rally for his release with a devotion that verges on worship.
"Mumia stands out because he is a hero and a prophet for our times," wrote Millie Barnet in the Sonoma County Free Press.
Abu Jamal's detractors, in contrast, say the "Free Mumia" campaign makes a hero out of a cop killer.
"Mumia is nothing but a cold-blooded murderer," said Maureen Faulkner, the officer's widow, in a 1998 interview with ABC News.
"They have been duped," said Faulkner of the activists behind the movement.
Abu Jamal's supporters have planned protests this week in Philadelphia, New York, Toronto and London.
Those who support Abu Jamal and those who condemn him are watching his case with concern, worried that the court's decision will contradict their sense of a just outcome. Both sides are keenly aware that after decades of debate and outrage, a case that is 24 years old is still not over.
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The Pleasures of Eating: A Qualitative Analysis,10.1007/s10902-005-0287-x,Journal of Happiness Studies,Michael Macht,Jessica Meininger,Jochen Roth
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The pleasures of eating were explored in semi-structured interviews with nine female and seven male persons. Qualitative analysis of interview transcripts revealed two substantial features of hedonic eating experiences. First, they encompass a variety of components: In the stimulus domain, the foods, features of the physical environment, and social factors; in the domain of the organism a specific somato-psychic state and an attitude towards hedonism; in the domain of responses preparatory activities, specific characteristics of eating behavior, and positive sensations and emotions. Second, pleasures of eating depend on a variety of external and internal conditions. External conditions go far beyond the food itself: Physical features of the environment and social factors amplify food-induced positive affective reactions and embed them in an individually unique setting. Internal conditions include motivational, cognitive and behavioral factors: People who enjoy eating have the explicit intention to enjoy, they eat slowly and focus upon salient features of foods and environments, and they often engage in social activities before, during and after the meal. Hedonic eating experiences can best be understood as “appetite gestalten”, i.e. individually specific configurations of stimuli, organism variables, and responses. A holistic, multi-component perspective is suggested as a framework for future research.
Journal: Journal of Happiness Studies - J HAPPINESS STUD , vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 137-160, 2005
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Our last questioneer was rescued from herself by a friend; but our latest correspondent Anon cannot face doing the same for his/her friend:
I’m a pretty big nerd and pretty much all of my friends are the same. We’re not totally without social graces, but there are a few quirks among our group and as someone who hangs out with the general “nerdy” type I’ve come to accept or ignore most of them. But one of my closest friends has a foible that I have a harder time with.
This person speaks LOUDLY. In general conversation they have a voice that carries, and while this isn’t so bad, when they get even remotely excited about something (which is often) they are practically screaming.
Now, this person isn’t doing it to be rude or strong arm the conversation. They are generally one of the nicest and most considerate people I know. But when we are in a small area like a car or small room this often hurts my ears, and I’ve seen other people react subtly but similarly to it. Out at restaurants this quirk gets us annoyed stares, and depending on our subject matter, worse.
I have once or twice tried to nicely say “Ooh we’re (or you’re) getting loud and excited we should quiet down”, but this doesn’t seem to stick and I feel like an asshole for saying it because I know this person is a little bit sensitive. I’ve also tried speaking lowly to try and model or encourage this person to lower their voice, but it hasn’t worked.
I have no idea how else to handle this, or even if it can be handled. I really love my friend, but I’d really like to be able to communicate this to them without hurting their feelings. I know I’d like to know if I did this. Answer me this: is there a way to deal with this problem and not offend my friend?
You have already tried the gentle approach and, while it didn’t offend your friend, it didn’t shut them up either. If you’re still not willing to broach the subject directly with them, entreat one of your bolder mutual friends to do it instead. Alternatively, here are some options:
1. When your friend gets loud, ostentatiously put in earplugs. If that doesn’t register, upgrade to large noise-cancelling headphones. Eg the kind that people wear whilst chainsawing.
2. From a theatrical prop supplier, buy some of those wineglasses that are safe to smash. With your nerd-friends, rig up a gadget so you can smash the glasses remotely. When Captain Shouty gets shouty, detonate.
3. Contract laryngitis, then give it to your friend.
4. Pay somebody to dress as a librarian and follow your friend around. Whenever your friend exceeds a certain volume, the librarian disapprovingly shushes them. After a couple of weeks, the message should have sunk in.
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3 Responses to “foghorn friend”
1. Joe from Seattle Says:
Shock collar.
2. Sam Says:
5. Tell them they seem not to have heard quiet things that others have heard, so maybe their hearing needs testing. (N.B. I’d gird yourself in case this turns out to be true. But then it may just be the result of a Father-Jack-level of earwax.)
3. Pete Dickens (@themiseryshows) Says:
It may be that your friend has a hearing problem, and they should be encouraged to visit a doctor or specialist, rather than humiliated into shutting up.
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0.048522 | <urn:uuid:990af13b-0415-4e68-b57c-2e25f03efdfd> | en | 0.982066 | Networks Scramble To Copy `The Sopranos'
April 05, 1999|By Bill Carter, New York Times News Service.
`The Sopranos" is such a white-hot favorite in the television industry that network executives are trying to figure out how they can copy the breakthrough style of the HBO mini-series and perhaps make up for the mistake several of them made in passing up the show in the first place.
Interest in the cable show has reached such a fever pitch that two networks have even approached its production company to inquire about the possibility of running episodes of "The Sopranos" after they have appeared on HBO.
That seems unlikely, given the show's cable-standard content, which includes nudity, violence and enough florid street language to curl a network censor's toes.
But Brad Grey, the executive in charge of Brillstein-Grey Entertainment, which owns "The Sopranos," said, "The networks are calling now to ask if they can air the shows we've done already."
He would not identify the two networks that made the offer, but he said, "It never reached a serious stage because I just said no." He expressed doubt the show could have been edited in a way that wouldn't compromise it.
Besides, it is not as if the broadcast networks didn't have a shot at "The Sopranos" the first time around. The show was developed by the drama department of the Fox network in 1996, but it never went anywhere.
Grey said the pilot script written by the show's creator, David Chase, "just came back with a no; we didn't even get any notes from them." Grey said he then "talked to CBS" about the show, but those conversations led nowhere. And, as usually happens with scripts in Hollywood, word of "The Sopranos" drifted around.
One executive who heard about it was David Nevins, the senior vice president of prime-time series at NBC, who said: "I had a shot at it after Fox passed. I thought it was very good. But I couldn't get anyone else interested."
Now the networks are more than interested; they're fascinated.
As Carolyn Ginsburg-Carlson, senior vice president of comedy for ABC, put it, "I love the show; it's one of only three or four shows I make it a point to watch every week."
"The Sopranos" is already a hit by cable standards, scoring ratings higher than any cable channel series in the last three years. In its Sunday night slot, the show is reaching about 3.7 million viewers, and in its four weekly showings it reaches more than 10 million viewers.
For the people who make television shows for a living, "The Sopranos" is more than an HBO hit; it is a groundbreaker, a show whose influence is likely to be felt throughout the industry in the coming years.
Warren Littlefield, the longtime NBC program chief who is now scouting for talent to build his new production company, said the show had prompted the industry to rethink what constitutes "family drama" on television.
"If you look at what network television has done with the family drama, it just made them all dull," Littlefield said. "We all had blinders on as to how you can present a family on television."
So are networks busy developing shows that will try to embrace the more outrageously creative approach of "The Sopranos"? Not yet, because most of their development was finished before the show went on in January.
Counting itself lucky in terms of timing, CBS does have a Mafia-based drama in development. But its antecedent was the movie "Donnie Brasco," not "The Sopranos." And even broadcast executives disagree on whether the networks could duplicate the style of "The Sopranos."
How different is the HBO show now from what the networks saw in 1996? Danielle Clayman, the Fox drama executive who developed the show (and admits to experiencing a "personal loss" over failing to win support for it at the network), said: "It's 90 percent the same. The show's story is the same, but obviously it is spicier now that it's on HBO."
Nevins said the original script that he read would have been evaluated by the network standards department. He added: "I don't believe we couldn't do the show on NBC. Content-wise, you could take a little bit out and get it through."
Peter Roth, a former president of Fox Entertainment who is now running the Warner Brothers television studio, said, "I think `The Sopranos' is makable for a network. It could play on ABC on Sunday night after `The Practice.' "
That is not how Albrecht sees it. "The networks would never have put the show on," he said, adding that what Fox developed as the original script is not the show that so impresses Hollywood now.
He noted that HBO was willing to take a risk and allow Chase to direct the pilot himself. Then there was the crucial decision to allow him to shoot the series on location in New Jersey.
The most important decision HBO made, Albrecht said -- and that point was seconded by every other executive interviewed for this article -- was selecting James Gandolfini to play the lead role of Tony Soprano, the gang leader who is so harassed by business and family problems (many of which overlap) that he goes into therapy. | http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1999-04-05/features/9904050019_1_david-chase-networks-sopranos | dclm-gs1-000060002 | false | false | {
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0.14315 | <urn:uuid:70b91b95-6ef5-4534-be9b-9ba33430eefa> | en | 0.962539 | In Pakistan, underground parties push the boundaries
August 20, 2012|Anam Zehra | Reuters
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Women in short skirts and men with gelled hair bump and grind on a dance floor as a disc jockey pumps up the volume. The air is thick with illicit smoke and shots of hard liquor are being passed around. Couples cuddle and kiss in a lounge.
This is not Saturday night at a club in New York, London or Paris. It is the secret side of Pakistan, a Muslim nation often described in the West as a land of bearded, Islamic hardmen and repressed, veiled women.
Pakistan was created out of Muslim-majority areas in colonial India 65 years ago, and for decades portrayed itself as a progressive Islamic nation. Starting in the 1980s, however, it has been drifting towards a more conservative interpretation of Islam that has reshaped the political landscape, fuelled militancy and cowed champions of tolerance into silence.
But the country remains home to a large wealthy and Westernized elite that, in private, lives very differently.
Every weekend, fashion designers, photographers, medical students and businessmen gather at dozens of parties in Islamabad, Karachi and Lahore to push social boundaries in discreet surroundings that would horrify, and enrage, advocates of the stricter brand of Islam.
"This is just epic," said Numair Shahzada, bobbing his head to the beat at a party in a farmhouse outside Islamabad as fitness instructors moonlighting as bouncers looked on. "The light and smoke show is phenomenal."
Young men and women mix freely, dancing, talking or drinking. Some curl up together in quiet areas.
Although alcohol is prohibited in the country, many have brought their own liquor. Whisky is carried in paper bags and vodka is disguised in water bottles arranged along the dance floor.
The party-goers form only a tiny minority of the country's 180 million people, but overall, Pakistan is not repressive. Women can drive, are enrolled in universities and have played prominent roles in politics. Unmarried men and women can interact without risking the wrath of religious police.
People from its most populous province, Punjab, are renowned for their exuberance.
But a conservative form of Islam is chipping away at the tolerance.
A few hours drive from Islamabad's party circuit, parts of remote tribal regions have fallen under the sway of hardline Taliban militants, who dream of toppling the U.S.-backed government and creating a society where revelers would face flogging, or worse.
"Men and women who dance together are damned by God. Whenever we see such displays of vulgarity we will definitely make them a target," said a senior Taliban commander.
News reports have said a tribal council in a village near the Afghanistan border ordered four women killed earlier this year for clapping and singing as men danced at a wedding. The Supreme Court has ordered an investigation, but there have been no further details.
While the vast majority of Pakistanis abhor the Taliban's violence, there are many who share their belief that Islam should be Pakistan's guiding force. Religious parties, which do poorly at the polls but exert considerable sway over public debate, believe Islam should govern all spheres of life.
"It's so messed up," said Myra, a 23-year-old Pakistani who has dyed her hair reddish-brown.
"You see the servants and the drivers at the parties watching you and you wonder what kind of a person they think you are."
To avoid prying eyes, the kind of alcohol-fuelled blow-outs enjoyed by Myra and her friends are held in lonely farm-houses in the outskirts of Islamabad and other cities, or in affluent neighborhoods behind high walls. Organizers charge on average a $60 entry fee, an amount most Pakistanis earn in a month.
Rafia, petite with long, black hair and wearing tight jeans and a low-cut black blouse, is a regular on the party scene.
She frowns on women who carry secret cell phones unmonitored by their parents and wear revealing outfits under conservative dress that come off before getting on the dance floor.
"You can either be God-fearing or you can party," she said, taking a drag on a marijuana joint at a recent rave.
"I don't pray regularly and I usually stick to my fast. But at the end of the day, I don't say I am a very religious person."
Not everyone agrees.
Bina Sultan, 40, an attractive fashion designer, showcases nude paintings and topless male models in shows. She also wears a silver pendant engraved with a verse from the Koran.
"People think I am shameless but I am actually very religious," she said at her studio, peppering her sentences with "jaani", Urdu for darling, while chain smoking.
"My faith is very strong. But everything I do is between my God and me."
Conservatism began sweeping through Pakistan during the military dictatorship of General Mohammad Zia ul-Haq in the 1980s under a drive to Islamize the state.
Zia's policies are widely blamed for a creeping culture of intolerance that has further isolated liberals. | http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-08-20/features/sns-rt-us-pakistan-partyingbre87j0sy-20120820_1_islamic-dance-floor-senior-taliban-commander | dclm-gs1-000080002 | false | false | {
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0.026406 | <urn:uuid:49c3d074-d3fa-4103-a49b-cb191ae978c8> | en | 0.970981 | NBA Power Rankings: The 50 Dirtiest Players in NBA History
By (Pop Culture Lead Writer) on December 1, 2010
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These here are the bad boys, folks. Every sport has them. These are the ones that put winning so high on their list of priorities, they disregard ethical decency to attain it.
These are the guys that you hate when they are on a different team but absolutely adore when they are on your own. Whether it be constant elbows being thrown or simply a propensity to flop, these players work on the line separating lawful play from illegal venture.
You will find that there are two types of dirty athletes. There are those that are acting out of frustration and those that are trying to get an edge. All the while, these guys have added a huge dose of character to our beloved game. They should be made into villains, and thanked, in that order.
Here are your top 50 dirtiest NBA players of all time.
50. Christian Laettner
It seems that the NBA's top defenders fill out this list. It is fitting. In a league that is geared towards scoring, a defender sometimes has to bend the rules to make it a level playing field.
But I cannot disregard Laettner's ability to hold a grudge as he did in this video.
49. Robert Horry
As you can see, there is an obvious transition in the NBA. What were considered hard fouls a decade ago are now considered cheap shots.
Robert Horry is an older player that knows you sometimes have to deliver a message along with a foul. Is this dirty? Yes. Is it necessary? Extremely.
48. Gary Payton
MIAMI - NOVEMBER 7: Gary Payton #20 of the Miami Heat reacts to an offensive foul called against him in the first period against the Seattle SuperSonics on November 7, 2006 at the American Airlines Arena in Miami Florida. NOTE TO USER: User expressly a
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You didn't think the greatest thief in the NBA would be here?
Gary Payton was a member of nine All-Defensive first teams. You don't get there without cracking some eggs. Or at the very least grabbing some jerseys and arms.
47. Vlade Divac
Right off the bat, I want you, the reader, to understand that I feel flopping is a dirty tactic. It is a lazy way around the rules. Sure there is contact, but selling it to make it look like there was a foul is deplorable.
I liked Vlade Divac when he was on my Lakers in the '90s. But the one thing I could never stand was that he was constantly on the floor. That is no way to get an advantage.
Vlade was the best at it.
46. Anthony Mason
Anthony Mason was a bit undersized to play power forward in the NBA. His brawn and physical strength made up for that fact. Mason played hard and physical.
When he had to defend the bigger players of the league, he was known to give a little extra. Shoves in the back and tugs of the shirt were a natural occurrence of the day.
Mason is one player that played so physically, it was hard to determine if he was dirty or just extremely active.
45. Latrell Sprewell
Latrell was a tough defender that would not back down from any fight. But I have to include him here for the utter lack of disrespect he showed to the his coach and this fine league, when in 1997, he choked P.J. Carlesimo.
