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(RNN) – Fifty years ago, John F. Kennedy arrived in Dallas, TX, in an airplane, rode through the streets in a black limousine and left in a casket.
What happened between the time Air Force One took President Kennedy from Fort Worth, TX, to Dallas and when it took President Lyndon Johnson from Dallas to Washington, DC, is perhaps the most hotly debated event in American history.
Many of the facts of Kennedy's assassination are known and undisputed, but the answer to one question has eluded investigators since Nov. 22, 1963 – who fired the bullet that killed him? It's been 50 years since it happened, and the answer still remains controversial.
The Sixth Floor Museum occupies the location inside the former Texas School Book Depository building where the shot that killed Kennedy has been reported to have been fired. Nicola Longford has been the executive director of the museum for eight years and said the facts surrounding the assassination are clear, but the museum does not explicitly claim to have the answer.
"We know that Lee Harvey Oswald worked in the Texas School Book Depository and was here in the building on the day of the assassination," Longford said. "All the facts lead to him having been involved in shooting the president."
Witnesses said they saw a man in the window of the building pointing a rifle at the presidential motorcade and a bullet recovered from the leg of Texas Gov. John Connally was later matched through forensic analysis to a rifle owned by Oswald. Oswald's friend also claimed he carried a package with him into the building the day of the assassination that he claimed was curtain rods.
That's as close as the mystery has come to being solved.
Oswald was arrested and charged with murder shortly after Kennedy was assassinated, but it was for the murder of police officer J.D. Tippit. He was arrested at a movie theatre and was later charged with assassinating the president, but claimed he was innocent and was "a patsy."
That comment spurred many theories about the involvement of other people, but none could be substantiated or refuted by Oswald himself, who was shot and killed two days later on live television by Jack Ruby while being walked out in front of the media.
Longford said some of the theories surrounding the assassination have no basis in fact, but she nor the museum are willing to say which ones.
"Most of the theories can be easily debunked, but it's really up to people to make their own decisions," Longford said. "It can be very confusing, but I think the facts of the story are clear. I think the majority of people still believe there was a conspiracy, but many scholars and researchers have shifted their thinking of the time and they have come to accept that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone gunman. However, the museum does not state that."
Colin McLaren is not among that group.
McLaren is the author of JFK: The Smoking Gun, a book released in conjunction with a documentary of the same name that first aired Nov. 3 on the television channel Reelz. McLaren's work promotes the theory that a Secret Service agent accidentally shot the president while reacting to the sound of the shots fired by Oswald.
The basis of the theory was formed when McLaren, a former police investigator from Australia, spent several years researching the assassination. He focused on reports of bystanders smelling gunpowder at street level, the conflicting performances by the bullets that struck Kennedy – meaning they were different types of rounds from different guns – and the inexperience of Secret Service agent George Hickey, who was equipped with an AR-15 despite having minimal experience with the weapon.
"As a detective, the lone gunman theory requires me to believe a man of average firearms expertise, carrying a clunky World War II surplus rifle with misaligned sights is going to take aim with all sorts of obstacles and wind in his face and get three accurate shots away in 5.6 seconds. I just couldn't go with the lone gunman theory," McLaren said. "That theory also requires me to believe that the three shots that Lee Harvey Oswald supposedly did get off were all from the same gun."
That's where McLaren said the theory falls apart because the first wound to Kennedy's neck was a clean entry and the bullet traveled through his body, the body and arm of Connally and lodged in Connally's leg, deformed, but intact.
If the bullet that struck Kennedy in the head seconds later was the same type of bullet, McLaren says the wound would be different than the one he actually suffered.
"The 6.5mm full metal jacket round is designed to pass neatly and cleanly through the body of a person," McLaren said. "The second shot gets JFK in back of the neck and it's clean as a whistle – perfect performance of Carcano 6.5mm full metal jacket round. The third round is totally different. It's devastating. That massive fist-sized wound seen on the Zapruder film is actually the work of a different bullet, and that bullet is a .223 hollow-point round, which is designed to explode violently on impact."
McLaren says the only place that bullet could have come from, due to the location of the wound, was from behind Kennedy, and ballistic evidence points to the Secret Service follow-up car where Hickey was. Hickey is also the only person in the vicinity with a high-powered rifle.
Photographic evidence does show Hickey with an assault rifle raised, though pinpointing the time is difficult because it was not captured on the film shot by Abraham Zapruder, which was the only video taken of the fatal shot.
Accepting that theory also requires believing the assassination was followed by a cover-up effort to convince the public Oswald was the assassin. McLaren believes it was done in an effort to keep the U.S. from looking incompetent to foreign governments.
"1963 was the height of the Cold War, and America had really taken it to the Russians and the Cubans, and Kennedy was looking good and strong. If it got out that the Secret Service had shot their own man, it's fair to say [Soviet Premier Nikita] Khrushchev and [Cuban Prime Minister Fidel] Castro would have made massive propaganda out of it," McLaren said. "The American administration would have been the laughingstock of the world for a long time, so it was in the interest of the small number of people who would have known about it to have closed ranks on that secret and protected the integrity of the U.S."
McLaren compared that to a 2006 incident at the United Nations where a Secret Service agent accidentally discharged a firearm near Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. In that incident, the agency immediately admitted the mistake and apologized.
"Tensions between both nations were massive, but a few people saw it and the Secret Service made a strategic decision to apologize publicly," McLaren said. "That mistake could have been devastating. Would they have hushed [accidentally shooting the president] up in contemporary times? I doubt very much. We're a smarter, wiser, more suspicious people these days. It was all a bit different back then."
McLaren also claims the removal of Kennedy's body from Dallas before an autopsy could be performed, the manipulation of medical examiners at Bethesda Naval Hospital who conducted the autopsy and the lack of credence given to certain evidence in the Warren Commission report all point to an organized effort to absolve the Secret Service of any wrongdoing. That left Oswald to be used as a convenient fall guy.
McLaren isn't the first to propose the theory, and his allegations are far from the most outlandish. Other theories are Kennedy was shot by a shadowy figure on the infamous "grassy knoll" known as Badge Man, an unidentified assassin positioned in a storm drain below street level, his car's driver, first lady Jacqueline Kennedy and Joe DiMaggio. As the latter theory goes, the Yankee Clipper was upset at the Kennedys for their alleged involvement in the death of his ex-wife, Marilyn Monroe, who died under controversial circumstances 15 months earlier.
The U.S. government even had its own conspiracy theory put forth by the House Select Committee on Assassinations.
The HSCA concluded in 1979, just as the Warren Commission did in 1964, Oswald was the lone gunman. But it said there was acoustic evidence that made it likely a second gunman fired a shot that missed.
Though it agreed with the Warren Commission that Oswald fired three shots and hit Kennedy twice, including the fatal shot to the head, it disagreed with the timeline and effectiveness of the first two shots.
Longford said the controversy only helps create interest in the assassination among people who weren't around to experience it for themselves.
"For young people, they like to solve the puzzle," Longford said. "They like not having all the answers. They want to go on a journey of discovery. It was a time of shock and unbelievable chaos, and there are still some questions that haven't been answered. As time passes, maybe the beliefs about who did what and why have changed, but there's still enduring interest – which I don't think will ever dissipate, even with the passage of time."
She also believes Kennedy himself drives most of the interest, and that another president might not have generated the same level of intrigue from the public.
"The characters involved with this complicated story are also curious and interesting," Longford said. "This was the age of television and they were such a vibrant and charming presidential couple. It was all on television. People sat through it. He was a president that inspired people to go out and make a difference in the world. Whether you like him or not, he inspired hope in many people of that generation. That seems to have been lost."
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I will include lot's of extras such as an ikelite o-ring kit, micro mesh acrylic dome repair kit, custom strobe diffusers, etc. If I get my full asking price I would also be willing to throw in a Tamron 17-50mm f2.8 lens.
