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Quiet - Photos & Images
Mountain - Alaska's Denali
nuances
Bahrain - Sheikh Salman Bin Ahmed Al-Fateh Fort
Dynamic Serenity
A gauchinha e a Padroeira
Volcano Wall
Lonely in golden place!
Let's get a suntan?
In Shepherds' Room
lost
Sunset at Home
toronto sunrise
The Bamboo Forest and some great Twitter Lists to follow
House of the Spirits
It's not all peace and quiet in the country
Lake St. Peter [2]
Natural Narcissism!!
Simon Blint, Director of Visitor Relations at the SF MOMA, Yeah You Jerk, Photography is Not a Crime
Quiet Moment at the Shanghai Airport
west lake view
a walk in to the woods
Be Colorful!
14/52 - The Lion Sleeps Tonight
lonely tree in the snow
All That is Holy
silencio...
the gift of the moose
Avenida Revolución, Tijuana
Lillhagensvan
Silent Night on Main Street at Christmas
All Is Quiet On New Year's Day (Explored)
~~LoVe nEvEr SToPs~~
"Sharing Silent Moments"
Abandoned Church
= ON TRAVEL = BACK SOON ON FLICKR! Thanks for all your kind support my FRIENDS! [ Views INTO A Different WORLD : AVIATION PASSION ] Our flight with SWISS // From Zurich to Luxembourg
evening walk
Whitby Abbey At Sunset
Touch of Solitude [Explored]
Its time to relax and unwind...
Bahrain - Lonely Boat at Askar Beach
Grand Canyon Wrangler
as if the sky were celebrating "a radiant fellowship of the fallen."
The Lathe of Heaven [Explored #98]
Even In The Quietest Moments
Tri Trang Beach, Phuket
Calm place to live
Scene from a Private Garden in the Cotswolds
Ma rivière tranquille...!!!
Relaxing in Santorini
A vision of light
Railay Bay / Thailand, Krabi
Between the Afternoon Showers in the Cotswolds
Amsterdam, Holland 074 - City of bikes
My Twitter Class of '08
Carnivale (painting and poem)
Ramallah Moments
Carr Bridge - the old bridge - Scotland
Quiet morning - HDR, no example for D300 noise
Autumnal atmosphere / Ambiente otoñal
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Founders Journal
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New Catalog of Founders Press Titles
Download a new catalog of Founders Press titles at.
New and recently added titles include Dear Timothy, edited by Tom Ascol, By His Grace and For His Glory, by Tom Nettles, and a volume from An Interpretation of the English Bible (James, 1 and 2 Thessalonians, 1 and 2 Corinthians) by B. H. Carroll.
Monthly Founders eNewsletter
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Founders Study Center
On May 1, 2004 the Founders Study Center celebrated its full year of ministry. God has done “exceedingly abundantly above all we could ask or think.” During our first year 69 students have enrolled in the Study Center from 24 states and 3 additional countries. This spring we have four courses in progress: Preaching and Preachers (Martyn Lloyd-Jones), Theology of the Reformers (Timothy George), Maintaining Your Spiritual Health (Don Whitney) and Maintaining a Healthy Church (Mark Dever). More courses are being planned for the Fall 2004 semester.
Please continue to pray for the Study Center. Pray that God will continue to make it profitable in the lives and ministries of pastors and church leaders. Pray that He will give increase and bring more students. Pray that He will continue to grow and prosper the relationships between students and mentors. Pray that He will raise up faithful, experienced pastors to serve as mentors.
For more information on the Founders Study Center visit study.founders.org
Southern Baptist Founders Conference
Don’t miss the national conference July 13-16, 2004 at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama. The theme this year is The Fellowship of His Sufferings. Speakers include Josef Tson, President of the Romanian Missionary Society, Dr. Michael A. G. Haykin, Principal of the Toronto Baptist Seminary and Bible College, Ken Jones, Senior Pastor of Greater Union Baptist Church in Compton, California, Roger Ellsworth, Pastor of Immanuel Baptist Church in Benton, Illinois and Roy Hargrave, Senior Pastor of Riverbend Church in Ormond Beach, Florida.
Register early and save! If you register before June 14, 2004 the fee is $215; after June 14, 2004 this fee is $265. For more information see.
Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary Groundbreaking
Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary (PRTS) held a groundbreaking ceremony for its new building project on March 18, 2004. The new site is located at 2965 Leonard NE, Grand Rapids, Michigan 49525. Please pray for the seminary’s president, Dr. Joel Beeke, its faculty and students as God prospers their work for the good of His Kingdom.
Learn more about PRTS at.
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Straight from the dark heart of Italy
Richard Whittle
With the week’s international friendlies taking a large number of Serie A stars off on their travels, the coaches gathered at Coverciano on Monday for a technical meeting and to award the Panchina d'Oro (Golden Bench) for the coach of the year.
The award went to Jose Mourinho, who was snubbed last time round in favour of Massimiliano Allegri - but with the Portuguese (and his ego) now safely out of the country – and a treble winner - he is at last being given some credit by his former peers in Italy.
The day also offered an opportunity to swap ideas and listen to the latest musings on the game. The Italy squad were also at the Federation headquarters preparing for their match against Germany - so the coaches could keep an eye on their charges if they wished.
The majority of Italy players are as pious as cardinals when on Azzurri duty, but there is always the odd one or two who will use the occasion to break with club protocol - hence Allegri dropped in on Antonio Cassano to ensure that his recent signing was sticking to his diet.
There were no reports of the AC Milan coach finding empty jars of Nutella on the windowsill or chocolate wrappers hidden under the player’s mattress, but no doubt the portly Bari boy will be on the scales when he returns to Milanello on Thursday - just to be sure.
The pair had a quick word or two at the café inside the complex, where the player swore that lunch had been nothing more exciting than chicken before lifting his training top and tucking in his tummy - as if that was going to fool anyone.
Cassano arrived at Milan at the turn of the year looking well fed after being exiled from the Sampdoria squad for reportedly swearing in a different manner at club president Riccardo Garrone.
And for someone more in love with self-indulgence than self-discipline, Cassano has found it difficult to shed the excess baggage: in fact, he has made the latter-day Ronaldinho look almost svelte in comparison.
"ROOM SERVICE!"
Even the much-vaunted MilanLab have not been able to put any spin on Tony’s weight-gain plan - which is no surprise considering he has revealed that when he retires he plans to get fat, really fat.
There is no denying the skill and tricky are still there, but the initial thrill of seeing Cassano waddle on as a second-half substitute to set-up a goal or two has worn off somewhat amongst the Rossoneri faithful, who have now witnessed the league leaders draw their last two games in a worryingly collective wobble of their own.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic has admitted he is beginning to feel the strain of being the first name on the team-sheet and the Swede certainly has not been as sharp or clinical in front of goal in the last two games; spending more time growling at his team-mates than roaring past defenders.
A little R&R would no doubt not go amiss, but that seems unlikely - not with Cassano unable to last the pace and Allegri seemingly not yet having enough faith in Alexandre Pato to allow him to lead the line, despite the Brazilian netting a more than an adequate nine goals in 14 league appearances.
Cassano will at least have a opportunity to sweat off a few pounds in Dortmund, scene of that never to be forgotten World Cup semi-final in 2006, where Cesare Prandelli will hand him yet another ‘last chance’ – let’s hope he still has the appetite to take it this time round.
More hungry to leave his mark at international level is another descendant of the Italian Diaspora, Thiago Motta who will make his debut this evening.
The Inter midfielder has felt the tug of the old country on his heart strings for some time – his great grandfather emigrated from the Veneto region for South America when he was in his early 20s – which at the time you would have to say was not a bad move.
It seems that for now Prandelli has given up attempting to groom home-grown talent for the central midfield role alongside Daniele De Rossi, with Italo-Argentine Cristian Ledesma another of the ‘new Italians’ to don the Azurri jersey.
It may not have gone down too well with the tifosi, but if these homecoming sons - as with Mauro Cameronesi in the past – help lift the national side out of the doldrums, then boos will soon turn to cheers. And as Cassano will almost certainly testify, the proof of the pudding is in the eating.
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For the second time this month,an area motel robbed. And police say the two crimes may not be coincidental. The Ramada Inn on Rangeline in Joplin was robbed early this morning. Police say two white males entered the motel with bandanas coving their faces. One suspect was armed with a small caliber handgun. Authorities say the two suspects got away with an undetermined amount of cash. Police say they are looking into the possibility that the robbery could be connected to a robbery at the same motel on July 4th. The suspects were last seen leaving south behind the Ramada Inn. One suspect is described as being around five feet, seven inches tall, weighing between 160 and 170 pounds. If you have any information, call the Joplin Police department at 623-3131. Reported By:Jennifer Haile
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AT&T’s “It Can Wait” program aims to stop texting and driving and save lives. This morning, Brandy Bell-Truskey with AT&T showed us an online simulator and wheel and pedal kit. The simulator sends texts to the user while driving, which the user tries to answer, usually resulting in a crash.
For more information about AT&T’s campaign check out their website.
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Kim Novak in publicity still for Bell, Book and Candle (Richard Quine, 1958)
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Alfred Hitchcock dummy floating in the River Thames for Frenzy trailer, 1972
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Kim Novak with the cats who played Pyewacket in Bell, Book and Candle, 1958
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Romy Schneider as Carole Werner in What’s New Pussycat, 1965
Charlotte Rampling in publicity still for The Night Porter (Liliana Cavani, 1975)
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Rita Hayworth & Orson Welles in publicity still for The Lady From Shanghai (1947, dir. Orson Welles)
Charlotte Rampling and Dirk Bogarde in pubicity still for The Night Porter (Liliana Cavani, 1975)
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If you are inclined to agree with Rush Limbaugh, it is possible you agree with his contention that The Dark Knight Rises is liberal propaganda smearing Mitt Romney.
“Do you think it is accidental that the name of the really vicious, fire-breathing, four-eyed, whatever-it-is villain in this movie is named Bane?" Limbaugh asked on his radio show. He added, “So this evil villain in the new Batman movie is named Bane. And there's discussion out there as to whether or not this was purposeful and whether or not it will influence voters. It.”
Never mind that Bane was created and introduced in 1993. Or that the third entry in director Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy basically went into production the second after The Dark Knight hit theaters in 2008 and selected Bane as its villain long before Romney was the last GOP presidential candidate standing.
Limbaugh’s reaction was predictable. He and many other conservatives never pass on an opportunity to bash Hollywood and lament what they see as rampant liberalism in mainstream movies. It happens at least a few times a year. Back in February The Lorax was accused of brainwashing kids with pro-environment propaganda.
The problem with these claims is that Hollywood only cares about one color, and it’s not blue. Yes, there is no shortage of liberals in the entertainment industry. But that is a matter of personal politics. Movie studios need their products to appeal to as wide an audience as possible. They are aggressively seeking the best possible return on their investments.
The fact is movie studios now are part of huge corporations. Universal is controlled by Comcast. Columbia is part of the Sony family. Paramount is part of Viacom. And what are the primary objectives of corporations? Maximize shareholder value and turn a profit. Make as much money as humanly possible. Everything else is secondary.
Hollywood will jump on any trend if it thinks there is money in it. Right now cheaply made “found footage” horror movies are popular. They are low risk, high reward.
Another example of this is faith-based films. After the runaway success of The Passion of the Christ, numerous studios got involved in producing and distributing movies aimed at viewers of faith. Sony Pictures Entertainment has Affirm Films. Their titles include Courageous and Fireproof. Samuel Goldwyn Films occasionally releases faith-based films including this year’s October Baby. New Line, part of Warner Bros. Entertainment, released The Nativity Story.
Often studios hold advanced screenings for churches to generate positive word of mouth with “spiritual” audiences even if the movie isn’t overtly faith-based. Prior to releasing Secretariat in 2010, Disney held screenings at large churches across the country.
The studios saw new revenue streams with these viewers. There was demand so they made sure to meet it. The same is true for the low-budget horror movies. After Paranormal Activity, everyone jumped on the bandwagon. The studios and the people running them just see dollar signs.
Warner Bros. spent $400 million to make and market The Dark Knight Rises. It needs to make far more than that to become profitable. The studio is not going to risk alienating millions of potential ticket buyers by making an overtly political film.
As The Hollywood Reporter points out today, there was a lot of debate about the politics of The Dark Knight. Both conservatives and liberals found ideological messages in it and the same will probably be true of The Dark Knight Rises. Many viewers will read into it what they want to and seek to find messages that are aligned with their beliefs.
However one feels about the movie and its content, the only thing the studio cares about is whether or not you buy a ticket.
Bob McBride
9:56 am on Thursday, July 19, 2012
I guess the barrel of burning issues has about bottomed out.
James R Hoffa
10:30 am on Thursday, July 19, 2012
@Mr. Doro -
"The studio is not going to risk alienating millions of potential ticket buyers by making an overtly political film."
So then, exactly how did Oliver Stone's so-called biopic films about JFK, Nixon, and George W Bush ever get greed lighted? And why do the studios now agree to front Michael Moore millions of dollars to produce his line of so-called documentaries?
The mere existence of the Fox News and MSNBC pundits show that there is a demand for both right and left leaning political fare. And while the ratings of those two networks would suggest a far larger audience for right-wing political fare, Hollywood has consistently turned out more left-wing political fare. Need I even mention HBO Films as being a notoriously liberal production house?
So, how exactly do you reconcile the discrepancy between apparent demand vs the product actually turned out by Hollywood?
Paul Doro
10:33 am on Thursday, July 19, 2012
Oliver Stone's films are biopics that did not cost $400 million to make and market. Michael Moore's documentaries make money. Like I said, they are in the business of making money.
James R Hoffa
11:18 am on Thursday, July 19, 2012
And documentaries made from the right-wing perspective on issues wouldn't make money? Wouldn't the ratings of Fox News definitely prove otherwise?
So, just because Stone's biopics didn't cost hundreds of millions to produce and market, the studio was in fact willing to "risk alienating millions of potential ticket buyers by making an overtly political film?"
While I agree that a company's primary purpose is to make money, it often appears that Hollywood does take on the risk of alienating audience members by making controversial and/or biased product. And in taking such risks when it comes to overtly political film making, Hollywood tends to lean to the left more often than the right.
Paul Doro
11:21 am on Thursday, July 19, 2012
You can't really avoid politics in a biopic about Kennedy, Nixon, or Bush can you? An exception every once in a while does not change the fact that it's still all about the money. Biopics are often chasing awards and prestige and that can lead to more money. And right-wing documentaries are made and released all the time. Just last weekend one played in Houston and did very well.
James R Hoffa
11:27 am on Thursday, July 19, 2012
"And right-wing documentaries are made and released all the time."
Without going to the IMDb or other online resources, how many right-wing documentaries can you name that Hollywood funded a wide release of vs left-wing documentaries?
Yeah, I rest my case!
Paul Doro
11:28 am on Thursday, July 19, 2012
The studios really don't fund documentaries James. They are often picked up for distribution after they are made.
James R Hoffa
11:35 am on Thursday, July 19, 2012
You're right, that's why I qualified my statement with "funded a wide release of," as documentarians typically don't fund their own wide releases - usually the studios do this.
And the studios tend to take on the risk of wide distribution of left-wing perspective documentaries much more than they do right-wing perspective documentaries.
Paul Doro
11:37 am on Thursday, July 19, 2012
Also very few documentaries receive anything close to a wide release. And the major studios are rarely involved with documentaries.
James R Hoffa
11:44 am on Thursday, July 19, 2012
For theatrical releases, I agree. Moore is a very big exception though. However, every major studio has an art-house division for direct-to-video release and distribution of such fare. And one again, more left-wing product is consistently picked up than right-wing product for even the direct-to-video distribution. HBO Films is a perfect example of engaging in both the production and distribution of consistently left-wing biased product - even you must admit to this reality!
Paul Doro
11:51 am on Thursday, July 19, 2012
And Moore's last three films were released by Overture and Lionsgate, not one of the major studios. And only Fahrenheit 9/11 received a wide release. The art house divisions are not really for direct-to-DVD movies. They are for Oscar bait and serious stuff more than anything. I think people probably see the bias they want to see in the films HBO makes.
James R Hoffa
12:08 pm on Thursday, July 19, 2012
"And Moore's last three films were released by Overture and Lionsgate, not one of the major studios."
You don't consider Lionsgate to be a major Hollywood player? They're publicly traded on the NYSE for heaven's sake! They have more quarterly output and revenue than is generated by MGM/UA!
"The art house divisions are not really for direct-to-DVD movies."
Really? And how many Fox Searchlight pictures received a theatrical release? The art-house divisions are where the studios tend to put the documentary product that they pick-up, isn't it? And how is a majority of the product that is released and distributed through the art-house divisions done exactly? I'll help you out here - direct-to-video.
"They are for Oscar bait and serious stuff more than anything."
You mean they're not all about making money? Many of those films are funded with government tax credits and art endowment grants.
"I think people probably see the bias they want to see in the films HBO makes."
Yeah, because it's totally not apparent. Game Change (2012) was 100% historically accurate and provided an accurate depiction of the people portrayed in the film, right? But isn't there a problem when the actual people who are portrayed in the film come out and say that the film is little more than a politically biased hit job that totally distorts the truth of what really happened?
Come on!
Paul Doro
12:13 pm on Thursday, July 19, 2012
Almost all Fox Searchlight movies receive a theatrical release, just not a wide one. Again, the art house divisions are for awards fare and prestige films far more than they are for direct-to-DVD movies.
Lionsgate is a major Hollywood player, sure, now more than they were back when they released Moore movies. They're not Paramount or Universal though.
James R Hoffa
12:47 pm on Thursday, July 19, 2012
So Hollywood makes bank on limited non-wide theatrical engagements? If it wasn't for the tax credits and art endowment grants to make many of those films, wouldn't many of them have produced actual losses for the producers and studios distributing them?
When Lionsgate merged with Trimark Pictures, their combined rental and home video distribution system became far better than anything that either Viacom (Paramount) or MCA Universal has in such regard.
Keith Schmitz
6:25 am on Friday, July 20, 2012
That's because Jimmy the FOX audience aged 65+ cannot get out of their Lazy Boys, hop on their rascals and motor down to the multiplex, where they may have to tolerate being in the presence of a multicultural audience.
Greg
11:42 am on Thursday, July 19, 2012
Paul, If I could give you an award for this blog, I would call it The Hoover Award, because you are the biggest sucker. (I don't say that in a mean way) Rush Limbaugh, just like the movie studios, is in it for the money. He is an entertainer, he presents his opinion. If your head was not nodding so hard to Ed Schultz's babble, you would see he is just an entertainer. Bill Mahr, entertainer. Keith Olbermann, entertainer. Mark Behling, entertainer. They are all in it for the "green". Limbaugh and Belling would tell you that Obama is great for their ratings and bottom line. Schultz and Maddow may say the same thing about Walker or Romney, it's for the money. Ed does not take home an average UAW wage, these people are part of the 1%. Every one of them will use the same tax loopholes that the big corporations and CEOs use. Much of the stuff that Olbermann and Schultz spew is based less on fact than entertainment value. Get some pop corn, sit back and enjoy the show.
Paul Doro
11:46 am on Thursday, July 19, 2012
Don't watch Schultz or MSNBC, or Olbermann. So is the sucker actually the one making assumptions without really knowing what they speak of? I used Limbaugh to make broader points about Hollywood and accusations of liberal propaganda in film. Of course Rush is an entertainer in it for the money. That is stating the obvious.
Greg
12:07 pm on Thursday, July 19, 2012
"Don't watch Schultz or MSNBC, or Olbermann."
Maybe you should, so you would have a more rounded view for your next blog. Otherwise "So is the sucker actually the one making assumptions without really knowing what they speak of?", is nothing more than a commentary on yourself.
Paul Doro
12:14 pm on Thursday, July 19, 2012
How would watching more MSNBC have influenced a blog about liberal propaganda in Hollywood movies?
CowDung
12:22 pm on Thursday, July 19, 2012
To add more fuel for the conspiracy, the film's producer, Thomas Tull is a minority owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers. We all know that Steeler chairman emeritus (Dan Rooney) was appointed by Obama as ambassador to Ireland.
Obvious left wing connection if you ask me...
J. B. Schmidt
12:23 pm on Thursday, July 19, 2012
@Paul
I believe Rush would call this a media tweak and fell face first into it.
Keith Schmitz
6:27 am on Friday, July 20, 2012
One would think Rush is an expert at falling face first into things, since the drug addled gas bag probably does that very thing hours after his shift on the Obesity in Broadcasting Network.
Chris Larsen
1:12 pm on Thursday, July 19, 2012
As a conservative, I feel that Rush Limbaugh is an idiot. To me the only RUSH is the band!
Bren
1:28 pm on Thursday, July 19, 2012
@Greg's right. Rush Limbaugh is an entertainer, one of the first of the "shock jocks." My father, a Goldwater-era Republican, doesn't listen to Rush Limbaugh.
While some of these polititainment shows are interesting, they are no substitute for independent research and should serve as a starting point for that research rather than oracles.
There are many Batman movies and I have seen very few of them. I'll confess I enjoy movies for entertainment value, but real life is far more exciting!
James R Hoffa
2:17 pm on Thursday, July 19, 2012
Personally, Hoffa prefers the Tim Burton Batman films staring Michael Keaton in the headline role to the Christopher Nolan Dark Knight series of films.
As far as radio pundits go, there is no comparison to the great Michael Savage!
Heather Asiyanbi
4:59 pm on Thursday, July 19, 2012
@Hoffa. UGH - really? The Burton films? Oy. No way. The Nolan trilogy (I assume since TDKR isn't officially released yet) far surpass the Keaton franchise when it comes to writing, set design, directing, villains (Ledger's Joker is legend for good reason), and acting. Burton's set reminds me of cheesy B-movies in comparison.
James R Hoffa
5:36 pm on Thursday, July 19, 2012
@Heather A -
I think I told you my fondness for the Burton/Keaton Batman films once before, on FB, and you had the same reaction :-)
How can Batman get any better than Burton directing, Keaton as Batman, Nicholson as the Joker, Michael Gough as Alfred, the best Batmobile ever to grace the screen, and a soundtrack from Prince?!?! That film inspired a ride at Six Flags for heaven's sakes, and the sequel a live stage show at the theme park!
OK, I admit I love B-movies and am biased to the '80's/'90's nostalgia factor! Not to mention that I find it hard to embrace most of the new / young blood acting talent, although Bale's not bad.
I also prefer Roger Corman's unreleased 1994 version of the 'Fantastic Four' to the Hollywood films!
James R Hoffa
5:40 pm on Thursday, July 19, 2012
BTW -
The Schumacher films were absolutely HORRID stinkers not worthy of the franchise!!!
Heather Asiyanbi
6:20 pm on Thursday, July 19, 2012
@Hoffa - *smacks my forehead* I should have remembered your fondness for B-movies & just handed you the popcorn!
BTW - we haven't had a blog in quite some time from you!
Keith Schmitz
6:30 am on Friday, July 20, 2012
Hard to weight them Jimmy. Though the Nicholson/Burton pairing seemed good on paper, they were essentially cartons.
The latest pack is grim and excessive. How many times can Bruce Wayne get wiped out?
James R Hoffa
11:01 am on Friday, July 20, 2012
@Schmitzy -
That's funny - I would have figured you for a George Clooney as Batman fan!
Come on - Burton also benefited from Danny Elfman's score and original music from Prince which is far more iconic and 'Batman like' than Hans Zimmers work and any of the songs used in the Dark Knight series. Just compare these two scenes and you'll see there's no comparison:
Now, let's compare the stats on Batman: The Ride vs The Dark Knight Coaster:
Batman: The Ride
Height 105 ft
Length 2,694 ft
Speed 50 mph
Inversions 5
Duration 2:00
The Dark Knight Coaster:
Height 45 ft
Length 1,213 ft
Speed 30 mph
Inversions 0
Duration 2:00
See, even Six Flags recognizes that Burton and Keaton own Nolan and Bale!
Case closed ;-)
James R Hoffa
11:14 am on Friday, July 20, 2012
I hope that we can all agree that the worse thing to happen in the Batman universe was the Halle Berry stinker Catwoman (2004) - now there's a pos that should be erased from history by the film gods! Yes, it was even worse than the George Clooney / Schumacher film Batman & Robin (1997).
Dirk Gutzmiller
9:55 am on Friday, July 20, 2012
Gee, where are all the right-wing commenters this morning? Has something happened?
CowDung
10:22 am on Friday, July 20, 2012
Where are the 'right-wing commenters' all supposed to be this morning?
Phil
10:32 am on Friday, July 20, 2012
The 'right-wing commentators' are all at work making money and paying taxes for all those 'liberal-takers'.
Dirk Gutzmiller
11:08 am on Friday, July 20, 2012
Harry - Playing on the internet at work again?
DICK STEINBERG
5:42 pm on Friday, July 20, 2012
Movies are part of the American culture but there is no federal mandate to go or not to go to the movies. that was tried once by the Harris Commission. former WI Senator Joe McCarthy was out to destroy the reputations of every person he thought was a real communist. both the censorship commissions and McCarthy failed. This is not my kind of entertainment so go see it and pay the piper.
Paul Ruble
7:00 pm on Monday, July 23, 2012
I see that this author does not get sarcasm.
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In the spirit of sport and the summer olympics, Lacoste has released a limited edition of their men’s fragrance Eau de Lacoste. This “Beauty of the Game” version comes in a special packaging that features features 10 crocodile images- the brand’s conic logo- that embodies flags from countries all around the world (U.S.A., Spain, France, Argentina, Australia, UK, Brazil, Japan, Germany, and South Africa). Plus, we got to sample some and it smells quite nice – which is also very important for cologne. Available at Bloomingdale’s for $62.
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ZF-3408: Zend_Config does not decrease $_count when node is unset()
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The count() method, defined by the Countable interface, uses $this->_count, which is set in the constructor of Zend_Config. The problem now is, when you unset a value (done via the magic method __unset()), $this->_count is not decreased by one. So when you count() the Zend_Config object after you unset a node, you get the wrong number.
Posted by Rob Allen (rob) on 2008-06-07T11:39:38.000+0000
Thanks for finding this!
Fixed on trunk (svn r9627) Fixed on 1.5 branch (svn r9628)
Regards,
Rob...
Posted by Wil Sinclair (wil) on 2008-09-02T10:39:12.000+0000
Updating for the 1.6.0 release.
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Zend_Image, Zend_Image_Validation, Zend_Image_Utility and Zend_Image_Thumbnail are the classes to help you to manipulate image for any purpose.
Zend Framework: Zend_Image Component Proposal
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Zend_Image, Zend_Image_Validation, Zend_Image_Utility and Zend_Image_Thumbnail are the classes to help you to manipulate image for any purpose.
Zend_Image, Zend_Image_Validation, Zend_Image_Utility and Zend_Image_Thumbnail are the classes to help you to manipulate image for any purpose.
- GD PHP library active.
4. Dependencies on Other Framework Components
- Zend_Exception
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- Zend_Image must be instantiated.