During a Warriors practice, Sprewell felt he was getting criticized too much. Some would call this getting coached. Either way, he choked his coach to the ground.
No, he wasn't kicked out of the NBA. Are you crazy? He went on to make millions.
44. Jeff Ruland
Jeff Ruland was not supposed to be a starting center in the NBA. He was always out there trying to prove his critics wrong. This may be why he played the way he did.
Ruland was a tough burden for opponents to deal with down low. He liked to take chip shots and would elbow or shove defenders to get that shot going.
He was also a beast to handle defensively. He was always a degree or two away from full-on groping.
43. Reggie Miller
INDIANAPOLIS - MAY 15: Reggie Miller #31 of the Indiana Pacers reacts to a call in Game four of the Eastern Conference Semifinals during the 2005 NBA Playoffs on May 15, 2005 at Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis,Indiana. Richard Hamilton of the Pistons
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Reggie Miller was an '80s-type player playing in the '90s. He would throw elbows when the refs were conveniently not looking.
But what I recall him being the best at was creating open space to shoot the ball with his arm. What Kobe Bryant has become very adept at, Miller started.
I would also like to mention that Cheryl's little brother could run his mouth trash-talking as well.
42. Dikembe Mutombo
LOS ANGELES - MARCH 30: Dikembe Mutombo #55 of the Houston Rockets looks on against the Los Angeles Lakers at Staples Center on March 30, 2007 in Los Angeles, California. The Rockets won 107-104. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that,
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Dikembe Mutombo is truly one of the nicest and most charitable players in NBA history. But when he was on the low block, players had to watch for a multitude of elbows.
There was many a nose that went there to die.
41. Manu Ginobili
CHARLOTTE, NC - NOVEMBER 08: Manu Ginobili #20 of the San Antonio Spurs against the Charlotte Bobcats during their game at Time Warner Cable Arena on November 8, 2010 in Charlotte, North Carolina. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees tha
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Manu Ginobili plays to the beat of his own drum. On defense, he is a complete handful. He has hands everywhere. He reaches and prods, and at some point, the viewer has to ask, wasn't there a foul there?
But Manu Ginobili really shines in the art of flopping. He is the new dominant flopper. Don't go near him or he will crumble under your presence.
40. John Starks
John Starks comes from the old school of basketball. His heyday was a time when a player could play hard-nosed defense; today he would be labeled as dirty.
He would bump and shove with the best of them. By the end of the game he had worn out his opponent. That is what an NBA star should do.
Today, he would lead the league in fouls and fines.
39. Kurt Rambis
Kurt Rambis was very good at doing the little things. He would scramble for loose balls. He would put back a missed shot.
But he was also a great defender. He did an excellent job at getting under the skin of the opposition.
He did so well at it, Kevin McHale almost killed him one time.
38. Rick Mahorn
Do you see what you could get away with back then?
Mahorn was physical on the court. He was the baddest of the Pistons "Bad Boys" in 1989. He would do anything to create contact down low. It was the only way he could compensate for his horrible jumping ability.
I guess if you can't beat them, shove them.
37. Zaza Pachulia
ATLANTA - NOVEMBER 12: Zaza Pachulia #27 of the Atlanta Hawks fouls Deron Williams #8 of the Utah Jazz at Philips Arena on November 12, 2010 in Atlanta, Georgia. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and/or using this
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In a recent poll by Sports Illustrated, Zaza Pachulia was listed as the sixth-dirtiest player in the NBA currently.
Pachulia has absolutely no qualms about fouling and fouling hard. He will wrap you up, give you a nice shoulder to the back, basically anything short of boxing.
36. Clyde Lovellette
In his book, The Rivalry: Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlain and the Golden Age of Basketball, John Taylor recounts the extreme measures Clyde Lovellette would go to in order to take down Wilt Chamberlain.
He is even said to have given Wilt a forearm to the jaw while the two were running down the floor. It was truly a different era.
35. Dave Cowens
Dave Cowens was an all-out menace on the court. On offense and defense, he only had one speed. He gave it all he had and that entered into some very physical play. There is no way around getting into altercations when you are hand-checking at the speed he played at.
The easiest way to think of it: Sasha Vujacic with talent.
34. Isiah Thomas
One thing you have to remember about the point guards of the '80s and '90s is that they were smaller and more active. They have to drive to the hoop and mix it up with much bigger men.
"Zeke" only measured 6' tall. It was only natural for him to get into the paint and take advantage of the refs not looking. If there was an errant elbow or even a trip while he was guarding you, well, so be it.
The era was the NBA equivalent to the Wild West. They got away with a lot.
33. Kendrick Perkins
LOS ANGELES, CA - JUNE 15: Kendrick Perkins #43 of the Boston Celtics looks on while taking on the Los Angeles Lakers in Game Six of the 2010 NBA Finals at Staples Center on June 15, 2010 in Los Angeles, California. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowle
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Perkins is already strong and malicious down low. He is bound to create unwarranted contact.
But what makes him a dirty star is his ability to get away with the illegal pick.
32. Andres Nocioni
PHILADELPHIA - OCTOBER 27: Andres Nocioni #5 of the Philadelphia 76ers in action during the game against the Miami Heat at the Wells Fargo Center on October 27, 2010 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that,
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Andres Nocioni is tough, gritty and athletic if he plays for your team. For the rest of us fans, he is dirty.
He is really the last bastion of the NBA enforcer. If you wrong one of his teammates, you can be sure that Nocioni will be fouling you hard later in the game.
31. Anderson Varejao
CLEVELAND - MAY 01: Rajon Rondo #9 of the Boston Celtics tries to get a shot off between Mo Williams #2 and Anderson Varejao #17 of the Cleveland Cavaliers in Game One of the Eastern Conference Semifinals during the 2010 NBA Playoffs at Quicken Loans Are
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Anderson Varejao may look like a taller Justin Guarini from American Idol fame, but he is much more sinister than that.
Anderson Varejao is the worst kind of dirty player. He will swing those lanky arms and then act as if he was framed for the whole thing. It is that kind of karma that killed the Cavaliers.
30. Sasha Vujacic
Sasha Vujacic is a loose cannon. Anytime he is in the game, it is as if Phil Jackson shot him up with PCP and let him loose.
He is the NBA's best at riling the opponent with tough defense. Sometimes it isn't even tough defense, it's just some annoying dude waving his arms in your face.
29. Raja Bell
A dirty player will always remember. Sick of the stinging elbows from Kobe Bryant, Raja Bell went out to settle the score. He forgot to defend and was out for blood.
Bell was thrown from the game that day. Twenty years earlier, McHale was allowed to play while doing essentially the same thing.
28. Paul Pierce
When you play Boston, tuck your shirt in. Paul Pierce is renowned to tug at the shirt strings of players. I have seen this go unchecked a bunch.
It seems officials have the inability to see someone's shirt get ripped from their body.
27. Matt Barnes
The now-Lakers forward once took great pride in taking down the purple-and-gold a rung. Besides his fight with Rafer Alston, I submit that Matt Barnes has had his fair share of cheap shots.
Here is one against Ronny Turiaf who, at the time, was helpless in the air.
26. Bill Cartwright
When you go head-to-head with Patrick Ewing and Charles Oakley a few times a year, you are bound to pick up a few things.
In order to hold his own in the rough-and-tumble East, Cartwright had to get downright mean. Fierce was the only way to play back then. Cartwright was the fierce competitor the Bulls needed to counter the Knicks and Heat of the '90s.
You can see him go medieval on Isiah Thomas at about the 2:20 mark in the video.
25. Shaquille O'Neal
I hate to do this to the big fella, but Shaq is dirty. I cut him slack because he has been murdered down low his whole career with only half of the infractions being called.
But O'Neal is famous for his elbows and arms he uses to clear out defenders. For a while, it was not getting called because it looked like defenders were flopping.
But Shaq is really too big to put you to the ground with an errant elbow.
24. DeShawn Stevenson
DeShawn Stevenson's best attribute in the NBA is his defense. Therefore, you guessed it, he has been labeled as dirty by players and fans alike.
How dare a journeyman guard the likes of LeBron James, a man he once called overrated. The above clip illustrates the feud admirably.
23. Maurice Lucas
Maurice Lucas was an "enforcer" when the NBA had such things. He would be the fall guy to jump on the grenade when a fight or foul was needed.
In Game 2 of the 1977 Finals, he punched Darryl Dawkins in the back of the head so Dawkins would fight him instead of the more valuable Bob Gross.
22. Vernon Maxwell
Mad Max was one hell of a three-point shooter. Only Reggie Miller could best him on a consistent basis. But he did have a mean streak, as you can see at around the 3:00 mark on the video. His volatile personality would lead to trouble on and off the court.
In 1995, he was suspended for punching a fan in the stands. If you needed an example or anything.
21. Xavier McDaniel
X-man had a famous fight with Charles Oakley that actualy went into the stands. But he was renowned to be mean to just about anybody.
Xavier McDaniel relayed his evil incarnation to the Seattle Times in 2007:
"Off the court I'm nice, but a different animal starts to come out of me when I step on the court. I remembered one time Dennis Rodman punched me upside the head and then he punched my [groin]. I already told the ref and they didn't do anything, so I whopped his butt. They wouldn't let me out of the locker room after the game because I was going to get him."
20. Danny Ainge
You would think Danny Ainge would be more comfortable behind the three-point line than mixed up in various tussles. But his trash-talking and hard way of playing led to many encounters.
In 1983, he fought with Tree Rollins and called him a sissy. A decade later he was trying to pick a fight with the greatest ever.
In the '94 playoffs, he fired a ball at the face of Houston Rockets player Mario Elie.
19. Kobe Bryant
LOS ANGELES - NOVEMBER 21: Kobe Bryant #24 of the Los Angeles Lakers laughs as he looks on from the bench against the Golden State Warriors at Staples Center on November 21, 2010 in Los Angeles, California. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and
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Kobe Bryant should serve to accentuate the argument I have been making. Most players that are dirty are looking for an edge. It is a constant search that is ubiquitous through all sports. Bryant is extremely knowledgeable about that game and has studied what you can and can't get away with.
It just so happens that pushing off and elbowing opponents does not get readily called. Therefore, you have Bryant doing it on a nightly basis.
18. Charles Oakley
Charles Oakley lived for good, old-fashioned hatred between opponents. He liked to get in your face or tie you up until you're sufficiently mad. If that meant talking trash like he did in this video, he would do it.
In 2000, he punched Clippers guard Jeff McInnis in the face before the game even started. Then in 2002, he shoved and hit Shaquille O'Neal with foul after foul until a wrestling match broke out.
17. Mark Jackson
Mark Jackson was a guard in the NBA from 1987 to 2003. That is the span of time where a point guard in the league did not only have to be quick and accurate, they also needed to be tough.
Being the smallest guy on the court, you had to establish yourself as a hard-nosed NBA player that would not back down from a challenge. Jackson would do his fair share of holding and hitting. But it was a necessary evil in those days.
16. Rasheed Wallace
Even if Rasheed Wallace was pulling out of a bank with stolen money in his hands, he would look confused as to why you stopped him. The man was notorious for hacking at hands and arms and then looking like he did nothing wrong.
The new rule about whining after the fact was made for Rasheed Wallace; it is a shame he left before it could be put to use on him.
Wallace was the king of technical fouls. If you could be considered dirty in the way you treat the official, well, he would be the poster boy.
15. Charles Barkley
Barkley never backed down from a fight. If you pushed, he would push back. But many times, he would be the villain to start the whole thing.
I always remember the USA vs. Angola game from the 1992 Olympics. The image of Barkley elbowing an Angolan player can be found at the 3:20 mark. If you rubbed him the wrong way, you knew it.
14. Brendan Haywood
Brendan Haywood is a big man that is not afraid to use his body to foul. He is one of the well known hard foulers in the league.
More than that, he is not afraid to run from a fight. Haywood lives for the type of scuffle that broke out in the preseason.
13. Chris Paul
Chris Paul is not afraid of a little dirty work. He is very adept at setting an illegal pick or giving a forearm when no one is looking. He may even punch a man in the groin, like he did while playing at Wake Forest.
Chris Paul punched North Carolina State's Julius Hodge. He has gone onto an illustrious career filled with incidents of less-than-ethical practices.
12. Ron Artest
Let's see...
The man was the catalyst for the greatest brawl in the history of the NBA. He has fought teammates, opponents and fans. But has seemingly turned a new leaf in his career.
But his dubious past is not all behind him. He does manage to get in his fair share of hand checking and reaching in infractions that go uncalled. I have no idea what the NBA officials even get paid to do.
11. Brad Miller
Brad Miller's favorite weapon of choice is his forearm. He hit Shaq with it once, which resulted in a fight. He also did it years later to Trevor Ariza. When the man is too lazy to defend, he will resort to violence.
As you can see in the video, sometimes players grow very tired of it.
10. Kevin Garnett
I am going to miss crazy Kevin Garnett running up and down the court when he is gone. He takes every little nuance of the game seriously. He invokes little rivalries on the court to pump himself up.
He is known to take this to the next level many times. A quick look down low when he is on defense will find Garnett throwing elbows or getting away with some other brand of illegality.
He is the king of chippy behavior and has made the game better because of it.
9. Kenyon Martin
Kenyon Martin is exactly the guy that will shove you just to get a better position. When he was outplayed by Dirk Nowitzki in the 2009 playoffs, he resorted to street ball.
Nowitzki was swift enough to get around Martin, so the slower player decided he would just throw Dirk to the ground. Granted, we have all wanted to do the same thing. That still does not make it right.
8. Kermit Washington
The satirical video posted shows the actual footage of Kermit Washington hitting the Houston Rockets' Rudy Tomjanovich.
The hit broke Tomjanovich's face, leaving him a bloody mess on the court. He was never the same player after the Kermit Washington hit.
7. Kevin McHale
This is what is meant by a hard foul. How many times during a game are modern players just sitting there watching a layup sink through the hoop over them.
As you can hear in this video, the announcers at the time were saying this was just part of the game. McHale received a foul for his actions. Today, he would have been thrown from the series.
6. Karl Malone
Karl Malone was part of quite the dirty duo up there in Utah. While Stockton is the more renowned dirty player, Malone delivered his fair share of elbows to the face or chest.
You can plainly see he is doing more than merely clearing the boards here.
5. Reggie Evans
Reggie Evans grabbed Chris Kaman's junk. He will never live that fact down. You never, ever grab another man's junk.
If you are hanging on a precipice and that is the only thing that would help you, you fall. It's the polite thing to do.
4. John Stockton
26 Nov 2001: John Stockton #12 of the Utah Jazz looks to move the ball as he is guarded by Stephon Marbury #3 of the Phoenix Suns during the game at the Delta Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. The Suns defeated the Jazz 111-104. NOTE TO USER: User express
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John Stockton is one of the dirtiest of the dirty. I have to put him here because he simply went years without anyone noticing. He would set awfully illegal picks. Then while the opponent was on the ground in pain, he was free to dish the ball or shoot.
It was always a treat to watch Stockton without the ball. I would see him run around and drop elbows and shoves on players that weren't even guarding him.
By the end of the game, I wa hoarse from yelling at the amount of things he was able to get away with.
3. Bruce Bowen
Bruce Bowen was the best defender of his time. He could stop anyone from scoring at will. The Spurs had a valued asset in Bowen and the rest of the league cried foul.
Bowen's lock-down defense bordered on mugging. He would get physical to be sure, but it was a fine line that only Spurs fans felt was legal.
2. Dennis Rodman
Dennis Rodman was the perfect villain for the NBA. He was loud and boisterous. He never swayed from controversy and always spoke his mind.
A graduate of the Bill Laimbeer school of hard knocks, Rodman left the Bad Boy Pistons and took his act to many cities. He was an enforcer and agitator for the Bulls and Lakers. He would get under your skin and smile when he knew he had you.
1. Bill Laimbeer
Bill Laimbeer was the Bad Boy to end all Bad Boys. He was an enforcer that could also score on you. Laimbeer was out for blood anytime he was on the court.
He seemed to fight anyone that was willing at the time, Bird, Barkley, etc. You name them, he fought them. He was such a fighter that Nintendo released a game entitled Bill Laimbeer's Combat Basketball.
