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Megan McCarthy / Mediagazer News:
Introducing Mediagazer — Mediagazer presents the day's must read media news on a single page. — The media business is in tumult: from the production side to the distribution side, new technologies are upending the industry. What do news organizations need to do to survive? Will books become extinct?
David Cohen / WebNewser: Techmeme Launches Mediagazer
Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb: Mediagazer: Techmeme Launches Memetracker for Media News
Gillian Reagan / The Business Insider: Techmeme Team Launches New Aggregator: Mediagazer
Gabe Rivera / Techmeme News: Mediagazer is to Media as Techmeme is to Tech
Foremski / Silicon Valley Watcher: Mediagazer - Recognizing The Intersection Of Technology And Media
Ryan Fuerstenau / The News About The News: Do we need another news forum site?
Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web: In Media? You have a new home. Techmeme launches a new aggregator, Mediagazer.
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land: Media News Junkies Meet Mediagazer
Devindra Hardawar / VentureBeat: Mediagazer launches as the Techmeme of media
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Yet Another Media Aggregation Site? Yup. And You'll Read It: Techmeme Unveils Mediagazer. — Does the Web need yet another outlet dedicated to media coverage? Nope. How about another aggregation site? Plenty of those to go around too. — So what if you combined the two? Exactly.
Discussion: All Shook Down, New York Observer and TechCrunch
Maya Baratz / All Shook Down: From Media Writer to Mediagazer: S.F.'s Megan McCarthy Launches Meta Aggregator
Molly Fischer / New York Observer: Aggregating in the Echo Chamber
Dirk Smillie / Forbes:
Digital Lift-Off — Web ads to get a 10% boost in 2010. For the first time advertisers will spend more on digital than print. — We've been waiting for this: A study by Outsell, to be released Monday, reveals that U.S. advertisers are spending more this year on digital media than on print.
Discussion: Mobile Marketing Watch and Romenesko
Greg Bensinger / Bloomberg:
Online Ad Spending to Surpass Print in U.S. This Year
Online Ad Spending to Surpass Print in U.S. This Year
Discussion: btobonline.com
Kerry Lauerman / Salon:
The story behind Oscar's "Kanye moment" — We talk to the two filmmakers whose personal fight became one of the ceremony's weirdest moments … People are already saying you "pulled a Kanye." What happened? — BURKETT: What happened was the director and I had a bad difference …
Russ Fischer / /Film: Oscar's Weirdest Speech: Music by Prudence's Kanye Moment
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter: OSCAR DOCKET: 11TH HOUR DEAL; ACCEPTANCE-SPEECH CRASHING; LOGO HIJACKING
Choire / The Awl: Eli Burkett Strikes Again and Again
Michelle Kung / Speakeasy: Oscar-Winner Elinor Burkett Pulls 'Lady Kanye' …
Glynnis MacNicol / Mediaite: The Oscars' Best Documentary Short Speech Gets Kanye'd (Video)
Adam Rosenberg / MTV Movies Blog: Looking At The Standout Moments Of The 2010 Academy Awards
Dan Kois / New York Magazine: Kathryn Bigelow, It Is Time to Release Your Student Film Starring Gary Busey
Marc Schneider / PopEater: Elinor Burkett Provides Oscar Night's 'Kanye' Moment
S.T. Vanairsdale / Movieline: Did Farrah Fawcett and Bea Arthur Belong in the 'In Memoriam' Montage?
Dave Itzkoff / ArtsBeat: The Oscars' 'Kanye' Moment Explained
Joe Flint / Company Town:
Disney's deal with Cablevision is good news for broadcasters [Updated] — And the Oscar for biggest gamble goes to ... Walt Disney Co.'s ABC. — Risking political backlash and hits to its ratings, advertising revenue and public goodwill, Disney Chief Executive Bob Iger drew a line in the sand …
Discussion: Mediaweek, Multichannel, Variety, Faster Forward, DailyFinance, MediaFreak, Media Money …, Broadcasting & Cable, paidContent, BuzzMachine and NYConvergence
Katy Bachman / Mediaweek: WABC Restored on Cablevision as Oscar Rolls
Todd Spangler / Multichannel: CTAM Taps TargusInfo To Keep Home Movers In 'Cable Club'
Brian Lowry / Variety: The 82nd annual Academy Awards
Rob Pegoraro / Faster Forward: Cablevision-ABC standoff ends, TV-hostage risks remain
Jonathan Berr / DailyFinance: The Cablevision-Disney Oscar Fight Hints of Things to Come
AdweekMedia / MediaFreak: Hey, Cablevision, thanks for nothing. ... We enjoyed the Oscars online just fine
Julia Boorstin / Media Money with Julia Boorstin: 'Hurt Locker' Sweeps Oscars
John Eggerton / Broadcasting & Cable: WABC Back on Cablevision — ABC's New York flagship says agreement …
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent: The Show Goes On: Cablevision, Disney Reach 'Agreement In Principle' On WABC Fee
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine: Where the TV fight goes
New York Times:
At the Last Minute, a Disney-Cablevision Truce — The Oscar statuette became a pawn in a public brawl between the Walt Disney Company and Cablevision on Sunday, a dispute that prevented more than three million viewers from watching the beginning of the Academy Awards show until …
Discussion: New York Times, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, Company Town, Media Decoder, Wall Street Journal, VideoNuze, The Wire and NewTeeVee
Alessandra Stanley / New York Times: Supersizing the Show (Austerity Is So 2009)
Anthony Breznican / USA Today: Onstage drama and backstage delight at the Academy Awards
Brian Stelter / Media Decoder: Disney-Cablevision Fight Is Far From the Last
Will Richmond / VideoNuze: Will Nasty Fee Fights Fuel Consumers' Cord-Cutting Interest?
Janko Roettgers / NewTeeVee: Cablevision and ABC Reach Deal During Academy Awards
Fred / A VC:
Monopolies, Retransmission Fees, and Screwing Customers
Monopolies, Retransmission Fees, and Screwing Customers
Discussion: MediaMemo and John Battelle's Searchblog
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo: Hate Paying for Cable? Here's Why.
John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog: Monday Signal: Block Those Ads!
David Carr / New York Times:
Breaking the Story That Isn't — Reporters have always kept an eye on other reporters. For a journalist, the only thing more interesting than what you are working on is what your competitor is working on. — But what if watching your competitor becomes your whole story?
Discussion: Journalism.co.uk, Media Decoder and FishBowlNY
Paul Boutin / VentureBeat:
The New York Times is hiring 12 techies and a social media whiz — While pundits climb over each other to predict the death of The New York Times Company, the NYT is looking to hire at least a dozen full-time software engineers and Web designers, plus one social media marketing manager.
Chris / cdixon.org:
News is a lousy business for Google too — There is a widespread myth that search engines have taken profits away from news websites. A few months ago, Rupert Murdoch said: "Google has devised a brilliant business model that avoids paying for news gathering yet profits off the search ads sold around that content."
