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Hi everyone. Finally bought a rally roller and am going to soon begin to get this build on 4 wheels (literally). I'm still waiting for the roller to be shipped to my house along with the body. When I receive it, I'll be going to be buying all the parts. Here's what it'll consist of:
-Green Body (the best color by the way)
-Castle MMP 2400 motor/esc
-Proline split six rims
-Proline bowtie tires
-Carbon fiber beadlocks
-rpm a-arms
-rpm shock towers
-rpm rear bearing carriers
-chassis brace (hopefully)
-T-Bone racing front & rear bumpers/skids
-Might dye the chassis as well
Welcome to this neck of the woods! Nice list of upgrades there. You are going to be impressed with this for sure. Are you thinking about the Axis Chassis/Body brace or a modified version?
Anyways can't wait to see pics of this build going on. It's going to be a sweet one! BTW Orange is the fastest!!!
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Don't worry Nitro, Digger is blind to what color really is better. GREEN! Welcome to the world of Rally.
*Proud Husband of United state's Air Force wife.*
Lol. Well the roller came much quicker than expected .
It's a good start...The body should be coming soon as well. It shipped out 2 days ago. I'll be ordering more parts on Saturday.
Oh and Digger, yeah I was thinking of putting on the axis brace. Looks great
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Purchased this. Thinking it'll look real nice.
Thanks Guys for going back and forth on this whole Green v Orange thing. I couldnt decide so I got both
Bought two complete Rally's-Orange and Green-for myself and my sons. Well actually Santa brought them
Boy does he have good taste.
Lol he does indeed
The body and bumpers should be here by Monday or Tuesday. Ill be getting the other parts from my lhs some time next week. This storm is hitting CT pretty hard too. Already have like 5-6 inches and not even in the storm yet. O.o.
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Ordered strc hubs and rear bearing carriers. As well as some Ofna 16mm shocks 8D.
Poor red and blue. They have no say in any of these debates. Hahaha
All parts ordered.
-Venom 3s 5400 mah
-rpm a-arms
-rpm shock towers
-traxxas servo waterproof
-extended battery tray
Body came. And my oh my is green sexy! No offense orange, that's an amazing color too .
Still don't have wheels but ordered them from my LHS so they should be mounted by next week
Here it is
Colors aside. That sure looks clean man. The center driveshaft really stands out. Way jealous over here.
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Thanks Digger. Will look much better when the chassis is dyed. I just haven't gotten to the store yet to pick up some.
Got the 16mm 1/8 buggy shocks on it
Now those are beefy. What kind? Don't look like much suspensioin travel there.
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Thy are Ofna LX2 shocks. There isn't too much travel but enough to bash around with
T-Bone front and rear bumpers have come in and are installed!
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What's your opinion of the tbr bumpers so far? Do you feel they will better protect then the stock setup? It's hard to tell if the body sticks out past the bumper what's the point? Just looking for some first impression info cause I was thinking of purchasing a air. Thanks
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I totally agree. The styling adds a lot o flare to the rally. Looks reallyyy nice. I am excited to see how they hold up bashing...But from what you've said I'm glad I purchased them
Just ordered a set of front and rear t bones. Thanks for the input fellas
No problem. I picked up the Mamba Max Pro system and am going to install it now
Just found out when I got home tht I have no pinion.....I have it working though. I also am still waiting for the wheels to be delivered to my LHS. I center the servo and get everything programmed tonight
Also going to extend the front shocks because the travel is at a point where if it had wheels, no matter how hard you push down, it probably wouldn't even hit the ground lol.
What's th kv on the motor? I'm still trying to figure out the best esc motor combo to put in mine. Iv got the 2400kv in my slash 4x4. You should use the snappy Rc esc mount. I think it will work in the lcg. I love the one in my sash but my slash is not the lcg.
Looks to be the 2400kv or the 3800kv 4pole. I think those are the two options for the MMP SCT
Everything overpowered...
It's the 2400 SCT
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I've been trying for a few weeks now to figure-out how to implement this. I know it sounds lame but I really have read all I can and still baffled. It would be really cool if some can give me some clues or pointers...
From what I understand I have to use a mutex semaphore class to lock individual processes of a thread. To create inter-process-communication, a shared buffer is used to pass the results of the first errr..( producer. ) The results of the first process are parsed to a 'Shared Data Buffer' and processed by another class of instantiated objects ( the consumer ) The buffer is needed, as you know, to create a queue that waits for a free consumer object to process it.
I'm having trouble understanding how I pass threads exclusively to more than one instance of an object in-turn ?
I think the buffer will have a counter variable for the number of threads to expect. When the buffers counter is == 0 there's no-more threads to parse to consumer objects.
The scenario of the program, so that it may make more sense is as so:
The producer objects are maybe many study rooms. Students occupy each room that then becomes locked ( semaphore ) The room only becomes unlocked once the student choses a random number and that number has been recorded by the consumer via the Shared Buffer. Once a room becomes un-locked it is now free for the next sudent.
Can anyone kindly give me an example of how to implement the shared buffer ?? any help or constructive suggestion would be most welcome
cheeers M000 !!!!
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Blasphemous: Dark and brutal 2D non linear platformer
Goal Achieved!
You have successfully help us reach our campaign goal of $50,000 in little less than 24 hours! Thank you all!
But this is just getting started, check out the Stretch Goals we have prepared:
Blasphemous is an action-platformer that combines the fast-paced, skilled combat of a hack-n-slash game with a deep and evocative narrative core, delivered through exploration of a huge universe comprised of non-linear levels.
Immerse yourself in a dark fantasy nightmare that has been constructed PIXEL BY PIXEL by our committed artists.
The core of Blasphemous is the fast, intense and satisfying action combat. You will fight and slay creatures, each one bigger and more fearsome than the last.
Chain encounters at the right pace and you will unlock the Martyr's Excommunication mode, becoming almost unstoppable.
Epic boss battles await you in your journey through the lands of Orthodoxia. If you manage to survive its inhabitants, your skills will be challenged by the enormous and fierce creatures that rule this damned universe.
- Explore a huge land, a universe that feels as open as it is oppressive, delivered through a non-sequential level design that puts you in control of where to go next.
- We are putting great focus on achieving a very satisfying combat mechanics with very responsive control, smooth animations and lots of blood and gore.
- Handmade pixel art, with large sprites and super smooth animations, created pixel by pixel, frame by frame.
- Evocative narrative: Blasphemous' levels are not just platforms; they tell a story to those who are interested, but don't get in the way if you just want the action.
- Find your personal combat style by equipping rosary beads, or carrying around relics that boost your abilities.
We're proud to announce that we have teamed up with a very experienced development partner to be able to release the game simultaneously on all these platforms!
Set in the savage land of Orthodoxia, a place where religion is of the utmost importance in the eyes of the populace, superstition runs amok, and churches outnumber people two to one. You will find yourself in this hellish territory in the wake of the Age of Corruption.
...Riddled with frustration at their insufficient devotion, The High Pontiff heaved his golden throne with and turned the entire throne back. Years passed and all of a sudden it appeared something was beginning to change in the state of the High Pontiff. Dried out, dying branches began to emerge from the ends of his fingers and slowly started growing out from all over his pallid, immobile body. The High Pontiff was transformed into a great, withered and barren tree and began to burn for ninety days and ninety nights...
...Once the tree had been entirely consumed by the flames, a huge mountain of ash stood in its place, topped by the infamous turned throne, unoccupied and unguarded. The remaining church leadership scrambled upwards to reach the top and assume the throne. But the mountain begin to shift beneath their feet and before long the mountain of ash had swallowed up each and every soul who had been present in the Cathedral. From the ashes rose those poor unfortunate souls who had been swallowed up, transformed into horrible, deformed and bloodthirsty beasts, wildly aggressive and violent in nature, but with their faith intact...
In Blasphemous, you will play as The Penitent One, a rogue nomad tackling the evil of this world alone with only its trusty sword by their side.