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Matthew Turland
<p>I'm wondering if it might not be prudent to establish a common Zend_Image API and then to allow for multiple backends. In addition to GD, ImageMagick is another frequently used backend for which someone may at some point wish to implement a core module. The API detailed here looks very good in terms of being backend-independent and it should only take the addition of a method to specify which backend to use in order to implement what I'm describing. Perhaps an interface Zend_Image_API and a method Zend_Image::setBackend(Zend_Image_API). Thoughts?</p>
Aug 29, 2006
Eugene Myazin
<p>autoThumbnail</p>
<p>setPercentage - have not right idea. <br />
If i want resize image by one edge, how i can do it? <br />
It's needed when in template all images must have equals height (getted by percent from original size).</p>
<p>Same in "setSize" <br />
usage, i know only result height, and width may be either<br />
So, method must be like: setSize(integer $width=null, integer $height=null)</p>
<p>And another one question: Let me know how resizing image with crop or save original geometry? </p>
<p>PS: Don't kick me for my english <ac:emoticon ac: </p>
Oct 24, 2006
Allard Buijze
<p>Erik,</p>
<p>your proposal looks good. I'd certainly use it.</p>
<p>About your Thumbnail class. It would be nice to have a method that resizes the image in one of three ways (either given as parameter, or as several methods):</p>
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<li>resize until either height or width fits within given boundary and crop the image (you'll make a center cutout, but image width and height are predictable)</li>
<li>resize until both height and width fit within given boundaries (meaning that the exact size of the image is not predictable, but different for each image).</li>
<li>lose original geometry and fit the image in the boundaries (thus messing up the original)</li>
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<p>Additionally, as Eugene mentioned, it would be nice to be able to enter either one of height and width.</p>
<p>If you need any help with the implementation, let me know: <last name>@gmail.com</p>
Nov 14,>
<p>However, working on image-manipulation for PHP is a great thing to do. We encourage you to get involved with the ImageMagick project: <a class="external-link" href=""></a></p></ac:rich-text-body></ac:macro>
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Daniel Castaldy '12 has taken a position as an editorial assistant at EBSCO Publishing. EBSCO is the leading provider of online research databases and eBooks for colleges and universities, public libraries, hospitals and medical institutions, corporations, government institutions, and K-12 schools. EBSCO offers more than 375 research databases including Academic SearchTM Complete, Business SourceR Complete, Business Book SummariesR, Nursing Reference Center TM, and DynaMedTM.
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I've been inspired by Jess Nevins to start another one as a research scrapbook.
It is called Writing About Not Writing because it is a production diary — for lack of better term — of me writing my first book. That being said, if I’m writing here then I’m not writing my book. Hence the title. I didn’t call it anything specific to the book because I want to keep this going beyond just the first book. Hopefully it is the first of many, and so much for that right now.]]>
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Liberty on Tap since 1984
By Nancy Thorner and Ed Ingold
The administration, supported by the liberal media, denies that anyone apologized to the Islamic world for offending them. They take the narrow view that an apology expresses remorse for some offense the speaker has committed. In the rhetorical sense, however, an apology occurs when the speaker attempts to justify the wrongs anyone has committed, including someone else. Marc Antony's speech to the Romans was phrased as an apology for Caesar's faults, with surprising consequences.
That's precisely the substance of apologies uttered by the State Department, which justified attacks on the interests of the United States by Islamic militants by blaming them on an obscure video clip that hardly anyone had seen up to that point. It was compounded by apologies spoken by Secretary of State Clinton and President Obama, on television in Pakistan, paid for by the US Government.
Like Antony's speech, this too had surprising consequences. Much like the firemen in Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451", who poured kerosene on burning books, this Administration continues to inflame the radicals and spread the violence.
We can't expect much support from the United Nations, which not too long ago appointed Muamar Gaddafi the head of the UN Council on Human Rights.
We probably can't expect more than sympathy from most of Europe, where it is a crime to say many things, even to defame a public official.
We certainly can't expect much of anything from nations where religion is the government, and free speech is considered blasphemy. However, if we fail to defend our nation's interests, and hold our concept of human rights up as an example to the rest of the world, we makes ourselves look weak to our friends and enemies alike, and invite further attacks.
What we need is an apology worthy of a Roman warrior, which places shame on the assassins, rather than our country and its principles, and inflames the quest for justice.
This nation, and especially Israel, cannot depend on President Obama to be that Roman warrior. It would upset Obama's carefully crafted, false image of himself, reinforced by the mainstream media, as one who is tough on terrorism.
Remaining in power with unlimited and unchecked power is all that matters to President Obama. He will say and do anything to retain his control, knowing that the mainstream media will function as his protective gear.
May that fearless Roman warrior soon show itself before it is too late and remorseful appeasement apologies lead to catastrophic consequences for Israel and this nation. Hopefully Mitt Romney is up to it!
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Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) limited federal welfare payments to five years and conditioned them on a recipient’s effort to find work—in essence, stripping welfare of its entitlement status. As a result, the welfare rolls dropped two-thirds from 1996 to 2009, work rates of never-married mothers surged, and black child poverty fell to its lowest level ever.
But according to Times reporter Jason DeParle, TANF has not performed as it should have during the recession. Rather than skyrocketing, the welfare rolls have risen “only” 15 percent since 2007, and still remain 68 percent below their pre-reform peak..
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Skip to comments.There is a tsunami of evidence that the man that sits in the White House is not who he says he is.
Posted on 04/15/2012 7:14:16 AM PDT by IbJensen
Pictures of Barack Obama are surfacing on a scholarly research site that show him shouting through a bull horn in front of possible members of the African Luo tribe named as his ancestors in Kenya. Other pictures without captions show Obama in African tribal attire with two other men; and with at least 10 men in western clothes. Yet another picture shows him with a group of women wearing traditionally African attire that may or may not be his relatives.
Attorney Stephen Pidgeon, author of the book THE OBAMA ERROR, states
that because he released his COLB (certificate of live birth) on the White House website, prima facie evidence exists to investigate Obamas birth and eligibility as proscribed by our Constitutions Article II, Section I, clause 5.
Another book, THE OBAMAS-AN UNTOLD STORY OF AN AFRICAN FAMILY traces the origins of Obamas lineage through the African Luo tribe which goes back 800 years to the southern Sudan region along the Nile River.
Obamas Luo line dates back to his 10th removed great grandfather Owiny. The name Obama is thought to have come from Onyango Mobam a man born with a curved back.
The Luos were both hunters and gatherers but also polygamous so tracing exact lineage could be confusing says the books author Peter Firstbrook. Their many wives lived apart from their husbands who had their six front teeth knocked out as the time honored rite of passage into manhood.
Obamas grandfather, Hussein Onyango, born in 1895, embraced European culture but rejected Christianity when he converted to Islam. Obamas father was born to this mans third wife Habiba Akuma in 1936, but the elder was broken by torture during the violent Mau Mau uprisings, leaving his now 92 year old fifth wife Sarah, still living , to rear the Presidents father. Kindly Sarah reared many orphans in her village and reports even quote her as saying Obama, Jr. passed through her hands when he was born.
Attorney Pidgeon told radio listeners, when Illinois Senator Obama involved himself in Kenyan national affairs that is a clear violation of the Logan Act (18 U.S. C.A 953[1948]. This act makes it a crime for a citizen to involve himself or confer with or negotiate with foreign governments in opposition to the United States without clear authorization. The attorney is also troubled by Obamas sending American assets into Libya without Congressional approval!
The Jay Treaty of the War of 1812 states; if you ever were a British subject, you could NEVER be a Natural Born Citizen of the U.S. This brings home the NBC issue for Pidgeon who says The Constitution is Finished. America took up arms again against Great Britain when she started impressing U.S. sailors for service in the Royal Navy.
Attorney Pidgeon isnt the only one troubled by whats going on in Washington, D.C. Thousands of comments online continue to demand action to clear anomalies surrounding Obamas convoluted nativity story! Pidgeon told radio listeners that There is a tsunami of evidence that the man that sits in the White House is not who he says he is.
A sad commentary is the fact that during my lifetime this nation has elected 13 presidents (Ford, of course, doesn't count (for much of anything), and only one was a winner: REAGAN.
This piece of lying trash currently occupying the White Hut is the poorest excuse for a leader in world history.
The Supreme Court will not take it up. End of story.
Pelosi and Ried sigend the document of legitimacy. Would love to see them in Orange jumpsuits and in a cell next to all thier friends
On January 20, 2009, a few hundred men, women, and children gathered under trees in the twilight at Kobama, a village on the shores of Lake Victoria in western Kenya. Barack Obamas rise to the American presidency had captivated people around the world, but members of this gathering took a special pride in the swearing in of Americas first black president, for they were all Obamas, all the presidents direct African family.
Ping for later reading.
And I know you're not implying Ford was a winner, either.
One conservative. One winner.
I don't know what is so hard to understand.
And that is where the real tragedy lies.
“Pictures of Barack Obama are surfacing on a scholarly research site”........have been scrubbed. (page not found)
IIRC, the SCOTUS rejected an appeal to strike 200,000 phony signatures (gathered by ACORN) from the election roles in Ohio before the 2008 election. Ironically, Zero won Ohio by around 200,000 ‘votes’. SCOTUS is complicit in this Obamanation.
I read something interesting, no idea the validity of it, but it was mentioned that George Soros threatened to take down the world economy if this was ever revealed, is it possible that a cover-up took place to prevent that?
Infamous tribe of mau mau.
Did they rule on this, or refuse to take the case? If they gave a ruling, what was their reasoning? We need a long-term strategy to take the country back.
I believe you’ve hit the nail on the head.
Oh, they understand just fine.
Conservatism obviously offers the best, most effective means to govern this nation. We assume politicians (of both parties) want whats best for the nation as a whole rather than whats best for themselves as politicians, bureaucrats and lawyers.
We assume wrong. Its that simple.
Obviously something is not right here.
I do not know if all those who would need to be involved in this were complicit from the beginning or covered up after the fact so they didn’t appear as incompetent as they are.
Of course, “need to be involved” is relative. At some levels below the very top of this, involved probably means simply going along, for whatever reason.
We see this even down to the lowest level of conservative bloggers locally, banning any such discussion and anyone who brings the topic up. Of course, they did the same poor job of vetting this man as almost everyone did.
I think the real question is one not being asked.
Obama’s mother and his maternal grandfather (the “furniture salesman”) were wholly owned properties of the CIA, and there are strong indications that Obama was raised to be a deep cover Cold Warrior, possibly in the corridors of power in the Soviet Union.
In other words, he is an artificial man. This explains is erased background, multiple SSNs, etc., as well as his association with leftists with impeccable credentials, who unlike all their peers who were imprisoned or killed, are still around and untouched by what they did.
The US military has had several generals become US presidents, but the CIA only two, H.W. Bush, its former director, and Barack Obama, who was supposed to be a field operative, but lost his “mission purpose” at the end of the Cold War.
Thus what the public needs to know, more than anything else, is what section of the CIA raised and was to control him, and was he “retired” from his purpose, or is he still regarded as performing an active role for that agency, as an elected politician?
The more we learn of the CIA the more it resembles a left-wing think tank.
Even if it were to come out in FULL disclosure, it wouldn’t make any difference.
Those that support Obama would probably think it was a good thing and the Media would simply whitewash it as they have whitewashed everything else that has ever come out about this guy.
The Supreme Court and the Republican party is filled with cowards, so they wouldn’t do anything about it.
So, even if the truth were to come out that Obama was ineligible, I honestly don’t think it would matter.
Liberals, those in the Media, Academics and those with that entitlement mentality don’t give a hoot about the rule of law.
Hummmm... I thought they were just good little Communists, like their friend & neighbor Mr. Davis.)
What you mean is "end of providing proof that one meets the eligibility requirements to become President".
We now live in a nation where one is "American UNTIL proven otherwise".
“The Supreme Court will not take it up. End of story.”
We can force the hand of Congress by signing this petition link below:
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As of this morning....34,513 others have already signed this petition. Sign now to show your support!!
PS: when I signed this Petition 4 days ago there were only 18,000+ signatures.
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Obama needs to be removed before the election & charged with Treason against The United States of America for using Forged Documents to become POTUS!!!!!!
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Unfortunately...... just a Patriotic American who is posting information the MSM refuses to address!!
Obamas Luo line dates back to his 10th removed great grandfather Owiny. The name Obama is thought to have come from Onyango Mobam a man born with a curved back.
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They changed the name a bit Barrack Obama means “a man born with a forked tongue.”
WE STILL HAVE MORE TRASH TO TAKE OUT IN 2012! MARK YOUR CALENDAR NOW!!
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Exactly.
Where are these pictures?
Sorus took down our economy oct 2008. this was their october surprise. can’t wait for the one in 2012.
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You are correct. Further, they are planting disinformation as they work the internet. There is no doubt this has been going on for quite some time, and certainly before he began campaigning for the Presidency.
I'm also informed that in preparation for the Presidency, representatives were sent to Indonesia where all records about him were collected and destroyed or scrubbed, with appropriate fees paid.
SCOTUS, front and center, time for you to commit treason once more. Comeon, you know you love doing it.
A fairly recent picture.
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I prefer the Romanian solution over to orange jumpsuits. Much cheaper too.
The Obots not merely told us all that; they clearly believed it. Part of what made them so odiously obnoxious was their tiny-minded stupidity in repeating like a squadron of trained parrots ‘The COLB is all there is and all there ever will be. If birfers weren't so ignorant and racist, they too would figure out this simple fact’.
Why on earth didn't we raise more Cain when they turned on a dime after the release of a supposed original LF BC????? These IQ-challenged Obots swore no such doc existed. They swore it again and again. Not one—not even one semi-intelligent semi-autonomous thinker—admitted to being one-hundred percent stupidly, gullibly, stinkingly ***wrong***. Instead, they trumpeted the brand new doc as yet more proof that Obama is legit.
These Obots are too dense for words. No, they aren't smart enough to figure out they've been played. Rather, every time something happens to upset their Moonbat Talking Points, they simply hop aboard the new meme like good little trained rats (hoping for a food pellet). I even read one Obot discoursing on what it “cost” Obama to stoop so low as to release the ‘LF BC’. In this worshipper’s mind Obama is some noble, lofty figure hounded by ignorant racists. He finally capitulated, but at deep personal cost. Not even Stalin's worshippers had it over on this guy. He and his ilk are mentally ill to a freakish degree.
I haven't met a really smart Obot yet. All I've met are self-lobotomized ideologues who believe whatever Obama tells them to believe. I'm sure they believe Obama’s father fought in WWII. Obama said so, right? They believe Obama’s parents met at Selma. They probably believe Obama, left to his own devices, uses proper English. The myriad examples of his sub-proper usage must somehow be concocted by wingnut racists. After all, a Harvard Man would have some mastery of at least the most basic grammatical principles...right?
I can't get my mind around how stupid a person would have to be to believe Obama’s ‘LF BC’ is the real deal. I just can't do it. I can comprehend people like Soros, who know Obama is a fraud and who use it to their full advantage--while laughing at everyone else. That makes perfect sense. The flying monkeys I can't understand. It's to the point where they'd have to wake up each day and swallow a whole bottle of stupid pills, to believe Obama’s nativity tale/tales. I guess they're just so enamored of this trim, hip uber-leftist, they consider their brains a small sacrifice to make. I don't get it but Obots are real, so there must be some explanation somewhere.
Hasn't he pretty much already done that?
“The First Time I Heard of Barack - Tom Fife”
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This information has been hidden by the media.... I first read this in Jan. 2009
Tom Fife was a physicist with top Government Security...... He debriefed the Government with his information in the 1990’s; but, it was dismissed!!
He tried to get someone to listen to him during the 2008 campaign when he realized that Obama was the same man this Russian ambassador’s wife had mentioned to him in the 1990’s.
On ......election day evening...... he finally was intervied by a radio personality who allowed him to tell this story.
The information was picked up by Bloggers but not the MEDIA!!
IT IS TIME TO LISTEN TO TOM FIFE!!
What is the penalty you ask? Look around you... We’re paying it.
If the Supreme Court will not take up this issue, then certainly the Mainstreme Media will report on the story soon.
Slightly off topic (but not too far), it’s always bothered me that Chief Justice Roberts messed up when administering Obama the oath of office at his inauguration, and then he was later “sworn in” privately. I can’t help thinking that was by design — you would think Justice Roberts would have known better — and wonder whether Obama truly, legally, legitimately took the oath of office. I never heard this investigated or even brought up after the fact.
Obots can’t dare entertain truth or their entire fantasy world will crumble before their very eyes. I swear it takes so much more faith to believe in Obama’s lies than it does to believe in God. So they continue on. Pathetic.
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Skip to comments.AMD's Hondo will only support Windows 8 at launch -- Linux support coming, Android perhaps later
Posted on 09/17/2012 1:04:14 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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never heard of Hondo
what idiot would start a company in Kalipornia these days?
I wouldn’t put my money on that horse
Hondo , John Wayne movie ?
Hondo, hoss?
Not much out on it...everyone may of heard of piledriver and steamroller....
Higher part ts on the food chain.
Further proof that its always best to have competition, even if AMD has not been much competition lately.
Both Intel and AMD face a non-desktop centered world in which power consumption and not speed is the prime requirement.
My cheap ($100) COBY tablet is an amazing device. It runs android, but people are trying to port Ubuntu linux to it. A friend who broke his screen is using it as a desktop with keyboard, mouse, and a usb hub. Amazing.
Are you kidding. I love the IPad except for the fact that it is so cumbersom to have to work through ITunes. Just think how nice it would be to have an extension of your desktop with you all the time and easily transfer files and programs from one to the other. That’s what Win8 promises and on fast hardware, I can’t wait.
Throw me in that briarpatch, please!
There was Hondo Harrelson of 1970’s SWAT tv fame.
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in_place_editingplugin, but my form setup was just too complex for it to work. (From doing some reading up online, the plugin also has some other issues and hasn't been maintained. Because of this there are several alternative plugins out there.) But I eventually wound up finding a solution I could adapt and use.
So after implementing that, simple in-place editing worked beautifully! Unfortunately, simple in-place editing isn't quite enough for my app. When a page item is updated, sometimes I need it to update another item on the page. The script.aculo.us Ajax.InPlaceEditor is only designed to update one page item--the one that was edited. I tried working around it by changing something like this (in my controller action where I handled the AJAX call):
render :text => new_value
To something like this:
render :update do |page|
page.replace_html(original_page_id_to_update, :text => new_quantity)
page.replace_html(secondary_page_id_to_update, :text => new_value)
end
That didn't quite work. It updated the
secondary_page_id_to_updateelement correctly, but instead of putting
new_quantityinto
original_page_id_to_update, it put in something like this:
try { Element.update("original_page_id_to_update", new_quantity); Element.update("secondary_page_id_to_update", new_value); } catch (e) { alert('RJS error:\n\n' + e.toString()); alert('Element.update(\"original_page_id_to_update\", new_quantity);\nElement.update(\"secondary_page_id_to_update\", new_value);'); throw e }
I was stumped on this for quite a while. Spent a lot of time scouring The Google for answers, digging into the script.aculo.us documentation for Ajax.InPlaceEditor, and examining the actual Ajax.InPlaceEditor code. What my web searches turned up was that I'm not the only person with this problem--I found several forum posts on different sites from people trying to do the same, or similar, things. Unfortunately, none of them had a solution. :(
So I went for a run to take a break, then came home to take a shower and like Archimedes, I had a "Eureka!" moment. (Though his was in the bath.) I realized what was happening was that both of my
replace_htmlcalls were actually working, but as part of what Ajax.InPlaceEditor does it returns the final value of the
rendercall, and sticks it into the field that was edited. This is just the default behavior, as it assumes you only want to update that one field.
Looking into the Ajax.InPlaceEditor code, I found this (relevant lines in bold):
handleFormSubmission: function(e) {
var form = this._form;
var value = $F(this._controls.editor);
this.prepareSubmission();
var params = this.options.callback(form, value) || '';
if (Object.isString(params))
params = params.toQueryParams();
params.editorId = this.element.id;
if (this.options.htmlResponse) {
var options = Object.extend({ evalScripts: true }, this.options.ajaxOptions);
Object.extend(options, {
parameters: params,
onComplete: this._boundWrapperHandler,
onFailure: this._boundFailureHandler
});
new Ajax.Updater({ success: this.element }, this.url, options);
} else {
var options = Object.extend({ method: 'get' }, this.options.ajaxOptions);
Object.extend(options, {
parameters: params,
onComplete: this._boundWrapperHandler,
onFailure: this._boundFailureHandler
});
new Ajax.Request(this.url, options);
}
if (e) Event.stop(e);
}
What was happening was that it was creating a new Ajax.Updater, which is meant to update a single element with the return value from the url it calls, which turned out to be that chunk of Javascript above when I used the
render :updateblock. The Javascript was being eval'd correctly, and updating both my fields, but then Ajax.Updater was re-updating the 1st field with the result of the
renderblock, which was that chunk of Javascript. (BTW, I think this Rails bug is the same thing, but they didn't see that anything was being eval'd because they only had the one field being updated, so their guess was that the eval was failing.)
I tweaked the Ajax.InPlaceEditor code to replace the Ajax.Updater line with the Ajax.Request line, and suddenly everything worked! But that didn't seem like the right solution, so I looked at the logic in that block. It checks
options.htmlResponse, so I tried setting
:htmlResponseto
falsewhere I set up the Ajax.InPlaceEditor, and voila! It worked.
So hopefully this will be useful to people, and turns out to be very easy. Here's the summary:
- Use a
render :updateblock with as many
replace_htmlcalls as you need (including one to update the in-place edit field itself).
- Set
:htmlResponseto
falsewhen you set up your Ajax.InPlaceEditor.
And that's it!
2 comments:
Thank you for posting this! I was using the same updated in_pace_editor, and knew there was some way to make it stop trying to update the field, but your post was the first to solve the problem - just threw :htmlResponse => "false" into the :ajax section of the editable_content. Thanks!
Great, glad it was useful!
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Topic: Not for "public" consumption, but for you guys :D
Not for the mass public, but this was a more streamlined way to show if off to a bunch of my friends.
I was lucky enough to be able to get nice high quality versions of just about all the shots that I worked on for last years, well this years if your in Europe & the UK, The Muppets. And with the breakdowns that I had access to I put together a showcase piece that shows off my work.
This is long, 8+ minutes, so not really for a "this is the kind of things that I've done" reel, more for a "these are the Muppets shots that I got to work on" piece.
Hope you enjoy.
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Lingerie-Inspired Outerwear: Rachel McAdams
Dolce & Gabbana dress with Christian Louboutin shoes...perfection
Above: Dior red dress with built-in bra! We love it!
Lingerie as outerwear has never seemed more tasteful! A sexy slip for a dress, a lacy Dior bustier top and a sheer dress with a built-in bra; our version of heaven.
above: Dior lace top
Rachel McAdams for Vogue by Mario Testino
Rachel McAdams for Vogue by Mario Testino
Actress Rachel McAdams was recently featured in Vogue as photographed by Mario Testino. These pictures are fresh, vibrant and wonderfully inspiring in their elegance. We also love how this is the most realistic interpretation of the lingerie as outerwear trend that we've seen in a while. This is a look we would proudly wear!
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43 fabulous comments:
Rachel McAdams...love! The first D&G reminds me of a dress Jessica Alba first wore when she was becoming famous (a bit Chinese chipao and oh so sexy!)
Christian Dior shoes... Hummmm ! So pretty slingback and open toe...
Olivier
fantastic editorial
lov e it all!!
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that's the kind of lingerie i like best!
like stuff from La Perla that looks so hot!
Bonjour,
I love everything, especially those fabulous Dior shoes! Granted I would most likely have a headfirst tumble but I would look good doing it!
Have a great week and thanks for posting so many lovely images.
Love the lace
Love love love the red Dolce & Gabbana dress and Dior shoes! so fantastic to see some real glamour.
Red shoes is my weakness. Beautiful! Especially with the dress!
The whole Dior collection for this summer was genius- Thanks for sharing!
xx
fantastic ... sexy and feminine clothes, I love!!
greetings!;)
i aboslutely ADORE this shoot with rachek mcadams!that first dress is to die for!!
Love the dior lace top over a dress. How fun!
I would wear this in a heartbeat. Beautiful look - and those red shoes are incredible!
Love her! Love these photos - a very sexy yet real way to wear lingerie outside of the boudoir!
WOW. SO pretty.
I love Rachel McAdams :) Beautiful shots!
Loved this spread! Also, did you see the Posh wearing a D&G floral body suit in the Glamour- divine!
She's so pretty and so are her outfits!
soooo gorgeous!!! she looks amazing in red!!!!
copiouscouture.blogspot.com
oh my i cannot get over how gorrggeouuss she is.
i love rachel.
and the pictures are absolutely breathe taking.
This is an awesome post! I love her and I love everything she is wearing. Great layout also!
aw she is so pretty :) hehehe
I love the idea of lingerie inspired outerwear! Looks sleek and oh so sexy! Its so feminine and is not at all suggestive. :) Thanks for posting these.
Rachel sure does pull off this trend with the greatest of ease. She's so beautiful and always looks great. Red is a great color for her.
very sexy! I love that Rachel modeled it!
LOVE the dior lace top! with that, i wouldn't mind wearing lingerie as an outerwear! ;)
♥ joei
I swoon for those Dolce & Gabbana bodysuits (I know they weren't featured here, but the dress reminds me of them). Posh Spice is wearing one in this month's Glamour magazine. So gorgeous!
Thank you for visiting me and leave so nice comments.Now I Know you and can to visite your stunnig blog.
Hugs,
Cecilia
Those outfits are AMAZING! And what better model to have than Rachel McAdams. =)
She is one gorgeous, gorgeous lady!!! xx
thanks for your comment:)
love your blog! followww you
I adore that Dior lace top! And Dolce & Gabbana have always been the best at creating great lingerie-inspired dresses and tops. Such a flattering way to show off the female body!
Fantastic. THey are bold and beautiful, just like me :D
*kisses* HH
love the blog, you have awesome lingerie taste!!! right in line with what He likes...
want to link exchange?
-He
Christian Louboutin shoes, very beatiful. My heart makes bang bang, when I see Louboutin shoes
Thank you
I love every piece!!! gorge. xoxo mm
omg rachel mcadams is soo beautiful. And I love that dior top she has on in the last pic!
Thanks for you sweet comment!
Every piece is so nice! Love it :D!
Kiss
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I love the images you have chosen to illustrate this blog. A really beautiful interpretation of the lingerie as outerwear theme. A little more wearable than the notion of wearig your bra outside your T-shirt, also mentioned in Vogue!
I love EVERYTHING about these photographs! The CL shoes are perfection, and the Dior dress and lace top are exquisite!! I want them all. I would dress like this every day of my life if I could ♥
Have a lovely weekend!
xoxo, B
I linked to this on my Rachel post yesterday!
I want the dress I want the shoes & I want them NOW!!! Do you think my husband heard me I was shouting loud enough (hee) :)
I have that issue and she looks fantastic! great post!
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The Claremont School of Theology, a Christian divinity school in Los Angeles, will use a $50 million gift to begin training Jewish and Muslim clergy.
The gift from David and Joan Lincoln of Arizona, $10 million of which was given last year,, California. The Los Angeles-based…
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Donald S. Clark
Office of the Secretary
Federal Trade Commission
600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20580
Dear Mr. Clark:
Thank you for the opportunity to respond to the Federal Trade Commissions request
for comments concerning competition policy and business-to-business electronic
marketplaces.
Ernst & Young is a global leader in providing auditing, tax and advisory services
through our 77,000 people in more than 130 countries. Among those services we provide our
clients with fresh perspectives on operating successfully in the new economy and a
comprehensive suite of solutions to established and emerging business-to-business
electronic marketplaces ("eMarkets"). Ernst & Young understands the unique
issues and complexities associated with developing and maintaining eMarkets, and can offer
an objective point of view on how eMarkets and their stakeholders (i.e., owners,
participants, the public and regulators) can best address competition issues and related
issues of trust.
