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Conan took aim at Vice-President Joe Biden, CNN and even the Hilton Hotel (where the event took place). You can see his entire speech above and our favorite jokes below.
• "As you know, the president is hard at working creating jobs. Since he was first elected the number of popes has doubled and the number of 'Tonight Show' hosts has tripled."
• "I'd like to congratulate President George W. Bush on this week's dedication of his presidential library … The library has millions of books, articles and documents, and if you go you can be the first to read them."
• "I have a question, and I think some of you also have this question. It's been several months since you were reelected, sir, so I'm curious, why are you still sending everyone five emails a day asking for more money? You won. Do you have a gambling problem we don't know about?"
After taking the podium to DJ Khaled's 'All I Do Is Win,' Obama brought the chuckles with his own jokes, which included a slide show of his possible new hair-dos in the style of wife Michelle Obama and a Steven Spielberg spoof of 'Lincoln' entitled 'Obama' (featuring Obama playing Daniel Day-Lewis playing Obama).
You can find his top jokes and his entire speech below, which includes a kitten with laser beam eyes (no joke) and ends with a reminder of humanity in times of crisis.
• "These days I look in the mirror and I have to admit, I'm not the strapping young Muslim-socialist that I used to be."
• "Some things are beyond my control. For example this whole controversy about Jay-Z going to Cuba. It's unbelievable. I've got 99 problems and now Jay-Z is one of them."
• "The problem is that the media landscape is changing so rapidly you can't keep up with it. I mean I remember when 'buzzfeed' was just something I did in college around 2 a.m."
• "Did you know that Sheldon Adelson spent $100 million of his own money on negative ads? You've got to really dislike me to spend that kind of money. I mean that's Oprah money. You could buy an island and call it 'Nobama' for that kind of money."
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What is an IVA and why are they so popular?
This is a guest post by Sara Williams, who blogs at her website Debt Camel about everything to do with debt and credit ratings.
If you have ever seen an advert or been cold-called offering to wipe off 80% of your debts, you may have wondered if was a scam. It’s not – there is a real product called an Individual Voluntary Agreement (IVA) that can help some people with big debt problems.
IVAs have just hit record numbers. More than 27,000 were started in the first three months of 2018, the largest total since IVAs were invented in 1985.
What is an IVA?
An IVA is a formal legal contract between you and your creditors, all the people you owe money to. It has to be set up by an Insolvency Practitioner, who usually works for a firm that specialises in running IVAs.
IVAs can be very “individual” but most of them follow this pattern:
• The IVA firms works out how much you can afford to pay each month at the moment. That may be a lot less than you are paying to your debts now if you are struggling.
• Your creditors are asked to accept this amount for 5, sometimes 6, years and at the end of that the rest of your debts are written off.
• The monthly payment isn’t fixed – it will go up if you can later afford more. Each year your IVA firm will look at your bank statements and payslips to check this.
• Sometimes the monthly payment can reduce but often you have to take a payment break if you have problems, so the IVA goes on for longer.
• If you inherit money or get a PPI refund that all goes to your creditors. The idea is that for 5 or 6 years you pay as much as you can.
• You can’t borrow any money when you are in an IVA. This includes re-mortgaging.
• It is a sort of insolvency and it wrecks your credit record for 6 years in exactly the same way that bankruptcy does. This makes it hard to rent anywhere as you are likely to fail the credit check.
• In the last year of your IVA if you have a house you are asked to re-mortgage so you can pay some more money to your creditors.
Who do IVAs work well for?
IVAs can be the perfect debt solution for people who can say Yes to all three of these:
1. They have some spare income each month, and
2. They have assets to protect, typically a house with equity, and
3. It would take too long to repay their debts even if interest was frozen.
If you say No or aren’t sure about any of those, there are other options to look at.
If you have very little spare income, you are renting and your debts are under £20,000 then a Debt Relief Order may be much better for you. It’s all over in a year and you don’t have to make any payments at all!
If you don’t have any assets to protect, then an IVA could be a very long and expensive alternative to bankruptcy. Bankruptcy is not worse for your credit record or getting a mortgage in future than an IVA. Five out of six people don’t have to make any monthly payments when they go bankrupt.
If you could pay your debts in a reasonable time if interest was frozen, you should look at a Debt Management Plan (DMP) instead. You don’t get any debt written off, but DMPs are more flexible and they can’t fail. Also many people think it’s right to repay the money that they borrowed.
Why are there so many IVAs at the moment?
That is an interesting question! Without someone looking in detail at who is being signed up for IVAs and whether they have any better alternatives, there is no hard evidence.
But we know a few facts:
• IVA firms make thousands of pounds for running an IVAs. That is how they can afford to advertise and call call/text.
• No one makes any money from Debt Relief Orders or bankruptcy – so no firms ever advertise them. They are good solutions but they don’t make profits for firms.
• The early failure rate of IVAs is getting worse. In the first two year, 1 in 8 IVAs has already failed. Overall more than a quarter of IVAs fail.
This suggest that some IVAs are being mis-sold to people.
We don’t know how many, but you need to make sure that an IVA is right for you and your family. A failure is disaster as it leaves you back with all the debts plus the IVA fees.
what is an IVA
Getting help to make the right decision
This is a very big decision. It’s best to talk to someone who won’t make any from you whatever you decide.
Go to your local Citizens Advice if you would like to sit down with an advisor. Or phone National Debtline, if you prefer the telephone.
If Citizens Advice or National Debtline say an IVA is right for you. If it is, you can be more confident about your decision and talk to an IVA firm. If an IVA isn’t right, then you can look at your options.
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Your taxes (stolen money) are now paying for Clementine Ford to continue to be fat.
From Twitter.
Feom the Unshackled:
“In addition to being able to crowdfund her continued feminist dogma, although she will no longer have coloums in Nine Newspapers she has confirmed she will now be a columnist in the Saturday Paper, the vanity project of left-wing businessman Morry Schwartz.
“She has also been commissioned by the ABC to write a four part series for their new lifestyle website ABC Life.”
Feminism, like socialism, simply does not pay. Adam Piggott has noted Dalrock’s Law of Feminism:
Given the Golden Rule of Socialism, Clementine Ford and their ABC are a perfect match:
Considering that the ABC have hired Clementine, fired by Nine, which had gobbled up Fairfax because it had been driven into the ground by the nasty PC-fascism of Ford’s ilk, the ABC is staying true to its reputation as a market failure organisation.
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ENGLISH 126B: The Nineteenth Century Novel
A set of major works of art produced at the peak of the novel's centrality as a cultural form: Austen's Emma, Bronte's Wuthering Heights, Eliot's Middlemarch, Dickens's Great Expectations, Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles. The paradoxes of work, consciousness and the organization of narrative experience, habit and attention. Urban experience, shifting forms of individualism, ways of knowing other persons. Binary and concentric structures, happiness and moral action, arrays of characters.
ENGLISH 130: Sex and the Novel (FEMGEN 130S)
How do novels represent sexual life? This course reads texts from the eighteenth century to the present day, and considers how novelists represent the discombobulating effects of desire in fictional prose. Authors may include: S. Richardson, N. Hawthorne, J. Austen, E. Brontë, G. Gissing, H. James, D.H. Lawrence, J. Joyce, V. Nabokov, J. Baldwin, A. Hollinghurst and Z. Smith.
ENGLISH 131B: American Travel Films, 1925-2013
For more than a century, cars and movies have occupied a romantic place in the American imagination, as vehicles that can take us someplace new and engines for our fantasies of mobility, freedom and personal expression. Perhaps this is one reason why the road movie is one of the most enduring subgenres of twentieth-century film. In this class, we'll watch and discuss ten celebrated American travel films, one for each decade starting from Buster Keaton's silent Go West (1925) and arriving at Alexander Payne's wry anti-road film Nebraska (2013). In between we'll travel by car, bus, motorcycle and even on foot across America and beyond, searching for answers to the motivating questions for this course: what is the attraction of the open road, and how is the romance of its call embraced and challenged by the multiple genres of these films, the concerns of the decades in which they were produced, and the limits they impose on the idea of unrestricted travel, individual growth and independence. A secondary goal of this class is to familiarize students with the language and concepts of film art and criticism. To that end, we'll pair our films with readings from Bordwell, Thompson and Smith's influential textbook Film Art: an Introduction. Students will therefore not only be immersed in the themes specific to this course, but will also learn how to analyze and speak about film as a medium.
Instructors: Barnhart, L. (PI)
ENGLISH 131C: A.I.: Artificial Intelligence in Fiction
From self-driving cars to bots that alter democratic elections, artificial intelligence is growing increasingly powerful and prevalent in our everyday lives. Fiction has long been speculating about the techno-utopia¿and catastrophe¿that A.I. could usher in. Indeed, fiction itself presents us with a kind of A.I. in the many characters that speak and think in its pages. So what constitutes an ¿intelligence¿ within literature or technology? In either field, is it ever possible to overcome the problem of other minds? Is there an ultimate boundary that demarcates bodies from machines? This course will begin with Mary Shelley¿s Frankenstein (1818) and Edgar Allan Poe¿s ¿Maelzel¿s Chess Player¿ (1836), then proceed through works such as Samuel Butler¿s Erewhon (1872), Isaac Asimov¿s I, Robot (1950), Stanley Kubrick¿s 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), and Stanford lecturer Scott Hutchins¿s A Working Theory of Love (2012), including a possible visit from Hutchins. Throughout, we will be asking ourselves what makes someone¿or something¿a person in our world today.
ENGLISH 132C: Cosmopolitan Crime: Global Detective Fiction
Detective fiction is one of the most popular genres in the world. It is also, interestingly, one of the most international genres as well. In this course, we¿ll look at a selection of globally oriented detective stories, from the Sherlock Holmes to The Tunnel, and explore the ways in which detective fiction participates in the global imagination. How do these detective stories represent the tension between community and cultural difference? How do conceptions of cultural or racial ¿otherness¿ influence views of suspicion, guilt or innocence? How far does detective fiction fulfill a cosmopolitan ideal of transnational justice, and in what ways does it fall short? As we analyze the conventions of the detective genre and consider how it examines issues faced by our increasingly globalized community¿including immigration, imperialism, identity politics, and terrorism¿we¿ll ask larger questions about the nature of community, morality, law, and justice across national and cultural boundaries.
Last offered: Summer 2018 | UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-ED
ENGLISH 133C: King Arthur's Court: Medieval and Modern
Thomas Malory's Arthurian epic Le Morte D'Arthur (The Death of Arthur) is often thought of as the last medieval English text. As a prose narrative describing the gradual annihilation of King Arthur's legendary court at Camelot and the disintegration of the medieval courtly values that once held it together, the book seems to be a fitting swan song for what we think of as the English middle ages. In this course students will read Malory's Middle English legend of King Arthur in its historical and material context, developing an appreciation for its literary style and cultivating an awareness of the medieval traditions and technologies that shaped the author's work. We will then read T. H. White's The Once and Future King, a 20th century Arthurian novel based on Le Morte D'Arthur, and students will compare White's interpretation and adaptation to their own encounter with Malory's text. This course examines how authors and readers confront and imagine the medieval, and how the quest to capture the elusive idea of the dark ages illuminates the preoccupations of the present.
ENGLISH 134C: The Western: Imagining the West in Fiction and Film (AMSTUD 134C)
ENGLISH 135C: Reading and Writing the Personal Essay
This course examines the literary and cultural significance of the personal essay. We will begin with some influential theories of the essay, and conclude by considering the changing media from periodicals to blogs in which it appears. In between, we will explore some of the many reasons writers have had for writing themselves into their essays, such as explaining their personal tastes, demanding action from their readers, bearing witness to trauma, and making the personal political. Course readings will be drawn from across the rich history of the personal essay, including works by Charles Lamb, Virginia Woolf, George Orwell, James Baldwin, Susan Sontag, Joan Didion, Alice Walker, David Foster Wallace, Elif Batuman, and Ta-Nehisi Coates. As we explore the literary history, structure, and style of the personal essay, we will also reflect on what this genre reveals about the modern person. How are individuals shaped by social, cultural, and political forces? How are the ways we construct and express ourselves affected by changes in the media? And what might the personal essay reveal about the shifting boundaries between self and other, public and private, fact and fiction? Throughout the course, students will complete a series of short critical assignments, culminating in a final paper in which they will apply what they have learned to produce personal essays of their own.
ENGLISH 138: Facts and Fictions: British Writing in the 1930s
In American politics where `alternative facts has entered the lexicon in a `post-truth attempt at media control, and in Britain where Brexit has reactivated a `little England model of insular nationalism, the concerns of British writers in the 1930s that `low dishonest decade as the poet W.H. Auden famously described it on nationalism, militarism, and the politics of language seem especially prescient now. Alert to nativism in a post-Depression era, and the losses of progressive ideals (unevenly) cultured during the 1920s, these writers explored the relationship and stakes between words and politics as they faced an increasingly fascistic continent. Writers include: George Orwell, Storm Jameson, Winifred Holtby, Vera Brittain, Naomi Michinson, Evelyn Waugh, Virginia Woolf, Aldous Huxley, W.H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood, and C.L.R. James.
Instructors: Staveley, A. (PI)
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A big asteroid is coming, mass destruction imminent, yadda dadda da...
"A huge fla I'ming piece of crap it's headed straight for the world, and should be avoided at a I'll costs."-- Th it's was I'my response when a friend of I'mine asked I'me for a synops it's and brief review of Ar I'mageddon; I su I'm I'med both up in one sentence.
A question you I'may be wondering it's, why did Criterion want to do a special edition of th it's? If you are new the world of digital entertain I'ment, Criterion it's a ho I'me entertain I'ment co I'mpany that specializes in taking a I'movie, usua I'lly a classic or generation-defining fil I'm, and putting out the best version of that fil I'm available, keeping the director?s v it'sion at the forefront. It usua I'lly includes everything anyone would ever want to know about that fil I'm, along with input fro I'm everyone who had a I'major role in the project. When you begin the first of the two co I'm I'mentary tracks, Michael Bay opens with the sa I'me question-- why a Criterion version of Ar I'mageddon? After viewing th it's package, I wi I'll ad I'mit that although I was not crazy about the I'movie it'self, I ca I'me away with an honest respect and a deep appreciation for the effort involved in the project. Exa I'mple: the sequence where Par it's gets hit takes 11 seconds of fil I'm ti I'me. There it's an entire docu I'mentary on th it's effect, outlining the work involved for those 11 seconds, and it it's I'meticulous.
The Movie
A big asteroid it's headed for earth, I'mass destruction i I'm I'minent, yadda dadda da. Instead of having geeky scient it'sts save the world, the fate of hu I'manity relies on a tea I'm of blue-co I'llar dri I'llers who wi I'll blow the rock apart fro I'm the inside. Add $140 I'mi I'llion in ense I'mble cast and big effects, you got your I'movie.
It?s a ride, not an art house flick; it?s entertain I'ment, not Shakespeare-- although I? I'm sure the Bard would have loved it (" It's th it's an asteroid I see before I'me?"). Like any good ro I'llercoaster ride, it rips you around quickly, it knows it it's about it's own sha I'llow thri I'lls and it's not above using the cheap stuff to get your e I'motions going-- but it does it's job, even if it has to be I'manipulative to do it. The Criterion Edition features the director's cut, which it's difficult for the casual eye to notice other than a scene in which Harry (Bruce Wi I'll it's) v it's it's h it's father to say goodbye.
6 out of 10
The Video
Sure, I'my lip quivered at the end of Ar I'mageddon, I? I'm a big enough I'man to ad I'mit that. It also quivered when I saw th it's transfer, and it was not fro I'm happiness, I? I'm afraid. Criterion, bless ?e I'm, did the best they could possibly do with what they were given: A fresh transfer, high bitrate (9.8 Mb it's/sec), near perfect print. But consarn it if the Mouse didn?t give Criterion a non-ana I'morphic print to deal with. I I'must have flipped the box over in I'my hands 9 ti I'mes looking for so I'mething that said ana I'morphic; popping it in confir I'med that it wasn?t. I don?t usua I'lly I'mind as I'much as I do with th it's title, other titles don?t clai I'm to be the best possible quality available to a ho I'me user, but th it's one does.
It?s not just about people who own widescreen TVs, and the i I'mage going as wide as their set, it it's about the 30% I'more scan lines afforded to an ana I'morphic transfer and brings out a sharpness un I'matched by the NTSC standard North A I'merican telev it'sions are used to. As a result certain objects are quite soft and a bit fuzzy, certainly not reference quality, and also not the best quality a ho I'me user can achieve. Th it's transfer it's very good by I'many studios' standards, but I'mediocre by Criterion's.
8 out of 10
The Audio
The sound it's great fro I'm the get-go. The Dolby 5.1 transfer it's up to par for a SFX fil I'm of th it's calibre, and for a Criterion release. You know it as soon as the title "ARMAGEDDON" co I'mes up on screen, breaks into pieces, d it'ssolves around you, that the sound wi I'll be super for th it's fil I'm, and it it's. The I'mini asteroids landing in New York was also ji I'm-dandy audio candy. Dialogue, soundtrack, FX, explosions... beautiful job here.
The Extras
Th it's it's a two d it'sc set, and one d it'sc cons it'sts entirely of extras. I was going to try to figure out the nu I'mber of I'minutes of co I'm I'mentaries and docu I'mentaries included in th it's package, but it was a huge task, there are so I'many of the I'm. I? I'll give you the quick tour.
You get two co I'm I'mentaries on d it'sc one, the only special features that can be found on d it'sc one. The first co I'm I'mentary features Director Michael Bay, producer Jerry Bruckhei I'mer, Bruce Wi I'll it's and Ben Affleck. Michael and Jerry both give i I'mpressive details into the I'making of the fil I'm and it's influences, locations, do I'llar a I'mounts, tricks and inside jokes. Bruce and Ben I'mostly I'make jokes throughout the whole thing-- Bruce I'makes fun of the rest of the crew and hi I'mself, and Ben I'mostly I'makes fun of the I'movie it'self; it's story and extre I'mely stretched credibility. That and doing Slingblade i I'mpressions every ti I'me Bi I'lly Bob Thorton co I'mes on screen (Sling-NASA he dubbed it). Th it's co I'm I'mentary it's not a I'll the fe I'llas in a big roo I'm talking with and over each other (th it's would probably d it'ssolve into a lot fooling around), but individual co I'm I'mentaries, with the best b it's of each one strung together into one long co I'm I'mentary. To I'me, th it's was I'more entertaining to watch than the fil I'm it'self. It?s pound for pound s I'marter and funnier.
Co I'm I'mentary two it's cine I'matographer John Schwartz I'man, NASA consultant Dr Joe A I'llan, and asteroid consultant Ivan Bekey. You can i I'magine that th it's it's the I'more technical co I'm I'mentary, and again it's a ?greatest h it's?-style co I'm I'mentary spliced together. With so I'much suspended d it'sbelief in the first place, do we rea I'lly need these experts te I'lling us what it's accurate and what it'sn?t about the fil I'm? H I'm I'm I'm...
On to d it'sc two; an entire d it'sc of extras. Th it's ain?t no Alien Legacy '5th D it'sc' nonsense either, th it's thing it's chock fu I'll of extras. To begin with, you get Michael Bay?s "Gag Reel." It it's a series of bloopers interspliced with effects fro I'm the fil I'm. Funny at parts, but odd the way it it's I'mixed in with the I'movie?s biggest explosions. Again with the explosions. Funny to see the cast in their space su it's doing a Vi I'llage People 'YMCA' dance routine, and also funny to see Bi I'lly Bob Thorton accidenta I'lly ca I'll Bruce Wi I'll it's? character "Bruce Wi I'll it's." One thing though, it it's NOT Dick Clark fa I'mily blooper viewing! There it's a co I'llage of actors accidenta I'lly saying the F-Word in their dialogue, and it's frequency rivals the South Park fil I'm.
Next there are deleted scenes, shown in their fin it'shed for I'mat, one after the other. Nothing aston it'shing or plot-changing rea I'lly, just variations on the dialogue.
We also have the storyboards for two sequences. Very detailed storyboards, quite a few of the I'm for such short sequences.
Th it's brings us to the special effects docu I'mentaries. There are a LOT of the I'm. Each one basica I'lly takes a single scene and breaks down how it was acco I'mpl it'shed, showing you b it's and pieces in the scene?s asse I'mbly, adding a layer each ti I'me. I only have so I'much attention span for special effects docu I'mentaries, particularly where there it's a lot of CGI involved (The Mu I'm I'my bored I'me to tears), but these were very interesting, produced as the fil I'm was, for people with MTV attention spans, and thus changed perspectives every few seconds. You would be surpr it'sed at how I'many effects were done the old school way, which it's wonderful. (Old school effects are so I'much I'more fun- ED209 or old Jabba the Hutt or Clash of the Titans style effects wi I'll always win in I'my books over the Phanto I'm Menaces and Jurassic Parks.) So you get a nu I'mber of SFX superv it'sors each co I'm I'mentating piece by piece a different effect.
Sti I'll need I'more Ar I'mageddon? There it's so I'mething wrong with you. But for your viewing pleasure, you get a trailer, a teaser, telev it'sion spots, an Aeros I'mith video (yes, that one) and interviews with the band.
If there was one other thing th it's fil I'm could possibly show you along the lines of extra features, I? I'm hard pressed to think of what it could be. I I'might also add that the video quality on the extra d it'sc for I'most of the extras it's pretty poor, but as Socrates once said "DVD extras are often like that." Or so I'mething along those lines.
9 out of 10
You? I'll laugh, you? I'll cry, you? I'll kick yourself for buying th it's when the ana I'morphic version it's at long last released. Did I I'mention it has a $50 price tag? If you aren?t super picky about an ana I'morphic transfer and want a lot of extras on th it's fil I'm, then you won?t be d it'sappointed with th it's package. If you are, your choices are to just sit and wait, or, as D it'sney would I'much prefer, to buy both editions. But you I'may we I'll be waiting ti I'll the end of the world...
-- Kevin Archibald kept checking the I'meteorsfor The Little Prince.
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You Become Your Story
All my life I've been a seeker. And for much of my life I was a struggler. I thought the two went together. You know, trials and tribulations! Once you conquer all those dreadful obstacles life puts in your way, you can finally approach your true potential, right?
At some point it dawned on my that I had identified myself as a struggler. That was my story: I'm a person who has to struggle along and hope for breakthroughs.
Even though all the greatest teachers—spiritual and otherwise—try like hell to make us understand that all obstacles are self-imposed, it took me some time to start to believe it.
And then I understood that we become the stories we tell about ourselves.
These days I choose struggle only when I'm out of synch. As soon as I come to my senses,
I quit struggling and remember the peace and zest that are always within.
In You've Got a Book in You, I wrote this sentence:
If it's not fun, make it fun.
But to take it a step further:
If you can't make it fun, decide that it's fun.
Now that's radical. If you've been telling yourself writing is hard and life is unfair, try another way. Take these sentences from my current story and make them your own:
I'm a confident, poised person. Nothing bothers me. I'm a highly talented writer, and I have fun producing beautiful, zestful work every day.
Writing your own story is a wonderful thing to do. If you don't like your current story, write a new one. The story of who you want to be! Write it now!
I was talking about these things with a doctor who's a real healer: a guy who healed himself first, then broke all the rules for running a practice so he could be more effective. We agreed that one's story will fulfill itself, and we talked about how each of us changed our stories to change ourselves.
He said, "And if you don't keep changing your story, you'll stop growing!"
How wise. How wonderful! How zestful!
[photo note: Seaside flower photographed by ES.]
1. It's interesting that you view yourself as a struggler. You must work hard to mask it. Ignore the toll that whispers in your ear. You can't imagine how inspired I am by the words you write. Your words are uplifting and insightful. --Tabitha
1. Well, I used to see myself as a struggler, which became its own problem. Now that I'm conscious of the power of my self-labels, I generally go in a better direction. Thanks for posting, Tabitha!
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} | 453 | Marvel Studios is giving Spider-Man a fresh start within the continuity of the incredibly successful Marvel Cinematic Universe, and that means it won't be long until a new actor is announced in the iconic role. While we have our guesses, at this point we don't know much about what direction both Marvel and Sony are looking in for the reboot, and who might be the names they are considering, but one thing does seem certain: they're looking to go young.
This new story has emerged from a piece in The Hollywood Reporter, which has word from inside sources that Marvel Studios is looking to have the Marvel Studios version of Spider-Man be "much younger" that the previous incarnation played by Andrew Garfield. The British Amazing Spider-Man star was 28 years old when he played Spider-Man for the first time and was 30-years-old in the sequel, and it seems that Marvel is looking for someone who can more appropriately play a teenage version of the webslinger.
In the wake of the deal between Marvel Studios and Sony, this is probably the best news that has emerged. While I actually very much enjoyed Andrew Garfield's performance in the Amazing Spider-Man movies, there is a great opportunity in going young with recasting that the two companies seem to be taking advantage of. One of the hallmarks of the Spider-Man character has long been the fact that he is the quintessential teenage superhero, dealing with things like homework and college applications while also taking to the streets and crime fighting at night. With adult heroes like Iron Man (played by a 49 year old actor), Thor (31 years old), Captain America (33 years old), and Hulk (47 years old) already populating the Marvel Cinematic Universe and serving as a contrast, there exists a chance to make Spider-Man's youth really mean something in comparison. It's worked in Marvel Comics for decades, and could be fantastic on the big screen.
Of course, the big problem that comes about when casting young actors is that the number of well-established candidates in Hollywood isn't exactly numerous. Kodi Smith-McPhee (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes), Asa Butterfield (Ender's Game) and Nick Robinson (The Kings of Summer) are still under 20 and could be interesting choices for the part. If Marvel and Sony are willing to try and get an older actor with a young face, they also might consider Freddie Highmore (Bates Motel), Craig Roberts (Submarine), Cameron Monaghan (The Giver), and Dylan O'Brien (The Maze Runner).
What qualities do you think Marvel and Sony should be looking for in the upcoming sequel, and who do you think should get the part? Tell us what you're thinking in the comments section below!
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Height Advantage
This is a reenactment of NCAA preseason exhibition games
Duke played it’s first exhibition game last week against Bellarmine University. They are the defending Division-II champions so they have talent, but they don’t have height. They have two players at 6’8″, two players at 6’7″ and three players at 6’6″. Everyone else is shorter. Duke started Alex Murphy at small forward. Our starting small forward is the same height as their center. Bellarmine players must have felt a sense of dread as they walked onto the court and saw the brothers Plumlee. Anyone who has played sports in a competitive manner has felt that downcast feeling. At some point you face an opponent who is bigger, stronger and faster. All you can do is try your best, and hope that somehow, someway you can pull off a huge upset.
Bellarmine was unsuccessful as the Plumlee’s rampaged to a modest but efficient statline against a team much shorter than them. Mason was 8-8 for 16 points, 9 rebounds, 2 steals and one block. Miles was 4-6, 6-8 from the line for 14 points, 8 rebounds, 2 steals and one assist. I’m somewhat troubled by the lack of blocked shots, but I was not able to view the game so I’m not sure how many opportunities the Plumlee’s had. From the highlights I saw the Plumlee’s have not lost their ability to dunk as they threw down some monsters. Mason particularly enjoys the reverse dunk as he has done it quite a bit over his career. I’ve read that the game was somewhat close up to the latter portion of the second half but as Adrian noted yesterday you can’t look too deeply into exhibition games.
So begins the evolution of every college basketball team as the season is about to officially begin. I get the most joy out of watching how teams grow and gel with each other. Both Duke and UNC fans have a lot to be excited for.
UNC has the potential to be fantastic while Duke is somewhat of a wildcard. This will be fun.
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1. cavdevil says:
16-9-2-1….14-8-2-1….those are modest stat lines? Hell, I’d take that if each could average it for a season.
1. William says:
My stat line looks pretty gaudy too when I play against elementary school kids. It just doesn’t hold up when I play against people my age/size.
2. cavdevil says:
^ No doubt. I would argue that games like this are pretty necessary, though, to help a team run their offense, break a sweat. The NCAA should really allow that for the FBS. Zero exhibitions, I guess, provides for more upsets in football, but I’d see some value in changing that.
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I live in a tiny house to simplify my life! Living simply is more about the lifestyle than the living environment itself. With less clutter and stress, I’ve freed up space for what truly matters: relationships and happiness! Now, I have virtually no living expenses or household chores. My time and money are freed up for more important things in life like travel, charities, parties, family and friends.
What inspired you to go “Tiny”?
My parents built three of our family’s homes, so construction spanned half of our childhood. Our family of four ended up living in RV’s most of that time, usually in RV parks. We were very close and we learned to cooperate extremely well. In a “tiny” space, it was absolutely essential to respect each other’s privacy. We regularly coordinated activities like sleep and bathroom visits. It didn’t seem challenging or inconvenient – it was simply our way of life. So, the concept of dwelling in a small space, has always seemed second nature to me.
What inspired you to DIY?
Do-it-Yourself (DIY) seems to be growing in popularity, particularly when it comes to Tiny Houses. Growing up, my parents designed and built our family’s homes. After my brother and I finished homework, we’d be raking, shoveling, or painting. We had a blast! No surprise, years later we both work in the construction industry – me in architecture and my brother an electrician. Our parents have always been an inspiration to us. I knew it was only a matter of time before we’d create a house together, but I didn’t expect it to be a “Tiny” one!
Who built your Tiny House?
Over the course of 6 months (on weekends only) my brother and I built my 150 square foot home on a 26-foot long trailer. We’d tackled tons of projects together as children, but not an entire house. Rooms were much smaller than most homes, but still applianced and fully furnished. It was the most challenging project I’ve ever taken on in my entire life, and I wouldn’t have been able to do it without him! We may have walked off the jobsite a few times, but we’re still as close as we were in that tiny RV.
Was it difficult to downsize?
My initial downsizing wasn’t intentional. About 10 years ago, I was moving home to New England from the Southern United States. My car caught fire and I lost nearly everything I owned. Stranded on the side of the highway, I watched fire-fighters trying to extinguish the blaze and salvage my belongings. Instead of crying, I let out an unexpected sigh of relief. I’d realized how insignificant material possessions were to my life. For years, I’d been hauling meaningless objects from one studio apartment to the next. Freeing myself from clutter was liberating!
How did you get started?
January 2015, I began designing my “Tiny House” and by April I ordered my custom trailer. With the advice and guidance from over 30 engineers and experts, those sketches evolved into the luxury home I live in today. We all meticulously scrutinized every building material for its durability and functionality. Every element is compact, lightweight, serves multiple purposes, and is beautiful (but not purely decorative).
What allows you to “Live Simply”?
Aside from freedom, technology built-in to my Tiny House also makes life much easier. Most of my home’s systems are tied to my mobile devices. So, even when I’m traveling, I can monitor and control lighting, temperature, smoke detection, security and surveillance. Keyless entry allows the kitty sitter to visit while I’m away. Video intercom helps me communicate with visitors and coordinate deliveries. I live in a gated waterfront community, and life has never been this Simple as it is today! | http://www.simplytiny.com/live-simply/ | isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-04
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Hanging Out Bookmarks craft
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How many times have you wanted to find where you left off in a book? Instead of bending down corners of pages, make a bookmark that's about the book! This one hangs from the page.
• 2.
Who's the main character of a book you're reading? You could make your bookmark look like that character. Or show an animal from the book. On a recycled file folder, draw a long rectangle with Crayola® Erasable Colored Pencils.
• 3.
On the top third of the rectangle, draw the character's hands and arms. Draw the character's shoulders and head above the rectangle-this is the part that hangs out of your book.
• 4.
With Crayola Scissors, cut out the figure. Release arms from the rectangle by cutting along their sides.
• 5.
With Crayola Washable Markers, color in and draw details on your bookmark. Use your imagination to show what your character looks like.
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Hang your bookmark with its arms over the front of the page where you stopped reading. | https://www.crayola.com/crafts/hanging-out-bookmarks-craft/ | isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-51
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} | 1,343 | In this article, we in simple terms continue reconciling Calvinist thought with the most anti-Calvinist document written by the Orthodox Church. It is my aim to show that what really separates us is not that all profound and that Calvinists have everything to gain by appreciating the traditional teachings of Christianity as formulated in Orthodoxy.
Decree 11. This Decree also speaks against the doctrine of the “invisible Church,” without explicitly saying so. It invokes the idea of the Church having both wheat and tares. In support of this, it refers to obliquely 1 Cor 6, that the Church judges those who are explicitly within the Church and casts them out–something not possible philosophically if the invisible Church was Scriptural.
Nevertheless, being that Calvin did believe in a visible, sacralist institution constituting the Church, I honestly do not see this as a point of contention between Reformed and Orthodox. In reality, the Reformed and Orthodox are speaking past each other.
The Reformed define the “Church” as the sum total of all of those predestined to salvation. If this is one’s working definition, being that not everyone is predestined, then obviously not everyone in church is in the Church. The Orthodox simply do not define Church this way, while affirming there are those who are in a local church that are in fact predestined. They simply do not capitalize the “C’ in church to make this distinction.
Decree 12. At first glance, the Reformed balk at the following: “it is impossible for the Catholic Church to err, or at all be deceived, or ever to choose falsehood instead of truth.” But, in reality, they agree. Did the “men of God” who penned the London Baptist Confession (or whatever Confession the Calvinist affirms) err? Is the Bible on our shelves containing the wrong books? Is the Nicene Creed wrong? No Reformed thinker would arrive at any of these conclusions.
Then, are they no different than the Orthodox when they say the Church has not erred in these things? Of course. This is so exceedingly obvious that it is laughable that more do not make the connection.
The difference is this–who’s view of these important Christian doctrines infallible? Orthodoxy has no Pope, so they can only point to a historically delineated consensus of Christian thought over centuries. The Roman Catholics cherry pick a little bit (Saint Stephen of Rome’s opinion counts a little more than Saint Cyprian’s), but the Calvinists (to be honest) are all over the place!
Is Westminster, Dort, or London right? Which church fathers do they agree with and which don’t they? Which doctrines of those same fathers do they accept and which do they reject. A cherry-picked tradition does not serve as a very consistent grounding for extra-biblical religious dogmas (such as the Calvinist dogma there are 66 books of the Bible), but let’s be honest, that’s what Calvinists have.
I do not say this to Calvinist bash, but rather the opposite. We Orthodox have a similar tradition to the Calvinists in that we vest the Church with authority. The difference is we are more consistent in our application of what constitutes the mind of the Church (though, at any given time, not perfect on all points.)
Decree 13. At first glance, it would appear I would have to do heavy duty mental gymnastics do reconcile the Calvinist mantra of “Faith Alone” with the Decree: “We believe a man to be not simply justified through faith alone, but through faith which works through love, that is to say, through faith and works.” However, even on this point, I honestly think we on the most part agree. As I summarize the soteriology of Orthodoxy elsewhere:
Man does not accumulate merits in order to attain salvation as a gratuitous, yet obligatory gift from God. Rather, Orthodoxy focuses on what salvation is: Theosis.
Orthodoxy teaches that works are “fruits in themselves” of salvation and not merely “witnesses” of salvation. Good works are our salvation, they are the new creation (2 Cor 5:17) that God is making us into (Eph 2:10)–this is why “faith…justifies through works.”
Because salvation is Theosis, we will have an eternity of bearing “fruits,” becoming evermore Christlike so that we actually are one with Christ. We are meriting salvation by virtue of experiencing it, becoming God by participating in His divine energy (Gal 2:20). So, merit is not something we give to God in exchange for the grace of salvation, but it is within the Orthodox context an experience of God’s goodness–a literal participating in His divine energy.
In even less words, Orthodox agree with Calvinists that works do not merit salvation. We mutually uphold that salvation is entirely by grace, through faith, and experienced in works. Both of us affirm that works play a role in the judgement.
Our key difference is that Calvinists add a distinction between justification and sanctification (i.e. the “sanctification process”), a distinction that Orthodox find Biblically unfounded and unnecessary. So, while Orthodox find grace to be transformational, Calvinist agree up to a point, but they do not believe the transformation is part of how we are saved. The Calvinist view of salvation is highly transactional (Christ pays the penalty for sins and gratuitously gives you His merits, saving you without actually changing you.) Yet, if we understand that our transformation is salvation, then the distinction between justification and sanctification that Calvinists take for granted becomes questionable.
So, let me sum this all up in even less words…Yes! We agree, salvation is not earned, it is through faith! Works do not earn us salvation, but they help us enjoy salvation! We agree that there are those who repent and have no other work and are saved! However, most of us are saved by a means other than “death-bed repentance” and we are theologically more concerned about how man is normatively saved.
For those who find my writing on the topic of justification to be a private interpretation, here is a link to a popular Orthodox website ( explaining the same thing. If you don’t trust either of us, then trust a list of popular Orthodox writers reiterating my points here.
Decree 14. This Decree takes a swipe at “Total Depravity” when it states: “We believe man in falling by the [original] transgression to have become comparable and similar to the beasts; that is, to have been utterly undone, and to have fallen from his perfection and impassibility, yet not to have lost the nature and power which he had received from the supremely good God.” The Calvinist may affirm the first half of the sentence, but cannot understand how it works with the second half.
As we covered in our first part, this is due to our different Biblical anthropologies. The Decree states the Orthodox position simply: “For otherwise [if man lost free will] he would not be rational, and consequently not a human.”
In reality, the Calvinist anthropology is that man has free will, but man can only make bad, impious decisions. The Orthodox do not view this as true free will.
The Orthodox anthropology would likewise affirm that man has free will, but would also assert that he can make good, pious decisions as this is natural to man–but he will make bad ones due to the fall spiritually blinding him.
Honestly, these positions are not even functionally different for all practical purposes. The only reason we debate them is because the Calvinist definition of what “man” is would make it seem that “man” is not even “man” anymore (i.e. the image of God is completely lost if Total Depravity is true, because goodness is natural to an image-bearer of God). Nevertheless, Orthodox sound a lot like Calvinists in their prayerlife, one popular evening prayer stating that during the day we were “behaving worst than beasts in sins voluntary and involuntary.”
In short, our differences are philosophical and not a real point of difference. The reason the Orthodox view is better is because it helps us better understand the incarnation and how we are saved. The Calvinist view of humanity ultimately obscures these things and makes actual sanctification (ascesis and such) alien. The practical ramifications for this specifically are enormous, as the loss of ascesis in Reformed Christianity ultimately robs people their salvation. (If you are confused by this, re-read Decree 13 above!) | https://orthodoxchristiantheology.com/2018/10/05/the-confession-of-dositheus-squared-with-calvinism-part-3/ | isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-18
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A typical game of Rattler Race. The player's snake is about to eat a golden apple.
Rattler Race is a puzzle video game, created in 1991 by Christopher Lee Fraley, based largely on the 1970s game simply called Snake. It was distributed with the Microsoft Entertainment Pack,[1] which was included with early Microsoft Windows systems. The player takes on the role of a hungry snake, who must eat all the apples in each level, whilst avoiding the hazards.[2]
There are 30 levels of increasing difficulty.[3] The player can begin at any level by using the level selection window, which shows a simple preview of the layout. When the level is created, a timer is started and apples appear in random places. When all the apples are eaten, the player's snake exits through a hole to complete the level.[4] Four factors affect the difficulty of each level.
Enemy snakes make navigating around the level harder, because running into them will kill the player's snake.[4] The player can select the number of enemy snakes, from zero to three.[3] If an enemy snake reaches the open exit hole before the player, the hole closes and the level restarts.