The Penitent One is the last survivor of a congregation called The Silent Sorrow. The whole group was punished to be thrown to the great Abyss of the Eternal Grief.
Here you will see some of the horrific and inhuman enemies our pixel artists came up with over the last few months. More scarier and larger creatures will follow soon!
In Blasphemous, we've set ourselves an artistic challenge: Can we create a dark fantasy world that is universally appealing, but also deeply inspired by the most meaningful icons of our local folklore? If you play Blasphemous, chances are that you may want to visit the city of Seville (Spain) in the future, to see the locations, traditions and culture that inspired the game.
We are lucky to have Carlos Viola's mastery on board. He's the award-winning composer of 'The Last Door', and other remarkable indie titles like 'Pharaonic' (by Milkstone), 'Six sides of the world' and 'Rotor'scope'.
This time around, he will be directing the work on both the Original Soundtrack and the audio design.
Listen to the first theme of the soundtrack:
If you don't know the works of Carlos Viola, we recommend you start by checking out his amazing work for 'The Last Door', available on Spotify.
We're a tiny development studio that focuses on creating meaningful playable experiences. We proudly specialize in delivering great games, despite operating with scarce resources. Maybe, you've heard about our previous work, a playable homage to classic horror writers (Lovecraft, Poe, & Machen):
'The Last Door' is an award winning point and click horror adventure. It's a series of 8 playable episodes, developed using crowdfunding between 2013 and 2016. Initially, they were launched for browsers, but now you can enjoy them in their Collector's Editions for PC, iOS, Android and Windows Phone.
Our previous title, 'The Last Door', was developed together with its community, with frequent discussion, beta builds, and incorporating community feedback in every possible way. For 'Blasphemous' we want to take this concept even further.
We offer our backers several levels of involvement with the project's development:
The Penitent (20 $) an up: We love transparency! Any pledge that includes the game will give you access to frequent development updates.
The Follower (25 $) and up: This pledge will grant access to a private development forum, where you will be frequently asked for feedback, participate in polls and help us with decision-making, plus access to the game's beta.
The Disciple (40 $), The Immortal (200 $) and up: you'll get access to our private channels on Slack/Discord, where all the design discussions will take place, one-on-one conversation with the development team, enjoy monthly (unfinished) builds and all future prototypes of the game.
The work on Blasphemous started in November 2016. The first stages involved the creation of the first bunch of concept art, to explore the artistic themes we wanted the game to feature. We've been working non-stop since then, and indeed completed some key milestones along the way.
We are now preparing to switch from pre-production to production, and that's when we need you on board!
We're currently prototyping the second layer of gameplay, involving narrative and exploration mechanics. We're in the process of measuring the production scope and testing every required production pipeline. After that, we will confidently enter the production stage!
From there, we have laid out a roadmap of frequent milestones (please note these dates are subject to change, although we are confident in our production dates):
June. 2017 - Aesthetics prototype (If the campaign succeeds, available for all backers, for Win/Mac/Linux!)
- Sep. 2017 - Win/Mac/Linux Narrative prototype (The Disciple pledge or above required).
- Nov. 2017 - Win/Mac/Linux Player's progression prototype (The Disciple pledge or above required).
- Q2, 2018 - Win/Mac/Linux Alpha (The Disciple pledge or above required).
- Q3, 2018 - Win/Mac/Linux Beta (The Follower pledge or above required).
- Q1, 2019 - All Platforms Global launch.
So far, this project has been completely fueled by our own money. Bringing the game to Kickstarter now will enable us to get the extra funds we need to fully realize our artistic goals while retaining full creative control. For us, and particularly for Blasphemous, this is critical because of the potentially controversial topics we are featuring in the game.
At the same time, it creates a community around the game we can rely on to make the game truly awesome! While creating our previous game 'The Last Door', we experimented with opening the development process to the community. It was not only the most amazing experience, but it also helped the game become really extraordinary, reaching quality standards that we never hoped to achieve on our own, thanks to the collective intelligence.
Let's make another game together!
Engage the developers in our DISCORD server
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This project is promoted by Jellop, a direct response online advertising agency specializing in Kickstarter campaigns on Facebook Ads and Google AdWords.
Risks and challenges
When you are about to embark on any project there will always be a certain amount of trepidation. You can list all of the 'What ifs' until you're blue in the face. There is a long road ahead of us from our current development stage to our final product release and it would be foolish to assume it will all be smooth sailing. However, we are experienced developers, having successfully steered a three-year development project right before this one, so we feel confident we will know how to manage the unexpected.
Some of the areas of expertise required for this project are beyond our skill set, particularly the ones related to porting the game to consoles, and the ones related to marketing. We will seek strategic partners to go where we cannot go on our own.
Finally it's worth mentioning that due to the controversial and mature nature of some of the themes and visuals, we may have to prepare ourselves to fight a couple of battles against censorship, political correctness or etiquette here and there, but we're confident that if we have the support of you backers, we will be able to manage it in a way that it is satisfactory to most parties.Learn about accountability on Kickstarter
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US crime fighter praises tough Qld anti-bikie laws, warns groups will recruit veterans of Afghan war
An American crime fighter has applauded the Queensland Government's hard line on bikies, saying the United States should have brought in similar laws years ago.
Vice-president of the International Association of Undercover Officers, Steve Cook, says Australian authorities can expect bikie gangs to keep growing and are likely to recruit war veterans from Afghanistan.
"We've had people in the Middle East for the last decade; you're going to have a lot more recruitment of these individuals into these organisations," he said.
Mr Cook has spent decades fighting gangs like the Hells Angels, Mongols and Bandidos in the US and says American lawmakers should have done more.
"As Americans, we're kind of responsible for the motorcycle gang plague as it is," he said.
"It originated here and unfortunately we've exported it around the world.
"If they feel like that everybody's kind of turning a blind eye to them and their activities, then they're going to continue to expand."
Queensland president of the Returned Services League (RSL) Terry Meehan, whose daughter is a member of the Military Brotherhood MMC, says thousands of veterans join motorcycle clubs but it does not make them criminals.
"They wear their badge on their back and they're quite proud of it, so I'd urge the public don't group classify people," he said.
"Ex-servicemen and ex-servicewomen are not criminals."
Queensland Police Superintendent Mick Niland says criminal gangs are trying to recruit younger members from a range of backgrounds.
"That vulnerability exists across Australia in relation to all our young people and we will always investigate any links," he said.
The Vietnam Veterans Motorcycle Club says it is sick of being wrongly referred to as a criminal gang.
East Timorese veteran Will Pearce says he joined the Vietnam Veterans MC for the mateship.
"I've always been interested in motorcycles and I love what MC culture is about, motorcycle culture," he said.
"It's not about being a criminal. They're all putting us together in the same basket.
"These laws are similar to 1933 the Nuremberg laws under Adolf Hitler.
"What defines a criminal and what defines a bikie? These laws are way too broad."
In the past month, police have charged about 255 Queenslanders with bikie-related offences.
They are now focusing their efforts on the Rebels Club which has chapters across the country.
This week, 21 alleged bikies were charged with a string of offences relating to drugs, burglary and assault.
Police say they those offenders have credible links to the Rebels across the Sunshine Coast, Brisbane and the Gold Coast.
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The Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory study says projections don't look promising past 2030 for reducing green house gas emissions in the state.
"The set of policies that we've modeled are largely silent on what to do past 2030," says Berkeley Lab's staff scientist Jeffrey Greenblatt. "Many of them kind of level out after that."
State environmental officials say the report will help the state stay on top of the situation.
"We are developing this as the information becomes available and as the technology becomes available and as the situations develop," says Dave Clegern with the California Air Resources Board.
The report suggests that the state move quickly to adopt new green technologies and efficiencies. It also recommends toughening regulations and standards.


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Twitter Considered Buying German Music Service
Deal for SoundCloud Would Have Been Messaging Company's Largest
Twitter Inc. considered buying German music-streaming service SoundCloud Ltd., but it has backed out of the talks, according to a person familiar with the matter.