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Asteroid Gamma 601
The Enterprise enters asteroid gamma 601.
Asteroid gamma 601 was an asteroid in the Devolin planetary system. The asteroid was fairly large and had several deep chasms large enough for a starship to enter. However, the internal structure was highly unstable; phaser fire within the chasms could cause collapse. The asteroid was located in the proximity of asteroid alpha 331 and asteroid beta 671.
Sometime after 2357, the hull of the phase cloaked USS Pegasus drifted into the Devolin system and rephased while partially embedded approximately two kilometers within the asteroid.
USS Pegasus
The USS Pegasus embedded in the asteroid.
In 2370, Starfleet Intelligence learned that the Romulan Star Empire had possibly found the wreck of the Pegasus in the Devolin system. The USS Enterprise-D was dispatched to investigate, joined by the former commander of the Pegasus, Admiral Erik Pressman. The Enterprise competed with the Romulan warbird Terix to locate the exact wherabouts of the Pegasus, finding it first within asteroid gamma 601 The asteroid was blanketed with high levels of ionizing radiation in order to hide the ship so it could be salvaged without Romulan interference.
The Enterprise returned one day later, but the Pegasus was too deep within the asteroid to be accessed by transporter or shuttlecraft. Against Captain Jean-Luc Picard's wishes, Pressman ordered the Enterprise to enter a chasm on the asteroid which led to the Pegasus's location, the first time a starship had been taken so deeply within a planetary body. While Pressman was able to retrieve the phasing cloaking device from the Pegasus engineering section, the Romulans used their disruptors to seal the Enterprise within the asteroid, claiming that they were conducting geological experiments. Commander William T. Riker, another former member of the Pegasus crew, defied Pressman's orders and revealed the existence of the phase cloak to Picard. It was then installed aboard the Enterprise and used to escape the asteroid's interior. (TNG: "The Pegasus")
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Ängsälvor (Meadow Elves), a Swedish painting from 1850 by Nils Blommér
An elf (plural: elves) is a type of supernatural being in Germanic mythology and folklore.[1][2] Early elves, whose description depends almost entirely on Norse mythology texts, were a race of beings with magical skills, ambivalent towards humans and capable of either helping or hindering them. But Christianized societies were viewing elves in increasingly sinister light.[3] In Anglo-Saxon England as early as the 10th century, Old English medical books attest to elves afflicting humans and livestock by "elf-shots". The German elf or alp was seen as an "addler" of people in medical books, but already in the High Middle Ages there were prayers warding against it as the agent causing nightmares, and eventually for the alp its identity as nightmare spirits became predominant.
In English literature of the Elizabethan era, "elves" became conflated with the "fairies" of Romance culture, so that the two terms began to be used interchangeably. Romanticist writers were influenced by this (particularly Shakespearean) notion of the "elf," and reimported the word Elf in that context into the German language.
The "Christmas elves" of contemporary popular culture are of relatively recent tradition, popularized during the late 19th century in the United States, in publications such as Godey's Lady's Book. Elves entered the 20th-century high fantasy genre in the wake of works published by authors such as J. R. R. Tolkien, for which, see Elf (Middle-earth).
The English word elf is from the Old English ælf, elf, ylve, etc.[4] The feminine form ælfen in Old English exists, but strictly used "to gloss only words for nymphs" (See §Female elf as gloss for nymph below)[5][a] In Middle English the feminine form was elve.[b] The feminine form recurs in Middle English as elve(n)[6]
In sister languages the forms are Old Norse álfr, Old High German alp (plural alpî, elpî) and Middle High German alp (feminine singular elbe, plural elbe, elber).[7]
Grimm was "tempted" to see a parallel to the word with Latin albus "white",< which extrapolates to identifying the Proto-Indo-European root *albh- meaning "white".[8][9][10][c] The intermediate Proto-Germanic forms postulated are *albiz for Old English ælf etc. and *albaz for Old Norse álfr.[9][11] A connection to the Rbhus, semi-divine craftsmen in Indian mythology, was also suggested by Kuhn, in 1855.[12][13]
German cognates
The Middle High German alp[15] had the primary sense of "ghostly being" or "specter, spirit".[16][17][18] And already in the Medieval Period, it had developed a narrower sense of "nightmare" (German: Alpdrück),[19] and eventually this became the more prevailing use of the term.[14][20] (See Alp; cf. also mare (in folklore), drude and incubus).
The Modern German Elf (m) (Elfe (f), Elfen) was introduced as a loan from English in the 1740s.[14][20][d] Jacob Grimm, Deutsches Wörterbuch (1830s), rejected Elfe as a recent Anglicism, and came up with the reconstructed form Elb (m, plural Elbe or Elben), though the form Elbe (f) is attested in Middle High German writings.[23] Jacob Grimm in his Deutsches Wörterbuch deplored the "unhochdeutsch" form Elf, borrowed "unthinkingly" from the English, and Tolkien was inspired by Grimm to recommend reviving the genuinely German form in his Guide to the Names in The Lord of the Rings (1967) and Elb, Elben was consequently reintroduced in the 1972 German translation of The Lord of the Rings.
In personal names
Throughout Germanic tradition, given names which contain elf as an element are frequently attested. Gothic has no direct testimony of *albs, plural *albeis, but Procopius has the personal name Albila. In the modern period, Alfred is the only name with this element which continues to be in comparatively widespread use.
The eddic poem Völuspá contains a lengthy list of dwarf names that include Gandálfr "Wand-elf", Vindálfr "Wind-elf", and Álfr "Elf".[24] Elsewhere, personages in the Yngling royal house carry names such as Álfr and Gandálfr. Anglo-Saxon historical given names with the elf element include: Ælfwine (m.; continental Albewin, Alboin, Scandinavian Alfvin) "elf-friend", Ælfric (m.; cf. German Alberich) "elf-ruler", Ælfweard (m.) Ælfwaru (f.) "elf-guardian", Ælfsige "elf-victory", Ælfflæd (f.) "elf-beauty", Ælfwynn (f.) "elf-bliss", among others.
In German heroic epic material, Alphart and Alphere (father of Walter of Aquitaine)[25][26] have been regarded as bearing the "elf" element in their names. The OE counterpart to the latter name may be Ælfhere in the Waldere fragment.[27]
In Skaldic poetry, the álfr word stem is used nearly always in a kenning for a warrior or a full-fledged man[28][29](e.g. Jörmunrekr is periphrased by the kenning sóknar alfr ("álfr of attack").)[30]
Also much discussed is the kenning for the sun, álfroðull, literally "glory of the elves"[31] or "ray or rod of the elves."[32] The kenning is suggestive of the elves' close link to the sun to some,[33] although others have been dismissive of such link, since roðull by itself denotes the sun.[34]
The hero Völundr referred to as the 'ruler of the elves' (vísi álfar).
The Elder Edda couples the Æsir race of gods and álfar race of elves, mentioning the two classes side-by-side in a number of instances.[35] (This juxtaposition also recurs in Old English ês and ylfe). The association sometimes extends to a third class, the Vanir gods, as in the poem För Skírnis (or Skirnir's Journey).[36][37]
Elves are mentioned as a distinct race, separate from other races such as the Æsir gods, Vanir gods, giants (jǫtnar), dwarves, and mankind (męnn); and the elves evidently do not count among the "gods" (goð) or the "higher powers" (ginn-regin) — in Alvíssmál ("The Sayings of All-Wise").[e] The poem also mentions as a race the denizens of Hel, which may be marginally relevant, insofar as Grimm identifies them with the "dark elves" as distinct from "black elves" in his attempt to rationally explain that there may originally have been three sub-classes of elves. (See #Light-elves and dark-elves below).
Lokasenna relates that a large group of Æsir and elves had assembled at Ægir's court for a banquet, and from the many names named here, veritably "most of the Scandinavian pantheon," scholars have attempted to find a name of the elf here in vain.[38] It has been remarked that no individual elf with a known name has passed down to our knowledge,[39] though some suggest exceptions to this, such as the smith hero Völundr being called "Ruler of Elves" (vísi álfa)[40][f] Völundr also referred to as 'One among the Elven Folk' (álfa ljóði), in the poem Völundarkviða, whose later prose introduction also identifies him as the son of a king of 'Finnar', an Arctic people respected for their shamanic magic (most likely, the sami).
Just as elves are one of several races of beings, the elf's home Alfheim is assumed to be one of the Nine Worlds of Norse cosmology.[41]
In the Elder Edda, Álfheimr (literally "elf-world") is mentioned as being given to Frey as a tooth-gift—in Grímnismál. This may mean that Frey was given lordship over the dominion of elves. However, Larrington for example glosses Álfheim merely as the name of a "palace"[42]
For additional concrete description of Álfheimr, Snorri's Prose Edda must be consulted:
"There is one place there that is called the Elf Home (Álfheimr which is the elven city). People live there that are named the light elves (Ljósálfar). But the dark elves (Dökkálfar) live below in earth,in caves and the dark forest and they are unlike them in appearance – and more unlike them in reality. The Light Elves are brighter than the sun in appearance, but the Dark Elves are blacker than pitch." (Snorri, Gylfaginning 17, Prose Edda)
For a description of the more real-life geographical region of Álfheimr, see mentions in the §Sagas, below.
Light-elves and dark-elves
The god Frey, the lord of the light-elves
The Icelandic mythographer and historian Snorri Sturluson referred to dwarves (dvergar) as "dark-elves" (dökkálfar) or "black-elves" (svartálfar). He referred to other elves as "light-elves" (ljósálfar), which has often been associated with elves' connection with Freyr, the god of fertility (according to Grímnismál, Poetic Edda). Snorri describes the elf differences.
Snorri in the Prose Edda states that the light elves dwell in Álfheim while the dark elves dwell underground.
Black elves
Confusion arises from the introduction of the additional term svartálfar "black elves", which at first appears synonymous to the "dark elves"; Snorri identifies with the dvergar and has them reside in Svartálfaheim. This prompts Grimm to assume a tripartite division of light elves, dark elves and black elves, of which only the latter are identical with dwarves, while the dark elves are an intermediate class, "not so much downright black, as dim, dingy". In support of such an intermediate class between light elves, or "elves proper", on one hand, and black elves or dwarves on the other, Grimm adduces the evidence of the Scottish brownies and other traditions of dwarves wearing grey or brown clothing.
In the Thidrek's Saga a human queen is surprised to learn that the lover who has made her pregnant is an elf and not a man. In the saga of Hrolf Kraki a king named Helgi rapes and impregnates an elf-woman clad in silk who is the most beautiful woman he has ever seen.
Men after death could be venerated and sacrificed to, such as the petty king Olaf Geirstad-Elf.
In addition to this, Kormáks saga accounts for how a sacrifice to elves (álfablót) was apparently believed able to heal a severe battle wound:
Þorvarð healed but slowly; and when he could get on his feet he went to see Þorðís, and asked her what was best to help his healing.
"A hill there is," answered she, "not far away from here, where elves have their haunt. Now get you the bull that Kormák killed, and redden the outer side of the hill with its blood, and make a feast for the elves with its flesh. Then thou wilt be healed."[44]
Sigvat Thordarson, a missionary for St. Olaf wrote a poem around 1020, the Austrfaravísur ('Eastern-journey verses') describing his journey to the border areas. While in Sweden, being a Christian was refused board in a heathen household, because an álfablót ("elves' sacrifice") was being conducted there.
From the time of year (close to the autumnal equinox) and the elves' association with fertility and the ancestors, it might be assumed that it had to do with the ancestor cult and the life force of the family. The legendary sagas and more fantastical portions of the bibliographical sagas of the kings contain reference to elves. The fays foreign tales also appear as elves in saga adaptations.
Several sources suggest that elves and men could procreate.
According to Hrólfs saga kraka, Hrolf Kraki's half-sister Skuld was the half-elven child of King Helgi and an elf-woman (álfkona). Skuld was skilled in witchcraft (seiðr) and could cause fallen warriors, including other elves,[45] to rise again. Accounts of Skuld in earlier sources, however, do not include this material.
The Thidrekssaga version of the Nibelungen (Niflungr) describes Högni as the son of a human queen and an elf, but no such lineage is reported in the Eddas, the Volsunga saga, or the Nibelungenlied.
In the saga of Hrolf Kraki a king named Helgi rapes and impregnates an elf-woman who is the most beautiful woman he has ever seen.
Elves and andi
At the beginning of Norna-Gests þáttr, which is a portion of the Greatest Saga of Olaf Tryggvason, the king (Olaf Tryggvasson) noticed the presence of something which could have been either an elf or an andi (spirit) slipping into a locked mansion. The "elf" proved, however, to be Norna-gest, a man endowed with the longevity of many men.
Alfr line of kings
Mention of the land of Álfheimr, somewhat conflated with the view of the elven home Álfheimr is found in the Heimskringla and in The Saga of Thorstein, Viking's Son accounts of a line of local kings who ruled over Álfheim, and since they had elven blood they were said to be more beautiful than most men.
The land governed by King Alf was called Alfheim, and all his offspring are related to the elves. They were fairer than any other people...[46]
Modern interpretations
In addition to these human aspects, they are commonly described as semi-divine beings associated with fertility and the cult of the ancestors and ancestor worship. The notion of elves thus appears similar to the animistic belief in spirits of nature and of the deceased, common to nearly all human religions; this is also true for the Old Norse belief in dísir, fylgjur and vörðar ("follower" and "warden" spirits, respectively).
Old English elven race
Although Old English writings about the ælf as a supernatural race as described in Norse (Eddic) sources are scarce, some scholars have attempted to reconstruct the lost picture of the benevolent elf in Anglo-Saxon culture.[47]
There is a well-known example from Beowulf (Fitt I, vv. 111–14), where elves are included among "misbegotten creatures" condemned by God, and named alongside Germanic giants (ettins) and hell-devils (orcs).[48][49]
Another example is a fragment of the lost Tale of Wade, which begins "Summe sende ylves ..", and translated by Gollancz as: "..[all creatures who fell] became elves or adders or nickors who live in pools; not one became a man except Hildebrand."[50][51][g] Hildebrand mentioned here is an established character from the Cycle of Dietrich von Berne, and this scene may well have involved them as well as Wate's grandson Widia in a den of monsters, as in the Old English Waldere fragment, a speculation that Rickert advanced.[53] More recently, Alaric Hall suggested "some hostile force sent ylues to beset Wade", though cautioning that the remnant was too short to contextualize it with certainty.[54]
Female elf as gloss for nymph
In Old-English there are some eight compound words with the -ælf (female -ælfen) stem, but these are generally considered coined terms used by glossators to conjure Old English names for types of nymphs in Greco-Roman classical literature,[55][56] and the female form -ælfen itself may be a coinage as well.[57][h]
The nymph types glossed are as follows: landælf (Ruricoras Musas[58] or "country muses") dún- ("hill-"; castalides), feld- ("field-"; moides), munt- ("mountain-"; oreades), - ("sea-"; naiades), wæter- ("water-"; nymphae), and wudu- ("wood-nymph"; dryades).[55]
German heroic poetry
Although the mythological elf is all but absent in Middle High German texts (except as transformed into the sense of "ghostly beings" etc., cf. §Etymology above),[59] some dwarfs (Middle High German: getwerc) that appear in German heroic poetry have been seen as relating to elves, especially when the dwarf's name is Alberich, construed as "Elf-king".[60][i] Of Alberich, Grimm thinks this name echoes the notion of the king of the nation of elves or dwarfs.[62] The Alberich in the epic Ortnit is a dwarf of childlike-stature who turns out to be the real father of the titular character, having ravished his mother. There is an incubus motif here,[63] that recurs in the Thidrekssaga version of the parentage of Hagen (ON Högni), who was the product of his mother Oda being impregnated by an elf (ON álfr) while she lay in bed.[64]
The Alberich who aids Ortnit is paralleled by the French Auberon, who aids Huon de Bordeaux. Both figures occur in 13th century works, but commentators typically regard Auberon as the derivative form.[65] Auberon entered English literature through Lord Berner's translation of the chanson de geste around 1540, then as Oberon, the king of elves and fairies in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream (see below).