Discussion: Kirk LaPointe's …
Steve Pond / The Wrap:
Analysis: How 'Hurt Locker' Became the $21M Movie That Could — It wasn't an Oscars for the unexpected. It was an Oscars for the unprecedented. — In the end, "The Hurt Locker" shrugged off the barrage of last-minute criticism and came out of awards season in exactly the same …
Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable, The New Yorker Blog, Moraes on TV, MediaFreak and The Wire
Lisa de Moraes / Moraes on TV: Oscars audience up despite 'Avatar's' loss to 'The Hurt Locker'
The Wrap / The Wire: How 'The Hurt Locker,' …
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
In lean times, TV reporters must be jacks of all trades — Scott Broom turns his tripod toward the wall of gray mailboxes, adjusts the camera, walks into the shot and delivers his spiel. — "Here's how bad it is for the U.S. Postal Service," the WUSA reporter says as a handful of customers at the Garrett Park post office look on.
Lucia Moses / Mediaweek:
Bloomberg BusinessWeek's Bullish — Taking sharp aim at its rivals, Bloomberg BusinessWeek is prepping for a relaunch April 23 that it boasts will "reinvent" the category, with shorter stories, 20 percent more editorial pages and three more issues for a total of 50. — The moves come as others are retrenching.
Discussion: Editors Weblog
Robert Eisenhart / Editors Weblog: Bloomberg's new BusinessWeek set for re-launch
Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
How Pandora Slipped Past the Junkyard — OAKLAND, Calif. — Tim Westergren recently sat in a Las Vegas penthouse suite, a glass of red wine in one hand and a truffle-infused Kobe beef burger in the other, courtesy of the investment bankers who were throwing a party to court him.
Discussion: the Econsultancy blog, ReadWriteWeb, Mashable!, Silicon Alley Insider and Gizmodo
Meghan Keane / the Econsultancy blog: Pandora's lesson: Your first business model doesn't have to be your last
Mike Melanson / ReadWriteWeb: Pandora Will Pull Ahead With Warner Music
Adam Ostrow / Mashable!: Pandora Could Hit $100 Million in Revenue for 2010
Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo: Pandora, the Survivor
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
"OMG It's Steve Jobs! I'm the Only One Yelling at Him!" — That's the most excellent caption for this photo (below), posted Sunday night by blogger Wayne Sutton. — Squint and you can see the Apple (AAPL) co-founder and CEO in the middle of shot, standing to the right of the woman in a white dress (click to enlarge).
Discussion: MediaFile, VentureBeat, MacRumors, The Social, GMSV, Gadget Lab and Engadget
Gabriel Madway / MediaFile: IPad makes prime-time TV debut
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: Steve Jobs attends Academy Awards, Apple runs iPad commercial during the Oscars
Caroline McCarthy / The Social: Steve Jobs spotted at the Oscars, iPad ad runs
John Murrell / GMSV: Jobs and iPad make Oscar cameos
Charlie Sorrel / Gadget Lab: Video: iPad Debuts at the Oscars
Nilay Patel / Engadget: First iPad ad premieres during the Oscars
Martin Langeveld / News after Newspapers:
iPad strategies for publishers — This is a white paper based on and expanded from my earlier post on the same topic, prepared for the Digital Publishing Alliance meeting at the Reynolds Journalism Institute at the University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri on March 7-9, 2010
Discussion: Online
Damon Kiesow / Online: The iPad threatens newspaper insert revenues
Felix Salmon:
Link-phobic bloggers at the NYT and WSJ — Clark Hoyt, the NYT's public editor, has a good post-mortem on l'affaire Zachary Kouwe, and asks whether "the culture of DealBook, the hyper-competitive news blog on which Kouwe worked" was partly to blame for his plagiarism.
Glynnis MacNicol / Mediaite: Does The New York Times Think It's Above Linking To The Blogosphere?
Joe Weisenthal / Silicon Alley Insider: Here's How Blogs Are Making The Financial Press Worse
Paul Smalera / Living Through 1500: Kouwe didn't need anti-plagiarism software, just intellectual honesty
Clark Hoyt / The Public Editor's Journal: Could Plagiarism Software Have Spared The Times an Embarrassment?
Jim Romenesko / Romenesko: Could plagiarism software have spared NYT an embarassment?
Judith Townend / Journalism.co.uk: Did NY Times' blog culture lead to incident of plagiarism?
Robert Stacy McCain / The Other McCain: All the News That's Fit to Steal
Glenn Greenwald / Salon: Why do journalists expect to have credibility?
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Barnes & Noble Gets a Time Inc. Vet to Run Its Newsstand — Barnes & Noble wants to catch up to Amazon (AMZN)-and suddenly, Apple (AAPL)-in the e-reader race. This means the company needs its own digital newsstand. — So the bookseller has nabbed a magazine guy to run it.
Discussion: MediaPost, paidContent, The Business Insider, FishBowlNY, Associated Press and Gizmodo
Gavin O'Malley / MediaPost: Barnes and Noble Names 'Digital Storefront' Head
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent: Barnes & Noble Adds Time Inc. Vet Shar As GM, Digital Newsstand & Emerging Content
Gillian Reagan / The Business Insider: Time Inc.'s Jonathan Shar Joins Barnes & Noble To Build 'Digital Newsstand' (BKS)
Stephanie Clifford / New York Times:
At 10 Years, A Magazine Finds Time To Celebrate — The project was not real simple. — To celebrate its 10th anniversary, the Time Inc. magazine Real Simple wanted to offer "the gift of time" to its harried readers. Inside the April issue, that means shortcut dinners and time-saving tips.
Laura Oliver / Journalism.co.uk:
FT video could move behind paywall — The Financial Times could move its video content behind its paywall, Stephen Pinches, lead product manager, told an industry gathering today. — The FT's videos, which include individual series such as long-form interview programme View From the Top …
Discussion: NewTeeVee
Janko Roettgers / NewTeeVee: The Financial Times Signs Up with Brightcove
Greg Marx / CJR:
Strategic Error — Times Axelrod profile gets mixed up on messaging — Mark Leibovich's front-page piece on the sufferings of David Axelrod in Sunday's New York Times—the press apparently having decided to take a break, at least for the day, from Rahm Emanuel (Update: Or not!) …
Discussion: New York Times and Mediaite
Glynnis MacNicol / Mediaite: Obama To Staff: Stop Reading The Blogosphere!


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Film, television and stage actor-director Paul Kent, a leading figure in the Los Angeles and regional theatrical community for more than 50 years, died at his Hollywood Hills home on Friday, Oct. 7. He was 80 and succumbed after a lengthy battle with multiple myeloma.
