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Science: Climate Catastrophe Likely by 2100
Concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere have risen above 400 parts per million (ppm) in recording stations across the Arctic going as far south as Mongolia, reports the Associated Press. Such levels have not been seen in at least 800,000 years according to researchers. Carbon levels fluctuate depending on the region and the season and scientists say global concentrations will likely remain at around 395 ppm for the time being.
Crossing the 400 ppm threshold "[is] a reminder to everybody that we haven't fixed this and we're still in trouble," Jim Butler, global monitoring director with the U.S.'s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Earth System Research Lab, told the AP.
Prior to the Industrial Revolution, global carbon levels were stabilized at around 275-280 ppm. However, the burning of fossil fuels such as coal and gas, cement production, vast deforestation, industrialized agriculture, and other recent human impacts has resulted in carbon levels skyrocketing. Carbon can linger in the atmosphere for hundreds of years, before being sequestered into the oceans, depending on how much that ecosystem can hold.
Despite nations worldwide pledging to tackle climate change, carbon emissions continue to rise worldwide. According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), carbon dioxide emissions rose 3.2 percent to a new record of 31.6 gigatons in 2011.
Countries have pledged to keep global temperatures from rising beyond 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit), but scientists and experts warn that a lack of action is making this target increasingly unlikely. In fact, the IEA warns that the world is currently on track to hit 6 degrees Celsius (11 degrees Fahrenheit) by 2100, essentially leading to a climate catastrophe with temperatures rising further than they have been in 50 million years.


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A British-American comedy starring Matt LeBlanc? Didn't sound like much when I first began to watch it, but Showtime's Episodes packs an unexpected punch. Its recent episode (s02e03) was funny yet moving, and also featured a brilliant reference to Friends. Towards the end, as the characters gathered in a cemetery, one headstone caught my eye:
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At first the Hebrew words did not make any sense, until I realized the letters were in reverse order: left to right, instead of right to left. Then I realized that even when read in the right direction, the words, while in Hebrew, sounded like a machine-translated version of English phrases; Someone might say 'he will be dearly missed' but its literal translation to Hebrew comes out as 'he was pickled at great expense'. It only took a minute or so to reverse engineer this kerfuffle:
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Yep! Someone at set design couldn't find a Jew to save his life and decided to wing it. Which begs the question: Aren't we running this joint?

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possible evil in us all
|Brikenbrak Theatre Project, i/a/w Gorilla Tango Capital presents
|Written by Neil Labute
Directed by Paul Cosca
Viaduct Theatre, 3111 N. Western (map)
through October 31 | tickets: $15 | more info
Reviewed by Katy Walsh
Deathbed confessions are absolution rites to get to the afterlife. Reality show confessionals are bragging rights to get to the after-show-life. Bash is the telling of deep dark secrets for both release and vanity. Brikenbrak Theatre Project, in association with Gorilla Tango Capital, presents Bash, a trio of one act plays by Neil Labute. Ipigenia in Orem has a businessman pick-up on a woman in a hotel bar. The woman gets screwed when the anticipated hook-up turns into the guy's walk-of-shame sans the sex. A Gaggle of Saints has a college couple recount different versions of a big party in the city. Despite their privileged and religious upbringing, the students aren't as pure as the 'dirty people' they ignore. Medea Redux has a scorned woman share a revenge plot fourteen years in the making. BASH is the disturbing stories of three-of-a-kind ordinary people, all challenging the definition of humanity. Society is taught to believe that there is good in everyone. What if deep, deep down, a person is bad? And unremorseful? And sitting in the next seat on the train? BASH is 'ataxia,' the Greek word for 'world out of balance.'
Master storyteller Neil Labute has written three monologues with authentic dialogue and details. Under the direction of Paul Cosca, the narratives are unsettling interrogations. Cosca stages the audience in a horseshoe around two chairs facing each other. Each theatre patron receives a number on arrival. Three guests will take turns sitting in the judgment seat. (It is not forced participation. When a number is called, silence ensures a 'pass' to the next number). Taking a turn opposite the actor, I had the best seat in the house for Ipigenia in Orem. In dual roles, Cosca is also the nervous businessman and I'm the pick-up. The experience is real, intimate and uncomfortable. Throughout his discourse, Cosca keeps suggesting I have another drink from the imaginary mini bar. (I wish I could). Cosca shuffles through smaller stories mixing up timeline. As the listener pieces it all together, Cosca goes from pathetic geek to shrewd businessman… to the umpteenth degree. Cosca is awful…good.
In A Gaggle of Saints, Graham Jenkins (John) and Kirby Brown (Sue) have a duet monologue. From good families and church goers, the perfect couple describes in enthusiastic detail how pretty their relationship looks. Jenkins' presence personifies big-man-on-campus with a carefree stance. Brown talks 'mob wife' with perky willful obtuseness. She wants security and nice things and doesn't mind a little blood. Jenkins flashes a smile and rage with the same glee. Jenkins suppresses and oppresses hate. Jenkins is bloody…brilliant.
In Medea Redux, April Taylor describes her childhood sweetheart, her teacher. Taylor shares a long-kept secret with fond memories of love that spurred into revenge. Her cadence is matter-of-fact as she describes the innocence of youth and fast forwards to the burden of adult understanding. Taylor's account of vengeance satisfaction is unemotionally emotional. Taylor is scary…great.
With Labute's words and Cosca's direction, the realization of human evilness in non-Hitler types – a guy in a bar, kid in church, gal at KFC – is a deep dark secret revealed. Bash whacks with an intensity that leaves a bruise… permanently!
|Rating: ★★★
Brikenbrak Theatre Project is proud to present an art gallery entitled "Visions of Secrets", to accompany our newest production, Bash, by Neil LaBute.
Twelve artists from all around Chicago have submitted over 40 paintings, sculptures, photographs and installations for the gallery, including Layne Jackson's "There are Secrets" (left) and Joyce Speechley's "Mill Stream" (top of review).
The twelve artists included in the gallery are Julia Lynn Haw, Layne Jackson, Joseph Budka, Maral Hashemi, Lisa Pantoja, Ricardo Gonzales, Erika Cespedes, Chrissy Scolaro, Chris Helton, Clark Bending, Michelle Korte Leccia, and Joyce Speechley.
Running Time: Ninety-five minutes with no interruption
Filed under: 2010 Reviews, Brikenbrak Theatre, Katy Walsh, Viaduct Theatre | Tagged: A Gaggle of Saints, April Taylor, Bash review, Brikenbrak Theatre Project, Chris Helton, Chrissy Scolaro, Clark Bending, Erika Cespedes, Gorilla Tango Capital, Graham Jenkins, Hannah Baker, Ipigenia in Orem, Jaina Alexander, Joseph Budka, Joyce Speechley, Julia Lynn Haw, Katy Walsh, Kirby Brown, Layne Jackson, Lisa Pantoja, Maral Hashemi, Medea ReDux, Michelle Korte Leccia, Neil LaBute, Paul Cosca, Ricardo Gonzales, Viaduct Theatre | Leave a comment »


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Ideal Ryan Oakes 101-Trick Magic Show Lunch Box Set and DVD
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Ryan Oakes Lunch Box Set
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Kids will be able to learn 101 magic tricks with the help of Ryan Oakes in this Magic Lunch Box Set by Ideal®! A thermal bottle mysteriously appears from an empty lunch box. Milk magically disappears and appears. Spoons turn into forks, a fly appears on a butter knife. This set features a instruction DVD starring Ryan Oakes! Did you know performing magic tricks can help your kids' self-esteem, public speaking, communication, verbal, and critical thinking skills? A great gift for kids ages 8 and up!
Lunch Box Magic Set includes:
- Magic lunch box
- Thermal bottle with cup
- Changing food cards
- Changing food card box
- Holey sandwich
- 3-piece fork and spoon trick
- Clean and dry knife
- Fruit vision reading box
- Hollow thumb tip
- Levitating tool
- Disappearing cloth napkin
- Handkerchief vanisher
- Instructional magic trick DVD starring Ryan Oakes
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HRP is another VN with a few Somnova and ex-Somnova members in it. I'm one of the writers, and Myuto is our primary sprite artist. Keviniskool isn't part of Somnova anymore, but he's the scene director for HRP, and handled a couple other tasks as well. Same goes for Yune: no longer part of Somnova, though she is one of HRP's CG artists. The demo for the game can be found , and we're also holding a
Please do consider checking them out.
At its core, HRP is a boy x girl visual novel made in the vein of classics like the Grisaia series and Ever17. We love games that require you to replay and go down different routes in order to get the full story, rather than a "one and done" approach.
The game's set in Japan, in the relatively near future. Still this century, but a couple decades from now. Advancements in fields like robotics have made a lot of jobs redundant, and nearly omnipresent devices like smartphones have the done the same for face-to-face conversation. HRP as a game examines the impact that technologies like these have on our lives and relationships. Within the story, the Human Reignition Project is a small group formed by one old lecturer; a relic of a more personal generation. He'd like to see things go back closer to the way they were.
We're not trying to teach a lesson or anything like that, though. It's setting and flavor, instead of a moral approach. We also blend in some light science fiction elements, and even some aspects of action/thriller stories, as a shadowy organization on the outside begins to make their presence known.