The short-messaging service chose to let the deadline for exclusivity on talks pass without coming to an agreement because "the numbers didn't add up," the person said, without offering specifics. It is unclear which party initiated the talks.


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You can always rely on Threadless when it comes to being on top of popular culture, even if it has to do with the newly implemented and controversial TSA airport security guidelines. This shirt seems like it came out of nowhere, I just spotted it a few hours ago on the left sidebar of the Threadless homepage. The T-Shirt was designed by photographer David Vincent Wolf, who, upon closer examination of his Threadless profile just became a member of the popular T-Shirt site less than a week ago.
Interestingly, Gizmodo posted the Land of the Free image seen on the Threadless T-Shirt in a blog post and said:
"Someone should make T-shirts with this image and sell them at airports. With a TSA logo on the back."
Land of the Free obviously pokes fun at the incredible PR nightmare that is the US Department of Homeland Security's Transportation Security Administration. Over the last week, there have been countless nightmarish TSA stories that have been spreading online. The stories range from the ability for the new body scanners to save nude photos to the cancer survivor who had a pat down that caused his urostromy (urine) bag to leak and spill all over his pants to the little boy that was stripped and given a pat down.
The stoic image on this T-Shirt sums up this whole messed up situation. Is losing our rights and liberties every time that we travel worth it?
Land of the Free is available now from Threadless for $18.
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This 'N That
Tropical Storm Fay has decided to park over Florida's Space Coast, which is going to make my vacation trip more — well, interesting.
We're supposed to fly to Orlando on Saturday and spend a week. The storm itself is not strong enough to cause immediate significant damage. It's just moving so slow that it's dumping a lot of water.
We have a friend who works at Kennedy Space Center. I just spoke to her; pretty much everything is shut down for a couple days as they don't want people on the roads. The crew for the next Shuttle launch was due in next week for training, but no one knows right now what the schedule will be. So I guess we're just going to wing it when we get there along with everyone else.
The local paper is Florida Today. Their web site, www.floridatoday.com, has some cool geeky features you'd expect in a company town where the company happens to be the space program. This morning, they had two reporters driving around with a video camera streaming live to the web site in the middle of the storm. Not parked. They were streaming while driving. They were receiving text messages from viewers as they drove, answering questions and providing traffic updates.
They also have a camera mounted on a building showing Cocoa Beach Pier, so you can see the strength of the storm. Last night we were seeing occasional lightning flashes in the darkness.
I'd hoped to see a minor league game next week, either the local Brevard County Manatees or the Daytona Cubs up the road, but the fields may be so soggy they're rendered unplayable. We'll see.
If you're a regular reader of this blog, you know I've been researching the early history of the Angels minor leagues and have tracked down some of the original "future Angels." Tonight I'm taking Dan Ardell and Dick Simpson to Rancho Cucamonga. The Quakes are playing the San Jose Giants. Dan and Dick played for the San Jose Bees (same franchise, different team name) in 1962; that was the year Dick hit 42 homers, which stood as an Angels single-season minor league record until Brandon Wood hit 43 homers for Rancho in 2005.
Dan and Dick are scheduled to do the first-pitch ceremony. It'll be the first time they've been on a California League field in 45 years.
I've posted on FutureAngels.com plenty of video clips from Sunday's Quakes game at Lake Elsinore. I recommend in particular the eight-run first inning clip, so you see everyone who got a hit that inning. For those of you who've only heard of Hank Conger, check out his home run swing. It reminds me a bit of how violent Troy Glaus' swing was. You almost feel sorry for the baseball.


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Greenwich Chamber Players explores the 'familiar and unknown'
This is not the kind of trove that glints and glimmers, but the program the Chamber Players of the Greenwich Symphony soon plans to present is precious all the same.
"Treasures Familiar and Unknown" will be performed Sunday and Monday, March 2 and 3, in Greenwich, featuring a number of the symphony's principals, as well as guest violist Vincent Lionti, who is based in New York City and plays with the Metropolitan Opera. Selections by Mozart, Mendelssohn and Raff will be featured.
Lionti, who has performed with the Chamber Players on many occasions, said the Raff piece, Piano Quintet in A minor, Op.107, is seldom played.
"Musicians should count themselves lucky in their careers if they have a chance to play it even once," he said. "It's a tour de force."
Presenting the work will be Lionti, pianist Andrew Gordon, violinists Krystof Witek and Susan Hytken Metcalf and cellist Daniel Miller.
Round Hill Community Church, 395 Round Hill Road, Greenwich. Sunday, March 2, 4:30 p.m.; Bruce Museum, One Museum Drive, Greenwich. Monday, March 3, 7:30 p.m. The audience may join musicians for a wine-and-cheese reception at both concerts. $25, $5 students. 203-637-4725, www.greenwichsym.org/chamberplayers.


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Luis Camnitzer:
Introduction by Jane Farver
Access to the Mainstream
To address "access to the mainstream" in the arts is to address the topic
of success in the market. For this reason, the subject has always elicited
contradictory emotionsprimarily desire and resentmentand these
emotions have been particularly strong among those artists who do not
belong to the social group that produces and supports what is considered
"mainstream" art. Although the term "mainstream" carries democratic reverberations,
suggesting an open and majority-supported institution, it is in fact a
rather elitist arrangement reflecting a specific social and economic class.
In reality, "mainstream" presumes a reduced group of cultural gatekeepers
and represents a select nucleus of nations. It is a name for a power structure
that promotes a self-appointed hegemonic culture. For this reason, the
wish to belong to the "mainstream" and the wish to destroy it often arise
simultaneously in the individuals who are or feel marginal to it. Depending
on origin and background, individual access is more difficult for some
than for others.
Discussion of the plights of different ethnic or national groups, anecdotes
about their failures and successes in their attempts to gain access, does
not illuminate the topic; it distracts from it. What does deserve attention
are the elements common to the experience of all: for example, colonialism
as a force affecting both internal and external colonies; values instilled
by educational institutions that separate peoples from their identities;
the market's fetishization of the success of the individual over the building
of culture. These are the substantive issues. It is through these elements
that the market becomes a tool for homogeneity, and "mainstream" turns
out to be a euphemism for its actions.
The Modernist movements developed in western cultural centers during
this centuryparticularly the myth of abstractionismwere always
associated with the promotion of an international style, and this style
was eventually used as a cultural answer to "totalitarianism," itself
a Cold War term created to put down Soviet autocracy by classifying it
with the Nazi regime. Concurrent with these developments, nationalism
became a word symbolizing cultural regression, thus minimizing the concept's
use as an anti-colonial instrument. Since this cultural expansionism included
a growth of the market, it was easy for these conditions to be accepted
as guidelines by the market. As a consequence, ethnic and national artists
belonging to subordinate cultures could only be successful in this market
if they worked within an acceptable formal repertoire, while the expression
of ethnicity and/or nationality had to remain confined to content. This
residual ethnicity allowed their products to be perceived as slightly
exotic, enough so as to maintain a satisfying self-image of openness and
pluralism on the part of the market. The same residual ethnicity would
signal the "roots" of the author in the artist's community of origin.
Yet, the community's pride would turn on the fact that their artist "made
it in the art world" rather than on the artist's cultural contribution
to his or her community. Artists like Romare Bearden or Fernando Botero,
for example, are more respected in their communities for the prices they
command in the market than for any possible changes in vision they may
have introduced to their national or ethnic constituents. A clear symptom
of colonization is the tendency to see the shift from subordinate to hegemonic
culture as a sign of progress and success.