In addition to decades as an actor in films, television and the legitimate stage, Kent founded 35 years ago and was artistic director of the original Melrose Theater. He subsequently partnered with actress Jomarie Ward, and together they produced, taught and directed a wide variety of theater, eliciting DramaLogue and Drama Critics Circle awards, including the Margaret Harford Award naming the Melrose "the most consistently praiseworthy theater in Los Angeles." In between their own productions, the theater was leased for many years to HBO Films and independent theatrical productions.
Born in Brooklyn, Kent trained as an actor and theatrical entrepreneur at the Pasadena Playhouse, interrupting his career with a stint in the Army during the Korean War.
In addition to his prolific work as an actor, he was an activist largely responsible for the Equity Waiver policy in Hollywood. He also served as an assistant to prominent acting coach Sanford Meisner, was the first actor signed to a contract by Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz's Desilu Studios and was selected to be Ball's assistant director during her time developing new performers at her Desilu Theater.
In a career spanning more than 100 television and feature film appearances, he was first seen onscreen in "December Bride" and "My Three Sons" and continued through "The Man From U.N.C.L.E.," "Hawaii Five-O" to "The West Wing," "Frasier" and "E.R." He recurred on "Hotel," "Falcon Crest," "Mod Squad," "T.J. Hooker" and "Lou Grant"as well as the soap operas "Port Charles" and "The Young and the Restless." Among two dozen movies for television were the original and a later second version of Manson murders story "Helter Skelter," as well as 1973's "The Alpha Caper," with Henry Fonda and Leonard Nimoy; "Hoover"; "The Astronaut"; "The President's Plane Is Missing"; "Family Flight"; and "Death Valley."
Film credits include "Seconds," with Rock Hudson; "Lifeguard"; "A Nightmare on Elm Street 3"; and "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn," as Commander Beach; and Alex Monty Canawati's "Return to Babylon."
Onstage, he appeared as Nathan Detroit with Jack Jones in "Guys and Dolls"; John Saxon in "The Price"; Lainie Kazan, "Fiddler on the Roof"; Carole Cook and Barbara Rush, "Father's Day"; William Shatner, "Otherwise Engaged"; and Richard Dreyfuss, "Mamma's House."
Services will be held on Saturday, Oct. 15, at 3 p.m. at Forest Lawn, Hollywood Hills. He is survived by his wife of 32 years, actress-writer Madelyn Cain, and three daughters.
Donations may be made to Multiple Myeloma research (www.myeloma.org) or Intrepidfallenheroesfund.org


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Whilst we're at it, some of us feeling the January blues, with colder degrees descending every day and signs of spring still far away, here's a few thoughts, picks and tips currently on my mind…
1. To urgently refill one of my cannot-live-without daily skin boosters, Santa Maria Novella's fascial rose water, a product that hasn't been credited enough, longlasting and you don't need to dig very deep in your pockets either, but hard to find elsewhere than their own stores I'm afraid.
2. Chloe's new killer python loafers!
3. A relaxing holiday escape to a coconut island instantly!!
4. Winter sales are still ongoing, and as a knitlover high quality cashmere is always a good investment, the knit above is by The Row on 40% sales at Net-a-Porter, who's also offering winter sales up to 70% right now.
5. All things ruffled, on sleeves, collars and detailing, this top by Gucci is no exception.
6. I'm not the greatest fan of basket style bags, but this raffia basket by Balenciaga got me onboard at first glance.
7. Celine's SS16 earrings!!
8. Colder weather does no wonders for my skin, but Bamford's new serum certainly does, can't recommend it enough, one of the best serums I've ever come across, and perfect for sensitive skin types.


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Mastin: The time has come to trash the bag
To the Breckenridge Town Council: I laud the town's efforts to address the problem of single-use plastic bags. This can be a tricky undertaking for local governments, but, with a fair approach, it will be well worth the effort. I submit for evidence: down in Arizona for a few Rockies Spring Training games, my first pick up was a bag at Trader Joe's: an attractive, useful, inexpensive souvenir that will remind me of a great trip and that I will enjoy using for many years on my trips to City Market and other retail venues. A reusable bag promoting Breckenridge will reap similar benefits for the town – not only in promoting the area as a destination, but in highlighting a thoughtful approach to waste reduction. I can't tell you how many plastic bags we saw floating in the breeze or latched to fences on the drive down here – the time has come to tackle this problem.
Amy Mastin, Silverthorne
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Miami Marlins
Carl Crawford's HR in 11th lifts Dodgers by Marlins
The Marlins lost one Saturday that left them with mixed feelings, both satisfying and not so. That they managed to recover from a five-run deficit in the seventh to send their game into extra innings with the Dodgers gave them reason to feel good about themselves.
But then to lose it in the 11th when Carl Crawford hammered a Carlos Marmol pitch for a two-run homer that resulted in a 9-7 Dodgers win, well, that was a punch to the gut. After all, the Marlins stranded 13 runners and missed out on a couple of opportunities late to win in walk-off style.
It just didn't happen.
The Marlins had the bases loaded in the ninth with one out and a chance to win, but fell short. And they put the first two aboard in the 10th, only to come up empty again.
"That was a tough one," manager Mike Redmond said. "We battled back and had a lot of opportunities to win it. But I liked a lot of things I saw [Saturday]."
The Marlins made a big comeback to send it to extras, rallying from a 7-2 deficit in the seventh before tying the score in the ninth on a bases-loaded walk by Jarrod Saltalamacchia.
But the Marlins couldn't end it there.
Chris Perez struck out Christian Yelich and after going to 3-0 on Derek Dietrich, got him to fly to center to end the inning.
The Dodgers, who were playing their eighth extra-inning game of the season, won it in the 11th after Marmol walked Juan Uribe to start the inning and Crawford homered into the first row of seats in the upper deck in right.
Due to recent usage of relievers Mike Dunn and A.J. Ramos, Redmond said he needed to get two innings out of Marmol. He didn't get them.
"He's just in a rut right now," Redmond said of Marmol.
All of the late-inning theatrics helped to obscure what was an otherwise subpar start for Jacob Turner, who was taking the mound for the first time since April 3.
Swinging a bat was what landed Turner on the disabled list and caused him to miss most of April with a shoulder injury. The Dodgers swinging their bats with authority was what spoiled his return.
The Dodgers tattooed Turner for nine hits, including a three-run homer by Yasiel Puig. The outing was Turner's first in 30 days because of a shoulder injury that he sustained while practicing his swing in the batting cage.
The rust showed.
Turner gave up six runs in four innings, with all of the scoring against him coming on two-out hits. Uribe drove in a run with a two-out hit in the second. Hanley Ramirez did the same in the third.
"In all honesty, we only got four innings out of Jacob, which put us behind the eight-ball," Redmond said.
Turner's outing was another in a string of poor ones by his spot in the rotation, which was filled in his absence by Brad Hand and Kevin Slowey. In their six combined starts, those three pitchers have gone 0-1 with an ERA of 9.62.
The other four starters, by comparison, are 10-6 with a 2.44 ERA.