The potential benefits of proposed eMarkets are significant. They promise to provide
the opportunity for businesses to leverage technology and make dramatic leaps in improving
operational efficiency and effectiveness. While we cannot comment directly on the
potential for abuse of competitive market practices, we can comment on eMarket
stakeholders concerns and how to build confidence in eMarket practices. Broadly,
stakeholder concerns range from inadequate systems and internal controls, insufficient
security, and potential commingling of data, to concerns that eMarket owners may overtly
act in an anti-competitive manner. For example, eMarket participants do not want their
competitors to have access to their client lists, pricing information,
customer-satisfaction levels, and purchasing trends and habits. eMarkets need to establish
trust with their participants and the public stakeholders. Failure of an eMarket to be
viewed as a trusted, secure and impartial marketplace could raise stakeholders
concerns and result in reduced levels of participation and the ability to maintain
long-term viability.
To address these concerns, nascent industry self-regulatory activities are being
undertaken by the eMarkets in conjunction with the eMarket owners, participants and other
various stakeholders. These activities include formally publishing entity security and
confidentiality policies and obtaining various "seals" of approval. It is our
belief, however, that self regulation by the eMarkets would be facilitated by the adoption
of a more comprehensive and robust self-regulatory framework. This framework should
include the development and acceptance of standards that have been subjected to public due
process and, importantly, verification of adherence to those standards by an independent,
third party assurance provider.
Comprehensive standards should address the concerns of the stakeholders related to the
eMarkets business model and operations. Following are some of those concerns:
Neutrality,
Confidentiality,
Security,
Availability, and
Transparency.
Neutrality,
Confidentiality,
Security,
Availability, and
Transparency.
Comprehensive standards are necessary to increase stakeholder understanding of the
nature of eMarkets and to ensure consistent application of the standards and
accountability by the eMarkets. For example, today, eMarkets employ varied policies for
confidentiality and security of eMarket information that may not clearly articulate to
stakeholders the access others have to their data. Consistent industry-wide standards
would provide an avenue to remedy this confusion and provide a platform to obtain public
confidence in eMarket practices. Because such standards would necessarily need to
reconcile the conflicting needs of various stakeholders (i.e., balancing the need to limit
the sharing of competitive information against the desire to promote information-based
efficiencies), we believe that the FTC could play a role in fostering the development of
these comprehensive standards.
Moreover, our experience tells us that stakeholders will desire assurance that eMarket
participants actions follow the comprehensive standards. We believe that significant
value is realized when assurance is provided by an independent third party that actively
tests to ensure that the eMarkets "do what they say they are doing." If
standards are not complied with, the independent attestation report is withdrawn. In this
way, trust is built by the eMarket and the positive benefits of dramatic efficiency and
effectiveness are realized.
We would be pleased to discuss our comments and recommendations with
the members of your staff.
Sincerely,
Ernst & Young
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Infomercial marketers Wellquest International, Inc. and Tony Hoffman Productions, Inc. (THPI) and others have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they made false and unsubstantiated claims for three products - Bloussant, sold for breast enhancement; EnerX, sold for men's virility, and D-Snore, sold to relieve snoring - in violation of the FTC Act. The defendants also have agreed to settle charges that they made misrepresentations and failed to disclose material terms in connection with third-party buying club memberships they "upsold" to consumers after the consumers agreed to purchase Wellquest's products. The proposed settlement requires the defendants to pay $3.2 million in consumer redress and to possess scientific substantiation before making certain claims about dietary supplements, foods, drugs, or cosmetics. The settlement also requires the defendants to comply with the FTC's newly amended Telemarketing Sales Rule.
"Marketers must have rigorous scientific substantiation for the claims they make," said Howard Beales, Director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection. "In this case, the claims were inflated, but the science just wasn't there.".
According to the complaint, the defendants' ads state that Bloussant stimulates breast cells to regenerate the growth process, thereby increasing breast size by two cups in most women. The FTC alleges that these claims are unsubstantiated. Additionally, it alleges that the defendants falsely claimed that Bloussant is clinically proven to increase bust size in the majority of women, and is clinically proven to be safe. Bloussant was heavily marketed in magazines, such as Mademoiselle, Elle, and Allure, in monthly direct mailers, and through infomercials that ran on 30 major cable stations and numerous broadcast stations, as well as on the Internet. Consumers responding to these advertisements were directed to call a toll-free telephone number, where the telemarketers often reiterated the challenged claims. Bloussant cost $220 for a two-month supply and $574 for an eight-month supply.
The FTC also challenges claims made about EnerX, an herbal supplement promoted for male potency. The complaint alleges that the defendants' claims that EnerX is safe and lacking in side effects are deceptive because EnerX contains yohimbine, an ingredient known to increase blood pressure and to interact with other medications. A two-month supply of EnerX is sold for $109. EnerX was marketed through magazine and newspaper ads, commercials on approximately 50 cable television stations, direct-mail fliers, and the Internet.
The FTC complaint further challenges that the defendants, including expert endorser Dr. Mark.
The complaint contains two additional sets of allegations, relating to the defendants' marketing practices. It alleges that the defendants engaged in deceptive upselling practices by enrolling consumers in one or more third-party buying services without the consumers' consent. Upselling is soliciting consumers for additional products during the same telephone call after the consumers have provided credit cards to purchase the initially-offered product. According to the complaint, after consumers provided a credit card to purchase one of Wellquest's products, the telemarketer upsold the third-party buying services on a "no obligation" free trial basis. The defendants allegedly did not disclose adequately Buchfuhrer order requires Dr. Mark Buchfuhrer to possess substantiation for future claims about D-Snore or any other dietary supplement, food, drug, device, cosmetic, or any service purporting to provide health, cosmetic or physical enhancement benefits. He also must make disclosures about sleep apnea in connection with future representations made in connection with the marketing of snoring products..
Copies of the complaint)
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Comments:This change would emasculate the purpose of the rule by enabling marketers to exploit an especially obnoxious loophole. Although the existence of an "established business relationship" is countenanced, this is insufficient basis for a rule that would effectively alllow telemarketers to circumvent the purpose of the rule. Instead of protecting the public interest, this "safe harbor" enables telemarketers to abuse the role of the FTC as mediator between commercial interests and a private person's right to contemplate their navel in peace. This proposal completely perverts the purpose and policy of the original rule. I strongly object.
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Totally forgot this page existed. If you’re interested in the latest and well, who am I kidding… Okay, just the latest ramblings, click over to FuckGas.com
While this place is obviously brushed under the rug and forgotten, the aforementioned dot com local is generally not so much. Yes, it’s the same collection of useless rambling and bullshit, but at least by reading there you’re seemingly up to date. Thanks for understanding.
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Naturally, John is faced with the death of his father Sherlock accompanies him to his hometown for the funeral. John is forced to come to terms with death, and feelings that he’s been fighting for far too long.
Because this fic utilizes several prominent tropes, including a drunken first kiss and being forced to share one bed, it reads as familiar and predictable. John’s strong emotional response to his father’s death is understandable, but slightly undermined in how the narrative voice frequently refers to both parents by first name. It creates a distance of sorts between John and his family. While Mrs Watson is written sweetly and quite well (I could see this version of his mother getting along with Mrs Hudson), Harry does not reach the same potential. As for John and Sherlock, there are moments of brilliance within their dialogue but these cannot be expected as the norm. To be succinct, the men are written from a safe, neutral foundation and never quite reach their own brilliance within this first-time narration.
I was initially drawn to the concept of this fic due to the slow reveal of Mr Watson’s death in the first chapter. It is clear that something is wrong, but the details are gradually provided. I looked forward to similar scenes later in the plot, but was disappointed. From a personal preference, heavy use of descriptors and descriptions is a turn off. This fic is guilty of relying on both crutches. Additionally, I noticed minor technical and content errors, which are most likely the result of this being the author’s first piece without a beta reader. With more of a subtle storyline, as the author concludes in her notes, this fic does not satisfy my wants for a fic but might please other readers!
Word Count: 23732
My Rating: C
Read it here, fic by GallantGeekery.
Thanks to indeliblychanged for your submission.
Review by: Becka
“Horrible men can watch me masturbate from across the room and suffer.”
“Can horrible men try to convince you otherwise?”
“Horrible men can try.”
Okay so I’m absolutely in love with the back-and-forth banter between John and Sherlock here. It’s so playful and amusing and really a great reminder that sex isn’t just…sexy. It can be fun and lighthearted. The entire fic kept a smile on my face, because while it’s incredibly sexy (like whoa), it still keeps up the light tone and ugh I kind of just love this fic. It’s sweet and fluffy but still hot with a hint of mischief. And you should read it. Mature readers because porn! Beautiful, fun, adorable (yes it’s adorable shhh there are tickles) sexy times.
Word Count: 3049
My Rating: A
Read it here, fic by songlin
On New Years Eve, Sherlock drags John out in the rain to study the fireworks.
Just a short, fluffy little mini fic to counter any angst you may have gotten from other fics. And it is fluffy. Will definitely bring a giggly smile to your face and make you hug a pillow and squeal. I’d love art for the last bit, definitely. There are mentions of this being a post-reichenbach fic, but none that should put any damper on the fluff. For being a minific, I think it’s very well written and worth praise, so read it and flail.
Words: 973
My Rating: B
Read it here, fic by Reichenfeels
Sherlock Holmes has a routine: take the Jubilee line train from Baker Street Station to Stratford Station and head to New Scotland Yard. Day in and day out, he repeats the routine and pays little mind to the masses of stories walking by him on two legs - until he meets the soldier.
I’m going to literally die from all this amazing fluff. It’s the cutest thing I’ve read all day!! This was based on Paperman which if you haven’t seen get on that!! Seriously it’s the cutest thing in the world and this is a perfect Sherlockian companion. I love that there is very little, almost no, dialogue. The short is silent so it was a good nod to that. I love the phone trick Sherlock pulls too! It was a cute way to replace the paper airplanes and a great reference to ASiP! I just loved this, it was so cute! The writing is beautiful, it has strong imagery without feeling heavy. Despite the fluff I thought this stayed reasonably in character, it wasn’t a romantic love at first sight reason that Sherlock kept chasing John but the puzzle! The game and mystery of John Watson. Maybe it’s a bit more…committed than Sherlock would actually be but I thought it was done very well. Overall my face hurts from smiling so hard at this one, if you loved that short you’ll love this fic!
Word Count: 4987
My Rating: A
Read it here, fic by barrelrider
The observations of an amnesiac murder witness force John to rethink his assumptions about Sherlock, himself, and the definition of love.
Meanwhile, a murderer is still on the loose …
I read this about a week or two ago so I probably can’t give you as detailed of a review as I usually do but here goes. I really really like this story! This one brings in an OC, a Jane Doe, and I am in love with her. She’s like an alternate version of Sherlock! They are both geniuses but she is better at manipulating people socially; She’s a bit softer around the edges than our favorite detective. One part I love love love is the fact that she took Mycroft up on his offer! I got such a giggle from that. What I loved most about this is Jane’s role in the development of a relationship between Sherlock and John and the way it slowly progresses. I like that this story was more about John finding out what he wanted in life and the friendships he makes rather than it totally being about a romantic relationship. Though I do admit that the way they admit their feelings was super cheesy and super adorable. I mean I really shouldn’t have liked that part as much as I did! So cheesy yet so wonderful! The writing and characterizations were very good and nothing stood out to me as being “bad”. Even though I can’t remember many little details this story overall did stick with me and the fact that I remember most of the story says a lot about how much I like it! It’s sort of funny to me that I’m telling you I can’t remember the details and Jane has amnesia in this haha.
Word Count: 40,758
My Rating: A
Read it here, fic by VolceVoice
Fawnlock catches John dancing, John tries to get Fawnlock to dance with him, in the end Fawnlock gets what he wants.
I want to kiss this story. I really like this Fawnlock because of how animal-like he is; some of the other stories I’ve read will describe him in the forest and doing literal animal things but here it’s the subtle animal characteristics that make a difference. Like the purring, rubbing himself in John’s clothes, his collection of things, belly rubs etc. With this story I knew he was a fawn not just a fawn version of Sherlock. That’s not to say this is a completely different character than Sherlock, he does have Sherlock characteristics and personality, but they are not the same person. Which, overall, I appreciated! I loved the bit of emotion from John, to see how he’s not entirely okay with being back from the war but I would love to see more. Maybe not in this story, but I would like to know how he’s coping with civilian life and Fawnlock in his life. Despite Fawnlock being the focus of this story I don’t want to lose sight of John’s feelings and thoughts. This story is so sweet and the domesticity of it makes my heart melt. I was giggling and smiling the entire time while reading it. The entire tone just really gives you that cozy, warm, sitting by a fireplace happy feeling. This story just really really made me happy.
Word Count: 2,849
My Rating: A-
Read it here, fic by bennyslegs
No one has ever stayed with Sherlock for more than a month. At least, no human. Fortunately, John Watson isn’t about to let the little things - like biohazardous experiments and the constant threat of danger - get in the way of his friendship with a very special, very brilliant man like Sherlock Holmes.
I will be the first to admit that I have an unhealthy obsession with AUs (wing!fics in particular make me squeal in delight), so it shouldn’t be a surprise that I absolutely adored this fic. I loved how the author took the time to explain some of the mythology and back-story. So many times you get a wing!fic and the reasons behind the wings aren’t very well explained, but that is not the case here. John and Sherlock also felt surprisingly in character for who/what they are in this fic. The development between them was phenomenal, and built at just the right pace for me. The visuals in this story were fantastic as well; if I thought I could do a semi-decent job, I’d spend my next day off drawing fan-art for each and every chapter, particularly chapter five… Also, the additional pieces that turn this into a series are precious as well. Sherlock surrounded by ducklings just sounds freaking adorable. All-in-all, an enjoyable AU that I would love to read more about!
Word Count: 21,019
My Rating: A-/B+
Read it here, fic by Kryptaria
A young John Watson mourns his father’s death, and comes across something strange in the woods behind his house.
Another Fawnlock! This one is short and sweet and I love their first meeting. This time they meet as kids and they’re both so frightened, I just wanted to scoop them up and give them kisses on the cheek. This had excellent pacing for being so short, it didn’t feel rushed or like there were any spots focused on too much. It spread out very evenly. I do wish there was more though, this has so much potential to just stop here! One thing I would like to know about this one though is how Sherlock came to learn English, it’s just something that I’m curious about, but didn’t effect my reading. Overall just really heartwarming, I love how these two found each other when they needed someone the most.
Word Count: 3,192
My Rating: A-
Read it here, fic by lockedin221b
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I'm not any of the admins.
I’m only the translator but I’ll try to keep this alive ^^ Knoke also runs fuckyeahkimhimchan so go follow if you have not^^ I’m co-admin & translator at fuckyeahbangyongguk.
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fuckyeahbangyongguk: 29 Nov - Recording: Carried By The Wind - Yongguk. 2 Dec - Digital Single Release: BYG&ZELO MV release @ 12AM KST (1 Nov midnight) [x]
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fuckyeahkimhimchan: He hasn’t officially debuted yet, but Kim Him Chan is quickly becoming quite the ladies’ man! This uhlzzang from a traditional music school became one of the hosts for MTV‘s music program, “The Show“. Consequently, he’s paired up with a bevy of beautiful girl idols as his co-hosts. Kim…
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byguk: @O_Zinsuk 얼른주무세요형 Hurry and sleep, hyung. 책 추천 고마워요 다 같이 독서합시다 Thank you for the book recommendations. Let’s all read together. 제이콜 앨범만 하루종일 플레이중인데 진짜 어린 나스같다 와 이런 느낌 오랜만 Played J. Cole’s album all day and he’s really like a younger Nas. Wow, this feeling I haven’t felt in a long while.
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byguk: 태도와 의식 표현과 애정 얼마만큼 자신이 갖고있는지 생각해볼때다 마이크는 멋으로 쥐는 가치가 아닌것같아 열심히 달릴께요 forreal Whenever I think about my attitude, form of expression, and affection I have, I feel like that a mic shouldn’t be held to look cool. I’ll keep running hard forreal
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byguk: 새로운것들을 느끼고싶은데 좋은 책들 좀 추천해주세요 I want to feel new things. Please recommend me good books.
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Don't get drawn into the headline. By illegal gun, they don't mean a weapon that was used or intended to commit crimes, they mean an unlicensed one. Don't get drawn by the sub headline either:
A MAN who shot himself in the head had an array of illegal firearms, an inquest heard.By 'array', they mean three.
Both the Burnley coroner and a senior police detective expressed ‘serious concerns’ about how David Read came to be in possession of a Enfield .38 revolver, a Beretta handgun and a rifle.How on earth did this man get his hands on three unlicensed weapons?
He had acquired the guns after the death of his father-in law in 1987 and kept them at home ever since.Oh. Well that answers that one.
So he has kept them at home since 1987? Doesn't sound like much of a criminal to me.
Mr Read, 65, was found dead at his home in Cleveland Gardens, Burnley, by his daughter Andrea on August 26 last year.An old age pensioner with old guns in his attic. Still, under our current gun terrified nanny state, that still would have been enough to send him to prison for a very long time. Maybe even the rest of his life at that age. That's if he hadn't killed himself first.
The cause of death was given as a single gunshot wound to the head.If he had chosen to pipe his exhaust gasses into his car as a way out, this would never have made the papers.
Det Insp Dave Groombridge, said that the fact that unlicensed firearms were present was of ‘grave concern’ to the police.If that's the case, none of these 'unknown' guns should really be much of an issue for you, but of course you want to claim ownership of all the guns for yourselves. Can't even let people keep an heirloom. But it's this next statement that extracts the proverbial urine:
He added: [...] “The number of firearms held by people who may have chanced upon them during house clearances or keeping them as collectibles or heirlooms in unknown.
“Such weapons may not be intended for criminal activities their mere existence renders the holder extremely vulnerable and presents a danger to the public.Guns not intended for criminal use pose a danger to the public? Does that include all the legally held firearms, or just the unlicensed ones that aren't intended for criminal use?
And owning a gun makes the holder vulenrable? H.. How? Disarmed citizens are extremely vulnerable. Armed ones are not, but disarmed is exactly the way the government and police would like us to be. You keep trying to convince people that they will be vulnerable by owning a gun though, just because one old codger decided he wanted out and a gunshot to the head was the easiest way to do it.
“This case has tragically highlighted the dangers inherent with illegal possession of firearmsThe danger in this case being you may want to use it to take your own life. Ohh. Let's all be scared of guns.
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This week we had the delightful We Were Evergreen in the studios, where we discussed growing up, the core of music, and the seemingly infinite number of instruments a single band can play. Deep stuff. They even played us an acoustic set. They play Trof Fallowfield on October 4th (tickets £8). Catch it here:
Interview with Pure Love
A couple of weeks ago we caught up with Pure Love at the Dot to Dot festival, where we chatted about the move from hardcore to classic rock, playing Wembley and the meaning of love.
Fuse FM at Parklife '12: Ghostpoet
Last weekend, the self-described "lad with a lisp with some stories to tell", aka Ghostpoet, caught up with Fuse FM following a set at Parklife that went down as one of the weekend's highlights. Catch him chatting to Dan Alani about music in the North, his live show, and some exclusive info on plans for new material.
Fuse FM at Parklife '12: Django Django
After setting the Now Wave tent alight at Parklife, Dave and Jim from Django Django caught up with Dan Alani for a quick litte chat. Find out what they had to tell us about their festival experiences, their love of classic rock and workout regimes.
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The Great Manchester Run
On Sunday 20th May, the streets of Manchester were turned into a sea of runners as the 10th annual Great Manchester Run came to the city. We sent reporter Rachel Longworth along to speak to some of the runners as they crossed the finish line.
Well done to everyone who took part and raised money for such a wide variety of charities!
Interview with The Enemy
The Enemy's third album 'Streets in the Sky' was released just a few weeks ago. Jules O'Brien caught up with the trio in Manchester ahead of their gig at the Academy to find out more about this egarly awaited comeback album.
Interview: Mac Miller
Fuse FM's Edward Usher caught up with American rapper Mac Miller before his gig at the HMV Ritz. They talk music, markets and all things British.
Amon Tobin - ISAM Live
Well that's it ladies and gentlemen. We've now reached the end of Future Everything 2012. But what a way to go out. Tonight, Fuse FMs own James Sandford attended this year's headline act. Amon Tobin is one of the most outstanding DJs out there today. When the Brazilian was working on his latest piece, ISAM, he wanted to produce something truly amazing. And something amazing is an understatement.
Matthew Herbert - One Pig
Once a year Manchester plays host to some of the most amazing talent in the modern world. Future Everything is a yearly festival that brings together those that take the strange and represent it in unique ways. And this year has been no different. Matthew Herbert is an electronic artist who specialises in the usage of those sounds most of us forget. On 18th May he provided just that with his performance of One Pig at the Royal Northern College of Music.
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Hey John,
In the last week, I’ve given lots of thought about your responsibility versus accountability post, and wondered how vocal we are about the ins and outs of our profession.
Frankly, there’s a whole list of things I’ve rather not be held accountable for, including but not limited to student attendance, adult comportment around students, and an education system that cares much more about its bottom line than its students most in need. Yet, I feel responsible for all those things because a) I came in with the ideal that I would help move the needle towards progress and b) I still believe it.
The optimist in me wants to believe everyone involved understands this dichotomy; the realist in me knows too many people in positions of power who ignore this purposely.
That’s why, at every chance I get, I remind people that one of the ways we’re going to push the profession forward is to take responsibility for their own advocacy as well. I do believe in a collective voice, so naturally, I love having a union (or in my case, unions), and their work matters now more than ever for us having a say in how teacher evaluation and contracts are formed.
However, in other spaces, I’ve found that, in the midst of trying to advocate “for teachers” or speaking on behalf of us, people completely neglect us and / or play to a similar power structure that their detractors do. They might think they’re speaking as part of a collective, but not quite. While people don’t always intend for this to happen, it’s hard for me as an advocate to sit there and wonder why teachers still get the fewest amount of seats (if at all) even in spaces that proffer us, physically or virtually.
Mike Klonsky said once that we might need to destroy the whole flippin’ table, and I tend to agree with him.
For, whenever only a couple of us feel responsible for the children we teach (and these tend to also get held accountable), those moments become part of our experience, moments no one can take away from us. We can speak collectively about our concerns, but we root it in the experiences we have as teachers on a daily basis.
Now that I mention it, I also don’t want to be held accountable for our honesty, but I’m well aware of my responsibility towards it.
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Eddy turns another year older.
He was a cheat just like the rest of them, but the style in which he did it remains incomporable.
Not to mention his bikes are among my favourites.
Read all about him on Wikipedia.
It is said that Merckx was the best, but even Eddy was scared of someone. That someone was Gary Clively.
Sync also shares a birthday with Eddy.
Here's ye vnitage fyx for the day which includes the handover of one the GonzLab possesions,
a Concorde with C-Record (still stolen),
TC and Eddy facing off,
and Turbo's first pista.
Stolen from Sync...
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It's been some time since decent meals were concocted in our kitchen. Over the past few months our bathroom renovation became a kitchen > home makeover. We're now nearly finished and just in time for winter, my favourite time of the year to cook!
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INDIGESTION
When you are pressed for time in the kitchen, a way to squeeze the most out of your meal is to 'bung it in the oven'.
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Lunch. Somewhere in Italy.
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In Canada many of the traditions to celebrate the birthday of your country are similar to Australian traditions; outdoor parties, BBQ's, and often accompanied by beer with friends.
Being winter here in Australia, this year we celebrated with a Canadian classic dinner offering. On the menu was French Canadian Shepherd's Pie. This is a easy dish that is super yummy. I remember having this for dinner numerous times, hot and cold and always served with a squeeze of Ketchup.
Read more: Homesick recipes.
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September issue.
If you aren't stuffed from this post, nothing will fill you.
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I have forgotten that the world is smiling
That my dreams don’t fit through any doorway
And my spirit shines brighter than the sun
I have forgotten what it is like to love
And have adopted cynicism as my coping mechanism
I have forgotten that strangers are open
And friends are available
That poetry is therapeutic
And that prayer is healing
The spark in my heart has dimmed to a flicker
Trauma now blankets my fears
And isolation is the only place I find solace
The sky is not weeping yet I see no sunshine
The path is clear
Yet I stand stagnant, stuck, still, uncertain
waiting for something that isn’t coming
I am lost in the translation of my own identity
I am not who I believed I was
And I am not who I wanted to be
But I am human, genuine, beautiful
Authentically confused
Uniquely disturbed
And daringly open to smiling again.
Writing again.
Living again.
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How are your New Years resolutions going? We all make them—it’s part of the New Year’s tradition. We’re determined that this fresh New Year is the perfect time to resolve to do something that will leave us “better” or “different” than last year. The problem with resolutions is that they’re usually vague and end up abandoned by February or sooner.
So this year, instead of making New Year’s resolutions, try setting goals—goals that will strengthen the bonds with your grandchildren. The secret of success in fulfilling goals is more about setting them up and writing them down than willpower and determination. Sharing your goal with others, means you’re much more likely to accomplish it.
As a grandparent, you may set some goals for your relationship with your grandchild, but remember you need buy-in from the parents. Remember they are indispensable when it comes to having access to your grandchild. You may even want to sit down with your family and come up with some shared goals, for example, a three-generation family vacation or a family reunion.
When you write your goals, there’s a popular acronym for remembering the five essential qualities of a goal: SMART, which stands for Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Time Framed.
Specific
Nebulous wording makes goals confusing and overwhelming. Defeat sets in before you even start. Imagine that you say: “I will be a more involved grandmother.” There is no way to know if you reached this goal. But if you write, “I will send a letter to my granddaughter once a month,” or “Once a month I will learn one new song, story or game to teach my grandson,” then you will have a specific action that you must take each month and hold yourself accountable.
Measurable
There’s an old saying: “What gets measured gets done.” When you make your goal measurable, you’re able to see your progress. So instead of saying: “I’m going to spend more quality time with my grandson,” you could say: “I will take my grandson fishing six times this year” or “I will take my granddaughter to three new museums this year.” Goals also need to be meaningful to you. That just insures that the goal you’re setting is something you want to do and not something imposed by someone else. Ask your grandchildren if they’d like to set a goal that both of you could work on together like starting a collection.
Achievable
This doesn’t mean your goal is easy, but that you can have a good chance of accomplishing it, which again may mean getting buy-in from your grandchild’s parents. If your goal is to have your grandchild come for a sleepover, you’re obviously going to have to get permission from her parents. And that means establishing a trusting relationship with the parents from the very beginning. Sitting down with your adult children even before your grandchild is born and discussing your commitment as a grandparent creates a sense of trust and value in open communication that will be last a lifetime.
Realistic
Realistic also means that the actions associated with your goal are things that you can actually do. If your goal is to get together with your grandchildren every weekend and they’re involved in too many activities of their own, then you’ll either have to set your goal lower or find a way to observe or participate in their activities. If that’s not realistic, then think about another avenue for staying connected with your grandchildren. You could take a computer class to learn how to stay in touch through email. Focus on your strengths and interests and how you might be able to share those with your grandchildren.
Time Framed
Having a time limit will give your goals structure. If your goal is to establish an education fund for your grandchild, you need to figure out how much money you want to contribute and by when.
Setting goals is more than deciding what you want to do. It involves figuring out what you need to do to get where you want to go and how long it will take you to get there. Here are some general suggestions when setting goals:
- Get working on your goals right now while you’re motivated.
- Take small steps when making changes.
- Develop a ritual for reviewing and updating your goals.
- Look at them once a month to check your progress.
- Be flexible – expect that your plan can and will change.
- Recognize partial successes at every step along the way.
- Be a good listener and open to feedback about your goal.
As grandparents, we can expect to be around for more than three decades, according to U.S. life expectancy. Our relationships will evolve as we all grow older. By setting some goals to strengthen your relationships now, you will build the foundation for future bonds. So get SMART! Take out some paper and pencil and write down your goals for 2009.