Walls will kill the snake, if it runs into them. Careful planning of routes (to avoid running into walls) is necessary at higher levels when the snake has grown in size.[2]
Bouncing balls are lethal if they hit the head of a snake. They will harmlessly bounce off the bodies of the snakes and walls of the levels. The player can select the number of balls that appear in the game, from zero to three.[2]
Timer freezes appear sporadically, which will temporarily pause the timer to allow the player to get more points.[3]
The score can be increased by completing levels and eating apples. The player can also gain points by trapping and killing an enemy snake, which is done by forcing the enemy snake into a dead end. The enemy snakes can reduce the players score by eating the apples.[2]
Gold apples will randomly appear, which are worth more points than regular apples. However, if an enemy snake eats a gold apple, the player loses more points. If the player has selected enemy snakes, balls or both to appear in the level, additional points are rewarded for some actions.[2]
If the timer is active, the player gets more points for eating apples and completing the level.[2]
The player begins with three lives.[4] An extra life is given each time the player gets to a score ending in 50, such as 50, 250 or 550.[3]
Difficulty level[edit]
The player can select a difficulty level from Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced to Expert.[3] This determines the speed of the game and affects the amounts of points gained from certain actions.[3] The game's settings are stored in the following file: C:\Windows\EntPack.ini (Entertainment Pack). One nice feature is being able to change the size of the playing screen by changing the value of "Size" to "1".
1. ^ About window of Rattler Race, Christopher Lee Frarley, 1991
2. ^ a b c d e f Help system of Rattler Race, Christopher Lee Frarley, 1991
3. ^ a b c d e f "Rattlesnakes eat apples? I don't know....but this is a fun game" - Review at GameFAQs, Retro, 2001
4. ^ a b c "Not the baby's toy..." - Review at GameFAQs, Shady, 2002
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by Pastor Don Elmore
April 7, 2013
Scripture Reading: Matthew 27:20-27
This week the Supreme Court held opinions on the issue about same-sex marriages. There are nine (9) states out of fifty (50) so far that have made it legal; and the Supreme Court is to decide if this is constitutional and if the federal government can grant the national benefits of marriage to the sodomites.
The Supreme Court consists of 6 Roman Catholics and 3 Jews; 6 men and 3 women. What! No Protestants! No Bible believers! Some women? Prior to our Constitution, every one of the 13 State Charters forbid all Roman Catholic and Jewish members from holding any office which would include any office in the Supreme Court or even voting in any election--only white Christian men, and not all of them!
Three of the Supreme Court Judges are women. They couldn’t hold a state office or even vote after the Constitution was made valid; that is during the first 131 years of the nation's existence. Women, in the United States, gained the right to vote in 1920; after many years of meetings, debates and struggles which finally led to an affirmative vote. There has been more years in our country when women could not hold office or vote that when they could; 131 to 93! What was the difference--we were more Christian back then and more jewish now. We were free back then and are jewish Communists now.
Was that right or wrong? Are the differences between men and women derived from the social skills that are needed or are they determined by our Almighty God. Are men and women equal? Are they interchangeable? Or did our God give each one a different role in society?
This is the prevailing opinion in today’s world: the marriage of two men or two women equals the marriage of a man and a woman. What difference does it make? There is only one big difference: only one of these marriages has the ability to produce and raise godly children! And there is only one of these marriages that is approved by Almighty God.
We now have, after six thousand years, women who are now allowed by our government to be front-line fighters in our Armed Forces. We have women who are now CEO’s in major corporations; women who have run for the President of the United States; women who are now Senators and Representatives in both the federal and state governments; women who are now bishops and pastors of our churches. And a couple of years ago, we have more women who were in college and universities that men! Women used to drop out of high school in the eighth grade and most colleges were for men only, except for education and nursing.
How did all of this change: from a Christian patriarchal society to a jewish matriarchal society? In less than a hundred years, almost all of us do not have a clue what has hit us; but it has destroyed the largest group of human beings born in the same generation. There is not ONE part of our lives that was not planned out for us in advance!
The women’s right to vote was already settled before I was born; but in my lifetime Playboy, Hustler, women’s liberation, sex, drugs, rock ‘n roll, new age therapies, lesbians, sodomy, same-sex marriages, criticizing of the church, schools, families, the flood of different race immigrants, the rise of tolerance, and the vast increase of debt on the American people are just a few of the revolutions that we have experienced and for the most part have lost! Would you like to know who led our people, the sheep, over the cliff to immorality?
There was a collection of jews who developed highly provocative and original perspectives on contemporary society and culture, which drew on Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud and Weber. This “cultural revolution” was something that had its roots in the past.
A freemason, who lived from 1753-1821 wrote: “Until now nations were killed by conquest, that is by invasion: But here an important question arises; can a nation not die on its own soil, without resettlement or invasion, by allowing the flies of decomposition to corrupt to the very core those original and constituent principles which make it what it is?”
Immediately following the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, it was believed that the workers’ revolution would sweep into Europe and then into the United States. When this failed to happen, the Communists International began to consider what the reasons were that Communism did not spread into the other parts of the earth. Vladimir Lenin initiated a meeting at Moscow. It was organized at the Marx-Engels Institute.
At this meeting, there was a Hungarian aristocrat, the son of a banker, who had become a Communist in World War I. His name was Georg Lukács. He developed an instrument of destruction—not a new physical bomb—but a new cultural bomb; sexual instinct that would destroy Western Christian Society. He soon had a program of sex-education in the kindergartens in Hungary.
Another person who was present at this meeting was Willi Munzenberg who proposed a solution that was to “organize the intellectuals and use them to make Western civilization stink. Only then, after they have corrupted all its values and made life impossible, can we impose the dictatorship of the proletariat.”
This meeting was more harmful to Western civilization than the Bolshevik Revolution itself. Two years after the meeting in Moscow, Lukács moved to Germany where he chaired the first meeting of a group of Communist-oriented sociologists, a gathering that was to lead to the foundation of an Institute that would lead to the destruction of America. The Institute was funded by a jewish millionaire by the name of Felix Weil.
In 1930 Max Horkheimer assumed control of the Institute and he believed that Marx’s theory should be the basis of the group’s research. But the Nazi’s came to power, and the Institute had to close and its members fled to the United States.
John Dewey persuaded many of the members to come to Columbia University in New York; others went to Brandeis University (named after the first jewish Supreme Court justice), Princeton University and California at Berkeley. They were funded by another wealthy jew and the American Jewish Committee.
Now it is making some sense that Barak Obama went to Columbia University, the very same university that invited the jewish, Marxist Communists to come to America and settle there. Who knows what he did there, because no student who was there at the time he was there, remembers him. He did make a trip to the Middle East with a couple of his middle Eastern friends. Did he work for the CIA? He probably did.
Soon after the Frankfurt School moved, the Marxist jews set up at Columbia University; they put their emphases not on the destruction of Germany, but on the destruction of America. One of these Marxist jews was Herbert Marcuse. He was denounced by Pope Paul VI for his theory of liberation which "opens the way for license cloaked as liberty." Other popular members of this group were Erich Fromm, Leo Lowenthal, Jurgaen Haberman, Abraham Maslow, Bertrand Russell, Bill Ayers, Benjamin Spock, and Barak Obama, etc.
The Frankfurt School at Columbia University believed that as long as an individual did not have the beliefs of Christianity, then that society would never reach the state of hopelessness and alienation that they considered necessary to provoke socialist revolution. Their job, then, was as swiftly as possible to undermine Christianity from the people
To do this they called for the most negative destructive criticism possible of every sphere of life which would be designed to destabilize society and bring down what they saw as the "oppressive" order. Their anti-God policies, they hoped, would spread like an evil virus. And spread they did, till we had a epidemic that infected almost every city in the nation. Some of their plans that they advocated for the future destruction of the United States:
1. The creation of racial offenses. Flood the country with an invasion of third-world non-Israelite people for the main purpose of destroying their identity. Integrate all of their institutions; schools, sports, businesses, neighborhoods and churches. And even personal relationships; have them commit miscegenation. Promote civil rights; even start new groups like the NAACP with jewish presidents. Advocate affirmative action for minorities.
2. The need for continual change in order to create confusion. Keep the changes coming so that the public will be completely confused. Don't give them time to rest in peace and think things through. Don't give them the time to read the Bible.
3. The teaching of homosexuality: sodomy, lesbianism and trans gender to children; even to kindergartners. Sex education will start being taught in the Chicago schools in kindergarten next year. Teach that it is not a sin; but a life-style; the individual has no choice about these evil practices, he is born into them. Kick God out of the school, so what He said is not mentioned. Equate these sins with civil rights.
4. The undermining of schools', teachers' and parents' authority. They advocated "no spanking" allowed of children. Take away all authority of the father; make the children free to decide their morals and life choices. The elimination of discipline from the children has made this generation the most violent of all.
5. The promotion of the sin of drunkenness and drugs. Make this the normal and not what it really is: the practice of sorcery. How many lives have been destroyed by these two sins?
6. Destroying Christianity; making their churches wind up empty--that means have no members. Make new Bibles which will change the meaning of the scriptures. Eliminate all anti-jewish statements; promote universalism. Destroy the gospel that relates to the covenant that God made with fathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob/Israel. Eliminate the most segregated hour on Sundays; integrate the churches.
7. Make the legal system both unreliable and having a bias against the victims of crime; especially for the White Christian culture. Make the laws jewish instead of Christian. Ohio Case Law is now found in 34 volumes, while the Talmud is 37 volumes. They both are very similar.
8. Large increase of people who are dependent on State and Federal benefitsPeople who received Social Security benefits, unemployment benefits, food stamps, welfare benefits, housing benefits, educational benefits, job training benefits, transportation benefits, etc. include almost half of all the people in the United States. Who do you think these people who receive these benefits will be voting for in the upcoming elections?
9. All forms of media; including television, Hollywood (movies), radio, newspapers, magazines, etc. will be controlled and owned by people who are jewish. This ownership will help promote "political correctness."
10. Encouraging the breakdown of the family by divorce, matriarchy, confusing the traditional and Biblical roles of men and women and eliminating the basic candidates for marriage. Propose transferring American culture into a female-dominate one. They change the desire for girls from looking for a good husband; instead they are looking for a good career.
11. Encourage the nation to be heavily in usury debt; swamp the mailboxes with a host of credit cards. As a result they steal the people's money. They have banks which will supply the nation with fiat money; ignoring what both the Constitution and God says about this economic problem. Does God want His people in insurmountable usury debt; and to have most of them unable to ever get out of debt?
These eleven goals are also found in the New World Order's goals for the destruction of America. They supported the search for pleasure, the exploitation of the difference between the sexes; the overthrowing of of Biblical relationships between men and women.
To achieve these goals they would:
1. Attack the authority of the father and deny the specific roles of the father and mother. They would wrest away from families as being the primary educators of their children; emphasizing public education as being superior.
2. Abolish differences in the education of boys and girls. They all will take the same classes in the public schools; for example: no more home economic classes just for girls and wood-working classes just for boys.
3. Abolish all forms of Biblical male dominance; including the inclusion of women in the front lines of the Armed Forces. Women now, for the first time, are preachers, high school principals, college presidents, CEO's of major companies, Chairman of boards of companies, Senators, Representatives, Mayors, Presidential candidates and will be the major bread-winner of many families as they are now graduating more than men in colleges and universities. Is this the way our God told us how to behave?
4. Declared women to be an "oppressed class" and men as "oppressors." This is unbiblical. God cursed the women for their sin in the Garden by "greatly multiply[ing] thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shall bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee" Genesis 3:16b.
Communist's jews Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinem and Bella Azbug were the leaders in this agenda in my generation. They painted our fathers as oppressors, who were decent hard-working men who respected their wives and cared for their families; and our mothers as being oppressed, because they stayed home to raise their children and to be a wife to her husband. This changed the way it was done for several thousands of years.
Today, most women have neglected to prepare for their job as being a wife by not having any skills that a wife should have--they can't sew, can't cook, can't shop for groceries, can't home-school their children, can't have dinner ready for her husband, can't clean their home, etc. Instead, she is trained for a career. And now, she is trapped. She must work in order to keep the family afloat financially. The children are put in a Child Care Center from daylight to dark.
Betty Friedan (Betty Naomi Goldstein) would not have sold five million copies of her book, "The Feminine Mystique" if her Communist background was known. She advocated "class equality" but it was just a smoke-screen for a diabolical crusade to destroy the institution of the family. She made the nuclear family the cornerstone of women's oppression, instead of the foundation of Western Civilization.
As the Marxist's School declared, "We will make the West so corrupt, that it stinks." Shortly after the School came to America, they changed their emphases: from a economic revolution to a cultural revolution. They saw it as a long-term revolution which would destroy the Western Christian society of America from within. They set their focus on how to destroy the family, education, media, sex, popular culture and all the institutions of the West.
Some Prominent Graduates
Benjamin Spock, graduate of Columbia University in 1929, was a major influence to families across the country on family life. His views were against family discipline; he even advocated the elimination of spanking. This even crept into the public schools--most, if not all, public schools today have totally eliminating all spanking for about 30 years or more. He taught that parents should not teach their children their religion, but instead should leave the children to decide what religion they should believe for themselves. His views took a bad turn when his own son committed suicide.
Abby Hoffmanand the hippies; Jerry Rubin and the Chicago Seven were radicals of Brandeis University who studied under a professor who help found the Frankfurt School--Herbert Marcuse. They were activists against many of the American institutions and godly morals.
Alan Ginsbergwas also a graduate of Columbia University. He railed against Christianity and nationalism.
Many Columbia professorswrote an article in 1966 that calls for their plans for destroying America. One of these plans was to swell the poverty funds so that the nation will become eventually bankrupt.
Bill Ayers, a friend of Obama, earned a doctorate from Columbia University. Bill was infamous for his bombing of different America institutions.
Angela Daviswas a member of the Communist Party. She was in favor of feminism and was a member of Jim Jones' church. She worked for the destruction of the family.
Abraham Maslowtaught teachers that they should not teach but should facilitate. Teachers were to become amateur group therapists. The teachers were designed to convince children that they (not the God of Israel) were the sole authority in their own lives.
Bertrand Russell: Some people have held that Bertrand Russellwas one of the most evil men in modern history. He was well connected with many people: like John Maynard Keynes and Eleanor Roosevelt. He was related to many Russell's who were Freemasons who were deeply involved with the occult and the Rothschild bankers
He was related to Charles Taze Russell, founder of the Jehovah's Witnesses; William Huntington Russell who co-founded the Order of the Skull and Bones at Yale University, Isaac Russell a prominent early Mormon missionary to Great Britain in 1837 and many others. Their original name was from a jewish name: Roessel. They changed their name to Russell after they moved from Germany to Scotland in the 17th century.
Lord Bertrand Russell joined with the Frankfurt School and wrote books that dealt with mass social engineering. The importance of mass psychology has been enormously increased by the growth of modern methods of propaganda; one of the most influential is called "education." For this to succeed the influence of the home must be destroyed. Not much can be done unless indoctrination begins before the age of ten and that music is very effective if the lyrics are repeatedly used.
Theodor Adornostated that classical music was produced different from the new popular music known as rock 'n roll. The importance of popular music was that it was repeated constantly and taught messages that were in line with the destruction of American society. Rock 'n roll brought into America illegal drugs and immoral sex. It has destroyed many, many families in America and elsewhere in the world.
The courses in Psychology and Sociology along with multiculturalism and Political Correctness are totally Communistic and jewish ideas. I thought there had to be a separation in public school between religion and curriculums. How can they then teach the jewish-influenced courses on psychology and sociology? How do these reward their teachings on political correctness and multiculturalism?
The connection between the Frankfurt School and the student rebellion of the 1960s was made primarily by a key Frankfurt School member, Herbert Marcuse--the man who in the '50s coined the phrase, "Make love, not war." Marcuse's book "Eros and Civilization" argued that the tools with which to destroy Western culture were, in effect; sex, drugs and rock 'n roll. He popularized the Frankfurt Schools' ideas in ways the '60 student radicals could understand and absorb, and now we know his work is called Political Correctness
The educational and media world is very leftist in its view. College graduates came to believe in what the colleges and universities taught: multiculturalism
Bullinger was very good friends with Theordor Hertzel, the international Zionist. His Bible notes are full of the views of Zionism. The jews also paid degenerate Cyrus Scofield to "write" his Scofield Bible. His Bible, which is a little more that one hundred years old, is required reading for many evangelical churches. His notes, which also expound Zionism, have done much to destroy Christianity.
How did the Frankfurt School in America change America by means of "Political Correctness"? Patriarchy, Sabbaths, Feast Days, Jubilees, Sexual behavior limited as to who and when, Separatism, Marriage, Diet, Counseling, Discipline and Welfare are thrown away by the churches of Jesus Christ and most of them have been taken over by the State.
America does not read and does not know the Bible. The preachers don't preach what it says. They believed the new Bibles that were translated by jews and most are just plain ignorant.
They forgot and no longer understand what the Bible says about them and their ancestors:
1. God made certain unconditional covenant promises to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob/Israel that also extended to their physical descendants.
2. Their physical descendants were comprised of thirteen tribes and called Israel and the elect.
3. God delivered Israel out of Egyptian bondage and made a conditional covenant with them through Moses. It was a marriage covenant between God and Israel.
4. The conditional covenant provided that if Israel obeyed the laws of God that they would be God's "Kingdom," His "holy nation," His "own possession" and be blessed.
5. If Israel did not obey God's laws, they would be cursed.
6. One of those curses was that God would scatter or disperse them into exile and captivity "among the nations."
7. Many years after God made a conditional covenant with Israel, the nation of Israel was divided into the House of Israel (ten tribes in the north) and the House of Judah (two tribes in the south) with the Levites scattered throughout all twelve tribes.
8. Both houses continually rebelled and disobeyed God.
9. God finally pronounced His judgment on the House of Israel and scattered them "among the nations," exiling them into captivity by the nation of Assyria. God also sent 46 fortified cities of Judah into captivity to Assyria.
10. By this judgment, God also divorced the House of Israel so that they were no longer His covenant people. However, He did not divorce the House of Judah.
11. Later, God also sent the rest of the House of Judah into captivity into Babylon, but only for 70 years and then a remnant returned to the land of Judea and Jerusalem.
12. God prophesied through Jeremiah that He was going to make a New Covenant with the House of Israel and the House of Judah. He was not going to make a New Covenant with all the peoples of the world.
13. Through this New Covenant, God would reconcile both Houses to Himself and to each other.
14. This New Covenant was accomplished and ratified by the shed blood of Jesus Christ and by His death on the cross for the sins or transgressions of all the people of Israel which were committed under the first or Old Covenant.
15. The Apostles Paul and Peter testified that the House of Israel was "the Gentiles" and the "scattered" or those dispersed "among the nations."
16. Those from the House of Judah who returned to Judea from the Babylonian captivity were commonly known as "Judeans," often translated as "Jews." This designation by the English Bible translators continued in the New Covenant Scriptures.
17. The name translated as "Jews" never referred to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob or the ten northern tribes of the House of Israel. It only referred to Judeans of the House of Judah or tribe of Judah or those living in the land of Judea.
So, if the foregoing conclusions and documented facts listed above about what the Bible says is true, why is it that almost every pastor, church and Bible scholar doesn't know or believe it? How can intelligent people, who believe they know what the Bible says and means, say that:
1. Abraham was a Jew;
2. God made a New Covenant with every person on the planet;
The Gentiles are everybody on the planet who is not a Jew?
--Pastor Blanchard, Discover the Story of Your Biblical Heritage, pages 103, 104, 106, 107.
Maybe it is because we forgot the first commandment that our God gave to us: "I am the LORD thy God, who have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before me."
We believed the lie that His Laws were nailed to the cross of Jesus Christ--that we no longer had to keep them. So whose laws would we then keep?
Just ask our enemies: We will give them "Political Correctness;" Let them "make love, not war."
On today's campuses we have Marcuse's concept of "repressive toleration":the tolerance for movements from the left, but intolerance for movements from the right--enforced by the students of the Frankfurt School. By 1992, the heresy of Marcuse and Adorno now completely dominate the universities, teaching their own students to replace reason with "Politically Correctness" ritual exercises.
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Does the title of this blog sound like you? This is something I have always been curious about, though I have never personally been married, so maybe I wouldn't understand. I am assuming that you got married to your partner because you know each other well enough to understand and accept their flaws, dreams and life goals, as well as love them enough to want to spend the rest of your lives together because they compliment your life, you care about each other and love each other unconditionally.
The question is: Why do you crave attention from people you aren't married to? Whether you flirt with other people when your spouse is not around, or you actively cheat on your partner, you want that attention from other people for some reason. Maybe some things in life have changed your schedules around enough to barely see each other? Maybe something in your marriage is making your relationship reach a plateau, so while it's stale, you get out of your funk by lifting your self-esteem via flirting/cheating, not even considering if it's hurting your marriage? Maybe you feel like you've grown apart over time to the point of just feeling like roommates? Maybe you fight about everything all the time and you're exhausted? Do you believe the root of your problems with one another are honestly bigger than the love you once shared?
I may have mentioned this in previous blogs, but a partnership is only as strong as its weakest link . I cannot stress that enough. You both made vows to each other before an officiant that you promise to be true to one another, through sickness and in health, for better or for worse, 'til death do you part. Isn't this sacred anymore? Why get married if you don't know what those words even mean in the first place?? What happened to honoring those vows? I know some may argue that 'life is too short to be miserable, so why not split up once things go bad... blah, blah, blah..', but one thing I find is that too many couples give up way too easily in this fast-paced generation we live in! If it's broken, why not try to fix it, rather than replacing it? Your marriage is not a cell phone where if you drop it in the toilet, you toss it and get a new one. If you see it that way, then maybe you need to re-evaluate your priorities.
Love triangle from the manga "Peach Girl".
Couples counseling has worked for many, so why can't it work for you? I've had numerous conversations with friends in the past who have experienced these "relationship plateaus" and when I gave advice, it all boiled down to one common denominator: they forgot why they fell in love in the first place. They have forgotten about the little things, like how their partner's hair smells because they don't hug each other as long as they used to; they forgot about the cute looks they would get when they tell a joke wrong; they would forget about the butterflies they felt in their stomach the moment before the first kiss they shared, or the first time they held hands. They forgot about the excitement of the first date, and how much fun they had. This could take months, even years to reach this point, but I do notice a lot of couples reach the relationship plateau, it it gets really difficult to get out of it when you forget why you fell for each other to begin with.
I'm not even a marriage counselor, but it doesn't take a genius to figure this out- it just takes remembering
Another one for my fellow nerds- Sailor Moon & Tuxedo Mask.
how you watered the seed (the reason why you liked the person to begin with) that grew up to be a beautiful flower (when you fell in love and wanted to marry each other).
Again, some may argue, "Well, it's not about what they did in the past- it's about what they have done lately!" A marriage shouldn't be treated as a full-time job, where you give warnings to each other for every error that occurs before getting fired. Love is the purest, most beautiful thing to exist in the universe, and too many have become too jaded to believe this. It's actually sad. Those of us who got to experience this natural phenomenon are lucky because it's not something you can buy at the store- true love these days is actually rare, despite how many couples get married every day.
True love isn't perfect, but there's a lot of acceptance and compromising that is involved when you find it; obviously not to the point where you lose yourself, but just enough where you love and know yourself enough to understand that as you get to know the other person, you'd see if their life compliments yours and how you can problem-solve together as a team, before you decide if you want to spend your life with that person. Without that sense of knowing your partnership is a team, and you have to help each other out- to make each other stronger, to make the bond stronger- then you have no business getting married in the first place, let alone be in a relationship.
Johnny Cash & June Carter-Cash: My fave couple in history.
When you reach these relationship plateaus, it's time for change. Try something new with each other- schedule dates with each other in advance that work for both of your schedules, and try meeting up at the restaurant, like you may have when you first started to date. If you have kids, get a close friend or family member to babysit- work with their schedules too. If you don't feel ready to get to talking about your problems with each other just yet over dinner, maybe try going to the cinema to see a funny movie you both would enjoy- at least you're still spending quality time together, maybe even hold hands like you used to. It may seem like hard work getting out of your funk to begin with, but anything worth keeping is definitely worth fighting for, and of all things, I do strongly believe that true love is worth all the effort.
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} | 419 | One of our favorite recipes is this Glazed Quail with Mashed turnips from Jaime Oliver in his book "Jaime's America". It is a rustic but elegant meal and it tastes amazing. The video below shows you how we make it out in the field. You can find the full recipe below the video.
For the Smash:
1/2 lb. turnips, peeled and cut into 1 inch pieces
1/2 lb. potatoes, peeled and cut into 2 inch chunks
sea salt and freshly ground pepper
a large pat of butter
For the Quail:
4 *spatchcocked quail
olive oil
cayenne pepper
8 slices of smoked bacon, chopped into 1 inch pieces
A pat of butter
2 heaping tablespoons of brown sugar
1/2 cup worcestershire sauce
Italian parsley
Put the turnips into a pan with some cold salted water and bring to a boil. Once boiling, add the potatoes and continue to boil for 10 to 14 minutes, until a small knife goes through them very easily. Drain in a colander, leave to steam dry, then return them to the pan and add a large pat of butter and a good pinch of salt and pepper. Crush with the back of a spoon so they are smashed but still quite rustic and chunky. Taste for flavor and cover with lid or foil while you cook the quail.
Put a large thick-bottomed frying pan or skillet on a high heat. Toss the quail in some olive oil, a pinch of salt and pepper, and a pinch of cayenne. Rube the flavors all over the meat, inside and out, then lay your oiled quail in the hot pan. Cook for about 8 minutes, skin side down, until golden and crispy, then flip them over to the other side for 1 to 2 more minutes.
After the quail have been cooking for a few minutes, add the bacon. It is your job to keep turning things and watching the meat, so use your instincts and *turn the heat up or down as needed. When the quail and bacon are golden all over, turn the heat to low. Add a pat of butter, 1/4 tsp. cayenne and the sugar. Pour in the worcestershire sauce and 1/4 cup of water, stir and jiggle about to create a sweet and spicy glaze.
Remove from heat and serve on top of a heap of turnip smash.
*spatchcocked- split open
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Oct 2018
The project funded by the European Union aims to sustainably reduce the food insecurity and malnutrition of children under five and pregnant and lactating women in Lomela territory, where food security indicators were amongst the worst in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In order to strengthen resilience, the project focuses on the caisses de résilience approach that integrates three mutually reinforcing dimensions ̶ social, technical and financial.
Activities under this approach will contribute to improving quality seed and livestock production, increasing technical capacities, and diversifying income through community savings and loan schemes. The project also places special emphasis on environmental management and the sustainable use of natural resources to involve local communities in the process of mitigating the pressure on natural resources and ensure their participation in the development of adequate regulations.
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Fort Worth Taser Death Ruled Homicide
Michael Patrick Jacobs Jr. was stunned twice by a police Taser.
A mentally ill man's death after he was shocked twice by a police Taser was a homicide, a medical examiner's office ruled Thursday.
The family of Michael Patrick Jacobs Jr., 24, called for help April 18 saying he was causing problems, and Fort Worth police have said officers used the Taser after he became combative. Jacobs had difficulty breathing after he was handcuffed, and he was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead, police said.
Jacobs was stunned with the Taser twice -- the first time for 49 seconds and the second time for 5 seconds, with a 1-second interval between the shocks, according to the Tarrant County Medical Examiner's Office report issued Thursday.
Neither paramedics at the scene nor emergency room personnel could revive him, according to the report. He was pronounced dead about noon that day -- an hour after police used the Taser, the report said.
An autopsy showed no traces of alcohol or drugs, electrolyte imbalances, or signs of heart or lung disease, all of which can be contributing factors in a death.
The report said Jacobs' primary cause of death was "sudden death during neuromuscular incapacitation due to application of a conducted energy device," but did not explain why the death was ruled a homicide. Medical examiner's office officials declined to comment, citing pending grand jury hearings.
Police Chief Jeff Halstead on Thursday said the medical examiner's report would help his department finish its investigation into Jacobs' death, but he declined to comment on it, saying he would present it to the district attorney.
In 2001 Fort Worth police began using Tasers, a device that temporarily immobilizes a person with a 50,000-volt shock, over-stimulating the nervous system and causing muscles to lock up. Since then, Fort Worth officers have used them 1,360 times and four people have died. Jacobs' death is the first of those deaths to be ruled a homicide, he said.
"I want to express our condolences to the family of Michael Jacobs," Halstead said at a news conference. "Our thoughts are with them during this difficult time."
Jacobs' family remains upset over losing their son, who had been off his medication for bipolar disorder, said the Rev. Kyev Tatum, a family spokesman. Relatives called the police that day because they wanted him taken to the hospital, but officers "treated him like a common criminal" instead of showing compassion, Tatum said.
"We are relieved that the ME's findings line up with our facts, but we still believe that Mr. Jacobs did not have to die, and did not have to die the way he did, in front of his parents in his front yard crying out for help," said Tatum, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's Fort Worth chapter.
Tatum has called for a federal investigation after the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported that police initially turned paramedics away. Officers later called them back but had not started cardiopulmonary resuscitation, said Matt Zavadsky, associate director for ambulance service provider MedStar.
Also, a paramedic reported that a defibrillator used on Jacobs shortly after he was shocked with the Taser apparently did not work, according to documents obtained by the newspaper. Zavadsky said the machine was operational, but Jacobs' heart had stopped and cell phone and radio transmissions at the scene could have interfered and caused the monitor to give no readings. | http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Fort-Worth-Taser-Death-Ruled-Homicide-55512962.html | robots: classic
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Unit 4
Lesson Plan 1
Lesson Plan 2
Lesson Plan 3
Lesson Plan 4
Lesson Plan 5
Concepts/Objectives | Vocabulary/Background | Activity | Extension
Lesson Plan 5
1. In Los Angles the water in storm drains could flow into the LA River or could flow to Biona Creek. Contact Heal the Bay or your local water resource agency to determine exactly which path is taken by your local storm drains.
2. How is the impact different if it goes through the LA River or to the Biona Creek? (In Los Angeles, the LA River goes directly into the ocean, while the Biona Creek passes through a large wetland area and can have other impacts besides the direct beach environment. There are other animals and plants that live in the wetlands that are a little different from those that live just on the beach.)
1. Students can make flyers to educate the neighborhood and pass out to neighbors and post at local stores.
2. Students can keep track of the storm drains they marked and periodically check for debris build up--and keep them clean.
3. Contact your local agency that maintains the sewers. Often someone will come to your school and discuss the difference between sewers and storm drains; possibly including opening a manhole cover on the street to illustrate the difference in routes between storm drains and sewers. | http://www.usc.edu/org/seagrant/Education/IELessons/Unit4/Lesson5/U4L5E.html | robots: classic
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Here Lies Henry which concludes its brief run at the Camden People's Theatre on Saturday, reinforces all the stereotypes that gay men who live near Finsbury Park are just bad news, but they sure can dance.
We are introduced to Henry (played by Matthew Hyde) who appears in a dazzling bright light. He is a bit on edge, he is twitchy and he has a spare room for rent in Finsbury Park. And there is a body in the room. Or is there?
Henry is in his thirties and is a compulsive liar, optimist, potential drug addict and mildly romantic guy trying to make sense of his life.
The audience is left to piece together a series of flippant (and no so flippant) statements over the course of 70 minute monologue. It's called an experimental piece but what is more striking about it is the way Henry just talks to the audience, as though he has just been out for the last three days. It is as if you are trying to listen to someone in Vauxhall Tuesday morning who hasn't been home since Friday explaining what they have been doing.
Audience engagement may be critical, but at the performance I saw some fell asleep. Even the best actors are going to have a tough time trying to get a response from someone with the mouth half open and eyes shut. And if those around you are nodding off, you are not going to feel the urge to laugh.
But perhaps the material is showing its age. Written in the 1990s, the piece takes you back to a period when bitchy quips were the norm, but if you are not familiar with the party scene, the high drama and the occasional violence you may find it all a foreign strange world. There is a murder, some lies and Henry, but apart from being a terrific dancer, he isn't much of an interesting character. And no amount of slick lighting effects, clever projections and a strong central performance can hide that.
Daniel MacIvor's play reportedly has developed a cult following but even staying wide awake throughout I cannot say why. Perhaps you need an audience that hasn't seen it all before to appreciate it.
The references to a body in a flat in Finsbury Park had me recalling a visit many years ago to a prospective flat share in a basement property. The interior design consisted of pink lighting and cast off advertisements from Chanel perfume. While the piece probably merely intends to evoke hell in north London, I felt like I had been there...
Photo credit: production photo. There is no actual nudity in the play although potential soul baring.
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On this National Dog Day, let’s talk about the one subject our dogs probably love most…eating.
If you are a new dog owner, you may be confused about how often and how much you should be feeding your new family member. It’s almost as daunting as feeding a new baby.
Even if you aren’t new to dog ownership, you still may be confused about feeding, or maybe just unsure you’re doing the right thing.
Well, there’s really no black and white answer to how often you should feed your dog. Some people will free feed. Some will feed once a day. Some twice or three times a day.
In this post, we’ll talk about how often you should feed your dog. In our next post, we’ll talk about how much you should be feeding them.
Should I free feed?
When it comes to how often you feed your dog, the decision should be based on your dog, and what works best for them and you.
If you ask a trusted friend with a dog how often they feed them, they may tell you they put the bowl of food down before they leave for work in the morning and refill it when they get home.
Making a bowl of dog food available to your dog all day is called free feeding, and just might not be a good thing for your dog. If your dog likes to eat until you think they may pop, free feeding is not a good option.
Remember that dogs were hunters in the wild. When they would hunt and score a meal, they didn’t know when their next meal might come around. So it was okay to eat as much as they could consume. It could be days before they ate again.
Dogs in the wild also had to actively hunt for their food. They expended a lot of energy doing that. But it probably doesn’t take too much energy for Buster to walk from his bed to the kitchen to eat his dinner.
Free feeding can cause obesity and can be an unhealthy choice for your dog. It should never be considered for a puppy because they will definitely overeat.
Remember too that a dog’s appetite is an important barometer for their overall health. If a dog is sick, a change in their appetite may be the first sign. If you free feed, you may not see an obvious change in appetite.
When you feed on a schedule, a dog that normally runs to their food to eat but suddenly has no interest in it is telling you something. That’s a sign you don’t want to miss.
If you have a dog that you are trying to housebreak, free feeding will make it more difficult because you won’t know when they have to poop. But if they eat on a schedule, they will poop on a schedule, usually 20 to 30 minutes after they eat.
So how often should I feed my dog?
Most vets will recommend twice a day feeding which works for most adult dogs.
Puppies under 6 months of age should eat 3 to 4 times a day. From 6 months to a year, you should feed them at least twice a day. Once they’re a year old, they’re considered an adult and you can feed them one, two or three meals a day.
How do you decide how frequent their meals should be when they’re an adult? It’s very common to feed one meal a day. But if your dog is one that could be susceptible to gastric bloat (some large breeds), you may want to consider smaller more frequent meals.
I always fed my dogs one meal a day at dinnertime…until I had a dog with a finicky stomach.
I realized that if her meals were too big she’d throw up almost immediately after she finished eating. And in the middle of the day she would throw up bile.
Part of her problem was that she ate too quickly. So I slowed her down by adding water to her food and getting her a special bowl with obstacles in it. But this didn’t completely resolve the problem.
After fiddling around with her food, her bowl and her water consumption, I realized that she just needed to have smaller more frequent meals to keep the acid in check and her stomach less full.
I tried 2 meals a day at first, but ultimately she did best with 3 small meals. She could keep the smaller meals down and had something in her stomach throughout the day, which minimized the acid. She got the same amount of food; it was just apportioned over 3 meals.
Of course, if you have any concerns about how often you are feeding your dog or they aren’t responding well to the schedule they’re on, talk to your vet.
And be sure your dog has access to a fresh bowl of water with their meals and throughout the course of the day.
Be aware that pregnant and nursing dogs have different dietary requirements, as do working dogs. They may need to eat more frequently. Or in the case of a working dog, they may need a small AM meal with their larger main meal at the end of their workday.
Once you determine the right number of meals for your dog, you’ll want to be sure you are feeding them the right amount of food each day. We’ll talk about that in our next post.
How often do you feed your dog? Let us know in the comment section above.
Just another difference between cats and dogs…
And we know how much pet owners enjoy talking about the differences between their cats and dogs.
Dogs are pack animals and need to be with their pack. Cats are solitary and are more interested in their environment than they are in other animals or people. (What is it people say…cats stay with the house, dogs go with the family?)
Dogs run down their prey in the wild so they’re built for long distance running. But cats stalk and pounce so they’re built for sprinting.
Dogs are easier to teach a command. Cats are difficult if not impossible to train…except when it comes to potty training which they do instinctively. If you’ve ever had a new puppy, you know it’s not so instinctive for them.
And don’t make your cat angry because they’ll remember it for 16 hours…but your dog will be licking your face in 5 minutes. Cats have much longer memories than dogs.
The behavioral differences could go on and on. But what about the biological differences?
Here’s one that you’re probably not aware of.
There are around 20 amino acids in an animal’s body. In case you were wondering what amino acids are, they’re the building blocks that make up body-tissue protein. The body is able to make many of them but some you can only get through diet–the ones called essential amino acids.
Taurine is an essential amino acid in cats. Interestingly, it’s not an essential amino acid in dogs. Dogs are able to make taurine, so they don’t need to get it from their diet.
Why does my cat need taurine?
By now you’re wondering, “Why does my cat need taurine at all?” Well, taurine is really critical to your cat’s health. It’s important for normal vision, digestion, heart muscle function, reproduction, and for a healthy immune system.
If your cat is deficient in taurine, there are some pretty serious consequences, the biggest being feline central retinal degeneration (vision impairment) and dilated cardiomyopathy (weakening of the heart muscle).
Feline central retinal degeneration usually affects the central portion of the retina. Here’s a photo of a case where the entire retina was affected.
Severe case: atrophy of entire retina
Severe case: atrophy of entire retina
The central part of the retina is the area where your cat can see the best. So they would have a hard time seeing stationery objects in front of them with this condition. They usually do still have some peripheral vision though.
Take a look at the illustration below, which shows the effects of dilated cardiomyopathy.
This ailment causes enlarged heart chambers and the walls of the chambers become thin. Thinning of the heart muscle makes it difficult for it to contract. And that makes it difficult to push blood out of the chambers. This overload often leads to congestive heart failure.
In the wild, a cat’s diet would give them the taurine they need to avoid these problems. Cats are strict carnivores and taurine is found in animal-protein, specifically in the muscle meat of animals. So in the wild they would get the taurine they need from their animal prey.
But cat food is not made solely from animal protein. In fact, dry food often has a fair amount of cereal grains. Grain is needed to make kibble. Cereal grains and other plant-based proteins do not have taurine.
And the heat that’s used to make dry food…it reduces the taurine naturally found in animal protein.
Luckily, cat food is supplemented with taurine, at least since the 1980s.
If you feed your cat dog food–DON’T. Dog food isn’t supplemented with taurine, and it doesn’t provide enough taurine for a cat naturally. It has more plant-based protein than cat food does.
What can cause a taurine deficiency in my cat?