I have used this setup on about 25 dives and everything works perfectly. The Sigma 10-20mm works great behind the 8" dome and yields sharp corners with minimal vignetting. I have even used the Tamron 17-50mm behind the 8" dome with pretty good results (not a true macro lens but fun to play around with). This camera features auto-focus in video and this function works quite well underwater.
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Storage-space users have traditionally rented for short periods, Mr. Scanlon said, most commonly during life changes like divorce or relocation. But in recent years a new kind of renter has emerged, one who rents for longer periods, sometimes paying thousands of dollars a year, sometimes for units in faraway cities. These new renters seem compelled to keep trading up, from a cozy "personal closet," say, to a garage-like room, and then to a second unit or even a third. They represent what Diane Piegza, a spokeswoman for Sovran Self Storage, which owns the Uncle Bob's chain of storage facilities in 22 states, calls "a segment of the population that has truly embedded storage into its lifestyle."
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PRINCETON — Princeton High School's fall play, "Pippi Longstocking," will be presented at 7 p.m. Nov. 2 and 3 in the Sally Skinner Council Auditorium.
"Pippi Longstocking," the classic Swedish children's story by Astrid Lindgren, was created by Lindgren in 1941 to entertain her daughter who had pneumonia. After publication in 1946 it quickly became popular around the world. Pippi's antics with her friends Tommy and Annika have entertained generations of children.
Pippi (Emily Boes) is strong, independent and quite capable of taking care of herself; she knows her angel mother (Nicole Worgess) is watching over her and assumes her absent, pirate king, father (Hunter Rodda) will appear any day. The play has all the Pippi series characters: Tommy (Nicolas Warren); Annika (Katie Elliot); chair of the child welfare board, Mrs. Prysselius (Brandy Molitor); the bumbling thieves, Thunder (Tyler Clark) and Bloom (Noah Currie); and the town police, Klang (Olivia Joehl) and Larsson (Daniel Bonucci). Student directors, Geneive Prushinski, and Taylor Carlson plus an acting ensemble of townspeople and sailors (Shelia Ferguson, Fern Webber, Kayla Bolin, Max Boes, Kerry Ryan, Emily Willis, Taylor Tieman, Samantha Holt, Nick O'Toole, Rebekah Rowland, Ryan Jensen, Josh Fullerton and Hailey Hedden), will bring this story alive on stage for all ages to enjoy.
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Joe Allen makes way for the January signing, who has struggled with hamstring and thigh injuries this season. Luis Suarez, therefore, is expected to move out to the left wing.
Jones gets the nod in goal in the absence of Reina, who has a calf injury, while Philippe Coutinho continues through the middle after an impressive display against Wigan.
In the absence of Aaron Lennon, who suffered a hamstring injury in the Europa League tie against Inter, Andre Villas-Boas reinforces his midfield with Jake Livermore.
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Liverpool: Jones; Johnson, Enrique, Agger, Carragher; Lucas, Gerrard; Downing, Coutinho, Suarez; Sturridge.
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BLUFFTON, Ohio - Bluffton University forward Kim Miller (Delphos/St. John's) has been named the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference Women's Basketball Player of the Week for the week ending November 21, 2010.
Miller averaged 19.0 points, seven rebounds, 5.5 assists, and 3.5 steals to earn a spot on the Bluffton Tip-Off All-Tournament team.
The senior forward scored 19 points and added six rebounds, four assists, and four steals in Bluffton's 67-56 loss to Kenyon. She finished with 19 points, eight boards, seven assists and three steals in a 71-68 win over Albion in the consolation contest.
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Maybe now Northern Illinois will get some respect.
Huskies coach Dave Doeren hopes Wednesday's convincing 31-24 win over Toledo, shown nationally on ESPN2, will finally get his 10-1 team ranked in the top 25 polls.
The victory gave NIU its third straight Mid-American Conference West title and a spot in the MAC championship game on Nov. 30 in Detroit.
"I think we should have been ranked last week," Doeren said. "We're a very good football team. When you have all the streaks we have, it's not a deal where you can say we're a flash-in-the-pan program. When you're a mid-major, you have to win, win, win, and keep winning, and that's what we've done. I think these players deserve this attention."
The Huskies have won 10 games in a row and also own the longest home winning streak in the country at 21 games, and the longest MAC winning streak at 15.
"As a program, anytime you can show sustained success, that's the measure of a great program," Doeren said. "To be the winningest program in the conference the last decade and to be in this (title) game coming up for the third year in a row says a lot. To have 10 wins three years in a row, that's what you want from a college football program."
The Huskies trailed 14-7 at halftime before turning the game their way with an explosive third quarter led by junior quarterback Jordan Lynch.
After being limited to 53 yards rushing and 83 yards passing in the first half, Lynch finished with 569 total yards, including 407 passing and 162 rushing.
Lynch took the Huskies on scoring drives of 73, 99 and 97 yards in the third quarter when he threw for 296 yards.
"At halftime we talked about it," Doeren said. "I told them I wanted them to show the world how good they are."
The first play of the third quarter turned the game around, a 73-yard touchdown bubble screen pass to Martel Moore, who broke several tackles and used the ball to keep his balance when it looked as if he might go down.
"I thought today the seniors, in that third quarter, Martel pretty much put the team on his back with that play," Lynch said. "That sparked us."
"The way we came out in the third quarter, threw that little screen to Martel Moore, that was a heck of a play he made, big time," Doeren said. "That sparked us right there and things just kind of took off."
Moore had 7 catches for 153 yards and 2 touchdowns. Tommylee Lewis had 6 catches for 65 yards.
Toledo coach Matt Campbell gave the Huskies' coaching staff credit for their second half adjustments. He also lamented turning the ball over four times.
"We did a great job moving the football past the 50, but at the end of the day you can't turn the ball over," said Campbell, who had lofty praise for Lynch.
"Right now he's playing at a high level," Campbell said. "He's a young man who plays very consistent for as much as he runs the football. His ability to run with such power and yet throw the ball with such consistency and have the ability to sustain that success over the last nine or 10 ballgames. He's got a lot of great things to look forward to, I'm sure.
"But it's not like he was throwing the ball down the field. He got the ball on the perimeter to some of their speed guys. I really think that's what changed the pace of the game and forced our hand to try and adjust."
It also helped that NIU held Rockets running back David Fluellen, the nation's leading rusher coming into the game, to 79 yards on 22 carries.
"We did a nice job taking David Fluellen out of the game," Doeren said. "That was a big part of the win."


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When entering Chile, disembarking at the Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport, I was separated from my family and taken away by Interpol. I was questioned, fingerprinted and photographed for over an hour. Between questioning, I excused myself to use the washroom. While scrubbing the black ink off my fingers, I noticed with some amusement two urinals that had been installed upside-down.
Marcel Duchamp, the French artist whose work challenged conventionality, was most often associated with subversive artwork such as turning a urinal upside-down and labeling it a fountain. He is also known for drawing a mustache on the Mona Lisa with the title "L.H.O.O.Q." - when pronounced in French, "Elle a chaud au cul," colloquially translated as, "She is hot in the arse." Duchamp forced the observer to view ordinary objects from a new perspective. His mustachioed Mona Lisa defaced that which is valued - a famous art piece brought down to the offensive levels of vandalism.
Vic Toews has a mustache. Currently, Toews is Canada's minister of public safety. What the mustachioed Mona Lisa is to the pristine original, Toews is to the humanist ideals enshrined in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Toews has, in fact, publicly dismissed the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, a philosophy modeled on the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights, by declining an invitation to speak at an event marking the Charter's 25th anniversary.
In 2011, Toews appeared before a government committee to support Bill C-42, a controversial amendment to the Aeronautics Act. Bill C-42 would force Canadian airlines to provide passenger lists to American authorities. Toews was asked by Senator Meredith at the Committee Meeting: "How will we protect Canadians that are flying into the United States? How are they notified, and how do they clear their name?"
Toews responded: "The Canadian government could not set up a mechanism to assist a Canadian citizen in clearing his or her name. Other than the general assistance that is provided through consular services or through your member of parliament or your senator, there is no system."