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Cuzco. On October 31 we had the pleaseure of receiving three representatives from The Christensen Fund (TCF) at ANDES. China Ching, Program Officer, Yeshi TekleMichael, Grants Associate for Global Programs and Lourdes Inga, Manager of Grants Administration spent a day at our office to inform themselves of projects that receive TCF funding and collaboration.
The following day, November 1st, was spent visiting the Potato Park. There they were festively welcomed with flower petals and Andean flute music by representatives of the participating indigenous communities. The visit began with an introduction to the cosmovision and Park organization. The Spirits of the Mountains form a Council that includes a female and a male Mountain Spirit in the leadership and elder Mountain Spiritis. Surrounded by these impressive high peaks, there was a palpable feeling of protectin coming from the mountains. Following the model of the Apus (Mountain Spirits) the Potato Park has its Council with men and women from the participating communities of Sacaca, Kuyo Grande, Chawaytire, Pampallaqta, Paru Paru and Amaru.
The visitors toured the different community sites on the park where the work of the collectives takes place. Leaders of the six collectives took turns explaining the work areas: medicinal plants, seed development, seed conservation vault, handicrafts and the Culinary Sanctuary and gastronomy collective.
The visit ended with an impressive feast of native culinary succulence which brought guests and locals together at the table. The TCF representatives were visibly moved by what they saw and heard from the indigenous speakers who thanked the TCF for their support. Through the TCF contribution members of the Potato Park have received trainings which have enabled them to develop the work they now do, among other things. "With the trainings, we have gained freedom," expressed one of the speakers for the park. The TCF representatives in turn thanked all and said they felt honored to have contributed toward the work underway. It was also meaningful that the visitors were women from different cultures working together to promote biological and cultural diversity. China greeted the group in Hawaiian, Yeshi from Etiopia responded to comments from a member of the park who travelled to Ethiopia for a South-South exchange, and Lourdes, a Peruvian, expressed her gratitude for the opportunity of visiting her homeland and the Potato Park.


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Keystone RV Co.'s Fuzion toy hauler brand will be featured in a new reality show airing this November on a major cable television network.
According to a press release, Larry Overman heads up the six-part series which is being filmed now at the Crescent Mine (formerly named the Buckeye Mine) near Sumpter in eastern Oregon. The Buckeye Mine was once one of the most productive gold mines in the United States, but is rumored to be inhabited by ghosts and was shut down in 1957. Overton and his crew will attempt to reopen the mine on the show.
"We were looking for a roomy, rugged camper we could use both as living quarters and as a meeting location/headquarters," Overton said. "Of the many RVs we considered the Fuzion toy hauler is absolutely the ideal vehicle for our use. The huge garage comfortably accommodates the whole crew during our daily planning sessions, and the living quarters are spacious and luxurious for me and my family. Once we saw the Fuzion my wife and I knew this was the camper for us."
"Partnering in this network television series provides us with the opportunity to showcase the Fuzion to millions of weekly viewers," said Keystone Fuzion Product Manager Tim Markel. "Fuzion is designed for the active lifestyle, for people who get out and enjoy the outdoors but who also value the comforts and quality we build into each coach. Larry and his crew of miners will definitely put the Fuzion to a test. We have no doubt Fuzion will pass with flying colors."
The Fuzion being used on the show is a 398 floorplan with 14-foot garage, built-in picnic table, 20-foot patio awning, generator and extra large refrigerator. The triple-axle trailer will be set up as base camp at 5,400-foot elevation, miles from civilization.


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Man, I really dig this 120 minutes radio station on mtv and shitte, billy idol's on and thwy had the shins before.
No, really, Little Sister, what have you done??
Saw Death to Smoochy, good movie, I really liked it.
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[NEWS UPDATE 10:54 pm, 12/12/2012: Final vote to Dissolve the local district was 1682 yes, 4597 no. Local residents crushed the out-of-town political nonsese by almost 3:1! Congratulations to Baldwin, Baldwin Harbor, South Hempstead, and Roosevelt!!!]
I was raised for the first 24 years of my life in Baldwin Harbor, on Long Island's south shore. Born into – and living among – other blue-collar, working class families, I was a Republican for most of my life.
I was raised for the first 24 years of my life in Baldwin Harbor, on Long Island's south shore. Born into – and living among – other blue-collar, working class families, I was a Republican for most of my life.
But, as happens to many of us, time and experience change us, and I have since become an advocate for largely liberal and progressive causes. As I eye eventually returning to Long Island in my retirement, I have looked at the political party structure in New York, and found myself drawn to the Working Families Party, a recent addition to the NY electoral scene with stridently liberal views. Sustainable development, energy sanity, environmental stewardship, and election reform all make more sense to me than ever before.
How disheartening, then, to discover that, like the major parties who use the money and muscle of Super PACS to do their dirty work, the Working Families Party is no different. Operating under the parallel name of the "Long Island Progressive Coalition," and, most recently, by the fly-by-night invented group, "RESD" (Residents for Efficient Special Districts), these so-called progressives are anything but progressive, good-government advocates; rather, they have become as nasty, dishonest, and destructive as the Republican and Democratic SuperPACS.
The current battle – to be settled at the polls in a few days (December 12), is an effort to dismantle a special sanitary district – "Sani 2" – serving 55,000 people in the communities of Baldwin, South Hempstead, and Roosevelt on Long Island. The stated purpose for the drive to dismantle the district is 'cost savings,' though no credible figures have been supplied yet.
Let's cut to the chase: the entire circus is an invention of a failed candidate for Sanitation Commissioner who, in a fit of super sour grapes, has decided that if she can't rule the district, she will ruin it.
In 2005, Laura Mallay ran for election as a Commissioner against incumbent Gerard Brown. Apparently, at the time, she felt the special district was important enough to ask voters to give her some responsibility in managing it.
But Mallay didn't quite understand that Long Island voters do not simply 'award' politicians with an office simply because that politician wakes up one day with a brilliant idea and expects applause. Mallay was trounced in the election, losing by a margin of more than 20 points.
So, rather than consider why voters rejected her, she invented a group, "RESD," annointed herself as its Executive Director, and began a campaign to force a vote to dissolve Sanitary District 2, and to have 55,000 residents' garbage, recycling, and hazardous materials handled by some other as-of-yet unspecified entity.
"The District," claims Mallay, "is not economically sustainable."
This, of course, flies in the face of the reality of the District's existence for some 85 years, and the fact that the District's annual budget increases for the last five years have been less than the annual rate of inflation...meaning that the District actually continues to more with less, and becomes more efficient each year.
Mallay has compared Sani 2's costs with other districts, and found them to be higher. But Mallay's calculations conveniently neglect to mention that Sanitary District 2 engages in additional, non-mandated activities that improve life for its residents, increase environmental quality and awareness, and which are not carried out by other 'cheaper' services.
Sanitary District 2 purchases bulk oil contracts for other area services, saving the local fire departments, school districts, and, therefore, taxpayers - thousands of dollars annually. Unlike other sanitation departments, they sponsor community cleanups, waterways cleanups (the picture above is from the recent Milburn Creek cleanup), graffiti removal efforts, and greening/planting projects. The value added to the community by this community-run district is enormous.
But that means nothing to Mallay, RESD, and the LI Progressive Coalition. Rule or Ruin is the battle cry.
Flyers promoting district dissolution fail to reference any credible sources for their secret financial information. As an Economist, I see this as a highly troubling - and disingenuous - aspect of their campaign.
Letters delivered door-to-door this weekend failed to even contain a single signature assigning responsibility for their tirades. And in fact, almost 100% of the effort to destroy the district is coming not from within the district, but from paid campaign operatives who live nowhere near Baldwin or Roosevelt.
Meanwhile, the workers at Sani2, while understandably concerned about being tossed to the curb themselves if the vote to dismantle the district passes…have become heroes to those who know them best.
One month ago, Hurricane Sandy slammed Baldwin Harbor with unprecedented fury. Neighborhoods that never saw water found themselves under several feet. Rugs, furniture, soaked sheetrock, and personal belongings of every kind were heaped in traumatized residents front yards. When destruction like this takes place in an area several square miles large, how do you even begin to deal with the clean-up?
The employees of Sani2 – all of whom are working-class, home-town local community members – worked round the clock for weeks to help homeowners sort through the wreckage of this storm. While Mallay was safely ensconced in her dry home and political headquarters elsewhere in the state, the working men of Sani2 whose jobs are on the line performed Herculean tasks to clean up their community and share the heartbreak and burden with their own neighbors.
If sanity prevails, the voters of Baldwin, Roosevelt, and South Hempstead will see this charade for what it is, and soundly defeat the effort to dismantle an 85-year old community institution.
And if the Working Families Party has any sense, they will distance themselves from the loose cannons that have taken control of their Long Island apparatus.