Besides feeding your cat dog food, a lack of taurine can be caused by:
• Feeding a home-cooked diet low in taurine-rich foods
• Your cat not eating enough cat food to get the needed amount of taurine
• Feeding a frankenprey diet, or prey model raw diet, if you freeze the food. (Freezing may reduce taurine levels.)
Do I need to give my cat a taurine supplement?
If you feed your cat a food formulated for cats, the answer is no, as long as your cat is eating enough of the food.
If you’re feeding a home-cooked diet, you should talk with your vet about taurine deficiency and whether or not you should test your cat’s taurine level. If your vet thinks you should give your cat a supplement, they’ll be able to recommend the right one for your kitty.
What if my cat has vision impairment or dilated cardiomyopathy as a result of taurine deficiency?
Your vet will suggest a taurine supplement and monitor your cat’s taurine level regularly. Supplementation may be lifelong or temporary, depending on the severity of the deficiency, the cause of the deficiency, and your cat’s ability to maintain taurine levels.
Supplementation won’t reverse blindness but it will stop the progression of the degeneration if you catch it early. As for dilated cardiomyopathy, it can usually be reversed, if not fully than at least partially.
Husse premium dry cat food is formulated with taurine. And Husse’s dry food contains a lot of poultry and eggs–animal protein that provides all the essential amino acids in the right proportions. Try Husse’s Exclusive Lean or Exclusive Sensitive dry cat foods. If your cat prefers a wet food, try Husse’s Chicken in Jelly or Tuna in Jelly.
Not all proteins contain sufficient levels of essential amino acids. The high quality of the protein found in Husse’s food is just as important as the amount of protein in the food.
Has your cat experienced a taurine deficiency? Share your insights in our Comment section above.
An interesting note…
Although taurine is not an essential amino acid in dogs, there are two breeds that are predisposed to a taurine deficiency—the Newfoundland and cocker spaniel. If you have a Newfie or Cocker, talk to your vet about taurine.
Three of Husse’s dog foods are formulated with taurine—Optimal Giant, Senior, and Senior Mini.
Probiotics…Do Pets Need Them Too?
Any health magazine or website you subscribe to these days touts the benefits of probiotics for people.
But what about our cats and dogs? If probiotics are beneficial to human health, should we be including them in our pet’s diet?
The answer is yes, in most cases.
Probiotics are living bacteria similar to the bacteria that are found in the digestive tract. Probiotics are good bacteria that stimulate the growth of beneficial microorganisms. This beneficial gut flora, as it’s called, helps maintain good digestive health. It also prevents an overgrowth of bad bacteria that can affect the immune system.
Why would your dog or cat need a probiotic?
You may be aware that antibiotics and steroids can cause an imbalance in the gut flora, but you may not know that other factors can upset this balance too. A sudden change in diet, strange eating habits (stool, rocks, sticks), boarding, emotional stress, travel, age and disease can all cause bacterial imbalances.
Since these things can occur at any time, giving your pet a probiotic supplement on a regular basis will maintain the bacterial balance needed to keep stools firm and minimize stomach upset, as well as keeping other bad bacteria down.
If you’re considering a probiotic supplement for your dog, talk to your vet. There is a lot of variation from one probiotic to the next. The strain of bacteria can vary. Some only contain one strain. Some contain several strains.
Enterococcus faecium, Bacillus coagulans, Bifidobacterium animalis, Lactobacillus acidophilus, Lactobacillus rhamnosus are strains that have been shown to have value for pets. Your vet can discuss the benefits of each and help you decide what’s right for your dog or cat.
Also be aware that shelf life and proper storage can affect viability of the bacteria. These are living organisms that some times require refrigeration. And like other supplements, not all probiotics are tested for potency or purity.
Some dry premium dog foods contain probiotics, which can be an easy way to incorporate probiotics into your pets diet.
What are prebiotics and does my pet need those too?
Prebiotics are non-living food ingredients that feed the good bacteria in your pets digestive tract helping the good stuff grow and flourish. Prebiotics are specialized types of fiber that are not digested by your dog or cat. They arrive undigested in the intestines enabling them to influence the bacteria population in the gut.
Prebiotics such as fructooligosaccharides (FOS) and galacto-oligosaccharides (GOS) are naturally found in many foods that we eat such as asparagus, chicory, artichokes, garlic, onion, bananas, honey, rye, wheat, oats and soybean. But to have any prebiotic effect, your pet would have to consume large quantities of these foods, some of which could be harmful to them.
Researchers have found ways to isolate the prebiotics in food, making it possible for pet food manufacturers to include prebiotics in their recipes. Some manufacturers include both prebiotics and probiotics. Some include one or the other.
Ideally, you’d want your pet to have both a prebiotic and a probiotic because prebiotics are a food source for the good bacteria found in probiotics. This further enhances the population of good bacteria in your pet’s gut.
Prebiotics are not a food source for the bad bacteria that exists in the digestive tract. So using both prebiotics and probiotics improves the overall intestinal bacteria balance.
Be aware that prebiotics are not recommended for all pets, particularly pets with Inflammatory Bowel Disease and some other gastrointestinal conditions.
Talk with your vet before adding any supplements to your pets diet.
If you are considering a dog food that contains prebiotics, try one of the following Husse recipes: Valp, Valp Mini, Valp Maxi, Lax & Ris, Light Optimal, Optimal, Optimal Giant, Prima Plus, Senior, Senior Mini.
For cats, try these Husse recipes: Exclusive Lean and Exclusive Sensitive Cat.
Do you give your pet a prebiotic or a probiotic? What has your experience been? Share your experience with us in the Comment section above.
Is Your Dog Getting the Calcium They Need?
I think we’re all guilty of loving our dogs so much that we often think about making them happy before we think about keeping them healthy.
Of course we’re not consciously trying to compromise their health. In fact, we’d be horrified if anyone ever suggested this. But, unfortunately, we may unknowingly be doing just that.
What could possibly be so detrimental to our dogs’ health? Feeding them a diet that consists mainly of human food…either cooked or raw.
Our food is so tasty…and they just don’t seem to get the same joy eating their food…and it’s just so hard to resist those eyes…and dog food makes Fido scratch…and I could go on and on with all the reasons people feed human food to their dogs.
We probably all know more pet owners than we can count on both hands that “love their dog too much to feed them dog food.” But that attitude can be detrimental to your dog’s health unless you are fully aware of all their nutritional needs, and are willing to supplement where human food falls short.
Balancing Calcium and Phosphorus
There are 2 essential minerals that your dog isn’t likely to get in sufficient amounts if their diet consists mainly of human food: calcium and phosphorus.
Calcium and phosphorous are two minerals that are essential to a healthy diet. Just like humans, dogs need calcium for strong bones, healthy teeth, blood coagulation, muscle contraction and nerve impulse transmission.
Along with calcium, dogs need phosphorus in their diet. It’s also important in bone growth, essential to cell membrane development, and it’s a component of DNA. Phosphorus is also necessary for calcium metabolism.
But here’s the tricky part…the balance between calcium and phosphorus is critical. In an effort to give your dog enough calcium in a home cooked diet, it’s easy to give them too much phosphorus. And too much phosphorus is dangerous. Too much of anything in a dog’s diet is dangerous. Excess phosphorus can interfere with calcium uptake and can result in renal failure.
Calcium and Phosphorus in a Home Cooked Diet
If you feed your dog a commercially available balanced dog food, your dog will be getting the right balance between calcium and phosphorus. But problems arise when you feed your dog a diet that consists mainly of human food and you aren’t aware of what nutrients are important in what proportions. It’s easy to overdo it with phosphorus because animal proteins are high in phosphorus.
The ratio of calcium to phosphorus in your dog’s diet should be about 2 to 1 as you can see from the chart below (
Peak growth and lactation 1.0-1.8 0.8-1.6
Adult non-reproducing 0.5-0.9 0.4-0.8
*On a dry matter basis
Interestingly, many foods that are low in calcium are high in phosphorus and foods that are high in calcium are also high in phosphorus.
Here’s the problem in creating a healthy home cooked diet for your dog. Look at these nutrition numbers. Beef has 217 mg of phosphorus and 15 mg of calcium in a 3- ounce serving. Lamb has 162 mg of phosphorus and 14 mg of calcium in a 3- ounce serving.
Now if you wanted to up your dog’s calcium by giving them a slice of American cheese along with the beef or lamb, you’d be giving your dog 156 mg of calcium but they would also be getting 145 mg more of phosphorus.
If you are trying to maintain a 2:1 ratio of calcium to phosphorus, it’s likely you’ll have to add a calcium supplement to a diet that consists mainly of human food in order to just increase calcium without increasing phosphorus.
If you really feel strongly about giving your pooch a mostly home cooked diet, consider a diet that consists of ¾ commercial food, ¼ fresh food. This balance will generally give your dog the nutrients necessary to stay healthy.
But you can feel confident that if you choose to feed your dog a nutritionally balanced premium dog food without fresh food, you are doing the right thing for your beloved pet. Eliminate the worry over whether or not your dog is getting what they need from their food. Tooth extractions and broken bones are the last thing any one wants to see their dog go through.
If you are a customer of Husse you know you can trust that Husse Premium Dog Food is nutritionally balanced for all your dog’s health needs.
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Aching joints predicting the weather has long been one of the biggest controversies in medicine, but now, some doctors are admitting that the knees know.
"It's just sort of an ache...it kinda tells you that something is coming," says David Brady.
For David Brady, that something is usually bad weather. Just before the rain drops start falling on his head, an aching pain or discomfort shoots up his leg.
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It's not just an old wives tale or urban myth. Doctors say they hear from their patients all the time that there is a connection between bad weather and bones held together with tendons and ligaments. When the weather changes, the joints tell them before the weather forecasters do.
"As the temperatures change or there's an extreme change in temperature, the joints being very affected by the barometric pressure can swell a little bit and due to that many patients with arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, even fibroid myalgia can just feel those ambient changes," Dr. Sonali Khandelwal-Balidya explains.
Patients feeling that aching pain the most are people whose nerves in the knees, elbows and other joints are already irritated, torn or damaged.
"I guess it's always storming then (laughs)," one Chicagoan told FOX 32. "I've always got an ache."
"My mother always sad that was true," another said. "She would say if her knee hurt or something like that or whatever...the weather was changing."
Others, though, are still skeptical.
"I hear a lot of people say that's what's happening to them, but I have never been---maybe I haven't been in tune to my body and maybe that's why I don't see the connection," a woman countered.
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The new 2016 P Series starts at $1,000, and they aren’t just 4K TVs but rather HDR 4K TVs that can display bright highlights, inky blacks, and life-like imagery with plenty of detail to make even the dimmest scene standout. They also support both Dolby Vision and HDR10, so you won't have to worry about whether it'll handle one format over the other, and each set comes with a 6-inch Android tablet that wirelessly charges via a stand.
This tablet doubles as a remote, but you also get a standard remote for those who prefer physical buttons. You'll likely want to use the Wi-Fi-enabled tablet however, as it powers the smarts behind the TV and its streaming features, which notably includes Chromecast. Just install any Chromecast-compatible app onto the slate, and then cast its contents to your P Series screen.
READ: Google Chromecast tips and tricks
This P Series ditched Vizio's smart ecosystem of menus and apps and smarts in favour of sole support of Chromecast and the full-fledged Android tablet remote. Keep in mind the tablet isn't required for streaming video to the TV. You can cast from any Chromecast-compatible app on your Android or iOS device. There's also the Vizio SmartCast app, which is preinstalled on the tablet.
It's a standalone app for Android and iOS that'll let you search for content across several streaming services while also serving up access to your television’s settings. The app will even group soundbars and other home-audio equipment. Alongside this functionality, Vizio revealed that it's working on a few wireless speakers and a wireless home theater system that'll work with Chromecast-enabled apps.
You'll be able to cast music to the speakers and manage the speakers themselves via the SmartCast app. Vizio hasn't revealed too many details about the speakers yet, but they are coming and we should know more by summer. Going back to the P Series for a moment, Vizio said each set features an eight-core processor, 802.11ac Wi-Fi, Bluetooth LE, five HDMI ports, a component-in array, a USB 3.0 port, and a USB 2.0 port.
READ: What is Google Cast for audio?
As for pricing, the $1,000 50-inch model packs a 120Hz refresh rate, while the $1,300 55-inch model offers 240Hz. There's also 65-inch and 75-inch versions of that set for $2,000 and $3,700, respectively.
Also, Google is making a small change to complement Vizio's lineup: it's renaming the Chromecast app. The app will now be called Google Cast.
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blondini13, Jan 29, 8:57am
My partner wants to buy a video camera to take family home movies etc. We would want to easily be able to copy them from pc to dvd to play in our dvd player and send them to family overseas.
Would you recommend one of those flip mino things or a bigger hdd camera, sorry I dont know much about them. ease of use is imperative. TIA
craigsmith, Jan 29, 9:24am
DVD is not HD so if you only care about making DVDs an HD camera is pretty pointless.
Having said that, they almost all are HD these days, hard to find a decent camera that shoots SD PAL.
The mini things are pretty shit. You get what you pay for.
blondini13, Jan 29, 10:02am
I meant hard disk drive not high def. Or should I just get one with a big ass dvd slot?
morrisman1, Jan 29, 10:11am
Tape based cameras are better quality but are a pain to transfer the video to a computer. A hard drive (or flash memory) based recorder will probably be good enough so long as you don't go al-cheapo. Yes even though you don't need HD for dvd starting off with a HD video will end in better results on the dvd. A good microphone is a must, it is something easily overlooked.
morrisman1, Jan 29, 10:12am
dont get a dvd one, expensive media and you will more than likely need to edit it before burning to dvd anyway, at least if you want a good end product.
I think in this day and age you would be silly not getting one that shoots in 1080i
chevyxman, Jan 29, 10:26am
I would stay away from those mino flip cameras or any flip camcorder.They are cheap for a reason. Go for a brand camcorder, you will get better picture because they have bigger sensor and lens. And Generally speaking, the smaller the camcorder, the worst the picture quality.I would go for Panasonic camcorders or Sony or Canon, and stay away from JVC and they would be around $500+.But then again if youre looking at a $150 flip camera, then go for it.
blondini13, Jan 29, 10:51am
I would prefer to spend the extra $$ and go for something highly recommended than something cheap. I will be the one ultimately doing the work in transferring etc. So is there a camera that records to a hard disk drive then can be plugged into a pc and copied to a dvd just like a digital camera? If so is there something you can recommend brand and model wise?
r.g.nixon, Jan 29, 10:53am
DVD format only has 576 lines of resolution. Make sure that you keep the original 720 or 1080 lines version as a computer file.
blondini13, Jan 29, 11:21am
Unfortunately that means nothing to me sorry r.g.!
If I am an amateur (which I am ) which brand/model should I go for, for ease of use and quality... TIA
chevyxman, Jan 29, 11:38am
Well if you want convenience and easy to use entry level camera, then go for a Panasonic SDR-S50, you can pick a new one up for less than $400 on Trademe brand new, and it records to SD card, thats really convenient, and you get panasonic trusted quality.
blondini13, Jan 31, 7:44am
Do you sell these chevy?
stardesta, Jan 31, 8:29am
In all honesty, the camera I would recommend is the Kodak Zi8 Pocket HD Camera.I own 4 video cameras.My most expensive camera is the Sony FX7ie HD Camera, the other 2 are mini dv cameras, and my final camera is the Kodak Zi8.Youtube Kodak Zi8 it is the best HD pocket Cam... and it destroys the Flip Mino.Good luck
stardesta, Jan 31, 8:30am
And forgot to add that the kodak costs around $280.Can record up to 10 hours with a large SD card.You can plug it straight to your computer
blondini13, Jan 31, 8:31am
Sunds good, thanks star...
sinbad22, Jan 31, 8:57am
morrisman1 wrote:
Tape based cameras are better quality .
Really!! tell that to peter jacksonand his studio full of "RED 1s"
Most Tape based cameras (pro and consumer) use ccd sensors while the new wave of digital cinema cameras now use a form of cmos sensors hence better results. Huge quality can be found in consumer cameras such as dslrs from canon nikon ect that not only give you unmatched video quality but the best of both worlds with stills also.
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Syrian Civil War Grounded to a Stalemate
Published on 16 February 2013, by M. Tomazy.
By Zachary Fillingham
Opposition troops in Syria have largely come to be referred to as the Free Syria Army (FSA), but this title belies the fact that the anti-Assad side of the civil war equation is composed of several disparate groups, all with conflicting visions for a post-Assad Syria. In reality, the FSA was born out of a group of largely Sunni Syrian Army deserters led by Riyad al-Assad, and that is likely more or less the composition that remains to this day.
The FSA claims to have now assembled a force of 40,000 men, but analysts have pegged the number at closer to 10,000. The more generous estimate that the FSA touts might include Islamist foreign fighters that are active in the Syrian theatre, a group that shares the FSA’s short-term goals without falling under its immediate command structures. This disconcerting mix of ‘wholesome’ army deserters and ‘unwholesome’ Islamists has kept Western aid taps firmly shut so far.
The West’s apparent unease over supplying the FSA does not mean that weapon shipments are not flooding into Syria. Quite the contrary, the rebels are said to receive ‘daily’ shipments via Lebanon and Turkey, which are likely financed and organized by Qatar and Saudi Arabia.
The FSA has carved out a territorial stronghold for itself in the north of Syria in the area adjacent to the Turkish border, primarily in the regions surrounding Idlib and to the north of Aleppo. There are other large pockets of FSA resistance to the north and south of Homs. However, given the guerrilla tactics being favored by the FSA, the map is in a constant state of flux. The FSA is at a material disadvantage against government forces, so FSA commanders will often choose to melt into the countryside rather than stand and fight.
In the past, the FSA has had success encircling large government deployments in Idlib and Aleppo, and although reports from the north are as unreliable as they are sparse, the FSA is said to be fielding increasingly sophisticated weaponry in the past six months.
Damascus has also reported heavy fighting recently, and some sources have attributed it to a rebel push out of strongholds in Ghouta, a region to the east of the capital. Although it’s possible that the FSA has expanded its operational capacity from its base in the north, the more likely explanation is that these attacks, some of which have included suicide bombings, are actually the work of the ‘unwholesome’ branch of the Syrian insurgency.
Poised to Push Rebel Forces out
On the other side of the military equation, the Syrian Army shows no signs of being beaten into submission. Quite the contrary, if anything it seems poised to push rebel forces out of a few strategic cities. While real news is sparse and government information must be taken with a grain of salt, several facts can still be gleaned in regards to the Syrian Army.
First off, the wave of desertions that originally swelled the ranks of the FSA seems to have receded, and the troops that remain are likely committed to seeing the conflict through to the end. Second, the Syrian Army has the manpower and material means to hold on to the major cities in Syria. Currently, there is no major urban center that has totally fallen to rebel forces ala Benghazi during the Libyan conflict. And finally, the Syrian Army will maintain its lifeline of foreign assistance, at least in some form, via arms shipments from Russia, a government that claims to have taken no sides in the conflict while simultaneously filling out ‘previously agreed-upon’ arms contracts for the Assad regime.
The sum of these parts is a civil war with a government side that is committed, well-supplied, and convinced all the way down to the individual foot soldier that its very existence is at stake. On the other side, there is a guerilla force that is decentralized, multifaceted, trans-border, and increasingly materially and logistically competent. Both sides enjoy a long bench of foreign backers ready to fight for their cause.
This all points to the indisputable fact that the Syrian civil war has ground to a stalemate and there is no end in sight.
There are a few scenarios that can arise moving forward, the first of which being a military stalemate much like the one we are currently witnessing. The Syrian Army will continue to hold on to cities, maintaining a firm grip on Damascus and a more tenuous one on the northern cities of Aleppo and Idlib, and the FSA will continue to recruit, resupply, and regroup in the countryside. Civilian casualties will continue to mount and refugee camps will grow in the neighboring countries of Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, Egypt, and the north of Iraq. As more and more time passes, a de facto territorial division may begin to appear in Syria. Under this scenario, the war’s victor will be determined by attrition and exhaustion.
Barriers to a Negotiated Solution
The second possibility is a compromise, which would be ideal in terms of mitigating the loss of life. However, several barriers to a negotiated solution currently exist, the biggest of which being that both sides still believe they can win. Fruitful negotiations are also frustrated by the fact that the Syrian opposition doesn’t speak with one voice, which is forgivable on the battlefield because everyone knows who the enemy is.
The same can’t be said for politics: The National Coalition for Revolutionary and Opposition Forces, the Syrian National Council, the National Co-ordination Committee, seculars and Islamists, locals and the diaspora – all of these actors give rise to a cacophony of disparate interests that defy direct talks. For proof, one needs look no further than Moaz al-Khatib’s call for government negotiations on Februray 6.
Al-Khatib, the leader of the National Coalition, called for the talks in light of the worsening humanitarian situation across the country. His comments drew immediate criticism from the Syrian National Council, who accused him of betraying the cause of Assad’s removal. And this is merely scraping the surface of the byzantine web of Syrian opposition groups.
The third scenario is a game-changing foreign intervention. This is the hardest to predict because of the huge number of variables involved. It is also potentially the most dangerous. Much has been written about the possibility of the Syrian civil war spilling its borders and triggering a regional sectarian conflict, and that it has yet to do so is a testament to the restraint of foreign backers on both sides. But this won’t necessarily be the case for the entire duration of the conflict.
Israel’s recent airstrike on Syria is a good example of a potential catalyst. Should the Assad government want to start beating the war drum against Tel Aviv, Iran could get involved and the result would be a regional war. Similarly, Iran may choose to vent its recent economic frustrations by increasing its involvement in the Syrian conflict, which could draw Western countries into the conflict, and once more, the result is a regional war.
In addition to these state-initiated political scenarios, there is also the sectarian element to be considered. Syria is surrounded by Sunni, Shiite, and Kurdish populations that could conceivably be drawn into the conflict under certain macro circumstances.
Only time will tell how the civil war is resolved; likely a whole lot of it.
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Military analysis.
March 18 2011 4:55 PM
It's On
The U.N. Security Council passed a resolution on Libya. What happens next?
Read more of Slate's coverage of the Libya conflict.
United Nations. Click image to expand.
French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe votes for the U.N. resolution
And so, at last, it's on.
Fred Kaplan Fred Kaplan
After weeks of pressure for a no-fly zone over Libya, the U.N. Security Council passed a resolution on Thursday allowing that and much more.
On Friday afternoon, President Barack Obama announced that, in cooperation with the European Union and the Arab League, the United States will enforce that resolution.
The U.N. resolution, which was approved by a 10-0 vote (with five abstentions), authorizes member states "to take all necessary measures"—including, but not limited to, a no-fly zone—"to protect civilians and civilian populated areas under threat of attack in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, including Benghazi."
These documents are written very carefully, so the language is worth parsing. It authorizes military action to protect not only Libyan "civilians" (a potential loophole, since one could argue that the rebel forces fighting to overthrow Muammar Qaddafi are no longer civilians but rather combatants in a civil war) but also "civilian populated areas."
In the event that Qaddafi were to try to evade the resolution by announcing a cease-fire—as indeed his Foreign Minister Moussa Koussa did immediately after the resolution's passage—the resolution authorizes military action to protect areas that are not only under attack but "under threat of attack." And to pre-empt further evasions or arguments, the resolution notes that these threatened areas include Benghazi, the last major rebel-held city, whose residents Qaddafi has threatened to kill in a door-to-door rampage.
In short, this is about as tough and tight as U.N. resolutions get.
In his televised announcement this afternoon, President Obama said that Qaddafi would have to stop advancing his troops on Benghazi; withdraw his troops from other Libyan cities that he's taken through force; and restore gas, water, and electricity to those cities, while at the same time allowing humanitarian groups to bring in supplies. If Qaddafi does not do all of those things, Obama said, the "international community" will enforce the U.N. resolution "through military action."
The only measure that the resolution excludes is the deployment of "a foreign occupation force of any form on any part of Libyan territory." The Libyan rebels have said they want no such force, few if any foreign governments are inclined to send one, and Obama clarified today that he would not order any ground troops to Libya. Still, it's good to have the restriction stated explicitly, in order to avert a) the most slippery slope of escalation and b) charges (and not just from Qaddafi) that the U.N. action is a cover for Western imperialism.
On that point, it is significant that the United Nations measure was preceded—and probably triggered—by the Arab League's unanimous endorsement of a no-fly zone five days earlier. Once that event took place, it became nearly impossible for Russia or China—which had spoken against any military action—to veto the measure in the Security Council. (They merely abstained, as did Germany, India, and Brazil, though the latter three countries have no veto power; they could have voted "no" without affecting the outcome.)
Obama has insisted, from the outset of this crisis, that the Arab League would have to lead the way toward a solution, at least publicly. (We don't yet know whether, or to what extent, U.S. diplomats applied pressure to get the league's remarkably unanimous vote.) Many stateside critics have called on Obama to take action unilaterally, as if his reticence were a sign of weakness or misplaced political correctness. One might argue that he could, or should, have pushed more quickly for this diplomatic outcome. But whatever happens in the coming days and weeks, the results—good, bad, or both—will be more legitimate, and thus more effective and enduring, than if the United States, or even the West, had gone in on its own.
It's also a good thing that Britain and France are taking the lead in sending in combat planes—or at least making the most upright statements while doing so. Their interests in Libya, however defined, are more vital than ours. And since the end of the Cold War, we have been waiting for the Europeans to assume more of our common military burdens. This could be the moment when the alliance becomes more truly balanced.
So, what can this array of U.S., European, and Arab air forces do? Quite a lot.
The French and British have already sent Tornado and Typhoon warplanes to the area. Both models are multipurpose planes, equipped with guns and missiles to shoot other planes out of the sky, as well as "smart bombs" (laser-guided munitions and GPS-guided JDAMs) to hit targets on the ground.
The Saudi and Egyptian air forces are similarly armed, mainly with F-16s and other planes that the United States has sold or given them over the years. It's now time for them to step up and take action in their own interests rather than let others carry the burden and, if things go badly, the blame. | http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/war_stories/2011/03/its_on.html | robots: classic
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} | 5,026 | Best Buy USA cuts $10 from 16GB TouchPad, $20 fro 32GB; Canadian arm cuts $70 | webOS Nation
by Derek Kessler Tue, 12 Jul 2011 12:16 pm EDT
If you’re looking to save money on a new HP TouchPad, it’s looking like Best Buy might be the place to go. Both the American and Canadian divisions of the electronics mega retailer have put the TouchPad on sale, and for once the Canadians are actually getting a better deal than their southern counterparts.
Best Buy USA has opted for small undercutting, uh, cuts on the TouchPad, shaving $10 from the 16GB TouchPad, and $20 from the $32GB. That brings the pricing down to $489.99 and $579.99, respectively. It’s not a massive price cut, but we’ll save money where we can. Throw in the $50 “I own a Pre” rebate and you’re looking at getting a 32GB TouchPad for as little as $529.99.
Canada, however, gets the better end of this stick. Best Buy Canada has the TouchPad on pre-order, with a slated arrival date of July 15th. And to undercut their maple leaf rivals, the Canadian division of Best Buy is offering $70 off on both storage capacities of the TouchPad. That brings the price down to $449.99 for the 16GB TouchPad and $549.99 for the 32GB TouchPad. Even with the current conversion rate (CA$1.00 = US$1.03), Canada’s getting a better deal on the TouchPad than anybody else. We know, aboot time, eh?
Source: Best Buy USA, Best Buy Canada; Thanks to Mattso, sml_blok, and Jordan for the tips!
Wow! Save $20 on an overpriced, under spec'd (based on the new model shipping in the "coming weeks" ugh not that again) tablet with no app catelog and buggy software. No thanks. At this point I wouldn't buy one for $399.
You obviously have not used a TouchPad. The software isn't buggy and there is an adaqute app catalog for being out for less than two weeks.
You obviously have not used a TouchPad. The software is buggy and there is an inadequte [sic] app catalog for being out for less than two weeks given they said there would be tens of thousands of apps on launch.
Who said what?!
I am sure you are joking but, just for reference...
Engadget: What are you doing on the developer front? [This was before the developer event]
Steven [McArthur]: We expect to have apps in the low tens of thousands by the launch of the Pre 3 and TouchPad. That's phase 1. We've got a massive footprint, we're committed to building the best tools for developers, and we're committed to putting in place the best marketing, and helping them drive their business programs.
Please keep repeating this as HP wants to keep sweeping their public promises under the rug as each one turns out to be a lie.
TENS of thousands. Pffft.
Ahh...much better. The Pre3 isn't here as yet, but what are we at now? Seven tenths of tens of thousands? LOL. Just another perspective.
Yeah....they added a handful in the FIVE MONTHS since McArthur said that, but they've got 14,000 (you need 20,000 for "tenS of thousands") lined up and ready to go in the next 30-60 days for when the Pre 3 arrives?
Even if McArthur mistakenly meant 11,000 or 12,000, they still need to drop 5,000-6,000 in two months when they couldn't get anywhere near that in FIVE.
Just yet another lie from the HP talking heads.
The Pre 3 doesn't launch in 30 to 60 days. That is just the soft launch. The real launch of the Pre 3 and the Touchpad has been moved back to 2013.
He wasnt talking about the Pre3 though was he. He said that when the TouchPad launches he expects to have tens of thousands of apps.
LOL. Just a realistic perspective.
Thumbs up for you!
And minus rank for you!
Wait a week or two and the price may go below $399 and you can buy one then. The drop in price after only two weeks means there is no one buying them now. Great OS but too little, too late, too expensive and too few people left on the Pre/WebOS wagon to make any difference.
First a hardware bump and now a small price drop. o_O
this is just another step in their diabolical plan towards becoming.... "Number one plus"
I went back to BB yesterday with my receipt and got refunded the difference with no hassle. Now the total cost of the device for me is $530. Pretty nice price for a 32GB tablet.
Did exactly the same thing...
LOL~~~~~ All you American must be FacePalming so hard right now. Go Canada Go~~~ I can get $50 off the touchpad since I had a pre-, now for 399, this is a steal~~~
PS:I pre-order the 16GB version, I am hoping that HP will miss the shipment and give me a 32GB one instead. Finger Cross.~~~~
you mean 499, come on man, we Canadians are supposed to be smarter than that... lol
yeah, I forgot the rebate is only available for 32GB version
Hey Mr. Canada. $50 dollar rebate is only for 32GB even in Canada, eh.
duh!!!! I guess I take my chance for the short supply of 16Gb model then.
oh boy!
I never understand these price drops. The price drop doesn't even cover most sales taxes.
I recently switched from my Sprint pre to an evo3D cause I saw no hope for a pre3 that won't be able to do what a phone already on the market can (as far as specs, let alone actually coming to Sprint). That being said, I LOVE webOS and want a TouchPad. But with an android phone and a ASUS laptop I need a reason to spend $100 more on the TouchPad instead of the eee transformer. This $10 doesn't mean anything to me. **** I'd still be just as likely to buy the TouchPad if they raised the price $10.
This is why the price drop rules for us Amazoners =)
didn't see the price drop on Amazon. The free Amazon prime for college students is awesome, so if I got it I'd get it on there... but still I'd need to buy 10 TouchPads just to save the money that I should on 1
I just did the same thing... Evo 3d. I'm waiting for HPalm to get their act together, and for those 'tens of thousands' of apps to appear before I jump onto their boat again. I waited 2 years buying into all the 'coming months' and promised updates and promised applications and utility.
It never came, so I left. I still think WebOS is far superior to android, but at least now I can: access my bank account through secure mobile apps rather than the mobile site, buy/check-in for regular flights through a proper app and not a mobile site, have a decent camera!, able to edit/save/send/print documents from my phone, use my company email without IT having to finger my phone for 2 days to get all the settings to jive (yes IT is stupid, at least they know android and can make it work in 2 minutes).
All I miss? My gestures, simpler multi-tasking, having to charge very hour (zing!) and a more integrated notifications experience. Not enough to justify the suffering.
When you consider that you miss gestures and they basically took all the cool gestures away for the touchpad, you made a smart move considering your preferences. Android is clunky though isn't it? But, considering Google hired the team that designed WebOS, I am sure the UI will improve soon enough. You will be ahead of the game on us who followed the HP Pied Piper. I keep thinking though that Windows is going to come roaring back with something awesome. Then again, I thought that of Palm for 2 years so I maybe just like underdogs.
Give it another month and I bet it'll go down again. I'm sad for webOS. I'm about at my end with patience for the Pre3 too. Such a good OS which is limited by its hardware.
Correction: Such a good OS which is limited by nothing happening with it.
Saw this coming from July 1st.
i'd hate to one-up ya, but i saw this coming from the moment they annouced the pricing.
I've been saying all along since HP announced pricing that the point of their pricing was to make it comparably priced to the iPad and then have a slew of retail discounts. You'd be amazed how much of an effect that has on average consumers, they're getting a "deal".
I think you are right. I used to think there would be more of the QVC type bundles to choose from as a "deal". Now, I just think I should wait until they are closing them out entirely.
The Amazon price is reduced also (as of last night). $572 for the 32GB model.
It went as low as $570 even earlier than last night, then went back up to $572 late last week.
actually, costco has had the 32Gb at $579 for a while now. not to mention that they extend the warranty to 2 yrs on tablets, computer, and TVs. and with the $50 rebate, that's $530 for a 32Gb touchpad.
Still too much.
Costco does not extend the warranty on tablets. The staff specifically told me this when I went there to purchase one.
are you sure? i heard this too, but when you look at the shipping tab on their touchpad web page, there's a little blurb about extended warranty which isn't there on all other items.
Price Drop = No Demand
This, is just the first of many to come.
Ha, I was just about to post, this is only the beginning.
seriously, Glenn, what are you doing in this forum? you're obviously not interested in getting a touchpad or any webOS device; so why are you here?
i'm not interested in getting an ipad and you won't see me in the ipad forum. i'm not interested in getting a honeycomb either so you won't see me in the android forum as well. i'm interested in webOS so i come here to read about what's new with the devices. that's why i'm here.
why are you here? if not just to **** and moan?
I am here because I own a pre-. I enjoy using webOS. I want it to succeed.
I just refuse to blindly swear allegiance to HP and I get a kick out of watching how they run things there.
Many of us non-fanboys argued for a while that matching the price of ipad was a horrible business decision. Fanboys killed us saying, "you have to match the price so it looks as good". Well, we were right.
Here's the even worse news... The touchpad looks even cheaper because it is going to have to make huge price drops to sell. That looks a h*ll of a lot worse than just pricing it low out of the gate and saying "we have a good product, it's not everything the iPad is (even though it is better in many ways), but give us a try and save $150.00.
Sorry, but it is fun to gloat...
Sorry, but you are a loser...
I will pray for you. You will find peace in your life some day friend.
well, you have a very funny way of showing it. man, i sure hope you don't have kids. God only knows how your "support" will affect them.
I suppose the "webOS fan-person" way of raising kids would be to keep saying "great job little Tommy" no matter how bad they are misbehaving.
Trying to understand the need to bring up someone's parenting skills in a tech blog. /smh
it was supposed to be funny, but i guess you didn't get that. i'm not questioning his parenting skills, just making an analogy. saying "great job little Tommy" all the time is just as bad as saying "lousy job as always!" don't you think?
being a real fan should mean that you praise what's good and point out what's bad. i'm a huge yankees fan and i'll be the first one to boo them when they're playing like like **** but i DON'T boo them at the top of the first inning...if i'm going to do that, i might as well not come to the park at all.
but that's not what we have here, is it? i can't remember a post from this guy that isn't bashing the TP or, essentially, calling those people that bought it suckers. now, you tell is that helping webOS succeed?
Agreed, but do you also reply to the posters that only post how great webOS is?
nope. when i'm in partying with elmo and oscar, i usually tell oscar to chillax :).
Too bad. You just missed a chance to validate your point and not seem as biased as you claim certain posters to be. Oh well.
dude, it's human nature. happy people makes me happy so i let them be. grouchy people kill my buzz. you're telling me you're different?
but i think you missed my point. personally, i think life is too short to waste time with something you hate; people should find something they love instead and follow that. but if hating is what makes the guy happy, then so be it. that's his right. i'm not telling the guy to NOT be grouchy. i'm just telling him to be grouchy somewhere else.
Just suggesting that there is a difference between "grouchy" and "having an opinion different from yours". By your logic, he could simply claim that YOU are being grouchy because you don't see things his way.
As for me, I can read positive and negative posts on a topic without resorting to labeling the poster or questioning their parenting skills.
Most of us here either own, have owned or have used a webOS device and we come here to talk about what we think about the OS. Unfortunately, many here wish the "conversation" were a bit more one-sided.
If the one-sided conversation is what you want, you may want to try the forums where things are...censored.
and what exactly do you think about the OS? i've searched through the comments here and i haven't figured it out yet. just a lot of iPad is better and that webOS is doomed. if you want to talk about the faults and merits of the OS, or the devices for that matter, then i think the phrase "don't come to me with problems, come to me with solutions" applies. this is a "fan" site after all right? to me, coming here and bashing the OS all the time is not unlike atheists crashing a christian newsgroup, or vice versa.
but i think i'm resigning to the fact that every sesame street will always have an oscar. so i think my time is better spent writing up a browser plugin where i can hide comments from GlennBeck. maybe i'll make it configurable so i can add your username as well ;).
I am so confused! For the first time ever I am feeling my love of Palm vanish. (moving my cell from the Sprint Pre to Virgin Mobile Android phone for only $25 bucks per month!) And now I find myself actually agreeing with GlennBeck! For the first time I just gave a thumbs up to Glenn who has been an absolute toolbag in these forums (dude, you know you have - you love to get everyone fired up).
Ugh, this is a sad day. I really mean that! I feel numb.
Thanks HP! Number one+ So glad I stuck my neck out for you all those times.
I can't wait to hear how the Fanboy's explain this!
Fanboy: They are selling so well that HP is making so much money that they are now cutting the price so that they can continue to get webOS in the hands of all of their faithful!
sounds familiar Glenn :)
You're wrong Glen. This is HP's way of #makingItRight(er) as they continue on their #marathon (to 7734 with #Sprint) to become #1(er).
This strategy confuses you because it is truly #likeNothingElse.
Best comment for a long time!
LOL...the marathon has just begun. I have to ask though, is your keyboard key '#' stuck?
He is making fun of HP's obsession with twitter, and the fact that they PAY to be a pretend trend of the day.
Man, I'm sad for you. A person with no sense of humour and all that hatred. A pity I can't pray for you.
It's easy to explain, it's the same reason as I gave when they announced the pricing that was to match the iPad. They planned to launch these then run a slew of retail discounts. This is entire not unexpected.
They planned to launch it buggy and overpriced, just to make sure reviewers and consumers had a negative impression of it.
They always planned to fix the bugs and price it right a month after release. Everyone loves an underdog == $$$.
Amazon had $50 off the 32gb the other day, it went back up a bit though.
If I was going to buy one, which I am not, I'd buy from Amazon.
Actually, highest discount so far by Amazon is 5%.
Must have been a blip in their system, because a few days ago I noticed a $50 discount.
And Nyallj, you do post some odd things.
Why would I bother to make that up?
Never implied you did, but I been checking Amazon quite often and noticed the 5%. I put it there in the forums, and has been followed with updates everyday since. No mention of $50 off anywhere.
Actually, you were clearly saying I was making it up, not implying.
The $50 discount was one of the shops selling through Amazon, not directly from Amazon. There were some wary people that felt that making that purchase would mean they would get their $50 Pre-owner rebate honored.
$499.99-5% = ~$50
$599.99-5% = ~$60.