He went on to quip, "In your case, senator, I would make my cell phone available to you" - joking, should the senator ever need his political clout.
The average Canadian does not have access to cellphone numbers of high-ranking officials. Unlike their Canadian counterparts, the American Department of Homeland Security (DHS) offers a Traveler Redress Inquiry Program (DHS TRIP) providing US citizens a single point of contact - a phone number - for any American seeking resolution for difficulties experienced at airport security screenings. Canadians, in comparison, are told under the Passenger Protect Program that Public Safety Canada will only determine whether individuals pose a threat to aviation security. Only those Canadians who have received an emergency directive at the time of screening may apply to the Office of Reconsideration for a review. From my experience, I can assure that airport personal will never provide emergency directives. Public Safety Canada also directs individuals denied boarding to file complaints with any of the following organizations: The Security Intelligence Review Committee; The Commission for Public Complaints Against the RCMP [Royal Canadian Mounted Police]; Canadian Human Rights Commission; and the federal courts. Toews should note: I have systematically approached these organizations over the course of eight years - all to no avail.
People whose names show up on no-fly or selectee lists have no recourse in Canada. Air Canada settled with me at the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal in 2010. The settlement package ensured Air Canada would remedy systemic problems within a seriously flawed aviation security system. This was a first in Canada. The airline could not, however, remove my name from federal no-fly or selectee lists. My problems have been complicated with this latest Interpol incident - illustrating the disregard this current government has shown in protecting the privacy of Canadian citizens.
Sen. Nancy Ruth asked Toews during Bill C-42 deliberations: "I am curious. What kind of regulation do we have in Canada such that Air Canada cannot transmit information to some other agency within the country?" Toews replied, "If an airline were to transmit such information to anyone without informed consent, the airline would breach our privacy laws. The law in place severely restricts the ability of airlines to share that information for any purpose other than a purpose specifically authorized by the passenger." What Toews failed to communicate was that the Air Transport Association of Canada (ATAC) was actually pushing to merge Canada's Passenger Protect Program with the American Secure Flight Program. This new merger would match all watch list data into a single North American database. The Canadian government would actually share citizen information across the border - disregarding Canadian privacy laws and those practices that respect Canadian civil liberties.
Duchamp's title for his Mona Lisa, "She Is Hot in the Arse," implies the woman in the painting is in a state of sexual availability. There is no difference between Duchamp's Mona Lisa and the Canadian government's shameless pandering to remain Uncle Sam's preferential trading partner. "Canada and the United States have long cooperated on trade and security measures at the border," said Toews. "The Beyond the Border Action Plan demonstrates our shared commitment ... by identifying security threats as early as possible and to facilitate the legitimate flow of goods and travel."
It seems to me the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms has been mustachioed and, were it up to Duchamp, re-titled, "Hot in the Arse."


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Me Want Big Kittel
Posted 09 June 2005 - 04:21 PM
Sorry for the obnoxious title
I really would like to see the full version of TDNT (Big Kittel) at some point.
I know that cost, resources, priorities are always an issue. Here are my priorities:
#1 - Theological Journals updated regularly and quickly; additional scholarly journals, such as, Journal of Biblical Literature (JBL)
#2 - IDB; yes, I know you have ABD, ubt would love to have ID too!
#3 - Word Biblical Commentary
#5 - "New" ISBE Encyclopedia
Posted 09 June 2005 - 05:32 PM
Posted 09 June 2005 - 07:13 PM
Many of these are in our "pipeline" already, but some like Big Kittel would require a huge investment of time/money. It is outdated, and I believe it has some strange views, is it really worth it?
OakTree Software
Posted 10 June 2005 - 09:41 AM
Many of these are in our "pipeline" already, but some like Big Kittel would require a huge investment of time/money. It is outdated, and I believe it has some strange views, is it really worth it?
I am perplexed, too. The first volumes date back to about 1930. They tend to follow a dialectic pattern: thesis (Greek world) - antithesis (Hebrew Bible) - synthesis (New Testament). This is reminiscent of Hegel: thesis (paganism) - antithesis (Judaism) - synthesis (Christianity).
On the other hand, recent contributions are less ideological. For instance, they pay attention to Greek books of Hellenistic Judaism, which don't fit in the original three-parts pattern.
Anyway, it is always high level scholarship.
What about some more recent (and less ideological) dictionary, such as Balz - Schneider? This is one I have on my desktop, but I would prefer to add it to Accordance.
Marco Fabbri
Rome, Italy
P. Università della S. Croce
Rome, Italy
Posted 10 June 2005 - 02:16 PM
Marco, thanks for suggesting Balz - Schneider, I wasn't aware of it. I knew about Spiq and Colin Brown, but not Balz - Schneider. I'll take a look at it. Thanks for the suggestion--and its less shelf space than Big Kittel!
Helen, thanks again for all the hard work and listening to what we would like.
Posted 10 June 2005 - 06:39 PM
Posted 27 September 2005 - 11:44 AM
Topic merged with the above similar topic.
Edited by Helen Brown, 27 September 2005 - 12:36 PM.
Posted 29 September 2005 - 09:45 AM
My suspension is that most would end up rather having a $99 version on their bookshelf, than a $299+ version on their computer.
My 2 cents.
B.S. (Education, Bryan College)
Th.M. (Systematic Theology, Dallas Theological Seminary)
M.A., Ph.D. (Classical Philosophy, University of Dallas)
Theology Teacher, FBCA
Posted 29 September 2005 - 10:06 AM
I wonder if a 10 volume full TDNT would sell. Honestly consider this: It "retails" for $700. It's sold on CBD for $99. How much would you really end up paying for it in electronic form? How much (with license fees, time and effort) would it sell for?
My suspension is that most would end up rather having a $99 version on their bookshelf, than a $299+ version on their computer.
I don't know. I used to say that about the ABD, but I bought that from Accordance in the last few days. I do own the full TDNT, but I might be interested in an electronic version, if it were reasonably priced, for the same reason I bought the ABD.
And by the way, in general I prefer a physical book in my hand over an electronic book. However, with some books, especially reference books, it can be so beneficial to have it in electronic form, especially because of the ability to search the content of the text for keywords.
Case in point is back to the ABD. How many times have I wanted to look up a subject (in the hardbound volumes) only to discover there wasn't an entry for it. However, I knew that it was an important enough subject that it had to be covered somewhere in the six volumes. So then I have to try to put myself in the mind of the editor to think of how he arranged the subjects by title and determine where my topic is going to be covered. And then perhaps I find it. But what if it's also covered in another article? Unless it's listed in the "See also" I have no way of knowing this. That's where the beauty of the Accordance version of the ABD comes into play. I can search the content of the articles for any keyword I want. It's wonderful.
Plus, I would think that since Accordance already offers the NIDNTT and the Spicq Theological Lexicon, the TDNT would fit in well with those offerings.
By the way, I think I paid much more than $99 for my ten volume set. That stinks.
Rick Mansfield
Technology Evangelist
Accordance Bible Software
Gear for Running Accordance:
2014 Mac Mini - 2.6 Ghz dual core Intel Core i5, 8 GB RAM, 1 TB HDD, macOS High Sierra
2016 15" MacBook Pro - 2.9 Ghz quad core Intel Core i7, 16 GB RAM, 2 TB SSD, macOS High Sierra
2014 15.6" Acer R7-572 - 1.6 Ghz Core i5, 16 GB RAM, 256 GB mSATA, 512 GB SSD, Windows 10 Pro
+ Parallels install of Windows 10 Pro on the above MacBook Pro
2017 iPhone X - 256 GB, Verizon, iOS 11.x
2016 iPad Pro (12.9") - 256 GB, Verizon, iOS 11.x
2017 Amazon Fire HD 8 - 32 GB internal + 64 GB microSD, Fire OS 5.6 (=Android OS 5.x)
2017 Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 - 128 GB internal, Android OS 7.0
2017 Blu Grand M - 8 GB internal + 64 GB microSD, Android OS 6.0
Posted 18 November 2005 - 12:55 PM
Many of these are in our "pipeline" already, but some like Big Kittel would require a huge investment of time/money. It is outdated, and I believe it has some strange views, is it really worth it?