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Ahead of Micron Technology's (MU) fiscal Q3 report on Wednesday, after market close, a number of bulls on the stock were out today trumpeting potential upside, mostly from Micron's buyout of bankrupt Japanese's DRAM maker Elpida Memory, which analysts note did not receive any objections to its restructuring plan by Friday, a deadline for comment to be filed.
Citigroup's Glen Yeung, who has a Buy rating on the stock, today raises his price target to $19 from $13.50, focusing on the large upside he sees from Elpida:
With the Elpida deal nearing closure (bearing enhanced financial benefits due to yen devaluation) and memory prices likely to continue to rise, we remain positively biased to Micron shares, despite their 100% increase YTD. We estimate that Elpida will add $0.88 in incremental earnings to Micron—at 10x (a 32% discount to the current market multiple), this represents $8.80 in potential share price leverage or 147% of the ~$6.00 increase in MU shares since the deal was announced. Of course, since this time, DRAM prices have risen steadily, up 75% YTD. While Micron was still money losing as of F2Q13, we see potential for a swing toward profitability in their upcoming results. And given the significant leverage in their model, if we are right that memory prices remain stable or rise from here, we estimate a substantial improvement in core Micron earnings to $1.17 in FY14. Applying a similar 10x multiple to this figure and we derive a value for the core Micron of $11.70 + $8.80 for Elpida = $20.50 or 61% potential upside. Adding the value of Elpida to our core Micron price target of $13.50 results in $22.30 or 75% potential upside. We reiterate MU as our Top Pick in semiconductors. We increase our PT to $19, using our previous book-based valuation methodology; we recognize that should positive earnings become more stable, a shift to an earnings based methodology is conceivable.
Wedbush's Betsy Van Hees, who has an Outperform rating on the stock, is modeling Q3 revenue of $2.26 billion, and EPS of negative 3 cents, which is better than Street consensus for $2.25 billion on the revenue side, but below the Street's projection of a 2-cent profit: "We believe top line results will come in higher than expected though the bottom line is likely to miss on one time charges, but we believe this is anticipated on the street and shouldn't negatively impact the stock."
"We believe investors will be looking forward to the better memory pricing environment and closing of Elpida in F4Q (Aug)."
And Credit Suisse's Jonathan Pitzer reiterates an Outperform rating as well, and raises his price target to $20 from $14, writing that the company "continues to enefit from favorable pricing throughout its memory portfolio, specifically, ASPs are up 30% and 5% for PC DRAM and trade NAND quarter over quarter, better than guidance of up 5% and down 5%, respectively. After a more than doubling in the shares, Pitzer thinks the stock still has upside based on future earnings potential, including Elpida:
More importantly, we continue to argue that MU is the most leveraged investment vehicle to exploit a STRUCTURALLY IMPROVING memory industry. Specifically, supply growth is structurally slowing and demand drivers are broadening, especially in DRAM we expect handsets to consume more DRAM than notebooks beginning in 4Q13, multi-core processors in smartphones are driving bits/handset up from 0.73 GB today to 1.17GB by the end of 2014. Our Global Industry Supply/Demand Model suggests NAND and DRAM demand growth outstripping supply growth in 2013 by 600bps and 300bps respectively. In addition, upon the closure of Elpida (expected mid/late summer) we see $1.00-$1.50 cents of accretion to our current CY14 estimate of $0.83, which itself has an upward bias due to better pricing. We are raising our TP from $14 to $20 while this would represent a rich 2.8 times BVPS, it would be less than 10x an earnings power of $2.00 plus and more importantly, slightly less than 1 times replacement cost including Elpida capacity. In an environment where consumer tech demand continues to mix to the low end, due to solid supply dynamics, memory in general and MU specifically becomes the MARGIN LEVERAGED way to play low end consumer unit growth.


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Possessive: my, mine, our(s), his, her(s), its, their(s)
Personal Pronoun: I, me, we, us, he, she, him, her, it, they, them
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It's my first time teaching Grammar & I sometimes get confused..
But can someone answer me what's the difference between the personal pronouns and the possessive adjectives?
I know the meaning is different, But I want a detailed explanation with forms..
Please I have it next class & I want my students to understand it...
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Possessive: my, mine, our(s), his, her(s), its, their(s)
Personal Pronoun: I, me, we, us, he, she, him, her, it, they, them
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Welcome to the forum, MastersSara.
You'll find the labelling here rather confusing, as there is no general agreement. Depending on where you look, 'my', for example, may be described as a possessive, possessive adjective, determiner, possessive determiner or even possessive pronoun.
Are you using a coursebook or particular grammar or dictionary with your classes? If so, go with the labels used there. Unless you are working with a syllabus that insists on learners being able to label parts of speech, there is no need for you to go into great detail.
My own suggestion (others may disagree), if you have no set books, is that it does no harm to label those words that stand in place of a noun as pronouns: I, me (the speaker), we, us (the speaker and one or more others), you (the person/people spoken to), it, they, them (the person/people or thing[s] spoken about). Label those words that denote possession in some form possessives: my, mine, your, yours, his, her, hers, its, our, ours, their, theirs.