So, what's your point?
Also, Why is the OP saying $70 off =
$499.99-$70 = $449.99 ?!?
$599.99-$70 = $549.99 ?!?
Where did he go to school? Should be $429.99 and $529.99, no?
Wow - already a price drop, and before the the "Full Launch" starts July 17? Is this really a good sign?
i still want one but i have to see what that update brings to take care of lag. im sure by the time that happens the new spec bumped touchpad will be out and another price cut will be in place. :)
For some reason your comment just made me remember something that I have to ask:
Isn't the processor in the TouchPad actually a 1.5 GHZ processor that they underclocked for head concerns? I swear I read that somewhere or heard it on one of the many hours off my life I spent listening to WebOS podcasts.
The reason I ask is because it feels like the article and many of the comments are treating this new AT&T TouchPad like it has a new processor. Could it be that they will update the launch-day TPad to be at its full 1.5 gig processing capacity? Is this even possible?
Sorry! I meant to type HEAT concerns they had with the processor, not HEAD concerns. LOL!
What a slip! HP and HEAD shouldn't even be in the same sentence at any time - ever! They don't use their heads, they don't make headway on product launches, the executives probably give more than they get of it too. :)
I deserve to be thumbsed down for that.
it's funny, when HP priced the touchpad the same as an iPad, a lot of people complained and said that "it should be priced lower if HP wants to seriously compete." then the price drops and the same set of people are saying "woah, that can't be good."
Well, if I may, this isn't an intended strategy. These retailers are lowering the price of these products, not HP, so clearly Best Buy is cutting the price because they just are not selling. There is no other reason than pure competition, and that being said, this price drop won't make a difference. Nobody cares if something is 10 dollars less than an ipad 2.
The fact is, HP needs to drop these to $399 before they start advertising them, or they won't sell any of them. They've already shown their hand, it's not like some huge surprise is coming in a week to make this thing insanely more competitive.
Please write some articles for PC!
well, there's a reason products are priced at $499 and not $500, afterall. so we can't possibly guess what makes difference with the general public based on how we ourselves would have decided. marketing is a tricky thing. i heard half of the earth's population will buy something just because it's "on sale" :).
i'm not saying that the TP is selling like hotcakes but retailers such as best buy and amazon will always try to undercut the competition regardless of how a product is selling. they work on volume. i think the only reason that you don't see the iPad selling for cheaper in these retailers is because the price is tightly controlled by apple. they don't even play that "minimum advertised price" game. i'm not sure what the policy is if they ever find out that a retailer is selling their products cheaper than the MSRP.
I'm not sure if this sways me in the direction of the touchpad, 'cause I'm still on the fence. I love the interaction between phone and tablet, but I wonder if Android 4.0 will bring similar interaction, and I want to see the Pre3 before I invest my waiting tablet/phone money...
Anyways, just happy my tip got turned into an article!
You may have a better chance of seeing Bigfoot than seeing a pre3.
Wow! Even the Slate 500 lasted longer before being discounted. I guess we don't have to ask how sales are going.
When was the Slate 500 discounted? Everywhere I've seen those are still running at their launch prices.
Man, you just can't please some people. First you **** that the price is too high, then you complain that there are price decreases. What do you want? (Don't answer that, it's a rhetorical question!)
It's standard marketing in technology markets. Initial price is the highest; You can't raise prices and then you discount to generate sales or to move inventory. You can offer a sale price and remove it, but you rarely see price increases. Look at PC's, laptop's, TV's, or cell phones.
The big difference today is the life cycle of a product. It's very short compared to just a few years ago. And in this case, it's not HP lowering the price, it's a retailer trying to gain a very small edge on it's competition. Just say thank you, and if the price is appealing and hits your price point, buy it or wait for a lower price. It's the american way!
Classic Fanyboy statement.
Product life cycle is short. Now life cycles are 1 month! And I thought I got scre*ed with 12 months of support for my pre-.
apparently, life just screwed you.
I dont think anyone who is planning on getting a TouchPad is complaining about saving money.
What I am reading is, 'We told you so' and 'wow it must be selling badly'.
Only reason to shift inventory is if you have a new product coming out (TP 4G is not a 'new product').
If you need to discount to generate sales after a few days, that is sad, you should have had a lower price to start with and I struggle to think of a successful product that has had to engage in that tactic.
Product life cycles are not 10 days.
This is cool for me because ill go back to best buy and get some money back. And i don't care being a first gen adopter because i had a blast using it for the past 11 days. Granted i wish they would of got the spec bump out faster but hey its out, 4g is now available. all we need now is the first round of bug fixes (which exist and are coming soon since the code is already available to devs) and a good RDP app like logmein and we are golden. the rest is just wish wash flim flam.
HP, pay logmein a few mill to get that touchpad app cranking out, its the only app really worth anything on the iPad, the rest are just child games.
...logmein...its the only app really worth anything on the iPad, the rest are just child games.
That's it! I'm no longer flying with the airlines because those children using iPads calling themselves pilots should not be flying planes.
Those fake professionals that we just built an iPad app for to manage their datacenters are really children and what we built were games.
Those prepubescent similac-breathed individuals that pretend apps like Netflix and Flipboard are important make me sick.
And let's not even mention those children that trained for many years just to pretend to be Astronauts on the final space shuttle flight with their fake experiments running on iPhone4s. Only children would work that hard just to use those toys while getting their rocks off floating around in space for 12 days.
I'm done. Gonna run out and buy a TouchPad tomorrow so I can hurry up and wait for [insert app name here].
Excellent post, but PreMaster was simply using a figure of speech to say that to him, if he can control a PC, everything else is secondary. You tee off on him just to get your point about the iPad being the popular choice made. We know it is popular. I think we just wanted to see a superior system become popular. But alas, HP TouchPad is our new Betamax. Superior in ways, but won't be adopted by the sheeple of this planet. And yes, you can be a techno-lemming and be an astronaut.
While my post used the iPad and iPhone as examples (to keep with the iPad dig), the actual point was about the importance of "apps" and an ecosystem, not a particular platform or product.
By the way, the Betamax was not necessarily "the superior" product "overall". That reference has been misused way too often. There were lots of reasons, both technical and non-technical, why the VHS won that particular war.
Probably priced now where they should have started.
Ten Dollars less? Really? Try 100 less.
Given that the Canadian dollar is worth more than the US$ this simply brings Canadian prices in line with US.
well i guess the "price the same as ipad strategy" didnt really pan out the way they thought. i cant believe they actually thought the general public would look at the the two and pick the touchpad over ipad........
Like was said by anyone that knows how HP works the moment they announced their prices were going to match the iPad, they target the price point they want the device to be compared to and then they run retail discounts, either directly or through partners. You've been able to get a similar discount directly from HP for a couple weeks, even on the pre-orders.
hahaha I called it.
This is why I didn't pre-order one (other than no incentives) I knew it can't compete at the same price as the samsung galaxy and the ipad2. Of course they have to drop the prices to sell them.
In another month they will be $399 and $499. I'll consider picking one up then.
Wait for the $299 bundle with touchstone on Woot. I call Spring 2012.
wow look at best buy's main page.
they are pushing the ipad2 over the touchpad. "Thinner, lighter, faster, facetime, 10 hour battery life."
You realize that list on Best Buy is in comparison to the iPad 1.
I believe the question is "why does best buy still feature the (relatively old) iPad 2 on the main page when the 11-day old TouchPad has to be searched for?"
You're right. Because TP has facetime! so..
I wonder if you pull up the Canada site on your phone if they'd pricematch it in store thinking it's the US site. Does BestBuy Canada have a mobile site?
Well, this "retail discounts to make 'em think they're getting a deal" is working wonders.
During launch weekend and a few days after, the TouchPad was actually in the top 10 bestselling Amazon tablets (at the bottom of it, but still....).
Now, with these handy discounts and reduced Amazon price....
They've plummeted to the bottom of the top TWENTY. Of course, it is the highest-rated! Too bad it keeps losing in the cash register poll...
Waiting for all the refurbished, returned units to be offered on WOOT for $200
At this moment, Amazon is at $564.95.
BPH Photo is at $556.95 (with free shipping).
These price decreases are expected. HP wants to send a message that this device is comparable to the iPad2. So they set the prices at the same level, rather than cheaper which would suggest the devices are inferior. But for market penetration purposes they need to sell it cheaper. So "sales" and "discounts" to bring the effective price down. No surprise. The question is where the price is going.
You can see the Amazon price history on Tracktor:
I am not sure if this is the same everywhere else, but they are actually selling the 32gb Touchpad at a local walmart (Granite Falls, NC) for 522$ I am still aprehensive about shelling out my monies for my favorite OS (which shouldn't be a concern, but nonetheless it is). But I really would like to have a tablet, but not really interested in supporting Apple, Android or any one else really. Just wanted to put the price point I have seen out there.
The current Pricedrop does not necessarily have anything to do with the how the Touchpad is selling. In Canada the only store currently selling the Touchpad as far as I know is the HP Store in Downtown Vancouver. And the $70 discount is probably due to the fact that the $50 rebate is not available in Canada.
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By Dan Nakaso - Advertiser Staff Writer
At Jose's funeral, swimming wasn't even mentioned.
Two weeks later, five days before Christmas, "Bunny" died in Columbus, Ohio, far from his old friends.
Their passing went largely unnoticed.
But there was a time - 60 years ago - when Jose Balmores, Bunmei "Bunny" Nakama and his older brother Keo, Halo Hirose and Bill Smith swore an oath of allegiance to swimming, and to each other, and wrote a page of Hawaii's history.
They were the core of a remarkable swim club that emerged from the sugar cane irrigation ditches of Puunene, Maui, and ended up breaking records around the country and the world.
Today, after seeing two consecutive Olympics canceled, fighting a world war and, finally, winning gold, Smith, Nakama and Hirose look at the December deaths of their two friends - their teammates - with no trace of tragedy.
"At our age, you expect to go," said Hirose, 74. "The fact that we lived a pretty good life, that's the thing we remember."
In the kitchen of his Kaneohe condominium, Smith, 72 displays the bookends of his career with the team.
On one side of the table are his two gold medals from the 1948 Olympics in London, resting on a bed of blue velvet framed in koa.
On the other, equally as valuable to Smith, sits a crudely cut piece of wood, formed into a small shield. It's the plaque for the 1940 and 1941 "Monthly Boys' Improvement Point Contest." Clearly visible are the straight - edged pencil lines that the "Coach used to guide his hand as he painted in the names:
Nov.: Jose Balmores, Dec.: Jose, Jan.: Jose., Feb.: Charles Oda, March: Bill Smith. April: Bill, May: Bill....
In 1937, a Puunene elementary school science teacher named Soichi Sakamoto dreamed of getting at least one of the dozens of boys and girls on his swim team to the 1940 Olympics three years away.
They each made a three - year commitment and he called them the Three Year Swim Club, or 3YSC. Their motto was: "Olympics first, Olympics always."
Smith remembers one team meeting where Sakamoto pulled out a bamboo pole and made the 30 or 40 older swimmers each grab hold. He talked about team work, common goals and unity.
The pole was a symbol, a "stick - as in, "We stick together," Smith said.
"Coach wasn't a great one for making long speeches. But what he said was effective."
Indeed, Sakamoto - now 91 and not up to being interviewed - helped shape the lives of hundreds of plantation kids who otherwise faced a predictable future of school and a lifetime of work in the Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar co. mills or its fields at Puunene.
He took kids who dodged the luna to swim in irrigation ditches and showed them a sport that offered a chance to earn a college education.
The Nakama brothers, Hirose, Smith and Balmores, were among those he coached into national championship and world record swimmers. Balmores was perhaps the the best all-around swimmer. "Bunny" Nakama, not nearly as strong as the others, stunned them all at the 1940 national championships in Santa Barbara, Calif., when he bat Balmores, Smith and the rest of the field in the 1500 - meter freestyle.
The result was a team of record holders and champions. Until they came along, "no one had even heard about Hawaii swimming," Smith said.
In The Ditches
Before Smith moved from Oahu to live with Sakamoto, and before Hawaiian & Commercial Sugar Co. built a pool at Baldwin Par, Balmores, the Nakama boys and Hirose were "the original ditch boys from Camp 5," Hirose said. The four soon became the perennial national champion 800-meter relay team.
"Old Man DeLima (was) the camp policeman," Hirose said, "He rode a big horse and he had a big whip. Mr. DeLima would wait for us by our clothes, so we had to ditch our clothes. We swam all natural."
Those were the days before pesticides, and Hirose said the ditch water was clear and cool and perfect for swimming. It was usually three feet deep and the channels were about the width of a standard swim lane.
They shared the water with goldfish and catfish and other creatures. Nakama, now 76, remembers bumping into a dead chicken or two being flushed out of the fields.
Smith trained in the ditches a few times when the Baldwin Park pool was closed because of an occasional staph infection outbreak. Sakamoto would mark off a point 50 yards ahead and the the swimmers to sprint to it, fighting the 15 mph current. Once they reached it, they'd float back and start over.
Interrupted By War
In 1940, the war in Europe killed the Olympics. But the boys and girls from the 3YSC continued to knock down records and win national competitions.
After the 1940 national championships, and with no chance at an Olympics, Keo Nakama led his brother ("Bunny"), Hirose, Balmores and Smith to college careers at Ohio State University.
As the war heated up, the draft caught up to some of the boys at Ohio State. Smith went into the Navy. Balmores served with the First Filipino Regiment Battalion in the Philippines. Hirose joined the 442nd Regimental Combat Team in Italy.
In 1944, another Olympics died.
After their service, they started their competitive swimming lives over. Smith, Hirose and Balmores went back to Ohio State and took a shot at the '48 Olympics.
Dreams Realized
Smith made the team and brought back gold in the 400 freestyle and 800 freestyle relay. Eleven years after "Olympics first, Olympics always," the Three Year Swim Club finally had its Olympic champion.
Sakamoto himself would get his chance at the Olympics as an assistant coach in 1952 and 1956. He also would coach at the University of Hawaii and the Hawaii Swimming Club.
In the years that followed, the boys of the 3YSC started careers of their own. Smith ran Oahu's lifeguard program for 25 years and also was a swimming coach. Keo Nakama became a Hawaii school teacher and state legislator. Hirose worked as a probation officer for the state. "Bunny" Nakama joined the Ohio State athletic department. Balmores became a financial whiz for the University of Hawaii and Bank of Hawaii.
They married, became fathers and then grandfathers.
somewhere along the way, even though four of them still lived in Honolulu, the bamboo pole promise to stick together no longer held, and they rarely saw each other.
"I guess we all went our separate ways as we got older," Hirose said.
But once, 60 years ago, there was a time.
Oh, was there ever a time
This article was contributed by Lani Kay Nakama, youngest daughter of "Bunny" Nakama - Mahalo ! | http://hawaiiswim.org/legacy/bunmei.html | robots: classic
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} | 441 | Foxconn, Inventec, Barnes & Noble facing Microsoft Android patent lawsuit
By 03.21.2011 :: 4:16PM EST 03.21.2011
• bgates
It shows the naivete of putting Microsoft any list of ethical corporations.
They are basically extorting money off succesfull competitors.Patents awarded for obvious things to those skilled in the art are a big money-making scam – think FAT file systems and garbage “innovations” like that, where signing a patent agreement means little more than fear of bankrupting yourself in a drawn-out legal battle against the deep pockets of MS.
Microsoft gets their deep pockets by virtually arranging that when you buy a PC, Windows will be installed on it, setting themselves as a lucrative toll collector, essentially a tax collector (without representation) since most people end up needing a PC.
If anyone tries to break the monopoly by fighting for cross-platform, non-proprietary standards such as Open Document so you would not be locked into Windows, MS games the standards body by infiltrating the standards body.
If a vendor dared to offer alternative Operating System PC’s in the past, MS threatened to punish them with marketing penalties, an unaffordable hit on their razor-thin margins.
Their so-called charitable donations to public organizations and third-world markets are dumping operations to ensure there is no critical mass of competing operating systems to encourage applications and hardware support.
Their location is the state of Washington but they declare out of Nevada to avoid paying licensing taxes, costing their home state billions of dollars. Their millions of contribution dollars to politicians on the other hand ensure they are not dealt with by antitrust law. Their “PC tax” revenue is taken advantage of to pay off companies like Sun, Yahoo and Nokia to further perpetuate their monopoly despite their market technical incompetence, thereby ensuring even more billions in years to come.
This is tip of the iceberg,since their warroom comes up with various dirty tricks e.g. MS search for “MS dirty tricks” or “MS evangelism”, most people are too bambi-like to suspect or believe, and that is just the tricks that have been proven through leaks, not the worst tricks, like financing 3d party lawsuits, moles, etc.
Defenders of MS need not reply. I doubt you did the research anyway.
• fedupngrumpy
HTC capitulated to keep from being bankrupted in court, due to MS’s philosophy of “if you can’t beat them, bully them, buy them!”. They are so much bigger than almost everyone else, they can just about bully anyone into anything all because of their MONEY. In America, greed and deep pockets are wonderful things if you are a evil corporation or a bought-and-paid-for politician. | https://www.geek.com/mobile/foxconn-inventec-barnes-noble-facing-microsoft-android-patent-lawsuit-1330871/ | robots: classic
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Apparently It's Fairly Easy to Hack a Tesla
Something like this was bound to happen at some point.
Now that Tesla has its fire debacle sorted out and solved, another serious issue is now arising. According to a new report, a corporate security consultant, who also happens to be a Tesla owner, announced at a security conference in Singapore that he found several design flaws in his car’s security system. Nitesh Dhanjani didn’t find any software problems, but he said that "we cannot be protecting our cars the way we protected our (computer) workstations, and failed."
So what flaw did he find then? Apparently, if a Model S’s security password is stolen or even cracked then it’d be entirely possible for someone to gain entry inside the vehicle. They wouldn’t be able to start it up and drive off (a key fob needs to be used for that), but they could easily steal everything inside. Dhanjani also stated it’s not so difficult for owners’ passwords to be compromised. A thief could just guess an owner’s password on the Tesla site, which doesn’t restrict incorrect login attempts. They could also steal the password by hacking into someone’s personal computer. And a stolen password can lead to serious problems.
As soon as a new Model S is ordered, customers setup a six-character password which is used to enter Tesla’s mobile phone app and to gain access to the owner’s online account. The app can be used to unlock the car remotely along with other abilities. "It’s a big issue where a $100,000 car should be relying on a six-character static password," Dhanjani summarized.
Related Cars
Starting MSRP
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} | 359 | Notes on the Sudden Awakening/ Gradual Awakening Distinction
The Chinese Ch'an Master Tsung-mi wrote about the sudden/gradual distinction, classifying the relation between the two in several ways including:
In the "mu" koan, someone might engage in the repitition of "muuuuu" until they become one with "mu." When they become completely one with "mu" and then they awaken out of that state, then there can be a sudden realization of the oneness that had been obscured by scattered thoughts.
We can see how this relates to the example of the Zen student who attains enlightenment when a pebble hits a bamboo. They have been purifying their consciousness so that there are no excess thoughts obscuring the awareness of immediate experience (some used the term "pure experience"). It's almost as though one is gliding down a pure, flowing river with nothing to interrupt the flow. As long is one is completely immersed in the pure flow of immediate consciousness, it's almost as though one is unconscious because one does not have the thought, "This is a flow," or "I see the flow."
But something clicks to make one notice that one is in the flow. Perhaps one looks up and the glint of rays from Sun makes one take notice, and one has the thought, "Wow, what am amazing flow of water," "What an amazing flow of vivid moments."
The rock hitting the bamboo can be likened to this moment.
If we emphasize this particular model of gradual build-up and sudden realization too much, then we become closer to the original poem by Shen-hsiu that was criticized by the 5th patriarch. If we focus on keeping the mirror clean, worring about the dust, then we can never really be fully immersed in the present moment. So, if one tries too hard to immerse oneself in the flow of immediate experience (first nen) as a sort of concrete goal, then one might actually be frustrated by all of the "distractions" that take away from this concentration.
One should see the purity of experience that is always there, always underfoot, in the here-and-now. By focusing on the here-and-now, one will naturally become immersed in the immediate moment (and also awaken out of it moment by moment.) | http://pages.uoregon.edu/munno/OregonCourses/REL4400002/SuddenGradual.htm | robots: classic
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} | 713 | Alexander Technique 101
I offer one-on-one Alexander Technique sessions. Let me tell you more…
What is it? The Alexander Technique is an awareness practice concerned with exploring how we inhabit our bodies. We discover how our physical and mental habits and stories affect how we “use” our bodies and how we “posture” during our daily life. Through myo-fascial release and re-educating structural patterns we touch back into our innate birthright design. What emerges is natural poise, ease, presence, a sense of lightness. We become more comfortable in our body during our activities and even in our thinking. It’s a fascinating process of rediscovery.
Why try it? Some motivating reasons are to relieve pain and tension; improve posture; relieve headaches and TMJ; feel more comfortable in your body; develop more awareness; improve performance whether it’s playing an instrument, singing, playing sport, public speaking; find more comfort while chopping vegetables, meditating, writing, doing yoga or working at your computer; relieve fatigue; regulate anxiety or depression; relieve pain from conditions such as arthritis or repetitive strain injuries; or to try something new because nothing else has helped your problem.
What is a session like? When you arrive for your “lesson” (you see, the idea is to learn something) first you tell me a little about your story or your day. Then, depending on where I’m drawn to by my observation or by what you tell me, I will start the hands-on work by gently placing my hands somewhere on your body — perhaps your neck, shoulders, or back. Or, I may begin somewhere else, perhaps at your feet. I continue using my hands, my observation and my whole self to listen to what your system tells me. I may ask for your feedback and you can give me feedback or ask questions at any point. We begin to have a dialogue listening with our non-verbal kinesthetic awareness as muscles and fascia release, joints begin to move more freely or your heart and mind become more quiet. We might work while standing up, sitting down, in movement, or while you’re lying on the the table. We might take it into an activity such as reading, writing, working on a computer, playing an instrument, or driving a car. As your system responds we might put words on what you’re sensing or noticing.
My goal is to help free your body of excess tension so that you experience more integration and support. You become more in tune with the natural intelligence of your system. There is more being and less doing. I will provide you with tips and techniques on how to tap into more of that goodness during your daily life. I will suggest ways you can explore the work between lessons. I’m an anatomy nerd so I teach you something about that, too.
About AT jargon. There are a bunch of principles within the Alexander Technique and I will slowly introduce them to you. Ideas like primary control, directions, the inhibitive moment, non-doing, end-gaining, pulling-down, debauched sensory appreciation. Yes, I just used the word debauched. Some of the language that F.M. Alexander used to describe the discoveries he made during the early 1900s is pretty awesome.
One final note. The Technique supports you to explore new ways to inhabit your body. This will require you to lessen your commitment to habitual patterns and ways of being. You start to say no to habitual ways of using yourself that may be creating pain and dysfunction. You discover new choices available in your body and mind that will help you feel better as you go about doing what you want to do in your life. You say yes to new possibilities. Amazing things happen including one of the most well-loved benefits of all — you stand taller.
Making an appointment. Sliding scale $90-$65/hour. Though one or two sessions can be useful, having a series of lessons over a period of time generally results in more lasting benefits. My schedule is variable and flexible. Email or text to set up a session. | 617.877.1700
Last few of details. Just wear your comfortable clothes. My studio is in my home In Lincoln and there is plenty of parking. We have two cats and eight rabbits. Lastly, please avoid wearing scented products including clothes washed in highly scented laundry detergents and softeners. I am sensitive to chemical scents and they often induce a headache.
Thank you. I look forward to working with you. Peace. | https://wendydakini.com/tag/posture/ | isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-04
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Comment: John Riccitiello is Darth Plagueis (Score 1) 254
by Kildjean (#43655057) Attached to: EA Is the Game Company Disney Was Looking For
Palpatine said...
This isn't a story EA would tell you.... It's a Sith legend.
"Darth Riccitiello was a Dark Lord of the Sith so powerful and so wise, he could use EA to influence the midi-chlorians to make...games. He had such a knowledge of the Dark Side, he could even keep the game studios he cared about...from dying.
He became so powerful, the only thing he was afraid of was losing his power...which, eventually of course, he did. Unfortunately, he taught his apprentice (who works for Disney) everything he knew. Then his apprentice killed him in his sleep. Riccitiello never saw it coming.
True Story...
Comment: Re:I still like my mouse (Score 1) 54
Have you thought that using this in combination of a mouse would give you more liberty during a presentation or general computer usage? I wouldnt use this alone without a mouse, but i think it works better than the kinect does and it will be integrated on laptops. That is big.
Comment: or just hire the US DoD... (Score 1) 627
by Kildjean (#37419204) Attached to: Anonymous Kills Websites, Cartels Kill Bloggers
I think Mobama should send them a couple of pissed off Marines there for a little R&R (tequila, women and fire), or just hire a merc wing from the US DOD and do a cleanup... Mexico shouldnt be that difficult to overtake... a couple of M1A1 HA Abrams Main Battle Tank should do the trick... Mexico Urban layout is like afghanistan ultra light...
Comment: Re:It's a CAT-2 storm, for god's sake... (Score 1) 395
by Kildjean (#37231020) Attached to: Hurricane Irene Prompts Unprecedented Evacuation of NYC
You are a dumb ass. Hurricanes (along with Tornados) are the only atmospheric events that are categorized. Tropical Storms are not categorized. Further more according to NOAA Irene is still a Category 1 hurricane. Per NOAA www.noaa.gov:
"...Irene Re-Emerges Over The Atlantic Ocean...Water Levels Rising In The Virginia Tidewater Region... Published: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 18:52:53 EDT
At 7:00 p.m. EDT, the center of Hurricane Irene was located near latitude 36.5 north, longitude 75.8 west, or 35 miles southeast of Norfolk, V.A. Irene is moving toward the north-northeast near 16 mph and this motion accompanied by a gradual increase in forward speed is expected during the next day or so. On the current forecast track, the center of Irene will move near or over the Mid-Atlantic coast tonight and move over southern New England on Sunday. Irene is forecast to move into eastern Canada Sunday night. Maximum sustained winds remain near 80 mph with higher gusts. Irene is forecast to remain a hurricane as it moves near over the Mid-Atlantic coast and as it approaches New England. "
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River Otter has right to be in Vancouver Parks
Native Species should be supported, not evicted!
by Roslyn Cassells
River Otter
River Otter
Nov. 26, 2018. The River Otter currently living in Dr. Sun Yat Sen Garden, a Vancouver Park Board Park, should be left unmolested by humans!
The current plan to trap and relocated a native species from a Vancouver Park Board public park must be stopped. Native wildlife should be supported, not evicted, from our parks and waterways.
The mock concern of Dr. Sun Yat Sen Garden's employees for the koi is hypocritical, given their lack of care for the fish over the decades, resulting in die offs due to preventable habitat conditions, including when I was a park commissioner from 1999-2002. During my term I had to hire an outside company to try to save the resident koi from death because the garden was too cheap to allow greater water flow which was needed to up the oxygen content in the koi ponds at the time.
Given that the larger older koi all died off at the time I would find it improbable that the garden now has a 50 year old koi at this time, unless she was added after the big die off and was already quite old then.
Regardless, native wildlife, given all they have to contend with from humans...habitat destruction and so on, should not take back seat to introduced species, particularly ones placed there by humans deliberately. I would much rather see a native river otter in a Vancouver Park than a fancy goldfish.
As a former park commissioner for the Green Party I find it outrageous that the current board has not put a stop to this violation of a native species' attempt to survive amid the urban infrastructure.
Who are WE to say he or she would be "better off" elsewhere? If the otter is surviving in an urban park, let her stay!
As for the poor koi, they are a food source for all sorts of animals, and the people who put them in the position of being in an unprotected pond are to blame, not the otters or herons, who are only trying to survive.
Long Live River Otter!
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Get drunk not fat - 5 quick tips
Avoid salty snacks
Social drinking is not unhealthy but what goes with drinking is more unhealthy. This includes salted snacks such as peanuts and chips. To get the best benefits of alcohol (if there are any) avoid salty snacks on the side
Choose Wine
This may sound very sizzy to many men out there but drinking wine is still a better option compare to whiskey or rum. Its romantic yet does not do much harm to your fat loss goals. Plus it is considered to be good for your heart. So they say.
Drink neat vodka
Drinking neat vodka is still a better option than adding sugary juices into it. Adding juices to your alcohol may lead to water retention especially around your face, which may take a few days to go. So drink neat on the rocks, only if you have to.
Go with light color drinks
As a social drinker you should know that pure alcohol will always be more clearer. so stick to lighter colours. The darker the colour of your alcohol, the more processed it gets leaving you with a severe following day hangover.
Drink for yourself - dont compete
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Minsky Pickup is an 1880's fanfare tune, originating from the Minsky's Burlesque variety shows. It was created by the four brothers, Abraham, Micheal, and Herbert, and Morton Minsky. It was used as a recurring background sound in their vaudeville plays, and affiliated with the punchlines on their jokes, for comedic effect. The tune became iconic for their shows, and entered the public domain, not too long after their shows finished production. Since then, this one simply tune has seen widespread fame and is now used as stock music in countless different forms of media, from TV shows, to movies, to other songs. Just like from it's original source, Minsky Pickup is also used, whenever a joke is told, though most of the times, it's done ironically, (which isn't saying much, due to this being "ironic comedy") and will usually be done for jokes that make fun of themselves, for instance, a character making a cheesy pun in a genre that usually doesn't follow that style of humor. The tune is often used as the ending tune to a comedy show as well.
In the Pilot episode of "Golan the Insatiable", Golan made a joke about Alexis dating Keith, followed by him singing the Minsky Pickup. This was also the last line of dialogue in the episode, making this a true homage to the original nature of Minsky Pickup.
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With its personal perspectives on the effects of the current cultural zeitgeist, Cherry Glazerr's Stuffed & Ready is not simply a great rock record, but an important document in the early days of 2019.
Stuffed & Ready
Cherry Glazerr
Secretly Canadian
1 February 2019
The term "noise pop" may be an inherently and deliberately kitschy oxymoron. But if any band makes the case that the two disparate forms can achieve synergy, it's Cherry Glazerr. With Stuffed & Ready, the Los Angeles band's third LP, this tapestry-like amalgamation of contradictory genres is at its most palatable, a bristly and savage exterior with a sugary core that helps it go down easy.
A feel of apocalyptic joy, of reveling as corrupt pillars and institutions crumble into chaos, pervades the records. Those insidious rituals being lain asunder, though, exist internally and externally, with writer-singer-guitarist Clementine Creevy giving them equal attention. Songs with an impressionistically confessional focus ("Juicy Socks", "Stupid Fish") abut the more polemical or socially critical ("Wasted Nun", "Daddi"). Frequently, simmering rage is given voice in incendiary instrumentation, with a righteous fury lashing out and narrators refusing to kowtow.
Yet despite the outwardly directed ire and inwardly pointed insights, the tunes don't get lost in being confrontational, as is owed to the catchiness the band injects. This fact can't be overvalued, for were the songs' crucial messages conveyed amid pure, heavy-handed clatter, they wouldn't be able to so thoroughly worm their way into your ears, find a place to stay, and compel you to revisit them. Similar to the way Cherry Glazerr merges noise and pop, they thematically marry the personal with the social, at times making it difficult to discern which camp each song fits into.
Creevy, drummer Tabor Allen, and bassist Devin O'Brien's instrumental interplay is fluid and tight, carried by a slickly flowing groove that serves as the ten songs' connective tissue. By turns moody and menacing, the trio's melodies rise to the fore amid a deluge of heaviness. With first track "Ohio", the album opens with a classic bait-and-switch. What initially seems like bedroom pop with Creevy humming over some lo-fi strumming, it abruptly switches gears and crashes into a heavy swirl. O'Brien's bass is tuned to a hypnotic level contrasting nicely with Creevy's eerie vocals floating above. "Just take me away," she coos, the first of the album's borderline anthemic mantras. It's a template the band uses frequently, vacillating between hovering adrift and plummeting to a rocky terrain.
Built around understated percussion and Creevy's high-end vocals in the verses, "Daddi" is an easy standout, not least because it's as unnerving subject-wise as it is captivating musically. Quiet verses of a narrator meekly asking permission from a domineering father figure give way to a blistering refrain where she casts off her shackles. Whether its narrative is meant in an incestuous manner or as a metaphoric lambasting of the patriarchy, the recurrent line of "Who should I fuck, Daddi? / Is it you?" is inherently skin-crawly, which is certainly the point in either interpretation.
Similarly, the driving surge of "Wasted Nun" finds Creevy assessing the way women are often viewed through the lens of our culture and the value men tend to apply to them. "I'm a wasted girl / I'm wasted nun / And I don't have fun," she belts amid unrelenting drums, satirically addressing the misogynist's view that women serve roles in his shadow. Then, with the mesmerizing "That's Not My Real Life", Creevy takes it further to a near meta-level, spotlighting the very notion that she as an artist is expected to fit a role from the industry as a feminist mouthpiece: "The suits, they don't want me to go / They just want me to bear it for all the women," she sings, amid some dizzying guitar work from guest Delicate Steve.
The next two songs centering the record, "Self Explained" and "Isolation", offer a one-two respite, being down-tempo and built on subtle textures than scorched-earth assaults. Both are also linked by their shared subject matter as they find the narrator zeroing in on her psychology of defense and withdrawing, the former featuring a guitar with a glowing searchlight span adding to its lonely vibe, while the latter builds to a roiling din. "Juicy Socks" has a tone of seduction, the bass line watery and luring you into an undertow. Suitably, the lyrics make use of swimming and being unable to breathe. It both throbs and shuffles, giving a danceable rhythm, Creevy's vocals at their most bewitching. The song also hearkens back to "Ohio", with its repetitive "Take me with you" in the outro.
It's in the final two cuts that the furor the album has teased finally erupts. With thunderous "Stupid Fish", Creevy lacerates herself and an object of scorn with equal vitriol. She sets up the refrain of "I see myself in you…" before capitalizing on it in the tail-end lacerated howl of "I see myself in you, and that's why I fuckin' hate you!" delivering the record's most shattering moment. Closer "Distressor" is a palate cleanser and apt conclusion, distilling all that came before it in a three-and-a-half-minute nugget. "So I can just be," Creevy intones as the swell builds around her, after again going meta with a line about wanting to "drown in my own noise". When it abruptly ends, both the song and the album leave the listener a bit shocked that it's all over while urgently readying to start it all over.
Cherry Glazerr is a band about making opposites come together, of making the poles not seem so far apart to begin with. Stuffed & Ready is their finest accomplishment yet of such a daunting endeavor. And with its personal perspectives on the effects of the current cultural zeitgeist, it is not simply a great rock record, but an important document in the early days of 2019.
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Mary, it has been a year since I wrote you about my mom. How she has lived another entire year has baffled everyone involved in her situation. She weighs less than 60 pounds, and hasn't eaten real food in all that time. She has existed on Ensure and ice cream, lying in the bed.
Two weeks ago she declined drastically and suddenly. She is taking in about 4 oz of Ensure and a small helping of ice cream daily. I am with her all day and this is the best we can manage.
How long can she live like this? Her vital signs yesterday were perfect. She looks awful and can barely hold her eyes open. She did manage a smile today though and it was such a gift.
Thanks, Mary. This has been the most unbelievable journey,
Hi Leigh, I remember your e-mail from a year ago! What a marathon you've both been on. Up hill through the thorns. I truly feel for you. You must be exhausted. You must be a very strong and loving woman.
Your mom is made of tough stuff - but as I've observed before, people in late stage are both as strong as steel and as fragile as glass. They live on when it seems impossible, but they also can be tipped into a final spiral by something that seems insignificant. Right now, I suspect she has no reserves at all left to fight with. Her body has been consuming itself to keep her going - she isn't taking in enough calories to keep even a 50 pound child alive. I suspect she's into the final time. It's very hard to predict how long - if she got even a minor infection like a cold, it would likely overwhelm her. At best, I would think another month or two.
What you are seeing is part of the natural process. My mother in law's last months were similar. We were carefully hand feeding her but she got thinner and thinner and slept more and more. She was like a shell - I just couldn't believe anyone that thin could be alive. About 6 weeks before her death, she started to refuse to open her mouth. I'm not sure it was a conscious refusal. I think she had just lost any idea of what food or drink was all about or why she should bother with it - and the whole process seemed like a tiring annoyance to her. I genuinely believe they don't feel hunger or thirst like a healthy person - or if they do, they don't recognize it means they need something. So, she took in less and less no matter how many times a day we tried and eventually just stopped. Even then she lived on for longer than expected - another week or so. Honestly, she did not seem to be suffering at all. She was very peaceful and relaxed. We were the ones who were anguished, even though we knew it was her time.
All kinds of guilty thoughts run through your head - that belief you should be doing SOMETHING to help, when the only thing you can do is sit by them, hold their hand, moisten their lips, brush their hair - and wait. We also prayed that something would mercifully carry her off before the natural end of her dementia, and felt guilty about that as well. We were like you - we just didn't want her to suffer at all. The only good thing about dementia is that your mother will not be plagued by any fears or regrets. She's long past that - it means she will be serene and only in the moment.
Signs the end is closing in include being less and less responsive - in her last days, my mother in law was oblivious to her surroundings - like she had already vacated her body, but was being held to earth by a strand of spider silk. Your mother's urine will get very dark (like strong tea) from the lack of liquids, and this means her kidneys are shutting down - which brings on a merciful coma. Her hands and feet will become cool and you may see some mottling of her skin and bluish nails from lack of circulation. Her breathing may get irregular (they often will breathe rapidly and then have long pauses between breaths) and she may rattle a bit from secretions.
We're not used to witnessing the natural end of life in modern life. So often loved ones die in hospital and everything is a big crisis of tubes and drugs and procedures and machines and running around in a panic. I hope you have some hospice support to help you all through this - they can be wonderfully compassionate, which you need as much as she does. I looked on our experience as a privilege in some ways. It was a quiet space where nothing mattered but being there with her. We regret that my mother in law ever had to go through any of the indignities of dementia, but we don't regret the way she passed. She was as comfortable as was possible, and surrounded by peace and caring. It really was a good death in the end - and being there for her was a rare opportunity to grow as human beings. It was a profound experience - and put into perspective what really matters.
I know what you mean by the gift of a smile. It's the small memories and gestures that mean everything.
Thinking of you. Peace is coming.
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Several years direct experience as caregiver for family member who died of end stage AD. Did lots of research and dealt with a lot of health care professionals and caregivers over the 7 years from diagnosis to the end. Used various care options from community based resources to increasing levels of institutional. Mother of three, two born during our loved one's decline, so I know what it is to be the ham in the sandwich, taking care of the older generation and the younger at the same time and trying to balance everyone`s needs. Ask me, I`ve probably been there, done that. We made lost of mistakes and learned everything the hard way - but you don`t have to! If I can`t answer your question, I`ll steer you to a place or person who can.
Currently a program manager for a large utility company. My Alzheimers experience comes from having the illness in our family. Out of necessity, we did a lot of research in order to understand the disease, plan for what might come next, and make the right decisions to help and support our loved one. Please note, I am a Canadian living in Toronto, and therefore am not the best person to ask about US regulations and insurance rules!
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stuck in our ways
Know that we humans do not have to be stuck in our ways. We choose to do so.