I too am staring at the CBD sale on Big Kittel and wishing it was an Accordance module. Here's the issue as I see it: On my shelf it would get used only when I was in my office duing serious study. On my laptop it would get referenced far more often as it would travel with me.
How much time and money would it take? What would the price point be and how many would you have to sell to make it worth it? For me online kittel would be worth about double what I would pay for the print version, because I would use it a lot more.
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MGoShirt Alert+MGoBlogStore+six zero ended WWII with vector graphics+T-shirts
MGoShirt Alert - Winning Design
I'd like to take this opportunity to thank Six Zero, everyone who voted, and everyone who called him a hack because they didn't like a design or two. The internet, as always, is unimpeachably wonderful. We'll do this again next year, along with a banner contest, and this time we'll let it linger over of the offseason.
This is the final entry of the 2009 MGoShirt Alert, a design project that allowed MgoBlog readers to vote for a design in the MGoBlogStore.
(NOTE: For all users who are currently or may one day plan to develop a design project, I would offer the following advice: a.) Beware of Photobucket, who has the near-whimsical ability to wreck your posts with little to no previous warning, and b.) if you want to build up suspense for the grand unveiling of the project winner, you might want to think about keeping the final poll results to yourself.)
SO, YES... with that being said, ladies and gentlemen, the final winning design of the 2009 MGoShirt Alert, as voted on by you, the collective MGoCommunity, is...
This shirt is sure to be a smash hit at tailgates, alumni mixers, frat keggers, or just sitting in front of your home theater on Saturday afternoons. Wearers are advised to exercise caution while rocking the shirt in Columbus, East Lansing, State College, South Bend, Iowa City, Madison, West Lafayette, and any official conference gathering. Don't worry about getting hurt in Minneapolis... after all, it's a gopher.
Over 800 votes were tallied for the final deathmatch between our four finalists, and to the surprise of many the MASCOTS shirt garnered 44% of our tallies. In light of the weekend's events, perhaps it was Sparty missing the eyeball that made it so darn voteworthy. Final poll results can be consulted here for the curious.
|Shown here displaying the shirt is
our featured model, who we'll casually
refer to here as Richard, in an effort
to protect his anonymity.
Richard finds that this shirt goes
great with whistles, half-completed
stadium facades, and barrages of
obscenities. It's also great to wear
when cleaning up urine stains
named Rosenberg.
Richard endorses the MGoShirt and
would like to add that it's a perfect
shirt for the inevitable Maize Out
that never seems to catch on.
They also go great with the
new Michigan Towels!
This design will be tweaked as necessary and the final vector artwork will be prepared for the print shop, and you can expect to see this design available for purchase soon in the MGoBlogStore.
I'd like to thank everyone for the interest and attention that made the MGoShirt Alert so much fun. I sincerely hope I helped get you fired up for the upcoming season, and I hope you all enjoy wearing the design for seasons to come. If I have any personal wish for this entire project, I'd like to challenge you-- any of you, all of you-- to get this shirt on national television!! I want to see Michigan Student screaming like a madman with his mascot shirt in the student section just before ABC cuts to commercial! I'd like to see Blazefire booing Herbstreit on College Gameday while wearing my shirt! I'd love seeing all of you mob the field with my shirt after a dominating win against Western on Saturday. Hell, I'll be satisfied with just the dominating win on Saturday!!
Gameday is Saturday, boys. It's time to bury the ghosts. Let's go get 'em.
MGoShirt Alert - FINAL VOTE
This is the final voting portion of the 2009 MGoShirt Alert, a design project that will enable MgoBlog readers to vote for an upcoming design in the new MGoBlogStore.
July 2, 1863. June 6, 1944. November 22, 1969.
Throughout the course of mankind, there have been days where the choices of men alter the course of destiny forever. Today, gentlemen, is one of those days. After weeks of preparation and voting, success and failure, flotsam and jetsam, we have come to this day. Today we'll vote on the winner of the 2009 MGoShirt Alert.
I will once again go over the scoring that was used to determine the four finalists. As you all know, each of the fifteen entries were open to voting by the MGoCommunity to determine its success, rated on a scale of five stars to one star, with five being the most successful and one being the least. With that being said, each five-star vote was awarded five points, four-stars were given four points, three stars got three points, etc. All points for each shirt were then added up to a grand total, and that total was divided by the number of voters for each particular poll to determine the shirt's final average score. Obviously, a perfect average score would have been 5.00, with the lowest possible score being 0.00. No design received either.
Yesterday I did a final count on all shirts and re-did the math for one last consideration, and then ranked all fifteen designs according to their overall average score. It is, then, with great pride that I reveal the finalists:
Final Score: 4.31.
To my disbelief, yesterday's shirt recieved the highest overall score. There was legimitate concern about possible legality issues, and although we may have to make some minor tweaks to the design should it prove the winner, I am proud to say that I think we're okay on that front. I will admit that I did not expect the reception it received yesterday, but am nonetheless grateful.
Final Score: 4.03
Ah yes, our good friend Mr. Howard, the first Heisman trophy in Ann Arbor since the legend of Tom Harmon. There were many debates about tweaking this shirt, the text, the typeface, the foot, etc... but all in all this was our first consensus 'winner' of the entire contest. Certainly wearable by the exclusive MGoBlogger or the broad UM fan base, it's got undeniable mass appeal.
Final Score: 4.02
Another late addition to the contest, this was the last design I did, after someone suggested it on an earlier entry. Modeled directly from Brian's own screen icon on the Blog, this shirt also raised suspicions of possible Imperial entanglements, and in fact WAS red-flagged and pulled for use of the Block M. You can't blame us here-- it's a Michigan web site and we're smart enough not to bite that hand. You'll notice the design has been tweaked from its original, now using a sans-serif and less exclusive "M" in the background of the design. We're officially good to go.
Final Score: 3.50
Charles Woodson, the man who put the swagger back into Michigan. I really enjoyed creating this shirt as well, and tried to let the design speak for itself. There were debates about this one as well, concerning the off-center alignment, the shadow of the Heisman, the silhouette of Woodson, etc. But make no mistake-- people were talking, and the shirt was well-received. (Dude, you really can't see the Heisman here??)
So we've made it to the Downtown Athetlic Club and we have our final contest finalists. Voting will start now and will remain open for the entire weekend, with a final post announcing the winner on Monday. Gentlemen, it's time to vote:
|pollcode.com free polls
For the sake of authenticity, I thought you all might enjoy seeing how the rest of the shirts stacked up. Final scoring beneath the four finalists, ranked from highest to lowest, are as follows:
SCORE, followed by DESIGN
3.47 - SHIRT 11 – THE RETRO (Great news, sis!)
There you have it, people. I would like to again thank everyone for taking part, for sharing their thoughts and reactions, for the kind words and appreciation, and for just helping build up anticipation day in and day out. And I'll see you Monday when we unveil the final winner of-- THE 2009 MGOSHIRT ALERT!
MGoShirt Alert - Day 13 Part 2
And behold, I saw another rider on a blue horse, and his name was
Brian, and he unleashed unverified voracity upon a third of the earth."
This is the fourteenth entry of the 2009 MGoShirt Alert, a design project that will enable MgoBlog readers to vote for upcoming designs in the new MGoBlogStore.
I've been working on a general MGoBlog shirt since the very beginning, and have had varying degrees of success. This single design pretty much sums up my experience with this project altogether-- it's just really really hard to please a large group of people. Everyone has different expectations, and it's inevitable that nothing can make everyone happy. Even more so, trying to consciously please a specific portion of the crowd means that another portion of the group feels ignored or rejected.
MGoBlog itself means a lot of different things to a lot of different people, and trying to put together an identity for it is a delicate and near-impossible act of trying to please as many people while alienating as few as possible. I tried several different approaches. I branched one off of the logo I created for this contest itself, and some people rejected it, which is their right (I have no right to tell someone not to react to my art a certain way). I listened to many people asking for a logo based on the MGoPoints arrows, which several people then disagreed with. I even played around with the menu bar icon as a logo, but nothing really seemed right.