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The Twelve Colonies of Kobol were founded approximately 2,000 years ago when the Twelve Tribes of Humanity were expelled by the 'gods' from the Kobol.
Following their expulsion from Kobol, the Twelve Tribes came upon the Cyrannus star system, a fairly unique double-binary formation with enough habitable planets for each of the Twelve Tribes to settle on a different world in order to preserve their unique cultural idenities while they worked to rebuild in the wake of their exodus.
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Session One
*When you walk into a room full of new people, who are all equally unfamiliar to each other, do you not smile at the other people? Don’t you make a little contact, like, hey, I see you, person…? It looks like we’ll be in this class together. See, I do. And most people give you a little something back, a little smile or a hello. But one lady didn’t. She left me hanging, a couple of times. And when that happens I get all sniffy inside, like, are we going to have a problem?
*We all go around and say our names and when our baby’s coming and where we’re having it and who’s our caregiver, and also we’re supposed to mention a non-baby-related passion of ours. Except for me and Dave, this is a room full of snowboarding gardeners. Like, to a one.
*….Oh, yeah. It looks like we are going to have a problem. When we went around and talked about ourselves, I said that we were going to have the baby at home. What I did NOT say was anything remotely to the effect of, “And anyone who doesn’t is a fucking SUCKER. Home births are for champions, hospitals are for PUSSIES, pussies!” A little later, Miss No-Smile-For-You is talking about what she wants for her birth, and she looks right at me with this dirty look and says, “…Home birth is right for SOME PEOPLE but not EVERYONE is going to want to do it that way.” Aw, snap. She told me!
*Break time is awkward! I can’t seem to smoothly get into a conversation with anybody except Dave. I alternate between hiding my face in the baby photos on the wall, and tentatively trying to open out my body language so as to welcome conversation. Nothing happens. First day of school sucks!
*The teacher, though, is great. More about her later.
*Towards the end of class, she leads us in a relaxation exercise and guided visualization. The thing is, as I’m one of the two farthest-along women in the class, getting into a comfortable position isn’t something that I can pull off very quickly. So by the time the relaxation part has started, I’m in this totally awkward whackjobber position that I just end up going with:
In the red circle it says, "My shoulder is above my ear."
I figure I’m going to miss the whole thing if I keep trying to get comfortable. The visualization part is great. I always thought the womb was this pitch-dark scene! Apparently not! Depending on how bright the room/the day is, there’s quite a rosy glow going on in there! Finn can see the shadow of our hands on my belly and whatnot! This detail makes me unaccountably delighted.
I’ll tell you about the second class later. The second class rocked it, and was also terrifying!
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I've had a hard time in my baby class with people, I think I'm the youngest one there now the obvious youngest "graduate" this week. Everyone else seems to be best friends already. Maybe I'm not making eye contact or something, I'm just so shy!
I had no idea that the baby could see our hand's shadow, thank you so much for posting that. I love it!
I've always noticed that when i got to a new class ! Even with yoga, where you'd expect everyone to be zen , there is always a lady ( it's often women i must admit..) who looks at you like you're going to be able to do the hand stand and she won't and you'll make her feel like crap. But I am always smiling and it's hard not to take it personally. But people are just like that aren't they ?
and by the way... i am the one who is really scared of the hand stand even after years and years of yoga. but i don't care that the others can do it well !
It's so cool to hear all this baby news and info.
When it;s my turn in a few years, I'll be all prepared thanks to the tina blog !
Hugs
Geez! It was like Clown Class, full of really unpleasant and judgemental clowns. What was WRONG with those people! I would LOVE to be in your class- we could whine and giggle together!
I really loved our prenatal class last time, and our teacher too. It was a fun weekly date for us. Good times. :)
Can't wait to hear more!
RIGHT!
Get her name - I'm on my way!!!!
I had a crap group in my Childbirth Class too. I had a complicated pregnancy and everyone was treating me like I had some communicable disease. Only one guy (that's right, one half of one couple) would speak to us. I didn't go to my last class because I couldn't deal with a roomful of grinning pregnant ladies assuring themselves that pregnancy was FANTASTIC and that everything about pregnancy was FANTASTIC and nothing about pregnancy was anything but FANTASTIC.
Ugh. I wanted to throw things at them.
We went to our first birth class last Monday, number two is tonight. We started right in on the videos. Saw four births. One right up close and personal that had me cringing. I know I did it before, but it is still really overwhelming and that bulge, that INSANE bulge--eesh, it gives me shivers right now.
There are four couples in our birth class. One is taking a different birth class on Sunday nights and was telling the instructor (and the rest of us) how toned her Kegel muscles were--but perhaps that wasn't as odd as our instructor's unusual explanation of Kegels...in that she told us that when doing the Kegel exercise, we should try to imagine picking up a penny and pulling it way up and then lowering it back out slowly. I couldn't figure out how you would pick it up...right this instant (after a week of strange contemplation) it occurs to me that perhaps the penny must start standing on its edge.
Can't wait to hear about the second class...
that woman is a stupid cunt wad. i want to smack her silly. obviously, she has serious issues if she is taking you saying you are having a home birth personally. i mean jesus. of course it's not for everybody. what a stupid thing to say. and of course you didn't mean that when you SAID it because anyone who has ever spent 2 seconds with you knows that you haven't a condescending of presumptive bone in your body, let alone your tone of voice. she's projecting all sorts of shit on you. probably because you are further along and have a large belly. there is a larger surface to project onto. well, she sucks and i hate to say this but i feel sorry for her poor baby. it would be nice if you found fun, cool people in the class to share with but the most important thing is you and dave and finn. so just focus on the teacher and do your own thing. having a baby is such a personal thing and then everybody has all of these really strong opinions about it. i think that's why there are all of these egos flashing around and feelings getting so hurt surrounding it. it's a crazy thing. i can't wait to hear about the next class. and the ICE!! oh my gosh. please wave a finn for me.
xo xo
Welcome to parenthood, unfortunately this gets carried right on into childrearing.....to breastfeed or not, immunize or not, co-sleep or not, pacifier or not, etc. etc. etc. etc.
We try to gather all the important information and make a decision. You must be a stupid and bad parent if you did not come up with the same conclusion as I did.
And the worst of it is that we women do it to each other! But that is a "whole nuther" class to take. My advice......follow your instincts, they are good!!!! and each child and set of parents are different, so what works for one child doesnt work for another. Gather your information, and listen to your instincts, not everyone elses! Even though we insist on giving you advice.
omg i'm reading this during a conf call and i snorted into the phone...the penny on its side, oh my.
tina, obviously the woman is jealous of you because you are cool and awesome, and also jealous of your groovy husband.
Yes, what La Ketch said.
Also, who knew about that rosy glow?!? What the heck? That sounds dreamy.
Ah, man, thanks for the support, everybody!
Things picked up dramatically at the next class, socially-wise. I'll go write about it now! But dang, you guys are great.
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Is this one of the ones the Republicans are fighting to maintain along with the other Bush tax cuts that run out?
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"Paul Morphy and the Evolution of Chess Theory"- discussion
I am starting this thread for a discussion of this book by Macon Shibut. Several people have indicated an
interest and have the book. My copy arrived today, and I will begin reading tonight.
-zoe-
15-May-09, 14:23
enjoy!
I don't have this book, but looking forward to read discussion.. and add a post or two
johnclark
15-May-09, 20:35
It's on the way.
I ordered a copy from Amazon.com a couple of days ago. Will let you know when arrives.
coopershawk
15-May-09, 23:31
Zoe
Since you don't have the book, I will try to identify the game that we are discussing as we go along, so you
and others without the book can follow any discussion about the games and participate.
The first game is:
Morphy v de Riviere Paris 1863
Game #361 in this collection that can be played on line.
and the first of at least two Morphy v de Riviere 1863 games in the downloadable png collection at the
bottom of the page in this link.
Unfortunately there is no easy way to go to the correct game in either collection.
This is identifiable by the last move -- 64.c8
ironbutterfly
16-May-09, 09:32
Reading and studying "PM and the Evolution of CT"
My strong preference is to work through the book systematically from the beginning.
That would mean focusing our first discussion on the "Introduction" (pp.3-4) and the first chapter of "Part I: Analysis," which is "Paul Morphy and the Play of Our Time." (7-33).
As James states above, the first game considered - and extensively analyzed - (9-15) is "Morphy-de Riviere." The second is "M-Lowenthal" [London, 1859], (16-25), and the third is "Lichtenhein-M" [New York 1857] (27-29). There follows a 5-pp supplement with commentaries and games of other players.
So I'm suggesting we all read pp. 3-15, and discuss the ideas/concepts there and then
the game analysis of M-dR. What do you all think of this general plan? Are there other
suggestions for how to proceed?
coopershawk
16-May-09, 15:57
A Plan
Clark, That plan works for me.
I think we should go slow for another day or two until some people who have ordered the book receive it.
But I don't see any reason not be begin now. I will post something late tomorrow.
johnclark
16-May-09, 20:24
PM and the Evolution of Chess Theory- Shibut
Ironbutterfly's plan works for me. We may need to change some things as we go, but it seems very doable.
I received my copy for Amazon.com today. I think I placed the order 3-4 days ago, no sales tax and no shipping costs. My copy is new and the total charge was $12.12. And I thought McDonalds was the one with deals. Listed price on the book is $16.95. I think someone cut a deal.
I'm not sure how we are going to approach the actual discussion of pp 3-15, but I guess our style will evolve through the chapters.
First of all, I am not a fan of Shibut's writing. Of course, I'm not a fan of Fenimore Coopers ("Last of the Mohicans"), either. Fo me, I have difficulty grasping what he's saying on first read and inevitably I comment, "what in the hell is saying." And I end up having to re-reading his paragraphs. The other criticism I have, and maybe you folks do too, is his use of abreviated notations. That drives me crazy. I like to see the little "x" for captures and the "+" for check. Anyway, I'll have to work through those issues.
I wouldn't say that Shibut's intent is to bash Paul Morphy, but it is quite evident he wants to "clear up" some Morphy myths and correct the reader's perspective. Anyway that's my take on the intro.
I played through Morphy v de Riviere, Paris 1863. Here's a link to the game
It makes it a lot easier than manually making the moves, especially with his abbreviated notations
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I don't think anyone would have a problem with the statement that this game is clearly not a "best" for either player. I assume that it was not a blitz type game and the clock was not a factor. The game occurred during the Civil War, and to what extent that Paul's interest in the game was wanning, I don't know. But I don't think we can expect a masterpiece each time the master goes to his canvas or picks up his pen. I'm looking to see further arguements by Shibut on this.
On the game, itself, I was distracted by the Morphy "reknown" and was doing exactly what Shibut warned not to do. It will take a while for me to separate the "man form the position". But I did find something interesting- On 55. Qf7+ , would not 55.Qh7+ have netted de Riviere's bishop h1 for Morphy??
Anyway, these are my initial reactions. There is no way I'm going to talk this lengthy on next posts. Looking forward to see what others have to say.
jc
coopershawk
17-May-09, 23:03
9. h3
This move interested me so I spent a fair amount of time with it and Shibut's variations on 9.
I usually think of this as a wasted move and don't do it because it weakens the pawns in front of the location where I am likely to castle. But as Shibut says, it seems to work in this game, and it demonstrates that we can't play chess successfully by blindly following a set of theoretical tips. One of the great things about the game is the constantly shifting blend between tactical and strategic considerations.
I played through the whole game once quickly, and now I am studying it more carefully.
JohnClark, I think the move you are referring to is 56. Qf7+ not 55.
56.Qh7+ would win the Bishop, but it loses the pawn on g3 with check. Morphy might have considered that pawn and the tempo more important than the bishop in this circumstance. My guess is that Morphy liked his chances to win better by not giving up the initiative. I will look at it more closely when I get that far in the game.
And yes, the highly abbreviated notation is more difficult than it needs to be.
OFF TOPIC:
John, have you read Mark Twain's essay criticizing Cooper? It is incredibly funny.
johnclark
18-May-09, 14:38
56.Qf7+
It's probably true about keeping the initiative that PM opted for, but he takes a check with 58...Qe1+ *. I more inclined to think PM want to push his g pawn. Here's a probable position had PM opted for de Riviere's bishop:
56.Qh7+ Ka6 57.Qxh1 Qxb3+ 58.Kg4
I would have been very tempted to snatch balck's bishop.
coopershawk
18-May-09, 20:57
Through 26. Ng1
Worked through Through 26. Ng1 tonight. A few comments.
There were a couple of moves by Morphy that left me puzzled until later when a purpose became apparent. For example:
10. Nde2
I was thinking 10.Nf3. But then after seeing his move, I understood that Morphy did not want to block the advance of the f pawn on his next move. 11.f4.
21.Nge2
This move was very counterintuitive for me. I wanted to bring more pieces closer to the King for his defense, instead of moving pieces away, and exposing him to an attack that appeared to be imminent. Then later I saw that because of 21. Nge2, white was able to play 24. g3 and drive the black Queen all the way back to her first rank, taking much of the steam out of Black's attack.
Be sure to go over Shibut's analysis of move 26 and the tactical manuever available if White moves 26.Nd5 and Black tries to take the pawn with Rxe6.
As I read the notes, it occurs to me that Shibut is primarily critical of the prior analysis of Soltis and the venerable Reinfeld. So far, more often than not, Shibut is defending Murphy against critical comments made in their prior analysis.
ironbutterfly
19-May-09, 11:54
Macon Shibut (whoever he is) and PM
Well, I just finished working through the first 16 pages of Shibut's book, inc. the M-dR game.
Here are some of my thoughts:
1. I never heard of Shibut before getting this book. Normally a chess writer's ranking and exploits are trumpeted in his book, but not here. So I googled him, and here's some of what I found - a NM (National Master), which means that he acheived the USCF rating of 2200, even if he later fell below it. Good for a chess player, only ok for a chess writer. He is also 2-time VA state champion and since '91 the editor of the VA Chess Newsletter. (A friend of mine who is a GM told me once - for whatever it's worth -never to bother reading the analyses of anyone below GM.)
2. Like jc, I have trouble with his style. I'm not bothered by his leaving out the x for capture, it's the fact his language and style seems antiquated. I would have guessed the book was written 75 years ago, not 15+. Definitely not smooth and easy to read, at least for me. [As an aside, Cooper's style is heavy and ponderous too, but he wrote almost 200 years ago. Twain's essay on Cooper's Literary Offences [thanks for bringing that up, cj!!] is the funniest and one of the most brilliant literary criticisms I've ever read - it's one I still read occasionally and chuckle over - but he basically misses the point: Twain is a realist analyzing a romanticist; Cooper isn't at all interested in the factual kind of truth Twain is, but what he sees as a much deeper spiritual truth. But that's probably more fit for another thread...
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3. Interesting discussion between jc and cj about taking/not taking the B. I would probably take it myself, but am not at all sure it's the best move, since it gives the opposing Q so much room, and possiblities for perpetual, etc. I also agree with you, james, about PM's h3 causing me to think a long time about how that strengthens or weakens the position. I probably do it too often, according to master play.
4. As usual, Alekhine's comments are spot on. I particularly like "he clearly pictured to himself in each separate instance just what the given position required..." That's a concept I've been trying to understand for years, and don't really yet.
coopershawk
19-May-09, 20:21
Finished game. Read to p.16 comments
I enjoyed the game and annotation. I don't have a complaint about Shibut's use of language- just a difference of perspective I guess.
Couple of comments as a result of Chess Master 9000's analysis.
a. CM has black leading by small fractions of a pawn until 46.Bh1. At that point it gives white an advantage and that advantage is steadily increased through the rest of the game.
b. CM likes Black's moves at 40 and 41. Shibut gives both moves question marks.
c. CM agrees with Shibut's criticism of PM's move 26.Ng1.
To my mind, this was a good complex game in which PM took advantage of small positional errors by black.
Those errors cummulatively led to a win in the end game.
Ironbutterfly, Your GM friend is speaking from the perspective of a player much better than us. IMO Woodpushers like all of us here can learn a lot from an NM commenting on a Morphy game. Fred Reinfeld, who taught a generation of club players was not a GM, and neither is Silman, who I think of as Reinfeld's contemporary counterpart, but both are good teachers. I would not say Mr. Shibut is comparable to either Reinfeld or Silman as a teacher, but that is not really the avowed purpose of his book, so I am not critical of him on that basis.
On the subject of move 56-- after playing through the game more carefully, I think it likely that Morphy did not overlook the opportunity to capture the Bishop. I suspect that he decided on the spot that he was going to be able to queen the g pawn and didn't need to waste time taking the Bishop on h1.
It's interesting that in this game black's light square bishop had control of the long diagonal, a theoretically excellent strategic position; but the bishop was ultimately irrelevant to the outcome. In my experience there is a big difference between a bishop on h1 or a8 and a bishop on g2 or b7. The reduced mobility of the bishop on h1 or a8 looks like a small thing, but in practice it seems to make a big difference. The same is true for dark squared bishop on the other diagonal of course. Comments?
coopershawk
22-May-09, 20:24
pp. 16-19
Played through the Lowenthal game to the end, and then spent additional times with moves 1 through 16. I like to play the Evans Gambit occasionally, and I need work on my end game. So this is a good game for me to study.
Shibut questions Morphy's moves 10 and 13. Chessmaster likes Shibut's choices better, but only by a very small margin, so small that the margin might go away or be reversed if I let the computer think about it longer. In any event this is another complex game that I am enjoying.
johnclark
23-May-09, 19:53
Been tied up
I haven't forgotten the thread. Will play through the second game and get a comment in.
coopershawk
23-May-09, 21:08
pp 19-23
Moves 16 to 32.
To me the tactical sophistication of these players is awesome. I get a different insight into
the depth of their understanding when playing through the game on the computer program such as
Chessmaster. Sometimes after CM thinks about a move for 60 seconds and it evaluates a move not played
by Morphy or Lowenthal as then best by some small factor: BUT if you let the computer program continue
to run for another 15 minutes, or maybe even an hour, CM may switch its evaluation and prefer the move
actually played by Morphy or Lowenthal.
Some of the middle game moves either make or defend threats that I would never see, so the motive for
the move is hard to understand. That makes it a difficult game to analyze, even with help from CM and
Shibut's variations.
coopershawk
23-May-09, 21:10
John and others
Take your time. There is no point in speeding through this material, and I am planning to go through it
slowly.
johnclark
03-Aug-09, 22:22
cascadejames is back!
It's time to pick up game #2.
I just noticed that Shibut does not include the famous "Queen Sacrifice game (Paulsen v Morphy, November 3, 1857, game 6, First American Chess Congress, New York City).
coopershawk
04-Aug-09, 21:29
pp 23-33
Enjoyed this material. Especially the annotation by Reti and the author's comments. I don't
have much to add to it. Went lightly through 31-33, since they are non-Morphy games. I will
take the author's point that there were other good chess players with similar ideas. Ready to
begin Anderssen-Morphy Paris 1858 p.34 next.
johnclark
04-Aug-09, 23:02
Can we go back to Lichtenhein-Morphy, NYC 1857?
Asking your indulgence, I would like to take a look at pp. 26-30. On a side note, I think this game was played at the First American Chess Congress, NYC 1857. Personally, I think the Congress was pivotal for Morphy's ascending onto the international stage. Granted, he was the favorite coming into the tournament. But his winning the tourney cast aside any doubts that he was other than a world class player. Secondly, and much more to our initial interest, pp. 26-30 sumarize Richard Reti's views on Morphy's reknowned development of his pieces with some critical comments by the author.
So I was wondering if we could take a look at the game, Shibut's summary of Reti's insights and Shibut's commentary? We might want to tackle "Reti's Logic Applied to Another Game", pp. 30-33.
I'll post my reation in a day or so.
Thanks,
jc
coopershawk
05-Aug-09, 08:58
John
Sure I am in no hurry.
johnclark
07-Aug-09, 00:43
pp 26-30
I found pages 26-30 intriguing for both the content and his thesis. As you know, these pages, and the ones that follow deal with tempo. Shibut calls to the readers attention via Richard Reti's words Morphy's superiority over his contemporaries in his undertanding of "open positions" and the need for developing pieces without delay. Shibut uses Reti's example of The Evan's Gambit to illustrate the differences in "pre-Morphy" development and Morphy's development, which we now see as natural (p26). I thought the illustration was very clear and pertinent.
Shibut then examines Lichtenhein v Morphy, New York 1857 (I think this was an actual tournament game at the First American Chess Congress as Morphy did meet Lichtenhein in the third section of the tournament) and discusses it in the perspective of development and tempo. I thought the discussion was well done. It includes a superior line to the Two Knights Defense/Max Lange Attack now found in the Scotch Gambit variation of the opening (p.27; white's 5th move). In the analysis, Shibult points out several times how Morphy never lost tempo in the development of his pieces where Lichtenhein did several times.
Now all this is good and well. And then Shibult drops his thesis gavel pronouncing that development was very well known prior to Morphy and Morphy's acclaim to development and the use of tempo is a "sort of blind idealism" that the next two chapters will attempt to set aside AND will reexamin Morphy's chess vis-a-vis that of Adolph Anderssen and Wilhelm Steinitz! That's when I practically fell out of my chair.
Our author is attempting to correct the Morphy idealism on the backs of Anderssen who lost 8-3 in 1858 to Morphy and Steinitz who never played Morphy, but barely beat Anderssen in 1866. So you can see my skepticism and what I will be watchful for.
On content
-"Rapid development in the open game". I never quite undestood open v closed games.
is an excellent article on the two. Rule of thumb, open games/positions are usually 1.e4 e5 openings whose lines do not obstruct bishops. Queens pawns openings that obstruct bishop movement fall into the closed category. Now I get it.
-Just because a line of play has an established name, does not mean it's the better play. 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 exd4 4.Bc4 Nf6 5.e5 loses to 5.0-0! Excellent little paragraph.
-The analysis on tempo through the first 14 moves of the game is very good.
Well, these are my thoughts on these pages. What do you guys think? Am I totally off? Will go forward with Reti's Logic Applied to Another Game and the Anderssen and Pre-Morphy Chess.
ironbutterfly
08-Aug-09, 12:29
Shibut's book: pp. 23-33
First, I'd like to elaborate on what jc suggests in his comments above. On p. 26 Shibut says:
"our modern understanding of Morphy's style derives from what Reti wrote in Modern Ideas in Chess and Masters of the Chessboard." I haven't found my copy of MIC, but Reti spends 20 pp. in MotC arguing the point about M being "the first great player to understand the nature and characteristics of the open positions and to elaborate adequate principles for their treatment." (27) Reti analyzes six of M's game in some detail to illustrate these points. Shibut's conclusion is that: "Reti decided that Morphy's 'secret' lay in a breakthrough appreciation for rapid development in the open game."
Second, don't miss the fact (I did the first time around) that the material on the Lichenhein-Morphy game [NY, 1857] on pp. 27-29 is RETI's analysis, not Shibut's! Though Shibut does, inexplicably add "in pace" to the next to last paragraph on p. 27, and omits a couple of capture signs.
Third, it seems to me that Shibut is guilty of just what he accuses Reti of - generalizing.
Like jc, I am skeptical of some of Shibut's judgmental conclusions: he doesn't convince me that Reti and Saidy and Heisman are mistaken in their "blind idealism" in suggesting that PM advanced and focused principles of developing open positions, for example.
What more are you guys thinking about this section?
coopershawk
08-Aug-09, 22:59
??
I am not so interested in focusing on the book's author, but in any event, I have to drop off
again here because of issues at work.
johnclark
11-Aug-09, 08:40
Bummer!
Sorry to see you go, cascadejames. You bring a lot of energy to the club. I'll plug on through the Supplement to Chapt 1 and the Anderssen chapter. Hope you return soon.
Ironbutterfly: Good point on the Reti analysis! I missed it! Had it been set aside in quotation marks, I might have picked it up. And then again, I may have still needed a slap or two to see it
)
coopershawk
28-Nov-09, 23:05
Anderssen-Morphy Paris 1858 10th Match Game
pp 41-52
A marathon win for Anderssen, 77 moves. Part of a match. Material was nominally even at the
end of the game, but Morphy resigns after a pawn promotion for Anderssen becomes
inevitable. Fascinating game, Anderssen opens with 1. a3 and plays the game as a reverse
Sicilian. Anderssen controls the center and the game is initially very clogged up. Morphy never
seems to have enough space to operate, even into the end game.
coopershawk
29-Nov-09, 20:27
Morphy-Anderssen Paris 1858 informal game
pp 61-63
Kings Gambit in which black (Anderssen) attempts to defend his extra pawn on f4, and gets
beatrn badly by Morphy in 19 moves. Interesting notes from Shibut, and a reference to a 1961
Bobby Fisher article titled "A bust of the King's Gambit." Both are very different games than
our consultation game with the same opening, but they both shed some light.
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Pyros should never, ever, EVER, upgrade damage on their Flamethrower. The reason Pyros are useful in MvM is due to their ability to airblast and either reset or stall the bomb – therefore, they should be adding airblast force/resistances/uber canteens/speed to help them survive as long as possible. If you upgrade everything the right way, you’ll have no excess money for +damage on your flamethrower.
Like my friends and I say, a Pyro can easily decide the outcome of a mission, and unlike some other classes, there really is no wiggle room in what a Pyro should be doing.
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The biggest disappointment I found when I opened up MW3 and popped in the disc, was its immediate similarity to MW2, the previous title in the Modern Warfare Series. The game runs on the EXACT SAME engine, with no improvements graphically or mechanically. With this said, the game quickly received criticism, being referred to as “MW2.5”, or “the new MW2 map pack.” While those statements are a bit harsh, the game doesn’t do much to defend itself from the attacks. Like Modern Warfare 2, you will load up a menu with 3 options: Special Ops, Campaign, and Multiplayer.
Upon starting the campaign, you will be given a very brief relapse of what happened in the previous two games (it won’t really bring you up to speed if you haven’t played them), and you are systematically thrown back into the fight, as a U.S operative named Frost. MW3’s campaign, as you might have guessed, is a direct continuation from MW2’s plot. In this installment, Makarov, the trilogy’s main antagonist, has single-handedly started WW3. You will not be playing as Frost for much of the game, as you will be bouncing back and forth between U.S, Europe, and even Africa, as different characters. With that said, you will also find out the fate of Captain Price and Soap, now wanted men thanks to the events of Modern Warfare 2.
The campaign is an explosive, fast-paced adventure that you should be familiar with if you’ve been following the series. I have found that the plot is just as satisfying as previous titles, and the ending is a good close to an exciting trilogy. While it doesn’t stack up to other stories from games I’ve experienced this year, the campaign is what I consider the best part of the MW3. The rest? Not so much.
Special Ops is the only part of the game that I saw any real improvement. Special Ops features a brand new mode this time around, called Survival, which is more or less a MW replacement of Nazi Zombies. You start off with a pistol, and must survive the onslaught of endless waves of enemies, by getting money from the kills and purchasing better equipment to defend yourself. Survival mode is fairly entertaining, and you can even grab a friend to join in too. I’m not the biggest fan of endless waves, but I can definitely see that with the right type of person this mode will satisfy for hours upon end. Both Survival and the familiar mission mode of Special Ops have a global leaderboard now, that compares your scores in these modes with everyone that plays Modern Warfare 3. You can also Find Matches with other players, simply by hitting the “Find Match” button, similar to the multiplayer.
Speaking of multiplayer, I hope you brought your camping gear, because MW3 offers some of the best campgrounds ever seen in the series. Seriously speaking, MW3’s multiplayer did a lot of things to fix the problems of MW2, but in the process created even more. A lot of the problem with MW2 was that the perks were very unbalanced, thus giving people extreme and cheap advantages if they make the right classes. Noob tubing, quick scoping, and scary fast commando pro players started running the scene, and it made the experience daunting, if not frustrating. MW3 killed two of those three birds, but let out an entire cage of pigeons in the process.