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With 49 journalists imprisoned for their work as of December 1, Turkey emerged as the world's worst jailer of the press. Kurdish journalists, charged with supporting terrorism by covering the activities of the banned Kurdistan Workers Party, made up the majority of the imprisoned journalists. They are charged under a vague anti-terror law that allows the authorities to equate coverage of banned groups with terrorism itself. A CPJ special report issued in October found highly repressive aspects of the penal code and anti-terror law, a criminal procedure code that favors the state, and a harsh anti-press tone set at the top levels of government. Intense government pressure caused media owners to dismiss critical journalists and generated pervasive self-censorship throughout the profession. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who has filed several defamation lawsuits in recent years, publicly denigrated numerous critical journalists. CPJ conducted three fact-finding and advocacy missions to Turkey in 2012, meeting with journalists, lawyers, diplomats, and Turkey's justice minister, Sadullah Ergin. CPJ urged Ergin to undertake a case-by-case review of all detained journalists.
The government has imprisoned dozens of journalists on terrorism or other anti-state charges, but CPJ's analysis found the evidence relies largely on journalistic activities. A CPJ survey conducted on August 1, 2012, found 61 journalists jailed in direct relation to their work. Between that survey and CPJ's annual worldwide census, conducted on December 1, the authorities released a number of journalists.
Turkey: 49
Iran: 45
China: 32
Eritrea: 28
Syria: 15
Vietnam: 14
Azerbaijan: 9
Ethiopia: 6
Saudi Arabia: 4
Uzbekistan: 4
Democratic Republic of Congo: 3
India: 3
Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: 3
Rwanda: 3
Morocco: 2
Bahrain: 1
Burkina Faso: 1
Burundi: 1
Cambodia: 1
Cuba: 1
Gambia: 1
Iraq: 1
Italy: 1
Kyrgyzstan: 1
Somalia: 1
Thailand: 1
Yemen: 1
The vast majority of journalists jailed in Turkey on December 1 were being held on terrorism or other anti-state charges.
The prime minister has led the anti-press campaign, personally filing several defamation lawsuits against journalists. These actions have fostered self-censorship as news outlets and their journalists, fearful of financial, professional, or legal reprisals, shy away from sensitive topics such as the Kurdish issue and the crackdown on free expression itself.
|Erdoğan sues the publisher of the satirical magazine Penguen for having "assaulted the premier's personal rights" by depicting him as various animals in cartoons that appeared on its cover. An Ankara court dismissed the case in 2006.
|The prime minister sues the left-wing daily Günlük Evrensel and its columnist Yücel Sarpdere for defamation. The suit is in connection with an article that altered the lyrics of a favorite song of the ruling Justice and Development Party to criticize Erdoğan's response to corruption allegations against his finance minister. Erdoğan's lawyers claimed the article not only insulted the premier but also went "beyond the limits of press freedom." In 2006, a court awarded Erdoğan US$2,219 in damages.
|Erdoğan files a defamation claim against Erbil Tusalp, a journalist with the leftist daily Birgün, in connection with a December 2005 article that said government policies were increasingly authoritarian. A domestic court awarded Erdoğan US$5,546 in damages in 2008. Tusalp appealed to the European Court of Human Rights, which ruled in favor of the journalist and ordered Turkey to pay US$6,410 in damages.
|The premier sues Ahmet Altan, editor-in-chief of the independent daily Taraf, for libel in connection with a January 2011 editorial headlined, "Erdoğan and hollow bullying."
|After withdrawing his 2011 complaint against Altan, Erdoğan sues him again, over an editorial that described the prime minister as "arrogant, uninformed, and uninterested" in reform. Erdoğan's lawyers complain that the editorial was intended to humiliate the prime minister. On December 5, a Turkish court ordered Altan to pay 15,000 lira (US$8,381) in damages to the prime minister.
Ahmet Şik and Nedim Şener, the highest-profile journalists to be imprisoned in the crackdown, were released on bail in March. Charges of aiding an anti-government plot were still pending against them in late year. The two had spent more than a year in jail before their release. CPJ's review of the cases found that the government had filed the charges in retaliation for the journalists' critical investigative reporting. Shortly after their release, each received threats and Şık was criminally charged in connection with his public criticism of the prosecution.
Fusün Erdogan:
|The general manager of the leftist outlet Özgür Radyo has been imprisoned since September 8, 2006, on charges of helping lead the banned Marxist Leninist Communist Party (MLKP). She faces a potential life term. The authorities allege she used radio station assets to support the MLKP. The main evidence against her is a document that is alleged to include the names and personal information of MLKP members. According to Erdogan's lawyer, no evidence connects the document to her client.
Bayram Namaz:
|The columnist for the weekly socialist newspaper Atilim has been imprisoned since September 8, 2006, on charges of possession of dangerous materials, possession of unregistered weapons, forgery of official documents, and attempting to eliminate the constitutional order. As evidence against him, the authorities cited a 2005 article about an MLKP conference that was published in a Kurdish-language journal. Namaz says he did not write the article.
Mustafa Balbay:
|The columnist and former Ankara representative for the leftist-ultranationalist daily Cumhuriyet has been imprisoned since March 5, 2009, as part of the government's investigation into the alleged Ergenekon anti-state conspiracy. Since February 2011, he has been in solitary confinement. The charges against him include being a member of an armed terrorist organization and attempting to overthrow the government and could result in a life prison term. The evidence against Balbay includes documents seized from his home and office, news stories he produced, wiretapped telephone conversations, and secretly recorded meetings with senior military and government officials.


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RICHMOND, Va. – Seniors, no matter what collegiate sport, always want to go out and leave their mark on whatever program and university they represent.
The four seniors on the Virginia Commonwealth University basketball team will aim to do exactly that starting on Saturday in the quarterfinals of the Colonial Athletic Association Tournament.
Prior to starting that quest, two of those seniors were sent home with hardware at the annual CAA banquet with Jamie Skeen and Joey Rodriguez both earning all-league accolades. Skeen was named All-CAA Second Team, while Rodriguez earned a spot on the Third Team.
"Seniors are the players that coaches rely upon the most throughout the season," Head Coach Shaka Smart said. "Both Jamie and Joey, along with our other two seniors, did a great job at various times throughout the year of stepping up and being a leader. Plus, it's always nice to see your guys get recognized for their hard work."
Skeen leads the Black & Gold in scoring, rebounding, field-goal percentage, blocks and made free-throw attempts. He enters the weekend ranking in the top-15 in the CAA in five statistical categories, including in the top-10 in both scoring (14.8 ppg) and rebounding (7.6 rpg).
Earler this year, in a road victory at Delaware, he notched his 1,000th collegiate point when he scored 32 points against the Fightin' Blue Hens. He now sits at 1,063 points and 617 rebounds over his four seasons at the collegiate level (two at Wake Forest, two at VCU).
"It's nice to get recognized, but ultimately this award doesn't mean anything if we don't take care of business this weekend," Skeen said. "We're win to win and that's all my teammates and I are worried about right now."
Rodriguez earned All-CAA accolades for the second straight season after leading the CAA in assist-to-turnover ratio, 2.2, yet again. The Merritt Island, Fla. native averaged 10.6 points, 4.7 assists and 3.4 rebounds per night, all while serving as the floor general for the Black & Gold.
"There's a reason I call Joey the general," Smart said. "He does so many little things that don't necessarily show up in a boxscore, but there are nights when we really need it, that he can turn it on in so many different ways."
He currently is VCU's all-time leader in games played with 133, just 10 minutes away from becoming the all-time leader in minutes played (currently at 4,081), second in three-pointers with 199 and fifth in assists with 518. The 518 assists also place him 10th all-time in CAA history.
"I don't get this recognition without my teammates," Rodriguez said. "They are the reason I show up and play as hard as I do. They are the reason I want to go out and win this championship so bad."
Rodriguez and his crew will get their first shot on the way to the CAA Championship when they play either fifth-seeded Drexel or 12th-seeded Towson Saturday at 2:30 p.m. at the Richmond Coliseum.


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"Joe Mathlete has been accidentally achieving internet notoriety since 2002, when a short WMV depicting him engaged in an imaginary lightsaber battle in his high school's AV room was uploaded to Kazaa. Several years later, after a brief webcam clip of him lipsynching to a popular Romanian techno song achieved similar viral success, he decided to pursue his dream of writing and performing original music. When a video of him recording the vocals to one of his songs gained international attention for his unique, otherworldly baritone and distinctive method of moving away from the mic to breathe in, he destroyed his computer, renounced technology and moved to Wales. He lives in a small cottage south of Llandudno with his cat, Goatse."
If some or none of that makes much sense, trust me-- it's hysterical(ly geeky).