Middle ages
The elf as a spirit playing tricks
In Christianized societies, the elves began to be viewed as spirit that could afflict cattle and people with various conditions, and the mythological notions began to be lost. The loss happened early in Anglo-Saxon England which was an early convert; in Old English, compound as ælfadl "nightmare", ælfsogoða "hiccup", afflictions apparently thought to be caused by elves.
Elf shot
The "elf-shot," recorded since the Anglo-Saxon period refers to a large number of affliction produced in humans and beasts purportedly caused by elves firing shots, .[66] A projectile from an elves or ése (pagan deities) or witches (gif hit wære esa gescot oððe hit wære ylfa gescot oððe hit wære hægtessan gescot) was responsible for sudden pain (such as rheumatism), whose remedy was offered in the Metrical Charm "Against A Sudden Stitch" (Wið færstice) from the late 10th century medical text Lacnunga. The related Bald's Leechbook from the mid-10th century prescribes for the case "If a horse be ofscoten" the remedy of inscribing Christ's mark on the horse. The operative word ofscoten here, conventionally construed as "elf-shot" has been challenged by A. Hall who proposes "badly pained". Still, the fact remains the medieval formula concludes by saying the cure should be effective should it be the work of elves (Old English: Sy þæt ylfa þe him).[67]
Also, sudden paralysis was sometimes attributed to elf-stroke.
The modern form Elf-shot (or elf-bolt or elf-arrow) from Scotland and Northern England was first attested in a manuscript of about the last quarter of the 16th century, and originally was used in the sense of a 'sharp pain caused by elves'. Later, the word also denoted Neolithic flint arrow-heads, which by the 17th century seem to have been attributed in the region to elvish folk, and which were used in healing rituals, and alleged to be used by witches (and perhaps elves) to injure people and cattle.[68] Compare with the following excerpt from an 1750 ode by Willam Collins:
There every herd, by sad experience, knows
When the sick ewe her summer food forgoes,
Or, stretched on earth, the heart-smit heifers lie.[69]
German alp
In early medieval sources, the German alp would be described as "cheating" or "deceiving" (Middle High German: trieben, German: trüben) its victims.[70][71] In particular, Germans of the medieval age ascribed incidents of nightmare to the alp,[19] and the idea stuck so that by the early modern age, the alp became known primarily as a spirit causing nightmares. (Hence the word for "nightmare" in German is Alptraum "elf dream", archaic form Alpdruck "elf pressure.") It was believed that nightmares are a result of an elf sitting on the dreamer's chest (incubi). This aspect of German elf-belief largely corresponds to the Scandinavian belief in the mara.
Late Middle Ages to Elizabethan era
Illustrations to Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream By Arthur Rackham.
Elf as fairy
From around the Late Middle Ages, the word elf began to be used as a term loosely synonymous with fairy and other beings.[j] This mingling is found already in Geoffrey Chaucer's satirical Sir Thopas (1387 or later) where the title character sets out in quest of the "elf-queen", who dwells in the "countree of the Faerie".[72][73] Edmund Spenser in his Faerie Queene (1590-) uses "fairy" and "elf" interchangeably,[74] though his conceptions of the elf must be treated with caution, since they are "imaginary or allegorical characters" that populate his Utopian world,[75] and Spenser's origins of the "Elfe" and "Elfin kynd" as being made and quickened by Prometheus is entirely his invention.[76]
Significant for the distancing of the concept of elves from its mythological origins was the influence from literature. In Elizabethan England, William Shakespeare imagined elves as little people. He apparently considered elves and fairies to be the same race. In his A Midsummer Night's Dream, his elves are almost as small as insects.[dubious ][k] The influence of Shakespeare and Michael Drayton made the use of elf and fairy for very small beings the norm, and had a lasting effect seen in fairy tales about elves collected in the modern period. But not all traditional tales were contaminated by Shakespearean era notions of elves as the wee people, notably the #Ballads such as The Queen of Elfan's Nourice.
The elf-lock, or a tangle in the hair purportedly caused by the mischief of the elves, can be traced to the Shakespearean period.[77] In a speech in Romeo and Juliet (1592) the "elf-lock" is not caused by an "elf" as such, but Queen Mab who is referred to as "the fairies' midwife", and who travels over people's face unnoticed and matting up their hair.[77][78]
German counterparts of the "elf-lock" are alpzopf, drutenzopf, wichtelzopf, weichelzopf, mahrenlocke, elfklatte, etc. (where alp, drude, mare, and wight are given as the beings responsible). Grimm who compiled the list, also remarked on the similarity to Frau Holle, who entangled people's hair and herself had matted hair.[79]
References to the elf, elfland, or people of elfin nature can be found in a number of ballads of English and Scottish origin, surviving mostly in early modern redactions, though often rooted in Medieval tradition.
In a late version of the ballad of Thomas the Rhymer[80] taken down around 1800, Thomas's abductor is called the "queen of fair Elfland",[81] and commentators have taken license to refer to her variously as "elfin queen,"[82] "queen of Faëry,"[83][84] or "Queen of Elphame",[85] etc., though these do not occur in the ballad text itself. And her original identity is more obscure, since in the ancient verse dating perhaps to ca. 1400,[86] she is only referred to as "lady gaye" or "quene" in another "cuntre".[87][l]
In Thomas the Rhymer, the Queen of Elfland is portrayed in a positive light. But in additional ballad examples, elves exhibit sinister character, bent on rape and murder, as in the Childe Rowland, or Lady Isabel and the Elf-Knight, in which the Elf-Knight bears away Isabel to murder her. In The Queen of Elfland's Nourice, a woman is abducted to be a wet-nurse to the queen's baby, but promised that she may return home once the child is weaned. In none of these cases is the elf a spritely character with pixie-like qualities.
Scandinavian Ballads
Sir Olaf/Oluf and the elf is a ballad type widely disseminated, with seventy Scandinavian ballads (counting variants) according to Child's tally.[88] The common premise is that Olaf on his wedding day is invited to dance by elves, he refuses and as a consequence he lies dead the next day, and his would-be bride dies of grief. The ballad group was later been assigned motif number TSB No. "A 63: Elveskud — Elf maid causes man's sickness and death,"[89] encompassing a number of Scandinavian variants (Danish: Elverskud[90] tr. "Elfin Shaft"[91] or "Sir Oluf and the Elf-king's daughter"[92][93][94] Norwegian: Olaf Liljekrans; Swedish: Elf-Qvinnan och Herr Olof,[95][m] tr. "Sir Olof in Elve-Dance" and "The Elf-Woman and Sir Olof" (two versions);[96] Icelandic: Kvæði af Ólafi Liljurós;[97] Faroese: Ólavur Riddarrós og álvarmoy.[98] The Danish version, as its title suggests, features the "elf-shot" as a means for the Elf-king's daughter robbing the hero of his life.[99][100]
In contrast, the hero survives his elfin encounter in the ballad type represented by the Danish Elvehøj[101] (tr. "Elfer Hill").[102] Type TSB A65. Swedish:Ungersven och Elfvorna,[103][n] tr. "The Young Swain and the Elves"[104]
Modern period
Scandinavian Folklore
Little älvor, playing with Tomtebobarnen. From Children of the Forest (1910) by Swedish author and illustrator Elsa Beskow.
In Scandinavian folklore, which is a later blend of Norse mythology and elements of Christian mythology, an elf is called elver in Danish, alv in Norwegian, and alv or älva in Swedish (the first is masculine, the second feminine). The Norwegian expressions seldom appear in genuine folklore, and when they do, they are always used synonymous to huldrefolk or vetter, a category of earth-dwelling beings generally held to be more related to Norse dwarves than elves which is comparable to the Icelandic huldufólk (hidden people).
In Denmark and Sweden, the elves appear as beings distinct from the vetter, even though the border between them is diffuse. The insect-winged fairies in British folklore are often called "älvor" in modern Swedish or "alfer" in Danish, although the correct translation is "feer". In a similar vein, the alf found in the fairy tale The Elf of the Rose by Danish author H. C. Andersen is so tiny that he can have a rose blossom for home, and has "wings that reached from his shoulders to his feet". Yet, Andersen also wrote about elvere in The Elfin Hill. The elves in this story are more alike those of traditional Danish folklore, who were beautiful females, living in hills and boulders, capable of dancing a man to death. Like the huldra in Norway and Sweden, they are hollow when seen from the back.
The "Elf cross" which protected against malevolent elves.[105]
The elves of Norse mythology have survived into folklore mainly as females, living in hills and mounds of stones.[106] The Swedish älvor.[107][108] (sing. älva) were stunningly beautiful girls who lived in the forest with an elven king. They were long-lived and light-hearted in nature. The elves are typically pictured as fair-haired, white-clad, and (like most creatures in the Scandinavian folklore) nasty when offended. In the stories, they often play the role of disease-spirits. The most common, though also most harmless case was various irritating skin rashes, which were called älvablåst (elven blow) and could be cured by a forceful counter-blow (a handy pair of bellows was most useful for this purpose). Skålgropar, a particular kind of petroglyph found in Scandinavia, were known in older times as älvkvarnar (elven mills), pointing to their believed usage. One could appease the elves by offering them a treat (preferably butter) placed into an elven mill – perhaps a custom with roots in the Old Norse álfablót.
In order to protect themselves against malevolent elves, Scandinavians could use a so-called Elf cross (Alfkors, Älvkors or Ellakors), which was carved into buildings or other objects.[105] It existed in two shapes, one was a pentagram and it was still frequently used in early 20th century Sweden as painted or carved onto doors, walls and household utensils in order to protect against elves.[105] As the name suggests, the elves were perceived as a potential danger against people and livestock.[105] The second form was an ordinary cross carved onto a round or oblong silver plate.[105] This second kind of elf cross one was worn as a pendant in a necklace and in order to have sufficient magic it had to be forged during three evenings with silver from nine different sources of inherited silver.[105] In some locations it also had to be on the altar of a church during three consecutive Sundays.[105]
Älvalek, "Elf Play" by August Malmström (1866).
The elves could be seen dancing over meadows, particularly at night and on misty mornings. They left a kind of circle where they had danced, which were called älvdanser (elf dances) or älvringar (elf circles), and to urinate in one was thought to cause venereal diseases. Typically, elf circles were fairy rings consisting of a ring of small mushrooms, but there was also another kind of elf circle:
On lake shores, where the forest met the lake, you could find elf circles. They were round places where the grass had been flattened like a floor. Elves had danced there. By Lake Tisaren,[109] I have seen one of those. It could be dangerous and one could become ill if one had trodden over such a place or if one destroyed anything there.[106]
If a human watched the dance of the elves, he would discover that even though only a few hours seemed to have passed, many years had passed in the real world. Human being invited or lured to the elf dance is a common motif carried over from older Scandinavian ballads (as seen in the §Ballads section).
Elves were not exclusively young and beautiful. In the Swedish folktale Little Rosa and Long Leda, an elvish woman (älvakvinna) arrives in the end and saves the heroine, Little Rose, on condition that the king's cattle no longer graze on her hill. She is described as a beautiful old woman and by her aspect people saw that she belonged to the subterraneans.[110]
Huldra and huldufólk
In Norwegian folklore are huldra or huldrafolk, which Keightley said were the regional names for elves.[111] In Iceland, expression of belief in the cognate huldufólk or "hidden folk", the elves that dwell in rock formations, is still common. If the natives do not explicitly express their belief, they are often reluctant to express disbelief.[112] A 2006 and 2007 study on superstition by the University of Iceland’s Faculty of Social Sciences supervised by Terry Gunnell (associate folklore professor), reveal that natives would not rule out the existence of elves and ghosts (similar results of a 1974 survey by Professor Erlendur Haraldsson, Fréttabladid reports). Gunnell stated: "Icelanders seem much more open to phenomena like dreaming the future, forebodings, ghosts and elves than other nations." His results were consistent with a similar study conducted in 1974.[113]
German lore
The notion of the alp (and alias mare, drude) that caused nighmares continued into the early modern age. Meanwhile, Shakespearean and later English notions of elves were introduced into Germany, as discussed above under the #German cognates chapter of etymology. Then legends about the "Erl-king", evidently an import from Scandinavia, but often construed as a form of elf, were German Romanticist writers in the 18th century.
An elven king occasionally appears among the predominantly female elves as in Denmark and Sweden. The legend of Der Erlkönig appears to have originated in fairly recent times in Denmark and Goethe based his poem on "Erlkönigs Tochter" ("Erlkönig's Daughter"), a Danish work translated into German by Johann Gottfried Herder.
The Erlkönig's nature has been the subject of some debate. The name translates literally from the German as "Alder King" rather than its common English translation, "Elf King" (which would be rendered as Elfenkönig in German). It has often been suggested that Erlkönig is a mistranslation from the original Danish ellerkonge or elverkonge, which does mean "elf king".
According to German and Danish folklore, the Erlkönig appears as an omen of death, much like the banshee in Irish mythology. Unlike the banshee, however, the Erlkönig will appear only to the person about to die. His form and expression also tell the person what sort of death they will have: a pained expression means a painful death, a peaceful expression means a peaceful death. This aspect of the legend was immortalised by Goethe in his poem Der Erlkönig, later set to music by Schubert.
Elves and the cobbler
In the first story of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale Die Wichtelmänner, the title protagonists are two naked mannequins, which help a shoemaker in his work. When he rewards their work with little clothes, they are so delighted, that they run away and are never seen again. Even though Wichtelmänner are akin to beings such as kobolds, dwarves and brownies, the tale has been translated into English as The Elves and the Shoemaker, and is echoed in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter stories (see House-elf).
Variations of the German elf in folklore include the moss people[114] and the weisse frauen ("white women"). On the latter Jacob Grimm does not make a direct association to the elves, but other researchers see a possible connection to the shining light elves of Old Norse.[115]
English fairy tales
In the Victorian period stereotype of the elf, appearing in illustrations as tiny men and women with pointed ears and stocking caps. An example is Andrew Lang's fairy tale Princess Nobody (1884), illustrated by Richard Doyle, where fairies are tiny people with butterfly wings, whereas elves are tiny people with red stocking caps.
Christmas elf
In the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Ireland the modern children's folklore of Santa Claus typically includes green-clad elves with pointy ears, long noses, and pointy hats as Santa's helpers or hired workers. They make the toys in a workshop located in the North Pole. In this portrayal, elves slightly resemble nimble and delicate versions of the elves in English folktakes in the Victorian period from which they derived. The role of elves as Santa's helpers has continued to be popular, as evidenced by the success of the popular Christmas movie Elf.
Fantasy fiction
Typical illustration of a female elf in the high fantasy style.
The fantasy genre in the 20th century grows out of 19th century Romanticism. 19th century scholars such as Andrew Lang and the Grimm brothers collected "fairy-stories" from popular folklore and in some cases retold them freely. A pioneering work of the genre was The King of Elfland's Daughter, a 1924 novel by Lord Dunsany. The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien (1937) is seminal, predating the lecture On Fairy-Stories by the same author by a few years. In the 1939 lecture, Tolkien introduced the term "fantasy" in a sense of "higher form of Art, indeed the most nearly pure form, and so (when achieved) the most potent". Elves played a central role in Tolkien's legendarium, notably The Silmarillion. Tolkien's writing has such popularity that in the 1960s and afterwards, elves speaking an elvish language similar to those in Tolkien's novels (like Quenya, and Sindarin) became staple non-human characters in high fantasy works and in fantasy role-playing games.
Post-Tolkien fantasy elves (popularized by the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game) tend to be more beautiful and wiser than humans, with sharper senses and perceptions. They are said to be gifted in magic, mentally sharp and lovers of nature, art, and song. They are often skilled archers. A hallmark of many fantasy elves is their pointed ears.
Explanatory notes
1. ^ with plural forms *elfenna, -elfen;[6] also a possible feminine plural -ælfa, found in dunælfa
2. ^ with feminine suffix -en (earlier form -inn; from Proto-Germanic *-innja)
3. ^ The fact that cognates exist (such as the German elbinne) could suggest a West Germanic *alb(i)innjo, but this is uncertain, as the examples may be simply a transference to the weak declension common in Southern and Western forms of Middle English. The Middle English forms with this weak declension were aluen(e) and eluen(e).