In the recent years the eclecticism in vogue in the marketthe Postmodernist
"pastiche"has allowed for the introduction of some short-lived cracks
into this picture. German and Italian national identities, as projected
by the Neoexpressionists and the Trans-avant-gardists, have been allowed
a place, in spite of the fact that they do not totally conform to the
notion of international homogeneity. Through feminist and graffiti art,
the affirmation of distinctive group identity has achieved exhibition
status, and kitsch has been allowed to challenge formalist purism. While
the parties involved in this diversification of the mainstream have not
fully assumed responsibility for the implied political ideologies of their
work, clearly their contributions have tended to fit into two categories
of Postmodernism, right-wing and left-wing. In right- wing PostmodernismDavid
Salle could be an examplewe find past market products reintroduced,
even regurgitated, with revitalized selling power. In left-wing PostmodernismKenny
Scharf as an example for expression of identity. Hans Haacke for politicssome
hitherto unacceptable elements have been introduced to the market and,
as a result of their success, encourage the hope that the very definition
of "mainstream" might be changed.1
The hope has been followed by disappointment. A multinational gallery structure has re-internationalized these offerings. Until multinational galleries and prices caught up, Germany and Italy were the artistic counterparts of what Taiwan and Korea are for industry. The edge of left-wing Postmodernism was dulled by chicness, to better fit the galleries. Diversity was fused into a market's expanded repertoire, and what could have been a cultural breakthrough was blunted into no more than an increase of merchandise supply. There is a store in Massachusetts which offers "authentic fast food." What possibly was intended as a satirical stab ended up providing an authenticating genealogy for an ersatz, being co-opted by the same institution it started attacking. The danger quickly disappeared and the balance was re-established.
To malign the market as an evil is very easy. Its distorting incentives,
its self-congratulatory righteousness, its bulldozing cultural flattening
and its deep-seated racism make it a vulnerable target. But most of this
maligning assumes that under certain conditions the market can be corrected.
If only there were minority curators or critics. If only there was easier
access for minority artists. If only there were more galleries for minorities,
or more room for minority artists in the mainstream galleries.
Access to the mainstream really means a mainstreaming of the artist.
In the late '60s there was a push for something called "Black Capitalism."
It was clearly more a promotion of capitalism than of blackness. The unexamined
assumption was that capitalism is the bestif not the only
way of life, and that by granting an invitation and some aid to participate
in it, critical problems would disappear. It was not, as was claimed,
a matter of "integration," with the problems of two parties to be analyzed
toward the creation of a third alternative. It was a matter of tolerating
the access of one of the parties to a mainstream controlled by the other
party. Capitalism wasn't supposed to change, it was to be expanded.
The cause for this ambivalent reaction is not based on the content of
the remarks but on the context in which they are made, signaling a distrust
which could be healthy if used well. It is our obsessive focusing on the
market, colored by the frustration of accessibility in theory and factual
inaccessibility in practice, which hinders us in the correct use of our
instinct. Only when resigned to failure do we look away and criticize.
While there is a chance for success we may criticize some, but our actions
will contradict our words. While criticism gives us a feeling of connectedness
with our original community, our goal remains the access to the mainstream
in any way possible.
In all the cases of the mainstreamed minority the foreign artist,
the black capitalist who applies to the mainstreamthe colonizing
process leads to the internalization of the wish to assimilate. When colonization
is successful assimilation becomes something "natural" and unavoidable.
We are then allowed to enter the field of competition and free enterprise
so that everyone becomes the happy and credulous owner of an equal opportunity.
But on the way to this plateau, certain changes occur in the expression
of the individual. Some of these changes become believable, others less
so. If believable, assimilation has been completed successfully. If not,
the only thing achieved is affectation. What is expressed is perceived
as a sign of kitsch, nouveau-richeness or "arrivism." A culture to be
forgotten is partially covered up with a culture incompletely acquired,
or a culture badly remembered is falsely reinterpreted for the eyes of
a culture badly understood.
A recent review of a concert by the Peruvian singer Yma Sumac stated
"Her stage show was a campy, sexy 'south of the border' stylization of
grand opera, in which she portrayed a primitive diva mystically in tune
with the forces of nature." And further on: "Positioned on either side
of the stage were Styrofoam replicas of Incan deities, and the singer,
costumed in a filmy purple gown, comported herself with theatrical hauteur."
While it is unlikely that the reviewer expected Ms. Sumac to borrow original
Incan statues from the Metropolitan Museum, nevertheless the account is
a good inventory of the many ways she transgressed the good manners of
hegemonic high culture. Even the possible originality of her transgressions
is second-rated by a later comparison with "the showmanship of Liberace."
Totally absent from the review is an account of Ms. Sumac's transgressions
against her own culture, the violations performed to fit Liberace's market
and the feedback of this market into Peru.
In our quest to the top we end up classified somewhere between two interesting
examples, the one of Lang Shih-ning and the one of the upper-class Uruguayan
ladies. Lang Shih-ning was the Chinese name of Giuseppe Castiglione, an
Italian painter who lived between 1688 and 1766. He went to China, worked
for the emperor Ch'ien Lung, and tried hard and unsuccessfully to erase
his western art training for the sake of becoming a Chinese court painter.
During the late '50s in Uruguay, it had become fashionable for ladies
in idleness to take up Chinese watercolors as a creative activity. There
were several exhibits per season, and the more "authentic" the work looked,
the better it was rated. The first example is one of a mercenary assimilating
to better perform his job. The second example is one of indulging in affectation.
In their activities, neither Lang Shi-ning nor the Uruguayan ladies were
directly led to their activities by colonization in the same way that
we are. But all of us are led to a debatable cultural substitution, one
which should not be allowed to happen casually and thoughtlessly through
an unconscious mimetic drive.
We have been taught to view art as an apolitical act, devoid of political
consequences, operating in a nonpolitical space. When politics do seep
into our work, it is confined to a level of residual content, placating
somewhat our conscience, but not forcing us to review our strategies.
We fail to see that politics are not just reduced to content, in a simplistic
fashion. We live the alienating myth of primarily being artists. We are
not. We are primarily ethical beings sifting right from wrong and just
from unjust, not only in the realm of the individual, but no communal
and regional contexts. In order to survive ethically we need a political
awareness that helps us to understand our environment and develop strategies
for our actions.
Thus the issue is not our access to the mainstream, but the mainstream's
access to us. Only put this way can the mainstream act as a resonance
box for our activities without eviscerating us. Whether the mainstream
comes to us or bypasses us is of secondary importance. Of primary concern
is that we remain in the trade of building a culture and know as precisely
as possible what and whose culture we are building. Equally important
is that we reduce our ego. The idea of us building a culture may leave
the impression that we may do so singlehandedly. In fact, our role is
equivalent to that of one more brick during the construction of a building.
Under certain circumstances this attitude may sound like a separatist
stance, but it is not. It does not imply a reversion to provincial nationalism
or to parochialism. It is a position which stresses that what has selling
power is not necessarily in our best merest, while stopping colonialism
is. There is an important difference between cultural autonomy and chauvinism.
Cultural autonomy is conducive to generating independent individuals.
Chauvinism is only conducive to racism and, given the power, to imperialism.
Imperialism is no more than provincialism with bullying power. What the
stated position implies is in fact no more than a reordering of priorities
in a moment in which a much-needed radical change of society still seems
out of reach.
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What does Dumb and Dumber have to do with Wolf of Wall Street? Nothing aside from sour grapes between the films' producers, which may have been enough to launch a devastating legal battle. Allow me break down how a lawsuit over the upcoming sequel Dumb and Dumber To has roped in accusations about the makers of Wolf Of Wall Street.
The 1994 hit comedy Dumb and Dumber was produced in part by Brad Krevoy and Steve Stabler, but both were denied a chance to participate in the making of the sequel Dumb and Dumber To. For this offense, the pair sued Red Granite and its heads Riza Aziz and Joey McFarland, the production company behind Dumb and Dumber To.
In a stunning move, Krevoy and Stabler have added an amendment to the original suit that claims Red Granite committed racketeering in making the company's biggest hit to date, The Wolf of Wall Street. THR reports the full $100 million of The Wolf of Wall Street's budget will be looked at to see if it came from illegal means.
According to the complaint filed by Krevoy and Stabler:
"Red Granite is funded with monies that include proceeds from offenses against a foreign nation that involve bribery of public officials, or misappropriation, theft, or embezzlement of public funds by a public official."