The number 1 problem I had with the multiplayer was the quickness of death. I have NEVER experienced a multiplayer where you die so fast, and this alone creates a plethora of problems. Because you die so fast, you can almost never escape a situation if someone has you in their sights. Why is this a problem? Because people, being normal human beings, are quite prone to finding the easiest ways to go about things. Quickness of death makes it easy to camp in a corner and wait for someone to run in your sights, because they really can’t do anything about it.
This ruins the experience for those who are trying to play the game like it’s supposed to be played. They added Support/Assault classes for a reason, to allow players to have an option to support their team instead of just mindless killing. But how can they go about this when they have to watch every single corner for an asshole who can’t just play the game like normal? Truth is, they can’t.
Another problem is the very poor collection of maps. These maps are by far the worst batch of recycled buildings ever put out by the series, because there are way too many openings and paths that people can take. Why is that bad? Because of what I stated earlier. Too many entry ways lead to less tactics and more hoping and praying, as well as camping.
Of course, it’s not just the many pathways, and illegitimate structure. The respawns certainly do not help at all. Now I haven’t played all the modes, but I think I’ve played enough of them to get the jist of the terrible respawn system. Like previous COD games, they never quite get a good respawn system, that spawns you in substantial and plausible locations that aren’t too far or too close to the enemy. However, this multiplayer seems to go a step backwards, as Black Ops was definitely a bit more fair. I can’t tell you the number of times I killed a guy, and then 10 seconds later, the same guy comes from behind me and kills me. It’s just awful, and makes me rethink playing the game.
Of course, a Call of Duty multiplayer can’t be a multiplayer without the insane amount of replay value. While I extremely dislike the multiplayer, I still for some reason, found myself playing it. I couldn’t play it for more than a half hour at a time, but the addictiveness remains. MW3 has probably the longest road to capping out your level, offering 80 levels of experience, and then 15 prestieges to climb. I find this amount of leveling to be ridiculous and unnecessary, especially considering the series busts out a new game every year. Activision even announced the next Call of Duty game one day after MW3 was released. That’s real incentive to play your multiplayer brah.
Many people were hoping that Modern Warfare 3 would be the game to revitalize the series as a whole, after the mediocrity of Black Ops and Modern Warfare 2. If you ask me, I think that this game puts the series in even worse of a position than before. We are only 5 days past the release of the game, and it already feels unbalanced. And let’s face it. The multiplayer is what the reputation of Call of Duty is based upon. When people think Call of Duty, they think of it’s multiplayer.
Despite all these things worth mentioning, Call of Duty was a financial success. It set a record for most sales in the first 24 hours, beating the previous record holder MW2 (no surprise), by 1.8 million sales. Is this enough to call it a great game? No, not in the slightest.
Call of Duty has an enormous fanbase, and their devotion resembles that of a cult. No matter how often they are pouring out $60 for a new Call of Duty game, they’ll do it almost out of a need to keep up with the series. To put it blatantly honest, the game is just a shadow compared to the many titles that have come out this year (Battlefield 3 and Modern Warfare 3 are two different styles, so I do not compare them).
If you are any type of Call of Duty player, and are reading this review, you most likely already have the game, and are simply reading to reassure yourself. However, I will not be reassuring; the game is not worth the $60 price tag. I split the purchase with my brother, and still feel pretty ripped off. Call of Duty remains a party game at best, or for those who have a plethora of online friends that enjoy mediocrity. If you are thinking of picking this game up, I suggest you look towards the better games of this year, as they will give you a better experience than a game that is forced to duplicate itself every year without the slightest thought of innovation.
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It’s a very long essay and shouldn’t be spoiled by using many excerpts. Besides, if you don’t read the whole thing, you miss the connections he makes to a more palatable future. In order to understand those connections you need to see his take on a previous grab for power by the elites.
In the course of arriving at his optimistic prediction, he shares some gob-smackingly amazing
For example, we have this to ponder, as Whiskey describes the mindset of the trans-national elites:
This model, that of a trans-national elite, taking steps to control the US Presidential election, does seem to describe what Obama’s campaign really is. There are other data points. San Francisco columnist Mark Morford describes Obama as a “Lightworker”, a near-parody of the WB series “Charmed” “White Lighter” characters..
Yep, these folks really believe that Philosopher-King Obama is going to help us to evolve into more soulful beings. I can’t wait.
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Whiskey compares the rise of Obama-ist transnational elites to the rise of monarchies and the consequent taking by force the wealth of which monasteries were the repositories:
The Kings of Medieval Europe could not match the production of wealth that the Catholic Church’s Monasteries produced. The Kings could not produce the large amounts of educated, loyal to Rome, and absolutely required functionaries that the Church alone provided. But the Kings could create alliances to seize said Monasteries and distribute the wealth among themselves and barons, such as Henry the VIII. Or found universities such as Oxford, Cambridge, and the University of Paris, to create their own, loyal, literate functionaries. Because while the Monasteries were a huge source of wealth, they could not be defended. Defending the wealth required men under arms, something the Church was never able to produce.
So, Whiskey says, did Obama perform likewise, in creating alliances to gain power, though he sees a problem arising in O’s bypass of the large populist group in America:
In the same manner, the “Obama Model” of media in the tank, illegal foreign money (not reported by said in the tank media), voter fraud, and thug tactics has a weakness.
By moving entirely outside the media, through building grass-roots organizations, populists can control their message and use it create wedge politics, particularly through using nationalism and populism. This would include such things as various social events, private insurance, entertainment events, and so on. Particularly as the global economic crisis makes the ability of trans-national elites to provide welfare payoffs to broad slices of the electorate very questionable…
I don’t want to give away the rest of his argument. Go read it for yourselves and make your own judgment in the matter. I will leave you with this quote, though it is not his last word on the subject:
…It is a simple matter to show the intimidation and thugocracy of minority-oriented governments, be it an Obama thugocracy, or that of a Sarkozy, or Gordon Brown Sharia-compliant regime, and make the case that the majority, made second-class citizens or worse in their own nation, have no other alternative but the populists…
I prefer the term “Culturism” myself. As the author of the text on it says:
The words “multiculturalism” and “racism” undermine important policy discussions. “Culturism” can start them again.
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" These kinds of people actually help us evolve. They are philosophers and peacemakers of a very high order, and they speak not just to reason or emotion, but to the soul."
I hate to blow my own blogs horn but! I had an experience recently with a couple of Obamatons that relates to this quote. The post is called "youre life will personally change". Scary,creepy stuff.
Thank you so much, Dymphna.
I want to take time to express my gratitude for this site, it's European emphasis (I love Europe, Europeans, and do not wish them or their fine cultures to vanish).
You have endured much abuse (I too btw have been banned from LGF for expressing my sentiments as outlined in the post). All of it undeserved.
Gates of Vienna is my first read in the morning, I find the content here simply priceless -- commentary from informed people like yourself, the Baron, El Ingles, and of course, Fjordman, that I see nowhere else.
I would point out that Ace of Spades is already calling for a reform of the Republican Party by grass-roots organizations, finding and putting up candidates, who are Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan, and taking a populist bent.
Thank you so much for the link.
whiskey --
I was about to point people to the link to Ace on our blogroll to follow up on your news re his effots..only to find he isn't there. Odd, since I read him fairly often.
Here's the general link to Ace's site. He will probably be putting more information out about this project, so I won't link to a specific post.
Get Out the Vote
Ace is doing something. Right now it's an attempt to match up resources. He says, in the current top post:
State where you are, where you can go, and if you're offering or seeking transpo or lodging.
No digressions. Don't make a maniac out of me. Do digressions, tips, and chitty-chat in an open thread post I'll start now. Keep this clean of static. Just to match willing canvassers and phone-bankers with rides and beds.
An excellent idea. So why isn't the RNC doing something on a wide scale like this?
No, never mind. It doesn't matter anymore. The Aces will have to rebuild from scratch so I'm glad they're willing to do this now.
Later they will have the creds and moral muscle to rally others.
Let's face it: the GOP needs rebuilding from the trunk back to the tail. It is going to take people like Ace to get the energy flowing, never mind the logistics.
That is, if the Fairness Doctrine doesn't close him down before oh, say, 2010 or therabouts. If the Dems make their move on this, it will be in time to snuff the next round of campaigning two years from now.
Meanwhile, for our American readers, go over and see if there is any way for you to participate in this effort.
Great essay.
...finding and putting up candidates, who are Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan...
More importantly, these guys will have combat experience, which I suspect will prove useful in the coming crises.
Whiskey Gives Us Hope
Whishkey always gives me hope! [hic!]
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I don't know what else to call them...the analogy is apt in my mind.
They are the intellectual construct by which I deal with the barrage of bad news from Baghdad. They work for me...I'm not sure how others do it...and I'll be honest: in the end, my fences are very, very selfish.
The fences come into play when I hear or read a news report that says "another soldier killed today".
I listen carefully. If the report says the tragedy took place in somewhere other than Baghdad...I am relieved...and all my fences are intact.
But if that report is from Baghdad...the bad news just breached the first of my fences.
And so I listen some more...I search the internet. I look for any clue. Sometimes the report will indicate the Soldier belonged to the 4th ID or the 82d Airborne. If so...my second fence remains solid.
But if the report says 1st Armored Division...my second fence has been breached, my fences...my defenses...are weakening.
I have other fences. Unlike most, I have the "female soldier" fence. I've noticed the press is likely to make special note if a casualty is female...or perhaps the story will refer to the soldier as "he".
If I can be reasonably sure it isn't a woman, the third fence has protected me.
Inside the 1st Armored Division I have the 1st Brigade, 2d Brigade and 3d Brigade fences. Inside the 1st Brigade I have five battalion fences.
Not quite as useful, but handy occasionally, are the Officer/NCO/Enlisted fence, the Quartermaster versus Infantry fence and the east-or-west-of-the-Tigris fence.
But the ugly little secret that we don't really talk about is that in the end, I have about 120,000 fences...in the end the fences are about protecting my Soldier.
I don't want any Soldier to die. But there are varying degrees of that - and they work in the inverse sequence of the fences.
First and foremost I'm concerned for my wife. Next, is for her soldiers...because she really is the sweetest woman on the planet I know how devastating it would be for her to lose one of hers. Beyond that, I pray for the 1st Brigade...because somehow I believe that every time that 1st Brigade fence is breached, it becomes just a bit weaker and doesn't protect quite as well.
These are my fences...I don't have to ensure they are rational.
I don't really like to look at my fences too closely. I like to pretend they are real and solid and offer true protection. But some days when I'm weak, if I look at them carefully, my fences look like the slot dividers on a huge roulette wheel. There may be thousands of slots on that wheel...but if they spin that little white ball it must come to rest somewhere.
I wonder sometimes about those who don't need fences...because they have no personal stake in this war. And I wonder how that feels.
I can't remember how that feels.
I was a child during the Vietnam era. As I learned to pray in the Southern Baptist church I learned that every prayer must include the phrase "and Lord, please bless our Soldiers in Vietnam". I suppose I had no personal stake in that one -although I was very aware when my big brother got his draft number - and it wasn't a particularly good one. But the example set in my church led me to feel as if I had a duty to pray for those Soldiers...as if somehow God had a huge scale and the weight of the prayers had to tip the balance in the Soldiers favor.
On the eve of Desert Storm I took my little brother to the airport. Ostensibly he was heading for a new unit in Germany but we had it figured out...soon after his arrival in Germany that unit would be shipping out for Iraq by way of Kuwait in a serious shooting war. I fought that war at "maximum standoff range". I was in Atlanta. He has sand in his boots, a Bronze Star medal on the wall, and demons that sometimes still call in the night.
I learned a couple of days ago that my neighbor, the guy whose front door is ten feet from my own, the guy with whom I had a beer and barbecue only a few weeks ago - he was wounded on Friday. He's been medivaced from Iraq to Germany and they are talking about flying him to the US. He has severe burns and needs skin grafts.
And my wife is in Baghdad. And many of my friends.
A dear friend of mine whose husband just concluded his R&R leave told me that while preparing breakfast this weekend she popped the seal on a can of Poppin' Fresh biscuits. He flinched. As she told the story I got the feeling that the flinch was almost more disturbing than if he had reacted in a greater way. As if all the evil and heartache and fear symbolized by a sudden, quick sharp noise has insidiously taken up an unshakable residence deep inside his soul.
So I don't know - indeed I'm not sure I ever knew how it feels not to have a personal stake in a very dangerous endeavor.
Without that stake, is all this just something happening "over there"? If one has no personal stake...is that what allows some politicians to use this all as their political football, posturing for the pithy sound bites and the provocative headlines...and votes.
I don't know. I don't know how it feels. Perhaps it is an exhilaration that one needs no fences of one's own. Or perhaps it feels like liberty...the sweetness of which can only be tasted in its absence.
Or is it sweet? I don't know.
History is being made and we are on the right side of it. Of that I am not in doubt. And I have a personal stake in that. Virtually everyone of us living here in Giessen and Friedberg, in too small apartments shopping at too small commissaries and tiny little PXs...getting together for frank discussions of our fears over lunch...opening our hearts to our neighbors to fullfill the palpable need for human contact and understanding...virtually everyone of us has a personal stake in the liberty of 25 million Iraqis...and possibly the peaceful future of the world's most troublesome region.
I have a stake. I own a piece of that. And I am proud that I do. I am proud of my wife for her sense of duty to her country and to her Soldiers. I don't mean some jingoistic sort of arrogance sort of proud. I mean being a part of something that is greater than one's self. I mean having a speaking part in a role that is noble.
And I wonder what it feels like to have never held the fickle hand of a noble calling. Do the concepts of duty, honor and sacrifice hold any meaning for those? I don't know. Does knowing that one will bear no cost balance with one's lack of investment?
For I don't know...until the bill is delivered... the price that will be required of me for my personal stake in history. None of the stakeholders do.
And so I build my fences. I build as many as I can...as strong as I can. I bolster them with prayers and scripture and bravado and probability and sometimes too many glasses of wine.
I vent my anger to strangers on the Internet and my hopes to that tiny inner circle of the truest of friends.
I build my fences and polish them with optimism. I hiss loudly at tresspassers who would cheapen the value of my investment. Stay away from my stake! Don't stain it with your fingerprints...I don't know what it cost me yet!
My fences keep me sane.
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Scandal alert: Barack Obama has been complicit with rappers since at least 2006! He has collaborated with their nefarious aims! It's all there in a sordid report from Human Events, which lays bare the undeniable ties between Obama and individuals who have released albums containing rap music at one time or another. He hasn't rebuked them or repudiated them or even renounced them! Not even "foul-mouthed rappers" like Will.I.Am! Not even when, throughout the rap industry, "folks talk so openly and regularly about b———, n——— and hoes"! Yo Evan Gahr of Human Events, can you please drop some knowledge on these muhfuckas?, 'ight let a n—— rock. Cause we 'bout to eat real s—-, not s—- slop."
Further research indicated that those weren't even in proper sonnet form! And that Q-tip is black!
Obama thus far has equivocated on rappers. He has criticized their language, but adamantly refused to denounce the whole sordid genre as the unique cultural problem that it is.
He refused to denounce De La Soul's 3 Feet High And Rising even after it was pointed out that one of the group's members has been photographed in baggy jeans!.
All confirmed rappers. Except Russell Simmons. Coincidence?———?"
Ludacris and Obama both like b———!
Evan Gahr, shut your bitch ass up, hoe bag!
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Remember Susan Burns, the woman "from the American CIA" who in April tried to beat up a Gauguin hung at the National Gallery of Art? Well, she got back inside the gallery somehow, and this time allegedly went nuts on a Matisse.
Court documents posted by The Smoking Gun say that on August 5, Burns walked up to "The Plumed Hat," then "grabbed both sides of the frame holding said painting and slammed the painting against the wall three times, damaging the antique original frame of the painting valued in excess of $250." The painting itself is worth $2.5 million— a lot less than "Two Tahitian Women," the $80 million Gauguin that Burns tried to destroy earlier this year. At least she's becoming price-conscious.
You might not be surprised to learn that in the wake of Burns' first art attack, she wasn't supposed to be in the museum. She even signed paperwork barring her from the gallery and grounds. Because she allegedly violated her agreement with the government, she's being charged with unlawful entry and contempt of court, in addition to felony destruction of government property. She's also supposed to be transferred to St. Elizabeth's hospital to be "monitored closely."
Given that the Gauguin depicts two women standing around with their boobs hanging out, it almost sort of makes sense that Burns would regard such artwork as "evil" and "homosexual" and want to destroy it. But there's nothing overtly homosexual or naked about the Matisse—it's just a portrait of some chick in a hat. Maybe Burns harbors prejudice against the French? She probably still uses "Freedom Fries."
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Bad news for West Coast junkies (is there really any other kind of news for junkies?): Two cases of suspected botulism in Seattle have been blamed on tainted black tar heroin, in addition to four recently in Texas, according to the Los Angeles Times. It's especially bad because the only real way to find out your stash is tainted is to contract botulism!
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According to the National Center for Biotechnology Information, symptoms of botulism include "Breathing difficulty that may lead to respiratory failure, difficulty swallowing and speaking, double vision, nausea, vomiting, weakness with paralysis (equal on both sides of the body)" and more. Add those to the general shittiness that comes with being a junkie and, well, the heroin scene just got a lot worse.
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Actor and profesional crazy person Charlie Sheen recently hosted the opening of his new bar in the El Ganzo hotel in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. The mayor of Los Angeles, Antonio Villaraigosa, was on hand to watch Slash perform. What a party!
Too bad Sheen ruined the night with a homophobic slur.
When greeting the crowd, Sheen asked, "How we doing?...Lying bunch of faggot assholes, how we doing?"
Sheen quickly gave a two bullet-pointed apology to TMZ:
1. "I meant no ill will and intended to hurt no one and I apologize if I offended anyone."
2. "I meant to say maggot but I have a lisp."
A lisp you say, dear Charlie? Well let's take a look at some quotes from Sheen's 2011 public meltdown and see if he really can't pronounce that "ma" sound that's in the word "maggots":
- "I'm tired of pretending I'm not a total bitchin' rock star from Mars."
- "If you borrowed my brain for five seconds, you'd be like, ‘Dude! Can't handle it, unplug this bastard!' "It fires in a way that's maybe not from, uh… this terrestrial realm."
- "Look what I'm dealing with, man, I'm dealing with fools and trolls."
- "I'm sorry man, I got magic and I've got poetry in my fingertips, you know, most of the time, and this includes naps."
Charlie, it's safe to say that you can say that word, and other crazy dumb things, just fine after all, ya maggot.
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The President of Uganda-, he has spoken out about homosexuals in
It is not the first time he has spoken.
In 1999, he famously ordered the Criminal Investigation Department to look for us and arrest us. It was a quite popular pronouncement, except that it did not go down well with some of his Western friends. They told him that it did not square with their idea of human rights. And he had to walk back the pronouncement. Not in
With the recent gay bashing, he has not been very vocal. Nsaba-Buturo and others members of his cabinet have been doing the job. But he came out and spoke, urging lawyers…
Here are his words, as quoted in the New Vision.
The President further observed that African culture was under threat from Western influence. He advised lawyers to research on African jurisprudence, addressing issues that had been left out by the adopted Western legal systems.
“There are some Western things that we cannot accept, for example homosexuality,” he noted.
“Europeans are saying it is a right and we are saying it is a deviation. You don’t kill them, but you know it is abnormal. But the Europeans come and say it is an alternative way of life,” Museveni added.
Interesting take on the issue. No. He doesn’t want us killed.
It does seem like a concession, doesn’t it? I think I am a bad guy. I just don’t think I should be persecuted in anyway just because I am different. Why should my life be guided by someone else’s morality? Why should I live at the mercy of someone else, someone who admits they think me abnormal and unnatural?
Strange world. And of course, I do have to listen to what they say. Doesn’t mean that I will sit back and wait for them to decide what punishment suits me in my degraded state.
Heard this. At a conference about HIV, when some African activists were being asked about the persecution of gays in their countries, one government official was riled by all this emphasis on ‘rights’ for homosexuals. He stood up, and said, ‘They should be thankful. The law says we should stone them to death, but (in my country) we have not done that for years.’
Yeah, right.
Suicide to trust in the benevolence of one’s enemies. Should Ssempa or Nsaba-Buturo decide the best interests of gay people in
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You are the most Paranoid person I have ever come across in my life
Paranoia (Description):Paranoia is a thought process characterized by excessive anxiety or fear, often to the point of irrationality and delusion. Paranoid thinking typically includes persecutory beliefs concerning a perceived threat towards oneself.
Oh, just so you should know, out of curiosity, I pulled up the Internet Protocol (IP) address you use to publish this blog, so I know the company to which it is registered,the host computer/laptop and therefore I know where you work. Your anonymous cover has been blown. An IP address is like a telephone number which you use to dial to the internet.If one wants to find it, they will, and I just did. I might (havent decided yet) tip off your boss about the precious expensive internet bandwidth you waste writing this blog yet you are free to be Gay and proud without being so brush and obnoxious about it. Now you have a reason to be paranoid
Ha Chris,
sigh, Of course I can guess who you are...!
So, besides being gay, and (the rest of the things I am), I am paranoid?
Thanks, I will fix that word into my vocabulary.
So, why does the paranoia of a stranger so interest you that you show off this kind of morbid fascination?
So, now you know everything about me? What is that going to help you with? It is really interesting. You have never commented on this blog under this pseudonym, but in a few words you have betrayed a lot about yourself.
About my anonymity, dont worry. I am not too worried...!
What a pathetic, bitter person "Chris" manages to make himself appear.
I think, given the violent homophobia we're seeing at the moment, gay people have good reason to fear for their livelihoods.
"Chris" - get a life. Preferably doing something useful. Away from here.
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It has been so cool this summer here in the PNW that not only have my rhubarb plants started growing a second crop (woah), my strawberries are only now forming but more telling is that my blueberries have not yet had one turn blue – even vaguely blue. I am hoping though, I can see the first ones are starting to get the tiniest hue of blue on the edges. If we can get a couple warm days they may ripen. Thing is if it does warm up I will have what appears to be a bumper crop this summer! The bushes are loaded, even the new plants have put on berries. And with my little berry plantation now to over 15 plants….I want my berries!
I suppose that is still better than sitting in 100* temps so I am not complaining! Low 60′s is actually kind of nice…and I am wearing a sweater right now..lol!
~Sarah
I am about to get a gigantic crop of overgrown tomatoes! Wish me luck with all that Vitamin C!
I had a feeling this year and didn’t even plant one tomato plant
I so love warm tomatoes right off the vine!
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Good lord, all of us on tumblr should just date eachother
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Let’s bring out the calculator
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When the third presidential debate was held in Boca Raton, Fla., city police were able to bring together video feeds from three surveillance systems to a single location, giving them a better view of what was going on across the community.
The Boca Raton Police Department decided the expense of operating a physical security information management system in-house was worth it. Read more.
"It's not like a Super Bowl," which draws tens of thousands of spectators, reporters and on-site TV operations centers, said James Burke, the police department’s director of support services. But with 3,000 reporters and the Secret Service in town, the added visibility eased the task of coordinating security for the Oct. 22 debate.
The system, which remains a work in progress, is the result of a four-year-old initiative to tie together disparate video systems from different departments, including police, parks and traffic cameras, for the use of police analysts.
"We're trying to build a physical security information management component into our communications center," Burke said. To achieve this, the department in mid-2012 implemented the VidSys PSIM platform and began bringing in video systems.
The VidSys system was chosen for its ability to integrate a variety of systems into a single point immediately, as well as for its analytical features and ability to handle other forms of physical security data.
Full use of the system probably is another two years off, when the new communications system now being designed goes into operation.
"Right now it is reactive," he said of the department's use of the system. "And at this point it's strictly video." But plans call for eventually adding other information, such as intrusion alarms and data from gate access systems, and to begin using feeds for situational awareness and real-time analysis rather than solely as investigative tools after an incident has occurred.
The VidSys system addresses a growing market for management of the increasing volumes of data being generated as physical security goes online, be it from video surveillance, alarm and access control systems, chemical and biological sensors, radar and vehicle tracking systems.
"It can include any of the subsystems used by a city or agency," said VidSys CTO James Chong. The systems already in place usually are silo installations, often using proprietary protocols with no provisions for interoperability, which limits their use. To bring this data together, VidSys is agnostic to the type of data, communications protocols and hardware being used.
"We have the ability, through a software development kit to allow multiple departments' systems to talk to a common standard in the PSIM platform," Chong said.
PSIM is a younger sibling of security information management tools developed to bring some meaning to the growing volume of data being generated by IT security systems. Physical security traditionally has been a separate domain from information security, but as physical security systems began moving online to deliver and store data using IT systems to manage this data, and maybe even merge it with IT security data, became a viable option.
"It is a fairly new technology," not as mature as SIM, Chong said. But because the concept of information management through IT no longer is new, it is being adopted more quickly than SIM was in its earlier stages, he said. Some of that adoption has come from the demands of large events, such as the NCAA 2012 final four in men's basketball in Houston and the Baltimore Grand Prix.
"The event management piece is a growing part of our business," Chong said. "Some of the driver has been the sense of urgency when you have these events."
But more often, adoption is driven by the need for continuing visibility rather than managing a single event, such as in Boca Raton. Although combined video feeds were part of planning for the presidential debate, the decision to implement it was made well before the debate was scheduled.
VidSys' PSIM platform is Web based, residing on an application server in the user's network. Feeds coming into the server are translated to a common standard and filtering and correlation engines can analyze the data based on policies set by the customer.
Setting up policies for analysis can take several weeks, Chong said. "That's a collaborative process. It rarely starts from scratch." Most customers already have policies and procedures for handling security information, and these form the basis for PSIM policy. VidSys also has templates and policy libraries to help with development.
Policy development is not yet an issue for Boca Raton, where VidSys is being used simply to provide a common view for video feeds and not yet for analysis. But that common view is becoming increasingly important as the city in 2011 launched a citywide surveillance system with up to 200 cameras to monitor streets, parks and public buildings in the initial phase. Later expansion could include plans to partner with private business to bring their cameras into the system. The city is providing $538,000 to cover the cost of installation, and has a $700,000 Justice Department grant for construction of a new communications center and build-out of a wireless system carry video signals.
Burke said the city already had a robust fiber ring used to backhaul video. "When the fiber wasn't available, we're using a wireless mesh network to bring it onto the fiber as soon as possible."
The new communications center is expected to be operational in about two years, and is being designed to use the comprehensive video feed. A planned video wall will give real time views of the city, and will be used by dispatchers as well as crime analysts who are being trained to use the new system.
"It's an evolving process," Burke said the PSIM platform. Without additional data feeds and use of the analytics capabilities, the system has made the city's surveillance resources more valuable by integrating and making them more available to the police department. "We are happy with our purchase, even without all of the bells and whistles,".
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Michael Vick Threw Four Picks, But There Could Have Been MoreBREAKING NEWS, Eagles, News, Quarterbacks Monday, September 10th, 2012
This was a frightening performance by Eagles quarterback Michael Vick and it makes you question his development as a quarterback. Vick was making rookie mistakes like throwing the ball across the field, staring down receivers and making foolish and careless throws with the game on the line.
#1 – The first of the interceptions occurred when he was rolling to his left and under pressure from the pass rush. He tried to complete a pass to tight end Brent Celek, who was sitting in the middle of the field. When a quarterback is rolling to one side of the field, it draws the coverage to that side.