4. ^ Although J. R. R. Tolkien attributed the loan of Elf into German to Wieland's 1764 translation of A Midsummer Night's Dream. The same claim was also given in Kluge's dictionary in the 19th century[21][22]
5. ^ Cf. "A Study of the Old Norse word Regin". Journal of English and Germanic Philology 15: 251–. 1916.
6. ^ Völundr is often regarded as human; he is called the "most skilled of men" in the prose preface to the poem. In German tradition his family is of mermaid lineage: in the Thidrekssaga (aka Vilkina saga), Velundr's father Vadi is given birth by a mermaid (sjákona), and in the German heroic poem Rabenschlacht, his son Witige is rescued by a mermaid kinswoman.
7. ^ Alternatively translated "Some are elves, some are adders, / and some are nickers that (dwell near water?). /There is no man except Hildebrand alone." by Wentersdorf[52]
8. ^ Shippey elsewhere does concede that hypothetically "There may indeed have been a native notion of 'wood-elves' or 'water-elves'..", Shippey, TA (2005). The shadow-walkers: Jacob Grimm's mythology of the monstrous. Brepols. p. 169. ISBN 9782503520940.
9. ^ MHG alp 'elf', rîche "powerful", cf. Goth. reiks 'ruler' can be appropirately interpreted as "ruler of supernatural beings"[61]
10. ^ it evolved to a general denotation of various nature spirits like Puck, hobgoblins, Robin Goodfellow, the English and Scots brownie, the Northumbrian English hob and so forth.
11. ^ Although Spenser applies elf to full-sized beings in The Faerie Queene.
12. ^ Thomas ventures to address her as "qwene of heune" (late ballad:"Queen of Heaven") and she corrects him, saying "I took never so high degree / I am a lady of another country" (late ballad: I am queen of fair Elfland)
13. ^ Modern normalized title:Herr Olof och älvorna (Jonsson, Bengt R. (1981). Svenska medeltidsballader. )
14. ^ Modern normalized title:Älvefärd (Jonsson, Bengt R. (1981). Svenska medeltidsballader. )
1. ^ Lass 1994, p. 205
2. ^ Lindow 2002, p. 110
3. ^ Jolly 1992, p. 172 (in Neusner ed.)
4. ^ Bosworth-Toller, An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary (1898)
5. ^ Hall 2004, p. 21
6. ^ a b Lewis, Robert E. (1952). Middle English Dictionary E.1. University of Michigan Press. p. 63.
7. ^ Marshall Jones Company (1930). Mythology of All Races Series, Volume 2 Eddic, Great Britain: Marshall Jones Company, 1930, pp. 220.
8. ^ (Stallybrass tr.) Grimm 1883, vol. 2, p. 444
9. ^ a b Hall 2004, pp. 56-
10. ^ IE root *albh-, in American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language 2000. bartleby.com
11. ^ Old High German alve meaning "tapeworm" shares proto-Germanic stems *alƀa-z → Old Norse álfr, *alƀi-z → Old English elf. Also cites Mäklelakäinen suggestion that this sense of "tapeworm" is borrowed from how folk belief envisioned the appearance of an "elf or earth-spirit". (Blažek, Václav (2010). The Indo-european "Smith" (snippet). Institute for the Study Of Man. pp. 5–6. )
12. ^ a b Kuhn, Adalbert (1855). "Die sprachvergleichung und die urgeschichte der indogermanischen völker". Zeitschrift für vergleichende Sprachforschung 4. , "Zu diesen ṛbhu, alba.. stellt sich nun aber entschieden das ahd. alp, ags. älf, altn . âlfr"
13. ^ in K. Z., p.110, Schrader, Otto (1890). Prehistoric Antiquities of the Aryan Peoples. Frank Byron Jevons (tr.). Charles Griffin & Company,. p. 163.
14. ^ a b c Thun, Nils (1969). "The malignant Elves:Notes on Anglo‐Saxon Magic and Germanic Myth". Studia Neophilologica 41 (2): 378–396. (p.378) "Elves and cognate words in Old Germanic languages are used for supernatural beings of widely different kinds..the corresponding German Alb (Alp), Alf, Olf, in most cases a nightmare, sometimes a spirit of disease or even a devil. (The plural Elben, Elber is not common.) Our knowledge of these creatures is largely derived from folk tales and similar sources., citing M. Hofler, Deutsches Krankhaitsnamenbuch (1899)
15. ^ Kuhn,[12] Thun[14] and numerous references.
16. ^ Lexer, Matthias von (1872). Mittelhochdeutsches handwörterbuch: bd. A-M. S. Hirzel. p. 28. ; online query (German: gespenstisches wesen)
17. ^ Schrader, Otto (2003). Primitive Rituals Of The Aryan People. Global Vision Publishing House. p. 13. ISBN 8187746505.
18. ^ Kluge, Friedrich (1891). An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language. G. Bell & sons. p. 7.
19. ^ a b as illustrated in the 14th century incantation, the Münchener nachtsegen. Hall 2004, pp. 125, Hall 2007, pp. 125–6
20. ^ a b c d (Stallybrass tr.) Grimm 1883, vol. 2, p. 443
21. ^ p.99, note 3, in: Tolkien, J.R.R. (2002), "On Fairy Stories", A Tolkien Miscellany (SFBC): 97–145, ISBN 0739427369 (orig. pub. Dublin Review 1947)
22. ^ "Die aufnahme des Wortes knüpft an Wielands Übersetzung von Shakespeares Sommernachtstraum 1764 und and Herders Voklslieder 1774 (Werke 25, 42) an;Kluge, Friedrich (1899). Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache (6th improved and expanded ed.). Strassbourg: K. J. Trübner. p. 93.
23. ^ "With us the word alp still survives in the sense of the night-hag, night-mare, in addition to which our writers of the last century introduced the Engl. elf, a form untrue to our dialect; before that.. the correct pl. elbe or elben. Followed by comparison of elf to aesir gods and dwarfs.[20]
24. ^ Larrington, Caroline (1996). The Poetic Edda. Oxford University Press. pp. 5–6. has "Staff-elf", "Wind-elf", "Elf"による
25. ^ Paul, Hermann (1900). Grundriss der germanischen philologie unter mitwirkung. K. J. Trübner. p. 268.
26. ^ Althof, Hermann, ed. (1902). Das Waltharilied. Dieterich. p. 114.
27. ^ Robinson, William Clarke (1885). Introduction to our early English literature. Simpkin. pp. 17–18.
28. ^ Hall 2004, p. 37. Citing Sveinbjörn Egilsson (1931) [1860]. Lexicon poeticum. , entry under "álfr," which reads "hinc in appellationibus virorum poeticis usurpatur sec. Skaldam". The entry gives as an example the kenning álfr lindar, lit. "elf of the linden tree" that siginified a man or warrior (Latin: vir), which is from Sturla Þórðarson's fragment (preserved in the late Laufás-Edda).
29. ^ Motz 1973-74, pp. 98–99
30. ^ Ragnarsdrápa 4 (Hall 2004, p. 37)
31. ^ Davidson 1943, p. 115
32. ^ Motz 1973, p. 95
33. ^ Motz 1973, p. 99
34. ^ Hall 2004, p. 40
35. ^ (Stallybrass tr.) Grimm 1880, vol. 1, p. 25 lists examples citing Saem. (=Rask, Rasmus Kristian; Afzelius, Arvid August, eds. (1818). Edda Saemundar. Stockholm: Typis Elmenianis. ), p. 8b (Völuspá 53); p. 71a (Þrymskviða 7)
36. ^ Grimm,[20] citing Afzelius 1818, Saem. 83b, i.e., the stanzas in Skírnismál where Skírnir is interrogated whether he is one of the Æsir, Vanir, or elves.
37. ^ Larrington 1996, Skirnir's Journey, stanzas 17-18, p.64
38. ^ Hall 2004, p. 43. Not finding the elf is underlying argument for Hall saying Vanir and elves may be assimilated.
39. ^ "other divine types are mentioned such as the Elves (ON alfar)..but no important or even specifically named gods are found.." Dumézil, Georges (1973). Gods of the Ancient Northmen. University of California Press. p. 3. ISBN 0520020448.
40. ^ Hall 2004, pp. 46-
41. ^ Hahn, Werner. Saemunds Edda: Lieder germanischer Göttersage. p. 270. points out that the dwarf Alvis's poem only names 6 worlds, but worlds of 11 beings are named by various poems.
42. ^ a palace, like Valaskjálf mentioned in the adjacent stanza. See Grimnir's sayings 5.3 (Larrington 1996, p. 52), and "Annotated Index of Names".
43. ^ Sturluson, Snorri. The Younger (or Prose) Edda, Rasmus B. Anderson translation (1897). Chapter 7.
44. ^ The Life and Death of Cormac the Skald (Old Norse original: Kormáks saga). Chapter 22.
45. ^ Setr Skuld hér til inn mesta seið at vinna Hrólf konung, bróður sinn, svá at í fylgd er með henni álfar ok nornir ok annat ótöluligt illþýði, svá at mannlig náttúra má eigi slíkt standast.[1]
46. ^ The Saga of Thorstein, Viking's Son[dead link] (Old Norse original: Þorsteins saga Víkingssonar). Chapter 1.
47. ^ (Hall 2004) These attempts are based on onomastics and phraseology, e.g., the compound ælfsciene ("elf-beautiful"), used of seductively beautiful Biblical women in the Old English poems Judith and Genesis A, is cited as an echo of the Norse description of elves as beings as beautiful as the sun.
48. ^ Klaeber, Friedrich (1950). Beowulf and the Finnesburg Fragment (snippet). John R. Clark Hall tr. (3 ed.). Allen & Unwin. p. 5. , "þanon untydras ealle onwocon / eotenas ond ylfe ond orcneas / swylce gigantas þa wið gode wunnon / lange þrage he him ðæs lean forgeald"
49. ^ Hall 2007, pp. 69–70
50. ^ MS. 255 in the Library of Peterhouse, Cambridge. Israel Gollancz read a paper to the Philological Society in 1896, summarized in: Jannaris, A. N. (15 February 1896). "The Tale of Wade". Academy (1241): 137.
51. ^ Gollancz, Israel (1906). "Gringolet, Gawain's horse". Saga Book of the Viking Society for Northern Research (London) 5: 108.
52. ^ Wentersdrop, Karl P. (1966). "Chaucer and the Lost Tale of Wade". Journal of English and Germanic Philology 65: 73.
53. ^ Rickert, Edith (1904). "The Old English Offa Saga". MP 2: 73. , cited in McConnell, Winder (1978). The Wate Figure in Medieval Tradition. P. Lang. p. 80.
54. ^ Hall 2007, p. 104
55. ^ a b Shippey 2004, pp. 2–4
56. ^ Grimm brothers felt "that these are compounds formed to render the Greek.. and not expressive of a belief in analogous classes of spirits". Keightley 1850, p. 57
57. ^ "I have shown that the various compounds combining ælfen with topographical terms are almost certainly ad hoc formations, and that this is probably the case for ælfen itself (§5:3.2)." (Hall 2004, p. 116)
58. ^ Cleopatra Glossaries, Wright, Thomas (1873). A second volume of vocabularies. privately printed.
59. ^ Croker, Thomas Crofton (1828). of the South of Ireland: The elves in Ireland. The elves in Scotland. On the nature of the elves. The Mabinogion and fairy legends of Wales. J. Murray. p. 56. , "The form Alp.. not.. met with in any document previous to the thirteenth century; without doubt, merely because there was no occasion ot make mention of a heathen nothion despised by the learned"; "The middle high German poets sometimes use this expression, though in general very rarely."
60. ^ Weston, Jessie Laidlay (1903). The legends of the Wagner drama: studies in mythology and romance. C. Scribner's sons. p. 144.
61. ^ Gillespie, George T. (1973). A Catalog of persons named in German heroic literartue. Clarendon Press. pp. 3–4.
62. ^ (Stallybrass tr.) Grimm 1883, Vol. 2, p.453
63. ^ Gillespie 1973, p.3, note3, citing Hempel, Heinrich- (1926). Nibelungenstudien: Nibelungenlied, Thidrikssaga und Balladen (snippet). C. Winters universitätsbuchhandlung. pp. 150–.
64. ^ Thidrekksaga. Unger, Carl Rikard (1853). Saga Điðriks konungs af Bern. Feilberg & Landmarks Forlag. p. 172. ; Hayme's tr., ch. 169
65. ^ Keightley 1850, p. 208, citing Grimm says Auberon derives from Alberich by a usual l→u change.
66. ^ Singer, British Academy lecture of 1919, ‘Early English Magic and Medicine’ (1919–20, 357) quoted in Hall 2005a, p. 195
67. ^ Hall, Alaric (2005a). "Calling the shots: the Old English remedy gif hors ofscoten sie and Anglo-Saxon "elf-shot"" (pdf). Neuphilologische Mitteilungen: Bulletin of the Modern Language Society 106 (2): 195–209.
68. ^ Hall, Alaric (2005b). "Getting Shot of Elves: Healing, Witchcraft and Fairies in the Scottish Witchcraft Trials". Folklore 116 (1): 19–36. Retrieved june-2013.
69. ^ Collins, Willam. 1775. An Ode On The Popular Superstitions Of The Highlands Of Scotland, Considered As The Subject Of Poetry.
70. ^ (Stallybrass tr.) Grimm 1883, p. 463
71. ^ In Lexer's Middle High German dictionary under alp, alb is an example: Pf. arzb. 2 14b= Pfeiffer 1863, p. 44 (Pfeiffer, F. (1863). "Arzenîbuch 2= Bartholomäus" (Mitte 13. Jh.)". Zwei deutsche Arzneibücher aus dem 12. und 13. Jh. Wien. ): "Swen der alp triuget, rouchet er sich mit der verbena, ime enwirret als pald niht;" meaning: 'When an alp deceives you, fumigate yourself with verbena and the confusion will soon be gone'. The editor glosses alp here as "malicious, teasing spirit" (German: boshafter neckende geist)
72. ^ Keightley 1850, p. 53
73. ^ Scott 1803, vol.2, p.210
74. ^ "The names given by Spenser to those beings are Fayes (Fées), Farys or Fairies, Elfes and Elfins.. " (Keightley 1850, p. 57)
75. ^ Scott 1803, vol.2, p.223n
76. ^ Keightley 1850, p. 57
77. ^ a b "elf-lock", OED Online (2 ed.) (Oxford University Press), 1989, retrieved 26 November 2009 ; "Rom. & Jul. I, iv, 90 Elf-locks" is the oldest example of the use of the phrase given by the OED.
78. ^ Mercutio's speech in Romeo and Juliet quoted in: Keightley 1850, pp. 331–2
79. ^ (Stallybrass tr.) Grimm 1883, vol. 2, p. 464
80. ^ a b (Child, Francis James (1884), "37. Thomas Rymer", The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (Houghton Mifflin) I: 317– )
81. ^ Child's Ballad # 37A, Brown's recited version in Tytler's MS[80]
82. ^ Scott 1803, vol.2, p.280, while commenting on the ancient MS. Cotton version
83. ^ Scott 1803, vol.2, p.280
84. ^ Laing, David; Small, John, eds. (1885), "Thomas off Ersseldoune", Select remains of the ancient popular poetry of Scotland (W. Blackwood and Sons): n/a , while commenting on the ancient Thornton MS. version
85. ^ "Queen of Elphame, who initiated Thomas the Rimer into her mysteries." Graves, Robert (1955). The crowning privilege: the Clark lectures, 1954-1955. Cassell. p. 196. , and in his Watch the north wind rise (1949), p. 170
86. ^ "shortly after 1400, or about a hundred years after Thomas's death," (Murray 1875, p. xxiii), but "MS. to be.. older, probably not much later period than the middle of the fourteenth century." (Wright, Thomas; Thoms, William J. (1879). "Thomas and the Elf Queen". The Folk-Lore Record 2: 165–173. JSTOR 1252468)
87. ^ Murray 1875, p. xxiii
88. ^ Child, Francis James (1884), "42. Clerk Colvill", The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (Houghton Mifflin) I: 374
89. ^ Syndergaard 1995; TSB (1978) p.42, 'A63: '
90. ^ DgF No. 47; Vol. I, pp. 109-
91. ^ Smith-Dampier, E.M. (1920). Danish Ballads. University press. pp. 116–119.