But even after Turner's exit and falling behind by five runs, the Marlins were not done.
Their lineup continued to rack up hits. They finished with 14 hits to give them six consecutive games in which they've totaled at least 10.
Jeff Baker and Jeff Mathis both homered for the first time this season, and Marcell Ozuna belted a three-run homer in the seventh off reliever Brian Wilson that pulled the Marlins to within a run. It was the first time since June 23 of last season that the Marlins hit at least three homers.
After Dodgers starter Paul Maholm handed a 7-3 lead to the bullpen in the seventh, the Marlins closed the gap. After plunking Adeiny Hechavarria with a pitch and walking Giancarlo Stanton, Wilson went to work on Ozuna with two outs.
Ozuna fouled off five pitches in the at-bat — the latter three with two strikes — before lining his fifth home run into the Dodgers' bullpen in left.
The Marlins loaded the bases in the eighth with two outs. But Chris Withrow struck out Stanton on three pitches to kill the rally.


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Knitting Basics: Intarsia
The intarsia knitting technique enables you to introduce areas of color in any shape, size, and number to the background. Think of these intarsia areas as islands floating on the sea of their background. Intarsia fabric is lightweight and fluid because it is only one strand thick. Intarsia pieces are most easily worked flat in rows and seamed. The motifs in this technique are made by following knitting charts.
Not unlike a paint-by-numbers canvas, you place the colored stitches in an intarsia design by following a chart row by row. Each row in an intarsia chart follows its own rules, with no restrictions on the number of stitches or colors used.
When working in intarsia, it is easiest to use untreated (non-superwash) yarns. Cotton, silk, and synthetic fibers are much more challenging to use because they are slippery. Save them for after you have had some practice using forgiving wools.
Changing colors
With rare exceptions, intarsia is worked flat, back and forth in rows. This is due to its special construction. When changing colors, you drop one strand of yarn and leave it hanging for use in the following row. Each time you change colors in an intarsia design, you do it the same way, regardless of whether you are working from the right or wrong side of the piece.
Attach a new color: Following the chart, work all the stitches you need in the first color. Drop the old strand and forget about it until you need it again in the next row. Tie the new strand around the old one. Work with the new color according to the chart.
Change strands: To change strands, bring the new color up from underneath the old one. This twists the strands together, preventing holes from forming on the front of the work.
To knot, or not: It isn't necessary to knot the strands around one another to keep the knitted fabric secure, because the ends will later be woven in.
Managing your yarn supply
Each area of color in your design requires its own individual yarn supply, resulting in many strands hanging from your work. Whether you create a new supply of yarn for each area of color as you come to it, or prepare them ahead of time by carefully analyzing your design chart. Either way, the amount of yarn needed for each color island will vary, so just loosely estimate how much length you need.
From each main skein of yarn, break off no more than 3 or 4 yards at a time to make a yarn supply. You can add on to a yarn supply if it runs short by splicing or by tying knots.
How you control the yarn sources will depend on how many there are, and how long they are. Here are some options:
Loose strands: The simplest technique is just to let each yarn supply dangle freely from the work. As long as the strand is not longer than 3 or 4 yards, you will be able to pull it free when you need it.
Butterflies: Rather than letting the strands trail, you can bundle each one neatly into a "butterfly" by winding it around two fingers (a) and tying the end around the center in a half-hitch (b). You pull on the butterfly to release more yarn as needed.
Bobbins: Another alternative is to wind your yarn supply around a separate object, such as a commercially available bobbin, a homemade cardboard one, or a clothespin. While they are easy to use and keep your yarn clean and tangle-free, bobbins can create tension problems if they add too much weight to each working strand.
Weave in the ends
Your intarsia fabric won't be finished until all the ends are woven in on the wrong side, using a tapestry needle. Look carefully at the front of the work before weaving in each end. If you notice gaps, holes, or tension inconsistencies, use the yarn tails to correct them from the wrong side. Here are some tips:
Close gaps: To close a gap, run the yarn tail under, through, or around its neighboring strands to create the necessary twist between strands.
Adjust tension: Use care to keep the stitches on the right side of the work even when you weave in their tails. Pulling them snugly, neither too tight, nor too loose, will correct the tension on the public side of the fabric.
Wrong-side duplicate stitch: To preserve the elasticity of your knitting, weave the tails in using duplicate stitch on the wrong side. With your threaded tapestry needle, simply follow the pattern of each knitted stitch from the wrong side.
Under the purl bumps: Another method for fastening the yarn tails is to zigzag under the bumps of the stitches from the wrong side. To keep the yarn tails secure, run the point of your tapestry needle between the plies of the last stitch or two.
Color matching: Whenever possible, weave the yarn tail into the back of an area of the same color. This will prevent the weaving from showing through on the right side of the work. Because there will be so many ends to weave in, take a break from knitting every now and then as you work to weave in a few.


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Senator Jim Webb's announcement yesterday that he will not run for reelection in 2012 led Washington Post writer Chris Cillizza to take a look at the future of Webb's seat and how it could effect the overall playing field in the Senate. His conclusion is that 2012 is stacking up as a very good year for Republicans:
"This seat is going to flip," predicted one veteran Democratic operative familiar with the Commonwealth's politics. "The bench is so shallow."
Webb is the third Democratic (or Democratic-affiliated) Senator to call it quits already this year, joining Sens. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Kent Conrad (N.D.) on the sidelines. Texas Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison is the lone Republican to announce she will not seek re-election in 2012.
While holding the Connecticut seat should pose limited problems — if any — for Democrats, both Virginia and North Dakota have deep Republican roots and will be major targets for Republicans in 2012.
The open seats in Virginia and North Dakota — when coupled with the fact that there are 23 Democratic seats up this cycle as compared to just 10 for Republicans — paint a stark portrait of the challenge before Democrats to hold their majority next November.
For Democrats hoping to hold that majority, Virginia is likely to emerge as a linchpin.
The likely beneficiary of Webb's decision is George Allen, the man who lost narrowly to Webb amid a nasty campaign complete with charges of racism which were heavily promoted by the Washington Post. Allen has already announced his intention to run for the seat.
Now that Karl Rove is speculating about a possible way to repeal ObamaCare via reconciliation (i.e. needing only 51 votes in the Senate) a lot more than merely control of the Senate may be riding on Virginia in 2012.


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SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) — A school
district in Utah has suspended two people and opened an investigation
after lunchroom workers touched off a furor by snatching food trays from
several dozen children whose parents were behind on meal payments, a
district spokesman said on Friday.
Cafeteria workers handed out the lunches on Tuesday at an
elementary school in Salt Lake City, but then seized and tossed out
the meals after realizing the children's accounts had not been paid,
district officials said.
The incident at Uintah Elementary School has enraged parents,
sparked a social media frenzy and drawn the attention of lawmakers,
who say they will consider whether state legislative action is
"Our children are traumatized," said Erica Lukes, whose daughter, a
fifth-grader, had her lunch tray taken without explanation. "This
was an unfortunate attempt by the district to humiliate kids so they
would go home and tell their parents and the account problems would
be remedied."