So in the end, I went back to the source, and created this shirt from Brian's own avatar. And no, that doesn't mean Brian's creating his own 3-D IMAX CGI sci-fi space opera about ten-foot tall blue aliens-- Although BOY would I love to see THAT opus of sarcasm. No, this design is his own profile image, tweaked a bit for single color reproduction. There might be some licensing issues but it's really not a true block M, so I'm hoping this isn't a big deal, but if need be we can jump this hurdle when the time comes.
I'd like to think of this shirt as a celebration of the mythical half-man, half-hair creature that makes this place possible. Here's to Brian! HUZZAH!!
Time to vote. What do you guys think?
|pollcode.com free polls
|What do you think of MgoShirt #14?
|Five Stars Four Stars Three Stars Two Stars One Star
***** Five Stars: Avatar will be the greatest cinematic moment since Strange Brew.
**** Four Stars: Avatar will be a kick ass sci-fi movie, but will re-invent nothing.
*** Three Stars: Pretty cool-- but there's no zombies, or Megan Fox. Fail.
** Two Stars: The plot seems slow, tedious. I'll stay home and read instead.
* One Star: Avatar will suck. Movies are for losers who can't afford an XBox.
As I discussed earlier today, Brian and I decided to switch things up a bit-- we're showcasing two designs today so that the initial 15 shirts can be wrapped up tomorrow. THEN, on Friday, you can look forward to the final MGOSHIRT ALERT DEATHMATCH ELIMINATION ROUND, where the top 4 shirts as voted by the MGoCommunity will be voted on again to decide which design will make its way into the MGoBlogStore. Voting begins Friday, with the final tally being taken on Sunday night.
Tomorrow will then mark the fifteenth and last entry in this shirt design project... It's time for this designer to stop being so damn productive so I can properly engage myself in the upcoming season. So look tomorrow for the final preliminary edition of-- MGoShirt Alert!
PS - NO, I will not unveil the OSU shirt, at least not for now. Perhaps I'll keep it until a very bitter loss has us all in the dumps, and not even Brian's damn kittens can make anyone smile. Perhaps then, my offensive apparel will... That is all.
MGoShirt Alert - Day 13
"The guerrilla fighter needs full help from the people
of the area. This is an indispensable condition."
--Ernesto Che Guevara
This is the thirteenth entry of the 2009 MGoShirt Alert, a design project that will enable MgoBlog readers to vote for upcoming designs in the new MGoBlogStore.
Last night, pretty much by accident, I produced the single best t-shirt design of the entire series. And of course, I immediately knew it was a foregone conclusion that this shirt could never see the light of day, for fear of legitimate legal action from the entire state of Ohio. The kind of shirt that, in the case you were caught wearing it in Columbus, would find your corpse dragged through the streets. By six-year olds. Who would later be acquitted for their acts and instead hailed as patriots. And given the keys to the city. By Jim Tressel.
So instead, I'll give you this shirt, originally submitted during the Harmon shirt post by our friend MCalibur:
Che Guevara and Rich Rodriguez have a lot in common. Both came from humble beginnings. Both became well-educated and powerful motivators of people. Both had a son named Rhett and a super-blond wife named Rita.
Okay, maybe not the last bit, but there are certainly similarities. Let's hope they stop there-- I doubt that Coach Rod wishes to be executed by the Bolivian government and strapped to the skids of a helicopter like a hunter's trophy.
Time to vote. What do you guys think?
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|What do you think of MgoShirt #13?
|Five Stars Four Stars Three Stars Two Stars One Star
***** Five Stars: Coach Rod is the single best head coach we've ever had.
**** Four Stars: Great guy-- but no one holds a candle to Bo.
*** Three Stars: I'd put him just behind Fritz Crisler in the pecking order.
** Two Stars: Bump Elliot deserves more praise than this Rodriguez guy.
* One Star: Ack-- I'm registering a firecoachrod.com URL as we speak.
VOTING UPDATE: We're proud to announce that we're moving up the final voting to Friday, so you'll be able to vote on the MGoShirt finalists over the entire weekend-- and the winning design will be officially rolled out on Monday. With that being said, I originally said we'd do 15 shirts-- I still can, but I'd have to run another vote later in the day either today or tomorrow. Is that cool with all of you, or should we just go with fourteen shirts and be done with it? Talk to me MGoBlog...
Either way, tomorrow I'm going to be rolling out some very specific artwork that I probably enjoyed creating more than any other design. See you then for the final editions of MGoShirt Alert!
MGoShirt Alert - Day 12
"The Michigan swagger is back, and Charles is the one who restored it. The
feeling is like, 'We're better than you, and you aren't going to beat us.'"
--1997 Co-Captain Jon Jansen
This is the twelfth entry of the 2009 MGoShirt Alert, a design project that will enable MgoBlog readers to vote for upcoming designs in the new MGoBlogStore.
A week ago, I rolled out "The Desmond" design to then-record positive reviews, and although there were some random suggestions to tweak the shirt in minor ways, it remains a strong contender for the final vote into the MGoStore. In the same spirit of that shirt, then, I am proud to reveal "The Woodson:"
Beyond the Heisman, his resume includes: Walter Camp Player of the Year. 2x Chevrolet Defensive Player of the Year. 2x Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year. Bronko Nagurski National Defensive Player of the Year. Jim Thorpe Award. Two-time All-American (Unanimous Selection in 1997. Fourth overall pick of the 1998 NFL Draft. And, of course Team MVP of the National Championship season.
1997 was the most magical season I've ever had the pleasure of experiencing, and a significant part of that must be credited to #2. There was no telling what Woodson was going to do on any given week, but by God you always knew he was going to do something... and in the end it was enough to keep the Heisman out of the greedy fingers of one then Volunteer-wonder boy Peyton Manning.
Time to vote. What do you guys think?
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|What do you think of MgoShirt #12?
|Five Stars Four Stars Three Stars Two Stars One Star
***** Five Stars: The highlight of Charles' college career was clearly the becoming the first primary defensive player to win Heisman.
**** Four Stars: Single best moment has to be winning the National Championship at the Rose Bowl vs. Washington.
*** Three Stars: Nope-- defeating OSU at home with a TD catch, a punt return for TD, and a pick in the endzone.
** Two Stars: The legendary interception on the sidelines in East Lansing takes the cake for me.
* One Star: Charles leaving a year early to put on a (gulp) Raiders jersey as the fourth overall NFL draft pick.
(It was very hard for me to list any of Charles' collegiate accomplishments as anything less than five-star, except for the Raiders thing of course. Like a trip to Atlantic City, I twinge whenever one of our boys gets picked up by Al Davis-- nothing good can ever come of it.)
Only three more shirts left-- I think tomorrow we're going to go with a reader suggestion from back in Week One. Until then, see you next time for another exciting edition of-- MGoShirt Alert!
MGoShirt Alert - Day 11
"Incest is wrong because it brings Buckeyes into the world"
This is the eleventh entry of the 2009 MGoShirt Alert, a design project that will enable MgoBlog readers to vote for upcoming designs in the new MGoBlogStore.
On Friday, I rolled out an unfinished design that I asked you, the MGoBlog faithful, to embellish with your unique senses of humor. To my delight, there was well over 100 responses, which can be viewed here in the event that you missed them. In the end, however, it was clear that one reader's suggestions gathered more steam than any other. Congratulations, then, is in order to Beegs, who came up with this:
I added the tagline below, after struggling with it most of the day yesterday during various home improvement jobs. In the end it just seemed to make perfect sense to bring it all back to the family values nonsense. This shirt may very well be asking for legal trouble, but it's all in malicious hate and ridicule of the enemy-- good times!