This was another case of Vick trying to play Superman, when a moment or two as Clark Kent would have been better. Browns defensive end Emmanuel Stephens beat left tackle King Dunlap inside and forced Vick to abandon the pocket. I will talk about the pathetic play of the offensive line later on.
Once he was forced out of the pocket, the quarterback should have started thinking about playing Clark Kent and abandoning the play by running out of bounds or throwing the ball away. He could have looked down that sideline to see if somebody was open, but no he still insists on playing Superman all the time, so he put on his cape.
I know Vick has a strong arm, but he broke a quarterback fundamental that is taught to ten-year old Pop Warner quarterbacks. Don’t throw the football across your body and across the field. Vick was attempting to throw the football back to his right by throwing it across his body without setting his feet. He got nothing on the throw.
Celek could have helped him by coming back to the football, but he waited for it, “patting his glove”, which is a mistake by any receiver. You always go get the football when it’s in the air because it lessens the opportunity for the defense to cut in front of you and pick it off.
Browns linebacker Craig Robertson took advantage of the situation came in from the other side to pick off the pass. It was an easy pick because Vick couldn’t get anything on the throw, so it was hanging up there and saying catch me.
The quarterback is only supposed to throw the football to that side or if his arm is strong enough, he can throw the ball over the coverage deep to the other side, if he can set his feet and follow through. That kind of throw is rare.
He should never throw the football across his body and across the field because he can’t get very much steam on it and it is sure to be picked off. For the most part, the quarterback needs to look downfield to the side of the field in which he is rolling and throw the ball in that direction, short or deep.
A quarterback is never supposed to throw the football to the short area in the middle of the field. It’s just like the rule in basketball where you never throw a cross court pass because it gives every defensive player a chance to intercept it.
#2 – On the second interception, the offensive line did a great job of protecting for their quarterback. Vick dropped deep into the pocket after faking a hand off to LeSean McCoy. He had plenty of time to see the entire field. Usually on these deep drops, Vick is looking downfield to DeSean Jackson or Jeremy Maclin. He spotted tight end Clay Harbor and decided he was going to go to him.
The throw was intended for Harbor who was open for an instant, but Vick was staring at him and taking his time getting him the football. The Browns were in a zone coverage and middle linebacker D’Quell Jackson was in the middle of the field, but started moving to his right as he followed Vick’s eyes. Jackson should have picked the ball off, but it went through his hands and was picked off by Cleveland outside linebacker L.J. Fort.
Cleveland safety T.J. Ward was standing right behind Harbor and draped over him when the ball arrived. The throw had no chance of making it to Harbor.
#3 – On the next interception, Vick tried to hit Maclin on a crossing from the right side of the formation to the left. This was the one interception which wasn’t Vick’s fault. He put the throw on Maclin’s hands as he got to the left side of the formation.
Maclin had a tough time yesterday. He was hit a number of times after making some tough catches. The young wide receiver was in and out of the lineup because of physical problems during the game.
I think an earlier hit on a crossing route, influenced Maclin to peak downfield just before Vick put the ball in the air. The wideout put his hands out as the ball came his way, but his focus was totally on the football and that’s what caused him to let the ball hit off his hands and into the hands of Browns cornerback Joe Haden.
I have to give Vick credit for not giving up on the play because he hustled downfield and stopped Haden from taking the ball into the end zone.
#4 – On his final interception of the day, Vick dropped into the pocket and followed Jeremy Maclin from his outside alignment on the Birds right side. Number 18 was running an inside curl route versus a simple strong-zone defense.
His eyes were straight down the field during the entire play. The signal caller didn’t try to look any of the defenders off by looking to his left or his right. He was tunnel vision, looking straight down the middle of the field and attempting to connect with Maclin on the curl route.
Maybe he thought he was invisible because Browns middle linebacker D’Qwell Jackson broke on the football when Vick let it go and cut in front of Maclin. The lefthanded quarterback lifted his arm and left go of the throw as if there was nobody in the area. Jackson simply reached up to pick off the pass and continued down the sideline.
He showed off his speed while taking the ball in for a touchdown, while doing a forward full-body flip.
#5 – Or course on the last drive of the game, Fort let a Vick pass go right through his hands on a throw Vick made which was intended for Maclin. If the young linebacker had caught the football, it would have cost the Eagles the game.
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To me it seemed like Vick’s head was everywhere else but in this game yesterday. Towards the end he woke up a little but he is gonna get himself hurt out there if he plays like that against the Ravens Defense. btw I give all credit to the Eagles Defense who carried this team on its back yesterday.
Wonder what the feeling would be if the Browns Defender held onto that bad Pass by Vick in the End-Zone the play before he threw the winning TD Pass to Harbor.. Game and Season would have been over..
Can you imagine that Paulman. It would have been a 16-10 5 interception loss. ANd that’s what it really should have been.
I was on the phone to a guy in Cleveland after they took the lead, and he was all, “ah, we’ll still find a way to lose”. If we hadn’t been playing Cleveland, we wouldn’t have won.
There were several other incidences when Vick threw the ball into heavy coverage. There were at least 2 balls batted down at the line. There were 2 fumbles.
I mean seriously….4 ints, 2 fumbles, 2 batted…..what does this guy have to do before he gets benched?
Vinnie – you are exactly what I thought you were…a catcher! bend over and just take it type of cat….you’re a grown ass man, on the phone with a man in Cleveland? and you are known for calling Rex Grossman “sexy Rexy”…Vinnie you are a limp wrist fraud…live your life by day as husband, family man…by night, on the phone with strange men from Cleveland…
The announcers kept talking about how confused vick looked! it is a constant with him. i remember when jim johnson was the dc and vick was in atlanta that i was never worried about him because JJ would confuse him with blitz schemes. nothing has changed! in his last like 10 games he has thrown 22 td’s and 20 ints-
he also put the ball on the ground yesterday-
I’m also ready a lot of…”oh well he was rusty….”
BS.
In Atlanta
“He’ll be a good QB when they get real Wrs”
“He’ll be a good QB when they get a real coach”
“He’ll be a good QB when they improve the oline”
In Philly
“He’ll be a good QB when they get a real Oline”
“He’ll be a good QB when Reid changes the play-calling”
“He’ll be a good QB when he has a full offseason to practice”
And now….its because he missed the preseason games (interesting – same anti-Foles crowd who went on and on about how Foles only played in “meaningless” pre-season games are now bemoning the fact that Vick needed those same meaningless games)
“He’ll be a good QB when he gets more reps under his belt”
What will be next week’s excuse? And the week after that.
I originally predicted that Foles would become the starter week 12. I’m moving that up to week 6 now.
He couldn’t do worse.
I disagree the 3rd INT was not on Vick – yes Maclin tipped it – but watch the play again if you can 1) good protection 2) Vick had happy feet and was dancing around 3) he was sliding forward and sidearmed it it out to Maclin and it sailed 4) instead of being delivered belt high in front – the pass was high and in front..
Not at all impressed with Vick yestruday -
on the OLine – nice run blocking – should have run the ball more – good pass protection in the 2nd half – sometimes the other team sends more people then you can block – QB needs to exploit that..
on the good side – Vick did throw a couple into the sidelines!
no excuses, Vick made some very poor decisions and got lucky to come away with the win…Vick did rise to the occasion and lead one of those 4th qtr drives to win the game…you know the kind, that many of you say he isn’t capable of doing…well he did!
I’m disappointed with the decisions but happy with the win…
We def need better play from MV7 week 2…
Real cmon wake up Vick blows dude.
Vinnie you must of love watching yesterday’s game…all but the end when Vick helped get the Birds in the end zone for a win…
Everyone is overlooking the elephant in the room….and that is the play calling…I was watching the game with my sons….my 9 year old says, why we keep getting in the shot gun? when are we going to run the ball? came to the point where my 9 year old new that the Eagles were going to pass, pass, pass….there was nothing being done to keep Cleveland off balance…but what about the penalties? how many plays were brought back because of penalties…and i’m talking about plays 15+ yards…it was awful across the board…only thing that looked good was the defense!
Agreed Navy. That throw was high and wide.
Realtalk….You’re being pretty favourable saying that last drive was “rising to the occasion”. Vick went 6 of 12 on the final drive. At least 3 of his throws hit Cleveland defenders (the 2nd last throw being the diciest) and could have been picked, and he fumbled once. There were at least 4 occasions on that drive (the fumble and 3 into Browns defenders) when Vick tried his best to give the ball to the Browns, but they, being the Browns, didn’t want it.
I can only imagine what you’d be saying on here if it was Kolb, or any other QB who had vomited up the 4 (5) INT, 2 fumble disaster that Vick orchestrated yesterday.
Would you be saying he, “made some poor decisions”? Doubtful. You’d be calling for his assasination.
umm did I say Vick played great? no…what in my comments make you think I’m giving Vick accolades for his performance…Since when does “what if’s” matter? what if Vick threw and INT on the final drive? did he? what if he loss the fumble? what if, what if, what if…
Did anyone question Brady when he threw 4 picks in a loss to the Bills last season? nope…
Brady also has won multiple SB’s, is arguably the best in the NFL & is a walk in HOF! Not even a comparison for discussion. Put the wet down.
Real out of curiosity am I a hater or racist still because I can see this guy is awful and always has been?
Real I could be wrong and tell me if I am but I thought I remember you telling me you were making 100k a year and had a great job? If that is correct I want to point out that you are very fortunate to have got that job when you don’t know that shotgun is one word not two, also you dont know the difference between new and knew.
If you are someone different my apologies in advance
@Mhenski @Vinnie
I knew your stance on Vick before the game was even played yesterday…i’m sure you both enjoyed watching Vick struggle…
you guys seem to have some insight on Vick and his performance…how did you like the play calling? was it good? how about the O Line? penalties?
Eagles 1-0 last time I checked….that is what’s important
@Mhenski – actually I make 90K and I’m 31, you’re 45, right? make less money right? and part of my money goes to you and your family for Wick assistance right? dumb ass! you still jealous I see… …and honestly we aren’t in grammar school, so get off my nuts
Who calls 56 passes in the first game of the year and our tailback just had a Allpro year…oh wait..he was actually the best back in the league according to some?Walrus.Come on bro.
I saw that coming in the second after they scored.Hes tossing it too much and the Browns are gonna get a few.
End of the game he engineered a 4th quarter comeback.He didnt turn the ball over. He almost threw a pick.Harbor almost didnt catch the td pass.Guess what…he did.
1-0….stop wasting your time talking about Mike like hes some inept moron incapable of not improving.
Big bad oldmen Balty coming to town without a DMVP….i like our defense against that offense and my guess is Mike is more effective. There o-line is old and worn out.Get after Ray Rice.DRC on Smith…advantage Birds…Boldin on Nmandi…Birds.Ray Rice could be tough.
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Thankfully I missed the game for a Christening. I had thought that Fowles would take over on injury, but I wonder if another dreadful performance by Vick will accellerate things. Vick never seems to overcome his superman tendencies. Playing Baltimore should be very difficult unless we get a great QB play.
enjoyed? thats idiotic, i had no joy watching this bum struggle it pained me because he is worse than i thought and remembered. i root for the eagles and vick im just real that the guy is a total loser.
regarding the coaching absolutely dreadful, whoever was calling the plays and drew up the game-plan shouldnt be coaching in the nfl. after yesterday i am 10000% convinced that reid is just as awful as vick. going into the 4th quarter shady had 11 carries and vick had 40+passing attempts and we were winning basically the whole time, that is just totally idiotic. we have one of the best rbs in the god damn game… reid, vick and marty gotta go cant win with them.
i watched vick a lot yesterday and all i saw him do is lock onto one wr and force the throw on almost everyplay. i did not see him go through his reads once, all i saw was lock onto the #1 option and if he didnt throw to the #1 option he just checked down and never looked at his true #2 option on the play. this tells me is awful and will continue to be. he is fortunate the eagles have playmakers that CAN make him look decent SOME GAMES.
“Did anyone question Brady when he threw 4 picks in a loss to the Bills last season? nope…”
Ummm…because Brady is a multiple Superbowl MVP winning Qb and gets the benefit of the doubt. Wheras Vick is a deteriorating never-was, sub .500 in the playoffs turnover machine. and therefor does not have the luxury of the benefit of the doubt. That’s why.
I did not enjoy watching Vick struggle. I found it very infuriating (though predictable). I also found it extremely annoying that Reid kept trotting out there disasterous drive after disadterous drive.
The Browns scored 16 pts yesterday, and Vick was directly responsible for every one of them. (oh, and to took my own worn, I wrote this on this site 2 days before the game:
“Vick is a master at keeping both teams in the game. One big run followed by one big sack.
I can easily see an early sack-fumble leaging to a Cleveland 3, then a VickPick for another 3 and Birds get out of the half 10-6……
Into the second…..and its some close 17-13 into the late 3rd. Vick will pull off some escapee Savardian spin-o-rama for 30yrds…..Leads to a TD.
All the Vickpologists will say, “see – he’s amazing!! He won the game!!” Forgetting that Cleveland was only competitive due to his early foibles…
Remember that this Cleveland team has a new owner. Everyone and his dog (pardon the pun) knows there will be wholesale changes next year at GM and every coaching position….along with players….this is dead team walking.”
Am I happy that Vick is this predictable? No. Am I gloating that I predicted exactly what would happen – you’re going to interpret it as that – but I’m not. I hate that this team will go nowhere untill we have a competent QB behind centre.
Vick was once a bad QB who could compensate with his legs…now that those are fading (and fast) he’s just a bad QB.
Again Vinnie/Mhenski – we know you dont like Vick and we agree that Vick played very poor for a majority of the game yesterday…
any thoughts, on the play calling? could that have helped out the QB? O Line? penalties? any thoughts, or are you only concerned with Vick play…
in my opinion, there are more concerns on this offense than Vick, and it all starts with the play calling !
vin well said and very articulate!
This site sucks. I see comments over in the recent comment area but when I try and go to the article to read them it is limited to a few comments and not the most recent. I have stopped coming on here because it has become so frustrating. Fix this thing G!!!
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4ints (could have been a lot more)
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Against Cleveland.
Keep defending.
yea Vinnie thats right, I forgot we (Eagles) won 10 SB’s already because we had so many competent QB’s in the past…I totally forgot….
Vick’s legs are fading? where the hell do you get that from? He still looked fast as hell to me…
Congrats Vinnie on your special day.
Recognizing that Vick s a terrible QB isn’t a very sepecial feat Stevo.
Ignoring reality and desperately remaining lached onto his nut sack with a litany of, “Hewasjustrustymissingrepsinthepreseasonwaittillnextweekitstheplaycallingthatmakeshimterrible” excuses. Well, that’s pretty special.
As for your other points Real
1 – The playcalling needs work, Shady was having success and Vick was struggling and I don’t know why they kept throwing…but on the flip side…he’s the QB. He’s supposed to be able to throw the ball. I’ll echo what Navy said earlier. If you want the Eagles’ to run the ball 40x and have Vick only throw 20x because you don’t trust him. Then why is he the QB.
2 – You will suddenly see a dramatic improvement in the oline the moment Vick is replaced. You can count on that. Pockets collapse all the time. Its the nature of 300lb men charging forward. Vick doesn’t know how to deal with this…slide to the side or forward. Its not in his nature.
3 – You will also see a reduction in holding penalties when the Oline no longer has to block for the QB who is (and we’ve already shown thiis over and over) one of the slowest making decisions in the league.
There are several problems with this O that need to be worked out, that’s for sure, but QB is absolutely the most important.
ERock, I am pretty excited to see the D play next week against Balt. I am really concerned with him catching screens and dump-offs.
Vick is still fast. OOOOOOOH!!!! That’s going to win us a SB now, isn’t it?!?!?
My Take
Clearly Vick played like crap. If this happens next week he needs to be benched. However, the first half was not his fault. In fact, the jelled together there at the end of the first half with a few really nice plays. The first half issues were 1…. Penalties. Every great play was called back because of holding. Hard to get pissed at Vick when he starts every drive with 1st and 20. 2. The Oline sucked. Flat out sucked. On top of the first half woes i really dont understand why the fat man wont run. I just dont get it.
Thats the fun part Vinnie….. id love to see you show me ANYTIME ive ever said anything about how amazing he is. You are arguing with an Atlanta fan from 2001 im guessing because I never ever said anything like that.
@DCAR hahaha – you are a funny cat…
guess what…you never know, Vick may have to use his legs which will help us win a SB…and guess what….we’ve had QB’s that stand in the pocket and we haven’t won a SB yet, so shut the hell up!
Glad, you get my sarcasm. ROFL!!!!
This is something we need to get straight…my only wish for this season is that the Eagles win the SB…my wish doesn’t revolve on Vick completing 30 plus TD passes, Vick rushing for over 1000 yards…my wish is for the EAGLES to win a SB…I don’t care how they do it, or how they get it done! A SB is what I want it is that simple!
Exactly Real. I dont own a Vick jersey, I never will. Why? because of who he has shown himself to be as a person. But i darn well will be rooting for him every week to do what he can do. Im not going to apologize for being a fan for my team.
@DCAR and in response to your Brady/Vick comment…
Brady hasn’t won a SB since 2004 and he needed a little help winning possibly all 3…we all know the Patriots and the cheating, plus he had some teammates that had a little to say in regards to winning a championship….Almost 10 years ago, so get off his nuts and again shut the hell up!
Real, he’s won 3, 1 as a rookie, after being drafted in the 6th round, & has been to 5 SB’s. 5!!! Last year, he led his team to the SB, with one of the worst defenses, in the NFL. WTF, are you talking about. It’s sour grapes, with the cheating excuse. Cut it out man, you make yourself look clueless. I ain’t on anybodies nuts. I love the Eagles & hate the Patriots, but I can respect a REAL, great, leader at QB, & not the dumb @$$ fraud, we currently have, making a futile attempt to do the same.
here’s a fascinating thing: The only two times Sunday that Vick looked comfortable, the only two times he got into a rhythm, were at the end of the two halves. Drove the Eagles 74 yards in just 32 seconds for a touchdown in the closing seconds of the second quarter, then put together that game-winning 16-play, 91-yard drive in the closing moments of the game.
Think about what happens at the end of a half. Things speed up. Everything moves faster. The plays come in quicker, the ball is spotted quicker, the huddle breaks quicker. There’s little time to think. Just call the play, drop back and fire. And that’s when Vick excelled Sunday.
That’s what Vick needs to get back to all the time. Call the play, break the huddle, take the snap, drop back and fire for 60 minutes instead of four or five minutes. Find that two-minute drill rhythm early and keep it.
Stop over-thinking everything
Real not knowing the difference between new and knew isn’t grammar bud it’s spelling and it demonstrates your a fucking idiot just 1 of the many examples.
Not knowing the difference between grammar and spelling is another definition of how much of a fucking mental midget you are too.
Damn you got my nuts all in your mouth and all on your chin, bitch! so maybe you got better spelling grades than I did, maybe did better in English class…but I love how my 90K salary is pissing you off! you jealous bastard! Like I said, if we were face to face, I’d whoop your ass all through the city of brotherly, while making you say Vick is the best QB in the league! Alot of you clowns talk big shit over the internet!
That being said…. Im fine if Foles comes in sooner than later. I want a ring, dont care who gives it to us.
Great blog I thought id share
So Rizzo had his shot to try to talk us all down off a ledge and make us appreciate getting the W over anything else, but that’s all horseshit. The Eagles’ offense didn’t simply play poorly yesterday, they straight-up made a fool out of all of us. Andy Reid and Marty Mornhinweg told us all off-season (and every year for the past 5 years) that they wouldn’t do this again…then went right ahead and did it! We’re like battered wives who keep getting talked into coming back home. “It’ll be different from now on baby I swear.” Then what did we do? We just put the frozen steak on our black eye and walked back into the house without calling the cops. Well win or loss I’m fucking sick of it. FIFTY-SIX CALLED PASSES my dude? FOUR (should have been FIVE) interceptions? Motherfuck you both.
The simple fact that Fat Andy had the stones to call 56 passes when his All-Pro best-player-on-the-team was ripping off 10 yard chunks every time he touched the rock should be a fire-able offense. Just consider the very BASIC and COMMON-SENSE reasons why the Eagles should have run more:
LeSean McCoy was averaging 5.5 yards per carry.
Michael Vick is a fragile figurine made of glass and Super Bowl predictions.
Michael Vick had thrown multiple interceptions already.
We had the lead.
Our offensive line was getting called for holding every other play.
The Browns D was 30th against the run and 2nd against the pass.
Joe Haden.
Maclin already got injured twice in the game.
LESEAN MCCOY WAS AVERAGING 5.5 YARDS PER CARRY.
I can’t think of another coach in the league who would even dream of having the boulders to keep daring his quarterback to throw another pick/get assassinated by a much improved Cleveland D. It literally makes zero sense. And what did that fat fuck say was his reason for passing the ball 56 times with an injury-prone quarterback, the lead, AND a Pro-Bowl RB at his disposal:
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This dude must’ve gotten higher than any of his children ever have to say some audacious nonsense like that. Shady had one fumble, dog. One. Vick was picked off four times. What fat idiot backwards-reasoning Mormon God planet are you living on, Andy?
And Mike — keep freaking out in the pocket, scrambling like a decapitated chicken, then throwing it across your body into double coverage. We all can’t get enough of that shit. I mean, who wants to see their quarterback actually READ the coverage, step up in the pocket, and make a confident throw downfield? Not us. We just love seeing you play shitty jazz when everybody else is playing classical they’re reading from sheet music.
No matter what any glass-half-full jokers want to feed you this week, stay true to yourself and remember how you felt watching the game. Doesn’t matter if we’re the #1 defense and #2 offense in the league. A win isn’t always just a win. Sometimes it’s proof that your local Philly Barstool blogger knows more about what’s better for the Eagles than the own coaching staff does. I predicted the offense would be the worry for this season more than the D, but never did I think our own head coach would call plays like he threw down $100 Large on the Browns.
agreed all around mhenski. exactly.
The Browns may have lost yesterday, but there is no doubt that Dick Jauron is still laughing about the errors that he was able to force the Birds to make. For all of the talk about Andy & Marty game planning for months, Jauron certainly had a plan for this offense, but the stubborness of the head coach and OC to stick with the pass and leave their All-Pro running back without the ball is something they cannot continue to do if they plan on winning many more games.
If Vick & Reid are back next year I wonder what will be there reasoning for optimism and or their excuse for Vicks poor play this season. Oh wait I already know it will be – Vick didnt have a preseason to prepare for the season .
TEAM WORK!!!!! Makes the dream work. Rich Hoffman Philly.com has a great article and perspective of the game. WOW did i just type that. umm hmm. But dang isn’t this a team sport? Everyone wants to focus on Vick so much, and yes he had a poor day, yes, he is the QB, but what stood out to me was the way this team BATTLED through a very tough opponent seated as the underdogs. Remember the phrase ANY GIVEN SUNDAY? that means that any given sunday you can get absolutely spanked in the NFL by any team, because this is the NFL. Yeah Vick had a horribly disgusting game, but Shaddy Mcoy, DRC, and Demeco Ryans, and Ashimogua had exceptional plays that carried this team and Vick to victory. Everybody wants to see Vick fail to prove thier points, and themselves right about this QB. EVEN YOU “G” say it aint so. But next Sunday when he bangs another 400 yards on that A#$ what will the headlines be? VICK SHINES BUT!!!!!!!!! anyway take ya head out of it. This eagles TEAM showed some toughness and RESOLVE yesterday. E.A.G.L.E.S
@TheONe1 – good post!
the one…. make no mistake this is a team game with the qb being the absolute most important position.
2. did i read a while ago that brady threw 4 ints and vick should be given the same consideration? yeah right.
3. the o line gets too much blame. 7 holds the ball with happy feet instead of getting rid of the ball… why? because he can’t read defenses!
“Michael Vick is a fragile figurine made of glass and Super Bowl predictions.”
Laughed my ass off on that one
“scrambling like a decapitated chicken” Fantastic.
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Watched Peyton Manning last night and wept for the beauty of seeing a true pro play the game with his Mind and Body to throw off a good defense. If we don’t get a QB that knows the position (i think foles does…he is not manning dont twist this) we are screwed and wasting guys like 10,18,25,87….
Still laughing at real talk calling out vinnies manhood, on the phone with some other man from Cleveland, reminds me of the godfather telling that sap to man up and take care of your family ,hey vinnie, great analysis of Vick but seriously man up, get off the damn phone with some queer from Cleveland, take care if business at home
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How can genealogy attract more Millennials and Gen X and Yers?
Is it even possible?
Yes, but properly snaring them seems to require the right fishing technique. Depending on who you ask, the traditionalist says it’s all in the lure while another claims it’s the casting technique that really matters. Then there are the shoulder-shrugging types who say, “A day off, my lucky hat, and a cooler full of beer—who cares whether I catch any fish?”
In the past few weeks, more than a few articles have wondered whether the genealogy field might be labeled the laissez-faire fisherman type than the industrious lure and casting trawler.
High Definition Genealogy goes straight for the jugular by stating several reasons just why people younger than 45 might think this field yanks the welcome carpet out from under their feet. A recent post on Roots and Rambles goes further, observing that conference dates and times often conflict with school and work day commitments while the cost of the conference itself can be prohibitive for families on a budget. One younger enthusiast commented that at a conference, ‘The woman behind me said “Aren’t you too young to be doing genealogy?”
Welcome, indeed.
Thankfully, technology is helping to tear all of this down. Between Roots Television, genealogy Twitter lists, genealogy blogs, and countless articles now popping up online, the perceived age gap is finally narrowing.
However, we believe the best Catch-And-Don’t-Release award goes to John Harris.
Mr. Harris, a teacher in Somerset, Pennsylvania, came up with an innovative way to snare Millennials through their own tools. His “Hunting History: Discovering Your Hometown” high school class has students using GPS devices to track down old churches and specific cemetery headstone markers from coordinates given out in class.
Harris says: “When you can offer something that kids can get their hands on – in their backyard – when they go through town, they see historical sites. When you can turn them on to that, word gets out that that’s pretty fun. They discover the history all on their own.”
He’s on to something because not only did he win a $5,000 award from the History Channel but more importantly, this elective, twice a year class maxing out 30 students per semester, is always full. That’s sixty new history and genealogy enthusiasts caught each year.
Now that’s a winning fishing technique that gets ‘em while their young.
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Excellent points! I wonder if starting a History [sort-of] Geocaching game would be a good idea. I say “sort-of” because no one would be hiding the treasure. It’s already there. Kind of a new spin on genealogy research. Do you realize how many play Geocaching? It’s like a cult. [Shrugs] Something to ponder.
~Caroline Pointer
Family Stories
Funny you should mention this. I’m planning on writing an article about geocaching and cemeteries sometime next week!”
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It's been a while since the last mega post, so kickstart the weekend by checking out the awesome and often adorable art of Skott IMPORTANT NOTE: I Photoshopped these last few to clean up some camera shots of con sketches. See the original photos on Skottie's post.
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Today I did a guest lecture for CPSC 310, the software engineering class at one of the local universities that’s compulsory for the computer science degree program. I took this class when I did my degree there, and I really disliked it - it was in the process of being redesigned, I believe, and we only got through about half of the required material. At the time, it convinced me that I hated process and just wanted to keep my head down in the code. How times have changed!
The curriculum has changed since I took the course, although it is still mainly focused on traditional software engineering techniques. I was quite excited this past summer when I was asked to give a guest lecture in the class on the topic of what I do at work. I’ve spoken at schools before on the topic of Agile development, but never in a software engineering class. Apparently I did a passable job, as I was asked back to lecture this term.