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Translated by Jerrold Landau
The second one, whose honor preceded him in his Zionist activities, was Meir Dizengof, who was the mayor of Tel Aviv. He was a native of the village of Akimovichy in the region of Orheyev. Dizengof was the first representative to the Chovevei Tzion convention in Drozagnik (June 16, 1887). He was chosen by the heads of the movement in Kishinev. He excelled in his presentation and personality.
The third, Nachum Roitman, was born in a village near Teleneshty in the Orheyev region. He was also a distinguished personality, and a very active Zionist. He played an important role in the Chovevei Zion movement in Bessarabia during the 1890s.
At the time that Dr. Cohen Bornstein organized the postal department in Kishinev, N. Roitman was one of the two secretaries, and the prime composer of the circulars and letters, which served as the theoretical basis for the doctrine of Zionism.
After the death of Engineer Gotlieb the delegate of the Keren Kayemet LeYisrael (Jewish National Fund), N. Roitman was invited to stand at the head of the Keren Kayemet. From them, the masses of the people drew near to this activity and made their donations in a generous fashion.
These were the prominent sons, men of vision and deed who, with their personal talents, stood above the others of their generation in the region of Orheyev and all of Bessarabia, and earned an honorable place in the Zionist movement for them, even though their place was missing in Orheyev itself. Nevertheless, with their great influence in the movement, it is without doubt appropriate to specially note them in the history of the city and its activists.
From here, it is clear that the Chovevei Zion organization was founded in 1886; however we are lacking any information on the activities of the organization until 1890. In its ledgers of 1902, the Odessa committee includes a list of donors to the committee of Supporters of the Jewish Settlers in the Land of Israel from the three years of 1890-1892. It includes 24 donors who donated 3 rubles or more in 1890, and 28 donors in 1891, over and above the approximately 70 donors who donated up to one ruble annually during those two years.
The activities of the organization paused in 1892. In Hamelitz number 229 of the year 1896, the following is written about the reason for the pause: In our city, the Chovevei Zion organization stands out. A fine future has been foretold for it as well. Unfortunately, however, the plate turned over, and the number of members is dwindling from day to day. The reason is that several people resolved in their hearts to leave their country and to make aliya to the Holy Land with the hope that they will fill all of their wants there, and that they will find all good there. They did heed the warnings that are printed in the newspapers on a daily basis that those who do not have sufficient money to purchase land and to support themselves in the first years after their arrival should not plan to make aliya, for the Zionist action committee in Jaffa is not able to help them, etc. After these impetuous people came to the Land and saw that their hope had been shattered, they complained to the members of the active committee that they were men of iniquity, etc Many of these disappointed people returned to their homes, which had a bad influence upon the people of our city. They became impediments and slandered the Land, brazenly stating: 'If a Zionist preacher appears in our city again, we will rise up against him and pass judgement upon him ' For this reason, the members of this organization in our city became weakened, and the strength of the movement dwindled drastically.
The situation of the movement improved greatly after about two years. The number of members doubled, and the donations for the benefit of the settlements increased. However, disturbances never ceased from the Orthodox sector.
In Hamelitz number 223 from 1894, we read among other things: In this year, the idea of the settlement of the Land of Israel spread out significantly The people brought many donations for the benefit of the settlement, and the number of members doubled. More than 50 rubles were collected from the collection plates of the Eve of Yom Kippur. The profit from the etrogim that were brought by the members from Jaffa also went to the benefit of the settlement. However, this angered the opponents of the organization, and they searched for pretexts to disturb the work of the activists. They poured disgrace and wrath upon the members in our town, and vented their wrath upon the etrogim, stating that the etrogim from Corfu (Italy) were kosher without doubt, and the etrogim from the Land of Israel were grafted, so it was forbidden to recite a blessing upon them. These instigators gathered the townsfolk each evening and disseminated their slander about the movement. One of their members even permitted himself to defame the prominent rabbis who forbade the etrogim of Corfu, claiming that they were clean-shaven and complete apikorsim (heretics).
With all this, after a year, the fortunes of the organization in the city once again were on the rise. B. Sh. Naychin writes about this briefly in Hamelitz number 80 from the year 1895, as follows:
Thanks to the official from our town, Mr. Borsutsky, and to all of those who helped him at all times, our city collected more than 700 silver rubles for the support of the settlement in the Land of Israel, despite the anger of the zealots who opposed this mighty effort and placed obstacles along the path to impede the actualization of this idea in the community.
We read about the celebration of the first decade of the existence of the organization in Hamelitz number 263 from the year 1896 (B. Sh. Naychin):
The preparations of the Chovevei Zion organization in our city went on for approximately one month. Their facial expressions expressed their feelings, for the joy in their hearts continued to grow. They were preparing for the great festivity that of the decade since the day that the youth of our city united their hearts into one organization bearing the name of Chovevei Zion. The day designated for celebrating the decade of Chovevei Zion is the first night of Chanukah, the holiday of the Maccabees. On the first night of the Festival of Lights, all of those invited, the members of Chovevei Zion of our city, gathered together, with signs of joy and gladness radiating from their faces for they merited to reach this great festivity. How many adventures did the idea of the love of our land go through during those ten years! This holy idea suffered greatly from the hands of its detractors and obstructers who came from our midst. It persevered and was strengthened, and will send its fruits throughout the entire Jewish Diaspora.
Chovevei Zion of our city gathered at 6 p.m., and the honorable Mr. Alter Feinsilver opened the gathering with a few words. Then, a memorial was made to the soul of our Gaon Rabbi Yitzchak Elchanan Spector of blessed memory and the soul of the lover of Zion Dr. Pinsker of blessed memory. Then the official of our town, Avraham Borsutsky, arose and described to the gathering all of the efforts for the idea of love of Zion, and the events that took place with regard to it. Later, the preacher from Zion Mr. Lantzman, who had been invited to our city for this event, delivered his address on the occasion of this celebration. Then, the tables were set, and those gathered partook of treats and drank wine from our Holy Land, the fruits of the sweat of our farmers who are developing the fields of our Land. Letters of blessing and telegrams arrived from Rabbi Shmuel Mohilever may he live long, Professor Bielkovsky of the Odessa committee, the chairman Mr. Grinberg, and others.
My pen is too short to describe the spiritual pleasure and joy that was felt by each and every one of us. The attendees returned home glad and joyful.
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I moved to Orheyev in the year 5668, a city in which the people were of a high cultural level. There, there was an important Zionist movement headed by people of the intelligentsia including Avraham Borsutsky. The veteran Zionists were the Zionists of the shekel or Zionists of the shares (of the Settlement Treasury). Aside from the shekel and the shares, they had no involvement with the movement. The majority of the sons and daughters of these Zionists leaned toward the Russian Liberation movement, and only the Borsutsky family (Avraham and his wife Fania) raised high the banner of Zionism. The youth gathered around them. I also joined this group, and with time I became involved in the activity. Along with the other members, we developed wide-ranging Zionist activities. We convened gatherings in synagogues and private halls. We arranged reading evenings in the Hebrew language, and we busied ourselves with the spreading of the Hebrew language among the youth. There was a broad Socialist movement there. The Bund also struck roots among the workers in the various places of work. A war of words was waged between them and us. Since I myself was a worker, my words were heeded and accepted by the workers. Our gatherings were clandestine. Since the authorities persecuted every liberation movement in Russia, we would gather on winter nights in basements. In the summer, we would find secret places on the crests of Mount Ivanus. It once happened that the police conducted a search in my house. I was imprisoned in the home of the governor of the city for one day. From that time, my status rose in the eyes of our opponents.
In those days, news reached us about Tzeirei Zion chapters that sprouted up in various places of our region. Ferment began among our members as well. We saw the need to split off from the veterans, and we searched for a basis for Zionist activity among the masses. The Tzeirei Zion movement began to crystallize in Kishinev with the efforts of Yosef Shprintzak, who came from Warsaw to live in Kishinev.
Avraham and Fania Borsutsky indeed belonged to the General Zionists, but they searched out the possibility of practical activity in the circles of the veterans and did not find their desire. They opened up their homes to our group of youths. The path of Tzeirei Zion was not clear and set. Each city and town had its own style, different than that of its fellows. At that time, it issued a proclamation in Orheyev with the following motto: With blood and fire Judea fell, and with blood and fire Judea shall arise. This was to impart a revolutionary style into the young movement, patterned after the other youth movements. That year (5665), the war between Tzeirei Zion and the members of Ogdana grew stronger, according to the testimony of Freiburg. Famous propagandists such as Dr. Mosenzan appeared in southern Russia. He passed through Bessarabia in a victory journey. When he passed through Orheyev, his strongest detractors were silenced. The influence of his words upon the masses was deep. At that time, the star of Chayim Grinberg, a native of the city of Kalarash, was rising. Our movement began to spread out and broaden. It took on the distinctive appearance of a movement of workers, close in spirit and form to the Russian S. R. movement. Then, Tzeirei Zion of Orheyev took council and decided to utilize their own power for publicity in the towns and settlements of our region. Among those who took on this task were Yosef the son of Yoel Pagis, Yosef the son of Yisrael Pagis, and the writer of these lines. During these travels, I came to the town of Dubossary on the banks of the Dneister and settled there for two years
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Lyrics:First versewalkin' down de street deother evenin' Kinder late. Jes a thinkin' a to a mah sef' How when it comes to runnin' de race wid ole man fate Dat I allus a had a been lef' De hoses I'd been backin' hadn't nevah seen de wire. De bones had gone astray When I spied a little damsel wid an' eye of teasin' fire An', to huh I did say: GoodChorusEvenin' Won't you take a mah ahm? Good evenin'(2x) I do'n mean a no ha'm Dat gal she flashed on me huh eye. An'as she fluttred I do'n mean a no ha'm De way he used me was a sin An'jes befo' he gailyly She waved huh han' an made reply: Good evenin' Good nin' locked me in Sez he: "" Next time buy better gin."" Good evenin'. Good nin'.Second versetook it fu' encouragement an' so I went along, Fu' I sholy a laked a dat chile I tried to ketch huh 'tention wid a little bit O' song But she was a runnin' wil I took mah place beside huh fu' I was playin swell I used mah fines' way I raised mah hat to s'lute huh when dat gal let off a yell An' a great big cop did say Good
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My wife's favorite type of boardgame
Not only that, but this was a game she requested, or at least she agreed that it sounded interesting after I described it to her the week before. That was after I'd played it for the first time at my local game group, and thought the mechanics and--especially--London theme would be a hit since we'd just made plans to take the family to London in April. I was confident enough that I ordered a copy for myself immediately. Most of that story is a fairly typical experience for me: think a game might be a good fit for Candy & I to play together, then order it. And though it does happen, it doesn't always work out that she likes it. (Paris Paris is an example of one that struck out.)
Yesterday she mentioned during the middle of the day that she might like to try On The Underground in the evening. We played it, she beat me handily without any handicapping or holding back (I don't do that), and she enjoyed the game. It took a bit over an hour, which was a longer than the games we usually play together (e.g. Thurn & Taxis), but she still liked it.
Not only that, but in talking about it afterward she observed that she liked "these sort" of games, in general. I asked, and we figured out that meant connection games like T&T, OTU, and Ticket To Ride. Holy cow! My wife has a favorite type of boardgame!
P.S. Any tips on maximizing the sale of Deluxe/Limited edition of the Lord of the Rings? This is the same cooperative boardgame by Knizia, only published by Sophisticated Games, and comes with a metal ring, metal figures, and a numbered edition print. The game itself is a numbered edition, too, as I recall. I don't have any idea how to price the game for sale through the BGG marketplace, and there aren't even any recent games sold on ebay. Not this edition, anyway, just the more common one.