I also thought it was worth sharing my original 'final' design for the retro shirt, borrowing heavily from a Chrisgocomment word that I remember surfacing several months ago:
Since I've never heard, read or smelled the word 'douchenozzle' anywhere but here on MGoBlog, I thought it had some insider community appeal-- but in the end it was definitely worthwhile to open the shirt design up to the MGoCommunity instead. Thanks again to everyone who got involved... we're less than two weeks away from the opener boys!! GO BLUE!!
Time to vote. What do you guys think of Beegs' shirt?
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|What do you think of MgoShirt #11?
|Five Stars Four Stars Three Stars Two Stars One Star
***** Five Stars: Justin Boren puts all but one slice away from 3 whole pies! If only he could find someone on campus to add all dem up!
**** Four Stars: Boren scarfs down 2 pizzas and still has room for bread sticks.
*** Three Stars: Benedict Arnold eats an entire pie himself, for breakfast.
** Two Stars: 6 slices. He just doesn't have an appetite until snow plow season.
* One Star: Justin can barely get down 3 slices. Fat quitter Buckeye bastard.
There's been a lot of questioning about how final judging will work-- it's quite simple, really. I'll take the poll results of each design, and weigh them against the star value of their vote: In other words, every five-star vote will get multiplied by five, every four-star vote will be multiplied by four, etc. until a final 'score' is tallied for each design. That score will then be divided by the total number of voters to get an overall average score. I think we're going to go with the three highest-rated shirt designs and have a final deathmatch poll to determine the winner, probably a week from today.
Tomorrow I look forward to unveiling the shirt known simply as "The Woodson." Until then, see you next time for another exciting edition of-- MGoShirt Alert!


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1) A private airplane leaves an airport and flies due south at 192 mph. Two hours later, a jet leaves the same airport and flies due south at 960 mph. When will the jet overtake the plane?
2) It takes a small jet 4 hr less time than it takes a propeller-driven plane to travel from Glen Rock to Oakville. The jet average 637 km/h. How far is it from Glen Rock to Oakville?


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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 29th Oct 2012 23:34 UTC
I'm not 100% sure this is actually word-for-word, but alas. "In a presentation at Ubuntu Developer Summit currently going on in Denmark, Drew Bliss from Valve said that Linux is more viable than Windows 8 for gaming. Windows 8 ships with its own app store and it is moving away from an open platform model." I feel like a broken record by now but here we go again: keep an eye on Valve, even if you're not into games. This is the company pushing NVIDIA and AMD to improve their Linux support, with enough clout and name to actually get stuff done. Valve doesn't mess around.
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RE[2]: Depends on your definition of "viable"
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3. Windows Store has many arbitrary limitations, the big one being no apps with a content rating above PEGI 16 are allowed. Note that it doesn't say they must be marked as adult, they are not allowed.
Microsoft did recently change their policy, and games sold in Europe with a PEGI-18 rating can be sold if they receive no higher than MA-17 in the US.


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It was back to business on Sunday at Roy's Boat Harbor in Harrison Township with boaters stopping in for fuel, supplies and snacks just 24 hours after a boat caught fire there, exploded and sank to the bottom of the Clinton River.
The captain and passenger of a 1988 34-foot Wellcraft suffered minor injuries and burns in the explosion that took place about 3:35 p.m. Saturday as they were gassing up the vessel for an afternoon of cruising Lake St. Clair.
"Once they were done putting gas in the tank, they hit the ignition button and the boat blew up," said Macomb County Sheriff Tony Wickersham.
The explosion and resulting fire sent thick plumes of black smoke billowing into the air from the harbor on South River Road and could be seen for miles, according to witnesses.
The two men on board, a 44-year-old Warren man and his 42-year-old passenger from Sterling Heights, escaped from the burning vessel with burns to their chest and arms. They were taken to an area hospital for treatment but their condition on Sunday was not known.
Wickersham said investigators theorize the novice captain did not turn on the bilge blower, which would have ventilated gas fumes from the engine, before he started the engine.
The two men, who filled the tank with about $120 worth of gas, were taking the vessel out for the first time and not thoroughly familiar with how to operate it, officials said.
"They were super nice guys but we found out later it was their first boat and they had no idea what they were doing," said Keith Cunningham, owner of Roy's Boat Harbor. "But I'm glad no one was seriously hurt. This whole thing has been pretty shocking."
The sheriff said once the vessel caught fire, harbor employees tried to extinguish the flames before they cut the boat loose from the dock and pushed it into the middle of the river. If the workers hadn't taken that action, the flames might have ignited the gas tanks under the dock, which would have caused an enormous explosion.
The flames were eventually extinguished by the Macomb County Sheriff's marine patrol vessel along with firefighters from Harrison Township and Mount Clemens.
Cunningham said it was the first fire they've experienced in the 35 years since Roy's Boat Harbor has been in business. The company was founded by his father, Roy Cunningham.
"My son and I at first were trying to put it out, just praying the fire department would get here faster," Cunningham said. "Then we had to let it go, we pushed it out into the river away from our docks. Once the fire department and sheriff's marine patrol arrived, they did a great job."
The boat eventually sank to the bottom of the river. Late Saturday, Michigan Marine Salvage towed it out of the water, at the owner's expense, officials said.


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The Futurological Congress 82
|The Futurological Congress
|Stanislay Lem, Translation by Michael Kandel
|American Publisher: Harcourt Brace & Company
|A dark sci-fi comedy lampooning a future of an overmedicated society detached from reality.
Tichy is now a member of the Futurological Association and is invited to attend the Eighth Futurological Congress in Nounas, Costa Rica. From the get go, Lem is full of satire with the immediate lampooning of such self-appointed associations (and maybe even academia) by pointing out that there are two kinds of individuals in these associations: the ones that attend every single meeting/conference and those that don't leave their offices, period.
One of the themes throughout the book is a borderline anti-American sentiment about the development of munitions and bombs. I'm familiar with Lem's ability to criticize both sides of the Cold War in a single paragraph although The Futurological Congress seems to focus more heavily on American military and pharmaceutical faults. Lem must have been well aware of kidnappings in Latin America when he wrote this book because that's one aspect he got right about the future of that area. Due to heavy activist presence in Costa Rica trying to capture and ransom Americans, a military attache is accompanying the U.S. Ambassador to Costa Rica to speak at the congress but in the middle of his speech an unfortunate delegate from India reaches into his breast pocket to grab a handkerchief to wipe his nose. This delegate standing next to Tichy is immediately dispensed with by the bodyguards of the ambassador and, thanks to 'humanitarian ballistics,' Tichy only gets a spattering of blood on him instead of the bullet passing through the target and injuring more people.
Some background on Lem may help you understand this satire. He was born a Catholic Pole with Jewish ancestry and seemed to run the gauntlet of oppression. He survived World War II with fake papers as a mechanic/welder and due to his "bourgeois origin" could not study at the Polytechnic during Soviet occupation of Eastern Poland after the end of the war. He became an Atheist stating, "for moral reasons ... the world appears to me to be put together in such a painful way that I prefer to believe that it was not created ... intentionally." Knowing this, his satire and bitter critique of all things may not surprise you. On his way to the conference--aside from meeting an orgy of liberated publishers--he encounters an 'anti-papist' who is a Catholic on his way to kill the Pope with a gun of a massive caliber. The anti-papist's surprising motive is none other than The Holy Bible where Abraham is ordered to kill his son Isaac by God. Except that the anti-papist would be killing a father, the most holiest father. And this would be a great personal sacrifice and the "utmost of martyrdom" as the anti-papist "would suffer terrible torment and his soul eternal damnation." Again, Lem predicts today's world, we have no limit of people eager to misinterpret scriptures of any religion.