The Salt Lake City School District posted a written apology on its
Facebook page, saying the situation "could have and should have been
handled" differently.
A district-level child nutrition expert and a school lunchroom
worker have been placed on paid administrative leave pending the
outcome of an investigation, district spokesman Jason Olsen said.
Olsen said the nutrition expert was at the school on Monday
investigating a large number of students with negative or zero
lunch-program balances. He said the school had tried to contact
parents by telephone and through notes sent home with students.
But the following day, students who still had negative balances had
their lunches taken back and were given a piece of fruit and milk,
Olsen said. The children had been served because the lunches are
handed out before students reach the computer for payments.
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The district is now reviewing policies that dictate how parents are
notified about lunch program balances to determine if the guidelines
were followed, Olsen said.
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alongside a Democratic lawmaker at a news conference Thursday held
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My question may seem dumb, but, really, I want to think about it objectively.
Let's first say that I'm not expecting to hard overclock a computer (ie. doubling the clock of the CPU), but I'd go by successive steps.
Provided that:
- My BIOS has a temperature guard that automatically shuts the system off (Crosshair 2 Formula), applied to CPU and chipset
- My video card does the same (nVidia 8800GTX, expecting to buy a more recent one soon)
- I don't know many other implications than overheating and instability
Is overclocking safe with modern hardware? Could an overclock and/or an associated overvoltage cause physical damage to hardware, when talking about 20% increments?
In general, with modern hardware, what temperature ranges be safely reached by components? I'm lucky that my CPU fan keeps the processor 40°C cold when strongly stressed (not overclocked). Can I expect a physical damage at 90°C in a chipset? Or a video card?


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There is a lot of literature around discussing why Western woman act the way they do and are over obsessing about bringing adventure and drama into their lives. I think a lot of the problem stems from the modern media and it's attempts to marginalize normal human lives and success while over emphasizing unrealistic lifestyles that only an extreme minority live. In combination with being radically feminized, dumbed down and not able to critically think, Western woman think their lives are supposed to be some amazing romantic adventure that never gets dull with the intricacies of normal life.
This is why there are so many divorces initiated by woman nowadays. They feel their lives are dull and also they know they have a high chance of getting a majority of her husband's assets so there is not much to lose on her part within her mind. If there was tort reform in conjunction with making divorce much harder to achieve, I think there wouldn't be as many issues with marriage and relationships as there are today. Couples would go back to solving their issues the old fashioned way, behind closed doors, yelling, throwing punches, food and random objects around at each other.
Regarding the earlier topic question I have found that the harder I try to find a woman the less likely my success was. When I stopped trying or didn't care then I always had opportunities come about to allow me to hook up with one. I don't know why it's like that for me. For instance when I lived in the states I always had a hard time finding decent woman to date and hang out with. But whenever I made plans to move to another city then all of a sudden I would hook up with a decent chick, but then I would be in the process of moving so it didn't matter. This happened to me in Phoenix before moving to Seattle area and then moving from Seattle to overseas. This actually happened to me in Thailand also before moving to Korea. I assume it will happen again when I eventually decide to move from the Philippines. Korea sucked so I never hooked up with a local but right before I left there I did discover some cooler places to hang out and meet local chicks. Oh well, who wants to be with a Korean chick anyways?
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Agreed on above points.
As far as things happening when you no longer need them, yeah, it seems to be some metaphysical variation of Murphy's law. As if the universe was doing something to spite us.
But is it something we should harness or is this some devilish trick of the universe that we should ignore?
I wonder what would happen if you actually changed your plans and decided to stay in that place. Would these girls stick with you?
It has been noted by many people that when a guy finally gets a bride, all these women start popping out of the woodwork vying with each other to interfere. Maybe it has to do with the law of letting go? And we now seriously make use of that strange law? And does it happen with everybody?
But even if it does occur like this often, is relying on that mystic inexplicable occurrence to obtain benefit from it a good thing?
Also, one cannot deny that for many millenia people have been procreating through arranged marriages and, even now, half the world still arranges marriages which is the most contrived thing there is. But we are here thanks to thousands of years of arranged marriages by our ancestors. Somehow they did not sit there letting love alight on their shoulder.
Only in the developed world the concept of romantic love developed in earnest and only in the last 150 years or so. In the Muslim world and in India, it is mostly arranged. In India, they have marriage "markets" where parents go and find wives for their sons. Newspaper matrimonial ads is not the loser's way of finding partners but is the prevalent way to find them in that society. And they have produced 1 billion people that way.
Filipinas also love looking for pen pals and many marry that way. Online ads with Filipinas produce marriages with an 80% success rate ( with Western men) In the Arab world, parents again look for wives within the same tribe. Nothing is left to chance, and waiting for love to alight on someone's shoulder, unless you consider letting your parents or clan run around and look for a wife for you as " letting love find you".
Many people, I guess, want to ignore that cruel, mocking, capricious twist of Murphy's law of letting go, and instead, decide to take the destiny into their own hands.
While I agree that with some people pushing too hard does not work and they cannot find when they look, for most people, active efforts, common sense and law of averages is what works.
A brain is a terrible thing to wash!
Even if the love alights on your shoulder as you put it, chances are if you are a red-blooded horny guy, you will still want to stray and scheme to find ways of seeking young, nubile woman to satisfy your sexual urges. Sorry to sound cynical but that's experience talking here. Of course, there are lots of other guys who have no problem being monogamous perhaps because they are strong in character, or don't wrestle with raging demons, or are just naturally well adjusted in their environment. But since I'm not a social scientist, I haven't actually done a survey to find out how many.
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"We happily accept that we can love more than one child, parent, sibling, teacher, friend, or pet. When you think of it like that, isn't the total exclusiveness that we expect of spousal love positively weird?"
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I believe throughout most of human history the family of the daughter or son has chosen who they are to marry. Only within the last couple hundred years has it begun to change in the western world. Even in Europe and America it was quite common to have arranged marriages if the family had money and status. Why would you allow your son or daughter to marry someone with no money or their family was from a low social class? When status and incomes started blurring with a rebound in the middle class and American individualism becoming more prevalent, did it become more popular for people to choose each other through love, but even then it wasn't common.
Nowadays people really don't know much about each others status initially unless they give it away through their actions and physical appearance. Even then you can have low class individuals with little education have lots of money if they happen to be in an illicit job or a media star. However there have probably always been people of this same distinction in various occupations throughout history. Back in the day it was wrong to sire illegitimate children, mainly cause families did not want their line mixed with lower classes or peoples. Perhaps they are right to some extent that a persons troubles can be passed on to others genetically.