Their complaint goes on to declare that these allegedly ill-gotten gains have been used to finance The Wolf of Wall Street as well as Dumb and Dumber To "with knowledge that the transactions were designed to conceal the nature, location, source, ownership, or control of the proceeds of the illegal activity."
At this time its unknown what kind of proof Krevoy and Stabler have regarding this alleged corruption said to have weaved its way into Hollywood moviemaking. But the claim alone could be just the leverage they need to pressure Red Granite into letting them in on Dumb and Dumber To, and by that we mean the profits of Dumb and Dumber To, which has already wrapped production.
Working against Red Granite's case is Aziz himself, who has recently been accused of creating his fortune from devious means. Also raising eyebrows is that weird business ahead of the Oscars where Red Granite producers didn't qualify to be counted as producers for the Best Picture category, even though they provided the entirety of the budget. However, let's make clear: we don't know why Red Granite was discounted from Oscar rewards. At this point connecting that and this lawsuit is pure industry speculation.
For their part, Red Granite has struck back against these allegations, releasing a statement to THR that reads:
"These false, malicious and baseless allegations are demonstrably untrue, and Red Granite looks forward to the prompt dismissal of these claims. Not surprisingly, given they have no facts to back up their accusations Messrs. Krevoy and Stabler resorted to rank speculation and innuendo. There is simply nothing to these naked allegations."
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Em Sherif – Monot
Classy and Elegant Atmosphere
Review by Souad
Em Sherif is an elegant Lebanese restaurant with outstanding decoration and delicious food. At Em Sherif, you don't choose from a menu, one formula is presented to you with a set of cold and hot mezze in addition to main courses and grills. As soon as you are ready, a series of mezze starts to land on the table: the classics like tabouleh, fattoush, tajen, french fries… and some old recipes like kebbet la2tin, kebbe 2arnabiyeh, man2oush keshek. I loved their fattoush, hendbeh, kebbet batenjen and especially their ouzi. At the end of the meal, they bring you traditional desserts like meghli and mhallabiyeh…
The restaurant has an original Arabic interior design with old plates on a wall, a seemingly broken ceiling, arabesque mirrors, all in an orchestra of colors and shapes. Our table was a mirror covered with an organza tablecloth.
The service is caring and professional. Prices are way higher than average. The formula for lunch is at 35$ and for dinner with live music 60$ excluding arguileh and drinks. Some people say that Em Sherif is worth the high prices, others say it's not. Personally, I think that it's suitable for a lunch but excessive for a dinner. So, if you visit it, please share your opinion with us.Write a Review
Lebanese restaurant, you don't choose items in the menu. It's a unique formula for everyone with mezze and grills.
Suitable for vegetarians. Serves alcohol.
Good to know
Recommended for large groups, business lunches, families, friends and romantic diners.
Monot, Victor Hugo Street. You can get to it from Sodeco, once you get to Yabani go right.
2 Reviews
Jan 30, 2013 at 06:17Maybe good food, but got intoxicated from smokers. It was disgusting biting into something after swimming in someone else's inhaled air...
Feb 16, 2014 at 22:36It is worth it. It's really nice, the food is tasty, the music fits for me. It's a 10 over 10 restaurant no doubt.
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Phone Number: 01 206 206 or 70 919 119
Get there
Monot, Victor Hugo Street. You can get to it from Sodeco, once you get to Yabani go right.
See Also
Babel - Dbayeh(44 votes)
Exceptional Lebanese restaurant in a Babylonian temple
Frida - Ashrafieh(25 votes)
Mix between Lebanese and Mexican Cuisines
Al Sultan Brahim(12 votes)
Traditional fish and grills restaurant
Al Mayass - Ashrafieh(5 votes)
Cozy Armenian Restaurant
Lebneniyet - Downtown(6 votes)
Traditional Lebanese restaurant in Maarad street
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DOVER — A Garrison City man was indicted this month on five felony-level charges related to burglaries throughout the city between November and January.
Christopher Morin, 28, of 50 Mill St., faces the burglary charges after he allegedly entered residences on Fairfield Drive, Oak Street, Atlantic Avenue, and Forest Street.
Each of the burglaries occurred during daylight hours and involved forced entry into the homes, at least one of which was occupied at the time, according to earlier reports by Foster's Daily Democrat.
Morin was arraigned in January and ordered held on $25,000 cash bail. He was also considered a danger to the community at the time due to a lengthy criminal record that includes possession of a controlled drug, driving under the influence, criminal mischief and other offenses over the last several years.
Also indicted this month for his alleged connection to some of the same burglaries as well as two others in Rollinsford and Durham, is Joseph Sprague, 23, of 149 Portland Ave.
The incident in Durham, according to the indictment, was a student's dorm room.
Earlier statements by police indicated that Sprague had been selling jewelry to area stores soon after burglaries were reported.
The two men face class B felony charges for each of their respective offenses. Each charge carries three and a half to seven years in state prison and a $4,000 fine.
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No matter how close the game, Bellarmine College Prep finds a way to get what it wants.
The Bells did so last week when it seemed as if Serra would score the touchdown that would dethrone the defending Central Coast Section Open Division champions.
They did so five weeks ago when St. Ignatius needed a stop to give its high-powered offense one last shot to erase a deficit.
Friday night, Bellarmine will try to hold off St. Ignatius once again when the West Catholic Athletic League teams meet at San Jose City College for the section's Open Division championship.
Bellarmine will bring an 11-game winning streak to the title game, including five wins decided by no more than a touchdown.
"It's incredible to think that we could go two years in a row winning WCAL and CCS and potentially going to state again," quarterback K.J. Carta-Samuels said. "It's awesome."
For Bellarmine to land in the pool of teams that could be selected for a Northern California regional game next week — teams will be chosen Sunday — it must defeat a St. Ignatius team that has lost only to the Bells, Serra and Marin Catholic.
St. Ignatius quarterback Jack Stinn is a threat both running and throwing, and his group of tall receivers gives him big targets to find downfield, as Bellarmine discovered in its 35-28 win over the Wildcats in San Francisco on Oct. 27.
"They're tall and have good hands and run extremely good routes," Bellarmine coach Mike Janda said. "They also run good plays. Their offense is well thought out, and they execute it very well."
Stinn threw a touchdown pass Saturday to 6-foot-4 tight end Nik Bell in a 25-22 semifinal win over Archbishop Mitty and also likes to call on 6-5 receiver Andrew Vollert.
When Stinn isn't throwing or scrambling, the Wildcats turn to shifty running back Elijah Dale.
The Bells have relied on senior Kenneth Olugbode. He has rushed for four touchdowns in the playoffs, including two last week against Serra, and also stands out at linebacker.
"He's the heart and soul of our team, I think, on both sides of the ball," Janda said. "He gets the tough yard and makes the tackles that are critical."
Olugbode has helped put the Bells on the cusp of another title. Friday, he hopes to complete the task.
"Our coach talks about it's not the person who has your back, it's the person who has your side that are the most important people to you," Olugbode said. "That's what it is for us — want-to."


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Any tourist knows you can get thirsty seeing the sights, and even in the January cold, the Inauguration promises to keep a lot of people licking their (chapped) lips. But what better way to quench your thirst than with a bottle of commemorative Obama water? Hundreds of vendors traveling to D.C. from across the nation will tote boxes of your basic street-friendly plastic bottle with Obama's face glued to the front ($1-$3). Hotel gift shops are luring patrons with similarly dressed-up plastic bottles, some featuring the whole First Family. But the classiest Obama thirst quencher we found was a rhinestone-studded glass bottle labeled "Obama 2009," which can be purchased at the Willard Hotel's Travel Traders gift shop ($55).
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Seaweed-wrap and massage jokes aside, Belgium's Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps is a lyrical old-world racetrack packed to the sky with history. It's the thinking man's Nürburgring, less well known among the masses, but highly placed on motorsports fans' bucket lists.
As such, this half-hour of racing porn from the Spa 24 this past weekend will likely have the same effect on motorsports fans as a trip to the day spa would have on the Real Housewives of Insert Name of Douchebag-Filled Place Here.