Back to the conference--since there's 168 attendees from 64 different countries, each person gets four minutes to present their paper. And everyone is only really interested in their own work and telling everyone else about it in a bit of a narcissistic way. This leads the first member to spend his four minutes thusly: "Stan Hazelton from the U.S. Delegation immediately threw the hall into a frenzy by emphatically repeating: 4, 6, 11, and therefore 22; 5, 9 hence 22; 3, 7, 2, 11, from which it followed that 22 and only 22!! Someone jumped up, saying yes but 5, and what about 6, 18, or 4 for that matter; Hazelton countered this objection with the crushing retort that, either way, 22. I turned to the number key in his paper and discovered that 22 meant the end of the world." The Futurologists in this novel are probably best described as each one being a less optimistic Ray Kurzweil in that they all seem to be spouting their own version of obstacles humanity is soon to face and consequently their ideas to remedy it. For instance the second delegate from Japan unveils a 10,000:1 model of a housing complex some 800 stories tall with self sustaining everything and mobile in the ocean! It's the future! In fact, everything is recycled! Even the food is recycled waste and excrement from the people. The sausage left out in the hall is actually reconstituted human waste (at which point everyone in the audience stops eating and shuffles the food underneath their seats). This sets the tone for a few of the minor themes of the novel and gives you an idea of how Lem takes subtle jabs at everyone. For example another United States delegate takes the floor to talk about population problems that are rapidly developing. He outlines seven solutions: "mass media and mass arrests, compulsory celibacy, full-sale deeroticization, onanization, sodomization, and for repeated offenders--castration." The book makes other references to population control and one character notes that continuing trends of population would eventually result in human beings exploding outward at the speed of light. Nature is addressed in an equally hilarious means as later in the book all animals have been extinct and replaced with what appear to be better controlled robots.
While in his room, Tichy makes the mistake of drinking the water and discovers that the water is spiked with a powerful hallucinogenic drug. He assumes it's the work of the revolutionaries and decides not to tell anyone but as the violence outside escalates and he mentions it to a fellow futurologist, he discovers that it is the rise of chryptochemocracy! With the hotel's staff, he quickly equips a gas mask as it becomes clear that chemical warfare is afoot ... of a psychedelic nature. Planes are called in equipped with LTN bombs. LTN stands for "Love Thy Neighbor" which is pretty indicative of today's munitions and their goals with surgical strikes. Hilariously enough, the very hotel in which the congress is convening is immediately bombed by mistake.
After pages of chemical warfare that affect the crowd's temperament and counter chemicals that affect the crowd's temperament, Tichy and a friend find oxygen tanks and masks and descend to the sewers where the hotel staff is relaxing comfortably with their own oxygen tanks and masks.
Unfortunately, Tichy and his companion do not have enough oxygen to last the night and therefore must take shifts suffering hallucinations. What follows from this point is a series of hallucinations that Tichy has ending in him coming to in the sewer. Tichy has several of these bizarre hallucinations ending in him being shot by revolutionaries in the sewer. He comes to certain that he is still hallucinating and refuses to believe anyone he is not. As a result, they freeze him until they can find a cure for his mental illness and he is unthawed many years later in a reality where 'psychemicals' keep everyone happy. This overmedicated society disgusts and frightens Tichy at times. It has gotten so bad that a company now exists where you can order a psychem that allows you the satisfaction of doing evil upon another person. Murder's no longer a problem, you just get reanimated. The worst possible offense is using psychems on an individual without their consent.
Tichy attempts to adapt and I couldn't help but be reminded of Fry in Futurama with similar humor employed nearly thirty years before it. As Tichy reconnects with his futurologist friend (people stopped dying as technology caught up a la Kurzweil), he discovers something unsettling about the drugs everyone is taking. He discovers that there's mascons that act as blockers to your senses and replace it with a superficial reality. And we start to understand why everything is so mysteriously idyllic while at the same times animals have been extinct for many years and the planet is at an overburdening 26 billion people. Tichy's friend hands him two vials that will unblock the layers of mascons. You see, the 'architects' of this current psychem reality have patched and repatched side effects of psychems and mascons with more psychems and mascons in the air and water supply! I'll leave The Matrix-like vials and harsh transition from utopia to dystopia for people interested in reading the book.
This book was a joy to read and although the very end is a bit dissatisfying to me, the satire and pessimism inherent to Lem's writings have influenced me and continue to influence me heavily. I like to think that Lem borrowed from sci-fi writers like Philip K. Dick and that other science fiction authors like Douglas Adams have borrowed from Lem despite the language barrier and difference in culture. While Lem may not be the icon that Lovecraft, Clarke and Asimov have become, I certainly hope that people recognize his large corpus of works for more than just Solaris as I've enjoyed many novels by him. Lem offers a rare dark comedy in science fiction with The Futurological Congress.
You can pick up the English version of The Futurological Congress at Amazon . And catch the Ari Folman movie where the present day will be live action while the unfathomable future will be animated to adapt to the stark impossibilities the book portrays.
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Hey wasn't sure where to put this, as it could come under,Hardware and Software.
A few hours ago my laptop got knocked off the sofa and fell about 1Ft it was running at the time and it Froze and the battery was only just connected. So i turned it off put the battery back in and rebooted it.
Now im getting this message pop up.
For Realtek RTL8139(X)/8130/810X PCI Fast Ethernet Controller v2.17 (051202)
PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable
PXE-MOF: Exiting PXE ROM.
Operating system not found
after about 2 minutes of displaying that message it shuts it self off.
I've checked the cable that runs to the harddrive that seems to be fine and HDD its self seems ok from the outside.
I really don't know what to do now so im asking you guys if you have any idea what it could be. I personally think its the HDD, and needs replacing but thats going to cost about £55 so i want to be sure im right.
Its a Acer Aspire 5050, running on Windows Vista home premium unfortunatly lol.
need more info just ask.


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Ivanka Trump Enjoying the 'Everyday Moments' of Motherhood
New mom Ivanka Trump is basking in bittersweet baby bliss since welcoming daughter Arabella Rose, her first child with husband Jared Kushner.
"The most fun part of being a mother so far is watching Arabella grow and experience different things every day; It is also the hardest part though!" the fashion designer, 29, tells Today.
"I feel like she will be out of the house and off to college before Jared and I know it."
Fortunately for Trump, she is savoring each second spent with the 4-week-old — even if it means making sacrifices.
"It is easy to want to talk on the phone or read the paper while feeding a baby, but taking a break and enjoying those everyday moments is extremely rewarding," she shares.
As for baby girl's name, Trump and Kushner had no problem deciding on a moniker that was creative yet still held special meaning for the couple.
"I have always loved the name Arabella, and Jared's grandmothers had names beginning with an A and an R," the Celebrity Apprentice judge explains. "We wanted to pay a subtle homage to those two strong and wonderful women while also adopting a name that was very unique. Plus, we thought that the initials — ARK — were cool!"
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It's hard to believe that posthumous has not been considered in this forum. The spelling of the word comes from a folk etymology/deeptime eggcorn.
Latin expression posthumus, postumus, properly, "last"; hence, late born (applied to children born after the father's death, or after he had made his will), superl. of posterus, posterior.
The h entered right from the beginning, pre-1500, by eggcorneal association with humare, "to bury". Or as hinted in this etymology, perhaps it was another Latin eggcorn. The same root is connected to "earth, ground" and gave us humus, or decaying organic matter, and humility. That peaty connection may be tingeing all the references on the web. But I wanted rather to present the following, as a sometimes-humorous malapropism. It is clearly widely used, so it's possible that somebody somewhere has concocted their own justification for it.
Does anybody know the exact date of this interview? I would presume it was sometime in '93/'92. (The interview itself is an excerpt of a Captain Beefheart Documentary which was broadcast in 1994 featuring Zappa post humorously.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6fsaFkh … e=related\
The late, great Hank Williams post-humorously gave us this wonderful song about a cheating lover.
http://marriagediva.com/2008/02/15/chea … -part-one/
I was interested in picking up his essay, published post-humorously in 1842, "On Genius and Academics," which condemns the method in which art was taught during his lifetime
http://www.meganandmurray.com/2004/09/g … ails_.html
Jigoro Kano, the founder of Judo, is the only person ever awarded with a double-wide white belt, this given post-humorously
I have this annoying tendency to leap at opportunity and think through all the details post humorously.
http://www.metropolishealth.com/newslet … n-sync.htm
A new book by Shel Silverstein has been released post-humorously called Every Thing On It and is in book stores today!
http://regator.com/p/253177277/nostalgi … f_the_day/
You could have fooled me. I always thought the folk etymology was correct—that the word "humus" was in the word.