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To mark its 25th Anniversary Golf Tournament on Aug. 8, the Recreation Vehicle Dealers Association (RVDA) of Alberta has set a goal to raise $25,000 for the local Kids Cancer Care Foundation (KCCF).
According to a press release, the Kids Cancer Care Foundation of Alberta is "dedicated to helping young people and their families affected by cancer survive and thrive in body, mind and spirit." Their programs are uniquely designed to meet the needs of the whole family at each stage in the cancer journey, from diagnosis through treatment and beyond. The foundation is committed to changing the course of children's cancer by providing programs and funding in four key areas: camp, research, hospital programs and scholarship.
In the release, RVDA of Alberta said it "is honored to have the support of their members and business partners in this effort to raise the $25,000 for the KCCF." One member, Leslie Pringle of Eagle Lake RV Resort, will be celebrating the anniversary by donating her long hair to Hair Angels for Kids, finishing with a complete head shave at the tournament.
To help reach the $25,000 goal, donations for this event can be made by contacting the RVDA of Alberta or at the Kids Cancer Care Foundation at https://secure.csfm.com/kidscancer/donate/general/index.php. Once on the site, please fill out the form and choose "THIRD PARTY INITIATIVE" "RVDA".
For more information, please contact Wanda Steele at the RVDA of Alberta at (780) 455-8562 or [email protected]