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The citizens of New Ulm, Minn., like to joke about their three major food groups -- beer, brats and butter with a little cheese thrown in for good measure.
That's part of what makes New Ulm a perfect place for a groundbreaking experiment on whether it's possible to eliminate heart attacks throughout an entire community.
The ambitious New Ulm experiment is one of two Allina Hospitals and Clinics plans to announce today in a five-year, $100 million health initiative it has named the Center for Healthcare Innovation.
The other experiment is aimed at discovering if Allina can affect the health of those who live right in its back yard -- the Phillips and Powderhorn Park neighborhoods of Minneapolis where Allina is based.
That community, with a population equal parts Hispanic, African American and white, is rife with chronic social and health problems such as obesity, asthma, teen pregnancies and HIV infections.
Both New Ulm and the south Minneapolis neighborhoods will become what Allina officials describe as living laboratories on how to prevent disease and do a better job of treating it when it does occur.
"It's working on the things that cause illness upstream rather than waiting for something to go wrong and fixing it later," said Donald Berwick, head of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in Cambridge. Mass.
He said Allina is at the leading edge of what he expects will become a trend of community interventions because "in the end it's the only way we can get at the big burden of the cost of care."
It is also a way for Allina, the Twin Cities' largest health care organization, to expand its nonprofit mission, said Dick Pettingill, Allina's chief executive officer. Community leaders "looked us squarely in the eye and said, 'We expect more from you,'" he said.
Allina's board of directors is expected to approve the project and the funding at a meeting today. To pay for the center, Allina will ante up $50 million of its revenues during the next five years and seek another $50 million in grants and donations from other organizations.
Pettingill said that Allina will use the next seven or eight months to establish goals and programs with community groups in New Ulm and Minneapolis, and hire staff.
Why New Ulm?
New Ulm was chosen for the heart attack project, called the Heart of New Ulm, because more than 90 percent of its 15,000 citizens get their health care from Allina. Both the clinic and hospital there are owned and operated by Allina.
It also has an electronic medical records system, which provides new and untested opportunities for population research, said Dr. Kevin Graham, a cardiologist at the Minneapolis Heart Institute involved in developing the project.
He said that the records system can help doctors identify people who are at risk for heart attacks and figure out which treatments are effective.
"The patients [at risk] for heart attacks and with lower cholesterol, those are the ones we need to find," he said. "The ones who smoke three packs a day are not difficult to intervene on."
The greater question, however, is whether Allina can reach beyond the clinic walls and lead the community toward an extraordinary goal that requires people to do far more than take heart medications.
"To actually get up and get moving and eat more fruit, that is the hard part" said Dan Beranek, a member of the New Ulm City Council for 30 years.
Graham said many of the biggest decisions will have to be made by the community itself, not its doctors. "Do you stop selling cigarettes in New Ulm?" he asked.
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The Minneapolis initiative, called the Backyard Project, is larger and, Pettingill acknowledged, more complex.
He said the center will be a clearinghouse for established community groups. "There are 50 nonprofits in our back yard, but no air traffic controller to make it work," he said.
Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak said he was among community leaders who encouraged Allina to ensure its non-profit status was reflected by more than its tax return. When Pettingill described the new projects recently, "I was pleasantly stunned by the scale and the innovation," Rybak said.
Chronic diseases are often rooted in social problems, such as bad diets, broken families, smoking and dropping out of school, said Michael Oakes, a University of Minnesota epidemiologist who studied Phillips for Allina.
"The science is not clear. We have thousands and thousands of research papers and no one can say whether there will be health benefits if you take soda out of the schools or build a park. We don't know."
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Remove Everything from Your Windows 8 Computer
The Windows 8 Refresh tool freshens up your PC by reinstalling Windows but saving much of your information. The new Remove Everything feature, by contrast, doesn't save it.
Choosing the Remove Everything tool completely erases your copy of Windows, your programs, your apps, and all your files. In other words, the program wipes your computer completely clean. Then, Windows 8 magically reinstalls itself, leaving you with a working computer, but without your programs, your files, or even your user account.
In fact, nobody will even recognize it as being your computer. Why bother? Well, the feature comes in very handy in two scenarios:
Starting from scratch: Removing everything can be a magic fix when nothing else cures your computer. Although it leaves you with many things to reinstall, removing everything is a sure-fire, last-resort cure for an ailing version of Windows. In fact, many repair shops charge about $150 for this very task.
Wiping away your personal data: After you've removed everything from your computer, you can safely give it away or donate it to charity without worrying that somebody will grab your personal information.
To remove everything from your computer, follow these steps:
Open the Charms bar and click the Settings icon (shown in the margin).
You can fetch the Charms bar by pointing your mouse cursor at the screen's top- or bottom-right corner, sliding a finger inward from a touchscreen's right edge, or pressing Windows+C with a keyboard.
When you click the Settings icon, the Settings pane appears.
At the bottom of the Settings pane, click the words Change PC Settings to open the PC Settings screen. Then click the word General from the PC Settings screen's left edge.
Scroll down the right side of the PC Settings screen's General section. When you reach the section called Remove Everything and Reinstall Windows, click the Get Started button.
The program warns you that it will remove all your personal files, programs, and apps and that it will change your settings back to default — the way they were when Windows was first installed.
If asked, insert your Windows 8 disc, flash drive, or whatever else you used to first install Windows.
When you insert the disc or drive, Windows 8 automatically grabs the files it needs.
Don't have a Windows 8 installation disc or drive? Then click Cancel. You can't use the Remove Everything option, unfortunately.
Click Next and choose how you want to remove your personal files.
The Remove Everything command offers two options:
Just Remove My Files: Select this option only when your computer will stay within your family. Although this option is relatively secure, somebody with the right tools may be able to extract some previously erased information.
Fully Clean the Drive: Select this option when you'll be giving away or donating your computer to strangers. This option removes your data and then scrubs the hard drive extra clean. That keeps out everybody but the most dedicated specialists who own expensive data recovery equipment.
Choose your desired option and wait for the process to finish. Or click Cancel to return to the PC Settings screen.
Removing the files should finish in less than an hour. Fully cleaning the drive will take several hours.
When your computer wakes up, it's as if Windows 8 was freshly installed on a new computer.
In fact, the Remove Everything feature leaves you looking at a freshly installed copy of Windows 8. At that point, you need to enter your product key, the long string of numbers and letters that links your copy of Windows 8 to your computer. (You can find your product key on a sticker attached to your computer's case or inside your Windows 8 software box.)
The Remove Everything feature leaves you with a newly installed version of Windows. That means you need to create new user accounts, reinstall all your programs, and restore all your files from a backup.
If you've kept a backup of your files with File History, you can easily restore the files that once lived in your Documents, Music, Pictures, and Videos libraries.
The Reset feature's Fully Clean the Drive option in Step 5 overwrites every bit of your computer's hard drive with random characters. That's enough to keep all but the most dedicated thugs away from your data.
For more information about Windows 8 and its features, explore Windows 8 For Dummies, available online.


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FanCake Gamify's Sports Co-Viewing with iPhone App
You've probably done it - Used a mobile device to chat with others online about the television program you were watching. Now there is a term for it called "co-viewing". The FanCake app wants users to jump into the app to not just chat, but compete against other March Madness fans on the game's actual events, players, history and milestones.
FanCake will include all 67 games of the annual March Madness event and host a live, in-app tournament. Fans can play along while watching each game and compete for medals, trophies and win social challenges.
Features include:
- Choose any game and instantly play along with other fans watching the game in-app or connect with Facebook friends
- Games include predict the outcome of the next play
- Win rewards and trophies as you build your FanCard
According to the CEO of the company that developed the app, "FanCake will revolutionize how fans interact with live televised events, and enable them to not only watch, but play along with the game as well."
I'm sure he meant to say "how [iOS] fans interact with live televised events..." because FanCake is currently only available for iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad users. So if you qualify as a NCAA March Madness fan and have access to an iOS device, download FanCake from iTunes and let us know what you think in the comments section.