92. ^ Jamieson, Robert (1806). Popular ballads and songs (snippet). Edinburgh: Archibald Constable & Co. p. 223.
93. ^ Keightley 1850, p. 86n (Keightley notes the Swedish ballad he translated was cognate to Jamieson's Danish ballad)
94. ^ These and other available translations by Borrow, Prior, etc., are listed in: Syndergaard 1995, pp. 89–91.
95. ^ Geijer, Erik Gustav; Afzelius, Arvid August (1816). Svenska folk-visor 3. Häggströ. p. 162.
96. ^ Keightley 1850, pp. 82–86)
97. ^ Danish Royal Library online (link to PDF)
98. ^ CCF #154; Danmarks gamle Folkeviser Vol.4, pp.849-52. Summarized in Child 1884, pp. 374–5
99. ^ Jamieson 1806, p. 224, "Sir Oluf is here ill handled and elf-shot (elleskudt)"
100. ^ Smith-Dampier 1920, pp. 114–115 "To the Elfin Shaft or Elfin Bolt was attributed sudden death or seizure of pain, either in man or beast, among Scandinavians."
101. ^ DgF No. 46; Vol. I, pp. 105-
102. ^ Jamieson 1806, pp. 225-
103. ^ Geijer & Afzelius 1816, 3, pp.170-
104. ^ Keightley 1850, pp. 86–7
105. ^ a b c d e f g The article Alfkors in Nordisk familjebok (1904).
106. ^ a b An account given in 1926, Hellström (1990). En Krönika om Åsbro. p. 36. ISBN 91-7194-726-4.
107. ^ For the Swedish belief in älvor see mainly Schön, Ebbe (1986). "De fagra flickorna på ängen". Älvor, vättar och andra väsen. ISBN 91-29-57688-1.
108. ^ Cf. Keightely's chapter on Scandinavia: Elves (Keightley 1833, pp. 135-Keightley 1850, pp. 78-, Keightley 1870, pp. 78-)
109. ^ "Google Maps". Maps.google.com. 1 January 1970. Retrieved 2012-06-14.
110. ^ "Lilla Rosa och Långa Leda". Svenska folksagor. Stockholm: Almquist & Wiksell Förlag AB. 1984. p. 158.
111. ^ "The Norwegians call the Elves Huldrafolk, and their music Huldraslaat" (Keightley 1850, p. 79)
112. ^ "Novatoadvance.com, Chasing waterfalls ... and elves". Novatoadvance.com. Retrieved 2012-06-14.
113. ^ "Icelandreview.com, Iceland Still Believes in Elves and Ghosts". Icelandreview.com. Retrieved 2012-06-14.
114. ^ Thistelton-Dyer, T.F. The Folk-lore of Plants, 1889. Available online by Project Gutenberg. File retrieved 3-05-07.
115. ^ Grimm, Jacob (1835). Deutsche Mythologie (German Mythology); From English released version Grimm's Teutonic Mythology (1888); Available online by Northvegr 2004-2007, Chapter 32, pages 2,3; Marshall Jones Company (1930). Mythology of All Races Series, Volume 2 Eddic, Great Britain: Marshall Jones Company, 1930, pp. 221-222.
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National Airlines Flight 2511
Occurrence summary
Date January 6, 1960
Summary Bombing
Site Brunswick County, near Bolivia, North Carolina, United States
Passengers 29
Crew 5
Fatalities 34 (all)
Aircraft type Douglas DC-6B
Operator National Airlines
Registration N8225H
National Airlines Flight 2511, registration N8225H, was a Douglas DC-6B aircraft which exploded over Bolivia, North Carolina en route from New York International (Idlewild) Airport, New York City, New York, to Miami, Florida on January 6, 1960. All 34 on board were killed in the accident.
The aircraft had been called into service on short notice when the normal aircraft used for the evening flight to Miami, a Boeing 707 jet identified as Flight 601, was grounded due to a cracked window. Most of the passengers who were to have flown on Flight 601 boarded a Lockheed Electra, registration N5003K; those who could not be accommodated on the Electra were boarded on Flight 2511.
Flight 2511 departed Idlewild over two hours late, at 11:34 PM. The flight was routine until shortly after passing Wilmington, North Carolina. At 2:31 AM Eastern Standard Time, one of the pilots on the flight contacted National Airlines company radio station at Wilmington to pass on a routine progress report. At 2:38 AM, the aircraft suddenly entered a wide descending right turn and crashed 1-1/2 miles north-west of Bolivia.
The airline was informed of the location of Flight 2511 at around 7:00 AM, when Richard Randolph telephoned its dispatch office in Wilmington to advise that there was airplane wreckage in the field near his house. This wreckage was later identified as that of Flight 2511.
During the recovery, it was discovered that the remains of one passenger, Julian A. Frank, a lawyer from New York City, were missing from the accident site. His body was eventually found sixteen miles away at a place called Snow's Marsh west of the Cape Fear River. While autopsies of the crew and remaining passengers showed that all had died due to crash forces, Frank's autopsy showed that he had been fatally injured by a dynamite explosion originating either in his lap or (more likely) immediately under his seat. A number of wires and metal fragments identified as parts of a bomb were found to have embedded themselves in his body, mainly in the arms and legs. Extensive searches of the aircraft fuselage revealed bone and bomb fragments surrounding the seat which had been assigned to Frank on boarding.
Investigators suspected that Frank had taken the bomb aboard the aircraft willingly, and that the bombing was therefore a murder-suicide.The points that led them to believe that Frank was culpable include:
• The bomb exploded at 2:38 AM, hours after the original Flight 601 was scheduled to land at Miami. Had the bomb been placed on Flight 2511 by a party not on the aircraft at the time, it should have been set to detonate at a time when Flight 601 would have been in the air.
• The aircraft had not been in use for some time before it was called into service to replace the Boeing 707 that had been grounded, and it was therefore unlikely that the bomb was on the aircraft before boarding.
• Frank had been under investigation for fraud and embezzlement at the time of his death, and had also taken out large amounts of life insurance shortly before boarding the aircraft.
• The explosion was in immediate proximity to Frank, either in his lap or immediately under his seat.
There was, however, other evidence that made it less than certain that Frank was culpable. These include:
• On November 16, 1959, less than two months before the crash of Flight 2511, National Airlines Flight 967 disappeared over the Gulf of Mexico. Although the aircraft was lost at sea and the Civil Aeronautics Board could not determine a probable cause for the accident, it was believed that the aircraft had been destroyed by a dynamite bomb. Investigators discovered that a small-time crook named William Taylor had boarded the aircraft on a ticket belonging to Richard Spears, a convicted felon who had befriended Taylor in prison and who had taken out over $100,000.00 worth of life insurance on himself. They hypothesized that Taylor had boarded the aircraft with luggage packed by Spears and, unbeknownst to Taylor, containing a bomb.
• Frank's purchase of life insurance before boarding a flight was not at all unusual in 1960. Airports even had vending machines that issued insurance policies good for the duration of the flight.
• Frank was a commercial lawyer and was not thought to have the knowledge necessary to build an explosive device.
No charges were laid in the bombing. The investigation officially remains open.
Had the bomb detonated on Flight 601, the Boeing 707 originally scheduled to fly the route, 105 passengers and an unknown number of crew would have been killed. It would also have been the first crash of a Boeing jet in passenger service. (Two accidents had occurred on training flights in 1959.)
Possibly the most notable victim was Medal of Honor recipient and former Navy Admiral Edward Orrick McDonnell.
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Ethnic groups within the Italian peninsula, 9th to the 4th centuries BC. Subsequently the invasions of the Gauls and the defensive activities of the Roman Republic made large changes in the map.
The Umbri were an Italic tribe of ancient Italy.[1] A region called Umbria still exists and is currently occupied by Italian speakers. It is somewhat smaller than the ancient Umbria.
Most ancient Umbrian cities were settled in the 9th-4th centuries BC on easily defensible hilltops. Umbria was bordered by the Tiber and Nar rivers and included the Appennine slopes on the Adriatic. The ancient Umbrian language is a branch of a group called Oscan-Umbrian, which is related to the Latino-Faliscan languages (Buck, 1904).
Early references[edit]
Pliny the Elder wrote concerning the folk-etymology of the name:
The Umbrian people are thought the oldest in Italy; they are believed to have been called Ombrii (here, "the people of the thunderstorm," after ὅμβρος, "thunderstorm") by the Greeks because they survived the deluge (literally "the inundation of the lands by thunderstorms, imbribus). The Etruscans vanquished 300 Umbrian cities.[2]
During the 6th–4th centuries BC, Umbrian communities constructed rural sanctuaries in which they sacrificed to the gods. Bronze votives shaped as animals or deities were also offered. Umbrian deities include Feronia, Valentia, Minerva Matusia and Clitumnus. The Iguvine Tablets were discovered in 1444 at Gubbio, Italy. Composed during the 2nd or 3rd centuries BC, they describe religious rituals involving animal sacrifice.[3]
Political structure[edit]
Two men held the supreme magistracy of uhtur and were responsible for supervising rituals. Other civic offices included the marone, which had a lower status than uhtur, and a religious position named kvestur. The Umbrian social structure was divided into distinct groups probably based upon military rank. During the reign of Augustus, four Umbrian aristocrats became senators. Emperor Nerva’s family was from Umbria.[4]
According to Guy Jolyon Bradley, " The religious sites of the region have been thought to reveal a society dominated by agricultural and pastoral concerns, to which town life came late in comparison to Etruria."[5]
Roman influence[edit]
Throughout the 9th-4th centuries BC, imported goods from Greece and Etruria were common, as well as the production of local pottery.
The Romans first made contact with Umbria in 310 BC and settled Latin colonies there in 299 BC, 268 BC and 241 BC. They had completed their conquest of Umbria by approximately 260 BC. Incorporation into the Roman state occurred during the 3rd century BC when some Umbri were given full citizenship or citizenship without the right to vote. Also during the 3rd century BC about 40,000 Romans settled in the region. The Via Flaminia linking areas of Umbria was complete by 220 BC. Cities in Umbria also contributed troops to Rome for its many wars. Umbrians fought under Scipio Africanus in 205 BC during the Second Punic War. The Praetorian Guard recruited from Etruria and Umbria. The Umbri played a minor role in the Social War and as a result were granted citizenship in 90 BC. Roman veterans were settled in Umbria during the reign of Augustus.[6]
Archaeological sites[edit]
The towns of Chianciano and Chiusi (Umbrian: Camars) near modern Siena contain traces of Umbrian habitation dating to the 7th or 8th centuries BC. The inhabitants of Camars left their city after a defeat by Pelasgians; they subsequently crossed the Appennines to found a new city, Cameria or Camerta (modern Camerino).
Perugia was an ancient Umbrian center until it was overrun by the Etruscans c. 5th century BC.
Assisi, called Asisium by the Romans, was an ancient Umbrian site on a spur of Mount Subasio. Myth relates that the city was founded by Dardanus in 847 BC.
See also[edit]
1. ^ Pliny, Natural History Vol 3, chap. 19.
2. ^ Pliny the Elder, Book III, chap. 19, paragraphs 112-113. Also at wikisource latina
3. ^ Poultney, 1959
4. ^ Bradley, 2000
5. ^ "Ancient Umbria: State, Culture, and Identity in Central Italy from the Iron Age to the Augustan Era".
6. ^ Bradley, 2000
• Bradley, Guy (2000). Ancient Umbria. State, culture, and identity in central Italy from the Iron Age to the Augustan era. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Buck, Carl Darling (1904). A Grammar of Oscan and Umbrian. Boston: Ginn and Company Publishers.
• Domenico, Roy P. Regions of Italy: A Reference Guide to History and Culture. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2001. pp. 367–371.
• Pliny (1961). Natural History with an English translation in ten volumes by H. Rackham. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
• Poultney, James Wilson (1959). The Bronze Tables of Iguvium. American Philological Association, Number XVIII. | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umbri | dclm-gs1-000730002 | false | false | {
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Jimmy Johnson's brief brilliance
By Jeffri Chadiha
Jimmy Johnson should've been the best NFL head coach ever.
He had all the necessary resources. He had a championship team that had barely reached its prime. He even had one of the most underrated factors in any team's pursuit of brilliance working in his favor -- there wasn't much competition standing in the way of his reaching such an iconic level.
Johnson was voted No. 13 in ESPN's "Greatest Coaches in NFL History" project, but he could've accomplished much more.
Johnson wasn't just a hard-driving, tough-talking leader when he arrived in Dallas in 1989. After leaving the Miami Hurricanes, whom he led to the 1987 national title, he was a man on a mission to prove a college coach could thrive in the NFL.
He eventually became one of six coaches in league history to win consecutive Super Bowls, and his Cowboys teams dominated the postseason. Johnson led Dallas to eight playoff games during his time with the franchise. The Cowboys won seven.
The problem Johnson has is that people too easily forget what greatness looks like when it shines for only a brief period. After taking a miserable team when he arrived and turning it into a juggernaut, Johnson's career in Dallas ended after only five seasons.
It vanished in the midst of acrimony and jealousy, a festering feud between himself and owner Jerry Jones that lingered a few years too long. Johnson wound up leaving the Cowboys just a few months after leading them to a victory in Super Bowl XXVIII in January 1994. It was the dumbest mistake Jones ever made in running that franchise.
Aside from Chuck Noll and Bill Walsh, no NFL coach in history was sitting on as much talent at the right time as Johnson. He had built the Cowboys up by using a keen eye for special skills.
Johnson's visionary prowess helped him see the fool's gold that was Herschel Walker, the underrated potential in undrafted free agents like tight end Jay Novacek, and the value in coveting speed at a time when the league was still built mainly around bulk and brawn. Like all great leaders, Johnson saw where the game needed to go before anybody else had a chance to catch up.
The Cowboys went from 1-15 in his first year to 11-5 in his third. They won the Super Bowl the next two seasons and had a great shot at a three-peat before Johnson left town.
As dominant as the San Francisco 49ers were during their championship season in 1994 -- and they were the Cowboys' only real equal during Johnson's tenure -- Dallas was no slouch. The Cowboys could've easily won that year's NFC Championship Game if he had still been at the helm.
That is the biggest rub of Johnson's exit from Dallas. He was sitting on a team that could've made a run at four or five Super Bowls, especially with a nucleus that included Troy Aikman, Emmitt Smith and Michael Irvin.
Jimmy Johnson
When Jimmy Johnson left the Cowboys in 1994, the team's Super Bowl window was still wide open.
Even with the eventual departure of talented players through free agency, Johnson had a handle on the Cowboys that enabled them to always understand their mission. Barry Switzer, Johnson's eventual replacement, never gave Dallas the sense of urgency Johnson demanded.
It's telling that a number of off-the-field problems occurred after Johnson left Dallas. Most notably, Johnson would've dealt with Irvin's legal run-ins much better than Switzer did. There's no way of knowing whether the Cowboys would've still lurched into the long-running soap opera they eventually became, but this much is certain: They still would've balled out on Sundays.
That ability to maximize potential was Johnson's gift as a coach. Unfortunately, that's also the defining quality of his legacy. He didn't revolutionize the game (like Paul Brown or Sid Gillman), dazzle people with his intellect (as Bill Walsh did) or produce a coaching tree that yielded any quality prospects. Not one of Johnson's assistants in Dallas -- a group that included Norv Turner, Dave Wannstedt, Butch Davis, Dave Shula and Dave Campo -- distinguished himself when given the opportunity to become an NFL head coach.
This should be considered further evidence of how Johnson made everyone around him better when he was in Dallas. The odds were pretty good that he could've done that for much longer than any of us realize.