I don't have a problem with arranged marriages, they actually might be better than ones based on 'love'. It's very rare anyways for a couple who met based on love to stay together and have the same feelings for each other over many years. Why not just find a woman who can be a good wife, raise kids and take care of the household. Being a man, he can just get his rocks off with hot woman at brothels or prostitutes. That's what the whole industry was made for anyways throughout history. Husbands who need sex cause their wives don't give them any or young single guys who can't afford a wife or don't have the means to settle down. Banning prostitution is so ludicrous its like banning people from taking a shit, it's never going to be eliminated from society as long as men act and think the way they do and likewise women.
Online dating and other related services are no different from how singles were paraded in front of families back in the day, it's just taken a different form. I've had mixed results using online dating when I was in the states. I think it can work if your willing to spend the time weeding out the decent girls from the not so desirable. However a lot depends on your own status and desirability as well. Most likely you will find a girl that is equal or lower social status to you. Your not going to find a super hot chick if your just average. Better to try your luck overseas. I've had success just meeting girls to date and f**k but you can't always be too picky with them. Region and where you live also play into account. Obviously you have better chances meeting someone more your type in a larger city than a rural area. All and all I think it's better just to go overseas if you want to find a decent woman to have a relationship with. Just remember to find someone from the same social class. It will be tempting to just be with any hot piece of ass but like in America I don't think you would want to be tied down to a white trash chick or black ghetto girl. It's no different overseas it's just the language and culture can mask the lower social classes and their ignorance initially.
I used to be open minded about people's potential and would give them the benefit of the doubt if they were poor or uneducated. Well 9 out of 10 times there is a reason for their predicament and they often will and can't be changed for the better. If you come from a middle class or above background only get serious with girls from a similar social class. You can date poorer girls, just don't get serious with them cause they will suck you into their poor social class environment and mentality and you'll be sorry in the long run...
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I have the same experience. If I'm with someone and chained up, then lots of hot/cute girls flirt with me and make time with me. They suddenly become available, and are always there around me when I go out with my girlfriend, like Dianne for instance. But when I am alone and roaming freely, they aren't there, and I can't find anyone I like, and the girls I liked before suddenly are busy and not as available to meet up for dates.
Murphy's Law. I thought Murphy's Law ran my life only. I didn't know it ran others as well.
Mr S told me he experienced similar things at the Hard Rock Cafe before.
Must be some metaphysical version of Murphy's Law. lol
I also suck at gambling. My risks don't pay off.
More examples of Murphy's Law:
When I am driving for instance, and I come to the road I'm looking for but don't know whether to turn right or left and so I just guess, about 90 percent of the time I turn the WRONG WAY! This means in a 50/50 chance, I guess wrong 90 percent of the time! Is that proof of the existence of Murphy's Law, or what? LOL
Also, if I've lost something and there are five possible places it could be, for example, I will usually find it in the LAST place I look, or the 5th place in that example.
Weird huh!?
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"It takes far less effort to find and move to the society that has what you want than it does to try to reconstruct an existing society to match your standards." - Harry Browne
Agreed, if you are talking about a 1st world country with all the financial/educational opportunities yours for the asking and all you have to do is study hard and work hard, and those people being lazy or stupid and not advancing. These have no excuse and one should stay away from them lest one becomes drawn into the hole they came from, as well.
In a lot of other countries with faulty, rotten economic and political/historic/climatic foundations people cannot be pigeonholed into classes that easily; you have people that could potentially be of the same class as you economically but by virtue of their physical location/citizenship/ the state their country is in they are in places where there are no scholarships, no opportunities to advance and no credit of any kind. They want to go to school but they can't. They have not got the money and there are no student loans to speak of. They want to work hard at a business and succeed but no help is available. Look at Cuba. Look at the former USSR with teachers and engineers not getting paid for months and they have to clean doorways to make a living. Look at many Asian countries where you have very smart people but they can never go to school.
That category is the 1 out of 10 that you have mentioned and these people , with a few thousand dollars, can be transformed into your equal. And they will forever be grateful to you.
I am now in touch with a Ukrainian girl- a student of mechanical engineering. Before, schools were free there but now, you have to pay tuition. She is crying because she is afraid she will not be able to finish. She needs $800! For one year and to defend her senior thesis on mechanical engineering. The girl has a higher IQ than mine.
Her two friends- girls, students- went to the US to earn money but the recession hit hard and they have no visas to get decent jobs. Again, pimps and strip club owners are all over them and these are the only jobs that do not require a green card. So, are these lower classes? I do not think so. They are, again the 1 out of 10 that you are talking about. Those are the people that can be targeted as potential mates.
The Russian girl I met in Manila while she was pole dancing was not only my equal but from a family of university professors and aerospace engineers. The family fell apart, the country went belly up and they do not give any help to a young student like her and she is there flashing her body at pervs in Manila. When I spoke to her, I wa sfloored by how brilliant she was.
So, indolent or with bad habits, in a prosperous Western country, but not succeeding because they are hopelessly dumb or incorrigibly lazy is one thing, but the above cases are a completely different story.
I am now helping one hill tribe girl to finish highschool by the time she is 20. Is it her fault that in the Philippines you need money to finish high school and her parents did not have the money? Is it because she is lazy? Once I paid for her school, she was so fired up, ran to buy uniforms, books, supplies and she was back in the classroom with lightning speed, reading, studying, working hard, giving me reports. I also sent her to study how to be a cellphone repair technician. She finished with honors and as soon as she is done with her HS diploma, she will go and look for work.
Such people are not really "lower classes' that we should avoid.
Let me give you another example. My grandmother wanted to go to school but every time she tried to, a war or a revolution would break out. Then they had an artificially induced famine in the country. Actually, both of my grandmothers almost died. Then as soon as they tried to get back on their feet, another war broke out. It was a tough time. Well, but she eventually studied by correspondence, became a bookkeeper and my other grandma became a pharmacy employee but they were dirt poor through no fault of their own at first. They lived in countries where wars and revolutions are a norm. Now try and do something with your life under such circumstances. Would you consider them to be "lower classes'? I don't think so.
But of course, in the US you have no excuse. No bombs falling, no wars, no bloody revolutions, no famines created by governments, just apply for student loans, study hard and voila!
That creates another problem- American plumbers with more money than Russian biology teachers, American grease monkeys dating Ethiopian MA holders who are making $60 a month. You have a sick, illogical class mixing with poor higher classes in some countries and rich, lowly blue collar Western rubes who are now calling the shots.
A brain is a terrible thing to wash!
People who grew up in the first world nations do not fully understand life in poverty.
One of the people that I learn real estate from grew up in a place called Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong. You can read about the place here:
For those who don't care to read lengthy wiki articles, the Kowloon Walled City was an 6 acre-sized Yamen (old Chinese bureaucratic residence, which sometimes include garrison and barracks). When the British forced Qing to lease Hong Kong and Kowloon to them for 99 years, the Kowloon Yamen was excluded from the treaty. Technically Kowloon was under British administration and the Kowloon Yamen was under Qing administration as an outpost of diplomatic compound. However, after the Qing Empire fell, the British government refused to take charge of the Kowloon Yamen and it became a squatter village.