I’ve never given the same presentation twice (although I’ll have an opportunity to do that soon), so I still have troubles with timing and fitting in all my content, but I think today’s talk went well. It was 50 minutes, less than half the length of the talk I gave this summer, so I had to cut out a lot of content. I know what I’d do next time to fix up the pacing, so hopefully I’ll get another chance to try it out.
Now that I’ve given a talk or two to professional groups, I actually find student groups more of a challenge. With professional groups, I can assume a certain level of base knowledge and experience, and if someone isn’t familiar with a term they’re quick to ask for clarification. With students, I’m often dealing with people who have never developed software professionally with a team. If I was talking about programming languages, that wouldn’t be an issue, but since I talk about shipping software, team dynamics, and process, I’m always scared that I’ll leave people behind. Students can also be quite timid, so if they don’t understand something they’re not necessarily going to put up their hand.
I don’t mind talking to students, and I want to get better at it, but to do that I’ll need to find a balance of easily-understood terminology and widely applicable concepts. In the meantime, I look forward to my next two presentations, both of which will be in front of professional audiences.
(Once upon a time I had another blog at a similar URL, which I hardly ever updated and which was subsequently hardly ever read. I’m posting more frequently now, but I since I have a slightly higher readership I thought I’d share some of the old posts I think still stand up. The project I mentioned shipped and was a success.
The title of this blog post comes from a Bad Religion song.)
For those not familiar with the ideas behind Lean software (and even for those who are!), please check out Competing on the Basis of Speed, a talk given to Google by Mary Poppendieck in 2006. One of my work goals for 2010 [ and 2011! - Ed.] is to compete on the basis of speed. Specifically, I want to help my team:
I think I’m already off to a good start. The aim of the project I’m currently working on is to add functionality to our product that makes it easier to integrate into customers’ existing infrastructure. The technical requirements are known to us, and we’ve finished implementing the functionality. However, we’re at a point where we’ve hit a bit of a wall - no one on the team has any experience as a consumer of this functionality (that is to say, none of us are IT administrators), and it has been difficult to get focused feedback from others within our organization who have such experience. What it comes down to is that we’ve got a feature that is technically correct (follows RFC specifications, has been load tested, etc.) but has not been tuned to customer environments.
This is not an uncommon situation in software - in fact, it’s part of the reason why “Have an embedded customer representative on the team” is a practice in Extreme Programming. However, it’s not always possible to find internal “customers” (we call them Product Managers) with extensive experience with every particular area of the field. For larger projects it may make sense to train the Product Manager in the specifics of the new functionality by having them consult heavily with paying customers, but for smaller projects this is not always feasible. My current project is less than a month old and we’re code complete, and much of the time was over the Christmas holidays with our Product Manager (and most of our customers) on vacation, so consultation wasn’t much of an option.
So, here we stand - a mostly finished project that can be release-ready within 2 weeks but that has not been fine-tuned to meet all customer requirements (as such requirements are unknown). What to do? The traditional approach within the company has been to do a beta, but these don’t necessarily solve all problems. Our betas are opt-in, and often contain very few members (less than .5% of our customer base). Feedback can be hard to gather as beta systems are often put into non-production situations. There is also quite a bit overhead involved in coordinating and communicating with all of the customers involved.
Instead, I’m pushing towards getting this thing released to all customers as early as possible. The more people playing with it the better. The code is not buggy (we hope!), it just may be lacking some specific features or compatibility. Rather than wait around for 2 or 3 months as we do research and try to completely accurately model customer scenarios (a process that’s inevitably difficult and fraught with errors), we’ll get the code out into the field.
The best case scenario is that everything we’ve done so far is adequate for the market, and there are no future requirements. This means we’ve starting recognizing value 2-3 months earlier than if we had waited and done more market research, and we haven’t sat around gold plating the project for a quarter. The most likely scenario is that our code is adequate for some, but others will need some enhancements before it will work for them. We can then prioritize these enhancements based on some sort of financial metric (renewal date of customers who need the feature, likelihood that the enhancement will bring new customers, etc.) and deliver them over the next little while.
The worst case scenario is by far the least likely to happen - that would be where customers get the new feature, find that it’s not quite up to snuff, and because of this decide to overhaul their IT infrastructure and rip out all of our company’s products because of this. That’s so unlikely that it’s barely worth mentioning. Something like this is more likely in the case where we’re changing an existing feature instead of adding a new one, but even then it’s a slim slim chance, and would be the result of a decision on the customer’s part based on emotion rather than reason.
If you presented a customer with the choice between the following two options:
… I’m willing to bet that most customers would pick the first option. The choice would be even easier once the customer realized that the “complete” version from the second option would likely have to be followed up by a release or two afterward containing improvements that the developers / Product Management failed to identify in the first go-round.
I’m excited that there seems to some buy-in to this approach so far - hopefully it pays off for us!
For the past two years, I’ve been managing a software team. This role has a lot of requirements, and I think I’ve been fairly successful, but there’s one thing I used to do that I never really do any more - program. Sure, I review a lot of code, and occasionally pair with people or help problem solve, and when asked I give my opinion on architecture, but it’s been a while since I’ve sat down with some code to myself and tried to get something done.
Well, I’m trying to change that. I’ve realized (through a few false starts) that I’m not going to pick up a new programming language, hop into an open source project, and start contributing. I think I have the ability to do so, but definitely not the motivation. Instead, I’m going to chip away at small improvements in my product’s code base that will hopefully make life easier for my team. For now, I’m going to stay away from changing a lot of production code - I want to ease myself back into the groove slowly, and while I’m not afraid that I’ll write a bunch of awful code and ship to customers, I don’t want to get too bogged down in our automated test rig at the moment.
I’ve got two little projects going on right now. The first is to add Perl::Critic tests to all of our packages. Perl Critic is a highly configurable automated code style critic, inspired by Perl Best Practices, that can help you detect all sorts of wrongness in your code. It’s easy to add a test, and then a lot of fun (for various definitions of “fun”) chasing down all the failures and getting your code up to snuff. I’ve only added the test to one package so far, but it’s a package with over 100 files so it took me a while to clean up. Subsequent packages should be easier, and it should be self-enforcing going forwards (as all of our tests are required to pass before a build is produced).
The second project is to ease our use of CPAN modules by rewriting part of our build system to use cpanminus. Our current system makes it difficult to import CPAN packages, or even upgrade the ones we have easily, so I think this could really benefit us. Replacing some of the packages we’re still using from 2002 would be most welcome, and there’s a lot of exciting stuff being developed for Perl right now that would be ncie to experiment with. So far I’ve got just been playing around a bit with cpanminus, but I’ve already managed to find a bug (I think - I’ve filed it anyway). I may write more on this once I’ve got it working.
These aren’t exactly monumental bits of code I’m fiddling with, but it feels good to get back into it, and the important thing is that I’m actually motivated to do this coding. I have no desire to go back to being a full time developer, but it’s nice to keep up my technical skills..
As previously mentioned, I’ve got a talk coming up for a UBC class. This is the required software engineering class in the UBC Computer Science program, and a class I vividly remember as being a waste of my time. Fortunately, the course content has changed quite a bit since I took it - after four months in this class, I came out with a 25 page specification package and no code written. It was one of my least favourite classes, and it convinced me that I didn’t care at all about process (how things have changed!).
I spoke at this class during the summer, but I plan to deliver quite a different talk this time. Part of this is time - this summer I had two hours, and two weeks from now I have half that. Time isn’t the only factor - the more fundamental difference is in the content. While the talks I’ve given to previous classes before have been rather broad overviews of Agile (and more recently Lean) concepts, this time I’m going more with what I know best. That means less theory, and more description of how my team successfully delivers software. I’ve talked to the class instructor about this and she also thinks it’s a good idea.
I’m still finalizing an outline, and I need to make sure I present this at a level that’s approachable to a class of students who likely have no real (professional) software development experience. I also hope to find time to polish my slides, and make sure I’m not just reading list after list of bullet points, but I’ll have to see what time permits.
Even though I work for company that has millions of end users and is one of the leaders of its industry, whenever I tell people where I work I’m met with blank stares. Why? Unlike some of our competitors, Sophos doesn’t sell directly to consumers (you won’t find us for sale at Best Buy, nor are we bundled when you buy a Dell) - we only sell to business, governments, schools, and other organizations. Thus, blank stares. Luckily, Sophos has come to my rescue and released a great free tool that’s already raised their profile among non-business users - Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac (Home Edition). Best of all, this release is free!
Now, I know what some of you are thinking - why would I bother with anti-virus for my Mac? Well, Macs are not immune to malware, and they can host Windows malware that can infect friends and family. Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac is featured on Apple.com, is mentioned as a staff pick, and has been positively reviewed in several places. I’ve been running this for a while, and it’s hardly noticeable, even though I have hundreds of gigabytes of files on my Mac. The one time where I did notice it is when I downloaded a “demo” of a program (a torrent of something that I wanted to see the interface for), and it immediately detected a keylogger in one of the files.
If you have a Mac, there’s no real reason not to be running this.
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Trailer for Werner Herzog's INTO THE ABYSS
Here is the trailer for Werner Herzog's Into The Abyss. Herzog has directed such films as Cave Of Forgotten Dreams and Grizzly Man and now had taken us on a completely different journey. Abyss takes a close look into the American judicial system, focusing on the murder case, trial, sentencing and execution of teenage boy Michael Perry.
Synopsis:
Legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog (CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS, GRIZZLY
Read a review of the film from the London Film Festival at NapiersNews.com. IFC is set to release Into The Abyss in theaters on November 11.
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Ha ha I tricked you--I'm not discussing anything risque here, just oil stuff. As readers of Crash Landing know, I have been pontificating at Hayekian-like length on the oil markets, and in particular whether speculators are driving up prices. My general answer has been that it is theoretically possible they are doing so, but I don't think in fact that they are.
Now the one thing that has really been worrying me in my stance is this: With war brewing with Iran--where they might mine the Strait of Hormuz etc.--shouldn't speculators be driving oil prices way up? Shouldn't there be massive contango (or something more exotic involving the prices of options) in the oil market, giving people the incentive to buy oil today and stockpile it? As I speculated (ha ha) earlier, I think one of the reasons the Bush Administration was so reluctant to cease filling the SPR, is that we are going to need that oil if Israel bombs Iran.
But I need to take the (un)friendly criticism of emailers to heart, when after my articles on futures markets they blast me with, "We don't have a free market in oil!!"
Let's say you are a refiner and so you actually know how to stockpile thousands of barrels of oil. (Most people, especially me, would have no freaking idea how to do this.) Further suppose that you are really convinced there will be war with Iran before Bush leaves office.
OK, so are you really going to pay $1.4 million to buy 10,000 barrels of oil, then shell out another $?? to warehouse them for six months, buy insurance in case someone robs you or starts a fire, etc., and then try to sell them for a total of $4.2 million when oil triples? Do you really think when oil is selling for $420 per barrel, and we realize we've got about 2 months' worth of net imports in the SPR, that the politicians are going to say, "Good job, Mr. Speculator! Like a wise squirrel, you hoarded 10,000 barrels. In this country, such foresight is rewarded with entrepreneurial profits! Ah, don't forget to pay a low capital gains tax on that profit. Our small government needs its funding too, don't ya know" ?
Of course that wouldn't happen. Your oil would be seized and you'd be lucky if you didn't get shot as an example.
So this explains to my satisfaction why no US citizens, at least, are stockpiling oil like crazy. It doesn't, by itself, explain why speculators aren't driving up prices, but I wonder if there is something similar going on.
Bob,
Speaking of the Strait of Hormuz, now that you are a Big Oil insider, tell us if the insiders think it can be mined, since at its narrowest it's 20 something miles wide?
I don't know, RW. I'm in with oil guys but the only minesweeper I know is on my old computer.
Back when I did research for my novel, I had looked into the basics of mining etc. I think if Iran wanted to, they could definitely move the supply curve left.
Okay, just wanted to make sure you weren't a terrorist, after that Hillary/Obama plane.
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Figured I'd dust of Ye Olde General Admission to do a rundown of my Top 10 Favorite Albums of 2010. I've effectively deluded myself into thinking people might actually care about my opinion, because nothing says Musical Authority™ quite like a person sitting at their computer in a basement who can neither sing nor play an instrument.
Anyhow, I've traditionally thought of myself as an Indie Rock Kid. But, ignoring the fact that I'm 35, the main thing that's surprising about this list is the near complete absence of indie rock. One or two albums made it on the list, but for the most part this was apparently a year of hip hop and dance music for me. Maybe this just wasn't a good year for rock music, but just as likely, this list reflects the fact that 2010 was sort of a downer of a year, and I was trying to shake off the aura of doom and gloom by listening to music that made me want to shake my proverbial money-maker. Regardless, not many fuzzed out guitars to be found here.
So, onward to the list...
(In alphabetical order)
Aloe Blacc Good Things - "Hey honey, I was just listening to NPR on the drive to the store and heard this really good sounding album..." I'm not sure what it means that I'm getting my music recommendations from Public Radio, but -regardless- this album is a revelation. Somehow he's managed to capture the sound of spirit of early 70's soul music while not sounding cliched or derivative. And, even when he's singing about being scorned by a lover or needing a dollar for some cheap wine, his album makes you feel like you are enjoy a lazy Sunday morning.
Arcade Fire The Suburbs - Unlike Funeral, this album didn't didn't have the "thrill of the new" to it. And, unlike Neon Bible, it didn't have the opportunity to be stuck in a car with Sarah and I as we drove around South Africa for a couple weeks. Still, even an unremarkable Arcade Fire album is better than 90% of what's out there in my book. And, like both previous albums, The Suburbs continues to grow on me even after months of listening.
Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse Dark Night of the Soul - While most of the albums on this list could be described a "feel good" this album is the antithesis of that. A fact that was only driven to home by Mark Linkous' suicide before the albums completion. But, that's not to say that the album is chore to get through, far from it. Instead, its an album for dark nights, rain and wine; an album for recognizing beauty in sorrow and tragedy. It doesn't hurt that, like several other entires on this list, this album features a veritable cornucopia of guest artists, with everyone from the Flaming Lips and James Mercer to Iggy Pop and even David Lynch making appearances.
David Byrne and Fatboy Slim Here Lies Love - Despite my love of all things David Byrne, I have to admit that even I didn't know quite what to make of this album when I first gave it a listen. A two-disk collection of disco and dance songs roughly chronicling the life of Emelda Marcos, that Byrne has been researching and organizing for years. To make matters more surreal, it features a laundry list of famous female singers (including Tori Amos, Cyndi Lauper and Natalie Merchant) plus Byrne and Steve Earl singing the various rolls. But, despite my initial reservations, repeat listening paid off and the album revealed itself to be not just unusual but also a lot of fun. "Solano Avenue" is easily my favorite track of the albums, but "Please Don't" (featuring Santigold) is the main single, and features a video of sorts...
Dessa Badly Broken Code - Oddly, another NPR recommendation. And, almost as surreal, a white, female rapper. Dessa's album inhabits a world where everyone is constantly racing into and trying to escape from self-destructive relationships, but thanks to her nimble rap skills and surprising singing voice, it was a world I found myself revisiting. This song isn't as good as others on the album like, say, "Matches to Paper Dolls" but its got a video, so here ya go...
Gorillaz Plastic Beach - A cartoon bands third album, featuring a not so subtle environmental theme.... yeah, that sounds like it should be a disaster. But, despite that conceit, and despite the fact that it lacks the big singles found on the Gorillaz first two albums, Plastic Beach is possibly the Gorillaz strongest album to date. Without a big name producer to help steer the ship, this Gorillaz outing is definitely Damon Albarn's baby. That said, like the previous two outings, the disk is overflowing with an eccentric array of guest artists: Mos Def, Bobby Womack, Snoop Dogg and Lou Reed amongst others). And, of course, there are the trademarked weird and amazing videos by Jamie Hewlett...
Janelle Monae The Archandroid - When I first heard this album, I was convinced it would be huge in the same way the first Gnarls Barkley CD was. But, while it does seem to have gotten its fair share of love on various critics Top 10 lists this year, it never reached that over-saturated and overplayed level other album did. Probably for the best, I suppose. While other albums on my list lean heavily on guest artists, Janelle takes another route, instead drawing from a huge spectrum of musical influences from the last 30 or so year (ranging from Bowie to Outkast), and somehow jams them together into one cohesive album that lives in a world somewhere halfway between Phillip K. Dick and Metropolis.
Sadly, you can't embed the video for "Tightrope" the featured single, so you'll just have to go here to see Janelle do her thing, in all its pompadoured glory.
Junip Fields - Have you ever been at a party late at night, when everyone's pretty much left, and heard the sound of rock music playing through the walls from some other distant location? Or, have you ever wondered what it would sound like if the Beta Band made 70's folk rock? If you can imagine either of those sounds, you get close to approximating the sound of this Swedish duo. As the parent of a 2-year-old, you grow to appreciate music that is quiet enough that it won't wake your child up from a nap, but upbeat enough to keep you awake yourself. And, while the end of the album flirts with being too jam band-y, one can't deny its hooks and appeal.
Kenye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy - I thought I had this list all figured out in early December, but then Kanye had to go and release this album. Nominally a concept album in which the artist himself is the concept, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is an overstuffed, Baroque epic that should collapse under its own self-importance. It's self-indulgent, occasionally offensive, and abrasive ...and also pretty incredible and essential listening. In the main single, "Runaway," Kanye urges the listener to raise a toast to the douche bags, assholes and jerk-offs of the world while simultaneously acknowledges himself as one. Well, Kanye, I raise my glass to you.
Mark Ronson & the Business Intl. Record Collection - This is probably my guilty pleasure of the year. This is popcorn fluff of the highest caliber, but it's (I'd argue) also high quality fluff. Apparently Mark Ronson is a wealthy, privileged East Coast producer or something. I'm not too sure, but I do know the album brings a smile to my face and its mix of pop, dance and hip-hop makes me want to dance. Both timeless and soon-to-be-dated. In the album Mark confides that he just wants to be part of our record collection. Well, if I collected records, I would definitely consider it.
So, that's it. My list. I'm sure I'll regret it when I look back on it in a year. It's probably worth mentioning some of my other favorites that almost made the list:
Broken Social Scene Forgiveness Rock Record
Broken Bells Broken Bells
Cee Lo Green The Lady Killer
Charlotte Gainsbourg IRM
The Roots How I Got By
Vampire Weekend Contra
Also, the band (or individual) How To Dress Well was someone who I considered for this list. It sounds like late-80's R&B bounced off the moon and played over a crappy radio. It's an interesting one, and one that I can't help but think will gain some traction in the coming year but, ultimately, the album in its entirety was a little too esoteric. When it works though, it works...
Finally, I'll mention that while the above lists reflect my picks from the 2010 releases, there are a ton of older albums that have been getting a lot of play at the Hill-Stach Manor, including...
The XX The XX
Mos Def The Ecstatic
Basia Bulat Oh, My Darling (Stella's favorite of the year)
The National Boxer
Blue Scholars Hello From Oof
See you next year!
Biking Dry - Today is bike to work day and thus there is no better time to discuss how you can bike on most days without fear of getting wet....or at least very wet. Y...
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Macadamia Nuts grow on an evergreen tree that can grow up to 12 meters high which is about 39 feet. Macadamia Nuts can contain either one or two seeds inside of its hard and woody shell. Macadamia Nuts were named that way after a guy named John Macadam. Other names for Macadamia Nuts that you might encounter are like Bush nut, Queensland nut, Queen of nuts, Macadamia, Bauple nut, Boombera, Jindilli, and Gyndl. Macadamia Nuts are native to Australia. Today we can find Macadamia Nuts growing in Hawaii, South Africa, Brazil, California, Costa Rica, Kenya, Bolivia, New Zealand, Colombia, Malawi, and Israel. Macadamia Nuts are considered very Nutritious. Because of the health beneficial ingredients people use Macadamia oil in today’s Cosmetic, Hair, and Skincare products. The Nutrients that we find in a cup or 134 grams of Raw Macadamia Nuts are:
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Heading off the plateau today for the long drive to Yarnell. Yet another dentist appointment. One of these weeks/months I should be done. Here’s where I’ll be driving through.
The meadows on the Kaibab Plateau.
Also forest. Watch out for the not-so wildlife.
Drop off the plateau.
Past the Vermilion Cliffs.
Over the river and already went through the woods.
Across the painted desert.
Around Mount Humphreys.
Through Chino Valley where the pronghorns browse.
And home to the Weaver Mountains as the sun goes down.
360 miles. How far do you have to drive to the dentist?
15 Responses to “Going to the dentist, a long drive”
If you are adding the gas $$$$$ to the cost of the dentist $$$$$ you better be getting solid gold teeth installed! Beautiful drive BUT! Stay safe!
Between the hours of driving and the fuel this dental process is getting way too expensive Geri. But otherwise I’d have to wait until the season’s over, which may not be until mid-November.
Thirty miles round-trip to my dentist. Scenery not one iota as fantastic as yours!
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Well Jeannelle, I’d rather drive a shorter ways then settle with the lack of scenery.
Oh gosh — at least it’s beautiful scenery. My hope is that you feel OK to navigate the trip back. It’s a bit of a nasty commute no matter how gorgeous. (PS: I sure wish Typepad had the ‘please confirm you’re human’ button available. Just deleted 50 spams.)
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Er, I’d have to drive 625m here in EA. With nothing as lovely as your scenery to take my mind off the long trip and ultimate destination. At least we get to share this beautiful country of yours although for you it’s a painful process. Hope you’re feeling better and that the end of the dentistry is in sight, Gaelyn. (((Hugs))) Jo
Honestly — I’ve driven that route so many times in my life I thought I was driving it again. So pretty. And – I go one miles. So you beat me. I was suppose to have surgery this morning but it got delayed until December so the insurance would pick it up. The games we have to play.
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Wow, that’s quite a drive for your dental visit. I hope he’s doing good work for you. Will be nice to get it all done.
At least the drive is incredibly scenic.
I gotta say…..that’s a beautiful trek:) Hope your dentist visits slowly dissipate. You’ve gone a lot over the past several months. My Russian dentist is 40 minutes away. And she hurts me.
That is dedication to your chompers! Mine is about 2 miles away…and I still hate going.
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That is a long way to go to the dentist but at least most of it is an amazingly beautiful drive. Now that we have been there I take delight in looking at your images and saying to myself “I know where that is!”
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Yikes, Gaelyn – I thought the 90 miles to Denver was bad! I’m still dealing with mine, too. Good luck – hope this is it for you. I still haven’t even gotten measured for the crown.
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Trying to fix the scenery in your mind on the way to the dentist is a good way to later relax on the chair…
And I thought we had to drive far to find snow…. It may be far but the route has such an amazing veriety of sceneries. A beautiful part of the world you live in
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The scenery en route to the dentist would almost make it worthwhile! How far to Algodones from Port Townsend?….Maybe 1400 miles! Ours will have to wait till winter…
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The Whipping Tree
From the personal collection of M. Jones, the owner of this blog.
From the personal collection of F. Mathis, owner of MyNolaHeritage
The pictures are from my trip to Savannah, GA this past weekend where I met geneabuds Luckie Daniels, Felicia Mathis, and Sandra Taliaferro. The dark marks that you see on the trees are a present day reminder of the brutality of the chattel slavery system. They are where the leather whip that was used to "discipline" a slave sliced into the bark of the tree as well as the skin.
What a terrible reminder of what some of our ancestors endured.
Mavis,
What Kathleen said is so true; it's a terrible reminder. It is one of my most treasured photos from the trip. Viewing the tree was a very emotional experience.
San
Out of all the sightings this past weekend, this one cut me the deepest. Why I cannot tell you, but I literally could not lift the camera to snap the shot.
I am so glad that you and Felicia did. This is an image that though painful, cannot be forgotten.
Luckie.
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First let's look at Georgia's remaining schedule, the records of those teams, and associated RPIs for each team (from realtimerpi.com):
Keep in mind, Georgia's current RPI is in the 250 range. Based on that, we should be favored in one game (Florida A&M) based solely on schedule. We get a break in that our two most winnable games in conference, Auburn and Mississippi State, are at home. We should be favored in those two due to home court advantage. Also, we've always seemed to come up with one performance against a very good team (think Florida last season) and win a game we have no business winning.
If you are doing the math at home, that is 7 wins and 24 losses. Since this is the simplest way to look at a median number of wins, I'm ok with calling this our expected number and go with 7-24.
What about the upside?
Realistically, we cannot be expected to beat Florida either time this year. Same goes for Texas A&M or Alabama. For that matter, the only road games we should be anywhere close to being competitive in would be South Carolina and Vandy. Furthermore, any home game against a team with a sub 100 RPI would be a huge upset. I'm willing to say we can win one of USC (not likely, but possible) and George Washington (who has struggled recently and also lost to Youngstown State).
That leaves Florida A&M, one of George Washington/USC, Mississippi State, Auburn, South Carolina at home, one of South Carolina/Vandy on the road, and that one crazy game that we always have at home where we slip up and surprise someone. For good measure let's say we have two of those games. That is 11-20.
Isn't 7-24 the downside?
God no. We could go 1-17 in the conference and only win one of the remaining OOC games. That'd be a gut wrenching 5-26. For that matter, we could go 0-18 in the conference if Fox loses the team. The SEC, while far from being as good as it has been in some years is much better than it has been. Furthermore, Georgia's schedule, looking forward, is very tough. We get four of the top five RPI teams in the conference twice. We only play one of the other bottom feeders (South Carolina) twice.
Like I said earlier, the only thing that gives me any hope for better than 10 wins is somehow the younger lineup starts to gel and we find some offense to go with the plodding game pace. You can complain about the pace of the game, but we aren't going to win
Then the question then becomes is 14-17 good enough for Fox to keep his job?
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I think it's a 10-21 season. Upside is 13 games. We will play better with the 3 fr starting.
The downside depends on KCp's health.
Meh. It's basketball. Fire Fox or whatever. Nobody really cares. Isn't there a bowl game coming up?.
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Field trips begin and end in front of the LMU Geology institute (Luisenstr. 37, Munich) unless otherwise indicated. All trips include transportation during the trip.
Registration for field trips closes 30 June 2011. This deadline may be extended for individual trips that are not yet full, so please check back even after the deadline if you are interested in joining a field trip.
The field trip fee is non-refundable with the exception of trip cancellation by the organizers. Field trip registration fees will be debited to your credit card as soon as the trip has reached the minimum number of participants, so you might not see a charge right away on your card statement.
Pre-Conference (21 August to 4 September)
Please check individual trip page to see if it is still open for registration.
Long Trips
- E 1: Transalp 1 (Tauern Window) (AWG trip)
- E 2: Transalp 2 (Northern Alps & foreland basin)
- E 3: Two Orogens and their Subduction Records in the Eastern Alps
- E 19a: Geoparks of Germany: Vulkaneifel
One or Two Days Trips
- E 6: Geodetic Observatory Wettzell
- E 8: Naturwerksteine Münchens
- E 9: Quaternary Geology of the Alpine Foreland
- E 10: Monitoring of Alpine Glaciers, Austria
- E 18: Active Tectonics and Earthquake Geology of the Vienna Basin (AWG trip)
Post-Conference (8-14 September)
- E 4: German Aerospace Center (DLR) (one-day trip)
- E 11: Transalp 3 (Southern Alps and Dolomites)
- E 12: Eastern Alps South of Salzburg
- E 13: Natural Hazards of the Northern Alps
- E 14: Geo Resources of Bavaria
- E 15: Deep Geothermal Power Plants and Drilling Sites in and around Munich (one-day trip)
- E 16: Geoparks of Germany: Ries Impact Crater
- E 17: Geoparks of Germany: Continental Deep Drilling Site (KTB Borehole)
- E 19b: Geoparks of Germany: Erzgebirge, future Geopark?