And please don't suggest that his four years with the Miami Dolphins (1996 to '99) prove that he didn't have the stuff to be the best. The league's rules had changed so much by that point -- fewer draft picks, more long-term pain associated with free-agent mistakes -- that it's harder to measure what Johnson did at that stage of his career.
That would be like saying Vince Lombardi was a lesser coach because he couldn't find success in Washington after Green Bay or that Bill Belichick's time in Cleveland should diminish what he's done in New England. The best coaches are usually associated with the success they had with one team. It's hard enough to win games in the NFL. To sustain dominance over a specific period of time requires a certain level of genius.
That ultimately is what Johnson did at the start of his NFL career. It's easier to forget now because enough time has passed and he's spent more than a decade working in television. But the people in Dallas surely recall what it felt like when he ran their team. They also probably wonder how far Johnson could've taken the Cowboys if his career hadn't ended so prematurely. | http://espn.go.com/espn/print?id=9322390&type=story | dclm-gs1-000820002 | false | false | {
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• Q: I read something about the Marshall Protocol. Can you tell me how this corresponds to chronic fatigue syndrome?
• A: The Marshall Protocol involves two drugs, minocycline (an antibiotic) and olmesartan (a high blood pressure medication); and avoiding vitamin D. Taking these medications can be problematic for patients with certain medical conditions, carrying the risk of side effects and drug interactions. In addition, the Marshall Protocol recommends avoiding vitamin D, which can put patients at risk for conditions such as osteoporosis. Dr. Marshall has a PhD in engineering, so be aware that this protocol has not been developed by a medical doctor. Consult your health care provider for specific information and recommendations about your treatment and about chronic fatigue syndrome. You can also find information at http://www.everydayhealth.com/chronic-fatigue-syndrome/chronic-fatigue-syndrome-basics.aspx. Sarah Lewis, PharmD
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You may have noticed that this blog isn't as regularly updated as it used to be; sorry for that, but I've had some health issues in the last weeks, the kind that prevents me from practicing the very objects of gUitaREN: drawing guitars, playing guitars, building guitars and pedals. I'm confident that I can resume these activities in the next weeks, because I have like usually many projects, some left unachieved in the middle of the process, and some more that arose from my forced idleness...
Anyway, my music of the month is: the sound of a IRM brain scanner, that has something of Ryoji Ikeda's electronic music and reminded me of his performances with Japanese performance group Dumb Type, of which I've been an avid follower back in the 1990s when they where regularly performing in Europe.
1. It's hard times, thanks for asking, but the worst seems to be ruled out and I was treated early enough. Medication is heavy though and precision muscular activities like holding a pencil or a soldering iron, or playing guitar is difficult, but my brain got highly stimulated - I had a lot of good ideas and I know myself better... I expect to be operational in one month!
2. Hope you are better soon and back here with your creations. Take care of yourself... best wishes for the New Year.
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The whole drama surrounding whistle-blower organisation WikiLeaks has made for the juiciest political story in years. So it was only a matter of time before people started turning it into a video game.
Freshly-minted project WikiLeaks Stories is more interesting than just a single game based on Julian Assange and his team of international activists, though; it's a collection of games, a collaborative effort by indie developers to create a range and variety of titles which can do justice to the scale of WikiLeaks', well, leaks.
Already in development is a text adventure with at least one more game in the pipeline as well, with the idea being each title will be based on one of the organisation's leaks. They'll surely be joined by more once word gets round, though, so it'll be fascinating to see what people can come up with in a few weeks/months time.
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GLAAD responds to Ron Howard's gay joke defense
Vince_vaughn If you've been reading this blog in recent weeks, you know that there's been a lot of heated debate over whether it is perfectly appropriate or patently offensive for Vince Vaughn, the star of Ron Howard's upcoming fim "The Dilemma," to joke that an electric car is "gay." Universal Pictures, who bankrolled the picture, pulled the joke from its trailer after getting criticized in many quarters, starting with CNN's Anderson Cooper. But Howard made news again a week ago by writing to me to say that the joke will stay in the film.
Howard defended the joke, reminding people that just because a character in a film says or does something inappropriate doesn't necessarily mean that the filmmaker agrees with it. I've been in Howard's corner on this issue, believing that if we start making value judgments approving one joke over another, we're on a slippery slope to the arid wasteland of political correctness, especially since there have been gay jokes in "The Office" that didn't arouse any of the indignation directed at "The Dilemma."
But there's another side to the story. I've been speaking to the people at GLAAD, which works to prevent defamation of gays and lesbians in the media. GLAAD has been outspoken in its opposition to the joke, believing that it plays on exactly the kind of stereotyping that gives license to bullies. GLAAD President Jarrett Barrios took me up on an invitation to make his case for why the joke should be removed from the film, along with why some gay jokes, like the ones in "The Office," should be viewed through a different lens than the humor in "The Dilemma."
I think Barrios has a compelling point of view that is worth hearing. Here's what he has to say:
When is a word more than just a word? I’m sure it seemed innocuous enough to the writers of "The Dilemma" when they had the film’s main protagonist (played by Vince Vaughn) say “electric cars are gay” then qualify that he doesn’t mean “homosexual, gay, but, you know, my parents are chaperoning the dance, gay.” To people who don’t hear their identity used as a synonym for “undesirable” or “worthy of ridicule” on a daily basis, I’m sure it seems as though groups like GLAAD, concerned moviegoers, and public figures like Anderson Cooper are making a mountain out of a molehill. It’s just a joke, right? And Vaughn’s character even said he didn’t mean US.
But he did. After all, why has the word “gay” come to mean “something to be made fun of”? It’s because people who are gay or are perceived to be gay … have been historically ridiculed. Sure, it may seem like just a word, and for most people, that’s what it is. But for people who have spent their entire lives hearing their identities used as an insult, it takes on an entirely different meaning.
GLAAD is not a censor. We’re here to educate. It’s not “censorship” when someone tells you that your behavior is causing harm and you decide to stop doing it. From grade school straight through to the workplace, gay people are constantly bombarded with this kind of speech. These words are usually not meant to hurt, but they establish a climate in which we are seen as inferior. Is it an accident that gay people experience lower self-esteem, higher levels of depression and a lamentably large number of us make the sad choice never to come out of the closet and live their lives openly?
So when is a gay-related joke OK? Ron Howard claimed in his statement last week that “our film is taking additional heat as an emblem for many movies and TV shows that preceded it that have even more provocative characterizations and language.” In this very column last month, "The Dilemma" was compared to some gay-related humor on NBC’s "The Office." Here’s the difference.
"The Office" used a gay context to find humor in the ignorance of what was being said, rather than making a joke at the expense of all gay people. In the episode, boss Michael Scott and underling Dwight are interrogating openly gay coworker Oscar while trying to track down the source of Michael’s cold sore, which he briefly (and obviously incorrectly) thinks he may have gotten from Oscar. Dwight begins by saying “I’m going to need a list of every man you’ve ever had sex with; I’m talking train stations, men’s rooms...” Michael continues the list, saying “Flower shops, fireworks celebrations...” and so on.
Anyone who has seen this show would understand that the joke is on Michael and Dwight, particularly as their list of locations grows more preposterous. The humor comes from the fact that Michael and Dwight’s notions about gay people quickly reveal their own ignorance, bizarre imaginations and distinct social awkwardness. In no way is the audience meant to identify with Michael and Dwight. The audience is meant to find their behavior absurd. Viewers identify and sympathize with Oscar in this scene, as he finds himself on the receiving end of Dwight and Michael’s idiocy, as he and every other employee in this fictional setting do on a weekly basis.
Ignorance should be a punch line. Identity should not. Humor can be a tricky thing to analyze and can be easily (and lazily) defended against criticism by saying “it’s just a joke.” Vaughn himself, when defending this line in his film, said “Comedy and joking about our differences breaks tension and brings us together.” And while Vaughn is wrong about the joke in his movie accomplishing this end, "The Office" is a perfect example of humor getting it right.
"The Dilemma" is hardly the first movie to use the word “gay” in this way, but it has come along at a watershed moment in our culture. Hearing one’s very identity regularly used as a synonym for “inadequate” or “undesirable” on a daily basis does more than just hurt feelings. Recent events have made it abundantly and tragically clear the effect that anti-gay language and attitudes can have on young people who are gay or are perceived to be gay AND on the bullies who target them.
Would it change hearts and minds if Howard had made the decision to pull this line from the film? Would bullies suddenly realize the harm their behavior was causing and stop tormenting their victims? Would spontaneous hugging break out in the hallways of America’s schools? Of course not. But it would create a tiny space in our culture -– a window in which people could draw their own conclusions about what it means to be gay, without being told it’s something negative.
Both Goldstein and Howard asked if “comedy will be neutered” if Vince Vaughn’s character didn’t use the word “gay” to mean something to be made fun of. The answer is no. Acceptance of ridiculing gay people under the guise of “humor” would be neutered. And honestly, comedy might be better off if writers found more creative ways to make us laugh. Maybe a pie in the face?
Photo: Vince Vaughn at a Chicago Bears game at Soldier Field in Chicago.
Credit: Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images
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VERY FUNNY! Like your comments.
I've been out of the closet for nearly 30 years, and as one who is not in touch with the slang of the younger generation I never even heard of the term "that's so gay" until just a few months ago. I was stunned the first time I heard it. How unthinking and callous! And how odd to come out of a generation that is so much more accepting than mine.
My response to the movie is that it is very appropriate for the film makers to remove the statement from the trailer, most especially in light of the sensitivity to the plight of gay youth that has come about after it was created. It's probably not the moment of the movie that they would chose to highlight today unless they deliberately want to poke a raw wound.
As for removing it from the movie altogether, I think that should not be necessary. It reflects the modern vocabulary and mentality. We definitely needs all this dialogue about this slang usage, but this movie in itself is simply a symptom of the problem, not part of the cure.
Patrick Goldstein comes very close to admitting he was wrong here! Mr. Howard, your turn.
This is true. Ron Howard is right. Just becasue a film maker puts something in a film doesnt mean he himself feels that way. If that were the case, then Quintino Terintino films would never be made, which would be good, since I cant stand him. But i agree that it doesnt reflect the film maker. Watch the mvie "Freebie and the Bean." The most racist film ever made. And the funniest.
Yay - more limits on my freedom of speech because someone might get all butt-hurt!
I've seen a pre-release screening of The Dilemma here in London and thought the context and deliberate nature of the 'gay joke' were gratuitous. Perhaps the producers thought including such a line would bring publicity for the film; if so, that was a foolish notion. The main problem with the 'joke' in question is that if Ron Howard does the decent thing and takes it out of the film, there are precious few other jokes left in the script that are anywhere near memorable. This is far from a masterwork we're talking about here.
Language shows the character of the person speaking, rather that be in real life, film or television. You may not like that Vaughn's character says "gay" in the context he does, but now you know the depth of his shallowness. As with the writer's that set the situation up, and the director that used it in the way he did, and the producers that oversaw the process. Not every joke is a hit and not every dramatic role cuts to the core of humanity. Vaughn plays a flawed man, and now you know one of them. It might be an inadvertent attempt at dimensionality, but there it is. Not all the bad guys in film come with black hats and Villain labels on their chests. Or in real life, either.
The gay bashing comments posted by some people proves the point GLADD is making. The hate must stop! My friends who are gay are not "gross" but bigots and haters are. That means YOU, bigot that is reading this post. Howard is a hypocrite, if the phrase had been, " you are trying to Jew me", or some other put down against other groups I am sure he would have had a problem with the comment.
Just to be clear... I can still make fun of political conservatives by calling them "racist" and equating their calls for fiscal conservatism with a sexual fetish ("teabagging"), right?
I just want to know to whom this new rule of GLAAD's applies. As long as someone is not on the list of progressive-approved victim groups, they're fair game?
Making a big deal about something so trivial is gay. And that's coming from a lesbian.
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Many unresolved issues in the ecology and evolution of marine populations center on how far planktonic larvae disperse away from their parents. Genetic tools provide a promising way to define the spatial spread of larvae, yet their accurate interpretation depends on the extent to which genetic loci are under selection. Genetic clines, geographic zones in which genetically differentiated populations interbreed, provide opportunities to explicitly and simultaneously quantify the relative roles of selection and dispersal. Here, we review the theory and analysis of genetic clines and apply these techniques to published studies of multilocus clines in the sea. The geographic width of a stable genetic cline is determined by a balance between the homogenizing effects of dispersal and the diversifying effects of selection. For marine researchers, the power of genetic clines is that, if selection and clinal width are quantified, then the average geographic distances that larvae move can be inferred. Measuring selection or dispersal through laboratory or field-based experimentation is possible, though logistically difficult, for pelagically dispersed organisms. Instead, dispersal may be more robustly quantified from the degree of linkage disequilibrium between two or more loci, because linkage disequilibrium integrates selection across multiple life stages and generations. It is also relatively insensitive to whether exogenous or endogenous selection operates. Even without quantifying linkage disequilibrium, the theory of genetic clines indicates that the average dispersal distance of larvae is a fraction (i.e., generally <35%) of the clinal width. Because cline theory is based on several underlying assumptions, including near-equilibrium between selection and migration, the dispersal distances inferred from empirical data should be of the correct order but may not be precise. Even so, such estimates of larval dispersal are valuable, as they can be utilized to design appropriate scales for future investigations and provide some guidance to conservation efforts.
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Might Guy using a ninja tool to aid with his taijutsu.
Bukijutsu (武器術; Literally meaning "Weapon Techniques") are techniques that entail the use of any handheld weapons in combat, whether the users be shinobi or samurai. Students of the Academy are taught the use of ninja weapons and tools like shuriken and kunai, learning how to throw and wield them through target practice.[1][2][3]
Bukijutsu can be used in combination with taijutsu, ninjutsu, genjutsu, chakra flow, and even other weapons in order to achieve more devastating effects, such as the flail used in conjunction with the Infinite Armour,[4] Kakashi Hatake's use of lightning-infused kunai,[5] Asuma Sarutobi's use of wind-infused chakra knives for close-range fighting, and Danzō Shimura's wind-infused weapons. Kosuke Maruboshi's Leaf-Style Willow technique combines kenjutsu with Genjutsu. Orochimaru was also able to effectively combine the sight-impairing effects of the Bringer-of-Darkness Technique with shuriken to increase the likelihood of hitting his intended target. In addition to this, fūinjutsu are often used in conjunction with bukijutsu, as it provides a quick and easy means of transporting and using weapons. Because of this versatility, bukijutsu is employed in a vast array of ninja techniques.
Bukijutsu, in some form, is used by almost all shinobi. Tenten is a notable user of bukijutsu, as are the Gold and Silver Brothers, Kinkaku and Ginkaku, who were well known for their usage of the Treasured Tools of the Sage of the Six Paths. In the anime, Seimei, the Takumi Village founder, was also considered a very powerful bukijutsu user.
Types of Bukijutsu
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The Adamantine Staff.
Bōjutsu (棒術; Literally meaning "Staff Techniques") are techniques that involve the use of staffs for close-range fighting. The most notable user of such techniques was none other than the Third Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi. By using his technique to transform the Monkey King, Enma into a large staff, Hiruzen could use this art, which he was particularly skilled in, shown in his match against Orochimaru. With his staff techniques, he was even able to break the Wood Release of the First Hokage, Hashirama Senju.
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Hanzō's kayakujutsu technique.
Kayakujutsu (火薬術; Literally meaning "Gunpowder Techniques") are techniques that involve the use of explosives. A common variation of kayakujutsu is the usage of explosive tags. Often shinobi will attach these detonating tags to their weapons (usually a kunai) in order to make them deadlier. Hanzō, in particular, combines explosive tags into his Fire Release, creating a deadly technique which, even when avoided, can cause permanent damage, as it did to Nagato's legs.
Samurai wielding swords.
Main article: Kenjutsu Kenjutsu (剣術; Literally meaning "Sword Technique") pertains to techniques that entail the use of swords, whether the users be shinobi, or samurai. Kenjutsu can be used in combination with taijutsu, ninjutsu, chakra flow and even genjutsu in order to achieve more devastating techniques.
Itachi Shurikenjutsu
Itachi using shurikenjutsu.