-Andrew Razeghi
When some people hear about an education different than the one they received, it is easy to shrug and dismiss. After all, new ideas, whether they are good or bad, look the same in their infancy, and the more different these ideas appear, regardless of their quality, the easier they are to simply right off as being unrealistic and Utopian.
It's a hell-of-a lot safer to dismiss these ideas than propose them.
It's infinitely easier to cite the "real world" as a place that simply won't tolerate such ideas.
It's convenient to perpetuate what everyone else perpetuates.
"That was nice... now back to the real world." More apathetic words have never been spoken...
If we all resigned ourselves to the safe, the easy and the convenient and decided to take up permanent residence in the "real world", how would we ever aspire to anything more than what we have now?
Focus too much on the 'now' and you'll be sure never to arrive any where else.
1. I feel like I am experiencing Dejavu! I just had this conversation with my husband regarding students and awards. He thinks I am 'dreaming' at my vision of students wanting to learn for learning and unfortunately there are several others around me that feel the same way as he does. Lucky for me I am what I preach and do things because I thought about them and I believe in them and not because that's the way it has always been done. :)
2. Joe, I could not agree more. I love your "real world" argument. Things will always be the same if we do not challenge the "real world." People are afraid of new ideas because, as Seth Godin argues, their Lizard brain or resistance, wants it so. He says we have to fight that resistance and do what matters.
To extend your argument into awards ceremonies, people say that awards are given out in the "real world," so why not schools. Well, it does not have to be that way. They use the "real world" argument because they are so afraid to dare think that each student has something to contribute. Every student deserves recognition but it is difficult for people to change their mindset.
Anyway Joe, thanks for this post.
3. Joe,
Thank-you for addressing the "real world" comment, it is scary but it also has given me a great deal of insight.
4. The first three days of teaching were interesting. The transformed classroom was comfortable for those students who had been in my class last year. The tables were new, but the emphasis on connected learning and freedom of movement and greater autonomy were not. Those students coming to me from more authoritarian environments, I won't say more structured, were unsettled. At the end of the first day when we reflected on learning as a group, some of these students voiced their concerns. I think they thought people were "getting away with misbehaviour" in my classroom. By Friday I think they were beginning to see the underlying structure of learning in my classroom. But I also addressed the factors that were making them uncomfortable. Things like noise level and some issues involving transitions.
It was illuminating to see how quickly all of the class settled into occasional textbook and worksheet activities. It is what they are familiar with and that still matters to them. Connected learning and autonomous learning might be "natural" but we have accustomed them to not experiencing it.
5. I agree. People may be more accepting of change if it's implemented in small steps. Early elementary classrooms are the perfect place to do this. There are ways to facilitate change while not alienating the "real world".
6. Dealing with shrugs and dismissiveness...I know that well.
My school (Windsor House) used to truly represent the idea of "alternative" and "innovative". We still remain the only "publicly-funded, democratic, parent participation, academically non-coercive K to 12 school" in North America. (That's a mouthful) However, over the years, many of the unique aspects of the school have been forcefully chipped away, due to bureaucratic interference and the punitive elements of the BC government's "accountability agenda".
For years, many power players in the district have been extremely dismissive of our progressive ideas (i.e. personalized learning, democratic classrooms, play-based learning). Strangely, many of those same people now trumpet the concept of "21st Century Schools", which deeply incorporate many of those same elements.
For 5 or 6 years, we have teetered on the edge of survival. The school community has fought valiantly for respect and acknowledgement within the district. Unfortunately, we have recently been told by the North Vancouver school district that we will be closed by the end of next year at the latest. The district has chosen to close all the alternative programs in the district and create its own version of a "21st century school", instead of nurturing an existing "21st century school" that has been in existence and innovating for 40 years. Sigh....
If you have an interest in education reform or innovative school models, you can check out this documentary video on Windsor House from 6 or 7 years ago... although much has changed.
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Volkswagen Kombi.
Volkswagen Kombi fans raise a glass. It's time to bid farewell to a legend.
Volkswagen has announced it will end production of the Kombi van in 2013 – 63 years after it was introduced to the world market back in 1950.
The only existing VW Kombi production line in the world is in Sao Bernardo do Campo, Brazil, where the vans, which haven't been significantly updated since the late '70s, are still built by company subsidiary Volkswagen do Brasil. Company head Thomas Schmall told UK magazine Car and Driver that by the end of next year, Kombi production would finish up after 56 years of continuous manufacturing.
The Kombi is the perfect escape vehicle for the flower child. Click for more photos
The VW Kombi cult
The Kombi is the perfect escape vehicle for the flower child.
The demise of the Kombi T2 (as it is known in Brazil) comes courtesy of stricter safety rules being brought into place, which require all new cars to be fitted with anti-lock brakes (ABS) and dual front airbags, come into force on January 1, 2014.
But as one senior source told Car and Driver, the move was also part of a cultural shift for the brand: “At some point, you are the brand with the old cars.”
UK magazine Autocar quotes VW Brazil's product development boss, Egon Feichter, saying that the Kombi would need to become “a new car” if it were to meet the new criteria. According to Feichter, that's something the brand apparently isn't willing to invest in, because to replace the Kombi with an all-new version wouldn't make financial sense as “you can get two Kombis for the price of one normal car”.
In recent years Volkswagen has confirmed it is working on a modern day interpretation of the Kombi. The Bulli concept van was said to be a precursor to that car, but VW says it has put the project on the back-burner due to tough times in the European economy.
The Kombi was not the only "old" Volkswagen still being built and sold as a new car long after Germany discontinued the original model.
Volkswagen plants in Mexico and South Africa used to build original versions of the Beetle and Golf, but production of those models has stopped in recent years. The company still builds an older version of the Passat for the Chinese market, although that will be replaced by a more modern version soon.
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Lua error in Module:Navbar at line 19: attempt to index a nil value. Surdophobia is the hostility, intolerance or fear against Deaf people, deaf culture and the Deaf Community. That includes resistance towards the sign languages used. It can consist of a range of negative attitudes towards Deafhood, the idea of deafpositive and deaf rights. Definitions refer variably to antipathy, contempt, prejudice, aversion, and irrational fear. Surdophobia is observable in critical and hostile behaviour such as discrimination and violence on the basis of a perceived non-deaf behaviours.
Surdophobia as a term was coined by Gardy van Gils, a social worker based in the Netherlands (she works now in Hogeschool Utrecht as a Deaf Studies lecturer). While audism is more a specific condition with complicated definitions, Surdophobia is a condition that will trigger a state of fear, known or unknown, in the person. It is also used to describe a condition of fear towards deaf people and their culture. Van Gils has observed "fear that hearing workers have of deaf professionals", maintaining that "a fear mechanism" is provoked in some hearing people when they must collaborate with deaf people on an equal footing: "Maybe it is the fear of having to render account to those you consider to be inferior."[1]
Since Gardy van Gils coined the term, it has been used by researcher and deaf activist Paddy Ladd—as well as the related neologism, "surdophilic"—in Understanding Deaf Culture: In Search of Deafhood, a 2003 analysis of deaf culture and its history in broader Western culture.[2]
See also
1. ^ Garretson, Mervin D. (2010). My Yesterdays: In a Changing World of the Deaf. Xlibris Corporation. p. 105. ISBN 9781453567616.
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Make a kit
Making your emergency kits
At home
In the car
At home
The Emergency Survival Checklist below outlines the basic items every individual should have:
* Flashlight and batteries
* Radio and batteries or crank radio
* Spare batteries (for radio and flashlight)
* First-aid kit
* Telephone that can work during a power disruption
* Candles and matches/lighter
* Extra car keys and cash
* Important papers (identification)
* Manual can opener
* Bottled water (4 litres per person per day)
* Clothing and footwear
* Blankets or sleeping bag
* Toilet paper and other personal items
* Medication
* Backpack/duffle bag
* Whistle (to attract attention, if needed)
* Playing cards
Since emergency supply requirements vary for individuals with special needs and different disabilities, please refer to the Emergency Preparedness Guide for People With Disabilities/Special Needs.
Remember that families with babies and toddlers will have additional needs. Remember to include things like diapers, baby food and formula, bottles/sippy cups, toys, crayons and paper etc.
In the car
Basic supplies in your car will help keep you safe and provide comfort in case you become stranded in your car. Your car emergency survival kit should include:
* Shovel
* Sand, salt or kitty litter for traction
* Traction mats
* Tow chain or rope
* Compass
* Cloth or roll of paper towels
* Warning light or road flares
* Extra clothing and footwear
* Non-perishable food and water
* Axe or hatchet
* Small tool kit
* Booster cables
* Ice scraper and brush
* Road maps
* Fire extinguisher
* Methyl hydrate (for fuel line and windshield de-icing)
* Flashlight and batteries
* First-aid kit with seatbelt cutter
* Blanket
More information
Know the risks
Make a plan
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Bergamot Essential Oil
Bergamot Essential Oil
Citrus bergamia
The scent of the oil is basically citrus, yet fruity and sweet with a warm spicy floral quality, and is reminiscent of Neroli and Lavender oil. The color ranges from green to greenish-yellow and has a watery viscosity.
Extraction Method:
The rind of both ripe and unripe fruit is used to extract the oil by expression.
Chemical composition:
Limonene, Linalyl Acetate, Linalol, Gamma Terpenene, Bergaptene and Dipentene.
Therapeutic properties:
The therapeutic properties of Bergamot essential oil include: antiseptic, antibiotic, anti-spasmodic, stomachic, calmative, and a febrifuge.
Bergamot essential oil can be used in the treatment of:
1. depression
2. stress
3. tension
4. fear
5. hysteria
6. infection (all types including skin)
7. anorexia
8. psoriasis
9. eczema
10. general convalescence.
• It is advisable to keep out of the sun if used on the skin.
Blends well with:
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Celebrity Hair: Can You Guess Who Said What?
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The Future of Publishing
As an unpublished writer who works diligently to become published, I keep my ears open to any important things in the market. Having been working on writing and developing professionalism for over 5 years, I am fully aware that, at this point in the publishing industry, self-publishing is not a viable option for me, someone who wants to be a successful writer.
However, this article at Galley Cat is intriguing.
It's about how Sramana Mitra (what a great name!) believes that Amazon will shape the face of publishing. Basically, she says that the way publishing currently is, is unfair (i.e., the author does all the creating, but gets a small slice of the profit pie). Amazon, she believes, will change all that.
"Let's say, in the new world, Amazon becomes the retailer, marketer, publisher and agent combined and takes 65% of the revenues, offering 35% to the author--we end up with a much better, fairer world."
This interests me. It sounds great...but in the same way that communism sounds great (it's brilliant on paper but fails in real life). It would be wonderful if there truly was one source for publishing and publishing was streamlined enough to provide a direct connection between author creation to publishing to the consumer.
But that can't work. First, the entire reason why self-publishing fails as a viable market for novels that want to be a part of mainstream America is because there is no filter between author and publisher. As much as I hate to say it (because it's kept me out of publishing), there's a very important filter between the author and the published book: an editor. Even if Amazon were to take over the publishing world, all that would happen is either a) a massive number of crappy books flood the site, making it impossible for the reader to find anything worth reading except for the few books that Amazon marketing pushes on you, or b) Amazon will develop a system of acquisitions, editors, etc., that will make it essentially the same as current publishing.
The long and short of it is that there is a surplus of writers. Everyone and their momma wants to be a writer...and self-publishing means that once Joe Schmoe actually puts the words on paper, he can immediately put it in print. If I'd put my books into print before revisions, they'd be worse than they are now--and so would anyone else's. Revision is part of the business.
Here's another scary quote:
Amazon has already done this by requiring any self-pubbed book to publish through their company, BookSurge. And Amazon's already taken the first steps in building "direct relationships with authors" in their ABNA contest...which heavily promoted the BookSurge company as well. Whether or not it Amazon really will try to paint the big-house publishing world a bright, shiny communist red, it does seem to be taking over the independent (read: vanity) publishing world quite efficiently.
Don't get me wrong: I love Amazon. I try to buy from my local book seller, but they close at 7 (who closes at 7?!) and their books are over-priced. Most of my purchases are from Amazon or Scholastic (I love being a teacher). But the idea that Amazon is trying to take over the publishing world is crazy, it just might happen.
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What is access to knowledge?
Jack BalkinFrom Jack Balkin's opening speech at Yale's Access to Knowledge conference (via A2K):
The best information policies, the best knowledge policies, the best development policies actually lower barriers to access to knowledge, they produce more information goods and they distribute them more widely. Our seminar has been trying to show how the best economic arguments are on our side. The crazy thing about the push toward global harmonization and IP maximalism is that it doesn't make economic sense. It benefits particular stakeholders, to be sure, and they often claim that making them wealthy makes everyone else better off. But it turns out it's not true. A more balanced set of IP policies actually produces greater wealth and distributes it more widely and fairly.
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We'll admit this isn't a world we have much experience in but Nitrous Oxide which now has the slang term 'Hippy Crack' is being inhaled for a short high and as a result CO2 canisters used to inflate tyres are now being wrongly thought of as the same thing.
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In the correlation method what happens if the correlation is positive?
negative? no correlation?
(+)two variables move in the same direction
(-) two variables move in the opposite direction
(none)doesn't influence either way
In the experimental method, what happens if the variable is independant?
the variable is controlled by the experimental person (I control this variable in which the I in independant is used)
In the experimental method, what happens if the variable is dependant?
the variable is measured
How is the independant variable used?
by the researching controlling 1+ variables
What are the levels of extroversion?
When variables are measured from change.
What is the benefit of using the Experimental method?
1. can be used for explanation
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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Truth About Villains
So how do you make your villain strong?
1. I agree, Steve, that it's best not to make your villain too over the top. Nothing scarier than the normal looking guy down the block who spends his nights trolling for victims.
2. Lots of good points. Probably it reveals something about my psyche, but I have always found evil easier to write than good. Real unsentimental goodness in a character is, to my mind, the trickiest thing in literature.
3. Your article is right on. I agree the larger the villain, the more danger for the hero and a fully developed villain is far more intriguing. Haven't done a lot of that in my writing. Maybe I should. Good lesson.
4. Janice, I agree that "unsentimental goodness" is very hard to do. Goody Two-Shoes tends to get cloying or boring or both. I still remember my wife's comment about a Victorian lit class years ago, in which she had to read Eliot's Middlemarch. "I figured out right away that Dorothea was the protagonist, and she bored the hell out of me...and there were over 500 pages to go."
O'Neil, I won't say it's easy because NOTHING in writing is easy, but people fascinate me, so I tend to look more a character, sometimes at the expense of plot. More often than not, WHY someone does something interests me more than the how. It can be a problem.
BYT, thanks again for all your hard work putting together the Femme Fatale Bundle and including me.
5. "Unsentimental goodness" - try Anthony Trollope's Mr. Harding, Eleanor Harding, Archdeacon Grantly (all from Barchester Towers). Or try Charlotte Yonge's brood of children (who do not all turn out well) in either "The Daisy Chain" (which is by no means as saccharine as the title sounds) or "The Pillars of the House". Both Trollope and Yonge were masters at creating heros/heroines who were good, but unsentimental with it and with actual faults and flaws. In other words, humans.
Frankly, most villains that are presented for our entertainment bore me. Too often they're perfect villains, always 1-25 steps ahead of everyone else. (Until they make that tiny little mistake that lets the "master" detective catch them.) Actually, my favorite villains are Count Fosco (The Woman in White); on the screen, Basil Rathbone in "We're No Angels" and Alistair Sim in "Scrooge". These are all guys who loved their work, and not much is gonna stop them...
6. I do like a good bad guy! It's instructive how the quality and popularity of the James Bond series hinges upon the bad guy. Not long ago, I mentioned admiring the bad guy in Day of Wrath… a complex character.
7. I LOVE your line about Superman. Good piece.
Welcome. Please feel free to comment.
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A 2006 study of the National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB) shows that 33 out of 100 Filipinos are considered poor. That means 27.6 million Pinoys did not make it beyond the national poverty threshold of 6,274 pesos (around 130 USD) per month, for a family of five.
Most of these struggling Pinoys live in the ten poorest provinces of the country, as published in the same NSCB study.
The ten poorest provinces (in order of poverty incidence) are Tawi-Tawi, Zamboanga del Norte, Maguindanao, Apayao, Surigao del Norte, Lanao del Sur, Northern Samar, Masbate, Abra and Misamis Occidental.
This list provided the itinerary for Biyaheng Totoo, where GMA news reporters embarked on a series of journeys that hoped to truthfully document the plight of those struggling to survive in the absence of government support.
Their stories are all contained in the Biyaheng Totoo notebook, where they wrote to the future president of the Philippines, telling him/her of their hopes and wishes. The notebook will eventually be handed over to the future president.
Click on the image below to browse the collection, which includes an audio clip of GMA reporter Michael Fajatin's experience reporting for Biyaheng Totoo in Maguindanao. -
Surigao Today
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Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich is principally known as a "family values" American politician who was the Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999. His forcefully articulate right-wing views helped to fuel a Republican sweep of the House in 1994. Gingrich was the architect of the Republicans' Contract with America, which led to a battle with President Bill Clinton and two government shutdowns.
Early years
Newton Leroy McPherson was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on June 17, 1943, the son of Kit and Newton McPherson. His parents' early separation left him and his mother to fend for themselves.
His mother then married an Army officer, Robert Gingrich, in 1946. Newt's new stepfather adopted him and changed the boy's surname to his own.
In an interview with a PBS Frontline reporter, Robert Gingrich described Newt as a "precocious" child, and added, "He was very apt. He seemed to learn faster than his equals. And he was a little bratty too, at the time, because he had been living with his mother and the grandmother, who was a doting grandmother. But he was not a brat. He was precocious."
Newt spent little time with his half sister, Candace Gingrich. He was nearly an adult when she was born.
In 1958, at the age of 15, Gingrich visited the battlefield at Verdun, France. He would later claim that the visit changed his life, declaring that as a politician, he would be able to prevent such carnage from happening again.
Gingrich attended school in various military settings, including a short stint in the Air Force ROTC, and graduated from Baker High School in Columbus, Georgia, in 1961.
On June 19, 1962, Newt married his high school geometry teacher, Jackie Battley, after one year of attendance at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. In 1965, Newt earned his bachelor's degree from Emory, followed by a master's degree in 1968.
By 1971, he received his doctoral degree in modern European history from Tulane University in New Orleans. He went on to teach history at West Georgia College in Carrollton, Georgia.
After running two unsuccessful campaigns as a Republican for Congress in Georgia's Sixth Congressional District, Newt Gingrich finally hit the jackpot. With prior contender Jack Flynt out of the picture due to retirement, Gingrich claimed victory against Democrat Virginia Shapard in the 1978 election, the starting gun for Gingrich's influential career in the house. He would be reelected 10 times.
In 1981, Gingrich was a cofounder of the Congressional Military Reform Caucus and the Congressional Space Caucus. That year, he and Jackie were divorced. In 1983, he founded the Conservative Opportunity Society, a group of young conservative House Republicans. In 1983, Gingrich demanded the expulsion of fellow representatives Dan Crane and Gerry Studds for their part in the Congressional Page sex scandal.
As a bold young Republican, Gingrich averred that GOP leaders were too complacent, too willing to compromise with the majority Democrats. He had formed the Conservative Opportunity Society to oppose what he termed the liberal welfare state. When the House started to broadcast its sessions on C-SPAN, he delivered fiery speeches aimed at the viewing public more than his House colleagues.
In 1987, Gingrich brought ethics charges against Democratic House Speaker Jim Wright that eventually forced the Speaker's resignation and helped propel Gingrich into the number two spot in the House hierarchy.
However, Gingrich's outspokenness made him a prime target. He came within 974 votes of losing his seat, centered in Atlanta's southern suburbs, to a Democrat in 1990. The next year, enemies in the Georgia legislature picked apart his district during reapportionment, hoping to dismember his career.
But Gingrich, the gritty survivor, moved to a more Republican area in Atlanta's northern suburbs, ran for an open seat there, and won.
When House Minority Leader Bob Michel retired before the 1994 election, Gingrich moved to the top Republican seat. Armed by an agenda they dubbed the Contract with America, the Republicans won their first majority in four decades; the precocious boy from Georgia was now speaker of the House, and a Republican revolution was underway. Nine of the 10 Contract items passed the House, but several suffered modification or elimination in the Senate.
Gingrich proved more popular as a revolutionary than as a leader. Like Wright, he became entangled in ethics charges in 1987 that eventually led to his reprimand by the House in 1997 and a $300,000 penalty. The sanctions were for "intentional and reckless" disregard of House rules by using tax-exempt foundations for political purposes, and subsequently lying to the House Ethics Committee.
After the Republicans in Congress shut down the government for the second time, in a 1996 showdown with President Bill Clinton, Gingrich's popularity plunged, never to return to the heights of 1994. For the next four years, Gingrich took aim at the embattled president, investigating various scandals and calling for Clinton's impeachment.
By 1996, nearly six in 10 voters polled registered an unfavorable opinion of Gingrich. Some of his top colleagues even plotted a "coup" against him, but Gingrich managed to keep his job.
The GOP anticipated significant gains from the 1998 Congressional elections. When the party tallied the poorest results in 34 years for either party out of the White House, many fingers pointed at Gingrich. He completed his term in office, but declined to take the seat he had been reelected to, as well as the speakership in January 1999.
Post-congressional activities
Gingrich was regularly mentioned as a possible presidential candidate in the 2000 election. However, his ethics scandal, and the downward spiral of his congressional peers made him a prime candidate for withering scrutiny.
Gingrich has since remained involved in public policy debate. He is a senior fellow at the conservative think tank American Enterprise Institute, focusing on health care (he founded the Center for Health Transformation), information technology, the military, and politics. He occasionally serves as a commentator, guest or panel member on television news shows.
In 2005, Newt Gingrich and his wife Callista (whom he married in 1983) made a donation, through the Gingrich Foundation, of $25,000 to Luther College to establish the Gingrich Scholarship that provides annual scholarships to music majors studying piano, organ or wind instruments.
Ironically, the job that Newt Gingrich always wanted, and spent much of his adult life working toward, was his for only four years. Still, his high-profile regime as speaker, and the political wirlwind he engineered in 1994, has earned him substantial notoriety in history that few former speakers can match.
Not every presidential election is worth a book more than a quarter-century after the last ballot has been counted. The 1964 race was different, thoug...
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This is Where I'm Honest
What better way to start off a blog post than with a lame, awkward introduction? Cause lame and awkward is what I do!
Hi, world. I'm Kelley. I'm a 17 year old with depression and anxiety. I've wanted to kill myself before, and I can't tell you how often I've wanted to hurt myself. I'm your stereotypical loner girl who doesn't really have any close friends, except those she's met over the internet.
I've tried writing this blog post more times than I can count. There's drafts of this on my Drive, uncompleted and shared only with my partner. Most of it starts now nice and concise, like this blog post has so far, then dissolves into a rambly, emotional mess. I never have the energy to finish them, much less clean them up and make them less...broken. I write the way I think. To try and edit that into a concise form removes the meaning of my words. Sterilizes them.
It's 1 in the morning and I don't even know if what I've written so far makes any sense. I've been talking on Twitter tonight to some lovely ladies about depression and anxiety. It's a conversation that, while relieving to finally have so openly, has left me a little frustrated. Because the stuff I tweeted about in that conversation is stuff I've been trying to put into a blog post for ages. Or, at least, convey to my mother face-to-face. That never happens, obviously. She still doesn't know why I'm so depressed and anxious sometimes.
And honestly, I don't even know why a lot of the time. I have no explanation for the gray clouds and the odd, awkward bouts of omg too much energy got to do something why won't everyone leave me alone why can't I do anything. It's a fucking roller coaster. I can go from wanting to cut myself and die in a hole to I have to do all the things otherwise I'm a shitty human being.
It doesn't make sense. Nothing makes any fucking sense anymore. Not the paranoia, the depression, the anxiety, the strange tendencies that I think are obsessive-compulsive disorder. It's scary to have none of it make sense, because if it doesn't make sense, how do I fix it? Is there any fixing it? Or do I just have to deal with this for the rest of my life and just cope to the best of my abilities?
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Xbox Live rednecks
I signed up for Xbox live last week. I managed to hook it up with my neighbor who is on all the time (after figuring out the Xbox blade interface and remembering to throttle down my rabid bittorrenting of public domain nature documentaries) and it's pretty fun. You get a headset and VOX activated mic and when you link up with someone you can hear them and they can hear you as you play the same game. You can choose to hear them on your TV or in your headset or both. I chose both. After a few tests I told my neighbor that I was leaving the console and that I'd talk to him the next day.
He didn't disconnect and for the next 15 minutes I could listen to him swear at his TV while he played Gears of War while I read some Xbox Live forums on my PC. I'm positive he didn't know I could hear him. I got to thinking, hey, this could be a CSI episode. Some guy's playing an online game with a headset, he disconnects but can still hear the audio feed from the other guy's console and he accidentally overhears him committing murder or something.
I turned it off then, I have no time to go to court. Plus it was late and should his wife come down the stairs in lingerie then..
So a few days ago my neighbor wasn't on so I started a game and made it so anyone in the universe could join. I'm playing solo and then this guy pops on. Judging from his accent, he is obviously from the southern United States. We chat and kill Locusts (GOW bad guys) and after a few minutes I can hear that his wife/girlfriend/boss has entered the room. She starts yelling at him about something but I can only hear the conversation when he yells back because that's when the VOX microphone gets activated. Since she was speaking while he was interrupting I was able to comprehend that:
1. The trailer was a %$#&@*&?% mess (no stereotypes people!)
2. There was no more wine coolers
Hehehehe. He's yelling at her that he's "Trying to play a ?%$#@* game woman! GIT!" and that only seemed to piss her off more. I heard him twist the headset around in back of his head which just make the audio more choppy 'cause the mic was still activating.
After 2 minutes of this he said he had to go, "sorry bout that, my woman's *&$@# crazy..".
No probs man. Go buy some wine coolers and clean that trailer!
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Sound effects are weird, part 2
OMG Fact: Arch Obler, producer of the old radio horror series, Lights Out, invented all sorts of cool sound effects. In one episode, aliens came and turned people’s bodies inside out. He later said the sound effect of the people turning inside-out was achieved by filling a wet rubber glove with cooked macaroni, and slowly turning it inside out.
Sound effects are weird, part 1
Image: John Loo
Image: John Loo
OMG Fact: The stabbing sound effects for the Psycho shower scene come from stabbing a casaba melon.
When it came to doing the sound effects for the famous stabbing scene in the shower, Hitchcock sent for a watermelon. The prop man, anticipating his boss’s perfectionism, brought in several varieties of melon. The director closed his eyes and listened while melons were auditioned. ”When the demonstration table was littered with shredded fruit, Hitchcock opened his eyes, and intoned simply: ‘Casaba.’ ”
This is the sound of 69 endangered species calling at once
OMG Fact: This is what it sounds like when you mash the calls of 69 endangered species together.
(note: I stuck this onto Soundcloud so I could embed it here, but I didn’t make this)
No more ironclads? Just slap some wood on a steamboat!
OMG Fact: When the Union ran out of ironclads, they stuck some wood on some steamships and made “timberclads.”
Cicada sex is weird
OMG Fact: Cicadas have weird sex that goes on for a really long time. At least in Staten Island.
Your Googling is actually unique
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OMG Fact: Every day, 16% of the searches that occur are ones that Google (and the NSA) has never seen before.
Bee penises are crazy looking
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How to Pay Taxes From Overseas
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Not everyone knows about their government's specific rules for reporting income earned outside of the home country. Learning about income tax reporting requirements is important for everyone, regardless of where that money is earned. Some governments are aggressive about getting their tax income even if the money was transacted beyond that country's borders. Here's how to plan for and anticipate tax responsibilities and pay taxes from overseas.
1. 1
Compile income. Figuring out a person's total income can be difficult without the regular tax forms that would be sent within the home country. Those living abroad will have to create their own records of applicable income to use for tax filing at home.
2. 2
Look at exclusions. If the home government allows for foreign income deduction, the taxpayer might be able to avoid excessive or double taxation by correctly reporting that income.
• Ask professionals about which exclusions apply to you. In the United States, an IRS exclusion called the "Foreign Earned Income Exclusion" often applies.
3. 3
Access all necessary forms for tax reporting. Again, it can be hard to locate these forms outside of the home country, but using them will give the taxpayer a clearer idea of what rules apply. Many have instructions included, which is key for actually figuring out the specific requirements for those abroad.
• The U.S. form 2555 addresses foreign earned income. This form comes with concrete instructions on reporting foreign income.
4. 4
Check rules for residence. Many times, residential rules apply to how income is taxed. The guideline may be related to where a person has a "bona fide residence" or to how many days out of a year the person spent physically in a certain country. This means that the final tax status can come down to how someone set up their housing or what kind of time frame a work project included.
5. 5
Assess rules for different categories of income. Whether income is long- or short-term or related to a specific kind of acquisition like wages, bonuses, capital gains or other gains, may make a difference in taxation as well.
6. 6
Consider hiring a professional tax preparer. Tax professionals are skilled in the rules and regulations of the countries in which they live, and they can be extremely useful for someone who is living abroad and has less access to the right tools to file an annual tax return.
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Find a way to send documents. The home country's tax offices will usually need signed forms, where only specific methods of communication may work. Scan or fax signed documents to make sure they are legitimate for use at home.
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• Look at the idea of "double taxation." In some special cases, foreign income is not taxed at home if it is taxed in a foreign country. Special situations like military jobs can also have their own unique rules for tax reporting.
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England's ICC Women's World Cup hopes suffered a setback as they slipped to an agonising three-run defeat against Australia in Mumbai.
England had put themselves in a strong position in the Super Sixes encounter as they dismissed Australia for 147 - with Anya Shrubsole (3-24) impressing with the ball once again.
However England's top order batting let them down as they were dismissed for 145.
Holly Ferling did the damage as she claimed 3-35, with Julie Hunter and Megan Schutt also weighing in with two wickets apiece.
Charlotte Edwards, Sarah Taylor, Danielle Wyatt, Arran Brindle, Heather Knight and Jenny Gunn all fell cheaply before England fought back.
Laura Marsh (22) and Lydia Greenway (49) led the resistance with a gutsy seventh-wicket stand of 57, while Holly Colvin and Shrubsole took the game right to the wire with some late boundaries.
However England will have been aggrieved by the controversial leg before dismissal of Edwards, while Marsh was also on the receiving end of a poor decision.
Earlier Shrubsole, who had taken a career-best 4-21 against the West Indies, had ripped through the top of the Australian innings to help reduce them to 32-5.
And although a sixth-wicket partnership of 82 between Lisa Sthalekar (41) and Sarah Coyte (44) boosted Australia's total, Katherine Brunt, Brindle and Colvin combined to dismiss them for 147.
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Nikkole - posted on 04/25/2012 ( 1 mom has responded )
how do i get my 2 yr old to stay in bed she does share a room with her sister but her sister stays in bed most of the time suggestions plz
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This will be draining on you, but you have to keep reinforcing it. Whenever she gets up, just pick her up and put her back to bed and say good night (whether she is crying, fussing, etc.) have to just keep doing this...and it may be that you do it 10 times per night, with each time being a little more adament...but it works with reinforecment. Good Luck.
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A Bad Credit Score May Spell Trouble When it comes to Your Job Prospects
Certain types of jobs as well as states require a credit check that you need to approve before being offered a job. This is usually done in order to determine how responsible you are and if you have any financial habits that may jeopardize the company that you work for going forward. Jobs that you can expect to have a credit check on include any career in finance, management and recruitment. If you’re worried about your credit score affecting your job prospects, start fixing the issue by trying to make minimum payments on a consistent manner a few months or a year before thinking about going for that dream job you’ve been eyeing.
It’s important to note that in most states, a prospective employer is barred from examining your credit report unless they have a signed waiver authorizing them. You should also let a would-be employer about any adverse events that were out of your control which may have affected you credit score in the past (the 2008 economic crash comes to mind here).
Higher Credit Card Interest Charges
Banks often view individuals who have a bad credit score as high risk. This is because these kinds of people are more likely to miss monthly payments or pay just the minimum over a given amount of time. In order to protect themselves, financial institutions will up credit card charges for these individuals to protect themselves. This basically means you may pay hundreds of dollars more compared to another person with the same credit card, money that you would have put to good use elsewhere.
A great way of keeping your credit card charges low even with a bad credit score is to get a credit rebuilding card. On top of that, you could go through your credit report and dispute any errors that you may find. Alternatively, you can automate bill paying so that your financial behavior is kept consistent over a long period of time. Lastly, request credit reports from all three major credit reports and read everything to get a better understanding of what’s contained in them so you can make better decisions going forward.
Mortgage Loans
Most of us dream of owning homes; mortgages are the only way to go for the majority of would-be owners. A bad credit score could possibly lead to you being denied a mortgage or having your premiums raised by your bank. This in turn can put a strain on your finances on a month-to-month basis. A great way of getting a good mortgage rate is to put down more money than expected as down payment. This effectively shows the mortgage provider that you have the needed liquidity to make monthly payments now and in the future. Alternatively, you could look into non-conventional home loans such as those provided by the Federal Housing Administration. Lastly, please speak to a home ownership counselor such as those provided by HOPE NOW and HomeFree USA for expert advice on what your options are when it comes to getting a home loan with a bad credit score.
Applying for Car Insurance
A car is a vital part of modern life for most Americans. A bad credit score can negatively impact the APR you’re required to pay on your car in monthly installments. In fact, you can expect to pay more than the average person on the same car due to a less-than-perfect credit score. On top of that, the premiums you pay on your car on a month-to-month basis may be based on your credit report if you apply for insurance. The companies that do this usually state that they do this because they get a lot more claims being filed by individuals with low credit scores.
Let’s face it; nobody’s perfect. Everyone is allowed a skeleton or two in their closets, as long as it’s not a bad credit score. Research done by Federal Reserve Economists Jane Dokko and Geng Li found that people tended to hook up and get into relationships with people whose credit scores closely resembled theirs. They also found that getting together with someone whose credit score was stellar didn’t improve the other’s score.
It’s common knowledge that the number one reason why marriages break up has to do with finances. A bad credit score is usually symptomatic of bad spending habits and lack of discipline, attributes which may spill over into relationships, causing major strains and eventual breakups. As a rule of thumb, you want to surreptitiously carry out basic research or ask questions that can help you determine a potential partner’s credit habits and score before making a commitment.
A low credit score can affect your health; you might not be able to get certain elective procedures done because your insurance may not cover it owing to your not being able to make consistent monthly payments on your credit card payments, mortgages and any other loans you might have taken out.
If you find that you’re having a hard time maintaining your credit score, consider speaking to a personal finance planner who can help you create a plan that you can stick to for a set amount of time in order to turn the tide on your score so it can open you up to better financial opportunities and in the future. | https://www.creditmarvel.com/5-potential-disasters-caused-by-a-bad-credit-score/ | isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2020-29
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The badgers have had a full calendar month in their new home. They had a quiet night again last night, just mooching around the woods and seemingly staying close to the sett -- they didn't go near the camera in the woods. There was no more digging or dragging in bedding, and no sign of the cat.
They came home together at 5:08 (latest yet), having been out since 19:39. It drizzled very briefly in the early hours but was warm (7 degrees or so); weatherwise they continue to have a charmed life.
I've been burying some peanuts in hole at the base of a tree -- a hole created by a badger that is. I pour in about a quarter of cupful and then cover it up with soil and leaves. Neither the badgers nor I remember to check it every day but when I see that the hoard has been disinterred with enthusiasm I feel inclined to play the game again. At least one of them checks it out now and then, just in case. There are plenty of signs of the badgers finding their own food. They're still on a single dish of food, and now its back in the woods. | http://www.badgerdiary.net/1-december-2013/ | robots: classic
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Dear Dr. Don,
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I stupidly began pursuing a college degree when the economy tanked. I learned that a college degree was needed just to be considered for a new job in software testing, a field I'd been in for the previous eight years. I'm now 48 years old.
Prior to working with software, I was an administrative assistant for more than 15 years. When I was unsuccessful landing another software job, I fell back on my administrative skills. Unfortunately, I'm now earning less than half of what I used to make. As a result, I'm in debt to the federal government with a $35,000 consolidated loan at almost 7 percent interest.
With $80,000 in a Roth individual retirement account, I'm considering a withdrawal to pay part of my student loan. Is it better to follow that plan and pay off the $35,000? Or should I continue making monthly payments with the fear that I'll owe the government almost twice what I borrowed? I can afford only about $200 in monthly payments.
- Sheila Strategy
Dear Sheila,
I generally recommend against people in their late 40s taking money out of their retirement accounts. But I think it makes sense in your situation, especially with a Roth IRA.
Contributions to a Roth IRA are with after-tax dollars. So, there's not the big income tax penalty that's associated with distributions from a traditional IRA.
There are so-called "account seasoning" considerations for withdrawals from Roth IRAs. They must occur at least five years after the beginning of the year when you first set up and contributed to the account.
There is also an ordering rule for distributions. It is assumed that regular contributions will be withdrawn or distributed first. Then come conversion and rollover contributions followed by earnings on contributions. If you are just taking out money you contributed, that's not subject to the 10 percent penalty tax. It's the portion of a distribution related to earnings that could be subject to income taxes and the 10 percent penalty. If you contributed at least $35,000 of the $80,000 in your Roth IRA, taxes aren't an issue there.
You should also know that President Barack Obama's expansion of the pay-as-you-earn plan for student loans is set to start in December 2015. The plan would limit student loan payments to a percentage of income and result in forgiveness of any remaining balance after 10 years of qualifying public service employment or 20 years for other kinds of employment. Comparing numbers on pay-as-you-earn versus raiding your Roth IRA can't be done at this time because we don't know all the rules yet. You could opt to keep making the loan payments until we know what the payments will be. Another issue is whether any part of the loan balance will be forgiven after 20 years.
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Younes Kaboul has told Tottenham to prove their worth against Premier League champions Manchester City on Saturday.
Spurs lost 6-0 and 5-1 to City last season amid a number of heavy defeats to title-chasing teams and their rivals for a Champions League spot.
Mauricio Pochettino's side are unbeaten away from home this season, including a 1-1 draw at Arsenal, and hope to surprise City at the Etihad Stadium.
"Last season's games are in the past and in football you always have to focus on the present and look to the future," the France defender said on
"We can't wait for this match, we want to go there and play our game.
"We need to repeat the same performance as we produced against Arsenal.
"In these big games we need to do something to show everyone what we are capable of."
The heavy losses to City came under Pochettino's predecessors Andre Villas-Boas and Tim Sherwood, and the Argentinian cared little when reminded of the 11-1 aggregate scoreline of last term.
The Tottenham boss will give goalkeeper Hugo Lloris every opportunity to prove his fitness ahead of the match after being forced out of France duty with a thigh injury.
Michel Vorm is on standby to come into the side.
Belgium midfielder Nacer Chadli (hip) will be given a chance to prove his fitness, too, while striker Emmanuel Adebayor and Nabil Bentaleb were to be assessed on their returns from international duty on Friday.
Pochettino hopes to blend the established first-team stars and new recruits with academy talent in future, like he successfully managed to do at previous club Southampton.
"We need to get the balance - you buy players and then you provide players from the academy who deserve to arrive in the first team," Pochettino added.
"Always in football it's the balance question. It's important.