Moving forward to the 1970s, illegal constructions built upon one another and some 36,000 people crammed into the 6 acre lot:
Quote from a former resident:
4 foot deep Metal cages from floor to ceiling were bolted to the exterior like balconies for renting to old men without a family. He kept all his belongings behind a metal gate with a padlock. They had the best view. Plastic tarps waterproofed their homes from rain.
An aerial view of housing without code enforcement that that evolved over time. It was built in the 20's but additional buildings were added on until the 60s. Windows were blocked electrical wires and sewer lines were hung outside the labyrinth of public corridors filled with a decade old trash. Rats and cockroaches helped to decompose the organic trash. The courtyard shown was a sacred temple and left alone. It was bad feng shui to encroach into the setback.
This was the place when the Chinese gave Hong Kong to the british as a way to pay off the country's opium debt. This 6 acres of land was not a part of the jurisdiction. Neither China nor Hong Kong had the authority to enforce law there. Police were afraid to go in and the Chinese government abandoned it since it is in the heart of Kowloon, Hong Kong. Hong Kong is like a Catalina Island smaller but only a mile off Newport Beach where Kowloon still a part of Hong Kong but connected to the mainland but separated by the mountain range of Cleveland National Forest. Lake Elsinore to the other side would be in the China territory while OC would be the Kowloon territory where I had lived.
Heroine attic, hookers, priest, Illegal dentist and doctors, daycare center, School classrooms, noodle makers, restaurants, factories, sweatshops, and homes were all inside this filthy maze. No daylight even penetrated the corridor and as a kids I would get lost inside quickly. Every corner was a cartesian method of identifying the location by using an "XYZ� coordinate system. Chicken and fish bones among other dinners leftovers were tossed out the windows into the trapped atrium courtyards filled with waiting vermin. The smell of odors from rotting flesh and food forced residents from not opening their windows.
Kids played at the roof decks without safety rail or walls. Several kids I knew fell to the death 10 stories below. Some kids jumped because they did not pass the proficiency test to attend the next school grade.
Many were many windowless homes including the one my father and I lived in. Our house (room) was 10'x10' with a folding table where I did my homework, father cooked our meals with an electric table top camp stove, and it had to be folded and put away to make room. 20 families shared one toilet and a communal kitchen. We had a chamber pot where we had to empty out twice a day. We lived on the 8th floor with no elevator. I was a fat and lazy boy who made my 70 years old dad piggy back me home when I was too tired to climb stairs.
When we talked about safety issues here not even South LA could come close to the danger of this 6 acre walled city. There were no place to run or hide. When I was a kid I have seen child molestation in stairs well, rape, drug addict with syringes, robberies, stabbed victim lying in pool of blood, Heroine labs, kids jumped off buildings, wives sold to brothels by their husbands, and etc. This neighborhood had no law and no police jurisdiction. There were many good things as well. Caring people like old men and old ladies eager to help and educate the unfortunate children. There was a safety outpost at one of the floor where citizens took it upon themselves to be the security officers.
In America one can buy their way out of the ghetto when they have money. Suburbs are the instant gratification of good schools and less crime. Places like Kowloon Walled City were refuge for the poor families and elderly folks without a family. My father was over seventy at that time without income. His family fortune was lost when Japanese invaded China and the rest just vanished when Mao became the Premier.
There were no public education in Hong Kong. Most families could not afford tuition for their children. Schools and universities were limited in HK to serve the population. 1 out of 1000 students made it to college and the rest either failed to advance. It was a society of survival of the fittest. Without an education people could not find their way out of poverty. This is the reason why Chinese are very competitive.
Immigration was their only option to find educational opportunities in America since all students must advance. The brightest students remain in Hong Kong while the average students seek education abroad... Schools were limited to the brightest creme of the crops and those with mediocre intelligence would have to rely on private schools. Due to limited spaces available only kids with scholastic merits were allowed to continue with higher education. For those who did not pass the proficiency test the kids had to join the work force.
This was a 6 acre slum that the British didn't want and the Chinese government refused to take responsibility for. Finally, the meeting between Margaret Thatcher and Deng Xiao Ping on the future of HK finally signaled the end of the Kowloon Walled City. The British agreed to return HK and Kowloon to China at the conclusion of the 99 year lease, the Chinese government gave consent to the British government to demolish Kowloon Walled City. The Hong Kong colonial government spent $2.7 billion HKD to compensate the squatters and forced eviction on those who refused to move. In 1993-1994, the slum was finally flattened and turned into a park. This is what it looks like today:
The legacy of the Kowloon Walled City lives on with its former residents and their children. The tough, competitive environment from which they grew contributed to making what Hong Kong is today. Out of the 5 public Universalities in HK, 3 are in the top 50 world-ranking and all 5 are in the top 200 ranking:
http://www.usnews.com/articles/educatio ... p-200.html
In comparison, Taiwan is bigger and richer than HK with many more universities, but Taiwan's best, NTU, barely came in at #95 on the list.
If you think your life in the US is hard, think twice, then consider that YOU, are competing economically against hungry people from slums like the Kowloon Walled City around the world. Unless if you can maintain your competitive edge, YOU, and your descendent's, will be marginalized into irrelevance in the fringes.
If you can live in a 2nd or 3rd world country for an extended time period you can maybe sort through all the riffraff and find a diamond in the rough, but it's still extremely difficult. I'm just saying for guys looking for love overseas but still live in their 1st world countries, they have to be realistic about finding a decent match that they can be compatible with long term. I've been living in the Philippines over 5 years now and still haven't met anybody that I would consider an equal that I would want to forge a long-term relationship with. Sure there are nice girls who have had a hard and difficult life. But are they worthy and able to keep up with someone with goals who is highly educated and motivated? Most won't or can't in the long run. They don't even have an incentive to keep themselves looking good after 25 or 30 yrs old. Why would I want to be with a hot young 20 something with little education and oversight of the bigger global picture when I know when she hits 30 or so she won't have the same looks as she had previously? This is what most of the western guys in the Philippines base their relationships on, how good the girl looks when she is young. They don't take into consideration what she will be like 15-20 years down the road. I just can't get involved with the woman here on a long term basis. The smart ones are usually not attractive and the hot ones are usually poor and uneducated with 10 siblings or something. Who wants to deal with that?
I interview smart girls and guys for my job on a monthly basis and I've maybe had 5 woman out of hundreds that I would maybe consider going on a date with. That means there aren't too many hot ones getting educations or trying to leave the country. Or it could be that I have such high standards that it's difficult for me to properly assess a womans physical appearance and potential. Well everyone has preferences, I don't think I'm that picky but I am only 35, perhaps when I'm 45 my perceptions of beauty will change.