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Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
After this mortal coil has been converted into humus?
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
Here's a twist we might have seen coming: posthumanous.
PETA awarded Heath the posthuman Australia Sea Shepard Conservatory Society posthuman award for his contribution and involvement to preserve the whales.
http://www.peopleschoice.com/pca/polls/ … d=20900008
This story as well as many others of miners will be published posthumanly in a book entitled "Of Mines and Men".
In a collection of essays entitled The Mystery in the Open (La mystere en pleine lumiere), published posthumanly in 1926, he wrote of a kind of mystical brotherhood that has existed across the centuries
The Late Olanda Draper was incomparable. His posthumanous Grammy Award was well deserved!
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Lalique's "Tête D'Aigle" mascot on a 1930 Cord L-29, RM Auctions Scottsdale 2012
The eye-catching glass automotive mascots of jewelry designer, sculptor, glassmaker and master artist René Lalique have been the crown jewels on a select number of high-end classic cars for most of the last century, and they remain highly sought and valued today. RM Auctions will be auctioning an amazing collection of Lalique automotive mascots at its event this Saturday, March 10, as a prelude to the Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance.
This collection of 30 pieces – which also includes custom display cases, and is estimated to bring $800,000-$1.2 million – was gathered by Ele Chesney, who is known as the foremost female collector of antique automobiles and automotive fine art.
The RM Auctions catalog explains how Lalique came to create these masterpieces:
A contemporary invention of his day, the automobile, began to enamor the creative mind of Lalique. Prior to WWI, the artist created bas-relief silver and bronze 'Targa' gift plates for winners of the famous Targa Florio races in 1906. Vincenzo Florio commissioned Lalique to design a trophy for the prestigious event. Lalique created a work that anyone would be proud to win; he captured the image of the driver and mechanic speeding down a country road bordered by flowers and birds in flight with the "sky suggested in blue enamel." By 1920, Lalique envisioned a new goal for the automobile: an empirical decoration on the front hood, elevating glass artistic design above the metallic standard in the mascot. Once a thermometer sat on the radiator simply to measure water temperature; Lalique now proposed elegant, artistic presentation over such mere functionality.
In 1925, André Citroën's company was a primary sponsor and exhibitor for the Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes in Paris. The motoring magnate rented the Eiffel Tower and had thousands of lights artfully attached to the structure. At night, the double chevron emblem and name "Citroën" was an extraordinary sight seen by millions of people in "The City of Lights." Knowing he would be displaying his company's Citroën 5CV, Citroën commissioned Lalique to create a glass mascot that could be mounted on the radiator of the car. Citroen wanted the mascot to feature five prancing horses. Thus was born Lalique's fifth mascot, "Cinq Chevaux."
The success of the Citroën mascot exposed his unique talent to an entirely new audience. During the next seven years, Lalique created a total of 27 mascots, symbolizing energy, speed and motion; religion; individuality and form of nature; and human sensuality and sexuality – each expressing the grace and details of human and animal forms.
The other mascots needed to complete this photographic collection include Sirène (small mermaid) and Naïade (large mermaid). Both were originally offered as paperweights in 1920 and had base sizes equaling those of other mascots. Longchamps (#1152B: horse head – single mane, a variation of Longchamps #1152A: horse head – double mane) crowns the collection totaling 30 pieces. These comprise the 1932 Lalique catalogue.
The mascots were created in high-quality glass with a clear, frosted or satin finish. Some were tinted in amethyst and pink, while others were highlighted minimally with subtle colors. Lalique marked his work, as a general practice, with "R. Lalique" followed by the word "France." The signature clearly marks the base through molding, etching, script, print sandblasting or a curved design. Occasionally, the leading 'L' in the earliest cursive "Lalique" signature has a flourish at the top, which makes the letter resemble an 'S.'
Lalique immediately saw the opportunity to draw attention to his mascots by lighting the glass sculpture from underneath its base. A small bulb was connected to provide the illumination. Lalique fashioned filters for placement between the bulb and base of the glass sculpture; this allowed color changes to red, blue, green, amber or mauve.
All studio images copyright Michael Furman, courtesy RM Auctions
Lalique mascot enthusiasts particularly appreciate Victoire (spirit of the wind), Grande Libelulle (large dragonfly) and Faucon (falcon), as well as the female nudes, Vitesse (speed) and Chrysis (kneeling nude). The rarest example is the Renard (fox), of which only seven are known to exist worldwide.
The collection will be sold at no reserve. For more information on the sale of the mascots, visit RMAuctions.com.
UPDATE (14.March 2012): The collection as a whole sold for $805,000, just breaking into RM's pre-auction estimate range.
wow. pure and simple, art.
That eagle looks ready to shred any unfortunate passing pedestrian…
Outstanding. No wonder modern cars are so damn boring. 😉
Love the art work which is an extension of the art of the cars from that period.
pretty classy!
One of the original mascots designed by Lalique not mentioned in the HMN article above is the rooster head "Tete de Coq". It is the only one of Lalique's original mascots to feature an itaglio signature without the initial "R.", simply "LALIQUE FRANCE" in block letters cast in the glass on the rooster's neck.
Yes it's in my new book with explanation "Unique Lalique Mascots."
The Fox is absolutly killer!
A friend has a repro eagle on his Auburn speedster lit with multi colored LEDs that subtly change via a chip, mesmerizing the opposition at traffic lights and waking them with an exhaust cutout.
Rene Lalique was amazing.
His work is all the more beautiful in person.
I have a 1932 Graham car and the Mascot on my radiator cap is the "Flying Godess" and she's beatiful. It is one of the best on the market at the time from the Grahm-Paige Motor Corporation.
The Flying Godess has them all beat. Nothing is like her.
Hi, I have a 36 Chevy Sedan that I want to put the Butterfly Lady on. I'm wondering if you would share how you where able to mount to your car. Any help or direction would ever be appreciated. Thanks for you time and knowledge. Bonnie
The Nethercutt Museum/Collection has a display case full of this type of art. See my Fotki page for a teaser of what can be seen there.
A very fine collection indeed thast was offered to our client-members by Elle prior to the RM sale.See: http://www.brmmbrmm.com/lbcc.bb
Excllent collection, another collection (in the UK) is up for sale soon!
The December 15th, 2012 answer should have read:
"A very fine collection indeed that was offered to our client-members by Elle Chesney (the owner) prior to the RM sale".
The full collection is covered in the book by authority G.G. Weiner, I.A.M., O.T.R.,C.S.M.A. Vol. 1 of 'Unique Lalique Mascots', along with auction realisation prices (rather than dealer's values). Vol. 2 of the book deals with the factory experimental prototypes and also covers the history of the rare one-off & unique "King's Greyhound" (made as a presentation to HM GVI for his visit to France). Vol. 1 sold out long ago but is still for sale on eBay and Amazon etc. Vol. 2 available from the club (Google this up).


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"Just about everyone in the gold and money management communities, is aware that billionaire George Soros' hedge fund, Soros Fund Management LLC, is heavily invested in gold and gold mining equities. Additionally, in the past few days, a flurry of new articles have been written, detailing the Soros Fund's most recent 13-f filing. In case anyone is unfamiliar, a 13-f filing is a document which contains a fund's investments held during a financial quarter, and when we compare a recent 13-f with a previous 13-f, we can see the buying and selling activities of a fund during a given time frame.
"In the most recent 13-f filing on November 14th, the Soros fund increased its position in gold via the GLD fund from 884,400 shares, to 1.3+ million shares. That represents a sum of about $200 million. The fund increased its position in the GDX gold miners ETF from 1 million shares, to over 2.3 million, it added a 1.7 million share position in Kinross Gold, and finally, maintained a nearly 2.4 million share position in the GDXJ junior gold miners ETF. ..."