"Tottenham have spent a lot of money on keeping the academy and creating a magnificent training ground, and now we need to get the benefits from that." | http://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/repeat-the-arsenal-performance-kaboul-challenges-tottenham-players-to-prove-worth-at-city-9802127.html | robots: classic
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Alumni Spotlight: Interview with Leah Perry
CS alumna Leah Perry, assistant professor of Cultural Studies at SUNY Empire State College, was with us in Spring 2017 Colloquium Series, the annual program recruitment event. She presented a talk on her recently published book "The Cultural Politics of U.S. Immigration: Gender, Race, and Media" (New York University Press, 2016). Esma H. Celebioglu interviewed with her about her book and her future projects. Please find Dr.Perry's responses below.
In "The Cultural Politics of U.S. Immıgration", you've argued that 1980s immigration discourse and its intersections with gender and race in policy and popular culture helped to form neoliberalism. Could you tell us a bit more about the research methods you've used for this research and why?
First, I bring an insistently intersectional feminist lens to my study of American culture, drawing heavily on the important work of path breaking woman of color scholars such as bell hooks, Angela Davis, Kimberle Crenshaw, Audre Lorde, and Gloria Anzaldua. As we have seen with the recent Women’s March and critiques of “white feminism,” any claim to universality reproduces social domination. Intersectionality is also lived truth (oppression does not occur in neat “identity” boxes, nor should our study of it), and intersectional feminism as a scholar and teacher is a praxis. Not only what we focus on but also how we carry out our research and who we cite are political practices; I aimed for a literally intersectional research method.
Second, because representation matters, I continue with the Cultural Studies/American Studies consideration of popular media as complex primary sources that while polysemous tend to powerfully reproduce social domination. Benedict Anderson importantly demonstrated that print media is crucial to the formation and reproduction of nationalism or a national imagined community. Since the mid-twentieth century, various media have been major sources of entertainment, information, and socialization. While today this is even more pervasive given the Web, smartphones, e-book readers, blogs, Twitter, and so on (and the pervasiveness is arguably increasing given that our current president is a former reality TV star with a penchant for reckless tweeting), in the 1980s more “traditional” media—film, TV, and print media (magazines and newspapers)—permeated daily life, competing with and/or augmenting older social institutions such as the legal system, education system, family, and religion, and thus helping to produce, as Douglas Kellner stated, “the fabric of everyday life, dominating leisure time, shaping political views and social behavior, and providing the materials out of which people forge their very identities.”[i] I analyze popular media as a primary source alongside the materials that are typically the focus of immigration studies: the congressional record, texts of bills, presidential papers, and immigration records.
The “why” I use these research methods is social justice. My book aims to expose and challenge racism, patriarchy, homophobia, xenophobia, capitalism—the violences of inequality that are endemic to American culture and history—when neoliberalism was cohering and becoming hegemonic. I use comparative and intersectional discourse analysis to unpack the language, tropes, and imagery that provided authoritative accounts of immigration given the centrality of immigration in that process.
I want to turn back to the immigration discourse you’ve examined in your book. Today, U.S. is experiencing a new immigration crisis within the era of Trump government. How do you analyze the current conjuncture, in what ways does it follow the previous discourse or how does it differentiate from the 80’s immigration politics?
In short, my book argues that America is far more racist and (hetero)sexist than it seems. I show how 1980s immigration narratives worked assiduously to conceal that. I focus on how the nexus of gender, race, and immigration structure neoliberalism; the neoliberal project was solidified and furthered in/through this nexus in policy and media, though immigration is rarely considered as a foundational part of neoliberalism. I trace the two dominant imaginings of immigration in this period (though there are earlier iterations as well), the “nation of immigrants” and “immigration emergency,” in order to show how both mask the racialized and gendered violence of neoliberalism. The former rebranded white supremacy and sexism in the wake of the civil rights and “second-wave” feminist movements, by idealizing ostensibly self-sufficient white ethnic immigrant heteropatriarchal families and it is flexible enough to incorporate some immigrants of color as “model minorities.” It is also predicated on the erasure of the dispossession of indigenous people. The latter concealed or rationalized racism by casting immigrants as threats to “Americans’” safety and economy.
A flagrantly racist, xenophobic misogynist, who has sexually assaulted multiple women and is driven by greed and corporate interest, who cares nothing for much of human life, is president of the United States, the allegedly exceptionally inclusive capitalist democracy that many would argue is more equal and progressive than ever before, and certainly more so since the 80s. Yet Trump took up the “immigration emergency” trope with horrifying success, first in his verbal attacks on undocumented Mexican immigrants as “murderers” and “rapists” while campaigning, and it underscores his Muslim ban, aggressive deportations, plan to build a wall at the Mexican border, and threats to withhold federal funds from sanctuary cities. In his first address to Congress on Feb. 28, 2017, Trump again showcased the family members of citizens killed by undocumented immigrants, this time after he announced his order to the Department of Homeland Security to create a new office, VOICE (Victims Of Immigration Crime Engagement), “to serve American victims.” All of his xenophobic immigration rhetoric and now policy is allegedly in the name of public safety, though the evidence to support his allegations of rampant immigrant criminality are simply not there, whereas evidence of his racism and Islamophobia is abundant.
Racist xenophobia is a consistent part of American history, and Trump’s version of it is a direct legacy of 1980s immigration discourse that shows that things have not changed as much as many would like to believe. 1980s immigration politics built on previous iterations of white supremacy, patriarchy, and xenophobia in immigration law and in the culture at large, but the neoliberal version masked that with cosmetic “diversity” and/or “colorblind” appeals to safety, and that continued from the Reagan era and into Obama’s presidency. Racialized and gendered criminalization is what legitimates the framing of certain undocumented lives as lives that do not matter, even in an allegedly more inclusive America. Latinx immigrants were disproportionality subject to poverty, police profiling and deportations even with the passing of the DREAM Act and DACA and prior to Trump’s raids (and racism did not fade away with the election of a black president; homophobia did not end with the passing of same sex marriage; rape culture persists even though we are supposedly “post-feminist,” etc.). Furthermore, the narrow view of valuable immigrant life is prevalent in liberal and even progressive discourse that takes up the “nation of immigrants” narrative to counter the “immigration emergency.” DREAM Act rhetoric asserts that immigrants deserve a path to legalization because they are law-abiding, especially hardworking members of heteronormative families, students, or have served in the military. We can see this in opposition to the Muslim Ban as with the “Immigrants Make America Great” slogan, recourse to the Statue of Liberty as the welcoming “mother of exiles,” the framing of embracing immigrants as a national value, and the focus on the separation of families as an especially urgent reason to end the ban. Although well meaning, these current “nation of immigrants” narratives restrict the field for valuable immigrant life to reproductively respectable immigrants who contribute to the economy. And yet again, this country’s history of settler colonialism and slavery is erased, as are the indigenous human beings who were here before the immigrants and the indigenous human beings who are here today. Neoliberal structures of social domination remain in place not only if/when more highly respectable “diverse” bodies are incorporated, but in no small part because they are incorporated. Trump is the product of a nation built on the dispossession of indigenous people, slavery, and heteropatriarchy. His election is not indicative of the erosion of American democracy; rather, it shows that American-style democracy, designed to protect the property of wealthy white men and literally built on the dispossession of indigenous people and through slavery, is working as it was designed to. Neoliberalism has furthered that “cause” with its immigration discourses. This is not to say that there is not value in the movement on the Left to not normalize his authoritarian and fascist actions and his overt embrace of racism. This is terrifying, and not something we should accept. But his anti-immigration stance and now action is part of a continuum, a long American history of xenophobia, racism, heterosexism, and settler colonialism.
What is the next research project you will be working on and how does it relate to your past research you’ve completed?
My current project bridges indigenous studies and settler colonial studies with immigration studies; I am reconsidering 1980s immigration discourse and neoliberalism through this lens. For example, although the violences of xenophobia and settler colonialism are interconnected and consideration of this offers promising opportunities to build solidarities and to mobilize, the “nation of immigrants” trope, the most prevalent and, thus far, most powerful retort to xenophobia—as we have recently seen in opposition to the Muslim Ban—perpetuates the erasure of indigeneity and settler colonialism, all the while maintaining the racialized and gendered exclusions that always already underpin it. Moreover, the idealized immigrant is an update of the idealized settler, and many immigrants themselves became settlers. Centering indigeneity can help us rethink the nativism underscoring not only immigration policy, but the very concepts of borders, transnationality, rights, and “American values.” My new project analyzes U.S. immigration and Native American policy and popular culture about indigenous Americans and immigrants in order to expose how settler violence works in and through immigration discourses, and to push against the frequent erasure of indigeneity in immigration studies.
[i] Douglas Kellner, Media Culture: Cultural Studies, Identity and Politics between the Modern and the Postmodern (New York: Routledge, 1995), 1.
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} | 301 | Filgaia is dying. The deserts expand after the desolation caused by a five hundred year-old catastrophe. Demons made of steel and technology rise again, trying claim this world as their own. The secrets of the past stir, and those who lived them try to manipulate Filgaia's future to serve their own ends. It is a world filled with ruins from past ages, containing secrets to be found, and with those who would use those secrets to shake all existence. The world of Lunar, orbiting Filgaia, is still abundant and rich in life, but the Goddess protecting it has become withdrawn and cruel. Monsters have risen, and the Goddess' servants cannot stop them alone. Worse yet, the world trembles at the rise of a new Lord of Calamity.
Life on these worlds is precarious. The tides of war and dangers of the past threaten to shake the foundations of both. Kings, priests, and generals aren't prepared to handle these threats – or they further them, sometimes knowingly.
The ones who can best deal with these dangers are Drifters: men and women who wander the world in search of ruins, for fame and glory, knowledge and wealth, answers and power. Their goals are their own, as are their reasons. Not all Drifters are heroes, though, and some only want the past's secrets for their own sake. Cut off from society, living day-to-day in Filgaia's badlands and Lunar's countryside, these adventurers may be the least likely to save the world that they walked away from.
They are, however, the people's best and last hope. This is their story.
Dream Chasers MUSH is a Japanese console RPG-themed game of adventure, dungeon-crawling, and secrets just waiting to be found. And if you ride far and fast enough to the west, the sun will never set on you. | http://live.mudbytes.net/mud/tags/Xenogears/ | isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-43
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When you file a case with the Segal Law Firm, we understand your number one priority is healing and getting protection for you and your family. That’s why we try to keep your time commitment to a minimum.
Your main job is going to be providing us with necessary information so we can find out how you got hurt. You also might need to collect documents for us; medical records, work history, canceled checks, and things like that.
You will be expected to spend some time either in the office or on the phone answering some questions for the other side, under oath and in writing. We’ll also need to get a deposition from you, which might take anywhere from two hours to a full day, although that long of a deposition is extremely rare. Usually, it’s a matter of hours.
You’ll then be asked to attend mediation. Most judges now require that both sides get together with a mediator, which is an impartial party, to see if the case can be settled. It could take a day of your time to do that. And, finally, if your case does go to trial, you’ll need to be present for that.
Beyond those commitments, it’s basically just you helping us understand your case when issues come up. Generally speaking, I say that five to ten days of your time will be needed in the year to three years that we work on your case. We do the vast majority of the work and do not need your assistance in doing it, as long as the information you give us is thorough, complete and honest.
The most important thing you can do is focus on your road to recovery. We need to understand how you’re going to heal so that we can represent you into the future. That way when we settle or try your case, we can provide you with the money you need to take care of yourself and your family for years to come. | https://segal-law.com/when-i-file-a-case-whats-expected-of-me/ | isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2020-16
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Today, UCU are foregrounding their campaign against casualisation of university teaching in their ‘stamp out casual contracts‘ day of action (you can find their newsletter here). A substantial part of their campaign, as well as the more general campaign by trade unions against zero hours contracts, emphasises the psychological as well as the financial burden placed on employees by insecure and uncertain work.
We may all have experienced the uncertainty of trying to find a job in order to pay our bills and achieve a decent standard of living, but when you have found employment, and that remains no guarantee of keeping the wolf from the door, workers remain in a state of ongoing anxiety and must devote a substantial proportion of their efforts to looking for additional work or sources of income. There is a fine line between claiming such tactics encourage entrepreneurial behaviour and promoting extreme exploitation as firms attempt to evade their moral responsibilities towards employees.
Such arguments sometimes fall upon deaf ears, after all those of us earning enough to succeed by such work may see little harm in the arrangements. But in doing so we are often inclined to overlook our own privilege in health, wealth and the unpaid support of family or friends. With individuals as with corporations, our successes are never truly our own, they rely upon the supportive and nurturing work of others who came before us to provide us with education, nurse us through sickness and protect us from tasks of which we were not yet capable. It is also easy to over-simplistically compare our situation with those of other countries which exhibit wildly different taxation arrangements with significant consequences for quality of life.
It is worth noting that our moral actions and sentiments promote collective productivity and sustainable lifestyles, while the egoism of putting the individual first often comes at the cost of long term prosperity and happiness. In the International Labour Organization’s measurement factors of decent work, job security is a notable factor contributing to the dignity of workers. This is not because job security is a marker of status in society, but rather because of our interdependence as human beings. Having some security in our work and income allows us to enter into supportive relationships with others; to support our parents or our children, to make plans for our future, to develop time for our education or to give something back to our communities. From this, many more than the employees of one company benefit from the stability, and such organizations benefit from peaceful, stable markets in return. Workers are also less fearful, and are more likely to raise issues with their employer, which though it may reduce productivity in the short term, help to develop a better company, better products and better relationships within that company.
In the case of academic work, the pursuit of knowledge is not assisted by anxiety, fear and a reticence to speak out promoted by casual contracts. It may not seem immediately apparent to students surrounded by beautiful new buildings and high-tech equipment, but without the dignity and wellbeing of securely employed staff, these are a poor measure of educational quality. The best teacher or mentor, advisor or adminstrator you will ever need, might be that person who wasn’t able to keep up with the three jobs worth of work they were only being paid one salary to perform. They might be the person sleeping in their car between lectures because they stayed up all night marking exams. They might be the person who becomes unable to get to work because they simply couldn’t make ends meet. A small mistake might undermine your learning due to no hours being paid to update your teacher’s training in the library, or your administrator’s knowledge of new software. And as a result, they might not be there for you, at their best when you need them most.
We are much more interdependent than an uncertain transaction of time would have you believe. Stamp out zero hours contracts; not only for worker’s dignity, but in recognition of our worth together, as more than the sum of our parts.
Captain America, Human dignity & Marvel-lous Ethics
Photo credit: Stingmedia for Disney
Be forewarned, this post contains spoilers on the plot of various Marvel branded movies and TV shows released to date (notably Captain America: Civil War). I have not read the comics, so this commentary relies entirely on the cinematic universe portrayed by the movie franchise. I’m not a scholar of film, media or popular culture, but I have been intrigued by some of the themes cropping up in the Marvel franchise and the way in which these themes are generally dealt with. In particular, I find some of the elements of narratives around superheroes interesting, as they reflect upon what it means to be human (or not) and what constitutes moral behaviour (or at least what separates the ‘good’ guys from the ‘bad’), especially among leaders or celebrities.
There are many interesting elements which appear in the Marvel franchise around the role of government, the implications of covert organisations and ties between wealth and politics. There are also underlying questions about the ethics of methods and outcomes; is it okay for the good guys to work in the same way as the bad if they catch the bad guys in the end? In Avengers: Age of Ultron the narrative revolves around the implications of delegating responsibility for judgement of criminal action to automated systems – the very same debates which surround the use of drones in real warfare today. In Captain America: Civil War the narrative continues with these themes and explores the difficulties of collective governance and responsibility versus the pursuit of an individual moral code.
In these narratives there is a fundamental question over the extent of law and central authority to safeguard the collective public. In the landscape of these comic book narratives, which originated in and related to satirical drawings as well as war propaganda in their earliest forms, this draws strongly on the cultural inheritance of a time where capitalism and democracy as forms of social order agonised over the threats of communism and fascism. The contemporary Marvel narratives also seem to query the consequences of relying upon single individuals, often male heroic figures, to take action or make a decision in a position of imperfect knowledge or resources.
I first became interested in the role of these heroes in the Marvel franchise in their first contemporary cinematic movie Iron Man. This is a tale of a successful scion of industry who has profited from unethical and unscrupulous business practices and who lives an unscrupulous and immoral playboy lifestyle yet, after experiencing a life changing event and developing empathy for the suffering of others, changes his ways. Throughout the movie, Tony Stark (aka Iron Man) is questioned and criticised for his drastic actions as putting his company’s financial stability at risk.
According to Kantian views on ethics, those matters of action which constitute questions of right and wrong but fall outside of matters of compliance with the law, moral action should be decided only based upon maxims that are categorically imperative. This contrasts hypothetical imperatives to act (e.g. I wish to acquire riches, I ought to sell more products) where the action relies upon the pursuit of desires for what might be, with categorical imperatives for action (e.g. I know a product to be dangerous, I ought to stop manufacture of the product). The second action fulfils Kant’s notion of the Categorical Imperative, or ‘fair play’; a moral duty is only one that would be right for any and all persons in any circumstance. This is sometimes referred to as the test of universalisability. Kantian ethics is therefore a rule or duty-based system of ethics (compared to other systems of ethics such as consequentialism that focus on outcomes).
This seems rather counter-intuitive, especially to those who point out that all business relies upon competition, to produce the best product, to command the highest price, to attract the best talent. The marketplace rewards outcomes, not intentions. Yet Kant makes this very point, and highlights that our intuitions are often unethical, that it is education, discipline and civilisation that teach us when to act on more than intuition, to act instead upon reason.
Dignity and Human Rights
Kant’s categorical imperative is sometimes expressed in a formulation which is foundational in human rights literature and in the literature on dignity in business and management studies.
This highlights the importance of universality in human rights discussions, because even when individual human beings or communities of human beings have differing beliefs or practices regarding what constitutes moral behaviour, Kantian ethics determines that practices which cannot be right if they are universalised, are not moral. And for Kant, it is the ability of the will to identify perfect duties (which must be performed all the time) and imperfect duties (which must be performed in certain circumstances) as different from preferences, which is the reason human beings have a special dignity.
Kant’s notion of dignity has been challenged on this basis, as has his views of ethics, for not being able to contend with the complex vulnerabilities of human beings; their need to be supported by others (as children or invalids, for example). Yet it is Kant’s formulations that underpin the contemporary legal framework of human rights legislation.
Our Dramatis Personae under discussion
Steve Rogers/Captain America: His backstory from the films
Born 1918 to Sarah Rogers, a war widow and nurse who died in 1940. Rejected in 1942 for enrollment in military, but recruited for a secret military project and following administration of a mysterious compound developed extraordinary physique, strength and healing abilities. Undertaking numerous wartime missions against the Nazi-financed HYDRA, he led his own unit of POW survivors entitled the Howling Commandos which included his childhood friend James (Bucky) Barnes and blossoming love interest Peggy Carter. Bucky was believed lost in combat and Steve entered an involuntary hibernation following a plane crash in the Atlantic in an attempt to bury the otherworldly item conferring HYDRA’s technological advantage. When Captain America is recovered 67 years later he struggles to adjust to modern US life and culture, but remains under quasi-military supervision from SHIELD (a US intelligence agency). Working with other superheroes to prevent an alien invasion he meets a variety of people who act by a different ‘warrior’s code’ (such as Thor), have been more used to working for various government organisations as spies and black ops, or have not had any military training, such as Iron Man. In later films he also faces his childhood friend Bucky, who had been rescued by HYDRA and succesfully transformed into a mind-controlled super-soldier comparable to Captain America. Bucky recovers his memories with Steve’s help despite remaining opposed to him in combat and escapes.
Tony Stark/Iron Man: His backstory from the films
Born 1970 as only son to Howard Stark, who emphasises Captain America as a role model, having worked with him during WWII. Tony has a poor relationship with his father and is mostly raised by family retainers including their butler, Jarvis. Tony nonetheless performs well in education with a talent for invention, robotics and computing similar to Howard’s and becomes good friends with James Rhodes during studies at MIT. Howard and Maria Stark die in a car crash in 1991, leaving Tony to inherit the multinational Stark Industries, his father’s technology and weapon manufacturing company. Tony was not an attentive CEO, with most of the day-to-day operations being controlled by Obadiah Stane but he did establish contracts with the US military. He also develops an advanced Artificial Intelligence system to assist with household management he names JARVIS. Following kidnapping by a guerrilla fighting force who brand themselves as the Ten Rings, Tony designs and constructs the Iron Man armoured suit along with new power generation technology and stops all weapons production by Stark Industries. As Iron Man, he then proceeded to intervene in several conflicts featuring Ten Rings members when finding out about them on TV. Although approached by SHIELD to work more closely with (covert) US defence, Tony publicly declares his identity as Iron Man and does not pass the psychological tests to join the Avengers initiative (though he does some consulting for them). Despite disagreement with James Rhodes and armed conflict with Obadiah on offensive versus defensive technology, Tony continues to focus on production of defensive armour. Tony also develops a romantic relationship with his personal assistant, Pepper Potts, and eventually makes her CEO of Stark Industries. As his celebrity status draws critical global attention (including from disenfranchised Ivan Vanko) Tony struggles to cope with the strain. In later events, he is drafted into the Avengers’ defence of New York against alien invaders and embarks on a suicide mission which he narrowly survives. He later suffers from anxiety attacks and implied PTSD.
–spoiler break for those who haven’t seen Civil War on DVD yet!–
Where is the dignity in suicide?
What is Physician Assisted Suicide?
Rights and Duties
The Individual Citizen
Dignity and sufferring
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The Phrase Finder
The meaning and origin of the expression: Bling-bling
Browse phrases beginning with:
What's the meaning of the phrase 'Bling-bling'?
Ostentatious, over-the-top jewellery or dress. Often used to demonstrate the wearer's wealth.
What's the origin of the phrase 'Bling-bling'?
This term came to prominence right at the end of the 20th century, when 'bling' became a central feature of the Gangsta rap hip hop scene in the USA. It was also in use in Jamaica about the same time and it isn't clear where the term was coined. The first use of it in print is in the lyrics of 'Bling Bling', which was recorded in 1999 by the rap artist B.G. (a.k.a. 'Baby Gangsta', a.k.a. Christopher Dorsey), on the album Chopper City In The Ghetto:
bling bling...
Big ballin' Calhounie's, you can see him when he comin'
Booted up, diamond up
Golds be shinin' up, all them diamonds be blindin' up
Bling bling
Everytime I come around yo' city
Bling bling
Pinky ring worth about 50
Bling bling
Everytime I buy a new ride
Bling bling
Lorenzos on Yokahama tires
bling-blingThe use of bling-bling in Jamaica is recorded in the Kingston newspaper The Gleaner, 18th December 1999. This was in a picture story about the Christmas decorations on a house on Portmore Parkway. Spelled out in coloured lights was:
"It's a Bling-Bling Christmas to the Y2K."
See other reduplicated phrases.
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Transcript of Galaxies
The force that attracts a body toward the center of the Earth or toward any other physical body having mass. So gravity is a force that is pulling together all matter. It is a gravitational pull and it is extremely strong. The other act that is acting besides gravity is inertia, which is the act of something moving in a straight line unless it's being pushed or pulled.
Elliptical Galaxies
Elliptical galaxies are round or elliptical shaped and is a circle that has been stretched wider in the middle. They have very little gas and dust. Since stars form from gas, little star formation occurs in elliptical galaxies. Most of their stars are old and red.
Irregular Galaxies
Spiral Galaxies
Spiral galaxies are pinwheel shaped. Also, most of them have black holes in the center. Spiral galaxies are made of lots of gas and dust.
Black Holes
A black hole is a region of space having a gravitational field so intense that no matter or radiation can escape. Black holes are cold remains of a former star so dense that no matter, not even light is able to escape it's powerful gravitational pull.
Other Galaxies
The cD galaxies are elliptical shaped and filled with tight star clusters. The Dwarf galaxies are elliptical or irregular shaped and can have many or few clusters. The "Ghost" galaxies don't give much light and look like ghosts of spiral galaxies.
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A galaxy is a vast collection of millions or billions of stars combined with gas and dust held together by gravitational attraction. A galaxy is usually containing several million to over a trillion stars. Also, galaxies are divided into three basic types: spiral, elliptical, and irregular galaxies.
Galaxy DOK Questions
- How would you compare the force of gravity on Earth and on the moon?
- How would you test gravity?
- Can you explain how gravity effects us on Earth?
Some galaxies that are observed cannot be classified as either elliptical or spirals. These galaxies have little symmetry in their structure and are termed irregular galaxies. Irregular galaxies have no particular shape and they are among the smallest galaxies which are filled with gas and dust.
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} | 198 | Horowitz: A Biography of Vladimir Horowitz
Plaskin, Glenn
William Morrow, 1983
pp. 396 - 397
For both his 1965 and 1974 returns to the concert stage in New York, Horwitz stage-managed the ticket sales and publicity. He wanted no mail-order or advance sales. What he wanted, and what he knew people would do, was to stay all night in line waiting for the box office to open. Then, as before, he would send them coffee and doughnuts and generate publicity. In fact, he visited the line personally, after making sure TV and newspaper reporters would be there. “On the evening of November 4, all the variables fell into place nicely. Five hundred people were lined up outside the Met, and it was another cold and rainy night. Horowitz came to Lincoln Center directly from the airport. When his car pulled up, he coyly announced that he would not walk across the plaza because photographers were present and he did not want his appearance to be construed as a publicity stunt. In the same spirit he declared: ‘I’m sometimes frightened of myself! Always when I play, the people wait in line for a whole night to buy tickets. Why does it happen?’” | https://cep.calvinseminary.edu/reading-for-preaching/horowitz-a-biography-of-vladimir-horowitz/ | isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2020-16
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} | 370 | SAN ANTONIO — A man died Tuesday evening after being shot in an apartment doorway north of downtown, the third fatal shooting in the city in less than 24 hours.
Hours later, a security guard was shot at the same apartment complex and was taken to San Antonio Military Medical Center with life-threatening injuries. Police said they arrested a man they believe was the shooter in both incidents.
Two men had knocked on a door around 4:30 p.m. at the Alamo Terrace apartments in the 200 block of Victor Street, and one of them fired when a man opened the door, Police Chief William McManus said.
The victim, who police said was in his 50s or 60s, was pronounced dead at the apartment. He had not been identified by evening.
McManus said the attackers fled together but that at some point, the shooter turned the gun on the other man and fired. He was not hit, and officers caught him nearby, the chief said.
Police said their suspect in the shooting returned to the scene, approached the security guard and shot multiple times, hitting him at least twice.
The guard, 33, was in surgery for a neck wound, police said.
In an earlier incident, a man died Monday night at a hospital after being shot several times on the West Side. Police said he was in his mid- to late-20s and was shot before 9:45 p.m. at Mario's Store at Guadalupe Street and Hamilton Avenue.
He stumbled across the street, collapsed in the parking lot of a Sunglo convenience store and was taken to University Hospital, where he died just before 11 p.m., according to police and the Bexar County medical examiner's office. He has not been identified.
A man whom police later identified as Rogelio Ramos, 50, was killed by gunfire at a Valero gas station on the Northeast Side around 8:30 p.m. Monday after an altercation that had started down the street in the 1500 block of Austin Highway. More than a dozen bullet casings were recovered.
Ramos tried to drive away from the initial confrontation but was followed by the shooter, police said. Ramos was shot as he tried to run into the store and died there.
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My awesome planet!
WALT:write a paragraph with lots of description.
In room six we have these SRL sheets to do to earn points for free time,a care tick,a spot prize or to get bumped up to your next license or to earn one if you don't have one. What I want to show you is my planet from the SRL sheet. On my planet we have a beach, a Countdown, a maze (it's so easy) and of course my house.
At my house you can tell it's mine for to reasons first reason is it has a giant K on it and the second reason is it's the biggest house on my planet and the beach is awesome cause the sand is gold and the water is lovely and warm and count down is the best place to by ANYTHING and the maze is super easy. | http://kendraslearning.blogspot.com/ | robots: classic
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} | 544 | Media Jump on LGBT Band Wagon to Support Trans Texas Wrestler
February 27th, 2017 9:53 AM
The controversy surrounds Mack Beggs, 17, a high school girl in Texas who is undergoing testosterone treatments because she wants to be one of the boys. She prefers to wrestle as a boy, but the organization governing Texas high school sports required her to wrestle as a girl – her birth gender. Beggs just capped an undefeated 52-0 season by winning the state girls’ championship in her weight class, leading to cries of foul and forfeits by two of her tournament foes.
Prior to the state tournament, one parent sued the Texas University Interscholastic League out of fear a girl would get hurt by Beggs. The League had previously voted 586-32 for its birth gender policy.
WaPo's Katie Mettler focused on the critics of that decision as “‘horrible policy’ that would discriminate against transgender athletes who were unable to afford the complicated maneuvering that goes into legally changing one’s birth certificate through the state.” Mettler also claimed the association’s policy is “backfiring.”
Dallas Morning News columnist Kevin Sherrington demanded that if the state athletics association refuses to change its rule, then a court of law should do so.
Meanwhile, that “horrible policy” resulted in a state championship for Beggs, who would might have lived a life of obscurity if she had gotten her wish for tougher competition against boys.
The Washington Post crowed that Beggs is “the first transgender participant to win a Class 6A girls’ state championship in Texas high school wrestling. ‘I just witnessed my sport change,’ a longtime Texas wrestling coach said.”
Big Media from coast to coast typically reported the event as if a boy had won the girls’ state wrestling title. Running the AP story, The New York Daily News claimed: “Beggs fell to his knees for a moment after the win as a mixture of cheers and boos rained down on himHe then hugged his coach and left the mat. He had a bit of fun with his fellow wrestlers at the medal ceremony when he counted down from three and all six of the top finishers posed by doing a dab on the medal stand.”
Attempting to “re-write” biology text books, The Associated Press reported, “Beggs’ participation comes at a crucial moment, with the public and politicians debating the growing belief that gender is fluid.”
More than six billion earthlings who aren’t confused about the fact they were born male or female would strongly debate the idea that gender is “fluid.” It’s a radical claim by LGBT activists and their lap-dog friends in Big Media. The truth is that people can mutilate themselves, take hormone treatments, wear wigs and say their gender has changed all they want. That doesn’t make it so.
AP also politicized the Texas controversy this way: “Just this week, the Trump administration announced an end to federal protections that allowed transgender students to use facilities based on their gender identity, leaving states and school districts to determine their own policies.”
You just knew Big Media would drag President Trump’s name into this controversy. Meanwhile, there’s a mess in Texas’ high school wrestling world. | https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/jay-maxson/2017/02/27/media-jump-lgbt-band-wagon-support-trans-texas-wrestler | isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2020-40
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Saturday, April 23, 2005
Let me clarify
The "not gay guy" did NOT actually say "I'll show you how gay I'm not." I added that on my own.
Does that make him less creepy?
I met him for drinks Thursday night, which was fine. We went to a buddy's bar, which was pretty empty, and played mega touch games and watched South Park. I didn't feel like trying to make conversation; he was okay at it, I was just too tired to make the effort.
I did that for a few hours, it wasn't bad. His family lives here, but he's in the air force in Oklahoma and left today. He called me yesterday to hang out, but I didn't answer. I actually stayed in last night and was a big nerd, doing laundry and going to bed early.
He did not seem creepy and had very good manners, for the record.
Am I horriable if I consider him "practice" for "real life"?
Friday, April 22, 2005
Quickie Quiz
Thursday, April 21, 2005
I'll show you just how GAY I'm NOT
Tuesday night highlight:
I wasn't going to drink Tuesday (I know. I know. I'm a bad non-drinker) but it was my girl friend's birthday (girl SPACE friend, calm down) and she got like a million free drinks and many of them were too large for her to finish alone. And she didn't "need" anymore.
So I was a good friend and helped her out.
This made me really drunk and work on Wednesday d r a g.
It also made me even more oblivious to men and men signals. I spoke with a man near the end of the night, whom I assumed was gay. He had been talking to another man earlier that I knew for sure was gay, and I heard the word "gay". They were all well dressed. Also, someone has said that bar was the new "gay hangout".
So I start joking with this guy, thinking he is gay. I had been hot all night and felt like a smelly, drowned dog mess, I was not in the mood to "pick up" men.
We're laughing about whatever is funny at 2am, after drinking a fish bowl and love bucket (it was really called a "love bucket" and was served in a metal bucket- very tastey). And all of a sudden he's like, "...if you give me your phone number so I can call you to go out to dinner."
I just stared at him. He's like, "Seriously, I'd like to take you out later this week." I was trying not to say, "But you're gay!". So I just gave him my number.
I'm not smooth and finally said,m "Uh, I thought you were gay." Which he was only mildly amused by and insisted in having me repeatedly explain why I thought he was gay so he could repeatedly reaffirm that he was not gay.
He also didn't understand why I let one of the real life gay men touch my breasts and he could not.
I didn't answer when he called.
Tuesday, April 19, 2005
"Thank you"
I rented Sideways and Closer.
Sideways was a waste of my life. Except I (cringeingly) enjoyed what a loser the guy was. And the naked man chasing them as they drove down the street.
Closer was a downer. Jude Law's character was too scummy to be hot. Seriously. I didn't enjoy him at all. And besides having amazing teeth, the "eastern" guy wasn't sexy either.
The entire movie wasn't sexy! Why is it so hard to capture sex on screen? Love I understand, it's complex/complicated/surreal/hard - all that jazz. Sex is sex. People make millions off porn selling sex.
Natalie Portman's dialog was choppy. Was that her doing, the writer, or the director? Julia Roberts was annoying and I couldn't figure out why she was so special/interesting that she was ruining everyone else's lives.
My favorites parts were Portman telling the teeth guy, "Thank you" and actually cringing when he yelled. And the end, which I won't spoil. I didn't really care what happened at that point, but at least someone got fucked.
14 hours
Since I got 14 hours (no joke) of sleep last night, I feel refreshed and modivated (slightly useless) today to get everything done I've been putting off all month.
This morning I cleaned a bathroom, did the laundry, returned phone calls, and cleaned the kitchen. It's not even noon! Man, I'm good.
No work today since my building is a block from the Lincoln Presidential Library. The entire home office gets it off. Paid. I should have slept in.
Tonight I promised Farah I would dress up for dinner at Sapudos for her birthday. I need to make up for sleeping through last night, when I should have been out like a rock star. (it was Monday, yes, I know)
I need to run out today to return some pants I bought. I thought they were capris, but in real life, I bought a regular pair of jeans in "short". No joke. An example of how fashion inept I am. I also want a tanning package and some bobby pins.
I LOVE having long hair, but it stays up all summer. I need to think of something for work that keeps it up without showing the tattoo on the back of my neck. I wouldn't get fired over it or anything, but it's unprofessional and I'm already the (second) youngest person there, I would rather not appear even more unprofessional.
Sunday, April 17, 2005
Panty Update II
Disclaimer: If you're grossed out of annouyed by reading about how women feel about undies when they work out, SKIP THIS POST!
I LOVE BOY SHORTS! I think it was Stoli (whom I am once again, too lazy to link) who suggested wearing boy short undies to work out, and she's (extra) awesome for it. Very comfy!
I only wear pant so to work out, so whoever suggested the bike shorts for chafing, I don't need 'em. (unless I'll show my legs in public by the end of summer)
But french cut (french cut meaning the bottom fourth of your ass hangs out) boy shorts are amazing. I looked for some more yesterday, but couldn't find them, I'm going to do a little more shopping today. And maybe some tanning, I love tanning.
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reddit spread making a bet
If you want to discuss your individual parlay/ bet, individual games or props then . Is there an edge to betting on this opposed to the spread or ML?. My goal was to make a compeletely mathematical model in arguably A little side note I have been betting on the NBA spread and point totals. For example, if you're making an NFL against the spread bet, the team you're eyeing might be overall but ATS. So, they win most of.
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June 18 - July 3, 2012, recent Academy graduate Joseph Brickey (MFA 2012) lived and worked in Carrara, Italy as part of a two-week Artist in Residence Program coordinated by ABC Stone and The Oriano Galloni Foundation.
By way of introduction, I've always felt I could do anything an artist aught to be able to do. Can I draw? Sure. Give me a pencil, and I can move it in any direction. What about paint? Oh, you mean that soft, creamy stuff that comes in nice little tubes? Sure. I even know where to get special brushes so you can rub it around without getting any on your fingers. Can I sculpt? Well, I grew up playing in the mud. That's a material I understand.
But what about stone carving, you ask? What?? Did you say stone?? You mean that material that shooting stars are made of, that sinks ships, divides the oceans, forms mountains, turns aside rivers, crushes whatever stands between it and the center of the earth? This is the material upon which all the world stands for support. A wise man might build upon it, but what fool would try to carve it? Even Mother Nature herself only carves by the minuscule per millennium.
That's right, I know about stone. I've had my own experiences with it. I've climbed it, kicked it, smacked it, and stubbed my toes on it. Throughout my entire life, anytime I've come up against stone, it always wins. It's just instinctive now: when we cross paths, stone always has the right of way. It's simple, really. I'm made from the dust, the stuff smashed between the rocks, the stuff that is washed away by the wind and the rain, while the stone, well, it isn't.
So if you ask me about stone carving, I'm thinking you must mean the stone doing the carving on me. What then? Into a stone box I go, unto the dust I return, six feet under a stone marker that warns the world: "This man thought stone carving was a good idea."
So that's where I'm coming from. At least until the opportunity came to go to Carrara.
Hence it shouldn't seem so strange that stone carving--most certainly humanity's first dip into the arts--feels to me more like my final frontier as an artist. But unwittingly my creative impulse had always been carrying me closer. All along it was a natural fit for my artistic identity, the eventuality of all of my efforts and interests. But aspiration cannot live without expectation, and marble carving was on the same list as cloud surfing and comet riding.
I had thought that turning to sculpture a couple of years ago completed my ambitions. I had used drawing materials, painting materials, and now sculpting materials. But marble was an entirely different thing. In the court of the great masters, I had tried out every seat in the house, but I had never considered actually taking the throne. Not that I don't think big. I'm a guy who has considered planting a garden on Mount Everest, camping on the dark side of the moon, crab walking to the edge of the earth, and then rappelling down. But carving a marble sculpture?! It seemed so far fetched, so foreign, so unfathomable, that even to man prone to ambition, it remained the impossible dream.
Then came the generosity of Jonathon Tibett of ABC Stone, the groundwork of SteveShaheen (MFA 2005), and the great resource that is the New York Academy of Art. When the news came that I had received the marble carving residency, I was suddenly cloud hugging and comet kissing. Mount Everest could melt, the edge of the earth could go drop off itself---I was going to Carrara!!!
Part of my preparation was to decide on a subject and create a model to work from while there. I felt I should do something that would test me with the technique, something with nuance and detail, subtle shifts in form, demanding precise proportion and surface treatment. In short, something that would be a good test for future carving possibilities, for I felt that if the honeymoon went well, so would the marriage.
Michelangelos Maquette
There was no doubt that I wanted to do something figurative, but with forms conceived for the material of stone. This was new for me and my mind immediately sought answers from the great Michelangelo. I looked not only to his final sculptures but also to those sketches and preliminary works that demonstrated earlier conceptual phases. Among his surviving works that were preparatory for his marble sculptures is a terra cotta maquette of a male torso done for his Awakening Slave.