I just think for the average person when they reach a certain age it is very difficult to change their viewpoint of reality. If you try to motivate and change someone to go to school and educate themselves when they never had the initial motivation or their family never pushed them to do well in school than they will not really be interested in pursuing additional job skills or education. I personally experienced this a number of times since living here. I think everyone attracts different types of people to them, but I never hardly meet innocent virgins looking for a way out of their poverty through education. So there must be some kind different energy vibe with everyone that attracts or detracts things away from them.
I'm tired of trying to be the nice guy to these girls and in the end just get shafted. So I'm limiting my future exposure to lower classes as I have had little benefit when involving them in my life.
I agree that social classes are mixing for the worse, especially when you have blue collar workers trying to get with highly educated girls from poor countries. I don't think it works out unless the girl has a dominant personality and the man a submissive. I don't think an educated woman with a strong personality would be able to handle a lower educated guy that is more emotional than thinker.
Down the road I will try my luck with European woman and see if they are more receptive to me and my way of thinking and personality. I get along okay with Asians but I realize long term compatibility would be a challenge for me. Oh well I'm not worried about staying single anyways, I just don't want my prime to fly by without trying other nationalities first. This way I can decide if staying a bachelor for my entire life is best or finding a compatible partner is still a possibility.
"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane." Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor and stoic philosopher, 121-180 A.D.
Yeah, everyone suffers in their own way and who's to say suffering in one way or another or in a different country or culture is harder or easier than another's? Suffering is suffering and some people can take a lot of it and others can only take a little. Many will say this group of people suffer more than this group of people. Suffering is all one's perspective, there is no common scientific finding and analysis to define levels of suffering, it's all in a given perspective. I've had my own suffering to deal with and others their own. Could another have been able to deal with my life the way I did and still be successful or would they have made things worse on themselves? Would some have made my life better than it is currently? Possibly, but better under who's opinion? Suffering is just ones opinion comparing it to whatever they understand suffering to be. Just as pleasure is all subjective as well. If you were to ask an American what true suffering and pleasure is and then travel to inner Mongolia somewhere and ask what true suffering and pleasure is, you would get entirely different answers! So to keep blaming Americans and Europeans for the life they have created through the centuries and try to make us feel guilty for our accomplishments in rising above all other cultures through the centuries is absurd! And this is why I hate leftists and political correct douche bags who are trying to dumb down anyone that has European heritage and try to make them feel bad for their ancestors accomplishments! Screw them!
The Chinese and Japanese had their chance to become more than the Europeans back in the day but they chose to become insular and not communicate with the world. Well big mistake, the Europeans took their place as the world powers. Only now are the enemy within attempting to destroy any vestige of European heritage by mixing ethnicities and attempting to make lesser cultures higher than they really are through lies and propaganda. Well I hope people of European decent wake up soon or by the next century whites will be dead and only small populations will be scattered around the globe that still have full European genetics. And thus we will be another page of history, while the world struggles to maintain its level of technology. Which it won't be able to do in the long run. Eventually the multiculturalists will invade SE Asia, China, Korea and Japan too so don't think those nationalities are safe. Once they have destroyed Europeans they will target other monosecular societies and start importing undesirable races into their countries as well to destroy them from within. Just you wait in see, 50 years from now China will be bitchin about all the Africans running around in their country causing crime and what not.
Don't ever apologize for your status in life!
"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane." Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor and stoic philosopher, 121-180 A.D.
I dont feel bad because in 25 years America will be a third world shit hole with rampant poverty crime disease and urban decay. I also dont worry because I will be long gone from America by that time. I lived in Eastern Europe for 2 years, I was able to do so by having a disabled veterans pension, but I too have known mind bending poverty and hunger and I overcame.
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Well, that didn't take long. Approximately two hours after I wrote a post that said Ted Ginn Jr. went out with class upon being traded from the Dolphins to 49'ers, Ginn did something he did quite often with the Dolphins.
He dropped the ball.
Responding to a follower on his twitter feed who told Ginn he was happy "you are gone!" the receiver responded with an expletive-laced response that would make anyone pause. He used the F-word. He used the N-word. He used the B-word that rhymes with ditch.
My man Mike Marchant, a producer and board op at 790 The Ticket, retweeted to me the Ginn tweet. I will not quote it here. But if you wish to see it (why would you?) you can check out Marchant's twitter page and see it for yourself.
Look, Ginn has the been the target of a lot of derision. He's been the object of many jokes and much criticism. Guess what? It comes with the territory.
It wasn't the man's fault he was picked No. 9 overall in 2007. But I don't remember him giving back any of $19.6 million that draft status brought to him. And it was his fault he failed to become anything more than a kick returner in three years with the Dolphins.
So the criticism was warranted.
Does that mean hatred was warranted? No. But criticism? Yes.
There is a difference.
Ginn was unprofessional in the manner he responded to a former fan in this one instance. He is human. And he is young -- only 25 years old. But he is a public personality. And he should have known better.
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With Mecha VS Kaiju (Giant Japanese Robots and Monsters) on everyone's radar, I thought this would be a good time to talk about ULTRAMAN.
It was created as "A Special-Effects Fantasy Series" by Tsuburaya Productions, the same folks who brought GODZILLA to "Man-In-Suit" life back in the 1950s. In it's original run in 1966-67 (on Tokyo Broadcasting System), ULTRAMAN was the story of the Science Special Search Party, or SSSP, a UN based "police force" intended to combat nefarious aliens and yes, Giant Monsters. One of their own, Shin Hayata (Susamu Kurobe)… well, who ever wrote the Wiki says it better than I. Take it away Wikipedia!
"The first series begins when Science Patrol (Kagaku Tokusou Tai) member Shin Hayata is flying his plane and a red sphere of light crashes into his Mini-VTOL. The sphere turns out to be the transport (Travel Sphere) for a red-and-silver giant being who calls himself Ultraman. Feeling remorse for having killed the human, he merges his essence with Hayata to revive him. In return, Hayata serves as the human form for this being, and whenever danger threatens, and the resources of the Science Patrol are not enough to counter it, he raises and activates a power-object and artifact called a "beta capsule" and transforms to Ultraman to save the day." –from Wikipedia.
Anyway, ULTRAMAN (the show) was as big in Japan as the 1960's BATMAN was over here, and soon became a world-wide phenomenon. spanning 22 television series and over 20 Movies between its inception and 2012.
It's kind of a big deal. Several Stories of a big deal when the Beta Capsule is activated.
Well, this past spring MONSTERPALOOZA (a Classic Monster Horror Convention in Los Angeles) hosted three of the of the stars from that original Iconic TV show in not only their first American appearance, but their first appearance together anywhere: Bin Furuya (who played the Red and Silver giant himself), Susumu Kurobe (Shin Hayata, his human host), and the lovely Hiroko Sakurai (Akiko Fuji, the SSSP's communications operator, and only female member).
I was honored to do a limited edition print to commemorate the occasion.