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CyberSource, the largest Fraud Prevention and eCommerce Transaction Security company in the world, was extending their footprint into the Asia Pacific region. In light of this, the Visa subsidiary wanted to generate more APAC leads. CyberSource already had an established traditional marketing system which involved direct mailers, events and database marketing. What they needed was a solution that would not only provide them with valuable leads but would also take their marketing beyond traditional methods.
Our solution involved using CyberSource's existing content and re-purposing them creatively. Tapping CyberSource's industry reports, we developed a rapid survey solution called a "Pulse Survey". The interactive survey is web-based and device-independent. As potential leads answer the 5-minute survey, they can immediately see detailed analysis based on their answers. And if they wanted to have an offline copy of the complete survey report, all they have to do was provide basic information like name and email.
Aside from being used as an effective online tool for lead generation, CyberSource also uses the "Pulse Survey" at events where booth assistants directly engage leads using mobile devices. As potential leads answer the survey questions, the detailed analysis that they get gives them an on-the-spot snapshot of how their company is benchmarked against the industry. The real time information that they glean from the survey gives prospects valuable and actionable insight. The immediate nature of this rapid survey solution has proven to be very effective in achieving better conversion rates. Online forms that are not powered by good and enticing content usually deter prospects from converting. Through a solution that offers something of value first (automatic analysis, instant benchmarking) before asking for contact information, CyberSource is able to net more high quality leads.
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I have been gone for a very very long time I know. My camera broke. One minute I was taking photos of food and the next it just wouldn’t switch on again. Then I was in Maputo working for a couple of weeks. And then and then and then… Now I am left with a broken camera and an empty bank account. Any camera donations will be greatly appreciated. A Canon Powershot G10 wouldn’t go amiss…
Anyway… I recently spent a weekend in Dundee checking out Vaughn and Neil’s public art project as part of Two Thousand and Ten Reasons to Live in a Small Town. We were all staying on a farm just out of town and Vaughn cooked us dinner. I borrowed his camera and took some pics. They are not of the usual standard I’m afraid, but they still give you an idea of the deliciousness of it all.
Ingredients
- 2kgs baby potatoes
- a few sprigs of rosemary
- 4 sliced cloves of wild garlic
- 2 packs of calamata olives
- 2 rounds of feta
- 100g mixed roasted seeds
- olive oil, salt and pepper
Put the potatoes into a roasting dish and douse with olive oil. Take the pips out of the olives and mix through the potatoes. Strip the rosemary from their stalks, and slice the garlic and mix through the potatoes and olives. Add salt and pepper and mix everything through with your hands, rubbing all the flavour into the potatoes. Roast in an oven of around 180 degrees until the potatoes are crisping nicely on the outside, but soft on the inside. Dry roast the seeds and mix through. Crumble the feta and mix through gently. Serve with a green salad, such as the Baby spinach, roast sweetcorn, asparagus, almond and parmesan salad that Vaughn served for this meal.
Vegan version: remove the feta
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Yummy! Will make before the year is out! Welcome back!
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Homeschooling while holding a job?
This is not an official GE post, but more of a request for a column I'm writing for USA Today on homeschooling. I would love to talk with a parent who homeschooled a child while holding a job (working from home/self-employed is OK, as long as it was a "real" reasonable money-making enterprise). Please let me know if you'd be willing to be interviewed. Thanks!
Posted by Laura Vanderkam at 12:14 PM
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Hi, I'm Annie. Not sure if I'm quite what you are looking for. My husband and I run our small computer company from home, and I homeschool our two oldest sons (7 and 5). We basically provide all the tech support small professional offices need without the cost of hiring a full time tech staff. My husband goes to the various offices to the computer work. I handle the business side of things from home. If you want to see more about the homeschooling side of things, look at. If we are what you are looking for, feel free to contact me.
Annie- I would love to talk to you. Blogger doesn't record your email for me, and it isn't readily available from your website (I guessed at one possible address). Can you please email me directly at lvanderkam at yahoo dot com? Thanks so much.
My husband and I are homeschooling a 10yo while both working full time. It's actually been much easier than I anticipated. Feel free to contact me if you want. mmulder at triad.rr.com .
Just started homeschooling, while trying to negotiate with the school to get my 13 y.o. son tutored/reimbursement for online CTY courses (or similar).
I'm a freelance copywriter and sole support for the family. It's not easy, and I'd REALLY appreciate a support group of single parents doing schooling on their own.
Once you've made contact with others, would it be possible for you to ask to share their email...as I'd like to form a group.
I work full time for an internet company and homeschool 5 kids.
Feel free to email me if you want to know more. . .
liss1024 at yahoo dot com
Melissa
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Closed captioning is a technology that’s been around for a few decades, but it’s changed very little since then. The techniques and processes behind the scenes are even still roughly the same as they were in the beginning. Some Canadians have been complaining that the quality of their captions are even worse than those in the United States.
But no matter how you look at it: Captioning Sucks. Yep, and it needs to be improved; especially with new media. It’s still embarrassing on DVD, too! And HDTV captions aren’t much better. The technology is slow, clunky, limited in the number of fonts, accuracy is sometimes lacking – if they even bother at all (some media companies and broadcasters just don’t care).
There is one company that I think is trying to help and make a difference – Apple, of course! They do have a long way to go, but they’re doing their best to encourage movie companies to put captions on their iTunes-hosted movies (not that the movie companies care enough to actually do so).
When I downloaded the WWDC session videos from 2007, I noticed that they’ve added captions (the transcription is bad, but it’s a start). Horray!
Anyway, I wanted to give a shout out to Apple, and encourage them to keep improving in this area… and to point everyone to the Captioning Sucks website, so that we can pressure those companies to improve captioning for the hearing impaired.
Someone should tell them Comic Sans sucks worse.
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Every icon has his or her imitators, and while The Daily Show‘s Jon Stewart didn’t invent the concept of snarking at the news in a quasi-reporting format, his influence has had a profound impact not just on the television world, but on web video. And shows.
The people behind ENN are Canadian and have said that ENN is more closely modelled after the Canadian show This Hour Has 22 Minutes, which has been on air since 1993. With that said I’m sure lots of other influences have made their mark, like The Daily Show or The Onion News Network.
Wow, that Bri Holt guy is super handsome and smart. I would totally sleep with him and I advise all other attractive females to do the same.
Uhhhhh … you might want to fix that typo.
Walter Cronkike? Huh?
(And yes, ENN is an amalgam heavily influenced by 22 Minutes. I’m Jerry Boyle! If you can mark an “X”, you’re MY KIND OF PEOPLE!)
Fixed that typo, ENN, thanks!
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Great idea. Video is a perfect way for people to share exactly what is going on. I used video to solve a problem with Comcast suport via QIK video back in 2008:
Micheal dell is an innovator, he sure knows how to take his business to the heights! its an excellent idea. You can actually see the tech you are speaking to..
It occurred to me the other day how ironic it is that the newest social media platform could possibly INCREASE face to face interaction. It seems like the days of people hiding behind a name and picture will eventually be just a memory. Why “chat” when we can “hangout”? It will certainly be interesting to see, especially its implications for B2C interaction. Just a little tidbit about other possible effects of Google+
Indeed. If Facebook was about getting people to show their personality through photos, I think Google+ will be all about getting people to show it directly through video, in a much more realistic way, and also to unite people in groups, which is what “social” is all about.
This spells big trouble for startups which are focused on social media based customer service apps. Google hangout, social networking and search & knowledge management could help solidify its position as a leader in the small business market.
So how do you hangout with the tech guy when your computer has issues? Maybe on your iPad?
That issue crossed my mind too, but I expect it to be less of an issue in the future – Dell are smart here by again demonstrating an innovative use of social media.
As you say, iPads, other computers and eventually smartphones will be great for this sort of customer support in the future – the ability to clearly display the problem and solution will surely make the experience for both parties much smoother.
I like that they are also thinking about group self-help, it’ll be interesting to see what ideas other brands have for using Google+’s features.
I sure look forward to this initiative by Dell.
Although good idea, Dell is going to have to wait, there’s currently no option for google apps for business to be incorporated in google plus (although it’s been promised).
cooperation between Dell with google which is very impressive, hopefully it can make a lot of positive reaction from most customers.
Great for online computer training / product introduction. Sometimes little problems with the computer could be solved easily by a brief talk. Far better than emails.
I believe using “hangout” would be a better option than Facebook Pages – Hangout is fast and easy, in my opinion. All the best Mr. Dell
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Use the correct CFLAGS from BR and not just the LDFLAGS. This is especially important for external toolchain setups, but the lockfile-progs buildsystem also hardcodes -Werror, which breaks the build in certain setups. Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
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Hey,
Perfect timing on the contest! I shoot film so the processing and scanning never seem to match up for a entry. Shot this one while doing some bike riding around Denver. I stumbled upon a cool looking plastic chair. I moved it out into the nice spring sun to get a cool shadow snapped the photo and rode off, simple. Shot with Nikon FE2 on Fuji Neopan 100.
- Ryan
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This is a photograph of the reservoir that I am near. I took it during the evening where I set up both my Canon 7D and T3i and took numerous shots throughout my time there. I really enjoyed how this one came out, but it called for black and white as the colors were just slightly off. After changing the image to B&W I got an image that I really liked.
The light really wasn't that great for shooting, the sky was colorless and it was too bright for really long exposures. But, I knew I wanted an image that was smooth and clean while still showing the natural movements in nature. I realized I could do this with the help of black and white. At the same time, I wanted to be sure not to catch too much movement from the wind and the geese and ducks (seen moving in the water). To do this I took a series of photos at different intervals. This one brought just enough movement to the photo to keep the rougher nature feel while being quiet and smooth.
ISO: 100
Lens: Sigma 50mm f/2.8 with Canon EF Converter
Shutter Speed: 4/5 sec
Camera Setting: Manual
Editing: Adobe CS6 (beta) — Conversion to B&W from RAW color image, and slight touch ups/changes
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I was driving home from work and and saw this statue in front of the Penrose Equestrian Center. The storm clouds behind the statute added some drama to the wild pose of the horse and rider. Wild horses + Cowboys + Afternoon Storm Clouds + Mountains = Quintessential Colorado.
I shot this image in RAW and converted to black and white in post processing. I used a Nikon D3000 with a 50mm NIKKOR 1.8G lens. It was shot with ISO 100, f/5.6, 1/200 sec with a flash to fill in some of the shadows on the dark bronze.
- Jeremy
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Thanks for the opportunity to participate in this shooting contest, I am a very, very amateur photo enthusiast. This photo is of my 8 month old daughter in our back yard. Since watermelon is just in season we figured we would let her try some out.
Here are some details of the photo:
Camera: Nikon D3100
Lens: AF-S DX VR Zoom-Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G
Lighting: Natural Sunlight / Stock Flash
ISO: 280
Lens covers: Close-up x2 Lens with UV Filter
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I wanted to get into this week's contest because I love black and white! However my dSLR is under the weather for some unknown reason, and I had to improvise. This was taken with my point and shoot Sony HX5V. f/11.0, 2 second exposure, and ISO 125. 2 external flashes triggered manually w/ a wireless flash.
I've been in a very piano-y mood over the past week and wanted to integrate that interest into my photo. I set up my scene with a few tealights and a couple other candles (off screen) and got shooting! It was kind of fun to try and use external flashes with a point and shoot. Overall, a fun shoot!
- Brian Coffman
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This is a photograph I took of my horse, Gus. He will literally do anything I ask of him for just a pat on the neck and a "Good Boy!!'. This horse lives for praise.
Davee Hallinan
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Hey,
This photo was taken in my hometown of Mississauga, ON. Photos provide a good way to remembering home when I'm homesick. It being my birthday today, and being away from home, family, friends, is driving me homesick.
Time to scroll through photos.
Cheers.
- Bilal
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This shot was taken with a Panasonic DMC-TS3 Point and shoot camera that my family won in Roll up the Rim.
shot on auto from halfway up the branch (nothing too fancy, i did more of the work in photoshop), the file states an ISO speed of 100, 0 step exposure with an exposure time of 1/100. the photo is using photoshop's black and white filter with a minor adjustment on the maximum black preset.
I am a casual photographer who likes to take macro pictures from angles people don't usually notice (maybe a little cliché , but i like the results). when i heard of the contest, i decided to take a walk around with my camera. this shot was taken vertically from halfway up a shrub in my front yard. out of all the 20 or so pictures i took today, this one stood out for me.
- Dylan
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Used a Canon EOS Rebel T2i with EF-S 55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS in Av Mode at 1/500, f/5.6, ISO 100.
This is a handheld capture of one of the many American Crows residing in Santa Monica's Palisades Park. Perched on the stump of a dead palm, he remained almost entirely still for quite some time, shifting his head only slightly to better observe me. I'm pretty sure he was posing. Yeah, he was definitely posing.
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Montreal's recently redesigned bus station. Because of the classic typeface, I decided to aim for a noir-inspired look. The flares around the headlights/streetlamps are a side effect of a long exposure at a really narrow aperture (f/22).
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Shooting Summary:
Camera: Canon Digital Rebel XT
ISO 400
F/13
1/50shutter speed
Standard 18-55mm lens at 22mm zoom
Shot in color, converted in Photoshop to black and white
Story behind the photo:
I took this photo while on vacation with my girlfriends family in Las Vegas last week. Her parents wanted me to take a portrait of all of us in front of our hotel (the Aria, really nice btw!) window that overlooks some of Vegas. However, when setting up the camera on my tripod and getting all the settings correct, I snapped a TEST photo before I set up the timer so I could get in the photo (I am not in this photo). Turned out to be a great "capturing the moment" photo that I really love. You can tell everyone is having a great time (even though we were getting ready to leave) and the overall feel is light and happy. Glad to share it with you guys/gals!
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I took the shot In Oakville, Ontario, Canada. My equipment - Canon T3i with an 18-55mm Lens, I followed your steps and used a low ISO and shot in RAW and used Photoshop's Camera RAW 6.6 to edit the exposure, sharpness and most noticeably the tone, saturation and vibrance. The shot came out so mid focused I had no reason to use any post production blurring (this is all straight from the camera)
The shot was actually taken in a park called 16 Mile Creek thats stretched, you guessed it 16 Miles.(this was one of the many steep paths leading down to the creek.)
I had many great shots however this one just looked perfect in Black & White. Most of the other shots looked stunning in over saturated production. If you would like to see more of my photographs check out my instragram account "ryanwattz"
Enjoy
Ryan Watt
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I snagged this 7 shot Black and White HDR of this Porsche 911 GT2 at Festivals of Speed in St. Petersburg, FL 2 weekends ago. Shot with a Canon T2i, 18-55 kit lens, processed in Photomatix, Lightroom and CS4. Thanks.
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Tomorrow's Wellness Horoscope for CancerPresented by Horoscope.com
You can benefit tremendously from a physical group activity such as a team that trains together for an athletic event. The group spirit is uplifting for your nature, which has a tendency to be introverted when left alone. And, having a goal can help shape your perspective about life, which can otherwise become obtuse and slightly pessimistic if you aren't careful. Enjoy yourself with friends who are physically active and see what energy comes of it.
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When I come face to face with Mr. Clinton, I must remember "Be Yourself" while flirting with an older man.
White House Wear7 of 16
This feminine duo is a necessity while tiptoeing through the estate halls at night — you never know what (or who) you might find.
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Repair Me8 of 16
I love an all-night schmooze fest and this night eye cream will keep me bright-eyed for round two.
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Rhinebeck Romance9 of 16
With romance in the air, I'll be wearing this inspired 'do, which is perfect for showing off my stunner earrings.
Courting Candy10 of 16
Statement earrings are a must in my book and these chandeliers create the perfect pop of color and shine off the simplicity of my little black dress.
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Foreign Elegance11 of 16
Sophistication is the word for this wedding and this LBD is sure to make a presidential entrance.
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Senate Slipper12 of 16
I want to keep it simple and elegant this evening, and I'll be ready to dance the night away in this gilded peep toe shoe.
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State Seduction13 of 16
In this subtly sexy, yet totally romantic parfum I'll feel ready for a scandal of my own.
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Marine Minded14 of 16
This marine-conscious beauty compact will be a keen conversation starter with our eco-minded former VP.
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Personal CIA15 of 16
This tech powerhouse will keep me informed of political happenings, receive the new secret wedding location via text, and snap pix while rubbing elbows with politicians.
Now It's Your Turn!16 of 16
I used my Glo scrapbook to pick my must haves for a wedding, fit for American Royalty.
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Claire Danes' sultry ELLE photo shoot
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Age of Innocence2 of 31 ELLE: See the Style Inspiration Behind the Claire Danes Cover Shoot
Soul Mates3 of 31 ELLE: The Biggest Celebrity Makeovers of 2012
Starstruck4 of 31
On meeting President Obama at the White House Correspondents' Dinner: "We walked over before we could think and found ourselves shaking hands with him. Hugh realized that he'd forgotten to properly introduce himself, and."
Baby Talk5 of 31 ELLE: Claire Danes' Beauty Secrets
Dark Angel6 of 31
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ON ELLE: The Most-Requested Celeb Hairstyles in America
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Kidding Around8 of 31
See more from Danes' shoot in the February issue of ELLE, on newsstands January 15th. In the meantime, click through the slides to see the actress’s best looks over the years.
Just before Christmas, the new mom was out with her infant and husband Dancy on the streets of New York. Even bundled in an army green parka and hat, she still radiated style and joy.
Winning Ticket9 of 31
The then-pregnant actress glowed at last year's Emmy Awards, winning Best Lead Actress for her role in the hit show Homeland and best dressed for this chartreuse strapless Lanvin gown from 2013's resort collection.
Blue Belle10 of 31
At Showtime's Emmy soiree, Danes elegantly covered her baby bump in a cobalt blue Jason Wu sheath dress with a slightly jeweled neckline and peep-toe heels for a dose of throwback grace.
Work It11 of 31
Danes looked as if she were going undercover while spotted on the streets of New York in workout gear and no makeup last summer.
White Hot12 of 31
At the Met Gala, Danes stunned in a J. Mendel gown embellished with snow white crystals, Christian Louboutin heels and a chic French twist.
Retro Fit13 of 31
Looking like Hollywood royalty at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, the Homeland star wore a curve-hugging silk Vivienne Westwood gown.
High Style14 of 31
In a terracotta Lanvin crinkled shift, statement necklace, and a pompadour (the hairstyle of the moment), Danes looked fashion-forward while sticking to her minimalist mantra.
Pretty in Pink15 of 31
The fuchsia-and-black Narciso Rodriguez dress the actress wore to the Hysteria premiere was vintage Danes: modern, clean, and understated.
Frill Seeker16 of 31
The star garnered much attention at the 2012 Vanity Fair Oscar party in a red Valentino sheer, multi-tiered gown—a departure from her usual streamline silhouettes. Slightly messy hair kept her looking fashion-forward, not fairy-tale princess.
Black Beauty17 of 31
Danes looked effortlessly elegant sitting front row at Narciso Rodriguez's Fall 2012 show, in one of his simple black double-strapped dresses.
City Slicker18 of 31
On the streets of her hometown, Danes was spotted in a fitted black puffer jacket, ankle boots and carrying an oversize orange-and-black striped tote.
Class Act19 of 31
The actress radiated old Hollywood glamour in a sleek black-and-white J. Mendel gown paired with pulled-back hair and a statement red lip at the 69th Golden Globe Awards.
Trace of Lace20 of 31
Decked in a red ruffled and organza Valentino creation, the star celebrated with the iconic designer at his museum launch party.
Work of Art21 of 31
For the 63rd Emmy Awards, Danes donned a blue georgette sequined embroidered gown from Oscar de la Renta's 2012 resort collection.
Gold Rush22 of 31
At the Met Gala in 2011, Danes flexed her fashion chops in a gold metallic Calvin Klein A-line gown and Fred Leighton jewels.
White Nights23 of 31
The queen of minimalism looked pretty and polished in a winter white Calvin Klein dress paired with matching sandals and a silver clutch at the 2011 Vanity Fair Oscar Party.
Flower Power24 of 31
Veering from her sleek, monotone style, Danes was a pleasant surprise in this green floral Louis Vuitton gown embroidered with silk flowers and black pearls at the 17th Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Pink Lady25 of 31
Possibly one of her most memorable red carpet moments: a bubblegum pink custom-made Calvin Klein halter gown for the 68th Golden Globes post-party.
Crystal Clear26 of 31
Danes stunned at the 2010 Emmy Awards in a crystal strapless Armani Privé gown with a cascading train.
Nude and Improved27 of 31
Wearing a Zac Posen nude dress with cap sleeves and black lace overlay, Danes kept things sophisticated but romantic at the Annual Elton John AIDS Foundation Party back in 2009.
Mad for Plaid28 of 31
Danes' classic, understated choices on the red carpet are also reflected in her street style. Back in 2006, she wore a cozy wool plaid coat and boot-cut jeans.
Red Hot29 of 31
Danes went all out for her turn in The Vagina Monologues in 2001, making a splash in a sharp red dress and matching boa.
Teen Drama30 of 31
While starring in My So-Called Life, Danes already showed a penchant for timeless style.
Eastern Influence31 of 31
That same year, she made a statement in an Asian-inspired evening coat and twisted hair that was all the rage in the '90s.
NEXT ON GLO: BEHIND-THE-SCENES OF JESSICA BIEL'S ELLE COVER
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: Propaganda
Did NGO’s help overthrow Gaddafi?
Posted in Libya, News Tagged Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Libya, NGOs, Propaganda, rt, UN resolution
The Gaddafi Mercenaries and the Division of Africa
Julien Teil Exposing the lies of the presence of ‘African mercenaries’ in Libya The presence of ‘African mercenaries’ in Libya was a lie used by NATO and their mouthpieces in the mainstream media to de-legitimise and demonise the Libyan government …
Posted in Libya, News, Videos Tagged African Mercenaries, Black Libyans, Blacks, Ethnic Cleansing, Libya, Lynching, Media, Migrant Workers, NATO, Propaganda, Racism, racist, Rebels Leave a comment
How the Media Manipulates the World into War
Posted in Libya, News, Videos Tagged How the Media Manipulates the World into War, Manipulation, Media, Propaganda, war Leave a comment
The Libyan Tragedy: lessons for the western left
By Tim Anderson opednews One might have thought that with the “humanitarian’ pretexts for the invasions and occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan fairly fresh in the mind, the western “left’ might have hesitated before backing (or refusing to oppose) a …
Posted in Libya, News Tagged Libya, NATO, Propaganda, The Libyan Tragedy: lessons for the western left, Tim Anderson Leave a comment
NATO’s Depraved Disregard for Libyan Civilian Casualties
By Glen Ford December 21, 2011 “BAR‘ – After leaving the door open to the United States and its European allies to destroy Libya from the air for seven brutal months, Russia is now pressing for an investigation of civilian casualties inflicted …
Posted in Libya, News Tagged Civilian asualties, Civilian death toll, Libya, NATO, Propaganda, Russia, War Crimes Leave a comment
Libya: Human rights imposters used to spawn NATO’s fraudulent war
Voltaire Network | 17 October 2011 …
Libya Media Front: ‘No NATO success without Al Jazeera’ – Sukant Chandan
Posted in Libya, News, Videos Tagged Africa, Gaddafi, Media, NATO, NTC, Propaganda, Rebels, resistance, Sukant Chandan Leave a comment
The alleged mass graves of Abu Salim
Posted in Libya, News, Videos Tagged abu salim, animal bones, Libya, Mass Graves, Propaganda, Tripoli 2 Comments
Libyan rebels ‘Brigade for Purging Slaves’ targets black Africans
Libyan rebel fighters are allegedly abusing dark-skinned Libyans and migrant black African workers, ignoring calls for restraint from the National Transitional Council. Black Libyans and African migrants have been targeted by Libyan rebel fighters who even have a special unit …
Posted in Libya, News Tagged Brigade for purging slaves, Ethnic Cleansing, Libya, NATO, NTC, Propaganda, racist, Rebels, TNC, War Crimes
Public see through NATO propaganda – see comments section of Telegraph article below
Nato launches renewed strikes in bid to help Libyan rebels’ final assault By Richard Spencer, Tripoli, Ruth Sherlock near Bani Walid and Rob Crilly in Benghazi 11:43PM BST 11 Sep 2011 Nato said it had struck a pro-Gaddafi tank, two …
Posted in Libya, News Tagged Bani Walid, Bombing, civilians, Libya, NATO, Propaganda, public opinion, Rebels, Sirte, Telegraph, War Crimes Leave a comment
Western journalist admits calling in NATO airstrikes
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Posted in Libya, News Tagged Ann Marlowe, Bombing, journalist, Libya, NATO air strike, NTC, Propaganda, Rebels Leave a comment
From Cynthia McKinney: Libya Eyewitness Truth Tour Final Report
Posted: September 3, 2011 by actofdefiance in Uncategorized When the DIGNITY Delegation of journalists was there, we could already see the impact of the bombing on patients in the hospital, children trying to understand what was happening, women trying to …
Posted in Libya, News Tagged Bombing, civilians, Cynthia Mckinney, Dignity Delegation, eyewitness, Libya, Propaganda, report, Weapons Leave a comment 6 Comments
Cynthia McKinney: Libya and Lies
NATO war crimes are being excused, discounted, or covered up by those who posed as supporters of justice and peace. It is never OK to bomb people. And it is never OK to ask the peace-loving people of this country …
Posted in Libya, News Tagged ANSWER coalition, Cynthia Mckinney, Demonisation, Libya, Lies, NATO, Propaganda, Rebels, US, USA Leave a comment
Yvonne di Vito discusses the failings of journalists in Libya
Posted in Libya, News, Videos Tagged Libya, Media, NATO, Propaganda, Rebels, war, Yvonne di Vito Leave a comment
Libya and the end of West illusions
Just under half of Europeans still support the war against Libya. Their position is based on erroneous information. They still believe, in fact, that in February the “Gaddafi regime” crushed the protests in Benghazi with brutal force and bombed civilian …
Posted in Libya, News Tagged Bombing, Libya, NATO, Propaganda, Resolution, Thierry Meyssan, Tripoli, UN Leave a comment
Libya War Lies Worse Than Iraq – Thomas C. Mountain
The lies used to justify the NATO war against Libya have surpassed those created to justify the invasion of Iraq.
Posted in Libya, News Tagged Africa, Amnesty International, Gaddafi, Libya, NATO, Propaganda, Rebels Leave a comment
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I live a few steps from the Pacific Ocean and love watching the ocean waves by day and hearing them crash softly in the night. Ocean Beach is a special neighborhood—artsy, funky and a little set back in time, yet timeless. I recently heard someone describe it as “the best little town on earth”… To say it is unique would be an understatement. The ocean is so healing and peaceful; living so close to it definitely brings a constant calmness into your life. I created this illustration to represent all these characteristics and the beauty of my neighborhood, Ocean Beach.
Name: Jenn David Connolly
Place you live: Ocean Beach, San Diego, California
Place your postcard is designed for: Ocean Beach
Occupation: Owner/Designer of Jenn David Design.
Preoccupation: Enjoying the outdoors as much as possible with my kids.
A perfect day? A day filled with many hours spent outdoors having fun in the sun with great friends, a dip in the ocean, followed by the weekly farmers market in the evening and drinks on the porch at sunset.
For the visitor? If someone were visiting Ocean Beach, they should definitely experience the weekly farmers market which is filled with great food, artisan goods, music from local bands, and the community coming together for a weekly celebration of all things good.
A perfect meal? A meal from one of the many great vendors at the farmers market or from the deli at the local co-op.
A little known fact about where you live? There is an annual Christmas Parade that can get pretty wacky!
Where is your favorite place in the world? Right now, it is right here where I live.
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