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Last year I wrote but happened not to publish this brief article which may be relevant today.
Climate Change Alarmism: The real battle is against corruption, pollution, deforestation, energy waste etc
Subroto Roy
May 28 2008
Like the AIDS epidemic that never was, "climate change" is on its way to becoming the new myth sold by paternalist governments and their bureaucrat/scientist busybodies to ordinary people coping with their normal lives. E.g., someone says, without any trace of irony: "Everyone in the world should have the same emissions quota. Since Trotsky's permanent revolution is unfortunately on hold at the moment, and the world still happens to be partitioned into nations, once the per capita quotas are determined they would have to be grouped on a nationwide basis".
Trotskyism will have to be made of sterner stuff. Canada's Lorne Gunter (*National Post* 20 May 2008) reports that Noel Keenlyside, the principal scientist who suggested that man-made global warming exists, has now led a team from the Leibniz Institute of Marine Science and Max Planck Institute of Meteorology which "for the first time entered verifiable data on ocean circulation cycles into one of the UN's climate supercomputers, and the machine spit out a projection that there will be no more warming for the foreseeable future.…" Oops! So much for impending catastrophe. Rajendra Pachauri himself has in January "reluctantly admitted to Reuters… that there has been no warming so far in the 21st Century".
Mr Pachauri had earlier gone on Indian television comparing himself to CV Raman and Mother Theresa as an Indian Nobel Prize winner — in fact, Al Gore and the 2500 member "UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change" chaired by Mr Pachauri shared the Nobel Peace Prize last year. Now the prediction from that UN "Panel" of "a 0.3 deg C rise in temperature in the coming decade" has been contradicted by Noel Keenlyside's own scientific results. Gunter reports further that 2007 "saw a drop in the global average temperature of nearly 0.7 deg C (the largest single-year movement up or down since global temperature averages have been calculated). Despite advanced predictions that 2007 would be the warmest year on record, made by such UN associates as Britain's Hadley Centre, a government climate research agency, 2007 was the coolest year since at least 1993. According to the U. S. National Climatic Data Centre, the average temperature of the global land surface in January 2008 was below the 20th-Century mean for the first time since 1982. Also in January, Southern Hemisphere sea ice coverage was at its greatest summer level (January is summer in the Southern Hemisphere) in the past 30 years. Neither the 3,000 temperature buoys that float throughout the world's oceans nor the eight NASA satellites that float above our atmosphere have recorded appreciable warming in the past six to eight years. Climate alarmists the world over were quick to add that they had known all along there would be periods when the Earth's climate would cool even as the overall trend was toward dangerous climate change."
Honest government doctors know that the myth that HIV/AIDS can spread at Western rates in a society as conservative and sexless as India's has diverted vast public resources away from India's numerous real killer diseases: filariasis, dysentery, leprosy, influenza, malaria, gastroenteritis, TB, whooping cough, enteric fever, infectious hepatitis, gonococcal infection, syphilis, measles, tetanus, chicken-pox, cholera, rabies, diptheria, meningococcal infection, poliomelitis, dengue and haemmorrhagic fever and encephalitis. Candid environmentalists similarly know that obsessing about climate change distracts from what is significant and within our power to do, namely, the prevention or at least regulation of the pollution of our air and water and prevention of the waste of energy using policies appropriate for a myriad of local communities and neighbourhoods.
The pollution of India's atmosphere, rivers, lakes, roads and public property is an unending disgrace. Pollution and corruption are mirror images of each other: corruption is to steal something valuable that belongs to the public; pollution is to dispose private waste into the public domain. Both occur conspicuously where property rights between public and private domains are vague or fuzzy, where pricing of public and private goods and services is distorted, and where judicial and legal processes enforcing contracts are for whatever reason weak or inoperable.
Walk into any government office in India and lights, fans, ACs may be found working at top speed whether or not any living being can be seen. A few rare individual bureaucrats may be concerned but India's Government as a whole cares not a hoot if public electricity or for that matter any public funds and resources are being wasted, stolen or abused.
At the same time, private motorists face little disincentive from pouring untaxed "black money" into imported gas-guzzling heavy automobiles regardless of India's narrow roads and congestion. There are no incentives whatsoever for anyone who does not have to do so to want to bicycle or walk to work. The "nuclear deal" involves importing "six to eight lightwater reactors" on a turnkey basis; like the Enron-Dabhol deal a decade ago, it makes no financial sense at all and will make even less if the rupee depreciates anytime in future. Our government policy is in general invented and carried out regardless of technical or financial feasibility; the waste of energy and pollution of the environment are merely examples of the waste of resources and abuse of public property in general.
Someone says "The North", mainly the USA, "is primarily responsible for climate change". He may mean Western countries have contributed relatively more pollutants and effluents into the world's waters and air which is probably a good guess since the West has also contributed more to the world's scientific, industrial and agricultural progress in general over the centuries.
But to think human beings today understand the complexities of climate and its changes adequately enough to be able to control it is a fatal conceit. Philip Stott, emeritus professor of biogeography at the University of London, is among many scientists who have challenged "the key contradiction at the heart of the Kyoto Protocol, the global climate agreement – that climate is one of the most complex systems known, yet that we can manage it by trying to control a small set of factors, namely greenhouse gas emissions. Scientifically, this is not mere uncertainty: it is a lie…The problem with a chaotic coupled non-linear system as complex as climate is that you can no more predict successfully the outcome of doing something as of not doing something. Kyoto will not halt climate change. Full stop." (BBC 25 February 2002). For Indian foreign or economic policy to waffle on about climate change is as ineffectual and irrelevant as for the Indian Finance Minister to waffle on about AIDS.


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WASHINGTON – Fifteen years after her last solo U.S. release, and 26 years since "Heaven Is a Place on Earth" topped the charts, Belinda Carlisle is dipping her toes in pop music waters.
The 54-year-old Carlisle, who gained fame in the early 1980s as lead singer of The Go-Go's, recently released the single "Sun," which is included on her new CD, "Belinda Carlisle — ICON."
"I really had no desire to do any more pop music — in English, anyway," said Carlisle, by Skype from her home in France.
"It would have taken something really good for me to want to do it. My son found the song," says Carlisle.
Carlisle, whose biggest seller "Heaven Is a Place on Earth" came out when Compact Disc technology was in its first years of popularity, rejoins the pop world in a time when digital downloads have surpassed sales of CDs.
Her last CD, "Voila," released in 2007, was sung entirely in French, consisting of French pop tunes and chanson standards.
"As far as production, I work with people who know what they're doing, and are very current. As far as what I sing, I kind of just pay attention to myself and go with what I love," says Carlisle.
Carlisle, who tours internationally, was asked if she'll tour to support her new single. She seemed open to the idea.
"As far as the States go, I haven't done a tour for 15 years, so I'm about due," Carlisle said.
"It won't be until next year since I'm so busy with Go-Go's touring, " said Carlisle.
Carlisle and The Go-Go's are scheduled to play Wolf Trap June 13, with The Psychedelic Furs.
Carlisle tweeted recently she's getting ready for eight weeks of training, preparing for The Go-Go's summer tour.
Asked what it takes to get ready for the yearly shows by the groundbreaking all- female band, Carlisle admitted with a laugh, "Dieting. Dieting and working out."
Carlisle wrote openly about her strained relationship with food, including an eating disorder, as well as problems with drugs and alcoholism in her 2010 autobiography, "Lips Unsealed: A Memoir."
Last month The Go-Go's announced in a statement they'd parted ways with longtime bassist Kathy Valentine, but Carlisle declined to go into specifics.
"For a band to part ways with a longtime member, there have to be very significant reasons," says Carlisle.
Contacted by WTOP, Valentine chose not to comment.
Carlisle revealed bassist Abby Travis, who filled-in for the injured Valentine in The Go-Go's 2012 tour, will perform on the upcoming tour.