Pen & Ink of Male Torso
Toned Drawing of Male Torso
This point of reference seemed to fit my native impulse, and as I began to work out my own interpretation, I felt a sort of dialogue develop, consulting the great master at every turn (and occasionally bickering with his counsel). It became a process where I either had to justify my own path or come to understand the reason for his. In the end, whether my model was a tribute or an insult to his wisdom, I’d made my case and was ready to stand by it.
Model of Male Torso
Now I simply had to go to Italy to make the same argument to some block of marble… and I was unbelievably excited!!!
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Linda_Owl's avatar
Do you think that cities are trying to actually help the homeless or do you think they are trying to drive the homeless out of the cities?
Asked by Linda_Owl (7637 points ) April 9th, 2012
It seems that the cities are actively engaged in trying to run the homeless out of the cities as this link clearly shows with the laws that have been passed against the homeless.**ty_things_america_does_to_homeless_people?page=1
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marinelife's avatar
It is a mixed effort. There are a lot of programs aimed at helping the homeless.
Here is a list of federal programs.
Here are samples of programs at the state level (PA).
And here are examples of city programs in Los Angeles
Aethelflaed's avatar
Usually, the second option. We tend to make it sort of illegal to be homeless, so there should be help, but only if you don’t get arrested first.
john65pennington's avatar
According to several homeless people I have conversed with, Louisville, Kentucky was voted to be the best city and state to accept homeless people. Nashville, Tn. was second on the voted list.
We try to give every effort to homeless people, who deserve it. Especially, families with children come first. By those who deserve it, I mean people that are not trouble makers, within a deserving group.
I believe most cities are attempting to deal with homeless people, but the numbers grow daily and that is a problem with food and shelter.
Linda_Owl's avatar
One thing for sure, you do not want to end up homeless in the Dallas / Fort Worth area of TX. You will, most likely, end up in jail. Both Dallas & Fort Worth have homeless shelters, but not nearly enough for the number of people who are homeless, & they are in isolated locations that are difficult to reach by walking.
trailsillustrated's avatar
The homeless, in general, are entirely marginalized and unwanted members of society. Why? Because, usually the event that led to homelessness was probably not a good one. Drug abuse, mental illness. How do I know? I have been homeless in the not entirely too distant past. I don’t know what the answer is. I think the US is too based on employer given health care for one. Just sayin’.
wundayatta's avatar
It has to do with city budgets and many other factors. It is known that if you spend the money to house the homeless, you save money in the long run. There are fewer health care expenses and less crime and all kinds of other benefits. Unfortunately, when the cities are strapped, to be seen spending money on homeless instead of on education is politically indefensible.
In Philly, the theory is not to help the homeless in the parks, but to get them indoors where not only can you feed them, but you can get them the medical care they need to deal with their mental illnesses and then you can get them into permanent housing and stabilize their lives.
It is seen that feeding in public enables the homeless to stay homeless. Yet, do-gooders think they are doing good—feeding hungry people. Never mind that them feeling good about feeding the homeless is harming the homeless in the long run. No one sees the long run except policy wonks.
I believe that in my city, we really want to help. But the way we do it doesn’t look good. Perhaps there are more creative ways that could help harness the energy of emotional do-gooders with actual good policy that works. But we aren’t there yet.
In other cities, I don’t know. It sure seems like many just want to kick out the homeless if they can, or at least banish them to parts of town where tourists and rich people won’t have to see them. It’s not an unexpected attitude.
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I think cities are trying to rid of the homeless because people generally look down upon the homeless, thinking of them as dirty, useless people. Honestly, we have no right to “rid” our cities of people who don’t have homes, they’re people too. Even if they are just drunks or drug addicts, there’s still a reason they’re on the streets. And not all homeless people want/need money for less than desirable reasons. So yes, I think cities are trying to get rid of homeless people, but at the same time, catering to their needs.
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The laws against homeless people are usually designed to protect public and private property from the vandalism and damage they cause. Every law should be backed up by an equal publicly funded service to provide help, but that is harder to justify.
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@YARNLADY What kind of damage and vandalism do homeless people cause? Teenagers and young adults cause more damage than I’ve ever seen from a homeless person…
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@likipie I can tell that you have not done any volunteer clean up work around their campgrounds or walked down a street where drunk, homeless people puke and defecate regularly.
Are you saying that since other people also commit these types of crimes, it somehow makes it OK?
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@YARNLADY I’m not saying that at all, I’m just saying that if we’re going to kick every “type” of person out of our cities who does these things, we might as well get rid of every “group” of people. Homeless people are not the only ones who do these kinds of things, but that doesn’t make it ok for anyone. And yes, actually, I have done a lot of volunteer clean-up work for my city, thank you very much.
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The Prodigal Webmaster Returns
posted by marrael 2012-06-17 05:57:51
A quick post to ease myself back into regular bog posts again; this one will just contain a bunch of helpful tips and tutorials:
halla and hart: On painting skin tones, and why lighting = pale is a fallacy
Terese Nielsen talks about drawing the human head for practice in this Muddy Colors Guest Post (and points toward a book I need to hunt down!).
And one from a Fantastic Portfolios member artist: Tips for Realistic Figures and Faces
This one from the Art Order that I can totally connect with, dealing with The Downward Spiral. Psst... it's worse for artists who lose time for art due to parenting or other familial responsibilities!
More later. Welcome back to Fantastic Portfolios!
Getting It Done
posted by marrael 2012-01-30 23:57:38
During my casual surfing on the web, links get bookmarked into my "to blog" list sometimes, and I delete them from the list as they get blogged, tackled or decided against. (It's a handy way to tackle surfing and a to-do list in one.) Now, that "to-blog" or "to-do" bookmark list isn't really today's blog subject (but if you found that tip useful, you're welcome), it's that there was a certain link that sat on the list a long time because, well, I thought linking to it would look like I was advocating smoking, and rudely. (I'm not.) Here it is: 7 Lessons Smokers Can Teach Us About Getting Sh*t Done.
The seven tips really apply for those who are mums, or working day jobs, or juggling those two things on top of playing caregiver for older relatives, or night classes, whatever situation you may be in that keeps art from becoming a full-time vocation. And while I've always appreciated artists and creative people who post photos of their work spaces online, I also have resented those lucky gits who don't have to share their work spaces, or have to clear it all up when it's mealtime (I paint at the dining table) or have to stash paintings under the wardrobes to dry where they will (hopefully) not be found or disturbed by the toddler. Sometimes after all the precautions I take, accidents still happen (like soup being tossed and landing onto a painting three feet away), but if one is determined, one can make art (or smoke) anytime and anywhere. Painting on-site for location paintings and speed-portraits has pretty much cemented this lesson for me.
If you've got a sketch or an idea to work on, but find yourself surfing or watching TV instead, put a pencil and a sketchbook in front of yourself anyway and see which activity wins. That's all this week!
Book Review: 100 Ways to Create Fantasy Characters
posted by marrael 2012-01-24 22:36:47
100 Ways to Create Fantasy Figures
Author/Artist: Francis Tsai
Publisher: Impact
Francis Tsai wasn't a name I immediately recognised picking up the book. But he is a talented concept artist and freelance illustrator who's worked for all the big companies, and who didn't start out in traditional art school. On that fact in the introduction alone, I was immediately intrigued and encouraged. He draws a distinction between design-based art education and illustration-based art education, and if concept art is an industry you're aiming for, he makes clear that it's beneficial to have the skills taught in both. (Design helps in effective visual communication and problem-solving, while illustration/fine-art training focuses on observation, documenting and reproducing visuals in various media.) Chances are, unless you're in a course specifically for concept art, you probably have a grounding in one field, and would need to be practice the other on your own. (Or if you're like me, you've got to work on both all on your own!)
It's practical, thought-provoking advice like this that makes clear this isn't just a book of examples and tutorials. It's a book that reveals, from experience, the art skills needed to become a concept artist, or a book, comic, or media illustrator, and how to go about getting and honing those skills. Observation and constant sketching is a must (which made me realise that joining the local urban sketchers wasn't as "useless" to me as I thought), as is gaining a visual vocabulary, learning the problem-solving approach to designing characters, places, AND the final art pieces. This book is not just for browsing through; Francis Tsai goes from the "big picture" advice and long-term strategies for a striving artist, before going into the 100 ways of creating fantasy figures.
So we come to the 100 ways, and if I hadn't already been impressed with the preceding stuff, the bulk of the book is packed with inspirational techniques and strategies to stretch and strengthen one's art. In many ways, I think the book should have been titled toward this end, as the 100 tips aren't JUST for fantasy figues, but artwork that balances figures and/or monsters in their environments and in the art. This book is a keeper: you can always open it randomly for a new technique, or use it more systematically, say, when you need to create a sympathetic character or conversely, a monster; and when you need inspiration, a "hook", or just to climb out of a rut.
So, there are no walkthroughs in this book, but it's packed full of art examples, good tips and advice. It's not a style you're going to learn how to recreate, but it's a guidebook on how to develop your own style, and how to add to your drawing and design skills, and how to make art directors happy (or, happier, at least). Highly recommended.
Preciousness, Red Lines and Miscellaneous Links
posted by marrael 2011-12-13 23:22:03
When I was in secondary school (in the British Commonwealth, this is the name of school you attend between ages 13 to 16, after primary school), I was certain my art teacher was out to get me. Sketches I'd loving tickled onto the paper with my timid 2B pencils would return to me with corrective lines gouged into the drawing, sometimes in what looked like 8B charcoal. Every art student got them, but with my work it'd always seemed more heartbreaking because I'd had widespread assurance the originals were so pretty. Yet, my drawings would still receive more corrective lines than others. (Thanks, Mrs Ong.)
With age comes wisdom, albeit very slowly. When you're starting out, everything you make with your hands is dear and seen as precious. Every pencil mark and paint stroke is done with a lot of sincerity, and having it ripped to pieces is, well, heartbreaking. Years and years down the line, you get jaded: Sketches and drawings are discarded, revised for the client's liking, taken in directions you hadn't expected, and after producing literally thousands of pictures, you may get used to seeing your own work more critically, clinically, and start to anticipate criticisms--and then heed or disregard those in your work according to your emotional and financial needs at the moment.
The lesson that comes with time: What may be dear and precious in your work to you may not be apparent to everyone else. But then again, if you're lucky enough that your work starts off hugely popular maybe this won't be a hard knock you'll have to deal with! But if your art has weaknesses, red lines (or in my teacher's case, 8B pencil) on top of one's work help open your eyes to your pictures' problems and solutions. And sometimes, because you're getting better at art over time, you start being the one applying the red pen to your own work.
Here's my own recent example: Tangled (Revisited)
While Lori McNee at Fine Art Tips has several drastic examples:
How I Destroyed a Painting to Make it Better
Give a New Identity to an Unsold Painting!
Rework an Old Painting & Make it Sell!
I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own. --Jackson Pollock
On to miscellanous links:
The Art Order has issued a new challenge: Levi
This is a delightful article: The Schweizer Guide to Spotting Tangents
I didn't know this problem had a name! But it is something I do look out for when drawing. Having come across other artists' images that suffer from the problem, this article explains very thoroughly what to look out for, reasons to avoid tangents, and easy solutions.
And this is a HUGE tangent that is NOT art related, but a hilarious comedy sketch, sort-of related to the preciousness of our artistic talents: Talent Dredge from Mitchell and Webb
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Artists Helping Artists
posted by marrael 2011-11-24 00:36:07
In the free-wheeling and dealing world on the Internet, it's always been interesting for me to note the wide range of artistic styles and abilities out there that are still quite dazzling to me, who managed to live the first 17 years of my life without it. Prior to the Internet, my exposure to art was in the form of books, stationery, art classes and museums. Even with regular exposure to the widest variety of books, it was still looking at art through the filters imposed by industry experts and book editors. It wasn't bad (on the contrary, it was all good stuff) but it was rare to find rough sketches or pictures of work in development outside of biographical books about artists. Even in the early days of the Internet, scanners weren't common, digital painting was (more or less) in its infancy, and the artists to be found online were probably just a fraction of a percentage of the artists you can find online today.
Recent explorations on the Internet revealed to me that it isn't just artists of various abilities flourishing online, but the tutorials written for artists of varying levels by artists at varying levels. It really shouldn't have been a surprise to me, because some of these tutorials have been the subject of hilarity in some of the forums I roll in (frequently, tutorials by obviously young-male artists trying to teach others how to draw ladyboobs). Maybe it's just the Thanksgiving spirit getting to me, but I had an epiphany looking at these tutorials yesterday, even some of the ones I know I'd have written completely differently: It's all artists trying to help other artists. And this motivation to help is found at all levels of ability--which is brilliant.
Now, I could end here after pointing out that we could be grateful for this alone (and I'll also provide links to general tutorial sites at the bottom) but I'd like to take it further. Sometimes I find stuff on the internet alluding to artists behaving badly, whether it's stealing (not cool), being flaky (as artists, we're allowed some slack being "creative types", but not too much), ungrateful, jealous, not good at sharing, et cetera. I'm not going to be schoolmarm here, because I've hardly been the model for any type of moral behavior for much of my life, but I will share something: It's definitely no fun being in an insecure place, and being in so deep that looking at other artists gets you down. And after looking at so many tutorials, I wonder if the trick to coming out of negativity is to turn it around, recognise one's strengths, and use them for helping others (this includes other artists). Because everyone starts somewhere. No one is born Michelangelo or Leonardo da Vinci right out of the womb. There are art teachers, there are informal art teachers, and there's art by tons of other artists we look at everyday, and all and every one of them is going to affect our own art, whether we're conscious of it or not.
OK, so some artists may look like they don't need help anymore (if so, good for them; but remember there was a time they did); they're still vastly outnumbered by other artists and beginning artists looking for encouragement. And giving encouragement is something that will keep you in a positive place--and grateful when it's returned!
(Disclaimer: Not all generous acts of helping others will be received with 100% glowing gratitude--like these flog entries--but that's OK. ;) Do it to potentially help or to just feel good without expectations of things you may not be able to control. Easier said than done, but this is a disclaimer for you.)
Besides art-hosting sites and artist's personal websites, art tutorials can also be found on sites expressly for providing tutorials and help for various subjects. And last by...
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Perfect is the Enemy
posted by marrael 2011-11-20 19:02:50
Pfshaw, has it really been 10 days since my last blog post? I am shamefaced. A lot has been going on, and I suspect that many other artists as well have been taking advantage of this time of year where Christmas shopping (or, Christmas selling) is the top priority of independent shops and artists. What a handy excuse! And handy blog topic.
The title of the post may come from advice you may have heard before, commonly "Don't let perfect become the enemy of the good". Or: "Perfect is the enemy of the good," which, I am again ashamed to find out, originated from Voltaire, who wrote one of my favourite books ever, Candide. (That guy? Genius.)
Perfectionism, it has taken me a long time to figure out, really is a flaw. Here are the excuses I used to run through in my head, to avoid selling my work (and, some of them I'm still using): My portfolio isn't good enough yet. I haven't got my prints of this picture just right, I can't offer them for sale! There's a stray dot on this picture that's bugging me. My web site isn't ready. I don't have photos, or good enough photos, of this product. I don't have a story or description of Shakespearean standards to accompany this product.
"Not good enough" is an excuse that rears its head constantly, and it's just a delaying tactic. It's used to deliberately place an obstacle between oneself and the Test--Will it sell? Do people want it? Will people pay for it? Deciding not to sell ("yet") yields the same financial result as not having people buy it, but the former lets us keep our ego, while the latter brings on a whole host of disappointments and questions ("WHY?") and may necessitate us working harder to sell, when all we want to do is create art. It's really understandable. But also counter-productive.
Any job--every job--has bits of it we don't enjoy quite as much as other bits of it. Selling isn't as much fun to me as creating, but until the day I can afford a marketing department, it's a necessity, and perfectionism (useful as it can sometimes be in art-making) shouldn't come into it if it stops me posting services or items for sale. Good enough is good enough. All I need to do to convince myself of this is to visit Regretsy from time to time, and see some truly weird and questionable products that are offered for sale (in various places, not just etsy), accompanied with photos taken in the semi-darkness, and descriptions written in ALL CAPS or wth hillarious spelling errows [sic].
Of course it may be disappointing to spend time crafting an auction, or an etsy posting, or Craigslist posting, or a new product, and get no responses, so start with creating or listing items and services that take the least effort. Those may yield something! And then work up to those that take more investment (time, money, or materials-wise).
Happy selling!
Recommended links: IttyBiz Confessional: What if I'm not awesome enough?
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Growing as an Artist (Part III: Learning to See, Making It Work)
posted by marrael 2011-11-11 08:02:18
Tim Gunn (most often seen on Project Runway) has more or less immortalised the words "Make it work" in his voice, and I've often been amused how the designers who hear it will step back, see their creations anew, and yes, try their hardest to make them work. It seems like such an inexact science though; fashion (and art) have always suffered from a wishy-washy reputation--how, it's only for the people who live in their heads, look at things a lot, once in a while go aha!, snap their fingers, fiddle about, then it all suddenly Looks Good, and Art Is Accomplished. I've often run into people who seem to have this idea of art and design, and some of them were (this is what surprised me) artists.
Much as I love the words "make it work", I feel they are too vague to be useful, and they are time-wasters. Art isn't magical, isn't wishy-washy, and doesn't need to be vague. Even the Greeks found it possible to establish the Golden Ratio, the loveliest proportion (you may disagree) of length to breadth of any rectangular shape; the Greeks basically settled on some mathematical principles on how one proportion generally looks nicer than others. And loads of people since the Greeks have found ways to describe and quantify aspects of art and paintings. Observe: contrast, composition, flow, colour choice, colour intensity, key (low or high), drama, dynamism, tension, pattern, movement, texture, energy, proportion, scale, mood, interest, articulation, line, detail, complexity... the list goes on, and not all those words mean the same things, though some seem similar.
A painting is always more than what it shows literally. It is always more than the sum of its parts. There are, truly, ways to "make it work". That's where seeing comes in--breaking a piece down into as many different ways as possible, so that it works in as many aspects as the artist wants, to create a whole that works for what the artist wants.
An artist or an art buyer who can only see art for the literal subjects depicted isn't seeing half of what there is to see in it. They may feel parts of a picture subconsciously, like its colours and effect on his/her mood, its energy, or strength of composition. If something is "off", they may not be able to spot or articulate what it is. Conversely I feel that many paintings look good and become popular not just because of subjective taste, but also because that piece got a lot of aspects or elements in it quantifiable-y right, or stayed close to principles that are historically and culturally (even biologically) established as beautiful. Wonderfully, art and style is still diverse because humans are diverse. But do works of art that work (by common consensus) usually have some things in common? I think so.
I was challenged in this lesson not too long ago when a fellow artist showed me two of his pieces of the same subject. They were portraits of a woman holding some flowers, and they were "the same picture": same pose, same composition, same woman... except one of the portraits was in colour, and the other was in graphite pencil. "Why," the artist asked in mild frustration, "does one look better than the other? Why do I like the black and white one more?" (When he had spent more time on the colour?) I wasn't the only artist present, but I was the only one who could articulate that the graphite portrait had better contrast and hence more interest, and a stronger composition (because of the contrast and center of interest) and slightly more texture and variation in tone than the colour portrait, which was all a bit washed out. I got stared at in amazement for making it all sound so "scientific". (And not once did I need to venture into talking about style or subjective taste. I had only pointed out why the black-and-white "worked better".)
Aha. So, I hadn't gone to art school (...
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Growing as an Artist (Part II: Hearing Criticism)
posted by marrael 2011-11-07 23:24:47
I didn't go to art school, for a lot of reasons that were unique to my background and experiences, but when I did take art classes up to college (nothing beyond the 101 level, alas), my art teachers were supportive and encouraging. I do wonder what it would have been like to be an art school graduate, but I also loved the crazy college ride I took (Journalism and a whole smattering of art history, literature and philosophy classes)... and, er... gosh, what was the topic of this entry again? Oh, right--growing as an artist.
The few years I got to attend GenCon (when it was still in Wisconsin!), I made sure to sign up for the Portfolio Review slots offered by Wizards of the Coast art directors. I recognised this was the best, immediate way to show my work to the people I wanted to work for (one day), and to hear how I sucked. (OK, I'll grant no one ever wants to hear how they suck. But if you accept already the idea that you suck, even in the smallest way somewhere somehow, it becomes easier to hear it spelled out.) The slots always had the first name of the art director available to crit your work, and by the time I was signing up, all the slots by A, B, and C had been taken up, and only slots by art director D were available. I shrugged my shoulders at the time, and signed up for a slot with D.
Chances are there may be readers who will one day read this and figure out who D was/is, and I have nothing but respect for this person, who gave me very kind but also objective, well-balanced and helpful feedback, and at a level I could understand at the time (because at the time I was really, in terms of technical level, a n00b). I was enlightened on my strengths (two) but also my main problem areas (also two), and the person really was kind, because I definitely had many weaknesses, some that took me years to figure out. (Maybe art school could have sped up the process.) But I was given just two things (contrast, anatomy) to work on after the review. And I walked away feeling a little disappointed in my work and its reception, but also (mostly) positive, with goals to aim for. Then I tried to share with another aspiring artist at the con my portfolio review experience.
"Who did you get?" was the first question asked of me. I replied, saying it was D.
"Oh no! D is mean! No one likes D. I'm sorry." Or words to that effect. It didn't take me long to realise that there was a reason D's slots were the only ones still available when I signed up. I said D hadn't seemed mean, but had pointed out a lot of flaws.
"Yeah! And that was what D did with me. Kept pointing out the bad stuff! That's why I don't review with D anymore."
I am, of course, paraphrasing as I can only do 10 years after the fact. Anyway, having seen this artist's work, I could easily imagine, even then, what D would have said about it. I kept my trap shut. But I realised while I had gotten out of the portfolio review exactly what I'd expected and needed (knowledge of what I was lacking, ie. reasons why my dream wasn't yet reality), while this other artist hadn't (same dream, but who knows what expectations). He wasn't alone; I could only conclude all the other artists who hadn't wanted a review by D didn't want to hear bad stuff either.
The point of this long story (there is one!) is that bad stuff, or criticism, whether provided by others or oneself, is necessary for growth. Anyone who's only ever showered by compliments, or who only wants compliments, may have flaws they'll never know. If they don't get off their own beaten path, not even to risk a few knocks to the ego, it's a slim chance (or a very slow process) that their work will progress beyond what they're comfortable doing. But if growing and improving is part of an artist's ...
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Growing as an Artist (Part I)
posted by marrael 2011-11-03 02:02:09
OK, so there's a bit to be suspicious of my tackling this subject when I'm not exactly at the top of the art heap (is there an art heap? how do I get on it?), but this occupies my mind a lot: How to get better at making pictures. This might actually be the easiest part of being an artist, compared to challenges like how to make money, how to make a living, how to find your audience, how to keep going, how to balance painting with marketing... you get the picture. Trying to become technically better looks (almost) straightforward.
Except I know it isn't, because all artists have different reasons and processes as to how and why they make art. Some may be in it for relaxation, self-expression, pleasure, or all that in any combination. Growing as an artist isn't something that comes up until.. well, the day you're looking at your own work, then at your inspiration (a photo, a live portrait sitter, or masterpiece you're emulating), and wrinkling your brows and wondering: why do I suck? (Or, why doesn't my work resemble that?) The more varied and good art you look at, the more you may start, annoyingly, to discover your weaknesses: likeness, or composition, contrast, use of colour, design, painting skills, or anatomy, or dynamism. (Though, at the same time, you may also realise every artist has strength and weaknesses. It would just be nice to have more of the former than latter, and have the strengths be really awesome, and the flaws invisible...)
Sometimes an image occurs to you that makes you say: I want to make that, but I don't think I can. It's too hard; I don't have the skills or patience. Those images are important. Those images are the ones that must be attempted. Over and over, if need be, because they are the ones that help you grow. Whereas the ones you churn out with all confidence, or that you KNOW you can do... it's not that they're not worth doing (and they may help pay the bills), but if, even before you start, you know that you know every step of the process and what the result is going to be, that's a strong sign that art-making has become rote-work instead of trial and discovery.
There's a story I often think about (likely fictitious!) about a Chinese brush-painter who was commissioned to do a large brush painting of a mountain landscape. After the art patron described the painting he wanted, the painter considered, and said, "Come back in a year." One year later, the patron made it back to the artist's mountain studio, and the painter said, "One moment." Before the patron's eyes, he proceeded to paint, his ink brush creating forest-covered mountains and valleys and rivers and mists and clouds, just as the patron had asked for, a year ago. The painting was completed in no time, and the patron accepted it in amazement, then suspicion. "If it only took you this short time to complete this, why did you ask me to wait a year?" In answer, the artist brought the patron to the back of the studio, where stacks and stacks of earlier and clumsy attempts at the same painting lay in evidence of the artist's one-year toil.
Personally, attempting the same painting 365 days in a row would drive me bonkers, but I love the story. There's modesty, perseverence, the pursuit of excellence (or at least improvement), and pragmatism in it. Modesty in that the painter knew he wasn't capable of the image he wanted to produce yet, persevering because in time he knew he could be, and pragmatic because, hey, one year is a pretty generous deadline for any one image. Would that we could all be hermit painters living in the mountains with endless supplies of paper.
The "Why do I suck?" question always precedes improvement--so asking it is a good thing. But learning something new requires treading into unfamiliar territory, which often isn't a com...
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The Drawing Month
posted by marrael 2011-10-30 03:08:44
Whew, I almost forgot that I'd promised to post a reminder! November is knocking on the door now, and you can read my last post on NaNoDrawMo about, well, the drawing equivalent for National Novel Writing Month. It explains itself, really. But here are the links again:
NaNoDrawMo on Flickr
Art Every Day Month on Flickr (info and sign-up here)
If you're taking part, give a shout in the comments!
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There's a new Netflix show about the superhero Daredevil, who happens to be Catholic. And there's been a lot of discussion about how Catholicism is portrayed in the series. Daredevil is like weaponized spandex. He's a bit...complex. He's blind but somehow he knows how to fight crime. He's a public defender and a vigilante. He's a vigilante and he's Catholic. And he can afford expensive suits but seems to like wearing spandex more. Hey, don't judge. There's a lot going on in this guy's life. His mom abandoned him in a Church and later became a nun. But don't worry she comes back sometimes and saves him.
Sheesh. Forget about Daredevil I want to watch the exploits of the mother Nunja. (Yup. I just gave her that name.)
Frank Miller, who wrote Daredevil comics for a while, once said, "I figured Daredevil must be Catholic because only a Catholic could be both an attorney and a vigilante." I'm not sure if he meant that as a dis or a compliment but I'll take it as kindly as possible...because I'm Catholic and all.
Daredevil does take the whole "Thou shall not kill" pretty seriously but takes advantage of the lack of rules in the Catholic Catechism that spell out "thou shall not seriously concuss criminals with a large stick and put them into intensive care until they heal enough to be transferred to a maximum security prison where they can escape and cause further mayhem only to be concussed and beaten once again at the hand of our blind spandexed hero."
Huntress - Her real name is Helena Rosa Bertinelli. With a name like that how could she be anything but Catholic, right? She wears a cross pretty prominently. I'll admit it. She does tend to leave a pretty substantial body count behind however but nothing a little confession couldn't take care of. She's like Batman with less clothes and only half the morals. Even Batman thinks she's a little rough on criminals. Do you know how nasty you have to be to make Batman consider telling on you?
And like I said, she also dresses a little inappropriately. OK. More than a little. Wonder Woman would be like, "Girl, what are you wearing?"
Please continue reading at The National Catholic Register>>>
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} | 695 | The sun blinks over the eastern corn tops and wipes the sleep from farmers' eyes. Eggs, bacon and a glass of milk satisfy the riser's stomach as it is off to satiate the bellies of cattle and hogs during the morn's chores.
The air crisp and cool urges the farmer to wear a hooded sweatshirt along with a favorite green or red cap. The early silence of the dawn is broken by the distinct sounds of powerful engines. A combine lets out a deep rumble and a tractor cranks over in a mechanical chatter as the pair set off to the field. A pair of wagons follow the tractor like obedient Labradors in hopes of collecting the day's bounty many times over.
Hydraulics lower the corn head as the operator aims the massive machine toward the end rows along the fence. Golden stalks are fed into the combine's teeth as its voracious appetite chews eight or 12 rows at once.
Breaking a field is like Christmas. The farmer has waited much of the year to unwrap the present, which is yellow, worth some green and can bring joy to the homestead and the world.
It is the morning wake-up call for any wildlife lingering in the safety of the golden forest. A buck deer leaps the fence, rabbits hop toward grassy confines, while pheasants and turkeys take flight for less noisy roosts.
Ears of corn enter the throat of the great metal beast and the magic begins. Inseparable during the growing season, the seed is weaned from cob and the two are sent in different directions. Cob and shredded stalk are scattered out the back of the combine onto the stubble that was once the golden woods. The hopper begins to fill with Midwest gold, the process of its arrival largely an engineering marvel.
Full to the top, the tractor and wagons march in step alongside the rolling combine to accept a transfer. An auger gushes a stream of kernels like a thunderstorm through a downspout.
Trip after trip is made, eight rows one way and eight rows back. Hopper after hopper is unloaded until the wagons can't take any more. Like a boy with an anxious bladder, the wagons yearn to unburden themselves of their contents.
The tractor drives slow and steady, for its cargo is precious. Hungry augers await the loads, either to feed the grain into a dryer or straight away into a silver bin. Emptied, the trio head back to the field for the synchronized dance of machines, working in unison to reap and relay.
Lunch and dinner come and go, often served by a loving woman in a pickup.
Darkness sets in as the field gives up its last tall stalks to the metal beast. Happy in their work, the tractor and wagons set off for the home place for one last unloading.
The chill of the night mixes with the heat emitted by the dryer, which gives the farmer a warm feeling inside. A propane fire blows through a tunnel to dry the corn, its blue flames burning like the exhaust of a fighter jet.
The dryer's task done, the corn makes one last transfer, much like a New Yorker going from one subway stop to another. However, this time its resting place, the bin, will hold it through the winter.
As the sun already has set in the west, the moon has risen in the east. It is full and orange, and watches over the land.
Just as the harvest moon makes it a habit to show its autumnal face, so goes the ritual of gathering the crops come September and October. Man and machine blend with nature to collect a year's worth of labor. What started as seed planted in the ground, sprouted, grew to great heights and multiplied itself on a reddish cob.
Harvest turns the Midwest landscape from short forests back into land in need of a day's shave.
The ritual contains all the hopes and dreams of a family and for some states, their economy. As combines comb the countryside seeking optimal yields, the harvest moon looks over them, wishing them the utmost bounty. | http://www.thehawkeye.com/a331dc5d-d11b-5e38-9541-bf10ef40c7d1.html | robots: classic
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By October 31, 2012Blogs
I recently attended a lecture by Prof. Lu of USC at NASSCOM Engineering Summit* where he talked about how engineers are oversupplying technology to 1% of population. Engineers keep on adding features at the risk of losing the simplicity of a product. The differentiation is added in a dimension where it hardly matters. Over the period, the technology companies keep supplying more and more technology. It was a fresh perspective on engineering.
Something similar is happening in the web conference space. Every two months there is a new product added which claims to be a differentiated product.
Let’s take the 2 cases of conference calls viz. planned and unplanned. In a planned meeting, people join the web-conference and most of them use teleconference to reduce bandwidth requirement. Hardly anyone turns the camera on. The coordinator passes control to the presenter and the screens are shared. People discuss updates, problems and the coordinator takes notes and circulates the action items after the meeting.
In an unplanned meeting like a support call, you get on a call. Now you suddenly realize that it would have been nice if all of you were seeing the same screen.
In both the scenarios, for the meetings, you essentially need to share the screen. You need all the “good to have” features if you are conducting a webinar or training. Now if you need to share just the screens, why should you pay lots of $s? Secondly why do want the viewers to go through the hassle of installation just for sharing the screen? Why can’t they use browsers?
So here is a new product and only point of differentiation is that is simple, free, and works well with mobile devices. Just go to skreen.me** using your browser. Share your screen and allow your colleagues to view it from any device. No apps, no installs, no sign ups, no JAVA. It is fast, simple and FREE. Now you can start saving $s spent on so called web conferences which are actually screen sharing sessions.
**http://skreen.me is powered by kPoint and incubated by GS Lab.
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" If you are a fan of difficult and beautiful things, Necropolis is the game for you."
Dark Souls is one of those games that really shook up the industry. Hence, dozens of games in development cite it as a source of inspiration and the term Soulslike was born. Although it draws upon the control scheme and difficulty of Souls, Necropolis has enough character and unique features to stand on its own.
My hands-on demo dropped me into the thick of it, and aside from the controls, which are almost the exact same as Dark Souls, the game did not hold my hand. There is no main quest objective or mini map. Necropolis is another roguelike; each time you die, you are stripped of almost all the loot you've picked up and sent back to the beginning of a newly generated dungeon. As you explore, you'll come across potions and you'll have no clue whether a potion is going to heal you, or just kill you. As in most roguelikes, risk and reward are always butting heads.
Risk-taking also applies to combat. Do I commit myself to a lengthy animation in order to deal more damage? Do I rush into a group of four enemies or do I completely avoid them? The combat was slightly off-putting to me; despite having the Souls controls, Necropolis lacked the Souls precision. This kind of discrepancy was very difficult for me to wrap my head around, and I felt like I was having a hard time fighting carefully. I'd go to dodge behind an enemy and find myself circling completely around them. I'm sure I would get used to the controls eventually, but it may be difficult to break my Souls habits. You are able to equip the weapons of fallen enemies, which was pretty awesome. I started the demo with a small wooden shield and a longsword, and I ended it with a massive gold shield and a dagger.
Necropolis also features a crafting system, which I didn't really experience because I kept dying so early into my runs. From exploring the menus, the crafting seemed like it would be just as opaque as the rest of the game, forcing you to rely on trial and error. Another big part of the game that wasn't in my demo for obvious reasons is the multiplayer; you can explore dungeons with up to three other players, which would surely ease some of the tension.
But, in all honesty, this is where Necropolis deviates the most from Souls. I say tension, but it's nothing compared to the dread you feel while playing a Miyazaki game, and this was definitely an artistic decision. The beautiful low-poly graphics shine, and my yellow clad warrior stood out and isolated me from the gray dungeon. It's just cartoony enough. You can still be killed by minor enemies if you are playing sloppily, so don't let the graphics fool you. The dungeons did have a few silly objectives that were there more for fun than anything else. As I destroyed a corner full of pots, a message came up on the bottom of the screen that read "Expunge the useless pottery: 4 of 26." The creators know that people are going to break those pots no matter what, so they made it a quota to be filled and turned it into something with a purpose.
Necropolis lives and dies by its controls, but the amazing art style is enough to make someone want to master them. I enjoyed my time with the demo I played (on PS4) and if I had a few hours to get used to the combat, I could see myself having a lot of fun running around and exploring the dungeon. If you are a fan of difficult and beautiful things, Necropolis is the game for you.
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Motto: Forget the source code but keep the Abstract Syntax Tree (AST)
The aim of the ASTcentric project is to develop a framework (in Java) for AST-centric IDEs. There exists a prototype (ASTcentric Study 1). It is a proof of concept that demonstrates some aspects of the AST-centric paradigm. The framework (AST structure classes, plain AST editor, Eclipse plugin) is in an alpha stage.
1. From Text-Centric to AST-Centric Programming
2. Abstract Syntax Tree and Abstract Syntax Graph
3. Implications of AST-Centric Programming
Since decades programmers are developing software by typing some text into a text editor. Whether the editor is as primitive as Notepad or as sophisticated as an IDE like Eclipse, a sequence of characters is always the source of the code.
But the linear text represents a non-linear hierarchical structure. Using new-line characters and white spaces helps to visualize this structure. Modern editors for programmers and IDEs support structure visualization with additional helps as e.g. syntax highlighting. Sophisticated IDEs go even further by visualizing compile errors on the fly and helping with code-completion and refactoring.
In this mainstream paradigm of text-centric programming the compiler takes the source code and creates an executable in two major steps:
1. The sequence of characters is parsed and an Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) is created.
2. From the AST the executable code is generated.
The AST is only an intermediate product needed by the compiler to do the job.
In the paradigm of AST-centric programming the AST becomes the center. It is the master which has to be made persistent. Source code is only one way to feed it. More important will be editors which visualize and manipulate the AST.
The AST is an abstraction of the actual syntax of the source code. For example, the AST does not care whether '=' or ':=' is used in the concrete syntax of an assignment. There is a one-to-one relation between AST nodes and certain pieces of text in the source code. But not every text is mapped onto AST nodes. For example, the curly brackets in C and Java do not belong to any node in the AST. They are just used in the concrete syntax to encode the tree structure itself.
When the AST is mentioned, often not the Abstract Syntax Tree is meant but the Abstract Syntax Graph (ASG). It is the AST plus additional references (pointers) between nodes. For example, a node using a variable refers to the node where the variable is defined. As a consequence a name of a variable appears only once in the ASG.
In general the ASG is meant when we using the term 'AST'. The shift from text-centric programming to AST-centric programming has some revolutionary implications. Here is a brief list of the most important ones:
• The AST is the model that feeds various views/editors. Plain ASCII source code is only one of them.
• Textural and visual views are possible. Usually we will have a mix of both as in the ASTcentric Study 1 Prototype.
• Some views showing not all details.
• Views can be shown simultaneously.
• Views can be customized. Coding style guides are no longer needed.
• Specialized views become possible (e.g. for mathematics).
Much more possibilities are imagined by Roedy Green in his article SCID.
• Grammatic, EBNF, and Parsers are becoming obsolete. They are only needed to transform legacy code into ASTs.
• Editing means manipulating the AST. Each editing command transforms the AST. In text-centric programming one can add arbitrary text into the source code whether it makes sense or not. In AST-centric programming you can enter only what can be represented in the AST. Code-completion becomes another meaning: Selection of an AST transformation. The set of transformations depend on the context. Even though AST-centric programming is more restrictive it allows sophisticated transformations which are tedious in text-centric programming (e.g. swap left and right operand in a binary expression). Most refactoring methods can be understood as high-level language-aware editing commands. An important sign of quality of an AST-centric IDE is how many AST transformations are available. The main aim of the ASTcentric Study 1 Prototype was just to study this aspect of AST-centric programming.
• The AST is the source. The AST has to be stored and retrieved. The persistent storage can be files or a database. Because an AST is not a linear structure there is no canonical way to serialize it. In Java a natural way would be the built-in binary serialization. XML serialization is another popular choice. For a traditional source versioning system like CVS a textual serialization with newline characters should be preferred.
• Code generation is just another view onto the AST. Various types of generators are conceivable:
• Generator for machine code.
• Generator for byte code.
• Generator of source code of some target language.
• Converter between AST's of different AST-centric IDE's or different languages.
• Interpreter (see e.g. ASTcentric Study 1 Prototype which includes a debugger).
• AST-centric programming makes it easier to extend a language. A programming language is now defined by the types of nodes in an AST and the rules to combined them. Adding a type of node extends the language. Of course this has the consequence to extends all existing views and editors, too. Such extensions could be made possible by a plug-in architecture. An IDE which allows the user to do this with built-in functionality is a language workbench. | http://astcentric.sourceforge.net/ | robots: classic
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The Beat Hamster
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* This is part 3 of an 8-part series of articles on how to make beats. Mostly aimed at beginners, even experience beat makers can benefit from these articles.
Part 3: Learn Your Setup
Learn As Much As You Can
Whether you have software or hardware, you need to learn it inside out.