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Worst Bubble Ever
June 25, 2011
Superman stood for Truth, Justice, and the American Way. Spider-Man taught that with great power comes great responsibility. But the superhero it might have profited you the most to have emulated is Kyle Baker's Al Space. Al Space tried to teach the youth about the folly of investing in speculative bubbles.
Al Space debuted in 1991's Epic Lite, an anthology of short pieces published under Marvel Comics' Epic Comics imprint, which tended to feature underground or alternative comic artists like Baker. Al Space wore the cape, tights, and underoos de rigeur for costumed crimefighters, except he had a bit of a pot belly. Instead of leaping tall buildings in a single bound, he spends six pages talking to little Billy Brown about his comic-book collection. "Well, this sure is a big stack!" Al Space remarks. "Let's take a look at—Wait… This is all the same comic."
"I'm going to be rich," Billy explains. "Did you know that last year three million copies of McFarlane's first Spider-Man were sold?"—referring to Spider-Man #1, a fourth Spider-Man title that Marvel debuted in 1991 to accommodate the demands of its superstar artist Todd McFarlane to have total creative control of a title and the prominent byline that comes with it. Hoping to capitalize on the mania for McFarlane's work, Marvel packaged it in a bunch of different formats. It was sold in a sealed plastic bag, requiring kids to choose between preserving the book in mint condition and opening the bag to actually read the comic. Or you could buy another version with a special black-and-silver cover. A second printing with a black-and-gold cover was released a few weeks later. There was also a special "chrome" edition printed on a metallic cardstock. The true collector had to have them all!
Al Space proceeds to remind Billy, "Did you know that according to the market research, there are about five hundred thousand comic book fans? That means that five hundred thousand people bought three million comics. Okay, so we can logically assume that these comics were bought as investments. That means that even if every fan reads one copy of the book, which they probably didn't, there are at least two million, five hundred thousand copies in protective plastic bags. Which means that fifty years from now, there will still be two million, five hundred thousand copies of that book still in bags. There are two things which affect the value of a comic. Rarity and demand. That book will never be rare, and since every fan has multiple copies, there won't be much demand for many years to come." Billy is crushed.
Billy wasn't the only one who succumbed to the mania for investing in comics in the early 1990s, and it wasn't just kids, either. The June 13 issue of the Weekly Standard features an account by Jonathan Last of the boom in the comic-book industry in the early 1990s and the crash that followed. In Last's account, comics became serious collectors' items some time in the 1980s. Copies of Action Comics #1, which featured Superman's debut, sold for $400 in 1974, $5,000 in 1984, and $82,500 in 1992. "Price gains for the high-value comics throughout the 1980s attracted speculators, who pushed the prices up further," Last relates. Another major factor that fueled the speculative bubble was a change in the way distributors did business, which made it easy for nearly anybody to go into business selling comics. Mistaking the entry of thousands of new retailers for a massive expansion of their audience, Last writes, the publishers "upped their prices and began publishing more titles, adjusting the supply to meet what they thought was demand."
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In their book Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises, economists Charles P. Kindleberger and Robert Aliber describe the anatomy of a bubble as follows. It begins with an event that excites speculative interest. Rising prices encourage new entrants. The increase in demand presses against the capacity to produce goods, and new assets have to be created to satiate demand. Fraudsters get in the game. Historic gains lead to an overextension of credit. When gains begin to stagnate, distress and panic follow. Investors run for the exits, and then comes the crash. "The pattern is biological in its regularity," write Kindleberger and Aliber. The same story happens again and again, whether it's about tulips, dot-com stocks, real estate, comic books, or wine.
So I will not comment at length on the fact that the wine world is presently waiting anxiously for the Bordeaux first growths to release their 2010 futures prices, with many observers figuring that Château Lafite-Rothschild may well reach the $2,000-per-bottle mark. Buy some if you are a multimillionaire, but don't buy any hoping to become one. The same principle holds true all the way down the hierarchy. There is a limited number of wine collectors in the world interested in owning these wines. There is a much larger number of speculators willing to exploit those collectors to make an easy buck. The Bordealais think the cash-flush Chinese will pay the unprecedentedly high prices they are asking. But who is actually buying Bordeaux futures: cash-flush Chinese, or speculators hoping to flip the goods to cash-flush Chinese when the wines ship in two years? I'm not sure I would want to be holding very many of those hot potatoes. Take a look at eBay: you can buy as many Spider-Man #1s as you want for just a few bucks.
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In truth, however, the ridiculous prices being asked for Bordeaux over the last few years are only a small part of why I have almost completely lost interest in the wines. I started drinking Bordeaux in earnest with the 1995 vintage, and at that time back vintages were still plentiful on the shelves, so I was also able to taste through a number of older vintages back to the '70s at prices I could make room for on a student's budget. Most of the newer Bordeaux I have occasion to drink, even from estates reputed to be traditionalists, taste unrecognizable to me. It's shocking to me how completely different the profile is from what it was as recently as a dozen years ago. And the further one goes back in history, the even more pronounced the difference is. In 1945, André Simon wrote that the wines of Burgundy "rarely possess quite the same light and delicate texture or body which is such an outstanding character of most fine clarets; they are as a rule more robust, more assertive, more immediately obvious." Nobody today would characterize Bordeaux as light and delicate or consider Burgundy more robust and obvious.
The Bordeaux I remember, which were already considerably more modern than the wines Simon drank, were characterized above all by a sense of restraint. The physical sensation on the palate was overwhelmingly one of comfort, registering that feeling of instant gratification not unlike the feeling of sliding one's feet into a perfectly fitting and broken-in pair of shoes. Attempting to catalogue the flavors with the usual taxonomy of tasting-note "descriptors" would have been a completely pointless exercise because the only meaningful way to describe the taste would be to say that they tasted like wine. No individual elements stuck out. Fruit was wholly immaterial. They did not taste like fruit any more than cheese tastes like milk. The new style of Bordeaux favors weight over comfort, multiplicity of flavors over integration, and fruitiness over vinousness—ultimately, the feeling they are trying to instill in the person drinking them is not so much a feeling of satisfaction or gratification, but a sense of being awed and impressed.
Which brings me back to Spider-Man.
If you page through the old comics of the so-called Golden and Silver Ages of the medium—the periods covering the introduction of the iconic DC and Marvel superheroes—the artwork seems rather plain and simple compared to the eye candy that turned a few of the artists like McFarlane into superstars. None of the work-for-hire pencillers and inkers of the '30s or '60s became stars. They worked for peanuts and died poor. But the thing about them is that they had learned to draw comics by studying life, whereas the star artists of the '90s had learned to draw comics by reading comics. For example, John Buscema, who drew the Avengers and the Silver Surfer and pretty much every other superhero in the Marvel universe, trained as a boxer in New York in the 1940s and began painting portraits of other fighters—experience that doubtlessly came in handy drawing all those muscle-bound superheroes in tights, whose proportions might have been exaggerated a bit for effect but were still human forms that would have been recognizable to a Renaissance sculptor. The new wave of artists didn't learn to draw the human form by studying boxers; they learned by studying Buscema—and just as Buscema exaggerated the proportions of the human form for effect, they would exaggerate the proportions of the heroes as drawn by Buscema. The images they produced were not drawings of people but drawings of drawings of people. The proportions were all wrong—any actual human so built would have broken into pieces from the impossible distribution of weight. Since they learned to draw from still panels, they didn't have any anatomical sense of how muscles fit together and moved, so they tended just to draw a whole lot of bulges in the general shape of a person and divert attention away from the incorrectness of it all by filling in the spaces with a lot of lines and cross-hatching. Backgrounds were out of the question since they never learned perspective and didn't have any experience drawing landscapes or much of anything else besides men in tights, so the negative space tended to be filled up with more lines and cross-hatching.
By far the worst offender was Rob Liefeld, who took the credit for creating X-Force at Marvel, got famous enough to appear in a Levi's commercial, and whose style was vaguely reminiscent of McFarlane's in its detail but much, much sloppier. In 1992, Liefeld and McFarlane quit Marvel to start their own comic company and recruited most of the other star talent at Marvel and DC to join them. The new company, Image Comics, promised contributors copyright ownership of their characters and total creative control, which in practice meant that the star artists began writing their own books despite having no demonstrated talent for writing and no training in the discipline other than reading comic books. The results were awful, but the artists' star power and the type of collector's-item gimmickry that McFarlane had previously deployed so successfully with his Spider-Man title instantly propelled Image to a market share competitive with Marvel's and DC's. It could not have been a coincidence that the total financial collapse of the comic-book business happened so soon after Image saturated the market with so many phony collectibles badly written and badly drawn. The formation of Image is the moment you can freeze and put in a gilded frame to pinpoint the precise moment the mainstream comic-book medium went irretrievably down the toilet.
Bordeaux has become the Image Comics of wine. There is a direct analogy between those artists who learned to draw from comics rather than from life and the contemporary oenologists who model their wines after other highly rated wines rather than fashioning wine for the function it serves in life—spreading joy around a table. Wine critics praised such legendary Bordeaux as the 1947 Château Cheval-Blanc because the exotic vintage took the wine's usual opulence and exaggerated it; those hoping to curry favor with the critics today thus aim to create a profile reminiscent of what they imagine the '47 Cheval-Blanc to have been, and exaggerate that, resulting in a wine not one step but two steps removed from the traditional form—and when that wine becomes successful, an array of copycats three steps removed from the traditional form proliferate. The critics don't want their Bordeaux to taste simply of claret; they want it to taste of lead pencils, scorched earth, pain grillé, coffee, and tobacco smoke, so more toasted new oak and a malolactic fermentation in the barrel will add the requisite point-enhancing features just like all those extraneous lines and cross-hatching that give a badly drawn panel the illusion of detail. And of course every single one of these wines is a must-have collectible, and priced accordingly. I don't know when that madness will end, but my spider sense is tingling.
For further reading:
- Jonathan Last's "The Crash of 1993" in the Weekly Standard.
- The 40 Worst Rob Liefeld Drawings. It has been ages since I laughed as hard as I did reading this.
- An opinion of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit written by the illustrious Judge Richard Posner on a copyright dispute between McFarlane and writer Neil Gaiman, Gaiman v. McFarlane, 360 F.3d 644 (7th Cir. 2004). The best part is the understated frankness with which Judge Posner recounts the history of how McFarlane came to retain Gaiman to write a book: "In 1992, shortly after forming his own publishing house, McFarlane began publishing a series of comic books entitled Spawn, which at first he wrote and illustrated himself. . . . The early issues in the series were criticized for bad writing, so McFarlane decided to invite four top writers each to write the script for one issue of Spawn."
- Three of the all-time best graphic novels: Dave Sim's Jaka's Story (despite its being volume 5 of his Cerebus serial, you actually don't need to read any of the preceding ones to follow it), Dan Clowes's Ghost World, and Neil Gaiman's Sandman: Season of Mists. The reason I mention these is that they were spawned outside the mainstream of the industry at precisely the same time the creative standards at Marvel and then Image were deteriorating into crap. (Clowes's books were so far outside the mainstream that I couldn't even get them at the comic-book store. I had to buy them in a coffee shop in the nearest college town, one of those places where none of the furniture or dishes matched and an androgynous folksinger was usually playing in the corner to an inattentive audience engrossed in Noam Chomsky books and body-ink magazines.) The originals of these comics actually turned into genuine collectibles and are rare enough to fetch very high prices, while the phony collectibles Marvel and Image churned out en masse can be bought today for less than their cover prices. I don't think collectors will be sorry for missing the opportunity to add any of the highly touted Bordeaux made in 10,000-case quantities to their cellars. My bet is that in twenty years, it will be some of the esoteric wines brought in by small importers and sold in specialty shops like Chambers Street Wines that are most likely to be the ones exciting collectors' passions. If you don't believe me, ask Al Space.
9 Responses to "Worst Bubble Ever"
June 25, 2011 at 10:02 pm
Greta post, Keith.
From my perch, the problems of boom and bust have much to do with the desire not just to be satisfied but to be blown away. Unfortunately, being blown away comes with its risks, not the least of which is to be blown into oblivion.
Just as bigger isn't necessarily better, Nirvana isn't necessarily, well, Nirvana–and that's true no matter what the cost is to buy in.
June 25, 2011 at 10:03 pm
Oops, great–not greta…
June 27, 2011 at 3:02 pm
Good writing right there. Thanks for your thoughts.
June 28, 2011 at 6:49 pm
Got-dam, it Keith. You are such an exquisite nerd. As I am, as well. Comics, science fiction, and wine-fandom of growers who have never been heard of in polite circles….but skewering the bubble that is bordeaux with the worst of comic art is terrific.
Great post!
PS – I read that Gene Colan passed away last week – one of the Marvel greats!
July 7, 2011 at 7:52 pm
Absolutely fantastic. I was not a comic book fan as a kid, but in your post script you've identified two of my favorite works of fiction. I fell for Clowes and Gaiman in my twenties and not only because I'm infantile; they are superb storytellers. I'll have to find Sim. I seem to just get nerdier as I get older. And that Progressive Boink bit on Liefeld was truly hilarious.
As for Bordeaux: yes.
July 21, 2011 at 12:24 pm
The 40 Worst Rob Liefeld Drawings is a priceless link, thank you so much.
August 1, 2011 at 3:37 pm
I've enjoyed that Liefeld page in the past, but never in conjunction with a solid analysis of the 2010 Bordeaux en primeur campaign/Super Skrull invasion. Having just returned from Comicon (my first visit since 1991), I was amazed at just how commodified everything has become, and getting close to the hot artists at Marvel/DC/Darkhorse/etc was impossible. Meanwhile, Geof Darrow was hanging with his daughter at a table in the boonies, happy to sketch away for those that stopped by.
The parallels you describe are spot on, great post.