Main article: Shurikenjutsu Shurikenjutsu (手裏剣術; Literally meaning "sword hidden in the hand techniques") pertains to techniques that entail the throwing of shuriken, kunai, senbon or any other of a number of bladed, hand-held weapons. Shurikenjutsu can be used in combination with taijutsu, ninjutsu, and/or chakra flow in order to create more devastating techniques.
Hanzo wielding Kusarigama
Hanzō using his kusarigama.
Kusarigamajutsu (鎖鎌術; Literally meaning "Kusarigama Technique") is a rarely used form of bukijutsu which uses the kusarigama. A notable user of this art is Hanzō, who took on the sword master, Mifune, with this technique. Hanzō was noted to use an unorthodox method, swinging the sickle with the chain rather than the weighted end, as is the most common and effective manner of using kusarigamajutsu. Hanzō also poisoned the sickle of his kusarigama, making it much more lethal to the point where even a single blow could decide a fight. Tenten has also displayed competence with this unique form of weapons technique and Jiga was also proficient with a kusarigama combining this skill with his Magnet Ninja Art.
Kidōmaru using kyūjutsu.
Kyūjutsu (弓術; Literally meaning "Bow Technique"), another technique rarely seen in the ninja world, is one where the user will utilise a bow and arrow to attack targets from long-range. The most notable user of this art is Sasuke Uchiha, who was taught archery from a young age.[6] In the present day, however, he mainly uses archery through his Susanoo technique. Archery seems to require a great deal of precision and aim. Kidōmaru, while using his Cursed Seal Level 2, uses his Spider War Bow: Terrible Split, a type of kyūjutsu. He was skilled enough with it to leave Neji Hyūga, a master of the Byakugan, near-death.
Other Uses
Madara using his gunbai for his Uchiha Return technique.
Outside of the traditional techniques of bukijutsu, shinobi have come up with other methods to employ ninja tools. Might Guy, for example is extraordinarily skilful with his Sōshūga, being able to effectively employ it against Obito Uchiha during the Fourth Shinobi World War. His use of this weapon is particularly unique in that he could use them to fight Kisame who was using Samehada, a sword.[7] Other shinobi, such as Kinkaku, Ginkaku, and the Seven Ninja Swordsman of the Mist, base their fighting style around the utilisation of their weapon's special abilities. For example, Zabuza Momochi's Kubikiribōchō can regenerate by using the blood of those it has slain. Therefore, Zabuza makes every effort to cut his foes and draw blood.
Tobi using shuriken
Obito using shurikenjutsu and Kamui in conjunction.
Madara Uchiha also utilised unique forms of bukijutsu, employing a kama during his fight with Hashirama Senju, and both he and Obito Uchiha can utilise gunbai in close-range combat. Madara himself incorporates his gunbai with his ninjutsu techniques while Obito, on the other hand, uses it in an unorthodox fashion as a flail and a defence mechanism, using it to block Naruto Uzumaki's Rasengan and Guy's Sōshūga. Obito will also use shurikenjutsu combined with his Kamui technique, allowing him to eject several large shuriken, without warning, to defeat his foes. He has also been shown using shuriken as melee weapons, which is unique to him.[8]
Seimei using his weapons.
Bukijutsu is also employed in certain kekkei genkai. Toroi, of Kumogakure, would use his Magnet Release kekkei genkai to magnetise his large, specialised shuriken, causing the struck target to become magnetised. One hit to the body will cause a magnetic field within the said body, making it an easy target for any further magnetised weapons to be drawn to it. However, each time the magnetism is transferred, it weakens. Additionally, the Mangekyō Sharingan technique of the Uchiha Clan, Susanoo, will manifest unique spirit weapons when mature enough. Bukijutsu is also employed in Minato Namikaze's Space–Time Ninjutsu, making use of specialised kunai to allow him to move around using the technique, or to change the course of an opponent's technique.
In the anime, Seimei, the founder of the Takumi Village, created four unique weapons which, when used together, were considered by the village to be the "Ultimate Weapon". These were the Garian Sword, the Infinite Armour, the Weaknessless Soaring Shortswords, and an unnamed longsword. When used together, Seimei was able to fight on par with Gaara, who was the jinchūriki of Shukaku at the time.
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Sasori utilizing puppets.
Manipulated Tools
Main article: Manipulated Tools
Tenten with two weapon scrolls.
Tenten's fighting style is completely reliant on her own unique applications of bukijutsu. Because of her skill with fūinjutsu, she seals her weapons into an assortment of scrolls, allowing her to perform various techniques unique to herself. For example, she can toss her larger scrolls into the air, causing the tools sealed within to rain down on her target. In the anime, her Twin Rising Dragons technique allows her to assault her foe with an endless barrage of ninja tools. She can also use this style of fighting as a defence mechanism should the situation call for it.
• The Kōga-ryū, a historical school of ninjutsu located in the region of Kōka, taught Kakushi bukijutsu (隠し武器術; Literally meaning "Hidden Weapons Techniques"), with several sub-groups, such as kenjutsu (sword techniques), bōjutsu (long staff techniques), and kyūjutsu (archery).
• Though he is not a noted bukijutsu user, in the OVA of the fight between Madara Uchiha and Hashirama Senju, on the game Naruto Shippūden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Generations, Hashirama can be seen summoning a vast amount of swords and other ninja tools from one of his giant scrolls.
See Also
1. Naruto chapter 221, page 7
2. Naruto chapter 223, page 17
3. Naruto episode 216
4. Naruto episode 218
5. Naruto chapter 595, page 17
6. Naruto chapter 580, page 10
7. Naruto chapter 258, pages 4, 8
8. Naruto chapter 608, page 14
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coulson 21st-Jul-2012 01:58 pm (UTC)
hotcement 21st-Jul-2012 02:00 pm (UTC)
chuk_is_dazzled 21st-Jul-2012 02:17 pm (UTC)
mondler_4ever 21st-Jul-2012 02:31 pm (UTC)
This. Sort of embarrassed for them. Just looking for a story where there is none.
mammary_glands 21st-Jul-2012 02:56 pm (UTC)
lol definitely
lana_poo 21st-Jul-2012 03:12 pm (UTC)
Yup. Mte!
andres01234 21st-Jul-2012 03:56 pm (UTC)
up_and_away1252 22nd-Jul-2012 05:29 am (UTC)
_losthope 22nd-Jul-2012 12:23 pm (UTC)
scientist 21st-Jul-2012 02:01 pm (UTC)
i like how people who stan for him pretend like this never happened.
coulson 21st-Jul-2012 02:03 pm (UTC)
that was pretty fucked up tho, from what i remember. didn't it turn out to be false anyway?
spankmypirate 21st-Jul-2012 02:08 pm (UTC)
eh, usually I would be the first to side eye in such cases, but wasn't it proven that his mother and sister were both hungry for money (and have been so for a while) and were just trying to stir up shit? I think his tantrum on set proved that he's probably very hot tempered and arrogant (and more than a little cray cray) but idk whether to believe that he's actually abusive.
dasvedanyaanya 21st-Jul-2012 08:21 pm (UTC)
Yea they were very money hungry and most actors are very hot headed. Especially when they're working. If he's method it's probably worse, method actors are something else.
bloody_morgan 22nd-Jul-2012 03:22 pm (UTC)
prophecypro 21st-Jul-2012 02:10 pm (UTC)
Verbal Assault, yeah.
roguewave3 21st-Jul-2012 02:19 pm (UTC)
I'm not a Christian Bale fan but I'm not going to hate someone for yelling at relatives they aren't getting along with. He didn't physically hurt them.
windsong_moon 21st-Jul-2012 02:37 pm (UTC)
Iirc, his mother had tried going after his wife and he lost his cool and he yelled. I'm not a stan for him, but if that's true, then it doesn't seem as bad.
evilgmbethy 21st-Jul-2012 03:06 pm (UTC)
seriously. I guess he's cute enough that they just ignore it.
cricketgrl 21st-Jul-2012 03:08 pm (UTC)
I like how they excuse it by saying "verbal assault", which we don't know if that was a PR move from his Publicist. Either way, it's never good because he's obviously capable of physical assault considering that tape of him during the rehearsals on Terminator Salvation.
I don't understand the stanning for his Psychopath either.
pixiedivision 21st-Jul-2012 03:14 pm (UTC)
From the reports i remember reading I think they didn't say it was physical? Idk I might me wrong but I read it was more umm verbal, as you can imagine with Bale lol, ie. terminator salvation.
Look I think he has/had anger issues and for the most part I think he can closed off, but I don't think he's a shitty human being who intends to abuse.
clairelittleton 21st-Jul-2012 04:18 pm (UTC)
because it didn't. he never assaulted them, like a lot of families they got into a verbal fight and he left. they just stirred up shit to get money out of him.
hannahgrace456 21st-Jul-2012 06:00 pm (UTC)
SMH at the people in this thread excusing his behavior. Most people, especially celebrities with a lot of clout and money, don't get arrested for having a verbal argument in public. He either went above and beyond and lashed out in a really aggressive verbal manner, or the argument was more physical than what was reported.
Once again, standards only apply when you want them to! RME.
drunkagron 21st-Jul-2012 06:39 pm (UTC)
No excuse for anger management issues. Idc how "hot" he is.
in_styles 21st-Jul-2012 07:14 pm (UTC)
He's white tho, sis.
spankmypirate 21st-Jul-2012 02:01 pm (UTC)
lol I was wondering when this article would show up. people need to get a grip.
hotcement 21st-Jul-2012 02:04 pm (UTC)
the whole second paragraph is so ridiculous lol. morgan freeman's marriage ended because of batman! christian bale was arrested because of batman!
spankmypirate 21st-Jul-2012 02:10 pm (UTC)
lol, there's no denying that a lot of bad shit happened around the franchise, but it's purely coincidental and I hate these silly superstitions.
With enough prep time, Batman always gets it done.
bittermunchkin 21st-Jul-2012 02:02 pm (UTC)
Does this mention anything tragic happening during the first one?
prophecypro 21st-Jul-2012 02:12 pm (UTC)
The start of the Tom Cruise-Katie Holmes circus during the movie's promo and WotW's promo? If you wanna call it that.
Seriously, I remember people on superherohype going "I've waited nearly a decade for this! If Tom Cruise invades the premiere on his bike....!" lol
bittermunchkin 21st-Jul-2012 02:16 pm (UTC)
lol good point.
poison20 21st-Jul-2012 02:29 pm (UTC)
I can't believe she had to pull out of the dark night because of that little shit
foreignhorsie 21st-Jul-2012 02:03 pm (UTC)
While I do think these are awful events. I don't believe in curses - except for the cruciatus curse.
bittermunchkin 21st-Jul-2012 02:05 pm (UTC)
Ever since the Curse of the Bambino didn't hold I've had zero curse faith
brynn__ 21st-Jul-2012 02:08 pm (UTC)
idk the omen curse kind of freaks me out in particular
britneyschalupa 21st-Jul-2012 02:10 pm (UTC)
I usually don't believe in curses except like The Kennedy curse.
lovelylaura23 21st-Jul-2012 02:13 pm (UTC)
LOL the Kennedy's. I don't know who Joe Kennedy pissed off, but I bet they regret it.
pamelalillian 21st-Jul-2012 04:39 pm (UTC)
ikr. i do not want to be associated with anyone with a drop of their blood, sorry to say. too much evidence to support that curse.
myroomiswhite88 21st-Jul-2012 05:36 pm (UTC)
muzicnem 21st-Jul-2012 11:59 pm (UTC)
Srsly, they better keep reproducing en masse b/c those bitches have been dropping like flies for decades.
nemo_de_la_meer 21st-Jul-2012 02:38 pm (UTC)
I think Poltergiest films had something going on with it, as to what, it's left to open discussion.
ljubavirakija 21st-Jul-2012 02:07 pm (UTC)
These are seriously reaching
putyohandsonme 21st-Jul-2012 02:08 pm (UTC)
Shit happens, either it is an accident, an act of evil, or a natural turn of things shit just happens and it sucks.
hotcement 21st-Jul-2012 02:08 pm (UTC)
so i'm watching the news right now and there's video of the FBI trying to get into the apartment and they're saying the shooter refuses to talk and that the fbi sent in robots with cameras and found 12 devices with jars full of black powder and liquid that might be fire accelerant.
ljubavirakija 21st-Jul-2012 02:33 pm (UTC)
I feel so scared for all of the officers involved. I hope they're able to disarm the traps safely
therearewords 21st-Jul-2012 02:33 pm (UTC)
Yeah, I read about the apartment being booby-trapped.
fuckyess 22nd-Jul-2012 03:25 am (UTC)
robots with cameras wtf is this, a scifi movie
nene718 21st-Jul-2012 02:08 pm (UTC)
prophecypro 21st-Jul-2012 02:09 pm (UTC)
I knew someone was gonna make this lol
Its not really cursed, cause its not like bad things have happeend to EVERYONE involved.
But the franchise does have a weird sense of collateral incidents that have stirred it up more.
From the TomKat distraction of the first one, to Ledger's overdose to the shooting, there's been some weird sideshow stuff. But the franchise hasnt really been derailed by it either.
kaiserschmarrn 21st-Jul-2012 02:09 pm (UTC)
Oh please. People believe in curses for the same reason they believe in fate, namely in everything that's supposedly predestinated: They want to believe there's a reason for something happening and that it was unavoidable. This is silly and I find stuff like this actually dangerous because if people buy into it then it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
bloody_morgan 22nd-Jul-2012 03:27 pm (UTC)
brynn__ 21st-Jul-2012 02:09 pm (UTC)
reaching. iirc nothing bad even happened during the first movie. lets not go here rn.
lovelylaura23 21st-Jul-2012 02:09 pm (UTC)
What's your fave curse or conspiracy theory, ONTD?
brynn__ 21st-Jul-2012 02:11 pm (UTC)
the omen. ik people say poltergeist was cursed but idt it had nearly as many incidences happen. i remember reading about some of the shit that happened w/ the omen and it was nuts.
lovelylaura23 21st-Jul-2012 02:12 pm (UTC)
wasn't the exorcist supposedly cursed too?
chuk_is_dazzled 21st-Jul-2012 02:21 pm (UTC)
wow i just read about that curse and damn, that shit cray
fuckyess 22nd-Jul-2012 03:26 am (UTC)
yeah but poltergeist used real human corpses in the film
jasonbeast 21st-Jul-2012 03:01 pm (UTC)
Macbe ... umm, the Scottish play.
hazel_belle 21st-Jul-2012 04:42 pm (UTC)
The Kennedy's and their curse. Because that is waaaay too much bad stuff to keep happening to one family without pissing someone off.
shanny_w 21st-Jul-2012 09:08 pm (UTC)
That my cats shit-box is cursed because her turds always find a way out.
tankmachine 21st-Jul-2012 02:10 pm (UTC)
I was just thinking how similar this whole situation was to the first scene of Scream 2 :\
Edited at 2012-07-21 02:12 pm (UTC)
jrh19782002 speaking of scream 221st-Jul-2012 02:16 pm (UTC)
when the movie was playing this person dressed up as the killer came in thru the exit door with a knife and went up the isle trying to be all scary. what if it would have been a real crazy and they attacked people.
chiihiro Re: speaking of scream 221st-Jul-2012 02:24 pm (UTC)
Emergency exit doors in movie theaters are usually locked from the outside. The shooter in yesterday's tragedy left through the theater and propped the door open so he could get back in.
vehiclesshockme 21st-Jul-2012 03:32 pm (UTC)
Even more so than the opening scene. "Billy was a sick fuck who wanted to get away with it, Mickey is a sick fuck who wants to get caught."
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miley and liam go out to dinner!
Miley Cyrus, Liam Hemsworth, and friends go to dinner in LA, 11/15/12.
liam looking AHMAZING! and seriously is cheyne her assistant or something or does he just follow her around all the time, he was with her at the building yesterday too
beatlesluv 17th-Nov-2012 12:41 am (UTC)
He looks incredible (as usual) but I actually like miley's outfit. I'd wear those skinnies, the top, only I'd wear a leather jacket and a scarf instead of lettermanesque jacket
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