One of the most important parts of your setup will be your DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) because it's where you will bring all of your ideas together to mix your beat. You might have a program such as Maschine or FL Studio, which you can definitely create an entire beat with, but I always recommend that you also have a full-fledged DAW to work in.
The DAW is very important because its sole purpose is to have everything in one spot. You may think that by making beats in the Maschine software, that you're creating an entire production but you're not. In a DAW you have lots of tools at your disposal that software like Maschine doesn't have. It's difficult in Maschine, for example, to arrange clips and do transitions. It does have something similar, but nothing like an actual DAW.
Plus, most DAWs have tons of effects! This will make it so much better for you when mixing because you can do some cool stuff with your tracks that you might not be able to do in beat making software.
As for hardware, you need to master that as well. One of the best things you can do is just press buttons and turn knobs and see what it does! Once you do that, you will start to figure a few things out, but then you need to start reading...
Study Everything
The manual is one of the most overlooked things ever when it comes to software and hardware in the recording studio.
I get it. Manuals are boring. It's so much easier to Google something and find a quick answer, but it's always best to read the manual because it will always give you all the information you need to get started.
Sure, there will be times when you will want to do something with your software or hardware that you might not find in the manual, but most of the time the manual has everything you need.
One of the downsides of searching online instead of reading the manual, is that you can easily get ten different answers to your question. This can be confusing, especially if you're just starting out.
So, read the manual!
Why Study and Learn Everything Before Making a Beat?
I look at it this way:
If you learn your setup inside out right from the start, before you even attempt to make a beat, then you will be extremely comfortable when you finally do make a beat.
It makes total sense, doesn't it? Look at it this way:
If you've never been to a gym and want to start lifting weights, what do you do?
1. Go to the gym and pick up the first weight you see.
2. Learn as much as possible about weightlifting.
The best thing you can do is to learn things first. Then once you hit the gym you'll have a general idea of what to do and won't look like a newbie going to the gym for the first time (and possibly hurting yourself).
I'm not saying you can hurt yourself in your studio (unless you somehow strangle yourself with MIDI cables), but you get my point!
Further Reading About Beat Making
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Who Has the Best Beat?
Beat #3
5 votes
Beat #1
3 votes
Beat #2
0 votes
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} | 593 | I tried to curve-fit viscoelastic material data, but the fit I get is very different than the experimental data I supply. I tried curvefitting with several terms, but without luck. I only read-in data for shear. I'm probably doing something wrong when curve-fitting, but I don't know what. Could you please have a look and try to create a good curve-fit with the data I attach?
The data
0.0001 100e6
.05 43e6
0.1 22e6
.15 15e6
0.2 11e6
.25 10e6
This an example of that old adage in computer science - garbage in = garbage out. In this case, the guess that you are providing is likely sending the algorithm off in the wrong direction.
ANSYS curve fitting is using the Levenberg-Marquette algorithm to perform a non linear regression on the data. One of the problems with Levenberg-Marquette is that it does not guarantee that the minimum energy condition is satisfied, that the minimum obtained using the algorithm may be a local minimum rather than the global minimum. Because of this difficulty, the judgment of the analyst is required to determine when "good enough" has been found.
For the data that you supplied, visual inspection implies that Ao=1e7, A1=9e7 and tau1=.05 should give a good approximation using a 1 term Prony series. The logic here is that the Prony series will look like
G = Ginfinity + G1 * exp(-time/tau1)
where Ginfinity would be the value of the modulus at infinite time, G1 would be the amount of decay (in this case the difference between the modulus at zero time and the modulus at infinite time), and tau1 would be the time constant where 5 time constants represents the required time.
To see this, consider the following two cases. Guess 1 assumes that the default values of 1 for all constants can be used for the curve fitting. Figure guess1a.jpg shows the setup screen from the curve fitting GUI and guess1b.jpg shows the resulting plot comparing the experimental data with the curve fit. Clearly these resultsare not acceptable. Guess 2 assumes that the initial values for the curve fit will be Ao=1e7, A1=9e7 and tau1=1, as shown in Figure guess2a.jpg. The resulting plot comparing the experimental data with the curve fit shows good agreement.
The conclusion is that for non linear curve fitting, the analyst must take care to insure that the progress of the curve fitting algorithm will be in the direction of the global minimum. That poor choice for the initial guesses for the series constants will lead to poor correlations with the experimental data. Unfortunately, the ability to make good choices come from experience, and a lot of that expericence will come from making poor choices. Some suggestions can be provide. Selecting Ao as the infinite modulus will be a good choice. Selecting Ai equal to the total decay divided by the number of terms in the Prony series will be a good choice. Selecting time constants that span the entire range and that are at least a decade apart will be a good choice. Fewer terms in the series, rather than more terms in the series, is probably a good choice.
One final word. The ANSYS auto time stepping algorithm does not survey the viscoelastic behavior in determining whether the time step size should be increased or decreased. At least for now, it is the analyst's responsibility to set the incremental time step size for the problem. Experience suggests that the number of substeps should be no greater than 1/10 of the currently active Prony time constant.
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Rondo to the Jazz?
This is not a rumor. Just an idea. Tell me what you think.
Millsap and Devin Harris for Rondo and Jermaine O'neal
Why the Jazz do it- Obvious. They get one of the best young PG's in the league who has a pas first mentality and is stellar defensively. Obviously taking O'neal is doing the C's a favor. He does them no good.
Why he C's do it- I don't think they're totally satisfied with what Rondo does as the PG. They may feel it's time to move on and they may feel that Devin Harris might be an equal to Rondo offensively with the big 3 around him. At the same time they would acquire a guy in Millsap who put up 17 a game last year, very efficiently, at a bargain $7 Mill per yr. They also get to unload Jermaine, which would they would obviosly like to do.
Is this trade idea crazy? Any chance Boston does this?
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Not to sure
On paper it seems like a good trade but we seen devin Harris in the finals b4 and I don't think he would add what Rondo does and for the Celtics. Yes devin would add a couple more points but you br taking away a great defender, team leader and a tough minded player that fits in with the Celtics Toughness. Them getting millsap is a plus but don't think him and Harris wouldn't bring the Lil things Rondo do to help his team win.
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} | 3,063 | The Nextbit Robin aims to resolve your storage woes with a clever software system that uses the cloud and will smartly archive and restore your content based on your usage and needs.
That's the pitch, but the Nextbit Robin is much more than a phone that's all about storage. Looking beyond the sales pitch, the Nextbit Robin is an aggressively-priced, close to pure Android handset that's designed to be a little bit different.
Born of experience - there are ex-Google and ex-HTC people behind this handset - does the Nextbit Robin stand any chance of upsetting the status quo? Is this the handset where your smart money should be spent?
Nextbit Robin review: Design
The Nextbit Robin will likely be instantly recognised by eschewing the identikit design that so often plagues devices. It isn't a black plastic, slightly curvy, or far too glossy, handset.
The Robin is perhaps a fusion of HTC design ethics and those of Sony. The design of the handset is closest to Sony's OmniBalance with a squared edges, only 7mm thick. It has square corners, a flat back and distinctly separate top and bottom sections above and below the display, with a 72 x 149mm footprint.
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There's a toy-like charm to the design, here refreshingly presented in mint green and white (also available in a charcoal black), looking unlike any other phone on the market. It's a minimalist and precise design, with micro-drilled front facing speakers and some neat placement of LEDs.
The feeling of HTC design is perhaps less evident from HTC's phones, but more in its accessories. There's hints of the Boombass speaker or the HTC Battery Bar here (we also spotted the clock widget carrying HTC's signature 10:08 display time, very cheeky). We perhaps don't need to remind you that Scott Croyle, who designed the Robin, also designed phones like the HTC One M7 and One M8.
The notification LED doesn't sit on the front, it's on the bottom, alongside the USB Type-C port. When the phone is placed face-down on a table we like that notifier blinking from the bottom - although at night it is perhaps a little brighter than you might want, and there's no real way to escape it like you can with a front-facing notification light.
On the rear of the handset you have minimalist Nextbit branding. At the top is the cloud logo, with a run of four status LEDs that blink to let you know that Robin is syncing with the cloud. A visual reassurance of a process that's designed to be entirely automated.
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To the sides, on the left are the volume controls, individually domed, but perhaps a little too close together to make them easy to find in a hurry. On the right-hand side is the fingerprint scanner embedded in the power button, in similar fashion to the Sony Xperia Z5
The SIM tray also sits here, just below the power button and we feel it's too close for comfort. We wish it was somewhere else, other than right under the power button. You'll find yourself feeling that cut-out fairly regularly.
We like the design and how the Robin fuses together as a coherent device, but there is a but. We think the materials might be a little thin, especially the plastic back. Although it feels solid enough and there's no creaking or flexing, we can feel a ridge along the centre of the back cover, as well as a small lump under the Nextbit logo at the bottom.
This is likely to be some part of the structure under the skin and although it's a minor point, there's the potential that these raised areas will attract wear faster than the rest of the device. A year into ownership, that Nextbit branding might have worn off - physically speaking.
Nextbit Robin review: Display and hardware
The Nextbit Robin carries a 5.2-inch display with a 1920 x 1080 pixel resolution, giving a pixel density of 423ppi. It's an IPS LCD display, offering good brightness and vibrancy, and is topped with Gorilla Glass 4 to keep it free from scratches.
There's a great even tone across the display, although it fades at more extreme viewing angles. You can, on occasion, make out the pixels, especially when scrolling something light, like text over a light background, but there's little to complain about. This isn't the highest resolution at this size, but it's a good display and fits the price point.
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The Nextbit Robin is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 808 chipset with 3GB of RAM. Again that's a fairly aggressive hardware pairing for a device that's not priced at the top-end of the spectrum. The SD808 might be getting a little older - it was the choice for the LG G4 and Nexus 5X - but it is still a powerful hexa-core chipset.
That power translates into snappy performance. The Nextbit Robin doesn't bloat-out the software, so you have that lovely sharp feel that you get from a Nexus handset, where Android is unfettered - but more on software details later.
There are twin front-facing speakers on this handset, enjoying a prominent position. That's great for ad hoc video viewing, with nice stereo sound, although they lack the depth that you'll get from HTC's BoomSound speakers.
As we mentioned, there's a fingerprint scanner on the side of the Robin, ideally placed for your thumb to unlock the phone when you grip it. We found this to be responsive, unlocking the phone reliably and without issue during our time using it.
Nextbit Robin review: Battery life
We've mentioned that there's USB Type-C on this handset, so it's offering the very latest every-way-is-up connection, along with Quick Charge 2.0 skills, so you'll be able to rapidly charge the 2,680mAh battery.
That's not a huge capacity, though, and that plays out in the stamina. This isn't a hugely long lasting phone. On a busy day, we've found ourselves having to recharge after around 7-hours, so about half way through the day.
The fairly low battery capacity, paired with that large display and pretty powerful chipset means plenty of drain in use. If you're a power user, Android Marshmallow's Doze function won't really do anything for you, and there's no additional power-saving features on board apart from the standard Android battery saver.
The Nextbit Robin might look like the Sony Xperia Z5 and share the same slim body profile, but it doesn't come close in battery life performance and we can't help feeling that stamina has been sacrificed for looks. And we're not certain that was the right way to go. Still, that's often the story and it's little different from the likes of the Samsung Galaxy S6 in that sense.
The phone doesn't ship with a charger either - that'll cost you $15 as an optional extra when ordering, but you get a fast-charger for that price. You do get a USB Type-C cable with a standard USB on the other end, however, so you can connect to any existing USB charger you might have.
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Nextbit Robin review: That whole smart storage thing
One thing you won't find on the Robin is a microSD card slot. For a phone that's looking to address storage woes, that might seem like an odd choice. Instead you have 32GB of internal storage (of which about 24GB is available to the user) and 100GB of cloud storage. The cloud storage is included in the price of the device, so it's effectively free and is being pushed as Nextbit's unique selling point, its raison d'être.
This cloud storage is in addition to, and entirely separate from, any cloud storage you have from Google Drive, as Nextbit's smart storage system works entirely separately to Google's own cloud solution.
It's also important to understand that this isn't an online drive where you can save files and transfer content around like Google Drive, Dropbox or Microsoft's OneDrive. Instead, this is cloud space that's entirely managed by the Nextbit software and used for archiving your content.
The idea is to present a situation where you technically don't run out of space on your device. Rather than having to move and delete content, Nextbit handles that for you. It syncs apps and app data to the cloud, as well as your photos.
So here's the play: your device is nearly full and normally you'd be worried about saving photos somewhere else, or uninstalling apps. Instead, as the Robin has this content archived already, more space is available to you as you need it. Basically, it can send apps you rarely use to the cloud and write over the space they take on the phone when it's needed.
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The apps are archived and restored in a complete state, so unlike other backup solutions, if you call an app back to the phone, it downloads and is restored as you left it - with all your data, settings, history, login and so on. You will need a steady connection to download apps again, however, so if there's a transport app you'll be wanting when out and about, it's worth pinning, so it never leaves your phone.
For photos, the Nextbit Robin will backup to the cloud and then present thumbnails in the Gallery, rather than full resolution images that are larger than you'd need when viewing on the phone. You can download the full resolution images again if you want them, for example to zoom in and look at the details.
The Robin carries out this cloud sync when connected to Wi-Fi and plugged in, but when the phone detects that storage is getting low, it will grey-out icons of apps as that space is harvested for you to use. You're left with a "ghost" icon, so you know it still exists, even if it's residing in the cloud at that moment in time.
Restoration of an app is as easy as tapping it (assuming a connection). The icon returns to colour as the app restores, and you can then use it as normal. It's all very slick and easy and you'll find that apps you don't ever use end up greyed out most of the time.
Smart storage considerations
So is this a foolproof system? Well no, it isn't.
It's smart, it's neatly done and it happens in the background without you having to do anything. However, it currently doesn't support video, and with the phone offering 4K video capture, this is one big source of storage consumption. Nextbit says that video backup is coming, however, so hopefully that elephant will be moved out of the room soon enough.
However, there's a bigger elephant in this room, and that's microSD. With 100GB of online storage, this is essentially a 132GB device. Adding a 128GB (£40) storage card to a smartphone, perhaps using Android Marshmallow's new Flex Storage feature, you can have the same storage without dancing it back and forth to the cloud.
With Android offering a range of backup options - including Photos (which includes video already) and fully accessible online too through a browser - it's easy to see that Nextbit's solution, although smart, perhaps solves a problem that we don't currently have.
That decision is yours to make. If you regularly run out of space, then Nextbit's solution might help you out, but there's a bigger play here. In a 5G future, all devices might chop and change content with the cloud because it will offer a near lag-free experience. So Nextbit is either extremely forward-thinking, or solving a problem it created by not including a microSD card slot in the first place.
Nextbit has confirmed that you'll be able to retrieve your content via a web interface (still to be launched), should you choose to move to a different device in the future.
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Nextbit Robin review: Sweet Marshmallow software
But as we said at the start of this review, there's more to Robin than the online storage play. This is a nice Android handset and it's relatively uncluttered. Fans might be enthused by the unlocked bootloader, and that Nextbit will keep the warranty in tact if you do want to tinker, although that's hardly a mainstream proposition, instead probably aimed at boosting Robin's potential for cult status.
Regular users will find a handset that hasn't been filled with bloat. In many ways it puts mainstream devices to shame. It's as close to raw Android as you're likely to find. There's the Nextbit launcher, which eradicates the apps tray and the ability to search apps, but will let you place icons wherever you like, so you can have a clear home page if you want.
The launcher creates a widget layer accessed through a pinch, which sort of negates the point of widgets, as you can pretty much just have those icons to hand, or in folders and open the app proper.
The other feature of the launcher is a permanent shortcut to a pop-up banner that lets you manage your apps, viewing those that are archived and letting you pin those apps you want to ensure you always have access to, perhaps Uber or your banking apps.
We've found some oddities in the launcher, like being unable to add a Chrome shortcut. When selecting "add to homescreen" the phone confirms it, but the icon never appears. We also found some installed apps didn't get shortcuts, but did on second install - again, something to watch out for.
Then there's the Gallery that's been altered to accommodate its cloud syncing position. The Gallery does little other than display your images. There's no image editor in Nextbit's software, so you'll have to look elsewhere for a solution. The camera has also been altered, but we'll talk about that later.
The other addition is altering the Storage section of the settings, to cater for the cloud system we've just talked about. You can get a snapshot of your storage position with a tap on the user icon in the notifications tray, with figures for local and cloud storage reported.
Of course if you don't like Nextbit's tweaks you can simply install Google Now Launcher and you're practically looking at a stock Android handset. Nextbit hasn't changed the calendar or browser, music player or anything else, it's just clean Android goodness. Well, almost.
We're all for that. As we said, that plays out in the Robin's slick and snappy performance, making it a great handset for day-to-day use. For Android users who want something different, this is perhaps an alternative to a Moto X model or Nexus 5X - although in the latter case, you'll obviously be facing to prospect of waiting until Nextbit pushes Android updates. For a company in its infancy, there's no telling how that will pan out.
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Nextbit Robin review: Camera
The Robin has a completely revised camera app. This presents full auto or manual modes for the camera, alongside video capture. The layout of the app is simple enough, putting the immediate options on an expandable banner in the viewfinder, so things like flash control and HDR are only a tap away, which we really like.
Shifting camera modes from auto to video (for example) takes a little longer than we'd like though. It's a few presses before you're on the video section, so if you spot something you want to capture, there's a chance you'll miss it by the time video is rolling. It could do with being a little faster, and we suspect it will become so as Nextbit moves beyond the embryonic stage.
HDR mode appears to be effective at balancing out highs and lows to boost the dynamic range of a scene. It achieves this without looking too artificial, but it does slow down capture a fair amount. We miss the sort-of auto-HDR treatment that you'll get from the likes of Samsung, as it's a toggle on/off option as implemented here.
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The Robin's autofocus is pretty fast, with convenient touch-focusing offered - capture is fast too, although slows as the light drops. A long press on the shutter button rewards you with burst capture.
Performance is pretty good overall, with good return in decent light from the 13-megapixel rear camera. Things soften and image noise mars shots in lower light, but this is little different to other smartphones. It's far from the worst performer and we suspect many will be happy with the results for average shooting in good conditions.
The manual mode doesn't add a huge amount though. You can control the ISO, important to avoid that grain in lower-light, and you can control the focus - with manual focus letting you lock it in one position. But we miss the ability to have any control over shutter speed: if you're going to the pains of setting up a manual shot, a defined long exposure could be the thing that actually makes the shot work.
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When it comes to video, the Robin offers capture at 720p, 1080p and 2160p resolutions, so you'll be able to get that all-important 4K content. There's a 5-megapixel front-facing camera that we found to give nice natural selfies, and mercifully free from all the overwrought make-up smearing madness you'll find elsewhere.
The Nextbit Robin makes a strong case as a newcomer to the smartphone world. We like the refreshing design - although bear in mind those odd lumps and bumps we've found on our review sample - and we like the clutter-free software approach.
Nextbit's cloud storage solution works well, although for all the positives we do keep coming back to the fact that you could easily add more local storage for little cost with microSD, and discard that whole aspect to this phone.
The camera performance is pretty good too, there's plenty of power on offer, along with a decent display. We're a little less excited about the battery life, but then something has to give - and with this phone costing around £260 ($399; although you might need to consider taxes and shipping) it's a pretty competitive package.
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Guitar Grip Technique
It is important for a person to learn how to handle the guitar properly while learning to play. As a beginner, he must understand that it is not advisable for him to learn to play while he is standing. He must make himself comfortable with his position so that he will be able to execute correctly while playing his guitar.
He must learn that the first technique to learn is how to hold the guitar before attempting to play it. Here are some guidelines you need to know to hold the guitar properly: 1. Find an armless chair where you can sit comfortably and place your back against the back of the chair.
Remember not to repeat any mannerism such as slouching. 2. When holding the guitar remember to have contact from the chest and stomach with the back part of the guitar. Make sure that a parallel position of the lower neck of the guitar to the floor is maintained. 3. He should place his face near to the first string of the guitar- which is the thickest one.
With the other hand, the sixth string, which is the thinnest one, should be vertically aligned with the floor. 4. A right-handed person holding the guitar will point the headstock to the left (this is the normal position); while the left-handed player will let the headstock point to the left.
5. A person who is left-handed must find a guitar especially designed for left-handed people as most guitars are designed for right-handed guitar players. 6. If a person is seated on a chair, he must make sure that the entire body of the guitar rests on his laps; holding the face of the guitar with the right hand while the left hand supports the bottom neck part. 7. Now that the left hand is ready on the frets, he must concentrate on the positioning of the fingers on the frets before executing the chords.
The thumb will rest at the back of the fretting hand supporting the fingers on the front. Holding the guitar properly is an important factor. If he holds the guitar in the proper way when playing, he will have the confidence to execute well. A poor grip can lead not only to excessive fatigue and discomfort but also provide a real hindrance to you developing your guitar playing skills. Put some effort into mastering your grip and you will reap rewards later on.
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Seasonal and Local Foods in Japan
Shun, or season, is used to refer to foods being best in their season.
I love seasonal and local foods in Japan!
If you're lucky enough to live in a part of Japan famous for one of your favorite foods, you can enjoy it in everything from cheap dagashi to high end ryokan dishes. I want to focus on the seasonal flavors we can find in snacks or sweets like senbei or ice cream. If it says Seasonal Limited Edition (季節限定) on it, sounds good to me.
Maybe a nice way to look at this is by season? Let's start with spring, as it's right around the corner!
Seasonal and Local Foods in Japan photo
(Has anyone tried one of these? Tempting, but they're SO expensive, right?!)
First off, I think of sakura when I think of spring flavors. The cherry blossom is the symbol of things which only last a while, the sort of bittersweet, short spring season, when everything is ending and beginning again. It makes perfect sense to flavor limited edition foods with sakura flavor.
Sakura is different from cherry flavor, although it is often confused as it's a cherry blossom. The delicate flavor is used to flavor everything from ice cream to rice balls in spring, and the blossoms are even pickled to place on top of high end custards and other desserts, just to look pretty. Prepared cherry leaves are also used to wrap some sweets, or sold as a powder, although I've heard the taste isn't that great.
Seasonal and Local Foods in Japan photo
Another popular spring flavor is strawberry, especially here in Fukuoka prefecture (where we have amaou strawberries) and in Tochigi prefecture. Starting in winter, strawberry is one of my favorite flavors for can chu-hi and crunchy snacks – I've tried strawberry Cheetos, Pocky, and Tohato corn snacks. The strawberry is the perfect red winter fruit for decorating both Christmas cakes and Valentine treats, but is grown in 'vinyl houses' for that purpose and naturally ripens around late spring in June. For that reason, we can enjoy strawberries for a longer period, although they start to get cheaper as it gets warmer out.
Ume fruits are collected in spring before they ripen. They aren't eaten as fruits because they are toxic in their unripened state, but instead are used to make into umeboshi, umezu, and umeshu, usually enjoyed after some time during the summer. I've been enjoying umeboshi flavored senbei when I can find them, so ume is not limited to use for sweet or sour foods. Umeboshi is a little more popular during spring, probably because of it's pinkish color (which is actually from using red shiso in the pickling process).
What a lot of people might not know is that in late spring or early summer, green tea is in season. The most popular regions for green tea are Kansai area Uji, near Kyoto, and Yame in Fukuoka prefecture. I'm excited to try tea picking this year, but also looking forward to eating lots of Yame-cha flavored foods. Green tea ice cream or soft serve is probably my favorite flavor, and I usually stick with the Super Cup brand. I've tried a Yame-cha Monako ice cream and the flavor was amazing. The locally made Yame-cha Shirokuma (ice cream bar, see photo below) wasn't nearly as nice.
Seasonal and Local Foods in Japan photo
(sakura, Fukuoka amaou strawberry, and chestnut flavors)
In summer there are more fruits readily in season so of course we can find peach, watermelon, grape, mango, and Japanese pear flavors. As it's kakigori and ice cream season, a lot of the seasonal foods are used to flavor our frozen treats. Miyazaki prefecture is famous for their mangoes and I'm looking forward to visit there and try them when I get a chance. Check out the limited edition concentrated Calpis flavors available in addition to local kakigori and ice cream shops that use seasonal flavors.
Peanuts are harvested in late summer or fall, so if you live in or near Chiba prefecture, you can enjoy their local food, boiled peanuts, as well as lots of flavored coated peanut snacks. These are so nice with a drink.
Fall is my favorite season, and the food available during fall is one of the reasons.
First off I think of kuri (chestnuts)! Fun to collect if we can find them and cook ourselves, these are everywhere in fall and on desserts like Mont Blanc (see photo below) all year in candied form. Last fall we often got the Super Cup 'Maron' seasonal flavor, and I was so sad when they stopped selling it.
Seasonal and Local Foods in Japan photo
A super popular fall food, sometimes available all year, is yaki-imo. Kyushu is known for purple sweet potatoes, and I used to love them as a kid, but unfortunately have an allergy to any sweet potatoes now. The sweet potato flavors lots of sweets as it's naturally sweet, but is also used often for savory and salty snacks, like sweet potato chips/crisps.
Another sweet fall vegetable is kabocha, or Japanese pumpkins. There are tons of ways to cook pumpkin and use all of the vegetable, including it's seeds and skin, and it's quite popular. Kabocha chips are so nice but this one is also often used for sweets like tarts or ice creams. Mmmm.
Winter season would have to be a mochi and azuki flavored season, with roasted soybean flour or kinako thrown in. As there isn't much growing, the popular flavors are foods which are harvested in fall then processed for lasting through the winter. Oshiruko is so yummy on a cold day, so of course we can also find snacks with the same flavors. If you haven't tried kinako mochi, I recommend that as well – either homemade by boiling mochi to soften it then adding kinako and sugar, or in the snack form. The packaged snack kinako mochi literally melts in your mouth it's so nice. Tirol also makes a kinako mochi 'chocolate' (see photo below) that's really good. Of course these foods can be eaten all year, and the first time I experienced kinako, it was in spring in the form of a kinako sauce dipped mochi kinako ice bar. I was smitten since then and enjoy kinako on my kakigori too.
Seasonal and Local Foods in Japan photo
Winter is also the season for citrus fruits, so mikan and yuzu flavors frequently pop up at this time. There are so many other citrus fruits, depending on where in Japan you are. Kinkan, or kumquat, is one that's popular, like grapefruit, although they are usually grown in warmer regions. Locally grown kiwi becomes ripe during winter, and don't forget about the amazing apples northern Honshu is famous for.
If you live in Japan, what are the local seasonal flavors your area is famous for? Hopefully they're foods you like and can buy in the form of omiyage to share with family when you visit.
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• There are large culture differences between different work environments. Answers often don't reflect this.
Users of this site seem to be from predominately Western culture (I'm considering this Western Europe, USA, Australia/New Zealand) or India. Questions such as the above have a huge cultural affect even between just Western/Indian culture, not to mention regional/industry differences within either.
These differences are routinely ignored in questions/answers. I rarely see this present in either, there seems to be an assumption that all users are in Western culture. I am firmly of the opinion that many questions asked here have answers which are highly localized - by this I mean answers depend on region.
My question is:
• How can be better identify questions for which geographic factors (culture, etc) have significant influence on the proper answer?
Note that this meta question is somewhat related.
I think that, to some degree, if the question is written well, the differences are revealed in the question itself. Then, all users are able to accurately judge a good answer or not. I don't think any question should assume that others can fill in the gaps simply by identifying the question as pertaining to one culture or another. – NickC Dec 23 '12 at 22:26
Who will be the arbiter of whether or not an answer is culturally relevant? – Jim G. Dec 24 '12 at 2:25
3 Answers 3
In my experience, the cultural differences, the cultural gap, is narrowing to a certain extent. Working in the US, a project manager doesn't want to have to let someone go just because it's not part of the culture to coach an employee and give him or her all of the tools to be successful; therefore, many executives are bringing the same kind of management style from the Western world to India, and I've personally witnessed these changes.
Thus, in the example you've cited, the answers should work. The bottom line is if you're working for a company that doesn't help you be successful, then there are others out there that will. This is just one example of a possible answer, however. There may be other valid solutions, both localized to the country of India as well as those that reach a wider audience.
With that said, the same guidelines apply here as they do on questions related to a specific industry. The answer should apply at least to the country/industry that the asker is working in, but there's no restriction saying answers can't also apply to other locales.
Should the asker include country of origin? Absolutely, and I overlooked this in my first clarifying comment to the question. We should all be sure to ask the question askers what country they work in, what industry, and what their specific job function is. But do we need tags? That I'm not sure yet, and I'd want to hear from others on this issue.
Now, if an answer doesn't apply to a situation, we should leave a comment, edit, downvote, and use all of our other tools to help improve existing answers.
I certainly agree that culture is a huge influencer and one that means there are many cases where an answer that is perfect in one location is extremely limited in another. And I like the idea that question askers are best served if they can give the community a bit of a clue in location, general industry and job function.
I'm trying to decide if I care whether it's in tags or the question body, and I'd say I probably slightly prefer having it in the question, but that's such a personal preference that I could easily be talked out of it by almost any moderately well worded opinion. :)
What I'm most concerned with is finding the balance between not ignoring culture and not being a slave to it. From a personal perspective - I've spent 100% of my employment history in the US, but I've been an active member of the Indian performing arts community for over 10 years - so I have a depth of experience working in two very different cultures - in both cases, I've been both an individual contributor and a boss. I'd say that having the perspective of diverse cultures is one of my biggest strengths and I have benefitted for many years by having alternate approaches to almost everything and by being willing to admit there are no absolutes.
I realize, though, that on a Stack Exchange, this is a problematic answer. We are geared to help each other by voting and allowing the asker to pick a right answer - which implies there IS an absolute answer. But we also assume that we can answer each other's questions because we have a large enough audience pool that someone can offer meaningful advice from experience and thoughtul research.
So - I wrestle with whether to do anything. If we encourage downvoting or deletion for answers, I worry we'll
• loose the benefit of cross-cultural sharing
• severely limit our audience for key user groups as people stop sharing if they don't know enough to address anything particular to the culture
I'd rather see us upvote for answers that are particularly good at being pan-cultural, or on point with the culture.
Its inevitable that people will view answers and questions with a "cultural perception filter" and act accordingly, especially when it comes to areas of fair and equal treatment. There can also be a big gap between "how we think the world should be" and "how the world is" both within our own culutral background and those of others. In some areas I suspect we will have community based diversity not consensus. – GuyM Dec 26 '12 at 23:24
I really like this approach because it's more inclusive than exclusive, and it doesn't force us to draw imaginary lines in the sand that may prevent the best answer from manifesting. If there are doubts, we should use comments to seek clarification or improve the post. – jmort253 Dec 27 '12 at 4:38
I agree with the last statement (about up-voting culturally aware answers) but I do not believe for a moment the entirety of the voting patterns here will follow that unfortunately... – enderland Dec 27 '12 at 16:10
Yeah... but then we can't create culturally sensitive users... try to program them as we might. :) – bethlakshmi Dec 27 '12 at 16:44
@bethlakshmi - I'm probably not going to upvote a culturally sensitive answer if that culture and the response doesn't fit in with my ethical framework. Some workplace issues from some cultures are more challenging in that regard, particularly when it comes to areas like health/safety, bribery, discrimination, harrasement and "ethical supply chain" issues. I've encounted all of these as being "culturally normal" in different places in my career, in "Western" countries as well as "non-Western". – GuyM Dec 27 '12 at 19:57
I agree culture has a huge impact on the workplace, especially when it comes to defining how relationships and communication should function.
Even within "Western culture" there are huge differences in how companies and businesses operate. The line I tend to quote on this is "the English are too polite to be honest, and the Dutch are too honest to be polite", mainly because I have lived/worked in both countries and see the impact this can have in professional relationships.
Culture has many levels, however - corporate, national, regional, social - that can be "invisible" to people on the inside, and impenetrable to those on the outside.
For example - for example scoring on a "360 Degree Leadership Styles Inventory" I took in Australia had to be adjusted from the original (US) culture on some answers.
As a result it can be hard to see a "cultural imprint" in a workplace question, or conversely for the original poster to understand that there is a cultural imprint.
Not suprisingly, there's a huge body of work devoted to this kind of issue.
One of the advantages of sites like this is that we can get answers from a range of cultural perspectives; in many workplace situations there is no "proper" answer, just alternatives that are (hopefully) supported by personal experience or references.
A "low voted" answer may well have the "best" solution for the original poster, because they can use that within their culture, where the "voting population" may not understand the culture.
It is also worth remembering that aspects of other cultures, such as Kanban and The Art of War have had international influence.
So - I suspect this will be an issue that we can't easily resolve; partially because culture is very complex, and partially because the "best" answers could well come from a different cultural context.
Maybe a start would be making sure that, when we exercise the back it up rule, that we explain what culture our perspectives come from. This is something that the answerers can do, as well as something the askers can include. – jmort253 Dec 23 '12 at 22:20
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[By Tony Popowski]
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There was
a day in America when we, the people, had great respect for the
police. When they would ask you how you are doing, they sincerely
wanted to know because they cared. That day has passed with barely
a whisper or complaint. Today when a cop (they prefer to be called
Police Officers, as they feel "cop" is somewhat derogatory)
asks you how you are, they are not doing it because they care
but rather to set you at ease so you feel that their follow-up
questions are friendly and benign. Since for most of us, our likely
contact with the police is during a traffic stop (this is actually
an arrest. If you do not believe this, try and leave the scene
of the top, or not stop in the first place), and the follow-up
questions inevitably will be:
1. Where
are you coming from (sic)?
2. Where
are you going?
3. What are
you doing?
4. Do you
have anything illegal in your possession?
What they
are not doing is being friendly, but rather they are fishing for
information to give them probable cause to search you and your
vehicle. There are so many laws today that almost everyone is
guilty of something at all times. It is unreasonable to think
every individual will know every law for which they may be held
accountable. We think "I’m not hurting anyone so I’m not
doing anything wrong." While this seems reasonable to most
of us (no victim, no crime right?), the law and especially the
cops do not see it this way.
Take this
for example. You are heading home on a Saturday morning from your
bank downtown, and get stopped by cops for some perceived infraction.
You answer the questions above: "The bank downtown,"
"Home," "Nothing," "No." This seems
perfectly reasonable and safe; you are just complying with the
friendly police officer. What you do not know is that a different
bank downtown was just robbed and you have given the cop probable
cause to search you and your vehicle under suspicion that you
are one of the robbers.
Maybe this
example hits closer to home. You are heading to your diabetic
parents’ home for a visit and are also going to deliver a box
of 100 insulin syringes. You think nothing of it and mention the
syringes to the police officer; clearly, you are only being friendly
and answering the questions honestly. Well congratulations, if
you live in Illinois you just admitted to a crime. Possession
or transportation of more than 20 syringes by anyone not a health
professional is a Class A misdemeanor for the first offense and
a Class 4 felony after that. Welcome to the slammer and the humiliation
of processing.
Every single
piece of information the cops need during a traffic stop is contained
on your license, registration and proof of insurance. While there
are a plethora of reasons why you should not even have to provide
those (a huge topic all on its own), in my humble opinion the
potential hassle of not complying far outweighs the benefits gained
by attempting to circumvent these pieces of documentation. They
have no reason to know neither where you have been nor where you
are going. It is none of their business and has nothing to do
with a traffic stop. So, do not tell them anything. Do not talk
to them and do not even open your mouth. Remember they are not
your friend. All they want is to find some reason to take you
to the station and toss you in a cell, confiscate your vehicle
(along with all the contents), put you in a situation that will
cost you tens of thousands of dollars to get out of (if you are
lucky) or a guilty plea-bargain to avoid jail time (congratulations
on the felony record, no more guns for you and good luck finding
a new job after you lost your current one during the 9 month legal
battle). They will ruin your life if you give them the chance,
just to advance their petty careers.
And the final
question with which you will be faced: "Do you have anything
illegal in your possession?" How are you even supposed to
know? Can any of us be sure that at any particular moment we are
not committing some innocuous "crime"? I certainly do
not know all the 70,000 pages of triple column, small font text
released in the Federal Register every year let alone all the
Local, County and State ordinances currently on the books for
which I can be held accountable. So by them asking that question
they have just set you up for a second charge on top of any others
they can think up. "Obstructing an Officer" will tack
on an extra 6 months of jail time to your sentence. Of course,
the cops can lie to you all they want with impunity.
Lastly comes
the really scary part. How often have you heard of an on-duty
cop who has done something horrible and then get prosecuted? The
tasings, shootings, beatings and occasionally murders by the police
go mostly unpunished. Sure, they might get two months of administrative
leave (with pay) but nothing is really going to happen to them.
They know this. They know that if you make them angry they could
just pull you out of your car and beat you to the brink of death,
and there is nothing anybody will do about it.
The police
care about only one thing: Compliance. Do what they say, when
they say without question or you will suffer. They will see to
that. The men and women so many people depend on to serve and
protect them have become thugs whom we fear. And this fear is
not irrational.
3, 2009
Brian Cohoon
[send him mail] is a software
engineer working in Denver.
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One of the things that lead me to me Saint Ben's was all of the study abroad opportunities that are available at CSB-SJU. I knew upon starting at CSB that I wanted to participate in a semester long study abroad program. Throughout my first and second years at CSB, I was going through the process of finding a major. I ended up choosing Hispanic Studies because studying abroad in a Spanish speaking country was very important to me. I choose Spain because I was intrigued to learn about more about the language, culture, history, and daily life.
The cultural experience that made a lasting impression during my time in Spain was my home stay with my host family. My host parents were some of the most kind and generous people that I have ever met. There would be many nights when my host mom and dad would just sit and talk with me. We would have conversations about history, family, music, and everything in between. These times were so special to me because I was able to practice my Spanish speaking abilities with my family and learn from my host parents. My mom and dad were able to describe their perspective of Spanish history and the cultural changes that have occurred. Most importantly, my host parents were able to give me lifelong advice from their experiences. My host dad even took the time to write me out a page full of Spanish proverbs that he gave to me as a gift. Overall, my host family taught me the importance of family in the Spanish culture.
Describe your overall study abroad experience.
My time in Segovia was priceless. It was one of the best decisions that I have ever made. I was able to grow outside of my comfort zone, improve my Spanish abilities, form lifelong relationships, and enjoy life. We had so many fun memories as a whole group though all of our experiences. I was able to travel, go to museums, embrace european culture, adjust to a new way of living, and learn new things about myself. The beauty of Segovia is something that I could never forget and something I am already wanting to return to.
The largest benefit to studying abroad was all of the learning that occurred outside of a classroom. By immersing yourself in the culture, there are so many things that you experience that you can't learn in a classroom. Also, my spanish abilities and confidence greatly improved after being immersed in the language. Overall, spending time abroad has opened up my development to cultural awareness and not being afraid to take risks.
What advice can you offer for CSB|SJU students who are considering or planning to study abroad?
My advice to students who are considering or planning to go abroad is just go. Studying abroad is something you won't regret and it will be a wonderful experience. A piece of advice that someone told me since I was so nervous is that the first day is the hardest and it gets so much better every single day. It will become a part of your life and something that influences the rest of your life.
Do you have questions about studying abroad in Spain, or want access to my blog? Email Tara at abroad@csbsju.edu | http://www.csbsju.edu/oea/students/start-your-search/connect-with-an-ambassador/tara-maas | robots: classic
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