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Saturday, February 9, 2013 at 8:00 PM - Sunday, February 10, 2013 at 12:00 AM (PST)
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We'll have an open bar and free drinks for you to enjoy, free treats from Tender Greens, promtastic DIY projects, lots of dancing and of course, each person will get a commemorative Fake Prom photo folder and 'awkward prom portrait' by Oh Snap Studios! Plus guests get free OPI nail polish gift-packs, ohh-la-la. Get ready to get down! Hurry and buy your tickets today. Whether you come dressed in 1950′s, 1980′s, suave modern-day black-tie, or jeans and a t-shirt, we look forward to seeing you Saturday night. Save a slow dance for us? :)
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Sazerac Cocktail 8 out of 28.
I have challenged myself to post 28 Sazeracs in 28 days for the month of February.
I'll try some different spirits, try some out at bars, and have some friends make them for me. Hopefully, if I can get my act together we'll have some video.
Sazerac Cocktail.
1 Lump of Sugar. (Generous Bar Spoon Rich Simple Syrup)
1 Dash Angostura or Peychana Bitters. (a couple dashes Peychaud's Bitters)
1 Glass Rye or Canadian Club Whisky. (2 oz Bols Genever Gin)
Stir well and strain into another glass that has been cooled and rinsed with Absinthe (Sirene Absinthe Verte) and squeeze lemon peel on top.
One question I have is how far can you stretch the method or ingredients for making a Sazerac, and still have something that tastes like one. This is especially pertinent when you consider the Sazerac Cocktail was originally made with Cognac, not Rye Whiskey at all.
A drink which David Wondrich has popularized in his books "Imbibe" and "Killer Cocktails" is the "Improved Holland Gin Cock-Tail". It is composed of 2 oz of Genever, a dash of Maraschino, Aromatic Bitters, a dash of Absinthe and simple syrup. It is stirred and strained into a cocktail glass. Usually garnished with a lemon twist.
Sound a bit familiar? The addition of the Maraschino and type of bitters are about all that separate an "Improved Holland Gin Cock-tail" from a Sazerac. Thus, it really wasn't much of a stretch to imagine Genever in a Sazerac.
What happens when you give Bols Genever the Sazerac treatment?
Why, in fact, it is quite delicious! Instead of the sharpness of Rye, you get a mellow maltiness from the Genever. Also, the less impactful Genever allows the adjunct ingredients to come to the fore. The aromatic herbs of the Absinthe and the Peychaud's are what shine in this version of a Sazerac Cocktail.
But is it a Sazerac? While it would be amusing to put this in front of someone asking for a Sazerac, no. On the other hand, it seems a lot closer to the spirit of that drink than one made with many of the richer Bourbons.
This post is one in a series documenting my ongoing effort to make all of the cocktails in the Savoy Cocktail Book, starting at the first, Abbey, and ending at the last, Zed.


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Woman writes own obit with love and one final jab
When Virginia "Ginny" Hicks first consulted with funeral director Leroy Wooster in 2008, she was firm about announcing her eventual exit.
No viewing. No service.
"And I want to write my own obituary," the Atco, N.J., mother of three sons told Wooster.
She did. According to her middle son, Jon, all Wooster had to do was correct some of the wording for publication in Sunday's Courier-Post.
The 90-year-old read the paper daily, including the morning last week when she slumped in her chair and died during breakfast at a Voorhees, N.J., nursing facility.
Two broken hips had taken their toll, but what really took the wind from Ginny Hicks' sails was the 2001 death of her soul mate, William "Bill" Hicks.
Married 57 years, they had friends all over the country and spent six months every winter in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
I, Virginia Mattison Hicks decided to write my own obituary. I lost my wonderful husband Bill Hicks after 57 years together. I am at a lost (sic) ever since.
A union carpenter Ginny met at a local dance, Bill Hicks built the Haddon Township homes where they raised their three sons.
Ginny was a longtime waitress — mostly at Westmont's old Compton's Log Cabin — who kept an immaculate house and constantly told her sons to take their shoes off when they came in the door.
The couple traveled often and lived for a while in Atco, N.J., before Bill died of Alzheimer's, leaving Ginny bereft and lonely.
"They were always together," recalls 58-year-old Jon, who also lives in town.
"I really thought they would die together."
When Bill Hicks went, it also was without the ritualistic fanfare of a funeral.
"We just followed their wishes," Jon's wife, Cathy, says of her in-laws, whom she called Ma and Pa Hicks.
"She (Ginny) would always say, 'You don't have to do anything. It's already done.'
"To me it's closure," Cathy adds. "It's not about us ... It's about their wishes."
But Bill Hicks didn't write his own obituary; Ginny did. So it was no surprise to the family when Wooster read them her self-written notice, including this:
Fortunately, I have 3 wonderful sons, William Mattison Hicks, Jon Thomas Hicks and Charles Hicks. Their wives are more precious to me than words can say, Carol and Cathy. I am so fortunate to have 7 grandchildren, Bill Hicks Rutherford, Jennifer Hicks Rutherford, Sharon Hicks, Holly Anne Hicks, Katie Hicks, Kyle C. Hicks and LCpl (sic) Jon T. Hicks, Jr. who was killed in the line of duty in Iraq.
Jon's Marine son and namesake lost his life in 2007 in an IED explosion. His grandmother was devastated.
The ending has an ending. I thank God for a wonderful life, my sweetheart and the life that we had together. I was the most fortunate person in the World. Thank you God. Thank you my family.
"We shared a lot," Cathy recalls of her mother-in-law. "She was very easy to talk to."
She also was feisty, chatty and — by her own admission — outspoken. While friends around the country dubbed her "Jersey Ginny," she was known to refer to herself as "Big-mouth Ginny," says her son.
Consider this:
There will be no viewing, no funeral services. You should have all visited me with kind attention when I needed you to put a smile on my face and love in my heart.
Jon Hicks says that last sentence was his mother's way of reminding her family a few more visits while she was alive wouldn't have hurt.
"She was outspoken in a joking way," is how he sees it.
Ginny Hicks also kept a daily journal to sharpen her memory. She made her last entry the day her body failed, Sept. 26.
"Another day today," she wrote, just before heading to breakfast and a quick, painless death.
"Let us see what is in store for me."
Her obituary, meanwhile, ended with this:
Virginia Mattison Hicks also known as Jersey Ginny, XOX to e-mail a condolence, please visit www.lpwoosterfuneral home.com.
Kiss, hug, kiss — in that order. Just the way Ginny Hicks wanted it.


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At CES, there wasn't a standout gadget that got everyone talking as in years past. But I found one innovation that I think represents where we are right now in the tech world.
We've moved past caring about the chip or the software or the other gear inside our technology. We just want to get what we want wherever we happen to be, whether it's television programming, instant messages, or news reports.
Will we learn how to deal with this overflow of information? Right now, it seems impossible -- but so would the notion that we'd be reading and sending endless tweets just a few years ago.
That's what's really smart about Intel's Info Scope: The chip giant wants to get inside our heads, rather than just inside our gadgets.
Hence, the Info Scope, a giant wall of instant, touchable information that morphs into different shapes and sizes, like Tom Cruise's holographic touchscreen in Minority Report.
In a world of instant facts and opinions, and the devices that bring them to us, this is everything writ large. It's jaw-dropping, it's wonderful, it's in your face, it's very futuristic -- and a little too much. Maybe it's a blessing that it's just a prototype and not going on sale at Best Buy tomorrow.
Watch it here:
"It's just the beginning of what we'll be doing with our information," an Intel executive told me. "We'll probably do it on something much smaller."
And that's big.
Scott is back on the CES show floor. His updates are on Twitter: @scottbudman