Before forming The Go-Go's, Carlisle briefly played drums with punk band The Germs.
Sober for eight years, and after finding internal peace with meditation and yoga, Carlisle says she still identifies with punk rock.
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Friday, April 29, 2011
* Royal Wedding Kleenex and Napkin Wedding Dress Design!
We, along with the rest of the world,
got up at an insane hour this morning to watch the Royal Wedding!
We started our morning with a
Royal Tea Party
wearing Pajamas and fancy hats.
And...Yes, it was still dark outside.
I even let the girls use a couple of my "fancy" paper napkins.
"C" was fascinated with them and remembered
using them for our decoupage eggs at Easter.
She wanted to save them for a craft.
Later in the morning, after big sister "E" was off to school
and "C" and I had finished our morning walk,
"C" asked me to turn on the wedding again and said she wanted
to make wedding dresses for "Rosie Cat" and "Lilly Tiger".
I love it when she comes up with her
own project ideas!
She gathered her supplies and got to work
while mom queued up the DVR.
Napkins, Kleenex,
Tape, White Yarn,
Mini Ruler, Pencil,
Hot Pink Jelly Pen, and Scissors.
First White Tiger got a fancy Tiara
and a new moniker...
"Princess Lilly Kate"
Then, after scraping a few knuckles on the tape dispenser (ouch!)
Lilly got a cape too.
Then, it was time for Rosie Cat
to get a fancy hat like the ladies on Television!
How do they look?
Then, "C" trashed their outfits and put them in recycling
and started over.
This time, "Princess Lilly Kate Tiger"
needed a long veil/train.
So, she added pink polka-dots with a jelly pen to another
piece of carefully trimmed kleenex
and taped it to a piece of string.
Here's her final creation.
I like the hand-cut lace doily accents
and bits of pink.
The earrings really bring the whole outfit together!
Happy Crafty Celebrating!
pink and green mama
Labels: Create, Doily Fun, Recycle Crafts
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
* Experimenting With Texture: Homemade Paint Brushes and Texture Tools!
I've noticed sets of nifty textured paint brushes at the craft store.
I've never bought a set because I'm too cheap
and I was worried their novelty would be over as soon
as we used them one time.
So, we did what any crafty and frugal family would do....
we made our own!
We made a homemade set of "texture" paint brushes
(and scrapers)
out of re-cycled/re-purposed materials.
Here are some photos of ours to get your creative brain juices flowing!
We gathered our materials:
Pipe Cleaners
(chenille stems, as Martha would say)
Rubber Bands
Craft Foam
Wooden Clothespins
Old Toothbrushes
Wooden Handles
(I saved from those little disposable foam craft brushes!)
Cardboard Scraps
Then, we got to work cutting-up and rubber-banding different
various materials to the wooden handles to make "brushes".
By cutting different designs in pieces cardboard
we could make different designs
when we scraped and dragged it through our paint.
When they get soggy and floppy, just toss them in the recycling!
(Psst.... Plastic hair combs are fun to do this with too!)
I set out blank sheets of office copy paper
and some bowls of washable craft paint
and asked "C" to show me how we should use these new tools.
Here's "C" making textures on her paper.
We used Clothespins for a few handles too!
It was fun to cut loose for an hour yesterday
and experiment with the different tools.
Think we might just do it again this afternoon!
We ended up with all kinds of pretty and funky papers.
(I see Eric Carle-inspired collage-making in our future!)
Wine corks make good circle stamps
(think: homemade dot-a-dot markers!)
Fingers make pretty neat "texture tools" too!
Happy Texture Making!
pink and green mama
Labels: Homemade Toys, Paint, Play, Preschool, Recycle Crafts, Yarn
Monday, April 25, 2011
* Mommy and Me Pink and Green Mama Rainbow T-Shirt Giveaway!
Because Mother's Day is right around the corner,
and because I have a wonderful NEW Spring Blog Sponsor,
I'm hosting a little giveaway!
Custom Ink made Custom T-Shirts
just for you, my lovely readers!
Woot! Woot! Who doesn't love a free (CUTE!) t-shirt?!
Their awesome art department designers worked with me
to convert my daughter's Rainbow-Painted Coffee Filter Mandala
into a beautiful T-shirt. It was a painless process and very fun.
I'm so happy with the shirts and the colors are exactly like the original!
They even have an on-line design studio so you can play with your own graphics
and design custom products like bags, shirts, and re-usable water bottles!
The back, even has my blog address.
So... I'm giving away 3 sets of "Mommy and Me"
Pink and Green Mama T-Shirts
to THREE of my Wonderful Readers.
Compliments of Custom Ink!
Perfect smocks for getting crafty,
making messes,
cheesy photo-posing,
and playing outdoors on warm days!
(We wore ours to plant flowers and blow colored bubbles this weekend)
Make sure I have your email address
so I can contact the winners.
(I'll re-draw names if I can't reach you)
NOTE: This giveaway closed on Friday April 29 at 9pm EST!
Thank you!
Good luck!
pink and green mama
My poor sun-blinded daughters wish you luck!
Labels: Giveaway, Mother's Day, Sponsors
Friday, April 22, 2011
* Homemade Easter Cards with Wordle
Labels: Create, Easter, Holidays, Homemade Cards, Spring
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
* Easy Way To Dye Easter Eggs With Kids That Is Mostly Mess Free!
We recently celebrated my adorable niece's 2nd birthday
with a Cousins-Only Spring Birthday Party.
One of our craftivities was easy egg-dyeing!
"C"s preschool teacher let me know about this little gem
and I WISH I had known about it years ago!
The directions for easy tie-dye eggs come from Family Fun Magazine.
Start with hard boiled eggs.
Aunt "D" and I hard-boiled a dozen eggs each
the night before so we would have plenty of blank canvases!
Then, set each child up with a colander over a sink
or, in our case, a shallow pan/dish.
Place one hard-boiled egg in the colander
and splash with some white vinegar.
Add a drop of food coloring.
Then, add another drop from one other color,
and gently swirl the egg around in the colander to distribute the colors.
Yellow seems to make the best follow up color
for most eggs if you don't want them to get muddy.
We did have success with a few eggs with drops of red, yellow, and blue
spread out to make rainbows!
Swirly Girls.
Let the colors sit for a minute to dry,
then rinse the egg in your colander under cool water in the sink.
Big cousin showing little cousin how it's done...
Repeat for your next egg....
how easy is that?!
They'll tie-dye and come out beautifully
and no two eggs will be alike!
My sweet hubby helping the girls.
Wishing you and your family an
Egg-stra fun and Easy Easter!
pink and green mama
Happy Birthday Kiddo!
Labels: Easter, Food Coloring Fun, Holidays, Spring
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
* Kid's Spring Craft: Decoupage Easter Eggs With Paper Napkins
We picked up a package of brown paper eggs
at our local craft store for a dollar.
I thought they would be pretty with some
decoupaged napkins from our decorative napkin stash!
Oh, you mean you don't collect pretty paper napkins and tissue paper
whenever you're at a party? Ummm...I might have a paper obsession!
Shhh...I have a drawer in my art studio filled with these.
We mixed up some water and white Elmer's School Glue
then painted each egg with a generous layer of glue water
(you could also use Mod Podge)
Add torn (or cut) bits of paper napkin or tissue paper.
Paint another layer of glue mixture on top (gently!) to seal it.
Keep adding bits and pieces until your egg is all covered.
Note: Secret trick for working with decorative paper napkins =
They always have three layers of paper --
you need to peel off the two white layers and just
work with the top printed layer - it will be very thin and delicate.
This is what I use in my own mixed-media work with Mod Podge.
If we had painted the brown eggs white,
the napkin colors and patterns would have been brighter
but I liked the muted colors.
"C" even made one with "stripes" by adding the tissue layers in strips.
Fancy eggs for our easter basket.
Happy Spring Crafting!
pink and green mama, MaryLea
Labels: Create, Easter, Elmer's Glue, Holidays, Mod Podge, Preschool, School Age, Spring
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